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Mike Tyson is the subject of a new Hulu scripted series, and he’s really not happy about it.
The famed boxer’s life is at the center of the upcoming TV show “Mike,” which debuts Aug. 25. Trevante Rhodes, who played Chiron in the 2016 movie “Moonlight,” will star as Tyson – but its subject says he didn’t sign off on the eight-episode limited series.
“Don’t let Hulu fool you,” Tyson wrote Saturday on Instagram. “I don’t support their story about my life. It’s not 1822, it’s 2022. They stole my life story and didn’t pay me. To Hulu executives I’m just a n— they can sell on the auction block.”
In a separate post the same day, Tyson alleged Hulu tried to get UFC president Dana White to promote the series but White turned it down out of respect for Tyson.
“Hulu tried to desperately pay my brother Dana White millions without offering me a dollar to promote their slave master take over story about my life,” Tyson wrote. “He turned it down because he honors friendship and treating people with dignity. I’ll never forget what he did for me just like I’ll never forget what Hulu stole from me.”
At the Television Critics Association press tour last week, “Mike” showrunner Karin Gist explained the series’ intent.
“We just wanted to tell an unbiased story and have the audience decide what they think or feel,” Gist said. “Whether you like him or hate him, does the story make you question how complicit society has been? That was the intention, that was the North Star for the writers’ room as we were crafting stories.”
It’s not the first time in recent memory that the subject of a scripted series has slammed the project. Pamela Anderson reportedly was not pleased about Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy,” which explored her relationship (and sex tape) with Tommy Lee, and did not participate in the recent series.
In April, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar penned a lengthy article about HBO’s “Winning Time,” dismissing the series as “deliberately dishonest” and “drearily dull.”
“The characters are crude stick-figure representations that resemble real people the way Lego Hans Solo resembles Harrison Ford,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote. “Each character is reduced to a single bold trait as if the writers were afraid anything more complex would tax the viewers’ comprehension.”
NBA legend Jerry West also demanded a retraction of the series, saying it was “cruel” and “deliberately false.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/dont-let-hulu-fool-you-mike-tyson-doesnt-want-you-to-watch-new-show-about/article_4859b5f2-de82-5dd0-b098-84965a2f4028.html | 2022-08-12T13:06:58Z |
Cheyenne and Laramie County
Story Time
– Aug. 12, 11 a.m. A children’s story time in the blue dome of the Children’s Village. Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Drive. 307-637-6349
Teen Terrace Hangout
– Aug. 12, 3-5 p.m. Teens can enjoy the sunshine with friends on the Teen Terrace. Beverages and popsicles will be provided. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fridays on the Plaza
– Aug. 12, 5:30 p.m. A weekly summer concert series featuring acts from around the country. This week’s headliner is Rozzi, with an opening performance by Holdfast. Cheyenne Depot Plaza, 1 Depot Square. 307-637-6200
Cheyenne Farmers Market
– Aug. 13, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
Laramie County Fair Demolition Derby
– Aug. 13, 5 p.m. $15. Follow the sounds of revving engines and metal being crunched beyond recognition. Cheer on the crashing and hard hits in a yearly favorite event. Laramie County Motorsports Park, 3801 Archer Parkway. 307-633-4670
Whiskey Meyers @ the Chinook
– Aug. 13, 7 p.m. A live performance from Whiskey Meyers, with Shane Smith & The Saints and 49 Winchester as supporting acts. Terry Bison Ranch, 51 I-25 Service Road. 307-302-0147
Metalachi @ The Lincoln
– Aug. 13, 8-11 p.m. $15. A metal mariachi band. It might good idea to carve out some time to witness this. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Poetry Open Mic @ The Hawthorn Tree
– Aug. 14, 1-3 p.m. Free. Each poet gets five minutes to read, but occasionally go two rounds, so bring extra poems. Arrive five minutes early to sign up. The Hawthorn Tree, 112 E. 17th St. 307-369-4446
Hip-Hop Paint and Sip
– Aug. 14, 1-4 p.m. Ages 14 and up. $35. A Sunday of painting, drinks and hip-hop music. The Louise Event Venue, 110 E. 17th St. 307-220-1474
Tales Together
– Aug. 16-18, 10:15-10:45 a.m. An interactive early literacy class for preschool children and their caregivers. Practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
St. Mary’s Food Truck Rally
– Aug 17, 4 p.m. The Cathedral of St. Mary will host a food truck rally in their parking lot at and invites the greater Cheyenne community for food, fellowship and fun. The Cathedral of St. Mary, 100 W. 21st St. 307-635-9261
Open Mic Night at Blue Raven
– Aug. 17, 7-10 p.m. A musical open mic night, presented in collaboration with Wyoming Wave Studios. Blue Raven Brewery, 209 E. 18th St. 307-369-1978
Cheyenne Civic Concert Band performance
– Aug 17, 7-8 p.m. Free. The Cheyenne Civic Concert Band continues its traditional summer band concerts. Make sure to bring lawn chairs or blankets for this outdoor performance. Lions Park Amphitheater, 4693 Lions Park Drive. 307-256-6987
Fridays on the Plaza
– Aug. 19, 5:30 p.m. A weekly summer concert series featuring acts from around the country. This week’s headliner is Jeremiah Tall, with an opening performance by Dirty Grass Players. Cheyenne Depot Plaza, 1 Depot Square. 307-637-6200
Country Dance Lessons with David Uriquidez
– Aug. 19, 6-8 p.m. $15 per person, $25 per couple. Be the star of the country bar after attending this swing dance class. Bring water and dance appropriate shoes. Tickets available via https://cfdoldwestmuseum.org/products/country-dance-lessons Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-778-7290
Cheyenne Farmers Market
– Aug. 20, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
NRA Action Pistol Regional and Wyoming State Championship
– Aug 20-21, 9 a.m. Some of the top Action Pistol competitors in the U.S. will compete in the “Steamboat Challenge” shooting competition. NRA Action Pistol is best described as “precision pistol shooting at speed.” Otto Road Shooting Range, 1531 Otto Road. 307-640-3847
Historic Cemetery Walk
– Aug 20, 10:15 a.m. Free. The living history program, “Cheyenne’s Melting Pot,” presented by the Cheyenne Genealogical & Historical Society, begins at the main gate of Lakeview Cemetery and features interesting characters who played large and small parts in Cheyenne’s frontier history. Lakeview Cemetery, 2501 Seymour Ave. 307-630-0924
Cheyenne Arts Celebration
– Aug. 20, 12:30-7 p.m. Free. The Cheyenne Arts Celebration may be young, but it’s in the middle of rapid growth. This festival features live music, vendors, food, drinks and more. Lions Park, Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6423
Puddle of Mudd
– Aug 20, 8-10 p.m. $30. This Kansas City, Missouri-based rock band enjoyed mainstream success in the ‘90s, and now they’re on their way to downtown Cheyenne. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Cultural Blind Spots series
– Aug. 21, 2 p.m. Join St. Mark’s in the second installment of its Cultural Blind Spots series, which will explore the experiences of minority ethnic groups in Cheyenne. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1908 Central Ave. 307-634-7709
Animal Collective @ The Lincoln
– Aug 22, 7-10 p.m. $25. Renowned indie rock group Animal Collective will perform at the historic downtown theater. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Open Mic Night at Blue Raven
– Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m. A musical open mic night, presented in collaboration with Wyoming Wave Studios. Blue Raven Brewery, 209 E. 18th St. 307-369-1978
”’Twilight of the Gods:’Defeat, Memory, and Legacy of World War II and the Holocaust” presentation
– Aug. 25, 6-8 p.m. The third and final installment in a series of expert presentations from Adam Blackler, associate professor of history at the University of Wyoming, all of which will provide context and historical background for the themes and concepts presented in Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, currently on display. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
New Frontier Cheyenne Gun and Western Collectibles Show
– Aug. 26, 12-5 p.m.; Aug. 27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Aug. 28, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. This Western collectible and firearms show will have a large assortment of new and antique firearms, accessories, knives, edged weapons, cowboy and Indian artifacts, relics, Western memorabilia, antiques and jewelry. Laramie County Events Center at Archer, 3801 Archer Parkway. 307-633-4670
Fridays on the Plaza
– Aug. 26, 5:30 p.m. A weekly summer concert series featuring acts from around the country. This week’s headliner is Jocelyn & Chris, with an opening performance by The Patti Fiasco. Cheyenne Depot Plaza, 1 Depot Square. 307-637-6200
Ongoing
Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition
– Through Aug. 14, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Presented by the Wyoming State Museum, this exhibit compiles 66 different pieces of artwork from artists around the state of Wyoming. Wyoming State Capitol basement extension, 200 W. 24th St. 307-777-7220
CFD Western Art Show and Sale
– Through Aug. 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Top western artists from around the country will interpret the culture and heritage of the American West through paintings, sculpture, mixed media and drawings in a highly acclaimed yearly collection. Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-778-7290
Summer Reading Challenge 2022
– Through Aug. 15. Read for prizes in the Laramie County Library’s annual Summer Reading Challenge. With ticket drawings, level prizes, completion prizes and activities throughout the summer, there is no better time to dive in to the ocean-themed challenge. Visit LaramieCountyLibrary.org/SRC2022 to begin this year’s summer reading voyage. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Habitat: Artist’ Books
– Through Aug. 21. Curated by University of Wyoming art professor Mark Ritchie, this year’s iteration of Laramie County Library’s annual book arts exhibit features collaborative work by artists and writers from Wyoming, Wales and around the United States. Each artist/writer pairing was challenged with creating a broadside or folio to include text interpreting habitat. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit
– Through Aug. 28, library hours. Laramie County Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II
– Through Aug. 28, library hours. Smithsonian poster exhibition traces the story of Japanese national and Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the people who survived it. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fort Collins, Colorado
Foodie Walk
– Aug. 19, 5-8 p.m. Free. A monthly self-guided food walk through downtown Fort Collins. Various locations, Fort Collins, Colorado. 970-484-6500
Off the Shelf: Contemporary Book Arts in Colorado
– Aug. 26-Dec. 18, museum hours. Free. This exhibit features artists that innovate and defy our conceptual framework of the book and its contents. The artist book, a medium spanning the public and private sphere of creators and viewers, reflects on issues intimate and grand. Colorado State University Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, 1400 Remington Street, Fort Collins, Colorado. 970-491-1989
Denver
Thomas Rhett @ Red Rocks
– Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m.; doors at 6 p.m. $50-$170. Country music singer Thomas Rhett will perform with support from Parker McCollum and Conner Smith as a part of his “Bring the Bar To You” tour. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, Colorado. 720-865-2494
The Decemberists @ Mission Ballroom
– Aug. 12, 8 p.m.; doors at 7 p.m. $42-$99. The Decemberists’ distinctive brand of folk-rock have maintained them a cult following since they broke out in the year 2000. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
Sleeping with Sirens @ The Ogden
– Aug. 13, 7 p.m.; doors at 6 p.m. Sleeping With Sirens have tested the boundaries of rock by walking a tightrope between pop, punk, metal, hardcore, electronic, acoustic, and even a little R&B. The “CTRL + ALT + DEL” Tour comes following the release of their fifth studio album, “How It Feels to Be Lost.” Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave, Denver. 303-832-1874
Loco Locals Comedy Extravaganza
– Aug. 17, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10. A night of stand-up comedy. Ten-minute sets from five different comics. Avanti Food and Beverage, 3200 Pecos St., Denver. 720-269-4778
Mt. Joy @ Mission Ballroom
– Aug. 18, 8 p.m.; doors at 7 p.m. A performance from indie-rock band Mt. Joy, fresh off their latest studio album, “Orange Blood.” Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats @ Red Rocks
– Aug. 23-24, 7:30 p.m.; doors at 6 p.m. Folk artist Nathaniel Rateliff is stopping by Red Rocks with support from Caroline Rose for his 2022 North American Tour. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, Colorado. 720-865-2494
My Morning Jacket @ Red Rocks
– Aug. 26-27, 7:30 p.m.; doors at 6 p.m. A two-night performance from alternative-rock band My Morning Jacket. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, Colorado. 720-865-2494 | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/friday-calendar-8-12-22/article_ef33009d-8de5-5121-935c-78bbbeaa7462.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:04Z |
FRIDAY
”Routes of Vertical Dance” lecture and reception: Noon, University of Wyoming Biodiversity Center auditorium. Free to attend.
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
SATURDAY
Annual Elks Alley Sale: 8 a.m. to noon, 102 S. 2nd St. in the alley. Table rental is $10 each, call 307-742-2024 to reserve. All proceeds benefit the Elks National Foundation.
Reformed Presbyterian Church hosts Psalm sing, picnic and games: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Undine Park.
Summer Market Day at the fairgrounds: 3-6 p.m., beef barn.
SUNDAY
Unexpected Company Senior Theatre meets: 1 p.m., Alice Hardie Stevens Center. Agenda includes planning for a fall production. Anyone age 50 and older is invited to participate on or off stage.
New Life Church Back2School Giveaway: 3-6 p.m., Albany County Fairgrounds. Free school supplies and shoes, while supplies last.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
TUESDAY
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
WEDNESDAY
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. at outdoors Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Unexpected Company Senior Theatre auditions for “Six Stages of Life”: 2 p.m., Alice Hardie Stevens Center, 603 E. Ivinson Ave. Participants must be at least 50 years old, no experience necessary.
THURSDAY
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Aug. 19
Open house for renovated LFD training facility: 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Laramie Fire Department drill grounds, 2451 County Shop Road.
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
Aug. 20
‘The Legacy of Wyoming’ performed by Buffalo Bill and Dr. Jo: 5-8 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison. For tickets, call 307-745-6161.
Revive the Wyo fundraiser: 5-9 p.m., historic train depot in downtown Laramie. Enjoy a cajun-themed meal and entertainment. Cost $35 a person. For tickets, visit https://htru.io/Ssrf.
Aug. 21
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Aug. 22
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
Aug. 23
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Aug. 24
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. at outdoors Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Aug. 25
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Aug. 26
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
Aug. 27
Thrown-Out Bones performs: 5:30-7p.m., Washington Park band shell, 18th and Sheridan streets. Popcorn, pretzels and beer.
UW Planetarium presents “Back to the Moon For Good”: 8 p.m., UW Planetarium. What’s up in the sky around Wyoming.
Aug. 28
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Aug. 29
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
Aug. 30
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Aug. 31
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. at outdoors Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-aug-12-2022/article_38e38573-557c-5b15-a126-55426f20b0b1.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:10Z |
Harriet Hageman, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney in the Aug. 16 Republican primary, speaks to a packed house at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper at a rally for former President Donald Trump. Trump has endorsed Hageman in her push to unseat Cheney, who has been a vocal critic of the 45th president.
Rex Rammell, from left, Brent Bien and Gov. Mark Gordon in Riverton at a recent debate among the Republican gubernatorial candidates. A new University of Wyoming poll shows Gordon with a big lead heading into Tuesday's Republican primary.
Harriet Hageman, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney in the Aug. 16 Republican primary, speaks to a packed house at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper at a rally for former President Donald Trump. Trump has endorsed Hageman in her push to unseat Cheney, who has been a vocal critic of the 45th president.
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U.S. House Rep. Liz Cheney debates a quartet of Republican challengers for the seat during a recent televised debate.
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Rex Rammell, from left, Brent Bien and Gov. Mark Gordon in Riverton at a recent debate among the Republican gubernatorial candidates. A new University of Wyoming poll shows Gordon with a big lead heading into Tuesday's Republican primary.
Nationally, locally and throughout the state, the Republican race to represent Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives is sucking up much of the attention in the run up to Tuesday’s primary.
This holds true for what is perhaps the second independent poll conducted about the particular race. Additionally, the poll shows Gov. Mark Gordon as being significantly ahead of any other candidate in his re-election campaign. And the results show divides among Wyomingites, when it comes to how much faith they have in the accuracy of elections results.
Consistent with a previous poll, one released Thursday by the University of Wyoming found a wide gap between the Republican frontrunners to be the state’s sole U.S. representative. In the UW survey, likely voters said they would pick Harriet Hageman over incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, among other candidates. There is a 30 percentage point difference between the women.
Hageman, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, would get 57.4% of the vote, according to the poll. Cheney would get 27.8%. Cheney also is vice-chair of the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Trump.
The other candidates in the state’s only race this year involving Congress are well behind both Hageman and Cheney. Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, comes in third with 1.7% of likely GOP primary voters saying they plan to back him. Denton Knapp comes in at 0.8%, and Robyn Belinskey is at 0.2%.
Belinskey says she is speaking for others when she says the race isn’t just about the two frontrunners.
“The general public could care less about how these guys are acting,” Belinskey said about Cheney and Hageman by phone while campaigning in Powell. “They’re pretty much over these two.”
Among others vying for the House seat, Cheney’s campaign also responded to a request for comment for this story. A campaign spokesperson pointed the Wyoming Tribune Eagle to a video released Thursday morning.
In the video, Cheney addresses her comments to “citizens across our great state and all across our country. America cannot remain free if we abandon the truth. The lie that 2020 presidential election was stolen is insidious.”
Though the congressional race is getting much of the attention, at least when it comes to media coverage and commentary, UW also asked those it surveyed about the gubernatorial race. Gordon was found to be some 40 percentage points ahead of his closest Republican rival.
Almost 54% of those UW asked said they plan to vote for Gordon. Another 14% would back Brent Bien, and 3.5% would go for Rex Rammell, with less than 1% responding they would select James Scott Quick on their ballots. One-quarter of those who are likely to vote in the GOP primary said they didn’t know who they might support.
Among candidates for governor, Rammell was the only one to immediately reply to the WTE’s inquiries for reaction to the polling.
“If over 50% of the people end up voting for Mark Gordon, it will prove that at least half of Wyoming hasn’t eaten enough dirt,” he said. “Time will fix that problem as there is a lot of suffering headed Wyoming’s way.”
When it comes to faith in election results, a few divides were seen in the new data. Those queried by UW were roughly split when in their views of whether Joe Biden was legitimately elected president in 2020 and on the question of if there was “widespread voter fraud” in that election.
However, the vast majority of those asked have some confidence their votes next week will be properly tabulated. On that last question, 59.3% deemed themselves as very confident that “the votes in Wyoming’s primary election will be accurately counted this year.” Another 32.1% were somewhat confident, with 7.3% lacking some or all confidence. Just under 1% answered that they didn’t know or weren’t sure.
By contrast, people were divided when asked about the last election. They were asked by the university if they “think there is solid evidence that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, or no solid evidence?” About 43% answered there was solid evidence, and the same percentage replied there was no such evidence. Only among likely voters in the Republican primary, by several percentage points, they were more likely to think there was evidence of fraud.
Another question UW put to those it contacted: “Regardless of whom you supported in the 2020 election, do you think Joe Biden’s election as president was legitimate, or was he not legitimately elected?” Among respondents statewide, 45.4% answered it was legitimate, with 39.4% saying it was not. The percentages are roughly flipped among only respondents who are likely voters in the GOP primary.
Regarding concerns about the 2020 election, Cheney noted in her YouTube video comments that “like many candidates across this country, my opponents in Wyoming have said that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. No one who understands our nation’s laws, no one with an honest, honorable, genuine commitment to our Constitution would say that.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/gordon-hageman-ahead-by-wide-margins-in-uw-poll/article_df04993c-1650-556f-bbc3-f4e48ac9383e.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:17Z |
BUFFALO — Eight months after Fourth Judicial Court Judge William Edelman dismissed a libel lawsuit filed by the Patriot Conservatives of Johnson County PAC against the Buffalo Bulletin, the case has finally concluded after the PAC’s bank account was garnished to pay court-ordered sanctions.
Chris Wages, attorney for the defendants, said that ordering a plaintiff to pay sanctions is a “pretty extraordinary measure.”
Attorney Nick Beduhn represented the PAC.
“The initiation of the legal action in the first place was flawed and I made a concerted effort to bring that to the attention of the attorney for the Patriot Conservatives,” Wages said.
“Aside from the fact that I didn’t believe the substance of the suit was a strong cause of action, they sued parties that could have nothing to do with the case, which I thought was irresponsible and poor legal practice,” he said. “I notified the plaintiff’s attorney, and given the opportunity to fix it, they did nothing. So innocent parties were required to spend time, energy and money defending a frivolous lawsuit. The judge recognized all those factors and made an award in favor of the defendants that were erroneously sued.”
While Edelman ordered the sanctions in December, the PAC had failed to pay their debt. Ultimately, the Bulletin asked the court to garnish the PAC’s bank account to collect the debt.
“While I am happy that this case has finally come to an end, I find it really sad that in addition to fighting a frivolous lawsuit, that we had to go to extreme measures just to collect the court- ordered sanctions,” said Robb Hicks, publisher of the Buffalo Bulletin.
Last August, the Patriot Conservatives of Johnson County — recently renamed the Patriot Conservatives of Wyoming — filed a libel suit against defendants Eclipse Media, Inc., the Weiser Signal American Inc., the Buffalo Bulletin Inc., Pronghorn Publishing Inc., and Frontier Newspapers Inc. claiming the PAC was defamed by the Buffalo Bulletin newspaper.
In November, Edelman dismissed the the complaint against defendants Weiser Signal American Inc., the Buffalo Bulletin Inc., Pronghorn Publishing Inc., and Frontier Newspapers Inc. because either the entities no longer exist or there is connection between any actions taken by the defendants and any injury alleged by the plaintiff.
Eclipse Media, Inc. is the publisher of the Buffalo Bulletin.
In December, Edelman ruled that the PAC had failed to “allege or identify any oral communication made by Eclipse Media, Inc., which is required for a claim of slander.”
Edelman ruled that even if the allegations in the complaint are true, the plaintiff has no cause for action for defamation because the PAC is considered a public figure that inserted itself into a public controversy and they failed to make any credible claim for economic damages.
Edelman also ordered the PAC to pay $8,942 in sanctions to the defendants and defense counsel for failure to dismiss charges against uninvolved parties after the PAC’s attorney Beduhn was made aware that those parties were not involved.
However, the Patriot Conservatives never paid the court-ordered sanctions.
“These people are not conservative,” Hicks said. “They are just bullies with a podcast and a sign. It is not a conservative value to file frivolous lawsuits. It is not a conservative value to not pay your bills. It is not a conservative value to disregard the rule of law.”
“The fact that we were forced to garnish their bank account is demonstrative of these people’s lack of character,” Hicks added. “At any point, David Iverson (the PAC’s chairman) or John Dematteis (the PAC’s listed treasurer through June 2022) or Roger Bronnenberg (the PAC’s current treasurer) could have penned a check to pay their court-ordered sanctions. Instead they forced us to play a game to find out where they had their money hidden. At that point, the court garnished their account to pay their debt.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/patriot-conservatives-account-garnished-to-pay-sanctions/article_5ca61f78-5284-5635-ac91-1b031d3ca51b.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:23Z |
A key timing restriction protecting some wintering greater sage grouse from oil and gas development doesn’t align with the imperiled birds’ use of the critical habitat, a University of Wyoming study shows.
Sage grouse generally move to winter range on Nov. 7 and stay through March 13, according to research by professor Jeff Beck and others who used data from hundreds of GPS-tagged sage grouse. But Wyoming’s restrictions on oil and gas activity in defined “winter concentration areas” start only on Dec. 1, according to Gov. Mark Gordon’s executive order protecting the bird.
The new information could lead to a revision of that executive order, members of the Sage Grouse Implementation Team said last week.
The understanding of grouse winter habits “has changed somewhat from what the assumptions were,” Beck told the team.
SGIT chairman Bob Budd agreed.
“We were using the best science available,” Budd said of the existing protective timeframe. However, “what we thought [to be correct] wasn’t right,” he said in an interview.
“Now it’s a matter of saying ‘do we need to change the way we are managing?’”
Another team member, Brian Rutledge, a consultant for Audubon , said science shows the grouse protection “has to occur earlier.”
Calling the research “big news to everybody,” he said winter concentration area protections may need to extend from November to April or May.
Beck and two associates plan to refine their findings and take them to the grouse-team’s winter concentration area subcommittee. The work has not yet been published. Should the WCA subcommittee call for expanded drilling restrictions, there’s a “pretty good chance” the full SGIT would forward that to the governor, Budd said.
Gordon could then change his executive order to revise when drilling would be allowed in WCAs.
Budd’s willingness to advance new protections, “that’s a big deal,” Rutledge said. “That’s responsiveness.”
Beck, a professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, along with post-doctoral research associates Kurt Smith and Aaron Pratt, used information from 540 grouse collected between 2008-2018. All told 900,000 GPS locations made up the data set.
The researchers tracked sage grouse movements in five general areas: the Tongue/Powder River area, Bighorn Basin, Wind/Sweetwater Rivers area, Upper Green River valley and northern Red Desert.
On average the data showed that 25% of the tagged grouse arrived at wintering grounds by Oct. 10, half by Nov. 7 and 75% by Nov. 25., researcher Pratt told the grouse team. The governor’s executive order drilling restrictions, however, begin “after most birds have already arrived,” Pratt said.
The existing protections end on May 15 when only half the population has left the winter habitat, he said.
Wyoming has defined only one WCA, which is largely located in an energy field approved for drilling and fracking. The Normally Pressured Lance, or NPL gas field and the corresponding wintering area lie in southern Sublette County near the Jonah gas field.
No drilling is expected to occur there this winter, SGIT member Paul Ulrich, a representative of Jonah Energy, which owns the rights to the NPL Field, told the team.
Gordon recognized and protected the lone WCA after a biologist discovered as many as 2,000 grouse there. Gordon designated the WCA because Wyoming’s general sage grouse core-area conservation strategy did not cover the Sublette County winter refuge.
Extending the protective dates for the Sublette WCA may not be enough, Rutledge said. That’s because un-designated WCAs — defined as places where 50 or more birds flock — exist inside protected core areas as well.
But those core areas, generally delineated around habitat used in other seasons, may not have adequate winter drilling restrictions, Rutledge said.
Wyoming also should better define what activities unsettle grouse on their winter range, Budd and Rutledge said. Those potentially disruptive activities include things like snowmobiling and antler hunting.
Greater sage grouse spend an average of 94 days a year in breeding habitat, 99 days in summer habitat and about 46 days on fall transitional range. But winter is the longest single season, the UW research shows, extending for 126 days.
Last week’s discussion came as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department prepares to release its annual summary of grouse population trends, derived from counts of strutting males at spring breeding grounds known as leks. That information and similar estimates from other Western states help inform the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as it monitors the struggling species for potential protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Wyoming’s core areas, WCAs and connectivity areas cover where an estimated 83% of the state’s population of birds live, according to the governor’s executive order. The designations cover about 24% of the state and are designed to encourage development elsewhere and limit the amount of surface disturbance in the protected zones.
Greater sage grouse tend to spend winter in gently rolling terrain, where sagebrush covers at least two-thirds of the landscape and is not completely covered by snow, the researchers told the team.
Rutledge said it is possible the sage grouse team could receive recommendations from its WCA subcommittee before this winter.
WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/research-shows-winter-sage-grouse-protections-miss-key-weeks/article_169df0d4-962f-534a-a901-155fab0ef17d.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:29Z |
With less than a week before primary day in Wyoming, state candidates’ fundraising numbers were released, giving a look at how much money they’ve been collecting and spending.
Wyoming’s midterm elections are taking place Tuesday, when offices like governor, secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction will be on the ballot.
In two of those three, there is not a true incumbent running, opening up the field to heated races.
Secretary of State Ed Buchanan is not running for reelection, having sought and obtained a position as a judge in Goshen County. Now, Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, is battling it out with Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper for the secretary’s seat.
Former Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow resigned to take the same job in Virginia earlier this year, which meant that the Wyoming Republican Party was tasked with filling the seat.
The party’s central committee selected three candidates, of which Gov. Mark Gordon appointed Brian Schroeder, who is now running to be elected to the post.
Because Schroder is unelected but has held office for a few months, he has some advantage of incumbency on his side, but likely not as much as someone who served a full term in office and was elected by voters.
Former President Donald Trump threw his support behind the two most hard-line Republicans in those races: Schroeder for superintendent and Gray for secretary of state.
Gov. Mark Gordon, on the other hand, is facing multiple challengers to his right in his run for reelection.
Gray’s campaign collected roughly $528,000 to Nethercott’s $333,000, according to campaign finance reports released by the secretary of state’s office.
But Nethercott collected more in individual donations ($181,350) than Gray ($17,480).
Gray’s father, Jan Charles Gray, donated $500,000 to his campaign, the records show. Gray himself donated $10,000 to his own campaign.
Nethercott also loaned her campaign $95,000, which she says was “necessary to start [the] campaign.”
“I am humbled and grateful for the financial support from the generous and hard working men and women of Wyoming,” she said. “This campaign would not be possible without their support.”
Excluding Gray’s or Nethercott’s own donations or immediate familial donations (Nethercott also had a cousin who donated $2,500) Nethercott out-raised Gray by roughly 10 to 1.
Both candidates have just over $96,000 left in the bank to spend.
Some of the big names that donated to Gray were Dan and Carleen Brophy, two wealthy political donors, in addition to Susan Gore, founder of Wyoming Liberty Group and the Gore-Tex heiress, who was accused in a New York Times investigative piece last year of funding a political spying operation in the state.
Gray also received donations from Rep. Tim Hallinan, R-Gillette, Sen. Tim French, R-Powell as well as Donna Rice, a member of Wyoming Republican Party leadership.
Nethercott received donations from over a dozen Republican legislators plus three Democratic lawmakers: Rep. Andy Schwartz, D-Jackson, Rep. Cathy Connolly, D-Laramie, and former Sen. Liisa Anselmi-Dalton.
Nethercott also took almost $55,000 from political action committees, the records show. Gray collected $500 in PAC money.
“President Trump has endorsed our campaign because I support voter integrity measures and passed the voter ID bill,” Gray said in a statement. “But the insider establishment has big money in Wyoming to support candidates like Liz Cheney and Tara Nethercott, including with PAC dollars. They’re teaming up with the Star Tribune to put out false, defamatory stories that serve as a contribution to the Nethercott campaign worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — l’m grateful to my family for stepping up to counter these liberal attacks with funds from family businesses that I helped to build.”
Gray and Nethercott have emerged as candidates on opposite sides of the debate on election integrity.
Gray is running as a 2020 presidential election skeptic, saying that there was more fraud than the margin of votes between Trump and President Joe Biden. Gray is pushing to ban ballot drop boxes, which have become a target after the movie “2000 Mules” was released, a film that alleges widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Gray has also sponsored numerous showings of the movie throughout Wyoming while on the campaign trail.
Nethercott says that there is “no objective evidence” to prove that the 2020 election was stolen for President Joe Biden, and she repeatedly emphasizes her confidence in Wyoming’s elections.
According to a database maintained by the right-leaning Heritage Foundation, Wyoming has seen just three instances (involving four people) of voter fraud in 40 years, and none since 2014.
Once again, Gordon is facing multiple opponents to the right of him politically.
The governor brought in about $541,000. Of that, $392,800 of that came from individual donors — the sitting governor received $100,000 in loans from his wife and $45,000 from PACs (about 80% of that came from PACs outside Wyoming).
In the 2018 gubernatorial primary, Gordon came out on top of a crowded field with only 33% of the vote, helping to spur an unsuccessful movement from the right to enact run-off elections.
Gordon is not well liked by some on the far right in Wyoming. Multiple times during a recent gubernatorial debate, Gordon made sure to point out that he is “a Republican, and a conservative Republican at that.”
Gordon is being challenged by retired Marine Brent Bien who reported nearly $100,000, records show. Over a third of that was from him or his immediate family. Bien himself donated over $31,000.
From individual donors, Bien garnered about $54,000.
“Brent and Sue have been blessed to have great careers that have allowed Brent to pursue service including using his own money to travel the state and meet voters where they are,” said Sam Rubino, Bien’s campaign manager. “This campaign has always been about the hard working people of Wyoming, not millionaires and political donors.”
Veterinarian and serial political candidate Rex Rammell, on the other hand, only raised $9,200 from individuals while loaning his campaign over $66,000.
Rammell has a colorful history, including criminal charges and multiple bids for office in Wyoming and Idaho. He ran for Wyoming’s governor in 2018 as a Constitution Party candidate and made multiple runs in Idaho.
During the recent debate, Rammell used his closing statement to accuse Bien of not meeting state constitutional requirements needed to hold the office of governor.
To run for governor, a candidate must reside in the state for five years, but according to the state constitution, residency is not lost by military service, and Bien — who recently moved back to Wyoming after serving in the military — said he maintained his residency throughout his time in the Marines.
Rammell filed a complaint with the Wyoming Secretary of State’s office, which responded by closing it without taking action because the complaint “seeks a legal analysis of the term residency which goes beyond that contained in the current statutes.”
Megan Degenfelder, formerly chief policy officer at the education department and currently the government and regulatory affairs manager for Morningstar Partners Oil & Gas, raised nearly $130,000 from individuals, plus about $10,000 from her immediate family and $70,000 in loans of her own money.
“It is clear that Wyoming voters want conservative elected officials they can count on, who have actually lived in and contributed to our communities and who focus on issues that matter to our state. As a lifelong Wyomingite, I am that candidate. I will be accountable to the taxpayers of this state and I will work tirelessly to prepare students for successful futures in Wyoming,” Degenfelder said in a recent press release.
She also received a significant amount of PAC money — $23,050.
“The primary PAC donations came from Wyoming industries that represent the workforce that students are eventually going to be entering into,” Degenfelder said. “It shows that they’ve decided that I’m the candidate who’s most likely to understand the needs of industry.”
Like Schroeder, Degenfelder also applied to be the interim superintendent when Balow resigned, but ultimately got fourth in the central committee’s vote.
Degenfelder also received the endorsement of former U.S. Sen. Al Simpson, a Wyoming political icon who recently received the presidential medal of freedom, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis and more than 20 current lawmakers, according to a campaign press release.
Trump-endorsed Schroeder trailed Degenfelder in individual donations, raising less than $27,000 from individuals who aren’t himself or family. Some of that money came from Gore, Hallinan and former state representative Marti Halverson (who was also a finalist for the superintendent position earlier this year).
Schroeder is the former head of Veritas Academy, a private Christian school in Cody, and has experience as a family and youth coordinator and as a teacher and administrator in private schools in California, Wisconsin, Michigan and Wyoming.
He’s deeply conservative; he’s called for Wyoming to enact a law similar to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, which, among other things, “prohibits classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels.”
He advocates for more parental control in public schools. He opposes the teaching of critical race theory (which is not currently taught in Wyoming public schools).
The other Republican candidate in the superintendent race is Casper-based substitute teacher and cosmetologist Jennifer Zerba, who raised only $300 from two individuals.
While fundraising is one indication of a candidate’s viability, it is not infrequent that those who outraise their opponents lose the election. Early voting is ongoing and primary day is Tuesday. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/some-are-big-spenders-others-not-in-campaign-finance-filings/article_e9ea13c1-d30f-5d6d-8d01-5b5b2b655b04.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:35Z |
POWELL — Biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team began field captures of grizzly bears Tuesday and plan to continue through the end of October.
Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey, in conjunction with Yellowstone National Park, will be baiting the areas with roadkill deer and elk, marking the areas well with brightly colored signs to warn those traveling through the areas of the possible danger.
“It is critical that all members of the public heed these signs,” the park’s public affairs office said in a press release.
It’s part of the team’s efforts to monitor the species’ population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem required under the Endangered Species Act.
Potential capture sites are baited with the roadkill using culvert (barrel) traps or occasionally foot snares. Once captured, bears are handled with strict safety and animal care protocols developed by the team.
The team began radio collaring grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) in 1975. Since then, they have radio monitored close to 900 individuals for varying durations, but typically for two to three years. More than 100 individual bears have been monitored for more than five different years.
According to the study team, data collected from radio-marked bears provide information necessary for tracking key population parameters.
“By observing radio-collared bears, we document age of first reproduction, average litter size, cub and yearling survival, how often a female produces a litter, and causes of mortality,” the team reported in its most recent annual report.
The collected data allows scientists to estimate survival among different sex and age classes of bears. Collectively, this is referred to as “known fate monitoring.”
In conjunction with other estimates (i.e., number of females with cubs, annual mortality), this information is used to estimate population size and evaluate sustainable mortality.
Location information obtained from collared bears also provides reliable data that helps resource managers focus their activities toward landscape issues that impact grizzly bears in the ecosystem.
Monitoring of grizzly bear distribution and other activities are vital to ongoing recovery of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, park officials said.
In 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommended that grizzly bears in the lower 48 states remain protected under the Endangered Species Act after a five-year status review.
The news was met with immediate complaints from officials in Wyoming and western states, who have been working to gain management of the species, which they say has been fully recovered for years.
“The grizzly bear in the lower-48 states is not currently in danger of extinction throughout all of its range, but is likely to become so in the foreseeable future,” the report concluded.
Since dropping to a low of around 136 bears in 1975, new estimates by the study team have concluded that more than 1,000 grizzlies now live inside the species’ primary conservation area in and around Yellowstone National Park known as the Demographic Monitoring Area (DMA).
There are no known estimates on the population of grizzly bears outside the DMA. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/study-team-begins-trapping-grizzly-bears-in-yellowstone-ecosystem/article_c0803292-8cc7-5238-9474-5a6224dd8188.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:41Z |
Rabbis Baruch Liberow and Chaim Hertz visit Laramie as part of Chabad Lubavitch's Rabbinical Visitation Program, where rabbinical students visit small Jewish communities around the world.
Chabad Lubavitch’s Roving Rabbis have returned to Laramie this week for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic to expand access to religious opportunities for Laramie’s Jewish community.
Chabad Lubavitch is an international organization and a denomination of Jewish religious practice. Its focus is to connect Jewish people with religious practices in as many parts of the world as possible. Many of those efforts are in college towns and small communities across the globe.
“In the summer, a lot of us volunteer our time to go to different places around the world, especially places that aren’t well known for their Jewish community and reach out to any Jewish person and tell them that they county, and they should be able to connect to Judaism,” said Rabbi Hertz, one of two Roving Rabbis in the Gem City this week.
Hertz and Rabbi Baruch Liberow are the first Chabad rabbis to return to Laramie in five years, and they’ve been greeted with excitement by Laramie’s Jewish community.
Their program is a continuation of Chabad Lubavitch founder Rebbe Shneur Zalman’s mission to connect every Jewish person to religious and cultural life, regardless of where they are.
“This idea really started in the 1940s when the Lubavitcher Rebbe, one of the most influential Jewish figures in modern history, he initiated this idea of students going around and taking care of every single Jewish person,” Hertz said.
The young rabbis are hosting a dinner at 7 p.m. tonight to welcome in the Jewish sabbath, along with a torah class Saturday morning followed by services and kiddush. Kiddush means “sanctification” in Hebrew, and is a ritual where Jewish people bless wine, bread and the day itself.
“In Wyoming, there’s been rabbis coming here for 70 years as part of this program,” Hertz said.
The program is responsible for building several synagogues in Wyoming and pushed Jackson Hole’s Chabad rabbi to stay full-time. Chabad also is set to expand Jewish services in Laramie.
“Chabad is actually moving to town (at the end of next year), but we’re going to be here until after Shabbat,” Liberow said.
With the construction of a new synagogue, Jewish families will be able to hold bar mitzvah ceremonies, which are an essential coming of age event for 12- and 13-year-olds, along with Jewish weddings, funerals and other events. Synagogues also increase access to kosher food for observant members of the Jewish community.
For details on the location of Chabad’s Shabbat dinner and times of Saturday morning events, contact Hertz at 773-558-2274 or Liberow at 929-533-9086. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/roving-rabbis-in-laramie-to-minister-to-jewish-community/article_9f85b22c-a40b-5394-bbd2-c48c6f02283f.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:48Z |
CHEYENNE – Candidates from local races shined a light on the issues they consider the most important to address in Laramie County.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle has reached out to all 17 contenders in every primary race. Residents vote Tuesday, as well as by absentee ballot.
This is the final portion of a three-part series, and covers the city council, county commissioner, county clerk and sheriff’s race. Some of these races are nonpartisan.
To learn more: elections.laramiecountyclerk.com.
Residents unsure of their districts can go to tinyurl.com/wyoleg-districts.
Cheyenne City Council
Incumbent City Council member Scott Roybal is up for re-election in Ward I, and will face Michael Blakeley and Cameron Karajanis in the primary. Two candidates will move forward to the general election on Nov. 8.
Roybal, 63, is currently the council president, and serves on multiple community commissions. He was first elected to his seat in 1996, and served until 2000. He ran for re-election in 2014 and has been in office since then. He didn’t comment.
Blakeley, 58 and a resident of Cheyenne for five years, is an active community member. He told the WTE he plans to earn constituents’ trust by developing a fiscally strong budget, increasing police funding, addressing homelessness here, providing tax relief for businesses and revitalizing older neighborhoods.
He proposed to not take the pay city council members receive, and rather to donate it to charities in Cheyenne.
Karajanis, 32, said in a statement he’s “running to continue Cheyenne’s path forward, to have a community focused council with an emphasis on leadership and renewed representation for Ward I.”
Ward II
Another City Council primary election is for Ward II.
Incumbent Dr. Mark Rinne, 70, is in the running with three other candidates. Two out of the four total candidates in Ward II will move forward to the general election.
Rinne is the longest tenured member of the governing body, having served six terms and as council president nine times. He didn’t comment.
Lynn Storey-Huylar, 58, has lived in Cheyenne her entire life and wants to continue to be a part of the growth and development here. She wants to work with council members on community issues. She served on the Laramie County School District 1 board of trustees for eight years, and was chair for two of those.
“I also work for a non-profit organization as the executive director and know it takes cooperation and a multi-disciplinary approach to solving problems. I understand working with different entities and listening to various points of view,” she said in a statement. “I have also held various other leadership positions, including being a governor appointee to the Children’s Trust Fund Board and the chair of the statewide Children’s Justice Act Task Force.”
Her priorities would include making sure sixth-penny sales tax projects are implemented in due time and in a fiscally responsible way, addressing the housing shortage, supporting vulnerable populations and increasing revenue with the development of small neighborhood businesses.
Matt Miller, 48, and Brian Eicholtz did not comment.
County Commissioners
There are seven Republican candidates vying for three seats on the Laramie County Board of Commissioners, and no Democrats to face in a general election.
Seeking another term are Linda Heath, Gunnar Malm and Troy Thompson.
Heath, 63, has served on the commission since 2014. She didn’t comment.
Thompson, 51, is the chairman of the county board, and has been a commissioner since 2010. He is also liaison to five other local boards, is a member of the National Association of County Officials and serves on the executive board of the Wyoming County Commissioners Association.
He told the WTE he has loved being a county commissioner, and hopes to continue his work on economic projects and following through on sixth-penny sales tax projects. His priorities are to have a conservative budget, keep a strong relationship with LEADS and the local business council on economic development, as well as manage the residential growth.
“It’s been a challenge, because our job is to allow people to do what they want to do with their land, while we mitigate the adverse effects on their neighbors,” he said. “We do that wisely by having a good set of land-use regulations that are flexible and can be changed.”
Malm, 38, who is finishing up his first term. He served as public policy chair for the Wyoming Association of Realtors, the president of the Cheyenne Board of Realtors and currently is the vice chair of the Cheyenne Planning Commission.
His priorities include ensuring sixth-penny sales tax projects are finished on time, and continuing a policy of fiscal conservatism that he said has allowed the county to be the only local government in the state that didn’t lay off workers during the pandemic. He plans to continue economic diversification efforts, which Malm believes have already paid dividends in making Laramie County the leading economy in the state.
See business.facebook.com/HeathforComissioner/, facebook.com/troythompsonforcountycommissioner and facebook.com/CommissionerMalm.
Non-incumbents
Bryce Freeman, Brian Casey, Abbie Mildenberger and Sam Eliopolous are the non-incumbents campaigning for one of the three seats available this election cycle.
“I have always believed that if one is dissatisfied with their government representatives the best way to effect change is to take action,” said Freeman, 61, in a statement. “It is much more difficult to change government from the outside than it is from the inside. It is easier to simply look on from the outside and cast stones.”
He is running because he said many of his friends and neighbors are dissatisfied with the way the county government functions, and he wants to bring a fresh perspective. He cites his professional background in large infrastructure projects, complex rate-setting issues and consumer advocacy. He also wants to apply his values as an old-fashioned Republican to create a smaller government that is closest to the people, and focus on essential functions.
Freeman told the WTE his top three priorities are making the county a better place for constituents and to ensure their concerns are listened to, reexamine the county’s budget priorities and solve the groundwater issue. He said he is pro-growth, but wants it to be sustainable.
Casey, 50, like Freeman, said he can’t sit on the sidelines and complain. He believes it’s his civic duty to seek public office. He said he is not a politician, but rather runs a construction business.
“I, with the tremendous help from my family, have built a business from nothing to over 20 employees and 19 plus years,” he wrote the WTE. “This gives me the aptitude for problem solving and business sense. Our county is a business and needs to be run as such.”
His top three priorities are to try and get updated data from the state for water issues, to look closely at county departments to ensure efficiency and make sure the commissioners are good stewards of the tax dollars.
Mildenberger, 36, told the WTE in a questionnaire she decided to run after voicing her concerns regarding a new neighboring subdivision last year. She didn’t feel as though she was heard.
Eliopolous, 51, didn’t comment.
County Clerk
Debra Lee is the current Laramie County clerk, and she is being challenged in the Republican primary by Andy McMahon.
Lee has served the county since 2016, and told the WTE she pledged to bring a fresh perspective and energy to the office, which she has done.
“We’ve launched innovative programs, developed solutions to bring greater transparency, efficiency, accessibility and information to the people of Laramie County,” she wrote. “We’ve worked hard to make our elections more secure and transparent before those topics became the subject of national news.”
McMahon, 55, has lived in Cheyenne his entire life and has spent the past 22 years working for an accessible-automobile dealer.
“One of my duties as the general manager of Frontier is to process all incoming and outgoing auto titles through the Laramie County Clerk’s Office. Over the last 3 years there has been a disturbing trend in the Clerk’s office towards the promptness of title processing and the attitude towards customer service has declined as well,” he said in a statement. “Currently if you drop a title off for processing and don’t wait for it in person it takes 8 to 12 weeks.”
He is concerned because the State of Wyoming requires the treasurer’s office to collect sales tax from new car purchasers within 60 days. A new car purchaser cannot pay their sales tax until the title is processed, as a result of the lag in the Clerk’s office, many new car purchasers end up being in violation of the sales tax time frame and are charged a penalty.
McMahon criticized the election office, saying the deputy clerk resigned recently because of these issues. His priorities include shorter lines and full employment in the title department, happier coworkers and election security and integrity.
Sheriff
There are three candidates in the Republican primary for county sheriff, after the incumbent, Danny Glick, decided to not run again.
Brian Kozak, Boyd Wrede or Don Hollingshead will move onto the general election ballot, along with Democratic candidate Jess Fresquez and independent candidate Jeff Barnes.
Kozak has served as an officer for 25 years, including 11 years as the Cheyenne police chief. His priorities are bringing a positive leadership culture, as he did in the city department by launching community engagement programs. He wants to focus on employee recruitment and retention, and partner well with surrounding public safety agencies.
He believes a significant amount of his attention will be in bringing the jail into the 21st century by implementing best practices designed to reduce recidivism by 50%.
“As a former jail commander he knows that the jail is the perfect place to start drug treatment. Thus, his goal is to implement addiction severity index screening in the jail and begin drug treatment programming, which is not currently done,” his statement said. “He would like to start inmate work details to help in the community and a work release program for low risk offenders. Brian would like the jail to become compliant with the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which will open many grant opprotunities for mental health and drug treatment.”
Wrede, 53, said he saw the need to step in while on the bomb squad and mounted patrol units that were joint teams between the Cheyenne Police Department and the sheriff’s office. He said there were inequities between the two agencies that were leading to poor morale, which he hopes to address.
“I worked on the fugitive task force with the US Marshals, Executive Protection with the Secret Service when the Vice President was in southeast Wyo. I was a Detective for 4 years, 8 years as a Patrol Sergeant and an acting Lieutenant,” he said in a statement. “The biggest difference between me and my opponents is that I am the 5th generation of my family to call Laramie County my home. I have the most diverse law enforcement background to include experience as a detective.”
His top priorities would be to improve manpower to ensure safety, work with county commissioners to establish a fair, structured pay scale and evaluate and streamline jail intake procedures.
Hollingshead, 55, didn’t comment. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local-primary-candidates-shine-light-on-needs-in-laramie-county/article_ab37fe26-b27b-5a18-a96e-ff4af0661b93.html | 2022-08-12T13:07:54Z |
JACKSON – A national forest and some other federal lands in this area have lowered the fire risk, though there are still precaution measures to take.
According to a fire dispatch official who spoke with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Thursday, and to a news release the day before, the fire risk now is moderate. That is down from a high level previously, according to the official and to a previous announcement. (A U.S. Forest Service public relations representative did not comment.)
Teton Interagency Fire managers newly “adjusted the fire danger rating to moderate for Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest, and the National Elk Refuge following recent rainfall and cooler temperatures,” according to the latest online statement. “A moderate fire danger rating does not mean that people should let their guard down regarding fire risk.”
There is good reason to be careful, based on the information from the Forest Service.
“Every year, hundreds of campfires are left unattended, with all of them having the potential to start a large, extremely costly, life-threatening wildfire,” said Wednesday’s release. “Unattended or abandoned campfires can quickly escalate into wildfires and recreationists can be held liable for suppression costs if their campfire ignites a wildfire.”
For the year to date, “there have been 77 illegal and abandoned campfires in the Teton Interagency Fire area,” the announcement pointed out. A related website, accessed the following day, listed 79 as the number of unattended such fires.
Wednesday’s release contained some tips:
“Keep your fire small and attend to it vigilantly. Be sure to have a plan for putting your fire out.”
Don’t leave the camping or other area before the fire is fully out, people are advised. “Douse your fire with a large amount of water, stirring the coals and ashes into a thick, muddy soup, incorporating the white ash from the fire’s edges. Feel for heat in the center of the fire, on the larger pieces of wood, and along the edges of the ash. Repeat this process until no heat remains.”
For people in a situation without both a shovel and water, and without an “established fire ring, a soil area to build your fire free of flammable materials, or if there are winds that could carry sparks,” the recommendation was short and simple: “Consider not building a fire.”
More information is online, at tetonfires.com. To report a fire or smoke, the Teton Interagency Fire Dispatch Center is at 307-739-3630. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/grand-teton-area-fire-risk-falls-to-moderate/article_e2e60ba4-a370-5854-bd03-a68dca388030.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:00Z |
CHEYENNE – A rally is planned for this weekend at the FBI's Cheyenne office in protest of recent actions by the federal bureau.
A post by Don Odom in the Facebook group "Cheyenne and Wyoming News" said a "rally in support of President Trump" is planned for noon to 2 p.m. local Sunday. The office, 1109 Airport Parkway. Odom is a Republican candidate for state House District 61.
Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence was searched Monday by FBI agents. Trump and his supporters have expressed outrage about the search.
Odom, using his campaign page, also created a Facebook event for the rally. He said in an interview that he was not the organizer, but that he created the event page to help promote the event.
"Join us at the Cheyenne FBI field office in protesting the political use of the FBI. The current administration is going after President Trump because they know he will defeat them if he runs," the event description reads. "They have tried to destroy him since he came down the escalator and announced he was running the 1st time. They have not given up after 6 years of lies, fake scandals, and hoaxes. Come show your peaceful dissent against the FBI and your support for President Trump!"
In a Thursday interview with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Odom said he doesn't buy Trump having classified documents at his residence.
"I just believe that we need to stand up for what we believe in, and I believe the FBI has overstepped, and whether it's orders from above or not, I just see this as a political move," the candidate said.
Odom said he didn't know how many people to expect at the Sunday protest.
Local law enforcement and the FBI's regional office said Thursday they're aware of the planned rally.
"The FBI respects the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights. We advise individuals taking part in protest activities to remain aware of their immediate surroundings and to report any suspicious activity to local law enforcement," Vikki Miyoga, public affairs officer for the bureau's Denver field office, wrote in an email Thursday.
Cheyenne Police Chief Mark Francisco said his department has "been in discussions with the FBI" about the planned event. He said the federal agency has not requested help from the Cheyenne Police Department.
"We'll make our officers aware of it and request some extra patrol as they have time," Francisco said in an interview. "Unless something more serious draws our attention to it, we don't plan on particularly staffing the event or anything like that."
On Thursday afternoon, a man was shot and killed by law enforcement after he allegedly attempted to break into the FBI's Cincinnati field office while armed, according to the Associated Press and other media reports. As of that time, the man's motives were unclear.
Miyoga on Thursday afternoon sent a statement to the WTE from FBI Director Christopher Wray and the FBI National Press Office in Washington, D.C. She said it was "not specifically about any situation in Colorado or Wyoming."
"Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others. Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans," the statement said. "Every day I see the men and women of the FBI doing their jobs professionally and with rigor, objectivity, and a fierce commitment to our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. I am proud to serve alongside them."
Hannah Black is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s criminal justice reporter. She can be reached at hblack@wyomingnews.com or 307-633-3128. Follow her on Twitter at @hannahcblack. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/rally-at-cheyenne-fbi-office-planned-for-sunday/article_6babb7ad-71ee-52c8-9f38-5514c61148e8.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:06Z |
Here’s a question Wyoming voters should ponder: If Harriet Hageman really believes the 2020 presidential election was rigged against former President Donald Trump, why did she wait 11 months to finally say so?
Trump has repeatedly shown that a candidate’s total loyalty to him is what matters most. But last September, Hageman convinced Trump to endorse her candidacy against his bitter enemy, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, without publicly declaring that massive voter fraud cost him the election.
That’s curious, because Hageman wasn’t even a Trump supporter in 2016. As a member of the National Republican Convention’s rules committee, she tried to keep the future president from getting the nomination.
While most Trump-backed candidates have been shouting “stop the steal!” from the rooftops, Hageman has kept dancing around the issue.
“We have to pay very, very close attention to this so that 2020 never happens again,” Hageman said at a Bar Nunn event in March.
When WyoFile asked for clarification, Hageman emailed a statement that acknowledged she’s frequently asked if Joe Biden was legitimately elected. “I’m afraid the answer is we don’t know,” she demurred.
That’s a far cry from what Hageman proclaimed at a political forum in Casper last week. “Absolutely the election was rigged,” she said. “It was rigged to make sure that President Trump could not get re-elected. What happened in 2020 was a travesty.”
Cheney had tried for weeks to goad Hageman into playing the card.
“I’d be interested to know whether or not [Hageman] is willing to say here tonight that the election was not stolen,” Cheney said at a Sheridan debate in June. “She knows it wasn’t stolen. I think she can’t say that it wasn’t stolen because she’s completely beholden to Donald Trump, and if she says it wasn’t stolen, he will not support her.”
But Hageman didn’t bite at the time. Why did she hold back until less than two weeks before the Aug. 16 primary?
Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., a Cheney supporter, provided one possible reason why Hageman would want to keep some distance between herself and Trump’s phony 2020 election claims when WyoFile interviewed him back in March.
“Hageman doesn’t dare go off on that tack, because Wyoming people are rather reasonable,” Simpson said. “If her full-page ad is ‘stop the steal,’ then we know that she’s slipped into some unhinged state, and she’s not going to do that.”
Hageman hasn’t suddenly become “unhinged,” so either she made the political calculation that there is no downside in Wyoming to fully embracing her benefactor’s lies, or Trump, realizing that his lacky still hadn’t said the magic words, “It was rigged,” finally pulled her string.
Timing is everything, especially in politics. Last week, pro-Trump election deniers won high-profile primary races in several states. One was John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official who narrowly defeated Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer.
Meijer and Cheney are two of the 10 GOP U.S. House members who voted to impeach Trump. Most decided not to seek re-election, but they haven’t all been vanquished, and that’s undoubtedly set off alarm bells at Mar-a-Lago. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., finished first in his primary, while Trump’s hand-picked candidate was third.
Politico reported while Trump “went all-in on several election-denying candidates, as the votes rolled in, he seemed to come out on shaky ground. … The fact that these battles were, and are, close might signal Trump’s hold on the party is loosening.”
Trump doesn’t want to see Cheney merely beaten, he wants her crushed. If there was ever a time for Hageman to jump in the election-is-rigged camp with both cowboy boots, this appears to be it. Several former members of Trump’s administration are working on Hageman’s campaign. It wouldn’t be difficult to get that message to her.
Hageman may regret this shotgun wedding. Inevitably the truth will come crashing down on Trump. It’s already out there, for anyone who cares to open their eyes.
An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by Trump uncovered fewer than 475 instances out of millions of ballots cast. In no state would it have changed the outcome of the presidential election.
Last month, a group of esteemed conservative Republican jurists and officials released a report that concluded while Trump’s supporters have spent 20 months scouring for proof that the election was stolen, “On objective examination they have fallen short, every time.”
Does Hageman actually believe the election was stolen from Trump? I doubt it, but it probably doesn’t matter to those who decided to vote for her as soon as she received his official blessing.
Hageman must have realized she wouldn’t be allowed to just skate to victory without making the ultimate show of loyalty to her leader. It may have been tough for her to get the words out the first time, but I bet “absolutely it was rigged” will now easily roll off Hageman’s tongue. It’s the issue that will forever define her, and that may be the only taste of revenge Cheney gets in this election. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/drake-does-hageman-really-believe-the-big-lie/article_3b8630ad-e59c-52fc-aef6-26d13a5c8129.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:13Z |
In 1550, the city of Magdeburg, Germany was under siege. It faced a crisis of government because the army encircling the city was not a foreign army, but a domestic one.
The citizens of Magdeburg were subjects of the very Emperor whose armies encircled the city. He was there to enforce a law that they considered both ungodly and unjust. The city council faced an impossible decision. Should it obey the emperor, and allow the slaughter of innocent men under its protection? Or should it protect and defend Magdeburg’s citizens by taking up arms against its own emperor?
Either way, it seemed, would be a sin. The problem was both political and theological. The Magdeburgers were not so naïve as to think that Church and State could be separated. The very notion of obedience to lawful authority requires a belief that God Himself institutes legitimate governments. Without this foundation, there can be no notion of lawful and peaceful obedience. There is only the lex talionis – might makes right.
But if God puts rulers in place, then every ruler is “under God.” He is ultimately answerable to God himself. This is not only true of the emperor, but it is also true of every lesser government official – from the head of a household to the mayor to a faceless federal bureaucrat.
In short, all the candidates on Tuesday’s ballot are running for a divine appointment. They seek an office that is ultimately answerable to God. And God requires that those whom he elects to execute the office justly.
When any office holder defies the principles of right and wrong – whether they are written into statute or only imprinted on the human heart – he is acting illegitimately. Citizens need not be constitutional scholars to judge illegitimate government actions. Right and wrong exist prior to Constitution, U.S. Code, state statutes or bureaucratic rules.
That is why so many citizens today are troubled. Unjust actions are taking place at every level of government. They see abuse of office in the unequal treatment of citizens under the law. They see the huge disparity between the Department of Justice’s treatment of Jan. 6 prisoners and the same department’s treatment of 2020’s rioters. They see last Monday’s raid on Mar-a-Lago in contrast to James Comey’s refusal to prosecute the public crimes of Hillary Clinton.
These two examples are only the tip of the iceberg, but they are enough to make the point. Openly unjust governance defies the very God who set the government in place. This is the natural and logical consequence of denying the existence of God. Those who do not acknowledge God as the foundation of government are left with nothing more than Nietzsche’s “will to power.” This can never end well.
But how should godly citizens and officeholders respond to openly unjust rulers? The pastors of Magdeburg addressed this question head-on in a document called “The Magdeburg Confession.” The city council did not have the authority that God gave the emperor, but it did have its own God-given authority. The Magdeburg Confession explained the duties that these “lesser magistrates” had toward God and toward the emperor.
This document can also help us today. Injustice and tyrannical actions can goad people to overreact. That is both wrong and counterproductive. Not all tyranny is of the same type. Some can be borne without injury to the republic. Other types must be vigorously resisted. Thoughtful and godly citizens must know the difference.
The first level of tyranny is when the office holder’s personal vices harm others. Here, we should urge the official to a better way of life, but otherwise bear the injustice. Tyranny rises to a second level when an official unjustly uses government power against a citizen or a lower office holder. In that case, God does not compel a person to obey an unlawful order, but he does permit him to bear with the injustice so long as it does not compel him to participate in the evil.
When an unlawful command requires someone to sin, it has reached the third level of tyranny. At that level, a person is not only permitted, but required to disobey the unlawful order. “We must obey God, rather than men” (Acts 5:29 ESV).
The fourth, and highest, level of tyranny moves from the persecution of certain persons to the persecution of the very rights and principles themselves. The Magdeburg Confession sees this as a persecution of God himself, who is the author of all rights.
We would do well to dust off this centuries-old document and study it anew. As “one nation under God,” there is much that we can learn from it. Faithful and well-informed citizens will want neither to overreact nor to underreact in a time of crisis.
Jonathan Lange is a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor in Evanston and Kemmerer and serves the Wyoming Pastors Network. Follow his blog at OnlyHuman-JL.blogspot.com. Email: JLange64@allwest.net. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/lange-the-magdeburg-confession-has-much-to-teach-us/article_45884a93-6e73-54ed-bf98-fbdc71758af5.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:19Z |
Recently, Barbara Cubin wrote a column supporting Harriet Hageman for Congress and used one of the 10 tenets of the Code of the West, adopted by the state in 2010 as its code of ethics. She said Hageman "Rides for the Brand."
I have never understood that part of the code. Whose brand? Which brand? But, it did make me look again at the code, and I was struck how it no longer reflects what we see in Wyoming today. Updates to the code seem so necessary. Here are a few suggestions.
Number 11 – “Intolerance is encouraged.” There are many examples of this. We have heard so often someone is not conservative enough, not pure enough, and therefore that person should be censured or at least given a label (RINO anyone?) This should probably be Number 1 of the code, since it is so prevalent today.
Number 12 – “Who cares about the truth and public trust if I can win.” Two obvious candidates here, Hageman and Chuck Gray. Hageman just came out and said the 2020 election was “absolutely rigged” and called it a “travesty.” Of course, many recounts and investigations prove her wrong. The only travesty is what Hageman is saying. And, let’s not forget Gray, running for secretary of state, whose main campaign issue is all the fraud in the last election in Wyoming. He has not shown any evidence, not shown any examples, NOT ONE, but he is still pushing that “travesty.”
Number 13 – “Hypocrisy is good, and can even be financially beneficial, but it is best if no one knows about it.” So many to choose from; Eathorne the Oath Keeper (apparently federal money IS for him), Bouchard and many more who rant about federal overreach yet accept federal money, even Rammell, who so clearly stated everyone should be on their own and not expect federal money (apparently not everyone).
To conclude, let me use that supposedly common statement from one of Hageman’s television commercials. In honor of Hageman and Gray, “You are in Wyoming, so act according to number 12 of the Code of the West.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/maybe-its-time-for-us-to-update-wyomings-code-of-the-west/article_80cc8dd2-02aa-57f2-b66c-a0144c870374.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:25Z |
Starting this weekend, the Laramie Boomerang’s weekly TV listings magazine will move from Friday’s paper to the Saturday Weekend Edition.
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Lummis cosponsors education bill on learning loss
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming, cosponsored Sen. Tim Scott’s, R-S.C., Raising Expectations with Child Opportunity Vouchers for Educational Recovery (RECOVER) Act.
The bill‘s backers say it would empower parents to take action to solve the learning loss crisis that students are experiencing after months of COVID-19 school interruptions.
“While Wyoming quickly reopened schools, the interruptions in the school schedules will continue to impact children’s development for years to come,” said Lummis in a Wednesday news release. “We can help mitigate those effects by repurposing unused COVID funds for intervention programs. I am proud to join Senator Tim Scott in pursuing student success in a fiscally responsible manner.”
As of this past May, states and school districts had yet to spend 93% of allocated education funding from the American Rescue Plan, according to Lummis’ office. The new bill would allow states and school districts to use those unspent funds to issue Child Opportunity Scholarships directly to parents.
These scholarships are targeted at low-income families. The money can be put toward tutoring services, private school tuition, books, testing fees and educational therapies for children with disabilities. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/worth-noting-aug-12-2022/article_099f888e-7352-5730-a29d-09daaf25e244.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:31Z |
Every dog has his day, and apparently so does every miserably inadequate president.
Joe Biden, who has been out-of-touch, tone-deaf and disturbingly incompetent from the outset of his presidency, suddenly has the “Big Mojo,” or at least the “Moderate-Sized This-Isn’t-Quite-the Legislative-Debacle-We-Expected Mojo.”
The climate and health care spending deal forged by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and longtime Democratic holdout Joe Manchin has revived talk in the media and among Democrats of Biden’s transformative agenda — if not quite FDR- or LBJ-level, substantial and to be reckoned with.
There’s no doubt that Biden has spent a lot of money between the so-called $1.9 trillion COVID relief package and now the $700 billion in the latest bill.
It’s also true that winning is better than losing; success is better than futility; and passing something is better than nothing.
The Schumer-Manchin bill, though, is a shadow of the original sprawling proposal that constituted nearly the entire progressive wish list, from free community college to universal pre-K to expanded parental leave, stuffed into one legislative casing.
The scaled-back version is a not particularly coherent combination of whatever Joe Manchin and his fellow resistant Democrat, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, were willing to support.
Its claim to reduce inflation is a joke; its deficit reduction is backloaded and has already been vitiated by other unpaid-for spending; its taxes will hit Americans earning less than $400,000-a-year, despite Biden’s promises; its electric car subsidies are frustrated by its own requirements that key components not come from China — requirements that no car can currently meet.
The bill doesn’t remove any of the doubts about Biden, whose main contribution to the process of cutting the deal was to stay out of the way.
Otherwise, the president still hasn’t successfully made the public case for anything. Indeed, he has almost zero capacity for persuasion — something that the White House clearly realizes and is reflected in his limited schedule and interactions with the press.
He’s allowed the left to lead him around by the nose on most things, mouthing its lines about the Georgia voting law supposedly being “Jim Crow on steroids” and slamming the Supreme Court while on a trip overseas.
His agenda has been almost entirely removed from the concerns of ordinary Americans. The title of the new spending bill is a nod to inflation, but what it really offers Americans groaning under double-digit price increases in key goods is — just what they need — more solar panels and wind turbines.
Of course, Biden’s first big achievement, the COVID bill, turned out to be most consequential for what it did to stoke an inflation that has disrupted the lives of much of the country and eroded its standard of living.
It is this failure, more than the border or Afghanistan, that has sent Biden below 40% approval in most polls. It’s one thing to sag in popularity before a midterm election — that’s normal. It’s quite another to convince most everyone in the country, including members of your own party, that you are unsuited to running for president again.
Only 18% of Americans in the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll say that Biden should run for a second term. Just 29% of Biden voters are ready for him to suit up and ride again in 2024, an astonishing repudiation from people who presumably wish him well and were hoping for the best.
Well, at least Biden, the oldest man ever to serve as president, set up his succession with foresight and care, right? Naturally, only 30% of Democrats and Democratic independents want Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee in 2024.
Perhaps it makes Biden’s legislative achievements all the more impressive that he’s been able to manage them while simultaneously cratering. If that’s a distinction of sorts, it’s not one any president should welcome. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/opinion/guest_column/no-joe-biden-still-isnt-a-good-president/article_d8ef65b5-97de-5736-82f8-79c3c07e1fd3.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:37Z |
Military veterans and their supporters camped out in front of the U.S. Capitol for close to a week after Republican senators withdrew their support for a major expansion of health care for veterans exposed to toxic “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Formally titled, “The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022,” the PACT Act targets the Pentagon’s reliance on burn pits for disposing of the vast amounts of waste produced during the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Plumes of polluted smoke and particulates from the burn pits injured up to an estimated 3.5 million U.S. servicemembers over the past two decades.
After blocking the bill, Senate Republicans faced withering criticism from veterans and their supporters, including renowned comedian Jon Stewart. “I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a situation where people who have already given so much had to fight so hard to get so little,” said Stewart, deadly serious, flanked by vets and families of veterans who died from the exposure.
Earlier, Stewart assailed the Republicans:
“Ain’t this a bitch? America’s heroes, who fought in our wars, outside, sweating their asses off, with oxygen, battling all kinds of ailments, while these motherfs sit in the air conditioning, walled off from any of it. They don’t have to hear it. They don’t have to see it.”
Stewart wept after the Senate finally passed the bill.
Burn pits were used to dispose of everything from trash, tires, paint and other volatile organic solvents, batteries, unexploded ordnance, petroleum products, plastics, and medical waste, including body parts. These constantly burning dumps were often sited adjacent to barracks. Little or no protective gear was provided for impacted soldiers.
“Burn pits are massive incineration fields, sometimes as big as football fields, but there were many smaller ones throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, as well,” Purdue University anthropology professor Kali Rubaii said on the Democracy Now! news hour.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has identified a slew of cancers related to burn pit exposure, along with skin problems, asthma, bronchitis, respiratory, pulmonary and cardiovascular problems, migraines and other neurological conditions.
These illnesses could have been prevented. The military typically used jet or diesel fuel to burn everything, creating far more pollution than high-temperature incinerators. But using incinerators would have cost more money. Waste disposal was handled by the military contractor Kellog, Brown & Root, or KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton. Halliburton’s CEO prior to 2001 was Dick Cheney. Cheney then became U.S. vice president and was a key architect of the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. KBR received no-bid contracts to handle an array of logistics for the wars, including waste disposal. KBR chose cheap and dirty burn pits, maximizing profits.
“War is a racket,” retired U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler wrote in 1935. Butler was a career Marine, admitting, in a 1931 speech, “I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers,” Butler said. “I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
The close to $700 billion appropriated in the PACT Act for the next 10 years will help alleviate some suffering caused by Halliburton’s war profiteering, but only for U.S. victims. It won’t do a thing for the people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Veterans saw acute, short-term exposure to burn pits at peak health, at the prime of their lives,” Kali Rubaii, who recently returned from the heavily war-impacted Iraqi city of Fallujah, said. “Iraqis faced long-term, diffuse exposure at all stages of the life course, so the health effects were varied and widespread. Living near U.S. bases in Iraq, and therefore near burn pits, increased the likelihood of giving birth to a child with a birth defect or of getting cancer.
“Burn pits are not the biggest figure of environmental and health harm for Iraqis,” Professor Rubaii elaborated. “They have also been facing military occupation, bombings, shootings, displacement and layers of military incursion by different occupation forces since the U.S. invasion. These things have all added up to collapse in public infrastructure that would be used to contend with the health effects of burn pits, poor overall health, and damaged conditions for farming and fishing.”
She concluded, “There is one really great way to avoid war-related injury, which is to not go [to war].”
The scars of the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are deep, spanning decades. We will never know how many millions were killed or injured. The United States bears responsibility, and owes the survivors reparations, no less than has been pledged, belatedly, to U.S. veterans.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, along with David Goodman, are co-authors of The New York Times best-seller “Democracy Now!: 20 Years Covering the Movements Changing America.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/opinion/guest_column/the-other-victims-of-burn-pits-iraqi-and-afghan-civilians/article_6caa196a-34a8-55b0-b865-896dfdbcce66.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:43Z |
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Golden Gloves tournament qualifier Carlos Martinez, 20, poses for a portrait in the South Side Sluggers’ gym in Cheyenne on Wednesday. Martinez began his boxing career in Mexico, then began training with the South Side Sluggers when he immigrated to the United States in 2018. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Golden Gloves tournament qualifier Carlos Martinez, 20, poses for a portrait in the Southside Sluggers’ gym in Cheyenne on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Martinez began his boxing career in Mexico, then began training with the Southside Sluggers when he immigrated to the United States in 2018. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Golden Gloves tournament qualifier Carlos Martinez, 20, poses for a portrait in the South Side Sluggers’ gym in Cheyenne on Wednesday. Martinez began his boxing career in Mexico, then began training with the South Side Sluggers when he immigrated to the United States in 2018. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Golden Gloves tournament qualifier Carlos Martinez, 20, poses for a portrait in the Southside Sluggers’ gym in Cheyenne on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Martinez began his boxing career in Mexico, then began training with the Southside Sluggers when he immigrated to the United States in 2018. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – Carlos Martinez has wanted to box for as long as he can remember.
His father, Jesus Martinez, started training him shortly before he left Mexico, but wouldn’t let his son compete because he said it was too dangerous and the risk of injury was too high. Jesus wouldn’t budge even after Carlos stumbled upon Jesus’ collection of belts and trophies from his own time in the ring at his grandmother’s house.
“I wanted to be just like him, but he thought boxing was too aggressive for me and didn’t want me to get injured,” Martinez said through an interpreter Wednesday evening. “He likes it now because I’m winning.”
Martinez’s first opportunity to train seriously and compete came after he immigrated from Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico, in 2018. He had barely settled in with his older brother, also named Jesus, and his family when he went looking for a boxing gym.
Martinez found the South Side Sluggers and immediately started training.
“You could tell he had boxed a little bit before,” Sluggers’ coach Ray Montoya said. “All those kids from Mexico have some background with it.”
Few, if any, Sluggers have outworked Martinez since. The 20-year-old has made up for lost time and will compete at the National Golden Gloves tournament starting Monday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“I feel very happy and blessed to have the opportunity to box with really good boxers,” Martinez said. “It feels good to come from a small town in Mexico and come do things like this in the U.S.”
Martinez’s strengths are his power and movement, Montoya said. The Sluggers coaches are currently working with Martinez to add some speed to his straightforward style. It’s an approach Martinez adopted because his favorite boxers used it.
“I always try to leave everything in the ring and always move forward,” he said. “I’ve always been that way. A lot of my role models are Mexican boxers. I really look up to them, and that’s how they box.”
Martinez briefly left Cheyenne and moved to Texas. He trained and competed there, but his first chance to compete in Golden Gloves was stopped dead in its tracks by the COVID-19 pandemic. Martinez missed his family in Cheyenne and the family he made with the Sluggers and returned to Cheyenne.
Martinez accompanied his brother on a construction job and liked it so much that he now does carpentry full time. He put those skills to use by helping Montoya hang some doors.
“I was willing to pay him, but he wouldn’t take the money,” Montoya said. “I put some money in his bag, but he brought it right back to me. He wouldn’t accept it.”
Martinez’s brother also taught him how to cut hair, and he now gives semi-regular haircuts to a handful of his Sluggers’ teammates. Again, he won’t accept payment.
“They’re like family to me,” Martinez said. “I wouldn’t charge them because they took me in and welcomed me when I got here.”
Martinez has aspirations of boxing professionally. Montoya said he has the talent, but still needs to take time to hone his skills instead of making the jump too soon. It’s advice the veteran coach has given many pugilists over the years. Some have grown impatient and made the move, only to come to regret not taking his advice.
Martinez won’t be joining that group.
“I’ll do it when my trainers tell me I’m fit for it,” he said. “I believe boxing amateur is very different from boxing pro, so I want to make sure my coaches think I’m ready for it.”
That answer doesn’t surprise Montoya.
“He’s a very respectful and humble young man. That’s what makes champions,” he said. “He comes from a great family that is behind him 100%. That helps him stay motivated.”
No matter what happens this coming week – or even years down the road – Martinez is determined to set an example for the youngsters who call the South Side Sluggers’ gym off South Greeley Highway home.
“You can lose a lot of time doing things you shouldn’t like drugs or drinking. There are a lot of great people – and great boxers – who have gotten wrapped up into drugs.
“I want people to avoid them bring their lives into something good and do something that’s worth living for.”
Jeremiah Johnke is the WyoSports editor. He can be reached at jjohnke@wyosports.net or 307-633-3137. Follow him on Twitter at @jjohnke. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/other_sports/community/south-side-sluggers-carlos-martinez-wants-to-capitalize-on-golden-opportunity/article_49195fa8-65bf-5318-910b-9c43df6ade23.html | 2022-08-12T13:08:56Z |
LARAMIE – In the final installment of WyoSports’ schedule breakdown series, University of Wyoming beat writer Josh Criswell examines the Cowboys’ regular-season finale against Fresno State.
Elite arm
The Bulldogs are strong in several areas, but the primary reason they were picked to win the West Division in the Mountain West preseason poll is the return of Jake Haener at quarterback. The former Washington transfer was voted the league’s preseason player of the year last month, after ranking among the top 11 in the FBS in passing yards, passing touchdowns and total offense in 2021.
Haener gave Fresno State fans a scare shortly after the regular season, entering the transfer portal one day after head coach Kalen DeBoer left to take the same job at Washington. However, he reversed course about a week later, electing to return to the Bulldogs after it was announced that Jeff Tedford would be leading the program.
Familiar faces
Tedford is a well-known commodity at Fresno State. He took over the program after the 2016 season, with the team coming off a 1-11 campaign. He proceeded to lead them to a 10-4 record the following year, earning MW coach of the year honors and being named a finalist for the AFCA National coach of the year award in the process. The Bulldogs went 12-2 in 2018 and 4-8 in his final season before stepping away due to health reasons.
Another familiar face has returned to Fresno in defensive line coach Jethro Franklin. He was a two-time All-American with the Bulldogs in the 1980s, in addition to setting what was then a single-season school record with 19½ sacks in 1986. Franklin returned to his alma mater after a brief stint in the NFL to coach the defensive line from 1991-98, marking the start of a coaching career that has involved stops as an assistant with various college and professional teams.
Maintaining stability
Another factor in the lofty expectations for the Bulldogs is the fact that they don’t lose a ton of key contributors. Senior cornerback Wylan Free – who transferred to Georgia Southern this offseason – was the only starter they lost to the portal, after racking up 116 tackles, 71 solo stops, 10 pass deflections, four interceptions and one touchdown in four years with the program. Linebacker Sherwin King and cornerback Randy Jordan are the most notable of the other players that transferred out, although neither saw much if any action last season.
Notable additions
In addition to not losing much production to the portal, the Bulldogs added a couple of potential impact transfers, as well.
Defensive end Joshua Pakola, who comes to Fresno State from Stanford, will help the defense move forward following the departure of five-year contributor Arron Mosby. Pakola didn’t play last fall, and only appeared in four games during his first two years with the program. But he’s a former four-star prospect and top-200 recruit who has the potential to be one of the most dangerous newcomers in the conference. Defensive back Cameron Lockridge (Hawaii), linebacker Raymond Scott (USC), offensive lineman Jacob Isaia (Michigan State), tight end Velltray Jefferson (Utah) and wide receiver Nikko Remigio (California) could also play key roles for the Bulldogs.
By the numbers
On paper, Fresno State seems to have a fairly substantial advantage over the Cowboys heading into the season. At No. 69 in ESPN’s Football Power Index, the Bulldogs are the second highest-ranked team in the MW and 30 spots ahead of UW. They also have the second-lowest odds to win the conference on DraftKings at +240, with the Pokes being listed at +4500. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/early-look-at-wyoming-s-showdown-with-fresno-state/article_fc33c391-3d24-5d9e-8eeb-f81ea492a520.html | 2022-08-12T13:09:02Z |
The Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial explores a terrible question: How did 45 patients die at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina? Executive producer John Ridley has answers.
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The Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial explores a terrible question: How did 45 patients die at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina? Executive producer John Ridley has answers.
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Five years ago a car slammed into a crowd of counterprotesters. One person was killed and a dozen injured. Lisa Woolfork was in that crowd. She remembers that day with her friend Kendall King-Sellars.
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Five years ago a car slammed into a crowd of counterprotesters. One person was killed and a dozen injured. Lisa Woolfork was in that crowd. She remembers that day with her friend Kendall King-Sellars.
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The Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial explores a terrible question: How did 45 patients die at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina? Executive producer John Ridley has answers.
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The Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial explores a terrible question: How did 45 patients die at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina? Executive producer John Ridley has answers.
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In May 2018, after a high school shooting killed 10 people, the Santa Fe, Texas, Resiliency Center opened in a church. Any resident could see a counselor, attend a support group, and take part in a healing mandala coloring class, music therapy, or a workshop on emotional first aid — all free of charge.
Today, the center sits in a strip mall sandwiched between a seafood restaurant and vacant storefronts. On a recent evening, instead of patients filling the waiting room, counselors saw clients over video from their offices. The center looks empty, but according to therapists, the need is still there.
"There is still a lot of pain," said Jacquelyn Poteet, a chatty therapist who runs the center. About 186 people see counselors every month, but she said far more people probably need the services in the city of nearly 13,000 people. "A lot of people don't even realize they've got trauma."
Recently, she said, a former high school student had contemplated suicide. It was a "really close call," she said. "We're not out of the woods."
In the past four years, millions of dollars for mental health services have flooded this city, which feels remote even though it is only 6 miles off the highway connecting Houston and Galveston. But the lesson of Santa Fe, in a year in which the U.S. has averaged more than one mass shooting a day, is that even time and money haven't healed the deep, lingering grief that is unique to such events. Santa Fe, like communities across the country, has been forever changed.
Most locals agree that four years after the unthinkable occurred, Santa Fe is still reeling from those 30 minutes between the 17-year-old gunman's opening shots and his surrender to police. And they are still grappling with everything that came after — the school board fights, the City Hall turnover, the shooter's still-delayed trial, and even conflict over the mental health offerings provided in response.
Some people are skeptical of therapists
The lasting trauma here serves as a cautionary tale for residents of Highland Park, Ill.; Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, N.Y. — and everywhere else affected by such violence. Santa Fe's experience reveals both the importance and the challenge of building mental health resources quickly and sustainably, especially in communities that lacked them before the traumatizing event.
Prior to the shooting, few therapists worked directly in Santa Fe. And like several small communities in rural America, it's a place where many people are skeptical of therapists, either not realizing they need the help or simply preferring to ignore the pain. Four years later, Santa Fe is still mired in grief, just as the federal funding that helped establish its local mental health infrastructure recedes.
After the shooting, the state created the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium, which includes a program that helps schools connect children to mental health specialists virtually within two weeks. But that program has been rolled out to 40% of the state's student population so far — and it had not reached Uvalde before its May school shooting.
"In light of Uvalde, there is a desire to make these programs fully statewide," said Dr. David Lakey, presiding officer of the consortium and vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Texas System.
In June, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced that Texas would spend $5 million for a resiliency center in Uvalde. That city, too, previously had few mental health services. Eight years ago, Congress began funding community behavioral health clinics, but they have been slow to spread across the country. A new federal effort aims to expand them further.
Communities that have experienced mass shootings illustrate the long-term reach of such trauma. In 2019, six years after Jeremy Richman's daughter, Avielle, was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, he took his own life. Later that year, Columbine shooting survivor Austin Eubanks died of an accidental heroin overdose at age 37, two decades after he was wounded and his best friend was killed.
After a shooting, people would ideally have access to services through several routes: their primary care doctor, specialists in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, and even residential treatment programs, said Dr. Shaili Jain, an expert in post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma at Stanford University. "What is the future going to be for children who survive these massive traumatic events if they don't get the mental health help they need?" she said.
Following the Santa Fe shooting in 2018, "everyone was scrambling" to organize the mental health response, said Deedra Van Ness, whose daughter witnessed the attack. Santa Fe officials and mental health groups applied for grants through the federal Victims of Crime Act Fund, which draws money from criminal fines, forfeited bonds and other federal court fees. The city set up the resiliency center in a Methodist church that the Red Cross had used for initial crisis operations because it was one of the few buildings with space in the sprawling community.
Van Ness' daughter, Isabelle Laymance, had spent 30 minutes locked in an art room supply closet, which the shooter fired into, killing several teens. Van Ness sent Laymance, now 19, to a teen PTSD specialist in nearby Clear Lake City for nine months, which cost as much as $300 a month with insurance, before moving her to the resiliency center. There she was referred to the Trauma and Grief Center at Texas Children's Hospital. Her visits were free, but her psychiatric medication cost about $20 a month.
Van Ness said her daughter would experience hourslong panic attacks at school, the same one where the shooting occurred. She was absent for more than 100 days during her sophomore year. At one point, Van Ness said, she and her family were going to the resiliency center daily to attend family counseling and use other services.
Flo Rice, a substitute teacher injured in the Santa Fe shooting, was able to connect immediately with a counselor from the Galveston Family Service Center who showed up one day in her hospital room. For years she called, texted and saw her free of charge. But Rice is forever changed. She can't be near a school or go to restaurants. She can't sleep without medication.
"PTSD, for me, it's lifelong," Rice said.
The state has given $7 million to service providers, the city and the school district through the federal crime victims' fund in response to the shooting, according to the governor's office. Still, the amounts have decreased every year, with some groups no longer receiving funds, according to state records.
The city doesn't have the budget to fund such programs itself, Santa Fe Mayor Bill Pittman said.
The paucity of resources is representative of the larger mental health care gaps in the state, said Greg Hansch, executive director of the Texas chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Unlike most states, Texas didn't expand eligibility for Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income Americans that is the single-largest payer of mental health services in the country. And the state, like many others, has a severe shortage of mental health care workers. More than half of Texas' population lives in areas with a shortage of mental health care professionals, according to KFF.
The Santa Fe community is torn between forgetting and grieving. Memorials to the eight students and two teachers killed dot this city. An 8-foot-tall empty aluminum chair stands in front of the high school. Ten white crosses are planted in the grass next to the Maranatha Christian Center. Green-and-black benches made from recycled plastic lids sit at the library and the therapeutic garden behind City Hall.
Marriages and educations were disrupted
The long-term emotional toll remains visible, too, according to Poteet. Many students left for college but came home after a year. Marriages fell apart. Kids turned to alcohol or drugs.
"The town is still very angry," said Mandy Jordan, whose son has survivor's guilt because he was late to school the day of the shooting. She and her family eventually moved away from Santa Fe. "It's in the air almost."
So far, though, no suicides linked to the shooting have occurred. "It's by the grace of God that has not happened," Poteet said.
Reagan Gaona, 19, credits a therapist for helping to save her life. Gaona was finishing her sophomore year when her boyfriend, Chris Stone, was killed at the school. It took three therapists to find the right fit. Now, on one side of Gaona's left forearm, she has a tattoo of a rose alongside the date of the shooting, May 18, 2018, and on the other side butterflies with semicolons as bodies, signifying mental health awareness and suicide prevention. It represents "that I am flying out of my depression and that I am growing my wings," she said. "That I am beautiful."
Gaona has regular panic attacks and anxiety-related muscle spasms. She attended college in Kansas for a year on a softball scholarship before moving back to the area. She feels better, but said she also "feels empty."
The shooting also derailed Laymance's plans. She had intended to go to college on a bowling scholarship to study interior design.
But PTSD has been a major obstacle. She suffers from short-term memory loss. When she went to orientation at a junior college, she felt unsafe hearing about Texas' open-carry policy on campus. She wants to go — and study psychology — but for now, she's working as an assistant manager at Sonic, a fast-food restaurant.
Van Ness said the person her daughter was that day died. Her daughter is working on trying to figure out who she is now.
"We're just as proud of her progress as we would've been with pretty much any decision she chose," Van Ness said, "as long as she continues to choose life."
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.
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J&J to end sales of baby powder with talc globally next year
(AP) - Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the U.S. and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it caused cancer.
Talc will be replaced by cornstarch, the company said.
The company has faced litigation alleging its talcum powder caused users to develop ovarian cancer through use for feminine hygiene or mesothelioma, a cancer that strikes the lungs and other organs.
J&J insists, and the overwhelming majority of medical research on talc indicates, that the talc baby powder is safe and doesn’t cause cancer.
However, demand for the company’s baby powder fell off, and J&J removed the talc-based product in most of North America in 2020.
The company did so after it saw demand drop due to “misleading talc litigation advertising that caused global confusion and unfounded concern,” about product safety, a company spokeswoman said.
J&J said the change announced late Thursday will simplify its product selection and meet evolving global trends.
Last October, J&J said a separate subsidiary it created to manage talc litigation claims had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
J&J said then that it funded the subsidiary, named LTL Management, and established a $2 billion trust to pay claims the bankruptcy court determines that it owes.
The health care giant also said last fall that it will turn its consumer health business — which sells the baby powder, Band-Aids and other products — into a separate publicly traded company. The part of the company selling prescription drugs and medical devices will keep the J&J name.
Shares of Johnson & Johnson, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, rose slightly before the opening bell Friday. The stock has performed better than the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of which J&J is a member, for most of the year.
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Police arrest man accused of shooting inside Mall of America
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of firing shots inside the Mall of America before fleeing the suburban Minneapolis shopping complex with the help of several accomplices has been arrested in Chicago.
The Bloomington Police Department says 21-year-old Shamar Alon Lark, of Minneapolis, was arrested Thursday along with another man who had been sought following the Aug. 4 shooting.
Court documents say Lark faces charges including second-degree assault. It wasn’t immediately known whether he had a lawyer Friday who could speak on his behalf.
Police earlier said that Lark fired three rounds in front of a Nike store following a fight involving a half-dozen people.
The shooting sent some shoppers running for cover and led officials to lock down the mall.
No injuries were reported.
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Young suspect arrested in killing of woman and 2 little boys, police say
NORTHFIELD, N.H. (WMUR) - An arrest has been made in the triple killing of a New Hampshire mom and her two young kids. The suspect is a juvenile.
“We’ve never had anything, not even a break-in in the neighborhood,” neighbor Mark Korenkiewicz said.
For neighbors in Northfield, it’s been an eerie week since 25-year-old Kassandra Sweeney and her two young sons, 4-year-old Benjamin and 1-year-old Mason, were found shot dead inside their home.
“Concern is part of it. But everybody is just - we don’t believe that something like this could happen,” Korenkiewicz said.
On Thursday, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office announced that a juvenile has been taken into custody, charged in the juvenile justice system with three counts of murder and one count of falsifying evidence.
“Obviously, as we’ve said, the family is completely devastated, and rightfully so, by this incredibly tragic set of circumstances, ” New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Ward said.
Because of their age, no further information is being released about the suspect.
The AG’s office also wasn’t able to comment on if the suspect was a family member or what their relationship was to Sweeney and her boys.
Over the last week, New Hampshire State Police have been searching parts of Northfield, Tilton and the I-93 corridor in connection to the case.
However, officials would not elaborate on whether those searches led to any evidence or the murder weapon.
Neighbors said Thursday’s arrest brings some closure.
“We can all put it in the past. People will heal going forward and have a better understanding of what we need to do,” Korenkiewicz said.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office wouldn’t comment on whether they plan on petitioning the court to try the suspect as an adult.
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Car thief hides in giant teddy bear, sentenced to jail
UNITED KINGDOM (Gray News/TMX) – A man from England who stole a car tried to hide from law enforcement inside a giant teddy bear, according to the Greater Manchester Police Department.
Joshua Dodson, 18, stole a car and filled it up with gas without paying, police said.
Photos shared by police show the teddy bear in which Dodson hid. It appears to be about 5 feet tall with a tear on its underside.
“When we saw this large bear breathing during a hunt for a thief, we thought something wasn’t right. ... Then we found our suspect stuffed inside,” the police tweeted alongside the photos.
Dodson admitted to stealing a Mitsubishi ASX in May as well as a Vauxhall Astra van in March.
He was sentenced to nine months in jail.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AGBA Acquisition Limited (NASDAQ: AGBA, the "Company"), a special purpose acquisition company, announced today that AGBA Holding Limited, the Company's initial public offering sponsor ("Sponsor"), has deposited into the Company's trust account (the "Trust Account") an aggregate of $504,430.65 (representing approximately $0.15 per ordinary share), in order to extend the period of time the Company has to complete a business combination for an additional three (3) months period, from August 16, 2022 to November 16, 2022. The Company issued a promissory note to Sponsor with a principal amount equal to the amount deposited. The promissory note bears no interest and is convertible into the Company's units (with each unit consisting of one ordinary share, one warrant to purchase one-half of one ordinary share, and one right to receive one-tenth of one ordinary share upon the consummation of the Company's initial business combination) at a price of $10.00 per unit at the closing of a business combination by the Company. The purpose of the extension is to provide time for the Company to complete a business combination.
About AGBA Acquisition Limited
AGBA Acquisition Limited is a British Virgin Islands company incorporated as a blank check company for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The Company's efforts to identify a prospective target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region, although the Company intends to focus on operating businesses in the healthcare, education, entertainment and financial services sectors that have their principal operations in China.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements, including the successful consummation of the Company's initial public offering, are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from the forward looking statements. The Company expressly disclaims any obligations or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in the Company's expectations with respect thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any statement is based.
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BOSTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A team from Analysis Group, one of the largest international economics consulting firms, supported affiliated expert Professor Edward A. Snyder, who provided testimony on behalf of defendants in a criminal antitrust price-fixing matter brought by the federal government. The defendants were former executives at leading poultry processing companies.
In the matter (US v. Penn, et al.), the US Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that the defendants engaged in an agreement to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chickens between 2012 and 2019. The DOJ charged the defendants with a criminal violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act for an alleged conspiracy to restrain trade. Following a hung jury in two prior trials, the DOJ took the unprecedented step of trying the case a third time.
In all three trials, an Analysis Group team led by Managing Principal Andrea Okie, and including Principal Mark Lewis and Vice Presidents Kevin Gallagher and David Smith, supported the defense and Professor Snyder, William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management, Yale School of Management.
In his expert analysis assessing whether there was economic evidence consistent with a price-fixing agreement, Professor Snyder testified that his analysis of objective economic data did not support the DOJ's theory of price-fixing and bid rigging. He testified that information exchanges are expected in the broiler chicken industry and do not indicate price-fixing. He also showed that pricing patterns were inconsistent with the DOJ's theory and that the at-issue prices were not systematically higher than benchmark prices analyzed for the case. Professor Snyder, instead, found that the at-issue prices and price changes were consistent with the supply and demand conditions in the broiler chicken industry.
Following the third trial, spanning five weeks in the US District Court for the District of Colorado, a jury acquitted all defendants.
To learn more about Analysis Group's capabilities, visit AnalysisGroup.com.
About Analysis Group:
Analysis Group is one of the largest international economics consulting firms, with more than 1,000 professionals across 14 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1981, we have provided expertise in economics, finance, health care analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government agencies worldwide. Our internal experts, together with our network of affiliated experts from academia, industry, and government, offer our clients exceptional breadth and depth of expertise.
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- As part of its global Be Seen. Be Heard. campaign, The Body Shop is removing barriers for first-time voters in the U.S. through education and access.
- $1 from each sale of the brand's new 'Flex Your Power' pack will benefit civics education organization Generation Citizen.
- To help spread the word, The Body Shop is rallying Be Heard ambassadors across North America.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This International Youth Day, The Body Shop U.S. announces bold action to drive youth voter engagement and registration across the country, ahead of the midterm elections this November.
Starting today, visitors to The Body Shop's U.S. stores and website can learn about the importance of voting in this year's elections, check their current registration status and register to vote through the brand's virtual voting hub, made possible by Impactree and TurboVote.
This effort is an extension of Be Seen. Be Heard, the global campaign from The Body Shop and the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth focused on amplifying youth perspectives and representation in public life in more than 75 countries. The campaign was launched at the UN headquarters in May in conjunction with the extensive joint report Be Seen Be Heard: Understanding young people's political participation, which demonstrated a significant appetite for sweeping political reform from youth around across the United States and around the globe.
Young voters in the U.S. typically participate in elections at rates of 20 to 30 percent lower than older voters and routinely face structural barriers to doing so, including complicated rules about absentee voting, state-by-state ambiguities and lack of civic education.
"The Body Shop believes that youth need a seat at the table where important decisions are being made, especially rulings that directly affect them," said Hilary Lloyd, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Responsibility for The Body Shop North America. "Over the last few years, we have been deeply inspired by how young people have flexed their political voice through direct protesting, lobbying their representatives and advocating for causes online. Now, we're proud to help amplify their voices at the ballot box."
The Body Shop U.S. is partnering with Generation Citizen, a national nonpartisan organization that equips and inspires young people to exercise their civic power, to educate and motivate young people to engage in the democratic process in this year's midterm elections and beyond.
The retailer also is launching a 'Flex Your Power Pack' made up of its skincare and body care products to encourage young activists to practice self-care and give them the confidence they need make their voice heard. The pack includes travel-size versions of the brand's bestsellers including Ginger Shampoo, Tea Tree Oil, Hemp Hand Cream and Shea Body Butter. For every pack sold, The Body Shop will donate $1 up to $25,000 to Generation Citizen to support the organization's vital work in civics education.
"We're excited to partner with The Body Shop to ensure that the most diverse generation in American history can make their voice heard and exercise the most fundamental American right, which is the right to vote," said Elizabeth Clay Roy, CEO of Generation Citizen. "Through this campaign, we hope to not only provide young people with the tools to engage in our democracy, but also to help them feel eager and empowered to do so."
To spread the word about Be Seen. Be Heard, The Body Shop is rallying 'Be Heard' ambassadors across North America who prove to their communities that you are never too young to make a difference. The list of changemakers involved include reproductive rights activist Deja Foxx, equity and climate justice organizer Larissa Crawford, sustainability and low-impact lifestyle champion Karishma Porwal, education equity advocate Marley Dias and UNICEF ambassador and actress Saara Chaudry.
Additionally, from August 12-14, 2022, The Body Shop will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the Women's Convention Event in Houston, Texas, hosted by Women's March. The conference will act as a place for women and allies to engage on issues of civic participation and bring thousands of activists together to works towards social change as it relates to reproductive healthcare, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental justice, racial justice and more. The Body Shop will be in the Social Justice City, an exhibition hall packed with feminist vendors, community groups, interactive art spaces and more. Visitors to the booth can learn more about the campaign, register to vote and check their voter registration.
For more information about The Body Shop's Be Seen. Be Heard. campaign, please visit: https://www.thebodyshop.com/en-us/about-us/activism/be-seen-be-heard/a/a00072
As a B Corp business, The Body Shop is committed to ambitious social and environmental targets. Earlier this year, it established a Youth Collective to help amplify youth voices within its own business. The Body Shop Youth Collective is formed of 10-12 people from inside and outside the business, all aged under 30. They will advise The Body Shop Executive Leadership Team with the views and voices of young people.
The Body Shop invests heavily in activism and has a dedicated activism team, focused on research and tactics, operating around the world. Long before activism was an industry buzzword, The Body Shop has pushed for change where other brands saw risks. It has mobilized its global collective and campaigned for over 20 years on issues such as the rights of indigenous peoples, animal rights, sex trafficking and the burning of the Amazon rainforest.
For more information follow @thebodyshopnorthamerica on Instagram or visit, thebodyshop.com.
Generation Citizen (GC) works to ensure that every student in the United States receives an effective action civics education, which provides them with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate in our democracy as active citizens. For more information follow @generationcitizen on Instagram or visit, generationcitizen.org.
Impactree is a purpose-driven engagement platform that empowers organizations to build and measure meaningful impact, making it easy to engage communities and drive collective action on key social and environmental causes. Impactree's user-friendly platform and tech-enabled solutions unlock the power of purpose so people and organizations can discover, share, and support meaningful action that drives positive change in the world. For more information, visit impactree.com or contact contact@impactree.com.
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40+ speakers and session leaders bring their expertise to Washington, DC as economic volatility highlights the essential role of customer retention
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ChurnZero, a leading Customer Success platform, has released the full lineup and speaker agenda for BIG RYG 2022, the Customer Success leadership summit in Washington, D.C. on October 12-13, 2022. RYG stands for "red, yellow, green," key indicators of customer health. The two-day in-person event will see hundreds of Customer Success (CS) leaders gather to network, learn and share their expertise in improving team effectiveness, customer satisfaction and their companies' bottom line. Early bird registration is available through August 19.
BIG RYG 2022's agenda is carefully curated to deliver long-term value for businesses with present-day perspectives and challenges in mind. BIG RYG's mantra—speak simply, be real and challenge the audience—informs a unique program of in-depth hyper-workshops, panel discussions, keynote addresses and breakout sessions. Attendees will gain a new sense of what's possible with Customer Success, practical applications and leadership insights for running a modern CS organization.
The event's speakers represent a diverse cross-section of CS executives and thought leaders including Jessica Robinson, vice president of operations, Casepoint; Sheik Ayube, vice president business development, ESG; Georgie Papacostas, vice president of customer success, Sales Assembly; Kathy Isaac, vice president of customer success, Carbide; and Lucy Illidge, head of CX operations, EMEIA, Cision.
BIG RYG 2022's speaker and session highlights include:
- The Brilliance of Brevity: Jim VandeHei, Founder and CEO, Axios: Journalist and media entrepreneur Jim VandeHei brings the inside line on how Axios earned millions of subscribers by keeping things short, jargon-free and to the point—and how BIG RYG attendees can benefit from the same approach.
- The New "C" in CEO: Gabby Wong, CEO, FranConnect: SaaS leader Gabby Wong explains how the drive for customer centricity has opened a path from Customer Success to the CEO position, and how CS leaders can build opportunities and overcome obstacles on their way to the top.
- The Future of Customer Success: Leading Customer Success podcasters Adrian Brady-Cesana (CX Chronicles), Yanique Grant (Navigating the Customer Experience) and Kenny Groom (Beyond Normal) join forces to answer the most pressing questions facing the CS industry.
- Are You Recession Ready? Bryan Neale, Founder, Blind Zebra: Over the last decade, Customer Success has enjoyed the gains of a high-growth economy. As a potential downturn looms, CS consultant and coach Bryan Neale shares the challenges that teams will face, a framework for assessing readiness and actionable tactics to stay strong in any economic environment.
Additional sessions and workshops cover tactical recommendations, like "Financial Modeling for Customer Success" and "Measuring Cross-Functional Health between Customer and Success Peers," as well as strategic guidance, such as "Driving Performance with a Remote Team."
"The smartest, most agile companies are obsessed with the red, yellow or green (RYG) that indicates customer health," said You Mon Tsang, CEO and co-founder, ChurnZero. "The Customer Success teams who monitor it, drive it and advocate for their customer at every step are generating enormous impact and ROI through retention and expansion. For companies who are serious about protecting their revenue, outlasting their competitors and building for the future, no industry event delivers more value than BIG RYG 2022, and no company is more committed to guiding companies on that journey than ChurnZero."
BIG RYG 2022 culminates a year of ChurnZero programming to advance the Customer Success sector. In addition to this flagship conference, ChurnZero has partnered with more than 40 industry leaders, including Pendo, SaaS Capital, ABBYY, ESG and Involve.ai, to host dozens of live and virtual educational and networking forums in the first half of 2022. These events have connected more than 3,000 Customer Success practitioners to tackle challenges such as setting SaaS retention benchmarks, driving customer value during onboarding and boosting product adoption and engagement.
Sponsors of BIG RYG 2022 include top sponsor ESG, as well as sponsors Blind Zebra, G2, Growth Molecules, Higher Logic Vanilla, Intellum, Melo Associates, Northpass, Rocketlane, Skilljar, SlapFive, Sturdy, SuccessCOACHING, and The Success League.
ChurnZero is a recognized leader in Customer Success dedicated to helping subscription businesses succeed at scale. The company is known for its powerful, enterprise-class Customer Success platform and ongoing partnership with its customers to ensure they get everything they need to improve efficiency, increase revenue, and deliver the best possible customer experiences.
Through the platform, Customer Success teams can spot potential churn risks early and identify renewal and expansion opportunities. Best-in-class automation and in-app communication make it easy to engage with customers and lead them to value.
As Customer Success professionals serving Customer Success professionals, the ChurnZero team prides itself on being trusted partners, consultants, and coaches, so customers can focus on the work that matters to grow their businesses.
Founded in 2015, ChurnZero is a remote-first company with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and an office in Amsterdam.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CLPS Incorporation (the "Company" or "CLPS") (Nasdaq: CLPS), today announced the appointment of Mr. Srustijeet Mishra as the CEO of CLPS Technology (California) Inc. ("CLPS California"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. He will be fully responsible for the development and management of business activities in the U.S. market, and will continue to serve as the CEO of the Company's business entities in the Southeast Asia region (referred to collectively as "CLPS SEA").
Mr. Mishra was the founder of Ridik, a Singapore-based IT services provider. He officially joined the Company upon initial acquisition of 80% of Ridik's equity stake in September 2019. Its increased financial returns and growing potential for business development led the Company to acquire the remaining 20% equity stake in Ridik, and at the same time, appointed him as the CEO of CLPS SEA in December 2020. Following the Company's global expansion strategy, he was appointed as the director and president of CLPS Philippines when it was established in September 2021.
Mr. Mishra has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry with expertise in providing professional IT services to financial and IT institutions across Southeast Asia and Europe. He holds an MBA degree from IILM Institute for Higher Education in New Delhi, India and a master's degree in Physics from Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, India.
Mr. Raymond Lin, Chief Executive Officer of CLPS, said, "Mr. Mishra is a seasoned and accomplished industry veteran who is well suited to lead our U.S. business to new heights. With his extensive industry experience and management skills, we are optimistic that our overseas business will achieve greater success under his leadership."
Established in January 2020, CLPS California has been providing IT services to some of the Fortune 100 companies in industries such as e-commerce, fintech, IT consulting, and IT services. Its team size has grown by 85%, and it has begun to generate revenue since fiscal year 2021. At present, the Company has set up delivery teams in India and Singapore, mainly focusing on providing IT consulting services to clients in North America. Further, it plans to utilize various engagement models with its existing and new clients in the U.S., including fixed-price model, turn-key financial solution, client specific Center of Excellence (CoE), offshore development center (ODC), service-level agreement (SLA), hybrid (onshore-offshore) model, build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, and managed services, among others.
"The last few years have been challenging for companies around the world. The recurrent COVID-19 outbreaks have forced many business organizations to halt strategic initiatives and goals in favor of maintaining operations. For companies and entrepreneurs, restarting businesses and adopting the concept of the 'new normal' have opened up new perspective and ideas. It is a great opportunity for us as many companies start to develop long-term strategies for digital transformation, adopt emerging technologies, or move to new business model," said Mr. Mishra. "We are currently delivering most of the offshore projects for our U.S. clients from China. In addition, as we reposition CLPS as a global brand, we plan to extend our overseas operations from Asia to North America, further expanding our delivery network and delivery model. As a result, it will create a unique advantage for us in the U.S. market."
He added, "With our extensive industry experience and long term working relationships with most of the big foreign banks and insurance companies in China and Singapore, we are confident of building a strong client base in the U.S. Geographically, we have grown across the SEA region with subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as in India with an ODC. By offering a variety of delivery approaches combined with the convenience of IT talent policy in these countries, we are not only able to give our clients across the globe with high standards of services, but also provide flexibility to meet their specific needs. For instance, Singapore is a preferred location for fintech projects, whereas semiconductor industry prefers India for embedded software projects. Therefore, having strategic locations allows us to maintain a favorable and long-term relationship with our clients. In addition, we have increased our investment in a range of products, including a new generation of loan system, CAKU credit card system and digital asset solutions for financial institutions, which will open up new opportunities and will enable us to quickly enter the North American market. Accordingly, we anticipate that our business in North America is poised to enter the next phase of growth."
About CLPS Incorporation
Headquartered in Hong Kong, CLPS Incorporation (the "Company") (Nasdaq: CLPS) is a global leading information technology ("IT") consulting and solutions service provider focusing on the banking, insurance, and financial service sectors. The Company serves as an IT solutions provider to a growing network of clients in the global financial service industry, including large financial institutions in the US, Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong SAR, and their PRC-based IT centers. The Company maintains 19 delivery and/or research & development centers to serve different customers in various geographic locations. Mainland China centers are located in Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Tianjin, Baoding, Xi'an, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Hainan. The remaining eight global centers are located in Hong Kong SAR, USA, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, India, and the Philippines. For further information regarding the Company, please visit: https://ir.clpsglobal.com/, or follow CLPS on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements made in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning and protections of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to the Company's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond the Company's control, may cause the actual results and performance of the Company to be materially different from such forward-looking statements. All such statements attributable to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary notice, including, without limitation, those risks and uncertainties related to the Company's expectations of the Company's future growth, performance and results of operations, the Company's ability to capitalize on various commercial, M&A, technology and other related opportunities and initiatives, as well as the risks and uncertainties described in the Company's most recently filed SEC reports and filings. Such reports are available upon request from the Company, or from the Securities and Exchange Commission, including through the SEC's Internet website at http://www.sec.gov. We have no obligation and do not undertake to update, revise or correct any of the forward-looking statements after the date hereof, or after the respective dates on which any such statements otherwise are made.
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Rhon Galicha
Investor Relations Office
Phone: +86-182-2192-5378
Email: ir@clpsglobal.com
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Learn Who You Should Call Before Starting Your Home Improvement Projects
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
An omnibus survey conducted by Common Ground Alliance (CGA) in March 2022 found that 49% of homeowners who planned to dig this year did not intend to contact 811 to have underground utility lines marked beforehand. Striking a single utility line can cause injury, repair costs, inconvenient outages and fines. Every few minutes, an underground utility line is damaged because someone decided to dig without first contacting 811.
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Contacting 811 by phone or online connects homeowners and contractors to their local 811 center, which notifies the appropriate utility companies. Then you must wait the required amount of time – usually a few days, depending on the state – for utilities to send out professional locators to visit the dig site and mark the locations of underground lines with flags, spray paint or both.
- Damages to underground utilities cause an estimated $30 billion in societal costs each year
- More than 385,000 damages to underground utilities were reported in 2020 alone
- An estimated 34.9 million Americans will put themselves and their community at risk by digging without contacting 811 first
Sarah Magruder Lyle, President and CEO of CGA, discusses the importance of contacting 811 before digging underground as well as the dangers of striking a utility line and the costs of these damages.
For more information, please visit: www.811beforeyoudig.com
Sarah Magruder Lyle is President & CEO of Common Ground Alliance (CGA), an organization dedicated to protecting underground utility assets and people who work and live near them. She has more than 20 years of experience in the energy, infrastructure and utilities industries. Magruder Lyle focuses on protecting vital underground infrastructure from costly damages and ensuring the safety of those on the jobsite and the communities that depend on these critical assets. With her political and policy experience, including her tenure as the U.S. Department of Energy's White House Liaison and a senior advisor in the Office of Policy and International Affairs under the George W. Bush administration, she has a unique understanding of the effective strategies necessary to enforce damage prevention practices in complex industries, including natural gas. Under her leadership, CGA has built strong partnerships across the organization's 16 stakeholder groups, developed strategies to educate about the importance of safe digging, encouraged the next generation of damage prevention practices and technologies, and implemented programs to reduce damages to underground infrastructure.
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The leading PRP product in the US aesthetic market will keep being distributed exclusively by Aesthetic Management Partners, under Estar's global "Cellenis® PRP" brand
LONDON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Estar Medical®, a globally recognized leader and provider in the platelet rich plasma (PRP) and other related cell therapy technologies, has recently finalized an exclusive distribution agreement with Aesthetic Management Partners, a US aesthetic distributor with vast national presence that provides a comprehensive ecosystem of business support for aesthetic and dermatology clinics.
Estar Medical ("Estar") provides this information to its US customer base and practitioners offering PRP products and services regarding continuing availability of its platelet rich-plasma to long-time US users and new accounts under its global Cellenis® PRP brand.
"Until earlier this year, we had sold all our PRP portfolio (11 & 22mL tubes) in the US aesthetic field through Eclipse, which was our US aesthetics market distributor" says Aaron Esteron, Estar's CEO. "Eclipse sold Estar's PRP under its brand name "Eclipse PRP". That brand name and other specific assets were purchased by Crown Laboratories, a US PRP competitor. For clarity, Estar's industry-leading PRP technology and means of production were not part of any such deal, as these are owned by and belong exclusively to Estar. We did not give or sell to Eclipse or Crown the right to make our PRP. It may be that the assets Crown Laboratories bought from Eclipse include some or all of the PRP tubes we made for Eclipse. If so, that is a limited supply, as it remains on hand, with shorter expiration dates, being lawfully resold only by Eclipse until December 31st, 2022."
After terminating the Eclipse distribution agreement in May, 2022, Estar has executed a new US distribution agreement with Aesthetic Management Partners (AMP) to continue dominating the sales in the US and implementing Estar's global growth strategy. AMP is now the only US distributor in aesthetics for the Estar PRP, the exact same PRP tubes and proprietary technology used in the US in over 1,000,000 procedures gaining #1 position in the US aesthetic & hair restoration market. The only change is the name: Cellenis® PRP, the name that Estar has been using world-wide in the global aesthetic market.
"AMP has an amazing sales & marketing team, which will expand our ability to meet the needs of current and future customers and aesthetic providers across the US and drive new growth opportunities and value proposition through higher performing and more innovative and sustainable solutions", added Aaron Esteron, CEO of Estar.
The long term PRP customers can expect to continue receiving superior customer service, medical education, and access to AMP's expanded range of highly effective aesthetic products.
About Estar Medical
Estar Medical is a global leader in the regenerative medicine and PRP industry, with representation in over 60 countries, holding numerous international patents and has developed unique proprietary solutions in facial aesthetics, hair restoration, natural skincare, orthopedics, sports-medicine, wound care and many other medical applications.
Estar's proven protocols, numerous clinical studies, and ongoing extensive research & development strengthen its ability to give the physicians and their end users the optimal and natural medical solutions.beauty
About Aesthetic Management Partners
Aesthetic Management Partners is a rapidly expanding medical device and biologics company in the functional medicine and aesthetic industry. AMP focuses on launching unique products and technologies that attain optimum patient outcomes with little to no downtime.
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Yulia Shihskov
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor America and its African American marketing agency of record, Culture Brands were recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) with a Salute to Excellence Award for its OKAY Hyundai campaign. The award was announced this past weekend at the Salute to Excellence Awards ceremony which took place during the 2022 NABJ Convention in Las Vegas.
"We're thrilled by this recognition for the work we do to engage with our multicultural consumers," said Angela Zepeda, CMO, Hyundai Motor America. "To be honored by NABJ in this way is not only an endorsement of our efforts, but also validation of our commitment to engage with our African American consumers in a culturally authentic way."
The OKAY Hyundai marketing theme was first launched in Fall 2021 and is designed to strengthen the connection between Hyundai and the African American community through the embedding of cultural references and nuances in the creative messaging. The campaign was developed by Culture Brands under the leadership of Eunique Jones Gibson, founder and chief creative officer.
"We are incredibly excited and honored to receive this important peer recognition by NABJ," said Gibson. "To be recognized by the country's largest media organization for journalists of color, this speaks volumes of our work, our creative and our commitment to represent African Americans in media with content that inspires those audiences by ensuring they feel seen, heard and valued."
Erik Thomas, senior group manager, experiential & multicultural marketing, Hyundai Motor America added, "Through our partnership with Culture Brands, we continue to look to connect with people on their own terms and in relevant ways, which we know then leads to longstanding relationships. As we increase our share of voice with the African American market and communicate successfully, this tremendous honor and recognition from NABJ is further affirmation we're on the right path."
Founded in 1975, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), is the oldest advocacy organization for journalists and media professionals of color in the nation. The Salute to Excellence Awards honors journalism and communications that best cover the Black experience or address issues affecting the worldwide Black community. Entries are judged on content, creativity, innovation, use of the medium, and relevance to the Black community.
Culture Brands
Culture Brands is an independent, minority and female-owned agency that exists to authentically celebrate, reflect and represent African Americans in media. Founded in 2017, by 15-year advertising veteran Eunique Jones Gibson, we create culturally relevant and affirming campaigns and content that inspire African American audiences by ensuring they feel seen, heard and valued. At Culture Brands, we are constantly engaged in a two-way conversation with the African American community through our owned and operated media platforms and consumer brands such as the award-winning Because of Them We Can®, Because of Them We Can Box (Just For Kids), #CultureTags® and Dream Village®. Culture Brands is headquartered right outside of the nation's capital in Hyattsville, MD. www.culturebrands.co
Hyundai Motor America
Hyundai Motor America focuses on 'Progress for Humanity' and smart mobility solutions. Hyundai offers U.S. consumers a technology-rich lineup of cars, SUVs, and electrified vehicles. Our 820 dealers sold more than 738,000 vehicles in the U.S. in 2021, and nearly half were built at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama. For more information, visit www.HyundaiNews.com.
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NEW YORK and TORONTO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. ("iAnthus" or the "Company") (CSE: IAN) (OTCPK: ITHUF), which owns, operates and partners with regulated cannabis operations across the United States, is pleased to report the results for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of iAnthus held on Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time).
All matters put forward before the iAnthus shareholders (the "Shareholders") for consideration and approval as set out in the Proxy Statement dated July 5, 2022 were approved by the Shareholders. Specifically, the Shareholders: (i) approved a resolution to set the number of directors of the Company at six (6); (ii) approved the election of Scott Cohen, Michelle Mathews-Spradlin, Kenneth W. Gilbert, Alexander Shoghi, Marco D'Attanasio and Zachary Arrick as directors of the Company; and (iii) approved the appointment of Marcum LLP as auditors of the Company.
About iAnthus
iAnthus owns and operates licensed cannabis cultivation, processing and dispensary facilities throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.iAnthus.com.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have reviewed, approved or disapproved the content of this news release.
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Funds are expected to liquidate in September 2022
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J.P. Morgan Asset Management today announced the upcoming liquidation and dissolution of two exchange-traded funds: JPMorgan U.S. Minimum Volatility ETF (JMIN), and JPMorgan U.S. Dividend ETF (JDIV) (collectively, the "Funds").
Shareholders of the Funds may sell their holdings of each Fund on NYSE Arca, Inc. ("NYSE Arca") until market close on the designated last day of trading (transaction fees from their broker-dealer may be incurred).
Shares of JMIN and JDIV will stop accepting creation orders from authorized participants after market close on September 6, 2022 and will be delisted ahead of market open on September 7, 2022.
Shareholders who continue to hold shares of either of the Funds on the Funds' designated aforementioned liquidation date will receive a liquidating distribution of cash in the cash portion of their brokerage accounts equal to the amount of the net asset value of their shares.
Shareholders who receive a liquidating distribution generally will recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the amount received for their shares over their adjusted basis in such shares if shares are held in a taxable account, and such shareholders should consult their tax advisor about the potential tax consequences.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with assets under management of USD 2.5 trillion (as of June 30, 2022), is a global leader in investment management. J.P. Morgan Asset Management's investors include institutions, retail investors and high net worth individuals in every major market throughout the world. J.P. Morgan Asset Management offers global investment management in equities, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, private equity and liquidity.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading financial services firm based in the United States of America ("U.S."), with operations worldwide. JPMorgan Chase had $3.8 trillion in assets and $286.1 billion in stockholders' equity as of June 30, 2022. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. Under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, the Firm serves millions of customers predominantly in the U.S. and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients globally. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
J.P. Morgan ETFs are distributed by JPMorgan Distribution Services, Inc., which is an affiliate of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Affiliates of JPMorgan Chase & Co. receive fees for providing various services to the funds. JPMorgan Distribution Services, Inc. is a member of FINRA. More information is available at https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/gim/adv/products/etfs
Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives and risks as well as charges and expenses of the funds before investing. The summary and full prospectuses contain this and other information about the funds and should be read carefully before investing. Call 1-844-4JPM-ETF or visit www.jpmorganETFs.com to obtain a prospectus.
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Investors include GSR Ventures, Iporanga, and Parallax Ventures. The funds will be used for technology, data processing and the creation of new products
SÃO PAULO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Klavi — a leading SaaS platform in data aggregation, analytics, and API services, who aims to empower companies with its Open Finance solutions , has just received an investment of USD 15 million. The Series A investment round included investors like GSR Ventures and two Brazilian companies, Iporanga Ventures and Parallax Ventures. Klavi also received investments from CIP SA and Vivo Ventures (Vivo's CVC). For both companies, this is the first operation of its kind. The financing includes an additional closing of up to 90 days, which will bring in more investors.
With the goal of becoming an Open Finance solutions leader in mind, Klavi aims to use the funds to bolster its technology sector, data processing, and the creation of new products focusing on B2B. "This is an important moment and the investment will foster and create solutions so that our clients can generate value from Open Finance", explained Bruno Chan, CEO of Klavi.
The startup, founded in 2020 by Bruno Chan and Stone Zheng, attracted investors because of its pioneering technology in generating insights from Open Finance data and potential growth, offering products to businesses of any size. Klavi hopes to grow its base to over 100 assets by the end of 2022, and to reach 500 by December 2023. Its current clients include BV, Telefônica, Mepoupe, CIP S.A., Gorila, Jeitto, Supersim, Simplic, Portocred and Zippi, among others.
"With the maturation of Open Finance, we're seeing a huge gap between the data received by companies, and their use thereof. With this investment, we will conquer more space and continue to grow, reinforcing our leadership as a solution provider for the industry", said Chan.
With its classification operations of over 90% accuracy, the platform has already processed over 450 million transactions and made more than 4 million connections with financial institutions, bureaus, fintechs, and startups. In 2021, it received a seed investment of USD 1.25 million, led by Iporanga Ventures, along with participation from Parallax Ventures.
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- Consolidated revenue in the second quarter of 2022 increased by 190% compared to same prior-year period
- Total revenue for H1 2022 amounted to KRW 5.48 billion, or 82.5% of the total revenue of last year
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lunit (KRX: 328130.KQ), a global provider of AI-powered cancer solutions, today announced strong financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2022.
"Through a strong overseas performance in the first half of this year, Lunit achieved more than 80% of last year's total sales within the first half of 2022," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "With more partnerships to come and the annual health examination season coming up in the third and fourth quarters, we expect our revenue to increase significantly during the second half of the year."
Reporting under a consolidated basis, Lunit recorded a cumulative revenue of KRW 5.48 billion for the first half of 2022, reaching 82.5% of total sales for the previous year. H1 revenue for 2022 more than tripled compared to the same prior-year period (KRW 1.42 billion) and the proportion of overseas sales jumped from 66.8% to 84.3% year-over-year.
Lunit's second quarter 2022 revenue was KRW 2.51 billion, up 190% from the prior-year period (KRW 863 million), among which overseas revenue accounted for 80.6%.
About Lunit
Lunit is a medical AI software company devoted to developing AI solutions for precision diagnostics and treatment support, mainly focused on conquering cancer.
Lunit has partnered with global medical device giants such as GE Healthcare, Philips, and FujiFilm. The company also focuses on its biomarker business through an exclusive partnership with Guardant Health, a leading global liquid biopsy company.
Lunit has earned international recognition for its unprecedented, state-of-the-art AI technology. More than half of its employees are research and development (R&D) specialists, with more than 12 medical doctors working as full-time staff.
Lunit's flagship products are Lunit INSIGHT and Lunit SCOPE. The FDA-cleared and CE-marked Lunit INSIGHT series provide AI-powered detection of chest abnormalities and breast cancer with 96-99% accuracy. As of March 2022, Lunit INSIGHT products are being used in approximately 600 medical sites in more than 40 countries. Lunit SCOPE series provide AI detection and analytics for tissue data, quantifying key features and scores that enhance elevated response prediction for immunotherapy. By receiving CE Mark in April 2022, Lunit SCOPE PD-L1 TPS has been officially approved for deployment and use in European pathology practices.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MainStay CBRE Global Infrastructure Megatrends Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: MEGI) today announced the Fund's monthly distributions for August 2022 of $0.1083 per common share. The distribution reflects an annualized distribution rate of 6.5% based on a $20.00 per share initial public offering (IPO) price.
Dividend Distribution Schedule:
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Distribution Policy.
Future earnings of the Fund cannot be guaranteed, and the Fund's distribution policy is subject to change. For more information on the Fund, please visit the Fund's website here.
The Fund's monthly distribution is set by its Board of Trustees. The Board reviews the Fund's distribution on a quarterly basis in view of its net investment income, realized and unrealized gains, and other net unrealized appreciation or income expected during the remainder of the year. The Fund strives to establish a level monthly distribution that, over the course of the year, will serve to distribute an amount closely approximating the Fund's net investment income and net realized capital gains during the year.
The following table sets forth the estimated sources of income of the current distribution, and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the following sources: net investment income, net realized short-term capital gains, net realized long-term capital gains and return of capital or other capital source. All amounts are expressed on a per share of common stock basis and as a percentage of the distribution amount.
MainStay CBRE Global Infrastructure Megatrends Fund is a closed-end fund, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and invests primarily in income-producing equity securities issued by infrastructure companies. Holdings are subject to change. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
The Fund's daily New York Stock Exchange closing prices, net asset values per share, as well as other information are available by clicking here or by calling the Fund's shareholder servicing agent at (855) 456-9683.
Fund Performance Information:
October 27, 2021 (Inception Date) to July 31, 2022
The Cumulative Total Return: -1.42%
There is no assurance the Fund will continue to pay regular monthly distributions or that it will do so at a particular rate.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of its distribution to shareholders.
Any distributions in excess of the Fund's current and accumulated earnings and profits will be treated first, as a tax-deferred return of capital, which is applied against and will reduce the adjusted tax basis of shares and, after such adjusted basis is reduced to zero, will generally constitute capital gains. A return of capital distribution may lower a shareholder's basis in the Fund, causing a potential future tax consequence in connection with the sale of Fund shares, even if such shares are sold at a loss to the shareholder's initial investments.
Any amounts and sources of distributions are only estimated and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of income of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend on the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will advise how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
Before considering an investment in the Fund, you should understand that you could lose money. There are risks inherent in all investments. The Fund's risks include:
New Fund Risk: The Fund is a new fund which may result in additional risk. The Fund may cease operations and in such an event, investors may be required to liquidate or transfer their investments at an inopportune time.
Limited Operating History Risk: The Fund is a recently organized, non-diversified, closed end management investment company with limited operating history. It is designed for long term investing and not as a vehicle for trading. Shares of closed end investment companies frequently trade at a discount from their NAV.
Limited Term Risk: Unless action is otherwise taken by the Board in accordance with the Declaration of Trust, the Fund will commence the process of liquidation and dissolution at the close of business on December 15, 2033 (the "Termination Date"). The Fund will not seek to return an initial investment in common shares by an investor on the Termination Date. Instead, the Fund will distribute an amount equal to the Fund's NAV at that time, which may be greater or less than an investor's initial investment.
Infrastructure Industry Risk: The Fund is particularly exposed to adverse economic, regulatory, political, legal, geographical, and other changes affecting the issuers of infrastructure related securities. Infrastructure related companies are subject to a variety of factors that may adversely affect their business or operations, including high interest costs in connection with capital construction programs, difficulties in obtaining financing for construction programs, costs associated with environmental and other regulations, the effects of economic slowdown, surplus capacity, increased competition from other providers of services, uncertainties concerning the availability of fuel at reasonable prices, the effects of energy conservation policies, changes in market sentiment and other factors. Additionally, infrastructure related companies may be subject to regulation by various governmental authorities, may also be affected by governmental regulation of rates charged to customers, service interruption, and/or legal challenges due to environmental, operational, the imposition of special tariffs and changes in tax laws, regulatory policies, and accounting standards. There is also the risk that corruption may negatively affect infrastructure projects, resulting in delays and cost overruns.
Leverage Risk: The use of leverage creates an opportunity for increased common share net investment income dividends, but also creates risks for the holders of common shares. Leverage is a speculative technique that exposes the Fund to greater risk, and increased costs. Leverage may cause greater changes in the Fund's NAV. The Fund will also have to pay interest on its borrowings, if any, which may reduce the Fund's return.
Equity Securities Risk: Equity securities prices have historically experienced periods of significant volatility, particularly during recessions or other periods of financial stress. Common stock prices, like other equity securities may be affected by macroeconomics and other factors affecting the stock market in general, including financial or political conditions that may affect particular industries, or the economy in general. Preferred stocks are subject to issuer specific risks, in addition to the general equity risks, and unlike common stocks, participation in the growth of an issuer may be limited.
Foreign Securities Risk: Foreign securities can be subject to greater risks than U.S. investments, including currency fluctuations, less liquid trading markets, greater price volatility, political and economic instability, less publicly available information, and changes in tax or currency laws or monetary policy. These risks are likely to be greater for emerging markets than in developed markets.
Convertible Securities Risk: The value of a convertible security, which is a form of hybrid security (i.e., a security with both debt and equity characteristics), typically increases or decreases with the price of the underlying common stock. In general, a convertible security is subject to the market risks of stocks, and its price may be as volatile as that of the underlying stock, when the underlying stock's price is high relative to the conversion price, and a convertible security is subject to the market risks of debt securities, and is particularly sensitive to changes in interest rates, when the underlying stock 's price is low relative to the conversion price. The general market risks of debt securities that are common to convertible securities include, but are not limited to, interest rate risk and credit risk, they are subject to the risk that the issuer will not be able to pay interest or dividends when due; their market value may change based on changes in the issuer's credit rating or the market's perception of the issuer's creditworthiness.
Debt Securities Risk: The risks involved with investing in debt securities include (without limitation) credit risk, the risk that an issuer, guarantor, or liquidity provider of a debt security may be unable or unwilling, or may be perceived (whether by market participants, ratings agencies, pricing services or otherwise) as unable or unwilling, to make timely principal and/or interest payments, or to otherwise honor its obligations.
Maturity Risk: Maturity, the average expected repayment date of the Fund's portfolio, taking into account the expected final repayment dates of the securities in the portfolio. A debt security with a longer maturity may fluctuate in value more than a debt security with a shorter maturity. Therefore, the NAV of the Fund that holds debt securities with a longer average maturity may fluctuate in value more than the NAV of the Fund that holds debt securities with a shorter average maturity.
Investment and Market Discount Risk: An investment in the Fund's Common Shares is subject to investment risk, including the possible loss of the entire principal amount that you invest. As with any stock, the price of the Fund's Common Shares will fluctuate with market conditions and other factors. At any point in time an investment in the Fund's Common Shares may be worth less than the original amount invested, even after taking into account distributions paid by the Fund. The Fund uses leverage, which will magnify the Fund's investment, market, and certain other risks.
Dividend Paying Securities Risk: Dividends the Fund receives on common stocks are not fixed but are declared at the discretion of an issuer's board of directors. There is no guarantee that the issuers of the securities held by the Fund will declare dividends in the future or that, if dividends are declared, they will remain at their current levels or increase over time. The Fund's emphasis on dividend paying securities could cause the Fund to underperform versus similar funds that invest without consideration of a company's track record of paying dividends or ability to pay dividends in the future. Dividend paying securities may not participate in a broad market advance to the same degree as other securities, and a sharp rise in interest rates or an economic downturn could cause a company to unexpectedly reduce or eliminate its dividend.
Discount from Net Asset Value Risk: Shares of closed end investment companies frequently trade at a discount from their net asset value. This characteristic is a risk separate and distinct from the risk that the Fund's NAV per Common Share could decrease as a result of its investment activities. The net asset value per Common Share will be reduced immediately following this offering as a result of the payment of certain offering costs. Although the value of the Fund's net assets is generally considered by market participants in determining whether to purchase or sell Common Shares, whether investors will realize gains or losses upon the sale of the Common Shares will depend entirely upon whether the market price of the Common Shares at the time of sale is above or below the investor's purchase price for the Common Shares. Because the market price of the Common Shares will be determined by factors such as net asset value, dividend and distribution levels and their stability (which will in turn be affected by levels of dividend and interest payments by the Fund's portfolio holdings, the timing and success of the Fund's investment strategies, regulations affecting the timing and character of Fund distributions, Fund expenses and other factors), supply of and demand for the Common Shares, trading volume of the Common Shares, general market, interest rate and economic conditions and other factors that may be beyond the control of the Fund, the Fund cannot predict whether the Common Shares will trade at, below or above net asset value or at, below or above the initial public offering price.
Emerging Markets Risk: The risks of foreign investments (or exposure to foreign investments) are usually much greater when they are made in (or result in exposure to) emerging markets. Investments in emerging markets may be considered speculative. Emerging markets are riskier than more developed markets because they tend to develop unevenly and may never fully develop. They are more likely to experience high rates of inflation and currency devaluations, which may adversely affect returns. In addition, many emerging markets have far lower trading volumes and less liquidity than developed markets, may be more likely to suffer sharp and frequent price changes or long-term price depression due to possible adverse publicity, investor perceptions, or the actions of a few large investors. Also, there may be less publicly available information about issuers in emerging markets, and such issuers may not be subject to accounting, auditing, recordkeeping, and financial reporting standards and requirements comparable to those to which companies in developed markets are.
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Fund carefully before investing. The Fund's prospectus, which contains this and other information about the Fund, should be read carefully before investing. A copy of the prospectus relating to this Fund may be obtained by contacting your financial advisor, or by calling 800-624-6782.
About New York Life Investments
With over $650 billion in Assets Under Management* as of March 31, 2022, New York Life Investments is comprised of the affiliated global asset management businesses of its parent company, New York Life Insurance Company (New York Life), and offers clients access to specialized, independent investment teams through its family of affiliated boutiques. New York Life Investments remains committed to clients through a combination of the diverse perspectives of its boutiques and a long-lasting focus on sustainable relationships.
*AUM includes assets of Investment Advisors affiliated with New York Life Insurance Company. AUM for Candriam and Ausbil is reported at the spot rate.
"New York Life Investments" is both a service mark, and the common trade name, of certain investment advisors affiliated with New York Life Insurance Company.
About CBRE Investment Management
CBRE Investment Management Listed Real Assets LLC is the listed real assets arm of CBRE Investment Management, a leading global real assets investment management firm, with $146.9 billion in assets under management* as of June 30, 2022, operating in more than 30 offices and 20 countries around the world. Through its investor‐operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, people and communities thrive.
CBRE Investment Management is an independently operated affiliate of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2021 revenue). CBRE has more than 105,000 employees (excluding Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE Investment Management harnesses CBRE's data and market insights, investment sourcing and other resources for the benefit of its clients. For more information about CBRE Investment Management, please visit www.cbreim.com
*Assets under management (AUM) refers to the fair market value of real assets-related investments with respect to which CBRE Investment Management provides, on a global basis, oversight, investment management services and other advice and which generally consist of investments in real assets; equity in funds and joint ventures; securities portfolios; operating companies and real assets-related loans. This AUM is intended principally to reflect the extent of CBRE Investment Management's presence in the global real assets market, and its calculation of AUM may differ from the calculations of other asset managers and from its calculation of regulatory assets under management for purposes of certain regulatory filings.
This press release is not an offer to sell securities and is not a solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor will there be any sales of securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
New York Life Investment Management LLC engages the services of SEC-registered advisors. CBRE Investment Management Listed Real Assets (CBRE Investment Management) is unaffiliated with New York Life Investments. The MainStay Funds® are managed by New York Life Investment Management LLC and distributed by NYLIFE Distributors LLC, 30 Hudson Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company. NYLIFE Distributors LLC is a Member FINRA/SIPC.
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Two trailblazing secretaries of state reveal the art of diplomacy, teaching members how to reconcile differences, manage difficult situations and navigate personalities in all aspects of their lives
The class captures the late Secretary Albright's wisdom and legacy for future generations
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects, today announced the launch of a class on diplomacy with two former U.S. secretaries of state—Condoleezza Rice and the late Madeleine Albright. In their class, Albright and Rice provide members with lessons they learned as secretaries of state, including how to build trusted teams, reconcile differences, overcome failed decisions and apply diplomacy in everyday life. Albright and Rice's class is part of the "MasterClass Presents the White House" series and now available exclusively on MasterClass, where subscribers get unlimited access to all 150+ instructors with an annual membership.
"MasterClass captures the most accomplished people of our era so that we can all learn from them, forever," said David Rogier, founder and CEO of MasterClass. "We are fortunate to have captured Secretary Albright's teachings for future generations in this class. As close friends from opposing political parties, Secretaries Rice and Albright emphasize the importance of reconciling differences and disagreements. In their class, they offer insights and advice on building relationships and navigating difficult personalities, assembling and leading teams and evaluating decisions and mistakes."
Together in their class, Albright and Rice reflect on their extensive diplomatic careers, providing members with unprecedented access to stories from their time in the State Department, counseling U.S. presidents and going head-to-head with global leaders. Interwoven through compelling anecdotes, Albright and Rice expertly outline their personal approaches to diplomacy, equipping members with the qualities that all good diplomats should have—whether members are pursuing a career in diplomacy or just looking to incorporate diplomatic skills in everyday life. The class culminates with an open and honest conversation between Albright and Rice focused on the state of democracy, bringing their unique perspectives from both sides of the aisle to issues such as voting rights, the 2020 election and the growing pains of democracy and its future in America. Members will learn how to effectively collaborate with others to reach a common goal, navigate and mitigate crises, develop a team structure that establishes organizational success and overcome mistakes in order to push past failure and move forward.
"Madeleine was a dear friend and colleague, and this class gave us an opportunity to talk about our unique life experiences in detail," Rice said. "I am honored to have had the opportunity to teach this class with her. We share the lessons, triumphs and failures we experienced throughout our careers so that we can provide others with the skills needed to navigate the complexities of successful diplomacy."
Secretary Albright was born in Czechoslovakia and immigrated with her family to the United States in 1948, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1957. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1959 and a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University in 1976. Her political career began in 1976 as chief legislative assistant to Senator Edmund Muskie before accepting a position on the National Security Council under the Carter administration from 1978 to 1981. Joining the academic faculty of Georgetown University in 1982, Albright also advised Democratic candidates on foreign policy. After serving as United Nations ambassador during the Clinton administration, in 1997 Albright made history when she became the first female secretary of state, playing a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era. Following her tenure as secretary of state, she served as chair of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the consulting firm Albright Stonebridge Group. President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. On March 23, 2022, Albright died of cancer.
Secretary Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Denver and a master's degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame. She later returned to the University of Denver and received a Ph.D. from the School of International Studies in 1981. She worked at the State Department under the Carter administration and served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and Eastern Europe affairs adviser to President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification. Rice pursued an academic fellowship at Stanford University, where she eventually served as provost from 1993 to 1999. Following the 2000 election, she became President George W. Bush's national security adviser. In Bush's second term, she succeeded Colin Powell as secretary of state, becoming the first African American woman to hold the office. After leaving government in 2009, Rice returned to Stanford University, where she continues teaching in the Department of Political Science and the Graduate School of Business. In September 2020, she became the Director of the Hoover Institution.
Albright and Rice's class is part of the "MasterClass Presents the White House" series, in which members get unprecedented access to and can learn from leaders on both sides of the aisle who have influenced American politics and changed the world. President Bill Clinton's class on inclusive leadership, former U.S. Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's class on the power of resilience, and President George W. Bush's class on authentic leadership are also available exclusively on MasterClass.
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Teaches leadership lessons from pivotal moments during his presidency—including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the financial crisis—and brings members into his painting studio
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects, today announced the launch of U.S. President George W. Bush's class on tough calls and life lessons. President Bush will teach members leadership skills he learned during his presidency and beyond—and share an intimate window into how his desire for lifelong learning has guided all aspects of his life, including his post-presidency passion for painting. President Bush's class is part of the "MasterClass Presents the White House" series and now available exclusively on MasterClass, where subscribers get unlimited access to all 150+ instructors with an annual membership.
"President Bush's decisions changed our world," said David Rogier, founder and CEO of MasterClass. "Through the lens of leading through some monumental moments in history, President Bush shares his biggest leadership lessons. He also takes members on a journey beyond the Oval Office and into his art studio for the first time, providing insights into his passions and the value of life-long learning."
In his class, President Bush will share critical moments from his career to illuminate how the lessons he learned can be applied by the leaders of today, tomorrow and well into the future. He will outline what a leader's job does and does not entail, the values and principles he uses to make decisions and the importance of communication. From his experience speaking on international stages, he will explain how he structures speeches and speaks from the heart—and address some of his "Bushisms." President Bush will also recount how he dealt with the crises that defined his presidency, including a moment-by-moment walk-through of how he managed 9/11, as well as what it was like to navigate Hurricane Katrina and the financial crisis. Mrs. Laura Bush will join him to share stories from their time together in the White House and on the campaign trail. The class will culminate with a close-up look at President Bush's personal art studio, as he reveals what he has learned by taking an interest in painting and how he views learning as a lifelong pursuit.
"With the right mindset, every part of life can be a learning experience," President Bush said. "For me, being your president was the ultimate learning experience, and now I want to share some of what I've learned—and continue to learn—with you. My class is for anyone who wants to develop a communication and leadership style that's authentic and effective."
President Bush served as 43rd president of the United States of America from 2001 to 2009. As commander in chief, President Bush worked to expand freedom, opportunity and security at home and abroad. His administration reformed America's education system, restored robust private-sector economic growth and job creation, protected our environment and pursued a comprehensive strategy to keep America safe after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. After his presidency, President Bush and his wife, Laura, founded the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. The Bush Center is home to the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and the George W. Bush Institute, a nonpartisan public policy and leadership development center. He is the author of four bestselling books: Decision Points (2010), 41: A Portrait of My Father (2014), Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors (2017) and Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants (2021). He and Laura are the parents of twin daughters: Barbara, married to Craig Coyne, and Jenna, married to Henry Hager. The Bushes also are the proud grandparents of Margaret Laura "Mila," Poppy Louise and Henry Harold "Hal" Hager; and Cora Georgia Coyne.
President Bush's class is part of the "MasterClass Presents the White House" series, in which members get unprecedented access to and can learn from leaders on both sides of the aisle who have influenced American politics and changed the world. President Bill Clinton's class on inclusive leadership, former U.S. Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's class on the power of resilience, and U.S. Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice's class on diplomacy are also available exclusively on MasterClass.
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MAXN) (the "Company"), a global leader in solar innovation and channels, today announced it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results on August 18, 2022.
The earnings press release and supplemental financial information will be available on the Investor Relations section of Maxeon's website at: https://corp.maxeon.com/investor-relations. The Company will also hold a conference call on August 18, 2022, at 5:30 PM U.S. EST / August 19, 2022, at 5:30 AM Singapore Time, to discuss results and provide an update on the business.
To join the live conference call, participants must first register here, where a dial-in number will be provided.
A simultaneous audio-only webcast of the conference call will also be available on Maxeon's website at https://corp.maxeon.com/events-and-presentations. A webcast replay will be available on Maxeon's website for one year at https://corp.maxeon.com/events-and-presentations.
Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:MAXN) is Powering Positive Change™. Headquartered in Singapore, Maxeon designs and manufactures Maxeon® and SunPower® brand solar panels, and has sales operations in more than 100 countries, operating under the SunPower brand in certain countries outside the United States. The Company is a leader in solar innovation with access to over 1,000 patents and two best-in-class solar panel product lines. Maxeon products span the global rooftop and solar power plant markets through a network of more than 1,700 trusted partners and distributors. A pioneer in sustainable solar manufacturing, Maxeon leverages a +35-year history in the solar industry and numerous awards for its technology. For more information about how Maxeon is Powering Positive Change™ visit us at www.maxeon.com, on LinkedIn and on Twitter @maxeonsolar.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mid-Del School District is proud to improve the air quality in their school buses.
Mid-Del Schools has partnered with Lumin-Air and Midwest Bus Sales to equip their school buses with MERV-13 equivalent filtration and UV-C. The Lumin-Air system continuously filters and disinfects the air recirculated through the school bus HVAC system, helping to reduce contaminants and making students and bus drivers safer.
Mike Bryan, Executive Director of Operations at Mid-Del Public Schools said "Improving the air quality on our school buses without adding chemicals to the air that students and drivers breathe was important to us. We chose to partner with Lumin-Air because their system does not add ions, vaporized hydrogen peroxide, ozone or other chemicals to the air."
Lumin-Air's solution includes MERV-13 equivalent filtration and UVC lights in an enclosure, which helps reduce contaminants from recirculated air while the buses are occupied. The UVC is fully contained in an enclosure and safe for occupied spaces.
Dan Fillenwarth, Lumin-Air President, said "School buses have historically been the safest way to travel to and from school, but they are also the most densely occupied spaces in a school system with the poorest air quality."
Superintendent Dr. Rick Cobb added, "The safety of our students, teachers and community is our top priority. Throughout the pandemic we have taken every measure to mitigate risks. Providing clean air on our school buses is critical in our continued effort to keep the Mid-Del community safe."
Midwest Bus Sales, Division of Kincaid Group Holdings, began installation of the Lumin-Air systems in July. Midwest Bus Sales has dealerships, service departments, and parts locations in Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma. https://midwestbussales.com/location/el-reno-ok/
More about Mid-Del Schools: Located immediately east of Oklahoma City, Mid-Del Public Schools provide a comprehensive educational program for over 14,000 students. The district attracts the finest teachers available because of location, facilities, commitment to education, and a salary schedule which is one of the highest in the state. Mid-Del emphasizes active student learning, higher order thinking, reading and writing across the curriculum, cooperative learning, parental involvement, and high expectations for personal achievement. Mid-Del stresses scholastic excellence with special emphasis on the basics. Mid-Del is a school district where the priorities are teaching and learning. For more information about Mid-Del, please visit https://www.mid-del.net.
More about Lumin-Air: Lumin-Air is devoted to improving the air people breathe in indoor settings, and specializes in public transportation and school bus solutions. Lumin-Air follows ASHRAE (American Society of Heating and Air Conditioning Engineers) and CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and APTA (American Public Transportation Association) recommendations, to increase outside air, improve filtration and supplement with UVC especially when outside air and filtration options are limited. For more information about Lumin-Air, please visit www.lumin-air.com.
CONTACT: Dan Fillenwarth, info@lumin-air.com
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This year's top five ranking attributed to strong operating metrics, revenue growth, and expanded global user base
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Miro, the online platform accelerating innovation through visual collaboration, has been named to the Forbes 2022 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The market leader in visual collaboration is ranked #4, climbing the Forbes Cloud 100 list from #57 in 2020 and #36 in 2021.
For the seventh straight year, the Cloud 100 reviews submissions from hundreds of cloud startups and private companies each year. The Cloud 100 evaluation process involved ranking companies across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%). For market leadership, the Cloud 100 enlists the help of a judging panel of public cloud company CEOs who assist in evaluating and ranking their private company peers.
"We're deeply honored to be named as one of the world's leading cloud companies for the third year in a row, among so many others who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in their industry," said Grisha Pavlotsky, Chief Operating Officer at Miro. "For teams around the world, Miro's biggest value is its ability to be a central, singular place where all work comes together and big things happen. This recognition underscores our ability to innovate quickly and deliver a visual collaboration platform that's at the core of the new technology stack for the future of work."
As distributed work models increasingly become the norm, and teams grapple with how to balance new ways of working, companies must consider how to optimize for effective synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. Miro's robust visual collaboration platform is designed to support greater connectedness among teams and increased productivity on every project and workflow. Miro is used by 99% of the Fortune 100 companies and now offers more than 120 apps and integrations, including Miro for Google Meet and a next-gen Developer Platform to make Miro an integral part of the new, digital-first approach to getting work done.
"The companies of the Cloud 100 list represent the best and brightest private companies in this fast-growing sector," said Alex Konrad, senior editor at Forbes. "Every year, it gets more difficult to make this list — meaning even more elite company for those who do. Congratulations to each of the 2022 Cloud 100 honorees."
"The public markets may be in turmoil, but the private valuations of the Cloud 100 continue to rise. All of the 2022 Cloud 100 honorees, again, have reached the $1 billion valuation milestone, and the average Cloud 100 valuation has skyrocketed to $7.4 billion," said Mary D'Onofrio, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. "Despite the market correction in 2022, our confidence in the cloud economy continues to grow—today over 70% of the 2022 Cloud 100 Honorees have reached or exceeded $100 million in annual recurring revenue making them cloud Centaurs. An additional 10% of the list is expected to hit this milestone by the end of the year, furthering our conviction that this years' honorees truly represent the best cloud companies globally."
"Great companies are born out of all environments, and it's exciting to see the continued momentum in the cloud sector," said Alex Kayyal, Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures. "The companies on this list have gone through a rigorous selection process, and join an esteemed alumni list of Cloud 100 companies. As the need for digital transformation continues to drive innovation and efficiencies across industries, we can look to these companies as the absolute best in cloud computing."
The Forbes 2022 Cloud 100 and 20 Rising Stars lists are published online at www.forbes.com/cloud100. Highlights of the list appear in the August/September 2022 issue of Forbes magazine.
This year, the CEOs of The Cloud 100 and the 20 Rising Stars companies will be honored with a digital content launch, as well as at the exclusive Cloud 100 Celebration hosted by Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Forbes. A special thank you to our event sponsors Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bank of America, Cooley, Fuel a McKinsey Company, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, and Silicon Valley Bank.
Miro is an online, visual collaboration platform designed to unlock creativity and accelerate innovation among teams of all kinds. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 35M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,500 employees in 11 hubs around the world. To learn more, please visit: https://miro.com.
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer's global portfolio includes Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has $19 billion of regulatory assets under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, London, Boston, Beijing and Bangalore. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer's storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio).
Forbes champions success by celebrating those who have made it, and those who aspire to make it. Forbes convenes and curates the most influential leaders and entrepreneurs who are driving change, transforming business and making a significant impact on the world. The Forbes brand today reaches more than 150 million people worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature LIVE and Forbes Virtual events, custom marketing programs and 47 licensed local editions in 80 countries. Forbes Media's brand extensions include real estate, education and financial services license agreements.
Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Since 2009, we've invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world's most tenacious enterprise software companies from seed to IPO, including Airtable, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures leverages our decades of expertise in the cloud and our long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give our portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth. Salesforce Ventures has invested in more than 25 countries with offices all over the world including in San Francisco, Irvine, New York, London, Tokyo, and Sydney. Follow @SalesforceVC and learn more at http://www.salesforceventures.com.
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Powell previously served as CEO of the Association for Facilities Engineering
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Board of Directors is proud to announce the selection of AC Powell, JD, CPS as the new President and CEO. Powell officially joins NIBS on September 12, 2022.
Powell comes with extensive leadership in the built environment, most recently serving for nearly five years as Executive Director and CEO of the Washington, DC-based Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE). AFE convenes professionals who ensure the optimal operation of high-rise commercial real estate, industrial plants, government facilities, higher education campuses, and medical centers.
Powell also has a deep background in education, working with the Prince William County (Virginia) school system. He currently serves as an adjunct professor with Stratford University, teaching courses on business law, business ethics, and competition and innovation.
"AC Powell's experience, dynamic people skills, and enthusiasm for NIBS' mission make him a great choice for this leadership role," said Board Chair, Anne Ellis, P.E., Hon.M.ACI, F.ASCE, M.NAC. "We are thrilled to bring him on board. AC will guide the National Institute of Building Sciences into this next chapter, convening and collaborating with the building industry and public and private sectors in our collective efforts to prepare the nation's built environment for the 21st century and beyond."
NIBS serves the public interest by advancing building science and technology, improving lives through collaboration in the built environment. Powell will lead efforts to expand NIBS' programs and markets, while growing and strengthening its membership base.
For more information about NIBS, visit nibs.org.
About NIBS
National Institute of Building Sciences brings together labor and consumer interests, government representatives, regulatory agencies, and members of the building industry to identify and resolve problems and potential issues in the built environment. NIBS is a non-profit, non-governmental organization. For more information, visit nibs.org or follow @bldgsciences on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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Management will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET on the same day
LAVAL, QC, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEPT) (TSX: NEPT), a diversified and fully integrated health and wellness company focused on plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands, announced today that it will report its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2023 after the market closes on Monday, August 15, 2022.
Following the release of its financial results, the Company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Monday, August 15, 2022, to discuss these results. The conference call will be webcast live and can be accessed by registering on the Events and Presentations portion of Neptune's Investor Relations website at www.investors.neptunewellness.com. The webcast will be archived for approximately 90 days.
Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Neptune is a diversified health and wellness company with a mission to redefine health and wellness. Neptune is focused on building a portfolio of high quality, affordable consumer products in response to long-term secular trends and market demand for natural, plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands. The Company utilizes a highly flexible, cost-efficient manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure that can be scaled to quickly adapt to consumer demand and bring new products to market through its mass retail partners and e-commerce channels. For additional information, please visit: https://neptunewellness.com/.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance and achievements of Neptune Wellness Solutions to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the said forward-looking statements.
Neither NASDAQ nor the Toronto Stock Exchange accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Leveraging experience from leadership roles at Finix, Google, Microsoft, and Uber, Satyavarapu will serve as the Nium's technology leader, driving the company's global engineering, strategy, and technology vision for Global Money Movement
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nium, the global platform for Modern Money Movement, today announced the recent appointment of Ramana Satyavarapu as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Satyavarapu will be responsible for driving global engineering, strategy and Nium's technology vision for Modern Money Movement. Satyavarapu will manage the company's core technology strategy and capabilities that support Nium's business programs and facilitate revenue growth, as well as organize the concepting and implementation of major technical decisions for the company. He will be based in San Francisco, California, and report to Prajit Nanu, Co-Founder and CEO of Nium.
"Ramana is an industry visionary with the ideal mix of finance, technology, and engineering expertise to propel Nium to the next level," said Nanu. "His deep knowledge of platform design and implementation will fuel our growth aspirations as we look to offer even more solutions to more parts of the world."
Satyavarapu brings with him over 20 years of software engineering expertise from companies, including Microsoft, Google, Uber, Two Sigma, and Finix. Prior to joining Nium, Satyavarapu served as the CTO of Finix, where he led engineering, product, and technical support. He started his career with Microsoft in 2001, serving as a founding member of Office 365, which was released globally in 2011. Following his time at Microsoft, Satyavarapu joined Google to spearhead Google Cloud Search effort, which was successfully launched in 2016. At Two Sigma, he led the pioneering effort to create a knowledge graph derived from over 71 petabytes of global finance data and successfully adopted clustering ML techniques to derive quantitative strategies.
"I have watched Nium for a while, and as the fintech landscape continues to evolve, I'm excited about the company's mission to redefine money movement for the modern age," said Satyavarapu. "Nium has built one of the most respected platforms for global payments and I look forward to making my mark on its future as we continue on this growth journey."
Satyavarapu holds a masters degree in computer science from Arizona State University and a bachelors degree in computer science from Andhra University. He also completed executive education programs in leadership and strategy from Harvard Business School.
About Nium
Nium is the global platform for modern money movement. It provides banks, payment providers, and businesses of any size with access to global payment and card issuance solutions. Its modular platform powers frictionless commerce, helping businesses pay and get paid across the globe. Once connected to the Nium platform, businesses are able to pay out in more than 100 currencies to over 190 countries – 100 of which in real time. Funds can be received in 35 markets, including Southeast Asia, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, India, and the US. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries, including Europe (SEPA), the UK, Australia and Singapore. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in over 40 countries, enabling seamless global payments and rapid integration, regardless of geography.
For more information, visit: https://www.nium.com or connect with a specialist here.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) President and Chief Executive Officer Alan H. Shaw will make a presentation at the Deutsche Bank 2022 Transportation Conference. Details on joining the presentation follow below.
What: Deutsche Bank 2022 Transportation Conference
When: August 17, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET
Where: Via Webcast
The presentation will be posted at www.norfolksouthern.com on the Investors page.
About Norfolk Southern
Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.
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- Novavax and partner SK bioscience will provide the first protein-based COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in adolescents aged 12 through 17 years in South Korea
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that partner, SK bioscience, has received a Post Approval Change Application approval from the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (KMFDS) for Nuvaxovid™ (NVX-CoV2373) COVID-19 vaccine for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in adolescents aged 12 through 17.
"Today's approval in South Korea is an important step in ensuring broad global access to a protein-based vaccine option," said Stanley C. Erck, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novavax. "We are pleased to collaborate with SK bioscience to offer our vaccine to adolescents aged 12 through 17 in South Korea."
Jaeyong Ahn, CEO of SK bioscience said, "We are responding to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by expanding the use of Nuvaxovid for adolescents and as a booster. With CDMO manufacturing of global COVID-19 vaccines, including Nuvaxovid, we will do our best to promote human health in the world."
The approval was based on data from the ongoing pediatric expansion of the Phase 3 PREVENT-19 trial of 2,247 adolescents aged 12 through 17 years across 73 sites in the U.S., to evaluate the safety, effectiveness (immunogenicity), and efficacy of Nuvaxovid. In the trial, Nuvaxovid achieved its primary effectiveness endpoint and demonstrated 80% clinical efficacy overall at a time when the Delta variant was the predominant circulating SARS-CoV-2 strain in the U.S.
Preliminary safety data from the trial showed the vaccine to be generally well-tolerated. Serious and severe adverse events were low in number and balanced between vaccine and placebo groups, and not considered related to the vaccine. Local and systemic reactogenicity was generally lower than or similar to adults, after the first and second dose. The most common adverse reactions observed were injection site tenderness/pain, headache, myalgia, fatigue, and malaise. There was no increase in reactogenicity in younger (12 to <15 years old) adolescents compared to older (15 to <18 years old) adolescents. No new safety signal was observed through the placebo-controlled portion of the study.
In the 12 through 17 year-old population, Nuvaxovid has been granted authorization in India, the European Union, Australia, Thailand, and Japan, and is actively under review in other markets.
KMFDS approved Nuvaxovid for use in adults aged 18 and older in January 2022. In Korea, SK bioscience signed a licensing agreement with Novavax and is manufacturing drug substance and drug product of Nuvaxovid for domestic use.
Trade Name Use in the U.S.
The trade name Nuvaxovid™ has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Important Safety Information
- Nuvaxovid is contraindicated in persons who have a hypersensitivity to the active substance, or to any of the excipients.
- Events of anaphylaxis have been reported with administration of COVID-19 vaccines. Appropriate medical treatment and supervision should be available in case of an anaphylactic reaction following the administration of the vaccine. Close observation for at least 15 minutes is recommended and a second dose of the vaccine should not be given to those who have experienced anaphylaxis to the first dose of Nuvaxovid.
- Anxiety-related reactions, including vasovagal reactions (syncope), hyperventilation, or stress‐related reactions may occur in association with vaccination as a psychogenic response to the needle injection. It is important that precautions are in place to avoid injury from fainting.
- Vaccination should be postponed in individuals suffering from an acute severe febrile illness or acute infection. The presence of a minor infection and/or low-grade fever should not delay vaccination.
- Nuvaxovid should be given with caution in individuals receiving anticoagulant therapy or those with thrombocytopenia or any coagulation disorder (such as haemophilia) because bleeding or bruising may occur following an intramuscular administration in these individuals.
- The efficacy of Nuvaxovid may be lower in immunosuppressed individuals.
- Administration of Nuvaxovid in pregnancy should only be considered when the potential benefits outweigh any potential risks for the mother and foetus.
- The effects with Nuvaxovid may temporarily affect the ability to drive or use machines.
- Individuals may not be fully protected until seven days after their second dose. As with all vaccines, vaccination with Nuvaxovid may not protect all vaccine recipients.
- The most common adverse reactions observed during clinical studies were headache, nausea or vomiting, myalgia, arthralgia, injection site tenderness/pain, fatigue, and malaise.
For more information on Nuvaxovid, including the Summary of Product Characteristics with Package Leaflet, Prescribing Information and Important Safety Information, adverse event reporting instructions, or to request additional information, please visit the following websites:
About the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373)
The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373) is a protein-based vaccine engineered from the genetic sequence of the first strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. The vaccine was created using Novavax' recombinant nanoparticle technology to generate antigen derived from the coronavirus spike (S) protein and is formulated with Novavax' patented saponin-based Matrix-M™ adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies. The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine contains purified protein antigen and can neither replicate, nor can it cause COVID-19.
The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is packaged as a ready-to-use liquid formulation in a vial containing ten doses. The vaccination regimen calls for two 0.5 ml doses (5 mcg antigen and 50 mcg Matrix-M adjuvant) given intramuscularly 21 days apart. The vaccine is stored at 2°- 8° Celsius, enabling the use of existing vaccine supply and cold chain channels. Use of the vaccine should be in accordance with official recommendations.
Novavax has established partnerships for the manufacture, commercialization and distribution of its COVID-19 vaccine worldwide. Existing authorizations leverage Novavax' manufacturing partnership with Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume. They will later be supplemented with data from additional manufacturing sites throughout Novavax' global supply chain.
About the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373) Phase 3 Trials
The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373) continues being evaluated in two pivotal Phase 3 trials.
PREVENT-19 (the PRE-fusion protein subunit Vaccine Efficacy Novavax Trial | COVID-19) is a 2:1 randomized, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine with Matrix-M adjuvant in 29,960 participants 18 years of age and older in 119 locations in the U.S. and Mexico. The primary endpoint for PREVENT-19 was the first occurrence of PCR-confirmed symptomatic (mild, moderate or severe) COVID-19 with onset at least seven days after the second dose in serologically negative (to SARS-CoV-2) adult participants at baseline. The statistical success criterion included a lower bound of 95% CI >30%. A secondary endpoint was the prevention of PCR-confirmed, symptomatic moderate or severe COVID-19. Both endpoints were assessed at least seven days after the second study vaccination in volunteers who had not been previously infected with SARS-CoV-2. In the trial, the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine achieved 90.4% efficacy overall. It was generally well-tolerated and elicited a robust antibody response after the second dose in both studies. Full results of the trial were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
The pediatric expansion of PREVENT-19 is a 2:1 randomized, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded trial to evaluate the safety, effectiveness, and efficacy of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine with Matrix-M adjuvant in 2,247 adolescent participants 12 to 17 years of age in 73 locations in the United States, compared with placebo. In the pediatric trial, the vaccine achieved its primary effectiveness endpoint (non-inferiority of the neutralizing antibody response compared to young adult participants 18 through 25 years of age from PREVENT-19) and demonstrated 80% efficacy overall at a time when the Delta variant of concern was the predominant circulating strain in the U.S. Additionally, immune responses were about two-to-three-fold higher in adolescents than in adults against all variants studied.
Additionally, a trial conducted in the U.K. with 14,039 participants aged 18 years and older was designed as a randomized, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded study and achieved overall efficacy of 89.7%. The primary endpoint was based on the first occurrence of PCR-confirmed symptomatic (mild, moderate or severe) COVID-19 with onset at least seven days after the second study vaccination in serologically negative (to SARS-CoV-2) adult participants at baseline. Full results of the trial were published in NEJM.
About Matrix-M™ Adjuvant
Novavax' patented saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant has demonstrated a potent and well-tolerated effect by stimulating the entry of antigen-presenting cells into the injection site and enhancing antigen presentation in local lymph nodes, boosting immune response.
About Novavax
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) is a biotechnology company that promotes improved health globally through the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's proprietary recombinant technology platform harnesses the power and speed of genetic engineering to efficiently produce highly immunogenic nanoparticles designed to address urgent global health needs. The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, has received authorization from multiple regulatory authorities globally, including the U.S., EC and the WHO. The vaccine is currently under review by multiple regulatory agencies worldwide, including for additional indications and populations such as adolescents and as a booster. In addition to its COVID-19 vaccine, Novavax is also currently evaluating a COVID-seasonal influenza combination vaccine candidate in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, which combines NVX-CoV2373 and NanoFlu*, its quadrivalent influenza investigational vaccine candidate, and is also evaluating an Omicron strain-based vaccine (NVX-CoV2515) as well as a bivalent format Omicron-based / original strain-based vaccine. These vaccine candidates incorporate Novavax' proprietary saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies.
For more information, visit www.novavax.com and connect with us on LinkedIn.
*NanoFlu identifies a recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) protein nanoparticle influenza vaccine candidate produced by Novavax. This investigational candidate was evaluated during a controlled phase 3 trial conducted during the 2019-2020 influenza season.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements herein relating to the future of Novavax, its operating plans and prospects, its partnerships, the timing of clinical trial results, the ongoing development of NVX-CoV2373, including an Omicron strain based vaccine and bivalent Omicron-based / original strain based vaccine, a COVID-seasonal influenza investigational vaccine candidate, the scope, timing and outcome of future regulatory filings and actions, including Novavax' plans to supplement existing authorizations with data from the additional manufacturing sites in Novavax' global supply chain, additional worldwide authorizations of NVX-CoV2373 for use in adults and adolescents, and as a booster, the potential impact and reach of Novavax and NVX-CoV2373 in addressing vaccine access, controlling the pandemic and protecting populations, the efficacy, safety and intended utilization of NVX-CoV2373, and the expected administration of NVX-CoV2373 are forward-looking statements. Novavax cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, challenges satisfying, alone or together with partners, various safety, efficacy, and product characterization requirements, including those related to process qualification and assay validation, necessary to satisfy applicable regulatory authorities; difficulty obtaining scarce raw materials and supplies; resource constraints, including human capital and manufacturing capacity, on the ability of Novavax to pursue planned regulatory pathways; unanticipated challenges or delays in conducting clinical trials; challenges meeting contractual requirements under agreements with multiple commercial, governmental, and other entities; and those other risk factors identified in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of Novavax' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We caution investors not to place considerable reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this press release. You are encouraged to read our filings with the SEC, available at www.sec.gov and www.novavax.com, for a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this document, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any of the statements. Our business is subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including those referenced above. Investors, potential investors, and others should give careful consideration to these risks and uncertainties.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, NSB, the musical moniker for North Star Boys, an Asian-American music group with over 55 million combined followers across social media platforms, released their debut hyperpop single "SUNSHINE".
Making their debut in the Hyperpop genre, North Star Boys release their new single "SUNSHINE".
"SUNSHINE" symbolizes perseverance and dedication to the ones you love, an overarching theme emphasized throughout the official music video. Each member has their own sunshine they drew inspiration from for this single, whether it's an ex, current lover, family member, or as NSB co-founder, Oliver Moy, says, his newfound friend group-turned-family. For NSB member Regie Macalino, this means shedding light on his heritage, with elements of his Filipino culture embedded throughout the music video.
"Being raised in the Philippines for half of my life, it's always been important to me to incorporate my roots in everything I do. My family and I came to the US like many other Asians to chase the American Dream. In the music video for SUNSHINE, it was a special moment for me and the boys to shine light on the country I grew up in and inspire my fellow Filipino friends and followers to embrace our culture and not be afraid of being different," said Regie Macalino.
The North Star Boys have taken the internet by storm not only through music but also through their captivating social media presence, unique personalities, and impromptu meet & greets. Their most recent transition into the web3 space has proved successful, selling out of their first NFT drop in an hour. The group of 7 boys aims to inspire and be the Asian representation in media that they didn't see growing up.
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About North Star Boys
North Star Boys is the first Asian-American content group, founded in August 2021. Within their first six months as a group, they surpassed expectations gaining millions of followers across all platforms, including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. The 7-member group of best friends is composed of founders and brothers, Oliver and Sebastian Moy along with Regie Macalino, Ryan Nguyen, Justin Phan, Darren Liang, and Kane Ratan managed by Forbes 30 Under 30's Tyler Bray.
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BEIJING, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 28, in the prolonged applause, the performance of the original fairy tale ballet "The Nine-Colored Deer" came to a successful conclusion at the "Tianqiao Theater" in Beijing. The choreographer of the play Daxue Yu from Beijing Tao Li Wu Yan Culture & Art Co., Lt adapted and sublimated the mysterious, fantastic, childlike and thought-provoking ancient mythology in the Dunhuang mural "Jataka of the Deer King", and presented it on the stage for the first time in a unique form of ballet art, interpreting this legend with a brand new interpretation and exquisite perspective. When the fairy tale ballet "The Nine-Colored Deer" was first adapted, Daxue Yu spent nearly a year to bring this mysterious and thought-provoking story to the ballet stage, conveying the values of harmony between man and nature and the honesty and trustworthiness between people. Although this year is the fifth time that "The Nine-Colored Deer" has been performed, it is still fresh and enduring in the minds of the audience.
Ms. Ying Feng, director and artistic director of the National Ballet of China, mentioned many times in interviews and articles: "the ballet 'The Nine-Colored Deer' is a model of local ballet in China, which has broken the stylized dance language of Western Ballet, formed the unique charm of Chinese ballet, creatively presented Chinese culture in the form of Western Ballet Art, and played an exemplary and guiding role in the development of Chinese ballet in the future."
For more than 20 years, Daxue Yu has always adhered to the exploration of dance innovation, and applied his innovative ideas to the choreography, making his works more innovative and distinctive. His diversified style of dance choreography is to shape the image of dance characters in the profound cultural connotation, and show the bright charm of cultural images through body language, hence many excellent works has also been created.
In addition to the representative work "The Nine-Colored Deer", Daxue Yu also created another fairy tale ballet "Swan Lake". He made a new interpretation of the classic works in a unique way, adapted the original story plot with love as the theme into a more educational theme of environmental protection, and told the children's good morality of caring for the nature. Through the re-creation of the theme of his works, he perfectly realized the combination of plot and characters' fate, and the combination of psychological emotion and concrete life, which made the works have a distinctive artistic form and made the characters in the dance more lively and vivid. The play has been performed 12 times in China with the audience of 24,000 people in total and has also appeared at the Edinburgh International Art Festival in the UK to promote environmental awareness to the world.
Another innovative representative work of Daxue Yu, the fairy tale Peking Opera "Pinocchio", adopted the performance form of Peking Opera for the first time to interpret the world's classic fairy tales, and displayed the styles and characteristics of different characters through the authentic tune, action and gorgeous costumes of Peking Opera. The play not only told the world's classic fairy tales, but also inherited the quintessence of Chinese art treasures, which was deeply loved by children, and even Peking Opera professionals were full of praise for the play. The play has also been staged at the Mermaid Theatre in London as part of a series of activities to celebrate the Chinese New Year in the UK. Londoners who came to see the show praised the play, describing it as refreshing with its Oriental charm.
Shortly after the public performance of these two representative works of Daxue Yu, a "diversified creative style" was set off in the domestic dance art circle, and his works were regarded as two phenomenal dance works. Professor Zhitao Pan, a famous dance educator, once commented on the dance creation of Daxue Yu: "Many works of Daxue Yu show the perfect integration of culture and art. By combining traditional cultural materials with modern creative ideas, he shows the innovation of cultural ideas in modern art forms. Daxue Yu's works also endow the new era with exploration and entry point, and try novel ways of expression in modern dance forms. Its unique artistic style of dance is the goal pursued by every dance choreographer. In the works of Daxue Yu, bold innovations were made in both dance forms and movements, as well as artistic expression techniques."
For the dance creation and choreography, Daxue Yu made a comprehensive consideration of imagination, space, strength, behavior and visual impact, which made his works unique and left an extraordinary feeling for the audience. Looking at Daxue Yu's continuous innovation along the way in the field of dance, Beijing Tao Li Wu Yan Culture & Art Co., Lt believe that he will bring more excellent works to audiences of different ages in the future.
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm, the zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for crypto derivatives traders, announces today the launch of spreads trading in partnership with FTX, one of the world's leading regulated cryptocurrency exchanges. FTX is the third exchange to partner with Paradigm on futures spreads and this partnership marks a major step towards the development of a liquid interest rate curve in crypto. Paradigm users will be able to trade the spread between spot, perpetuals and futures instruments on BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, APE, DOGE, LINK and LTC, all with guaranteed atomic execution and clearing of both legs on FTX.
Efficient spreads trading will provide a multitude of benefits to our joint customers, including the ability to:
Generate Yield via "Cash and Carry" Trades and Funding Rate Farming
Yield-seeking investors can now effortlessly execute "cash and carry" trades leveraging FTX's spot and futures instruments across multiple currencies and futures expirations. In addition, traders can farm funding rates on perpetuals with a single click. These trades can now be placed via Paradigm with guaranteed atomic execution of both legs without any exposure to delta risk!
Roll Expiring Futures Hedges More Efficiently
Many traders and investors use futures to hedge or replicate crypto exposures. Futures spreads enable market participants to buy one futures contract and simultaneously sell another futures contract with a single trade. This provides an additional set of tools to traders and investors looking to lock in fixed hedging costs using futures (versus the floating cost of perpetual funding rates) and roll them when nearing expiration. Rolling expiring futures positions has never been easier or more cost-efficient!
Furthermore, spreads trading on Paradigm and FTX has additional benefits for market participants, namely lower fees and deeper, tighter liquidity.
50% Less Fees When Trading Spreads on Paradigm
Spreads executed on Paradigm and cleared on FTX will be charged 50% less fees compared to executing two individual outright trades. The cost of rolling positions or taking views on the yield curve has never been cheaper for both Paradigm and FTX clients!
Delta Neutral Spreads Mean Tighter, Deeper Markets
Spreads trading on Paradigm has guaranteed atomic execution of both legs, so is structurally less risky when compared to executing individual legs via a traditional exchange order book. This lower risk profile enables market makers to quote much tighter prices and in significantly larger sizes.
"Paradigm is a leading network providing institutional liquidity for crypto derivatives, and we're excited to expand on our relationship with a formal partnership to collaborate on product developments for both of our users. This structured spread trading product is the first that will enable crypto investors to utilize cash and carry trades through FTX and Paradigm." - Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO, FTX
"FTX and Paradigm have a longstanding relationship, and I am ecstatic that we are able to bring our two companies together to improve the crypto ecosystem. With basis trading becoming a tradeable asset class on FTX, we should see significant interest from both crypto-natives trading yield as well as new investors in crypto who can now trade cash and carry as a single asset. And looking ahead, combining the client base and product expertise of both companies will undoubtedly lead to more synergies and new product offerings further down the road." - Anand Gomes, CEO, Paradigm
About Paradigm
Paradigm is a zero-fee, liquidity network for crypto derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi. The platform provides traders with unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on price, size, cost and immediacy. The firm's mission is to create a platform where traders can trade anything, with anyone and settle it anywhere.
Paradigm has the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto with over 1,000 institutional clients trading over $10B per month, including Hedge Funds, OTC Desks, Lenders, Structured Product Issuers, Market Makers, and prominent Family Offices.
Connect with Paradigm on our website, Twitter or Telegram.
About FTX
FTX is a crypto asset trading platform built by traders, for traders. FTX strives to be an intuitive yet powerful platform for all kinds of users, and to be the most innovative trading platform in the industry.
To learn more about FTX.COM, please visit: ftx.com.
FTX.COM is not available to US residents or residents of other prohibited jurisdictions, as set out in its Terms of Service.
Paradigm Contact
Christina Strauss
Global Director of Marketing
marketing@paradigm.co
FTX Contact
Jay Morakis
M Group Strategic Communications (for FTX)
+1 646 859 5951
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ELKHART, Ind., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: PATK) today announced that on August 10, 2022, its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $0.33 per share. The dividend is payable on September 12, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 29, 2022.
About Patrick Industries, Inc.
Patrick Industries (NASDAQ: PATK) is a leading component solutions provider for the Leisure Lifestyle and Housing markets. Founded in 1959, Patrick is based in Elkhart, Indiana, with over 12,000 employees across the United States.
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This press release contains certain statements related to future results, our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions for the future, which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any projections of financial performance or statements concerning expectations as to future developments should not be construed in any manner as a guarantee that such results or developments will, in fact, occur. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statement will be realized or that actual results will not be significantly different from that set forth in such forward-looking statement. Information about certain risks that could affect our business and cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are contained in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the Company's Forms 10-Q for subsequent quarterly periods, which are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. In addition, future dividends are subject to Board approval. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this press release, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date on which it is made.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pay Ready, the multifamily industry's leading technology AR platform, announced today the vital hire of Janis Rossi as Sr. Vice President Marketing. Janis has extensive experience in leading marketing at technology-based firms and in her new role will be responsible for expanding and strengthening the company brand, strategies, and marketing management.
"Janis has an immense level of talent, proven success in leading marketing initiatives and establishing a brand's identity," said Lynn Musil, Co-Founder and CEO of Pay Ready. "We are thrilled to have her join the Pay Ready family during this explosive growth period. The experience Janis brings will be crucial to our team's success as we continue to grow and deliver innovative solutions for our clients."
Rossi brings more than 18 years of industry marketing experience and has become a trusted leader in the space. Most recently, Janis was part of the original founding team at ROVR Score, successfully launching a new technology to the space and gain market penetration which helped the company drive further industry focus on connectivity. Her other experience includes strategic marketing planning to achieve company goals and visions with a unique collective of tech-forward products serving the multifamily, commercial and vacation rental management industries at Inhabit IQ.
"This is such a tremendous opportunity to be part of and work alongside this inordinately talented team at Pay Ready," said Rossi. "It's an exciting time for this organization that has exceptional potential and has achieved significant success in delivering an innovative platform that increases the revenue potential for their customers. I'm looking forward to joining this team to further shape the brand and continue to deliver a positive impact in the industry."
Since 2016, Pay Ready's innovative post-resident payment technology has been streamlined to manage and facilitate the payment recovery process. Pay Ready has formed major partnerships nationwide in 3 million+ multifamily units with over $1billion in serviced receivables. Pay Ready's software has empowered property owners and operators to focus on revenue generation and growth while leaving the arduous process of debt management to Pay Ready. For more information please visit payready.com.
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The Makers of Nature Made® Vitamins lead among Bank of America, DHL, IBM, Upwork and others
WEST HILLS, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmavite LLC, makers of Nature Made® vitamins and a pioneer in the health and wellness industry, announced today that it has been named a Gold Stevie® Award Winner for Workplace Health and Wellbeing in the seventh annual Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize the world's best employers and the human resources professionals, teams, achievements and HR-related products and suppliers who help to create and drive great places to work. Pharmavite won a Stevie Award for its comprehensive employee wellness program, PharmaFit.
"Pharmavite is honored to win a Gold Stevie® Award for Workplace Health and Wellbeing," said Christine Darragh, EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer of Pharmavite. "Our purpose to bring the gift of health to life starts with our employees, and our wellness program, PharmaFit, helps bring this to life by offering a holistic approach to support employees' health and wellbeing."
Since the PharmaFit Program's launch in 2017, it has grown to be a strategic, companywide wellness program that is supported and sponsored by Pharmavite's Leadership Team and has 92% employee enrollment.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, Pharmavite redesigned its wellness program to also be delivered virtually and by offering biweekly themed wellness guides, monthly wellness challenges, virtual yoga and meditation, and webinars focused on stress, anxiety and burnout. Pharmavite also broadened its wellness benefits to support the changing needs of its employees, including expanded mental health support resources, free digital memberships to ClassPass@Home and Peloton, Care.com access to support caregivers, free tutoring for employees' children, Zoom fitness classes for employees' children, free Lyra Health access for emotional support for employees and their families, and onsite wellness rooms including Peloton bikes and a space for yoga and meditation.
In response to Pharmavite's PharmaFit program, the Stevie Award judges noted that: "The wellness program, created by PharmaFit, offers a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. There are a number of initiatives sustaining this program and the engagement metric developed is already an indication of success. The address of mental health amongst employees is indeed noteworthy. The benefits created are an indication that employees and their families of this organization come first. The wellness strategy is well put in place."
More than 100 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners. Winners in the Employer of the Year categories were determined by a unique blending of the ratings of the professional judges and more than 80,000 public votes. The public vote was sponsored by HiBob.
"We congratulate all of the winners in the seventh edition of the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and we look forward to celebrating them in Las Vegas on September 17, our first awards banquet since 2019," said Stevies president Maggie Miller.
Details about the Stevie Awards for Great Employers and the list of 2022 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/HR.
This is Pharmavite's fifth HR-related award in 2022, joining the company's awards from California HR Excellence for Best Culture Initiative, Best Learning Development Program and Best COVID-19 Support Initiative, along with the company being named a finalist as part of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators list.
About Pharmavite LLC
Pharmavite is a pioneer in the health and wellness industry, earning the trust of consumers, healthcare professionals and retailers by developing innovative vitamin and supplement solutions backed by science that adhere to strict manufacturing practices. Through its Nature Made®, EQUELLE®, MegaFood ®, Nurish by Nature Made® and Uqora brands, Pharmavite is dedicated to helping people live healthier, more vital lives. Based in California, Pharmavite is a subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Visit www.pharmavite.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news and information about Pharmavite and its brands.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
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ARLINGTON, Texas, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Central Texas Emergency Communications District (NCT9-1-1) will graduate 19 9-1-1 telecommunicators from its Regional Telecommunicator Academy (RTA) Class #013 on August 12, 2022 in Arlington. This class includes recruits from 13 different agencies, including Cockrell Hill Police Department, Collin County Sheriff's Office, Mineral Wells Police Department, Rockwall County Sheriff's Office, among others.
The graduating recruits will have completed a rigorous four-week program that teaches equipment use, state mandates and regulations, how to handle emergency communications situations such as active shootings, and more. Texas is the only state in the country that requires its telecommunicators to be licensed alongside peace officers and jailers, and NCT9-1-1 hosts the only 9-1-1 telecommunicator academy in the state. The district welcomes recruits from outside its region to participate and this year includes participants from Dallas ISD Police Department, Freestone County Sheriff's Office, Irving Police Department, and Red Oak ISD Police Department.
"At the academy, we're not just training people to fill positions," said NCT9-1-1 Training Coordinator Bret Batchelor. "We are building a community of resiliency and camaraderie with our recruits. I want them to walk away with the skills to not only be successful at their new jobs, but to build a lifelong career as a 9-1-1 telecommunicator and to one day pass on their experiences to the next generation of dispatchers."
The program has graduated recruits from all over Texas and Arkansas since its inception in February of 2016 and continues to grow with classes held twice a year in the winter and summer.
The North Central Texas Emergency Communications District (NCT9-1-1) is responsible for 40 plus Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs) in the 13 counties surrounding the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The district supports these ECCs through maintaining and upgrading 9-1-1 equipment, providing up-to-date mapping information, training 9-1-1 telecommunicators, educating the public on the proper use of 9-1-1, and monitoring ECC functionality and compliances. NCT9-1-1 serves a population of 1.7 million and 10,000+ square miles.
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Amy and Gary Green hosting fundraiser for African Community & Conservation Fund and Tusk to fund conservation and fight food poverty in Africa.
Guests joined by WFP Ambassador Paula Abdul, model Christie Brinkley, actor Quinton Aaron and more.
BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, August 19, 2022 Amy and Gary Green are hosting an evening fundraiser at their home in Bridgehampton, New York to support the philanthropic and conservation efforts of the African Community & Conservation Fund (ACCF) and Tusk, a UK-based charity headed up by Royal Patron, Prince William. The "Karibu Africa" soireé will raise money to help ACCF's and Tusk's many community outreach programs, wildlife protection and anti-poaching efforts, including initiatives to improve livelihoods and combat rising food poverty in East & Southern Africa, particularly Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Covid-19 devastated jobs and livelihoods across the African continent, and with few economic recovery resources, decades of conservation and community upliftment success has been put at risk. Moreover, Russia's war in Ukraine has collaterally created a global food crisis, as wheat and other grain shipments to Africa have been cut off or dangerously delayed.
"I'm proud to be coming back home to Long Island and to the Hamptons to lift up to the world this message of hope for Africa. The funds will help us fuel capacity-building food security, humanitarian, anti-poaching, and conservation programs at our projects in rural Africa," said Brady Forseth, CEO of ACCF. "We are proud to partner with Tusk on our collective impact work in Zimbabwe and Mozambique and grateful to Gary and Amy Green, as well as Paula Abdul, for their generous support towards this event."
"Following the huge success of the Hamptons Lion Trail last summer, we are delighted to be coming together once more with our partners ACCF to co-host this summer soirée to raise vital funds for our combined conservation efforts across Africa," said Charles Mayhew, MBE, CEO of Tusk.
Amy Green, an ACCF Ambassador, animal activist and conservation, and her husband Gary Green will be joined by global icon and United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Representative, Paula Abdul, as well as model and actress Christie Brinkley and Blindside actor Quinton Aaron. Other celebrities attending include Bakithi Kumalo, a South African bassist, composer, and vocalist who toured with Paul Simon, TikTok influencer and WFP Representative Donlad Dougher, and British Classical singer Katherine Jenkins and her husband, film director Andrew Levitas. Artistic work by photographer and ACCF Ambassador David Yarrow will be among the pieces auctioned.
"We are honored to host this year's 'Karibu Africa' event at our home in the Hamptons. Raising money for such an amazing cause is so important to us," said ACCF Ambassador and event hosts Amy and Gary Green. "Sustainability, education, and love of animals have always been close to our hearts. We have been promoting these causes throughout our lives and are honoured to take this a step further by Amy becoming an ambassador for the African Community & Conservation Foundation."
The "Karibu Africa" soireé will also include an opportunity for guests to pledge generously to a Funding Need and support the Wildlife Ranger Challenge, a pan-African initiative raising vital funds to support rangers, raising awareness of Africa's biodiversity crisis and the conservation heroes standing between species and extinction.
Event Details
Friday, August 19, 2022 6:00pm – 10:00pm
6:00pm Drum performance, red carpet, reception, and view of silent and live auction lots
7:30pm Welcome, Opening Remarks and Presentation
7:45pm Live Auction Commences and Fund a Need
8:15pm Drinks, Hors d'oeuvres
9:00pm Entertainment from End of Code: the Malibu/Monaco Electro-duo of Nicolas Saad and Shawn Pereira
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Synaptogenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPX) ("the Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing regenerative therapeutics for neurodegenerative disorders, today announced that Dr. Daniel L. Alkon , the Company's President and Chief Scientific Officer, will appear as a featured guest on TD Ameritrade Network's "Trading 360" today, Friday, August 12, 2022 at 10:30am Eastern time (www.TDameritradenetwork.com).
Dr. Alkon will discuss the progression of treatments for Alzheimer's disease ("AD"), Synaptogenix's lead drug, Bryostatin-1, and its ongoing National Institutes of Health ("NIH") sponsored, Phase 2b clinical trial of Bryostatin-1 for patients suffering from advanced and moderately severe AD.
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Synaptogenix is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that has historically worked to develop novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Synaptogenix has conducted clinical and preclinical studies of its lead therapeutic candidate, Bryostatin-1, in AD. Preclinical studies have also demonstrated Bryostatin's regenerative mechanisms of action for the rare disease, Fragile X syndrome, and for other neurodegenerative disorders such as multiple sclerosis, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Orphan Drug Designation to Synaptogenix for Bryostatin-1 as a treatment for Fragile X syndrome. Bryostatin-1 has already undergone testing in more than 1,500 people in cancer studies, thus creating a large safety data base that will further inform clinical trial designs.
Additional information about Synaptogenix, Inc. may be found on its website: www.synaptogen.com.
Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the anticipated initiation of a clinical trial to treat Multiple Sclerosis with Bryostatin and continued development of use of Bryostatin-1 for AD, Fragile X and other cognitive diseases. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and other influences, many of which the Company has no control over. There can be no assurance that the clinical program for Bryostatin-1 will be successful in demonstrating safety and/or efficacy, that we will not encounter problems or delays in clinical development, or that Bryostatin-1 will ever receive regulatory approval or be successfully commercialized. Actual results and the timing of certain events and circumstances may differ materially from those described by the forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties. Additional factors that may influence or cause actual results to differ materially from expected or desired results may include, without limitation, the Company's inability to obtain adequate financing, the significant length of time associated with drug development and related insufficient cash flows and resulting illiquidity, the Company's patent portfolio, the Company's inability to expand its business, significant government regulation of pharmaceuticals and the healthcare industry, lack of product diversification, availability of the Company's raw materials, existing or increased competition, stock volatility and illiquidity, and the Company's failure to implement its business plans or strategies. These and other factors are identified and described in more detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for SDC, PCT, ABSI, JMIA, and PRCH.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for UBX, PAYO, TOST, WVE, and HIPO.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CVNA, DIS, AAPL, XOM, and TWTR.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CIEN, DDS, ARCH, TSLA, and META.
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BRISBANE, Australia, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Tracer DAO has announced that its DAO has voted on and successfully passed a historic proposal to merge with their core service provider, Mycelium. The consolidation will bring with it the launch of a new Perpetual Swaps derivative product, transition to a new token with greater utility, and reduced focus on DAO governance.
Tracer DAO is a decentralized finance protocol that released a new derivative primitive Perpetual Pools, hosted on leading Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum in 2021. The product allows traders to trade without liquidations, or margin. The mechanism uses an innovative model to rebalance positions, protecting traders from liquidations, unlocking very long-term trading opportunities compared with traditional derivatives that optimize for short-term trades (<1 day). Over the last year, Perpetual Pools saw over $800M USD in trade volume.
As the core service provider to Tracer DAO since the beginning of 2021, Mycelium was responsible for developing the smart contracts for Tracer DAO's Perpetual Pools derivative product. Mycelium has been building blockchain infrastructure since 2019 with the establishment of one of the first and most performant Chainlink Oracle Nodes, Mycelium Node. Mycelium will bring its significant data infrastructure capabilities and expertise to enhance Tracer's existing derivative product and add bespoke price feeds to create new derivative markets exclusive to the platform.
As part of the transition, Mycelium has also announced that a market leading Perpetual Swaps product will launch this month on Arbitrum. The product will deliver extremely low trading fees, on average 50% cheaper than centralized competitors.
In addition, as an industry first on Arbitrum, Mycelium Perpetual Swaps will deploy markets for DeFi tokens CRV, BAL, and FXS for users to trade with. Blue chip DeFi tokens BTC, ETH, LINK, and UNI will also be on the trading platform, making Mycelium Perpetual Swaps the home of the largest range of trading markets within the Arbitrum ecosystem.
Besides the Rari/Fei and Gamma/Visor Finance mergers, there is little precedent for token and community transitions in the cryptocurrency industry. The Mycelium proposal entitles all TCR holders to change their token 1:1 to MYC, a token with greater utility. The move will also see a reduced focus on DAO governance with voting reduced to deployment of new markets. This new model will prioritize creating more value and streamlining product delivery for DeFi users.
The proposal to consolidate with Mycelium highlighted the added capability and resources Mycelium can provide to help realize Tracer's core vision: to enhance access and efficiency for everyday users via decentralised technology.
"The reality today is 99% of the population is not comfortable utilising the financial products available in DeFi. Creating wallets, storing seed phrases, understanding smart contracts, oracle risk and bridging assets is often a very cumbersome process and beyond what the average individual is willing to devote time and attention to mastering. To successfully realize the vision for widespread adoption, Mycelium believes a transition from Tracer to Mycelium, to act as an access point into DeFi, is a compelling proposal that would benefit existing and future adopters of decentralised finance," the proposal posted by CEO and Co-Founder of Mycelium Patrick McNab outlined.
Mycelium has been building blockchain infrastructure since 2019 with the establishment of one of the first Chainlink Oracle Nodes, Mycelium Node. The company specializes in blockchain data and derivatives. Mycelium built a new derivative primitive Perpetual Pools (known as Tracer) with zero liquidations, which launched on Arbitrum in September 2021, and will be launching their Perpetual Swaps product in August 2022.
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Chinos collection combines comfortable construction with durability for everyday wear
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- True Classic, the leading direct-to-consumer premium menswear brand, today announced the launch of its Chinos collection. Starting today, True Classic Chino pants and shorts can now be paired with your favorite True Classic tees and polos.
Following the success of its recent activewear launch and expansion into international markets, True Classic is adding the Chinos collection to its wardrobe. The Chinos collection is an extension of the brand's casual and modern menswear line known for its soft and buttery fabrics, intentional fit, and versatility.
The new collection includes pants and shorts in five colorways, ranging in sizes from 30-42. The pants ($49.99) and the shorts ($32.99) are versatile and can easily be dressed up or dressed down, letting men easily transition their style from day to night. Thoughtful utility features include side entry pockets and a back button pocket.
"As we continue to expand, men's comfort and confidence remain at the forefront of everything we do," said Ryan Bartlett, True Classic's co-founder and CEO. "We are constantly looking at men's fashion and how we can make it better, while keeping it affordable."
True Classic's new Chino collection is now available for purchase at www.trueclassic.com.
Founded in 2019, with headquarters in Los Angeles, True Classic is a direct-to-consumer premium menswear company reimagining functional yet fashionable basics and accessories for the modern man. The company offers ultra-soft, fitted tees, crews, v-necks, and long-sleeves that are intentionally designed to fit all men's body types. True Classic's mission is to make men look good and feel good while inspiring them to do good. For additional information, please visit www.trueclassic.com.
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Continued investment in workforce includes recognizing exemplary plant, distribution center employees
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Instant Brands, maker of consumer favorites like Instant Pot®, Pyrex® and more, continues to expand its employee rewards program to recognize its plant and distribution center employees' commitment. As part of Instant Brands' continuing investment in its workforce, the company is awarding 10 employees an all-expense paid vacation for two.
Instant Brands will hold two vacation rewards drawings at each of its five U.S.-based field locations over the next six months. The 10 winning employees may each select a predetermined 'warm weather' (Hawaii, Las Vegas, Orlando, San Diego) or 'cold weather' (Alaska, Boston, New York City, Seattle) location within the U.S. for their well-earned getaway.
"Our employees' commitment to helping us deliver our products is something we prioritize and reward within our culture," said Ben Gadbois, President and CEO of Instant Brands. "We appreciate our employees, and our expanded rewards program is designed to evolve so we can best celebrate their contributions in tangible ways."
The first vacation rewards drawings are for best attendance records from March 7 through June 30, 2022. More than 15 percent of Instant Brands' U.S.-based plant and distribution center workforce qualify for the first drawings.
The first vacation rewards drawing was held yesterday at Instant Brands' Byhalia, Miss., distribution center, where 25 of 156 employees qualified for the drawing.
Byhalia-based employee, Angela Savage, won the local drawing. Savage is a Quality Control Inspector with two years of service with Instant Brands. She is a resident of Memphis, Tenn.
Beyond Byhalia, Instant Brands will hold vacation drawings in the coming weeks at each of the company's additional U.S. manufacturing and distribution centers. The second round of vacation rewards drawings are for best attendance records from July 1 – Dec. 31, 2022, and winners will be announced in early 2023. As part of the company's 2021 recognition program, Instant Brands gave five employees a new 2022 Jeep Compass.
Instant Brands continues to grow its workforce to keep pace with consumer demand. To learn more about employment opportunities, visit Careers – Instant Brands.
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Conservative group spends big in state-level effort to change Constitution
DENVER (AP) — The fliers piled up in mailboxes in central South Dakota like snow during a high-plains blizzard: “Transgender Sex Education in Schools?” one asked. “Vote Against Sex Ed Radical Mary Duvall for State Senate.”
The mailers were part of a $58,000 campaign against the five-term Republican lawmaker, an enormous sum of money in a place where the cost of running for a statehouse seat is typically in the low five figures. Despite the subject of the attack ads, Duvall was targeted not for her stance on sex education but for her opposition to a longshot bid by some conservatives to force a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution.
“I knew they were angry at me, but I had no idea this was going to be coming during my primary campaign,” said Duvall, who ended up losing her race by 176 votes.
Duvall opposed legislation that would have added South Dakota to 19 other states calling for a gathering known as a convention of states, following a plan mapped out by a conservative group that wants to change parts of the United States’ foundational document. When that number hits two-thirds of the states — or 34 — under the procedure laid out in the Constitution, a convention would meet with the power to amend the 235-year-old document.
The campaign against Duvall was part of a more than $600,000 push in at least five states earlier this year by the group, Convention of States Action, and its affiliates in Republican primaries to elect sympathetic lawmakers who could add more states to its column. Much of the money comes from groups that do not have to disclose their donors, masking the identity of who is funding the push to change the Constitution.
Mark Meckler, the group’s president and former head of Tea Party Patriots, issued a brief statement saying the group was committed to being active in the midterms “in a big way.”
For years, Convention of States Action has been a staple of the conservative political scene. But its engagement in primary campaigns marks an escalation at a time when parts of the conservative movement are testing the limits of the nation’s political rulebook, pushing aggressive tactics from gerrymandering to voting restrictions.
The track record of the convention group’s spending is spotty. In South Dakota, where the group and its affiliates spent more than $200,000 targeting four state Senate seats, Duvall was the only one of its targets to lose. And the challenger who beat her, Jim Mehlhaff, said in an interview that he thinks the group’s intervention hurt him.
“I didn’t appreciate the negative tone of their mailers. It probably cost me some votes,” said Mehlhaff, a former member of Pierre’s city commission who had his own base of support in the district before the intervention of Convention of States. “This is South Dakota. People don’t like negative campaigns.”
Mehlhaff was baffled at the notion that a possible constitutional convention factored so heavily in his race: “Convention of states is not my issue at all,” he said.
Supporters of a convention argue it’s the best way to amend the Constitution — especially to take power from Congress, which has to approve by a two-thirds vote any proposed amendments that don’t come from a convention. Still, no amendments have been implemented through a convention since the Constitution was ratified in 1788.
Backers argue that any amendments that emerge from the convention would have to be approved by even more states than required to call it — three-quarters, or 38 of them — ensuring that the only changes would be measures with broad support. The GOP would have the upper hand in that venue, though, as it controls the legislatures in 30 states.
One liberal group is pushing for a convention to change campaign finance laws that has won backing in four states, while another effort by conservatives seeks one to impose a balanced budget amendment. The Convention of States group is more vague on its goals, stating that it seeks a gathering that could pass amendments only to “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.”
That alarms many Democrats, who see the push as a partisan effort to write conservative goals into the Constitution. But several conservatives have also balked, fearing that a convention could open the document to changes they wouldn’t favor, such as on gun control or campaign spending.
“Lots of things can happen that we can’t predict” if there’s a constitutional convention, said Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the conservative Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. “A lot of Republicans are temperamentally conservative and don’t like taking large leaps into the unknown, and they are going to be seen as dragging their heels.”
The convention group has won some successes lately. Earlier this year, it persuaded South Carolina’s GOP-controlled Legislature to approve a motion for a convention, making it the 19th state, all Republican-run, to sign on. But it has been stymied in some solidly conservative states such as South Dakota, whose state Senate has repeatedly voted down resolutions for a convention.
Duvall said that’s because Republican voters there don’t want a constitutional rewrite.
“The majority of my constituents I’ve talked to say ‘No, this is a bad idea and dangerous,’” Duvall said.
Robert Natelson, a retired law professor who formerly served as an advisor to Convention of States Action, said that’s a result of fear-mongering. He has researched historical conventions of states and said they have clear procedures and limitations. They have occurred throughout the country’s history with varied records of accomplishment, on subjects ranging from the war of 1812 to how certain Western states would share water from the Colorado River.
“This was a process designed for the people to use,” Natelson said. “If you think everything’s going well, if you’re part of the 15% of the population that has a favorable view of Congress, then you don’t want a convention.”
The movement is using money to combat skepticism. Convention of States Action and its affiliated foundation reported raising more than $10 million in 2020, according to IRS documents. As nonprofits, the organizations do not need to disclose most of their donors.
The Convention of States’ recent spending came through multiple newly created political groups that steered campaign money around the country, largely shielding donors from disclosure.
“They have gone out of their way to set up a web of dark money groups to obscure where the money is coming from and evade reporting requirements,” said Arn Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which filed complaints with authorities in Arizona and Montana against the network’s campaign apparatus.
In Montana, the network spent $126,000 on radio ads and mailers to support two state legislators and a candidate for a state House seat after failing multiple times to get a resolution through the Legislature. The state Commissioner of Political Practices found the group failed to register as a political organization and report its campaign spending.
According to a disclosure report it filed in Michigan, the group also spent more than $40,000 supporting statehouse candidates there. It spent $10,000 on statehouse races in North Carolina. A group it formed in Idaho reported spending more than $100,000 before the state’s May 17 primary, including more than $75,000 against state Rep. Judy Boyle, a conservative who co-wrote a newspaper column with a liberal lawmaker about why a convention of states was a bad idea.
A seven-term lawmaker, Boyle said she’d been warned the group would target her and said their radio ads falsely claimed the local right-to-life group endorsed her opponent.
“I knew then that the group believes the ends justify the means and they would go to any length to smear me, which they did,” Boyle said via text message.
She eventually won her election — by six votes.
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Actress Anne Heche has been on life support and is not expected to survive after crashing her car into two homes last Friday, a representative for her family and friends told Deadline.
Heche, 53, has been hospitalized since the accident, where she was allegedly speeding in her blue Mini Cooper and crashed into one home and then another, leaving the second in flames.
She is suffering from an anoxic brain injury, the representative told Deadline. How does that affect the body?
Anoxic brain injury
Anoxic brain injuries happen when all oxygen is cut off from the brain. After about four minutes of losing oxygen supply, brain cells begin to die off, according to the Shepherd Center, a private, nonprofit hospital in Atlanta.
Causes of brain injuries
Brain injuries do not necessarily originate in the brain. They can be caused due to any physical trauma that affects the body's ability to take in oxygen, such as a stroke or trauma to the lungs.
Symptoms of brain injuries
Things to look for that could signal a brain injury include both physical limitations and behavioral changes, such as:
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For the better part of a year, Democratic divisions have been a dominant storyline.
Moderates and progressives couldn't come up with a deal on President Joe Biden's legislative agenda, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin was the poster child for progressive anger and Biden was struggling with the base and suffering politically because of it.
But that picture has started to change. The House is expected to pass a significant piece of legislation Friday and send it to Biden to sign into law. The Senate, with the help of Manchin, passed it over the weekend. It marks a few weeks of legislative successes for Democrats, as the primary season starts to turn to general elections for these midterms.
What does this latest bill do?
It includes:
The legislation, while less than Biden originally proposed or progressives wanted, is a big win for the White House and the party.
"Teddy Roosevelt got his Square Deal, FDR got his New Deal, Truman got the Fair Deal. I'd call this Biden's good deal," said Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist and former leadership aide to the late Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid. "This is a good deal for President Biden and for Democrats. And it's something that they can talk about over the next few weeks."
The bill is 'something to run on'
One piece of legislation won't solve all of Democrats' (or Biden's) problems. They still face the headwinds of a president's first midterm, Biden's unpopularity, inflation that's at a four-decade high and gas prices, though they have come down of late, are still higher than most struggling to pay bills would like.
The bill is even named the Inflation Reduction Act. Though the legislation's effect on inflation may be negligible, according to the Congressional Budget Office, it's a clear sign that Democrats see the threat of what Americans are saying is their top concern.
But Democratic strategists say it's a start.
"It gives you something to run on," said Jon Kott, a former senior adviser to Manchin.
He noted that Democrats' inability to pass legislation at the end of last year made it harder for the party to mount a strong message in the campaign for Virginia governor, for example.
"You want to run on your record when you're in office," Kott said, "and you want to go there and say, 'I did this. I helped you get this. I made your life better through this piece of legislation.' "
It also adds to the momentum Democrats have been building for the last few months, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducts polling for NPR.
"If you start connecting all the dots," he said, "everything is going the Democrats' way at this point, given that not too long ago, nothing was going their way."
In addition to passing the most recent legislation, Miringoff pointed to the Jan. 6 committee hearings that have dented former President Donald Trump with his base and that there's been a marked jump in Democratic enthusiasm after the Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade.
The midterm landscape has changed
The intensity around the issue of abortion led to the major victory for abortion-rights supporters on a ballot measure in Kansas last week. It is raising eyebrows for Republicans and is giving Democrats hope that they can stem what could have been a red wave in the House – and potentially hold the Senate.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the group tasked with trying to help Democratic candidates win House seats, says its data show the Supreme Court's opinion overturning Roe and tying it to Republicans has proven to be the "top testing negative" attack in competitive districts.
The DCCC has also launched multimillion-dollar ad campaigns to try and mobilize voters around the issue.
Strategists still expect Republicans to win control of the House, given gerrymandering, historic precedent and the narrow five-seat majority Democrats are clinging to. But keeping the margins down is hugely important for any party to live to fight another cycle.
What's more, Democratic candidates are outpacing Biden's approval rating in the generic congressional ballot test, a question that asks if voters could cast a ballot today, would they vote for a generic Republican or Democrat.
The more favorable landscape to Democrats – and some hard-right Republicans running in a handful of key states – may wind up having the most notable effect in Senate races. Democratic candidates are holding up well in states that are expected to be close, according to public and private surveys, as well as reporting with campaigns.
"Democrats seem to be in far better shape than they ever could have imagined possible," Miringoff said. "It doesn't mean they're going to rack up big victories, but if they hold where they are right now and win a seat or two in the Senate, they would have easily bargained for that six months ago."
To get over the finish line, Democrats need their base to be fully on board
But to get over the finish line, Democrats need their base to be fully on board. Many progressives had been deeply disappointed with Biden for not fighting more boldly and not delivering on campaign promises, like major climate initiatives and student loans.
Whether the left interprets this latest piece of legislation as a major victory and goes to the polls could be the difference between Democrats mitigating damage in the House and holding the Senate – or not.
"You have to take yes for an answer sometimes," Kott said. "And I don't think either side gets everything they want. But I think if you get 70% of what you want, that's pretty good. And you should be happy with that."
This summer has found Biden handed a string of bipartisan legislative victories, from addressing gun violence, billions for incentivizing the semiconductor production in the U.S. and, now, this current legislation.
Each of those victories came, ironically, with Biden, the former longtime senator, being what Payne called a "bystander president."
"The reason why the bystander approach worked in these last few weeks is because the other players stepped up," Payne said.
When a president isn't involved and things don't get done, though, he said, it can be "very frustrating to parts of your coalition." That's why it's critical, Payne said, to "get the politics of it right." And that means a president and White House doing a good job telling the story of what it has accomplished.
"I think that's something that maybe the president and his team and his allies have struggled with," Payne said. "And I think what you're hoping now is that there's a more complete story to tell, that that is now something that can land better with members of his coalition."
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WASHINGTON — Over recent years, cybercriminals have targeted governments and small businesses alike in massive digital heists — making hundreds of millions of dollars in 2021 alone in exchange for unlocking victims' systems. As the attacks got more high profile, peaking after Colonial Pipeline's shutdown last spring led to fuel shortages across the East Coast, the need for solutions became more desperate.
In 2021, U.S. government officials, academics, and members of think-tanks and the private sector formed the Ransomware Task Force. Its latest report was published in early August with the help of the Center for Internet Security. The report is designed to give small and medium sized businesses a checklist of step to prepare for, defend against, and recover from ransomware attacks, using data about attacks and what strategies have worked in the past.
The most vulnerable
Although there's been a debate recently about whether the overall rate and cost of ransomware attacks is decreasing — due to global attention, law enforcement action, seizing digital funds, and international pressure on Russia, where many ransomware gangs operate from —it's still a major problem. The Ransomware Blueprint is directed toward small and medium-size businesses because of how frequently they are targeted and their relative lack of resources.
In February 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) noted a trend after a spate of high-profile international and law enforcement attention on big ransomware attacks: The criminals had slowed down their "big game" hunting, or targeting of large businesses and critical infrastructure. That left smaller businesses, whose victimhood might draw less attention. According to the Ransomware Taskforce, businesses with fewer than 500 employees were hit by 70 percent of the attacks in 2021. The blueprint is designed "to remove a critical barrier" for small and medium businesses "with limited cybersecurity expertise in defending against ransomware," concluded the authors of the report.
The timeline
According to the blueprint, ransomware defense begins by knowing what's on the network.
That means keeping a registry of all software, hardware, and data on the cloud, exploring how the network functions on an average day and who has access to which components.
It sounds simple, but, according to Valecia Stocchetti, a senior cybersecurity engineer and co-author of the blueprint, criminals are constantly studying.
"Sometimes the criminals are more familiar with what is going on in your network than you are," she said in an interview with NPR.
Once everything is identified, the work of protecting the network begins.
That means training employees and making sure the network is configured securely, which includes installing firewalls and making sure users or software that are later added on can't bypass security procedures.
Each organization should also have a tiered system of access, making sure employees don't have privileged access to parts of the network they don't need for their work.
Organizations need to keep a close eye on research published about security vulnerabilities, and constantly be patching those holes when companies release the fixes. CISA maintains a list of vulnerabilities and ranks them according to how dangerous they are and how easy they are for criminals to exploit, helping organizations prioritize the work to patch them.
Many of the instructions, while tailored toward ransomware, offer good general information.
The report's authors note that attackers can use several strategies to break into systems before launching a ransomware attack, including malicious email attachments or web browsers. Deploying anti-malware software and preventing removeable media from automatically running on the system can make a big difference.
Stocchetti said one of the most helpful pieces of advice is to install multifactor authentication, meaning multiple ways to verify identity beyond just a password.
Sometimes, despite best efforts, criminals still find a way in. That's why it's vital that companies have a plan to respond to an attack, and that they practice it frequently and know who is authorized to do what in an emergency.
"It's things like making sure you make a list of who to contact when you know the fire erupts because not everything is 100 percent bulletproof, as we all know," she said.
That also means that organizations backup their data, encrypt those backups, and make sure the backups aren't connected to the primary network, or the criminals will get access and make all the effort worthless.
The money
One of the biggest quandaries for companies hit by ransomware is whether to pay to unlock their files, action that the FBI discourages but is sometimes difficult to avoid when critical functions are disrupted by the attack.
But there's also a cost to lost business, reconstituting systems, hiring incident response experts, and repairing damages. Cyber insurance policies can be helpful to offset those costs.
However, sometimes companies struggle with understanding or feeling fully protected by those policies. According to a recent study from Blackberry and Corvus Insurance, a high percentage of companies said they would hesitate to get into business with organizations that aren't covered by cyber insurance, recognizing its importance. However, just 14 percent of small and medium-size businesses have policies that cover over $600,000, restrictions that led more than half of respondents to say they hoped for more financial assistance from the government, particularly when attacked by a nation state. Many companies said there's a lack of transparency from some firms about what is actually covered by their policies, which are constantly getting more expensive.
Davis Hake, the co-founder of Resilience Insurance and one of the co-authors of the blueprint, told NPR that a more symbiotic relationship between the insurance industry and small and medium-size businesses could be beneficial.
If insurance companies require their policy holders to implement the action items in the blueprint, or offer to help them put those things in place, he said, it will help increase resilience and, hopefully, limit costly payouts.
"We're very good at pricing the risk and using that data to understand that as an industry," Hake said in an interview. "But what I really think is the industry needs to move from not just pricing the risk, but also learning how do we protect our risks."
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If you take stock of all the high-tech gadgets around you right now, including the device you're currently using to read this article, you'll find that they all need semiconductor chips to function.
And most of these chips are not made in the U.S.
The Biden administration wants to change that, with the president signing the CHIPS and Science Act into law this week. It will allocate more than $50 billion to bring semiconductor chip manufacturing to the U.S. and away from its current production hub in East Asia.
Sourabh Gupta is a senior Asia-Pacific policy specialist at the Institute for China-America Studies and joined All Things Considered to discuss what this means for our gadgets, and what it could predict about the future of American tech manufacturing.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity
Interview Highlights
On what would happen if the U.S. lost access to its semiconductor chip imports from Asia
Life would come to a standstill if we don't have the chips, which is like oil — it is the resource that runs our electronics, and effectively that runs our life in many ways. A car has hundreds of chips in it. And we are not talking of the most sophisticated cars. We're not talking electric vehicles. We are talking your average car.
We're talking just television sets — something as straightforward as that. The gamer kids are not going to have much of their entertainment if the chips don't come. What the chips also do is provide the foundation for a lot of innovation, next-generation innovation — what has been dubbed as the fourth industrial revolution.
On whether the CHIPS Act goes far enough to prevent that potential slowdown
It is sufficient. There is a lot of money, and a lot of it is frontloaded — literally $19 billion frontloaded in the next 12 months to support chip manufacturing in the U.S. But we don't need to have all chips or a very significant number of chips made in the U.S.
We just need a certain amount of chips which will not hold the U.S. in a situation of blackmail or in a situation of peril if there is a war in East Asia, or if there are others just general supply chain snafus.
On whether this law effectively shores up the U.S.'s position and curbs China's influence in chip manufacturing
It absolutely does [shore up the U.S.'s position], but it doesn't necessarily curb China's influence. It forces China to be able to come up with greater indigenous innovation to catch up with the U.S. - and its East Asian peers - in terms of chip manufacturing.
East Asian manufacturers are conflicted with regard to the CHIPS Act and having certain disciplines imposed on them in terms of expanding capacity in China. But that having been said, they value the importance of the United States. And so the way they are trying to proceed going forward is asking the U.S. federal government to allow them to continue to produce legacy chips in China — chips which are not cutting-edge -— while they will produce the cutting-edge chips in their home countries and in America so that that technology which goes into cutting-edge chips does not bleed into China and enhance China's productive capabilities in any way.
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Author Salman Rushdie, whose writing led to death threats, attacked on stage
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
Rushdie’s condition was not immediately known.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment lingered. In 2012, a semi-official Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty for Rushdie from $2.8 million to $3.3 million.
Rushdie dismissed that threat at the time, saying there was “no evidence” of people being interested in the reward.
That year, Rushdie published a memoir, “Joseph Anton,” about the fatwa.
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Firefighters rescue lost ram, re-home it at their station
GRAHAM, Wash. (KING) - While some firefighters rescue cats stuck in trees, firefighters in Graham, Washington, rescued a ram wandering the streets last week.
For now, they’re keeping it outside the fire department, alongside their pet goats.
“They’re so funny,” Graham Fire and Rescue’s Captain Andrew Kolabis said.
When he’s not putting out fires, Kolabis cares for the station’s two goats, Drip and Torch.
“We don’t have a station dog, so we have a station goat,” he said.
The goats keep the yards surrounding the station trimmed, and they’re popular with tour groups. The firefighters even made them their mascots.
So, last week Graham Fire and Rescue crews felt pretty comfortable rescuing a stray ram.
“Animal control said they could come get it in a few days but they said they’d probably end up putting it down,” Kolabis said. “So he was kind of at a loss for what to do. We’re already set up for animals like that, so it seemed like a pretty natural thing to just grab it, re-home it here and try to find its owner.”
It doesn’t have a name yet since the firefighters don’t want to get too attached if the owner shows up. He does have a couple of tags on him, but it’s not clear who he belongs to.
In the meantime, he’s getting along well with his new girlfriends and the rescue crew.
“Oh yeah, they’re definitely therapy goats,” Kolabis said.
For years, the station has treated the backyard as a place to escape the stress of the job.
“Laughter is the best medicine, I think,” Kolabis said. “So, it’s always fun to come out, if you’re feeling down or have a rough call, you can come out here, and I can just about guarantee within a few minutes of being out here, they’ll be head butting you or looking for treats in your pocket. You end up giggling no matter what’s going on. So that helps.”
Graham Fire and Rescue said they have plenty of space for their animals but wanted it to be made clear it is not a place they want people dropping off their stray animals.
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More Black NFL retirees win dementia cases in rescored tests
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Hundreds of Black NFL retirees denied payouts in the $1 billion concussion settlement now qualify for awards after their tests were rescored to eliminate racial bias.
Changes to the settlement made last year are meant to make the tests race-blind. The use of “race norming” in the dementia testing made it more difficult for Blacks to prove they had the kind of cognitive decline that qualifies retired players for awards that average $500,000 or more.
Nearly 650 men have had their dementia tests automatically rescored, according to a report released Friday by the law firm handling claims against the NFL. The retirees had met the other criteria for a successful claim, which includes hours of validity testing to show that their daily lives are significantly impaired and that they are not malingering.
Fifty-one now qualify for moderate to advanced dementia awards, which vary based on condition and years of play. Nearly 250 show signs of early dementia and will received up to $35,000 in enhanced medical testing and treatment. All of them initially failed to qualify because of the race-norming issues in testing.
The new test results will add millions to the NFL’s total payouts.
Thousands of other Black retirees can meanwhile seek new testing to see whether they qualify under the revised scoring formula. But advocates for the former players fear that many don’t know that, especially if they deal with memory issues and live alone.
“Men who are homeless, men who originally signed up but their cognitive function changed, men who are divorced or isolated — we are going to go looking for them,” said Amy Lewis, who along with her husband, retired Washington player Ken Jenkins, petitioned the judge overseeing the case and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to address the race-norming issue.
The couple, once critical of class counsel Chris Seeger for his response to the issue, now work with him to get the word out.
At the end of the day, Lewis said, she doesn’t care whether she’s “inside the tent, outside the tent,” as long as more men get help navigating the claims process. Many cases drag on for years.
An NFL spokesman did not immediately return a phone call Friday morning or respond to email messages sent in recent weeks seeking comment on the rescoring.
Seeger — lead lawyer for the nearly 20,000 retired players, who negotiated the settlement with the NFL — has apologized for initially failing to see the scope of the racial bias. He vowed in a recent interview to “make sure the NFL pays every nickel they should.”
The league’s tally just passed $1 billion in approved claims. However, appeals and audits mean the actual payouts lag behind that number — and now stand at about $916 million. They include awards for four other compensable diagnoses: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and deaths before April 2015 involving CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
As reviewers tackle the thornier dementia claims, the process has slowed down and the NFL appeals intensified. Today, nearly four in 10 dementia claims are audited by the claims administrator, Richmond-based BrownGreer — even after program doctors and expert panels weigh in.
“Their mantra is deny, deny, delay until you die,” said James Pruitt, 58, a wide receiver who played for Indianapolis and Miami from 1986 to 1991.
After his NFL retirement, Pruitt became a teacher and middle school principal in Palm Beach County, Florida. But in 2010, in his mid-40s, the district asked him to step down. He could no longer perform his duties.
Over time, he stopped calling on friends from his playing days.
“I don’t get out, and I don’t remember a lot of things. I’ve been told that I repeat things,” he said. “So I’m kind of embarrassed by the whole situation.”
After the settlement was approved in 2015, he and his wife attended meetings with the lawyers who traveled the country to sell the plan to retired players groups.
“We were told … this was going to be a very easy process, you just need to go to the doctors, get a qualifying diagnosis from them,” said Traci Pruitt, 42. “Yet here we are six years later, and we’re still getting the runaround.”
The couple was twice been approved by doctors only to have the decision overturned — once after their first doctor was removed from the program. Their lawyer believes they’ll be successful on their third try, under the race-neutral scoring formula. They’re still waiting to hear.
Traci Pruitt, an accountant who works from home, said an award would ensure she gets the help she needs to care for her husband: “While I love him, I don’t necessarily have that background and skill set.”
The fact that the testing algorithm adjusted scores by race — as a rough proxy for someone’s socioeconomic background — went unnoticed for several years until lawyers for former Pittsburgh Steelers Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport exposed it in a 2020 lawsuit. The formula had been adopted from one used in medicine to help diagnose dementia — but was never intended to be used to determine payouts in a legal awards.
Seeger said he believes the claims process is picking up steam after a slow start.
“I know folks have said they weren’t moving that well for awhile. I think we’ve won some appellate battles with the courts,” Seeger said. “I don’t think the NFL expected to pay $1 billion — and we’re about to cross $1 billion.”
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More than 100 goats and an emu in need of new homes after law enforcement seizure
BOSTON (Gray News) – More than 100 goats are in need of new homes after law enforcement seized them from a home, according to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA).
The goats, along with an adult mustang and emu, were seized in January as part of an investigation.
According to the MSPCA, the previous owner of the animals failed to pay a bond, ordered by a judge, that allows animal welfare organizations holding the seized animals to cover the cost of caring for them.
“The sheer number of animals [in this case] and significance of their medical needs have stretched all of our space and staff resources to the max,” said Mike Keiley, director of adoption centers and programs at the MSPCA-Angell.
The MSPCA said 29 baby goats were born at the farm over the past six months because a dozen does were pregnant at the time of the seizure.
“The babies are adorable. We’ve loved taking care of them—and more than anything we’re grateful for the support from our community that enabled us to rescue them from such dangerous living conditions,” said Rachel Diersen, assistant manager of equine and farm animals at the MSPCA at Nevins Farm.
Keiley said it is presumed that the entire herd of goats has been exposed to Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis and Johne’s Disease, which are both relatively common in domestic goats.
“Out of an abundance of caution, we intend to place the animals in homes in which they are the only ruminants on the property or can be housed separate from other ruminants per state regulations,” Keiley said, adding the goats must be adopted to homes in Massachusetts.
The mustang was transferred to a nonprofit animal welfare organization in Maine, but the emu named Jerry is up for adoption and is said to be “an entertaining character on the farm.”
“One of the cutest things about Jerry is that he’s already lived with some goat friends, and he seems to really love them,” Diersen said.
Anyone interested in adopting Jerry the emu can apply at mspca.org/nevinsadopt.
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Polio detected in NYC’s sewage, suggesting virus circulating
NEW YORK (AP) — The polio virus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday.
The presence of the poliovirus in the city’s wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, the city and New York state health departments said.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said the detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in New York City is alarming but not surprising.
“The risk to New Yorkers is real but the defense is so simple — get vaccinated against polio,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said in a statement. “With polio circulating in our communities there is simply nothing more essential than vaccinating our children to protect them from this virus, and if you’re an unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated adult, please choose now to get the vaccine. Polio is entirely preventable and its reappearance should be a call to action for all of us.”
New York City is being forced to confront polio as city health officials are struggling to vaccinate vulnerable populations against monkeypox and adjusting to changing COVID-19 guidelines.
“We are dealing with a trifecta,” Mayor Eric Adams said Friday on CNN. “COVID is still very much here. Polio, we have identified polio in our sewage, and we’re still dealing with the monkeypox crisis. But the team is there. And we’re coordinating and we’re addressing the threats as they come before us, and we’re prepared to deal with them with the assistance of Washington, D.C.”
The announcement about the discovery of the polio virus in New York City comes shortly after British health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in London but found no cases in people. Children ages 1-9 in London were made eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine Wednesday.
In New York, one person suffered paralysis weeks ago because of a polio infection in Rockland County, north of the city. Wastewater samples collected in June in both Rockland and adjacent Orange County were found to contain the virus.
Most people infected with polio have no symptoms but can still give the virus to others for days or weeks. Vaccination offers strong protection and authorities urged people who haven’t gotten the shots to seek one immediately.
Based on past outbreaks, it is possible that hundreds of people in the state have gotten polio and don’t know it, officials said.
Polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis. The disease mostly affects children.
Vaccines became available starting in 1955, and a national vaccination campaign cut the annual number of U.S. cases to less than 100 in the 1960s and fewer than 10 in the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A small percentage of people who polio suffer paralysis. The disease is fatal for between 5-10% of those paralyzed.
All schoolchildren in New York are required to have a polio vaccine, but Rockland and Orange counties are both known as centers of vaccine resistance.
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Trump Organization, CFO’s tax fraud trial set for October
NEW YORK (AP) — Capping an extraordinary week in Donald Trump’s post-presidency, a New York judge ordered Friday that his company and its longtime finance chief stand trial in the fall on tax fraud charges stemming from a long-running criminal investigation into Trump’s business practices.
Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel Merchan scheduled jury selection for Oct. 24 in the case, which involves allegations the Trump Organization gave CFO Allen Weisselberg more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including rent, car payments and school tuition.
Merchan denied requests by Weisselberg’s lawyers and the Trump Organization to throw out the case, though he did drop one criminal tax fraud count against the company citing the statute of limitations. Weisselberg’s lawyers argued prosecutors in the Democrat-led Manhattan district attorney’s office were punishing him because he wouldn’t flip on the former president.
Merchan rejected that, saying at a hearing Friday that evidence presented to the grand jury “was legally sufficient to support the charges in the indictment,” and that those proceedings were properly conducted, their “integrity unimpaired.”
If the schedule holds, Weisselberg and the Trump Organization will be on trial during the November midterm elections where Trump’s Republican party could win control of one or both houses of Congress. At the same time, Trump has been laying the groundwork for a potential comeback campaign for president in 2024.
The criminal trial is just one of several legal concerns playing out in real time in Trump’s orbit. FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in an unrelated probe Monday, and on Thursday, he and the U.S. Department of Justice called for the public release of search warrant documents.
Trump sat for a deposition Wednesday as New York Attorney General Letitia James wraps up a parallel civil investigation into allegations Trump’s company misled lenders and tax authorities about asset values. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
Trump has not been charged in the criminal probe, but prosecutors have noted that he signed some of the checks at the center of the case. Trump, who has decried the New York investigations as a “political witch hunt,” has said his company’s actions were standard practice in the real estate business and in no way a crime.
Weisselberg and the Trump Organization have pleaded not guilty.
Weisselberg is the only Trump executive charged in the yearslong criminal investigation started by former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and now overseen by his successor, Alvin Bragg. Several other Trump executives have been granted immunity to testify before a grand jury in the case.
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X2 Comedy Series coming to Harrisonburg on Saturday
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - “It is really unique for a community the size of Harrisonburg-Rockingham to have access stand up comedy shows and these are high quality stand up comedy shows so this is an experience you are typically only going to get if you go to D.C., Virginia Beach, maybe Richmond,” Chris Womack said.
Womack and his wife Dawn produce comedy shows across the Shenandoah Valley. Their X2 Comedy Series is performing at Court Square Theater on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
“We have comedians that were clean exclusively as well as comedians that work blue and they agreed to do a set for us that is why it is PG-13 but it also provides such a fun and playful atmosphere. We have comedians from all different backgrounds, all on one stage, together and interacting with the audience,” Dawn Davis Womack explained.
Some of the comedians in the show are PT Bratton and Dante Carter. You can read more about them here.
The show is $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For more information on tickets, click here.
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KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Creative Expo Taiwan, the largest cultural and creative event in Asia, is holding in Kaohsiung, at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center and the Kaohsiung Music Center between Aug. 5-14, organized by Taiwan Design Research Institute. The theme of this year's exhibition is "Resonance Island," representing a to call to place the island experience at the forefront. In recent years, the cultural and creative industry has been regarded as an important indicator of competitiveness and become an industry that many young people flock to. Many enterprises and brands in Taiwan have used cultural and creative elements in many aspects such as events, competitions, etc., to enhance the brand value and show Taiwan's unique soft power.
The Creative Expo Taiwan presents two main sections—"Cultural Concepts" and "Trade Platform" covering three major exhibitions of cultural curatorial exhibition, Cultural and Creative Brands, and IP Licensing.
The Cultural section is themed "Island of Passion," and has five areas each symbolizing personal experiences. The Main pavilion, "Resonance Island," immerses visitors in experiences, as well as enabling the virtual co-creation of new experiences with artists residing in in remote islands. The Craft pavilion, "The Craft SHOP," enable visitors to experience journeys taken through objects. The Chiayi pavilion showcases the evolution of a contemporary modern city, Chiayi. The Matsu pavilion leads audiences wandering around islands and tracing back to the past of Matsu. The Response pavilion is launched by co-host city, Kaohsiung to present a vision where visitors take a dream-like flight over Taiwan.
The Creative section has the theme of "Ideal Adventure," gathering cultural and creative brands from across Taiwan and showcases the discerning tastes through a journey through curated selection of classic fashion, while also exploring local original creations through local revitalization through new perspectives. The Licensing section showcases "Super IPs," gathering innovative vocabularies of the new generation, original IPs, illustrated stories, digital entertainment, and other original intellectual properties to transport visitors through a world of co-branding in the digital realm, with the hope of unlocking boundless and interlinked markets.
The Creative Expo Taiwan enhances virtual-real integration and connection and expand its reach on virtual channels through 5G technology. In addition to the physical exhibition, the Creative Expo Taiwan has launched a new online platform, CET+, in order to provide all the participating brands a channel to promotes to both domestic and foreign buyers through the integration of online and offline. Besides CET+, the Creative Expo Taiwan has also partnered Pinkoi, one of Asia's leading online marketplaces for original design goods, digital creations and workshop experiences, to launch an online Creative Expo section to help domestic exhibitors to open up new markets and business opportunities.
This year the Creative Expo Taiwan also partners with XRSPACE, the pioneer of the Metaverse, to cooperate with the "GOXR Metaverse Creators Project to provide creators participating in "IP licensing brands" and "Talent 100" which includes 100 emerging brands and creators in Taiwan and abroad this year to have a multiverse experiential space.
The 2022 Taiwan Creative Expo "Resonance Island-Together, we sound in vibrant harmony." is based creating links in the cultural and creative industry to create a perspective in shared culture and lifestyles to show "It's All Connected." As participants of the co-creation process, people embark on an adventure to reexamine Taiwan through a macro lens, and the humanities from a micro lens to create more connections and views to reshape the island through resonance.
Official Links:
Website: https://creativexpo.tw/en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creativexpo.tw/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creativexpo.tw/
CET+: https://creativexpo.tw/cetplus/
Pinkoi Creative Expo section: https://business.pinkoi.com/creative_expo
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Travel Insurance and Assistance Provider to Exhibit at its First GBTA Conference
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allianz Partners USA, a leader in travel insurance and travel assistance, will exhibit at the Global Business Travel Association convention scheduled for August 14 to 17 in San Diego. This is Allianz Partners' first time exhibiting at the annual conference, which is expected to draw thousands of travel industry professionals at its 53rd iteration. The company is attending the event to provide information to attendees on travel protection products that offer travel brands increased customer satisfaction and brand loyalty as well as significant opportunities for ancillary revenue.
Travel protection has become increasingly important to both businesses and their traveling employees as the COVID pandemic has increased attention on the corporate duty of care for travelers as well as the increased trend in "bleisure" travel. A 2021 survey of business travelers and travel managers found that almost a third of business travelers (31 percent) would ask to limit travel if their company does not implement policies or measures to help protect their health and safety and 89 percent say they will add personal vacation time to their business trips over the next 12 months.
Travel protection products* from Allianz Partners can provide protection against financial losses that result from trips that are canceled or interrupted due to a reason covered by the policy, as well as provide coverage for medical emergencies while on your trip. Allianz's 24/7 travel assistance team can help with almost any travel-related problem, including health and safety issues. The company's medical assistance team can help arrange emergency medical transportation if deemed necessary, consult with a traveler's treating medical professional to make sure the patient receives appropriate care, relay updates to family members and more.
"We're thrilled to be exhibiting at the 2022 Global Business Travel Association's annual convention," said Richard Aquino, Vice President and Head of Sales at Allianz Partners USA. "Since the pandemic began in 2020, travel protection has risen to the top of traveler checklists. We look forward to meeting with industry professionals who want to learn more about how we can protect business travelers' trips."
Allianz Partners offers a number of different products to match the needs of travelers, including per trip and annual insurance products. Some products include coverage for rental car damage or theft.
Allianz Partners is located at booth 2050, directly across from the SkyTeam + Delta Partners booth.
About Allianz Partners: In the United States, Allianz Partners USA (AGA Service Company) offers Allianz Travel-branded travel protection plans and serves millions of customers each year. In addition to travel protection, the company offers event ticket protection, registration protection for endurance events and unique travel assistance services such as international medical assistance and concierge services. AGA Service Company is doing business as Allianz Global Assistance Insurance Agency in California (License # 0B01400) and Massachusetts. Allianz Partners USA is part of the Allianz Partners group. Allianz Partners is a world leader in B2B2C insurance and assistance, offering global solutions that span international health and life, travel insurance, mobility and assistance. Customer driven, our innovative experts are redefining insurance services by delivering future-ready, high-tech, high-touch products and solutions that go beyond traditional insurance. Present in over 75 countries, our 19,400 employees speak 70 languages, handle over 58 million cases each year, and are motivated to go the extra mile to offer peace of mind to our customers around the world.
Terms, conditions, and exclusions apply to all plans. Plans are available only to U.S. residents. Not all plans are available in all jurisdictions. Products may not include all benefits or covered reasons described here. Benefits, coverage, exclusions, and limits vary by plan and by state. All benefits are subject to maximum limits of liability, which may in some cases be subject to sublimits and daily maximums. Rental Car Damage Protector does not provide coverage for vehicles driven in Jamaica; other location-based restrictions may apply, see your plan for details. Rental Car Damage Protector provides benefits that may cover loss, damage or theft to the insured's rental car, subject to the plan's terms, conditions and exclusions. It does not provide bodily injury or property damage liability coverage or comply with any financial responsibility laws or laws mandating motor vehicle coverage. Rental Car Damage and Theft Coverage, when purchased as part of an annual plan, is not available to KS, TX, and NY residents. For WA residents, Rental Car Damage and Theft Coverage may not be available in all plans. For a complete description of the coverage and benefit limits offered under your specific plan, carefully review your plan's Letter of Confirmation/Declarations and Certificate of Insurance/Policy. Insurance coverage is underwritten by BCS Insurance Company (OH, Administrative Office: Oakbrook Terrace, IL), rated "A" (Excellent) by A.M. Best Co., under BCS Form No. 52.201 series or 52.401 series, or Jefferson Insurance Company (NY, Administrative Office: Richmond, VA), rated "A+" (Superior) by A.M. Best Co., under Jefferson Form No. 101‐C series or 101‐P series, depending on state of residence. A+ (Superior) and A (Excellent) are the 2nd and 3rd highest, respectively, of A.M. Best's 13 Financial Strength Ratings. Except as otherwise specified, AGA Service Company d/b/a Allianz Global Assistance is the licensed producer and administrator of Allianz Travel-branded travel protection plans in the U.S. and an affiliate of Jefferson Insurance Company. Allianz Global Assistance and Allianz Partners are marks of AGA Service Company or its affiliates. The insured shall not receive any special benefit or advantage due to the affiliation between Allianz Global Assistance and Jefferson Insurance Company. Plans include insurance and assistance services. Noninsurance benefits/products are provided and serviced by Allianz Global Assistance.
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NORWALK, Conn., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) today announced that Chief Financial Officer David Goulden will be speaking at the Evercore ISI 2nd Annual Technology Conference on September 8th at 10:15am ET. A live audio cast of the presentation will be available to the public at https://ir.bookingholdings.com/events. A replay will be available for 90 days.
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Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, provided to consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. For more information, visit BookingHoldings.com and follow us on Twitter @BookingHoldings.
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BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B.O.S.S. Retirement Solutions and Advisors, announces a new location that will open in Meridian on August 15th, 2022. The new location will allow easier access to clients for parking and meeting space.
Founder, Tyson Thacker said, "We are proud to announce that due to our remarkable growth in the Boise area, we are moving to a new location on August 15th, 2022.
"This new location will allow us to serve our clients at a higher level by providing an elevated client experience," said Founder, Ryan Thacker.
The doors open at 8:30 am on August 15th, at 2501 E. State Ave., Suite 105, Meridian, ID 83642. You can still reach us at 800-637-1031 or via email at: info@bossretirement.com.
B.O.S.S. Retirement Solutions prides itself on providing a superior client experience for its customers. They are committed to the well-being of every client they serve as they strive to provide each with a secure and independent retirement.
Come celebrate this new location's grand opening on Tuesday, September 13th at 1 pm where the Boise Chamber of Commerce will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony. Refreshments will be served.
Tyson Thacker and Ryan Thacker are the hosts of the TV Show, Retirement Solutions Television as well as hosts of the weekly Retirement Solutions Radio Show. They have authored four books, and have appeared on Fox Business News, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and ABC. B.O.S.S. Retirement Solutions has received the Inc. 5000 award for five consecutive rolls earning a place on the Inc. 5000 Honor Roll.
B.O.S.S. Retirement Solutions creates individualized retirement plans designed to help clients determine a strategy that's appropriate for their unique financial situation. All advisors are fiduciaries.
For more information about B.O.S.S. Retirement Solutions and the services they provide, please visit www.bossretirement.com.
Angie Maynes, Marketing Director
angie@bossretirement.com
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"Let's not let tragedy take a backseat to commerce."
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Assemblymember Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) and safety advocates from Alcohol Justice, and the California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) gathered at a Capitol press event Wednesday to oppose California SB 930. The "gut & amend" bill, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and Assembly Member Mark Haney (D-San Francisco), is the 5th attempt since 2013 to disrupt the protections of California's statewide, uniform last call.
"I do not know how legislators who vote yes will reconcile the loss of life," state Assemblymember Lackey. "As a 28-year California Highway Patrol veteran, I have made over 40 death notifications to victims of impaired driving. Extending last call for bars to the early morning will create a dangerous combination of drowsy and impaired drivers mixed with commuters. Let's not let tragedy take a backseat to commerce."
SB 930 would allow closing times for on-sale retailers to be extended from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. as part of a dangerous "pilot program." The experiment would take place in 6 cities: San Francisco, Oakland, West Hollywood, Cathedral City, Coachella, and Palm Springs. Fresno was originally the 7th city in the pilot program but requested to be removed from the bill due to opposition among Fresno city leaders.
"If any part of this terrible public policy change becomes law, whether it's 6 cities, 5, 4, or 3, and a 4 a.m. or 3 a.m. last call, residents and visitors to California communities will suffer," said Michael Scippa, Public Affairs Director at Alcohol Justice. "The protections of uniform, statewide 2 a.m. last call will be shattered and blood will be spilled on the highways and in the communities in splash zones surrounding the "pilot project" cities, the cities that have no "local control." That blood will be on the hands of every legislator who voted yes, and Governor Newsom if does not veto SB 930, if it hits his desk."
Fred Jones, representing California Council on Alcohol Problems, and the California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) stated "Mixing inebriated drivers with early morning commuters is a cocktail of disaster!"
40 years of data show there is no "local control" when it comes to alcohol. The danger, harms and costs will not stay in the "Pilot Project Cities" where the drinking and economic benefits occur. If the bill becomes law, all surrounding communities of pilot project cities will be threatened by late night drinkers traveling drunk and fatigued into the early morning commute hours.
"You can talk about the economic benefits for bars if late-night bars are in a bubble, separate from everyone else. But they're not," stated Benowitz Fredericks. "They're part of our cities and part of our state, and the harms and costs that come from SB 930 are carried by all of us."
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), California currently suffers more annual alcohol-related harm than any other state: 11,000 alcohol-related deaths, $35 billion in total costs, $18.5 billion in state costs. The CDC also identifies maintaining existing last call times as one of the 10 key policies for reducing the harms from reckless drinking and from alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths.
Dead-serious statewide opposition to SB 930 is growing. Last week, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution of opposition, and the Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP) came out against SB 930 in a letter sent to Senator Scott Wiener, co-author of the bill. And Wednesday the Fresno City Council unanimously passed another resolution of opposition.
"Before our elected reps extend yet another boon to alcohol peddlers, they should first address the current and growing harms of alcohol," stated Jones. "This would include finally updating the 1992 alcohol excise tax rates that aren't adjusted for inflation, and lower the legal BAC to what federal regulators and scientists have recommended, namely 0.05%."
"We have to protect California residents and visitors from reckless, short-sighted, science-denying policies promoted by politicians who would tip the rest of the state off the cliff just to enjoy the drunken view from 4 A.M," added Fredericks. "Let's stand up for every community in this state and use every bit of power we have to stop SB 930."
"Extending hours of on-site alcohol sales into 4 a.m. will benefit a few bar, restaurant and nightclub owners, as well as alcohol producers and distributors, while increasing alcohol-related harms and costs at great public expense," stated Cruz Avila, Executive Director of Alcohol Justice. "It's time to tell our elected leaders in Sacramento to stop socializing the risks and privatizing the benefits for the alcohol industry. TAKE ACTION today by texting JUSTICE to 313131 or go to https://alcoholjustice.org/take-action/stop-sb-930-no-late-last-calls-in-ca-not-now-not-ever to tell California policy makers that local and state governments and taxpayers already pay far too much to mitigate alcohol-related harm."
CONTACT: Jorge Castillo 213 840-3336
Michael Scippa 415 548-0492
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) announced that it has imposed an interim suspension of the CFP® certification against Christopher J. Asher, which is effective as of August 5, 2022.
On July 13, 2022, CFP Board filed a Motion for Interim Suspension Order (Motion) pursuant to Article 2.1.a.1 of CFP Board's Procedural Rules requesting the Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC) issue an Interim Suspension Order against Mr. Asher. On May 17, 2022, Mr. Asher was arrested and charged with felony manslaughter by vehicle, felony homicide by motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol; felony negligent homicide by motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol; and misdemeanor criminally negligent manslaughter by vehicle in the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel, Maryland, after allegedly striking and killing a construction worker with his vehicle while under the influence (Case No. C-02-CR-22-000792). Press reports described the charges. A Hearing Panel of the DEC reviewed the matter on August 4, 2022, and then granted the Motion and issued the Interim Suspension Order on August 5, 2022, after determining that CFP Board Counsel demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Asher's conduct poses a significant threat to the public or significantly impinges upon the reputation of the profession or the CFP® certification marks. Under the Interim Suspension Order, the right of Mr. Asher to use the CFP® marks is suspended pending CFP Board's completed investigation and possible further disciplinary proceedings.
An interim suspension is a suspension of a CFP® professional's certification and trademark license during the pendency of proceedings. A Respondent subject to an Interim Suspension Order must not use the CFP® certification marks or state or suggest that Respondent is a CFP® professional while the Interim Suspension Order is in effect. An Interim Suspension Order is a temporary sanction and does not preclude CFP Board from imposing a final sanction. An Interim Suspension Order will remain in place until the DEC or, if an appeal is filed, CFP Board's Appeals Commission, issues a final order. CFP Board Counsel may vacate an Interim Suspension Order if a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline is vacated or reversed or if Respondent provides sufficient evidence indicating that Respondent was not the subject of a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline. A Hearing Panel of the DEC may issue an Order to vacate an Interim Suspension Order upon a successful Petition to Vacate an Interim Suspension Order by Respondent.
The basis for this decision also may be found on CFP Board's website at CFP.net/verify. At that website, CFP Board provides the public with:
- The ability to check on any individual's CFP Board disciplinary history and CFP® certification status.
- Links to other sources of information about CFP® professionals that may be more recent or that may contain information that has not led to CFP Board discipline and does not appear on CFP Board's website. This information may include customer disputes, disciplinary actions taken by a regulator or employer, certain criminal matters and certain financial matters (such as bankruptcy proceedings and unpaid judgments or liens).
- Links to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s (FINRA's) BrokerCheck and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Investment Adviser Public Disclosure databases for individuals who are subject to FINRA or SEC oversight.
As part of their certification, CFP® professionals make a commitment to CFP Board to abide by CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct (Code and Standards) or its predecessor, the Standards of Professional Conduct (Standards), which included the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Rules of Conduct and Financial Planning Practice Standards. CFP Board's Procedural Rules set forth the process for investigating matters and imposing sanctions where violations have been found.
CFP Board enforces its ethical standards by investigating alleged violations and, where there is probable cause to believe there are grounds for sanction, presents a Complaint containing the alleged violations to CFP Board's DEC. The DEC meets at least six times a year to review any matter in which CFP Board has alleged that a CFP® professional has violated the Code and Standards or its predecessor Standards. The DEC functions in accordance with the Procedural Rules and reviews all matters on a case-by-case basis, considering the details specific to an individual case. If the DEC determines there are grounds for sanction, then it may impose a sanction. DEC orders may be appealed by a CFP® professional or CFP Board pursuant to the Procedural Rules.
In certain circumstances, such as when a CFP® professional is in default due to failure to acknowledge receipt of a Notice of Investigation or file an Answer, CFP Board staff must deliver an Administrative Order of Suspension, Temporary Bar, Revocation or Permanent Bar. Administrative Orders also are subject to appeal.
More information on CFP Board's enforcement process can be found at CFP.net/ethics/enforcement.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public's awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by nearly 93,000 people in the United States.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) announced that it has imposed an interim suspension of the CFP® certification against Jason Cooke, which is effective as of August 5, 2022.
On July 11, 2022, CFP Board filed a Motion for Interim Suspension Order pursuant to Article 2.1.a.1 of CFP Board's Procedural Rules requesting the Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC) issue an Interim Suspension Order against Mr. Cooke. On April 28, 2022, Mr. Cooke was arrested and charged with five counts of felony dealing in child pornography in the Kent County (Delaware) Court of Common Pleas (Case No. 2204014557). His firm terminated him as a consequence of those charges, and press reports described the charges. A Hearing Panel of the DEC reviewed the matter on August 4, 2022, and then granted the Motion and issued the Interim Suspension Order on August 5, 2022, after determining that CFP Board Counsel demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Cooke's conduct poses a significant threat to the public or significantly impinges upon the reputation of the profession or the CFP® certification marks. Under the Interim Suspension Order, the right of Mr. Cooke to use the CFP® marks is suspended pending CFP Board's completed investigation and possible further disciplinary proceedings.
An interim suspension is a suspension of a CFP® professional's certification and trademark license during the pendency of proceedings. A Respondent subject to an Interim Suspension Order must not use the CFP® certification marks or state or suggest that Respondent is a CFP® professional while the Interim Suspension Order is in effect. An Interim Suspension Order is a temporary sanction and does not preclude CFP Board from imposing a final sanction. An Interim Suspension Order will remain in place until the DEC or, if an appeal is filed, CFP Board's Appeals Commission, issues a final order. CFP Board Counsel may vacate an Interim Suspension Order if a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline is vacated or reversed or if Respondent provides sufficient evidence indicating that Respondent was not the subject of a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline. A Hearing Panel of the DEC may issue an Order to vacate an Interim Suspension Order upon a successful Petition to Vacate an Interim Suspension Order by Respondent.
The basis for this decision also may be found on CFP Board's website at CFP.net/verify. At that website, CFP Board provides the public with:
- The ability to check on any individual's CFP Board disciplinary history and CFP® certification status.
- Links to other sources of information about CFP® professionals that may be more recent or that may contain information that has not led to CFP Board discipline and does not appear on CFP Board's website. This information may include customer disputes, disciplinary actions taken by a regulator or employer, certain criminal matters and certain financial matters (such as bankruptcy proceedings and unpaid judgments or liens).
- Links to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s (FINRA's) BrokerCheck and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Investment Adviser Public Disclosure databases for individuals who are subject to FINRA or SEC oversight.
As part of their certification, CFP® professionals make a commitment to CFP Board to abide by CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct (Code and Standards) or its predecessor, the Standards of Professional Conduct (Standards), which included the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Rules of Conduct and Financial Planning Practice Standards. CFP Board's Procedural Rules set forth the process for investigating matters and imposing sanctions where violations have been found.
CFP Board enforces its ethical standards by investigating alleged violations and, where there is probable cause to believe there are grounds for sanction, presents a Complaint containing the alleged violations to CFP Board's DEC. The DEC meets at least six times a year to review any matter in which CFP Board has alleged that a CFP® professional has violated the Code and Standards or its predecessor Standards. The DEC functions in accordance with the Procedural Rules and reviews all matters on a case-by-case basis, considering the details specific to an individual case. If the DEC determines there are grounds for sanction, then it may impose a sanction. DEC orders may be appealed by a CFP® professional or CFP Board pursuant to the Procedural Rules.
In certain circumstances, such as when a CFP® professional is in default due to failure to acknowledge receipt of a Notice of Investigation or file an Answer, CFP Board staff must deliver an Administrative Order of Suspension, Temporary Bar, Revocation or Permanent Bar. Administrative Orders also are subject to appeal.
More information on CFP Board's enforcement process can be found at CFP.net/ethics/enforcement.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public's awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by nearly 93,000 people in the United States.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) announced that it has imposed an interim suspension of the CFP® certification against Vincent J. Camarda, which is effective as of August 5, 2022.
On July 11, 2022, CFP Board filed a Motion for Interim Suspension Order pursuant to Article 2.1.a.1 of CFP Board's Procedural Rules requesting the Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC) issue an Interim Suspension Order against Mr. Camarda. On June 9, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a Complaint against Mr. Camarda and two co-defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Case No. 2:22-cv-03421) concerning a securities offering that raised more than $75,000,000 from more than 200 investors. The SEC's Complaint alleges that Mr. Camarda recommended and sold the securities of an issuer without disclosing to the investors the fact that he and his company were in debt to that issuer and thus had a conflict of interest. The SEC alleges that this operated as a fraud on those investors, in violation of Sections 206(1) and (2) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. In addition, the SEC alleges that Mr. Camarda violated the registration provisions of the federal securities laws and sold the securities without proper registration. Press reports described the SEC's suit against Mr. Camarda and his co-defendants. A Hearing Panel of the DEC reviewed the matter on August 4, 2022, and then granted the Motion and issued the Interim Suspension Order on August 5, 2022, after determining that CFP Board Counsel demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Camarda's conduct poses a significant threat to the public or significantly impinges upon the reputation of the profession or the CFP® certification marks. Under the Interim Suspension Order, the right of Mr. Camarda to use the CFP® marks is suspended pending CFP Board's completed investigation and possible further disciplinary proceedings.
An interim suspension is a suspension of a CFP® professional's certification and trademark license during the pendency of proceedings. A Respondent subject to an Interim Suspension Order must not use the CFP® certification marks or state or suggest that Respondent is a CFP® professional while the Interim Suspension Order is in effect. An Interim Suspension Order is a temporary sanction and does not preclude CFP Board from imposing a final sanction. An Interim Suspension Order will remain in place until the DEC or, if an appeal is filed, CFP Board's Appeals Commission, issues a final order. CFP Board Counsel may vacate an Interim Suspension Order if a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline is vacated or reversed or if Respondent provides sufficient evidence indicating that Respondent was not the subject of a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline. A Hearing Panel of the DEC may issue an Order to vacate an Interim Suspension Order upon a successful Petition to Vacate an Interim Suspension Order by Respondent.
The basis for this decision also may be found on CFP Board's website at CFP.net/verify. At that website, CFP Board provides the public with:
- The ability to check on any individual's CFP Board disciplinary history and CFP® certification status.
- Links to other sources of information about CFP® professionals that may be more recent or that may contain information that has not led to CFP Board discipline and does not appear on CFP Board's website. This information may include customer disputes, disciplinary actions taken by a regulator or employer, certain criminal matters and certain financial matters (such as bankruptcy proceedings and unpaid judgments or liens).
- Links to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s (FINRA's) BrokerCheck and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Investment Adviser Public Disclosure databases for individuals who are subject to FINRA or SEC oversight.
CFP Board's Enforcement Process
As part of their certification, CFP® professionals make a commitment to CFP Board to abide by CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct (Code and Standards) or its predecessor, the Standards of Professional Conduct (Standards), which included the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Rules of Conduct and Financial Planning Practice Standards. CFP Board's Procedural Rules set forth the process for investigating matters and imposing sanctions where violations have been found.
CFP Board enforces its ethical standards by investigating alleged violations and, where there is probable cause to believe there are grounds for sanction, presents a Complaint containing the alleged violations to CFP Board's DEC. The DEC meets at least six times a year to review any matter in which CFP Board has alleged that a CFP® professional has violated the Code and Standards or its predecessor Standards. The DEC functions in accordance with the Procedural Rules and reviews all matters on a case-by-case basis, considering the details specific to an individual case. If the DEC determines there are grounds for sanction, then it may impose a sanction. DEC orders may be appealed by a CFP® professional or CFP Board pursuant to the Procedural Rules.
In certain circumstances, such as when a CFP® professional is in default due to failure to acknowledge receipt of a Notice of Investigation or file an Answer, CFP Board staff must deliver an Administrative Order of Suspension, Temporary Bar, Revocation or Permanent Bar. Administrative Orders also are subject to appeal.
More information on CFP Board's enforcement process can be found at CFP.net/ethics/enforcement.
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Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public's awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by nearly 93,000 people in the United States.
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The specialty home retailer expands in its home state bringing a wide array of national brand products, next-day white glove delivery and personalized payment options to local customers
HOUSTON, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) continues to expand its presence in Texas with the opening of a new location in Texarkana, serving the nearby, larger Shreveport, Louisiana market. Located at Town West Shopping Center at 2315 Richmond Rd., Ste. #1E, Texarkana, Texas, the new 30,000 square foot location will open its doors today, Friday, August 12, 2022.
Conn's HomePlus, based in The Woodlands, Texas, offers a wide selection of home goods including furniture, mattresses, consumer electronics, home office products and appliances from national brands such as G.E., Samsung, LG and more. Rather than waiting weeks for their purchases, customers can enjoy Conn's next-day white glove delivery service, available for all in-stock items throughout the store. Through a personalized selection of payment options, including flexible in-house financing, Conn's strives to help all customers create a home they love.
Joining more than 70 Conn's HomePlus locations throughout Texas, the Texarkana location brings the retailer's total number of stores to over 160 locations across 15 states. With the store opening bringing more than a dozen new jobs to the local Texarkana community, the brand now employs more than 2,400 Texans state-wide.
"We're excited to grow the Conn's HomePlus presence in our home state of Texas and introduce our wide selection of home products to customers in the Texarkana and surrounding Shreveport community who are looking to turn their home life to home love," said Chandra Holt, President and CEO of Conn's HomePlus. "We are thrilled to bring our wide selection of national brand products, our next-day delivery service and a selection of personalized payment options to this new community."
Customers shopping at any store in Texas and at the new Texarkana store can expect next-day delivery on all major appliance purchases, TV purchases over $999, all mattress purchases over $999, all major fitness equipment purchases over $999 and select furniture purchases.
For more information on Conn's HomePlus, please visit http://www.conns.com.
About Conn's, Inc.
Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is a specialty retailer of home goods, including furniture, appliances and consumer electronics, with a mission to elevate home life to home love. With more than 160 stores across 15 states and online at Conns.com, our over 4,000 employees strive to help all customers create a home they love through access to high-quality products, next-day delivery and personalized payment options, including our flexible, in-house credit program. Additional information can be found by visiting our investor relations website at https://ir.conns.com and social channels (@connshomeplus on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn).
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MONTREAL, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Dollarama Inc. (TSX: DOL) will issue its financial results for the second quarter of Fiscal 2023, covering the period from May 2, 2022 to July 31, 2022, on Friday, September 9, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. (ET).
Management will hold a conference call on the same day to discuss the results. Financial analysts are invited to ask questions by using the dial-in number provided below. Other interested parties may participate in the call on a listen‑only basis via live audio webcast which will be available on Dollarama's website.
Dollarama is a recognized Canadian value retailer offering a broad assortment of consumable products, general merchandise and seasonal items both in-store and online. Our 1,431 locations across Canada provide customers with compelling value in convenient locations, including metropolitan areas, mid-sized cities and small towns. Select products are also available, by the full case only, through our online store at www.dollarama.com. Our quality merchandise is sold at select fixed price points up to $5.00.
Dollarama also owns a 50.1% interest in Dollarcity, a growing Latin American value retailer. Dollarcity offers a broad assortment of consumable products, general merchandise and seasonal items at select, fixed price points up to US$4.00 (or the equivalent in local currency) in 358 conveniently located stores in El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia and Peru.
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Gameflip expands offerings to include popular Blockchain-based game
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gameflip today announced their partnership with popular Play-to-Earn (P2E) game, Nitro League, bringing high-octane racing action to Gameflip's community of over 6M gamers.
Gameflip is an innovation focused technology company powering the future of Web3 by enabling all ecosystem participants including gamers, creators, brands, and developers to connect, safely and easily distributing digital gaming assets to the mainstream. Gameflip offers APIs for both Web2 and Web3 game developers to seamlessly onboard Gameflip's community into their game to leverage their proven digital commerce platform as a way to simply and safely transact gaming NFTs.
"Our mission has always been to put the power back into gamers' hands by giving them more control over their digital goods", said JT Nguyen, CEO of Gameflip. "We're excited to incorporate Nitro League into our platform and will continue to pursue partnerships with other blockchain-based games in the future."
Nitro League is a P2E game built on the Polygon blockchain. Players can purchase and race their futuristic, unique cars against other players.
Gameflip offers an easy and seamless integration for new and existing Nitro League users by allowing them to purchase through Gameflip's "Amazon-like" purchase flow using fiat or cryptocurrencies. In addition, Nitro League will be offering a limited number of special, never before released race cars only available through the Gameflip platform.
Based in Silicon Valley, USA, Gameflip is led by serial entrepreneurs and veterans in the technology and gaming industries. Gameflip enables safe marketplace transactions across all gaming digital goods and assets including NFTs, digital collectibles, and in-game items. Proven to be secure and scalable, Gameflip is trusted by over 6 million gamers who have safely transacted over $140M in sales.
Play-to-earn racing game Nitro League combines fantastic gameplay, token economies, and the metaverse. Players compete in futuristic automobile races in Nitroverse with cutting-edge graphics, earning tokens by doing so or just having fun with the game's many other features. Nitro League automobiles can be gathered by users, raced online, shown or traded on any NFT marketplace, or displayed across many Metaverses.
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ST. JULIAN'S, Malta, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG) has today signed an agreement with new strategic partner Kings Media Ltd, best known for operating the 'King Billy' casino brand across .com markets, marking its arrival into the newly regulated Ontario province in Canada.
The deal will see GiG provide its award winning platform and represents a continued strengthening of a targeted strategy to leverage GiG's extensive experience in fast growing, complex regulated jurisdictions. The partnership is also notable as Kings Media's first venture into North American markets, affirming GiG's assertion that its platform and solutions are perfectly suited for similar online challengers keen to access and expand into regulated regions.
The agreement has been signed for an initial three-year period with the opportunity to be further renewed. It is expected that, with decades of operational experience, the team from Kings Media will be able to call on their significant understanding within the Casino industry, helping to successfully launch and power the brand towards growth in Ontario.
The Canadian province of Ontario opened for iGaming as recently as April 2022 and is expected to grow to €2bn in gross gaming revenue (GGR) over the next three years, according to H2 Gambling Data. This will be the second deal in Ontario for GiG, with an existing customer expected to launch this quarter, with King Media expected to go live in H1 2023.
Volodymyr Harkusha, CEO of Kings Media Ltd, said: "In our quest to expand to the exponentially competitive Ontario market, we were looking for an industry-leading, future-ready partner. GiG fit the bill perfectly, not only by ticking and double-ticking all the boxes, but also by impressing us with their clear vision and dedication to the project. We are looking forward to working together with GiG on the mutual challenges ahead and we are certain that this collaboration will enable us to gain a significant foothold in the Ontario market."
Richard Brown, CEO of GiG, said: "I am particularly delighted to partner with Kings Media, a prominent online casino operator and brand with a great deal of experience, who share our values around personalisation, responsible gaming and the importance of regulated markets. We see great potential in Ontario, particularly when we can harness the operational experience of operators like Kings Media. We look forward to working closer with the team to maximise potential through a successful launch into the market, and anticipate this to become a successful client for GiG."
For more information:
Richard Brown, CEO GiG, richard.brown@gig.com, +34 661599025
About Gaming Innovation Group (GiG)
Gaming Innovation Group is a leading iGaming technology company, providing solutions, products and services to iGaming Operators. Founded in 2012, Gaming Innovation Group's vision is 'To be the industry-leading platform, sportsbook and media provider delivering world-class solutions to our iGaming partners and their customers. GiG's mission is to drive sustainable growth and profitability of our partners through product innovation, scalable technology and quality of service. Gaming Innovation Group operates out of Malta and is dual-listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GIG and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker symbol GIGSEK. www.gig.com
About Kings Media
Kings Media is the parent company of King Billy Casino, one of the fastest growing and most awarded online operators in the world. King Billy, launched in 2017, has had more than 20 awards and distinctions in its 5-year history, including AskGamblers Best New Casino, AskGamblers Best Casino, iGB Awards Best Affiliate Program and several short-lists for its customer services and marketing campaigns. The casino, which is available in 4 languages (English, French, German and Japanese), has created a superb user experience around the myth of King Billy and his Kingdom and treats all its players with the respect and attention they deserve. King Billy's motto: "Play Long & Prosper!".
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TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Widget, the manufacturer and distributor of iconic CBD brand Hemp Bombs®, is celebrating its sixth anniversary this month, following years of large-scale growth, industry-leading products and an aggressive goal to set the gold standard in an emerging industry.
Hemp Bombs launched in 2016 with a two-count package of CBD Capsules as its first product. Today, the brand features over 100 products, including a full line of CBD Gummies and other edibles, tinctures, topicals and pet products.
"It's hard to believe it has been six years already," said Kevin Collins, co-founder of Global Widget. "We have grown the company to more than 300 employees and have introduced hundreds of products, but our success all along has been because of the loyalty and support of our terrific customers, retailers and business partners. We have nothing but immense gratitude for the opportunity to serve them."
Over the past year, Hemp Bombs expanded its gummy line to include Delta-8 and Delta-9 THC Gummies, with its Delta-8 THC Gummies being named a 2021 Retailer Choice Best New Product by CSP Magazine in a vote of more than 1,000 retailers nationwide. Hemp Bombs products are available direct to consumers through its e-commerce website and are available in more than 25,000 retail locations nationwide.
From the start, Hemp Bombs quickly became the original CBD brand retailers and, most importantly, its customers, trusted.
"Hemp Bombs continues to be the hemp-category captain in convenience with over 65 percent market share, six years and counting," said Vince Gillen, vice president of sales. "We are fortunate to have great distribution and retail partners that have driven our growth, and we are accelerating that growth with category resets and new store placements with CBD and Delta-9."
All Hemp Bombs products are made in-house at its manufacturing headquarters in Tampa, Florida. Over the past six years, Global Widget has expanded its operations to four locations, featuring more than 165,000 square feet of manufacturing and distribution space. The company has grown to more than 300 employees in research and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing, human resources, manufacturing, distribution, customer service and IT.
To learn more about partnering with Hemp Bombs, visit https://hempbombs.com/wholesale.
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Global Widget, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is a vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor and marketer of premium Hemp-derived cannabinoid and health and wellness products, and a leader in gummy production and packaging. The company is the trusted powerhouse behind Hemp and health and wellness brands Hemp Bombs®, Mystic Labs™, hyper brain iQ and Forever Well Nutrition™. With more than 165,000 square feet of manufacturing and distribution space and over 300 employees, Global Widget is home to two of the nation's largest Hemp brands and a leading contract manufacturer providing quality products and support services to retailers, distributors and private brands worldwide. https://globalwidget.com/.
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Hope is Alive", a digital media campaign inspired by the partnership between Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP), SAC Health (SACHS), Loma Linda University Health (LLUH), Ezra Productions, and St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church (St. Paul AME) in San Bernardino has earned a total of 22 health care advertising awards.
Awards range from Merit, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Best of Show across organizations, including Healthcare AdAwards, Aster Awards, the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (Viddy Awards), American Advertising Federation's Inland Empire Chapter, and Telly Awards.
Aimed to provide education and resources to the region's Black and Hispanic populations – who have the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates and the highest virus and hospitalization rates – the partnership began in 2021 as a way for IEHP to reach and inform these community members.
"COVID hit Black and Brown communities like ours the hardest," said St. Paul African American Methodist Episcopal Church (St. Paul AME) Pastor Steven D. Shepard Sr. "We often get looked over because we don't have the assets or the finances that others have in their community."
With limited health care access and historical fears of modern medicine, community organizations knew that to save lives, they'd need to meet their residents where they were and provide them with trusted information, support, and encouragement to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The collaboration included gathering resources across IEHP, LLUH and SACH to organize COVID-19 vaccine clinics, grocery distribution events, and community outreach in a familiar place: St. Paul AME Church. This work represented the shared goals for IEHP's community partnerships with outreach and health services teams – all in support of the organization's Mission: "We heal and inspire the human spirit."
Ezra Productions – through close collaboration with IEHP's marketing-communication team for this inspiring story – captured the joint efforts, producing "Hope is Alive." The public service announcement video served as a platform for the community and members of St. Paul AME Church to share their experiences about COVID-19, including acknowledging fears associated with the vaccine and the need for continued community collaboration.
"We grew up not trusting anything the government wanted to give us," said a St. Paul AME Church member, who sat next to her daughter during the interview. "I was born blind; I'm the product of the Tuskegee Experiment."
"I turned to her and said, 'You know, it's [the vaccine clinic] at the church and it's with IEHP?' and that's when she said, 'Sign me up,'" said the member's daughter.
"To drive change forward, people need to be met right where they are," said IEHP Chief Medical Officer Dr. Takashi Wada. "Heartfelt outreach, listening, and partnering with trusted organizations in our community are key to making that happen. We're grateful to continue developing and pouring into award-winning collaborations that enable us to care and support our Members in a way that makes sense to who they are as individuals."
Documenting the power of empathy, outreach, and community support, "Hope is Alive" was judged by national panels who scored thousands of entries based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design, and impact.
To learn more about IEHP, visit IEHP.org. To watch the "Hope is Alive" video, click here.
With a mission to heal and inspire the human spirit, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) is one of the top 10 largest Medicaid health plans and the largest not-for-profit Medicare-Medicaid plan in the country. In its 26th year, IEHP is supporting more than 1.5 million residents in Riverside and San Bernardino counties who are enrolled in Medicaid or Cal MediConnect Plans and has a growing network of over 7,800 providers and nearly 3,000 Team Members. Through dynamic partnerships with Providers and community organizations, paired with award-winning service and a tradition of quality care, IEHP is fully committed to their vision: We will not rest until our communities enjoy optimal care and vibrant health. For more information, visit iehp.org.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the academic medical center specialized in musculoskeletal care since 1863, today announced the appointment of Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA as co-chief of HSS Spine, effective October 1, 2022. Dr. Qureshi will succeed Harvinder S. Sandhu, MD, MBA, and joins Andrew A. Sama, MD, as co-chief of HSS Spine. Dr. Sandhu will become Co-Chief Emeritus of HSS Spine and Medical Director of HSS Orthopedics with Stamford Health, succeeding Charles "Chip" Cornell, MD, who will retire next month.
Dr. Qureshi joined HSS in April 2017 after serving as chief of minimally invasive spine surgery and associate director of the Spine Center at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. His clinical practice focuses on minimally invasive and motion-sparing spine procedures using the latest technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, given more than 100 invited lectures and contributed to educational videos, and trained surgical fellows nationally and internationally. Dr. Qureshi also works with leading implant manufacturers, pioneering innovations in disks and implants for restoring height and proper spinal alignment.
"Dr. Qureshi is an exceptional spine surgeon, researcher and educator," said Bryan T. Kelly, MD, MBA, surgeon-in-chief and medical director of HSS. "I look forward to working with him and Dr. Sama as they take HSS Spine to even higher levels of excellence."
"I'm excited to lead HSS Spine together with Dr. Qureshi, with a shared vision to expand our services with a laser focus on the patient journey from initial diagnosis to rehabilitation," said Dr. Sama. "Our team will continue to pioneer advances in spine care, conduct rigorous research, and adopt new technologies and techniques when they are proven to provide better care and achieve better outcomes."
"I'm honored to join Dr. Sama in leading the specialists who have already made HSS the nation's most popular and successful spine treatment center," said Dr. Qureshi, who also serves as the Patty and Jay Baker Chair in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and was recently promoted to professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. "Our multidisciplinary team personalizes for each patient the latest evidence-based options, from conservative, nonsurgical therapies to surgical treatment for the most complex conditions."
More than 22,000 patients a year are treated for back and neck pain by the HSS Spine team. While the majority are treated non-surgically, HSS performs 138% more spine surgeries than the next leading hospital.
"Our spine service is a key reason why HSS has been ranked the #1 orthopedic program in the world, and in the United States for 13 consecutive years," said Louis A. Shapiro, president and CEO at HSS. "I know that Drs. Qureshi and Sama and the HSS Spine team will continue to advance the field and create new possibilities for our patients."
HSS is the world's leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health. At its core is Hospital for Special Surgery, nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics (for the 13th consecutive year), No. 3 in rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report (2022-2023), and the best pediatric orthopedic hospital in NY, NJ and CT by U.S. News & World Report "Best Children's Hospitals" list (2022-2023). In a survey of medical professionals in more than 20 countries by Newsweek, HSS is ranked world #1 in orthopedics for a second consecutive year (2022). Founded in 1863, the Hospital has the lowest complication and readmission rates in the nation for orthopedics, and among the lowest infection rates. HSS was the first in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center five consecutive times. An affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College, HSS has a main campus in New York City and facilities in New Jersey, Connecticut and in the Long Island and Westchester County regions of New York State, as well as in Florida. In addition to patient care, HSS leads the field in research, innovation and education. The HSS Research Institute comprises 20 laboratories and 300 staff members focused on leading the advancement of musculoskeletal health through prevention of degeneration, tissue repair and tissue regeneration. The HSS Innovation Institute works to realize the potential of new drugs, therapeutics and devices. The HSS Education Institute is a trusted leader in advancing musculoskeletal knowledge and research for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, academic trainees, and consumers in more than 145 countries. The institution is collaborating with medical centers and other organizations to advance the quality and value of musculoskeletal care and to make world-class HSS care more widely accessible nationally and internationally. www.hss.edu.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor America and Hyundai of Asheville recently donated a total of $20,000 to the Special Olympics North Carolina (SONC), an organization that uses the transformative power of sports to improve the lives of children and adults with intellectual disabilities, in support of the Automotive Industry Running Group. A ceremonial check was presented to SONC in Asheville, North Carolina.
"Hyundai is passionate about building better communities to support our progress for humanity vision, which begins with those that we live, work and do business in," said Brandon Ramirez, director, corporate social responsibility and external relations, Hyundai Motor North America. "We are grateful for the collaboration with our journalist and dealer partners to support organizations like Special Olympics North Carolina that create opportunities and support the mission of inclusion."
Created by automotive journalists, the Automotive Industry Running Group hosted a 15-day virtual running challenge, after which Hyundai donated $25 to SONC for every mile ran between July 15-29, up to $10,000. SONC received $10,000 after the interest group logged over 660 miles during the 15 days. Hyundai of Asheville donated an additional $10,000 to the cause.
"We created the Automotive Industry Running Group out of our passion for running and physical activity," said Jill Ciminillo, managing editor, Pickup Truck + SUV Talk and vice president, Chicago Area Runners Association. "With the support of Hyundai and its generous donation, we are proud to see how a shared interest can transcend our journalist community and impact the broader athlete community."
Special Olympics North Carolina offers year-round training and competition in 20 Olympic-type sports on local and state levels as well as health and wellness initiatives to improve the health status and increase access to community health resources for individuals with intellectual disabilities. As athletes are never asked to pay for their involvement in Special Olympics, this donation will ensure that athletes have quality training and competition events in the form of regional invitationals and state-level competitions.
"We're so very grateful for Hyundai's support as well as the innovative work of the Automotive Industry Running Group," said Keith L. Fishburne, president and CEO, Special Olympics North Carolina. "Special Olympics athletes deserve the same quality sports experiences as anyone else. Hyundai's support will help to ensure that happens."
About Special Olympics North Carolina
Since 1968, the organization has used the transformative power of sports to improve the lives of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Nearly 40,000 athletes in North Carolina inspire thousands of coaches, sports officials, local program committee members and event organizers involved in Special Olympics statewide. SONC offers year-round training and competition in 20 Olympic-type sports on local and state levels as well as health and wellness initiatives to improve the health status and increase access to community health resources for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Youth become agents of change through Unified Champion Schools, an education and sports-based program created by Special Olympics to build an inclusive environment among youth with and without intellectual disabilities as well as empower them to become youth leaders and create change in their community. Visit Special Olympics North Carolina at www.specialolympicsnc.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
Hyundai Motor America
Hyundai Motor America focuses on 'Progress for Humanity' and smart mobility solutions. Hyundai offers U.S. consumers a technology-rich lineup of cars, SUVs and electrified vehicles. Our 820 dealers sold more than 738,000 vehicles in the U.S. in 2021, and nearly half were built at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama. For more information, visit www.HyundaiNews.com.
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Kaiser Permanente study of more than 250,000 people shows that patients with COVID-19 use more health services in the 6 months following their infection
PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A study led by Kaiser Permanente in Southern California of patients from 8 health care organizations across the United States showed that COVID-19 was associated with a 4% increase in use of health care services over the 6 months after initial infection. The study was published August 8, 2022, in JAMA Network Open.
Some people who were infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 continued to experience effects from the infection, known as post-COVID conditions or long COVID, long after symptoms of the acute infection had subsided. This study showed that the greatest increase in encounters for these patients was in virtual visits, followed by emergency department visits.
"This study showed us that, in terms of the number of follow-up visits, a substantial amount of health care utilization occurs in the 6 months following the acute stage of SARS-CoV-2 infection, which highlights the potential for COVID-19 to exert an ongoing demand on health care organizations," said Sara Y. Tartof, PhD, a lead author who is an epidemiologist with the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation and a faculty member of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, both in Pasadena. "A 4% increase in encounters applied across a large population is a large number of visits associated with substantial cost. The absolute number is big. In this case, it was over 27,000 extra encounters among the 8 health care organizations included in this study."
Tartof added: "On a broader scale, this study will help health care organizations develop their long-term strategic plans to meet patients' needs following COVID-19 infection."
This study included patients of all ages from 8 large integrated health care organizations across the United States who completed a COVID-19 diagnostic test between March 1 and November 1, 2020. Patients were matched on age, sex, race, ethnicity, site, and date of COVID-19 test, and were followed for 6 months. The final matched study group consisted of 127,859 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and 127,859 patients who tested negative.
- Overall coronavirus infection was associated with a 4% increase in health care use over 6 months, predominantly for virtual encounters, followed by emergency department visits.
- COVID-19-associated health care encounters for 18 conditions remained elevated 6 months from the acute stage of illness, with the largest increase in COVID-19-related utilization including:
- In total, extra health care use associated with the effects of COVID-19 infection consisted of 212.9 additional encounters per 1,000 patients with COVID-19.
- The study is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of post-COVID utilization among children under age 17.
- COVID-19-positive children experienced increased health care use over 6 months for pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis; irregular heartbeat; difficulty breathing; and ear, nose, and throat disorders.
"With complete data from all care settings across large integrated health care organizations, this study represents one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of post-COVID conditions to date," said Debbie Malden, DPhil, a lead author who is an epidemiologist with the Department of Research & Evaluation and an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This study was conducted within the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a research collaboration led by the CDC that combines electronic health record databases to conduct large epidemiological studies. The 8 sites that contributed data were Kaiser Permanente Southern California (lead site), Denver Health, HealthPartners Institute, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Kaiser Permanente Washington, and Marshfield Clinic Research Institute.
About Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has a mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve approximately 12.6 million members in 8 states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal Permanente Medical Group physicians, specialists, and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery, and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations clinical research, health education, and the support of community health.
For more information, contact:
Elizabeth Schainbaum, Elizabeth.A.Schainbaum@kp.org, 510-406-1828
Terry Kanakri, Terry.Kanakri@kp.org, 626-405-2652
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National marketing agency InnoVision Marketing Group celebrates Filet Mignon Day with the success of its creative ad campaign, the Filet Mignon of Chicken® for Huey Magoo's Chicken Tenders.
InnoVision became the agency of record in 2017 for Huey Magoo's when the brand had three locations in Orlando. The marketing has been wildly successful and has contributed to the astronomical success and growth of the franchise, leading it from three stores at the onset of the branding campaign to now 225 franchises contracted to be built in 10 states over the next five years.
The impactful ad campaign introducing the Filet Mignon of Chicken, first debuted in May touting the brand's quality and telling the story of how Huey Magoo's came to be the Filet Mignon of Chicken.
InnoVision positioned the Huey Magoo's brand as the Filet Mignon of Chicken, along with the Filet Mignon of Chicken Sandwiches, which was a wide-open position in the fast-casual category. A claim held to be true, Filet Mignon is a term coined by the French to describe pork tenderloin but can actually apply to the tenderloin of any animal. InnoVision's strategy was to claim it for the brand in the chicken category, because Huey Magoo's only uses the tenderloin, the best 3% of the chicken – in all of their offerings, from tender meals to wraps, sandwiches and salads.
The introduction of the concept debuted with digital commercials, social media posts and email marketing campaigns creating buzz around the new position. The commercial opens with: "Let's talk chicken. Just like any other meat, there's the best cut and then there's everything else…"
"The Filet Mignon of Chicken campaign has incredible longevity and legs that can go on forever. We look forward to continuing effective and strategic executions of the campaign, and we feel confident that Huey Magoo's chicken tenders will become one of the top fast casual brands in the nation in the not-so-distant future," says Ric Militi, CEO/Executive Creative Director of InnoVision Marketing Group.
The campaign was an instant success and immediately catapulted the brand into the spotlight in the ever-popular chicken tender category. Since the campaign debuted, guests immediately began ordering the Filet Mignon Sandwich in stores. Focused on an inviting, customer-focused experience, the marketing has been tailored to meet all ages and generations, from boomer and Gen X fans to millennial and Gen Z guests – and the brand has become a fan favorite across the board.
Building on the concept, the agency has now debuted a new commercial in the series, "Smart Kid," which features a duo of children ordering one of the most popular chicken sandwiches, "The Filet Mignon Sandwich" at Huey Magoo's, an ideal that has quickly become a reality in many of the franchise's locations. This latest commercial was concepted by Giselle Campos, Sr. Vice President/Sr. Creative Director of InnoVision Marketing Group and written by Campos and Militi.
Offering a full suite of marketing capabilities completely in-house, InnoVision Marketing Group creates cutting-edge campaigns that resonate with people by combining old-school classic advertising philosophy with new school style, technologies, and trends. The result is unique, effective, and memorable advertising.
To learn more about InnoVision Marketing Group, please contact Bianca Kasawdish at bianca@teaminnovision.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to protect a parked vehicle from serious harm in a flood," said an inventor, from Dittmer, Mo., "so I invented the AUTO FLOOD DEFENSE SYSTEM. My design would prevent the vehicle interior from becoming saturated and it could enhance safety if a vehicle accidentally enters floodwaters."
The invention provides an effective way to protect a vehicle during a flood. In doing so, it prevents rising floodwaters from infiltrating and damaging the vehicle. It also could help to prevent vehicle occupants from drowning. As a result, it provides added peace of mind. The invention features an automatic design that is easy to use so it is ideal for vehicle owners and vehicle dealerships. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Kansas City sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CWC-109, 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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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a member of the military, I needed a better way to clean, polish and buff shoes," said an inventor, from Ft. Worth, Texas, "so I invented the SHOE BUFF KIT. My design could enhance the appearance of shoes and it would only require one hand for use."
The invention provides a practical means to clean and polish various articles of footwear. In doing so, it helps to reduce finger cramps caused by standard polishing methods. As a result, it increases convenience and comfort and it saves time and effort. The invention features a versatile design that is easy to use with one hand so it is ideal for various members of the labor force and military. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DLL-3884, 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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