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New agreement expands access to precision radiotherapy to more cancer patients in the UK
DENVER, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY) announced today that GenesisCare, the largest global provider of cancer services across the USA, UK, Spain and Australia, has purchased two additional MRIdian MRI-guided radiation therapy systems for installation at new-build comprehensive cancer centres in Guildford and Birmingham. These latest acquisitions will double the UK footprint to four systems, which currently includes those in Oxford and London, and will bring the total number of systems in the GenesisCare global network to six, including systems in the USA and Spain, within the next two years.
"We are passionate about partnering with companies who are driving innovation and challenging the status quo and are excited to add two further MRIdian systems to our network. This will allow us to provide even greater access to ultra-precise MRI-guided stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) across the United Kingdom," said Paul Gearing, Senior Vice President of Physician Services & Development at GenesisCare. "MR-guided adaptive SABR will be a key pillar of cancer care over the next decade and beyond, and we are proud to provide cancer patients with access to the most comprehensive and advanced treatment possible, wherever they live."
GenesisCare has more than 440 centers offering the latest treatments and technologies that have been proven to help patients achieve the best possible outcomes. For radiation therapy, that includes over 130 centers in the United States as well as 14 centers in the UK, 17 in Spain, and 40 in Australia. Every year the GenesisCare team sees more than 400,000 people globally.
"We are pleased to continue our partnership with GenesisCare, as well as taking part in honoring their commitment to challenging the status quo through the value of MRIdian SMART to patients in the UK, Spain and the USA," said Scott Drake, President and CEO of ViewRay.
The MRIdian system provides oncologists with outstanding anatomical visualization through diagnostic-quality MR images and the ability to adapt a radiation therapy plan to the targeted cancer with the patient on the table. This combination allows physicians to define tight treatment margins to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure of vulnerable organs-at-risk and healthy tissue and allows the delivery of ablative radiation doses in five or fewer treatment sessions, without relying on implanted markers. By providing real-time continuous tracking of the target and organs-at-risk, MRIdian enables automatic gating of the radiation beam if the target moves outside the user-defined margins. This allows for delivery of the prescribed dose to the target, while sparing surrounding healthy tissue and critical structures, which results in minimizing toxicities typically associated with conventional radiation therapy.
To date, nearly 25,000 patients have been treated with MRIdian. Currently, 53 MRIdian systems are installed at hospitals around the world where they are used to treat a wide variety of solid tumors and are the focus of numerous ongoing research efforts. MRIdian has been the subject of hundreds of peer-reviewed publications, scientific meeting abstracts, and presentations. For a list of treatment centers, please visit: https://viewray.com/find-mridian-mri-guided-radiation-therapy/
The opinions and clinical experiences discussed herein are specific to the featured physicians and are for information purposes only. Nothing in this material is intended to provide specific medical advice or to take the place of written law or regulations. Results of treatment presented in this press release are not indicative of typical or future results.
The MRIdian Linac System is not appropriate for all patients, including those who are not candidates for magnetic resonance imaging. Radiation treatments may cause side effects that can vary depending on the part of the body being treated. The most frequent ones are typically temporary and may include, but are not limited to, irritation to the respiratory, digestive, urinary or reproductive systems; fatigue; nausea; skin irritation; and hair loss. In some patients, side effects can be severe. Treatment sessions may vary in complexity and duration. Radiation treatment is not appropriate for all cancers. You should discuss the potential for side effects and their severity as well as the benefits of radiation and magnetic resonance imaging with your doctor to make sure radiation treatment is right for you.
ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY) designs, manufactures, and markets the MRIdian® MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System. MRIdian is built upon a proprietary high-definition MR imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges and clinical workflow for advanced radiation oncology. Unlike MR systems used in diagnostic radiology, MRIdian's high-definition MR was purpose-built to address specific challenges, including beam distortion, skin toxicity, and other concerns that potentially may arise when high magnetic fields interact with radiation beams. ViewRay and MRIdian are registered trademarks of ViewRay, Inc.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, ViewRay's financial guidance for the full year 2022, anticipated future orders, anticipated future operating and financial performance, treatment results, therapy adoption, innovation, and the performance of the MRIdian systems. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the ability to commercialize the MRIdian Linac System, demand for ViewRay's products, the ability to convert backlog into revenue, the timing of delivery of ViewRay's products, the timing, length, and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its impacts across our businesses on demand, our operations and global supply chains, disruptions in the supply or changes in costs of raw materials, labor, product components or transportation services as a result of inflation, the results and other uncertainties associated with clinical trials, the ability to raise the additional funding needed to continue to pursue ViewRay's business and product development plans, the inherent uncertainties associated with developing new products or technologies, competition in the industry in which ViewRay operates, and overall market conditions. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to ViewRay's business in general, see ViewRay's current and future reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as updated periodically with the Company's other filings with the SEC. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and ViewRay assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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CALGARY, AB, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Great Canadian Heli-Skiing is one of the leading boutique heli-skiing operators in Canada, with exclusive tenure on British Columbia's "powder highway" in the desirable Selkirk and Purcell mountains. Built on the foundation of a highly curated and tailored heli-skiing experience, discerning guests from around the world enjoy the endless vertical adventures offered in one of Canada's snowiest destinations. Heather Mountain Lodge is strategically situated along the Trans Canada Highway near the East Gate of Glacier National Park and provides a complementary operating base for heli-skiing, alongside luxurious accommodations and amenities.
With an operating legacy and impeccable safety record spanning 34 years, the Porter family has grown the business to be among the leaders in the boutique heli-skiing market, dedicating themselves to delivering "Best Day Ever" adventures to small groups with personalized service and care. With an increasing demand for heli-skiing adventures, the Porter family is exploring potential growth opportunities. The Porter family has exclusively retained CBRE Limited to explore strategic financing and partnership options for the future expansion and growth opportunities of its business. "We are confident that CBRE's Alternative Assets Group understands the unique considerations of our prestigious adventure tourism business and complementary off-the-grid lodge, with the experienced team to deliver the right solution for our needs moving forward." – Greg Porter, owner of Great Canadian Heli-Skiing and Heather Mountain Lodge.
"The pandemic has further emboldened the demand and overall excitement to discover remote and unique destinations, driving strong growth in heli-skiing adventures and leisure demand for off-the-grid destinations. CBRE is excited to be aligned with the Porter family, to bring capital forward that will continue to build on the legacy established by Maaike & Greg for over 20 years."
– Mark Sparrow, Executive Vice President and Head of CBRE's Alternative Assets Group.
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- The company is already the largest coffee producer in Colombia. The company has the goal of becoming the world's largest producer of arabica coffee, and is dedicated to environmental, social and economic sustainability.
- New round consists of $25 million in equity investment and $75 million in debt funding.
- Proceeds from the Series C funding round will be deployed towards additional farm acquisitions, farm development and infrastructure, U.S. coffee roasting operations and alcohol distillation of coffee byproducts.
MEDELLÍN, Colombia, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Green Coffee Company, a Legacy Group portfolio company and Colombia's largest coffee producer, today announced the launch of its $100 million Series C funding round. The round consists of a proposed $25 million in equity financing and $75 million in debt funding.
Equity funding to date exceeds $35.0 million from more than 275 high-net-worth investors. Founded in 2017, the U.S.-headquartered coffee company currently boasts 27 farms spanning 6,652 acres in total landholdings and roughly 7.7 million coffee trees. The company is on track for $13.4 million in 2022 sales (a 10x increase from 2021) and approximately $1.95 million in 2022 EBITDA, with plans to scale revenue and profitability substantially in the coming years.
The fresh capital will enable the company to drive forward a new way of doing business that transforms the manner in which coffee is produced, processed and monetized in Colombia. The new investment is expected to provide the Green Coffee Company with the capital needed to further expand its Colombian operations, accelerate its U.S.-based coffee roasting operations and enable the company to launch its own lines of liquors and spirits distilled from coffee cherries and other coffee by-products.
"This funding round will push us further towards our goal of becoming the world's largest arabica-coffee producer," said Cole Shephard, Green Coffee Company Founder and partner at Legacy Group, the company's asset manager. "Through the buildout of our roasting facility and the monetization of coffee byproducts, we will be able to fully vertically-integrate additional lines of business from roasted coffee to business-to-consumer alcohol products. We already have the most sophisticated coffee processing facilities in Colombia, and, we believe, globally. We intend on continuing to be leaders of innovation in the coffee industry in Colombia and throughout the world."
The Green Coffee Company has committed to six of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals as central tenets of its business: gender equality, clean water, decent work, responsible consumption, climate action and life on land.
Examples include:
- Working with the local organization, Madres Solteras, Cabezas de Hogar — Single Mothers, Heads of Household. The company has created more than 20 jobs for women of this group and placed them in leadership positions of the company's vast coffee nursery operations;
- Investment in formal employment for 100% of company employees, never-before-seen in the Colombian coffee industry. Currently, more than 50% of GCC employees have a pension plan and health care coverage, while more than 95% of GCC employees have access to formal banking. The sector averages for each of those categories in Colombia, on the other hand, respectively, are 1%, 3% and 41%;
- Receiving recognition in December by the International Labor Organization for creating a safe and healthy work environment for all of its employees;
- Purchasing smaller farmers' coffee cherry production at convenient buying points at-market or above-market prices, along with technical and financial support, to increase their income; and
- Having planted more than 300,000 coffee trees on former pasture land.
Integrating environmental, social and economic sustainability is at the core of all of the Green Coffee Company's operations. The company prides itself on having obtained the sustainable-agriculture certification of the Rainforest Alliance and for adhering to the Coffee And Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices standard, a program developed by Starbucks, Conservation International and SCS Global Services.
In July, the company was recognized by the president of Colombia's Congress and Colombia's minister of agriculture for its advances in agriculture. GCC's CEO, Boris Wullner, accepted the award for "Best Technological Innovation" in agriculture. Additionally, the company has become a national leader by practicing digital agronomy, using mobile technology to monitor farm conditions and trends, so farming decisions may be made based on the best data available.
The $25.0 million equity offering will be open to accredited individual investors, institutional investors and coffee-industry participants at $100,000 minimum investments, with substantial multiples on investment projected through a company sale or U.S. IPO. The company also welcomes those institutions interested in the $75.0 million debt portion of the funding round.
If you would like to participate in GCC's Series C funding round, please contact Legacy Group, the company's asset manager, at investor.relations@legacy-group.co. Please visit its website for more information, and to be added to Legacy Group's mailing list.
To learn more about Green Coffee Company, go to https://gcc-coffee.com/.
About Green Coffee Company
The Green Coffee Company is a consolidated coffee farming operation headquartered in the U.S. with operations based in Medellín, Colombia. The company's innovative business model allows for complete control of the supply chain: from cultivation through processing to direct trade with end-clients. GCC's holistic approach to the coffee sector and commitment to best environmental practices not only establishes the long-term profitability and sustainability of the business, but also improves the quality of the coffee produced on the farms.
Follow Legacy Group on Linkedin for news related to the Green Coffee Company and other alternative investment opportunities at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/legacygroup/.
Note on Forward-looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Readers of this document should understand that these statements are not guarantees of performance or results. Many factors could affect actual results and cause them to vary materially from the expectations contained in the forward-looking statements, including those set forth in this document. We caution readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements included in this document, which speak only as of the date of this document. We undertake no responsibility to update these statements, except as required by law.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. ("Kiromic" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: KRBP) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Kiromic investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
KRBP investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Kiromic during the relevant time frame, you have until October 4, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Kohl's Corporation ("Kohl's" or the "Company") (NYSE: KSS) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Kohl's investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between October 20, 2020 and May 19, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
KSS investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Kohl's new strategic framework to "drive top-line growth," "expand operating margin," and become "the most trusted retailer of choice for the active and casual lifestyle" (the "Strategic Plan") was not well tailored to achieving the Company's stated goals; (ii) the defendants had likewise overstated the Company's success in executing its Strategic Plan; (iii) Kohl's had deficient disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting, and corporate governance mechanisms; (iv) as a result, the Company's board of directors was able to and did withhold material information from shareholders about the state of Kohl's in the lead-up to the Company's annual meeting; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Kohl's financial condition and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Kohl's during the relevant time frame, you have until November 1, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
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jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
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BEIJING, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kuke Music Holding Limited ("Kuke" or the "Group") (NYSE: KUKE), a leading classical music service platform in China, announced that the company will livestream the Semi-Final, Final I and the Gala Final of the 10th Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition through September 20 to 25, 2022.
The livestream and replay can be found through two portals: Kuke's video account on Weixin's mobile portal: Kuke Music, or Kuke's website on PC portal: https://www.kuke.com/vienna/all.
The Kreisler Competition is the most prestigious classical music competition in Austria. Over 200 musicians from all over the world applied for the competition, and 46 of them made it to the final rounds. Six remaining participants will compete in the Final I on September 23, and three of them will compete in the Gala Final on September 25.
According to Michael Frischenschlager, President of the Fritz Kreisler Society, the quality of this year's anniversary edition has increased enormously compared to the last editions. The participants stand out for their highly virtuoso playing and outstanding technique.
As an active promoter of classical music, Kuke sponsored the 9th and 10th Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition, the 16th International Beethoven Piano Competition, and the 120th Anniversary celebrations of Deutsche Grammophon concert.
About Kuke Music Holding Limited
Kuke is a leading classical music service platform in China encompassing the entire value chain from content provision to music learning services. By collaborating with its strategic global business partner Naxos, the largest independent classical music content provider in the world, the foundation of Kuke's extensive classical music content library is its unparalleled access to more than 900 top-tier labels and record companies. Leveraging its market leadership in international copyrighted classical music content, Kuke provides highly scalable classical music licensing services to various online music platforms, and classical music subscription services to over 800 universities, libraries and other institutions across China. In addition, it has hosted Beijing Music Festival ("BMF"), the most renowned music festival in China, for 24 consecutive years. Through KUKEY, the Company's proprietary AI music learning system, Kuke aims to democratize music learning via technological innovation, bring fascinating music content and professional music techniques to more students, and continuously improve the efficiency and penetration of music learning in China.
For more information about Kuke, please visit https://ir.kuke.com/
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With seven locations in NYC, Life Time dramatically changing health and wellness landscape with unparalleled places, performers and programs, ultimate boutique experiences for all ages
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Time (NYSE: LTH), the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brand, today announced the opening of Life Time One Wall Street, the first of three athletic club destinations planned to open in New York City by the end of 2022. Located in the iconic One Wall Street Development in the Financial District, the 74,000-square-foot destination covers four floors and features something for everyone from 90 days old to 90 years old.
The opening brings Life Time's owned and operated athletic country clubs to more than 160 in the United States and Canada. The additions of Life Time One Wall Street and the forthcoming Life Time DUMBO, Life Time Midtown, Life Time Brooklyn Tower and Life Time Park Avenue locations demonstrate the Company's focus on growth in New York City in high-profile developments and neighborhoods.
Life Time One Wall Street was designed with healthy living top-of-mind for the entire family and is the first Life Time in the City to offer Life Time Kids Academy, with nearly 10,000-square-feet of space focused on all things kids. Kids can spend up to 2.5 hours daily in the academy with yoga and fitness studios for their own classes, a kids-size basketball court, spaces for arts, crafts, music and more, along with a variety of events for families. This addition in the Financial District is a unique offering for those aiming to pursue healthy way of life for themselves and their families.
"We could not be more excited to expand our Life Time presence in New York City at a time when our personal health has never been more important, and strong communities are so needed," said Jeff Zwiefel, Life Time President and Chief Operating Officer. "Our Life Time One Wall Street destination adds a stunning element to our portfolio in the City and is illustrative of how we'll continue growing here and beyond."
Designed by Life Time's Architecture and Design group, the club magnificently captures the history of One Wall Street and the former Irving Trust Bank and Bank of New York. The development carefully preserved the building's history, including multiple bank vaults, which serve as focal points throughout the club's lower levels as entrances to yoga studios, recovery spaces, training areas and more. Additional highlights at Life Time One Wall Street include:
- Ultimate boutique destination with seven dedicated studios for more than 100 large group classes weekly, including barre, cardio and strength, indoor cycling, Pilates and yoga.
- Hundreds of pieces of best-in-class equipment for cardio, strength and functional training.
- Designated spaces for personal and signature group training programs, including GTX, Alpha and Ultra Fit.
- ARORA programming designed for active agers with classes, social events and seminars.
- LifeSpa, offering full-service salon and spa services, including hair, nail, esthetician and massage.
- LifeCafe, offering wholesome, real-food, fast-casual restaurant with a chef-curated menu, to-go meals and beverages.
- LT Recovery featuring compression, massage and chiropractic services.
- Luxurious dressing rooms with multiple rejuvenation areas, including whirlpool suites, saunas, steam rooms and high-end, complimentary personal care products.
Life Time One Wall Street joins the Company's existing destinations, including: Life Time Sky in Hell's Kitchen, 23rd Street, NoHo, and Battery Park. Later this fall, Life Time Dumbo will debut as the company's first Brooklyn destination in the newly developed Front & York building and Life Time Midtown will open by the end of 2022. Preview Centers for both are now open for prospective members. Information can be found at lifetime.life/nyc.
Life Time One Wall Street will be open Monday through Friday, 5am to 11pm and Saturday and Sunday from 6am to 10pm. For more information on features and amenities, visit the club at 29 New Street or call 212.671.7100. Additionally, follow along at LifeTime.Life on Facebook and on Instagram at LifeTime.Life and LifeTime.NYC.
Life Time (NYSE: LTH) empowers people to live healthy, happy lives through its portfolio of nearly 160 athletic country clubs across the United States and Canada. The company's healthy way of life communities and ecosystem address all aspects of healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment for people 90 days to 90+ years old. Supported by a team of more than 30,000 dedicated professionals, Life Time is committed to providing the best programs and experiences through its clubs, iconic athletic events and comprehensive digital platform.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that investors, analysts, and other interested parties may view a live webcast of the Innovation Roadmap session of the Illumina Genomics Forum, which will be hosted by Francis deSouza, Chief Executive Officer, and Alex Aravanis, Chief Technology Officer. The session will be held from 9:00-10:00am Pacific Time (12:00-1:00pm Eastern Time), Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022.
On the same day, from 11:30-12:00pm Pacific Time (2:30-3:00pm Eastern Time), Francis deSouza, Chief Executive Officer, Joydeep Goswami, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer, and Alex Aravanis, Chief Technology Officer, will host a conference call with analysts, investors, and other interested parties to discuss the Innovation Roadmap session and address questions.
Interested parties may access the live webcast of the Innovation Roadmap session of the Illumina Genomics Forum through the Investor Info section of Illumina's website at investor.illumina.com. Individuals may access the live investor conference call with Illumina management through the same page or, alternatively, by dialing 866.409.1555 or +1.313.209.4906 outside North America, both with Conference ID 7572314.
A replay of the investor conference call will be posted on Illumina's website after the event and will be available for at least 30 days following.
Illumina is improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome. Our focus on innovation has established us as a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, serving customers in the research, clinical and applied markets. Our products are used for applications in the life sciences, oncology, reproductive health, agriculture and other emerging segments. To learn more, visit www.illumina.com and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.
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LOTTE Confectionary Co. and Aspire have signed an MOU to promote the market potential of quality cricket protein and cooperate on certain R&D activities.
LONDON, ON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - LOTTE Confectionary Co. Ltd ("LOTTE") and Aspire Food Group Ltd. ("Aspire") have signed an MOU to formalize their cooperation in the distribution and promotion of crickets as food. The MOU confirms Aspire's desire to have LOTTE act as exclusive distributor to distribute and sell products produced by Aspire and LOTTE Confectionary in key markets in Asia as well as Europe.
LOTTE and Aspire agreed to identify potential opportunities for the establishment of a large-scale commercial facility for the production and processing of cricket species approved for consumption in Korea.
Aspire and LOTTE Confectionary will work together on certain R&D activities including the farming of insects for food and feed and the nutritional and functional value of insects as an alternative food and feed source.
The visit of LOTTE Confectionary was led by Mr. Young goo Lee. The senior delegation of LOTTE representatives toured Aspire's new commercial facility in London, Ontario. A signing ceremony was held at the plant.
The new facility showcases advanced industrial lights-out automation, distributed IoT data collection, robotics, and an internationally recognized AI solution developed specifically for the production process.
"A growing population and increasing demand for food and materials requires sustainable, scalable solutions," said Mohammed Ashour, CEO, Aspire. "We are honored that LOTTE sees the value in accelerating the world's transition to sustainable ingredients and materials through insect technology and bringing our innovative products to markets eager to embrace the future of food."
Aspire is a world leader in the field of precision insect farming, optimizing the growth and harvesting of an underutilized natural resource to meet global demand for sustainable ingredients and materials. Aspire has pioneered the world's lowest-cost, highest-density, and most ethical automated food-grade protein production system. Crickets are an all-natural, sustainable, superfood ingredient nutritionally on par with, or superior to, livestock, cell-cultured, and plant-based alternatives. The state-of-the-art facility in London is the world's largest, fully automated cricket production and processing facility, leveraging technologies including artificial intelligence, robotics, and automated storage and retrieval (ASRS).
Aspire is a Canadian company with headquarters in London, Ontario.
LOTTE desires to enrich lives and pursue innovation across a wide array food, retail, and other industry segments while delivering to customers across the globe and expanding the Corporation's presence. As one of Korea's five largest companies, LOTTE is expanding into international markets to establish itself as a global business.
Through consistent product development, diversified marketing strategies, and advanced distribution techniques, LOTTE maintains its position at the pinnacle of the confectionery industry and contributes to the advancement and globalization of the Korean food products industries through the development of future food technology.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Latch, Inc. f/k/a TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp. ("Latch" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LTCH) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Latch investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 13, 2021 and August 25, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LTCH investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed 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.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Latch during the relevant time frame, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moonstone Nutrition, a Pittsburgh-based startup, has added Stone Stopper™ +Immunity gummy to its line of kidney health products. With clinically significant amounts of alkali citrate, Stone Stopper™ gummy is the world's first alkali citrate gummy that prevents kidney stones.
"Moonstone's new gummy offers consumers a delicious and easy way to add alkali citrate to their daily routine," said Salim Rayes, President and CEO of Moonstone Nutrition. "Alkali citrate is known to increase urine pH and urine citrate, making the kidneys inhospitable to the formation of kidney stones."
Moonstone Stone Stopper™ was developed by world-renowned kidney stone doctors and is scientifically proven to reduce the formation of kidney stones. Over 33 million people in the U.S. suffer from excruciating kidney stones and 49 million suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD). Stone Stopper™ is the first effective kidney stone supplement and beverage on the market with true functional health benefits. It's available in supplement capsule, gummy, and ready-to-mix (RTM) beverage powders.
Moonstone products are currently available on Amazon, Walmart.com, Target.com, and CVS Health Hub stores nationwide.
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Company to Present Corporate Update During Investor Conference, Sept. 14, 2022, at 9:00am ET
RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRXP), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced its Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Willard, and other executive leaders will be presenting an update to the company's business at the H.C. Wainwright & Co. 24th Annual Global Investment Conference.
Webcast Presentation Details:
Event: H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Link to register for the NRx Pharmaceuticals' presentation at the conference:
CLICK HERE. (A replay will be available on the NRx Pharmaceuticals website for thirty (30) days following the presentation at www.nrxpharma.com).
Up to 50% of individuals with bipolar disorder attempt suicide over their lifetime, and estimates indicate that up to 20% may succumb to suicide. The only FDA-approved treatment for patients with bipolar depression and acute suicidal ideation & behavior (ASIB) remains electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Conventional antidepressants can increase the risk of suicide in certain patients; hence their labels contain a warning to that effect. NRX-101 is a patented, fixed dose combination of D-cycloserine and lurasidone, neither of which has shown addiction potential. Based on the results of a Phase II study, NRX-101 received Breakthrough Therapy designation (BTD) from the FDA for the Treatment of Severe Bipolar Depression in Patients with ASIB after initial stabilization with ketamine or other effective therapy.
NRX-101 is one of the first oral antidepressants currently in late-stage clinical studies targeting the NMDA-receptor in the brain, which represents potentially a key new mechanism to treat depression with and without suicidality, as well as PTSD and other indications. To date, NRX-101 is the only oral NMDA investigational medicine focused on bipolar depression in patients with acute and sub-acute suicidality.
NRx Pharmaceuticals expects to begin its registration trial for NRX-101 under a SPA in 4Q 2022.
NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. draws upon decades of collective, scientific, and drug-development experience applying innovative science to known molecules to address very high unmet needs and bring improved health to patients. NRx Pharmaceuticals is led by executives who have held leadership roles at Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis as well as major investment banking institutions.
This announcement of NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our financial outlook, product development, business prospects, and market and industry trends and conditions, as well as the Company's strategies, plans, objectives, and goals. These forward-looking statements are based on current beliefs, expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections of, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, the Company's management.
The Company assumes no obligation to revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Accordingly, you should not place reliance on any forward-looking statement, and all forward-looking statements are herein qualified by reference to the cautionary statements set forth above.
CORPORATE CONTACT
Molly Cogan
Sr. Director, Global Communications & Government Affairs
mcogan@nrxpharma.com
INVESTOR RELATIONS
Suzanne Messere
Investor Relations
suzanne.messere@sternir.com
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Divestiture of Prager Metis' Wealth Management Arm Grows Perigon's Total Client Assets to $4.3 Billion
Transaction Deepens Collaboration Opportunities Between Top Tax Advisory Firm Prager Metis and Perigon's Financial Advisors to Elevate Service Experience for High-Net-Worth Clients
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perigon Wealth Management ("Perigon"), a rapidly growing independent wealth management firm with offices across the country and $3.6 billion in client assets, today announced a merger with PM Wealth Management, a New York-based RIA with nearly $750 million in assets under management (AUM). Following the merger, Perigon Wealth Management will have over 50 financial advisors and over $4.3 billion in assets under management.
Previously, PM Wealth was part of Prager Metis, an accounting and advisory firm affiliated with Prager Metis International LLC. The transaction, expected to close in November, merges PM Wealth Management with Perigon's growing nationwide team, with PM Wealth continuing to operate under its own brand, and the firm's leaders joining the senior executive team of Perigon.
As part of this merger, Perigon has formed a strategic alliance with Prager Metis. Perigon will serve as the preferred wealth management solution for Prager Metis tax clients. Prager Metis will become one of the preferred tax firms Perigon utilizes to deliver holistic tax services to its existing, and future, clients. The alliance creates a structure for seamless client referrals between the two firms, enabling each to address the widest possible wealth management and tax advisory needs of their respective clients. Importantly, Perigon will remain tax agnostic and able to work with any tax firm that provides solutions that align with its clients' needs.
Adding advisors and tax expertise
"We are thrilled to have PM Wealth Management's team of talented advisors bring their expertise to our firm," said Jonathan Hoy, Perigon's Chief Operating Officer. "This partnership broadens our tax advisory referral resources via Prager Metis to our clients, while establishing Perigon as the wealth management referral firm of choice for the clients of Prager Metis."
Marc A. Specht, AIF, AAMS, AWMA, RFC, Co-Founder of PM Wealth Management, said, "This partnership enhances our ability to provide greater resources to the PWM Wealth Management team so we can drive the highest-quality service and outcomes for our clients. We gain enhanced back-office support, and our clients get more choices through Perigon's existing custodial relationships with Pershing, Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade and Fidelity. The PM Wealth Management team can now focus their efforts on continuing to provide superior service which will enable the firm to grow."
Glenn Friedman, CEO of Prager Metis, said, "We are pleased to announce that PM Wealth Management has merged with Perigon. We look forward to the increased value add that Perigon can bring to our clients as your financial advisory team. Enhancing our expertise and extending our trusted advisor relationship with our clients to our new partner Perigon is very important."
Growth trajectory
The partnership with PM Wealth Management marks the latest expansion for Perigon as it continues to demonstrate a compelling value proposition of providing financial advisors with a seamless way to streamline their operations and plug seamlessly into technology and recruiting platforms to grow business. Since December, Perigon added Matthai Capital Management, a Baltimore-based independent RIA; Baker & Associates, an Irvine, California-based RIA, and Greenville Financial Group of Wilmington, Delaware.
Also, earlier this year, Perigon significantly expanded its executive leadership team to help execute its robust growth strategy of acquiring independent RIAs and recruiting successful financial advisors.
Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
About Perigon Wealth Management
Founded, owned and led by lifelong financial advisors, Perigon Wealth Management, LLC is an independent RIA firm that provides clients with peace of mind by identifying and implementing clear and customized plans to achieve the financial objectives necessary to realize their life goals. Additionally, Perigon Wealth Management offers financial advisors who join its platform a robust and flexible program that accommodates the widest possible array of affiliation structures and business models. With over $3 billion in client assets, Perigon Wealth Management is passionate about accelerating the business growth of its financial advisors and simplifying their operations, without sacrificing their independence. For more information, please visit https://perigonwealth.com/.
About PM Wealth Management
PM Wealth Management is a full-service registered investment advisor (RIA) providing advice on retirement, insurance, tax plans from its primary offices in New York and New Jersey. Its team of 5 advisors have more than 50 years of combined wealth management experience. Securities are offered through LPL Financial, a member FINRA/SIPC.
About Prager Metis
Headquartered in New York City, and with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and the Metaverse, Prager Metis, an affiliate of Prager Metis International, LLC, is one of the nation's fastest growing accounting and advisory firms, offering a full range of accounting, audit, tax, consulting, and international services. Prager Metis is recognized as a Top 50 Accounting Firm. For more information, please visit www.pragermetis.com. Banquet Labs is also an affiliate of Prager Metis, and together the two entities actively counsel businesses as well as create events and experiences in the Metaverse. For more information, visit www.pragermetis.com.
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Restaurant Brands International Inc. to Participate in Scotiabank Back to School Conference
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 6:30 AM EDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
TORONTO, Sept. 8, 2022/PRNewswire/ - Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX: QSR) (NYSE: QSR) (TSX: QSP) ("RBI") announced today that José Cil, Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at Scotiabank Back to School Conference on September 13th,2022 at 9:00 am Eastern Time.
A live audio webcast will be available on the company's investor relations website (http://rbi.com/investors) and will be available for 30 days following the event.
About Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 29,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Electric moved up to 40th place on the 2022 Top 250 International Contractors list released by Engineering News-Record (ENR), a world-renowned academic publication for news, analysis, commentary and data on the global engineering and construction industry.
The company placed 51st last year, rising swiftly to this higher position on the list in just a short period. Widely considered as the industry barometer, the annual ENR list is a highly influential, authoritative ranking that comprehensively reflects the trends taking place across the international engineering market throughout the year.
The list ranks the world's construction companies based on revenue generated by the sum of the projects they are involved in. Shanghai Electric made the list by virtue of 11 of its major international projects, including a photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) facility and Phase 5 of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai, the Thar Block-1 Integrated Coal Mine in Pakistan, a gas-fired thermal power plant in Pancevo, Serbia, a solar facility in Cyprus as well as power plants in Rupsha, Bangladesh and Wassit province, Iraq.
In addition, the firm took third position among China's state-owned power engineering enterprises on the list, up by one position from last year, while ranking among the top ten on the regional list for the Middle Eastern market.
Despite the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Shanghai Electric achieved several major milestones by overcoming unprecedented challenges and continuing the implementation of its overseas projects, ensuring the uninterrupted growth of revenue from the projects while contributing significantly to the rise of the firm's ranking on the ENR list.
The milestones included the grid connection of Zone 1 of the company's PV-T facility in Dubai and of Pancevo's gas turbine units, the temporary handover of Zone A at Phase 5 of Dubai Solar Park, the hydraulic testing of boilers at the Thar power plant, the connection of Thar Coal Mine's PV power station to the power grid in Bangladesh (a grid that is currently over-reliant on fossil fuels), and the concrete pouring for Rupsha's steam turbine base.
In 2022, 79 mainland Chinese companies were included in the list, making China the first in the world in terms of the number of firms that made the ranking. Four of them are involved in the power engineering sector, aside from Shanghai Electric, they include Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina), China Energy Engineering Group (Energy China) and China National Machinery Industry Corporation. Shanghai Electric also ranked among the top ten on the regional list alongside PowerChina, Energy China, China State Construction Engineering Corporation and China Railway Construction Group Corporation.
According to the ENR list, the global infrastructure construction market showed a recovery in 2021. Combined contracting revenue of the Top 250 increased 5.1% year on year to $547.2 billion last year, while combined international turnover of the companies declined 5.4% to US$397.9 billion, a vast improvement compared to the drop of 11.1% in 2020. Among the 236 companies that have made the list for two consecutive years in 2021 and 2022, 62.3% saw an increase in international turnover.
All of the top 250 companies have built distinctive competencies in their respective regional markets. Most notably, Chinese contractors continued their leadership role in Africa (with a share of 59.3%), Asia (55.3%) and the Middle East (40%). In 2021, turnover from the transportation construction business of the Top 250 reached US$132.17 billion, accounting for 33.2 per cent of the total, followed by housing construction, petrochemical and power engineering, with combined turnover of the four business types making up 80.1% of the total.
About Shanghai Electric
Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited (SEHK: 2727, SSE: 601727) is a world-class high-end equipment manufacturer, focusing on smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and smart infrastructure to provide green and intelligent industrial-grade system solutions. It has a global presence in industries such as new energy, efficient clean energy, industrial automation, medical devices and environmental protection.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Tuya Inc. ("Tuya" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUYA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Tuya investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TUYA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Tuya during the relevant time frame, you have until October 11, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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EXTON, Pa., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST), a global leader in innovative solutions for injectable drug administration, today announced that it will participate in the Bank of America Global Healthcare Conference taking place September 15, 2022, in London, UK, at 1:20 pm British Summer Time (8:20 am EDT).
A live audio webcast will be available in the "Investors" section of the Company's website at www.westpharma.com. Replay of the webcasts will be available for approximately 90 days after the events.
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative, high-quality injectable solutions and services. As a trusted partner to established and emerging drug developers, West helps ensure the safe, effective containment and delivery of life-saving and life-enhancing medicines for patients. With approximately 10,000 team members across 50 sites worldwide, West helps support our customers by delivering over 45 billion components and devices each year.
Headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, and in business for nearly a century, West in its fiscal year 2021 generated $2.83 billion in net sales. West is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: WST) and is included on the Standard & Poor's 500 index. For more information, visit www.westpharma.com.
All trademarks and registered trademarks used in this release are the property of West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. or its subsidiaries, in the United States and other jurisdictions, unless otherwise noted.
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Startup seeks to become one-stop-shop for companies to calculate, offset, and transparently disclose carbon reduction initiatives.
TOKYO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XELS, a startup leveraging blockchain and other next-generation technologies in an effort to help companies across the globe meet and exceed their environmental sustainability goals, will launch a new platform that takes aim at the opaqueness in "scope 3" emissions reporting. While most eco-conscious companies have taken aim at scope 1 and 2 emissions (direct emissions from their own operations and emissions tied to purchased energy usage) in recent years, scope 3 emissions pose a challenge due to being generated across an organization's value and supply chains (think suppliers, distributors, and retailers).
"While many companies have taken steps to clean up 'their side of the street,' we see a lot of them struggling with scope 3 emissions," says XELS founder and CEO Takeshi Nojima. "By creating a simple and transparent platform that any organization can easily navigate, we're incentivizing all the moving parts in a product lifecycle to get on board and do their part when it comes to reporting climate goals and moving forward with open and honest carbon elimination."
The new XELS platform aims to become the "Squarespace of emissions reporting" by making it easy for companies of all sizes to create customizable online reports that both consumers and business partners can view and reference in their quest for achieving net zero. Slated to launch later this month, it will offer a carbon offset education portal, a CO2 emissions calculator, an open venue for reporting ESG targets, and a transparent offset publishing platform that shows an organization's carbon credit purchase and retirement history on an immutable public ledger. In addition to the reporting platform, clients will also have access to the latest generation of XELS' tokenized carbon offset marketplace, where XELS utility tokens can be staked to mint custom carbon offset NFTs that represent corporate climate disclosures and real-world carbon offsets.
"We believe that it's important to put the brakes on emissions by decarbonizing, and that projects to absorb, capture, and store the huge amount of CO2 that we've already emitted will become increasingly important in the future," Nojima adds. "The XELS platform will continue to evolve to improve the transparency and reliability of such initiatives."
XELS partners with leading companies in the green technology space to offer high-quality tokenized carbon offsets tied to protected lands and reforestation efforts in Japan, Australia, and elsewhere. In addition to its proprietary blockchain technology, XELS also utilizes cutting-edge satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to visualize and quantify actual carbon sequestration.
XELS, founded in 2017, is a member of the Climate Chain Coalition. XELS tokens can already be obtained on the Bittrex Global and MXC digital asset exchanges, and will also become tradeable on the Gate.io exchange starting at 11:00 AM JST on September 9, 2022.
Mitch Hammer, Director
mitch@xels.io
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott" or the "Company") (NYSE: ABT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Abbott investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired shares of Abbott common stock during the period from February 19, 2021, to June 8, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
ABT investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, defendants touted the strength of Abbott's infant formula brands and their contribution to the Company's sales and revenue growth, despite knowing that the facility that manufactured those products was in flagrant violations of United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") health, safety, and manufacturing regulations. The complaint further alleges that defendants willfully or recklessly concealed these violations from investors, even though the violations put Abbott's infant formula business in dire jeopardy and left the Company exposed to a risk of severe regulatory action, including the recall of its products and closure of the Sturgis facility. Indeed, according to the complaint, defendants received direct warnings, communications, FDA inspection reports, and consumer complaints identifying in detail the safety and regulatory violations that were rampant at the Sturgis facility.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Abbott during the relevant time frame, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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TAIPEI, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) announced its consolidated revenues for August at NT$20.24 billion with 15.9% growth month-on-month (MoM). Its year-to-August revenues were NT$188.42 billion with a decline of 7.9% year-on-year (YoY). Business highlights include revenues from:
- Vero eco-conscious line grew 146.2% in August MoM
- Desktop PC grew 9% year-to-August YoY
- Commercial business [1] grew 4.4% year-to-August YoY
While the industry is experiencing headwinds, Acer continues to enhance its business resilience through establishing multiple business engines. Its businesses other than PCs and displays contributed 24.7% of total revenues in August, and the eight public subsidiaries have all announced their August revenues. Highlights of businesses under incubation:
- Acer Gadget Inc. revenues grew 17.2% year-to-August YoY
- Acer ITS Inc. revenues grew 117.4% year-to-August YoY
- Altos Computing Inc. revenues grew 131.1% year-to-August YoY
- MPS Energy Inc. revenues grew 47.3% year-to-August YoY
- AcerPure Inc. revenues grew 76.3% year-to-August YoY
About Acer
Founded in 1976, Acer is one of the world's top ICT companies with a presence in more than 160 countries. As Acer evolves with the industry and changing lifestyles, it is focused on enabling a world where hardware, software and services will fuse with one another, creating ecosystems and opening up new possibilities for consumers and businesses alike. Acer's 7,500 employees are dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of products and solutions that break barriers between people and technology. Please visit www.acer.com for more information.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Azure Power Global Limited ("Azure" or the "Company") (NYSE: AZRE) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Azure investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between June 15, 2021 and August 26, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AZRE investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed 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.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Azure during the relevant time frame, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Co-Diagnostics, Inc. ("Co-Dx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CODX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Co-Dx investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased the publicly traded securities of Co-Dx during the period of May 12, 2022 through the close of the market on August 11, 2022 (4:00 p.m. ET). Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
CODX investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) demand for the Company's Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test had plummeted throughout the quarter ended June 30, 2022, and (ii) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the demand for its Logix Smart™ COVID-19 test lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Co-Dx during the relevant time frame, you have until October 17, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Dingdong (Cayman) Ltd. ("Dingdong" or the "Company") (NYSE: DDL) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Dingdong investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased, or otherwise acquired, Dingdong American Depository Shares pursuant or traceable to the F-1 registration statements and related prospectus on Form 424B4 issued in connection with Dingdong's June 2021 initial public stock offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
DDL investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, the registration statement and prospectus used to effectuate the Company's initial public offering misstated and/or omitted facts concerning Dingdong's so-called commitment to ensuring the safety and quality of the food it distributes to the market. For example, despite claiming that it applies "stringent quality control across [its] entire supply chain to ensure product quality to [its] users," Dingdong sold food past its sell-by date. Consequently, Dingdong was, in fact, no better at providing or assuring access to "fresh" groceries than the supermarkets, traditional Chinese wet markets, or traditional e-commerce platforms it repeatedly claimed to be displacing. Moreover, the foregoing conduct subjected Dingdong to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement, all of which, once revealed, were likely to negatively impact Dingdong's business, operations, and reputation.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Dingdong during the relevant time frame, you have until October 24, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) ("Equinox Gold" or the "Company") reports that mining activities at its Los Filos Mine in Mexico have been temporarily suspended as the result of an illegal blockade by members of the nearby Mezcala community. The blockade is preventing delivery of certain supplies to the Los Filos Mine that are required to maintain operations.
The Company will engage with community leadership to find a solution that allows the mine to resume full operations.
Equinox Gold Contacts
Greg Smith, President & Chief Executive Officer
Rhylin Bailie, Vice President, Investor Relations
Tel: +1 604-558-0560
Email: ir@equinoxgold.com
About Equinox Gold
Equinox Gold is a Canadian mining company operating entirely in the Americas, with six gold mines, a mine in commissioning, and a clear path to achieve more than one million ounces of annual gold production from a pipeline of development and expansion projects. Equinox Gold's common shares are listed on the TSX and the NYSE American under the trading symbol EQX. Further information about Equinox Gold's portfolio of assets and long-term growth strategy is available at www.equinoxgold.com or by email at ir@equinoxgold.com.
Cautionary Notes
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation and may include future-oriented financial information. Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information in this news release relate to, among other things: the duration, extent, and implications of the blockade at Los Filos and Equinox Gold's ability to achieve a long-term resolution with the Mezcala community, and the strategic vision for Equinox Gold and expectations regarding exploration potential, production capabilities and future financial or operational performance. Forward-looking statements or information generally identified by the use of the words "will", "resume", "achieve" and similar expressions and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", or "should", or the negative connotation of such terms, are intended to identify forward-looking statements and information. Although Equinox Gold believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements since Equinox Gold can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The Company has based these forward-looking statements and information on Equinox Gold's current expectations and projections about future events and these assumptions include: the Company's previous working history with the communities around Los Filos; discussions with the Mezcala community; the Company's ability to obtain and enforce injunctive relief against illegal blockades; the Company's working history with the workers and unions at Los Filos; and the Company's ability to comply with all environmental, health and safety laws and other regulatory requirements.
While Equinox Gold considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release. The Company cautions that forward-looking statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information contained in this presentation and Equinox Gold has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: employee relations; relationships with, and claims by, local communities and indigenous populations; no other labour-related disruptions and no unplanned delays or interruptions in scheduled construction, development and production, including by blockade or industrial action; operational risks and hazards inherent with the business of mining (including environmental accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown, unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations, cave-ins, flooding and severe weather); fluctuations in gold prices; fluctuations in prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services; fluctuations in currency markets; inadequate insurance, or inability to obtain insurance to cover these risks and hazards; the Company's ability to obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices, including environmental and export and import laws and regulations; legal restrictions relating to mining including those imposed in connection with COVID-19; and those factors identified in the section titled "Risks and Uncertainties" in Equinox Gold's MD&A dated March 23, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the section titled "Risks Related to the Business" in Equinox Gold's Annual Information Form dated March 24, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021, both of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar. Forward-looking statements and information are designed to help readers understand management's views as of that time with respect to future events and speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, Equinox Gold assumes no obligation to update or to publicly announce the results of any change to any forward-looking statement or information contained or incorporated by reference to reflect actual results, future events or developments, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting the forward-looking statements and information. If Equinox Gold updates any one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that Equinox Gold will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
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MTOS can provide cities with tools to monitor mobility services and help model future system upgrades and new transportation policies
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores how municipal transportation operating systems (MTOS) can manage and optimize urban mobility.
Cities are continually responding to urban transportation challenges such as increasing levels of travel demand and the complex management of numerous modes of both public and private transportation. The rising demand for passenger transportation and urban deliveries increases congestion and results in a significant impact on air quality, safety, and quality of life. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, the expanding number of modes of urban mobility, such as shared micromobility, and the anticipated arrival of highly automated vehicles is increasing complexity and driving the need for real-time data to manage transportation systems efficiently.
"While cities are taking actions to improve urban mobility, travelers are demanding a reliable and efficient transportation system that provides accurate travel information," says Sagie Evbenata, senior research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "An MTOS could be a valuable instrument for smart cities, providing them with the tools to monitor and optimize mobility services and help to model future system upgrades and new transportation policies."
Stakeholders in the mobility ecosystem—including automakers, mapping data companies, and technology companies—are developing solutions to address urban mobility challenges and piloting them in cities around the world. These systems could form key components of an MTOS to manage and optimize future urban mobility. Besides delivering better transportation service to customers, an MTOS could provide cities with the tools to monitor mobility services and help model future system upgrades and new transportation policies, according to the report.
The report, Cities Should Now Evaluate the Benefits of Municipal Transportation Operating Systems, examines the mounting pressures on cities to provide efficient, safe, and sustainable mobility systems and considers how an MTOS could provide an effective solution. It features some of the notable pilots being conducted in various cities that develop and demonstrate the benefits these technologies offer. Recommendations are provided for how key stakeholders can benefit from the development of MTOSs and provide maximum value to cities. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 13,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
* The information contained in this press release concerning the report, Cities Should Now Evaluate the Benefits of Municipal Transportation Operating Systems, is a summary and reflects the current expectations of Guidehouse Insights based on market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the report's conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report. Neither Guidehouse Insights nor Guidehouse undertakes any obligation to update any of the information contained in this press release or the report.
For more information, contact:
Cecile Fradkin
+1.646.941.9139
cfradkin@scprgroup.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Humanigen, Inc. ("Humanigen" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: HGEN) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Humanigen investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 28, 2021 and July 12, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
HGEN investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Humanigen's lead product candidate, lenzilumab, was less effective in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients than defendants had represented; (ii) as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unlikely to approve the lenzilumab Emergency Use Authorization and the ACTIV-5/BET-B study was unlikely to meet its primary endpoint; (iii) accordingly, lenzilumab's clinical and commercial prospects were overstated; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Humanigen during the relevant time frame, you have until October 25, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in LifeStance Health Group, Inc. ("LifeStance" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LFST) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of LifeStance investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of LifeStance common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the documents issued in connection with LifeStance's June 10, 2021 initial public stock offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LFST investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (ii) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (iii) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the initial public offering's registration statement, and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (iv) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the initial public offering's registration statement represented.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in LifeStance during the relevant time frame, you have until October 11, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Missfresh Limited ("Missfresh" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MF) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Missfresh investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Missfresh securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with Missfresh's June 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
MF investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Missfresh provided false financial figures in its registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with the Company's June 2021 initial public offering; (2) Missfresh would need to amend its financial figures; (3) Missfresh, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and (4) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Missfresh during the relevant time frame, you have until September 12, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in MINISO Group Holding Limited ("MINISO" or the "Company") (NYSE: MNSO) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of MINISO investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded MINISO securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with MINISO's October 2020 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
MNSO investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) defendants and other undisclosed related parties owned and controlled a much larger amount of MINISO stores than previously stated; (2) as a result, MINISO concealed its true costs; (3) the Company did not represent its true business model; (4) defendants, including the Company and its chairman, engaged in planned unusual and unclear transactions; (5) as a result of at least one of these transactions, the Company is at risk of breaching contracts with People's Republic of China authorities; (6) the Company would imminently and drastically drop its franchise fees; and (7) as a result, defendant's statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in MINISO during the relevant time frame, you have until October 17, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
www.zlk.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Molecular Partners AG ("Molecular Partners" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MOLN) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Molecular Partners investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Molecular Partners American Depositary Shares pursuant and/or traceable to certain documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about June 16, 2021; and/or (b) Molecular Partners securities between June 16, 2021, and April 26, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
MOLN investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the Company's product, ensovibep, was less effective at treating COVID-19 than defendants had led investors to believe; that (ii) accordingly, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") was reasonably likely to require an additional Phase 3 study of ensovibep before granting the drug Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA"); (iii) waning global rates of COVID-19 significantly reduced the Company's chances of securing EUA for ensovibep; (iv) another of the Company's product candidates, MP0310, was less attractive to Molecular Partners' collaborator, Amgen, than defendants had led investors to believe; (v) accordingly, there was a significant likelihood that Amgen would return to global rights of MP0310 to Molecular Partners; (vi) as a result of all the foregoing, the clinical and commercial prospects of ensovibep and MP0310 were overstated; and (vii) as a result, documents issues in connection with the Company's initial public offer and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Molecular Partners during the relevant time frame, you have until September 12, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in NIO Inc. ("NIO" or the "Company") (NYSE: NIO) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of NIO investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 1, 2021 and July 11, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
NIO investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) NIO pulled forward revenue by selling batteries to a related party, which owned the batteries and managed users' subscriptions; (2) through the related party, NIO also recognized enormous depreciation savings; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's revenue and net loss were overstated; and (4) 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.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in NIO during the relevant time frame, you have until October 24, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Stitch Fix, Inc. ("Stitch Fix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SFIX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Stitch Fix investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of purchasers of Stitch Fix Class A common stock between December 8, 2020, and March 8, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
SFIX investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, Stitch Fix made numerous false and misleading statements to investors concerning the synergy between the Company's Fix and Freestyle programs, and repeatedly denied claims that the Freestyle program could cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business. Specifically, Stitch Fix repeatedly assured investors that the Company's Freestyle business was "an additive experience" and "complementary" to the Fix business, that "the combination of those two things will allow us to address many more types of clients," and that "we see solid growth in both sides of the business." In truth, Stitch Fix concealed that these programs were not complementary or additive. Stitch Fix knew that the Freestyle program would be much preferred to the Company's original Fix model and that the Freestyle program would inevitably cannibalize the Company's legacy Fix business.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Stitch Fix during the relevant time frame, you have until October 25, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in TG Therapeutics, Inc. ("TG Therapeutics" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TGTX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of TG Therapeutics investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between January 15, 2020 and May 31, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
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at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) clinical trials revealed significant concerns related to the benefit-risk ratio and overall survival data of the Company's therapeutic product candidates, Ublituximab and Umbralisib; (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Umbralisib marginal zone lymphoma and follicular lymphoma New Drug Application, the Biologics License Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, the supplemental New Drug Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, or the Ublituximab relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis Biologics License Application in their current forms; (iii) as a result, the Company had significantly overstated Ublituximab and Umbralisib's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (iv) therefore, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in TG Therapeutics during the relevant time frame, you have until September 16, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in TuSimple Holdings Inc. ("TuSimple" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TSP) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of TuSimple investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with TuSimple's April 15, 2021 initial public offering; and/or (b) that purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple securities between April 15, 2021 and August 1, 2022, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TSP investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) TuSimple's commitment to safety was significantly overstated and defendants concealed fundamental problems with the Company's technology; (ii) TuSimple was rushing the testing of its autonomous driving technology in order to deliver driverless trucks to the market ahead of its more safety-conscious competitors; (iii) there was a corporate culture within TuSimple that suppressed or ignored safety concerns in favor of unrealistically ambitious testing and delivery schedules; (iv) the aforementioned conduct made accidents involving the Company's autonomous driving technology more likely; (v) the aforementioned conduct invited enhanced regulatory scrutiny and investigatory action toward the Company; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in TuSimple during the relevant time frame, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Weber Inc. ("Weber" or the "Company") (NYSE: WEBR) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Weber investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Weber Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's August 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
WEBR investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; 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.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Weber during the relevant time frame, you have until September 27, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. ("17EdTech" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YQ) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of 17EdTech investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded 17EdTech securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
YQ investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the Company's initial public offering; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in 17EdTech during the relevant time frame, you have until September 19, 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
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A man at the tournament was getting a haircut Tuesday night in the stands during the middle of a match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Security cut the trim short.
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A man at the tournament was getting a haircut Tuesday night in the stands during the middle of a match at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Security cut the trim short.
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Children had more access to food in 2021 compared to the previous year. But for other population groups, such as the elderly and women living alone, food insecurity was on the rise, according to the Agriculture Department.
The rate of food insecurity was 6.2% for households with children in 2021, a decrease from 7.9% in 2020. The national average is 10.2%.
The Department of Agriculture defines being food insecure as having had "difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members because of a lack of resources."
Rates of food insecurity increased for households with no children, especially for women and senior citizens who live alone.
Rates declined for households with children under age 18, married couples with children, households with single mothers, and households in the South.
The average American spent $62.50 per person every week on food.
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Forehead thermometers may not be as accurate in reading temperatures for Black hospitalized patients, compared to oral thermometers, according to researchers at Emory University and the University of Hawaii.
The chances of a forehead thermometer detecting fevers in Black patients were 26% lower than oral thermometers. Though the differences were small, the researchers noted that fevers could slip under the radar if the number is below commonly used thresholds.
"If fevers are going undetected, then alerts are not being activated," said Dr. Sivasubramanium Bhavani, lead author on the study and an assistant professor at Emory. "The differences in detection of fevers could lead to delays in antibiotics and medical care for Black patients."
The lag could even lead to an increased death rate in Black patients, according to the study.
In a sample size of 2,031 Black patients and 2,344 white patients, the oral and forehead temperatures were taken within an hour of each other on the patient's first day in the hospital. Temperatures did not vary significantly for white patients.
Why is this happening? There could be two reasons.
Forehead, or temporal, thermometers measure temperatures through infrared radiation. Skin pigmentation could affect its ability to emit light, radiation or heat, the study said, a concept known as skin emissivity. Though, a separate study published by the National Institutes of Health did not find significant variance in skin emissivity between skin tones.
Or, the varying temporal thermometer readings found in the study could be due to not scanning the forehead properly, researchers said.
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Nicknamed the "Corn Kid," Tariq, who lives in New York, has been declared South Dakota's Official Corn-bassador after his passion for the vegetable went viral on TikTok and YouTube.
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Nicknamed the "Corn Kid," Tariq, who lives in New York, has been declared South Dakota's Official Corn-bassador after his passion for the vegetable went viral on TikTok and YouTube.
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The U.N. general assembly prepares to address the war in Ukraine. The second suspect in the Canadian mass stabbings dies in police custody. A judge strikes down Michigan's strict anti-abortion law.
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The U.N. general assembly prepares to address the war in Ukraine. The second suspect in the Canadian mass stabbings dies in police custody. A judge strikes down Michigan's strict anti-abortion law.
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Each day, thousands of patients get a call or letter after being discharged from U.S. hospitals. How did their stay go? How clean and quiet was the room? How often did nurses and doctors treat them with courtesy and respect?
The questions focus on what might be termed the standard customer satisfaction aspects of a medical stay, as hospitals increasingly view patients as consumers who can take their business elsewhere.
But other crucial questions are absent from these ubiquitous surveys, whose results influence how much hospitals get paid by insurers: They do not poll patients on whether they've experienced discrimination during their treatment, a common complaint of diverse patient populations.
Likewise, they fail to ask diverse groups of patients whether they've received culturally competent care.
And some researchers say that's a major oversight.
Kevin Nguyen, a health services researcher at Brown University School of Public Health, who parsed data collected from the government-mandated national surveys in new ways, found that — underneath the surface — they spoke to racial and ethnic inequities in care.
Digging deep, Nguyen studied whether patients in one Medicaid managed-care plan from ethnic minority groups received the same care as their white peers. He examined four areas: access to needed care, access to a personal doctor, timely access to a checkup or routine care, and timely access to specialty care.
"This was pretty universal across races. So Black beneficiaries; Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander beneficiaries; and Hispanic or Latino or Latinx/Latine beneficiaries reported worse experiences across the four measures," he said.
Nguyen said that the surveys commonly used by hospitals (called Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or CAHPS) could be far more useful if they were able to go one layer deeper — for example, asking why it was more difficult to get timely care, or why they don't have a personal doctor.
It would also be more helpful if CMS publicly posted not just the aggregate patient experience scores, but also showed how those scores varied by respondents' race, ethnicity, and preferred language.
Such data can help discover whether a hospital or health insurance plan is meeting the needs of all versus only some patients. Nguyen did not study responses of LGBTQ+ individuals or, for example, whether people received worse care because they were obese.
Hospital surveys — and how to game them — has become big business
The health care provider surveys are required by the federal government for many health care facilities, and the hospital version of it is required for most acute care hospitals. Low scores can induce financial penalties, and hospitals reap financial rewards for improving scores or exceeding those of their peers.
The CAHPS Hospital Survey, known as HCAHPS, has been around for more than 15 years. The results are publicly reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to give patients a way to compare hospitals, and to give hospitals incentive to improve care and services. Patient experience is just one thing the federal government publicly measures; readmissions and deaths from conditions including heart attacks and treatable surgery complications are among the others.
Dr. Meena Seshamani, director of the Center for Medicare, said that patients in the U.S. seem to be growing more satisfied with their care:
"We have seen significant improvements in the HCAHPS scores over time," she said in a written statement, noting, for example, that the percentage of patients nationally who said their nurses "always" communicated well rose from 74% in 2009 to 81% in 2020.
But for as long as these surveys have been around, doubts about what they really capture have persisted. Patient experience surveys have become big business, with companies marketing methods to boost scores. Researchers have questioned whether the emphasis on patient satisfaction — and the financial carrots and sticks tied to them — have led to better care. And they have long suspected institutions can "teach to the test" by training staff to cue patients to respond in a certain way.
National studies have found the link between patient satisfaction and health outcomes is tenuous at best. Some of the more critical research has concluded that "good ratings depend more on manipulable patient perceptions than on good medicine," citing evidence that health professionals were motivated to respond to patients' requests rather than prioritize what was best from a care standpoint, when they were in conflict.
Hospitals have also scripted how nurses should speak to patients to boost their satisfaction scores. For example, some were instructed to cue patients to say their room was quiet by making sure to say out loud, "I am closing the door and turning out the lights to keep the hospital quiet at night."
A new push to survey hospitals about discrimination
About a decade ago, Robert Weech-Maldonado, a health services researcher at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, helped develop a new module to add to the HCAHPS survey "dealing with things like experiences with discrimination, issues of trust." Specifically, it asked patients how often they'd been treated unfairly due to characteristics like race or ethnicity, the type of health plan they had (or if they lacked insurance), or how well they spoke English.
It also asked patients if they felt they could trust the provider with their medical care. The goal, he said, was for that data to be publicly reported, so patients could use it.
Some of the questions made it into an optional bit of the HCAHPS survey — including questions on how often staffers were condescending or rude, and how often patients felt the staff cared about them as a person — but CMS doesn't track how many hospitals use them, or how they use the results. And though HCAHPS asks respondents about their race, ethnicity and language spoken at home, CMS does not post that data on its public patient website, nor does it show how patients of various identities responded compared to others.
Without wider use of explicit questions about discrimination, Dr. Jose Figueroa, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health, doubts HCAHPS data alone would "tell you whether or not you have a racist system" — especially given the surveys' slumping response rates.
One exciting development, he said, lies with the emerging ability to analyze open-ended (rather than multiple-choice) responses through what's called natural language processing, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze the sentiments people express in written or spoken statements as an addendum to the multiple-choice surveys.
One study analyzing hospital reviews on Yelp identified characteristics patients think are important but aren't captured by HCAHPS questions — like how caring and comforting staff members were, and the billing experience. And a study out this year in the journal Health Affairs used the method to discover that providers at one medical center were much more likely to use negative words when describing Black patients compared with their white counterparts.
"It's simple, but if used in the right way can really help health systems and hospitals figure out whether they need to work on issues of racism within them," said Figueroa.
Press Ganey Associates, a company that a large number of U.S. hospitals pay to administer these surveys, is also exploring this idea. Dr. Tejal Gandhi leads a project there that, among other things, aims to use artificial intelligence to probe patients' comments for signs of inequities.
"It's still pretty early days," Gandhi said, adding, "With what's gone on with the pandemic, and with social justice issues, and all those things over the last couple of years, there's just been a much greater interest in this topic area."
Direct outreach to improve cultural competence
Some hospitals, though, have taken the tried-and-true route to understanding how to better meet patients' needs: talking to them.
Dr. Monica Federico, a pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver, started an asthma program at the hospital several years ago. About a fifth of its appointments proved no-shows. The team needed something more granular than patient satisfaction data to understand why.
"We identified patients who had been in the hospital for asthma, and we called them, and we asked them, you know, 'Hey, you have an appointment in the asthma clinic coming up. Are there any barriers to you being able to come?' And we tried to understand what those were," said Federico.
At the time, she was one of the only Spanish-speaking providers in an area where pediatric asthma disproportionately affects Latino residents. (Patients also cited problems with transportation and inconvenient clinic hours.)
After making several changes, including extending the clinic's hours into the evening, the no-show appointment rate nearly halved.
Patient satisfaction surveys are embedded in American health care culture and are likely here to stay. But CMS is now making tentative efforts in surveys to address the issues that were previously overlooked: As of this summer, it is testing a question for a subset of patients 65 and older that would explicitly ask if anyone from a clinic, emergency room, or doctor's office treated them "in an unfair or insensitive way" because of characteristics including race, ethnicity, culture, or sexual orientation.
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. It is an editorially independent operating program of KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.
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Both major political parties are facing crosswinds heading into the 2022 midterms, with Democrats and many independents motivated by the issue of abortion, while Republicans have the advantage on the economy, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
President Biden is also seeing a marginal increase in his approval rating, going from 36% in July to 41% now, largely because of a 10-point jump with independents.
Democrats also have a marginal advantage when people were asked who they would vote for if the elections were held today – 48% said a Democrat, 44% said a Republican. But given that swing districts are in many right-leaning areas, Democrats usually need a fairly significant lead on the question.
The survey of 1,236 adults was conducted Aug. 29 through Sept. 1. It has a margin of error of +/- 4.1 percentage points, meaning results could be 4 points higher or lower than what is shown. There are 1,151 registered voters surveyed with a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percentage points.
Inflation is the top issue overall for voters
Top of mind for voters when thinking about November's elections overall is inflation, followed by abortion, according to the survey. That's not surprising considering the economic landscape and how the Democratic base responded after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Overall, 30% identified inflation as their top issue, but that's down 7 points from the last time the question was asked in July. That was followed by abortion at 22%, up 4 points since July.
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For Democrats, abortion was the clear top issue (35%), followed by the Jan. 6 committee hearings (22%), health care (16%) and inflation (13%).
For Republicans, inflation was by far the top issue (40%), followed by immigration (22%), and abortion (10%). Nothing else received double digits.
For independents, inflation was also tops (37%), but abortion was second (22%) and health care after that (12%).
Even though inflation was the top issue for independents, 58% of them also said that the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe has made them more likely to vote.
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So independents, who are so key in swing districts and purple states, are saying, yes, they are most concerned about inflation, but abortion rights are also a motivating issue. That makes for a tricky line for both parties to walk in how they try to appeal to the group.
Abortion continues to be a key motivator for Democrats, as three-quarters (77%) said the Supreme Court's decision makes them more likely to vote, about the same as it was in the immediate aftermath of the June Dobbs ruling.
Democrats are making abortion a key focus in their elections, running millions of dollars worth of advertising on the issue in an effort to get their voters out to the polls.
Republicans, meanwhile, continue to focus on inflation and the economy.
And with good reason:
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The first thing you see when you walk through Yuri De Luna's front door these days is a blue air mattress leaning against a wall at the entrance. It's for her 11-year old son, Eloyd.
"He's scared of windows. His bed's high, so he won't sleep in his room,'' she says, citing his recent fears of a gunman attacking while he sleeps.
Some days Eloyd covers the windows of their home with blankets. "I don't know how a blanket would protect [from] a bullet," Yuri says, letting out a laugh tinged with sorrow. "But, you know, it's just whatever makes him feel comfortable."
Yuri says those are some of the ways her son has changed since the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in May. While Eloyd didn't attend Robb last year, he had gone there in previous years.
This week, as in-person classes resume for the first time since the shooting, Yuri has already chosen to homeschool Eloyd and his 12-year-old brother, Emmanuel, for the time being. And she's not alone.
Uvalde resident and a former local teacher-turned-tutor, Deyanira Salazar, says while she's seen her students show emotional improvement since the initial shock of the shooting, she's not sure what can really prepare anyone for this new school year.
"I hear it from parents, I hear it from the students, and I hear it from the teachers, that they're not ready," she says.
How to teach Uvalde's children after a mass shooting
At a recent community meeting in town led by a group called "Uvalde Strong for Gun Safety," heated conversations buzz about holding the school district accountable for safety, whether to send children back into classrooms, and gun-control legislation. Local organizer and pediatrician Roy Guerrero-Jaramillo has succinct advice for parents: "If you do not feel that your child is safe going to school in the fall, then do not send them."
Tina Quintanilla-Taylor, a parent and organizer leading the meeting, nods in agreement as Guerrero-Jaramillo speaks. Having known someone who was able to scale a newly-erected security fence at one local school, she is adamant that the school district has not done enough to inspire confidence in sending her children back to school.
Many who spoke to NPR in Uvalde are in support of the fences going up around public schools, the hundreds of new security cameras on their way, updated locks, and other safety measures the school district is in the process of implementing. But Tina wants more. "For my children to feel safe and for our voices to be heard, I feel that it's safe to say that we need a school and we need it now," she says.
Robb Elementary will eventually be demolished and a new school is set to be built, although the district has not yet determined a timeline for these plans. But Tina points out that a majority of property taxes in Uvalde go to the school district – in her case, 43% of her property tax bill. "So I would like to see where our money has gone for a long time," she says.
Reservations about homeschooling
A few days after that community meeting, Tina puzzles over a stack of school forms in her living room, knowing she'll have to make a choice between her son's best educational options and his safety.
"He is on the autism spectrum. He has global development delay, sensory processing disorder, and he's deaf in his left ear," she says.
Some of the private schools Tina is considering for her 6-year-old, Winston, won't offer the individualized services he needs – so she'd have to pay for them out of pocket. But her decision about how to school her 9-year-old daughter, Mehle, this year was more clear cut: By the end of August she had already started virtual classes through a homeschooling program.
At the end of a recent school day, Tina asked her daughter how it went. "She said, 'I love it. My classmates are so cool, and my teacher's so cool,''' Tina relays. "But she misses her friends."
Mehle, a former Robb student, is also grieving some friends who died in the shooting, including Rojelio Torres. "He was on my bus and he loved Pokémon," she says, unfolding a picture she had drawn of him. "He [wore] this jacket every single day on the bus ... and then he would wear these shoes matching his jacket," she explains, pointing to the patterns she'd drawn on Rojelio's outfit. "I tried my best," she trails off, as she looks down at the drawing.
Tina says she hasn't told her daughter the gruesome details of what happened to her friends at Robb, but that Mehle understands many of her friends are gone for good.
When asked whether she wants to eventually return to school in-person, Mehle says she isn't sure. As for her friends, Mehle said, "I would tell them not to go to school. And to have online school, like me, a homeschool."
Still, Tina has her reservations about homeschooling. When her kids were forced to do virtual learning in the early years of the coronavirus pandemic, she says they struggled with learning. "So they're very far behind already, and then this shooting happened, and it's setting them back even further."
The financial burden of a difficult choice
A few miles away, on the west side of town, Yuri De Luna has been facing similar predicaments.
Her sons attended Flores Elementary this past school year, which also locked down the day of the shooting at Robb. Yuri says 11-year-old Eloyd has remained upset thinking about his former fourth grade teachers, Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles – the two teachers who were killed in the massacre. Yuri recalls taking the boys to a toy drive for surviving kids, and Eloyd's response: "It's not going to bring my teachers back."
Since then, however, Yuri says the experience had also strengthened Eloyd's long-held dream of becoming a police officer – especially since learning about the widely-criticized law enforcement response at Robb.
"He thought, 'Now I really want to be a cop. I want to do what they didn't do,'" she says.
Yuri quit her job in order to help homeschool her sons, who are also using the same K12 program as Mehle Taylor. "We've always been a two-income family. It was kind of rocky. And my husband decided to put in other applications," she says. "Luckily, he found a better-paying job."
The boys have had to give up some things while the family recalibrates their new financial situation. "My Emmanuel, he [sold] hot wing plates to earn money. The other week he did nachos and sodas ... you know, to make money to buy himself his games," Yuri says.
Yuri was also initially concerned about Emmanuel and Eloyd losing individualized services at school as they both have learning disabilities. She feels supported through the K12 program, but hopes they can eventually get in-person occupational therapy through the school district.
At the moment, she says there's nothing the school district can do to make her feel safe enough to send her kids to school — it's actions she wants to see. And she hopes Emmanuel and Eloyd will eventually go back to a school campus. "I want them to be social. I want them to experience everything I had," Yuri says.
The boys see the bright side of homeschooling. They have just finished their second day of school and are hanging out in Emmanuel's bedroom, both clicking away on their computers. Eloyd says he prefers the current homeschooling arrangement to in-person school because there aren't any lockdowns. He's looking forward to science experiments this year.
His brother Emmanuel chimes in: "And I really like it because you could be in your room, and you can actually choose what you want to eat." Namely, their mother's home cooking.
For now, both households are taking school, and their changed, new lives, one day at a time. Tina and Yuri's hopes for their children are simple: normalcy, fun, and a safe school year ahead.
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Kings Dominion hiring for 500 positions ahead of Halloween Haunt
Published: Sep. 7, 2022 at 6:14 PM EDT|Updated: 13 hours ago
DOSWELL, Va. (WWBT) - Kings Dominion’s annual Halloween Haunt event is just around the corner, and ahead of the spooky season, the amusement park is hiring more than 500 associates.
The park will host an in-person hiring event on Sept. 17 from 1-4 p.m. at the Human Resources office.
Available positions include:
- Ride Operators
- Security Associates
- Food and Beverage Associates
- Haunt Associates
Starting pay is $15 per hour. Applicants must be at least 16 years old for all positions, except for security, which requires a minimum age of 18. To view all open jobs, click here.
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Fight between U of R student and delivery driver leads to gun pulled
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - A violent altercation between a University of Richmond student and a delivery driver was caught on camera early Saturday morning.
University of Richmond’s President Kevin F. Hallock said it started with a student threatening the driver. In a letter, Hallock said, “I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would use hateful language or engage in harmful conduct here.”
According to the student newspaper, “The Collegian,” the student is a freshman. Neither the police nor the university released the name of the driver.
The University of Richmond Police Department is not providing much information since it is an ongoing and active investigation
.According to URPD’s crime log, it all happened in the parking lot behind Marsh Hall around 1:58 a.m. early Saturday morning.
In the video, you can see the student repeatedly circling the car, tormenting the driver. Then, he kicks the driver’s car and slams the door.
Moments later, the driver pulls a gun. This is when onlookers begin to panic, pleading with the student to flee.
The driver and male student continue to tussle, rolling on the ground at one point.
The driver is seen hitting the student on the concrete.
Hallock said in the letter that reports indicate the freshman used racial slurs at the driver.
That student told The Collegian that wasn’t true, though he admitted to calling the driver other offensive names.
After the gun was pulled, URPD was called, and the UR student remained on the scene.
Campus police arrested him for a liquor law violation. He’s being investigated by student conduct for simple assault with racial bias.
“No student, staff, or faculty member or visitor should ever be confronted by offensive language, or hostile behavior or feel threatened on our campus,” Hallock went on to say in the letter. “No one other than law enforcement officials is allowed to carry firearms on campus.”
Now, UR is offering counseling services to all students shaken by the event.
Some students told The Collegian they believe the university should compensate the driver and take disciplinary action against the student.
Copyright 2022 WWBT. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/08/fight-between-u-r-student-delivery-driver-leads-gun-pulled/ | 2022-09-08T11:18:45Z |
Virginia lawmakers again fail to fill key regulatory job
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers have elected a handful of local judges but failed yet again to fill a vacancy on the powerful State Corporation Commission.
The divided General Assembly met Wednesday for a one-day special session.
The focus was supposed to be on filling the vacancy on the regulatory agency. But lawmakers said talks between the GOP-controlled House and Democrat-led Senate fell apart.
The lack of action means the long-running impasse will continue to drag on, possibly for months.
The commission regulates a wide range of business interests, including utilities.
Besides electing four judges, lawmakers had little else to do Wednesday.
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Georgina Campbell as Tess in 20th Century Studios’ BARBARIAN, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios.
Back in 2007, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez tapped an up-and-coming genre filmmaker, Edgar Wright, to make a parody trailer for a fake movie to play between their “Grindhouse” double feature. Wright came up with “Don’t,” in which a gravelly voice intones, “If you are thinking of going into this house – don’t! If you are thinking of opening this door – don’t! If you are thinking of checking out the basement – don’t!” It was funny because it was deeply recognizable, and it tapped into the audience’s urge to yell at the screen, “don’t go in there!”
This is also essentially the plot of Zach Cregger’s “Barbarian,” about which the less one knows, the better. In fact, consider this permission to stop reading this review right now, and just buy tickets. Do not watch trailers, do not read reviews, proceed directly to the theater for one of the most brilliantly executed, sharply incisive and wildly scary horror films of the year.
How can one describe “Barbarian” without giving away all the best twists and turns? Well, it’s a triumph of what could be a new subgenre: “Airbnb horror.” It starts on a dark and rainy night, as a young woman named Tess (Georgina Campbell) attempts to access a lockbox at the Detroit rental home she’s booked for a job interview the next day. A light inside flicks on. Someone else is home.
In a plot twist that demonstrates the perils of farming out property management to anonymous tech companies, it turns out that the house has been double-booked, and Keith (Bill Skarsgard) has already taken up residence. Despite her best instincts – like most modern, independent women, Tess is highly vigilant – she’s out of options, and she decides to crash with him in the same house while things get sorted.
This is the first horror film for Cregger, who is one of the founding members of the sketch comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” but it’s clear he is a fan, and a student of the genre, and in his masterful control of tone and terror, an exciting new horror filmmaker on the rise. He demonstrates a knack for flipping expectations, so he gives us a horror heroine who is smarter than the average scream queen, and he gives us a mysterious loner (who previously played a famed horror monster in “It”), who just might actually be a nice guy.
The process of establishing and upending expectations happens again and again throughout the film. Cregger slowly builds bone-chilling and suspenseful sequences up to screechingly operatic moments of face-melting horror, and then swiftly cuts to a different chapter, making a hard left into a completely different mode, taking us all on the roller-coaster ride. His facility with comedy also aids in these jarring tone switches, and “Barbarian” is as funny as it is terrifying.
Tess and Keith fumble through the awkwardness of their Airbnb mixup, but the film widens its scope to encompass the house’s other occupants and owners over decades. Cregger traces the suburban home’s journey through time, the middle-class neighborhood succumbing to white flight and later abandonment, finally snapped up as a cheap flip for the short-term rental market. The rumors about what happens in this home are known by locals only, underlining the perils of an eroded community, ravaged by exploitative capitalism, and creating the perfect anonymous environment to lure clueless, tech-savvy millennials to their doom.
Cregger also uses “Barbarian” to explore women as victims, villains, and victors within the horror genre, and the ways in which they’re both endangered and empowered by empathy. The deeply caring Tess is a perfect victim, but she’s also street smart, and her soft skills and ability to read others are the most effective powers for fighting the evil she encounters. Campbell’s performance is perfectly calibrated, and Cregger effectively illustrates that it’s Tess’ emotional intelligence that gives her a fighting chance.
Cregger wraps this multilayered contemporary social commentary in a rip-roaring, utterly horrifying flick that’s inspired by classic horror filmmaking and tropes. It’s the throwback appeal coupled with fresh ideas – and plenty of skull-rattling scares – that makes this such an exciting new film and one of the must-see horror movies of the year.
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/movie-review-barbarian-a-horror-triumph-replete-with-satisfying-twists-and-turns/article_57f68ff8-2e48-11ed-9631-dbe6a5c6edd9.html | 2022-09-08T11:38:35Z |
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* AFFECTED AREA...Fire weather zones 418 through 425. Fire
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* WIND...West to northwest winds 15 to 20 mph sustained with
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* IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
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Jan Zizka, a beloved 15th-century Czech folk hero, looms large in the nation’s collective consciousness, a skilled, ingenious, one-eyed warrior who led peasants and rebels into battles that he never lost. In Prague, they’ve erected one of the largest bronze equestrian statues in the world in his honor, and now, the most expensive Czech film ever made, “Medieval,” depicts his early years, with the intense actor Ben Foster taking on the role of Zizka.
“Medieval” is written and directed by Czech filmmaker, actor and stuntman Petr Jakl, who also represented the country in judo in the 2000 Olympics. The story is in part by his father, Petr Jakl Sr., who is also an Olympian judoka, and it’s clear that father and son have both a tremendous reverence for the man, his mission and for his brutal, bloody reputation. If there’s anything to recommend about “Medieval,” it’s the daring, no-holds-barred stunt work, the battles a crunchingly gory affair, with some spectacular underwater sequences.
This is the third directorial effort for Jakl, whose second film “Ghoul,” was the highest grossing horror film in Czech history. He brings that touch of the macabre to this tale of medieval warfare, following the path paved by “Game of Thrones” and “The Last Duel,” which plunged audiences into hyperrealistic and uber-violent battle scenes. Foster, who tends to disappear into his roles, approaches the bloodshed, and Jan’s emotional journey, with his typical ferocity.
The legendary Michael Caine, playing a character named Lord Boresh, takes us into the Kingdom of Bohemia at the turn of the 15th century, where chaos reigns, and it requires several frames of onscreen text and a voice-over to get us up to speed. Essentially, the plague has plunged Europe, and the Catholic Church, into chaos, and there are two Popes: one in Rome and one in France. Benevolent Bohemian King Wenceslas IV (Karel Roden) is trying to get to Rome to be crowned king of the empire, though his debts hold him back, while his scheming brother King Sigismund of Hungary (Matthew Goode) plots behind his back to steal the throne.
Boresh hires Jan as a mercenary to kidnap Lady Katherine (Sophie Lowe), the fiancee of Lord Rosenberg (Til Schweiger), a Sigismund ally. Katherine also happens to be the niece of the king of France. It’s a bit of political gamesmanship, and the rest of the film unfolds as a series of ambushes and double-crosses, mercenaries and peasants fighting to gain control of Katherine, who falls in love with her captor Jan, and his honor.
They are both deeply religious people, and through Jan, Katherine learns to harness her own agency, falling in love with his fight. It’s clear that Jakl wants “Medievel” to be a kind of Czech “Braveheart,” but the political machinations are so muddled that there’s no clear goal. It takes a little too long for the script to get to “freedom,” presumably because of the whole lady kidnapping business.
“Medieval” is a film with an identity crisis, caught between its low-brow sword-and-splatter charms and grander ambitions. As a quick and dirty 90-minute corker, it could have been a nice and nasty slice of genre filmmaking, but Jakl aims for something more epic in scope, and the film drags, easily 30 minutes too long. Not even the electrifying Foster is enough to zap some life into this tale of court intrigue and resulting clash of warriors. Lowe attempts to hold the heart of the matter, but she’s not given enough to do.
The clarity of message gets hopelessly bogged down in the internecine conflicts of all the players, the script utterly convoluted even though the film is essentially just a bunch of guys killing each other in the woods while a pair of brothers squabble over who gets to be king. What exactly Jan is fighting for feels dreadfully unclear, despite vague aphorisms like “honor, justice, freedom, faith, hope” intoned over the final frames. We’ll have to take your word for it.
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/movie-review-medieval-story-of-czech-folk-hero-suffers-from-identity-crisis/article_ba951b46-2ef4-11ed-bbba-ef9c889ede94.html | 2022-09-08T11:38:41Z |
Cheyenne and Laramie County
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
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
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{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
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{p class=”p2”}– Sept. 10, 10-11 a.m. The Cheyenne Historic Preservation Board is celebrating completion of the Airport Fountain restoration project. Airport Fountain, Eighth and Warren avenues. 307-637-6307
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
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– 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
Unbarred Tour of the High Plains Arboretum
– Sept. 10, 1-4 p.m. $25. The Alliance for Historic Wyoming and the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens will host a behind-the-scenes tour of the High Plains Arboretum. See inside the historic head house, greenhouse and lath house, then ride the trolley through the station. High Plains Arboretum at the High Plains Grassland Research Station, 8301 Hildreth Road. 307-637-6349.
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
Cowgirls of the West Luncheon
– Sept. 12, 11:30 a.m. Reserve tickets by Sept. 9. $25. Guest speaker Eva Sue will portray a true story of two New York society girls graduated from Smith College, finding themselves as teachers “roughing it” in the West. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. Call 307-632-2814 for reservations.
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
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
Open Jam Night
– Sept. 15, 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
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
Night with the Brewer
– Sept. 16, 6-9 p.m. $40. Black Tooth Brewing Cheyenne is hosting its second Night with the Brewer event. Get to know Head Brewer Thomas Batson with an evening beer tasting, a brewery tour, a Q&A and catered dinner. Black Tooth Brewing Co., 520 W. 19th St. 307-514-0362
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{p class=”p2”}– Sept. 17, 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
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{p class=”p2”}– Sept. 17, 8 a.m. The Cheyenne High Plains Audubon Society is hosting a free two-mile birding hike. Wyoming Hereford Ranch, 1101 Hereford Ranch Road. 307-343-2024
{h3 class=”p2”}Shred 4 Stef Skateboard Competition{/h3}
– Sept. 17, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $5. A skateboard competition, with all profits being donated to local skateboarder Stefani Perdue. In late July, she underwent a CT scan that revealed a significant brain bleed, and after surgery spent several weeks on life support. Now in recovery, the goal is to raised $6,000 to help ease the financial burden for Perdue and her family. Brimmer Park, 3056 Windmill Road. masonhdieters307@gmail.com
Heirlooms and Blooms Harvest Market
– Sept. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Join the Botanic Gardens for an expanded indoor/outdoor market. This one-day event will have a variety of regionally made gifts from artists and craftsmen selling home décor, woodworking, art and jewelry, dog treats, baked good, apparel, pottery and more. There will also be food vendors. Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6458
Dogtoberfest
– Sept. 17, 1-6 p.m. A miniature street festival in partnership with the Cheyenne Animal Shelter. There will be beer, costume contests (for pets and people), food trucks and the annual “Running of the Wieners,” aka wiener dog races. Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co., 1509 Pioneer Ave. 307-514-5314
64th Annual Symphony Gala
– Sept. 17, 5 p.m. An evening to kick off the new season. The event includes a cocktail hour, three-course gourmet meal, live entertainment, and silent and live auctions. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W Lincolnway. 307-778-8561
Cheyenne Greenway Cleanup
– Sept. 18, 10 a.m.-noon. Cheyenne Audubon is hosting a Greenway cleanup event. Trash bags and lightweight gloves will be provided. Cleanup will begin in the parking lot near Van Buren Avenue and Laramie Street. Contact Barb Gorges for more information: bgorges4@msn.com
Pinot & Picasso
– Sept. 18, 1-4 p.m. $40. Jam out, drink and eat as you paint. The Louise Event Venue, 110 E. 17th St. 307-220-1474
Guided Play
– Sept. 19, 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 “Big Art.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Snapshots from Wyoming’s Wildernesses with Kirk Miller
– Sept. 20, 7 p.m. Kirk Miller will share photos and stories from his pack trip into Wyoming’s southern Wind River Range, followed by his thoughts for capturing interesting photographs with a cellphone. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. bgorges4@msn.com
Guitar Workshop with Pierre Bensusan
– Sept. 20. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Internationally renowned guitarist Pierre Bensusan will offer a workshop for adult and teen guitar players at any level. While he plays and composes in DADGAD tuning, the workshop will be open to all guitarists, whatever tuning they use. Presented in partnership with Cheyenne Guitar Society. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Guitar Concert with Pierre Bensusan
– Sept. 20, 7-9:15 p.m. French-Algerian acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan has taken his unique sound to all corners of the globe. He is the winner of the Independent Music Award for his triple live album, Encore and the Rose d’Or at the Montreux Festival, for his debut album at age 17 and has been voted Best World Music Guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine Reader’s Poll. Presented in partnership with Cheyenne Guitar Society. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Joe Gato @ Cheyenne Civic Center
– Sept. 22, 7 p.m. Joe Gatto, a stand-up comedian, actor, producer and co-star for the hit TV show “Impractical Jokers,” will give a performance. Cheyenne Civic Center, 510 W. 20th St. 307-637-6200
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
LBar7 Benefit & Concert
– Sept. 17, 8:30 p.m.; doors at 7:30 p.m. $10. Kenny Feidler and The Cowboy Killers will be hitting the Cowboy Saloon and Dance Hall for a ticketed show with Tris Munsick, Jordan Smith and Kaden Madden, with all proceeds being donated at the end of the night. Cowboy Saloon & Dance Hall, 108 S. Second St. cowboysaloon@gmail.com
Fort Collins, Colorado
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, Colorado
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
Marcus Mumford @ Fox Theater
– Sept. 19, 8 p.m. $45-$50. On his first ever solo tour, the founder and lead singer of folk band Mumford and Sons will perform with special guest Danielle Ponder. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, Colorado. 303-447-0095
Denver
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
Meow Wolf Convergiversary
– Sept. 17, 10 a.m.; 21+ night party at 9 p.m. Day party $15, night party $99. A block party celebrating the one year anniversary of Meow Wolf. Meow Wolf Denver, 1338 1st Street, Denver. 866-636-9969
CHVRCHES @ Mission Ballroom
– Sept. 20, 8 p.m. A performance by Scottish indie-pop group CHVRCHES. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St., Denver. 720-577-6884
Cigarettes After Sex @ The Ogden
– Sept. 20, 8 p.m. An American dream-pop band known for their etherial instrumentation. Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave, Denver. 303-832-1874
To submit an item to the events calendar, email ToDo@wyomingnews.com or call WTE features editor Niki Kottmann at 307-633-3135. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/friday-calendar-9-8-22/article_14b7d6bc-2ef6-11ed-8b1d-cfab9fe90327.html | 2022-09-08T11:38:48Z |
There’s only one thing on my mind at the moment, and that’s pro football.
(Well, there’s also the sweltering heat and the pile of boxes filling my currently empty apartment, but those aren’t any fun.)
Things are quiet here on the Cheyenne home front, but picking up fast with some reoccurring events like The Lincoln Theatre’s Open Jam Night tonight at 7, and Comedy Night at the Metropolitan on Friday.
The highlight of this weekend is the Cheyenne Hispanic Festival, which is set to make a bigger community impact than in previous years. The changes were previously covered in the ToDo section, and come courtesy of the new organizers and increased partnership with the city of Cheyenne.
Other events are coming amid the day-long celebration on Saturday. The Wyoming State Museum is hosting the “Buzzing Bees” Family Day, which will focus on all things pollinator. There will also be a Musical Story Time at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, where kids can explore different instruments provided by the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra.
For nature enthusiasts, there’s a unique opportunity to tour the restricted areas of the High Plains Arboretum with the Botanic Gardens. That night, there’s the installment of Silent Movie Nights at The Atlas with a screening of the classic horror film “Nosferatu.”
And college football is underway. The Wyoming Cowboys face off against the Northern Colorado Bears, with kickoff set for 2 p.m. Saturday at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.
But since I was young and started joining my dad on the couch to watch football, I never really got that much of a kick out of the Saturday schedule. Especially this time of year, when big programs methodically beat up on smaller schools – or, as my dad affectionately referred to them, the “Sisters of the Poor.”
I’m an Ole Miss graduate – I expect I’ll be a Rebels fan, repping blue and red on Saturday mornings, for the rest of my life – but I’ll put myself in the hot seat by saying there’s not a hint of regret when I miss the big college football game of the weekend.
NFL Sunday, now that’s another story.
I come from a football family. My father’s father and his brother both played in the NFL. My grandfather, Preston Carpenter, was a tight end and halfback for the Arkansas Razorbacks before being selected as a first-round draft pick for the Cleveland Browns in 1956. He then played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, where he was a Pro Bowl selection in 1962, followed by the Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins (now the Commanders) and the Minnesota Vikings.
His brother, Lew, played for the Green Bay Packers, coached by Vince Lombardi (yes, the guy the Super Bowl trophy is named after), and went on to win two championships there before the Super Bowl was invented. He then spent 31 years as an assistant coach for multiple NFL teams.
My father and his two brothers were all stellar athletes, with my father being an all-state running back in Arkansas. He went on to play college football for Air Force before transferring to play fullback at the University of Central Arkansas, where my younger brother spent his freshman year as a walk-on wide receiver in 2019.
That leaves little ol’ me, the sole outlier in a lineage of three generations to play college football. I always have had, and always will have, a deep love for the sport of football – the greatest game mankind has created, I’d argue.
Pro football puts me in a state of tranquility, when it isn’t driving my blood pressure up with a shot of high-inducing adrenaline. Good games, bad plays and the inner workings of the sport will probably always be with me, and I thank my dad for that.
I remember Sunday mornings in San Diego. I was still battered and bruised from another Friday night fighting for yards as a high school running back. My family would return from church, and my dad and I would immediately change into T-shirts to sit down and watch the games of the day.
I’ve always been a person who prefers doing things alone, but I would actually ask him, “Dad, you want to watch football?”
It felt like one of the times where my dad and I could truly talk to no end. It still seems like one thing we will always see eye-to-eye on. Game plans, play execution, clean route running and acrobatic catches from receivers, and applauding linebackers who have no business keeping tight coverage on a slot receiver – we can talk it all.
I miss hearing my father’s criticisms the most, especially when it comes to the run game. Many of my favorites cannot be put in print, but among those that can are: “Quit dancing around, son,” and, “Heck, I could have run through that hole” when the blocking is good and the back managed to read the play wrong.
Because of him, I still refer to a quarterback’s poor, wobbly pass as a “duck,” and I know the secret that each league’s championship game is the true “best game of the year,” and that the Super Bowl is usually a blowout.
I haven’t had cable television for some time, and I definitely don’t have the money for pricey NFL streaming packages, so it’s been a couple years since I paid extensive attention throughout the season, but come Thursday, when the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams match up for the first game of the season, I’m sure I’ll catch the bug again.
Also, I’m going to apologize in advance to the Denver Broncos fans around here. I live with the enduring hope that this is the year the Los Angeles Chargers (who will always be the San Diego Chargers to me) will beat the brakes off of everyone else in the AFC West, beginning with the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.
But it’s not quite the same when I can’t hear my dad yelling for me from the living room, rewinding the game so that I can check out a worthwhile play. It’s also a little lonely watching someone score without him shouting “Beautiful!” and standing to clap, a reaction I still believe is warranted in the more exciting moments of a football game.
Now that I’m a bit older, I’m longing to sit down with him, open a beer and swear at the game a little bit, a stage of interaction I’ve missed out on. I have no doubt that, given the chance, we’ll pick up where we left off, speaking a language of which he remains the only other person to fluently speak.
Yeah, there’s nothing quite like NFL Sunday. I think I know now why.
Will Carpenter is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s Arts and Entertainment/Features Reporter. He can be reached by email at wcarpenter@wyomingnews.com or by phone at 307-633-3135. Follow him on Twitter @will_carp_. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/weekend-picks-remembering-sunday-morning/article_a1e81756-2ee5-11ed-89f2-0fe4ab91ef00.html | 2022-09-08T11:38:54Z |
Tribune News Service
Three exciting new series premiere this week, so if you need a bit of a break from “House of the Dragon” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” slip into something a little bit more modern with these new shows.
First up, “Wedding Season,” created and written by Oliver Lyttelton. This cheeky dramedy blends romance and action in a twisty, turny, nonlinear tale of forbidden romance. Gavin Drea stars as Stefan, a lovesick young man who falls for Katie (Rosa Salazar), who happens to be engaged to someone else. When several of her new in-laws drop dead from poison at her wedding, the authorities suspect Stefan had something to do with it, as just hours earlier, he interrupted the ceremony to object. Surviving Katie is also on the suspect list, and the pair go on the run across Great Britain and the United States. As we follow their journey, we flashback to see how their relationship evolved, bumping into each other at weddings all summer.
All eight episodes of “Wedding Season” drop on Hulu on Thursday, so tune in to this charming, rollicking action rom-com.
Also on Hulu is the steamy new series “Tell Me Lies,” with the first three episodes premiering Wednesday and subsequent installments dropping weekly. Based on the novel by Carola Lovering, the series is executive produced by Meaghan Oppenheimer. Grace Van Patten stars as Lucy, a privileged but troubled young woman who starts college and quickly enters into a torrid affair with the smoldering Stephen (Jackson White).
Lucy is mourning tragedies both old and new, while Stephen keeps his popular girlfriend Diana (Alicia Crowder) simmering on the back burner. All the while, persistent anxieties and questions permeate the relationship, with Lucy wondering how deep the lies go, while a post-college framing device shows how this relationship continues to impact them years later. Set in 2007, the needle drops in this sexy series will delight any millennial. Tune in Wednesday.
For something set in reality but no less extreme, Oscar-winning adventure filmmaker Jimmy Chin and his wife and collaborator E. Chai Vasarhelyi have a new series which premiered Monday on National Geographic and will land on Disney+ Wednesday. Chin won the Oscar for the harrowing rock climbing documentary “Free Solo,” and is also known for the mountaineering film “Meru” and the Thai cave rescue film “The Rescue.”
In this new 10-part series, “Edge of the Unknown With Jimmy Chin,” the filmmaker dives into the psyche of the elite adventure athlete, drawing out stories of facing fear, loss and harsh conditions as they attempt feats that are “awe-inspiring, hair-raising, death-defying,” as described in the trailer. Chin crafts this personal look at adventure through interviews and eye-popping cinematography, including footage that the athletes have shot themselves, offering a wild first-person point of view. This intimate look is about much more than the physical triumph, inspecting the transcendence of the mental transformation that comes from attempting such incredible, and dangerous, adventures. Check it out on Disney+ Wednesday. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/what-to-stream-take-a-break-from-fantasy-realms-with-these-new-shows/article_a989fbf4-2e46-11ed-a4d1-3b606b4a266a.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:00Z |
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It’s noon on a Thursday, yet Peter Hook is still lying in his bed in a hotel room in Toronto as he joins our Zoom video call.
He’s also shirtless, providing an unobstructed look of an interesting tattoo on his arm.
“That’s a manga character from when I was into comics,” he explains. “I’ve got a few.
“I won’t show you the rest – because I’m nude and I hardly know you.”
Thankfully, there was no video evidence to back up that claim. Yet, for the next 30 minutes or so, I’d definitely get to know the bassist much better as he talked quite candidly about his seminal post-punk act Joy Division.
Sadly, the band was only around for three years, making its live debut (under the name Warsaw) in May 1977 and then calling it quits after vocalist Ian Curtis died by suicide on May 18, 1980, at the age of 23.
During that relatively brief time period, however, the quartet – Hook, Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris – would forge such a mighty legacy with the release of two full-length masterpieces, 1979’s “Unknown Pleasures” and 1980’s “Closer.”
Those are the two classic albums that the bassist is performing, back to back, on his latest tour leading Peter Hook & the Light.
Here’s my interview with Hook, who joined Sumner and Morris after the demise of Joy Division to form the famed synth-pop act New Order in 1980. The latter broke up in 2007, but reunited in 2011 without the incredibly influential bassist. Hook has, however, revisited the New Order songbook during concerts with the Light.
Q: How does it feel to be playing shows again after such a long layoff due to COVID?
A: Well, we were lucky in England because we got the half of 2021. We managed to do a load of festivals in 2021, where everybody clicked back to normal instantly. Then we had to lock down in England again.
Literally, the first gig we did was five days after lockdown lifted the first time. And you would’ve thought that COVID never happened. Everybody went (expletive) berserk. They were all (drunk), running around like lunatics jumping on you – ahhhhhhhh! And, of course, COVID went up 150% or something like that because everybody just forgot it all. It was quite interesting.
Q: You’re going full Joy Division this time around, offering up “Unknown Pleasures” and “Closer” for fans. What’s it like performing those two classics – each with a different vibe – in the same concert?
A: There is a great contrast between the two. We’ve done it before. Strangely, we use to play “Closer” first. I don’t know why that was now. But now we play it second. I am aware that the chronology is important in showing how Joy Division matured and also how Ian’s words became more thoughtful and more storytelling, in a way, and certainly evoke a fantastic atmosphere.
Q: Few, if any, have done it better than Ian Curtis.
A: It’s amazing to think that the (albums) were only a year apart. We were 19-20 when we wrote “Unknown Pleasures.” And we were 20-21 when we did “Closer.” It’s absolutely incredible to think that you were so young and you certainly didn’t know, shall we say, the maturity of your songwriting. It took (producer) Martin Hannett to do that. Martin Hannett recognized that we were idiots, but the songs we were writing were genius.
Q: Time has certainly proven the latter to be true. Both “Unknown Pleasures” and “Closer” are still deeply fascinating, but in different ways.
A: It’s nice to do be able to do (the two albums) together. You can feel the mood change, because, whether you like it or not, Joy Division’s story is very intertwined with Ian’s story. And I think there is a sadness and a melancholy as you listen from “Unknown Pleasures” into “Closer” for what was and what could have been.
Q: And Joy Division fans have certainly spent ample time wondering about what could have been.
A: What struck me doing this (show) was that – considering we had “Ceremony,” “In a Lonely Place” and “ICB,” which became a New Order song – we had the foundation of a fantastic third album for Joy Division.
And, of course, the ultimate sadness is that we didn’t get to do that.
Q: How much joy do you get from revisiting the Joy Division catalog?
A: I love Joy Division. It’s as simple and as plain as that. I (expletive) love it. I use to brow beat the others (in New Order) about playing it and they never would. Bernard and Stephen were just never interested in playing Joy Division.
We played it twice through our whole career and Barney (Sumner) didn’t like it. So, I thought, “Well, fair enough. They are not his vocal lines. They’re not his words.”
Q: No, they are Ian’s – forever. But I’m so glad that I get to hear them when I go see Peter Hook and the Light.
A: All those times I used to sit there with Ian and Ian would say to me, “You wait until we get to South Africa. You wait until we get to Australia. You wait until we get to America. You wait until we get to South America” – ad infinitum.
He was so ambitious and so sure that when we got to all these places that the reaction would be amazing.
Every time I get somewhere, I always go, “This one is for you, mate.” Mongolia? Tick. China? Tick. Russia? Tick.
There aren’t many places left in the world where (the music of) Joy Division hasn’t been. And I do always get the wonderful feeling – even if Barney and Steve aren’t – that he is with me.
Q: I think a lot about what Ian might have accomplished with Joy Division had he not died so young.
A: It didn’t take me long to realize that the group wasn’t the most important thing that he missed out on. The thing that he missed out on was watching his daughter grow, watching his relationship with Annik (Honore) come to fruition – because they were obviously very deeply in love at that time. There were many things. He didn’t even get to see his dog – which he adored – grow old.
All those things that I take for granted as an old man – those wonderful, wonderful moments – I think, realistically, they are the things that matter now, not some group that would probably fall out over publishing, as they all do, and all end up hating each other. There are a lot more important things in life that he missed out on. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/we-had-the-foundation-of-a-fantastic-third-album-peter-hook-talks-joy-division-ian/article_cf2d79be-2ef3-11ed-aa3f-efdd83f93488.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:06Z |
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
FRIDAY
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.
SATURDAY
22nd annual Wyoming Buddy Walk: 9 a.m. to noon, Washington Park band shell.
Wyoming Archaeology Fair: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison and Historic Site. Free and open to the public, the fair will feature activities and educational booths, and the Wind River Dancers will perform traditional indigenous dance styles from 1-2 p.m.
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.
SUNDAY
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.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
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.
TUESDAY
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.
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.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
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.
UW Faculty Recital Series free performance: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features Nicole Riner on flute and Chi-Chen Wu on piano.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 25
UW Faculty Recital Series presents oboist Jennier Stucki: 3 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. Free to attend.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
Sept. 30
Downtown Laramie Farmers Market: 3-7 p.m., parking lot north of Depot Park on South 1st Street.
UW Music presents Duo Cintemani: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. This free performance features a critically acclaimed flute-guitar group.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801.
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. For more information, call 307-745-4429 or 307-399-1801. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/announcements/whats-happening-sept-8-2022/article_55585cb4-2ee2-11ed-9554-6fa2d763e540.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:12Z |
Boomerang Writer
The city of Laramie and local business organizations are applying for a $20 million grant to build a new research building for Plenty Unlimited.
Plenty has been heralded as an innovator in farming, and has Laramie business leaders hopeful about its potential for the local business community. It uses vertical farming to grow produce in an indoor area about the size of a big-box store, claiming its method produces crop yields 350 times greater than traditional farming.
Plenty co-founder and University of Wyoming graduate Nate Storey started commercializing vertical farming methods in Laramie in 2011. He joined with Plenty in 2017. The company operates in Compton and San Francisco, California, in addition to Laramie.
If a grant for the company’s new facility is approved, the business could expand even more, retaining 71 pre-existing local jobs and creating 125 more.
The goal of the company is to make it possible to grow food anywhere, as long as there is water, people and power available to make it happen, Storey said during a recent Laramie City Council meeting. He explained that indoor farming is the easy part of the job. The hard part is finding a way to do it as efficiently as possible.
The proposed research and development center would be located in the Cirrus Sky Technology Park, near 22nd Street and Asphalt Lane. It would be used for conducting plant science research to streamline Plenty’s farming methods.
While food from the research and development facility would be experimental in nature and not U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved, it would be available for local farmers to use as compost, Storey said.
“It’s a rapidly growing company in a globally important marketplace with how we are going to feed the world in a water, energy and space-efficient manner over the next generations,” said Brad Enzi, president of the Laramie Chamber Business Alliance.
The city of Laramie applied for the building grant, and LCBA is offering to match with $500,000. LCBA would receive 75% of the net revenues of the building during a six-year leasing period and invest 80% of these back into economic development projects. The Wyoming Business Council would retain the remaining 25% of revenues.
If the plan goes through, Plenty will look to recruit scientists from around the world, and create a pathway for UW graduates and interns to work with the company.
“It’s not just about (agriculture) or energy, it’s about the future, and it’s about opening the doors for young folks who want to get into this thing,” Storey said.
He explained that while previously the company has had difficulty recruiting high-level scientists to live in Laramie, new facilities may help attract them to the job.
“I think there is a future where Laramie is known, and when I say ‘I live in Laramie,’ and ‘I work in Laramie,’ people will know what that means,” Storey said.
Laramie resident Dave Coffey told City Council he hopes the business will encourage more housing developers to consider Laramie as a viable place to build.
Mayor Paul Weaver echoed the sentiment, saying that “a rising tide will lift all boats.”
Wyoming Business Council CEO Josh Dorrell said collaborations between local governments and business groups are an important way to create more economic opportunities in the community.
“It’s important for us to not forget that the companies that are here in the state need just as much attention … as those we are trying to attract from out of state,” he said.
The Wyoming Business Council will consider the grant application this week. Then, it will be sent to the State Loan and Investment Board for approval Oct. 6. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/a-new-leaf-city-seeks-grant-for-vertical-farming-company/article_8fb5b6f4-2ed8-11ed-8390-332a63cc494f.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:19Z |
In the six months since a catastrophic failure of the city of Rawlins water system, area residents have endured a 5-day boil water order and a series of stiff restrictions to their water use.
Now it seems they also may expect their water bills to go up about 50% in the near future.
That’s the recommendation of a new report commissioned by the city to delve into how it can pay for and maintain the estimated $20 million in needed emergency repairs.
“The bottom line literally is the ‘bottom line.’ Rates must be adjusted, most must be increased, and as soon as possible,” writes Carl Brown, president of GettingGreatRates.com in his water rate analysis dated Aug. 25.
“Recovery from the source water system failure depends on it,” he continues. “Fortunately, even after the needed rate increases, your rates will still be more affordable than the commonly accepted national average.”
When the water system failed March 3, residents in Rawlins and Sinclair, which also is served by Rawlins, went five days without potable water. In the months since, the city has imposed a raft of water use restrictions. Last week, people weren’t allowed to water their lawns while the situation is monitored week-to-week.
An expensive fixWhile increasing water rates is inevitable, Brown also recommends Rawlins change its rate structure to a cost-to-share model. In a nutshell, cost-to-share would mean customers using more water would be billed appropriately, and vice versa.
“Quite simply, if a customer causes the utility to incur a cost, that customer should reimburse the utility for that cost,” Brown writes. “Your current water rates are not structured that way, so the structure needs to change.”
Brown also outlines how much Rawlins water users are consuming and paying, and what they need to pay to cover the $20 million in unavoidable repairs and upgrades. More importantly, he notes the city’s utility financial structure needs to do more than keep up with current needs, but save for future pay-as-you-go repairs and maintenance.
“The city produces its own water, most from a spring water source and less from wells. Recently, the spring water source failed,” Brown writes. “During the driest months last year and again this year, the wells could not keep up with demand. The spring water source system is being replaced now and that will increase the system’s costs markedly. That cost will be the main driver of higher rates very soon.”
On average, people in Rawlins and Sinclair use about 10,400 gallons of water per billing cycle at a cost of $5.09 per 1,000 gallons, according to the report. That means people with average usage would see their water bills rise from about $51 a month to about $76 a month.
While that still would put Rawlins water users paying less than the national average, Brown recognizes such a large increase at once won’t be popular.
“Even after making the needed rate increases, your rates will still be more affordable than the commonly accepted national average,” Brown writes. “In that context, you rates are ‘cheap,’ though I bet few of your ratepayers would think so.”
In addition to monthly bills going up by half immediately, Brown says going forward the city also needs to plan for at least a 4% annual increase. That could be more depending on inflation at the time.
Other takeaways
Brown’s analysis says the city needs “substantial improvements” to its system, primarily replacing its spring water collection system at a cost of about $20 million, which is “the main driver of rate increases.” It’s something that’s “urgent and unavoidable.”
Paying for that will mean the city will incur a new debt load of about $421,000 a year, raising the city’s annual payments to $1.3 million in a few years, which is about three times current debt payments. “Obviously, the new debt will be the main driver of higher costs,” the report says.
- While the analysis was done as a worst-case-scenario situation, it can be improved with grant funding, but most of those available programs would require rate increases to qualify.
- There is no option to not make the improvements.
- Rawlins has a practice of doing repairs and replacements on an as-needed basis, which is fine; however, the city needs a new rate structure that allows the city also to save ahead to pay for those when the time comes.
- In addition to higher costs for larger meters, costs of peak flow capacity also need to be built into the base charges for customers. “That structure also reduces the minimum charge for smaller meter customers where the most difficult-to-pay customers are concentrated,” the report says.
- Glenn Addition residents now are billed collectively for overall usage. Brown recommends the city install individual meters for those properties so they can be appropriately billed for their usage. It wasn’t clear if those users would be charged tap fees to install the meters. “Individually metered use will more fairly assess fixed costs to the Glenn Addition through the individual minimum charges and usage,” he writes. Also, people in the area could be spurred to adjust their own water use habits if they’re charged more reflectively of their usage.
- The baseline for the report shows the city has had 28% water loss across its system before the failure, and at least half of that was likely lost through leakage and other system failures that need repair.
- The 107-page report was the main topic of a Rawlins City Council meeting Tuesday, which was held after the deadline for this story. People can view the meeting at the city’s YouTube page and read the full report online attached to this story at rawlinstimes.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/bills-coming-due-report-rawlins-needs-urgent-50-water-rate-hike/article_c756a91e-2ede-11ed-a41a-e742da756d10.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:25Z |
Casper Star-Tribune
CASPER — At least one industry group will appeal last week’s court order upholding the federal government’s right to postpone oil and gas leasing until it finishes evaluating the sales’ environmental impacts.
U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl of Wyoming ruled Friday that the Department of the Interior legally delayed the federal oil and gas lease sale scheduled for the first quarter of 2021 “over concerns that the associated Environmental Assessments” — a requirement under the National Environmental Policy Act — “did not satisfy recent court caselaw.”
In the narrow decision, Skavdahl focused on delineating the authority afforded to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by the landmark environmental law and dismissed attempts by the oil and gas industry to contest broader agency actions.
He pointed to several cases in which judges found BLM environmental analysis inadequate and directed the agency to reconsider its offerings retroactively. That includes a trio of lawsuits, primarily over climate change, that sent the BLM back to the drawing board for almost 4 million already leased acres in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
The agency said the Trump-era review of the prospective leases — which underwent another year of study before some went to auction this June — didn’t meet those heightened standards. Skavdahl found its action justified.
“The court reaffirmed that BLM has broad leeway to postpone lease sales in order to make sure that it considers the environmental impacts of leasing. And that’s a really critical recognition because BLM’s job is to protect the public interest, including protecting the environment,” said Michael Freeman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain office.
Earthjustice joined the lawsuit, alongside the Western Environmental Law Center, to defend the federal government’s actions on behalf of 21 environmental groups.
The Western Energy Alliance plans to appeal Friday’s decision “based on the misapplication” of the National Environmental Policy Act, said Aaron Johnson, the trade group’s vice president for public affairs, in a Monday email to the Star-Tribune.
Its president, Kathleen Sgamma, said in a written statement that the ruling “essentially gives the government a get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to the environmental analysis required for any lease sales,” adding that if Interior Department says it’s not done, “it doesn’t have to hold sales.”
The Petroleum Association of Wyoming, the other industry challenger involved in the lawsuit, has not yet decided whether to appeal.
Nor has the State of Wyoming — the only plaintiff with complaints deemed legitimate by the judge.
Before he ruled on the two sides’ arguments, Skavdahl had to figure out what, exactly, the case was about. That part of his decision ended up disqualifying the industry groups from the lawsuit and undermining similar points made by attorneys representing Wyoming.
The day President Joe Biden took office, he signed an executive order directing the secretary of the Interior to “place a temporary moratorium” on the implementation of the federal oil and gas leasing program.
A second executive order signed a week later added that the secretary should “pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters pending completion of a comprehensive review and reconsideration of Federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices.”
Western Energy Alliance sued over the leasing pause on the same day the second order was signed — more than a month before Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was confirmed by Congress and before she had a chance to act on Biden’s order.
“What industry actually challenged was an indefinite and program-wide pause on the entire federal oil and gas leasing program, and that’s something that never happened,” said Melissa Hornbein, an attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center.
Skavdahl determined that because there had been no agency action at the time of the filing, Western Energy Alliance and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, which joined later, had presented him with nothing to rule on.
“Had the secretary issued such an order, would we be in a different position? Certainly,” Hornbein said. “And it’s not clear to me how that litigation would have played out. That is not the question that Judge Skavdahl answered.”
The decision came as a disappointment — and a fresh source of worry — to Wyoming’s oil and gas industry.
“If the agency never makes the decision, then we have no recourse,” said Ryan McConnaughey, vice president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “In an administration that’s goal is to delay or halt production, all they have to do is just put something in this limbo, and not actually make a decision, and then we’re just stuck.”
Though Skavdahl upheld the Interior Department’s discretion, it’s too early to be sure what the BLM will do in response to the decision, Hornbein said.
But she emphasized the specificity and narrow focus of Skavdahl’s decision.
“I think that it’s inappropriate to characterize it as, like, just a carte blanche for the government to indefinitely defer all sales until the end of time,” Hornbein said. “I don’t think that would fly.”
The State of Wyoming filed a separate lawsuit in March, opposing not only the leasing pause (which still had not been enacted), but the federal government’s postponement of the first-quarter oil and gas lease sale: It is required under the Mineral Leasing Act to hold quarterly lease sales in every state “where eligible lands are available.”
Though the federal government also pushed back the second-quarter sale, Skavdahl only considered that first-quarter delay — the lone action actually taken by the Interior Department ahead of the state’s finding.
The language of the Mineral Leasing Act prompted intense debate over the difference between eligibility and availability during a hearing before Skavdahl in May.
While Mark Barron, an attorney for Western Energy Alliance, argued that it’s the federal government’s job to complete its environmental analysis on time, Freeman, from Earthjustice, told Skavdahl that the agency was trying to comply with “a complicated set of rules … that were designed to protect the public interest.”
Skavdahl concluded, to the oil and gas industry’s dismay, that National Environmental Policy Act standards must be met before federal lands can be considered both eligible and available for leasing.
According to the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, the National Environmental Policy Act is being wielded by environmental groups to harm the industry, and Skavdahl’s decision affords the federal government even more flexibility to obstruct oil and gas development. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/industry-to-appeal-federal-oil-and-gas-leasing-order/article_acf268fa-2edf-11ed-9d40-6707abd2a58a.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:31Z |
The following calls were included in the Albany County Sheriff’s Office responses:
MONDAY, AUG. 29
• 10:53 a.m., 1300 block of S. 3rd St., possible possession of controlled substance
• 4:42 p.m., 4700 block of E. Skyline Dr., trespassing
TUESDAY, AUG. 30
• 8:48 a.m., 4900 block of N. 3rd St., assault and battery
• 1:04 p.m., 1900 block of N. 3rd St., vandalism
• 3:21 p.m., intersection of S. Fillmore St. and Harrison St., possible domestic disturbance
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31
• 12:10 a.m., Rabbit Run Trail, emergency
• 5:35 a.m., Interstate 80, accident
• 8:48 a.m., 1800 block of Venture Dr., emergency
• 5:17 p.m., Albany County Area, theft/unauthorized use of vehicle
• 8:13 p.m., Wyoming Highway 230, disturbance/harassment-threats
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1
• 4:18 a.m., Interstate 80, accident
• 6:19 p.m., Wyoming Highway 130, emergency
• 9:44 p.m., Cloudland Road, emergency
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2
• 1:06 p.m., David Parkway, emergency
• 4:55 p.m., Forest Service Rd. 500, accident
SATURDAY, SEPT. 3
• 1:35 a.m., 200 block of S. 2nd St., possible possession of controlled substance
• 9:16 a.m., 400 block of E. Ivinson Ave., emergency
• 11:26 a.m., intersection of U.S. Highway 30 and Terra Firma Trl., accident
• 7:28 p.m., 400 block of E. Ivinson Ave., vandalism
• 10:34 p.m., Wyoming Highway 230, possible domestic disturbance
The following calls were included in the Laramie Police Department responses:
MONDAY, AUG. 29
• 8:34 a.m., 300 block of E. Grand Ave., accident
• 10:19 a.m., 1600 block of S. 17th St., wildlife
• 10:53 a.m., 1300 block of S. 3rd St., possible possession of controlled substance
• 11:15 a.m., 2000 block of Venture Dr., burglary
• 11:34 a.m., 1300 block of S. 3rd St., burglary
• 12:13 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., shoplifting
• 1:50 p.m., 1800 block of E. Spring Creek Dr., accident
• 2:39 p.m., 400 block of E. Boswell Dr., emergency
• 2:45 p.m., 2100 block of E. Hancock St., emergency
• 4:01 p.m., 1500 block of Riverside Dr., theft
• 4:20 p.m., 700 block of E. Cedar St., possible domestic disturbance
• 4:27 p.m., 1800 block of Venture Dr., accident
• 4:59 p.m., 2100 block of E. Garfield St., accident
• 5:57 p.m., 2400 block of Overland Rd., possible domestic disturbance
• 7:02 p.m., intersection of S. 3rd St. and E. Garfield St., possible impaired driving
• 9:05 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., accident
• 9:58 p.m., 500 block of N. 13th St., emergency
• 10:13 p.m., 2100 block of Wyoming Ave., possible domestic disturbance
TUESDAY, AUG. 30
• 8:31 a.m., intersection of S. 11th St. and E. Grand Ave., accident
• 9:01 a.m., 1400 block of E. Sully St., possible domestic disturbance
• 10:32 a.m., 1800 block of N. 9th St., fraud
• 10:48 a.m., 2000 block of E. Grand Ave., fraud
• 3:21 p.m., intersection of S. Fillmore St. and Harrison St., possible domestic disturbance
• 3:44 p.m., 800 block of Skyline Rd., littering
• 4:01 p.m., 1700 block of Boulder Dr., vandalism
• 4:07 p.m., intersection of S. 21st St. and E. Grand Ave., accident
• 4:15 p.m., intersection of N. 9th St. and Reynolds St., accident
• 4:24 p.m., 600 block of e. Fremont St., trespassing
• 5:03 p.m., 2100 block of N. 17th St., emergency
• 5:57 p.m., 1500 block of Jefferson St., vandalism
• 6:06 p.m., 200 block of S. 3rd St., theft of services
• 6:16 p.m., 1700 block of N. McCue St., accident
• 6:39 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., shoplifting
• 8:58 p.m., 700 block of N. 4th St., trespassing
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31
• 12:33 a.m., 2600 block of Jackson St., possible domestic disturbance
• 7:29 a.m., intersection of N. Pierce St. and Centennial Dr., traffic hazard
• 9:36 a.m., 1500 block of Hackney Dr., emergency
• 10:01 a.m., 500 block of N. 3rd St., emergency
• 2:40 p.m., 1600 block of Crystal Ct., fraud
• 3:48 p.m., 2300 block of E. Grand Ave., hit and run
• 4:01 p.m., 900 block of Boulder Dr., hit and run
• 7:13 p.m., 600 block of S. 30th St., theft
• 7:39 p.m., 4300 block of Foothills St., emergency
• 7:53 p.m., 500 block of N. 13th St., disturbance/harassment-threats
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1
• 12:21 a.m., 1500 block of N. McCue St., theft
• 5:21 a.m., 1700 block of N. McCue St., shoplifting
• 9:01 a.m., 1400 block of E. Sully St., possible impaired driving
• 9:29 a.m., 1700 block of N. 11th St., vandalism
• 9:30 a.m., 1200 block of W. Hill Rd., vandalism
• 10:03 a.m., 600 block of S. 4th St., accident
• 10:14 a.m., 1200 block of E. Russell St., emergency
• 10:41 a.m., intersection of S. 15th St. and E. Grand Ave., traffic hazard
• 11:03 a.m., 3500 block of Grays Gable Rd., emergency
• 11:40 a.m., 1600 block of Centennial Dr., disturbance/harassment-threats
• 1:26 p.m., 4300 block of E. Grand Ave., accident
• 1:58 p.m., 2700 block of Reynolds St., fraud
• 2:23 p.m., 500 block of S. Lincoln St., wildlife
• 3:09 p.m., 300 block of S. 4th St., trespassing
• 6:04 p.m., 600 block of S. Spruce St., possible domestic disturbance
• 6:14 p.m., 1500 block of W. Snowy Range Rd., possible impaired driving
• 7:12 p.m., 400 block of E. Lewis St., accident
• 9:05 p.m., 600 block of N. 4th St., theft
• 9:25 p.m., 700 block of E. Garfield St., possible domestic disturbance
• 9:46 p.m., 700 block of Gerald Pl., possible domestic disturbance
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2
• 2:16 a.m., intersection of N. 30th St. and Joanna Bruner St., possible impaired driving
• 4:16 p.m., 1500 block of N. McCue St., accident
• 4:43 p.m., intersection of E. Grand Ave. and Boulder Dr., accident
• 5:08 p.m., 3200 block of E. Grand Ave., possible impaired driving
• 6:13 p.m., intersection of N. 3rd St. and E. University Ave., accident
• 6:46 p.m., 2000 block of Venture Dr., assault and battery
• 8:19 p.m., 1200 block of S. 5th St., emergency
• 11:17 p.m., 1900 block of N. 22nd St., possible domestic disturbance
• 11:28 p.m., 100 block of E. University Ave., hit and run
SATURDAY, SEPT. 3
• 1:35 a.m., 200 block of S. 2nd St., possible possession of controlled substance
• 8:05 a.m., 1800 block of W. Curtis St., accident
• 8:38 a.m., 400 block of E. Boswell Dr., vandalism
• 9:16 a.m., 200 block of S. Cleveland St., hit and run
• 10:04 a.m., 200 block of S. Cleveland St., hit and run
• 12:41 p.m., 2000 block of E. Curtis St., criminal entry
• 5:50 p.m., 400 block of s. 20th St., vandalism
• 10:04 p.m., 1000 block of S. 4th St., disorderly conduct
SUNDAY, SEPT. 4
• 12:04 a.m., 200 block of E. Grand Ave., false ID
• 1:59 a.m., intersection of N. 2nd St. and University Ave., possible impaired driving
• 3 a.m., 200 block of E. Ivinson Ave., disorderly conduct
• 3:22 a.m., 200 block of E. Fetterman St., disorderly conduct
• 5:40 a.m., 500 block of N. 3rd St., criminal entry
• 8:13 a.m., 1300 block of N. McCue St., hit and run
• 1:21 p.m., intersection of N. 4th St. and E. Flint St., accident | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/local_news/arrest_record_and_police_calls/on-the-record-sept-8-2022/article_85ca3828-2e23-11ed-9232-bb3bd09d1d0c.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:37Z |
State and federal authorities overseeing oil and gas operations in Wyoming anticipate millions in federal funding to clean up wells, pipelines, pads and other related facilities left “orphaned” or otherwise un-remediated by operators.
There are more than 2,307 orphaned well sites in Wyoming, according to state and federal estimates.
The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees facilities on state and private lands, lists 1,307 well sites in its orphaned well program and is set to receive $25 million from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees facilities that tap federal minerals in Wyoming, estimates more than 1,000 orphaned wells in the state. The federal agency will tap into $250 million set aside for federal orphaned well remediation nationwide.
“Orphaned wells are a legacy that we must address, as they can release methane, pollute groundwater, and pose a hazard to people and wildlife alike,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said in a press release.
For its part, Wyoming BLM estimates the cleanup work on federal wells in the state will create or sustain up to 300 industry-related jobs. Meantime, the WOGCC expects the federal funds to clean up state and private facilities will support what’s already a robust orphan-well-remediation program. The state has cleaned up more than 4,713 orphaned well sites since 2014, according to the agency. Of those, 186 were converted to water wells for nearby ranchers.
The federal push to clean up more orphaned wells is long overdue and will benefit landowners and others who suffer the environmental risks, according to advocacy groups. But, they say, the cost of clean up shouldn’t fall to American taxpayers.
“The people who drill the wells and profit from them are responsible for cleaning them up,” Powder River Basin Resource Council and the Western Organization of Resource Councils board member Bob LeResche said. The federal government is “doing something good for the environment and surface owners, but they’re doing it with taxpayer money, which is just wrong.”
When it comes to holding operators responsible for cleanup, the state has generally done a better job than the BLM, LeResche said. Of the $32 million the state has spent to remediate orphaned wells since 1997, $21 million was covered by bonds posted by operators, according to the WOGCC. The rest of the expense was covered by a conservation tax applied to all oil and gas operators in the state.
The BLM, however, still allows for a nationwide “blanket bond” of $150,000, just a fraction of actual remediation costs for many operators. The federal agency is also slow to add wells that are known to be inactive to its orphaned well list, LeResche said, sometimes waiting more than six years to pursue responsible parties.
The Powder River Basin Resource Council and others are pushing the BLM to revise its bonding rules to increase dollar amounts and speed up the timeline for remediation work, LeResche said.
Coal-bed methane gas wells, primarily in northeast Wyoming, make up most of the orphaned wells in Wyoming, according to state officials. The industry tanked beginning in 2010, mostly due to low natural gas prices and the proliferation of hydraulic fracking that redirected the industry to shale gas plays outside the state.
For a 20-year period before the coal-bed methane boom, the state had documented 500 orphaned wells. After the coal-bed methane bust, it documented 6,020 orphaned wells, according to the state. The CBM bust and the string of bankruptcies that followed added pressure on state officials to revise Wyoming’s bonding and reclamation rules.
The BLM needs to do the same, LeResche said, otherwise continuing to use federal taxpayer dollars “is bailing out the culprits who were leaving these wells unreclaimed and unplugged.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/millions-flow-to-wyoming-to-plug-orphaned-oil-and-gas-wells/article_b0e1d006-2edd-11ed-8780-e30bfa1db4ec.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:43Z |
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON...
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Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division and the
Wyoming Department of Health.
WHAT...Air Quality Alert for Wildfire Smoke.
WHERE...Portions of southeast Wyoming including Carbon county and
Albany county west of the Laramie range.
WHEN...through 1PM today.
IMPACTS...Heavy smoke from Idaho wildfires.
HEALTH INFORMATION...The Wyoming Department of Health recommends the
elderly, young children, and individuals with respiratory problems
avoid excessive physical exertion and minimize outdoor activities
during this time. Wildfire smoke is made up of a variety of
pollutants, including particulate matter and ozone, which can cause
respiratory health effect. Although these people are most
susceptible to health impacts, the Department of Health also advises
that everyone should avoid prolonged exposure to poor air quality
conditions.
CURRENT CONDITIONS...The Wyoming Department of Environmental
Quality, Air Quality Division offers near real-time air quality data
for Wyoming's monitoring stations and health effects information to
help the public interpret current conditions. Current air quality
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...RED FLAG WARNING FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE
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* HUMIDITY...7 to 15 percent.
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* THUNDERSTORMS...Isolated dry thunderstorms are likely
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* IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
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The Wind River Dancers return to the Archeology Fair this year, giving a performance from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the even being held at the Wyoming Terriorial Prison State Historical Site.
Participants in a previous Archeology Fair try their hand at throwing using an atlatl. This year's fair has a wide range of activities, presentation, music and food.
The Hide Working exhibit is one of many presentations at this year's Archeology Fair. The event is this Saturday at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historical Site.
The Wind River Dancers return to the Archeology Fair this year, giving a performance from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the even being held at the Wyoming Terriorial Prison State Historical Site.
Courtesy Photo/State Historic Preservation Office
Participants in a previous Archeology Fair try their hand at throwing using an atlatl. This year's fair has a wide range of activities, presentation, music and food.
Courtesy Photo/State Historic Preservation Office
The Hide Working exhibit is one of many presentations at this year's Archeology Fair. The event is this Saturday at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historical Site.
There’s a chance to smash rocks, dig in the dirt, form pots out of mud and throw pointy sticks through the air. It’s the perfect opportunity for anyone who likes to get a little dirty and try their hand at new things.
Or maybe listening to music and watching others perform is more your cup of tea. No matter your preference, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Archeology Fair.
The Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie comes alive Saturday with a step back in time to both historic and prehistoric times. The fair is put on by the Office of the Wyoming State Archeologist and the State Historic Preservation Office, along with numerous other state and federal agencies.
It runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site and is free and open to the public.
Amanda Castaneda, Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month coordinator at the State Historic Preservation Office, said there is plenty for the family to enjoy throughout the day.
“The Archaeology Fair is an exciting event that allows people of all ages to connect with and learn about various aspects of Wyoming history,” Castaneda said. “This is the biggest public event that we put on as part of Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month and has become a much-beloved annual celebration that is both educational and fun.”
While many of the booths are hands-on, others are more show-and-tell such as one featuring David Osmundsen demonstrating traditional 19th century blacksmithing.
Osmundsen runs a blacksmith school in Buffalo that attracts students from across the country and even internationally. It is one of the few schools available where students can learn traditional blacksmithing methods.
One of the guest speakers, Willie LeClair, is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. LeClair has a colorful background that includes bull riding, rodeo announcing, cattle ranching and Native American ceremonial dancing. LeClair will give presentations on Native American spirituality and traditional dance hourly beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Casteneda said one of the new activities this year is yucca processing. Yucca is a stiff succulent prairie plant sometimes referred to as Spanish bayonet. Participants work with yucca leaves to extract its fiber and make cordage.
Also new this year are performances by the Twaynes, a father-son group that will play throughout the event. This fiddle-guitar duo plays a wide range of music from country, classical, Cajun and wild instrumentals.
“We also have an animal hide working demonstration that is very cool,” Casteneda said. “Visitors will get to see the process of working on animal hides, including the scraping, smoking and tanning of the hides.
“Also returning this year are the Wind River Dancers. It has been several years since they have been at the fair so we are thrilled to have them back to share their cultural traditions. They perform a variety of Indigenous dance traditions from 1 to 2 p.m.”
A popular activity every year is atlatl throwing. An atlatl looks like a very long arrow or spear attached to a stick. The stick has a notch or hook and the arrow or spear is placed in the notch. The thrower brings both the stick and spear to eye level, aiming at the target. Then, for the throw, the arm snaps forward to release the spear, but not the stick.
The result is that arrow or spear goes much faster and farther than if it thrown with a bare hand.
Whether it’s throwing an atlatl, digging in the dirt, listening to music or watching Native American traditional dance, the Archeology Fair really has something for everyone. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/outdoors/dig-this-archaeology-fair-has-something-for-everyone/article_5c087c14-2ed9-11ed-a081-67de042c20c7.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:50Z |
Regional Overview
The early September heat wave persists a little longer, but comes to an end starting Friday. Temperatures are expected to drop drastically. Daytime highs could drop 20 to 30 degrees on Friday and Saturday. There could be some snow in the high country to the north, particularly in the Bighorn Mountains. This hint of Fall is short-lived this time around, though, with a rebound by Sunday. It is the start of the yo-yo season, but September is always a month where the weather can throw in a few surprises. We know to get out and enjoy the great weather before the next little dip, and this weekend looks like a little dip followed by a quick rebound.
Ranking Categories
H (One fish): to ensure fish dinner go to the local grocery store
HHHHH (Five fish): toss a line and get a fish; the fish aren’t picky
Granite, Crystal and North Crow reservoirs
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is good at Granite and Crystal reservoirs, but on the slow side at North Crow. There is still a cyanobacterial bloom advisory at the west causeway of Granite Reservoir. Typically, they dissipate as temperatures drop, so that could come soon. This is also a great time of year to enjoy the hiking and biking trails.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Spawn sacs
Magnum eggs
Bead head prince nymphs
Copper Johns
Scuds
Chironomids
Wooly buggers
Leech patterns
Sloans and Absarraca lakes
HH½
The buzz: For those looking for a quick outing to start or end the day, these lakes are a great option. Both are fishing well and should get even better as temperatures cool.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Worms
Powerbait
Salmon eggs
Marshmallows
Adams
Copper Johns
Renegades
Pole Mountain
HHH
The buzz: The fishing action is lively. Moss can be a hassle, so good aim is needed when casting. The action tends to pick up this time of year with the start of the brook trout spawning season. The aspen leaves are just starting to turn, but leaf-peeping season is on the way.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Grasshoppers
Renegade
Adams
Orange scuds
Lightning bugs
Bead head prince nymphs
Elk hair caddis
Laramie Plains lakes
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is good across the basin, but Twin Buttes is the hot spot. It’s also quite good at Meebour. The action is on the slow side at Lake Hattie, but the salmon are coming closer to the shore and that action should pick up soon.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Salmon eggs
Rapalas
Blue fox vibrax
Hornbergs
Black leeches
Egg patterns
Damsel nymphs
Laramie River
HH
The buzz: The river is running low with the angling on the slow side. Look for hidden holes to find the fish.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Worms
Salmon eggs
Panther martins
Pine squirrel leeches
Mason’s mouse
Copper Johns
Caddis nymphs
Thin mints
Snowy Range
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is good to very good across the Medicine Bow Mountains. Both Lake Owen and Rob Roy Reservoir are fishing well. Expect the brook trout to start moving into the shallows as temperatures continue to drop.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Panther martins
Elk hair caddis
Miracle mile peanut
Vanilla buggers
Bead head zug bugs
North Platte River and Encampment River – Saratoga Valley
HH
The buzz: The fishing is good on the North Platte River, but slow on the Encampment River. Flows on the North Platte are only 81 cubic feet per second at Northgate, and down to just 21 cfs on the Encampment.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Small spinners
Rapalas
Bead head prince nymphs
Tricos
Green drakes
Stonefly nymphs
North Platte River – Grey Reef
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is quite good with the flow at 2,500 cubic feet per second. The best action is with those out on boats. The flow is swift enough to make wade fishing tricky.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Mepps
Rapalas
Scuds
Hot head leeches
Pine squirrels
San Juan worms
Purple rock worms
Vanilla buggers
Tricos
Caddis
North Platte River – Miracle Mile
HHH
The buzz: The Mile is fishing well, as is typical for this time of year. With the flow around 550 cubic feet per second, the wade fishing is good.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Panther martins
Tricos
San Juan worms
Sparkle worms
Olive wooly buggers
Thin mints
Split foam backs
Wheatland Reservoir No. 3
HH
The buzz: The algal bloom at Wheatland Reservoir No. 3 continues, but it is a big reservoir with plenty of angling in areas where the bloom is absent. Water levels are low, but the boat ramp is still usable.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Mealworms
Powerbait
Cyclones
Rapala shad raps
Bead head prince nymphs
Crayfish patterns
Glendo
HH½
The buzz: The lake level is low, but that is typical this time of year. There’s still plenty of water thanks to the large size of the reservoir. The catching is on the slow side. The marina and Reno Cover boat ramps are open, but the Whiskey Gulch ramp is temporarily closed for repairs.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Bottom bouncers
Nightcrawlers on worm harnesses
Shad raps in perch, shad
Spoons
Crank baits
Blood baits (for catfish in the liver and beef flavors)
Vertical jigging
Grayrocks Reservoir
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is quite good. Temperatures are warm, but the fish are still biting. Anglers report catching walleye, perch, crappie and bass. There’s something for everyone.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Worm harnesses with leeches
Nightcrawlers on worm harnesses (gold, silver, burnt orange blades)
Blood baits for catfish (chicken, liver, beef and cheese flavors)
Hawk Springs
HH½
The buzz: Both the walleye and catfish action continues to improve. Go early or late in the day for the results, but there should be decent action even in the middle of the day with the cooler temperatures later this week.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Worm harnesses with leeches
Nightcrawlers with worm harnesses (gold, silver, burnt orange blades)
Blood baits (for catfish in the liver and beef flavors)
Cheese
Reservoir levels
Alcova: 98.2% full
Boysen: 89.1% full
Guernsey: 64.2% full
Glendo: 21.0% full
Grey Reef: 90.4% full
Keyhole: 63.9% full
Pathfinder: 30.4% full
Seminoe: 51.3% full
River flows
North Platte River at Northgate: 81 cubic feet per second
North Platte River above Seminoe Reservoir: 153 cfs
North Platte River near Miracle Mile: 540 cfs
North Platte River at Grey Reef: 2,500 cfs
Encampment River near town of Encampment: 20 cfs
Encampment River at Hog Park: 23 cfs
Laramie River near Laramie: 11 cfs
Boat ramp openings
Glendo Reservoir: The Marina and Reno Cove ramps are open.
Guernsey Reservoir: All ramps are open.
Boysen Reservoir: All ramps are open.
Seminoe Reservoir: All ramps are open. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/outdoors/fishing-for-sept-8-2022/article_5dfd75ae-2ec7-11ed-a6b2-d3049aac05d4.html | 2022-09-08T11:39:56Z |
Wyoming public schools were criticized by charter school advocates at a State Loan and Investment Board meeting Tuesday.
The SLIB is considering applications from proposed charter schools in Chugwater, Mills and Cheyenne, and heard presentations and public comment for two. Applicants for Cheyenne Classical Academy can make their case at the next meeting Sept. 14 as the panel weighs which charter schools to approve before the 2023-24 school year.
Wyoming has five charter schools located in Riverton, Laramie and Cheyenne.
Legislation passed in 2021 makes it possible for the board to allow a charter school to become an independent public school within the district where it’s located. Previously, only local school boards such authority.
In trying to convince Gov. Mark Gordon, outgoing Secretary of State Ed Buchanan, State Auditor Kristi Racines, State Treasurer Curt Meier and outgoing Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder to use their new power, many said charter schools were a necessary alternative.
Student performance
The Legislature’s Joint Education Committee co-Chairman Sen. Charles Scott, R-Casper, said he was concerned with low WY-TOPP reading test scores. He said such scores are a matter of school management and community expectations.
Scott is a supporter of Wyoming Classical Academy that would be built in Mills. It plans to incorporate the Hillsdale College K-12 classical curriculum, emphasizing financial literacy, character development and civic responsibility.
Scott said he thinks “having competition for students, which is competition for dollars, the way our funding formula works, will help persuade our districts to pay attention to this key metric and make them realize that they can do better.” For students in large, underperforming districts, parents can take them out of public schools. Scott said it will take a while for the state to turn around the public education system.
“I don’t think the problem is the teachers,” he said. “The number of teachers we’ve got, you’re going to have very good ones and a few poor ones in the nature of human institutions. But I think, by and large, it’s a local management problem.”
Legislators and parents weren’t the only critics of WY-TOPP performance. Natrona County School District 1 Trustee Clark Jensen has served on that board for eight years, and said he is disappointed with how schools are performing compared to state standards. He is a supporter of the Wyoming Classical Academy because he said the public schools aren’t making enough progress.
“I believe they’ll set the standard. They’ll set the bar in reading and math and science and many other areas,” Jensen said. “One of the things they’re going to do is teach the heritage in a way that’s needed greatly. I’m concerned that many of our students don’t have an understanding of the great nation that they live in, they apologize for where we’re at, and don’t appreciate the Constitution.”
He said this will not be the case with the charter school. He noted he will not be running again for office as a Natrona County school trustee, but he may join the Wyoming Classical Academy’s board.
Culture
Charter school advocates back parental choice, because of what many described as a desire for a different school “culture.”
In the case of the Chugwater application, proponents said they were receiving a large amount of community support, and they don’t want to convert the public school to a charter. There are only around 30 students attending the school in Chugwater, and its superintendent questioned whether this would shut down the school altogether if “95% of the students verbally committed” to attending the upstart.
Jerah Nix, founding board member for Prairie View Community School in Chugwater, said the reason such allies didn’t want to convert the small public school was because of the culture. She said it’s very hard to change it, as well as the model used in public education.
Her school would implement project-based learning and place-based education. There would be a focus on internships, community service projects, and residents educating students about their experiences. It is not associated with the Hillsdale College curriculum.
Charter school advocate Russ Donley seeks to have the environment he’s seen at a Hillsdale College charter school in Golden, Colorado. He said there is a respect for teachers and parents that starts in grade school.
“It’s a culture of virtue, a culture of goodness,” he said. “The kids are taught you don’t lie, cheat or steal. There are no locks on their lockers – none. You see happy kids.”
A parent and board member of the Wyoming Classical Academy said her son struggled with reading and writing. Sena Selby said by the end of fourth grade, he wasn’t capitalizing letters at the start of his sentences or putting periods at the end. she sees hope in the charter school model, aimed at “exceeding current performance averages, combined with the school culture to inspire children to pursue educational excellence.”
“The classical model offers a proven successful, teacher-directed curriculum in a culture that supports parents, teachers, students and staff,” she said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/public-schools-slammed-in-push-for-charters/article_2adbc120-2ee1-11ed-9909-d7c5d8787d01.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:02Z |
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Juul to pay $439M to settle teen vaping probeHARTFORD (AP) — Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs has agreed to pay $438.5 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.
Wyoming is included in the settlement pool.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced the deal Tuesday on behalf of the states plus Puerto Rico, which joined together in 2020 to probe Juul’s early promotions and claims about the benefits of its technology as a smoking alternative.
According to a Wyoming Tribune Eagle review of an announcement from Tong’s office, Wyoming is among the states that are involved with the new pact. The office of the Wyoming attorney general didn’t comment right away.
The settlement, which includes numerous restrictions on how Juul can market its products, resolves one of the biggest legal threats facing the beleaguered company, which still faces nine separate lawsuits from other states. Additionally, Juul faces hundreds of personal lawsuits brought on behalf of teenagers and others who say they became addicted to the company’s vaping products.
The states’ investigation found that Juul marketed its e-cigarettes to underage teens with launch parties, product giveaways and advertisements and social media posts using youthful models, according to a statement.
Barrasso to Biden: Apologize for anti-MAGA remarksWASHINGTON, D.C. (WTE) — President Joe Biden should apologize for his remarks against supporters of his predecessor, Donald Trump, according to U.S. Sen. John Barrasso.
Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, was the only member of Congress from the state to respond to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s inquiries, which were made Thursday night, during a speech in Philadelphia by Biden. In the speech, Biden sounded an alarm about Trump and “MAGA Republican” adherents.
“President Biden promised he would unite the country, not divide it. Calling half the country semi-fascists is wrong, and he should apologize for it,” Barrasso said, according to an email to the WTE Friday from a spokesperson for the senator.
Biden labeled such backers of Trump’s Make America Great Again philosophy as an extremist threat to the nation and its future. Biden also tried to put distance between Trump and his closest allies on one side and many other Republicans.
“Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology,” Biden said in his speech last week in Philadelphia.
On Tuesday, the White House had no response to Barrasso. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/worth-noting-sept-8-2022/article_9ba88330-2ee0-11ed-b6f3-7759c88221f0.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:08Z |
JACKSON — The Porkchop Geyser in Yellowstone National Park’s Norris Geyser Basin was once a small hot spring, a blue pool that occasionally erupted.
But in 1985 the geyser changed: The Porkchop began “spouting,” sending plumes of water 20 to 30 feet high from a mostly dry crater. The roaring sound of the explosion could occasionally be heard from over a mile away, and in winter the spray created ice cones more than 20 feet high.
Then, on the afternoon of Sept. 5, 1989, the geyser changed again — quickly. Eight visitors watched as eruptions became 60 to 80 feet tall.
Then the geyser exploded.
The blast sent the silica deposit around the geyser into the air, uprooted rocks as large as 3 feet across and chucked smaller material more than 200 feet away. It left a 10-foot crater.
“Fortunately there was no one close enough to be hurt,” Michael Poland said. But he said, “if that had happened at the height of tourist season, when there were a lot of people that were standing nearby, people might have been injured.”
Poland is the scientist in charge at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, which monitors the active supervolcano that dwells beneath the Earth’s surface in America’s first national park.
Poland and other scientists from the National Park Service, University of Utah and University of Wyoming have spent years setting up a network of seismometers, which track earthquake activity; GPS stations, which track how the ground is moving up and down; and stream gauges, which measure the temperature, flow and chemistry of the park’s rivers. Their goal: to understand how the Yellowstone Caldera is acting and predict any substantial changes, which are unlikely.
But now, with that macro, caldera-wide monitoring network set up, Poland and other Yellowstone volcanologists are gearing up to try to better understand smaller geographies like the Norris Geyser Basin.
Ditto the mechanics of hydrothermal eruptions, like the Porkchop Geyser explosion, that pose a greater risk to human health and safety than less likely large-scale super volcano activity.
The focus on smaller hydrothermal phenomena is a significant part of the Volcano Observatory’s new 10-year plan to improve monitoring and hazards assessments of volcanic, hydrothermal and earthquake activity in the Yellowstone Plateau. That plan is broken down into two parts: “backbone” and hydrothermal monitoring.
Plans for “backbone” monitoring include beefing up the larger, caldera-wide system that’s already in place. The hydrothermal monitoring is new and geared toward tracking activity within Yellowstone’s individual thermal areas and geyser basins.
“We have that bigger-picture view nailed down pretty well,” Poland said. “It’s time to actually go after the smaller-picture stuff.”
Ken Sims is a National Geographic Explorer and University of Wyoming professor who researches volcanoes around the globe and has represented the university on the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory since 2013.
The expansion of monitoring in smaller geyser basins is, in part, about establishing a “baseline,” he said.
“You can’t forecast that someone’s going to have a bad heart without understanding how the heart works and having EKGs and various blood tests to look for plaques,” Sims said. “We’re at the stage where we’re trying to better monitor these systems so we can better forecast those events.
“Part of it is just knowing what the steady state is so you know what might be aberrant, might be different,” Sims said.
In smaller geyser basins, Poland said, satellite monitoring data indicates that the ground may rise during the summer when there’s more water present and fall in late summer when that water drains away. More detailed monitoring could confirm that, as well as tip park managers off if “an individual geyser basin is ever doing something weird,” like getting ready to explode.
Hydrothermal explosions like the one at Porkchop Geyser are caused by water flashing to steam and immediately having to escape its container.
“That can create a small explosion and spray boiling water, mud and rocks over a small area,” Poland said.
Such explosions are relatively common, happening once every year or two in the backcountry, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. However, Poland said, they’re an “under-appreciated hazard” in the front country and “one that’s far more important on human time scales than a volcanic eruption.”
Poland said the Volcano Observatory hopes to set up the first geyser basin monitoring station in Norris Geyser Basin in 2023.
More monitoring stations would likely come online in the following years once volcanologists evaluate how well the first one works. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/yellowstone-volcanologists-seek-to-understand-small-geyser-systems/article_701fb104-2ede-11ed-8963-0b3e9a99dbd3.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:14Z |
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In 1947, in the context of changing attitudes about race and a historic shift in federal policy on the practice of segregation in housing, punctuated by President Harry S. Truman’s spirited attack on discrimination in America, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in Shelley v. Kraemer that rendered racial covenants unenforceable.
In a 6-0 opinion authored by Chief Justice Fred Vinson, the court destroyed the most efficient and systematic tool for maintaining Jim Crow traditions and denying racial minorities from accessing decent housing.
Shelley marked a dramatic turning point in American law. Racial covenants had been upheld by the Supreme Court in Corrigan v. Buckley (1926), and were, therefore, widely enforced in northern states as a means of promoting segregation in housing. The practice contributed significantly to an acute housing shortage for Black Americans in the years following World War II.
While covenants had been upheld by the court, the justices had refused to entertain a crucial question: Is judicial enforcement of racial covenants in fact a form of state action, and thus a violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment? In the years after Corrigan, the question had been repeatedly submitted to the court, but each time, the justices declined the opportunity to consider the question.
Shelley v. Kraemer arose out of the enforcement of a racial covenant. J.D. Shelley and his wife, Ethel, had saved money to buy a home in a tree-shaded, predominately white neighborhood in St. Louis. The Shelleys and their neighbors got along fine. Life was good. However, the Kraemers, who lived 10 blocks away, were not friendly with the Shelleys. They hired a process server, who delivered a summons informing the Shelleys that the deed to their home included a covenant, recorded in 1911, which barred ownership or occupancy on their block by “people of the Negro or Mongolian Race.”
The Shelleys sued, and prevailed, in a state Missouri trial court, but the ruling was reversed by the Missouri Supreme Court, creating grounds for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Shelleys’ appeal became one of four cases, collectively formed as the “Restrictive Covenant Cases,” brought by the NAACP, under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, then chief counsel for the organization and later a Supreme Court justice. Less than a week after the appeal was filed at the end of June 1947, the Truman White House announced a bold, new policy on civil rights in America.
Upon learning of a series of lynchings of Black Americans, in addition to a flood tide of hate literature and other acts of racism, President Truman created a civil rights commission and delivered a thunderbolt in an address to the 38th annual conference of the NAACP in front of the Lincoln Memorial. “The extension of civil rights today means not the protection of the people against the government, but protection of the people by the government.” Truman’s speech electrified civil rights and civil liberties groups, which successfully pressed for governmental denunciation of racial covenants.
For the first time, the Justice Department submitted an amicus brief in a case in which only private citizens were litigants. The State Department argued in a brief that the nation was being widely criticized abroad for its widespread practice of racial discrimination.
As chief justice, Vinson exercised his authority to write the court’s opinion. Three justices – Robert H. Jackson, Stanley Reed and Wiley Rutledge – recused themselves from the case, presumably because they owned or occupied homes that were the subject of a racial covenant, which would have constituted a serious conflict.
Vinson wrote a narrow, but powerful opinion. “These are not cases, as had been suggested, in which the states have merely abstained from action, leaving private individuals free to impose such discriminations as they see fit. Rather,” he wrote, “these are cases in which the states have made available to such individuals the full coercive power of government to deny on grounds of race, or color, the enjoyment of property rights in premises in which they are willing and able to acquire and which the grantors are willing to sell.”
Shelley represented a historic victory for Black Americans. As of that moment in America, Blacks enjoyed the right to buy any home they could afford. The Equal Protection Clause had been vindicated. And Ethel Shelley couldn’t have been happier as she shared news with her family that they could keep their house.
“My little soul is overjoyed,” she said. “I’ll tell the Lord of my thankfulness.”
David Adler, Ph.D., is a noted author who lectures nationally and internationally on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and presidential power. Adler can be reached at david.adler@alturasinstitute.com.
David Adler, Ph.D., is a noted author who lectures nationally and internationally on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and presidential power. Adler can be reached at david.adler@alturasinstitute.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/shelley-v-kraemer-my-little-soul-is-overjoyed/article_906e3422-2ee2-11ed-bdbc-f323c8e3964e.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:21Z |
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CSO kicks off 2022-23 season with 64th annual gala
What: The Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra invites the community to attend its 64th Annual Gala.
When: 6:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, with cocktails beginning at 5.
Where: Little America Hotel and Resort Grand Ballroom, 2800 W. Lincolnway, Cheyenne
More information: Maestro William Intriligator will again serve as the Master of Ceremonies at this annual fundraising event.
The evening includes a cocktail hour, three-course gourmet meal, musical entertainment, and silent and live auctions. This year, the entertainment will be provided by CSO musician ensembles, including the Serpentine String Trio, CSO Brass Quintet and Sabrina Lloyd on piano.
The silent auction opens Monday, Sept. 12, at 10 a.m. online at www.cheyennesymphony.org/contribute/gala and includes jewelry, gift baskets, artwork and more! Live auction items include a fly-fishing trip, adventures in Steamboat and West Yellowstone, a Farm to Table event at Pine Bluffs Distilling, a beetle kill desk and chair, a private dinner prepared by Maestro Intriligator and a wine raffle. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/everyone_gives/everyone-gives-everyone-gains-9-8-22/article_54174906-2ef0-11ed-88a2-2fec0c85a77f.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:27Z |
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CASPER – At least one industry group will appeal last week’s court order upholding the federal government’s right to postpone oil and gas leasing until it finishes evaluating the sales’ environmental impacts.
U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl of Wyoming ruled Friday that the Department of the Interior legally delayed the federal oil and gas lease sale scheduled for the first quarter of 2021 “over concerns that the associated Environmental Assessments” – a requirement under the National Environmental Policy Act – “did not satisfy recent court caselaw.”
In the narrow decision, Skavdahl focused on delineating the authority afforded to the Bureau of Land Management by the landmark environmental law, and dismissed attempts by the oil and gas industry to contest broader agency actions.
He pointed to several cases in which judges found BLM environmental analysis inadequate and directed the agency to reconsider its offerings retroactively. That includes a trio of lawsuits, primarily over climate change, that sent the BLM back to the drawing board for almost 4 million already leased acres in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
The agency said the Trump-era review of the prospective leases – which underwent another year of study before some went to auction this June – didn’t meet those heightened standards. Skavdahl found its action justified.
“The court reaffirmed that BLM has broad leeway to postpone lease sales in order to make sure that it considers the environmental impacts of leasing. And that’s a really critical recognition, because BLM’s job is to protect the public interest, including protecting the environment,” said Michael Freeman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain office.
Earthjustice joined the lawsuit, alongside the Western Environmental Law Center, to defend the federal government’s actions on behalf of 21 environmental groups.
The Western Energy Alliance plans to appeal Friday’s decision “based on the misapplication” of the National Environmental Policy Act, said Aaron Johnson, the trade group’s vice president for public affairs, in a Monday email to the Star-Tribune.
Its president, Kathleen Sgamma, said in a written statement that the ruling “essentially gives the government a get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to the environmental analysis required for any lease sales,” adding that if Interior Department says it’s not done, “it doesn’t have to hold sales.”
The Petroleum Association of Wyoming, the other industry challenger involved in the lawsuit, has not yet decided whether to appeal.
Nor has the State of Wyoming – the only plaintiff with complaints deemed legitimate by the judge.
Before he ruled on the two sides’ arguments, Skavdahl had to figure out what, exactly, the case was about. That part of his decision ended up disqualifying the industry groups from the lawsuit and undermining similar points made by attorneys representing Wyoming.
The day President Joe Biden took office, he signed an executive order directing the secretary of the Interior to “place a temporary moratorium” on the implementation of the federal oil and gas leasing program.
A second executive order signed a week later added that the secretary should “pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters pending completion of a comprehensive review and reconsideration of federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices.”
Western Energy Alliance sued over the leasing pause on the same day the second order was signed – more than a month before Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was confirmed by Congress and before she had a chance to act on Biden’s order.
“What industry actually challenged was an indefinite and program-wide pause on the entire federal oil and gas leasing program, and that’s something that never happened,” said Melissa Hornbein, an attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center.
Skavdahl determined that because there had been no agency action at the time of the filing, Western Energy Alliance and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, which joined later, had presented him with nothing to rule on.
“Had the secretary issued such an order, would we be in a different position? Certainly,” Hornbein said. “And it’s not clear to me how that litigation would have played out. That is not the question that Judge Skavdahl answered.”
The decision came as a disappointment – and a fresh source of worry – to Wyoming’s oil and gas industry.
“If the agency never makes the decision, then we have no recourse,” said Ryan McConnaughey, vice president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “In an administration that’s goal is to delay or halt production, all they have to do is just put something in this limbo, and not actually make a decision, and then we’re just stuck.”
Though Skavdahl upheld the Interior Department’s discretion, it’s too early to be sure what the BLM will do in response to the decision, Hornbein said.
But she emphasized the specificity and narrow focus of Skavdahl’s decision.
“I think that it’s inappropriate to characterize it as, like, just a carte blanche for the government to indefinitely defer all sales until the end of time,” Hornbein said. “I don’t think that would fly.”
The State of Wyoming filed a separate lawsuit in March, opposing not only the leasing pause (which still had not been enacted), but the federal government’s postponement of the first-quarter oil and gas lease sale: It is required under the Mineral Leasing Act to hold quarterly lease sales in every state “where eligible lands are available.”
Though the federal government also pushed back the second-quarter sale, Skavdahl only considered that first-quarter delay – the lone action actually taken by the Interior Department ahead of the state’s finding.
The language of the Mineral Leasing Act prompted intense debate over the difference between eligibility and availability during a hearing before Skavdahl in May.
While Mark Barron, an attorney for Western Energy Alliance, argued that it’s the federal government’s job to complete its environmental analysis on time, Freeman, from Earthjustice, told Skavdahl that the agency was trying to comply with “a complicated set of rules … that were designed to protect the public interest.”
Skavdahl concluded, to the oil and gas industry’s dismay, that National Environmental Policy Act standards must be met before federal lands can be considered both eligible and available for leasing.
According to the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, the National Environmental Policy Act is being wielded by environmental groups to harm the industry, and Skavdahl’s decision affords the federal government even more flexibility to obstruct oil and gas development. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/from_the_wire/industry-to-appeal-leasing-order/article_578701ee-2ef5-11ed-ad6a-a76cb6f0ee0a.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:33Z |
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CHEYENNE – Two local men were arrested last week for allegedly voting while ineligible because of prior felony convictions.
David L. Hakala, 45, and Brandon J. Toth, 40, both of Cheyenne, are accused of voting illegally in the November 2020 general election. Their rights to vote had not been restored following felony convictions, according to court documents.
Toth was arrested Sept. 1 by the Cheyenne Police Department after an officer pulled him over for not having a working license plate light, according to jail records. His arraignment is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Sept. 23 in Laramie County Circuit Court.
Hakala was arrested Sept. 2 by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office. It’s unclear how Hakala came into contact with law enforcement, but his arrest location was listed in jail records as the Laramie County Governmental Complex, 309 W. 20th St. His arraignment is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Sept. 21 in circuit court.
Each had a warrant for his arrest issued on Aug. 10.
Both were charged under Wyoming statute 22-26-106(a)(i), according to Laramie County jail records. The statute describes “false voting” as “voting, or offering to vote, when not a qualified elector entitled to vote at the election.”
The charge is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $200. If the offense is “committed with the knowledge of not being a qualified elector entitled to vote at the election or in that precinct,” a person could face up to one year in jail, a maximum fine of $5,000 or both.
A second or subsequent offense is punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of $10,000 or both.
The charges were filed following an investigation by Detective Michael Young with the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office, according to court documents. Young was investigating “individuals who were convicted of felonies and had registered and voted” within Laramie County.
The state law says: “The county sheriff shall investigate acts of false voting at the request of a county clerk who has reasonable cause to believe that a person has committed false voting. After an investigation and a finding that the allegation has merit, the county sheriff shall refer the matter to the district attorney for prosecution in the appropriate courts of this state.”
Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee could not be reached for comment.
Hakala was convicted in 2000 for unlawful manufacture or delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, schedule I, II or III drugs. He was apparently flagged in the WyoReg system as a convicted felon.
Toth had been convicted of multiple felonies in the past two decades. In 2006, he was convicted for unlawful manufacture or delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, narcotic schedule I or II drugs. He was convicted in 2011 for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, his third offense of that nature. In 2013 and 2017, he was convicted of unlawful possession of schedule I or II narcotics. He was also, at some point, convicted of violating his probation.
Toth “did not have a violent felony and thought he could vote,” a probable cause affidavit says. He also “said he was not aware of Wyoming law and thought his rights were restored.”
Both men apparently left a section of the voter registration form blank where they should have checked that they were not a convicted felon; were a convicted felon, but had their voting rights restored, or were a convicted felon whose voting rights had not been restored.
Detective Young said in affidavits that neither Hakala nor Toth had petitioned the Wyoming Department of Corrections and Wyoming Parole Board to have their rights restored. Toth is “not eligible for restoration of voter rights due to multiple felony convictions,” Young wrote.
State statute 7-13-105 outlines the restoration process. First-time nonviolent felons will “automatically have their right to vote restored if they completed their supervision or were discharged from an institution on or after” Jan. 1, 2010, according to the state Department of Corrections website. People who finished their sentences before Jan. 1, 2010, must apply for restoration. An application form and further instructions are also available on the DOC website.
Hannah Black is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s criminal justice reporter. She can be reached at hblack@wyomingnews.com or 307-633-3128. Follow her on Twitter at @hannahcblack. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/law-enforcement-arrest-two-laramie-county-men-for-voting-as-felons/article_6d983c9c-2ef9-11ed-8976-8794909444fe.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:39Z |
Recently arrested by the Cheyenne Police Department:
Melissa L. Stephenson, 33, transient, on a felony warrant through Laramie County District Court for probation violation, a felony warrant for theft (greater than $1,000) and a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday in the 1300 block of Sonata Lane.
Ryan J. Payne, 28, transient, for misdemeanor public intoxication at 7:23 p.m. Tuesday in the 3300 block of East Pershing Boulevard.
Allen J. Fenstermacher, 39, transient, for felony aggravated assault with injury with a deadly weapon at 3 p.m. Tuesday at an unknown Cheyenne location (address redacted).
Sherri A. Chrisman, 40, of Pinto Lane on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to appear at 6:34 a.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of West 19th Street.
Desiree R. Pantoja, 38, of Medicine Bow Avenue for misdemeanor possession of methamphetamine/amphetamine-type drug, possession in pill form, fleeing/eluding, interference with a peace officer without injury, careless driving and red light violation at 1:51 a.m. Tuesday at Medicine Bow Avenue and Teton Street.
Jason S. Singleton, 26, of East 19th Street for felony aggravated assault with injury with a deadly weapon at 8:08 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of West Fox Farm Road.
Devon K. Charles, 47, transient, on a felony warrant through Laramie County District Court for failure to comply at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the 1300 block of West 17th Street.
Jason R. Hellings, 41, transient, for misdemeanor assault (battery) and two misdemeanor counts of false imprisonment at 3 a.m. Monday in the 1700 block of Westland Road.
Bryan R. Schneider, 42, of Bradley Avenue on a misdemeanor warrant for domestic battery at 4:09 a.m. Sunday at East Fox Farm Road and Morrie Avenue.
Brandon W. Beck, 38, address redacted, for felony strangulation of a household member with minor injury and misdemeanor domestic battery at 11:05 p.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of Pershing Pointe Drive.
Matthew C. Martinez, 31, of King Court for misdemeanor violation of a protection order at 9:07 p.m. Saturday in the 5100 block of Griffith Avenue.
Anthony R. Romero Jr., 38, transient, for misdemeanor interference with a peace officer without injury and domestic battery, and on a felony warrant through Laramie County District Court for failure to appear at 11:46 a.m. Saturday at East Pershing Boulevard and Ridge Road.
Garrett S. Ross, 23, of Osage Avenue for misdemeanor public intoxication and refusing to obey at 1:32 a.m. Saturday in the 3300 block of Nationway.
Neoganae Presbury, 18, of an unreported address, for misdemeanor public intoxication, interfering/obstructing and giving false identity at 1:32 a.m. Saturday in the 3300 block of Nationway.
Sabrina B. White, 28, of Seminoe Road for misdemeanor driving under the influence (alcohol), interference with a peace officer without injury and possession of methamphetamine/amphetamine-type drug at 11:30 p.m. Friday in the 1600 block of Stillwater Avenue.
Paula D. Bell, 43, transient, on a misdemeanor warrant for falsely reporting an emergency at 6:12 p.m. Friday at Powderhouse Road and Hoy Road.
Matthew S. Pruitt, 19, of East 15th Street for felony possessing a weapon as a felon and misdemeanor possession of marijuana at 6:11 p.m. Friday at his residence.
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Recently arrested by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office:
Shawna M. Ornelaz, 45, of Christine Circle on a warrant for two misdemeanor counts of theft (less than $1,000 from building) at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday at the Laramie County jail, 1910 Pioneer Ave.
Dovey King, 35, of Miller Lane on a felony warrant through Laramie County District Court for failure to appear at 12:41 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of South Greeley Highway.
Vincent L. Munoz, 62, of Hellwig Road for misdemeanor criminal trespass (communication) at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of South Greeley Highway.
Bradley A. Lieurance, 22, of West Eighth Street on a misdemeanor warrant for failure to pay at 7:54 a.m. Sunday at his residence.
Kari A. Dillmon, 53, of Evans Avenue for misdemeanor DUI (alcohol) at 1:40 a.m. Sunday at Walterscheid Boulevard and West College Drive.
Jesse R. Galusha, 35, of Van Lennen Avenue for felony DUI (alcohol, four or greater in 10 years) at 3:38 a.m. Saturday in the 100 block of North Greeley Highway.
David L. Hakala, 45, of Fremont Avenue on a misdemeanor warrant for false voting (not qualified or not entitled) at 2:10 p.m. Friday at the Laramie County Governmental Complex, 309 W. 20th St.
Julian M. Hernandez, 21, of Windmill Road on a warrant for two misdemeanor counts of domestic battery at 2 p.m. Friday at the Laramie County jail.
Kagen C. Meyer Jr., 21, of Pierce Avenue on a felony warrant through Laramie County District Court for probation violation and two misdemeanor warrants for probation violation at 10:55 a.m. Friday at the Laramie County jail.
Chad M. Smith, 51, of 18th Street on a felony warrant out of Larimer County, Colorado, for failure to appear at 6:18 a.m. Friday at the Laramie County jail.
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Recently arrested by the Wyoming Highway Patrol:
Israel R. Cazares, 34, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, for misdemeanor DUI (alcohol, first in 10 years) at 10:44 p.m. Tuesday at mile marker 15 on Interstate 25.
Jennifer L. Bessert, 42, of Dell Range Boulevard for misdemeanor DUI, following too closely and possession of a controlled substance (plant, 3 oz. or less) at 1:17 p.m. Monday at mile marker 8 on northbound I-25.
Daniel Lockwood, 42, of Fort Collins, Colorado, for misdemeanor DUI (alcohol) and lane use violation at 4:22 a.m. Monday at mile marker 10.5 on northbound I-25.
Brucene R. Wilson, 50, of Village View Lane on a warrant for felony property destruction (greater than $1,000) and misdemeanor stalking at 11:28 p.m. Friday at mile marker 364 on U.S. Highway 30.
Police blotter is a list of recent arrests compiled from public records in Laramie County. All people listed here are innocent until proven guilty. Anyone listed who has a charge dismissed or is acquitted of the charge may bring or mail a court document proving such to the WTE editor, 702 W. Lincolnway, Cheyenne, WY 82001. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/police_blotter/police-blotter-9-8-22/article_179a01ec-2e0c-11ed-b9c3-b75bdf2ab18f.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:45Z |
In 1947, in the context of changing attitudes about race and a historic shift in federal policy on the practice of segregation in housing, punctuated by President Harry S. Truman’s spirited attack on discrimination in America, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in Shelley v. Kraemer that rendered racial covenants unenforceable.
In a 6-0 opinion authored by Chief Justice Fred Vinson, the Court destroyed the most efficient and systematic tool for maintaining Jim Crow traditions and denying racial minorities from accessing decent housing.
Shelley marked a dramatic turning point in American law. Racial covenants had been upheld by the Supreme Court in Corrigan v. Buckley (1926), and were, therefore, widely enforced in northern states as a means of promoting segregation in housing. The practice contributed significantly to an acute housing shortage for Black Americans in the years following World War II.
While covenants had been upheld by the Court, the justices had refused to entertain a crucial question: Is judicial enforcement of racial covenants in fact a form of state action, and thus a violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment? In the years after Corrigan, the question had been repeatedly submitted to the Court, but each time, the justices declined the opportunity to consider the question.
Shelley v. Kraemer arose out of the enforcement of a racial covenant. J.D. Shelley and his wife, Ethel, had saved money to buy a home in a tree-shaded, predominately white neighborhood in St. Louis. The Shelleys and their neighbors got along fine. Life was good. However, the Kraemers, who lived 10 blocks away, were not friendly with the Shelleys. They hired a process server, who delivered a summons informing the Shelleys that the deed to their home included a covenant, recorded in 1911, which barred ownership or occupancy on their block by “people of the Negro or Mongolian Race.”
The Shelleys sued, and prevailed, in a state Missouri trial court, but the ruling was reversed by the Missouri Supreme Court, creating grounds for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Shelleys’ appeal became one of four cases, collectively formed as the “Restrictive Covenant Cases,” brought by the NAACP, under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, then chief counsel for the organization and later a Supreme Court justice. Less than a week after the appeal was filed at the end of June 1947, the Truman White House announced a bold, new policy on civil rights in America.
Upon learning of a series of lynchings of Black Americans, in addition to a flood tide of hate literature and other acts of racism, President Truman created a civil rights commission and delivered a thunderbolt in an address to the 38th annual conference of the NAACP in front of the Lincoln Memorial. “The extension of civil rights today means not the protection of the people against the government, but protection of the people by the government.” Truman’s speech electrified civil rights and civil liberties groups, which successfully pressed for governmental denunciation of racial covenants.
For the first time, the Justice Department submitted an amicus brief in a case in which only private citizens were litigants. The State Department argued in a brief that the nation was being widely criticized abroad for its widespread practice of racial discrimination.
As chief justice, Vinson exercised his authority to write the Court’s opinion. Three justices – Robert H. Jackson, Stanley Reed and Wiley Rutledge – recused themselves from the case, presumably because they owned or occupied homes that were the subject of a racial covenant, which would have constituted a serious conflict.
Vinson wrote a narrow, but powerful opinion. “These are not cases, as had been suggested, in which the states have merely abstained from action, leaving private individuals free to impose such discriminations as they see fit. Rather,” he wrote, “these are cases in which the states have made available to such individuals the full coercive power of government to deny on grounds of race, or color, the enjoyment of property rights in premises in which they are willing and able to acquire and which the grantors are willing to sell.”
Shelley represented a historic victory for Black Americans. As of that moment in America, Blacks enjoyed the right to buy any home they could afford. The Equal Protection Clause had been vindicated. And Ethel Shelley couldn’t have been happier as she shared news with her family that they could keep their house.
“My little soul is overjoyed,” she said. “I’ll tell the Lord of my thankfulness.”
David Adler, Ph.D., is a noted author who lectures nationally and internationally on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and presidential power. Adler can be reached at david.adler@alturasinstitute.com. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/adler-shelley-v-kraemer-my-little-soul-is-overjoyed/article_2e4fb39c-2ece-11ed-85ff-b385e588158a.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:52Z |
We moved to Wyoming 40 years ago so I could attend an excellent law school with a nonresident tuition of $1,038; lower than resident tuition at a state school in our home state. We worked for a year before moving in order to avoid borrowing.
We shared her daily free meal from her fast food job, lived in cinderblock student housing and avoided borrowing until the final semester.
I took a full-time legal job for about $22,000. Even with that initial salary, we paid off what we borrowed asap, and saved everything we could to allow her to finish college. As we raised our children, we worked hard and our wages increased, but we still drove inexpensive, fuel-efficient cars and lived within our means. We saved in order to pay for our children's college.
While others complained about tens of thousands in student loan debt while driving $50,000 vehicles, we put over 200,000 miles on our cars. Our children graduated college debt-free.
In recent years, we could well afford to replace our Honda Accor . My wife chose to keep her "dream car" with 200,000 miles so we could use the money for college funds for our grandchildren.
Our lifestyle is mocked by the forgiveness of loans that were incurred by people who did not and still do not live within their means. This executive action goes beyond the typical "take from those who work hard and give to those who don't work at all." People qualify who make up to $125,000 a year. Twice that for couples.
This was done by executive action of a government that spends money it does not have, adding to inflationary pressures. It teaches that obligations don't have to be met. Whine loud enough, and somehow you're entitled to have someone else pay your debts. Unfortunately, those "someones" are people who work for a living, live within their means and pay taxes.
The federal government has the power to mock how we lived our lives, but having the power does not make it right. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/student-loan-forgiveness-shows-if-you-whine-enough-you-get-your-way/article_0c54ac14-2ee4-11ed-85cb-cba4e2e5c35a.html | 2022-09-08T11:40:58Z |
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CHEYENNE – Before each match, Cheyenne South’s No. 2 singles player, Armando Hernandez, pops his headphones on and jams out to Lil Baby to get himself ready to face his opponent.
The pregame prep has worked so far for the junior, who has jumped out to a 5-2 record to start the 2022 season.
“I love playing tennis and winning,” Hernandez said. “I also realized I have the potential to be really good.”
Hernandez realized his love of tennis early in his life. He started playing at PODER Academy during his second-grade year. He ended up joining the team because it was the main sport the school provided.
“There was nothing really to do,” Hernandez said. “So, I just did what sports were available, and that was tennis.”
Throughout his playing career, Hernandez had primarily been a singles player. But when he joined the South tennis team his freshman year, he was forced into a new role.
With the two singles spots on the roster taken, he played on the doubles teams. He went 5-6 during the regular season and went all the way to the semifinals of the Wyoming High School Activities Association’s South Regional (3-1 overall). Hernandez also went 1-2 at the state tournament, bowing out in the third round.
While he enjoyed his time in doubles, it was never his end goal. Hernandez knew that he always wanted to get back into singles.
“I was like, ‘Oh, this is cool,’ but singles was what I was working toward,” Hernandez said. “Singles is just a whole different ball game. It is a lot more fun.”
He would have to wait a year, however, as he was unable to play during the 2021 season. Bison coach Josh Cossitt believes that this inevitably helped Hernandez grow.
“One of his big moves this year is that he matured quite a bit,” Cossitt said. “He understands the importance of school, being on time to practice and those kinds of things.”
Hernandez finally got his opportunity to play singles for South this fall. Niklas Lock, the No. 2 singles player from the previous season, elected to race mountain bikes instead of returning to tennis.
So far, Hernandez has taken advantage of his new role.
Part of the credit he gives for helping him make the transition into singles is one of his teammates. Andrew Lock, who is the No. 1 singles player, has helped elevate Hernandez’s game to another level.
“Playing with (Andrew Lock) gets you so much better than where you were.” Hernandez said.
The biggest adjustment Hernandez has had to make is in his conditioning. Due to a lack of a second player on his side of the court, Hernandez is forced to run around a lot more than he is used to.
“It was a little hard getting used to playing on one full court by yourself,” Hernandez said. “It is a lot more running, conditioning and just working hard to win that point.”
Despite the challenges, Hernandez has made significant strides in his game, as well. He has significantly improved his stroke and his confidence when hitting the ball. Hernandez noted that he finds himself able to quickly know how hard or soft to hit the ball, instead of over- or under-hitting.
Cossitt also believes Hernandez has improved his game on tactical and mental levels. With singles tennis being a type of “mind game” between the two players, Hernandez has shown he has an ability to recognize when he needs to turn it on and when to play it safe.
“He is understanding more that he cannot be the guy who wins on the first or second ball,” Cossitt said. “Part of the maturity is understanding that you don’t always win the way you want to win, but you are going to win comfortably instead of losing comfortably.”
As for his ceiling, the sky is the limit. Cossitt compared Hernandez’s style of play to the likes of Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios, adding that he could be a No. 1 player on most teams. Cossitt firmly believes if Hernandez sticks to his role at South, he has the potential to win a state title.
Only time will tell if that statement from his coach will come true. Hernandez will get his first shot to prove he belongs with the state’s best when the regional and state tournaments start later this month.
On the court
The Cheyenne Central volleyball hosts Scottsbluff, Nebraska, at 6 tonight. Pine Bluffs plays at Lusk at 5 p.m. tonight before heading up to the Big Horn Invitational on Friday and Saturday. Burns will join Pine in Big Horn.
South’s tennis squad hosts Rawlins at 4 p.m. today, and Rock Springs and Green River on Friday.
East and Central square off with Rawlins on Friday before hosting Green River and Rock Springs on Saturday.
On the course
Cheyenne’s prep golf squads will play at the Sheridan Invitational Friday and Saturday.
The South and Pine Bluffs-Burns cross-country teams will compete at the Kimball (Nebraska) Invite on Friday.
Central and East will run at the Liberty Bell Invitational on Saturday in Littleton, Colorado.
In the pool
All three Cheyenne schools will have duals Friday before East hosts the Cheyenne Invitational on Saturday. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/souths-hernandez-talks-transition-from-doubles-to-singles/article_82f9d2fe-2ef3-11ed-b62c-13412f0119d8.html | 2022-09-08T11:41:04Z |
Basketball
YMCA youth league: Registration for the YMCA’s youth fall basketball league ends Sept. 17. Late registration runs Sept. 18-24 and includes a $20 late fee.
The league is for children ages 3-12, and the season starts Oct. 1.
The cost is $52 for YMCA members and $73 for nonmembers for the 3-4- and 5-6-year-old divisions. The cost for the 7-8 division is $65 for members and $80 for nonmembers. The cost for the 9-10 division is $70 for members and $85 for nonmembers, and the 11-12-year-old division is $80 for members and $95 for nonmembers.
Registration can be completed under the youth sports tab at www.cheyenneymca.org.
K-2 co-rec youth league: Registration for the city’s co-rec league for kindergartners through second graders is underway. Late registration runs Oct. 21-Nov. 3. The cost is $60 per player, with a $25 late fee, if space is available.
Practices start Dec. 12, and the season includes a six-game schedule. Players will receive a team shirt, basketball, picture and award.
For more information, contact David Contreras at dcontreras@cheyennecity.org or 307-637-6425.
Registration can be completed under the Recreation Division link at www.cheyennerec.org.
Referee training: The city of Cheyenne will hold a free youth basketball referee training from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 at the Youth Activity and Community Center at David Romero Park, 1317 Parsley Blvd.
Registration ends Oct. 20. Participants will learn about proper court positioning, call signals and other aspects of the game.
Registration can be complete at www.cheyennerec.org.
For more information, contact David Contreras at dcontreras@cheyennecity.org or 307-637-6425.
Third-sixth grade league: Registration for the city’s youth league for third through sixth graders has started. Late registration runs Sept. 16-29.
The cost is $60 per player, with a $25 late fee, if space is available. Practices start Oct. 17, and the season will include six games. Players will receive a team shirt, basketball, picture and award.
For more information, contact Harley Tekerman at htekerman@cheyennecity.org or 307-637-6408.
Registration can be completed under the Recreation Division link at www.cheyennerec.org.
Volleyball
Adult co-rec league: Registration for the city of Cheyenne’s adult co-rec winter volleyball league starts Oct. 31 and ends Dec. 15.
The cost is $450 per team. The season runs Jan. 23-April 21. Each team is guaranteed 10 games. There is a single-elimination tournament at the end of the season.
For more information, contact David Mullen at dmullen@cheyennecity.org or 307-773-1039.
Registration can be completed under the Recreation Division link at www.cheyennerec.org.
If you have an item for the Community Sports Bulletin Board, email the information to sports@wyosports.net, fax it to 307-633-3189 or contact WyoSports’ Cheyenne office at 307-633-3137. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/other_sports/community/community-sports-bulletin-board-for-sept-8-2022/article_591f935a-2ed1-11ed-8780-a756f0346ef0.html | 2022-09-08T11:41:10Z |
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LARAMIE – Unlike last season, when the University of Wyoming returned four offensive linemen with at least 20 starts with the program, the O-line was a bit of an unknown heading into 2022.
In just two games, this source of uncertainty has transformed into arguably the Cowboys’ greatest strength.
With three new starters – redshirt freshman Emmanuel Pregnon, sophomore Nofoafia Tulafono and junior Zach Watts – on the interior line complimenting a pair of returning starters in tackles Frank Crum and Eric Abojei, UW has yet to allow a sack through its first two tests of the fall. Redshirt freshman Jack Walsh has also been a key contributor, playing a combined 75 offensive snaps over the past two weeks.
“(There are) a lot of new faces, and I’ve been pleased,” Cowboys coach Craig Bohl said. “On the offensive line, we haven’t given up a sack in two games, and there haven’t been a lot of missed assignments.”
Added Crum: “No sacks through two games is a huge accomplishment. We have these young guys – (Tulafono), Zach Watts, Jack Walsh and Emmanuel – and for those guys to go in there and have 100% protection grades (is great). Obviously, technique isn’t going to be 100%, but to keep the quarterback clean is our job, and to have 100% on that is huge.”
The running game took a slight step back after a decent showing in the season opener, going from 5.9 yards per carry at Illinois to 3.9 yards per carry last Saturday against Tulsa.
Crum acknowledges that “3.9 yards per carry as an average is not the standard that we hold here at Wyoming.” However, he still sees traits from newer pieces on the offensive line that he believes translate well to the Pokes’ run-heavy attack.
Even during last week’s struggles, Crum saw positive signs in terms of their comfort within their new roles.
“These guys finish,” Crum said. “We like to ground and pound here a little bit, so you have to have guys who are willing to be a little nasty. At Illinois, I think it showed a lack of experience with those guys, but they got comfortable in the college football setting, and I think it showed last Saturday. Those guys were more comfortable in the spotlight, for sure.”
Early-down success
UW’s passing attack made significant progress last week after a forgettable showing in the season opener, with junior quarterback Andrew Peasley earning Mountain West offensive player of the week honors after throwing for 256 yards and two touchdowns with no turnovers on 66.7% passing.
The Cowboys’ willingness to throw on early downs played a significant role in this success. Peasley was 16 of 20 for 222 yards on first and second down, with his 48- and 51-yard touchdown passes both coming on first down.
Rocky start
UW’s next opponent will be looking to rebound after a rough start to 2022.
Northern Colorado lost 46-34 to perennial FCS bottom-dweller Houston Baptist in last week’s opener. There were some positive signs for the Bears, who gained 543 yards of total offense, with 425 yards through the air. However, 105 yards of penalties were too much to overcome, as HBU surpassed 300 yards passing and 200 yards rushing.
Changing odds
Betting lines have yet to be released for Saturday’s contest, but there have been some notable changes in terms of Mountain West futures odds now that each team in the conference has played at least one game.
Fresno State – which opened at +230 on DraftKings, the second-lowest odds in the MW at the time – is now the clear-cut favorite to win the league at +150. Utah State and UW have seen their odds double since this summer, going from +900 to +1800 and +4000 to +8000, respectively, following early-season losses. UNLV, meanwhile, has made the biggest jump, going from +10000 to +4000.
Josh Criswell{span} 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.{/span} | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/university_of_wyoming/new-look-o-line-emerges-as-strength-for-wyoming/article_e82be5a8-2eea-11ed-9675-cb30b412b1d9.html | 2022-09-08T11:41:16Z |
‘Armed and dangerous’ man sought by police
Published: Sep. 7, 2022 at 6:56 PM EDT|Updated: 13 hours ago
MONROE COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) - Authorities were searching for a Wayside man Wednesday afternoon considered “armed and dangerous.”
Darrel Hamrick was identified as a person of interest in an incident earlier in the day in Monroe County, according to Capt. R. A. Maddy with West Virginia State Police.
Hamrick was driving a silver 2004 Toyota Corolla with the license plate WV-3WA316. He was last seen on Wayside Talcott Road.
People in Monroe, Greenbrier and Summers County were advised by police to be on the lookout. Anybody who spots Hamrick is asked to not approach him and to call the State Police’s office in Union at 304-772-5100 or 911.
Copyright 2022 WVVA. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/07/armed-dangerous-man-sought-by-police/ | 2022-09-08T12:09:08Z |
AWAY Center to host new fundraising gala
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - The ‘AWAY Center’ (formerly known as the Women’s Resource Center) is taking a fresh approach to fundraising this year.
The center serves victims of domestic and sexual violence, human trafficking, and stalking in its four-county coverage region serving Raleigh, Nicholas, Summers, and Fayette County.
This year, the organization will be hosting a ‘Purple Halo Gala’ at Tamarack on Friday, October 7th, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Organizers invite the public to come out for a fun filled night of music, dancing and drinks.
“We’re also going to have Christy Martin. She’s a world renowned boxer with a Netfix series. She’s from right here in West Virginia. She’s going to tell us about her experience, something we work very closely with, domestic violence,” explained Erin Jones, the organization’s Assistant Exec. Dir.
The cost to attend is $75 per person or $125 for a couple. Those interested in attending may purchase tickets at Upcoming Events – AWAY (awaywv.org) Table sponsorships are also available.
Copyright 2022 WVVA. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/07/away-center-host-new-fundraising-gala/ | 2022-09-08T12:09:14Z |
New River CTC offers accelerated, online classes for those who missed August registration deadlines
BEAVER, W.Va. (WVVA) - New River Community and Technical College (CTC) is making it easier for people to receive higher education.
The college is currently allowing students to register for Rolling Start classes, 10-week, online classes that focus on general education such as math, Microsoft Word, business and more. All of these accelerated classes are worth three credit hours.
Jenni Canterbury, Director of Communications for New River CTC, says Rolling Start is a great chance for those who didn’t make the August registration deadline to not fall behind this semester.
“Life is busy for so many people, and when you go to sign up for college, you complete your application, you get your other paperwork in, but sometimes it takes a little bit longer because, well, you have other things on your plate,” she shared. “So, if people aren’t able to get everything in to start for that August semester, it can be really discouraging to have to wait until January to start classes.”
Registration for Rolling Start is open until Friday, September 23, before classes begin on Monday, September 26. Learn more at www.newriver.edu.
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WVU Tech plans fashion show fundraiser for athletic department
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - Next month, West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley will host a fashion show fundraiser. The university is using the event as a way to raise money for its athletic department to ensure its capability to continue competing at a national level and recruiting athletes.
The show is being sponsored by the New River Gorge Regional Development Authority and will feature fashions made by global designers from West Virginia.
Jen Wood, Executive Director of University Relations at WVU Tech, says this unique fundraising approach has gained nothing but support.
“This is the first signature event we’ve done for athletics in more than a decade, and, so, everybody is really excited and have been so supportive from campus, from folks from the community...Our community models are excited. Our sponsors have been great, and our retailers have been great to work with just giving folks an opportunity to do this.”
The Glam Night Out fashion show will be held at the Resort at Glade Springs on October 22. Here, community members will model the fashions on a runway.
Tickets to the event are $75, and sponsorship opportunities are still available. Visit www.wvutech.edu/glam to learn more.
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California avoids outages after day of grid-straining heat
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California avoided rolling outages during extreme heat, as operators of the state’s electricity grid continued to warn that unprecedented demand on energy supplies could force them to periodically cut power to some customers.
The California Independent System Operator on Wednesday thanked residents and businesses for heeding another “flex alert,” a request to reduce electricity consumption during peak evening hours.
“With your help, we made it through another day without rotating #poweroutages,” Cal-ISO said on Twitter. Another flex alert was issued for Thursday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. as temperatures were expected to spike again.
Targeted blackouts were avoided a day after miscommunication led utilities to mistakenly cut power to customers in several California cities.
The confusion occurred Tuesday afternoon between a dispatcher at the Northern California Power Agency, which owns and operates power generating facilities for 16 members including a dozen cities, and the California Independent System Operator as the grid it manages was perilously close to running out of energy amid record-breaking temperatures.
“That is certainly concerning to me,” Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of Cal-ISO, said Wednesday. “There was a lot happening on the grid for everybody last night. And so we’ll double down on the communication to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”
With record demand on power supplies across the West, California snapped its record energy use around 5 p.m. Tuesday with 52,061 megawatts, far above the previous high of 50,270 megawatts set July 24, 2006.
As residents and businesses cranked air-conditioning to escape withering heat across the West and solar power supplies began to wane, Cal-ISO issued a stage 3 energy emergency alert to prepare utilities to initiate outages if demand didn’t decrease. The state’s legal marijuana regulatory agency also urged businesses to turn off lights and reduce power or use backup generators.
The Northern California Power Agency said its dispatcher misinterpreted Cal-ISO’s order to prepare to cut power and immediately undertook the process to cut 46 megawatts — enough to serve about 35,000 customers — in the cities of Alameda, Lodi, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Healdsburg, and Ukiah.
It wasn’t clear how many customers lost power, though the agency said no outage lasted more than an hour.
“Once the outages had been initiated, our dispatcher contacted (Cal-ISO) to inform them that the curtailment action had been undertaken, and was then notified there had been a misunderstanding of the initial order,” NCPA said.
With the state on the brink of outages, Gov. Gavin Newsom for the first time triggered a wireless emergency alert system at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday that sent messages to 27 million cellphones urging them to turn off or reduce non-essential power.
Within moments, there was a reduction of more than 2,000 megawatts, bringing the state “back from the edge,” Mainzer said.
“It took a very loud signal,” Mainzer said. “I think they now recognize that we’re not messing around. This is a real issue. And we need real response.”
Newsom, speaking Wednesday in Beverly Hills, said he had debated pushing that button for the past four to five days. He ultimately decided to test it and concluded it was a game- changer, though he’s reluctant to use it too often because he fears weakening its effectiveness. The emergency alert was not repeated Wednesday.
Western states are struggling through one of the hottest and longest September heat waves on record. Temperatures began soaring last week, and the National Weather Service warned that dangerous heat could continue through Friday, despite some slight moderation.
Nearly 54 million people were under heat warnings and advisories across the West as temperature records were shattered in many areas.
California’s state capital of Sacramento hit an all-time high Tuesday of 116 degrees (46.7 C), breaking a 97-year-old record. Salt Lake City tied its all-time high temperature Wednesday at 107 degrees (41.6 C). The heat wave was expected to last until Saturday.
Reno, which sits just across the Nevada line along the Sierra’s eastern front at an elevation of 4,500 feet (1,372 meters), topped the century mark for the ninth day in a row on Wednesday with its seventh consecutive daily record-high — reaching 104 degrees (40 C) after recording its hottest September day ever on Tuesday at 106 degrees (41.1 C), according to weather service records dating to 1893.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.
On the Northern Plains, the unusually late heat wave peaked Wednesday following a prolonged string of scorching days.
Along a main thoroughfare in downtown Billings, where the temperature set a daily record at 102 degrees (39 C), Gale Spotted Bear, native of the Blackfeet Reservation, sought shelter from the punishing heat in the shade of a vacant building.
“This year has been hotter than hell,” said Spotted Bear, adding that homeless people can be hit the hardest if they have nowhere to go. “It’s hard out here.”
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Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; Michael R. Blood in Beverly Hills; Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada; and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed to this report.
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Doctors ‘concerned’ about Queen Elizabeth II’s health
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace said Thursday that Queen Elizabeth II is under medical supervision because doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health,” as members of her family traveled to be with the 96-year-old monarch in Scotland.
“Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,” the palace said in a statement that sparked deep concern.
The announcement comes a day after the queen canceled a meeting of her Privy Council and was told to rest. On Tuesday, she presided over the ceremonial handover power to new Prime Minister Liz Truss at her summer residence in Scotland at Balmoral Castle.
The palace says the queen is “comfortable” and remains at Balmoral. Her son, Prince Charles, and grandson Prince William were traveling to be with her, officials said.
Truss — who was briefed on the news as she delivered a statement in the House of Commons — said “the whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from Buckingham Palace this lunchtime.”
“My thoughts — and the thoughts of people across our United Kingdom — are with Her Majesty The Queen and her family at this time,” she said on Twitter.
Elizabeth marked seven decades on the throne this year. She has increasingly handed over duties to her heir, Prince Charles, and other members of the royal family in recent months as she has struggled to get around.
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Skyline Middle School teacher receives award to study classroom techniques abroad
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - A Harrisonburg teacher will soon be heading overseas to learn about different education techniques and cultures thanks to a national award.
Tola Ogundipe is an 8th-grade physical science teacher at Skyline Middle School, and last week she was awarded the Fullbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program award.
Next, she will undergo a year’s worth of training starting in the United States and ending overseas, meeting with policymakers and educators to immerse herself in another country’s culture and education system.
“Because of the diverse student body that we have, there is always the need to understand the students we have right in front of us, and there’s always the need to make sure that other students also appreciate the cultures that are brought into the classroom,” Ogundipe said.
Ogundipe says she couldn’t be doing the work she is doing now with all of the support from fellow staff at Skyline, especially the teaching assistants who help her plan her lessons and put together assignments.
“All of them would help me look at sentences and say ‘Hey this can be done differently’ or ‘If you write it this way it might make more sense to the student,” Ogundipe said.
Ogundipe is from Nigeria and says her first choice country is one in Sub-Saharan Africa like Ethiopia or Sudan.
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Staff at Massanutten Regional Library encourage community to ‘Get Carded’
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, and staff at Massanutten Regional Library say once you do sign up for your library card, the opportunities are endless.
All you need are one form of photo identification, as well as proof of residence, then you fill out a sheet of paperwork with some more basic information.
“When you get your MRL library card, you open up a world of resources and materials that are free for you to use and of course that includes books which you traditionally see at libraries but it’s also online resources too,” MRL Director of Advancement Mary Golden-Hughes said.
Topics like online education help are available and even the opportunity to book an appointment one-on-one with a librarian for help with topics like careers and citizenship.
Golden-Hughes says parents can even sign up their infants and toddlers.
“They can get into the habit of responsibility and checking out and caring for things, bringing their books back to the library and getting in the cycle of learning,” Golden-Hughes said.
MRL also hosts community events like story times and concerts, and staff hope to extend their passion for education beyond the bookshelves.
“Extend their learning in the community, and come together with others all for the power of learning and exploring and just digging deep into resources,” Golden-Hughes said.
Library Card Sign-Up Month may end on the 31st, but the staff at all seven of the MRL locations say community members are welcome to sign up anytime. Full-time students at Bridgewater College, JMU, EMU, Blue Ridge Community College, and Laurel Ridge Community College are also eligible to sign up.
You can learn more by clicking here.
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Teen arrested after University of Kentucky shooting that left 11 injured
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 7:48 AM EDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT/Gray News) - A University of Kentucky student was shot at a party on the campus late Wednesday, WKYT reported.
Thursday morning, Jason Almanza-Arroyo was charged with first-degree wanton endangerment, second-degree disorderly conduct, third-degree assault and public intoxication.
The shooting happened at a house on University Avenue on the University of Kentucky campus.
Police said two uninvited people came to the house, and at least one shot was fired after an argument
A University of Kentucky spokesperson said a bullet hit one student directly. Ten other students were injured by shrapnel.
All the students are expected to recover.
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ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide) today announced the results of its 2021 Elderly Economic Security Index (EESI) conducted in partnership with the National Coalition on Aging and the Gerontology Institute of the University of Massachusetts.
The results were released in conjunction with StateWide's 50th Anniversary celebration and convention in Saratoga Springs, September 12-14.
The EESI calculates the average cost of living for New York Seniors to remain living independently in their chosen communities. The Index is specific to household size, location, housing type and health status.
- Housing
- Healthcare
- Food and miscellaneous expenses
- Singles vs. couples
- Homeowners vs. renters and,
- Three levels of health; fair/poor, good, very good/excellent
"The EESI is a powerful tool when we advocate for programs that preserve or enhance the quality of life for New York's seniors," stated Maria Alvarez, StateWide's Executive Director in announcing the EESI's results.
- Of New York's 3,221,702 seniors, 11.5% or 370,495 fall below the poverty line
- 57.1% or 389,391 are rent burdened* and
- 31% of homeowners are ownership burdened*
*30 percent of income or more is spent on housing
The 2021 EESI Index also revealed that most older Americans, especially Blacks and Hispanics, were mostly likely to be more financially burdened by the COVID-19 Pandemic and inflation. Fully 19% of senior Americans were forced to use all or most of their savings or lost a source of income during that year.
Nationally, the 2021 Index found that Social Security Benefits cover only 68% of senior's basic living costs for a single renter and 81% for a senior couple. And approximately 25% of seniors rely on Social Security benefits for 90% of their total income.
"This reality goes against the intended purpose of Social Security as a supplemental form of income. These seniors who almost solely rely on SS benefits cannot afford today's rising costs let alone their basic living expenses," stated Alvarez.
In New York, 15 counties fall below the national average of 68%. The counties with the least coverage, the Bronx, Queens, and Kings fall below 50%. By contrast, the top New York County is Onondaga, where 82.3% of basic expenses are covered by Social Security.
"Today's economic crisis creates a renewed opportunity to raise awareness of the plight of seniors not only in New York but nationally," stated Alvarez.
"We made this framework and data available to support work already underway to inspire new and innovative ways to give our seniors the quality of life and dignity they deserve," she added.
StateWide is advocating 200 per cent of the Federal Poverty Level for a senior to qualify for life saving benefits and programs. Currently the rates are $13,590 for individuals and $18,310 for couples in 48 states and the District of Columbia, excluding Hawaii and Alaska.
"With a 9 per cent inflation rate in 2021, the figures in this index are a conversation starter in our efforts to attain economic security for the elderly population in New York State, "Alvarez stated.
Go to the main menu - Senior Issues. Under the Senior Issues dropdown menu, can click on Elder Economic Security Issues.
www.elderindex.org contains state, county, and metropolitan area data for the 2021 Elder Index, last updated on November 5, 2021
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: ATNM) (Actinium or the Company) a leader in the development of targeted radiotherapies for patients with unmet needs, today announced that it will be participating in the H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference, being held September 12-14, 2022. The conference will be hybrid and occur virtually and in person at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York City.
Members of Actinium's management team will conduct one-on-one meetings. Please contact your representative at H.C. Wainwright to schedule a one-on-one meeting with the Actinium management team. For information about the H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conference, please refer to the event's website. Actinium's investor presentation will be available on the conference website as well the investor relations page of the Company's website at www.actiniumpharma.com/presentations-webinars.
Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted radiotherapies to deliver cancer-killing radiation with cellular level precision to treat patients with high unmet needs not addressed by traditional cancer therapies. Actinium's current clinical pipeline is led by ARCs or Antibody Radiation-Conjugates that are being applied to targeted conditioning, which is intended to selectively deplete a patient's disease or cancer cells and certain immune cells prior to a BMT or Bone Marrow Transplant, Gene Therapy or Adoptive Cell Therapy (ACT) such as CAR-T to enable engraftment of these transplanted cells with minimal toxicities. Actinium's targeted conditioning ARCs seek to improve patient outcomes and access to these potentially curative treatments by eliminating or reducing the non-targeted chemotherapy that is used for conditioning in standard practice currently. Our lead product candidate, I-131 apamistamab (Iomab-B) has been studied in over four hundred patients including the pivotal Phase 3 Study of Iomab-B in Elderly Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia (SIERRA) trial for BMT conditioning that complete patient enrollment in the third quarter of 2021. Topline data from the SIERRA trial is expected in the fourth quarter of 2022. In April 2022, we announced we licensed the EUMENA commercial rights for Iomab-B to Immedica AB in exchange for $35 million upfront, with a $452 million total deal value and mid-twenty percent royalties. Iomab-ACT, low dose I-131 apamistamab is being studied as a targeted conditioning agent in a Phase 1 study with a CD19 CAR T-cell Therapy with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In addition, we are leaders in the field of Actinium-225 alpha therapies. Actimab-A, our clinical stage CD33 targeting ARC alpha therapy has been studied in nearly 150 patients including our ongoing combination trials with the salvage chemotherapy CLAG-M and the Bcl-2 targeted therapy venetoclax. Underpinning our clinical programs is our proprietary AWE (Antibody Warhead Enabling) technology platform. This is where our intellectual property portfolio of over 190 patents and patent applications, know-how, collective research and expertise in the field are leveraged to design and study novel targeted radiotherapies and combinations to strategically bolster our pipeline. Our AWE technology platform is currently being utilized in collaborative research partnerships with Astellas Pharma, Inc. for solid tumor theranostics, with AVEO Oncology to create an Actinium-225 HER3 targeting radiotherapy for solid tumors, and with EpicentRx, Inc.to create targeted radiotherapy combinations with their novel, clinical stage small molecule CD47-SIRPα inhibitor. Website: https://www.actiniumpharma.com/
This press release may contain projections or other "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe-harbor" provisions of the private securities litigation reform act of 1995 regarding future events or the future financial performance of the Company which the Company undertakes no obligation to update. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated or estimated future results, including the risks and uncertainties associated with preliminary study results varying from final results, estimates of potential markets for drugs under development, clinical trials, actions by the FDA and other governmental agencies, regulatory clearances, responses to regulatory matters, the market demand for and acceptance of Actinium's products and services, performance of clinical research organizations and other risks detailed from time to time in Actinium's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including without limitation its most recent annual report on form 10-K, subsequent quarterly reports on Forms 10-Q and Forms 8-K, each as amended and supplemented from time to time.
Actinium Contacts
Investors:
Hans Vitzthum
LifeSci Advisors, LLC
Hans@LifeSciAdvisors.com
(617) 430-7578
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NBA player Marcus Smart joins partnership to advocate for patients battling blood cancers and blood diseases
COLUMBUS, Ga. and MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlighting its 27-year commitment to children and families facing childhood cancer and sickle cell disease (SCD), Aflac, the number one provider of supplemental health insurance in the U.S.1 and Be The Match®, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, which has helped facilitate more than 111,000 blood stem cell transplants worldwide, today announced a partnership to continue diversifying the national blood stem cell donor registry. The agreement is part of Aflac's overall campaign commemorating National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, both of which occur in September. Since 1995, Aflac has contributed more than $160 million to the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, the largest sickle cell care provider in the United States.
Beginning in September, Aflac and Be The Match will conduct an ongoing digital registration drive aimed at adding hundreds of Aflac employees and sales agents to the national registry of volunteer blood stem cell and marrow donors. Together, the two companies will work alongside NBA player Marcus Smart, who lost his brother and mother to blood cancer, to shine a light on health care inequities that exist, particularly as it relates to the diversity of blood stem cell and marrow registries. Their efforts will include an informative webinar that will be hosted by U.S. News and World Report on September 28 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm.
"One of the defining moments of my life was seeing my oldest brother courageously battle leukemia. His legacy continues to inspire me on and off the court, as do all of the young patients who are fighting for their lives to beat leukemia or sickle cell disease," Marcus Smart said. "To know that there is a potential cure for blood cancer and blood disorders but those cures aren't available to all patients because of their ethnicity is unacceptable. That's why I'm joining Aflac and Be The Match to use my voice and encourage everyone to consider swabbing their cheek and joining the national blood stem cell registry. This is just one way we can give hope to patients and help save more lives."
According to Be The Match, a significant disparity exists, based on ethnic background, when it pertains to finding a matching donor for lifesaving blood stem cell or marrow transplants.
Tissue types used in matching are inherited and unique, so patients are most likely to match someone of the same ethnic ancestry or ethnic background. Given the diversity in tissue types, the odds of a Black or African American patient finding a match is 29%, compared to a white individual, who has a 79% chance.
"This initiative with Be The Match focuses on two of Aflac's long held passions, helping children with cancer and blood disorders, and supporting programs that help close equity gaps, such as the one that currently exists related to access to bone marrow matches in the United States," said Aflac Executive Vice President, General Counsel Audrey Boone Tillman. "It also aligns perfectly with the incredible work of Be The Match, whose vision is to ensure everyone has an equal chance at getting their life-saving transplant, particularly for many children with sickle cell and blood cancers such as leukemia. There is a dire need, especially for children of color, to encourage friends and family to register with Be The Match."
"Every year, 12,000 patients are diagnosed with life-threatening blood cancers or other diseases like sickle cell for which a blood stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor is their best or only hope for a cure. With 70% of patients not having a fully matched donor in their family, they depend on Be The Match to find an unrelated donor," said Erica Jensen, Senior Vice President, Member Engagement, Enrollment and Experience, for Be The Match. "To address existing disparities head on, it's essential to register as many young, diverse members as we can to ensure more people will find a match. In partnership with Aflac and Marcus Smart, we are urging everyone to get involved, swab their cheek and help save a life."
In addition to conducting a Be The Match Registry drive and hosting educational programs throughout the month, Be The Match will also be including Aflac's award-winning My Special Aflac Duck® as part of their Packages of Hope, which they distribute to children with cancer and sickle cell who come to them in search of a blood stem cell or marrow match. It is estimated that as many as 1,000 children will receive this robotic comfort providing duck through this program, who otherwise would not be able to access My Special Aflac Duck, which is distributed to children free of charge.
Additional Aflac activations throughout September include:
- Aflac will donate $5 for every use of the hashtag #DuckPrints for pediatric cancer and #StandinSeptember for sickle cell disease up to $1.5 million.
- Aflac is sponsoring the Miles for Miracles campaign Sept. 1-27, promoting healthy habits while raising funds for the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. This program is open to Aflac employees and agents as well as the general public and consists of making an individual or team donation of $35 to the center followed by walking 27 miles in 27 days to raise awareness for this cause.
- Three My Special Aflac Duck delivery events at hospitals in Miami, New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana, wherein a fun event for children is held, culminating in each child with cancer or sickle cell, age 3 and older, receiving their very own duck.
- Aflac will issue 12 grants to selected child life specialist programs at hospitals across the nation to help health care providers in their mission to help deliver comfort to children with cancer and blood disorders and their siblings.
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products.1 Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year. Also in 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was included on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/español. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
Be The Match® is a global leader working every day to save lives through cellular therapy. For people with life-threatening blood cancers—like leukemia and lymphoma—or other blood disorders like sickle cell, a cure exists. Be The Match connects patients with a matching donor for a life-saving blood stem cell transplant. The Be The Match Registry® is the most diverse registry in the world and includes both adult donors willing to donate to a stranger in need and stored cord blood units. In addition, Be The Match provides patients and their families one-on-one support, education, and guidance before, during and after transplant. Be The Match is also a global leader in research through the CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research®)—a collaboration with Medical College of Wisconsin, investing in and managing research studies that improve patient outcomes and advance the future of care.
Media contacts:
Aflac: Jon Sullivan, 706-573-7610 or jsullivan@aflac.com
Be The Match: Erica Sevilla, 740-919-9761 or esevilla@nmdp.org
Analyst and investor contact:
Aflac: David A. Young, 706-596-3264, 800-235-2667 or dyoung@aflac.com
1 LIMRA 2021 US Supplemental Health Insurance Total Market Report
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INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Education (ACE) board of trustees named longtime education executive Geordie Hyland as its new President and Chief Executive Officer today. Hyland will take office on October 4, 2022.
Hyland brings more than 20 years of experience with businesses in the K-12 and higher education markets. Most recently, Hyland served as an Executive Vice President at Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA), where he oversaw its Online Education division and clinical campus as well as its continuing medical education (CME) division and workforce development initiatives. UMA is a leading healthcare education and training institution that has more than 72,000 alumni. It currently has more than 10,000 online and 30,000 continuing education students nationwide. Hyland succeeds Dr. Shawntel Landry, who completes a remarkable and transformative 13-year tenure with ACE, in which she grew the current student population to over 8,000.
"We believe Geordie is an excellent fit for ACE because of his unique skillset, deep professional experience in education services and his sincere mission to serve traditional and non-traditional students in their higher education endeavors," said board of trustee's chair, Dr. Jeri Nowakowski.
"I'm honored to accept this role at ACE and to join a mission driven team that is really making a positive impact by offering high-quality, affordable and accessible online programs to educators, healthcare and business professionals. ACE's degree programs can help strengthen human capital in key areas where huge labor shortages exist right now," said Hyland.
Prior to his role at UMA, Hyland served as a Vice President of Private School Academic Services at K12 Inc. (now called Stride Inc.) in Herndon, VA. Before K12, he worked at Blackboard in Washington, D.C. where he started a Development Education business unit. Hyland's experience early in his career includes playing hockey professionally, working at Google and founding a charitable company which provided athletic and mentoring opportunities in underserved communities in the UK.
Hyland is a graduate of Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in English and American literature as well as a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School. He also received a master's degree in industrial relations and personnel management from The London School of Economics and Political Science.
American College of Education (ACE) is an accredited, 100% online college specializing in high-quality, affordable programs in education, business, leadership, health care and nursing. Headquartered in Indianapolis, ACE offers more than 70 innovative and engaging programs for adult students to pursue a doctorate, specialist, master's or bachelor's degree, along with micro-credentials and graduate-level certificate programs. In addition to being a leader in online education, ACE is a Certified B Corporation. Certified B Corporations are leaders of a global movement to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.
Media contact:
Catherine Masri
catherine.masri@hkstrategies.com
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SMW Manufacturing was featured in the August 2022 issue of BOSS Magazine as part of an editorial section on JENNMAR. Part of Amsted Automotive, SMW is an engineering and manufacturing division focusing on cold-formed and precision-machined components for the heavy truck, automotive, mining, construction, infrastructure, and industrial markets.
JENNMAR was founded in 1922 to support mining companies. Today the company has expanded into chemical manufacturing, metal cutting, industrial fabrication, machining, labor services and more. JENNMAR relies on SMW for precise cold-forming and net-shaping technologies, and SMW's ability to provide high-quality components at the required volume.
One of SMW's core technologies is cold-forming steel. Cold-forming is an alternative to traditional bar stock. The process creates uninterrupted grain flow, which results in stronger components and significant material savings. In fact, it uses just one third of the steel that traditional bar stock machining requires in most applications. Some of the products that SMW engineers and manufactures using net-shaped cold-formed technologies are hydraulic stems, ferrules, and longwall mining tools.
In addition to leading technologies in cold forming and net shaping, SMW has the capability to produce components on a large scale while maintaining precision and quality across the production run. This is critical to large companies such as JENNMAR that require significant scale.
For more than 25 years, BOSS Magazine has featured leaders and innovators, and providing a forum for these bosses to share their thought leadership. From small firms to some of the largest in the world, leaders are able to discuss the lessons learned from both successes and failures to help other leaders.
In 2021, Amsted Automotive Group brought together Means Industries Inc., SMW Manufacturing, and Burgess-Norton Mfg. Co., Inc. to form a new and innovative technology team. The integration provides an expanded global presence with 21 facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia to serve the global automotive customer base with a robust manufacturing footprint, producing over 100 million components and assemblies annually. The group combines design and engineering expertise, strategically aligned to be a nimble leader in advanced metal-forming, powder metal manufacturing, and electro-mechanical clutches for electrified propulsion solutions. Amsted Automotive plays an integral role in the global automotive market, both ICE and EV, in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Cole Quinnell
248-877-0590
cole@cqmarketing.com
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Ancore Health announces the launch of its newly designed branding and website to bolster the company's rapid growth
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancore Health, a cutting-edge healthcare consulting and analytics firm, is thrilled to unveil their updated branding, along with a newly designed website. Founded in late 2016, Ancore Health uses a mix of data analysis, strategy, and consulting to illuminate a path forward for healthcare providers. By partnering with healthcare leaders to align their economic goals with their mission, Ancore is empowering healthcare organizations with clear-cut paths for success.
Opened on the heels of his wife's Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, Eric Passon founded Ancore Health in order to reimagine a world of healthcare that is mission-driven. In early 2016, the healthcare consulting and analytics ace made the radical decision to embrace some much-needed family time, following over 15 valuable years of experience at The Advisory Board Company and Southwind Health Partners. In his time away from the corporate world, Passon discovered a new passion: reinventing the world of healthcare. By the end of the year, he made the decision to start a new company, one that combined his operational, consulting, networking, and personal healthcare experience... Thus, Ancore Health was born.
Six years later, Ancore Health has empowered a wide portfolio of healthcare clients to bridge the gap between purpose and profit. Recently, they have moved into a new office space to accommodate business expansion and allow for necessary employee acquisition. Designed and executed by ThreeSixtyEight, the new branding and website reflect this new company footprint and Ancore's continued growth. The user-friendly interface allows the viewer to quickly and easily navigate the site. Website visitors will also note a richer and more developed blog, where they can learn from Ancore's top minds.
Founder Eric Passon says of the redesign: "Like many young companies our path from where we started was not 100% predictable. After five years, we have matured, hired talented people, served incredible clients, and most importantly know who we are and who we are not. This rebranding process has been the culmination of this journey. We are excited to tell our story and help provider groups unlock their potential."
Ancore Health is grateful to ThreeSixtyEight for their hard work, and is delighted with the new branding and website. They look forward to providing their clients with a larger breadth of information in a more user-friendly format.
alex@amorescopr.com
630-338-2385
About Ancore Health
Ancore Health is a cutting-edge healthcare consulting and analytics firm. Through a mix of data, strategy, analytics, financial sustainability, and consulting, they find patterns, insights and guidance clients can utilize and easily comprehend. For more information visit www.ancorehealth.com .
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Phone: 630-338-2385
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BERWYN, Pa., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Annovis Bio, Inc. (NYSE: ANVS) ("Annovis" or the "Company"), a late-stage clinical drug platform company addressing neurodegenerative diseases, today released the following letter to stockholders from its Chief Executive Officer Dr. Maria Maccecchini.
Dear Fellow Stockholder,
Over the years we have been talking about the potential of buntanetap to treat more than Alzheimer's disease. In cell models, animal models and human clinical studies, we have seen that buntanetap works in numerous acute and chronic neurodegenerative conditions. I would like to take this opportunity to explain how one drug can be so broadly applicable.
Buntenatap works by inhibiting specific neurotoxic proteins such as amyloid precursor protein (APP), Tau, alpha-synuclein (αSYN), TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43), huntingtin (HTT) and prion protein. These proteins have normal functions but in their neurotoxic aggregating form, they impair axonal transport, slow synaptic transmission, cause inflammation, and ultimately, kill nerve cells, resulting in the loss of affected function in various neurodegenerative conditions.
The overexpression and aggregation of these proteins is caused by elevated levels of iron in the nerve cell. The mRNAs of neurotoxic aggregating proteins contain an iron response element (IRE) which binds to an iron regulatory protein called IRP1. At normal iron levels, translation occurs at appropriate physiological levels. When iron flows into the cell, the mRNAs are released and translated at higher rates by the ribosome. When massive iron flows in, the mRNAs remain unbound for as long as the iron is high and the proteins for these neurotoxic aggregating proteins are overexpressed. In this high iron situation, buntanetap binds to the atypical IRE-IRP1 complex and prevents the mRNA from being released and, therefore, from being translated and overexpressed.
Buntanetap is able to inhibit the translation of multiple neurotoxic proteins through this mechanism of action, and as a result has the potential to treat numerous acute and chronic neurodegenerative conditions that share this pathway. In mouse or rat models of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, frontotemporal dementia, traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, and Down Syndrome, buntanetap has been shown to normalize the levels of these neurotoxic proteins and to restore function.
Most importantly, this has been demonstrated in human clinical trials. In our recent Phase 2 clinical trial in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, treatment with buntanetap resulted in reduction of aggregating proteins and statistically significant improvement in motor function in Parkinson's disease patients and cognition in Alzheimer's disease patients.
We look forward to unlocking the full potential of buntanetap and addressing unmet needs across a range of acute and chronic neurological conditions.
Maria L. Maccecchini, Ph.D.,
Founder, President, CEO and Executive Board Member
About Buntanetap
Buntanetap (previously known as ANVS401 or Posiphen) is an oral translational inhibitor of neurotoxic aggregating proteins (TINAPs), which mode of action leads to lower levels of neurotoxic proteins and consequently less toxicity in the brain. In a Phase 2a clinical trial in AD and PD patients, treatment with buntanetap resulted in statistically significant improvement in motor function in PD patients and cognition in AD patients. Additionally, the drug was well-tolerated and safe, and its pharmacokinetics were found to be in line with levels measured earlier in humans, meeting both the primary and secondary endpoints.
About Annovis Bio, Inc.
Headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Annovis Bio, Inc. is a late-stage clinical drug platform company developing transformative therapies that treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other chronic and acute neurodegenerative diseases. The Company believes that it is the only company developing a drug that inhibits more than one neurotoxic protein, improves the information highway of the nerve cell, known as axonal transport, reduces inflammation and protects nerve cells from dying in chronic and acute neurodegeneration. Annovis conducted two Phase 2 studies: one in AD patients and one in both AD and PD patients. In the AD/PD study, buntanetap showed improvements in cognition and memory in AD as well as body and brain function in PD patients.
For more information on Annovis Bio, please visit the Company's website www.annovisbio.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Statements in this press release contain "forward-looking statements" that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "estimate," "project," "outlook," "forecast" or other similar words, and include, without limitation, statements regarding the timing, effectiveness, and anticipated results of buntanetap clinical trials. Forward-looking statements are based on Annovis Bio, Inc.'s current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the section titled "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and Annovis Bio, Inc. undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.
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TORONTO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Armilla AI, a leading quality assurance platform for ML scientists, today announces its partnership with Mila, the world's largest academic research center in deep learning. Through this new partnership, Armilla AI will work alongside Mila to pioneer applied research methods for AI testing and validation to improve model performance while addressing key issues related to fairness, bias, explainability and robustness.
In 2021, the global AI market was valued at USD 93.5 billion and is projected to expand at an annual rate of 38.1% from 2022 to 2030. While investment into AI research and innovation has accelerated, "quality assurance" for AI systems—a common notion in traditional software development—has failed to keep pace. As a result, a gap persists around tools and testing frameworks capable of providing deeper insights into model quality, performance and risk. Today's piece-meal approach to AI testing means that a high percentage of AI projects risk failing in development or contributing to real-world harms after they are released.
Armilla AI and Mila will work together to equip researchers and practitioners with the knowledge and tools for building high-quality, trustworthy AI systems at scale. Mila's AI for Humanity team and Armilla will explore research collaborations on novel approaches to bias detection and mitigation. In addition, Armilla will work closely with Mila's applied research teams to develop comprehensive testing and validation solutions for the next generation of machine learning systems and to expand the platform's AI assessment and audit capabilities.
"Mila is one of the top AI institutes in the world, and a leading voice for responsible AI research and practice," said Dan Adamson, CEO of Armilla AI. "It's an honour to work alongside Mila's experts to develop the cutting-edge solutions needed to make progress in the field and help businesses capitalize on their investments towards responsible AI adoption." Armilla views the partnership as a way to deepen its network within a vibrant AI research and innovation ecosystem and to leverage the world-class talent that Mila and its community have become known for.
"It is critical that organizations equip themselves with the tools to ensure their machine learning systems are developed ethically and responsibly," says Yoshua Bengio, Mila's Founder and Scientific Director. "We are thrilled to partner with Armilla, whose commitment to responsible AI resonates with Mila's values."
Armilla AI is a Toronto-based start-up developing a quality assurance platform for large and small enterprises to govern, deploy, and scale their machine learning (ML) systems. Founded in 2020, Armilla has developed the first all-in-one QA for ML platform. Its technology enables users to oversee every phase of model development, detect hidden biases and vulnerabilities, and receive automated alerts about abnormal behaviours. Clients leverage Armilla's platform to help accelerate time to production for trustworthy AI systems, and to support independent assessment and audit in compliance with emerging regulations, industry standards and certification frameworks.
Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal, Mila is an artificial intelligence research institute that brings together nearly 900 researchers specializing in machine learning. Based in Montreal, Mila's mission is to be a global hub for scientific advances that inspire innovation and development of AI for the benefit of all. Mila is a non-profit organization recognized worldwide for its significant contributions to the field of deep learning, particularly in language modeling, machine translation, object recognition, and generative models.
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Prospective investors can now buy shares in vacation rentals starting with homes in several cities including Joshua Tree, CA, Nashville, TN, and Panama City, FL
SEATTLE, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arrived Homes ("Arrived"), the first SEC-qualified real estate investing platform that allows anyone to buy shares in single-family rentals starting at just $100, is now offering the opportunity to invest in short-term vacation rentals as well. Anyone can buy shares in the vacation rentals to access the rental income and property appreciation over time.
Over the past year, Arrived has helped thousands of Americans gain access to the financial benefits of property ownership for the first time in their lives. We are excited to bring our model to vacation rentals, the fastest growing real estate segment right now", said Ryan Frazier, CEO & Co-Founder of Arrived. "Platforms like Airbnb have helped vacation rental owners generate over $150 Billion dollars in rental income from serving 1 Billion guest arrivals, and yet, less than 0.5% of these guests have been able to access the wealth-building potential of this rapidly growing asset class. We're changing that today by adding these assets to our platform."
The first seven vacation rental properties available through this new feature will be The Mirage in Joshua Tree, CA, The Oasis in Nashville, TN, The Cardinal in Glendale, AZ, The Ace in Scottsdale, AZ, The Hammock in Clearwater, FL, The Orchard in Blue Ridge, GA, and The Pointbreak in Panama City, FL. These new vacation rentals are collectively valued at $5M USD and feature desirable amenities including hot tubs, rooftops with downtown views, and prime locations near cultural and entertainment centers.
Arrived has partnered with established vacation rental property managers and developers - Tony Robinson and Alpha Geek Capital team, Misfit Homes, Old Town Rental, Roseus Hospitality, Southern Comfort Cabin Rentals, and Techvestor - to oversee the design, furnishing, and upkeep of the homes, which eliminates the need for investors to be involved in day-to-day operations of the rental units. These managers bring hyperlocal hosting experience: including having their own seasoned teams, being on housing boards, and having established brand recognition across social platforms.
While investors will go through the Arrived website to buy shares, anyone interested in renting the properties can find them on any major vacation rental property platform. Additionally to celebrate this launch, Arrived is hosting the #ArrivedGetaway where investors can win shares in a vacation rental, a trip for two, and five nights stay at a property they own a piece of.
Arrived is the first company to offer SEC-qualified shares of single-family rental homes to accredited and non-accredited investors alike. This move to provide customers with the option to invest in short-term rental properties directly follows their recent $25M Series A, supporting their mission to democratize access to the real estate asset class across the United States.
To date, Arrived has fully funded over 150 single-family rental properties in 27 markets across the country totaling over $55M in asset value. Arrived is planning to expand its offerings across both single-family rentals and vacation rental properties while opening new markets in Florida, Texas, Nevada, and Indiana.
Arrived Homes is a Seattle-based real estate investing platform that makes ownership of rental properties possible for anyone and everyone. At Arrived Homes, anybody can buy shares in rental properties starting with $100 and start earning money from day one. Arrived's goal is to make real estate investing easy and accessible to millions of people who don't have the expertise, time, or large amounts of capital needed to buy a rental property on their own. Arrived manages the operational work so that investors can sit back and collect passive rental income and their share of the home's appreciation. For more information please visit www.arrivedhomes.com.
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Jalen Fairborne Chapman with Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis, chapman@sunshinesachs.com, 914-330-5233
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND), a leading global enterprise cloud communications company, today announced "Send-To," a new messaging app for Bandwidth's Direct Routing and Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams. Send-To enables enterprise users to send SMS texts from within Teams instead of having to use their personal phones, enabling faster and more efficient work collaboration. The new app expands Bandwidth's DuetⓇ for Microsoft Teams beyond the core capabilities of voice and e911, creating a truly unified communications experience. It is now available for Teams customers who use Bandwidth for Direct Routing in the U.S.
"As messaging becomes an increasingly preferred way to communicate, employees shouldn't have to use their personal phone numbers to conduct mission-critical communications–whether with their co-workers inside an organization, or when reaching out to customers, partners, suppliers or other stakeholders," said John Bell, Bandwidth's Chief Product Officer. "Our new Send-To app is the latest example of Bandwidth's continuous innovation to expand our longtime partnerships with platform leaders like Microsoft and accelerate the enterprise communications move to the cloud."
For IT leaders, the new Send-To app can be installed quickly and deployed easily, in keeping with Bandwidth's reputation for simplicity and customer satisfaction. As a result, Teams users can send SMS and MMS messages from within their Teams channels, on desktop or mobile, using a Bandwidth-provided phone number, which minimizes the need for context switching and increases efficiency. It also mitigates the security and governance issues stemming from the use of personal devices for business messaging. To further protect privacy, customers control how messages and contacts are retained within their own Teams tenant.
Bandwidth engineered the Send-To app to solve for a wide variety of use cases. One of the app's first users is Camden Property Trust, a publicly traded real estate investment trust. With heavy personnel needs to manage its 58,000+ apartment homes in more than 170 communities across the U.S., Camden saw the opportunity to use Bandwidth's Send-To app to improve the speed and effectiveness of its employee recruiting process. The challenge: traditional emails received a slow response due to prospective employees being busy working during the day, and phone calls were seldom answered. This created friction in the recruiting process and stretched out the time to hire. Camden's talent acquisition team piloted Bandwidth's Send-To app to send text messages to candidates through Teams instead. The result: the time recruiters have spent coordinating interviews has been shortened from two days to as little as two minutes, all orchestrated from within the Teams interface.
"Send-To has revolutionized our recruitment efforts," said Allison Dunavant, Vice President of Organization Development at Camden. "The high open and response rates of text messaging enables our recruiters to reach prospective employees much quicker than through traditional recruiting methods. We've been able to bring on new employees much more efficiently and streamline our recruiting communications into a single, more effective channel."
"Send-To by Bandwidth has become a key part of our Microsoft Teams environment," said Jimmy Whorton, Vice President of Information Technology at Camden. "It is secure, easy to deploy, and gives us the simplicity of one provider for voice and messaging through Bandwidth as our Direct Routing partner for Microsoft Teams."
Send-To is yet another example of Bandwidth's decade-long track record of innovation alongside Microsoft. For example, Bandwidth's Duet for Microsoft Teams is a Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC) solution to help enterprises move to the cloud. With BYOC, enterprises can unbundle their telephony and easily integrate their entire communications stack, while replacing legacy telecom carriers and most on-premises equipment with the Bandwidth platform–built on its own global, software-driven, all-IP network.
Find out more about Bandwidth's Send-To app here.
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Bandwidth (NASDAQ: BAND) is a global communications software company that helps enterprises connect people around the world with cloud-ready voice, messaging and emergency services. Backed by a network reaching 60+ countries covering 90 percent of global GDP, companies like Cisco, Google, Microsoft, RingCentral, Uber and Zoom use Bandwidth's APIs to easily embed communications into software and applications. Bandwidth has more than 20 years in the technology space and was the first Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) provider offering a robust selection of APIs built around our own network. Our award-winning support teams help businesses around the world solve complex communications challenges every day. More information is available at www.bandwidth.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BBTV Holdings Inc. (TSX: BBTV) (OTCQX: BBTVF) (Frankfurt: 64V) ("BBTV" or the "Company"), the leading creator monetization company with a mission to help creators become more successful, today announced it has entered into an agreement to provide comprehensive Content Management solutions to the World Famous Harlem Globetrotters, the originators of basketball style.
- As part of BBTV's expansive Content Management solutions, BBTV will provide the Harlem Globetrotters with Rights Management, Channel Management and Content Development solutions across multiple platforms including YouTube and Facebook.
- The Harlem Globetrotters have an extensive library of premiere content as a beloved staple of basketball entertainment worldwide.
- Content Management is a key and growing component of BBTV's Plus Solutions and continues to represent one of the Company's key growth areas and highest gross margins.
"The Harlem Globetrotters are truly iconic in the world of basketball, instilling in a global community of fans a true love for the game. That kind of inspiration is one of the keys to building and expanding a strong community for the digital generation," commented Lewis Ball, Chief Strategy Officer, BBTV. "We've seen first-hand how powerful sports fandom can be for Millennials and Gen Z across digital platforms, and we couldn't be more excited to harness that power for the Globetrotters. Working on a comprehensive basis really enables us to exercise the full power of our Content Management solutions, from Rights and Channel Management to Content Development. These solutions truly combine to be more than the sum of their parts, as they work together hand-in-hand to build a community that extends well-beyond any individual platform."
For over 95 years, the Harlem Globetrotters have been committed to spreading joy through their artful athleticism and unparalleled basketball skill. With 13 Globetrotters currently inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, fans around the world have witnessed the team's finesse on the court, ankle-breaking moves, jaw-dropping swag, and rim-rattling dunks. They have showcased their iconic brand of basketball in over 124 countries and territories across six continents since 1926. The Harlem Globetrotters will celebrate their upcoming centennial in 2026.
"The Harlem Globetrotters are an iconic global brand that holds a special place in the hearts of fans worldwide. BBTV is the right partner for us as we continue to build our digital presence and grow our legacy with new generations to come," said Keith Dawkins, President of Harlem Globetrotters and Herschend Entertainment Studios.
For more information please visit www.bbtv.com.
BBTV is a global media and technology company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The Company's mission is to help content creators become more successful. With creators ranging from individuals to global media brands, BBTV provides comprehensive, end-to-end Solutions to increase viewership and drive revenue powered by its innovative technology, while allowing creators to focus on their core competency – content creation. In December 2021, BBTV had the fourth most unique monthly viewers among digital platforms with more than 600 million globally, who consumed more than 35 billion minutes of video content [1]. (www.bbtv.com)
The World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters – THE originators of basketball style, captured by dynamic athletes with unmatched skills and influencers of today's game. The team has showcased their iconic brand of basketball in over 124 countries and territories across six continents since 1926. Proud inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, their mission continues to advance the game of basketball and deliver exciting and interactive entertainment to the world. If you have ever seen a jump shot, slam dunk or a half-court hook shot, you have witnessed the creative moves made famous by the Globetrotters. The Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Herschend Enterprises, the largest family-owned themed entertainment company in the U.S.
For more information about the Harlem Globetrotters, visit the Globetrotters' official website: www.harlemglobetrotters.com and follow them on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
This press release contains "forward–looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking information"). Forward-looking information is not information about historical facts but instead represents the Company's intentions, beliefs, plans, goals, objectives and strategies regarding future events and results. Forward-looking information contained in this press release includes statements that BBTV will provide the Harlem Globetrotters with Rights Management, Channel Management and Content Development solutions across multiple platforms including YouTube and Facebook; Content Management is a key and growing component of BBTV's Plus Solutions; and BBTV's Content Management solutions truly combine to be more than the sum of their parts, as they work together hand-in-hand to build a community that extends well-beyond any individual platform. Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of estimates and assumptions that the Company considered appropriate and reasonable as of the date such information is given, including but not limited to the Company's assumptions that its services for Harlem Globetrotters will be successful and will result in the desired outcomes; it will continue to acquire new customers for its Content Management services and expand its existing services; and its Content Management solutions will be successful in building communities that extend beyond any individual platform. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control, that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the risk that the Company's assumptions on which its forward-looking information is based may not be accurate; the effect of competition; that the Company's agreements with platforms, studios, creators or others (including without limitation, Harlem Globetrotters), may terminate early or not be renewed either on similar terms or at all; that the Company's Plus Solutions may not continue to be attractive to clients and may not continue to grow; and the impact of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic; as well as the factors discussed under "Risk Factors" in the final prospectus of the Company dated October 22, 2020, and in its Annual Information Form dated March 29, 2022 filed on sedar at www.sedar.com and in the Company's other filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward–looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
BBTV has relied solely on Harlem Globetrotters for the information in this press release regarding them, and does not accept any responsibility for verifying, or the accuracy of, such information, nor any forward-looking information contained therein.
For further information please contact:
Media Relations: pr@bbtv.com
Investor Relations: ir@bbtv.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The vast majority of U.S. adults are ready to move beyond gaming experiences in the metaverse and see value in immersive interactions, such as socializing with friends and family (78%), and on-the-job training (76%), according to a new survey from KPMG LLP1. Further, 59% of U.S. adults report they expect the metaverse to have a significant impact on their lives in the next 12 months with an additional 48% reporting a significant impact in next 5 years.2
"While it may still be early days, U.S. adults are increasingly adapting to creating real life experiences across the 'phygital' world," said Cliff Justice, U.S. leader of Enterprise Innovation, KPMG. "With each interaction, people are becoming more accustomed to engaging in everyday activities in the metaverse. From banking and telemedicine to learning and working, the medium we use to communicate and interact is perpetually shifting towards virtual."
The metaverse has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses and consumers engage, transact, socialize and work. Of those participating in the metaverse, 92% of respondents say it enhances learning opportunities, including job training, school, and higher education while 86% report the metaverse provides opportunities for entrepreneurship, including marketing and selling.
Regardless of whether consumers are engaging in the metaverse, a majority of U.S. adults are interested in virtual experiences. Beyond socialization, telemedicine (72%), virtual shopping apps (67%), virtual work (65%) and starting a business (51%) rank the highest.
The path to broad adoption is growing at a steady clip, but existing skepticism may create hurdles along the way. Privacy (80%) and protecting personal information (79%) were the most significant concerns, according to the survey. In the same vein, feeling secure about privacy and security of personal information were the most important factors to encourage participation.
Increasing access affordable technology and customizable avatars are also the most cited ways to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the metaverse, 38% and 36% respectively. Nearly a third (30%) of respondents say ensuring that metaverse environments are accessible to those with disabilities should be the priority across this category.
"With the companies and people still understanding the potential scope and scale of the metaverse's impact, we must prioritize inclusive, safe and secure practices to protect users and ensure experiences are adaptable," continued Justice. "The recalcitrance to innovation is low and this is time to embed these priorities across technologies as they continue to evolve."
As part of its strategic innovation roadmap, KPMG in the U.S. recently partnered with KPMG in Canada to launch its metaverse collaboration hub where employees, clients and communities can connect, engage and explore opportunities for growth across industries and sectors. The firm has formed a dedicated team to help clients develop and execute their own metaverse strategies. Read more of our findings below and visit kpmg.com to learn about the firm's metaverse consulting capabilities.
Forging metaverse connections:
- 78% of all respondents say the metaverse allows or could allow them to have personal connections with friends and family.
- 76% of all respondents say the metaverse enhances or could enhance learning opportunities such as job training and higher ed.
- 66% of all respondents say it provides the same benefits as social media, but in a more immersive way.
- Millennials (69%) and Gen Z (61%) lead when it comes to being excited about the metaverse, followed by Gen X (44%).
Current use and expected impact:
- 59% of U.S. adults expect a significant impact from the metaverse in the next five years, with 48% anticipating a significant impact in the next 12 months.3
- Current metaverse users are the most satisfied with their virtual experiences. Among those who have participated in the metaverse, the top experiences include starting a business (91%), collaborative online games and simulations (91%), and immersive, virtual experiences created by brands (87%).
- Current metaverse users also report virtual participation in trainings for work or school (96%), work meetings (82%), virtual classrooms (72%) and government meetings (71%) as top experiences.
- A majority of U.S. adults, regardless of their current participation in the metaverse, are interested in virtual experiences. Top interests include virtual meetings with family and friends (73%), telemedicine (72%), virtual shopping apps (67%), virtual work (65%) and starting a business (51%).
- 32% of respondents are open to but undecided about metaverse participation. Of this group, 31% have a lower familiarity with the metaverse.
Paths to greater engagement:
- Respondents say privacy is the top concern 79% when using the metaverse followed by personal information (79).
- Gen Z respondents care more about avatar customization (42%) with 36% of total respondents reporting this is the top DEI concern. Nearly a third (30%) of respondents say ensuring that metaverse environments are accessible to those with disabilities should be the priority across this category.
- Providing access to more affordable metaverse technologies is the top concern among Millennials (39%) and GenX/Boomers (40%) respondents.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ:TECH) today announced that Exosome Diagnostics, a Bio-Techne brand, will present initial data on their novel non-invasive saliva profiling assay for Sjögren's Syndrome diagnosis and monitoring at the 15th International Symposium on Sjögren's Syndrome in Rome, Italy on Friday Sept 9. Exosome Diagnostics' novel Sjögren's Syndrome diagnostic and monitoring tool leverages extracellular vesicles (EVs) to monitor the RNA transcriptome from a small saliva sample.
The data presented highlights a groundbreaking non-invasive monitoring tool to diagnose and understand the pathogenesis of Sjögren's Syndrome from a small saliva sample, with potential applications for other autoimmune diseases. The presentation will be given by Exosome Diagnostics study collaborator, Dr Athena Papas, Professor of Diagnostic Sciences at Tufts School of Dental Medicine (Boston, MA) with the title "Identification of a saliva exosomal-RNA signature for Sjögren's Syndrome". The study included saliva from Sjögren's Syndrome patients as well as from other auto-immune disease patients, including systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as necessary controls.
Sjögren's Syndrome is a hard to diagnose auto-immune disease, with impacted patients often on a several year journey before being properly diagnosed, creating a high need for a non-invasive, accurate molecular test. Exosome Diagnostics' saliva EV-based assay has proven to not only being able to stratify these patients, but also profile the molecular pathways that are affected in each patient.
Historically it has been challenging to monitor RNA in saliva but by using the Exosome-based platform, over 12,000 mRNAs were profiled in these samples. The area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUC) values were over 0.9 for identification of Sjögren's Syndrome patients, and identified novel pathways affected in these patients as well as well-known pathways targeting interferon responses and aquaporins.
"We believe this is a very important step forward to enable precision medicine using saliva as the basis for a completely non-invasive liquid biopsy. New tools for diagnosing and monitoring auto-immune disease patients, including Sjögren's Syndrome, are important to improving patient care. Additionally, being able to shed light on what molecular pathways are affected could increase the understanding of the heterogeneity of these diseases, and ultimately lead to more efficient treatment options," said Dr Johan Skog, Chief Scientific Officer at Exosome Diagnostics.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Blue Sky Uranium Corp. (TSXV: BSK) (FSE: MAL2) (OTC: BKUCF) ("Blue Sky" or the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from the third and last tranche of the recently completed reverse circulation ("RC") drilling program at the Ivana Deposit (as announced on April 5, 2022), within its wholly-owned Amarillo Grande Uranium-Vanadium Project ("AGP") in Rio Negro Province, Argentina. This tranche of drilling returned 2,042 samples from 209 holes averaging 9.3m depth that tested areas of lower drill hole density at the margins of, and within, the western portion of the Ivana deposit; as well as testing the potential expansion of the deposit to the west (see Figure 1 and Table 1*). These results will be included in a future mineral resource estimate update for the Ivana deposit.
Highlights of the new RC drill results include*:
- 7m averaging 309ppm U3O8 and 417 ppm V2O5
- 8m averaging 197ppm U3O8 and 202ppm V2O5
- 4m averaging 238ppm U3O8 and 56ppm V2O5
- 9m averaging 123ppm U3O8 and 204ppm V2O5
- 7m averaging 117ppm U3O8 and 161ppm V2O5
- 6m averaging 207ppm U3O8 and 90ppm V2O5
Nikolaos Cacos, Blue Sky President & CEO commented, "These results complete a very successful program, once again hitting significant uranium and vanadium mineralization both at our infill and expansion targets. We look forward to updating our resource estimate and moving the Ivana deposit closer to a prefeasibility stage in the future."
The assay results from drilling in the step-out zone, to the west of the current Ivana mineral resource, have confirmed the presence of uranium and vanadium mineralization near surface. Hole AGI-764, located 700m west of the boundary of the current mineral resource estimate published on February 27, 2019, includes 8 metres averaging 197ppm U3O8 and 202ppm V2O5 from 1 to 9 metres in depth, including 1m @ 805ppm U3O8 and 243ppm V2O5 starting at 1 metre.
In this potential expansion step-out zone, the presence of near surface vanadium mineralization is notable, as observed in the following highlighted intercepts:
- 4m averaging 580 ppm V2O5; including 969ppm V2O5 over 1 m in AGI-748
- 5m averaging 469 ppm V2O5; including 932ppm V2O5 over 1 m in AGI-750
- 2m averaging 544 ppm V2O5 in AGI-781
Drilling of areas with previously low-density hole coverage within the boundary of the current mineral resource estimate yielded a number of significant uranium intercepts as reported above, in addition to those previously reported on April 5, 2022. Many of these holes also had notable vanadium intercepts, as highlighted below:
- 7m averaging 417 ppm V2O5; including 1,260ppm V2O5 over 1 m in AGI-817
- 2m averaging 552 ppm V2O5; including 828ppm V2O5 over 1 m in AGI-806
- 7m averaging 244 ppm V2O5; including 498ppm V2O5 over 1 m in AGI-796
The entire program collected 3,136 samples from 350 new holes, totaling 3,346 metres drilled. This new data set will be included in a future mineral resource estimate. The new database includes samples from 838 RC holes sampled every metre. The aim of a new resource estimation is to upgrade a portion of the current inferred mineral resources into indicated mineral resources for the purposes of supporting a future prefeasibility study (PFS).
The drilling program was carried out by AVG Patagonia Drilling using a FlexiROC D65 drill rig from Atlas Copco, an ore-control track-mounted rig adapted to reverse circulation with triple cyclone to reduce the dust loss during sampling and automatic sampling.
Samples were sent to ALS Argentina for preparation by drying, crushing to 70% <2mm, riffle splitter 250g and pulverize to 85% <75 µm. Pulps were sent to ALS Peru for analysis of multi-elements ultra-trace method combining four acid digestion with Inductively Coupled Plasma ("ICP") instrumentation. Digestion is performed on 0.25g of sample to quantitatively dissolve most geological materials. Analytical analysis is performed with combinations of ICP-AES (Atomic Emission Spectrometry) & ICP-MS (Mass Spectrometry). Approximately every 10th sample a blank, duplicate, or standard sample is inserted into the sample sequence for quality assurance/quality control ("QA/QC") purposes. A total of 2 out of 355 CRM analyses reported warnings in the range of 2-3 Standard Deviations from the certified value; 1 failure of just over 3 Standard Deviations from the certified value was reported. These were viewed as non-consecutive and within the acceptable limits. 104 duplicate samples were submitted; 70% of the duplicates reported <20% average difference. A total of 223 included blanks were analyzed with no failures. The QA/QC internal assessment determined that analytical results reported herein are within standard industry limits.
The design of the Company's exploration program was undertaken by the Company's geological staff under the supervision of David Terry, Ph.D., P.Geo. Dr. Terry is a Director of the Company and a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. The contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Dr. Terry.
The Company's 100% owned Amarillo Grande Uranium-Vanadium Project in Rio Negro Province, Argentina is a new uranium district controlled by Blue Sky. The Ivana deposit is the cornerstone of the Project and the first part of the district for which both a Mineral Resource Estimate and a Preliminary Economic Assessment have been completed. Mineralization at the Ivana deposit has characteristics of sandstone-type and surficial-type uranium-vanadium deposits. The sandstone-type mineralization is related to a braided fluvial system and indicates the potential for a district-size system. In the surficial-type deposits, mineralization coats loosely consolidated pebbles, and is amenable to leaching and simple upgrading.
The Project includes several other target areas over a regional trend, at or near surface. The area is flat-lying, semi-arid and accessible year-round, with nearby rail, power and port access. The Company's strategy includes delineating resources at multiple areas and advancing the entire project to prefeasibility level.
For additional details on the project and properties, please see the Company's website.
Blue Sky Uranium Corp. is a leader in uranium discovery in Argentina. The Company's objective is to deliver exceptional returns to shareholders by rapidly advancing a portfolio of surficial uranium deposits into low-cost producers, while respecting the environment, the communities, and the cultures in all the areas in which we work. Blue Sky has the exclusive right to properties in two provinces in Argentina. The Company's flagship Amarillo Grande Project was an in-house discovery of a new district that has the potential to be both a leading domestic supplier of uranium to the growing Argentine market and a new international market supplier. The Company is a member of the Grosso Group, a resource management group that has pioneered exploration in Argentina since 1993.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Nikolaos Cacos"
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Nikolaos Cacos, President, CEO and Director
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This news release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments the Company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including, without limitation, statements about the Company's plans for its mineral properties; the Company's business strategy, plans and outlooks; the future financial or operating performance of the Company; and future exploration and operating plans are forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results of the Company to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements and, even if such actual results are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, the Company. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things: the impact of COVID-19; risks and uncertainties related to the ability to obtain, amend, or maintain licenses, permits, or surface rights; risks associated with technical difficulties in connection with mining activities; and the possibility that future exploration, development or mining results will not be consistent with the Company's expectations. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Readers are encouraged to refer to the Company's public disclosure documents for a more detailed discussion of factors that may impact expected future results. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, unless required pursuant to applicable laws. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's mining guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. U.S. investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our properties.
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Beginners to expert sellers can build and manage visually stunning online stores with Bluehost's curated solution, simplifying the website building experience
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluehost, one of the largest WordPress hosting providers in the world, today announced the launch of its new commerce solutions that make it simple for customers to launch their online stores and makes using WordPress easier by bringing together YITH plugins and WooCommerce. Addressing the need for a simple, convenient online selling solution for all, Bluehost's new commerce solutions, bring together the power of WordPress, the versatility of WooCommerce and the elegant simplicity of YITH plugins to empower users to easily create online stores that truly stand out from the rest.
From a mobile-responsive eCommerce website to powerful connections with all the major online marketplaces, Bluehost's commerce solutions enable users to sell products anywhere and everywhere confidently. The affordable all-in-one commerce solutions allow users to build a robust online store. Users can easily accept payments, sell across popular marketplaces, schedule calendar appointments, ship new customer orders, print labels, and add advanced features like GiftCards, WishList, Customer Account Page, and more. Site owners will save time and energy maintaining every aspect of their eCommerce business, all from one platform.
Bluehost's commerce solutions make selling online easier and save customers hundreds of dollars by bundling enhanced plugins.
"We have so many customers around the world with unique needs and different levels of expertise building online stores," said Ed Jay, President of Newfold Digital, the parent company of Bluehost and YITH. "With the launch of Bluehost's new commerce solutions, our team is addressing the needs of small businesses looking for the flexibility and power of WordPress but want the experience of coming online and selling to be simple. The curated experience we are providing strikes the perfect balance of security, reliability, and functionality by taking the power of WordPress and putting it into the hands of users in a way that feels intuitive and native for each of our customers seeking to grow their businesses."
Bluehost's commerce solutions offer the functionality, and the perfect mix of tools, plugins and guidance online sellers need to start and grow their online business including:
- Easy Online Store Creation: Bluehost's new commerce solutions come with an easy-to-follow onboarding experience. Answer a few simple questions and within minutes users will have the right foundation pages to launch their site. The guided onboarding experiences walks users through the set-up process for commonly needed features of an online store, like payment processing, tax information, shipping and managing product inventory.
- WooCommerce and Enhanced YITH Plugins: Both of Bluehost's commerce solutions come with WooCommerce and enhanced YITH plugins. YITH is one of the largest sellers and developers of WooCommerce Plugins for WordPress, with nearly 2.3M active installs and more than 100 plugins that expertly solve critical eCommerce needs. Payment Processing, Gift Cards, Wish Lists, Appointment Bookings, Shipping, Product Search/Filtering and Customer Account Creation are included, providing users with everything they need to build an online store for a simple low price.
- Sales Across Multiple Marketplaces: Whether users are selling on Amazon, Etsy, eBay, Shopify, BigCommerce, or any other kind of marketplace, the Bluehost Online Store + Marketplace plan allows customers to manage their inventory from one centralized dashboard. This allows them to analyze which marketplace is the best place for selling their products, as well as keep track of inventory in real-time without having to log into multiple dashboards.
- Yoast SEO: The #1 WordPress SEO Plugin powering more than 13 million websites. Yoast SEO is made by world-renowned SEO experts and is packed full of features, designed to help visitors and search engines to get the most out of their website. Newfold acquired Yoast in August 2021.
- New WordPress eCommerce Block Theme "Wonder" Pre-installed: Take advantage of WordPress's Block Editor with Wonder's 24 patterns, focused on shops, and six different style variations. YITH, a leading global provider of WooCommerce plugins acquired by Newfold in March 2022, built Wonder leveraging their WordPress commerce expertise.
- Professional Services and 24/7 Expert Support: In-house Bluehost experts are readily available to help customers get online and support customers if roadblocks are encountered while creating an online store, via online chat or over the phone at +1(888) 401-4678.
For more information on Bluehost's commerce solutions, including product features and details, visit Bluehost.com.
Bluehost is the leading web hosting solutions provider specializing in WordPress. Since its founding in 2003, Bluehost has been trusted by millions of people because it makes building, growing, and managing successful WordPress websites easy. Bluehost delivers a suite of WordPress solutions designed with the perfect mix of guidance, tools, and expertise to build a professional website. Bluehost is a part of the Newfold Digital family of brands. For more information on Bluehost, visit Bluehost.com.
Newfold Digital is a leading web and commerce technology company serving nearly 7 million customers globally. Established in 2021 through the combination of leading web services providers Endurance Web Presence and Web.com Group, our portfolio of brands includes: Bluehost, CrazyDomains, HostGator, Network Solutions, Register.com, Web.com, Yoast, YITH, and many others. We help customers of all sizes build a digital presence that delivers results. With our extensive product offerings and personalized support, we take pride in collaborating with our customers to serve their online presence needs. Learn more about Newfold Digital at Newfold.com.
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DALLAS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: BHR) ("Braemar" or the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per diluted share for the Company's common stock for the third quarter ending September 30, 2022. The dividend, which equates to an annual rate of $0.04 per share, is payable on October 17, 2022, to stockholders of record as of September 30, 2022.
Braemar Hotels & Resorts is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing in luxury hotels and resorts.
Certain statements and assumptions in this press release contain or are based upon "forward-looking" information and are being made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, among others, statements about the Company's strategy and future plans. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. When we use the words "will likely result," "may," "anticipate," "estimate," "should," "expect," "believe," "intend," or similar expressions, we intend to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to numerous assumptions and uncertainties, many of which are outside Braemar's control.
These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including, without limitation: the impact of COVID-19, and the rate of adoption and efficacy of vaccines to prevent COVID-19, on our business and investment strategy; our ability to repay, refinance or restructure our debt and the debt of certain of our subsidiaries; anticipated or expected purchases or sales of assets; our projected operating results; completion of any pending transactions; risks associated with our ability to effectuate our dividend policy, including factors such as operating results and the economic outlook influencing our board's decision whether to pay further dividends at levels previously disclosed or to use available cash to pay dividends; our understanding of our competition; market trends; projected capital expenditures; the impact of technology on our operations and business; general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of our common stock and preferred stock; availability, terms and deployment of capital; availability of qualified personnel; changes in our industry and the markets in which we operate, interest rates or the general economy; and the degree and nature of our competition. These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in Braemar's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The forward-looking statements included in this press release are only made as of the date of this press release. Such forward-looking statements are based on our beliefs, assumptions, and expectations of our future performance taking into account all information currently known to us. These beliefs, assumptions, and expectations can change as a result of many potential events or factors, not all of which are known to us. If a change occurs, our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations, plans, and other objectives may vary materially from those expressed in our forward-looking statements. You should carefully consider this risk when you make an investment decision concerning our securities. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Company can give no assurance that these forward-looking statements will be attained or that any deviation will not occur. We are not obligated to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances, changes in expectations, or otherwise, except to the extent required by law.
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Nashville Business Journal honors Lucinda "Cindy" Baier in this year's class of winners
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brookdale Senior Living CEO Lucinda ("Cindy") Baier has been named to the Nashville Business Journal's 2022 list of Most Admired CEOs. This is the third time Baier has been included on the list.
To assemble this prominent list of area CEOs, nominations are made by the public. From there, nominees are grouped into categories based on company size and type and then voted on by their peers. The highest-scored CEOs make the list of honorees.
"I am honored to receive this recognition," said Baier. "This is truly a recognition of our dedicated and diligent associates across the country who believe in and live out our mission every day."
Baier has shared how the experience of growing up on a farm in central Illinois helped build the foundation of her work in senior living. At a relatively young age, she learned firsthand what it meant to be a caregiver. She cared for her both her mother and grandfather while she was still in school. That early experience solidified her passion to help seniors and their families at such an important time in their lives.
Baier is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of Illinois State University, with Bachelor's and Master of Science degrees in Accounting. She spent the early parts of her career with one of the nation's largest public accounting firm. The next 25+ years of her career included multi-industry experience split between operating and finance in a variety of companies before making her way to Brookdale.
Baier was the company's Chief Financial Officer beginning in December 2015 before taking the helm at Brookdale. She has served as Brookdale's President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since February 2018.
In 2022 Baier published her first book Heroes Work Here: An Extraordinary Story of Courage, Resilience, and Hope from the Front Lines of COVID-19 in which she shares how she and her team led Brookdale through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Congratulations to Cindy Baier and all of the other Most Admired CEO winners across Middle Tennessee.
About Brookdale
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is the nation's premier operator of senior living communities. The Company is committed to its mission of enriching the lives of the people it serves with compassion, respect, excellence, and integrity. The Company operates independent living, assisted living, memory care, and continuing care retirement communities. Through its comprehensive network, Brookdale helps to provide seniors with care and services in an environment that feels like home. The Company's expertise in healthcare, hospitality, and real estate provides residents with opportunities to improve wellness, pursue passions and stay connected with friends and loved ones. Brookdale operates and manages 674 communities in 41 states as of June 30, 2022, with the ability to serve more than 60,000 residents. For more Brookdale news, go to brookdalenews.com
Contact: Brookdale Media Relations, (615) 564-8622, media.relations@brookdale.com
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