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BRUSSELS — The European Union unveiled plans Wednesday to ban products made with forced labor, in an effort to crack down on a modern-day form of slavery that a U.N. agency estimated affects more than 27 million people worldwide.
The move does not target specific companies, industries or countries.
“Our aim is to eliminate all products made with forced labor from the EU market, irrespective of where they have been made. Our ban will apply to domestic products, exports and imports alike,” commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said.
The EU’s executive arm defines forced labor as a situation where a person is coerced to work through violence or intimidation, or in more indirect ways by having their debt manipulated, their identity papers stolen or being threatened with denunciation to immigration authorities.
Under the plans, the commission would set up and operate a public database containing information about suspect products and practices. EU countries would designate an authority to enforce the rules, and customs officers would have responsibility for ensuring compliance at the bloc’s borders.
The aim is to focus on high-risk products. Investigations would be launched if national authorities believe forced labor may have been used. Suspected cases involving bigger operators that make the most products would be the preferred target, rather than small businesses.
If a product made with forced labor is already sold in the EU, the company involved would be required to pull it off the market and dispose of it. If the company refuses, it would face penalties under the law of the country it operates in.
Europe’s main union umbrella organization, the European Trade Union Confederation, welcomed the plans.
“Many of the people in forced labor are manufacturing goods destined for sale in Europe, so a properly enforced ban should cripple the profits of the criminals behind these violations,” ETUC Deputy General-Secretary Claes-Mikael Stahl said.
The International Labour Organization estimated that in 2021 around 27.6 million people were forced to work on any given day, including 3.3 million children. Women and girls accounted for 11.8 million of that number.
Textiles, mining and agriculture are among the industries most notorious for the practice.
The commission’s proposal must now be debated by the EU member countries and the European Parliament. The rules would enter force two years after an agreement is concluded.
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WILMINGTON, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One thing is certain--everybody dies. The Funeral Consumers Alliance North Carolina (FCANC) is helping make the inevitable less intimidating by hosting Death Expo 2022.
Free and open to the public, Death Expo 2022 will feature topics, speakers, panelists and exhibitors on death and dying, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., at The Moseley Center, Elon University, 100 Campus Drive in Elon, North Carolina.
FCANC is a statewide, all-volunteer, nonprofit organization focused on education and advocacy to protect consumers' rights in choosing meaningful, affordable funerals.
This day-long event seeks to remove the stigma of death by providing information and resources to anyone exploring and planning one's own final arrangements or those of a loved one.
"Professionals, experts and volunteers within the deathcare industry will inspire, inform, and provide the public with everything necessary for their environmental, cost-friendly end-of-life needs" says Sara Williams, FCANC president. "This is an opportunity to meet local death doulas and learn about aquamation, natural burials, organ donations and more."
Organizers are asking those who plan to attend the free Death Expo to register at www.funeralsNC.org. Pre-orders for an optional paid box lunch ($10) are also available upon registration.
Death Expo Speakers include:
- A special message from Caitlin Doughty, Los Angeles mortician, New York Times best-selling author, blogger, YouTube sensation and advocate for death acceptance.
- Mallory McDuff, professor of Environmental Education, Warren Wilson College, and author of Our Last Best Act.
- Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance.
- Tanya Marsh, professor of law, Wake Forest University and author of The Law of Human Remains.
Two panel discussions will be presented. What Will I Do with My Body When I Die? considers options other than burials and cremations and Dishin' with the Death Doulas features local death doulas and their roles assisting with the dying process.
Visit www.funeralsNC.org/deathexpo
FCANC is a grassroots, all volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on funeral consumer education and advocacy. Known as "the Consumer Reports" of the state funeral industry, FCANC protects consumers' rights to choose a meaningful and affordable funeral. Visit www.funeralsnc.org
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More than 30 congressional Democrats on Tuesday called on federal agencies to address what they deemed as “misguided” school safety policies aimed at preventing school shootings.
In a letter to the Department of Justice, Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services, House lawmakers said the government has failed to protect schoolchildren and families in the wake of at least 30 school shootings this year, including the May tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
“Schools are supposed to be safe havens for children, parents, educators, custodial and cafeteria
staff, and communities. But for far too many people they are not,” the letter reads. “We are deeply troubled by the inability to keep our children and communities safe, the bedrock on which any country rests. It is time to undo the harm and trauma tragedies like the Uvalde massacre leave behind in our schools and with our children.”
The letter was signed by prominent House Democrats, including Reps. Cori Bush (Mo.), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Andre Carson (Ind.).
House lawmakers said federal, state and local agencies have failed the American public by focusing school safety prevention efforts on hiring, retaining and funding school resource officers, an approach they called “counterproductive and harmful.”
Representatives pointed to the Community Oriented Policing Services in Schools Program (COPS), which has primarily supported community policing initiatives since 1995 but has also led to the hiring of 590 school resource officers (SROs) across 289 communities. For fiscal 2023, the Biden administration has requested increased funds for the COPS budget.
The Democrats argued that schools with armed SROs have higher rates of death and also more youth expulsions and arrests. They also pointed to the more than 300 officers who responded to the Uvalde school shooting, but who failed to act for more than an hour while a gunman had locked himself into two adjoining classrooms with children who were still alive.
“Armed officers in schools are, at best, an inadequate response to violence that has already
occurred, not a prevention strategy,” lawmakers wrote.
Since the 1999 shooting at Columbine, school shootings have soared, reaching an all-time high of 251 last year, according to the K-12 school shooting database. Despite the rise, major gun control legislation was tied up until the first major federal gun control bill in decades was passed this year after the Uvalde shooting.
Over the years, school shooting prevention methods have largely revolved around bolstering school security, including security technology and emergency plans.
Gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety says among the most effective ways to prevent school shootings is to address violence at its earliest stages and block access to firearms.
Lawmakers on Tuesday proposed more programs to support students, including mental health resources, but they requested the federal agencies to conduct a review of what is most appropriate.
“We urge you to break this cycle of violence and recommit to public health and safety strategies that will ensure our schools are safe for all students,” they wrote in the letter. “This requires thinking comprehensively about violence in our schools to ensure that we prevent violence – by resolving the root causes of conflict that can escalate into violence – not simply remedy its impact.”
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President Biden on Monday will announce the director of a new agency focused on biomedical innovation and sign an executive order on biotechnologies as part of an update on his administration’s efforts to cure cancer.
Biden will travel to Boston on the 60th anniversary of former President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot” speech at Rice University, where Kennedy outlined his goal for the United States to land a man on the moon.
The president will provide an update on his administration’s “Cancer Moonshot,” an initiative he relaunched in February with the goal to cut the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years and improve the lives of caregivers and cancer survivors.
Biden on Monday will announce the appointment of Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an agency created in March focused on developing biomedical technologies to improve health outcomes.
The president will also sign an executive order launching a national biotechnology and biomanufacturing initiative. The order will bolster research and aim to solidify supply chains so that biotechnologies used in the fight against cancer are developed and produced in the U.S., according to a White House fact sheet.
“This initiative is rooted in the principles of equity, ethics, safety, and security that will help benefit all Americans and the global community, and maintain United States technological leadership and economic competitiveness,” the White House said.
Biden will also give an update on the progress of his “Cancer Cabinet,” a group of advisers and administration officials tasked with securing funding and developing treatments for cancer.
The president will highlight recent developments like the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act by Democrats in Congress, which includes provisions to lower prescription drug costs, some of which are used to treat certain forms of cancer.
He will also note the launch of a National Cancer Institute study aimed at identifying blood tests that can detect one or more cancers with the goal of earlier detection in cancer patients.
Before the speech on Monday, Biden will make remarks on the investments in the bipartisan infrastructure law in Boston.
The cause of ending cancer has been personal for Biden, whose son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. The president has talked about ending cancer throughout his campaign and presidency, saying it would be a priority for him. He has also framed it as a bipartisan effort, meeting with members of both parties at the White House last year to discuss the effort.
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A North American leading city builder further demonstrates its commitment to enhancing neighbourhoods across the GTA with the introduction of a new collection of housing development projects
TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Vandyk Properties, a North American leading city builder in real estate development and investments, unveils today The Legacy CollectionTM. Paying homage to the company's roots and commitment to constant evolution, The Legacy Collection consists of carefully curated communities, with a mix of townhomes, semi-detached, and single-family homes with design-forward thinking and life-inspiring interiors in prime GTA locations. Three projects under this collection are anticipated to be unveiled this fall through 2023, further supporting the company's commitment to creating interconnected, family oriented, sustainable and forward-thinking communities.
"Vandyk Properties' roots are in creating ground-related premium communities; it's where we began," says John Vandyk, President & CEO of Vandyk Properties. "Our Legacy Collection pays respect to just that - our beginnings and an exciting development offering that we're bringing back with the goal of re-inspiring neighbourhoods across the GTA."
The Legacy Collection offers new housing opportunities to a growing GTA population. All developments within this collection are optimally situated and located in already established neighbourhoods, allowing the opportunity for families to set their roots by investing in a community for years to come. The first project within the collection, The Ravine is set to be unveiled in Mississauga this fall, a residential development located in the picturesque neighbourhood of Meadowvale Village.
The Ravine is a community comprised of 37 luxury detached homes, on permit-ready freehold lots backing onto Fletcher's Creek. The detached homes will feature up to five bedrooms and up to 4,000 square feet of living space as well as finished ground level spaces with separate entrances offering flexibility to a variety of families lifestyles. This exclusive enclave community will be located south of Derry Road West, between McLaughlin Road and Hurontario Street, in the highly desirable Meadowvale Village Neighborhood. This affluent residential community will be in close proximity to prime amenities, including excellent academic schools, modern conveniences and major highways and roads.
Having already established a track record of success in being one of the best-in-class real estate operators in North America, Vandyk Properties seeks to continue to be a leader within the category of residential property development.
For further information about The Ravine, register for updates and launch details at www.vandyk.com/theravine.
If you would like to be notified about future communities under The Legacy CollectionTM register at www.vandyk.com/legacycollection.
Vandyk Properties is a privately owned real estate development and investment management company with over 40 years of expertise in the North American real estate property sector. As real estate development experts, Vandyk is committed to creating sustainable neighbourhoods, comprehensively considering each project as a reinvestment within the community. As an investment management company, the company's diversified real estate operations are focussed on strategic growth; building long-term relationships with investors while carefully curating a first-class real estate portfolio representing $1 billion in completed value creation and $4.5 billion in owned assets under development.
For more information about Vandyk Properties, visit vandyk.com
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will investigate whether former President Trump’s Justice Department attempted to use the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office to prosecute his critics and protect his allies, the panel’s chairman said.
“These reported claims indicate astonishing and unacceptable deviations from the Department’s mission to pursue impartial justice, which requires that its prosecutorial decisions be free from political influence,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Durbin cites a New York Times report detailing allegations from a new book by Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who served for two years under Trump and had previously volunteered on his 2016 campaign and transition team.
Berman has said that Trump appointees pressured the office to go after Trump’s critics and to shield Trump and his allies — and has argued that he worked to resist those efforts.
Berman has alleged he was fired by former U.S. Attorney General William Barr because his work was a threat to Trump’s reelection chances and that Trump’s Justice Department pushed him to indict Gregory Craig, the White House counsel for former President Obama, even after the Manhattan office found no reason to charge him.
On a media tour ahead of his new book’s release, Berman has also said he was pressured to criminally investigate former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Durbin noted that Berman “contends that Department officials pressured his office to remove references to President Trump from the charging document for Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer, as well as later attempts by Attorney General Barr himself to reverse Mr. Cohen’s conviction and stop related investigations entirely.”
The allegations “compound the already serious concerns” about Barr’s 2020 efforts “to replace Mr. Berman with a Trump loyalist,” Durbin wrote.
Trump fired Berman in 2020 after he refused to resign.
Durbin, in the letter to Garland, requested a number of documents and communications between the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, saying that “if accurate, Mr. Berman’s claims indicate multiple instances of political interference in the Department’s investigative and prosecutorial decisions.”
Berman’s new book, “Holding the Line,” is scheduled for publication Tuesday.
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The Biden administration next month will place new restrictions on U.S. shipments of semiconductor chips and chipmaking equipment to China, according to Reuters.
The Commerce Department will formalize new rules prohibiting the shipment of chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories that produce advanced semiconductors, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
U.S. companies seeking to export the equipment must obtain a Commerce Department license.
Three U.S. companies — KLA Corp., Lam Research Corp., and Applied Materials Inc. — already operate under the restrictions as directed by the Commerce Department.
The Hill has reached out to the Commerce Department for comment.
Semiconductor chips power most electrical systems and machines, from appliances to computers, vehicles and modern weapons.
Over the summer, the U.S. passed the Chips and Science Act, seeking to increase America’s competitive with China in the semiconductor industry with $50 billion in funding for the industry.
Last month, as tensions soared between the U.S. and China over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)’s visit to Taiwan, the U.S. began restricting the export of high-end graphics computer chips to Russia, China and Hong Kong.
Chipmaking company Nvidia, based in California, said the U.S. began requiring a license to export chips that are better than or equal to its A100 graphics card to those three countries. A similar restriction was reportedly applied to the company Advanced Micro Devices.
According to Reuters, the Commerce Department will formalize the licensing rule for exporting the highly advanced semiconductor chips next month.
China has demanded the U.S. drop the requirement, which affects data centers, artificial intelligence systems and other equipment that requires highly advanced chips.
The U.S. was once responsible for producing 37 percent of global semiconductor chips, but is now responsible for just 12 percent of production, according to the White House.
The Commerce Department announced last week it was planning to spend about $28 billion of the newly approved funding for grants, subsidies and loans to boost domestic production of key computer chips.
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Randolph, Clay and Quitman Counties Latest to Step Up Rural EMS/911
Services with Unique Public-Private Partnership with AmeriPro Health
ATLANTA, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AmeriPro Health LLC, a portfolio of healthcare companies committed to making patient logistics and last-mile healthcare delivery more efficient and valuable, today announced that three more rural Georgia counties have voted to transfer their EMS/911 services to AmeriPro EMS, an innovative operator of high-quality ambulance, mobile integrated health, and patient logistics services in the Southeastern United States. Implementation will take place over the next several months once the contracts are finalized.
"Rural America is struggling across the nation to meet the needs of their citizens with Emergency Services and provide access to affordable and sustainable health care," said Larry Richardson, Chief Business Officer at AmeriPro Health. "We are the answer to those struggles."
AmeriPro Health brings many benefits to rural communities, including state of the art ambulance services, increased clinical and diagnostic capabilities, last-mile health care and a unique public-private partnership with local healthcare providers and hospital facilities in the region.
"Clay County is a small rural community, so when they closed our nearest community hospital back in 2020, we became very dependent upon EMS services for our emergency healthcare needs," said James Davenport, Chairman of Clay County Georgia. "Unfortunately, under the current system, we were not receiving quality, reliable care. By joining forces with our surrounding communities and contracting with AmeriPro, we will be able to provide our community state-of-the-art, reliable EMS and emergency healthcare services."
"We look forward to a long-lasting, symbiotic relationship with AmeriPro Health," said Carvel Lewis, Chairman of Quitman County, Georgia. "Despite the economic woes of our area in Southwest Georgia, AmeriPro will enable us to improve the quality of life for our residents and strengthen our mission to improve economic development in our county and region."
In general, rural American has fewer opportunities, fewer resources, and less access to good health care, so by utilizing the AmeriPro Health broad service offerings, communities can gain better access to sustainable health care. AmeriPro strategically aligns with government counterparts to build better access to health care beyond the existing level of transportation services.
"Rural America should not have to compromise on health care," adds Richardson "Through these strategic public-private partnerships and collaboration with the local health care facilities, we can design a long-term sustainable solution to the challenges of rural America and provide an elevated level of Emergency Medical Services and better access to health care to counties like Randolph, Clay and Quitman County. We look forward to working with other rural communities in our country to fill the void and lack of quality healthcare. It is opportunities like these that allow us to bring additional service offerings like acute care to communities that have not had access to these services in the past and help provide a sustainable healthcare ecosystem."
AmeriPro Health is the new parent company of AmeriPro EMS. The company plans to continue expansion into other areas supporting its mission of patient centered, value-based services to provide sophisticated emergency, critical care and non-emergency medical transport and patient logistics. For more information about AmeriPro Health, please visit www.ameriprohealth.com.
AmeriPro Health LLC is a portfolio of healthcare companies committed to making patient logistics and last-mile healthcare delivery more efficient and valuable. These sophisticated emergency, critical care and non-emergency medical transport, patient logistics and high touch home centered care companies offer a complement of services across the entire patient care continuum that delivers better patient outcomes, more efficient care, and unprecedented access to the right care, in the right place, at the right time. Through its portfolio of companies, AmeriPro Health offers a customizable suite of patient-centered, value-based services to meet and exceed the needs of communities, health systems, health plans and employers. As an innovator in last-mile healthcare, our adaptability and foresight allow our companies to execute rapidly to meet the transformational needs of our customers.
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Paulette Brown
Carabiner Communications
+1 770.714.0678
pbrown@carabinercomms.com
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- The most awarded SUV ever – the Jeep® Grand Cherokee – commemorates three decades of fun, freedom and adventure with the introduction of the 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary edition
- With more than 7 million vehicles sold since the Grand Cherokee's initial debut, the 30th Anniversary Grand Cherokee celebrates the growth of the premium SUV over the past three decades, when it first broke onto the scene by crashing through a window at Cobo Hall
- Today, the Grand Cherokee lineup has evolved into an entire family of vehicles, including the new three-row Grand Cherokee L, the two-row Grand Cherokee and first-ever electrified Grand Cherokee 4xe, which delivers 56 MPGe and 25 miles all-electric range
- Grand Cherokee has been proudly built in Detroit for 30 years, first launching at Jefferson North Assembly Plant in 1992, then at the all-new Detroit Assembly Complex - Mack Plant in 2021
- Company honors commitment to City, hiring nearly 3,300 Detroiters to work at Mack
- Special-edition Grand Cherokee 30th Anniversary pairs 4xe electrification with legendary Jeep 4x4 capability with unique blacked-out exterior details, sleek interior accents and amenities, plus several standard safety and security features
- Orders for the 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary edition will open later this year at a U.S. manufacturer's suggested retail price of $4,700 for the package
- The special-edition Grand Cherokee 4xe will be on display at the 2022 North American International Auto Show in Detroit Sept. 17-25, 2022
The Jeep® brand is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of most awarded SUV ever with the debut of the 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary edition today at the Detroit Auto Show at Huntington Place hosted by the NAIAS.
"When the original Jeep Grand Cherokee debuted in 1992 by famously crashing through the glass at Cobo Hall, it literally shattered expectations and redefined what a premium SUV could be," said Jim Morrison, senior vice president and head of Jeep brand North America. "Three decades later and more than 7 million Grand Cherokees sold, the most awarded SUV ever is still forging new ground with the electrified plug-in-hybrid 4xe model. The Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary edition underscores how far the Grand Cherokee has come and is yet another example of the Jeep brand's goal to be the electrification leader in SUVs."
The 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary special edition represents the most technologically advanced and 4x4-capable Jeep Grand Cherokee yet, delivering 25 miles of all-electric range and 56 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) from a hybrid system that delivers 375 hp and 470 lb.-ft. of torque and max towing of 6,000 lbs.
On the exterior, the Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary special edition features a unique blacked-out exterior appearance with a modified front fascia, signature blue tow hooks, dual exhaust, dual pane sunroof, new 20-inch black wheels, special-edition badging and body-color rear fascia, lower moldings, sill claddings and wheel flares.
Inside, the special-edition Grand Cherokee 4xe features black Capri leather seats, ventilated front seats, wireless charging pad, nine-speaker Alpine audio system and Uconnect 5 with a 10.1-inch touchscreen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, plus navigation with 3D graphics. Other standard features include front/rear park assist, Intersection Collision Assist, passive entry, rain-sensing windshield wipers, digital rearview mirror and 360-degree surround view camera system.
Available for a limited time, the 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary edition has a U.S. manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $4,700 for the package and opens for orders later this year, with vehicles scheduled to begin arriving to Jeep dealers by early 2023.
The 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe 30th Anniversary edition will be on display at the 2022 North American International Auto Show in Detroit during public days, Sept. 17-25, 2022.
The fifth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe is the first Grand Cherokee to offer a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) variant. Its introduction signals the continued growth of the Jeep brand's electrified mission of Zero Emission Freedom, as the brand explores future mobility. The 4xe technology enhances the fun, freedom and adventure that the Jeep brand is known for, while providing unprecedented performance, fuel economy and environmental friendliness.
The 2023 Grand Cherokee 4xe offers 25 miles of all-electric range and 56 MPGe from a PHEV system that delivers 375 hp, 470 lb.-ft. of torque and max towing of 6,000 lbs. The Grand Cherokee 4xe comes standard with a two-speed transfer case, 2.72:1 low-range gear ratio and 47.4:1 crawl ratio. The Trail Rated Grand Cherokee 4xe delivers up to 10.9 inches of ground clearance and 24 inches of water-fording capability. The Grand Cherokee 4xe's E Selec modes – Hybrid, Electric and eSave – allow the 4xe driver to tailor the hybrid powertrain to best suit each trip, whether it be commuting, off-roading or long-distance travel.
The Grand Cherokee 4xe comes standard with the class-leading 4x4 Selec-Terrain traction management system, which offers five available terrain modes (Auto, Sport, Rock, Snow, Mud/Sand) to provide optimized calibrations for any given driving scenario.
With premium styling and craftsmanship inside and out, the entire Jeep Grand Cherokee lineup has more than 110 advanced safety and security features, including an impressive amount of standard safety features, plus available driver-assist systems, 360-degree surround view, drowsy driver detection and night vision cameras. Segment-leading technologies include a 10.25-inch front passenger screen, rear-seat monitoring camera system, rear-seat entertainment displays with built-in Amazon Fire TV, premium 19-speaker, 950-watt McIntosh audio system and the award-winning Uconnect 5 infotainment system with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
Established legacy of luxurious, capable Jeep SUVs
Built on more than 80 years of legendary heritage, every Jeep vehicle has a remarkable lineage and unique personality. Each is authentic with class-leading capability and versatility. The Jeep Grand Cherokee is no exception. The debut of the original Grand Cherokee set the industry benchmark for luxury and capability and ushered in five celebrated generations that have made the Grand Cherokee the most awarded SUV in history.
First-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee (ZJ): 1993-1998
The Jeep Grand Cherokee made its famous debut by crashing through the convention center entrance at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 7, 1992. The first SUV equipped with a driver-side air bag, it set new standards for on-road ride, handling and comfort in an SUV. The 105.9-inch-wheelbase Grand Cherokee took refinement to a new level. A new Quadra-Coil suspension featured a coil/multilink configuration. A 5.2-liter V-8 engine was offered as an option and a Dana 44 rear axle was available for some models.
Second-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee (WJ): 1999-2004
The WJ was a complete redesign. Only 127 parts carried over from its predecessor. A larger cabin with more room for rear passengers and larger doors increased comfort, and location of the controls for the driver were more conveniently located. A new feature included the automatic four-wheel-drive option (Quadra-Drive) with a new transfer case. This two-speed, chain-driven transfer case used a gerotor, a clutch pack coupled to a hydraulic pump, to transfer torque between the front and rear axles. The transfer case contained three modes: 4-Lo, Neutral and 4-All Time (with 100 percent of torque distributed to the rear axle under normal conditions).
Third-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee (WK): 2005-2010
A complete redesign of the ZJ/WJ, the all-new WK Grand Cherokee combined power, luxury and a significantly quieter, more comfortable ride. Jeep engineers worked hard to improve on-road refinement by adding a short/long-arm independent front suspension. The ground-up transformation continued with a choice of three power plants, including the mighty 330-horsepower 5.7-liter HEMI® V-8 engine. The 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 featured a 6.1-liter HEMI V-8 with 420 horsepower and 420 lb.-ft. of torque, 20-inch lightweight forged wheels and four-piston Brembo brakes. The available full-time Quadra-Drive II 4x4 system featured front and rear limited slip differentials and a center differential-lock that operated in low-range.
Fourth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee (WK2): 2011-2022
All-new for 2011 and more than 4 million sales after the introduction of the first Grand Cherokee, Jeep improved the formula to deliver an ideal blend of on-road refinement and off-road capability, with improved fuel economy, a world-class interior, a sleek new exterior design and a host of safety and technology features. A Trailhawk model was introduced in 2017 with standard Quadra-Lift air suspension, the Quadra-Drive II 4x4 system, all-terrain tires and a Skid Plate Package. The new Trackhawk was released as the quickest and most powerful SUV ever. It boasted a supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V-8 engine, modified engine cooling, high-performance Brembo brake system and Launch mode for incredible track performance.
Fifth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee (WL): 2021-present
As the most awarded SUV ever, the Jeep Grand Cherokee lineup spans five generations and now includes an all-new two-row, an electrified plug-in-hybrid 4xe model and the first-ever three-row Grand Cherokee L. The Grand Cherokee L debuted in 2021 to meet the growing needs of Jeep customers who have asked for more space, functionality and legendary 4x4 capability. Designed to maximize overall passenger comfort, the Grand Cherokee L delivers uncompromised third-row capacity and increased cargo volume with seating for up to seven passengers. The vehicle's expanded wheelbase creates generous interior room and gives passengers expansive, class-leading legroom in the second row.
The Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit has been the production home of the Jeep Grand Cherokee for 30 years. In 2021, production launched at a second all-new assembly plant in the city to help meet the demand for the legendary SUV and expand its product offerings, including an electrified model. The two plants now operate as the Detroit Assembly Complex.
With an investment of $1.6 billion, Stellantis converted the two plants that comprised the former Mack Avenue Engine Complex and built a new paint shop to become the assembly site for the fifth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee, Grand Cherokee L and the PHEV Grand Cherokee 4xe model. Additionally, the company committed to putting Detroiters first in the application process for the 3,850 new jobs that were created. As of July 31, 2022, 3,292 Detroiters have been hired to work at Mack, with nearly 350 from the three zip codes surrounding the plant.
Jefferson North recently completed a $900 million retooling and equipment upgrade program to enable production of the next-generation Grand Cherokee.
Built on more than 80 years of legendary heritage, Jeep is the authentic SUV brand that brings capability, craftsmanship and versatility to people who seek extraordinary journeys. The Jeep brand delivers an open invitation to live life to the fullest by offering a broad portfolio of vehicles that continues to provide owners with a sense of safety and security to handle any journey with confidence. The Jeep vehicle range consists of the Cherokee, Compass, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee, new three-row Grand Cherokee L, Grand Cherokee 4xe, Renegade and Wrangler and Wrangler 4xe. Jeep Wave, a premium owner loyalty and customer care program that is available to the entire Jeep 4x4 lineup, is filled with benefits and exclusive perks to deliver Jeep brand owners the utmost care and dedicated 24/7 support. The legendary Jeep brand's off-road capability is enhanced by a global electrification initiative that is transforming 4xe into new 4x4 in pursuit of the brand's vision of accomplishing Zero Emission Freedom. All Jeep brand vehicles will offer an electrified variant by 2025.
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Social media drives new and innovative partnerships in an industry forecast to more than double in value to over $53 billion by 2030
STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SponsorUnited, the leading global sports and entertainment intelligence platform has released its first-ever Music Artist Marketing Partnerships Report 2022. The report delivers an in-depth analysis of over 2,100 brands and 1,100 deals from July 2021-July 2022, unlocks 10 major music genres and tells the stories of nearly 600 artists.
Key findings from the report include:
- The Most Sponsored Artists – According to SponsorUnited's data, the top-5 most sponsored artists, in order, were: Bon Iver, Steve Aoki, Saweetie, Snoop Dogg, and J. Balvin. These five had the most brand deals and beat out nearly 500 other artists in total.
- Apparel & Fashion Dominate – On average, music stars teamed up with more than two brands in the last 12 months, which was higher than athletes. In terms of volume of sponsorships, the music industry partnered with fashion brands the most, followed by technology, social causes, CPG, and alcohol brands.
- Pop Wins the Most Deals – The Pop music category saw the most brand sponsorships, with 453 brands participating. The brands that sponsored the pop genre the most were Coca-Cola, Nintendo, Samsung, Grubhub, and Taco Bell. Rap and Hip-Hop was in second (275 brands), with Pepsi, McDonalds, Nintendo, Hugo Boss, and Beats by Dre leading on the number of partnerships. Country was in third-place, with the top-5 brand sponsors being St. Jude's, T-Mobile, Walmart, Dodge Ram, and Anheuser-Busch.
- T-Mobile Hits Every Note – T-Mobile was the only brand on the SponsorUnited platform with sponsorships across six different music genres, though the wireless giant was most active in Country, with deals with Dolly Parton, Chris Young, Old Dominion, and more.
- TikTok is a Key Deal Channel – Music artists on TikTok have gained nearly one billion followers this year (though Instagram remains #1 with 1.5B). Of the top-5 most followed musicians on TikTok, only Billie Eilish is without a branded post. Selena Gomez, Karol G, Lil Nas X, and Ariana Grande have all posted sponsored content, showcasing how much of an opportunity the fast-growing platform has become for brands and artists.
- Beyonce Wins on Social – In terms of branded and sponsored social content, of the top-25 artists with the most post engagement, 20 were female, with Beyonce seeing the most engagement overall, with a whopping 2.8M engagements per branded post.
For more exclusive insights and access to the complete report, download the SponsorUnited Music Artist Marketing Partnerships Report at SponsorUnited.com.
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By connecting the entire sponsorship ecosystem through the most comprehensive data available anywhere, SponsorUnited is fueling smarter partnerships.
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President Biden on Monday pitched his “cancer moonshot” initiative as a bipartisan pursuit that should bring Americans together, comparing it to former President Kennedy’s famous “moonshot” initiative.
“Cancer does not discriminate red and blue. It doesn’t care if you’re Republican or a Democrat. Beating cancer is something we can do together, and that’s why I’m here today,” Biden said at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
His speech was delivered on the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s “moonshot” speech at Rice University in Houston, during which he outlined his plan for the U.S. to become an international leader in space exploration.
“Unwilling to postpone, President Kennedy set a goal to win the space race against Russia and advance science and technology for all of humanity,” he said.
“Together, we can choose to move forward with unity, hope and optimism. And I believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone, the same national purpose that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, to end cancer as we know it and even cure cancers once and for all,” he added.
Biden called the initiative “bold, ambitious” and “completely doable.”
The initiative, which he relaunched in February, aims to cut the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years and improve the lives of caregivers and cancer survivors.
Biden announced on Monday the appointment of Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an agency created in March focused on developing biomedical technologies to improve health outcomes.
Additionally, he signed an executive order launching a national biotechnology and biomanufacturing initiative that ensures that advanced biotechnology invented in the U.S. is also manufactured in the U.S.
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Sarasota School Board approves $1.4 billion budget. Reduced tax rate approved in 3-2 vote
The Sarasota County School Board approved a $1.4 billion budget and new property tax rates in a public hearing Tuesday evening.
The board voted 3-2 for a reduced rate of 6.272 mills, with board members Bridget Ziegler and Karen Rose in dissent. The $1.4 billion budget is an increase from last year's $1.25 billion budget and was approved by a 4-1 vote, with only Rose in dissent. One change from the tentative budget passed in July was $1 million in the general fund earmarked for teachers to use for classrooms.
The budget includes an additional $460,000 for teacher salaries and accounts for about 108 new teaching positions. The district still had 82 instructional vacancies as of Aug. 25, amid an ongoing national teacher shortage.
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Bonnie Penner, the district's chief financial officer, said only about $1 billion of the $1.4 billion is actually appropriated for spending.
The total millage, where one mill represents $1 in annual property taxes for every $1,000 of a property’s taxable value, was dropped to the lowest rate since 1983. The rate largely helps fund employee salaries and benefits for the district.
While the tax rate decreased, taxable property values in Sarasota County increased dramatically over the last year, accounting for increased revenue. Taxable property values for schools increased by $20 billion, a 27% increase, whereas the district had only anticipated a 9% increase, district officials said. In what was characterized as a 15.9% increase from last year's millage despite the drop in rate, most homeowners shouldn't see increases in taxes, Penner said.
Appropriations to the district's $549 million general fund, where salaries, benefits and materials are funded, increased by about $30 million, or 5.8%. About 64% of the fund comes from the millage, and about 75% of that goes towards salaries and benefits, according to the budget.
Another source of increased funds stems from an increase in students. District enrollment for last school year was 45,490, and the projection for this school year is 46,602 — an increase of 1,112 students including charters.
The Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) from the Florida Department of Education allocates money per student for districts. The total number of students in Sarasota County has gone up, as has the amount of money the state is giving for each student. This year, the state is allocating $4,587 per student, a $214 increase from last year.
Follow Herald-Tribune Education Reporter Steven Walker on Twitter at @swalker_7. He can be reached at sbwalker@gannett.com.
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Veteran of NetBase Quid, Lei Li will focus on enhancing global technological innovation and growth
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetBase Quid®, a global leader in AI-powered consumer and market intelligence, today announced that Lei Li has been promoted to the role of Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President.
"Lei Li's contributions over the past decade plus have positioned NetBase Quid among the most competitive SaaS companies in an ecosystem where technological advancements are critical to business success," said Bob Goodson, President of NetBase Quid. "Lei's contributions as an engineer and later an engineering leader, including contributions to the platform team, architecture, and the merger of NetBase and Quid, have been paramount to our business goals. Lei is an exemplary professional who consistently reflects our culture and values and has developed a strong, positive influence across our global business."
As CTO and EVP, Lei will be responsible for leading and managing the engineering, quality assurance (QA), DevOps, AI, data science and linguistics team, and IT, globally. Lei will guide NetBase Quid to strategically align all technology advancements and plans, including resource allocation and financial performance to enable the company's growth and market expansion.
"I joined NetBase Quid as a software engineer 14 years ago, and am grateful for the opportunities and challenges offered to me along the way, allowing me to grow within the company," said Lei Li. "NetBase Quid has grown tremendously over the years to become a category leader, and I'm thrilled to be continuing to advance those efforts and guide the business in this new role."
Prior to his role with NetBase Quid, Lei was a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and a Research Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Lei earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Manchester. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China.
In the past year, NetBase Quid was selected to join the Twitter Official Partner Program, was the first vendor to receive Reddit Data Program certification and was named a Leader in the most recent Forrester New Wave: AI-Enabled Consumer Intelligence Platforms. Most recently, NetBase Quid announced a multitude of platform enhancements including expanded TikTok Certified Topics, expanded forum content and global language coverage, among other key updates.
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Our platform uses advanced artificial intelligence to process billions of indexed resources across all forms of structured and unstructured data, empowering brand, agency, and consulting services customers to make smart, data-driven decisions accurately, quickly, and efficiently.
We are the trusted partner of Ogilvy, T-Mobile, United Airlines, Yum! Brands, Walmart, Hyundai, Wunderman Thompson, Microsoft, BCG, and The New York Times. Learn more at www.netbasequid.com
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SANTA CLARA, Calif, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/-- Advanced software tools continue to play a major role in 4,500+ rare disease drugs innovation and development, helping overcome challenges such as limited availability of patients and high-risk costs. To ensure successful remedies, patient screening must get simpler, cost-efficient, and faster to recruit.
DOLOXE Inc's Clinical Trial Planner tool has made all these possible. It incorporates unique drop-and-drag data field searches and accurate data insights, which can reduce trial protocol design and patient recruitment time by more than 30%.
Highlights of the tool
- Built based on 40,000-plus completed trails, 18,000 ongoing trials and 5,000-plus planned trials enrolment and study period analysis. New protocol design and enrolment planning can be automated based on the above data sets.
- The software application comes with drag and drop fields aligned with data analytics platforms such as Tableau and Power BI tools.
- Customized software can be installed at the client's location with all the logics and required data sets.
The engineer of this life-saving software is Business Intelligence and Analytics evangelist, Mr. Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru. "To create successful drugs, we need a technological solution that solves real-life difficulties with ease," says Surendra, who has been working in the industry for over 17 years.
After thorough research and neck-breaking work, Koduru, The Fellow Member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), designed the Clinical Trial Planner software that could make the process of designing drugs for rare medicines faster and more cost-effective, helping save thousands of lives across the globe.
"Mr. Koduru has played a crucial role in developing Clinical Trial Planner and many other automation and analytical tools that have helped our company grow, enabling our clients to achieve their goals," says DOLOXE's Scientific Advisor Anand Rotte.
About DOLOXE Inc
DOLOXE Inc is a successful data consulting company that addresses challenging data problems. As technology advisors, the company's mission is to provide comprehensive software solutions through technology consulting, software, and delivery. DOLOXE's services range from Databases, Intelligence Tools, Web API Services and Data Analytics.
The Clinical Trial Planner tool along with Scrapper tool is available on request. In addition, data integration using web API token id can be generated as per the client's interested trial data fields.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban abortions nationally after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The bill comes three months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion and marks the most serious effort by Republicans in Congress to pass a nationwide abortion restriction.
“I think we should have a law at the federal level that would say after 15 weeks, no abortion on demand except in cases of rape, incest and save the life of a mother. And that should be where America’s at,” Graham said during a press conference.
The proposal also comes just two months before the midterm elections. Republicans in battleground states are trying to navigate a growing voter backlash to the Supreme Court decision while also appealing to the party’s base that’s pushing for immediate action on imposing total abortion bans.
Graham nodded to the balancing act, indicating that a more extreme ban wouldn’t be popular with mainstream voters.
“We’re trying to take a position we think will rally the country to be more sympathetic to an unborn child,” Graham said.
But the bill would retain state laws that are more restrictive while replacing laws in blue states that protect abortion.
The legislation includes exceptions for incest and rape and to save the life of the mother if she is in danger from a physical condition. It also includes a potential five-year jail sentence for any provider who violates the ban.
Graham, who just last month said the Supreme Court made the correct decision by leaving abortion decisions up to states, on Tuesday said elected officials have the power to define and regulate abortion, including in Congress.
“Abortion is not banned in America. It’s left up to elected officials in America to define the issue. States have the ability to do it at state level. And we have the ability in Washington to speak on this issue if we choose,” Graham said. “I have chosen to speak.”
Graham said he was motivated to act following attempts by Democrats to enshrine abortion protections into federal law. He previously supported a 20-week abortion ban, but since the Supreme Court ruled that Mississippi’s 15-week ban was constitutional, he wanted to go further.
“After [Democrats] introduced a bill to define who they are, I thought it’d be nice to introduce a bill to define who we are,” Graham said.
The legislation has no chance of getting a vote while Democrats are in control of the Senate. Even if Republicans take control, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he doesn’t intend to eliminate the filibuster to pass a national abortion ban, meaning the legislation would need 60 votes.
“We should have a law at the federal level,” Graham said during a briefing. “If we take the House and Senate, I can assure you we’ll have a vote.”
But Graham said he personally hasn’t had a conversation with McConnell about the bill and instead is leaving it up to the representatives of anti-abortion groups who joined him for the press conference, including Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has galvanized Democrats, giving them hope of stopping a red wave by tying Republicans to extreme abortion policies.
“Proposals like the one today send a clear message from MAGA Republicans to women across the country: your body, our choice,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday in a floor speech.
Graham said Republicans should go on offense and not be influenced by what Democrats might say.
“I think Republicans need to listen to this news conference and listen to these women [anti-abortion activists],” Graham told reporters. “We’re not gonna live in a world where … we retreat.”
In the House, where a group of more than 80 Republicans introduced a companion version of the bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered a similar message.
“The nationwide abortion ban proposal put forth today is the latest, clearest signal of extreme MAGA Republicans’ intent to criminalize women’s health freedom in all 50 states and arrest doctors for providing basic care,” Pelosi said in a statement.
“Make no mistake: if Republicans get the chance, they will work to pass laws even more draconian than this bill – just like the bans they have enacted in states like Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma,” Pelosi said.
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The World's Most Influential Streetwear Superbrand Is Celebrating Its 12th Anniversary With An Extravagant Runway To Showcase Their "Time Traveler Collection", Designed By Founder and Chief Creative Director David BenDavid
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week kicking off NYFW, the world's most influential streetwear and artistic fashion brand, Sprayground, teletransported attendees to an immersive fashion journey through past, present and future to launch its "Time Travel Collection" during their New York Fashion Week 2022 runway show, marking the company's 12th year anniversary.
Sprayground has become a symbol of youth rebellion, an artistic fashion style, and a vehicle for creative self-expression. As part of their legacy and encapsulating this aesthetic, the Time Traveler Runway showcased 40 exquisite looks that served as the perfect celebration of individual style and creative-imagination. During the epic showcase Sprayground exhibited their upcoming collections, including notable collaborations and never-seen-before designs.
In 2010, fashion designer and creative visionary David BenDavid reinvented the backpack with his emblematic design "Hello My Name Is", creating the blueprint for what 12 years later grew into one of the most iconic street style fashion houses founded in the twenty-first century. This year, Sprayground as always pulled out all the stops with special appearances on the runway from female rapper Remy Ma, Reggaeton star Jon Z and NFL Wide Receiver, Antonio Brown.
"Being back in the city that saw the birth of Sprayground during Fashion Week feels exhilarating, I'm so thankful to everyone involved and helping pull this off! This new collection was designed to push the boundaries, turn the mundane into insane, and most importantly give a platform for creative individuals to express themselves. At Sprayground we are committed to building a travel culture, starting with one backpack 12 years ago, we now design a number of carriers as well as apparel - we really do have something for everyone! I can't wait for fans to see what we have in store!", said David BenDavid, founder and chief creative director, Sprayground.
The after-party was sponsored by Gancia Wines and Dave's Hot Chicken and took place on September 8, 2022 at a private location in Times Square. For more updates make sure to visit www.sprayground.com and follow @Sprayground on Instagram.
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US wholesale inflation declines in August to still-high 8.7%
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level jumped 8.7% in August from a year earlier, a slowdown from July yet still a painfully high level that suggests prices will keep spiking for months to come.
Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that on a month-to-month basis, the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.1% from July to August, the second straight monthly decline.
Yet the better readings mostly reflect plunging gas prices and don’t necessarily point to a broader slowdown in inflation. A measure that excludes the volatile food and energy categories — so-called core prices — rose 0.4% from July to August and 7.3% in August compared with a year ago.
The cost of services — which are increasingly driving consumer inflation — rose 0.4% in August, driven by higher prices for public transportation, car rentals and some financial services.
Still, there were a few encouraging signs in Wednesday’s report: Wholesale food costs were flat from July to August, after a 1.3% spike the previous month. And wholesale goods prices overall fell 1.2%, suggesting that goods prices for consumers could soon decline.
On Tuesday, the government reported that consumer inflation was rampant across much of the economy in August. Apart from cheaper gas, consumer prices for everything from food and rents to furniture, medical care and new cars got pricier last month. The worse-than-expected consumer price spikes sent the stock market tumbling to its worst day in more than two years on fears that the Federal Reserve will turn even more aggressive in raising interest rates to fight inflation.
Wednesday’s producer price data captures inflation at an earlier stage of production and can often signal where consumer prices are headed. It also feeds into the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, which is called the personal consumption expenditures price index.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Information Technology Consulting Company, Inc. (ITC2), an industry leader in Digital Optimization® and Digital Transformation™ Practices, is pleased to announce Digital N-Sights™ (DNS) Platform, powered by ITC2.
Digital N-Sights is a powerful tool that consolidates and assimilates data from multiple platforms and suppliers into a real-time, comprehensive, easy-to-use dashboard, order management, project and program management. It enables customers to replace manual spreadsheets, improve accuracy, increase productivity, and reduce costs on the journey to Digital Optimization.
"Our team at ITC2 spent countless hours designing, developing, and testing the Digital N-Sights platform," said Mike Fisher, ITC2 President. "We are committed to helping our customers automate, innovate, and transform technology through a seamless, user-friendly, and transparent platform designed to increase efficiencies at all levels of the organization while streamlining the Digital Optimization process. We recognized the need to provide our customers with a platform that provides a comprehensive business view of their technology while optimizing costs and increasing reporting precision. Digital N-Sights accomplishes just that and much more."
ITC2's team has decades of experience in procuring and managing global IT assets for enterprises. Our blend of expertise and technology eliminates pain points in your digital infrastructure and enables more informed decision making to drive your strategic priorities.
The Digital N-Sights platform helps organizations simplify project management easily and accurately with role-based customizable dashboard views and real-time business intelligence reporting. The comprehensive business view gives customers updates at a glance on order status, cost overview, project forecasting.
"The Digital N-Sights™ Platform is an innovative, collaborative tool that enables the SDWAN Team to track project orders in one centralized location. It's user friendly with customizable fields that allow me to manage my projects and reporting with speed and accuracy."
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To learn more about Digital N-Sights and schedule a complimentary demo today.
Founded in 2006, ITC2 began supplying network engineers to Cisco Systems Advance Service teams worldwide. In 2012, ITC2 introduced new portfolio offerings focused on adding services impacting the network, including Global Infrastructure Procurement & Telecom Expense Management and Network Managed Services Consulting. ITC2 is a Gartner recognized Minority Business Enterprise Supplier.
For more information, call (888) 966-4415, visit ITC2.net, follow us on Facebook (@DigitalOptimizationSolutions), LinkedIn (@ITC2), and Twitter (@ITCTwo).
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for ADTX, SPRC, KERN, INM, and EOSE.
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Global safety protection solutions leader collaborates with Modjoul and Corvex™ to launch a suite of worker safety solutions
ISELIN, N.J., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansell, a global leader in safety solutions, today announced a new workplace safety product and service brand, Inteliforz™. Leveraging real-time worker contextual connectivity and actionable movement data, Inteliforz™ extends Ansell's safety promise by delivering cutting-edge, connected safety solutions to drive enhanced worker safety and a more engaged workforce. With the launch of Inteliforz™, Ansell has joined forces with Modjoul, a leading wearables and data analytics company delivering innovative solutions to improve workplace safety, and Corvex™, a leading innovator for connected workforce technologies.
In working with wearable safety technology and analytics leader, Modjoul, the Inteliforz™ Motion Series leverages wearable sensor technology for the hand and wrist, providing measurable and actionable data that helps reduce risky movements that can lead to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Similarly, by combining the Corvex™ cloud-based platform and IoT technology architecture with Ansell's safety innovations and industry leadership, the Inteliforz™ Zone Series provides a continuous loop platform to report and resolve safety risks, ensure personal protective equipment compliance, and provide a real-time method for teams to interact, recognize, and share workplace safety concerns.
The new Intelliforz™ brand delivers innovative safety management solutions by offering industrial workers access to data to analyze motion ergonomics, and providing assurance to health and safety managers that tasks are being executed through the use of proper equipment.
"At Ansell, we have a deep understanding of workers' needs and the importance of evolving safety products and solutions that are accessible to the front line as well as safety managers and executives," states Neil Salmon, Managing Director and CEO at Ansell. "Through Inteliforz™, and with the support from our technology partners, Corvex™ and Modjoul, we are enabling front-line workers to identify, collaborate, and gain insights to improve personal workplace safety while also improving their overall workplace. Our new connected worker technology is the future of workplace safety."
"As a result of revolutionary connected tools such as Inteliforz™, the connected worker market can reach new heights and give millions of front-line workers across the globe the ability to improve their safety while on the job," says Joe O'Brien, CEO and Founder of Corvex™. "With Ansell Inteliforz™ as a trusted partner, combining Ansell's safety innovations and industry influence with our cloud-based platform and IoT technology, we can enhance workplace productivity, motivation and engagement that will lead to higher retention and less risk."
With the increasing need for a collaborative work environment and accessible workforce safety insights and data, Inteliforz™ delivers an evolved set of hardware and software products that meet rapidly evolving, technology-enabled workplace safety demands. These new products empower workforces and safety managers to identify and prevent risky movements that could lead to injuries before they happen.
"Identifying invisible safety risks and movements that affect your employees and creating a more empowered workforce is now possible with Inteliforz," says Eric Martinez, CEO of Modjoul. "In partnering with Ansell to develop wearable hand and wrist technology, data analytics, and AI to address preventable workplace injuries, we're thrilled to officially bring this product to the market to identify risky hand and wrist movements that could lead to MSDs for industrial workers."
More information about Inteliforz™ can be found at inteliforz.com.
Ansell is a world leader in providing superior health and safety protection solutions that enhance human well-being. The world's need for better protection never stops, so Ansell is constantly researching, developing and investing to manufacture and distribute cutting-edge product innovation and technology, marketed under well-known brands that customers trust. Operating in two main business segments, Industrial and Healthcare, Ansell is the market leader that continues to grow, employing 14,000 people worldwide. With operations in North America, Latin America/Caribbean, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, customers in more than 100 countries around the world trust Ansell and its protection solutions. Information on Ansell and its products can be found at www.ansell.com.
Corvex™ Connected Worker is a leading innovator in the market for connected workforce technologies that enable frontline workers to deliver improved results. Based in Minneapolis, Corvex™ technologies connect workers and managers using continuous-loop digital tools that foster real-time communication and collaboration. We power the workforce of the future.
Modjoul is committed to keeping employees safe and productive by empowering them through data analytics. Modjoul has a full line of industrial IoT offerings designed to improve operations.
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LONDON — The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery are marking Queen Elizabeth II’s final departure from Buckingham Palace.
Their guns are sounding at one-minute intervals as her coffin travels to Westminster Hall, where it will lie in state.
Big Ben, the great and fabled bell housed in the Elizabeth Tower, also tolled at one-minute intervals during the procession Wednesday. The bell and its tower have been undergoing restoration, and the tolling was the most sustained since that work.
Britain is mourning for Elizabeth, who died last week at her summer retreat in Scotland at age 96 after 70 years on the throne. King Charles III is the new monarch.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Thousands come for last glimpse of queen
— London diaspora district remembers a queen — ambivalently
— What to know about the queen’s lying in state
— Renewed interest in UK memorabilia in Hong Kong
— A piece of the queen: New souvenirs mark monarch’s death
— Anger over past, indifference meets queen’s death in India
— Former British colonies are conflicted over Queen Elizabeth II’s legacy
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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LONDON — Walking behind the gun carriage bearing Queen Elizabeth II’s oak coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall are her children: King Charles III, the country’s new sovereign, with Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
The second row is made up of Charles’ two sons: Prince William, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. To Harry’s left is Anne’s son, Peter Phillips.
Behind them are the Earl of Snowdon, the Duke of Gloucester and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, who is Princess Anne’s husband.
Behind the royals are four key members of Charles’ staff: the Master of the Household, the Principal Private Secretary, the Equerry and the Treasurer. Prince William’s equerry walked behind them.
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LONDON — Troops from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, military bands and mounted police are leading the procession of Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.
Also walking in front of the coffin Wednesday are the household, or staff members, who worked for the queen. They include her private secretary, her pages and stewards.
The coffin is on a gun carriage from the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery. It is flanked by 10 pallbearers and Grenadier Guards.
The coffin is draped with the royal standard and adorned with the Imperial State Crown, which the queen wore for her coronation 70 years ago, resting on a velvet cushion and a wreath of flowers.
The flowers include white roses, dahlias, pine from the gardens at the queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, and lavender and rosemary from the gardens at Windsor Castle.
Meanwhile, a Guard of Honor is in position in Parliament Square near Westminster Hall. The guards are accompanied by a Royal Marines Band which will have their drums draped and muffled.
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LONDON — The line to view the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is likely to be one of the longest that London has ever seen.
The line already stretches from Parliament, across nearby Lambeth Bridge and along the opposite bank of the River Thames.
Authorities have planned for a 10-mile (16-kilometer) route, with 1,000 marshals, stewards and police officers on hand at any given time to help manage it. An army of other volunteers includes multi-faith pastors and sign-language interpreters.
People are being warned they may have to wait for hours, but they are being given numbered wristbands so they can take food and bathroom breaks without losing their place in line.
When they get to Parliament mourners must pass through airport-style security screening. Prohibited items include liquids, spray paint, knives, fireworks, flowers, candles, stuffed toys and “advertising or marketing messages.”
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LONDON — Lines are forming along the bank of the River Thames in anticipation of seeing Queen Elizabeth II lying in state, even though authorities warn the wait could be up to 30 hours.
The public will be able to pay their respects to the deceased monarch at Westminster Hall from 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) Wednesday, after a procession bearing her coffin on a gun carriage from Buckingham Palace to Parliament.
The line starts near Lambeth Bridge and officials say it could eventually stretch several miles (kilometers) to Southwark Park in southeast London.
Some were so keen they started waiting early.
Vanessa Nathakumaran is first in line after turning up at 11:30 a.m. on Monday.
“It’s going to be an emotional one, and when you go in there, my main aim is to show respect,” she said.
Chris Imafidon is sixth in line and said, “I have 1,001 emotions when I see her. I want to say, God, she was an angel, because she touched many good people and did so many good things.”
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LONDON — Horses, troops and military bands performed a full dress rehearsal before daybreak for the procession that will take Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to Parliament’s Westminster Hall.
Officials say the horses taking part have undergone special training for the Wednesday afternoon event, including how to handle mourners and flowers and flags being thrown toward the procession.
“They get exposure to loud noises, crowds, flags, flowers, people sobbing, even to the point of banging lots of drums and making aggressive noises,” said Sergeant Tom Jenks, who will be leading the gun carriage that carries the queen’s coffin.
Among the horses is Cassius, an 18-year-old horse who participated in former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral in 2013.
The procession on Wednesday afternoon will feature King Charles III and other royals walking behind the queen’s coffin to Westminster Hall in Parliament. The queen’s coffin will lie in state for four days for people to pay their respects.
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LONDON — Crowds are gathering in London as the city prepares for a somber procession taking Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament.
There, the late monarch will lie in state for four days before her funeral next Monday.
Huge crowds are expected for Wednesday’s somber afternoon procession, and long lines are also predicted to view the coffin at Parliament’s Westminster Hall.
People are standing behind metal barriers or sitting on folding chairs. Under gray skies hours before the coffin was scheduled to leave the monarch’s official London residence, they have umbrellas at the ready and takeout coffees in hand.
The coffin will be taken on a horse-drawn gun carriage past the crowds of mourners, with the queen’s son and heir King Charles III and other royals walking behind.
The queen died in Scotland last Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
Crowds have lined the route of the queen’s coffin whenever it has been moved on its journey from Scotland back to London.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first trip overseas since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic will overlap with a visit by Pope Francis to Kazakhstan, although the Vatican says there are no plans for them to meet.
Xi’s state visit Wednesday comes just weeks ahead of an all-important political meeting in China where he is expected to take a third term as he cements his grip on power. The pope is in Kazakhstan until Thursday for a state visit and an interfaith congress of world religious leaders.
Asked during his flight to Kazakhstan about a possible meeting with Xi, the pope said, “I don’t have any news about this. But I am always ready to go to China.”
The two have been in the same vicinity before and not met, including New York for the United nations General Assembly in 2015 and Xi’s visit to Italy in 2019.
The Vatican and China are due to renew their 2018 deal on bishop nominations at the end of this month. A Vatican delegation recently returned from Beijing, and Holy See officials expect the deal to be continued.
Here’s a look at Beijing’s complicated relationship with the Vatican and the conditions that worshippers face in China.
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WHAT IS CHINA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE VATICAN?
China does not have diplomatic relations with Vatican, ever since the ruling Communist Party required Roman Catholics in China to sever ties with the Vatican in the 1950s. For decades, people could worship only in churches affiliated with the party-controlled Patriotic Catholic Association.
The Association follows Vatican doctrine and sends theologians to Rome for study sessions, but the ruling party rejects any role for the pope in picking bishops in China or managing churches.
The two sides reached an agreement in 2018 that gave the Holy See the final say over bishops proposed by Beijing, but details have never been released. Francis has said the process involves a dialogue, but that he has the final say.
Beijing had long insisted that it must approve appointments as a matter of its national sovereignty. The Vatican has insisted on the pope’s divine authority to choose the successors of Christ’s apostles.
Vatican officials have said if the Vatican didn’t hammer out something new, there was a risk of the Catholic Church in China becoming irrevocably split.
Vatican City, of which the pope is head of state, is the last European government to maintain ties with Taiwan, the self-ruled island democracy the Communist Party claims as part of its territory. Any agreement to establish formal ties with Beijing would likely require the Vatican to break diplomatic ties with Taiwan and endorse the party’s claim to the island.
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HOW HAS THE BEIJING-VATICAN RELATIONSHIP CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS?
Vatican officials have said they hope the 2018 deal will lead to improvements in the conditions for the Chinese Catholic community and not just focus on bishop nominations.
The deal has brought China and the Vatican closer together in the past four years, said Chang Chia-lin, a professor of religious studies at Tamkang University in Taiwan.
“In the future, if China agrees to let the pope make a visit, I think the possibility for Vatican-China to establish diplomatic relations will deepen,” Chang said.
Despite the closer ties, Catholics practicing outside state churches face great pressure and harassment. Rights groups have criticized the deal, saying the costs outweighed whatever benefits have been brought.
Joseph Zen, a prominent Catholic cardinal in Hong Kong who had been a staunch critic of China’s Communist Party, was arrested in May as part of a crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
The Vatican issued a statement of concern — a rarity given its delicate relationship with Beijing.
“It seems likely that in order to maintain the positive diplomacy required to continue with the Sino-Vatican agreement, the Vatican has been unwilling to condemn the Chinese government’s ongoing crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and the human rights crackdown in Hong Kong – even when it has affected prominent Catholics like Cardinal Zen,” said William Nee, the Research and Advocacy Coordinator at Chinese Human Rights Defenders.
An estimated one million or more Uyghurs and others from predominantly Muslim ethnic groups were held in internment camps in the western Xinjiang region in what the U.N.’s human rights body said may amount to “crimes against humanity.”
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WHAT IS THE SITUATION FOR CHRISTIANS IN CHINA?
Under Xi, China has launched a crackdown on Christianity in recent years, part of an overall tightening on religious freedoms that has also affected worshippers of Islam and, to a lesser extent, Buddhism and Daoism.
Tens of millions of Chinese Roman Catholics as well as Christians had worshipped for decades in informal “house churches” and their presence was tolerated.
But China’s drive to “Sinicize” religion and give ultimate control to the Communist Party rather than a religious leader has led to informal churches coming under intense pressure to shut down. Christian worshippers have seen their churches raided, while facing interrogations and surveillance. Police have arrested pastors and priests associated with these churches.
Some, like the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, have fled overseas in order to practice their version of their religion.
Despite the crackdown, the number of Catholics and believers of other Christian denominations have grown over the past few decades, experts say.
“In China, an ordinary Christian, or Catholic, they have limited religious freedom. They can go to the church for Mass and prayer, and this so-called limited religious freedom, and it’s under the church which is controlled by the Communist Party,” said Chang.
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Though founders are essential to navigating a company through the ups and downs of business, what truly allows an organization to persevere are the values that act as a foundation and guide each and every business decision. Being purpose-driven and leading with established values helps the entire team not only overcome business challenges, but also better meet the promises of the mission statement.
However, creating and upholding the values of the organization requires finding a way to do so while also managing the bottom line. To help, 15 members of Forbes Business Council share how entrepreneurs can keep purpose top of mind in their businesses.
1. Build A Collaborative Set Of Core Values
Leading an organization that is value- and purpose-driven begins with creating a set of core values collaboratively with the entire leadership team. This way, your North Star has been defined by those you expect to help guide and grow your business. Reviewing these principles at monthly and quarterly gatherings will promote accountability and ensure that they remain constantly in focus. - Noah Mishkin, CraftJack, Inc.
2. Embody Your Core Values
Core values are an organization's guiding principles, and these speak to a company's purpose. They should be embedded in company culture and embodied by leadership. More than just words on a kitchen poster, core values should be spoken about in meetings, strategy sessions and one-on-one conversations. Consider an award program to recognize individuals who embody company core values in the best way. - Meighan Newhouse, Inspirant Group
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3. Do An Internal Audit
When I started Eastward Partners seven years ago, I made a commitment to share our core values, and each and every year, as a business, we examine those values and audit our behaviors against them. We show gratitude in the good times as well as when we are struggling as it is so very important to stay grounded by your mission. Money is one benefit of staying the course, but there are also many others. - Joe Carbone, Eastward Partners
4. Let Values Drive Business Decisions
Entrepreneurs can keep purpose at the forefront of their businesses by having core values drive major business decisions. For Pennington Gray, we use core values to sift through prospective clients, only taking on those whose values are aligned with ours. This process helps cut down on spending time on the wrong customers and leads to stronger client retention because we're on the same page. - Erin Weaver, Pennington Gray
5. Stay Connected To Your 'Why'
Leadership needs to stay deeply connected to their "why." Every time a new product or service is proposed, it should align with the greater "why" of the business and the values that the business strives to display. That can sometimes mean turning down opportunities or marketing tactics that could generate profit but wouldn't feel aligned and could damage the company's reputation in the long run. - Jamie Trull, Balance CFO LLC
6. Seek Companywide Alignment
Be aligned with your board, C-suite and the entire company to understand that leading with purpose and value may not pay off immediately. These are not performative, they are not marketing initiatives and they are not short-term KPIs. The things that matter should be ingrained in the company’s DNA and, ideally, supported through product-based funding mechanisms rather than by relying on generosity and donations every 12 months. - Tyler Christiansen, Funnel
7. Lead With Action
The greatest examples may come from those who lead with their actions. They create an environment of accountability by being accountable themselves, and the words they speak carry weight. The flow down from these actions shows others the standard to execute at. Management then knows that the expectation for leading their teams matters and will move to show this externally with customers as well. - Paul L. Gunn, KUOG Corporation
8. Clearly Define Your Purpose
The clearer the purpose, the easier it is to maintain it over the long haul. Ultimately, all businesses grow by serving their clients well. Articulating a client-first template and experience serves as a beacon for the company and the employees. Treating every customer as if they are your first and last results in strong retention, client referrals and, inevitably, bottom-line growth. - Tej Brahmbhatt, Watchtower Capital
9. Personalize Communications
If the founder is purpose-driven, the process is usually effortless. Constant communication of the company's mission is achieved through PR, and there is always room for imagination. One of my partners sends a postcard to every client with a personal thank-you note and a detailed explanation of the goals of the startup. Wouldn't you love to see one in your mailbox? - Valeriy Makovetskiy, Everytalent
10. Leverage Storytelling
To keep purpose at the forefront, leaders should become strategic storytellers who communicate the purpose and implement plans to live it throughout the company. Walking the purpose walk instead of talking about it from an ivory tower is about aligning everyone in the organization around a common, believable and actionable purpose. Saying you have a purpose won't cut it. You have to show it. - Amiee Ball, JAB Consulting Group
11. Communicate
Communication is key. Keep everyone informed of the steps that are being taken toward that goal. Establish a clear reason as to why this is being done. Don’t just do it because it is important to you or someone else, but also make it worth it for them to share the responsibility of fulfilling that purpose with you. It's important to know you are not alone in any given endeavor and that others share your drive. - Jean Paul De Silva Clauwaert, Web Content Development
12. Create A Strong Foundation
Focusing on values can be achieved only where a company has a strong foundation of people and processes. Ask yourself if your business would function if any one or more of your key managers were to be absent from the business for an extended period of time. If the business still functions, you have created enough depth to enable you to focus on values and still run the business. - Bryan Fried, PANGEA Global Technologies, Inc.
13. Aim To Make A Real Difference In People's Lives
Social entrepreneurs believe that society is more than just the people who work for them. They believe in the power of their products to make a real difference in people's lives. They also have a desire to make products and services that solve problems and produce positive social change. Social entrepreneurs are focused on developing solutions that not only solve problems, but also improve people's lives. - Meg Yim, MSA Security
14. Have Faith In The Process
You have to trust the process. There will be ups and downs, especially when your focus is on values because you're playing a long game, and that's great! Go in knowing that there will be ebbs and flows. Also, not everyone will agree with you. Again, stay true to those values and trust that the process works in the long run. Last, remember to celebrate your wins! - Sabrina Shafer, Transformation Continuum
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Latest investments in Archilogic, Butlr and Transaera support decarbonization efforts
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, has completed three new investments through its Carrier Ventures group. Archilogic, Butlr and Transaera – innovative startups in the healthy and green building space – are the newest additions to the Carrier Ventures investment portfolio of companies selected for their next-generation technology, high-growth potential and sustainability focus.
"Carrier is pleased to add three more disruptive companies to the Carrier Ventures investment portfolio that share our commitment to decarbonizing buildings and creating healthier, safer environments for the people who occupy them," Jennifer Anderson, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Business Development & Chief Sustainability Officer. "Our partnerships with Archilogic, Butlr and Transaera will help to accelerate the commercialization of next-generation technology, contributing to a more sustainable world."
Archilogic is the holistic spatial data platform for the internet. It provides product managers and software developers with infrastructure for building scaled, spatially aware apps that let end users interact with their spaces in the way they need. Archilogic's software will be used in Carrier's Abound cloud-based digital platform to give customers a clear and accurate view of their building interiors in one easy interface, allowing them to unlock and visualize building data to create healthier, more efficient spaces.
Butlr, a venture-backed startup spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2019, was named one of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2022. The company's award-winning people-sensing platform uses body heat and machine learning to detect occupancy, headcount and activity, and generate accurate, real-time and historical spatial insights without collecting personally identifiable information. Butlr's thermal sensing technology will be embedded in the Abound digital platform. The combination of these cutting-edge technologies will provide building owners and operators with real-time insights to make confident decisions to improve energy efficiency while ensuring occupant wellness.
Transaera is developing a new class of affordable, energy-efficient, sustainable cooling systems. Buildings account for about 40% of global energy greenhouse gas emissions, and 40% of that is from HVAC. Current air conditioners consume more energy in humid conditions, and the majority of future cooling demand is expected to come from people living in hot and humid climates. Transaera's novel desiccant technology uses a unique sponge-like material that grabs moisture from the atmosphere to enable its air conditioner to cool air more efficiently. The heat generated by the air conditioner is then used – instead of being wasted – to dry the material for the next cycle. Transaera intends to use this technology in partnership with Carrier to develop ultra-efficient climate systems. The company was named one of eight finalists in the Global Cooling Prize, an international innovation competition to develop an affordable and sustainable residential air conditioner.
Launched in 2022 with a vision to accelerate the development of sustainable innovations and disruptive technologies, Carrier Ventures is an important accelerator of Carrier's 2030 Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Goal to help its customers reduce their carbon footprints by more than one gigaton. Carrier has also committed to investing more than $2 billion by 2030 to develop healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions that incorporate sustainable design principles and reduce lifecycle impacts.
For more information on Carrier Ventures, visit Corporate.Carrier.com/carrier-ventures.
As the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier Global Corporation is committed to making the world safer, sustainable and more comfortable for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit www.Corporate.Carrier.com or follow us on social media at @Carrier.
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Intellagents quickly and securely digitizes connections across businesses, brokers and insurers, and software providers, leveraging AI to score risk, maximize protection to deliver "real change and innovation" to the insurance sector.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FatBrain AI (LZG International Inc.; OTC: LZGI), the leader in powerful and easy-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for start-up and mid-market businesses (SMEs), has acquired Intellagents, an innovative insuretech platform.
The FatBrain and Intellagents combination empowers businesses, brokers and insurers to leverage Peer Intelligence technologies to optimize transactions, score risk, enhance productivity and simplify actionable insights for everyone across the insurance supply chain creating never-seen-before opportunities for growth.
"We are excited to welcome Intellagents into the FatBrain family," said Peter B. Ritz, co-founder and CEO of FatBrain AI. "Intellagents SaaS offers powerful, easy-to-use automation to accelerate Peer Intelligence growth for all participants connecting the insurance supply chain. Adding one connection per week to the insurance knowledge market, Intellagents SaaS accelerates the pace of innovation and improvement. Each such connection means actionable insights for tens of millions of businesses, hundreds of thousands of agents, many thousands of insurers and insuretechs."
Intellagents unifies an insurance-specific integration and API management marketplace with connectors to more than 60 insurance capabilities orchestrated within minutes into unique solutions. It enables insurers and brokers to rapidly realize improvements and efficiencies across multiple domains, including: client engagement; channel optimization; risk selection, pricing, and fraud mitigation; product speed to market; and "Book of Business'' acquisitions.
"Our clients join a comprehensive ecosystem enabling rapid innovation and growth with a simple self-service experience to harness the power of data and AI," said Mark Stender, CEO and co-founder of Intellagents. "No single insurer, broker or software company can solve the challenges of the insurance industry alone. The power of many "best-in-class" insurance capabilities connecting together, each continuously learning to improve individual performance, expands the overall insurance knowledge marketplace. The latest advances in AI 2.0 technologies coupled with the burgeoning data availability accelerate this realization."
Intellagents solutions are SOX, GDPR and HIPAA compliant and capable of passing any compliance exam from insurers.
"We've seen peer data turbo-charge the market in life insurance and annuities," said Shawn R. Carey, chief operating officer at FatBrain AI and co-founder, CTO-emeritus at iPipeline, a Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP) company. "Contributory peer insights powered by AI promise to accelerate growth beyond what we realized at iPipeline. With Intellagents ecosystem, connectivity, marketplace, team and technology we're starting on 3rd base."
"Our mission at FatBrain AI is to equip entrepreneurs and mid-market businesses with simple to use AI solutions that will help them reclaim time, save money and boost their bottom lines," said Rajarshi Das, chief scientific officer at FatBrain AI. "Intellagents and FatBrain AI are united in this mission and eager to support the global community of businesses, brokers and insurers."
This release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of offers to buy any securities of any entity. This release contains certain forward-looking statements based on our current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof. Our actual results may differ materially from those stated or implied in such forward-looking statements, due to risks and uncertainties associated with our business, which include the risk factors disclosed in our Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 13, 2022. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our expectations, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," and "would" or similar words. All forecasts provided by management in this release are based on information available at this time and management expects that internal projections and expectations may change over time. In addition, the forecasts are based entirely on management's best estimate of our future financial performance given our current contracts, current backlog of opportunities and conversations with new and existing customers about our products and services. We assume no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
FatBrain AI (LZG International, Inc.; OTC: LZGI) provides powerful and easy-to-use AI solutions to empower the star enterprises of tomorrow (aka mSMEs) to grow, innovate, and drive the majority of the global economy. FatBrain's AI 2.0 technologies and advanced data services transform continuous learning, narrative reasoning, cloud and blockchain technologies into auditable, explainable and easy to integrate AI solutions. FatBrain's subscription model allows all companies to deploy its advanced AI solutions quickly and easily, securely utilizing them on premises behind their firewalls or via cloud.
For more information, please visit: https://www.fatbrain.ai
Intellagents, LLC was formed in 2018 and has been solving insurers challenges in production flawlessly since 2019. Intellagents was founded on the principle that digital transformation requires significant improvements to an insurer's systems portfolio and that many gaps will need to be filled with AI and new innovations created by 3rd parties. Intellagents has built over 60+ connectors using unique integration and automation technologies to improve speed, personalization and agility.
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WILMINGTON, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One thing is certain--everybody dies. The Funeral Consumers Alliance North Carolina (FCANC) is helping make the inevitable less intimidating by hosting Death Expo 2022.
Free and open to the public, Death Expo 2022 will feature topics, speakers, panelists and exhibitors on death and dying, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., at The Moseley Center, Elon University, 100 Campus Drive in Elon, North Carolina.
FCANC is a statewide, all-volunteer, nonprofit organization focused on education and advocacy to protect consumers' rights in choosing meaningful, affordable funerals.
This day-long event seeks to remove the stigma of death by providing information and resources to anyone exploring and planning one's own final arrangements or those of a loved one.
"Professionals, experts and volunteers within the deathcare industry will inspire, inform, and provide the public with everything necessary for their environmental, cost-friendly end-of-life needs" says Sara Williams, FCANC president. "This is an opportunity to meet local death doulas and learn about aquamation, natural burials, organ donations and more."
Organizers are asking those who plan to attend the free Death Expo to register at www.funeralsNC.org. Pre-orders for an optional paid box lunch ($10) are also available upon registration.
Death Expo Speakers include:
- A special message from Caitlin Doughty, Los Angeles mortician, New York Times best-selling author, blogger, YouTube sensation and advocate for death acceptance.
- Mallory McDuff, professor of Environmental Education, Warren Wilson College, and author of Our Last Best Act.
- Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance.
- Tanya Marsh, professor of law, Wake Forest University and author of The Law of Human Remains.
Two panel discussions will be presented. What Will I Do with My Body When I Die? considers options other than burials and cremations and Dishin' with the Death Doulas features local death doulas and their roles assisting with the dying process.
Visit www.funeralsNC.org/deathexpo
FCANC is a grassroots, all volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on funeral consumer education and advocacy. Known as "the Consumer Reports" of the state funeral industry, FCANC protects consumers' rights to choose a meaningful and affordable funeral. Visit www.funeralsnc.org
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Yesterday marked a monumental day for the video game industry, the rights issues to the original Goldeneye have finally been sorted out after nearly 25 years, allowing for full re-releases of the game. One is coming to Xbox, with 4K and higher framerates, and another to the Nintendo Switch as part of the N64 Switch Online service.
And yet there is one extremely weird caveat to this. While the Xbox version of Goldeneye coming to Game Pass has split-screen multiplayer like the old days, it does not have online multiplayer. But what does have online multiplayer? The Nintendo Switch version.
Microsoft is refusing to clarify what exactly is going on here. In multiple statements to various outlets, they only confirm that no, the Xbox version of Goldeneye would not have online play, but would not say why.
There are two theories as to what’s going on here:
1) As the original platform publisher of Goldeneye 007, Nintendo demanded some sort of exclusive perk for their version, and that is the ability to have online multiplayer.
2) This theory revolves around Nintendo’s janky online multiplayer system, which in many instances is not “true” online multiplayer, but one person essentially hosting a split-screen session that is instead streamed to other players through a central host.
It’s that second theory I buy more than the first, that Nintendo’s online service might actually be so low tech that it accommodates online play for Goldeneye, whereas a more traditional online matchmaking/hosting situation through Xbox Live would be more complicated and something that Microsoft can’t/doesn’t want to do develop just for this release. It just doesn’t sound very Nintendo to me for them to demand online play for something like this while asking it to be restricted on Xbox. Then again, I don’t know why Microsoft just refuses to explain this at all, unless it is some privileged part of the deal that they cannot discuss.
Regardless, it’s very weird. I would be much more likely to play Goldeneye with friends online than to have them over for splitscreen like it’s 1997, as nostalgic as that makes me. Most of my friends don’t live here and I only have two total Xbox controllers anyway. And yes, it does strike me as weird that Nintendo, the most non-online company in the world, has access to this ability but Xbox doesn’t. Still, no one’s talking, for whatever strange reason.
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The World's Most Influential Streetwear Superbrand Is Celebrating Its 12th Anniversary With An Extravagant Runway To Showcase Their "Time Traveler Collection", Designed By Founder and Chief Creative Director David BenDavid
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week kicking off NYFW, the world's most influential streetwear and artistic fashion brand, Sprayground, teletransported attendees to an immersive fashion journey through past, present and future to launch its "Time Travel Collection" during their New York Fashion Week 2022 runway show, marking the company's 12th year anniversary.
Sprayground has become a symbol of youth rebellion, an artistic fashion style, and a vehicle for creative self-expression. As part of their legacy and encapsulating this aesthetic, the Time Traveler Runway showcased 40 exquisite looks that served as the perfect celebration of individual style and creative-imagination. During the epic showcase Sprayground exhibited their upcoming collections, including notable collaborations and never-seen-before designs.
In 2010, fashion designer and creative visionary David BenDavid reinvented the backpack with his emblematic design "Hello My Name Is", creating the blueprint for what 12 years later grew into one of the most iconic street style fashion houses founded in the twenty-first century. This year, Sprayground as always pulled out all the stops with special appearances on the runway from female rapper Remy Ma, Reggaeton star Jon Z and NFL Wide Receiver, Antonio Brown.
"Being back in the city that saw the birth of Sprayground during Fashion Week feels exhilarating, I'm so thankful to everyone involved and helping pull this off! This new collection was designed to push the boundaries, turn the mundane into insane, and most importantly give a platform for creative individuals to express themselves. At Sprayground we are committed to building a travel culture, starting with one backpack 12 years ago, we now design a number of carriers as well as apparel - we really do have something for everyone! I can't wait for fans to see what we have in store!", said David BenDavid, founder and chief creative director, Sprayground.
The after-party was sponsored by Gancia Wines and Dave's Hot Chicken and took place on September 8, 2022 at a private location in Times Square. For more updates make sure to visit www.sprayground.com and follow @Sprayground on Instagram.
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Police have been going door to door in Perth as part of a probe into a serious assault.
Officers were contacted after a man was attacked on Glover Street, close to the city centre, on Thursday night.
Locals say police have been speaking to residents in recent days as they try to establish what happened.
The nature and severity of the man’s injuries have not been confirmed.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 9.30pm on Thursday September 8, police received a report of a man assaulted in Glover Street, Perth.
“Officers are continuing their inquiries into this serious assault.
“Anyone with information should contact 101 with reference 3489 of September 8.”
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France wants the number of Indian students in the country to rise to 20,000 by 2025, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Wednesday. Colonna is currently on a three-day visit to India.
"We want the number of Indian students to rise up to 20,000 by 2025. I know it's an ambitious target, but I also know that between India and France, sky is the limit," she said during an interaction with students at the Lady Shri Ram College here.
The French minister stressed that gender balance was a necessity in the field of education. "Much has changed when it comes to gender balance but we are still not there yet," she said.
As part of her official visit from September 13-15, Colonna will travel to Mumbai for engagements with industry leaders and site visits on Thursday. She will also hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on September 14 "on bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest".
(With PTI inputs)
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The Crown actress Claire Foy has spoken of the honour of playing the Queen on screen saying the late monarch was a “massive symbol of continuity and dignity and grace”.
The British star, 38, portrayed the Queen in the popular Netflix show for the first two series before handing over the role to Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton.
Speaking to the BBC at the Toronto Film Festival, she said: “I think that she was an incredible monarch.
“She united people and she was a massive symbol of continuity and dignity and grace.”
Foy added: “My main feeling is just thinking about her as a mother and a grandmother and a great-grandmother, really, and I’m very honoured to have been a teeny-tiny, small part of her story.”
The actress made her debut in the role in 2016 for the show’s first season alongside Matt Smith as the Duke of Edinburgh and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill.
The series followed the Queen from her marriage to Philip in 1947 to the resignation of her first prime minister, Churchill, in 1955.
It also took in the death of King George VI and the Queen’s subsequent ascension to the throne.
Vanessa Kirby portrayed Princess Margaret and much of the series was also devoted to telling the story of her romance with RAF officer Peter Townsend.
The series debuted to rave reviews and Foy received a string of awards for her portrayal including an Emmy and Golden Globe as well as two Bafta nominations.
Netflix recently revealed that the first series has entered the streamer’s global top 10 for the week of September 5-11 following the Queen’s death.
The series landed in seventh position for TV shows in the English language, with nearly 17.6 million hours viewed globally.
The weekly post stated: “HRH Queen Elizabeth II was in the hearts and minds of viewers.
“Fans revisited Season 1 of The Crown, which entered the list for the first time in the seventh spot with 17.57 million hours viewed.”
Filming on the latest series of The Crown was halted following the death of the Queen last Thursday and filming will also be suspended on Monday for the Queen’s funeral.
The upcoming fifth series of the lavish royal drama, currently due to air in November, will see Dominic West star as Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Crown was due to end after its fifth series, but the show’s creator and writer Peter Morgan later said it will be extended to include a sixth.
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Leading fitness and wellness experience brands announce monetary guarantee that ClassPass will drive revenue to wellness businesses using Mindbody
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindbody, the leading experience technology platform for the wellness industry, and ClassPass, the premier fitness and wellness membership, today announced the ClassPass Revenue Guarantee. This new program, exclusive to Mindbody customers, provides a monetarily backed guarantee that ClassPass will drive incremental revenue growth. Through this guarantee, if the business does not see a positive impact within 90 days of implementing ClassPass, Mindbody will write that customer a check for 2x the difference.
"In this new era of wellness, consumers are looking for well-rounded routines that encompass multiple dimensions of wellness. This provides a great opportunity for wellness businesses to expand their client base - but we know that 21% of Mindbody customers say that acquiring new clients is their top hurdle," said Fritz Lanman, CEO of Mindbody and ClassPass. "Our goal has always been to help our customers build bigger, better businesses, and our data shows ClassPass drives a 32% user increase to studios. The ClassPass Revenue Guarantee shows Mindbody customers we don't just believe that ClassPass will drive them new incremental revenue, we are willing to guarantee it."
Mindbody acquired ClassPass in October of 2021 bringing two of the industry's most prominent leaders together. Mindbody helps businesses deliver amazing client experiences through powerful studio management software, while ClassPass helps businesses grow by merchandizing excess inventory and maximizing overall revenue by marketing and dynamically pricing open spots to ClassPass consumers. Together, Mindbody and ClassPass are creating the world's largest wellness experience marketplace for consumers.
With 80% of ClassPass users being new to the studios they visit, and 50% being new to group fitness, the potential for wellness businesses to gain new customers with ClassPass is substantial.
"Since bringing the companies together, we have seen firsthand how Mindbody and ClassPass are better together, and we are excited to show our customers just what this means through the Revenue Guarantee," Lanman said.
For more information on the ClassPass Revenue Guarantee, visit https://www.mindbodyonline.com/business/classpass-guarantee .
Mindbody is the leading experience technology platform for the fitness, wellness, and beauty industries. With the addition of ClassPass, the leading global fitness and wellness membership, to the Mindbody portfolio, consumers and wellness businesses around the world are easily connected through a rich wellness community. Fitness studios, salons, spas, and integrative health centers—from the newest entrepreneurs to the largest franchises—use Mindbody's integrated software and payments platform to run, market, and grow their businesses. Consumers use Mindbody and ClassPass to choose from a broad range of wellness experiences across thousands of gyms, exercise studios and wellness providers around the globe. For more information on how Mindbody is helping people lead healthier, happier lives by connecting the world to wellness, visit mindbodyonline.com.
ClassPass is revolutionizing the fitness and wellness industry by bringing together the world's best classes and experiences into one app. Founded in 2013 and acquired by leading wellness technology platform, Mindbody, in 2021, ClassPass connects members to millions of classes and experiences in 30 countries around the globe while working directly with businesses to merchandise their excess inventory, find new customers and generate new streams of revenue. With tens of thousands of fitness studios, gyms, and spas in the ClassPass network, members can use ClassPass to choose from a broad range of options including workout classes such as strength training, yoga, Pilates, and boxing and spa treatments such as massage, acupuncture, manicures and more. Additionally, ClassPass is now available as a wellness benefit with the world's leading employers. Learn more at http://classpass.com.
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New version of Westlaw enables lawyers to conduct research more than twice as fast and reduces risk of missing relevant cases
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters today introduced Westlaw Precision, a new version of Westlaw designed to dramatically improve research speed and quality by enabling lawyers to target precisely what they are looking for: legal issues, issue outcomes, fact patterns, motion types, motion outcomes, causes of action, party types, and more. In addition to precise searching, new capabilities include expanded KeyCite functionality and optimized workflow tools.
"Our customers tell us difficult legal research can often take more than 10 hours per case," said Mike Dahn, head of Product Management, Westlaw, Thomson Reuters. "It's time consuming because they are often looking for something very precise, but traditional searching rarely allows for such precision. Our customers needed more precision in searching to substantially reduce research time. To do that, we made the largest-ever investment in our editorial operations, and the result is Precision Research."
Addressing research challenges through precision in search
"Editorial excellence has long been at the heart of Westlaw," said Leann Blanchfield, head of Primary Law, Editorial, Thomson Reuters. "To enable more precision in search, we added more than 250 new attorney editors to mark up and classify case law in more useful ways for our customers. For more than 100 years, we have classified legal issues with the West Key Number System. Now we are also classifying cases by issue outcome, fact pattern, motion type, motion outcome, cause of action, and party type. This enables customers to specify precisely what they want and retrieve it quickly."
"If you're working on a breach-of-contract case, for example, you may be searching for cases decided at motion to dismiss, where the breach claim involved failure to deliver goods, and the motion was granted because the breach-of-contract claim was insufficiently alleged," Blanchfield added. "What complicates your research process is that 'failure to deliver goods' can be stated several ways, such as 'refused to deliver the magnesium alloy' or 'the capacitors never arrived.' And finding there was no breach of contract could be noted in dozens of ways too. You need a precise level of specificity to get it right."
In testing with more than 100 practicing attorneys, those who used Precision Research found relevant cases more than twice as fast as those using traditional search methods. At the end of their research sessions, those who used Precision Research also found nearly twice as many relevant cases as those who researched with traditional methods.
Multiple law firms, including Shearman & Sterling LLP and Larson LLP, state courts, and corporations were part of the beta program and are using Westlaw Precision.
"What Westlaw Precision does is it takes the critical quality information that Westlaw already brings to the table and elevates it to a new level," said Meredith Williams-Range, chief knowledge and client value officer, Shearman & Sterling, LLP. "One of the reasons we choose to continuously partner with Thomson Reuters and to be early adopters for the products that you bring to us is because you are changing the game that others are just not even coming to play in."
Unparalleled speed and accuracy for searching, filtering, and browsing
Precision Research is one of six new research capabilities offered in Westlaw Precision. The other five are:
- KeyCite Cited With: Shows related cases that have a pattern of being cited together even if neither cites the other
- KeyCite Overruled in Part: Indicates, via a new red-striped flag, that a case has been overruled in part and enables navigation directly to the language in the case discussing the point of law that has been overruled
- Graphical View of History: Displays a graphical visualization of research history, mapping out each step and highlighting the searches and documents with more research interaction
- Keep List/Hide Details: Allows users to save cases of interest and hide cases they have determined are not relevant to current research
- Outline Builder: Enables users to organize research with ease by dragging and dropping text into a customizable outline. Linked and formatted citations and KeyCite information integrate automatically, and the outline can easily be exported to begin drafting a brief
"Our testing demonstrated the value of Westlaw Precision, but we are just getting started," said Dahn. "The editorial work we have done for more than a century has enabled us to do big things with artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last decade, and our additional investment in new editorial markup and classification lays the foundation for a new wave of innovation. While Westlaw Precision offers significant speed and quality benefits now, we will continue to provide even faster and better research in the future."
Each iteration of Westlaw has delivered more confidence, efficiency, and accuracy in legal research, and Westlaw Precision continues that tradition, guided by the long history of editorial excellence and innovations that Thomson Reuters is known for.
To learn more, visit the Westlaw Precision product page.
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of business information services. Our products include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news service – Reuters. For more information on Thomson Reuters, visit tr.com and for the latest world news, reuters.com.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: SSD), an industry leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, announced today that Karen Colonias, Chief Executive Officer, and members of senior management will participate in the following upcoming conferences:
- The Sidoti & Company Fall Virtual Small Cap Investor Conference on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Simpson is scheduled to present virtually at 11:30 a.m. ET and will participate in meetings with investors virtually throughout the day.
- The D.A. Davidson 21st Annual Diversified Industrials & Services Conference at the Virgin Hotel in Nashville, TN on Thursday, September 22, 2022. Simpson is scheduled to present at 8:00 a.m. CT and will participate in meetings with investors throughout the day.
The presentations will be webcast live over the Internet, hosted on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at ir.simpsonmfg.com. In addition to the live webcast, a replay will be available on the Company's website for 90 days following the event.
About Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc., headquartered in Pleasanton, California, through its subsidiaries, including Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc., designs, engineers and is a leading manufacturer of wood construction products, including connectors, truss plates, fastening systems, fasteners and shear walls, and concrete construction products, including adhesives, specialty chemicals, mechanical anchors, powder actuated tools and reinforcing fiber materials. The Company primarily supplies its building product solutions to both the residential and commercial markets in North America and Europe. The Company's common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSD."
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is keeping the West guessing about whether Beijing will cooperate with tougher sanctions on Russia as he meets President Vladimir Putin, a year after declaring they had a “no limits” friendship ahead of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
China has avoided violating sanctions but its purchases of Russian oil and gas rose almost 60% in August over a year ago to 11.2 billion dollars (£9.6 billion).
That helps to top up Moscow’s cash flow after the United States, Europe and Japan cut purchases and expelled Russia from the global banking system.
Mr Xi and Mr Putin are due to meet this week in Uzbekistan at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an eight-nation Central Asian security group.
Washington and allies in the Group of Seven (G7) major economies want to squeeze Moscow by enforcing an upper limit on how much buyers are allowed to pay for its oil.
That would require cooperation from China, India and other energy-hungry Asian economies that have avoided taking sides, but still buy from Russia.
Sergei Vakulenko, a former strategy director for Russian gas giant Gazprom, wrote in a report for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: “India and China may decide to stay out of the fray and sign separate agreements with Russia.”
China’s potential role as a spoiler reflects its strength as the second-biggest global economy and its reluctance to hurt Russia.
Beijing-Moscow relations were chilly during the Soviet era but the two sides have formed a political marriage of convenience since the 1990s, united by shared frustration with US dominance of global affairs.
Russia is looking to China for support, said Alexander Gabuev, a leading Russian expert on ties with Beijing.
China is the largest trade and economic partner outside the sanctions coalition, he noted, contributing about 18% to Russia’s foreign trade.
As Russia embraces using the Chinese yuan as its main foreign currency and looks to China to replace some technology it cannot buy from the West, this level of collaboration will rise further.
Mr Gabuev said: “China will be a much larger partner of Russia by the end of this year, and especially in the coming years, when the oil embargo will fully work and gas exports to the EU will drop, possibly to zero, except for what gets through the Turkish stream.”
Beijing bought 20% of Moscow’s crude exports last year, according to the International Energy Agency. Purchases have risen this year, helping to top up Russia’s cash flow in the face of Western sanctions. China spent 60% more on Russian oil and gas in August than a year earlier, according to customs data.
The ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, spent billions of dollars on Russian fighter planes and other weapons starting in the late 1990s, but those purchases have ended as China develops its own technology.
G7 governments announced on September 2 they would enforce price caps on Russian oil by prohibiting their shipping companies or insurers from dealing with any customer that pays more. They have yet to say when that might take effect.
Other sanctions imposed by Washington, Europe and Japan are enforced by the threat that any country that violates them, even if it has not agreed to them, might also be cut off from valuable Western markets and the global banking system.
China, the biggest global energy consumer, has one of the biggest tanker fleets and its own insurers, which would allow Beijing to operate outside G7 curbs.
If China, India or other Asian governments refuse to cooperate, the G7 has to decide whether to sanction their biggest trading partners and “risk waging an economic war on several fronts,” Mr Vakulenko wrote.
Meanwhile, Russia has threatened to stop selling to any country that complies.
Mr Xi’s government also sees Russian oil and gas as a way to diversify supplies and reduce strategic risks from potential disruptions.
China rejects sanctions already in place as improper because they were not imposed through the United Nations, where Beijing and Moscow have veto power as permanent Security Council members. But Chinese banks and companies have complied for fear of losing access to valuable Western markets or the global financial system.
China or other countries aren’t barred from buying Russian energy. But President Joe Biden has warned Xi of unspecified consequences if Beijing helps Moscow evade sanctions.
Some Chinese companies are pulling out of Russia, but Beijing appears to be looking for ways to profit from Moscow’s isolation.
Gazprom agreed last week to let state-owned China National Petroleum Corporatio pay in Russian rubles or Chinese yuan instead of dollars. That works in China’s favour, because few other exporters accept yuan, which makes Russia more likely to buy Chinese goods.
Access to low-priced Russian oil and gas has helped China ward off the inflation that is roiling Western economies.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to mourn the passing of the Queen by doing what Britons do best – forming an orderly queue.
Up to 400,000 people are expected to brave a 12-hour wait on the banks of the Thames to catch a glimpse of the Queen’s coffin as she lies in state in Westminster Hall ahead of her funeral on Monday.
The doors of the hall will not open until 5pm on Wednesday, but by 8am the line already stretched between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge.
The Government was so worried about the numbers that it sent out lengthy guidance about what can be carried into the hall, bathroom facilities for queuers, and the risk of having to wait through the night.
It is thought the queue might reach four miles up the Thames to Southwark Park in Bermondsey before the public are admitted to the lying in state.
But among those already waiting, there was a sense that the least they could do was be there for a woman who they feel was always there for them.
The overwhelming sentiment among those waiting was a need to pay their respects, with many saying they had never really considered themselves royalists.
Small friendship groups had started to form among those waiting, with people offering around their snacks and keeping an eye on their neighbours’ bags so they could take comfort breaks.
A group of four women, who had all travelled alone, had struck up a conversation as they prepared to weather a rain shower.
Kate Paysen, 58, had flown from Lisbon just to be in London for the lying in state.
Ms Paysen, who grew up in the UK but emigrated in 1998, said: “I always felt that when the Queen died I would come and pay my respects.
“My father was in the Army and I grew up in a royalist household, and I think it’s important to come and be part of history. I think the Queen for me always made me feel proud to be British.”
Sarah Santangelo, 50, is based in the US but had been back in the UK for a few months.
“I always said that if anything ever happened to the Queen I would fly back, it just happened I was already here when she passed away.”
Ms Santangelo added: “She’s sacrificed her whole life for this country, the least I could do is pay my respects.”
Gina Carver, 60, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said: “To give up my day queuing is nothing compared to what she’s done for 70 years – and she does feel like our grandmother.
“She was the face of reason, you always think things are going to be alright if she says it’s alright.”
Helen Redding, 60, from Sidcup, south-east London, said: “When the Queen died I was shocked how much it meant to me.”
She added: “I felt like I had to be here, to be part of history and I didn’t want to miss this opportunity to pay my respects.
“I’m really glad I did because it’s a lovely atmosphere here.”
Lee Harkness, 51, a clinical psychologist from Lancashire, travelled down on Tuesday night with his daughter Chloe, 11, and his sister Louisa Harkness-Hudson, 55.
Mr Harkness said: “I’m not really a royalist, but having seen the (lying in state) in Edinburgh, it looked like a really nice way to pay my respects to someone who has dedicated themselves to this country.”
Mrs Harkness-Hudson said: “I thought ‘we’ll regret it if we don’t go’ – you only get one chance to do this, so we didn’t want to miss it.”
Chloe, on her first visit to London, said she had come along because she “wanted to witness a part of history”.
Among the other early birds were Rob Barber, 47, an immigration officer from Berkshire, who said: “I’m full of admiration for the Queen – she was part of our lives and she’s done a fantastic job for this country.
“She did what she set out to do and the least I could do was pay my respects to someone who devoted her life to service and duty.”
Matthew Greenwood, 41, from Yorkshire, said: “There’s this huge sense of history – I know it’s a cliche but the fact the Queen’s been on the throne for 70 years, the least I could do was spare a few hours to come and pay my respects.”
Those wishing to attend the Queen’s lying in state are advised to visit the Government’s website for advice on where to go, the length of the wait and what they can carry before they travel.
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Millions of young people believed the promise that going to college and getting a degree was a path to success and stability. For some, that’s true. For many others, it’s a lie that has left them buried in debt that can take decades to get out from under — making it more difficult to buy homes or have kids, the kinds of things their parents enjoyed after college-college-college wasn’t shoved down their throats.
Millennials and their parents too-often looked down on those who didn’t go to college. “Tech school” wrongly became a dirty word. Now, it has become increasingly clear that getting a less expensive, two-year, career-focused degree would have been a far better choice for many who instead got vague diplomas in marketing, English or even business.
It’s not the 18-year-old’s fault they believed what their parents and teachers told them, and it’s not their parents’ fault for believing the falsehood society told them — that your kid has got to go to college to be successful.
For former students whose money troubles have played a role in a struggling economy, we’re OK with this $400-600 billion bailout. It can help many people young and not-so-young get closer to stability. It will free up more money for them to spend at businesses, to buy houses rather than being pressed down by renting, and leave recipients freer to search for occupations they want than have to slave under jobs they have to hold onto in order to keep food on the table.
But we can’t keep making a habit of this. Parents, schools and American culture as a whole need to stop pressuring youth to pursue “higher education” for the sake of it. If someone truly wants to go to college and study finance or political science or medicine, let them. But the default for young Americans being “go to a four-year university or bust” needs to go away.
This has us thinking about something comedian John Mulaney said in 2019. Speaking about paying tuition to Georgetown University, from where he graduated college with an English degree: “I agreed to give them $120,000 when I was 17 years old, with no attorney present. That’s illegal,” he joked; it’s totally legal, even if it might be ill-advised. “They tricked me. They tricked me like Brendan Dassey on ‘Making a Murderer.’ … They pulled me out of high school. I was in sweatpants all confused. Two guys in clip-on ties were like, ‘Come on son, do the right thing. Sign here and you’ll be an English major.’”
And so he did. Mulaney listened to the adults and signed the paper. But unlike Mulaney — who got wealthy thanks to Saturday Night Live, not to mention he had the foundation of having two parents who are both big-time attorneys — the vast majority of his fellow millennials are still years behind of where their parents were monetarily, at little-to-no fault of their own.
We’ll leave you with this: The price of average homes in the U.S. compared to the median income is higher now than it has ever been in U.S. history: a home now costs more than eight times a single year’s median income. From 1960 until 2001, the difference was never greater than 5.25 times. The difference is even greater now than when the housing bubble burst less than 20 years ago, when homes still cost less than seven years’ wages.
Young people didn’t create that housing bubble. The systems built by their elders did.
Going forward, families need to make better financial decisions about high education. Another bailout should not be expected. The next generation needs to learn from the last one.
States with the most and least student debt
Ranking student debt by state
In the late 1980s, a high school graduate who wanted to attend college or university was looking at average tuition of $15,160 per year for a private, nonprofit school and $3,190 per year for a public college or university. As of 2021, that number had ballooned to $37,600 for private, nonprofit colleges and $9,400 for public schools. Once the cost of books, room and board, and other fees are added in, paying for college with a part-time or summer job is increasingly becoming a thing of the past.
Today's students are instead turning to loans, leading to a widespread debt crisis. Americans currently owe a collective $1.58 trillion in student loans, changing the shape and trajectory of the U.S. economy. Instead of buying cars or houses, many millennials are focused on finding jobs that will enable them to make loan payments without defaulting.
Some states are taking steps to help by adopting a Student Borrower Bill of Rights and offering a variety of scholarship and loan repayment programs for qualified graduates. In New York in 2017, for example, New York announced a scholarship program that would provide free tuition at public colleges to residents whose families make less than $125,000 a year.
Stacker looked at 2022 data from the Federal Reserve of New York to determine where student debt is hitting the nation the hardest. In the case of a tie, we looked at the number of borrowers in all tied states.
Read on to see where your state falls on the list.
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#51. South Dakota
- Number of borrowers: 135,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $28,218
South Dakota participates in the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program , while the Dakota Corps Scholarship aims to help students in the state.
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#50. Iowa
- Number of borrowers: 465,500
- Average loan balance per borrower: $29,845
Iowa has a number of student loan forgiveness programs , including programs for teachers, nurses, doctors, physician assistants, and other health care providers.
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#49. Alaska
- Number of borrowers: 70,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $30,427
Alaska offers a loan repayment program for health care workers who will live and work in areas with a shortage of medical, dental, and behavioral health professionals. The state is among those with the lowest proportion of students with debt, according to WalletHub.
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#48. North Dakota
- Number of borrowers: 114,100
- Average loan balance per borrower: $30,542
Veterinarians can qualify for loan forgiveness in North Dakota if they will serve in high-need areas. Three are chosen each year, with the goal of attracting new veterinarians for animals raised for meat.
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#47. Wyoming
- Number of borrowers: 57,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $30,581
Wyoming's Hathaway Scholarship , created in 2005 with a $400 million permanent endowment, pays for qualified high school graduates to attend the University of Wyoming or any of the state's seven community colleges. The Wyoming Healthcare Professional Loan Repayment Program repays health professionals' educational loans if they practice in an underserved area for at least three years.
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#46. Wisconsin
- Number of borrowers: 785,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $31,482
In 2020, Wisconsin's governor created a task force to look for ways to reduce student debt in the state. The loans disproportionately affect low-income and first-generation college students, students of color, women, and veterans, according to the governor.
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#45. Nebraska
- Number of borrowers: 261,000
- Average loan balance per borrower: $31,551
Primary care doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals are eligible for loan repayment awards in Nebraska if they practice in areas where there are shortages.
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#44. Arkansas
- Number of borrowers: 374,900
- Average loan balance per borrower: $31,851
After Arkansas began a default management program in 2013, students' default rates fell almost every year . From 2013 to 2018, Arkansas' default rate dropped 7.8 percentage points, compared to the national rate, which fell 3.9 percentage points. By the end of 2021, the state's delinquency rate was 9%.
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#43. Indiana
- Number of borrowers: 924,000
- Average loan balance per borrower: $32,045
Indiana provides student loan relief for lawyers working in legal aid through its Richard M. Givan Loan Repayment Assistance program . Another program, Hon. J. Terrence and Peggy Cody Loan Repayment Assistance, provides aid to law school graduates working in child services. Legal scholarships are also available.
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#42. Oklahoma
- Number of borrowers: 480,800
- Average loan balance per borrower: $32,102
Oklahoma offers loan forgiveness to physicians, dentists, and other health professionals who agree to serve in specific communities in the state.
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#41. West Virginia
- Number of borrowers: 217,200
- Average loan balance per borrower: $32,214
West Virginia recruits medical professionals to rural areas through student loan forgiveness. It looks for doctors, nurses, midwives, physician assistants, pharmacists, dentists, and other providers.
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#40. Montana
- Number of borrowers: 132,900
- Average loan balance per borrower: $32,459
In Montana, medical professionals can receive up to $15,000 a year by working in certain areas in the state through the Montana State Loan Repayment Program.
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#39. New Mexico
- Number of borrowers: 215,500
- Average loan balance per borrower: $32,944
For students at risk of defaulting on loans, New Mexico offers student loan forgiveness and consolidation of debt. Doctors and nurses who help address the health care shortage in New Mexico can qualify for no-interest loans and other benefits.
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#38. Texas
- Number of borrowers: 3,759,300
- Average loan balance per borrower: $32,998
A 2019 study by Southern Methodist University found that Black and Hispanic students in Texas borrow more than white students on average: $7,124 more for Black students and $453 for Hispanic students; meanwhile, Asian students borrow $3,155 less.
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#37. New Hampshire
- Number of borrowers: 219,000
- Average loan balance per borrower: $33,094
New Hampshire offers student loan forgiveness to primary care doctors, dentists, and other health care providers, with the goal of drawing them to underserved or low-income areas. It also offers help to lawyers working for nonprofit organizations.
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#36. Kentucky
- Number of borrowers: 588,800
- Average loan balance per borrower: $33,155
By the end of 2021, Kentucky had a student loan delinquency rate of 10% , putting it among the top five states with the highest delinquency rates in the country. Kentucky has a loan repayment program for health care professionals who work in rural and underserved areas.
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#33. Maine
- Number of borrowers: 203,200
- Average loan balance per borrower: $33,584
On average, Maine college graduates owed more than $33,500 each in student loans. The state offers student debt relief to graduates who live and work there under the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit.
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#32. Rhode Island
- Number of borrowers: 153,200
- Average loan balance per borrower: $33,838
The Rhode Island Student Loan Authority offers low-cost student loans, refinancing choices, and free tools to find internships and scholarships. In 2019, it enacted a Student Loan Bill of Rights to make sure borrowers are treated fairly.
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#31. Kansas
- Number of borrowers: 395,200
- Average loan balance per borrower: $33,954
Kansas offers loan repayment relief to students who will live in rural areas, are health care professionals, and are primary care or psychiatry residents through its Bridging Plan .
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#30. Idaho
- Number of borrowers: 219,400
- Average loan balance per borrower: $34,196
Idaho provides loan forgiveness programs for those working in areas short on health professionals. This includes physicians, clinicians, and nurses in rural and underserved areas. Idaho students owe, on average, $34,196.
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#29. Vermont
- Number of borrowers: 96,300
- Average loan balance per borrower: $34,595
Vermont has the highest number of student loan borrowers who are 50 or older, according to a 2019 WalletHub study. Student loan debt there averaged $34,595 per borrower by the end of 2021—about $5000 more than the national average.
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#28. Hawaii
- Number of borrowers: 123,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $34,608
The 10 campuses of the University of Hawaii are considered affordable, with in-state tuition at the three four-year schools below the national average. The state also has programs to keep costs down—namely the Hawaii Promise scholarship program for community college students and the Hawaii State Loan Repayment Program, which provides grants to health care professionals who fill geographic shortages.
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#27. Louisiana
- Number of borrowers: 644,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $34,839
In 2022, Louisiana reported that more than half of its high school graduates were eligible for state scholarships for college. The state's FY23 budget also includes a 12% increase in funding for higher education.
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#26. Washington
- Number of borrowers: 816,900
- Average loan balance per borrower: $34,846
The Student Loan Survival Guide, published by the Washington attorney general's office, offers links to resources for financing higher education to every high school student considering college loans and former college students who struggled with the cost of school.
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#25. Missouri
- Number of borrowers: 829,100
- Average loan balance per borrower: $35,095
In Missouri, 58% of graduates had student loan debt in 2017, and they owed an average of $28,650. By the end of 2021, borrowers owed more than $35,000 each on average. The state offers student loan forgiveness to some employees of government agencies or nonprofit organizations.
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#24. Pennsylvania
- Number of borrowers: 2,032,400
- Average loan balance per borrower: $35,349
With its borrowers owing more than $35,000 each on average, Pennsylvania has some of the highest student debt in the country. It hovers around the middle of the pack for delinquency rate, though, at 7.2%
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#23. Massachusetts
- Number of borrowers: 1,046,800
- Average loan balance per borrower: $35,400
In 2021, Massachusetts put into place a Student Borrowers Bill of Rights and appointed a Student Loan Ombudsman in order to protect student borrowers.
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#22. Nevada
- Number of borrowers: 351,300
- Average loan balance per borrower: $35,688
Nevada State College provides students with access to a financial literacy program. Still, in the last quarter of 2021, the state's loan delinquency rate was the fifth-highest in the nation.
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#21. Ohio
- Number of borrowers: 1,810,900
- Average loan balance per borrower: $35,806
Ohio offers a variety of repayment programs for doctors, dentists, and other health care providers, including the Ohio Department of Health State Loan Repayment Program, the Ohio Physician Loan Repayment Program, the Ohio Dentist and Dental Hygienist Loan Repayment Program, and the Nurse Education Assistance Loan Program.
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#20. Tennessee
- Number of borrowers: 872,000
- Average loan balance per borrower: $36,155
Tennessee offers a loan forgiveness program for state residents who are registered nurses that agree to become administrators or teachers in nursing education programs. It also offers a Minority Teaching Fellows Program that grants $5000 per year for qualified students pursuing teacher certification at an eligible Tennessee college.
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#19. Michigan
- Number of borrowers: 1,430,900
- Average loan balance per borrower: $36,221
Michigan places fifth in student loan debt as a percentage of income, according to a 2019 WalletHub study. The state offers scholarships or loan forgiveness programs for teachers, nurses, doctors, dentists, and other health care professionals.
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#18. Mississippi
- Number of borrowers: 414,300
- Average loan balance per borrower: $36,366
Mississippi offers forgivable loans to nurses and teachers in undergraduate programs and to counselors, school administrators, dyslexia therapists, and speech pathologists in graduate programs.
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#17. Connecticut
- Number of borrowers: 542,800
- Average loan balance per borrower: $36,391
In April 2020, Connecticut's governor announced that in collaboration with other states, Connecticut had reached an agreement for relief for some privately held student loans. The state also offers a Minority Teacher Incentive program that provides grants to students and loan reimbursement of up to $2,500 a year for participants who become teachers for Connecticut's public school system.
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#16. Arizona
- Number of borrowers: 872,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $36,682
The student loan delinquency rate for borrowers in Arizona was 8.7% at the end of 2021—down 3% from the previous year. The state has a few loan repayment programs for teachers and qualified borrowers working in health services.
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#15. South Carolina
- Number of borrowers: 745,500
- Average loan balance per borrower: $36,698
A WalletHub study in 2019 found that South Carolina ranked fourth for debt as a percentage of income in the U.S. The state offers several types of loans and loan forgiveness programs for students pursuing the teaching profession and graduates serving as teachers.
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#14. New Jersey
- Number of borrowers: 1,339,800
- Average loan balance per borrower: $37,003
Although New Jersey borrowers owe more than borrowers in 36 other states as of the last quarter of 2021, the state has a borrower delinquency rate of just 5.8%—which is better than 37 other states. The state also offers loan redemption programs for borrowers in specific professions, including lawyers, nursing instructors, and primary care health providers.
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#13. Colorado
- Number of borrowers: 804,300
- Average loan balance per borrower: $37,235
Colorado is more reliant on tuition than other states. In fact, 70% of funding for higher education in the state comes from tuition; the national average is 46.6%. This policy forces many students in Colorado to borrow.
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#12. North Carolina
- Number of borrowers: 1,340,500
- Average loan balance per borrower: $37,511
In North Carolina, more than 60% of students who graduate have debt; however, its schools have relatively low tuition and the state's governor directed an additional $34 million dollars for postsecondary education in April 2022.
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#11. Alabama
- Number of borrowers: 615,800
- Average loan balance per borrower: $37,730
Alabama ranks in the top states for rising student debt over five years, according to an Experian analysis in 2019, and 50.3% of borrowers are under age 35 . The state offers a student grant program for qualified applicants that attend one of 12 participating colleges.
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#10. California
- Number of borrowers: 4,021,200
- Average loan balance per borrower: $37,783
In September 2020, California's governor signed the Student Borrower Bill of Rights into law. The law helps students participate in loan repayment and forgiveness programs. The California State Loan Repayment Program offers relief to doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, and other health care providers who will practice in areas of the state where they are most needed.
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#9. Illinois
- Number of borrowers: 1,713,900
- Average loan balance per borrower: $37,869
College loans in Illinois can be refinanced at low interest rates by the Illinois Treasurer's Office under the Illinois Student Loan Investment Act passed in 2019. Some 17% of the state's population has student loan debt. Its balance per borrower is nearing $40,000 —which is among the top 10 highest.
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#8. Oregon
- Number of borrowers: 556,000
- Average loan balance per borrower: $38,248
Oregon's borrower delinquency rate was 8.3% as of the end of 2021—down three percent from the previous year. The state offers forgiveness and incentive programs for health care providers and lawyers.
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#7. Florida
- Number of borrowers: 2,646,400
- Average loan balance per borrower: $38,653
Florida passed a law in 2020 to protect graduates' professional licenses if they defaulted on their loans; prior to the passage of this law, graduates could have professional licenses revoked for failing to pay their student loans. Florida also has forgiveness programs for different professions, including the law and nursing fields.
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#6. New York
- Number of borrowers: 2,579,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $38,668
College graduates of an approved New York State college or university who agree to operate a farm in the state full time for five years can obtain loan forgiveness under a young farmers program. The state has forgiveness programs for a number of other professions as well.
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#5. Virginia
- Number of borrowers: 1,143,200
- Average loan balance per borrower: $39,001
Among Virginia's graduates, 57% had student loan debt, according to a 2019 report from the nonprofit The Institute for College Access and Success. In 2021, the state passed a bill of rights for student borrowers.
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#4. Delaware
- Number of borrowers: 137,300
- Average loan balance per borrower: $39,238
Delaware's average debt per borrower is among the highest in the country; only Georgia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. surpass it. Delaware's student loan repayment program helps to offset this burden.
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#3. Georgia
- Number of borrowers: 1,641,600
- Average loan balance per borrower: $41,826
In Georgia, 56% of the graduating class of 2020 had student loan debt. The average loan balance per borrower is especially high in the state, considering that 79% of students attended public colleges which are usually less expensive than private colleges.
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#2. Maryland
- Number of borrowers: 864,700
- Average loan balance per borrower: $42,543
Only Washington D.C. has an average loan balance per borrower higher than Maryland. But the state offers a Loan Debt Relief Tax Credit for borrowers who took out at least $20,000 in loans and have at least $5,000 in debt still outstanding.
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#1. District of Columbia
- Number of borrowers: 125,000
- Average loan balance per borrower: $53,769
The District of Columbia's ombudsman and its Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking help students minimize their debt. The district's attorney general's office has also compiled a web page of student loan repayment resources. Even so, Washington D.C. borrowers have the highest average loan balance in the country.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury will say a prayer for “thy servant Queen Elizabeth” and deliver a blessing when the Queen’s coffin is received in Westminster Hall for the lying in state.
Archbishop Justin Welby will oversee the short service in the ancient Palace of Westminster on Wednesday.
Watched by the King and Queen Consort, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and other members of the royal family, it is taking place after the solemn procession of the coffin from Buckingham Palace.
The Queen was consulted on the religious proceedings, as she was on all the London Bridge plans before her death.
The Choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, will sing Psalm 139 – O Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me.
It featured in the thanksgiving service held for the Queen’s 90th birthday in 2016, when the archbishop read excerpts and said it explored “fear and wonder, and the connection between them”.
He spoke then of looking back on the Queen’s life with “deep wonder and profound gratitude” amid past times of personal challenge and national crisis.
The archbishop will read an opening prayer, in which he will say: “O God, the maker and redeemer of all mankind: grant us, with thy servant Queen Elizabeth, and all the faithful departed, the sure benefits of thy Son’s saving passion and glorious resurrection.”
The Dean of Westminster, the Very Rev Dr David Hoyle will also say prayers and the Collect, and the choir will sing The Motet.
The archbishop’s blessing will include the words “the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace”.
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Kerry County Council has received 785 submissions on the draft ministerial direction, relating to wind energy policy in the Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028.
This focused on the council’s selection of only one area for consideration for wind farm development.
The Office of the Planning Regulator found the Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028 was inconsistent with the National Planning Framework.
It found issue with the council’s decision to omit areas to be considered for wind farm development.
Councillors introduced a measure which would restrict construction of wind energy infrastructure to Kilgarvan, in an effort to prevent any more turbines in areas like Sliabh Luachra and North Kerry which, they say, have reached capacity for windfarms.
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage then got involved, issuing a direction to the council; this had to go out on public consultation, with 785 submissions made in a two-week period up to September 7th.
Kerry county councillors are expected to meet shortly for the purpose of collating their views, and making recommendations to be contained in a Chief Executive’s Report.
The Chief Executive is required to report on public submissions, as well as on the views of elected members.
This report will be sent to the Office of the Planning Regulator and Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for consideration and further direction.
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Steelers rookie has Mike Tomlin looking on bright side for strange reason
Jaylen Warren played for Utah State and Oklahoma State in college
Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday he was encouraged with the performance of rookie running back Jaylen Warren in his first professional appearance on an NFL field, but not for the reasons any fan may think of.
Warren’s stat line was not spectacular.
He had seven rushing yards on three carries. He was also targeted once by quarterback Mitchell Trubisky in the team’s overtime win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
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So, why was Tomlin looking on the bright side?
"He didn’t urinate down his leg and that’s a great place to begin," Tomlin told reporters. "And that’s capable of happening for a young guy but I think that’s indicative of him throughout this process and that’s why he’s gone from being an undrafted guy to a guy that’s carving a role out for himself.
"Because at no step in team development did he show that circumstances were too big for him. He was competitive, and he’s being competitive. He was on Sunday, so good for him and good for us."
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Warren was a standout running back at Utah State and Oklahoma State during his collegiate career.
He spent two seasons with the Aggies before transferring to Oklahoma State. He had 821 rushing yards and eight touchdowns at Utah State and 1,216 yards and 11 touchdowns in his lone season with the Cowboys.
Warren found himself with the Steelers after the draft to provide depth behind Najee Harris.
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Harris suffered a foot injury in Week 1 but is expecting to play in Week 2 against the New England Patriots.
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Report: TikTok search results riddled with misinformation
(AP) - TikTok may be the platform of choice for catchy videos, but anyone using it to learn about COVID-19, climate change or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to encounter misleading information, according to a research report published Wednesday.
Researchers at NewsGuard searched for content about prominent news topics on TikTok and say they found that nearly 1 in 5 of the videos automatically suggested by the platform contained misinformation.
Searches for information about “mRNA vaccine,” for instance, yielded five videos (out of the first 10) that contained misinformation, including baseless claims that the COVID-19 vaccine causes “permanent damage in children’s critical organs.”
Researchers looking for information about abortion, the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, climate change or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on TikTok found similarly misleading videos scattered among more accurate clips.
The amount of misinformation — and the ease with which it can be found — is especially troubling given TikTok’s popularity with young people, according to Steven Brill, founder of NewsGuard, a firm that monitors misinformation.
TikTok is the second most popular domain in the world, according to online performance and security company Cloudflare, exceeded only by Google.
Brill questioned whether ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is doing enough to stop misinformation or whether it deliberately allows misinformation to proliferate as a way to sow confusion in the U.S. and other Western democracies.
“It’s either incompetence or it’s something worse,” Brill told The Associated Press.
TikTok released a statement in response to NewsGuard’s report noting that its community guidelines prohibit harmful misinformation and that it works to promote authoritative content about important topics like COVID-19.
“We do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform,” the company said.
TikTok has taken other steps that it says are intended to direct users to trustworthy sources. This year, for example, the company created an election center to help U.S. voters find voting places or information about candidates.
The platform removed more than 102 million videos that violated its rules in the first quarter of 2022. Yet only a tiny percentage of those ran afoul of TikTok’s rules against misinformation.
Researchers found that TikTok’s own search tool seems designed to steer users to false claims in some cases. When researchers typed the words “COVID vaccine” into the search tool, for instance, the tool suggested searches on key words including “COVID vaccine exposed” and “COVID vaccine injury.”
When the same search was run on Google, however, that search engine suggested searches relating to more accurate information about vaccine clinics, the different types of vaccines and booster shots.
TikTok’s rise in popularity has caught the attention of state officials and federal lawmakers, some of whom have expressed concerns about its data privacy and security.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on social media’s impact on the nation’s security. TikTok’s chief operating officer, Vanessa Pappas, is set to testify alongside representatives from YouTube, Twitter and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook.
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TikTok may be the platform of choice for catchy videos, but anyone using it to learn about COVID-19, climate change or Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to encounter misleading information, according to a research report published Wednesday.
Researchers at NewsGuard searched for content about prominent news topics on TikTok and say they found that nearly 1 in 5 of the videos automatically suggested by the platform contained misinformation.
Searches for information about “mRNA vaccine," for instance, yielded five videos (out of the first 10) that contained misinformation, including baseless claims that the COVID-19 vaccine causes “permanent damage in children's critical organs.”
Researchers looking for information about abortion, the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, climate change or Russia's invasion of Ukraine on TikTok found similarly misleading videos scattered among more accurate clips.
The amount of misinformation — and the ease with which it can be found — is especially troubling given TikTok's popularity with young people, according to Steven Brill, founder of NewsGuard, a firm that monitors misinformation.
TikTok is the second most popular domain in the world, according to online performance and security company Cloudflare, exceeded only by Google.
Brill questioned whether ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is doing enough to stop misinformation or whether it deliberately allows misinformation to proliferate as a way to sow confusion in the U.S. and other Western democracies.
“It's either incompetence or it's something worse,” Brill told The Associated Press.
TikTok released a statement in response to NewsGuard's report noting that its community guidelines prohibit harmful misinformation and that it works to promote authoritative content about important topics like COVID-19.
“We do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform,” the company said.
TikTok has taken other steps that it says are intended to direct users to trustworthy sources. This year, for example, the company created an election center to help U.S. voters find voting places or information about candidates.
The platform removed more than 102 million videos that violated its rules in the first quarter of 2022. Yet only a tiny percentage of those ran afoul of TikTok's rules against misinformation.
Researchers found that TikTok's own search tool seems designed to steer users to false claims in some cases. When researchers typed the words “COVID vaccine" into the search tool, for instance, the tool suggested searches on key words including “COVID vaccine exposed" and "COVID vaccine injury."
When the same search was run on Google, however, that search engine suggested searches relating to more accurate information about vaccine clinics, the different types of vaccines and booster shots.
TikTok's rise in popularity has caught the attention of state officials and federal lawmakers, some of whom have expressed concerns about its data privacy and security.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on social media's impact on the nation's security. TikTok's chief operating officer, Vanessa Pappas, is set to testify alongside representatives from YouTube, Twitter and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook.
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Tesla (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:TSLA) may have a problem if competition in the electric vehicle [EV] space heats up dramatically into 2023-24, from the likes of General Motors (GM), Ford (F), Volkswagen AG (OTCPK:VWAGY) (OTCPK:VWAPY) (OTCPK:VLKAF), Honda (HMC) (OTCPK:HNDAF), Hyundai Motor (OTCPK:HYMLF) (OTCPK:HYMTF), Nissan (OTCPK:NSANY) (OTCPK:NSANF), Toyota (TM) (OTCPK:TOYOF) and others.
Standard Tesla Model 3 autos are going for $45,000 and up today, and are the least expensive offering from the company. That buys you rear-drive only with a battery range of 270 miles. Dual motor, all-wheel drive, with 350 miles for range will cost you more than $50,000 upfront (before tax credits or sales tax).
Over the last week, General Motors has been out marketing its Chevy Equinox EV model, taking preorders for delivery in 2024. The cost will be around $30,000 for a base setup, about the same as its brother SUV gas-powered Equinox option, BEFORE considering environmental tax credits from the government OR the much lower variable energy/maintenance costs of ownership.
https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/equinox-ev
The least expensive EVs on the market currently are priced between $27,000 and $40,000, with various battery ranges under 300 miles. Pictured below is a sampling of about 30 vehicles for sale into 2023. This list includes the Nissan Leaf, Ford F-150 Lightning Truck, GM Bolt, Hyundai Kona Electric, and Volkswagen ID.4 SUV.
Volkswagen is also releasing the first minivan soon, stylish and fun for buyers. The ID.Buzz is VW’s first minivan slash small bus for consumers and businesses, all electric for the 2024 model year in America. The cost is projected around $50,000.
The Honda Prologue SUV is expected by 2024. Rumors of an all-electric Accord model by 2024 are also floating around. Suggested base prices are around $40,000.
Toyota’s hybrid push is morphing into the all-electric arena in 2024, based on analyst expectations and company presentations. The Toyota bZ4X SUV is their first completely EV model coming to market in the U.S.
Not only is competition coming from existing automakers, but some of the richest Big Tech companies are working hard on their own versions. The Sony (SONY) (OTCPK:SNEJF) Vision-S SUV and Sedan models are expected by 2025.
Self-driving, autonomous autos are the holy grail of Big Tech research and development efforts. Apple (AAPL) is working overtime to have a vehicle by 2025 (according to widespread rumors and speculation by analysts), which I am sure will be a hit with consumers if it is affordable in the $50,000 range, with safety and autonomous features surpassing Tesla. Speculation is Apple will soon team with an existing car company to manufacture EVs on a contract basis.
Then we have the Alphabet/Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) effort, under development by its Waymo unit since 2014, tested on the streets of America. Whether they partner with another automaker or produce it entirely inhouse, Waymo’s futuristic technology will undoubtedly be available in the not-too-distant future.
Battle for sales will revolve around four features in my mind: price, safety, warranties, and performance. Today, Tesla scores the strongest for safety and performance. Stellar third-party crash test results and ratings, on top of some really cool driving features are the best-selling points for new purchasers. However, price is on the high side vs. ramping competition, and old-school networks of dealership service sites all over the world for existing gas-powered automakers could become a huge problem for future Tesla company growth and profitability. If you can buy a car/truck/SUV with similar battery life and recharging mechanics, at a lower price, with adequate safety designs, yeoman performance capabilities, and smarter warranty coverage, most all consumers will opt to buy EVs not produced by Tesla.
The “cost” crossover from gasoline to EV buying logic has arrived into 2023 for American buyers, with the passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s tax incentives. For clean emission autos assembled in the U.S., tax credits of up to $7,500 are now available. Effectively, the price to purchase many new vehicles powered solely by electricity and battery storage is now lower upfront than traditional autos with fossil-fuel burning engines. Add into this equation maintenance costs will be lower each year (as fewer parts and systems are necessary for EVs to run), while the daily “expense” to power each vehicle will drop by 50% to 75% at $3.50 per gallon gasoline. You will not sacrifice acceleration and braking performance. Safety may actually improve, and warranties may cover more potential operating issues for longer periods of 5 to 10 years, than exist currently. Why wouldn’t you buy an EV starting in 2023-24, absent the long-distance cross-country trip excuse for slow battery recharging time?
While competition is great for consumers, it is horrible news for a company holding a huge share of this market. Tesla’s dominance could easily be ending in 18-24 months, especially as a variety of new EV entrants will probably turn into trendy hits with buyers.
In the end, both Volkswagen and GM believe they will be selling more EV cars than Tesla between 2025-26, only 3-4 years from now. So, Tesla could very quickly fall from the #1 seller worldwide to #3 or lower in the not-too-distant future. The only way the company may be able to stick around is through the offering of lower-priced, lower-margin vehicle designs. My main worry is peak earnings for Tesla may occur in 2023-24, followed by a steep dive, perhaps into a permanent operating loss position thereafter.
So, does an auto-industry record $950 billion in equity market capitalization make sense in September 2022? Is Tesla really worth more than the rest of the world’s auto industry COMBINED? My answers are NO. Plenty of risk is now part of the shareholder proposition, perhaps far greater downside than was baked into the investment equation a year or two ago. Below is a review of market caps vs. some of Tesla’s main competitors in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The group includes Ford, GM, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz (OTCPK:MBGAF) (OTCPK:DMLRY), Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, BMW AG (OTCPK:BMWYY) (OTCPK:BAMXF) (OTCPK:BYMOF), Kia (OTCPK:KIMTF), and BYD (OTCPK:BYDDF) (OTCPK:BYDDY) a leading Chinese EV company partially owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B).
A quick review of basic trailing valuations also argues Tesla is incredibly overvalued, especially if growth peaks in 2023 from real competition. Basic ratio analysis of price to sales and earnings, or EV to EBITDA comparisons screams Tesla is amazingly expensive.
While this richly-valued setting has been normal for Tesla the last three years, no serious competitive threats existed before now. Whether shareholders like it or not, we are entering a new era of intense competition. But that's not all the bearish news, rising interest rates and a slowing economy may have high-pointed Tesla’s valuation during January-February 2021, around the time of maximum meme-stock frenzy buying on Wall Street.
My biggest concern is Tesla's profit margins are peaking. Competition will dramatically change the pricing outlook for electric vehicles, potentially dragging operating results closer to breakeven or into loss territory a few years out. That's how free-market capitalism and supply/demand forces work.
I have written several articles critical of Tesla over the past year on Seeking Alpha, and I am growing more bearish now. While price peaked in early November around $414 (split-adjusted) with other Big Tech names, upside buying momentum has been methodically topping for months into 2022. The $315 high price of August, just above the 200-day moving average, may prove a failure on the charts, especially if a downturn under the 50-day moving average confirms a bearish pattern reversal.
While some technical trading arguments were relatively bullish months ago for Tesla, my favorite momentum indicators have topped and turned lower since April. Below you can review peaks in the Accumulation/Distribution Line, Negative Volume Index, and On Balance Volume readings. For me, the most troubling reversal lower has been in the NVI (marked with the red arrow), which looks at trading changes on lower volume days. While this indicator remained bullish into June, signaling real buying interest on slow volume days, it has changed character of late.
Don’t laugh (cry maybe if you are a shareholder), but a Tesla price under $100 per share could be reality in 18-24 months. Such would still place the company as the most valuable automaker by market cap. However, it would push price into a more normal valuation zone vs. the rising and likely successful tide of EV competition approaching fast.
How could this bearish forecast end up being wrong? This question revolves around consumer demand and Tesla’s reputation. If buyers believe owning the brand name is more important than pocketbook issues, selling cars over $50,000 may remain a profitable and growing venture for the company, albeit at lower rates than the recent past of near-monopoly market share status.
My worry is cars with lower costs and comparable operating performance will be more desirable for the masses. With about 30 EV options available today in the U.S. with prices under Tesla’s lowest dollar-cost model, likely more than 50 by 2024, and as many as 150 models by 20+ automakers by 2026 [by my count, including smaller EV startups like Rivian Automotive (RIVN)], continued dominance of the sector is no longer guaranteed. Better warranties and service options, maybe even stronger safety features could torpedo Tesla sales.
If the company is forced to lower prices to keep some legitimacy in the EV market, profits and cash flow could be crushed by 2025. At that point, investors may not want to own shares anywhere near the same bubble proportions and excitement in portfolio construction as 2021-22. In other words, it could be tough sledding for both Tesla and its investors by the end of 2023. Smart investors may see the writing on the wall and decide to sell shares now, before competitive forces drive growth into the ground.
I am moving my rating from Hold to Sell. The Tesla bubble may finally be popping. The question I have for existing owners is what is your pain threshold? If you are not willing to sell now, you need to draw up some red lines that would convince you to exit - a lower stock quote, sales/earnings misses from sky-high analyst projections for 2023? Without doubt, less-risky growth stories can be found on Wall Street, many with valuations similar to the S&P 500. Why not focus on them with your investment capital?
How far and fast could Tesla's share price fall? Well, I warned a few years ago in my articles about the intense competition coming to online streaming services, with Avoid and Sell ratings on Netflix (NFLX) and Disney (DIS). From last year's highs, Netflix fell as much as 75% (over six months) and Disney 55% (over 14 months). In a similar vein, and perhaps from a more overvalued position, projecting a Tesla decline of 75% from last November's all-time high gets you close to $100 per share in the first half of 2023. Don't say it cannot happen.
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PARIS (AP) — A French court was expected to issue a verdict Wednesday in the trial of the Yemeni airline that operated a passenger plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, killing 152 people.
The Yemenia flight departed from Paris, picked up more passengers in the southern French city of Marseille and made a stopover in Sanaa, Yemen, where 142 passengers and 11 crew members boarded another plane to continue to Moroni, the Comoros capital.
During the landing in strong winds, the aging Airbus A310 crashed about 15 kilometers (9 miles) off the Comorian coast on June 30, 2009.
Yemenia, which is the flagship carrier of Yemen, has been charged in the Paris court with “manslaughter and unintentional injuries” in the civil case, and faces a fine of up to 225,000 euros ($237,000). The company has denied responsibility.
Most of the passengers onboard were from Comoros. Yemenia was tried in Paris over the injuries of the crash’s only survivor, who was 12 years old at the time, and the deaths of 65 French citizens.
The survivor, Bahia Bakari, clung to floating debris from the plane for 11 hours in the sea before being rescued. She suffered a broken collarbone, a broken hip, burns and other injuries, and her mother died in the crash.
Now 25, Bakari gave powerful testimony in a packed courtroom in May, earning praise for her bravery from judges and lawyers.
Other witnesses slammed what they claimed was the poor state of air travel from Yemen, which has since been embroiled in a brutal civil war. Some claimed Yemenia was more interested in profits than in taking care of its passengers.
A lawyer for the victims’ families, Said Larifou, denounced the operation of passenger plans that he claimed were “flying coffins.”
In 2015, two French courts that oversaw civil proceedings ordered Yemenia to pay more than 30 million euros ($31.6 million) to the victims’ families, who deplored the slowness of the procedure between France and the Comoros, a former colony that became independent in 1975.
The airline in 2018 signed a confidential agreement with 835 beneficiaries, who had to wait several more years to receive compensation.
No representatives of the company attended the Paris trial. Bakari deplored the absence and said she wished the company would apologize.
Despite the pain of reliving the memories, she said she felt relieved to have a trial, even so many years later.
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Strolling along a public trail, you breathe in the fresh air and feel your stress melt away. Birds sing. Tree branches sway in the breeze. Sunlight warms your skin. And then you step in a pile of dog poop.
Yuck. The squish, the lingering stench, the sight of it stuck in the tread of your sneakers. Unfortunately, many people have endured this traumatic experience. Dog waste has long been a problem in public outdoor spaces, in trail networks and on beaches. And in addition to being disgusting, this problem is a public health concern, and can harm the environment and wildlife.
Now, before I dive into this unappealing topic, I need to make a confession. I go hiking with my dog, Oreo, often, and over the years, I’ve struggled with always scooping Oreo’s poop into a plastic bag when he squats in the woods. Picking up dog waste in an unpleasant task, and carrying a baggy full of it while hiking isn’t appealing either. I will admit that there have been times when I have been caught without a bag, when I’ve buried Oreo’s waste, or flicked it in to the underbrush with a stick. So I understand, first hand, why this problem exists.
I’m not here to wag my finger at dog owners. That would be hypocritical. But after speaking with numerous conservationists and trail maintainers and doing a little research into the topic, I want to share with you — my fellow dog owners — reasons why it’s important to scoop poop. Because I don’t know about you, but if I’m going to perform such a disagreeable chore, I want to know why. What good does it do?
Let’s start in Acadia National Park, Maine’s most popular outdoor destination and one of the few national parks where dogs are permitted on almost all the trails. With visitation steadily rising each year, Acadia is seeing more and more dog-related problems, including dog feces on trails and beaches. In fact, dog waste has become such a concern that the park changed its regulations for the 2018 season, making it a citable offense for pet owners to leave their pets excrement anywhere in the park.
In June 2018, the park launched a new Bark Ranger Program to encourage dog owners to learn and practice good etiquette.
In the program, BARK is an acronym for:
— Bag your poop.
— Always wear a leash.
— Respect wildlife.
— Know where you can go.
“In addition to the problems we’re having with dog waste, there’s simply a need for people to know the etiquette when visiting a wild place like Acadia, and an incentive for following the rules,” said Kelly Pontbriand, organizer the program.
To become an Acadia Bark Ranger, a dog (with his or her owner) must complete one of the activities outlined on the Acadia Bark Ranger checklist card, then work with a park ranger or volunteer to sign an oath agreeing to follow dog-related rules in the park. The dog then receives a special dog tag for completing the program.
“People seem just as proud of their dogs as are for their kids for completing the Junior Ranger Program,” Pontbriand said. “We’re getting pictures on Facebook from dogs from all different parts of the country [with the Bark Ranger tag].”
But dog feces isn’t just a problem in high-traffic locations like Acadia. In fact, sometimes it’s more of an issue at remote outdoor destinations, places where dog owners are less likely to run into other trail users, rangers or park staff.
“We do get complaints about certain areas, especially remote ones,” said John Bott, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. “And we’ve tried to move resources around to cover places that are getting more use, but we can be stretched pretty thin if you look at all the public lands and state lands. We post signs, but that’s about all we can do.”
In addition to signs asking visitors to clean up after their dogs, many state-owned properties feature dog waste stations, which is essentially a trash bin and a dispenser of plastic bags. And park staff cleans up dog waste in high traffic areas, a task that pulls them away from other projects such as educational programs and trail building, Bott said.
“I think it’s a growing problem,” Bott said. “And it’s not confined to any one area.”
It’s tempting to reason that one pile of poop will likely do no harm, that it will wash away with the next rain. But if everyone followed that same reasoning on a popular trail, that one pile would soon become many. Such was the case on Blue Hill Mountain, a popular hiking, snowshoeing, sledding and berry-picking location on the Blue Hill Peninsula.
A few years ago, when snow melted off the mountain in the spring, trail users started noticing dog waste peppering the trails. In response, a group of volunteers tried to fix the problem by erecting signs and constructing a dog waste station at a trailhead.
“I can say that probably 50 percent of people use it,” said Chrissy Beardsley Allen, development and outreach director for the Blue Hill Heritage Trust, which owns and maintains the trails on the mountain. “It makes a huge dent for sure … but it’s a difficult thing for us to police and monitor.”
Blue Hill Heritage Trust has never closed properties to dogs due to the amount of dog waste left on trails, but the land trust has been gifted land with the condition that dogs not be allowed once opened to the public, Allen said.
“Part of the reason is because of the diseases dogs can bring in to wildlife,” Allen said. “It’s definitely something that’s on people’s mind when conserving land.”
Dog feces often contains harmful bacteria, diseases and parasites. That’s why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests people pick up and dispose of dog feces, especially in areas where children might play.
“Cleaning up after your dog will help keep the area clean and reduce the risk of spreading disease to people or other animals,” the CDC states online.
But what diseases? What parasites? I did a little research and was shocked at what I found.
Let’s start with Campylobacter, a bacteria that is one of the most common causes of food poisoning. Typically spread through improperly cooked meats, this bacteria is also present in dog feces, where it can spread to humans.
Similarly, Giardia, a parasite that lives in dog’s intestines, is often found colonizing dog feces. This parasite contaminates water, making it unsafe to drink. And those unlucky enough to consume that water develop an illness that’s often called “beaver fever.” Symptoms are diarrhea, dehydration, abdominal cramps and vomiting for one to two weeks. This is a big problem for long-distance hikers, who have to filter and sanitize water from streams and springs to avoid this debilitating illness.
Dog feces can also contain roundworm, which can be passed to other dogs and cause weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, weight loss and more. People can pick it up, too. According to the CDC, of all age groups, children are most likely to contract roundworm, which can invade the retina, causing inflammation, scarring and possibly blindness. This parasite can also invade the liver, lung and central nervous system.
Salmonella can also be found in dog feces, and while it doesn’t usually make dogs sick, it can cause serious illness when passed to people. Diarrhea, vomiting, fever and abdominal cramps are all symptoms people have experienced when exposed to this bacteria.
The list goes on, but I’m hoping those examples drive home the fact that dog poop can cause real health problems for people and other animals, as well as contaminate water sources.
But at the end of the day, it’s also just plain gross. And if you really think about it, while picking up dog poop is a big inconvenience, it’s the right thing to do. Whether you’re visiting public or private property, you’re a visitor. It’s not your space to wreck. So to wrap up this extremely long blog post, here are a few tips for picking up dog poop:
- Double up the plastic bag, for obvious reasons.
- Test out one of the many innovative poop scooping gadgets on the market, such as the Tidy Turd Pooper Scooper or the Ruffwear Stash Bag.
- Buy a hiking pack for your dog so he can carry his own poop-filled baggy.
- Don’t assume trailheads will feature waste bag dispensers. Very few do.
- Don’t leave the bag of poop beside the trail thinking you’ll pick it up on the way back. Your route might change, or you might simply forget. Carry it with you until you find a trash can.
- Wash or sanitize your hands after handling dog waste. Just remember the roundworm.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that it has appointed Ryan Pavlik as vice president of debt capital markets. Mr. Pavlik is the newest addition to Water Street's team as the firm expands its resources to support its growing group of companies specializing in health care services and technology, medical products and diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
In his newly created role, Mr. Pavlik will develop and support Water Street's financing strategies for new investment opportunities. He also will collaborate with Water Street's family of health care companies on debt financing initiatives that support acquisitions and other initiatives aimed at advancing their goals for growth. Mr. Pavlik has concentrated on debt financings for broadly syndicated and middle-market companies for the past eight years as vice president at Golub Capital. He began his career in investment banking with PNC Capital Markets.
"Ryan's specialized knowledge and network of relationships in the lending community will contribute greatly to our partnerships with health care companies. As we pursue new investments and work with leadership teams on strategic acquisitions and initiatives that can benefit from debt financing, Ryan will be an important resource that helps us identify the best lending organizations and loan structures that address each company's unique needs and growth objectives."
Water Street is a strategic investor focused exclusively on health care. The firm has a strong record of building market-leading companies across key growth sectors in health care. It has worked with some of the world's leading health care companies on its investments, including Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Smith & Nephew and Walgreen Co. Water Street's team is comprised of industry executives and senior investment professionals with decades of experience investing in and operating global health care businesses. The firm is headquartered in Chicago. For more information about Water Street, visit waterstreet.com.
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Former Democrat sheriff blames anti-cop rhetoric, bail reform for crime surge in popular tourist destination
Van Duncan discusses how crime has derailed Asheville on 'Fox & Friends First'
A former Democrat sheriff blamed anti-police rhetoric Wednesday for the crime surge in Asheville, North Carolina, as rising crime has hit the popular tourist destination in recent years.
Former Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan, who left the Democratic Party, joined "Fox & Friends First" to discuss what led to the crime surge in recent years as fears surrounding public safety loom.
"Even though we were making good strides in the community and reducing the crime rate, we still saw ourselves coming in as a negative in the community and in the eyes of some of the leftist politicians that were… getting elected at that time," Duncan told co-host Todd Piro.
HOMICIDES DOWN BUT VIOLENT CRIME UP IN MAJOR US CITIES AS MIDTERMS APPROACH
"So when officers have to work under… those conditions, when they're out there really serving the community well, and we see high dismissal rate with the district attorney, low cash bail or no bail for these folks who are just being turned back loose into the community, it becomes very frustrating for the officers," he continued.
"And we've seen retention problem both with the sheriff's office greatly and also with the city police department."
Asheville, a city of approximately 90,000 people nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Buncombe County, North Carolina, has seen a 31% surge in violent crime per 100,000 people from 2016 to 2020, according to statistics released in the spring.
Asheville's growth in violent crime is nearly double that of the national average and ranks among the highest in North Carolina, where violent crime has increased 13% statewide.
"We have a very large homeless population here in Asheville, and what we've seen with the dismissal rates for panhandling, for loitering, for those type things that really … makes it tough for them to operate here in Asheville," Duncan said. "When you see those kinds of dismissal rates, it's very discouraging for the officers."
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"It also provides no deterrent for the folks who do those things to go back out and do them again," he continued. "As our district attorney said, it's not against the law to be homeless, but it is against the law to commit those crimes and really kind of put a damper on business and make it hard on your town."
Asheville has so far seen 11 homicides in 2022, setting it on pace to surpass the homicide rate of 2021 and 2020. Rates of homelessness have increased 21% since 2021, according to data released in May.
There is also evidence of increased Mexican drug cartel activity in the area, according to multiple law enforcement sources who spoke to Fox News Digital.
Fox News' Jon Brown contributed to this report.
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Apple iPhone 14 Review: Like an iPhone 13 Pro, but Cheaper
Apple's newest iPhone is like comfort food and it'll hit the spot for most people.
Patrick Holland
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Patrick Holland has an eye for photography and a passion for everything mobile. He is a colorful raconteur who will guide you through the ever-changing and fast-paced world of phones. He also is one of the hosts of CNET's I'm So Obsessed podcast.
The iPhone 14 is both an improvement on last year's iPhone 13 and one of the most minimal year-over-year upgrades in Apple's history. On the outside, the 14 inherits the iPhone 13's tried and true flat-sided aluminum design. On the inside, Apple essentially repackaged the iPhone 13 Pro, sans the telephoto camera and high-refresh-rate screen. The result is lovely and the iPhone 14 is a good upgrade for most people.
The iPhone 14 starts at $799 (including a $30 connectivity discount if you activate it with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon), the same price as the iPhone 12 and 13 when they first went on sale. If you're hoping for more significant improvements, there's the more expensive iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, both of which are brimming with updates.
As Americans grapple with inflation, some companies have kept costs the same by offering a little less. The iPhone 14 seems like a way for Apple to release a new phone while maintaining last year's price. Is this a case of "shrinkflation"? Maybe, but not necessarily.
The iPhone 14 reminds me of the iPhone 5C, which came out in 2013 alongside the iPhone 5S. The 5C was basically an iPhone 5 inside a new plastic body that was meant to appeal to a more budget-minded audience. While there are some similarities, the 14 seems to be aimed at balancing price and adding new features.
Apple added a number of safety tools to the 14 including Crash Detection and satellite connectivity for sending emergency messages when you're out of range of a cell tower. The iPhone 14 also got an internal redesign that helps dissipate heat better and allows its glass back to be repaired more easily and for less money.
But these are features most people will hopefully never use and they're largely invisible. Even the iPhone's move away from physical SIM cards to eSIM on US models is something most people will only deal with once when transferring their number.
The most obvious upgrade is the new larger version of the iPhone 14, called the iPhone 14 Plus. With the same sized 6.7-inch screen as the 14 Pro Max, the iPhone 14 Plus should appeal to people who want a large phone but don't want to spend $1,099. However, the 14 Plus won't be out until Oct. 7.
Familiarity is an underrated quality, and the iPhone 14 is filled with it. The 6.1-inch OLED screen has the same Ceramic Shield, screen notch and matte-finished aluminum as the iPhone 13. And it weighs 17% less than the iPhone 14 Pro, despite being nearly identical in size. That lighter weight makes the 14 a joy to hold and use with or without a case.
The iPhone 14 is rated IP68 for water- and dust-resistance, meaning it can survive being submerged under 6 meters of water (about 20 feet). So it should have no trouble having a can of Yerba Mate spilled on it.
One thing that's missing from the 14 is a SIM card tray. In the US, the iPhone 14 will only work with an eSIM. Apple has partnered with US carriers to ensure the process of moving the number from your old phone to an iPhone 14 is as simple as putting your old iPhone next to your new one and following a few prompts. Smaller carriers like Mint Mobile and US Mobile also offer eSIMs.
My personal phone is on Google Fi, which supports eSIMs. But when I tried to transfer my number to a review unit, I had to contact the carrier for assistance. (Turns out my SIM card was very, very old.)
The iPhone 14 is available in five colors: Product Red, midnight, starlight, purple and blue, which is the color of the review unit Apple lent me.
Apple's iPhone 14 Steps Up the Camera, Keeps Familiar Design
The iPhone 14 has three cameras: a main wide angle and ultrawide cameras on the back, and a new updated TrueDepth camera system on the front. The iPhone 14's camera is similar to the main camera on the iPhone 13 Pro, which is one of the reasons why I called it an iPhone 13 Pro without the telephoto camera.
Compared to the iPhone 13, the 14's main camera has a larger sensor and a new lens with a faster f1.5 aperture. All that hardware combined with Apple's new processing pipeline, called Photonic Engine, helps improve image quality, especially when you take photos in darker environments.
And in my tests, the iPhone 14 takes great photos and videos. I was able to get a respectable snap, even when the lighting wasn't good. Check out the photo below of a dog that I took in the not-so-bright interior of a coffee shop. Notice how well the 14 captures the texture and detail in the dog's fur. It also did a good job of freezing the action even though the dog was moving his head as I was taking the photo.
Although the 14's ultrawide camera is one of my favorite cameras, it's still a step down from the main camera in terms of overall image quality and performance. And the ultrawide camera can't double as a Macro camera like it does on the iPhone 14 Pro. But I do appreciate how the extreme field of view gives photos and videos a dramatic look.
The iPhone 14's Night mode is improved, but still suffers from light source reflections. Take a look at the below photo of an overpass. Notice how the store's sign is reflected in the night sky.
Here are some other photos I took with the iPhone 14.
Cinematic mode got an upgrade and it can now record 4K video at 24 fps. There's also a new tool for video image stability called Action mode. Basically, it applies GoPro-like levels of image stabilization when you're recording a video. The Galaxy S22 has a similar feature called Super Steady. If you're shooting 4K video on the iPhone and use Action mode, the resolution drops to 2.8K. But the results are fantastic.
Video quality is excellent overall in bright light, but under dimmer lighting the details look muddy. Check out my iPhone 14 review video to see a bunch of clips I shot using the phone.
The iPhone 14 has an A15 Bionic chip
The iPhone 14 has Apple's A15 Bionic chip, which is the other reason it seems like a repackaged 13 Pro. Last year, there were two versions of this chip: One for the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini, and another with an extra GPU core for the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. The 14 has the one with the extra GPU core.
In terms of performance, the iPhone 14 is speedy. Animations look smooth. Gaming is fun and the iPhone 14 handled everything I threw at it, from Call of Duty Mobile and Asphalt 8: Airbourne Plus to Warped Kart Racers and Lego Brawls.
In our benchmark tests, the iPhone 14 performed on par with last year's iPhone 13 but is still faster and more powerful than any Android phone currently sold. Such high performance isn't necessarily something you'll use today, but it'll future-proof the phone for years. Check out the results of our benchmark tests below.
In terms of battery, the iPhone 14 lasts a tad longer than the iPhone 13. I can easily get through a full day with my screen-on time averaging 5 hours a day, which is on average with other phones we've tested. The increase in battery life comes in part from the redesigned interior as well as iOS 16, which in my time with the phone was peppy, smooth and lacked any bugs. iOS 16 is also available as a free update for the iPhone 8 and later.
The iPhone 14 can charge quickly. It's nowhere near the fast charging speeds on the OnePlus 10 Pro, but the 14's battery went from 18% to 81% in 45 minutes. I charged it using the included Lightning-to-USB-C cable and a third-party 20-watt wall adapter that I bought since Apple doesn't ship one in the box.
The iPhone 14 vs. the iPhone 13, 12, 11
So, should you upgrade? If you like the iPhone 12 and 13, you'll be right at home on the iPhone 14, but there's no compelling reason to upgrade from either of those phones. The iPhone 14 is a great upgrade if you're using an 11 or older iPhone as it provides longer battery life, faster performance, a much better screen, increased durability and cameras as well as safety features like Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via Satellite.
If you're trying to decide between getting an iPhone 14 or the iPhone 13, I'd advise you to save money and go for the recently discounted $699 iPhone 13 or the smaller $599 13 Mini. But if you want those new safety features, it's worth considering the iPhone 14.
I enjoyed my time with the iPhone 14. Standard upgrades like the ones found in the iPhone 14 are geared at people who just want a new iPhone and are upgrading from models that are years old. While the iPhone Pros have the flashiest new features, it's easy to overlook the improvements Apple made to the iPhone 14. But the familiar iPhone 14 is like comfort food and will definitely hit the spot for most people.
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New Study of Centrum Silver from COSMOS-Mind Demonstrates Significant Improvements in Participants' Cognitive Function.
WARREN, N.J., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New study results released today on the large-scale, clinical trial COSMOS-Mind, suggests that those who took Centrum Silver demonstrated significant improvement in cognitive function in comparison to placebo. These new findings provide additional evidence on the benefits of multivitamin supplementation in older adults.
Centrum, a leader in multivitamins for nearly 50 years, has a long history of supporting research to advance the science on benefits of vitamin/mineral supplementation. It is the most clinically studied multivitamin brand in the world. In continuing with this strong heritage, Centrum Silver product, placebo, and packaging was provided in support of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) trial.
Cognitive health, defined as the ability to think, learn and remember, is an essential component of our overall well-being as we age.1 Finding a way to support cognitive function in older adults is an important public health issue, as roughly two out of every three Americans experience some level of cognitive impairment around the age of 70.2 Additionally, according to a 2019 AARP Brain Health and Dietary Supplements survey, more than a quarter of Americans ages 50 and older regularly take supplements for their brain health, pointing to the growing concern older adults have around cognitive decline.
"We know that multivitamins are a practical and effective way to complement nutrition and support general health," shared Natalie Halpern, Brand Director, Centrum US. "The most recent data revealed by the COSMOS-Mind Study is an exciting and promising point on the role Centrum Silver multivitamins can play in supporting healthy aging, especially cognitive function."
Centrum Silver was specifically selected for the COSMOS-Mind trial which investigated the effects of multivitamin and cocoa flavonoid consumption on cognitive functioning in 2,262 women and men, 65 years and older, over the course of three years. The COSMOS-Mind team tested each participant's cognitive function via annual cognitive assessments.3
The results of the COSMO-Mind Study show that an intervention as simple as taking Centrum Silver could help support cognitive function, memory, and executive function in older adults.4* Participants who took Centrum Silver showed significant improvement in their episodic memory – the memory that is tied to specific events or experiences, as well as their executive function, which includes cognitive skills needed to carry out everyday activities as compared to placebo.5
A detailed report on the COSMOS-Mind Study published in Alzheimer & Dementia Journal can be found here.
For more information on Centrum and Centrum Silver, please visit Centrum.com.
* This product has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This Product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
About Centrum
Centrum has spent decades listening to the human body and learning about what it needs to thrive. The brand offers nutritional products that work in harmony with your body and help you respond to its unique needs. Innovation and research remain to be the building blocks of the brand's foundation. For more information about Centrum, please visit www.centrum.com.
About Haleon
Haleon (LSE: HLN) is a global leader in consumer health, with brands trusted by millions of consumers globally. The group employs over 22,000 people across 170 markets, who are united by Haleon's purpose - to deliver better everyday health with humanity. Haleon's product portfolio spans five major categories - Oral Health, Pain Relief, Respiratory Health, Digestive Health and Other, and Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements (VMS). Its long-standing brands - such as Advil, Sensodyne, Panadol, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, Polident, Parodontax and Centrum - are built on trusted science, innovation and deep human understanding.
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BRLF, MGNREGS Inks Pact For High Impact Mega Watershed Project, Aims To Double Farmers' Income
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The Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) and Commissioner Office MGNREGS, Maharashtra, jointly signed the MoU for the project, which would be implemented across 28 selected blocks of 6 districts of the Vidarbha regions.
In an effort toward uplifting the farmers' community and bringing prosperity to the household of tribal, poor and other vulnerable people, the Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) and Commissioner Office of Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Government of Maharashtra signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on to jointly implement a project titled "A High Impact Mega Watershed Project".
The project will be implemented across 28 selected blocks of 6 districts of Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra via appropriate land and water treatment measures that would be done through leveraging funds from Mahatama Gandhi NREGS. The income of as many as 100,000 marginal and small households is expected to double through this project.
A High Impact Mega Watershed Project
The Mega Watershed Project would integrate the plan and implementation of MGNREGS in watershed mode. The project would include the active participation of the community from inception to execution, proper net planning (GIS mapping), capacity building of Gram Panchayats, and project implementation in the state's most deprived and resource-poor geographies.
The Commissioner of MGNREGS, Government of Maharashtra, IAS Shantanu Goel, said, "To make every farmer/landless labour, Lakhpati (net income of 1 lakh per annum) whatever funds are needed within the framework of MGNREGS, it would be made available under MGNREGS, by Govt. of India and Govt. of Maharashtra. On average per year, Rs. 7.14 crore are available for each Taluka development work under MGNREGS in the last two years. A similar amount can be made available if proper work planning under MGNREGS is taken and executed accordingly."
Project For Sustainable Income
Under the High Impact Mega Watershed Project, community irrigation and water conservation spots like Percolation tanks, Mazi Malgujari Talav, Check Dam, and Storage tanks will be restored, and irrigation assets of individuals like farm ponds and irrigation wells will also be created.
The project will also create activities that generate sustainable income- sericulture, horticulture plantation, poultry sheds and cattle sheds. As many as 800 Rojgaar Sahayaks and 6,000 SHG and PRI members will be trained for this project to plan and implement livelihood plans effectively.
The Chief Executive Officer of BRLF, Pramathesh Ambasta, said, "The project will enhance social capital through community collectives, progressive farmers, and agro-entrepreneurs. It will empower Gram Sabhas/Panchayati Raj Institutions while improving the democratic processes of these institutions to drive the village development processes and facilitate better access to the MGNREGS Scheme. The project will drive the effective implementation of MGNREGS through the active participation of the community in the planning and execution of works."
The foundation, while sharing the information with The Logical Indian, claimed that the aim is to achieve 65 per cent of MGNREGS expenditure on Natural Resource Management, 60 per cent of its spending on agriculture and allied activities in the targeted block, and 60 per cent on the creation of individual assets that will support the marginalised community in the long run.
Also Read: Goa: Farmers Stages Protest Against Proposed IIT Campus In Sanguem, Sec 144 Imposed
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Hindi Diwas 2022: Shailesh Lodha to Rubina Dilaik, TV celebs who have an excellent grasp of the language
These TV celebrities choose to give interviews in Hindi and prove their love for the language.
Hindi Diwas is celebrated in India every year on September 14. As per article 343(1) of the Indian constitution, Hindi is the official language and is widely spoken. It's also the most-used language in Bollywood and the Hindi daily soaps are popular too. While every Bollywood and daily soap actor majorly converses in Hindi, there are a few who excel in this language. On the special occasion of Hindi Diwas, let's take a look at the actors from the television industry, who are often heard communicating in Hindi and have a good command of the language.
Amitabh Bachchan
Kaun Banega Crorepati host and megastar Amitabh Bachchan's voice can give you goosebumps. His voice carries solid weight and especially when he speaks in Hindi with his contestants or addresses his fans through interviews, and blogs, it's a trance in itself.
Shailesh Lodha
Shailesh Lodha is a renowned name in Indian households due to the portrayal of his character, Taarak Mehta in the show, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah for the past 14 years. He is a poet, writer, and comedian too. Apart from acting, Shailesh also narrated the sitcom. He has been replaced by Sacchin Shroff after his exit.
Rubina Dilaik
Rubina Dilaik is a combination of beauty with brains. The audience has witnessed her fiery attitude in the reality show, Bigg Boss 14, where she stunned everyone with her Hindi. Her Hindi-speaking skills are also seen on the reality show, Khatron Ke Khiladi 12.
Rohitashv Gour
Bhabi ji Ghar Par Hai! actor Rohitashv Gour too has a flair for this language and prefers to give his interviews and address his audience in Hindi.
Aasif Sheikh
Bhabi ji Ghar Par Hai! actor Aasif Sheikh, seen as Vibhuti Narayan Mishra on the show, often tries to impress his neighbour, Angoori bhabhi with his poetries in Hindi.
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Horton Heath woods: James Barney fined £50,000 for felling trees
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A landowner has been fined £50,000 for illegally clearing woodland.
Trees on the one-acre site at Scorey's Copse, Horton Heath in Hampshire, were cut down and burned in April 2021.
James Barney, from Fair Oak, pleaded guilty to breaching Tree Preservation Order 839 earlier this year at Southampton Magistrates' Court.
Eastleigh Borough Council said the fine was the biggest it had secured for breaching such an order.
Nearby residents alerted council officials and police when an industrial digger began work to clear the woodland early on 12 April 2021.
The work was halted but not before a number of trees had been felled, including oak, ash, birch, hawthorn and poplar.
Resident Sam Allen said at the time: "I awoke to hear the unmistakeable sound of trees splintering and was horrified to see this digger just ripping out trees that have stood for centuries."
Eastleigh MP Paul Holmes described it as "environmental vandalism".
Barney was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay the council's costs of £17,841 as well as a victim surcharge of £190.
Council lead for environment Rupert Kyrle said: "I'm absolutely delighted that we have secured a successful prosecution.
"Our planning enforcement and legal teams worked together to bring about this prosecution that sends a strong message that you shouldn't mess with our trees or we will be after you."
Following the incident, the local authority ordered the tree waste to be removed and the site be restored to a condition which will enable the woodland soils to recover.
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Multivitamins may be linked to better cognition in older adults, study says
(CNN) - A new study shows taking a daily multivitamin might help with brain function.
Over the course of three years, scientists talked to thousands of people 65 years old and older, and the ones who took a multivitamin slowed down cognitive aging by 60%, or nearly two years.
What’s more, there were even more benefits for people who had a history of heart disease.
Now scientists are questioning why multivitamins help.
They don’t have a clear answer yet. But it may be because multivitamins help out people who don’t have enough micronutrients, like vitamin C or magnesium, and that gets worse as people age.
Researchers said they’re not telling older adults to start taking multivitamins right away and recommended they talk to their doctor first.
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New Study Conducted by Behr Paint Shows Three-Quarters of Homeowners Believe That the Color White Promotes Relaxation and Creates A Sense of Calm
SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Behr Paint Company, announces its 2023 Color of the Year, Blank Canvas (DC-003), a hopeful and welcoming warm white that offers limitless design and décor possibilities. Meant to inspire feelings of tranquility and renewal, Blank Canvas is the answer to an increased consumer desire to be present, find peace of mind and embrace the future. This rich and transformative color makes a lasting design statement, while lending a unique versatility that clears the air and serves as a timeless foundation for an array of décor styles in any space.
"As we look to 2023, we understand that comfort will still be a driving force behind design decisions and style statements," says Erika Woelfel, Vice President of Color and Creative Services at Behr Paint Company. "Blank Canvas effortlessly offers a clean and inviting blank slate that allows individuality and creativity to flow freely. This white easily harmonizes with a wide range of hues, including neutrals, earth tones and pastels for a charming and cozy appeal. Blank Canvas also pairs beautifully with black for a dramatic impact, and with bright accents like green or cobalt blue to instantly lift your mood."
New research conducted by Behr Paint[1] shows that nearly all U.S. homeowners want their home to be a space where they can completely unwind (92%) and believe that it's important their home feels like an escape from everyday stress (90%). The selection of Blank Canvas as the 2023 Color of the Year directly answers the call, as data from the study reveals:
- A large majority of homeowners agree that the color white makes them feel positive (77%) and even lowers their stress levels (71%).
- Three-quarters of homeowners also agree that the color white promotes relaxation (75%), creates a sense of calm (74%) and renewal (74%), and makes them feel focused (75%).
- 63% of homeowners agree that the color white is mood-boosting.
"White paint colors are our top-sellers at BEHR. With so many options to choose from, we wanted to spotlight the one that we believe is most versatile, and truly the perfect shade of white for any project," said Jodi Allen, Global Chief Marketing Officer at Behr Paint Company. "In addition to inspiring renewal, positivity and a sense of calm, Blank Canvas always makes a design-forward statement, whether you're a homeowner working on a DIY living space, or a professional painter seeking your go-to white to use on countless projects for years to come."
Blank Canvas can be leveraged by DIYers, designers and professionals to tackle any project – from a bedroom refresh to a complete kitchen remodel. Its transformative power can be showcased on its own to create monochromatic looks or can be paired with pops of color to personalize your space. As a go-to hue that designers can build upon, the warm white creates a serene setting for healthcare and hospitality environments, while being versatile enough to be used in shared spaces. Blank Canvas' strength in evoking calming and relaxing feelings can also be leveraged by designers looking to create neurodiversity-friendly residential and commercial spaces, as well as workplaces.
From America's most trusted paint brand[2], the 2023 Color of the Year is featured in the expertly curated all-new BEHR Designer Collection palette of 30 best-selling neutral colors. Created to help DIYers, designers and professionals choose color with confidence, the timeless and elegant collection streamlines the paint selection process, turning ordinary home improvement projects into designer-quality makeovers.
To celebrate the 2023 Color of the Year, Behr Paint is hosting a giveaway with a grand prize of $10,000 and a consultation with a designer to create a soothing at-home self-care space. Consumers can enter the Blank Canvas Sweepstakes by visiting https://www.behrblankcanvas.com to create a calming design. Five first prize winners will each receive a $500 Home Depot gift card and a replica of their artwork. Terms and conditions apply. For official rules, visit: https://www.behrblankcanvas.com.
Blank Canvas and the BEHR® Designer Collection are available now, in top-rated BEHR DYNASTY®, BEHR® MARQUEE®, BEHR ULTRA® and BEHR PREMIUM PLUS® paint formulas, exclusively at The Home Depot® stores nationwide. To learn more about Blank Canvas and find project inspiration using the Designer Collection palette, visit behr.com/2023coty.
Founded in 1947, Behr Paint Company is one of the largest manufacturers of paints, primers, decorative finishes, stains, surface preparation and application products for do-it-yourselfers and professionals in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Santa Ana, Calif.-based company and maker of the BEHR®, KILZ®, WHIZZ® and E&J® brands is dedicated to meeting the project needs of DIYers, professionals, architects and designers with an unwavering commitment to quality, innovation and value. For more information, visit Behr.com. Professional contractors can visit BEHRPRO.com to learn about BEHR products and BEHR PRO® services. Behr Paint Company is a subsidiary of Masco Corporation (NYSE: MAS).
*No purchase necessary. Purchase will not increase the odds of winning. Sweepstakes is open to U.S. and Canada residents age 18 or older only and ends at 11:59 P.M. PST on October 26, 2022. Void where prohibited. See Official Rules for details: https://www.behrblankcanvas.com.
[1] Methodology: In partnership with a trusted third-party vendor, Behr Paint conducted a 10-minute, online survey, among n=1,019 US homeowners, balanced in terms of age, gender, race/ethnicity, HHI, education level, marital status, region, etc. The survey was completed between August 22 - August 28, 2022. The margin of error for the total sample at the 95% confidence level is +/- 3 percentage points.
[2] Ranked most trusted brand based on the 2022 Lifestory Research study
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The National Archives is still uncertain whether the government has recovered all records from former President Trump’s Florida home, the House Oversight and Reform Committee revealed in a Tuesday letter asking the agency to pursue a sworn statement from Trump that he has returned all documents.
Archives staff “recently informed the committee that the agency is not certain whether all presidential records are in its custody,” said Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.).
The letter noted that the Trump team repeatedly failed to turn over records when asked by both the Archives, often called NARA, and the Justice Department, including when served a subpoena.
“The committee is concerned that, given this pattern of conduct, Mr. Trump may continue to retain presidential records at non-secure locations, including classified material that could endanger our nation’s security and other important records documenting Mr. Trump’s activities at the White House,” Maloney wrote in a letter to acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall.
“I urge NARA to seek from former President Trump a written certification that he has surrendered all presidential records or classified materials, has not made any copies or reproductions of such materials, and has not transferred any records or government documents to any party other than NARA or DOJ since his term ended.”
The letter also asks NARA to do an inventory of what records might possibly be unaccounted for “and potentially in the possession of the former president.”
Trump’s legal counsel already provided a sworn statement to the Justice Department in May indicating that all classified materials at Mar-a-Lago were returned, only for the FBI to find an additional more than 100 classified records when it searched the property in August, bringing the total of classified documents to more than 300. They also recovered around 10,000 government documents in their Aug. 8 search.
Maloney noted that while Trump would not be required under current law to provide such a certification, she cited the “exceptional circumstances” and suggested the committee could pursue legislation requiring such an action in the future.
NARA declined to comment on the letter.
The letter requested that NARA provide an initial report on its inventory by Sept. 27.
NARA’s concern that it may not have recovered all the documents from Mar-a-Lago was aired in an Aug. 24 meeting with the committee.
The letter noted that Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, said he “wouldn’t be surprised if there were more highly classified documents at Bedminster or some other residence of his.”
Maloney pointed to two occasions during which Trump was asked to turn over records but still retained a large tranche: when NARA first reached out to him about recovering documents in May, 2021 and a year later when his custodian of records was served a subpoena to turn over any remaining documents.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for AAPL, ALB, GOOGL, CVX, and PYPL.
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LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — A bowhunter was airlifted out of a remote area of Larimer County Tuesday after he tried to shoot a moose with an arrow, but instead was attacked and injured by the animal, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) said.
Rescuers detected a distress alert from the hunter's GPS, the sheriff's office said. The signal came from a remote area off Long Draw Road and Highway 14 in the Poudre Canyon area, LCSO said.
The call came in just before noon. Sheriff's office spokesperson Jenevieve Kramer said the rescue team response was escalated when they heard a hunter had made contact with a moose and had serious, life-threatening injuries.
"Deputies located the hunter, who had hiked part of the way out of the campground by other hunters," Kramer said.
There were no firearms involved in this incident. The hunter was bow hunting the animal, missed and was then attacked by the moose.
The hunter was airlifted to a hospital. There's no word on his current condition.
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Terri R. Kurtzberg, Rutgers University - Newark ; Charles Naquin, DePaul University, and Mason Ameri, Rutgers University - Newark
(THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
People appear to be more willing to lie for personal gain when they use a laptop versus a smartphone, our new peer-reviewed research shows. Given that the two devices have nearly identical technical capabilities – they’re both boxes with electronic brains – this surprised us and highlights the psychological impact of technology.
Our first in a planned series of studies was a version of what economists call the ultimatum game. In the take-it-or-leave-it exercise, one player is told they’ll receive a certain sum of money, some of which they must split with a partner. But they can tell their partner whatever they choose about the total sum and how much of it they’re willing to offer – allowing them to lie and keep more of the kitty for themselves. However, the partner must agree to the offered sum for either of them to get any money.
In our version, we told 137 graduate students to imagine they’d share US$125 with a fellow student, if their randomly assigned partner agreed to the deal. Half of them used a laptop; the rest participated with their smartphone.
While the vast majority of participants fibbed at least a little, laptop users were much more likely to lie – and by a lot more. Eighty-two percent of laptop participants were deceptive, compared with 62% of phone users, and on average claimed the pot was $20 less.
Although this was hypothetical and didn’t involve real money, previous research by us and otherscholars shows that these scenarios are good at predicting actual behavior.
To see if our finding held up in a more real-world scenario, we devised a negotiation experiment in which two people were told to barter over the purchase price of an imaginary semiconductor factory one of them owned. We split 222 students into buyers and sellers. Buyers were confidentially told that the market value of the property was estimated at $21 million.
We then asked buyers to tell sellers what they thought was the fair market value of the property and make an initial offer. Like in the first experiment, about half of the students used their phones and the others negotiated on laptops.
Again, laptop users were more deceptive. On average, they told sellers the fair value was $16.7 million – lowballing it by over $4 million – compared with $18.1 million for phone participants. In both cases, their actual offers were only slightly higher than what they said was the market value.
To find out what’s going on, we asked participants of a separate study about their associations with each device and found a consistent pattern. Phones triggered associations of friends and family, and laptops led to thoughts of work, success and accomplishments – which previous research has shown can trigger unethical behavior.
Why it matters
People’s use of technology in decision-making can subtly yet fundamentally shift the way our brains work.
In past work, we found that people lie more frequently, cooperate less and evaluate others more negatively when they conduct tasks virtually as opposed to in person, with physical tools like pens and paper.
While studies like ours can’t perfectly predict how behavior will play out in real life, these experiments do offer more evidence of the subtle ways technology can alter human behavior.
What still isn’t known
We don’t know whether our findings would hold for other tasks and within the context of existing relationships. Even within our experiments, other factors may be affecting people’s choice to lie, such as different screen sizes or locations.
Our research shows the continued need to assess how technological tools are used in real settings, including the unconscious changes these devices might have on daily decisions and ethical standards.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/lies-are-more-common-on-laptops-than-on-phones-how-devices-may-shape-our-behavior-when-bargaining-with-strangers-187326.
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WE’RE NOT THE first boat out on Lake Union, but almost. It’s 8:20 a.m., and I’ve joined the Seattle Flying Dragon Boat Club for its Saturday morning practice.
Matt Nadler is our boat leader. At age 86 and after 16 years of dragon boating, he’s still excited to be on the water. He gave a brief safety talk back on shore. Now, as we leave the launch dock in our rearview, his warm voice cuts through the morning air as he shouts out instructions.
“Keep your eyes on the paddle in front of you!” he urges, sounding like your favorite youth soccer coach. “When they pull back, you pull back! When they reach forward, you reach forward!”
Fishermen wave at us from shore as we make our way onto the lake. We stop from time to time, yielding to motorized boats as well as inbound and outbound seaplanes.
“Transfer your body weight into the paddle!” Nadler instructs. “The deeper your paddle goes in the water, the more power you’ll generate!”
Seated directly behind me, Flying Dragon members Nikhil Adhe and Lewis Levy chat as they paddle. Levy is a student at the University of Washington, and Adhe asks him thoughtful questions about his upcoming fall courses.
Adhe tells me that, for him, part of the allure of dragon boating is the history and heritage of the sport. “I enjoy the cultural aspect of it,” he says. “It started in China, but it’s global.”
According to the International Canoe Federation, the first known dragon boat races were held in China during the fifth lunar month of the Chinese calendar more than 2,000 years ago. The sport’s modern revival is thought to have begun in Hong Kong in the 1970s. Today, it’s not uncommon to spot dragon boats on lakes and shallow seas across Asia, as well as in Sweden, Hungary, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
Many Flying Dragon members say the full-body workout is a primary reason they keep coming back. “I’d rather do this than go to an LA Fitness,” declares George Yeannakis, who lives nearby on a houseboat.
There’s a bit of lingo to learn on a dragon boat. For instance, “paddles up” means get ready to paddle. “Let it run” means stop paddling and let the boat’s momentum carry you forward. Yeannakis remembers it took a few practices to get the timing down. “I kept hitting other people’s paddles,” he says with a chuckle.
As we paddlers find our collective rhythm, we pick up speed. We’re moving quickly enough that my iPhone is convinced I’m driving. I unlock my phone to glance at my speedometer app. “Six miles per hour — not bad!”
We cruise by the Museum of History & Industry and the lakefront offices of AGC of Washington, Pemco Insurance and Google. It’s a beautiful way to see this corner of the Emerald City. “You get a different perspective from the water,” says Flying Dragon member Lynelle Thon Hall.
“People always look down from the freeways or their offices at the boats on the lakes and wish they were out there,” Thon Hall continues. “Well, we’re out here — and it’s great!”
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29th Annual Seaside Prize Weekend to Take Place February 24-26, 2023
SANTA ROSA BEACH, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Seaside Institute is pleased to announce that Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA, will be honored as the 2023 Seaside Prize recipient for his radical rethinking of parking policy. In his groundbreaking 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, and his work since then, Shoup changed the way cities view the relationship between parking and the built environment, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and local economic development. The Institute will hold the 29th Annual Seaside Prize on February 24-26, 2023.
Last year's winner, Jeff Speck, wrote in his seminal Walkable City Rules: "Parking covers more acres of Urban America than any one thing, and yet planners have neglected it for years … that was until the research of one man, who helped change the way planners think about parking forever." That man was Donald Shoup. As noted in The Wall Street Journal, Shoup is described as a "parking rock star" whose works have inspired a group of followers dubbed Shoupistas.
The New York Times wrote that Shoup's work "has led to a revolution in ideas about relieving congestion." The High Cost of Free Parking and Shoup's 2018 book, Parking and the City, remain classics in the fields of transportation and city planning. Jeffrey Tumlin, the author of Sustainable Transportation Planning, wrote: "If your city wants to focus on one topic for reducing traffic congestion, improving housing availability, cleaning the air, lessening climate change, making government more efficient, and enlivening the economy—all at the same time—then it should focus on parking."
The Seaside Institute awards the Seaside Prize annually to individuals, organizations, or places that have made major contributions to the quality of the built community. Recipients have significantly influenced how towns and cities can best be built and rebuilt to reflect and promote New Urban principles, such as walkability, affordability, diversity, beauty, and sustainability. For more information on the Seaside Prize, visit Seaside Institute.org.
In addition to his position at UCLA, Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, an Honorary Professor at the Beijing Research Center, a winner of the American Planning Association's National Excellence Award as a Planning Pioneer, and the American Collegiate Schools of Planning's Distinguished Educator Award. More on Shoup can be found at ShoupDogg.com.
For Walton County, FL, like other areas throughout the country and world, parking and traffic congestion are critical challenges. With wit and humor, Shoup will present solutions that he discovered over many years of research.
The Seaside Prize Weekend will include guest lectures (some of which will be CEU accredited); the Seaside Prize Gala and awards ceremony; walking tours of Seaside, Alys Beach and Rosemary Beach; and social gatherings. The Prize Weekend is an opportunity for all who have an interest in New Urbanism, walkable communities, and human-scale planning and design. While the Prize Weekend is often of interest to architects, planners, and design students, all members of the community are invited to attend and learn why parking and traffic can be manageable with the right policies.
"You don't have to be a planner to appreciate Dr. Shoup's insights. Everyone in our community will be enlightened by his perspectives on why "free parking is anything but free," said Seaside Institute Executive Director Thomas Cordi.
2023 Seaside Prize tickets are available now; visit Seasideinstitute.org for more information. To become a member of the Seaside Institute, visit SeasideInstitute.org/membership.
The Seaside Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Our mission is to inspire livable communities. The Seaside Institute offers strategically designed educational programs and symposia that bring together residents, visitors, architects and scholars to share ideas for building and supporting livable communities. The Institute's three core tenets—Sustainability, Connectivity, Adaptability—work together to expand the lessons of New Urbanism and develop new strategies for a rapidly changing world. To learn more about the Seaside Institute, please go to www.seasideinstitute.org.
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One year after its return to market, Sorel celebrates a spree of industry awards and explosive cross-country distribution, solidifying the trend prediction that 2022 is the year of hibiscus
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorel, the hibiscus liqueur inspired by sorrel, the ancestral Afro-Caribbean beverage, is the most-awarded liqueur of 2022. Sorel returned to shelves in October 2021 with the support of Fawn Weaver and the Uncle Nearest Venture Fund, which invests in BIPOC/minority-founded spirits businesses. The spirit swept every major beverage award this year with Gold honors or higher, and as Sorel approaches the first anniversary of its relaunch, founder Jackie Summers–acclaimed author, activist, entrepreneur, and self-taught distiller–reflects back on the last year to acknowledge the forces that brought this reincarnation to life.
"With Sorel's second iteration, I've learned the importance of finding the right partners–whether financial backers, business consultants, or bartenders–and letting them do what they do best," says Jackie Summers, Founder of Sorel. "The key to our success has been about putting values over valuations, which is an atypical approach, but it works every time. Our relationship with Uncle Nearest has been fruitful because it's not just a transactional investor relationship–we share the vision of honoring heritage and history through spirits."
Sorel earned a collection of coveted accolades during the 2022 spirits awards season, including top-ranking honors and distinctions from the industry's most important spirits awards:
- ADI International Spirits Competition - Best of Class (Bottled & Blended Spirit - Liqueur), Best of Category (Bottled & Blended Spirit - Herbal/Botanical/Spice Liqueur), Double Gold (Spirit Excellence)
- American Craft Spirits Association - Innovation Award
- Chilled Magazine - Chilled 100 Spirits Awards - Breakout Brand, 97 Points
- Craft Distillers Spirits Competition - Best of Class; 93 Points
- Distiller Magazine - 5/5 Star Rating
- Distillery Awards - Diamond Certification
- Finger Lakes International Wine & Spirits Competition - Gold Medal
- Great American International Spirits Competition - Best in Show; Platinum Medal
- John Barleycorn Awards - Double Gold (Bottle Design), Gold (Packaging Design)
- Micro Liquor Spirit Award Competition - Triple Gold (Spirit), Triple Gold (Packaging Design), 97 Points
- New Orleans Spirits Competition - Best in Category, Gold Medal
- New York International Spirits Competition - Double Gold, 96 points
- San Francisco World Spirits Competition - Gold Medal
- Singapore World Spirits Competition - Gold Medal
- Sip Awards - Platinum Medal
- Ultimate Spirits Challenge - Chairman's Trophy, 96 points, Top 100 Spirits, Extraordinary Ultra Recommendation
- Wine Enthusiast - Spirit Brand of the Year finalist (2021), 94 Points (2022)
- World Liqueur Awards - Best American Herbal Liqueur
- Craft Competition International Awards - Gold Medal
Sorel is currently sold in retail shops, hotels, bars, and restaurants across the country, with distribution in 20 states planned by the end of 2022, and nationwide availability in 2023.
In March 2022, Summers was honored among the inaugural class of Food & Wine magazine's "Drinks Innovators of the Year," and was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Bar World for the fourth year, ranking at #29. Earlier this year, Summers was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Media Award for his personal essay All the Food You Can Eat and Only The Family You Can Stand (Epicurious). Most recently, he was included among Wine Enthusiast's Future 40 class of people shaping the way we drink.
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Jackie Summers is an acclaimed author, seasoned public speaker, and serial entrepreneur. Summers is the founder of JackFromBrooklyn Inc. and the creator of the award-winning Sorel Liqueur. Most recently, Summers was nominated for the 2022 James Beard Media Award for Personal Essay, Long Form, and was also honored among Food & Wine magazine's inaugural class of Drinks Innovators of the Year. He has been included among the world's 100 Most Influential Bar Industry Figures by Drinks International Magazine (2019, 2020, 2021), The 50 Most Influential People In Brooklyn Food (Brooklyn Magazine, 2015), named to the Imbibe 75 (2021), and named the 2019 Award winner for "Best Food Essay" by the Association of Food Journalists. Summers has contributed to publications including the James Beard Foundation, Plate, Wine Enthusiast, VinePair, Epicurious, Delish, and Edible Brooklyn. He currently serves as a co-chair of the Education Committee for the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation, and as a member of the Education Committee for Bar Convent Brooklyn. Summers' mission is to tell stories of marginalized peoples in their own voices.
Sorel Liqueur is an alcoholic rendition of sorrel, the 500+ year-old traditional hibiscus-based beverage brought to the Caribbean from West Africa. After being diagnosed with a spinal tumor and given a small chance to live, Jackie Summers not only beat those odds, but left his decades-long corporate career to create Sorel as a way to honor his Barbadian heritage. Following 623 failed attempts, Summers perfected the first and only shelf-stable sorrel liqueur. After an impressive debut in 2013, Sorel ceased production for several years, and was brought back to market in October 2021 with the support of Fawn Weaver and the Uncle Nearest Venture Fund. Sorel will be available in 20 states by the end of 2022, and continues to expand its presence in bars, restaurants, and retailers throughout the United States, as well as impending availability at Disney properties. Visit SorelOfficial.com for more information and follow @SorelOfficial on Instagram and Facebook.
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Everyone is invited to celebrate National Public Lands Day at the Ma-le’l Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 24 from 9 a.m. to noon.
Volunteers are needed to help restore coastal dune habitat by removing invasive, non-native yellow bush lupine. Volunteers should wear long sleeves, long pants and closed-toe shoes. To get to the work site, take Young Lane off State Route 255 in Manila/Arcata and follow the signs. Tools, gloves and lunch will be provided. To RSVP as a volunteer, call 707-733-5406
The National Environmental Education Foundation’s National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer event for public lands. Established in 1994 and held annually on the fourth Saturday in September, this celebration brings out thousands of volunteers to help restore and improve public lands around the country. National Public Lands Day is also a “Fee-Free Day”— one of only five days a year when entrance fees are waived at national parks and other public lands.
This year, the theme for National Public Lands Day is “Giving Back Together.” For more information, visit www.fws.gov/refuge/humboldt-bay, email denise_seeger@fws.gov or call 707-733-5406.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
558 AM PDT Wed Sep 14 2022
...Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality Impacts...
* Smoke from the Mosquito wildfire continues to produce unhealthy
to hazardous air quality across the region. The latest
observations indicate the worst conditions to be concentrated
near Truckee and extending into Reno, Sparks, and the North
Valleys. Visibility of 2-3 miles due to thick smoke is in place
mainly along and north of I-80. Motorists should exercise
caution for the morning commute.
* As we have come to expect, another wave of smoke is forecast to
push into the region this afternoon and evening with the latest
smoke modeling concentrating the densest smoke plume for this
afternoon across the Tahoe Basin into eastern Sierra/Nevada
counties and through Reno/Sparks/North Valleys. There is some
potential for more widespread coverage extending to near Pyramid
Lake with drainage flows seeping through the Carson Valley and
across Lyon and Mineral counties this evening. Expect additional
reductions to air quality and visibility.
* For the latest air quality info, please continue to visit:
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Management Division or the latest Smoke Outlook Statements from
the US Interagency Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program
which are also available via: fire.airnow.gov.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) _ Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. (TNP) on Wednesday reported earnings of $46.2 million in its second quarter.
The Athens, Greece-based company said it had net income of $1.31 per share.
The oil and gas shipping company posted revenue of $216.7 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $154 million.
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A less-glitzy Detroit auto show returns after 3-year absence
By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT (AP) — When it came time to showcase its electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV to the public this year, General Motors decided against doing so at the big Detroit auto show, as it typically would have done in the past. Instead, it unveiled the Equinox six days earlier.
GM’s decision symbolized just how much smaller this year’s auto show will be, with few new model debuts, less-glitzy displays, fewer journalists and possibly lower attendance.
Though the pandemic is partly to blame, larger forces are at play, too: Automakers have figured out that new models can make a bigger splash when they’re unveiled to a digital audience on a day where they don’t have to share the spotlight with their rivals. Not to mention that making a debut at an auto show can be hugely expensive.
So despite moving the show from January to balmy September and adding outdoor events, the North American International Auto Show won’t be the glitzy event it was the last time it was held in chilly January, more than three years ago.
“The industry has changed — the world has changed,” said Karl Zimmermann, vice president of the Detroit Auto Dealers Association, which runs the show. “Do I think it’s going to be the same as it was before? No. It’s a much different format. We’re using indoors. We’re using outdoors.”
This year’s show will be geared more toward consumers and less toward the industry. General Motors and Volkswagen will offer test drives. There will be ride-alongs in new electric vehicles from Ford and others.
“I think that’s the likely track of the future — more consumer-focused than industry-focused, because the consumers don’t need all the the fanfare,” said Jeff Schuster, president of global forecasting for LMC Automotive, a Detroit-area consulting firm. “They can essentially have it look like a showroom.”
Gone from Detroit’s Huntington Place convention center are the elaborate multi-story displays that cost millions and took months to construct. There won’t be any attention-grabbing stunts, like driving cars up steps and through the front doors or an ice rink with figure skaters. Though many automakers, including some from Europe and Asia, decided not to attend, area dealers stepped in to provide cars and displays for their brands.
Instead of around 50 new model debuts as in past years, there’s only one truly new one: The Ford Mustang, to be unveiled Wednesday night at a big outdoor event along the Detroit River. Instead of the usual 5,000 journalists, only about 1,900 received credentials this year. The press conference list has been pared back and supplemented with auto parts makers, EV charging companies and aviation startups.
“We’re trying to show the whole gamut of mobility,” spokesman Frank Buscemi said.
Zimmerman said it’s all part of worldwide trend that started about a decade ago and this year forced the cancellation of the auto show in Geneva, Switzerland. Other auto shows, too, are shifting toward becoming a place for customers in their region to see and even drive what’s new.
Even with the changes, the show still amounts to a major production. So much so that President Joe Biden, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other cabinet members will attend.
Biden, a gearhead who owns a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, is expected to tout his new new climate, tax and healthcare law that offers tax incentives of up to $7,500 toward the purchase of an electric vehicle. Whether Biden will get behind the wheel of a snazzy new car, as he has done during past visits to Detroit, remains to be seen.
The show won’t be entirely devoid of glitz. Ford, Jeep and Stellantis’ Ram brand have built displays that will hold vehicles as they drive over steep slopes. Dirt and trees were trucked in for a natural look. There will be tracks where customers can ride in new electric vehicles, including Ford’s F-150 Lightning pickup.
Zimmermann agreed that attendance will likely be smaller than the roughly 800,000 the show drew during peak years of the past. He said he would be pleased with 500,000 for the 12-day show. This year, those who attend outdoor activities alone won’t be counted, which will hold down the total.
One thing is sure: Electric vehicles will be big draws for the public. Many will be on display for the first time to customers even though automakers unveiled them earlier.
“They want to know how they ride, how they drive and have experience with them,” Zimmermann said. “It’s not just enough to see a car on a carpet or to see just a digital display on a screen, but to really interact with the vehicle.”
It’s the interaction, with vehicles and with other people, that Zimmermann says will enhance the show after the lengthy pandemic pause.
“We like to think that after 3 1/2 years away, we’ll do nothing but grow,” he said.
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Tasmania's best young guns went head to head on Wednesday, vying for the boys' Tassie Hawks Cup.
The cup brought together the premiers of regional football competitions from the North, North-West and South to play off at UTAS Stadium.
The cup was taken out by St Patrick's, who defeated St Virgil's, 48 to 31.
Ulverstone was defeated by St Patrick's in the first match, 51 to 14.
Coach Lochie Williams said the team started off nervous, but eventually found their stride and played some good football.
"We did have some good patches where when we moved the ball well, we we're able to control it, but unfortunately St Pat's were too good and full credit to them," he said.
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The boys gave it another crack against St Virgil's, but lost 63 to 32. Williams said they began sluggish, before coming back full force in the second half, but couldn't keep up.
Getting to the cup was no small feat, with Ulverstone clinching the grand final in term two and training hard for the last six weeks.
"We've got a number of players who acquitted themselves very well today ... and I think hopefully we can get these kids to stick together over the next few years and really strive to bring North-West football or school football up to the same level [as] the North and the South," Williams said.
"I was rapt with our boys from the improvement they've shown throughout the year and the dedication to come to train ... you couldn't ask for more from a group of boys."
Logan Lamprey walked away with the Ulverstone's most valuable player medal.
Hawthorn head of Tasmanian operations David Cox said the cup provided aspirational opportunities for young athletes.
"The Tassie Hawks Cup is a terrific platform for schools and athletes across the state and underpins our commitment to support grassroots football in Tasmania," he said.
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South Pontotoc senior Anna Brooke Sullivan returns a shot in action earlier this season. The Lady Cougars have won 9 consecutive games and are in first place in Division 3-4A.
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The South Pontotoc Lady Cougars volleyball girls have torn off nine straight wins since the end of August.
The Lady Cats started 2-5, but after a win over Nettleton on Aug. 20, they haven’t lost. They’re threatening to repeat as 3-4A division champions.
South is 11-5 overall, and 2-0 in division play. Coach Blake Lovell said he likes the energy and vibe among his squad.
“We’re staying dialed in, and focused, and we’ve overcome some of the early struggles we faced,” said Lovell, whose team has caught fire since the Aug. 20 win. That was a turning point in the season, Lovell said.
“I think we gained a lot of confidence there, and the win at the Pontotoc County tournament was a big moment, too,” said Lovell.
Middle blocker Anna Brooke Sullivan is a first-year player, but she’s providing a big presence on the court, Lovell said.
Seniors Jada Sullivan and Maggie Caldwell are adding depth to the lineup, Lovell said. Caldwell is a crafty player with off-season experience and hits a strong ball, according to Lovell.
Serving poorly and making uncareful errors plagued the girls early in the season, Lovell said, but they’ve worked hard to correct that.
The South ladies play at Houston tomorrow night for a division game, then host Senatobia on Sept 20 for another division matchup, and travel to Caledonia on Sept. 22. They finish division play with a division matchup at Senatobia on Sept. 27.
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President Biden on Monday will announce the director of a new agency focused on biomedical innovation and sign an executive order on biotechnologies as part of an update on his administration’s efforts to cure cancer.
Biden will travel to Boston on the 60th anniversary of former President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot” speech at Rice University, where Kennedy outlined his goal for the United States to land a man on the moon.
The president will provide an update on his administration’s “Cancer Moonshot,” an initiative he relaunched in February with the goal to cut the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years and improve the lives of caregivers and cancer survivors.
Biden on Monday will announce the appointment of Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an agency created in March focused on developing biomedical technologies to improve health outcomes.
The president will also sign an executive order launching a national biotechnology and biomanufacturing initiative. The order will bolster research and aim to solidify supply chains so that biotechnologies used in the fight against cancer are developed and produced in the U.S., according to a White House fact sheet.
“This initiative is rooted in the principles of equity, ethics, safety, and security that will help benefit all Americans and the global community, and maintain United States technological leadership and economic competitiveness,” the White House said.
Biden will also give an update on the progress of his “Cancer Cabinet,” a group of advisers and administration officials tasked with securing funding and developing treatments for cancer.
The president will highlight recent developments like the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act by Democrats in Congress, which includes provisions to lower prescription drug costs, some of which are used to treat certain forms of cancer.
He will also note the launch of a National Cancer Institute study aimed at identifying blood tests that can detect one or more cancers with the goal of earlier detection in cancer patients.
Before the speech on Monday, Biden will make remarks on the investments in the bipartisan infrastructure law in Boston.
The cause of ending cancer has been personal for Biden, whose son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. The president has talked about ending cancer throughout his campaign and presidency, saying it would be a priority for him. He has also framed it as a bipartisan effort, meeting with members of both parties at the White House last year to discuss the effort.
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The dynamic, digital map of the supply chain world continues to provide unrivaled value and capability
PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blume Global, the only multimodal supply chain orchestration platform uniting end-to-end visibility, supplier management and logistics execution, announced it will be providing Blume Maps free of charge to all customers subscribed to its suite of solutions. This is in line with Blume's ongoing dedication to making industry leading, innovative solutions accessible to companies spanning various sizes and industries and increasing agility in the supply chain across all modes.
Blume Maps provides shippers with unparalleled supply chain visibility, and more importantly, value. Powered by patented data science technology, it is a dynamic map of the supply chain world running natively on Google Cloud that enables shippers to plan shipment routes, track progress in real time, receiving accurate ETAs for shipments sent via air, road, ocean and rail. What sets Blume Maps apart from the competition is its ability to provide users with alternative transportation modes, carriers or routes, should they encounter any problems or delays, helping deliver packages to their customers as quickly and cost-effectively as possible every time.
"Ongoing supply chain disruptions have emphasized the need for stakeholders to harness and utilize end-to-end visibility and execution through the power of logistics technology solutions," said Pervinder Johar, CEO of Blume Global. "As one of our flagship products, Blume Maps eliminates supply chain blind spots throughout the world, no matter the mode. Providing free access to Blume Maps to our customers is testament to our mission of democratizing technology for millions of small to medium businesses that make our global supply chains work."
Earlier this year, Blume announced updates to Blume Maps, including the launch Blume Interline Schedules, a cloud-native platform that allows companies that leverage railroad intermodal services to better coordinate cross-country rail freight deliveries. In partnership with Union Pacific Railroad, Norfolk Southern and CSX, Blume's complementary end-to-end rail freight scheduler gives users visibility around moving cargo from one railway to another. In concert with Blume Interline Schedules, Blume's asset management feature tracks details around intermodal rail shipments and how they interchange. It also validates the movement of freight delivery schedules with the ability to catch missing interchange points and improve accuracy with future deliveries.
For more information, or to request a demo on Blume Maps, please visit https://www.blumeglobal.com/blume-map/
Blume Global is a multimodal supply chain orchestration platform that unites end-to-end visibility, supplier management and logistics execution. As the single source of truth for logistics data, Blume provides visibility throughout the value chain, from sourcing to delivery, allowing customers to use Blume solutions to navigate disruptions and create agile plans amid supply chain uncertainty. Blume has the most extensive network among logistics technology providers. The company's direct connectivity to the ocean, air, rail, parcel, LTL and truckload carriers combines with Blume's solutions and 28 years of industry data to maximize transportation spend, improve customer service and reduce carbon emissions for users. By developing technology that streamlines the logistics world, Blume Global is leading the industry in creating supply chain sustainability solutions, fighting climate change by eliminating significant carbon emissions in a world where most freight is transported using fossil fuels.
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I-Sega-i: The Deep Gaming Cuts of Uncle From Another World
by Heidi Kemps,Uncle From Another World isn't your standard isekai adventure. It's a story about a man who, while in a coma for 17 years, finds himself in a dangerous and unfamiliar fantasy world. When he wakes up, he shares the stories about his otherworldly deeds with his nephew Takafumi and Takafumi's wishes-she-was-more-than-a-childhood-friend Fujimiya. Uncle, however, isn't exactly a charismatic hero. In fact, his accident tore Takafumi's family apart, so now textbook-NEET Uncle's stuck living in Takafumi's apartment, playing video games all day and making a living off performing magic he learned in the other world for YouTube clicks.
Uncle's life in the other world wasn't an ideal isekai fantasy, either. Despite wielding some incredibly powerful magic, Uncle was treated as a misfit at best and a freakish, misfortune-bringing monster at worst, suffering imprisonment, vicious beatings, angry mobs, and entire villages pouring their magic reserves to try and kill him, just to name a few. So how did Uncle survive 17 years in isekai hell? He turned to the thing that made the greatest impact on his life… Sega's video games.
Sega's a well-known global name in video games, but Uncle's Sega fanaticism seems like something else entirely. But even those of us who swore by Sega's output at the height of the 16-bit console wars might be a bit mystified by Uncle's actions. It isn't just that Uncle is a Sega fan: he's a Sega fan in Japan, where Sega's role in the console world played out much differently. Fully understanding Uncle's Sega obsession—and why he behaves the way he does—requires some knowledge of what Sega fandom in Japan was like.
While the Uncle From Another World manga initially makes a deliberately half-hearted attempt to partially conceal the Sega titles being spoken about, the anime adaptation embraces them wholeheartedly from the outset. In the opening alone, there are references from everything from Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe to obscurities like Digital Dance Mix and Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru (one of the rarest and priciest Saturn games out there, which Uncle has no qualms about obtaining for a princely sum). The mid-episode eyecatch is also a very obvious riff on the logo of the Saturn classic Panzer Dragoon.
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The deep cuts don't stop as Uncle attempts to adjust to his new life in a world where Sega doesn't manufacture hardware anymore—a task that seems much more difficult for him than re-acclimating from his fantasy isekai life. So how does Sega's perception in Japan differ from the west, and how deep does Uncle From Another World's nerdy rabbit hole go? Let's have a look...
THE MEGADRIVE ERA: FOR SERIOUS GAMERS ONLY
When the Sega MegaDrive first launched in Japan in late 1988, the response was rather tepid. By this point, Nintendo's Famicom (which we know as the NES) was well entrenched into Japanese homes, and NEC's PC Engine (known in North America as the Turbografx-16, launched in 1987) proved to be a solid alternative for power players who wanted better graphics and sound quality.
While Sega was always highly respected as a pioneering arcade company in Japan, things were very different on the console side. Sega's previous console, the Mark III, was a cult favorite among older tech-savvy players, but not among the mass audiences the Famicom and PC Engine were targeting. That meant the Sega MegaDrive, despite impressive hardware, had a small brand following out of the gate. MD games were pretty sparse for the first several months, and those that were available were not particularly great—or, in the case of the notoriously awful Osomatsu-kun game, legendarily bad.
Things fared better when the system launched in North America and Europe, with the at-the-time-impressive port of Altered Beast proving to be a head-turner. Europe proved to be the strongest market, while Sega still struggled in North America for a few years. The MD's profile in Japan improved, too, thanks in part to some excellent arcade ports like Ghouls and Ghosts, Tatsujin, and Golden Axe. Developers liked the hardware's capabilities and ease of development, but the small marketshare made development hard to justify.
When the Super Famicom debuted in Japan in 1990, Nintendo's dominance meant that NEC and Sega would be stuck in a battle for that market's second place medal—and NEC definitely had the edge. 1991 would be a big year, however: the launch of the globally beloved Sonic the Hedgehog, along with an increase in notable MD exclusives like Streets of Rage and Shining in the Darkness, brought the console some much-needed positive attention in Japan. Of course, over in the US and Europe, things were even better: Sonic was a huge hit, and Sega's overseas marketing sold the system as the slicker, hipper alternative to stodgy Nintendo. It worked beautifully.
But could this newfound popularity topple Nintendo and NEC in Japan? Well… no. Neither could the launch of the Mega-CD add-on. Money flowing from overseas markets encouraged Sega and third parties to ramp up development for the console, but the MegaDrive was never truly a smash hit in Japan. However, Sega was establishing a distinct "personality" for the MegaDrive while building a small but devoted market of loyal fans. The MegaDrive might not have been the popular console, but it was the console of cultured gaming connoisseurs. (There's a reason why SeHa Girls's personification of the MegaDrive is a quiet, bookish type.) It's a stark contrast to the images projected by Sega's European and North American marketing: this console is the hottest thing ever and you had better play it or risk being terminally lame!
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Uncle's MegaDrive-fan upbringing affects his personality in obvious ways. After being so devoted to the "unpopular" console, he's used to being the underdog and having his passions in life misunderstood.
THE AGE OF SATURN: A TASTE OF SUCCESS
The Saturn is considered by many to be where Sega lost its way. The Saturn was console that was simultaneously over- and under-designed, it was hard to program for, expensive, and strangely limited in 3D polygon power just as the market was shifting dramatically in that direction. It sold only a fraction of what the MegaDrive/Genesis did in the US and Europe, diminishing Sega's image and leaving them desperately scrambling to create a better successor console.
…Well, that's the story in the West, anyway. But in Japan, things were different. In fact, it's no exaggeration to say that the Saturn was Sega's most popular console ever in Japan.
Sega and Sony launched the Saturn and PlayStation very close together in 1994. Sega took the early lead, primarily on the strength of its arcade conversions. Sega's arcade games were seeing a massive boom in popularity at the time, and the Saturn offering a conversion of Virtua Fighter—with Virtua Fighter 2 promised at a later date—gave it a strong initial edge. This initial enthusiasm also made third parties interested in the Saturn, as more advanced hardware capabilities and cheaper CD-ROM media were very appealing. The Saturn library quickly began to flourish.
Then Square-Enix announced in early 1996 that Final Fantasy VII would be a PlayStation exclusive. Momentum shifted over the course of that year, and eventually Sony's global victory was all but assured. Sega was, once again, the underdog.
Still, the Saturn thrived in its second-place spot. The N64's late launch, expensive cartridge media, and anemic third party support kept it from reaching its full potential, and in the end the Saturn would outsell it by about 250,000 units in Japan. It was a great time to be a Sega fan in Japan, provided you were ignoring the bleeding coming from Sega's NA and European sides. That was easy to do when you were playing exclusives like Sakura Wars.
It's at the end of the Saturn's heyday and the start of the Dreamcast era where Uncle is knocked out of this world. Unfortunately, we all know what happens with Sega while he's out adventuring. His attachment to the Saturn remains strong, however—in the anime, whenever Uncle opens or closes a vision of his adventures, it's accompanied by sound effects from the Saturn's system interface.
UNCLE'S ULTIMATE TREASURE
While Sega references permeate the entirety of Uncle From Another World, there are a couple of games that get a particular focus. Uncle might be a Sega fan, but he's an especially big fan of Treasure, a developer who was closely associated with Sega in the heyday of the MegaDrive and Saturn.
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Founded by several ex-Konami staffers in 1992, Treasure immediately gravitated towards development for the MegaDrive, using their programming expertise to push the system's Motorola 68000 processor to its limits. Their MegaDrive output includes titles like Gunstar Heroes, Dynamite Headdy, and the unique anime-based 4-player fighter Yu Yu Hakusho Makyou Touitsusen. Their high-quality output continued on the Saturn with Silhouette Mirage, Radiant Silvergun, and Guardian Heroes.
It's that last game that serves as a strange plot point. Uncle, of course, was an avid reader of Softbank publishing's official Sega platform magazines, including Sega Saturn Magazine. This mag began life as a general-gaming publication called Beep! before morphing into the MegaDrive-focused Beep! MegaDrive, and then into Sega Saturn Magazine. (Unsurprisingly, it became Dreamcast Magazine around the time that console launched.)
A highlight of these magazines was the section where readers could send in their reviews of released games for the console (MegaDrive, later Saturn). The readers' submitted scores (out of ten) would then be averaged and added to an ever-growing ranked list of games. This section was very popular among readers, and helped give some otherwise under-the-radar titles some attention… for better or worse. (The scathing reader reviews for the hilariously bad lightgun game Death Crimson helped that title secure its reputation as a truly legendary kusoge.)
Unfortunately, Uncle was in a coma before the final, definitive reader-voted Saturn software ranking was published. When he finally gets to see it, he doesn't seem surprised, just extremely disappointed that the top-ranked game is EVE Burst Error, an edited port of a PC visual novel. He goes outside to vent his frustrations in the way only Uncle can:
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Guardian Heroes was ranked 197 out of 1156 total games. Which isn't terrible! But it does seem likely that the game would probably be ranked higher if a "best Saturn games" survey were taken now, seeing how it's become a beat-em-up genre classic. Uncle was just ahead of the curve.
And then there's Uncle's favorite game: Treasure's 1995 action masterpiece Alien Soldier.
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While it was unreleased in the United States, Japanese and European Megadrivers were able to enjoy this fast-paced, extremely technical, incredibly difficult game. It's known for intense, highly nuanced game mechanics, spectacular boss fights, and pushing the capabilities of the console to its limits. It's the kind of game you'd drag out in a "which is best" console war argument to prove your point… so it's easy to understand why die-hard Sega fanatic Uncle is so attached to it. (So much so, in fact, that he spends a big chunk of his YouTuber earnings to re-acquire the original cart.) Alien Soldier has since been re-released globally in various forms—including on the upcoming Genesis Mini 2 console—so if you're curious, it's well worth checking out.
Alien Soldier also features a surprisingly complex story that's partially presented in a confusing infodump at the start of the game. Said story is expanded on in the Japanese manual. Which, of course, Uncle has completely memorized.
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When Uncle is asked about his first love, after talking about his grade-school infatuation with the Sonic 2 title screen, he mentions the name "Kaede Nanase." Kaede, as you probably expect by this point, is a game character—the tragic heroine-turned antagonist of Alien Soldier. A former friend of Fou Misaki, the human host of Alien Soldier's protagonist Epsilon-2, she has been killed and her body used for nefarious purposes by an evil syndicate. You fight against her in the form of "Seven Force Kaede" during one of the game's most challenging and memorable battles, a grueling, non-stop boss rush where she changes forms multiple times.
(While Kaede only has five forms in this battle, Seven Force is a reference to an enemy from another Treasure game, the much-beloved Gunstar Heroes.)
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Even in the strangest of situations, Uncle's brain seems to hyper-focus on Alien Soldier. Later in the series, when Uncle is asked his name, he gives multiple pseudonyms—all of which originate from that game. The name he gives Mabel, "Wolfgunblood," isn't just some cool-sounding chuuni word salad, but the name of another well-known boss from Alien Soldier—a wolfman riding a mechanical horse. Another name he uses is "Kuroki Tenma." This is the host for Epsilon-2's rival and "evil half," Epsilon-1.
With both the show and the manga still running as of this writing, our beloved Uncle's adventures in adjusting to a world where Sega doesn't make consoles anymore look likely to continue for a while yet. The series' popularity in Japan has boosted the profile of classic Sega Games considerably: the manga ran a special chapter with Uncle getting the MegaDrive Mini and discussing his favorite games from the selection, and Alien Soldier's inclusion in the lineup for the upcoming MegaDrive Mini 2 was announced during the anime's debut prestream. Uncle might not be the most smooth or attractive isekai hero, but his tenacious Sega love—and the adventure-aiding wisdom he somehow derives from it—makes him one of the most memorable and relatable world-hopping protagonists out there. And if his infectious enthusiasm convinces you to give more obscure Japanese MegaDrive and Saturn classics a look, then I'm sure Uncle considers everything he went through to be worth it.
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Copado's Fall 22 release delivers Continuous Quality by embedding end-to-end testing, security and compliance into CI/CD pipelines
CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Copado, the global leader in low-code DevOps, today launched its Quality Integration Framework which integrates AI-driven Robotic Testing and CI/CD within its DevOps platform for Salesforce. Designed for the new breed of non-technical and technical low-code delivery teams, Copado's Fall 22 release enables customers to integrate continuous quality into every branch of code deployed. One of the first companies to achieve this milestone, Copado ensures quality, security and compliance across every step of the software development lifecycle.
More than 150,000 businesses, including 90% of the Fortune 500, rely on Salesforce to build their digital business. Applications built on the Salesforce platform are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex. Yet rigorous, integrated and automated testing has not yet become commonplace: 84% of Salesforce teams report they are still relying on manual testing and most Salesforce teams lack the resources to test every change before deployment to production. At the same time, finding quality issues later in the release cycle is 640x more expensive.
"In order to achieve continuous quality, testing has to be accessible to both citizen and professional testers," said David Brooks, Senior Vice President of Products at Copado. "Copado has introduced a new click-based test creation and editing capabilities to improve collaboration across delivery teams. Businesses should shift-left and shift-right on testing to improve efficiency and achieve speed, security and quality."
In Forrester's Continuous Automation Testing Platforms Landscape, Q3 2022 report, Diego Lo Giudice wrote, "Software testing can't be an afterthought or a special event that happens once a quarter after a week-long integration. Enterprises recognize that the longer a defect lives, the more expensive the fix becomes. All forms of testing must be part of the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and 'shifted left' as early in the lifecycle as possible in order to identify and eliminate bugs before the overheads increase."
The Fall 22 release empowers citizen and technical testers to work collaboratively through a low-code platform. It offers a new Flow Editor so citizen testers can easily build regression and end-to-end test suites visually through a drag-and-drop interface. Teams can feel confident that tests are always up to date by leveraging AI-assisted test authoring with smart predictions and self-healing capabilities. Regardless of a user's skill level, they now have the flexibility to choose their preferred authoring mode all-in-one package that integrates tightly with Copado CI/CD pipelines.
Tests are viewable in the Copado Quality Integration Framework, giving customers a user-story centric view of the tests, quality gates, policies, security and compliance rules in the same place CI/CD pipelines are managed. This unique ability to centrally manage quality from the perspective of the pipeline gives Salesforce development teams unmatched visibility and control. The Copado Quality Integration Framework also enables customers to integrate any testing, security or compliance tool in the wider DevOps ecosystem into their pipeline.
"We needed to scale our Salesforce development and introduce structured, auditable processes for SOX compliance," said Derek Nelson, Lead Salesforce Administrator at Weave. "Copado gave us that scalability and structure, delivering great results. We used to dread deployment day but with Copado, it's stress-free. It's so easy that anybody can use it — even if they can't code. We just press a button, and if there's an issue, we can easily go back to our user stories to troubleshoot the problem. Now, we get to go home on time."
At Dreamforce 2022 in San Francisco, Copado will demonstrate key features of Fall 22 and show how Copado is redefining the standard of DevOps for Salesforce in booth 1300. Book a meeting here: https://www.copado.com/copado-at-dreamforce-22. Learn more about all the new innovations by visiting the Fall '22 Release Hub.
Copado is redefining how to achieve success with enterprise SaaS and low-code platforms with its data-driven approach to delivering faster, higher quality releases and improving trust across customer transformation projects. Organizations that implement DevOps and automated testing best practices have been shown to deploy more often, fail less often and recover faster. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Copado found that a composite organization comprised of interviewees with customers with experience using Copado delivered 20x shorter lead times, 10x faster recovery times, 4x reduction in change fail rate and 5-7% higher productivity. Further, organizations using Copado's DevOps platform can achieve $4.5 million in value and an ROI of 307% over three years with payback in less than 6 months.
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Copado is the leading DevOps and testing solution for low-code SaaS platforms that run the world's largest digital transformations. Backed by Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund, Copado accelerates multi-cloud, enterprise deployments by automating the end-to-end software delivery process to maximize customers' return on their cloud investment. More than 1,000 companies rely on Copado to drive digital transformation with speed, quality and value including Boston Scientific, Coca-Cola, Fair Trade, Linde, MassMutual, Schneider Electric and Shell. Copado processes over 50 million DevOps transactions per month and is rated with a 100% score on the Salesforce AppExchange. More information can be found at: http://www.copado.com.
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Anthony Joshua's trainer Robert Garcia admits he'd prefer his charge to take 'two or three fights' before facing Tyson Fury after revealing he had no say in negotiations for the huge heavyweight showdown
- Anthony Joshua looks set to take on domestic rival Tyson Fury later this year
- Joshua is expected to receive a contract soon after agreeing to Fury's terms
- Joshua's trainer Robert Garcia has said he would not have rushed into the fight
- He would have preferred Joshua to take 'two or three fights' before Fury
Anthony Joshua's trainer Robert Garcia has admitted that he would have preferred his fighter to take two or three fights before facing heavyweight rival Tyson Fury.
Joshua's management team, 258, confirmed on Tuesday that the Olympic gold medallist had 'accepted all terms' for a fight with Fury on December 3. Promoter Frank Warren has since confirmed that Joshua can expect to receive a contract shortly as the huge domestic showdown edges nearer.
Negotiations for the fight have proceeded quickly, and Garcia has revealed that he has not had a say in them. He has now said that he would not have rushed into the fight if he had his way.
Anthony Joshua has 'accepted all terms' to fight heavyweight rival Tyson Fury on December 3
Robert Garcia would prefer him to wait and have some more fights before taking on Fury
'I have spoken with Joshua's team. But I am the newest member of the whole team, and they are decisions that they have to make between them,' he told Izquierdazo.
'For my part, I would like to do about two or three fights before [Fury], but obviously it is a business and a huge fight in Europe.
'I can't stop them from taking something if it's a huge fight and the purse I think would be a lot of money. I'm the newest on the team, I don't own the decisions, they have a very smart management team and they will make the right decision and it's their decision really.
Joshua was not expected to go straight back in for a title shot after losing twice to Oleksandr Usyk, but the opportunity presented itself when the Ukrainian stated that he wanted to take time away from the ring to rest and spend time with his family.
Garcia has admitted that he still has some doubts about whether Fury is serious about fighting Joshua, or if he is just trying to put Usyk under pressure to sign for their undisputed clash.
Garcia is unsure whether Fury is serious about fighting Joshua later this year
'For me, if you want to know what I think: I think Fury is doing all this to put pressure on Usyk to make the unification.'
'It's a great fight, and I also think Fury started talking. And they have talked about it with Joshua 's team, because they told me about it, but it could be part of the strategy of putting pressure on Usyk and thinking that he is losing the opportunity,' Garcia added.
Garcia has only worked with Joshua for one fight so far, and there is some uncertainty over whether he will continue in the Brit's corner after he claimed Joshua 'mentally defeated himself' in the Usyk rematch last month.
Garcia thinks Fury may be using Joshua to try and get Oleksandr Usyk to fight him soon
The 47-year-old has hinted that he would like to remain Joshua's trainer, but has made it clear that he would want to set up camp back in California rather than having to travel to London.
'I told them what I think: that it would be better, and because of my work in California, I recommended doing the camp here,' Garcia said.
'He liked the idea and they will take it into account. But for me to go back [to train Joshua in London] is difficult for me. I have a lot of work, fighters who fight every weekend.
'But I know that with my dad's team, my son Mikey, I know I can do it and go another couple of months. I know I can, but I would rather stay. Let the preparation be here.'
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A new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reportedly reveals former President Trump told aides following the 2020 presidential election that he would remain in the White House after President Biden’s inauguration.
Haberman wrote that Trump seemed to recognize he had lost to Biden immediately following the election, but his mood later changed, according to CNN.
“I’m just not going to leave,” Haberman writes Trump told one aide, the network reported.
“We’re never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?” Trump reportedly told another.
Haberman’s book, titled “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” will be released early next month.
The New York Times reporter, who previously worked for Politico, the New York Post and New York Daily News, gained a reputation during the Trump presidency for repeatedly breaking scoops on the administration.
Haberman writes in her new book that Trump in the immediate aftermath of the election asked advisers to tell him what went wrong, telling one adviser “we did our best,” CNN reported, adding that he also told junior press aides, “I thought we had it.”
But later, Trump reportedly began expressing his intention to not leave the White House in January 2021 upon the start of Biden’s term as Trump’s team began attempts to overturn the election.
“Why should I leave if they stole it from me?” Trump asked during a conversation with Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, CNN reported.
The Hill has reached out to a Trump spokesperson for comment.
Trump and his allies’ actions following the 2020 election have come under scrutiny through multiple investigations.
A House select committee is investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and is expected to hold an additional public hearing later this month. A separate Justice Department probe is also examining the attack.
In Georgia, an Atlanta-area district attorney is investigating whether Trump and his allies unlawfully attempted to overturn the election in the state. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney who helped lead the post-election efforts, said he is a target of the probe.
Trump has indicated he is also mulling a third bid for the White House in 2024. He has said he has made up his mind if he will run, but Trump has yet to make a formal campaign announcement.
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Most Americans don’t want either President Biden or his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, to run for the White House again in 2024, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shared exclusively with The Hill.
Two-thirds of voters surveyed – 67 percent – said that Biden shouldn’t seek another term in the Oval Office, with nearly half citing their belief that he’s a bad president as the reason why. Another 30 percent said it’s simply because Biden, who would be 84 by the time he takes the Oath of Office again, is too old for the job.
Trump, meanwhile, doesn’t fare much better when it comes to a 2024 run. Fifty-seven percent said that the former president shouldn’t mount another bid for the White House, despite his repeated hints that he plans to do so.
When it comes to the reason why most voters aren’t keen on another Trump White House run, respondents were divided. Thirty-six percent said that it’s because he is “erratic,” while another 33 percent said they believe he will divide the country. Nearly as many – 31 percent – pointed to his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
If the two men end up in a 2024 rematch, however, 60 percent of voters said they would be open to supporting a moderate independent candidate in the election.
The poll suggests that voters on both sides of the aisle are largely ready to move on from the bitter rivalries that have dominated U.S. politics in recent years, especially given the possibility that the 2024 presidential election could end up looking a lot like it did in 2020.
“Americans want a clear change from this president and the last one,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, said. “There will be a virtual voter revolt if these are the two candidates once again.”
Republicans, however, remain loyal to Trump, with 59 percent of GOP voters saying they would cast their ballot for him in the 2024 presidential primary. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, meanwhile, comes in a distant second place at 17 percent support.
Without Trump on the primary ballot, however, DeSantis would be the clear favorite for the GOP nomination. Thirty-nine percent of Republican respondents said they would support him, putting the Florida governor well ahead of the second-place finisher, former Vice President Mike Pence, who notched 18 percent.
Nevertheless, if asked to choose only between Biden and Trump, the former president would come out on top, according to the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll. Forty-five percent of respondents said they would vote for Trump over Biden in a head-to-head matchup, while 42 percent said they would reelect the Democratic incumbent.
Vice President Harris fares even worse in a matchup with Trump, notching only 40 percent support to his 47 percent. Still, she has a fighting chance against DeSantis. In a head-to-head contest, 41 percent said they would vote for Harris compared to 38 percent who would choose DeSantis, the poll found.
The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey was conducted between Sept. 7-8 among 1,885 registered voters. It is a collaboration of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and the Harris Poll.
The survey is an online sample drawn from the Harris Panel and weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative online sample, it does not report a probability confidence interval.
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NAPLES, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bramshill Investments, an award-winning alternative asset management firm, has named Mona Daruwala Chief Compliance Officer. Ms. Daruwala has been working in Bramshill's headquarters (Naples, Florida), and going forward she will manage the firm's compliance, regulatory, and reputational risks.
Mona has over 20 years of relationship management, legal and compliance experience from both the buy and sell sides. Prior to joining Bramshill, Ms. Daruwala spent 7 years at Societe Generale with roles under the Global Markets COO Relationship Management team and then subsequently as an AML Compliance Officer focused on risk assessment, governance management and varying regulatory matters. Prior to her time at SG, she held similar roles at Deutsche Bank. During her 9-year tenure at DB she was responsible for managing strategic institutional client relationships focusing on onboarding, legal and compliance matters spanning from onboarding master agreements to any AML regulatory issues that would arise. She began her career working on the buy side specializing in entity formation, governance and legal agreements. Ms. Daruwala is ACAMS certified and has earned her BA in English and Criminal Justice from Rutgers University and her Juris Doctorate from New York Law School.
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The Coalition-Focused Site Aims to Educate Lawmakers on the Proposed Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act of 2022
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MyndVR, the award-winning provider of immersive, therapeutic VR experiences designed for the aging population, and HTC VIVE, a global leader in VR technology, today announced the launch of DigitalTherapyNOW.org, a purpose-driven coalition of academic and industry partners designed to educate lawmakers to support the successful passing of the Access to Prescriptive Digital Therapeutics Act of 2022. This growing coalition is also supported by the XR Association (XRA), International VR Healthcare Association (IVRHA), and National Association of State Veteran Homes (NASVH).
The bipartisan legislation, proposed by Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-05) and David McKinley (WV-01) and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), would expand Medicare coverage to include prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs), which are software-based treatments designed to prevent, treat and manage diseases. The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act aims to officially define prescription digital therapeutics (PDTx) at the federal level and establish new payor benefit categories for PDTx. If passed, the bill could improve healthcare access for more than 148 million Americans.
"We are excited to see members of Congress coming together for such an important piece of legislation," said Chris Brickler, founder and CEO of MyndVR. "Virtual Reality isn't just for gamers. We believe VR-based, digital therapeutics have a very bright future in cognitive, physical and emotional health. Our seniors have earned this technology and we are asking lawmakers across the country to join us and pass S.3791."
"Over the last 15 years, we've been exploring ways to use immersive technology to improve quality of life for those facing a wide array of psychiatric and neurological conditions," said Dr. Adam Gazzaley. "I am excited about the next frontier of VR-based, clinical research and how these digital prescriptions of the future may benefit aging adults and their caregivers."
"XRA's member companies are working to leverage cutting edge digital software to improve patient outcomes," said Liz Hyman, CEO of the XR Association. "We're proud to advocate for policies that anticipate and mitigate challenges in the responsible development and deployment of XR technology."
MyndVR and HTC VIVE will demo their latest technology on the VIVE Flow immersive glasses, today, at the second annual AR/VR Policy Conference in Washington D.C. Hosted by ITIF and the XR Association, the all-day event will kick-off at 10:30 am and conclude at 6:00 pm ET. For more information, please visit: DigitalTherapyNOW.org.
MyndVR is the leading provider of Virtual Reality solutions for senior living communities, home care agencies, Veteran homes, and individual adults aging in their own homes across the US, Canada and Australia. The company is building the most advanced portfolio of original and licensed therapeutic VR content. In extending the company's reach, MyndVR announced strategic distribution partnerships with Select Rehabilitation, the largest contract therapy company in the US, and Omega Healthcare Investors, the largest REIT in senior care. MyndVR enables older adults to interact with the outside world in genuinely innovative ways that promote engagement, wellness, and above all, positive outcomes. The company is committed to continued research and development to measure outcomes, including cognitive, visual, emotional, and physical effects on older adults. For more, visit MyndVR.com.
HTC VIVE is the premier virtual reality (VR) platform and ecosystem that creates true-to-life VR experiences for businesses and consumers. The VIVE ecosystem is built around premium VR hardware, software, and content. The VIVE business encompasses best-in-class XR hardware; VIVEPORT platform and app store; VIVE Enterprise Solutions for business customers; VIVE X, a US$100M VR business accelerator; and VIVE ARTS for cultural initiatives. For more, please visit www.vive.com.
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Industry peers recognize ChannelAdvisor's work to deliver successful campaigns with Google Ads, driving awareness and sales for their customers
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ChannelAdvisor Corporation (NYSE: ECOM), a leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions that enable brands and retailers to increase global sales, announced today it is a finalist in two categories, Brand Awareness and Online Sales, for the distinguished Google Premier Partner Awards. This recognition marks the third time that ChannelAdvisor has been named a finalist for these awards.
The awards recognize the achievements of the very best digital marketing agencies and providers, who are working at the top of their game. ChannelAdvisor is part of a select group of digital specialists called Google Premier Partners. These partners are acknowledged for maximizing campaign success for clients, driving growth by amplifying clients' campaigns and demonstrating their Google Ads skills and expertise through certifications.
The Brand Awareness category recognizes Google Premier Partners who have helped elevate their clients' brand by creating more relevant and targeted content to drive brand awareness. The Online Sales category recognizes partners that have implemented best-in-class e-commerce campaigns that have helped clients react in real time to changing customer behaviors. For ChannelAdvisor, these award nominations are a reflection of helping brands and retailers accelerate online sales and increase customer acquisition.
"For the third time, ChannelAdvisor has been shortlisted for the Google Premier Partner Awards," said Link Walls, Vice President of Digital Marketing Strategy at ChannelAdvisor. "This is a testament to ChannelAdvisor's continued commitment to its customers at every stage of the shopping journey. Our team strives to provide brands and retailers with unrivaled support to help solve their business challenges. As a finalist in two categories, we are honored to learn that our efforts are being recognized."
"Becoming a Google Partner shows prospective clients you have what it takes to help them grow online," said Davang Shah, Senior Director, Ads Marketing, Google. "For small businesses that have just started out, or even larger firms yet to take their first step online, it's reassuring to know they're working with a reputable provider that's approved by Google. Being recognized as a finalist places these partners at the pinnacle of delivering excellent results for their clients and as a great place to work."
The winners of the prestigious Google Premier Partner Awards will be announced at Google's award ceremony in New York City on October 28.
For more details about ChannelAdvisor, visit ChannelAdvisor's blog, follow ChannelAdvisor on Twitter @ChannelAdvisor, like ChannelAdvisor on Facebook and connect with ChannelAdvisor on LinkedIn.
About ChannelAdvisor
ChannelAdvisor (NYSE: ECOM) is a leading multichannel commerce platform whose mission is to connect and optimize the world's commerce. For over two decades, ChannelAdvisor has helped brands and retailers worldwide improve their online performance by expanding sales channels, connecting with consumers across the entire buying cycle, optimizing their operations for peak performance, and providing actionable analytics to improve competitiveness. Thousands of customers depend on ChannelAdvisor to securely power their e-commerce operations on channels such as Amazon, eBay, Google, Facebook, Walmart, and hundreds more. For more information, visit www.channeladvisor.com.
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BOYERTOWN, Pa., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClimeCo, a leader in the management and development of environmental commodities, has partnered with Enaleia to remove plastic pollution from vital fishing areas. Enaleia is a non-profit that engages coastal communities to collect plastic on land and in the ocean to reduce pollution and improve marine biodiversity conservation. This partnership will support Enaleia's newest project in Kenya, contributing to the generation of plastic credits through Verra. With additional funding from ClimeCo and the sale of the credits, Enaleia estimates they will collect 1,000-3,000 tonnes of plastic annually in Kenya.
"A plastic credit is an environmental commodity that represents the collection or recycling of one tonne of plastic material, which can be used in companies' ESG, CSR, and sustainability programs," says Chris Parker, ClimeCo's Director of Plastic Program. "Our approach is to create a system solution to the ocean plastic challenge."
Enaleia, along with other professional entities that are experts in sustainable development, are collaborating with ClimeCo and the Kwale Recycling Center in Kenya to make sure that the plastic will not only be collected but also integrated into the circular economy.
The Kenya project supports over 350 fishers in Kwale County by empowering them to collect abandoned nets, gear, and marine litter. This number will increase to 800 people from the coastal communities in the following months. The waste is then taken to Kwale Recycling Center, a local collection and recycling company that transports and processes it into useful materials and products.
"Through the plastic credit model, we can set up large-scale plastic cleanup projects that can create a real impact on our oceans," says Lefteris Arapakis, Enaleia's Co-Founder and Director. "Taking into consideration that around 20% of ocean plastic is lost fishing gear, by empowering the fishing communities at this scale, we can not only clean up significant amounts of plastic but also prevent further ocean plastic pollution."
This project incentivizes and encourages the fishing community to use more sustainable fishing practices, including the reduction of overfishing by pausing and limiting their fishing activities while collecting plastic. It also provides a supplemental source of income to an area experiencing some of the highest poverty rates in the country.
To learn more, email us at info@climeco.com.
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Global Flooring Manufacturer Explores Commercial and Residential Design Themes
ATLANTA, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Interface®, a worldwide commercial flooring company and global leader in sustainability, today shares its mid-year Design Trend Index, which details the impact of world-changing events over the past two years on design. The report highlights the emphasis on people-focused interiors and the need for spaces that adapt to end users. It discusses five overarching themes that will continue to inform the design of commercial and residential spaces.
Identified by design experts at Interface and FLOR®, the company's specialty brand, these trends reflect a growing need for comfort, flexibility and understanding as the world experienced enormous change over the last few years. The transformation of design trends speaks to how human behaviors and experiences have and will shape interiors.
The mid-year trends featured in the index include:
- Creating Calm: The stress of the pandemic resulted in a desire for quieter, calming spaces, which can be achieved through the integration of warmer hues, curved shapes, wood tones, soft pastels and nature-inspired tones.
- Biophilic Design is Better: The last few years highlighted the importance of mental and physical wellbeing and how physical spaces play a role in wellness. Consequently, designers are interested in integrating aspects of biophilic design or connecting humans to nature by incorporating natural elements into a space.
- Flexible Design: Today, it's beneficial to have adaptable spaces – both at home and in the office. This means interiors should be flexible, so they transform to meet changing needs. Designers achieve this by intentionally creating areas to serve multiple purposes. In the home, this might look like a space for work where you can also workout.
- Return of Retro: Retro design trends are back again, from wood panels to soft pastel palettes and bold, eclectic patterns. This growing trend is reflected in fashion, interiors and music, prompting feelings of nostalgia.
- Innovating Sustainability: Low-carbon design is trending as the impacts of climate change become more visible, resulting in a wave of innovation. Designers are looking to lower the carbon footprints of their spaces without sacrificing style. Thankfully, manufacturer innovations make this possible as they look to use more sustainable materials – from recycled plastics to bio-based materials and beyond.
"The design industry continues to embrace human-centered strategies, especially biophilic design, which emphasizes the connection between people and the natural world," said Katherine Cohen, Head of Creative and Merchandising at FLOR and Interface. "We're seeing a collective movement toward interiors that respond to our needs and to our wellbeing, with the goal of creating safe spaces that adapt and evolve with us."
The full Interface Design Trend Index can be found here.
About FLOR
FLOR®, the premium design brand of Interface®, has brought high-end area rugs to homes, offices, and every space between since 2003. FLOR carpet tiles are beautiful, easy to install, and responsibly sourced. Our customizable designs are engineered for high-traffic spaces, from family rooms to conference rooms. For more information, visit FLOR.com.
About Interface
Interface, Inc. is a global flooring company specializing in carbon neutral carpet tile and resilient flooring, including luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and nora® rubber flooring. We help our customers create high-performance interior spaces that support well-being, productivity, and creativity, as well as the sustainability of the planet. Our mission, Climate Take Back™, invites you to join us as we commit to operating in a way that is restorative to the planet and creates a climate fit for life.
Learn more about Interface at interface.com and blog.interface.com, our nora brand at nora.com, our FLOR® brand at FLOR.com, and our Carbon Neutral Floors™ program at interface.com/carbonneutral.
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Burkina Faso trapped miners: Director fined over disaster that left eight dead
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The director of a mine in Burkina Faso has been found guilty of manslaughter, following a flooding disaster in April that killed eight miners.
Hein Frey, of Canadian company Trevali, was fined $3,000 (£2,600) and given a suspended 24-month prison sentence.
The incident caused outrage in the country at the time.
The verdict has been met with shock, with some in Burkina Faso seeing the sentence as lenient, given the number of victims.
A second executive, Daryl Christensen from Trevali's contractor Byrnecut, was handed a 12-month suspended sentence.
The eight miners were working at a depth of more than 500m when they became trapped by torrential rain in April.
In less than an hour, 125mm of rain fell - five times the average monthly amount.
But despite rescue efforts, in late May the first bodies of the miners were recovered from the Perkoa zinc mine, which lies about 100km (60 miles) west of the capital, Ouagadougou.
In June, the last body was recovered, following some 66 days of searching.
There was controversy at the time of the incident, with rescue operations only getting under way following protests and a sit-in at a government building at a nearby town five days after the floods.
It took rescue teams 31 days to reach the first rescue chamber at the mine in which the missing miners might have sought refuge.
But when the chamber was opened, none of the men - one Tanzanian, one Zambian and six from Burkina Faso - were there.
The zinc mine had two rescue chambers stocked with food, water and oxygen, and loved ones had desperately hoped the miners could have made it to one of those safely.
Millions of litres of water were pumped out and specialised equipment was brought in from Ghana and South Africa to help at the mine, that has a depth of 710m.
Trevali said that during the rescue efforts, a road ramp into the mine was rebuilt and 5,000m of new pipes installed, along with more than 24 electric and diesel pumps.
But after a frantic day-and-night search lasting more than a month, on 25 May rescue teams found the the first four bodies of the miners.
At the time, the boss of the Canadian-owned mine expressed his sadness at the deaths.
"Our deepest condolences are with our colleagues' families during this difficult time, and all of us at Trevali grieve their loss," said its head, Ricus Grimbeek.
Following the disaster at the mine, Trevali and the government in Burkina Faso launched investigations into the causes of the incident.
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BOONE COUNTY, Ark. (KARK) – An Arkansas man who claimed to be both Jesus and Satan, amputated his own leg in front of his 5-year-old, according to court documents.
An arrest affidavit filed Sept. 8 in Boone County shows deputies responded to a home on Aug. 2 where a man was found lying in front of the residence naked and missing part of his right leg.
According to deputies, 48-year-old Shannon Cox said his leg had been taken off “with a chop saw.” Deputies found a trail of blood leading to a large chop saw and the detached limb lying on the tool.
Investigators said Cox’s 5-year-old child was present during the ordeal.
Cox was taken to a nearby hospital by helicopter, authorities said.
The day after the incident, deputies interviewed Cox’s wife, Sandy, who claimed her husband had been “acting odd all day,” telling her that he was “Jesus Christ” and saying she needed to “get right with the lord.” She claimed he began to get violent and claimed to be “Satan.”
Sandy Cox also told deputies her husband threatened to “twist her head off” and made other threats. She noted, however, that he didn’t follow through with physical violence, only verbal abuse.
According to the documents, she said she left the home in fear of her husband. She told deputies she didn’t take her child with her because she was worried about what her husband would do to her if she did, adding that she wasn’t worried about her child.
Investigators also interviewed the child, who confirmed being there when Shannon Cox cut off his own leg. Deputies noted the child still appeared to be in shock.
Both Shannon and Sandy Cox were charged with felony counts of endangering the welfare of a minor. The judge in the case issued a no-contact order to Shannon Cox for both the child and Sandy Cox.
Shannon and Sandy Cox are scheduled to be back in court in mid-October.
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Online retailer Zulily announces top 10 sleepless cities as bi-annual Welcome Baby shopping event kicks off
SEATTLE , Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zulily today launches the 24th edition of its bi-annual Welcome Baby Event, now featuring the largest curated collection with more than 6,500 styles up to 60% off where expecting and new moms can discover products and brands she needs and wants for herself, her baby and her home. Now, more than ever, millions of moms overall feel more overwhelmed by financial burdens compared to a year ago, with inflation impacting 92% of household budgets. While 43% of moms feel prepared to protect their family budget1, 54% are now planning more because of inflation and rising prices. To help expectant and new moms plan and solve for #inflationhacks, for two weeks, from September 14-29, Zulily will feature products from layette sets and playwear to car seats, strollers and more to make moms' lives easier and maximize savings, so she can stay focused on celebrating the little and big moments that come with a new family addition.
"Household budgets are feeling the squeeze as 72% of moms report that spending habits for essentials have been most impacted1 and welcoming a new baby into a home requires a lot of essentials, as well as extra purchases along the way. The ever-changing nature of new moms and babies means that shopping for needs is more frequent, so Zulily is supersizing its product offering to help lighten the load for the four million new moms every year," said Erica Williams, Zulily's Kids Merchandise Manager. "We know that what keeps mom up at night in addition to feeding is worrying, caring for their children, and planning for the future, which is why this Welcome Baby, we're excited to debut new events like mom-somnia to help create sleepful nights, in addition to products every mom wants and needs, all at great values."
Mom-somnia is something only moms experience and is defined as the sleeplessness and middle-of-the-night wakeups that a mom, especially a new mom, experiences due to carrying the weight of the world and her family on her shoulders. To combat those sleepless nights with a newborn in the house, Zulily's mom-somnia collection features products that will lull both mom and baby to a good night's rest. From satin pillowcases to calming body washes and comfortable sleeping sets, moms can catch some ZZZ's.
With more than half of moms (55%) reportedly staying up at night worrying about the world, planning for the future or caring for their children,2 Zulily has discovered the top 10 cities where moms are sharing their struggles with sleeplessness on social media3 and surprising 100 moms, including moms from Harvest Home, which aims to transform the lives of homeless pregnant woman and their children, with a good night sleep makeover. To combat mom-somnia, Zulily will provide care packages that feature swaddling blankets, bath salts, white noise machines, comfy pajamas, and more.
Move over Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks because Seattle is sleepless no more: these 10 cities stay awake:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Washington, DC
- Chicago, IL
- Atlanta, GA
- Houston, TX
- Philadelphia, PA
- Seattle, WA
- San Francisco, CA
- Hoboken, NJ
- Dallas, TX
Other curated shoppable collections that are part of this month's Welcome Baby Event include an exciting new exclusive capsule collection that was co-designed by fashion influencers and new moms, Jessica Nickson and Noelle Downing, in collaboration with the fan favorite Little Millie brand. The collection includes over 170 styles across 20 trends from $8.99-$46.99 for baby and mom. In addition, while the birth of twins are special and rare, representing a little more than 3% of all births, it means moms need to double the budgeting for all essentials and needs. Aimed at delighting wallets and moms of twins everywhere, Zulily will feature Double the Fun with products from Baby Trend Expedition Double Joggers to cozy twinning sleepwear sets by Night Life and Elowel, all at prices moms can brag about. Lastly, Buzzy Buys for Baby is giving moms something to talk about with buzzworthy products for babies everywhere, including Baby Aspen's Big Dreamzzz Baby Firefighter Set or Silly Munk's Green Racoon Personalized Teething Clip.
Beginning September 14 to September 29, new and expecting moms will discover exclusive daily deals, virtual brand experiences and everyday deals on new styles from brands they love, including Burt's Bees Baby, Carter's, Chicco, Diono, Gerber, Kickee Pants, Little Me, Mud Pie, Tea Collection, Wonderfold Wagon, and more – all specially curated around on-trend themes to make moms' shopping experience easy and fun, now with free shipping on all orders of $89 and above. Customers can shop the Welcome Baby Event today at Zulily.com and on the mobile app, and find more information by visiting Zulily's The Find.
1Source: Survey conducted by Pollfish on behalf of Zulily in July 2022 of over 1,000 U.S. based moms between the ages of 25-44 with kids 18 and under.
2Source: Survey conducted by Pollfish on behalf of Zulily in March 2022 of over 500 U.S. based moms between the ages of 25-44 that are expecting or have a baby under 12 months old.
3Source: Top 10 Sleepless Cities determined by social listening on Sprout Social across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok over a course of 180 days from the date of December 31st, 2021 – June 28th, 2022. Sprout Social used a collection of relevant key words to identify over 5,629 moms.
Zulily is an online superstore committed to delivering a fun shopping experience for moms everywhere, without breaking the bank. Through exclusive daily deals, brand names and on-trend styles, and everyday value on a wide selection of daily essentials across clothing, footwear, homewares and more, Zulily helps moms discover great deals, create special moments for the family and find the perfect unique items, guilt-free. At Zulily, shopping is a little different, a little better and a lot more fun.
Zulily is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with locations in Nevada, Ohio, and China. With expertise in technology, merchandising, creative production, logistics, marketing, customer service and more, Zulily team members work together to deliver a different kind of shopping experience for moms – one that's built on fun, discovery and whimsy. For more information visit, www.zulily.com or The Find by Zulily, or follow @Zulily on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or Twitter. For vendors interested in selling on Zulily, visit www.sell.zulily.com.
Zulily, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qurate Retail, Inc. (NASDAQ: QRTEA, QRTEB, QRTEP), a Fortune 500 company that includes the Qurate Retail GroupSM portfolio of brands as well as other minority interests and green energy investments. Qurate Retail Group comprises seven leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road® – all dedicated to providing a more human way to shop. Qurate Retail Group is the largest player in video commerce ("vCommerce"), which includes video-driven shopping across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms. For more information, visit www.qurateretailgroup.com, or follow @QurateRetailGrp on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, or follow Qurate Retail Group on YouTube or LinkedIn.
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ROCKINGHAM, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It was announced today that Iron Horse Auction Company of Rockingham, NC is conducting an Online w/Live Bid Center Auction of NCDOT Surplus, 5 Railcars.
The Online Auction is scheduled to begin October 2, 2022 and conclude Live on October 6, 2022. The railcars are being sold for NCDOT at the Capital Yard located at 860 Capital Boulevard, Raleigh, NC 27603. They are selling regardless of price at the end of the auction.
Three of the railcars hold some historical significance as they were formerly owned by the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus. These cars were dormitory cars used to transport members of the circus across the country. The remaining two cars have their own history. One car was a hospital car used by the United States Army and the fifth car was originally a baggage car.
The railcars are currently parked at the Capital Yard in Raleigh and at the Nash County Railroad Corridor. Those interested in looking at the railcars before the auction are advised to do so starting at 10:00 am on October 6th.
For further information or to view the current bids, go to www.ironhorseauction.com or call: 800-997-2248
For interviews, contact:
Steve Cooney, Auctioneer at 270.307.3451
Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc.
174 Airport Road
Rockingham, NC 28379
910-997-2248
www.ironhorseauction.com
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CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Storyhorse, an award-winning branding house, released today their second annual Rundown report highlighting their take on the top pressures facing brands today, as well as how brands such as McDonald's, Impossible Foods, Ally Financial, lululemon, and Abercrombie & Fitch are responding to these challenges.
2022's top pressures include:
- Activating leaders as brand influencers
- Combatting employee burnout
- Keeping up with platform overload
- Practicing what you preach
- Shedding the past to move forward
- Doubling down on community
"Many factors have contributed to a truly unique and interesting landscape in the branding world and the way companies are showing up for their audiences," said Liza Nikitas, Managing Director of Storyhorse. "This year's Rundown provides a comprehensive look at what's happening today and where we think things are headed in the future."
Storyhorse (www.storyhorsebranding.com) is a branding house of spirited storytellers with serious power, known for leveraging strategic know-how and creative muscle to build brands that not only make an impact, they last. Partnering with innovators, dreamers and creative thinkers, Storyhorse delivers purposeful brands with character and power. Storyhorse's services span inception to implementation, including research and strategy, naming, messaging and visual identities, style guides, and rollout tactics. Located in the heart of Chicago, Storyhorse is a division of EA Collective, a group of connection experts who create brand identities (Storyhorse), content (Studio Sage) and experiences (Agency EA).
Contact:
Becky Schultz | EA Collective
bschultz@thisiseacollective.com
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Ken Starr, prosecutor in Clinton-Lewinsky investigation, dead at 76
By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the impeachment of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1998, has died at age 76, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.
Starr died on Tuesday in Houston from complications from surgery, his family said.
Starr came to national prominence as the special prosecutor who investigated the sex-and-perjury scandal that led to then-President Clinton's impeachment.
The investigation into Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky produced a book-length official document for Congress that became a bestseller when commercially sold as "The Starr Report."
Offering startling glimpses of sexual trysts intermingled with the densest legalese, the report found Clinton's attempt to cover up the affair offered grounds for impeachment.
"According to Ms. Lewinsky, she performed oral sex on the president on nine occasions. On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts," "The Starr Report" said. "She called him 'Handsome'; on occasion, he called her 'Sweetie,' 'Baby,' or sometimes 'Dear.'"
The scandal centered on Clinton's attempt to cover up his relationship with Lewinsky, and the impeachment charges stemmed from his false denial of the relationship in his 1998 grand jury testimony and in a deposition in a sexual harassment case filed against him by Paula Jones of Arkansas where Clinton had been governor.
On Dec. 19, 1998, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton - only the second president until then to face this charge of wrongdoing. A subsequent Senate trial failed to remove him from office.
Starr repeatedly said that no one, not even the U.S. president, was above the law.
Born July 21, 1946, in Vernon, Texas, Starr was a clerk to former Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1974 and 1975, and in 1981, he became counselor to William French Smith, then-President Ronald Reagan's first attorney general.
In 1989, he became solicitor-general, the U.S. government's chief litigator.
In that job, he argued 25 cases, including controversial lawsuits on abortion rights and school prayer. Before he became special prosecutor, he was often mentioned as a Republican president's potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Eric Beech and Howard Goller)
((Kanishka.Singh@thomsonreuters.com; +12024508248;))
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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Notable chefs, designers, and mixologists come together to embrace cultures of excellence
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rémy Martin has teamed up with Chef and TV personality Alejandra Ramos, Interior Designer and Lifestyle expert Evette Ríos, and Mixologist Alex Valencia to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month and honor the Latino tradition of Sobremesa, a post-dining tradition that embraces the appreciation of people and time. Together, Alejandra and Alex will create an array of innovative and savory Latin American-inspired cuisine and cocktails that pay homage to Sobremesa. Evette Ríos will share her style, decor, and entertaining home tips for celebrating the ritual of Sobremesa with family and friends.
Rémy Martin remains at the forefront of momentous occasions that bring people together to create deep-rooted connections. Rémy Martin has appointed global creative agency Fred & Farid to enhance the featured talents' Latino artistic culture, personality, and passion points with dynamic and eye-catching film. Paying tribute to the rich and diverse Latino culture, the film was designed by an all-Latino cast of creatives-director, illustrators, animators, and production team. The animation created by Colombian illustrator, animator, and motion designer Jhony Trujillo, was inspired by visual references to create pattern artwork and animations. The film features different art mediums, styles, and cultures inspired by art, illustration, and craft depicted from the diverse Latino countries around the world.
With nearly 300 years of excellence producing Cognac Fine Champagne and symbolizing the diversity of craft and tradition, Rémy Martin honors the cultures of excellence through the ritual of Sobremesa, inviting us all to reflect, embrace and share cultural curiosities and ideologies with our friends and loved ones, celebrating what we collectively bring to the table.
To capture the essence of Sobremesa, Rémy Martin will bring the partnership to life with curated craft cocktails created by Mixologist Alex Valencia. Alex Valencia's Rémy Martin-inspired cocktails highlight the opulent and complex flavor profiles of Rémy Martin 1738 Accord Royal and Rémy Martin Tercet. The Rémy Coquito, made with Rémy Martin 1738 Accord Royal, is sweetened with the richness of condensed milk, indulgent cream of coconut, and evaporated milk; topped with the warm, floral notes of vanilla extract, and garnished with grated cinnamon and nutmeg. The Tercet Tropical, made with Rémy Martin Tercet is infused with vibrant and fruitful notes of pineapple, apricot vanilla jam, and lime juice; garnished with dehydrated pineapple, and lights up a new path for cognac drinkers with its unique blend of exotic and elegant aromas.
"As a Latina, my heritage and culture inform and influence every aspect of my work. I have fond memories of the time spent around the table with family and friends. Food connects us all, and every dish I create is personalized, made with love, and tells a story," shared Alejandra Ramos, TV Personality and Chef. "A great meal deserves to be paired with an elevated cocktail experience. I am excited to partner with Rémy Martin, whose versatile and unique flavor profiles pair well with Latin American cuisine's aromatic, savory, and indulgent culinary influences."
"Our homes are where we share and pass down family traditions and legacies. Teaming up with Rémy Martin to create a thoughtful, interactive, and vibrant ambiance tailored to the celebration of my Latino heritage is a proud moment for me." explained Evette Ríos, Interior Designer. "My Puerto Rican roots are instrumental in shaping the person I am today. I'm delighted to be a part of an occasion that champions Latino art, architecture, food, music, and conversation."
"Rémy Martin is dedicated to celebrating beloved, time-honored traditions that bring people together around the table. We are proud to team up with creative talents who are highly regarded in their communities to cherish the cultures of excellence through the ritual of Sobremesa," said Tina Reejsinghani, Vice President, Rémy Martin Americas. "Preserving moments anchored in craftsmanship, unity and gastronomy are values and principles that we passionately stand by."
Rémy Martin continues to embrace the history and traditions of excellence that form a community of interrelated cultures through its "Team Up For Excellence" initiative, highlighting respected talents within the culinary landscape. Previous collaborations include Diana Dávila, Executive Chef and owner of Mi Tocaya Antojeria, Stephen "Chef Papi" Rodriguez, Chef and Founder of CHEF PAPI INC, Top Chef Contestant and Food & Wine Executive Producer, Chef Kwame Onwuachi, and Danielle Chang of LUCKYRICE.
To bring the flavor of Sobremesa to cocktail aficionados across the nation, Rémy Martin will join forces with Cocktail Courier to create seasonal and fresh Latin-inspired cocktails representative of the classics.
The Rémy Martin Sangria kit, which evokes a sense of unity and convivial exchange around the table, will be available from September 15th - October 15th at a suggested retail price of $89.99 for the first 50 kits, and $119.99 thereafter. The Rémy Coquito, a festive favorite of Puerto Rican origins, is typically made at home from a recipe passed down through generations. The Rémy Coquito kit will be available from October 15th - November 15th at a suggested retail price of $84.99. Both kits will be available on Rémy Martin's website and cocktailcourier.com.
For more information, visit RemyMartin.com and follow along on social media at:
Instagram @RemyMartinUS | Twitter @RemyMartinUS | Facebook RemyMartinUSA
#RemySobremesa #TeamUpForExcellence
ABOUT RÉMY MARTIN
Since 1724, the House of Rémy Martin has produced premium spirits that consistently appeal to the world's most discerning connoisseurs. A profound love of the land, a continuity of family ownership, and a passionate commitment to excellence have sustained Rémy Martin for nearly three centuries. As a result of its masterful production and generations of tradition in Cognac, the House of Rémy Martin today produces Fine Champagne Cognacs, including Rémy Martin® XO, Rémy Martin® Tercet, Rémy Martin 1738® Accord Royal, and Rémy Martin® V.S.O.P. For additional information, visit www.RemyMartin.com.
ABOUT ALEJANDRA RAMOS
Alejandra Ramos is known for her vibrant, playful culinary point of view and her passion for style both in and out of the kitchen. A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, her Latina heritage proudly informs her work, providing a fresh and authentic perspective across platforms. Alejandra's joyful approach to food can be seen regularly on NBC's TODAY Show, where she serves as a Contributor and as the Host of the NEW PBS series, The Great American Recipe. In addition to TODAY Show, Alejandra is co-host of the TODAY Food All-Stars cooking show on the streaming network, Peacock, and a regular writer for TODAY's digital site, contributing recipes and essays on a variety of food and culture topics.
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Evette Ríos is an American bilingual lifestyle expert, writer, television host, designer, and native New Yorker of Puerto Rican heritage. Ríos is a host of Home.Made.Nation on A&E Networks and a contributor to the Today Show sharing holiday design, crafting and gift ideas regularly. She was previously the host of the Facebook Live series "Slice", there she received over 1 million views over her first four 15-minute episodes. She is a contributing design expert to the Daytime Emmy award winning, Rachael Ray. Her design work has appeared in House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, Elle Décor and Architectural Digest. She is known for her clever hands-on advice, creative crafts, and dramatic room makeovers. Her Puerto Rican roots, love of travel, and years of mentoring with some of NYC's finest architects and designers have both inspired and influenced her work.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CLBS, TMBR, ETNB, TCRT, and SOFI.
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The acquisition will complement Profile's robust horticultural product lines to round out the company's raw material offerings
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Profile® Products announced the acquisition of Nivetha Exporters, a leading international producer of high-quality coco coir products. The transaction includes all Nivetha product lines, as well as the company's best-in-class facilities in Southern India and dedicated employee base. As part of the acquisition, Nivetha has been renamed to CoirSci.
"This acquisition is the next step in our evolution to round out our strong portfolio of offerings and ensure our customers can easily and readily find the substrate solution they need for their horticultural operations, all from one manufacturer," said Jim Tanner, CEO of Profile Products. "Nivetha has a strong industry reputation as a reliable coco coir supplier, and we are excited to work with their innovative team to deliver on that consistency for our grower and blender customers."
The acquisition augments Profile's robust raw material selection that now includes peat, coir and HydraFiber®, engineered fiber solution, as well as controlled release fertilizer products. Customers will be able to leverage the expertise of Profile and Nivetha to efficiently develop a media mix solution that's right for their business.
This is the third acquisition in two years for Profile Products' rapidly growing horticultural division and follows on the heels of the company's expanded manufacturing capacity of HydraFiber, the company's flagship horticultural product. Through these investments, Profile Products is strengthening its position as a reliable supplier in a market where it is increasingly difficult to find recurring, sustainable materials.
"We are proud to join a purpose-driven and sustainability-minded company that shares our vision of strategic growth through key partnerships," said Vivek Sivanandum, owner of Nivetha. "Through our combined expertise and capital, we have the opportunity to provide more choices, invest in additional research and development, and form new synergies that will increase value for our customers and our team."
Nivetha joins Profile's extensive global portfolio, which includes proven technologies for erosion control, horticulture, sports field conditioning, and golf course construction and maintenance.
Based in Buffalo Grove, Ill., PROFILE Products LLC is a leading developer and manufacturer of highly engineered specialty agriscience materials that promote environmental sustainability while delivering superior performance for horticulture, erosion control, sports turf and other specialty applications. It's Profile's mission to consistently help our customers establish sustainable green space through water and soil management and plant establishment. We accomplish this by bringing our knowledgeable people, proven products, groundbreaking technology and personal services on-site to holistically meet real world applications—assuring success in any environment. For more information call (800) 508-8681, email info@profileproducts.com or visit profileproducts.com.
Nivetha manufactures high-quality coco coir products with factory operations at two different locations in Southern India. Since 1996, the business has proven its promise to manufacture and reliably supply quality coco products to its global clients. For more information visit nivetha.in.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that it has appointed Ryan Pavlik as vice president of debt capital markets. Mr. Pavlik is the newest addition to Water Street's team as the firm expands its resources to support its growing group of companies specializing in health care services and technology, medical products and diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
In his newly created role, Mr. Pavlik will develop and support Water Street's financing strategies for new investment opportunities. He also will collaborate with Water Street's family of health care companies on debt financing initiatives that support acquisitions and other initiatives aimed at advancing their goals for growth. Mr. Pavlik has concentrated on debt financings for broadly syndicated and middle-market companies for the past eight years as vice president at Golub Capital. He began his career in investment banking with PNC Capital Markets.
"Ryan's specialized knowledge and network of relationships in the lending community will contribute greatly to our partnerships with health care companies. As we pursue new investments and work with leadership teams on strategic acquisitions and initiatives that can benefit from debt financing, Ryan will be an important resource that helps us identify the best lending organizations and loan structures that address each company's unique needs and growth objectives."
Water Street is a strategic investor focused exclusively on health care. The firm has a strong record of building market-leading companies across key growth sectors in health care. It has worked with some of the world's leading health care companies on its investments, including Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Smith & Nephew and Walgreen Co. Water Street's team is comprised of industry executives and senior investment professionals with decades of experience investing in and operating global health care businesses. The firm is headquartered in Chicago. For more information about Water Street, visit waterstreet.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO)'s sale to SD Biosensor, Inc. and SJL Partners LLC for $34.00 per share in cash. If you are a Meridian shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NYSE: SAVE)'s sale to JetBlue Airways Corporation. Per the agreement, JetBlue would acquire Spirit for $33.50 per share in cash, including a prepayment of $2.50 per share in cash payable upon Spirit shareholders' approval of the transaction and a ticking fee of $0.10 per month starting in January 2023 through closing. If you are a Spirit shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW)'s sale to funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. and affiliates of J.F. Lehman & Company and Hill City Capital for $102.50 per share in cash. If you are an Atlas shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Brigham Minerals, Inc. (NYSE: MNRL)'s merger with Sitio Royalties Corp. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Brigham shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 1.133 shares of common stock in the combined company for each share of Brigham common stock owned on the closing date. Upon completion of the transaction, Brigham shareholders will own approximately 46.0% of the combined entity on a fully diluted basis. If you are a Brigham shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall convinced new WSL season will deliver on quality
Arsenal head coach Jonas Eidevall is confident the new Barclays Women’s Super League campaign can live up to expectations and deliver a high-quality product on the pitch.
After all English football fixtures were postponed last weekend as a mark of respect following the Queen’s death, Arsenal’s home game against Brighton at Meadow Park will kick-off the season on Friday night.
Following England’s success in Euro 2022 this summer, there is more interest than ever in the new WSL campaign.
Four Arsenal players – Lionesses skipper Leah Williamson, Golden Boot winner Beth Mead, Nikita Parris (now at Manchester United) and Lotte Wubben-Moy – were part of Sarina Weigman’s squad who beat Germany at Wembley in front of a competition-record 87,192 attendance at Wembley.
On the back of that success, several WSL clubs have seen a boost in season-ticket sales.
Eidevall feels the fans will not be left disappointed – and continued increased interest could lead to calls for more games being played at larger-capacity venues.
“I’m sure that the players will respond in a way that will be excellent because of the quality on the pitch and we see that the sporting product is of high quality,” the Arsenal boss said.
🏴 NEXT UP 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4BWXhQBoSm— Lionesses (@Lionesses) September 7, 2022
“We just need to make sure that we now find stadiums that allow all attendances to come in and watch. I think that will be the problem because we have a very low number of medium-sized stadiums in the country.
“You either have smaller stadiums or really big stadiums and our game that didn’t go ahead against Manchester City is a perfect example of that.
“We are two good teams with a lot of interest which is going to be a sell-out in their Academy stadium, so the question is: if so many more people want to watch the game, where do we play that? So we really can have all the people who want to come to the game and make sure they have access to it.”
👏 40,000 TICKETS SOLD 👏— Arsenal (@Arsenal) September 5, 2022
Arsenal have already sold more than 40,000 tickets for the north London derby against Tottenham at the Emirates Stadium on September 24.
That will beat the WSL record of 38,262 when the two teams met at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium during 2019.
Eidevall feels the upward trend will continue.
“In the end, it is about creating a product that means so much to people that you go there and you watch the game even if it is a snowstorm, even if it is not convenient because you care so much about the team and you want to be there so much. We try to do our best on the pitch to create that,” the Swede said.
“Of course, if I speak just about Arsenal, as a whole club, we try to work together with all the departments so we can reach out to all our potential audiences and bring them to the stadium so we can experience that together.
“That’s not a quick fix just to do one thing, but it’s about creating that connection with people so they want to go and they feel that they have to go because it is their first priority – and then you don’t have to worry about the weather in January when you have created that.”
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Most Americans don’t want either President Biden or his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, to run for the White House again in 2024, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shared exclusively with The Hill.
Two-thirds of voters surveyed – 67 percent – said that Biden shouldn’t seek another term in the Oval Office, with nearly half citing their belief that he’s a bad president as the reason why. Another 30 percent said it’s simply because Biden, who would be 84 by the time he takes the Oath of Office again, is too old for the job.
Trump, meanwhile, doesn’t fare much better when it comes to a 2024 run. Fifty-seven percent said that the former president shouldn’t mount another bid for the White House, despite his repeated hints that he plans to do so.
When it comes to the reason why most voters aren’t keen on another Trump White House run, respondents were divided. Thirty-six percent said that it’s because he is “erratic,” while another 33 percent said they believe he will divide the country. Nearly as many – 31 percent – pointed to his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
If the two men end up in a 2024 rematch, however, 60 percent of voters said they would be open to supporting a moderate independent candidate in the election.
The poll suggests that voters on both sides of the aisle are largely ready to move on from the bitter rivalries that have dominated U.S. politics in recent years, especially given the possibility that the 2024 presidential election could end up looking a lot like it did in 2020.
“Americans want a clear change from this president and the last one,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, said. “There will be a virtual voter revolt if these are the two candidates once again.”
Republicans, however, remain loyal to Trump, with 59 percent of GOP voters saying they would cast their ballot for him in the 2024 presidential primary. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, meanwhile, comes in a distant second place at 17 percent support.
Without Trump on the primary ballot, however, DeSantis would be the clear favorite for the GOP nomination. Thirty-nine percent of Republican respondents said they would support him, putting the Florida governor well ahead of the second-place finisher, former Vice President Mike Pence, who notched 18 percent.
Nevertheless, if asked to choose only between Biden and Trump, the former president would come out on top, according to the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll. Forty-five percent of respondents said they would vote for Trump over Biden in a head-to-head matchup, while 42 percent said they would reelect the Democratic incumbent.
Vice President Harris fares even worse in a matchup with Trump, notching only 40 percent support to his 47 percent. Still, she has a fighting chance against DeSantis. In a head-to-head contest, 41 percent said they would vote for Harris compared to 38 percent who would choose DeSantis, the poll found.
The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey was conducted between Sept. 7-8 among 1,885 registered voters. It is a collaboration of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and the Harris Poll.
The survey is an online sample drawn from the Harris Panel and weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative online sample, it does not report a probability confidence interval.
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of instigating new rounds of shelling Wednesday across their borders as hostilities reignited between the two longtime adversaries.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijani forces of launching combat drones in the direction of the Armenian resort town of Jermuk overnight and renewing shelling with artillery and mortars in the morning in the direction of Jermuk and the village of Verin Shorzha.
The Azerbaijani military, in turn, charged that Armenian forces shelled its positions in the Kalbajar and Lachin districts of Azerbaijan, near the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Armenia said at least 49 of its soldiers have been killed since fighting erupted early Tuesday, while Azerbaijan said it lost 50 troops.
The two ex-Soviet countries have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
During a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. More than 6,700 people died in the fighting, which ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal. Moscow deployed about 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers under the deal.
Russia moved quickly on Tuesday to negotiate an end to the latest hostilities, but a cease-fire it sought to broker has failed to hold. The two sides traded blame for violations of the cease-fire, while the international community urged calm.
“Despite the appeals of the international community and the reached cease-fire agreement, Armenian armed forces continue attacks and provocations in the state border using artillery and other heavy weapons,” Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
It said two Azerbaijani civilians were injured by the Armenian shelling of the Kalbajar and Lachin districts.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Wednesday that his government has asked Russia for military support under a friendship treaty between the countries, and also requested assistance from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Moscow-dominated security alliance of ex-Soviet nations.
“Our allies are Russia and the CSTO,” Pashinyan said, adding that the collective security pact states that an aggression against one member is an aggression against all.
“We don’t see a military interference as the only possibility, because there are also political and diplomatic options,” Pashinyan said, speaking in his nation’s parliament.
Moscow has engaged in a delicate balancing act in seeking to maintain friendly ties with both nations. It has strong economic and security ties with Armenia, which hosts a Russian military base, while also has been developing close cooperation with oil-rich Azerbaijan.
Some observers saw the outbreak of fighting as an attempt by Azerbaijan to force Armenian authorities into faster implementation of some of the provisions of the 2020 peace deal, such as the opening of transport corridors via its territory.
“Azerbaijan has bigger military potential, and so it tries to dictate its conditions to Armenia and use force to push for diplomatic decisions it wants,” Sergei Markedonov, a Russian expert on the South Caucasus region, wrote in a commentary.
Markedonov noted that the current flare-up of hostilities comes just as Russia has been forced to pull back from areas in northeastern Ukraine after a Ukrainian counteroffensive, adding that Armenia’s request for assistance has put Russia in a precarious position.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and leaders of other CSTO members discussed the situation in a call late Tuesday, urging a quick cessation of hostilities. They agreed to send a mission of top officials from the security alliance to the area.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the mission will deliver a report assessing the developments to the leaders of CSTO member states. “The situation has remained tense,” Peskov said in Wednesday’s conference call with reporters.
On Friday, Putin is set to hold a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where they both plan to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security grouping dominated by Russia and China.
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Aida Sultanova in London and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (WHO) – A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.
Pieper Lewis was originally charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing death of Zachary Brooks in 2020. The 17-year-old was charged in the death of 37-year-old Brooks, who she claims raped her multiple times in the weeks before his death. She had faced the possibility of 20 years in prison.
Lewis pleaded last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury. Both charges were punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Polk County District judge David M. Porter on Tuesday deferred those prison sentences, meaning that if Lewis violates any portion of her probation, she could be sent to prison to serve that 20-year term.
As for being required to pay the estate of her rapist, “this court is presented with no other option,” Porter said, noting the restitution is mandatory under Iowa law that has been upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court.
Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment. Officials have said Lewis was a runaway who was seeking to escape an abusive life with her adopted mother and was sleeping in the hallways of a Des Moines apartment building when a 28-year-old man took her in before forcibly trafficking her to other men for sex.
Lewis said one of those men was Brooks and that he had raped her multiple times in the weeks before his death. She recounted being forced at knifepoint by the 28-year-old man to go with Brooks to his apartment for sex. She told officials that after Brooks had raped her yet again, she grabbed a knife from a bedside table and stabbed Brooks in a fit of rage.
Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually assaulted and trafficked. But prosecutors have argued that Brooks was asleep at the time he was stabbed and not an immediate danger to Lewis.
Iowa is not among the dozens of states that have a so-called safe harbor law that gives trafficking victims at least some level of criminal immunity.
Lewis, who earned her GED while being held in juvenile detention, acknowledged in a statement prior to her sentencing that she struggled with the structure of her detention, including “why I was treated like fragile glass” or wasn’t allowed to communicate with her friends or family.
“My spirit has been burned, but still glows through the flames,” she read from a statement she had prepared. “Hear me roar, see me glow, and watch me grow.”
“I am a survivor,” she added.
The judge peppered Lewis with repeated requests to explain what poor choices she made that led up to Brooks’ stabbing and expressed concern that she sometimes did not want to follow rules set for her in juvenile lockup.
“The next five years of your life will be full of rules you disagree with, I’m sure of it,” Porter said. He later added, “This is the second chance that you’ve asked for. You don’t get a third.”
Her attorney said after the sentencing that they were extremely happy with the outcome.
“Very pleased at the court decision. Going into this case we assumed the worst she was initially charged with first-degree murder,” said Matt Sheeley.
Lewis’ attorney argued in court that requiring her to pay restitution to the family of the man who raped her was cruel and unusual punishment. Her attorney said that there may be action taken down the line, aimed at the current restitution precedent set at the Iowa Supreme Court. But added that this was a win.
“That is not the most important pressing concern that she has. She wants to move on with her life. She has got her entire life ahead of her. She has all these opportunities ahead of her. So the restitution is not really something she is bothered by at this point,” said Sheeley.
Lewis will be required to undergo mental health and substance abuse evaluation as well as GPS tracking and monitoring. She will not be eligible for early release from probation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, her coffin borne to the Houses of Parliament by a horse-drawn gun carriage and trailed by grieving family members.
The coffin will lie in state for four days until the late monarch’s funeral on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to file past. Eight pallbearers carried the oak and lead-lined coffin into Westminster Hall, placing it on a raised platform known as a catafalque.
With the Royal Standard and crown of state resting on top of the coffin and artillery firing salutes at one-minute intervals, the solemn procession from Buckingham Palace was designed to underscore the queen’s seven decades as head of state as the national mourning process shifted to the grand boulevards and historic landmarks of the U.K. capital.
King Charles III, his sons Princes William and Harry and other members of the royal family walked behind the gun carriage.
Thousands of people who had waited for hours along The Mall outside the palace and other locations to line the route held up phones and cameras, and some wiped away tears, as the procession passed. Applause broke out as it went through Horse Guards Parade.
The coffin was draped in the Royal Standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown – adorned with almost 3,000 diamonds — and a bouquet of flowers and plants including pine from the Balmoral Estate, where Elizabeth died last week.
An escort of two officers and 32 troops from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in red uniforms and bearskin hats walked on either side of the gun carriage. Big Ben tolled, a gun salute boomed from Hyde Park and the martial strains of a military band accompanied the procession.
The 38-minute procession ended at Westminster Hall, where Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby led a service attended by Charles and other royals after the coffin was brought in. The choir of Westminster Abbey and the Choir of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal sang the words of a psalm.
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you,” Welby said as he read from the Book of John.
Thousands of people were standing or sitting in line along the banks of the River Thames waiting their turn to file past the coffin and pay their respects.
The crowds are the latest manifestation of a nationwide outpouring of grief and respect for the only monarch most Britons have ever known, who died at her beloved Balmoral summer retreat on Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
Joan Bucklehurst, a 50-year-old retail worker from Cheshire in northwestern England, said the queen “meant so much for everybody.”
“She was amazing, yeah,” she added, choking up with emotion. “So, we had to be here. We’ve been here a few times when there have been special occasions, but this one, I couldn’t miss this.”
Maj. Gen. Christopher Ghika, of the Household division, who organized the ceremonial aspects of the queen’s funeral said it was a sad day, “but it’s our last opportunity to do our duty for the queen and it’s our first opportunity to do it for the king, and that makes us all very proud.”
London’s Heathrow Airport halted flights to prevent overhead planes from disturbing the procession.
The airport said in a statement that the changes would “ensure silence over central London as the ceremonial procession moves from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.”
Troops involved in the procession have been preparing since the queen died. So have the horses of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
Sgt. Tom Jenks, from the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, said that the horses have undergone special training, including how to handle weeping mourners, as well as flowers and flags being thrown onto streets as the procession passes by.
Since the early morning, people staked out prime viewing positions behind metal barriers along the Mall and other streets along the route. They stood or sat on folding chairs, umbrellas at the ready, takeout coffees in hand.
Crowds have lined the route of the queen’s coffin whenever it has been moved in its long journey from Scotland back to London.
On Tuesday night, thousands braved a typical London drizzle as the state hearse, with interior lights illuminating the sovereign’s flag-draped casket, drove slowly from a military air base into the heart of London.
Earlier, in Edinburgh, some 33,000 people filed in silent respect past her coffin as it lay for 24 hours at St. Giles’ Cathedral.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to do the same in London when the queen lies in state at the 900-year-old Westminster Hall, the oldest building in Parliament, for four days before her state funeral on Monday.
The hall is where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where ceremonial addresses were presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her silver, golden and diamond jubilees.
Chris Bond, from Truro in southwest England, was among those lining up along the banks of the River Thames. He also attended the lying in state of the queen’s mother in 2002.
“Obviously, it’s quite difficult queuing all day long, but when you walk through those doors into Westminster Hall, that marvelous, historic building, there was a great sense of hush and one was told you take as much time as you like, and it’s just amazing,” he said.
“We know the queen was a good age and she served the country a long time, but we hoped this day would never come,” he added.
Chris Imafidon secured the sixth place in the queue.
“I have 1,001 emotions when I see her,” he said. “I want to say, God, she was an angel, because she touched many good people and did so many good things.”
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Emmys reach record-low audience of 5.9 million people
NEW YORK (AP) — The Emmy Awards hit a new low in viewership on Monday night, with its estimated audience of 5.9 million people even smaller than the COVID-19-disrupted ceremony two years ago.
The Nielsen company said the ceremony honoring television’s best work, where “Ted Lasso” was named best comedy and “Succession” best drama, was down from the 7.4 million people who watched in 2021.
Usually shown on a Sunday night, the Emmys were shifted to Monday to make way for NBC’s first “Sunday Night Football” game the night before. It couldn’t escape football, however, since it competed against a tight “Monday Night Football” game.
The Emmys were hosted by Kenan Thompson of “Saturday Night Live.”
The previous low point for the Emmys, with 6.1 million people, came with a drastically downsized show because of the pandemic in 2020.
While football had its impact, Emmys ratings have been on a steady slide since the awards began to be dominated by shows on cable and streaming services. With so many more television programs being offered, there are fewer that draw the big audiences that were routine in the days when broadcast television dominated.
The last time the Emmys exceeded 10 million viewers was 2018, when it reached an audience of 10.2 million. The Emmys had 21.8 million viewers in 2000, a level it will probably never reach again.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DealHub.io, the hyper-growth leader in the CPQ space today announced a partnership with RevOps Co-op, a community dedicated to advancing RevOps professionals by creating a hub for discussion, insight, best practices, etc.
The DealHub - RevOps Co-op partnership aims to build a community, supported by technology and expertise, and provide thought-leadership and insights into the CPQ & CLM best-practices of Innovative Revenue Operations leaders.
"RevOps roles are an integral part of business today," says Matt Volm, CEO and Co-Founder of RevOps Co-op. "Our partnership with DealHub will drive engagement within the community, and provide high-level expertise from some of the best RevOps professionals around."
"At its core, DealHub's vision is to remove friction from the sales process and create one fluid sales motion," says Eyal Orgil, DealHub's CRO and Co-Founder. "In that sense, we're all RevOps professionals at heart, sharing the goal of reducing friction at every touchpoint. We're proud to partner with RevOps Co-op to nurture this growing community and provide insight based on our own experiences."
DealHub's next-generation synergizes enterprise-grade CPQ solution, Subscription Management, Contract Lifecycle Management and Digital DealRoom into one unified, quote-to-cash platform, powered by the most engaging and personalized buyer experience. This consolidated platform empowers RevOps professionals to achieve better performance by streamlining sales processes, approval workflows, and overall deal management.
According to Gartner's, by 2025, 75% of the highest growth companies will utilize the RevOps model. Today's fast-changing market requires a focus shift from sales enablement to revenue enablement, to meet customer expectations, while providing the right tools to support that effort on the sellers' side.
About DealHub:
DealHub.io is an enterprise-grade CPQ platform that drives sales processes and outcomes more efficiently and effectively. DealHub's cutting-edge innovation increases revenue by shortening sales cycles, streamlining approval processes, and providing visibility and control. Fully integrated with leading CRM systems, DealHub's unified solution includes Contract Lifecycle Management, Subscription Management, and a unique customer experience.
About RevOps Co-op:
With a community 4000+ strong, RevOps Co-op is dedicated to promoting RevOps professionals with resources to support personal and professional growth. Our model of partnerships encourages open discussions, idea exchanges, and knowledge sharing, aimed at building a strong community of highly skilled RevOps professionals.
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The dynamic, digital map of the supply chain world continues to provide unrivaled value and capability
PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blume Global, the only multimodal supply chain orchestration platform uniting end-to-end visibility, supplier management and logistics execution, announced it will be providing Blume Maps free of charge to all customers subscribed to its suite of solutions. This is in line with Blume's ongoing dedication to making industry leading, innovative solutions accessible to companies spanning various sizes and industries and increasing agility in the supply chain across all modes.
Blume Maps provides shippers with unparalleled supply chain visibility, and more importantly, value. Powered by patented data science technology, it is a dynamic map of the supply chain world running natively on Google Cloud that enables shippers to plan shipment routes, track progress in real time, receiving accurate ETAs for shipments sent via air, road, ocean and rail. What sets Blume Maps apart from the competition is its ability to provide users with alternative transportation modes, carriers or routes, should they encounter any problems or delays, helping deliver packages to their customers as quickly and cost-effectively as possible every time.
"Ongoing supply chain disruptions have emphasized the need for stakeholders to harness and utilize end-to-end visibility and execution through the power of logistics technology solutions," said Pervinder Johar, CEO of Blume Global. "As one of our flagship products, Blume Maps eliminates supply chain blind spots throughout the world, no matter the mode. Providing free access to Blume Maps to our customers is testament to our mission of democratizing technology for millions of small to medium businesses that make our global supply chains work."
Earlier this year, Blume announced updates to Blume Maps, including the launch Blume Interline Schedules, a cloud-native platform that allows companies that leverage railroad intermodal services to better coordinate cross-country rail freight deliveries. In partnership with Union Pacific Railroad, Norfolk Southern and CSX, Blume's complementary end-to-end rail freight scheduler gives users visibility around moving cargo from one railway to another. In concert with Blume Interline Schedules, Blume's asset management feature tracks details around intermodal rail shipments and how they interchange. It also validates the movement of freight delivery schedules with the ability to catch missing interchange points and improve accuracy with future deliveries.
For more information, or to request a demo on Blume Maps, please visit https://www.blumeglobal.com/blume-map/
Blume Global is a multimodal supply chain orchestration platform that unites end-to-end visibility, supplier management and logistics execution. As the single source of truth for logistics data, Blume provides visibility throughout the value chain, from sourcing to delivery, allowing customers to use Blume solutions to navigate disruptions and create agile plans amid supply chain uncertainty. Blume has the most extensive network among logistics technology providers. The company's direct connectivity to the ocean, air, rail, parcel, LTL and truckload carriers combines with Blume's solutions and 28 years of industry data to maximize transportation spend, improve customer service and reduce carbon emissions for users. By developing technology that streamlines the logistics world, Blume Global is leading the industry in creating supply chain sustainability solutions, fighting climate change by eliminating significant carbon emissions in a world where most freight is transported using fossil fuels.
CONTACT:
George Protopapadakis
george.proto@blumeglobal.com
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