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March 29, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Thessalus Capital Management LLC, a leading biotech and healthcare investment firm, has closed its COVID related investments and appointed Dr.
Jason Ngo
to its Advisory Board. The steps are part of the firm's shift away from a heavy focus on COVID related vaccines and therapeutics, to a new lineup of promising investments in the biotech space.
Thessalus CEO Dr. Mitchell Ng
Dr. Jason Ngo, newly appointed to Thessalus Capital Advisory Board
"When COVID began in
March 2020
, our physician-managed investment firm was one of the first to recognize the huge market potential in companies developing treatments for this unprecedented health crisis," says Thessalus Managing Director and President, Dr.
Mitchell Ng
. "We bet big on companies developing COVID vaccines and therapeutics, like Moderna (MRNA), Regeneron (REGN), and Pfizer (PFE)."
"We maintained significant positions and are very happy with how those played out," says Dr. Ng. Moderna was the biggest winner, going from little-known startup to premier global developer of mRNA vaccines. Its stock price rose 800% since
January 2020
. Stock prices of Regeneron and Pfizer, which developed a COVID antibody treatment and COVID mRNA vaccine, respectively, saw similarly eye-popping gains.
Nevertheless, with COVID moving to endemic status, Thessalus is reaching the "end of the road with regards to its COVID play," says Ng. "We're closing positions and re-focusing on our pre-pandemic biotech lineup including CRISPR gene editing technologies, CAR-T cancer immunotherapies, monoclonal antibody treatments, among others."
To that end, says Managing Director Dr.
Kenneth Ng
, the firm is appointing Dr.
Jason Ngo
to its Advisory Board.
"Dr. Ngo is one of the best analysts of midsize biotech market caps I've encountered in my medical career. Being a research-heavy fund as we are, Jason did outstanding work for us reviewing Phase III clinical trials and identifying specific M&A activity in orphan drug ventures. He played a real role in our successful investment in Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX)."
"This appointment is a resounding vote of confidence in Jason's abilities," Ng concludes. "Overall, these recent steps are a milestone, marking the end of a successful chapter in our fund, and first, exciting steps to ensure continued growth and expansion in coming years."
About Thessalus Capital LLC:
Thessalus is a leading, "content strong" investment firm specializing in US and international life science industries. It takes a global, research-heavy approach, with narrow and deep focus on pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostic tools, and medical devices. The company creates and executes strategic transactions for growth and to maximize shareholder value. | [
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10:52 PM, Mar 23, 2022
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2022-03-23 23:18:13-04
DETROIT (WXYZ) A local Detroit-based small business is the winner of a national grant for Black entrepreneurs. The grant comes from Famous Amos and the National Black Chamber of Commerce.
It means a lot, said Brittany Rhodes, owner of Black Girl MATHgic.
Rhodes has worked as a math tutor for 20 years and decided to start her own company called Black Girl MATHgic, which sells math boxes for a monthly subscription. Each box includes fun items and learning tools. It also has an inspiring story featuring a Black female mathematician.
"I take their story and however they applied their math degree and I curate the experience around that, Rhodes said.
The company aims to inspire young Black girls, while also teaching important lessons to build their confidence in math.
"When we saw for those who are considered the most vulnerable or the least of us, everybody benefits from that, Rhodes said.
So far, her company has shipped more than 4,500 boxes to 35 states and Canada. Her story has earned Black Girl MATHgic a $50,000 grant from a national competition, specifically for Black-owned businesses.
"It means a lot because there are so many stats that point to how Black-owned businesses and Black entrepreneurs get sometimes less than 1% of available funds in a particular pot, Rhodes said.
Rhodes plans to use some of the money to start a box for young boys and maybe hire some staff, assisting as her small Detroit-based company hopes to grow.
When those who have historically not been able to get opportunities get opportunities, everybody wins, Rhodes said.
For more information about the company, visit
blackgirlmathgic.com
.
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Janaki Jitchotvisut
On December 3, 2021, Zero Motorcycles issued a recall on some 2022 SR, SR/F, and SR/S motorcycles because incorrect rear brake pads were installed during the motorcycle production process. This recall is issued out of an abundance of caution, because incorrect rear brake pads for these bikes could increase a riders risk of crashing.
Affected bikes were produced between November 15 and November 22, 2021. Zero Motorcyclesestimates that a total of 45 individual bikes are affected, which is 100 percent of the bikes produced during that time frame. VINs on affected bikes range from 538ZFCZ77NCP19623 to 538ZFDZ76NCK19765, and are non-sequential.
According to Zero, the incorrect brake pads installed on these bikes differ from those used to certify FMVSS 122 compliance. Therefore, Zero cannot confirm whether they will perform as intended. To date, the company says that it is not aware of any accidents or injuries caused by this defect.
More Recent Recalls:
Recall: Some 2021 Harley-Davidson Pan America Seat Bases May Break
Authorized Zero Motorcycles dealers will inspect and replace the affected brake padson machines that are subject to this recall, at no charge to customers. Since all the affected bikes are still under Zeros warranty, the company has no separate reimbursement plan set up for owners who attempted to receive service for this issue prior to this recall.
Part numbers differ between the correct and incorrect brake pads, which may not immediately be visible while they are in place on the bike. An easier way to identify which ones are on a bike is the fact that the incorrect rear brake pads have a silver-colored backing, while the correct ones have a copper backing.
Zero Motorcycles will notify dealers about this issue between the dates of December 13 and December 31, 2021. Owners will be notified between December 20, 2021 and January 7, 2022. Zeros number for this recall is SV-ZMC-022-018. Owners may contact Zero customer service at 1-888-841-8085. Additionally, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations campaign number for this recall is 21V-940. Owners may also contact the NHTSA Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153) or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
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ESG
Mr. Kipling maker Premier Foods has laid out a new ESG strategy outlining a series of major sustainability commitments, including the goal to achieve net-zero for direct emissions by 2040.
The company's new ESG strategy, entitled 'Enriching Life Plan', is built on three pillars product, planet and people.
Chief executive officer, Alex Whitehouse, said, "Over the last few years, we have made some very good progress against our previous ESG strategy and we are proud of the achievements that we have made so far.
"We have evolved rapidly as a business over the last eighteen months and we now have ambitions which are much bigger and bolder.[]We firmly believe that we should take responsibility for helping to support a healthier planet, for delivering new product options to help consumers eat more healthily, and in caring for our colleagues and communities."
The Three Pillars
In the area of product, the company aims to double the sales of products that meet high nutrition standards by 2030.
It also aims to generate sales worth 250 million from plant-based products.
Whitehouse added, "We will leverage our proven branded growth model and insight-driven innovation capabilities to develop and provide consumers with an increasing number of healthy options, including a series of plant-based products such as Sharwood's Vegan cooking sauces and Mr. Kipling 30% less sugar cake slices."
In addition to the net-zero target, the company aims to reduce Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 42% by 2030.
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Premier Foods will also introduce Science Based Targets aligned to the 'Business Ambition for 1.5' and cut food waste by half by 2030.
The company will implement measures to ensure gender balance in senior management roles by 2030
It aims to donate 1 million meals per annum to those in food poverty by 2030.
The company also aims to make its supply chain free from deforestation by 2030.
The producer of Oxo, Saxa, and Bisto,
over a two-year basis in the first three months of its financial year 2021.
2021European Supermarket Magazine. Article by Dayeeta Das. For more | [
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/PRNewswire/ -- Community Options, Inc. today announced the appointment of
Stacey A. Verdino
as Senior Vice President of Human Resources.
In her role, Stacey will implement a strategic and effective human resource process that will help Community Options maintain a competitive edge in attracting and retaining employees nationwide.
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Stacey most recently was the Senior Director and Head of Human Resources for Nutrinia, Inc., an international biotechnology company. Prior to that, she served as the Director of Human Resources for Amicus Therapeutics, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of treatments for rare diseases.
"Stacey has a puissant background. She ran human resourcesfor my friend
John Crowley
, who heads Amicus," said
Robert Stack
, President and CEO of Community Options. "Stacey learned from John the value that persons with disabilities bring to society and will augment her knowledge and this ethos to our human resource department that manages over 5,200 employees nationwide."
John Crowley
was inspired to start Amicus after his twins were diagnosed with Pompe disease. His family's story was portrayed in the film Extraordinary Measures, which starred
Harrison Ford
and
Brendan Fraser
, who played Crowley. His daughter, Megan, was recognized during the President's State of the Union address as a person who is slated to graduate from the
University of Notre Dame
, while overcoming her significant disability. Crowley and his family have been longtime supporters of Community Options and its mission.
Stacey, a
native, graduated with High Honors from
Rutgers University
and was a member of multiple honor societies. She is currently pursuing a Master's Degree at
Rutgers
, and remains an active member of BioNJ and the Society for Human Resource Management.
About Community Options, Inc.:
For over 29 years, Community Options has developed housing and employment programs for people with disabilities serving thousands of people through over 40 offices across 11 states. Community Options provides advocacy assistance to empower people with disabilities because all people regardless of ability level should live and work in the community with dignity, choice and self-determination.
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Powder remained the major type of detergent until 2016 when liquid overtook and continues to lead laundry detergents with further steady growth expected over the forecast period. Front-loading laundry machines use less water than top-loading laundry machines thus powder detergent does not fully dissolve in the water whereas liquid detergents dissolve well in a relatively small amount of water. When particulate matter became a serious issue in South Korea, consumers began to be conscious about th...
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Unicredit finances Ibg (PepsiCo and Neri bottler)
The Campania group aims to become a benefit company
UniCredit has signed a 7 million euro bond loan issued by Ibg Spa, a company active in the food and beverage sector that produces and distributes Pepsi brand products and all Neri beverages, a historic Italian brand marketed in Italy and abroad.
The minibond, issued thanks to the support of Nativa as Sustainability Advisor, has a variable rate and a duration of 7 years, and is aimed at supporting the investments envisaged by the 2021-2025 Industrial Plan, based on production and technological efficiency strategies.and IT to pursue business development also from a sustainable perspective.
Among the ESG objectives is the improvement of primary packaging, increasing the percentage of recycled plastic in bottles produced and marketed by Ibg by up to 30% over the next three years and, in the social sphere, obtaining ISO 45001 certification. as part of its governance, Ibg has set itself objectives linked to the evolution of the company into a Benefit Company.
IBG will also be awarded a bonus (reduction of the coupon rate) by UniCredit for achieving the set sustainability objectives: the transaction is in fact part of the "Bond Food Mezzogiorno", the first minibond issuance program launched by UniCredit for agri-food companies in the south.
"With this operation - explains Annalisa Areni, Manager for the South of UniCredit Italy - we concretely support the growth and development plans of a company in the South that has distinguished itself over the years for its capacity for innovation and has always been attentive to protecting the environment. focusing on eco-sustainable production".
For our company - adds Rosario Caputo, CEO of Ibg - the qualification of a benefit company represents a priority target for being a model of sustainable economic development. A choice that reflects the efforts we intend to make in supporting the principles of the 2030 Agenda, taking on the responsibility of promoting an ever greater awareness of social responsibility among our stakeholders".
Ibg, with a turnover of 110 million, has its commercial headquarters in Caserta and its production site in the Buccino plant, in the province of Salerno, with more than 120 employees and where it produces and markets Pepsi, Gatorade, The Lipton and Looza drinks and all Neri brand products (owned brands), such as Chinotto, Aranciosa, Limoncedro, and Gassosa. Since 2017, the Company has also been active in the Food segment with the marketing, throughout Southern Italy, of Lay's snacks which are among the best-selling in the world.
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each bring significant experience that will enhance our Board," said
David Chernow
, Chairman of OneOncology's Board of Managers. "Dr. Dickson is an incredible physician leader, and
Curtis Warfield
has a wealth of board, technology and payer experience in healthcare. I'm looking forward to working with both of them to enhance the delivery of cancer care and benefit the practice partners we serve."
Dr. Dickson is President and Chief Medical Officer for Tennessee Oncology, where she guides process improvement, regulatory affairs and safety initiatives. She is also skilled in stakeholder management, maintaining a cooperative working relationship along the healthcare continuum with staff, physicians, hospitals and payers. Her passion for improving the delivery of care for patients drives her focus on physician-led collaboration with technology vendors, pharmaceutical innovators and other organizations. As Tennessee Oncology leads in the implementation of alternative payment models, Dr. Dickson is focused on prioritizing quality initiatives, reducing unnecessary variation, and analyzing and sharing performance metrics. Dr. Dickson also has maintained an active hematology-oncology practice for the past 22 years.
Curtis Warfield
, an accomplished C-suite executive, has served in senior roles with three Fortune 500 companies. In addition to his leadership role at Windham Advisors, he is also currently a board member of Texas Roadhouse, a publicly traded global brand, as well as the Chairman of its Nominating and Governance Committee.
Mr. Warfield, who is a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission expert and a certified public accountant, has also served as part of the senior leadership team of Anthem, Inc., one of the nation's largest health insurers with over $100 billion in revenues, from 2017 to 2019. As a senior executive at HCA, the largest healthcare provider in the country, from 1997 to 2016 he held a variety of roles with the majority of his tenure as the Chief Executive Officer of NPAS, a healthcare services company.
With these additions, OneOncology's nine-member Board of Managers consists of five physicians. Board members are
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MidHudson trauma team saves man with nail in heart
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MidHudson Regional Hospital
A mysterious puncture wound. A language barrier. A nail piercing the heart. A life on the line.
This stranger-than-fiction scenario unfolded in less than an hour last summer at MidHudson Regional Hospital a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network.
I saw a gentleman hurrying a young man through our sliding glass doors. He was clearly in urgent need of care, said Carole Hilbrandt, RN, in the Emergency Department at MidHudson Regional Hospital. Upon initial assessment we found a small puncture wound on the left side of his chest. I remember thinking to myself, Was this guy shot?
Radiologists quickly located the problem a foreign object burrowed into the mans heart. Imaging studies also showed that fluid most likely blood was surrounding the heart. To relieve pressure on the heart, doctors quickly performed a pericardiocentesis: using a needle to withdraw fluid from the sac between the heart and the chest.
With help from hospital interpreters, physicians and nurses began piecing together the mysterious circumstances that brought this young man to the Emergency Department. He had been helping his uncle at a construction site when a nail fired from a nail gun pierced the board he was holding, penetrating his sternum. Faced with a dire situation, his uncle raced him to the Trauma Center at MidHudson Regional Hospital.
Now the trauma staff faced a number of split-second decisions. They had the capability to open his chest in the Emergency Department but felt it was better to get him to the fully equipped, high-tech environs of the operating rooms. I alerted the OR team (including Zubair Zoha, MD, Associate Chief of Trauma Surgery) that our patient was headed right upstairs, says Carly Herr, RN.
When the surgical team opened the patients chest, Dr. Zoha visually confirmed the nail had indeed lodged itself in his heart, and he was continuing to lose blood. The team knew they needed to remove the object and close the wound without delay. Along with Surgical Technician Todd Alston, the team was able to remove the nail. Dr. Zoha placed his finger into the hole to stop the hemorrhaging.
But the trauma team faced yet another significant challenge: Before I could put the stitches over the opening, before I could repair it, the patients heart stopped. He was going into cardiac arrest, says Dr. Zoha. With his finger still plugging the hole, he reached into the young mans chest with his other hand and began massaging the heart manually.
We needed to stimulate circulation to keep the heart pumping and keep the blood flowing to the brain, Dr. Zoha says.
This maneuver resulted in the patients heart restarting, giving the trauma surgeon the time and stabilization necessary to close the wound to the heart. The surgery was a success, and nine days later, the patient was released.
Reflecting back on the case, Dr. Zoha praises all members of MidHudsons trauma team Operating Room, Emergency Department, surgeons, cardiologists, intensive care, and the blood bank with coming together to do what they do best, save a life.
That day was a prime example of everyone working as one with a single goal in mind, Dr. Zoha says. The patient went from going into cardiac arrest on the operating table to a full recovery.
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Loren Adler, Associate Director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, joins Yahoo Finance to discuss the health care sector.
Video Transcript
JARED BLIKRE:
Private equity money has flooded the medical industry in recent years, particularly in physician practices and staffing companies. But could that new money be driving unexpected financial burdens on those needing medical services? A new report says it might. And here to discuss it is Loren Adler, Associate Director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, plus Yahoo Finance's Anjalee Khemlani. Lauren, thank you for joining us here today. Can you break down some of the findings of this report? Because I know that any time we talk about profits and medicine, it's raising eyebrows.
LOREN ADLER:
Sure, no, thanks for having me. You know, it has been-- it's an interesting report. And to look into sort of this big surge over the last decade or so, I think the movement of private equity money into physician practices has made a lot of headlines in recent years, particularly with the surprise billing debate, where we had, you know, strong evidence that the rise of these private equity staffing companies in emergency medicine or anesthesia, in particular, really was resulting in additional patient costs and really getting surprise bills, in particular. And we have seen that at least get closed with the No Surprises Act that's set to take effect next year.
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But, you know, in our analysis of the data here, there really seems to be a new shift into some of the office-based specialties, like dermatology, GI, and ophthalmology, where the evidence base is much more nascent. But certainly, there are fears of some of the same increases in patient costs, especially given some recent evidence that we discuss, really finding quite negative patient outcomes in the nursing home sector, which has, obviously, been sort of a big-- getting a lot of press in the-- with COVID and everything.
ANJALEE KHEMLANI:
And Loren, I'm so glad you brought that up because I know that that's something we've talked about, is where the evidence has come from when it comes to the nursing home sector and how that can play a role in what we understand, especially for hospital-based or group-based practices and how that really impacts the long-term view of this.
And on one hand, we have some states that have gotten down to encouraging more transparency for these private equity deals. But what could, really, the country do largely? Is it supposed to be, or should it be, a state by state sort of determination on how to address this? Or is it something that needs to be addressed federally, and how can they, if so?
LOREN ADLER:
Sure, so my view is, really, there are-- this is largely a federal issue to deal with. Obviously, states have some tools that can be useful on these fronts in terms of transparency or especially price regulation or looking at consolidation, right? A big part of the drive for private equity money in physician practices is primarily about creating and consolidating companies, coming into particularly these office-based specialties that hadn't really gotten a lot of interest from the hospital sector.
So they were pretty fragmented at the time being. Private equity money can come in, consolidate markets a fair amount, and use that pricing power to jack up prices. That is sort of an easy way to make money in this space. But that really is-- largely comes back to the federal antitrust agencies and the Federal Trade Commission, who, to be fair, is certainly looking into this and has made a lot of noise more recently about looking at these smaller deals that have often gone under the radar.
So, a common tactic here is, you buy one big platform company, they call it. And then you buy a lot of small practices that are add-ons, which often have sort of evaded the eyes of the agencies because these deals are relatively small. Hopefully, we can kind of look into those a little bit more and look more holistically at the company when they are trying to do these sorts of mergers, given the plethora of evidence we have that that sort of consolidation can harm consumers, either through higher prices or lower quality.
And then, you know, I think where we come down is that a lot of this can come down to, there are a host of market failures and payment loopholes that sort of litter our healthcare system. And really closing those can be the first step to removing the low hanging fruit that private equity likes to take advantage of in these sectors.
ANJALEE KHEMLANI:
I want to dig into that a little bit because definitely looking at the loopholes and just sort of how that fits into the larger conversation that's happening about healthcare right now, we're talking more technology, you know, fancier devices and products. And all of that put together also puts pressure on the systems and increased costs, generally speaking.
So, looking at it from the broad spectrum, are we in a different sort of-- are we in a shift, really, in how healthcare services are being provided? And maybe the sort of tug of war happening right now is more of a philosophical question. But in sort of this, like, brand awareness environment, is that going to play a role, do you think, in how this sort of sorts itself out?
LOREN ADLER:
I think that's certainly possible. And part of this is people sometimes talk about whether you want to somehow target private equity in particular. But it is-- one, it's sort of hard. Private equity can pretty easily sort of change the format of the exact financing. So it is somewhat hard to really target regulation that well.
And, you know, another point we make here is there's been a lot of consolidation in healthcare over the last decade. And it's not all driven by private equity. We have a good chunk of evidence that health system acquisition of physician practices are just sort of two practices merging and joining together. Hospital consolidation, payers are buying practices, you know, all of that can have some similar negative outcomes potentially.
But, you know, you make a good point that there also is a need for investment. And particularly, as we move more towards some risk bearing, the physician practices and the hospitals want to take some risk on, need to invest in new technology and all of that. There is a reason why the private equity money is attractive as well. And that's where it comes in handy, that if you remove sort of the low hanging fruit that we think is pretty clearly negative for consumers, maybe you can still leave open the opportunities where it probably might be more of a net positive, right?
I think of the example of primary care, where, certainly, there have been a number of developments and advancements that have been good for patient quality, right? A lot of these new primary care practices respond to your emails more quickly, have telehealth, have services that patients really do find attractive. But at the same time, there | [
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Health Executive, Doug Brown, Joins Tantus Tech as CMS Solutions Director
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May 4, 2020
/PRNewswire/ -- Tantus Technologies, Inc. (Tantus), a leader in Health Information Technology, is excited to announce the addition of
Doug Brown
as the Director of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Solutions. Mr. Brown's addition is part of Tantus' strategy to expand its presence within CMS and bring elements of Human Centered Design and Agile into key health initiatives, like quality and performance.
As Director of CMS Solutions, Mr. Brown will spearhead Tantus' growth within CMS and oversee a delivery portfolio of CMS-based contracts and vehicles. He joins Tantus as the company is adding to its technology solutions portfolio, expanding its market coverage, and broadening an already healthy customer base. "Doug's knowledge of CMS will position us well to meet our customers' emerging needs, further our goal of healthcare modernization, and expand our footprint within health quality initiatives," said Executive Vice President, Ms.
Karlene Stecchi
.
Mr. Brown has an extensive background in healthcare program operations and design, as well as federal regulations development, policies, and stakeholder engagement. His over 25 years of public service include working for CMS in the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ), the Office of Financial Management (OFM), Center for Program Integrity (CPI), and the United States Navy. While at CMS, he directed or supported programs including: the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP) and its Trusted Third Party (TTP), the Open Payments "Sunshine Act" Program, the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Care Transitions Theme, the quality measures within the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, Home Health Pay-for-Reporting, and the Program Safeguard Contractor (PSC) Program.
About Tantus Technologies, Inc.
Tantus provides technology and business solutions to solve the federal government's health, financial, and transportation challenges. The company brings nearly two decades of experience collaborating with government to make "Our World Better," delivering solutions that span Artificial Intelligence, Agile, Human Centered Design, DevOps, Strategy Realization, Program/Project Management, and Cyber Security. Recognized by The Washington Post as a "Top Workplace" two years in a row, Tantus realizes its core value of "Do the Right Thing" with a robust community service program focused on improving the lives of children and young women diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening medical conditions.
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Netflix
Global streamer Netflixhas expanded its slate of unscripted entertainment programming in Japan
The company says it has 15 shows in the comedy, reality television and documentary genres in different stages of development. Of these, seven will launch on the platform in the current calendar year.
Upcoming shows include: dating seriesLove Village,
The Future Diary
, and a second season of Love is Blind: Japan, whichis now casting and will play next year. Japanese documentariesinclude: LiSA Another Great Day, which celebrates the titular artists career as one of the top singers of wildly popular anime theme songs; Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki, featuring former-idol-turned-actor Toma Ikutas immersion in the world of New Kabuki; and
Tokyo Crime Squad
: The Lucie Blackman Case.
The update was announced in a blog posting by Kobayashi Mitsuko Koyabashi and Goto Taro, managers of live action creative, Japan. Their messaging attempted to straddle the local and the universal. As a global studio, we try to entertain both local and global audiences. Unscripted shows allow us to accomplish both in interesting ways, said Kobayashi and Goto. Our priority for each local language show is to make sure it resonates with the respective local audiences, and when we stay true to each culture and make them as authentic as possible, the shows tend to tap into something universal.
Reality shows Ainoriandthe since canceled FujiTV coproduction Terrace Housewere some of the first shows to resonate strongly for Netflix with Japanese audiences after it launched in the country in 2015. At the time country managers said that Terrace House was not typically something they would want to make as an original series
However, the company has adapted to local conditions and has recently enjoyed success with unscripted comedy seriesLast One Standing, which became the most popular show on the platform in Japan after its premiere.
In November, Netflix put on a two-day presentation of some fifty new shows from Japan The first day was dedicated to animation, the second to live-action.
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Tunisian Eco-Pioneers Battle to Save Sahara Oasis (AFP)
Tunisian Eco-Pioneers Battle to Save Sahara Oasis (AFP)
Published March 20th, 2022 - 09:26 GMT
Employees cultivate the Dar Hi hotel's vegetable garden amidst palm tree in the remote Nefta oasis, a seven-hour drive from the coastal Tunisian capital Tunis, on February 12, 2022. The remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture -- but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
A remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture -- but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects.
They hope their back-to-basics approach can keep alive the ancient Saharan caravan stop and its traditions as a sustainable alternative to the region's high-irrigation date plantations.
"Among the palm trees, everything can grow," said Mohamed Bougaa, 63, a farmer in the remote Nefta oasis, a seven-hour drive from the coastal capital Tunis.
"There's everything you need here: vegetables, fruit. We can plant peppers, tomatoes, carrots -- everything grows when there's sun and water."
The problem has been that the Nefta spring -- which once delivered some 700 litres (185 gallons) of water per second -- has been exhausted to irrigate the region's famous dates, called "deglet nour."
"The Nefta springs dried up 20 years ago," said Bougaa.
As underground water sources have failed and summer temperatures peaked at a scorching 55 degrees Celsius (131 degrees Fahrenheit) last August, the season's crop has been disappointing.
Mimicking Nature
French businessmen Patrick Ali El Ouarghi (R) is pictured in the remote Nefta oasis, a seven-hour drive from the coastal Tunisian capital Tunis, on February 12, 2022. The remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture -- but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Patrick Ali El Ouarghi, who runs an eco-tourism lodge in the oasis, said date palm plantations, at the right scale, can be run sustainably.
He called them an ideal demonstration of permaculture, a system for producing food organically by mimicking natural ecosystems.
"The palm trees protect the fruit trees, and the fruit trees protect the vegetable patches, it's natural in an oasis," El Ouarghi said.
The French-Tunisian set up his Dar Hi lodge 11 years ago -- including the so-called "Palm Lab" where engineers, architects and artists discuss how to conserve the oasis.
The ecology project aims "to make investors and farmers want to reinvest in the oasis, because it's decaying a bit," he said.
A key theme is tackling the severe water shortages by experimenting with technology such as drip irrigation.
The current system of flooding orchards with water, pumped from 100 metres (300 feet) below ground, is wasteful, he said.
Date Sugar
An employee displays date sugar, produced from organic-certified desert fruits, at Dateible, a company founded by US Kevin Klay, in the remote Nefta oasis, a seven-hour drive from the coastal Tunisian capital Tunis, on February 12, 2022. The remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture -- but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Not far from Dar Hi, others are trying different ways of creating value in the oasis.
American Kevin Klay, 35, a former resident of Sousse in northern Tunisia, says he fell in love with dates during a visit to the south.
"We realised that many dates, up to 20 to 30 percent, were thrown out and not used because of a small visual blemish," he said.
So he bought a few kilos (pounds), removed their seeds, dried them and then put them through a coffee grinder.
The result, he said, was a sweetener "with a fifth of the calories of white sugar" that is full of fiber and contains "more potassium than bananas."
Armed with this knowledge, Klay in 2018 launched "Dateible," selling his "date sugar" produced from the organic-certified desert fruits for export.
He now employs nine people, seven of them women.
"We've seen huge demand, particularly in the US where our main market is," he said.
The firm is exporting dates in bulk and also starting to sell on online retail site Amazon.
Several firms are producing other date derivatives such as a coffee substitute made of date pips and a form of molasses for use in pastries.
Unknown Flavors
Chef Najah Ameur prepares a salad from vegetables grown in their premises at Dar Hi hotel's in the remote Nefta oasis, a seven-hour drive from the coastal Tunisian capital Tunis, on February 12, 2022. The remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture -- but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Back at the lodge, the restaurant is reviving traditional desert cuisine.
"It's very simple and dates from the arrival of nomads," when Nefta, today regarded as a spiritual home of Sufism, was a key stop on Saharan desert routes, El Ouarghi said.
They brought "unknown flavors and spices that have remained here as a tradition," he said.
Chef Najah Ameur says residents create their own unique spice mixes.
"It's not the same as buying them at the market: cleaning the leaves, the smell, the flavor, you have to know exactly how to do it," the 40-year-old said.
She cooks a menu of dishes she learned from her mother and from French celebrity chef Frederick Grasser Herme, the recipes collated in a recently published book on oasis cuisine.
"Many ingredients come from the palm groves: parsley, celery, chard, green beans, peas," she said.
Some recipes are also adapted to use Moringa, an Indian tree famed for its nutritional and medicinal qualities and its ability to thrive in arid conditions.
The tree species may be new to the oasis, but residents are hoping that a mix of old and new can keep both their community and their ecosystem in good health.
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Bangkok, Jun 11 (efe-epa).- Singapore will start next week the first phase of a human clinical trial of an antibody treatment against COVID-19, which has killed more than 412,000 people worldwide.
In a statement, Singaporean pharmacist Tychan, creator of the treatment, said the trial will be conducted at the SingHealth medical research center and will take about six weeks to assess safety and tolerance in humans.
Scientists hope that the antibody, identified as TY027, can slow the progression of the disease and speed recovery, while providing temporary protection against infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
If this first phase is successfully passed, Tychan will request authorization to conduct a more extensive clinical trial.
So far, no antibody treatment or vaccine for the new coronavirus has been developed in the world, said the pharmaceutical company, which is owned by Temasek, the state investment arm of Singapore.
The president of the companys board of directors, Teo Ming Kian, stated that, while it will be months before it is known whether the treatment is effective, they are optimistic about the experience they have of other antibodies that they have developed in the past against Zika and Yellow Fever.
What we want is not just to help people around the world to avoid the devastating effects of COVID-19, but to better prepare ourselves for the next unfortunate outbreak of an infectious disease from the lessons of developing therapies against each outbreak, Teo said.
Recently, US pharma company Eli Lilly began a human trial of an antibody against coronavirus and announced that it will test another in July.
Using antibodies to treat this virus has been an idea for months, as researchers in the Netherlands in May identified a human monoclonal antibody that prevents the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting cultured cells.
In addition, at least 124 vaccines for COVID-19 are currently in development, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), and at least a dozen of them are already in the phase of clinical trials.
Major pharmaceutical corporations working on the development of coronavirus vaccines have pledged not to seek profit for the duration of the pandemic.
In total, more than 7.2 million cases of coronaviruses have been registered in the world, according to the WHO, with 412,583 deaths confirmed by this organization as of June 11. EFE-EPA
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CIAL
) ventures into hydro power production. The first power plant under the project at Arippara near Kodencheri in Kozhikode will be commissioned by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayanon 6 November.
CIAL estimates an annual power generation of 14 million units through the plant and the generated power will be fed to the KSEB power grid from November first week.
The 4.5 MWp Run-of-River small hydro project (SHP) across Iruvazhinji River was awarded to CIAL by the state power department as per the KeralaSmall Hydro Power Policy under Built-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) for a lease period of 30 years.
The total project cost is Rs.52 Cr and CIAL purchased five acres of land from 32 residents at Arippara. Earlier, the works were severely affected during the two devastating floods of 2018 and 2019. A lot of additional precautions had to be taken by modifying the designs and by building additional retaining structures to ensure safe working conditions for the laborers. The construction of a weir across the river, hydro-mechanical and electro-mechanical systems was completed in September despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.
The trial run began in October. The powerhouse will generate around 1.08 lakhs units of power a day during peak flow days and it is estimated that the plant could be operational in full capacity for 130 days in a year.
CIAL managing director S Suhas said that the Arippara hydroelectric project was the companys biggest project after achieving power neutrality of the Kochiairport in 2015. It was the leadership and guidance of the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, as the Chairman of CIAL that turned out to be decisive to speed up the project implementation. We are sure that this will impart further momentum to set up such hydro projects across the state which has 44 rivers and numerous streams, Suhas said.
Being a Run-of-River project, the SHP works on limited storage of water causing no adverse effect on the environment. Run-of-river hydro projects use the natural downward flow of rivers and micro turbine generators to capture the kinetic energy carried by water.
The construction of an overflow-type weir across the river diverts the water to a pool from where the intake structure and connected water conductor system (
WCS
) is built. A surge tank was constructed to moderate the water flow during load acceptance and load rejection time. The penstock feeds two machines each of 2.25 MW capacity. The powerhouse, with horizontal turbines, is installed at the right bank of the river, said a CIAL statement.
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Pathway to Living is finding success providing affordable senior housing on Chicagos South Side.
The Chicago-based providers Victory Centre of South Chicago, in the citys South Shore neighborhood, offers 112 studio apartments and provides supportive living services for residents, Pathway to Living Regional Director of Sales Kimberly Bevan told Senior Housing News during a recent visit to the community.
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Victory Centre of South Chicago is 92% occupied and its residency is predominantly African-American and Hispanic, mirroring neighborhood population demographics compiled by the U.S. Census, Lifestyle Specialist Desirea Watson told SHN.
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This is the year we plan on fully occupying the building, she said. The property first opened its doors in 2009.
The Victory Centre model is one example of how established senior living providers can bring more affordable housing options to less affluent metropolitan areas to meet high and growing demand, by tapping state-level resources and creating multi-brand portfolios.
Supportive living
Pathway to Livings Victory Centres are a mix of private pay and Medicaid, Watson told SHN.
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Rents are based on a percentage of a residents monthly income. In Illinois, supportive living communities are licensed by the state Department of Healthcare and Family Services (IHFS) and eligible for financial assistance for residents 65 and over.
Those who qualify for financial assistance can maintain their residences through state Medicaid funding, in the event their personal finances run out. Pathway to Living has 13 supportive living communities in its portfolio 10 are Victory Centre locations, Bevan said.
Overall, Pathway to Livings portfolio consists of 32 communities across the Midwest, totaling 2,900 units and seven brands. Last January, Chicago-based real estate investor and operator Waterton acquired a controlling stake in the company, and is looking to expand beyond the Midwest.
While the Victory Centre portion of the portfolio taps into some particular financing sources, it shares the VIVA! lifestyle model with other Pathway communities.
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The courtyard at Pathway to Livings Victory Centre of South Chicago.
Victory Centres supportive living services are integrated into Pathway to Livings VIVA! lifestyle programming, which focuses on a holistic approach to improving body, mind and spirit and, by extension, helping residents maintain their independence, Victory Centre of South Chicago Executive Director Anthony Shell told SHN.
Supportive living communities share many similarities with assisted living. At Victory Centre, staff provides maintenance, housekeeping, meals, medication oversight, personal care, nursing services, recreational and educational programming. But Victory Centre has a nurse on call seven days a week, which differentiates it from other supportive living communities, Watson said.
Changing views on affordable housing
The VIVA! Program is intended to change the way society views senior living, Bevan said. These resident-led programs offer a variety of social, educational and spiritual programs as well as the chance for people to share their skills, talents, and passions with others.
Victory Centre of South Chicago has a gardening club where residents choose vegetables to grow. Those vegetables are then used in the community kitchen and its cooking club. The VIVA! World Tour program gives residents the opportunity to explore other cultures and countries through language lessons, arts and crafts, and music.
The first floor houses a senior center, dining room, spa and living area where residents can mingle. Each level of the five-story building has a themed resident lounge where residents can relax. Victory Center has a partnership with an adjacent senior center, allowing residents to use its fitness rooms for exercise or physical therapy.
The all-studio apartment layout is unique to Victory Centre of Chicago, Bevan told SHN. Other communities have a mix of studios, alcoves (mini-one bedroom units), one-bedroom and shared companion units apartments with a joining door typically to accommodate a couple.
Changing the views on senior living extends to job descriptions and titles, as well. Sales managers at Victory Centre are lifestyle specialists. Nursing staff are wellness staff. All staff are trained to take visitors on tours, and employees receive annual raises and are afforded opportunities for professional growth, Shell told SHN.
We want our staff to treat our residents as they would treat their own family, he said.
Developing affordable housing has slowed in recent years. Developers have focused on building market-rate senior housing in high-density urban areas, resulting in pent-up demand for affordable senior housing in low-density areas of the country. competition for tax credits and incentives.
Meanwhile, low-income senior housing models such as housing-plus-services which could be scaled to meet demand, lack non-Medicare and Medicaid payment models to finance the services.
If a private payment model to fund services can be established, Victory Centres supportive living model can serve as a blueprint for success with other providers.
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In this June 6, 2017, file photo, a reporter holds up an example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Va.
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Rare drugs designed to mimic the opioid fentanyl are showing up more often in urine samples from Penobscot County than any other county in the nation, according to a recent study. The findings are concerning to the authors, they said, since they come at a time when the fentanyl analogs are frequently being added to methamphetamine, creating a deadly combination.
In the study published in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal, the authors analyzed 300,000 urine drug tests from July 15, 2019, through March 12, 2020. Health professionals from all 50 states submitted urine samples to Millennium Health LLC, a commercial laboratory based in San Diego, to have them tested as part of patients routine care. The vast majority 295,647 had not been prescribed fentanyl for medical purposes.
The studys authors, who are all employees of Millennium Health, found that, of those patients testing positive for fentanyl without a fentanyl prescription, 40.55 percent had at least one fentanyl analog detected in their system, showing that copycat fentanyl is absolutely infiltrating the market for illicit substances, said Joseph Stanton, associate director of clinical affairs at Millennium Health and one of the studys authors.
Fentanyl analogs are usually produced in clandestine laboratories and, while they are chemically similar to fentanyl, they were specifically engineered to skirt U.S. law though the U.S. later banned them China is the principal source of fentanyl analogs, which has routed the drugs through the mail and Mexico, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Some drug dealers mix fentanyl analogs with other drugs, such as heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Mixing is cheaper for dealers because it takes only a small amount of a fentanyl analog to produce a high. However, its far riskier for users who dont always know what they are getting, evidenced by the fact that, in Maine, the average drug overdose death in 2019 involved three drugs Different analogs have different potencies, and they are not all well understood or well studied.
One well-known analog, however, is carfentanil, which, at 100 times the potency of fentanyl, was originally designed to sedate large animals such as elephants and moose. About 20 microgramsof carfentanil, which is less than a grain of salt, is enough to kill someone.
Of the no-prescription, fentanyl-positive urine samples in the study, the counties that saw the highest positivity rates for more frequently found analogs such as carfentanil and acetyl fentanyl were in Kentucky and Ohio.
But the greatest percentage of urine samples showing traces of the least frequently found fentanyl analogs came from residents living in Penobscot County. Of those Penobscot County samples, 11.36 percent tested positive for at least one of seven rare analogs, such as acryl fentanyl.
For Dr. Noah Nesin, chief medical officer for Penobscot Community Health Care in Bangor, the data was startling. To have Penobscot County at the top of the list is distressing and a possible explanation as to why our overdose rates remain higher than the rest of the state, he said. PCHC does not send samples to Millennium Health.
In its other studies, Millennium Health can see methamphetamine use has been growing quickly in Maine placing the state 10th nationally for its methamphetamine positivity rate among urine samples processed by Millennium Health. Maine has the fifth highest positivity rate in the nation for fentanyl, based on the laboratorys data. And for the number of samples showing a combination of methamphetamine and fentanyl, Maine ranks sixth, said Eric Dawson, the laboratorys vice president of clinical affairs.
Combined with the recent evidence showing a high prevalence of rare fentanyl analogs in Penobscot County, it paints a very concerning picture of the state of Maine and that county specifically as it relates to those users, said Eric Dawson, vice president of clinical affairs at Millennium Health and a study author. As you start adding these things, you add to the risk of overdose.
Neither Dawson nor Stanton know why the rare analogs appeared in Penobscot County in the eight months prior to the pandemic.
Neither did Marcella Sorg, director of the Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program within the University of Maine. But the results were not a surprise to her.
I suppose thats unusual, but Maine has had fentanyl analogs present in the population since late 2012, she said.
In 2017, acryl fentanyl was involved in the drug death of one person in Maine, according to Sorgs analysisof drug-related deaths that year. Butyryl fentanyl, another lesser-found analog, helped kill two people. Cyclopropyl fentanyl killed eight. And furanyl fentanyl, which the Millennium Health study didnt detect in its review, contributed to the deaths of 32 people in Maine that year. Maine has seen a variety of fentanyl analogs show up in the overdose data since.
Different analogs seem to peak at different times. Its tough to get a real sense of why that may be, Stanton, with Millennium Health, said. But the authors hope that knowing more about the ever-changing makeup of the drugs in an area will help local providers and others have more informed conversations with people who are using drugs and enhance efforts to reduce overdoses, they said.
Sorg also questioned whether the studys sample size was large enough to protect against Penobscot County rising to the top of the list by chance. It is reasonable to assume that if the lesser-known analogs are in Penobscot County, they are also elsewhere in Maine, she said. Or, its possible Millennium Health tested Penobscot County samples at a particularly troublesome time.
They may have just happened to hit it when a bad batch showed up in the drug supply, she said.
Dr. Mark Publicker, an addiction specialist based in Portland who uses Millennium Health, agreed that the analogs may be common throughout the state. As for Penobscot Countys ranking, that may be a function of how many providers use Millennium, which may be greater than other areas in the state, he said.
The study does not reveal how many samples per county Millennium Health received. Because it is a private company, it doesnt disclose specific data about its customer base, Dawson said. But the company only analyzed counties where at least 10 samples tested positive for fentanyl, and 181 counties across 30 states met that bar. The lab detected the rarer group of fentanyl analogs in 56 counties across 16 states.
Our data is limited to samples being sent to our lab from health care practitioners. It may not reflect the general population of users, but what we see for Maine is concerning, Dawson said.
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For every sector of the Welsh economy, the coronavirus pandemic has presented huge challenges.
But for one sector at least, it has also presented an opportunity an opportunity to demonstrate its great importance to Wales as a whole.
Wales has hundreds of businesses working in the life sciences and medical technology sectors. In the Cardiff Capital Regionalone there are 200 businesses working in medical diagnostics and devices. Some of these businesses have played a key part in helping the NHS and other healthcare providers tackle the UK Covid-19epidemic.
From the early days of the pandemic, South Wales companies were there offering their products, helping develop new ones or adapting to produce other things that were urgently needed. In February
Cardiff
-based medtech Bond Healthcare joined an international consortium led by the Canadian firm Sona Nanotech that was developing a rapid, cheap and easy to use screening test to help triage individuals suspected of having the virus.
Bond was the only company in the world developing the sort of bespoke digital products needed to allow the data from the tests to be collected through a reader system or app before being stored in the cloud. Phil Groom, commercial director of Bond Healthcare, said:
The Covid-19outbreak demonstrates the urgent global need for digitally connected, data-driven, rapid diagnostic test systems.
As the pandemic developed, life sciences network MediWales issued a call for companies that could help with the supply of essential products to register with them. Among the products they asked companies to get in touch about were ventilators, testing kits, dashboard systems to allow access to real-time information, systems to manage and predict workflow, blood gas analysers, screening and patient monitoring equipment, and PPE.
The strength of
Cardiff Capital Region
s medtech sector depends not only on its businesses, but also on the quality of its researchers and scientists in its universities and hospitals. A team of CardiffUniversity and Public Health Wales scientists has been playing a leading role in sequencing Covid-19virus genomes as part of the Covid-19Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK).
By March 25 the scientists had already sequenced more than 50 Covid-19 genomes from Wales.
Dr Catherine Moore, consultant clinical scientist at the Wales Specialist Virology Centre, said the data was giving scientists incredible insights into the transmission and dynamics of a new virus into a population with no immunity.
Covid-19
has accentuated the importance of the medtech sector, but it had already been identified as a priority for investment by the Cardiff Capital RegionCity Deal. The 200 companies working in medical diagnostics and devices, most of them SMEs, employ 8,000 people between them and have a combined turnover of 1.5bn.
The sector is one of the fastest growing in the Capital Region, and its potential for further growth is considered to be large. It rests in part on the strong research base provided by the regions universities, with three in the region active in the medical diagnostics field. CardiffUniversity placed 8
th
in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework for clinical medicine, through the School for Precision Medicine and Diagnostic Pathology Hub.
The region can boast some world leading anchor companies. Renishaw, based in Pontyclun, has a centre of excellence in healthcare industrial additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing. Creo Medical, based in Chepstow, is a world leader in endoscopic electrosurgery devices.
Cardiff
-based TrakCel has established itself as the best in class cellular orchestration platform for advanced therapies, supporting clinical and commercial therapies globally and multi-lingually across a range of therapies.
At a meeting in early March, before the coronavirusoutbreak had really taken hold in the UK, the Regional Cabinet agreed to provide 30,000 for due diligence into a project to develop a life sciences innovation hub just south of Junction 32 of the M4 in north Cardiff Its hoped the development will attract research bodies and industry, with space for up to 2,000 workers.
The hub is just one element in a five-pronged strategy by Cardiff Capital Regionto develop its medtech sector. Other prongs include developing a fit for the future ecosystem bringing together innovative businesses, research institutions and government; enhancing the regions pre-clinical and clinical trial capacity; boosting local skills with apprenticeships and new university and college courses; and cutting the cost of bringing new ideas to market by creating a shared resource directory.
Right now the priority in Cardiff Capital Regionis to help businesses get through the current emergency, and to help our medtech businesses in the fight to beat the virus. But in the longer term, after the crisis is over, the City Deal will be doing all it can to help boost a sector that has so much proved its worth.
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believes there's big money to be made from helping health care providers comply with regulatory mandated reductions in hospital readmission rates.
As a result, Medtronic paid $200 million for privately held Cardiocom this past summer. That bet gives Medtronic turnkey share in the telehealth industry -- a growing market bridging acute and primary care for patients with chronic conditions like heart disease.
Regulatory focus on improving outcomes
The interest in Cardiocom likely stems from a provision in the Affordable Care Act that penalizes hospitals unable, or unwilling, to embrace policies and procedures geared at reducing readmissions.
According to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare, or CMS, some 20% of Medicare patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, and those readmissions cost Medicare more than $15 billion every year.
To reduce those readmission costs, the ACA instituted fines for hospitals with high readmission rates. In August, CMS announced 2,225 hospitals are being fined a combined $227 million for 2013, equal to 1% of their reimbursements. That's likely to get the industry's attention. Particularly given penalties will climb to as high as 3% in 2015 and expand beyond heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients to also include chronic lung disease, elective hip and knee replacements starting next October.
In steps Medtronic
Medtronic thinks one of the ways providers will look to cut readmissions is by deploying telehealth products and services like those offered by Cardiocom. If so, Medtronic's large presence in cardiac care gives it a big network of customers to cross-sell.
Those customers are increasingly collaborating with home health care industry participants like Amedisys
(
NASDAQ:AMED
)
to cut costs and reduce readmission rates. However, Amedisys and its peers are facing its own cost pressures tied to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates. That's pressuring the industry to lower its own costs, which supports their use of telehealth solutions.
According to a 2006 study by the University of Minnesota, virtual visits between a skilled home health care nurse and chronically ill patients at home can improve patient outcome at lower cost than traditional skilled face-to-face home health care visits.
Since players like Amedisys can deliver at-home care at a cost of one tenth that of a hospital stay, they offer a compelling solution for commercial and government insurers. According to a study of Veterans Health Administration patients, the VHA found telehealth technology reduced bed days of care by 25% and readmissions by 20%.
Source: Almost Family investor presentation.
If Medtronic's is right that health care will increasingly shift to the home, it will expand the company's reach considerably. Only 13% of the 7.5 million heart failure patients in the United States are right for cardiac implants. By providing telehealth solutions, Medtronic may end up serving millions of additional patients.
Other companies vying for business
Cardiocom controls 12.5% of the market for patient home monitoring, making it the second largest player an industry expected to grow to $395 million by 2017 from $182 million in 2012, according to Frost & Sullivan.
But, Cardiocom isn't alone in the marketplace. It's in a footrace with other competitors, including Honeywell's
(
NYSE:HON
)
HomMed unit, which is tucked into Honeywell's Automation and Control Solutions division. According to Honeywell, patients using HomMed's telehealth solutions total more than all other competitors, including Cardiocom, combined. That makes Honeywell a big player in this fast growing market and suggests Medtronic will have to work hard to differentiate its own offering.
Medtronic will also compete with Bosch Healthcare and Philips NV in the home telehealth market.
The Foolish final take
Medtronic's strategy to expand its product line into telehealth appears to dovetail nicely with the company's current cardiac focus. It also offers Medtronic other opportunities given that Cardiocom's product line includes glucose monitors for diabetes patients, which is another of Medtronic's existing markets.
Of course, there's always the risk that the regulatory or competitive landscape will derail the potential opportunity. Medtronic will also need to continue to innovate and lean on its provider network if it wants to wrestle share away from industry heavyweight Honeywell, which could weigh on margins. However, despite those challenges the move into new adjacent addressable markets provides an opportunity for growth and that's never a bad thing.
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DeFacto brings the retailing concept of the future to Turkey
Poised to become a world brand in accessible fashion, DeFacto pioneers digitalization of the retail and ready wear sector with its smart store concept. The company broke new ground and brought to life the smart store concept in the fashion field at Akasya Mall. Thanks to smart screens, users will be able to examine digital copies of all products within a minute and purchase any outfit immediately.
DeFacto, a leading brand in Turkeys ready wear sector, ushered a new era in the retailing field. Setting off with an eye to pioneer the digitalization of the retail and ready wear sector, the company broke new ground in Turkey with its newly opened store at Akasya Mall, Istanbul. In the smartest fashion store visitors will have a quick, easy and comfortable experience, thanks to robot sales consultants and digital smart mirrors.
All options are on the screen at the same time
At DeFacto Digital Smart Store, robots will greet shoppers, and direct them on how to use the system. Thanks to smart mirrors at changing rooms, users will easily be able to examine any product they would like to buy. They will be able to see different size and color options and have a digital shopping experience in this way.
Moreover, the smart store will not have any cash desk. Customers will be able to purchase products by paying via automatic check-out or through kiosks. They will be able to purchase products from their preferred address within one day without paying shipment fees and carrying bags. Additionally, they will also be able to get them from another DeFacto store one hour later. The store will be completely paperless, thus natural resources will also be preserved.
We lead the digital transformation in the sector
DeFacto CEO Ihsan Ates said in his statement about the smart store concept that local software underpins the digital transformation journey of the company. Emphasizing that they founded a technology company soon after DeFacto itself was founded, Ate? said | [
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BroadwayWorld.com
Jul. 30, 2021
Seattle Theatre Group has announced its 2021/2022 Performing Arts Season. After what will be 20 months since the last performance, STG will once again present artists that represent the best of live arts from Seattle and around the world.
"We've had well over a year to reflect on the role of STG in our community," says Executive Director, Josh LaBelle, "As we celebrate the reopening of our historic theatres, we also strengthen our commitment to presenting diverse artists that inspire, empower and challenge our audiences."
This season features Seattle debuts from many International Artists- Canadian Indigenous contemporary dance company Red Sky Performance; Mariachi Sol de Mexico; and the powerful Taiko drummers, Yamato Drummers of Japan, as well as the return of longstanding STG audience favorites like Alvin AileyAmerican Dance Theater; a new commissioned work from
Kyle Abraham
's A.I.M set to the music of soul legend D'Angelo; Wynton Marsalisand the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and many more.
Due to the circumstances of the last year, STG will not be offering new subscriptions. Single tickets to all shows are now on sale.
For information about each show and to purchase tickets, visit www.stgpresents.org/season
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) announced that Italian start-up Yndetech has added its 700
th
customer in just three years, producing high quality dental implants and other dental devices on its four ProX
DMP 100 3D metal printers.
Yndetech, which was founded in 2015, acquired its first ProX DMP 100 shortly after it opened its doors in June of that year.
(PRNewsfoto/3D Systems)...
"My partner,
Francesco Grande
, and I realized that the quality of the pieces we were seeing from the DMP 100 was absolutely outstanding. We shared these results with the dental technicians in the area and the feedback was very positive," said Emidio Cennerilli, president and CEO, Yndetech.
Based on this initial input, Yndetech acquired a second ProX
DMP 100 soon afterwards. The quality and throughput of the 3D printers enabled Yndetech to provide its customers - predominantly dental technicians - with 24-hour turnaround service. In the next two years the company added two more ProX DMP 100 systems to keep up with growing demand. "Today we are printing a complete portfolio of dental devices with this laser melting technology using 3D Systems' cobalt-chrome material, including bridges, abutments, and implant bars," explained Emidio. "Cobalt-chrome has many advantages for dental applications such as biocompatibility, high wear resistance, easy to polish, chrome makes it more resistant to corrosion, and the very smooth surface finish makes it difficult for bacteria to attach to it."
Yndetech is supported on-site by 3D Systems' channel partner 3DZ
Italy
. 3DZ provides deep application expertise together with technical support for all of Yndetech's ProX DMP 100 systems, while ensuring that materials are delivered on time to maintain high customer satisfaction.
The 3D Systems Workflow Supports 24-Hour Turnaround
Yndetech has developed a 24-hour turnaround service based on the reliability of the ProX DMP 100. Dental technicians upload their dental CAD files to the Yndetech site or send them via email by
3:00pm
. Using 3D Systems' Phenix dental software, the Yndetech operator nests the various devices for printing on the ProX DMP 100's plate. Within three hours, the files are ready to print overnight. The next morning, the parts undergo post-processing and are sent to customers by courier by
5:00pm
. Fifty to sixty dental devices are produced this way each day. "Since I first became acquainted with Yndetech and their 3D Systems laser melting solution, I could no longer work without them. Compared to the other types of manufacturing processes and other milling centers, Yndetech has allowed me to produce dental elements with very high quality and precision - making my job easier and more accurate at the same time," said
Graziano Bruni
, Laboratorio Odontotecnico Bruni & Pellanera. "The cobalt-chrome implants with the easilyremoved, thin support structures are my favorite, and competitively priced for the truly excellent quality we receive."
ISO Certifications - Another Reason to Smile
As a result of the Yndetech's superior quality and processes, the company is certified for ISO 9001 and also ISO 13485 to manufacture medical and dental parts according to strict customer and regulatory requirements.
"This level of certification is important to Yndetech's customers to give them the peace of mind that they are receiving the level of quality and service they expect for dental implants," said Emidio. "The quality of the parts in terms of the surface finish is the reason we were able to build this business so quickly. Another important factor is the price/performance ratio of the materials, which is quite attractive. The reaction from the Italian market has been so strong, now we are looking to expand our business to other countries."
"We are pleased to see a young company like Yndetech succeed so rapidly in a competitive environment where absolute accuracy and predictability are expected," said
Wayne Davey
, General Manager, EMEA &
India
, 3D Systems. "Their success confirms the quality of our complete digital dentistry solutions, which include software, plastic and metal materials, 3D printers and on demand manufacturing supported by the dedication and experience of our local channel partner 3DZ.We encourage all dental labs, clinics and service providers to compare the quality and precision of our regulatory-approved solutions for the complete range of dental applications."
Yndetech will be displaying examples of its 3D printed dental implants at Expodental 2018 Rimini, Stand 7, Pavilion A3,
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MEDIFAST INC Quote
Net revenues of $220 million advanced 17.6% year over year and beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $195 million. Markedly, OPTAVIA-branded products formed 83% of consumable units sold in the quarter, up from 75% in the year-ago period. Incidentally, total active earning OPTAVIA coaches jumped 19.3% to 36,500. However, average revenue per active earning OPTAVIA coach came in at $5,851, down from $5,863 in the same period last year.
Management noted that while OPTAVIAS productivity remained in line with the year-ago period, it rose 9.7% on a quarter-over-quarter basis.
Gross profit grew 13.2% to $159.3 million, though the gross margin contracted 280 basis points (bps) year over year to 72.4%. Gross margin was affected by increased promotional activity and elevated production costs.
Moving on, adjusted SG&A expenses increased 14.5% to $129.8 million in the quarter, mainly accountable to escalated OPTAVIA commission costs, stemming from higher OPTAVIA sales, and greater coach incentives. As a percentage of revenues, adjusted SG&A expenses declined 160 bps to 59%. Adjusted income from operations rose 8.1% to $29.5 million, thanks to higher gross profit, partially offset by a rise in SG&A expenses. However, the operating margin contracted 120 bps to 13.4%.
Other Financial Updates
The company concluded the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $130.8 million and total shareholders equity of $116.7 million. Notably, management did not have any interest-bearing debt on its balance sheet as of Jun 30, 2020.
Concurrently, management announced a quarterly cash dividend of $1.13 per share, which is payable on Aug 6, 2020. Additionally, the company repurchased 46,075 shares during the second quarter of 2020 and has roughly 2,323,000 shares remaining under its buyback plan. The company anticipates maintaining its quarterly dividend payment practice.
Other Developments
During the second quarter, Medifast introduced a key initiative, which ran from March to May and fueled major increases in the companys core growth metrics new client acquisitions and co-sponsorships. Early results of the initiative underscore OPTAVIAs relevance even amid the pandemic, along with the companys ability to respond to the changing consumer environment. The company remains focused on driving demand for its products and services in the third quarter.
To keep pace with the changing scenario, management has largely altered its programs for the second half of 2020 including the development of a digital-first approach. To this end, the companys high-profile virtual event, Optavia together live (from Jul 24-26), is noteworthy. Apart from these, Medifast remains impressed with its supply-chain investments.
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IDAHO FALLS In an effort to bring hope to hungry people in eastern Idaho, Kyni donated over 8,000 pounds of food to the Community Food Basket Monday.
Carl Taylor, one of Kynis founders, and Travis Garza, the companys president, said Kyni Caring Hands searches for service opportunities in communities all over the world.
They have performed service projects on most continents such as helping build schools and creating irrigation systems. This year, one of the biggest needs locally was the food bank.
Silas Wright, EastIdahoNews.com
Kyni organized a food drive within their company and within a matter of weeks, 8,000 pounds of food had been donated.
They couldnt have picked a better time to do it, said Ariel Jackson, Executive Director of the Community Food Basket.
Jackson explained how during the summer, food banks normally see a dip in donations, resulting in empty shelves. With the COVID-19 pandemic this year, even less was coming in.
During the holiday season, everyone is giving, Jackson adds. During the summer, our donations drop way off.
When the virus hit, the Community Food Basket went from serving about 40 families a day to 70. They rely on donations, cash and food from the community to help those in need.
At the distribution center, every family leaves with a minimum of 100 pounds of food, so Jackson imagines Kynis donation should last a few weeks.
Contribution doesnt have to be big dollars, Garza explains. Its the little things. Can you imagine what a community like Idaho Falls can do for those who are in need? Just small numbers of people coming together to say, Lets make a difference.'
Garza noted that everyone donating in their own way and in different amounts is what helped the organization reach a big overall donation.
Thats what this community is made up of people who give hope and help others, he says.
Silas Wright, EastIdahoNews.com
The Community Food Basket is always looking for volunteers to help sort food donations. If youre interested, call (208) 524-0994. Donations can be made online or at 245 North Placer Avenue in Idaho Falls. Monetary contributions are greatly appreciated.
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March 15, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Candid is expanding its clinical partnerships through an exciting alliance with Sevredent Sourcing Solutions, a dental Group Purchasing Organization (GPO). Sevredent serves over 1,600 dental and orthodontic practices nationwide, with a focus on bringing competitive pricing and innovative supply chain solutions to the fastest-growing segment of the industry: DSOs/DPOs. This key partnership will drastically expand Candid's footprint and offer Sevredent members a convenient clear aligner producthelping them bring high-demand orthodontic treatment to more patients while using less clinical time.
This partnership comes just after Candid's recent announcement that the company will focus exclusively on bringing its CandidPro service to dental and orthodontic practices and away from its direct-to-consumer business. Founded in 2017, Candid champions an approach to clear aligner treatment that requires less chairside time than competitors while producing clinically sound results.
"Partnering with Sevredent is a huge win for both of our organizations," says Candid's CEO and cofounder,
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"As part of our ongoing effort to help bring new innovative technologies and supply chain value to our GPO members, we believe Candid will help increase patient access to top-tier orthodontic treatment while equipping our clinical partners with the latest in clear aligner technology," says Sevredent President
Blake Hibray
.
Candid's partnership with a major dental GPO like Sevredent will help them bring their clear aligner products to even more organizations nationwide, significantly expanding their network of clinical partners. For Sevredent, Candid offers its members a future-forward clear aligner solution that minimizes clinical time while keeping patients engaged in treatment.
About Candid
Candid is a clear aligner orthodontic system that makes treatment accessible and affordable for doctors and patients. Since 2020, Candid has brought high-quality clear aligners and patient support to dental practices and dental service organizations across
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UBS Group restated their neutral rating on shares of
Shire (LON:SHP)
in a research note published on Friday morning, investing.thisismoney.co.ukreports.
SHP has been the topic of a number of other reports. Deutsche Bank reiterated a buy rating on shares of Shire in a research note on Friday, October 12th. Barclays reiterated an equal weight rating on shares of Shire in a research note on Tuesday, October 9th. Liberum Capital reiterated a hold rating on shares of Shire in a research note on Tuesday, July 10th. Credit Suisse Group reiterated an outperform rating on shares of Shire in a research note on Thursday. Finally, Berenberg Bank downgraded shares of Shire to a hold rating and increased their price objective for the stock from GBX 4,500 ($58.80) to GBX 5,000 ($65.33) in a research note on Thursday, September 6th. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, thirteen have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the companys stock. The stock has an average rating of Buy and a consensus target price of GBX 4,725.30 ($61.74).
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Associate Editor, St. Louis Business Journal
Jan 11, 2022
Pathways Health and Community Support LLC, a St. Louis-based provider of behavioral and mental health services, has acquired an Arizona-based company that provides a range of child and adult welfare services.
Pathways said it has acquiredHuman Resource Training Inc. (HRT), a Phoenix-based company founded in 1981 that provides foster care services, social services and training to families and youth in central and northern Arizona. HRTs programming includes services for families with children who reside with their biological parents, as well as families with children in out-of-home placements and the developmentally disabled population.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Pathways officials said in a Jan. 4 statement that the acquisition complements its social service and behavioral health programs, extending its Arizona footprint from eight to twelve counties and boosting services in Maricopa and Pima counties.
Acquiring HRT significantly expands our capacity to provide essential services for more clients in Arizona; this acquisition also supports Pathways strategic plan for continued growth and expansion of our programs which deliver critical behavioral and mental health services," Pathways CEO Jill Winters said in a statement.
HRT is Pathways' second acquisition in recent months. Pathways acquiredRenew Consulting, an Albany, Oregon-based provider of customized, support for individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, in October.
Founded in 1997 at Providence Services Corp., Pathways was acquiredby Los Angeles-based private investment firm Atar Capital in October 2018 from Molina Healthcare Inc. Pathways, which employs more than 5,000 staff members, moved its headquarters to the St. Louis areafrom Fredericksburg, Virginia, in early 2020.
Pathways serves clients in 18 states and the District of Columbia with behavioral health services including counseling, telehealth, autism services, case management, therapeutic foster care, parent education, supportive employment, substance use services and employer-based programs.
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STAMFORD The parent company of Webster Bank, which recently completed its merger with Sterling National Bank, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Bend Financial, a cloud technology-based services provider for health savings accounts. Boston-based Bend will continue to operate and serve its clients as it does today, according to the agreement. Over time, Bends personalized and connected user experience will expand to Stamford-headquartered Websters HSA Bank division, one of the country's largest providers of employee-benefits solutions, Webster officials said in their announcement. This acquisition demonstrates Webster's commitment to enhance HSA Bank's client experience through strategic technology investments," Webster CEO and President John Ciulla said in a statement. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022. Our goal is to simplify health care saving and make it easy for everyone to manage their long-term financial wellness, Bend CEO and President Tom Torre said in a statement. We're excited that this transaction allows us to expand on that mission. HSA Bank counts about 3 million members nationwide. As of Dec. 31, 2021, it had $11.1 billion in total footings, comprising $7.4 billion in deposit balances and $3.7 billion in assets under administration through linked investment accounts. Bend complements HSA Banks ability to drive even better outcomes and value for the millions of consumers we serve, HSA Bank President Chad Wilkins said in a statement. This accelerates efforts underway to deliver enhanced user experiences. In response to an inquiry from Hearst Connecticut Media about how many Bend employees would be joining Webster and whether the acquisition would result in any layoffs, Webster said in a statement that the acquisition keeps the expertise of the 30-plus person Bend team, including developers who will expand our internal capabilities related to building, delivering and owning industry leading user experiences which can benefit our clients. Webster employs about 4,300 people. About two weeks ago, the parent companies of Webster and Pearl River, N.Y.-based Sterling National completed an approximately $10 billion merger, which created one of the largest commercial banks in the Northeast. The combined company held approximately $65 billion in assets, $44 billion in loans and $53 billion in deposits, based on balances as of Dec. 31, 2021. As a result of the merger, Webster has relocated its headquarters from Waterbury to Stamford. In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Webster lists the downtown Stamford building at 200 Elm St., as the address of its principal executive offices. While the new headquarters is in Stamford, Webster officials have said Waterbury and Pearl River, which is in New Yorks Rockland County, will be part of a multi-campus presence. [email protected]; twitter: @paulschott | [
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As the senior living industry shifts its focus from damage control to recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, recruitment and retention remain a leading industry challenge.
Unlike national senior living providers that can devote large amounts of time and money to filling positions, smaller or mid-sized companies often must find more creative ways to recruit and retain workers.
As smaller or mid-sized operators, we dont always have the deep pockets and extensive resources some of our larger operating partners do, said Pamela Engle, senior vice president of people and administration at New Perspective and moderator of an Argentum webinar on hiring and retention Thursday.
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Small and medium-sized providers such as Balfour Senior Living, Era Living and Summit Vista have implemented innovative strategies to keep workers engaged and employed, and bring new ones through the door in the process.
On the hiring side, these strategies include forging relationships with high schools and colleges and using niche job boards to better target applicants. And to retain workers, these providers are setting new staffing schedules more amenable to caregivers and creating new pathways for career advancement.
Altered scheduling
Summit Vista, a life plan community in Taylorsville, Utah, took a multifaceted approach to recruitment and retention when the pandemic began last year.
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The community implemented a staffing strategy at the height of the pandemic where two teams of employees alternated working seven days a week for more pay than usual, according to Tineka Hardwrick, director of human resources. Hardwrick described this approach in an interview with SHN last July, and provided an update during Thursdays webinar.
We had A and B teams, and they worked seven days on, seven days off, Hardwrick told SHN last July And in those seven days on, they worked 65 hours but they were paid for 80.
The community scheduled those shifts from Wednesday of one week to Tuesday the next, extending the work over two pay periods to avoid triggering overtime and ballooning costs. Summit Vista also applied for and received funds through the paycheck protection program (PPP) in order to pay the difference in hours.
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Those new staffing strategies in response to the pandemic effectively reduced turnover to zero while they were in effect, as the companys employees valued the flexibility, Hardwrick added.
Today, Summit Vista still uses an altered staffing schedule in certain departments where employees can work four 10-hour shifts a week and get three days off. The community also is spearheading a new internal rotation program so that employees can learn about the senior living industry beyond their respective roles.
What our younger generation likes is more time off, Hardwrick said. They want more time to themselves, they like that flexibility.
School relationships
In addition to implementing a new staffing schedule, Summit Vista also worked to broaden its talent pool by forging closer ties with local high schools with a scholarship program for students.
The community is currently partnered with four local high schools and works to recruit students as young as 15 years old to fill part-time PRN and per-diem positions, with typical workloads of about 10 or 15 hours a week during busy holiday or summer seasons. Specifically, Summit Vista has a scholarship program for students who work a total of 1,000 hours in two years.
Some schools need their students to have work release credits when theyre in high school, and you can recruit students by offering those work release credits, Hardwrick said. We also have a really nice referral bonus ranging from $50 to $150.
Summit Vista even includes the students parents by holding meetings with them to explain the job and the industry.
Make sure that they know what your organization is about what your culture is about so that when their child is saying, I dont want to go to work today, that parent is behind their kid to make sure they are getting in that car and going to work, Hardwrick said.
Era Living which is based in Seattle and operates a portfolio of eight communities also believes in the power of forging relationships with academic institutions. The company has a partnership with Washington State University, and is working on ways to more closely involve its Granger Cobb Institute
Were trying to build out a way to have some internships so that when these folks graduate from college, they are more prepared to come and be a director, said Matt Bromen, human resources director for Era Living. There are many other programs around the country, so were trying to build a career pathway from college right into senior housing.
Going niche
With so many senior living providers using job-hunting sites like Indeed and LinkedIn to find new talent, there is value in taking a different approach. One way to do that is to target niche job boards that have smaller but more engaged applicant pools. And thats a practice Louisville, Colorado-based Balfour Senior Living has had decent success with. Balfours portfolio numbers 10 communities in Colorado and Michigan, and the company is growingthrough a partnership with real estate investment trust Welltower (NYSE: WELL).
In addition to using bigger job boards, like Indeed, the company also embraced smaller ones that include Handshake, Purple Briefcase, Barefoot Student, FastMatch and OnShift, and MyCNAjobs.com. Doing so increased the number of people who clicked on a job posting and actually applied, according to Nora Brandon, Balfour Senior Livings vice president of human resources.
We increased our conversion rate from 1.2% to 3.4%, Brandon said during Thursdays webinar. And that was under 60 days.
Balfour also utilized non-traditional job pathways, such as the AARP Job Board, to recruit workers who might not normally find their way into senior living. For instance, the company recruited seniors and retired people to come into its dining rooms during a campaign it called Seniors Serving Seniors.
We had remarkable success, because we were targeting a specific population, Brandon said.
Career paths and mentorship
Another strategy for keeping workers on the job is giving them meaningful ways to advance. At Era Living, this is achieved by filling roles with employees who are promoted from within.
Right before Covid, we started tinkering around with the idea of purpose, and really tapping into an employees purpose rather than just trying to carve out a career path that may or may not be useful for that person given where they are, Bromen said.
The companys workforce development efforts include an executive-director-in-training program where two employees spend a year learning the ropes of being an executive director for the provider. The position is full-time and salaried, and is always filled by an Era Living employee.
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Bitcoins Obstacles Mount Amid China Cryptocurrency Warning
(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies slumped after the Peoples Bank of China conveyed a statement reiterating that digital tokens cant be used as a form of payment.The largest token fell below $40,000 for the first time since early February, dropping as much as 10% to $38,973 on Wednesday and continuing a weeklong slide sparked by Elon Musks back-and-forth comments on Tesla Inc.s holdings of the coin. Ether, Dogecoin and last weeks sensation, Internet Computer, also retreated.This is the latest chapter of China tightening the noose around crypto, said Antoni Trenchev, managing partner and co-founder of Nexo in London, a crypto lender.Virtual currencies should not and cannot be used in the market because theyre not real currencies, according to a notice posted on the PBOCs official WeChat account. Financial and payments institutions are not allowed to price products or services with virtual currency, the notice said.The statement doesnt have any new regulatory steps, according to Yu Lingqu, a vice director at the China Development Institute think-tank in Shenzhen. The notice was conveyed by the central bank but compiled by industry associations rather than government officials, making it less powerful, according to Liu Yang, a lawyer at Beijing-based law firm DeHeng Law Offices.They just want caution, said Bobby Lee, founder and chief executive officer of crypto storage provider Ballet. They feel the market is over-hyped, theres speculative trading, theyre looking out for the best interests of the people.Beijing since 2017 has abolished initial coin offerings and clamped down on virtual currency trading within its borders, forcing many exchanges overseas. The country was once home to about 90% of trades but the lions share of mining and major players have since fled abroad.China has recently taken steps to issue its own digital yuan, seeking to replace cash and maintain control over a payments landscape that has become increasingly dominated by technology companies not regulated like banks.Its no surprise to me, as Chinese capital controls can be challenged by cryptocurrency purchases in the country and transfers out of the country, said Adam Reynolds, CEO for APAC at Saxo Markets. So avoiding use of them in the country is essential to maintaining capital controls. The only tolerable digital currency to a government with strong capital controls is their own CBDC.Many chartists and technical analysts are looking at Bitcoins 14-day Relative Strength Index (RSI), which entered oversold levels Tuesday, as well as the 200-day moving average around $39,800. Breaching the 200-DMA could mean it drops to $30,000, where its previously found support.Read more: Bitcoin Chartists See Rout Worsening With $40,000 in FocusFor Stephane Ouellette, chief executive and co-founder of FRNT Financial, the moves have more to do with Musks recent tweets about Bitcoin.TSLAs entrance into the space saw some of the most aggressive BTC buying Ive personally ever seen -- and it has to unwind, Ouellette said. The EV-makers retraction that it will accept Bitcoin as payment was the catalyst that accelerated the spread consolidation. Then over the weekend, little comments here and there have continued to confuse, he said.Meanwhile, the latest Bank of America fund manager survey showed that Long Bitcoin is the most crowded trade in the world right now. The poll captures 194 fund managers with $592 billion worth of assets under management overall.When an asset becomes the most crowded trade in the BofA survey, it has frequently signaled a near-term pullback in the past, said Matt Maley, chief market strategist for Miller Tabak + Co. When you combine this with the news out of China, its not a surprise that Bitcoin is seeing some more weakness.(Updates markets starting in second paragraph.)More stories like this are available on bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.2021 Bloomberg L.P.
2h ago
Alibaba Leads $400 Million Investment in Vietnam Retail Firm
(Bloomberg) -- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and partners are investing $400 million in Vietnamese conglomerate Masan Group Corp.s retail arm, a deal that will expand the Chinese e-commerce giants online groceries business in Southeast Asia.Alibaba and Baring Private Equity Asia are leading a consortium that will take a 5.5% stake in The CrownX, which holds Masans interests in Masan Consumer Holdings and VinCommerce, while the conglomerate will own 80.2% of the firm following the investment, according to a statement Tuesday. The deal implies a pre-investment valuation of $6.9 billion for The CrownX, the statement showed.Masan is in advanced talks with other investors on a further investment of $300 million to $400 million into The CrownX that is expected to close in 2021, the company said. Shares of the Vietnamese corporation rallied as much as 2.7% in early trading Tuesday.As part of the deal, the Vietnamese retail firm will team up with Alibabas Southeast Asian unit Lazada to expand its digital business in the country. Jack Mas corporation is seeking to expand its foothold in Southeast Asia, home to more than 650 million people, as competition and regulatory scrutiny intensify in its home market of China. Vietnams digital economy is forecast to grow to $52 billion by 2025, an annual 29% increase from 2020, according to estimates by Bain & Co., Google and Temasek.The move should strengthen Lazadas competitive position by broadening its offerings in groceries, similar to the RedMart acquisition in Singapore, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Vey-Sern Ling said. The Southeast Asia e-commerce markets are nascent and Alibaba will probably invest much more in the future, especially since competition in the region is increasing.VinCommerce will provide groceries to Lazadas e-commerce platform in Vietnam and turn its physical stores into pick-up points for online orders, according to the statement. Groceries account for half of the countrys retail market and a quarter of consumer spending, but online penetration is still nascent, the statement said.Our immediate priority is to modernize Vietnams grocery market and develop an unparalleled consumer proposition from assortment to shopping experience, said Danny Le, chief executive officer of Masan Group.Masan Group is controlled by Vietnamese tycoon Nguyen Dang Quang. Founded in 1996, the Ho Chi Minh City-based firm is best-known for its fish sauce which it sells under brands including Chin-Su and Nam Ngu, according to its website. It has interests in retailing and mining as well as a stake in Vietnam Technological & Commercial Joint-Stock Bank, commonly known as Techcombank. Its VinCommerce arm operates one of the countrys largest co | [
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High Protein Diet Weight Loss Women
Jumping into the weight management journey can be a lot of job, and most of the times you will not understand where to begin. You can attempt your best to follow a regular as well as obtain your body made use of to it, however everybody is various and also you require to discover a routine that works finest for you. There are a great deal of ways that you can establish yourself up for a successful weight loss journey as well as I am going to provide you some tips on just how you can make your desire weight management trip a reality.
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To have a effective weight management journey, you are mosting likely to require structure, a regular, and also not only a healthy and balanced body, however a healthy and balanced mind. Thankfully for you, you are mosting likely to discover all of one of the most important information that you need to understand when trying to slim down. We are mosting likely to talk about starting or adjusting your diet, what you must and should not be eating, different supplements, exercise routines, and rest schedules. Without additional intro, lets get involved in the useful tips.
Food with Nutritional worth that will help you reduce weight.
You require to see to it that your diet regimen is on the appropriate path when you are trying to slim down. Even if you dont realize it, things you are consuming could be stopping you from losing the weight that you want to shed. Take a look at all of these foods that have great nutritional value and are taken into consideration pleasant to those that are trying to lose weight.
Entire eggs
Environment-friendlies of any kind of kind, yet the leafier, the far better
Fish, salmon particularly ( however, you can additionally consume tuna).
Broccoli, Cabbage, and various other vegetables in that household.
Chicken for meat, but lean beef is also pleasant.
Beans of any type of kind as long as they are low on carbs as well as salt.
Now that we have looked at the foods that you should have in your diet, allows talk about why you ought to be consuming these foods especially. Every food has its very own advantages and benefits, but these are the most effective for weight loss, right here is why.
High Protein Diet Weight Loss Women
Eggs may be seen as a bad food to digest when attempting to slim down since if you eat a lot of, you are going to get a great deal of poor cholesterol. However if you split up the consumption of eggs to every other day, or every couple of days, you will certainly acquire a great deal of great benefits. Eggs are very satisfying and if you consume a few eggs, you will certainly find yourself wanting much less food for the next day because the egg pleased your bodys daily nutritional requirements.
Eco-friendlies are wonderful for weight management due to the fact that they are short on calories, full on fiber, as well as can offer you all-natural vitamins. There isnt much of a failure when including a lot more eco-friendlies to your diet regimen.
Salmon, tuna, and also various other types of fish are good for you due to the fact that they are high in healthy protein. When you are trying to lose weight, you desire less fatty foods and also more foods that are going to aid you obtain muscular tissue. Healthy protein will certainly keep your body pleased and also healthy and balanced, and also the given that the fish does not have much fat, if any type of whatsoever, you wont put on weight from eating it.
For the veggies in the broccoli household, they are high in fiber. Most vegetables are high in fiber, yet these also have high protein counts. A great deal of individuals will go to broccoli, cauliflower, and also cabbage when trying to loose weight since it has lots of fiber and also protein. It also offers more range when preparing for meals.
High Protein Diet Weight Loss Women
Lean beef as well as Poultry are also high in healthy protein, which might look like a motif when speaking about meals however this is since healthy protein is excellent for weight-loss. You may have checked out someplace that beef isnt terrific for weight management, however it carries the exact same concepts as poultry, plus the advantage of providing you iron, and can be extremely useful when attempting to drop weight. A perk is that these meats will keep every one of the excellent fats in your body as you go on this trip, giving you energy to continue your day-to-day regimen.
And also beans, whether they are black eyed peas, baked beans, pinto beans, or whichever bean you prefer, they are healthy and balanced for you. They are full of fiber, can maintain you full, as well as have healthy protein and iron. If you arent eating enough meat, or if you do not such as meat, you can switch them for beans and also get the exact same outcomes.
Now lets discuss some supplements you can take that will certainly assist you throughout this journey.
Pyridoxine.
Biotin.
Please remember to do your very own research study when it concerns dietary supplements and also vitamins. I can detail one of the most recommended vitamins, however you need to constantly speak with your doctor prior to taking something that you are unclear concerning. The vitamins and supplements listed above include vitamin B, in addition to various other vitamins. Thinking about exactly how easy it is to get iron, vitamin C, as well as vitamin D in foods and also beverages, these are here for fat loss and also to provide you your daily dosage of vitamin B.
Lets go on to the working out part of this trip.
Exercising is just one of one of the most important parts of a weight loss journey. You can not change up your diet plan as well as anticipate to shed the weight without doing a little bit of a exercise occasionally.
The most effective method to obtain a strong exercise regimen is to locate a personal trainer, though not everyone can afford one, as well as some people dont have the moment to work with one. There are other means you can enter into a routine, however you need to know which exercises work the most effective for you.
To start, attempt exercising with a video clip online. There are a great deal of cost-free video clips you can discover on YouTube or other sites that motivate healthy lifestyles. The trick to having a great regular is to not push on your own right away. You ought to begin sluggish. Workout for about 30 minutes on your first day, this is so you do not obtain aching and also you can come back tomorrow as well as do even more.
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A nonprofit group backed by hospital operators, including Mayo Clinic, plans to sell low-cost insulin by 2024 in yet another push to lower prices on a crucial biologic medicine for many people living with diabetes.
The group, called Civica Rx and based in Utah, plans to produce what are known as "biosimilar" versions of three insulins now on the market. It will set a maximum recommended price for consumers of no more than $30 for a vial and no more than $55 for a box of five pen cartridges.
Patients today might pay much more out-of-pocket for insulin in those quantities, advocates say, if they lack insurance or have coverage that comes with high deductibles.
The nonprofit group argues the affordability problem stems from a lack of transparency with current insulin prices and how money gets split among companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Those corporate actors range from pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs) and drug manufacturers to health insurers, medicine distributors, pharmacies and employers, said Martin VanTrieste, the president and chief executive at Civica Rx.
"Even with some introduction of biosimilars now to the market, manufacturers and PBMs are incentivized as all for-profit companies are to make money off their products," VanTrieste said.
"So, even if they lower the price and provide pass-through rebates, the costs of insulin remain high and unattainable for millions of Americans, especially for those who are uninsured or underinsured."
Trade groups for companies along the pharmaceutical supply chain push back on suggestions that they're to blame for high insulin costs. They sometimes point to other players along the continuum. Meanwhile, state and federal lawmakers continue to adopt or consider laws that try to deliver savings for patients.
For Mayo, tackling insulin costs via Civica makes sense because it creates a stable and affordable supply to prevent what can seem like inexplicable problems with access to the biologic, said Dennis Dahlen, the chief financial officer at Mayo.
Civica was launched in 2018to manufacture dozens of sterile injectable medications that hospitalized patients used routinely for many years. Despite that longevity, medical centers found they regularly were struggling with shortages and/or price spikes problems Civica has helped address, Dahlen said, by manufacturing generic versions of about 60 drugs.
Mayo and other health systems make minimum purchases that create guaranteed demand for Civica's products, he said, but they don't rely on the nonprofit for more than half of their supply.
"It's to be a stabilizing force, not a monopolistic one," said Dahlen, who is on the board of directors at Civica.
Insulin represents a new direction, since it's a biologic dispensed to patients in drug stores. To guarantee a minimum level of demand, 12 independent insurers that use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brands have joined with Civica.
Whereas Civica's medications are made by contract manufacturers, it is building a facility in Virginia that will make its insulin for consumers and a number of sterile injectable medications used in hospitals.
"Insulin has always ... sort of defied logic," Dahlen said. "Insulin has been with us forever and yet it's still possible for manufacturers to charge very high rates.
"The challenge, though, was the way insulin gets manufactured and distributed ... is very convoluted and very difficult to get around. So, we needed more than health systems to do it. We needed to organize with the health plans who were ultimately paying the high prices."
While Mayo hasn't disclosed its financial support for Civica, founding members contributed "several million dollars," Dahlen said, through up-front donations and a line of credit that pays interest.
Civica's work on insulin costs is backed by several large nonprofits including JDRF, the advocacy group for patients with Type 1 diabetes. Over the last 30 years, there have been minimal innovations with insulin even as prices have doubled or tripled, said Aaron Turner-Phifer, the director of health policy at JDRF.
Uninsured patients and those with high-deductible health plans might pay out-of-pocket up to $300 for a vial of insulin or $500 for a box of five pens, Turner-Phifer said. Depending on how much insulin a patient needs, some could pay for a month's supply more than $1,000, he said, a sum that drives some people to dangerously ration their supply.
He said Civica will also bring transparency to a system where prices aren't known and mark-ups for various companies aren't seen. The group has pledged not to offer rebates, avoiding a marketing practice that, critics say, makes it impossible for patients to understand exactly why insulin costs are so high.
"We know that the current system promotes higher list prices. But we also know that health plans and PBMs and employers, at the end of the day, aren't paying that list price," Turner-Phifer said. "So, there are scenarios where there are folks with diabetes paying full list price while their health plan pays 30 percent of the list price. That's where the frustration is."
Greg Lopes, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, said PBMs believe the key to lowering costs for insulin, and drugs more broadly, is more competition among manufacturers. He said drug companies have avoided doing that through tactics like extending patents on insulin products.
James Swann of America's Health Insurance Plans said in a statement: "The only party making unreasonable profits from high insulin prices is Big Pharma."
But Brian Newell, a spokesman for the trade group PhRMA, said drug companies believe competition is a good thing that helps lower costs. Manufacturers also sympathize, he said, with patient frustration over their insulin costs.
"To provide relief to all patients, we also need to fix a broken insurance system ... [where] health plans and middlemen like PBMs pocket significant rebates and discounts," Newell said in a statement.
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Expert says Tennessee prison contract corruption case raises 'red flags'
Corizon representatives argued in the lawsuit the state unfairly helped Centurion secure the bid, and its requirements for bidders posed undue financial burdens for other competitors.
During the bidding process last year, the state had required a $1 million performance bond something often required to ensure contractors meet their obligations, court documents show.
But the state amended the amount to cover the maximum liability of the contract, which lawyers said amounted to approximately $118 million
Previously:
State to scrap $123 million prison contract, saying an official's secret emails broke the rules
Priscilla Wainwright, who serves as the director of contracts administration at the Tennessee Department of Correction, told the court the original amount of $1 million was a "clerical error," according to a copy of her deposition obtained by The Tennessean.
Between two versions of the state's request for bids, Tennessee's Central Procurement Office changed templates for requests for proposals and contracts that sparked the change in language, she said.
Wainwright said in her deposition the department never assessed the situation to determine if "maximum liability" coverage was needed for the contract.
Corizon lawyers argued otherwise. They said the change was uncommon and that the state had requested a $1 million performance bond for the company's previous contract with the state in 2016.
"Centurion was awarded the Contract under terms only Centurion could meet," Corizon's complaint stated.
The price tag attached to the bid could discourage competition and the company "(looks) forward to a level playing field for this offering," Corizon spokesperson Charles Siegel said Monday.
"This bond if it remains as stated could discourage competitors from participating. In addition, a bond of proportional size could be prohibitively large for the medical contract when it is up again next year, as it is much larger than the behavioral health contract," he said in a statement to The Tennessean.
Dorinda Carter, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction, did not answer The Tennessean's questions about the new request for proposals and whether the department perceives it as cost prohibitive.
Centurion could not immediately be reached for comment.
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/PRNewswire/ -- Saxony Court Senior Living hires an experienced local chef,
Chris Castro
to lead dining services at the Assisted and Independent Living Community.
Chris Castro
joins the Saxony Court Team with experience in fine dining and healthcare services.
Moe Freedman
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Chef Chris Castro outside Saxony Court Senior Living.
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Summary
Clorox is acquiring Nutranext in a bolt-on deal to move into vitamins.
I question the strategic rationale behind this bolt-on as many financial questions still have be answered as well.
Truth remains that shares have been lagging a bit as of recent despite tax reform, as higher interest rates make alternatives more appealing.
If shares hit the $110s, I might find it appealing to buy into Clorox, but for now, I am not pulling the trigger yet.
Clorox (
CLX
) announced a bolt-on deal which did not really move investors as it is looking to add Nutranext to its line of offerings. Shares were trading largely unchanged in reaction to the transaction as some real questions can be asked around this bolt-on deal. Not only are sales multiples relatively high and the deal expected to be dilutive to near-term earnings per share, it can be argued that it falls out of Clorox's core expertise as well, creating potential challenges.
While I am not that impressed with the performance of Clorox over the past decade, the truth remains that this is a reliable and slow growing business. Shares have been lagging a bit recently amidst interest rates moving higher while Clorox has been a key beneficiary of the tax reform. With multiples approaching 20 times, shares are appealing if they fall to the $110s.
Adding Nutranext
Clorox announcedthat it has reached an agreement to acquire Florida based Nutranext. The health and wellness company produces and markets dietary supplement brands through retailers, e-commerce channels as well as direct-to-consumers. Roughly 90% of sales are generated in the US.
Nutranext is best known for its Rainbow Light brand, the second vitamin brand in the natural channel. Other brands include Natural Vitality and Neocell and the Stop Aging brand.
Clorox CEO Benno Dorer notes that Clorox is looking to apply its skills in brand building, innovation and digital marketing to accelerate growth of Nutranext within the Clorox family. He furthermore stresses that this deal fits with 2016 purchase of RenewLife, a brand focused on digestive health. To combat scepticism that Clorox is overextending in other categories, Mr. Dorer stressed that RenewLife has grown under the ownership of Clorox.
The company will need to fork over $700 million to acquire the brand with annual sales of $200 million, valuing the business at 3.5 times sales. This does not pressure Clorox in a big way (at least financially) as the company expects to remain within its target leverage ratio of 2.0-2.5 times. The company has admitted that the deal will dilute earnings by $0.07-$0.11 per share in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year and by $0.08-$0.12 per share in the fiscal year of 2019.
Unlike most deals, these earnings predictions are based on GAAP accounting, as a deal often involves one-time financing costs, inventory step-up charges, integration expenses and other costs. If all goes well, the deal should be accretive to 2020 earnings. Investors unfortunately will have to wait until the company reports its third-quarter results (in May) to learn more about the deal and the financial implications.
Adding To The Clorox Family
Clorox is essentially a family of leading brands in disinfecting wipes, bleach, diverse range of cleaners, litter, trash bags, and food wraps, among others. Roughly a third of the $6 billion annual sales number is generated from the cleaning category, a third from households, with the remainder split evenly between the international and lifestyle category.
Given the nature of the businesses in which Clorox is active, one can argue that deals like RenewLife and Nutranext make sense as they are distinctive product categories, but could be framed adjacent categories as well. All of Clorox's brands and categories focus on healthier homes, workplaces and better value/healthiness for consumers. Furthermore, it fits within the current lifestyle category which Clorox is looking to expand.
The deal furthermore helps Clorox in expanding e-commerce sales from a modest 4% of total revenues at this moment in time. These sales of $225 million are aspired to more than double to half a billion by 2020.
A focus on innovation and building brands is a key reason why Clorox has been successful. The company reported very fat operating profits of $1.12 billion on its $5.97 billion in annual sales in 2017.
Growth Is Not That Impressive
While Clorox claims to have a great growth profile, this potential has not really translated into actual sales growth despite growing markets and focus on innovation. Revenues have grown from $5.3 billion in 2008 to $6.0 billion on a trailing basis, as the cumulative 13% sales growth works out to just a percent per year.
On top of this modest growth, Clorox has bought back 7% of its outstanding share base over the past decade, resulting in revenue per share growth of little over 20% over the past decade. This is still not very impressive as it is just keeping up with cumulative inflation over this same period of time, as revenue growth per share comes in less than 2% per annum.
One thing is clear, expectations have risen accordingly over time, in part aided by the low interest rate environment. Shares have risen 130% over the past decade, far outpacing earnings per share growth as multiples have only risen over time. For the year of 2017, earnings per share have only come in at around $5.33 per share, which at $128 per share works out to elevated valuation multiples of 24 times earnings and 3 times sales (on an enterprise basis).
Based on the guidance provided back in August, Clorox guided for earnings of $5.52-$5.72 per share this year, working out to a 23 times multiple at the midpoint of the guidance range.
Pro-Forma Numbers
The company reportedsecond-quarter results for its fiscal 2018 in February. Sales are seen up 1-3% in 2018, yet tax reform is expected to provide a real boost to earnings, with adjusted earnings now seen between $6.17 and $6.37 per share.
The company operates with a net debt load of $1.8 billion by the end of the second quarter. Including the announced deal, this will jump towards $2.5 billion. The company is currently on track to post sales of $6.0 billion on a standalone basis which combined with 17% margins works out to $1.05 billion in operating earnings (GAAP number). The company itself posted an adjusted EBITDA number of $1.28 billion in 2017, which makes a $1.30 billion number realistic for this year (standalone). That is equivalent to a +20% margin.
If we assume that Nutranext posts margins of 15% (no indication given), it will contribute another $30 million to that number. That still suggests that leverage comes in at a little less than 2.0 times EBITDA based on net debt. Assuming a similar 2-3% depreciation charge in relation to sales, Nutranext might contribute $25 million in EBIT. That does indeed confirm that this is a strategic investment which grows Clorox by about 3%, but brings little to no short-term earnings accretion as financing charges on $700 million in inc | [
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/PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent Qualtrics Survey conducted
September 4th
though
September 11th
, of over 200 respondents with mild to moderate sleep apnea, more than 70% said they would prefer to try the FDA cleared Bongo Rx over traditional CPAP therapy to treat their sleep apnea when given the choice.
The Bongo Rx is a small, discreet nasal device that requires no CPAP machine, CPAP mask, CPAP hose, bulky headgear, electricity or battery power.
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Bongo Rx preferred over traditional CPAP to treat sleep apnea
The survey results highlight this new sleep apnea therapy device when compared to traditional CPAP machines and masks marketed by industry leaders such as: ResMed, Phillips Respironics, and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited. Industry experts estimate that approximately 50% of CPAP patients on average will eventually abandon their CPAP therapy and become non-compliant.
"I feel the results of this Qualtrics Survey reflect that mild to moderate OSA sufferers want a simple and effective alternative to traditional CPAP. Over 70% of the respondents in this survey chose Bongo Rx. It's gratifying that years of effort by our team to develop the Bongo Rx have yielded such a great outcome," says
Bruce Sher
, President of AirAvant Medical, maker of the Bongo Rx.
About AirAvant Medical:
www.AirAvant.com
) is a research-oriented, privately held company that focuses on developing and marketing innovative medical devices to treat obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing disorders. AirAvant Medical holds numerous patents and has several patents pending. This newly formed company was created from the former partners of InnoMed Technologies, Inc., as well as
Ron F. Richard
formerly of ResMed and SeQual Technologies. InnoMed Technologies past achievements included a highly acclaimed line of Respiratory and Sleep Devices, such as the Nasal-Aire
, the Hybrid, and the Aloha line of CPAP interfaces.
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Nov. 20, 2020
/PRNewswire/ -- Wilson Dow Group, a creative production agency dedicated to uniting and activating audiences through the power of shared experience, welcomes Director of Business Development
Mike Matro
. An accomplished global business development veteran, Matro will develop strategic account relationships with leading brands in multiple vertical markets, broadening the company's expansive portfolio.
"The events business is ever-evolving with new challenges and opportunities at every turn. Matro brings a positive influence to each client relationship, leading with an eagerness to collaborate, adapt, and innovate," says
Pat Schreiner
, Vice President at Wilson Dow. "We're thrilled to continue strengthening our team with talent that shares our passion for client success and innovation in our industry."
Matro comes to Wilson Dow from the global event planning and production agency Ellen Michaels Presents (EMP) where he led highly successful business development efforts and programs with elite clients in the tech vertical such as Dell. Prior to that, he held leadership roles in global sales and marketing with iconic fashion and lifestyle brands like
Ralph Lauren
and Nautica.
About Wilson Dow Group
Wilson Dow Group is a creative production agency dedicated to uniting and activating audiences through the power of shared experience. For over 24 years, Wilson Dow has cultivated teams of world-renowned creatives, strategists, instructional designers, and specialized production teams to partner with global clients including Domino's Pizza, Genentech, The Clorox Company, Lilly, PwC, Extreme Networks and more. The company designs and delivers live and virtual experiences for audiences that engage around a shared purpose, prepare with critical knowledge and skills, and inspire with meaningful stories that spark change. Wilson Dow Group is headquartered in
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The Big Idea
WHEN HEALTH TECH GETS TOO PERSONAL:
If youre one of tens of millions of people tracking calories, alcohol, moods or even ovulation cycles on a smartphone app, beware: Theres little in the law to stop those app makers from sharing personal data with marketers even about pregnancy.
A recent crackdown on popular menstrual cycle trackers revealed the patchwork state of patient privacy protections and the limited tools at regulators disposal. A proposed Federal Trade Commission settlement with makers of the Flo app over allegedly divulging user data including pregnancy status with Facebook and Google despite assurances that it wouldnt share data sparked a broader debate among FTC commissioners about their authority to police unscrupulous data sharing. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is President Joe Bidens pick to lead HHS, last fall fined the makers of a competing fertility app Glow $250,000 for failing to adequately protect data. But consumers wont see a dime from that settlement.
These types of apps arent typically broadcasting your health status to other users. But they are routinely handing marketing companies de-identified data for targeted promotions, which experts warn could easily be re-identified or lead to invasive ads.
AP
Weak protections:
All of the health and fitness wearables were using, all of the apps were using there are very few protections, if any, for them," said Emory Roane, policy counsel for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
Consumers by and large have few options for recourse if they suspect an app isnt protecting their health data, legal experts tell Future Pulse. The FTC and state attorneys general can open investigations into shady practices, but consumers themselves typically cannot sue for privacy violations, FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips said. His agencys proposed settlement with Flo doesnt include financial penalties, as it can only levy fines if a company violates the settlement terms.
Roane said the Flo case underscores the weakness of the nations health data protections. Its a mess, he said, referring to the privacy protections for health apps that go straight to consumers.
A vast data ecosystem:
Websites and apps routinely share consumers personal data with advertising giants Google and Facebook or other data brokers, often linking it to a users IP address or, in the case of Flo, an Advertising ID. The massive advertising ecosystem uses those consumer profiles to deliver targeted ads based on a persons perceived interests and life circumstances -- for instance, maternity clothes or a new stroller for a person who an algorithm identifies as pregnant. Often these practices are buried in a companys privacy policy and cloaked in dense legalese.
But while consumers have become increasingly aware of how companies are leveraging this data, they may falsely believe theyre protected by stringent health care laws governing medical information held by doctors, hospitals and their business associates. But those laws dont apply to data collected by most consumer apps.
Federal and state health data privacy laws restrict data sharing when its gathered by hospitals and insurers. But consumer apps, as long as theyre not working with companies in the health sector, can gather the same kind of data and produce an equally, or more sensitive profile about you and your health information, said Marc Groman, a senior privacy adviser to former President Barack Obama and the FTCs first chief privacy officer.
And thats not covered by any of those laws, full stop, he said.
AP Photo
A changing landscape:
The explosion of Covid-related apps from vaccination passports to contact tracing is shaping up to be the most likely target for health-data privacy regulation in Washington. Lawmakers have introduced at least three proposals since the start of the pandemic to give consumers greater control over their personal information and guard against breaches protections that could factor into negotiations over future Covid relief packages.
But for anything to pass, Congress would need to resolve familiar sticking points. That includes whether consumers can sue over violations, an approach favored by privacy advocates and many Democrats, and whether a federal law should override state privacy rules. Republicans and industry groups have pushed for the latter, but that idea has met resistance from Democrats, particularly the Houses powerful California delegation.
Privacy legislation is a heavy lift even in California, which has the strongest data-privacy law in the nation.
Two privacy bills on contact-tracing data died in the state Senatelast year, and Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall vetoed another that aimed to protect the DNA samplesthat consumers mail to testing companies, saying he worried it would interfere with Covid-19-related data reporting. Another bill that would have expanded a state medical information lawto include health data collected by websites and apps also died last summer. The privacy agenda for the session is still taking shape.
HOW TO BUILD A VAX CAMPAIGN:
Community organizers are mobilizing armies of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok users to reassure followers that Covid vaccines are safe as they become available to a wider swath of the general public.
Its not an easy task. Coordinating messaging, stamping out misinformation and figuring out whose voices are trusted on those different platforms are just some of their early challenges.
Pernessa Seele, head of The Balm In Gilead, says the nonprofit is crafting a vaccine campaign aimed at answering peoples questions without dismissing fears stemming from medical institutions historical mistreatment of minority communities. (Her organization taps faith-based groups to spread public health information, especially to African American communities.)
We definitely have to strike a balance around, Why are you concerned, and your concerns are valid, and Why you need to take the vaccine, Seele said. For instance, her organization will directly address the Tuskegee study, in which the government left syphilis untreated in a group of Black men. The reality is many of us living today dont even know what the Tuskegee study was about, as well as the new research guardrails put in place as a result, she said.
Mark Lennihan, Pool/AP Photo
...Seele is planning a social media campaign on Covid-19
that enlists celebrities as well as local community leaders. The person who just took their vaccine in Chicago who runs the neighborhood art gallery is just as important as Bishop Horace Smith, she said, referencing a Chicago megachurch leader.
But the content of those messages will vary depending on the targeted
demographic. In her experience, Seele says, older people have questions about where and how to get the vaccines. Younger ones are more skeptical about the science, she adds. Older ones flock to Facebook, younger ones to Twitter and Instagram. We have to make sure that those we | [
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For Michael Schonbrun and Susan Juroe, a Georgetown resident for 20 years, Balfour Senior Living has been a calling. Aging Baby Boomers-the Silver Tsunami want to age differently than their grandparents did, says Schonbrun. We are designing for ourselves.
The Great Room has immediate access to a lushly landscaped outdoor courtyard. NYC design firm Pembrooke & Ives and local developer Trammel Crow collaborated with Balfour on the 138-unit building featuring penthouses, a swimming pool, theatre and no large buy-in fees.
Native Content
A successful career as CEO of National Jewish Hospital and government nursing home regulator didnt come close to preparing Michael Schonbrun for the challenges of relocating his then recently widowed mother Madeline from the familys NYC apartment to senior living. The lessons learned from that journey is the origin story behind the soon-to-be-built Balfour at Palisades.
Quality is our standard says Schonbrun, CEO of Balfour Senior Living, a collection of boutique senior living communities. My mothers
joie de vivre
and life-long appreciation for the finer things in life have inspired us to meet her high standards in creating beautiful communities and a lifestyle that fulfills and delights our residents.
Founded 23 years ago, Balfour Senior Living is a Colorado-based company that started small by design and is now expanding its luxury boutique footprint to East Coast markets. It currently has 11 locations ten in Colorado and one in Michigan and its Washington, D.C. and Brookline, MA communities are expected to deliver in 2023. Were not looking to be the biggest, explains Susan Juroe, the companys Co-founder, and General Counsel. Our goal is to be the best and most admired in our category by creating unique environments that enrich the lives of the people who live and work there. We also feel strongly about offering our residents a beautiful and compelling destination where their friends and families can also enjoy Balfours amenities and hospitality.
The architecture of Balfour at Palisades was informed by local art deco landmarks the neighborhoods Glen Echo Amusement Park, MacArthur Theater, and the glamourous residential buildings of that era such as the Kennedy-Warren. Balfour partnered with the local developer Trammell Crow, award-winning architecture firm Perkins Eastman which brought the stylized art deco design to life, and NYC design firm Pembrooke and Ives who brought best-in-class residential design experience and made them ideal collaborators for this project.
Balfour at Palisades will feature 138 apartment homes with a variety of floor plans, including studios, one- and two-bedrooms, one bedroom with dens and one- and two-bedroom penthouse apartments. Of these, ten units are part of D.C.s Inclusionary Zoning program and are income restricted. Residents will have the convenience of a range of services centered around their lifestyle and needs from independent living to assisted living, and memory care. The amenities include seasonally inspired culinary offerings at breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week in three dining venues, indoor saltwater pool, sauna, fitness center and yoga studio, hair salon, theatre, a library, bar, housekeeping and home maintenance services, valet parking for residents and their guests, reserved covered parking, rooftop access and a Tesla fleet staffed with Balfour drivers to meet scheduled or spontaneous local transportation needs.
The Balfour at Palisades community spaces feature exceptional quality architecture, dcor and art where future residents can proudly welcome their families and friends. The bar evokes the mood of some of DCs iconic clubs and restaurants.
Balfours model does not have a large buy-in fee, instead charging monthly rent plus a la carte levels of care when or if needed. Its a model that requires Balfour to earn your trust every day and allow for flexibility should a relocation or changed life circumstances arise. Additionally, couples can stay together with care brought into their apartment home if needed.
For Michael Schonbrun and his partner Susan Juroe, a Georgetown resident for 20 years, Balfour represents a personal calling. We wanted to create places where residents can welcome their friends and families and enjoy wonderful experiences together. The Palisades is designed for ease of living and engagement within and beyond our community. Residents can enjoy all that the Palisades neighborhood offers only steps away from their front door and all that the Washington, D.C. area has to offer. Another plus: Balfour is pet friendly. Residents can move in with their pets and Its common for some pet-less residents to adopt pets after theyve settled in. Balfour at Palisades will feature an indoor off-leash pet park and a pet grooming station.
The silver tsunami is nowhere close to cresting according to AARP and other senior advocacy groups. Baby Boomers (sorry, Millennials!) are still making their influence known in all sorts of ways. To be honest, we designed Balfour for ourselves. And for Madeline, of course! Michael admits. We thought seriously of what we would like and need to feel comfortable, what it meant to feel at home and have that pride of place thats something were always working on. Susan adds, Were also mindful of the challenges people are facing as they age. Loneliness, depression, and lack of physical, mental, and emotional stimulation are real health hazards. At Balfour, were creating communities where everyone can feel valued and welcome and are free to discover new interests and friendships.
Local architects Perkins Eastman took inspiration from the art deco buildings in the Palisades as well as the grand historic residential buildings in Washington, DC to create a design compatible with the neighborhood. Balfour at Palisades is set to open in 2023.
Balfour at Palisades will be located at 4865 MacArthur Blvd NW, D.C. 20007 and is expected to open in 2023. The leasing center address is 4418 MacArthur Blvd., NW. For more details or to schedule a meeting at their leasing center contact Eileen Alexander, Executive Director, | [
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Between the constant construction, TTC delays, and the high cost of living, life in Toronto isnt always exactly smooth sailing. But according to a new ranking Toronto is the third least stressful city in Canada, and is in the top 30 in the world.
CBD company VAAY ranked 100 cities around the world to find the most and least stressful spots. Cities were ranked based on criteria like safety, gender and minority equality, density, traffic, weather, pollution, unemployment rate, financial stress, mental health, access to healthcare, and COVID response.
Our objective with this study is to show what cities can achieve for their citizens through effective governance, robust environmental policies and well-resourced social welfare systems, said Finn Age Hnsel, co-founder of VAAY.
After analyzing all of the criteria, three Canadian cities made the top 30 on the list: Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
But when comparing Toronto to the two other Canadian cities, both Montreal and Vancouver outranked the Ontario capital. Montreal ranked as the 12th least stressful in the world, and Vancouver as the 29th just one spot above Torontos 30th place.
VAAY
When looking at individual criteria, Vancouver made an appearance as the city with the eighth best air pollution levels.
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Alli Fam-NH Public Radio
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While many New Hampshire employers are still processing new vaccine requirements announced by the Biden administration Sept. 9, a federal mandate for nursing homes was announced a month ago.
Facilities across the state anticipate losing staff when the mandate goes into effect, but just how large the impact will be on an industry already experiencing staffing shortages remains to be seen. Around 78 percent of long-term care facility staff are vaccinated in New Hampshire, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but rates vary from facility to facility.
While nursing homes wait for more details about the mandate, only a few had chosen to implement their own before the federal directive.
For Andrew Irwin, administrator at Hillsborough House Nursing Home, it all comes down to staffing shortages. Hillsborough House is a small facility with a few dozen staff.
If we lose a single nurse, its a panic, Irwin said.
With the mandate looming, Irwin feels hes in an impossible situation. Hes a strong proponent of Covid vaccines and understands why theyre needed. But he says hes unable to consider the mandate as merely a matter of policy.
Some staff at Hillsborough House already work 70 hours a week to fill empty shifts, Irwin said. The nursing home is already operating below its capacity.
Irwin also feels theres some hypocrisy in the mandate, pointing out that unvaccinated family members can take residents out to eat in a restaurant unmasked.
But staff vaccination mandates are commonplace across the healthcare system. Staff work with some of the states most vulnerable residents and personnel are routinely required to be vaccinated against diseases like measles and mumps.
Harder to avoid
Nationwide, about six in 10 Americans support vaccine mandates for hospital or other healthcare workers, according to recent polling from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Daniel Estee runs Derry Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare and supports a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
Like Irwin, he expects he may lose a few staff to the mandate, but hes more confident about maintaining his workforce. Since the Biden administration announced plans for the mandate, nearly 50 percent of his unvaccinated staff decided to get the vaccine.
I think were in good shape, he said.
Shelley Richardson, administrator of Belknap County Nursing Home, said while shes been thinking a lot about staffing concerns, those worries have decreased over the past week. Almost one-third of her workforce is unvaccinated.
When the mandate was first announced on Aug. 18, she worried it could drive staff who didnt want to be vaccinated out of nursing homes and into other healthcare jobs.
But following the announcement for more widespread vaccination requirements across the healthcare system and for some private employers, the mandate will be harder to avoid.
While some staff seem like they might leave, Richardson said that, ultimately, we dont have any idea right now of who will hold true to their commitment of not getting vaccinated.
Replacing staff who may leave is difficult right now, as employers across sectors compete for new hires. And wages are often low in long-term care facilities. Richardson says prospective hires have frequently told her they make more money working jobs at companies like 7-Eleven.
Starting this week, pay for some of her staff is increasing by $200 a week. The money is coming from federal funding through the American Rescue Plan. Richardson says that money brings wages up to a more competitive level for the region.
Merrimack County Nursing Home could serve as a bellwether for administrators like Irwin, Estee and Richardson. The facility implemented a vaccine mandate over a month ago. Including exemptions, the facility projects staff vaccination rates will hit 97 percent once everyone reaches full vaccination.
Its a significant increase from the facilitys rates prior to the mandate, which were at 64 percent. Twelve total workers, around 3 percent of staff, left because of the mandate. Ultimately, the facilitys administrator, Matt Lagos, says he felt implementing the mandate was critical to protecting residents and staff from the virus.
Genesis HealthCare, which has nearly two dozen facilities in New Hampshire, also implemented a mandate that went into effect Aug. 23.
In a statement to NHPR, the company says we met our deadline of 100% vaccinated staff, as promised excluding the small number of individuals who received medical or religious exemptions.
Genesis did not respond to a request for comment on how many staff had left the company or been terminated because of the mandate but did say they had some employees who were not willing to comply with the policy. The company emphasized that the mandate has been well received among residents, patients and their families and says Covid rates have already declined since the policy was implemented.
This article is being shared by partners in the Granite State News Collaborative. For more information, visit collaborativenh.org.
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Uncommon Profits
Summary
Telemedicine and Digital Health have seen a major acceleration in their adoption and usage sparked by the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The Global X Telemedicine & Digital Health ETF provides investors with access to companies developing Telemedicine and Digital Health products.
Telemedicine and Digital Health will allow for greater access for individuals than ever before to medical professionals.
The stocks held by this ETF will likely be volatile, but I ultimately believe Telemedicine is a trend that will stick around in a post-pandemic world.
Telehealth has been front and center the last few months as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced social distancing policies around the world. Still though, people still do, and always will, require medical assistance from experts. Telemedicine and digital health allow for patients to remotely access their healthcare needs. The pandemic has accelerated the industry by several years at minimum in recent months. So how then might investors take advantage of such growth? The brand new Global X Telemedicine & Digital Health ETF (
) could be a great way for investors to gain exposure to this disruptive sector.
Data by
YCharts
Portfolio Construction and Holdings
EDOC aims to hold investments that correspond to the performance of the Solactive Telemedicine & Digital Health Index
. The index selects based on keywords in company reports stocks that generate at least 50% of their revenue from telemedicine or digital health, and may include companies from both developed and emerging markets. The index is market-cap weighted. In my recent articleon the Direxion Work From Home ETF (
), I criticized
the index for relying on a
word-picking algorithm and lacking a fundamental basis for selecting stocks. While that's certainly still a criticism here with EDOC, I'm more bullish on the digital health sector overall and would be more likely to let it slide on this one.
Taking a look at the sub-industries and country breakdowns of the ETF shows little surprises here. Healthcare Technology is the largest sub-industry, while Health Care Services and Health Care Equipment each make up just over 15% of the fund. Various other sub-industries round it out.
Source:
EDOC Fact Sheet
Most of the companies held by the fund are US companies, although a considerable 17.65% of the fund is in international companies, with notable exposure to China and Hong Kong.
Taking a look at the fund's top 10 holdings show a mix of American and international companies. Many of which the average person has probably never even heard of.
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Innosphere Ventures, Colorado BioScience Association, and Colorado BioScience Institute Announce New Incubation Program to Grow Life Sciences Startups
State Funding from Advanced Industries Business Accelerator Grant to Support Program
February 17, 2022 16:59 ET
| Source:
Innosphere Ventures
Fort Collins, Colorado, UNITED STATES
Denver, CO, Feb. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innosphere Ventures Colorado BioScience Association(CBSA), and Colorado BioScience Institute(The Institute) today announced their plan to launch a comprehensive incubator program for life sciences startups with support from the State of Colorado. Colorados Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) released the names of winning recipients of their 2022 Advanced Industries Business Accelerator Grant earlier today, which included the life sciences incubator program proposed by Innosphere, CBSA, and The Institute.
The state-funded life sciences incubator program will offer startups developing will offer startups who are developing or commercializing technologies, products, devices, and life-saving breakthroughs the combined expertise and insights of the three organizations. Participants will access Innospheres leading incubation program for entrepreneurs, CBSAs resources and programming, which are designed to build a collaborative environment and supportive business climate for life sciences innovation, and the Institutes expertise in life sciences-specific educational programs.
This is an exciting partnership with CBSA and The Institute to support early-stage life sciences founders through this first-of-its-kind life sciences incubation program, said Mike Freeman, Innosphere CEO. There hasnt been a better time for health innovation, so this is a great opportunity for technical founders, university researchers and physician entrepreneurs who are ready to accelerate the progress of their startup.
Innosphere, CBSA, and The Institute will launch the first cohort in 2022, with the goal of selecting ten life sciences startups developing promising innovations that could save and change lives. A second incubator program will be run in 2023. Due to the state grant funding, the one-year incubator program will be offered at a minimal cost to companies selected for the cohort.
Colorado BioScience Association is thrilled to supercharge the growth of our communitys most promising early-stage companies and support startups in our ecosystem with this new incubator, said Elyse Blazevich, Colorado BioScience Association and Colorado BioScience Institute President & CEO. We thank our partners at OEDIT for recognizing the future impact of a comprehensive incubator program for life sciences startups and the Colorado state legislature for continued funding of the business-critical Advanced Industries Accelerator Grant and Tax Credit programs.
The Advanced Industries Business Accelerator Grant provides funding to programs in Colorado that have developed or are developing programming for early-stage companies in the states advanced industries. The state funding will allow founders of ten selected life sciences companies to take part in the year-long Innosphere-led incubator, membership in Colorado BioScience Association, with access to more than 30 education and networking opportunities each year, and fully funded participation in The Institutes Foundations of Leadership or Executive Leadership programs.
Life sciences leaders from Colorados best-known companies, institutions, and organizations have advanced their careers and expanded their networks through our executive leadership programs, said Meg John, Colorado BioScience Institute Vice President. We are pleased to build on the strong track record of these highly-regarded programs and welcome participants in the new Innosphere, CBSA, and CBSI incubator.
Innosphere and Colorado BioScience Association also seek to continue the comprehensive incubator past the two-year period funded by the state. A Colorado Coalition, led by Innosphere Ventures, is seeking $100 million in a U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Build Back Better grant to grow the Colorado Front Range regions R&D-intensive growth cluster. The Build Back Better proposal would rapidly scale the local life sciences and cleantech industries. The Colorado Coalitions grant proposes five construction projects along with a variety of non-construction projects, including: growing cluster employment, particularly focused on growing the region's Black and LatinX workforce; and incubating startup ventures, especially increasing those owned by people of color. Continued funding of this incubation program is included in the proposal.
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About Colorado BioScience Association
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) creates co-opportunity for the Colorado life sciences community. CBSA champions a collaborative life sciences ecosystem and advocates for a supportive business climate. From concept to commercialization, member companies and organizations drive global health innovations, products and services that improve and save lives. The association leads Capital and Growth, Education and Networking, Policy and Advocacy, and Workforce Cultivation to make its members stronger, together. Learn more: cobioscience.com
About the Colorado BioScience Institute
Colorado BioScience Institute is a non-profit that provides workforce development and STEM education programs to cultivate and diversify the life sciences talent pipeline in Colorado. The Institute provides educational programs for students and teachers, individuals and companies contributing to the overall workforce cultivation efforts in our state. The Institutes programs reach students and teachers beginning in middle school and professionals at all stages of their careers. All Institute programs either prepare students for careers in life sciences or promote growth to those already in the industry, providing the life sciences community with a highly skilled workforce.
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Sweden
, are members of Provention's PRV-101 scientific advisory board. Professor Hyty is also a co-founder of Vactech. Provention has licensed the exclusive worldwide rights to Vactech's enterovirus vaccine platform targeting the prevention of CVB infections leading to the onset of T1D and celiac disease.
About Provention Bio, Inc.
PRVB
) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging a transformational drug development strategy focused on the prevention or interception of immune-mediated disease. Provention's mission is to source, transform and develop therapeutic candidates targeting the high morbidity, mortality and escalating costs of autoimmune diseases. Provention's diversified portfolio includes PRV-031 (teplizumab), a pre-commercial-stage candidate that has been shown to delay the onset of end-stage type one diabetes (T1D) in at-risk individuals with pre-symptomatic disease. The Company's portfolio includes additional clinical-stage product development candidates that have demonstrated proof-of-mechanism and/or proof-of-concept in other autoimmune diseases, including celiac disease and lupus.
About Vactech
Vactech develops and licenses vaccines and novel technologies for vaccines and diagnostics with a pipeline of early stage product candidates focused on Type 1 Diabetes, Celiac Disease, Asthma & Allergy and diagnostics.
Vactech's flagship project is a patented enterovirus based preventive Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) vaccine, similar to the widely used enterovirus vaccine against polio. The vaccine is a traditional inactivated vaccine and it has been proved to be safe and effective in mice. In addition, Vactech's IMAVAC product line uses Virus Like Particle (VLP) technology which is essential for other vaccines, immunomodulators and diagnostic applications.
Vactech is a privately owned company. We have a track record of collaboration with both industrial and academic partners. Vactech has engaged in strategic partnership with Provention Bio Inc. especially in the field of preventive Type 1 Diabetes vaccine and related applications.
Forward Looking Statements:
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "forecast," "estimate," "expect," and "intend," among others. These forward-looking statements are based on Provention's current expectations and actual results could differ materially. There are a number of factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the risks listed under "Risk factors" in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and any subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As with any pharmaceutical under development, there are significant risks in the development, regulatory approval and commercialization of new products. Provention does not undertake an obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement. The information set forth herein speaks only as of the date hereof.
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Eleven Genesee County communities contract with Medstar for EMS services
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022, 1:36 p.m. |
Published: Mar. 10, 2022, 1:36 p.m.
Medstar Ambulance vehicles line up Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. (Roberto Acosta | MLive.com)
By
Joey Oliver | [email protected]
GENESEE COUNTY, MIEleven communities across Genesee County will soon be serviced by one EMS agency.
The Genesee County 911 Authority voted this week to recognize agreements between 11 municipalities and Medstar, a non-profit EMS joint venture of the Henry Ford Health System, McLaren Healthcare Corporation and Ascension Michigan.
The agreement will better allow Medstar to position its ambulances throughout the 11 communities, beginning in approximately 60 days, according to Medstar CEO Kolby Miller.
This just changes the current ambulance assignment from 100 percent random to 100 percent predictable, Miller told MLive-The Flint Journal on Thursday, March 10.
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The community contracting model removes some of the uncertainty around who will be responding to calls in a particular area, Miller said.
While Medstar may still lean on mutual aid from other agencies from time to time, just as it will be able to respond to other communities for mutual aid, Miller said residents in the Genesee County communities contracted with Medstar will know who will be responding if they have a medical emergency.
A system approach to delivering care and service works better than random happenstance that might deliver response times at some level at some time on different days by different providers from different locations, he said.
The 11 communities entering into the service agreement with Medstar include Atlas Township, Davison, Davison Township, Fenton Township, Forest Township, Richfield Township, Mundy Township, Gaines Township, as well as the villages of Gaines, Goodrich and Otisville.
Those communities join more than 70 others across the state in contracting for EMS services.
Miller, who began his EMS career in Flint in 1987 and has twice served as the President of the Michigan Association of Ambulance Services, said the system currently in place was the best that 2004 had to offer and that the agreement can improve services.
The new system, Miller explained, will allow Medstar to allocate the proper number of ambulances to areas based on the volume of calls they produce.
Medstar is opening a new 12,400-square-foot deployment center at 6210 Lehman Dr. in Mundy Township.
Miller said the facility will serve as a home base for its ambulances before they head to their respective communities for their shifts. However, the company may eventually set up substations in communities across the county.
It also includes a paramedic education facility, public CPR, AED, first aid training space, fleet maintenance and an expanded communications center. The facility will have 55 ambulances and 150 employees.
This innovative facility will advance the reliability and clinical performance of Medstars care and service throughout the communities and healthcare facilities we serve in Genesee County, Miller said in a statement. As the needs of the Genesee County community continue to grow, so does Medstars commitment.
We needed a larger facility to keep up with the increasing demand and talent recruitment. The new site solidifies our ongoing commitment to providing quality care for our patients and team members.
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GRAND FORKS - Altru Health Systems Board of Directors have announced that effective immediately,Dr. Steven Weiser is no longer with Altru Medical.
Staff was informed of the changeshortly before noon Tuesday in a memo thatalso reiteratedemployees of the upcoming arrival of Todd Forkel, the incoming CEO, on Feb. 28.
The board announced thatDr. Joshua Deere will join the executive leadership team as interim chief medical officer, a previously vacant position, assuming oversight of the medical practice. Dr. Deere has been a physician leader at Altru for eleven years, serving as chair of family medicine for four years and most recently as medical director of primary care for seven years. He has practiced as a primary care physician at Altru since 2009.
We are pleased to have Dr. Deere join the executive team, Karen Thingelstad, chair of Altrus Board of Directors, said. His commitment to high-quality patient care, experience in leadership and dedication to the community aligns well with the strategic direction of the organization. Altrus Board is excited for the future of our regional health system under the strong, vibrant leadership of Todd, Dr. Deere and the entire executive team.
Thingelstad said the decision to severe ties with Weiser was made "in the best interest of the organization, and thanked Dr. Weiser for his contributions and wish him well in his future endeavors.Altru said they will not immediately fill the position to allow a thoughtful review of the role.
Weiser's dismissal is not the first time an abrupt and unexpected change has occurred in leadership within the company. CEO Brad Wehe and CFO Sara Lusignan were fired by the health systems board in February 2020. Weiser was just elected to serve as the Chairmanof the North Dakota Hospital Association wherehe has been serving on the board of directors since February 2020. He was installed Jan. 28 as the chair of its 11-member board of directors. | [
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Service Connecting Families with Special Needs to Caregivers Coming to Duluth
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Updated: December 10, 2019 07:28 PM
A service to connect families with special needs to screened and experienced caregivers is soon going to be coming to Duluth and the surrounding areas.
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Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Silver award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures.
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Enjin and Health Hero To Launch NFT-Wellness App
Enjin announces its partnership with Health Hero to develop a wellness-NFT app.
The app name is Go! by Health Hero.
The app collects wellness data and activities through health tracking app like Apple (NASDAQ:) Health, Google (NASDAQ:) Fit, and FitBit.
On Wednesday, Enjin (ENJ) announces its partnership with Health Hero, a digital health engagement company partnered, to develop an NFT-powered wellness application. Health Hero is known to have partnered with Microsoft (NASDAQ:), Salesforce (NYSE:), and Slack.
Consequently, the new health-monitoring app will be coined as Go! by Health Hero. The team further explained that this app will introduce the concept of Well-being and NFTs (W-NFTs). Thus, the app is meant to collect wellness data and activities through health tracking devices and apps like Apple Health, Google Fit, and FitBit.
Of note, Enjin is the platform of choice for building products that integrate NFTs in their stack, offering their own Walle
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New budget iPhone is going to cost 8% more
Apple's bare-bones iPhone SE will have a significant tech upgrade. That will mean a price hike, too.
Author:
MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer
Published:
6:53 PM EST March 8, 2022
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6:53 PM EST March 8, 2022
SAN RAMON, Calif. Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its budget-priced iPhone that's capable of connecting to ultrafast 5G wireless networks, an upgrade that's already been available on the companys upscale models for more than a year.
The latest iPhone SE marks the first upgrade to the bare-bones version of Apples most popular product in nearly two years. In the latest sign of the inflationary pressures that have been roiling the economy, the new iPhone SE will sell for $429 an 8% increase from $399 price tag for the last version that rolled out it nearly two years agoduring the early stages of the pandemic. The new iPhone SE will be available in stores March 18.
In a pandemic precaution, Apple still refrained from inviting the media and other guests to the in-person events that it has traditionally staged to introduce its latest products. Instead, Apple streamed the event from the theater named after co-founder Steve Jobs at its Cupertino, California, headquarters.
Although the latest iPhone SE will feature a faster processer, more durable 4.7-inch screen and longer-lasting battery than the last model, its biggest selling points will likely be its compatibility with still-emerging 5G wireless networks and its relatively low price.
It's a sharp discount from the fancier iPhone 13 line-up released last autumn Consisting of four different models, the iPhone 13s prices range from $700 to $1,100. All of them, like the iPhone 12s released during autumn 2020, can connect to 5G phones.
Even though 5G networks still arent widely available, the allure of faster connections turned out to be a major draw that helped spur more iPhone fans to upgrade from older models. The iPhone 13 proved to be such a hot commodity that it helped Apple to vault past longtime rival Samsungand assume the mantle of the worlds top seller of smartphones during the final three months of last year, according to the research group International Data Corp.
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During Tuesday's presentation, Apple CEO Tim Cook boasted the company has been attracting more new iPhone users than ever before since last autumn, without providing specific numbers. We are excited for the new iPhone SE to build on this momentum," Cook said.
Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives expects Apple to sell about 30 million of the new iPhone SE models during the next year, filling a need among less affluent consumers who own one of the estimated 225 million iPhones that are at least three-and-half years old.
Even though Apple doesnt make as much money from selling iPhone SEs as it does the pricier models, it will still give the company more opportunities to sell subscriptions to music streaming, video streaming, games, and other services that have become huge money makers, said Tuong Nguyen, a smartphone analyst for Gartner.
Its all about widening the ecosystem, Nguyen said. Its always nice when Apple can get you to buy a new phone. But its even better when they can get you to subscribing everything they can because that turns into recurring revenue.
Something else Apple introduced were "alpine green" and "stunning green" finishes for the iPhone 13. "Alpine green iPhone" was trending on Google.
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Alpine green and stunning green finishes for the iPhone 13.
Apple services division has mushroomed into a booming business that generated $68 billion in revenue during its last fiscal year, up from $24 billion in 2016 the first year after its music streaming service came out. The companys success in services also has turned into a regulatory mine field, sparking antitrust lawsuits and proposed legislations seeking to loosen Apples exclusive control on its iPhone app store,which collects lucrative commissions from digital transactions processed on the device.
The iPhone itself remains Apples biggest gold mine, with sales of $192 billion in its last fiscal year, despite supply shortages that have curtailed production. Apple in January said those problemswere easing as the pandemic let up and suppliers began to catch up with backlogs.
Besides the new iPhone SE, Apple also used Tuesdays showcase to announce its has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to begin showing two Friday night games each week on its video subscription after the sport resolves a labor dispute that has already delayed the start of its season. The deal marks latest foray by a major tech company into a sports programming niche that traditionally has been dominated by long-established television networks.
Although the addition of baseball games could help Apple sign up from subscribers to its 2-year-old video service, the company initially plans to make them available for free to all viewers.
Apple also a new desktop version of its personal computer called the Mac Studio that will cost $2,000 to $4,000 for the processing unit. A high-resolution 27-inch display screen designed for the Mac Studio will cost another $1,600. The company also rolled out the latest version of its lightweight tablet, the iPad Air, for $600. All those computing devices will be powered by Apple's own in-house chips.
Travis Pittman contributed to this report.
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This Greenwich, CT-based company is making major strides in the world of personal fitness.
When MYXfitness launched its at-home workout program in January of this year the formula was simple: The founders set out to provide an affordable home fitness option that offers a variety of continually evolving streamed bike and cross training workouts with all the necessary equipment, plus, the added bonus of personalized heart rate monitoring. It provided an alternative for fans of Peloton who didnt like the ultra-competitive nature of the leaderboard and live classes or the premium price tag. But when the current Covid-19 pandemic hit in early March, MYXs founders realized they were entering the personal fitness market at a key pivot point in an industry undergoing dramatic change. By July of this year, MYX had grown nearly 400 percent faster than the companys annual projections and the brand has discovered it can provide so much more than an at-home workout. It can provide a total fitness and wellness solution at an accessible price.
We believe changes will be secular in the fitness business, says Jim Walker, board member, company investor and CEO of Palm Ventures, the founding firm of MYXfitness, which is growing its investor community as well. Retired from the hedge fund industry, Walker started climbing mountains, literally, throughout the world. Delving into the world of fitness and recovery lead him to his next career and his role with MYX. Ive been passionate about fitness my whole life, says Walker, a member at high end gyms and a Peloton customer before discovering MYX. Passions can make for challenging investments but the world changed with the Covid-19 pandemic MYXfitness offers a comprehensive wellness program in the convenience of your home at a substantial savings to traditional gyms. Our most popular workouts are 20 minutes. The fitness company is building its team and recently added Elizabeth Mulligan, an experienced industry leader, as a senior member of its management team.
Starting at $1,299, MYX cycling machines come at nearly half the cost of a Peloton, and monthly memberships for the non-competitive streamed workouts are less expensive. But saving on cost doesnt mean lowering standards. The content is really a high-quality, total body approach and our smart technology guides you on what you should do to drive personal results, says Herbie Calves, president of MYXfitness. The bikes themselves are commercial-grade and suited for even the top gyms. In fact, the company hopes to begin building partnerships with hotels, luxury apartments and corporations in the near future. It features a 21.5-inch touch screen that swivels a full 360 degrees for off-the-bike workouts. Unlike the competition, when members ride with MYX they are not competing against other riders and striving to make the top of the leaderboard. Workouts, filmed with professional fitness coaches, are based on customized heart rate zones to maximize the effectiveness of each persons workout on a very personal level. The program determines your personal heart rate zones (zone 1 is warm-up, zone 2 is where you do most of your work, zone 3 is when your rate is elevated). Our coaches guide you in every workout on where you need to be to get the results you want, says Erika Shannon-Hathaway, head of programming at MYX.
Heart rate-based training sets MYX apart from other at-home fitness programs says coach Shaun Patrick Tubbs. By having a specific, but unique, metric like heart rate to follow, you can more accurately track and set goals for each and every workout, says Tubbs, who was drawn to the program by the brands use of positive psychology as part of their workout philosophy. He loves that MYX wants instructors to be themselves and coach in their own unique and authentic way rather than fitting a brand. This diversification contributes to the companys overall depth of programming. There really is something for everyone, says Tubbs.
Sessions range from 5 to 45 minutes. Many members like to combine shorter workouts for a longer fitness program. Classes include cycling, yoga, Pilates, barre, meditation, HIIT, strength, stretching and recovery.
For those who dont own weights, the MYX Plus package includes a six-piece weight set (choose from light, medium or heavy), which includes a kettlebell, three sets of dumbbells, a stabilizing mat, an oversized exercise mat, a foam roller and a resistance band.
For those new to fitness or new to home fitness, Shannon-Hathaway recommends starting with 10-minute intervals and extending them as you get stronger and build endurance.
We believe that cross training is key for lasting change and we programmatically encourage our users to MYX it up with a variety of workout types to keep things interesting and to avoid overuse injuries, she says. To that end, MYX aims to continue building its comprehensive library of content and programs.
We are relentlessly looking at adding content: Innovative coaches, smarter products, building the MYX community, says Calves. Expect more programming in 2021 and a growing member community. He adds: There is lots of opportunity to share ideas on fitness and nutrition as well as other components of a full mind-body approach to a healthy lifestyle.
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Govt plans to float EOI for vax facility
Kochi: After marking its footprint in solar power production, Cochin International Airport Ltd (Cial) has ventured into hydro power production. Its first power plant project at Arippara in Kozhikode will be commissioned by CM Pinarayi Vijayan on Nov 6. Cial estimates an annual power generation of 14 million units from the plant and the same will be fed to KSEBs power grid from November first week.
The 4.5MW run-of-river small hydro project (SHP) across Iruvazhinji River was awarded to Cial by state power department as per Kerala Small Hydro Power Policy under Built-Own-Operate-Transfer for a lease period of 30 years.
The total project cost is Rs 52 crore and Cial purchased five acres from 32 residents at Arippara. Earlier, works were severely affected during the floods of 2018 and 2019. A lot of additional precautions had to be taken by modifying the designs and building additional retaining structures to ensure safe working conditions for labourers. The construction of a weir across the river, hydro-mechanical and electro-mechanical systems was completed in September despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.
The trial run started in October. The powerhouse will generate around 1.08 lakhs unit of power a day during peak flow days and it is estimated that it could be operational at full capacity for 130 days in a year.
Cial MD S Suhas said that the project was the companys biggest one after achieving power neutrality at Kochi airport in 2015. "It was the leadership and guidance of chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, as the chairman of Cial that turned out to be decisive to speed up the project. We are sure that this will impart further momentum to set up such hydro projects across the state which has 44 rivers and numerous streams," he said.
The SHP works on limited storage of water causing no adverse effect on the environment. Such projects use the natural downward flow of rivers and micro turbine generators to capture the kinetic energy carried by water.
"The construction of an overflow-type weir across the river diverts the water to a pool from where the intake structure and connected water conductor system is built. A surge tank was constructed to moderate the flow during load acceptance and load rejection time. The penstock feeds two machines each of 2.25MW capacity. The powerhouse, with horizontal turbines, is installed at the right bank of the river," said a Cial statement.
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A former executive linked to Michael Flynn, who was CEO of a Flynn Intel Group subsidiary in 2016 when Flynn contracted with Ekim Alptekins Inovo to investigate Fethullah Gulen is founder of a company that was awarded a $48,843,831 Air Force contract in September 2019.
Note: there is no indication Michael Flynn is linked t
o
the $48 million contract or that there is anything unusual about the award. The company that won the contract had prior links to Flynn and the contract includes development of electronic warfare/cyber network attack software and hardware systems, and given the sensitive cyber responsibilities, is worthy of further research.
Tim Newberry was CEO of Flynn Intel Group (FIG) Cyber in 2016 when Flynn was hired by Inovo to investigate Gulen for Turkish interests. Tim Newberry and Jon Iadonisi co-founded White Canvas Group which shared office space with Flynn. Theres more background in
this 2017
Washington Post article
I wrote about White Canvas, Tim Newberry and Jon Iadonisi
in this articlethat featured social media companies linked to the Trump campaign and the subset connected to Michael Flynn.
On September 9, 2019 the Department of the Air Force
awarded a contractfor $48,843,831 to Blackhorse Solutions, Inc (global vendor name: White Canvas Group LLC) with an initial payment of $300,000 and an expected completion date of 2024.
The Commercial and Government Entity
(CAGE) Code for Blackhorse Solutionsupdated July 2019, shows the legal business name is White Canvas Group LLC, and the two principals are Tim Newberry and Jon Iadonisi, who both had significant links to Michael Flynn
The $48,843,831
contract for Blackhorse Solutionsis described on the DoD website:
This contract will advance global vigilance, global reach, and global power in the information environment through the application, research, development, and transition of emerging technologies and next-gen solutions. This includes rapid tool development, development of electronic warfare/cyber network attack software and hardware systems, analytical processing, cyber threat avoidance and cyber threat defense, test and evaluation, and to manage the development to ensure projects move forward at a rapid pace, that technical and process innovations incorporated into successive rounds of development. Work will be performed at Herndon, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 9, 2024. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $300,000 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity.
Theres another
Sept 2019 contract for $12,433,616.35 for Blackhorse Solutions with initial payment of $993,170.48 for Custom Computer Programming ServicesADP Software, Equipment, and Telecommunications Training with the location noted as Germany.
As noted earlier theres no indication of anything unusual in contracts for Blackhorse Solutions and there are no known links to Flynn for these awards. But the same players keep re-appearing and profiting under the Trump administration and firms engaged in cyber operations should be looked at closely. | [
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Jet Health Inc., a regional provider of home health and hospice services based in Irvine, California, announced Sept. 14 the acquisition of Carrington Hospice Care Inc., an Arlington-based hospice company.
The acquisition marks Jet Healths second one in the hospice arena, and furthers its strategy to offer hospice care in the current home health markets it serves, the company said in a news release.
Carrington Hospice Care, founded in 2018 by Elsie Johnson and Dorothy Ojirika, services the greater Dallas/Fort Worth marketplace.
Funding for the transaction was provided by SV Health Investors and Health Enterprise Partners. Stradling Yocca Carlson and Rauth acted as legal counsel to Jet Health. American Healthcare Capital served as acquisition advisors to Carrington Hospice Care Inc. | [
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A Chicago-area health care system is dealing with record COVID-19 hospitalizations as cases surge across Illinois and nationwide.
Advocate Aurora Health said it was treating 1,491 inpatients with COVID on Monday. At the same time, the 26-hospital system is also managing a critical labor shortage.
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"Ninety two percent of our inpatients are either unvaccinated, have only received the first dose of the vaccine or are due for a booster," said Mary Beth Kingston, chief nursing officer at Advocate Aurora Health.
"Of the 8% who are fully vaccinated, most had an underlying condition or were immunocompromised," she said.
With COVID cases soaring, Illinois leaders have asked hospitals to consider postponing non-emergency surgeries. Even before the governors request, a suburban hospital had to make that tough choice as doctors there treat a record number of COVID patients. NBC 5s Lauren Petty reports.
Kingston says the hospital system was experiencing a staffing shortage prior to the latest surge but now calls it a top priority aside from patient care. She says the shortage has accelerated due to fatigue, stress and as team members become ill or are exposed to COVID.
"Some of that was due to the emotional and physical toll the pandemic has taken on team members. Some of that is due to other factors either in the work environment or in our supply of nurses," Kingston said.
To address the shortage, Advocate Aurora is offering financial incentives, and mental health and wellbeing programs. Kingston says the hospital system is making quiet rooms available to stressed out staff and providing snacks on unit floors.
They're also training staff who are not direct care providers to take on new roles.
The hospital system is also managing capacity by postponing nonessential or emergency surgeries. | [
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Aegis assumed coverage on shares of
SeaChange International (NASDAQ:SEAC)
in a research note released on Monday, Benzingareports. The brokerage issued a buy rating and a $3.00 price target on the software makers stock.
Separately, Zacks Investment Researchlowered shares of SeaChange International from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research report on Saturday, April 17th.
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Shares of NASDAQ:SEACopened at $1.05 on Monday. The firm has a market cap of $50.55 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -2.28 and a beta of 0.81. SeaChange International has a 12 month low of $0.69 and a 12 month high of $2.88. The companys fifty day simple moving average is $1.23 and its 200 day simple moving average is $1.13. The company has a quick ratio of 2.30, a current ratio of 2.30 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03.
SeaChange International (NASDAQ:SEAC) last released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April 12th. The software maker reported ($0.09) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of ($0.10) by $0.01. SeaChange International had a negative return on equity of 25.60% and a negative net margin of 48.18%. The firm had revenue of $5.12 million for the quarter. Research analysts expect that SeaChange International will post -0.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
In related news, Chairman Robert M. Pons acquired 100,000 shares of the companys stock in a transaction dated Monday, April 19th. The shares were bought at an average price of $1.04 per share, for a total transaction of $104,000.00. Following the purchase, the chairman now directly owns 407,815 shares in the company, valued at approximately $424,127.60. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website 3.80% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of SEAC. GSA Capital Partners LLP lifted its holdings in SeaChange International by 427.1% during the 4th quarter. GSA Capital Partners LLP now owns 559,796 shares of the software makers stock valued at $784,000 after purchasing an additional 453,602 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its stake in SeaChange International by 140.9% in the 4th quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 78,946 shares of the software makers stock valued at $111,000 after buying an additional 46,181 shares during the last quarter. Private Advisor Group LLC increased its stake in shares of SeaChange International by 40.3% during the first quarter. Private Advisor Group LLC now owns 35,162 shares of the software makers stock worth $55,000 after purchasing an additional 10,101 shares during the period. Finally, Russell Investments Group Ltd. acquired a new stake in shares of SeaChange International during the first quarter worth $59,000. Institutional investors own 25.24% of the companys stock.
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SeaChange International, Inc provides multiscreen, advertising, and premium over the top (OTT) video products and services that facilitate the aggregation, licensing, management, and distribution of video and television advertising content worldwide. It offers video products, including SeaChange Adrenalin, a multiscreen video back office platform that enables service providers to manage, monetize, and deliver a seamless viewing experience across televisions, personal computers (PCs), tablets, smartphones, and other IP-enabled devices; and SeaChange AssetFlow, a content management solution, which is used to receive, manage, and publish content for viewing on televisions, tablets, PCs, and other consumer devices.
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/PRNewswire/ -- Wugen Inc., a biotechnology company developing novel, universal allogeneic cell therapy platforms, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with US-based HCW Biologics Inc. (HCW) for the use of their proprietary fusion molecules to manufacture Wugen's cellular therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. HCW will oversee the manufacturing and supply of these proteins to Wugen. Wugen will research, develop, and commercialize cell therapeutic products on a world-wide basis.
"Through this agreement and collaboration with HCW Biologics, a transformative immunotherapy company, we will advance and expand Wugen's development of innovative, game-changing, off-the-shelf NK and T cell therapies for a wide range of cancers," said
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Hing Wong
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CAR-T and NK cells have shown remarkable activity in the clinic in the treatment of cancer, but significant challenges remain with regard to generating sufficient numbers of highly active, robust immune cells. The patented molecules generated by HCW Biologics allow for the robust activation and expansion of immune cells to significantly lower the cost of goods, enabling greater patient access to these important cellular therapies.
About Wugen
Wugen is developing universal "off-the-shelf" cell therapy for the treatment of cancer. Wugen was founded based on technology licensed from
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Digital lateral flow test that produces Covid certificate in minutes wins certification
The test reads the result using artificial intelligence and sends the findings directly to a body such as Public Health England
Julia Bradshaw
21 October 2021 7:08pm
A digital lateral flow testthat sends results to health authorities via a smartphone app is the first to receive certification, its British backers have claimed.
The test reads the result using artificial intelligence and sends the findings directly to a body such as Public Health England. The user is emailed a Covid certificate within minutes.
It was developed by Excalibur Healthcare Services founded by serial entrepreneur Sir Chris Evans, and Sensyne Health, a listed company founded and run by Lord Drayson, the former Labour Party politician.
Sensyne's technology, called MagnifEye, is embedded into the app and can read Excalibur's lateral flow test result through a smartphone camera.
MagnifEye is already being used as part of the Department of Health & Social Cares Covid testing programme in the NHS and has read and recorded more than a million lateral flow tests.
PCR and lateral flow tests compared
Sir Chris said the new test would "revolutionise Covid self-testing and diagnostics for people in the UK, Europe and worldwide".
Until now, we have been able to supply tests on their own but the certification for the complete system including the app has taken the diagnostic capability to a new level," he said.
Excalibur was incorporated in January 2020, according to filings on Companies House, as the Covid pandemic began to spread around the world.
The digital test has been certified for use in the UK and Europe by what is called a notifiable body, an organisation tasked by governments with assessing products before they go on sale.
It was developed in Cambridge, but the tests are manufactured in China. They cost about 20 each.
Sensyne has generated 5.1m in sales from its licencing agreement with Excalibur, allowing the company to use MagnifEye in the lateral flow test.
Excalibur would not reveal its sales figures, but said several million of its lateral flow tests have been shipped in the UK and internationally.
Sir Chris said there was a big market opportunity for the new digital test outside of foreign travel testing, such as testing staff in staff large offices.
Sales of the product could total at least tens of thousands of pounds in the next few months alone, a spokesman for Excalibur said.
This is a major scientific achievement and, we believe, a world first in developing a regulated software application using AI to enhance the accuracy of lateral flow testing and reporting," said Lord Drayson.
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Friday, June 12, Islamabad WHO and UNICEF have applauded the Government of Pakistans continued efforts to eradicate polio. United Nations agencies have hailed concerted efforts to ensure immunization programs continue even during COVID-19 outbreaks in the country.
The two agencies called for more solidarity and investment to maintain momentum and reach every child with life-saving vaccines. These reflections were made by UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei, and WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, as they concluded a one-week joint visit to Pakistan.
The visit coincides with the first visit of the Polio Oversight Board to the country and the launch of the new 2022-2026 strategy of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPI).
We know that the most important relationship in polio eradication is between the vaccinator and the childs family. Without communication and without trust, there is no vaccination. This week, I saw renewed interest in strengthening this relationship in the most at-risk areas of Pakistan. I appreciate the huge role frontline work has played in building that trust and the support that the government and its partners have given to these workers. I leave Pakistan with the hope that all hands are on the bridge to complete the last mile of the journey to eradicate polio in the country, said George Laryea-Adjei, UNICEF regional director for the country. South Asia.
Commenting on the mission, WHO Regional Director Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari said: I have witnessed a back to basics approach to improve the quality of the campaign and, more importantly, to improve the quality of the campaign. the need for laser focus on children repeatedly missed by provincial health ministers and chief secretaries. this is the only way to reduce the number of missed children to zero. GPEI leaders including WHO and UNICEF all have a role to play in turning the tide in Pakistan, but the real leader must be the government of Pakistan on its emergency base and best practices of its COVID-19 response, and this mission has shown the diligence and responsibility that Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government are applying to eradication. The visit highlighted the impact of COVID-19 and changes to Pakistans national polio program. The regional directors also noted the opportunity for Pakistan to capitalize on the very rare cases of polio in the country and for the GPEI partners to optimize support for the intensified efforts of national and provincial governments to end the polio. poliomyelitis.
The two regional directors met with high-level leaders, including Army Chief of Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa, and attended the National Working Group meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan and attended by attended the provincial chief ministers.
They traveled to Peshawar and Karachi and participated in field activities, including the ongoing polio vaccination campaign in areas that have consistently challenged the polio program. In order to eradicate polio for good, every child living in these high-risk areas must receive oral polio vaccine several times.
Regional directors visited routine immunization centers, where there is an increasing synergy between polio campaigns and routine immunization, and visited health facilities designed to help high-risk populations access and strengthen health care. immunity of vulnerable children.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where wild poliovirus is endemic and together constitute an epidemiological block. After losing ground during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which each countrys polio programs were revamped as support for the pandemic, the results are now promising. Wild poliovirus cases have fallen to one again so far in 2021 in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
During their mission, Dr Al-Mandhari and Mr Laryea-Adjei praised the successes but cautioned against complacency and urged to continue the hard work until every last child is immunized.
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Friday, 19th March 2021, 10:40 am
From left to right, Dr Carmen Jimenez, Grant Howard (Burgis & Bullock) and Harry Leak.
A dentist wife and her husband have opened a new dental practice in Husbands Bosworth the first ever in the village.
Dr Carmen Jimenez has thrown open the doors to the private practice on the High Street of the flourishing village near Market Harborough.
And her husband Harry Leak has developed the property through his company KIO Developments.
From left to right, Dr Carmen Jimenez, Harry Leak and Grant Howard (Burgis & Bullock).
The new dental surgery will serve the fast-growing local catchment area of over 4,000 people.
Thrilled Carmen, whos expecting their second child in May, said: There is a great community feeling here in the village and that has only grown with the support everyone has shown each other during the pandemic.
Our family is part of that community and we believe this new surgery will be a valuable resource to other people living in and around Husbands Bosworth.
She added: To open my own practice has always been my goal as my dad had a practice on the ground floor of my house when I was growing up.
It will also be walking distance from home and make it easier for me to spend time with my young family, which is set to grow in May!
Foxbury Dental will create jobs in the village with two nurses, a receptionist, a second and third dentist and a hygienist.
The nearest surgery to Husbands Bosworth previously was eight miles away in Lutterworth.
The new dental health hub is part of a bigger development on the high street by KIO Developments.
The firm has also bought two other properties and will be creating five new flats and renovating an existing cottage.
Harry said: We have been living here for a few years now and identified there was an opportunity to open a practice.
I set up KIO Developments and started looking to acquire premises. We went on to buy three properties on the high street and will be creating new homes for the village too.
He added: There will be two flats above the practice.
Then two doors down we bought another two buildings, one to be converted to three flats and other to be turned into a two-bed cottage.
We are glad to be playing our part in the development of the village."
As they prepared to open the practice they took expert advice from leading accountancy firm Burgis & Bullock - and Harry will continue to work closely with them as KIO Developments carries on growing.
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Immersive technology overview refers to technology that enhances reality by blending the physical environment with the virtual environment. There are various immersive technologies; augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual worlds (VW). Many companies in several industries have adopted and embraced immersive technology since it has become more affordable and user-friendly. It won't be long before this technology is pervasive and ubiquitous across industries and consumers. Although early adopters were from the gaming industry, now immersive technologies have become part of many industries, including healthcare and well-being. This technology is available anywhere, at any time. It also democratizes care for vulnerable populations and creates a new solution for physical and psychological health and loneliness through social reality.
It is important to note that immersive technology has roots as far back as the 1950s. The timeline below illustrates the development of immersive technologies over time and provides a helpful frame in understanding the present and future of this technology.
Immersive Technology Timeline by Vista Partners & Bernard Marr
1957-1991: Morton Heilig was the man who made a working VR machine in 1957. Wind, scent, vibration - Mortan had everything but success. However, in 1968, The Sword of Damocles was the first VR head-mounted display connected to a computer rather than a camera. It is the blueprint for VR headsets seen today.
1991: Sega launched the Sega VR headset for arcades and home use at the Consumer Electronics Show. However, only the arcade version was released due to technical difficulties.
19921999: The development of AR picked up when Louis Rosenberg created Virtual Fixtures, the first fully-immersive AR system for the U.S. Air Force. Sportvision developed the virtual yellow line so that NFL viewers could see the line of scrimmage and first downline while watching football games on television.
1999: Hirokazu Kato developed the ARToolKit, an open-source library for the development of AR applications.
2009: Esquires magazine cover starring Robert Downey Jr. provided additional content to consumers through a QR code on the cover.
2012: the world changed when Oculus launched Rift in a Kickstarter campaign.
and began releasing pre-production models to their developers.
2013: Google started selling a prototype of Google Glass, which became available to the public in 2014.
2014: Facebook purchased Oculus for $2 billion, demonstrating a growing market interest in VR.
2015: Google Glass stopped production 2015.
2016: Microsoft joined the game with the release of its HoloLens headset, which took the idea of AR to a new level by creating a more interactive experience (hence, the phrase "mixed reality"). This was also when the Pokmon GO game bought AR into the mainstream. Pokmon GO brought AR gaming to a mass audience. The game was one of the most used and downloaded apps in App Store history, with over 500 downloads by the end of 2016.
By 2020: VR, AR, and MR had quickly extended to various industries. Today, the adoption of all these technologies (Extended Reality, XR) are across all sectors as diverse as manufacturing, education, construction, law enforcement, and even healthcare.
Recent Developments In Immersive Technologies
A success in the industry, Charlie Fink, wrote about the Bleeding edge of VR & Healthcare in May 2017 promoting the first Virtual Reality and Healthcare Symposium. The focus was on the impact of virtual reality on health and medicine at George Washington University. Three years later (2019), one of the most influential organizations in the industry was founded by Bob Fine, The International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA). The IVRHA is a member-driven organization comprised of entities throughout the healthcare ecosystem, including technology companies, teaching hospitals and universities, healthcare providers, and insurance companies. The IVRHAs mission is to facilitate and support the growth of virtual reality in the health and life sciences.
In March 2022, the IVRHA engaged in a gathering of the original visionaries, current company game changers, and newbies, who were all excited to be part of the 6th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Symposium hosted at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference was focused on providing unique content perspectives from across the global healthcare and well-being spectrum. There was also a focus on new emerging voices from across the ecosystem: care, technology, research, and policy.
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The conference keynote was Walter Greenleaf, a neuroscientist and medical technology developer at Stanford University. Walter is considered a leading authority in digital medicine and medical virtual reality technology. Walter inspired hundreds of people in the audience. He shared his latest research on developing computer-supported clinical products, with a specific emphasis on applying virtual reality and digital health technology to address complex problems in behavioral and physical medicine such as Post-traumatic Stress, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Stroke, Addiction, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. His latest presentation was at the 2022 SXSW, VR & Brain Health: a Neurotech Frontier for Aging.
Game-changer Dr. Skip Rizzo, a top researcher in the Clinical VR space and Director of Medical Virtual Reality at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, presented his latest research, A Model for the Integration of Virtual Reality with Psychedelic Enhanced Therapy. He spoke about how the combination of Immersive Experience with the equally powerful ability of psychedelics to promote neuroplasticity (reprogramming neural pathways in the brain). The research shows promising treatment options for cognitive, psychological, motor, and functional impairments across various clinical health conditions.
Nanae Reaves
, a trailblazer in tech, spoke about her company, TRIPP. She describes it as the fitness solution for your inner self. The design of the TRIPP experience leverages a large body of existing research on the use of technology in the mental wellness arena. It utilizes proven mindfulness structures, targeted sound frequencies, visuals, and interactions that have a multiplicative effect when administered through VR immersion. In 2022, Tripp won Best VR Meditation of the year.
Tune in next week for Part 2 to learn more about social virtual worlds increasing well-being at the workplace with ImmersiveWorlds. Find out about moving from gamer to patient with Penumbra. Discover Viva Vita with a VR solution to make aging more engaging. And a sneak peek of what Meta is working on with this innovative technology for employee well-being.
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Weight loss company Medifast said Thursday that it plans to employ up to 300 people at a newly opened distribution center in Havre de Grace.The facility on Rock Glenn Boulevard in Harford County is the Baltimore companys second fulfillment center dedicated to the East Coast market. It was designed to serve Medifasts Optavia health and wellness brand and speed up delivery times.Medifast rebranded its direct selling subsidiary in 2017, changing the name to Optavia from Take Shape for Life and introducing new clean label food products such as bars, shakes and crackers. Health coaches work directly with the programs clients.The company said it has tripled its sales, to $1.5 billion last year, under the new business model.The Maryland Department of Commerce said it is exploring options to help with Medifasts warehouse project costs, including offering tax credits tied to job creation. The states Job Creation Tax Credit program offers income tax credits of at least $3,000 per new job to eligible businesses that locate or expand in the state and create a minimum number of full-time positions.Harford County added a bus stop near the facility in October to serve workers who rely on public transportation. | [
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MURRELLS INLET, S.C. (WMBF) - As cases of COVID-19 continue to spike across the state, WMBF News wants to connect you with more opportunities to get tested.
Coastal Lab, located along Highway 17 Bypass in the Murrells Inlet area, is providing drive-thru COVID-19 nasal testing.
Coastal Lab is known for providing antibody testing, which they still do. However, theyve
switched up their services since April.
Since then, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released information saying antibody testsshouldnt be used to diagnose a current COVID-19 infection. This because an antibody test might not show if you have the virus right now, as it can take one to three weeks for your body to make antibodies.
Over the last few weeks, Coastal Lab started providing the COVID-19 nasal test via drive-thru, and theyre asking once you receive the results to wait around two weeks and come back for an antibody test.
Heather Pitts, the owner of Coastal Lab, explained.
So just because you have a negative swab does not mean its not already - youve been exposed or its in your bloodstream, so its important to do both to make sure because you could come up here and get a negative swab and never come back. But you could still be active for COVID because it already went through your nasal stream and into your bloodstream, so its important to come back and get that second test, Pitts said.
Pitts said you dont need an appointment or symptoms to get tested and there is a fee for testing. If you have health insurance, the fee is $15. If not, it will be $125.
She also added they receive all of their supplies from the lab theyre working with from Manning.
Because you dont need to have symptoms to get tested at Coastal Lab, its offering some peace of mind for some folks.
Well one of the girls I hang with tested positive and I thought it was time that I got it, not that I feel sick or I ever felt sick. I havent, and Ive been taking my temperature, Margaret Lines said. I do want my children to come back down in July and I wont allow them to come down if I test positive, its just not fair.
A similar story came from a couple going through the line Monday who wanted to get tested after a neighbor got the virus.
You can visit Coastal Lab at 3583 Highway 17 Bypass in Murrells Inlet. The drive-thru starts at 7:30 a.m., Monday through Friday. The line forms early, so be mindful of that.
You can contact them by phone at 843-957-6740 or email at [email protected]
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7:50 PM EDT June 24, 2020
ATLANTA Staffers at
Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta
at Hughes Spaulding got a taste of summer thanks to two local Dunkin Donuts franchises.
The donut destination treated staff to hundreds of the companys famous munchkins, coffee, and a custom Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake as temps rise into summer heat!
This gesture comes from Stephen Attard & James Laskaris of Ioan Donuts LLC who currently own and operate 45 Dunkin locations and Chin Haynes of H&H Management Group owns and operates 3 Dunkin locations throughout Georgia.
Dunkin Donuts is celebrating its new Celebration Donut, which looks & tastes just like Birthday Cake and consists of Birthday Cake Mix with rainbow sprinkles in the mix, White Icing, topped with Yellow Star, Pink and Orange Sprinkle Blend, according to a release sent to 11Alive.
The donut is available at all Dunkin locations throughout Georgia now through August 18.
The statement went on to mention that the vast majority of Dunkin restaurants across the country remain open and have enhanced preventative health and safety measures in place.
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A rep writes 11Alive, "to celebrate the official start of summer and keep the team at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spaulding running, two local Dunkin Franchisees have teamed up to give the hospital staff a special summer treat."
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A Renton-based investor has purchased a building occupied by Vivacity Care Center in Spokane Valley.
Spokane Valley Clinic LLC, whose principal is Soyam Vahora, CEO of Renton-based Aamir Stations, bought the building for $7.7 million earlier this month from Spokane investor John Pariseau, according to Spokane County Assessors Office records.
Premera Blue Cross and Vera Whole Health opened the 12,000-square-foot Vivacity Care Center, at 16009 E. Indiana Ave., last year, marking the third location in the Spokane area.
The center is part of Premeras plan to expand advanced primary care services in Spokane. Premera and Vera Whole Health opened the first Vivacity Care Center at 9001 N. Country Homes Blvd. in January 2020.
Clayton J. Brown, Christopher Edwards and Ruthanne Romero, investment specialists in commercial real estate brokerage Marcus & Millichaps Seattle office, represented the seller.
Vahora was not immediately available for comment on the purchase.
Premera Blue Cross holds a long-term lease for the Vivacity Care Center in the building, according to a Marcus & Millichap company release.
Premera Blue Cross did not respond to a request for comment on its lease agreement with Vahora.
Mountlake Terrace-based Premera Blue Cross is a nonprofit independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. It provides health benefits and services to more than 2 million people.
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Live updates as police scene surrounds smashed up Roby Medical Centre
Mr Lawless, from Liverpool, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, bribery and corruption. He has denied any wrongdoing.
David Rubin and Partners (DRP) were appointed as administrators last year. DRP has since merged with Begbies Traynor.
The High Court has now ruled that Begbies Traynor must sell the site to Infinity Development Propco Ltd (IDPL), a company which represents investors in the scheme.
Liverpool based property company Legacie had put in a bid to buy the site.
A spokesperson for IDPL now said that they intended to work to remove a charge on the site held by the Equity Group Limited, a Seychelles based company controlled by Mr Lawless.
He has previously told the ECHO that Equity Group acquired the site because it was the contracting party to which the council had delegated authority to sell. He also said he had registered the group in the UK for tax purposes.
A charge is a kind of legal mortgage.
A spokesperson for IDPL said to the ECHO : "On February 21 2022 our legal team were successful at a hearing in the High Court, before his Honour Judge Mark Cawson QC, in obtaining an order for the Infinity Developments site to be sold to Infinity Development Propco Ltd ( IDPL) rather than Legacie.
"After hearing our barristers representations, the Judge made an order in our favour.
"In summary the order allowed for the Infinity Development Site to be sold to IDPL free from the legal charge granted to and held by the second respondent in those proceedings, Virtuoso Investments Limited.
"The site is to be sold with the following in place: (1) the legal charge granted to and held by Equity Group Limited (the EGL Charge), (2) the lease granted to Infinity Developments Holdings Limited, (the Holdings Lease). Crucially, however, the terms of the sale also transfer the rights to challenge the EGL Charge and the Holdings Lease to IDPL.
"The Judge held that selling the site to IDPL on the terms of its bid represented a better outcome and therefore better return to creditors.
"In addition to the above, the Judge also ordered that the three investor/purchasers who effectively represented the interests of the wider group would be entitled to recover most of their costs incurred in relation to the proceedings.
The Infinity Waters project off Leeds Street in Liverpool city centre
(Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
"This is an extremely successful outcome, and our focus will now move to completing the purchase and taking swift and aggressive action through the courts to challenge the EGL charge and the Holdings Lease."
Elliot Lawless said: This is the third Elliot project to have been acquired by an investor consortium and it demonstrates once again that my projects benefited from prime locations and that their viability was and remains extremely strong.
A spokesman for Legacie said: "Legacie Developments wants the city to thrive so we wish the successful party the very best in taking this project forward. In the meantime, our focus will be on the continued delivery of several significant developments in Liverpool and across the UK."
Mr Lawless unveiled the plans for Infinity Waters in 2016, which featured a three-tower housing complex off Leeds Street.
Speaking to the ECHO in 2019 Mr Lawless said that he began buying sites on the city's waterfront after launching a building services company in 2010.
He said that he was committed to regenerating the city and supporting jobs in the region.
The ECHO approached the administrators for comment.
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Puratae, LLC Announces LIVEDEN as its New Brand Name and DBA
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Puratae, LLC of Highland Utah announced LIVEDEN as its new DBA company and brand name, as well as its new product brand name LIVEDENONE and website https://liveden.com.
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Puratae, LLC, of Highland Utah announced today that it has launched its new company,
LIVEDEN
, a DBA (doing business as) company of Puratae, LLC. The new DBA company was formed in late 2021, and an announcement to Purataes existing customers and brand partners was made on February 9. In conjunction with the launch of LIVEDEN, Puratae LLC replaced its former puratae.com domain with the
https://liveden.com
domain.
According to company spokesman and COO, Bob Hilke, LIVEDEN is the new brand name, replacing Puratae. The Company name is pronounced LIV-EDEN. Their product also has a new name, LIVEDENONE. LIVEDEN has a strong philanthropic base and, just like its parent company Puratae has done from the beginning, will continue to provide 10 meals to children in need with the purchase of every LIVEDENONE. LIVEDEN is currently operating in six major global markets.
Co-founder and joint CEO, Heather Holker, states: Our vision has always been a global one. Helping people is what we love LIVEDEN embodies who we are now and our commitment to the future. LIVEDEN is all about getting back to the basics. Clean, healthy, simple living. This is what inspires us.
Co-founder and joint CEO, Marty Holker, reflected on Purataes success over the recent years, and with the launch of LIVEDEN he shared his vision looking forward for the new companys brand, LIVEDEN: Puratae celebrated its third anniversary in August 2021. During that time we had significant growth and acquired many faithful customers. We gave considerable consideration to the brand name to represent our company going forward as well as our product brand name. We feel our new brand name LIVEDEN will help our customers and prospective customers better identify with the vision we have for our company. I could not be more excited about our future going forward as we begin to share LIVEDEN with the world!
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Hello Games, the studio behind No Mans Sky, has released an update for its debut title Joe Dangerand its 2014 sequel Joe Danger Infinity In celebration of the original games 10th anniversary, both games have been made free-to-play online.
Self-published in 2010, the side-scrolling platformer centered on a comical daredevil driver. It set the foundation for two subsequent sequels (2012s Joe Danger 2: The Movie and 2014s Joe Danger Infinity) and the studios later commercial breakthrough in the form of the procedurally-generated space survival sim No Mans Sky. According to Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray, the remasters of Joe Danger and Joe Danger Infinity have been in the works for several years.
Its always been a secret shame of ours that the success of No Mans Sky left Joe Danger unloved, Murray told Polygon over email. Joe holds a special place in our hearts. It was our first game when we were still four guys in a shed, trying to get noticed. Joe helped our studio get a foothold and establish ourselves as a company, but its also where we learned to make games.
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For the past two years, Hello Games has worked on the remasters for Joe Danger and Joe Danger Infinity, rebuilding the game through eight years of changes through the Unity Engine and adding several new features. The 1.3 update for Joe Danger features a graphical overhaul, with improved visuals, higher frame rate, as well as gamepad and ProMotion support.
Previous owners of either Joe Danger and Joe Danger Infinity will receive the update for free. For anyone unfamiliar and curious about Hello Games debut title, theres no better time to give the series a shot.
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Solar Mobile Charger is a computer program used by technology startups to develop a communication link that works with today's digital generation and provides them with advice, actions, and plans. Solar Mobile Chargers simulate human conversations through artificial intelligence, but applications are being developed that enable the chatbots to communicate with each other. These bots, setup on various kinds of platforms, ensure overall enquirers satisfaction by solving their queries in the best possible manner.
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The research further holds ample information to enable stakeholders in their decision-making process, especially associated with problem identification, finding the best solutions as well as opportunities in the Solar Mobile Charger market for the forecast period, 2019 to 2024. The study further document marketing benchmarks that a business owner is expected to complete in order to sustain in the highly saturated market. Besides, the marketing efforts and constant improvements introduced to the marketing strategy by major vendors' forms an important part of the study.
The report helps product manufacturers connect directly to their target audience by including thoughts and opinions from companies and individuals who are unbiased and less emotionally attached to recent developments, products or services. The study empowers field marketing executives to gain a new angle on how they should go about a new launch, a new product or brand positioning. As a part of their exercise, the researchers have not only provided the sales estimation of the products and services but have also documented the winning strategies required to achieve and maximize the profits.
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What category of customers will buy more products or services during the forecast period 2019 to 2024?
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Dynamic AV partners Softlogic Retail for AV Solutions to homes
Dynamic AV partners Softlogic Retail for AV Solutions to homes
Monday, March 21, 2022 - 01:00
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Ruwan Attanayaka, Senior Product Manager of Softlogic; Mohan Abeyasinghe, Deputy Charmanof Dynamic AV Technologies, Mohammed Rizvi CEO of Softlogic Retail, Malik Fernando, Managing Director of Dynamic AV Technologies and Dhanushka Fernando, Director and COO of Dynamic AV Technologies.
Dynamic AV Technologies, the leading professional audio-visual solutions specialist, has joined hands with Softlogic Retail, to launch an extensive range of world class prosumer products with value for money propositions to customers. The company entered into the partnership after identifying that customers swiftly moved to digital solutions following the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, whether it was for purchasing groceries or indulging in entertainment.
In this new socially distanced world, we identified a gap in the local market, where customers were looking for low-cost prosumer products so they can have that full experience of professional Audio-Visual equipment in their very own homes. Identifying this need, together with Softlogic Retail we launched this prosumer range for customers who are looking for value in professional products without compromising on world-class quality. said Malik Fernando, Managing Director, Dynamic AV Technologies (Pvt) Ltd.
The extensive range of JBL products offered by Dynamic AV through the Softlogic Max showrooms will now include JBL EON ONE Compact, Desktop reference monitors, Closed back studio headphones, Multimode USB microphones, Analog mixers, and work at home bundles.
The product range has been carefully selected with the objective of providing an elevated entertainment experience to our loyal customers at affordable prices, with attractive interest free monthly payment plans up to 60 months from leading banks. Customers will also experience the best customer service by our well trained sales staff at Softlogic Max showrooms which are Softlogics premium customer experience destinations in the consumer electronics and durables segment. Mohammed Rizvi, Chief Executive Officer, Softlogic Retail (Pvt) Ltd., stated, commenting on the partnership.
The acceleration of digital technologies has enabled lives to go on in homes. With businesses implementing work from home arrangements and students undergoing blended learning; digital technologies have become more essential today. As such, the need for an immersive and high-quality AV technology is highlighted by the reliance of companies and education institutions on these technologies, which allows them to communicate more effectively. Dynamic AV Technologies always looks to facilitate the local market not only by providing products but using those products to form a solution and ensure that solution enhance the users experience.
AV technology has now become important to facilitate socially distanced events in the post-pandemic world, especially when it comes to the coordination of these technologies.
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Realme GT Getting Android 12 Based Realme UI 3.0 Update in India
Realme GT Getting Android 12-Based Realme UI 3.0 Update in India
Realme GT C.05 stable update brings Android 12 features to users.
By David Delima| Updated: 30 December 2021 13:48 IST
Photo Credit: Realme India
Realme GT 5G is equipped with the Snapdragon 888 SoC
Highlights
Realme 3.0 for Realme GT comes with a redesigned system interface
Realme GT was launched with Realme UI 2.0, based on Android 11
Users who update will also gain privacy features from Android 12
Realme GT smartphones are now receiving a stable update to Realme UI 3.0, which is based on Android 12, in India. The latest update for Realme GT brings a new version of Android and was in testing on the company's beta channel ahead of the stable release. The update to Realme UI 3.0 brings a redesigned interface, including new icons, animations, and improvements to the always-on display (AOD). Realme GT users will also get all the security and privacy improvements of Android 12, as part of the latest update.
In an announcementon the company's official forum, Realmestated that the C.05 stable update to Android 12-based Realme UI3.0 is now rolling out to Realme GTusers in India. The update bears version number RMX2202_11_C.05 and carries a size of 194MB. The update brings a redesigned home screen layout, new icons, and the company's Quantum Animation Engine 3.0, which optimises over 300 animations.
Users who have updated to Realme UI 3.0 on their Realme GT smartphones will be able to take advantage of the optimised automatic screen brightness algorithm. The camera interface can now be customised, and the company says that users can zoom in and out more smoothly while recording video. Gamers should also see reduced CPU load averages and lowered battery usage, with more stable frame rates, according to the company.
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Realme has also optimised multitasking as part of the Realme UI 2.0 update. Users will be able to drag and drop files and photos into a new floating window after the update. Performance improvements include Quick Launch, a feature that pre-loads frequently opened apps for faster launches. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, and NFC should also turn on and off faster after updating to Realme UI 3.0.
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In addition to the new additions to the Realme UI 3.0 interface, users who update to the latest version will also gain access to Android 12-specific features like privacy indicators to show which apps are using the microphone and camera, along with clipboard access alerts. Similarly, users will be able to share Wi-Fi passwords using Nearby Share, and grant access to precise location (or general location) to apps after installing the update to Realme UI 3.0 based on Android 12 on their Realme GT smartphones.
Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth joins Orbital the Gadgets 360 podcast for an exclusive wide-ranging interview, as he talks about the 5G push, Make in India, Realme GT series and Book Slim, and how stores can improve their standing. Orbital is available on Spotify Gaana JioSaavn Google Podcasts Apple Podcasts Amazon Musicand wherever you get your podcasts.
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Health Care Hero
UR Nursing grad surprised with $100K award in recognition of his selfless work on COVID front lines
Jose Perpignan 16N waited in front of his computer for an interview to begin one October morning, completely unaware he was moments away from winning a life-changing amount of money.
On live TV.
The popular morning show Live with Kelly and Ryan was holding a Healthcare Hero $100K Giveaway contest in collaboration with SoFi, a digital finance company, to recognize health care professionals for their work on the front lines during the pandemic. Perpignan knew his friend, Erika Hunt, had nominated him for the prize, but he thought producers were reaching out to clarify some of the information submitted about him.
Then the shows executive producer, Michael Gelman, got on the line.
Jose is that you? Can you hear me? Can you see me? said Gelman, feigning a poor connection over Zoom.
Yeah, I can hear you, replied Jose.
Im having a little bit of a bad connection. Hold on for one second. Let me try to fix it.
Jose? asked host Ryan Seacrest, Hey, its Ryan and Kelly Ripa!
We just thought wed let you know that you are the winner of our Healthcare Hero $100,000 giveaway! Ripa said excitedly.
Surprised and nervous, Perpignan thanked the show, Erika, and family members who recognized his deep commitment to the nursing profession and the community.
I dont know what to say! Im so grateful to have this help. It will put me in a space to focus more on my goals and giving back to the community, which is what Ive dreamed of doing for a very long time. It means so much to my family, my kids, and all of my friends. Were just so happy! said Perpignan.
Recognizing that health care workers were among the hardest hit during the COVID-19 crisis, SoFi teamed up with Live with Kelly and Ryan to award $100,000 to one doctor, nurse, or physician assistant who has made a major difference in their community. Viewers were asked to submit nominations, which were judged on many criteria, including the impact that the individual made during the pandemic.
Mitigating the Effects of COVID-19
Perpignan felt the sting of COVID-19 from the start. The pandemic put a halt to his full-time job at LiveOnNY, an organ transplant organization. To continue working full time, Perpignan picked up shifts as a care coordinator at the New York-Presbyterian Hospitals cardiothoracic intensive care unit, which forced him to quarantine away from his family for 14 days.
In addition to working 12-hour shifts at the hospital, Perpignan coordinated with the Greater New York City Black Nurses Association (GNYCBNA) chapter he co-founded to prevent the virus from hitting his Bronx neighborhood. The group picked up seniors prescriptions and groceries and provided personal protective equipment (PPE) to those who couldnt leave their homes.
Perpignan and members of the GNYCBNA also hosted virtual meetings with other Black Nurses Associations in the surrounding areas to share what to expect when the virus hit their hospitals. They discussed how to advocate for PPE, what politicians to contact for resources, and where to go for emotional support.
At New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Perpignan, like many nurses, was the last person some patients saw before they succumbed to the virus. He remembered one particular nurse who eventually tested positive for COVID-19 after he came out of retirement to work on the front line. Perpignan held up a tablet while the patients wife spoke her last words to her husband.
When thinking of those emotional moments, Perpignan said, I try to be as genuine and authentic as possible with my patients and family members. I start with condolences to the family, and I always touch light on the positives that I know of this person. Ill say, He went out fighting, and I know he did that with his family in his heart. I tried to rewrite his ending, He didnt just die from COVID-19 in the ICU, but he died because he wanted to come back to fight. Hes a hero.
Perpignan explained thats why he likes working at LiveOnNY, If a 26-year old overdosed, I tell the parents their child didnt just die from overdosing, they saved eight lives.
Finding His Niche in Nursing
Its this innate sense of optimism and positivity that helped Perpignan find his true calling as a caregiver.
A Brooklyn, NY, native, Perpignan, grew up in a 39-story building as the oldest of 10 children. He decided on a career in caring when his father, an emergency medical technician, brought an ambulance to his school's career day in first grade.
Perpignan attended Binghamton University and graduated with a bachelors degree in Africana studies. During college, he shadowed a few physicians and fell in love with nursing, specifically the interactions between nurses and their patients and families.
After graduation, he spent several years working as a patient care technician before he was accepted into the University of Rochester School of Nursings Accelerated Program for Non-Nurses.
It was at the UR School of Nursing that Perpignan truly felt at home. He was thankful for the schools holistic application review process, which identifies an applicants academic strengths, life experiences, and ethical character to determine their ability to contribute to a diverse learning environment and improve the health of individuals and communities. The UR School of Nursing saw Perpignans potential when other schools might have overlooked him.
As a student, Perpignan always went out of his way to learn the name of every student in his cohort, as well as the cohorts above and below him. He always admired Dean Kathy Rideout, EdD, PPCNP-BC, FNAP, for doing the same.
Dean Rideout shaped my mindset on what leadership is. I remember walking by her in the hallway and she said, Oh, hey Jose! I was amazed. How can she work in the hospital, run a nursing school, and still know everyones name? I pride myself on becoming the type of leader Kathy is, said Perpignan.
Beginning His DNP Journey
Starting in January, Perpignan will take the next step in his leadership journey, beginning the UR School of Nursings Post-Bachelor of Science to Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. The program is designed for nurses who wish to earn their DNP degree through an area of nurse practitioner or clinical nurse leader specialty.
Perpignan will return to Rochester in the spring of 2022 with his family to complete the clinical portion of the program. He looks forward to starting this next chapter with his wife and two children in a new home.
According to Perpignan, it was the GNYCBNA that prompted him to advance his nursing career. A lot of the mentors within the organization have their doctorates. Im the only one thats on the board that doesnt have a masters or a doctorate. The exposure of being around them opened my eyes to the resources, access, education, and plans they have. Thats what I want, he said.
Perpignan shared his plans after he completes the program, I want to go in | [
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Venezuela
The Russian pharmaceutical company Geropharm has sent its first insulin shipment to Venezuela. Insulin is a crucial hormone for people suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus and who cannot survive without its administration. US sanctions against Venezuela have closed the door to access to traditional suppliers causing incredible pain to the Venezuelan population
In this sense, Geropharm becomes the only provider of this vital drug in this country. In the near future, genetically modified insulin of short and medium duration in bottles will be available to patients across the country, according to the Russian Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
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Up to 200,000 units of insulin exported to Venezuela will be sufficient to fully meet the needs of more than 166,000 people with diabetes mellitus for a month. In the years 2019-2020, Geropharm will deliver more than five million product units to the country. Shipments will be made monthly. This volume will allow the drug to be supplied to more than 400,000 Venezuelans.
According to the Minister of Industry and Commerce of Russia, Dens Mnturov, the implementation of this project will be an important step in the development of cooperation between Russia and Venezuela in the humanitarian field, as well as an important step in the expansion of non-energy exports.
In the last year, we have made significant progress in this regard in Cuba, Kazakhstan and Belarus. In the near future, Geropharm plans to sign several more agreements with foreign partners, said Geropharm CEO Piotr Rodinov. | [
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Biotechs Past, Present and Future
Biotechs Past, Present and Future
written by
Mable Buchanan
Friday, February 19, 2021
Lifesaving medical innovations can be some of the most profitable and satisfying allocations for investors savings.
Take, for example, the da Vinci surgical system, a set of special instruments for minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgery.
This system was designed to make all surgeons great surgeons.
Combining the best of human judgment and technological precision, this invention from Intuitive Surgical (Nasdaq: ISRG) has been used in more than 1.5 million surgeries, starting with a coronary bypass in 1998.
It earned approval from the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, the same year the company went public. And since then, the burgeoning robo-surgeon has more than delivered for its investors.
From the companys initial public offering through August 2016, it posted a rise of 2,300%.
Along the way, Members of Wealthy Retirements publisher, The Oxford Club, who got in on the Clubs Intuitive Surgical recommendation, more than quadrupled their money.
Seeing Is Believing
In 2015, another promising medical innovation hit the presses: Abbott Medical Optics, then a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT), had developed a special lens.
When placed in the eye post-cataract removal, it could restore vision.
Now, the Tecnis lens is the go-to solution for aphakia, or trouble focusing due to a missing eye lens.
This condition affects fewer than 1% of cataract patients but in a study conducted from 1997 through 2001, 87% of aphakia cases were not expected prior to the surgery, and many of those cases required a second operation to resolve the issue.
Abbotts lens was a game changer for these patients.
In fact, it was a key reason for Johnson & Johnsons (NYSE: JNJ) acquisition of Abbott Medical Optics in 2017 for $4.325 billion.
The chairman of Johnson & Johnsons Consumer Medical Devices group, Ashley McEvoy, stated
AMO was the right fit for us because of their history of innovation and strong positions in surgical ophthalmology, especially their momentum in the cataract space.
It wasnt the eye care businesss first time being acquired. When Abbott announced its initial acquisition of the company then known as Advanced Medical Optics back in 2009, its shares jumped 143%.
Across the board, mergers and acquisitions can provide a powerful boost to a biotech company. Thats why merger and acquisition potential is one of three top catalystsChief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfeld considers when assessing a prospective healthcare investment.
A COVID-19 Contender
Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) has been a poster child for the COVID-19 stock market thanks to its focus on virtual medicine.
The company connects providers and patients safely and confidentially online.
Marc featured the stock back in 2018 in his article | [
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Partake Foods
If you're looking for gluten-free, vegan, and allergen-friendly treats, you can't go wrong with Partake Foods The Black-owned, female-founded company is all about creating delicious food such as cookies, baking mixes, and snack packs for people with dietary restrictions. Plus, it's backed by Rihanna and Jay-Z, so you really can't go wrong.
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CEO Paige Wilson on the expansion of Naborforce
A Richmond-based startup company that connects aging adults to a network of care providers has added to a recent capital raise as it plans to expand into two new market areas.
Naborforce, founded by local entrepreneur Paige Wilson in 2018, announced in June that it had closed on a $2 million seed funding round to help it expand.
The investment round was oversubscribed, however, so Naborforce recently added an additional $500,000 to the capital raise, bringing the total amount to $2.5 million.
The additional amount included an investment from Claritas Capital as well as Artemis Fund, a Houston-based venture capital firm that specializes in investing in companies founded and led by women.
"That is significant for a couple of reasons," said Paige Wilson, the founder and CEO of Naborforce who was inspired to create the company after a 30-year corporate career and caring for her own aging mother.
"In the startup world, there is a lot of discussion that female-led companies are incredibly under-represented in venture capital and fundraising," Wilson said. In 2019, only about 2.8 percent of global venture capital went to women-led businesses, she said.
Naborforce seeks to address issues surrounding America's aging population by providing an online platform on which aging adults or their families can find and hire "nabors," or vetted people who sign up for the service to earn some extra cash by doing errands, household chores and offering companionship.
About 1,300 nabors and clients are using the platform now in the Richmond area, the Charlottesville area and the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill areas of North Carolina.
Naborforce is planning to expand its markets into the Williamsburg area and the Bethesda, Md.-area soon. The company also is planning to introduce is app for Android users soon. | [
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We all know that the years spent in school are one of the most important times in every childs life. Almost every parent leaves no stone unturned to give the best education to their children. But too often one important learning tool that may be overlooked is a childs vision. According to WHO report, more than 90% of visually impaired people come from the economically weaker section of the society, and this puts a lot of underprivileged children at risk.
Poor eye care among underprivileged children is fast emerging as a critical issue in India, especially because they do not have access to an eye examination and a pair of glasses. They also tend to be more susceptible to eye infections and diseases because of poor dietary habits & unhealthy lifestyle. But these ocular challenges can be easily prevented, treated and corrected if caught early on. Therefore, early screening for detection is extremely important to tackle this rising vision problem and one such endeavour we came across is the ICICI Lombard Caring Hands initiative.
Here I present the interview of Jerry Jose, Head Human Resources, ICICI Lombard General Insurance speaking about Caring Hands, a unique CSR initiative and employee volunteering program run by ICICI Lombard. Excerpts of an interview:
Can you please tell us more about ICICI Lombard Caring Hands campaign?
Caring Hands aims at providing preventive healthcare services in the area of eye-vision to underprivileged children. Studies have shown that 80% of what a child learns is processed visually. When a childs vision suffers, chances are his school-work does, too. These vision problems often go undetected in children from less-affluent families which affect their learning ability, personality, and adjustment in school. Children are the builders of our nation and ensuring quality vision for children in their formative years is a challenging task. The Caring Hand initiative is inclusive in every sense of the word. It ensures a better vision for children, thereby facilitating a brighter future for them.
What is the history and motivation behind ICICI Lombards caring hands campaign?
At ICICI Lombard, we have continuously strived to go beyond our business focus and contribute to further the well- being of the community in which we are present. We have taken multiple steps to meet this objective through specific initiatives in the areas of Preventive Healthcare, Road Safety, and Disaster support. The scope of the initiative was sharpened to focus on preventive care of eyesight. The idea was to make the exercise more tangible as students who were diagnosed with poor vision could be provided with corrective vision spectacles and thereby offer a solution to their eyesight problem. The eye check-up camps though planned over two months are conducted across schools all over the country on a single day.
Why is it invested in the eye-care sector?
The Company identified a cause, i.e. eye problems in kids and worked towards offering a solution to the problem. Given that children are our countrys future, it made a lot of sense to focus on this age group. We could thus build a sustainable activity wherein every year new children reaching the particular age band can be diagnosed, and their issue of poor vision addressed.
Tell us a description of how the programme works.
The employees of ICICI Lombard entirely manage the activity. The Company provides the guidelines to ensure consistency across branches and provide the necessary support. Employees volunteer to take the lead from the various offices and locations of ICICI Lombard. The Captains further form and lead a team of employees. Each Captain with his/her team is responsible for one eye check-up camp.
Teams are responsible for:
Obtaining permission from schools serving underprivileged children to conduct free eye check-up camps for students
Arranging ophthalmologists (eye-specialists)/ eye doctors for each camp
Collating the vision data as diagnosed by the ophthalmologists and sharing data on children requiring spectacles
Placing the order and collecting ready spectacles (the company has entered into a central tie-up with reputed spectacle manufacturers to provide spectacles)
Handing over spectacles to the school authorities
The Companys CSR Committee, Marketing & Corporate Communication team and HR ensure constant communication and facilitating coordination between branches at various stages of the activity.
What are the areas that the campaign works towards reaching?
The initiative takes place across India. The campaign focuses on ensuring that underprivileged children who otherwise do not have access to quality health check-up especially in the area of eyesight are provided with the right diagnosis and solution in the form of spectacles. The initiative focuses on children in the age group of 9 13 years who are in the formative years of their career.
What is the reach of the programme?
ICICI Lombards employee-driven CSR activity has reached out to underprivileged children for five years in a row. Over the last seven years, the initiative has touched over 175,000 children across 100 cities in the country. In the process, we have provided free spectacles to over 20,000 children thereby helping them with a clear vision and the confidence to aspire for a bright future.
In the last seven years, we have catered to across 273 schools in nearly 100 cities. Last year, the activity helped identify 5874 cases of poor vision that were provided with corrective lenses free of cost. Over 2,500 employees participated from various locations forming teams that joined hands to plan and execute the entire activity. With the Companys long-standing commitment towards this unique initiative, ICICI Lombard continues to increase the scope of its activity with each passing year.
What have been the results of the campaign?
ICICI Lombards employee-driven CSR activity has reached out to underprivileged children for five years in a row. Over the last seven years, the initiative has touched over 175,000 children across 100 cities in the country. In the process, we have provided free spectacles to over 20,000 children thereby helping them with a clear vision and the confidence to aspire for a bright future. This day has now been earmarked as the Caring Hands Day at ICICI Lombard. This initiative has also been recognized by the Guinness World Records (Record created Most eye tests in one-hour multiple venues is 1526).
Tell us a few success stories of the campaign.
Over the last 7 years, the initiative has been reaching out to more and more students. Starting with 11,000 children in the first year, i.e. 2011, Total kids screened
36217
5582
kids till date.
Secondly, around 50% of the employees participate every year which shows the overall importance that the initiative has been able to garner within the company.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by the interviewee in this feature are entirely his own and does not necessarily reflect the views of MacroTraveller.
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/PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent Qualtrics Survey conducted
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, of over 200 respondents with mild to moderate sleep apnea, more than 70% said they would prefer to try the FDA cleared Bongo Rx over traditional CPAP therapy to treat their sleep apnea when given the choice.
The Bongo Rx is a small, discreet nasal device that requires no CPAP machine, CPAP mask, CPAP hose, bulky headgear, electricity or battery power.
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Bongo Rx preferred over traditional CPAP to treat sleep apnea
The survey results highlight this new sleep apnea therapy device when compared to traditional CPAP machines and masks marketed by industry leaders such as: ResMed, Phillips Respironics, and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited. Industry experts estimate that approximately 50% of CPAP patients on average will eventually abandon their CPAP therapy and become non-compliant.
"I feel the results of this Qualtrics Survey reflect that mild to moderate OSA sufferers want a simple and effective alternative to traditional CPAP. Over 70% of the respondents in this survey chose Bongo Rx. It's gratifying that years of effort by our team to develop the Bongo Rx have yielded such a great outcome," says
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, President of AirAvant Medical, maker of the Bongo Rx.
About AirAvant Medical:
www.AirAvant.com
) is a research-oriented, privately held company that focuses on developing and marketing innovative medical devices to treat obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing disorders. AirAvant Medical holds numerous patents and has several patents pending. This newly formed company was created from the former partners of InnoMed Technologies, Inc., as well as
Ron F. Richard
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, the Hybrid, and the Aloha line of CPAP interfaces.
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Take legal action against encroached lands - Cecilia Dapaah
Sanitation and Water Resources minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah
Thu, 16 Sep 2021
ghanaiantimes.com
The Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has directed the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to initiate legal processes to demolish structures on the companys encroached lands.
In the meantime, she has asked the company to undertake regular patrol on lands to protect and prevent encroachers from taking over the lands.
She said the company should collaborate with other stakeholders to create a 100-metre buffer around water bodies and their operational equipment and machinery.
The minister was speaking in Accra yesterday when she inspected the progress of repair works at the Weija Treatment Plant.
The plant has been shut down for five-day repair works by the GWCL which commenced on September 13, 2021.
The exercise has resulted in a cut in the water supply to the western parts of the Greater Accra Region.
Weija, Gbawe, Bortianor, Kokrobite, Kasoa, Mallam, Sakaman, Odorkor, Dansoman, Kaneshie, Achimota, Korlebu, Mataheko, and surrounding communities, were areas affected by the repair works.
Madam Dapaah noted, however, that water supply to these areas will resume within 24 to 48 hours.
She said the progress report received from the Engineers in charge indicated that the repair works, which bordered on the water pump and meter installation and welding of broken pipes, were about 90 percent complete.
She commended GWCL for completing the works within the announced schedule as well as using both its internally generated funds and internal expertise to undertake the rehabilitation.
Managing Director of GWCL, Dr Clifford Braimah, said repair works were undertaken regularly to avoid a total collapse of equipment, saying that the ongoing works would help the company to reduce the quantity of treated water lost through leakages.
As part of measures to improve operations and revenue collection, he noted that the company was installing digital meters that could detect the illegal connections and provide accurate data on the quantity of water supplied to a location within a given period.
He said 426 fixed meters and 226 industrial meters were being deployed across the country to help reduce losses
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Almost Heaven Ice Cream is doubling its size.
A third location opened at the end of February in Hartville. And the family-owned business hopes to have a fourth location open later this year in Canal Fulton after acquiring Oser's Dairy & Deli.
The sites are an addition to the original Almost Heaven locations at 6590 Middlebranch Ave. NE in Plain Township and the second site at 2154 Beechwood Ave. in Alliance.
The string of ice cream parlors started in 2007 when Todd Truax opened the first location next door to Sonshine Medical, a medical equipment business the Truax family owns.
The ice cream business started expanding five years ago when the Truax family bought property in Alliance to build a second location. They also built a new store in Hartville at 624 S. Prospect St.
Jared Truax, Todd's son, said the family decided to build in Hartville because it's a destination town that draws people from outside the area for shopping.
"It's a good, local community," he said.
Plans were to open the Hartville location in early January, but supply chain issues delayed construction, Jared Truax said. The company had to wait on building supplies and equipment, he said.
It's anticipated that supply chain delays will be a factor in getting the Canal Fulton location ready, Jared Truax said. He hopes to start work soon to convert from Oser's to the Almost Heaven theme, but expects it could be the end of summer before the location is ready to serve ice cream.
Canal Fulton Mayor Joe Schultz said the city's Historic Preservation Commission will work with Almost Heaven on plans. Canal Fulton officials want to ensure there aren't drastic changes to buildings in the historic downtown district.
According to county records, the building dates to 1890, while Oser's has been operating there since 1954.
Schultz is happy to see Almost Heaven invest in downtown Canal Fulton.
"We expect they'll be a good business partner for the community," he said.
Jared Truax said the shop expects to maintain some of the 68 years of Oser's Dairy history.
"We don't want to lose all of the heritage," he said.
Until then, Almost Heaven's more than 20 ice cream flavors and other treats are available at the Plain Township, Hartville and Alliance locations.
Ice cream makes folks happy and Jared Truax said he enjoys serving happy customers.
"That's the best part of the business," he said.
Diebold Nixdorf, McDonald's Germany expand IT service agreement
McDonald's Germany and Diebold Nixdorf have expanded their IT service partnership agreement.
The new agreement has Diebold Nixdorf installing and providing maintenance for equipment in new and upgraded restaurants at McDonald's Germany. The chain has more than 1,430 locations.
It marks another milestone in the collaboration between the companies, which has seen Diebold Nixdorf self-service terminals and payment transaction technology. Diebold Nixdorf's equipment helps the restaurant chain meet German security regulations for point-of-sale systems.
Diebold Nixdorf and McDonald's Germany have worked together for many years, and expanding the agreement was a logical step, especially because customer expectations for technology have grown in recent years, Nicolas von Sobbe, vice president for technology at McDonald's Germany, said in a press release.
415 Group opens Alliance office
Accounting and business services firm 415 Group has opened an office in Alliance.
The Jackson Township certified public accounting, business consulting and IT services firm said it added the office at 960 W. State St. to better serve customers in Alliance, Louisville, Minerva, Salem and Sebring.
Joining 415 Group as tax director and leader of the Alliance office is Marcie Curry, who has 20 years experience in accounting.
Housing sales flatten
The number of properties sold in Ohio during February matched housing sales in February 2021, the Ohio Realtors reported.
Real estate agents around the state reported selling 9,382 residences during February, the same number as last year. The average price on the properties increased by 11.9% to $235,359, the organization said.
Real estate agents in MLS Now, which includes Stark and 22 other Northeast Ohio counties, reported selling 3,201 units in February, up less than 1% from 3,183 sold during the same period last year. The average price increased 11.2% to $204,625.
During the first two months, real estate agents in the MLS Now group reported selling 6,592 residences, up 2.2% from 6,447 in 2021. Statewide, agents have sold 18,897 units, up less than 1% from 18,776 sold last year. | [
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TSE:IBG
opened at C$10.62 on Monday. IBI Group has a one year low of C$3.90 and a one year high of C$10.93. The stock has a market cap of C$332.03 million and a P/E ratio of 24.58. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 200.56, a current ratio of 1.79 and a quick ratio of 1.64. The company has a fifty day moving average price of C$10.40 and a 200 day moving average price of C$8.98.
IBI Group (TSE:IBG) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, March 11th. The company reported C$0.01 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts consensus estimates of C$0.12 by C($0.11). The firm had revenue of C$98.58 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of C$95.16 million. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that IBI Group will post 0.75 EPS for the current year.
IBI Group Company Profile
IBI Group Inc provides various professional services in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. Its professional services include urban design and planning, architecture, civil engineering, transportation engineering, traffic engineering, systems engineering, urban geography, real estate analysis, landscape architecture, communications engineering, software development, and other consulting services.
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The revenue from operations came in at Rs 5,103 crore, up 8.3 per cent against Rs 4,711 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.
28 Jan, 2022, 01.08 PM IST
Consolidated revenue from operations fell by about 11 per cent to Rs 43.37 crore during the reported quarter from Rs 61.8 crore earlier.
27 Jan, 2022, 10.02 PM IST
Consolidated revenue for the December quarter stood at Rs 6,927 crore, up 3 per cent on-year while consolidated earnings before interest tax depreciation & amortization (Ebitda) also rose 3 per cent on-year to Rs 3,704 crore.
27 Jan, 2022, 09.17 PM IST
The company's revenue from operations during October-December 2021 increased 3.84 per cent to Rs 1,271.29 crore, against Rs 1,224.21 crore in the year-ago period.
27 Jan, 2022, 04.45 PM IST
L&T Q3 Results Preview: Analysts expect another weak quarter; order inflows to fall sharply
Analysts at Sharekhan said L&T is expected to see muted net earnings on account of pressure on margins and lower other income year-on-year (YoY). The weak performance from L&T will also drag down the performance of the entire sector.
27 Jan, 2022, 04.05 PM IST
Revenue from operations was at Rs 2,275.66, up 50.39 per cent from Rs 1,513.16 crore in the year-ago quarter.
27 Jan, 2022, 03.41 PM IST
The drugmaker said its consolidated net profit declined by 16 per cent to Rs 249 crore for the quarter ended December 2021. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 297 crore in the October-December period of 2020-21 fiscal.
27 Jan, 2022, 11.15 AM IST
Cipla gains despite YoY fall in Q3 profit as bottom-line surpasses estimates
Cipla reported a 2.6 per cent decline in its consolidated profit after tax to Rs 729 crore for the third quarter ended on December 31, 2021. An ET NOW poll of analysts had estimated the net profit at Rs 710 crore.
27 Jan, 2022, 10.14 AM IST
Revenues rose 6 per cent YoY to Rs 2,108 crore in Q3FY22 compared to Rs 1,995 crore in Q3FY21
25 Jan, 2022, 08.20 PM IST
Its revenue from operations rose 7.64 per cent to Rs 8,854.5 crore, as against Rs 8,226 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.
25 Jan, 2022, 06.59 PM IST
Total income rose to Rs 353 crore in the quarter under review from Rs 321.91 crore a year ago.
25 Jan, 2022, 06.56 PM IST
Total revenue from operations was at Rs 5,478.86 crore against ET NOW poll of Rs 5,420 crore.
25 Jan, 2022, 06.04 PM IST
The third-largest private bank in India reported a profit after tax of Rs 3,614.24 crore. The banks scrip rose to a high of Rs 715.60 against Rs 704.35 at the previous close on the BSE.
25 Jan, 2022, 09.41 AM IST
Revenue from operations was up 71.51 per cent to Rs 279.89 crore during the quarter under review as against Rs 163.19 crore in the corresponding period of 2020-21.
24 Jan, 2022, 10.22 PM IST
ETIG analysed a common sample of 254 companies that have already announced their earnings. The analysis showed that revenue climbed 28.4% for the companies under review, while net profit grew 17%.
24 Jan, 2022, 06.53 AM IST
The consolidated revenue from operations during the period under review stood at Rs 1,068.23 crore against Rs 838.32 crore in the year-ago quarter, it added.
21 Jan, 2022, 05.15 PM IST
Its revenue from operations grew 22.78 per cent to Rs 3,371.99 crore, compared with Rs 2,746.34 crore in the year-ago period.
21 Jan, 2022, 04.42 PM IST
The widening of the consolidated loss in the December quarter was "due to non-operation of Nashik Thermal Power Plant (Sinnar Thermal Power Ltd). That exposure has no bearing on parent RattanIndia Power Ltd," a company spokesperson said.
21 Jan, 2022, 01.14 PM IST
RIL Q3 Results Preview: Higher GRM may drive PAT; Jio ARPU seen at Rs 149
We expect consolidated profit after tax (PAT) to increase by 10 per cent sequentially led by strong growth in standalone business on higher gross refining margins (GRMs). Petchem margin, a decent performance by Jio led by telecom tariff hike and solid recovery in EBITDA of the retail business, said analysts at Sharekhan.
21 Jan, 2022, 10.49 AM IST
Total income during the October-December quarter of the current fiscal rose to Rs 1,994.18 crore, from Rs 1,842.11 crore in the year-ago period.
20 Jan, 2022, 10.14 PM IST
In what was an otherwise strong year for Tata Group stocks, Rallis India fell 2 per cent in 2021 and was the only Tata Group scrip to log negative returns.
20 Jan, 2022, 10.32 AM IST
Its revenue from operations during October-December 2021 jumped 10.1 per cent to Rs 628.08 crore, against Rs 570.47 crore in the year-ago period.
19 Jan, 2022, 10.12 PM IST
Saregama's revenue from operations was up 12.27 per cent to Rs 150.34 crore during the period under review as against Rs 133.91 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.
19 Jan, 2022, 03.11 PM IST
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Mar 17, 2022
U.S. regulators have approved Amazon.com Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AMZN) acquisition of MGM Studios, arming the tech giant's video streaming service with a catalog of thousands of movies and TV episodes.
The Seattle-based company said Thursdaythat the $8.45 billion deal, announced less than a year ago has closed. The announcement was expected to come soon after the European Commission unconditionally approved the deal earlier this week and it was reportedthat U.S. antitrust regulators were facing a March 15 deadline.
The deal is the second-largest in Amazon history behind the $13.7 billion it paid for Whole Foods in 2017. With it, Amazon will absorb franchises like "James Bond" and "Rocky."
Amazon is using the studio to strengthen Prime Video, its streaming service that's included in a Prime membership, which recently raised its fees. It's also bringing Thursday Night Football to the platform in September.
"MGM has a nearly century-long legacy of producing exceptional entertainment, and we share their commitment to delivering a broad slate of original films and television shows to a global audience," said Mike Hopkins senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, in a company blog post. "We welcome MGM employees, creators and talent to Prime Video and Amazon Studios, and we look forward to working together to create even more opportunities to deliver quality storytelling to our customers."
The Wall Street Journal reported that even though the U.S. regulators' deadline has passed, the Federal Trade Commission can still challenge the acquisition if a majority of the commission votes for it.
Notably, the FTC is chaired by Lina Khan a critic of giant tech companies and someone whom Amazon sought the recusal of during the review. The FTC is made up of five members and split along party lines between four of them. The fifth spot is vacant.
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Local media outlets reportedthat the ships were seized off Freeport about 9 p.m. Friday. No passengers were on board when the ships were seized. The vessels are in the custody of the admiralty marshal, said Stephen Turnquest,
a Bahamas-based attorney for a fuel supplier that is suing Crystal Cruises.
Crystal announced in January that it would suspend ocean cruises through the end of April after Genting Hong Kong, its parent company, filedin Bermuda to dissolve the company on Jan. 18.
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Last month, a federal judge in Miami issued an arrest warrant for Crystal Symphony after a lawsuit alleged Crystal Cruises and a related operator had failed to pay fuel bills reaching about $3.4 million. Instead of returning to Miami as scheduled after a two-week voyage, the vessel high-tailed it to Bimini with about 700 crew and guests on board.
Crystal Cruises forced to reroute another ship: They just screwed everyone over
A little more than a week later, Crystal Serenity skipped Aruba, where its aborted world cruise was scheduled to end, and also headed to Bimini. The cruise line said the port in Aruba would not let it dock. In both cases, passengers were transported to Fort Lauderdale by ferry.
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The fuel supplier, Peninsula Petroleum Far East, then sued the cruise company in the Bahamas, Turnquest said.
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Whether the ships are going to Aruba or anywhere else, they would have presumably taken the same approach, he said.
Turnquest said the ships owners have 14 days from the date of the ships arrest to contest the proceedings. In the meantime, he said the cruise company still has the responsibility to maintain the ships and crew. He said the best-case scenario would seem to be for the company to arrange financing, pay off its debt and regain control of the ships.
A cruise line hadnt paid its bills. It diverted 700 people to the Bahamas to evade capture.
From a business standpoint, I would have thought that the ship owners would hasten to secure their release so that it doesnt become a fire sale proposition, Turnquest said.
Quoting the acting port controller, the Nassau Guardian reportedthat nonessential crew members were being sent back to their home countries. The Washington Post could not reach the port official Monday.
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Crystal Cruises spokesman Vance Gulliksen said the company could not comment on pending legal matters. He did not provide details on what the next steps would be for crew members.
The officers and crew on board are being well cared for and staying in single accommodations some of which are guest staterooms, he said in a statement. We are making sure they are comfortable and able to enjoy the various amenities on board. Crew members have been paid all wages due and we are meeting and exceeding all contractual obligations.
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Jan. 27, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- The "U.S. Healthcare Staffing Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report by Type (Travel Nurse Staffing, Locum Tenens Staffing, Allied Healthcare Staffing,
Per Diem Nurse Staffing
), and Segment Forecasts, 2021-2028"report has been added to
ResearchAndMarkets.com's
The U.S. healthcare staffing market size is expected to reach
USD 31.1 billion
by 2028. It is expected to expand at a CAGR of 3.71% from 2021 to 2028. The increasing geriatric population is leading to rising demand for medical services and a shortage of nurses and other medical staff. The cost-effectivity of temporary staffing is likely to drive the market in the coming years.
The geriatric population in the U.S. is gradually increasing. According to the National Institutes of Health, the number of people aged 65 years and above in the U.S. is projected to nearly double from 48 million to 88 million by 2050. This rising geriatric population is anticipated to increase the burden on the current medical workforce, creating a gap between the demand and supply of medical professionals.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), around 500,000 nurses will retire over the next few years. Additionally, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of around 21,000 to 55,200 primary care doctors by 2032. A shortage of physicians in the coming years is likely to drive the market. In addition, an increasing need for a home care workforce, such as dieticians, nutritionists, nurses, therapists, and home care aides, is expected to boost the market growth.
Technological advancements are driving healthcare employment. With the advent of various innovations, such as telehealth and medical informatics, the need for skilled labor to handle both technical and non-technical aspects of these devices has increased. Hence, recruitment of new professionals along with training of existing ones has become essential. The flexibility in work timings and attractive wages are primary reasons for increasing the number of nurses becoming per diem and travel nurses.
Furthermore, the rising number of medical facilities and new construction projects are anticipated to create more jobs for medical professionals. For example, in
April 2021
, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced
USD 1 Bn
to support health centers' construction and renovation projects from the American Rescue Plan. The aforementioned factors are anticipated to propel market growth.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for staffing services and workforce technology solutions increased dramatically. The increasing incidence of COVID-19 infection significantly fueled the demand for travel and per diem nurses. According to a poll conducted by Avant Healthcare Professionals, 90% of the medical facilities accepted using travel nurses for the management of COVID-19 patients in 2020, compared to less than 60% in 2019. On the other hand, the demand for locum tenens specialists and allied health professionals decreased due to the cancellation of elective surgeries.
U.S. Healthcare Staffing Market Report Highlights
The travel nurse staffing type segment dominated the market in 2020. High demand for nurses during flu seasons, travel opportunities, and nurse shortage is expected to drive the segment. For instance, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there will be a need for over 1.1 million new registered nurses by 2022
The locum tenens staffing type segment is anticipated to witness the highest growth over the forecast period owing to the cost-effectiveness of hiring temporary employees and an increase in the trend of physicians opting for becoming locum tenens
According to Staff Care's 2020 Survey of Temporary, Physician Staffing Trends report estimates that around 85% of the U.S. medical groups, hospitals, and medical facilities used locum tenens in 2019
Mergers, collaborations, and acquisitions are the key strategies undertaken by the players to improve their market position. In
November 2019
, HNI Healthcare, Inc. acquired Martin Healthcare Group, a private company working across
Florida
and the Midwest, to expand its reach in the Midwest region of the U.S.
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OneOncology Launches OneR, a Community Oncology Research Network
OneOncology Research Network Will Enhance Practices' High-Quality Clinical Trials Programs While Improving Patients' Access to Innovative Oncology Therapies
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Oct 19, 2020, 06:01 ET
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Oct. 19, 2020
/PRNewswire/ -- OneOncology, the partnership of independent oncology practices, today announced the formation of a separate subsidiary, the OneOncology Research Network (OneR). OneR is a national non-exclusive clinical trial site management organization (SMO) that will enhance the current high-performing research programs underway at participating community oncology practices by providing operational, regulatory and research support services to more efficiently execute multi-center clinical trials.
OneR is a national non-exclusive clinical trial site management organization that will enhance the current high-performing research programs underway at participating community oncology practices by providing operational, regulatory and research support services to more efficiently execute multi-center clinical trials.
"OneR will not only improve patient access to cutting-edge care, it will also help to advance scientific discovery."
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Since clinical trials are increasingly integral to the standard of care for precision oncology, the OneR platform will expand community practices' access to more innovative therapies for their patients. At the same time, OneR provides clinical trial sponsors access to the large and diverse populations of patients who are treated in community centers throughout their cancer journey, and not episodic as is more common in research-based academic centers. With a majority of cancer care being delivered in community-based centers, OneR ensures diversity in clinical trial participation including ethnicity, gender, geography, disease status, socioeconomics and various other dimensions.
"OneR is a community oncology network designed for and built by community oncology practices," said
Lee Schwartzberg
, MD, Chief Medical Officer, OneOncology and Medical Director, West Cancer Center. "Our north star is improving the lives of everyone with cancer which is fundamentally dependent on advancing the science of oncology treatments. We look forward to working with practices and sponsors who want to expand diverse patient access to precision oncology and other high-quality cancer clinical trials through our portfolio of therapeutic and observational studies."
OneR's focus on precision oncology will offer clinical trials across tumor types with innovative trial designs based on precision oncology to oncology practices within the network like basket and umbrella trials. A basket trial tests how well a new drug works in patients who have different types of cancer that all have the same mutation or biomarker. In umbrella trials, patients with one specific cancer receive treatment based on the molecular profile of their individual cancer.
"With too many of our patients disproportionately impacted by health disparities, we believe that by providing community oncology practices with enhanced operational efficiencies we can ensure that more patients will benefit from the groundbreaking clinical trials," said
Axel Grothey
, MD, Medical Director, OneR and Director, GI Cancer Research, West Cancer Center. "OneR will not only improve patient access to cutting-edge care, it will also help to advance scientific discovery."
As oncology practices invest in their clinical trial infrastructure and conduct more trials, OneR's efforts will enhance a practice's ability to increase clinical trial participation, by centralizing business functions, regulatory submissions and clinical trial matching technology while also ensuring practices maintain their flexibility to participate in other clinical trial initiatives. OneOncology's technology platform and collaboration throughout the network allows for seamless clinical trial management across all of its research sites. As a non-exclusive SMO, practices are not limited to only participate in OneR clinical trial programs.
OneR will be co-headquartered in
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, making the membership more accessible and inclusive than ever before. At just
$19.99
per month, the cost of a
Vital Care
membership pays for itself when unlocking the best of Petco through exclusive savings on nutrition, grooming, litter, routine veterinary exams and more.
"Over the last two years, families around the country have welcomed millions of new pets into their homes, and with inflation impacting all Americans' everyday lives, our innovative
Vital Care
program is fundamentally changing the way people care for their pets' health and wellness while keeping their wallet healthy, too," said
Jenny Wolski
Senior Vice President of Omnichannel Experience at Petco. "Caring for our pets shouldn't be complicated or break the bank. With benefits valued between
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Vital Care
is just smart Petconomics!"
Launched in
,
Vital Care
originated as part of Petco's commitment to supporting the overall health and wellness of pets. Today, with nearly 160,000 pets enrolled, Petco has enhanced the program to include even more benefits for dogs and a new plan tailored for cats. At
$19.99
per month with an annual commitment, the cost of
Vital Care
can be offset by what members get in return, including:
$15
Pals Rewards every month to use on any health and wellness needs they may have
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Pals Rewards for every routine exam at the vet of your choice
or
unlimited routine exams at participating Petco vet locations
20% off full-service grooming for dogs*
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An additional 5% off nutrition and litter when used with Repeat Delivery
$20
off pet boarding, dog walking, or pet sitting services on Rover.com, coming soon
To educate pet parents on new
Vital Care
benefits and tap into the realities of the current inflationary environment, Petco launched
"
Petconomics,
"
a dedicated marketing campaign that highlights the membership's "Great Dane-sized" benefits at a "Chihuahua-sized" price. Featuring economics-inspired creative "Petconomics" highlights the win-win that
Vital Care
presents to pet parents: a healthy pet and a healthy wallet. Beyond annual savings, the "Petconomics" concept also showcases how
Vital Care
is a convenient and affordable gateway to investing in long term routine care that can help pet parents keep their pets happy and healthy while reinforcing Petco's commitment to providing accessible pet healthcare.
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Vital Care
membership for pet parents is foundational to our role as their partner in pet health and wellness," said
Katie Nauman
Chief Marketing Officer at Petco. "Looking at this membership through the lens of personal finance gave us a timely and relevant way to connect with pet parents while also reinforcing the straightforward wellness and economic upsides to enrolling."
Petco is also launching a
Vital Care
affiliate program to make the membership's routine care accessible to even more pet parents by extending exclusive
Vital Care
benefits and discounts to its affiliate partners' employees and customers. Beginning this spring, the affiliate program will launch with several partners, including Rover.com, the San Diego Padres, Companion Protect, Central Garden & Pet, and more. In addition to the business-to-business focus, Petco has teamed up with Hill's Pet Nutrition, which supports shelters through its Food, Shelter & Love program, to offer exclusive
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benefits and discounts to shelters across the country with the goal to provide post-adoption support and ensure adopted pets stay in their loving homes. Jacksonville Humane Society, Oklahoma Humane Society, Brandywine SPCA, Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter, and Friends of Pima Animal Care Center are each signed on to launch Petco's Vital Care Shelter Affiliate program. If you and your business are interested in participating in Petco's Vital Care Shelter Affiliate program, please reach out to us at
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About Petco, The Health + Wellness Co.
Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and our own Petco partners. Since our founding in 1965, we've been striving to set new standards in pet care, delivering comprehensive wellness solutions through our products and services, and creating communities that deepen the pet-pet parent bond. We operate more than 1,500 Petco locations across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, including a growing network of more than 150 in-store veterinary hospitals, and offer a complete online resource for pet health and wellness at | [
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counties.
"The collaboration between Flint Energies and Conexon offers multiple advantages," Conexon Partner and Conexon Connect CEO
Randy Klindt
said. "The state-of-the-art infrastructure improvements that smart grid delivers will provide Flint with operational efficiencies and benefits, while the Connect partnership gives Flint Energies an opportunity to assist in meeting the broadband needs of unserved and underserved members. We're proud to be part of another
Georgia
project and look forward to working with the Flint team."
Flint's nearly
$90 million
fiber network is expected to be completed within four years. The lightning-fast fiber-optic network will offer members access to symmetrical (same upload and download speeds) gigabit internet capabilities among the fastest and most robust in the nation. Additionally, it will provide reliable, clear phone service.
"Flint is strengthening its overall electric system through a fiber backbone that gives us smart grid operational benefits that will enhance our ability to continue offering exceptional service to members," Flint Energies CEO
Jeremy Nelms
said. "That initiative allows us to also meet the pressing needs of our unserved and underserved members for high-speed internet. We believe the time for us to act is now, and we're thrilled to have found partners like Conexon and Conexon Connect to make this happen."
Conexon and Conexon Connect work with electric cooperatives committed to serving their members with fiber broadband. With its clients, the company has designed more than 200,000 miles of fiber, builds more than 50,000 miles of fiber annually, and has connected more than 500,000 rural Americans to fiber to the home.
About
Conexon Connect
Conexon Connect is the internet service provider (ISP) arm of rural fiber broadband design and construction management leader Conexon. The subsidiary was formed to operate and manage cooperative fiber-to-the-home networks. Connect leverages Conexon's decades of co-op operations, fiber-optic design and construction, telecommunications, federal and state lobbying and customer experience management expertise to successfully launch and operate projects. The Connect approach is to work with electric cooperatives to launch and deploy high-speed fiber-optic networks the gold standard of communications transmission enabling them to offer world-class fiber broadband to their members. In partnership with Georgia EMCs, Connect will deliver fiber internet access to approximately 188,400 rural homes and businesses across the state.
About
Conexon
Conexon works with Rural Electric Cooperatives to bring fiber to the home in rural communities. The company is comprised of professionals who have worked in electric cooperatives and the telecommunications industry, and offer decades of individual experience in business planning, building networks, marketing and selling telecommunications. Conexon offers its electric cooperative clients end-to-end broadband deployment and operations support, from a project's conception all the way through to its long-term sustainability. It works with clients to analyze economic feasibility, secure financing, design the network, manage construction, provide operational support, optimize business performance and determine optimal partnerships. To date, Conexon has assisted more than 200 electric cooperatives, 60 of which are deploying fiber networks, with more than 500,000 rural Americans connected to fiber to the home. The company has secured nearly
$2 billion
in federal, state and local grants and subsidies for its clients.
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28 March 2022
GRICD, a cold chain technology company that uses the Internet of Things to enable last-mile delivery of temperature-sensitive products, has partnered with Haultrac, a logistics company, to improve the delivery of essential healthcare commodities to all 36 states of the nation, as well as the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on behalf of USAID.
According to the firms, the healthcare commodities include medicines, rapid diagnostic test kits, laboratory reagents, and consumables.
In a statement, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Gricd, Oghenetega Iortim, said, Inability to keep temperature-sensitive medical commodities within required temperature range leads to waste of life-saving medication, sometimes loss of life.
We are excited to be working with Haultrac and USAID to ensure the safe delivery of these essential commodities across Nigeria and make it easier for all parties to do business with confidence.
The CEO of Haultrac, Segun Adeoye, added, Transporting temperature-sensitive commodities over long distances in a country like Nigeria can present many challenges. However, with real-time monitoring, we can move these commodities with confidence and take proactive steps to reduce wastage and maximise the value of these commodities.
The firms said, Using Gricds Real-Time Data Loggers and Enterprise Monitoring Software, all parties will be able to guarantee the quality of these commodities during storage, transit, and distribution to the end-user.
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UK's Premier Foods sees annual earnings above expectations
By
Reuters
5 days ago
(Reuters) - Premier Foods expects its full-year profits to come in above market expectations, as its trademark Mr Kipling brand delivered its best-ever Christmas sales after consumers splurged during the festive season.
The company said it expects its trading profit to be at least 145 million pounds ($197.58 million) for the fiscal year ending April, ahead of analysts average estimate of 140.7 million pounds, according to a company-compiled consensus.
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Spectrum
.
Private equity firm Alpine sees an opportunity for growth in AirDNA, given that there are an estimated 4 million managers worldwide renting transiently.
But it also sees an opportunity for growth in applying the companys data solutions to other industries, such as hotels and real estate. Anticipating that, Demi Horvat joins as chief operating officer.
Business Intelligence for Short-Term Rentals
AirDNA helps customers put any given propertys performance in context, similar to what companies such as CoStars
STR [Smith Travel Research
] and Kalibri Labsdo for hotels.
But unlike companies like STR in the hotel space, not all of these analytics companies get supplementary live data feeds from suppliers. Resellers such as Airbnb have said that external vendors arent able to provide fully accurate business intelligence because of faulty assumptions and errors.
AirDNA and its peers often rely a lot on ingesting publicly displayed inventory and availability to generate their analytics.
Yet the analytic services of AirDNA and some of its rivals, such as Transparent Alltherooms Airbtics KeyData Mashvisor have good enough data quality sometimes through direct data feeds that customers keep paying.
The startups help analysts optimize their benchmarks for performance.
AirDNA, for example, has offered dashboards, benchmarks, and reports for the short-term rental sector. But it aims to be more than a data provider.
Our suite of solutions help you answer questions like how to acquire supply, which could involve getting a management contract, and how to figure out your revenue management strategy once you have the supply, Shatford said. Were able to deliver an estimate on a property and price it for the next year by looking at how similar properties in the neighborhood are performing.
For investors in public companies such as Airbnb, Sonder, and Vacasa, AirDNA also offers analytical solutions.
Its answering customer questions like, how do you know what good performance looks like, such as how well were you performing a year ago versus next years forecast,' Shatford said. How can I better communicate what good looks like to owners and managers?'
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