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With F-16 spares for Pakistan, US completes return to Cold War Eurasia strategy
The Biden administration silently/secretly notified Congress on the plans to supply spares and the like for Pakistan’s ageing F-16 fleet, but did not mention it at the two-day 2+2 dialogue in early September
Even as India and France have jointly moved the UN Security Council (UNSC) to designate two Pakistanis as ‘global terrorists’, the Biden administration in the US has rescinded a Trump-era ban and approved a $450 million F-16 ‘fleet sustainment programme’ to Islamabad, claiming the latter as an ‘important counter-terrorism partner’ and promising that it would not ‘altar the basic military balance in the region’ — an old American theme song viz New Delhi’s traditional and proven concerns.
It is anybody’s guess if New Delhi is satisfied with the US announcement that it was an F-16 spares’ ‘sales, and not assistance’ to Pakistan, particularly the timing. But then, New Delhi has since registered its strong protest to the US, not only on the latter’s decision and the timing, but also about the subterfuge. The Biden administration had silently/secretly notified Congress on the plans to supply spares and the like for Pakistan’s ageing F-16 fleet but did not mention it at the two-day 2+2 dialogue in early September.
While the US remains the sole superpower, France continues to have the highest number of island-territories in the Indian Ocean. The US has to fund and finance smaller regional nations across the world to set up shop, politically and/or militarily, and China too has been following suit. France alone owns them. In the re-emerging global architecture that has been redrawing itself time and again, especially in Eurasia, post-Cold War, the six months since the commencement of the Ukraine War has fast-tracked the pace and crowded the agenda.
Free and open Indo-Pacific
In the midst of it all, Washington has reiterated that the US and India ‘will work together to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific’ and also timed the ‘successful’ test of an unarmed inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM). For the first time, the US, in an unprecedented way, sent out a public alert about the ICBM test lest it should trigger avoidable yet instantaneous reactions from nations such as Russia and China.
Alongside, India and Japan have joined hands for a free Indo-Pacific, when they both are faced with an ‘expansionist China. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar together called on Japan’s Minister Fumio Kishida while in Tokyo for a 2+2 dialogue with the host nation. As may be recalled, along with Australia, India and Japan are members of the US-led Indo-Pacific architecture.
At the same time, India has joined the supply chain, decarbonisation, infrastructure, and anti-tax and corruption pillars of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) at the first in-person ministerial, even staying out of the first-pillar negotiations on the IPEF-embedded trade at this stage. As may be recalled, in 2020, India opted out of the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), after participating in the negotiations, as it found the terms unfavourable to the country.
Against this, the US author, as anticipated for long since the early talks of an Indo-Pacific began, was said to have begun urging regional nations to increase their defence budgets, to what would still remain subserving the US’ geo-strategic concerns in the Indian Ocean Region. Predecessor US President Donald Trump’s undelivered letter to South Korean ally made the point, though in a limited context without reference to the Indo-Pacific. Successor-incumbent Joe Biden seems to be following that point without saying it so loud and clear.
If implemented, it would be in a way, what the US did with its NATO allies or the Gulf-Arab partners in the past, in terms of ‘providing’ regional security during the Cold War in particular, at their financial cost. It sill ensures that it subserves the American vision and mission in the respective region, with the host-nations picking up a substantial portion of the price-tag.
All this, even as Germany, another powerful NATO ally of the US like France, has advanced its Indo-Pacific military presence and has also sent an air force contingent for a military exercise with Australia, which in turn is a partner in the tri-nation military pact involving America and the UK. In turn, this may indicate that a Europe-centric new global politico-security order has not been sacrificed at the altar of the ‘Ukraine War’ involving Cold War era rival Moscow, and against which the traditional West is still arraigned against, more in political and military-supplies term than through direct engagement or involvement. Prior to the Ukraine War, not just Germany and/or France, the European Union (EU) had drawn up and independent Indo-Pacific policy, where meeting points, if any, with the US-led formation, remained unclear and undefined.
Ideological spectrum
On the other side of the ‘ideological spectrum’, if it could still be called so, a new group of ‘evil forces’ is getting together, or are being put together by western strategic analysts, if not their governments, as yet. There is already talk of a Russia-China-Iran triangle, to which Russia may have added a few more, albeit without acknowledgment. With Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing on his side, President Vladimir Putin told the annual Eastern Economic Forum at Vladivostok that the continuing war with Ukraine ‘will strengthen Russia’, especially in terms of sovereignty.
According to reports, a top lawmaker from China was present at the Forum meeting along with the prime ministers of Armenia and Mongolia, which nation India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh visited around the time, to be gifted with a local horse, a powerful battle-partner in the era before armoured carriers, tanks and fighter aircraft. Leaders from India and Malaysia, along with counterparts from other nations, participated, online, in the Eastern Economic Forum.
At the third end of the strategic spectrum, Iran was reported to be working for an aircraft maintenance consortium with India, China and Russia, after the trial in June of the landmark International North-South Transport (INSTC) Corridor, connecting Russia and India via Iran after New Delhi came under western pressure for defying their sanctions and buying cheap Russian oil. Again in June, Iran had applied for membership of the BRICS global forum of emerging economies sans western influence, in which again, India is a founding member along with Brazil and later South Africa, when it signed in.
Then, there is a fourth dimension, possibly a ‘planted’ social media posts-campaign about Russia losing men and material six months down the Ukraine War and China supplying the same, possibly through North Korea. Whether any of it is true or war-time propaganda, North Korea has since passed an ‘irreversible’ law, for preventive, nuclear first-strike. This can add new tensions not only in the Korean Peninsula but also the larger East Asian landscape, particularly Japan, and even the US.
Then, there is the ever-present fifth dimension in the form of the Taiwan issue, to which Beijing added the South China-East China Sea disputes, almost without provocation. Now, in the midst of the Ukraine War, the US provoked the revival of avoidable tension by sending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, heating up temperature and consequent military reaction by China.
New Arc that it isn’t
When Western analysts are talking about a Russia-Iran-China axis, in theoretical terms, a geo-strategic axis is still possible including these three nations, and adding Afghanistan and Pakistan, and going all the way up to Myanmar. This possibility should part-explain the US decision to help Pakistan maintain its F-16 fighters, and also in obtaining IMF assistance, at the height of the nation’s unprecedented economic crisis. As may be recalled, the US had refused to share with India, information of Pakistan’s deployment of F-16 at the height of IAF’s ‘surgical strikes’ into PoK in 2019.
Both are aimed at wooing Pakistan away from China’s vice-grip of the past several decades. Experience has shown that Pakistan has made a fine-art of running with the hound and hunting with the hare. Or, that is among the lines that the US can be expected to try and sell to India.
In parts, this should also explain why Myanmar’s junta is leaning even more on Russia and China, and why consequently, the West is going hammer and tongs at the latter, on democracy issues. In terms of the larger humanitarian issue centred on the ‘Rohingya refugee’ problem, the intervening democracy dispensation of Aung San Suu Kyi was equally unrelenting like the army rulers, before and after her, but the February 2021 coup has made her look good in the eyes of the West, though not to the same degree as when she was out-of-power, earlier.
Even otherwise, while wooing Iran and Afghanistan, the former for political and strategic reasons and the latter for strategic and economic causes, China, for instance, would be aware of the sentiments in the Gulf-Arab region, where Beijing wants to be on the right side of Saudi Arabia, among others. In global terms, the OPEC+ decision to cut down on oil production when the West, especially Saudis’ American friend wants them to increase it, cannot be missed out.
The US and the rest of the West wants higher Gulf oil production to cut down on greater dependence of nations like India, China on others on cheaper Russian oil in the aftermath of the Ukraine War, and also to help cut down oil prices, to this effect. Incidentally, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar travelled to Saudi Arabia on a three-day visit, his first since joining the Modi Cabinet.
Strategic independence
Post-Ukraine War, the Eurasian landmass is on the boil all over than any time during the post-Cold War past. In the era ending with the Second World War, European colonials took their own war to their Asian colonies, particularly so in the 20th century. Fair enough, the colonial powers are not at war with one another. If anything, they do not want the Ukraine War to come to their homesteads.
Western Europe thought that by backing the US on provocatively backing Ukraine to join NATO, they were increasing the physical distance with Russia, in strategic and military terms. This has entailed that they joined the US-led sanctions war and oil price-caps against Russia even if Moscow’s shutting down the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline could endanger their heat and other energy needs in the upcoming summer.
But there is still the huge ‘missing link’ in such a construct. India continues to maintain its ‘strategic independence’ viz the historical friend, Russia, and the post-Cold War American author of the Indo-Pacific and Quad constructs. India’s concerns are here and now, viz China and Pakistan. India has maintained tactical silence on the latest US decision but past experience has been that the Islamabad-Rawalpindi combo had always used American aid (as much as the Chinese help) only to target India.
The latest on the China front for India is that the troops of both nations have ‘dis-engaged’ from a friction point in Ladakh, though there are other places where China has to pull back to pre-Galwan positions. The Chinese pull-out now from Patrolling Point-15 in the Gogra-Hot Springs area comes ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCC) meeting, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping are likely to meet. India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has since confirmed that the two nations would take up ‘remaining LAC issues’, a positive sign.
But none of them explains why the US is all over the place in Eurasia, as it used to be during the Cold War period. Sudden military disengagement from Afghanistan may have freed the US from avoidable political embarrassment of two decades, post-Cold War. Either way, the US would find ‘moral justification’ to expand its footprint militarily in the region, through NATO and Quad, the Indo-Pacific and AUKUS, the last one with the UK and Australia. In Taiwan and North Korea, the US has arraigned itself the right to intervene politically, strategically and militarily — and not without justification.
It is more so politically and not militarily, other than in the form of sending out navy vessels to the Taiwan Sea, to contest Chinese claims. Whether the Ukraine War ends in a way Russian President Vladimir Putin wants it or not, the US will find ways and means, reasons and justifications, to stay put in these parts. It is going to ventilate hyper-tensions, not only between the US and its traditional adversaries, say, Russia in Europe and China in Asia, not to leave out Iran and North Korea, where the Biden administration’s positions are not yet known clearly.
For India, it is going to be more problematic than solving any. New Delhi would be called upon to navigate through troubled waters as in the Cold War era, but taking sides seemingly, as it did on the side of the erstwhile Soviet Union during the Cold War era, is not an option after a point. EAM Jaishankar gave back to Europe, and even to the US, as India got it, in buying Russian oil, defying their unilateral sanctions.
India would need to consider if the US decision on F-16 spares for Pakistan was also a veiled message to India. After all, Russia too had begun befriending Islamabad, even if haltingly and without prejudice to India relations, after the latter had signed a path-breaking defence pact with the US in 2005. At that time, Moscow felt cheated as the US pact was done behind its back despite long years and decades of mutual association with and respect for India!
The writer is a Chennai-based policy analyst and commentator. Views expressed are personal.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Psomagen Incorporated and Kean Health, an at-home health testing provider, announced the launch of Kean V and Kean V+, a vaginal microbiome test. This product release follows a successful product trial during the V Project, which gave 1,000 American women the opportunity to participate in a free vaginal microbiome analysis.
The test provides health insights by categorizing a sample into one of five vaginal types. These types are defined by their Lactobacillus bacterial balance, which impacts a woman's risk of recurring infections, pH imbalance, chronic conditions, extreme menopausal symptoms, and more.
One of the test's key goals is to make it easier for users to get answers about their vaginal health. "A lot of women experience negative symptoms without ever getting a clear diagnosis," said Dr. Harold Nunez Burgos, Director of Microbiome Research and Development at Kean Health and Psomagen. "They may find themselves bounced around to multiple doctors for multiple tests, when a simple answer may be right in front of them. We are making the Kean V test convenient, informative, and multi-functional to overcome those barriers."
The microbiome contains clues to what may be impacting vaginal health — particularly, clues that have historically gone unexplored. "Health is a personal journey," says Dr. Su Hong, CEO of Kean Health and Psomagen. "We've found that people want to know more about their health so they can advocate for targeted care that works for them. Our vaginal microbiome product is a great way to gain health insights that might not be part of a typical checkup or well-woman visit."
Users interested in STI testing can opt for Kean V+, which provides all of the insights of Kean V, plus gonorrhea, chlamydia, HPV, and Mycoplasma genitalium testing. V+ was developed in conjunction with digital genetic counseling company, DNAvisit. The service includes an optional consultation with a DNAvisit clinician for users who test positive for HPV or any STI.
"Kean Health is elevating the level of care for its patients by including direct communication channels for both users and their doctors, oversight that ensures patients properly understand the results," said Dr. Jaime Barea, Chief Medical Officer at DNAvisit. "This arrangement for clinician follow-up after a positive result can be just as important as the result itself,"
Kean V and V+ add to the company's existing offerings: Kean Gut and Gut+, which provide insights into the user's gut microbiome; and Kean Gene, which analyzes how a person's genome impacts their personal characteristics.
About Kean Health
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Psomagen, Inc., formerly Macrogen USA, is a North American integrative omics solutions and contract laboratory services provider. The company makes cutting-edge technology and data analysis accessible to the clinical and academic markets. With both CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited facilities, their team delivers only the highest-quality integrative multi-omics data using best-in-class DNA, RNA, and protein analysis systems. In conjunction with its bioinformatics capabilities, Psomagen offers a path to insights that is both simple and affordable.
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WELLS TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WTRF) – The death of a dog is causing controversy in Eastern Ohio.
Wells Township Police say the animal charged an officer, who defended himself.
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Chief John Ingram says a call came into the station that there were two dogs in the basketball court area by the school and that one of those dogs chased a man and his dog.
Chief Ingram says the Patrolman responded and did find the dogs. When that officer approached them they both started to charge him. Chief Ingram says the one dog stopped once the patrolman yelled, but the other dog continued towards him, growling and showing its teeth.
Some Jefferson County Residents are upset about how the situation was handled.
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Top B2B thought leaders will share key insights and best practices at global eCommerce summit
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oro, Inc., the pioneering eCommerce leader behind OroCommerce, the No.1 open source B2B digital commerce platform, today announced the agenda for OroVibe, its flagship digital commerce event. The highly anticipated celebration, held in Paris on Thursday, October 6 2022, features must-see keynotes, panel discussions, and interactive learning sessions led by top thought leaders from the industry's biggest and most exciting international brands.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP is investigating potential derivative claims on behalf of shareholders of Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG) relating to possible false and misleading statements to investors and significant insider trading by several officers and directors.
Plug Power and its CEO and CFO, Andrew Marsh and Paul Middleton, are currently subject to a consolidated class action securities lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging they made false and misleading statements to investors concerning the profitability of the company's hydrogen fuel cell business. Specifically, among other things, the company and its officers are alleged to have carried out a long-running scheme to misclassify the cost of liquid hydrogen delivered to customers, thus inflating the perceived profitability of Plug Power's core business. On May 14, 2021, the company restated several prior-period financial statements from 2018 through the third quarter of 2020 to address the misclassification. At the same time, Plug Power also disclosed a material weakness in internal controls and announced that the company's improper accounting practices, allegedly uncovered by a new auditor, dated back to 2016.
Shortly before the restatements, Mr. Marsh and Mr. Middleton sold approximately $45 million of their personal holdings of Plug Power stock alongside several other high-level insiders, including at least six directors and the company's General Counsel and COO. The company also conducted two lucrative secondary offerings in November 2020 and February 2021, together netting approximately $3 billion of additional capital on the basis of these allegedly false and misleading statements.
The Schubert Firm is investigating potential breaches of fiduciary duty by Plug Power's officers and directors in connection with these allegations.
If you own stock in Plug Power and wish to obtain additional information about your legal rights, please contact us today or visit our website at https://www.classactionlawyers.com/plugpower.
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Leading miniature toy company Super Impulse launches a brand new concept in miniature collectibles
BRISTOL, Pa., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Super Impulse,the leader in miniature toys and collectibles, today announces the launch of Minis-in-Minis™, an exciting and never-before-seen collectible concept. The new line features mini toys with tiny minis inside, and is the model blueprint for how Super Impulse continues to pave the way in all things miniature, combining iconic brands and popular trends.
The launch of Minis-in-minis marks the first time the industry has seen this evolution of miniatures; which many influencers, collectors and press say they have been anticipating. This exciting new line has captured the hearts of kids and kidults of all ages.
Minis-in-Minis, Sugar Buzz is launching now at Walmart. Series one is confectionery themed and includes the most beloved brands such as Toxic Waste, Chupa Chups, Pez, Peeps, Mike and Ike, Warheads, and more. Complete the collection with 66 minis, including three levels of rare colors. Discover 8 inside each cup, including 2 Minis and 6 Minis-In-Minis. The clear top reveals one mini toy and the other is hidden below. It's sure to give mini collectors a kick, bring back sweet memories, and make anyone feel like a kid in a candy store!
"Super Impulse specializes in miniatures. It is our job to set the standard in the category and to create new experiences for fans of all ages," said Super Impulse Founder and CEO Alan Dorfman. "Minis-in-Minis offer not only miniatures to collect, but also the TINIEST miniatures – a whole new scale of collectibles! And Minis-in-Minis, Sugar Buzz features the hottest trend in food/grocery collectibles – candy!"
Super Impulse has been leading the way in miniatures since the company began in 2014 with the launch of the World's Smallest Collection; building roots in fully functioning miniatures of retro classics and expanded with a multitude of licensing partnerships. Super Impulse houses a variety of new product lines including: World's Coolest, World's Smallest, Micro Toy Box, Micro Figures, Tiny Arcades and now, the introduction of Minis-in-Minis.
Minis-in-minis Sugar Buzz will be available in all major retailers for $5.99 and is recommended for kids ages 8 and up. For even more collectibles, micro figures, and functional mini toys, follow Super Impulse at Facebook: Super Impulse Instagram: @SuperImpulse TikTok: @superimpulse, or visit www.superimpulse.com
Founded in 2014, Super Impulse is committed to toy innovation, novelty items and accessories for kids and the young at heart. Super Impulse's globally recognized, World's Smallest collection has expanded with a multitude of licensing partnerships. Selling hundreds of millions of units across the product line and continues to add to its offering and licenses with the world's most iconic toys. Super Impulse has the latest in classic retro and trend-forward toys with "a little something" for everyone!
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The State Fire Marshal is reminding residents of a new law regarding carbon monoxide alarms in Louisiana homes.
State fire officials said Act 458 requires homes sold or leased after January 1, 2023, to have at least one carbon monoxide alarm. Another change that goes into effect on the same date, according to SFM, is an amendment to the state’s residential building code which requires carbon monoxide alarms to be installed at the same time a whole home, stand generator is installed.
“These changes are the direct result of the tragic aftermath of the 2020 and 2021 hurricane disasters across our state that saw more than a dozen carbon monoxide-related deaths and dozens more hospitalizations, all attributed to both portable and standby generator use,” said State Fire Marshal Dan Wallis. “We’re grateful to the housing and real estate industry for being proactive ahead of the law change to ensure everyone is appropriately educated on this effort to save lives well before the law goes into effect.”
Louisianans in need of a smoke alarm can get one through SFM’s Operation Save-A-Life. For more information, click here.
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"Breathtaking" images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form.
The images, released Monday, shed light on an environment similar to our own solar system when it formed more than 4.5 billion years ago. Observing the Orion Nebula will help space scientists better understand what happened during the first million years of the Milky Way's planetary evolution, said Western University astrophysicist Els Peeters in a news release.
"We are blown away by the breathtaking images of the Orion Nebula. We started this project in 2017, so we have been waiting more than five years to get these data," Peeters said.
"These new observations allow us to better understand how massive stars transform the gas and dust cloud in which they are born," Peeters added.
The hearts of stellar nurseries like the Orion Nebula are obscured by large amounts of stardust, making it impossible to study what is happening inside with instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope, which rely mainly on visible light.
Webb, however, detects the infrared light of the cosmos, which allows observers to see through these layers of dust, revealing the action happening deeply inside the Orion Nebula, the release said. The images are the most detailed and sharpest taken of the nebula -- which is situated in the Orion constellation 1,350 light-years away from Earth -- and the latest offering from the Webb telescope, which began operating in July.
"Observing the Orion Nebula was a challenge because it is very bright for Webb's unprecedented sensitive instruments. But Webb is incredible, Webb can observe distant and faint galaxies, as well as Jupiter and Orion, which are some of the brightest sources in the infrared sky," said research scientist Olivier Berné at CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, in the news release.
The new images reveal numerous structures inside the nebula, including proplyds -- a central protostar surrounded by a disk of dust and gas in which planets form.
"We have never been able to see the intricate fine details of how interstellar matter is structured in these environments, and to figure out how planetary systems can form in the presence of this harsh radiation. These images reveal the heritage of the interstellar medium in planetary systems," said Emilie Habart, an associate professor at Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) in France.
Also clearly visible at the heart of the Orion Nebula is the trapezium cluster of young massive stars that shape the cloud of dust and gas with their intense ultraviolet radiation, according to the news release.
Understanding how this radiation impacts the cluster's surroundings is key to understanding the formation of stellar systems.
"Massive young stars emit large quantities of ultraviolet radiation directly into the native cloud that still surrounds them, and this changes the physical shape of the cloud as well as its chemical makeup. How precisely this works, and how it affects further star and planet formation is not yet well known," Peeters said.
The images will be studied by an international collaboration of more than 100 scientists in 18 countries known as PDRs4All.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — King Charles III was flying to Northern Ireland Tuesday on the latest leg of his tour of the nations that make up the United Kingdom, as thousands of people lined up through the night to pay their last respects to his mother’s coffin in Edinburgh.
On Monday night, Charles and his siblings, Anne, Andrew and Edward, their heads bowed, briefly stood vigil around their mother’s flag-draped coffin in St. Giles’ Cathedral as members of the public filed past.
Early Tuesday, a man wearing a suit adorned with medals stood silently, bowed his head and moved on. A woman dabbed away tears with a handkerchief. Another woman with two young children in their school uniforms walked slowly past the coffin.
Some people even paid their respects and then rejoined the end of the line to get a second view of the coffin of the only monarch most people in the United Kingdom have ever known.
In the line of mourners outside St. Giles’ Cathedral in the historic heart of Edinburgh, Sheila McLeay called the queen “a wonderful ambassador for our country.”
“She was such an example for every single one of us. She was dignified. She was just, she was beautiful inside and out. And I have known her all of my life. And I miss her very much,” she added.
Scotland, where the queen died Thursday at her beloved Balmoral estate in the Highlands after a 70-year reign, has been almost universal in its praise for the queen.
The British monarchy draws more mixed emotions in Northern Ireland, where there are two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves British and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish.
That split fueled three decades of violence known as “the Troubles” involving paramilitary groups on both sides and U.K. security forces, in which 3,600 people died. The royal family was touched personally by the violence: Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and a much-loved mentor to Charles, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979.
A deep sectarian divide remains, a quarter century after Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
But in a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein — the main Irish nationalist party, linked during the Troubles to the IRA — are attending commemorative events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.
Sinn Fein’s president, Mary Lou McDonald, paid tribute to the 96-year-old monarch following her death last Thursday, calling her “a powerful advocate and ally of those who believe in peace and reconciliation.”
The president and prime minister of the neighboring Republic of Ireland are also due to attend the memorial service in Belfast, despite tense relations between Dublin and London over Brexit. Since Britain left the European Union in 2020, the U.K. and the EU have been wrangling over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with a member of the bloc.
After lying in the cathedral through most of Tuesday, the queen’s coffin will be flown back to London and driven to her official London home, Buckingham Palace.
The Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster plane that will carry the coffin has in the past been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and to take humanitarian aid and weapons to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
In the early hours of Tuesday, scores of workers were seen cleaning litter and weeds from the road between the air force base where the plane carrying the queen’s coffin will land and central London.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create an accessory that enables you to carry multiple food bags with ease," said one of two inventors, from Everett, Wash., "so we invented the LOAD BUDDY. Our design would increase stability and it would eliminate the hassle and discomfort associated with holding multiple bag handles."
The patent-pending invention provides a more efficient way to carry multiple food delivery bags or grocery bags. In doing so, it reduces strain on the hands and fingers. It also enhances comfort and convenience and it saves time and effort. The invention features a durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for food delivery workers, grocery store shoppers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Seattle sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-FED-2400, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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No swiping necessary as Wendy's Breakfast Matching Game serves up a daily dose of fun, morning offers
DUBLIN, Ohio, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Need a reason NOT to hit the snooze button each morning? Wendy's® breakfast isn't boring and neither are our games. The new Wendy's Breakfast Matching Game* is giving West Virginia fans the chance to win FREE breakfast for a year, $1,000 in Wendy's gift cards and offers on their favorite morning menu items. Whether you prefer a sweet start with Homestyle French Toast Sticks or classics like the Breakfast Baconator, you'll have no trouble adding this exciting four-week game to your morning routine.
The game runs now through Sunday, October 9, and you can register to play by visiting www.WendysBreakfastMatchingGame.com.
Rise and play: winning FREE breakfast for a year at Wendy's has never been easier. Check www.WendysBreakfastMatchingGame.com daily to see the revealed circles automatically turning over. The lucky winner(s) of three matches will win FREE Breakfast for a Year, featuring 52 weekly Wendy's coupons. Anyone who registers for the game will also have a chance to in $1,000 in Wendy's Gift Cards!
The fun doesn't end there! There are also unlimited instant breakfast offers to take advantage of via the Wendy's app when playing the game. Make sure to have your Wendy's Rewards™** account set up and ready to go before entering, and remember the Wendy's Breakfast Matching Game resets every week!
Wendy's was founded in 1969 by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio. Dave built his business on the premise, "Quality Is Our Recipe®", which remains the guidepost of the Wendy's system. Wendy's is best known for its made-to-order square hamburgers, using fresh, never frozen beef***, freshly-prepared salads, and other signature items like chili, baked potatoes and the Frosty® dessert. The Wendy's Company is committed to doing the right thing and making a positive difference in the lives of others. This is most visible through the Company's support of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® and its signature Wendy's Wonderful Kids® program, which seeks to find a loving, forever home for every child in the North American foster care system. Today, Wendy's and its franchisees employ hundreds of thousands of people across approximately 7,000 restaurants worldwide with a vision of becoming the world's most thriving and beloved restaurant brand. For details on franchising, connect with us at www.wendys.com/franchising. Visit www.wendys.com and www.squaredealblog.com for more information and connect with us on Twitter and Instagram using @wendys, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendys.
*No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years or older and a legal resident of West Virginia. Official rules available at WendysBreakfastMatchingGame.com. Play now until 10/9.
**Wendy's Rewards available at participating U.S. Wendy's. My Wendy's™ account registration and use required to earn points and redeem rewards. Points have no monetary value. See www.wendys.com/Rewards for details.
***Fresh beef available in the contiguous U.S., Alaska, and Canada.
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INDIANAPOLIS — High emotions at a funeral on Saturday created an unwanted scene that no family should have to endure after a fight took over a moment of grief.
“It seems as if there were high emotions for whatever reason for whatever side,” Antonio Lipscomb said.
Lipscomb says he was attending vocational training at New Direction Church next door from Williams & Bluitt Funeral Home.
“I had seen at least 10-15 police cars,” Lipscomb said.
The parking lot quickly spiraled into chaos.
“It just seems like the disregard of the human life and care for the deceased definitely wasn’t distributed that day,” Lipscomb said.
People started fighting inside the funeral home, sending nearly 150 people into the parking lot scrambling for safety. Witnesses told police at least one person used pepper spray.
“A lot of screaming, a lot of violent languages and violent behavior,” Lipscomb said.
IMPD and the emergency response group responded to the scene. IMPD officials said it didn’t take long for them to calm down the crowd.
“Williams & Bluitt is a staple in this community,” Pastor Kenneth Sullivan at New Direction Church said.
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The Prudential Emerging Visionaries program will recognize students ages 14–18 creating positive change in their communities.
NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Applications open today for Prudential Emerging Visionaries, a program that celebrates young people bringing fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to pressing financial and societal challenges in their communities.
"Recognizing young leaders for making their communities stronger and more inclusive is another way Prudential fulfills its purpose of making lives better by solving the financial challenges of our changing world," says Chairman and CEO Charles Lowrey. "Our inaugural class of Emerging Visionaries was truly exceptional, and we're looking forward to honoring more young innovators in 2023."
The program, now in its second year, builds on the legacy and momentum of the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, the country's largest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteer community service. Between 1995 and 2020, the Spirit awards honored more than 150,000 young people across the United States and internationally. Inspired by the impressive vision of these young leaders, Prudential reimagined the program in 2021 to honor students addressing societal and financial challenges.
In April 2023, 20 students will be awarded for their solutions to social issues, and five for their solutions to financial barriers. Each winner will receive $5,000 plus an all-expenses-paid trip to Prudential's headquarters in Newark, New Jersey. During this event, the five honorees in the financial solutions category will pitch their ideas to Prudential leaders for a chance to receive a grand prize of $15,000.
Winners will also have the opportunity to consult with Prudential leaders about strategies to advance their work, and to participate in a coaching program with employees to refine their projects.
Prudential is collaborating with Ashoka, a leading organization in the social impact sector, to help develop winners' skills through ongoing workshops and online courses. Advisory support is provided by the Financial Health Network, a leading authority on financial health and longtime partner of The Prudential Foundation.
Applications for the program are open now through Nov. 3. Awards are open to students ages 14–18 in the United States. Prudential operates similar programs in other countries where the company has a significant business presence, including Brazil, China, India and Japan.
For more information about Prudential Emerging Visionaries, including how to apply, visit prudential.com/emergingvisionaries.
About Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a financial wellness leader and premier active global investment manager, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Prudential's diverse and talented employees help to make lives better by creating financial opportunity for more people. Prudential's iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for more than a century. For more information, please visit news.prudential.com.
About Ashoka
Ashoka is the largest global network of leading social entrepreneurs — individuals with new ideas to systemically address the world's biggest challenges and the entrepreneurial skill to transform those ideas into national, regional and global social impact. Over 40 years, Ashoka has supported more than 3,600 social entrepreneurs in 90 countries with solutions addressing society's most pressing issues. Ashoka's vision is a world in which everyone is a changemaker — a society that responds quickly and effectively to challenges, and where everyone has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem. For more information, visit ashoka.org.
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WATERBURY, Conn. — Infowars host Alex Jones is going on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.
The trial will be held at Waterbury Superior Court on Tuesday. Watch the full trial on FOX61+.
Last month, a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $49.3 million to the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, one of 26 students and teachers killed in the 2012 mass shooting. Jones' lawyer has said they plan to appeal that ruling.
Tuesday's trial is about a jury determining the penalty, or how much money Jones should pay the Sandy Hook families for his unsubstantiated claims. Jury members will also hear evidence before making their decision.
Previously, Jones was found liable for defamation by a Connecticut judge.
The Connecticut case has the potential for a larger award because it involves three lawsuits — which have been consolidated — that were filed by 15 plaintiffs, including the relatives of nine of the victims and a former FBI agent who responded to the school shooting.
“The families are suing Mr. Jones for damaging their good character basically through their radio broadcast by saying that they were perpetuating these lies," said Jilda Aliotta, associate professor of politics, economics, and international studies at the University of Hartford.
The group suing says they have faced harassment, suffering and death threats by followers of Jones because of the hoax conspiracy.
The families also claim Jones raked in profits for his Texas-based media company by talking about the school shooting.
“We will expect that the families will testify about the impact this defamatory falsehood that Mr. Jones spread on his radio program affected them,” Aliotta said.
In a reversal to comments made on his show, Jones now said he does believe the shooting happened but maintains that his comments were protected under free speech.
“If questioning public events and free speech is banned because it might hurt somebody’s feelings, we are not in America anymore," he said at the deposition. "They can change the channel. They can come out and say I’m wrong. They have free speech.”
The families have not asked for any specific damages, some of which may be limited by state laws. However, there are no damage limits under the Unfair Trade Practices Act.
"This is the moment when disinformation goes on trial – when people who purvey disinformation against private citizens will be held accountable," said Richard Hanley, a professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University.
The trial is expected to last four weeks.
Jones is also facing a third trial in another lawsuit by Sandy Hook families in Texas.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create an accessory that enables you to carry multiple food bags with ease," said one of two inventors, from Everett, Wash., "so we invented the LOAD BUDDY. Our design would increase stability and it would eliminate the hassle and discomfort associated with holding multiple bag handles."
The patent-pending invention provides a more efficient way to carry multiple food delivery bags or grocery bags. In doing so, it reduces strain on the hands and fingers. It also enhances comfort and convenience and it saves time and effort. The invention features a durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for food delivery workers, grocery store shoppers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Seattle sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-FED-2400, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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30-Minute Weekend Program Launches Saturday, October 1, Hosted by Actor / Comedian Craig Robinson
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The world-famous Harlem Globetrotters return to broadcast network television in an exclusive partnership with Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), on the premiere of Harlem Globetrotters: Play it Forward.
The 30-minute weekly series, debuting Saturday, October 1 at 11 a.m. ET (times may vary; check local listings) on NBC's "The More You Know" programming block, marks a return of the Harlem Globetrotters in a weekly television show after more than 40 years. The educational/informational series will also be available on NBC.com and NBC VOD, with repeat airings on Telemundo, and will be hosted by actor/comedian Craig Robinson, best known for his roles in The Office, The Masked Dancer, The Cleveland Show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Killing It on Peacock and numerous hit feature films.
"Many of us grew up watching and admiring the Globetrotters," said Frank Biancuzzo, HMPG president."They are magicians on the basketball court and true role models in the community. We'll bring that compassion, energy and excitement to the new weekly series."
Harlem Globetrotters: Play it Forward will showcase the players' achievements both on and off the court as ambassadors of goodwill. Each episode will focus on true inspirations and interests of many of the Harlem Globetrotters including space exploration with NASA, financial responsibility and literacy, urban farming, female empowerment, digital technology, innovations that the Harlem Globetrotters brought to the game of basketball, and much more. In recent years the team's initiatives have included the anti-bullying campaign T.E.A.M. Up, for Talk, Empathize, Ask, and Mobilize; and Hoops for the Troops performances at military bases. For the new series, in each city they visit the players will explore ways to help the community through volunteerism, fund raising, and one-on-one connections.
"The Harlem Globetrotters have been entertaining fans and spreading Goodwill around the world for almost 100 years," said Keith Dawkins, President of Harlem Globetrotters & Herschend Entertainment Studios. "Our return to network television, via our partnership with Hearst Media Production Group and NBC, marks a critical step in the evolution of our brand and in realizing our desire to expand our reach with a new generation of fans."
The Globetrotters were founded in 1926 by sports agent-turned coach Abe Saperstein as the Chicago Globetrotters, becoming the Harlem Globetrotters in 1929. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are the backbone of the brand's DNA and were created as an answer to African American basketball players who struggled to find acceptance and inclusion in many professional touring leagues across the country. Legendary Globetrotters over the decades have included Fred "Curly" Neal, who is memorialized in the team's 2022 tour; Meadowlark Lemon; and legendary NBA great Wilt Chamberlain. Today's roster welcomes male and female players from all over the country. The team made history in 1985 when they selected Lynette Woodard, captain of the gold-medal-winning 1984 U.S. Olympic women's basketball team, as their first female player. The Harlem Globetrotters continue to make strides and break down barriers, finding and showcasing the very best in all of its players.
Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), a business unit of Hearst Television, is an independent producer and distributor of original programming for TV stations, broadcast and cable networks and streaming services. HMPG produces hundreds of hours of programming annually across linear, streaming, digital and social media platforms for domestic and international distribution in nearly 100 countries. Its popular shows include "Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien," America's #1 nationally syndicated public affairs news magazine; the Emmy Award-winning educational/informational (E/I) programming blocks airing weekends nationwide including "Weekend Adventure," on ABC stations; "CBS Dream Team," on the CBS Network; "The More You Know," on the NBC Network; "One Magnificent Morning," on The CW Network; "Mi Telemundo" on the Telemundo Network and "Go Time!" on independent stations. HMPG also distributes a diverse slate of other programming and content including "Law&Crime Daily," "Prime Crime," "Consumer Reports TV," and the company's dedicated FAST channels "Xplore" and "The Jack Hanna Channel," available on some of the most popular smart TVs and streaming platforms.
The World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters are THE originators of basketball style, captured by dynamic athletes with unmatched skills and influencers of today's game. The team has showcased their iconic brand of basketball in over 124 countries and territories across six continents since 1926. Proud inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, their mission continues to advance the game of basketball and deliver exciting and interactive entertainment to the world. If you have ever seen a jump shot, slam dunk or a half-court hook shot, you have witnessed the creative moves made famous by the Globetrotters.The Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Herschend Enterprises, the largest family-owned themed entertainment company in the U.S.
For six decades, Herschend has operated with the purpose of bringing families closer together by Creating Memories Worth Repeating®. The organization is comprised of a family of companies across North America including Herschend Family Entertainment, the largest privately-held themed attractions entity in the US, entertaining more than 14 million guests annually at 26 properties across North America (Dollywood® Parks & Resorts, Silver Dollar City®, Kentucky Kingdom®, Wild Adventures®, Vancouver Aquarium®, Adventure Aquarium®, and Newport Aquarium®); Herschend Entertainment Studios (Harlem Globetrotters®, Splash & Bubbles® and Chuggington®); and Herschend Adventure Holdings, LLC. (Pink Adventure Tours®). For more information, visit www.herschendenterprises.com.
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- Joint study with Massachusetts General Hospital proves that Lunit's AI-powered chest x-ray analysis software enhances the overall performance and efficiency of radiologists
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study published in JAMA Network Open demonstrated that Lunit INSIGHT CXR, Lunit's AI-powered chest x-ray analysis solution, can significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of radiologists diagnosing major chest findings.
The study was conducted by Lunit (KRX: 328130.KQ) and Dr. Mannudeep K. Kalra of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) from April to November 2021.
With a total of 497 chest x-rays, researchers compared Lunit INSIGHT CXR's standalone performance, radiologists' assessments with AI and without AI, diagnosing pneumonia, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and pulmonary nodules. Reviewers included two radiologists, two thoracic radiology fellows, and two residents.
According to the study, Lunit INSIGHT CXR achieved detection rate of 82.5% for pulmonary nodules (94 of 114 findings), 88.7% for pneumonia (173 of 195 findings), 87.2% for pleural effusion (130 of 149 findings), and 100% for pneumothorax (80 of 80 findings). The AI's standalone performance remained high even when non-target findings were present on the chest radiograph.
For all four abnormalities, AI-assisted analysis substantially improved radiologists' sensitivity in comparison to unassisted assessment. Sensitivity increased 17.3%, 6.2% and 4.6% for pneumothorax, pulmonary nodules, and pneumonia respectively.
Moreover, the study also showed that Lunit INSIGHT CXR can improve efficiency. With the AI-assistance, radiologists saved 10% of their reading time compared with the group reporting without AI.
"The use of Lunit's AI product was associated with sensitivity gains for all four targeted chest findings and efficiency improvement across all readers regardless of their experience and training status," said Dr. Kalra.
"This joint study can be a remarkable milestone as it is conducted with the best medical staff from one of the top-ranked hospitals in the US," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "The research proved that Lunit INSIGHT CXR can support both radiologists and patients with its exceptional accuracy and efficiency. I strongly believe that it will build a pillar for Lunit as we intend to expand the reach of our product across the US market."
JAMA Network Open is an international peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association, with an impact factor of 13.353.
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"For a long time, we thought the Greens were our friends," said Nandiuasora Mazeingo, chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation (OGF), shrugging his shoulders at news from Germany that the Berlin government sees no need to renegotiate the Joint Declaration with Namibia.
The deal was thought to have brought an end to years of negotiations to recognize the genocide of Herero and Nama people during the German colonial period in what is now Namibia.
However, the agreement led to heated debates in the Namibian parliament in September 2021.
"It seems like this issue in Germany is only about gaining political power," Mazeingo said in an interview with DW. "But we will outlast these governments because we are on the right side of history!"
Still, the leader of the official opposition in Namibia, McHenry Venaani, has hope in the environmentalist Green Party, part of the Germany's governing coalition with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) .
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Monuments of shame
Cape Coast Castle – now a World Heritage Site – is one of about forty forts in Ghana where slaves from as far away as Burkina Faso and Niger were imprisoned. This former slave fortress could hold about 1,500 slaves at a time before they were loaded onto ships and sold into slavery in the New World in the Americas and the Caribbean.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Dreadful dungeons
At Cape Coast Castle, slaves were shackled and crammed in the dank dungeons. There was no space to lie down and no sanitation, with human waste littering the floor. Slaves could spend up to three months confined in these miserable conditions before being loaded onto ships.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Condemned cells
Male captives who revolted or were deemed insubordinate ended up in the condemned cells – a pitch-black room where slaves were left to die in the oppressive heat without water, food or daylight. Rebellious women were beaten and chained to cannon balls in the courtyard.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Military might
These now silent cannons are a reminder of the military might of the British who used Cape Coast Castle to hold slaves for 140 years. It's estimated that between the late 17th and early 19th centuries, some three million West African slaves were shipped from here.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Slave castle
Fort Christiansborg, also known as Osu Castle, sits in the lively township of Osu in Ghana’s capital, Accra. It was built by the Danish, who originally traded in gold, then in slaves. The slave trade was so successful that they had to expand the castle to almost four times its original dimensions.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Door of no return
On the seaboard side of the coastal slave castles was 'the door of no return', a portal through which the captives were lowered into boats and taken to the slaving ships anchored further out at sea. Four in 10 did not survive the tortuous voyage. Those who made it across the Atlantic alive would never set foot in their homeland again.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Danish shame
Erected in 1784, the crumbling ruins of Fort Prinzenstein in Keta, east of the Volta River, are a reminder of Denmark's role in the transatlantic slave trade. As the first slave-trading country to abolish the practice in 1792, Denmark's barbaric involvement in shipping an estimated 120,000 slaves to the former West Indies is often glossed over.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
History of shackles
It is easy to walk past this nondescript building in Ghana's capital Accra for anyone not aware of its historical significance. Built by the British as a trading post in 1673, Fort James was also used to hold slaves. It has a true history of chains – it was also used as a prison until 2008.
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Ghana's crumbling castles are a grim reminder of its slave trade past
Dark history
Built in 1482, Elmina Castle on Ghana's Cape coast is the earliest European structure erected in sub-Saharan Africa. Originally Portugese, it was later captured by the Dutch, who used it as a base for the Dutch slave trade with Brazil and the Caribbean. Under the flag of the Dutch West Indies Company, around 30,000 slaves a year passed through Elmina until 1814 when the Dutch abolished slavery.
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The president of the country's largest opposition party, Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), has written an open letter to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, a member of the Greens, which DW has obtained. In it, he called for the agreement to be "renegotiated" and "restructured."
"Frau Baerbock had shown credibility while she was a candidate," Venaani told DW. "Now we have to see if she brings the same understanding as a minister."
Botswana and South Africa should join negotiations
Venaani is particularly concerned about the diaspora communities.
"There are descendants of genocide victims living in Botswana and South Africa — and they are left to fend for themselves," said Venaani.
He wants their representatives to be included in the renegotiation process, but told DW that the German government could perhaps begin talks with the government of Botswana.
McHenry Venaani has called for the agreement to be 'renegotiated' and 'restructured'
Venaani's statements have been met with mixed feelings in Namibia. OGF chairperson Mazeingo rejected the politician's call for more government participation.
While agreeing with the demand to include the Herero and Nama in the diaspora, he criticized a possible participation of more governments as a "perpetuation of the exclusion."
He refered to the fact that the Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA) and the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA) — which see themselves as the official representatives of the diaspora communities — were not part of the negotiations between Germany and Namibia.
However, Ileni Henguva, a traditional councillor for the Ovambanderu, said that the affected communities had actually been considered in the original negotiations with the German government, therefore he sees no need for further talks.
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not want to comment on the demands when contacted by DW. As a matter of principal, Berlin does not respond to open letters, a spokesperson told DW.
"We respect the difficult decision making process and the discussions within the Namibian society and politics," the spokesperson said.
The Herero still complain about Germany's colonial land grab to this day
'We will shame them'
The ministry also referred to discussions about the implementation of the joint declaration that took place in March 2022 between Namibian and German delegations in Windhoek.
Ultimately, renegotiating how the terms of the deal would be implemented seemed like a possibility, though this might not appease the critics in Namibia, where the OTA is demanding a completely fresh start to talks.
"We are not going to sign a sham agreement that makes Germany look good on the international stage," OTA representative Mazeingo emphasized to DW.
Herero people were driven off their lands by German settlers, and when captured were sent to concentration camps
Wording in dispute
He demanded an admission of guilt by the German government. In the eyes of the OTA, the biggest stumbling block lies within the wording of the Joint Declaration, which calls the atrocities committed between 1904-1908 a genocide "from today's perspective."
Opposition leader McHenry Venaani also wants a clear, legal recognition of the genocide. In his open letter to Baerbock, he wrote that the atrocities "cannot only be recognised in a moral and political sense."
In his interview with DW, he referenced reparations again, describing the aid deal — worth €1.1 billion ($1.34 billion) to be paid out over 30 years under the Joint Declaration — as an insult.
"It's not about extracting the largest possible sum. We are only asking for a package that will sustainably improve the socio-economic conditions of the affected communities," Venaani said.
The PDM party leader argued that even the Namibian government has come to understand that the people of Namibia are not ready to accept this agreement.
This also applies to a possible apology by the German government. A "half-baked apology" would only lead to boos in the Namibian parliament, he said. OGF chairperson Mazeingo shared these sentiments.
"We are going to organize protests. We would make sure that whoever comes here to offer an apology is shamed, shamed to know that it is the biggest mistake that they have done to come to the people whom they have brutalized and to come here and pretend to offer an apology that is not genuine, " he told DW.
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Modern-day slavery
Illegal workforce
Despite the fact that slavery is prohibited worldwide, modern forms of the sinister practice persist. More than 40 million people still toil in debt bondage in Asia, forced labor in the Gulf states, or as child workers in agriculture in Africa or Latin America.
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Modern-day slavery
Sold, threatened, exploited
Human trafficking is big business, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Sectors such as construction or mining exploit almost exclusively men, while victims of forced prostitution and exploitation in private households tend to be women. But something they all have in common: they are coerced into working through threats, the use of violence, or fraud. Most cases go unreported.
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Modern-day slavery
When children are enslaved
Because of poverty parents may sell their children as labor. That's often the case in Lake Volta, Ghana, where children are forced to work for fishermen. Parents are told their children will get to do an apprenticeship. But in reality, they're kept as slaves in appalling conditions. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) there are around 10 million child slaves worldwide.
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Modern-day slavery
Child brides
One in five girls is wed before she turns 18, according to the UN Children's Fund UNICEF. Not all of these marriages are forced arrangements. But every year millions of underage girls are forced into marriage before the age of 15. In many cases they're taken out of school and essentially live as unpaid laborers in their spouse's home. Many report physical and sexual abuse in the marriage.
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Modern-day slavery
Locked up
All over the world, girls are exploited as house slaves — by their own family or by strangers. Poverty-stricken families may be promised that their children will get the chance to go to school. But once they're taken, these girls are locked inside the house and forced to work 12-14 hours a day. Many also suffer sexual abuse. The number of unreported cases is high — even in industrialized nations.
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Modern-day slavery
Millions held in debt bondage
Under this form of slavery, victims are forced to work to pay off a debt. Often the debts continue to pile up, even if the whole family toils for 10 hours a day at the brickworks, or in their owner's quarries, fields or mines. Often the debts are also inherited by children. The ILO estimates there are around 30 million people working as debt slaves, most of them in India and Pakistan.
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Modern-day slavery
Nowhere to turn
Illegal migrants are especially vulnerable to exploitation, regardless of where in the world they are. They often have nowhere to claim rights, usually cannot speak the local language, and don't know where they can turn for help. It's not clear how many illegal migrants work in agriculture in Europe alone. But many live in abysmal conditions as they slave away for well below the minimum wage.
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Modern-day slavery
Born into slavery
The descendants of African slaves in Mauritania are called "Haratin." Although slavery is officially banned in the northwestern African country, people are still inherited or sold as property there. An estimated 600,000 women, men and children in Mauritania are currently exploited as domestic workers or in the agriculture sector. That's one-fifth of the population.
Author: Helle Jeppesen, Natalie Muller
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LANCASTER, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayor R. Rex Parris of the City of Lancaster visited his "Smart Sister City" counterparts in Namie, Japan this weekend, where the two municipalities engaged in discussions on how to advance a hydrogen-powered future. The cities signed a Memorandum of Understanding last year in which they agreed to exchange best practices around hydrogen innovation.
The two cities have both been recognized as leaders in hydrogen technology, with Lancaster housing hundreds of millions of dollars in clean hydrogen investment and Namie the largest solar-to-hydrogen facility in the world. For Namie, the transition to hydrogen represents not only a step away from fossil fuel power, but also a decisive pivot from nuclear after the town was devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Part of Mayor Parris's visit included laying flowers on the graves of those lost to the disaster.
"This visit to our Sister City of Namie made clear the need to future proof our city's energy infrastructure, particularly as the specter of climate-caused disaster looms ever larger," said Mayor Parris. "Upon my return to the City of Lancaster I pledge to work closely with our City Council to ensure that Lancaster is prepared for potential catastrophes as a means of protecting our city's citizens and future."
Mayor Parris's visit also included touring some of Namie's world-class hydrogen facilities such as the Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field, where the mayor exchanged ideas on how to advance this fuel of the future. The trip was capped with a traditional Samurai ceremony, in which Mayor Parris was placed in traditional Samurai attire.
"I came to Namie to learn about hydrogen, but I am walking away with so much more. Let our cities be an example of what can be achieved when we come together to create future-looking solutions that serve us all. I thank the city of Namie for these lessons, and for their generosity of time and spirit."
Mayor Parris's visit to Namie was part of a larger trip to Japan, where he presented on Lancaster's clean energy trajectory at World Smart Energy Week in Tokyo.
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King Charles set to receive new red boxes embossed with his cypher
The famous red boxes which the King will use for important documents are currently in production.
The boxes, made by luxury British leather goods company Barrow Hepburn & Gale, contain a range of papers, including those that require a signature, briefing documents and information about forthcoming meetings.
A spokesman for the firm said the King will initially receive more than six boxes, all of which will carry the new royal cypher.
It is possible that around 10 to 12 boxes will be made and delivered in phases over the coming months.
Every box has its own coded lock and is designed to last for many years.
The price of the boxes is never released by Barrow Hepburn & Gale.
Queen Elizabeth in her sitting room at Windsor Castle looking through her diary of engagements, with a famous red box by her side (PA)
The company says on its website that its boxes “follow their holder around the world, ensuring they can execute the responsibilities of their office”.
It adds: “Wherever in the world the Sovereign or minister is, the red box is close by.
“Our despatch boxes are not only an elegant design, but are functional and secure.”
In a Facebook social media post in September 2015, the Royal Family account said the Queen received red boxes every day of her reign, including weekends, but not on Christmas Day.
The documents were sent from the private secretary’s office to the monarch in locked boxes, it said.
The post also said the Queen was still using in 2015 the boxes which were made for her Coronation in 1953.
It said they had been “periodically refurbished” to keep them in a good condition.
Regarding the history of the boxes, Barrow Hepburn & Gale said the modern role of boxes in the governance process “has not changed for over a century”.
It added: “There are two possible reasons why the despatch box became the iconic red colour.
“The widely-accepted reason relates to Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria, who is said to have preferred the colour as it was used prominently in the arms of his family, the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
“However, there is a school of thought with origins dating back to the late 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth I’s representative Francis Throckmorton presented the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, with a specially constructed red briefcase filled with black puddings.
“It was seen as an official communication from the Queen, and so the colour red became the official colour of the state.”
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PARIS — Augustin Laborde quit drinking during the early stages of the pandemic two years ago. But when things finally opened up, he says meeting up with friends in bars quickly became a frustrating experience.
"My only options were basically sugary soda or fruit juice," he says.
So Laborde, a lawyer with a passion for side projects, started doing some internet research.
Turns out, there was a whole range of alcohol-free beverages on the market; they just weren't on menus.
That's when a light bulb turned on.
In April, Laborde opened Le Paon Qui Boit, meaning The Drinking Peacock — which promotes itself as Paris' first non-alcoholic wine and liquor store. The shop boasts more than 300 bottles of low and zero-proof beers, wines, gins and whiskeys.
"I really value the element of inclusiveness in these products," Laborde says. "Virtually everyone can drink them — we aren't separated by drinkers and non-drinkers."
On a recent day, Laborde offers a tasting of one line of products in particular: wine.
"People are surprised when they see the higher price points," Laborde says, which can be around 10 to 15 euros a bottle, compared to 4 to 8 euros for a bottle with alcohol in Paris.
It all has to do with the non-alcoholic winemaking process, which requires an extra step. After going through the traditional fermentation process, Laborde says the alcohol in the wine is evaporated using a special filtration process.
He also expects the taste to become more refined, as techniques improve and the zero-proof market grows.
"This is definitely not a fad," says Dan Mettyear, who works with the consultancy group IWSR Drinks Market Analysis. According to Mettyear, non-alcoholic wine consumption across the global market has grown by 24% in the last year alone.
"It's all connected to the kind of big wellness trends that we've seen across the world," he says.
There are even vineyards dedicated entirely to producing non-alcoholic wine. One of them is Le Petit Béret, a small French brand headquartered in Béziers, in southern France's Occitanie region, that makes low-sugar, non-fermented white, red and rosé wine and sparkling wines.
But Mettyear says it probably wouldn't come as much of a shock that growth has been slower in France than the U.S. and much of Europe.
"Particularly in kind of like traditional wine markets, it's a bit of a harder sell," he says. "A lot of people have already well-established ideas about what wine is and what wine should taste like."
People like the staff at Le Baron Rouge, a wine bar in Paris's 11th arrondissement that's about as traditionalist as it can get.
Opened in 1979, this tiny establishment is famous for serving wine from colossal wooden barrels.
Sommelier Olivier Collin is doing his annual washdown of the barrels when NPR asks him if he's heard about the rising trend.
He shakes his head in disapproval.
"I don't understand why you would want to try wine without the alcohol!" he says.
"It's the same thing with vegan meat. I'm a vegetarian but I don't understand why we need to eat something equal to meat or to wine or beer! What's wrong with fruit juice?"
But with some persuasion, he agrees to a tasting of bottles procured from Laborde's shop — including a sauvignon blanc and a zero-proof champagne.
Collin and his staff take a curious sniff of the sauvignon.
"It smells like cat piss ... which means it smells like an authentic sauvignon," Collin says with a chuckle.
He takes a first swig.
"It's nice!" he says, surprised.
On the flavor notes, Collin tastes a mix of apple, pear and onion.
"It's fruity and refreshing," he says.
But then Collin goes for a second sip — and isn't as impressed.
"Too sweet ... and definitely doesn't taste like a wine," he says.
The flavor of a wine can change the more it breathes after the bottle is opened, but Collin says he was a bit shocked by how frequently the taste of this sauvignon did. Based on the tasting — and Collin's overall antipathy — it's unlikely you'll be seeing any non-alcoholic wine at Le Baron Rouge anytime soon.
But curious taste testers at an outdoor event hosted by Le Paon Qui Boit disagree with Collin's take.
Charles Vaubin says he's been trying to cut down on his alcohol consumption while his wife is pregnant.
"In France, [wine] is about culture. ... It's about gastronomy and it's interesting to add this aspect in a non-alcoholic product."
In other words, he says, wine traditionalists should realize they all have the same goal — to prove France is producing some of the world's best wines, with or without alcohol.
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WILsquare Capital, a St. Louis-based private equity firm, announced the hiring of Jeff DePlanty as Executive Vice President and Operating Partner.
Jeff joins WILsquare with over 20 years of private equity experience within the lower-middle market working across multiple industries in various leadership roles. Most recently, Jeff was an Operating Partner with Benford Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago, IL, after spending 18 years at Harbour Group, a St. Louis-based private equity firm. Throughout his private equity career, Jeff has focused on operational improvements within portfolio companies, led all financial due diligence and worked extensively with financing sources on over 35 completed acquisitions, including platform companies as well as add-on acquisitions. Jeff is experienced in leading the implementation of operational key performance indicators ("KPIs"), enhancing financial reporting, and advising management of lower-middle market companies on growth strategies. During his career, Jeff has played significant roles in over 60 successful acquisition and divestiture transactions.
"During my time at Harbour Group, I had the pleasure of working with Jeff and seeing him develop his private equity and operational talent set," said Bill Willhite, Managing Partner at WILsquare Capital. "Since those days, I have watched Jeff become a senior executive with broad skills. I am excited for Jeff to join the growing, energetic team at WILsquare, and I am confident he will immediately add value to the firm and our portfolio companies."
About WILsquare Capital
WILsquare Capital is a St. Louis-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and growing lower-middle market businesses in the Midwest and Southern United States, with an emphasis on business services, niche manufacturing, distribution and technology companies. The firm is currently investing out of WILsquare Capital Partners Fund II, L.P.
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CINCINNATI, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard Textile Co., Inc., a global textile manufacturing leader for the healthcare, hospitality, interiors, and consumer markets headquartered in Cincinnati, is proud to announce it has been recognized in the 2022 Healthiest Employers of Ohio. Healthiest Employers® is an awards program created to honor people-first organizations that prioritize the well-being of their employee population.
These companies were recognized because of their commitment to workplace wellness and their exceptional health and benefits offerings. Even with many employers returning to the office or to hybrid schedules, they have had to adapt their workforces to reflect the ever-changing views of the modern American office. Increased flexibility, work-life balance, and mental health resources have proven to be common trends among Healthiest Employers honorees.
Standard Textile has developed a holistic wellness program that focuses on four pillars: physical, mental, financial, and social wellness.
"The goal is helping employees find their 'Well Place' just like their 'Happy Place.' For some it is a walking trail or fitness center, for others it may be an onsite massage, relaxation room, advice on financial management or receiving paid time off to volunteer," said Connie Retherford, Director of Total Rewards at Standard Textile. "We want to know what matters most to our employees when defining wellness. We want employees to know that their safety and wellbeing matters most to the company."
In support of both its physical and financial wellness pillars, Standard Textile offers several incentives to encourage healthy behavior and minimize employee contribution to the plan. Unique in 2022, Standard Textile made the decision to offer a cost-free medical plan option to single-coverage employees. This cost-free medical plan option proved popular; approximately 65% of employees who participate in Standard Textile's holistic wellness program qualified for and elected this plan option in 2022. Completion of a biometric screening and preventive exam as well as identification as a non-tobacco user qualified employees for this medical plan option.
The company achieves an impressive engagement rate overall with approximately 95% of employees and spouses in their Cincinnati headquarters who participate in the company's medical plan completing both the biometric screening and physical exam. This level of participation in preventive screening goes a long way to improve wellness and address health conditions early.
"The wellness program here at Standard Textile has helped me to be more aware of health. Without the incentives for my health care plan, I probably would not go to the doctor each year or have a biometric screening. The yearly screening has shown me how food and physical activity can improve these numbers," said Lisa McGill, Customer Service Representative, Healthcare. "I now try to find ways to make my numbers better each year."
Award applicants were evaluated across six key categories: Culture and Leadership, Foundational Components, Strategic Planning, Communication and Marketing, Programming and Interventions, and Reporting and Analytics. Completed assessments were ranked with the proprietary Healthiest Employers® Index, a 1-100 rubric for wellness programming. The survey is scored and powered by Springbuk, a health intelligence platform that simplifies data-driven decision-making with an intuitive user experience, predictive modeling, and curated action steps.
Springbuk is a health intelligence software platform that empowers everyone in an employer's health ecosystem to glean actionable insights to improve their population's well-being and contain claims costs. Each year, Springbuk administers the Healthiest Employers® Awards Program across the country to honor the nation's most dedicated employers in bettering their worksite health and wellness programs. To date, over 10,000 employers across 40+ U.S. cities have participated in the awards program. Learn more at www.Springbuk.com and www.HealthiestEmployers.com.
Founded in 1940, Standard Textile has developed a culture of innovation, quality, and service. With more than 80 patents, its products are engineered to deliver durability, longevity, and value. A vertically integrated company, Standard Textile is a leading global provider of total solutions in the institutional textiles and apparel markets headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Leveraging textile design, manufacturing, and laundry expertise, and its global infrastructure, this company serves customers in the healthcare, hospitality, interiors, and consumer markets worldwide. For more information visit standardtextile.com.
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The PBA announces an all-new celebrity event with Jimmie Allen, Darius Rucker, and Terrell Owens, including performances by Allen and fellow country music stars Chris Young and Chuck Wicks, plus more to compete alongside professional bowlers
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) announces a celebrity event to be hosted by GRAMMY nominated, award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and avid bowler Jimmie Allen. The Jimmie Allen PBA Challenge presented by Bowlero will air Oct. 16 on FOX, varying per market, before or after local NFL games.
The event will take place on Oct. 5 at Bowlero Matthews in Matthews, N.C. with a live musical performance beginning at 6 p.m. ET and bowling beginning at 8 p.m. ET. This event will feature performances from some of country music's best talent including Wicks, Young, Neon Union and of course, Allen. In addition to their performances Wicks, Neon Union and Allen will be joined by Owens and Rucker on the lanes.
The country music stars will also be competing alongside PBA Tour stars Pete Weber, Kyle Troup, Sean Rash, Ronnie Russell, and AJ Johnson. Each artist will be paired with a PBA player for a doubles competition, with the artists bowling the odd-numbered frames and the PBA players bowling the evens. In addition to the main tournament, the event will feature a Celebrity Super Clash, in which each celebrity rolls one shot and the low score is eliminated in each round until only one celebrity remains as the victor.
"Since the moment my friend Cortland Finnegan introduced me to bowling, I've been hooked," said Jimmie Allen. "I've been a fan of the PBA for years as a viewer. But I'm excited for the next part of my journey with the PBA, and that is to make bowling a worldwide sport with the same respect that's given to basketball, baseball, and football."
Allen discovered his love for bowling during the pandemic, calling it his "pandemic passion", after being introduced to the sport. He quickly made it a goal to become an expert, bowling several hours a day in different cities while on tour in addition to at home in Nashville. He currently belongs to five bowling leagues and plans to try out for the Professional Bowlers Association in 2023.
Viewers can live stream the PBA on the FOX Sports and FOX Now apps or at FOXSports.com. Select highlights will be available on @FOXSports social handles across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. To purchase tickets and learn more, please visit the link here.
About the Professional Bowlers Association
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the world's preeminent organization dedicated to the sport of bowling and its professional competition, with thousands of members and millions of fans throughout the world. The PBA plays host to bowling's biggest tournaments from the PBA Tour, PBA Regional Tour, and PBA50 Tour. In 2020, the PBA launched PBA Jr., a club for elite youth bowlers under the age of 17 and the PBA Pinsiders, a membership for fans of the sport. For more information, please visit www.PBA.com
About Bowlero Corp
Bowlero Corp. is the worldwide leader in bowling entertainment, media, and events. With more than 300 bowling centers across North America, Bowlero Corp. serves more than 26 million guests each year through a family of brands that includes Bowlero, Bowlmor Lanes, and AMF. In 2019, Bowlero Corp. acquired the Professional Bowlers Association, the major league of bowling, which boasts thousands of members and millions of fans across the globe. For more information on Bowlero Corp., please visit www.BowleroCorp.com
About Jimmie Allen
Signed to BBR Music Group's Stoney Creek Records, multi-platinum recording artist and songwriter Jimmie Allen has been blazing trails since the beginning of his breakout career. Allen was nominated for Best New Artist at the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards, his first ever GRAMMY nomination. He was also nominated for Male Artist of the Year nominee at the 57th ACM Awards (which he co-hosted alongside Dolly Parton & Gabby Barrett) and Outstanding New Artist nominee at the 53rd NAACP Image Awards. Allen launched his career with two consecutive No. 1 hits off his 2018 debut album Mercury Lane (which The New York Times dubbed as one of 2018's strongest) – the first being his RIAA 2x Platinum debut single "Best Shot," which claimed the No. 1 spot on Country radio for three weeks, and second being Platinum-certified "Make Me Want To." In February 2022, Allen embarked on his Down Home Tour 2022, his first headline tour. Starting this Fall and through Spring 2023 he will join Carrie Underwood's The Denim & Rhinestones Tour as special guest on all 43 U.S. arena dates. His new single "Down Home" was released March 8 – listen HERE and watch the music video (co-directed by Allen) HERE. The song is the first single from Allen's third album Tulip Drive, which was released June 24, 2022 and is named for the street in Lewes, DE that his late grandmother lived on. For more information on Allen, visit www.jimmieallenmusic.com or follow him on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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Carissa Delbene, cdelbene@bowlerocorp.com
Julia Brown, juliabrown@thedooronline.com
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Natasha Desai, natasha@fullcov.com
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- RDARS Begins Production of Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest in Canada
TORONTO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - RDARS Inc. ("RDARS" or the "Company") (CSE: RDRS), an autonomous robotics and drone technology company developing advanced autonomous drone and robotic systems for alarm system augmentation and surveillance, is pleased to announce that it has opened a manufacturing facility in Pickering, Ontario, for the production of its Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest products. This achievement is another commitment by the Company to produce its products in Canada. "We find that the highly skilled technology labour pool that is required for this advanced manufacturing process is available in Canada, and we are proud of this step we are taking. To be able to say made in Canada is an honour, and we believe that the stability of Canada, without all the risks of the geopolitical turmoil and supply chain disruptions, is important for the Company at this stage of its evolution" said Charles Zwebner, CEO and Director of the Company. Both products are part of the Eagle Watch Platform and underscores the Company's commitment to bringing its advanced drone, artificial intelligent, and robotic technologies to market in very short order.
This significant milestone is another critical piece of the Company's continued fast growth. "The opening of this new facility, with its staff of Canadian employees, is a most important phase of our development process. As disclosed in the Company's final long-form prospectus dated August 26, 2022, available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, the Company will be immediately producing 20 systems which will be imminently made available for deployment into selected locations for testing purposes to achieve certifications for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flight missions with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Transport Canada.
Canada is a major player in the aerospace and defense markets, and RDARS is poised to contribute to this industry, developing advanced cutting-edge technology systems. The Company's flagship product, the Eagle Watch Platform, is comprised of Eagle Eye, a drone, Eagle Nest, a drone station, Eagle Rover, an indoor robotic system, and Eagle Watch Command & Control Software.
RDARS is a disruptive technology that is redefining the security industry's approach to protecting properties, by introducing protection with autonomous artificial intelligent systems that allow for real time response, situation awareness, verification, intervention, evidence recording, data capture, analysis, and immediate downstream transmissions to the public safety agencies. RDARS has the ability upon a breach of a security in real time to receive, analyze, and downstream the data and inform the public safety agencies who the perpetrators are before they even get to the property.
Eagle Watch is comprised of a drone, a drone station, and indoor robotic system called Eagle Rover and a software application called Eagle Watch, which acts as a command-and-control environment to manage, maintain and control all remote systems around the globe. The Eagle Watch Platform represents a departure from the current commercial drone systems, as it was designed specifically for automated alarm response and provides a high degree of situational awareness for a fraction of the current cost of any competing technology. Enterprise and government end users can rely on Eagle Watch to provide immediate alarm response, on-demand patrols, scheduled patrols and archived video for later analysis or historical requirements.
Founded in 2019, RDARS is an OEM manufacturer of the Eagle Watch Platform. Its autonomous robotic systems are known for providing situational awareness in a cost effective and reliable manner. The Company's mission is to improve alarm response and situational awareness, obtain approvals from federal regulatory agencies for beyond visual line of sight operations. RDARS is currently developing its technology for enterprise customers in the United States and Canada, where these customers require a more reliable and advanced understanding of their property security. For more information about RDARS, visit its website at www.rdars.com or its profile page on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Certain information in this news release constitutes forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. Any statements that are contained in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "may", "should", "anticipate", "expect", "potential", "believe", "intend" or the negative of these terms and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this news release include statements relating to: RDARS opening a manufacturing facility in Pickering, Ontario, for the production of its Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest products; RDARS bringing its advanced drone, artificial intelligent, and robotic technologies to market in very short order; RDARS immediately producing 20 systems which will be imminently made available for deployment and testing; the Company being poised to contribute to the aerospace and defense markets; the Company redefining the security industry's approach to protecting properties; the Company's business objectives and milestones and the anticipated timing of, and costs in connection with, the execution or achievement of such objectives and milestones; the Company's future growth prospects; the development of the Company's business and future activities following the date hereof; expectations relating to market size and anticipated growth in the jurisdictions within which the Company may from time to time operate or contemplate future operations; expectations with respect to economic, business, regulatory and/or competitive factors related to the Company or the security industry generally; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's current and future operations; the market for the Company's current and proposed product offerings, as well as the Company's ability to capture market share; the Company's strategic investments and capital expenditures, and related benefits; the distribution methods expected to be used by the Company to deliver its product offerings; the competitive landscape within which the Company operates and the Company's market share or reach; the performance of the Company's business and the operations and activities of the Company; and the Company's ability to obtain, maintain, and renew or extend, applicable authorizations, including the timing and impact of the receipt thereof.
Forward-looking information in this news release are based on certain assumptions and expected future events, namely: that RDARS will have the ability to successfully manufacture its Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest products in the Pickering, Ontario facility; the Company's financial condition and development plans do not change as a result of unforeseen events; there will continue to be a demand, and market opportunity, for the Company's product offerings; current and future economic conditions will neither affect the business and operations of RDARS nor the Company's ability to capitalize on anticipated business opportunities; current and future members of management will abide by the Company's business objectives and strategies from time to time established by the Company; the Company will retain and supplement its board of directors and management, or otherwise engage consultants and advisors having knowledge of the industries (or segments thereof) within which the Company may from time to time participate; the Company will have sufficient working capital and the ability to obtain the financing required in order to develop and continue its business and operations; the Company will continue to attract, develop, motivate and retain highly qualified and skilled consultants and/or employees, as the case may be; no adverse changes will be made to the regulatory framework governing beyond visual line of sight operations, taxes and all other applicable matters in the jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business and any other jurisdiction in which the Company may conduct business in the future; the Company will be able to generate cash flow from operations, including, where applicable, distribution and sale of its products; the Company will be able to execute on its business strategy as anticipated; the Company will be able to meet the requirements necessary to obtain and/or maintain authorizations required to conduct the business; general economic, financial, market, regulatory, and political conditions, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, will not negatively affect the Company or its business; the Company will be able to successfully compete in the security industry; prices offered by competitors will not decline materially; the Company will be able to effectively manage anticipated and unanticipated costs; the Company will be able to conduct its operations in a safe, efficient and effective manner; and general market conditions will be favourable with respect to the Company's future plans and goals.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including but not limited to: the risks associated with the security industry in general; the inability of RDARS to obtain requisite approvals; the Company's inability to attract and retain qualified members of management to grow the Company's business and its operations; unanticipated changes in economic and market conditions (including changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic) or in applicable laws; the Company's inability to secure or maintain required authorizations necessary to conduct the business and operations and meet its targets; and the Company's inability to effectively manage unanticipated costs and expenses, including costs and expenses.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and reflect the Company's expectations as of the date hereof and are subject to change thereafter. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and such forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States of America. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons (as defined in the 1933 Act) unless registered under the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws, or an exemption from such registration is available.
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Thomas Aronica is the founder and CEO of Biller Genie, a solution that automates accounts receivable to get businesses paid faster.
Power in all its forms can be intoxicating. And the power that comes with palpable professional success is no exception. In fact, it’s probably one of the most intoxicating addictions out there.
Any successful entrepreneur will tell you that the capacity to manage success, and the power and prestige it commands, requires graceful acceptance of the truth of who we are beyond our ego. And the failure to sustain a grounded experience of self will most often result in a self-sabotaging demise. Why? Because without your humility on board, you’re just asking life to teach you one of the most fundamental lessons out there. Saint Augustine summarized it best: “If you plan a tower that will pierce the clouds, lay first the foundation of humility.”
Power: The Seduction Of Success
What makes someone powerful? One of the most significant ingredients to power is the capacity to influence others. Being able to command the attention of others in a manner that facilitates a subconscious acceptance, or even agreement, on their part is what has led to some of history’s most transformative leaders (both good and bad). Why? Because humans at their core are a tribal species. We run in groups, and we function as a collective (even though it may not seem that way at times). This means when someone in our circle of peers has deemed another individual worthy of authority, we will often times respond in kind based on the powerful persuasion of group influence.
The logic behind all this is pretty simple. As is the case with any tribe, there are a tremendous amount more followers than there are leaders. We are no different. In fact, research validates that only 10% of the population actually qualify as natural-born leaders. And while 10% of 7.96 billion is still a relatively large number, you can see where I’m going with this. It’s harder to find leaders than it is to find followers, and once leaders emerge, their gravitational pull toward success naturally creates a following. And this naturally gives way to influence, which ultimately leads to power.
Therefore, when success has granted you enough influence to captivate an audience and establish a following, this in and of itself gives you a tremendous amount of power rather effortlessly because, as is the case with every innate tribal species, we tend to travel in packs.
Arrogance: The Ego’s Response To Power
Now, here’s where it gets tricky. And I’ve seen this in so many individuals I have personally watched throughout my career. The ego, when left unchecked, will often take power and turn it into arrogance. Lord Acton said it best in his famous quote: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Now, we’re obviously talking about a much grander scale here than your average C-suite executive, but as we know, history tends to repeat itself, and even corruption at a lesser level is still corrupt.
Just for the record, arrogance is defined as a predisposition to exaggerate one’s own worth or importance, often in an overbearing manner.
Humility: The Antidote To Arrogance
Why is humility so important when it comes to success? One’s capacity for humility is a direct measure of one’s capacity for respect. If you possess no humility, you will be able to offer no respect. And one of the most fundamental necessities in business, or any form of personal exchange for that matter, is respect.
So, what are some of the best tactics to wear success gracefully?
1. In my opinion, it has everything to do with staying grounded in the truth of where you started and who helped you get to where you are. If you ever think that your success was a given and you did it all alone, your humility is not on board.
2. Don’t ever project yourself as someone who has an answer for everything. Knowing what you don’t know is just as important as knowing what you do know. Anyone who starts venturing down that path of feeling like they should and do have an answer for everything does not have their humility on board. Humans are fallible creatures, and it’s important not to ever put yourself “above” being human.
3. Always move from a place of gratitude. It doesn’t matter if you clawed your way to the top and took every wrong turn just to get to where you are. Success is ultimately still a blessing. It’s not something you were entitled to, nor is it something that can never be taken from you. Moving through it from a place of gratitude is imperative to keeping your humility on board.
And finally, quoting someone besides yourself from time to time can also be helpful. So, on that note, I leave you with the words of Bill Gates: “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
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-The new relationship brings CHOP's world-class pediatric healthcare to patients and families across the award-winning Main Line Health System-
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Main Line Health announced an affiliation agreement that will fully transition Main Line Health's pediatric care and services from Nemours Children's Health to CHOP.
CHOP doctors and advanced practice providers will care for pediatric patients at select Main Line Health locations, including the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) at Main Line Health's four acute care hospitals: Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Paoli Hospital, and Riddle Hospital, as well as Bryn Mawr Hospital's inpatient Pediatric Unit and Emergency Department. The pediatric nursing and ancillary staff currently employed with Main Line Health hospitals will remain in place.
Main Line Health and CHOP have already begun to collaborate, utilizing the combined expertise and infrastructure of the two organizations to deliver outstanding and convenient care to patients and families at Main Line Health suburban locations. In April 2022, CHOP began to provide complex ophthalmic care for premature babies at all four Main Line Health hospitals' NICUs. In May, care expanded to neonatal and pediatric cardiovascular services, including cardiology consultation, echocardiography, and EKG interpretation at Main Line Health hospitals.
Effective October 2022, CHOP will provide:
- 24/7 professional coverage at all four Main Line Health hospitals' NICUs
- 24/7 professional coverage of the Pediatric Unit at Bryn Mawr Hospital
- Pediatric coverage in the Bryn Mawr Hospital Emergency Department
- Neuro-pediatric services, including EEG interpretation and continuous EEG monitoring
- Surgical consultation and bedside procedures for the Level III NICU's at Bryn Mawr Hospital and Lankenau Medical Center
In addition to clinical services, the affiliation seeks to bring the best of both organizations together for collaboration in pediatric training and education. In July 2022, Main Line Health's surgical and urology residents began fulfilling their pediatric specialty rotations at CHOP. The organizations will also explore additional clinical education and research collaborations.
In the Fall of 2022, CHOP will open a new CHOP outpatient specialty care center on the Bryn Mawr Hospital campus. The center will include 14 patient care rooms for Cardiology, Fetal Heart, Neurology, Gastroenterology and Endocrinology specialty care. Additional pediatric specialty services will follow.
"We are delighted to embark on this affiliation with Main Line Health, which will allow us to provide families with the best of both of our organizations," said Madeline Bell, President and CEO of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Driving this alliance is our shared dedication to improving children's health, and we look forward to working together to advance pediatric patient care."
"Nemours has been a valued partner of Main Line Health for 25 years; providing excellent care to our pediatric community. Now, we look forward to a long and collaborative relationship with CHOP in delivering comprehensive and convenient pediatric care, programs and services to our youngest patients and families everywhere. The expertise and synergy between our two institutions will lead to limitless opportunities, innovation and outstanding pediatric clinical care," said Jack Lynch, FACHE, President and CEO of Main Line Health.
A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
Founded in 1985, Main Line Health is a not-for-profit health system serving Philadelphia and its western suburbs. Main Line Health's commitment—to deliver advanced medicine for treating and curing disease, playing an important role in prevention and disease management as well as training physicians and other health care providers—reflects our intent to be the region's premier choice for clinical care, research, and education. A team of more than 10,000 employees, 3,000 nurses and 2,000 physicians care for patients throughout the Main Line Health System.
At Main Line Health's core are four of the region's most respected acute care hospitals—Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Paoli Hospital and Riddle Hospital—as well as one of the nation's premier facilities for rehabilitative medicine, Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital.
Main Line Health also includes Mirmont Treatment Center for drug and alcohol recovery; Main Line Health HomeCare & Hospice, which includes skilled home health care, hospice and home infusion services; Main Line Health Centers, primary and specialty care, lab and radiology, and other outpatient services located in Broomall, Collegeville, Concordville, Exton, King of Prussia and Newtown Square; Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, a biomedical research organization; and Main Line HealthCare, one of the region's largest multispecialty physician networks.
Main Line Health is the recipient of numerous awards for quality care, and service, including U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, System Magnet® designation; the nation's highest distinction for nursing excellence and the Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Performance Excellence (MAAPE) Excellence Award. Main Line Health is committed to creating an environment of diversity, respect, equity, and inclusion, has proudly received awards in this area and has embraced the American Hospital Association's #123forEquity Pledge to Act to eliminate disparities in care. We are dedicated to advancing patient-centered care, education, and research to help patients stay healthy and live their best lives. For more information, please visit: https://www.mainlinehealth.org/
Contacts:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:
Natalie Solimeo
Senior Public Relations Specialist
(267) 426-6246
solimeon@chop.edu
Main Line Health:
Phil Ellingsworth Jr.
Director, Communications
(484) 580-1182
ellingsworthph@mlhs.org
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ANN ARBOR, MI — I set out this summer to reconnect with an old love: the game of basketball.
I lived and breathed the sport when I was younger, spending countless hours playing anywhere there was a hoop, but I had mostly set that hobby on the shelf in recent years.
Picking up the ball again felt great. I was pretty rusty at first, but day by day I got my shot back, delighting in that old familiar swooshing sound, and it was good exercise.
I soon pledged to play on all 30-plus basketball courts in Ann Arbor’s parks before summer was over, and over the course of several weeks I did, venturing out to scenic places like Mary Beth Doyle Park that I’d visited many times before and others more obscure that I had to look up on a map. It helped that the city website listed them all.
It was supposed to be just fun, an adventure to experience every court and see different parts of my city, but I soon found court conditions varied greatly and many left a lot to be desired, so I shifted into reporter mode and started taking notes.
Here are five takeaways:
1. Many courts need resurfacing
Perhaps the city has spoiled us by resurfacing a handful of courts in recent years, showing just how nice a modern park basketball court can be with a smooth blue/green surface similar to a tennis court. The court at Hunt Park is one example of this.
But it’s a night-and-day contrast when visiting many of the older courts across the city.
Others had rougher, coarse, cracked and uneven pavement surfaces, some with vegetation growing through, making it harder to dribble and not as safe or enjoyable to play. And some, like the half court at Foxfire North Park, were weirdly shaped squares of old pavement that could be transformed into full rectangular courts with smooth surfaces and painted court markings.
2. Better rims and backboards needed
After a few shots on the Burns Park court, which was resurfaced a year or so ago, I turned and asked one of the regular users if the rims and backboards were always so rickety. There was a lot of give and they rattled quite a bit.
“Yeah, you don’t get any lucky bounces on these rims,” he told me.
I found old and rickety rims and backboards at several courts, including backboards that were plain-gray metal with bolt heads sticking through and no target squares. On one or more occasions, such as at Winewood Thaler Park, the rim was inches off from the 10-foot standard, throwing off shots.
In some cases, it appeared certain rattling situations could be improved by tightening loose bolts. But some courts have gotten entirely new rims and backboards in recent years that are far better than the older ones, and I can’t help but think they all should be modernized and brought up to the same standard in every neighborhood.
3. Nets regularly missing or torn
Of course, you can have the best courts and hoops in the world and that still doesn’t matter if you don’t have nets.
Throughout the summer, I regularly encountered missing and torn nets, and I found it can take weeks for the city to get around to replacing them — even after putting in an A2 Fix It request.
I’ve suggested to the city that nets be routinely checked and replaced as parks maintenance crews are in the parks doing regular mowing, but the city says residents reporting issues via A2 Fix It is still the best way to go. The only problem there is not everyone knows to do that.
I also let the city know why standard nylon nets are preferable to alternatives found at some parks. For instance, there are plastic cord nets at some parks that catch basketballs, not allowing them to pass through, requiring using sticks to poke balls back out after shots.
And some parks have metal chain nets that aren’t great from a usability standpoint and can cause extra wear and tear on balls. And at some courts with older-style rims, metal S-hooks are used to string nylon nets and those can rattle around and come loose and just be plain annoying.
4. It’s on the city’s radar
I shared my observations with the city’s parks department and I was pleasantly surprised to find out park planners were simultaneously conducting their own audit of the courts and agreed with my assessment of some of the rough conditions, and it’s an issue on their radar to address.
I was particularly concerned some of the courts near lower-income/BIPOC populations were being neglected, and I was glad to learn the city plans to approach improvements to the courts over the coming years, neighborhood by neighborhood, with equity in mind, starting with resurfacing the Baxter Park court behind the city’s Green Baxter Court affordable housing complex next year and inviting neighbors to help paint a mural on it. Murals also are planned for the newly resurfaced courts at Southeast Area Park and Leslie Park.
West Park and Arbor Oaks Park are two other locations where I hope city officials see fit to give the courts an overhaul. It would be great to have top-notch courts there.
5. More funding needed
With so many other courts needing improvements, though, it could take many years to bring them all up to the same modern standards. Between basketball, tennis and pickleball, there are over 70 game courts in Ann Arbor’s parks and the city has been trying to resurface two or three each year.
Hopefully the city can find additional funds to accelerate those efforts.
In the meantime, many Ann Arborites may have to skip their neighborhood park to travel to a nicer court, but I consider myself fortunate to have a pretty good one just down the street at Allmendinger Park.
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OSLO, Norway, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Helly Hansen, the leading global sailing brand, is proud to announce its continued partnership with New York Yacht Club American Magic, the US Challenger for the 37th America's Cup. Building on their experience from the previous campaign, the Norwegian-based brand and the world-class sailing team are again joining forces, determined to bring sailing's most coveted prize back home to the United States.
Helly Hansen and New York Yacht Club American Magic share a forward-thinking mindset and commitment to innovation, and through cutting-edge technology and high velocity collaboration, both organizations continue to deliver the highest performance within their fields. Looking ahead to the 37th America's Cup, their partnership will bring together top athletes, coaches, designers, R&D, engineers, and support teams, resulting in a campaign that will break new ground with innovation and technology at the forefront.
"Partnering with a brand committed to producing technically excellent garments was essential for the team," said Terry Hutchinson, Skipper and President of Sailing Operations for NYYC American Magic. "The Helly Hansen gear worn during the last America's Cup was constantly put to the test and delivered as a high-performing technical product. At American Magic, we need resilient apparel that can perform consistently at the highest level and in the most challenging conditions on and off the water. We're excited to continue to train and race in Helly Hansen apparel as we focus on our high-performance sailing program and target the 37th America's Cup."
Helly Hansen works with professionals and elite athletes worldwide, drawing on their insights and experience to create gear they can trust in even the harshest conditions. With professional feedback, the brand has an innate understanding of high-performance environments and aims to develop gear that delivers maximum protection so that professional teams and athletes can focus on their tasks without worrying about getting cold or wet. Partnering with American Magic, Helly Hansen will work closely with the team to ensure their apparel will exceed their expectations and ultimately enable them to be the team best positioned to take home the trophy.
"We are proud to renew our partnership with American Magic and its elite team of world-class professionals and athletes," said Carrie Ask, CEO, Helly Hansen. "Being able to partner closely with a team that shares our innovation mindset and vision is an honor and undeniable asset to Helly Hansen. We're looking forward to working with the team to extend the limits of performance, both on and off the water, and are committed to providing them with the best possible technical apparel to support their dream of bringing the America's Cup back home."
American Magic spent the summer building the team's base in the Port of Pensacola, FL, where sailing conditions in Pensacola Bay are perfect for developing the AC75, before commencing the team's third winter of training on the Gulf Coast. The team will spend all winter in Pensacola before relocating to Barcelona for the final push into the 37th America's Cup campaign in 2024. The 37th America's Cup will take place in Barcelona, Spain, in September and October 2024.
To stay updated on the partnership between Helly Hansen and New York Yacht Club American Magic, visit hellyhansen.com and americanmagic.americascup.com. In addition, a supporter apparel collection will be available on Helly Hansen's website starting spring/summer 2023.
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Oundle-based boat maker Fairline recruits 15 apprentices as it looks to plug skills gap
Manufacturer seeks to create ‘passionate’ workforce
A luxury boat manufacturer in Oundle has recruited 15 apprentices as the company looks to build a new construction team.
The trainees will carry out a two to four year course in carpentry and joinery or engineering as Fairline Yachts looks to fill a skills gap in its workforce.
To deliver the programme, Fairline Yachts, based in the Nene Valley Business Park, is partnering with Tresham College, in Corby, which has played a key role in the recruitment and selection process.
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The launch of Fairline’s new apprenticeship programme is part of action to create what bosses say will be an ‘engaged, passionate team of skilled tradespeople with a passion and flair for building the company’s luxury yachts.”
Paul Grys, chief executive of Fairline Yachts, which was acquired by Hanover Investors last year, said: “As a business we are continuously looking to push the boundaries of what is possible when we design and build our yachts.
“Carpentry and joinery and engineering have often been identified as a skills gap in our workforce, so these trade specific apprenticeships will help plug those gaps and set us up for our future growth.
“A skilled workforce that is passionate about building high-quality products is essential for bringing our designers’ ideas to life, which is why I’m delighted to welcome the team of apprentices to our business.”
Harshika Patel, learning and development partner, said: “We have strived to create a programme that delivers the very best education and career development to our apprentices.
“We have Apprentice Masters who will be training the apprentices in a dedicated onsite training facility.
“This will ensure the experience and development of our apprentices is of the very highest standard, whilst giving them the opportunity to work on hand-built British products that are well-renowned across the world.”
Gina Bubbins, Group Director of Business Development at The Bedford College Group, which includes Tresham College, said: “This is a great opportunity for people, and we are delighted to be supporting Fairline in their exciting project.
“The Bedford College Group is the region’s leading provider of apprentices and work-related training.”
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HybridCompute is industry-first to provide full control of where data is stored and queried via its native reverse ETL capabilities.
Highlights:
- ActionIQ brings the full power and flexibility of the AIQ CX Hub, including audience segmentation, journey orchestration and real-time experiences, directly into cloud data lakes via native push-down SQL and reverse ETL capabilities
- This new architecture offers improved data security and governance by allowing full control over where customer data is stored and processed
- HybridCompute enables enterprises to decide where to create their source of truth for customer data
- ActionIQ supports an agnostic approach to data storage and processing, working with leading data and analytics platforms like Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ, the leader in customer experience (CX) solutions that deliver actionable insight from customer data, today announced the launch of HybridCompute, a new feature of the AIQ InfiniteCompute technology that removes the requirement to replicate and move data, allowing enterprise IT teams to unbundle their customer data stack and take full control over where data is stored and queried. The AIQ CX Hub with HybridCompute now seamlessly integrates directly on top of cloud data lakes, helping enterprise IT teams maximize the value of existing technology investments, while empowering business users with drag and drop simplicity. .
InfiniteCompute is the data infrastructure technology that delivers unlimited computational power, making it possible for AIQ to manage and process more data than any other solution available. And with the addition of HybridCompute, InfiniteCompute can query data stored across multiple systems, enabling analytics anywhere data lives and post-processing that provides a consistent view of data across the entire AIQ CX Hub.
"AIQ's mission has always been to empower IT and business leaders to orchestrate personalized customer experiences at scale, and we've approached innovations in infrastructure as a key enabler to that," said Justin DeBrabant, Senior Vice President of Product at AIQ. "However, a lot has changed in data infrastructure space over the last 8 years since we started on that mission. Many companies have made investments to consolidate their customer data into a cloud data lake, and the gap to leveraging that data is less on data unification and more on simplified business access."
"We want to meet our customers wherever they are on their data infrastructure journey, and help them generate greater value on those investments by providing them scalable storage and compute infrastructure when they need it, or the ability to query the data where it is with HybridCompute if they've already done the work of data unification. And importantly, they won't need to choose all of one or the other, as InfiniteCompute will span seamlessly across any of these systems," he continued.
The AIQ CX Hub with HybridCompute gives enterprise IT teams the ability to unbundle their customer data stack, significantly streamlining resources, increasing flexibility, generating greater value on IT investments and driving accelerated CX transformation.
"By 2024, 80% of CIOs surveyed will list modular business redesign through composability, as a top-five reason for accelerated business performance," cites "Predicts 2022: Composable Applications Accelerate Digital Business" a Gartner® report published Dec. 1, 2021. The report goes on to say, "Composable digital business will use digital resources to cope with the rapid pace of business change, unfamiliar risks, diversifying customer expectations, and business, economic, societal and other uncertainties."
See also related announcements today and this week on partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake and Teradata to integrate HybridCompute and maximize value of existing investments.
Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use the AIQ CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences.
More information about ActionIQ HybridCompute and InfiniteCompute can be found here.
AIQ brings order to CX chaos. Our Customer Experience Hub empowers everyone to be a CX champion by giving business teams the freedom to explore and action on customer data while helping technical teams extend and enhance existing technology investments to manage data governance, costs and performance. Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use our CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences. Learn more at actioniq.com.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Budget airline Ryanair announced Tuesday that it will cancel several routes through Hungary and cut flights on several more following a months-long dispute with the country’s government over a special windfall tax placed on airlines.
The Ireland-based company’s CEO, Michael O’Leary, said at a press conference in Hungary’s capital that Ryanair had planned to launch 10 new routes through Budapest and base an additional airplane at its airport this winter.
“Sadly, however, those plans have now fallen at the altar of the Hungarian government’s decision to impose a ludicrous and idiotic excess profits tax on the airline sector, which has reported record losses,” O’Leary said.
Instead of expanding its presence in Hungary as planned to more than 5 million passengers next year, Ryanair will eliminate eight of its previously operating 53 routes through Budapest while imposing frequency cuts on seven more, he said.
This will reduce the company’s yearly passenger load in Hungary from 4.5 million to under 4 million, he added.
The decision came in response to Hungary’s government fining the low-cost airline more than 750,000 euros ($753,000) in August for alleged consumer protection violations. The fine came after the company raised ticket prices to cope with a tax on what the government calls “extra profits” of industries ranging from airlines to banks.
The nationalist government argued that such industries have enjoyed windfall profits arising from soaring demand after the COVID-19 pandemic, and should contribute to the country’s economic recovery.
But on Tuesday, O’Leary said Ryanair had posted 1.26 billion euros in losses in the last two years, and that targeting it and other airlines with excess profits taxes was “inexplicable.”
“We cannot get any explanation from the Hungarian government as to why an industry or a sector which is making record losses is being asked to pay excess profits,” O’Leary said.
Ryanair will appeal the “bogus” fine imposed on it by Hungary’s consumer protection authority in Hungarian courts, O’Leary said, adding that “we confidently expect we will lose,” but that the company will then appeal in European Union courts.
He also took a swipe at Hungary’s consumer protection agency, questioning its independence and accusing it of taking political cues from the Minister of Justice in imposing the fine.
“It’s not too late for the Hungarian government to realize the error of their ways,” O’Leary said. “The future of Hungarian tourism and industry lies entirely on making Hungary an attractive destination and a low-cost, competitive destination here in Central Europe.”
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The UK's number one super premium vodka has selected Speakeasy as it's official online partner
SAN DIEGO , Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After an incredibly successful launch in the UK and Europe, Au Vodka is now crossing over state-side, using Speakeasy Co. (Speakeasy) as its online partner. Known for its standout bottles, premium liquid and impressive social media following, Au Vodka aims to make its mark in the US market with the help of Speakeasy - the company that disrupted the beverage alcohol industry to allow streamlined direct-to-consumer sales for hundreds of brands.
Vodka has remained a steady mainstay in the market, however there has been increased demand for more premium products as well as a growing trend of flavored vodka. Au Vodka has answered this demand. It was started by Charlie Morgan and Jackson Quinn in 2016 in the UK when they saw a gap in the market for a luxury vodka brand. They were bored of receiving birthday presents of the same vodkas year after year, and felt they could bring a more exciting vodka to market. Known for its eye-catching gold bottles and uniquely flavored vodkas, Au Vodka later saw investment from superstar DJ Charlie Sloth, who also helped build the brand's social following. They are now the most followed spirits brand on TikTok.
Since launch, Au Vodka has seen a growth in its e-commerce business of 10,000% in terms of online revenue growth, with its revenues now at over $6.7 million in 2022.
"When speaking with Speakeasy I felt they understood the US e-commerce market and were leaders in building platforms for brands like us, to be able to sell and build our brand in the e-commerce space," says Daniel Price, Sales Director of Au Vodka for the US market. "Their ability to handle scale and merchandise is unparalleled, and they quickly understood our brand vision and passion for replicating our European e-commerce business state-side. They have allowed us freedom and collaboration to build our US website. We are very excited to be working with Speakeasy ahead of our launch."
"Although we've achieved amazing success here in the UK and have hit some incredible milestones, I'm even more excited to make our mark on the global stage," says Jordan Major, Head of E-Commerce for Au Vodka.
Speakeasy makes the direct to consumer process simpler for alcohol brands, while keeping the three tier system intact. As a partner to hundreds of brands, they create ease of fulfillment and offer marketing services, to ensure that brands can focus simply on their growth and continue to sell directly through their website.
"Au Vodka is a really special brand and was created by a truly amazing team, and we're so excited to have a part in their US launch and work them as they make a name for themselves in this market," says Josh Jacobs, Co-Founder and CEO of Speakeasy. "We anticipate that there will be a lot of demand for Au Vodka, and love that we've been able to continue to do what we do best - take the headache out of this process so that brands can focus on their growth and expansion."
Au Vodka is now available at auvodka.us, with Black Grape and Original Vodka flavors, along with its popular accessories and branded products. The vodka is priced at $39.99 per bottle.
Speakeasy Co. is a leading e-commerce and fulfillment platform servicing the beverage alcohol industry. The platform enables brands to sell directly to consumers from their respective websites without disrupting the three-tier system. Brands working with Speakeasy control their entire consumer journey from digital to doorstep, including customer relationships and data. To learn more, please visit speakeasyco.com and visit the Speakeasy Instagram and Facebook.
Au Vodka was founded in 2016 by JACKSON QUINN & CHARLIE MORGAN, two schoolmates from WALES in the UK. Au Vodka stood out from the crowd with its one of a kind gold bottle & crazy unique flavored & colored vodkas. AU VODKA'S turnover grew from $1 million to $54 million IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, WITH IT'S ECOMMERCE BUSINESS BOASTING a 10,000% online revenue growth, jumping from $30k in 2019 to more than $6.7 million in 2022.
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The Ethical, Culturally-Relevant and Quality-Focused Foodservice Company Lands at No. 592 on the Coveted List
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genuine Foods, the quality-focused foodservice company, has debuted at No. 592 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are honored to receive this recognition for the first time," said Jeff Mills, CEO of Genuine Foods. "Our growth is a testament to our core company value of providing health-forward, scratch-made meals to communities who need them most. Getting into the Inc. 5000 and making the top 1000 businesses speaks to the dedication and hard work of our entire team – from our corporate leaders to cooks and providers on the ground in our cafeterias and kitchens. As we grow our partnerships with K-12 schools, higher education, senior living facilities, community centers and non-profit organizations, we will continue to make a significant impact on foodservice across the country."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today." The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
Methodology
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent, as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
About Inc.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
About Genuine Foods
Genuine Foods is a quality-focused foodservice company that shuns packaged, processed and frozen 'food' in favor of scratch-made, wholesome, culturally relevant meals created with fresh, vibrant seasonal ingredients. Genuine Foods services K-12 schools, higher education, senior and hospital facilities and communities. Founded in 2015 by Jeff Mills, the longtime Director of Food & Nutrition Services for Washington D.C. Public Schools, the Genuine Foods team seeks to bring a radical, nationwide change to how foodservice looks — all at a refreshingly competitive price — especially in communities where poverty, obesity and health issues are prevalent. For more information: https://www.genuinefoods.com/.
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The redesigned 2022 Toyota Tundra pickup truck and redesigned 2022 Lexus NX compact crossover are being recalled for a faulty sensor that could prevent the electronic parking brake from being engaged, the NHTSA disclosed on Monday. If the parking brake can’t be engaged, and the driver ignores or disregards the warning lights in the cluster, the vehicle could roll away when parking on an incline.
The electronic control unit in the electronic parking brake system could falsely detect an overcurrent, which would trigger the system to shut down so as not to lead to a short circuit and possible fire. In this false state, the failsafe prevents the electronic parking brake from engaging or disengaging. The false read triggers a “Parking brake malfunction, visit your dealer” message in the instrument cluster, and/or it illuminates a malfunction indicator light in the cluster.
If the driver ignores these warnings, and if the driver parks on an incline and thinks they have engaged the parking brake and everything is fine, it is not. The truck or crossover can roll away.
The issue affects 83,725 vehicles total, but no hybrid models are included in the recall. The bulk of the volume—64,330 units—is of the 2022 Toyota Tundra. This is the fourth recall for the redesigned pickup truck since it went on sale at the end of last year. Two of the recalls involved the surround-view camera system, while the most significant recall pertained to a rear-axle housing that could separate from the shaft.
Owners will receive notification by mail as early as October 31, 2022. Toyota and Lexus dealers will reprogram the control unit at no cost to owners. For more information, contact Toyota’s customer service at 1-800-331-4331 or visit Toyota’s recall site.
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Nation's largest Parkinson's community gathers to raise funds for research, care and resources
MIAMI and NEW YORK , Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Parkinson's Foundation announced the Fall 2022 event lineup for Moving Day, a Walk for Parkinson's. Moving Day is the Foundation's signature fundraising event and a movement for more awareness, funding and a better understanding of Parkinson's disease (PD). This season puts forth an exciting roster of in-person and virtual gatherings, which will take place in 19 cities across the country.
Parkinson's affects an estimated one million Americans and 10 million worldwide, making it the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's. Moving Day is an inspiring fundraising event that honors loved ones with PD, celebrates movement and raises funds to advance quality care and cutting-edge research. Leading up to each event, participants and teams fundraise to support the Foundation's mission to make life better for people living with PD.
"We are excited to welcome back participants and are grateful for the opportunity to provide a community for anyone who has been impacted by Parkinson's disease," said Kayln Henkel, senior vice president and chief development officer of the Parkinson's Foundation. "Whether taking part with a team or joining as an individual, everyone has the chance to move with thousands of supporters with the common goal of making strikes toward a cure and raising funds that give more individuals access to the resources and support they need now."
New to this season is the National Moving Day Team Program, providing a way for companies to show their commitment to their communities and raise awareness for PD. Organizations participating in the program benefit from enhancing company culture through engagement with employees and partners, increasing reach by connecting with thousands of other supporters, and making a direct impact in several markets across the country.
In addition to local events, the Foundation is hosting Moving Day @ Home — a virtual walk experience that allows supporters to participate in Moving Day from anywhere in the country. The event welcomes walkers of all ages, speeds, and abilities, especially those without a nearby event.
Since 2011, Moving Day has gathered more than 161,600 participants and raised more than $35 million to improve care and advance PD research toward a cure. Funds raised through Moving Day support the Foundation's national mission by delivering quality care to more than 196,700 people living with PD, funding cutting-edge research to advance toward a cure, and providing free resources and local services for people living with PD and their families.
For more information on how to participate in a Moving Day event near you, visit MovingDayWalk.org or call the Parkinson's Foundation free Helpline at 1-800-4PD-INFO (473-4636) for assistance in English or Spanish.
About the Parkinson's Foundation
The Parkinson's Foundation makes life better for people with Parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure. In everything we do, we build on the energy, experience and passion of our global Parkinson's community. Since 1957, the Parkinson's Foundation has invested more than $400 million in Parkinson's research and clinical care. Connect with us on Parkinson.org, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or call (800) 4PD-INFO (473-4636).
About Parkinson's Disease
Affecting an estimated one million Americans and 10 million worldwide, Parkinson's disease is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's and is the 14th-leading cause of death in the U.S. It is associated with a progressive loss of motor control (e.g., shaking or tremor at rest and lack of facial expression), as well as non-motor symptoms (e.g., depression and anxiety). There is no cure for Parkinson's and 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Robbie Woodhouse’s grandfather began nearly a century of family farming along the Gila River near Yuma in the middle 1920s when he dug up a bunch of mesquite stumps on his land to make way for his barley, wheat, Bermuda seed, cotton and melon fields.
Farming never really took off at the Woodhouse homestead until 1954, when the federal government finished a 75-mile-long concrete canal to bring Colorado River water to what’s now known as the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District, which covers about 58,500 acres along the Gila River east of the Colorado.
Today, Woodhouse presides over the governing board of a district with more than 120 individual growers, partnerships, trusts and other operating entities growing about 100 different crops, including seed crops as well as staples like wheat, cotton, lettuce and other produce. Wellton-Mohawk is one of six agricultural districts in the Yuma area that together grow 90% of the cauliflower, lettuce, broccoli and other winter vegetables sold in the U.S.
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But now, the future of this district, of farming in the Yuma area in general and of Arizona’s second largest drinking water supply for urban residents are all mired in a sea of uncertainty. Due to a logjam in interstate negotiations for massive cuts in Colorado River water deliveries, farmers and urban users have no idea how much water use they’ll be ordered to cut, possibly starting next year.
All the Yuma area irrigation districts depend entirely on Colorado River water to nourish their crops. While groundwater does lie beneath many of the farm fields, its quality is uncertain or poor in many places.
“Obviously we’re very, very concerned," said Woodhouse, whose 1,250 acres grow mostly produce, such as cauliflower, broccoli and lettuce. “Without the water, we don’t grow anything. But I wouldn’t say we are scared. We do feel an obligation to do our part.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
Water officials of Arizona cities of Tucson, Goodyear and Scottsdale are also concerned and a little on edge although they’re not panicking. They are the most dependent of Arizona cities on river water delivered through the Central Arizona Project, a $4 billion, 336-mile-long canal system running from the river to the Phoenix and Tucson areas.
While all these cities have backup supplies, led by groundwater, to cushion them in the short- to medium-term in the event of river water cuts, their long-term picture is more uncertain because the CAP was extended into Arizona nearly 40 years ago precisely to get them off groundwater.
Arizona got about 36% of its total water supply from the river as recently as 2020. That share of river water feeding farms and cities has declined some since then, with the advent of a federally approved Drought Contingency Plan that will cut the state’s river water use by 21% starting in 2023. It’s expected to drop even further in the coming years but nobody knows how much right now.
The uncertainty was triggered first in June, when Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton testified at a U.S. Senate Committee hearing that to stabilize the river’s declining reservoirs Lakes Mead and Powell, the basin states need to cut their water use by roughly up to 30% starting in 2023, and come up with a plan to do that by mid-August. If a plan doesn’t appear by then, she warned the federal government would impose its own, to “protect the system.”
But mid-August came and went with no agreement and no plan or timetable for a plan from the bureau. The bureau did say at an Aug. 16 news conference, however, that it was going to look closely at several measures such as modifying the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams so they can keep delivering water at lower elevations and counting evaporation of water from Lake Mead and the river against the Lower Basin’s total water supply, thereby reducing that supply by hundreds of thousands of acre-feet a year.
So now, Wellton Mohawk and the other irrigation districts are pushing a plan to cut one acre-foot of water used per acre annually, on 925,000 acres along the Lower Colorado River in Arizona and California. In return, they’re seeking $1,500 an acre-foot in compensation, or a total of $1.387 billion annually.
With that money, they’ll invest in water-efficient farming tools like drip irrigation, gradually switch to less thirsty crops from water-slurping alfalfa and weather economic losses from reduced water use, Woodhouse said.
“What we want to have happen is for each individual farmer to operate their farms in the matter that they want to operate and plant the crops that they feel they can maintain the fertility of their soils,” he said. “I’m sure it’s going to greatly change crop rotations and also change management practices of individual farmers, to exist on less water. It’s real important that those decisions be left to each individual farm.”
This proposal has been roundly criticized by urban water leaders, however. While saying farms must take the biggest water use curbs because they use 72% of Arizona’s water and close to 80% basin-wide, Central Arizona Project officials say the farmers’ price tag is unrealistically high and that whatever money is paid should be used strictly to modernize irrigation practices for the long term.
“Anytime anyone wants to sit down with us and talk about it, we’re more than willing to do so. But no one has been willing to discuss it,” countered Wade Noble, an attorney representing the Yuma-area irrigation districts. “Until we get to that point, our voluntary forbearance of a significant amount of the water we control will remain on the terms we put on the table. We’re not going to negotiate with ourselves.”
Where both Arizona farms and cities agree is that the other river basin states and the federal government haven’t moved fast enough to reduce water use.
“Reclamation has got to show some leadership and say this has got to be done and give us a guide map as to how the system is protected as the commissioner promised what it would be,” Noble said.
The CAP’s board president Terry Goddard and its previous president Lisa Atkins wrote a letter on Aug. 19 to Interior Secretary that made essentially the same point. To date, no written response from Interior has been forthcoming.
With no action forthcoming on a deal, some Arizona water users have pulled back on past commitments to leave water in Lake Mead to prop it up. The Tucson City Council, for instance, had pledged earlier this year to leave 30,000 acre-feet in the lake in 2022 and 2023 but has since backed off that pledge and voted to order its full allocation of 144,191 acre-feet for 2023 pending the negotiations’ outcome. The Gila River Indian Community withdrew an even larger commitment, to leave nearly 130,000 acre-feet in Mead next year. The CAP is holding onto 35,000 acre-feet it was going to leave in Mead and announced plans to remove another 18,000 acre-feet from the lake next year.
“Unfortunately, the community has been shocked and disappointed to see the complete lack of progress in reaching the kind of cooperative basin-wide plan necessary to save the Colorado River system,” said Gila River Indian Community Chairman Stephen Roe Lewis.
Until now, it’s left almost 600,000 other acre-feet of its CAP supply in Mead since 2016. In 2022 alone, CAP users and other Arizona Colorado River users left nearly 800,000 acre-feet in Mead, led by 512,000 acre-feet it legally had to leave there under the terms of the 2019 Drought Contingency Plan due to the lake’s falling levels. Arizona and California left another 268,000 acre-feet in the lake this year from what’s called the “500 Plus Plan,” which had sought a half-million acre-feet in voluntary contributions to the lake, but projections for next year show more water will be removed from the lake under that plan than will be left in it.
Many Arizona cities using river water are preparing for the inevitability they’ll have to use less. In Goodyear, in the Phoenix area’s West Valley, whose population is about 101,000, the city has recharged about half of its annual CAP supplies into the ground for several years. It’s also been recharging treated sewage effluent into the ground, and has stored a total of seven years' supply of both sources. It anticipates no short-term problems in delivering water to customers, said Ray Diaz, Goodyear’s water resources and sustainability manager.
Colorado River shortfalls aren’t going to affect what the city does now but could in the future.
“What would happen if we were shorted and had to continue our approved development?" said Diaz. "It’s something we would have to look into and really assess what we could afford for the future — how much water we can provide.”
In Scottsdale in the Phoenix area’s East Valley, CAP supplies about 70% of the water for its 250,000 residents. Most is delivered directly to homes and businesses rather than recharged. If the city had to sustain a large cut in CAP supplies, it would have to rely much more heavily on groundwater, said Gretchen Baumgardner, the city’s water policy manager.
It has stored about 230,000 acre-feet of CAP water and treated sewage effluent in the ground — about 2.5 years worth of its current supply — but town officials don’t want to use it all at once, Baumgardner said. It also gets about 15% of its supply from Salt and Verde River surface supplies, delivered by the quasi-public utility the Salt River Project.
“There will be a larger portion of groundwater” used in the future, said Baumgardner, adding that city officials won’t know how much until they learn how drastic the cuts in CAP deliveries will be.
The city is also looking to extend its supply further. Its wastewater treatment plant in North Scottsdale operates a pilot project to treat a small amount of effluent to exceed state drinking water standards, a process called “direct potable reuse.” The city is working with the State Department of Environmental Quality to help set up new state regulations that would allow the plant to reuse its wastewater for drinking on a larger scale.
But when asked if a “Day Zero” could ever arrive in which Scottsdale failed to meet all residents’ demands for water, Baumgardner replied, “It’s just one of those uncertainties right now. That will really be hard to answer,” in part because of a pending effort by federal officials to overhaul its guidelines for operating its reservoirs — an effort that won’t be finished until 2026.
In Tucson, officials of the Tucson Water utility are more optimistic about their ability to survive major CAP cuts. The utility about 40 years ago signed up to take almost a third more CAP water than it needs today to serve the 735,610 customers living inside and outside city limits. That’s allowed it to store nearly five and a half years worth of CAP in large, recharge basins — water that can be pumped when needed during CAP shortages later. The utility also has access to a huge aquifer lying under a large expanse of former farmland northwest of the city that it bought and retired in the 1970s. It also is regularly recharging and storing underground large amounts of partially treated effluent that can be pumped later for drinking.
But there is one cautionary note. A recent Bureau of Reclamation study found that as the Southwest’s climate warms up, runoff of melting snows into rivers and washes surrounding the city is likely to decline, meaning less water will be replenishing its aquifer than in the past. That would increase the possibility that groundwater pumping in place of CAP water use could put increased pressure on the aquifer, triggering higher pumping costs and more likelihood of subsidence in which the ground collapses, possibly triggering fissures.
Ultimately, the story of CAP water in Arizona is a story about groundwater, added Kathryn Sorensen, a researcher for Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy. When there’s less Colorado River water delivered to Arizona, the cities, farms and other users fall back on groundwater, she said.
“We are very blessed to have plentiful aquifers in central Arizona we can fall back on,” Sorensen said while noting they are fossil aquifers, meaning water entered them thousands of years ago and they are not easily replaced.
"If we pump them and are unable to replenish the pumping, the aquifers will pay the price,” she said.
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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The crowd hung on his every word, cheering him on and booing his opponents. At one point, emotions ran high enough that someone in the crowd bellowed “Lock him up!”
This was no Donald Trump rally featuring the former president vowing to use prison to settle political scores. This cry came as President Joe Biden addressed top Democratic leaders at a riverside resort outside Washington, warning about “Trumpers” attempting to destroy U.S. democracy.
And, rather than urge bipartisan civility, Biden didn’t miss a beat.
“We have to win this off-year election,” the president said, “for more reasons than just being able to move our agenda forward.”
The boisterous mood of the Democratic National Committee’s recent summer gathering at National Harbor, just across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital, follows a new, sharper tone from Biden as he warns that the GOP’s Trump wing is a threat to core American values. The atmosphere signaled an emboldened party less than two months from Election Day, sensing that a year of political liabilities ranging from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to rising inflation is finally easing.
The Supreme Court’s decision invalidating a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade may prove to be a turning point that energizes Democratic voters in November, the party argues. Since then, Republican Kansas rejected a statewide abortion ban, and Democrats notched notable victories in special House elections in New York and Alaska.
“There’s a real sense that Republicans kicked the bee hive,” said Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, which wants to flip a Senate seat held by Republican Ron Johnson while retaining the governorship.
But as the party navigates an unexpected sense of momentum, it risks tapping into the same divisiveness Trump and his supporters relish — and that Democrats have said is undermining democratic norms. Democrats, however, insist that they must be clear about the stakes of the campaign.
“Republicans use fear as a tactic,” said Democratic Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly. “It seems like, a lot of times, that we might have to do a little bit of that, too.”
Biden, who rarely referred to his predecessor during the opening phase of his presidency, is increasingly vocal about the need to confront Trump. “This guy never stops and we’ll never stop, either,” he told the DNC.
Vice President Kamala Harris told the conference, “We refuse to let extremist so-called leaders dismantle our democracy.”
“Democrats, we, here, rise to meet this moment,” Harris said.
Making his own rounds at the DNC, Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, used sarcasm to slam even more moderate Republicans who have dared break with Trump on key issues like denouncing year’s deadly mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“We’ve got some Republicans who are saying the right things on say, I don’t know, treason? Like, as if pushing back on treason is somehow, you should be honored,” Emhoff told the DNC’s Midwestern conference to hoots of laughter and cheers. “That was in the oath of office that we all took. That’s the job.”
Trump rose to power with a divisive approach to politics. He encouraged violence against protestors at his rallies during the 2016 campaign and branded the media the “enemy of the people.” As president, he said several liberal congresswomen of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all are American citizens and three were born in the U.S. The final days of his administration were consumed by efforts to remain in office, including Trump’s personal role in sparking the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Republicans who were largely silent then are now blasting Biden and Democrats for picking political fights.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has called the president “the divider-in-chief” and dismissed “the current state of the Democrat Party: one of divisiveness, disgust, and hostility towards half the country.”
While Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their prospects, there’s still plenty of reason for caution. The party’s grip on Congress is already tenuous and many of the races that could determine control on Capitol Hill may be decided by narrow margins. Democrats have also missed signs of strong GOP turnout in the past several elections — leading to surprise setbacks in places like South Florida.
More fundamentally, the party that wins the presidency almost always loses congressional seats the next cycle, and inflation remains at near-record highs despite some recent indications it might be cooling. Biden’s approval ratings, while improving, remain low.
Ken Martin, chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and DNC vice chair, suggested that the key to midterm gains doesn’t have to be confrontational and can just mean trumpeting the accomplishments of Washington under Democratic control.
“Everywhere I go, I see Democrats hanging their head, wringing their hands, wondering, ‘Well, What are we going to do to win?’ You know what you need to do to make sure we win? Tell the story,” Martin said of promoting the party’s achievements. “President Joe Biden has led the way, delivered on almost every single promise.”
But Martin also suggested that simply staying positive may not be enough, adding that Democrats must “be willing to fight for our president” and “fight for our party.”
Wikler, the Wisconsin state Democratic chairman, said his party turned the GOP playbook back on Republicans to boost turnout in local elections throughout the state.
Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin’s harnessing parental frustration over schools that were closed during the pandemic helped key his upset win of the state’s governorship last year. Wikler said Democrats successfully argued in the latest round of local elections that so-called parental activism was actually built on conservative attacks on teacher authority, transgender students and how history is taught — with the ultimate goal of shifting taxpayer funding away from public schools.
“Explaining why the other side is doing what they’re doing can take the sting out of it,” Wikler said.
DNC Chair Jamie Harrison suggested his party has regained some of its political swagger nationally, calling the coming election “Roe-vember” as a way of predicting that support for abortion rights will lift Democrats.
But, as he traveled around the conference meeting with smaller caucus groups, Harrison also reminded them that Democratic leaders in critical swing states like Wisconsin and Michigan helped safeguard the electoral system from Trump’s lies about widespread fraud that did not occur in 2020. He said winning key races in such states this year is the best way to ensure the system holds after 2024’s presidential race results are in.
“If we are not successful in those elections,” Harrison said, “God help us all.”
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Findings from the 2022 AFP Strategic Role of Treasury Survey reveal that treasury is increasingly supporting other functions, such as business continuity planning and enterprise risk management.
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Improving payment processes and working capital improvements are the two most challenging tasks facing treasury professionals today, according to the 2022 AFP Strategic Role of Treasury Survey, supported by Marsh McLennan.
Treasury has also expanded its scope to support other functions. At 82% of organizations, treasury supports business continuity planning, and at 67% of organizations, treasury supports enterprise risk management.
This year, cash management and forecasting are a top priority for 68% of respondents' treasury departments. Among core functions, the emphasis placed on cash management and liquidity planning, heightened by the pandemic, remains as global issues continue to arise. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, treasury has been more focused on solving internal challenges rather than managing external concerns.
While soft skills remain most in demand for treasury professionals, the skill gap — i.e., the gap between importance and effectiveness — has widened since 2020 for two important traits: the ability to collaborate and the willingness to be a change agent.
Communication continues to be the most important skill for both senior treasury practitioners and treasury teams, but there is a gap with a larger share of respondents citing the skill to be important and a lesser share indicating that treasury leadership and treasury teams were effective in this area.
Over half (56%) of respondents indicated that their organizations are attempting to curb staff attrition in response to the "Great Resignation." Actions that respondents reported as being effective in preventing staff from resigning include:
- Allowing flexible work arrangements (71%).
- Offering growth opportunities within the organization (53%).
- Offering better compensation/benefits (51%).
"Against a landscape of global supply chain challenges and record-high inflation, treasury has an opportunity to rise to the occasion and provide sought-after guidance and expertise." said Jim Kaitz, AFP president and CEO. "Effective communication and collaboration will be critical for treasury departments as they help their organizations navigate the prevailing uncertainty."
"Treasurers have faced many hurdles over the past two years from pandemic liquidity issues to pension performance challenges," said Richard Smith Bingham, Executive Director, Marsh McLennan Advantage. "It's encouraging that treasurers have ridden this volatility as critical partners in their companies' resiliency efforts and that they are better prepared to help their organizations manage the considerable risks ahead."
The AFP Strategic Role of Treasury Survey was conducted in May 2022 and received responses from 390 treasury professionals. Full survey results are available on the 2022 AFP Strategic Role of Treasury Survey page. Please direct all press inquiries to Melissa Rawak, managing director, at mrawak@afponline.org.
Headquartered outside of Washington, D.C., and located regionally in Singapore, the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) is the professional society committed to advancing the success of treasury and finance members and their organizations. Established and administered by AFP, the Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Corporate FP&A Professional credentials set standards of excellence in treasury and finance.
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Paul-Adrien Maizener will lead Generali Global Assistance's continuous efforts to be a truly customer-centric, digital, data-driven company
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Generali Global Assistance ("GGA" or the Company) today announced the appointment of Paul-Adrien Maizener as Chief Transformation Officer. Mr. Maizener will focus on further developing the Company's Lifetime Partner relationship model to increase customer value by expanding digital advisory capabilities and establishing a seamless omnichannel strategy. He will also lead projects for scaling up the Company's data capabilities and in the wider adoption of smart automation and artificial intelligence technologies, while further expanding execution capabilities.
Chris Carnicelli, CEO of Generali Global Assistance, commented on the news, "Paul-Adrien will play a key role in enabling the digital transformation of our company. We are all looking forward to working with him to deliver on these strategic objectives, adding value for all our people. As he joins us from a sister company, Europ Assistance France, he understands our We Care philosophy and our goal to be a Lifetime Partner with our clients."
Mr. Maizener previously worked as Chief Transformation Officer of Europ Assistance France. During his tenure there, he oversaw the implementation of the new partnership between Europ Assistance France and Credit Agricole Assurances. Successful implementation of this partnership between France's top bank insurer and one of the world leaders in assistance allowed Europ Assistance France to strengthen its position as the benchmark assistance services company in terms of customer experience, service quality, and innovation at the service of all its partners and customers.
Paul-Adrien Maizener commented: "As a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Columbia University, I am looking forward to coming back to the U.S. for this important position. I am excited to join the team of talented professionals focused on innovation and enhanced customer experience in alignement with our vision to be the most reliable care company in the world."
This appointment renews Generali Global Assistance's commitment for more streamlined business operations and high-satisfaction customer experience as innovations and new technologies continue to open up a world of possibilities for the company and its customers.
Generali Global Assistance (GGA) is a leading brand comprised of Travel Insurance & Assistance, Medical Risk Management, Identity & Cyber Protection, as well as other care services. GGA is part of the Generali Group, which for over 190 years has provided peace of mind to its clients and their customers and is now supported by more than 72,000 employees worldwide. Our success has been built on establishing trust by putting the customer at the core of everything we do, offering assistance and protection during our customer's most difficult and stressful situations.
To learn more about GGA, please visit: https://us.generaliglobalassistance.com/
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The Ethical, Culturally-Relevant and Quality-Focused Foodservice Company Lands at No. 592 on the Coveted List
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genuine Foods, the quality-focused foodservice company, has debuted at No. 592 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are honored to receive this recognition for the first time," said Jeff Mills, CEO of Genuine Foods. "Our growth is a testament to our core company value of providing health-forward, scratch-made meals to communities who need them most. Getting into the Inc. 5000 and making the top 1000 businesses speaks to the dedication and hard work of our entire team – from our corporate leaders to cooks and providers on the ground in our cafeterias and kitchens. As we grow our partnerships with K-12 schools, higher education, senior living facilities, community centers and non-profit organizations, we will continue to make a significant impact on foodservice across the country."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today." The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
Methodology
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent, as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
About Inc.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
About Genuine Foods
Genuine Foods is a quality-focused foodservice company that shuns packaged, processed and frozen 'food' in favor of scratch-made, wholesome, culturally relevant meals created with fresh, vibrant seasonal ingredients. Genuine Foods services K-12 schools, higher education, senior and hospital facilities and communities. Founded in 2015 by Jeff Mills, the longtime Director of Food & Nutrition Services for Washington D.C. Public Schools, the Genuine Foods team seeks to bring a radical, nationwide change to how foodservice looks — all at a refreshingly competitive price — especially in communities where poverty, obesity and health issues are prevalent. For more information: https://www.genuinefoods.com/.
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As summer turns to fall, the garden may seem to fade into the background. But there’s still plenty of action going on underground, so this is no time to rest.
For starters, your plants still need water. Although their thirst will wane as temperatures cool, perennials, trees and shrubs in colder regions actually require extra water in early autumn to help them prepare for (and successfully emerge from) dormancy.
In cooler zones, plant pansies for a dash of fall color. They’ll die down over winter but return to bloom again next spring until the heat of summer does them in. In warmer zones, the pansies will keep doing fine so long as winter temperatures don’t rise above 80 degrees.
Add other seasonal bloomers to the garden or containers, too. Chrysanthemums, asters, and colorful ornamental kales and cabbages are good choices.
You can also start planting bulbs. In areas that experience winter freezes, this means hardy ones like tulips, muscari, daffodils, crocus, hyacinths, snowdrops and glory of the snow. In the South, consider amaryllis, caladiums, calla lilies, cannas, daffodils, dahlias, elephant ears, gladiolus and tuberous begonias.
Those gardening in the southernmost parts of the U.S., like South Texas and Florida, can plant another round of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants.
There’s no need to pull up declining crops if they’re still producing. Take what you can from them until they die down on their own, then clear beds of plant debris.
Planting a cover crop such as clover or rye in vacant vegetable beds will help suppress weeds, control erosion and add nutrients to the soil. Come spring, just turn the ground over and plant your next garden. Avoid using legume cover crops in beds where you plan to grow legumes like beans or peas, however.
Dispose of diseased plants in the trash, and start a compost pile with healthy plant parts. Create layers of fresh materials like fruit and vegetable kitchen scraps, grass clippings, weeds that haven’t gone to seed, coffee grounds, cornstarch packing peanuts, horse manure, and rabbit and bird droppings. Alternate them with dry items like leaves, twigs, shredded paper and straw (never include used kitty litter, dog poop, fats, meat, dairy or other animal products).
To speed decomposition, sprinkle a bit of nitrogen over each layer and keep the pile slightly moist, turning it every so often with a pitchfork. By next summer, you’ll be able to enrich your soil with “black gold.”
To prepare for spring planting, test your soil’s pH now and add amendments like lime, if indicated, and compost, which will work their way deep into the ground over winter.
Avoid fertilizing everywhere except in the South, where some turfgrasses may benefit from an early fall application of a slow-release product. But observe local fertilizer restrictions to protect the ecosystem and prevent waste (and, potentially, fines). During the South’s rainy season, for example, nitrogen is likely to be washed through the soil into groundwater; in the North, cooling temperatures prevent the absorption of fertilizers, which also can leach into groundwater there.
Both scenarios pollute our precious resources and waste money, as unabsorbed fertilizer won’t benefit your lawn or plants, anyway.
Southern gardeners should feed citrus trees now, but not during rainy weather. Use a slow-release product to provide long-lasting nutrients and avoid leaching and runoff.
Rejuvenate the lawn, but core aerate it first. Seed once a week and water lightly every day until it’s 3 inches tall.
Transplant and divide spring- and early-summer perennials and groundcovers, but don’t disturb late-season bloomers until spring.
Fall is a good time to plant trees and shrubs. In cold zones, it’s best to wait until the trees in your area drop their leaves. Water well and apply mulch.
Cool-season crops, like beets, radishes, greens and broccoli can be planted in many temperate climes now.
Finally, do your future self a favor and keep on top of weeds. Pulling them up by their roots before they set seed will significantly reduce their numbers next year.
You’ll thank yourself in the spring.
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Amazon has quietly released a new baseline Kindle E Ink e-reader for $100 that no longer seems so entry-level. While its 6-inch screen makes it a smaller and lighter e-reader than the step-up Kindle Paperwhite ($130), its display has the same 300 ppi resolution as the Paperwhite. However, that step-up model adds waterproofing and incorporates a more sophisticated front lighting scheme, with 17 LEDs compared to the Kindle 2022's four. The new e-reader is available for preorder now in black or denim blue and ships on Oct. 12.
The Kindle 2022 measures 6.2 by 4.3 by 0.32 inches (158 by 109 by 8 mm) and weighs 5.56 ounces (158 grams), all of which are smaller measurements than the 2019 Kindle. By comparison, the Kindle Paperwhite weighs 7.23 ounces (205 grams). Both models feature USB-C charging.
Amazon didn't skimp on the storage for the Kindle 2022. It comes with 16GB, which is actually 8GB more than what you get with the base model of the Paperwhite. Battery life is also said to be extended up to six weeks.
In the past, we recommended stepping up to the Paperwhite if you could afford it, mainly because it had a higher resolution display than the entry-level Kindle, which allowed text to appear more crisp. But with both models now featuring similar displays (at least as far as resolution goes), we may have to revise that recommendation, especially when the new Kindle 2022 potentially sees $20-$30 discounts during the holiday season.
Read more: Best E-Readers for 2022
We'll need some hands-on time with the new Kindle 2022 before we deliver a more definitive verdict, but its smaller size, lighter weight and improved display make it a significantly more appealing entry-level Kindle.
The new reader is also available in a child-friendly version called Amazon Kids ($120). That model is the same hardware, but adds a cover, a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids Plus (a large collection of kid-friendly reading material), as well as a two-year warranty.
Kindle 2022 key features, per Amazon
- The lightest and most compact Kindle: 5.56 ounces (158 grams)
- 300 ppi high-resolution glare-free E Ink display
- Adjustable front light (4 LEDs) and dark mode
- Extended battery life: single charge via USB-C lasts up to 6 weeks
- 16GB of storage (double the storage capacity of the previous generation)
- Uses 30-75% recycled plastics, 90% recycled magnesium and has 100% recyclable device packaging
- Two colors: black or navy
- Price: $100
- Ships Oct. 12
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The Prudential Emerging Visionaries program will recognize students ages 14–18 creating positive change in their communities.
NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Applications open today for Prudential Emerging Visionaries, a program that celebrates young people bringing fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to pressing financial and societal challenges in their communities.
"Recognizing young leaders for making their communities stronger and more inclusive is another way Prudential fulfills its purpose of making lives better by solving the financial challenges of our changing world," says Chairman and CEO Charles Lowrey. "Our inaugural class of Emerging Visionaries was truly exceptional, and we're looking forward to honoring more young innovators in 2023."
The program, now in its second year, builds on the legacy and momentum of the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, the country's largest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteer community service. Between 1995 and 2020, the Spirit awards honored more than 150,000 young people across the United States and internationally. Inspired by the impressive vision of these young leaders, Prudential reimagined the program in 2021 to honor students addressing societal and financial challenges.
In April 2023, 20 students will be awarded for their solutions to social issues, and five for their solutions to financial barriers. Each winner will receive $5,000 plus an all-expenses-paid trip to Prudential's headquarters in Newark, New Jersey. During this event, the five honorees in the financial solutions category will pitch their ideas to Prudential leaders for a chance to receive a grand prize of $15,000.
Winners will also have the opportunity to consult with Prudential leaders about strategies to advance their work, and to participate in a coaching program with employees to refine their projects.
Prudential is collaborating with Ashoka, a leading organization in the social impact sector, to help develop winners' skills through ongoing workshops and online courses. Advisory support is provided by the Financial Health Network, a leading authority on financial health and longtime partner of The Prudential Foundation.
Applications for the program are open now through Nov. 3. Awards are open to students ages 14–18 in the United States. Prudential operates similar programs in other countries where the company has a significant business presence, including Brazil, China, India and Japan.
For more information about Prudential Emerging Visionaries, including how to apply, visit prudential.com/emergingvisionaries.
About Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a financial wellness leader and premier active global investment manager, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Prudential's diverse and talented employees help to make lives better by creating financial opportunity for more people. Prudential's iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for more than a century. For more information, please visit news.prudential.com.
About Ashoka
Ashoka is the largest global network of leading social entrepreneurs — individuals with new ideas to systemically address the world's biggest challenges and the entrepreneurial skill to transform those ideas into national, regional and global social impact. Over 40 years, Ashoka has supported more than 3,600 social entrepreneurs in 90 countries with solutions addressing society's most pressing issues. Ashoka's vision is a world in which everyone is a changemaker — a society that responds quickly and effectively to challenges, and where everyone has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem. For more information, visit ashoka.org.
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Join The Miles Group's Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin as they discuss how energy, carriage, messaging, delivery, rising to leadership, and being the best follower define an effective executive presence
Episode 1: "Beyond the Sartorial" airs Tuesday, September 13th
Episode 2: "Introverts and Extroverts; Thinkers and Blinkers" airs Tuesday, September 27th
Episode 3: "Followership" airs Tuesday, October 11th
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Executive presence is particularly important when you are a leader, as your life is full of first impressions," says Stephen Miles, CEO of The Miles Group. "If you are an acquired taste, it can be more difficult to get things done and manage a broad set of critical stakeholders."
The Miles Group's C-Suite Intelligence podcast returns with a 3-part series featuring Miles and COO Taylor Griffin on "The Real Meaning of Executive Presence."
"You've heard a lot about dressing for the job that you want and looking the part. But what we want to do is go beyond that, to what we would define as what real executive presence means," says Miles, on today's episode of the podcast, "Beyond the Sartorial." "It's really about how you carry yourself, how you manage your energy, how you deliver your messages – and to what audience – how you rise to your new leadership roles, and how are you the best follower on your team."
This series examines how to develop an effective executive presence by showing up well and in the right way, identifying where you are on the continuum of introverts vs. extroverts, thinkers vs. blinkers, and being the best, high-performing follower by getting off of autopilot, and "going to manual."
There is "a set of variables that are incredibly important to the way people perceive you," says Miles. "Your performance is your perception in your current role; your potential is the perception of you in future roles. What we want to talk about is how do we get the potential score through the roof."
The first installment of C-Suite Intelligence's Executive Presence three-part series drops Tuesday, September 13 with episode 9, "Beyond the Sartorial." Released biweekly, episodes 10 and 11 of the series will air September 27 and October 11, respectively.
Beyond the Sartorial (Season 2, Episode 9)
Many executives who have been working from home during Covid may need a wardrobe and executive appearance refresh. Yet the challenge for most leaders who receive feedback around their executive presence is that their sartorial style is fine. Real executive presence extends far beyond dress, to the substance of their contributions and their ability to both elevate and adapt their styles to new challenges, reporting relationships, and colleagues.
Introverts and Extroverts; Thinkers and Blinkers (Season 2, Episode 10)
We often think of "Blinkers" as extroverts who are good 'on the fly' – improvisational, instinctual, and in-the-moment. "Thinkers," on the other hand, can be mostly introverts who like to have a chance to prepare and triangulate data so that they can anticipate topics of discussion. Building off the work of Daniel Kahneman (author of Thinking, Fast and Slow), Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin discuss how this useful two-system framework can help leaders better understand themselves and how to show up appropriately and with confidence.
Followership (Season 2, Episode 11)
Conversations around developing an effective executive presence tend to focus heavily on 'leadership' but not enough on 'followership.' Most executives are followers long before they are leaders. For Stephen Miles and Taylor Griffin, good followership requires understanding your own style and making sure it complements both your boss's and your teammates' style. And it is critical to becoming a good leader.
To hear more about how to develop and elevate your executive presence, listen to the first installment of "The Real Meaning of Executive Presence: Beyond the Sartorial," released today on the C-Suite Intelligence podcast, available everywhere, including Apple, Google, and Spotify.
For more information, please contact Davia Temin or Trang Mar of Temin and Company at 212.588.8788 or news@teminandco.com.
About the C-Suite Intelligence podcast
CEOs running the world's top companies don't start out that way – they pull ahead of their peers with behaviors and practices that make them the "best of the best." Stephen Miles and the team at TMG coach some of the world's most successful executives, helping them continuously up their game even as business conditions grow more complex every day. Learn the secrets of the highest performers and use this intelligence to power your career. New episodes are released bi-weekly on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
About The Miles Group/TMG
TMG develops talent strategies for organizations, teams, and individuals – focusing on high-performance, world-class leadership. Through assessments and development, coaching, leadership transition planning, and organizational design, TMG helps clients cultivate exceptional talent from the C-suite to the next generation of leaders throughout the organization. Clients include many of the Fortune 100 as well as VC portfolio companies, firms in transition, and organizations around the globe and across industries. TMG has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, C-Suite, Entrepreneur, and Chief Executive. The firm is headquartered in New York City and operates globally. For more information, visit https://miles-group.com. Follow TMG on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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BERLIN (AP) — Nine nations bordering the North Sea announced plans Monday to massively increase offshore wind power in the coming decades as part of an effort to combat climate change and become independent of fossil fuel imports, particularly from Russia.
German officials said members of the North Seas Energy Cooperation aim to expand wind power generation in the region to 76 gigawatts by 2030.
Subsequent targets are for 193 gigawatts of wind power in the North Sea by 2040 and 260 gigawatts by mid-century. Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry said current generation capacity in the region is less than 20 gigawatts.
The countries that agreed to those goals include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The United Kingdom, whose territory is surrounded by the North Sea and which has significant offshore wind plans of its own, is not a member of the group since leaving the European Union in January 2020.
Last month, seven European countries bordering the neighboring Baltic Sea committed themselves to a seven-fold increase of offshore wind power production there by 2030.
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The partnership between HairClub and The Celia Cruz Foundation highlights HairClub's award-winning "El Poder del Cabello" (the power of hair) campaign and the famous wig worn by Celia Cruz
Proceeds from the commission and other donations will benefit communications, arts, and music within the Hispanic community
MIAMI, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, HairClub and the Celia Cruz Foundation are teaming up to pay tribute to "La Reina de la Salsa" (The Queen of Salsa) Celia Cruz. HairClub President and CEO Mike Nassar announced the commissioned of a commemorative certified replica paired with an NFT design of Cruz's wig to be auctioned in New York during the week of her birthday, which falls on October 21. Through the Celia Cruz Foundation, HairClub donations will total $40,000 towards music and cultural programs.
"I am thrilled to partner with the Celia Cruz Foundation, representing such an iconic figure in the music world to support the Hispanic causes they serve, especially as the first brand to partner with Celia's NFT as part of our award-winning 'El Poder del Cabello' campaign," said Nassar. "As the leading provider of hair loss solutions in the United States, we are determined to expand and strengthen our commitment to minority markets."
Nassar credits Cruz's cultural legacy and iconic sense of style as an inspiration aligned with HairClub's mission of empathy and empowerment. "We at HairClub are committed to creating an emotional connection, while providing life-changing hair solutions and services that help our members like who they see in the mirror," said Nassar. "This is about so much more than selling products – like 'El Poder del Cabello' our message is about lifestyle and choices, being authentic and transparent."
Beneficiaries include Florida State University, which will receive its contribution during an event at the Tower Club in Ft. Lauderdale on September 29th. Another donation to the Celia Cruz School of Music in the Bronx, New York coinciding with an event in Puerto Rico at the St. Claire Foundation and announcement of the Phygital auction winner.
"This Phygital (Replica + NFT), commissioned as a result of HairClub's sponsorship will nurture Celia Cruz's legacy through one of her most memorable accessories, her wigs – carried out by Archetype IO, a company dedicated to new technologies within the metaverse," said Celia Cruz Foundation CEO and Founder Omer Pardillo. "During Hispanic Heritage Month, the virtual image will be available from September 12 to October 18 at an auction, which is open to everyone, with funds going to develop music, art, and communication in Hispanic communities."
Renzo Ferro, General Manager at Latin2Latin Marketing + Communications, is excited about how the innovative initiative will affect the Hispanic community. "HairClub is sharing its understanding of the Hispanic experience, diversity, and culture by further educating and engaging with the public and providing tools to enable positive change. HairClub continues to lead the hair loss space, reinforced by 45 years of knowledge and expertise that still continues to impact new generations," said Ferro. "Studies show that 21 percent of NFT owners are African American and 20 percent are Hispanic. Based on these insights, our digital partner Digo will leverage these cultural nuances on digital and deliver the campaign message through their first and third-party data, and will utilize other technological tools to effectively reach and impact the Hispanic community in new and powerful ways."
For more information: www.hairclubweb.com/celiacruz o https://celiacruz.com/celia-auction/
The Celia Cruz Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization whose main commitment is to preserve, proliferate and promote the legacy of the late Cuban singer and "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz, and help students in music education. Celia was an incredible musical ambassador, bringing Salsa, in particular, and Latin music in general, to the forefront of the world's consciousness. It was always her mission to open doors for Hispanic students who wished to pursue musical studies, but due to financial constraints, were not able to do so.
HairClub, is the leading hair restoration, regrowth and replacement in the United States and Canada. For nearly 45 years HairClub has provided hair loss solutions including non-surgical and surgical hair replacement, in-center and at home therapies. The company helps members of all ages and stages of hair loss including women and children. Hair Club provides free hair restoration services to children with medical conditions that cause hair loss.
Media Contact: Gladys I. Colón / Latin2Latin/ 305-608-9996 /gladys@l2lmarketing.com
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NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman accused of killing a woman to steal her unborn baby to present as her own went on trial for capital murder Monday.
Taylor Rene Parker has pleaded not guilty to capital murder and kidnapping in the October 2020 deaths of 21-year-old Regan Michelle Simmons-Hancock and the daughter who died after being cut from her mother’s womb. Authorities say Simmons-Hancock was stabbed and cut more than 100 times and had her skull crushed with a hammer in her New Boston, Texas, home before a scalpel was used to remove her unborn baby. She is also charged with non-capital murder in connection with the baby’s death.
Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp told the Bowie County jury Monday that Parker, 29, acted not because she wanted a baby but to keep from losing her boyfriend. Crisp said Parker disguised herself to make her look pregnant for nearly 10 months, faked ultrasounds, had a gender-reveal party and posted about her fake pregnancy on social media while searching for a possible victim, Crisp said.
“How did we get here?” Crisp asked the jury. “How did it get this far? She is an actress, an actress of the highest order. The lies and fraud go on and on; the layers of fraud are staggering. You are going to have to understand the fraud to understand what happened on Oct. 9. This started months and months ahead of time until it passed the point of no return, and it ended up in homicide.”
Leaving the victim’s 3-year-old daughter alone with her dying mother, Parker then drove with the baby in her lap when a state trooper stopped the car and sent the child to a hospital in nearby Idabel, Oklahoma, authorities say. The child later died.
Witnesses said Parker, who could not conceive after a hysterectomy, had offered $100,000 for a surrogate mother and told her boyfriend that she would have an induced delivery the day of the killing.
Defense attorney Jeff Harrelson asked the six male and six female jurors not to fall prey to their emotions and to keep an open mind.
“It’s a complicated case, factually and emotionally,” he said. “The law is the lens and filter you must view these facts through. Sometimes it’s not black and white but a shade of gray.”
Parker could get the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of capital murder. Attorneys estimated they would present at least two weeks of testimony.
New Boston is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Texarkana, Texas.
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Survey finds flexibility continues to be a top priority for gig workers, as inflation drives them to their phones for work.
GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyer, a leading on-demand labor app powering the gig economy, today announced findings from their 2022 midyear survey, "A Glimpse into the Gig Economy." Surveying over 1,000 gig workers who have turned to Hyer for gig work, the survey sought to better understand their views on the current labor landscape, the impact inflation is having on them, and their overall outlook on the gig economy.
As inflation wears on, the survey found that 80% of workers reported being extremely concerned about inflation, with 65% citing they are picking up more gig work or working multiple jobs in an effort to battle rising prices.
Hyer CEO, Dave Dempsey, said, "Another revealing factor spurring growth throughout the gig economy has been the continued shift to more flexible work. With 73% of workers citing flexibility as the main driver for choosing gig work over the traditional 9 to 5 grind, an overwhelming 85% also believe gig work is a great long-term option for them when it comes to earning money."
In McKinsey's latest American Opportunity Survey, they showed a seismic shift in how Americans work —with a remarkable 36 percent of respondents identifying as independent workers. However, because independent contractors do not fit neatly into official labor statistics, this pool tends to be an underreported segment of the economy.
Today, this growing pool of talent represents nearly 60 million workers in the United States that participate in the gig economy. "As August job openings continue to outnumber available workers by just shy of a 2-to-1 margin, many businesses are looking for alternative ways to hire the help they need—and it's out there," Dempsey said.
August numbers reinforced that there is still a considerable shortage of workers for available positions, a sign that the U.S. labor market is still extremely hot, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
As businesses look for ways to fill these gaps, McKinsey said that shifting to a more agile workforce that includes independent workers enables companies and organizations of all sizes to expand their workforces during periods of peak demand—such as holiday seasons for retailers. A strategy that can shore up workers while reducing costs.
About Hyer
Hyer, a leading on-demand labor app powering the gig economy, connects workers to businesses in real-time. Delivering temporary staffing to leading retailers, warehouses, hotels and restaurants in the tap of an app—our team is continually guided by our vision to Reinvent How Work Gets Done. Led by a team of industry experts, Hyer launched in 2019 in Michigan—and today has expanded their footprint across 27 states.
To learn more about Hyer, visit www.gohyer.com
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NORWALK, Conn., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Security Services Holdings LLC (dba Protos Security), the leading tech-enabled managed services security guarding provider in North America, announces that it has acquired MG Security Services. Protos Security is a portfolio company of Southfield Capital and adding MG Security Services to its offering expands Protos' presence across the East Coast. The transaction closed on September 1, 2022.
MG Security Services provides armed and unarmed security guard services, crisis management, fraud prevention and private investigation for commercial real estate, hospitals, property management, education and financial services clients. Headquartered in NYC, MG Security employs over 1,200 guards.
"MG Security Services is a highly reputable security and risk mitigation firm with unmatched experience and credentials. This acquisition greatly accelerates the growth of our organization and enhances our service offering in the NYC Metro area while also positioning us as the fourth largest security services provider nationally," said Anthony Escamilla, CFO at Protos Security. "With an impressive roster of customers across many industries and an emphasis on client relations, the addition of MG Security Services to the Protos family makes us an attractive security services partner to clients across new verticals."
Manny Gomez, Founder and President of MG Security Services added, "We are excited for our new partnership with Protos. The combination of our tenured management team and extensive experience in law enforcement, including NYPD and FBI, will provide enhanced service offerings to clients. Protos shares our vision to create an industry-leading security services firm through a wide range of high-quality solutions. We look forward to this alignment and to better serving our customers."
"The strategic acquisition of MG Security Services adds significant scale to Protos' direct guard operations and further diversifies Protos' offering to the marketplace," said Andy Cook, Partner at Southfield Capital. "MG Security Services further unlocks growth potential in attractive end markets such as healthcare while expanding the geographic footprint of Protos on a national level. We believe this partnership will create significant value for our clients and will further position us as the industry's leading provider of security solutions."
By continuing to invest in its management team, technology and service capabilities, Protos is more aggressively positioned in the security marketplace. Protos' mission is to provide differentiated, best total-value security solutions that deliver world-class service to our customers. MG Security Service's founder, Manny Gomez, will join Protos' leadership team with no changes to management structure post-close.
Protos Security, a portfolio company of Southfield Capital, is a technology-enabled security services company offering security guarding, monitoring and device solutions for a wide spectrum of customers across North America. Protos Security prides itself on delivering a high touch service, actionable insights, transparency and program flexibility for its clients. For more information on Protos Security, please visit www.protossecurity.com.
MG Security Services is a full-service security and risk mitigation firm with highly trained and experienced protection professionals. MG Security Services specializes in physical and cyber security, private detective investigations and event services. Headquartered in New York City, MG Security Services is known for its comprehensive services and ability to craft custom security plans. For more information on MG Security Services, please visit www.mgsecurityservices.com.
Southfield Capital is a private equity firm that invests in exceptional, growing companies in the lower middle market outsourced business services sector. Southfield targets companies with $4-15 million in EBITDA and partners with owners and management teams that are enthusiastic about scaling their operations through a combination of organic and acquisition growth strategies. For more information on Southfield Capital, please visit www.southfieldcapital.com.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has agreed to restore the former name of the country's capital just three years after he renamed it in honor of his predecessor, his spokesperson said Tuesday.
One of Tokayev's first moves upon taking office in 2019 after President Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped down was to call for Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, to be dubbed Nur-Sultan instead.
Nazarbayev, who led the country for three decades under the Soviet Union and after it gained independence in 1991, relocated the capital from Almaty to Astana in 1997. The move was widely questioned because of the city's relative isolation in the northern steppes and notoriously frigid winters in which temperatures plunge as low as 51 degrees Celsius below zero (minus-60 F).
He made the city into a showplace of gaudy architecture, including an observation tower where visitors can place their hands in a print of Nazarbayev's.
After he stepped down, Nazarbayev retained enormous influence as head of the county's ruling party and security council. But Tokayev removed him from those posts after deadly unrest in January that hinged partly on dissatisfaction with the power that Nazarbayev still wielded.
Tokayev's spokesman, Ruslan Zheliban, said the president agreed to the name change after an initiative by a group of parliament members.
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LONDON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dwight School London, a leading independent international school, is excited to launch a new electric bus service in partnership with the global smart bus transport company, Zeelo. The school has committed to electrifying part of its school transport offering as part of its ongoing mission to reduce its overall carbon footprint while also lowering operational costs. Dwight School London will run an electric bus service for one of three routes serviced by Zeelo for the home to school run. The switch from petrol buses to electric, will enable Dwight School London to reduce its annual carbon emissions from school transport by as much as 33%.The new electric bus route forms part of the school's wider sustainability initiative, aligning with its Development Plan towards the reduction of scope 3 carbon emissions.
Zeelo has been providing smart bus commute services to Dwight School London since 2021 to run efficient, safe, and reliable home-to-school transport and is already Europe's only bus transport company that offers 100% carbon neutral bus rides. Zeelo currently offsets the entirety of CO2 emissions of all its private bus & shuttle services for over 200 organisations, including the dead leg, and averages a saving of over 12,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. [1] Encouraging the adoption of electric vehicles for its services forms part of Zeelo's ESG Strategy to drive a transition towards net zero-bus transport in the UK by 2030, with Dwight School London becoming the first educational organisation in its portfolio to adopt Zeelo's electric bus offering.
Sam Ryan, CEO of Zeelo commented: "Offsetting carbon emissions goes some way towards helping us meet our sustainability targets but does not resolve the issue of air quality around schools and educational campuses. We're delighted to support Dwight School London with their CO2 reduction plans by enabling the transition of their school transport services from diesel to electric vehicles and help pave the way for all our education customers to switch to a net-zero transport service."
Dwight School London, through its partnership with Zeelo, has already seen 10,802 car journeys taken off the road in the last year, amounting to 23.87 tonnes of CO2 emissions removed from the atmosphere since the original service launched in September 2021.The new option to switch to a 100% electric bus service allows all Zeelo customers not only to significantly reduce the CO2 emissions (an extra 3 cubic tonnes of CO2 emissions savings) but also enhance the quality of the air around their campus. Through a managed service solution that is supported by an advanced routing engine and operations technology that has been modified to include vehicle range and charging opportunities, Zeelo will make the transition to electric bus commuting painless.
Chris Beddows, Head of the School, said: "We place innovation and sustainability at the heart of our school's mission, vision and values. We are thrilled and immensely proud to be the first school in the whole of the United Kingdom to add this electric vehicle to our fleet of school buses and our whole community is excited by this new initiative. As a school who takes pride in taking action for the betterment of the world, the electric bus will help make the world a greener place and signify to our students that the climate is something that is hugely important to us as a school. The Zeelo electric bus was showcased to the students and there was a real buzz of excitement and interest which spilled back into the classrooms."
Zeelo provides tech-enabled, flexible turn-key and plug-in transportation services for over 1.8 million passengers per year on their daily commute to work and school across the UK, North America and South Africa, and hopes that this initiative will pave the way for more organisations making a switch to EV.
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About Dwight School London:
Dwight School London is part of the internationally renowned global Dwight family of schools with outstanding student to teacher ratios. It is celebrating its 50th year anniversary this year and remains a leading independent international school located in the North Finchley, Woodside Park and Friern Barnet areas of north London, United Kingdom. It educates children from the ages of 2-18 and consists of a nursery, junior and senior schools.
About Zeelo
Zeelo is a smart bus platform for organisations. The global tech company is modernising daily bus commutes for frontline workers and students so that they can get to work and school in a faster, smarter, and much greener way. Zeelo serves large businesses and independent schools and moves nearly 150,000 riders each month across the world. Zeelo's tech-optimised bus routes not only reduce carbon emissions by 78% by replacing 30 cars for every bus journey, but also offset 100% of each Zeelo bus journey. Its innovative transport management software system comprises a SaaS platform, proprietary routing algorithms, and multiple consumer apps, and 24 / 7 customer service support (4.9 TrustPilot rating) that ensure people located in transport deserts have a regular, subsidised and sustainable bus service for their daily commute, wherever they are based. Headquartered in London with over 160 employees, an R&D team in Spain and live operations in the UK, South Africa and the US, Zeelo was founded in 2016 by Sam Ryan, Barney Williams and Dani Ruiz. It closed its Series A in 2018 and has raised over US$ 30 million in funding, including VC-backed investment from ETF Partners, InMotion Ventures and Dynamo. The co-founders previously sold their pioneering ride-sharing app JumpIn to Addison Lee in 2014. For additional information, please visit www.zeelo.co
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England Legends vs Sri Lanka Legends cricket match live score and updates Road Safety World Series 2022: Steady start for Ian Bell's England Legends vs Sri Lanka Legends
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Tillakaratne Dilshan’s Sri Lanka Legends will face off against Chris Tremlett-led England Legends in Match No. 5 of the Road Safety World Series Season 2 at the Green Park stadium in Kanpur on Tuesday (September 13). SL Legends had one their opening match of RSWS on Sunday (September 11) thanks to Tillakaratne Dilshan’s brilliant century against Australia Legends.
@_EnglandLegends will play their first match of Season 2 of @RSWorldSeries today 7:30 PM onwards.
Watch the matches LIVE on @Colors_Cineplex, @justvoot, Sports18 Khel, Jio & ColorsCineplex Superhits _#YehJungHaiLegendary #RoadSafetyWorldSeries #RSWS #Season2 pic.twitter.com/pKv70JxHu9 — Road Safety World Series (@RSWorldSeries) September 13, 2022
England will begin their campaign in the series on Tuesday and will bank on big hitters like Phil Mustard and Dmitri Mascarenhas to power Tremlett’s side in the opening fixture. Sri Lankan side is studded with World Cup winners like Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan Kulasekara, who won the 1996 World Cup and 2014 T20 World Cup respectively.
For Sri Lanka, apart from skipper, Dilshan Munaweera also scored 95 not out as they piled up a massive 218/1 after batting first. In reply, Australia were bowled out for 180 with Nathan Reardon top-scoring with 46 off 19 balls. Kulasekara was pick of the Lankan bowlers, claiming 4/36 while Jeevan Mendis scalped 2/14.
A terrific knock from the skipper, truly picking up from his man of the series performance from last year!#RoadSafetyWorldSeries #RSWS #SLLvsAUSL #srilankalegends #dilshan #Cricket #playerofthematch #roadsafetyawareness #roadsafety pic.twitter.com/b1aDWXd14C — Road Safety World Series (@RSWorldSeries) September 11, 2022
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England Legends: Nick Compton, Darren Maddy, Mal Loye, J Tindall, Rikki Clarke, Dmitri Mascarenhas, Phil Mustard, Tim Ambrose, Jade Dernbach, Chris Schofield, Chris Tremlett (c)
Sri Lanka Legends: Chamara Silva, Chaminda Vaas, Dilshan Munaweera, Upul Tharanga, Tillakaratne Dilshan (c), A Gunaratne, Isuru Udana, Chaturanga de Silva, HIA Jayaratne, Jeevan Mendis, Nuwan Kulasekara
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Real wages are FALLING': Kevin McCarthy slams Biden as inflation falls to 8.3% - but still sits near 40-year high, with grocery prices up by 13.5% in a year
- House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is leading criticism of President Joe Biden's economy after inflation landed at 8.3 percent in August
- The consumer price index has dropped for the second month in a row after reaching 9.1 percent in June, a 40-year high
- It remains at the highest level since the economically volatile 1980s
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is tearing into President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats on Tuesday for their 'radical and reckless spending sprees' which he says are to blame for August's steep 8.3 percent inflation spike.
The minority leader told DailyMail.com that his party has a plan to cut 'wasteful spending' should they win the House of Representatives in November - a likely outcome, according to multiple projections.
Inflation had been steadily rising throughout most of the year until hitting a 40-year high of 9.1 percent in June. It dropped off slightly to 8.5 percent in July, chiefly driven down by gas prices easing after a sharp spike over the summer. But August's 8.3 percent increase in consumer prices shows inflation is still running hot, while wages are failing to keep pace with rising costs.
'The cost of living is up 8.3 percent over last year, rose further this month despite Democrats' victory lap in July, and is up nearly 13 percent since January 2021. McCarthy told DailyMail.com. 'Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are to blame, and they have no plan to fix it.'
He specifically targeted Biden's COVID-19 pandemic package known as the American Rescue Plan, which multiple economists have pointed to as helping drive inflation up.
'Real wages have fallen every month since Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus spending spree passed. Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are to blame, and they have no plan to fix it,' McCarthy said.
'Paychecks cover less. Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are to blame, and they have no plan to fix it.'
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told DailyMail.com that 'Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are to blame' for rising inflation
McCarthy argued that Biden's celebrated rise in worker wages are outpaced by rising costs
Meanwhile in his own statement on Tuesday, Biden touted 'real wages' going up as he hailed the slight decrease in consumer costs' rise.
'This month, we saw some price increases slow from the month before at the grocery store. And real wages went up again for a second month in a row, giving hard-working families a little breathing room,' the president said.
'It will take more time and resolve to bring inflation down, which is why we passed the Inflation Reduction Act to lower the cost of healthcare, prescription drugs and energy.'
But McCarthy highlighted the negative impacts of Democrats' inflationary spending bill, which budget models like Penn Wharton's have shown will fall short of its promise to ease rising costs.
'Democrats went on multiple radical and reckless spending sprees and stuck the American people with the bill. They voted to double the size of the IRS and hire 87,000 new agents to harass more hardworking Americans who attempt to comply with a complex, burdensome tax code,' the GOP leader said.
August's inflation rate of 8.3% represented a drop from a 40-year high of 9.1% in June and 8.5% in July — but showed that inflation is still running hot and well above the Fed's target rate of 2%
'They even voted to raise taxes and kill jobs during a recession. This is the unaffordable record and unacceptable reality of Democrat-controlled Washington.'
Without going into further detail McCarthy said his party has 'a plan to deliver an economy that is strong and a government that is accountable.'
'House Republicans are committed to fighting inflation and lowering the cost of living by curbing wasteful spending,' he said.
Meanwhile Biden called the inflation rate 'progress' in a White House statement on Tuesday
McCarthy has led the GOP in packaging their agenda as a series of goals and agenda items that Americans can weigh at the ballot box in November.
Titled the 'Commitment to America,' it follows former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's famous Contract to America. Gingrich's plan was introduced six weeks before the first midterm of Bill Clinton's presidency and is credited with helping drive a massive red wave across both houses of Congress in the 1994 elections.
As was the case in July, plummeting gas prices have again driven the consumer price index down - after reaching a record-high $5 per gallon average in mid-June.
Despite dropping 10.6 percent from last month, prices at the pump are still a whopping 25 percent higher than they were last August.
Americans are also likely feeling the financial pain in their monthly utility bills, with the overall cost of energy increasing more than 23 percent from last year.
The cost of groceries has risen by 13.5 percent over last year, the highest jump seen since 1979.
Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.6 percent in August.
Biden had gloated last month about a 0 percent rise in that measure.
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Artemis I flight test around moon set for later this month
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - NASA has adjusted its target date for the test flight of Artemis I, the first integrated flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft beyond the Moon.
NASA will conduct the demonstration test no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 21, and has updated its request for a launch opportunity Sept. 27, with a potential backup opportunity of Oct. 2 under review.
The updated dates represent careful consideration of multiple logistical topics, including the additional value of having more time to prepare for the cryogenic demonstration test, and subsequently more time to prepare for the launch. The dates also allow managers to ensure teams have enough rest and to replenish supplies of cryogenic propellants.
NASA and SpaceX also continue to target no earlier than 12:45 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 3, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station.
This just in: Our #Artemis I flight test around the Moon will launch no earlier than Sept. 27, with a backup opportunity of Oct. 2 under review.
— NASA (@NASA) September 12, 2022
See the blog for details about ongoing work and testing, and potential launch windows: https://t.co/v3dY3xql7J pic.twitter.com/JclWbUonEW
Teams are working the upcoming commercial crew launch in parallel to the Artemis I planning and both launch schedules will continue to be assessed over the coming weeks. NASA and SpaceX will review the Artemis I and Crew-5 prelaunch processing milestones to understand any potential impacts. The agency’s Crew-4 return will continue to be planned following a short handover on the space station with Crew-5.
Over the weekend, Artemis I teams completed repair work to the area of a hydrogen leak, reconnecting the ground- and rocket-side plates on the quick disconnect for the liquid hydrogen fuel feed line where two seals were replaced last week.
This week, teams will conduct tests at ambient conditions to ensure there is a tight bond between the two plates before testing again during the cryogenic tanking demonstration, and begin preparations for the test. During the demonstration, launch controllers will load supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage of the SLS rocket.
Specific times for the potential launch opportunities are as follows:
- Sept 27: 70-minute launch window opens at 11:37 a.m. EDT; landing on Nov. 5
Under review – Oct. 2: 109-minute launch window opens at 2:52 p.m.; landing on Nov. 11
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Battery startup ONE aims to slash cell cost, deliver 600-mile range
The young company hopes to begin producing its Gemini pack at a new 20-gigawatt-hour US manufacturing plant in 2026, founder and Chief Executive Mujeeb Ijaz said in an interview.
Michigan-based startup Our Next Energy has unveiled a new anode-free battery pack designed to slash cell cost as much as 50 per cent while delivering up to 600 miles (965 km) of driving range, the company said Tuesday.
The young company hopes to begin producing its Gemini pack at a new 20-gigawatt-hour US manufacturing plant in 2026, founder and Chief Executive Mujeeb Ijaz said in an interview.
Other battery companies are developing anode-free designs, but ONE's Gemini battery appears to be unique in that it uses cells with two different cell chemistries, including one for everyday driving and a second to extend driving range on longer trips.
The secret sauce is in Gemini's large-format range-extender cells. While the standard cells use relatively conventional lithium iron phosphate cathodes and graphite anodes, the range-extender cells are anode-free, which eliminates the use of graphite and anode-making equipment.
The cathodes are designed to use a unique blend of lithium and manganese and a much lower percentage of nickel, while eliminating cobalt, according to Ijaz.
"It has been my long-term aspiration to eliminate both nickel and cobalt," Ijaz said of two key cathode materials in most current electric vehicle batteries that are more expensive and less sustainable than such common materials as manganese.
While the lithium-rich manganese nickel cathodes are still being refined, the current version of the range-extender cells uses cathodes made of nickel, cobalt and manganese.
By eliminating the anode in those cells, ONE says it can slice the cell cost in mass production by $50 per kilowatt-hour - a significant savings over current costs estimated at $100-$110 per kWh.
"Our goal is to launch the Gemini battery in 2026 with zero cobalt and 26 per cent nickel or less, using manganese as the primary cathode material," Ijaz said.
ONE's Gemini battery will be displayed Sept. 13-15 at The Battery Show in Novi, Michigan.
Vedanta obtained financial and non-financial subsidies including on capital expenditure and cheap electricity from Gujarat to build the semiconductor plants, the first source with knowledge of the matter said.
Among the three bidders, RIL has made the highest offer - of around ₹1,960 crore - to lenders, and most of the money would be paid upfront, one of the persons cited above said. If RIL emerges as the winning bidder, it would mark the conglomerate's entry into coal-based power production.
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Stocks tumble on dashed inflation hopes
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are tumbling and disappointment is hitting markets worldwide Tuesday, following Wall Street’s sudden realization that inflation isn’t slowing as much as hoped.
The S&P 500 sank 3% in morning trading, threatening to snap a four-day winning streak. Bond prices also fell sharply, sending their yields higher, after a report showed inflation decelerated to 8.3% in August, instead of the 8.1% economists expected.
The disappointing data means traders are bracing for the Federal Reserve to ultimately raise interest rates even higher than expected to combat inflation, with all the risks for the economy that entails.
“Right now, it’s not the journey that’s a worry so much as the destination,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “If the Fed wants to hike and hold, the big question is at what level.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 853 points, or 2.6%, to 31,5247, as of 10:49 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 3.8%. Big tech stocks swooned more than the rest of the market, as all 11 sectors in the S&P 500 dropped.
Almost all of Wall Street came into the day thinking the Fed would hike its key short-term rate by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point at its meeting next week. But the hope was that inflation was in the midst of quickly falling back to more normal levels after peaking in June at 9.1%.
The thinking was that such a slowdown would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
Tuesday’s report dashed some of those hopes. Many of the data points within it were worse than economists expected, including some the Fed pays particular attention to, such as inflation outside of food and energy prices. Markets honed in on a 0.6% rise in such prices during August from July, double what economists expected.
“This suggests that inflation expectations may be becoming ingrained,” said Gargi Chaudhuri, head of investment strategy at iShares.
The inflation figures were so much worse than expected that traders now see a one-in-five chance for a rate hike of a full percentage point by the Fed next week. That would be quadruple the size of the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
Traders now see a better than 60% likelihood the Fed will pull its federal funds rate all the way up to a range of 4.25% to 4.50% by March. A day earlier, they saw less than a 17% chance of such a high rate, according to CME Group.
The Fed has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point. The federal funds rate is currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.50%.
Higher rates hurt the economy by making it more expensive to buy a house, a car or anything else bought on credit. Mortgage rates have already hit their highest level since 2008, creating pain for the housing industry. The hope is that the Fed can pull off the tightrope walk of slowing the economy enough to snuff out high inflation, but not so much that it creates a painful recession.
In the meantime, higher rates also push down on prices for stocks, bonds and other investments. Investments seen as the most expensive or the riskiest are the ones hardest hit by higher rates, and bitcoin tumbled 6.6%.
In the stock market, all but 16 of the stocks in the S&P 500 fell. Technology and other high-growth companies fell more than the rest of the market because they’re seen as most at risk from higher rates.
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon all fell at least 4% and were the heaviest weights on the market. The communication services sector, which includes Google’s parent company and other internet and media companies, sank 4.5% for the largest loss out of the 11 sectors that make up the S&P 500 index.
The inflation report arrived before trading began on Wall Street, but it sent a thud through markets worldwide.
Treasury yields immediately leaped on expectations for a more aggressive Fed. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for Fed actions, leaped to 3.73% from 3.57% late Monday. The 10-year yield, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, rose to 3.43% from 3.36%.
Stock markets in Europe, meanwhile, veered from gains to losses. The German DAX was down 1.2%, and the French CAC 40 fell 1%.
Expectations for a more aggressive Fed also helped the dollar add to its already strong gains for this year. The dollar has been surging against the euro, Japanese yen and other currencies in large part because the Fed has been hiking rates faster and by bigger margins than many other central banks.
An index measuring the value of the dollar against several major currencies rose 1%
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- Joint study with Massachusetts General Hospital proves that Lunit's AI-powered chest x-ray analysis software enhances the overall performance and efficiency of radiologists
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study published in JAMA Network Open demonstrated that Lunit INSIGHT CXR, Lunit's AI-powered chest x-ray analysis solution, can significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of radiologists diagnosing major chest findings.
The study was conducted by Lunit (KRX: 328130.KQ) and Dr. Mannudeep K. Kalra of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) from April to November 2021.
With a total of 497 chest x-rays, researchers compared Lunit INSIGHT CXR's standalone performance, radiologists' assessments with AI and without AI, diagnosing pneumonia, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and pulmonary nodules. Reviewers included two radiologists, two thoracic radiology fellows, and two residents.
According to the study, Lunit INSIGHT CXR achieved detection rate of 82.5% for pulmonary nodules (94 of 114 findings), 88.7% for pneumonia (173 of 195 findings), 87.2% for pleural effusion (130 of 149 findings), and 100% for pneumothorax (80 of 80 findings). The AI's standalone performance remained high even when non-target findings were present on the chest radiograph.
For all four abnormalities, AI-assisted analysis substantially improved radiologists' sensitivity in comparison to unassisted assessment. Sensitivity increased 17.3%, 6.2% and 4.6% for pneumothorax, pulmonary nodules, and pneumonia respectively.
Moreover, the study also showed that Lunit INSIGHT CXR can improve efficiency. With the AI-assistance, radiologists saved 10% of their reading time compared with the group reporting without AI.
"The use of Lunit's AI product was associated with sensitivity gains for all four targeted chest findings and efficiency improvement across all readers regardless of their experience and training status," said Dr. Kalra.
"This joint study can be a remarkable milestone as it is conducted with the best medical staff from one of the top-ranked hospitals in the US," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "The research proved that Lunit INSIGHT CXR can support both radiologists and patients with its exceptional accuracy and efficiency. I strongly believe that it will build a pillar for Lunit as we intend to expand the reach of our product across the US market."
JAMA Network Open is an international peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association, with an impact factor of 13.353.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — An elected official is due to be formally charged Tuesday with “premeditated” murder in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative reporter who authorities said clawed and fought for his life when he was attacked outside his home.
Robert Telles is scheduled to face a Las Vegas judge on a criminal complaint filed Monday that accuses him of “lying in wait" for Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German before the Sept. 2 attack.
German, 69, was stabbed seven times, authorities said. His body was found the next morning.
Telles, 45, the Clark County public administrator and a Democrat, was arrested Sept. 7 after police issued a plea for public help to identify a person seen on security video wearing an orange work shirt and a wide-brim straw hat toting a shoulder bag and walking toward German’s home.
Police also released images of a distinctive SUV seen on video near German's home, driven by a person wearing an orange shirt.
A Review-Journal photographer snapped photos Sept. 6 of Telles washing the same type of vehicle in his driveway.
A prosecutor told a judge last Thursday that Telles left his own cellphone at home and waited in a vehicle outside German’s home until the attack, which was characterized as a planned response to articles that German wrote about “turmoil and internal dissension” in the county office that handles the property of people who die without a will or family contacts.
After articles appeared in May airing claims of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles’ relationship with a subordinate staffer, Telles lost his bid for reelection in the June primary. County lawmakers also appointed a consultant to address complaints about leadership in the office.
Telles blamed “old-timers” for exaggerating his relationship with a female staffer and falsely claiming that he mistreated them.
German, a 40-year veteran of Las Vegas journalist who was widely respected for his tenacity, was working on follow-up reports about Telles and the public administrator's office when he died, his colleagues said.
“The published articles regarding a public figure, the public administrator’s office, ruined (Telles’) political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow told a judge last week.
The judge, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Elana Lee Graham, called the police report detailing the attack “chilling.” She spoke of apparent defensive wounds on German’s arms and said DNA believed to be from Telles was found under German’s fingernails.
“He was fighting for his life,” the judge said.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson called German’s death “brutal and meaningless” and the case against Telles important for the community. A decision whether to seek the death penalty will be made in the coming months, Wolfson said.
Police said a search warrant turned up items at Telles’ home, including blood-stained shoes and a straw hat that had been cut up. Authorities have not found the weapon used to kill German.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, a Republican running for governor in November, said investigators were attempting to enhance security video that he described as “distorted” but that might show the attack.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter covering courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
Telles was a lawyer who practiced probate and estate law before he was elected public administrator in 2018, replacing a three-term predecessor.
Telles’ term in office expires Dec. 31, but Clark County officials said he is suspended and has been banned from county offices or property pending a review of his position as an elected official.
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Award-winning nanoliquid technology company delivers environmentally sustainable solutions to reduce fertilizer and crop protectant inputs while improving farmers' profits
SANDY, Utah, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aqua-Yield, the leading nanoliquid company for agricultural production worldwide, today announced the close of its Series A investment round of $23M. The round was led by the Larry H. Miller Company (the LHM Company) with participation from Penny Newman Grain Company and San Leonardo. The company will leverage the funding to accelerate the global adoption of its nanoliquid solutions.
Aqua-Yield offers a technology unlike anything else in the market, having created its own segment in the world of crop inputs. The company's award-winning nanoliquid solutions leverage sophisticated nanoparticles to make liquid agricultural products more effective at plant absorption and dramatically increase crop-yield and profits for farmers while enhancing the sustainability of the soil.
"Since 2014, the Aqua-Yield team has developed a robust patent platform. We sustainably grow profits by solving plant absorption problems and have helped thousands of growers reduce their synthetic fertilizer and crop protection inputs by 25-50 percent," said Clark T. Bell, Aqua-Yield CEO and co-founder. "The patented nano-based technology acts as a catalyst to traditional liquid agricultural fertilizers and crop protection products. This tech works with all traditional ag inputs by enhancing plant absorption of nutrients and efficacy of crop protectants. With our suite of 16 commercially available products we have an answer for nearly every crop."
"Since the beginning of the global pandemic our company has doubled in size year-over-year," added Clark. "Nanoliquid technology enables growers to stretch their ag inputs. This has been key to growth as the agribusiness industry faces supply chain struggles, product availability, and the current environmental strains that will continue to play a key role in the future."
The company's solutions work for farms of all sizes and in all regions of the United States, and is currently used on four million acres of farms, and in more than nine countries. Between 2014 and 2021, the company conducted more than 750 field trials that resulted in an average 3:1 return on investment for growers. Since 2014, Aqua-Yield's solution has reduced farmers' use of micronutrients by up to 80 percent and use of macronutrients by up to 50 percent by minimizing fertilizer and chemical applications and increasing nutrient uptake, germination rates, crop yields, and growth cycles.
"Aqua-Yield makes synthetic fertilizers and chemicals more efficient, increasing nutrient uptake and decreasing synthetic fertilizer use, resulting in more environmentally efficient and profitable farms," said David Smith, the LHM Company's chief strategy officer. "Stewardship is a core value at the Larry H. Miller Company, and we see this investment as an opportunity to improve methods that feed our planet in a more sustainable and responsible manner."
"As an original investor in Aqua-Yield, I've been impressed with how the executive team has bootstrapped and grown the company in an holistic way," said Fraser Bullock, founding partner and member of the board of Aqua-Yield. "The capital from our Series A will allow us to expand our commercial team globally and establish a strategic international footprint."
In addition, Aqua-Yield will announce additional follow-on capital from a leading agriculture investor in the Fourth Quarter of 2022. For more information about Aqua-Yield's technology, products and solutions, visit www.aquayield.com/products.
With the recent news of becoming a USDA and EPA Winner of the Next Gen Fertilizer Innovations Challenge, retailers and growers alike are encouraged by the benefits of Aqua-Yield® Nanoliquid® products have to offer, especially during this time of economic turmoil. Aqua-Yield offers a technology unlike anything else on the market, having created its own segment in the world of inputs. The ag industry is starting to take notice of this technology company out of Utah that recommends just 2-6 oz of its liquid technology per acre. Backed by several Universities, 3rd party trials, and several years of testing by its technical team, Aqua-Yield has given their customers across the country, and across the world, the solutions they've been looking for. From stressed out crops, to the unconquered weed problems, to the lack of nutrient availability, or just to helping maintain healthier soil. Aqua-Yield is solving big problems while being affordable, flexible, and clean. For more information about the company and its solutions, visit www.aquayield.com.
Headquartered in Sandy, Utah, the Larry H. Miller Company (the LHM Company) is a privately-owned business with operations located mainly across the western United States. As a portfolio of companies and investments, the LHM Company's focus falls within the primary categories of real estate, health care, finance, entertainment, sports, and long-term strategy and investments, as well as philanthropy. For more information about the Larry H. Miller Company, visit www.lhm.com.
Penny Newman Grain is one of the largest merchandizers of grain and feed ingredients in the Western United States. Its youngest division, Farm Products, offers a portfolio of best-in-class crop input technologies that facilitate the reduction in chemical fertilizers and crop protection products while maximizing yield potential, with the goal of fostering a more regenerative production paradigm at scale. Additional information on Penny Newman Grain may be found at www.penny-newman.com.
San Leonardo is an investment affiliate of the John and Katie Hansen Family Foundation, which was established in 2006 and is active in seeking creative, leverageable solutions for global sustainability and conservation challenges. Since inception the Foundation has been led by Katie Vogelheim, a seasoned management executive with experience in a broad range of businesses around the world.
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Substitute teacher accused of offering to pay students to bully a classmate
CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA/Gray News) - A substitute teacher in Louisiana is accused of encouraging students to commit battery and bully a classmate, KSLA reports.
Aadrina Salean Smith, 24, was arrested in September on five counts of contributing to the delinquency of juveniles and one count of malfeasance in office. Her bonds total $10,000.
The incident happened during a physical education class in August at North Caddo Elementary Middle School, according to a report received by the Caddo Youth Services Division.
Detective Dennis Williams says Smith offered to pay five students $5 each to tackle their classmate.
Video of the incident shows Smith verbally communicating with five students and appearing to congratulate three who participated in the battery.
Smith sat on the bleachers while the victim laid on the gym floor and later got up. Smith never helped the victim and did not report the incident.
Authorities say the investigation is ongoing and more arrests are pending.
Smith was terminated by the Caddo Parish School District.
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The new Cars Café Coffee Shop offers premium in-store coffee service for automotive enthusiasts and coffee lovers alike featuring family-friendly event on Sept. 17
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cars Café™ Coffee Shop, a premium coffee shop concept catering to coffee lovers and automotive enthusiasts will host an event full of family-friendly fun and entertainment at their grand opening in Goodlettsville this Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9 am to 2 pm.
Cars Café™ is adjacent to Tint World® Goodlettsville, located at 500 S. Main St., Suite C, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, 37072. You'll know you've arrived at the right place when you smell the fresh brewed coffee and see the cool cars showcased in the parking lot.
"Cars Café offers a unique experience for patrons who love coffee, cars, or both," said Brian Weed, owner of Cars Café™ Goodlettsville. "It's a comfortable atmosphere where customers can enjoy some of Middle Tennessee's best premium roasted coffee and artisan-inspired baked goods while hanging out with friends. You can also check out the neighboring Tint World®'s customized cars and trucks!"
Cars Café™'s grand opening will include a live music performance, custom and exotic cars, and an opportunity to support Middle Tennessee's Toys for Tots, which accepts donations for its annual Bikes-or-Bust campaign providing free bicycles to area children in need this holiday season.
The first 100 Cars Café Coffee customers on Sept. 17 will receive a free Cars Café™ Coffee travel mug providing a lifetime 10% discount on future coffee purchases.
"Brian's passion and experience is quickly making the Goodlettsville Cars Café a resounding success," said Charles J. Bonfiglio, president and CEO of the Cars Café™ franchise concept. "Cars Café isn't your typical granddad's coffee shop! This is the go-to place for premium roast coffee and delicious, artisan-inspired baked goods. So, visit the new Cars Café Coffee concept to drink, eat, meetup, hangout, and enjoy in their comfortable friendly atmosphere!"
About Cars Café™
Cars Café™ Coffee opened their first location in 2022, with a mission of selling the highest-quality fresh roast coffee and delicious artisan baked goods, connecting coffee lovers and automotive enthusiasts.
Cars Café™ has plans to expand the concept throughout the United States and Canada, with franchise opportunities available in 2023.
For more information about Cars Café, visit https://www.facebook.com/carscafegoodlettsvilletn.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — An elected official is due to be formally charged Tuesday with “premeditated” murder in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative reporter who authorities said clawed and fought for his life when he was attacked outside his home.
Robert Telles is scheduled to face a Las Vegas judge on a criminal complaint filed Monday that accuses him of “lying in wait" for Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German before the Sept. 2 attack.
German, 69, was stabbed seven times, authorities said. His body was found the next morning.
Telles, 45, the Clark County public administrator and a Democrat, was arrested Sept. 7 after police issued a plea for public help to identify a person seen on security video wearing an orange work shirt and a wide-brim straw hat toting a shoulder bag and walking toward German’s home.
Police also released images of a distinctive SUV seen on video near German's home, driven by a person wearing an orange shirt.
A Review-Journal photographer snapped photos Sept. 6 of Telles washing the same type of vehicle in his driveway.
A prosecutor told a judge last Thursday that Telles left his own cellphone at home and waited in a vehicle outside German’s home until the attack, which was characterized as a planned response to articles that German wrote about “turmoil and internal dissension” in the county office that handles the property of people who die without a will or family contacts.
After articles appeared in May airing claims of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles’ relationship with a subordinate staffer, Telles lost his bid for reelection in the June primary. County lawmakers also appointed a consultant to address complaints about leadership in the office.
Telles blamed “old-timers” for exaggerating his relationship with a female staffer and falsely claiming that he mistreated them.
German, a 40-year veteran of Las Vegas journalist who was widely respected for his tenacity, was working on follow-up reports about Telles and the public administrator's office when he died, his colleagues said.
“The published articles regarding a public figure, the public administrator’s office, ruined (Telles’) political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow told a judge last week.
The judge, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Elana Lee Graham, called the police report detailing the attack “chilling.” She spoke of apparent defensive wounds on German’s arms and said DNA believed to be from Telles was found under German’s fingernails.
“He was fighting for his life,” the judge said.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson called German’s death “brutal and meaningless” and the case against Telles important for the community. A decision whether to seek the death penalty will be made in the coming months, Wolfson said.
Police said a search warrant turned up items at Telles’ home, including blood-stained shoes and a straw hat that had been cut up. Authorities have not found the weapon used to kill German.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, a Republican running for governor in November, said investigators were attempting to enhance security video that he described as “distorted” but that might show the attack.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter covering courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
Telles was a lawyer who practiced probate and estate law before he was elected public administrator in 2018, replacing a three-term predecessor.
Telles’ term in office expires Dec. 31, but Clark County officials said he is suspended and has been banned from county offices or property pending a review of his position as an elected official.
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By Samantha McCabe | Wisconsin Watch
Since the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal constitutional right to an abortion in June, Wisconsin physicians have operated under a near-total abortion ban from the 1800s. Physicians say the language articulating the ban’s narrow exceptions is vague. That makes the question of what they should do in certain situations open to interpretation, including when the pregnant person’s health is at risk.
Legal questions surround Wisconsin’s abortion law as well. Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul is suing legislative leaders over the 173-year-old ban, hoping that state courts will agree with his argument that it conflicts with more recent abortion legislation and should not be enforced.
“It’s very hard for people to be in a sense of limbo — to not know what the future holds for Wisconsin,” said Mike Murray, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin.
With that uncertainty in mind, Wisconsin Watch spoke to medical and legal experts to answer your questions about abortion access and reproductive rights in the state.
Still have questions? Email us at tips@wisconsinwatch.org or text MKE to 73224, enter your ZIP code and request to connect with a reporter.
I want to terminate my pregnancy. How can I legally get an abortion?
While Wisconsin clinics have halted elective abortions since the Supreme Court ruling, abortions remain legal in neighboring states, including Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
Some states have attempted to ban leaving the state for an abortion, but “Wisconsin has no such law,” said Diane Welsh, who specializes in health law at the Madison-based firm Pines Bach.
If you choose to leave Wisconsin for an elective abortion, below is a breakdown of what to expect elswehere.
In Illinois, abortion remains legal under a 2019 law and Illinois Supreme Court holdings. Abortion is legal in Illinois until the fetus reaches “viability,” the time at which an attending physician determines there is a “significant likelihood of a fetus’ sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.” That usually happens around 24 weeks of pregnancy, medical experts say — a timeline determined by counting from the first day of the pregnant person’s last period. But viability can differ between pregnancies, and health care providers can help you assess it.
If you are under 18 and seeking abortion care services, Illinois clinics are not legally required to contact a parent or legal guardian. Illinois also does not require patients to endure a waiting period, view an ultrasound or receive information from the state, as some other states do, a guide from the ACLU Illinois explains.
In Minnesota, the Supreme Court recognizes a state constitutional right to abortion, and in July, a judge struck down certain restrictions, including a 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that parents or a legal guardian of a minor seeking an abortion be notified.
Like in Illinois, abortion in Minnesota is legal until “viability.
Abortion access in Iowa remains legal, although a recent state Supreme Court ruling gives the state’s Republican-controlled legislaure authority to restrict access if they reconvene to change state law. Iowa currently bans abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. That’s 22 weeks after the last menstrual period. This deadline has exceptions to protect the health of a pregnant person or save the person’s life.
Iowa requires people seeking an abortion to sit through a counseling session and wait at least a day before the procedure. The state requires parental or guardian notification for patients aged 17 years or younger.
Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin can help patients navigate out-of-state appointments. That includes providing information and financial support, said Murray, of Planned Parenthood.
The organization also offers pre- and post-abortion care. For instance, if you don’t know the exact date of your last menstrual period, you can schedule a free “pregnancy assessment and ultrasound dating” at clinics in Madison, Milwaukee and Sheboygan.
AbortionFinder.org offers a full list of abortion providers.
If you need help with funding, here are a few of your options: ?
National Network of Abortion Funds
Midwest Access Coalition
Freedom Fund, which helps residents of central and northern Wisconsin
If I return to Wisconsin following an out-of-state abortion and experience complications, can I get in trouble while going for help at the ER? What should I tell them?
Wisconsin’s abortion ban does not include criminal penalties for a pregnant person obtaining an abortion, so you cannot face prosecution for obtaining an abortion in or outside the state. Instead, Wisconsin’s law leaves providers of in-state abortions open to prosecution.
“From a purely medical standpoint, I would want my patient to be able to be entirely honest so I could offer her the best possible management for her concerns in the most holistic manner, addressing not only her physical concerns but also emotional, social, and whatever else these challenging situations involve,” said Dr. Kristin Lyerly, a Green Bay obstetrician and gynecologist.
Additionally, federal privacy law prohibits health care providers from disclosing information about a patient’s post-abortion care, Welsh said.
Still, patients could become involved in an investigation of an abortion provider, which could include collection of evidence like cell phones, Lyerly said.
Patients should be careful about sharing information, said Lyerly, who recommends that recipients of abortion care outside of Wisconsin call the clinic where they received care to seek guidance. Many clinics offer 24-hour hotlines for issues that may arise. If the complications are life-threatening or worsen quickly, though, call 911 or show up to the nearest emergency room.
I’m pregnant and have a life-threatening condition. What should I do?
This hits at the trickiest part of Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban. Its lone exception is for life-saving “therapeutic abortions.” The law says the procedure must be deemed necessary “or is advised by 2 other physicians as necessary, to save the life of the mother.” There are myriad circumstances in which an abortion might be necessary to prevent disease or death, OB-GYNs say.
Without statutory or administrative guidance from the state, professional associations, health systems and hospitals — even physicians themselves — are developing policies to guide pregnancy-related care, as Wisconsin Watch recently reported. But whatever advice they provide will not be binding — nor universally applicable. The circumstances under which a person will receive an abortion in Wisconsin will ultimately depend on the health system or hospital — and, when it comes down to it, individual doctors.
That means medical interventions during a pregnancy could vary widely. The uncertainty may cause delays in intervention, especially in rural areas.
If you have a life-threatening condition and you’re pregnant, immediately seek a doctor’s guidance.
Patients who feel that a physician or health system isn’t promptly addressing their needs should “seek a second opinion, from another provider — including a provider in a neighboring state,” Welsh said.
Can I still buy emergency contraception like the morning-after pill?
Yes. Emergency contraception — often called the morning-after pill — remains legal and available for purchase in Wisconsin. The most well-known brand is called Plan B, but Aftera, Take Action, and My Way are all available without a prescription. Emergency contraception does not function as an abortion — it works by preventing or delaying ovulation to prevent fertilization within 72 hours of unprotected sex.
Planned Parenthood offers emergency prescription medication to walk-ins during their business hours. That requires a brief visit with a health care provider on site. Wisconsin pharmacies continue to provide emergency contraception, although some limit how many one person may buy at once. Health care providers advise against stockpiling them anyway, since they expire after about a year. The pill typically costs $40-$50.
Some emergency contraception pills are less effective for people weighing more than 165 pounds, research shows. Planned Parenthood typically offers a version called Ella, which remains effective for people weighing up to 195 pounds.
Should I be concerned about my data privacy when searching for or seeking abortion?
The short answer, experts say: yes.
Almost immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some people who use period-tracking apps like Clue and Flo began deleting them, fearful that their data could be used against them.
The Federal Trade Commission has warned tech companies against misusing data from those seeking reproductive health care following an executive order from President Joe Biden. Congress is examining additional protections, but experts still recommend an abundance of caution.
You should be concerned about your data privacy in general, especially when seeking an abortion, said Dorothea Salo, a professor who specializes in information security and privacy at the Information School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Be especially wary of most commercial search engines, she said.
“We know they collect and retain search data, including search queries; we know they associate that data with individual searchers; we know they share, aggregate and sell it all over creation; we know that law enforcement agencies access it,” said Salo, who uses DuckDuckGo but notes that other search engines provide similar benefits.
As far as browsers go, Brave is more privacy-centered than Google Chrome.
Additionally, federal law allows internet providers to analyze, share and sell data on individual customers’ internet use habits. Even VPNs — virtual private networks — are not guaranteed to protect your data, Salo cautioned.
“??VPNs are what economists call a ‘lemon market,’ meaning that their claims and practices aren’t well-audited and consumers can’t know in advance which to trust,” she said. Although regulators are examining that issue, any changes would take time.
Additionally, most websites are “slathered in adtech and tracking tech that’s designed to associate individual people with the information they use and the things they say,” Salo notes. Law enforcement could feasibly obtain this data, depending on how aggressively they pursue abortion-related charges.
If this sounds overwhelming, Salo recommends starting with a step-by-step digital security guide, like this one from the Digital Defense Fund. It caters specifically to abortion-related privacy concerns and advises on avoiding advertisements related to pregnancy and abortion and making sure your phone company cannot access messages you send.
Can I legally help my friend travel across state lines to get an abortion?
Yes. Just as traveling across state lines for an abortion remains legal in Wisconsin, so does helping someone do so.
But similar data privacy concerns may still apply, Salo says. Being conscientious about who has access to your information is never a bad idea.
Can I legally get abortion pills in the mail?
No. Wisconsinites must travel to another state to legally receive abortion pills in the mail.
Wisconsin law bars anyone other than a physician to administer abortion medication, and only after they perform a physical examination and share certain information. While the law does not make recipients of mailed abortion pills subject to criminal prosecution, the person shipping the pills could face charges, Welsh said.
One legal workaround: picking up pills in another state. Certain Planned Parenthood locations outside of Wisconsin offer telehealth visits for the abortion pill. The closest is in Illinois. That’s the Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region. Accessing the abortion pill after your telehealth visit would require picking up a prescription while visiting that state or having them mailed to an address inside of that state.
Legislative action or a court ruling could change the legality of receiving abortion pills in the mail in the future, Welsh said.
There’s a pregnancy clinic in my neighborhood. Will they help me?
Pregnancy clinics, also known as “crisis pregnancy centers” or CPCs, typically present themselves as health clinics, but they primarily aim to dissuade pregnant people from accessing abortions — including by spreading misinformation, research shows. Often religiously affiliated, some centers provide pregnancy tests, testing for sexually transmitted infections and ultrasounds, “however, the images are frequently non-diagnostic and often obtained by untrained, unlicensed staff,” according to a review of academic literature on CPCs published by the International Journal of Women’s Health.
“These facilities engage in purposefully manipulative and deceptive practices that spread misinformation on sexual health and abortion,” the review found. “CPCs have also been shown to delay access to medically legitimate prenatal and abortion care, which negatively impacts maternal health.” ??Added Planned Parenthood Murray: “They oftentimes won’t even mention the option of an abortion as a potential health care option for that patient.”
CPCs may be located close to reputable abortion clinics and designed like a normal physician’s office. These unregulated centers are not medical establishments, so they are not bound by any privacy laws, and have been shown to collect patients’ personal data.
The Crisis Pregnancy Center Map, a project of two professors at the University of Georgia College of Public Health, tracks 58 known centers in Wisconsin.
Disclosure: Pines Bach provides pro bono legal representation to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, but it did not provide legal services related to or participate in the writing or editing of this report. The nonprofit Wisconsin Watch (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with WPR, PBS Wisconsin, other news media and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by Wisconsin Watch do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The City of El Paso will be spending up to $2 million in the next 16 months to bus migrants out of town and is counting on the Biden administration for reimbursement.
The city council on a 3-1 vote Monday ratified a new services contract with Gogo Charters LLC to “transport migrants to other cities as needed.” The city already disbursed $411,000 to this company, according to a presentation to the council.
More than 550 people released from federal immigration custody have been bused out of town in charters, while the city’s Sun Metro buses have been taking migrants to shelters, bus stations and El Paso International Airport, according to the presentation. The releases rose dramatically since last week with the arrival of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who don’t have sponsors in the United States and are not eligible to be expelled under the Title 42 public health order.
“This is an emergency. We don’t have money set aside for these particular circumstances. You are giving us the ability to spend up to $2 million with this company; that’s all we’re authorized with this particular company,” Gonzalez said. The city is getting quarterly reimbursements from the federal government related to its migrant expenses, but those reimbursements usually take five to six months.
El Paso earlier this year approved an emergency ordinance to accommodate migrant needs during the current surge. The council unanimously “re-enacted” (extended) the ordinance on Monday.
“We knew we needed to pay for things that are not within our charter […] so we wanted you to approve that ordinance to give us the ability to do things like the processing/welcome center, to pay for food and water, when necessary, to pay for hotels, to pay for transport,” the city manager said. “There’s a cost to do that, several thousands of dollars. And when you get into three, four, five charters per day, it adds up.”
Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino said El Paso has sponsored 25 charter buses since Aug. 23 and would be sending out five more on Monday.
The city also has committed 50 municipal employees to assist immigration nonprofits and Gonzalez said more could be assigned. D’Agostino said city employees are filling in at nonprofits that are unable to secure sufficient volunteers to assist migrants due to lingering COVID-19 fears and other factors.
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Cloud-native platform simplifies, automates, and analyzes the transactional communication delivery process
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at SaaStr Annual 2022, Paris Deliver, the cloud-based document delivery service, announced the launch of the first programmatic communication delivery platform that handles both physical and digital transactional mail.
The pandemic has disrupted company operations across every industry. With more businesses operating across multiple offices and distributed at-home work environments, the need to securely automate and manage document delivery is essential to foster an agile work environment. Paris Deliver bridges the gap between print and digital document delivery by allowing organizations to outsource business-critical communications, like statements, letters, policies, and any other correspondence in an innovative, secure, and modern platform.
"Paris Deliver is revolutionizing and modernizing the way businesses manage and deliver their customer communications to physical and digital channels," said Matt Robards, Founder and CEO, Paris Deliver. "Managing and maintaining internal print rooms or working with traditional print service providers needed to be shaken up. There needs to be a simpler and easier way for businesses to aggregate their outgoing communications, from one-off letters to monthly statement runs, using a single platform, and with full control and visibility of the entire process. That is what Paris Deliver does."
"By leveraging our company's heritage in XLPrint, a leader and pioneer in the document production space for over 35 years, we learned that customers are looking for ways to drive costs and complexity out of the print rooms and streamline their communication delivery processes," said Gerard Callaghan, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Paris Deliver. "Using that experience, Paris Deliver has been thoughtfully designed to give customers a friction-free experience and enable their business to scale with demand, while also providing greater choice in how communications are delivered to their customers."
As a single platform for delivering all business-critical communications, the Paris Deliver Document Delivery Platform offers features that make physical and digital mail distribution simple, cost-effective, and secure. With SOC and GDPR compliance, the platform adheres to industry-wide security standards. Furthermore, the platform supports both modern business applications and traditional legacy platforms through the latest API technologies and emulated print processes.
With the Paris Deliver platform, users can achieve:
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Once home to one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, Ethiopia is struggling as the war in its Tigray region has reignited and weary citizens far from the front are pleading for peace.
Ethiopians are experiencing the highest inflation in a decade, foreign exchange restrictions and mounting debt amid reports of massive government spending on the war effort. Parliament early this year reportedly approved an additional $1.7 billion budget for defense.
On Tuesday morning, a drone strike hit a university campus in Tigray’s capital, Mekele, causing an unknown number of injuries, according to a media worker there who spoke on condition of anonymity because he didn’t have authorization to speak to other outlets. He said another drone strike also destroyed the station of regional broadcaster Dimtsi Woyane.
Ethiopian officials continue to paint a rosy picture for the country of well over 110 million people. “Our economy has continued to grow amid natural and man-made problems,” the planning and development minister, Fitsum Assefa, said earlier this month.
But the Ethiopian Economic Association’s meeting this month made clear the country is hurting, while international mediators urgently seek progress on talks to end the fighting.
Because of internal conflicts, the destruction of infrastructure and uncontrolled spending are hurting the economy while ordinary Ethiopians face weakening incomes and rising poverty, economist Alemayehu Seyoum told the meeting.
Ethiopia once seared into the global consciousness with a devastating famine in the 1980s. The country has since transformed its economy with mega-projects like the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the largest in Africa, and large-scale construction projects in Addis Ababa, Africa’s diplomatic capital.
The economy grew at an average of 11% over the past decade.
But the war in the northern Tigray region, which began in late 2020, has caused immense disruption. In June, the International Monetary Fund said growth likely fell to 3.8% for 2021-2022 because of the war and a “sharp fall in donor financing,” among other factors.
The finance ministry has declined to approve the financing of three industrial parks, symbols of Ethiopia’s China-like development, citing “budgetary pressure.”
Instead, the economy has shifted to a war focus.
The finance ministry now pleads with the public and Ethiopia’s large diaspora to contribute to a “national cause” for war reconstruction and aid. Ethiopia’s National Bank introduced changes to give the government all possible access to foreign currency, including requiring foreign residents to convert all in their possession upon entry.
Certain development works continue, including Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s flagship projects like the beautification of the capital.
But some critics such as the spokesman for the outlawed Oromo Liberation Army, Odaa Tarbii, say “vanity projects” are not necessary now.
Anything seen as criticism of the war can be stifled. Last week, authorities blocked 31 local civil society groups from organizing a media briefing calling for peace.
Following criticism that its financial support was enabling the government’s war efforts, the World Bank last week said it will continue its partnership but expressed concern.
Some state-run sectors of Ethiopia’s economy continue to open to investors, as Abiy promised after taking office. The cabinet this month approved the entry of foreign banks, a significant step.
Ethiopia’s ambassador to the United States, Seleshi Bekele, said the “international community should support this initiative by helping to disarm the hostile (Tigray forces).”
U.S. special envoy Mike Hammer was again in Ethiopia last week to “discuss the urgency of immediate cessation of hostilities,” according to the State Department, which said “the Ethiopian people have suffered tremendously from this conflict.”
Ethiopia’s government was unsettled when the U.S. last year removed it from a preferential trade program over its failure to end the war in Tigray that the U.S. said led to “gross violations” of human rights. Addis Ababa is lobbying for a reversal.
Since then, global companies like PVH Corp have left Ethiopia, citing security reasons, and others are laying off thousands of employees.
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest aviation group in Africa, remains one of the country’s few profitable companies but has been accused by Tigray forces of transporting troops and weapons to the war front. The airline has denied it.
Inside Tigray, millions of residents are still largely cut off from the world. Communications and banking services are severed, and their restoration has been a key demand in mediation efforts.
An agricultural survey conducted in several accessible parts of Tigray last month by Mekele University personnel, shared with The Associated Press, found many crops were failing because of the lack of fertilizer. Even traveling had become “tiresome” because of the lack of fuel, the survey said.
Other shortages are deadly. In an email to the AP, the head of the Tigray health bureau said vaccines for children ran out more than a year ago, and women don’t have family planning supplies. Humanitarian deliveries have stopped because of the renewed fighting.
“The list is very long. I just don’t want to bore you with the details,” Amanuel Haile wrote. “The above are just enough.”
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This year, REAL SIMPLE teamed up with nine leading designers to transform a laid-back beach bungalow into a curated collection of rooms featuring fresh styles, smart storage solutions, and clever organization techniques. Inspired by the picturesque locale of the Rosemary Beach community in Inlet Beach, Florida, each designer incorporated different elements of contemporary coastal design into the space, using surprising elements of color, pattern, and texture throughout the home. The team transformed overlooked corners of the home to ensure no space was wasted, creating practical organization, storage ideas and multifunctional areas that cover everything from meal prep to homework time. While spaces like the laundry room and pantry are organized to be functional for busy families, the home also features areas built for entertaining, such as a multifunctional loft, vibrant living room, and outdoor porch.
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SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), India's leading Digital ICT solutions provider with global service capabilities spanning Data Center, Cloud, Networks, Security and Digital services, and Aquila Clouds, a leader in cloud financial management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that has added FinOps capabilities to Sify's industry-leading cloud management platform, Cloudinfinit.
Today's announcement marks the availability of Cloudinfinit FinOps, powered by Aquila Clouds. This technology-leading FinOps platform provides cloud asset management, performance, and cost trend analysis, cloud cost optimization and automation, budget control, chargeback, security and compliance management, and more. This FinOps addition to Cloudinfinit now enables cloud operators and finance managers to run lean, optimized, and secure cloud operations.
"We see a huge win-win situation for Sify and Aquila Clouds in this partnership," said Jitender Durairajan, Head of Cloud Engineering and Solutions at Sify Technology. "Using Aquila Clouds to power Sify's Cloudinfinit FinOps capabilities significantly shortens our time-to-market and creates immediate value for our customers who increasingly need a decipherable pattern to their cloud financials."
Besides FinOps, Aquila Clouds also powers Sify's billing operations with its BillOps platform. Aquila Clouds BillOps streamlines and automates billing operations, providing capabilities to customize pricing rules that perfectly fit Sify's' business model.
"We are delighted that Aquila Clouds FinOps solution has been included to power Sify's Cloudinfinit FinOps offering," said Desmond Chan, co-founder, and CPO at Aquila Clouds. "Being chosen by such a strong Enterprise Cloud Solutions Provider is a great testament to the strength of our solution. We look forward to creating great success for both companies in the near future."
About Sify Technologies
A Fortune India 500 company, Sify Technologies is India's most comprehensive ICT service & solution provider. With Cloud at the core of our solutions portfolio, Sify is focussed on the changing ICT requirements of the emerging Digital economy and the resultant demands from large, mid, and small-sized businesses.
Sify's infrastructure comprising 11 state-of-the-art Data Centers, the largest MPLS network, partnership with global technology majors, and deep expertise in business transformation solutions modeled on the cloud, make it the first choice of start-ups, SMEs, and even large Enterprises on the verge of a revamp.
Internationally, Sify has a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. Sify, www.sify.com, Sify Technologies, and www.sifytechnologies.com are registered trademarks of Sify Technologies Limited.
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Aquila Clouds is a cloud financial management solution that enables managed service providers, cloud resellers, and enterprises to manage billing and optimize cloud costs and performance. We help organizations that are invested in public clouds to monitor and optimize their cloud deployments and automate their billing operations. Our FinOps and BillOps solutions apply data analytics and AI/ML techniques to achieve continuous monitoring and continuous optimization that has delivered over 20% in cloud cost savings and reduced billing operation time by as much as 82%.
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LONDON (AP) — In a country famed for irreverence, some worry a new code of silence has taken hold.
Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a handful of people in Britain have been detained by police for expressing — often bluntly — anti-monarchy views.
A woman in Edinburgh holding a sign reading “F—— imperialism, abolish the monarchy” was charged with a breach of the peace. A man faced the same charge after he heckled Prince Andrew as the queen’s hearse traveled through the Scottish capital.
In Oxford, peace activist Symon Hill was put in handcuffs after he shouted his opposition during a ceremonial proclamation of the new king.
Hill said he spontaneously called out “Who elected him?” because he objects to a head of state being imposed on the country.
“I doubt most of the people in the crowd even heard me,” he wrote on his blog. “Two or three people near me told me to shut up.”
Hill said he was put into a police van by officers who told him he was being detained for alleged behavior that could cause “harassment, alarm or distress.” He was later released but could still face questioning.
“The police abused their powers to arrest someone who voiced some mild opposition to a head of state being appointed undemocratically,” he said.
In London, a woman was moved from the gates of Parliament while carrying a “Not my king” sign. Police said she was removed from the spot, where a police officer was stabbed to death by an Islamist attacker in 2017, to allow vehicles in and was not asked to leave the wider area.
Lawyer Paul Powlesland said he was questioned by police outside Parliament on Monday while carrying a blank piece of paper on which he, too, planned to write “Not my king.”
In footage shot by Powlesland, an officer is heard saying “it may offend someone” if he wrote the words.
Powlesland called the police behavior “outrageous.”
The civil rights group Liberty said it was “very worrying to see the police enforcing their broad powers in such a heavy-handed and punitive way to clamp down on free speech and expression.”
Republic, a group that campaigns for the abolition of the monarchy, said it would be complaining to police “in the strongest possible terms,” and would organize protests at the king’s coronation in the coming months.
“Free speech is fundamental to any democracy,” said spokesman Graham Smith. “At a time when the media is saturated with fawning over a king appointed without discussion or consent, it is even more important.”
The arrests come after the government passed a contentious law-and-order bill that toughens police powers to limit disruptive protests. It’s not clear whether any of the arrests involved the new law.
Prime Minister Liz Truss’s spokesman, Max Blain, said that while “this is a period of national mourning, and indeed grief, for the vast majority of the United Kingdom … the right to protest does remain a fundamental principle.”
But he said it is “for the police to decide what is appropriate in individual circumstances.”
The queen’s death has triggered one of the biggest security operations in British history. Some 500 royals, heads of state and heads of government from around the world are expected at the late monarch’s state funeral on Monday. Before that, hundreds of thousands are expected to line up in a queue snaking through central London to see the queen lying in state at Parliament’s Westminster Hall.
Huge crowds have already gathered near Buckingham Palace and other royal residences to leave notes and flowers or simply be part of a moment in history.
London’s Metropolitan Police force said “the overwhelming majority of interactions between officers and public at this time have been positive.”
“The public absolutely have a right of protest and we have been making this clear to all officers involved in the extraordinary policing operation currently in place,” said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — An elected official is due to be formally charged Tuesday with “premeditated” murder in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative reporter who authorities said clawed and fought for his life when he was attacked outside his home.
Robert Telles is scheduled to face a Las Vegas judge on a criminal complaint filed Monday that accuses him of “lying in wait” for Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German before the Sept. 2 attack.
German, 69, was stabbed seven times, authorities said. His body was found the next morning.
Telles, 45, the Clark County public administrator and a Democrat, was arrested Sept. 7 after police issued a plea for public help to identify a person seen on security video wearing an orange work shirt and a wide-brim straw hat toting a shoulder bag and walking toward German’s home.
Police also released images of a distinctive SUV seen on video near German’s home, driven by a person wearing an orange shirt.
A Review-Journal photographer snapped photos Sept. 6 of Telles washing the same type of vehicle in his driveway.
A prosecutor told a judge last Thursday that Telles left his own cellphone at home and waited in a vehicle outside German’s home until the attack, which was characterized as a planned response to articles that German wrote about “turmoil and internal dissension” in the county office that handles the property of people who die without a will or family contacts.
After articles appeared in May airing claims of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles’ relationship with a subordinate staffer, Telles lost his bid for reelection in the June primary. County lawmakers also appointed a consultant to address complaints about leadership in the office.
Telles blamed “old-timers” for exaggerating his relationship with a female staffer and falsely claiming that he mistreated them.
German, a 40-year veteran of Las Vegas journalist who was widely respected for his tenacity, was working on follow-up reports about Telles and the public administrator’s office when he died, his colleagues said.
“The published articles regarding a public figure, the public administrator’s office, ruined (Telles’) political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow told a judge last week.
The judge, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Elana Lee Graham, called the police report detailing the attack “chilling.” She spoke of apparent defensive wounds on German’s arms and said DNA believed to be from Telles was found under German’s fingernails.
“He was fighting for his life,” the judge said.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson called German’s death “brutal and meaningless” and the case against Telles important for the community. A decision whether to seek the death penalty will be made in the coming months, Wolfson said.
Police said a search warrant turned up items at Telles’ home, including blood-stained shoes and a straw hat that had been cut up. Authorities have not found the weapon used to kill German.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, a Republican running for governor in November, said investigators were attempting to enhance security video that he described as “distorted” but that might show the attack.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter covering courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.
Telles was a lawyer who practiced probate and estate law before he was elected public administrator in 2018, replacing a three-term predecessor.
Telles’ term in office expires Dec. 31, but Clark County officials said he is suspended and has been banned from county offices or property pending a review of his position as an elected official.
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Two elderly persons were killed after a speeding car hit the two-wheeler they were riding at Pungavalasu junction on Oddanchatram-Dharapuram road in Dindigul district on Tuesday evening.
Kallimandayam police identified the victim as M. Vanjiyappan, 80, and K. Kathir, 70, both of Kallimandayam.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused, M. Balasundar, 24, of Tirupur drove his car in a rash and negligent manner and collided with the two-wheeler. Vanjiyappan and Kathir, who was riding pillion, died on the spot.
The bodies of the deceased have been shifted to Government Hospital in Oddanchatram.
Police arrested Balasundar and are conducting further inquiries.
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Published: Sep. 13, 2022 at 9:03 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ROSELAND, Neb. (KSNB/Gray News) – A worker was killed in a grain silo accident in Nebraska on Monday evening, according to officials.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office said 34-year-old Travis Thelander was pronounced dead upon recovery after becoming trapped inside a corn silo on the CHS property in Roseland.
Thelander was a worker for CHS, and since it is a workplace death, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been notified.
The investigation is still ongoing as officials work to find out how Thelander became trapped.
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DUBLIN, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Femtech Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report by Product Type (Wearable, Mobile Apps), by Region, and Segment Forecasts, 2022-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The global femtech market size is expected to reach USD 13.1 billion by 2030 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 11.1% during the forecast period. Rising number of women's health issues and growing health consciousness indicates the growth potential of the market.
The industry is not only limited to reproductive health and diversifies to include other healthcare problems such as pregnancy monitoring, pelvic care, cervical cancer, mental health, general health & wellness, and breast cancer. Key participants are capitalizing on the opportunities and are developing solutions to cater to the growing needs of women's healthcare.
The increasing adoption of smartphones by consumers is driving the growth of various women's health applications in the market. Furthermore, continuous improvement in network infrastructure and growing network coverage are boosting the demand for femtech services. Mobile network operators view women's health technology space as an opportunity for investment owing to the growing adoption of smartphones by users and raising awareness about women's health issues.
Furthermore, a favorable regulatory environment and increase in regulatory approvals of various digital applications addressing conventional women's health issues, such as menstruation tracking, pregnancy management, & fertility management, are expected to contribute directly to growth.
The wearables segment dominated in 2021 owing to the growing health consciousness and awareness amongst female users, increasing prevalence of women's health issues, growing adoption of value-based care services, and integration of advanced features such as predictive analytics, gamification, cloud synchronization, and longer battery life. Data generated from wearable devices can be used to under female health parameters more closely and provide female users with data-driven insights about their health & wellbeing.
On the other hand, mobile apps are expected to grow lucratively in upcoming years owing to the growing trend of precautionary healthcare and rapidly growing smartphone penetration supported by improving internet connectivity. With advanced technological integration, such as AI and data science, these healthcare applications provide actionable insights based on the data entered, enabling women to make informed decisions regarding their health & wellness.
Furthermore, the physicians and doctors can also refer to the data, consequently bridging the gap between the healthcare providers and the patients, further enabling access to care virtually, timely, & in remote areas.
Femtech Market Report Highlights
- The market size is anticipated to be valued at USD 13.1 billion by 2030, owing to the increasing digital literacy amongst female users, increasing smartphone penetration & improving internet connectivity. Growing health consciousness amongst female users and normalizing women's health issues.
- Wearables accounted for the largest revenue market share of 79.5% owing to seamless smartphone integration and improving wireless connectivity.
- North America dominated the market and accounted for the largest revenue share of 38.3% owing to improving digital health infrastructure, rising healthcare IT expenditure, growing smartphone integration, and the emergence of startups.
Key Topics Covered:
Chapter 1 Research Methodology and Scope
Chapter 2 Executive Summary
Chapter 3 Women's Health Technology Market Variables, Trends & Scope
3.1 Market Segmentation & Scope
3.2 Penetration and Growth Prospect Mapping
3.3 Market Driver Analysis
3.3.1 increasing adoption of digital health
3.3.2 high penetration of smartphones
3.3.3 rise in artificial intelligence, IoT, big data, and virtual assistance
3.3.4 Growth in investments and funding
3.4 Market Restraint Analysis
3.4.1 cybersecurity and privacy concerns
3.4.2 Inadequate R&D expenditure
3.5 Women's Health Technology Industry Analysis-Porter's Five Analysis
3.5.1 Bargaining power of suppliers: low
3.5.2 Bargaining power of the buyers: moderately high
3.5.3 Threat of substitution: moderately low
3.5.4 Threats of new entrants: moderate
3.5.5 Competitive rivalry: high
3.6 Total Addressable Market Analysis (2017-2021-2030)
3.7 Total Obtainable Market Opportunity Analysis (2017-2021-2030)
3.8 Unmet Demand/Gap Analysis
3.9 Demographic Analysis-Country Level Market
3.10 Women's Perception Of Health Applications
3.11 Case Studies of Women's Health Applications Signifying Potential Adoption Trends From The Time of Inception
3.12 List of Top Women's Health Applications, by Number of Monthly Active Users
3.13 List of Top Women's Health Applications, by Number of Downloads in the Last Month
3.14 Impact of COVID-19 on Women's Health Technology Market
Chapter 4 Women's Health Technology Market: Product Type Estimates & Trend Analysis
4.1 Women's Health Technology Market: Product Type Movement Analysis, USD Million, 2021 & 2030
4.1.1 Wearables
4.1.1.1 Revenue estimates and forecasts for wearables, 2017-2030, USD Million
4.1.2 Mobile Applications
4.1.2.1 Revenue estimates and forecasts for mobile applications, 2017-2030, USD Million
4.1.2.2 Fitness & Nutrition
4.1.2.2.1 Revenue Estimates and Forecasts For Fitness & Nutrition, 2017-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.2.3 Menstrual Health
4.1.2.3.1 Revenue Estimates and Forecasts For Menstrual Health, 2017-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.2.4 Fertility Management (Apps Assisting In Art)
4.1.2.4.1 Revenue Estimates and Forecasts For Fertility Management, 2017-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.2.5 Pregnancy Tracking & Postpartum Care
4.1.2.5.1 Revenue Estimates and Forecasts For Pregnancy Tracking & Postpartum Care, 2017-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.2.6 Menopause
4.1.2.6.1 Revenue Estimates and Forecasts For Menopause, 2017-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.2.7 Disease Management
4.1.2.7.1 Revenue Estimates and Forecasts For Disease Management, 2017-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.2.8 OTHERS
4.1.2.8.1 Revenue estimates and forecasts for others, 2017-2030 (USD million)
Chapter 5 Women's Health Technology Market: Regional Estimates & Trend Analysis, by Product Type
Chapter 6 Women's Health Technology Market: Competitive Analysis
6.1 Recent Developments & Impact Analysis, by Key Market Participants
6.2 Company/Competition Categorization (Key Innovators, Market Leaders, Emerging Players)
6.3 Company Market Position Analysis
6.4 List of Top Women's Health Applications, by Number of Downloads
6.5 Competitive Analysis of Key Players
Chapter 7 Competitive Landscape
7.1 Company Profiles
7.1.1 Natural Cycles USA Corp
7.1.1.1 Company overview
7.1.1.2 Financial performance
7.1.1.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.1.4 Strategic initiatives
7.1.2 Flo Health, Inc.
7.1.2.1 Company overview
7.1.2.2 Financial performance
7.1.2.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.2.4 Strategic initiatives
7.1.3 Clue by Biowink GmbH
7.1.3.1 Company overview
7.1.3.2 Financial performance
7.1.3.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.3.4 Strategic initiatives
7.1.4 Glow, Inc.
7.1.4.1 Company overview
7.1.4.2 Financial performance
7.1.4.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.4.4 Strategic initiatives
7.1.5 Apple, Inc.
7.1.5.1 Company overview
7.1.5.2 Financial performance
7.1.5.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.5.4 Strategic initiatives
7.1.6 Google, Inc.
7.1.6.1 Company overview
7.1.6.2 Financial Performance
7.1.6.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.6.4 Strategic initiatives
7.1.7 Withings
7.1.7.1 Company overview
7.1.7.2 Financial Performance
7.1.7.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.7.4 Strategic initiatives
7.1.8 Fitbit, Inc
7.1.8.1 Company overview
7.1.8.2 Financial performance
7.1.8.3 Product benchmarking
7.1.8.4 Strategic initiatives
7.2 List of Other Companies
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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican challenger Tim Michels announced Monday that they have agreed to debate just one time ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
The debate will be Oct. 14, hosted by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, held in Madison and broadcast statewide. Both campaigns put out a joint statement announcing the agreement.
The debate will include journalists from across the state, according to the statement.
“There are plenty of differences between the two candidates, but we agree that voters deserve this opportunity to hear directly from each candidate,” said Evers’ campaign manager Cassi Fenili and Michels’ campaign manager Patrick McNulty in the joint statement. “This will be the only debate between the candidates before the November election.”
In 2018, Evers debated then-Gov. Scott Walker twice in October. Michels, co-owner of construction company Michels Corp., participated in two televised debates with his Republican challengers this summer. One was in a traditional debate format and the other was a town hall where questions came from people in the audience. Michels also did a radio debate with former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and state Rep. Timothy Ramthun.
Madison took the top prize for best place to live in 2021 and 2022 in a ranking by livability.com. It was also third in 2020. Madison was also listed as one of the best small cities in America by National Geographic in 2018.
Madison was No. 8 in best city for beer drinkers in 2020. Chicago-based research firm IRI noted the number of bars per 100,000 residents (28). Madison was also listed in 2018 lists of the world's top beer destinations (8th) and best beer festivals (2nd).
It's been reported that Madison has more bikes than cars. The city ranked second among best cities for bikes in 2020, though it dropped in the latest ranking.
In 2018, Madison was ranked as the best city if you're young and broke, citing a relatively low cost of living, a high number of young adults and short commute times.
While it ranked Madison 11th in best biking cities, LawnStarter put the city at No. 8 for best naked bike ride in 2022. The list gave Madison high marks for bike friendliness, but the climate did not work in the city's favor.
Wallethub named Madison the nation's most caring city in 2021 (it previously had been ranked No. 2). The city was praised for the way it cares for its vulnerable populations.
As more people work remotely, they value internet coverage, cost of living and good weather. While winter works against this Wisconsin city, it still ranked first among best places to live and work remotely in 2022.
U.S. News & World Reports named UW-Madison the 14th best public school in the country in 2022. Madison has also been ranked the most educated city in Wisconsin and
The city was named the best place in the U.S. to raise children in 2020, and the best city to raise a family in a separate ranking in 2018. That's largely because there are so many great experiences for children, such as the Vilas Zoo.
And in 2017, Madison was named the fourth sportiest city by Men's Health magazine, for many of the same reasons that it's the best college football town.
In 2021, Madison was ranked 9th among the best city for runners. The listing noted pedestrian safety and the number of gyms. Madison also ranked in the top five for fittest cities in two separate rankings.
Madison is a great place for women, according to a ranking that listed the city as the best place for successful women. Here, Jodie Jefferson is pictured at her Chicago-style fast food restaurant House of Flavas in Madison.
Madison was listed as the best place to retire by Money Magazine in 2021. The ranking listed activities and outdoor opportunities such as the Arboretum and the Lakeshore Nature Preserve as reasons to spend your golden years here.
Syanne Morales and her son, Syncere Bowie, cool off in Madison's Cypress Splash Park on Tuesday, when the heat index reached 102 degrees. A coalition of federal, state and local officials is seeking new ways of forecasting and communicating the health risks of heat waves, the most deadly form of weather.
SmartAsset ranked Madison fifth in dog friendly cities, based largely on the fact that it has the most pet stores and vet officers per 10,000 establishments. It also has 4.1 dog parks for every 100,000 residents and plenty of dog-friendly shops.
Madison appears on a lot of 'best of' lists. Here are 25 of them
When someone shows up on a "Top 10" list, it could be a fluke, or one group's opinion. But Madison consistently shows up on national lists, from best place to live to best naked bike ride. Take a look at some of the lists that have called Madison out for its culture, families and more.
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Best place to live
RUTHIE HAUGE
Madison took the top prize for best place to live in 2021 and 2022 in a ranking by livability.com. It was also third in 2020. Madison was also listed as one of the best small cities in America by National Geographic in 2018.
Best Beer
RUTHIE HAUGE
Madison was No. 8 in best city for beer drinkers in 2020. Chicago-based research firm IRI noted the number of bars per 100,000 residents (28). Madison was also listed in 2018 lists of the world's top beer destinations (8th) and best beer festivals (2nd).
Best biking
RUTHIE HAUGE
It's been reported that Madison has more bikes than cars. The city ranked second among best cities for bikes in 2020, though it dropped in the latest ranking.
Best city for the young and broke
JOHN HART -- State Journal
In 2018, Madison was ranked as the best city if you're young and broke, citing a relatively low cost of living, a high number of young adults and short commute times.
Best state capitals
RUTHIE HAUGE
In 2020, Madison ranked 3rd among capital cities in which to live. Wallethub noted affordability and economic well-being as strengths.
Best naked bike ride
Andy Manis
While it ranked Madison 11th in best biking cities, LawnStarter put the city at No. 8 for best naked bike ride in 2022. The list gave Madison high marks for bike friendliness, but the climate did not work in the city's favor.
Most caring city
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Wallethub named Madison the nation's most caring city in 2021 (it previously had been ranked No. 2). The city was praised for the way it cares for its vulnerable populations.
Best remote work situation
RUTHIE HAUGE
As more people work remotely, they value internet coverage, cost of living and good weather. While winter works against this Wisconsin city, it still ranked first among best places to live and work remotely in 2022.
Best city for recent grads
Mike DeVries
In 2019, Madison was listed in the Top 10 best cities for recent college graduates.
U.S. News & World Reports named UW-Madison the 14th best public school in the country in 2022. Madison has also been ranked the most educated city in Wisconsin and
Best place for kids
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
The city was named the best place in the U.S. to raise children in 2020, and the best city to raise a family in a separate ranking in 2018. That's largely because there are so many great experiences for children, such as the Vilas Zoo.
Best food truck
RUTHIE HAUGE
MSN put Madison on the list of best food trucks in America in 2021. This is El Burrito Loco food truck.
And in 2017, Madison was named the fourth sportiest city by Men's Health magazine, for many of the same reasons that it's the best college football town.
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art was one reason Madison was listed as the city with the best work-life balance in 2020.
Best city for runners
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
In 2021, Madison was ranked 9th among the best city for runners. The listing noted pedestrian safety and the number of gyms. Madison also ranked in the top five for fittest cities in two separate rankings.
In 2018, Madison ranked 2nd among walkable cities.
Most successful women
RUTHIE HAUGE
Madison is a great place for women, according to a ranking that listed the city as the best place for successful women. Here, Jodie Jefferson is pictured at her Chicago-style fast food restaurant House of Flavas in Madison.
Madison was listed as the best place to retire by Money Magazine in 2021. The ranking listed activities and outdoor opportunities such as the Arboretum and the Lakeshore Nature Preserve as reasons to spend your golden years here.
Heat relief
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Syanne Morales and her son, Syncere Bowie, cool off in Madison's Cypress Splash Park on Tuesday, when the heat index reached 102 degrees. A coalition of federal, state and local officials is seeking new ways of forecasting and communicating the health risks of heat waves, the most deadly form of weather.
Most dog-friendly city
JOHN HART STATE JOURNAL
SmartAsset ranked Madison fifth in dog friendly cities, based largely on the fact that it has the most pet stores and vet officers per 10,000 establishments. It also has 4.1 dog parks for every 100,000 residents and plenty of dog-friendly shops.
More than two dozen lakes and other sites in Wisconsin are among nearly 650 peaks, lakes, streams and other places on federal land in the U.S. that have been renamed by the government because they included a racist term for a Native American woman.
Detective Anthony Hamilton had filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday claiming he had been previously disciplined for raising concerns about an alleged illegal search and seizure at a Madison hotel in 2021.
Council President Keith Furman and Vice President Jael Currie said they were “disgusted” to learn that Adler Gary Halverson had belonged to the antigovernment group in 2020.
Johnson's team has spoken with three potential hosts and sponsors and is working on details, Johnson spokesperson Ben Voelkel said. Voelkel said there aren't any firm commitments yet.
A new report by the Legislative Audit Bureau found the commission had inadequate policies for awarding and tracking the money from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and American Rescue Plan Act.
According to a statement posted to the university’s website, the anonymous chalk messages targeted Jewish student groups, labeling them as “racist,” “genocidal,” and “having blood on their hands.”
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Substitute teacher accused of offering to pay students to bully a classmate
CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA/Gray News) - A substitute teacher in Louisiana is accused of encouraging students to commit battery and bully a classmate, KSLA reports.
Aadrina Salean Smith, 24, was arrested in September on five counts of contributing to the delinquency of juveniles and one count of malfeasance in office. Her bonds total $10,000.
The incident happened during a physical education class in August at North Caddo Elementary Middle School, according to a report received by the Caddo Youth Services Division.
Detective Dennis Williams says Smith offered to pay five students $5 each to tackle their classmate.
Video of the incident shows Smith verbally communicating with five students and appearing to congratulate three who participated in the battery.
Smith sat on the bleachers while the victim laid on the gym floor and later got up. Smith never helped the victim and did not report the incident.
Authorities say the investigation is ongoing and more arrests are pending.
Smith was terminated by the Caddo Parish School District.
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A 93-year-old mum from Nottinghamshire died when she was struck by the car of her daughter, an inquest has been told. Doris Breen, who lived in the village of Walesby, near Newark, was visiting her daughter Hazel Smith when the tragedy happened.
Ms Breen, who had been visiting Ms Smith's home in the Derbyshire market town Eckington, was struck on her daughter's driveway, an inquest at Chesterfield Coroners' Court was also told. She had been visiting a few nights a week and Ms Breen suffered a brain injury she never recovered from during the accident, reports Derbyshire Live.
The tragedy happened on Monday, May 2, when Ms Breen and her daughter were at the house planning to go out for dinner. Ms Smith told the hearing in a statement that at around 2.15pm she got into her Audi A3 with the intention of moving it out of the garage.
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Unbeknown to Ms Smith, her mother had walked behind the car to put some rubbish in one of the bins, when she started to return to the house, Ms Smith reversed the car, striking her mother and knocking her to the ground. Ms Smith said that, prior to setting off, she did check her mirrors and simply didn't see her mother and only stopped the car when she heard the collision.
Ms Breen had suffered an injury to the left side of her head but was conscious and talking. She was taken to Chesterfield Royal Hospital and arrived at their Accident and Emergency Department where a number of scans and tests were carried out.
It was determined that Ms Breen had suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the collision. The following day, on Tuesday, May 3, Ms Breen was transferred to the Portland Ward. However, her condition started to deteriorate and it was decided that she should be placed on end-of-life care.
At 11.20pm on Wednesday, May 4, nurses on the ward noticed that Ms Breen had stopped breathing and she was pronounced dead a short time later. The inquest heard that Ms Breen's death was investigated by Derbyshire police and the file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). However, the CPS determined that there wasn't enough evidence to continue with a criminal investigation.
Assistant Coroner, Miss Susan Evans, ruled that Ms Breen had died as a result of an accident after being struck by her daughter's car, hitting her head on the ground and suffering a traumatic brain injury along with other injuries.
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Eating healthy can help us feel better and improve our overall medical condition. But, even though many of us work hard to improve our food choices, sometimes a comfort food craving kicks in. Something like a gooey, cheesy casserole just hits the spot some nights.
Fortunately, you don’t have to give up dishes like that. There’s a loaded cauliflower casserole recipe out there that will give you a better alternative to high-carb potato or pasta casseroles.
Delish writer Lindsay Funston shared her recipe for a loaded cauliflower bake that looks so satisfying and yummy. It takes the best of classic mac and cheese or potato au gratin dishes and gives it a little twist.
Think of your favorite loaded baked potato and you’ll get an idea of what to expect from this loaded cauliflower casserole.
You’ll recognize most of the ingredients for this recipe from other favorite creamy side dishes. The cauliflower is the only major adjustment and it’s a fabulous way to get in more veggies for picky eaters.
To make this loaded cauliflower casserole, you’ll need a couple of small heads of cauliflower, minced garlic, green onions, cooked bacon, cheddar cheese, cream cheese, whole milk and a few other ingredients you probably already have on hand.
The secret to nailing this dish is getting the right texture for the cauliflower. To achieve this, you’ll need to blanch it (boil it in salt water) for just under 5 minutes. This cuts down on cooking time in the oven, according to Funston.
If you’re also interested in a lower-fat version of this loaded cauliflower casserole, you can opt for lower-fat milk or cheese. However, this will affect the creamy texture a little bit, so you’ll need to decide if it’s worth it or if you just want to plan for a little splurge with the full-fat varieties.
Ready to make it? Read the full recipe for loaded cauliflower bake from Delish here.
As written, the recipe comes in at 293 calories per serving and 11 grams of protein. For anyone watching their calories or going for a protein goal, this side dish doesn’t have to derail your healthy eating goals, even if it tastes like you’re having a cheat day!
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With just a click, Curbee brings the car wash to your driveway
allowing for a fast, convenient, and environmentally friendly clean
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Among the many impacts that cars have on the environment, car washing can be a major contributor to water pollution if it's not done correctly. Beyond the risk of harmful pollutants and chemicals flowing into nearby storm drains, the average driveway car wash can use more than 100 gallons of water.
To combat these drastic environmental impacts, Curbee has launched its Mobile Wash, an on-demand car wash service conducted by mechanics that delivers interior and exterior cleaning right at a consumers' home or work. Curbee uses safe products, like biodegradable multi-surface cleaners and degreasers, to help keep local water sources clean, and they use a fraction of the amount of water it takes to wash your own car at home.
- Interior and exterior hand wash
- Tire and rim cleaning with shine treatment
- Full vacuum of interior and trunk
- Glass and interior surface wipe down
- Quarterly Signature Health Check
- Optional sealant add on for $20
"We understand the importance of having a well-maintained car and while a good car wash keeps your car looking new and protects it from pollutants that can cause rust and corrosion, it can often be inconvenient and overwhelming, given the number of services many car wash facilities offer," said Denise Leleux, CEO of Curbee. "At Curbee, we keep things simple. Our professionals save you time by coming to you, and the entire service can be booked in under a minute."
Curbee's Eco-Friendly Wash costs just $79 and can be booked directly at www.curbee.com/clean. And as with all Curbee services, a complimentary, multi-point Signature Health Check, which consists of a thorough inspection of the major car components, will be performed quarterly.
Curbee's full list of services are available to consumers in the Bay Area by simply booking an appointment at www.curbee.com or calling 1-866-CURBEE-1.
Founded in 2020 by leaders and builders of Tesla and Lyft's mobile car care services, Curbee is a human-centered, mobile car care experience for busy people and businesses that want hassle-free car care. To learn more about Curbee's mobile car care service, visit www.curbee.com.
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Seattle Public Schools announced it has reached a tentative agreement with the teachers union.
"Our tentative agreement is for a 3-year contract with Special Education ratios maintained and improved in areas, adding baseline mental health staffing in all schools, and raises above IPD every year," the Seattle Education Association said in a statement.
The union will vote on the new contract on Tuesday.
The school year was delayed when teachers went on strike on Sept. 7, which would have been the first day of classes.
The school district said it will provide updates on when the school year will begin after the union votes to officially approve the contract.
Students will have to make up the missed days.
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U.S. News & World Report Ranking Honors School
LAKELAND, Fla., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College (FSC) announced today that it has been recognized in U.S. News & World Report's distinguished college rankings guide as one of the top 10 "Best Regional Universities in the South."
One of only three schools in Florida to be listed in the top 10, FSC is the only university in Polk County. This is the 13th year FSC has received this designation.
"The incredible faculty and extraordinary students of Florida Southern have once again proven themselves to be among the elite in all of the United States," Florida Southern College President Anne B. Kerr said. "I am excited to see our talented community's hard work and dedication once again be recognized."
U.S. News & World Report utilizes surveys, data pertaining to graduation and retention rates, and faculty-to-student ratios to produce college rankings based on school groupings established by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and determined by each school's academic mission.
In addition to being recognized as a best regional university in the south, FSC was also included by the publisher on their "Most Innovative Schools" list, reflecting the College's aspirational plans for curriculum, campus life, and facilities to ensure pervasive excellence and outstanding outcomes for graduates.
U.S. News & World Report's praise of FSC continues the College's trend of accolades that highlight the school's academic excellence and focus on experiential education. The guide includes FSC's Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences, among top undergraduate business and nursing programs.
Florida Southern is also ranked at No. 11 in the "Best Value Universities in the South" category, the highest rating of any school in the state.
About Florida Southern College
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked at #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2023 "Best Colleges" guide and is included in The Princeton Review's 2023 Best 388 Colleges guide and the "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2023." The 2022-2023 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 20 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 13 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.
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Syria cholera outbreak serious threat to region - UN
By David Gritten
BBC News
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The UN has expressed concern about the first confirmed cholera outbreak in Syria in years, saying it poses a "serious threat" to the entire region.
More than 900 suspected cases and eight deaths have been reported in the war-torn country in the past three weeks.
The outbreak has been concentrated in Aleppo and Deir al-Zour provinces.
It is believed to be linked to people drinking contaminated water from the River Euphrates, which flows through the provinces, and using it on crops.
The outbreak is also seen as an indicator of the severe shortages of water throughout Syria caused by climate change and conflict.
Rising temperatures, below-average rainfall and reduced flow from upstream neighbour Turkey have resulted in critically low levels in the Euphrates.
That, combined with widespread damage to supply and sewerage infrastructure, has left many of the 5 million Syrians who depend on the river for drinking water and crop irrigation reliant on unsafe sources. It has also triggered an increase in dangerous water-borne diseases like cholera.
The Syrian health ministry said on Monday that 20 cases of cholera, including two deaths, had been confirmed by laboratories in the northern province of Aleppo, the state-run Sana news agency reported.
It added that another four cases had been confirmed in the coastal province of Latakia as well as two in the capital Damascus among patients from Aleppo.
However, the UN warned that surveillance data showed a total of 936 severe acute diarrhoea cases, including at least eight related deaths, had been recorded across Syria since 25 August.
More than 670 of those suspected cases and six of the deaths were in Aleppo, while 201 cases and two deaths were in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour.
"The outbreak presents a serious threat to people in Syria and the region," warned the UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Syria, Imran Riza.
"Swift and urgent action is needed to prevent further illness and death," he added, appealing to donor countries for urgent additional funding.
The UN said rapid diagnostic tests, intravenous fluids and rehydration salts had been delivered to health facilities in affected communities and other high-risk areas, such as camps for displaced people. Clean water is also being delivered by lorries and chlorination is being scaled up.
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholera. In severe cases, the disease can kill within hours if left untreated.
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The Inaugural Event, Happening October 23-26, Will Bring Awareness to Protecting and Preserving the World's Ecosystem
SANTA CRUZ, Ecuador, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Charles Darwin Foundation, in partnership with 8th Gear Entertainment, announced today the inaugural Leaders for Change Summit to take place between October 23-26, 2022 at the captivating Galápagos Islands in Ecuador. The summit will include a number of high-profile environmental awareness and conservation advocates including the President of the Republic of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso, as well as globally recognized movie and TV stars, athletes and musicians who support ecological preservation.
The four-day summit will bring awareness to protecting and preserving the world's ecosystem and take place at the stunning Santa Cruz Island. Santa Cruz is known for its pristine beaches, large variety of vegetation, and is home to the Charles Darwin Research Station which raises endangered giant tortoises to later release them in the wild. The Enchanted Gala, named after the Galápagos Islands' nickname "The Enchanted Islands," will be held on Monday, October 24th and will award high-profile, environmentally conscious advocates.
The Galápagos Islands are the most protected archipelagos in the world. Considered a living laboratory of evolutionary processes, they were part of UNESCO World Heritage Sites' first list of regions considered to have significant value to humanity. These unique isles contain an abundance of diverse and unusual species, remarkable plant life, and a complex range of geological formations that are all known for inspiring Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
"My love for the Galapagos is immeasurable. And I know that by the influence of our guests and the blessing of the president of Ecuador this event will bring worldwide awareness," stated James Leon, President of 8th Gear Entertainment.
In a combined statement, the Ecuadorian Government stated, "The Government of Ecuador and its President, Guillermo Lasso, are happy to welcome all the participants of the 1st Leaders for Change summit hosted by the Charles Darwin Foundation in partnership with 8th Gear Entertainment, in the year in which the historical expansion of the Galapagos marine reserve was achieved. 37,280 square miles (60,000 km2) of protected area were added in cooperation with Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica. This great conservation effort is worth celebrating by the whole world."
The Leaders for Change Summit will take place between October 23-26, 2022 in Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands. For more information visit lfcsummit.com.
The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (CDF) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to scientific research. CDF has carried out its mission in the Galapagos since 1959, thanks to an agreement with the Government of Ecuador and with the mandate to pursue and maintain collaborations with government agencies by providing scientific knowledge and technical assistance to promote and secure conservation of Galapagos.
For 60 years, CDF has worked in close partnership with the Galapagos National Park Directorate (GNPD), the principal provincial authority for environmental management, with the goal of protection of the Islands' natural resources and the sharing of scientific results for the conservation of this living laboratory.
More than one hundred scientists, educators, researchers, support personnel and volunteers from all over the world have participated in this effort. Currently, more than 75% of the staff are Ecuadorian citizens. CDF is committed to the professional development of permanent Galapagos residents as future scientists, for the well-being of the islands and the nation in general.
8th Gear Entertainment is an emerging media company with film and television divisions dedicated to deliver cutting edge mainstream content to a global audience.
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Enrollment begins for new community of Reimbursement Opinion Leaders (ROLs) designed to improve the access-to-treatment experience for patients
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Policy Reporter, a TrialCard company, today announced the launch of Policy Reporter Partners, a community of Reimbursement Opinion Leaders (ROLs) whose mission is to improve the access-to-treatment experience for patients through professional knowledge sharing. PR Partners brings together the growing, yet often dispersed and siloed, universe of reimbursement professionals and patient advocates in a modern and compliant way. Partners can select from a variety of traditional and online settings such as group advisory boards, one-on-one interviews, and custom online surveys to share their expertise, earn honoraria, and support charitable causes.
"ROLs play a key role in ensuring patients are able to successfully access the treatments they so desperately need," said Peter Weissberg, Managing Director for Policy Reporter. "With PR Partners, these reimbursement professionals now have a vehicle to share their expertise with one another while also providing insights to our pharmaceutical, diagnostics, and device manufacturers who are continuously seeking ways to enhance their own patient support programs and reimbursement strategies. This valuable information will be instrumental as we work to create solutions for our clients within the complex and ever-changing reimbursement environment."
PR Partners is actively accepting new Partner applications. Interested individuals with the following experiences may register now at www.policyreporter.com/partners:
- Hospital/Physician Reimbursement Staff (Access Coordinators, Prior Authorization Teams)
- Health Plan/PBM Medical Director or Pharmacy Director
- Guidelines and Pathways Committee Leadership
- Patient Advocacy Organizations
- Pharmaceutical, Diagnostics, and Device Manufacturers
- Healthcare Policy Professionals
"The launch of PR Partners reflects our company's continued commitment to patient advocates and payers, as well as charitable organizations within our communities," added Tim Ogren, General Manager for Policy Reporter. "For each person that joins PR Partners, Policy Reporter will make a donation to the Ronald McDonald House, a family and children's non-profit charity dedicated to supporting families with sick children in their time of need."
For more information about PR Partners, please contact Policy Reporter at partners@policyreporter.com.
Policy Reporter provides innovative healthcare software solutions to track payer policies in near real time and a suite of consulting services to enhance market access strategies and patient support programs. Its clients include many of the largest pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics manufacturers along with leading academic institutions and organized provider groups. For more information or a free demo, please visit https://www.policyreporter.com.
TrialCard Incorporated is a full-service life sciences commercialization company that provides comprehensive solutions that span the entire biopharmaceutical value chain. In addition to a foundation of fully integrated, digitally enabled patient support services, its broader offerings include everything from late-stage clinical trial supply management to post-marketing HCP engagement services and proprietary data-as-a-service payer intelligence and insights. Founded in 2000, TrialCard provides commercialization support for more than 400 life science customers and has connected over 36 million patients with more than $22 billion in branded drug savings to date. The company is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. For more information about TrialCard, please visit www.trialcard.com.
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TrialCard
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- Annette Clayton: "The Inflation Reduction Act is a game-changing investment in America's clean energy future"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Schneider Electric joined energy sector leaders and elected officials to celebrate the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act at the White House. Annette Clayton, CEO of Schneider Electric North America, released the following statement prior to her attendance:
"The Inflation Reduction Act is a game-changing investment in America's clean energy future," said Annette Clayton, CEO of Schneider North America. "These resources couldn't be more urgent as the country fights inflation, rising energy costs and the effects of climate change. This law jumpstarts the deployment and adoption of cleaner, more resilient energy technologies and rapidly expands domestic manufacturing to create good-paying jobs for American workers. It also democratizes access to renewable and sustainable sources of energy and energy efficiency savings. As one of the world's most sustainable companies, Schneider Electric has been at the forefront of electrifying and modernizing the nation's energy infrastructure and we are excited to help build America's clean energy future as this pivotal new law is implemented."
Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and industrial automation, has a long history of partnering with the government to advance the clean energy transition. With more than 17,000 U.S. employees and its North American headquarters in Boston, MA, Schneider Electric has operations across 48 states, including hubs in Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, and Nashville, TN. In early 2022, the company announced construction of a new 160,000 square foot manufacturing plant in El Paso, TX as part of a $100 million regional investment to increase production and speed the delivery of electrical products to customers in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Schneider Electric is also the world's leading builder of microgrids, including an energy security microgrid at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, CA to allow mission-critical operations to continue uninterrupted if the utility power grid is compromised or damaged, as well as a microgrid to enable cleaner, more resilient operations at the Port of Long Beach, the second busiest sea port in the nation.
In addition, the company has helped the U.S. Navy modernize 90 buildings and optimize its data center operations at two bases using $114 million in guaranteed energy savings. It also implemented more than $7 million in infrastructure upgrades at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Puerto Rico to enhance patient care, all delivered with no upfront capital investment through a guaranteed energy savings performance contract.
Schneider's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.
We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, endpoint to cloud connecting products, controls, software, and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries.
We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.
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Top 500 ENR Firm to Further Waterloo's Downtown Development Renaissance
WATERLOO, Iowa, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Building off of development momentum within the City of Waterloo, ISG is now the primary tenant of Art Bloc, a new mixed-use residential building overlooking the Cedar River in downtown Waterloo. ISG—a nationally recognized architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm—reimagined the second level interior, designing a state-of-the-art office build-out to facilitate collaboration and communication and improve operational efficiencies.
One of ISG's 11 locations, the new Waterloo office features an elevated plaza and outdoor patio adjacent to the River Loop Amphitheatre, a hotspot for live music and events. Just steps away, employees can easily access Waterloo's extensive trail network, a popular riverfront amenity.
"We are excited to be situated along Waterloo's vibrant waterfront and be a part of the area's revitalization. ISG has been involved in several major downtown renovation projects, including the Waterloo Convention Center and Best Western Hotel, and is excited to add to the positive story of Waterloo's regional resurgence," says Cody Vanasse, ISG Architectural Group Leader.
Since 2018, ISG has continued to invest in Waterloo and the Cedar Valley by not only recruiting staff to the area but supporting local communities. From staff count and community initiatives to the design of transformative local projects, ISG continues to grow its presence in Waterloo. For five consecutive years, Zweig Group has named ISG among the 100 fastest growing firms, best places to work, and market excellence leader in the United States. In 2021, the firm jumped 56 spots to 250 on the Engineering News Record magazine Top 500 Design Firms list.
"We strongly believe that growth, whether within our firm or community, requires leadership, culture, and great places to perform work. ISG is looking to add top talent to our Waterloo office and feel that is best accomplished in the downtown Art Bloc location with dedicated, local leadership," states Derek Johnson, PE, ISG Executive Vice President.
ISG prides itself on giving back to the community with its time, talent, and resources. Several members of the Waterloo office team hold leadership positions on boards and committees for Main Street Waterloo, Grow Cedar Valley, and Partners in Education. Additionally, a spacious conference room in the new office is available as a resource for community groups to meet.
In 2023, ISG will celebrate 50 years of making a difference for its clients, communities, and its team. Starting as a small office and growing to over 450 employees across four states, ISG is dedicated to forging a legacy of sustainable growth and looks forward to positively impacting the Waterloo community and surrounding region.
About ISG
ISG, a 100 percent ESOP firm, has a rich history, which extends over 49 years of building trusting relationships with clients, stakeholders, and the community. As a full-service architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm with 450+ professionals in offices throughout Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota, ISG provides exceptional services, strategies, and guidance to a wide range of markets nationwide. To learn more about ISG, visit ISGInc.com.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – After issuing a shelter in place, Santa Fe Police have a suspect in custody, accused of shoplifting and pulling a gun. Police say officers responded to Home Depot around 8:36 a.m. Monday to reports of a shoplifting. SFPD says two men stole a generator and when loss prevention confronted them, they pulled a handgun.
Officers tried a traffic stop on the suspect vehicle but the vehicle fled from police and officers stopped their pursuit, citing public safety reasons due to the vehicle driving recklessly. SFPD says around 3:10 p.m. the same vehicle was seen and officers tried to stop it. The vehicle fled again and the suspects parked it and fled on foot.
After setting up a perimeter around the area and issuing a shelter in place, officers were able to take a male suspect into custody after using a taser on him during the arrest. Police say he is believed to be directly involved in the earlier shoplifting incident. The second occupant of the vehicle was a female who was also taken into custody. Police have not said if the other male suspect involved in the Home Depot shoplifting is still at large.
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Mammogen — a Female-led Precision Diagnostics Company — has Launched an Industry-first Online Marketplace Designed to Create a Tangible Bridge Between Science and Community
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mammogen, a leading women's health company specializing in noninvasive precision diagnostics, has launched mammogen marketplace, an e-commerce platform designed to provide hope, comfort and support for those affected by women's health-related diseases. The company says this is the diagnostic industry's first online marketplace to support product and community development for patients and those who love them.
Mammogen was founded and is currently owned and operated by IV BioHoldings (IVBH), a bio-AI platform company at the forefront of the rapidly growing liquid biopsy industry. "Being a patient-first organization requires a willingness to integrate technologies across every axis of business, said IVBH Founder-CEO Marty Keiser, who also serves as chairman of Mammogen. "The marketplace is an important step towards proving that community can fuel market adoption and that market adoption can, in turn, fuel community."
Mammogen CEO and IVBH Chief Commercial Officer Elizabeth Cormier-May conceived of the marketplace after hundreds of conversations with patients and families affected by breast cancer. According to Cormier-May, the comfortable gear and accessories available through mammogen marketplace are designed to drive awareness of and provide solutions for major unmet needs in women's health, all through a centralized haven of resources.
"Innovation should not be confined to our science and product development," said Cormier-May. "We've tapped into the same level of creativity from which Mammogen was born to completely redefine traditional brand building, revenue generation and the development of non-clinical solutions that uplift and empower the patients and families that we serve. Using this marketplace to help build a bridge between science and community is central to ensuring Mammogen remains at the forefront of an ever-evolving healthcare landscape."
"Today, we are focused on important issues in breast health and driving awareness to the important role that noninvasive diagnostics play in improving patients' experiences and outcomes. Over time, our aim is to build mammogen marketplace into an expansive platform that closes the gap between science and community for all women, affected by all disease, all around the globe," said Cormier-May.
Mammogen partnered with Tee Commerce to create their marketplace. Tee Commerce, an e-commerce services provider that built a novel business initially focused on the golf industry, jumped at the opportunity to support a company with a patient-focused vision. Founded by Ben Vainer, a childhood cancer survivor, Tee Commerce understands the importance of early disease detection and partnered with Mammogen to bring the company's unique vision to life.
"We were honored to fuel Mammogen's entrance into e-commerce," said Tee Commerce Head of Operations Collin Lynch. "After understanding what mammogen marketplace will evolve into, we worked diligently on stocking their store with products focused on health and comfort. We look forward to watching Mammogen's new healthcare model unlock a new era of patient-focused care."
The marketplace's hallmark product, The Pink Robe Killer — described by Cormier-May as a "plush and cozy zip-up" — is meant to replace the impersonal, cold, pink paper robes that most women wear to their mammogram appointments. Cormier-May hopes the product will serve as a reminder for women to prioritize their own health, make self-care synonymous with comfort, and help the company continue to fuel innovation in women's health.
For more information, visit: mammogen.teecommerce.shop
Mammogen is a female-led specialty precision health company dedicated to radically improving the detection, diagnosis and treatment of women's health-related diseases, and creating a diverse and thriving global community that encourages, empowers and uplifts women throughout the journey of survivorship, from end-to-never-end. Mammogen's flagship genTRU diagnostic program is a clinical-stage, patent-pending technology that measures changes in RNA expression patterns, found in both blood and saliva, to provide a highly accurate diagnosis of breast cancer consistently across all stages of disease. The genTRU-breast suite of diagnostics is intentionally designed to rule more of the right women into imaging and intervention much earlier and to rule more of the wrong women out of unnecessary procedures. It's positioned to unlock regular and reliable screening for millions of women worldwide. Visit: mammogen.bio
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
Archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver Peter Broger saw the shattered skull and skeleton partly covered by sediment in a cave near where the Mexican government plans to build a high-speed tourist train through the jungle.
Given the distance from the cave entrance, the skeleton couldn’t have gotten there without modern diving equipment, so it must be over 8,000 years old, Del Rio said, referring to the era when rising sea levels flooded the caves.
“There it is. We don’t know if the body was deposited there or if that was where this person died,” said Del Rio. He said that the skeleton was located about 8 meters (26 feet) underwater, about a half-kilometer (one third of a mile) into the cave system.
Some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered in the sinkhole caves known as “cenotes” on the country’s Caribbean coast, and experts say some of those caves are threatened by the Mexican government’s Maya Train tourism project.
Del Rio, who has worked with the National Institute of Anthropology and History on projects in the past, said he had notified the institute of the discovery. The institute did not immediately respond to questions about whether it intended to explore the site.
He stressed that the cave — whose location he did not reveal because of a fear the site could be looted or disturbed — was near where the government has cut down a swath of jungle to lay train tracks, and could be collapsed, contaminated or closed off by the building project and subsequent development.
“There is a lot more study that has to be done in order to correctly interpret” the find, Del Rio said, noting that “dating, some kind of photographic studies and some collection” would be needed to determine exactly how old the skeleton is.
Del Rio has been exploring the region for three decades, and in 2002, he participated in the discovery and cataloguing of remains known as The Woman of Naharon, who died around the same time, or perhaps earlier, than Naia — the nearly complete skeleton of a young woman who died around 13,000 years ago. It was discovered in a nearby cave system in 2007.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is racing to finish his Maya Train project in the remaining two years of his term over the objections of environmentalists, cave divers and archaeologists. They say his haste will allow little time to study the ancient remains.
Activists say the heavy, high-speed rail project will fragment the coastal jungle and will run often above the fragile limestone caves, which — because they’re flooded, twisty and often incredibly narrow — can take decades to explore.
Caves along part of the coast already have been damaged by construction above them, with cement pilings used to support the weight above.
The 950-mile (1,500-kilometer) Maya Train line is meant to run in a rough loop around the Yucatan Peninsula, connecting beach resorts and archaeological sites.
The most controversial stretch cuts a more than 68-mile (110-kilometer) swath through the jungle between the resorts of Cancun and Tulum.
Del Rio said the route through the jungle should be abandoned and the train should be built over the already-impacted coastal highway between Cancun and Tulum, as was originally planned.
López Obrador abandoned the highway route after hotel owners voiced objections, and cost and traffic interruptions became a concern.
“What we want is for them to change to route at this spot, because of the archaeological finds that have been made there, and their importance,” said Del Rio. “They should take the train away from there and put it where they said they were going to build before, on the highway … an area that has already been affected, devastated.”
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Opa! Columbia’s Greek Festival is back and it’s bigger and better than ever
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - It’s truly one of the most popular, most highly-attended, and most delicious festivals in our state - Columbia’s Greek Festival.
Niki Stewart and Kiki Rothman are two of the chairwomen of the massive community party. And they’re authentically Greek and know how to make the rest of us feel like part of the family.
They joined Dawndy Mercer Plank on WIS TV midday to invite the public to the 35th annual event.
The 35th annual Columbia’s Greek Festival is this Thursday through Sunday at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral. The address is 1931 Sumter Street in downtown Columbia. The hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Sunday’s hours are noon to 6 p.m.
Learn more at http://columbiasgreekfestival.com/.
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