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Hire underscores the company's focus on growth and innovation.
GUELPH, ON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Camis Inc., a leading provider of reservation and facilities management solutions for government-operated parks and campgrounds across Canada and the United States, announced today that it has appointed Kim Mackie as its Chief Executive Officer.
Kim is a seasoned SaaS technology leader with a strong track record of driving growth and customer success across the North American market. Kim comes to Camis with over 20 years of experience building strong teams, developing new markets, and implementing growth strategies in fast-growing software businesses.
"I am excited to join Camis and be part of a culture that takes so much pride in delivering valuable solutions to our customers," said Mackie. "Camis will continue to push harder to lead in our industry as we strive to exceed customer expectations, expand product offerings, build partnerships, and refine our approach to meet the evolving needs of the reservation and parks management market."
Kim joins Camis at an exciting time in the company's history when demand for the reservation and parks management solutions offered by Camis are at an all-time high. Over 725 government-operated parks, harbors, and marinas situated in Canada and the United States presently use the SaaS, call center, and infrastructure support solutions powered by Camis. Each year over 3 million customers book their outdoor experience on a Camis platform.
Founded in 1979, Camis has relationships with over 725 park managers across federal, state, and provincial campgrounds to help manage millions of reservations annually. With offices in Ontario, Maryland, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Camis' product offering includes a feature-rich reservation management solution, in-house call center services, and secure payment management solutions. Learn more at camis.com
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MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CSL Limited (ASX: CSL) Today, CSL advances its vision for a more sustainable future by setting new, tangible targets for carbon emissions reductions.
As part of the company's broader sustainability strategy to build a more sustainable future for employees, communities, patients and donors, CSL is announcing new carbon emissions reductions targets that will serve as a transparent roadmap to decarbonise global operations by cutting direct and indirect carbon emissions.
By 2030, the company:
- Is targeting a reduction of 40% of absolute Scope 1 & 2 emissions against a baseline of the average annual emissions across FY19-21; and
- Intends to ensure suppliers who contribute 67% of Scope 3 emissions have set Scope 1 & 2 reduction targets, aligned with the Science-based targets initiative.
Both targets are aligned to the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Importantly, the timeframes also align to CSL's 2030 business strategy, ensuring the targets are incorporated into our detailed operational plans. The achievement of Scope 1 and 2 emissions reductions will occur through four key abatement levers:
- increased energy efficiency;
- a push toward more renewable power;
- switching fuels to less carbon intensive energy sources; and
- re-designing some of its manufacturing sites.
CSL recognises that responsible management and efficient use of natural resources is key to the company's sustainable growth and its ability to deliver efficient and reliable supply of life-saving medicines.
"For over a century, CSL has earned trust by striving to fulfill our promise to improve the lives of patients and safeguard public health," said CSL's Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Paul Perreault. "We intend to continue earning that trust, as a company committed to a healthier world."
Aspects of this work are already well underway. CSL facilities in Liverpool, United Kingdom, and Bern, Switzerland, currently source renewable energy. CSL's new R&D complexes in Marburg, Germany, and Waltham, Massachusetts will feature state-of- the-art sustainable design features as well as CSL's new company headquarters building in Melbourne, Australia.
In addition to reducing carbon emissions, CSL is prioritising integrating environmental considerations into key business decisions; minimizing end-to-end production of waste through removal, reduction and recycling; and reducing waste in our supply chain.
The specific targets build on the previously announced strategy by serving as a tangible, transparent roadmap to decarbonising CSL's operations by reducing the company's direct and indirect emissions footprint. They are a further evolution in CSL's responsibility to deliver our therapeutics and vaccines in a more efficient, inclusive and environmentally respectful way.
"Our ongoing efforts and new sustainability targets demonstrate our promise to protect people and our planet. As a scientific and data driven company, we are undertaking specific measures and analysis to ensure that we continue to set and meet the right targets for the road ahead," said CSL Chief Financial Officer Joy Linton. "It is all part of the CSL Promise to foster a more sustainable future."
For more information visit: https://investors.csl.com/site/investors/sustainability
About CSL
CSL Limited (ASX:CSL; USOTC:CSLLY) is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of lifesaving medicines, including those that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, as well as vaccines to prevent influenza. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives using the latest technologies. Today, CSL – including our three businesses, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor – provides lifesaving products to patients in more than 100 countries and employs 30,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial strength, R&D focus and operational excellence enables us to identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live life to the fullest. For inspiring stories about the promise of biotechnology, visit CSLBehring.com/Vita and follow us on Twitter.com/CSL. For more information about CSL Limited, visit www.CSL.com.
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Americans Can Now Shop the Online Retail Platform with Products Curated by Gutiérrez for Racing Fans
MONTERREY, Mexico, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EDASI, an online retail platform providing exclusive Formula 1 and motorsports products, has been bringing racing fans together since its 2021 Mexico launch, becoming the first formal distributor of F1 merchandise in Latin America. "Edasi," Estonian for "moving forward," has now accelerated to the U.S. market with its official launch in August 2022.
EDASI is founded and led by Esteban Gutiérrez, a former F1 driver who has raced in prestigious competitions from 2013-2016. Now currently a Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team Ambassador, Gutiérrez also races six times a year, representing Mercedes in Formula 1 and the Inter Europol Competition team in the World Endurance Championship. Gutiérrez strives to share his love for the world of motorsports by providing curated products that allow others to showcase their passion through top-of-the-line apparel and accessories.
Gutiérrez shares, "Since beginning my professional racing career at 14 years old, racing was all I focused on. Once I noticed that there was not a formal distributor for F1 products in Latin America, that focus began to shift. I wanted to help spread the magic the motorsports world has to offer and with that, EDASI was born."
Now available for e-commerce sale and shipping in the United States, EDASI creates a frictionless journey through its seamless navigation, dependable customer service, and quick shipping that does not add additional cost for international customs. Dedicated to bringing the buzz of the racetrack directly to fans, EDASI delivers exceptional quality products, matching the high-caliber standard worn by the drivers themselves.
"I feel very proud of the work we have done as a team to be expanding in other markets, especially now in the U.S., where the Formula 1 audience is growing at a very high pace" says Gutiérrez.
Helping fans stand out boldly with confidence, EDASI offers exclusive merchandise from teams such as Scuderia Ferrari, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1, and Red Bull Racing. Further committed to helping fans represent their favorite F1 drivers, EDASI offers apparel from current and former Formula 1 drivers, including Esteban Gutiérrez, Lewis Hamilton, and Ayrton Senna.
Gutiérrez reflects, "EDASI is more than an online platform. It is a community encouraging racing fans to dream passionately, live boldly, and to always keep moving forward."
About EDASI
EDASI, an official distributor of Formula 1 merchandise, is dedicated to sharing their passion for Formula 1 Racing and other motorsports through authentic apparel and accessories with the hope to inspire others to dream passionately and live boldly. EDASI further continues to connect the motorsports community through its blog by covering topics such as F1 history, upcoming racing news, recently released collections, and more.
Discover the thrill by visiting EDASI's website and follow Esteban Gutiérrez's journey @estebangtz.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- All-new 2023 Dodge Hornet opens 'gateway' for enthusiasts to enter the Dodge Brotherhood of Muscle, brings buzz to compact utility vehicle (CUV) segment with unmistakable Dodge styling cues and performance
- All-new 2023 Dodge Hornet delivers best-in-class performance from two models in a multi-energy powertrain roster, with each featuring a dedicated powertrain and standard all-wheel drive:
- Dodge Hornet R/T – "Head of Hive" is electrified:
- Dodge Hornet GT – Industry's quickest, fastest, most powerful utility vehicle under $30,000
- All-new 2023 Dodge Hornet unleashes muscular Dodge DNA design vocabulary on a new segment, with characteristic Dodge styling cues, such as a hood with integrated heat extractors, 'mail slot'-style grille opening, and a vehicle-width taillamp with center illuminated Dodge Rhombi logo — a first for a Dodge vehicle
- Dodge Hornet interior design aligns with driver-centric cockpit feel of the entire Dodge vehicle lineup — center stack controls, display screens and HVAC vents are "tipped" to angle towards the driver
- Hornet swarms the segment with best-in-class and class-exclusive dynamic driving features such as Koni shocks, Brembo four-piston brake calipers, dynamic torque vectoring and more to optimize suspension, braking, steering and handling performance
- Direct Connection factory-backed performance parts from Dodge, available through Dodge Power Brokers dealers, give enthusiasts the keys to boost power of the already formidable Hornet
- Technologically advanced, Dodge driver-centric user experience includes best-in-class 12.3-inch digital cockpit cluster screen and a 10.25-inch central display, both standard on R/T and GT, delivering more than 22.5 inches of in-vehicle display screen space
- Android-based, easy-to-use Uconnect 5 infotainment system is standard on both Hornet models, with features including:
- Best-in-class Harman Kardon® premium sound system pumps out 465 watts of total system output through 14 speakers and subwoofer
- Dodge Hornet offers available Level 2 autonomy, including Intelligent Speed Assist with Traffic Sign Recognition, Driver Attention Assist, Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control and more
- Dodge Hornet GT will open for orders August 17, 2022, with the Hornet GT reaching dealers in December 2022 and the Hornet R/T arriving in spring 2023
- For complete information on Dodge and the brand's Never Lift plan, which provides a 24-month road map to Dodge's performance future, visit Dodge.com and DodgeGarage.com
Dodge is introducing the all-new 2023 Dodge Hornet, delivering the quickest, fastest, most powerful compact utility vehicle (CUV) under $30,000. The 2023 Dodge Hornet disrupts the fast-growing CUV segment, building buzz with a distinctive Dodge combination of muscular styling wrapped around best-in-class standard performance from a multi-energy powertrain roster and a swarm of class-exclusive performance features.
The all-new 2023 Dodge Hornet was revealed today at M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan, with three vehicles showcasing the Dodge brand's new entry in the CUV segment: the "Head of the Hive" Dodge Hornet R/T; the Dodge Hornet GT, the industry's quickest, most powerful utility vehicle under $30,000; and the Dodge Hornet GT GLH Concept, which showcases available Direct Connection performance parts upgrades for the newest entry in the four-car Dodge vehicle lineup.
"The Dodge brand's electrified transformation has left the starting line, with the all-new Dodge Hornet R/T representing the first electrified performance vehicle from Dodge," said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer – Stellantis. "The Dodge Hornet is poised to jolt the mainstream compact utility vehicle segment with looks, feel and performance that are unmistakably Dodge. Hornet shakes up the status quo with aggressive Dodge styling, the most power in the segment from our multi-energy lineup, the best driving dynamics, a full lineup of segment-exclusive performance features, the best standard technology, as well available Direct Connection factory-backed performance upgrades. And this is just the start of the Dodge brand's electrification journey."
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Affordable Options for Northern Indiana Residents Battling Drug or Alcohol Addiction
MISHAWAKA, Ind., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Recovery, a family-owned drug and alcohol addiction treatment provider, opened the doors to its largest Medicaid treatment facility, Praxis of South Bend by Landmark Recovery.
Located at 60257 Bodnar Blvd. in Mishawaka, Indiana, this 160-bed treatment facility is the largest single addiction treatment center accepting Medicaid in the state of Indiana. The opening of this facility adds 120 full- and part-time jobs, while increasing accessibility to high quality addiction treatment to those with Medicaid insurance. Praxis of South Bend will provide medical detox, residential treatment, and outpatient services to those suffering from substance use disorders. Unlike other treatment facilities, Landmark welcomes patients with a dual diagnosis, meaning those with mental health issues and substance use addictions.
On August 15, Landmark Recovery staff welcomed Courtney Papa, North Central Regional Director and representative for Senator Todd Young, South Bend council members, South Bend Chamber of Commerce, and other government officials during a ribbon cutting ceremony to tour the facility.
"Currently, only 5% of recovery beds available in our entire country accept Medicaid," said Michelle Dubey, chief clinical officer for Landmark Recovery. "In a recent survey 6% of adults in Indiana reported an alcohol use disorder while 3.5% reported a drug use disorder. This treatment center has the ability to help more than 1,900 people a year find recovery from an addiction."
More than 107,000 lives were claimed nationwide by drug overdose last year. As Landmark's largest Medicaid addiction treatment facility in Indiana, Praxis of South Bend offers personalized programs, with twice the national average of individual therapy sessions per week and counseling that addresses the root causes of addiction. Alumni programs are offered to all Landmark Recovery graduates at no additional cost.
Landmark Recovery, founded in 2016, is an evidence-based addiction recovery organization offering passionate, individualized treatment including detox, residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization. Landmark serves communities in Colorado, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Tennessee along with its sister company, Praxis by Landmark Recovery, that serves the Medicaid population. The Landmark of Louisville facility was named the No. 1 Addiction Treatment Center in Kentucky by Newsweek for 2021. For more information visit www.landmarkrecovery.com or call 866-504-8545.
Press Contact: Chrycilis Perry
Chrycilis.Perry@LandmarkRecovery.com
629-401-9745
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank Corporation ("M&T") (NYSE:MTB) announced that it has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.20 per share on its common stock.
The dividend will be payable Sept. 30, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Sept. 1, 2022.
M&T is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T Bank, provides banking products and services in 12 states across the northeastern U.S. from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. Trust-related services are provided in select markets in the U.S. and abroad by M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T Bank.
Investor Contact:
Brian Klock
(716) 842‑5138
Media Contact:
Julia Berchou
716-842-5385
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Coworking Provider's Area Locations Enable Professionals to Collaborate and Thrive
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With more Chicago-based companies looking for new ways to maintain productivity, innovation, and connection as the shift to remote and/or hybrid work takes hold, Office Evolution® has the perfect solution. The coworking provider is continuing to address demand and help small businesses and entrepreneurs in Chicago by offering convenient and affordable coworking spaces close to home.
Covering multiple neighborhoods in Chicago, Office Evolution has four locations – one near O'Hare International Airport which opened in 2015 and is currently expanding, two other locations in Naperville and Lisle, open since 2018, and another location in Hoffman Estates, welcoming members since 2017. According to the Illinois Small Business Economic Profile, small businesses employees make up 45% of the local workforce in Illinois, which is the primary Office Evolution customer in the region.
Members benefit from being part of a nation-wide network of coworking locations where they have access to over 70 other business locations in 25 states when travelling. Office Evolution is part of United Franchise Group's Coworks™ division, which provides the largest privately owned affiliated coworking network of flexible office space franchises in the world.
"With more than seven years of experience in the Chicago area, our franchise owners have a pulse on what their members need," said Jason Anderson, President of Office Evolution. "They manage so much more than the workspace demands, ensuring members are fully supported and have the professional resources required to focus on their growing business."
The four Office Evolution Chicago-area locations are situated between the business hubs that represent Chicago's diverse business communities. These locations combined have over 600 members – creating a thriving business ecosystem where professionals can learn from each other, form new opportunities, and be industrious.
"More people are working from a variety of locations, having the option to work in a space that has the amenities of a downtown office but is closer to home is becoming more attractive to local entrepreneurs, especially as people navigate high gas prices and chronic traffic congestion," said Anderson.
For more information about Office Evolution, please visit: https://www.officeevolution.com.
About Office Evolution
Office Evolution® (OE), a shared workspace – coworking environment, founded in 2003 and cultivated on the principles of 'Ohana', the Hawaiian tradition that references family working toward a common goal. Office Evolution is part of Coworks™ the largest privately held affiliated coworking franchise network on the planet, associated with United Franchise Group™ (UFG), a successful community of affiliated brands and consultants. Office Evolution is serious about supporting small business owners – the Dreamers, Risk-Takers and Doers who dare to chase their passions. For more information about Office Evolution visit www.officeevolution.com and for information about franchise opportunities visit www.officeevolution.com/development.
About Coworks
Coworks™ specializes in franchising within the coworking industry, offering solutions, expertise, and shared service options within the flexible workspace franchise community. Part of the United Franchise Group™ (UFG) family of affiliated brands and consultants, Coworks was founded in 2021 by Ray Titus, founder and CEO of United Franchise Group, with the express intention of building a framework to connect a variety of coworking brands, services, and amenities within the coworking industry, providing the largest privately owned affiliated franchise network of flexible, professional, and shared office space options on the planet. For more information about Coworks, visit www.coworksllc.com.
About United Franchise Group
Led by CEO Ray Titus, United Franchise Group™ (UFG) is home to an affiliated family of brands and consultants including Accurate Franchising Inc.™, Exit Factor™, FranchiseMart®, Fully Promoted®, Signarama®, Transworld Business Advisors®, and the Coworks™ division consisting of Franchise Real Estate™, Network Lead Exchange™(NLX), Office Evolution® (OE) and Venture X® as well as a food division featuring Graze Craze® and The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill®. UFG affiliated brands include over 1600 franchises in more than 60 countries, with consultants that have helped develop over 350 brands into franchises, in over 80 countries with more than 2500 franchisees. With over three decades in the franchising industry United Franchise Group offers unprecedented leadership and solid business opportunities for entrepreneurs.
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SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading national fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit against PacifiCorp alleging the utility company is responsible for the McKinney Fire, which was ignited by its poorly maintained utility infrastructure.
The suit claims PacifiCorp is responsible for the deaths of the plaintiffs' loved ones, property damage (including cherished possessions), serious out-of-pocket expenses for those impacted by the fires, evacuation expenses, medical bills, loss of business income, and much more. All of this as the result of the utility's negligence.
The complaint was filed on behalf of hundreds of individuals who owned property and/or lived in and near Siskiyou County, California. Their homes, businesses, and, in some cases, lives were destroyed when the 60,000+ acre fire tore through the area and resulted in four deaths.
"To date, four people have lost their lives in a fire that was entirely avoidable," said Gerald Singleton, Managing Partner of Singleton Schreiber. "Every fire season, California is overrun by deaths, injuries, financial disasters, charred homes and ruined lives as a result of utilities such as PacifiCorp putting profits over safety. This is the second time in the last two years that PacifiCorp has started a fire that killed citizens of Siskiyou County."
According to the complaint, PacifiCorp, caused utility infrastructure contact creating sparks that ignited dry vegetation and debris. Severe thunderstorms slowed the fire's growth due to heavy rain but brought upon mudslides and triggered floods in parts of the burn scar. As it was PacifiCorp's responsibility to manage these utility lines, easements and other right of way issues, PacifiCorp is accused of completely failing in its obligation to maintain its equipment.
The resulting disaster caused damage to more than 100 homes, 11 buildings and has destroyed 185 structures catastrophically impacting the local community. The financial impact has not yet been reported but will likely be significant due to the scope of the blaze.
"The people who lived in the area in and around the McKinney Fire had their lives changed forever, PacifiCorp owes it to them to make this right," said attorney Christopher R. Rodriguez. "This lawsuit cannot bring back loved ones, but it can hold this utility accountable for its own failure to meet basic safety standards."
This case is Beverly U. Bridges v. PacifiCorp, Sacramento Superior Court.
With more than 100 employees and offices throughout the western United States, Gerald Singleton and his team have represented more than 12,000 victims of utility fires and has recovered approximately $2 billion in settlements and verdicts for its clients. The firm currently represents thousands of victims of the numerous fires in New Mexico, California, and Oregon. For more information, please visit https://singletonschreiber.com/california-fire-damage-attorneys/.
CONTACT: Joe Marchelewski, jmarchelewski@gmail.com
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Kathleen Biggins, Founder & President, C-Change Conversations
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
"It may not be perfect, but it is a big deal. With the signing of the 'Inflation Reduction Act of 2022' today, our country will devote the resources to move the needle to counter the causes and impacts related to climate change.
"For decades, Congress has been unable to enact significant climate legislation – other than tax credits for wind and solar – and now it has. This is a very big deal! Using more carrots than sticks, the new law will provide a much-needed boost for all energy – not just clean energy – during a period of high gas prices and uncertain energy supplies.
"As the founder of C-Change Conversations, a non-partisan organization providing science-based climate change information, which has been well received by moderate and conservative groups across the country, I see this legislation, the largest investment in U.S. history to fight climate change, as a welcome and promising step in furthering the conversation around mitigating the climate crisis we are facing.
"Clearly, there is work to be done. This legislation opens the door to bringing us closer to further progress."
For information on C-Change Conversations visit: https://c-changeconversations.org/
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For the 3rd Year In A Row, TheraEx Staffing Services Appears on the Inc. 5000 Annual List
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. revealed that TheraEx Staffing Services is on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
"We take pride in the trust-based relationships we build with every single client." Says Rey Rivera, President of TheraEx Staffing Services. "We pride ourselves, above all else, on the excellent, approachable, and personable relationships our recruiters develop with their jobseekers."
TheraEx Staffing Services is a Healthcare Professional-Owned Staffing Agency dedicated to matching Travel Nurses, Allied Healthcare professionals, and Locum Tenens with respected hospitals and rehabilitation centers across the United States. As a partner to both clinicians and healthcare facilities nationwide, TheraEx Staffing Services has a best in-class team that delivers 24/7 support and personalized amenities. Founded in 2009 by Rey Rivera. President, TheraEx Staffing Services has the experience and resources to find you the perfect job opportunity; quickly and efficiently.
Website: https://theraexstaffing.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theraex-staffing-services
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theraexstaffing
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theraexstaffing
For more information or press inquiries, please contact Rey Rivera, President, or Crystal White, Director of Operations at (866) 440-2445.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
For more information on the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, visit http://conference.inc.com/.
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Elevation Healthcare is located in Riverton and has been sending out a mobile care unit to serve pregnancies in small Wyoming communities like Arapaho, Thermopolis, and Shoshoni.
Elevation Healthcare is a rebranding of Abba’s House, a faith-based pregnancy crisis center. Abba’s House has been located in Riverton for around 30 years.
Those who need prenatal care in small communities often have to travel hours to the nearest clinic. This causes pregnant people in rural communities to forgo trips to the doctors office.
Courtney Patterson, an Elevation Healthcare nurse, said they provide ultrasounds for free.
“Insurance companies are beginning to limit the number of ultrasounds that the women can have,like they can do the anatomy scan that's usually done around 20 weeks. And they don't want to do the early ultrasound for dating,” she said.
The traveling clinic provides pregnancy tests, and STI screenings, and ultrasounds. Without insurance, an ultrasound can cost a grand.
Patterson said the plan is, weather permitting to continue traveling from community to community until November. Then services will stop until Spring due to hazardous winter roads and weather.
Elevation Healthcare is in smaller communities on Fridays, this week they will be in Arapaho and Lander. Then Dubois, Worland, Shoshoni, and Thermopolis in rotation.
Elevation health does not perform, recommend or refer anyone for an abortion. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/science/2022-08-16/faith-based-organization-provides-mobile-ultrasounds-for-rural-pregnancies | 2022-08-17T00:02:54Z |
R Kelly jury picked in child pornography, trial-fixing case
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury was impaneled Tuesday in R. Kelly’s hometown of Chicago to decide multiple charges against the R&B singer, as prosecutors and defense attorneys argued toward the end of the process about whether the government was improperly attempting to keep some Blacks off the jury.
Kelly, who is Black, is accused of enticing minors for sex, of producing child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial at which he was acquitted.
As the sides began exercising peremptory challenges — in which they can remove a fixed number of potential jurors from the pool — Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean accused prosecutors of seeking to strike Blacks “to deny Mr. Kelly a jury of his peers.”
Prosecutors noted multiple African Americans had already made it onto the jury before the defense objected, and they argued their reasons for wanting to strike some had nothing to do with race. In one case, they said one older man appeared to have a hard time staying awake.
Judge Harry Leinenweber partially agreed with the defense, disallowing prosecutors from striking three Blacks from the jury, and restoring them. About half the 12 jurors impaneled were identified as Black by the judge, prosecutor and defense attorneys.
Six alternates were also selected.
Some of the jurors selected had watched at least part of a six-part documentary series, “Surviving R. Kelly,” about sex abuse allegations against the Grammy award-winning singer. Watching it wasn’t an automatic disqualification as long as a would-be juror could assure Judge Leinenweber they could still be impartial.
Among the 12 jurors selected was a retired real estate agent who had one son who was a prosecutor and another son who was a defense attorney. Another juror was a librarian.
Opening statements are scheduled for Wednesday morning, after which prosecutors will begin calling witnesses.
In all, the judge dismissed about half of the more than 100 potential jurors who were vetted over two days in a large, 25th floor courtroom in downtown Chicago.
Among those dismissed was a woman who said she had unfavorable views of police and judges, a woman who said she once took martial arts classes with Kelly’s kids and a man who said he didn’t think the IRS should exist.
Leinenweber tended to dismiss would-be jurors when they expressed even the slightest reservations. He dismissed one juror who said large gatherings make him anxious, and a U.S. postal worker who worried mail would be delayed if she wasn’t there.
Kelly, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a surgical mask over his mouth and nose, followed proceedings from a defense table, sometimes appearing to study would-be jurors Tuesday as they answered the judge’s questions.
During a break around lunch, several Kelly supporters on court spectator benches made heart signs with their hands and directed them at Kelly. He appeared to notice across the courtroom, smiling and nodding his head.
One central focus of the trial will be on whether Kelly threatened and paid off a girl with whom he allegedly videotaped himself having sex when he was about 30 and she was no older than 14. That’s the allegation underpinning another of the charges against Kelly, conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Jurors in the 2008 child pornography trial acquitted Kelly, with some later explaining that they felt they had no choice because the girl did not testify. The woman, now in her 30s and referred to in court filings only as “Minor 1,” will be the government’s star witness in the federal trial that’s expected to last four weeks.
When she testifies, prosecutors explained in court Monday that they won’t use her real name and won’t refer to her as Minor 1. Instead, they will call her by a single pseudonym, “Jane.” Kelly’s lawyers suggested they could contest where some of his accusers were minors at the time Kelly is accused if video recording or enticing them,
Kelly, 55, already has already been sentenced by a New York federal judge to a 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges that he used his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, will be around 80 before qualifying for early release based on his sentence imposed in New York, which he is appealing. A conviction for just one count of producing child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Kelly faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants at the Chicago trial. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
Minor 1 is expected to testify that she was on video having sex with Kelly. The recording was at the heart of the monthlong 2008 trial and was played for jurors almost every day.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school, according to pre-trial court filings by the government. The government contends she had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly. Soon after, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to become her godfather.
Prosecutors say Kelly later threatened and sought to pay off Minor 1 and her parents so they wouldn’t testify in 2008. None of them did.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Beginning as a passion project, introduced by the late Daniel K. Akaka to bring local tastes and flavors into military commissaries, the annual ALA Hawaii Food Show is back.
"Every year, once a year, local companies gather to present their items," explained ALA Food Show Chairwoman, Sharon Zambo-Fan. "This is the premier standard to sell to the military here in Hawaii."
This year's exclusive military event features 69 local businesses, showcasing more than 1,000 different products.
Leaders with the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), Naval Exchange, and Army and Air force given the opportunity to indulge in some of the state's best food product. Sampling, tasting, and interacting with local business owners, those buyers then determining what items should be stocked on shelves.
"Hawaii is the gold-standard for supplier and military commissary," added Bonita Moffett, director of sales at DeCA. "It has been a focus of our CEO and Director, Bill Moore, to make sure that we actually have local products represented on our commissary shelves."
Over the course of the show's 25-year history, more than 5,000 local products have been selected for commissary shelves -- some given the opportunity to expand nationwide.
"And you have small mom and pop companies here that do over a $1 million. We actually have about 20-25 companies that are on the million-dollar list," Zambo-Fan continued.
Diamond Head Seafood is one of those companies who brought their product to the national stage.
"It's a great stepping stone if you have product that you would like to see go national," said Mike Irish.
The American Logistics Association has made it a priority to extend its involvement outside of the commissary.
Working with a number of military organizations, including Hawaii Wounded Warriors and the Military Child Education Coalition, a portion of funds will be circulated right back into military communities.
Erin found her passion in journalism from a young age, watching her dad on the news. He taught her the importance of meeting, learning, and sharing people's stories. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/25th-annual-daniel-k-akaka-hawaii-food-show-returns/article_24670dcc-1db6-11ed-bd9a-2fc3a0eaf617.html | 2022-08-17T00:42:06Z |
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - Grassroot Institute of Hawaii released a report that stated most Hawaii homes are purchased from locals that want to buy a house. Experts say the enemy is not out-of-state buyers but current zoning and housing regulations.
"In a majority of homes, it wouldn’t take a lot to put up a wall to make another bedroom yet getting the permitting done for that and going through hoops for regulations can be very prohibitive. If we can solve little problem like this, we can go a long way to make houses available for our local people," said Dr. Keli'i Akina, CEO of Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.
Hawaii residents purchased almost 76% of the homes that were for sale while residents from the mainland accounted for 22%. Lastly, less than 2% were bought by residents from foreign countries.
According to their newest report, purchases from in-state residents steadily increased since 2010.
However, the state economist, Eugene Tian, disagrees in part with the study’s findings. He said the emphasis on outside buyers having no impact on housing prices is a little too simple. Other factors need to be included. He said it is premature to conclude that outside buyers have no impact since they purchase 25% of our homes – 25% is large enough to have an impact on the prices.
Realtor Abe Lee also added that zoning regulations add time to develop homes.
"In Hawaii, it can take 12-15 years to get re-zoning on our land. D.R. Horton bought 1,500 acres on the west Oahu side and it took almost 14 years to get it completed. It created more than 11,000 homes and the demand was there," said Abe Lee, principal broker at Century 21 iProperties Hawaii.
Lee said he recommends aspiring home buyers to reach out to nonprofits that provide training and education on how to buy a home in Hawaii. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/new-report-shows-local-residents-buy-most-hawaii-homes/article_e4317400-1d19-11ed-b151-6f3a094d3575.html | 2022-08-17T00:42:18Z |
This image shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red). The WHO says that the first possible case of human-to-dog monkeypox transmission is 'not surprising.'
The first possible case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox -- recently reported in two men and their pet in Paris -- had been a theoretical risk up till now, said Dr. Rosamund Lewis, technical lead on the monkeypox response for the World Health Organization.
The men, who live together and are in a non-exclusive relationship, were diagnosed with monkeypox at a hospital in Paris in early June. Twelve days after their symptoms started, their 4-year-old Italian greyhound also started showing symptoms, according to a report published last week in the journal The Lancet.
The dog developed lesions and tested positive for the same type of monkeypox as one of the owners.
According to the report, the men said that they let their dog sleep in bed with them and that they had been careful to keep their pet away from other animals or humans from the start of their own symptoms -- before the dog's symptoms started.
"To the best of our knowledge, the kinetics of symptom onset in both patients and, subsequently, in their dog, suggest human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus," the authors of the report wrote. "Given the dog's skin and mucosal lesions as well as the positive monkeypox virus PCR results from anal and oral swabs, we hypothesise a real canine disease, not a simple carriage of the virus by close contact with humans or airborne transmission (or both)."
The authors suggested that the study should prompt discussion on whether pets need to be isolated from their owners if they have monkeypox, and they called for further research.
New, but not surprising, information, WHO says
Lewis said that previously, only animal-to-human transmission of the virus was reported, referencing a monkeypox outbreak in the US in which people were infected with the virus through pet prairie dogs.
"This is the first incident that we're learning about where there is human-to-animal transmission," Lewis said during a Washington Post Live event on Monday. "This has not been reported before, and it has not been reported that dogs have been infected before.
"On a number of levels, this is new information," she said. "It's not surprising information, and it's something that we've been on the watch out for."
She noted that within WHO, experts have been working with partners such as the World Organization of Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization to address the issue.
"The messaging that has been given up until now is that pets should be isolated from the family members who may be infected," she said. "This has been an example of precautionary approach, precautionary messaging, because we didn't have the information that this had ever happened before, it had not been reported before, but it was a reasonable, cautious message to give. And now we have the first incident where this has actually occurred."
Lewis said it isn't clear whether the infected dog will be able to transmit the virus back to humans. But sometimes, even when they don't have all the evidence, public health profesionals have to figure out the most useful messaging that will allow people to appreciate their level of risk.
"This is an example where most pets will not be at risk, it may only be those who are actually in the household of someone who's infected," she said.
CDC says infected people should stay away from animals
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently updated its page on monkeypox in animals to acknowledge that dogs can be infected with the virus.
"We are still learning which species of animals can get monkeypox," the agency said. "While we do not know if reptiles, amphibians, or birds can get monkeypox, it is unlikely since these animals have not been found to be infected with other orthopoxviruses."
The CDC also notes that infected animals can spread the virus to people, and it is "possible that people who are infected can spread Monkeypox virus to animals through close contact, including petting, cuddling, hugging, kissing, licking, sharing sleeping areas, and sharing food."
The agency advises people with monkeypox to avoid contact with animals, including their pets.
Pets who had close contact with someone with monkeypox symptoms should be kept at home and away from other animals and people for 21 days after the most recent contact, the CDC said. Infected people shouldn't get close to their exposed pet; they should ask someone else within the home to look after it if possible.
If the infected person and the pet did not have close contact after symptoms started, the CDC recommends asking someone who lives elsewhere to look after the animal until there is a full recovery from the virus. | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/first-possible-case-of-human-to-dog-monkeypox-transmission-not-surprising-who-says/article_79530e3b-d955-5571-9d79-9fa0d14c6c60.html | 2022-08-17T00:42:24Z |
Former Richlands Police Chief speaks out after resignation
RICHLANDS, Va. (WVVA) - Former Richlands Police Chief Jerry Gilbert said on Tuesday that he was forced to leave his position. Gilbert tendered his resignation as Chief of Police Monday evening.
Gilbert first took office as Richlands Police Chief in 2018, after decades of law enforcement work in and around the town.
On Tuesday, Gilbert spoke with WVVA on his thoughts following his departure -- including an ongoing rift between him and members of the town’s council regarding changes to its emergency dispatch center.
That issue, among other complaints which Gilbert said were unfounded and undocumented, seem to have led to him being forced out of office. Gilbert said he was told by Richlands’ Town Manager John O’Daniel to tender his resignation or he would be fired. Gilbert also said he was one and a half months away from receiving his full retirement pension from the Virginia system.
“I had until yesterday afternoon, August the 15th, to give them my decision,” said Gilbert. “Or at that time I’d be terminated.”
The resignation came amidst months of turmoil in the town’s leadership. Numerous councilmembers had resigned previously, leaving only one left who had initially been elected to serve a full term.
“They was appointed in July. This was their first meeting, their first opportunity they had to get rid of me, and that’s what they’ve done,” said Gilbert regarding a recent appointment to council.
This is an ongoing story, WVVA will provide updates as more information becomes available.
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Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law Tuesday, August 16.
Biden said measure will allow spending on combating climate change and improving healthcare at the expense of increasing taxes on large corporations and drug manufacturers.
“The American people won, and the special interests lost,” the president said.
The $750 billion extends subsidies as part of the “Affordable Care Act,” reduces Medicare drug prices, and provides tax credits for clean energy items like solar panels.
The EPA said the act will go a long way in reducing the U.S. carbon footprint through measures like tax credits for solar panels.
(Michael Regan: Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency)
“This is good for the planet, it’s good for families, it’s good for global competitiveness,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said. “This is a win, win, win.”
The new law will also provide Americans with tax credits for electric cars.
“It means lower costs for Americans in several ways, including for a transportation specific example, lower costs of electric vehicles,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “These are vehicles where you can save a lot of money, but only if you can afford to buy them in the first place. So we’ve been fighting to lower the price.”
But Republicans said the bill will cost consumers more money through tax increases. They also take issue with increasing the IRS budget by $80 billion.
(Rep. Michael Guest: (R) Mississippi)
“It creates an army of IRS agents and at a time when Americans, many of which are struggling to purchase gas. To put groceries and food on their table which will actually increase inflation, not decrease it,” Rep. Michael Guest, R-MS, said.
Most economists say the act will have virtually no effect on inflation in the next several years.
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DISTURBING: Councilman charged after 7 children found in ‘filthy’ home, authorities say
WEST UNION, W. Va. (WDTV/Gray News) - A councilman in West Virginia is facing child neglect charges after officers say several children were found living in an unsanitary and filthy home.
WDTV reports child protective services and officers responded to a West Union home to investigate a complaint on July 11.
Authorities say officers made contact with 58-year-old Edward Barker when they arrived at the home.
Officials shared that the home was in “very unsanitary and filthy” conditions. Children inside the house were “physically dirty” with matted hair and “smelled of body odor and urine.”
Officers said there were dog feces on the home’s floors and beds with no sheets or blankets with what looked like urine stains on them.
Deputies also said cockroaches were crawling inside the home and refrigerator.
Child protective services reportedly filed a petition and removed seven children from the home who were from 4 years old to 14 years old.
According to the Doddridge County Sheriff’s Department, Barker was charged with child neglect. He was booked into the North Central Regional Jail on a $75,000 bond.
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One-Man-Show makes its way to Bluefield, Va.
BLUEFIELD, Va. (WVVA) - A one-man theatrical performance of “A life of Sorrow: The Life and Times of Carter Stanley” was held at Bluefield, Va.’s public library Tuesday evening.
The free showing was open to attendees of all ages, and performed by Gary Reid of Roanoke. According to the show’s program, Reid has been a Bluegrass enthusiast and historian for more than 40 year, and is “regarded as the foremost authority on Carter and Ralph Stanley.”
“Music is a big part of the culture here in Southwest Virginia,” said Chris Wilkes, Assistant Director of Tazewell County Public Libraries. “We want to preserve the heritage of the Southwest Virginia area, and this is mainly to bring back memories for older generations but also to preserve it for future generations.”
Those interested in attending upcoming events at the library can learn more at its website.
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R Kelly jury picked in child pornography, trial-fixing case
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury was impaneled Tuesday in R. Kelly’s hometown of Chicago to decide multiple charges against the R&B singer, as prosecutors and defense attorneys argued toward the end of the process about whether the government was improperly attempting to keep some Blacks off the jury.
Kelly, who is Black, is accused of enticing minors for sex, of producing child pornography and of fixing his 2008 state child pornography trial at which he was acquitted.
As the sides began exercising peremptory challenges — in which they can remove a fixed number of potential jurors from the pool — Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean accused prosecutors of seeking to strike Blacks “to deny Mr. Kelly a jury of his peers.”
Prosecutors noted multiple African Americans had already made it onto the jury before the defense objected, and they argued their reasons for wanting to strike some had nothing to do with race. In one case, they said one older man appeared to have a hard time staying awake.
Judge Harry Leinenweber partially agreed with the defense, disallowing prosecutors from striking three Blacks from the jury, and restoring them. About half the 12 jurors impaneled were identified as Black by the judge, prosecutor and defense attorneys.
Six alternates were also selected.
Some of the jurors selected had watched at least part of a six-part documentary series, “Surviving R. Kelly,” about sex abuse allegations against the Grammy award-winning singer. Watching it wasn’t an automatic disqualification as long as a would-be juror could assure Judge Leinenweber they could still be impartial.
Among the 12 jurors selected was a retired real estate agent who had one son who was a prosecutor and another son who was a defense attorney. Another juror was a librarian.
Opening statements are scheduled for Wednesday morning, after which prosecutors will begin calling witnesses.
In all, the judge dismissed about half of the more than 100 potential jurors who were vetted over two days in a large, 25th floor courtroom in downtown Chicago.
Among those dismissed was a woman who said she had unfavorable views of police and judges, a woman who said she once took martial arts classes with Kelly’s kids and a man who said he didn’t think the IRS should exist.
Leinenweber tended to dismiss would-be jurors when they expressed even the slightest reservations. He dismissed one juror who said large gatherings make him anxious, and a U.S. postal worker who worried mail would be delayed if she wasn’t there.
Kelly, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a surgical mask over his mouth and nose, followed proceedings from a defense table, sometimes appearing to study would-be jurors Tuesday as they answered the judge’s questions.
During a break around lunch, several Kelly supporters on court spectator benches made heart signs with their hands and directed them at Kelly. He appeared to notice across the courtroom, smiling and nodding his head.
One central focus of the trial will be on whether Kelly threatened and paid off a girl with whom he allegedly videotaped himself having sex when he was about 30 and she was no older than 14. That’s the allegation underpinning another of the charges against Kelly, conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Jurors in the 2008 child pornography trial acquitted Kelly, with some later explaining that they felt they had no choice because the girl did not testify. The woman, now in her 30s and referred to in court filings only as “Minor 1,” will be the government’s star witness in the federal trial that’s expected to last four weeks.
When she testifies, prosecutors explained in court Monday that they won’t use her real name and won’t refer to her as Minor 1. Instead, they will call her by a single pseudonym, “Jane.” Kelly’s lawyers suggested they could contest where some of his accusers were minors at the time Kelly is accused if video recording or enticing them,
Kelly, 55, already has already been sentenced by a New York federal judge to a 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges that he used his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, will be around 80 before qualifying for early release based on his sentence imposed in New York, which he is appealing. A conviction for just one count of producing child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Kelly faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants at the Chicago trial. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
Minor 1 is expected to testify that she was on video having sex with Kelly. The recording was at the heart of the monthlong 2008 trial and was played for jurors almost every day.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school, according to pre-trial court filings by the government. The government contends she had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly. Soon after, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to become her godfather.
Prosecutors say Kelly later threatened and sought to pay off Minor 1 and her parents so they wouldn’t testify in 2008. None of them did.
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WATCH: 77-year-old singer’s impromptu performance at Goodwill goes viral
HAMILTON, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - An impromptu concert at an Ohio Goodwill featuring an elderly singer has gone viral.
Diana Garvin travels to nursing homes to sing to residents. Recently, her karaoke machine broke, so she went looking for a new one.
That’s when the 77-year-old ended up at the Goodwill in Hamilton on Aug. 8.
She reportedly found a karaoke machine on the shelf and wasted no time picking up the mic, entertaining customers like John Schuerfranz.
Schuerfranz told WXIX he got his phone out and started recording Garvin’s musical performance.
“All of a sudden, I heard this angel singing over in electronics, and I thought, ‘Well, I got to go over and see what this is,’” Schuerfranz said. “Sure enough, she was over there with her karaoke machine and singing ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands.’ I thought, ‘I got to share this with the world.’”
The video currently has more than 34,000 views on Facebook.
“I just love music,” Garvin said. “I don’t do it perfectly. I just love music and I love people. I have my own special way of talking to people.”
Garvin said she was going to buy the karaoke machine, but someone beat her to it.
“Another customer purchased it and gave it to Garvin free of charge,” said Michael Flannery, with the Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries.
Garvin said she would now be able to entertain her nursing home friends on karaoke night once again.
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Coast Guard issues warning regarding Port Huron Float Down
The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards put out a joint statement detailing the potential dangers of the Port Huron Float Down slated for Sunday.
The Port Huron Float Down is an unofficial event where people go down the St. Clair River in blow-up floatation devices for up to seven miles. The joint statement said the event is dangerous and warns participants about the risks it creates.
“The fast-moving current, large number of participants, lack of lifejackets, alcohol consumption, potentially challenging weather conditions, water temperature, and limited rescue resources can create difficult emergency response scenarios that can result in serious injuries or fatalities,” the statement said.
The event is scheduled to take place Sunday, with participants getting in the water in Port Huron and heading as far south as Marysville.
Port Huron Police Department Lt. Nick Godwin and Marysville Chief of Public Safety Tom Konik echoed the risks detailed in the statement. Konik also said people should be mindful of the water's temperature if they choose to participate.
"Being in the water for multiple hours means that people are going to get cold quick, and a lot of people don't factor that in," he said.
Godwin advised that people limit their alcohol consumption and drink enough water. He also said people need to be respectful of the river.
"Don't leave behind plastic, cups, bottles or anything that else doesn't belong in the river," he said
The weather forecast for Sunday is a high of 81 degrees with scattered thunderstorms. South, south east winds are expected to be 7 miles per hour.
"If there's wind coming from the south, it's going to delay the ability to float down and will hold up (participants), which leads to more tired swimmers who will be in the water for longer," Konik said.
Marysville and other partnering agencies will have officers and ambulances in Port Huron as the float down starts and will follow it down to Marysville.
Konik said people should be aware of where exit points are on the shoreline if they need to get out of the water.
The Coast Guard statement gave the following precautions for those who are choosing to participate in the float down:
- Regardless of age or ability to swim, all participants are encouraged to wear an appropriately sized, U.S. Coast Guard / Canadian approved personal flotation device or life jacket at all times
- Bring waterproof bags for your personal items and identification.
- File a “Float Plan” with someone not participating who can report your intentions to the Coast Guard in the event you do not check-in at the scheduled time.
- Never go alone. Use the buddy system, keep an eye on each other, and immediately report incidents of distress to the nearest first response agency representative.
- Refrain from consuming alcohol.
- Dress appropriately for the weather and cold water. Use a raft that limits your immersion in the water and can be controlled with oars or paddles.
- Stay near shore and remain out of the navigation channel.
- Mark your float with your name and ell phone number in waterproof ink.
The Port Huron Float Down has resulted in injury and death in the past. A 19-year-old man drowned in the 2014 float down. In 2016, approximately 1,500 people needed to be rescued from the river after high winds and heavy rainfall sent them across the Canadian border.
Contact McKenna Golat at mgolat@gannett.com or (810) 292-0122. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/08/16/coast-guard-issues-warning-regarding-port-huron-float-down/10337105002/ | 2022-08-17T01:22:44Z |
American Airlines cutting flights out of Charlotte, impacting CHO
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Delays and cancellations are all too familiar words now in the travel world.
Now, American Airlines is cutting more than 1000 flights out of Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLS).
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO) uses the route to Charlotte quite a bit, and while there will be changes, any possible disruptions caused should be minor and temporary. There will still be flights available from Charlottesville to Charlotte.
“There are some changes coming in, but they flux in and out, so we still are seeing a pretty good level of flights to Charlotte throughout the month of November,” CHO Marketing Manager Stewart Key said.
A representative from American Airlines says that in September, there will be a change of about one departure per day, and in October, it will be about one departure per week.
“A few days a week, we go down to about five, and then we go back up to seven or eight. It really fluctuates on a daily basis, and it really doesn’t start until the first few days of November, and it only goes until right after Thanksgiving,” Key said.
November will see the most changes, but by the end of the year, Key says flights to Charlotte should be back to on a regular schedule.
“I still think that we have a good frequency to Charlotte, even with the numbers going down a little bit, so I don’t think it should impact our passengers too much,” Key said.
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Cros-Lex to interview 4 superintendent candidates
The Croswell-Lexington Board of Education reviewed applicants to fill its superintendent opening during a special meeting Monday, naming four finalists.
Out of 19 applicants, the board will interview Michael Domagalski, Paul Flynn, Lisa McDill and Colette Moody Wednesday. The school board was assisted in their search by the Michigan Association of School Boards.
The interviews will start at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Cros-Lex Middle School Media Center. The public is encouraged to attend the interviews.
Domagalski, McDill and Moody could not be reached for comment. Flynn declined to comment.
Domagalski is currently the principal at Palm Elementary, a school in the East China school district. Before that, he worked as a middle school principal, a fifth grade teacher and as director of curriculum for East China Schools. He also previously taught middle school math for Lakeview Community Schools.
He is scheduled to be interviewed at 4:30 p.m.
Flynn has been the superintendent at Sandusky Community Schools since 2017. Previously, he served as Sandusky High School principal and assistant principal. He was also a high school language arts teacher for Yale schools.
He is scheduled to be interviewed at 5:30 p.m.
McDill is the principal at Shelby Junior High in Utica Community Schools, a school district in Shelby Township. She has held that position since 2011. She was previously the associate principal for Henry Ford II High School for five years. She also was an administrative intern and teacher in the Utica school district for seven years.
She is scheduled to be interviewed at 7 p.m.
Moody is currently the interim superintendent for Cros-Lex. Before taking the position, she worked at the Frostick Elementary principal. She has also served as an elementary teacher for seven years in the Cros-Lex school district.
She is scheduled to be interviewed at 8 p.m.
A second round of interviews is planned for August 23. The Cros-Lex Board of Education expects to appoint a superintendent by September.
The selected candidated will replace Dan Gilbertson, who resigned in June.
Contact McKenna Golat at mgolat@gannett.com or (810) 292-0122. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/08/16/cros-lex-interview-4-superintendent-candidates/10339790002/ | 2022-08-17T01:22:50Z |
BRAFB stays fully stocked through inflation, supply chain issues
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Inflation has more people running to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank for help, but that means it has to make sure it is constantly stocked up in order to help everyone.
The BRAFB says that despite supply chain issues and inflation, it has no shortage of food available. Though it wants to keep it this way, which is why NBC29 is partnering with the food bank for its summer fund drive to support these efforts.
“There’s a team that raises funds and there’s a team that procures food, and it’s our job to make sure the food keeps flowing,” Food Sourcing Manager Greg Knight said. “Our development team here has done a fine job of building relationships and getting those donations to get what we need, but with costs rising along with everything else, it becomes more of a challenge.”
“Much of the food we have onsite right now came with state funding as part of the Virginia Agriculture Food Assistance Program, so that’s been a real boost for us because it didn’t hit our budget, it was state funds,” Knight said.
Although the state funds helped immensely, Knight has already had to readjust the budget. He says some other government funds are already gone.
“We’ve become accustomed to having a lot of frozen frozen protein, a lot of variety that simply not there now, so that we’re trying to be more judicious with how we go about selecting that food, which also leads to the question of ‘If we have that shortfall where do we get it?’” Knight said.
The community, donors, and farmers play a large role in keeping the warehouse stocked and full, with produce making up 29% of the BRAFB supply, avoiding major supply chain issues.
“While we have plenty and we intend to keep plenty, we have to have the resources to keep having that. It really is not just what we do, and it’s not just what our agencies do, but it’s what our community does with us,” Knight said.
If you want to help the food bank maintain an ample supply of food, you can donate to our summer fund drive here here.
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GLWA: More pipe being manufactured, water authority obtained all 120-inch pipe available in U.S.
Authorities on Tuesday added another week to the two-week timeline expected to bring service fully back after a major water main break last weekend prompted a boil water advisory for residents in Burtchville Township.
And that means residents and businesses in Burchville may have to continue to boil water prior to its consumption until early September.
As the boil order headed into its fourth day, crews for the Great Lakes Water Authority continued to work to address the 120-inch water transmission main that broke early Saturday just north of the Port Huron area while awaiting additional replacement pipe for the fix.
Burtchville Township is the only customer for GLWA in the county. The township, a DTE site in Greenwood, and a handful of communities in three other counties remain under the boil order.
Early Tuesday, Justin Westmiller, St. Clair County’s emergency management director, said that local authorities were standing by to see what decision would be reached by the water authority, as well as the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy — continuing to coordinate bottled and packaged water deliveries and other resources to Burtchville.
Removal of the water at the break site, located on a farm in northern St. Clair County, was complete on Sunday, and an engineers' inspection of the pipe was completed Monday. The initial replacement pipe from Textas arrived onsite on Sunday, as well.
However, in an emailed statement to the Times Herald Tuesday afternoon, GLWA CEO Suzanne Coffey said, "The inspection found more damage to the pipe than initially thought, which will require the replacement of additional lengths of the water main. Out of an abundance of caution, while the inspection was occurring, GLWA ordered an additional 48 feet of replacement pipe.
"This pipe is in the process of being manufactured because GLWA had previously obtained all the 120-inch pipe available in the United States after the water main broke on Saturday."
The cause of the water main break also remained under investigation.
During a question-and-answer session with the media, Coffey later said the broken pipe itself was installed around 1973. That type of main infrastructure, she said, is typically expected to last 50 to 100 years.
New pipe is expected to arrive next Tuesday, water authority CEO says
Both St. Clair County Board Chairman Jeff Bohm and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued emergency declarations last weekend as a result of the main break — the state's following a day later on Sunday and unlocking resources for all four counties impacted, also including Lapeer, Oakland, and Macomb.
Regional water authorities have said they expected that the boil water advisory would remain in place until results from water samplings verified it was safe to drink.
Previously, the water authority reported returning the pipeline to service will likely take until Aug. 27, including one week for repairs and another for water quality testing.
“The new pipe is expected to be delivered on-site on Tuesday a week from today, Aug. 23," Coffey said Tuesday. "This means that we will need to add an additional week to the repair timeline and a week to the boil water advisories.
"I know that adding this week creates (a) further burden on the residents and the businesses of the seven impacted communities, but I want you to know we’re doing everything we can, everything in our capabilities to expedite this repair and return the system to normal levels of service.”
St. Clair County Commissioner Jorja Baldwin, whose district includes Burtcvhille, said she and other officials were on site of the repair area early Tuesday, learning from engineer officials the status.
"It's just going to take time. It's easy when you're talking about an 8-inch pipe, but (not) a 10-foot pipe. … I think that's part of the delay," Baldwin said. "They're just trying to make sure they fix it right the first time."
So, what do residents do until the advisory is lifted?
While the boil advisory remains in place, Burtchville residents can pick up bottled or packaged water at the township’s fire department, 4000 Burtch Road, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
According to state and local authorities, affected residents are advised to boil water for at least one minute before letting it cool for consumption. Boiled, bottled, or disinfected water can be used for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth, or repairing food until further notice.
GLWA also advised residents to hold off watering their lawns.
Local health officials advised that the water was safe to shower or bathe in, but that pets or animals should also not consume the water unless boiled.
The boil water advisory was originally spurred by a lack of water pressure associated with the water main break early Saturday, and the loss of water pressure, authorities said, can lead to bacterial contamination in the water system.
Water pressure has reportedly returned to most impacted communities.
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Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law Tuesday, August 16.
Biden said measure will allow spending on combating climate change and improving healthcare at the expense of increasing taxes on large corporations and drug manufacturers.
“The American people won, and the special interests lost,” the president said.
The $750 billion extends subsidies as part of the “Affordable Care Act,” reduces Medicare drug prices, and provides tax credits for clean energy items like solar panels.
The EPA said the act will go a long way in reducing the U.S. carbon footprint through measures like tax credits for solar panels.
(Michael Regan: Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency)
“This is good for the planet, it’s good for families, it’s good for global competitiveness,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said. “This is a win, win, win.”
The new law will also provide Americans with tax credits for electric cars.
“It means lower costs for Americans in several ways, including for a transportation specific example, lower costs of electric vehicles,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “These are vehicles where you can save a lot of money, but only if you can afford to buy them in the first place. So we’ve been fighting to lower the price.”
But Republicans said the bill will cost consumers more money through tax increases. They also take issue with increasing the IRS budget by $80 billion.
(Rep. Michael Guest: (R) Mississippi)
“It creates an army of IRS agents and at a time when Americans, many of which are struggling to purchase gas. To put groceries and food on their table which will actually increase inflation, not decrease it,” Rep. Michael Guest, R-MS, said.
Most economists say the act will have virtually no effect on inflation in the next several years.
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Ketchum: Will screen time ultimately displace time in church?
I don’t know whether I was the only one shocked by what might have sounded like an afterthought from our guest preacher on Sunday. I suppose I should not have been surprised.
The subject was church attendance. We’ve been praying for those we have not seen in worship since our church reopened after being closed more than a year because of the pandemic. Our presiding pastor said, quite matter-of-factly that attendance rates, at least in mainline churches, is down a good 50%.
The empty seats in many churches stand as mute testimony to the preacher’s statement.
Nobody expected a tidal wave of folks beating down the church doors to get back in. Lots of us got quite used to going to church online. Full disclosure: So did my bride and I. In fact, we still tune in to the church where we worshiped in southeastern Florida when we can. The worship times work so we can go to church twice on Sunday morning: Vero Beach and Port Huron Township.
Still, all those empty seats in all those churches proclaims long and loud that something has gotten lost. The question is, can watching worship on a computer screen replace it?
A 2019 Canadian study done by University of Waterloo sociologist Sarah Wilkins-LaFlamme shows 32% of millennials – the last generation to grow up before the advent of the cell phone – use digital religious or spiritual activities at least once a month.
But only 5% of those surveyed said they do so without engaging in in-person worship.
At least that’s how it was pre-pandemic. The hope is those millennials will keep their old worship habits going.
Still, facts are facts. Chances are very good that a lot of empty seats on Sunday morning are going to remain that way going forward. Short of offering free breakfast with lots of Lutheran coffee and turning churches into B&B’s, I don’t see a lot changing.
I’ve said before that church growth appears more likely to happen amid the geek squad of online worshipers than with those who might be persuaded on Sunday morning to get up, get dressed and drive to church.
Some houses of worship are doing just fine. But more of them than not are struggling to bring folks in the front door. That will only get harder as we boomers die and millennials get older.
Sociologists aren’t sure whether screen time ultimately will displace time in church. My guess is that it will. That’s why I’m convinced church growth is going to happen online a lot sooner than it will in person.
That’s a hard pill to swallow for some of us geezers who used to dress up for church because church was a big deal. If it was truly that important, then online worshipers can compensate by not wearing their pajamas in front of their computer screens.
OK, that’s not particularly profound. But it is a trend that will have to work itself out. How the story develops will determine whether anybody will actually be going to church in another 50 years or so.
Jim Ketchum is a retired Times Herald copy editor. Contact him at jeketchum1@comcast.net. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/opinion/2022/08/16/ketchum-screen-time-ultimately-displace-time-church/10340419002/ | 2022-08-17T01:23:02Z |
DISTURBING: Councilman charged after 7 children found in ‘filthy’ home, authorities say
WEST UNION, W. Va. (WDTV/Gray News) - A councilman in West Virginia is facing child neglect charges after officers say several children were found living in an unsanitary and filthy home.
WDTV reports child protective services and officers responded to a West Union home to investigate a complaint on July 11.
Authorities say officers made contact with 58-year-old Edward Barker when they arrived at the home.
Officials shared that the home was in “very unsanitary and filthy” conditions. Children inside the house were “physically dirty” with matted hair and “smelled of body odor and urine.”
Officers said there were dog feces on the home’s floors and beds with no sheets or blankets with what looked like urine stains on them.
Deputies also said cockroaches were crawling inside the home and refrigerator.
Child protective services reportedly filed a petition and removed seven children from the home who were from 4 years old to 14 years old.
According to the Doddridge County Sheriff’s Department, Barker was charged with child neglect. He was booked into the North Central Regional Jail on a $75,000 bond.
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Harrisonburg police host ‘Cookout with a Cop’ at Ralph Sampson Park
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Harrisonburg Police Department hosted its second-ever ‘Cookout With a Cop’ event at Ralph Sampson Park on Tuesday.
Officers grilled some food for the community for whom they hope to work to have a better connection.
“It’s all about building relationships,” said Lt. Chris Monahan of the Harrisonburg Police Department. “It’s great any time we can get out in the community, make contacts, and have dialogues.”
The event is part of HPD’s larger efforts to foster relationships with people in the Harrisonburg community and have an open dialogue with the officers.
“It’s a great opportunity. Somebody comes up to you and they have questions, questions they may not dare walk up and ask a police officer. So, we’re trying to build that familiarity with our police force, build those relationships, have that dialogue and it’s always a very friendly event,” said Monahan.
For Monahan and the rest of HPD, one of the best parts of the event was getting to interact with the children who attended.
“Sometimes the officers have more fun than the people that come, especially with the interactions with the children. It’s always great to put a smile on a child’s face and that’s what happens more often. They’re coming up, they’re hugging us, they’re asking us questions, getting stickers, getting prizes. So it’s always a great time, especially for the children,” said Monahan.
Despite the rain, the event had a good-sized turnout as people from around the city came out to enjoy some hamburgers and hot dogs and connect with officers.
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HCHC pediatrician reminds parents to get children yearly physicals before heading back to school
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Pediatricians are reminding parents to get their children a physical before heading back to school.
”We’ll measure your weight, we’ll measure your height, after the age of three or at the age of three we start to check blood pressure as you know from an adult standpoint we always refer to the blood pressure as a silent killer because you don’t know you have elevated blood pressure and the same could happen in children,” Dr. Oluwatosin Oladeinde, a pediatrician at HCHC said.
Dr. Oladeinde said in Virginia, comprehensive physicals are required before entering head start, kindergarten, and elementary school.
”We don’t necessarily only just focus on the physical health but we also want to evaluate any social needs, emotional, mental health needs things like that,” Dr. Oladeinde said.
She said they tend to pick back up in high school-age kids, due to many playing sports, but middle schoolers may need them the most.
”When they’re approaching puberty what they can expect, I also like to educate my adolescents when it comes to like decision making and going through different developmental stages of adolescents when they’re becoming more of an adult and individuals themselves,” Dr. Oladeinde said.
Physicals help the family, school and pediatrician know the health status of a child and can pick up on things that may not be noticed at a regular appointment.
”In this, they’re going to be able to assess how is the child doing from a growth standpoint, how is the child doing from a developmental standpoint, are there any social needs are there any developmental needs that are necessary that the school might be able to help with?” Dr. Oladeinde said.
Dr. Oladeinde said physicals are the time to check to make sure your child is up to date on vaccinations and also make sure they have a dentist.
“Starting as early as six months maybe even 12 months, most pediatric dentists will start to see their patients starting at 12 months just to make sure you’re able to catch any issues that might arise with cavities and things like that,” Dr. Oladeine said.
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More sunshine and temperatures on the rise
An August cool down
TUESDAY: Partly to most cloudy as we dry out and turn slightly cooler. Pleasant but cool with most into the 60s for the evening. Partial clearing into the night and pleasantly cool. Lows in the mid to upper 50s with fog.
WEDNESDAY: Fog to start the day and crisp with temperatures rising into the 60s. Partly to mostly cloudy for the day and warmer with highs in the mid to upper 70s with some sunshine. A few isolated showers mainly in the afternoon. No washout.
Evening temperatures falling into the 60s with some clouds. Partly cloudy for the overnight. Pleasant with lows in the mid to upper 50s.
THURSDAY: A mix of sun and clouds to start the day and mild. Temperatures rising into the 60s. Some clouds for the afternoon. Warm and comfortable with highs in the low 80s. An isolated shower or storm for the afternoon but not widespread. A warm evening with temperatures remaining in the 70s. Some clouds for the evening and overnight. Pleasant overnight with lows in the mid to upper 50s.
FRIDAY: A mix of sun and clouds to start the day and warm with temperatures quickly rising into the 60s. A good amount of sunshine for the afternoon and comfortable. Very warm as highs will be in the upper 70s to low 80s. Mild overnight with lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
SATURDAY: More clouds than sun to start the day and warm with temperatures in the 60s. Mostly cloudy throughout the day and very warm. Highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Overnight lows in the low to mid 60s.
SUNDAY: A warm start with temperatures in the 60s and more clouds than sun. Keeping the clouds around for the day and very warm with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Watching another system that may bring showers for the day. A warm evening with temperatures falling into the 70s and mild overnight with lows in the low to mid 60s.
MONDAY: More clouds than sun to start and mild with temperatures in the 60s. A rather cloudy day with a few peeks of sun and very warm with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. A warm evening with temperatures in the 70s and overnight lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
As always, you can get the latest updates by downloading and checking the WHSV Weather App.
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WATCH: 77-year-old singer’s impromptu performance at Goodwill goes viral
HAMILTON, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - An impromptu concert at an Ohio Goodwill featuring an elderly singer has gone viral.
Diana Garvin travels to nursing homes to sing to residents. Recently, her karaoke machine broke, so she went looking for a new one.
That’s when the 77-year-old ended up at the Goodwill in Hamilton on Aug. 8.
She reportedly found a karaoke machine on the shelf and wasted no time picking up the mic, entertaining customers like John Schuerfranz.
Schuerfranz told WXIX he got his phone out and started recording Garvin’s musical performance.
“All of a sudden, I heard this angel singing over in electronics, and I thought, ‘Well, I got to go over and see what this is,’” Schuerfranz said. “Sure enough, she was over there with her karaoke machine and singing ‘He’s got the whole world in his hands.’ I thought, ‘I got to share this with the world.’”
The video currently has more than 34,000 views on Facebook.
“I just love music,” Garvin said. “I don’t do it perfectly. I just love music and I love people. I have my own special way of talking to people.”
Garvin said she was going to buy the karaoke machine, but someone beat her to it.
“Another customer purchased it and gave it to Garvin free of charge,” said Michael Flannery, with the Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries.
Garvin said she would now be able to entertain her nursing home friends on karaoke night once again.
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Predictive UX, a digital consulting firm dedicated to making data useful and actionable, announced it has been named in Inc. Magazine's list of the 5000 fastest-growing, privately-owned companies in America.
Predictive UX is ranked at No. 1508, placing them as the 144th fastest-growing company in IT services, the 50th fastest-growing company in North Carolina and the No. 1 fastest-growing company in Rocky Mount. For more than 11 years, the company has helped enterprise, SaaS and startup organizations create scalable, useful, and highly adoptable data solutions that focus on user-first experiences.
Many well-known names have been honorees on the Inc. 5000 including Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, and Patagonia. Being selected for this year's list is of great significance as it represents a company's resilience and stability amidst challenging and changing economic and workplace conditions. This recognition places Predictive UX in the top 0.07% of all privately-owned companies in America in terms of multi-year growth.
"We are honored to receive this recognition and I am incredibly proud of the hard work our amazing team put into getting us here," said Karen Passmore, CEO and Founder of Predictive UX. "Being named to the Inc 5000 solidifies our firm as an organization that can sustain and grow our business while serving our client's needs during even the most uncertain of times. I am excited about what we have achieved and anticipate incredible growth ahead as we increase our focus on AI, knowledge graphs and our DEI by Design solutions."
Predictive UX leads organizations to data-value through a user-first approach to data application design. Our experts in design thinking, agile, user experience, research, prototyping, data science, AI, machine learning and knowledge graphs transform data into actionable knowledge platforms and SaaS applications that deliver key insights. "We are one of the only firms who started out as a user experience agency," Passmore added. "Where most others are data-first, we always put the user at the forefront of what we design and develop. That difference is what makes us, and our clients, successful in data transformation."
More about Predictive UX is available at https://www.predictiveux.com.
The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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Expand the "Shikigaku" theory to solve the low labor productivity issue in Japan! Aim for continued sales growth of at least 30%, and continue to invest heavily for growth.
TOKYO, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SHIKIGAKU Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:7049) , the company that primarily provides management consulting and platform services based on "Shikigaku," an organizational management theory grounded in original and unique logical concepts, recently has been reviewed by Borderless IR Co., Ltd.(BIR), an independent research and investor relations support company providing reports on various publicly traded Japanese companies. In this report, BIR provides analysis of the company's business model and earnings.
Report Highlights
SHIKIGAKU CO., LTD (7049 TSE Growth) was founded in March, 2015 in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, with a capital investment of 500 million yen under the corporate vision of "Disseminate Shikigaku and maximize people's potential". "Shikigaku" is a proprietary theory developed by analyzing the structure of human consciousness, and researching the causes of misunderstandings and misperceptions that impede behavior.
Business activities consists of five reporting segments: Management Consulting, Sports Entertainment, Contract Development, VC Funds, and Hands-On Support Funds. The core organization consulting business branch is classified broadly into two sectors, Management Consulting and Platform Services. Management consulting is a service that raises organizational productivity through the implementation and subsequent penetration of Shikigaku theory into the clientele organization based on Master Training, which was created by the Company. Platform Services consist of three components: "Shikigaku Basic Services", which provide ongoing operational support until organizational management grounded in its Shikigaku theory take hold; "Shikigaku Cloud", a web-based cloud service that supports clients; and "Shikigaku Members", a low-cost service that provides ongoing Shikigaku training and promotes the penetration and establishment of organizational management through exchanges with other members. Regarding other areas, in the Sports Entertainment business, the Company fulfills its function as a community-based club by conducting initiatives aimed at stimulating and expanding interest in local sports while also striving to facilitate strengthening the team in pursuit of promotion to the B1 League level. In the VC Fund business, the Company conducts investments focused on establishing and expanding organizational power and becoming a growth-generating organization. Meanwhile, it also operates venture capital funds that support growth by facilitating organizational improvements at companies in which they invest by implementing the Company's Shikigaku theory. In the Hands-On Support Fund business, the Company operates hands-on support funds that provide organizational improvement and finance support and draw income from capital gains generated through investment exit (IPO, M&A, etc.).
As of May, 2022, the number of companies that have utilized the management consulting service provided by Shikigaku has reached the 3,000 benchmark, and the number of publicly traded companies that have implemented the service has broken through the 100 company mark. Based on the current average amount of sales generated per customer, the Company estimates growth potential in the domestic market at 1.1 trillion yen (internal company estimate), and there is substantial room for development in regard to the 3.59 million companies in Japan. Shikigaku theory can be utilized in an extremely wide range of circumstances because of the ability to be implemented within any industry while also being applicable to non-corporate organizations. In recent years, comparatively low labor productivity has become a pressing issue in Japan, and there are expectations that Shikigaku theory will attract attention as a consulting method for improving labor productivity in Japan over the medium to long term. As part of its mid-term management plan, the Company has positioned the period from FY 2023/02 to FY 2025/02 as a period of investment, and intends to aggressively implement investments while generating a certain level of profit. There was a shift to a policy of expanding operating income while making the large investments necessary for medium to long term growth.The sales growth rate is specified as the most important management index, and as such the goal is to maintain a sales growth rate of 30% and above. The Company aims to achieve sales of 11 billion yen and operating income of 1.5 billion yen in the fiscal year ending FY 2026/02
Through the cumulative consolidated first quarter of the fiscal year ending February 28, 2023, the climate surrounding Shikigaku shows the market is demonstrating strong need for improvement in organizational productivity achieved through means such as results-based employee management and rule-oriented organizational management that generates results regardless of the workplace being utilized. Accordingly, demand for the Company's services remains robust.For the first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year (1Q FY 2023/02) the Company reported net sales of 1,102 million yen, (+30.6% YoY). EBITDA (net sales + taxes + interest expense + depreciation + amortization) totaled 49 million yen (-43.7% YoY). Operating profit totaled 33 million yen (-52.9% YoY). Ordinary profit totaled 20 million yen (65.2% YoY). Net profit attributable to owners of the parent totaled 26 million yen (compared to net profit attributable to owners of the parent for the same period of the previous year was 21 million yen). The full-year consolidated earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending February 28, 2023 is net sales of 4,962 million yen (+29.8% from the previous year), operating income of 400 million yen (+11.3% from the previous year), and ordinary income of 382 million yen (+10.4% from the previous year). Net income attributable to owners of the parent company was 204 million yen (-9.1% from the previous year).
The Company considers continuous expansion of corporate value and the return of profits to shareholders to be important management issues. The dividend policy planned moving forward is to return profits to shareholders through profit distribution; taking into consideration the operating results and financial position of each fiscal year, while maintaining a sound financial structure and balancing retained earnings to prepare for future business expansion. For the time being however, the Company's policy is to prioritize large-scale investments for growth and continue to pay no dividends.
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TAIPEI, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FIC Group was founded in 1979 and was once the top Taiwan computer brand in the world. With 43 years design manufacturing experiences, it has a great influence on the computer industry in Taiwan and overseas.
Since the global industry has entered a brand-new digital era of technology, FIC is well aware of that the group's future business must move towards the new direction of OMO (Online Merge Offline) Green businesses. It believes that through innovative technology application, it can provide people with a comfortable and convenient life, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of Taiwan's industry and becoming a sustainable development enterprise.
Mr. Leo Chien, the General Manager of FICG (3701.TW), said that when he realized the arrival of the technology era, he led the group to transform, began to lay out and conduct in-depth research on new markets, and deeply engaged in the design manufacturing of OE automotive electronics and focusing on the Smart Energy management and Smart City Business.
In fact, the FIC group had never officially announced any new business directions in the past years, the market still considering that FIC is a notebook and MB brand for years, but no one knows FIC has already transformed their businesses since 2011.
Today, FIC group officially announces the change of new corporate imagery to the market, meaning that FIC firmly enters a new era and new direction, running a new business journey with partners.
The whole new design logo concept was inspired by the spiritual elements, concepts and the inheritance of corporate cultures of the group. Use the small letter "fic" to express the meanings of easygoing, people-friendly, and linking to the young digital era. The "Cyan" color of the logo represents the design manufacturing business of OE automotive electronic products; the "Seaform Green", as an auxiliary color, represents the Smart City related businesses; symbolizing FIC standing out in the market and to provide a whole new lifestyle in Smart City and in car OMO metaverse.
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LEHI, Utah, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumio, the preeminent leader in personalized renewable energy, issued an official statement today regarding the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The act revives a 30% tax credit for qualifying consumers who install residential solar panels before the end of 2034, and includes other rebates and tax credits for installing energy-saving home equipment—heat pumps, electric HVAC, and electric water heaters—which will lower energy bills for millions of Americans. The IRA, which has been referred to as one of the most significant, comprehensive, complete, and serious climate bills, was passed by Congress on Friday and signed by President Joe Biden today.
"Hundreds of thousands of individuals and families care deeply about their energy choice, independence, and sustainability options. With the passing of the IRA and its clean energy tax incentives, millions more will be able to keep their hard-earned money in their own pockets by switching to good clean sun power," said Greg Butterfield, CEO at Lumio. "This renewed commitment to renewables and long-term savings paves a path for homeowners to transition from centralized, outmoded power structures into cleaner, decentralized options like residential solar."
Lumio is committed to make power personal with solar technology which decentralizes the nation's power supply, reduces the ever-increasing demands on the power grid, and protects homeowners against power outages. Personal power generation and usage places the control back in the hands of the consumer through reduced electrical bills, reliable access to clean energy, and independence from aging power grids that are becoming exponentially more problematic and expensive.
"Residential solar is one of the fastest growing industries and innovation centers today, and the incentives in the IRA will make solar even more accessible for homeowners," said Carine Clark, chief innovation officer at Lumio. "Analysts point to a compound annual growth rate of 20.5% in solar and increasing demand. We're excited to help families across the country by meeting that demand with unparalleled customer experiences and revolutionary, personal power technology."
Lumio changed the residential solar industry by merging four leading regional solar providers and a software company into a powerful national brand in December 2020. Today, Lumio leads the industry in customer experience, quality, and technological innovation. The company's vision to make power personal diversifies and decentralizes power production via good clean sun energy—making electricity cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable for homeowners across the country. Lumio's more than 5,000 team members are dedicated to their stewardship with nature and crafting earth's best home experience. For more information about Lumio, visit lumio.com.
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Mitrade bags two Forex awards by Global Brands Magazine.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Australian Forex and OTC derivatives trading broker Mitrade has won two prestigious awards by Global Brands Magazine for the second year running.
Mitrade has won the Fastest Growing Forex Fintech Broker and the Most Innovative Forex Fintech Broker awards by Global Brands Magazine. This is Mitrade's consecutive win in the same categories for the second successive year. Global Brands Magazine honors Forex brokers that consistently innovate and strive for excellent customer service to make Forex trading simple and accessible for everyone.
Global Brands Magazine accepts nominations from different countries. Firstly, an external research agency, based at the respective national level of each nomination, adjudges the nominations. Secondly, the internal research team verifies that each nomination is valid. Lastly, the team ensures that an independent research agency receives adequate data about the nominations to run a stringent check. The internal team then declares the selected winners.
Some key factors that Global Brands Magazine takes into account to declare winners are innovative technology, a super-fast customer service, rapid growth, cross-platform compatibility and trading transparency.
"We feel honored and extremely humbled to receive these esteemed awards. We see this win as an acknowledgement of our hard work to make Mitrade an innovative and user-friendly Forex platform. This milestone has encouraged us to continue pursuing our innovative spirit and commitment to simplify trading for all. Our team strives to make Mitrade's web and mobile apps more intuitive," said a representative of Mitrade.
Mitrade gives traders access to more than 400 financial markets, which creates a diverse trading experience. Mitrade has an innovative WebTrader and a mobile app so that traders can trade on the go. Mitrade's mobile app has a trading strategy feature where traders can find insights that they can use to expand their investment portfolio and find new trading opportunities. Besides that, Mitrade's app also has an economic calendar and real-time news portal to keep traders informed about latest market trends and news.
Mitrade has been regularly featured on Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq, Bloomberg and MarketWatch. View all feature articles at: https://www.mitrade.com/about-us/media
Mitrade has recently won two more awards namely the Most Innovative Broker 2022 and the Best Trading Platform by FxDailyInfo. See the full list of awards at https://www.mitrade.com/about-us/awards
For media inquiries, please contact Ms Belle Toh at belle.toh@mitrade.com
About Mitrade
Mitrade leads in Forex trading and innovative financial technology. Mitrade is strictly regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the Mauritius Financial Services Commission (FSC). Mitrade is being led by a team of dedicated and vision-led finance veterans and technology experts who have been dedicatedly pursuing their mission to simplify Forex trading through consistent innovation.
All trading involves risks. CFD products may not be available for your jurisdiction, the distribution of the above information is not intended to be contrary to local law or regulations.
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BEIJING, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NaaS Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: NAAS, "NaaS" or the "Company"), one of the largest and fastest growing electric vehicle charging service providers in China, today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 before the U.S. market opens on Monday, August 22, 2022.
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at 7:00 AM U.S. Eastern time on August 22, 2022 (7:00 PM Beijing/Hong Kong time on August 22, 2022).
Participants who wish to join the conference call should register online at:
https://s1.c-conf.com/diamondpass/10024661-4mal42.html
Once registration is completed, participants will receive the dial-in information for the conference call.
Participants joining the conference call should dial-in at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.enaas.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately two hours after the conclusion of the live call until August 29, 2022, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
United States: 1 855 883 1031
China: 400 1209 216
Replay Access Code: 10024661
About NaaS Technology Inc.
NaaS Technology Inc. is one of the largest and fastest growing EV charging service providers in China. The Company is a subsidiary of Newlinks Technology Limited, a leading energy digitalization group in China. NaaS provides one-stop services to charging pile manufacturers and operators, OEMs, companies with their own delivery fleets as well as fleet operators, with online, offline, and non-electric services covering the whole value chain across the EV sector. As of 2021, NaaS had connected 290,000 charging piles, with an annual charging capacity of over 1,200 Gigawatt hours, accounting for about 18% of China's public charging market and eliminating 900,000 tons of carbon emissions annually. On June 13, 2022, the ADSs of the Company started trading on NASDAQ under the stock code NAAS.
For more information, please visit http://ir.enaas.com
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BOSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 5, 2022, the DoD announced that it awarded Noble Supply and Logistics, LLC, a $1.2B, 10-year, fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with DLA Aviation, Richmond, Virginia, for a category of hardware and abrasives items used in multiple weapon systems. Noble, a defense technology company, will begin operations to fulfill the approximately 55,000 national stock numbers (NSNs) comprising FSG 53 at its QSLD-certified distribution facilities.
Lee Weatherford, Noble's Global Head of Mission Support, will oversee all FSG 53 Program operations. "I am grateful that DLA Aviation has trusted Noble with this huge opportunity. Our team looks forward to working with DLA. We appreciate this opportunity to automate an efficient, high-quality, supply chain solution," said Weatherford. "Noble is known for its capabilities in supply chain management, logistics, mission support, and technology solutions for military and government."
Under the FSG 53 contract, Noble will provide supply chain management to support the Defense Logistics Agency's worldwide customers. Services include customer direct orders and military retail stock replenishment with expedited (one to three-day) deliveries of items within the contract scope. Customers are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Foreign Military, and other authorized government buyers. The benefits provided to DLA through this contract with Noble include cost savings, price reduction, quality improvements through automation, and reduction in acquisition cycle times.
Noble Supply & Logistics, LLC provides worldwide supply and logistics services to the U.S. Military, Federal Government, state and local governments, and commercial clients. The company's global footprint includes headquarters in Boston, MA, and regional distribution centers, warehouses, and operations centers.
Noble offers complete supply chain management, including procurement services, global sourcing, specialty manufacturing, material management, quality assurance, and supply sustainment. Specific functions Noble will perform as part of the FSG 53 contract include:
- Procurement and purchasing
- Order processing and fulfillment
- Quality control
- Obsolescence management
- Data management and data delivery
- Packaging, transportation coordination, and shipment
- Customer support services
- Counterfeit control
- Material returns
- Warehousing
- Planning and forecasting
- Shelf-life management
Fulfillment of the items comprising the FSG 53 contract will take place at Noble's 67,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art distribution facility located within the Scannell Logistics Park in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Noble's distribution team supports global shipments with rapid, responsive, and cost-effective solutions to logistical challenges.
NOBLE drives mission success with world-class products, logistics, services, and training through accelerated procurement. The company's footprint includes operation centers, distribution centers, and consolidation points positioned to expedite delivery and enhance global product availability.
In addition to distributing 13,000 manufacturer brands, NOBLE offers specialized technical and training services for customers with Aerospace, C5ISR, CBRNe, EOD, Expeditionary, MRO, and Tactical requirements. NOBLE uses an established supply chain, existing vendor relationships, and vast catalog to lower costs and increase selection and availability. As a result, NOBLE reduces the cost of readiness while maintaining the ability to respond rapidly to today's challenges.
Visit www.noble.com to learn more.
CONTACT: Cela Libeskind, Director, Brand Marketing, clibeskind@noble.com
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HONG KONG, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Premia Partners, a leading ETF provider in Hong Kong, announces today listing of USD hedged unit class for Premia China Treasury & Policy Bank Bond Long Duration ETF.
The physically replicated ETF offers cost-efficient, unique and convenient access to long duration China government bond (CGB) in China. The new USD hedged unit class provides investors with differentiated option to partake in CGB opportunities and is Asia's first CGB ETF with USD hedging feature.
- Premia China Treasury & Policy Bank Bond Long Duration ETF (Tickers: 2817 HKD / 9817 USD/ 82817 RMB/ 9177 USD hedged unit class) tracks the ICE 10+ Year China Government & Policy Bank Index.
- It is globally the first and only ETF that provides direct access to ultra-long duration China treasury and policy bank bonds traded in onshore China, with stable A+/A1 sovereign ratings and much lower yield volatility among sovereign bonds.
- As of Aug 15th 2022, the ETF posted since Apr 2021 listing return of 12.2%, and average duration and average yield to maturity are 16.8 years and 3.2% respectively.
"Accessing Asia opportunities efficiently is always a topic close to our hearts at Premia. For us it is not just about launching new products, but also constantly updating features of our existing ETFs based on client feedback, for better and more relevant use cases." said Rebecca Chua, Managing Partner of Premia Partners. "The USD hedged unit class provides timely optionality for investors looking to maintain USD return during the current market environment."
"We've been pleased to work with Premia on this innovative solution for ultra-long USD hedged China government bonds, leveraging our industry leading fixed income evaluated pricing capabilities" said Magnus Cattan, Head of ICE Fixed Income & Data Services, Asia Pacific. "Several new ETF issuers have selected ICE's indices, resulting in growth in exciting new areas including regional fixed income and equity, thematic, climate and ESG ETFs in Asia."
About Premia Partners
Founded in 2016, Premia Partners is one of the leading ETF managers from Hong Kong, dedicated to building low-cost, efficient, best practice ETFs for Asia. As of Aug 15th 2022, Premia Partners manages 9 ETFs including Premia CSI Caixin China New Economy ETF which is the 4th largest broad based China A-shares ETF in Hong Kong. For more information on Premia or Premia ETFs covering China, Emerging ASEAN, Asia Metaverse/ Innovative Technology, Vietnam, China high yield bonds, China government bonds and US Treasury, please visit www.premia-partners.com
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TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. revealed that Pyx Health is No. 1160 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list ranks the top successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. In its first year of eligibility, Pyx Health is also ranked No. 62 nationally and No. 4 in Arizona for health services, and No. 1 for growth overall in Tucson, Ariz., the location of its headquarters. The Inc. 5000 recognition puts Pyx Health in the top 0.07% of all privately-owned companies in America in terms of multi-year growth.
Pyx Health leads the health care and technology industries as the first and only proven solution to address loneliness and improve health outcomes at scale. From 2018 through 2021, the company increased revenues by 556%, more than double the median of 230% for the entire Inc. 5000 list.
"Loneliness is a pervasive and deadly problem, affecting more than 60% of our population," said Pyx Health founder and CEO, Cindy Jordan. "Our exponential growth is fueled by a health care industry that is demanding a solution for loneliness and our ability to provide measurable, inimitable results and impact for our clients."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
"In order to support our rapid expansion, maintaining our culture and staying true to our mission is critical for us," said Jordan. "Our culture enhances our ability to attract and retain talent, allows us to scale quickly, supports product innovation, and ensures our clients' success. Together, we're making the world less lonely."
Founded in 2017, Pyx Health now works with nearly 50 health plans nationally to reduce loneliness and social isolation and its health impacts for millions of people. In addition to the Inc. 5000 listing, Pyx Health achieved recertification as a Great Place to Work® for the second year in a row. Jordan is also currently a finalist for Phoenix Business Journal's 2022 Health Care Heroes in the Innovator category.
More about Pyx Health
Pyx Health offers the first loneliness and social isolation technology focused on helping the most vulnerable populations. Combining a digital platform with a Compassionate Support Center and timely human interventions, Pyx Health provides members and health insurance plans an innovative, scalable solution that effectively addresses the nation's critical loneliness epidemic. Pyx Health is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. More information is available at https://www.pyxhealth.com. Because no one gets better alone.™
More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000
Methodology
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
About Inc.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
For more information on the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, visit http://conference.inc.com/.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of BBQ Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBQ), in connection with the proposed acquisition of BBQ by MTY Food Group Inc. via tender offer. Pursuant to the merger agreement, BBQ shareholders will receive $17.25 in cash for each share of BBQ common stock owned. If you own BBQ shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/bbq
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of CarLotz, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOTZ), in connection with the proposed merger of LOTZ with Shift Technologies, Inc. ("Shift"). Pursuant to the merger agreement, LOTZ shareholders will receive 0.692158 shares of Shift common stock for each share of LOTZ common stock. If you own LOTZ shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/lotz
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Gemini Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMTX), in connection with the proposed merger of GMTX with Disc Medicine, Inc. ("Disc"). Pursuant to the merger agreement, GMTX shareholders are expected to own approximately 28% of the combined company and Disc shareholders are expected to own approximately 72% of the combined company. Prior to the closing of the proposed merger, GMTX shareholders will be issued contingent value rights ("CVR's) representing the right to receive certain payments from proceeds received by the combined company, if any, related to pre-transaction legacy assets during the period ending one year following the closing of the merger. If you own GMTX shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/gmtx
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW), in connection with the proposed acquisition of AAWW by a consortium of investors led by Apollo Global Management Inc. Pursuant to the merger agreement, AAWW shareholders will receive $102.50 in cash for each share of AAWW common stock owned. If you own AAWW shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/aaww
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) between April 14, 2021 and July 26, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 3, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Coinbase securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Coinbase class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8095 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 3, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine has revealed that West Physics has made its' annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Appearing on this list nine previous times (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020 and 2021) this marks the 10th time West Physics appears on the Inc. 5000 with a 3-year revenue growth rate of 84 percent.
The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—independent small and medium-sized businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on this distinguished list.
"Of about 7 million small businesses in the U.S., only 5,000 make this list every year and multiple years is even more rare. In fact, there are only about 150 companies in the United States to have demonstrated the consistency of growth needed to achieve 10 years of being on this list since they started these rankings in 1982," stated Dr. Geoffrey West, President of West Physics. Dr. West continued: "Appearing on this list would not be possible without the tireless effort of our dedicated & loyal staff and leadership, and the trust and faith that our amazing customers bestow in us every single day. All of us at West Physics know that our success comes from remaining focused on helping our clients succeed; helping them achieve and maintain high levels of safety, ensure regulatory compliance and maintain accreditation in a highly complex, regulated industry."
West Physics, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading global provider of integrated diagnostic medical and health physics testing and radiation safety consulting services. West Physics serves over 5,000 client sites, including hospitals, freestanding imaging centers, mobile imaging providers, and physician offices throughout the 50 U.S. states, federal territories, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. West Physics specializes in assisting healthcare providers in maintaining their accreditation with organizations such as The Joint Commission, the American College of Radiology, the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, RadSite, and in radiation regulatory compliance with state and federal agencies. For more information, please visit www.westphysics.com.
Companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2017. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2020. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2017 is $100,000; the minimum for 2020 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to three decimal places. There was one tie on this year's Inc. 5000. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.'s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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BEIJING, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seraphim Energy Group Co., Ltd. (Seraphim), a leading global solar product manufacturer, recently announced that it had been awarded a silver medal in the 2022 EcoVadis corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating for its reliable social responsibility management system and impressive performance in sustainable development.
EcoVadis is an internationally recognized provider of business sustainability ratings for global supply chains. Its assessment, covering nearly 200 spend categories in over 160 countries and regions, focuses on 21 issues which are grouped into four themes, namely environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.
Seraphim has put in excellent performances in each of the four thematic areas assessed. For example, in terms of environment, in 2021, the company cut carbon emissions by nearly 9,000 tonnes through green manufacturing and 8,400-odd tonnes by optimizing techniques and production system.
Polaris Li, president of Seraphim, said that this year's EcoVadis medal awarded to Seraphim is an acknowledgement of the company's implementation of CSR practices. It is also an encouragement for Seraphim to continue upholding sustainability principles and promoting photovoltaic (PV) industry development in partnership with upstream and downstream partners.
Since its founding in 2011, Seraphim has been specializing in research, development, production, innovation and sales of PV products, committed to accelerating energy transformation, promoting sustainable development and creating a better society.
As an active advocate of sustainable development, Seraphim joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in 2021.
Building a low-carbon, clean and green future is Seraphim's greatest social responsibility, said Li, adding that in the next step, the company will give full play to its advantages in manufacturing and technological innovation and contribute to the high-quality and sustainable development of the PV industry.
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An efficient attack helped Oregon Tech to its best season in program history – qualifying for its first NAIA National Tournament an advancing to the final site in Sioux City, Iowa.
With four of their top five front-row players returning, including an All-American and an All-Cascade Conference pick, the Lady Owls look to pick up right where they left off in 2021.
Anchoring the outside hitter group is Nicole Reyes, who returns for her fifth season – looking to become just the second player in OIT history to record 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career. The senior had the best season of her career in 2021 – averaging 2.98 kills and 2.40 digs per set, posting nine matches with 15-or-more kills – earning her third All-CCC honor and was selected to the NAIA All-America team. Reyes, who is 131 kills and 68 digs away from the 1,000 mark in both categories, is a team leader head coach Ken Murczek can turn to.
“It is always nice to have an All-America player back in the gym,” Murczek said of Reyes. “Nicole has a great motor and leadership which I think will pay dividends for this season. It will be interesting to see how she performs as I would imagine teams will have a plan for her this season.”
Joining Reyes on the outside is fellow senior Kaylin Talonen, who also earned All-CCC honors in 2021. Talonen was key during the postseason run, posting double-digit kills in 13 of OIT’s final 17 matches – finishing the season averaging 2.86 kills per set, while adding 31 blocks.
OIT will have to replace its top opposite hitter from 2021, as All-CCC pick Faith Houck-Wylie graduated after logging 303 kills and 72 blocks during her senior season. However, sophomore Molly Grace returns in that spot, a season removed from recording 130 kills in her debut with the Owls – including a career-high 13 kills against Concordia in the NAIA Championships.
A pair of freshmen look to make an immediate impact and provide crucial depth at the pins, as Willow Jacobson and Savanna Sterck had impressive high school and club resumes. Jacobson led the Fernley High squad to the 3A state finals, averaging 3.9 kills per set, while also playing for the Northern Nevada Juniors. Sterck was the top option at Flathead High, earning Montana AA All-State honors and competed for the Montana Volleyball Academy.
“Nice to have several players that can play multiple positions which has created some great competition in the gym,” Murczek said.
In the middle, the Lady Owls return both starters – as Ashley Ripplinger and Kate Hicks had quality 2021 campaigns. Ripplinger had 178 kills and 74 blocks as a junior, while hitting at a stellar .338 clip and heads into her senior season one of 14 players in program history with 200-or-more blocks. Hicks finished with 76 kills, but led OIT with 84 blocks in 2021, including six matches with 5-or-more blocks.
The duo will be joined by newcomer Alma Solis, a freshman who prepped at Neuqua Valley High in Illinois and played for the highly competitive Sports Performance Volleyball Club.
“It is great to have returners back and I look forward to their game day experience in helping us to have a great season,” Murczek said.
The Lady Owls will open their six-game, non-conference slate Thursday with a pair of matches in Ashland. OIT will face No. 12-ranked Concordia (Neb.), followed by a matchup against Park-Gilbert (Ariz.). | https://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/going-for-the-kill-oregon-tech-volleyball-returns-four-of-top-five-front-court-players/article_2e7c2861-4ed0-5ba2-b282-06b625413f4c.html | 2022-08-17T01:33:56Z |
Across Klamath County, readers are uniting as a community to read and discuss a book together: "How to Read the Constitution and Why" by former Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Wehle.
Wehle is a tenured professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches and writes on the constitutional separation of powers, administrative law and civil procedure. She was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney and an Associate Counsel in the Whitewater Investigation.
According a press release from the library, "Wehle has been a commentator for CBS News, as well as a contributor for BBC World News and BBC World News America on PBS, an Op-Ed Contributor for The Bulwark, and an Opinion Contributor for The Hill. She has been a regular guest legal analyst on various media outlets regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election and other issues regarding the structural Constitution and the Trump Administration, including on CNN, MSNBC, NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS NewsHour, and Fox News."
A free copy of the book is available at the downtown Klamath County Library for participants. The book for participants to keep. An ebook or digital audiobook is also available through the Hoopla app.
Participants also have the opportunity to discuss the book in a live online Q&A with the author at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/live-online-q-a-with-author-of-how-to-read-the-constitution-and-why-set/article_4e236c35-a2c1-5b6a-a9f5-f92701191fb3.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:02Z |
Advocates of holding a new constitutional convention have filed a lawsuit in Texas, asking a federal court to order a constitutional convention to be held in Kansas by January 31, 2023. A U.S. representative has introduced legislation to provide for a convention. The bill will not move forward this year. Still, if convention advocates take control of Congress in November, we could be having our first constitutional convention since 1787 early next year. (Article V gives the president no role in this process.)
How could this be happening?
Our country’s intense, and escalating, political polarization has many Americans longing for a quick, simple solution, something to restore some semblance of normalcy. Unfortunately, people on the left and the right have seized on a constitutional convention as that silver bullet.
Article V of the Constitution requires Congress to call a convention on the application of two-thirds of the states (currently 34). Conservatives imagine a nationwide ban on abortion, a more robust Second Amendment, and a balanced-budget amendment that will force cuts in social programs like unemployment insurance and food assistance. Progressives envision strict campaign finance reform, abolishing the Electoral College, and dumping the Second Amendment outright.
Unfortunately, like so many supposedly “simple” solutions to intractable problems, the Article V convention is too good to be true. Far from being “We the People’s” answer to scheming politicians, a convention would be composed of and run by … scheming politicians.
This is the disturbing conclusion from a survey by the Center for Media and Democracy of the 50 states’ laws on how delegates to an Article V convention would be chosen. In only one state — Rhode Island — would the voters have any role in the selection of the delegates. Everywhere else, it would be up to the state legislature, either alone or in combination with the governor. And when ambitious politicians look for wise and visionary people, they rarely get beyond the nearest mirror.
So it is a bit unrealistic to imagine one collection of the most ambitious politicians from around the country — Congress — will be reined in by another collection of the most ambitious politicians from around the country.
Worse, the politicians would not even be representative of the nation. Major proponents of a convention insist that each state would get one vote, giving the 581,000 people of Wyoming the same influence as the 40 million people of California. The Senate grants each state equal suffrage, but power in the House of Representatives is constitutionally apportioned by population.
The Center for Media and Democracy applied the formulas in the various state laws and found that 31 states’ delegations would be controlled by Republicans, 15 delegations would be controlled by Democrats, and the remaining four would likely have mixed control because some of the bodies the state empowers to choose delegates are controlled by each major party. As former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, a vocal champion of an Article V convention, has said, “We have the opportunity as a result of that to have a supermajority, even though … we may not even be in an absolute majority when it comes to the people who agree with us.”
And in most states, the dominant party would have no obligation to include any members of the other party in its delegation. An Article V convention would look less like the Philadelphia convention of 1787 and more like the Supreme Soviet of 1977.
This two-to-one skew might look like a golden opportunity for conservatives, but it is not. Special-interest money has powered the convention drive. No outsiders know what these interests’ agendas might be. Even the often-inadequate laws seeking to limit special interests’ influence on legislators were not drafted with an eye to a convention.
The threat of a convention seemed to have receded a few years ago after several states rescinded old Article V applications. Rather than acknowledging they could not persuade 34 states to join, however, convention proponents have turned to more and more outlandish theories for how to claim they have support from states that have repeatedly rejected their proposals. Perhaps most absurdly, they insist on counting New York’s 1791 application, seeking a convention to add a bill of rights to the Constitution, as the equivalent of contemporary applications seeking a convention to promulgate a balanced-budget amendment.
In theory, we can hope that any problematic amendments would not be ratified. Once it gets started, however, a convention could disregard the ratification requirements of Article V just as the Philadelphia Convention disregarded the ratification requirements of the Articles of Confederation.
A new constitution enacted through these dishonest and deeply undemocratic means will have many problematic provisions. Even more crucially, it will lack the legitimacy our existing Constitution still has. And that will leave us even more sharply divided.
David A. Super teaches law and economics at Georgetown University. He wrote this for InsideSources.com. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/opinion-the-stealth-threat-of-a-new-constitutional-convention/article_056d8a10-8b9f-5da2-945c-182a4e70a04c.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:09Z |
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This image released from video obtained by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office shows a suspect in the theft of equipment stolen from an Oregon Department of Forestry lookout tower in Prospect, Ore., on Sunday, Aug. 15.
PROSPECT, Ore. — Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) is investigating the theft of Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) equipment stolen from a lookout tower in the Prospect area.
Two men broke into the tower Sunday, Aug. 15 around 12:45 p.m.
The thieves stole batteries and solar panels used to power the lookout tower’s fire detection camera. With these items stolen, the camera is no longer operational, leaving a hole in the camera network and taking away the opportunity for early fire detection.
The ODF Southwest Oregon Detection Center is a system of cameras across Jackson and Josephine counties used to monitor rural areas in an effort to catch fires at a small size, provide critical fire information to firefighters responding to active incidents and allow the department to use resources more strategically.
This particular tower enables early fire detection for the northeastern portion of Jackson County near Prospect. ODF is currently working as quickly as possible to get the camera system back up and running.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office has set up a tip line at 541-774-8333 for anyone with information regarding this case. When calling, reference case #22-4725. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/thieves-disable-early-fire-detection-cameras/article_0fc40298-d336-5a54-a921-81ad3a77b94b.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:21Z |
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The Klamath Independent Film Festival, now in its 10th year, is coming to town once more to showcase made-in-Oregon films.
Scheduled for Sept. 16-18 at the Ross Ragland Theater in Klamath Falls and streaming online, tickets are now on sale for the film festival.
For single-day passes, the price will be $25 while weekend and online passes will cost $40 and a festival-wide pass that includes livestreaming/on-demand access will be $50.
The film festival will kick of Friday, Sept. 16 with a street festival featuring food trucks and a beer garden. There will be other activities as well, such as the making-of documentary film about "Animal House" - "Animal House of Blues" - a special presentation by original National Lampoon's "Animal House" casting director Katherine Wilson, and a screening of the iconic film complete with a toga costume contest and "Shout!" dance-off on stage.
Saturday, Sept. 17 will feature full-length films shot across Oregon, including a special panel discussion highlighting the Modoc Wars and Klamath Traibes surrounding two films made about the Moduc Wars - "Modoc Nation: An Untold Story of Survivial" and "This is Their Land."
The programming for Sunday, Sept. 18 will open with a K-12 student film showcase and short film selections There will also be an awards ceremony that includes $5,000 in cash prizes and custom-made awards by the Southern Cascade Woodcrafters Guild. This will be the third year the awards have been made by the guild | https://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/tickets-on-sale-now-for-annual-klamath-independent-film-festival/article_f36f57fa-8894-5813-b16c-c21757d97979.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:27Z |
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This collage showcases some of Fran Belcastro Dearborn's artwork. The Klamath Art Association and Gallery has an exhibit of Dearborn's work on display now through Sunday, Aug. 28.
submitted by the Klamath Art Association and Gallery
There is still time to see artwork by Fran Belcastro Dearborn.
The Klamath Art Association and Gallery opened a free exhibit of Dearborn's works Sunday, Aug. 7. The exhibit is slated to remain open through Sunday, Aug. 28.
Dearborn grew up in Klamath Falls and went on to attend Oregon State University where she minored in Art Studies. She owns and operates Gino’s Café & Sports Bar, 147 E. Main St. in Klamath Falls.
Dearborn's art can be viewed inside the restaurant when it is not displayed in art galleries.
According to a press release from the Klamath Art Association and Gallery, Dearborn's "art mostly depicts turn of the 19th century life, nature, and other topics that strikes her fancy; such as Victorian ladies, beautiful flowers, black and white scenes of her Italian heritage, and sepia tone paintings of neighborhood life. She mostly works in acrylic paint, colored and charcoal pencil."
The release states that Dearborn has shown her artwork at Clearwater Gallery, Two Rivers Village Arts, Running Y Art Festival and the Klamath Art Gallery.
"[Dearborn] continues to run the family business here in Klamath Falls," the release states. "She is on the cusp of retiring and is hoping to have more time to devote to the creation of art."
The Klamath Art Gallery is located in historic Maple Park at 120 Riverside Drive, at the south end of the Link River “birding trail.” Regular gallery hours of operation are noon to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. The gallery is closed the last week of each month (Monday through Saturday) for exhibit change outs. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/work-by-klamath-falls-local-on-display-at-art-association-and-gallery/article_da5fe204-9edf-5b52-a0c5-6143f4477e7a.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:34Z |
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CHEYENNE – Six more Wyoming residents have died from the COVID-19 coronavirus, bringing the state’s pandemic death toll to 1,871. Two of them were from Laramie County.
The Wyoming Department of Health reported Tuesday that two of the newly reported deaths happened earlier this month, while four were in July. They included:
Two adult Laramie County men died in July. One was hospitalized in another state and was not known to have health conditions known to put patients at higher risk of severe illness. The other did have such conditions.
An older adult Converse County man died in August. He had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
An older adult Fremont County woman died in August. She was hospitalized, was a resident of a long-term care facility and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
An adult Natrona County woman died in July. She had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
An older adult Park County woman died in July. She was hospitalized in another state and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of severe illness.
A total of 302 Laramie County residents have died during the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 1 million lives nationwide. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/6-more-wyoming-residents-succumb-to-covid-19-2-from-laramie-county/article_66ca7fa0-851a-5462-88d0-3b263ea8bbb3.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:40Z |
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CHEYENNE – Gasoline prices are falling nationwide, prices at gas stations across the state are drawing closer to the U.S. average, and experts say prices in many places may decline further still. And in this city, gas prices on average now are even less expensive than in the U.S. as a whole.
Frequent drivers also are starting to notice, according to two driving professionals with whom the Wyoming Tribune Eagle spoke by phone this past weekend. They, too, were hopeful that what they pay for a gallon of gas locally will continue to fall.
Among reasons for the nationwide trend is wholesale prices for oil are falling. At the same time, motorists seem to be changing their driving habits, experts at the AAA auto association and elsewhere point out.
An AAA spokesperson told the WTE Tuesday such driving-habit changes are helping to lower prices. However, if motorists eventually react to the lower costs by driving more, that in turn could boost what a gallon costs, noted spokesperson John Treanor.
In Wyoming, prices are sliding so much they are on track, if the pace continues, to soon be at parity with the national average – or perhaps to even fall below it. That would conform with expectations of experts the WTE spoke with a few weeks ago. At that time, the national average retail price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas was 27 cents higher than in Wyoming.
The difference had shrunken even further in recent days, down to only 7 cents as of Tuesday, with motorists elsewhere in the country on the whole still paying less, according to the GasBuddy price reporting service. In Cheyenne, the gap has reversed in recent days: Gas locally now costs about two pennies less than in the country: $3.90 versus $3.92.
“Gas prices are dropping at varying speeds across the states,” wrote GasBuddy spokesperson Nicole Petersen in a Friday email to the WTE. “We’re estimating the national average will continue to drop over the next 5-10 days, and most states will continue to drop as well.”
As experts and motorists have observed in recent days, gas here and many other cities is now below the $4 a gallon threshold. And in Wyoming, it has just breached the $4 threshold, selling for an average of $3.99 on Tuesday.
In Casper, GasBuddy reports a gallon goes for just $3.40 on average.
Taxis
For the driving pros whose jobs are to both transport people and run their own small taxi businesses, relief via the price readouts at the gas pump is welcome. They hope for even further declines.
Donna Marihart owns All in One Shuttle LLC. She said that in the previous six years, she never had to raise her regular rates for local trips.
In the past year, she did boost what she charges, by about 50% to about $15. That’s for a one-way, one-stop trip in the central area of town less than about 5 miles.
“It’s nice it is coming down,” Marihart said of gas costs. “It does help. And I hope it comes down a lot more.”
She described herself as having “made it through” the previous period of significantly elevated prices. “They are still high, of course,” she said of gas prices.
Locally, gas in Cheyenne hit a record of $4.70 a gallon on June 26.
Savings
Savings will add up.
GasBuddy estimates $400 million is being “saved collectively by Americans per day,” compared with where prices were just one month ago, the spokesperson wrote in her email Friday.
Her colleague, head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan, had a note of caution. As he pointed out this past week, “while the recent drop in gas prices has been most welcomed, the issues that led to skyrocketing prices aren’t completely put to bed, and still could lead prices to eventually climb back up, should something unexpected develop.”
During this “record-breaking year at the pump,” most motorists saw price thresholds of $3, $4 and $5 broken, De Haan wrote. “Beginning in March, gas prices in the U.S. rose above $4 per gallon for the first time since 2008, as Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Global supply began to tighten, with demand also rising into the summer.”
The previous record of $4.10 was “broken in April,” the analyst continued. “Gas prices soared to a new all-time high average of $5.03 per gallon in June.”
For now, people have changed their driving and related habits, which has helped to somewhat reduce demand for gas, AAA's spokesperson noted Tuesday. "Demand had been a large, large cause of the increase in price," Treanor said by phone. "At some point, a large number of Americans decided they needed to make changes."
In a June 23-27 poll of 1,002 U.S. adults, AAA found 64% reported having changed their driving habits or lifestyle since March. Of those people, 88% said they reduced their travel by car.
"People are driving less. People are choosing other options," like carpooling or working remotely when possible, according to Treanor. "Those other options started taking priority over going to the gas station and fueling up their cars."
Shopping around
Like many drivers, Marihart shops around for the lowest prices. In Wyoming, showing that prices here used to be less than some national averages, the record was $4.90, reached July 1, AAA reports.
Marihart is a member of Sam’s Club, so she sometimes goes there for gas.
“I just find the cheapest in town, usually, and get my gas there,” she said. “But when the pries were getting up to $5, the prices weren’t much less than anybody else,” at whatever gas station she patronized.
On Tuesday at Sam’s Club in Cheyenne, according to its website, the cost was $3.59, a decrease of 10 cents just since Saturday.
Safeway, another place where Marihart said she sometimes puts gas in her tank, listed a price of $3.95, down a few cents in the last three days. That’s before applying any frequent-shopper points, which could reduce the cost.
This article has been updated with the latest prices for gas and with comments from an AAA spokesperson as well as results from a survey the association has conducted of motorists. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/gas-prices-may-fall-more-and-drivers-start-to-notice/article_3d38beaa-57ac-5eba-b2da-5c6b72655287.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:52Z |
John Murdock has been named a loan officer of Pinnacle Bank, which is expanding the Laramie Loan Production Office team to include him. “He will partner with Laramie and Albany County residents to deliver individualized consumer and commercial lending services, including commercial real estate loans, commercial operating lines of credit, construction loans, and home equity loans,” according to an emailed news release this past week from the bank. Murdock has worked in this industry in Laramie for about a decade, Pinnacle said. This includes the past seven years with ACPE Federal Credit Union, where he was chief financial officer.
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Wyoming District Court Judge Marvin Tyler is retiring, effective Jan. 2, Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Kate M. Fox announced earlier this month. Fox, who is chairman of the Judicial Nominating Commission, said the position will be filled Jan. 3. Gov. Mark Gordon will appoint this Ninth Judicial District Court judge – Sublette County from a list of three names to be submitted to him by the Judicial Nominating Commission. Expressions of interest, at courts.state.wy.us/Administration/Careers, are due to Fox’s office by 5:00 p.m. on Sept. 8.
n Bob Beck, who according to his online biography has been news director of Wyoming Public Radio over the course of several decades, has announced “after 34 years I will be leaving” in October. “My plan is to retire and move to the Syracuse area of New York. Thanks to our listeners, reporters, interns and everyone who made this such an enjoyable ride,” he wrote on Twitter this past week.
n John B. Cooksey is being inducted into the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame, the Wyoming Department of Transportation announced Tuesday. “Awarded posthumously, Cooksey is recognized for his stellar and lengthy career as a flight instructor” and FAA- “designated flight examiner in Wyoming,” according to WYDOT. His employers included Hailair and the Wyoming Oil & Gas Commission, and he ran a Phillips 66 gas station. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/business-people-making-moves/article_32ccdc1c-1dbf-11ed-9987-4f4e4c22e489.html | 2022-08-17T01:34:59Z |
One of owner Lowell Harp’s favorite pieces, a tea set, for sale at Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures, in Cheyenne on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Owners Lowell and Tori Harp pose for a portrait outside Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures, in Cheyenne on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
The Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures storefront in Cheyenne, photographed on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
The Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures storefront in Cheyenne, photographed on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
A sign inside Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures in Cheyenne on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Items for sale at Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures, in Cheyenne on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Art for sale at Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures, in Cheyenne on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
One of owner Lowell Harp’s favorite pieces, a tea set, for sale at Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures, in Cheyenne on Friday. Alyte Katilius/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – The owners of newly rebranded and relocated Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures thrift store are planning to go the extra mile when it comes to their local impact.
Five months ago, co-owner Lowell Harp was climbing a stepladder to trim the canopy shrouding the roof of Collectible and Thrift, the original thrift store location on Cleveland Avenue that he ran with partner Tori Wilder. The space was too small, too obscure, and when the opportunity arose to open a warehouse of antiques in May, they seized the moment.
They went from 3,500 square feet, to about 9,000 square feet on 3151 Nationway Suite A1 – and the space is quickly filling up.
“Our vision down the road is a local Goodwill on steroids,” Harp said.
Right now, the warehouse is filled with a random array of items, from high-priced European furniture to chipped dining tables, sporting equipment, old movies and books, knives in a display case, lawn items and entire living room sets.
In a two-month turnaround, it’s one of the biggest antique stores here. Harp and Wilder still have three storage lockers to unload from items they collected while operating a junk removal and estate cleaning service.
“I would probably say 90% of the store came out of junk jobs and estate clean-outs,” Harp said. “Throughout everything in here, I don’t think we spent more $1,000 on anything.”
This is where the “steroids” enter the idea.
For years, Wilder operated a junk removal business, emptying out vacated home and apartments, disposing of many items. Slowly, he and Wilder began to collect anything that caught their eye until, years later, they realized they were sitting on eight storage lockers full of antiques worth reselling.
Funky Monkey will continue this junk removal service for a flat fee, something that, to their knowledge, no other nearby businesses offer. In turn for helping people clean out their homes, they get first pick from the haul.
They also accept in-store donations. (Call ahead.)
“I’ve wanted a nonprofit junk service for years, where people can, instead of complaining about what they’re doing, you’re at least making some sort of a help and an effort towards a cause,” Harp said.
More in store
There’s more to Funky Monkey. This place is going to be fairly unique once they’re done unloading all their supplies, if things progress according to plan.
In the entryway, the owners will erect a coffee bar featuring brews from local roasters, as well as locally baked pastries and snacks for purchase. In the back, past the cash register, they’re in the process of setting up a local art gallery where work will be displayed for purchase.
The same room also has tables set up to host events. It could be an arts and craft class, a meeting or lunch space, youth classes or monthly vendor flea markets and farmers markets. They say these are the type of community events the east side rarely has the opportunity to enjoy.
Their end goal is to create a one-stop location for community involvement, particularly with the elderly and special needs client bases. With three special needs children of their own, they understand the demand for such a service.
A distant goal for Wilder is to actually operate a special needs program known as a “dayhab,” where special needs community members are provided activities on a daily basis. It could be a trip to the movies, an art class, a day in nature or a job working around the antique store.
The nonprofit program would be held out of a different location, funded through Funky Monkey.
“We’ll start small, and if we can get the right clients, we’ll just start out renting a house or renting an apartment or anywhere where somebody can be there with (clients) at any given time,” Harp said. “So it might be small, but we’ve been approached by 27 families over the last two and a half years to try to help because all the programs in town have been so concentrated.”
They also plan to host similar programs for the elderly.
Funky Monkey Rescued Treasures is open Mondays, noon-5:30 p.m.; Tuesdays, noon-5 p.m., and Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/economy_and_labor/funky-monkey-aims-to-be-more-than-another-antique-store/article_18078990-1dbf-11ed-93fd-933c854e25b4.html | 2022-08-17T01:35:05Z |
Giles Co. residents warned after potential sighting of armed and dangerous suspect
Published: Aug. 16, 2022 at 5:25 PM EDT|Updated: 5 hours ago
NEWPORT, Va. (WDBJ) - Multiple law enforcement agencies are on scene in the Winding Way area of Newport near Super Val-UGrocery after the potential sighting of an armed and dangerous suspect.
According to the Giles County Sheriff’s Office, a witness described seeing someone wearing a blue flannel shirt with white and black stripes and blue jeans that resembled Shawn Tolbert. The person had a mustache, slicked-back hair and was possibly carrying a bag.
“Remain vigilant and keep residences, outbuildings, and vehicles secure. Do not attempt to approach. Dial 911 immediately.”
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DoorDash customer says delivery came with side of marijuana
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) - An Ohio man says he received more than what he ordered through DoorDash last week.
The DoorDash customer said he found a fork and a side of marijuana at the bottom of his delivery bag.
“I was scared at first, but then again, I wasn’t very surprised,” the man said, who wanted to remain anonymous.
He said the driver returned to his residence asking for the pot, saying it was medicine in the bag for his friend.
The customer said he did not return the marijuana to the driver. He called the police and submitted a complaint to DoorDash.
“I’m a healthcare worker and see how this affects people daily. I even had a close friend’s nephew pass away due to smoking some marijuana laced by fentanyl,” he said.
The man said he worries about what could have happened if the order ended up in the wrong hands and is hesitant about having his dinner delivered again.
“I question everything now. I question the company’s background checks. Do they really know the people who are working for them?” he said
According to DoorDash’s website, the company runs motor vehicle and criminal background checks on all drivers.
Columbus police said they are investigating the incident, and it was the first time they’d heard of drugs being discovered in a bag of delivered food.
Copyright 2022 WSYX via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/08/17/doordash-customer-says-delivery-came-with-side-marijuana/ | 2022-08-17T02:25:59Z |
KIHEI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Maui Police arrested a man for criminal property damage and terroristic threatening after an incident at Kamaole Beach Park III on Monday.
On Aug. 15, around 5:37 p.m., officers responded to Kamaole Beach Park III after a family of five, visiting from Massachusetts, reported that a man had been harassing them earlier that day.
The unknown suspect, later identified as Haiku resident Keaka Paleka, 35, had approached the family again while they were loading their belongings into their car. Paleka had been trying to start a chainsaw.
The family reported that as they were reversing their SUV, Paleka struck the side passenger door multiple times with the running chainsaw. The family left the parking lot to contact the police, and reported that Paleka left the parking lot in a 2018 Toyota 4-Runner.
Shortly after, police located Paleka at the Kihei Boat Ramp. He was arrested for First Degree Criminal Property Damage and First Degree Terroristic Threatening.
His bail was set at $27,000. Paleka was later transported to the Wailuku Police Station.
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Kathryn spent the last decade in the Bay Area working in nonprofits, education, and communications consulting. She has a B.A. in English from St. Mary's College of CA and an M.A. in Public Affairs and Politics from the University of San Francisco. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/haiku-man-arrested-for-threatening-family-attacking-car-with-running-chainsaw/article_6820ce26-1dcb-11ed-a786-e757b980173e.html | 2022-08-17T02:32:06Z |
Honolulu prosecutors have charged Oscar Kanoa, 43, with attempted murder. His bail is set at $2 million.
According to the Criminal Complaint, as a condition of bail, Kanoa shall be subject to GPS monitoring and would be confined to his home in Waianae.
Kanoa is accused of attacking a 51-year-old woman, leaving her with life-threatening injuries to her head.
Sources said Kanoa had an intimate relationship with the victim.
ORIGINAL STORY 8/15:
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A 43-year-old man is in custody pending charges for attempted murder. He is accused of attacking and critically injuring a 51-year-old woman at a home in Waianae.
Police were called to a house on Leihoku Street at around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday upon reports of an unresponsive woman. Police said the victim had head injuries, and she was rushed to the hospital. Doctors told police the woman has life-threatening injuries.
Police identified the suspect, and officers arrested him on suspicion of attempted murder on Sunday at 2 p.m. near Kahana Bay Beach Park in Windward Oahu.
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/man-charged-with-attempting-to-kill-a-woman-in-waianae-update/article_c8a315d8-1d08-11ed-a62f-4b4893846c29.html | 2022-08-17T02:32:12Z |
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DoorDash customer says delivery came with side of marijuana
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) - An Ohio man says he received more than what he ordered through DoorDash last week.
The DoorDash customer said he found a fork and a side of marijuana at the bottom of his delivery bag.
“I was scared at first, but then again, I wasn’t very surprised,” the man said, who wanted to remain anonymous.
He said the driver returned to his residence asking for the pot, saying it was medicine in the bag for his friend.
The customer said he did not return the marijuana to the driver. He called the police and submitted a complaint to DoorDash.
“I’m a healthcare worker and see how this affects people daily. I even had a close friend’s nephew pass away due to smoking some marijuana laced by fentanyl,” he said.
The man said he worries about what could have happened if the order ended up in the wrong hands and is hesitant about having his dinner delivered again.
“I question everything now. I question the company’s background checks. Do they really know the people who are working for them?” he said
According to DoorDash’s website, the company runs motor vehicle and criminal background checks on all drivers.
Columbus police said they are investigating the incident, and it was the first time they’d heard of drugs being discovered in a bag of delivered food.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boxer Parent Company Inc. (the "Company"), the indirect parent company of BMC Software, Inc. ("BMC"), today announced that it has commenced a cash tender offer to purchase (the "Offer") its 8.375% Senior Notes due 2026 (the "Euro Notes") and its 9.125% Senior Second Lien Notes due 2026 (the "Dollar Notes" and, together with the Euro Notes, the "Notes") for an aggregate purchase price, excluding Accrued Interest (as defined below), of up to $100 million (as it may be increased or decreased, the "Total Maximum Amount"); provided that the Company will only accept Dollar Notes up to an aggregate purchase price, excluding Accrued Interest, of $45 million (the "Dollar Notes Maximum Amount"). The Offer is being made subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated August 16, 2022 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Offer to Purchase"). Capitalized terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meaning given to them in the Offer to Purchase.
The table below summarizes the key economic terms of the Offer:
The Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City Time, on September 13, 2022 (unless the Offer is extended or terminated) (such time and date, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Time"). To be eligible to receive the "Total Consideration" for a series of Notes, which includes an early tender premium of €50.00 per €1,000 principal amount of Euro Notes or $50.00 per $1,000 principal amount of Dollar Notes, accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer (the "Early Tender Premium"), Holders must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on August 29, 2022 (unless extended or terminated) (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Early Tender Time"). Holders who validly tender their Notes after the Early Tender Time and at or prior to the Expiration Time will be eligible to receive only the Tender Offer Consideration, which is an amount equal to the Total Consideration less the Early Tender Premium. Holders who tender their Notes prior to the Early Tender Time may withdraw such Notes at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, on August 29, 2022 (unless extended or terminated) (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Withdrawal Time").
In addition to the Tender Offer Consideration or the Total Consideration, as applicable, all Holders of Notes accepted for purchase will also receive accrued and unpaid interest ("Accrued Interest") on such Notes, rounded to the nearest cent per €1,000 principal amount of Euro Notes or the nearest cent per $1,000 principal amount of Dollar Notes, from the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date (each as defined below), as applicable.
Notes accepted for purchase will be accepted in accordance with their Acceptance Priority Levels (with 1 being the highest Acceptance Priority Level and 2 being the lowest Acceptance Priority Level), subject to the limitations that (i) the overall aggregate purchase price to be paid in the Offer will not exceed the Total Maximum Amount and (ii) the aggregate purchase price to be paid for the Dollar Notes will not exceed the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount (in each case, exclusive of Accrued Interest).
Subject to any increase or decrease to the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount, as applicable, if on the Early Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date, there would be sufficient funds to purchase some, but not all, of the unpurchased tendered Notes in any Acceptance Priority Level without exceeding the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount, as applicable, the Company will accept for payment such tendered Notes on a prorated basis, with the proration factor for such Acceptance Priority Level depending on the aggregate principal amount of Notes of such Acceptance Priority Level validly tendered and not validly withdrawn. Furthermore, (i) if the aggregate purchase price of all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to or at the Early Tender Time exceeds the Total Maximum Amount, Holders who validly tender Notes after the Early Tender Time will not have any of their Notes accepted for purchase regardless of the Acceptance Priority Level of such Notes unless the Company increases the Total Maximum Amount and (ii) if the aggregate purchase price of all Dollar Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to or at the Early Tender Time exceeds the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount, Holders who validly tender Dollar Notes after the Early Tender Time will not have any of their Notes accepted for purchase unless the Company increases the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount.
The Company expressly reserves the right, but is not obligated, to increase or decrease the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount in its sole discretion without extending the Early Tender Time, the Expiration Time, or the Withdrawal Time, or otherwise providing withdrawal rights, subject to applicable law.
The Company will accept Notes for purchase only in Authorized Denominations, as further described in the Offer to Purchase. The Company intends to fund the Offer with cash on hand.
Any Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time and purchased pursuant to the Offer will be paid for in immediately available funds on the Early Settlement Date, which, subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, is expected to occur promptly following the Early Tender Time, and, assuming the Offer is not extended or terminated, is expected to be on or about August 31, 2022.
Any Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Expiration Time but after the Early Tender Time and purchased pursuant to the Offer will be paid for in immediately available funds on the Final Settlement Date, which, subject to satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, is expected to occur promptly following the Expiration Time, and, assuming the Offer is not extended or terminated, is expected to be on or about September 15, 2022.
Subject to applicable law and the terms and conditions of the Offer to Purchase, the Company expressly reserves the right to accept for purchase and pay for up to the Total Maximum Amount (subject to the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount), exclusive of Accrued Interest, all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Time; extend each of the Early Tender Time and the Expiration Time to a later date and time as announced by the Company; increase or decrease the Total Maximum Amount or the Dollar Notes Maximum Amount; waive any or all conditions of the Offer; or terminate, re-open or amend the Offer.
To the extent permitted by applicable law and whether or not the Offer is consummated, the Company and its affiliates may from time to time following the Expiration Time acquire any Notes that remain outstanding through one or more additional tender offers, exchange offers, open market purchases, redemptions or otherwise, on terms that may be more or less favorable to Holders of Notes than the terms of the Offer. Any future purchases by the Company or its affiliates will depend on various factors existing at that time. There can be no assurance as to which, if any, of these alternatives (or combinations thereof) the Company or its affiliates will choose to pursue in the future.
The Company has retained D.F. King & Co., Inc. to act as Tender and Information Agent for the Offer. Questions regarding procedures for tendering Notes may be directed to:
D.F. King & Co, Inc.
Email: bmc@dfking.com
Offer Website: www.dfking.com/bmc
48 Wall Street
22nd Floor
New York, NY 10005
Banks and Brokers call: (212) 269-5550
All others call (toll free): (866) 207-2356
The Dealer Manager for the Offer is:
None of the Company, the Dealer Manager, the Tender and Information Agent or the trustee for the Euro Notes or Dollar Notes (nor any director, officer, employee, agent or affiliate of any such person) makes any recommendation whether Holders should tender or refrain from tendering Notes in the Offer. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender Notes and, if so, the principal amount of the Notes to tender.
OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS
This news release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. Neither this news release nor the Offer to Purchase constitutes an invitation to participate in the Offer in or from any jurisdiction in or from which, or to any person to or from whom, it is unlawful to make such invitation or for there to be such participation under applicable securities laws and regulations. The distribution of this news release and the Offer to Purchase in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by laws and regulations. Persons into whose possession this news release or the Offer to Purchase comes are required by each of the Company, the Dealer Manager and the Tender and Information Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.
United Kingdom
The communication of this news release and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer is not being made, and such documents or materials have not been approved, by an authorized person for the purposes of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the "FSMA"). Accordingly, such documents or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents or materials is exempt from the restriction on financial promotions under Section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is only directed at and may be communicated to (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments, being investment professionals as defined in Article 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Financial Promotion Order"); (ii) persons who fall within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) ("high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.") of the Financial Promotion Order; (iii) any other persons who are existing noteholders or other persons falling within Article 43 of the Financial Promotion Order; (iv) persons who are outside the United Kingdom; or (v) persons who are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) in connection with the issue or sale of any securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as "relevant persons"). This news release is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this news release relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
Italy
None of the Offer, this news release or any other document or materials relating to the Offer have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ("CONSOB") pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Offer is being carried out in the Republic of Italy ("Italy") as an exempted offer pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the "Financial Services Act") and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are located in Italy can tender Notes for purchase in the Offer through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority.
France
The Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the Republic of France ("France"). Neither this news release nor any other document or material relating to the Offer has been or shall be distributed to the public in France and only qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés) within the meaning of Article 2(e) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation"), are eligible to participate in the Offer. This news release has not been and will not be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
Belgium
Neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer have been submitted to or will be submitted for approval or recognition to the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (Autorité des services et marches financiers / Autoriteit financiële diensten en markten) and, accordingly, the Offer may not be made in Belgium by way of a public offering, as defined in Article 3 of the Belgian Law of April 1, 2007 on public takeover bids, as amended or replaced from time to time. Accordingly, the Offer may not be advertised and the Offer will not be extended, and neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer (including any memorandum, information circular, brochure or any similar documents) has been or shall be distributed or made available, directly or indirectly, to any person in Belgium other than "qualified investors" (investisseur qualifié/gekwalificeerede belegger) within the meaning of Article 10 of the Belgian Law of June 16, 2006 on public offerings of investment instruments and the admission of investment instruments to trading on regulated markets (as amended from time to time).
European Economic Area
This news release and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer are only addressed to and directed at persons in member states of the European Economic Area who are "qualified investors" within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Regulation. The Offer is only available to qualified investors within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Regulation. None of the information in this news release and any other documents and materials relating to the Offer should be acted upon or relied upon in any member state of the European Economic Area by persons who are not qualified investors within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Regulation.
Switzerland
This news release and any other documents or materials relating to the Offer do not constitute an offering prospectus and have been prepared without regard to the disclosure standards for prospectuses under the Swiss Code of Obligations, the Swiss Financial Services Act or the disclosure standards for listing prospectuses under the SIX Listing Rules or the listing rules of any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in Switzerland. Neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer may be publicly distributed or otherwise made publicly available in Switzerland. Neither this news release nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer has been or will be filed with or approved by any Swiss regulatory authority. In particular, this news release will not be filed with, and the Offer will not be supervised by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and the Offer has not been and will not be authorized under the Swiss Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes.
General
This news release does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes (and tenders of Notes in the Offer will not be accepted from Holders) in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and the Dealer Manager or any of the Dealer Manager's affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, the Offer shall be deemed to be made by the Dealer Manager or such affiliate, as the case may be, on behalf of the Company in such jurisdiction.
In addition to the representations referred to above in respect of the United States, each Holder participating in the Offer will also be deemed to give certain representations in respect of the other jurisdictions referred to above and generally as set out in "The Offer—Procedure for Tendering Notes" in the Offer to Purchase. Any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offer from a Holder that is unable to make these representations will not be accepted. Each of the Company, the Dealer Manager and the Tender and Information Agent reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to investigate, in relation to any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Offer, whether any such representation given by a Holder is correct and, if such investigation is undertaken and as a result the Company determines (for any reason) that such representation is not correct, such tender shall not be accepted.
Forward-Looking Statements:
This release may contain forward-looking statements (including without limitation information concerning the timing and results of the Offer and statements to the effect that the Company or its management "will," "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "plans" or other similar expressions). Actual results may differ materially as a result of a number of factors. Caution must be exercised in relying on these and other forward-looking statements. Due to known and unknown risks, the Company's results may differ materially from its expectations and projections.
The Company disclaims any intent or obligation other than as required by law to update its forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events.
About BMC
BMC works with 86% of the Forbes Global 50 and customers and partners around the world to create their future. With our history of innovation, industry-leading automation, operations, and service management solutions, combined with unmatched flexibility, we help organizations free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead.
BMC, BMC Software, the BMC logo, and other BMC marks are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc. and are registered or may be registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or in other countries.
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- CAE to provide simulator services and centre operations for Qantas Group and operators in the region
MONTREAL, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CAE (NYSE: CAE) (TSX: CAE) announced today that it has signed an exclusive 15-year agreement with the Qantas Group, to develop and operate a new state-of-the-art pilot training centre in Sydney, Australia.
"As the global leader in civil aviation training, we are thrilled to be expanding CAE's global network to Sydney, Australia to support the Qantas Group, a company that shares our unwavering commitment to safety," said Marc Parent, CAE's President and CEO. "As the operator of 50+ civil aviation training centres around the world, CAE is uniquely positioned to provide operational efficiencies to the Qantas Group and deliver an exceptional training experience for their pilots."
"The Qantas Group has trained its pilots and crew in Sydney for more than half a century. Through this partnership with CAE, we look forward to bringing this critical function back to New South Wales via the new custom-built facility," said Alan Joyce, Qantas Group's CEO. "As our international network recovers from the impact of COVID and we grow our fleet, this new training centre will give us the simulator capacity required to train our new and current pilots."
CAE will operate a new 7,000 square-metre CAE Sydney Training Centre that is slated to open in early 2024. In addition, CAE will deploy a new A320 full flight simulator and purchase the Qantas Group's B787, A330, and B737NG full-flight simulators and associated integrated procedures trainers for the new centre. The Qantas Group's A380 full-flight simulator and emergency procedures equipment will also be relocated to the new CAE Sydney Training Centre, where they will be operated and maintained by CAE. The development is subject to planning approvals, with a submission lodged by LOGOS who will develop the centre in partnership with CAE and the Qantas Group.
With a capacity for up to eight full-flight simulators, the CAE Sydney Training Centre will enable CAE to add more training capacity to address the addition of A350 and A321XLR aircraft to the Qantas Group's fleet. This new centre will also allow CAE to grow its network capacity to provide training to operators in the region.
At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we're everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators, surgical manikins, and personalized training programs powered by artificial intelligence. We're investing our time and resources into building the next generation of cutting-edge, digitally immersive training and critical operations solutions while keeping positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact at the core of our mission. Today and tomorrow, we'll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.
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Sale Transaction Would Result in a Substantial Reduction of Debt and Contemplates Purchaser-Established Voluntary Trusts Funded with $550 Million to Benefit Opioid Claimants
Patients and Customers Will Continue to Receive Highest Quality Products and Excellent Service
Ample Liquidity to Fund Day-to-Day Operations and Ordinary Course Investments During Court-Supervised Process
DUBLIN, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Endo International plc (NASDAQ: ENDP) ("Endo" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into a restructuring support agreement ("RSA") with holders of more than a majority of Endo's first lien debt on a sale transaction that would substantially reduce outstanding indebtedness, address remaining opioid and other litigation-related claims, and best position Endo for the future. This will allow Endo to advance its business transformation with a strengthened balance sheet to create compelling value for its stakeholders over the long term.
Under the RSA, the debtholder group has committed to providing total purchase consideration of approximately $6 billion in the form of a credit bid, plus assumption of certain liabilities, for substantially all of the Company's assets. The transaction contemplates that the purchaser will:
- Offer employment to all of Endo's active team members;
- Establish voluntary trusts, to be funded with $550 million over 10 years, whereby future proceeds will be set aside for certain opioid claims; and
- Have net funded leverage in an amount no greater than 4.5x.
This "stalking horse" bid will be subject to higher or otherwise better offers.
To facilitate the sale process and provide an appropriate forum for bringing closure to opioid-related and other uncertainties without the need for continued costly, time-consuming litigation, Endo and certain of its subsidiaries initiated voluntary prearranged Chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York ("Court"). Endo's India-based entities are not part of the Chapter 11 proceedings. The Company expects to file recognition proceedings in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
"Today's announcement is a significant milestone as we advance our strategic priorities and business transformation so that Endo's value proposition can be realized," said Blaise Coleman, Endo's President and Chief Executive Officer. "By definitively addressing the more than $8 billion of debt that has burdened our balance sheet and establishing a pathway to closure with respect to the thousands of opioid-related and other lawsuits that the Company has been defending at an unsustainable cost, we will be able to move forward as a new Endo and reach our full potential."
Mr. Coleman continued, "This process will enable us to continue our ongoing business transformation, including investing in our core areas of growth, as we work to execute a transaction to strengthen our balance sheet and secure a strong tomorrow. Our commitment to our mission, team members, customers, patients, and communities will not change, and we look forward to emerging from this process better positioned to continue helping everyone we serve live their best lives."
The Company's secured creditors have consented to use of cash collateral to fund the Company's day-to-day business during the process. This significant cash on hand, coupled with positive cash flow from operations, will provide ample liquidity as the Company continues to deliver the life-enhancing products that its customers and their patients expect today and in the future. Notably, the Company and a consortium of state attorneys general have agreed on certain injunctive terms relating to the sale of Endo's opioid products, including with respect to promotion, funding/grants to third parties, and suspicious order monitoring, which will be presented to the Court for approval.
The Company is filing with the Court a series of customary motions to maintain business-as-usual operations on all fronts and uphold its commitments to its stakeholders, including team members, customers, suppliers, and business partners, during the process. Approval of these routine "first day" motions, which the Company expects to receive in short order, will help facilitate a smooth transition into the process.
Additional Information
Additional information about Endo's financial restructuring is available at endotomorrow.com. Court filings and information about the claims process are available at https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/endo; by calling the Supplier Hotline at (877) 542-1878 (toll-free) or +1 (929) 284-1688 (international); or by emailing EndoInquiries@ra.kroll.com.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is serving as legal counsel, PJT Partners LP is serving as investment banker, and Alvarez & Marsal is serving as financial advisor to Endo.
About Endo International plc
Endo (NASDAQ: ENDP) is a specialty pharmaceutical company committed to helping everyone we serve live their best life through the delivery of quality, life-enhancing therapies. Our decades of proven success come from passionate team members around the globe collaborating to bring the best treatments forward. Together, we boldly transform insights into treatments benefiting those who need them, when they need them. Learn more at www.endo.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information in this communication may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and any applicable Canadian securities legislation, including, but not limited to, statements with respect to the restructuring support agreement and the sale transaction, the Chapter 11 proceedings and recognition proceedings, and any other statements that refer to our expected, estimated or anticipated future results or that do not relate solely to historical facts. Statements including words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "plan," "will," "may," "look forward," "intend," "guidance," "future," "potential" or similar expressions are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this communication reflect Endo's current views as of the date of this communication about its plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to it and on assumptions it has made. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from current expectations based on a number of factors, including, among other things, the following: the outcome of our contingency planning and restructuring activities; the timing, impact or results of any pending or future litigation, investigations, proceedings or claims, including opioid, tax and antitrust related matters; actual or contingent liabilities; settlement discussions or negotiations; the Company's liquidity, financial performance, cash position and operations; the Company's strategy; risks and uncertainties associated with Chapter 11 proceedings; the negative impacts on the Company's businesses as a result of filing for and operating under Chapter 11 protection; the time, terms and ability to confirm a sale of the Company's businesses under Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; the adequacy of the capital resources of the Company's businesses and the difficulty in forecasting the liquidity requirements of the operations of the Company's businesses; the unpredictability of the Company's financial results while in Chapter 11 proceedings; the Company's ability to discharge claims in Chapter 11 proceedings; negotiations with the holders of the Company's indebtedness and its trade creditors and other significant creditors; risks and uncertainties with performing under the terms of the restructuring support agreement and any other arrangement with lenders or creditors while in Chapter 11 proceedings; the Company's ability to conduct business as usual; the Company's ability to continue to serve customers, suppliers and other business partners at the high level of service and performance they have come to expect from the Company; the Company's ability to continue to pay employees, suppliers and vendors; the ability to control costs during Chapter 11 proceedings; adverse litigation; the risk that the Company's Chapter 11 cases may be converted to cases under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code; the Company's ability to secure operating capital; the Company's ability to take advantage of opportunities to acquire assets with upside potential; the Company's ability to execute on its strategic plan to pursue, evaluate and close an asset sale of the Company's businesses pursuant to Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; the impact of competition, including the loss of exclusivity and generic competition for VASOSTRICT®; our ability to satisfy judgments or settlements or pursue appeals including bonding requirements; our ability to adjust to changing market conditions; our ability to attract and retain key personnel; our inability to maintain compliance with financial covenants and operating obligations which would expose us to potential events of default under our outstanding indebtedness; our ability to incur additional debt or equity financing for working capital, capital expenditures, business development, debt service requirements, acquisitions or general corporate or other purposes; our ability to refinance our indebtedness; a significant reduction in our short-term or long-term revenues which could cause us to be unable to fund our operations and liquidity needs or repay indebtedness; supply chain interruptions or difficulties; changes in competitive or market conditions; changes in legislation or regulatory developments; our ability to obtain and maintain adequate protection for our intellectual property rights; the timing and uncertainty of the results of both the research and development and regulatory processes, including regulatory decisions, product recalls, withdrawals and other unusual items; domestic and foreign health care and cost containment reforms, including government pricing, tax and reimbursement policies; technological advances and patents obtained by competitors; the performance, including the approval, introduction, and consumer and physician acceptance of new products and the continuing acceptance of currently marketed products; our ability to integrate any newly acquired products into our portfolio and achieve any financial or commercial expectations; the impact that known and unknown side effects may have on market perception and consumer preference for our products; the effectiveness of advertising and other promotional campaigns; the timely and successful implementation of any strategic initiatives; unfavorable publicity regarding the misuse of opioids; the uncertainty associated with the identification of and successful consummation and execution of external corporate development initiatives and strategic partnering transactions; our ability to advance our strategic priorities, develop our product pipeline and continue to develop the market for QWO® and other products; and our ability to obtain and successfully manufacture, maintain and distribute a sufficient supply of products to meet market demand in a timely manner. In addition, U.S. and international economic conditions, including consumer confidence and debt levels, taxation, changes in interest and currency exchange rates, international relations, capital and credit availability, the status of financial markets and institutions, the impact of and response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of continued economic volatility, can materially affect our results. Therefore, the reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. Endo expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required to do so by law.
Additional information concerning risk factors, including those referenced above, can be found in press releases issued by Endo, as well as Endo's public periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with securities regulators in Canada, including the discussion under the heading "Risk Factors" in Endo's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of Endo's press releases and additional information about Endo are available at www.endo.com or you can contact the Endo Investor Relations Department at relations.investor@endo.com.
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Leadership North Texas Builds Regional Stewards through Graduate-Level Program
IRVING, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Texas Commission, a public-private partnership dedicated to advancing the vibrancy of the North Texas region, has selected the members of Leadership North Texas Class 14. Leadership North Texas is a graduate-level, regional leadership program that recruits, develops and supports stewards of our region. Oncor is the presenting sponsor for the program.
Class 14 is made up of 32 leaders from across North Texas in a variety of industry sectors including elected officials, municipal leaders, education leaders and the business community.
Since the program launched in 2008, Leadership North Texas has graduated over 400 leaders including a state representative, numerous mayors and city council members, a county commissioner, business and non-profit executives and higher education leaders.
"Leadership North Texas continues to be the region's top professional development program for management level executives proving that regionalism is a must in North Texas," said Chris Wallace, President and CEO of the North Texas Commission and an alumnus of the program. "Convening public and private sector leaders together to address our region's greatest challenges is the bedrock of the Commission. LNT participants have a long track record of becoming regionalists who work together to ensure that we improve our region's sustainability and inclusivity to further grow our economy."
Leadership North Texas meets nine times and covers topics such as regionalism, the North Texas economy, education and workforce, racial inequity, the cost of incarceration, and transportation and sustainability.
Jerod Anderson, City of Coppell
Amy Arnold, City of White Settlement
Jeannette Benefee, DFW International Airport
Kervin Campbell, Dunaway
Councilman Don Carroll, City of Coppell
Camilo Carvajal, MEMCO
Thuy Cobb, DFW International Airport
Dr. Jasmine Collier, Year Up
Cristina Criado, Criado & Associates, Inc.
Martha Fernandez, Dallas College
Janet Foreman, The Ascend Institute - Dallas College
Andrew Fortune, City of Plano
Joshua Griffith, Hillwood
Hon. Clyde C. Hairston, City of Lancaster
Sadaf Haq, Be In Health Foundation
Fraser Hay, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano
John Heerwagen, Aetna, a CVS Health Company
Shannon Hicks, Town of Addison
June Jenkins, Noir Lifestyles of Collin County
Dr. LaJuanda Jones, Dallas College
Councilmember Jennifer Justice, City of Richardson
Dana MacDonald, Quest Employment Services
Rob Matwick, Texas Rangers Baseball Club
Shanee' Moore, Dallas College North Lake Campus
Trent Newell, Fidelity Investments
Andjelka Pavlovic, The Cooper Institute
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Man accused of security breach, causing airport chaos ‘couldn’t wait for flight,’ police say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Authorities say a man accused of causing chaos at a Las Vegas airport has been arrested and is facing several charges from incidents over the weekend.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 33-year-old Stefan Hutchison is accused of violating airport conduct, resisting arrest and burglary at Harry Reid International Airport.
According to KVVU, Hutchison was involved in two separate incidents, one on Aug. 13 and another on Aug. 14, leading to several delayed flights and cancellations.
Police said they first made contact with Hutchison on Aug. 13 when an officer was flagged down by a Transportation Security Administration agent after the 33-year-old reportedly breached a security checkpoint.
TSA agents said they tried to stop Hutchison multiple times, even standing in front of him and making a stop motion with their hands, but Hutchison didn’t comply.
According to police, Hutchison reportedly walked out of a store with a pair of sunglasses and yelled inside the terminal before resisting arrest.
On Aug. 14, at about 4:35 a.m., police said Hutchison was involved in another incident when an officer reported hearing loud banging sounds from the ticketing area.
The officer said he went to the ticketing area and a Spirit Airlines employee told him that a man, later identified as Hutchison, pushed past employees through a door to the secured area.
Authorities said three Spirit Airlines employees had caught Hutchison after the breach and the 33-year-old was taken into custody. However, the loud noises, which were later identified as line dividers falling to the floor, had sent thousands of travelers fleeing the area.
According to Hutchison’s arrest report, the officer said the airport was extremely busy at the time of the incident, which sent hundreds of travelers running through security without being screened along with people getting trampled as they escaped the ticketing area.
Police said Hutchison told them he arrived in Las Vegas on Aug. 12. However, he said he was ready to return home as soon as possible and couldn’t wait for his scheduled Monday flight.
Las Vegas police said that the hundreds of travelers who rushed through the security checkpoints without being cleared had to be called back for proper screening before being allowed to board their flights.
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President Biden signed Democrats' hallmark spending bill into law on Tuesday, a major legislative victory punctuating a string of bipartisan legislative achievements that Democrats hope to capitalize on ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
"The American people won, and the special interests lost," Biden said, noting that pharmaceutical companies had lobbied against measures to lower prescription drug costs for people on Medicare.
"Every single Republican in the Congress sided with the special interests in this vote," Biden said. "That's the choice we face: we can protect the already-powerful, or show the courage to build the future where everybody has an even shot."
This legislation has been a year in the making. After West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin nixed earlier talks, citing concerns over approving more spending during record inflation, Democrats struggled to find a path forward.
But fortunes shifted in July, when Manchin and Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., struck a deal. After a marathon voting session, the Senate passed the legislation through the budget reconciliation process, with every Democrat voting in favor and one tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris. No Republicans voted for the bill.
Manchin had a spot on the dais for the bill signing and received a round of applause during Biden's remarks when the president quipped, tongue in cheek: "Joe — I never had a doubt."
Biden interrupted his vacation to sign the legislation, although the signing ceremony itself was small, given that Congress is out of session and most members are out of town. The White House plans to hold a larger celebration on Sept. 6 — part of a plan to promote the bill ahead of November elections.
Here's what the legislation does on climate
The sweeping bill allocates more than $300 billion to be invested in energy and climate reform. It's the largest federal clean energy investment in U.S. history, although it falls short of what progressive Democrats and climate activists had originally called for.
"This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever — ever — and is going to allow us to boldly take additional steps toward meeting my climate goals," Biden said.
It includes $60 billion for boosting renewable energy infrastructure in manufacturing, like solar panels and wind turbines, and includes tax credits for electric vehicles and measures to make homes more energy efficient.
Democrats say the bill will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 40%, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade, which falls short of Biden's original goal.
The climate provisions I sign into law today are a big deal. Let me explain why: pic.twitter.com/b4QTqXGSaz
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 16, 2022
There's a cap on prescription drug costs for Medicare
On health care, the bill enables the federal health secretary to negotiate the prices of some drugs for Medicare. It also caps out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for people on Medicare at $2,000, effective in 2025.
The bill also provides a three-year extension on health care subsidies in the Affordable Care Act that were originally passed in last year's pandemic relief bill.
On taxes, the legislation establishes a 15% minimum tax for corporations making $1 billion or more in income, which is estimated to bring in over $300 billion in revenue.
Democrats had originally wanted to include funding for childcare, universal pre-K and paid family leave — all items that were dropped over the course of negotiations.
And despite the bill's name, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the Inflation Reduction Act will have a negligible effect on inflation in 2022 and 2023.
Now Biden and Democrats want to get credit
With three months to go before midterm elections, Democrats want to promote the benefits of the legislation. Some will kick in right away, including the energy efficiency tax credits. But other benefits, like lower costs for prescription drugs, won't be felt before voters head to the polls.
Democrats will need to break through a barrage of negative headlines about the anniversary of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — as well as ongoing voter concerns about inflation.
The White House has said administration members will travel across the country to tout the legislation's impact. Cabinet members will visit 23 states on more than 35 trips in August, the White House said.
The White House says other events will showcase how Biden worked to get a string of bipartisan measures passed, including gun safety legislation and a bill to boost domestic production of semiconductor chips in order to stay competitive with China.
As part of its digital campaign, the White House plans to unveil a interactive website on climate incentives, to allow families and small businesses to easily access information about tax credits.
Plans for a media blitz include using various online and social media avenues to spread Democrats' message. The White House plans to hold briefings with influencers and content creators to "amplify our message on their own online social media channels," according to a memo on the plans.
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Updated August 16, 2022 at 11:02 PM ET
Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney conceded defeat in the primary election for her House seat on Tuesday following months of her withering criticism of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
"This primary election is over, but now the real work begins," Cheney said, nodding to future political plans to take on Trump. Cheney noted that she had called opponent Harriet Hageman to congratulate her.
Hageman, an attorney endorsed by Trump who once was a Cheney supporter, took a vast lead over the incumbent. In a state that gave Donald Trump his biggest victory in 2020, Hageman is on a glide path to win the seat outright against Democratic opponent Lynnette GreyBull in November.
It was an expected outcome for Cheney, who went from party star and heir to a conservative dynasty to a political outcast — marked by the moment she chose to break with the former president following his role in fomenting a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Cheney addressed supporters on Tuesday night in Jackson Hole, near her home, repeating her vow to do whatever she can to stop Trump from returning to the White House.
"Our nation is barreling again toward crisis, lawlessness and violence," Cheney said. "No American should support election deniers."
Hageman argued that Cheney was out of step with the state.
"By our vote today, Wyoming has put the elites on notice: We are no longer going to tolerate representatives who don't represent us," Hageman said in prepared remarks declaring victory.
When Liz Cheney chose to run for reelection to her House seat in 2020 instead of making a bid for an open Senate seat, some Republicans speculated she was charting a path to become the first female Republican speaker of the House.
Cheney's allies assert she could have easily won reelection if she had done what the vast majority of her GOP colleagues in Congress have done — stood in lock step with Trump. Instead, Cheney made the race entirely about her decision to stand up to the former president.
The Trump base is king in GOP primaries
Roughly 70% of Wyoming voted for Trump and Cheney's repudiation of him became the red line for so many GOP voters who enthusiastically backed her not long ago.
Her final campaign ad zeroed in on her argument that Trump's lie about the 2020 election being stolen is "insidious" and damaging to democracy.
Mary Martin, chair of the Teton County Republican Party in Wyoming, supported Cheney in the past, but says Cheney's interaction with voters changed following her sharp break with the former president.
"I have heard personally from folks who were really staunch supporters of Liz Cheney, and contributed lots of money to her in the past, that she's insulted them," Martin said, adding that her rhetoric labeling her constituents, "Just her personal approach to this has alienated and turned people off. She is not the only person in Wyoming that supports the Constitution."
Republican strategist Alice Stewart says Trump's influence was the ultimate factor in this race.
"Without a doubt, again, when we're talking about a primary, the base is king, and right now, the base of the Republican Party supports Donald Trump," she said.
Martin says the race became personal for many: "In Wyoming, trust and loyalty are very high traits. And she has betrayed trust and she's betrayed loyalty. And she has taken a stance that is perceived by some to be arrogant and not acceptable. And that I mean, it comes down to just, in my opinion, January 6th."
Hageman proudly touted Trump's support. He traveled to Casper in May hold a rally for her and labelled Cheney a "RINO" — Republican In Name Only.
While Hageman criss-crossed the state, Cheney held mostly small private campaign events and her aides say security concerns forced a more limited public schedule. Cheney has had a U.S. Capitol Police detail for more than a year due to a steady stream of threats.
Cheney was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. With her loss, only two in that group — David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington State — will remain on the ballot in November. Three others lost primaries and four chose to retire.
Cheney's future: Jan. 6 investigation and 2024
Cheney's public statements hinted for some time she's focused on the long game. In June, she delivered a blunt broadside at fellow House GOP members still loyal to Trump at the primetime kick off of the public hearings of the House panel probing Jan, 6.
"Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain," Cheney said.
The panel is still interviewing witnesses and planning more public hearings this fall. It plans to release a report by the end of the year, and Cheney's position as vice chair gives her a national platform for several more months.
Even before the primary vote, Cheney was showing some signs of positioning for a possible 2024 presidential campaign. It's unclear if she would remain a Republican, or consider an independent bid.
In June, she traveled to the Ronald Reagan Library — a stop for GOP presidential hopefuls — and made a speech many viewed as the blueprint for a national campaign. It was a mix of her regular denunciations of Trump, mixed with her political biography. It outlined conservative principles similar to those espoused by her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney: limited government, lower taxes and a strong national defense.
Cheney also made gender a part of her critique about the current leaders in power. She emphasized that many of the key witnesses in the Jan. 6 probe were young women like Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, whose dramatic testimony marked a major moment in the investigation. She told the audience at the library, "These days, for the most part, men are running the world, and it is really not going all that well."
For her 2022 House race, Cheney raised $14 million, a record for any primary in Wyoming's history, and she spent about half of it. The vast majority of donations came from out of state, and she has built up a network she could tap into in the future.
Stewart believes, even after she no longer has a seat in Congress, there is a place for Cheney in the GOP. She thinks she could be part of an effort to expand the message beyond the Trump base.
"If she continues to get out there and engage in GOP circles and functions, and continue to remind people about her voting record as a Republican, and about her support for freedom and policies that unite the Republican Party as opposed to grievances that divide us, there's a path for her to stay very relevant in the Republican Party," Stewart said.
Martin agreed that Cheney's Wyoming primary, and her role in the party going forward, would be one that people would talk about for a while: "I know that she's going to go down in history, but I think we are going to have to wait a while to see what the story is of what is said about Liz Cheney in history."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-16/liz-cheney-just-lost-her-house-seat-but-her-fight-against-trump-continues | 2022-08-17T03:53:10Z |
Rising BU junior, student athlete dies
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Just days before the start of the fall semester, the Bluefield University (BU) community is mourning the loss of a student athlete and rising junior. BU announced on its Facebook page that Caitlyn Victoria Gable, 20, died in her sleep on Aug. 9. Gable was a BU Rams softball player.
“The Bluefield University athletic community is saddened by the passing of Caitlyn,” said Corey Mullins, BU Director of Athletics. “Caitlyn touched so many lives during her time as a Ram. She will be missed by members of our staff and faculty, as well as teammates and classmates. Join us in lifting her friends and family in prayer during this time.”
According to BU’s Facebook post, Gable’s love for softball started as a child.
“Since the age of 7, Caitlyn always had a passion for softball and played on several travel and American Legion teams,” according to the post.
“One thing I have always said from the beginning, you are family when you come to Bluefield,” said Baylee Allen, head softball coach. “Caitlyn was a part of our family and always will be. Once a Ram, always a Ram.”
This summer, Gable, who was from Midland, NC, also worked at a camp for Girl Scouts. A visitation will be held for Gable Sat. Aug. 13 in Concord, NC.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Epilepsy Foundation of North Carolina, in support of Caitlyn’s life-long battle with epilepsy, www.epilepsync.org, or to the Keyauwee Program Center for Girl Scouts of America.
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Man accused of security breach, causing airport chaos ‘couldn’t wait for flight,’ police say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Authorities say a man accused of causing chaos at a Las Vegas airport has been arrested and is facing several charges from incidents over the weekend.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 33-year-old Stefan Hutchison is accused of violating airport conduct, resisting arrest and burglary at Harry Reid International Airport.
According to KVVU, Hutchison was involved in two separate incidents, one on Aug. 13 and another on Aug. 14, leading to several delayed flights and cancellations.
Police said they first made contact with Hutchison on Aug. 13 when an officer was flagged down by a Transportation Security Administration agent after the 33-year-old reportedly breached a security checkpoint.
TSA agents said they tried to stop Hutchison multiple times, even standing in front of him and making a stop motion with their hands, but Hutchison didn’t comply.
According to police, Hutchison reportedly walked out of a store with a pair of sunglasses and yelled inside the terminal before resisting arrest.
On Aug. 14, at about 4:35 a.m., police said Hutchison was involved in another incident when an officer reported hearing loud banging sounds from the ticketing area.
The officer said he went to the ticketing area and a Spirit Airlines employee told him that a man, later identified as Hutchison, pushed past employees through a door to the secured area.
Authorities said three Spirit Airlines employees had caught Hutchison after the breach and the 33-year-old was taken into custody. However, the loud noises, which were later identified as line dividers falling to the floor, had sent thousands of travelers fleeing the area.
According to Hutchison’s arrest report, the officer said the airport was extremely busy at the time of the incident, which sent hundreds of travelers running through security without being screened along with people getting trampled as they escaped the ticketing area.
Police said Hutchison told them he arrived in Las Vegas on Aug. 12. However, he said he was ready to return home as soon as possible and couldn’t wait for his scheduled Monday flight.
Las Vegas police said that the hundreds of travelers who rushed through the security checkpoints without being cleared had to be called back for proper screening before being allowed to board their flights.
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Maui lawmakers may pump the breaks on certain upcountry bicycle tours, as they mull over a measure for stricter regulations on the industry.
The controversial proposal would limit the number of riders on tours and restrict the hours convoys can ride to between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. so cyclists would not interfere with heavy morning traffic. The bill would also ban excursions from certain areas upcountry.
Nearly two dozen testifiers argued for or against the measure in front of the Maui County Council Government Relations, Ethics, and Transparency Committee on Tuesday.
Many of those who offered testimony were tour operators themselves who defended their industry, claiming merchants in the upcountry area rely on them for bringing in additional customers and business.
Others said they ride by the rules, but speeding cars and trucks often endanger their guests.
"Impatient drivers will attempt to pass at a moment's notice," Ron Daniel of Bike Maui said. "This type of behavior creates reckless driving and road rage type incidents."
Some of the tours along the windy, two-lane Haleakala Highway from the mountain's summit include a company cyclist leading the flock and an escort vehicle behind them notifying the group to move over if it is holding up traffic.
Others, however, are self-guided -- meaning a fleet of cyclists without any company personnel, which the proposal aims to halt.
"Without that portion (self-guided tours), we would no doubt have to downsize our company and jobs will be lost," Bike Maui's Lewis Upfold added.
"There are other companies out there that are 100% self-guided tours and that restriction alone would end their business."
Longtime upcountry resident Jack Patnode, who supports the measure, said "if you are trailing behind them (self-guided tours), they have no idea you are there and occupy the full width of the lane, making it extremely difficult to pass."
Proponents of the bill were not only frustrated over the traffic delays, but claimed some riders are too rowdy.
"Riding in the middle of the road, weaving in and out of on purpose and sometimes they're going fast. It's terrifying," Kula resident Laurie Barker-Perez recalled of her encounters with bike tours.
Councilmembers deferred decision making on the measure and will take it up again next month.
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KAHULUI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- A smelly stowaway was found in a trap at a wildlife sanctuary on Maui, Monday morning.
According to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture, the live skunk was found in the Kanahā Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary in Kahului. The trap is was caught in are typically used to catch feral cats and mongooses that get into the sanctuary.
The origin of the skunk is not known. However, agriculture officials say in January 2021, a skunk was spotted near the Maui Costco gas station, which is near the wildlife sanctuary. At the time, a response team set nine traps to try to catch the skunk, to no avail. It is unclear if this is the same skunk from that incident.
Because the origin of the skunk is unknown, agriculture said it had to be euthanized in order to be tested for rabies. Those test results are still pending.
Skunks are prohibited in Hawaii and are only allowed by permit for research and exhibition in a municipal zoo. In the US, skunks are recognized as one of the four primary wild carriers of rabies, a fatal viral disease of mammals that is often transmitted through the bite of an infected animal.
Hawaii is the only state in the US and one of the few places in the world that is free of rabies, according to the Department of Agriculture.
Live skunks have been spotted by stevedores and captured at Honolulu Harbor in June 2022, July 2021, January 2021 and February 2018. On Maui, a live skunk was captured at Kahului Harbor in December 2020 and one was captured at a trucking company in August 2018. All previously captured skunks have tested negative for rabies.
If you spot or capture a skunk, or any invasive species, you are asked to report it to the Hawaii Pest Hotline at 808-643-7378.
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Recount results from primary election are in on four close Hawaii races by KITV4 Web Staff Aug 16, 2022 1 hr ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save HONOLULU (KITV4) - The results from four recounts from Saturday's primary election are officially in. The official winners include:Tiana Wilbur, for State Representative District 45 (R), with 35.2% of the vote Cory Chun, for State Representative District 35 (D) with 29.41% of the vote Jessica Caiazzo, for State Representative 20 (R), with 54.92% of the voteand Antionette Fernandez, for State Senate, District 24 (R) with 50.75% of the vote For the full results, visit https://elections.hawaii.gov/election-results/ Local Hawaii Primary Election 2022: Live Blog By KITV Web Staff Too close to call: Recount underway in 6 razor-thin Hawaii primary races Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Recount Results Primary Election Honolulu Politics Recount Vote Cory Chun Tiana Wilbur More From KITV 4 Island News Local State Legislature passes resolution to adopt FDA blood bank rules to meet increased need Updated Apr 27, 2022 Business US stocks lose ground; European markets slip on rate news Updated Jun 9, 2022 Local Rainbow Wahine Softball Team celebrates home opener with clubhouse renovations Updated Feb 24, 2022 Local Hawaii recoups from big storm amid lingering flood threats Updated Dec 8, 2021 Video Emergency crews reporting serious flooding on Oahu Updated Dec 7, 2021 Local QNHCH reinstates its No Visitor Policy effective Tuesday Updated Jan 17, 2022 Recommended for you
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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EverVet Partners ("EverVet" or the "Company"), one of the fastest growing veterinary services platforms in the U.S., today announced its partnership with Freeman Spogli & Co. ("Freeman Spogli"), a leading private equity investor in the consumer and consumer services industries. Freeman Spogli's investment will help accelerate EverVet's growth through strategic partnerships with veterinarians and further enhance the Company's operational initiatives, veterinarian recruiting efforts and technology. The Company's existing investor Tailwind Capital ("Tailwind") will continue to support the Company and will be an equal partner with Freeman Spogli following the transaction. Joe Luceri (Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer), Len Podolsky (Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer) and the EverVet management team will remain shareholders and will continue to lead the Company's day-to-day operations. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, EverVet has rapidly become one of the premier veterinary services platforms in the United States as the management team has created a differentiated platform within the fragmented and growing veterinary care industry. EverVet's animal hospital portfolio has grown to 21 clinics across a targeted set of markets primarily in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast and Southeast.
"We are excited to partner with Freeman Spogli as EverVet continues building a veterinarian and customer-focused organization," said Joe Luceri, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EverVet. "We chose Freeman Spogli as our new partner given our cultural alignment, their extensive experience successfully building consumer services and consumer healthcare brands, and experience scaling businesses organically and through M&A."
Len Podolsky, Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of EverVet, added, "Through partnering with Freeman Spogli and continuing our partnership with Tailwind, EverVet will continue to invest in its corporate infrastructure to support growth and to partner with veterinarians through additional acquisitions. Tailwind has been instrumental in establishing EverVet's foundation, and we are extremely excited to have great partners and a strong capital base as we continue EverVet's growth."
"EverVet stands out in the attractive veterinary services market by being a preferred partner to veterinarian business owners and having a proven track record of attracting and retaining high-quality employees given the Company's strong veterinarian-led culture," said Chris Johnson, Partner at Freeman Spogli. "We look forward to partnering with Joe, Len and the EverVet management team to further enhance the Company's acquisition strategy and initiatives to grow patient volume, increase its service offering and provide exceptional service to its customers."
John Hwang, Partner at Freeman Spogli, added, "EverVet has established a strong local presence with its animal hospital network given the team's dedication to operational excellence and their passion for high-quality animal care. This has resulted in best-in-class animal hospital economics and, most importantly, strong retention and reputation with its customers and veterinarian partners."
EverVet was advised by Lincoln International and Davis Polk & Wardwell. Freeman Spogli was advised by Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. MidCap Financial will continue to lead the debt financing facility to support EverVet's future growth.
About EverVet Partners
EverVet Partners operates a leading network of general practice animal hospitals with 21 clinics across 10 states. EverVet capitalizes on the attractive trends within the fragmented veterinary market through the acquisition and growth of independent veterinary practices throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast and Southeast. The Company supports its hospitals and veterinarians to help each clinic grow and provide best-in-class care to pets and pet parents. For additional information, please visit www.evervetpartners.com.
About Freeman Spogli
Freeman Spogli & Co. is a private equity firm dedicated exclusively to investing in and partnering with management in consumer and distribution companies in the United States. Since its founding in 1983, Freeman Spogli has invested over $5.5 billion in 69 portfolio companies with an aggregate transaction value of over $27 billion and has completed over 140 add-on acquisitions with its portfolio companies. Freeman Spogli is currently making investments from FS Equity Partners VIII, L.P. and has offices in Los Angeles and New York. For additional information, please visit www.freemanspogli.com.
About Tailwind Capital
Tailwind Capital is a middle market private equity firm focused on services companies in three core subsectors - Infrastructure Services, Supply Chain and IT Services. Tailwind partners with management teams to Accelerate Change, its operationally intensive approach to value creation through investments in Talent, Technology and Transformative M&A. Since inception, Tailwind has invested approximately $4 billion in over 200 acquisitions, including over 50 platform companies and over 160 add-on acquisitions. For additional information, please visit www.tailwind.com.
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- Combines Kyndryl IT services expertise with strategy, business and technology consulting capabilities of EY US
- Helps clients navigate complex digital transformations from design, implementation to ongoing operations
- Assists in adapting to rapidly changing market needs by combining the strengths of two global organizations that can jointly address comprehensive digital solutions
LONDON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EY today announces an alliance between Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US), to support clients in achieving their digital transformation goals.
Many organizations are turning to digital transformation to become more effective and competitive. As they go through this journey, many face challenges related to complex IT environments and the inherent risks (e.g., cybersecurity, resiliency and IT asset management).
Recognizing this, the EY−Kyndryl Alliance provides an innovative approach and utilizes advanced technologies to help organizations transform and modernize their business. The alliance combines Kyndryl's cloud and core infrastructure services with the leading business and technology consulting capabilities of EY US in areas including cybersecurity, asset management and cloud infrastructure services.
Kyndryl is a leader in managed infrastructure and implementation services. They offer a comprehensive suite of mission-critical capabilities, while EY US is a leader in driving large-scale, complex client transformations and has deep industry experience as part of its business and technology consulting services. The combination of these complementary services will greatly assist clients on their transformation journeys while mitigating the risks of these highly complex initiatives.
Heather Ficarra, Kyndryl Alliance Leader, Ernst & Young LLP, says:
"As organizations execute on their digital transformation journeys, they face challenges in modernizing complex systems, business processes and controls. The EY−Kyndryl Alliance will help clients achieve their strategic transformation goals by providing compelling comprehensive solutions. The alliance leverages the deep domain experience of EY business and technology consulting with Kyndryl's technology transformation and support."
Greg Sarafin, EY Global Partner Ecosystem Leader, says:
"The combination of the leading business and technology consulting capabilities of EY US and the industry-leading IT infrastructure services of Kyndryl will be a powerful force in the market. The creation of innovative, joint services and solutions that address the strategy, transformation and ongoing operations will greatly benefit our mutual clients."
Stephen Leonard, Kyndryl Global Alliances & Partnerships Leader, says:
"Our alliance with EY US will help broaden the global reach and impact of Kyndryl's advanced IT infrastructure services to new customers across different industries and geographies that are seeking to modernize and transform their businesses. The combined experience and solutions that will stem from our strategic relationship with EY US will help companies overcome challenges, pursue new opportunities and derive more value from their IT environments."
For more information, visit ey.com/alliances.
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
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This news release reflects information from the date of initial publication and is not further updated.
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider. The company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl's more than 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60 countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com
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SHANGRAO, China, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that it plans to release its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 before the open of U.S. markets on Friday, August 26, 2022.
JinkoSolar's management will host an earnings conference call on Friday, August 26, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (8:00 p.m. Beijing / Hong Kong the same day).
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Please dial in 10 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin and provide the passcode to join the call.
A telephone replay of the call will be available 2 hours after the conclusion of the conference call through 23:59 U.S. Eastern Time, September 2, 2022. The dial-in details for the replay are as follows:
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of JinkoSolar's website at http://www.jinkosolar.com.
About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world. JinkoSolar distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and other countries and regions. JinkoSolar has built a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 40.0 GW for mono wafers, 40.0 GW for solar cells, and 50.0 GW for solar modules, as of March 31, 2022.
JinkoSolar has 12 productions facilities globally, 21 overseas subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, UAE, and Denmark, and global sales teams in mainland China, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Hong Kong, as of March 31, 2022.
To find out more, please see: www.jinkosolar.com
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For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Ms. Stella Wang
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 21-5180-8777 ext.7806
Email: ir@jinkosolar.com
Mr. Rene Vanguestaine
Christensen
Tel: + 86 178 1749 0483
Email: rvanguestaine@ChristensenIR.com
In the U.S.:
Ms. Linda Bergkamp
Christensen, Scottsdale, Arizona
Tel: +1-480-614-3004
Email: lbergkamp@ChristensenIR.com
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GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MINISO Group Holding Limited (NYSE: MNSO; HKEx: 9896) ("MINISO", "MINISO Group" or the "Company"), a global retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products, today announced a special cash dividend.
MINISO's board of directors has approved a special cash dividend in the amount of US$0.172 per ADS or US$0.043 per ordinary share, payable as of the close of business on September 9, 2022 to the holders of ADS and ordinary shares of record as of the close of business on August 31, 2022, New York Time and Beijing/Hong Kong Time, respectively. The ex-dividend date will be August 30, 2022. The aggregate amount of cash dividends to be paid is approximately US$53.5 million (RMB360.8 million), which will be funded by surplus cash on the Company's balance sheet.
For holders of ordinary shares, in order to qualify for the dividend, all valid documents for the transfer of shares accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged for registration with the Company's Hong Kong branch share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong no later than 4:30 p.m. on August 31, 2022 (Beijing/ Hong Kong Time).
MINISO paid a cash dividend of US$0.156 per ADS or US$0.039 per ordinary share in September 2021. Under the Company's current dividend policy, the determination to make dividend distributions and the amount of such distribution will be made at the discretion of its board of directors and will be based upon the Company's operations and earnings, cash flow, financial condition and other relevant factors.
MINISO's net cash flows from operating activities were RMB1,038.5 million, RMB826.5 million and RMB916.3 million in the fiscal years of 2019, 2020 and 2021, and RMB918.8 million and RMB1,048.2 million in the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2022.
About MINISO Group
MINISO is a global retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products. The Company serves consumers primarily through its large network of MINISO stores, and promotes a relaxing, treasure-hunting and engaging shopping experience full of delightful surprises that appeals to all demographics. Aesthetically pleasing design, quality and affordability are at the core of every product in MINISO's wide product portfolio, and the Company continually and frequently rolls out products with these qualities. Since the opening of its first store in China in 2013, the Company has built its flagship brand "MINISO" as a globally recognized retail brand and established a massive store network worldwide. For more information, please visit https://ir.miniso.com/.
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Exchange Rate
The conversion of Renminbi (RMB) into US$ in this press release is based on the exchange rate set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as of August 12, 2022, which was RMB6.7425 to US$1.0000.
Investor Relations Contact:
Raine Hu
MINISO Group Holding Limited
Email: ir@miniso.com
Phone: +86 (20) 36228788 Ext.8039
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BEIJING, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the flourishing peach industry, local farmers in Menyin County in east China's Shandong Province enjoy both the sweet peach aroma and handsome incomes during the summertime.
Boasting favorable geographic conditions, Mengyin has dedicated to peach industry since 1980s. Forty years on, it has become the largest county in the country in terms of peach planting area and peach output.
Mengyin's peach industry has followed a high-quality development path. It has developed 500,000 mu (about 33,333 hectares) of premium peach base by setting up peach-related scientific research platforms, training professional farmers and applying scientific approaches.
To accommodate to dynamic market demands, Mengyin has constantly adjusted and optimized its peach planting structure. Every year, 2 to 4 new varieties will be promoted across the county. From early spring to early winter, 200 varieties of Mengyin peaches are on sale in the market.
Thanks to the partnership with e-commerce platform Taobao, the Mengyin quality peach has gone viral in China and the overseas market, such as Singapore, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Russia and Japan, with daily e-commerce deals of over 80,000.
The increasing popularity of honey peaches has driven the rapid development of transportation, logistics, storage, deep processing, and rural tourism in the county, where over 100,000 local people have sought a fortune.
Besides efforts in boosting the peach industry, the county is also promoting rural tourism.The peach county tour sees more than 2 million tourists annually and generates industrial value of over 1 billion yuan (about 147.23 million U.S. dollars).
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Gov. Mark Gordon has a clear path to reelection after winning the Republican primary in Wyoming on Tuesday, while more competitive Republican primary races shaped up for secretary of state and state superintendent of public instruction.
Democrats, meanwhile, have all but ceded these offices to Republicans, fielding just two candidates who don't even have websites for governor and just one Democratic candidate running for state superintendent.
Here's a look at the races for Wyoming's five statewide elected officials:
GOVERNOR
Gordon had faced fierce opposition within the GOP for public health measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus, causing speculation he'd face a tough primary challenge. He didn't, after lifting a statewide mask mandate and other coronavirus restrictions.
Last year, Gordon urged the National Rifle Association to move its headquarters from Virginia to Wyoming. In March, he signed a ban on most abortions that briefly took effect a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and is now on hold pending a lawsuit contesting the ban. Both moves helped buttress Gordon's right-wing credentials.
And while Gordon hasn't gone out of his way to praise Donald Trump, neither has he criticized the former president's fixation on the false belief that fraud cost him reelection in 2020, which as U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney discovered may have courted a serious primary challenge.
Gordon on Tuesday defeated Brent Bien, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel who oversaw operations in Guam. Bien, of Sheridan, campaigned in part on questioning Gordon's coronavirus restrictions.
Also running Tuesday were Rex Rammell, of Rock Springs, a veterinarian and perennial, unsuccessful candidate for various offices in Idaho and Wyoming, and Douglas oilfield services business owner and Marine veteran James Scott Quick, who ran on protecting the state's energy industry.
Retired U.S. Bureau of Land Management employee Theresa Livingston, of Worland, defeated retired cabinetmaker and perennial candidate Rex Wilde, of Cheyenne, in their race for the Democratic nomination for governor.
SECRETARY OF STATE
State Rep. Chuck Gray defeated Sen. Tara Nethercott in the GOP race to replace Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Buchanan, who is leaving his post after Gordon appointed him to become a state District Court judge.
A former political radio commentator who's the son of a Casper radio station owner, Gray has proven one of Wyoming's most Trump-like legislators since his election to the state House in 2016.
Gray ran briefly for U.S. House in 2021, railing against Cheney after she voted to impeach the former president for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. He visited Arizona to see and be seen at a recount of the 2020 presidential vote in that state.
Gray abandoned his congressional campaign after failing to get Trump's endorsement. Trump did endorse his candidacy for secretary of state.
As Wyoming's No. 2 state official, the secretary of state oversees elections and business licensing.
Nethercott is a Cheyenne attorney who has served in the state Senate since 2017 and chairs the chamber's Judiciary Committee. Like Gray, she made "election integrity" a campaign focus. Nethercott also promised to keep state business administration fees low.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT
Brian Schroeder, former head of a private Christian school in Cody, became state superintendent in January when Gordon chose him from three finalists nominated for the job by the state GOP.
He succeeded Jillian Balow, who left Wyoming to lead Virginia's public school system.
Schroeder is now running for the job under the slogan "Wyoming Education — Not Indoctrination." He promises to "refuse to let our kids become pawns of the social engineers who are hell-bent on grooming them into their relativistic value system."
His opponents include Megan Degenfelder, a Republican from Laramie who was chief policy officer under Balow. Degenfelder calls for doing "more with less" amid a tight state budget and prioritizing funding for classrooms over administration.
Also running is Republican Jennifer Zerba, a Casper substitute teacher and University of Wyoming doctoral student in education who advocates more fiscal transparency and volunteering in schools.
Educator and Northern Arapaho tribal elder Sergio Maldonado is the lone Democrat running for state superintendent.
STATE TREASURER
Incumbent Republican Curt Meier defeated Bill Gallop, a Cheyenne-based investment officer for the Wyoming Retirement System.
Meier, endorsed by Trump for a second term, is a former state legislator with a farm and ranch in the LaGrange area. Meier said the state treasurer's office had beaten its investment benchmarks in his first term and that he'd helped to expand access to low-income housing.
Gallop had criticized Wyoming's state investments under Meier for lagging behind U.S. stock market returns, calling them on his website a "broken engine with seven of eight cylinders busted."
STATE AUDITOR
Republican Auditor Kristi Racines, of Cheyenne, is unopposed for a second term. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/gov-gordon-wins-wyoming-gop-primary-in-bid-for-2nd-term/article_ce780548-b276-582b-bc3e-15be20923bae.html | 2022-08-17T04:36:32Z |
Boomerang Writer
Laramie City Council hopefuls waiting for the results of Tuesday’s primary election to roll in in varied ways. Some celebrated with their families at home and others at local watch parties.
Boomerang Writer
Laramie City Council hopefuls waiting for the results of Tuesday’s primary election to roll in in varied ways. Some celebrated with their families at home and others at local watch parties.
“I think there’s a lot of challenging topics that Laramie will be facing in coming years, and I think incoming council members need to be ready for them,” said Mayor and City Council President Paul Weaver said. “I think there’s also a lot of great opportunities.”
Unofficial results from Tuesday’s Albany County primary were unavailable as of press time for today’s print edition of the Boomerang. Visit laramieboomerang.com to read an updated version of this story and view results and more primary coverage.
Moving into the general election, Wards 1 and 2 both have one four-year seat available, while Ward 3 has two four-year seats available.
“If I don’t win, that’s OK because I have a Plan B,” said Ward 1 candidate Allison Cunningham prior to the reporting of any results.
Cunningham said that state Rep. Ocean Andrews had urged her to run for the Wyoming House of Representatives in 2024.
“I’m feeling good about my race,” O’Doherty said Tuesday night, adding that she’s happy to work with Paul Shumway, another Ward 3 candidate, in the future, even as they hold different beliefs on some issues.
Here are all the candidates for Laramie City Council on the primary election ballot:
Ward 1
Ward 2
Ward 3
Several council members have expiring terms, but not all are running for re-election, including Weaver. Schmechel, Shuster and O’Doherty all ran in the primary to retain their seats.
“Some people are well-suited to really spend many, many years on City Council, and for other people two terms or eight years is a really substantial amount of time,” said Weaver. “I look forward to seeing what new folks prioritize in terms of issues they care about and how they reflect the community, I’ll keep an eye on (the council).”
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As voters made their way past the national names on their primary ballots, they chose between candidates that will have an impact on daily life closer to their homes in Albany County.
There were two seats up for election for the Albany County Commission in Tuesday’s election. Incumbent Democratic candidate Pete Gosar was unopposed on the primary Democratic ticket. On the Republican ballot, incumbent candidate Heber Richardson was challenged by Tony Kirchhoefer and Terri Jones.
The two candidates who win the general election will serve alongside Commissioner Sue Ibarra.
Unofficial results from Tuesday’s Albany County primary were unavailable as of press time for today’s print edition of the Boomerang. Visit laramieboomerang.com to read an updated version of this story and view results and more primary coverage.
While off-year elections typically put local offices under the microscope, this year the race for the commission was partially overshadowed by the race for Wyoming’s only U.S. House Representative seat and the local race for Albany County Sheriff, which included multiple candidates on both sides of the political aisle.
As the Republican candidates waited for results to come in, they had a moment to reflect on the 2022 election season so far.
“You know you did everything you could, and now it’s up to the people to decide which is the way it should be,” Kirchhoefer said.
For his campaign, Kirchhoefer said a primary focus was increasing his name recognition as he was less known than other candidates. He said between campaigning in all areas of the county from Centennial to Rock River, he felt the interactions he had with voters were promising.
Richardson said he appreciates that while the commission candidates may disagree on policy issues, they were able to keep their arguments formal and refrain from attacking each other personally.
“I appreciate that elections in Albany County are fairly civil,” he said. “I’m glad that most of the differences are related to issues. They don’t descend into being personal in terms of the discourse.”
Jones did not respond to a request for comment by the Boomerang’s press time.
Gosar said his focus has been on making sure he’s doing his best rather than worrying about other candidates.
“We’re just focused on getting messages out, meeting people and learning what their concerns are and the solution,” he said. “It’s more about running the best campaign you can and letting the rest take care of itself.”
He added that no matter what the results of the November elections end up being, he would stand by the integrity of the results unless there was obvious evidence suggesting otherwise.
“I think it’s really important that going forward that candidates live by the results and don’t challenge elections unless there’s real evidence,” he said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/commission-candidates-reflect-on-outreach-civility/article_6537a7bb-ea2a-5229-a732-87911f59b08a.html | 2022-08-17T04:36:44Z |
Change was on the mind of many Laramie voters in Tuesday’s Wyoming primary election, with U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney at the bulls-eye of the political target.
Many voters turned out to unseat her as the Republican incumbent in her bid for re-election as the Cowboy State’s sole U.S. House member. Many others wanted to show support for Cheney by switching their party affiliation from Democratic to Republican to vote for her under the state’s closed primary.
“There are lots of changes in affiliation,” said Susan Simpson, chief election judge for Albany County Precinct 4-0 at the Albany County Fairgrounds.
She said most of the requests to change parties were from Democrats or unaffiliated voters to Republican.
Cheney’s strongest opposition has been Harriet Hageman, who held a commanding lead in at least two independent polls leading up to the primary, including a University of Wyoming poll released last week.
As of press time, there have been no results reported for Albany County, and the Secretary of State also had no results from the state’s 23 counties. However, by 8:30 p.m., both CNN and The Washington Post were already calling the race for Hageman.
In recent weeks, a pair of U.S. House Democrats have aired ads asking Wyoming Democrats to consider switching party affiliation to help push Cheney over the line.
The race, which has hinged largely on Cheney’s steadfast criticism of former President Donald Trump and her position as vice-chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack Jan. 6, has put the Wyoming House race in the national spotlight.
“I personally have spoken to reporters from Germany and Japan,” Simpson said about the global media interest generated by the race.
The German reporter asked about Wyoming culture; how voters felt about the contest, economic issues in Wyoming and rural nature of the state, she said. The reporter from Japan was more interested in political rallies, which Simpson said were not a common part of the local primary scene.
The U.S. House race was a big draw for Amber Martin, a lifelong Wyomingite who said Cheney’s involvement in the Jan. 6 committee motivated her participation in the primary.
“I truly believe she is hands-down the strongest political power in the government,” she said.
While some expressed support for Cheney, others, like Laramie City Council candidate Allison Cunningham were anxious to vote her out.
“We need Hageman to win because we need a deep-rooted Wyomingite representing us,” she said.
Party affiliation changes also were evident to the election judge team of Raul Merly and Thomas Mattimore, who were working the polls at the Albany County Fairgrounds. They said teams of two with representatives from each of the major parties checked in voters.
At their table, voters gave their name, showed their identification (the first time under Wyoming’s new voter ID law passed last year) and confirmed their address. They also confirmed their party affiliation and given a white or blue sticker indicating which ballot they would fill out — Republican or Democratic. (Independent voters only had once race on their ballot in the city of Laramie and none county precincts).
“Look at this,” Merly said, pointing to the rolls of blue or white stickers. The white Republican sticker roll was considerably smaller than the blue one.
“This makes me nervous,” he joked.
The pair of judges said that there was no chance they would run out of stickers — enough of each were printed for every voter in the precinct.
While she likely won’t have numbers about party-switchers until next week after the results have been certified (the local canvasing board meets at 9 a.m. Friday to certify the results), longtime Albany County Clerk Jackie Gonzales said local voters historically turn out for elections.
“We have had great turnout in Albany County,” she said before the polls closed Tuesday.
She also said there were no hiccups or issues with the state’s new voter ID law that requires people to show a valid state-issued identification to vote. It was passed by the Legislature last year and Tuesday was the first time it’s been put into practice.
She said that typically, the main issues are people who were unaware of the change in law rather than people having a problem with the rule.
“Probably, the one thing that I’ve noticed maybe is that with changes in the statute, trying to get that information out to the electors so they’re well-informed” was a main focus for her office, Gonzales said.
She also said that, despite some claims that Wyoming’s system has experienced fraud about the 2020 election, Albany County voters can be assured their votes are secure.
“Without a doubt,” she said when asked if local elections are secure and credible. “I’m serious. We’re trying to be very open and transparent, and we work very, very hard to provide safe and secure elections in Albany County.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/crossing-the-line-local-primary-sees-surge-of-republican-voters/article_37caef94-b5c2-5a4d-a9c0-2054f0fcc129.html | 2022-08-17T04:36:51Z |
Thomas Mattimore can vouch for the 2022 primary election in Laramie.
He can do that because he monitored it all day Tuesday, checking voter identification as an Albany County election judge.
Thomas Mattimore can vouch for the 2022 primary election in Laramie.
He can do that because he monitored it all day Tuesday, checking voter identification as an Albany County election judge.
“I will guarantee to anybody that this election is as fair as it can be, because I was in it,” he said in between checking in voters at his Albany County Fairgrounds polling place.
That sense of personal responsibility resonated with other election judges.
When asked if the Albany County election was free and fair, judge John Duvall said that, “One of our jobs is to make it so, as best we can.”
That sense of importance and duty is common among the small army of election workers it took to hold Tuesday’s Wyoming primary.
For Mattimore, the 2020 election was the motivation to act and get involved in the process.
“There were a lot of complaints about the election in 2020,” he said.
By working the polls himself, Mattimore said was able to see the process firsthand, including the new voter identification requirement.
Tuesday’s election required judges to follow the state’s new voter identification law, which requires a Wyoming driver’s license or state-issue identification, tribal identification, valid U.S. passport, U.S. military card, driver’s license or identification card from another state, University of Wyoming, college community college or public school student identification, or a valid Medicare or Medicaid insurance card.
“The ID law may slow things down, but there is no doubt,” Mattimore said. “I feel a lot more comfortable about it than before. It makes sure everything is legit.”
Doubts about the election have been tearing the country apart, said Raul Merly, Mattimore’s partner working the polling place verifying and logging addresses.
The verification that he and Mattimore oversaw can help bring it together.
Merly said their system of checking names, identifications and addresses, with two judges from two parties keeping track of the voters, means that “we super-verify everything.”
Election Judge Joe Horther said he encourages others to serve as a judge to help understand “how well it is run. … There are checks and balances.”
An added benefit, he said, is a chance to meet other judges.
As judges are paired in teams of opposing political parties, getting to know their colleagues on the front lines of the election may seem an opportunity for conflict.
That’s not the case, Merly said.
“I never expected to find a happy, nice person on this (he gestured to his right) side of the table. But I did,” he said. “It invigorated my faith in America.”
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Aside from the scrutiny of the U.S. House battle between Republicans Harriet Hageman and Liz Cheney, the most closely watched local primary race has been for Albany County Sheriff.
Boomerang Writer
Aside from the scrutiny of the U.S. House battle between Republicans Harriet Hageman and Liz Cheney, the most closely watched local primary race has been for Albany County Sheriff.
While their opinions varied on certain law enforcement practices and accountability mechanisms, each of the candidates ran their campaigns on promises to improve operations at the Albany County Sheriff’s Office after a history of mismanagement and local unrest at the department.
On the Democratic side, one side of the coin was watching whether or not Sheriff Aaron Appelhans would move through to the general election for a chance to retain the office he was appointed to in 2020. He replaced former Sheriff David O’Malley, who resigned amid controversy.
The decision made Appelhans the first Black sheriff in Wyoming, with local and national media questioning whether his appointment signaled a period of reform in local law enforcement.
Unofficial results from Tuesday’s Albany County primary were unavailable as of press time for today’s print edition of the Boomerang. Visit laramieboomerang.com to read an updated version of this story and view results and more primary coverage.
This year, Appelhans ran for re-election on the Democratic ticket against challengers Zeb Gladney and Curtis Moore.
Candidates Joel Senior and Rafael Delgadillo ran against one another on the Republican ticket.
While awaiting election results, Delgadillo said he was happy with his ability to share his message clearly on his website and during candidate events.
“I’m very confident that the electorate here will send a strong message that they want to vote to restore the authority and legitimacy of an elected sheriff,” he said. “I think that a sheriff with that kind of support can accomplish more things and I’m looking forward to being that person.”
Appelhans referred to his past experience in the office as an important aspect of his current campaign.
“I think we did a good job during the campaign making sure that people got the message that we sent out and seeing the good work that I’ve done and cleaning things up with ACSO to get us moving in the right direction, and providing that transparent, professional law enforcement service,” he said.
A primary goal of Moore was to give local votes more choices, which he said he was glad to be part of.
“I think you should always have choices,” he said. “That’s why I did it and we shall see what happens.”
Senior and Gladney did not respond to requests for comment by the Boomerang’s press time.
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Republican House candidate Harriet Hageman speaks to supporters Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Cheyenne, Wyo., after defeating Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in the Republican primary. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at an Election Day gathering in Jackson, Wyo. Challenger Harriet Hageman has defeated Cheney in the primary. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Republican House candidate Harriet Hageman speaks to supporters Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Cheyenne, Wyo., after defeating Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in the Republican primary. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)
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Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at an Election Day gathering in Jackson, Wyo. Challenger Harriet Hageman has defeated Cheney in the primary. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump's fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, was defeated in a GOP primary Tuesday, falling to a rival backed by the former president in a rout that reinforced his grip on the party's base.
The third-term congresswoman and her allies entered the day downbeat about her prospects, aware that Trump's backing gave Harriet Hageman considerable lift in the state where he won by the largest margin during the 2020 campaign. Cheney was already looking ahead to a political future beyond Capitol Hill that could include a 2024 presidential run, potentially putting her on another collision course with Trump.
Cheney described her loss as the beginning of a new chapter in her political career as she addressed a small collection of supporters, including her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, on the edge of a vast field flanked by mountains and bales of hay.
"Our work is far from over," she said Tuesday evening, evoking Abraham Lincoln, who also lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.
The results — and the roughly 30-point margin — were a powerful reminder of the GOP's rapid shift to the right. A party once dominated by national security-oriented, business-friendly conservatives like her father now belongs to Trump, animated by his populist appeal and, above all, his denial of defeat in the 2020 election.
Such lies, which have been roundly rejected by federal and state election officials along with Trump's own attorney general and judges he appointed, transformed Cheney from an occasional critic of the former president to the clearest voice inside the GOP warning that he represents a threat to democratic norms. She's the top Republican on the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, an attack she referenced in nodding to her political future.
"I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office — and I mean it," she said.
Four hundred miles to the east of Cheney's concession speech, festive Hageman supporters gathered at a sprawling outdoor rodeo and Western culture festival in Cheyenne, many wearing cowboy boots, hats and blue jeans.
"Obviously we're all very grateful to President Trump, who recognizes that Wyoming has only one congressional representative and we have to make it count," said Hageman, a ranching industry attorney who had finished third in a previous bid for governor.
Echoing Trump's conspiracy theories, she falsely claimed the 2020 election was "rigged" as she courted his loyalists in the runup to the election.
Trump and his team celebrated Cheney's loss, which may represent his biggest political victory in a primary season full of them. The former president called the results "a complete rebuke" of the Jan. 6 committee.
"Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others," he wrote on his social media platform. "Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you WYOMING!"
The news offered a welcome break from Trump's focus on his growing legal entanglements. Just eight days earlier, federal agents executing a search warrant recovered 11 sets of classified records from the former president's Florida estate.
Cheney's defeat would have been unthinkable just two years ago. The daughter of a former vice president, she hails from one of the most prominent political families in Wyoming. And in Washington, she was the No. 3 House Republican, an influential voice in GOP politics and policy with a sterling conservative voting record.
Cheney will now be forced from Congress at the end of her third and final term in January. She is not expected to leave Capitol Hill quietly.
She will continue in her leadership role on the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack until it dissolves at the end of the year. And she is actively considering a 2024 White House bid -- as a Republican or independent -- having vowed to do everything in her power to fight Trump's influence in her party.
With Cheney's loss, Republicans who voted to impeach Trump are going extinct.
In all, seven Republican senators and 10 Republican House members backed Trump's impeachment in the days after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress tried to certify President Joe Biden's victory. Just two of those 10 House members have won their primaries this year. After two Senate retirements, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is the only such Senate Republican on this year's ballot.
Cheney was forced to seek assistance from the state's tiny Democratic minority in her bid to pull off a victory. But Democrats across America, major donors among them, took notice. She raised at least $15 million for her election, a stunning figure for a Wyoming political contest.
Voters responded to the interest in the race. With a little more than half of the vote counted, turnout ran about 50% higher than in the 2018 Republican primary for governor.
If Cheney does ultimately run for president — either as a Republican or an independent — don't expect her to win Wyoming's three electoral votes.
"We like Trump. She tried to impeach Trump," Cheyenne voter Chester Barkell said of Cheney on Tuesday. "I don't trust Liz Cheney."
And in Jackson, Republican voter Dan Winder said he felt betrayed by his congresswoman.
"Over 70% of the state of Wyoming voted Republican in the last presidential election and she turned right around and voted against us," said Winder, a hotel manager. "She was our representative, not her own." | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/trump-foe-liz-cheney-defeated-in-wyoming-gop-primary/article_6a64daec-b3b6-5494-bba2-58af5c07904a.html | 2022-08-17T04:37:09Z |
CHEYENNE – Gov. Mark Gordon has defeated his two Republican opponents in the primary election for another term, in a projected landslide Tuesday night, as reported by the New York Times.
He was among the candidates in five key Republican primary state races, including the secretary of state, state treasurer and state superintendent of public instruction. These races were highly contested, and no official results were reported by the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office before 9:30 p.m.
Gordon was ahead with an estimated 63% of the vote in the gubernatorial campaign, among GOP members, the Times reported. Rival Brent Bien had an estimated 28%.
Gordon will likely face Theresa Livingston in the general election, and she was reported by media outlets as the winner of the Democratic primary, defeating Rex Wilde. Livingston was estimated by the Times to be ahead, garnering some 72% of votes from Democrats, while Wilde reportedly had 28%.
The incumbent Gov. Gordon said he will fight for a second term heading into the general election, and that he and his wife, Jennie Gordon, take nothing for granted.
“We're very encouraged by what we're seeing, and it feels good,” said Gordon from his election party in Buffalo. “I really want to thank all the supporters for doing such an incredible job.”
He faced Rex Rammell and Bien in the Republican primary, both of whom accused Gordon of not standing by the Republican Party's platform strictly enough.
Bien told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, before polls closed at 7 p.m. local time, it was an incredible experience to campaign throughout the state. He said he was privileged to meet so many Wyoming residents. He said because Wyoming is geographically so vast, and the incumbent by virtue of being in office has an advantage, it's hard to overcome.
“It’s a challenge, but it’s very rewarding at the same time,” he said.
Bien also faced backlash from Rammell in the weeks before election night, and accused him of running in the race illegally because he hadn’t lived in the state long enough. Bien retired from active duty in the Marine Corps in 2019, and said he kept his residency throughout the entire time he served.
The Committee to Elect Rex Rammell Governor of Wyoming stated that outgoing Secretary of State Ed Buchanan did not say Bien was eligible to run for governor when Rammell's camp made the complaint.
Rammell told the WTE Tuesday afternoon that he felt he ran a good campaign, but Buchanan should have never allowed Bien to run for governor. He said if Bien was not on the ballot, the votes would not have been split between the two of them.
“Mark Gordon was probably the weakest incumbent,” Rammell said. “And I really feel like I could beat him if Bien wasn’t in the race.”
Jasmine Hall is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter. She can be reached by email at jhall@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3167. Follow her on Twitter @jasminerhphotos and on Instagram @jhrose25. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/gov-gordon-wins-gop-primary-nyt-says/article_54666394-ef9c-547f-9e8d-05ff1d17b67b.html | 2022-08-17T04:37:15Z |
CHEYENNE – Cheyenne attorney Harriet Hageman beat Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in the fight for Wyoming’s lone seat in Congress. This is according to a new report by CNN as well as to one from the Associated Press.
On the Democratic side, the AP said Lynnette Grey Bull had won her party’s primary. She would be running against Hageman in the Nov. 8 general election.
The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office had not yet reported these results, even on a preliminary basis. Nevertheless, the other members of Wyoming’s congressional delegation quickly weighed in with their congratulations to Hageman, who pre-primary polls had consistently forecast as the winner.
Hageman was joined by family, friends and some supporters here, as media outlets far and wide reported, just an hour after polls closed in Wyoming, that she was the winner. As the results were discussed on television at Hageman’s election party, the crowd cheered and hollered in celebration.
Many said in interviews they were there to congratulate her in person, and had known she would beat the incumbent by a landslide.
“By our vote today, Wyoming has put the elites on notice – we are no longer going to tolerate representatives who don’t represent us,” said Hageman in her victory speech. “Wyoming has made clear that we are done being governed by the Washington, D.C., uniparty – those Democrats and Republicans who don’t really care which party is in power, just so long as they are.”
Concession
Cheney conceded to Hageman, saying as much in a televised speech.
Cheney acknowledged Hageman had won and said she had called her rival. Cheney also continued her comments against former President Donald Trump and those like him who have denied the results of the 2020 election that he lost.
“Two years ago, I won this primary with 73% of the vote. I could easily have done the same again,” Cheney said in televised remarks. “But it would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election.”
“Tonight, Harriet Hageman has received the most votes in this primary. She won. I called her to concede the race,” Cheney said. “This primary election is over. But now the real work begins.”
Other political leaders in the state made statements congratulating Hageman, in the minutes after Cheney accepted defeat. U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, both R-Wyo., each said they were looking forward to her joining them in Washington to represent the Equality State.
“Harriet will be a tremendous ally in the fight to unleash American energy, combat inflation and secure our southern border,” Barrasso said. “Along with Cynthia Lummis, the three of us will be a strong, conservative, and effective team for the people of Wyoming.”
A news release from Lummis said the lawmaker “extended her congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her primary win for Wyoming’s lone seat in Congress.” In the emailed announcement, Lummis said of “my friend” Hageman that she will now hold the seat that Lummis herself occupied for eight years.
Hageman has been leading incumbent Cheney in nearly every poll released ahead of the election, including the latest completed by the University of Wyoming. The survey was conducted through the last week of July and into the first week of Aug., and found that 57% of GOP primary voters surveyed supported Hageman. Cheney polled at 28%.
Hageman backers
Supporters attending the primary winner’s party reiterated what the polls revealed, saying it would amount to a landslide against Cheney.
Hageman’s self-described college best friend, Mary Frichtner, said there was no better candidate for Wyoming. She said Hageman was strong and honest, and she had the best chance of winning.
Cheney has been pushing against backlash from the Republican party following her vote to impeach Trump in January 2021, which resulted in a censure from the Wyoming GOP and county delegations. She was also criticized by party leaders for leading the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as the vice chairwoman, and for arguing the 2020 election was not stolen.
Barbara Carlsverg told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle she was disappointed with Cheney when she heard she was going after Trump, because she wasn’t representing the state well. It was the deciding factor in her vote for Hageman.
“She turned her back on the Wyoming people, she’s supposed to represent us,” said Carlsverg. “And then on the other side, people say we admire her for her courage. I said that’s not why she was elected to office.”
Her decision to impeach Trump and investigate his relationship with the riot cost her more than her support from her party. The former president endorsed Hageman, and has continued to campaign for her. He joined her Memorial Day weekend in Casper for a Save America rally, where he bashed Cheney for abandoning her Republican values.
“Liz Cheney has unfortunately made herself very unpopularly among conservative voters,” said Sven Larson, an attendee at the party for Hageman. “Harriet has a lot of integrity, she’s unusually good for a politician, quite frankly.”
Rep. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, Denton Knapp and Robyn Belinskey were the other Republicans all vying for the seat, and they were far behind in polls.
This was not the only primary race Tuesday night for this seat. Democrats Grey Bull, Meghan Jensen and Steve Helling competed for a spot in the general election.
In her own remarks, Grey Bull said that “if this primary season seemed exceptional to you, it’s because it was. Some national political leaders asked Wyoming Democrats to switch their party affiliation to save the GOP from itself.”
The candidate went on to say, in written remarks, that “while I share their concern about extremism, the best way to safeguard against that threat is by defending the democratic system’s intrinsic values, and by supporting a candidate who will fight for everyone, not just the 1%. The myth that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is a dangerous lie that has cost lives and empowered toxic people. My Republican opponent has married herself to that lie and that campaign, and to the former president.”
This story has been further updated to include Grey Bull’s comments. This is a developing story and may be further updated. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/hageman-beats-cheney-ap-and-cnn-say-cheney-concedes/article_2ebefa6a-6138-5a8b-a197-66a5d1daf4b8.html | 2022-08-17T04:37:21Z |
CHEYENNE – Former Cheyenne Police Chief Brian Kozak was ahead in the Republican primary race for Laramie County sheriff as of 10 p.m. Tuesday. Votes from one precinct and absentee ballots were yet to be reported.
At that time, Kozak led with 7,606 votes. Laramie County jail Capt. Don Hollingshead trailed him with 6,912 votes, and CPD veteran Boyd Wrede was in third with 4,918.
If he wins, Kozak will face off against independent Jeff Barnes and Democrat Jess Fresquez in the Nov. 8 general election.
Current Laramie County Sheriff Danny Glick announced last summer that he would not seek re-election after nearly 20 years in the position and 40 years total with the sheriff’s office.
Republican Sylvia Hackl also led in the race for Laramie County district attorney against fellow Republican Tom Callison. Hackl had 9,103 votes, versus Callison’s 8,389.
Should she win the primary, Hackl would be the presumptive winner of the general election. Embattled DA Leigh Anne Manlove did not to run for re-election. Manlove was elected to the position in November 2018.
All results are unofficial until they are certified by the county canvassing board at 2 p.m. Friday.
Sheriff
Since the launch of his campaign last September, Kozak has focused criticism on jail policies enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it was a primary cause of last year’s rise in property crime. He has said he would focus on restructuring jail policies in an effort to reduce recidivism.
Kozak was the longest-serving leader of the department, holding the position for 11 years. He was ousted following the 2020 election of current Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins. Kozak almost immediately began floating a run for sheriff.
Hollingshead, a 27-year veteran of the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office, primarily ran on his experience with the department. Throughout the campaign, he was forced to defend himself and other sheriff’s office leadership against knocks from his opponents.
Kozak and Wrede also trained criticism on Hollingshead for what they’ve said are inadequate poor conditions within the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office, including low pay and inadequate leadership.
Wrede worked for CPD for 21 years. He served in multiple roles, including on the bomb squad, on the Mounted Patrol Unit and as a detective.
Independent candidate Barnes served as a Laramie County sheriff’s deputy from 2017 until his retirement last summer. He spent 21 years in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and served 32 years with the Air Force: four years active duty and 28 years with the Missouri Air National Guard.
Democrat Fresquez is also in the race.
District attorney
Hackl has emphasized her years of management experience, including leadership experience working in the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office, and in leading the Wyoming State Public Defender’s Office for six years. She’s said she was able to turn around the over-budget, understaffed office, and that she’d do the same with the DA’s office.
Hackl was also the Cheyenne city attorney for two years.
Callison was most recently a staff attorney for about a year at Legal Aid of Wyoming. From 2008 to April 2021, he was a defense consultant on professional license disciplinary matters before Colorado licensing boards. Callison spent six years at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, where he prosecuted mainly administrative cases. He was also town attorney for Encampment in southern Wyoming.
The Wyoming Supreme Court may soon decide if Manlove should face sanctions possibly up to losing her law license. A Wyoming State Bar panel has recommended she be disbarred for not running her office properly and misuse of prosecutorial discretion.
Oral arguments in the disciplinary proceeding before the high court will begin at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
County clerk
Current Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee had a significant lead over fellow Republican Andy McMahon. Lee had earned 13,788 votes, versus McMahon’s 4,617, as of press time.
Lee has served the county since 2016. She previously told the WTE that she’d pledged to bring a fresh perspective and energy to the office, and that she has done so.
“We’ve launched innovative programs, developed solutions to bring greater transparency, efficiency, accessibility and information to the people of Laramie County,” she said in an email. “We’ve worked hard to make our elections more secure and transparent before those topics became the subject of national news.”
McMahon, 55, is a Cheyenne native and has spent the past 22 years working for an accessible-automobile dealer. He campaigned on improving speed and customer service in the county clerk’s office. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/elections/kozak-leads-sheriff-race-with-hackl-ahead-in-da-race/article_5c8f1273-5055-5f96-831a-31aa8e0abb7b.html | 2022-08-17T04:37:28Z |
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