text stringlengths 65 123k | url stringlengths 25 420 | crawl_date timestamp[us, tz=UTC]date 2022-04-01 01:00:57 2022-09-19 04:34:04 |
|---|---|---|
BEIJING, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) ("Waterdrop" or the "Company"), a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact, today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, before U.S. markets open on Friday, September 9, 2022.
Waterdrop's management team will hold a conference call on September 9, 2022 at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time (8:00 PM Beijing/Hong Kong Time on the same day) to discuss the financial results. Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
Please dial in 15 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin and provide the Elite Entry Number to join the call.
A telephone replay will be accessible two hours after the conclusion of the conference call through September 16, 2022 by dialing the following numbers:
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available at the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.waterdrop-inc.com/.
About Waterdrop Inc.
Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. Founded in 2016, with the comprehensive coverage of Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding, Waterdrop aims to bring insurance and healthcare service to billions through technology. For more information, please visit www.waterdrop-inc.com.
For investor inquiries, please contact
Waterdrop Inc.
Xiaojiao CUI
IR@shuidi-inc.com
Christensen
In China
Mr. Eric Yuan
Phone: +86-1380-111-0739
E-mail: Eyuan@christensenir.com
In US
Ms. Linda Bergkamp
Phone: +1-480-614-3004
Email: lbergkamp@christensenir.com
View original content:
SOURCE Waterdrop Inc. | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/waterdrop-inc-report-second-quarter-2022-financial-results-september-9-2022/ | 2022-09-02T12:56:23Z |
MORGAN COUNTY, Colo., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westervelt Ecological Services (WES) has received federal approval to improve water quality as well as plant and animal habitat by restoring wetlands on 109 acres in Morgan County, near the banks of the South Platte River just outside the City of Fort Morgan. The project, known as the Front Range Mitigation Bank (FRMB), has been approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide wetland credits in the Middle-South Platte-Sterling (10190012), Pawnee (10190014), Middle-South Platte-Cherry Creek (10190012), Sidney Draw (10190017), Crow (10190009), Upper Lodgepole (10190016), and Bijou (10190011) watersheds for unavoidable impacts to waters of the United States which result from activities authorized under section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The first issue of credits is available now.
FRMB is a multi-benefit project that will restore the environmental functions of wetland flood control, sediment control, groundwater recharge, and water quality. Additional improvements to wildlife habitat will provide enhanced bird viewing opportunities and improved aesthetics in the area. "We are very excited about the wildlife and wetland conservation this Bank site will provide—the restored wetland systems and warm water slough that traverses the site is vital to diverse wildlife in the area." says WES Rocky Mountain Region Director, Tyler Bell.
Environmental regulatory agencies including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Federal Highway Administration must approve a mitigation bank in the State of Colorado before credits can be sold. Mitigation banks provide enhanced environmental benefits over smaller, piece-meal mitigation and retain inherent biological, financial and legal assurances to ensure ecological project success. Economic advantages recognized by public and private sector developers include economies of scale, reduced permitting time and costs, and severance of liability.
To learn more about the site and the credits available, contact Will Duggins at (816) 224-9497 or email wduggins@westervelt.com.
About Westervelt Ecological Services: Providing conservation on a landscape scale is the mission of Westervelt Ecological Services. A division of The Westervelt Company, a 137 year-old land stewardship company based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Westervelt Ecological Services offers mitigation banking solutions for developers and businesses who need to mitigate impacts to wetlands or species across the country. To learn more visit www.wesmitigation.com.
Contact: Tyler Bell (337) 591-6110 or
tbell@westervelt.com (Bank Manager)
Will Duggins (816) 224-9497 or
wduggins@westervelt.com (Credit Sales)
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Westervelt Ecological Services | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/wetland-improvements-coming-south-platte-river/ | 2022-09-02T12:56:30Z |
White Castle also introduces "Cheesy 10 Sack," a special price for 10 cheese sliders,
giving cravers great taste at a great value
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just four months after launching The 1921 Slider, White Castle is introducing two new taste-tempting variations to the burger that has proven to be a favorite among cravers.
Beginning today, the 1921 BBQ Bacon Slider and the 1921 Ghost Slider will join White Castle's menu of hot-and-tasty sliders.
Like The 1921 Slider, both variations are thick, juicy 100% beef patties, seared and seasoned to perfection, topped with lettuce, pickles, a slice of Roma tomato, and grilled caramelized onions, and served on White Castle's signature bun. The 1921 BBQ Bacon Slider also features bacon, smoked cheddar cheese and Sweet Baby Ray's Honey BBQ Sauce. For those who crave the heat, the 1921 Ghost Slider includes a slice of ghost pepper cheese, a creamy jack cheese infused with flakes of ghost peppers, one of the hottest peppers on the planet.
"White Castle has been well-known for its slider innovations over the years, and these two new versions of our 1921 Slider reflect our desire to keep our crave-ability quotient going strong," said Jamie Richardson, vice president at White Castle. "We think people of great taste everywhere are going to love these new twists to such a classic burger."
White Castle, a 101-year-old family-owned business, introduced The 1921 Slider as a permanent menu item in late spring as a way to honor the burger that launched the fast-food industry. In 1921, White Castle founder Billy Ingram had the idea of making a hamburger by pressing a beef meatball into a flat, circular patty, and later even invented an industrial strength spatula to press the meatball more easily on the grill. That's how the iconic White Castle slider came to be.
The 1921 Ghost Slider and the 1921 BBQ Bacon Slider will be available through the end of November.
There's more big news coming from White Castle besides the two new 1921 Sliders. Between now and November 27, White Castle is offering its Cheesy 10 Sack for just $8.99 ($9.99 in New York, New Jersey and Scottsdale).
As the name suggests, the Cheesy 10 Sack features 10 delicious cheese sliders. Customers can pick either American, spicy jalapeño, smoked cheddar or the new, smoking-hot ghost pepper cheese.
"Our Cheesy 10 Sack is a terrific value, providing Cravers with a hot and tasty, affordable meal," Richardson said.
White Castle is also introducing two Coca-Cola Freestyle soft drinks to celebrate its standing as the after-hours scene for food and fun. Sprite Midnight, a mix of the familiar lemon-lime taste of Sprite and delicious berry and grape flavors, is the perfect complement to any slider and will help keep the late-night party going. Powerade Midnight, featuring the refreshingly smooth taste of grape and a citrusy splash of lemonade, is an ideal choice to rehydrate after a night of fun.
White Castle, America's first fast-food hamburger chain, has been making hot and tasty Sliders as a family-owned business for 101 years. Based in Columbus, Ohio, White Castle started serving The Original Slider® in 1921. Today White Castle owns and operates more than 350 restaurants dedicated to satisfying customers' cravings morning, noon and night and sells its famous fare in retail stores nationwide. The Original Slider, named in 2014 as Time magazine's "Most Influential Burger of All Time," is served alongside a menu of creatively crafted Sliders and other mouthwatering food options, including White Castle's Impossible™ Slider, named by Thrillist in 2019 as the "Best Plant-Based Fast-Food Burger." White Castle's commitment to maintaining the highest quality products extends to the company owning and operating its own meat processing plants, bakeries and frozen-food processing plants. In 2021, 100 years after the first Slider was sold, Fast Company named the fast-food pioneer one of the "10 Most Innovative Dining Companies." White Castle is known for the legendary loyalty of its team members, more than 1 in 4 of whom have worked for White Castle for at least 10 years, and also for its faithful fans ("Cravers"), many of whom compete each year for entry into the Cravers Hall of Fame. The official White Castle app, available at iTunes App Store or Google Play, makes it easy for Cravers to access sweet deals and place pickup orders at any time. They can also have their orders delivered using one of White Castle's delivery partners. For more information on White Castle, visit whitecastle.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE White Castle | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/white-castle-adds-1921-slider-line-up-with-two-new-great-tastes-available-limited-time/ | 2022-09-02T12:56:36Z |
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 earlier in August 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.
n
Wyoming District Court Judge Marvin Tyler is retiring, effective Jan. 2, Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Kate M. Fox announced earlier in August. 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 on Aug 8.
n John B. Cooksey is being inducted into the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame, the Wyoming Department of Transportation announced on Aug. 9. “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/community/milestones-for-august-2022-edition/article_2ddb8ad6-e6e0-5957-87a0-07888d0c0642.html | 2022-09-02T14:04:16Z |
Tribune News Service
Adamma Ebo’s directorial debut, “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.” is a bracing and bold film that blends documentary style filmmaking into a traditional narrative to create a bone-dry comedy and social commentary that’s one part “The Office,” and two parts “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
The always-excellent Regina Hall stars as Trinitie Childs, the long-suffering wife of disgraced pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown). The couple used to minister to a congregation of thousands in their Southern Baptist megachurch, Lee-Curtis preaching the prosperity gospel decked out in flamboyant three-piece suits, Trinitie smiling at the TV cameras from under her elaborate church hats.
After a sex scandal, they’ve been left preaching to a group of five, and have hired a documentary crew to capture their comeback, planned for Easter Sunday, if it isn’t thwarted by the young upstarts at a new church, Heaven’s House, led by the Pastors Sumpter (Nicole Beharie and Conphidance).
Ebo’s choice to only partially use mockumentary footage in this film is an interesting one. It allows her, as a filmmaker, to show us the Childs when the (documentary) cameras aren’t on, at breakfast, in the bedroom, and to highlight the way the couple turn on and off their perfect personas, demonstrated most clearly in tight, toothy grins.
But it also asks the viewer to switch back and forth as well, constantly calibrating between the overall narrative of this story and the documentary that’s being made within. It’s unlike, for example, a Christopher Guest comedy, where the entire film is the mockumentary, and perhaps it would have been a more consistent choice to keep the device going the entire time.
“Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” ultimately serves as a showcase for Hall’s incredible performance, which utilizes both her comedic and dramatic skills in equal measure. Some of the greatest commentary and comedy comes out of the extreme passive-aggression that bubbles between Trinitie and other women who attempt to out-“bless your heart” each other.
Hall’s ability to convey meaning and comedy through a look to the camera, a widening of her eyes or twitch of her mouth is masterful, and it’s chops that she has honed throughout her varied career, from “Scary Movie” to indie dramedies, to thrillers. Brown is also, unsurprisingly remarkable, and he is given the chance to show off the comedic abilities only previously seen when he hosted “Saturday Night Live.”
But while the performances are towering, it feels like there’s something missing from “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.” There is a sense of waiting the entire film for the story to kick into gear, and it never quite gets going. We wait and wait to find out the details about the sex scandal, and while there is a final confrontation, it never feels all that satisfying, dramatically. While Ebo skewers the hypocrisy of the church as Lee-Curtis pushes his wife to the brink, there are other aspects of their ministry that are left less explored, like the materialistic “prosperity” of their word and lifestyle.
In terms of the comedy, things never quite get as outlandish as it could be. It comes close to the edge, but doesn’t go over it, remaining arch and intellectual, resisting a full tilt into comedy, which is slightly unsatisfying for what it seems to promise.
“Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” signals a fresh new voice in writer/director Ebo, who taps into a unique world, ripe for big screen exploration. But this satirical take on religion is far more cerebral than laugh-out-loud funny, and leaves much potential material to pillory on the table. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/movie-review-regina-hall-shines-but-honk-for-jesus-save-your-soul-a-muted-religious/article_c7ac8592-2a32-11ed-a632-a358e464ff64.html | 2022-09-02T14:04:23Z |
For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
People affect birds – individual birds and whole populations – all the time.
Sometimes, we have a negative effect on birds, such as glass walls and bright lights that steer migrating birds to their deaths.
Sometimes we have a positive effect, such as growing windbreaks across the Great Plains that encouraged blue jays to follow the trees west. Or we create reservoirs to store water, drawing ducks and other water birds to use them.
I’ve been looking at what the environmental organizations have to say about the new Inflation Reduction Act and how it will affect birds.
The IRA should help birds (and people) affected by climate change as it encourages actions for cleaner air. Clean air reduces climate change effects, such as severe weather and the timing of seasonal changes.
Encouraging the switch to electric vehicles is good. Electricity can come from any source of fuel. If the source is a fossil fuel power plant, then pollution controls can be centrally located, rather than depending on vehicle owners to attend to maintenance. I don’t know about you, but diesel fumes from the truck ahead of me at the stoplight is something I won’t miss.
It looks like the fossil fuel industries are losing out after spending the last 50 years fighting clean air regulations instead of finding technology to keep air clean.
Birds will certainly benefit from clean air, but I wonder how much that will be offset by the drawbacks of solar and wind energy production – the emphasis of the IRA.
Can we make smart changes?
If you remember, in 2019, I signed up to testify on behalf of Cheyenne Audubon at the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality hearing on NextEra’s Roundhouse wind development. It is located partly on the city of Cheyenne’s Belvoir Ranch property.
What I discovered was that NextEra was required to show the impact on wildlife of wind turbines and the numerous new roads. Yes, the state asks for certain information, but it seems to me that a state or federal agency, rather than the company, should be performing the field investigations on the public’s behalf, and doing so to a greater depth. And the results should be put in context with nearby developments, like the other wind farm adjacent to Roundhouse on the north side of Interstate 80.
Wyoming, famous for its wind, is slated to be covered with wind turbines. Our “big empty” is also slated to be covered with industrial solar developments. Solar will affect grassland birds, though it will be an army of graduate students who discover exactly how.
A new study on the effect of industrial solar fields on Wyoming’s hoofed wildlife was recently examined by a WyoFile reporter: https://wyofile.com/report-industrial-solar-disrupts-big-game-movements/.
The study shows that the chain link fence required by the National Electric Code kept migrating antelope out, essentially losing that amount of habitat.
Let’s say you don’t care about birds or other wildlife. Let’s say you care more about Wyoming’s economy.
Keep in mind that our second-largest economic sector is tourism.
During the pandemic years, tourists have discovered more of Wyoming than the Tetons and Yellowstone. They are finding our favorite local recreation areas. The tourists I talk to appreciate our wide-open natural spaces and wildlife the way most of us do. But I don’t think thousands of acres of wind turbines and solar panels are going to enhance the views that tourists come here for, especially when they come from states that are already covered in industrial and agricultural development.
I still think smart clean-energy development is about integrating it with current infrastructure.
Currently, solar is more people-friendly, the source to concentrate on. No possibility of flying blades or deep vibration noises.
Think about the acres of parking lots that could be roofed with solar panels. Think about the acres of roofs everywhere, especially the giant warehouses we have in Cheyenne. And Walmart’s warehouse also has a lovely south-facing wall, as do the Microsoft data center buildings. Or maybe fill in the uninhabitable acres around wind turbines. The Germans are looking at solar canopies over their autobahns: https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/solar-panel-covered-autobahn-could-speed-german-energy-transition/2-1-854215.
Even our (electric) cars could have solar energy-collecting skins someday. You would go to the carwash to wash away dirt to improve your energy production. Although I suppose then no one would want to park in a solar-panel-roofed parking lot.
Yes, solar and wind have energy storage issues. But there are many brilliant minds in the world, and the rewards of the marketplace are there to spur them on. Let’s hope their solutions are bird-friendly, wildlife-friendly and, at the very least, people-friendly.
Barb Gorges is the author of “Cheyenne Birds by the Month,” www.YuccaRoadPress.com. Her previous columns are at http://cheyennebirdbanter.wordpress.com. Contact her at bgorges4@msn.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/outdoors/how-will-the-ira-affect-birds/article_80ccf946-27f2-11ed-9db8-5374ad37b1ab.html | 2022-09-02T14:04:29Z |
If it’s fun for the artists, it should be just as fun for those in attendance.
Plein Air in the Parks, an outdoor landscape painting event hosted in joint operation by the Wyoming Arts Council and Wyoming State Parks, is a yearly event that gathers local artists for three days of outdoor painting, known as plein air painting.
It isn’t an unusual medium to work in, though it’s one that does come with some limitations in execution. The style requires artists to enter the wilderness with an easel, find a location that inspires them and then paint that location.
For five years now, the event has been held in different locations throughout the state, sometimes in historic buildings, other times in vast plains.
This year, artists will set up their easels in the relatively contained wilderness of Curt Gowdy State Park, just outside of Cheyenne, from Sept. 15-18, and at the Trail End State Historic Site in Sheridan, from Sept. 22-25.
This is the first time that the event will be held in Curt Gowdy, and the first time that Laramie County artists will have easy access to try their hand at an iconic, and slightly taxing, form of landscape portraiture. Unexpectedly, the event has also ended up attracting artists from Northern Colorado.
“Originally, we had the thought of driving a new or a different audience into the state parks and advocating for the parks as a place that is conducive to not just hiking or fishing, but also creativity,” said Rachel Clifton, assistant director of the Wyoming Arts Council. “We’re getting artists out into the park to do that and explore.
“Then it also creates an opportunity for artists to show their work and talk with one another.”
The artists have free rein to explore the park and set up where they like. Clifton said that part of the fun for attendees at the event will likely be the ability to hike through Curt Gowdy and possibly stumble upon an artist at work.
Not every artist is practiced or regularly paints in a plein air fashion. There are still artists coming to participate that rarely produce traditional work, like Bria Hammock. She sticks to vibrant colors and blocky, stylized shapes reminiscent of her daytime profession as a graphic designer.
Georgia Rowswell, owner of Blue Door Arts in Cheyenne, will be working with fiber art for her landscape.
Then there’s local artist James Overstreet, who has undergone subtle changes in his artistic style throughout his career. For Overstreet, it’s more about the medium of painting, and the plein air event will give him some extra practice and room for experimentation.
He doesn’t normally paint traditional oil landscapes, and admittedly, there’s no way that he’s going to neglect some of the more out-of-the-box thinking that he applies to the rest of his art.
This year, he will repurpose what he did last year for the event to a more extensive degree with a set of “mint tin” paintings, for which he placed third in last year’s event.
Equipped with his mountain bike and a backpack of tin containers, he plans to arrive at Curt Gowdy early and ride the trails, stopping for any scenes that catch his interest. When he does, he will paint the landscape in a small, three-by-five inch tin.
Across two days, he can probably complete four to six paintings.
“Last year, I did wake up at 3 a.m. to drive to Laramie to get a sunrise. I think I might do that again,” Overstreet said. “My strategy is thinking about time of day. I definitely wanna try to get a sunset or sunrise, just because the lighting during that time is so magical that you can make your painting come alive and look more vibrant.”
It helps that he’s familiar with the trails at Curt Gowdy, so the majority of preparation is going into being in the right place at the right time during his rides through the mountains.
Cheyenne newcomer Larissa Akhmatova doesn’t have such a luxury.
Having relocated to the area from the Gulf Coast of Texas in April, she’s only made the trip out to the state park once before, and even more pressing – has never practiced plein air painting.
“I haven’t done formal plein air painting or landscape painting,” she said. “Usually, when I go camping, I draw in my sketchbook and observe stuff around me, but I’ve never brought a bunch of paints or pastels with me. This is really an experiment.”
It’s an experiment that offers a potential payout of $1,000 to the artist awarded first place.
Plein Air painting is also seriously outside of her typical cartoon and anime inspired art. She’s illustrated comic books, painted murals, crafted sculptures and painted portraits, but all of them are heavily stylized.
Akhmatova plans to practice in the week leading up to the event. She’s also hoping that she comes across an animal while she camps out at Curt Gowdy for the weekend, planning to be present at dusk and dawn to increase her chances.
From her perspective, there’s no reason to be discouraged.
“I can do some more realistic stuff, like portraits, but I tend to use brighter colors than natural colors,” Akhmatova said. “I’m not gonna do neon or anything, but I think it might look a little bit brighter than what I’m used to seeing when I just look up landscape paintings.”
A final art show and sale containing the artists work will be held on Sept. 18 from 1-3 p.m. at the Curt Gowdy Visitors center. The event is free. The mobile ArtHaus will also be on site Saturday with plein air work from regional artists on display.
Artists can still register online leading up to the start of the event. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/plein-air-in-the-parks-puts-regional-artists-beneath-western-skies/article_987a3d2a-2a2b-11ed-906d-3b15b726314a.html | 2022-09-02T14:04:35Z |
Los Angeles Times
This time last year, I was watching the trailer for Ridley Scott’s true-crime saga “House of Gucci” on a continuous loop, trying to parse the nuances of Lady Gaga’s Italian (?) accent and looking for a cheap online knockoff of Adam Driver’s cable-knit ski sweater. I wasn’t sure why Jared Leto was playing Jeffrey Tambor, but I was absolutely certain that Leto and Gaga and the movie would all be feted at the 2022 Oscars.
Of course, none of that happened (though I did find a great deal on the sweater), which is why it’s best to see movies before making any awards season predictions. But there’s no harm in offering a few thoughts about the fall films hoping to find favor with Oscar voters in the coming months. (We’re looking at release dates through Nov. 4.)
Some of these movies could edge their way into the best picture conversation; others are more performance-driven. A few will be barely remembered a few months from now.
It’s also worth noting that the year appears a bit backloaded, with prestige titles from Steven Spielberg (”The Fablemans”), Damien Chazelle (”Babylon”), Sam Mendes (”Empire of Light”), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (”Bardo”), Darren Aronofsky (”The Whale”) and Noah Baumbach (”White Noise”) arriving around the holidays. Plus ”Avatar” and ”Black Panther” sequels.
But there will be plenty of time to talk about those films. Let’s focus on the immediate future. Release dates are subject to change, and the dates provided are for Los Angeles theatrical release except where noted.
Sept. 16
‘The Woman King’
Gina Prince-Bythewood directs this epic about the women warriors who protected the African kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century. Their leader? A general played by none other than Viola Davis, so you know the realm – and the audience – is in good hands.
‘Blonde’
(streaming on Netflix, Sept. 28)
Marilyn Monroe’s life is reimagined in this Andrew Dominik adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel. Ana de Armas plays the legend in a NC-17-rated movie that is sure to be dissected, scrutinized and – who knows? – maybe even watched by a few people when it drops on Netflix.
Sept. 23
‘Don’t Worry Darling’
Florence Pugh and Harry Styles and a bunch of beautiful people are having fun in the Palm Springs sun until they’re not in this Olivia Wilde-directed psychological thriller about a perfect world that might be a little too perfect, especially for the impeccably dressed women waiting for their husbands to return home from their mysterious jobs. The community’s operating principle is straight out of the Michael Corleone playbook: “Don’t ask me about my business!”
‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’
(streaming on AppleTV+, Sept. 30)
Zac Efron plays a dude bringing a couple of cases of cold ones to his buddies in Vietnam in this story of friendship from writer-director Peter Farrelly. Like Farrelly’s last movie, the Oscar-winning “Green Book,” it’s based on real-life events. Will it connect with audiences – and awards season voters – like its predecessor?
Oct. 7
‘Tar’
Todd Field has directed and co-written two movies – “In the Bedroom” and “Little Children.” Since the latter’s release 16 years ago, he has remained busy, though none of his projects, including collaborations with Joan Didion and Jonathan Franzen, have been realized. Finally, we have a new Todd Field movie, “Tar,” centered on a fictional German composer and conductor played by Cate Blanchett.
‘Amsterdam’
Filmmaker David O. Russell enjoyed a nice run from 2010-13 with “The Fighter,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “American Hustle.” But we haven’t heard from him since the uninspired “Joy” seven years ago, making this film – a period mystery-caper with a sprawling cast that includes Margot Robbie, Christian Bale, John David Washington and Taylor Swift – an anticipated title. However, it’s not playing any of the fall festivals, meaning it’s probably not an awards contender. Could it still be fun? Maaaaaaybe.
‘Triangle of Sadness’
Ruben Ostlund’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner takes aim at the rich (and the luxury cruise industry) in a satire weighted with moral disgust and vomit. Glib or glorious? Opinions vary. Woody Harrelson plays a Marxist ship captain, maybe the one thing we can all agree is perfect.
Oct. 14
‘Till’
The latest from “Clemency” director Chinonye Chukwu looks at the brief life of Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall), his brutal lynching following an unfounded accusation and the subsequent quest for justice by his mother, Mamie (Danielle Deadwyler).
‘Decision to Leave’
Park Chan-wook won the director prize at Cannes for this ravishing mystery about a detective (Park Hae-il) obsessed with a woman (Tang Wei) he suspects killed her husband. South Korea has already selected it as its entry into the Oscars’ international feature race.
Oct. 21
‘My Policeman’
(streaming on Prime Video, Nov. 4)
This drama about a police officer (Harry Styles) starting a romance with a teacher (Emma Corrin) while maintaining a secret affair with a museum curator (David Dawson) in 1950s England has already won a prize – the Toronto Film Festival’s Tribute Award for Performance. Past tribute winners include Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”), Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”) and Anthony Hopkins (“The Father”), all of whom went on to win Oscars. This is the first time TIFF has honored an ensemble. Maybe this Harry Styles guy is an up-and-comer?
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Martin McDonagh’s last feature, 2017’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” was a critical and commercial hit, winning Oscars for Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell. This follow-up tells the story of lifelong friends (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) who have a falling-out, with startling consequences.
‘Aftersun’
A divorced sad dad (Paul Mescal) takes his precocious tween daughter (newcomer Frankie Corio) on a Turkish seaside resort holiday in Charlotte Wells’ tender coming-of-age drama (for both parent and child) that won raves at Cannes.
‘Wendell & Wild’
(streaming on Netflix, Oct. 28)
An animated fantasy about a couple of demon brothers looking to join the Land of the Living from stop-motion master Henry Selick (“The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Coraline”) and Jordan Peele? Sounds great. Even better – Peele and Keegan-Michael Key voice the demons.
Oct. 28
‘Armageddon Time’
James Gray’s thoughtful, self-critical coming-of-age story earned a seven-minute ovation at its Cannes premiere earlier this year. Featuring a cast that includes Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, the film centers on a friendship between two misfit boys in 1980 Queens – one Jewish, the other Black – and the societal inequities that complicate their relationship. Reviewing from Cannes, L.A. Times film critic Justin Chang praised the script’s “layered understanding of hypocrisy and privilege.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/the-14-fall-awards-contenders-set-to-open-before-november/article_7b78ee30-2984-11ed-bf4d-7b8d96bd6878.html | 2022-09-02T14:04:41Z |
Cheyenne and Laramie County
Cheyenne First Friday Artwalk
– Sept. 2, 5 p.m. Free. The Cheyenne Artwalk is a monthly event that highlights a local gallery or studio on the first Friday of every month. This month, look for the mobile ArtHaus unit parked out front the Clay Paper Scissors, along with food trucks and live music. Cheyenne Artist Guild, 1701 Morrie Ave. 307-632-2263
Cheyenne Farmers Market
– Sept. 3, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
VFW Craft and Flea Market Show
– Sept. 3, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Support local veterans by shopping for different crafts, including jewelry, crochet items, candles and more. Lunch will be available. VFW 1881, 2816 E. Seventh St. 307-632-4053.
Labor Day Pig Roast
– Sept. 5, 11:30 a.m. Free. American Legion Post 6 is sponsoring a free pig roast that is open to the public. There will be barbecue pork, hot dogs and hamburgers with fixings. American Legion Post 6, 2001 E. Lincolnway. 307-256-4138
Cheyenne Heritage Quilters Meeting
– Sept. 6, 7 p.m. Guest speaker Angela McPherson of Cheyenne will give a trunk show of art quilts. She will have an emphasis on the use of many mediums to create an art quilt, and will also talk about a class she will be teaching to create an art quilt on Oct. 15. First United Methodist Church, 108 E. 18th St. info@chquilters.org
Spanish Storytime (Hora de cuentos en español)
– Sept. 7, 6-7 p.m. In collaboration with the Hispanic Heritage Celebration, the library will be presenting a special Spanish Storytime. Come enjoy stories, songs, snacks and a craft, all in Spanish. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
– Sept. 7, 6-7 p.m. En colaboración con La Celebración de la Herencia Hispana, presentaremos una hora de cuentos en español. Disfrute de cuentos especiales, canciones, meriendas y manualidades – ¡todo en español! Biblioteca del condado de Laramie, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Open Mic Night at Blue Raven
– Sept. 7, 7-10 p.m. A musical open mic night, presented in collaboration with Wyoming Wave Studios. Blue Raven Brewery, 209 E. 18th St. 307-369-1978
Capital City Car and Bike Club: Show and Shine
– Sept. 8, 5-8 p.m. Enjoy a free car show at the library before the club’s big event at the Cheyenne Hispanic Festival on Sept. 10. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
The Purple Society Meeting
– Sept. 8, 6-7 p.m. Join members of the LBGTQ+ and allies community. This group meets to chat about LGBTQ+ related issues, work on crafts and enjoy some snacks in a safe environment. This group seeks to offer understanding, support and acceptance. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Nonprofits: Introduction to Proposal Writing
– Sept. 8, 12:30–1:30 p.m. Are you new to proposal writing or wanting a quick refresher? This class will provide participants with an introductory overview of the nonprofit proposal writing process. RSVP for this event at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Open Jam Night
– Sept. 8, 7 p.m. Free. The Lincoln Theatre is hosting its monthly Open Jam Night. Musicians are encouraged to bring their guitar, bass, etc., and come jam with other local musicians! Backline provided. A full bar will be available for those who just want to come and watch. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Cheyenne’s Got Talent
– Sept. 9, 7-9 p.m. Free. This event features dancers, musicians, magicians and entertainers from Cheyenne. The audience will vote on their favorite acts for a chance to open for performers from “America’s Got Talent” in October. There will be food trucks on site. Lions Park, Carey Avenue and Eighth Avenue. 307-537-6423
La Noche de Celebracion
– Sept. 9, 7 p.m. $10. La Noche de Celebración will highlight Hispanic heritage as a kick-off to the weekend-long Cheyenne Hispanic Festival. Cheyenne Civic Center, 2101 O’Neil Ave. 307-637-6363
Comedy Night at The Metropolitan
– Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. $20. Laughter is good for the soul. Get your giggles on at this 90-minute comedy show featuring two awesome comedians. The Metropolitan Downtown, 1701 Carey Ave. 307-432-0022
{h3 class=”p1”}Cheyenne Farmers Market{/h3}
{p class=”p2”}– Sept. 10, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Local and regional vendors sell their produce, honey, jams, meat, bakery and specialty items, and much more. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Laramie County and its programs. B Parking Lot, Frontier Park, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-635-9291 or www.calc.net/farmers-market
Wyoming State Museum Family Day
– Sept. 10, 10 a.m-2 p.m. This month’s theme is “Buzzing Bees.” This Family Day is dedicated to our favorite little pollinators. Learn how bees take nectar and make it into honey, explore the world of beekeeping and find out how to make your garden more pollinator friendly. Wyoming State Museum, 2301 Central Ave. 307-777-7022
{h3 class=”wcs-class__title wcs-modal-call h1” title=”The Race: Musical Story Time and Instrument Petting Zoo”}Musical Story Time and Instrument Petting Zoo{/h3}
– Sept. 10, 11 a.m. The CSO Brass Quintet will perform with master storyteller Aaron Sommers. Activities presented in partnership with Delta Kappa Gamma’s Upsilon Chapter and WyoMusic. Paul Smith Children’s Village, Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-778-8561
Hispanic Festival
– Sept. 10, 12-8 p.m. Free. Celebrate Hispanic culture with educational exhibits, games, mariachis, art exhibits, live music, food and craft vendors, piñatas and other kid-friendly activities, food, beer, 50/50 raffle, drawings and a car show. Cheyenne Depot Plaza, 1 Depot Square. 307-275-425
Silent Movie Night at the Atlas
– Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. $10. Cheyenne Little Theater Players will host a screening of the silent film “Nosferatu,” with live musical accompaniment by Dave Neimann. Historic Atlas Theatre, 211 W. Lincolnway. 307-638-6543
Poetry Open Mic @ The Hawthorn Tree
– Sept. 11, 1-3 p.m. Free. Each poet gets five minutes to read, but occasionally go two rounds, so bring extra poems. Arrive five minutes early to sign up. The Hawthorn Tree, 112 E. 17th St. 307-369-4446
Guided Play
– Sept. 12, 10-11:45 a.m. The library invites families to come play. Each week, they will feature a different playscape in the Early Literacy Center, along with suggestions of how to engage your child in guided play. This week’s theme is “Block Party.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Material + Metaphor
– Sept. 12-Oct. 12, library hours. Leah Hardy, the metalsmithing professor at the University of Wyoming, tells intricate sculptural stories using metaphor and a vast array of materials. Enjoy this fascinating exhibit displayed on the first floor in the entrance gallery and elevator display cases. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Start Your Own Business
– Sept. 13, 6-7 p.m. Learn the fundamentals of starting a business in Wyoming. Experts will cover business models and plans, the feasibility of business ideas, legal structure and regulations and the reality of start-up financing. RSVP for this event at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
We Drink and We Know Things
– Sept. 13, 6 p.m. Monthly themed trivia night on the second Tuesday of each month. The theme is kept secret, so gather your team, drink some beers and show us what you know! Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co., 1509 Pioneer Ave. 307-514-5314
Open Jam Night
– Sept. 13, 7 p.m. Free. The Lincoln Theatre is hosting its monthly Open Jam Night. Musicians are encouraged to bring their guitar, bass, etc., and come jam with other local musicians. Backline provided. A full bar will be available for those who just want to come and watch. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Senior Health Fair
– Sept. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. An event featuring food and prizes where people can learn more about local senior health care resources. Primrose Retirement Community, 1530 Dorothy Lane. 307-634-1530
Open Mic Night at Blue Raven
– Sept. 14, 7-10 p.m. A musical open mic night, presented in collaboration with Wyoming Wave Studios. Blue Raven Brewery, 209 E. 18th St. 307-369-1978
Arts in the Parks
– Sept. 15-18, park hours. The Wyoming Arts Council partners with Wyoming State Parks to hold various arts activities in parks across the state. Plein Air in the Parks is an annual event that pairs talented artists with beautiful locations. This painting competition is open to artists of all ages and offers cash awards. Curt Gowdy State Park, 1264 Granite Springs Road. 307-777-7742
2022 Cheyenne Greek Festival
– Sept. 16-17. A yearly celebration of Greek culture. Cheyenne Frontier Days Exhibit Hall, Eighth Street and Dey Avenue. 307-635-5929
Positive Aging
– Sept. 16, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Join the library for a screening of “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003, rated PG-13), a romantic comedy about an aging womanizer who finds himself falling for the mother of his young girlfriend during a trip to the Hamptons. Starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. There will be a free discussion afterward. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
CFD Hall of Fame Introduction
– Sept. 16, 5 p.m. The Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame showcases individuals, livestock and organizations whose distinctive contributions to Cheyenne Frontier Days have helped grow a dream into the “Daddy of ‘em All.” CFD Headquarters, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-778-7290
Cheyenne’s Got Talent
– Sept. 16, 7-9 p.m. Free. This event features dancers, musicians, magicians and entertainers from Cheyenne. The audience will vote on their favorite acts for a chance to open for performers from “America’s Got Talent” in October. There will be food trucks on site. Lions Park, Carey Avenue and Eighth Avenue. 307-537-6423
Ongoing
Cheyenne Artists Guild Art Show
– Through Sept. 30, Wednesday through Friday, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. The theme of this month’s art show is “Sapphire,” which includes local artwork with a blue color scheme. Cheyenne Artists Guild, 1701 Morrie Ave. 307-632-2263
Laramie and Greater Wyoming
UW Cowboys Football vs. Tulsa
– Sept. 3, 1:30 p.m. The Cowboys take on the Golden Hurricane in the second game of the season. War Memorial Stadium, 222 N. 22nd St., Laramie. tickets@uwyo.edu
Fort Collins, Colorado
First Friday Artwalk
– Sept. 2, 6-9 p.m. Free. A monthly self-guided walking tour that celebrates creativity, culture and community in downtown Fort Collins on the first Friday of every month. Visit https://downtownfortcollins.com/experience/itineraries/first-friday-art-walk/ for a full list of locations. Various locations, downtown Fort Collins. 970-484-6500
Tour de Fat
– Sept. 3, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Bike parade from 9:30-11:30 a.m. A yearly costumed bicycle parade followed by a party at New Belgium Brewing with music, entertainment, contests and games. New Belgium Brewing Co., 500 Linden St., Fort Collins, Colorado. 970-221-0524
Three Dog Night @ Lincoln Center
– Sept. 12, 6 p.m. Live at The Gardens Summer Concert Series. Stewart Copeland’s “Police Deranged for Orchestra” is a high-energy orchestral evening celebrating the work of former member of “The Police,” Stewart Copeland, and focuses on the rise of his career in music that has spanned over four decades. The Gardens on Spring Creek, 2145 Centre Ave. 970-221-6730
Greeley, Colorado
”Weird Al” Yankovic @ Union Colony Civic Center
– Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. $52-$89. For only second time in his career, the legendary satirist and five-time Grammy winner will host an intimate evening of non-parody music. Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave., Greeley, Colorado. 970-356-5000
Boulder Fall Festival
– Sept. 16-18, various times. One of the most highly anticipated events in Boulder turns the Pearl Street Ball into a local arts festival, featuring music, food and beer. Downtown Boulder, Pearl Street Mall and 14th Street. 303-449-3774
Melvins @ Fox Theater
– Sept. 16, 8 p.m; doors at 7 p.m. $25-$27.50. The Melvins are one of biggest names to rise out of the Seattle grunge scene. Catch their slow, sludge-metal style in this performance. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, Colorado. 303-447-0095
Denver
Nine Inch Nails @ Red Rocks
– Sept. 2-3, 7:30 p.m.; doors at 6 p.m. A two-night performance from critically acclaimed industrial/electronic/metal band fronted by Trent Reznor. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, Colorado. 720-865-2494
Courtney Barnett & Japanese Breakfast @ Mission Ballroom
– Sept. 3, 5 p.m.; doors at 4 p.m. $52-$124. Courtney Barnett, as a part of her “Here and There Festival Series,” is stopping in Denver with indie outfit Japanese Breakfast, Arooj Aftab and Bedouine. Barnett is coming off the release of her third studio album, “Things Take Time, Take Time.” Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
Echo & The Bunnymen @ The Ogden
– Sept. 4, 9 p.m.; doors at 7 p.m. Legendary Liverpool band Echo & the Bunnymen are announcing their return to the U.S. for a tour in support of their 12th studio album and first since 2009, “Meteorites.” Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave, Denver. 303-832-1874
Westword Music Showcase
– Sept. 9-10, 12:15 p.m. A mini festival held in the RiNo district that features a lineup of The Flaming Lips, Saint Motel, Wet Leg, KennyHoopla, Cannons, The Main Squeeze and more across 10 venues. Mission Ballroom Outdoors, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
To submit an item to the events calendar, email ToDo@wyomingnews.com or call WTE features editor Will Carpenter at 307-633-3135. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/friday-calendar-9-2-22/article_7ad84d8c-2893-11ed-ab0a-4771b4000391.html | 2022-09-02T14:04:47Z |
FRIDAY
Spaghetti fundraiser dinner: 5:30-7:30 p.m., Elks Lodge, 103 S. 2nd St. Cost is $15 for a spaghetti dinner with meatballs and sausage. Limited quantities, so please call for a reservation, 307-742-2024.
Drive-in movie night featuring “Back to the Future”: Doors open at 6 p.m., movie starts at 7, Laramie Range Ford, 3609 Grand Ave. A free drive-in style screening of the sci-fi classic. Donations will be accepted to benefit Cathedral Home.
SATURDAY
Acoustic singer-songwriter Jonathan Foster performs: 8 p.m., The Great Untamed, 209 S. 3rd St.
SUNDAY
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
MONDAY
WHAT’S CLOSED FOR LABOR DAY: Albany County and city of Laramie offices are closed; the landfill is closed; trash and recycling collection that normally happens on Monday will be done Tuesday; post office, closed; most banks, closed; most retail and grocery stores, open; University of Wyoming administrative offices are closed and no classes; on the UW campus, Coe Library, Half Acre Recreation and Wellness Center, the UW Art Museum, UW Geological Museum and Wyoming Union are closed, and most transit services will be unavailable; Boomerang office, closed.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
TUESDAY
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Reception at Wyoming Women’s History House: 4-6 p.m., 317 S. 2nd St., to celebrate 152 years since Louisa Swain’s vote in the first Wyoming election in which women voted with the same rights that men enjoyed in Wyoming. Free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Free “American Trombone!” recital at UW: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall.
THURSDAY
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Business After Hours: 5:30-7 p.m., Western States Bank, 3420 E. Grand Ave.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Sept. 9
NU2U street dance and costume party: 5-11 p.m., in front of the store at 5th and Garland streets in Laramie. Open for all ages.
Sept. 10
22nd annual Wyoming Buddy Walk: 9 a.m. to noon, Washington Park band shell.
Tailgate party for Wesley Foundation’s 100th anniversary: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tailgate Alley located in the stadium lot next to the indoor practice facility. The student ministry is marking 100 years at the University of Wyoming and First United Methodist. Free lunch picnic.
Summer Market Day at the fairgrounds: 3-6 p.m., beef barn.
Sept. 11
Special worship service for Wesley Foundation: 10 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1215 Gibbon St., followed by a potluck. Special guest Bishop Karen Olivetto will attend and preach. All are invited to reminisce with former Wesley Foundation members and meet the recent generation of the organization.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 12
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Sept. 13
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Sept. 14
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 15
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Sept. 16
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Sept. 17
Walk to End Alzheimer’s: 9 a.m., Optimist Park, with music and food following the walk.
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Sept. 18
Higher Ground Fair: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie. A celebration of the six Rocky Mountain states and the native first nations that also call the region home. Proceeds from ticket sales (kids admitted free) help support Feeding Laramie Valley. Fore more information or to volunteer, call 307-223-4300 or email info@highergroundfair.org.
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 19
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Sept. 20
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 21
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Sept. 22
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Sept. 25
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Sept. 26
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Sept. 27
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Sept. 28
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Sept. 29
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Sept. 30
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
Oct. 2
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 3
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 4
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 5
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 6
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 8
12th annual Kids Pumpkin Walk: Noon to 4 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. A fun family event featuring outdoor activities, indoor games, education, candy, treats and plenty of pumpkins. Cost is $4 for adults, 17 and younger admitted free.
Oct. 9
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 10
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 11
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Albany County Republican Party meets: 6 p.m., Albany County Public Library.
Oct. 12
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 13
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 16
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Washington Park west shelter No. 3. Bring walking shoes and a friend. For more information, email questions@ivinsonhospital.org.
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Albany County Historic Preservation Board meets: 6 p.m. the second Monday of the month via Microsoft Teams. To attend and receive an invite, email a request to kcbard@charter.net.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 17
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Oct. 18
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 19
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Oct. 20
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 21
Albany County CattleWomen meet: 11:30 a.m., location tbd. Visit wyaccw.com in the week before the meeting for location and more information.
Oct. 23
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 24
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
Oct. 25
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Oct. 26
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Oct. 27
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St.
Oct. 30
Laramie Connections free Meet and Eat dinner and faith gathering: 4:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 E. Canby St.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 6:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Oct. 31
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Veterans service office hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Service Center at the UW Student Union, 1000 E. University Ave.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Nov. 1
Prayers & Squares Quilting Group meets: 9 a.m., Room 1 of Hunter Hall at St. Matthews Cathedral.
Nov. 2
Laramie Tai Chi and Tea meets: 1:30 p.m. outdoors at Harbon Park, North 14th and Gibbon streets. For more information, visit visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson’s women’s health team hosts prenatal education: 5:30 p.m. in the Summit conference room. For more information and registration, visit ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
Nov. 3
Caregivers for loved ones with Alzheimer’s/dementia: 3 p.m., meet for coffee, pie, understanding and comradeship at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 204 S. 30th St. For more information, call 307-745-6451.
Al-Anon Family Group meets: 5:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, 215 S. 11th St. For relatives and friends of alcoholics. For information, call Jane at 307-760-4683 or Mark at 307-760-4716.
Diabetes Support Group meets: 5:30-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Email questions@ivinsosnhospital.org for the link.
Fly fishing rod building for veterans: 7-9 p.m., Laramie Chamber Business Alliance office, 528 S. Adams St. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-2-2022/article_fc4006a2-2a1f-11ed-8733-9b85582c2f9f.html | 2022-09-02T14:04:54Z |
CASPER — Two years ago, Jon Guy was in prison, serving 17 years for a 2004 stabbing in Laramie.
On Friday, he was headed to a signing for his first book, released this week.
The book, “Think Straight,” is a self-proclaimed “owner’s manual for the mind,” Guy says. Part science, part philosophy, it’s crammed with detailed debunkings of common misconceptions and guidelines for combating them.
Writing the book became “a type of solace” for Guy while in Wyoming prisons — a way to expand and exercise his mind.
“It was stimulating,” he said, “in an environment that’s otherwise antithetical to stimuli.”
Most of the book was researched and written in Wyoming prisons in Torrington and Newcastle, Guy said. He estimates he read nearly 300 books, and thousands of articles, while behind bars working on the project. Once he finished the books, he donated them to the prison library.
“I had a small team of people, college professors and my family and friends, I would send letters to and say, 'I need this, this and this,'” Guy said. “They would mail me these packets, and I would spend hours and hours reading this stuff.”
He was inspired to undertake the project after listening to lectures from college professors in prison. One he saw in Newcastle, which addressed the “deceptive mind,” got Guy interested in putting together his own critical thinking curriculum that the average prisoner would understand.
At first, Guy estimated it would take about six months to write a packet that could guide inmate-led critical thinking groups.
But then he got started, and learned how much he didn’t know. In all, it took him about two years to research, write and edit the book, submitting it to a publisher about two months after his release in 2021. The finished project is around 400 pages.
“I have to admit, I completely failed in what I set out to do,” he laughed. “It took literally all of my time, for probably about three years. If I wasn’t working, I was either reading or writing.”
In 2004, Guy stabbed a man. He used a small pocket knife and cut the man in his lower back. Doctors said, according to court documents, that the stab wound hit the man’s liver. The man apparently did not know he was stabbed at the time, until friends eventually saw he was bleeding.
It came after a night of drinking in Laramie, when Guy says he and a friend got into an argument with a group of men after leaving a bar. He was arrested a few hours later, then charged with attempted second-degree murder.
He had only been in Wyoming for two weeks, after moving with his dog from California in search of a job and lower cost of living. He was hired at a local Albertson’s before the stabbing, but never got to start.
After a jury found Guy guilty, he was sentenced to 30 to 45 years in prison. He was 20 years old.
He ended up serving 17 years, thanks to a sentence reduction and some good time credits.
Prison administrators intercepted a few scientific papers sent to Guy from the outside, he said, but he fought the decision and won the papers back through an internal grievance process.
Guy finished out his time at the Casper Reentry Center in November. Now, he’s living in Cheyenne and working in Colorado for a natural gas company.
The book isn’t about him, Guy said. But the skepticism and critical thinking that inspired it comes from his experiences.
“It’s chock full of examples,” he said, “from ghosts and aliens to GMOs and vaccines. It runs the gamut.”
Several professors, including ones that helped and advised Guy during the writing process, now plan to use “Think Straight” in their classrooms. He’s appeared on podcasts about skepticism and biotech, and will have the book reviewed in magazines including Psychology Today, The Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer. Now that “Think Straight” is published, Guy is working on a chapter for a clinical psychology textbook that will appear alongside chapters by titans in the field.
He’d still love to see “Think Straight” end up in prisons. Guy said he reached out to the Wyoming Department of Corrections, and was told that each facility would have to decide whether to spend money from their budgets to stock it in prison libraries.
“I think it would be a good example of how you can completely change your life and your thinking,” Guy said. “It can be done.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/former-prisoner-releases-critical-thinking-book/article_62e58bf0-2a1d-11ed-8d4f-cb1ae642642d.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:00Z |
CASPER — The Wyoming Department of Health is offering free Narcan — a temporary opioid overdose antidote — to Wyoming agencies, businesses and organizations. Narcan is meant to quickly help reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
The medication’s active ingredient — naloxone hydrochloride — can restore normal breathing in a person whose breathing has slowed, or even stopped, from an opioid overdose. Sometimes more than one dose of naloxone is needed when dealing with stronger opioids like fentanyl.
In some cases, the medication can be lifesaving.
Recent upticks in overdose deaths in Wyoming are believed to be largely attributed to an increase in synthetic opioid-involved overdose deaths, according to the department of health.
There were 94 overdose deaths in Wyoming in 2016, according to Wyoming Department of Health data. That dropped to 62 deaths in 2017. Overdose deaths then increased to 106 in 2021.
That follows trends across the nation. Synthetic opioid-involved death rates grew by more than 56% from 2019 to 2020 across the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Synthetic opioids made up over 82% of opioid-related deaths in 2020.
The free Narcan is funded through the State Opioid Response Grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The state health department’s Substance Abuse Prevention Program previously provided free Narcan to groups in Wyoming from 2016 to last fall when the federal grant for the program ended.
The Narcan is for groups rather than individuals.
People interested in a personal supply of naloxone should ask local pharmacies or medical providers about the medication. Insurance sometimes covers naloxone prescriptions and some pharmacies can provide naloxone without a prescription.
Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders is also available throughout Wyoming.
The Wyoming Department of Health Behavioral Health Division contracts for medication-assisted treatment services and other opioid use treatment services with community providers.
Services from community substance abuse treatment providers are available regardless of a person’s ability to pay. People can visit https://health.wyo.gov/behavioralhealth/mhsa/treatment/ to find a community or certified provider.
People can find online Narcan administration training at getnaloxonenow.org/#gettraining. The training is free for people who use a Wyoming address on the site. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/free-overdose-antidote-available/article_d797ebf0-2a09-11ed-9a92-63c382d03240.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:06Z |
Ethan Geiger stands with his mustang, Ghost during the Wyoming TIP Challenge in Douglas. Geiger won the title of reserve grand champion in the competition.
When Ethan Geiger first met his mustang Ghost, he never guessed she would give the best horse to hugs or that 107 days later he would walk out of an arena in Douglas with the title Reserve Grand Champion for training her.
The only thing Geiger knew about Ghost was that she is originally from the Adobe Town Herd Management Area west of Baggs near the Colorado border.
Ghost joined Geiger’s family through a training program run by the Wyoming Mustang Association and Mustang Heritage Foundation, a group that works to find new homes for mustangs that are placed in holding facilities by the Bureau of Land Management.
Geiger participated in a trainer incentive program competition in collaboration with the two groups. The program assigned the Albany County youth in connecting with a mustang. The goal is for the animal to be trained with an intention to adopt or sell it.
By the end of the competition, Ghost — which had virtually never been touched by a human before beginning to work with Geiger — had to be able to load up in a trailer, walk on a lead and complete an series of other obedience tasks for judges.
She did this at the competition all thanks to Geiger, who at age 13 led Ghost’s training with advice and lessons from his parents. Now in addition to the accolades, the pair have a friendship that will last for life.
“It goes to show the bond those two have,” said Geiger’s mom, Heather Simons. “She’ll follow him over anything.”
It took Geiger three days to remove Ghost’s neck tag after she arrived in Laramie, working through his fear of approaching a wild horse and gaining her trust. A few days later, he got her to wear a halter.
Now Ghost leans so close to Geiger he has to brace himself to not fall over.
“I thought she was going to be kind of wild,” Geiger said, adding that instead “she’s so gentle and calm.”
Despite Ghost’s demeanor, there are challenges to training any animal that Geiger had to keep track of. He juggled school and sports on top of his training duties, sacrificing social time with friends to take care of the horse.
He even spent some time caring for her on crutches after being hurt at one of his bull riding competitions in Texas.
On top of his own responsibilities, Geiger took time at the TIP challenge to help others with their horses, ultimately earning recognition for his sportsmanship with the Spirit of the Mustang award.
Geiger said the reason he does all of it is simple.
“It’s fun having a horse to hang out with,” he said. “You can tell them anything and they won’t go tell the other horses.”
This type of bond is something his parents imparted on Geiger, though they left him to do most of the caring for Ghost himself.
For Heather, the training experience meant taking a deep breath and letting her son work through the excitement, fear and frustration of training a wild mustang on his own. The moments before he finally removed Ghost’s neck tag stuck out at the most emotional.
“The lessons he learned in that hour span … I can’t teach and school can’t teach,” she said.
There are thousands of mustangs in holding facilities across the country, and the TIP challenge acts as a way to show the intellect and adaptability of the animals, said his dad, Robert Simons.
While competitors have the option to auction their horses after the competition, it was clear early on that the family would adopt Ghost so she and Geiger could be friends for life.
His parents hope the competition will bring awareness to the intelligence and adaptability of mustangs and help more of the animals find safe, loving homes.
“Don’t discount a horse because it came from the wild,” Robert said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/local-teen-wild-mustang-quickly-build-bond-through-training-program/article_485d1918-2588-11ed-ac15-639841b2111b.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:12Z |
People in school districts across Wyoming “overwhelmingly” emphasized that addressing mental health among students and staff is crucial to school safety, according to a memo from Wyoming Department of Education Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Chad Auer.
“I think mental health is a huge component of safe schools,” said Chad Blakely, a Cheyenne-based teacher. “It’s the basis of everything.”
The Wyoming Department of Education said that it would host school safety talks across the state following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 kids and two adults in May.
“School safety is at the top of everyone’s mind now, and it has been for many years,” Auer said in a statement announcing the talks. “The modern reality is we, as educators and communities, must prepare for the possibility that evil might show up at our local school on any given day.”
Auer hosted the talks over the summer. The Wyoming Department of Education shared his update on the talks Monday.
Mental health has been a challenge across the board in Wyoming.
The state has the highest suicide rate in the nation, according to 2020 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the pandemic has made the situation even more challenging; suspected suicide attempts among adolescents across the country went up 31% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Especially adolescents in middle school and high school, over the years, we’re continuing to see a larger number suffering from mental health issues,” said Andi Sommerville, executive director of the Wyoming Association of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers.
Student behavior has been more of an issue during the pandemic, too; Natrona County School District reported 17,000 recorded instances of bad student behavior district-wide this past school year, up from 12,000 instances in the 2018 school year.
Expulsions also increased from 37 in the 2018 school year to 48 this past year.
Since the pandemic, teachers have observed more incidents of aggression, according to a joint report from the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Education Association.
“When the kids came back to school after lockdown and isolation, it was like they forgot how to act in civilized society,” Blakely said. “There were a lot more fights, turning in homework seemed more challenging.”
Not all behavioral problems among students are necessarily related to mental health, but it’s a contributing factor, Somerville said.
In a state that’s so rural, providing access to mental health resources isn’t easy; Auer said in his memo that some districts are trying to connect with local professionals to meet the mental health needs of students and staff.
But not all have access to such resources, and many of them reported a shortage of counselors, social workers and mental health professionals.
“It’s absolutely the case that school districts are caught up in the provider shortage right now,” Sommerville said.
Part of the problem may be that these professionals don’t get enough compensation; the Wyoming Education Association argues in a lawsuit it brought against the state earlier this month over school funding that school personnel – including counselors – aren’t paid enough to compete with surrounding states.
There has been a lot of discussion in Wyoming, particularly since the pandemic, around providing more mental health care via tele-health. That could be especially helpful for rural communities.
But Somerville said mental health care through tele-health should be balanced with in-person services, particularly for school-aged kids.
“We really need to look toward a longer-term plan that uses both tele-health and in-person services,” she said.
There are some potential solutions to address mental health in Wyoming schools that seem promising.
For example, the Wyoming Department of Education got two Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grants to start Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) in 2021.
The program, which serves six Wyoming school districts right now, provides school-based mental health services that are meant to supplement existing mental health services in communities.
The project is showing positive outcomes so far; of the 380 kids who have used the program’s services so far, about 46.3% of them have reported higher levels of social connectedness, according to Dustin Brown, the project’s director.
It has helped reduce wait times for students in need of mental health services.
The program is also open to school staff, although there isn’t any data to show outcomes for staff who take advantage of the services. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/mental-health-tied-to-safe-schools/article_e504827e-2a06-11ed-99db-cf4c0ac7f591.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:18Z |
BUFFALO — Johnson County School District No. 1 administrators are keeping their eyes on a recently filed lawsuit from the Wyoming Education Association alleging that the state Legislature has failed to adequately fund K-12 education.
Superintendent Charles Auzqui said district administrators and the school board have yet to have any conversations about the lawsuit, but if the district — or others in the state — agree with the suit, they could join as plaintiffs.
"There's always that option for districts to join in this lawsuit, but it's so fresh off the press, other than social media (and) texts that went around, there really hasn't been a gathering of what's going to take place,” he said.
The WEA's lawsuit, filed Aug. 18 in the First Judicial District Court in Laramie County, primarily argues that the Legislature has failed its constitutional duty to adequately fund education by not providing additional funding for schools as costs have increased and inflation has ballooned in recent years.
The WEA argues that the Legislature could have provided external cost adjustments, created new revenue streams or adjusted funding during its school funding model review process, which takes place at least every five years.
By not providing additional funding through these avenues, the suit argues, the Legislature has failed its constitutional duty to adequately fund Wyoming schools.
“The WEA has exhausted possibilities for correcting the funding deficit outside of litigation,” WEA legal counsel Patrick Hacker said in a press release. “The point of the litigation is to get the Legislature to do its Constitutional duty. The goal is to enforce the Constitution to secure proper funding for safe, high-quality schools everywhere in Wyoming and to stop the deterioration of public education due to legislative failures.”
While the suit contends that the Legislature is funding education inadequately, Sen. Dave Kinskey believes otherwise.
“This (lawsuit) is asking for whole new categories of spending to be created,” Kinskey said. “And it is absolutely an attempt to try to get the Supreme Court to force the Legislature to create new taxes or raise existing taxes, and I think it'd be out of line for the court to do so.”
Kinskey pointed to multiple portions of the complaint that reference state revenue issues that have gone unresolved and how the Legislature has not made efforts to establish new revenue sources as his basis for believing that this lawsuit is more about taxes than it is about education funding.
He said he wasn't necessarily surprised that it had come to a lawsuit, describing his time in Cheyenne as “every year, for eight years, I've been hearing, 'You better give me everything I want, or we're going to sue.'" On school funding, Kinskey said that he believes Wyoming's current efforts - about $17,000 per student - is more than adequate and that the Legislature will work with the state's current revenue streams to "continue to fund education well.”
He said the Legislature takes the same view toward education funding that it does toward all others who come to the body asking for money out of a limited pot of funds.
“You make your case for what you think you need,” he said. “The Legislature looks at all the resources it has available, does the best job it can with the money it has, and not everybody goes to Cheyenne and comes back with everything they want. That's just the way the system works.”
Auzqui, however, said he understands the reason for the lawsuit, especially after the Legislature failed to provide an external cost adjustment for districts during its budget session last spring.
The education committee had proposed a $72 million external cost adjustment during that session; however, that was cut by the full legislative body to just $10.1 million before being eliminated entirely.
“What kind of stemmed it (the suit) is when you have the money to give an ECA, but put $1 billion away in savings, that probably is not helping the cause when you have some buildings and some things that need to be fixed," Auzqui said.
External cost adjustments, according to a report from the Legislative Service Office, aim “to reflect the changing costs of resources” between years when the Legislature contemplates adjustments to the education funding model.
Auzqui has been a frequent and staunch proponent of external cost adjustments, especially as the Johnson County district worked its way through its budget process last year.
He testified in front of the Legislature's Joint Education Committee in October 2021, telling the group of lawmakers that any money would help school districts adjust to what he called a “new normal,” primarily regarding employment in Wyoming communities.
“It is very hard to find the classified people we need to support our district,” he told the committee. "We're struggling with bus drivers, with paras, subs in general, how we manage things. We're competing with McDonald's, who has $15 an hour. Sure, they might not have the benefits, but the reality is we're competing with those wages.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/opinions-differ-on-wea-education-lawsuit/article_7f930eb2-2a09-11ed-8853-4b8ba622ad41.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:25Z |
Confirmation that an Albany County cat has died of plague has state health officials cautioning pet owners.
The animal was mostly an outdoor cat in the rural county that lived primarily in outbuildings, the Wyoming Department of Health says in a Thursday press release.
Other cats in a group in the same area also have died over the past several months, according to the WDH, “indicating likely spread of plague.”
There have been no human illnesses associated with the current Albany County situation, but a human case of pneumonic plague was reported in a Fremont County person last September, the WHD reports. In that case, the person had exposure to a sick outdoor cat.
“Plague is a serious bacterial infection that can be deadly for pets and people if not treated as soon as possible with antibiotics,” Courtney Tillman, epidemiologist with WDH, says in the press release. “The disease can be passed to humans from ill animals and by fleas coming from infected animals.
“We are letting people know of the potential threat in the cat’s home area as well as offering a reminder about plague to people across the state.”
Tillman said the disease is rare in humans and is naturally found in the western United States among populations of rodents, spread mostly by infected fleas.
“It is safe to assume a risk for plague exists all around our state,” she said.
While the WDH is warning people about plague spreading in a rural area of the county, there haven’t been any noticeable issues with pet health in Laramie, said Elena Vargas, office manager for Laramie Animal Welfare Society.
When asked about the WDH announcement of the rural cat death, Vargas said LAWS hasn’t noticed any unusual or alarming health issues with pets it has come into contact with.
“Definitely not, thank goodness,” she said, adding that other than a bout with feline pinkeye, “we’ve seen nothing deadly to our cats since I’ve been here.”
The potential for pets to catch and spread plague is “always something that’s in the back of our minds,” Vargas said.
To that end, she said LAWS takes measures to reduce the risk of local animals catching and/or spreading disease and recommends pet owners do the same.
“We take measures no matter where we take an animal,” she said. “We always clean everything the animal touches. We have a veterinary-grade cleaner and we spray everything down.”
Because fleas are often the main vehicle of spreading plague to pets, the Wyoming Department of Health offers some tips for pet owners to help mitigate that.
- Use repellent if exposure to fleas is possible during activities such as camping, hiking or working outdoors. Products containing DEET can be applied to the skin as well as clothing.
- Keep fleas off indoor and outdoor pets by applying flea control products. Animals that roam freely outdoors are more likely to come into contact with plague-infected animals or fleas.
- Avoid unnecessary exposure to rodents, including avoiding areas with unexplained rodent die-offs and rodent carcasses.
- If pets become sick, seek care for them from a veterinarian as soon as possible.
- Do not allow dogs or cats that roam free to share beds with people.
- Reduce rodent habitats around the home, workplace and recreational areas by removing brush, rock piles, junk, cluttered firewood and possible rodent food supplies.
- Wear gloves and a mask if handling potentially infected or deceased animals to prevent contact between your skin and the plague bacteria and to prevent inhaling the plague bacteria.
Plague symptoms in pets can include enlarged lymph glands; swelling in the neck, face or around the ears; fever; chills; lack of energy; coughing; vomiting; diarrhea and dehydration.
Plague symptoms in people can include fever, swollen and tender lymph glands, extreme exhaustion, headache, chills, coughing, difficulty breathing, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. People who are ill should seek professional medical attention.
More information about plague is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov/plague/. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/plague-confirmed-in-albany-county-cat/article_6b64952e-2a17-11ed-af51-534c1bd337e3.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:31Z |
Heather Lang of Powell hopes to share her experience with losing her brother to suicide in an effort to help others who are contemplating harming themselves or family and friends worried for their loved ones.
POWELL — The family of Thomas “TG” Howard wanted to make sure they didn’t hide his mental illness and depression, listing it as his cause of death in his obituaries. It was important to find a positive in the unthinkably hard reality of how he died.
Howard took his own life Christmas day, 2015. The popular athlete at Cody High School who joined the Navy after graduation had first turned to alcohol and then opiates in an effort to deal with his mental illness.
“A lot of people that struggle with mental illness also struggle with addiction,” said Howard’s sister Heather Lang, of Powell. Howard was hooked on heroin. “If you have an addiction to hard drugs like he was, you’re gonna go to jail eventually,” she continued.
Howard had seen his fair share of trouble with law enforcement.
They had talked on the phone Christmas Eve. He said something to Lang that she misunderstood.
“They’re coming to get me,” he told her.
She would later find out her beloved brother attempted to end his life that night. The following day he hung himself.
“I just remember falling on the floor when [officials] called. I was just like, oh my gosh, I’ve got to tell my mom,” she said. “That was rough.”
The nine-hour drive to Colorado, where he was at the time of his death, was tense.
The memories are still fresh, yet for Lang it was important her brother didn’t just become another statistic. Something good had to come from the loss of her funny, outdoors-loving brother.
She started to share the story of his demise in hopes of helping others suffering from mental illness. She was determined to “stop the stigma” of mental health issues.
“We’re working to get rid of that stigma, but it’s gonna take some time,” she said.
It’s not easy to provide mental health care in Wyoming. Low populations mean low revenues to support services. Health care employers are always struggling to recruit and retain employees. And long distances between providers make accessing services difficult.
On top of all these challenges, mental health care providers also must overcome the stigma attached to mental illnesses, which discourages many people from getting help.
All these problems have contributed to Wyoming having one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
Lang started an area support group called Stop the Stigma, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, she found it too hard to continue.
Two years later she has decided to resume her efforts.
Starting Thursday and every Thursday in September, the Powell resident is opening an informational booth at American Legion Post 26.
She is collaborating with Dean Whalen, who is the owner/operator of Deano’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers food truck. For every hamburger he sells on Thursdays in September, Lang will donate a dollar to a scholarship in her brother’s name.
The real estate agent with eXp Realty will also donate funds from the month’s closings to the cause.
September is National Suicide Prevention Month, a campaign to inform and engage health professionals and the general public about suicide prevention and warning signs of suicide. All month, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies and community members unite to promote suicide prevention awareness.
Wyoming’s suicide rate of about 30 per 100,000 residents a year is twice that of the national average. Somebody kills him or herself every two days in the state.
Efforts by concerned folks like Lang to help have resulted in prominent informational campaigns and the creation of the nationwide 988 crisis hotline. Wyoming joined in the national implementation of the crisis hotline number in July, which replaces the former 10-digit number with a three-digit code, just as with the general emergency 911 number.
It was a great step toward addressing one gap in mental health care, the Tribune wrote in a recent editorial.
The Wyoming Legislature appropriated $2.1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act funding to support call centers. But it’s still too early to know how effective the new service will be in addressing the problem.
Will Wyoming residents, who are raised in an environment that promotes independence and self-sufficiency, actually use the service, Lang wonders.
She hopes it helps slow the epidemic in the Cowboy State, but she refuses to rest knowing how her brother’s death affected her own family and not wanting other families to go through the hardships her family has.
If you have any questions about suicide in Wyoming, contact the Wyoming Injury and Violence Prevention Program at https://tinyurl.com/zfhjkfnj. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/stopping-the-stigma-powell-woman-helps-those-suffering-from-mental-illness/article_b2adcdba-2a1c-11ed-bd2d-e3214218f1d2.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:37Z |
GILLETTE — The sounds of metal against metal rang out Saturday morning, with two-and-a-half pound horseshoes clanking against stakes in the dirt after traveling more than 25 feet in the air.
Forty-two competitors took part in the Wyoming Horseshoe State Championship at Fireside Horseshoe Club behind Fireside Lounge Saturday and Sunday.
The tournament, put on by the Wyoming Horseshoe Pitching Association, included nine people from Gillette, but it also brought in people from all over the state, from Riverton and Green River to Shoshoni and Lovell.
Gillette’s Chris Nanneman, the reigning state champion in A Class and the association’s president, debunked what he considers a common misconception when it comes to the game of horseshoes.
“I always say that anybody who says ‘close only counts in horseshoes’ has never played horseshoes,” he said.
While one can get points for getting the shoe close to the stake, at the higher levels of competition it’s all about who can throw the most ringers.
A ringer occurs when the horseshoe encircles the stake. One’s ringer percentage determines what class he competes in.
“That’s how you measure yourself, not necessarily wins and losses but ringer percentage,” said John Bever of Cheyenne, who was working with a 23%.
Craig Smith of Worland came into the state championship with a 48%, the best he’s ever been at.
He has a ritual before every turn, where he bends at the knees and swings his arms a couple of times.
“I try to line the shoe up with the pit, and then I get in rhythm,” he said.
It’s hard to argue with the results. Smith is fresh off of a world title. In July, he competed in the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association’s World Tournament in Monroe, Louisiana. Smith took home first place in his group, the Elder C2 Class.
“It came down to the last shoe, and I ended up tying my last game,” he said.
It was that tie game that pushed him ahead of the second place finisher by a half-game.
He first got into horseshoes 50 years ago. His grandparents had pits in the backyard, and the family would often come together and pitch.
“That was our family entertainment,” Smith said.
He stuck with it over the years, even during his 22 years in the U.S. Army, where he always found time to pitch, even if he had to improvise in the absence of actual horseshoes.
“When we ran into an artillery unit, on those big rounds they fire, they’ve got these clips that are shaped like horseshoes, they’re not quite as big, but we used to use those,” he said.
Bever had a similar experience in the U.S. Navy.
“We’d just set up pits wherever we were at, and we just played out there in the sand, just for fun,” he said.
Steve Maestas of Rock Springs has been playing for close to 40 years. He said that no matter how good your opponent is, you always have a chance to win.
“It’s something to challenge a guy who’s better than you, and he brings out the best in you to be as good as he is,” Maestas said.
Getting started
The horseshoe scene in Gillette has had a dedicated following, Nanneman said. There were 26 people who participated in a horseshoe league this year. And Gillette hosts five tournaments a year, he added.
One of the biggest hurdles into getting new people to play the game is it’s not that simple.
“It looks like it should be really easy,” Nanneman said. “It’s harder than it looks, so don’t give up.”
He said he’s seen people try horseshoes for the first time only to give it up right away because they didn’t score any points.
That was the case for Connie Filley of Newcastle. Her husband introduced her to horseshoes in 1981. It wasn’t love at first sight, to say the least.
“I was horrible, so I quit,” she said.
But she picked it back up again and entered a tournament. She practiced for three hours a day, and she ended up winning that tournament. And today, she has a combined 29 state titles in Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
It’s easier to get to the top than it is to remain at the top, Filley said. When you’re working your way up, you have that motivation to practice and improve. When you’re the champ, you have to deal with everyone else gunning for your spot.
Nanneman said that when he started out, he went with a flip shoe, where the horseshoe is flipped over backwards. Then Gillette’s Phil Plotke, who won 13 state championships before he passed away in 2021, taught Nanneman how to throw a turn shoe.
“It’s a completely different grip, and the shoe turns in the air kind of like a frisbee,” Nanneman said. “Learning to get that to land open so it can go on the stake every time is pretty difficult, that took me probably two to three years to master getting the shoe to just land open all the time.”
The mental aspect of horseshoes is just as important, said reigning women’s state champ Tracie Binkerd.
“It’s not as simple as stepping up and chucking a shoe down there, you have a lot that goes into it.”
It’s very easy to overthink things in horseshoes, she said.
“You have to think about your swing, your step, how you’re holding the shoe, where you’re releasing the shoe. It’s really, really easy to get in your own head, and start thinking about everything, when really you need to step up there and do what you can do,” Binkerd said.
Filley said she’s found the game to be cyclical. There are ebbs and flows in games, tournaments and even seasons.
“I have to accept the fact this is the way it is, it happens like that, and it’ll swing back,” she said.
“It all boils down to discipline, figuring out what works for you and getting rid of your bad habits,” Smith said.
Binkerd, of Cheyenne, has been competing for five years. She used to travel with her parents to tournaments, but her participation started and ended at scorekeeper.
“It always looked like fun, but every time I tried, I was bad,” she said. “Five years ago, I decided, if I was going to tournaments I was going to start competing in them.”
Binkerd and Filley had high praise for the other, with Binkerd calling Filley her “biggest competition.”
“Last year was a down year for her and she’s coming back up,” Binkerd said.
“Tracie’s an excellent pitcher, I foresee she’s going to be Wyoming state champion for many years,” Filley said
Scoreboard
If there’s one thing Bever hates about horseshoes, it’s the scoreboard. He doesn’t even look at the score when he’s playing.
“If you’re coming from behind it seems like you’re more focused. When you’ve got the lead, you’ve got to be careful, because you don’t want to get lackadaisical in the lead, so I prefer not to know,” he said. “I like to play like I’m behind but not even think about what the score is.”
Nanneman said it’s always better to be in the lead, but he loves a good comeback.
“It’s tough to play from behind, but it’s more satisfying to come from behind and win a game,” he said.
“I actually do pretty well under pressure,” Binkerd said. “If I’m behind I tend to throw more ringers, but I’ll take a W if I can.”
Maestas said that when he was younger, falling behind in a game was his calling card.
“They used to call me, back in the day, Ketchup, because I’d be losing 21-2, and I would catch up and beat them,” he said. “Not anymore, now they’ve got to catch me.”
The financial gain from horseshoes is minimal, Smith said.
“If you play horseshoes for money, you’re a fool,” he said. “You can’t make no money playing horseshoes.”
For his world title, Smith was awarded $500, which didn’t come close to covering his drive from Wyoming to Louisiana.
Luckily, the 42 competitors in the state tournament aren’t in it for the money. They were there for fun and for the people.
Maestas said he just enjoys meeting new people and reuniting with friends he hasn’t seen in a very long time.
“I consider this to be my horseshoe family,” Binkerd said. “I’ll travel for five hours so I can see people I haven’t seen in a year.”
“It’s just like we’re family,” Smith said.
Even though there’s no money in it, and although it can be tough to get the hang of it, if one sticks with it, it can be very rewarding, Nanneman said.
“Don’t give up, and have fun,” he said. “If you have fun, you can fall in love with it.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/throwing-a-shoe-42-compete-in-state-horseshoe-championship/article_338c411e-2a1d-11ed-ae21-03e52623653e.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:43Z |
Public comment sought for Casper Aquifer draft plan
People have until Oct. 8 to comment on the Casper Aquifer Protection Draft Plan, a raft of regulations aimed at establishing more layers of protection for the Casper Aquifer, which is the main source of the city of Laramie’s potable water.
The draft plan is available to review online at cityoflaramie.org/CAPPupdate and in person at City Hall in the clerk’s office, 406 Ivinson Ave. The draft also can be seen at the Albany County Annex in the planning department, 1002 S. 3rd St.
Comment can be submitted electronically at https://tinyurl.com/2w3sd9pe. People also can mail comments to City of Laramie City Clerk, P.O. Box C, Laramie, WY 82073; or Albany County Annex Planning Department, 1002 S. 3rd St., Laramie, WY 82070. They also can be hand-delivered to those physical addresses.
Along with accepting public comment on the draft aquifer plan, a series of public meetings will be held 6-8 p.m. at the Municipal Operations Center, 4373 N. 3rd St.
For more information, contact Darren Parkin at 307-721-5213.
Cultural Trust Fund grant applications now submitted electronically
The next Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund grant application deadline for projects, events and activities scheduled to begin after Jan. 1 is set for 11:59 p.m. Oct. 1.
WCTF grants are restricted to nonprofit and governmental entity applicants based in Wyoming and require a match, though that match can be cash or appropriate in-kind contributions.
Beginning with this year’s grant application deadline, the application process will be conducted electronically.
To get complete information on the grant application process and review guidelines, visit wyoculturaltrust.com.
Applicants can still submit a draft application for review prior to deadline through the grant portal. Cultural Trust Fund Program Coordinator Renée Bovée will review drafts and provide comments through the grant portal. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/worth-noting-sept-2-2022/article_a88520a8-2a1d-11ed-a4d7-0ff7aaf7b846.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:49Z |
GREYBULL — A Burlington High School graduate has created an app that aims to provide rural youth the mentorship they need to thrive.
The app, called Positivity Outward, empowers middle school, high school and college students to choose from 45 different mentors from 14 different states and three countries to help them in tasks such as filling out job applications and applying to college, exploring career directions, developing life skills and even navigating mental health challenges.
"We have more mentors signing up every week," founder Zariah Tolman said. "What's very unique about our program is that students choose their own mentors and are encouraged to have relationships with multiple mentors, so they have the support they need for all of their goals."
Tolman, a Montana State University neuroscience and business graduate and current doctorate student at the University of California Riverside, is the founder and executive director of the non-profit behind the app.
She said the idea for it comes from her own life experience growing up in the 50-person town of Otto.
The first time she felt anxious and depressed was in eighth grade, she said, but she didn't know how to reach out, feeling isolated in her rural community and school. Tolman said that struggle developed into a severe mental illness in college.
"That's why we went the route of peer mentorship. I didn't always feel like I had a lot of friends in high school or had a lot of places where I could ask questions and open up. That persisted in college. I was really resistant to getting help," Tolman said. "It took a close relationship with multiple people over a long period of time, who paid attention, knew I wasn't OK and made sure I was getting the guidance I needed."
Mentorship made the difference in her life, Tolman said.
With the guidance of multiple peers who mentored her, she was able to get the help she needed to overcome her own challenges.
"I don't ever have to put on a mask or a face," Tolman said. "I get to be who I am with them. They help me grow and achieve the goals that are important to me."
She hopes with Positivity Outward, students who feel isolated can find mentorship far sooner than she did.
The app is just coming out of the pilot stages right now, but among the limited students that have used Positivity Outward, there are already stories of success, Tolman said.
Tolman shared the story of a student she mentored herself who sought her help in managing depression.
"He said that he finally had the motivation to get through school and that he felt balanced," Tolman said. "He was able to talk with me about information that was difficult to find with others."
Another student, Tolman said, was able to connect with multiple mentors in helping find direction after high school.
"She didn't know who she was or what her purpose was," Tolman said. "She was able to build relationships with five different mentors who took their time exploring before finding what they wanted to do, and it provided a lot of clarity for her."
Each mentor is listed on the website alongside the topics they feel they are most able to address, allowing students to choose the mentor who can most directly give them guidance in the areas they need assistance in, Tolman said. There are also mentors available for several religious beliefs. Mentors are typically college-aged students and professionals at the beginning of their careers, Tolman said, and range across several different locations and career paths.
All mentors complete an application, interview, criminal and sex offender background check, receive QPR (question, persuade and refer) training for suicide prevention and take part in a three-hour training covering 11 different modules.
The mentors are not mental health professionals, Tolman said, but are able to connect mentees with professional help if needed while sharing their own perspective.
"They're only speaking of their own experience. They're not giving any medical advice," Tolman said. "They're sharing what has worked for them. We want to provide an open space for all kinds of conversations."
The app is designed to give students control in how they use it.
"Each mentor makes their own schedule and mentees can access them as they need to within that schedule," Tolman said. "They can use it a little bit or they can use it a lot. It's meant to meet their needs."
The app is funded through multiple grants; therefore, there is no charge for students to sign up and connect with the mentors.
Positivity Outward is currently only available through the website, positivityoutward.org, but Tolman said the organization is in the process of creating a mobile version that will be available through the Apple app store and Google Play store soon.
Middle or high school students interested in participating can sign up at positivityoutward.org/mentee.
"We want this to be an ongoing program, and we are really hopeful that students who can benefit from this in Lovell, Basin, Burlington, Greybull and other rural communities in the area will sign up," Tolman said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/wyo-man-launches-app-for-rural-youth-mentorship/article_6f619c8a-2a1c-11ed-bbdb-37241b3fb136.html | 2022-09-02T14:05:55Z |
Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has a population of over 150,000 people, more than 80% of whom are African American.
Mississippi is the poorest state in the country. Jackson residents, already under a water boil notice for over a month, have now had no running water for days, to drink, to bathe in, or to flush toilets. The Pearl River flooded following record rainfall, overwhelming the city’s water treatment plant.
On Sunday, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba urged city residents, “If you are capable of getting out now, get out now.”
Jackson has been paralyzed by the confluence of racism, classism and the worsening climate crisis.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden declared an emergency for Jackson and surrounding Hinds County, promising federal funding to pay the bulk of disaster recovery costs for at least 90 days. A rented pump was put into service at the water facility on Wednesday and may help restore water service within a week.
But that is only a temporary fix. Jackson’s water problems run far deeper. “We are seeing the intentional divestment in communities that are led by Black elected officials,” Jackson resident and social justice organizer Danyelle Holmes told Reuters at a water distribution center this week. “This has been an issue for me since I came down here ... in 1991. I was always told not to drink that water.”
The climate-fueled polar vortex that descended on Texas in February 2021, shutting down the state’s electrical grid and subjecting millions of Texans to devastating cold, killing an estimated 700 people, also hit other Southern states.
Jackson’s water treatment plant froze then, shutting off residents’ access to water. Mississippi’s Gov. Tate Reeves and Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, both white Republicans, blamed Jackson for that crisis.
“I do think it’s really important that the city of Jackson start collecting their water bill payments before they start going and asking everyone else to pony up more money,” Gov. Reeves told the press last year as Jackson was in its third week without water.
“The city of Jackson was not ill-prepared based on the winter storms; we were ill-equipped,” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba responded back then, speaking on the Democracy Now! news hour. “We’ve had resources stripped away from us.”
Jackson was founded 200 years ago named in honor of Andrew Jackson, a wealthy plantation owner who made a fortune using enslaved labor and who later, as the seventh president of the United States, orchestrated the ethnic cleansing of much of the South’s indigenous population in what became known as the Trail of Tears. Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ordered the city burned to the ground during the Civil War.
Later, Jackson suffered some of the worst racist violence as Jim Crow laws disenfranchised African Americans across the South and white supremacist terrorism waged by the Ku Klux Klan and others drove millions of Blacks north in the Great Migration. In 1963, Medgar Evers, the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was assassinated outside his Jackson home.
This followed the violence and arrests targeting hundreds of Freedom Riders who arrived in Jackson in the summer of 1961, challenging segregation of interstate travel. In 1964, three civil rights workers — James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner — were murdered in nearby Neshoba County for helping the Black community organize voter registration. Their bodies were buried in a dam being built on a farm to impound water that would have flowed into the Pearl River, upstream from Jackson.
On May 15, 1970, two students at Jackson State, the historically Black college, were killed by local police during an anti-war protest. Their deaths received little attention compared to the four white protesters killed by the National Guard at Kent State University in Ohio 11 days earlier.
“What we are experiencing now is literally just the crumbling of the empire’s infrastructure,” Kali Akuno, co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, which promotes worker-owned co-ops and a solidarity economy, said on Democracy Now! “It goes back to the 1950s and ‘60s with the so-called urban renewal programs and the massive subsidization of the suburbs, which facilitated white flight out of many of these major cities, Jackson being one of them. With that went major capital flight and ... chronic programs of divestment and deindustrialization.”
Akuno heeded Mayor Lumumba’s warning to flee the flooding this week, and was in New Orleans, remotely coordinating Cooperation Jackson’s water distribution efforts.
Repairing Jackson’s infrastructure will take an estimated $2 billion. That’s a tiny fraction of the public funds allocated by the recently enacted infrastructure and climate change bills. The resources exist to solve Jackson’s current catastrophe.
It will take solidarity on a national level to overcome the triple, ongoing impacts assaulting the citizens of Jackson, Mississippi: racism, classism and the spiraling disaster of climate change. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/confluence-of-race-class-and-climate-in-water-crisis/article_3e53d8f6-2a21-11ed-b5f7-230522c80749.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:02Z |
The Republican Party only had about a half-century to prepare for the end of Roe v. Wade yet is still scared and confused now that the late, unlamented decision is no longer with us.
It may be that the media is exaggerating the extent that the Dobbs decision has changed the trajectory of the midterms, but there is no doubt that it has energized Democrats and that pro-lifers suffered a signal defeat in a Kansas referendum in early August.
Some Republicans seem to think they can run and hide from the issue, a cowardly tack that won’t work. To the extent that Republicans are vague and non-responsive, Democrats will eagerly fill in the gaps with Handmaid’s Tale-level dystopian accusations of extremism.
Other Republicans apparently believe that they can act as if it is still the pre-Dobbs world when staking out maximalist positions — for instance, bans with no exceptions for rape or incest — had no significant downside because such proposals would never take effect. No more. Most places, this is politically deadly overreach.
The answer here is, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, simple, if not necessarily easy. Pro-life Republicans should say that they ultimately seek sweeping protections for unborn life but realize that they have to do much more public persuasion and, in the meantime, support a compromise proposal of some sort, say a gestational limit of 15 weeks.
For pro-lifers, this falls painfully short. But it would be in keeping with the trajectory of successful past campaigns of moral and social reform — settle for progress in the right direction, occupy politically defensible ground, and then advance over time.
Meanwhile, abortion restrictions are under assault for allegedly not providing broad and clear enough exceptions for the health of the mother. In a viral video out of South Carolina last week, a Republican state representative said he regretted voting for a heartbeat bill, banning abortion after about six weeks, after he heard an excruciating story of a 19-year-old denied care for her miscarriage.
According to Rep. Neal Collins, a doctor told him the usual standard of care would have potentially involved removing the fetus immediately. But the heartbeat bill supposedly prevented that, and the woman went home to expel the fetus on her own and assume enormous health risk.
The South Carolina law, though, like most such restrictions around the country, stipulates that the prohibition “does not apply to a physician who performs a medical procedure that, by any reasonable medical judgment, is designed or intended to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent the serious risk of a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.”
This should have been ample warrant for the young woman to get the appropriate care (and she did end up returning to the medical facility for the requisite treatment). This looks like a case of a bad reading of the law causing unnecessary medical distress and creating a horror story with considerable political resonance.
In a paper on health exceptions, the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute notes: “It would be prudent for state medical boards, state medical societies, state boards of pharmacy, hospital quality committees, and hospital attorneys to provide more detailed guidance to doctors on how to reach a determination that abortion is necessary. Tragically, this type of guidance appears slow in coming.”
It’d also help if Democrats stopped lying about these laws, although that’s not going to happen. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the other day that the Texas pro-life law will “block medical providers from providing life-saving and health-preserving care,” a blatant falsehood. The Texas law has a clear life-of-the-mother exception and explicitly excludes treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies from its definition of abortion.
At the moment, though, such falsehoods are carrying the day. To find their footing, Republicans will have to be courageous and shrewd, two qualities so far in short supply.
Rich Lowry is a syndicated columnist. Follow him on Twitter @RichLowry. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/republicans-cant-run-and-hide-on-abortion/article_697871f8-2a13-11ed-ab8b-878a58745484.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:08Z |
LARAMIE – Current and former college students in Wyoming report a collective sigh of relief in the wake of President Joe Biden’s move to relieve a portion of student debt.
While Wyoming politicians have nearly unilaterally condemned the decision as unfair and irresponsible, some University of Wyoming students and graduates said in interviews in the past week they see the announcement as a spark of hope after years of financial struggle. For some borrowers, loan forgiveness will offer a path to financial freedom. For others it isn’t nearly enough.
The plan will forgive up to $10,000 for student loan borrowers who make $125,000 or less annually. Those who received a Pell Grant – a piece of financial aid geared to help lower-income families – could receive up to $20,000 in forgiveness.
“This forgiveness is going to be huge for me,” said Sandy Kingsley of Sheridan, who has more than $9,000 in debt left to pay. “I’ve been struggling for years.”
Kingsley earned her degree in family studies and human services online from Kansas State University in her 50s while raising four kids on her own. Despite receiving a Pell Grant and a scholarship, she wasn’t able to make ends meet.
“I didn’t want to borrow money,” Kingsley said, explaining that she took summer classes and did all she could to finish her degree quickly. “I almost had to drop out that summer because of keeping a roof over our heads and food.”
Statistics
Many college students in Wyoming take out loans.
At UW, 43% of undergraduate first-time students take out loans averaging $23,592, according to data from the 2020-21 school year.
In 2021, about 57% of WyoTech’s revenue came from federal money, which includes loans and Pell Grants, said spokesperson Douglas Min.
Nationwide, nearly 32% of undergraduate students take out an average of $32,880 in loans to obtain a bachelor’s degree, according to the Education Data Initiative.
Since Biden announced his plan to forgive some of that debt, students have been calling the UW Scholarships and Financial Aid office in higher volumes than normal, said Anna Terfehr, the office’s director.
Students and graduates are seeking guidance on whether or not they are eligible for the forgiveness and what they need to do to receive it. The forgiveness only extends to borrowers who have had a loan disbursement on or before June 30, meaning not all current students will be eligible.
Terfehr noted the office also is learning about the forgiveness plan.
“We’re learning something that’s still not formally approved, and it is so student specific in the totality of their loan history and loan life,” Terfehr said.
Biden’s plan also will halve required monthly repayment rates and cover unpaid monthly interest rates so long as borrowers continue to make their payments.
Debt snowball
UW graduate Ryan Sedgeley said that while he has $34,000 in debt, some of his friends have seen their debt double or reach $100,000 because of high interest rates.
“In a lot of ways, $10,000 in relief is not nearly enough to help those people,” Sedgeley said, adding it “seems like kind of a joke.”
It took Sedgeley about 10 years to receive his undergraduate degree, in part because he had to drop out multiple times to work to make enough money to go back to school. He said a young person having so much money offered in the form of a loan can find it difficult to understand its implications.
“As someone from a lower-middle-class background, seeing those numbers rise every month was completely terrifying,” Sedgeley said about continuing to take out loans. “It was scary, but I felt like I didn’t really have an option.”
This element of fear influences people in college, and in deciding whether or not to pursue higher education.
After graduating from KSU, Kingsley worked with Upward Bound at UW, a program that encourages and prepares high school students to attend college. One of her tasks was to assess what barriers exist in getting first-generation students to attend college.
“One that came out over and over again is they’re scared to death of debt,” Kingsley said. “I know that that is keeping a lot of kids (in Wyoming) from going to college.”
Resources
At UW, the Scholarships and Financial Aid office works with students to help them determine which loans they should take out and for how much, Terfehr said.
The amount of resources a student needs when navigating college payment largely depends on his or her background and whether or not parents have attended college.
“There’s definitely some that come in and feel like they really know what they’re doing, and others who need extra guidance and help,” the official said.
At WyoTech, most students attend with financial help from their parents, Min said. He predicted that while eligible students were likely happy about the proposed $10,000 forgiveness, loans don’t have a large influence on whether or not they decide to attend the technical school.
Kingsley said that even with scholarships, students who don’t have familial support can struggle to pay for things like food and housing.
“There’s a lot of nontraditional students that out of necessity go back to school and there’s not a second income,” she said. “The only way to get through it is student loans.”
Abby Vander Graaff covers education for the Laramie Boomerang, a website and newspaper affiliated with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. For more, go to WyomingNews.com/users/profile/avandergraaff or WyomingNews.com/laramieboomerang. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/in_our_schools/breathing-room-uw-student-loan-borrowers-react-to-federal-debt-relief/article_cf4a889e-2974-11ed-9e77-03c65e7a701f.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:14Z |
Between Sept. 6-16, you might see this. Cheyenne's water and sewer utility is doing what it calls an airborne electromagnetic survey. Photo courtesy of the Board of Public Utilities.
CHEYENNE – If you are out and about locally between this coming Tuesday and Sept. 16, you might see a slightly unusual sight up in the air.
During that time period, the city's water and sewer utility will begin a second phase of what it calls an airborne electromagnetic survey. Visually, this will mean that you might catch a glimpse of a "helicopter towing a large hoop from a cable," according to the Board of Public Utilities. The copter, BOPU continued, "will conduct low-level flights in designated areas as part of a geological and aquifer mapping study."
It will be airborne over parts of Cheyenne’s groundwater well fields. Specifically, these operations are located between Interstate 80 and Horse Creek Road and west of I-25. "This portion of the study is expected to last up to one week," noted a Wednesday BOPU news release.
In its announcement, the municipal water provider had some words that seemed meant to reassure members of the public:
This "AEM survey is being conducted by a specialty airborne geophysical survey company with pilots who are trained in low-level flying. The company works with the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure flights are safe and conducted in accordance with U.S. law. The survey will not take place directly above populated areas, and the electromagnetic signals used are far too weak to interfere with electronic or communications equipment."
There is more than just a survey at stake here, the agency pointed out:
"With around 15% of Cheyenne’s drinking water coming from groundwater wells, this" will "help provide a better understanding of the soil conditions that make the aquifer and how water recharges the aquifer. This is part of a multi-year project to enhance the long-term sustainability of groundwater resources." | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/look-up-bopu-plans-airborne-survey-using-helicopter-towing-a-hoop/article_09ffb938-299c-11ed-b5a0-ebe76f94cbda.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:20Z |
In data posted Wednesday by the Small Business Administration, SBA reported there are 132,595 small business employees in Wyoming. That comprises 64.1% of all workers statewide.
In data posted Wednesday by the Small Business Administration, SBA reported there are 132,595 small business employees in Wyoming. That comprises 64.1% of all workers statewide.
In data posted Wednesday by the Small Business Administration, SBA reported on new companies in Wyoming.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Small firms in Wyoming employ a much bigger share of workers in the state than do all such U.S. enterprises as a portion of the entire American workforce, new federal government statistics show.
In data posted Wednesday by the Small Business Administration, there are 132,595 small-business employees in Wyoming. That comprises 64.1% of all workers statewide, the agency added.
By comparison, 32.5 million small businesses nationwide employ 46.8% of the private workforce, the SBA noted. “The top three industries for small business employment are Health Care and Social Assistance; Accommodation and Food Services; and Construction.”
When it comes to the sheer number of small firms operating in the state, there are 72,081 of them. This comprises 98.9% of all Wyoming businesses. This is in line with the national trend, per other stats from the SBA.
During the first year or so of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, SBA found that more small firms in the state opened their doors than shuttered. There were 2,599 establishment openings versus 2,144 closings.
The jobs picture for these smaller operations was not quite so rosy, according to the government agency. “Small businesses gained 17,930 jobs and lost 24,353, for a net decrease of 6,423 jobs.”
To see the agency’s 2022 small business profiles for states, territories and the entire country, go to bit.ly/3RpJYNY. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/small-wyoming-firms-employ-disproportionate-share-of-workers-sba-stats/article_ea4bb5ac-2a3f-11ed-8a3d-171ee1c85560.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:26Z |
I’ve spent countless hours since the late 1970s listening to lawmakers wrangle over how much to spend on K-12 schools. The rhetoric rarely changed much, and neither did the predictable outcomes: When the Legislature fails to meet students’ needs, school districts and the Wyoming Education Association ask courts to intervene.
Last month, the WEA sued the state again. As they say, the only thing harder than learning from experience is … not learning from experience. More than four decades on, the Wyoming Legislature still insists on doing things the hard way. At least they're consistent.
The latest lawsuit was born out of frustration, after years of watching the Legislature fail to establish a permanent, sustainable source of revenue for school districts. This wasn’t a rush to sue by the organization that represents most of the state’s teachers. WEA’s response to being repeatedly rebuffed by the Legislature was restrained.
Because the quality of Wyoming education is beginning to suffer, WEA President Grady Hutcherson said, the association was compelled to act. He cited increased class sizes, aging buildings and the need to improve school security.
Wyoming teacher salaries were once among the highest in the nation, but those days are gone. The state has not kept up with inflation in their block grants to districts for more than a decade. Salaries have stagnated, making it difficult for districts to recruit and retain teachers, especially in rural areas.
In a series of four lawsuits against the state by the WEA and school districts, the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed the Legislature must provide a high-quality, fair and equitable education system for every student. No exceptions.
The high court ordered an exhaustive process called “recalibration” to be conducted every five years, to adjust the funding formula based on current costs.
During booms, the Legislature sometimes exceed what their consultants recommended. But whenever the fossil fuels industry struggles, lawmakers look for ways to reduce education spending.
In 2017, the Legislature ordered a special recalibration, with Senate deficit hawks admitting they wanted to use the process to justify deeper education cuts. Many senators complained Wyoming wasn’t getting the “bang for the buck” it should have, compared to the money it spends. These complaints ignored the fact that the Equality State’s standardized test scores were ranked the highest in Western states.
Much to these legislators’ chagrin, their recalibration consultant said Wyoming needed to increase K-12 spending by $70 million annually. At the Senate leadership’s insistence, school funding was cut a total of $100 million over the next three years. The decrease would have been much greater if the House didn’t force the Senate to compromise.
Then, during the 2020 recalibration, experts called for a $100 million hike – essentially restoring what was cut. But the Senate – pointing to dwindling fossil fuel industry revenue – wanted to shave off at least $100 million more. Rather than legislating new revenue sources, for several years lawmakers have used the “rainy-day fund” to pay for a large portion of school funding. In 2020, the House only agreed to cuts if a half-cent state sales tax hike would be automatic if the fund dropped below $650 million.
The Senate refused any sales tax increase, and the House wouldn’t budge. Lawmakers used federal COVID relief funds to maintain the existing budget, sparing it the $100 million cut, but not changing the state’s tax structure or providing the funding that court-mandated consultants deemed necessary.
Now, with extra federal funds drawing down, the Legislature still doesn’t have a plan to fix an estimated $300 million annual education shortfall.
In its lawsuit, WEA reminds lawmakers that lack of revenue is not an excuse the courts will accept. The state Supreme Court has also spelled out in previous rulings that it doesn’t matter that other state agency budgets have been cut significantly:
“Supporting an opportunity for a complete, proper, quality education is the Legislature’s paramount priority (emphasis added); competing priorities not of constitutional magnitude are secondary, and the Legislature may not yield to them until constitutionally sufficient provision is made for elementary and secondary education.”
Wyoming, with a Permanent Mineral Trust Fund worth more than $9 billion, is hardly a poor state. It has the resources to pay for a school system that meets the mandate. Those resources are simply being diverted elsewhere, like the rainy-day fund and assorted permanent trusts. If rerouting existing revenues doesn’t do the trick alone, the Legislature has an obligation to raise current taxes or establish new ones.
“The Wyoming Education Association is committed to seeking justice for our students,” Hutcherson said.
Sen. Chris Rothfuss, D-Laramie, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle the Legislature “lacks the political will … to do the right thing, because they know they won’t [be re-elected] if they vote to raise taxes.”
State polls consistently show residents don’t want education budget cuts. Yet they keep electing extremist, anti-tax and anti-education legislators.
This is why the WEA needed to sue the state. I hope many school districts join as plaintiffs, to again show state officials they can’t get away with underfunding education and thumbing their nose at the courts.
The Drake’s Take is a weekly column by veteran Wyoming journalist Kerry Drake, and produced by WyoFile.com, a nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/drake-failing-to-fund-education-wyoming-will-fail-in-court-too-again/article_31fbca08-2a0a-11ed-8a8f-9ff01bf5a676.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:33Z |
Last week’s meeting of the Legislature’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee crackled with controversy.
Observers were troubled by the ranked-choice voting scheme proposed to strip our political parties of the power to put their own candidates on the general ballot.
Committee members pushed back against the secretary of state’s novel, and overly broad, interpretation of Wyoming’s constitutional provision for “secrecy of the ballot” (Article 6, Section 11).
Senator Nethercott’s motion to draft a bill that codifies federal guidelines for certification of election equipment raised concerns that Wyoming election law would dance to the constantly changing tune of the Election Assistance Commission.
Committee Co-Chair Dan Zwonitzer’s motion to remove election oversight from the secretary of state’s office seemed to thumb a nose at 76,000 voters who resonated with Chuck Gray’s calls for increased election integrity.
All of these issues merit the careful attention of Wyoming citizens. Each, in its own way, has the potential to erode further the power of our vote to express the consent of the governed.
But the part of the meeting that most piqued my interest happened in the opening 10 minutes. State elections director Kai Schon gave a brief report on the Aug. 16 primary election. Generally speaking, things went very smoothly. For that, we thank him for his good work.
He ended his report by touting a post-primary audit that went above and beyond the requirements of state law. He explained, “We want to look at the ballots that are actually being voted and see how our tabulators are adjudicating ballots.” In that sentence, he captured the mood of a strong majority of Wyoming voters.
Schon described reaching out to professor Ken Gerow, director of UW’s statistics program, to help determine a statistically significant sample for the audit. He then reported triumphantly that the roughly 3,000 ballots of this random sample, distributed across 23 counties, matched exactly with the cast vote records (CVRs).
If this report were exactly true as worded, voters around the state would have good reason to, in his words, “put to bed” concerns about the trustworthiness of Wyoming’s ES&S voting machines. But Schon’s description was different from the Uinta County clerk’s description of the event. According to that website, they were comparing “ballot images and cast vote records.”
Audit observers in Uinta, and several other counties, did not carry out the stated intent of the director of elections to “look at the ballots that are actually being voted.” Instead, they looked only at the “ballot images.” There is a significant difference between the actual ballots and their ”ballot images.”
Ballot images are photos that the machine takes of the ballot. They are produced by the machine, not by the voter. So, the audit conducted in Uinta County only compared one product of the machine (the ballot image) with another product of the same machine (the CVR, or cast vote record.) Nobody in Uinta County has looked at the actual ballots.
Sheridan and Natrona counties both promised a “Post-Election Ballot Audit … in accordance with and as required by the Wyoming secretary of state policy (dated June 29, 2022).” Was this different than Uinta County’s audit? Or did all of Wyoming’s counties look only at the ballot images? Did the secretary of state’s June 29 policy require a look at the ballots or only at the ballot images? (Public records request pending.)
Lawmakers should ask Mr. Schon these questions. Either Uinta County defied the SOS’s requirements or Mr. Schon’s language before the elections committee was sloppy and misleading to the Wyoming people.
Some might scoff at this question as the mere splitting of hairs. But in this day of computer wizardry, it is a matter of night and day. Images can be altered in the blink of an eye. Paper ballots cannot. The smartphone you have in your pocket has the capability of instantly editing any photograph. It can automatically erase unwanted pixels, like red-eye, and insert new pixels, like stars and dog noses. More sophisticated programming can do even more.
Computer experts that examined the CVRs and ballot images of the machines in Mesa County, Colorado, raised precisely this possibility. They demonstrated on screen how the hand-blackened ballot oval in front of one candidate could be cut out and replaced by an empty oval, and how that hand-blackened oval could be pasted in front of a different candidate – altering the ballot image to contradict the actual ballot.
Nobody is alleging that such fraud happened in Wyoming. But the director of Wyoming’s elections should recognize that words matter. If the ballot audit actually audited the ballots, Wyoming voters should know it. But if the ballot audits only audited ballot images – as happened in Uinta County – public testimony that omits that detail degrades voter confidence.
Jonathan Lange is a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor in Evanston and Kemmerer and serves the Wyoming Pastors Network. Follow his blog at OnlyHuman-JL.blogspot.com. Email: JLange64@allwest.net. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/lange-ballots-or-ballot-images-which-is-it/article_ef349a5a-29a1-11ed-bf3e-6317e3ab2a39.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:39Z |
Country
United States of America US Virgin Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands Canada Mexico, United Mexican States Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Cuba, Republic of Dominican Republic Haiti, Republic of Jamaica Afghanistan Albania, People's Socialist Republic of Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of American Samoa Andorra, Principality of Angola, Republic of Anguilla Antarctica (the territory South of 60 deg S) Antigua and Barbuda Argentina, Argentine Republic Armenia Aruba Australia, Commonwealth of Austria, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bangladesh, People's Republic of Barbados Belarus Belgium, Kingdom of Belize Benin, People's Republic of Bermuda Bhutan, Kingdom of Bolivia, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana, Republic of Bouvet Island (Bouvetoya) Brazil, Federative Republic of British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago) British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria, People's Republic of Burkina Faso Burundi, Republic of Cambodia, Kingdom of Cameroon, United Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad, Republic of Chile, Republic of China, People's Republic of Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia, Republic of Comoros, Union of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, People's Republic of Cook Islands Costa Rica, Republic of Cote D'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Republic of the Cyprus, Republic of Czech Republic Denmark, Kingdom of Djibouti, Republic of Dominica, Commonwealth of Ecuador, Republic of Egypt, Arab Republic of El Salvador, Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Faeroe Islands Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Fiji, Republic of the Fiji Islands Finland, Republic of France, French Republic French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon, Gabonese Republic Gambia, Republic of the Georgia Germany Ghana, Republic of Gibraltar Greece, Hellenic Republic Greenland Grenada Guadaloupe Guam Guatemala, Republic of Guinea, Revolutionary
People's Rep'c of Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guyana, Republic of Heard and McDonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City State) Honduras, Republic of Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China Hrvatska (Croatia) Hungary, Hungarian People's Republic Iceland, Republic of India, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq, Republic of Ireland Israel, State of Italy, Italian Republic Japan Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kenya, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Kuwait, State of Kyrgyz Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon, Lebanese Republic Lesotho, Kingdom of Liberia, Republic of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein, Principality of Lithuania Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Macao, Special Administrative Region of China Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Malawi, Republic of Malaysia Maldives, Republic of Mali, Republic of Malta, Republic of Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania, Islamic Republic of Mauritius Mayotte Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova, Republic of Monaco, Principality of Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic Montserrat Morocco, Kingdom of Mozambique, People's Republic of Myanmar Namibia Nauru, Republic of Nepal, Kingdom of Netherlands Antilles Netherlands, Kingdom of the New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua, Republic of Niger, Republic of the Nigeria, Federal Republic of Niue, Republic of Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway, Kingdom of Oman, Sultanate of Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Palau Palestinian Territory, Occupied Panama, Republic of Papua New Guinea Paraguay, Republic of Peru, Republic of Philippines, Republic of the Pitcairn Island Poland, Polish People's Republic Portugal, Portuguese Republic Puerto Rico Qatar, State of Reunion Romania, Socialist Republic of Russian Federation Rwanda, Rwandese Republic Samoa, Independent State of San Marino, Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Senegal, Republic of Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles, Republic of Sierra Leone, Republic of Singapore, Republic of Slovakia (Slovak Republic) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia, Somali Republic South Africa, Republic of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Spain, Spanish State Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of St. Helena St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Pierre and Miquelon St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Suriname, Republic of Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands Swaziland, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Switzerland, Swiss Confederation Syrian Arab Republic Taiwan, Province of China Tajikistan Tanzania, United Republic of Thailand, Kingdom of Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of Togo, Togolese Republic Tokelau (Tokelau Islands) Tonga, Kingdom of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Tunisia, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda, Republic of Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland Uruguay, Eastern Republic of Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Wallis and Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen Zambia, Republic of Zimbabwe | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/sad-to-see-dead-trees-concerned-about-converse-fire-station/article_529e4e1c-2a18-11ed-9ca9-dfaca01dcb3f.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:45Z |
BURNS – Since taking the helm in May, Burns football coach Travis Romsa wants everyone to know one thing: this year’s football team will be different.
Despite winning only three games in their past two seasons, Romsa expects greatness from his team.
BURNS – Since taking the helm in May, Burns football coach Travis Romsa wants everyone to know one thing: this year’s football team will be different.
Despite winning only three games in their past two seasons, Romsa expects greatness from his team.
"I've got high expectations for this team all year," Romsa told WyoSports. "Hopefully, we can go out there and show it on Friday night."
Part of building a new culture is having a strong leadership core. What Burns won't be lacking in this season is leadership. They will be fielding a team of 31 players, led by 12 seniors, including captains Riley McLaughlin, Cooper Lakin, Carter David, Cody Hape, and Jared Allen.
“Nine of (the returning seniors) have started or played in varsity games,” Romsa said. “We have quite a bit of leadership coming in this year.”
On the offensive side of the ball, McLaughlin returns as the team's leading rusher. He accounted for 157 of the team's 577 yards on the ground this past season.
Slot back Cooper Lakin and wide receiver Jared Allen return as the team’s featured pass catchers. Allen led the team in 2021 with 441 yards receiving and three touchdowns. Lakin added 312 yards receiving and 515 yards of total offense.
According to Romsa, both rooms had strong showings in the team’s first scrimmage last week. They have also been instrumental with leadership roles on the team.
“(The rooms) are mostly seniors,” Romsa said. “They really showed up to the weight room all season long and are ready to go."
One area of concern for Romsa, however, is on the offensive line. The team lost four of five starters from last season. Despite this, Romsa is confident time will help the newcomers adjust to the schemes and systems in place.
The linebacking core looks to be strong heading into the season, as well. Lakin and McLaughlin headline a potent duo in the middle of the field that accounted for 126 tackles on the season last year.
“They were flying around the field and playing pretty hard,” Romsa said.
One linebacker the Broncs will be without is Cody Winslow. Last season, the senior middle linebacker accounted for 93 tackles, 28 more than the next closest player on the team.
Instead of looking for one single replacement for Winslow, the team will fill his role by committee. Lakin and McLaughlin will be joined by Allen and Carter David in filling the void that Winslow left.
Burns will face Yuma, Colorado, in its first game of the season for the second straight year. Yuma won last year's game 41-6 – Burns' most lopsided defeat of the season.
{{description}}
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
Thank you .
Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in.
Check your email for details.
Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password.
An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the e-mail address listed on your account.
Thank you.
Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in.
A receipt was sent to your email. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/burns/burns-looks-to-establish-new-culture-in-2022/article_a3649bbc-2a18-11ed-8883-bf63fe8524ab.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:51Z |
Kelly Walsh at Central
Records: Kelly Walsh (0-1) at Cheyenne Central (0-1)
Kickoff: 6 p.m. today at Riske Field, Cheyenne
Twitter: @MattAtencio5
Radio: KFBC (97.5 FM, 1240 AM)
Last week: Kelly Walsh lost to Rock Springs, 42-7; Central lost at Sheridan, 24-21.
Last meeting: Kelly Walsh won 21-13 on Sept. 3, 2021, in Casper.
Facts: While losing to the reigning Class 4A state champions on a last-second field goal was disappointing, Central coach Mike Apodaca found plenty to like about his team’s effort. “We had a great camp, and that effort spilled in there,” he said. “We had some really good plays on both sides of the ball, but it was a sloppy game for both teams. The last team that didn’t make a mistake won it.” … The Indians lost three fumbles and also gave up an interception against Sheridan. “Two of our turnovers were in the red zone, so we have to improve there,” Apodaca said. … Kelly Walsh had just 144 yards of total offense during its loss to Rock Springs. Quarterback Gibson Sasser threw for 133 yards. “They’ve got a lot of team speed, and they’re trying to utilize it by getting out to the edge a lot,” Apodaca said. “They like to throw the football a bit more than they have. They definitely trust their quarterback.”
East at Natrona
Records: No. 1-ranked Cheyenne East (1-0) at third-ranked Natrona (1-0)
Kickoff: 7 p.m. today at Cheney Alumni Field, Casper
Last week: East beat Campbell County, 47-28; Natrona won at Laramie, 40-0.
Last meeting: East won 14-13 on Sept. 3, 2021, in Casper.
Facts: East leads Class 4A in total offense after rolling up 498 yards against Campbell County. … East held a 40-0 halftime lead in that contest. “We improved so much from where we started last week to where we ended it,” East coach Chad Goff said. “We were kind of a little off during the week. The offensive line was missing assignments and not getting done what they needed to get done. They probably improved the most just from Wednesday to Friday.” … Thunderbirds junior quarterback Cam Hayes leads the state in all-purpose offense at 299 yards. He is the state’s second-leading passer at 272 yards per game. … The Mustangs counter with 4A’s top defense, surrendering just 50 total yards at Laramie. That included minus-2 yards on the ground. … “Natrona is a tough football team of guys that work hard, do their job and are really sound in what they do,” Goff said. “This has been a Week 2 game for us for a long time, and it’s always a measuring stick. It tests both teams because it’s usually a pretty darned good game.”
Sheridan at South
Records: No. 2-ranked Sheridan (1-0) at Cheyenne South (0-1)
Kickoff: 6 p.m. today at Bison Stadium, Cheyenne
Twitter: @jjohnke
Last week: Sheridan beat Cheyenne Central, 24-21; South lost at Thunder Basin, 42-0.
Last meeting: Sheridan won 56-0 on Sept. 3, 2021, in Sheridan.
Facts: Moody found positives in his first game as South’s head coach, despite the 42-0 final score. “The defense looked good, for the most part,” he said. “There were a couple lapses that led to touchdowns, but they were flying around. We also have the No. 1 and No. 2 guy in the state for defensive points right now because they were doing their jobs.” Matt Rivera currently tops the defensive points rankings with 30. He had 13 tackles (12 solo) and an interception against the Bolts. Damien Pino is tied for second after posting 13 tackles (11 solo). … Junior quarterback Osayas Garcia didn’t complete any of his three passes before he left the game with an injury. Senior Jaylen Trujillo went 4 for 12 for 50 yards and two interceptions. “Our pass protection was good, for the most part, but we have some things we need to clean up,” Moody said. “We need to hold some of our blocks longer, and we need better routes from our receivers.” … The Broncs lead 4A in rushing offense (263 yards) and are third in total offense (426) after one game. Colson Coon – the defending Gatorade player of the year – rolled up 231 yards on the ground last week. “(Sheridan is) sound and well-coached like always,” Moody said. “You’re not going to catch them messing up very often. I’m in charge of our offense, so I’m looking at their defense very closely, and they’re really flying around and swarming to the ball.”
– Jeremiah Johnke, WyoSports | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_central/laramie-county-prep-football-capsules-for-sept-2-2022/article_10fc036a-2a26-11ed-92d5-b3d545c1dc1d.html | 2022-09-02T14:06:58Z |
Country
United States of America US Virgin Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands Canada Mexico, United Mexican States Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Cuba, Republic of Dominican Republic Haiti, Republic of Jamaica Afghanistan Albania, People's Socialist Republic of Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of American Samoa Andorra, Principality of Angola, Republic of Anguilla Antarctica (the territory South of 60 deg S) Antigua and Barbuda Argentina, Argentine Republic Armenia Aruba Australia, Commonwealth of Austria, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bangladesh, People's Republic of Barbados Belarus Belgium, Kingdom of Belize Benin, People's Republic of Bermuda Bhutan, Kingdom of Bolivia, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana, Republic of Bouvet Island (Bouvetoya) Brazil, Federative Republic of British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago) British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria, People's Republic of Burkina Faso Burundi, Republic of Cambodia, Kingdom of Cameroon, United Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad, Republic of Chile, Republic of China, People's Republic of Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia, Republic of Comoros, Union of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, People's Republic of Cook Islands Costa Rica, Republic of Cote D'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Republic of the Cyprus, Republic of Czech Republic Denmark, Kingdom of Djibouti, Republic of Dominica, Commonwealth of Ecuador, Republic of Egypt, Arab Republic of El Salvador, Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Faeroe Islands Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Fiji, Republic of the Fiji Islands Finland, Republic of France, French Republic French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon, Gabonese Republic Gambia, Republic of the Georgia Germany Ghana, Republic of Gibraltar Greece, Hellenic Republic Greenland Grenada Guadaloupe Guam Guatemala, Republic of Guinea, Revolutionary
People's Rep'c of Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guyana, Republic of Heard and McDonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City State) Honduras, Republic of Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China Hrvatska (Croatia) Hungary, Hungarian People's Republic Iceland, Republic of India, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq, Republic of Ireland Israel, State of Italy, Italian Republic Japan Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kenya, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Kuwait, State of Kyrgyz Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon, Lebanese Republic Lesotho, Kingdom of Liberia, Republic of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein, Principality of Lithuania Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Macao, Special Administrative Region of China Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Malawi, Republic of Malaysia Maldives, Republic of Mali, Republic of Malta, Republic of Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania, Islamic Republic of Mauritius Mayotte Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova, Republic of Monaco, Principality of Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic Montserrat Morocco, Kingdom of Mozambique, People's Republic of Myanmar Namibia Nauru, Republic of Nepal, Kingdom of Netherlands Antilles Netherlands, Kingdom of the New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua, Republic of Niger, Republic of the Nigeria, Federal Republic of Niue, Republic of Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway, Kingdom of Oman, Sultanate of Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Palau Palestinian Territory, Occupied Panama, Republic of Papua New Guinea Paraguay, Republic of Peru, Republic of Philippines, Republic of the Pitcairn Island Poland, Polish People's Republic Portugal, Portuguese Republic Puerto Rico Qatar, State of Reunion Romania, Socialist Republic of Russian Federation Rwanda, Rwandese Republic Samoa, Independent State of San Marino, Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Senegal, Republic of Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles, Republic of Sierra Leone, Republic of Singapore, Republic of Slovakia (Slovak Republic) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia, Somali Republic South Africa, Republic of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Spain, Spanish State Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of St. Helena St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Pierre and Miquelon St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Suriname, Republic of Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands Swaziland, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Switzerland, Swiss Confederation Syrian Arab Republic Taiwan, Province of China Tajikistan Tanzania, United Republic of Thailand, Kingdom of Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of Togo, Togolese Republic Tokelau (Tokelau Islands) Tonga, Kingdom of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Tunisia, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda, Republic of Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland Uruguay, Eastern Republic of Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Wallis and Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen Zambia, Republic of Zimbabwe | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_central/prep-golf-central-boys-and-girls-hold-slim-leads-at-outlaw-invitational/article_a3e37dce-2a4a-11ed-8a1e-2ffb11eab55d.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:04Z |
CHEYENNE – Chad Goff knew he had to find a place on the field for Drew Jackson last season.
The Cheyenne East football coach knew Jackson could help his team, but he didn’t want to put the then-sophomore at his natural position.
“We already had Cade (Pugh) coming back at running back, but I’m also not a fan of throwing a sophomore in the backfield and having him take all those hits from seniors,” Goff said. “We put him out wide, let him get comfortable in space and let him grow.”
Jackson flourished as a slot receiver, catching 29 passes for 541 yards and three touchdowns to help the Thunderbirds go 8-3 and advance to the Class 4A semifinals. Pugh graduated after rushing for 1,016 yards and 14 touchdowns, leaving a hole in East’s backfield.
The T-Birds will be just fine running the football, if what Jackson did during East’s season-opening 47-28 victory over Campbell County is any indication.
The junior gained 100 yards and scored a touchdown on 10 carries. He also snared five passes for another 109 yards. If that wasn’t enough, Jackson recorded five solo tackles and nabbed an interception.
Nearly all of his yards came during a first half that saw East roll to a 40-0 lead. The T-Birds starters played just one series during the second half.
“He looked really good,” Goff said. “Drew just does things at running back that you can tell he’s a natural at the position. Some of that stuff is not coached. It’s him being an athlete.
“He caught the ball well out of the backfield, hit holes well, found creases and did a lot of really good things.”
To Jackson, returning to running was just like riding a bike.
“It felt really normal. It felt good,” Jackson said. “I had to remind myself about keeping the ball high and tight when you’re running through a hole. Ball security was the biggest thing I had to remind myself about when it came to knocking off the rust.”
Jackson’s return to the backfield started last December, Goff said.
“As a coach, you sit down and start evaluating what you have coming back and where you can put kids to help your team and help them be the best they can be,” he said. “That move was obvious. We didn’t have to weigh it out. It was a really simple choice.
“I know (Jackson) and what he can do at running back. I’ve seen him do some amazing things athletically since he was in the second grade. He played on the same traveling team with my son, Gavin, so I know what type of athlete he is and what he brings to the game with the ball in his hands.”
Jackson was listed as 5-foot-11, 150 pounds on East’s 2021 roster. He felt good about his build, but knew he would likely need to add weight to withstand the shots he was likely to take this fall. He currently checks in at 6-0, 160.
“I lifted really hard and tried to eat a little bit more to put on some weight,” Jackson said. “I know that muscle’s going to help, but I also have to stay small when I’m running through holes.”
Jackson has always been a threat both running with the football and catching it out of the backfield. However, his season at receiver has only made him more dangerous as a receiving threat.
“There were plays at receiver last year where I’d just go find a soft spot in the zone,” Jackson said. “I can take that experience with me and use it when I’m coming out of the backfield.”
Jeremiah Johnke is the WyoSports editor. He can be reached at jjohnke@wyosports.net or 307-633-3137. Follow him on Twitter at @jjohnke. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_east/easts-drew-jackson-thrives-in-return-to-running-back/article_85350ef2-2a3a-11ed-ae4c-7763f5703435.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:10Z |
Country
United States of America US Virgin Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands Canada Mexico, United Mexican States Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Cuba, Republic of Dominican Republic Haiti, Republic of Jamaica Afghanistan Albania, People's Socialist Republic of Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of American Samoa Andorra, Principality of Angola, Republic of Anguilla Antarctica (the territory South of 60 deg S) Antigua and Barbuda Argentina, Argentine Republic Armenia Aruba Australia, Commonwealth of Austria, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bangladesh, People's Republic of Barbados Belarus Belgium, Kingdom of Belize Benin, People's Republic of Bermuda Bhutan, Kingdom of Bolivia, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana, Republic of Bouvet Island (Bouvetoya) Brazil, Federative Republic of British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago) British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria, People's Republic of Burkina Faso Burundi, Republic of Cambodia, Kingdom of Cameroon, United Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad, Republic of Chile, Republic of China, People's Republic of Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia, Republic of Comoros, Union of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, People's Republic of Cook Islands Costa Rica, Republic of Cote D'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Republic of the Cyprus, Republic of Czech Republic Denmark, Kingdom of Djibouti, Republic of Dominica, Commonwealth of Ecuador, Republic of Egypt, Arab Republic of El Salvador, Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Faeroe Islands Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Fiji, Republic of the Fiji Islands Finland, Republic of France, French Republic French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon, Gabonese Republic Gambia, Republic of the Georgia Germany Ghana, Republic of Gibraltar Greece, Hellenic Republic Greenland Grenada Guadaloupe Guam Guatemala, Republic of Guinea, Revolutionary
People's Rep'c of Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guyana, Republic of Heard and McDonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City State) Honduras, Republic of Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China Hrvatska (Croatia) Hungary, Hungarian People's Republic Iceland, Republic of India, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq, Republic of Ireland Israel, State of Italy, Italian Republic Japan Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kenya, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Kuwait, State of Kyrgyz Republic Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon, Lebanese Republic Lesotho, Kingdom of Liberia, Republic of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein, Principality of Lithuania Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Macao, Special Administrative Region of China Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Malawi, Republic of Malaysia Maldives, Republic of Mali, Republic of Malta, Republic of Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania, Islamic Republic of Mauritius Mayotte Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova, Republic of Monaco, Principality of Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic Montserrat Morocco, Kingdom of Mozambique, People's Republic of Myanmar Namibia Nauru, Republic of Nepal, Kingdom of Netherlands Antilles Netherlands, Kingdom of the New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua, Republic of Niger, Republic of the Nigeria, Federal Republic of Niue, Republic of Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway, Kingdom of Oman, Sultanate of Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Palau Palestinian Territory, Occupied Panama, Republic of Papua New Guinea Paraguay, Republic of Peru, Republic of Philippines, Republic of the Pitcairn Island Poland, Polish People's Republic Portugal, Portuguese Republic Puerto Rico Qatar, State of Reunion Romania, Socialist Republic of Russian Federation Rwanda, Rwandese Republic Samoa, Independent State of San Marino, Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Senegal, Republic of Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles, Republic of Sierra Leone, Republic of Singapore, Republic of Slovakia (Slovak Republic) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia, Somali Republic South Africa, Republic of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Spain, Spanish State Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of St. Helena St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Pierre and Miquelon St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Suriname, Republic of Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands Swaziland, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Switzerland, Swiss Confederation Syrian Arab Republic Taiwan, Province of China Tajikistan Tanzania, United Republic of Thailand, Kingdom of Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of Togo, Togolese Republic Tokelau (Tokelau Islands) Tonga, Kingdom of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Tunisia, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda, Republic of Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland Uruguay, Eastern Republic of Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of Wallis and Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen Zambia, Republic of Zimbabwe | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_south/prep-tennis-south-falls-3-2-5-0-against-sheridan/article_ce765c6c-2a33-11ed-9269-53b19e800cad.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:16Z |
LARAMIE — All wins anywhere are good. But a victory at home is always a little more special.
The Laramie High football team is striving to take the next step of halting a losing streak on its familiar field turf at Deti Stadium when Campbell County comes to the Gem City. Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m. today.
Second-year Plainsmen coach Paul Ronga conveyed an added importance that all games, even early in the season, are influential when it comes to advancing to the postseason and seeding.
Ater last week’s season-opening 40-0 home loss to Natrona County, Ronga started looking forward to the importance of the next game against the Camels.
“It’s two-fold. The first is the fact that it’s a home game,” Ronga said. “We are trying to reverse the tide at home and come out on top after multiple losses at home from last season and carrying over to this season. The second component is that already there are playoff implications on the table. If we want to get to the next level and accomplish our goal of making the playoffs this year, it starts with this game.”
The Plainsmen last won at home during the 2020 season, when the two wins on the season were in Laramie; against Campbell County 35-22 and Cheyenne South 55-2.
This season started with record-setting attendance since the new Deti Stadium opened in 2016.
“We are extremely pleased and proud we set an attendance record for Deti Stadium,” Ronga said. “We hope to see that support continue. We are very appreciative for that.”
The Plainsmen will look to bounce back from the Natrona loss when the Mustangs pulled away from a 14-0 halftime lead. With poor field position being an issue throughout the game, LHS couldn’t sustain a consistent offense outside of one long drive. The Mustangs shut down the run and pressured starting junior quarterback Ben Malone all night. The Plainsmen rushed minus-2 total yards, and Malone was 6-of-13 for 52 yards with a long of 25 to senior receiver Adrien Calderon. On the bright side, Malone had no interceptions as the Plainsmen also took care of the ball with no fumbles resulting in a turnover.
“We are in good spirits,” Ronga said. “It’s never easy to recover after a loss — it stings and takes some time and it kind of stays with you, as well. To recover from something like that, all hands need to be on deck — the coaches and players need to move forward and sometimes that’s not easy. … It’s difficult to move away from a loss and look forward. It’s something we are trying to get better with because it is the only way to move forward.”
The Plainsmen came out of the game mostly healthy, with the exception of one lineman lost for the season because of an apparent leg injury.
“We are actually still healthy and pretty much with a full roster outside of losing one player in senior Antonio Cortez, who was a starting offensive lineman and a sub on the defensive line,” Ronga said.
The opponent
Campbell County will make a second trip to southeast Wyoming in as many weeks after its season-opening 47-28 loss at Cheyenne East last week.
The Camels did their best to keep up with the T-Birds with 337 yards of total offense, mostly from the passing game. Sophomore quarterback Mason Drube had a Class 4A best 296 yards passing while going 22-of-34 with three touchdowns and an interception. A 68-yard completion was also the longest passing play in all of 4A last week.
“(Campbell County) is a formidable opponent who got the better of us last year,” Ronga said. “They also understand the implications of this game and are playing their second consecutive road game. We expect them to come full force and full tilt and offer a challenge for us, most notably with their size and strength.”
The Plainsmen also met the Camels for the second game of last season with Campbell County defending its home field 48-3. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/laramie_high/plainsmen-to-host-camels-for-pivotal-early-season-contest/article_ebd8469e-2a47-11ed-8310-4fef1ab360f3.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:22Z |
LARAMIE — It’s a new season for Laramie High volleyball, and a time to showcase a mostly-new team.
The Lady Plainsmen — two time Wyoming Class 4A defending state champions — are working to create team chemistry during the first two weekends of preseason invitationals, which traditionally begin the fall 4A schedule.
There are four key returners with senior Taylor Tyser and juniors Maddy Stucky, Noel Jensen and Anna Sell. Tyser and Stucky were all-state players from last season. The rest of the varsity roster is mostly filled with players taking their talents to a higher level.
“We have a lot of very tall and talented players, but we are young,” LHS coach Jill Stucky said. “So, I’m very excited about how passionate this group is about development. We are going to be a completely different team by the end of the season compared to where we start.
“We’re athletic and our volleyball IQ is pretty high for our age. This team comes to work hard every day and has a great focus.”
Jill Stucky is entering her fifth season leading the Plainsmen. She was head coach at LHS in 2013-14, and again since 2020.
LHS went 24-0 in 2020 for its first state championship in 26 years. Before then, the program’s first and only title was in 1994. LHS beat Kelly Walsh 22-25, 25-20, 25-15, 25-23 in the last match to break the title drought. Last season, the Plainsmen went 32-2 and defended their state championship with a 25-20, 25-20, 25-23 win against Kelly Walsh in the title match.
One of the main contributors for the Plainsmen during the last two seasons was two-time Wyoming Gatorade player of the year Alexis Stucky. She is now a setter at nationally-ranked University of Florida. She also played with some of the nation’s best players as a member of USA Volleyball junior teams the past two years.
“We have a whole new ball club with new players and the future of this group gets me excited,” Jill Stucky said. “It’s a new challenge for me with a new group of kids — everybody has to learn the new language, drills and system. But I’m excited with the direction we are going.
“We’ve been training since last spring with open gyms and made a lot of progress. This group likes each other and has fun. What’s neat is when I walk in the gym 30-40 minutes early for practice, half the squad is already there and excited to be there.”
Senior Emily Gardner; junior Sidnie Study; sophomores Michon Sailors and Savanna Steiert; and freshmen Tessa Dodd, Kierra Gardener and Ava Plassmeyer complete the varsity roster to start the season.
“This group has a lot of leadership and it doesn’t matter what age they are,” Jill Stucky said. “We need to have an extremely balanced offense. We just can’t throw the ball up to one player and we have to spread it around to make defenses think about what’s going on. We will have to pass, be in our system and outlast other teams by keeping the ball alive longer than they do.
“We also have four nice defensive specialists in the gym every day and they extend rallies during every drill. It makes everything more competitive because of that ball control and a lot of grit behind the block.”
Tyser and Maddy Stucky also will provide leadership defensively and offensively, respectfully.
“Our defense will be really strong this year,” Tyser said. “We have a good group of defensive specialists who work hard and work together well.
“It’s really exciting to be in this position to watch them grow — to be the person that gets on them but also be the first to congratulate them when they do well.”
Maddy Stucky added: “It’s really rewarding to be able to set all the hitters up for every ball and knowing they are successful because I gave them that ball.
“A lot of our girls have played club volleyball and a lot of us played together, so we already have a connection, which makes playing with everyone so much better.”
Maddy Stucky verbally committed to play collegiately at the University of Wyoming, a program she’s watched growing up with Jill Stucky also being a Cowgirls assistant coach from 2008-12.
“I really felt like UW was the perfect place — it’s at home and I really love the staff and I felt wanted,” Maddy Stucky said. “They were my No. 1 from the start. I bleed Brown and Gold.”
Getting started
The Plainsmen began the season last weekend competing at the Cheyenne Invitational, which featured best of three-game abbreviated matches.
LHS went 2-3 overall with wins against Rock Springs (25-22, 25-22) and Rawlins (25-14, 25-17); and losses to Kelly Walsh (25-19, 27-25), Natrona County (25-23, 15-25, 26-24) and Thunder Basin (20-25, 26-24, 25-21).
“We definitely had nerves going into our first game, but at the end of the day we overcame the challenge,” Gardner said after the Rock Springs match. “We have a great group, and we’re all extremely excited for the future.”
After the Kelly Walsh match, Jill Stucky said, “Our youth really showed in this match. We are a young team hungry for development and we learned a few lessons. It’s always great to learn from a quality loss.”
The Plainsmen will complete the early-season portion of the schedule today and Saturday at the Gillette Invitational, with the same format of shortened matches. Today, LHS will play against Douglas at noon, Kelly Walsh at 2 p.m. and Rapid City Central (South Dakota) at 8 p.m. Saturday the field will be separated into eight-team brackets — Gold, Silver and Bronze — based on Friday’s results. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/laramie_high/title-defense-lady-plainsmen-to-rely-on-veterans-plenty-of-youth/article_20e7e788-2a2d-11ed-8111-1b406bb81b9c.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:28Z |
PREP FOOTBALL: Pine Bluffs wins at Shoshoni Sep 2, 2022 Sep 2, 2022 Updated 1 hr ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CHEYENNE – No. 2-ranked Pine Bluffs picked up a 34-26 victory over top-ranked Shoshoni on Thursday.Dalton Schaefer rushed for two touchdowns, while Stu Lerwick completed a touchdown pass to Collin Jessen.James Langlois added a rushing touchdown. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Bluff Pine Touchdown American Football Sport Victory Shoshoni Football Pass Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Latest Special Section 2022 UW Football Preview To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. Trending Now Easton Gibbs embraces chance to be next great Wyoming LB UW opens season with blowout loss at Illinois Wyoming-Illinois statistics East dominates Campbell County in season opener Pokes’ passing woes continue in season-opening loss | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/pine_bluffs/prep-football-pine-bluffs-wins-at-shoshoni/article_aa7cf9ec-2a6a-11ed-8016-67ec2b3ad224.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:35Z |
LARAMIE – Last Saturday might have been University of Wyoming right guard Emmanuel Pregnon’s first start at the college level, but his performance and mindset certainly didn’t reflect that of an inexperienced underclassman.
While the Cowboys fell 38-6 to Illinois, Pregnon held his own against a Big Ten defensive front. The redshirt freshman posted the highest Pro Football Focus pass blocking grade for a group that didn’t allow a sack, while playing a key part in a rushing attack that averaged 5.9 yards per carry.
Pregnon says his approach had him ready for the moment.
“It didn't really strike me like I think it would for most people,” he said. “That's in part because of my preparation and confidence. I trust myself, and I trust my ability. I might have been a little bit anxious to go hit somebody, and stuff like that, and a little nervous, because that happens with most games. But other than that, I didn't think it was anything (out of the ordinary).”
Pregnon’s early success doesn’t come as a surprise to those who have witnessed his development over the past year.
Defensive tackle Jordan Bertagnole is one of several Cowboys who mentioned the Denver native as a player to keep an eye on throughout the off-season. As an interior lineman, Bertagnole went up against Pregnon on a regular basis during spring practice and training camp. One game into the Pokes’ 2022 campaign, he’s pleased that what he saw behind the scenes is translating to the field
“It's super exciting to see,” Bertagnole said Monday. “I just ate lunch with him, and he cracks me up. He's a good dude. But throughout all of camp, he has improved so much. Even just in the last year, he's been making tremendous progress. That's definitely fun to watch, and watching him in the game, it's good to see that what we saw in practice wasn't (a fluke). It's really something.”
Pregnon goes back to his mental capabilities when asked about the key to his individual growth, something that has been apparent throughout his transformation from an undersized, overlooked recruit into a bonafide Division I talent.
Height was never an issue, but Pregnon does note that “it took me a while to actually be considered a big guy.” He recalls weighing around 225 pounds when he first visited UW as a high school prospect. Now, he’s listed 6-foot-6, 312 pounds.
Pregnon points to the training table at the High Altitude Performance Center, where UW student-athletes can enjoy restaurant-quality meals that meet their nutritional needs, as a significant factor in his ability to gain mass. In order to meet calorie intake goals, he also made a habit of making meals on his own, typically consisting of rice and other high-carb foods, with chicken, steak and ground beef being his go-to sources of protein.
“(It takes) consistency and motivation,” Pregnon said. “Those are the two main factors for me, because it was hard. It wasn't easy. You get the urges to throw up or those types of things when you start going off of your body's regular diet.
“For me, it was just being consistent and eating the right foods. You want to be healthy, as well, because eating McDonald's every day isn’t going to do it.”
UW connection
Pregnon had a connection to UW years before he committed to the Pokes, having played for former Cowboys standout Derrick Martin at Thomas Jefferson High.
Martin – who is now an assistant at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, which currently sits at No. 25 in the USA TODAY Sports Super 25 high school football rankings – coached Pregnon through his junior year. Martin made sure to inform him about the things he enjoyed most about his time in Laramie, such as the community and atmosphere at War Memorial Stadium.
“It was exciting for me,” Martin said. “I love to have guys go up there. I'm coaching at Lipscomb Academy in Tennessee, and I'm trying to get some guys over there now. But just to see some guys go there and kind of walk the path that I walked, it's great.”
When Pregnon first got to high school, his initial focus was on playing basketball. However, with the help of Martin – who spent eight seasons in the NFL and won a pair of Super Bowls with the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants – he realized that his long-term potential was greater on the football field.
“His hands were so massive,” Martin said. “He had some of the biggest hands and feet that I've ever seen on a 13-year-old. From that point, I knew he would be a great tackle. He wanted to be a basketball player, and I told him, 'Man, your money is going to be made on that field.' He grew into those hands and those feet, and he's doing great now.”
Added Pregnon: “It was my sophomore year that I made the decision to stay devoted to football. Not to say that I was a bad basketball player, but I just felt like I had a better chance of feeding my family with football.”
Maintaining athleticism
While his focus shifted to football, Pregnon continued to play basketball through his senior year. It was actually on the hardwood where his athleticism first caught the attention of UW coach Craig Bohl.
“I was amazed when we were down there,” Bohl said. “He was on our radar, and then we signed him ... (He was able to) go to 315 and still maintain that athleticism. He's smart, he's bright, and I think he has a really, really bright future.
“Those guys they were going against (last week at Illinois), if you eye-balled them on the field, they looked like Big Ten players, and they were. Emmanuel was very much in his element.”
Despite gaining nearly 100 pounds since he first visited UW, Pregnon hasn’t lost the athleticism that garnered the intrigue of Bohl during the recruiting process.
Martin believes the fact Pregnon he grew accustomed to using his athleticism to gain an advantage over opponents early in his high school career has played a part in this. Pregnon’s experience as a multi-sport athlete – Martin described him as a “Dennis Rodman-type” of a basketball player who was skilled at both passing and rebounding – worked to his benefit, as well.
“(It helped him) tremendously,” Martin said. “He's able to move and he's able to bend, unlike some of the other bigger guys, that can't really bend and it's hard for them to stop the defender. He can move just like some of the defenders, and that gives him an advantage over the opponent.”
Next-level potential
Martin knows as well as anyone what’s required to make it to the NFL, and although Pregnon is still a couple of years away from potentially pursuing professional opportunities, his high school coach sees traits in him that could translate to this dream becoming a reality.
Some UW student-athletes point to the lack of distractions as one of the more appealing aspects of spending their college career in Laramie, and Martin agrees that is beneficial. However, he adds that due to Pregnon’s hyper-focused nature, “if he was at the biggest school with all the distractions, he would still be on track.”
The next step toward setting himself up for a life-changing chance to play at the next level is simply staying consistent and doing his job, Martin says. With a rushing attack that’s ranked in the top 20 in the country each of the past two seasons, Pregnon will have ample opportunities to get noticed if he stays on his current path and the Pokes continue their recent success in the running game.
“(Bohl) does a great job of getting those guys to the next level and preparing them for that opportunity,” Martin said. “For him, it's just the consistency and doing what Craig wants him to do. They're going to run the ball really well, and if they're doing that and he's one of the bell cows on the line, he'll have an opportunity.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/football/pregnon-ready-for-moment-in-first-season-on-field/article_03b12138-2a38-11ed-935a-9b450b6d4c32.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:41Z |
Illinois linebacker Ezekiel Holmes, center, and defensive lineman Jer'Zhan Newton, right, tackle University of Wyoming running back Titus Swen during the second half of the Cowboys' 38-6 loss Aug. 27, 2022, at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill.
Wyoming's passing attack – or lack thereof – was a significant factor in last week's season-opening loss to Illinois getting out of hand, with Andrew Peasley completing just 5 of 20 passes for 30 yards and an interception. However, he was able to make an impact in the running game, picking up 76 yards on eight carries. Fifth-year Tulsa senior Davis Brin has an edge in terms of experience, throwing for 3,254 yards and 18 touchdowns last year, but it's worth noting that his 16 interceptions were the most in the FBS. He also isn't nearly as much of a threat as Peasley when it comes to running the football.
Advantage: Push
Running back
Amid an ugly loss, running back Titus Swen served as a bright spot for the Cowboys last week. The junior rushed for 98 yards, with an average of 5.8 yards per carry, and could be in line for even greater production against a Tulsa defense that had one of its anchors – three-year starter and two-time All-American Conference defensive tackle Jaxson Player – transfer to Baylor this off-season. The Golden Hurricane must replace Shamari Brooks, who was the third-leading rusher in the conference last season. Tulsa is also expected to be without Anthony Watkins, the team’s top returning rusher. Seniors Steven Anderson and Deneric Prince, who combined to rush for 743 yards and seven touchdowns last season, are the top two running backs on the depth chart.
Advantage: Wyoming
Wide receiver and tight ends
Receiver is one of the most experienced position groups on Tulsa's roster. Keylon Stokes, who led the team in receiving from 2018-20, is back after being hindered by injury last year. JuanCarlos Santana also returns after hauling in 50 catches for 674 yards and three touchdowns in 2021, with Kentucky transfer Isaiah Epps adding experience in the passing game. Wyoming’s wideouts will look to bounce back following a rough season opener, during which they dropped several passes, while failing to come up with a contested catch. The Cowboys seem to have an advantage at tight end, but they only targeted the group twice last week.
Advantage: Tulsa
Offensive line
The Golden Hurricane have expressed optimism in their offensive line’s potential, but with five new starters up front, a lack of chemistry could come into play Saturday. On the other side, the Cowboys’ offensive line was perhaps their strongest position group last week. They didn’t allow a sack, while paving the way for the rushing attack to average nearly six yards per carry. According to Pro Football Focus, Wyoming’s 76.1 pass blocking grade was the highest of any team that played a Power Five opponent, with redshirt freshmen Emmanuel Pregnon and Jack Walsh both grading above 80.
Advantage: Wyoming
Defensive line
Both defensive lines lost significant pieces during the offseason, while also returning key contributors. For the Cowboys, the interior line is the most experienced group on the defense, something that was reflected last week in the play of veteran defensive tackles Cole Godbout and Jordan Bertagnole. The defensive ends are young, and a season-ending injury to starter Sabastian Harsh hasn’t helped matters, but DeVonne Harris, Braden Siders and Oluwaseyi Omotosho displayed flashes of potential against Illinois. For Tulsa, the departures of Player and fellow starter Deven Lamp have spurred some questions up front. However, they do return Anthony Goodlow, who led the team with six sacks last season.
Advantage: Push
Linebackers
Justin Wright leads a linebacker corps that should be one of the strengths of Tulsa's team in 2022. The senior has appeared in 37 career games with 20 starts, and matched a team-high last year with 82 tackles to go along with 5.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, one fumble recovery, one forced fumble, one pass breakup and one interception. Jon-Michael Terry, who transferred from Oklahoma last year, will be looking to make an impact after missing most of his first season with the Golden Hurricane due to injury. UW starting linebackers Easton Gibbs and Shae Suiaunoa will attempt to rebound after ranking 13th and 15th on the defense, respectively, in PFF's tackling grades last week.
Advantage: Tulsa
Defensive backs
The Cowboys had some struggles in the secondary last week, as Illinois' quarterbacks completed 30 of 40 passes for 217 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions. There’s reason to believe they can improve in this area, however. With humid conditions and temperatures in the mid-80s, UW suffered from a series of cramps that kept key players off the field. The Pokes also had new starters at both cornerback spots, with last week being their first time playing together. Tulsa returns three starters in the secondary in Kendarin Ray, Bryson Powers and cornerback Tyon Davis, but the other spots have a little more uncertainty.
Advantage: Push
Special teams
Special teams is a tricky area to gauge when a team has yet to play a game, but the Golden Hurricane seem to be solid in the kicking game, with kicker Zack Long and punter Lachlan Wilson being named to the Groza Award and Ray Guy Award watch lists, respectively. For UW, this aspect of the game was a mixed bag last week. John Hoyland went 2 for 2 on field goal attempts, knocking down a career-long from 46 yards out, but Texas State transfer Clayton Stewart botched a pair of 22-yard punts in his UW debut.
Advantage: Tulsa
Final score: Wyoming 21, Tulsa 20
Josh Criswell covers the University of Wyoming for WyoSports. He can be reached at jcriswell@wyosports.net or 307-755-3325. Follow him on Twitter at @criswell_sports. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/football/tale-of-the-tape-tulsa-at-wyoming/article_5043364e-2a06-11ed-b9d7-1bd7cdface57.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:47Z |
John Tranchina, who covers Tulsa for the Tulsa World, weighs in on what Wyoming can expect this weekend against the Golden Hurricane.
Tulsa is similar to UW in that there are a lot of moving pieces with the team. What's the thing that stands out to you the most heading into the season opener?
Probably the biggest thing about Tulsa is that their offensive line is completely rebuilt. All five guys on the line are first-time starters, so we really don't know what we're going to get from them. You think you have a good group, and they look pretty good in practice, but you really don't know. I'd say, at this point, that's the biggest question mark for the offense.
For UW, the biggest topic of conversation centers around the passing game and the lack of production there last week. How does Tulsa's secondary look? Is this a bounce-back opportunity for the Cowboys, or is it going to potentially be another long day?
Honestly, it could go either way. Tulsa has a pretty good secondary. They have a couple of really good safeties, a couple good corners, but there are also some first-time starters on that side of the ball, as well. You never really know where it's going to go, but they have some good guys out there.
It's interesting. We've been talking here a lot about how Wyoming has already had a game, and does that give the Cowboys an advantage or not? You can look at it both ways ... but I would say now that they've seen what they have and can make adjustments in this game, whereas Tulsa still doesn't really know what they have –and they won't know until they're out there.
Davis Brin had more than 3,000 passing yards and gained a lot of experience last year, but also led the country in interceptions. Is the quarterback situation more of a concern, or is there hope that it can be a point of optimism?
Most of the feeling about Davis Brin is of optimism that he's going to be better. He's worked really hard on that part of his game (in terms of) making reads. He and the coaching staff have said all the right things about how far he's come in that area. I still think, though, that the key to his performance is going to be the offensive line, and we don't know how they're going to do.
That's another big question mark, but there is a lot of optimism that, from his point of view, he has corrected some of the issues. He's a lot better on his reads, which is what they were talking about as being part of the issue that led to so many interceptions last year – trying to force plays where there wasn't one.
Who is the biggest loss and most important newcomer to Tulsa's success this season?
That's a good question. For a loss, when there's still that issue with the offensive line, I would stay Tyler Smith. (He was) a first-round draft pick by the Dallas Cowboys, and he made their opening roster. You miss that experience and skill on the offensive line, and now we're seeing it with so many new starters.
As far as a newcomer, you're probably looking at receiver Isaiah Epps. He was a transfer from Kentucky and a grad student, so he has a lot of experience. He played 40-something games for Kentucky, and has been pretty good, as well as being a local guy. He's actually from the Tulsa area, so he's kind of coming home and (will have) a lot of family and friends in the stands. That's more motivation, I would imagine, for him.
He's looked really good in the preseason practices and scrimmages, and I would say he's at least a No. 3 receiver. If the defense is focusing on JuanCarlos Santana and/or Keylon Stokes, he's probably the next guy that might be the one that ends up hurting Wyoming most.
What's your prediction for Saturday?
I'm not sure. I feel like it's going to be a really close game. From my perspective, when I've seen a team lose the way Wyoming did in that first game, I feel like there is going to be a lot of emphasis on correcting those mistakes – and the motivation to do so, especially with it being the home opener. I would really expect a much better performance out of the Cowboys.
From Tulsa's side, there's a lot of uncertainty, and maybe they should be the favorite, but since there are so many areas we don't really know, I'm not sure. Either way, I'm going to go with a really close game and flip the coin. If you're going to force me to pick, I might say Tulsa by a field goal at the end, but who knows? | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/know-the-foe-tulsa-at-wyoming/article_f9385e5c-2a09-11ed-844c-5338279eb007.html | 2022-09-02T14:07:53Z |
Climate change may increase turbulence, researchers say
Published: Sep. 2, 2022 at 9:35 AM EDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
(CNN) - Riding in an airplane could become bumpier in the future.
According to U.K. researchers, climate change is modifying turbulence and it may increase by two- or three-fold worldwide starting in 2050.
However, they said that doesn’t mean taking to the skies will be less safe since planes are designed to handle the high winds.
The Federal Aviation Administration reported turbulence is the top cause of injuries to passengers and staff in non-fatal accidents.
According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, turbulence causes around $500 million annually in injuries, delays and damage.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/02/climate-change-may-increase-turbulence-researchers-say/ | 2022-09-02T14:15:26Z |
Iran briefly seizes 2 US sea drones in Red Sea amid tensions
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Friday its navy seized two American sea drones in the Red Sea before letting them go, the latest maritime incident involving the U.S. Navy’s new drone fleet in the Mideast.
Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet, acknowledged the incident on Friday to The Associated Press but declined to immediately elaborate.
Iranian state television aired footage it said came from the deck of the Iranian navy’s Jamaran destroyer, where lifejacket-wearing sailors examined what appeared to be two Saildrone Explorers. State TV said the Iranian navy found “several unmanned spying vessels abandoned in the international maritime routes” on Thursday.
“After two warnings to an American destroyer to prevent possible incidents, Jamaran seized the two vessels,” state TV said. “After securing the international shipping waterway, the Naval Squadron No. 84 released the vessels in a safe area.”
This marks the second such incident in recent days as negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers hang in the balance. The earlier incident involved Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, not its regular navy, and occurred in the Persian Gulf.
The 5th Fleet launched its unmanned Task Force 59 last year. The 5th Fleet’s area of responsibility includes the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil passes.
It also stretches as far as the Red Sea reaches near the Suez Canal, the waterway in Egypt leading to the Mediterranean, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen.
The region has seen a series of maritime attacks in recent years.
Off Yemen, bomb-laden drone boats and mines set adrift by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have damaged vessels amid that country’s yearslong war. Near the United Arab Emirates and the Strait of Hormuz, oil tankers have been seized by Iranian forces. Others have been attacked in incidents the Navy blames on Iran.
Those attacks came about a year after then-President Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to unilaterally withdraw from Iran’s nuclear deal, in which sanctions on Tehran were lifted in exchange for it drastically limiting its enrichment of uranium.
Negotiations to revive the accord now hang in the balance. Thee U.S. cast doubt Friday on Iran’s latest written response over the talks.
Iran now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels as officials openly suggest Tehran could build a nuclear bomb if it wishes to. Iran has maintained its program is peaceful, though Western nations and international inspectors say Tehran had a military nuclear program up until 2003.
___
Associated Press journalist Mehdi Fattahi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/02/us-navy-says-iran-again-briefly-seizes-american-sea-drone/ | 2022-09-02T14:15:33Z |
The U.S. job market remains unusually hot heading into the Labor Day weekend. But there are signs of a refreshing breeze.
Employers added 315,000 jobs in August, according to a report from the Labor Department. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% from 3.5% in July, but only because nearly 800,000 new people entered the workforce. Employment gains for June and July were revised down by a total of 107,000 jobs.
Loading...
Retailers, factories and health care all added jobs last month.
The labor market continues to shine, despite slowing economic growth and rising fears of recession. Payroll employment has now surpassed pre-pandemic levels. That leaves workers with more money to spend and helps to support the consumer-driven economy.
Loading...
But a strong labor market also has the potential to fuel even higher inflation at a time when businesses are already struggling to keep up with rising demand for goods and services.
Prices in July were up 8.5% from a year ago. Inflation remains near a four-decade high, despite the recent drop in gasoline prices.
Employers have added 3.5 million jobs so far this year, and they're eager to add more. In July, there were nearly twice as many jobs openings as there were unemployed workers to fill them.
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell worries that mismatch could push wages — and eventually prices — even higher.
"The labor market is particularly strong, but it is clearly out of balance, with demand for workers substantially exceeding the supply of available workers," Powell said last week, while speaking at an economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Loading...
The Fed is likely to take some comfort from the big influx of new workers last month. The number of people working or looking for work rose by 786,000 in August after declining in the two previous months. The share of adults in the workforce jumped to 62.4% last month from 62.1% in July, and the share of people aged 25-54 in the workforce jumped to 82.8%. The labor force is still short about 163,000 workers compared to pre-pandemic levels.
The Fed is raising interest rates aggressively
Average wages in August were up 5.2% from a year ago — unchanged from July.
Nela Richardson, chief economist for the payroll processing company ADP, believes wage gains have begun to level off, which could ease upward pressure on prices.
"Wages have jumped up but they've stabilized," Richardson said. "And so, depending on your view — half empty or half full — [that] could be interpreted as good news for the future of inflation."
The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates aggressively in an effort to tamp down demand and bring prices under control. The central bank has boosted rates by 2.25 percentage points since March. Another rate hike of 0.5 to 0.75 percentage points is expected later this month.
Higher interest rates are already taking a toll on the housing market. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has jumped to 5.66% this week, from less than 3% a year ago. Both new home construction and the sale of existing homes have slumped as a result.
Construction companies added only 16,000 jobs last month, down from 24,000 in July.
While a few, high-profile businesses like Bed Bath & Beyond have announced job cuts in recent days, most employers are reluctant to lay workers off, despite signs of waning economic growth.
New claims for unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs — have fallen in each of the last three weeks, and claims remain very low by historical standards.
What's more, a preliminary estimate from the Labor Department shows job growth in the 12 months ending in March was even stronger than initially reported.
The estimate, released last week, is based on a more comprehensive tally of businesses. It shows there were 462,000 more payroll jobs in March than were reported in the monthly survey. A final job count will be released early next year.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-02/the-economy-added-315-000-jobs-showcasing-a-labor-market-that-is-still-strong | 2022-09-02T14:27:22Z |
Updated September 2, 2022 at 10:11 AM ET
Americans will now have access to updated COVID booster shots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines Thursday night.
Some doses could be available as soon as Friday, with a wider rollout planned for next week. Health officials expect another surge of infections this fall and winter, and say the shots — which target the original coronavirus strain as well as the more contagious omicron variant — will help boost peoples' waning immunity and protect against serious disease and death.
What should you keep in mind if you're ready to roll up your sleeve? CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky spoke with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep about the new boosters.
"Doses are rolling into pharmacies and other sites now, and I would say if you're eligible for your boost there is no bad time to go out and get one," Walensky says.
There are eligibility and timing considerations
Adults 18 years or older can get the Moderna booster, while the Pfizer-BioNTech version has been authorized for people 12 and up. In both cases, a person is only eligible for a booster if it has been at least two months since their last COVID vaccine.
Some vaccine experts say that it would be better for people to wait until four months after their last COVID shot or infection for maximum efficacy, though Walensky suggests there is some gray area.
"What we've seen is that almost everybody who is eligible for a boost is far more beyond two months from their last shot," she says. "Certainly we wouldn't want somebody to get a boost too soon, and we wouldn't want you to get a boost before two months. But I would say if you're three, four, five months after your last shot, now is the time to go ahead and get it."
Safety and efficacy data look promising
These new boosters were tested on mice rather than people, a controversial strategy aimed at saving time (it's not unprecedented, however, as flu shots are changed each year without being routinely tested).
Looking at the data, Walensky says health authorities are confident about how well the vaccines will work and how safe they will be.
That data includes the 600 million doses of the original vaccine that have been administered across the country with what Walensky calls "an extraordinary safety record." Officials also saw similar safety results for an earlier version of this bivalent vaccine (meaning it targets two strains) that was tested in some 1,400 people.
That booster targeted the original coronavirus strain as well as the omicron BA.1 strain, as opposed to the more prevalent BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants targeted in the newly authorized version of the shot.
"So there are very subtle differences, but we have no reason to expect that this is going to have any different safety signal than either the 600 million doses we previously have given or these other bivalent boosts against omicron," Walensky says.
What's already clear, she adds, is that protection against the virus wanes over time, and that a booster will restore protection against infection, severe disease and death. She also points to lab studies that show this updated booster improves immune responses against other SARS-CoV-2 variants as well as similar responses to the original variant.
"So we have every reason to expect that it'll work just as well, and likely better," she says.
This interview was produced by Kaity Kline and edited by Simone Popperl.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-02/theres-no-bad-time-to-get-a-new-covid-booster-if-youre-eligible-cdc-director-says | 2022-09-02T14:27:28Z |
Climate change may increase turbulence, researchers say
Published: Sep. 2, 2022 at 9:35 AM EDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
(CNN) - Riding in an airplane could become bumpier in the future.
According to U.K. researchers, climate change is modifying turbulence and it may increase by two- or three-fold worldwide starting in 2050.
However, they said that doesn’t mean taking to the skies will be less safe since planes are designed to handle the high winds.
The Federal Aviation Administration reported turbulence is the top cause of injuries to passengers and staff in non-fatal accidents.
According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, turbulence causes around $500 million annually in injuries, delays and damage.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/02/climate-change-may-increase-turbulence-researchers-say/ | 2022-09-02T14:34:25Z |
‘Devastating’: Mass shootings obscure daily U.S. gun toll
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cameron Taylor was watching an illegal street race that had attracted hundreds to an intersection in Portland, Oregon, but decided to leave as the crowd got increasingly unruly. Moments later, gunfire erupted, and Taylor was hit by a stray bullet as he and a friend headed to their car.
Police, who were overwhelmed with 911 calls about other shootings, couldn’t control multiple street takeovers in the city that night and had trouble finding the victims of three shootings that occurred during the chaos.
“His friend who was with him put him in the car and drove him out to get him to the hospital, but he was not able to make it and that friend called his parents” to say Taylor was dead, family friend Erin Russell told The Associated Press.
Taylor, 20, died Sunday the same day that four high-profile, public shooting rampages in Bend, Oregon, Phoenix, Detroit and Houston drew national headlines. His slaying went largely unnoticed amid the daily toll of gun violence that has come to define Portland and a number of other American cities since the pandemic.
Homicide rates appear to be dropping in some major U.S. cities, such as New York and Chicago, but in others killings are on the rise, particularly from guns. In Portland, the homicide rate surged 207% since 2019 and there have been more than 800 shootings so far this year. In Phoenix, police Chief Jeri Williams said this week the gun violence was the worst she’d seen in 33 years on the job.
“How many more officers have to be shot? How many more community members have to be killed before those in our community take a stand? This is not only a Phoenix police issue, this is a community issue,” she said after a weekend that tallied 17 shootings and 11 homicides citywide.
Now, police are on edge heading into Labor Day weekend, with its traditional end-of-summer festivities, and some are adding extra patrols as they brace for more potential violence.
In Portland, police busy with three killings and nine non-fatal shootings in 48 hours couldn’t control three illegal street races last weekend that attracted hundreds and shut down major intersections for hours. In Houston, the day after a gunman shot five neighbors, killing three, another man shot two sisters before killing himself.
In the past two weeks, authorities in Phoenix have confiscated 711 guns and made 525 gun-related arrests as part of a targeted crackdown. Nearly 90% of homicides there this year were by gun, police said. In Detroit, where a man is accused of shooting three people at random on city streets last weekend, authorities are also cracking down on gun violence in high-crime neighborhoods through Labor Day.
“Let’s stop talking about our inability to respond to crime in the community. Let’s stop advertising to criminals that they’re going to get away with it,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said, using an expletive at a City Council meeting this week after police Chief Chuck Lovell once more asked for more officers.
“I think we should stop using the messaging at every turn, that the reason we can’t help our citizens with basic criminal justice issues is because we don’t have the personnel,” Wheeler said. “We’ve got to figure out better ways to address this crisis.”
Last weekend’s rampages — which included a heavily armed assailant who stormed a central Oregon supermarket, random shootings on Detroit streets and a Phoenix man who opened fire while wearing body armor — were shocking and scary, but they aren’t representative of the broader toll gun violence is taking on American society, experts said.
Victims killed in mass shootings make up about 1% of all those killed in gun homicides nationwide, despite headlines that instill fear in many Americans, said James Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has created a database of mass killings stretching back to 2006 with The Associated Press and USA Today.
All four shootings last weekend didn’t even meet the database’s definition of a mass killing — four or more people, excluding the assailant, killed in a 24-hour period — but they nonetheless sowed fear because of the random nature of the violence, he added.
“Those don’t tend to make news. They don’t tend to scare people because people say, ‘Well, that’s not my family,” Fox said. “We have as many as 20,000 gun homicides a year, and most of those are one victim. Sometimes two, sometimes three, (but) rarely four or more.”
The pandemic and the social unrest it caused has also played a role. Eight million Americans became first-time gun owners between 2019 and 2021, said Jeffrey Butts, director of the research and evaluation center for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York.
“We already had 400 million guns in circulation. So when you bump that up and include a lot of first-timers in the population, you get accidents, you get precipitous behavior, you get people reacting to small insults and conflicts with their guns because they’re in their pocket now,” he said.
Meanwhile Taylor’s friends and family mourn his death in Portland.
The car aficionado and beloved big brother who loved barbecues and spending time with his family was “at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Russell said.
“He has a lot of friends and a lot of family who love him dearly, and this is a devastating loss.”
____
Associated Press reporter Walt Berry in Phoenix contributed to this report.
____
Follow Gillian Flaccus on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/gflaccus
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/02/devastating-mass-shootings-obscure-daily-us-gun-toll/ | 2022-09-02T14:34:32Z |
Iran briefly seizes 2 US sea drones in Red Sea amid tensions
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Friday its navy seized two American sea drones in the Red Sea before letting them go, the latest maritime incident involving the U.S. Navy’s new drone fleet in the Mideast.
Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet, acknowledged the incident on Friday to The Associated Press but declined to immediately elaborate.
Iranian state television aired footage it said came from the deck of the Iranian navy’s Jamaran destroyer, where lifejacket-wearing sailors examined what appeared to be two Saildrone Explorers. State TV said the Iranian navy found “several unmanned spying vessels abandoned in the international maritime routes” on Thursday.
“After two warnings to an American destroyer to prevent possible incidents, Jamaran seized the two vessels,” state TV said. “After securing the international shipping waterway, the Naval Squadron No. 84 released the vessels in a safe area.”
This marks the second such incident in recent days as negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers hang in the balance. The earlier incident involved Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, not its regular navy, and occurred in the Persian Gulf.
The 5th Fleet launched its unmanned Task Force 59 last year. The 5th Fleet’s area of responsibility includes the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil passes.
It also stretches as far as the Red Sea reaches near the Suez Canal, the waterway in Egypt leading to the Mediterranean, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen.
The region has seen a series of maritime attacks in recent years.
Off Yemen, bomb-laden drone boats and mines set adrift by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have damaged vessels amid that country’s yearslong war. Near the United Arab Emirates and the Strait of Hormuz, oil tankers have been seized by Iranian forces. Others have been attacked in incidents the Navy blames on Iran.
Those attacks came about a year after then-President Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to unilaterally withdraw from Iran’s nuclear deal, in which sanctions on Tehran were lifted in exchange for it drastically limiting its enrichment of uranium.
Negotiations to revive the accord now hang in the balance. Thee U.S. cast doubt Friday on Iran’s latest written response over the talks.
Iran now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels as officials openly suggest Tehran could build a nuclear bomb if it wishes to. Iran has maintained its program is peaceful, though Western nations and international inspectors say Tehran had a military nuclear program up until 2003.
___
Associated Press journalist Mehdi Fattahi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/02/us-navy-says-iran-again-briefly-seizes-american-sea-drone/ | 2022-09-02T14:34:39Z |
Who do you you think will win the Game of the Week
Published: Sep. 2, 2022 at 9:12 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Lock in your vote below!
Copyright 2022 WVVA. All rights reserved.
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Lock in your vote below!
Copyright 2022 WVVA. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/02/who-do-you-you-think-will-win-game-week/ | 2022-09-02T14:34:45Z |
Will Democrats spending millions on ads on GOP rivals pay off in November?
Democrats say the campaign strategy is rooted in defining candidates they believe are “extreme Republicans” before the general election so they can’t claim to be moderate.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Democrats say the time around a primary election is when most voters are paying attention to candidates.
“We believe we need to start educating voters about how extreme the Republican candidates are early,” said David Turner of the Democratic Governors Association in Washington, D.C.
The DGA is receiving criticism for its spending on primary ads across the country. For example, in the Illinois governor’s race, the organization is accused of dropping millions on political ads on GOP candidates. The nomination of Republican state Senator Darren Bailey is believed to be heavily impacted by political spending of the DGA and Democratic incumbent Governor J.B. Pritzker.
Citing campaign finance laws, DGA didn’t offer a direct dollar amount spent on ads; however, the total amount is estimated to be around $30 million on Illinois and other races.
“We’re using our resources where we think it’s going to make the biggest impact,” said Turner. “We think defining these candidates early as extremists and out of touch with the concerns of most Americans is really important so that our eventual nominee is set up for success in November.”
Anna Massoglia of the nonpartisan website Open Secrets calls this strategy “election meddling.”
“It’s happening in a number of ways, and across the country in a way it hasn’t in prior cycles,” said Massoglia.
She believes the Democrats use of it with certain candidates is a gamble.
“Seeing them prop up these candidates that they don’t necessarily want in office, and that becomes a very dangerous game,” said Massoglia.
Massoglia says both groups are “meddling” in each other’s races, and that political action and dark money groups are also interfering.
Copyright 2022 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/02/will-democrats-spending-millions-ads-gop-rivals-pay-off-november/ | 2022-09-02T14:34:52Z |
Nuisance odors escaping from Port Huron’s wastewater plant under investigation
Residents and visitors might have been catching a waft of something abnormally smelly being emitted from Port Huron’s wastewater treatment plant downtown within the last couple of weeks.
City officials said they’re working on it — but that it's not an immediate public health concern.
“It’s just a nuisance," said City Manager James Freed. "I guess what I want people to know is we recognize it’s a problem."
Public Works Director Eric Witter said a perfect storm of challenges amid multi-phase plans to replace an odor-control system and malfunctioning mechanisms installed as part of a new one is allowing more smells than usual to escape.
And while they “don’t know exactly what the cause of the odor escapes are,” he said they’re investigating the issue, and in the next “two to four weeks, we might have some better answers based on the testing we’ve done and the equipment that’s being installed.”
“We still have the old system that is aging and has issues that we’re continuously dealing with. But … the new equipment, we’re working with the consultant engineer and contractor to get it to function where it should be,” Witter said Thursday. “… It’s really gotten to the point where the system should be functioning, it’s not, we’ve had some issues getting parts for the new system, getting those installed. We’re trying to get there this week.”
So, what exactly has gone wrong?
The city’s wastewater plant — first built on the edge of the St. Clair River in 1951 and upgraded two decades later — had its older odor control system installed in 2005.
City Council first OK’d a $2.2 million odor control system replacement, particularly for sludge storage tanks, at the plant in August 2020.
Now, exactly two years later, Witter said the equipment installed in that area isn’t “maximizing its efficiency,” though he admitted it’s difficult to explain how.
“We’re installing additional, we call them, modules. But it’s the things that the air’s pulled across and ionized,” he said. “We’re trying to get those fully installed.”
The old system pulls air through ductwork across much of the treatment plant’s fully enclosed facilities with a primary and backup fan that have also experienced failures or breakdowns within the last several years. According to past council documents, sodium hypochlorite and sodium hydroxide are the chemicals pumped into the system before odors are sterilized and vented out.
Unlike that system, the new one, being installed in three phases, will eventually control odor area by area versus more plantwide and with three different treatment technologies.
Phase one has been implemented and addressed just the one area, where biosolids or wastewater sludge is stored, while the old system remains in place to accommodate the rest of the plant.
Witter said it wasn’t clear why part of the new mechanism that scrubs the air of toxic chemicals wasn’t working.
But because the area with biosolids is one of the plant’s most odorous already, he said it may be more noticeable when it isn’t working.
They also must take it offline briefly to take and test samples as part of the repair process.
In an email to Freed, which he forward to council members on Monday, a plant official explained the air inside the biosolid storage tanks and at the exhaust is tested for different compounds, including ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and amines, to determine how the system is functioning.
Freed asked public works officials via email about the status of reverting to the old air-handling system for the affected area. Witter later said he didn’t think it was needed yet, though possible, while they continued to fact-find.
How is the city addressing complaints?
As they take on remediation, Freed also said they're trying to be cognizant of the impact on the public, for example, in waiting for winds to shift if they're opening up storage tanks. "It's not every day," he said, "when there's a flare-up."
Still, both Freed and Witter said the city’s recently been getting more complaints than usual about the smells coming from the wastewater plant.
“It’s performing but not at the level it should be,” Freed said Wednesday. “So, we do have odor issues that are not normal, and we’re working hard on it.”
Developer Larry Jones’ Wrigley Center project is being erected close to the plant, and he and wife Tracy also live nearby with a long loft patio that faces in its direction.
Like others, he said he’s heard about odor issues before, adding, “It is what it is. We have to deal with it,” because of the plant’s location of several decades.
It just hadn’t affected them yet — at least not until recently.
“People say things like that to me, and literally, I hardly ever notice it. But like last week, we had a wind out of the east,” Jones said Thursday. “I can’t say out of all the time me and Tracy lived up there that we’ve ever smelled it. … And it was kind of bad. But that’s one time out of several years.”
In addressing those concerns, Witter said they want residents to know they’re “trying everything we can.”
“Obviously, if it’s not satisfactory to us,” he said, “we’ll take necessary actions and make it correct.”
Contact the city’s public works department at (810) 984-9730.
Contact Jackie Smith at (810) 989-6270 or jssmith@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @Jackie20Smith. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/09/02/smell-that-escaping-odors-from-port-hurons-wastewater-plant-under-investigation/65469550007/ | 2022-09-02T14:37:11Z |
EWA BEACH-- The world's biggest wave pool is set to be built on Oahu in Ewa Beach, if a major developer gets its way.
Elected officials held a Town Hall on Thursday led by State Senator Kurt Favella and Council Member Andria Tupola, appealing to the developer Haseko to come through with a development package that would address the needs of the community.
Favella addressed constituents, many worried the big plans could bring more traffic and too many tourists to the site of the Hoakalei development..
The company Haseko is responsible for development of over 1,000 acres of land in Ewa Beach, which has changed dramatically over the years.
Since COVID hit, developers diverted from a plan to develop commercial space as a priority, and instead are planning to move ahead with an artificial wave pool for surfing.
Those in the Ocean Pointe community are concerned they will get priced out over time, and that an influx of people will dramatically effect quality of life. The wave pool alone will require hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. And the pool itself will also lose a portion of its water per day.
"With the wells being down, how much more is it gonna strain our water supply?" Town Hall attendee Steven Thomas asked.
"Our infrastructure can not handle that. Can not even handle a golfing tournament right now. And we are going to have 8 thousand plus people coming to events that they're going to be throwing there?," Favella told KITV, "2 lanes we only get one way in and one way out. That's it."
The community has had to go through several versions of the plans over the years. Initially, a Boat Marina was promised over a decade ago.
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi has also called on the developer to keep promises to the community, by developing park land and other obligations, in order to maintain support from elected officials. | https://www.kitv.com/news/wave-pool-construction-plans-alarm-ewa-beach-community/article_fd9c2e98-2ac1-11ed-8a7f-b388a1d982b9.html | 2022-09-02T14:46:03Z |
2 teens electrocuted by live wires following pickup truck crash, sheriff says
REDFIELD, N.Y. (WWNY/Gray News) – Two teenagers died Wednesday night after touching live wires following a pickup truck crash in New York.
According to the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened on County Route 17 around 10:45 p.m.
Officials said four teens were riding in a pickup truck when they crashed into a tree. The truck wound up in a ditch.
The sheriff’s office said a pair of 17-year-olds, Madysen Young and Matthew Bice, got out of the truck and touched live wires that were tangled up in the tree as they attempted to climb out of the ditch.
Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The other two teens in the truck, both 16-year-old boys, survived the crash. Their conditions are unknown.
Copyright 2022 WWNY via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/02/2-teens-electrocuted-by-live-wires-following-pickup-truck-crash-sheriff-says/ | 2022-09-02T14:58:56Z |
Man accused of swapping barcodes at Walmart to commit fraud, police say
ALPENA COUNTY, Mich. (Gray News) – A man in Michigan is facing charges after being accused of switching barcodes of items at Walmart.
According to police, a store associate said they saw a man removing barcodes from less expensive items and putting them on higher-priced products.
The man is then accused of going through the self-checkout register to scan the items.
Police said the associate tried to speak with the man about the purchase but was told he had to go outside and check on his children.
Ultimately, the man left the store.
Police used surveillance footage to identify the man as Joseph Alexander, 36.
There were several incidents reviewed that began in June 2022, according to police, and more than $1,100 in merchandise was stolen in total.
Alexander was arrested and charged with retail fraud.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/02/man-accused-swapping-barcodes-walmart-commit-fraud-police-say/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:03Z |
Strollers recalled for fingertip amputation hazard
(Gray News) – Consumers were warned to immediately stop using recalled child strollers after a report that a child’s fingertip was amputated.
The recall involves all UPPAbaby all-terrain RIDGE jogging strollers, which have an extendable canopy with a mesh window and zipper pocket, disc hand brake system and an adjustable handlebar with a wrist strap.
The brand UPPAbaby is on the front of the stroller, and RIDGE is on the side of the stroller frame.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission stated the stroller’s rear disc brakes have openings that can cause amputation or laceration if a non-occupant child’s fingertip gets caught in the openings while the stroller is in use. Consumers should contact UPPAbaby to receive free replacement brake discs for both wheels.
About 14,400 of the strollers are being recalled. They were sold at BuyBuyBaby, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn Kids and other children’s stores and specialty stores nationwide. They also were sold online on Amazon from October 2021 through August 2022 for about $600.
The strollers have a black frame and a fabric color scheme that is white, charcoal or slate blue and have black tires. The serial numbers of the recalled products begin with “1401RDGUS” and appear on the right side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller.
The model number “1401-RDG-US” is printed on the left side of the stroller frame above the rear wheel of the stroller.
For more information on recalls, go to CPSC.gov.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/02/strollers-recalled-fingertip-amputation-hazard/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:09Z |
Will Democrats spending millions on ads on GOP rivals pay off in November?
Democrats say the campaign strategy is rooted in defining candidates they believe are “extreme Republicans” before the general election so they can’t claim to be moderate.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Democrats say the time around a primary election is when most voters are paying attention to candidates.
“We believe we need to start educating voters about how extreme the Republican candidates are early,” said David Turner of the Democratic Governors Association in Washington, D.C.
The DGA is receiving criticism for its spending on primary ads across the country. For example, in the Illinois governor’s race, the organization is accused of dropping millions on political ads on GOP candidates. The nomination of Republican state Senator Darren Bailey is believed to be heavily impacted by political spending of the DGA and Democratic incumbent Governor J.B. Pritzker.
Citing campaign finance laws, DGA didn’t offer a direct dollar amount spent on ads; however, the total amount is estimated to be around $30 million on Illinois and other races.
“We’re using our resources where we think it’s going to make the biggest impact,” said Turner. “We think defining these candidates early as extremists and out of touch with the concerns of most Americans is really important so that our eventual nominee is set up for success in November.”
Anna Massoglia of the nonpartisan website Open Secrets calls this strategy “election meddling.”
“It’s happening in a number of ways, and across the country in a way it hasn’t in prior cycles,” said Massoglia.
She believes the Democrats use of it with certain candidates is a gamble.
“Seeing them prop up these candidates that they don’t necessarily want in office, and that becomes a very dangerous game,” said Massoglia.
Massoglia says both groups are “meddling” in each other’s races, and that political action and dark money groups are also interfering.
Copyright 2022 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/02/will-democrats-spending-millions-ads-gop-rivals-pay-off-november/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:16Z |
ArcBest LTL carrier offering hiring bonuses for full-time city drivers
FORT SMITH, Ark., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ArcBest® (Nasdaq: ARCB), a leader in supply chain logistics, announced today that its less-than-truckload carrier, ABF Freight®, will host a hiring event in the San Fernando area on September 8, seeking candidates for full-time city drivers. The company is offering $15,000 signing bonuses, available on the first day of employment.
"There's never been a better time to join the ABF team," said Seth Runser, ABF Freight president. "Our people are at the heart of our success, and our values-driven culture has created an environment where people can grow and thrive — it's more than just a job, it's a career. If you live in the San Fernando area and you're looking to join a company with excellent benefits, frequent home time and ongoing training opportunities, we hope to see you at the event."
On September 8, ABF will host interested candidates from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at its service center, located at 12200 Montague St., Pacoima, CA, 91331. No appointment is necessary. Driver candidates should be at least 21 years old.
At the event, candidates can expect:
- Assistance with job applications
- Interviews with ABF recruiters
- Potential job offers made that day
ABF Freight is one of the nation's largest and most trusted less-than-truckload carriers, operating in both short- and long-haul markets across North America. ABF employs more than 10,000 people across over 240 locations, and over 53 percent of ABF drivers have been employed with the company for more than 10 years.
Full-time ABF drivers and dock workers receive Teamster Union Scale wages, 100 percent company-paid health insurance for employees and their families, personal days, sick leave and paid holidays, and they are covered by a pension plan at no expense to the employee.
For additional information on current job openings across the country or to apply for a job, please visit jobs.abf.com.
ArcBest® (Nasdaq: ARCB) is a multibillion-dollar integrated logistics company that helps keep the global supply chain moving. Founded in 1923 and now with over 15,000 employees across more than 250 campuses and service centers, the company is a logistics powerhouse, fueled by the simple notion of finding a way to get the job done. Through innovative thinking, agility and trust, ArcBest leverages its full suite of shipping and logistics solutions to meet customers' critical needs, each and every day. For more information, visit arcb.com.
Media Contact: Autumnn Mahar
Email: amahar@arcb.com
Phone: 479-494-8221
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE ArcBest | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/abf-freight-host-san-fernando-area-hiring-event/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:22Z |
SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anycubic, a globally-renowned 3D printer brand, celebrated its 7th anniversary on September 2, 2022 with a new online product launch under this year's tagline, "Seek for Freedom, Invent to Exceed."
"Anycubic keeps innovating and putting the latest patented technologies into new products. We introduced Anycubic's first desktop DLP technology-backed product, the Photon Ultra, the M3 series equipped with our innovative LighTurbo light source technology, and the Kobra series adopted the LeviQ automatic leveling technology. All of these demonstrate our solid tech strength, and there is even more to come after our 7th anniversary," said James Ouyang, Vice President of Anycubic.
Anycubic Photon D2 Brings Revolutionary Advancement to the Consumer 3D Printing Industry
The second generation DLP printer Photon D2 is an upgrade to Anycubic's previous Photon Ultra. Photon D2 continues to use Texas Instruments' lighting solution for an in-depth exploration of a revolutionary advancement in the 3D printing industry.
- Dual Algorithms for Superior Precision
The latest light uniformity compensation algorithm significantly enhances light uniformity to 92%, which means the energy in every exposure location is almost the same, thus contributing to a more consistent print result. On the other hand, the 16-step gray anti-aliasing algorithm ensures the sharp, neat, and smooth surface of the printed miniatures.
- Hassle-free Screen Maintenance
A DLP printer adopts a different light solution compared to an LCD printer, meaning the DLP printers needs no screen replacements. Without a consumable exposure screen, Photon D2 uses a projector with a life span of 20,000 hours, making screen replacement a worry-free task.
- Larger Dimensions for Creation
Photon D2 gives users greater room for creativity while ensuring high precision. Compared to Photon Ultra, Photon D2's printing size and printing area increases to 130mm x 73mm x 165mm and 95cm2, 162% and 55%, respectively.
- Quiet and Low Power Consumption
The application of DLP technology endows 3D printers with features such as low heat generation, low noise, and low power consumption. The heat generated during operation can be effectively controlled within 45 degrees without external fan instruments. Photon D2 operates at only 35 decibels, creating a quiet printing experience, and the power consumption of Photon D2 is only 15 watts, 25% of the power consumption of ordinary LCD 3D printers on the market, making it low-carbon and energy-efficient.
Anycubic Kobra Go Endows Beginners with the Anycubic LeviQ Automatic Leveling System
Leveling has always been a major challenge for new FDM printer users. To welcome and entice more users to the 3D printing world, Anycubic continues to use the technology in the Kobra series and, especially, incorporates the Anycubic LeviQ auto-leveling system into the entry-level Kobra Go at a great price point.
- Fun Building, Fun Printing
Kobra Go adopts a DIY assembly modular. The DIY assembly guides beginners to understand better how an FDM printer works.
- Smart Anycubic LeviQ
Kobra Go is equipped with the self-developed Anycubic LeviQ automatic leveling system. With the Anycubic LeviQ auto bed leveling, the leveling process has been simplified and effortless calibrating experience awaits newbies. The entire leveling procedure takes only six minutes, sparing beginners from this most challenging procedure.
- PEI-coated Metal Sheet
The widely-welcomed PEI-coated metal sheet also goes with Kobra Go. The quality metal sheet is hard-wearing, shock-proof, and can withstand bending. With the magnetic printing bed, the sheet sits firmly, and when finished, users can easily take off the models by slightly bending the sheet.
- Speed
Even as an entry-level product, Kobra Go makes no sacrifice with its printing speed. The typical printing speed is 60mm/s and can reach up to 100mm/s. The machine adopts the separate self-developed separated extruder, which further accelerates printing.
- Small Makes Big
Kobra Go's printing volume and size are 12.1 liters and 220 x 220 x 250mm, respectively, meeting various printing needs.
Anycubic LighTurbo2.0 Empowers Even Better Printing Precision
Light source technology has always been the bottleneck for LCD 3D printers to achieve higher accuracy. Anycubic's next generation LighTurbo2.0 light source adopts COB lens + curved reflector, which turns large angle light into small angle light. It then converts light into nearly collimated light through a curved reflector, which solves the problem of stray light interference caused by the lens and guarantees high precision printing.
Anycubic Collaborates with JBD to Explore MicroLED Application in 3D Printers
Anycubic and JBD jointly developed Anycubic's first consumer-grade MicroLED 3D printer. The application of MicroLED in 3D printers opens up the possibility of printing miniature and microfluidic models with astonishing precision and lower costs and serves as a perfect demonstration of Anycubic's endeavors in seeking 3D printing advancements.
Anycubic ABS-Like Resin Pro Provides Outstanding Performance to Professional Fields
Anycubic ABS-Like Resin Pro features high strength, toughness, precision, and anti-shock capabilities. Compared to the standard resin, the significantly enhanced performance allows Anycubic ABS-Like Resin Pro to effectively prevent parts from being damaged during usage, catering to models with higher material performance requirements.
Pricing and availability:
Anycubic Photon D2 is now available on the Anycubic official store, Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, and Walmart. Anycubic Kobra Go will start its pre-sale from September 12, 3:00 a.m. EDT - September 27, 3:00 a.m. EDT on the Anycubic official store, Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, and Walmart. Anycubic ABS-like Resin Pro will be available on September 26, 2022, on the Anycubic official store, Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress.
Anycubic Photon D2: From US$679
Anycubic Kobra Go: From US$189 (Pre-sale price)
Anycubic ABS-like Resin Pro 1KG: From US$42
Note: The price and availability may vary in different countries or regions. The stated price is only for reference.
About Anycubic
Anycubic is a professional brand in the 3D printing industry specializing in 3D printer R&D, manufacturing, and sales, providing many affordable, high-performance, and smart printers for consumers, hobbyists, schools, and product designers. Since its establishment in 2015, we have been committed to propelling 3D printing technology to enable people from all walks of life to unleash their imagination and turn creativity into reality. For more information about Anycubic, please visit the company's website.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE SHENZHEN ANYCUBIC TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/anycubic-celebrates-7th-anniversary-with-revolutionary-3d-printer-launch/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:29Z |
Debuting globally is the company's full line of charging technologies designed to help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.
DETROIT, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Autel Energy, an advanced energy solution provider, today announces that the company is an official sponsor of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Autel Energy will feature current and future technologies in its 4,500-square-foot booth, where the company will also host a press conference on September 14 at 10:30 a.m. EST.
"Autel Energy's mission is to Power the Planet while living at the intersection of technology and practicality, making this partnership with one of the most prestigious auto shows in the country the ideal fit to launch our global company and showcase our emerging technologies," said Autel North American CEO Chloe Hung. "We are excited to share with auto show attendees our advanced energy solutions, along with a few surprises we have planned."
Autel Energy will present its charging and energy solutions product lines, which combine advanced hardware, software, connectivity, and cloud solutions to digitally enable clean energy charging for electrified modern mobility.
NAIAS opens to media and the industry on September 14, 2022, before opening to the public on September 17, 2022. Visit the Autel Energy booth at Huntington Place at the Detroit Auto Show or learn more at: autelenergy.us.
Autel Energy's vision is to create a seamless customer experience to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and energy management solutions worldwide. Autel Energy makes advanced products accessible and convenient for residential and commercial users, offering hardware, software, apps and cloud-based solutions to cover almost every use case and application. This includes world-class charging hardware for A/C (Level 2) home and commercial, D/C Bi-directional, V2X applications and D/C (Level 3) fast charging from 60kW to 480kW with innovative configurability and modularity.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Autel Energy | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/autel-energy-signs-an-official-sponsor-north-american-international-auto-show/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:35Z |
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BeatBox Beverages, The World's Tastiest Party Punch, is now the official party punch of Oklahoma State University Athletics. Peach Punch, Tropical Punch, and Juicy Mango are available at Boone Pickens Stadium, Gallagher-Iba Arena, Cowgirl Stadium, and O'Brate Stadium. BeatBox will have year-round brand visibility and availability for all spectators at Cowboy and Cowgirl sporting events.
This three-year partnership kicks off the Cowboy's football season at the home opener under the lights on September 1st. At home games fans, 21 and older, can visit the on-site BeatBox activation outside the West endzone for product sampling, music, giveaways, and fun.
In addition to in-stadium and outside activations, BeatBox will utilize media and broadcast integrations across digital, print, and radio campaigns to amplify the partnership with OSU.
"As we continue to expand our partnerships beyond major national music festivals, we are constantly searching for new and exciting ways to integrate our product responsibly by connecting fans and bringing people together. And what brings people together more than cheering for their favorite team while enjoying BeatBox? Our partnership with Oklahoma State University gives consumers another fun place to drink the world's tastiest party punch," says Zech Francis, VP of Global Marketing.
BeatBox Beverages, one of the fastest growing RTD brands of 2022, is currently available in more than 40,000 retail locations. The brand is the fastest growing alcoholic beverage brand on social media and has reached over 6 million customers at festivals and events to date in 2022.
"We could not be more excited to partner with OSU Athletics & Learfield Cowboy Sports Properties for the upcoming football and athletics seasons. BeatBox has deeply invested in its consumers through an all-inclusive customer experience so it was a natural fit to partner with OSU athletics as we continue to expand to new platforms and avenues to spread the BeatBox love," said Phil Jamison, VP of Sales - North America.
About BeatBox Beverages:
United through a love of music and inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of Austin, Texas, the founders of BeatBox Beverages set out to create something that could help everyone #PartyBetter. One year later, they made Shark Tank, walking away with the biggest investment the show had made at that time, $1million from Mark Cuban. Later adding on a team of industry veterans from InBev, MillerCoors, Deep Eddy, and Tito's Handmade Vodka, to name a few – who know how to develop, launch, and quickly grow authentic brands. Boasting a roster of investors including Mark Cuban, Rob Dyrdek as well as DJs Party Favor, Louis The Child, Good Times Ahead, and many others. BeatBox Beverages' reputation is secured as a company that creates products that drive incremental profit in high-growth categories with specific expertise in the Millennial and Gen Z target.
CONTACT: Taylor Foxman, +1-609-432-2237, taylor@theindustrycollective.org
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE BeatBox Beverages | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/beatbox-beverages-worlds-tastiest-party-punch-is-now-official-party-punch-oklahoma-state-university-athletics/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:42Z |
DALLAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brazos Residential, LLC, a Dallas-based real estate private investment firm specializing in multifamily investments, announces the $41M acquisition of the Wilson Woods Townhomes located in Wilson, NC. The transaction marks the firm's tenth acquisition in 2022.
Constructed in 1974, Wilson Woods Townhomes is situated on an expansive 31 acres at 1706 Vineyard Dr. in Wilson, NC, about 40 miles from eastern Raleigh. The community has 376 units and presents a desirable combination of generous one, two, and three-bedroom floor plans, with an average unit size of over 1,000 square ft.
"Wilson Woods has an exceptionally unique story," explains James Roberts, Managing Partner, and Cofounder. "The asset has been owned by the seller for over twenty-five years. This type of long-term, privately owned property is very rare, especially in highly sought-after markets in North Carolina."
The community is the firm's seventh North Carolina acquisition this year and highlights the company's investment strategy of purchasing value-add opportunities with significant operational upside in growing cities near well-established markets like Raleigh-Durham.
"This investment continues to support our thesis of targeting strong emerging markets with immense potential. Given its proximity to Raleigh-Durham, the property provides strategic synergies to Brazos' expanding portfolio in eastern North Carolina," proclaims William Hancock, Managing Partner, and Cofounder. "We are excited to reposition this asset and capitalize on its operational inefficiencies to maximize returns to our investor partners and improve the living experience of the tenants."
Founded in 2022, Brazos Residential owns over 1,700 multifamily units across the American sunbelt, predominately located in Texas and North Carolina. Brazos employs a dynamic team of real estate, private equity, accounting, and capital market professionals and controls over $215 million in multifamily real estate investments.
For more information, please contact Taylor Leander, Director of Investor Relations, at (214) 432-8065, Investors@BrazosResidential.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Brazos Residential | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/brazos-residential-expands-footprint-north-carolina-with-41m-acquisition/ | 2022-09-02T14:59:49Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New York-based healthcare enablement company Brighton Health Plan Solutions has been named a 2022 Top Workplace in Long Island by Schneps Media, the Long Island Press and Dan's Papers. The annual list recognizes "energized" organizations—those that have at least double the average U.S. employee engagement level—based solely on the results of anonymous employee surveys.
Brighton, which has 310 employees working on Long Island, helps self-funded employer groups, their members and their healthcare providers realize more value in employer-sponsored benefits by offering unprecedented flexibility and customization in its third-party administration of workplace benefits, innovative provider networks, casualty solutions, and integrated technology platform. In the survey, employees gave the company high scores for teamwork, company leadership, culture and the ability for individual employees to have a positive impact on the lives of members while also working to bring needed change to the health care industry.
"Because our employees represent the public face of our organization, we spend a great deal of time and effort to understand what motivates them to give their best at work and in the community," said Jim Cusumano, chief executive officer at Brighton. "Knowing our teams are responsible for this recognition as a Top Workplace provides confirmation that our efforts are yielding positive momentum and will fuel our efforts to continue engaging with and supporting employees in ways they find meaningful."
Brighton employees also cited the company's innovative and progressive benefits package, its dedication to providing employees time to give back to the community, and its drive to make the company more inclusive. Its diversity, equity and inclusion team, made up of employee volunteers, has implemented multiple programs in the past few years focused on building inclusivity.
"DEI is the future of the workplace because it's all about creating an inclusive workforce where people can be their authentic selves," said Julie Bank, Brighton's chief people officer. "If employees can't be their authentic selves at work, they won't be successful, and we won't be successful as a company."
Brighton's generous benefits package includes health, dental and vision coverage, flexible spending accounts, transportation benefits and a 401(k) plan that matches up to 5.25% of employer contributions. Employees also receive company-paid life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment and long-term disability insurance. The company offers flexibility and remote work options for the majority of employees, and its rewards program enables managers and colleagues to recognize team members for strong performance.
The company's charitable giving program matches employee donations to the United Way dollar for dollar, and all team members who participate earn an additional PTO day. Brighton also provides each employee with a day off to volunteer at United Way partner organizations such as the Hagedorn Little Village School for children with autism and Habitat for Humanity.
About Brighton Health Plan Solutions
Brighton Health Plan Solutions (Brighton) is an innovative healthcare enablement company based in New York City on a mission to improve how healthcare is accessed and delivered in the self-funded health plan market. We believe extraordinary things happen when everyone works together – health systems, providers, carriers and TPAs, self-insured plan sponsors, and members alike. Brighton goes beyond other TPAs to offer unprecedented flexibility and customization in our proprietary networks, administrative services, casualty solutions, and integrated digital tools. Together with our trusted partners, we are transforming the health plan experience with the promise of turning today's challenges into tomorrow's solutions. For more information on Brighton, visit BrightonHPS.com.
Media Contact:
Erin George
erin@lovell.com
615-946-9914
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Brighton Health Plan Solutions | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/brighton-health-plan-solutions-named-top-workplace-long-island/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:00Z |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) announced that it has vacated a previously issued interim suspension of the CFP® certification against Joseph M. Whitney, CFP®, formerly of Mahwah, New Jersey, and now residing in Rochester, New York.
On March 2, 2021, upon discovery that Mr. Whitney had been charged by the State of New Jersey with felony Conspiracy, CFP Board Counsel filed a Motion for Interim Suspension Order (Motion) pursuant to Article 2.1.a.1 of CFP Board's Procedural Rules requesting that the Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC) issue an Interim Suspension Order against Mr. Whitney. The Commission granted CFP Board Counsel's Motion and issued an Interim Suspension Order against Mr. Whitney on March 23, 2021. Since that time, CFP Board Counsel confirmed that all charges against Mr. Whitney in the referenced criminal prosecution were dismissed as of March 8, 2022. Accordingly, on August 8, 2022, pursuant to Article 2.4.a of the Procedural Rules, CFP Board Counsel issued an Order to Vacate the Interim Suspension Order.
An interim suspension is a suspension of a CFP® professional's certification and trademark license during the pendency of proceedings. A Respondent subject to an Interim Suspension Order must not use the CFP® certification marks or state or suggest that Respondent is a CFP® professional while the Interim Suspension Order is in effect. An Interim Suspension Order is a temporary sanction and does not preclude CFP Board from imposing a final sanction. An Interim Suspension Order will remain in place until the DEC or, if an appeal is filed, CFP Board's Appeals Commission, issues a final order. CFP Board Counsel may vacate an Interim Suspension Order if a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline is vacated or reversed or if Respondent provides sufficient evidence indicating that Respondent was not the subject of a criminal conviction, civil liability or professional discipline. A Hearing Panel of the DEC may issue an Order to vacate an Interim Suspension Order upon a successful Petition to Vacate an Interim Suspension Order by Respondent.
If CFP Board Counsel delivers, or a Hearing Panel issues, an order vacating an Interim Suspension Order, CFP Board must not reflect the Interim Suspension Order in CFP Board's public verification of Respondent's CFP® certification and background. In addition, CFP Board Counsel will deliver the order to Respondent and notify Respondent of the opportunity to file a written request for CFP Board to (1) remove the publication of the Interim Suspension Order from CFP Board's website and/or (2) publish in a press release and on CFP Board's website the fact that CFP Board vacated the Interim Suspension Order and some or all of the facts that are relevant to the order vacating the Interim Suspension Order. If CFP Board Counsel delivers, or a Hearing Panel issues, an order vacating an Interim Suspension Order, then upon the written request of Respondent, CFP Board must remove the publication and/or publish the press release.
CFP Board retains the authority to deliver to Respondent a Complaint based on the same or other factual allegations.
The basis for CFP Board disciplinary decisions may be found on CFP Board's website at CFP.net/verify. At that website, CFP Board provides the public with:
- The ability to check on any individual's CFP Board disciplinary history and CFP® certification status.
- Links to other sources of information about CFP® professionals that may be more recent or that may contain information that has not led to CFP Board discipline and does not appear on CFP Board's website. This information may include customer disputes, disciplinary actions taken by a regulator or employer, certain criminal matters and certain financial matters (such as bankruptcy proceedings and unpaid judgments or liens).
- Links to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.'s (FINRA's) BrokerCheck and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Investment Adviser Public Disclosure databases for individuals who are subject to FINRA or SEC oversight.
As part of their certification, CFP® professionals make a commitment to CFP Board to abide by CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct (Code and Standards) or its predecessor, the Standards of Professional Conduct (Standards), which included the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Rules of Conduct and Financial Planning Practice Standards. CFP Board's Procedural Rules set forth the process for investigating matters and imposing sanctions where violations have been found.
CFP Board enforces its ethical standards by investigating alleged violations and, where there is probable cause to believe there are grounds for sanction, presents a Complaint containing the alleged violations to CFP Board's DEC. The DEC meets at least six times a year to review any matter in which CFP Board has alleged that a CFP® professional has violated the Code and Standards or its predecessor Standards. The DEC functions in accordance with the Procedural Rules and reviews all matters on a case-by-case basis, considering the details specific to an individual case. If the DEC determines there are grounds for sanction, then it may impose a sanction. DEC orders may be appealed by a CFP® professional or CFP Board pursuant to the Procedural Rules.
In certain circumstances, such as when a CFP® professional is in default due to failure to acknowledge receipt of a Notice of Investigation or file an Answer, CFP Board staff must deliver an Administrative Order of Suspension, Temporary Bar, Revocation or Permanent Bar. Administrative Orders also are subject to appeal.
More information on CFP Board's enforcement process can be found at CFP.net/ethics/enforcement.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public's awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by more than 93,000 people in the United States.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/cfp-board-vacates-interim-suspension-previously-imposed-joseph-m-whitney-cfp-rochester-new-york/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:07Z |
RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Missfresh Limited ("Missfresh") (NASDAQ: MF). The action charges Missfresh with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Missfresh's materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, Missfresh investors have suffered significant losses.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR MISSFRESH LOSSES. YOU CAN ALSO CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK OR COPY AND PASTE IN YOUR BROWSER: https://www.ktmc.com/new-cases/missfresh-limited?utm_source=PR&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=missfreshx&mktm=r
TO VIEW OUR VIDEO, PLEASE CLICK HERE
LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
CLASS PERIOD: PURSUANT AND/OR TRACEABLE TO MISSFRESH'S JUNE 2021 IPO THROUGH JULY 12, 2022
CONTACT AN ATTORNEY: (484) 270-1453 or at info@ktmc.com
Kessler Topaz is one of the world's foremost advocates in protecting the public against corporate fraud and other wrongdoing. Our securities fraud litigators are regularly recognized as leaders in the field individually and our firm is both feared and respected among the defense bar and the insurance bar. We are proud to have recovered billions of dollars for our clients and the classes of shareholders we represent.
MISSFRESH'S ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
In June 2021, Missfresh conducted its initial public offering (IPO), selling 21 million American Depository Shares ("ADSs") at $13.00 per ADS.
On April 29, 2022, after trading hours, Missfresh filed a Notification of Late Filing on a Form 12b-25, which announced that Missfresh "will not be able to file its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021… by the prescribed filing deadline of April 30, 2022." Missfresh explained that "[t]he independent Audit Committee of [Missfresh]'s board of directors, with the assistance of professional advisors, is in the process of conducting an internal review of certain matters, including those relating to transactions between [Missfresh] and certain third-party enterprises." Following this news, Missfresh ADSs fell 13% to close at $0.448 per ADS on May 2, 2022, the next trading day.
Then, on May 24, 2022, after trading hours, Missfresh issued a press release entitled "Missfresh Announces Receipt of Nasdaq Notification Regarding Late Filing of Form 20-F" announcing "that it received a notification letter dated May 19, 2022... from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. ("Nasdaq"), indicating that [Missfresh] is not in compliance with the requirements for continued listing." Following this news, Missfresh ADSs fell 9% over the next two trading days to close at $0.167 per ADS on May 26, 2022.
Finally, on July 1, 2022, Missfresh issued a press release entitled "Missfresh Announces the Substantial Completion of the Audit Committee-Led Independent Internal Review." In the press release, Missfresh disclosed that "certain revenue associated with these reporting periods in 2021 may have been inaccurately recorded in [Missfresh]'s financial statements." As of the date the complaint was filed, Missfresh ADSs closed at $0.389 per ADS, well below Missfresh's IPO price of $13.00 per ADS.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Missfresh investors may, no later than September 12, 2022 seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Missfresh investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE CASE
WHO CAN BE A LEAD PLAINTIFF?
A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of all class members in directing the litigation. The lead plaintiff is usually the investor or small group of investors who have the largest financial interest and who are also adequate and typical of the proposed class of investors. The lead plaintiff selects counsel to represent the lead plaintiff and the class and these attorneys, if approved by the court, are lead or class counsel. Your ability to share in any recovery is not affected by the decision of whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff.
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP prosecutes class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country and around the world. The firm has developed a global reputation for excellence and has recovered billions of dollars for victims of fraud and other corporate misconduct. All of our work is driven by a common goal: to protect investors, consumers, employees and others from fraud, abuse, misconduct and negligence by businesses and fiduciaries. The complaint in this action was not filed by Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP. For more information about Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP please visit www.ktmc.com.
CONTACT:
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP
Jonathan Naji, Esq.
280 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087
(484) 270-1453
info@ktmc.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/deadline-reminder-kessler-topaz-meltzer-amp-check-llp-reminds-investors-missfresh-limited-mf-that-securities-fraud-class-action-lawsuit-has-been-filed-their-behalf/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:14Z |
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dovetail Software (recently ranked #1 HR Service Delivery provider), has made a number of updates in 2022 to its HR Case Management features to improve the employee and HR experience of HR Services.
A new Survey feature enables HR to get instant feedback from employees once their question, request or inquiry is resolved, which has increased HR responsiveness, while making employees feel their needs are being addressed by the business.
Additional updates include:
- Redesigned pages that make Dovetail simpler and easier to use
- Expansion of the powerful querying capabilities with new objects that ensure a consistent user experience
- Quicker file attachment options and better handling of Out-Of-Office emails that make working with emails an even better experience
- Streamlining of Dovetail administration with new Setup and Settings pages and a new Case Security Utility feature
Gary Sherman, VP of Products at Dovetail, said, "Throughout 2022 we've released new features and enhanced Dovetail functionality for HR, created powerful tools for Administrators, and new APIs for developers. Our focus is always on creating a great user experience for both HR and employees. Not only are we excited about these new features, but so are our customers, as many of these enhancements started off as ideas directly submitted by our customer base of HR professionals."
Commenting on the new product updates, a Dovetail customer, Jessica Berdaguer, HR Manager at Swire Coca-Cola said, "Dovetail continues to expand on its capabilities to give us the flexibility to configure the system to meet our needs. In my 15 year career I have never experienced an HR software that provides the flexibility and customer service that Dovetail provides."
Dovetail Software's Product Roadmap continues to deliver improvements, providing the best user experience for HR teams and employees at enterprise organizations. Kane Frisby, COO at Dovetail, said, "Our customers want to provide the best experience of HR Services to their employees and this is what we provide through our Product Roadmap by releasing updates and improvements to our software on a continual basis."
Dovetail Software provides an HR Service Delivery Experience that includes HR Case Management, Employee Portal, HR Knowledge Management and Reporting & Analytics, enabling HR to achieve excellence in HR Service Delivery and meet the needs of a modern HR function.
Follow us on Twitter and Linkedin
Contact:
Kane Frisby
kfrisby@dovetailsoftware.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Dovetail Software | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/dovetail-software-improves-employee-hr-experience-work-with-new-product-features/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:21Z |
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall, Elizabethtown College's School for Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) will launch a Family Business Graduate and Entrepreneurship Certificate. Starting on Oct. 17, the first cohort will commence, which aims to foster students' entrepreneurial spirit through developing their skills in business ideation, leadership, strategic planning, management, and more.
"The new program places a unique focus on family business by incorporating elements of governance, group dynamics, and succession planning," Elizabethtown College's Vice President for Enrollment Management John F. Champoli said.
Through a partnership with the High Center for Family Business, one of the oldest and largest centers of its kind, a coach is available upon request throughout the completion of the certificate. These experienced individuals will provide students with expertise in developing business growth with actionable outcomes including:
- Evaluate the steps to start, innovate, and grow a business.
- Analyze the strategies involved in running a successful business.
- Articulate leadership skills and practices to optimize business performance.
- Critique governance structures and succession planning as a vital component of a business model.
- Develop a business plan on a new entrepreneurial business idea or possible innovation.
The 12-credit certificate includes four online courses which can be completed in as little as one year with innovative courses like "Dreams to Reality: Where are you in the business ownership cycle?", Strategy and Gaining a Competitive Edge, Leading as Your Business Grows, Dynamics, Governing, Managing, and Succession Planning. The certificate can also be stacked into Etown's 36-credit Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Strategic Leadership (MSL) or our 32-credit Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD). Learn more about the program at etown.edu/SGPS.
Elizabethtown College, located in southcentral Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than 50 health, science, engineering, political science business, communications, fine art and music, humanities, and education degrees. Discover more: etown.edu.
Since 1995, the S. Dale High Center for Family Business has always been dedicated to bringing the best available resources to families in businesses for south central Pennsylvania and beyond. Serving and strengthening privately-held and family-owned businesses through succession planning, executive leadership training and legacy building. Explore more: https://thehighcenter.com.
Contact:
Keri Straub
Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications
Elizabethtown College
(717) 725-6907
straubk@etown.edu
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Elizabethtown College | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/elizabethtown-colleges-school-graduate-amp-professional-studies-launches-family-business-entrepreneurship-graduate-certificate/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:28Z |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- President Biden, who campaigned for office promising to unite the country, took to the nation's airwaves yesterday evening depicting millions of Americans as a threat to democracy. Aside from his blanket condemnation of those who disagree with his policies he charged that nearly every Republican doesn't respect the rule of law.
"If ever there was an administration that does not respect the rule of law, it is this one," responded Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). "There is no more glaring example of lawlessness than the Biden administration's gutting of immigration laws and border enforcement. This administration is not just refusing to enforce nearly every immigration and border enforcement law on the books, the president's Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, in a series of policy memos, has put it in writing. Moreover, the Biden administration is defying a federal court order to resume immigration enforcement.
"The law says that people entering our country illegally must be detained and removed. The Biden administration has released them by the millions, many without even a notice to appear in court. President Biden's own appointee to head the Border Patrol has stated in a sworn deposition that there are currently 'no consequences' to violating our immigration laws and entering the United States illegally.
"The law says that every person illegally present in the United States is subject to removal. The Biden administration openly refuses to remove illegal aliens unless they are violent felons – and not even all violent felons – or they are terrorists," continued Stein. "Time and again, when immigration laws are at odds with their own political objectives, our laws get chucked in the trash can. That is the hallmark of an authoritarian dictatorship, not a constitutional republic.
"Not only did the president ignore his own administration's contempt for the rule of law, he engaged in divisive demagoguery by conflating those who disagree with his, and his party's policies as threats to our democracy. Chillingly, his administration has sought to silence peaceful dissents – attempting to set up government-run 'disinformation' boards, working with tech companies to de-platform individuals and organizations that oppose his policies, even when what they are saying is absolutely true, and potentially unleashing an army of newly hired IRS agents to shut down groups that stand in the way of his political agenda.
"There are those on the radical fringes of both the right and the left who pose legitimate threats to our democracy. But an even greater threat is posed when the people in power willfully ignore laws, and falsely demonize those attempting to call them out," concluded Stein.
CONTACT: Ron Kovach, Email: rkovach@fairus.org
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/fair-president-biden-you-dont-respect-rule-law/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:35Z |
TSX: MPVD and OTC: MPVDF
TORONTO and NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. ("Mountain Province", the "Company") (TSX: MPVD) (OTC: MPVDF) is saddened to announce a fatal incident at the Gahcho Kué Mine.
STATEMENT FROM DE BEERS GROUP:
We are deeply saddened to confirm that an employee from a contractor partner company succumbed to injuries sustained in an incident at Gahcho Kué Mine on Thursday, 1 September. The circumstances around what happened are under investigation by the appropriate authorities. All non-essential work at the mine has been suspended.
This is an extremely tragic incident and the mine joint venture partners, De Beers Group and Mountain Province Diamonds, extend our deepest condolences to the grieving family and friends of the deceased individual.
We want to commend the individual's co-workers, the mine's Emergency Response Team, and the onsite medical team who made every effort to save their colleague's life. A grief counsellor arrived at the mine Thursday evening and additional counselling services are available to all employees.
Gahcho Kué is located in the Northwest Territories, about 280 km northeast of Yellowknife. The mine is a joint venture between De Beers Group (51% - the operator) and Mountain Province Diamonds (49%).
Contact
Terry Kruger
Tel 1 867 679 6431
Mob 1 403 835 5875
Email terry.kruger@debeersgroup.com
NOTE TO MEDIA: In consideration of the ongoing investigations, we are not in a position to provide additional information regarding the incident at this time.
****
Mountain Province Diamonds is a 49% participant with De Beers Canada in the Gahcho Kué diamond mine located in Canada's Northwest Territories. The Gahcho Kué Joint Venture property consists of several kimberlites that are actively being mined, developed, and explored for future development. The Company also controls 107,373 hectares of highly prospective mineral claims and leases surrounding the Gahcho Kué Mine that include an Indicated mineral resource for the Kelvin kimberlite and Inferred mineral resources for the Faraday kimberlites. Kelvin is estimated to contain 13.62 million carats (Mct) in 8.50 million tonnes (Mt) at a grade of 1.60 carats/tonne and value of US$63/carat. Faraday 2 is estimated to contain 5.45Mct in 2.07Mt at a grade of 2.63 carats/tonne and value of US$140/ct. Faraday 1-3 is estimated to contain 1.90Mct in 1.87Mt at a grade of 1.04 carats/tonne and value of US$75/carat. All resource estimations are based on a 1mm diamond size bottom cut-off.
For further information on Mountain Province Diamonds and to receive news releases by email, visit the Company's website at www.mountainprovince.com.
The disclosure in this news release of scientific and technical information regarding Mountain Province's mineral properties has been reviewed and approved by Matthew MacPhail, P.Eng., MBA, and Tom E. McCandless, Ph.D., P.Geo., both employees of Mountain Province Diamonds and Qualified Persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
This news release contains certain "forward-looking statements" and "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian and United States securities laws concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to operational hazards, including possible disruption due to pandemic such as COVID-19, its impact on travel, self-isolation protocols and business and operations, estimated production and mine life of the project of Mountain Province; the realization of mineral reserve estimates; the timing and amount of estimated future production; costs of production; the future price of diamonds; the estimation of mineral reserves and resources; the ability to manage debt; capital expenditures; the ability to obtain permits for operations; liquidity; tax rates; and currency exchange rate fluctuations. Except for statements of historical fact relating to Mountain Province, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "anticipates," "may," "can," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "projects," "targets," "intends," "likely," "will," "should," "to be", "potential" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may", "should" or "will" occur. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made, and are based on a number of assumptions and subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Many of these assumptions are based on factors and events that are not within the control of Mountain Province and there is no assurance they will prove to be correct.
Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from results anticipated by such forward-looking statements include the development of operation hazards which could arise in relation to COVID-19, including, but not limited to protocols which may be adopted to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and any impact of such protocols on Mountain Province's business and operations, variations in ore grade or recovery rates, changes in market conditions, changes in project parameters, mine sequencing; production rates; cash flow; risks relating to the availability and timeliness of permitting and governmental approvals; supply of, and demand for, diamonds; fluctuating commodity prices and currency exchange rates, the possibility of project cost overruns or unanticipated costs and expenses, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry, failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated.
These factors are discussed in greater detail in Mountain Province's most recent Annual Information Form and in the most recent MD&A filed on SEDAR, which also provide additional general assumptions in connection with these statements. Mountain Province cautions that the foregoing list of important factors is not exhaustive. Investors and others who base themselves on forward-looking statements should carefully consider the above factors as well as the uncertainties they represent and the risk they entail. Mountain Province believes that the expectations reflected in those forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements included in this news release should not be unduly relied upon. These statements speak only as of the date of this news release.
Although Mountain Province has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Mountain Province undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable securities laws. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Statements concerning mineral reserve and resource estimates may also be deemed to constitute forward-looking statements to the extent they involve estimates of the mineralization that will be encountered as the property is developed.
Further, Mountain Province may make changes to its business plans that could affect its results. The principal assets of Mountain Province are administered pursuant to a joint venture under which Mountain Province is not the operator. Mountain Province is exposed to actions taken or omissions made by the operator within its prerogative and/or determinations made by the joint venture under its terms. Such actions or omissions may impact the future performance of Mountain Province. Under its current note and revolving credit facilities Mountain Province is subject to certain limitations on its ability to pay dividends on common stock. The declaration of dividends is at the discretion of Mountain Province's Board of Directors, subject to the limitations under the Company's debt facilities, and will depend on Mountain Province's financial results, cash requirements, future prospects, and other factors deemed relevant by the Board
View original content:
SOURCE Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/fatality-gahcho-ku-mine/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:42Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New York-based law firm Falcon Rappaport & Berkman PLLC announced that Ariel S. Holzer, Esq. has been appointed as Chair of the firm's Real Estate Practice Group. The change is crucial to the department's development and the growth and evolution of the team.
Ariel, who has been a Partner with FRB since 2020, focuses his real estate practice on matters related to commercial transactions and development, real estate litigation, zoning, and land use, and real estate-related administrative law.
With FRB, he has overseen such transactions as the $300 million transaction of a 60-property real estate portfolio with diverse properties located in four states, the $50 million sale of a development property in Flushing, NY, and the purchase of a $20 million residential real estate portfolio in Illinois. This appointment is a testament to Ariel and the quality and results of his work.
"Ariel has been a tremendous asset to FRB and has made invaluable contributions to the operations of the firm at large, and the real estate department more specifically," FRB Managing Partner Kenneth Falcon said. "He is well suited to this role and I'm very excited to watch him mature as leader of the practice group."
Ariel began his career as a litigation associate and gained familiarity with common conflicts in real estate transactions, before shifting to real estate transactions where he worked on projects such as the refinancing of Willis Tower in Chicago, the acquisition, financing, and sale of the International Toy Center in Manhattan, and the refinancing of Bush Terminal (Industry City).
Falcon Rappaport & Berkman PLLC is a full-service business law firm that combines the deep knowledge and expertise of attorneys who proudly provide transactional real estate services throughout New York State and across the country. FRB assists clients ranging from first-time homebuyers to family offices and businesses in all aspects of their real estate needs.
FRB differentiates itself by approaching matters with a level of depth and variety of skills unmatched by typical advisors, following through on a firm-wide commitment to excellent service, offering access to thought leaders in numerous areas of professional practice, and engaging in a partnership with clients to develop and achieve their goals.
For more information, email FRB's Marketing Director, Abby Winckler at awinckler@frblaw.com.
Falcon Rappaport & Berkman PLLC website: https://frblaw.com/
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Falcon Rappaport & Berkman PLLC | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/frb-names-ariel-s-holzer-esq-chair-real-estate-practice-group/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:49Z |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The urgency of treating chronic wounds and foot ulcers cannot be ignored. In recognition of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Awareness Month, Healogics® is empowering patients living with PAD, to seek timely wound care treatment critical for optimal healing and reducing the risk of amputations.
Nearly 10 million people in the United States are living with PAD, affecting 1 in 5 people over the age of 60. Of those living with late-stage PAD, 25% may require an amputation within one year.
It can be a painful condition caused by a blockage in the arteries to the legs. Just like blockages in the heart's vessels, PAD is caused by a buildup of plaque and fatty material on the inner walls of the arteries in the extremities. Not only does PAD make it difficult to walk, especially when wounds are present, but is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke.
"It's important to seek medical attention if you suspect you have PAD. Be aware of what your symptoms are and let your primary care physician know to check for PAD. Since PAD is such a prevalent problem that oftentimes goes undiagnosed, request a non-invasive and painless test called ankle brachial index (ABI). This is the first step to understanding how much blockage in the arteries is present and what the level of risk may be. Without the blood flow to wounded areas, necrosis develops and if left untreated, amputation may be the only recourse," said Healogics Chief Medical Officer, Dr. William Ennis.
Do not dismiss leg pain as part of growing old and seek care if you have these symptoms:
- Pain or cramps in the back of leg while walking or exercising
- Lower legs and feet that are cool to touch or that have shiny skin
- Legs and feet appear pale when raised and bluish/purplish when hanging down
- Numbness or tingling in the feet and legs
- A sore or wound on the toes, legs or feet that does not heal
There are 40% of those living with PAD that may not experience symptoms or leg pain until a wound becomes resistant to heal. The specialized care provided by Wound Care Centers® can reduce healing times, increase healing rates and significantly lower amputation risks.
"Treatment delays and the staggering increase in amputations drive us to work harder to improve awareness and access to advanced wound care. Any untreated wound is at risk for complications. Far too often we see patients who have developed a wound and may not have experienced pain because the neuropathy prevented the pain response. Many people do not realize that clogged arteries in the legs can be a warning sign of PAD and 82% of leg amputations are due to poor circulation of the affected limb. One of the most significant warning signs of PAD is foot ulcers that do not heal, specifically in people living with diabetes. Throughout September, we seek to educate our communities and health care providers to improve access to wound care for all that need it," said Healogics Chief Executive Officer, David Bassin.
If you or someone you care for is at risk for PAD and has a wound that is not healing, find a Center near you today. For more information, visit Healogics.com.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the nation's wound healing expert. Last year over 300,000 patients received advanced wound care through a network of over 600 Wound Care Centers. Healogics also partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 60 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative offers peer-reviewed research and advanced analytics in the pursuit of not only better outcomes but a better way to provide care.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Healogics, LLC | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/healogics-is-raising-awareness-peripheral-artery-disease-healing-chronic-wounds-during-september/ | 2022-09-02T15:00:55Z |
LONDON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC (NYSE: IGT) ("IGT"), announces the launch of an offer to purchase for cash (the "Tender Offer") up to US$500,000,000 aggregate principal amount (the "Maximum Acceptance Amount") of its outstanding US$1,100,000,000 6.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the "Dollar Notes") and its outstanding €500,000,000 3.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the "Euro Notes", and together with the Dollar Notes, the "Notes"), subject to the Acceptance Priority Levels set forth in the table below (with one (1) being the higher Acceptance Priority Level and two (2) being the lower Acceptance Priority Level) and the Dollar Offer Sub Cap (as defined below). The Tender Offer is made upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated September 2, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase").
The Tender Offer will expire at 11:59 P.M. (New York City time) on September 30, 2022 (unless the Tender Offer is extended or terminated) (such time and date, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Time").
To receive the Total Dollar Consideration (as defined below), which includes an early tender premium of US$30.00 per US$1,000.00 principal amount of the Dollar Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer (the "Early Dollar Tender Premium") or the Total Euro Consideration (as defined below), which includes an early tender premium of €30.00 per €1,000.00 principal amount of the Euro Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer (the "Early Euro Tender Premium"), Holders must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Notes prior to 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on September 16, 2022 (unless the Tender Offer is extended or terminated) (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Early Tender Time"). Holders who tender their Notes may withdraw such Notes at any time prior to 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on September 16, 2022.
Holders who validly tender their Dollar Notes or their Euro Notes after the Early Tender Time but at or prior to the Expiration Time will be eligible to receive only the Dollar Tender Offer Consideration (which is an amount equal to the difference between the Total Dollar Consideration and the Early Dollar Tender Premium) or the Euro Tender Offer Consideration (which is an amount equal to the difference between the Total Euro Consideration and the Early Euro Tender Premium), respectively.
The following table sets forth certain terms of the Tender Offer:
_____________________
In addition to the Dollar Tender Offer Consideration, the Total Dollar Consideration, the Euro Tender Offer Consideration or the Total Euro Consideration (as applicable), all Holders of Notes accepted for purchase will also receive accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes, rounded to the nearest US$0.01 per US$1,000.00 principal amount of the Dollar Notes and €0.01 per €1,000.00 principal amount of the Euro Notes from the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date (as defined below) or the Final Settlement Date (as defined below) (as applicable).
Notes of one or both series may be subject to modified proration if the aggregate principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn (with the aggregate principal amount of the Euro Notes converted to US dollars using the Exchange Rate) as of the Early Tender Time or the Expiration Time (as applicable) would cause the Maximum Acceptance Amount to be exceeded or the aggregate principal amount of the Dollar Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn as of the Early Tender Time or the Expiration Time (as applicable) would cause the Dollar Offer Sub Cap to be exceeded. Furthermore, regardless of the Acceptance Priority Level, Notes tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time will be accepted for purchase in priority to Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time, and to the extent Notes are tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer, the portion of the Maximum Acceptance Amount (which shall be applied subject to the Acceptance Priority Levels) and the Dollar Offer Sub Cap available for the purchase of Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time will be reduced or may be eliminated completely.
The Tender Offer is conditioned upon, among other things, IGT, in its sole and absolute discretion, being satisfied that it has received, or will receive, by the Early Settlement Date an amount of net proceeds of the sale of the shares of LIS Holdings S.p.A. by an indirect subsidiary of IGT to PostePay S.p.A. which would be sufficient to finance the payment by IGT of the sum of (1) the sum of the Total Dollar Consideration and the Dollar Tender Offer Consideration with respect to all Dollar Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and (2) the sum of the Total Euro Consideration and the Euro Tender Offer Consideration with respect to all Euro Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase.
It is expected that payment for Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time will be made promptly following the Early Tender Time, on September 20, 2022 (the "Early Settlement Date"), and payment for Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Time but at or prior to the Expiration Time will be made on October 4, 2022 (the "Final Settlement Date").
Subject to applicable law and the terms and conditions of the Offer to Purchase, IGT may change the Acceptance Priority Levels and increase or decrease either or both of the Maximum Acceptance Amount and the Dollar Offer Sub Cap without extending the Early Tender Time or the Expiration Time or otherwise providing withdrawal rights. IGT may also terminate the Tender Offer, waive any or all of the conditions of the Tender Offer prior to the Expiration Time, extend the Expiration Time or amend the terms of the Tender Offer.
IGT has retained D.F. King & Co. to act as Tender and Information Agent for the Tender Offer. Questions regarding procedures for tendering Notes may be directed to D.F. King & Co.
D.F. King & Co.
By Mail, Hand or Overnight Courier:
48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, New York 10005
Attention: Michael Horthman
Email: igt@dfking.com
U.S. Toll Free: +1 (800) 706-3274
Banks and brokers: +1 (212) 269-5550
Joint Lead Dealer Managers
None of IGT, the guarantors of the Notes, the Dealer Managers, the Tender and Information Agent or the trustee (nor any director, officer, employee, agent or affiliate of, any such person) makes any recommendation whether holders should tender or refrain from tendering Notes pursuant to the Tender Offer. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender Notes and, if so, the principal amount of the Notes to tender.
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. No offer, solicitation or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. The Tender Offer is only being made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase. Holders of the Notes are urged to carefully read the Offer to Purchase before making any decision with respect to the Tender Offer.
The distribution of announcement release in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes are required by each of IGT, the Dealer Managers and the Tender and Information Agent to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.
OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS
Neither this news release nor the Offer to Purchase constitutes an invitation to participate in the Tender 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 IGT, the Dealer Managers 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 Tender 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 43(2) of the Financial Promotion Order; or (iii) any other persons to whom these documents or materials may lawfully be made under the Financial Promotion Order. Any investment or investment activity to which this news release relates is available only to such persons or will be engaged only with such persons and other persons should not rely on it.
European Economic Area
In any European Economic Area Member State, this news release is only addressed to and is only directed at qualified investors in that Member State within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, together with any applicable implementing measures in any Member State.
Italy
None of the Tender Offer, this news release or any other document or materials relating to the Tender 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 Italy as an exempted offer pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of Legislative Decree No. 58 of February 24, 1998, as amended (the "Financial Services Act") and article 35-bis, paragraph 3 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 pursuant to the Tender Offer through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of February 15, 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of September 1, 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 Tender Offer has been or shall be distributed to the public in France and only qualified investors (investisseurs qualifies) within the meaning of Article 2(e) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation"), are eligible to participate in the Tender Offer. This news release has not been and will not be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
General
This news release does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes (and tenders of Notes pursuant to the Tender 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 Tender Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and any Dealer Manager or any of the Dealer Managers' respective affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, the Tender Offer shall be deemed to be made by such Dealer Manager or affiliate, as the case may be, on behalf of IGT in such jurisdiction.
In addition to the representations referred to above with respect to the United States, each Holder participating in the Tender Offer will also be deemed to give certain representations with respect to the other jurisdictions referred to above and generally as set out in "The Offer—Procedures for Participating in the Offer (Dollar Notes)" and "The Offer—Procedures for Participating in the Offer (Euro Notes)". Any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer from a Holder that is unable to make these representations will not be accepted. Each of IGT, each Dealer Manager and the Tender and Information Agent reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to investigate, in relation to any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer, whether any such representation given by a Holder is correct and, if such investigation is undertaken and as a result IGT determines (for any reason) that such representation is not correct, such tender shall not be accepted.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is the global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.IGT.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) concerning International Game Technology PLC and its consolidated subsidiaries (the "Company") and other matters. These statements may discuss goals, intentions, and expectations as to future plans, trends, events, dividends, results of operations, or financial condition, or otherwise, based on current beliefs of the management of the Company as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, such management. Forward-looking statements may be accompanied by words such as "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "could," "would," "should," "shall", "continue," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "future," "guidance," "intend," "may," "will," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project" or the negative or other variations of them. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements are made and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the Company's control. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially from those predicted in the forward-looking statements and from past results, performance, or achievements. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include (but are not limited to) the factors and risks described in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F for the financial year ended December 31, 2021 and other documents filed from time to time with the SEC, which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and on the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.IGT.com. Except as required under applicable law, the Company does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. You should carefully consider these factors and other risks and uncertainties that affect the Company's business. Nothing in this news release is intended, or is to be construed, as a profit forecast or to be interpreted to mean that the financial performance of International Game Technology PLC for the current or any future financial years will necessarily match or exceed the historical published financial performance of International Game Technology PLC, as applicable. All forward-looking statements contained in this news release are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to International Game Technology PLC, or persons acting on its behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
Contacts
Phil O'Shaughnessy, Global Communications, toll free in U.S./Canada +1 (844) IGT-7452; outside U.S./Canada +1 (401) 392-7452
Francesco Luti, +39 06 5189 9184; for Italian media inquiries
James Hurley, Investor Relations, +1 (401) 392-7190
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE International Game Technology PLC | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/international-game-technology-plc-announces-capped-tender-offer-with-respect-its-6500-senior-secured-notes-due-2025-3500-senior-secured-notes-due-2024/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:01Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott" or "the Company") (NYSE: ABT) and certain of its officers, on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased, or otherwise acquired Abbott securities between February 19, 2021 to June 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/abt.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made numerous materially false and misleading statements and omissions concerning what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") called "egregiously unsanitary" conditions at the Company's Sturgis facility. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Defendants repeatedly touted to investors the safety and salability of Abbott's infant formula brands and their contribution to the Company's sales and revenue growth.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/abt or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Law Clerk and Client Relations Manager, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in Abbott you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC represents investors in securities fraud class actions and shareholder derivative suits. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors nationwide. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
Contact:
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC
Peretz Bronstein or Yael Nathanson
212-697-6484 | info@bgandg.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/investor-alert-bronstein-gewirtz-amp-grossman-llc-notifies-abbott-laboratories-abt-investors-class-action-actively-participate/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:10Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Azure Power Global Limited ("Azure" or the "Company") (NYSE: AZRE) and certain of its officers, on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased, or otherwise acquired Azure securities between June 15, 2021 and August 26, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/azre.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws.
The complaint filed in this class action alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) there were procedural irregularities, including deviations from safety and quality standards, at one of Azure's plants; (2) certain project data was manipulated; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's internal controls and procedures were not effective; (4) Azure had received a credible whistleblower report alleging such misconduct; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/azre or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Law Clerk and Client Relations Manager, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in Azure you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC represents investors in securities fraud class actions and shareholder derivative suits. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors nationwide. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
Contact:
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC
Peretz Bronstein or Yael Nathanson
212-697-6484 | info@bgandg.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/investor-alert-bronstein-gewirtz-amp-grossman-llc-notifies-azure-power-global-limited-azre-investors-class-action-actively-participate/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:16Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Latch, Inc. f/k/a TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp. ("Latch" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LTCH, LTCHW, TSIA, TSIAW, TSIAU) and certain of its officers, on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased, or otherwise acquired Abbott securities between May 13, 2021, to August 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/ltch.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws.
The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) there were unreported sales arrangements related to hardware devices; (2) as a result, the Company had improperly recognized revenue throughout fiscal 2021 and first quarter 2022; (3) there were material weaknesses in Latch's internal control over financial reporting related to revenue recognition; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Latch would restate financial statements for fiscal 2021 and first quarter 2022; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/ltch or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Law Clerk and Client Relations Manager, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in Latch you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC represents investors in securities fraud class actions and shareholder derivative suits. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors nationwide. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
Contact:
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC
Peretz Bronstein or Yael Nathanson
212-697-6484 | info@bgandg.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/investor-alert-bronstein-gewirtz-amp-grossman-llc-notifies-latch-inc-fka-ts-innovation-acquisitions-corp-ltch-ltchw-tsia-tsiaw-tsiau-investors-class-action-actively-participate/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:24Z |
SUMMERVILLE, S.C., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Maritime Sustainment Technology and Innovation Consortium (MSTIC), established by The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD), is pleased to announce the achievement of its milestone 300th member. That member is Systel, Inc. located out of Sugar Land, Texas. Systel designs and manufactures rugged computing solutions purpose-built for mission-critical applications in austere environments.
Established in June 2021, MSTIC focuses on innovative sustainment solutions to effectively address current and future security threats in maritime environments. The consortium brings together traditional and non-traditional government contractors, small and large businesses, for-profit and not-for-profit entities, and academic organizations collaborating to perform research and development and prototyping efforts. Their goal is to develop and mature technologies in the field of Maritime Sustainment that enhance the Navy's mission effectiveness.
"MSTIC is delighted to welcome our 300th member to the consortium. Our members' capabilities align with solutions for which the Government is looking and the collaboration among them yields the relationships, teaming, and innovative ideas that deliver those solutions at mission speed," stated Program Manager, Tim Macon with Advanced Technology International (ATI).
"Systel is proud to be a part of this collaborative effort to deliver the solutions that our Government needs to support maritime sustainment and deliver advantage for any mission," said Systel CEO, Vimal Kothari. "We have delivered thousands of systems for maritime applications over the past 30 years with a relentless commitment to enabling mission success; MSTIC is precisely aligned with that commitment and provides a great way to connect with other like-minded leading innovators."
MSTIC is managed by ATI.
ATI, a public-service nonprofit based in Summerville, South Carolina, builds and manages collaborations that conduct research and development of new technologies to solve our nation's national security challenges. Fueled by a community of experts from industry, academia, and government, ATI accelerates impact by using the power of collaboration to help the federal government quickly acquire novel technologies. ATI is a subsidiary of Analytic Services, Inc. (ANSER), a public-service research institute organized as a nonprofit corporation, which is dedicated to informing decisions that shape the nation's future.
ATI.org | LinkedIn | Twitter | collaborATIon app
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Maritime Sustainment Technology and Innovation Consortium (MSTIC) | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/maritime-sustainment-technology-innovation-consortium-hits-milestone-300th-member/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:31Z |
MEGADETH PREMIERES THIRD VIDEO FROM THEIR MULTI-PART EPIC SHORT FILM
WATCH THE SICK, THE DYING… AND THE DEAD!: CHAPTER III HERE
"…a typically breakneck thrashathon that musicians a third of Mustaine's age would struggle to keep up with." – Rolling Stone
"…more than simply just a new Megadeth album — this is further irrefutable evidence of Mustaine's unbreakable determination and iron will." – Loudwire
"The Sick, the Dying ... and the Dead! presents a revitalized Megadeth overcoming recent hardships with signature force." – Ultimate Classic Rock
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, MEGADETH premiere The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!, the band's highly anticipated 16th studio album. The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! features twelve new tracks on CD, vinyl, and cassette, as well as digitally through all online partners, all available HERE. The record is also available as a limited deluxe edition 2LP, 12-track album pressed on 180g black vinyl housed in a numbered gatefold jacket with a 12x24 lyrics/credits insert, a lenticular vinyl lithograph and a bonus 7-inch featuring "We'll Be Back" and the unreleased b-side "The Conjuring (Live)." The limited deluxe edition can only be purchased via MEGADETH's official online store, through Sound of Vinyl, and uDiscover, and can now be ordered, HERE.
Today also marks the premiere of the latest MEGADETH video, The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!: Chapter III, the third and latest video installment from their multi-part short film. Creator Dave Mustaine, along with Producer Rafael Pensado and Director Leo Liberti, crafted together a story of the origins of Vic Rattlehead into the multi-part short film. The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!: Chapter III is the latest in the series that follows the saga of a war hero, now fully transformed into Vic Rattlehead, as he brutally exacts revenge and punishment on those who betrayed him and destroyed his loved ones and life. In this chapter, Vic continues to move up the chain of command as he torments his unsuspecting victim before dragging him down to eternal damnation in the land of the dead.
Watch HERE. The epic new MEGADETH video The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!: Chapter III
MEGADETH 'THE SICK, THE DYING...AND THE DEAD!'
1. The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!
2. Life In Hell
3. Night Stalkers (feat. Ice-T)
4. Dogs Of Chernobyl
5. Sacrifice
6. Junkie
7. Psychopathy
8. Killing Time
9. Soldier On!
10. Célebutante
11. Mission To Mars
12. We'll Be Back
Official Website
Facebook / Instagram / Twitter
YouTube
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE UMe | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/megadeth-new-studio-album-the-sick-dying-dead-out-now/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:38Z |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with the International Coastal Cleanup, Meijer is sponsoring two Adopt-a-Beach cleanup events on Sept. 17 and is encouraging public participation to help clean local beaches and keep plastic out of the Great Lakes.
"We're lucky to live in the beautiful Great Lakes, which is synonymous with summertime visits to the beach," said Erik Petrovskis, Director of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability at Meijer. "But with that use comes the responsibility to protect them. We're proud to be hands-on in the cleaning of our beaches and encourage the public to join other volunteers from around the world that day at similar cleanup events."
The events will be conducted by the Alliance for the Great Lakes, a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect the Great Lakes, at the following beaches:
- 9-11 a.m. at Traverse City State Park beach near downtown Traverse City, Mich.
- 9-11 a.m. at Headland Dunes State Park near Cleveland, Ohio
Those interested in participating in the beach cleanup events are encouraged to register in advance for the Traverse City event here and the Cleveland event here.
For more than 30 years, the Alliance's Adopt-a-Beach program has activated thousands of volunteers in cleanups across all five Great Lakes. They remove tens of thousands of pounds of litter, primarily plastic, from Great Lakes shorelines each year. This September, volunteers will help to surpass the Alliance's goal of collecting 500,000 pounds of litter since 2003, which is when the organization began tracking data.
"Adopt-a-Beach volunteers are on the frontlines of keeping plastic out of the Great Lakes. The data they collect shows that roughly 85 percent of the litter cleaned up are items made partly or entirely of plastic," Alliance for the Great Lakes President & CEO Joel Brammeier said. "September 17 is the single largest day of action for the Great Lakes each year. We're grateful to our volunteers and to Meijer for supporting this event and helping to keep our lakes clean and safe for everyone to enjoy."
Meijer began its partnership with the Alliance in 2019, sponsoring various beach cleanup events across its footprint.
It's the latest in a concerted effort the retailer is making to protect the Great Lakes and rid them of litter, specifically plastics. Earlier this month, Meijer was the first retailer to unveil innovative beach and water cleaning drones in the Great Lakes in partnership with the Council of the Great Lakes Region.
About Meijer: Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates 262 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer pioneered the "one-stop shopping" concept and has evolved through the years to include expanded fresh produce and meat departments, as well as pharmacies, comprehensive apparel departments, pet departments, garden centers, toys and electronics. For additional information on Meijer, please visit www.meijer.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter at twitter.com/Meijer and twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.
About the Alliance for the Great Lakes: The Alliance for the Great Lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes. Learn more at www.greatlakes.org.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Meijer | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/meijer-expands-its-beach-cleanup-events-encourage-public-participation/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:45Z |
For the second year in a row, Mike Morse Law Firm has provided roughly 100 backpacks to the Detroit Youth Choir
DETROIT, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Mike Morse Law Firm joined Detroit Youth Choir students and staff for a back-to-school celebration at Marygrove College. The firm donated more than 100 backpacks to the choir students. This is the second year in a row that the firm has partnered with the Detroit Youth Choir to set the students up for a successful school year through the Project Backpack program.
Students were able to grab a backpack provided by Mike Morse Law Firm and fill it up with various school supplies. New choir students were welcomed at the event and choir placements for the upcoming school year were unveiled.
"This partnership with Mike Morse Law Firm is great for us, we love it," Anthony White, director of the Detroit Youth Choir said. "We care about education and want our students to be prepared when they go back to school."
To date, the Mike Morse Law Firm has donated more than 250,000 backpacks through the Project Backpack program. Project Backpack has been providing backpacks filled with school supplies to local students for the past nine years.
"The talent these students have is unbelievable," Mike Morse said. "I was fortunate enough to see them perform last year and I am so glad we were able to come back for a second year. We are so excited to be able to help them get ready for a great school year ahead."
Since 1995, the Mike Morse Law Firm has been protecting the rights of Michigan auto accident and injury victims. They are Michigan's largest personal injury firm, specializing in auto, truck, pedestrian, and motorcycle accidents as well as Social Security disability claims. They are experts in Michigan's No-Fault Act. Since opening their doors in 1995, the firm has won over one billion dollars for its clients. Mike Morse Law Firm handles cases throughout the state of Michigan, with a main office in Southfield. To learn more, call (855) 645-3946 or visit www.855mikewins.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Mike Morse Law Firm | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/mike-morse-law-firm-supplies-backpacks-detroit-youth-choir-back-to-school-event/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:52Z |
BANGKOK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- September 2, 2022: mu Space and Advance Technology Co., Ltd., a satellite manufacturer and satellite communication service provider, reveals plans to advance the business in the next 10 years. The company announced their intentions to continue to invest in building a network for the aerospace industry with aims to being a leading aerospace manufacturer in Southeast Asia. mu Space intends to build a supply chain for materials, equipment and goods related to the entire aerospace industry, from procuring satellite production materials and aerospace components, all the way to producing and assembling the product. This project has received attention from the mass media and many leading organizations in the country.
Mr. James Yenbamroong, CEO & CTO of mu Space, revealed:
"mu Space has achieved great success in the development of satellites and High Power Systems. The importance of investing in 3 areas that are important to build networks in the space industry are Human Capital Knowledge, Equipment & Machinery and Raw Materials. It also requires cooperation from the government and private sectors involved, in order to create a sustainable network in the aerospace industry, mu Space is committed to promoting and supporting young Start-Up groups to gain experience and knowledge. As a result of that, we hope to see the space industry business steadily expand in Thailand and Southeast Asia."
According to economic reports on the space industry, there are major media outlets and leading analyst groups estimating the rise in value of the global space industry. Reports suggest that by 2026, the value of the industry has the potential to rise from $3.1 billion to $7.4 billion, potentially contributing to drive Thailand becoming the center of the aerospace industry network. This will impact the country positively effecting the economy, education, technological advancement and in terms of creating jobs and careers. On top of that, expanding the positive results to spread widely covering the whole of Southeast Asia.
The "Thailand Space Supply Chain: A 10 Year Plan to being a fully developed Aerospace Manufacturer press conference held this time has received cooperation from leading organizations such as AIRBUS, a world-class aviation manufacturer, and Dr. Pakorn Apaphant from GISTDA (Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency).
Dr. Pakorn Apaphant had the following to say about the space industry:
"The role of the space industry has changed, originally involving only the governmental sector or Superpower countries. However, with the New Space Economy coming into action, the private sector has a strong hold in this industry. Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency or GISTDA is regarded as the main organization that has contributed towards supporting and pushing the New Space Economy in developing the space industry. As well as pushing for government policies through the National Space Master Plan (2023 - 2037), which presents the guidelines for building the Thailand Space Supply Chain and making it a full-scale space industry."
Building a network in the aerospace industry, or having a Space Supply Chain to be truly complete and comprehensive, takes more than 30-40 years. mu Space is fully committed to create a supply chain in the aerospace industry with support from investors who see opportunities in this industry, such as leading investors, B.Grimm Joint Ventures - Private Electricity Industry of Thailand, as well as Majuven Fund, along with various private investors such as Executives from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Foundation, as well as many other industrial and technology-related investors both domestically and internationally. This allows mu Space to build a Space Supply Chain in the space industry quicker and more efficiently.
Those interested can watch the press conference at:
https://www.facebook.com/muSpaceTech/videos/1272137476855975/
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE mu Space Corp | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/mu-space-reveals-10-year-plan-build-space-supply-chain-thailand-amp-southeast-asia/ | 2022-09-02T15:01:58Z |
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neukio Biotherapeutics, a company committed to developing novel cell therapy products, announces it has closed $50 million in a Series A-1 funding round. The investment round was led by CD Capital, with the participation of Alwin Capital and Surplus Capital as new investors. Existing shareholders Lilly Asia Ventures, Sherpa Healthcare Partners and IDG Capital have continued to support the company with additional funding. G&G Capital served as the exclusive financial adviser. The funds raised will play important roles in accelerating the preclinical and clinical validation of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived off-the-shelf CAR-NK cell therapy products, and supporting team recruitment and expansion.
Neukio, founded at the Simbay Park in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (China) in June 2021, is an innovative biotherapeutic company focusing on the development and commercialization of next generation immune cell therapy. Leveraging its significant experience in the R&D, CMC and commercialization of autologous CAR-T cell therapy, Neukio's management team has established an iPSC-CAR-NK-based pipeline development strategy, aiming to launch allogenic off-the-shelf cell therapy products that can be produced in scale for treating solid tumors. The company focuses on both in-house R&D innovation and global collaboration with leading partners, to provide valuable clinical solutions for cancer patients worldwide. Since its establishment just over one year ago, the company has made remarkable progress in talent recruitment, facility construction, R&D pipeline advancement and quality management system establishment, exceeding all expectations.
Dr. Richard Liqun Wang, founder, chairman and CEO of Neukio and former founding CEO of Fosun Kite Biotechnology Co., Ltd., has successfully brought China's first CAR-T cell therapy product Yescarca (Axicabtagene Ciloleucel) to the market in less than four years, laid foundation for the cell therapy industry in China. To address the challenges in manufacturing, clinical application, and patient access of autologous cell therapy, Dr. Wang and the Neukio team are aiming high to create novel cell therapies for the benefit of cancer patients by exploiting the clonality and unlimited replication capability of iPSCs in conjunction with cutting-edge gene editing technologies.
Dr. Wang commented: "In as little as 10 months since the operation of our new laboratories, not only have we completed several signaling pathway modifications and CAR designs tailored for solid tumors, but also we have made significant progress in the development of innovative manufacturing processes of NK differentiation and expansion. In today's challenging environment of capital market, we are honored to have received recognition from CD Capital, Alwin Capita, Surplus Capital, and previous investors of Sherpa Healthcare Partners, Lilly Asia Ventures and IDG Capital on our R&D strategy, development capabilities and project progress. I am very grateful to all investors and to G&G Capital and Silkroad Law Firm for their support in this round of financing, and we will reward them with rapidly moving forward in the preclinical and clinical validation of our R&D platform and products. The field of cell therapy is rapidly advancing with a promising future and a huge market potential, and iPSC-CAR-NK therapy has the potential to become one of the brightest stars of next generation cell therapy."
"The transition from traditional small molecules and antibodies to the era of cell therapy is a great leap in drug design and manufacturing capabilities of human being," said CD Capital, the leading investor in this round of financing. "With the commercialization of autologous CAR-T cell products, more and more improvement opportunities have emerged and need to be taken urgently. In the field of cell therapy, CD Capital continues to focus on innovations and breakthroughs in allogenic products to conquer solid tumors. Neukio has been deeply committed to iPSC-CAR-NK cell therapy. Within a short time of its establishment, Neukio has built up global leading technology platforms efficiently in both scientific innovation and process development, demonstrating its strong execution capability and efficiency. We hope that the company, under the leadership of Dr. Wang, will adhere to pragmatism, efficiency, and innovation, leading the advancement of the industry, and bringing a new generation of allogenic cell therapy products to the clinical application as soon as possible for the benefit of patients."
About CD Capital
CD Capital is an investment organization focusing on innovative medical technologies and cutting-edge biotechnologies. Run by a professional team with senior medical industry background, it is managing multiple USD and RMB funds. By adhering to the investment philosophy of "focus, excellence, and reputation" and by leveraging its abundant industrial resources and years of in-deep research and cultivation in the medical field, CD Capital is able to get first-hand insight into the latest international scientific and technological trends and seize the investment opportunities brought by technological innovation. CD Capital is committed to identifying top enterprises with leadership potential in the industry, builds an industrial ecosystem and grows together with entrepreneurs through the interconnected and win-win investment methodology and a precise and pragmatic post-investment empowerment system, and creates sustainable and excellent returns for investors.
About Alwin Capital
Focusing on the frontier areas of life sciences, Alwin Capital conducts in-deep research, unifies knowledge and practice, walks in non-consensus areas, and invests objectively and truthfully in real opportunities for medical transformation. With a core team formed by the veterans in both industry and capital market, Alwin Capital believes in the power of research, is committed to long-term investment, steadily builds the enterprise ecology, and strives to obtain systematic excess returns for investors.
About Surplus Capital
Surplus Capital is committed to discovering and supporting medical enterprises that promote the health of all humankind. It focuses on subdivision areas such as innovative drugs and innovative medical devices, and adopts diversified investment strategies to pay attention to all stages of enterprise development, including start-up, growth and maturity. Surplus Capital also cultivates seed-stage project sources, and invests and assists in the incubation of high-quality seed-stage projects to help enterprises create value.
About Lilly Asia Ventures
Founded in 2008, Lilly Asia Ventures (LAV) is a leading venture fund firm focusing on investment in the life sciences and healthcare sectors with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley. LAV is committed to being a trusted partner for exceptional entrepreneurs seeking smart capital, and looks forward to working with top entrepreneurs to build great companies developing breakthrough products that treat diseases and improve human health.
About Sherpa Healthcare Partners
Sherpa Healthcare Partners (Sherpa) is a professional fund firm focusing on early-stage medical and health investment. It adheres to the investment concept of building industry ecology, builds portfolios for rigid unmet medical needs on the basis of in-depth understanding of the treatment of critical diseases, and plans the layout along the industry depth and upstream and downstream. By actively sharing operational experience and forward-looking perspectives of the whole industrial chain with the invested enterprises, the team from Sherpa actively promotes internal and external synergy, helping enterprises achieve rapid growth in both business performance and value and take a leading position in their market segments. It has invested in leading enterprises in such subdivisions as medical services, medicine, genetic technology and medical devices, forming a full range of resource advantages in project sources, post-investment value-added services, exits, etc. From 2011 to 2022, after 4 fund years and more than 100 medical projects, Sherpa has grown up hand in hand with many outstanding entrepreneurs.
About IDG Capital
IDG Capital pioneered the venture capital business in China in 1993. For years, IDG Capital consistently pursues long-term value investment and maintains long-term close relationships with diverse investment partners from around the world. IDG capital has accumulated extensive investment experience in venture capital, private equity and industrial development. It has the following areas of focus, including consumer goods, chain services, Internet and wireless applications, new media, education, health care, new energy, advanced manufacturing, etc. The investment covers companies at all stages of development: start-up, growth, maturity and pre-IPO, with a size of investment ranging from millions to tens of millions of U.S. dollars.
For more information and updates on Neukio Therapeutics, please visit the company's website at www.neukio.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Neukio Biotherapeutics | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/neukio-biotherapeutics-completed-series-a-1-financing-accelerate-discovery-development-next-generation-cell-therapy-products/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:05Z |
TOKYO, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sasakawa Health Foundation has funded the construction of a building in Addis Ababa for the Ethiopian National Association of Persons Affected by Leprosy (ENAPAL).
The building, which ENAPAL plans to use as its headquarters in future, will enable the organization to operate on an independent footing and stand as a symbol of dignity and hope for a long-marginalized community.
The five-story building was erected on land donated by the Ethiopian government, with Sasakawa Health Foundation, a Tokyo-based NGO, covering the cost of construction.
Founded in 1996, ENAPAL is a community-based organization with over 20,000 members dedicated to securing full participation and equal opportunity for persons affected by leprosy in Ethiopia. The country reported over 2,500 new cases of leprosy in 2020 and is designated by the WHO as one of its 23 global priority countries for the disease.
To date, ENAPAL's activities have been supported largely by Sasakawa Health Foundation and other international NGOs working in the leprosy sector. But with the completion of the new building, ENAPAL looks to secure a stable source of income by leasing the premises to an educational institution and operating self-sustainably.
ENAPAL first approached the Ethiopian government around 2011 about the possibility of receiving land for a new headquarters. Six years later, the government transferred a 1,500-square-meter plot to the organization, the first case of its kind in Ethiopia involving a local NGO.
On a visit to Ethiopia in July 2018, Goodwill Ambassador Sasakawa was asked by ENAPAL to support the project. After surveying the plans, Sasakawa Health Foundation agreed in 2019 to underwrite the construction costs.
The day before the ceremony, a symposium on the theme "Don't Forget Leprosy" was held with the participation of government officials, NGOs and other stakeholders involved in the leprosy sector.
"Don't Forget Leprosy" is a campaign launched in 2021 by Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Initiative to ensure that measures against leprosy are not neglected amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Initiative is a strategic alliance between the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, Sasakawa Health Foundation and The Nippon Foundation.
Since 1975, the two foundations have supported the national leprosy programs of endemic countries through the WHO, with funding totaling some US$200 million to date.
About Leprosy
Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is an infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted case-finding activities, over 200,000 new cases were being reported annually. Leprosy is curable with multidrug therapy, but left untreated can result in permanent disability. An estimated 3 to 4 million people are thought to be living with some form of disability as a result of leprosy. Although completely curable, many myths and misunderstandings surround the disease. In various parts of the world, patients, those who have been treated and cured, and even their family members continue to be stigmatized. The discrimination they face limits their opportunities for education, employment and full participation in society.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Sasakawa Health Foundation | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/new-building-stands-symbol-dignity-hope-persons-affected-by-leprosy-ethiopia/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:12Z |
New Season Also Launches a Charity Drive Led By Eternal Return Streamers
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Video game developer Nimble Neuron today announced the launch of Eternal Return's Season 7: Neon Aftershock, bringing the test subjects back with more strength and style than ever! In partnership with Global esports organization Gen.G, they also unveiled plans for an Eternal Return streamer-led charity drive for the community.
Neon Aftershock comes with a new stat upgrade, bringing back test subjects and introducing an "Escape" option, 7 new augments, skill amplification, and a revamped saved plan system. Along with this new in-game content, the Season 7 Pack comes with 2 Epic rarity skins, including an exclusive Overvolt Jackie bundle. This bundle has the Overvolt Jackie skin, tombstone, and emote. Players can now find regeneration cuffs by killing wild animals or inside air supplies. They can use it along a system shutdown code to craft a rootkit. After finding the rootkit, players will also be hyperlooped to the escape area for a chance to escape Lumia Island.
"We are very excited to debut our new 'Escape' feature alongside 7 new Augments with our launch of Eternal Return Season 7. We feel as though these additions will add a level of depth and fun to Eternal Return," said Seunghoo Kim, Executive Producer at Nimble Neuron. "We are also thrilled to continue working with our partners at Gen.G to offer new esports and charity events for our community. We hope that with this new slate of in-game content and events, Eternal Return will shine to its fullest."
Continuing the celebration of Eternal Return Season 7: Neon Aftershock, Eternal Return streamers are invited to participate in the Blossoming Melody Charity Drive. Gen.G and Nimble Neuron will work directly with these streamers to develop various charity initiatives. These charity drives will be designed by streamers in the Eternal Return community, and Gen.G and Nimble Neuron will provide different tiers of event support and donation matching. The Blossoming Melody Charity Drive will culminate in December with a larger charity drive with various Gen.G Eternal Return partners and creators supporting.
After the successful inaugural North America Collegiate Cup hosted earlier in August, Gen.G will continue the series with commitment for a second student-focused esports tournament on October 29th. A third culminating student esports event will occur in December.
"At Gen.G we always value community first and foremost. We look forward to working with the Eternal Return community in bringing their visions to life while supporting various charitable organizations," said Martin Kim, Chief Revenue Officer at Gen.G.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Gen.G | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/nimble-neuron-geng-present-eternal-returns-launch-season-7-neon-aftershock-featuring-new-game-changing-content/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:19Z |
Imaging Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Active Vibration Isolation Add to Park's Nanometrology Business Portfolio
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Park Systems Corp. today announced that it has acquired Accurion GmbH, a privately held company that develops and manufactures imaging spectroscopic ellipsometers and active vibration isolations. This acquisition adds to Park's portfolio of atomic force microscopy and white-light interferometric microscopy. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Goettingen, Germany, Accurion GmbH has pioneered the field of imaging spectroscopic ellipsometry. Originally a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for biophysical chemistry, the company started out designing the Brewster angle microscope for the characterization of ultrathin films. As these microscopes turned out to be sensitive to vibrations, the division of active vibration isolation followed.
Accurion's Imaging Ellipsometers combine the benefits of ellipsometry and optical microscopy in a single device. The unification of the two technologies creates a unique metrology tool that redefines the limits of both ellipsometric measurements and polarization-contrast microscopy. The enhanced spatial resolution of imaging ellipsometers expands ellipsometry into new areas of microanalysis, microelectronics, and bio analytics.
"This is Park's very first business acquisition in the company's history, and we are very excited to add this storied, high-tech company to our business," said Dr. Sang-il Park, CEO of Park Systems. "Accurion's imaging ellipsometers and active vibration isolation will have wide range of product and business synergies with Park's existing line of atomic force microscopy that will benefit our customers and investors alike."
"We are honored to become a part of Park Systems," added Stephan Ferneding, co-founder and CEO of Accurion. "We are excited that Park's expertise and global sales and service reach in automated systems for industrial manufacturing will take the business to the next level. We look back on 30 years of valuable experience enabling technological and scientific progress for customers around the world. We look forward to continuing the success together with a strong partner like Park Systems."
Accurion provides high-end and reliable state-of-the-art technology in two product lines: Imaging Ellipsometry and Active Vibration Isolation. In 2009, Halcyonics GmbH, specialist for active vibration isolation solutions and Nanofilm Technology GmbH, expert for surface analyzing tools merged into Accurion GmbH. Looking back on 30 years of valuable experience enabling technological and scientific progress for customers around the world, Accurion designs and manufactures advanced instrumentation for challenging measurement tasks,
Park Systems is the fastest growing and world-leading manufacturer of atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems, with a complete range of products for researchers and engineers in the chemistry, materials, physics, life sciences, semiconductor and data storage industries. Mission is to enable nanoscale advances for scientists and engineers solving the world's most pressing problems and pushing the boundaries of scientific discoveries and engineering innovations. Customers of Park Systems include most of the world's top 20 largest semiconductor companies and national research universities in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Park Systems is a publicly traded corporation on the Korea Stock Exchange (KOSDAQ) with corporate headquarters in Suwon, Korea, and regional headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Mannheim, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, India, and Mexico City. To learn more about Park Systems, please visit www.parksystems.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Park Systems Corp | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/park-systems-acquires-accurion-gmbh/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:27Z |
READING, Pa., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Penske Truck Leasing announced today it has introduced a new truck maintenance on-site guide, Shipper's Guide to Outsourcing On-Site Fleet Maintenance, which is now available at no cost. The three-part guide provides detailed information on how businesses can implement on-site maintenance to navigate the obstacles of operating a vehicle maintenance facility.
The easy-to-read guide explains how businesses can optimize commercial vehicle maintenance by turning to qualified outside maintenance providers to deliver on-site service. With third-party on-site maintenance, you can reap the benefits of a cost-efficient, in-house maintenance program while turning the risks (e.g., updating software and tooling or hiring and training skilled technicians) over to a strategic partner, like Penske.
As a leader in the transportation industry, Penske offers a proven program of contract maintenance services that can help vehicle maintenance facilities:
- Predict operating costs
- Increase labor productivity
- Optimize vehicle uptime and lifecycle
- Achieve environmental goals
- Outsource financial and compliance risk
From navigating the current technician labor shortages, to managing everchanging regulations and inventories, operating a vehicle maintenance facility can be a lot to handle.
Jim Lager, executive vice president sales and rental, Penske Truck Leasing: "To help businesses navigate these obstacles, this complimentary eBook provides the tools needed to evaluate how an on-site maintenance partner like Penske can effectively manage your fleet life-cycle needs, maintenance requirements and many other aspects of your transportation operation, so you can focus on your core business."
Penske Truck Leasing is a Penske Transportation Solutions company headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania. A leading global transportation services provider, Penske Truck Leasing operates more than 390,000 vehicles in North America. Product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions. Visit www.pensketruckleasing.com to learn more.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Penske Truck Leasing | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/penske-truck-leasing-debuts-truck-maintenance-on-site-guide/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:33Z |
HONG KONG, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Periodic lockdowns sped up the digitalisation of all industries, and the migration into a world of Web 3.0. Major fashion houses and lifestyle brands are diving into the Metaverse with virtual products and collectibles. Hong Kong's leading creative lifestyle destination PMQ is all about translating creativity into business opportunities for highly talented fashion designers in the city, and leading way into the digital fashion arena. Presented by PMQ and with Create Hong Kong of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the Lead Sponsor, FabriX is Hong Kong's pioneering digital fashion initiative to break into this new reality of weaving pixels into fashion – a-first-of-its-kind in facilitating local fashion designers from sketch, design, 3D digital production to listing on global digital fashion marketplaces.
The first-ever FabriX has selected 12 outstanding Hong Kong fashion designers and paired up with local digital elites to produce their first ever digital fashion collection. From now to 11 September, 2022, a 11-day event will be hosted at PMQ, with a Main Showcase, a series of Design Dialogues and Pop-up showcase for the public to learn and experience the infinite possibilities of digital fashion. The 3-day Main Showcase is an interactive, futuristic visual feast filled with fashion, visual art and technology to showcase the unlimited creativity and inspiration story of each fashion creation.
The 12 designers include: Cady Lee of rising star clothing brand CADYLEE; Celine Kwan of womenswear brand CELINE KWAN; Christian Stone of the hard-edged cyberpunk brand CHRISTIAN STONE; Derek Chan of the local gender-neutral clothing brand DEMO; Harrison Wong of menswear brand HARRISON WONG; Judy Wong of jewellery brand Juu Juu; Kay Kwok of clothing brand KAY KWOK, Polly Ho and Andy Wong of LOOM LOOP; Mike Yeung, designer of NILMANCE STUDIO; Shek Leung of menswear brand SHEK LEUNG; Wilson Yip of Wilsonkaki; and Jason Lee of YMDH (You Make Daddy Happy). Their digital fashion collections will be listed and available for purchase on major digital fashion marketplaces and NFT platforms including BlueArk, THE DEMATERIALISED and DRESSX from mid-September onwards.
FabriX is curated by an experienced team including William To, Executive Director of PMQ, Shin Wong, Overseas Creative & Program Consultant, PMQ and FabriX Project Director along with Fashion Curator Declan Chan, bringing a whole new experience of virtual fashion showcase to the public.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE PMQ | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/pmq-hong-kong-presents-fabrix-brand-new-pilot-programme-digital-fashion/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:44Z |
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Price Simms Family Dealerships, one of the largest privately held Automotive Groups in Northern California, has completed the acquisition of Downtown Ford and Harrold Ford from the Victory Automotive Group, adding two stores to their now 28-store lineup.
Price Simms CEO, Adam Simms commented, "The two dealerships are among the largest Ford stores in Sacramento, and we're excited for this new opportunity. The talent at both stores has put us in a position to become stronger and I'm pleased to welcome our new teammates."
Mr. Simms continued, "To grow our business into nearby Sacramento is tremendously exciting for our organization and we look forward to making significant capital improvements and supporting our surrounding neighborhoods. My family used to live here and it's very exciting for me to return and once again contribute to this amazing community."
Price Simms owns and operates a vast portfolio of dealerships throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including several award-winning high-volume Toyota and Ford stores, the first two Polestar dealerships in the US, and various luxury stores including Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, McLaren, Mercedes, and more.
Chairman Tom Price purchased his first Bay Area dealership in 1976 and has been serving our local communities ever since. In 2003, he partnered with automotive tech pioneer, Adam Simms, to create Price Simms Family Dealerships. They now own and operate 28 franchised dealerships across 14 Northern California locations.
Visit us today at: Toyota Sunnyvale • Toyota Marin • Toyota Walnut Creek • Ford Fairfield • Downtown Ford of Sacramento • Lincoln Fairfield • Mercedes-Benz Fairfield • Volvo Marin • Volvo Palo Alto • Polestar Marin • Polestar San Jose • Land Rover Marin • Jaguar Marin • Aston Martin Los Gatos • Aston Martin Walnut Creek • McLaren San Francisco • McLaren Walnut Creek • Bentley Los Gatos • Bentley Walnut Creek • Lamborghini Los Gatos • Lamborghini Walnut Creek • Rolls Royce Los Gatos • Lotus Los Gatos • Pininfarina Los Gatos • Czinger Los Gatos • Maserati Walnut Creek • Sprinter Mercedes Fairfield
Media Contact
Paul Schraeder
+18183265717
paulschraeder@pricesimms.com
View original content:
SOURCE Price Simms Family Dealerships | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/price-simms-family-dealerships-acquire-two-ford-dealerships-sacramento/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:51Z |
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the start of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, Be an Angel e.V. and now its U.S. counterpart Friends of Be an Angel, have been committed to delivering humanitarian aid and evacuating more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians to Germany and other European Union countries.
Founded in 2015 to assist refugees worldwide, Be An Angel, is a donation-funded NGO headquartered in Berlin, Germany and is registered in Moldova. The organization is cooperating with the Moldova-based UNHCR and was commended by Colonel Efros, General Staff of the Moldovan Army and Head of Crisis Management, for having "evacuated the most refugees from southern Ukraine via Moldova."
Be an Angel e.V. and Friends of Be an Angel, together have brought more than 3,500 tons of aid, worth over 32 million Euros to war zones in Ukraine. These donations include medicines, medical equipment, water purification systems, basic foodstuffs as well as seven ambulances and an SUV that were delivered to field hospitals on the front lines. So much so, that the Human Rights Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine has recognized and certified these humanitarian aid activities.
The organization operates exclusively due to the generosity of corporate and individual donations. There are 16,000 families in the Russian-occupied territories that still need our immediate help. Making matters worse, Russian attacks only increase from Odessa to Mykolaiv, with bombing of residential buildings, educational institutions, and even hospitals.
Without organizations like Be an Angel delivering critical, life-saving supplies, innocent civilians (almost all women with children and people with disabilities) cannot survive. Be an Angel must continue evacuating people from Ukraine, but we require your support.
We appreciate your generous consideration to support the NGO to continue saving lives. We guarantee your donation enables us to directly deliver humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people. Upon delivering this aid, we will provide you with detailed impact reports with pictures and videos from each town and region documenting the impact of your generosity, care, and courage in taking a stand for peace and justice.
Be an Angel is represented in the U.S. by Anya Verkhovskaya, Director of the Board of Friends of Be an Angel Inc., a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Verkhovskaya and her team coordinate in-kind and humanitarian aid donations coming from within North America and Europe. To donate please visit www.FriendsofBeAnAngel.org, email helpukraine@friendsofbeanangel.org or call (414) 628-3826.
Press Contact:
Anya Verkhovskaya
(414) 628-3826
View original content:
SOURCE Friends of Be An Angel, Inc. | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/prominent-german-ngo-opens-offices-us-help-ukraine/ | 2022-09-02T15:02:58Z |
--Share Repurchase from ReneSola Singapore
--New Investor Rights Agreement with Shah Capital
--Departure of Two Board Members
STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola" or the "Company") (www.renesolapower.com) (NYSE: SOL), a leading fully integrated solar project developer, today announced that:
- the Company has entered into a securities repurchase agreement with ReneSola Singapore Pte. Ltd. ("ReneSola Singapore"), one of the Company's major shareholders, pursuant to which, among other things, the Company will repurchase from ReneSola Singapore 70,000,000 shares represented by 7,000,000 ADSs at a price of US$0.60 per share (or US$6.00 per ADS), totaling US$42 million through a privately negotiated transaction. ReneSola Singapore will be subject to a 90-day lock-up restriction with respect to its remaining share ownership of the Company and other customary covenants.
- Shah Capital will purchase 10,000,000 shares represented by 1,000,000 ADSs from ReneSola Singapore at a price of US$0.60 per share (or US$6.00 per ADSs).
- affiliates of ReneSola Singapore will resign from their offices as legal representatives, directors, and officers of the Company and its subsidiaries shortly after the closing of the repurchase transaction. Ms. Crystal (Xinhan) Li and Ms. Maggie (Yuanyuan) Ma will resign from the board of directors (the "Board") of the Company immediately upon closing of the repurchase transaction. Ms. Crystal (Xinhan) Li will also resign from her executive role as the vice president of investment of the Company simultaneously.
- in connection with and effective upon the closing of the repurchase transaction, the currently effective investor rights agreement dated as of October 2, 2019 by and among the Company, Mr. Xianshou Li, ReneSola Singapore, Shah Capital Opportunity Fund LP ("Shah Capital") and certain other parties named therein will be terminated. The Company will enter into an amended and restated investor rights agreement separately with Shah Capital. The terms of the amended and restated investor rights agreement are substantially the same as those under the previous investor rights agreement, except that (i) Shah Capital, subject to certain minimum shareholding requirements and a step-down mechanism, is entitled to nominate three (3) designees for election and/or appointment as directors of the Company, and (ii) the board of directors of the Company is entitled to jointly nominate for election and/or appoint one (1) director.
"This transaction is an important step in the multi-year transformation of our Company into a leading solar project developer," said Yumin Liu, ReneSola Power's Chief Executive Officer. "We are especially encouraged that Shah Capital has increased their already large commitment to the Company. We appreciate their support and vote of confidence."
The Board and the audit committee of the Board respectively approved the Company's entry into the securities repurchase agreement and the amended and rested investor rights agreement. Upon resignation of Ms. Crystal (Xinhan) Li and Ms. Maggie (Yuanyuan) Ma, the Board will have two vacancies. The Board appointed ReneSola Power's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Yumin Liu, to fill one of the vacancies. The other vacancy on the Board is pending further review and appointment by the Board.
About ReneSola Power
ReneSola Power (NYSE: SOL) is a leading global solar project developer and operator. The Company focuses on solar power project development, construction management and project financing services. With local professional teams in more than 10 countries around the world, the business is spread across a number of regions where the solar power project markets are growing rapidly and can sustain that growth due to improved clarity around government policies. The Company's strategy is to pursue high-margin project development opportunities in these profitable and growing markets; specifically, in the U.S. and Europe, where the Company has a market-leading position in several geographies, including Poland, Hungary, Minnesota and New York. For more information, please visit www.renesolapower.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Whenever you read a statement that is not simply a statement of historical fact (such as when the Company describes what it "believes," "plans," "expects" or "anticipates" will occur, what "will" or "could" happen, and other similar statements), including those relating to the proposed transactions, you must remember that the Company's expectations may not be correct, even though it believes that they are reasonable. Furthermore, the forward-looking statements are mainly related to the Company's continuing operations and you may not be able to compare such information with the Company's past performance or results. The Company does not guarantee that the forward-looking statements will happen as described or that they will happen at all. Further information regarding risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's annual report on Form 20-F. The Company undertakes no obligation, beyond that required by law, to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is made, even though the Company's situation may change in the future.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE ReneSola Ltd. | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/renesola-announces-repurchase-transaction-with-renesola-singapore-enters-into-new-investor-rights-agreement-with-shah-capital/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:05Z |
RICHMOND, Va. and PETERSBURG, Va., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) today announced that public and private sector stakeholders in the Richmond-Petersburg region, working together as the Alliance for Building Better Medicine, will receive $52,942,702 as a winner of the national Build Back Better Regional Challenge.
As the marquee of the EDA's American Rescue Plan, the Build Back Better Regional Challenge aims to boost economic pandemic recovery and rebuild American communities by strengthening dynamic high-tech regional industry clusters across the country, while embracing economic equity, creating well-paying jobs, meeting priority national interests and enhancing U.S. competitiveness globally. The large federal grant will be matched by $13,339,919 of funding from private and public organizations, for a total investment of $77,792,402.
The Alliance for Building Better Medicine coalition from across the Richmond-Petersburg MSA works to scale up the region's advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D cluster to address the nation's pressing need for quality, affordable essential medicines. The coalition is one of only 21 coalitions to receive funding from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge. Coalition members will leverage the Build Back Better Regional Challenge funding for six construction and programmatic projects.
"The Build Back Better Regional Challenge award is a pivotal win for the region demonstrating what is possible when Central Virginia localities and private and public sector organizations lock arms and work together," said Chandra Briggman, president, and CEO of Activation Capital, an innovation ecosystem development organization that led the formation of the Alliance for Building Better Medicine. "Thanks to these many stakeholders, the Richmond-Petersburg region has shown the nation that it is agile, mission-driven, and ready to scale to meet a timely and urgent need for the country. Funding from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge will help the region create a secure supply of essential medicines for the U.S., re-shore manufacturing by tapping into new technologies, and reduce the cost and increase access to quality medicines for Americans. It will also help to reduce the environmental burden of pharmaceutical manufacturing through the use of green chemistry while creating high-wage jobs in historically underserved communities in our region."
In 2020, through an initiative of VCU's College of Engineering, the coalition of public and private sector partners was formed to design a regional strategy for advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing leveraging existing assets. The coalition reconvened in 2021 to fast-track development of an advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing cluster in central Virginia. The coalition was awarded seed funding from GO Virginia and others totaling $2.5 million. Members of the growing coalition quickly began developing opportunities for the emerging cluster to involve and impact the entire region and its many communities – urban and rural, students, entrepreneurs, small business owners, veterans, and low-income and minority populations disproportionately impacted by economic distress and the COVID-19 pandemic – with the goal of creating high-paying jobs and careers for individuals with a wide range of educational levels and experiences.
In 2021, the coalition won Phase 1 of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge and began to plan in detail the six projects now funded with the support of Activation Capital, City of Petersburg, City of Richmond, Civica Inc., Community College Workforce Alliance, Greater Richmond Partnership, Medicines for All Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, Virginia's Gateway Region, Virginia State University, Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, GENEDGE, Brightpoint Community College, and Reynolds Community College.
"We thank the General Assembly and governor, GO Virginia and VEDP for strong and growing support for this emerging regional cluster. Senators Warner and Kaine and Congressman McEachin provided an enthusiastic voice to EDA in this process as well," said Briggman.
The Alliance members will use the EDA funding opportunity to construct a Development/Scale-up Center to accelerate manufacturing innovation and the commercialization of lab discoveries. This first-of-its-kind facility will spur collaboration, invention, and investment by speeding bench discoveries to commercial scale. Funding will be used to develop new and joint degree and research programs between VCU and Virginia State University and industry as well as manufacturing technician training at Brightpoint Community College and laboratory technician training at Reynolds Community College, coordinated by the Community College Workforce Alliance. In addition, funds will be used to construct an Innovation Center with additional wet lab space in Richmond's VA Bio+Tech Park to help existing organizations in the region grow. Support from the EDA will enable local and regional economic development organizations to accelerate development in the region of the supply chain needed to produce new research, sales, service, and manufacturing facilities, and new jobs in the Richmond-Petersburg region. Finally, EDA funds will also support improvements to water and wastewater infrastructure in Petersburg's Poor Creek service area serving the growing manufacturing facilities there.
"As a deeply connected region, our coalition members will leverage funding by the Build Back Better Challenge to bring about transformational change by implementing a set of complementary projects designed to expand our region's infrastructure, workforce, supply chain, R&D, and innovation capacity," said Briggman. "Every action we take will be grounded in the region and its diverse assets and constituents. Together, we will create great jobs and build resilient and healthy communities while embracing equitable economic growth and enhancing U.S. global competitiveness."
The mission of the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is to lead the federal economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing the nation's regions for growth and success in the worldwide economy. An agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, EDA invests in communities and supports regional collaboration in order to create jobs for U.S. workers, promote American innovation, and accelerate long-term sustainable economic growth. For more information about EDA, visit eda.gov.
Established in 1993, the Virginia Biotechnology Research Partnership Authority (dba Activation Capital) is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its mission is to grow life sciences and other advanced technology innovation by promoting scientific research and economic development that attracts and creates new jobs and companies. With 1.2 million square feet of space developed on over 34 acres, its Virginia Bio+Tech Park is the hub of life science and technology innovations in Central Virginia. Activation Capital also serves as a leading innovation ecosystem development organization providing social, knowledge, and financial capital to clusters, entrepreneur support organizations, and entrepreneurs – accelerating their progress through development and maturation. For more information, visit activation.capital.
Alliance for Building Better Medicine is driven by an immediate and urgent need to create a reliable supply of safe, high-quality, and affordable medicines for all. The Alliance is powered by multi-jurisdictional public and private sector stakeholders in the Richmond-Petersburg region working together to define a new era in R&D, advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing, workforce development, and supply chain development. For more information, visit buildingbettermedicine.com.
View original content:
SOURCE Activation Capital | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/richmond-petersburg-region-is-winner-national-build-back-better-regional-challenge/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:11Z |
A celebration of inclusion and diversity within the interior design community
PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Shade Store, the leader in customer window treatments, has returned as the exclusive window treatment partner to The Kaleidoscope Project, a non-profit 501C3 organization dedicated to providing multi-platform opportunities to designers and artists in the black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) communities. The Shade Store collaborated with participating designers to bring hand-crafted custom window treatments into each of their spaces in the 2022 iteration of The Kaleidoscope Project Showhouse, the full transformation of the 1906 Tyler Street Firehouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
To continue its mission of celebrating diversity in design, The Kaleidoscope Project also has a focus on sustainability, where the four participating designer firms reimagined the old firehouse into a 4-unit residence. Each unit features unique designs that reinvigorate the building while still maintaining its historic integrity. Inspired by the unique array of architectural details, The Shade Store worked directly with each designer to execute their concepts across a variety of spaces with unparalleled attention to detail and premium custom-made window treatments. The reimagined firehouse includes Roman Shades, Roller Shades, Woven Wood Shades, and Drapery in materials from The Shade Store's in-stock collection of 1,300+ styles as well as designer-supplied C.O.M. fabrics.
"We're excited to be working with this extremely talented group of designers," said Ian Gibbs, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Shade Store. "Each designer brought such a unique perspective to the project, and it has been amazing to see, and help execute, what they have come up with for the window treatments. We are proud to be a part of an endeavor that showcases this talent and has such a positive impact on the community."
Participating designers include Everick and Lisa Brown of Everick Brown Interior Design, Denise Gordon, Tanya Lewis and Marilyn W. LaVergne of Austin Gray Design Group, Virginia Toledo of Toledo Geller, and Rasheeda Gray of Gray Space Interiors.
"This has been the most challenging project of my 30-year career, as we started with just a shell of the building," said Amy Lynn Schwartzbard, Founder of the Kaleidoscope Project. "Being a part of this amazing work has made all the sweat and tears worth it. The window treatments are beyond extraordinary, and truly brings the designs to life. This is a proud moment."
For more information about The Kaleidoscope Project, please visit https://www.thekaleidoscopeproject.com.
About The Kaleidoscope Project
Founded in 2020 by designer Amy Lynn Schwartzbard, The Kaleidoscope Project was created to show the true colors of the under-acknowledged talent within the BIPOC creative design industry. The Kaleidoscope Project aims to amplify their voices, to create a more representational view of our design trades and the world in which we live and create. The Kaleidoscope Project aims to foster welcoming and inclusive spaces that reflect a broader design narrative.
The Kaleidoscope Project combines design and opportunity with art, style, culture, sustainability, restoration, and media to engage the interests of a wide range of community groups, consumers, and furnishings industry manufacturers. thekaleidoscopeproject.com
About The Shade Store
The Shade Store is a premium custom window treatment company with a rich heritage in luxury textiles and interior design. Its exclusive collection of more than 1,300 in-stock fabrics and materials provides customers with an unparalleled amount of style and customization options. Every window treatment is proudly handcrafted in the USA, hung and tested for quality assurance and ships free in 10 days or less. With 125+ showrooms nationwide, The Shade Store offers a complete range of in-person and virtual design services for consumers and design-trade clientele, including swatches, complimentary professional window measurements and photo rendering. Additionally, the company is an advocate for environmental sustainability: For every purchase made, the company provides the 'Gift of Shade' by planting a tree in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation. For more information about The Shade Store, please visit http://www.theshadestore.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE The Shade Store | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/shade-store-partners-with-kaleidoscope-project-designer-showhouse-exclusive-window-treatment-partner/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:17Z |
LONDON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stats Perform, the sports tech leader in data and AI, announced today FedEx Ground will be the national sponsor of the weekly FCS College Football National Players and Team of the Week Awards as well as the season-ending Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award.
Stats Perform is a national leader in coverage of the Football Championship Subdivision, home to 130 NCAA Division I institutions, including national champion North Dakota State and leading HBCUs. After each full week of the 2022 college football regular season, Stats Perform's National Offensive, Defensive, Special Teams, Freshman and Team of the Week will be presented by FedEx Ground.
In addition, FedEx Ground will play an integral role with the FCS National Awards banquet and presentation on the eve of the national championship game in Frisco, Texas, as the sponsor of the Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award. Since 2015, the award has been presented to an FCS student-athlete who excels not only on the playing field, but also in the classroom and the community.
Each of the 15 FCS conferences nominate a finalist for the Doris Robinson Award, which is named after the late schoolteacher and wife of legendary Grambling State coach Eddie Robinson. The award aligns with FedEx Ground's mission to attract and recruit talent.
"One of our goals in covering the FCS has been to preserve the incredible history of the subdivision and expand the legacy of those who contributed to it," said Brian Orefice, Stats Perform's vice president of global operations. "Working with FedEx Ground to further recognize Doris and the elite performances of FCS players on and off the gridiron does just that."
The FedEx Ground sponsorship of the FCS weekly awards and Doris Robinson Award will first appear nationally on TheAnalyst.com and its FCS social media channels. The Analyst is the hub for Stats Perform's national coverage of FCS college football.
"We are grateful for the support of FedEx Ground," said Eddie Robinson III, grandson of Eddie and Doris Robinson.
About Stats Perform
Stats Perform is the market leader in sports tech providing the most trusted sports data and the latest advancements in applying AI and machine learning to deliver better predictions for teams, sportsbooks and a more engaging broadcast, media and fan experience. The company collects the most detailed sports data to create new experiences across sports. Leveraging the richest sports database, Stats Perform enhances sports competition and entertainment through machine learning and computer vision to create advanced predictions and analysis – be that for digital and broadcast media with differentiated storytelling, tech companies with reliable and fast data to power their innovations, sportsbooks with in-play betting and integrity services, or teams with first-of-its-kind AI analysis software.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Stats Perform | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/stats-perform-announces-fedex-ground-will-sponsor-weekly-fcs-awards-doris-robinson-scholar-athlete-award/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:24Z |
Recent NAEP Report Highlights Urgency of Effective Instructional Response
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The Education world was stunned by the results of the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showing the largest decline in student reading performance in 30 years. Considered the gold standard in tracking student progress, the NAEP provides solid, standardized data on what many teachers already knew: the pandemic wiped out decades of educational improvement, with the students most at-risk suffering the greatest losses. Against this background, early childhood learning leader, Learning Without Tears, launched Phonics, Reading, and Me™, a breakthrough supplemental phonics program that allows K-3 teachers to identify precise student shortfalls in the literacy skills needed to become proficient and effective readers.
"The NAEP rightfully set off alarm bells across the country," explained Learning Without Tears CEO Terry Nealon. "As a result of the pandemic, student reading performance suffered the largest decline in 30 years. Without mastering foundational literacy skills, student performance can be negatively impacted for years to come. The gap that has always existed between top- and low-performing students has grown starkly larger, putting the most at-risk students in an even worse position. It is imperative that the drop in reading skills be addressed effectively. Phonics is important in the development of foundational reading skills – and now, with Phonics, Reading, and Me, teachers can more easily reach more students with individualized instruction."
Phonics, Reading, and Me comes to market at the right time: when it is most needed, and when it can make the greatest impact in student literacy.
New technology embedded in Phonics, Reading, and Me allows teachers to maximize their most precious resource: time. Through a partnership with SoapBox Labs which was announced earlier this year at ISTELive 22, Phonics, Reading, and Me leverages unique speech recognition technology to provide digital assessments and give educators a more streamlined and clear view of each student's reading progress, making it easier to identify gaps and personalize instruction. This use of technology means teachers can reach more students with a greater focus on individual student progress and personalized instruction.
"Today, teachers have more work to do with more students than ever before. But they also lack the resources and time to allow them to assess, monitor, and individualize reading instruction based on a clear understanding of each student's needs and progress. For the first time, with a single program, teachers can differentiate instruction with tailored recommendations for each individual student, and can assess, track, respond and report student reading progress. With embedded professional learning, teachers can easily implement the program and develop reading fluency for each child."
Informed by the Science of Reading and underpinned by Learning Without Tears' four decades of successful literacy instruction, Phonics, Reading, and Me has equity and access at its core, and the flexibility to provide reading instruction in multiple ways - to a whole class, a small group, or to an individual student. "With full print and digital integration, Phonics, Reading, and Me was designed to be different, to be better than other legacy early literacy programs," explained Learning Without Tears CEO Terry Nealon. "Phonics, Reading, and Me was designed from the ground up to be more easily implemented in the classroom, with imbedded support for educators. Learning Without Tears partners with teachers in their students' success and the improvement of reading scores."
Multicriteria text sets in print and digital formats are intentionally developed both for decoding practice and for strengthening knowledge-building. Ultimately, the pairing of skills and topics give children the tools to transfer their learning and succeed as readers.
By incorporating speech recognition technology from SoapBox Labs into Phonics, Reading, and Me, teachers can now use voice-enabled oral reading assessments to know precisely what instruction and support is needed to ensure the literacy success of each child.
"Differentiated instruction, especially when dealing with early foundational skills like literacy, is absolutely critical for the success of young learners. And after the last two years of lost instructional time, and the results now being reported, there is a deep urgency to help educators do this more easily and quickly," said Andrew Clute, Vice President of Product and Technology at Learning Without Tears. "As a result of SoapBox's extensive research and experience in developing speech recognition specifically for kids, we have a great new tool in our toolbox to help educators differentiate students' learning pathways. Their technological breakthroughs mean we can unlock an instructional pathway that wasn't easily available before, to better serve millions of kids."
Lessons within Phonics, Reading, and Me focus on rich texts that provide decoding and skills practice. All components – student books, lesson cards, digital learning, reading response journals, sound-spelling activities, formative assessment cards - work together to provide ample opportunities for children to read, talk, and write, all vital steps on the path to successful reading. A student's reading success builds by reading more.
"Research has shown that students spend inadequate time actually reading, with support, during the school day – often as little as 10-20 minutes of a 90- to 120-minute literacy block. And the results are, sadly, being felt," continued CEO Nealon. "This exceptional curriculum means that teachers no longer must choose between focusing on skills or fostering the type of curiosity that comes from reading great books. With Phonics, Reading, and Me, students build skills and build knowledge while they contribute their own experiences from diverse cultures. The result is an accelerated personalized learning plan that balances instruction and practice, and – most importantly – provides an unprecedented degree of equity and access for all students."
More information on Phonics, Reading, and Me can be found here on the Company's website.
Learning Without Tears is a leading early education company offering a proven and unique approach to teaching and learning, from crucial readiness skills in Pre-K to foundational writing and typing skills, including handwriting, keyboarding and cursive. The elementary school-level programs benefit all learners with multisensory, developmentally appropriate, proven practices, and are used by millions of students around the world. Learning Without Tears professional development programs deliver early education expertise to thousands of teachers, tutors, and occupational therapists in the US and across the globe.
View original content:
SOURCE Learning Without Tears | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/student-reading-scores-drop-by-largest-margin-30-years-new-breakthrough-k-3-reading-program-phonics-reading-me-can-address-underperformance/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:31Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for AMC, SOFI, FCEL, RIVN, and LULU.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- AMC: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=AMC&prnumber=090220222
- SOFI: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=SOFI&prnumber=090220222
- FCEL: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=FCEL&prnumber=090220222
- RIVN: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=RIVN&prnumber=090220222
- LULU: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=LULU&prnumber=090220222
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/thinking-about-buying-stock-amc-entertainment-sofi-technologies-fuelcell-energy-rivian-automotive-or-lululemon-athletica/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:37Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for BBBY, F, TGT, MRO, and INTC.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- BBBY: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=BBBY&prnumber=090220221
- F: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=F&prnumber=090220221
- TGT: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=TGT&prnumber=090220221
- MRO: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=MRO&prnumber=090220221
- INTC: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=INTC&prnumber=090220221
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/thinking-about-buying-stock-bed-bath-amp-beyond-ford-target-marathon-oil-or-intel-corp/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:44Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for NIO, GE, QCOM, PLUG, and COIN.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- NIO: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=NIO&prnumber=090220223
- GE: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=GE&prnumber=090220223
- QCOM: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=QCOM&prnumber=090220223
- PLUG: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=PLUG&prnumber=090220223
- COIN: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=COIN&prnumber=090220223
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/thinking-about-buying-stock-nio-general-electric-qualcomm-plug-power-or-coinbase-global/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:50Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for BAC, TSLA, DIS, AMD, and WMT.
Click a link below then choose between in-depth options trade idea report or a stock score report.
Options Report – Ideal trade ideas on up to seven different options trading strategies. The report shows all vital aspects of each option trade idea for each stock.
Stock Report - Measures a stock's suitability for investment with a proprietary scoring system combining short and long-term technical factors with Wall Street's opinion including a 12-month price forecast.
- BAC: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=BAC&prnumber=090220225
- TSLA: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=TSLA&prnumber=090220225
- DIS: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=DIS&prnumber=090220225
- AMD: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=AMD&prnumber=090220225
- WMT: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=WMT&prnumber=090220225
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/thinking-about-trading-options-or-stock-bank-america-tesla-walt-disney-advanced-micro-devices-or-walmart/ | 2022-09-02T15:03:57Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CVX, GM, AAPL, HRL, and MSTR.
Click a link below then choose between in-depth options trade idea report or a stock score report.
Options Report – Ideal trade ideas on up to seven different options trading strategies. The report shows all vital aspects of each option trade idea for each stock.
Stock Report - Measures a stock's suitability for investment with a proprietary scoring system combining short and long-term technical factors with Wall Street's opinion including a 12-month price forecast.
- CVX: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=CVX&prnumber=090220226
- GM: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=GM&prnumber=090220226
- AAPL: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=AAPL&prnumber=090220226
- HRL: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=HRL&prnumber=090220226
- MSTR: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=MSTR&prnumber=090220226
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/thinking-about-trading-options-or-stock-chevron-general-motors-apple-hormel-foods-or-microstrategy/ | 2022-09-02T15:04:03Z |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for XOM, MSFT, NVDA, CPB, and GME.
Click a link below then choose between in-depth options trade idea report or a stock score report.
Options Report – Ideal trade ideas on up to seven different options trading strategies. The report shows all vital aspects of each option trade idea for each stock.
Stock Report - Measures a stock's suitability for investment with a proprietary scoring system combining short and long-term technical factors with Wall Street's opinion including a 12-month price forecast.
- XOM: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=XOM&prnumber=090220224
- MSFT: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=MSFT&prnumber=090220224
- NVDA: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=NVDA&prnumber=090220224
- CPB: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=CPB&prnumber=090220224
- GME: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-options-lp-2/?symbol=GME&prnumber=090220224
(Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InvestorsObserver | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/thinking-about-trading-options-or-stock-exxon-mobil-microsoft-nvidia-campbell-soup-or-gamestop/ | 2022-09-02T15:04:10Z |
LONDON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At this year's FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN DUTCH GRAND PRIX 2022, VELO in partnership with The McLaren F1 Team, are shining a spotlight on motorsport fans with the launch of a bespoke love-inspiring branding design on The McLaren F1 Team's car. Diving deeper into the unexpected world of fans, this exciting reveal sparks the beginning of a new and inspiring content series by VELO and The McLaren F1 Team, where they uncover the unique stories of The McLaren F1 Team fans and their unwavering love of motorsport.
The fan-focused design will feature the word 'LOVE' on both sidepods made up of names and messages from fans of The McLaren F1 Team around the world, placing them at the heart of elite motorsport – on the car as it races around the track. Driven by racing legends Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris, the bespoke 'LOVE' lettering will debut in a country known for its culture of love – The Netherlands – at the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN DUTCH GRAND PRIX 2022, where the host country's orange 'fan-army' meet McLaren's papaya 'fan-army' for a brightly-coloured race weekend.
Selected through a global competition which pulled in 2,700 entries, the 'LOVE' lettering includes the names and messages of 95 fans from multiple countries, ethnicities, and backgrounds, highlighting the growing diversity of motorsport fans. Messages from the fans include "Viva La Papaya" from Andrew. The launch is part of VELO's new campaign, LOVE THE UNEXPECTED, which is all about celebrating motorsport fans and their unexpected stories. Tapping into the constantly changing face of motorsport fandom, VELO and The McLaren F1 Team are championing the love and passion fans have for the sport on a global scale. The series will uncover the untold tales of fans of The McLaren F1 Team and their exciting stories, delighting them with new ways to experience the sport.
John Beasley, Group Head of Brand Building, BAT, comments: "We wanted to do something different and unexpected that celebrated our love for the fans whose passion and energy fuels the sport. With the support of our partnership with The McLaren F1 Team, we've offered fans a unique opportunity to see their name race around the track in front of the global motorsport fanbase. This is just one example of VELO's passion to deliver unexpected experiences for fans, and we want to continue to celebrate those that make the sport what it is today. By uncovering their passion and drive for motorsports and the ways in which they celebrate it, our fan-focused videos showcase the exceptional world of motorsport fans and their captivating stories of love for the sport."
Lou McEwen, Executive Director, Brand & Creative, The McLaren F1 Team, comments: "Fans are at the heart of every sport, but motorsport fandom is like no other. Through the partnership with VELO, we have placed fans firmly on the focal point of motorsport, the car, and have championed their captivating stories with our fan-focused videos. The bespoke 'LOVE' lettering is the first time that fans and their messages have been featured on the car and we are proud to celebrate some of McLaren's greatest supporters."
Launching from 22nd September, VELO and The McLaren F1 Team's Love the Unexpected content series will begin to release the fan stories – from the weird to the wonderful – highlighting the love these fans have for the sport that is driving the new face of elite motorsport culture. The fans include:
- MATTHEW POAT – Minutes away from the Silverstone Circuit, Matthew Poat aka Racing Chocs, creates bespoke motorsport-themed chocolates. Matthew has combined his love of motorsport and The McLaren F1 Team with his passion for chocolate, creating a bespoke career as a chocolate engineer. VELO and Matthew will dive into the delicious world of chocolate, uncovering Matthew's creative flair and talent for creating racing-themed sweet treats inspired by The McLaren F1 Team
- ALEX CREES – Having lived in Indonesia for 10 years everything revolves around Alex's crazy adventurous lifestyle. From watching at the Spanish GP on board a boat under the stars at 3am in Alor, East Indonesia - to watching the Monaco GP from Komodo whilst hiking a mountain, nothing stops Alex from watching his passion and supporting The McLaren F1 Team. VELO and Alex will reveal the extreme lengths he'll go to, to get his motorsport fix and some of the weirdest places he's cheered on The McLaren F1 Team – from shark-infested waters to the edge of a volcano
To discover more about the fan stories head over to the Instagram pages of VELO and The McLaren F1 Team.
Notes to Editors:
About BAT
BAT is a leading, multi-category consumer goods business with a purpose to build A Better Tomorrow™ by reducing the health impact of its business through offering a greater choice of enjoyable and less risky products for adult consumers.
The company continues to be clear that combustible cigarettes pose serious health risks, and the only way to avoid these risks is not to start or to quit. BAT encourages those who would otherwise continue to smoke to switch completely to scientifically-substantiated, reduced-risk alternatives*†. In order to deliver this, BAT is transforming into a truly consumer-centric multi-category consumer products business.
BAT's ambition is to have 50 million consumers of its non-combustible products by 2030 and to generate £5billion of New Categories revenue by 2025. BAT has set stretching ESG targets including achieving carbon neutrality for Scopes 1 & 2 by 2030 and eliminating unnecessary single-use plastic and making all plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
BAT employs over 52,000 people and operates in over 175 countries. The BAT Group generated revenue of £12.87 billion in the first half of 2022 and profit from operations of £3.68 billion.
The company's Strategic Portfolio is made up of its global cigarette brands and a growing range of reduced-risk*† New Category tobacco and nicotine products and traditional non-combustible tobacco products. These include vapour, tobacco heating products, modern oral products including tobacco-free nicotine pouches, as well as traditional oral products such as snus and moist snuff. In the first half of 2022, we had 20.4 million consumers of our non-combustible products, a rise of 2.1 million on full year 2021.
*Based on the weight of evidence and assuming a complete switch from cigarette smoking. These products are not risk free and are addictive.
† Our products as sold in the US, including Vuse, Velo, Grizzly, Kodiak, and Camel Snus, are subject to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation and no reduced-risk claims will be made as to these products without FDA clearance.
About McLaren Racing
McLaren Racing was founded by New Zealand racing driver Bruce McLaren in 1963. The team entered its first Formula 1 race in 1966, since then McLaren has won 20 Formula 1 world championships, more than 180 Formula 1 grands prix, the Indianapolis 500 three times, and the Le Mans 24 Hours at its first attempt.
The team competes in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo, the NTT INDYCAR Series with Arrow McLaren SP drivers Pato O'Ward and Felix Rosenqvist, and the Extreme E Championship with Emma Gilmour and Tanner Foust. McLaren will compete in Season Nine of the FIA Formula E World Championship in 2022/23.
McLaren was the first F1 team to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard in 2010 and has retained it since on a bi-annual basis, most recently in February 2021. The team was also the first in F1 to be given the FIA Sustainability Accreditation Award at a three-star level in 2013 as part of the FIA Environmental Certification framework, before becoming a signatory to the UN Sports for Climate Action Commitment in 2021.
Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1890780/VELO.jpg
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE VELO | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/total-fandemonium-velo-shares-love-mclaren-formula-1-team-fans-on-off-track/ | 2022-09-02T15:04:17Z |
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TÜV Rheinland Greater China (TÜV Rheinland), an internationally renowned independent third-party testing, inspection, and certification organization, remotely signed a MoU with Kingfa Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd (Kingfa), a prominent global supplier of advanced materials, on August 29. Both sides have agreed to establish a joint working group on integrated solutions for sustainable development ("working group" for short) and have arrived at a consensus on the contents and the mechanism of cooperation. Participants of the signing ceremony were Dai Fuqian, Senior Vice President of Kingfa Group, Nie Delin, General Manager of Kingfa Science & Technology (USA), Dr. Wang Zelong, Director of Toy Industry of Kingfa Group and Fang Weimin, Vice President of TÜV Rheinland Greater China Systems.
According to the MoU, the two parties will establish a comprehensive solution platform for low-carbon services by leveraging the expertise, advanced certification service capabilities, and industry-leading green low-carbon material solutions of both sides. The goal of this initiative is to provide customized services to boost low-carbon transition in the toy industry, and make a contribution to decarbonization and carbon neutrality endeavors, which can continuously promote the sustainable development of the whole industry.
In his speech, Fang Weimin stated that "As a world-leading inspection, testing and certification company with a time-honored history of 150 years, TÜV Rheinland pays close attention to innovation and technology while striving to build a sustainable future, which is in line with Kingfa's philosophy. Since its inception 28 years ago, Kingfa has dedicated itself to promoting sustainable development through constant innovative low-carbon and environmentally friendly material solutions, with an aim to expand its global footprint. Both of us are perfectly in harmony in terms of the development concept." It is expected that the two sides will continue to have a deeper cooperation in the future, applying innovative product and technology to respond to the environmental and ecological problems, and jointly promote the development of a green, low-carbon and circular economy
TÜV Rheinland will join hands with Kingfa by fully leveraging the advantages of each side. Combined with the application status of advanced materials in various industries and the requirements of product ecological design under sustainable development, the two parties will deepen cooperation in the areas of environmental protection, health and safety, circular economy and carbon neutrality goal realization. By setting up the "working group", the two parties will regularly hold technical communications and interactions on the topics of domestic and overseas regulations and new technical development trends, industrial practices on sustainable development, design concepts for green and low-carbon products, as well as operational management methods. The collaboration will start in the toy industry, and then extend to other industries. Based on the top-level design logic of sustainable development, the two sides will strive to build a green supply chain, optimize an enterprise's operation and its strategic layout of sustainable development. In addition, for the jointly developed market, TÜV Rheinland will cooperate with Kingfa to provide customers with a one-stop sustainable development related comprehensive solutions.
TÜV Rheinland has a long cooperation history with Kingfa. In 2021, TÜV Rheinland issued its first Ocean Bound Plastic Certification to Kingfa, which is a milestone in the Kingfa's sustainable development voyage. Regarding the sustainable development business, TÜV Rheinland will walk with Kingfa together. The establishment of the joint working group will provide a platform for a deeper and broader cooperation between two sides, and have a far-reaching significance for enterprise customers in various industries to achieve the goal of low-carbon transformation.
With the continuous development of the green and circular economy, the importance of environment-friendly, renewable materials becomes more obvious. TÜV Rheinland, with its experience and expertise in the certification sector, is moving forward to support more companies to realize sustainable development.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE TUV Rheinland Greater China | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/tv-rheinland-signs-mou-with-kingfa-establishing-joint-working-group-sustainable-development/ | 2022-09-02T15:04:24Z |
BEIJING, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China.org.cn on a Chinese rural basketball event gone viral online:
This summer, a basketball event went viral online in China.
But you'd be mistaken if you thought the games featured famous international players. In fact, the matches were played between villagers in China's southwestern Guizhou province. The games were so popular that Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian and Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang both tweeted about it. Even Chinese basketball legend Yao Ming said he hoped to visit, but was worried he "wouldn't be able to get a ticket."
What a spectacle! Isn't the atmosphere just as electric as a professional basketball game? Chinese netizens gave this rural basketball event a catchy name: the VBA, or "Village Basketball Association."
The VBA games were held in Taipan village, Guizhou's Taijiang county, where people of the Miao ethnic group live. Starting on the sixth day of the sixth month in the lunar calendar each year, locals celebrate the traditional Chixin Festival through a variety of activities, the liveliest of which is a basketball competition.
Players from local villages and towns played their hearts out on the court, with cheers from the packed audience resounding through the skies. Even more impressive were the distinctive Miao ethnic customs on show. For example, the commentator switched between Mandarin, Guizhou dialect and the Miao language; Miao-style singing and dancing performances were staged during the intermissions; and special local agricultural products were handed out as the competition prizes.
The basketball event epitomizes China's beautiful countryside with traditional Chinese culture as the defining feature.
It's said that the tradition of playing basketball matches on Chixin Festival here dates back almost 100 years. Recent years have seen improved facilities and a growing number of participants. The basketball court in Taipan village that we just saw was newly built in 2016. All levels of government in Guizhou will continue to renovate and expand the important venue. In the future, the new court will see larger seating capacity and even better supporting facilities.
In fact, such measures and actions have become quite common over the past decade. Since 2012, China has been continuously improving the cultural infrastructure network in rural areas, increasing the supply of public cultural services, and giving greater priority to rural cultural development.
In addition to the Chixin Festival basketball games, the custom of "catching the first duck," which has been observed for hundreds of years in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has now become a distinctive folk cultural sports event attracting winter swimmers from all over the country. Chishui village in Guangdong's Foshan city is well-known for its folk customs of "fire jumping" and lion dancing on the Spring Festival. In recent years, the village has renovated practice areas and organized livestreams of the events, boosting participation in the customs and their influence.
Both the carrying forward and development of rural cultural traditions and the emergence of new cultural events with ethnic features reflect how China is promoting rural revitalization and improving rural public cultural services, and record the ever-improving lives of rural residents.
What does the future hold for the VBA? The villagers of Taipan all believe that the games will be "bigger and better" in coming years. That certainly seems likely.
China Mosaic
http://www.china.org.cn/video/node_7230027.htm
VBA: Epitome of China's beautiful countryside
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2022-09/02/content_78401619.htm
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE China.org.cn | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/vba-epitome-chinas-beautiful-countryside/ | 2022-09-02T15:04:31Z |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viking Mergers and Acquisitions celebrates the successful acquisition of Catawba Industrial Rubber Co. Inc. and Coastal Hose and Rubber Inc. by SBP Holdings.
Catawba and Coastal are value-added distributors of hoses, couplings, conveyor belting, gaskets, and related MRO products in the Charlotte, N.C., and Wilmington, N.C., markets, respectively. They have served a diverse range of industries, including agriculture, construction, government, and transportation for over 50 years.
Business owner Marvin "Skip" Bruce, Jr., who purchased the businesses in 1999, was represented by Viking Mergers & Acquisitions, led by Mike Donahue and Merrell Stout. Skip reflected, "It was important that Pam and I be able to step away from the business now so that we can truly enjoy our retirement years. We are confident that our customers, employees, and vendors are in good hands with the SBP team, and we could not have managed through the process without the professionalism and expertise of Mike and Merrell. Our expectations were far exceeded thanks to them." Regarding the acquisition's success, Partner Mike Donahue commented, "The SBP team was great to work with and understands how to relate well to closely-held business owners; that, combined with the thorough effort by Skip and his wife, Pam, resulted in an outstanding outcome for all parties."
Viking provides exit strategies and M&A services to lower middle-market business owners. In business since 1996, many of Viking's brokers are themselves, former business owners. Viking has an 85% close rate, representing over 800 successful transactions across the Southeast U.S.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Viking Mergers & Acquisitions | https://www.whsv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/viking-represents-catawba-industrial-rubber-coastal-hose-rubber-their-sale-sbp-holdings/ | 2022-09-02T15:04:37Z |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.