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BOTHELL, Wash., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Solitary bees are super pollinators and vital to our food production and ecosystem. Leafcutter and blue orchard mason bees are two of the most productive bee species used for crop pollination. They belly-flop onto flowers and collect pollen all over their bodies, which enables them to pollinate 95% of the flowers they land on and they can visit up to 2,000 blossoms a day. «Bees are a crucial part of our ecosystem,» says Jim Watts, owner of RMB. «A third of the food that we eat is directly pollinated by bees. We need bees to pollinate our food and we have to protect our bee populations.»

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SOLITARY BEE FACTS!

• Solitary bees live alone and do not have a hive, they find their own nest, gather their own food and lay their own eggs
• They are non-aggressive and DON’T STING
• Mason bees lay around 15 eggs a year compared to honeybees that lay 2,000 eggs a day
• Similar to a butterfly, the larva spins a cocoon, hibernates over winter then emerges as an adult bee

HOW YOU CAN HELP – Start at home. Do not use pesticides and plant a variety of flowers. Clean cocoons and nesting blocks every year to rid evasive predators such as pollen mites and houdini flies that can destroy bee populations. If you don’t want to commit to cleaning, YOU CAN RENT BEES.

RENT SOLITARY BEES – Rent Mason Bees (RMB) is the only company in the country that brings gardeners and farmers together with their bee rental program. Solitary bees are the easiest bees to host because they are low maintenance. Purchase a solitary bee kit (which includes bees) and hang in your yard. Watch them pollinate and your yard thrive. In the fall, mail the nesting block back to RMB. They clean all cocoons and nesting blocks and the following spring your bees are sent to farmers to help pollinate orchards and increase food production. YOUR BEES MAKE FOOD!

About RMB
RMB works with three species of bees across the U.S.: blue orchard & hornfaced mason bees and leafcutter bees. They are a division of Watts Solitary Bees, which is family owned and operated for over 56 years. RMB program offers a way to be involved in your food sources and promote healthier urban and rural ecosystems with a minimal commitment. By utilizing gardeners, farmers are able to use these solitary bees to grow more food.  www.rentmasonbees.com 

 

 

 

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the Data & Analytics division of Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) released its latest Mortgage Monitor Report, based upon the company’s industry-leading mortgage, real estate and public records datasets. This month’s report looks back on 2020 origination volumes as well as at rate lock data from Black Knight’s Secondary Marketing Technologies division to get a sense of how the market is faring as rates begin to rise. According to Black Knight Data & Analytics President Ben Graboske, despite interest rates recently spiking to more than 3.2% according to the daily tracking data of the company’s Optimal Blue Mortgage Market Index, Q1 2021 refinance lending volumes are poised to remain near Q4 2020’s record-breaking high.

«Roughly 2.8 million homeowners refinanced their mortgages in the last quarter of 2020, which saw a record-breaking $869 billion in refinance lending,» said Graboske. «Assuming a 45-day lock-to-close timeline, daily rate lock data from Black Knight through mid-February suggests refi activity could remain steady in Q1 2021. Of course, that’s before a recent spike in 30-year rates is expected to begin impacting closed loan volumes in late Q1 or early Q2. Still, by the end of March, another 2.8 million homeowners will have taken advantage of near-record-low rates to refinance their mortgages. It’s important to remember that this would be coupled with a 25% reduction from Q4 2020 in purchase loans as well, resulting in an overall 10% quarterly decline.

«With rates on the rise, refinance incentive has been significantly curtailed. Just under 13 million high-quality refinance candidates remain in the market — a nearly 30% drop in just the past three weeks. Added to that, retention of what is now a dwindling number of refinancing borrowers remains at record lows, with just 18% being retained by their servicers. Approximately 2.3 million borrowers were not retained in Q4 2020 alone. The current rate volatility serves to underscore the critical nature of both accurate and strategic pricing and advanced retention analytics to help identify borrowers who still have incentive and are out there transacting in the market.»

Drilling down into the latest retention data provides some interesting context. Rate/term refinances were retained at a significantly higher rate (23%) than those pulling cash out as part of the transaction (11%). Borrowers who took out their previous mortgage in 2019 continued to drive the largest volume of refinance originations (20%) and were also retained at one of the highest paces (24%). Those who took out their prior mortgage earlier in 2020 drove 8% of all Q4 2020 refinances, representing a large volume of early refinance activity. Among higher-credit quality rate/term GSE refinances, borrowers who left their servicer received more than an eighth of a percent lower rate than those who refinanced and remained with their current servicer. Much more detail can be found in Black Knight’s January 2021 Mortgage Monitor Report.

About the Mortgage Monitor
The Data & Analytics division of Black Knight manages the nation’s leading repository of loan-level residential mortgage data and performance information covering the majority of the overall market, including tens of millions of loans across the spectrum of credit products and more than 160 million historical records. The combined insight of the Black Knight HPI and Collateral Analytics’ home price and real estate data provides one of the most complete, accurate and timely measures of home prices available, covering 95% of U.S. residential properties down to the ZIP-code level. In addition, the company maintains one of the most robust public property records databases available, covering 99.9% of the U.S. population and households from more than 3,100 counties.

Black Knight’s research experts carefully analyze this data to produce a summary supplemented by dozens of charts and graphs that reflect trend and point-in-time observations for the monthly Mortgage Monitor Report. To review the full report, visit: https://www.blackknightinc.com/data-reports/

About Black Knight
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk and operate more effectively.

Our clients rely on our proven, comprehensive, scalable products and our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client support to achieve their strategic goals and better serving their customers. For more information on Black Knight, please visit www.blackknightinc.com/.

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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Hyundai’s subcompact SUV Venue, has reached an impressive first year milestone with four straight months of growing sales and an increase of 45 percent so far this year. As strong retail demand for Hyundai’s expanded SUV lineup continues to be prevalent in 2021 with an overall increase of eight percent in February, Venue showed an impressive 52 percent sales increase versus one year ago. Venue is packed with standard safety and technology conveniences not typically found in vehicles of similar class. As a result, Venue has been awarded by numerous leading media outlets.

The ‘right-sized,’ and FUNctional Venue subcompact SUV primarily attracts females and multiple generations. Sixty-six percent of purchasers are women and over forty percent include Millennials and Gen X according to internal data. Venue buyers include eleven percent African American and sixteen percent Hispanic. The multigenerational and multicultural interest for the Venue has attracted new buyers to the Hyundai family.

«As consumers faced personal transportation needs due to the pandemic, reliability and technology-rich vehicles drove appeal,» said Olabisi Boyle, vice president, Product Planning and Mobility Strategy, Hyundai Motor North America. «The Venue is feature packed, fuel-efficient and backed by the industry’s best warranty.»

The Venue has a variety of standard tech and safety technologies including Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist with Pedestrian Detection, Lane Keeping Assist and Driver Attention Warning. Venue is fuel efficient with an EPA-estimated 33 miles per gallon on the highway. All Venue trims are backed by America’s Best Warranty, including 10-Year / 100,000-Mile Powertrain Limited Warranty, 5-Year / 60,000-Mile New Vehicle Limited Warranty and Complimentary Maintenance for 3 years or 36,000 miles (whichever comes first).

Since its inception, the Venue has received the following award accolades:
2020 Best Interior by Wards Auto
2020 Top Safety Pick by IIHS (when equipped with LED Headlights)
2020 5-Year to Own Award by Kelley Blue Book (KBB)
2021 IIHS Top Safety Pick (with specific headlights) 
2021 Best Value vehicle by Cars.com
2021 Best Subcompact SUV by CNET/Road Show.
2021 Automotive Best Buy by Consumer Guide

HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA

At Hyundai Motor America, we believe everyone deserves better. From the way we design and build our cars to the way we treat the people who drive them, making things better is at the heart of everything we do. Hyundai’s technology-rich product lineup of cars, SUVs and alternative-powered electric and fuel cell vehicles is backed by Hyundai Assurance—our promise to create a better experience for customers. Hyundai vehicles are sold and serviced through more than 820 dealerships nationwide and nearly half of those sold in the U.S. are built at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama. Hyundai Motor America is headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, and is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company of Korea.

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SAN RAMON, Calif., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The OpenADR Alliance will host a two-day Virtual Summit, March 23-24, 2021. The LIVE virtual event will include presentations from industry experts and is open to all professionals interested in gaining a better understanding of how the OpenADR standard is being applied in the electricity market and other distribution system reliability activities. The OpenADR Alliance is seeing significant progress in global market adoption of the OpenADR standard for use in effectively and securely managing distributed energy resources (DERs) and Electric Vehicle Support Equipment (EVSE) in electric grids.

The event will be co-sponsored by members GridFabric, IPKeys Power Partners, Olivine and QualityLogic. The event is aimed at OpenADR Alliance members and prospective members; DR/DER program developers and managers; policy makers and regulators; utility professionals; researchers; control suppliers and industry media.

Agenda is as follows:

March 23, 2021 – All Times AM PST

9:00    Welcome and Keynote

9:30    OpenADR Alliance Updates

10:00   Partnership Landscape 

-Liaison Updates – EEBus, OCPP

-CTA-2045

-openLEADR Project – Linux Foundation

10:30    Utility Programs

-PG&E – CalFlexHub Update

-SCE -DR and Water Heater Lab

-Con Ed

-Salt River Project

12:00 PM  Adjourn Day One

March 24, 2021 – All Times AM PST

9:00    Member Presentations   

-Using OpenADR for TOU Rate Programs – Universal Devices

-EV Integration Roundtable – Everon, AmpUp, EverCharge 

-OpenADR and Natural Gas Demand Management- IPKeys Power Partners

10:30    Implementation Workshop

-OpenADR for Load Flexibility, SMUD

-Running DR Programs with Cloud VENs, GridFabric    

-Open Discussion  

12:00 PM  Adjourn

For complete details on the agenda, speakers, and to register, please visit: https://www.openadr.org/summit

About the OpenADR Alliance

The OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) standard, helps utilities manage the growing pool of distributed energy resources (DER), which includes renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and electric vehicle charging. The OpenADR standard supports communications to all DER resources to manage changes in load shape, energy inputs and power characteristics of DER assets. More information can be found at http://www.openadr.org/.

Media Contact:

Shannon Mayette

OpenADR Alliance

602-882-4733

Shannon@openadr.org

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