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DoStuff Media Assembles Team of Flu Fighters for the Chicago Department of Public Health

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Flu Shot Importance Campaign Culminates with Two Influencer Hosted Social Takeovers

CHICAGO, Nov. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ —  DoStuff Media’s local property Do312 will always be Chicago’s source for finding the best ways to have fun and enjoy the city. But in order to do cool stuff in the future, we need to keep our community safe today. Flu season is here. Wondering whether it’s more important than ever to get your flu vaccine this fall? Let Do312 be the first to tell you—it is.

Flu Shot Importance Campaign Culminates with Two Influencer Hosted Social Takeovers

Do312 is assembling a team of #ChicagoFluFighters for the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) this season. As part of the campaign they have tasked a handful of the city’s top influencers (musicians and artists) including hometown rapper Vic Mensa to show Chicagoans how and why to protect themselves. The additional influencer ambassador squad includes Jeandeaux, Cupcakke, and Joey Purp. 

The team will be joining up for two social media takeovers and influencer hosted interviews. Here they will discuss items like flu fact basics, the difference between the flu and Covid19, where symptoms might overlap, common flu shot myths, where to get their shot, and how people can register. Takeover details include:

  • Tuesday, November 3rd @ 3:12 pm CST – IG “Live” Takeover #1
    • Joey Purp (influencer & Do312 host) / Jean Deaux (artist)
    • Takeover airs simultaneously from Do312 + artist profiles
  • Friday, November 6th @ 3:12pm CST – IG “Live” Takeover #2
    • Cupcakke (influencer & Do312 host) / Vic Mensa (artist)
    • Takeover airs simultaneously from Do312 + artist profiles

These ambassadors will serve as a final reminder for the complimentary CDPH flu clinics wrapping up November 14th. Residents can get their annual flu shot at no cost regardless of their immigration status. It’s not scary. It’s not difficult. It’s not expensive. It’s simple, really: Get your flu vaccine and protect your loved ones. 

About Do312
Do312 is part of DoStuff Media’s national network of locally-owned media brands focused on helping our culture-forward audience find awesome events. Since its launch in 2010, it has established itself as the go-to source for discovering what to do in Chicago. Event listings are readily available on our website so you can easily find the best concerts, festivals, and cultural events in Chicago.

Follow Do312 on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

MEDIA CONTACTS
Michael Corrigan
720-470-2874
[email protected] 

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miR Scientific and Puerto Rico Government Announce Pioneering Cooperation Agreement to Evaluate Impact and Deployment of its Prostate Cancer Liquid Biopsy Test in Puerto Rico

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NEW YORK and SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — miR Scientific, LLC, a healthcare company whose purpose is to transform global cancer management, and the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration (“ASES”) announced today the signing of a cooperation agreement aimed at evaluating the clinical and economic utility of the miR Sentinel™ PCC4 Assay (miR Sentinel™ Prostate Test) and its potential impact in Puerto Rico.

The agreement memorializes the explicit intent of deploying the Company’s Sentinel™ Prostate Test commercially in Puerto Rico in an effort to alleviate the disease burden of prostate cancer on the Island. San Juan Bautista School of Medicine will appoint the principal investigator to oversee the utility studies.

“The prevalence and economic burden of prostate cancer in Puerto Rico are debilitating and the Puerto Rico government is keen on deploying the most innovative solutions in the fight against prostate cancer,” said Jorge Galva, Executive Director of ASES.  “The breakthrough Sentinel™ PCC4 Assay developed by miR Scientific is non-invasive and can very accurately detect prostate cancer and as well as classify the risk category of the disease based only on a single urine specimen and without the need for invasive biopsies. This will allow us to manage the disease much better, allocate resources more efficiently, and focus on high-risk patients who are in need of definitive treatment quickly” he said.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the most common cause of cancer death among men in Puerto Rico. The current standard of care for the diagnosis of prostate cancer relies on inaccurate PSA blood tests and invasive rectal examinations to trigger invasive, painful, high-risk, and costly core needle biopsies, which for the most part are unnecessary. Due to these shortcomings, current standards are only utilized by a small fraction of the age-eligible male population in Puerto Rico, further compounding the healthcare and economic burden of the disease and limiting the opportunity to identify dangerous cancers earlier to allow for better outcomes.

miR Scientific’s award-winning miR Sentinel™ Prostate Test is a standalone, non-invasive liquid biopsy urine test that can, from a single urine specimen, accurately detect molecular evidence of prostate cancer and then classify the severity, or the risk grade, of the malignancy.  The proprietary high-throughput technology is based on the interrogation of small-noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs) extracted from urinary exosomes and has recently been awarded the Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

“We are fortunate and proud to commit to the long-term success of Puerto Rico’s emergence as a center of excellence for population health. Puerto Rico is well equipped to confront any challenge based on the exceptional dedication and talent of its medical ecosystem, at the heart of which are extraordinary doctors and an enlightened health system ready and able to embrace innovation and transformation” said Sam Salman, miR Scientific’s Chairman & CEO. “We are confident that our proactive and multifaceted collaborations in Puerto Rico will measurably improve outcomes in the war against cancer, and in doing so, contribute to the emergence of Puerto Rico as a leading center for medical innovation.”

The miR Sentinel™ Prostate Test is expected to be commercially available in the United States early 2021 and in select markets in Europe and Asia late 2021.

About miR Scientific:

miR Scientific, LLC is a healthcare company whose purpose is to transform global cancer management by providing early and highly accurate detection, characterization, and monitoring of disease. The Company has developed a proprietary, non-invasive platform for the effective disease management of urological cancers. The platform is powered by the miR Sentinel™ Prostate Test, a liquid biopsy urine test that can accurately detect, classify, and monitor prostate cancer based on the interrogation of small-non-coding RNAs extracted from urinary exosomes. miR Scientific is the only company with the interoperable products and services necessary to revolutionize the standards of care supporting urologic oncology, including for prostate, bladder and other urothelial cancers. Such new standards are much needed given the debilitating prevalence and disease burden of such cancers globally. miR Scientific is a majority-owned operating subsidiary of Impact NRS LLC, headquartered in New York City with operating subsidiaries in Israel, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

Press Contacts:

Ada Torres– Toro
+1 (787) 368-8484
[email protected]

Lorraine Cruz-Ithier
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Karen Sharma
+1 (617) 571-2733
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More Than 100 School Districts Enroll in Khan Academy, NWEA Personalized Learning Offerings

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Khan Academy is supporting more than 100 public school districts across the country as the nonprofit educational organization responds to the unprecedented demands of the pandemic. Khan Academy will serve nearly half a million students in partner districts this school year through two unique offerings: Khan Academy Districts and MAP Accelerator, in partnership with NWEA.

“No one could have imagined the scenario we find ourselves in with COVID-19,” said Catherine Wang, Khan Academy’s vice president of marketing and strategic partnerships. “In this challenging time, we’re glad to be working with district partners in large cities and small towns across 38 states.”

Khan Academy Districts, one of two offerings for school districts introduced last year, provides tools, professional development and data insights to help teachers, district administrators and principals monitor student use of Khan Academy districtwide. Many school districts that serve students who are historically under-resourced have enrolled in Khan Academy Districts, including Detroit Public Schools Community District, Trenton Public Schools, Omaha Public Schools and the Roswell Independent School District.

Khan Academy’s second offering is MAP Accelerator, a personalized learning tool developed in partnership with NWEA. MAP Accelerator reduces the manual work of differentiating math instruction for teachers. The offering helps teachers generate a personalized learning plan for each student based on their MAP Growth results, and also provides data insights to district administrators and school leaders. MAP Accelerator districts include Glendale Unified School District, Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Madera Unified School District and Clark County Public Schools.

“The information we are gathering as we enter the second year of partnership with Khan Academy and NWEA has been a valuable tool for our teachers and administrators especially during distance education,” said Dr. Jesus Jara, superintendent of the Clark County School District, the fifth-largest school district in the country. “MAP Accelerator helps us support personalized learning and differentiated instruction for all our students.”

MAP Accelerator and Khan Academy Districts launched in fall 2019 with nine school district partners.

“Pajaro Valley Unified School District and Khan Academy have a similar mission — we want students to be successful in their educational journey to ensure they are ready for college, career and life. MAP Accelerator is a powerful tool that improves teachers’ ability to personalize student learning in mathematics,” said Michelle Rodriguez, superintendent of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District in Watsonville, California. “In addition to empowering teachers, the system empowers students to improve their academic performance as they work at their own level and pace, track their own progress, and use skill-building tools to accelerate their own learning. PVUSD’s use of MAP Accelerator is fully aligned with our commitment to focus on the whole child and our vision to support each student to excel through personalized instruction.”

Prior to the launch of the two offerings, Long Beach Unified reported students who used Khan Academy gained twice the district average on the state math assessment. Findings held true regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, family income or English language learner status.

“The efficacy study in Long Beach Unified helped provide an impetus to launch our district offerings,” said Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy. “Since then, the pandemic and protests over systemic racism have put into sharp focus the challenges facing millions of students across the country. Many of our district partners serve students who are historically under-resourced and we’re committed to supporting their efforts.”

Across the schools and districts using the two offerings:

  • 67% of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch (the national average is 49%)
  • 19% of students are Black (the national average is 15%)
  • 45% of students are Latino/Hispanic (the national average is 27%)

For more information about school district partnerships, please visit the informational pages for MAP Accelerator and Khan Academy Districts.

About Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy’s platform includes more than 70,000 practice problems as well as videos and articles that cover a range of K-12 subjects. We offer Khan Academy Kids, an award-winning, free app for children ages two to seven. Our learning system is mastery based, which allows students to master key concepts at a pace that’s right for them before moving on to more challenging content. We partner with school districts across the country and around the world that serve students who are historically under-resourced. In the United States, school districts use Khan Academy Districts and MAP Accelerator to help teachers differentiate instruction. Nearly 20 million learners use Khan Academy every month in 190 countries and 46 languages. As a nonprofit, Khan Academy relies on donations from foundations, corporations and individuals around the world, as well as earned revenue. For more information, please see research findings about Khan Academy and our press page.

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Southern California Gas Company Natural Gas Customers May Be Affected By A Class Action Settlement

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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP and Tostrud Law Group, P.C. announce that a settlement has been reached with the City of Los Angeles (the “City” or “Defendant”) in a class action lawsuit claiming that the City improperly included in its natural gas utility user tax (“GUT”) calculation the Service Establishment Charge (“SEC”) and Customer Charge. The City denies the allegations, and the Court did not issue a final decision in favor of either Plaintiffs or Defendant. Instead, the parties agreed to a settlement to avoid the expense and risk of continued litigation.

You are a “Class Member” if you are a Southern California Gas Company (“SCGC”) natural gas customer who was charged the GUT (described on the SCGC natural gas bill as the line item “Los Angeles City Users Tax”) with a billing period that includes at least one day that falls on or after April 16, 2014 through the present.

As part of the settlement, the City must stop imposing the GUT on the SEC and Customer Charge 70 days after the effective date of the settlement, unless such a tax is approved by applicable voters in the future, if ever.  This change will result in an estimated $8.2 million of tax savings per year.  The City has also agreed to create a Settlement Fund of $32,500,000 plus 75% of any tax remitted by SCGC on the SEC and Customer Charge after May 1, 2021. After deducting settlement administrative expenses, court approved service awards, payment to non-profit charitable organizations (Alliance for Children’s Rights and The Utility Reform Network), and court approved attorneys’ fees and expenses, the remaining settlement fund will be distributed to SCGC customers by applying a reduced GUT rate.

If you are included in the Settlement, you may choose to do nothing, or object to the Settlement and notify the Court that you or your lawyer intends to appear at the Court’s Final Fairness Hearing, or exclude yourself from the Settlement. To learn more about how to object or exclude yourself, go to www.GasTaxSettlementLA.com. Objections and exclusions are due on December 29, 2020, or by January 18, 2021 if you received a re-mailed notice in the mail.  

The Court will hold a hearing in this case, Engquist, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. BC591331 at 10:30 a.m. on March 17, 2021 at Department SS1 of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Spring Street Courthouse, 312 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012.   

For more information go to www.GasTaxSettlementLA.com or call 1-833-707-1454.

SOURCE Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP and Tostrud Law Group, P.C.

Mazda North American Operations Names Takeshi Nishiki Chief Financial Officer

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Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States and Mexico through nearly 700 dealers. Operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at www.mazdausamedia.com.

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) today announced the immediate appointment of Takeshi Nishiki as Chief Financial Officer.

Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States and Mexico through nearly 700 dealers. Operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at www.mazdausamedia.com.

In this role, Nishiki will be tasked with maximizing Mazda’s financial resources to create a more nimble and profitable organization for the future. His efforts will focus on advancing Mazda’s financial strategy in its ongoing growth and path to premium.

“Takeshi Nishiki’s 15 years of global experience with Mazda makes him an ideal fit to oversee MNAO’s financial resources,” MNAO President Jeff Guyton said. “He’ll guide Mazda’s ongoing production developments in Alabama and Mexico, grow Mazda Financial Services offerings and play an instrumental role in helping Mazda attain increased market share.”

Nishiki joined Mazda in 2005, serving in the company’s corporate product profit control division until 2010. From 2010-2015, Nishiki worked in the corporate planning division, managing South East Asian and other country programs, including negotiations of business partnership conditions. Later in 2015, Nishiki became responsible for overseeing Mazda’s regional profit across the EU, Russia, Australia and South American markets. He was appointed as the Director of Finance at MNAO in 2016.    

Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, California, and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States and Mexico through nearly 620 dealers. Operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at InsideMazda.MazdaUSA.com/Newsroom.

Follow MNAO’s social media channels through Twitter and Instagram at @MazdaUSA and Facebook at Facebook.com/MazdaUSA.

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(Español) Mazda North American Operations designa a Takeshi Nishiki como director financiero

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Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States and Mexico through nearly 700 dealers. Operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at www.mazdausamedia.com.

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Yaima Gálvez’s New Book Errores En La Adolescencia E Incertidumbre En La Madurez, A Gripping Tale Of A Woman’s Heartrending Moments Of Abuse And Toil In Love And Life

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HIALEAH, Florida, Oct. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The book Errores en la Adolescencia e Incertidumbre en la Madurez was created by Yaima Gálvez. Yaima is an author who was born on January 28, 1980, in a small town in Cuba. In 2015, she and her family emigrated to the United States due to Venezuela’s socialist regime.

Yaima said this about her book: “It is not just a book. No, each written page is Sofía’s life. Its lines reflect her sadness and memories of hearing her mother crying in a corner for not having food for her daughters; the struggle of a love that has been so long in loving each other but ended in hatred and contempt; but more than anything, the cruel reality of a country shrouded in silence because its warm breeze only brings pain to mothers who suffer for their children lost at sea, looking for a future not found where the darkness of the night only witnesses the cry of some simple girls selling their bodies as prostitutes to survive.

This book bears the painful life of a raped immigrant, mistreated by fate who never lost her way, and a love that turned into sex and drinks, taking them to a distance never found and where today her strength is her two children.”

Published by Page Publishing, Yaima Gálvez’s new book Errores en la Adolescencia e Incertidumbre en la Madurez unveils the harrowing circumstances of a woman involving love, abuse, and depravity in her country that determined her strength and courage in times of sorrow and loss.

Consumers who wish to delve into a poignant life that brims with unyielding compassion and hope amid the overwhelming tribulations can purchase Errores en la Adolescencia e Incertidumbre en la Madurez online at Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or inquiries, you can contact Page Publishing, through the following number: 866-315-2708.

About Page Publishing:
Page Publishing is a traditional full-service publishing house that handles all of the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and the like. Its roster of authors can leave behind these tedious, complex, and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at www.pagepublishing.com.

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Salomón Velázquez’s new book Papucho, a stirring account on true-to-life moments of trial on couples that result in physical and emotional separation

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CORONA, New York, Oct. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The book Papucho was created by Salomón Velázquez. Salomón is an author who was born in San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic. He completed his secondary studies at the Liceo Miguel A. Garrido and finance at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.

Salomón said this about his book: “Papucho is a real-life story, narrated in an agile and simple language that vividly transports the reader to the scene of the events. It exposes the existing vulnerability in the strip that separates love and commitment to heartbreak and betrayal between couples separated by distance, causing alarming numbers of broken marriages and broken homes.

The work shows the cracking of the internal feeling that produces the separation of loved ones with the disintegration of the family nucleus, caused by the desire to meet new horizons and the search for a better future for their own utopian. In addition, the vicissitudes to which he who under different circumstances has to leave his country is subjected.”

Published by Page Publishing, Salomón Velázquez’s new book Papucho reaches out to readers by imparting real-life circumstances of heartbreak and treachery in relationships that lead to the inevitable demise of trust and commitment.

Consumers who wish to be enlightened on the true meaning of relationship and keeping it safe and thriving can purchase Papucho in any bookstore, or online at Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or inquiries, you can contact Page Publishing, through the following number: 866-315-2708.

About Page Publishing:
Page Publishing is a traditional full-service publishing house that handles all of the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and the like. Its roster of authors can leave behind these tedious, complex, and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at www.pagepublishing.com.

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(Español) El nuevo libro de Yaima Galvez, Errores en la Adolescencia e Incertidumbre en la Madurez, una magnífica obra, nos cuenta la vida dolorosa de una emigrante violada, maltratada por el destino que nunca perdió su rumbo.

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(Español) El nuevo libro de Yolyanko William, Graphikasana: Los bocetos del Yoga Hatha, es una guía totalmente visual y artística de esta práctica milenaria

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