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American Express Global Business Travel and Tribe Pictures Produce Award-Winning Motion Graphics Film

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The upbeat, colorful short, produced for sales and marketing support, is honored for its use of animation and icons to convey a complex story.

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) March 10, 2016

A short film produced by Tribe Pictures for American Express Global Business Travel (AEGBT) was recently honored with a Gold Pixie Award. The Pixies, sponsored by the American Pixel Academy (http://www.americanpixelacademy.org), honor and promote outstanding individual work in Motion Graphics, Visual Effects and Animation.

The film showcases the benefits of having your employees working with American Express Global Business Travel. Just under two minutes in length, it screens at trade shows, plays online and is used for sales and marketing efforts. It not only gives a brief history of American Express Global Business Travel, it also demonstrates one of its products, “EXPERT CARE.” To screen the film, go to: http://www.tribepictures.com/final/amex-axconnect.html.

Employing a fast-paced mix of motion graphics, on-screen type treatments, animated icons, stock photography and 2-D cut-out animation, Tribe’s production delivers an information-packed story to viewers in a memorable and visually appealing fashion.

The Pixie Awards were founded in 2008 by David E. Carter, the founder of the Telly® Awards and American Corporate Identity, and editor of the Creativity Annual. Tribe’s work for corporate clients has won numerous Telly Awards over the years, but this is its first in the area of motion graphics, design and animation.

“When people think of corporate films, they often think of live action talking heads or other traditional documentary formats,” says Tribe Pictures CEO and Creative Director Vern Oakley. “But this project was a marked departure from those techniques, and that’s what the Pixie judges recognized. In this age of emojis, thumbnails and GIFs, using a highly imaginative succession of animated scenes is a great way to reinforce the information contained in the script while keeping our viewers’ attention and entertaining them, too.”

About Tribe Pictures
Tribe Pictures is an award winning, full-service video production company with offices in New York City and Chatham, New Jersey. Tribe specializes in strategic video and film solutions for Fortune 500 corporations and leading colleges, universities and non-profits. For 30 years, Tribe has successfully produced purposeful films through an artful blend of strategic messaging, storytelling and a fine-craft perspective in filmmaking. With a mission of “humanizing the most successful companies in the world,” Tribe has created compelling content for such household names as American Express, Colgate-Palmolive, Coty, Hamilton College, Hess, Kenyon College, KPMG, Montefiore Medical Center, Stanley Black & Decker and others. The company brings subject-matter and storytelling expertise to areas such as culture change, human resources and investor relations, and is known for its work with corporate CEOs. Led by Founder and Creative Director Vern Oakley, Tribe’s work has been recognized with over 500 awards including a Gold Dolphin from the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards, a Gold Camera from the US International Film & Video Festival, multiple Golden Eagles from CINE (Council on International Nontheatrical Events), scores of best in shows from Telly Awards, Aurora Awards, CASE Awards and many other industry accolades.

About American Express Global Business Travel
American Express Global Business Travel enables corporations and empowers business travelers with insights, connections and exceptional customer service on a global scale. Through technology and information, American Express Global Business Travel provides leading travel solutions, integrated consulting services, proprietary research, and end-to-end meetings and events capabilities. These innovative offerings enable clients to optimize the return on their travel and meetings investments. American Express Global Business Travel has operations and network partners in nearly 140 countries worldwide with approximately 12,000 employees. American Express Global Business Travel ranked first among corporate travel providers in the 2015 Corporate Travel 100 (“CT100”), an annual listing compiled by Business Travel News which ranks companies with the largest volume of U.S. air bookings. Learn more about how American Express Global Business Travel connects the world at amexglobalbusinesstravel.com and twitter.com/amexgbt.

American Express Global Business Travel (“GBT”) is a joint venture that is not wholly-owned by American Express Company or any of its subsidiaries (“American Express”). “American Express Global Business Travel,” “American Express” and the American Express logo are trademarks of American Express, and are used under limited license. Reported by PRWeb 3 days ago.

Aurora Man Convicted of Sexually Abusing Young Child

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Aurora Man Convicted of Sexually Abusing Young Child Patch Naperville, IL -- A jury found the local man guilty on several sexual assault charges late Wednesday. Reported by Patch 3 days ago.

National Technical Systems Promotes Dr. Vicki Panhuise, Former President of Testing, to Chief Executive Officer

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Succeeds retiring CEO William C. McGinnis, who will serve as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors

Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) March 11, 2016

National Technical Systems, Inc. (“NTS”), the leading independent provider of environmental simulation testing, inspection, and certification solutions in the United States, announced today that William C. McGinnis will retire as Chief Executive Officer after 35 years of exceptional service to the Company. Mr. McGinnis will be elevated to the role of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and will remain actively engaged in both the governance and strategic direction of NTS. Dr. Vicki Panhuise, former NTS President of Testing, will serve as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.

“Vicki is a strong and experienced executive who has added considerable industry and operational expertise to NTS’ senior leadership team. The Board is confident that under her leadership, NTS will continue to enhance its technological and service offerings and capitalize on the growth opportunities NTS is pursuing in partnership with its customers,” said Dean Flatt, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Mr. Flatt continued, “On behalf of the Board, I sincerely thank Bill for his invaluable contributions and outstanding service throughout a long career at NTS. We are indebted for his passionate leadership, business acumen, dedication, and testing industry expertise.”

In announcing his retirement, McGinnis commented, “This company – our people, our customers and our service to industry – means a great deal to me personally. I am truly confident as I pass the executive reins over to Vicki that she will continue to move our business and brand forward during this exciting time for NTS.”

“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Bill and congratulate him on his remarkable career at NTS,” said Panhuise. “I am honored to lead this great organization and am committed to working with the team to drive forward our strategic priorities to best deliver for our customers and the industries they serve.”

Prior to this promotion, Dr. Panhuise was NTS’ President of Testing, leading NTS’ national network of technologically advanced testing laboratories. An accomplished industry veteran, Panhuise started her 30-year career at General Electric as a nondestructive test engineer before joining Honeywell International. During her tenure at Honeywell, Dr. Panhuise held a number of senior executive positions, including Vice President of Regional Aircraft, Vice President of Commercial & Military Helicopters and Vice President of Military Aircraft. After leaving Honeywell, Dr. Panhuise served as the President of Airborne Systems Group, which she led through the sale of the business to TransDigm Group. Dr. Panhuise earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Wells College, both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an MBA from the University of Arizona. She is a Six Sigma Leadership Black Belt and a member, and the former President and Chairman of the Board, of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing.

NTS is a portfolio company of Los Angeles-based Aurora Capital Group.

About National Technical Systems
National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTS) is the leading independent provider of environmental simulation testing, inspection, and certification services in the United States, serving a broad range of industries, including the civil aviation, space, defense, nuclear, telecommunications, industrial, electronics, medical, and automotive end markets. During its more than 50 years in business, NTS has built the broadest geographic presence and sole national footprint in the United States, an unparalleled breadth of capabilities, and has fostered continuous innovation, making NTS a unique one-stop resource to meet its clients’ demanding and evolving requirements. Operating through a network of 25 technologically advanced testing laboratories across the United States, this geographically diverse footprint puts NTS facilities in close proximity to its more than 4,000 clients, allowing NTS to serve the nation’s most innovative companies with industry-leading accessibility and responsiveness. NTS’ offering spans more than 70 distinct environmental simulation and materials testing categories, including climatic, structural, dynamics, fluid flow, EMI/EMC, lightning, product safety, acoustics, failure analysis, chemical, and other industry-specific tests, allowing it to handle its clients’ most demanding needs. Additionally, the company is accredited by numerous national and international organizations, which allows NTS to have its test data nearly universally accepted worldwide. For additional information about NTS, visit our website at http://www.nts.com or call 800-270-2516. Reported by PRWeb 2 days ago.

Katy Perry Co-Sign Aurora on Her Breakthrough and Writing Music as Therapy: 'My Emotions Are Explosive'

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There are few descriptions in music as reductive as "sensitive female singer-songwriter," a phrase endlessly deployed to describe any woman... Reported by Billboard.com 2 days ago.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Day in Asheville

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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, © Fitzgerald EstateAsheville, North Carolina, celebrated its first "Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Day" on March 10th. According to the Asheville Citizen-Times announcement, the day of events all over town featured much for everyone, and promises to be a bright annual springtime event on calendars to come.

Aurora Studio and Gallery sponsored a benefit auction, with jazz band and dancing, at the Asheville Masonic Temple. This was nicely appropriate, as Zelda was a painter and loved a good dance, jazz or other. Her only published novel is called Save Me The Waltz (1932), and she studied ballet for many years. Local indie bookstores Malaprop's and Firestorm hosted readings in honor of Zelda, and Orbit DVD held a sale and gaming event; after all, designer Shigeru Miyamoto named one of the most popular video games of all time, The Legend of Zelda, and its princess heroine, for her.
dust jacket detail, *Save Me The Waltz* (Scribner, 1932; art by Cleonike)

Asheville is right to honor her. Zelda loved the Smoky Mountains, painting them often and writing to Scott, in the summer of 1936, "Here the baked fragrance of the pine paths and the sad protestation of the sweeping oaks, and there are dusky wood doves in the early evening and an amber twilight floods the road." Sadly, Zelda was writing him because they were apart; from April of 1936 she had been at the Highland Hospital, in a hilly, wealthy part of town. The National Park Service, in describing Highland on their National Register of Historic Places, notes that it was "founded by Dr. Robert S. Carroll, a distinguished psychiatrist. His program of treatment for mental and nervous disorders and addictions was based on exercise, diet and occupational therapy, and attracted patients from all over the country." Carroll, and then Duke University, ran the hospital while Zelda was an intermittent patient there for the rest of her life. That life ended on the night of March 10, 1948, when a horrific fire likely set by an employee consumed the building where she was locked in a top-floor room. According to the Associated Press report of the fire published on March 11, the fire was seen around midnight, shot up through an elevator shaft and by the time neighbors and firemen had rushed to help, the roof was already ablaze.Great Smoky Mountains, Zelda Fitzgerald, via Art.com

Today there are only trees and grass on the site of the tragedy. This is fitting; Zelda was a devout gardener who loved all flora. Some of her finest surviving paintings are of fanciful flowers, and trees in spring bloom. A granite memorial with a brass plaque stands in the pine-bark mulch at the foot of the trees, bearing the legend "In Memory of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald 1900-1948" and the quotation from a letter she wrote to Scott from Highland: "I don't need anything except hope, which I can't find by looking backwards or forwards, so I suppose the thing is to shut my eyes."

Join Asheville in honoring Zelda. Read something of hers; look at some images she created. Here are two possibilities for you. "The Iceberg" is a witty story she wrote as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama. It was published in her high-school newspaper in 1918 and won a prize, rediscovered in 2013, and ended up in The New Yorker -- which would have delighted her. And here, via Art.com, is a collection of her watercolors and paintings, including the often-reproduced paper dolls she made of her family: herself, daughter Scottie, and Scott.All images @ Fitzgerald Estate via ScottAndZelda and Art.com
Quotations from *Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald*, ed. Jackson Bryer and Cathy Barks (St. Martin's, 2002).

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Cancer Patient, 3, Will Get Special Ride in Police SUV in St. Patrick's Day Parade

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Cancer Patient, 3, Will Get Special Ride in Police SUV in St. Patrick's Day Parade Patch Batavia, IL -- The Aurora boy is excited to ride in the lead car in the parade, a police SUV. He's all ready to wave to the 20,000 parade goers. Reported by Patch 2 days ago.

Freeform Is Developing a Sleeping Beauty Drama

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Freeform's hour-long drama, currently in development, is based on Rhiannon Thomas' novel A Wicked Thing, which finds Princess Aurora getting the kiss she needs from a handsome prince to break the curse that knocked her out. Veteran writer producer Tom Lynch, who created a number of tween series in the 90s and 2000s including Nickelodeon's The Secret World of Alex Mack and Caitlin's Way, will helm the project. Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 days ago.

Aurora Man Hit by Pickup Truck, Killed in Crash

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Aurora Man Hit by Pickup Truck, Killed in Crash Patch Geneva, IL -- The man was crossing the street at Farnsworth Avenue and Marshall Boulevard when he was struck by the truck. Reported by Patch 10 hours ago.

This modern projector is a full home entertainment system

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This modern projector is a full home entertainment system Who needs a television when you've got a projector and a wall? And when you've got the Z4 Aurora projector from XGIMI Technology in your home, your home entertainment system has never looked this good. Reported by Digital Trends 3 days ago.

Fitch Rates Aurora West School District No. 129, IL's Bonds 'AA-'; Outlook Stable

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA-' rating to the following Aurora West School District No. 129, IL bonds: --$26.47 million general obligation (GO) school building bonds, series 2016 (qualified school construction bonds). Proceeds will fund various capital projects including school construction. The bonds will be sold via negotiation on March 23, 2016. The Rating Outlook is Stable. SECURITY The GO bonds are payable from lawfully available sources and ad valorem tax le Reported by Business Wire 2 days ago.

Metro Denver unemployment rate down to 3%

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Metro Denver's unadjusted unemployment rate stood at 3.0 percent in January, down a notch from December's rate of 3.1 percent and well below the January 2015 rate of 4.6 percent, according to raw county jobs estimates released Monday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The 3.0 percent unadjusted jobless rate is for a 10-county area that includes Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Broomfield and Centennial, but not Boulder County. Boulder County's unemployment rate was 2.5 percent last month,… Reported by bizjournals 2 days ago.

Airrosti Selects TransFirst®-PatientPay™ Paperless Billing Solution

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Leading Operator of Rehab Centers Sees Value of Eliminating Paper Statements

HAUPPAUGE, NY and DURHAM, NC (PRWEB) March 15, 2016

Airrosti, a rapidly-growing operator of physical therapy centers with more than 150 locations in six states, has opted to use the paperless billing solution from a collaboration of PatientPay and TransFirst’s healthcare payment processing services, the companies announced today.

“One of our operating philosophies is that ‘we fix pain fast’,” said Caroline Riley, Airrosti Rehab Centers’ Billing Manager. “In managing our growth, the need to embrace the concept of ‘fast’ in back office operations became clear. We found our ‘pain’ to be paper billing, which is inefficient, expensive and impacts negatively on cash flow. PatientPay is aligned with the way Airrosti clients want to handle their financial obligations, by email and online.”

TransFirst and PatientPay formed a strategic alliance to address the needs of healthcare organizations like Airrosti last year. Airrosti, which has facilities in Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois and Washington, is one of the first companies to take advantage of the TransFirst-PatientPay relationship.

“According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. consumer healthcare out-of-pocket payments are expected to exceed $393 billion by 2018,” said Carl Mazzola, president of TransFirst’s Health and Public Services Sales Division. “Electronic payments have historically been underutilized as a form of payment in consumer healthcare transactions. Airrosti is one of a growing number of healthcare providers that see the value of eliminating paper from their billing processes and going with PatientPay’s paperless solution.”

PatientPay reduces billing costs by as much as 50 percent and secures remittance in 14 days on average, which is about 10 times faster than the typical paper bill payment cycle. PatientPay is the only online billing solution that matches charges to the patient’s Explanation of Benefits, ensuring that what’s been paid, by whom and what’s owed is completely clear, which encourages prompt payment.

“TransFirst recognizes the need to bring better, more efficient billing services to the healthcare sector, which was a key driver of our collaboration,” said Tom Furr, PatientPay’s CEO. “Together, we offer physician-managed practices, medical clinics and other healthcare providers, like Airrosti, a proven way to cut the cost, time and frustration of paper billing.”    

PatientPay works with all leading medical practice management software providers, giving practices the ability to utilize the paperless solution right away. In Airrosti’s case, the in-place application is from Raintree Systems, the leading practice management software provider to physical therapy organizations.

About TransFirst
A leading provider of secure transaction processing services and payment enabling technologies, TransFirst offers innovative products and services designed with financial institution, independent sales organization, healthcare, e-commerce, integrated partners, government and merchant customers’ unique needs in mind. By collaborating with our customers and utilizing strong industry knowledge, we can help them grow their businesses. Built on a platform of personal service, customer commitment and flexible pricing, TransFirst is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, and has operations facilities in Aurora, Colorado; Broomfield, Colorado; Franklin, Tennessee; and Cypress, California. For additional information, please call 800.745.2659 or visit http://www.TransFirst.com.

About PatientPay Paperless
To view a video that explains the benefits of PatientPay’s Paperless service click here:
How PatientPay Works

About PatientPay
PatientPay creates patient payment solutions that help patients, practices and hospitals and revenue cycle management services better control expenses in today’s healthcare environment. Its solutions yield greater operational and financial efficiency for healthcare providers while giving patients a simple way to manage their healthcare-related financial obligations. The billing, payment and reporting services are HIPAA and PCI Level 1 compliant and eliminate time-intensive, error-prone, manual back-end efforts to process and reconcile paper bills or manage a traditional online portal. PatientPay was founded in 2008 to bring to healthcare consumers the same type of payment solutions they use in retail and e-commerce environments. In 2012 PatientPay was granted three patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 8,155,983, 8,204,764 and 8,214,233) for its innovative process that underpins its solutions, which can be integrated with any healthcare management software. The company is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. For more information, please visit http://www.patientpay.com or call (888) 730-9374.

PatientPay and the PatientPay logo are registered trademarks or service marks of PatientPay. Other marks belong to their respective owners. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.

Dead deal: Venaxis-Strand merger is scuttled

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A proposed deal that would have merged two Colorado medical technology companies has been scuttled. In January, it was announced that Strand Life Sciences, an India-based company with a local diagnostics lab, would have become the majority owner of a publicly-traded medical diagnostics company created through a merger with Castle Rock-based Venaxis Inc. (Nasdaq: APPY). Strand runs a genetic diagnostics lab located on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora But on Tuesday, that deal was dead. "Venaxis… Reported by bizjournals 23 hours ago.

Surging Demand For Rechargeable Batteries Is Driving Business To South America

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SANTIAGO/TORONTO, March 15 (Reuters) - Far from the soy and cattle that dominate its vast fertile pampas, Argentina harbors another valuable commodity that is rocketing in price and demand and luring newly welcomed foreign investors.

Lithium, the so-called "white petroleum," drives much of the modern world. It forms a small but essentially irreplaceable component of rechargeable batteries, used in consumer devices like mobile phones and electric cars. It also has pharmaceutical and other applications.

Over half of the earth's identified resources of the mineral are found in South America's "lithium triangle," an otherworldly landscape of high-altitude lakes and bright white salt flats that straddles Chile, Argentina and Bolivia.

Until recently, that was not great news for investors. Argentina and Bolivia lacked predictability and a friendly business environment, while Chile kept strict control over lithium output.

But that may be all about to change.

In Chile, a sale of state lithium deposits and a shake-up in the way the country manages its resources has awakened interest from everyone from early-stage mining companies to electric carmakers like Tesla.

In Argentina, already the world's no. 3 lithium producer after Chile and Australia, investors are hopeful that the new Mauricio Macri government that took over in December will herald a brighter future.

Business-friendly Macri has begun making sweeping changes in a bid to return the country to economic orthodoxy, removing onerous capital controls and sending a message that the country is open for business again after more than a decade of protectionism.

"For 10 or 12 years, (Argentina) was a do-not-invest zone. The tone of doing business has just swung 180 degrees," said Tom Hodgson, the chief executive of Western Lithium, which is developing a project in the country due to begin production next year.

Argentina now has a "major opportunity" to build a lithium export business, Hodgson told Reuters earlier this month at a mining conference in Toronto.

Western Lithium is working with Korean steelmaker POSCO , whose chairman was in Argentina last month to meet with Macri and begin the construction of a new lithium plant, due to begin commercial production within a year. The exploratory mining company Orocobre is also developing a project.

But the company perhaps best set to benefit from an Argentine lithium revolution is U.S. agricultural and chemical conglomerate FMC Corp.

FMC is already producing lithium from the Salar de Hombre Muerto salt flat in northern Argentina. Lithium provides a small but growing part of FMC's revenues, with forecast sales of around $250 million this year.

"Now the (Argentine) administration is starting to change policy, it's giving us even more confidence that it will be a predictable and cost-effective operation," FMC Lithium Vice-President Tom Schneberger said.

"We expect significant year-over-year improvement for lithium in 2016 and we see that going clear to 2020."

Demand for lithium is set to outstrip supply by 2023, according to specialist consultants Stormcrow Capital, with the lion's share coming from rechargeable batteries.

CHILE CLIMATE 'PERFECT'

Bolivia has more identified lithium resources than any other country, but commercially it's likely to be "shunted to the side for an extended period," says Jon Hykawy, Stormcrow's president. Bolivia has natural challenges - too much rain, other chemicals in the mix - as well as a prickly investment environment.

Chile, though, is popular with investors for its free market credentials, while the dry desert climate is "perfect" for lithium production, said Brian Jaskula, a U.S. Geological Survey mineral commodity specialist.

The key lithium site in Chile is the vast Salar de Atacama salt flat, where local firm SQM and foreign-owned Rockwood have operations.

SQM was privatized in the 1980s during General Augusto Pinochet's regime and a former son-in-law of the late dictator owns a controlling stake.

But it is on uneasy terms with the current leftist government. In the last two years, it has run afoul of authorities over market manipulation and dubious tax invoices, and is in arbitration with economic development agency Corfo over royalties.

Now U.S. specialty chemicals firm Albemarle Corp is muscling in on SQM's turf. Having spent $6 billion last year to buy Rockwood, it then signed a deal with Corfo in its drive to triple lithium output in Chile..

Chile's government said it sees public-private partnerships as the way forward and is planning to put more deposits up for tender..

It denies favoring any particular company.

"Chile is willing to work with anybody who wants to explore and produce ore, provided they comply with Chile's requirements and standards," Mining Minister Aurora Williams told Reuters.

However, Corfo head Eduardo Bitran insisted private lithium investment must be "sustainable" and in the interests of Chileans.

Albemarle and SQM declined to be interviewed for this story. But SQM said in an investor conference call this month that it wanted to increase lithium output in Chile, as well as look at unspecified "opportunities around the world."

SECURING SUPPLIES

Industry insiders warn that, no matter how friendly the government, the process of ramping up output is a complex one.

That leaves battery makers and other end users of lithium largely at the mercy of the big providers.

In addition to Tesla, traditional car companies including Nissan and BMW operate in the burgeoning electric vehicle industry. Germany's Daimler recently announced that it would build a new lithium-ion battery factory, while technology firms like Samsung and Foxconn are also key users.

As prices rise, they are keen to lock in deals. Lithium carbonate is selling for $6,400 per kilo, up from $5,180 in 2011. Prices in the opaque Chinese market are reportedly higher.

Tesla and other car manufacturers have been to Chile to see if they could ensure future lithium supplies, according to Ignacio Moreno, Chile's deputy mining minister.

Tesla declined to comment on talks, but said it has signed three deals with exploratory companies outside Chile that would "not provide all" its lithium.

Battery makers "are looking for any source across the world that they can establish joint ventures with, no matter how risky they are," said Jaskula.

(Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien in Santiago and Rod Nickel in Toronto, Writing by Rosalba O'Brien; Editing by Christian Plumb and Mary Milliken)

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Finalists for first-ever Aurora humanitarian prize announced

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Four activists who have risked their lives to help others in Africa and South Asia are being named today as finalists in what’s billed as the largest humanitarian prize in the world, a project first announced a year ago and co-founded by one of the area’s best-known venture capitalists. The first-ever $1.1 million Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, to be given annually by the 100 Lives initiative, will be awarded next month. The nonprofit 100 Lives launched last year on the centennial of the… Reported by bizjournals 23 hours ago.

Richmond Highlands close in, more affordable than Seattle

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It’s a quiet, suburban residential neighborhood whose tree-lined streets are filled with modest homes, as well as some shops and businesses concentrated along Aurora Avenue North. Reported by Seattle Times 21 hours ago.

Why Ascension's exit from Marshfield won't hurt assault on Aurora Health Care

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If Ascension Health executives plan to compete with Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, why did Ascension’s first major move involve announcing plans to sell a hospital? At this point, it appears that Ascension’s decision to sell Ministry St. Joseph’s Hospital of Marshfield relates to the unique circumstances of that hospital rather than a global philosophy about dumping hospitals. The announcement came just 10 days after St. Louis-based Ascension Health closed on its addition of Glendale-based… Reported by bizjournals 20 hours ago.

Suspected serial rapist charged in 3 attacks along Aurora Avenue North

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A Level 3 sex offender has been charged in connection with three rapes involving women working as prostitutes on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue North. Seattle police are investigating him in connection with five additional rapes. Reported by Seattle Times 19 hours ago.

3 students hurt in Ducks crash want to sue Seattle, state

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Three students seriously injured when a Ride the Ducks tourist vehicle crashed into a charter bus on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge in September are now seeking to hold the city and state partly responsible for the deadly accident. Reported by Seattle Times 17 hours ago.

Man sentenced to 30 years in prison in Aurora cop shooting

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A 21-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for the shooting of an Aurora police officer, officials said. Reported by Denver Post 17 hours ago.
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