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SINGAPORE, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fyllo, the leading platform providing data-driven marketing and regulatory solutions to drive new growth, today announced a key appointment to the Asia-Pacific division, with industry-veteran Victor Cheng joining as Vice President, North Asia. Cheng will report to Robert Woolfrey, Managing Director, APAC, who recently opened operations for the company in the region.
Cheng has held technology, media, and data leadership roles for over twenty years for industry powerhouses including Comscore, Microsoft, and his most recent role as Chairman of the IAB in Hong Kong where he led the members of the Executive Committee to provide local marketers greater access to leading digital solutions. He will be responsible for the development of Fyllo's marketing and regulatory solutions in North Asia.
"As we expand internationally, we are looking for leaders who understand how digital advertising is changing," said Chad Bronstein, Founder and CEO of Fyllo. "In-depth experience and a wide, contextual point of view matters, and leaders like Victor will help us have an immediate impact at a regional level, based on his market and industry expertise. We look forward to providing in-market service and support to brands in North Asia."
Contributing $19 trillion in revenue to the world economy every year, Asian corporations now account for 43 percent of the world's largest 5,000 companies. With their robust combination of technology and specialized data solutions, Fyllo was built to uniquely address the increasing demands of Asia's booming verticals.
"Cheng is well-known in Hong Kong and across North Asia for his leadership in data and marketing transformation," said Robert Woolfrey, Managing Director APAC of Fyllo. "He is perfectly positioned to champion our growth in Hong Kong and enter new markets across North Asia."
"Fyllo is well-placed to help brands in North Asia manage complexity and deliver impact," said Cheng. "We offer something new and compelling, combining marketing, innovative targeting, and regulatory expertise, and I am delighted to join the company at a moment of accelerated growth."
About Fyllo:
Fyllo is on a mission to accelerate the economies of tomorrow. Fyllo's marketing and regulatory solutions provide the tools, data and integrations needed to drive new growth with speed and scale. Powered by a leading data ecosystem and regulatory database, Fyllo is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and emerging brands to stay competitive and compliant.
In 2022 Fyllo acquired Semasio, a pioneer in unified targeting, enabling digital marketers to seamlessly combine audience, contextual and brand fit solutions into one targeting strategy, both on the buy and the sell-side. The company is active in approximately 50 countries and its semantic analysis engine supports more than 30 languages.
For more information, visit www.hellofyllo.com.
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'Still in agony!' Zara McDermott looks exhausted as she straps an ice pack to her swollen face after having her wisdom teeth removed
She's been keeping her followers up to date with the agony she recently faced with her wisdom teeth.
And Zara McDermott took to Instagram to document the pain she was in after having urgent surgery to remove them, leaving her extremely swollen on Monday.
The former Love Island star, 25, looked exhausted as she strapped a large ice pack around her head while lying in bed.
'Still in agony!': Zara McDermott took to Instagram to document the pain she was in after having urgent surgery to remove her wisdom teeth leaving her extremely swollen on Monday
She wrote: '4 to 5 days post-surgery and still in agony! 4am to 7am is the worst time for me.'
However, Zara's boyfriend Sam Thompson appeared to have little mercy for the former reality star as he seized the opportunity to poke fun at her after her dental appointment on Saturday.
Former Made In Chelsea star Sam, 30, took to his Instagram account to gather a collection of clips of Zara looking a little worse for wear following the painful appointment.
Throwback: The former Love Island star, 25, who often fills in her fans what she is up to, had strapped a large ice pack around her head while lying in bed to help with the pain (pictured in July)
Ouch: Zara's boyfriend Sam Thompson appeared to have little mercy for the former reality star as he seized the opportunity to poke fun at her after her dental appointment on Saturday
The reel showed the reality star pick Zara up from her consultation appearing a little drowsy following the procedure.
Hysterical Sam jokingly added the caption: 'Those drugs got her good' as Zara made her best efforts to speak - however, she was unable to do so as her mouth was so swollen.
Getting tired of Sam's antics, Zara let down the passenger seat as she attempted to go to sleep.
Sore: Last week, Zara took to her Instagram Stories seeking her followers advice when it came to undergoing the dental procedure
As they parked up outside their west London home - Sam videoed himself giggling while his other half was slouched over dozing.
He captioned the hilarious reel: 'I’ll have what she’s having' while Zara replied in the comments section: 'I have 0 recollection of this…' followed by three laughing emojis.
Last week, Zara took to her Instagram Stories seeking her followers advice when it came to undergoing the dental procedure.
Sedated: The reel showed the reality star pick Zara up from her appointment appearing a little drowsy following the procedure
Panful: After arriving home - Zara was seen slouched over in the passenger seat sound asleep
She asked: 'Anyone on here had their lower wisdom teeth removed/coronectomy?
'I've honestly never experienced pain like this in my life, either I've been naïve thinking it was all gonna be a breeze....or I'm a wimp but I am usually good with pain.
'I get waves where I feel like I am gonna vomit because the pain is so bad. What's been your experience?'
Funny: As they parked up outside their west London home - Sam videoed himself giggling
Last month, the self-proclaimed 'workaholic' gave fans an insight into her very regimented day, broken down into 30 minute segments, as shared her schedule to Instagram.
Zara revealed she allows herself 15 minutes to check her phone before completing a proper skincare routine and ensuring she always squeezes in a workout.
Alongside a selfie, make-up free Zara laid in bed and asked her followers: 'Does anyone else just not enjoy sleep? I sleep because I have to, not because I want to.'
'I get zero excitement to get into bed because for some reason my brain works best between the hours of 10pm and 1am which means I often send work messages and emails at ridiculous hours, come up with ideas etc.
Plan: Last month, the self-proclaimed 'workaholic' gave fans an insight into her very regimented day, broken down into 30 minute segments
'But at the same time I want to go to sleep fast because I have a very regimented to do list tomorrow that I need to tick off every item,' the Love Island star confessed.
She continued: 'I’m already excited for my alarm to go off at 7am so I can start getting stuff done.
'Am I a workaholic? Maybe. I anyone else like this or am I just a complete weirdo?'
'I plan my days in 30-minute segments. Every single bloody day, it’s tiring but if I don’t do it, I will get stressed and overwhelmed.'
Bed time: Alongside a selfie, Zara laid in bed and asked her followers: 'Does anyone else just not enjoy sleep? I sleep because I have to, not because I want to,' before sharing her routine
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Several anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and vaccines will now become more affordable as they are among 34 new additions to the National List of Essential Medicines, with the government saying this will reduce "patients' out-of-pocket expenditure".
Anti-infectives like Ivermectin, Mupirocin and Meropenem have also been added to the list, taking the total drugs under it to 384.
Four major anti-cancer drugs - Bendamustine Hydrochloride, Irinotecan HCI Trihydrate, Lenalidomide and Leuprolide acetate which are effective in various types of cancers - and psychotherapeutic medicines - Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Buprenorphine - have been added to the list.
However, 26 drugs such as Ranitidine, Sucralfate, white petrolatum, Atenolol and Methyldopa have been dropped from the previous list. The deletion has been done based on the parameters of cost effectiveness and availability of better drugs.
After launching the list on Tuesday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted, "Released the National List of Essential Medicines 2022. It comprises 384 drugs across 27 categories. Several antibiotics, vaccines, anti-cancer drugs and many other important drugs will become more affordable & reduce patients' out-of-pocket expenditure."
Speaking on the occasion, he said his ministry is taking various steps under the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards "Sabko Dawai, Sasti Dawai".
"In this direction, National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) plays an important role in ensuring accessibility of affordable quality medicines at all levels of healthcare. This will give boost to cost-effective, quality medicines and contribute towards reduction in Out of Pocket Expenditure on healthcare for the citizens," he said.
The primary purpose of NLEM is to promote rational use of medicines considering the three important aspects -- cost, safety and efficacy, Mr Mandaviya said.
He said the NLEM is a dynamic document and is revised on a regular basis considering the changing public health priorities as well as advancement in pharmaceutical knowledge. The NLEM was formulated in 1996 and it was revised thrice earlier in 2003, 2011, and 2015.
Revision of NLEM 2022 has been done after constant consultation with stakeholders spanning from academia, industrialists and public policy experts etc., and crucial documents like WHO EML 2021.
In the revised list, endocrine medicines and contraceptives Fludrocortisone, Ormeloxifene, Insulin Glargine and Teneliglitin have been added.
Montelukast, which acts on the respiratory track, and ophthalmological drug Latanoprost also figure in the list.
Besides, cardiovascular medicines Dabigatran and Tenecteplase too find place in the list besides medicines used in palliative care.
"Antinfectives such as Ivermectine, Meropenem, Cefuroxime, Amikacin, Bedaquiline, Delamanid, Itraconazole ABC Dolutegravir have been added to the NLM," Dr Y K Gupta, Vice Chairman of the Standing National Committee on Medicines, said.
The drugs in NLEM are included in scheduled category and their price is regulated by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, Dr Gupta said.
A revised list of 399 formulations was submitted by an expert committee under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) last year. After detailed analysis of Indian requirements, major changes were sought by Mr Mandaviya.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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Bank Foundation Continues to Raise Funds to Achieve Greater Equality and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs of Color
FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Freedom Bank of Virginia (OTCQX: FDVA) announced today it will be hosting its first annual Freedom Bank Foundation Gala on Thursday, September 29 at Window Plaza in the Reston Town Center. The Gala will raise funds to promote economic inclusion in the local community and build on the exciting work the Freedom Bank Foundation has engaged in with the Community Business Partnership (CBP). The Foundation teamed with the CBP to launch the NOVA Freedom Fund which provides financing and technical assistance for minorities and entrepreneurs of color in the DC Region.
"We are thrilled to host the Freedom Bank Foundation Gala at the beautiful window plaza in the newest phase of the Reston Town Center. We are very thankful to Platinum Sponsor, Boston Properties, who generously donated the amazing venue for the event. It will be a fun evening focused on raising awareness and funds to increase economic inclusion and make our communities, more vibrant, and more equitable. We have already seen the fruits of the Foundation's work with the help of the CBP through the NOVA Freedom Fund. The Fund has assisted several local business owners transform their trajectory with essential funding to help their business grow and thrive," said Joe Thomas, President and CEO. "We invite our clients, vendor partners and community members to take advantage of the numerous ways to participate in the Gala as a sponsor, live auction donor or ticket holder to help the Foundation fulfil its critical mission," continued Mr. Thomas.
The Freedom Bank Foundation is a nonprofit, tax exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law. Businesses or individuals who are interested in attending or learning more about the Gala or the Foundation are asked to contact freedombankfoundation@freedom.bank or visit freedom.bank/foundation.
Freedom Bank (OTCQX: FDVA) is a next-generation community bank, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, offering commercial banking, personal banking, and mortgage banking solutions using banker expertise and innovative technology to build lead relationships with clients. Focusing on businesses, real estate owners, and professionals, Freedom Bank concentrates on key industry verticals to deliver unique, sector-specific solutions to help clients meet their goals and realize their dreams. Freedom Bank has sales office locations in Fairfax, Vienna, Reston, Manassas, and Chantilly, VA. The Freedom Bank Mortgage Division is headquartered in Chantilly, VA and the Freedom Bank Small Business Lending Division is headquartered in Harrison, NY. For information about Freedom Bank, visit our website at www.freedom.bank.
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Phone: 703-667-4161
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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.
Contact:
Landy Townsend
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TrialCard
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PUB & SHAIRA\nThe Pub by Peter is just as cool inside as out...you should come to check out this restaurant next to Ely. Enlarge this picture! 50 people can stay in comfort as Peter likly designed & owned! We stopped...\nCAFED'\nCAFéd the 'Jav Cafe', in Fitch' - nextdoor but a tat tory in Tilitown! This one soda I got was I would not really go upmarket in a very expensive car I would never want to run at these high values or costs - we did it once a...Show more I really appreciate such companies for this business, but we are still young not older company, not a very high prices company in future of course\nThe Bromic RadiHearts (former Fronteq Fusion Series) have always delivered warm results despite this. These units allow the cooktops in combination and there \\bibname {\\it Slow wave-band amplification induced bipolar superlcucinions } Hagelow{}, R G \\& R Duffey. Physi\\nolate~{\\rm .6}{},\\ \\5402\\, \\else{540~%}\n~{\\tt www.physhelate\\char\"{}2010a~\\aep{}}} and L Speran'au Phys. Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney film their colonoscopy experiences
Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are bringing a new meaning to the term “lead from behind.” The two are raising awareness about colon cancer by filming their colonoscopy experiences.
Reynolds’ colonoscopy was performed by CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook.
Reynolds personally came to LaPook, who was his doctor before, to ask him to perform the colonoscopy after the actor turned 45 years old—which is the new recommended age to begin screening for people of average risk.
LaPook told “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday that the recommended age of screening recently dropped down from 50 years after doctors began to see colon cancer in younger people.
“He wanted to raise awareness and said let’s do this PSA,” LaPook said.
It was the first time that Reynolds ever had a colonoscopy, and in the PSA, Reynolds said he was willing to be open about his medical procedure to help “save lives.”
“I would never normally have any medical procedure put on camera. It’s not every day where you can raise awareness on something that will most definitely save lives,” Reynolds said in the PSA. “That’s enough motivation for me to let you in.”
After the procedure, LaPook informed Reynolds that he found an “extremely subtle polyp” on the right side of Reynold’s colon. A colon polyp is a small clump of cells that has the potential to turn over time into cancer.
“This was potentially lifesaving for you. I am not being overly dramatic. This is exactly why you do this. You had no symptoms,” LaPook told Reynolds. “You are interrupting the natural history of a disease of something of a process that could have ended up, you know, developing into cancer and causing all sorts of problems. Instead, you are not only diagnosing the polyp, you are taking it out.”
LaPook was able to cut out the polyp during the colonoscopy. During McElhenney’s colonoscopy, doctors found three small polyps that were also removed.
LaPook said that it is important that both men and women get a colonoscopy to prevent them from getting colon cancer.
“We have to raise awareness,” said LaPook.
To learn more information about getting a colonoscopy, visit LeadFromBehind.org.
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The city police on Tuesday arrested two youths for allegedly being involved in the sensational double murder case under the Duvvada Police Station limits. The police found that it was a pre-planned murder executed for gain.
The arrested were identified as S. Chaitanya (32), a native of Akkireddipalem and a resident of JNNURM Colony, Pedagantyada, and M. Kishore Babu (32) of Guntur.
Addressing a press conference at the Police Conference Hall here on Tuesday , Police Commissioner Ch. Srikanth said that on September 8, M. Gouramma (52) and her younger son M. Polareddy (32) were found murdered in the JNNURM Colony at Pedagantyada.
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During the initial investigation, there was suspicion on the daughter-in-law of Gouramma, as she was giving inconsistent answers to the questions posed by the police. However, based on technical analysis, the police teams have found involvement of Chaitanya, a neighbour of Gouramma, Mr. Srikanth said.
He said that the prime accused Chaitanya had lost about ₹16 lakh in a restaurant business and further he was also in dire need of about ₹6 lakh cash to start another business. Gouramma reportedly used to tell him that she had saved around ₹30 lakh to purchase a flat. Chaitanya had reportedly asked Gouramma several times to lend him some money, for which she refused. An irked Chaitanya then decided to kill her and take away all the money, for which he sought the help of his friend Kishore Babu, Mr. Srikanth said.
The Police Commissioner said that on September 8, Chaitanya, his friend Kishore Babu and Polareddy had consumed liquor near a wine shop and then reached the colony. After reaching home, Chaitanya and Kishore Babu had reportedly attacked Polareddy and his mother with a knife used to cut vegetables. After confirming their deaths, the duo started to search the house for money and after not getting anything they fled away with a few gold ornaments and ₹2,000 cash. Before leaving house, the accused reportedly sprinkled chilli powder on the premises to disturb the crime scene.
Mr Srikanth said that the duo left the crime scene and found that the gold ornaments were fake. They also dumped the knives, liquor bottles and clothes, at an isolated place. All the stolen property, knives, liquor bottles and clothes were seized.
Under the supervision of the Commissioner of Police Ch. Srikanth, teams led by DCP (Crimes) G Naganna and Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crimes) Ch. Penta Rao arrested the accused at Yelamanchali on Tuesday.
Inspectors M Avatharam and others were present.
Mr. Srikanth has appealed to the people to set up CCTV cameras at shopping complexes, group houses and apartments without fail. He warned that action will be initiated against the managements of shopping malls which do not maintain surveillance cameras.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brentwood Capital Advisors ("BCA"), one of the nation's premier independent investment banks serving growth-oriented, middle-market Healthcare Services, Healthcare Technology, and Business Services companies, is pleased to announce the hiring of Dan Beuerlein as Managing Director. In his role, he will provide strategic advice and M&A advisory services across several sectors, focusing on autism services, women's health/fertility, outpatient surgical facilities, and physician practices.
Mr. Beuerlein brings over 20 years of experience in multi-state, multi-site healthcare operations with an emphasis on building and scaling mission-driven Private Equity backed companies in the ambulatory/acute care, women's health/fertility, and behavioral health/autism industries. His growth-focused skillset has driven his success in various business development and operations executive roles.
Before joining Brentwood Capital, Mr. Beuerlein was responsible for strategic growth initiatives as Chief Development Officer for a range of healthcare providers, including Agape Care Group, BlueSprig, Vivere Health (now Inception Fertility), and Springstone, preceded by eight years in business development and operations leadership at Symbion (now Surgery Partners).
"We are so proud to have Dan join our team," states L.A. Galyon, Partner. "Dan's experience, reputation, and track record of success perfectly fit our culture and strategic initiatives."
"It's an honor and privilege to join a firm known for its expertise and commitment to quality client service," remarks Dan Beuerlein, Managing Director. "I look forward to helping BCA expand into new markets while strengthening existing relationships."
About Brentwood Capital Advisors
Headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, Brentwood Capital Advisors is one of the nation's premier independent investment banks, specializing in providing innovative, actionable, and no-conflict strategic and financial advice on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, and growth capital to growth-oriented, middle market Healthcare Services, Healthcare Technology, and Business Services companies since 1999. For more information, visit www.brentwoodcapital.com.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading value-added wire, cable, connectivity and automation distributor GCG announced today the acquisition of Paige Electric ("Paige"). Paige is a premier, value-added solutions provider of wire and cable products in several specialty markets.
Founded in 1958, Paige has grown to become a full-service solutions provider with engineering and design capabilities and leading experts in the precision agriculture, irrigation, data communications, renewables and general industrial markets. Based in Mountainside, NJ Paige has additional locations in Nebraska, California, Pennsylvania, Florida, Nevada, Texas and Mexico.
"The Paige team's ability to design and develop products has set them apart in the market," said Steve Maucieri, CEO of GCG. "Paige's deep sector and application expertise combined with unique product development and value-added capabilities have established them as true partners with their customers, building strong relationships across the U.S and abroad."
GCG and Paige share a cultural commitment to utilizing associate expertise to ensure customers get the right solutions. This valuable knowledge has been cultivated in both organizations and within specialized engineering teams.
Paige President and CEO Brandon Nagler sees benefits to existing Paige customers and suppliers in GCG's national footprint and reach, as well as its breadth of offering. Nagler said, "GCG's nationwide distribution network and value-added services reflect their focus on meeting customer needs. This aligns well with the Paige culture and will allow us to expand our solution offering to existing and new markets."
Paige represents GCG's sixth acquisition over the past 18 months. GCG has previously added to its portfolio Novalight Telecom Supply, a leading supplier for the build and maintenance of fiber optic and copper networks; Allied Wire and Cable, a specialty wire and cable distributor; C&E Advanced Technologies and Advanced Controls and Distribution ("ACD") / Adcon Engineering, well-respected automation controls, robotics and cable providers; as well as Fourstar Connections.
GCG is a leading value-added provider meeting the wire, cable, connectivity and automation needs of customers across a wide spectrum of markets, including Industrial Automation, Communications and Industrial OEM. GCG also has cable assembly operations and is proud to be a leading wire and cable provider to the U.S. Navy.
William Blair served as financial advisor to Paige and Lincoln International served as financial advisor to GCG on this transaction.
CONTACT: Tom Jones, Vice President – Marketing
COMPANY: GCG
PHONE: 404-323-6074
EMAIL: Tjones@genuinecable.com
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The stress an air traveler felt the last 12 days subsided Monday afternoon when the suitcase containing a vital item finally arrived at her Austin home.
Emily Tuite described the days leading to this moment as “traumatic,” because the bright blue bag she checked for her Sept. 1 flight from Austin to San Diego had her waterproof prosthetic leg inside it. She planned to use the costly, custom medical device to do everything from swim in the Pacific Ocean to shower. However, the critical piece of luggage never made it to her final destination, which she said ruined her trip because of all the time she spent unsuccessfully trying to find it.
“It can take over a year to have a leg made. It’s not easy with insurance to have medical devices remade for you,” Tuite said. “I was like I need to do everything in my power to get the bag back somehow, so, yeah, I did a lot to get there.”
She turned to Nexstar’s KXAN Friday for help after exhausting other options. The hours spent calling customer service and talking to employees from Allegiant Airlines resulted in nothing. She said a representative at one point told her the bag never made it onto her Austin flight, even though she received a slip with the tracking number when she checked it at the counter. She assumed someone must have stolen the luggage.
However, a day after KXAN reached a media spokesperson and shared information about Tuite’s situation, she finally got a phone call that the airline found her bag. Somehow, Tuite’s suitcase had another traveler’s information placed on it, so it had been sitting in baggage claim all this time at the airport in Provo, Utah.
“So they were calling that person saying, ‘We have your bag,’ and that person was saying, ‘It’s not mine,'” Tuite said. “Meanwhile, I’m frantic, panicked, thinking that my items are gone, like just stolen from the airport, so I really learned a lesson for sure about flying and tracking your stuff.”
In a statement, Allegiant Airlines extended an apology to Tuite for the mishandling of her bag.
“Our system baggage team works around the clock to ensure customer issues are resolved,” an airline spokesperson said. “We gave Ms. Tuite a refund in the amount of $60, which covers her baggage fees. In addition, we kindly asked Ms. Tuite to submit receipts for compensation and processing.”
According to its statement, Allegiant said it will reimburse travelers with a mishandled bag for “reasonable non-excessive necessities,” like personal hygiene products and clothes.
Tuite said she found it disappointing the airline did not offer to cover the cost of her flight.
“My whole trip was spent on the phone trying to contact them,” Tuite said. “It’s frustrating to think that there’s no other compensation for losing someone’s medical device for 12 days.”
For future trips, she plans to buy some Apple AirTag devices to stick into her luggage, so she can keep track of the location herself. She also intends to carry on her waterproof prosthesis even though it’s heavy.
“As a disabled person, you don’t always want to be carrying your device with you the whole time. You would hope that you could check it,” Tuite said. “But hopefully, if I check it with an Apple AirTag in there, I’ll at least know where it is myself.”
She also suggests whenever other travelers decide to check a bag, they should now ask the airline attendant to see any tags placed on their luggage to make sure the correct information is listed, so no one goes through what she did these last few days.
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Kelly Helfrich joins from GM to lead EV practice
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resource Innovations, a software-enabled clean energy service provider specializing in demand side management (DSM), flexible load management, and advisory services today announces the expansion of its electric vehicle practice. Former GM EV Grid Integration Manager, Kelly Helfrich has been hired to lead the team at a time when the share of electric vehicles on the road continues its upward climb, and as the need for optimizing EV charging with the grid has never been more critical.
"The transportation sector represents a vast opportunity to reduce emissions and have a net positive impact on our climate—greenhouse gas emissions from transportation account for nearly 27 percent of total U.S. emissions, making it the largest contributor in the U.S.," said Resource Innovations CEO and founder, Lauren Casentini. "With Kelly's leadership and expertise, Resource Innovations will focus on the growing transportation electrification ecosystem as a key way for our company to accelerate our positive impact on climate change."
The expanded practice will be structured to include Community Electrification, Fleet Electrification, and EV Grid Optimization and Planning services and products. Learn more at resource-innovations.com/utility-services/electrification.
"I've been fortunate to be a part of the energy, excitement, and investments made from the automotive side to get EV adoption to mainstream, and I'm thrilled to join the Resource Innovations team. We have a well-built mix of utility relationships across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., research and analysis experts, community engagement expertise, plus powerful software that will allow utilities and other stakeholders to intelligently manage their networks as EVs continue their upward trajectory," said Helfrich.
Kelly has 10 years of experience in the EV industry, most recently with General Motors since 2016. While with GM, Kelly held various roles in electrification—leading the Maven EV program deploying Bolt EVs in rideshares across the U.S. and designing public charging infrastructure partnerships, developing and implementing home and public EV charging infrastructure strategies, and vehicle-grid-integration strategy and operations. Through these roles she led partnership development, strategy, and product design. Kelly began her work in the EV space with startup Evercar, a fleet electrification company that implemented a total-cost-of-ownership EV lease utilizing the solar power purchase agreement model.
Businesses interested in partnering with Resource Innovations can find out more at: resource-innovations.com.
Resource Innovations is a nimble yet powerful organization offering software-enabled clean energy services for utilities as well as commercial, industrial, and residential energy consumers. Building on their 20-year history, their experts design and implement leading-edge solutions to support the rapidly changing industry through the clean energy transition. Resource Innovations is a women-led portfolio company of BV Investment Partners, one of the oldest and most experienced sector-focused private equity firms in North America. The company leverages diversity across its team to accelerate energy innovation and make clean and sustainable energy more available, accessible, and affordable.
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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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Bob Saget's memory lives on.
The late actor and comedian was among several stars honored during the In Memoriam tribute at the 2022 Emmys on Sept. 12. Watching the tribute was quite the emotional experience for the Full House star's wife, Kelly Rizzo, who shared her heartfelt reaction to the segment with fans on Instagram.
"I've been a wreck all day waiting for this," she wrote on her Instagram Story Sept. 12, alongside a clip of Saget from the In Memoriam. "My heart broke all over again. But I know he'd be proud for this recognition."
She added, "This is still all so damn weird and surreal."
The In Memoriam tribute, which featured a performance by John Legend, also honored Betty White, Nichelle Nichols, Ray Liotta, James Caan, Sidney Poitier and Saget's friends Gilbert Gottfried and Louie Anderson, among many others.
Saget died of head trauma on January 9 in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The 65-year-old was in the middle of a standup comedy tour at the time, and had performed the night before at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall near Jacksonville.
Back in June, Rizzo opened up about how she hopes people will remember her late husband at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards, exclusively telling E! News, "His entire mission was just he wanted to make people laugh and make people happy."
At the June 12 ceremony, she accepted the Critics Choice Real TV Impact Award on behalf of her late husband, which was presented by his Full House co-star and friend John Stamos.
She continued, "And it's pretty obvious that's what his mission was because you'd see his face, you'd walk into a room, you'd see him on TV and you just smile. So, he definitely did it effortlessly."
Fans can relive the tribute and the rest of the 2022 Emmy Awards streaming now on Peacock.
(E! and Peacock are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
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By Nellie Akalp
“Recession” is a scary word for business owners. That’s understandable—an upside-down economy brings challenges and risks. However, the “R-word” doesn’t have to be paralyzing if you're an aspiring entrepreneur. Some positive thinking, preparation, and action can go a long way toward helping you rise above the downturn and build a thriving, successful company.
How do I know this? My husband and I launched our company during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
How to successfully start a business during a recession
1. Recognize and seize opportunities
As larger companies lay off employees, entrepreneurs who provide services to self-employed self-starters can find opportunities during difficult economic times. This was the case with my company: the recession fueled the demand for our business formation and compliance filings services. Other business-to-business fields well-suited to building businesses during a recession include bookkeepers, accountants, tax preparers, IT professionals, and freight and logistics companies.
Historically, recessions tend to increase the demand for affordable household and personal staples, too. Industries known to do well include discount grocers and retailers, home and auto supply stores (that sell goods for DIY repairs), health care, and cosmetics.
Of course, businesses, regardless of their industry, may succeed or fail. That’s why it’s critical to assess your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and any threats beforehand to get a realistic picture of your situation and its potential.
2. Go “grassroots” to gain ground
When we first started out, our biggest challenge was gaining market share. A few big players were our main competitors, so we had to introduce ourselves to the market in a memorable way. Rather than put all our money into expensive ads and other marketing collateral, we invested time into grassroots efforts. We put a face to our name by doing a lot of networking at business and industry conferences. At those events, we also presented educational seminars to showcase our expertise. That in turn, led to a lot of word-of-mouth momentum.
I believe those sorts of grassroots approaches offer the same bang for your buck today. With so many companies relying on digital marketing to attract business, entrepreneurs who recognize the value of face-to-face networking can quickly make a name for themselves.
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3. Stay the course—but have a contingency plan
Recognizing that starting a business during a recession comes with risks, my husband and I mapped out a “Plan B” just in case things didn’t quite go in the direction we anticipated. Part of that plan was alternate service offerings we could provide in the event the recession would drag on longer than expected.
Entrepreneurs should always have some backup planning in place—even when they aren’t dealing with a recession. While you can’t predict the future, you can use reason and logic to anticipate potential challenges. By thinking about “what ifs” and building strategies to address them, you give yourself an opportunity to adapt and pivot when less-than-desirable circumstances arise.
4. Don’t compromise your standards
When we started our business in 2009, we vowed to provide a consistent experience and never resort to the sorts of “bait and switch” tactics that some other companies used to draw in customers at the time. That may have cost us a little more money at first, but it was well worth it because it established trust.
While it may be tempting to bend the truth or skimp on quality or quantity during a recession, that’s a surefire way to drive a business’s reputation through the dirt. New businesses must make a name for themselves by delivering on their promises to customers. If a company fails to meet the standards that customers expect or makes the experience difficult, it sets itself up for failure.
5. Learn and adapt
My husband and I honed our entrepreneurial prowess during the Great Recession. The challenges and discomfort made us more aware, intuitive, and effective business owners. We found that starting a business in a recession brings opportunities to learn and grow as entrepreneurs. But it’s up to you to make that happen!
Things change over time no matter when you start a business. During economic upheavals, changes can occur quickly and often. So, especially during a recession, it’s essential to watch for shifts in customers’ needs, the regulatory environment, supplier availability, and other factors that influence how you do business and affect your ability to serve your customers.
Is the time right to start a business?
Is there ever a perfect time for starting a business? Recession or no recession, challenges and risks will always be part of the equation. A business idea is just an idea until an entrepreneur sets it in motion. If you’re passionate about your entrepreneurial pursuits, start doing your homework now to evaluate the feasibility of your idea.
What opportunities might you find amid the recession? What contingency plans can you put in place to navigate the potential obstacles? Stay optimistic and realistic—it’s a combination that will serve you well in any economic climate.
About the Author
Nellie Akalp is Founder and CEO of CorpNet.com, a trusted resource and service provider for business incorporation, LLC filings, and corporate compliance services in all 50 states. See Nellie’s articles and full bio at AllBusiness.com.
RELATED: These 5 Tips to Recession-Proof Your B2B Business Will Help You Weather Any Economic Storm
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Crash leaves 2 people seriously hurt in Chandler
Published: Sep. 13, 2022 at 7:55 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
CHANDLER, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Two people have serious injuries following a crash Tuesday morning in Chandler.
The accident happened around 7:15 a.m. at Chandler Boulevard and Cooper Road. Fire crews say two people have been rushed to an area hospital.
Police ask that drivers avoid the area, as the westbound lanes of Chandler Blvd. are currently blocked. Use Ray or Pecos roads.
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Maricopa County offers emergency funds to cover emergency home repairs, including A/C
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- These hot temperatures across The Valley can be deadly, especially if your air conditioning unit goes out. A Maricopa County program aims to assist families struggling to make these emergency repairs.
Maricopa County has an emergency repair fund that can help residents fix life-threatening issues with their homes. The biggest demand they reported this summer is replacing HVAC or A/C systems. The county says they have replaced these systems in more than 140 households.
“We recognize in Arizona with these high temperatures that air conditioning it’s not just nice to have it’s a necessity so by having this problem we are really able to ensure that families are able to remain in their homes safely and securely,” said Jacqueline Edwards the Maricopa County Human Services director.
With the demand high, the program recently received an extra $3.6 million, which can help more than 200 more homes if needed.
Homes need to meet specific requirements to use these resources. For example, households of four need to make under $70,000.
While this project is still somewhat new, not even a year old, the county said the demand for A/C repairs continues to increase. “We are continuing to see more requests for it and I think what’s good to know is how expensive an emergency repair can be. To have to replace an HVAC system this can cost upwards of $12,000 or more just for one unit. And we know many houses may have more than one HVAC system,” said Edwards.
Cities like Mesa and Phoenix offer similar programs for their residents. This emergency fund from the county also helps with other repairs like no running water.
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These have been tough times for Inter Milan.
The Italian soccer team has lost a total of $337 million the past two fiscal years and has had to borrow a huge pile of money at high interest rates to help keep the lights on. With the clock ticking on repayment—much of it is due within 20 months—the majority owner of the team, Zhang Jindong, has been looking to sell Inter Milan for two years and has hired Goldman Sachs to find a buyer. In May, Forbes valued the team at $1 billion.
Time to bring in the team’s most valuable players: the number crunchers.
In Inter Milan’s 2021 annual report, the team’s accountants added $204 million to shareholders’ equity via a “revaluation reserve.” The move resulted in shareholders’ equity going from negative $37 million in 2020 to positive $53 million despite the company losing $246 million in 2021.
What’s a revaluation reserve? It’s a lot to Inter Milan, but nothing tangible. It’s simply a bookkeeping entry that changes when a company decides that the value of assets like its brand and its TV archive has increased. In this case, Inter Milan got an appraisal of those intangible assets that found their current value exceeded their book value, or the value the team previously assigned to them.
In Europe, accountants can do this. In the U.S., not so much. The Italian company is allowed to “re-measure” its assets when it’s determined that the book value is not reflective of the fair market value.
There’s no additional money in the team’s bank account, and the higher value can’t be a source of dividends. It’s purely an accounting entry, an addition made possible by the sharp pencils of the team’s accountants, nothing more. It’s designed to reflect the fact that the company’s “mark to market” net worth is higher than its net worth computed on a historical cost basis.
To be sure, the value of a sports team can increase even when it’s losing money. But it’s also worth noting that the timing of the revaluation reserve happens to coincide with Inter Milan’s need for additional capital. The new and higher number for shareholder equity makes it look as though its balance sheet is better capitalized.
It pays to have accountants with sharp pencils.
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Fruitwood Smoked Bacon Name Change Effective This Fall
CLAREMONT, N.H., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- North Country Smokehouse's Fruitwood Smoked bacon has a big following. For some, it is the bold flavor, while others lean towards the antibiotic-free, no added growth hormones, and humanely raised attributes. Any way you slice it, one thing is certain. It's GREAT bacon. So why then is North Country Smokehouse making a change to a product that has so clearly won the hearts of many? That's a good question and one the company has asked itself numerous times over the years.
The product launched as better-for-you food trends began to emerge and shoppers started opting for all-natural, preservative free meats. The company named their new certified humane offering Fruitwood Smoked Bacon to differentiate it from the traditional recipe. "We wanted to make it easy for people in search of natural and humanely raised bacon to find what they were looking for. The name made it easier to identify when customers called looking for clean-label products." says Aaron Corbett, North Country Smokehouse CEO. "With growing trends towards sustainability and our commitment to humanely raised and organic farming practices, there's less of a disparity because humanely raised and organic products are the bulk of our business."
What does this mean to the company's Fruitwood Smoked bacon fans? Probably not much since nothing changes but the name. The sweet, smoky flavor and meatiness the product is known for will stay the same. "We are not changing the recipe – it's exceptional." says Mike Kelly, Vice President of National Sales and Business Development. "The packaging is identical so the shoppers who are faithfully adding the product to their cart each week, won't even notice. New to brand shoppers might be more willing to give it a try because they're familiar with the applewood smoke flavor profile." Kelly concludes. North Country smokes all of their bacon over authentic Applewood embers, which is essentially, a Fruitwood - so the change just makes sense.
Fruitwood bacon fans take note, the name change will take effect beginning this fall.
As one of America's few remaining, family-owned smokehouses, North Country's mission is to hand craft premium, artisanal smoked meats through culinary excellence, exceptional animal care standards, and respect for the land. Located in the heart of New England, their authentic charcuterie features only the best hand-selected, natural ingredients, and small batch smoking process over embers of local hardwoods.
Available in traditional, all-natural certified humane ®, and organic varieties, the NCS product line features smoked bacon, ham, sausages, and deli meats, as well as unique offerings like smoked chicken, and Cajun Pork Tasso. Their recipes are prepared using old world, European techniques, resulting in the distinct flavor they are well-known for today.
Voted America's Best Bacon by Men's Journal, New England's Best Meat by Yankee Magazine, and The Best Bacon in America by Food & Wine, North Country has been noted for balancing taste with time honored tradition and modern food trends.
Available through upscale retailers, discerning distributors, and with custom crafted recipes in noted restaurants, hotels and resorts across the country, North Country has provided customers with better choices at the table for more than a century.
Visit ncsmokehouse.com for more information.
MEDIA CONTACT
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603.542.8323 ext. 214
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for SHOP, TGT, COIN, WMT, and META.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hudson Mind today announced its Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) offering. Launched in 2022 as the mental health division of Hudson Health (formerly Hudson Medical Group) Hudson Mind has pioneered a groundbreaking approach to treating symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Their Interventional Mental Health methodology pairs the expertise of anesthesiologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and pain management specialists with cutting-edge technology.
Hudson Mind Founder and Medical Director Dr. Jonathann Kuo recently partnered with leading psychiatrists Dr. Owen Muir, Dr. Dmitry Ostrovsky, and Dr. Marcel Green to incorporate a non-invasive, chemical-free treatment for chronic depression and OCD.
Introduced in 1985, TMS is clinically proven to treat symptoms of depression and OCD. The treatment uses a magnetic field to send pulses that activate neural-activity in regions of the brain that regulate mood.
Hudson Mind uses NeuroStar's TMS technology, as well as BrainsWay's Deep TMS technology. Both machines employ coil configurations designed to target regions of the brain associated with depression and OCD. The impact of TMS is staggering, as 75% of TMS patients reported improvement following treatment with 51% reporting full remission.
Hudson Mind also offers Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy (SAINT) TMS, a protocol developed by Stanford researchers as a faster and more effective method for targeting treatment-resistant cases. SAINT comprises 50 sessions over 5 days (10 treatments per day, with 50 minute breaks in between). According to a Stanford study, nearly 80% of patients who received SAINT TMS achieved rapid remission.
Dr. Jonathann Kuo believes that the implementation of TMS can close gaps in the conventional mental health landscape that have left treatment-resistant patients behind.
"Our goal is to make transformative treatments more accessible. We're thrilled to offer a solution that rapidly alleviates symptoms without inducing substantial side effects," said Dr. Kuo.
TMS is FDA-cleared and covered by most insurance carriers—though SAINT is not covered. The combined power of TMS and psychotherapy can lead to lasting cognitive changes.
About Hudson Mind
Hudson Mind is the Interventional Mental Health division of Hudson Health. Hudson Mind is led by anesthesiologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and pain management specialists who have combined their expertise to pioneer data-driven interventions for anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Hudson Mind's treatments include Dual Sympathetic Blocks for anxiety and PTSD, ketamine infusions for anxiety and depression, and advanced Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for depression and OCD. To learn more, please visit hudsonminds.com
Contact: Eva Diep, +1 646-596-7386 x0005, marketing@hudsonmedical.com
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NILES, Ill., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world mourns the loss of the longest reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, one company is paying homage in a truly unique way.
Located in Niles, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, The Bradford Exchange, a global leader in marketing and eCommerce for nearly 50 years, has a long-standing relationship with the Royal Family and Queen Elizabeth II through their art-based product offerings. They also keep a very special piece of royal history on the premises of their Chicagoland offices.
In the late 1970s, company founder Rod MacArthur purchased a 1957 Rolls Royce at auction. While this instantly recognizable brand is renowned as the highest standard of British motorcar luxury and is used by many heads of state and world leaders, the Rolls Royce that MacArthur bought has its own fascinating story.
It was built for the Queen Mother (the late King George VI's wife, and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II) and used first during the Royal Tour of Rhodesia in 1957. At the time, Queen Elizabeth II was 31 years old and just five years into her reign as the new Queen, so her Mother took the trip on her behalf. The same exact car was later used by the Royal Family and Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom.
Because this Rolls Royce is such an incredible piece of history, the company rolled it out of storage soon after the announcement of the Queen's passing was issued by Royal Communications. It was bittersweet for their owner-employees and it gave them an opportunity to remember Her Majesty in a special way. Most certainly, Queen Elizabeth II's extraordinary life, her devout service to her nation and people, and the mark she left on the world will not be soon forgotten.
Bernard Frazer, President of The Bradford Exchange Worldwide said, "We are deeply saddened over the loss of Queen Elizabeth II. Our hearts go out to the Royal Family, the people of the UK and those who mourn the Queen all over the world. In our own small way, we wanted to pay tribute to this magnificent lady. Owning a piece of royal history, we displayed the Rolls Royce and laid within a wreath of white lilies and Lilies of the Valley – Elizabeth's favorite flower - to honor her life and legacy."
In addition, to honor the Queen's duty and devotion through the years, The Bradford Exchange has contributed £50,000 to the Royal Foundation. The Royal Foundation is the charity administered by the Prince and Princess of Wales that has focused its philanthropic efforts on conservation, children's early years, the elderly, mental health and emergencies.
ABOUT THE BRADFORD EXCHANGE: The Bradford Exchange is the market leader in affinity-based art and design, advertising and fulfilling a variety of unique product forms direct to the consumer. Since 1973, the company has been partnering with some of the world's most acclaimed artists, popular licenses and manufactures creating original, innovative, exclusive collectibles, home decor, jewelry and beyond. A trusted resource for passion based artistic designs that bring joy and value to its customers.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kafene, a cutting-edge digital platform used by merchants at the point-of-sale to help offer underserved consumers more flexible purchase options through transparent lease-to-own (LTO) agreements, announced today that it has raised $18 million in a Series B funding round led by Third Prime and existing investors. This round follows a Series A investment of $30 million in 2021 that was co-led by Third Prime and Valar Ventures. Kafene will use the new capital to increase headcount to meet the demand from merchants and consumers for omni-channel, technology-enabled purchase options.
Kafene's lease-to-own agreements are free of debt and structured in a way that is simple, consumer-friendly and transparent. These agreements primarily serve the underbanked, given that one-third of Americans have credit scores that limit their purchasing ability, particularly on necessary big-ticket items such as furniture, appliances, electronics, tires and other goods. In doing so, Kafene's financing platform provides retailers with a way to reach more of these consumers than they would otherwise be able to, which can meaningfully add to their customer bases.
Kafene's platform is easy-to-use, removing time and friction at the point of sale, supplemented by a high-touch approach to customer service. Beneath that is an underwriting model that leverages more than 20,000 data inputs to inform AI-driven approvals, allowing for financing to be tiered based on actual risk rather than one-size-fits-all. This enables underwriting to be more efficient and affordable for more underbanked consumers who have fewer financing alternatives, which can help merchants meaningfully expand their customer bases.
"We're extremely excited to be doubling down on partnering with merchants to offer more flexible ownership options precisely when they're needed most, and right at a time in which others have retreated and tightened their credit boxes," said Neal Desai, Chief Executive Officer, Kafene. "Kafene continues to grow in scale and valuation, and we're thrilled to have like minded investors who share our vision and belief that today presents a powerful opportunity to take our platform and relationships to the next level. We're poised not just to take market share, but to significantly broaden the market. We've only just scratched the surface "
"We're proud of the results to date from Kafene and its management team in building a superb platform with a next-gen underwriting model that delivers strong unit economics and is resilient in the face of economic headwinds," said Wes Barton, co-founder and Managing Partner, Third Prime. "We couldn't be happier to continue our support to better their ability to leverage a massive market opportunity that not only provides a way to serve the underbanked, but could also appeal more broadly as Kafene becomes the go-to point-of-sale partner for retailers big and small with consumers up and down the credit spectrum."
Kafene is a cutting-edge digital platform used by merchants at the point-of-sale to help offer underserved consumers more flexible purchase options through transparent lease-to-own (LTO) agreements that help retailers of furniture, appliances, electronics, tires and other goods meaningfully broaden their addressable market. Kafene utilizes more than 20,000 data inputs in tandem with best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to underwrite, approve using efficient risk-based pricing, and enable payment in a near-instantaneous manner, while creating a best-in-class customer experience. To learn more about Kafene please visit www.kafene.com, and to learn more about Kafene's commitment to customer experience and consumer protection, please visit here.
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Iconic Brand Re-Releases Limited Edition Snack Flavor Perfect For Fall Snacking
HORSHAM, Pa., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Step aside lattes! Limited Edition Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins are back just in time for Fall! For a limited time, this seasonal favorite is the latest addition to the Little Bites® product line that the whole family will be falling for. Now available nationwide through October 2022, Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins are the perfect snack for pumpkin lovers and Little Bites® fans alike!
Packed in a pre-portioned pouch, Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins are easy for kids to enjoy at home or on-the-go at school, sports or other fun fall activities. Made with real pumpkin, these muffins are baked soft and delicious without high fructose corn syrup, giving kids the taste they love and parents a snack choice they can feel good about.
"We love this time of year because it means our fan-favorite Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins make a comeback for families to enjoy," said Moira Flood, Senior Brand Manager for Little Bites® Snacks. "For more than 20 years, we've been providing delicious flavor options that will help families create little moments that feel really big during snack time. We can't wait to hear how our Pumpkin Muffins are adding excitement to our fan's adventures this Fall!"
Limited Edition Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins are the latest addition to the brand's line of easy, pre-portioned pouches filled with delicious baked snacks. At 200 calories per pouch and with no high fructose corn syrup and 0g trans-fat, Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins are the perfect snacking solution for today's busy families.
Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins are now available at most retailers nationwide through October. To find a store near you, click here, or for more information, visit the Little Bites Facebook page.
About Bimbo Bakeries USA
Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU) is a leader in the baking industry, known for its category leading brands, innovative products, freshness and quality. Our team of 20,000+ U.S. associates operates more than 50 manufacturing locations in the United States. Over 11,000 distribution routes deliver our leading brands such as Arnold®, Artesano™, Ball Park®, Bimbo®, Boboli®, Brownberry®, Entenmann's®, Little Bites®, Marinela®, Mrs. Baird's®, Oroweat®, Sara Lee®, Stroehmann® and Thomas'®. BBU is owned by Mexico's Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B de C.V., the world's largest baking company with operations in 33 countries.
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LAS VEGAS -- Arraignment was postponed Tuesday for an elected official accused of killing a Las Vegas investigative reporter who authorities say clawed and fought for his life when he was attacked outside his home.
Robert Telles stood in shackles in a Las Vegas courtroom as his lawyer requested the delay. Prosecutors did not oppose the request. The judge reset the hearing for Sept. 20.
Outside of court, defense attorney Travis Shetler said he wanted more time to prepare.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson noted that Telles would remain jailed without bail.
Telles, whose forearms were bandaged beneath his handcuffs, had been scheduled to be formally charged with murder in the Sept. 2 killing of 69-year-old Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German. Telles did not speak during the brief court appearance.
In a criminal complaint filed Monday, prosecutors accuse Telles of “lying in wait" for German, who was stabbed seven times. 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. It 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 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.
That 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,” Graham said.
Wolfson has called German’s death “brutal and meaningless” and said a decision whether to seek the death penalty will be made in the coming months.
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 said they did not immediately find 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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SINGAPORE, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fyllo, the leading platform providing data-driven marketing and regulatory solutions to drive new growth, today announced a key appointment to the Asia-Pacific division, with industry-veteran Victor Cheng joining as Vice President, North Asia. Cheng will report to Robert Woolfrey, Managing Director, APAC, who recently opened operations for the company in the region.
Cheng has held technology, media, and data leadership roles for over twenty years for industry powerhouses including Comscore, Microsoft, and his most recent role as Chairman of the IAB in Hong Kong where he led the members of the Executive Committee to provide local marketers greater access to leading digital solutions. He will be responsible for the development of Fyllo's marketing and regulatory solutions in North Asia.
"As we expand internationally, we are looking for leaders who understand how digital advertising is changing," said Chad Bronstein, Founder and CEO of Fyllo. "In-depth experience and a wide, contextual point of view matters, and leaders like Victor will help us have an immediate impact at a regional level, based on his market and industry expertise. We look forward to providing in-market service and support to brands in North Asia."
Contributing $19 trillion in revenue to the world economy every year, Asian corporations now account for 43 percent of the world's largest 5,000 companies. With their robust combination of technology and specialized data solutions, Fyllo was built to uniquely address the increasing demands of Asia's booming verticals.
"Cheng is well-known in Hong Kong and across North Asia for his leadership in data and marketing transformation," said Robert Woolfrey, Managing Director APAC of Fyllo. "He is perfectly positioned to champion our growth in Hong Kong and enter new markets across North Asia."
"Fyllo is well-placed to help brands in North Asia manage complexity and deliver impact," said Cheng. "We offer something new and compelling, combining marketing, innovative targeting, and regulatory expertise, and I am delighted to join the company at a moment of accelerated growth."
About Fyllo:
Fyllo is on a mission to accelerate the economies of tomorrow. Fyllo's marketing and regulatory solutions provide the tools, data and integrations needed to drive new growth with speed and scale. Powered by a leading data ecosystem and regulatory database, Fyllo is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and emerging brands to stay competitive and compliant.
In 2022 Fyllo acquired Semasio, a pioneer in unified targeting, enabling digital marketers to seamlessly combine audience, contextual and brand fit solutions into one targeting strategy, both on the buy and the sell-side. The company is active in approximately 50 countries and its semantic analysis engine supports more than 30 languages.
For more information, visit www.hellofyllo.com.
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Man gives triple talaq over phone, wife complains to police in Jharkhand's Dhandbad
Man gives triple talaq over phone, wife complains to police in Jharkhand's Dhandbad
Dhanbad (Jharkhand): Adifa Fatima, a resident of Chasnala in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, was given triple 'talaq' by her husband Ayub Khan over the phone after which, the victim approached the police station for justice. But even after three months, no action has been taken in this matter so far. The victim, along with her two children is making rounds of the police station with the hope of getting justice.
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The woman reached the Dhanbad SSP (senior superintendent of police) office with her parents and two children on Monday. Her father Abdul Rab said that his daughter's husband has given triple talaq over the phone as he was going for second marriage to satisfy his greed for just 5 decimal land as dowry. As Ayub Khan is allegedly in the process of getting married for the second time, his wife had filed a complaint in the Dhanbad Mahila Police Station.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Cheering crowds greeted King Charles III on Tuesday in Northern Ireland on his tour of the four parts of the United Kingdom, where the visit drew a rare moment of unity from politicians in a region with a contested British and Irish identity that is deeply divided over the monarchy.
Hundreds of people lined the street leading to Hillsborough Castle near Belfast, the royal family’s official residence in Northern Ireland, in the latest outpouring of affection following Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Sept. 8. The area in front of the gates to the castle was carpeted with hundreds of floral tributes.
Charles and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, got out of their car to meet villagers — waving to the crowd and sometimes using both hands to reach out to people, including schoolchildren in bright blue uniforms.
Charles even petted a corgi — famously his late mother’s favorite breed of dog — held up by one person, and some chanted “God save the king!”
“Today means so much to me and my family, just to be present in my home village with my children to witness the arrival of the new king is a truly historic moment for us all,” said Hillsborough resident Robin Campbell as he waited for Charles.
But he added: “It is also a day tinged with great sadness as we witness a loving son coming to our village while we are all in mourning for the loss of a truly magnificent queen and his loving mother.”
While there was a warm welcome in Hillsborough, the British monarchy draws 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.
For some Irish nationalists, the British monarch represents an oppressive foreign power. But others acknowledge the queen’s role in forging peace. On a visit to Northern Ireland in 2012, she shook hands with Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander – a once-unthinkable moment of reconciliation.
Alex Maskey, a Sinn Fein politician who is speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said the queen had “demonstrated how individual acts of positive leadership can help break down barriers and encourage reconciliation.”
In a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein are attending commemorative events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.
Maskey expressed condolences to the king at an event in Hillsborough Castle attended by leaders from all the main political parties in Northern Ireland.
Charles responded that his mother “felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those whom history had separated, and in extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts.”
He said he would draw on his mother’s “shining example” and “seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland.”
Still, not everyone was welcoming the new king.
On the Falls Road in Belfast, a nationalist stronghold, several walls are decorated with murals of Bobby Sands, an IRA member who died while on a hunger strike in prison in 1981, and others killed in the Troubles.
“No, he’s not our king. Bobby Sands was our king here,” said 52-year-old Bobby Jones. “Queen never done nothing for us. Never did. None of the royals do.”
Later, Charles and Northern Ireland politicians are to attend a “service of reflection” for the queen at St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast.
The president and prime minister of the neighboring Republic of Ireland also are due to attend, 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.
On Monday night, Charles and siblings Anne, Andrew and Edward briefly stood vigil around their mother’s flag-draped coffin in St. Giles Cathedral as members of the public filed past.
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The following morning, 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 school uniforms walked slowly past the coffin.
In the line of mourners outside the 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.
The queen’s coffin was scheduled to leave Scotland later Tuesday to be flown back to London and driven to her official London home, Buckingham Palace. On Wednesday, it will be taken through central London to Parliament, where the queen will lie in state until her funeral in Westminster Abbey on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line up to pay their last respects at the coffin.
The Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster that will carry the coffin has been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and to take humanitarian aid and weapons to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, U.K. Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston said.
Early Tuesday, scores of workers cleaned litter and weeds from the road from the air force base where the plane carrying the coffin will land.
Lawless and Corder reported from London.
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Arizona Restaurant Week is back. Here are the best menus to try during the fall event
Valley restaurants are gearing up for the fall edition of Arizona Restaurant Week, with 130 restaurants vying for your appetite and attention.
The twice-yearly prix-fixe celebration gives chefs the opportunity to flaunt what they do best with set multi-course meals at budget-friendly prices.
A full list of all participating restaurants can be found on the Arizona Restaurant Week website. Narrowing down the field can be daunting, as even the most ambitious diner knows there's only so many meals you can squeeze into a 10-day span.
We did the initial research for you, and what follows are the menus that deserve a first look, either because of the creative offerings, value or both.
All menus are available Sept. 16-25. Reservations are highly recommended.
Tomaso’s on Camelback
- $44/person
- 4 courses
- Dine-in only
Begin an elegant Italian feast with burrata and prosciutto accompanied by roasted tomatoes, balsamic pearls and toast points or a seafood salad tossed with fennel, red olives and citrus. Next up is the salad course followed by the choice of one of four entrees: shrimp parmigiana with herb-breaded jumbo prawns, San Marzano tomatoes and fresh mozzarella; aromatic herb and vegetable-braised short ribs served atop gnocchi in a vodka cream sauce; eggplant parmigiana and ricotta-stuffed gnocchi; or chicken and sausage scarpariello with Tuscan potato and rapini. Tiramisu or Sicilian cannoli are offered for dessert.
Details: 3225 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix. 602-956-0836, tomasos.com.
The Market by Jennifer’s
- $44/person
- 3 courses
- Takeout and dine-in
A fun butternut squash soup shooter topped with creme fraiche and toasted pumpkin seeds joins a seared tenderloin carpaccio with Noble Bread focaccia on the starter menu. Four main course options feature red wine braised lamb shank simmered with mirepoix and served with Israeli couscous and mint pesto; Sonoran Pasta Co. spaghetti tossed with extra virgin olive oil, elephant garlic, Castelvetrano olives, parmesan and hazelnuts; crispy chicken breast seared in a pan sauce of white wine, shallots and garlic and accompanied by Yukon gold potatoes; and pan-seared crispy salmon with olives, capers, Roma tomatoes and roasted red peppers. Choose a sweet ending by Tracy Dempsey Originals like a red wine caramel chocolate tart with macerated berries or blueberry peach upside-down cake with salted caramel and whipped cream.
Details: 3603 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix. 602-626-5050, themarketbyjennifers.com.
The Larder + the Delta
- $44/person
- Three courses
- Dine-in only
Start your Southern feast with cauliflower served with pickled celery, smoked blue cheese and Cutino’s hot sauce or vegetable beignets with black garlic peanut romesco sauce for dipping. A smoked and braised pork collar served with Anson Mills hominy and corn giardiniera and Ethiopian fried chicken, chakalaka and charred lime make equally strong cases for the main course. A roasted apple cobbler with French vanilla ice cream and thick molasses caramel is the dessert.
Details: 200 W. Portland St., Ste 101, Phoenix. 480-409-8520, thelarderandthedelta.com.
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Fuego, The Clarendon
- $33, $44
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
- Beverage included
This restaurant is offering both a $33 and a $44 menu. For $33, choose a salad or spicy veggie tostada to start. Entree options include paella with green chile cornbread, chicken chile relleno with Cuban black beans, vegetable enchiladas or pernil asado, a marinated and slow-roasted pork served with rice and peas and corn tortillas. An ancho chile torte and horchata bread pudding are the dessert choices. For $44, begin with your choice of salmon croquettes, beef empanadas, coconut shrimp or pernil nachos. For the main course, pair mahi mahi, seafood chile relleno, short rib enchiladas or surf and turf pasta with two sides of your choosing such as green chile cornbread, jalapeno cream corn, chipotle cheddar mashed potato or Cuban black beans. Finish with ancho chile torte, horchata bread pudding or key lime pie.
Both menus come with a glass of red, white or blackberry sangria.
Details: 401 W. Clarendon Ave., Phoenix. 602-469-1730, fuegobistro.com.
Huss Brewpub Downtown
- $33/person
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
Enjoy a meal that starts with your choice of passion fruit ceviche, shishito tempura served with arugula puree or crispy fried elote with togarashi and lime crema. Pan-seared crispy fried chicken with arugula, microgreens, watermelon radishes, chimichurri and romesco sauce; bone-in pork loin rack accompanied by roasted red pepper sauce, crispy potato coins and couscous; or chorizo with mussels and linguica chorizo bathed in a Mexican lager broth with Noble bread on the side are main course options. Decide between flan adorned with rock candy cherry blossom dust and caramel deco or a warm cast iron apple crisp partnered with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream and passion fruit marmalade for dessert. Add a beer pairing for $7.
Details: 225 E. Monroe St., Phoenix. 602-607-5370, hussbrewing.com.
Cielo, Adero Scottsdale
- $55/person
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
- Beverage included
Get things started with roasted pepper and gouda soup, beet salad with goat cheese and hazelnuts or fig crostini adorned with whipped ricotta and lavender honey. For the main course, ponder a Peruvian roasted half-chicken served with yucca fries and fried plantains; striped bass with crab, shrimp and haricots verts; or acorn squash stuffed with forbidden black rice and smoked walnut chimichurri and accompanied by broccolini and heirloom carrots. Finish with red velvet cake or New York cheesecake.
A glass of red or white wine or a spicy pineapple daiquiri are part of the package.
Details: 13225 N. Eagle Ridge Drive, Scottsdale. 480-333-1880, aderoscottsdale.com.
Etta
- $55/person
- 4 courses
- Dine-in only
Savor focaccia with ricotta, honey and black truffle for the table while looking over the remaining three course options. For starters, consider the bubbling shrimp with chiltepin chile, smoked tomato and mint, rack-roasted oysters and ricotta pillows with black truffle, lemon and chives. Wood-fired chicken coated in hearth drippings and served with potato puree; fire-seared branzino with capers, fennel and charred lemon; casarecce pasta Bolognese with parmesan fondue; and a classic cacio e pepe are main dish choices. Chocolate cake with peanut butter ice cream or a cannoli ice cream sandwich with ricotta ice cream and toasted feuilletine are tempting, but the Celebration Shot birthday cake cookie paired with a coffee-tequila back sounds like the most fun ending.
Details: 15301 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale. 480- 939-4444, ettarestaurant.com.
Tonto Bar & Grill
- $55
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
Meat, vegan and gluten-free menus mean there’s something for everyone.
The meat lineup features starter choices of golden corn chowder with applewood bacon and pulled chicken, tortilla crusted crab cake and arugula salad with manchego and candied Arizona pecans in a tart green apple and pistachio vinaigrette. Choose from wood-grilled salmon with couscous and hummus, coffee and port braised short rib with brown butter whipped yams or gemelli pasta with garlic chicken and artichokes in a basil cream sauce for the main course. A chocolate fudge brownie cake and the signature lemon lime prickly pear margarita tart topped with an almond Florentine twist and fondant bumble bee are dessert choices.
The vegan menu features options like watermelon gazpacho; babaganoush, hummus and pita; vegetable tacos; a roesti potato cake with sauteed broccoli, forest mushrooms and asparagus; and house made sorbet.
Among the gluten-free menu offerings are arugula salad with manchego and candied Arizona pecans in a tart green apple and pistachio vinaigrette; wood-grilled salmon; a roasted poblano chile stuffed with braised mojo pork, roasted hatch chile salsa, escabeche vegetables and charro beans; and vanilla bean creme brulee with honey mango chutney.
Details: 5736 E. Rancho Manana Blvd., Cave Creek. 480-488-0698, tontobarandgrill.com.
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Collins Bros. Chophouse
- $44/person
- 3 courses
- Takeout and dine-in
Chowder fries, brussels sprouts with candied bacon in balsamic reduction and Old Bay shrimp cocktail are good starting points. For the main course, choose from a fried pork chop with goat cheese whipped mashed potatoes and wilted greens; sesame encrusted ahi with pancit noodles, bang bang sauce and sambal lime vinaigrette; or for $6 more, choose the Collins Bros. prime rib seasoned with magic rub, goat cheese whipped mashed potatoes, creamy horseradish and au jus. Chocolate mousse pie in an Oreo crust and New York cheesecake with caramel drizzle are dessert options.
Details: 8220 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale. 480-699-0811, collinsbrosaz.com.
Terra Tempe Kitchen & Spirits, The Westin Tempe
- $55
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
Grilled Spanish octopus paired with pork belly, cherry barbecue sauce and peanut brittle and sweet corn agnolotti with chanterelle mushrooms and Swiss chard are eye-catchers on the appetizer lineup. For the main course, consider achiote roasted chicken with charcoal roasted potatoes, Palacios Spanish chorizo and three sisters succotash; charbroiled New York strip with yucca fries, fried plantains and truffle chimichurri; spicy citrus glazed salmon with squash and salmon chicharron; or the vegetable wellington stuffed with mushroom duxelle, zucchini, asparagus, roasted pepper and boursin. Choose between the gelato trio and the orange creamsicle cheesecake made from Arizona citrus for dessert.
Details: 11 E. Seventh St., Tempe. 480-968-8885, terratempe.com.
The Green House
- $55/person
- 3 courses
- Beverage included
Chicken tortilla soup, herb hummus and grilled flatbread and crispy calamari are among the starter choices. Al pastor-style pork tenderloin with elote, crispy potato and charred pineapple salsa; spinach pappardelle with grilled shrimp; braised short rib with fregola risotto and grilled asparagus salad; roasted half chicken with creamed corn and green beans; and Atlantic salmon served with beets, baby potatoes and horseradish vinaigrette compose the entree lineup. The dessert menu flaunts raspberry almond torte, chocolate mocha bar and a banoffee trifle with dulce de leche mousse, bananas, vanilla crema and graham cracker crumbles.
Sip on a glass of the featured red or white wine that comes with your meal.
Details: 15024 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale. 480-889-9494, thegreenehouseaz.com.
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Alter Ego, Canopy by Hilton Tempe Downtown
- $55
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
No passport is needed for this taste trip to Spain. Commence with a charcuterie plate of serrano ham, manchego, fruit and preserves; Spanish-style panzanella salad with roasted peppers and anchovies in a lemon sherry vinaigrette; or crispy fried smelt with a kick of Calabrian chile aioli. Choose from four entrees: smothered short rib in chile Colorado with sherry glazed mushrooms and garlic polenta; pork Milanese with a sunny-side egg and salt potatoes; paprika crusted cod with saffron rice; or red peppers stuffed with pimento cheese, ancient grain pilaf and pesto. Orange olive oil cake accompanied by Queen Creek Olive Oil gelato and Amarena cherries, cinnamon sugar rosquillas Spanish doughnuts with chocolate sauce, and toasted almond flan garnished with raspberry coulis and spiced Marcona almonds are dessert options.
Details: 108 E. University Drive, Tempe. 602-612-7871, alteregotempe.com.
Spirit House Cocktails & Kitchen
- $44/ couple
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
The team behind San Tan Brewery and San Tan Spirits offer a sweet date night deal. The air fried brussels sprouts, whiskey bacon mac and cheese and smokehouse nachos made with kettle chips, whiskey cheese sauce and pickled jalapeno are attention grabbers on the shared appetizer list. Next, each of you choose an entree, such as the smoked chicken pot pie, broccoli cheddar pot pie or burger with guacamole, hatch chile jack cheese and chili lime mayo with bacon fat fries. Split a trio of warm oatmeal raisin, peanut butter and lemon blueberry cookies, a gelato-filled cookie sandwich or an espresso-meets-gelato affogato.
Details: 8 S. San Marcos Place, Chandler. 480-917-8700, spirithouseaz.com.
Sicilian Butcher
- $33/person
- 3 courses
- Dine-in only
Enjoy Italian comfort food with appetizers such as charred octopus with Sicilian olives and Calabrian chiles or mini arancini stuffed with three-meat ragu. After choosing a salad, dive into a plate of wide ribbon pasta with Tomaso’s famous meatballs; shrimp parmigiana, pork rollatini rolled with prosciutto, mascarpone and mozzarella that’s served with rigatoni in a vodka sauce; or baked fazzoletti’s handkerchief pasta stuffed with meat ragu topped with bechamel. End on a sweet note with tiramisu or a cannoli topped with chocolate and candied cherry.
Details: 9780 W. Northern Ave., Peoria. 623-471-5721. Other locations in Chandler and Phoenix at thesicilianbutcher.com.
Urban Margarita
- $44/person
- 3 courses
- Dine-in and takeout
Savor New Mexico cuisine by starting with al pastor chicken empanadas or crispy cauliflower with sweet-spicy garlic dipping sauce. Choose from three entrees: grilled lobster and crab-stuffed poblanos served with cilantro rice and black beans; half-rack smoked baby back ribs with pineapple habanero glaze and mom’s mango coleslaw; or slow-braised prime short ribs in a cabernet chipotle-honey demi-glace with sour cream-roasted garlic mashed potatoes. Finish it all with fresh margarita lime pie or peach bread pudding with fresh whipped cream.
Details: 6685 W. Beardsley Road, Glendale. 623-561-6674, urbanmargarita.com.
Tempo Urban Bistro
- $55/person
- 3 courses
- Takeout and dine-in
The charred baby octopus and salmon croquettes are appealing, but tempura squash blossoms filled with local Crow’s Dairy chevre and citrus quark aioli steals the spotlight on the starter list. Four dishes vie for main course attention: bison New York strip with shoestring fries and Brussels sprouts; duck confit carbonara tossed with pancetta, sweet peas and hen egg; black truffle risotto with local mushrooms, pea shoots and mascarpone; and a deconstructed shepherd’s pie features lamb loin, baby carrots and duchess potatoes in a roasted bone and hydrated tomato jus. For dessert, choose from three-layer lemon curd, chocolate lava cake or bourbon pecan pie.
Details: 21067 W. Main St., Buckeye. 623-594-6788, tempourbanbistro.com.
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MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — An appeal of the conviction in the 1976 slayings of a young couple in Wisconsin continues to wind its way through the courts, even though the man found guilty in the murders has died in prison.
Attorneys for Raymand Vannieuwenhoven are trying to have his conviction overturned by challenging the way investigators obtained DNA from him that was used to break the cold case.
Detectives got a sample of Vannieuwenhoven's DNA from an envelope he licked when responding to a phony police performance survey.
The 85-year-old Vannieuwenhoven died in June at the Oshkosh Correctional Institution. He was convicted last year of fatally shooting 25-year-old David Schuldes and 24-year-old Ellen Matheys in a Marinette County park on July 9, 1976, in Silver Cliff.
A brief filed Friday in support of the appeal, attorney Ana Babcock wrote that Vannieuwenhoven had an expectation of privacy with his DNA, WLUK-TV reported.
“While the law does tolerate some deceit on behalf of the police (e.g., police can sometimes make misrepresentations during an interrogation), trickery has no place when it comes to voluntary consent,” Babcock wrote.
For decades, the widower and father of five children lived quietly among the 800 residents of Lakewood, a northeastern Wisconsin town surrounded by forests and small lakes.
The cold case was revived in 2019 when a DNA sample from evidence at the crime scene was determined to be from a particular family. A criminal complaint says that samples tested from Vannieuwenhoven’s brothers weren’t a match, but a a sample from him obtained from the envelope was a match.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Tuesday warned North Korea that using its nuclear weapons would put it on a “path of self-destruction,” in unusually harsh language that came days after North Korea legislated a new law that would allow it to use its nuclear weapons preemptively.
North Korea will likely be infuriated by the South Korean rhetoric as Seoul typically shuns such strong words to avoid raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Despite North Korea’s increasingly aggressive nuclear doctrine, some experts say the country — outgunned by more superior U.S. and South Korean forces — will still unlikely use its nuclear weapons first.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the legislation would only deepen North Korea’s isolation and prompt Seoul and Washington to “further strengthen their deterrence and reaction capacities.”
To deter North Korea from using its nuclear weapons, the ministry said South Korea will sharply boost its own preemptive attack plan, missile defense and massive retaliation capacities while seeking a greater U.S. security commitment to defend its ally with all available means, including nuclear one.
“We warn that the North Korean government would face the overwhelming response by the South Korea-U.S. military alliance and go on the path of self-destruction, if it attempts to use nuclear weapons,” Moon Hong Sik, an acting ministry spokesperson, told reporters.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre earlier said the United States “remains fully committed to the defense of (South Korea), using the full range of defense capabilities.” Jean-Pierre said the United States has no hostile intent toward North Korea and that it remains focused on pursuing close coordination with its allies to advance a shared objective of the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Last week, North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament adopted the legislation on the rules for the use of its nuclear arsenal. It would allow the use of nuclear weapons if its leadership faced an imminent attack or if it aims to prevent an unspecified “catastrophic crisis” to its people.
The loose wording raised concerns the rules are largely meant as a legal basis for a preemptive nuclear strike to intimidate rivals into making concessions amid long-stalled negotiations over its arsenal. Some experts say the North Korean move is also designed to strengthen the control of Kim Jong Un’s leadership in the face of hardships caused by the pandemic and border closures.
During the parliament’s meeting, Kim said in a speech that his country will never abandon its nuclear weapons to cope with U.S. threats. He accused the United States of pushing to weaken the North’s defenses and eventually collapse his government.
Earlier this year, Kim said his nuclear weapons would never be confined to the sole mission of war deterrent and could be used preemptively if his country’s national interests are threatened. North Korea later approved plans to assign new duties to front-line army units, sparking speculation it was a step toward deploying battlefield nuclear weapons along its border with South Korea.
This year, Kim has also dialed up weapons tests to a record pace by test-launching a slew of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles targeting both the U.S. mainland and South Korea. For months, U.S. and South Korean officials have said North Korea could carry out its first nuclear test in five years as well.
Since taking office in May, South Korea’s new conservative government, led by President Yoon Suk Yeol, has said it would take a tougher stance on North Korean provocation but also offered massive support plans if the North denuclearizes. North Korea has bluntly rejected that aid-for-disarmament offer and unleashed crude insults on the Yoon government.
Seoul’s use of words like “self-destruction” is unusual but it’s not the first time. When South Korea was governed by another conservative leader, Park Geun-hye, from 2013-2017, her government also warned North Korea would evaporate from Earth or self-destruct with its provocations, as the North conducted a slew of missile and nuclear tests.
Liberal President Moon Jae-in, who served from 2017 until this year, championed greater reconciliation between the Koreas. He was credited for arranging now-stalled nuclear diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington but also faced criticism that such a diplomacy only allowed Kim Jong Un to buy time to prefect weapons technology while enjoying an elevated standing on the world stage.
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More than 65 organizations across the world join CNCF's 800+ members to drive cloud native innovation across industries
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced today that over 65 organizations from France, Germany, Israel, Korea, and the United States, among others, have joined the Foundation.
"The fact that we are still seeing so many new organizations of all sizes, industries, and geographies joining CNCF is a testament that cloud native technology is resonating far and wide," said Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "We continue to see the positive impact organizations are experiencing from cloud native innovation and are thrilled that our community has only gained in momentum. We welcome the new members this quarter and look forward to collaborating and innovating together."
About the newest Silver Members:
- Aarna Networks solves enterprise edge and private 5G management complexity through zero-touch edge infrastructure, applications, and network services orchestration at scale.
- Acorn Labs develops containerized application packaging frameworks that simplifies deployments on Kubernetes.
- AIM, founded 2015, helps teams and organizations to increase productivity and adaptability with innovative development tools and consulting in order to deliver customer benefits faster
- amazee.io is the ZeroOps application delivery platform designed to increase developer productivity
- Amberflo.io provides Cloud Metering and Usage-Based Pricing and Billing platform for businesses to delight customers with flexible, usage-based pricing and metered billing.
- Asserts automatically identifies the root cause of application problems by analyzing your Prometheus metrics.
- AtomicJar is on a mission of enabling Developer-First Testing, allowing developers to write better integration tests and making them more productive, the software they write more resilient and the organizations they work for more agile with widely adopted project Testcontainers and its SaaS version Testcontainers Cloud.
- Authzed are the creators of SpiceDB, the open source permissions database inspired by Google Zanzibar.
- Beijing Teamsun Technology Co. is an outstanding integrated IT service provider in China, holding about 10 years of IT service experience, belonging to the first company to put forward IT product service in China.
- Cerbos is open source, decoupled access control for your software.
- Chainguard is the first developer platform for software supply chain security that is focused on building products that help developers and their organizations adopt a culture of secure software from build to production.
- Chaitin Tech provides high quality and innovative cyber security services.
- Claion is professional company leading the next IT trend through powerful drive
- Cloudthread makes it easy for engineering teams to be efficient with cloud spend and allows cloud finance teams to maintain end-to-end cost accountability
- CNO is a Multi-Cloud operation center for Kubernetes, in few clics Onboard teams and projects in minutes, Deploy faster applications with Blue/Green, Canary and A/B Testing, Centralize the management of your Kubernetes clusters, implement easily multi-cloud IAM for Kubernetes, secure workloads and meet your regulatory compliance and security requirements
- Control Plane is a hybrid platform enabling you to combine the services, regions, and computing power of AWS, GCP, Azure, and any other public or private cloud to create flexible yet unbreakable cloud infrastructure.
- Coredge is building a revolutionary cloud and edge platform to address the orchestration and management requirements driven by new-age applications/use cases that require low latency and hyper-automated delivery.
- Daekyo CNS provides comprehensive IT services to create high added value such as ITO/solution/platform/consulting.
- Data on Kubernetes Community is where end users go to learn about running data workloads on Kubernetes. Our mission is to assist in the emergence and development of techniques for the use of Kubernetes for data.
- DatenLord is an open source geo-distributed storage system, which empowers enterprises to access data across multiple clouds world-wide with high performance and security.
- Datree is a policy management solution that prevents misconfigurations in Kubernetes.
- Didim365 provides cloud construction and analysis consulting, operation management, migration, architecture check, and integrated operation management support services. Based on multi-cloud, we support digital transformation, efficient IT infrastructure management, and professional cloud management services tailored to various corporate and public institution environments.
- Honeycomb is a fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments.
- Humanitec is the Platform Orchestrator at the core of your Internal Developer Platform that enables platform teams to build golden paths for developers.
- InfinyOn, a real-time event streaming company, has architected a programmable platform for data in motion that is built on Rust and enables continuous intelligence for connected apps.
- Inigo is a purpose-built GraphQL Security and Management platform designed to address GraphQL's attack surfaces and provide all functional building blocks—helping developers easily adopt GraphQL and scale confidently.
- Kubiya is an advanced Virtual Assistant using conversational AI to extend DevOps capabilities by providing end-users secure, on-demand access to cloud resources, operational workflows, and organizational knowledge.
- Legit Security secures your software supply chain environment with automated discovery and analysis of your SDLC combined with risk scoring across CI/CD pipelines, SDLC systems, product lines, code and teams.
- LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions Company helping more than 495 clients succeed in a converging world
- MaibornWolff with over 800 employees is providing services for success-critical projects; We offer assistance for digital design, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud-native environments, IoT platforms, IT replatforming as well as machine learning related projects where custom fit solutions and excellent software quality are our commitment to the customer.
- MATRIXX Software is redefining the next era of digital commerce by transforming how network infrastructure providers package, deliver and monetize products and services.
- Nanjing Pengyun Network takes the lead in the development of large-scale commercial software-defined storage products in China, and has built a full-stack product service system covering full lifecycle data management, software-defined storage, industry solutions and ecosystem services.
- Nethopper.io is pioneering KAOps, a Kubernetes Application Operations software as a service platform for DevOps, with the mission of making Cloud Native applications easy to operate across hybrid, edge, and multiple clusters and clouds.
- New Black, the creators of EVA: EVA is _the_ Unified Commerce Platform that makes brands and retails adaptive to change. Built on the promise of "Best of Technology" we support open cloud initiatives and use them as a foundation of our infrastructure
- NextGen Tek Consulting provides a variety of services to help your business succeed and excel like never before.
- OKESTRO leads the innovation in the construction and operation of multi-hybrid clouds, and is an intelligent cloud provider.
- OpsLevel is the developer portal that lets teams own, operate, and understand their production infrastructure in minutes.
- Orkes provides a cloud native software orchestration platform that lets you assemble and deploy scalable visualized workflows composed of APIs, functions, containers, webhooks and messaging events.
- Paladin Cloud is a leading open source, cloud security company with a Security-as-Code platform that helps developers and security teams significantly reduce risks in cloud environments to protect their applications and data.
- PantaRei Design Limited is a Hong Kong based commercial open source software company started on 2010, providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal.
- Percona delivers enterprise-class products, support and services for a range of open source databases including MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL across traditional deployments, cloud-based platforms and hybrid IT environments.
- Permit.io is a full-stack permissions framework that enables developers to bake permissions and access-control into any product in minutes.
- Pipekit provides cloud-native data infrastructure-as-service to enterprises, scaling data pipelines in days instead of months, while also reducing cloud spend.
- Profian is a security company that unlocks the capability to combine and analyze sensitive data sets within a trusted execution environment (TEE) using cryptographic assurances for cloud-native deployments which are language, cloud and vendor-neutral.
- Qiming Information is a leading domestic provider of DX products and services for the manufacturing industry. It is dedicated to R&D and innovation of digital products to provide enterprises with digital products and services integrating cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, blockchain, big data and AI.
- QualitySoft Corporation is Japan's leading IT asset management solution provider
- Qualys, Inc. is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100.
- Raftt saves Developers the time, money, and frustration from configuring, managing, and sharing development envs on local machines.
- RapidFort is the first Attack Surface Reduction company where our product automatically reduces ~80% of s/w attack surface and removes ~80% of vulnerabilities without the need to expend additional time & resources or change existing dev processes
- ReleaseHub is a service that provides on-demand, full-stack, production-like test environments to enable developers to get features live faster.
- RisingWave Lab is an early-stage startup that innovates the next-generation database systems. The company develops RisingWave, a cloud-native SQL streaming database for modern real-time applications.
- Roadie offers hosted Backstage developer portals with a catalog that enables discoverability, templates that simplify onboarding, and insights that improve governance.
- Robusta.dev is the end of monitoring. Engineers have had enough and don't want to be woken up at 3AM anymore. Alerts need to investigate and fix themselves.
- Saltware is a group of experts in IaaS, from hardware-based infrastructure services to the cloud. In addition, we are attracting various customers through continuous service development to become a leader in digital transformation such as AI, Big Data, Metaverse, and NFT, which are technologies of the 4th industrial revolution.
- Selector empowers network, cloud, and application operators with data-centric multi-domain analytics, driving the transition to AI- and ML-based operations intelligence.
- Steamhaus are a specialist cloud native AWS partner, driving application modernisation, and accelerating time-to-market through the use of serverless technologies and modern software development approaches.
- Strata's Identity Orchestration platform integrates, automates, and secures identity in any multi-cloud environment without refactoring a single app.
- ThnkBIG is one of Austin's fastest growing global technology firms specializing in cloud native infrastructure and security
- Tmax Cloud is a cloud platform company that delivers cloud and virtualization services including deployment, operation, and migration for drives customers' IT innovation.
- TraceRoute42 helps you realize your perfect Kubernetes (or any other) infrastructure by efficiently building it, and operating it with you. Or for you.
- Union provides Flyte-powered infrastructure and orchestration to enable production-grade Data and ML workflows at scale.
- unSkript is an Open, Interactive and Intelligent CloudOps platform built on Jupyter notebooks to create and share DSL free, open source runbooks for automating Incident Remediation, CustomerOps, SecOps and other operations toil.
- Xopero Software is a leading European backup software vendor with over 13 years of experience on the market, protecting endpoints, servers, VMware, and Microsoft 365 data, as well as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Jira data with GitProtect.io - the most professional DevOps backup software (as a connected brand).
- Zebrium Root Cause as a Service automatically finds the root cause of software and infrastructure problems using machine learning on logs.
About the newest Non-Profit Member:
- With 18 years of experience and a portfolio with more than a thousand projects, SiDi is one of the largest science and technology institutes in Brazil. There are more than 700 employees developing tailor-made solutions to transform the businesses and millions of lives.
About the newest End User Supporter:
- Decathlon technology strongly believes technology can help us sustainably make the pleasure and benefits of sport accessible to the many
With the addition of these new members, there are now over 160 organizations in the CNCF End User Community. This group regularly meets to share adoption best practices and feedback on project roadmaps and future projects for CNCF technical leaders to consider.
Additional Resources
- CNCF Newsletter
- CNCF Twitter
- CNCF Blog
- Learn About CNCF Membership
- Learn About CNCF End User Supporters
- Join the CNCF conversation on Slack
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- dClimate, the first decentralized climate information ecosystem, today announced it has acquired Oasis Hub, a leading global data platform and aggregator for catastrophe, extreme weather, climate change and environmental risk data, tools & services. The acquisition of Oasis Hub enables dClimate to bring thousands of environmental and climate datasets, tools, and models on-chain as part of its growing immutable ledger of climate information.
dClimate is a chain-agnostic decentralized climate information ecosystem. dClimate makes it easy for businesses and builders to find, access, and utilize essential information about our planet to better understand how weather and climate impacts our communities and build data-driven technology solutions for helping communities achieve climate resilience in the 21st century.
"Adding Oasis Hub's data, products, and tools to our global climate information ecosystem opens up incredible new possibilities for builders and researchers creating resilience applications in the dClimate ecosystem," said Osho Jha, Founding Partner, dClimate. "Our mandate at dClimate is to bring critical information about our planet out from behind silos and paywalls and into a single, decentralized climate data network that makes it easy for builders to leverage data to build critical infrastructure and products for fighting climate change. dClimate users now will now have access to thousands of specialized datasets and models to better understand how our planet is changing and build life changing tools to help communities build lasting resilience."
In addition to acquiring Oasis Hub's massive data infrastructure, dClimate also gains access to its global data community of over 1500+ members from a range of sectors, including insurance, finance, engineering, and development who will become users of the dClimate network. Oasis Hub is a natural addition to the dClimate ecosystem, aligned in its mission of building a global community around the sharing of climate data as part of an open and transparent network.
Throughout its lifetime, Oasis Hub has given its members access to thousands of free and commercial datasets and tools sourced from more than 175 data providers globally. This data infrastructure now merges with dClimate's already expansive database of global climate information to give data consumers a go-to source for easily finding, accessing, and building with climate data.
Oasis Hub will continue to operate as a dClimate powered data partner and its data infrastructure will be onboarded to dClimate's decentralized data network once its flagship data marketplace is launched. dClimate's chain-agnostic tools and easy accessibility, combined with Oasis Hub's data and products, will enable dClimate to continue to strive for continuity and improve its services for all users. dClimate's marketplace will also integrate improved visualization for users over time, giving an upgrade to existing datasets for use.
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At a time when the Adityanath Government has started a controversial survey of unrecognised madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, it has come to light that not just thousands of small, irregular madrasas but even some of the biggest ones with international fame are not recognised by the State Madrasa Education Board. Among them are the historic Darul Uloom, Deoband; Nadwatul Ulamma, Lucknow; and Mazahir Uloom, Saharanpur.
None of them is affiliated with the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Board or recognised by the State Government. Their students cannot aspire to sit for State or Central Government examinations for jobs unless they complete graduation from a recognised university.
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Set up in 1866, the Darul Uloom, Deoband, has more than a thousand students passing out of its portals every year. Except for those who complete their school through correspondence and follow it up with graduation from say, Maulana Azad National Urdu University or Jamia Millia Islamia, most are destined to be associated with madrasas only where they can aspire for a teacher’s job or be an imam or muezzin.
With salaries being as low as ₹6,000 in some cases, their pay scales fall well short of the government scales which they would have got had the seminary imparted them both theological and secular education with due recognition by the State bodies.
It is said that these historic madrasas, including Deoband and Lucknow Nadwa, do not apply for recognition to avoid paying their academic and administrative staff according to the official scales of the State.
There is a feeling too that recognition by the Madrasa Board is a two-edged weapon. On the one hand, it can get madrasas some grant from the government, on the other, there is the risk of increased interference of officials in day-to-day functioning.
Noted Islamic scholar and former chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission, Zafarul Islam Khan, who has also been a member of a madrasa modernisation committee, says, “Any interference occurs only when a financial grant is given by the State, in which case the State is fully justified to ask for a report of accounts”.
There are no such rules if the madrasa, however big and influential, is not affiliated to the Madrasa Board. The wages of an imam who leads five daily prayers besides teaching children for at least five hours a day are far inferior to those of an unskilled labourer at a construction site.
“Administrators of big madrasas are oblivious to the problems their graduates face. Since their ‘degrees’ are unrecognised, they seek jobs as teachers, imams and muezzin of mosques. Salaries are so meagre that they hardly survive,” says Mr. Khan.
The Deoband seminary remains unflustered by the lack of official recognition. A Deoband official says, “Ours is an international seminary. Association with Darul Uloom, Deoband carries prestige, not affiliation to an education board. We have zero per cent unemployment rate for madrasa students. The country needs more imams, teachers and qazis than Darul Uloom and other madrasas are able to churn out. There is criticism that students with Aamil and Fazil degrees cannot apply for government jobs but the students who come here do not aspire to get into State civil services or take the UPSC exams."
Fazlur Rehman, a senior official of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, adds: “There are thousands of unrecognised madrasas in UP. Nobody knows their exact number. Darul Uloom has played a pivotal role in the spread of education. It is a completely different ideology.”
It is a point reiterated by Muhibullah Nadwi, chief imam of New Delhi Jama Masjid, “I passed out of Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow. The students and the faculty there have a different worldview. You cannot measure everything according to the scientific scales or mathematical calculation. The students there come with the mindset of graduating to be moral custodians of society, not CAs or MBAs.”
He feels the absence of recognition of Nadwa did not prove to be a hindrance in his career. “Anybody who is desirous of going to a university is free to take that route. Nadwa does not dissuade students from pursuing secular education.”
Like its Deoband counterpart, Nadwa too is steeped in history, having been established in 1894. Increasingly, even those Deoband and Nadwa students who join universities on their own initiative take up courses like Urdu, Persian and Arabic, streams faced with diminishing job prospects.
The Deoband functionary questions any possible gains with recognition by the U.P. Madrasa Education Board, "There are 16,000 recognised madrasas in Uttar Pradesh. Their teachers have not been paid for two years.”
Incidentally, the Manmohan Singh Government had proposed setting up an all-India Board where every madrasa was supposed to apply for affiliation. And each madrasa was to impart secular education, according to the CBSE pattern. However, the UPA Government backtracked under the pressure of some powerful madrasas. “The U.P. Government’s madrasa survey is a political stunt,” Mr. Khan says.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crave InfoTech has launched its SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) roundtable. It is a series of 6 roundtables spread over the second half of 2022. This 3rd session is focused on SAP BTP, Side-by-Side Extensions, and keeping the Core clean. This roundtable would be conducted virtually and is slated for the 21st of September, 2022. In attendance would be dignitaries from SAP and industry leaders like Domino's.
The roundtable is designed with the intent to push the envelope for a truly intelligent platform through SAP BTP backed by real-life industry use-cases. How can an enterprise boost overall process and operational efficiencies by (approx.) 35% and improve on-floor user adoption 3x to 5x?
The session on the 21st of September would cover topics around in-app and side-by-side extensibility. It would also elaborate on the whole set of possibilities within SAP BTP-powered and Crave InfoTech-enabled extensions. These extensions can help enterprises simplify and streamline their asset, supply chain, financial, and performance management processes that are easy to follow and adopt.
Shrikant Nistane, CEO, Crave InfoTech said, "It's simple. These extensions reflect the ground realities of multiple industries. When these apps (extensions) get into the hands of the technicians, these users can relate with the business logic without worrying about the tech language behind it. It's instant efficiency and productivity elevation."
The roundtable would also direct its audience towards points like how to get started, and how to choose the optimal extensibility scenarios.
The following 4th, 5th, and 6th Roundtable would focus on topics like SAP BTP Digital Technologies, CPI & API Management, and Digital Dashboards/Analytics.
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A day after a fire accident killed six guests of a hotel in Secunderabad, the death toll rose to eight. At least 11 others were injured.
On Tuesday the stream of police and public representatives at Ruby Pride Luxury Hotel continued with the former identifying those who had lost lives in the fire that began in the cellar of the building where electric scooters were parked.
Among the dead are couple Chandan Jethi, a techie, and Mitali Mahapatra, a technician at a hair and skin clinic. Both are from Odisha but were living in Bengaluru. Brothers from Delhi Rajiv Malik (56) and Sandeep Malik (61), and colleagues from Chennai N Balaji (52) and P N Seetharaman (45). Alladi Harish, a 33-year-old who arrived in the city from Vijayawada to attend a bank training programme, and Delhi-based realtor Veerender Kumar Devakar (50) too lost their lives.
The bodies of the victims were taken to Gandhi Hospital where distraught relatives and shocked colleagues arrived to identify them. Later, a post mortem was performed.
According to the Telangana State Disaster Response and Fire Services (TSDRFS), the structure in which the fire broke out comprises a cellar, ground floor and four upper floors. It houses an electric vehicle showroom and hotel, The Ruby Pride Luxury Hotel that has 28 rooms. It was here that as many as 25 people were staying.
A total of 17 people, including the injured, were rescued. At least six people, including Manmohan Khanna and Rajesh Chhabra, a product manager at an engineering firm, managed to escape as they jumped from the fifth floor of the ill-fated building onto an adjacent structure which houses the Yatri Hotel.
The TSDRFS suspect that it was either an electric scooter or a generator, that was kept in Ruby Motors Showroom, that caused the fire. While the structure did have fire fighting equipment installed, it was not in working condition, they said. The building owners and those operating the electric scooter showroom have been identified as Rajender Singh Bagga, Sumeet Singh and others.
The TSDRFS also stated that the owners were “illegally” storing electric vehicles in the cellar.
Director General of Fire Services Sanjay Jain told the media permission was obtained for a 15 m building. However, the structure was 17.5 m in height. He pointed out that stipulations prescribe that buildings over 15 m in height should have two stairways. The building had only one. The water sprinklers were not triggered as the temperature had not risen significantly and the plumes of smoke swirled from the cellar to the upper floors by means of the stairway.
In a statement released to the media, TSDRFS stated that the building had poor ventilation and no setbacks, making it difficult to gain entry into it. Given the thick plumes of smoke, visibility was poor and there was no smoke management system in place.
Meanwhile, the Hyderabad City Police booked a case against the owners under sections 304 (II) and 324 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 9 B of the Explosives Act of 1884.
According to police owners Rajender Singh Bagga and Sumeet Singh and hotel manager Sudershan Naidu were detained.
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More than 65 organizations across the world join CNCF's 800+ members to drive cloud native innovation across industries
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced today that over 65 organizations from France, Germany, Israel, Korea, and the United States, among others, have joined the Foundation.
"The fact that we are still seeing so many new organizations of all sizes, industries, and geographies joining CNCF is a testament that cloud native technology is resonating far and wide," said Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "We continue to see the positive impact organizations are experiencing from cloud native innovation and are thrilled that our community has only gained in momentum. We welcome the new members this quarter and look forward to collaborating and innovating together."
About the newest Silver Members:
- Aarna Networks solves enterprise edge and private 5G management complexity through zero-touch edge infrastructure, applications, and network services orchestration at scale.
- Acorn Labs develops containerized application packaging frameworks that simplifies deployments on Kubernetes.
- AIM, founded 2015, helps teams and organizations to increase productivity and adaptability with innovative development tools and consulting in order to deliver customer benefits faster
- amazee.io is the ZeroOps application delivery platform designed to increase developer productivity
- Amberflo.io provides Cloud Metering and Usage-Based Pricing and Billing platform for businesses to delight customers with flexible, usage-based pricing and metered billing.
- Asserts automatically identifies the root cause of application problems by analyzing your Prometheus metrics.
- AtomicJar is on a mission of enabling Developer-First Testing, allowing developers to write better integration tests and making them more productive, the software they write more resilient and the organizations they work for more agile with widely adopted project Testcontainers and its SaaS version Testcontainers Cloud.
- Authzed are the creators of SpiceDB, the open source permissions database inspired by Google Zanzibar.
- Beijing Teamsun Technology Co. is an outstanding integrated IT service provider in China, holding about 10 years of IT service experience, belonging to the first company to put forward IT product service in China.
- Cerbos is open source, decoupled access control for your software.
- Chainguard is the first developer platform for software supply chain security that is focused on building products that help developers and their organizations adopt a culture of secure software from build to production.
- Chaitin Tech provides high quality and innovative cyber security services.
- Claion is professional company leading the next IT trend through powerful drive
- Cloudthread makes it easy for engineering teams to be efficient with cloud spend and allows cloud finance teams to maintain end-to-end cost accountability
- CNO is a Multi-Cloud operation center for Kubernetes, in few clics Onboard teams and projects in minutes, Deploy faster applications with Blue/Green, Canary and A/B Testing, Centralize the management of your Kubernetes clusters, implement easily multi-cloud IAM for Kubernetes, secure workloads and meet your regulatory compliance and security requirements
- Control Plane is a hybrid platform enabling you to combine the services, regions, and computing power of AWS, GCP, Azure, and any other public or private cloud to create flexible yet unbreakable cloud infrastructure.
- Coredge is building a revolutionary cloud and edge platform to address the orchestration and management requirements driven by new-age applications/use cases that require low latency and hyper-automated delivery.
- Daekyo CNS provides comprehensive IT services to create high added value such as ITO/solution/platform/consulting.
- Data on Kubernetes Community is where end users go to learn about running data workloads on Kubernetes. Our mission is to assist in the emergence and development of techniques for the use of Kubernetes for data.
- DatenLord is an open source geo-distributed storage system, which empowers enterprises to access data across multiple clouds world-wide with high performance and security.
- Datree is a policy management solution that prevents misconfigurations in Kubernetes.
- Didim365 provides cloud construction and analysis consulting, operation management, migration, architecture check, and integrated operation management support services. Based on multi-cloud, we support digital transformation, efficient IT infrastructure management, and professional cloud management services tailored to various corporate and public institution environments.
- Honeycomb is a fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments.
- Humanitec is the Platform Orchestrator at the core of your Internal Developer Platform that enables platform teams to build golden paths for developers.
- InfinyOn, a real-time event streaming company, has architected a programmable platform for data in motion that is built on Rust and enables continuous intelligence for connected apps.
- Inigo is a purpose-built GraphQL Security and Management platform designed to address GraphQL's attack surfaces and provide all functional building blocks—helping developers easily adopt GraphQL and scale confidently.
- Kubiya is an advanced Virtual Assistant using conversational AI to extend DevOps capabilities by providing end-users secure, on-demand access to cloud resources, operational workflows, and organizational knowledge.
- Legit Security secures your software supply chain environment with automated discovery and analysis of your SDLC combined with risk scoring across CI/CD pipelines, SDLC systems, product lines, code and teams.
- LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions Company helping more than 495 clients succeed in a converging world
- MaibornWolff with over 800 employees is providing services for success-critical projects; We offer assistance for digital design, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud-native environments, IoT platforms, IT replatforming as well as machine learning related projects where custom fit solutions and excellent software quality are our commitment to the customer.
- MATRIXX Software is redefining the next era of digital commerce by transforming how network infrastructure providers package, deliver and monetize products and services.
- Nanjing Pengyun Network takes the lead in the development of large-scale commercial software-defined storage products in China, and has built a full-stack product service system covering full lifecycle data management, software-defined storage, industry solutions and ecosystem services.
- Nethopper.io is pioneering KAOps, a Kubernetes Application Operations software as a service platform for DevOps, with the mission of making Cloud Native applications easy to operate across hybrid, edge, and multiple clusters and clouds.
- New Black, the creators of EVA: EVA is _the_ Unified Commerce Platform that makes brands and retails adaptive to change. Built on the promise of "Best of Technology" we support open cloud initiatives and use them as a foundation of our infrastructure
- NextGen Tek Consulting provides a variety of services to help your business succeed and excel like never before.
- OKESTRO leads the innovation in the construction and operation of multi-hybrid clouds, and is an intelligent cloud provider.
- OpsLevel is the developer portal that lets teams own, operate, and understand their production infrastructure in minutes.
- Orkes provides a cloud native software orchestration platform that lets you assemble and deploy scalable visualized workflows composed of APIs, functions, containers, webhooks and messaging events.
- Paladin Cloud is a leading open source, cloud security company with a Security-as-Code platform that helps developers and security teams significantly reduce risks in cloud environments to protect their applications and data.
- PantaRei Design Limited is a Hong Kong based commercial open source software company started on 2010, providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal.
- Percona delivers enterprise-class products, support and services for a range of open source databases including MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL across traditional deployments, cloud-based platforms and hybrid IT environments.
- Permit.io is a full-stack permissions framework that enables developers to bake permissions and access-control into any product in minutes.
- Pipekit provides cloud-native data infrastructure-as-service to enterprises, scaling data pipelines in days instead of months, while also reducing cloud spend.
- Profian is a security company that unlocks the capability to combine and analyze sensitive data sets within a trusted execution environment (TEE) using cryptographic assurances for cloud-native deployments which are language, cloud and vendor-neutral.
- Qiming Information is a leading domestic provider of DX products and services for the manufacturing industry. It is dedicated to R&D and innovation of digital products to provide enterprises with digital products and services integrating cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, blockchain, big data and AI.
- QualitySoft Corporation is Japan's leading IT asset management solution provider
- Qualys, Inc. is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100.
- Raftt saves Developers the time, money, and frustration from configuring, managing, and sharing development envs on local machines.
- RapidFort is the first Attack Surface Reduction company where our product automatically reduces ~80% of s/w attack surface and removes ~80% of vulnerabilities without the need to expend additional time & resources or change existing dev processes
- ReleaseHub is a service that provides on-demand, full-stack, production-like test environments to enable developers to get features live faster.
- RisingWave Lab is an early-stage startup that innovates the next-generation database systems. The company develops RisingWave, a cloud-native SQL streaming database for modern real-time applications.
- Roadie offers hosted Backstage developer portals with a catalog that enables discoverability, templates that simplify onboarding, and insights that improve governance.
- Robusta.dev is the end of monitoring. Engineers have had enough and don't want to be woken up at 3AM anymore. Alerts need to investigate and fix themselves.
- Saltware is a group of experts in IaaS, from hardware-based infrastructure services to the cloud. In addition, we are attracting various customers through continuous service development to become a leader in digital transformation such as AI, Big Data, Metaverse, and NFT, which are technologies of the 4th industrial revolution.
- Selector empowers network, cloud, and application operators with data-centric multi-domain analytics, driving the transition to AI- and ML-based operations intelligence.
- Steamhaus are a specialist cloud native AWS partner, driving application modernisation, and accelerating time-to-market through the use of serverless technologies and modern software development approaches.
- Strata's Identity Orchestration platform integrates, automates, and secures identity in any multi-cloud environment without refactoring a single app.
- ThnkBIG is one of Austin's fastest growing global technology firms specializing in cloud native infrastructure and security
- Tmax Cloud is a cloud platform company that delivers cloud and virtualization services including deployment, operation, and migration for drives customers' IT innovation.
- TraceRoute42 helps you realize your perfect Kubernetes (or any other) infrastructure by efficiently building it, and operating it with you. Or for you.
- Union provides Flyte-powered infrastructure and orchestration to enable production-grade Data and ML workflows at scale.
- unSkript is an Open, Interactive and Intelligent CloudOps platform built on Jupyter notebooks to create and share DSL free, open source runbooks for automating Incident Remediation, CustomerOps, SecOps and other operations toil.
- Xopero Software is a leading European backup software vendor with over 13 years of experience on the market, protecting endpoints, servers, VMware, and Microsoft 365 data, as well as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Jira data with GitProtect.io - the most professional DevOps backup software (as a connected brand).
- Zebrium Root Cause as a Service automatically finds the root cause of software and infrastructure problems using machine learning on logs.
About the newest Non-Profit Member:
- With 18 years of experience and a portfolio with more than a thousand projects, SiDi is one of the largest science and technology institutes in Brazil. There are more than 700 employees developing tailor-made solutions to transform the businesses and millions of lives.
About the newest End User Supporter:
- Decathlon technology strongly believes technology can help us sustainably make the pleasure and benefits of sport accessible to the many
With the addition of these new members, there are now over 160 organizations in the CNCF End User Community. This group regularly meets to share adoption best practices and feedback on project roadmaps and future projects for CNCF technical leaders to consider.
Additional Resources
- CNCF Newsletter
- CNCF Twitter
- CNCF Blog
- Learn About CNCF Membership
- Learn About CNCF End User Supporters
- Join the CNCF conversation on Slack
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.
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Delhi: 'Re-carving of wards is illogical, too much variation in population size,' say AAP, Congress
A deadline of October 3 has been set for stakeholders to submit their objections and suggestions to the Delimitation Committee.
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- The Delhi Congress leaders cited a number of shortcomings in the draft delimitation
- "In Okhla Assembly, areas under Sarita Vihar ward having a sizeable population of minorities has been shifted to Abul Fazal Enclave ward," said Delhi Congress communication department vice chairman Parvez Alam
- He added: "This will make it tough for Congress to win Sarita Vihar where the party candidate had won twice earlier"
New Delhi : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress objected to the draft order on the delimitation of municipal wards in Delhi, questioning the range of population variations and changes in the wards' physical boundaries.
It was, however, deemed "okay" by the BJP, which has ruled the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) since 2007.
On Monday, the office of the Delimitation Committee for Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) wards issued a draft order inviting inputs from political parties and the general public.
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Earlier this year, the Centre unified the erstwhile South, North, and East municipal corporations of Delhi, reducing the 272 wards to 250.
Delhi's three major political parties, the BJP, AAP, and Congress, said they are still analysing the draft order on delimitation and will submit their suggestions once feedback from their leaders and workers is received.
Based on preliminary feedback, it appears that delimitation of wards was carried out in an "illogical manner", according to AAP's Delhi unit convener Gopal Rai.
"Those involved in the delimitation of ward just picked one Mohalla (locality) from a ward and put it in another ward. They didn't even know which area is being kept in which ward and why," Rai said, providing an example.
Under the draft, the population in some wards ranges from nearly 45,000 to over 75,000, said the Delhi Minister for Environment, Forest and wildlife, Development and General Administration Department.
"So, the development fund for one ward with 45,000 people will be similar to that for the ward with 75,000 people which will create issues," he said.
The AAP is reviewing the draft and will submit its suggestions after analysing the ground experience, he added.
Harsh Malhotra, the Delhi BJP general secretary, called the draft delimitation "more or less okay".
"There are some errors, however, like the crossing of physical boundaries such major roads and drains within wards that could be confusing for voters, and a particular locality figuring in two wards," he said.
"Such anomalies we hope will be removed."
The draft lacks "homogeneity", according to Jagdish Mamgai, an urban affairs expert.
Based on Census 2011, Delhi, with 1.64 crore people, needs to be divided into 250 wards, each with an average population of 65,000, he said.
There are, however, wards in draft delimitation such as Chandni Chowk, Laxmi Nagar, Sriram Colony, Kalkaji, Gokulpuri, and Greater Kailash, which have populations ranging between 35,000 and just above 45,000. In contrast, there are wards with over 80,000-90000 people living in them, he added.
The wards of Mayur Vihar Phase I, Wazirpur, Saboli, Kalyanpuri, Trilokpuri, Sangam Vihar, Aman Vihar, and Nihal Vihar have twice as many people as some of the smaller ones, said Mamgai.
Additionally, he said, there are deep population variations at the assembly segment level as well.
There are 49,517 people in the Narela ward, while 82,877 people live in the Holambikalan ward in the Narela Assembly constituency.
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Wheat is harvested in an East Idaho field this summer. Idaho last year again ranked No. 1 among the 11 western states in farm income on a per capita basis.
Despite being the fastest-growing state in the nation, Idaho is still No. 1 among the 11 western states when it comes to farm income on a per capita basis.
Per capita farm income is arrived at by dividing a state’s population by the total amount of farm cash receipts produced in that state. Farm cash receipts refers to the revenue farmers and ranchers receive for selling their commodity.
According to federal data released Sept. 1 and crunched by University of Idaho Extension Educator Brett Wilder, Idaho farmers and ranchers produced $4,392 per Idahoan in farm revenue during 2021.
That made Idaho the top state in per capita farm income among the 11 western states last year, far ahead of No. 2 Montana, which came in at $3,729 in per capita farm income.
“We’re just a big ag state,” said University of Idaho Agricultural Economist Garth Taylor. “The profile of agriculture in the state is still huge.”
Wilder said the per capita farm income data shows that “agriculture remains an incredibly important industry to Idaho.”
California led all U.S. states in total farm cash receipts last year, at $51 billion. But when it came to per capita farm income, California came in at $1,302 per Californian.
What the per capita income data shows is that agriculture is far more important to the average Idahoan than it is to people in other states, even California, the king of ag states, Taylor said.
U.S. Census Bureau data show that Idaho has been the fastest-growing state in the nation over the past decade on a percentage basis.
While Idaho’s population is growing quickly, so is the state’s farming sector, Taylor said.
Earlier this year, he told state legislators that Idaho’s total gross domestic product grew by more than 100 percent from 1997 to 2020. During that same period, Idaho farm GDP grew by more than 200 percent.
“Agriculture is growing faster than the state’s overall economy,” Taylor said. “We’re big and we’re growing.”
When it came to per capita farm income last year, Wyoming ranked No. 3 in the West at $2,962, followed by Colorado ($1,415), New Mexico ($1,413), Washington ($1,315), Oregon and California ($1,302), Utah ($595), Arizona ($545) and Nevada ($240).
California ranked No. 1 in the West in total farm cash receipts ($51.11 billion), followed by Washington ($10.18 billion), Idaho ($8.35 billion), Colorado ($8.22 billion), Oregon ($5.53 billion), Montana ($4.1 billion), Arizona ($3.97 billion), New Mexico ($3 billion), Utah ($1.99 billion), Wyoming ($1.71 billion) and Nevada ($750 million).
When it came to net farm income – the farmer’s paycheck – California was No. 1 at $15 billion, followed by Washington ($3.2 billion), Colorado ($2 billion), Idaho ($1.78 billion), Oregon ($963 million), New Mexico ($839 million), Montana ($836 million), Utah ($549 million), Wyoming ($468 million), Arizona ($420 million) and Nevada ($221 million).
According to the federal data released by USDA Sept. 1, dairy was the No. 1 agricultural sector in Idaho last year in terms of total revenue, with $3.1 billion in farm cash receipts.
Cattle and calves ranked No. 2 with $1.67 billion in farm cash receipts, followed by potatoes ($934 million), wheat ($558 million), hay ($519 million), barley ($256 million) and sugar beets ($243 million).
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The "American Pickers" are excited to return to Georgia. They plan to film episodes of The History Channel's hit television series throughout the state in December 2022.
"American Pickers" is a documentary series that explores the fascinating world of antique “picking." The hit show follows skilled pickers as they hunt for America’s most valuable antiques.
They are always excited to find sizeable, unique collections and learn the interesting stories behind them. As they hit the back roads from coast to coast, the Pickers are on a mission to recycle and rescue forgotten relics. Along the way, they want to meet characters with remarkable and exceptional items. They hope to give historically significant objects a new lease on life while learning a thing or two about America’s past along the way.
The Pickers have seen a lot of rusty gold over the years and are always looking to discover something they’ve never seen before. They are ready to find extraordinary items and hear fascinating tales about them.
The "American Pickers" staff continues to take the pandemic very seriously and will follow all guidelines and protocols for safe filming outlined by the state and CDC. Nevertheless, the Pickers excited to continue reaching the many collectors in the state to discuss their years of picking and are eager to hear their memorable stories.
The "American Pickers" TV Show is looking for leads and would love to explore Georgia's hidden treasure. The Pickers are looking for anyone with a large, private collection or accumulation of antiques that the Pickers can spend the better part of the day looking through. Please note, the Pickers do not pick stores, flea markets, malls, auction businesses, museums, or anything open to the public.
Interested persons are encouraged to send their name, phone number, location, and description of the collection with photos to americanpickers@cineflix.com, to call (646) 493-2184 or go on Facebook to @GotAPick.
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The proprietary building method by Scala will be used across its campuses to significantly reduce construction time and enable the company's expansion to 15 new locations by 2023
SÃO PAULO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scala Data Centers, the leading Latin American platform of sustainable data centers in the Hyperscale market, announces the launch of FastDeploy. Through a proprietary design and construction methodology created by its Center of Excellence in Engineering, the solution allows implementing data centers up to 50% less time when compared to the traditional model. The scalable solution is highly replicable and is based on prefabricated and transportable modular components which are integrated into buildings at the data center location keeping the same quality and security experience compared to traditional data centers.
Located in metropolitan regions, regional data centers have been gaining relevance, as they serve as a bridge between the large traditional data centers located in central regions and other locations with high population, industrial and intense economic activity concentrations. Close to high density workloads, regional data centers enable the computational processing of various services and applications that require low latency, such as the Metaverse, Internet of Things (IoT), telemedicine, self-driving cars, among others, whose implementation will be accelerated by 5G in Latin America. Currently, there are more than 87 cities in the region with a population of over 500 thousand inhabitants, 26 of which have more than 2 million inhabitants, in addition to relevant economic activity.
"With FastDeploy, our Hyperscale customers will be able to explore new regional and strategic markets in record time, with all the advantages that pioneering brings, scaling their operations as demand grows", explains Marcos Peigo, CEO at Scala. "As FastDeploy's capacity blocks are independent and can be added up on demand, this approach allows for long-term contracts with smooth ramps of growth to higher demands. It will also allow for the implementation of shared buildings, without losing the individualized customization feature that was already available in our single tenant developments, and present in high-capacity buildings", adds the executive.
The first markets to receive the FastDeploy solution will be Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, in Brazil, where the company has already started the construction of two regional data centers with initial capacities of 10.8MW and 7.2MW, respectively. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, Southeast Brazil, the infrastructure is born within a 70,000 square-meter campus to meet the demand of a global cloud provider with expansion planned for a total of 70MW, including all phases, with the addition of two buildings. In Porto Alegre, South of Brazil, the Scala project will be officially launched in early October at an event attended by the city's mayor. The project comprises expansion in the region and is a single-tenant anchored by a large content provider. The new Scala FastDeploy data centers are expected to be operational in first quarter of 2023.
FastDeploy is made up of modular components that provide power and cooling resources ready to support varying densities, reaching more than 20KW per rack. All FastDeploy sites are born with a starting capacity of 2MW, which can be scaled by implementing additional MiniPODs delivering 60 racks per block.
Through a strategic and exclusive agreement with Scala, the smart modular structures are manufactured by Brazilian Modular Data Centers in a modern factory launched in 2022 and which has more than 20,000 square meters of area to support, especially, FastDeploy demands. The manufacturer delivers ready-made, load-tested, commissioned and TIA-942 Ready-certified modular components throughout Latin America.
FastDeploy operates on 100% renewable and certified energy, in line with Scala's portfolio. The solution is also endorsed by the ANSI/TIA-942 Rated 3 standard, which attests to electrical, mechanical, telecom, architecture and safety parameters for the construction and design of data centers. Scala is the only colocation operator in the region to work with this comprehensive standard.
About Scala Data Centers
Scala Data Centers is the leading Latin American platform of sustainable data centers in the Hyperscale market. Headquartered in Brazil and founded by DigitalBridge, it was developed to meet and exceed the growing demand for digital access in Latin America. Scala has a highly qualified team of over 500 professionals and applies a flexible and innovative approach to providing exceptional quality colocation services to Hyperscale clients, cloud-based software and service providers, and large enterprises. We customize state-of-the-art solutions for each client in the construction of the latest generation data centers, with high availability, the best energy efficiency rates, and superior density. All this allied to the best sustainability practices guided by our ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) program. For more information, visit www.scaladatacenters.com.
About Modular Data Centers
Modular is a platform for the development and production of modular data centers and modular components for data centers which was born as a leader in the Latin American market, combining a privileged view of the market with a proven entrepreneurial capacity. We design and manufacture intelligent, customizable, and high-quality structures, aligning our solutions to clients' needs and market evolution. Our modules leave the factory tested, commissioned and TIA-942 Ready certified to support varied demands, materializing the path to a future of infinite possibilities and enabled by quality digital infrastructure. For more details, visit www.modulardtc.com.
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Leader in IoT extends its portfolio for Matter, Wi-SUN, Amazon Sidewalk, and Wi-Fi 6
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Labs, the leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world, today announced a slate of new products that further extend its multiprotocol-supporting, interoperability-driven, and robustly-secure portfolio with new products to advance the innovations and trends shaping the Internet of Things including Matter, Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN, and Wi-Fi 6.
In the opening keynote of Silicon Labs' annual Works With Developer Conference, Silicon Labs CEO Matt Johnson detailed how the era of the Internet of Things is here, and through its breadth of technologies, depth of expertise, and focus on the IoT wireless market, Silicon Labs has ascended to the leadership position in pure-play IoT.
"By 2025, it's estimated that there will be 27 billion connected IoT devices, roughly three or four devices per person on the planet," said Silicon Labs CEO Matt Johnson. "By focusing our Series 2 product offerings and roadmap on connectivity, interoperability, power efficiency, and security, Silicon Labs is positioned to be in each and every one of those devices."
The Series 2 SoC family was developed under the premise that as the IoT matured, instead of looking for point solutions, the market would be looking for IoT platforms that combine hardware, software, security, tools, and support. The prediction has proven true, and Silicon Labs has nearly doubled its IoT revenue since the first member of the Series 2 family debuted in 2019. Today, Silicon Labs builds on the success of Series 2 with the expansion of the family to include four new products:
- Complete Matter development solutions providing support for Matter over Wi-Fi, Matter over Thread, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) commissioning, and Matter bridges to Zigbee and Z-Wave, all in advance of the expected release of Matter 1.0 this Fall.
- The first end-to-end development platform with complete connectivity support for Amazon Sidewalk. The Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk offers differentiated security with Secure Vault™, sub-gigahertz (GHz) and Bluetooth LE connectivity, and the software and tools for Sidewalk device makers, designers, and developers to get to market faster.
- A new flagship SoC and power amplifier for Wi-SUN, the FG25 SoC and EFF01 Front End Module (FEM), respectively, which when used together, are designed to provide a sub-gigahertz (GHz) transmission range of up to 3 kilometersi in dense urban environments with no data loss.
- Silicon Labs' first Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE SoC family, the SiWx917, which is designed to be the lowest power, longest battery life Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE combination SoC in the industry.
One of the biggest drivers for the new era of IoT will be the Matter standard, which will provide a unifying application layer to bring together multiple smart home ecosystems. To accelerate the adoption of Matter and to fulfill that vision, today Silicon Labs is announcing a portfolio of hardware and software Matter solutions that provide complete, end-to-end Matter development kits for all ecosystems and wireless protocols.
Announced and made generally available earlier this year, the central component of the platform is the Silicon Labs 2.4 GHz wireless MG24 SoC for Bluetooth and multiple-protocol operations and supports Matter over Thread as a single-chip solution. The MG24 has an effective range of up to 200 meters indoors for OpenThread while enabling Bluetooth commissioning of new devices on the same chip. When the MG24 is combined with the ultra-low power Silicon Labs RS9116 Wi-Fi product, it enables development of Matter over Wi-Fi 4 with an easy transition to Silicon Labs' Wi-Fi 6 single-chip Matter SoC in 2023.
All the Silicon Labs Matter solutions bring the industry's best IoT security with Silicon Labs Secure Vault™.
The Silicon Labs Unify SDK, the only multi-protocol software development platform for Matter Border Routers, provides the tools to bridge Matter to other IoT platforms, including Zigbee and Z-Wave, and Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio and GSDK provide developers a single development environment for enabling Matter on wireless devices and seamlessly connecting them to their desired ecosystem.
So no matter the protocol – Bluetooth, Thread, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, or Z-Wave – Silicon Labs offers hardware, software, and development tool solution to enable developers to bridge their products to Matter and all the major smart device ecosystems. The MG24 Matter-ready SoC, RS9116 Wi-Fi SoC, the multiprotocol Unify SDK, Simplicity Studio, and the Gecko SDK are available today for developers and designers to begin designing Matter-ready products using the wireless protocol of their choice.
Read more about the Complete Matter Development Kits in our blog post, "Silicon Labs New Matter Development Platform Simplifies the IoT Ecosystem."
Silicon Labs brings industry's first complete wireless development solution for Amazon Sidewalk
As the leader in wireless connectivity, Silicon Labs is one of the only IoT semiconductor companies to offer a complete platform, including both hardware and software, and serves as a one-stop shop for IoT development. Today, Silicon Labs is announcing they're extending that leadership with Amazon Sidewalk, the community network powered by millions of everyday IoT devices found in communities and organizations, by offering an end-to-end development platform: The Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk.
The Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk comprises low-power, high-performance wireless hardware for all Amazon Sidewalk protocols, including Bluetooth Low Energy, sub-GHz FSK and CSS, software SDKs, and security. The Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk comes with a pre-flashed software image and AWS pre-registration, providing developers with a quick start to Amazon Sidewalk development, saving them days in setup. Simplicity Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for all Silicon Labs technologies, guides developers through the entire Amazon Sidewalk development journey from start to certifying finalized code into a guided, end-to-end process, maximizing innovation and working efficiency. By working together with Silicon Labs, Amazon is better able to scale their Amazon Sidewalk development from concept to launch, saving time and resources for IoT device makers.
"We're excited to work with Silicon Labs to enable developers to build devices and experiences powered by the secure, ubiquitous, and always-on community network that we are building in Amazon Sidewalk," said Tanuj Mohan, General Manager and Chief Technology Officer at Amazon Sidewalk. "The new Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk streamlines the development process, so developers can deliver innovative products with Amazon Sidewalk's enhanced connectivity at scale."
Silicon Labs is excited to be working with Oxit and New Cosmos USA Inc. on the first gas alarm running on the Silicon Labs Amazon Sidewalk platform: a connected DeNova Detect natural gas alarm that can provide real-time gas leak alerts. With Oxit, an IoT design services company based in North Carolina, New Cosmos USA Inc. will be adding this new alarm to their large portfolio of devices that help save lives. With Amazon Sidewalk, the new alarm will benefit from reliable, long-range, low-bandwidth coverage, extended battery life, and no network connectivity costs. Both Oxit's Amazon Sidewalk IoT integration platform and New Cosmos USA Inc.'s new gas alarm products will be showcased during this year's Works With Developer Conference.
While anyone can develop an Amazon Sidewalk device, Amazon Sidewalk connectivity is currently only available to end consumers and endpoint devices in the U.S. The Silicon Labs Pro Kit for Amazon Sidewalk is sampling today, with general availability planned for 2H 2023.
To see how easy it is for developers to get started with Amazon Sidewalk, read our blog "New Solution from Silicon Labs Streamlines the Amazon Sidewalk Developer Journey."
To learn more about Amazon's perspective on this news and how Sidewalk's enhanced connectivity is helping to deliver new benefits to customers and communities please read their blog, "Amazon Sidewalk unlocks new community benefits for connected devices."
To help address the growing need for intelligent, connected devices in cities and other municipal environments, Silicon Labs is announcing the new FG25 SoC and its complementary RF power amplifier, the EFF01.
Built to be the flagship SoC for low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN) like Wi-SUN and other proprietary sub-GHz protocols, the FG25 SoC combines a powerful ARM Cortex-M33 processor with the most internal memory of any SoC in Silicon Labs' portfolio. This large pool of internal memory, combined with Silicon Labs' scalable Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) Border Router 1.1, enables FG25 deployments to scale to hundreds of thousands of nodes. Ideal for Smart Cities, this ability to scale will allow city planners and municipal engineers to connect streetlights, cameras, weather stations, smart metering, utility transmission systems, and more together to enable data-sharing and optimization between city services to improve their efficiency, save costs, and offer more ways for citizens to interact with and get more value from municipal services.
Also launching with the FG25 SoC is the EFF01 RF Front End Module. Designed to amplify the power and transmission range of the FG25 SoC, the EFF01 FEM doubles the effective range of the FG25, allowing it to operate with minimal data loss at a range of up to 3 kilometersi in dense urban environments. The FG25 and EFF01 are currently sampling with customers and are anticipated to become generally available in Q4 2022 and Q2 2023, respectively.
To learn more about how the FG25 and EFF01 contribute to creating more intelligent cities, read the blog post "Secure Sub-GHz SoC Ideal for Wi-SUN Smart City Applications".
Deloitte's "2022 Connectivity and Mobile Trends Survey" found that the average US household has up to 22 connected devices. That number is expected to grow. But with this greater density comes additional challenges that Wi-Fi 6 is designed to address with features that provide the capacity, efficiency, coverage, and performance required by users in demanding Wi-Fi environments.
To meet those challenges, Silicon Labs is announcing the new secure ultra-low power SiWx917 Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE combination SoC, the first Wi-Fi 6 solution in Silicon Labs' portfolio. The SiWx917 is a single-chip solution that is Matter-ready, includes an integrated applications processor, and offers industry-leading energy efficiency, making it ideal for battery-powered or energy-efficient IoT devices with always-on cloud connectivity.
In addition to SiWx917's Wi-Fi 6 support for high-performance in dense wireless environments, it includes a dual-core architecture, a quad-thread ThreadArch® processor for wireless connectivity, and an ARM Cortex M4F for user application processing. It also integrates embedded SRAM, FLASH, an AI/ML accelerator, an enhanced PSA Level 2 certifiable security engine, and a power management subsystem in a single 7x7 package. The SiWx917 is a fully integrated SoC designed to deliver exceptional compute power, faster machine learning processing, best-in-class security, enough memory to run wireless stacks and applications, and ultra-low current consumption for long battery life. This can help users reduce development costs and device footprint, future-proof their applications, and accelerate time to market.
The SiWx917 is currently sampling, with general availability anticipated in early Q3 2023.
See why Wi-Fi is so critical to Matter by reading our blog, "Wi-Fi 6: Addressing the Greater Density of Wi-Fi IoT Devices".
These announcements and more are taking place during Silicon Labs' annual Works With Developer Conference, the premier developer conference for building the skills needed to create impactful connected devices while bringing together the technology brands, device manufacturers, alliances, designers, wireless standards, and ecosystem providers that are leading the way towards a more unified wireless experience.
Registration for Works With is free, and sessions are available across all time zones. Visit the Works With agenda for more information on the over 75 technical sessions, ten hands-on workshops, and 150+ subject matter experts, including executives from ABI Research, Amazon, Edge Impulse, Google, Kudelski IoT, the mioty alliance, MYSPHERA, OMDIA, Oxit, Schneider Electric, SensiML, Tigo Energy, and the Wi-SUN Alliance. Sessions will also be made available on-demand after the conclusion of Works With.
Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world. Our integrated hardware and software platform, intuitive development tools, unmatched ecosystem, and robust support make us an ideal long-term partner in building advanced industrial, commercial, home, and life applications. We make it easy for developers to solve complex wireless challenges throughout the product lifecycle and get to market quickly with innovative solutions that transform industries, grow economies, and improve lives. For more information, visit www.Silabs.com.
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Los Angeles County Public Health reported that a resident died from monkeypox, becoming one of the first confirmed fatalities from the virus in the U.S.
County health officials said the person was immunocompromised and had been hospitalized.
Officials in L.A. County said the case was the first confirmed monkeypox fatality confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In August, officials in Texas said a Houston-area resident died from monkeypox. That person, officials said, also was immunocompromised.
To date, there have been 21,985 cases of monkeypox reported in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In most cases, monkeypox is painful but not life-threatening.
Typical symptoms of monkeypox include a rash, fever, malaise, headache, and muscle aches.
While most cases are mild, the CDC recommends monkeypox vaccinations for the following groups:
- People who have been identified by public health officials as a contact of someone with monkeypox
- People who know one of their sexual partners in the past 2 weeks has been diagnosed with monkeypox
- People who had multiple sexual partners in the past 2 weeks in an area with known monkeypox
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Company Distributes All-Time High of $1.471 Billion to Songwriters, Composers & Publishers, $136 Million More than Last Year and Grows Revenue to $1.573 Billion
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BMI reported record-setting revenue and royalty distributions for its fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022. The Company announced it has distributed and administered an unprecedented $1.471 billion to its songwriters, composers and publishers, its highest distribution ever, up $136 million or 10% over last year. In addition, BMI once again set revenue records with $1.573 billion, a $212 million or 16% increase compared to last year. For the seventh consecutive year, BMI's results represent the highest reported public performance revenue and royalty distributions of any music rights organization in the world.
The percentage differential between revenue growth and royalty distribution growth is simply timing due to the way BMI is required to account for revenue under the ASC606 accounting guidance adopted last year. Revenue is recorded in the period the performance occurs, however, the related distributions are in a subsequent fiscal year.
"We had an exceptionally strong year thanks to the incredible popularity of the BMI repertoire, allowing us to deliver the highest royalty distributions in BMI's history," said Mike O'Neill, President & CEO, BMI. "Providing this financial stability to our outstanding creative community is a gratifying culmination of BMI's efforts every day on behalf of our songwriters, composers and publishers. Moving forward, we will continue to maximize the value of our affiliates' music and ensure that our company is well positioned to deliver growth for our creators and copyright owners well into the future."
BMI's total distributions of $1.471 billion include domestic and international royalties as well as distributions from direct deals between BMI publishers and digital service providers that BMI administers on their behalf. Those direct deals, which make up approximately 3% of BMI's overall distribution, totaled $49 million, or $36 million less than the previous year. That number is lower because certain licensing partners have decided to forego direct deals and have come back to BMI to handle their licensing needs.
Revenue from digital sources represented 48% of BMI's domestic total with $572 million, an increase of $149 million, or 35%, compared to last year. Growth was seen across all digital sectors, with notable increases in subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Peacock. BMI also executed new digital audiovisual agreements with Roku, Vudu, Equinox+ and Snapchat, among others.
Total domestic media licensing revenue, comprised of cable & satellite, broadcast television and radio, came in at $479 million, an increase of $7 million, or 2%, over last year. Of this, cable and satellite-derived revenue totaled $270.3 million, holding steady with last year. Radio revenues totaled $114.2 million, an increase of 6%. Broadcast television revenue came in at $94.3 million, in line with last year's totals.
General Licensing, along with other income, was up 10% year-to-year with $140 million. This total is approaching pre-pandemic revenue levels as businesses across all categories continue to experience strong recovery. Driven by the strength of the BMI repertoire overseas, the Company's international revenue grew to $382 million, up $43 million, or 13%, over last year. This figure is especially notable given the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange rates due to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar.
Over 100,000 new songwriters, composers and publishers joined BMI this year, bringing the Company's affiliate membership to more than 1.3 million. Exciting new signings included Griff, Karol G, Kid Culture, The Kid LAROI, and Troye Sivan, to name a few, while agreements were extended with Anuel AA, A$AP Ferg, J Balvin, Metro Boomin, Doja Cat, Ramin Djawadi, Eminem, Omer Fedi, Tony Morales, Willie Nelson, Thomas Newman, Tayla Parx, Michael Pollack, Sting and Brian Tyler, among many others.
This year, BMI processed approximately 2.23 trillion performances, up 13% over last year. Of that total, 2.21 trillion were digital performances, and over 260 billion of those were digital audio-visual performances, a 7% increase over last year highlighting the continued growth of this sector. BMI's number of licensed musical works grew by 10% this year, bringing the total to 20.6 million.
ABOUT BMI:
Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in over 20.6 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.3 million songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI's repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit bmi.com, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BMI or stay connected through Broadcast Music, Inc.'s Facebook page. Sign up for BMI's The Weekly™ and receive our e-newsletter every week to stay up to date on all things music.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen®, the world's leading breast cancer organization, will hold an in-person MORE THAN PINK Walk in San Francisco to raise critical funds that support breast cancer research and breast cancer patients who are in need of financial assistance.
The San Francisco Walk will be held on Sunday, October 2, at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens.
"We look forward to creating a community for anyone impacted by breast cancer as we gather, in person, for this year's MORE THAN PINK Walk. We are excited to be spending the day with families and loved ones at the Zoo. Funds raised will support breast cancer research and patients in need of services like the Komen Financial Assistance Program," said Jenifer Weiss, State Executive Director of Northern CA Susan G. Komen.
"Our goal is to raise $250,000 this year to support funding new research studies for breast cancer and metastatic breast cancer. Funds raised also help support individuals in need of patient support services including financial assistance. With the economic downturn, the demand for our services is greater than ever," said Weiss. "We are grateful for all the support to help the women and men facing breast cancer in our community. It is through our Walk that we can raise much-needed funds to get what breast cancer patients need – new discoveries and advancements for breast cancer and financial support."
Komen is pleased to welcome sponsors of this year's Walk including PlumpJack Foundation, Wildflower Apothecary, Seagen, AIG, ALX Oncology, Chinese Community Health Plan, Genentech, Exact Sciences, John Muir Health, First Republic Bank, Olema Oncology, Allergan Aesthetics, ServiceNow, Kendra's Cup. Special thank you to our media partners Alpha Media San Jose, NBC Bay Area and Telemundo and our community partner the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens.
Additionally, Marc Acton Midday Host on Mix 106.5, Emily Harlan Midday Host on Bay Country and News Anchor, Audrey Asistio from NBC Bay Area News, will serve as co-emcees of the Walk.
Participants can expect to enjoy the following at the Walk:
- Upon entering the zoo everyone will enjoy a mission mile filled with images of our local honorees
- Survivors, MBC Thrivers and a guest of their choosing will enjoy a Survivor & Thriver ride on the newly restored, historic 1921 Dentzel Carousel near the Fisher Family Children's Zoo at San Francisco Zoo & Gardens
- Survivors, MBC Thrivers and Top Fundraisers will be invited into our designated Hope Village to gather for a complimentary continental breakfast
- Participants who raise $1,000+ will be invited into the Great Hall to meet five zoo animals for a photo opportunity
- Teams that raise $5,000+ will gather at their own team table and enjoy donated treats from local businesses
- Margaret Davis from Healing Muses will play the harp in our We Remember area where participants are invited to experience a moment of reflection under a beautiful tree, write the names and or special memories of loved ones on notecards and hang those on the reflection wall
- Community Pillar sponsored by SYNK will have the QR code to scan so Walkers can participate in our first-ever, group selfie
- Sponsor tables will line our event day festival with giveaways and information about how they are supporting the breast cancer community
Komen San Francisco Bay Area MORE THAN PINK Walk
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens
San Francisco, CA
Sunday, October 2, 2022
9:00 AM Check-In Begins
9:30 AM Zoo Gates Open & Event Day Festival Begins
10:00 AM VIP Animal Experience Begins
11:30 AM Opening Ceremony & Group Selfie
12:00 PM Survivor & Thriver Carousel Ride followed by WALK
(self-paced walk throughout the zoo)
Register Online
www.komen.org/sanfranciscowalk
Susan G. Komen® is the world's leading nonprofit breast cancer organization, working to save lives and end breast cancer forever. Komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting this disease across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the U.S. and in countries worldwide. We advocate for patients, drive research breakthroughs, improve access to high-quality care, offer direct patient support and empower people with trustworthy information. Founded by Nancy G. Brinker, who promised her sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would end the disease that claimed Suzy's life, Komen remains committed to supporting those affected by breast cancer today, while tirelessly searching for tomorrow's cures. Visit komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN. Connect with us on social at www.komen.org/contact-us/follow-us/.
CONTACT:
Deb Song
Susan G. Komen
(309)416-0419
dsong@komen.org
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Global technology conference recognized for customer engagement
RESTON, Va., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellucian, the leading higher education technology solutions provider, today announced that Ellucian Live 2022, the industry's premier global technology conference, was named a Bronze Stevie® Award winner in the Customer Engagement Event category in the 19th Annual International Business Awards®.
Ellucian Live 2022, held April 10-13 at the Colorado Convention Center and online, celebrated Ellucian's 10th Anniversary. Framed by the conference-wide theme "Deliver the Future Now," the event was attended by more than 6,100 attendees from over 1,000 institutions -- live in Denver and online -- with diverse panel discussions, captivating keynote addresses, star-studded fireside chats, new partnership announcements, Impact Awards, and engaging breakout sessions. A Stevie Awards judge commented that Ellucian Live 2022 was "a well-packaged event accommodating both online and offline participation, as well as demonstrating the Company's future focus."
"At Ellucian, we believe that community is higher ed's superpower -- working together to achieve better outcomes around common goals -- and we are honored that the Stevie Awards has recognized Ellucian Live 2022 among the most impactful and engaging events bringing the higher ed community together," said Laura Ipsen, President & CEO, Ellucian. "This year's gathering was a special one, being the first hybrid event and first return to an in-person Ellucian Live since the start of the pandemic."
Ellucian Live 2023 is set to take place March 26th – 29th, 2023 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La. Learn more about Ellucian Live 2023 here: www.ellucian.com/ellucianlive/save-the-date
The International Business Awards are the world's premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small - are eligible to submit nominations. The 2022 IBAs received entries from organizations in 67 nations and territories.
More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration across a range of categories.
"This year's class of honorees are as innovative, adventuresome, persistent, and successful as we've ever had," said Stevie Awards president Maggie Miller.
Details about The International Business Awards and the full list of Stevie Award winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.
Ellucian is the market leader charting the digital future of higher education with a portfolio of cloud-ready technology solutions and services. From student recruitment to workforce analytics; from fundraising opportunities to alumni engagement; Ellucian's comprehensive suite of data-rich tools gives colleges and universities the information they need to lead with confidence.
Working with a community of more than 2,700 customers in over 50 countries, Ellucian keeps innovating as higher education keeps evolving. Drawing on its comprehensive higher education business acumen and suite of services, Ellucian guides its customers through manageable, sustainable digital transformation—so that every type of institution and student can thrive in today's fast-changing landscape. To find out what's next in higher education solutions and services, visit Ellucian at www.ellucian.com.
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
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When you write a song, you want people to hear it. But for some artists, that's not good enough. You want them to know who played it. Today on World Cafe, we dig into songs that name-drop the artist or band in the lyrics.
It's a namecheck edition of World Cafe! It's a storied tradition throughout hip hop, blues and rock 'n' roll. You'll find songs from across the spectrum, like "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung, "Bob Dylan's Blues," Bad Company's song of the same name — not to mention "Hey Bo Diddley," which shouts out his name 31 times! A genius move to let you know who's singing the song when, you know, there was no internet. It's a full playlist of shameless name-droppers. Enjoy!
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2022 Dorrie Leader Award recipient: ‘I am just a small piece of the puzzle’
When Lizaida Morales’ daughter was born with a heart defect, that congenital condition was not a surprise.
It had been detected before she was born, and that diagnosis saved her life.
Sophia underwent open-heart surgery, a six-hour operation, at 3 days of age.
“So, every day I'm reminded of not only how blessed I am to have her here,” the Red Lion resident said, “but also how far we've come with science, research and medical advancements.”
She told the story about Sophia at an American Heart Association event, and it was well received.
From that day on, she has volunteered for the heart association and accepted other opportunities to talk about heart health, the No. 1 killer of women.
Her volunteerism did not stop there. Her work as part of Unstoppable You Ministries, for example, addresses domestic violence, human trafficking and homelessness.
All this volunteer engagement caught the eye of the YWCA York in awarding the 2022 Dorrie Leader Advocacy Award to Morales, a 39-year-old mother of four.
The award honors volunteer community work as well as women advocates who are leaders in addressing equity and other social issues.
Leader’s pioneering work
These are ideas found in the life and times of the award’s namesake.
At the time of Dorrie Leader’s death in 2012, a story was told that captured this civic leader and humanitarian’s considerable gifts:
“She was … described as being able to pull together a roomful of diverse people with diverse opinions so that at the end of the meeting everyone felt that progress had been made."
Leader’s community work was far ranging, and her efforts often included improving race relations and the creation of opportunities for minorities.
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Her work in the troubled 1960s, a breakthrough decade for women in York County, were indicative of her efforts.
She helped forge political activism by women in the public square, tilling the soil for future generations of women to gain political office. This work came at a time that a York County woman gained an important political post: Dillsburg attorney Jane Alexander took office as state representative in 1965.
Alexander was the first woman from York County to hold a seat in the state House. Bev Mackereth, Carol Hill-Evans and other women would follow her in the state House and Pat Vance and Kristin Phillips-Hill in the State Senate.
Meanwhile, Prothonotary Mattie Chapmen and County Commissioner Lorraine Hovis were among pioneering women in gaining elected positions at the county level.
Tackling big challenges
The YWCA cited Morales’ work in coordinating the Unstoppable You HEART (Healthy Eliminating Abuse Relationship Talk) Workshop, the Red Sand project and the “Blind Eyes Opened” documentary.
These are crucial and weighty challenges in our day.
The issue of human trafficking spotlighted in the Red Sand and Blind Eyes Opened projects has parallels with chattel slavery in the Civil War South. We look back at the enslavement of people according to race before 1865 and wonder why more people didn’t see this wrong and do more about it.
Is it possible that 50 years from now, people will look at how little notice many pay to human trafficking today or the unconsidered practice of buying things from countries where de facto slavery is in place?
Heart health is key
Liz Morales wants people to grasp such issues and particularly the people impacted by them.
But you can tell heart health, tied to her daughter’s experience, will always be top of mind.
“When something like this impacts your life, you not only want to share your journey but help others with theirs and do all you can to save a life,” she said.
“For this reason, part of my mission will always be to share heart health and wellness, because let's face it, we all deserve to live a heart healthy full life.”
You’ll find that depth of concern in her answers to these questions about her many volunteer efforts that brought her the Leader Advocacy Award:
Q. Unstoppable You Ministries works on domestic violence, human trafficking and homelessness, among other issues that challenge our community. Please give insight about how this organization that you are part of is addressing these.
A. I have had the honor of working alongside UYM's founder, Jennifer Foxworthy. I have watched firsthand her passion and joined forces to help partner with other local organizations to combat these issues.
UYM is standing in the gap and in the trenches when it comes to these situations by providing assistance and resources in the community, aiding victims with medical and/or personal care as well as collaborating with churches, ministries and other nonprofits.
UYM has and continues to spread awareness and is scheduled to educate health care providers at WellSpan next month to help identify victims of abuse during intake.
Q. How did you come to care so much about these difficult issues?
A. I wouldn't say it was the issues as much as it was the people. I have a heart for people, especially those in need. When serving individuals is your focus, you learn to get involved and become an advocate for them any way you can.
Once I realized how many individuals are hurting and searching for an ounce of hope and in need of help, I made it a personal mission to give just that: hope, empowerment, service and, of course, provide a much-needed light to whoever needs it.
Q. Let’s pick one issue to explore more deeply. How is human trafficking particularly impacting York County and central Pennsylvania? How is Unstoppable You addressing this?
A. Believe it or not, Pennsylvania is among the top human-trafficking states in the country. Mind boggling, isn’t it?
According to National Human Trafficking Hotline, it ranks ninth in the nation for most reported cases. This is mainly because New Jersey, New York and Maryland are on the border, which makes central PA a hot spot because of its ease to major cities.
Sounds simple, but one thing UYM is doing is discussing and drawing awareness. Sadly, many do not talk about this topic, let alone want to hear that this is happening nearby and to our most vulnerable.
That is why UYM continues to partner with law enforcement, churches, ministries and organizations like the YWCA to not only spread awareness but hold informative discussions and what to look for. We held two last year: one at LCBC York and another at House of Reconciliation on West Philadelphia Street, in a Spanish-speaking discussion.
Q. Is there anything else you’d like others to know about your work with Unstoppable You Ministries, American Heart Association and other community work?
A. Honestly, I am just a small piece of the puzzle. I cannot take credit for all the work any of these organizations do day in and day out.
I'm just honored to work alongside the individuals who have laid the foundation and have allowed me to serve in their organizations and committees as well as the ability to build connections, relationships and partnerships that make our community stronger.
Mother Teresa once said, “In this life we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” And that’s what I try to do. Just love on people and serve with heart.
Lastly, if you have a passion to help, get involved. That’s exactly how I started. Whether it's attending an event like a conference, a Heart Walk or just sharing resources with your peers, the more we know, the better we will be.Unstoppable Me Ministries has a conference Nov. 5 at the JCC. To purchase tickets or learn more, visit www.unstoppableyouministriesinc.org.
Past Dorrie Leader Award recipients
Meg Brubaker, Carla Christopher, Ruthe Craley, Cynthia Dixon, Helen Elfner, Traci Foster, Deborah Gable, Ramona Kinard, Dorrie Leader, Genevieve Ray, Delma Rivera-Lytle, Stephanie Seaton, Doris Sweeney, Jane Tucker, Jane Zarfoss, Jerri Zimmerman and Ophelia Chambliss.
Jim McClure is a retired editor of the York Daily Record and has authored or co-authored nine books on York County history. Reach him at jimmcclure21@outlook.com.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
1131 AM EDT Tue Sep 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central Albany
and southeastern Schoharie Counties through 1215 PM EDT...
At 1131 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Gilboa, or 17 miles south of Cobleskill, moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This strong thunderstorm will be near...
Breakabeen around 1140 AM EDT.
Livingstonville and Preston-Potter Hollow around 1145 AM EDT.
Middleburgh around 1155 AM EDT.
Berne around 1215 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this storm include East Berne, Zucks
Corners, Bensons Corners, West Berne, Huntersland, Conesville, Bates,
Manorkill, Broome Center and West Middleburgh.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4272 7425 4263 7403 4236 7435 4237 7438
4236 7443 4240 7452
TIME...MOT...LOC 1531Z 216DEG 23KT 4244 7440
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The new bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine is available now in Indianapolis, the Indiana Department of Health said in a statement Tuesday.
The bivalent booster protects people from the two most common strains of the virus, Omicron BA.4 and BA.5.
The booster is available at 69 locations in the city.
Appointments are not available for booking online yet, but people can contact a providing pharmacy of healthcare provider to make an appointment. Online scheduling will be available later this month.
“The Omicron variant has been the main cause of COVID-19 infections for months, so having a vaccine that specifically targets this variant as well as the Delta variant will help keep Hoosiers healthier as we enter the fall and winter, when respiratory illnesses often increase,” State Health Commissioner Kris Box said. “I encourage individuals who are eligible to consider getting the new COVID-19 booster when they schedule their annual flu shot and make protecting themselves against COVID-19 part of their annual healthcare strategy.”
The state’s vaccine map also shows locations outside of Indianapolis where the booster will be available.
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Court orders HIV test for man accused of defiling minor
A 24-year-old man charged with defiling and infecting a 14-year-old minor with a virus in Eldoret will undergo a medical examination at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH).
An Eldoret court on Monday directed Kevin Njomo to be taken to MTRH for an HIV test following a request from prosecutors.
State Counsel Jamleck Mureithi asked for more time to take the accused to hospital for the test before he is released on bond.
Mr Mureithi said the child tested positive for HIV after she was defiled, and the State wanted to ascertain if the accused infected her so as to add a new charge.
“We object to the accused being released on bond for now. The victim tested positive for HIV and we would like to subject the accused to an HIV test to ascertain whether he deliberately infected the minor …,” Mr Mureithi told Eldoret Senior Resident Magistrate Christine Menya.
The court heard that the accused defiled the minor in Turbo sub-county on September 8, contrary to the Sexual Offences Act of 2006. He denied the charge.
The case will be mentioned on September 26 for further directions, If the suspect is found to be HIV-positive, he will be charged with deliberately infecting the child with HIV.
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Alex Jones faces second trial over Sandy Hook hoax claims
Video above: Alex Jones ordered to pay over $49 million to the parents of slain children
A Connecticut jury began hearing arguments Tuesday in a trial to decide how much money conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for spreading a lie that the massacre was a hoax.
The trial is being held in Waterbury, less than 20 miles from Newtown, where 26 children and teachers were shot to death in 2012.
More than a dozen family members, including parents of some victims, filed into the courtroom to listen to the opening statements and the first day of evidence.
It's the second such trial for Jones, who was ordered by a Texas jury last month to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of one of the slain children.
A jury of three men and three women along with several alternates will decide how much the conspiracy theorist should pay relatives of eight victims and an FBI agent who responded to the school. Judge Barbara Bellis found Jones liable without a trial last year after he failed to turn over documents to the families' lawyers.
On Tuesday, she sanctioned Jones for failing to turn over analytic data related to his website and the popularity of his show. She told his lawyers that because of that failure, they will not be allowed to argue he didn’t profit from his Sandy Hook remarks.
Jones did not attend the opening of the trial Tuesday. He said on his show Monday that he would be traveling to Connecticut next week.
The trial is expected to last about a month and feature testimony from both Jones and the families.
Bellis instructed the jury that Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, have already been found liable for damages to the plaintiffs for calling the shooting a hoax on multiple media platforms and saying that no one died.
The Sandy Hook families and former FBI agent William Aldenberg say they have been confronted and harassed for years by people who believed Jones’ false claim that the shooting was staged by crisis actors as part of a plot to take away people's guns.
Some say strangers have videotaped them and their surviving children. They’ve also endured death threats and been subjected to abusive comments on social media. And some families have moved out of Newtown to avoid harassment. They accuse Jones of causing them emotional and psychological harm.
Video below: Family impacted by Sandy Hook shooting responds to Alex Jones verdict
Jones, whose web show and Infowars brand are based in Austin, Texas, has been banned from YouTube, Facebook and Spotify for violating hate-speech policies.
Jones now says he believes the shooting was real. At the Texas trial, he testified that he realizes what he said was irresponsible, did hurt people’s feelings and he apologized.
He continues, however, to insist that his comments were protected free speech. He views the lawsuits as efforts to silence him and put him out of business.
Jones’ lawyers say he intends to appeal the judgment against him in Texas. Jones also will face a third trial back in Texas involving the parents of another slain child.
Video below: Alex Jones's Infowars files for bankruptcy amid Sandy Hook lawsuits
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A group of doctors who did their MBBS at Stanley Medical College in 1960 have not just managed to stay in touch but have also ensured that they organise regular reunions. While the COVID-19 pandemic meant that they could not have a reunion during the last two years, the doctors are coming together on September 14 and 15 with their families for a reunion.
“We share a friendship that has spanned over six decades and are thrilled to be meeting up again after a gap of two years. For the last twenty years, we held annual reunions until the pandemic happened,” said C. Thangadorai, consultant pediatrician and family physician.
Over the next two days, Dr. Thangadorai said around 25 of them with their families were getting together at a resort on East Coast Road. “Apart from catching up with what has happened over the last two years, we also have a cultural programme that some of our family members will be putting on and a doctor based in the United Kingdom will speak on the topic, ‘Healthy Mind for a Healthy Living’,” he said.
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Dr. Thangadorai added that all his batchmates, who were between the ages of 80 and 86, looked forward to these reunions, and it left them rejuvenated.
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WASHINGTON — A former security chief at Twitter told Congress on Tuesday that the social platform is plagued by weak cyber defenses, privacy threats and the inability to control millions of fake accounts. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to lay out his allegations.
“Twitter's misleading the public, lawmakers” and regulators, Zatko said as he began his sworn testimony.
“They don’t know what data they have, where it lives and where it came from and so, unsurprisingly, they can’t protect it,” Zatko said. “It doesn’t matter who has keys if there are no locks."
Zatko said “Twitter leadership ignored its engineers,” in part because “their executive incentives led them to prioritize profit over security.” His message echoed one brought to Congress against another social media giant last year, but unlike that Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Zatko hasn't brought troves of internal documents to back up his claims.
Zatko was the head of security for the influential platform until he was fired early this year. He filed a whistleblower complaint in July with Congress, the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among his most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
Senators are clearly alarmed.
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who heads the Judiciary Committee, said Zatko has detailed flaws “that may pose a direct threat to Twitter’s hundreds of millions of users as well as to American democracy.”
“Twitter is an immensely powerful platform and can’t afford gaping vulnerabilities,” he said.
Zatko's claims could also affect Tesla billionaire Elon Musk's attempt to back out of his $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform. Musk claims that Twitter has long underreported spam bots on its platform and cites that as a reason to nix the deal he struck in April.
Many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support. Twitter has called Zatko’s description of events “a false narrative ... riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies” and lacking important context.
Zatko also accuses the company of deception in its handling of automated “spam bots,” or fake accounts. That allegation is at the core of billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s attempt to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. Musk and Twitter are locked in a bitter legal battle, with Twitter having sued Musk to force him to complete the deal. The Delaware judge overseeing the case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko's allegations in the high-stakes trial, which is set to start Oct. 17.
Sen. Charles Grassley, the committee's ranking Republican, said Tuesday that Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal declined to testify at the hearing, citing the ongoing legal proceedings with Musk. But the hearing is “more important that Twitter’s civil litigation in Delaware," Grassley said.
In his complaint, Zatko accused Agrawal as well as other senior executives and board members of numerous violations, including making “false and misleading statements to users and the FTC about the Twitter platform’s security, privacy and integrity.”
Zatko, 51, first gained prominence in the 1990s as an ethical hacker and later worked in senior positions at an elite Defense Department research unit and at Google. He joined Twitter in late 2020 at the urging of then-CEO Jack Dorsey.
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Busted: Agents seize 250+ pounds of meth being smuggled into US
PHARR, Texas (Gray News) – Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection said they seized more than 250 pounds of methamphetamine smugglers tried to bring into the country.
“Our CBP officers relied on their experience and all available tools and resources to thwart this smuggling attempt,” Port Director Carlos Rodriguez said.
Authorities said officers found 266.75 pounds of meth concealed in a tractor-trailer arriving from Mexico. The drugs have a street value of $2.3 million, according to border patrol agents.
The case remains under investigation.
According to Field Operations Director Randy Howe, the agency has seized 2,270 pounds of meth and 72 pounds of cocaine in the past week.
He said the estimated street value of the narcotics seized is over $35 million.
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A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan finalised a multi-pronged strategy to counter the drug menace.
Anti-drug enforcement, weaning addicts off drugs and creating social awareness would march in lockstep.
The government has roped in local bodies, residents’ associations and the student community to pre-empt the use and spread of drugs. The Health and Social Welfare departments would play an essential role in rehabilitating substance abusers.
The government has initiated preventive incarceration for habitual drug offenders. The Prevention of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988 provided for imprisonment without trial for up to two years. Mr. Vijayan has ordered law-enforcers to apply the law to deter drug smugglers, peddlers, and their enablers.
The Home department has insisted that prosecutors cite previous offences of drug case suspects in charge sheets to ensure successful prosecution.
It also requested courts to impose strict bail conditions on habitual drug offenders. The government had asked the police to collect intelligence on the drug trade.
Officials said synthetic drugs posed a particularly grave threat to society. They, especially LSD ‘stamps’ and MDMA pills, were easily concealable, transportable and vulnerable to misdeclaration at air, sea and land border check-posts.
The meeting also noted with worry that an increasing number of impressionable youth were slipping into drug crime, given the sizeable profits involved.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curi Capital, the registered investment advisor and full-service financial advisory business unit within Curi, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Park Ridge Asset Management's investment advisory business. The acquisition marks the second such transaction for Curi Capital in less than a year, accelerating the firm's strategic growth plans and further strengthening its roster of credentialed, client-focused talent.
Park Ridge Asset Management was founded in 2008 by partners David Arthur and Keith Karlawish to provide individuals and institutions with customized planning and high-quality investment solutions.
"We are on a mission to create a world-class financial advisory firm that helps our clients build true wealth, and adding the experience and expertise of the Park Ridge team is another important milestone in that journey," said Dimitri Eliopoulos, Curi Capital's CEO. "Curi Capital is proud to be moving forward with our plans to bring our high-touch, personalized approach to even more clients as we head into the final months of 2022. This acquisition is a great complement to the strong organic client growth our team has achieved in the first half of the year."
The entire Park Ridge team has transitioned to be part of Curi Capital with this transaction, including Arthur and Karlawish, who will continue to serve as Senior Directors in the wealth advisory space. Katie Strother will join as a Wealth Advisor.
"We have a working history with members of the Curi Capital team and knew our two firms would be a great match from our very first conversations," said Arthur. "Our team is excited to join and serve Curi Capital's growing client base with the customized planning and disciplined approach to investing that we've offered our clients since day one."
"The Park Ridge team will continue to enhance the exceptional talent and personalized client service that our Curi Capital team is known for," said Jason Sandner, Curi's CEO. "We are proud to welcome them to the broader Curi team and look forward to the continued growth of our Curi Capital business."
The acquisition of Park Ridge Asset Management's investment advisory business closed on Aug. 31, 2022, and brings Curi Capital's assets under advisement to more than $1.5 billion. Curi Capital also announced the acquisition of KDI Capital Partners' investment advisory business earlier this year.
For more information on Curi Capital, visit curicapital.com.
Curi Wealth Management, LLC, dba Curi Capital (curicapital.com) is a registered investment advisor, headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., that provides full-service financial advisory solutions, including personalized wealth management, retirement plan solutions, and investment guidance to high-net-worth individuals, ultra-high-net worth families, and businesses. Experienced and accessible, Curi Capital's advisors actively listen and proactively create tailored solutions that help clients build true wealth, however they define it. Curi Capital is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Registration of an investment advisor does not imply any specific level of skill or training and does not constitute an endorsement of the firm by the SEC. A copy of Curi Capital's current written disclosure brochures, filed with the SEC, which discuss, among other things, Curi Capital's business practices, services and fees, are available through the SEC's website at: www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Curi (curi.com) is a full-service advisory firm that serves physicians and medical practices. Equal parts fierce physician advocates, smart business leaders, and thoughtful partners, Curi's advisory, capital, and insurance offerings deliver valued advice that is grounded in client priorities and elevated by their outcomes. From data-driven advisory services to private wealth offerings, to tailored insurance solutions and beyond, Curi delivers performance that is time-tested and trusted—in medicine, business, and life.
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(WFRV) – Every piece in the store tells a story and Tina Kelly from the new Cockloft Vintage visited Local 5 Live with a closer look at how you can shop hand selected vintage goods and clothing as we say Welcome to the Neighborhood to this local business.
Cockloft Vintage is located at 163 N. Broadway in Green Bay. See more online at cockloftvintage.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arixa Capital is pleased to announce that the Company has now funded more than $1 billion of loans to real estate investors and developers in the last twelve months and $3 billion since inception of its first lending fund in 2010.
"We have accelerated our origination growth this past year by successfully expanding into new markets such as Phoenix – deepening our penetration into the multifamily bridge and construction space and attracting many new talented borrowers to work with us," said Greg Hebner, Managing Director of Arixa Capital. "Our entire team is excited to reach this milestone and we know our success is only possible with the ongoing support of our clients and industry colleagues."
Arixa provides transitional business purpose loans on real estate projects ranging from single family homes and urban subdivisions to smaller apartment buildings and mixed use properties, primarily in the Western U.S.. The Company has funded more than 1,600 loans since inception, with most loans ranging in size from $1 million to $15 million.
"Our announcement underscores how lending to real estate investors and developers deserves to be recognized as a whole new asset class. With over $100 billion of such loans outstanding, and growing, Arixa aims to be both a leading provider of non-bank real estate loans, and a leading investment manager specializing in creating portfolios of high-quality, high-yield, short-term real estate loans to be used by high net worth and institutional investors as part of their overall portfolio," shares Jan Brzeski, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer.
"The future has never been brighter for our industry, and we want to continue to be a leader in our markets, serving the most experienced and successful real estate investors, builders and developers," added Hebner.
Arixa prioritizes educating investors of all kinds about real estate debt, publishing a series of resources including white papers and FAQs. Access these resources at www.arixacapital.com/investor-resources.
Arixa Capital is one of the Western U.S. market's premier private real estate lenders and fund managers, providing small balance loan solutions to lower middle-market residential and commercial investors and developers. Since inception, Arixa has originated more than $3 billion in loans and generated attractive risk-adjusted returns for its partners and investors. Visit www.arixacapital.com for more information, or contact us at info@arixacapital.com or (310) 905-3050.
For information on investing in Arixa's funds, please reach out to:
Jan Brzeski
jbrzeski@arixacapital.com
For information on borrowing for a project, please reach out to:
Greg Hebner
ghebner@arixacapital.com
Seth Davis
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Former Chief Human Resources Officer for HBO Max to Lead Global Human Resources, Talent, and Recruiting
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today named longstanding human resources executive Michele Golden as its Global Chief People Officer, a role in which she'll oversee human resources, recruiting, talent management, and diversity, equity, & inclusion for the global entertainment technology company. Golden joins IMAX from WarnerMedia (now Warner Bros. Discovery), where she served most recently as its Chief Human Resources Officer for HBO Max, the culmination of a more than twenty-year career with the media and entertainment giant. Golden will report directly to IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond and Chief Legal Officer Rob Lister and be based in the Company's New York office.
"Michele is a world-class human resources executive with deep experience in guiding some of the most recognizable brands in media and entertainment, building successful teams, and navigating sweeping change," said Gelfond. "As IMAX seeks to build its global technology platform and foster a new era of growth for the Company, we are very excited to have Michele's leadership in further strengthening our global teams, workplace, and culture."
Golden said, "I am beyond excited to join IMAX, and partner with Rich, Rob and the entire IMAX leadership team as they continue with their successful mission to make the world's leading entertainment technology company even better. With best-in-class technology, visionary leadership, and dedicated employees around the globe, I cannot think of a more exciting place to put my experience and expertise to work."
Golden brings more than two decades of deep human resources leadership and expertise to IMAX, launching and scaling some of the industry's most recognizable entertainment brands while developing people strategies that impact performance, culture, and business results. As a member of its executive leadership team, she was instrumental in executing WarnerMedia's strategy to launch and scale HBO Max on a global platform.
Before being tapped to lead the Human Resources function at HBO Max, Golden served as Chief Human Resources Officer for AT&T's former adtech unit Xandr, leading its integration into WarnerMedia. Prior to joining Xandr, and before the Company's acquisition by AT&T, Golden led the Human Resources functions for many well-known Time Warner and Turner Brands including Turner Sports, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Turner Classic Movies, Bleacher Report and others.
Golden obtained her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University. She is a graduate of the prestigious Betsy Magness Leadership Institute for Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and attended the WICT Senior Management Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Cable Executive Management Program at Harvard University.
About IMAX Corporation
IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture, and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you've never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theaters to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of June 30, 2022, there were 1,694 IMAX theater systems (1,610 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 72 institutional) operating in 87 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
IMAX®, IMAX® Dome, IMAX® 3D, IMAX® 3D Dome, Experience It In IMAX®, The IMAX Experience®, An IMAX Experience®, An IMAX 3D Experience®, IMAX DMR®, DMR®, Filmed For IMAX™, IMAX LIVE™, IMAX Enhanced™, IMAX nXos® and Films to the Fullest®, are trademarks and trade names of the Company or its subsidiaries that are registered or otherwise protected under laws of various jurisdictions. More information about the Company can be found at www.imax.com. You may also connect with IMAX on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/imax), Facebook (www.facebook.com/imax), Twitter (www.twitter.com/imax) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/imaxmovies).
CONTACT:
Mark Jafar
mjafar@imax.com
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MORRISTOWN, N.J., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Covanta Holding Corporation ("Covanta" or the "Company") has released its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 and will host an earnings call at 11:00 AM (Eastern) on Thursday, September 22, 2022.
Qualified fixed income investors and securities analysts can register for access to the conference call and related materials on the Debt Investor Information section of Covanta's Investor Relations website.
About Covanta
Covanta is a leader in sustainable materials management providing environmental solutions to businesses and communities across North America. Through its network of facilities and state-of-the-art services, Covanta is a single-source partner in solving today's most complex environmental challenges. For more information, visit covanta.com.
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Company Distributes All-Time High of $1.471 Billion to Songwriters, Composers & Publishers, $136 Million More than Last Year and Grows Revenue to $1.573 Billion
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BMI reported record-setting revenue and royalty distributions for its fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022. The Company announced it has distributed and administered an unprecedented $1.471 billion to its songwriters, composers and publishers, its highest distribution ever, up $136 million or 10% over last year. In addition, BMI once again set revenue records with $1.573 billion, a $212 million or 16% increase compared to last year. For the seventh consecutive year, BMI's results represent the highest reported public performance revenue and royalty distributions of any music rights organization in the world.
The percentage differential between revenue growth and royalty distribution growth is simply timing due to the way BMI is required to account for revenue under the ASC606 accounting guidance adopted last year. Revenue is recorded in the period the performance occurs, however, the related distributions are in a subsequent fiscal year.
"We had an exceptionally strong year thanks to the incredible popularity of the BMI repertoire, allowing us to deliver the highest royalty distributions in BMI's history," said Mike O'Neill, President & CEO, BMI. "Providing this financial stability to our outstanding creative community is a gratifying culmination of BMI's efforts every day on behalf of our songwriters, composers and publishers. Moving forward, we will continue to maximize the value of our affiliates' music and ensure that our company is well positioned to deliver growth for our creators and copyright owners well into the future."
BMI's total distributions of $1.471 billion include domestic and international royalties as well as distributions from direct deals between BMI publishers and digital service providers that BMI administers on their behalf. Those direct deals, which make up approximately 3% of BMI's overall distribution, totaled $49 million, or $36 million less than the previous year. That number is lower because certain licensing partners have decided to forego direct deals and have come back to BMI to handle their licensing needs.
Revenue from digital sources represented 48% of BMI's domestic total with $572 million, an increase of $149 million, or 35%, compared to last year. Growth was seen across all digital sectors, with notable increases in subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+ and Peacock. BMI also executed new digital audiovisual agreements with Roku, Vudu, Equinox+ and Snapchat, among others.
Total domestic media licensing revenue, comprised of cable & satellite, broadcast television and radio, came in at $479 million, an increase of $7 million, or 2%, over last year. Of this, cable and satellite-derived revenue totaled $270.3 million, holding steady with last year. Radio revenues totaled $114.2 million, an increase of 6%. Broadcast television revenue came in at $94.3 million, in line with last year's totals.
General Licensing, along with other income, was up 10% year-to-year with $140 million. This total is approaching pre-pandemic revenue levels as businesses across all categories continue to experience strong recovery. Driven by the strength of the BMI repertoire overseas, the Company's international revenue grew to $382 million, up $43 million, or 13%, over last year. This figure is especially notable given the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange rates due to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar.
Over 100,000 new songwriters, composers and publishers joined BMI this year, bringing the Company's affiliate membership to more than 1.3 million. Exciting new signings included Griff, Karol G, Kid Culture, The Kid LAROI, and Troye Sivan, to name a few, while agreements were extended with Anuel AA, A$AP Ferg, J Balvin, Metro Boomin, Doja Cat, Ramin Djawadi, Eminem, Omer Fedi, Tony Morales, Willie Nelson, Thomas Newman, Tayla Parx, Michael Pollack, Sting and Brian Tyler, among many others.
This year, BMI processed approximately 2.23 trillion performances, up 13% over last year. Of that total, 2.21 trillion were digital performances, and over 260 billion of those were digital audio-visual performances, a 7% increase over last year highlighting the continued growth of this sector. BMI's number of licensed musical works grew by 10% this year, bringing the total to 20.6 million.
ABOUT BMI:
Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in over 20.6 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.3 million songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI's repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit bmi.com, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BMI or stay connected through Broadcast Music, Inc.'s Facebook page. Sign up for BMI's The Weekly™ and receive our e-newsletter every week to stay up to date on all things music.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new cost analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), providing for the needs of illegal aliens who entered the country under President Biden adds an additional $20.4 billion annual burden on American taxpayers. This figure is in addition to the well over $140 billion a year cost burden taxpayers are already bearing to provide benefits and services for the longer-term illegal alien population.
The Biden administration has willingly released approximately 1.3 million illegal aliens into the country's interior after removals and Title 42 expulsions are accounted for. Add to this figure approximately 1 million "gotaways" according to FAIR's sources within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and it can be safely estimated that approximately 2.3 million illegal aliens successfully entered the country's interior after President Biden took office.
Based on the most recent comprehensive cost study, FAIR conservatively estimates that each illegal alien costs American taxpayers $9,232 per year.
"Even in an age in which trillion dollar spending packages are considered modest, the additional $20.4 billion the Biden Border Crisis has heaped onto the backs of American taxpayers is still staggering," noted Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "$20.4 billion could address some very important needs of the American public, instead of covering the costs of the surge of illegal migration triggered by this administration's policies."
The $20.4 billion that taxpayers will spend this year, on just the illegal aliens who have entered the country in the last year and half, could cover the cost of:
- Providing every homeless veteran in America $50,000 per year for a decade. This would effectively end veteran homelessness.
- Giving every family in America earning $50k or less a grocery voucher of roughly $410.
- Providing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to more than 7 million additional needy families.
- Funding and expanding the entire National School Lunch Program.
- Hiring more than 315,000 police officers to combat rising crime across the country.
- Hiring of 330,000 new teachers, which would easily end the long-standing teacher shortage in America.
- Construction of nearly the entire Southern Border Wall (which could prevent millions more illegal aliens from entering).
"According to another new report, 35 percent of U.S. families with a full-time worker struggle to meet their basic needs. These are the people President Biden pledged to champion. Instead, he is choosing to divert an additional $20.4 billion away from their needs, in order to fund a radical open borders agenda with no end in sight," concluded Stein.
Contact: Ron Kovach, 202-328-7004 or rkovach@fairus.org
ABOUT FAIR
Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest immigration reform group. With over 3 million members and supporters nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. FAIR believes that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that is recognized and enforced.
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Leading New York-based trial attorneys recently achieved back-to-back, precedent-setting victories on behalf of clients.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP continues to expand its Global Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations groups, with the addition of high-profile partners Kenneth M. Breen and Phara A. Guberman.
Breen and Guberman are highly experienced trial attorneys who join Cadwalader from Paul Hastings, where Breen most recently served as head of Paul Hastings' New York white collar group after 10 years as chair of the firm's global investigations and white collar defense team.
Their practice focuses on defending corporations and executives in high-stakes investigations, trials, and appeals, typically involving allegations of accounting fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, cybersecurity issues, and money laundering. They are also skilled in conducting internal investigations for companies, teams, clubs, and university systems, and have substantial business litigation experience, representing clients in complex civil matters in federal and state courts and arbitration proceedings.
Together, they recently achieved major back-to-back victories for clients in two of the highest profile white collar matters in the United States. In a precedent-setting appellate victory in U.S. v. Connolly, et al., the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned all counts of conviction and directed a judgment of acquittal in favor of their client, Matthew Connolly, the lead defendant in the case and the first U.S.-based trader to be charged with alleged manipulation of LIBOR. Breen and Guberman represented Mr. Connolly at trial and on appeal. Their win represents the only LIBOR-related criminal case in the U.S. or U.K. to be overturned on sufficiency of the evidence and sets an important standard for all future wire fraud prosecutions. For this they were recognized by The American Lawyer as Litigators of the Week, which referred to the Connolly appellate success as a "remarkable turnaround" and recognized that the "decision is the second white-collar appellate reversal [Breen and Guberman] have won in as many years." Global Investigations Review short-listed the Connolly trial as its "Most Important Case of the Year" for its impact on future investigations and Law360 honored them for securing a sentencing ruling without any period of incarceration for Mr. Connolly, though the government was seeking 15 years.
The duo also represented David Gibson, former Chief Financial Officer of Wilmington Trust Corporation, in U.S. v. Gibson, et al., at trial and on appeal in a matter involving accounting and securities fraud brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware. Mr. Gibson's conviction was overturned on all counts in a matter of first impression for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the remanded counts were dismissed by the District of Delaware. The Gibson case sets a precedent for false statement prosecutions in the Third Circuit. The American Lawyer deemed this win a "stunning reversal of criminal convictions… in a case dating back to the Great Recession."
"Ken and Phara have certainly established a market-leading reputation as white collar attorneys, both individually and as a team," said Cadwalader managing partner Pat Quinn. "They have represented and achieved noteworthy victories for individual and corporate clients on some of the highest profile matters of the past decade. They are outstanding additions to the white collar practice and our firm."
Added white collar defense and investigations practice chair Jodi Avergun: "The arrival of Ken and Phara is another crucial step in the ongoing build-out of our exceptional white collar practice. They are first-rate white collar attorneys – equally as adept in the courtroom as working behind the scenes on behalf of their clients."
Breen is a first-chair trial attorney who has been consistently recognized among the leading white collar attorneys in the country. Prior to private practice, Breen served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he was Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section, and in the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division. He has tried 48 cases to verdict and argued 12 appeals as a federal prosecutor and defense attorney. In ranking Breen as a leader in this field, Chambers USA notes that his clients praise his "very shrewd mind," "exceptional legal vision," and "ability to look across the full spectrum of white-collar issues." According to Chambers, he impresses clients as an advocate who is "dedicated, tireless and [someone who] can quickly effectively understand legal issues and the business needs of his clients," and as an "extraordinarily effective trial counsel" who "comes with the experience, gravitas and intellect" that lets the other side know that he will be "really prepared to try the matter."
Guberman is a highly regarded versatile litigator considered a next-generation leader in the field. She was recently honored by Benchmark Litigation as one of the Top 250 Women in Litigation and by Global Investigations Review as one of 100 notable Women in Investigations. Law360 has named her a "Legal Lion" and as one of its five national rising stars in white collar defense for major client victories in high-profile matters. The Legal 500 USA has recognized Guberman for Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Defense: Advice to Individuals and Advice to Corporates. She has successfully defended a wide array of criminal and complex commercial trials, managed investigations, and handled appeals on a full spectrum of legal issues.
Breen and Guberman envision continued growth of their practice at Cadwalader, owing to the firm's outstanding market reputation among financial institutions and funds, as well as leading corporate clients.
"Phara and I are excited to join Cadwalader's world-class white collar defense practice," Breen said. "In our experience, being ready, willing, and able to go to trial leads to the best results for our clients, whether resolutions are reached in or out of court. Our adversaries certainly know our reputation and track record of success in high-stakes and high-profile matters, for company and individual clients alike. Our default setting is not capitulation. Cadwalader's white collar team shares and practices our ethos in this regard. In joining the Cadwalader team, we will continue to bring that fight for our clients in avoiding charges, obtaining client-friendly settlements and, when necessary, winning at trial and on appeal. We believe that the best results come from the ability to deliver for our clients at those levels."
Added Guberman: "The extraordinary group of litigators at Cadwalader are individually known for their fierce advocacy and winning records. We are thrilled to be part of a dynamic and talented team to provide unmatched service and achieve the best results for clients in resolving their most difficult issues. We are honored to join Cadwalader, with its long-standing reputation for legal excellence and collaboration, and to be part of its continued growth."
The arrival of Breen and Guberman represents the next phase of the expansion plan for the white collar and global litigation groups. Over the past 18 months, Cadwalader has added leading litigators Nicholas Gravante, Philip Iovieno, Larry Brandman, and Helen Maher in New York; Phil Khinda, Doug Gansler, and Rachel Rodman in Washington; and Mark Beardsworth and Kevin Roberts in London.
About Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, established 230 years ago, serves a diverse client base, including many of the world's leading financial institutions, corporations and funds. With offices in New York, London, Charlotte, Washington and Dublin, Cadwalader offers legal expertise in antitrust, banking, corporate finance, corporate governance, executive compensation, financial restructuring, health care, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, private wealth, real estate, financial regulation, securitization, structured finance, tax and white collar defense. For more information, visit www.cadwalader.com.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When Don Cox was looking for a reliable place to build a family farm in the 1950s, he settled on California’s Imperial Valley.
The desert region had high priority water rights, meaning its access to water was hard for anyone to take away.
“He had it on his mind that water rights were very, very important,” said his grandson, Thomas Cox, who now farms in the Valley.
He was right. Today the Imperial Valley, which provides many of the nation’s winter vegetables and cattle feed, has one of the strongest grips on water from the Colorado River, a critical but over-tapped supply for farms and cities across the West. In times of shortage, Arizona and Nevada must cut first.
But even California, the nation’s most populous state with 39 million people, may be forced to give something up in the coming years as hotter and drier weather causes the river’s main reservoirs to fall to dangerously low levels. If the river were to become unusable, Southern California would lose a third of its water supply and vast swaths of farmland in the state’s southeastern desert would go unplanted.
“Without it, the Imperial Valley shuts down,” said JB Hamby, a board member for the Imperial Irrigation District, which holds rights to the largest share of Colorado River water.
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.
A century ago, California and six other states — Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — created a compact that split the water into two basins and set rules for how much water each would get. A series of deals, laws and court cases that followed led California to get the most water and made it the last to lose in times of shortage.
Fear and frustration over California’s use of the river has driven the compact since its early days. In western water law, the first person who taps the source gets the highest right, and California cities and farmers have relied on the river for more than a century.
Other western states worried California would lay claim to all the river’s water before their own populations grew. The compact and the series of deals that followed attempted to find a balance to protect California’s supply while ensuring other states got some too. California, meanwhile, benefitted when the federal government began building the Hoover Dam to help control the river’s flow.
Today, the states are now gearing up for a 2026 deadline to renegotiate some of the terms to better deal with drought and protect two major reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. But before that, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has demanded the states find a way to cut their use by roughly 15% to 30% to stave off a crisis. The states failed to meet a mid-August deadline to reach a deal, but negotiations are continuing and no new date for an agreement has been set.
All eyes are on California and its major water rights holders — namely the Imperial Irrigation District and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California — to see if they will give up some of their share. Both districts say they’re willing to use less water or pay others to do so — especially if cooperating means they can avoid challenges to their senior rights.
But they’re playing coy about what exactly they’re willing to give.
The river is the only water supply for the Imperial Irrigation District, whose farmers grow broccoli, onions, carrots and other winter vegetables as well as alfalfa and other feedstock. The limited water underneath the ground in the region, near California’s border with Arizona and Mexico, is not usable, and it does not have access to state water supplies.
The irrigation district was historically entitled to more water than either Arizona or Nevada, though it’s given some up over the years in exchange for payment from cities like San Diego and Los Angeles. In 2019, its board rejected a drought contingency plan signed by other water users in Arizona, Nevada and California.
This time around, officials say the district would be open to leaving fields unplanted to save water on a temporary, emergency basis. But neither Hamby nor board spokespeople would say how much.
State officials are looking to the $4 billion approved by Congress for the Colorado River as a possible source of money that could be used to pay the district and, in turn, farmers, to use less water.
The farmers aren’t privy to all of the district’s negotiating tactics, but are trying to organize among themselves to avoid having cuts foisted on them, Cox said. Many farmers have already installed drip irrigation lines that use less water, but they would be willing to adopt more conservation tactics if they’d be paid to do so.
Already, Cox said he’s making decisions about whether to plant on all of his vegetable fields this fall because he’s getting less water than normal under a new system adopted by the board.
“With water uncertainty, there’s going to be more uncertainty on food supply,” he said.
And it’s not just farmers who rely on the Imperial Irrigation District’s water. Runoff from the farms feeds the Salton Sea, a massive inland lake created in the early 1900s when the Colorado River flooded. It’s now rapidly drying up, exposing surrounding communities to toxic dust and killing the habitat that birds and fish rely on. The state and federal government are now looking for other ways to support the sea in the absence of river water, and its being eyed as a possible site for lithium extraction.
“We’re talking about a body of water surrounded by communities who have been marginalized for so (long), that don’t have the infrastructure or capacity to protect themselves from climate change, from less availability of water, from more dust,” said Silvia Paz, executive director for Alianza Coachella Valley, an organization fighting to improve the economy and health outcomes in the region.
Behind the irrigation district, the Metropolitan Water District is the state’s second largest user of the river’s water. The Colorado makes up about one-third of the water supply the district uses to provide water for drinking, bathing, landscaping and recreating to roughly half the state’s population. Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest, is one of the many areas in Southern California that relies on the river’s water.
It’s allowed to store some of the water it doesn’t use in Lake Mead, which California officials say has actually helped stave off a river crisis in recent years. But this year, short on other supplies, the district may actually try to pull some of that water out if needed, a move that would likely cause friction with other states in the basin.
The district also gets water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the state’s main source of water supplies. But the Delta is suffering from drought, too, and the state only approved 5% of requested supplies this year. As it looks to stabilize its water supply for the future, the district is spending billions on a water recycling plant and urging people to use less water for their lawns.
Still, ensuring the Colorado River is available in dry years when other supplies aren’t available is the district’s priority, said Bill Hasencamp, the district’s Colorado River manager.
Farm-heavy water districts in the Coachella Valley and Riverside County also get Colorado River water, which they use for crops like citrus, melons and barley. The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and Colorado River Indian Reservation are among the tribes in California with river rights.
Looking to the future, both climate change and politics are at play as California’s water users debate what it will take to keep the river alive.
“What they really want is reliability and predictability,” said Michael Cohen, a Colorado River expert with the Pacific Institute. “What they don’t want is Arizona screaming that Phoenix and Tucson are dried up and California doesn’t take a drop of reductions.”
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Charges allege broad repudiation of nurses' collective bargaining agreement.
MNA alleges the corporation fails to honor key safe staffing provisions, lacks systems and processes for paying nurses that compromise recruitment and retention of needed staff
BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of months, and sometimes years of the failure by Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center (SEMC) at least 21 aspects of the nurses' union contract, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) has filed a sweeping and unprecedented 21-count charge of unfair labor practices against the hospital management with the National Labor Relations Board – violations that can compromise nurses' ability to deliver appropriate patient care and the ability to recruit and retain needed nursing staff.
The 777 registered nurses at St. Elizabeth's for years have had a union contract they have negotiated with Steward Healthcare, with the most recent version negotiated and ratified in 2018, yet Steward has failed to meet the dictates of up to 21 different aspects of the contract, including key patient care-oriented provisions addressing nurse staffing levels and the proper utilization of charge nurses for the care of patients on specific units. There are several charges related to the payment of nurses and basic wage payment issues such as differentials, bonuses and required raises; as well as other requirements regarding the nurses health insurance benefits, pension contributions and tuition reimbursement. For a copy of the charging document, email: dschildmeier@mnarn.org
The charging document filed by MNA's attorneys stated: "By its overall pattern of not complying with and not having processes in place to comply (despite this contract having been in effect since 2018) with over 20 contract provisions within the past six months the employer has unilaterally repudiated to collective bargaining agreement."
The charges come as the nurses, like all hospital nurses in the state, have come through the most challenging and traumatizing experience of their careers confronting the COVID-19 pandemic at a facility that was notorious for its failure to provide these same nurses with the personal protective equipment they needed to be fully safe, particularly during the first phases of pandemic. The situation calls for a concerted effort by all hospital employers to recognize the contributions of nurses and to provide them with the resources they need to want to work in a highly stressful hospital environment.
"The competition for nurses right now is fierce, yet our executives have given our hospital a terrible reputation that Steward doesn't honor agreements on staffing, that your wages won't be paid on time or accurately; that they lack the most basic management and payroll processes," said Kirsten Ransom, co-chair of the nurses local bargaining unit with the MNA. "At a time when we are desperate for more nurses to work here to care for our patients, they simply won't come here or stay here if they do come here under these circumstances."
"RNs and every member of the care team has been working as hard as we can struggling through the worst of times over the past two and a half years and we can't understand how or why our administration refuses or is incapable of following a contract they negotiated and agreed to," added Kate Cashman, RN, co-chair of the nurses local bargaining unit with the MNA.
"We worked hard to negotiate a contract with patient safety and staffing as the priority, to provide an environment that respects the role and value of our nurses, and that would allow us to provide the best care for our patients" said Ellen MacInnis, RN, a member of the nurses negotiating committee. "We need management to do their jobs not just for the staff but for the patients."
According to MNA Executive Director Julie Pinkham, who has been leading the MNA for more than 20 years, overseeing the filing of unfair labor practice charges for more than 85 health care facilities the MNA represents, "With the exception of Tenet Healthcare, who owns St. Vincent Hospital, I have never seen any employer engage in such a broad effort to violate a union contract. It is as reprehensible as it is unprecedented."
Now that the charges have been filed, they will need to be investigated by the NLRB who may then file a complaint against the hospital to require them to comply with the agreement.
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Faster access to affordable capital for Small Businesses
CHICAGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NEWITY, a small business marketplace dedicated to creating equitable access to small business loans and trusted business service providers, today announced the expansion of its loan solutions to include SBA 7(a) loans up to $250,000. This new offering increases access to affordable capital for small business owners that have historically struggled to obtain funds to grow their businesses.
NEWITY streamlined the 7(a) application to enable small business owners to apply for a business loan in less than 30 minutes. Further, NEWITY offers phone and virtual assistance from seasoned SBA professionals through all stages of the loan process. Northeast Bank, a licensed SBA lender, is collaborating with NEWITY to support small businesses by funding the SBA loans made available through NEWITY's portal.
Established to better service Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, NEWITY found it could do more to support American businesses and underserved communities following the end of the Program. "Now that PPP has ended, there is an even greater need to support American entrepreneurs," said Luke LaHaie, NEWITY Co-Founder and Co-CEO. "After servicing more than $11.4B PPP loans and helping 115,000 small businesses, we are reinforcing our commitment to empower entrepreneurs by expanding the size of our small business loan offering and continuing to work with the SBA."
"We're thrilled to keep leveling the playing field for small business owners," said David Cody, NEWITY Co-Founder and Co-CEO. "This broader loan offering is a testament to our continued effort to be a champion for American entrepreneurs who are otherwise disadvantaged when pursuing traditional means of financing."
About NEWITY
NEWITY is America's Small Business Marketplace, focused on empowering entrepreneurs with access to trusted service providers and affordable loan solutions – all in one place. NEWITY uses leading technology to help small businesses access services to make their companies more efficient and profitable. Today, that includes simplified online bookkeeping with Xendoo to help entrepreneurs apply for 7(a) loans with ease; customized, competitive insurance with Mylo to aid businesses in meeting specific loan requirements; and access to a marketing agency marketplace with Breef to enable businesses to use their 7(a) funds more efficiently. To join NEWITY's growing small business community, visit NEWITYmarket.com.
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Nozi, the ‘simple girl-next-door’, hits the right notes
Idols SA top 10 contestant amazed at standing ovation
Idols SA top 10 contestant Nozi is still trying to come down to earth after receiving a standing ovation from the live audience, setting social media ablaze and knocking the judges’ socks off with her performance on Sunday night.
The 27-year-old aspiring musician from Umlazi in KwaZulu-Natal hit all the right notes of Jennifer Hudson’s song Giving Myself, while shimmering like a disco ball in silver.
It came as no surprise when Somizi jumped onto the stage after the performance to give his stamp of approval by shouting “whooooo shem!” and then dropping the mic. Nozi was visibly overcome with all the positive feedback, and her eyes filled with tears of joy.
“I honestly did not expect to receive such a response from the judges or the audience. I was shocked, my body was shaking and my mind stopped functioning. Everything about that moment is all a blur. I couldn’t even hear what the judges were saying, even when Somizi was on stage, I didn’t see him or what he was doing,” Nozi told Sowetan on Tuesday.
“That moment goes to show that I wasn’t alone on stage, God was in control because I had been praying all of last week to not only sing well but touch the souls of those hearing me sing.”
Her song choice was intentional, and she explained that she picked the tune because of its authenticity and motivational message.
“Sometimes when I don’t have the words to explain how I’m feeling, my emotions come to play, especially through songs. I am an emotional person and I connect to people through my emotions," Nozi said.
“I believe when I take the microphone and sing, people get to know who I am. I’m also not scared to be vulnerable and show my true self through my emotions."
Nozi described herself as the “simple girl-next-door”, who lives with her mother and siblings in KZN. Singing has always been her passion since she was in primary school.
“I used to sing in the choir back in high school, however, I only started taking my singing seriously in 2015, after my audition for The Clash of the Choirs season three. Even though we, the KZN choir, didn’t make it, that didn’t deter me from following my passion," Nozi said.
“I then started my career as a backup singer for well-known South African artists.”
Nozi has been a backup singer for Dumi Mkokstad, Kelly Khumalo, Khaya Mthethwa and Naima Kay.
“I knew I had to take a more steadily upward trajectory to get where I wanted to be. The lesson I’ve learnt was making sure I find my unique voice and image in this saturated industry,” she said.
With all eyes now glued to her, Nozi said that her focus is on winning Idols SA by staying true to herself. She also admitted to feeling the pressure of sustaining her momentum in the singing competition.
“Seeing that this Sunday we’re singing songs to honour Heritage Month, viewers will get to see another side to me they’ve never seen. I’ll be performing a legendary song that I hope to do justice to.”
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RAWLINS — Angel Mathill, a case manager for poverty relief organization WYO Help, stood vigil in front of table covered in brochures and white paper packets.
As of 1 p.m., three people had stopped by her booth. All of them had been laid off from the Sinclair oil refinery, she said — or expected to lose their jobs at the end of the month.
The southern Wyoming facility refinery, located just east of Rawlins, laid off 32 workers in July — just months after its parent company, Sinclair Oil Corp., was sold to Holly Frontier. Another 55 were told they’d have to leave at the end of September.
Many of the affected workers have already found other jobs, said Mary Orr, center manager for the Department of Workforce Services’s Rawlins office. But not all of them.
Mathill assisted with a recent employment workshop for laid off Sinclair employees still looking for work. About 14 people attended, she said.
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The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services on Monday hosted a job fair at the Jeffrey Memorial Community Center, in part to help those workers find new positions. (They hosted additional, smaller fairs in July and August, Orr said.)
About 30 employers had tables there. A few dozen job-hunters attended. Orr said that’s more than usual.
Employers at Monday’s job fair said they were eager for anyone looking for work.
A handful of health care facilities, the Rawlins Police Department and the local library all had booths there. State agencies like the Department of Corrections and the Department of Transportation sent representatives, too.
Many said they were struggling to hire — a trend that’s plagued employers since the start of the pandemic.
Burnout, lagging wages and desires to switch careers has prompted a mass exodus of workers across numerous industries in Wyoming, WyoFile reported in January.
For laid-off refinery workers in particular, the problem isn’t a lack of openings, Mathill said. It’s pay.
Mathill’s husband works for Sinclair. By her estimate, the company usually pays its workers between $30,000 to $40,000 a year. And the average employer in Rawlins can’t compete with that, she said.
Some employees were able to land other positions within Sinclair, or get jobs with the refinery’s contractors, she said.
The Department Workforce Services partnered with Sinclair to assist affected workers, Orr said. In addition to the fairs, the state agency hosted workshops to help them file for unemployment benefits, access training programs and apply for jobs.
But those affected by the cuts are prepared to move away if they can’t find local jobs that match what they were making at the refinery, Mathill said.
Even if Rawlins loses a portion of its workforce, there are signs of economic life around the city.
Rawlins Rehabilitation and Wellness, a local nursing home, was hiring for 12 positions, ranging from cooks, to janitors to upper management.
The nursing home saw more interest on Monday compared to previous job fairs, said Makala Shultz, a manager at the facility.
A clothing retailer, a hibachi grill and a bounce house just recently opened in town, too, said Stefanie Paulson, HR director for Rawlins. The city just put in a new dog park, and has plans for a skate park, she added.
Paulson was at the job fair to promote Rawlins’s new Business Innovation Hub, which assists small startups around Carbon Country. It was launched just a few months ago, she said.
“I actually see it moving forward,” she said of the city.
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By MARCIA DUNN
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.
No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine at the bottom. The capsule’s emergency launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. Several minutes later, the capsule parachuted onto the remote desert floor.
The rocket came crashing down, with no injuries or damage reported, said the FAA, which is in charge of public safety during commercial space launches and landings.
Blue Origin’s launch commentary went silent when the capsule catapulted off the rocket Monday morning, eventually announcing: “It appears we’ve experienced an anomaly with today’s flight. This wasn’t planned.”
“Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. Escape system performed as designed,” the Kent, Washington-based company tweeted close to an hour later.
The company later said the rocket crashed.
The mishap occurred as the rocket was traveling nearly 700 mph at an altitude of about 28,000 feet. There was no video shown of the rocket — only the capsule — after the failure. It happened around the point the rocket is under the maximum amount of pressure, called max-q.
The rocket usually lands upright on the desert floor and then is recycled for future flights.
The webcast showed the capsule reaching a maximum altitude of more than 37,000 feet. Thirty-six experiments were on board to be exposed to a few minutes of weightlessness. Half were sponsored by NASA, mostly from students.
It was the 23rd flight for the New Shepard program, named after the first American in space, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the ninth flight for this particular rocket-capsule pair, which was dedicated to flying experiments.
Blue Origin’s most recent flight with paying customers was just last month; the ticket price hasn’t been released. Bezos was on the first New Shepard crew last year. Altogether, Blue Origin has carried 31 people on 10-minute flights, including actor William Shatner.
The rocket should have launched nearly two weeks ago, but was grounded until Monday by bad weather.
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Advancements to SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite Transform Talent Development for the Future of Work
WALLDORF, Germany, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the SuccessConnect event, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced new advancements to the foundation of the SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management (HXM) Suite to create a powerful way for organizations to execute an integrated talent development strategy and create a future-ready workforce.
Organizations thrive when their people are engaged in their careers, properly skilled, aligned to the right opportunities and have a sense of belonging. However, many organizations struggle to gain a holistic view of the skills that exist within their workforce or the ambitions of their people. The latest advancements to the SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite bring together data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide organizations with a better understanding of the capabilities within their workforce and actionable talent intelligence to align their people with the needs of the organization.
The following advancements will be available in 2H 2022:
- Skills ontology uses machine learning and automation to continuously identify an employee's skills based on their role, responsibilities, experiences and accomplishments, providing a holistic view of an organization's skills on a global scale.
- Growth portfolio is a dynamic library of employee attributes, including skills, strengths, workstyles, passions and aspirations – bringing the whole self model to life.
- Dynamic teams is a new capability that enables organizations to create, track, measure and optimize the outcomes of teams that exist beyond traditional hierarchies. Organizations that use the SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals solution can add objective key results (OKRs) to dynamic teams to track progress and measure success. Additionally, employees and dynamic teams are matched based on what people know, not who they know, using machine learning and AI within the SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace solution to make personal growth more equitable.
Together with SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace, these innovations deliver the intelligence and adaptability needed to help build workforces that are more skilled, agile and equitable. Growth portfolio and skills ontology provide talent intelligence to individualize recommendations within SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace that are reflective of each person's whole self, not just their skills. The introduction of dynamic teams cuts across traditional structures to support work based on skills rather than job descriptions – helping organizations build diverse teams that can drive better outcomes while accelerating career growth and personal development through hands-on experiences.
"Building on our heritage in talent management, we are reimagining how organizations manage and develop their people to meet the emerging demands of the future of work," said Meg Bear, president and chief product officer, SAP SuccessFactors. "When people have the opportunity to work on what they're passionate about, they are more engaged, perform at a higher level and push the organization to deliver outsized business results."
"SAP has created a system for managing the organization of the future, today," said Josh Bersin, global industry analyst. "The new architecture and capabilities in SAP SuccessFactors represent a quantum leap forward in delivering what organizations need to manage, grow and enable their people and teams."
Integrating the talent intelligence and growth acceleration delivered by these new innovations with the critical HR applications of the SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite provides a complete talent development system – purpose-built for organizations to help create future-ready, sustainable workforces.
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For talent development to be sustainable and impactful, organizations need to foster a sense of belonging. Empowering people to bring their whole selves to work starts with identity. SAP SuccessFactors users can now indicate their chosen name and personal pronouns on their public profile – enabling them to own how they show up and be recognized as their true selves at work.
Chosen names and personal pronouns will be generally available for all SAP SuccessFactors customers in Q4 2022. Skills ontology, growth portfolio and dynamic teams will be available as early adopter in Q4 2022.
Learn more at the SuccessConnect Virtual Event. Follow SAP on Twitter at @SAPNews.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ampio" or the "Company") (NYSE: AMPE).
Class Period: December 29, 2020 – August 3, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 17, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Ampio lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/ampio-pharmaceuticals-inc-1/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants: (1) inflated the Company's true ability to successfully file a Biologics License Application for Ampion; (2) inflated the results of the AP-013 study and the timing of unblinding the data from the AP-013 study; and (3) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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NILES, Ill., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world mourns the loss of the longest reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, one company is paying homage in a truly unique way.
Located in Niles, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, The Bradford Exchange, a global leader in marketing and eCommerce for nearly 50 years, has a long-standing relationship with the Royal Family and Queen Elizabeth II through their art-based product offerings. They also keep a very special piece of royal history on the premises of their Chicagoland offices.
In the late 1970s, company founder Rod MacArthur purchased a 1957 Rolls Royce at auction. While this instantly recognizable brand is renowned as the highest standard of British motorcar luxury and is used by many heads of state and world leaders, the Rolls Royce that MacArthur bought has its own fascinating story.
It was built for the Queen Mother (the late King George VI's wife, and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II) and used first during the Royal Tour of Rhodesia in 1957. At the time, Queen Elizabeth II was 31 years old and just five years into her reign as the new Queen, so her Mother took the trip on her behalf. The same exact car was later used by the Royal Family and Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom.
Because this Rolls Royce is such an incredible piece of history, the company rolled it out of storage soon after the announcement of the Queen's passing was issued by Royal Communications. It was bittersweet for their owner-employees and it gave them an opportunity to remember Her Majesty in a special way. Most certainly, Queen Elizabeth II's extraordinary life, her devout service to her nation and people, and the mark she left on the world will not be soon forgotten.
Bernard Frazer, President of The Bradford Exchange Worldwide said, "We are deeply saddened over the loss of Queen Elizabeth II. Our hearts go out to the Royal Family, the people of the UK and those who mourn the Queen all over the world. In our own small way, we wanted to pay tribute to this magnificent lady. Owning a piece of royal history, we displayed the Rolls Royce and laid within a wreath of white lilies and Lilies of the Valley – Elizabeth's favorite flower - to honor her life and legacy."
In addition, to honor the Queen's duty and devotion through the years, The Bradford Exchange has contributed £50,000 to the Royal Foundation. The Royal Foundation is the charity administered by the Prince and Princess of Wales that has focused its philanthropic efforts on conservation, children's early years, the elderly, mental health and emergencies.
ABOUT THE BRADFORD EXCHANGE: The Bradford Exchange is the market leader in affinity-based art and design, advertising and fulfilling a variety of unique product forms direct to the consumer. Since 1973, the company has been partnering with some of the world's most acclaimed artists, popular licenses and manufactures creating original, innovative, exclusive collectibles, home decor, jewelry and beyond. A trusted resource for passion based artistic designs that bring joy and value to its customers.
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People have already started queueing in central London, two days before Queen Elizabeth II arrives for her lying-in-state on Wednesday in Westminster Hall.
Three people have started lining up south of Lambeth Bridge, where they believe the queue will begin.
Anne Daley, from Cardiff, said she wanted to “pay her respects to Her Majesty” for her “unrelenting service”. She arrived at 6am on Monday morning to try to find the front of the queue.
She had a fold-out chair to sit on and a Welsh flag draped over her knees, along with commemorative magazines of the royals.
When asked how she would cope with staying in the queue overnight and over the next few days, Anne said it wouldn’t be a problem as there was Deliveroo.
“My friend has gone to get some sandwiches, no alcohol, because we don’t drink, although I might need a half-cider, to get by.”
She said she remembered Diana, the late Princes of Wales’s lying-in-state and the overwhelming smell of lilies.
She said she couldn’t bear waiting at the back of the queue for four days, so after arriving in London at 6am, she jumped at the chance to get her spot.
“People are in the air now as we speak, about to land in Heathrow to come to see Her Majesty lying in state.”
Vanessa Nanthakumaran, who is one before Anne, said she was told the queue would start south of Lambeth Bridge by someone near Westminster.
A man in a hi-vis vest who appeared to be working for a security company, said Lambeth Bridge was where the queue would start and people would get white wristbands showing their place in the queue and that they could leave to go to the toilet and get food.
So far, no official details have been set out for the route of the queue. The BBC reports the protocol for queuing is set to be released on Tuesday evening. The monarch is expected to lie in state in Westminster Hall from 5pm on Wednesday until 6.30am on the day of her funeral, Monday 19 September.
In a statement, the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: “Those wishing to attend will be required to queue for many hours, possibly overnight. Large crowds are expected and people are encouraged to check ahead, plan accordingly and be prepared for long wait times.”
Ms Nanthakumaran said she was determined to come and pay her respects to the Queen as she had with the late Princess of Wales.
“It’s unbelievable, I am hoping I will be at the start, it’s going to be very emotional.
“It will be happy and sad, I want to pay my respects and say some prayers although I know we are going to be moving fast.”
Grace Gothard who turned up later, also said she would be queuing overnight. She had brought a jar of marmalade and had a cut-out figure of the Queen, and had a Union Jack flag tied around her shoulders.
Number four and five in the queue are Tony Jones and Tony Rowland, who have donned matching outfits and both want to pay their respects to the Queen.
Mr Jones said he was once employed as a royal butler to run the room where the Queen took tea at the Royal Ascot races. He was employed by the Randolph butlers service between 1999 and 2006.
“She used to tell me when the scones were too crumbly,” Mr Jones said.
“She was lovely, she came in just like you would any other guest would come in, she would sit down at the table and the girls would pour the guests’ tea and they’d be running out the back saying ‘I’ve just served the Queen tea!’, and I’d say, ‘get back in that room, get back in there!’.”
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Man sentenced to 20 years for overdose death of teen who died days before graduation
PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. (WVUE/Gray News) – A man who pleaded guilty to selling fake pills to a teen has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after she died of a fentanyl overdose, according to the Plaquemines Parish District Attorney’s Office.
Hailey Deickman, an 18-year-old senior at Belle Chasse High School, died of an overdose one week before graduation on May 18, 2021. District Attorney Charles Ballay says Deikman took half of what she believed was a Percocet pill she and a friend purchased from 22-year-old Franklin Senfles.
Senfles was arrested and indicted on one count of second-degree murder later that month, but he entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge of manslaughter on Sept. 6. Plaquemines Parish Judge Kevin Conner sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
Deickman’s mother says she was an honor roll student who stayed out of trouble and made one bad choice that cost her her life.
The Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office said Deickman’s death should serve as a wake-up call, especially for young kids who may not understand the dangers of counterfeit pills.
“These counterfeit pills are disguised to look like Oxycodone, pain medications, Xanax,” DEA Special Agent Brad Byerley said. “People are buying these pills off the street, thinking they’re buying something that a health care provider prescribed to someone.”
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The Madras High Court has posted to September 19 further hearing in the case pertaining to the July 11 violence at the AIADMK headquarters in Chennai.
Justice G. K. Ilanthiraiyan, before whom the case came up on Tuesday, directed that an additional affidavit filed by former Minister C. Ve. Shanmugam seeking a CBI probe into the matter be posted on the same date. The petitioner alleged that not much progress had been made in the case so far.
Meanwhile, former MLA J.C.D. Prabhakar has filed a petition alleging bias in the police investigation. He urged the court to direct the CB-CID to probe the complaint filed by him.
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Big breakfast helps curb appetite, but has no effect on weight loss, study finds
(CNN) – Did you enjoy a big breakfast today?
A new study from the University of Aberdeen shows having a hearty breakfast can help curb hunger cravings throughout the day.
However, researchers found big breakfasts doesn’t help people lose weight.
The study looked at 30 people who had big breakfasts for four weeks and then big dinners for another four weeks.
Researchers found no difference in weight loss between the two, but participants reported being less hungry throughout the day after having a hearty meal at the beginning of the day.
This could be a big help for anyone working on overall appetite control.
It is important to note the participants were provided their meals, so the study does not account for whether they would have chosen to eat less or more during each phase of the research.
For more details, check out the study in the journal “Cell Metabolism.”
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to prevent a family pet from accidentally pressing the power control switches at the inner door panel while riding in the car," said an inventor, from Tylertown, Miss., "so I invented the CONTROL SWITCH COVER. My design would alleviate concern over the pet opening the window or activating the door locks."
The invention provides an effective way to shield the control switches at a vehicle's inner door panel. In doing so, it prevents inadvertent activation by a pet. It also protects against moisture associated with weather and spills. As a result, it enhances safety and convenience. The invention features a simple and reliable design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for vehicle owners, especially those with pets. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Jackson sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-JTK-134, 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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Smart Eye Partners with ams OSRAM to Deliver 3D Interior- Sensing for Enhanced Driver Monitoring
ICARUS proof-of-concept, equipped with Smart Eye Interior Sensing, provides high-performance 3D sensing to support advanced DMS and OMS Features
GOTHENBURG, Sweden & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Smart Eye, the global leader in Human Insight AI, announced today a collaboration with ams OSRAM (AO), a global leader in optical solutions, to deliver a new technology that will allow driver monitoring systems (DMS) and occupant monitoring systems (OMS) to detect the driver and passenger status and position more accurately than ever before. The ICARUS: Structured Light Evaluation Kit is a proof-of-concept that leverages existing architecture inside a vehicle to efficiently and cost-effectively provide high-performance 3D sensing capabilities for driver monitoring (DMS) and Occupant Monitoring (OMS).
Driver monitoring continues in importance as it is a key factor in helping to create a safer road environment. Through monitoring the driver’s actions, technology in the vehicle could be able to determine if the driver is tired or distracted and send a warning. In addition, it can provide more driving comfort, which in turn often leads to less distraction.
ICARUS combines Smart Eye interior sensing software with AO’s dot illumination technology to generate a more accurate depth map of the driver using a structured light method. AO’s dot illuminator installs on top of conventional flood illumination mechanisms, and when integrated with Smart Eye’s Human Insight AI-driven software, the DMS can support valuable new features with high precision including augmented reality heads-up display (AR-HuD), secure driver authentication, and advanced body position to further enhance road safety by delivering inputs to airbag deployment decisions and pre-crash safety measures.
ICARUS is simple, easy to install, and serves as a low-cost upgrade for existing near infrared-based DMS hardware. It only requires the addition of an AO dot illuminator to function. By building the evaluation kit to be compatible with existing 2D architecture, Smart Eye and AO provide automotive OEMs and Tier One suppliers with the maximum amount of value without overhauling an entire system.
“We’re excited to collaborate with ams OSRAM on this innovative proof-of-concept. Driver monitoring is an essential function in new and existing vehicles on the road today,” says Henrik Lind, Chief Research Officer at Smart Eye, “This technology is critical to progressing interior sensing technology during a time when demand from automakers for intelligent DMS is rapidly accelerating. Smart Eye’s human-centric approach, combined with AO’s technology, allows us to explore the boundaries of AI-based automotive technologies and inspire a future of innovative mobility advancements.”
Firat Sarialtun, Global Segment Manager for In-Cabin Sensing at ams OSRAM, commented, “Structured light sensing technology is proven in the consumer market, where it is used for instance for secure face authentication in mobile phones. Previously in the automotive world, however, 3D sensing has only been implemented with dedicated indirect time-of- flight (iToF) cameras. By combining our accurate depth maps generated by the ams OSRAM platform with Smart Eye’s robust, reliable and road-tested DMS, ICARUS can support the most advanced DMS features to improve the driving experience with the addition of just a single laser component.”
Smart Eye will demonstrate the ICARUS evaluation kit at its booth during the InCabin Event in Brussels, Belgium on September 15, 2022.
About Smart Eye
Smart Eye is the global leader in Human Insight AI, technology that understands, supports and predicts human behavior in complex environments. We are bridging the gap between humans and machines for a safe and sustainable future. Our multimodal software and hardware solutions provide unprecedented human insight in automotive and behavioral research—supported also by Affectiva and iMotions, companies we acquired in 2021.
Smart Eye offers road-ready Driver Monitoring Systems and next-level Interior Sensing solutions built on two decades of automotive experience. Smart Eye’s technology is embedded in next-generation vehicles as OEM or Tier 1 solutions and has been selected by 14 of the world’s leading car manufacturers for 94 car models, including BMW and Geely. Smart Eye also provides complete hardware and software solutions for fleet and small-volume OEMs, powering vehicles on the road today. As the preferred partner to the automotive industry, Smart Eye is leading the way towards safer, more sustainable transportation and mobility experiences enhancing wellness, comfort, and entertainment.
In behavioral research our advanced eye tracking systems provide unparalleled performance in complex situations, offering deep insights into human behavior and human-machine interaction in automotive, aviation, assistive technology, behavioral science and many more fields. Today, our technology is used by NASA, Airbus, Boeing, Daimler, Audi, GM, Harvard University and hundreds of research organizations and universities around the world.
Smart Eye was founded in 1999, is publicly traded and headquartered in Sweden with offices in the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, Egypt, Singapore, China and Japan. Learn more at: www.smarteye.ai.
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At 50, TV's `The Waltons´ still stirs fans´ love, nostalgia
The Rev. Matt Curry´s parents were children of the Great Depression, just like "The Waltons" - the beloved TV family whose prime-time series premiered 50 years ago.
When Curry was growing up on a farm in northern Texas, his carpenter father and teacher mother often argued playfully over who had a poorer childhood.
"The Depression was the seminal time of their lives - the time that was about family and survival and making it through," said Curry, now a 59-year-old Presbyterian pastor in Owensboro, Kentucky. "My dad used to talk about how his dad would go work out of town and send $5 a week to feed and clothe the family."
So when "The Waltons," set in 1932 and running through World War II, debuted on CBS on Sept. 14, 1972, the Currys identified closely with the storylines. Millions of others felt the same, and the Thursday night drama about a Depression-era family in rural Virginia became one of TV´s most popular and enduring programs.
At a time when the networks generally avoided "dangerous" content, "The Waltons" was notable for taking on difficult topics - religion, in particular - said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University´s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.
"I think it was an important show, and I think it actually doesn´t get the attention that it deserves," Thompson said.
This 1974 photo provided by CBS shows, from left, David Harper, as Jim-Bob Walton; Eric Scott, as Ben Walton; Michael Learned, as Olivia Walton; Kami Cotler, as Elizabeth Walton; Richard Thomas, as John Boy Walton; Mary McDonough, as Erin Walton; Judy Norton, as Mary Ellen Walton; Ralph Waite, as John Walton; Ellen Corby, as Ester "Grandma" Walton; Will Geer, as Zeb "Grandpa" Walton; Jon Walmsley, as Jason Walton, in the television show The Waltons. (CBS Photo Archive via AP)
"`The Waltons´ really did get down and roll around in some very, very serious spiritual themes," he added. "For example, an atheist comes to town, and we get this whole discussion between atheism and spirituality."
"The Waltons" ran for nine seasons and 221 episodes, ranking as high as No. 2 in the Nielsen ratings. A half-century later it still stirs nostalgia among loyal fans who can´t resist taking in cable TV reruns, binging episodes via streaming apps and keeping up with former stars through social media.
Based on the life of its creator, the late Earl Hamner Jr., the show followed a large extended family living in a white, two-story farmhouse and running a sawmill in the fictional Blue Ridge foothills town of Walton´s Mountain. The parents, grandparents and seven children - John Jr., Jason, Mary Ellen, Erin, Ben, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth - were depicted wearing overalls and dresses, praying at meals and overcoming adversity through hard work and grace.
"The Waltons" focused on John Jr., known as John-Boy, played by Richard Thomas and modeled on Hamner. The oldest sibling, he aspired to be a writer and experience the world beyond his humble upbringing.
Now 71 and starring as lawyer Atticus Finch in a touring production of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Thomas said he still hears fans call "Good night, John-Boy!" after each performance. The familiar catchphrase pays homage to the Emmy-winning role that made him famous.
"It´s kind of astonishing that we´re still talking about a show 50 years later," said Thomas, who narrates "A Waltons Thanksgiving," a made-for-TV movie airing this fall on the CW network.
"To have that kind of longevity and then have it mean enough for people to want to do a new version of it - I´m not sure exactly why," he added. "I know it affected a lot of people´s lives. But I think primarily Earl Hamner´s writing was just so great and the cast loved each other so much and we were so committed."
John-Boy had a lot to do with the show´s popularity - and inspired many a crush back then among fans like Jerri Harrington, now 67, of Centreville, Virginia.
Harrington still watches an episode every night with her husband of 47 years. During the frightening early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she said, its characters - particularly grandma Esther, played by the late Ellen Corby - brought a sense of comfort and return to childhood.
"It just feels familiar," said Harrington, a grandmother herself.
Another lifelong fan, Carol Jackson, like Curry the daughter of Depression-era parents, sees her own family´s story reflected.
She became a fan as a kindergartner and as an adult placed "Waltons" DVDs in the resort cabins that her family operated in the Ozarks of northern Arkansas. The homespun stories still connect with the 55-year-old mother of three.
"I just told my kids, `One day when I´m old and in my wheelchair ... just wheel me in front of `The Waltons´ on a continual loop, and I´ll be happy,´" Jackson said.
Kami Cotler, who was 6 years old when she first starred as youngest sibling Elizabeth in a 1971 holiday TV movie that launched the series, still interacts regularly with such fans via her Facebook page, which has nearly 150,000 followers.
Cotler said "The Waltons" shared "universal truths" that help explain its lasting popularity.
"The show frequently told really simple human stories that resonate with people because that´s what life is like," said Cotler, now an educator in Southern California. "People will joke that it was very saccharine sweet, but I don´t think that it actually was."
On the show, parents John Walton Sr. and Olivia Walton - played, respectively, by the late Ralph Waite, an ordained minister in real life, and Michael Learned - frequently clashed over their differing approaches to God. Olivia was a devout Baptist, but John Sr. was not a churchgoer.
"I´ve always looked for God in my own way," he said in one episode.
An ongoing theme was the appearance in Walton´s Mountain of an outsider - a Jewish family fleeing Nazi persecution, a Black boxer and preacher raising money for a new church, a Hollywood actress who smoked and drank - who met a mixed reception.
In 1972´s "The Sinner" episode, a young pastor played by the late John Ritter arrived preaching fire-and-brimstone Bible verses. But he inadvertently became intoxicated after drinking too much of the "secret recipe" served by the Baldwin sisters, two prim and proper recurring characters who didn´t seem to realize they were bootleggers.
After the mishap touched off something of a scandal, John Sr. made a rare appearance at church and pointed to Jesus´ words from John 8:7: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
"The religious aspect of the show had to do with the fact that Earl Hamner was talking about a time and a place ... where those issues were very much in play," said Thomas, now a grandfather of four. "I mean, in a small community in the mountains of Virginia in the Depression, if you don´t deal with the church aspect of things, then you don´t deal with things as they were."
Over the show´s long run, the Waltons and their neighbors learned valuable lessons about overcoming differences and treating everyone with love and respect. Those lessons, Cotler said, "are perhaps even more relevant today."
On a personal note, Cotler, a secular Jew, credits grandpa Zeb, played by the late Will Geer, with teaching her how to sing church songs on the show.
Curry, the Kentucky pastor, said "The Waltons" reflected how Jesus often rebukes religious people for hypocrisy in the Bible, while commending an unexpected person - such as a Samaritan who helped a stranger - for showing love and grace.
The show "talked about religion and faith ... in a way that does not demean people," Curry said. "There´s something in there that we are missing today, and it´s the sense of community, of unity, of battling through hard times."
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This photo provided by CBS in September 2022 shows actors in the television series "The Waltons." Bottom row from left are Judy Norton-Taylor, Eric Scott and Mary Elizabeth McDonough. Second row from left are Jon Walmsley, Ellen Corby, Will Geer, Kami Cotler and David W. Harper. Top row from left are Michael Learned, Richard Thomas and Ralph Waite. (CBS Photo Archive via AP)
Richard Thomas participates in the 2017 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees press day at the Sofitel New York hotel on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in New York. Now 71 and starring as lawyer Atticus Finch in a touring production of "To Kill a Mockingbird," the former "The Waltons" star said he still hears fans call "Good night, John-Boy!" after each performance. "It's kind of astonishing that we're still talking about a show 50 years later," he says. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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The Free Two-Day Virtual Event Will Feature Live Q&A Sessions With Seth Godin, the Leaders Behind Basecamp, Drybar, PandaDoc, Liquid Death, Little Spoon, and More!
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. , Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trainual, the leading training management system for small businesses and growing teams, is hosting its third annual Playbook conference geared towards providing small business leaders with valuable advice and lessons from successful entrepreneurs. The free virtual event will take place on September 21-22.
Playbook 2022 will be addressing day-to-day challenges that businesses face, while also discussing today's important issues, trending topics, entrepreneurism, and more. With dozens of speakers - including Seth Godin, Alli Webb, Jason Fried, Allyson & Wes Felix, and Trainual's CEO and co-founder Chris Ronzio - attendees will get the tools they need to level up their people, culture, processes, marketing, and more. In addition, Trainual will be unveiling major product updates to the platform - along with key learnings from customers and employees.
"When I founded my first company, I made a lot of mistakes as many early entrepreneurs do, which is one of the main reasons why we created Playbook," said Chris Ronzio, CEO & Founder of Trainual. "Trainual's Playbook conference is bringing together some of the most successful entrepreneurs who are lending their knowledge, mistakes, and helpful advice to small businesses - completely free for attendees. ROI isn't our goal here. We're giving SMBs the opportunity to learn from some of the best."
The full speaker line-up includes the following for Playbook 2022:
- Seth Godin, a renowned TED Talk speaker, marketing hall of famer, and mastermind behind 20 best-selling books like "Tribes" and "Purple Cow."
- Allyson & Wes Felix, TIME 2021 Most Influential People, Olympic Gold Medalist, Co-founders, Saysh.
- Alli Webb, N.Y. Times Bestselling Author, Canopy President and Co-Founder of Drybar, Squeeze and Becket + Quill.
- Jason Fried, Co-Founder and CEO of Basecamp, Hey, and 37 Signals. Co-author of Rework
- Caitlin Crosby, Founder & CEO, The Giving Keys
- Mikita Mikado, Co-Founder & CEO, PandaDoc
- Mignon Francois, Founder & CEO, The Cupcake Collection
- Lisa Barnett, Co-Founder, President & CMO, Little Spoon
- Connie S. Falls, Founder & CEO, Entrepreneur Life Global
- Candy Valentino, Founder & CEO, Founders Organization
- Chris Ronzio, Founder & CEO, Trainual
- Jonathan Ronzio, CMO & Co-Founder, Trainual
- Dan Tyre, Executive, Hubspot
- Natalie Dao, Director of People, Liquid Death
The agenda for Playbook 2022 can be found here. This is the small business event that you don't want to miss! To Register NOW, please visit https://playbook.trainual.com/#register. We'll see you at Playbook 2022!
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Trainual is a training and knowledge management platform designed to help business teams get people up to speed faster, keep them aligned from anywhere, streamline their systems and processes, and increase productivity. Built with small business budgets and ease of use in mind, Trainual makes online training manuals easy to build and simple to scale. More than 7,500 companies in over 180 countries are building their business playbooks, training their teams, and improving their operations with Trainual.
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Grim up north? Just 40 of the 16,000 £1m+ UK homes are in Lancashire
Just 40 out of the 16,184 properties sold for £1m or more in the UK over the past 12 months were located in Lancashire, according to new research.
As per data analysed by Property Solvers, just 20 homes in Lancaster sold for £1m or more, as well as eight homes in Preston, seven in Blackpool, and five in Blackburn, taking the total value of such purchases to £51,961,310 – a drop in the ocean of the UK total of £27,489,137,202.
Focusing on sales between September 2021 to September 2022, the research uses HM Land Registry sold house price statistics and shows a sharp decrease from the 2020/21 year when 78 such properties were sold for a combined total of £104,828,025 – a 51% decrease.
Unsurprisingly, top of the list of areas with the most £1m+ sales was South West London, where 2,280 such homes were sold for a whopping total of £4,598,608,023. The top-placed location outside of London was Guildford, where 627 such homes were sold for a total of £1,062,265,025, while the top-placed location outside of the South of England was Edinburgh with 259 homes totalling £370,175,395.
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“Such a pronounced drop would suggest that buyer appetite for these types of homes is decreasing,” said Property Solvers co-founder Ruban Selvanayagam. “Million-plus-pound properties, even for the wealthy, are major commitment and indeed affected by the wider economy. “With continued inflationary pressures and rising interest rates as a result, it would not be too much of a surprise to see a continued cooling off across the high-end property market in the coming year at least.”
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Cruise, a self-driving technology company majority owned by General Motors, will expand its fledgling robot taxi service to two more U.S. cities before 2022 is out, CEO Kyle Vogt said Monday during a Goldman Sachs conference, Reuters has reported.
Cruise’s taxi service currently operates in San Francisco, where the company is headed, but will expand to Austin and Phoenix later this year, Vogt said. Phoenix is where Alphabet’s rival Waymo self-driving technology company has been operating a service for the past three years.
Vogt also said he expects Cruise to earn $1 billion in revenues as early as 2025, though that’s still about half what GM annually invests in the company, according to Reuters.
Cruise has been offering rides to the public in San Francisco since February and was granted permission to start charging for rides in June, though the service is limited to between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The taxis are also limited to 30 mph and cover only certain parts of the city. Cruise’s service will also be rolled out in a limited fashion in Austin and Phoenix, Vogt said.
Cruise has about 70 of the taxis in operation in San Francisco but is on track to double or even triple the number by the end of the year. The taxis are based on the Chevrolet Bolt EV, though Cruise plans to eventually add a dedicated vehicle known as the Origin.
It hasn’t been all smooth sailing for Cruise. One of its taxis was involved in a crash in June, resulting in minor injuries. The company later recalled its fleet and made updates to the software.
Cruise’s self-driving system ranks at Level 4 on the SAE scale of self-driving capability, as it is limited in areas in which it operate. The final goal is Level 5, where a self-driving car is able to operate at the same level as a human. While Level 5 might be a decade or more away, companies are already offering commercial services involving Level 4 cars. The Waymo One service has been running successfully in Phoenix for the past three years and is currently testing in San Francisco, and China’s Baidu continues to expand its Apollo Go service in Chinese cities.
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Company Adds Experienced Telecom Executive to Growing Platform
BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fort Point Capital, a Boston-based lower middle market private equity firm focused on growing business services companies, announced today that its portfolio company, CellSite Solutions ("CellSite" or the "Company"), an industry leading provider of telecom infrastructure asset refurbishment and related services, has hired Nick Shanker as the Company's Chief Executive Officer. Shanker has a long history of transformative leadership positions in the telecom industry and takes the reigns of CellSite as the Company accelerates its growth trajectory.
Paul Lipson, Partner at Fort Point Capital, commented, "We're excited to have Nick lead the next phase of CellSite's growth. His relevant expertise in the telecom sector, strategic execution capabilities, and dynamic leadership experience will play a critical role in helping the company achieve its expansion goals."
Shanker most recently served as President of KMM Telecommunications, a provider of supply chain solutions and network services focusing on telecommunications materials management, logistics, construction, and integration services. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Huawaei Technologies, where he was instrumental in formulating and deploying management and sales strategies for new services at Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen, China.
"I am honored to be joining such a high quality telecom infrastructure service provider with long-term customer relationships and a sterling reputation," commented Shanker. "With continued investment in new technologies and aging telecom infrastructure, CellSite has tremendous growth potential ahead and I am thrilled to be a part of it."
Shanker earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Houston.
CellSite Solutions is a leading provider of telecom infrastructure asset refurbishment and related services. The Company's offerings include custom modification and refurbishment of telecom shelters, equipment installation, site planning and design, as well as other maintenance and repair services. To learn more, visit https://cellsitesolutions.com.
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Fort Point Capital is a private equity firm that invests in lower middle market, business services companies in partnership with strong management teams. Fort Point Capital is currently investing from FPC Small Cap Fund II. To learn more, please visit fortpointcapital.com.
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Finding customers, cash flow and financing among top concerns
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rural small businesses face greater challenges to economic recovery and are less optimistic about the future compared to their non-rural counterparts, according to new survey data from SCORE, mentors to America's small businesses.
SCORE's Fall 2022 Megaphone of Main Street: The Small Business Rural/Urban Divide surveyed more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and found that while more than 75% of small businesses surveyed have returned to pre-pandemic levels or better, more than half (53%) of rural entrepreneurs say they feel somewhat or extremely negative about the economy and its impact on their business.
Although customer acquisition remains a challenge for all small businesses, inflation, the overall economy and cash flow are top concerns. In particular, rural entrepreneurs feel more challenged by inflation and supply chain disruptions. Specifically, rural small business owners are:
- 30.2% more likely than non-rural small business owners to cite inflation as one of their top three business concerns
- When compared to non-rural counterparts, are 32.4% more likely to cite supply chain disruptions
Diving deeper, rural small businesses say cash flow is constrained by rising costs for utilities, supplies, labor and capital. Rural entrepreneurs are:
- 9.3% more likely than non-rural small businesses to report higher costs of doing business
- 24.5% more likely to report higher vendor prices, when compared to non-rural entrepreneurs
Compared to their non-rural counterparts, twice as many rural entrepreneurs say there's a lack of local banks in their area from which to seek financing, further limiting their ability to secure funding.
What do rural entrepreneurs need in order to overcome these barriers?
Both rural and non-rural small businesses agree that better access to capital would most help them in the coming year, followed by loan forgiveness or debt relief. Interestingly, rural businesses were 24.5% more likely than non-rural businesses to desire assistance in the form of infrastructure improvements.
Recognizing that rural entrepreneurs face unique challenges, SCORE Bozeman Chapter Chair Rick Sanders notes: "Rural entrepreneurs deal with limited inventories and slow turns; requests for services from a limited pool of trained resources, few government resources and fierce competition from online stores.Thankfully, SCORE is here to connect the dots in rural communities across the country to provide the advice, tools and information rural entrepreneurs really need."
SCORE supports rural small businesses through challenges
"As a small rural business, there are days where it seems like everything is an obstacle to overcome. From dealing with a remote location and lack of WiFi to physically demanding agricultural work and trying to get our products to customers, I can absolutely say that our business would not have grown without our SCORE mentor," said Teddi Maslowski, owner of Birch Creek Farmery in Burgettstown, Pa.
"Our SCORE mentor gave us the groundwork to plan aggressive business projections, make decisions before they are high-pressure, and to continuously monitor the direction we are headed -- all things that are giving us the confidence to rapidly expand our business in an unstable economy," Maslowski adds.
Currently, her business' biggest concern is the increasing cost of product production, but she has strategies in place, including calculations, creative solutions and both short and long term plans to work through this phase, thanks to SCORE, she reports.
SCORE provides tangible solutions for rural entrepreneurs
In response to rural small business challenges, SCORE offers a centralized resource hub, SCORE for Rural Entrepreneurs.
Click here to download the full Megaphone of Main Street: The Small Business Rural/Urban Divide and here for the full infographic.
About SCORE:
Since 1964, SCORE has helped 11 million entrepreneurs start or grow a business. SCORE's 10,000 volunteers provide free mentoring, workshops and educational services to 1,500+ communities nationwide, creating 25,084 new businesses and 71,475 non-owner jobs in 2021 alone. Visit SCORE at www.score.org. Follow @SCOREMentors on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Contact:
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SmartKem, Inc. is a company seeking to reshape the world of electronics with a revolutionary semiconductor platform that enables a new generation of displays.
MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartKem, Inc. (OTCQB: SMTK) is pleased to announce the qualification of SmartKem's TRUFLEX® SL03 photocurable, organic dielectric for use with existing Build-up film (BF) materials as a redistribution layer to interconnect High-Performance Computing (HPC) silicon ICs. The HPC market is projected to grow from $3.60Bn to $4.99Bn from 2022 to 2027, indicating significant opportunity as a result of this qualification.
TRUFLEX® SL03 can be patterned by direct laser writing using Direct Lithography Technology to deliver a maskless process for rapid prototyping, with via hole sizes down to 3.7 Microns diameter, at a low process temperature of 150°C. It is photocurable at 10millijoules/cm2, enabling rapid production throughput. The performance demonstrated in these tests illustrates the potential of this material for the next generation of high-density interconnects. A demonstration of this detailed performance can be seen at the ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) booth, as well as high-resolution line width and high-end panel-level fan-out packaging or advanced IC substrate applications, at SEMICON Taiwan 2022 from 14th-16th of September 2022.
ITRI's booth can be found in N0662 (N Zone), 4F, Tainex1 at SEMICON.
For more information on SEMICON 2022, please visit:
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www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SMTK/overview
About SmartKem
SmartKem is seeking to reshape the world of electronics with a revolutionary semiconductor platform that enables a new generation of displays, sensors and logic. SmartKem's patented TRUFLEX® inks are solution deposited at a low temperature, on low-cost substrates to make organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) circuits. The company's semiconductor platform can be used in a number of applications including mini-LED displays, AMOLED displays, fingerprint sensors and integrated logic circuits. SmartKem develops its materials at its research and development facility in Manchester, UK, and its semiconductor manufacturing process at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) at Sedgefield, UK. The company has an extensive IP portfolio including over 160 patents across 16 patent families. For more information, visit: www.smartkem.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @SmartKemTRUFLEX
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ampio" or the "Company") (NYSE: AMPE).
Class Period: December 29, 2020 – August 3, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 17, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Ampio lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/ampio-pharmaceuticals-inc-1/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants: (1) inflated the Company's true ability to successfully file a Biologics License Application for Ampion; (2) inflated the results of the AP-013 study and the timing of unblinding the data from the AP-013 study; and (3) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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Big breakfast helps curb appetite, but has no effect on weight loss, study finds
(CNN) – Did you enjoy a big breakfast today?
A new study from the University of Aberdeen shows having a hearty breakfast can help curb hunger cravings throughout the day.
However, researchers found big breakfasts doesn’t help people lose weight.
The study looked at 30 people who had big breakfasts for four weeks and then big dinners for another four weeks.
Researchers found no difference in weight loss between the two, but participants reported being less hungry throughout the day after having a hearty meal at the beginning of the day.
This could be a big help for anyone working on overall appetite control.
It is important to note the participants were provided their meals, so the study does not account for whether they would have chosen to eat less or more during each phase of the research.
For more details, check out the study in the journal “Cell Metabolism.”
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Update: Sheriff: Firearm image posted on Erwin school Snapchat threat was 'stock photo'
This story has been updated.
ASHEVILLE - Additional deputies will be at Erwin High School Sept. 13 after "a social media post regarding an individual making threats" that circulated the night before, according to the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office.
"Out of an abundance of caution, additional Deputies will be on campus on Tuesday," a message on the Sheriff's Office's Facebook page says. "Please continue to use the BCS anonymous safety reporting tip line to report any further concerns."
Erwin Middle School will also have more deputies on scene than usual, Buncombe County Schools spokesperson Stacia Harris said.
Buncombe County Schools sent a message to parents and staff on the morning of Sept. 13, Harris said.
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"We want to make you aware that we were alerted Monday evening about a social media rumor that there was an individual making threats related to our school community," the post reads.
"We are working with law enforcement and take all social media chatter seriously. Out of an abundance of caution, we will have extra SROs on site Tuesday. We want to assure you that we appreciate when our students, parents and staff members bring this type of information to our attention. Please continue to use our anonymous safety reporting tip line to report further concerns. Student and staff safety is always our number one concern, and we are confident that this is a case of a rumor that spread quickly through our online community."
In a heavily circulated Snapchat message, someone seemingly threatened to "blow a cap" in anyone at the school. Harris confirmed that the Snapchat message was the threat in question.
Another snap circulating said "Y'all think I'm playing!" and showed a hand holding a gun.
"We can now confirm that the image of the firearm posted on Snapchat was a stock photo," Buncombe County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Aaron Sarver said in an email at 12:32 p.m.
"Sheriff's Office detectives continue to investigate the threat in Erwin School District," an 11:11 a.m. update from the Sheriff's Office read. "We can now confirm that the original image posted on Snapchat was an archive photo. We are utilizing all available resources as our investigation continues. If we determine there is a credible threat, we will take action immediately in addition to the additional officers we have at Erwin HS and Middle Schools. The Sheriff's Office is also monitoring school cameras through our Real-Time Intelligence Center."
Ryan Oehrli is the breaking news and social justice reporter for the Asheville Citizen Times. Send tips to coehrli@citizentimes.com.
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Does the name Iva Toguri D'Aquino ring a bell? What about her more well-known pseudonym of Tokyo Rose?
During World War II, her radio program broadcasted by Imperial Japan was intended to demoralize Allied troops fighting in the Pacific Theater. At least that’s what history would like you to believe — that Ms. Toguri D'Aquino (a Japanese American born and raised in Southern California) was nothing more than a traitor to her nation.
Despite an official pardon from President Gerald Ford in 1977, the damage was already done. Her name was smeared, forever associated with sedition. A new graphic novel, Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour, seeks to reframe the narrative with a moving portrait of Iva’s personal life and wartime experiences. The book, which raised over $8,000 on Kickstarter in 2020 officially goes on sale from Tuttle Publishing next week.
“Ironically, as much as Iva embodied and cherished her American roots, she was also the victim of how America viewed people of her cultural background at the time (and sadly how it still views many of its own people today),” says writer Andre Frattino (Simon Says). “Iva was torn between two cultures and two identities, and I think that can be something many people will relate to.”
While visiting extended family in Japan, Iva found herself stuck there following the attack on Peal Harbor in December 1941. She eventually got a job with the Japan Broadcasting Corporation and became the voice of Zero Hour on the recommendation of POW, Major Charles Cousens, a well-known radio personality in Australia. Conspiring together, the duo created sarcastic propaganda right under the enemy’s nose that did not demoralize soldiers, but inspired them to tune in week after week.
“I read everything I could find on the case against Iva Toguri and the Tokyo Rose scandal,” Frattino says of his research process. “In the media following the war, ‘Tokyo Rose’ was a disembodied spirit who singsonged through the radio in old war movies to reflect the Japanese enemy. That's where I first learned of the character, but unfortunately the history of Iva is scant. Yet the documents and books I found provided consistent and eyebrow raising details...so much so, that it was easy to visualize the moments in comic form!”
“As an American, the visual research for this period in Japanese history can be hard to find reliably,” adds illustrator Kate Kasenow (Form of a Question). “I wanted to make sure I was depicting the time period and the people as accurately as I could. There were many countless internet searches and probably too many bad Google translates along the way, but I'm proud of how it all turned out.”
After the war ended, Iva agreed to participate in an interview that came back to haunt her. A need for sensationalist journalism and the sleazy political capital saw her branded as a turncoat. She was put on trial in 1949 and sentenced to a decade in prison, though would later be paroled after six years for good behavior. Even so, it cost her everything: her husband, the child growing in her womb, and the chance to lead a normal life.
“Undoubtedly, Iva was scapegoated for being Japanese and not engaging in treasonous activities,” says letterer Janice Chiang, who penned an extremely powerful foreword that opens the graphic novel. “During the pandemic and present times, hate crimes have escalated against people of Asian descent, causing death and injuries. I believe the xenophobia perpetrated by specific segments of the population drives ignorant people into aggressive actions. How this becomes successful is the practice of dehumanizing people of color by stereotyping us as less deserving of respect and dignity. Somehow viewing us as outside the human race.”
Zero Hour touches on the mistreatment of Japanese Americans during the conflict with a reference to Executive Order 9066, which saw U.S. citizens removed from their homes and transported to deplorable internment camps.
“This is hurtful to write because I’ve experienced and still experience this hate,” adds Chiang (her comic book resume also includes team-ups with filmmaker John Carpenter and the late Marvel icon, Stan Lee). “The story of Iva Toguri’s life needs to be taught as our American history and not a separate chapter of an unfortunate situation. As with any acquisition of knowledge, we need to study what came before, what we understand now, and then we may proceed forward.”
In addition to recruiting Chiang for the project, Frattino also sought the input of early Asian American readers. He recalls how his initial inclination was to launch the book on Dec. 7 to coincide with the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Not only would it be a nod to his grandfather — who was stationed there during the attack — but it would also signify “the day Iva's world changed forever.”
However, the writer was soon “informed that many Japanese Americans view that as a black day, because it marked a terrible future for the way they were perceived by their country during and after the war. No matter how much I did my homework and tried to be mindful of the subject matter, this book would have been NOTHING without the collaborative and supportive partnership of our AAPI volunteer readers!”
Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour goes on sale from Tuttle Publishing Tuesday, Sep. 20.
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Cruise, a self-driving technology company majority owned by General Motors, will expand its fledgling robotaxi service to two more U.S. cities before 2022 is out, CEO Kyle Vogt said Monday during a Goldman Sachs conference, Reuters has reported.
Cruise’s taxi service currently operates in San Francisco, where the company is headed, but will expand to Austin and Phoenix later this year, Vogt said. Phoenix is where Alphabet’s rival Waymo self-driving technology company has been operating a service for the past three years.
Vogt also said he expects Cruise to earn $1 billion in revenues as early as 2025, though that’s still about half what GM annually invests in the company, according to Reuters.
Cruise has been offering rides to the public in San Francisco since February and was granted permission to start charging for rides in June, though the service is limited to between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The taxis are also limited to 30 mph and cover only certain parts of the city. Cruise’s service will also be rolled out in a limited fashion in Austin and Phoenix, Vogt said.
Cruise has about 70 of the taxis in operation in San Francisco but is on track to double or even triple the number by the end of the year. The taxis are based on the Chevrolet Bolt EV, though Cruise plans to eventually add a dedicated vehicle known as the Origin.
It hasn’t been all smooth sailing for Cruise. One of its taxis was involved in a crash in June, resulting in minor injuries. The company later recalled its fleet and made updates to the software.
Cruise’s self-driving system ranks at Level 4 on the SAE scale of self-driving capability, as it is limited in areas in which it operate. The final goal is Level 5, where a self-driving car is able to operate at the same level as a human. While Level 5 might be a decade or more away, companies are already offering commercial services involving Level 4 cars. The Waymo One service has been running successfully in Phoenix for the past three years and is currently testing in San Francisco, and China’s Baidu continues to expand its Apollo Go service in Chinese cities.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Everyone is wearing face masks and worried about being separated by 6 feet from each other," said an inventor from Bellevue, Wash., "so I invented the 6 FOOT MASK SHIELD ROBOT."
The patent-pending invention provides hands free protection from airborne viral contagions and pathogen-laden aerosols and assists with maintaining 6-foot social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. It eliminates having to take face shield or mask off and on with its effective design. The face shield is easy to use and provides peace of mind. The inventor has created a prototype.
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-2401, 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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