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Naomi Osaka is pregnant and plans to return to competition in 2024, the tennis star announced Wednesday.
The former world No. 1 posted what she called “a little life update for 2023” on social media, including a picture of an ultrasound.
The 25-year-old Osaka has been dating Cordae, a rapper, for years.
“I know that I have so much to look forward to in the future, one thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom,'” Osaka wrote.
Osaka hasn’t played a competitive match since September and withdrew from the Australian Open, which begins Sunday. She has won that tournament twice, along with two U.S. Open championships.
She has taken mental health breaks in recent years and didn’t play again after the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, shortly after falling in the first round of the U.S. Open. Osaka said the few months away have given her “a new love and appreciation for the game I’ve dedicated my life to.”
Ash Barty, the 2022 Australian Open champion, announced last week she was pregnant. She retired last year while holding the No. 1 ranking.
But Osaka said she will return to tennis and plans to be in Melbourne next year for the start of the Grand Slam season.
“2023 will be a year that’ll be full of lessons for me and I hope I’ll see you guys in the start of the next one cause I’ll be at Aus 2024,” Osaka wrote. “Love you all infinitely.”
Osaka closed by saying she doesn’t know if there’s a perfectly correct path in life, but that “if you move forward with good intentions you’ll find your way eventually.”
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‘Our city is hurting.’ Memphis Grizzlies head coach leads NBA tributes to Tyre Nichols
By Jacob Lev and Issy Ronald, CNN
The head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies joined other members of the NBA community Friday night in acknowledging the “senseless loss” of Tyre Nichols, saying the Black man’s death following an encounter with Memphis police has hit his team particularly hard.
Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins told the Bally Sports Southeast broadcast that he “cried” watching an interview with Nichols’ family — including his mother, RowVaughn Wells — and that he did not have “enough time in the day to share what’s on my heart and my mind right now.”
The coach’s comments came on the same night the city of Memphis released body camera and surveillance video of the January 7 traffic stop and beating that prosecutors say led to the death of Nichols from his injuries. Five Memphis police officers, who also are Black and have been fired, were charged with murder.
“Our team understands that our city is hurting,” Jenkins said. “The Nichols and Wells family is hurting right now. The senseless loss of life for Tyre Nichols really hit us hard and it’s been tough being on the road, not being home. I wish I could extend my arms through this camera right now.
“I want to continue to encourage people to put their arms around each other. Put their arms around the Nichols family, the Wells family. To remember a beautiful life in Tyre Nichols, who I did not know but I’m learning about and the impact he made in so many people’s lives, but to encourage people to hear from the family to understand what they are going through.”
A moment of silence to honor Nichols was held before the tipoff of Memphis’ game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday in Minneapolis — where George Floyd was murdered by police in May 2020.
The Timberwolves, alongside their WNBA counterparts the Minnesota Lynx, released a statement saying that they “are deeply saddened by the tragic killing of Tyre Nichols.”
“We extend our thoughts and heartfelt sympathies to Tyre’s family, friends, loved ones, the Memphis community and communities across the country during this difficult time,” it added.
After the video’s release the NBA tweeted on Friday night, “The images of Tyre Nichols’ life needlessly cut short are horrifying.”
“While there have been steps toward accountability in this instance, the NBA family remains committed to partnering with advocates, policymakers and law enforcement to work toward solutions to the issues we continue to face. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mr. Nichols, the entire Memphis community and those who are affected by these tragic images and loss.”
Several other NBA teams, including the Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat, also tweeted statements about Nichols’ death.
“We grieve with Tyre Nichols’ loved ones and offer them our deepest sympathies as they grapple with the pain of his heinous and brutal murder,” the Cavaliers said.
“Our hearts also go out to the city of Memphis. As they continue their investigations into the events that led to Tyre’s tragic and untimely death, we’re encouraged by the swift response by Police Chief Cerelyn Davis. We join their city officials and Tyre’s family in calling for peace and offer them our support on their road to healing.”
The five officers were fired after the encounter, and Davis later said the video shows a “disregard for life, duty of care that we’re all sworn to.”
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Kansas’ 2022 education report focuses on early education, technical school
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The focus of the Governor’s Council on Education’s 2022 report seems to surround early education, post-secondary transitions and technical education.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has announced that she received the Governor’s Council on Education’s annual report. The report includes a set of recommendations to improve educational outcomes for all students through increased collaboration between the business and education sectors.
Gov. Kelly indicated that the Council’s recommendations are aimed at the advancement of early childhood education, the increase in opportunities for workforce-bound high schoolers, the improvement of post-secondary transitions for students and an increase in coordination for technical education.
“I established the Council on Education not only because I believe that educating our children is one of the most important obligations of our elected leaders, but also because it’s one of the best economic investments we can make as a state,” Kelly said. “I’m proud of the work the Council has done these last four years searching for innovative ways to provide for our students, and I look forward to addressing their recommendations to ensure Kansas students have access to the best education in the country.”
Kelly noted that the bipartisan group of stakeholders and experts spent 2022 traveling throughout Kansas to hear straight from educators and businesses about their biggest needs. She established the Council in 2019 to bring education and business leaders together to realize a shared vision.
“We are grateful to Governor Kelly for the opportunity to learn from and with extraordinary leaders who represent educators and businesses across Kansas. We are confident that the Council’s work will strengthen our state by aligning education with business and creating opportunities for all Kansans,” said Dr. Cynthia Lane and Dr. Fred Dierksen, Co-Chairs of Governor Kelly’s Council on Education.
The report recommends the state:
- Improve the alignment of early childhood care and education systems across state agencies.
- Increase opportunities for high school students to earn certifications and credentials that intersect all industries.
- Leverage existing resources and structures to facilitate more effective post-secondary transitions for Kansas students.
- Charge the Technical Education Authority to enhance its coordination of technical education pathways between K-12 and post-secondary education.
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Parrish High School receives $25K from Gettel for Automotive Maintenance Program
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Parrish High School students are getting a big vocational education boost from Gettel Automotive Group.
Gettel announced that they are donating $25,000 to the Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair group and a dedication was held Thursday afternoon.
Vocational education has seen a big boost in the state of Florida in recent years. Last October, Gov. Ron DeSantis awarded more than $2.7 million to help 28 school districts and state colleges purchase industry standard equipment for career and technical education programs across Florida.
The Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair program at Parrish Community High to develop and employ young, skilled, local students for jobs in the automotive service field.
Students and instructors will be on hand during and after the ceremony to speak about the program and to demonstrate some of the repairs and skills being taught and learned.
“We are extremely grateful for the large contribution Gettel Automotive has made to our automotive program,” said PCHS Principal Craig Little. “Their generosity and partnership will contribute to our program’s goal of becoming one of the best in the state.”
Specific Courses and Certifications offered through the program include Automotive Service Safety and Service Pollution Prevention; Engine Repair; Brakes; Electrical; Heating; A/C; Engine Performance; Suspension; and Steering.
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WASHINGTON, July 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of NASA's regular cadence of robotic lunar missions through Artemis, the agency has selected a new scientific payload to establish the age and composition of hilly terrain created by volcanic activity on the near side of the Moon.
The DIMPLE instrument suite, short for Dating an Irregular Mare Patch with a Lunar Explorer, will investigate the Ina Irregular Mare Patch, discovered in 1971 by Apollo 15 orbital images. Learning more about this mound will address outstanding questions about the evolution of the Moon, which in turn can provide clues to the history of the entire solar system.
DIMPLE is the result of the third annual proposal call for PRISM (Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon), which sends science investigations to the Moon through a NASA initiative called CLPS, or Commercial Lunar Payload Services. This PRISM call was the first that allowed proposers to choose and justify a particular landing site for conducting high-priority lunar science investigations.
"This commercial payload delivery initiative is helping to provide a burst of lunar science and exploration," said Nicola Fox, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "DIMPLE will add to a growing body of knowledge about the Moon, which in turn helps us understand the origins of Earth and other planets in the solar system. Additionally, the more we understand about our closest neighbor, the more we can support long-term human exploration at the Moon, and someday, Mars."
The cost cap for the payload suite is $50 million, and the delivery date is set for no earlier than the second quarter of 2027. NASA expects to work on issuing a CLPS task order in 2024 to determine the launch services to deliver DIMPLE to the Moon.
Such efforts are part of NASA's larger lunar plans – through Artemis, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before with advanced robotics and astronauts.
The Moon is a rich destination for scientific discovery. While some 70 Irregular Mare Patches have been discovered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Ina remains the largest identified so far.
DIMPLE will help determine whether Irregular Mare Patches formed from recent or ancient volcanic processes. The mission will make use of a CLPS-provided rover, a collection gripping instrument, and a spectrometer that can help determine composition of the lunar material to analyze the age and composition of samples collected from the surface of Ina. DIMPLE will be able to collect and analyze anywhere from three to more than 25 samples to learn more about the timing of the volcanic activity that formed this feature. For example, if the volcanic activity turns out to be geologically recent, it implies that either the lunar mantle was warmer than previously thought, or that radioactive elements contributed to small-scale eruptions continuing later in lunar evolution than previously thought. Either scenario would help us better understand the geochemical state of the Moon over time. If, on the other hand, the eruptions creating Ina turn out to be older, it would lead to reevaluating the age and evolution of craters on the Moon – which would have implications for understanding the history of Earth and other planets in the solar system.
"With the selection of DIMPLE, we aim to definitively resolve the debate on how recently the Moon was volcanically active," said Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration in NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Not only is this a scientifically intriguing enigma that will fundamentally change our understanding of lunar thermal evolution, but this is also the demonstration of an exciting technology that can be used to measure absolute ages of a variety of geologic terrains across the solar system."
The principal investigator for the DIMPLE mission is F. Scott Anderson of Southwest Research Institute's Solar System Science and Exploration Division, which is located in Boulder, Colorado. The CLPS initiative is a key part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration efforts. By taking advantage of commercial launch providers, NASA can perform cutting-edge science at the Moon in a more cost-effective way. The science and technology payloads sent to the Moon's surface as part of the initiative will help lay the foundation for the next human missions.
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Police: Charges filed against juvenile in murder of fugitive's mother
- Police filed charges in Lucas County Juvenile Court against a juvenile in the death of Nicole Jones, mother of a fugitive.
- Police said additional charges are anticipated in this case.
A juvenile has been charged in the homicide of Nicole Jones.
Sylvania Township police on Saturday said charges were filed in Lucas County Juvenile Court against an unnamed suspect.
The juvenile faces charges of aggravated murder and tampering with evidence, police said. No other information was available.
Nicole Jones, the mother of a fugitive found in Mexico with a Canton teen, was killed, police said. A missing report on Jones was filed May 5 after a welfare check.
Jones' son, Jonathan Jones, 33, of Toledo, was taken into custody Monday in Mexico after a manhunt that stretched two countries. He was with a 17-year-old girl from Canton who had been reported missing since April 18.
Sylvania Township is a suburb of Toledo, about 13 miles west of the city. Authorities have not said how Jonathan Jones and the girl knew each other.
Jonathan Jones had pleaded guilty in March to pandering obscene material and child endangerment. The conviction stemmed from a 2022 case in Wood County.
He was expected to be sentenced in the case last week but missed the May 4 appearance.
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Industrial connector manufacturer adds 4,000 SKUs to online configurator.
CINCINNATI and CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. , Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amphenol Sine Systems, a manufacturer of industrial electrical connectors, has added the A Series™ Family of connectors to their online configurator. Built by CADENAS PARTsolutions, the addition will further accelerate the design and specification process for engineers and OEMs.
"Customers love using the online configurator to design and download parts, and the A Series™ is our most popular line, so adding it to the configurator was essential," Christianna Stempnik, Product Marketing Manager for Amphenol Sine Systems, said.
"Before the configurator, customers that wanted CAD models called our customer service department, and they had to find the model and ensure it was accurate. It was a long process," Stempnik said. "Now, customers can download on-demand, and with the vast format options available, they can choose the native file they want and drop it into their designs. Our customer support calls have greatly reduced, and engineers and OEMs are happier because they don't have to wait. They can do everything on their own time, instantly."
Amphenol Sine System's 3D CAD models are also available on distributor websites.
"Engineers come to our website for 3D CAD models, but they can also download them right from distributor websites," Stempnik said. "It's more convenient because they don't have to go back and forth between websites to look at CAD models. They can click, get what they want, download it, and move on to the next step. It makes for an easy, efficient customer experience."
About Amphenol Sine Systems A subsidiary of Amphenol Corporation, Sine Systems Inc. is a global leader in providing interconnection options and solutions in Industrial, Factory Automation, Heavy Duty, Automotive, Diagnostic and Custom-design markets.
Our engineers design innovative combinations of industry standard connectors and application specific shielding components to create assembly systems that set the standards for performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness. Our engineering, materials, and manufacturing teams meet the high standards of ISO 9001:2015 as well as many customer specific quality systems. Our performance has earned us ship to stock and world class performance awards from many major OEMs and distribution channel partners.
Amphenol is one of the world's largest providers of high-technology interconnect, sensor and antenna solutions. Our products Enable the Electronics Revolution across virtually every end market, including Automotive, Broadband Communications, Commercial Aerospace, Industrial, Information Technology and Data Communications, Military, Mobile Devices and Mobile Networks. Founded in 1932, Amphenol trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker APH and is headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA.
CADENAS PARTsolutions provides 3D part catalogs and product configuration solutions, helping industrial component manufacturers increase sales leads and ensure that components get "designed in" to OEM products.
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LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday it will block a new law that makes it easier for people in Scotland to legally change their gender, sparking conflict with transgender rights advocates and the nationalist Scottish administration in Edinburgh.
Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack said he would prevent the bill from getting royal assent — the final formality that makes it law — because of concern it conflicts with “Great Britain-wide equalities legislation.” That legislation, among other things, guarantees women and girls access to single-sex spaces such as changing rooms and shelters.
The Scottish government is likely to challenge the decision at the U.K. Supreme Court.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called the decision by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government “a full-frontal attack” on the Scottish parliament, which approved the bill last month.
“The Scottish Government will defend the legislation and stand up for Scotland’s Parliament,” she said on Twitter. “If this Westminster veto succeeds, it will be first of many.”
The Scottish bill allows people aged 16 or older in Scotland to change the gender designation on their identity documents by self-declaration, removing the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
It also cuts the time trans people must live in a different expressed gender before the change is legally recognized, from two years to three months for adults and to six months for people aged 16 and 17.
The legislation sets Scotland apart from the rest of the United Kingdom, where a medical diagnosis is needed before individuals can transition for legal purposes.
The Scottish National Party-led government in Edinburgh says the legal change will improve the lives of transgender people by allowing them to get official documents that correspond with their gender identities.
Opponents claim it risks allowing predatory men to gain access to spaces intended for women, such as shelters for domestic abuse survivors. Others argue that the minimum age for transitioning should remain at 18.
Scotland is part of the United Kingdom but, like Wales and Northern Ireland, has its own semi-autonomous government with broad powers over areas including health care.
This is the first time a U.K. government has blocked a Scottish law since the Scottish government and parliament were established a quarter century ago. The move will provide fodder for nationalists who want Scotland to break away from the U.K. and become an independent country.
Jack, the U.K. minister responsible for Scotland, said he had “not taken this decision lightly.”
“Transgender people who are going through the process to change their legal sex deserve our respect, support and understanding,” he said in a letter to Sturgeon. “My decision today is about the legislation’s consequences for the operation of GB-wide equalities protections.”
Shami Chakrabarti, a Labour Party member of the House of Lords and former director of the rights group Liberty, said Sunak’s government might be trying to stir up “culture wars” by stepping in, but legally “they may have a point.”
“It is arguable, at least, that what’s happened in Scotland has a potential impact on the legislation as it operates U.K.-wide,” she told the BBC.
Several countries around the world have legalized gender self-recognition, including Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark and Iceland. Last month Spain’s parliament approved a bill similar to Scotland’s.
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ROCKS THE CASBAH LIVE - FEATURING NEW SINGLES
"KISS KISS, BYE BYE" & "KINDA, SORTA"
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kendra Checketts from season-16 of The Voice is forever grateful to her coaches, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine.
Kendra recently celebrated over 2-million streams on Spotify with Clueless Kit single, "I'm Not Sober."
ENJOY THIS CLIP OF KENDRA PERFORMING LIVE WITH HER BAND AT THE CASBAH!
- She now releases her New Catchy Sassy Single "KISS KISS, BYE BYE" AND "KINDA, SORTA."
- Visit https://www.kendrachecketts.com to watch and listen.
Her music combines earnest lyrical themes with grappling melodies to create emotionally charged storytelling. Her style is personal and captivating. Kendra combines genres as diverse as pop, indie rock, blues, and hip-hop yet strives to keep her tracks simplistic – to make her music distinctive and relatable.
About Kendra Checketts: Kendra is a huge advocate for mental health and children through various non-profits. This gives her a perspective of living life with a bigger purpose. Kendra's music keeps people aware of the unexpected, conscious living, insightful lyrics and challenges the status quo. She brings an authentic and unique styling to her music focused on matching emotions to music production. Kendra is releasing more new music soon. You can learn more about Kendra Checketts at www.Kendrachecketts.com, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
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Partners with Genesys® to further transform customer engagement
MUMBAI, India and SANTA JOSE, Calif.,, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, today enhances its InstaCC™ platform with digital features to transform customer engagement of enterprises. It stitches a secure, connected digital fabric that allows global enterprises and end users to connect across varied channels ranging from social media to web browsers to mobile applications and company websites. This allows global enterprises to engage with customers in an intelligent, seamless and user-friendly way, across their preferred channel. The InstaCC™ platform, an omnichannel Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS), strengthens Tata Communications position as a global end-to-end digital customer experience (CX) orchestrator.
As part of its global CCaaS strategy, Tata Communications InstaCC™ platform enables businesses to seamlessly grow beyond geographies adhering to international regulatory compliance. Furthermore, Tata Communications and Genesys®, a global cloud leader in customer experience orchestration, are joining hands to widen the InstaCC™ portfolio by providing an enhanced CX offering. This partnership enables enterprises to harness the power of cloud, digital and AI technologies for proactive, predictive and personalized customer engagement through Genesys Cloud CX™️, an all-in-one, composable CCaaS and employee experience solution.
The enhanced Tata Communications InstaCC™ platform in partnership with Genesys is equipped with tools that boost productivity of contact centre agents such as workforce management solutions, call recording and knowledge-based integration of interactions.
"Customer excellence and customer delight are critical growth factors for global enterprises in today's ultracompetitive and hyperconnected business environment," said Mysore Madhusudhan, Executive Vice President of Collaboration and Connected Solutions at Tata Communications. "Together with Genesys and our combined expertise over decades in the contact centre market, we are now redefining global customer engagement, bringing personalised and intelligent ways for enterprises to interact and engage with their users."
"In the experience economy, building trust and loyalty requires organizations to transform into digital engagement powerhouses so they deliver effortless, connected experiences across all the channels consumers use today," said ML Maco, EVP, Global Sales and Field Operations, Genesys. "Our partnership with Tata Communications is grounded in our shared vision to enable global enterprises with cloud-first and AI-enabled solutions that allow them to orchestrate people-centred customer and employee experiences at scale."
The increased adoption of cloud, automation and AI is bringing intelligent and efficient customer-enterprise interactions. Gartner® projects that by 2031, conversational AI chatbots and virtual assistants will handle 30% of interactions that would have otherwise been handled by a human agent, up from 2% in 2022.
Know more about Tata Communications InstaCC™ platform, and the partnership between Tata Communications and Genesys®.
About Genesys
Every year, Genesys orchestrates billions of remarkable customer experiences for organisations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organisations can realise Experience as a ServiceSM, our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organisations have the power to deliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalised experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty. Visit www.genesys.com/en-sg.
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About Tata Communications
A part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications (NSE: TATACOMM; BSE: 500483) is a global digital ecosystem enabler powering today's fast-growing digital economy in more than 190 countries and territories. Leading with trust, it enables digital transformation of enterprises globally with collaboration and connected solutions, core and next gen connectivity, cloud hosting and security solutions and media services. 300 of the Fortune 500 companies are its customers and the company connects businesses to 80% of the world's cloud giants. For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com
2022 Gartner, Market Trend: Conversational AI for Agent Automation Delivers an Efficient Customer Contact Center Experience
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Biden toughens border, offers legal path for 30,000 a month
By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the U.S. will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally. It’s his boldest move yet to confront spiraling arrivals of migrants since he took office two years ago. The new rules expand on an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S., which led to a dramatic drop in Venezuelans coming to the U.S. border. Together the changes represent a major revision to immigration rules that will stand even if the U.S. Supreme Court ends a Trump-era public health law that allows American authorities to turn away asylum seekers.
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Global health in focus
BERLIN, Oct. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Health Summit 2022, the world's leading meeting for global health, began on Sunday morning in Berlin. For the first time it is co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). Among the central topics are climate change and health, pandemic preparedness, sustainable health systems and the role of the G7 and G20 in global health. More than 300 speakers from all regions of the world and from all sectors of society are expected, including over 20 government officials.
The entire program is available for free online.
The official opening is tonight at 6:00 PM CEST. Speakers include German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russel, EU-Commission Director General for Health and Food Safety Sandra Gallina as well as UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Senegal's President Macky Sall via video.
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Livestream of the opening ceremony: www.worldhealthsummit.org
Please find details on the use of video material below.
Information on special events during WHS 2022 and further press information is available in the press kit in the media center:
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The entire World Health Summit is open to the press.
Accreditation for on-site participation is closed.
Digital participation is possible without accreditation. Zoom links are available in the online program and during WHS 2022 at www.worldhealthsummit.org. Video and audio material can be used upon request. Source: World Health Summit
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For on-site participation, wearing an FFP2 mask is mandatory.
World Health Summit
October 16-18, 2022
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A game that had everything from highlight-reel goals and a fight to a potentially significant injury left one playoff-bound team searching for answers and gave a fading rival a glimmer of hope with plenty of regret about not turning things around sooner.
T.J. Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov each scored twice, Tom Wilson had a goal against the team he’s ruffled the most during his NHL career and Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 6-3 on Saturday, snapping their six-game skid.
“Divisional opponent coming in and big rivalry, emotional game, sometimes those are the ones that a team comes together,” Wilson said. “We showed up ready to play.”
The Rangers’ rough run continued with their fourth consecutive loss, which included a costly injury coming on top of another defensive letdown. Top-pairing defenseman Ryan Lindgren left in the first period after taking a hard hit from Oshie into the boards with his left shoulder first and did not return.
Coach Gerard Gallant had no postgame update on Lindgren’s status. But he called the hit “dirty” and “cheap,” and his players immediately knew it wasn’t good.
“He’s a real heart-and-soul guy who does everything for our team,” forward Chris Kreider said. “It definitely hurts the team a lot to lose Ryan like that. Really isn’t another Ryan Lindgren, so it’s a big loss for us.”
Lindgren’s injury could affect New York’s plans ahead of the trade deadline Friday and possibly open the door to acquire longtime Chicago winger Patrick Kane sooner rather than later. They also made a couple of off-ice moves during the game to set that process in motion.
But while Kane can produce plenty offensively — his 1,225 points rank fourth among U.S. players — the three-time Stanley Cup champion doesn’t solve New York’s problem of keeping the puck out of its own net. Even All-Star goaltender Igor Shesterkin, who denied countryman Alex Ovechkin and others with some big saves, couldn’t save the day against the Capitals, giving up five goals on 22 shots before getting pulled after two periods.
“It wasn’t the goalie’s fault, trust me,” Gallant said. “It was more the team. It was all the team.”
Kuznetsov scored one time each against Shesterkin and Jaroslav Halak, while Sonny Milano had Washington’s other goal. Beyond scoring twice, Oshie fought Barclay Goodrow, who was unhappy with the hit on Lindgren, and assisted on Milano’s goal to give him a Gordie Howe Hat Trick.
“I get paid a lot of money to put offense up on the board and haven’t been doing it as of late,” Oshie said. “Felt good to get a couple.”
The crowd erupted each time, silencing the many fans in blue who started “Let’s Go Rangers!” chants early and had only Goodrow’s deflection goal in the first period and one each from Kreider and Kaapo Kakko in the third to celebrate.
There hasn’t been much to be happy about for the Capitals lately, given their struggles and the trade Thursday of defenseman Dmitry Orlov and winger Garnet Hathaway, though this game, with an offensive outburst and Darcy Kuemper’s 23 saves, provided a much-needed respite.
Washington is still expected to trade more pending free agents before the deadline but with the win got to 64 points and remains in the thick of the Eastern Conference wild-card race.
The Rangers are solidly in as one of the top three teams in the Metropolitan Division, but another defeat hurt their chances of keeping pace with the second-place New Jersey Devils, who could also make a move or two before the deadline in advance of the teams’ potential first-round showdown.
UP NEXT
Rangers: Host the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday.
Capitals: Visit the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday.
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HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund (NYSE: NFJ), today announced the following quarterly distribution:
Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution level that may be paid, in part or in full, from net investment income and realized capital gains, or a combination thereof. Shareholders should note, however, that if the Fund's aggregate net investment income and net realized capital gains are less than the amount of the distribution level, the difference will be distributed from the Fund's assets and will constitute a return of the shareholder's capital. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan.
The Fund previously provided this estimate of the sources of the Fund's December quarterly distribution:
Information regarding the Fund's performance and distribution rates is set forth below. Please note that all performance figures are based on the Fund's NAV and not the market price of the Fund's shares. Performance figures are not meant to represent individual shareholder performance.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions for tax purposes will depend on the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.
About the Fund
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund is a diversified closed-end fund that seeks current income and gains, with long-term capital appreciation as a secondary objective. The Fund will generally invest approximately 75% of its total assets in equity securities and approximately 25% in convertible securities. The Fund will employ an option strategy of writing (selling) covered call options on equity securities held in the Fund. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund, and NFJ Investment Group and Voya Investment Management are its subadvisers.
For more information on the Fund, contact shareholder services at (866) 270-7788, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the Closed-End Funds section of virtus.com.
Fund Risks
An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about the Fund's investment objective and risks, please see the Fund's annual report. A copy of the Fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting "Shareholder Services" as set forth at the end of this press release.
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- Key new hires enhance firm's Institutional Sales and Trading and Public Finance capabilities
- Team additions will broaden and diversify product offerings and account base
CHICAGO, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesirow, an independent, employee-owned financial services firm, today announced the addition of several key new hires across Mesirow Capital Markets, which encompasses capabilities including Institutional Sales and Trading (IS&T) and Public Finance.
Elizabeth Funk joins the firm as a managing director in the IS&T municipal underwriting group. She adds extensive experience in both competitive and negotiated municipal underwriting, with a special expertise in high-yield bonds, to Mesirow's underwriting group.
Elizabeth joins Mesirow from Hilltop Securities where she served as the Managing Director of underwriting and debt capital markets. Prior, she served in senior roles at Citigroup and Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. She is a partner and program mentor for the Municipal Bond Women's Forum and a National Board Member for Women in Public Finance where she co-chairs the mentorship committee. She is also a volunteer mentor at Rock the Street, Wall Street, which strives to bring racial and gender equity to the financial markets and create career pathways for high school girls into the industry.
"I am pleased to join Mesirow as the firm expands its geographic presence and service to clients and prospects," said Elizabeth Funk, Managing Director. "I was drawn to Mesirow's financial strength, sophisticated understanding of the municipal market and focus on corporate social responsibility. I look forward to contributing to the firm's strong momentum."
Daniel Toboja also recently joined the firm to lead the IS&T high-yield municipal trading desk. He has more than 15 years of experience managing trading desks, and trading general and high-yield bonds. Daniel will utilize Mesirow's credit research and established trading desk to diversify Mesirow's product offering. Daniel most recently served as the Director and Head of Midwest Trading/Pre-paid gas at Citigroup. Mesirow also announced it hired Blake Oslan to enhance its distribution capabilities as a salesman in the municipal department. Blake will focus on expanding Mesirow's coverage to different institutional clients, including banks.
"Strategically expanding our team and capabilities is a vital part of our commitment to serving clients," said Jeff Levine, Chief Operating Officer, Institutional Sales and Trading. "These seasoned professionals bring specific skills that will enhance our ability to provide high-quality sales and trading solutions. We are excited to welcome them to the team and, in the months ahead, look forward to bringing on additional talent to the firm."
In addition, the firm recently hired several municipal bankers to Mesirow Public Finance. Chris Sheehan and Jeff Wilke in Maryland, Sam Gruer in New York and Bill Gumbert in Texas not only expand Mesirow's regional coverage, but also significantly deepen its expertise in high-yield, derivatives and school district banking. Mesirow is continuing to consider options to expand its banking, trading and sales capabilities.
About Mesirow Institutional Sales and Trading
As part of the firm's Capital Markets and Investment Banking unit, Mesirow Institutional Sales and Trading provides sophisticated market analysis, individualized service, customized investment strategies and market liquidity to serve institutional investors' unique needs. With 60+ traders, sales professionals and analysts aligned by fixed income sector and $146 billion in annual trading volume as of March 31, 2022, the team oversees one of the nation's most active trading desks. For more information, please visit: mesirow.com/institutionalsalesandtrading.
About Mesirow Public Finance
Mesirow Public Finance provides innovative debt financing solutions to a diverse set of public clients as they fund important capital and infrastructure projects. Regional bankers in six US urban centers support clients' day-to-day needs and sector specialists provide targeted expertise. Over the last two years, the team has acted as underwriter on more than $41 billion of negotiated public sector financing transactions. To learn more, visit mesirow.com/publicfinance. Securities offered through Mesirow Financial, Inc., member FINRA, SIPC.
About Mesirow
Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago, with locations around the world, we serve clients through a personal, custom approach to reaching financial goals and acting as a force for social good. With capabilities spanning Global Investment Management, Capital Markets & Investment Banking, and Advisory Services, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities and our culture. To learn more, visit mesirow.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Mesirow was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by Crain's Chicago Business and one of the Top 100 RIA firms by Barron's.
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Putin rules out using nuclear weapons in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any intentions of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict there as part of alleged efforts by the West to secure its global domination, which he insisted are doomed to fail.
Speaking at a conference of international foreign policy experts, Putin said it’s pointless for Russia to strike Ukraine with nuclear weapons.
“We see no need for that,” Putin said. “There is no point in that, neither political, nor military.”
Putin said an earlier warning of his readiness to use “all means available to protect Russia” didn’t amount to nuclear saber-rattling but was merely a response to Western statements about their possible use of nuclear weapons.
He particularly mentioned Liz Truss saying in August that she would be ready to use nuclear weapons if she became Britain’s prime minister, a remark which he said worried the Kremlin.
“What were we supposed to think?” Putin said. “We saw that as a coordinated position, an attempt to blackmail us.”
Without offering evidence, the Russian leader repeated Moscow’s unproven allegation that Ukraine was plotting a false flag attack involving a radioactive dirty bomb it would try to pin on Russia.
Ukraine has strongly rejected the claim, and its Western allies have dismissed it as “transparently false.” Ukraine argued Russia might be making the unfounded allegation to serve as a cover for its own possible plot to detonate a dirty bomb.
Putin said he personally ordered Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to call his foreign counterparts to tell them about the purported plot. He maintained that Russia knows the Ukrainian facilities working on the project.
Putin claimed, still without citing any proof, that Kyiv’s plan was to rig a missile with radioactive waste and to characterize its explosion as a Russian nuclear strike in an effort to isolate Russia in the global arena.
He mocked the allegations by Ukraine and the West that Russia was firing on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine as “ravings.” Russian troops have occupied the plant, Europe’s largest, since the early days of the conflict and Moscow has accused Ukraine of continuously shelling it.
In a long speech full of diatribes against the United States and its allies, Putin accused the U.S. and its allies of trying to dictate their terms to other nations in a “dangerous, bloody and dirty” domination game.
Putin, who sent his troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, has cast Western support for Ukraine as part of broad efforts by Washington and its allies to enforce its will upon others through what they call a rules-based world order. He argued that the world has reached a turning point, when “the West is no longer able to dictate its will to the humankind but still tries to do it, and the majority of nations no longer want to tolerate it.”
The Russian leader claimed that the Western policies will foment more chaos, adding that “he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.”
Putin claimed that “humankind now faces a choice: accumulate a load of problems that will inevitably crush us all or try to find solutions that may not be ideal but working and could make the world more stable and secure.”
The Russian leader said Russia isn’t the enemy of the West but will continue to oppose the purported diktat of Western neo-liberal elites, accusing them of trying to subdue Russia.
“Their goal is to make Russia more vulnerable and turn it into an instrument for fulfilling their geopolitical tasks, they have failed to achieve it and they will never succeed,” Putin said.
Putin reaffirmed his long-held claim that Russians and Ukrainians are part of a single people and again denigrated Ukraine as an “artificial state,” which received historic Russian lands from Communist rulers during the Soviet times. In a frank statement. he acknowledged that the fighting in Ukraine effectively amounts to a civil war.
Putin said he thinks “all the time” about the casualties Russia has suffered in the Ukraine conflict, but insisted that NATO’s refusal to rule out prospective Ukraine’s membership and Kyiv’s refusal to adhere to a peace deal for its separatist conflict in the country’s east has left Moscow no other choice.
He denied underestimating Ukraine’s ability to fight back and insisted that his “special military operation” has proceeded as planned.
Putin also acknowledged the challenges posed by Western sanctions, but argued that Russia has proven resilient to foreign pressure and has become more united.
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Rao’s soup recalled for having wrong contents
(Gray News) - If you have an egg allergy and eat Rao’s Soup, you might want to check your pantry.
Certain 16-ounce jars of Rao’s Made for Home Slow Simmered Soup are being recalled.
The affected glass jars are labeled chicken and gnocchi but actually contain vegetable minestrone, a flavor that has egg in it.
The minestrone soup shouldn’t be too hard to spot since it’s dark red.
The affected jars have a best by date of Nov. 15, 2024, with the following designations: EST 251, Code Date 2320 MDV 046030Z009, UPC 747479400015.
Only soup with that code date is part of the recall.
The products were sold in grocery stores across the U.S. between Dec. 8 and Jan. 27.
No illnesses have been reported in connection with this recall, the FDA said.
Costumers are urged to return the products to the place of purchase for a refund.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. CNN Newsource contributed to this report.
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TORONTO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caylent, Inc (Caylent), an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Tier Services Partner, and Rising Star Partner of the Year 2021 (SI) announces its expansion into Canada to fuel growth in the cloud services industry.
Caylent is currently growing at 300% year-over-year to keep up with demand from customers seeking to build and innovate on AWS. Worldwide, there has been record expansion of the public cloud market, which Statista projects to reach $217.9 billion USD in revenue in 2022 in North America alone. This figure accounts for over half of the worldwide Public Cloud revenue which is projected to reach $407.50 billion USD in 2022.
Caylent's formal expansion into Canada is a major milestone for the company as it now offers a third delivery region for North American customers; having previously established delivery regions in the United States and Latin America.
"Caylent's expansion into Canada means we'll be immediately adding an additional two dozen delivery team members as employees and we plan to add dozens more in the coming months," says JP La Torre, CEO of Caylent. "Our presence in Canada enables us to more strategically align to our customers across North America with the addition of a third delivery region. In an increasingly constrained tech labor market, we're able to bring the best engineering talent and subject matter experts to bear for our customers to help them innovate on AWS with the right blend of value and expertise."
Additionally, this further strengthens Caylent's ability to attract and retain the top AWS engineering talent. Caylent is now able to extend a full suite of benefits for Canadian employees including premium health coverage, pension matching, remote work, unlimited vacation, company stock option plans, and more.
"We're extremely excited with the launch of our new Canadian entity and what that means for our ability to get the brightest AWS talent into Caylent", says Devin Cassinelli, Director of Talent and Corporate Development at Caylent. "We believe that with our humble culture and innovative customer projects, combined with our excellent compensation and benefits packages, we'll be able to offer top tech talent an environment that will accelerate their career."
Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology. We are living in a software-defined world where technology is at the core of every business. To thrive in this paradigm, organizations need to empower their people and processes through technology. Caylent is uniquely positioned to fuel that engine of innovation by bringing ambitious ideas to life for our customers. We work with customers to build, scale and optimize sophisticated cloud solutions using deep subject matter expertise to deliver world class outcomes through an agile co-delivery model.
Caylent holds the AWS Migration Services Competency, AWS SaaS Competency, AWS DevOps Service Competency as well as the AWS Well-Architected Partner, AWS Public Sector Partner, and AWS Built on Control Tower Partner designations, showing significant investment in both its customer offering and services expertise on AWS. Caylent's growing AWS Certification count of now over 200 and a consistently high Customer Satisfaction rating, further validates its commitment to fueling cloud native service adoption on AWS
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NEWTOWN, Pa., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET, on Thursday, August 3, 2023, to discuss its second quarter 2023 financial results. A news release containing these results will be issued before the call.
The conference call will be available live on the EPAM website at https://investors.epam.com.
Please visit the website at least 15 minutes prior to the call to register for the event. For those who will not be able to attend the live webcast, a replay will be available in the Investor Relations section of the website.
About EPAM Systems
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its advanced software engineering heritage to become the foremost global digital transformation services provider – leading the industry in digital and physical product development and digital platform engineering services. Through its innovative strategy; integrated advisory, consulting, and design capabilities; and unique 'Engineering DNA,' EPAM's globally deployed hybrid teams help make the future real for clients and communities around the world by powering better enterprise, education and health platforms that connect people, optimize experiences, and improve people's lives. In 2021, EPAM was added to the S&P 500 and included among the list of Forbes Global 2000 companies.
Selected by Newsweek as a 2021, 2022 and 2023 Most Loved Workplace, EPAM's global multidisciplinary teams serve customers in more than 50 countries across six continents. As a recognized leader, EPAM is listed among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services on the Fortune 1000 and ranked four times as the top IT services company on Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list. EPAM is also listed among Ad Age's top 25 World's Largest Agency Companies for three consecutive years, and Consulting Magazine named EPAM Continuum a top 20 Fastest Growing Firm.
Learn more at www.epam.com and follow EPAM on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Innovative solutions for all types of network-related issues.
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- End 2 End Technologies (E2E) launches an innovative and easy-to-use solution for traditional wireless connections, Industrial Management Software (IMS). The need for technological and industrial solutions for industrial networks has driven E2E's development of this software for optimizing performance and securing assets on customers' field operation networks.
Through IMS, energy companies who are required to comply with or support TSA and NERC-CIP cybersecurity guidance and directives have access to a solution that backs change management processes for credentials and monitoring of these changes for industrial communications devices supporting field area networks (FAN).
Because of the broad applicability of IMS, E2E has partnered with GE MDS products and other manufacturers to provide modern technology solutions in the industrial field for network management to its customers. IMS provides visibility and management of vendors like GE MDS, Cambium Networks, Radwin, Freewave, Sierra Wireless, Ubiquity, and others.
GE MDS and Cambium Networks products provide long-range and broadband solutions for high-reliability applications. This function allows E2E to supply technology and service-based solutions to be most effective in industrial environments such as the Oil/Gas, Utilities, and Rail sectors.
End 2 End Technologies is an industrial wireless communications partner and Industrial IoT Solutions provider since 2013. Their services include consulting, design, deployment, and management of demanding communications networks and IIoT solutions.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centric Financial Corporation ("Centric" or "the Company") (OTC: CFCX), the parent company of Centric Bank ("the Bank"), reported net income of $2.9 million, or $0.34 per common share diluted, for the second quarter 2022. For the first six months of 2022, net income was $5.7 million, or $0.67 per common share diluted.
Highlights of Performance:
- Core loan growth, excluding the impact of PPP loans, increased $29 million over the first quarter, an annualized growth rate of 14% and $75 million over the second quarter 2021.
- Organic deposit growth was $1.4 million over prior quarter and increased $44 million, or 5%, over second quarter 2021.
- Net interest margin increased 16 basis points over the first quarter, ending at 4.06%, and up 12 basis points over same quarter prior year.
- Tangible book value per share of $11.72 increased $0.28 per share from the previous quarter and increased $0.93 per share, or 8.6%, over second quarter 2021.
- Cost of deposits decreased one basis point from first quarter to 0.36%, a reduction from the 0.40% at second quarter 2021.
- Return on Average Assets of 1.14% increased 5% over the prior quarter with a decline of 15 basis points from second quarter 2021 which was impacted by PPP deferred income of $3.3 million.
Patricia A. Husic, President & CEO of Centric Financial Corporation and Centric Bank stated, "We again delivered a solid quarter of financial results. Organic loan growth for the quarter was $29 million, with the increase driven largely from commercial real estate and commercial loans. The annualized growth rate for the quarter was 14%. During the quarter, our return on average assets increased to 1.14% while our net interest margin expanded to 4.06%. Loans that repriced with rising rates and floors being exceeded contributed about 25%, while the volume of our loan growth drove the majority of those increases.
Our team continues to be intentional in their business development efforts and disciplined with the pricing of both loans and deposits. Non-interest bearing deposits remain consistent with the first quarter results, or 28% of total deposits. Our expansion in the greater Philadelphia region continues to drive in good momentum as we onboard full relationship customers in these markets. We are leveraging the Centric Way of Banking in those communities and our success is evidenced with our growth. Loans in that region comprise 54% of our total balance sheet and 29% of total non-interest bearing deposits. We have seized opportunities stemming from the impact of past M&A in the Philadelphia region, and there is more yet to capitalize upon. Our company is well positioned for the future."
Results of Operations – Second Quarter
Net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was $2.9 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, an increase of 5% over first quarter 2021. Compared to second quarter 2021, net income declined $650 thousand, or 18%, and $0.08 per diluted share. The decline from the same quarter a year ago was the result of less PPP deferred fee income of $1.1 million as the PPP segment of lending has reduced by $131 million from June 30, 2021 and is currently $11.4 million in balances outstanding.
Net interest income for the quarter was $9.8 million, an increase of $667 thousand over first quarter. The increase in the federal funds rate drove other interest income up $112 thousand with a decline in average balances. Organic loan growth of $29 million coupled with rising rates increased interest on loans by $525 thousand over first quarter. The cost of deposits remained consistent with first quarter while balances on borrowings declined $15 million at the end of the first quarter, reducing interest expense on borrowing in the second quarter by 15%.
Organic loan growth expanded $75 million, loan yields increased by 6 basis points, and PPP deferred fee income declined $1.1 million compared to the second quarter 2021, culminating in a decline of $938 thousand in interest on loans. Interest expense decreased by $223 thousand due to reduced cost of funds and a shift in the mix of deposits and reduced borrowings from the second quarter 2021 contributed to the reduction of net interest income of $626 thousand, producing a net interest margin of 4.06%, which is an increase of 12 basis points over the same period 2021.
Noninterest income totaled $1.0 million for the second quarter, an increase of 11%, or $100 thousand, over the prior quarter, driven by a reduction in mortgage related income of $149 thousand which was more than offset by other loan fee income, increasing $235 thousand. Compared to the second quarter 2021, noninterest income increased $105 thousand, primarily due to increased swap referral fee income, increased service charge on deposits, and second quarter 2021 having a loss on equity securities of $80 thousand offset somewhat by a reduction in other loan and servicing income of $83 thousand.
Noninterest expense of $6.6 million for the second quarter increased over first quarter by $448 thousand, or 7%. Salaries and benefits increased $196 thousand due to the expansion of the lending teams in the Philadelphia area and supporting credit personnel, as well as filling vacancies in the Cash Management team. Increases of $264 thousand in other non-interest expense were across areas such as loan and collection expense, travel, and SBA mortgage servicing rights amortization expense, partially offset by a reduction in FDIC assessment expense by $149 thousand.
Compared to second quarter 2021, noninterest expenses increased 4%. Salary and benefits and occupancy and equipment were relatively flat. FDIC assessments decreased $155 thousand as peak deposits from PPP efforts and wholesale funding which supported the PPP lending have declined. Loan and collection expense increased $100 thousand due to core lending efforts, and software and licensing costs increased $63 thousand.
Results of Operations – Year to Date
Net income for the first six months of 2022 ended at $5.7 million, or $0.67 per diluted share, a decrease of $1.5 million over the prior year, as the reduction in PPP deferred fees declined by $2.5 million year over year due to PPP loan forgiveness of $131 million. Excluding PPP deferred fees for both years, core net income before tax increased by $620 thousand, or 11%.
Net interest income decreased $1.8 million to $18.9 million over the six months ended June 30, 2021. Interest and fees on loans decreased $2.4 million, primarily due to the $2.5 million decline in PPP deferred fee income. Interest income on commercial real-estate loans increased $1.3 million, or 10%, over the same period last year, largely driven by volume. Total interest expense declined $550 thousand, or 19%, from last year. Reduction in rate and balances in certificates of deposit contributed $530 thousand to the decrease from last year. Increases in money market deposit balances and increased rates of 6 basis points somewhat offset the benefit by $259 thousand. Net interest margin for the period ending June 30, 2022, was 3.98%, a two basis point increase over the first six months of 2021.
Noninterest income totaled $2.0 million for the first six months of 2022, consistent with the same period 2021 with changes in revenue streams. Loan fees increased 50%, or $292 thousand, along with swap referral fees increasing $223 thousand. Gain on loans held for sale decreased $452 thousand.
Noninterest expense totaled $12.8 million, consistent with the $12.6 million last year. Salaries and benefits declined 3% due to lower commission on mortgage activity, open positions during 2022 and health insurance expense reduction of $98 thousand. Data processing services increased 18% from expanded utilization of products on the Bank's core operating systems. Advertising and marketing expenses were reduced by 33%. FDIC assessments were reduced in 2022 by $195 thousand connected to the release of wholesale funding at the end of 2021. Other operating expenses increased $230,000, with increases in license fees and software maintenance, travel and lodging, and SBA mortgage servicing rights amortization
Asset Quality
Provision expense of $850 thousand for the first six months of 2022 was consistent with last year's $900 thousand. The coverage ratio for the allowance for loan and lease loss increased to 1.46% compared to $1.15% last year, or 1.36%, excluding PPP loans which declined by $131 million. The allowance for loan and lease losses amounted to $13.2 million and $11.1 million at June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Management believes the allowance for loan and lease losses at June 30, 2022 adequately reflects the inherent risk in the loan portfolio.
At June 30, 2022, nonperforming assets totaled $12.6 million, relatively flat from the first quarter and an improvement of $2.5 million over June 30, 2021. Compared to last year, loans 90+ days past due were reduced by $4.7 million with $1.3 million moving into nonaccrual. Other changes to nonaccrual loans consisted of SBA loans being processed for collection and reimbursement of the guarantee, while other relationships moved into nonaccrual status due to the hardships encountered during 2021. SBA loans that were considered nonperforming at June 30, 2022 totaled $2.9 million, a decrease of $559 thousand from a year ago. Nonperforming conventional loans also declined by $1.9 million from a year ago. Total nonperforming assets were 1.21% of total assets at quarter end, a reduction of 11%, from June 30, 2021.
Balance Sheet
At June 30, 2022, Centric's total assets were $1.0 billion compared to $1.1 billion at June 30, 2021, a decrease of $75 million and consistent with March 31, 2022. Cash and cash equivalents were reduced by $9 million coinciding with the reduction in borrowings of $16 million. Total loans outstanding decreased $56 million as a result of PPP loan forgiveness.
Total loans ended the period at $904 million, an increase of $18 million from prior quarter. Organic loan growth was $29 million. Commercial loans increased $4 million and CRE loans increased $25 million. Compared to the same period last year, PPP loan balances forgiven amounted to $131 million, resulting in core loan growth of $75 million, or 9%. CRE grew $51 million and commercial loans increased 17%, or $38 million. Remaining PPP loan balances outstanding were $11 million at period end. Annualized core loan growth is 14% through June 30, 2022.
Investments in securities declined from the prior quarter due to principal payments on mortgage-backed securities as well as a called debt security, and also decreased over last year by $3 million primarily due to the sale of an equity security late in 2021.
Total deposits ended the period at $879 million, similar to the prior quarter in balances and mix. From June 30, 2021, money market and savings grew 26%, or $58 million, while noninterest bearing deposits remained consistent. Certificates of deposit and interest-bearing demand deposit balances declined $88 million and $40 million, respectively, largely due to a reduction in wholesale funding of $110 million at the end of 2021.
Short-term borrowings of $10 million matured in the fourth quarter 2021 and were not replaced as liquidity remained strong. Long-term borrowings totaled $55 million at quarter end, consistent with the prior quarter and decreased $6 million from the same period last year.
Shareholders' equity increased $2.5 million over first quarter 2022 and ended the period at $100 million. Year over year, equity increased $8 million, or 9%. At June 30, 2022, Centric held 275,497 shares of treasury stock repurchased under the Company's stock repurchase plan during 2020. No new treasury shares have been purchased in 2022. Tangible book value increased $0.28 per share over first quarter and ended the period at $11.72. Tangible book value increased $0.93 per share, or 9%, from June 30, 2021, as a result of increased earnings over the period. Centric Bank remains above bank regulatory "Well Capitalized" standards.
About the Company
An American Banker 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Banks to Work For, four-time American Banker Most Powerful Women in Banking Top Team, three-time Best Places to Work, and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Companies for eight years, Centric Bank is headquartered in south central Pennsylvania with assets of $1.0 billion and remains a leader in organic loan growth. A locally owned, locally loaned community bank, Centric Bank provides highly competitive and pro-growth financial services to businesses, professionals, individuals, families, and to the health care and dental industries with the Doctor Centric Bank Division. Centric Bank was named one of the Top 200 Community Banks in the U.S. in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.
Founded in 2007, Pennsylvania-based Centric Bank has financial centers located in Harrisburg, Hershey, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Doylestown, Devon, and Lancaster, as well as commercial loan offices in Devon, Doylestown, Lancaster, and an Operations and Executive Office campus in Hampden Township, Cumberland County. To learn more about Centric Bank, call 888.274.2033 or visit CentricBank.com. Connect with them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Centric Financial Corporation is traded over the counter (OTC-Pink) with the ticker symbol CFCX.
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This news release may contain forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that include projections, predictions, expectations, or beliefs about events or results or otherwise are not statements of historical facts. Actual results and trends could differ materially from those set forth in such statements and there can be no assurances that we will be able to continue to successfully execute on our strategic plan. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following: changes in current or future market conditions; changes in key personnel; the effects of terrorism, natural disasters and pandemics and their impact on the economy; cybersecurity risks; the effects of competition and development of competing financial products and services; changes in laws and regulations; the interest rate environment; changes in credit quality; inability to raise capital, if necessary, under favorable conditions; volatilities in the securities markets; other deteriorating economic conditions; and other risks and uncertainties.
Contact: Patricia A. Husic
President & CEO
717.909.8309
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Recaptured fugitive Casey White returns to Alabama for court arraignment after being on the run from authorities for 11 days
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Nadia Romero, CNN
Escaped inmate Casey White was brought back to Alabama late Tuesday night for his first court appearance since he was captured following a car chase in Evansville, Indiana, Monday.
He returned without the corrections official he fled with, Vicky White, who authorities preliminarily believe shot herself in the head following the chase. She died from her injuries, authorities said.
At the arraignment, Judge Ben Graves informed White he will be charged with escape in the first degree, in addition to capital murder charges he was already facing related to the death of Connie Ridgeway.
The inmate was escorted to the courthouse in a caravan of armored vehicles and arrived shortly before 11 p.m. He entered the courthouse in handcuffs and with shackles around his ankles and briefly met with his attorney before entering the courtroom.
During the hearing, White listened intently with his eyes locked on the judge as he explained the charges. White appeared to be tired and sniffled more than once throughout the 10-minute hearing.
Immediately following the hearing, White exited the courthouse and glanced at the media cameras and the crowd of bystanders who had gathered, but he did not say anything. He was being transferred to the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, a little more 100 miles from Lauderdale County.
Casey White and Vicky White were captured Monday after a car chase, which ended when authorities forced the car Casey White was driving to wreck in a ditch, the US Marshals Service has said.
Vicky White was transported to the hospital and later died from her injuries. Authorities preliminarily believe she shot herself after the car crashed.
Newly released police dash camera and body-worn camera video shows the moments after the car chase ended when Casey White was arrested and officers attempted to pull Vicky White, who was injured, from the car that had rolled into a ditch following a crash with authorities.
In the video, several officers can be seen surrounding Casey White, who is pinned to the ground next to the car. The fugitive is then taken into custody and led away from the wrecked car.
Authorities were not immediately able to pull Vicky White from the car because she appeared to still have a gun in her hand, according to officers seen in the body camera video, who also noted she appeared to be breathing.
After an officer reached in to pull the gun from her hand, they worked to pull her from the sunroof opening in the car, the video shows.
The crash ended a frantic 11-day manhunt that spanned multiple states and elicited hundreds of tips, including one that ultimately led authorities to their capture.
On April 29, the corrections officer checked the inmate out of jail and the pair fled together. Officials believe the two had a romantic relationship and previously said that they are not related.
The veteran officer used her years of experience to plan and execute the escape, officials have said.
Vicky White “was basically the mastermind behind the whole plan,” Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said Tuesday. “Casey White didn’t escape from the facility; he was basically just let out.”
Pair was prepared to hide for much longer
Vicky White and Casey White are believed to have been in Evansville since at least May 2, according to Evansville Police Chief Billy Bolin.
They were staying in motel room that was paid for for 14 days, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding has said. Authorities are investigating whether a third person may have helped book the room for them, he tells CNN. They initially tried to book a room themselves, he said, but could not because she didn’t have any identification.
The capture ultimately came after a Cadillac the pair was suspected to be driving was spotted in the motel’s parking lot, Wedding said.
As officers were conducting surveillance on the motel, Vicky White and Casey White exited, got into the Cadillac and drove away, US Marshal Marty Keely said. Officers followed them and a car chase ensued, ending when authorities forced him to wreck in a ditch.
Casey White reportedly told authorities to help “his wife” who he said had shot herself in the head, according to Keely, who noted that Casey White and Vicky White were not married to investigators’ knowledge.
Authorities believe Vicky White may have shot herself once the vehicle crashed, according to Wedding.
Authorities found wigs, $29,000 cash and several weapons among their possessions, including four handguns, an AR-15 rifle and three magazines, Wedding said Tuesday.
“Any one of these weapons could have been used to ambush our officers while they were attempting to capture a murder suspect” he said.
A trial for Casey White, who is facing capital murder charges for the 2015 death of Connie Ridgeway, is set to begin in June, though his attorneys could request more time. White allegedly confessed to killing the woman, but later pleaded not guilty, authorities have said.
Casey White was brought to the Lauderdale County Detention Center, where Vicky White worked, in February to attend court hearings in the case.
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A trifecta of respiratory viruses — Covid, RSV and flu — are taxing hospitals across the nation
By Stephanie Elam, CNN
Across the country, overflow health care workers are struggling to catch their breath as hospitals fill with sick patients battling a trifecta of respiratory illnesses — Covid-19, RSV and the flu.
“We’ve seen a real increase in cases … particularly since Thanksgiving,” said Dr. Christopher Longhurst, chief medical officer at UC San Diego Health, who added that the hospital is facing a respiratory surge. “Covid is up. The flu is up and other respiratory viruses are up as well.”
The situation is so overwhelming at UC San Diego Health, the hospital had to create space to triage patients by setting up tents in parking lots and using other unconventional spaces. The hallways in the emergency department are also full of temporary beds for patients who were admitted but are awaiting hospital beds.
“We have not had to reconfigure conference room space to care for patients even during the Covid pandemic,” said Longhurst, who explained that UC San Diego Health has experienced an equal number of Covid patients as patients with other respiratory viruses. “These are really unprecedented times.”
Last week, hospitals across the nation were the fullest they have been throughout the pandemic, reaching 80% capacity, which is an 8 percentage-point jump in two weeks. That’s also the highest level since the Omicron surge in January. This week, hospital capacity has improved slightly.
While RSV appears to have peaked in the US, both Covid and flu infections are on the rise.
All but seven states are experiencing high or very high respiratory virus activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC advises that people in areas with high Covid-19 community levels wear a mask.
Dr. Jeff Smith, executive vice president and chief operating officer for hospital operations at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said the “extreme, rapid rise” of RSV from October into November was likely “the most RSV we’ve seen in the past decade.”
“And now we’ve seen a rapid decline (in RSV),” said Smith. “That has overlapped this Covid rise, which has happened a little bit slower and a little bit later, and then now is superimposed by this very rapid rise in influenza.”
Yet the surge of this virus trio is still not as bad as Covid was during the apex of the pandemic.
“The most powerful factor by far is probably the vaccines, but the other one is the cumulative number of infections we have all had which is now called natural immunity,” said Dr. Edward Jones-Lopez, an infectious disease specialist at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California.
“Unfortunately, there’s still about a third of the country … where despite all the evidence of safety and efficacy, people are still not getting vaccinated,” he said.
There are vaccines for both Covid and the flu, but not for RSV. All three of the viruses present very similar symptoms — fever, cough and upper respiratory symptoms — so testing is required to determine which illness it is and recommend treatment.
And just because a patient has one virus doesn’t mean they can’t get the other two as well.
“I’ve seen one case of three infections occurring at the same time,” said Jones-Lopez. “These are independent viruses that can infect the same individual and, obviously, the more viruses, the more infections you have … the higher the risk of one of them leading to more serious disease.”
Mask mandates have not yet returned, but virus spikes in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle have led health departments to recommend people mask up indoor and in crowds.
But as friends and family gather this month, health officials are concerned.
“I certainly would recommend that if you are elderly or have an illness that makes you immunocompromised or particularly susceptible to infection, I would encourage wearing a mask now,” said Smith of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. “It’s the best protection that we have for anyone else who is concerned about transmission.”
Or, as Longhurst put it, “Wear a mask during the holiday season and don’t kiss those sick babies.”
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstClose™, Inc., a leading fintech provider of data and workflow solutions for mortgage and home equity lenders nationwide, announced today that its home equity settlement services ordering module within FirstClose Equity is now integrated with Calyx Software's Point® loan origination system.
Through the integration, Point users can seamlessly originate HELOCs and home equity loans within their LOS and complete the application through the closing process faster than the industry average of 45 to 60 days. FirstClose's one-of-a-kind home equity solution reduces operational touchpoints to elevate the overall customer experience for borrowers. It also enables lenders to automate data collection, verification, and settlement services ordering.
FirstClose's order management module is currently used by more than 200 lenders nationwide to automate back-office manual processes. FirstClose's one-click ordering technology with the ability to modify settlement providers will enable Calyx Point lenders to reduce risk, grow their overall business, and position themselves better for continued growth and success in this surging home equity market.
"As a customer-first company, we are always looking to offer our lenders access to like-minded companies that provide simple solutions to real-world challenges our customers face," said Juan Villegas, Director of National Sales at Calyx Software. "We're proud to be integrated with FirstClose and to be able to help our clients streamline their home equity lending operations."
"Mortgage rates are rising; homeowners are staying in their homes longer and they are in a much better financial position than ever before. All these pieces point to HELOCs and HELs as the right products for the times," said Tedd Smith, Chief Executive Officer at FirstClose. "Having our order management module within Point will give Calyx users a simple and efficient way to capitalize on this growing market opportunity and stand out amongst the crowd by offering a significantly enhanced customer experience."
About Calyx
Calyx® is an established provider of compliant mortgage software solutions used by banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, and brokerages nationwide. The company's easy-to-use technology, including its online borrower interview, loan origination systems and secure electronic signature software, is designed to streamline, integrate and optimize all phases of the loan process for customers of various sizes, workflows, channels and complexities. Combined with its extensive network of integrated partners, Calyx products deliver a true digital mortgage solution that maximizes profitability and enhances the customer experience. For more information, call (800) 362-2599 or visit www.calyxsoftware.com.
About FirstClose
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, FirstClose, Inc. provides fintech solutions to HELOC and mortgage lenders nationwide. The company's mission is to increase profitability and reduce cost for mortgage lenders. FirstClose makes this possible through offering systems and relationships that enable lenders to assist the lender's borrowers more effectively, reduce closing costs, and ultimately shorten closing times. For more information, visit firstclose.com.
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PEYNIER, France, July 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gustave Roussy and THERYQ announce a strategic and structuring partnership to roll out and assess FLASH technology for radiotherapy. French medical technology company THERYQ, specializing in particle accelerators and radiotherapy systems, has provided Gustave Roussy's Department of Radiotherapy with the first FLASH clinical radiotherapy machine in France for treating superficial tumours.
The collaboration between Gustave Roussy, Europe's leading cancer centre, ranking third worldwide, and THERYQ, a French company specializing in the manufacture of FLASH radiotherapy systems, represents a major breakthrough in cancer treatment in France through the arrival of the first FLASHKNiFE® machine.
FLASHKNiFE® technology is a new radiotherapy process that uses electrons. The FLASH radiotherapy system delivers a very high dose rate, enabling professionals to treat patients in milliseconds. Several pre-clinical studies have shown that this technique can further save healthy tissue while effectively destroying tumour cells. In addition, the very short irradiation time eliminates any movement of the organ or tumour, ensuring more precise and controlled targeting.
Thanks to this major partnership, Gustave Roussy will be the first centre in France to use THERYQ's FLASH radiotherapy machine. Prior to its mainstream use, a clinical study will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of FLASH radiotherapy in skin cancer patients. The results of this study could have a significant impact on skin cancer management, thereby paving the way for new therapeutic breakthroughs, including in the treatment of all solid tumours.
Professor Eric Deutsch, Head of Gustave Roussy's Department of Radiotherapy, said: "Introducing this system will allow FLASH radiation therapy, a significant evolution from current methods, to undergo thorough clinical testing. The reduced number of sessions, along with the possibility of minimizing radiation-induced side effects, will lead to more tolerable and effective treatments. We are fully invested in and motivate by this project, which fuels the hope of significantly improving therapeutic management."
Mr. Ludovic Le Meunier, CEO of THERYQ, added: "We are delighted to work with Gustave Roussy, a pioneer in cancer research and treatment, to introduce FLASH radiation therapy in France. This collaboration marks a key milestone in our goal to deliver advanced treatment solutions to patients. FLASH radiotherapy has tremendous potential to improve skin cancer patient management and we look forward to this study's results."
Gustave Roussy and THERYQ are committed to pursuing their joint effort to develop innovative treatments for the benefit of patients, leading to more effective and tolerable radiotherapy thanks to this promising technology.
About Gustave Roussy:
Gustave Roussy, ranked first in Europe and third worldwide, is a global centre of expertise entirely dedicated to cancer patients. The Institute is a founding pillar of the Paris Saclay Cancer Cluster. As a source of therapeutic innovation and diagnostic breakthroughs, the Institute welcomes nearly 50,000 patients every year and develops an integrated approach combining research, care and teaching. Gustave Roussy provides expert care for rare cancers and complex tumours, treating all cancers at every stage of life. It offers its patients personalized management that combines innovation and a human-focused approach, taking into account care and physical, psychological and social quality of life. Boasting 4,100 employees at two facilities, namely Villejuif and Chevilly-Larue, Gustave Roussy brings together the expertise needed for high-level cancer research, with one quarter of patients included in clinical trials.
Find out more about Gustave Roussy and get the latest news from the Institute at www.gustaveroussy.fr, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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THERYQ, a spin-off of PMB-ALCEN located in the south of France, is an innovative medical technology company specializing in particle accelerators and radiotherapy systems. The company has and provides essential expertise in project management, R&D, industrialization and production. THERYQ is part of the Healthcare arm of the ALCEN Group.
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WASHINGTON — As U.S. House Republicans debate what to cut out of federal spending in their debt ceiling fight with Democrats, a handful of Texans have a clear message: Do not mess with the military.
Republicans in the majority are using the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool with the Biden administration to reduce federal spending, but they are divided over where to trim the fat. Some, including Texans who have long defended military spending, are asserting Congress shouldn’t touch defense funding, while others say all funding other than entitlements should be on the table. It’s an uncertainty that Republicans can hardly afford with only a six-vote margin of control in the House.
Texas Republicans have eked out central roles in the debt ceiling discussions within their party. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul, House Foreign Affairs Committee chair, and Kay Granger, House Appropriations chair, are both known defense hawks who are against cutting any military spending. Meanwhile, Reps. Jodey Arrington, House Budget Committee chair, and Chip Roy, a member of the Freedom Caucus, are willing to scorch earth to balance the country’s books. Roy finagled new influence within his party after the fraught power balance created during this year’s tumultuous House Speaker election.
The stakes are high. The Biden administration urged Congress last month to swiftly raise the debt ceiling in order to pay off interest on its debts and to finance federal programs already approved by Congress. Failure to do so could mean the country defaulting on its debt — which it has never done before — and gravely damaging faith in the country’s economy and assets.
It’s an outcome both parties agree would be catastrophic for the world. The federal government is projected to run out of money in the summer, at which point Congress will be forced to raise the debt ceiling in order to avoid extreme measures.
“I think it’s fair to say this is the most serious situation concerning the debt ceiling since 2011,” said U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
Defense spending has steadily increased under both Democratic and Republican presidents and Congresses. Last year’s federal spending bill included a 10% increase in defense spending, growth that defense hawks in the Republican conference, like McCaul and Granger, assert is necessary with growing threats from China, Russia and Iran. The bill included about $45 billion in aid for Ukraine and NATO in a bid to stave off further aggression from Russia.
But a vocal handful of far-right Republicans in the conference are skeptical about sending more money to defend Ukraine. They argue securing the U.S.’ southern border should be a bigger priority. It’s a view that McCaul calls dangerous.
“If Ukraine falls, Chairman Xi in China’s going to invade Taiwan,” McCaul said in a CNN interview. “They talk about the border — not mutually exclusive at all. We can do both. We’re a great country.”
Last year’s spending package to fund the federal government took months of negotiations to pass, with high potential for a collapse before the end of Congress. The uncertainty led to fears within the Defense Department that it would not be able to plan its financial agenda just as Russia threatened to escalate its war in Ukraine, and defense spending supporters aren’t keen on a repeat.
Granger’s committee determines how much money should go to individual government programs, and although she opposed the spending bill because of its high spending on non-defense priorities, the Fort Worth Republican is a major supporter of defense spending, including manufacturing in her North Texas district.
Roy said he would prefer to preserve or even increase defense spending in the next budget process, but he isn’t ruling out trimming the defense fat in order to balance the country’s books. When asked if defense spending was still in the mix to be cut, he said, “You’ve got to go figure out how to get it done.”
Roy also voted against a $40.1 billion aid package for Ukraine last May, shortly after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, though his primary objection to the bill was the manner in which it was rushed to the floor, barring members from studying and debating it before it was put up for a vote. He also raised concerns with the lack of revenue streams to finance the bill, meaning another pile-on to the national debt.
Roy told The Texas Tribune his personal preference would be to lower all discretionary spending — other than defense — to levels from before the pandemic. He would not touch mandatory spending for entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security benefits. Doing so would be politically fraught with Republican voters, many of whom rely on the social spending benefits.
But that leaves few options for cutting, and Democrats have made it clear the kinds of cuts Republicans are pushing for on non-defense programs are a nonstarter.
“If you say we’re gonna cut government but we’re not going to touch Social Security, Medicare or defense? OK, well, you’re talking about, you know, pennies on the dollar,” Boyle said. “Nondiscretionary defense includes a lot of important things: education, Pell Grants, health care for veterans. A number of things that, frankly, many of their members are for.”
“This is a little like saying, I’m going to go on a diet but I’m not going to cut out cheesecake, cookies and all sorts of sweets,” he added.
Republicans will need to get Democrats on board in the Senate, which is under Democratic control.
Republicans have long been fearful that the ballooning national debt — much of which is taken out to pay off past loans — is creating an unsustainable burden for future generations. They view the impending debt limit as the perfect chance to force Democrats to get on board with provisions to rein in the deficit. Both parties have voted to raise the debt ceiling, and the national debt has increased steadily under both parties.
Far-right members of the House Republican conference, led by Roy, negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy during his bid for the speakership to return overall discretionary spending to fiscal year 2022 levels, which were the spending levels implemented before last December’s $1.7 trillion government spending package. That would mean a cut to roughly $1.47 trillion in fiscal year 2024, which starts this October.
Previews of the current debate emerged then, when Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, voted against the package that set the rules for the current Congress and included the agreement to lower government spending.
“Putting millions of dollars on the fence is a bad idea. And yeah, especially now when we got a rising threat and China and threats to Taiwan,” Gonzales, a Navy veteran, said at the time.
Roy’s office sternly denied that defense cuts were ever part of any negotiations with party leadership at the time.
Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress and the White House say defaulting on the federal debt is too dangerous of a possibility to use as a bargaining chip and are demanding to raise the debt ceiling without any conditions. Boyle asserted that Congress will have to deliberate over how much money to spend in its annual budget and appropriations process anyway, and there was no need to tie spending to the debt ceiling.
But Arrington dismissed Democrats’ demands of a “clean” debt ceiling lift as unrealistic. Democrats will need Republicans’ support as much as Republicans need theirs to lift the debt ceiling, and he is refusing to pass on the chance to make spending cuts aligned with the agreement reached between Republican leadership and Roy’s dissenting camp in January.
“I don’t think the president will escape having to deal with negotiating some fiscal reforms in the most responsible way so that we can bend that debt curve, so that we can get on a sustainable path, stave off a debt crisis and act like adults,” Arrington said in an interview with Fox News.
This story was first published at www.texastribune.org by The Texas Tribune, a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
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BURBANK, Calif., March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon and Spin Master are celebrating a milestone 10 years of the award-winning top-rated preschool series PAW Patrol with an all-new one-of-a-kind primetime special premiering Monday, April 24, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT). The half-hour anniversary special, "ALL PAWS ON DECK," produced by Spin Master Entertainment, will reunite every PAW Patrol pup from the past and present, as they team up with Ryder for their biggest adventure yet. Encoring Friday, April 28, at 11 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon, "ALL PAWS ON DECK," is also available to watch on Nickelodeon channels internationally and will be available on Paramount+ in select markets.
In "ALL PAWS ON DECK," Ryder and his team of pups must take on 10-year-old genius, Codi Gizmodi, who has her sights set on building her own high-tech city to replace Adventure Bay. Joining the PAW Patrol on this mission are all their friends, including Everest, the first pup to ever join the PAW team; Tracker, the pups' Spanish-speaking pal; royal pup Sweetie; super twin pups Tuck and Ella; dinosaur-loving and speaking Rex; the newest member--fearless and loveable city pup Liberty, and more. It'll take all the PAW Patrol pups, along with Wild and the Cat Pack, working together to find a way to stop Codi once and for all.
A PAW Patrol marathon of episodes featuring guest pups that return in "ALL PAWS ON DECK" will air during the preschool block on Nickelodeon, Monday, April 24, from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. (ET/PT). Following the premiere of "ALL PAWS ON DECK," Nickelodeon will debut a brand-new episode of Rubble & Crew®, PAW Patrol's first-ever spinoff, at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT). In "The Crew Builds a Beaver Home/The Crew Fixes a Road," the pups find out a beaver is to blame for the power outage in Builder Cove and they must build him a new home to bring the power back. Then, the pups work fast to repave a road Speed Meister damages ahead of the town parade.
PAW Patrol's 10th anniversary year kicked off with the launch of Rubble & Crew, which closed February as the number-one preschool series across all TV. The celebration will culminate with the Sept. 29 release of the theatrical movie sequel, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie™, from Spin Master Entertainment, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures.
Since its launch in 2013, PAW Patrol currently airs in over 180 territories and in 35 languages, consistently ranking as a top-rated preschool series and reaching over 350 million households globally. The series was recently renewed for a 10th season (26 episodes) that will follow the PAW-some pack of pups, including Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, Rocky, Zuma, Everest and Tracker, on even more action-packed rescue missions and adventures--whether it's deep in the unexplored regions of the jungle or out-of-this-world trouble in Adventure Bay.
Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through its three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool franchise PAW Patrol and numerous other original shows, short-form series and feature films.
Nickelodeon, now in its 43rd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The brand includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, location-based experiences, publishing and feature films. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon is a part of Paramount's (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA) global portfolio of multimedia entertainment brands.
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Actor Ryan Reynolds interested in buying NHL’s Ottawa Senators
By Wayne Sterling, CNN
Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is interested in buying the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
“I am trying to (buy the Senators),” Reynolds told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. “It’s very expensive, so I need a partner with really deep pockets.
“It’s called a consortium, when you form a group together to buy an entity and it’s such a fancy way of saying, ‘I need a sugar mommy or a sugar daddy,’ and if that doesn’t work out, I’ll buy a US senator which anyone can afford.”
On Friday, the franchise announced “a process has been initiated for the sale” of the club.
“This was a necessary and prudent step to connect with those deeply interested parties who can show us what their vision is for the future of the team,” Senators chairman and governor Sheldon Plener said in the Friday statement.
“A condition of any sale will be that the team remains in Ottawa.”
Former long-time owner Eugene Melnyk died “peacefully” after an illness, his family and team announced in March.
Reynolds was born in Vancouver but spent time in Ottawa.
“I grew up in Vancouver which has my heart always, but I also grew up in Ottawa, Canada, as I spent a long time in Vanier, which is a little town right inside Ottawa,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds currently co-owns Wrexham AFC, a Welsh football club in England’s fifth tier, with Rob McElhenney, the creator of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
The Senators are currently last place in the Atlantic Division, sitting at 4-7-0 on the year.
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RADNOR, Pa., Dec. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Opendoor Technologies Inc. ("Opendoor") (NASDAQ: OPEN). The action charges Opendoor with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Opendoor's materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, Opendoor investors have suffered significant losses.
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CLASS PERIOD: DECEMBER 21, 2020 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
CONTACT AN ATTORNEY TO DISCUSS YOUR RIGHTS:
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Kessler Topaz is one of the world's foremost advocates in protecting the public against corporate fraud and other wrongdoing. Our securities fraud litigators are regularly recognized as leaders in the field individually and our firm is both feared and respected among the defense bar and the insurance bar. We are proud to have recovered billions of dollars for our clients and the classes of shareholders we represent.
OPENDOOR'S ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
The Class Period begins on December, 21, 2020 to coincide with the company's trading of common stock on the NASDAQ shortly after its business combination on December 18, 2020 (the "Merger"). Following the Merger, Opendoor has operated a digital platform for buying and selling residential real estate in the U.S. The company's platform features a technology known as "iBuying," which is an algorithm-based process (the "Algorithm") that purportedly enables Opendoor to make accurate market-based offers to sellers for their homes, and then flip those homes to buyers for a profit. Throughout the Class Period, Opendoor repeatedly touted the company's proprietary Algorithm, the data powering the Algorithm, the Algorithm's purported pricing accuracy, and the Algorithm's purported real-time reaction to macro- and micro-economic conditions.
Then, on September 19, 2022, citing a review of industry data, Bloomberg reported that Opendoor appeared to have lost money on 42% of its transactions in August 2022 (as measured by the prices at which it bought and sold properties). Bloomberg further reported that the data was even worse in key markets such as Los Angeles, California, where Opendoor lost money on 55% of sales, and Phoenix, Arizona, where it lost money on 76% of sales. Worse, a global real estate tech strategist interviewed by Bloomberg, Mike DelPrete, predicted that, based on his analyses, September would likely be even worse for Opendoor than August. Bloomberg's findings evidenced the failure of Opendoor's Algorithm to adjust accurately to changing market conditions. Following the Bloomberg report, Opendoor's stock price fell $0.50 per share, or 12.32%, over the following two trading sessions, to close at $3.56 per share on September 20, 2022—an 88.61% decline from the company's first post-Merger closing stock price of $31.25 per share on December 21, 2020.
According to the complaint, the offering documents for the Merger were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation. Additionally, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, the offering documents and Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Algorithm could not accurately adjust to changing house prices across different market conditions and economic cycles; (2) as a result, the company was at an increased risk of sustaining significant and repeated losses due to residential real estate pricing fluctuations; (3) accordingly, Defendants overstated the purported benefits and competitive advantages of the Algorithm; and (4) as a result, the offering documents and Defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Opendoor investors may, no later than December 6, 2022, seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Opendoor investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of all class members in directing the litigation. The lead plaintiff is usually the investor or small group of investors who have the largest financial interest and who are also adequate and typical of the proposed class of investors. The lead plaintiff selects counsel to represent the lead plaintiff and the class and these attorneys, if approved by the court, are lead or class counsel. Your ability to share in any recovery is not affected by the decision of whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff.
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More than 900 people were killed and hundreds more wounded after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, according to an official from the country's disaster management authority.
It is the deadliest quake to hit the Asian nation in decades and comes as the Taliban-ruled country is in the throes of a hunger crisis.
The shocks hit at 1:24 a.m. around 46 kilometers (28.5 miles) southwest of the city of Khost, which lies close to the country's border with Pakistan, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake registered at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), according to USGS, which designated it at yellow alert level -- indicating a relatively localized impact.
The death toll stands at more than 900 and at least 600 people have been injured, Deputy Minister for the State Ministry for Disaster Management Sharafuddin Muslem told a news conference Wednesday.
Most of the deaths were in Paktika province, in the districts of Giyan, Nika, Barmal and Zirok, according to the ministry.
In neighboring Khost province, 25 people were killed and several others were injured, and five people were killed in Nangarhar province, the disaster management authority said.
Photos from Paktika province, just south of Khost province, show houses turned to rubble with only a wall or two still standing amid the rubble, and broken roof beams.
Najibullah Sadid, an Afghan water resources management expert, said the earthquake had coincided with heavy monsoon rain in the region -- making traditional houses, many made of mud and other natural materials, particularly vulnerable to damage.
"The timing of the earthquake (in the) dark of night ... and the shallow depth of 10 kilometers of its epicenter led to higher casualties," he added.
A team of medics and seven helicopters have been sent to the area to transport injured people to nearby hospitals, Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense said in a tweet on Wednesday.
This comes as almost half the country's population -- 20 million people -- are experiencing acute hunger, according to a United Nations-backed report in May. It is a situation compounded by the Taliban seizing power in August 2021, which led the United States and its allies freezing about $7 billion of the country's foreign reserves and cutting off international funding.
The situation has crippled an economy already heavily dependent on aid. Following the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, its economy has gone into freefall with the World Bank forecasting in April that a "combination of declining incomes and increasing prices has driven a severe deterioration in household living standards."
The Taliban held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to organize providing transportation to the injured and material aid to the victims and their families, Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said.
Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund called the meeting at the country's Presidential Palace to instruct all relevant agencies to send emergency relief teams to the affected area, Mujahid said in a tweet.
"Measures were also taken to provide cash assistance and treatment," Mujahid said and added that agencies were "instructed to use air and land transport for the delivery of food, clothing, medicine and other necessities and for the transportation of the wounded."
In a tweet on Wednesday, the World Health Organization said its teams were on the ground for emergency response, including providing medicine, trauma services and conducting needs assessments.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif extended his condolences and an offer of support in a tweet on Wednesday. "Deeply grieved to learn about the earthquake in Afghanistan, resulting in the loss of innocent lives," he wrote. "People in Pakistan share the grief and sorrow of their Afghan brethren. Relevant authorities are working to support Afghanistan in this time of need."
India expressed "sympathy and condolences to the victims and their families," according to a tweet by the spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday.
Pope Francis said he was praying "for those who have lost their lives and for their families," during his weekly audience on Wednesday. "I hope aid can be sent there to help all the suffering of the dear people of Afghanistan."
Afghanistan has a long history of earthquakes, many of which happen in the mountainous Hindu Kush region that borders with Pakistan.
In 2015, a quake that shook parts of South Asia killed more than 300 people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
More than 1,000 people died in 2002 after an earthquake in the Nahrin region of northwestern Afghanistan. A powerful earthquake struck the same region in the 1998, killing about 7,000 people.
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Bug in Chase Bank online banking causing double transactions, fees
NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of Chase’s online banking services were seeing double transactions, fees and/or payments in their accounts, with the situation not immediately being resolved as of early afternoon on Friday.
Numerous Chase customers were posting on social media that their rent or bill payments were taken out of their accounts twice and reporting hold times with customer service approaching more than an hour. The New York-based bank is one of the country’s largest financial institutions with millions of online customers.
Transactions over Zelle, the bank’s own peer-to-peer payment service, were also being impacted with Chase customers.
“We’re sorry that some customers are seeing duplicate transactions and fees on their checking account,” a Chase spokesperson said. “We’re working to resolve the issue and will automatically reverse any duplicates and adjust any related fees.”
Online banking services, while usually reliable, sometimes spectacularly fail or have temporary outages that tend to spook their customers. Banks typically will resolve an error in their services within hours, and no customer is liable for any errors in their accounts that occur when these happen.
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Scientists say pollution not cause of UK mass crab deaths
LONDON (AP) — British scientists say they don’t think pollution killed thousands of crabs that washed up on beaches in northeast England in late 2021. The crustaceans were found dead or dying along more than 70 kilometers (44 miles) of coastline. Some displayed unusual “twitching” while in the throes of death. Environmentalists suspected toxins released by dredging to expand a port in Teesside, a heavily industrial area. But a panel of scientists and industry experts set up by the British government said it found no evidence pollutants were to blame. The group concluded on Friday it was “about as likely as not” that a pathogen new to U.K. waters caused the unusual die-off.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NATSO, representing America's truckstops and travel plazas, and SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers, strongly urge lawmakers to oppose the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 unless it provides tax parity between the biodiesel tax credit (BTC) and newly proposed sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) tax credit.
fuel supply. The cost of everyday household goods and home heating bills
will soar as the availability of biodiesel and renewable diesel decreases.
Aggregate greenhouse gas emissions also will increase across the
transportation sector.
Although the bill extends the biodiesel and renewable diesel tax credit, it provides a higher tax credit of up to $1.75 for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production.
A higher tax credit for SAF will undercut America's fuel supply. The cost of everyday household goods and home heating bills will soar as the availability of biodiesel and renewable diesel decreases. Aggregate greenhouse gas emissions also will increase across the transportation sector.
"This legislation purports to create a 'technology neutral' clean fuels tax scheme, which fuel retailers have long supported. Favorable treatment for SAF flies in the face of this approach," said David Fialkov, NATSO Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, speaking on behalf of NATSO and SIGMA. "SAF is less beneficial for the environment than renewable diesel and is going to cost taxpayers more. Providing more favorable tax treatment for a technology that has fewer environmental benefits undermines the intellectual integrity of the climate provisions in this bill. If special treatment for SAF was motivated by unique environmental benefits, it could fit neatly within what is otherwise a tech-neutral construct that applies to every other fuel under the bill."
The trucking industry delivers more than 80 percent of America's goods and relies on biofuels, like renewable diesel and biodiesel, to keep emissions low. If Congress passes a higher tax incentive for SAF, America's supply of biofuels will become limited and more expensive. American consumers will pay more for all goods hauled by truck.
A higher SAF tax credit also means that American taxpayers will foot the bill for another airline industry handout, just two years after their most recent billion-dollar bailout.
SAF is more energy intensive to produce and saves less carbon emissions than renewable diesel. This additional incentive for SAF will undercut and eventually eliminate America's biodiesel and renewable diesel market as disproportionate pressure is placed on feedstock. Because they compete for the same feedstock and have comparable emissions benefits, it is critical that lawmakers incentivize renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel at parity.
NATSO and SIGMA strongly urge lawmakers to oppose the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 unless it puts the environment and economy first by providing parity between the BTC and SAF.
NATSO is the trade association of America's travel plaza and truckstop industry. Founded in 1960, NATSO represents the industry on legislative and regulatory matters; serves as the official source of information on the diverse travel plaza and truckstop industry; provides education to its members; conducts an annual convention and trade show; and supports efforts to generally improve the business climate in which its members operate. For more information, visit NATSO.com.
SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers represents a diverse membership of approximately 260 independent chain retailers and marketers of motor fuel. While 67 percent are involved in gasoline retailing, 83 percent are involved in wholesaling, 56 percent transport product, 39 percent have bulk plant operations, and 20 percent operate terminals. Member retail outlets come in many forms including truckstops, traditional "gas stations," convenience stores with gas pumps, cardlocks, and unattended public fueling locations.
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MT. WASHINGTON, N.H. (WPRI) – New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast, recorded the coldest wind chill in the history of the United States on Saturday morning when an arctic air mass hit New England.
The Mount Washington Observatory recorded a new, record-low air temperature of -46.9 degrees Fahrenheit as of Saturday morning at 4:10 a.m, according to overnight summit conditions.
The previous record daily low of -32 degrees Fahrenheit was set in 1963.
The previous wind chill record was shattered overnight, when wind chills dropped to -108.4 degrees at different points on Friday night and Saturday morning. The previous record was -102.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
“Winds will also remain elevated Saturday morning, with wind speeds ranging from 100-115 mph with gusts up to 135 mph,” the observatory wrote in a summit forecast on Saturday. “Strong winds and harsh cold temperatures will continue to produce dangerously low wind chill values, with wind chill values remaining at 100 below to 110 below Saturday morning.
The record-cold temps come amid what experts call a “generational Arctic outbreak” throughout the Northeast, a branch of the National Weather Service (NWS) told CNN.
On Saturday morning, dangerously cold temperatures remained, along with wind chills that dropped to -45 to -50 degrees Fahrenheit in many areas. On Sunday, however, the frigid temperatures in the region are expected to move out, and possibly rise to the 40s.
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OSO builds on Q1 growth with the addition of new affiliated orthodontic practices
GEORGETOWN, Texas, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smile Doctors, the largest and fastest-growing ortho-focused dental support organization (OSO) in the U.S., is adding to its ever-growing list of affiliated practices with the announcement of 20 new clinics added in Q2 2022.
The addition of the 20 locations brings the total number of clinics Smile Doctors represents to 344 and includes 13 new doctors and seven new practices.
- Associated Orthodontists (Illinois)
- Charleston Orthodontic Specialists (South Carolina)
- Legler Orthodontics (Florida)
- Farina Orthodontic Specialists (Florida)
- Rothenberg Orthodontics (New Jersey)
- Lakes Orthodontics (Minnesota)
- Copus Orthodontics (Michigan)
"We are so proud to partner with so many fantastic doctors who are dedicated to our mission to create confident smiles and inspire everyone they come into contact with," said J. Hedrick, CEO of Smile Doctors. "From inception, our goal has been to create a lasting positive impact in all the communities we serve. The continuous growth we are experiencing as a brand would not be possible without the heart and hard work of our family of affiliated practices."
Founded and led by orthodontists, Smile Doctors' patient-first focus allows orthodontists do to what they do best: care for patients. By joining the Smile Doctors family, private practices benefit from economies of scale, brand identity support, access to the latest cutting-edge technology, access to operational and financial tools that make their practices more efficient and improve the bottom line, and more, enabling them to focus their attention and expertise on excellent patient experience and outcomes.
"Joining the Smile Doctors family of affiliated practices was a great decision for our practice and patients," said Dr. Mark Farina of Farina Orthodontic Specialists. "It allows my team and I to focus on providing exceptional care to our patients while giving us access to an organization that is dedicated to supporting other facets of the business. Plus, I have a platform to connect with hundreds of my peers across the country for support and ongoing innovation in orthodontics."
Continuing their commitment to being thought leaders in the category, Smile Doctors is sponsoring a variety of conferences throughout the remainder of 2022 with affiliated doctors speaking on advancements in the industry at select events, as well. Conferences at which the brand is participating include GORP, Orthopreneurs Summit, The Great Lakes Association of Orthodontists, Mother of Pearls Conference, and MSO/SAO/SWSO Annual Session.
To learn more about becoming a Smile Doctors partner, visit smiledoctorspartners.com.
About Smile Doctors, LLC
Smile Doctors, LLC, is the largest ortho-focused dental support organization (OSO) in the U.S. The organization has the fastest-growing network of leading orthodontists. With more than 340 convenient locations in 25 states, Smile Doctors has a rich history of developing and growing affiliated practices by providing tools and technology that allow their orthodontists to focus entirely on patient care. Smile Doctors is the largest network of Diamond Plus Invisalign® providers. Smile Doctors orthodontists are proud members of the American Association of Orthodontists, and American Dental Association, and host for the Lecture Center for Orthodontic Excellence. Smile Doctors' mission is to create confident smiles that inspire the best in their patients, each other, and the communities they serve. For more information, please visit: www.smiledoctors.com.
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Specific Biologics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing its proprietary two-site Dualase® platform gene editors to build a pipeline of treatments for serious genetic diseases.
TORONTO, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Specific Biologics Inc. ("Specific"), a venture-backed, early-stage genome editing company, is pleased to announce it has appointed Tirtha Chakraborty, Ph.D. and Mike Nicholson, Ph.D. to its scientific advisory board (SAB).
"We are thrilled to have Drs. Chakraborty and Nicholson join the SAB," said Brent Stead, Ph.D., MBA, CEO of Specific "Their expertise will be incredibly valuable as we advance our Dualase® gene editors toward the clinic. Together with current members Drs. David Edgell and Amy Wong, Specific has a world-class team of experts to realize the potential of Dualase gene editors for patients suffering from serious genetic diseases."
Dr. Chakraborty's deep experience in leading research groups to develop genome editing and RNA therapeutics will help Specific to reach the next stage of its development. "I am excited by the unique potential of the Dualase gene editing platform to efficiently and precisely repair disease-causing mutations in the body as this is a promising new frontier for genome editing for difficult to engineer tissue types," said Dr. Chakraborty. "The Specific team is tackling areas of acute medical need where Dualase gene editors would be well differentiated from existing treatments."
Dr. Nicholson brings strong expertise in gene editing technologies and their development for therapeutics. "I have spent many years in the field of gene editing and have seen the evolution of gene editors for clinical applications throughout my career," said Dr. Nicholson. "Dualase gene editors are an exciting advancement that help address challenges and limitations of current gene editing technologies in many therapeutic areas."
Dr. Chakraborty is currently Chief Scientific Officer of Vor Bio, an engineered hematopoietic stem cell therapy company that aims to transform the lives of cancer patients. Prior to Vor Bio, he served as the Vice President of Cell Therapy Research at Sana Biotechnology and was the Head of Hematology at CRISPR Therapeutics, where his team's work on hemoglobin disorders paved the way for the first clinical trial for the CRISPR industry. Before CRISPR, Dr. Chakraborty led synthetic mRNA platform technology research at Moderna Therapeutics.
Dr. Nicholson is currently President and Chief Operating Officer at Inceptor Bio, a company advancing a pipeline of diversified cell therapies in oncology. Previously, he spent nearly 13 years at Precision BioSciences where he held several leadership roles including Executive Director of Scientific Operations, Vice President of R&D, and Senior Vice President of Research. Dr. Nicholson played a key role in developing Precision Biosciences' novel gene editing platform and led research teams focused on allogeneic CAR-T cell therapies and gene editing-based gene therapies.
Specific Biologics Inc. ("Specific") is a venture-backed early-stage biotechnology company on a mission to develop novel gene editing technologies to treat diseases through efficient and precise genome editing. Our differentiated two-site Dualase® platform gene editors cut DNA in a way that optimally exploits the cell's naturally occurring DNA repair pathways. This enables two genome editing outcomes, precise DNA deletions to disrupt genes or increased repair to correct genes to target new therapeutic areas for genome editing. Specific is developing a pipeline of Dualase®-based therapeutics in areas of high unmet medical need. To learn more, visit www.specificbiologics.com.
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Mady Gosselin is tired of the public feeling like they are owed access to her family members because they were once reality stars.
That's part of what the now 22-year-old shared in a recent TikTok video.
Mady Gosselin is tired of the public feeling like they are owed access to her family members because they were once reality stars.
That's part of what the now 22-year-old shared in a recent TikTok video.
"This is the singular time I'm going to address this because it is sending me over the edge," she said in the video.
"The rhetoric in so many of my comments about childhood trauma and healing and whatever you want to say about my family, my life, my parents, whatever is not your business," Gosselin said. "As is the case wit every other person in the entire world it is not anybody else's business what they are dealing with behind closed doors if they don't want it to be your business."
Gosselin, her twin Cara, and their sextuplet siblings starred with their parents, Jon and Kate, starred in the TLC series "Jon & Kate Plus 8" - which later became "Kate Plus 8" after the parents split - from 2007 to 2017.
TLC is owned by CNN's parent company.
The family was also featured in the 2014 special, "Kate Plus Eight: Sextuplets Turn 10" and 2019's "Kate Plus Date."
"Perpetuating the narrative that we are damaged or that we are crazy child stars or whatever you want to say is extremely harmful as myself and my siblings are going out into the world and will be functioning members of society with careers," Mady Gosselin expressed in the video.
She also said its her choice what she chooses to share on social media and let it be known that her siblings are doing fine.
"Regardless of whatever narrative you have created in your head from what you've seen, my siblings are doing so well," Gosselin said. "They are all amazing people. They are all smart, they are all kind, they're driven students, they're working hard, they're funny, they're stylish."
In November, her 18-year-old brother Colin, who lives with their father, said in an interview he hasn't been in contact with his mother or the bulk of his siblings for years.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hurricane Fiona has knocked out power across Puerto Rico and is causing catastrophic flash flooding across the island. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers in Puerto Rico and in other areas in the path of the powerful storm about the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from portable generators and other post-storm hazards.
Loss of Power—Using a Generator Safely
Consumers need to be especially careful when storms knock out electrical power. Gasoline-powered portable generators create a risk of CO poisoning that can kill in minutes. CO is called the invisible killer because it is colorless and odorless. Exposed persons may become unconscious before recognizing the symptoms of nausea, dizziness or weakness.
CPSC estimates that about 85 consumers die in the U.S. each year from CO poisoning from gasoline-powered portable generators.* A recent CPSC report, Fatal Incidents Associated with Non-Fire Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Engine-Driven Generators and Other Engine-Driven Tools 2011-2021 shows that African Americans are at higher risk, accounting for 23 percent of generator-related CO deaths, nearly double their estimated 13 percent share of the U.S. population.
Consumers who plan to use a portable generator in the case of a power loss should follow these tips:
- Never operate a portable generator inside a home, garage, basement, crawlspace, shed or on a porch. Opening doors or windows will not provide enough ventilation to prevent the buildup of lethal levels of CO.
- Operate portable generators outside only, at least 20 feet away from the house, and direct the generator's exhaust away from the home and any other buildings that someone could enter, while keeping windows and other openings closed in the exhaust path of the generator.
- Watch our new public service announcement (PSA) on generator safety! (English, Spanish)
- Check that portable generators have had proper maintenance, and read and follow the labels, instructions, and warnings on the generator and in the owner's manual.
- Look for portable generators that shut off automatically when high levels of CO are present. Some models with CO shut-off also have reduced emissions. These models may be advertised as certified to the latest safety standards for portable generators- PGMA G300-2018 and UL 2201 – which are estimated to reduce deaths from CO poisoning by 87% and 100%, respectively.
Check CO and Smoke Alarms
- Install battery-operated CO alarms or CO alarms with battery backup on each level and outside separate sleeping areas at home. Interconnected CO alarms are best; when one sounds, they all sound.
- Make sure smoke alarms are installed on every level and inside each bedroom at home.
- Test CO and smoke alarms monthly to make sure they are working properly and replace batteries, if needed. Never ignore an alarm when it sounds. Get outside immediately. Then call 911.
Dangers with Charcoal and Candles
- Never use charcoal indoors. Burning charcoal in an enclosed space can produce lethal levels of CO. Do not cook on a charcoal grill in a garage, even with the door open.
- Use caution when burning candles. Use flashlights instead. If using candles, do not burn them on or near anything that can catch fire. Never leave burning candles unattended. Extinguish candles when leaving the room and before sleeping.
Dangers with Wet Appliances:
- Look for signs that your appliances have gotten wet. Do not touch wet appliances that are still plugged into an electrical source.
- Before using your appliances, have a professional or your gas or electric company evaluate them for safety. Replace all gas control valves, electrical wiring, circuit breakers and fuses that have been under water.
Dangers with Gas Leaks:
- If you smell or hear gas leaking, leave your home immediately and contact local gas authorities from outside the home. Do not operate any electronics, such as lights or phone, before leaving.
Remember, stay informed, be prepared and keep safe!
CPSC resources:
Link to broadcast quality video for media:
- Hurricane Safety b-roll: https://spaces.hightail.com/space/XtFQ7YqK0x
- Flood safety b-roll: https://spaces.hightail.com/space/thCBWTX157
CPSC spokespeople are available for interviews. Email nnye@cpsc.gov or call 240-204-4410 to arrange for an interview.
*Annual average for the number of reported fatal non-fire CO exposure deaths associated with generators each year from 2017-2019, the last three complete years of the full report (2011-2021). (Report/Table 3)
About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
For lifesaving information:
- Visit CPSC.gov.
- Sign up to receive our e-mail alerts.
- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram @USCPSC and Twitter @USCPSC.
- Report a dangerous product or a product-related injury on www.SaferProducts.gov.
- Call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 (TTY 301-595-7054).
- Contact a media specialist.
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The 2023 U.S. Open Odds & Preview: Mito Pereira
The field for the 2023 U.S. Open in Los Angeles, California at The Los Angeles Country Club will include Mito Pereira. The event runs from June 15-18.
Looking to bet on Pereira at the U.S. Open this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you need before you make your picks.
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Mito Pereira Insights
- Pereira has finished below par on 13 occasions, completed his day without a bogey twice and finished 14 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 20 rounds played.
- He has carded the best score of the day in one of his last 20 rounds, while scoring among the top 10 in six rounds.
- Pereira has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in seven of his last 20 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day 11 times.
- Pereira has finished in the top five once in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five events, Pereira has finished within five shots of the leader once. He posted a score that was better than average three times.
- Pereira will attempt to make the cut for the eighth straight time by qualifying for the weekend in this tournament.
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U.S. Open Insights and Stats
- Pereira did not make the cut in either of his last two trips to this event.
- Pereira missed the cut when he last played this event, which was in 2022.
- In the past year, the Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,259 yards, 164 yards shorter than the 7,423-yard par 70 for this week's tournament.
- The courses that Pereira has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,299 yards, while The Los Angeles Country Club will be 7,423 yards this week.
Pereira's Last Time Out
- Pereira finished in the 50th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the PGA Championship, with an average of 3.13 strokes.
- His 4.04-stroke average on the 48 par-4 holes at the PGA Championship was strong, putting him in the 86th percentile of the field.
- On the eight par-5 holes at the PGA Championship, Pereira shot better than 65% of the competitors (averaging 4.75 strokes).
- Pereira shot better on par 3s than most players his last time out, recording a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the PGA Championship (the other participants averaged 1.3).
- On the 16 par-3s at the PGA Championship, Pereira recorded four bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 2.8).
- Pereira's six birdies or better on the 48 par-4s at the PGA Championship were more than the field average (4.5).
- In that last competition, Pereira's performance on the 48 par-4s included a bogey or worse eight times (the field's average was worse, at 9.7).
- Pereira finished the PGA Championship outperforming the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (1.3) with two on the eight par-5 holes.
- The field at the PGA Championship averaged one bogey or worse on the eight par-5s, but Pereira finished without one.
U.S. Open Time and Date Info
- Date: June 15-18, 2023
- Course: The Los Angeles Country Club
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Par: 70 / 7,423 yards
- Pereira Odds to Win: +8000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Unfazed by scandals, Malaysia’s old party seeks win in polls
By EILEEN NG
Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s longest-serving party has promised “stability and prosperity” for the country as it seeks to regain power in next week’s general elections. Once an omnipotent force credited with developing and modernizing Malaysia, anger over government corruption led to its unimaginable defeat in 2018 polls. It bounced back two years later as part of a new government, but ties with its allies soured. Working in its favor is a fractured opposition and an electorate fed up with political turmoil, rising inflation and a slowing economy. On the flip side, the party faces a trust deficit after former Prime Minister Najib Razak and others were charged with corruption. There’s a split in its traditional Malay support base and many young new voters are undecided.
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The family of Halyna Hutchins, left, the cinematographer killed on the "Rust" movie set in 2021, and Alec Baldwin have reached an undisclosed settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the actor and others.
The family of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer killed on the "Rust" movie set in 2021, and Alec Baldwin have reached an undisclosed settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the actor and others, according to a statement released by the actor's attorney.
The lawsuit, filed in February in Santa Fe, against Baldwin, the film's production companies, its producers and other key members of the crew, alleged numerous industry standard violations.
Matthew Hutchins, widower of Halyna Hutchins who was killed on set, will be an executive producer on film and receive a portion of the profits, the statement adds.
"We have reached a settlement, subject to court approval, for our wrongful death case against the producers of Rust, including Alec Baldwin and Rust Movie Productions, LLC. As part of that settlement, our case will be dismissed. The filming of Rust, which I will now executive produce, will resume with all the original principal players on board in January 2023. I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame (to the producers or Mr. Baldwin). All of us believe Halyna's death was a terrible accident. I am grateful that the producers and the entertainment community have come together to pay tribute to Halyna's final work," Hutchins said in a statement.
"Throughout this difficult process, everyone has maintained the specific desire to do what is best for Halyna's son. We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the resolution of this tragic and painful situation," Alec Baldwin's attorney, Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel, said in a statement.
Film director Joel Souza, who was also injured in the shooting, is expected to return to the film.
"Those of us who were lucky enough to have spent time with Halyna knew her to be exceedingly talented, kind, creative, and a source of incredible positive energy. I only wish the world had gotten to know her under different circumstances, as it surely would have through her amazing work. In my own attempts to heal, any decision to return to finish directing the film could only make sense for me if it was done with the involvement of Matt and the Hutchins family. Though certainly bittersweet, I am pleased that together, we will now complete what Halyna and I started. My every effort on this film will be devoted to honoring Halyna's legacy and making her proud. It is a privilege to see this through on her behalf," Souza said in a statement.
Rust Movie Productions, LLC, attorney Spadone of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, said: "We are pleased the parties came together to resolve this matter, which, subject to court approval, marks an important step forward in celebrating Halyna's life and honoring her work."
The lawsuit also claimed the production companies and producers "cut corners" and "chose to hire the cheapest crew available," specifically noting that they "knowingly hired a wholly unqualified armorer," and required her to split time in a second role as assistant props master.
Jason Bowles, an attorney for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who served as the armorer on "Rust," said they hope the settlement is recognized as a "measure of Justice."
"Hannah is grateful that this settlement will benefit the Hutchins family and that the parties were able to constructively resolve the civil lawsuit. We are hopeful that the district attorneys office will also recognize that a measure of Justice has been achieved in regards to this tragic accident, and that they will opt not to pursue criminal charges," Bowles said.
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Teen dies after dirtbike, vehicle collide in Southwestern Kansas
MEADE CO., Kan. (WIBW) - A 15-year-old has died following a collision on a dirtbike with a vehicle along a Southwestern Kansas county road.
The Kansas Highway Patrol Crash Log indicates that around 5:20 p.m. on Monday, June 12, emergency crews were called to the area of K and 23rd Rd. near Highway 54 with reports of a 2-vehicle crash.
When officials arrived, they said they found a 1998 Kawasaki KX125 dirtbike driven by Michael M. Lowry, 15, of Meade, had been headed north as it exited a field.
At the same time, officials noted that a 2002 Dodge Ram pickup driven by Dylan B. Duesing, 27, of Meade, had been headed west on K Rd.
KHP said the pickup collided with the dirtbike.
Officials indicated that Lowry was rushed to Meade District Hospital where he was pronounced deceased by medical personnel. He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
KHP noted that Duesing escaped the crash without injury. He was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for MULN, COSM, TOPS, XPEV, and FTCH.
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Five people were injured after being shot at a trail ride concert organized by a Texas motorcycle club early Sunday.
The Smith County Sheriff's Office received a call around 12:35 a.m. alerting them to gunshot victims at an event at a large pasture in Winona "described as being a trail ride, ATV ride and horse show," the office said in a news release.
An altercation near the concert stage resulted in "one or more trail ride groups" firing shots into the crowd, witnesses told investigators. A second shooting took place when event attendees took back their guns from security personnel who had confiscated them before allowing entry into the concert, according to the news release.
A third shooting happened after law enforcement arrived, the sheriff's office said.
"At this time it is believed that all injuries took place during the original shooting incident as no new victims were located at the scene by law enforcement subsequent to the third shooting," the news release said.
Four of the people shot were transported to area hospitals, the sheriff's office said. One person who was shot in the face was airlifted to a hospital in Tyler in critical condition, according to the news release.
"Only one victim remained in the hospital early this morning and is listed in critical but stable condition," the sheriff's office said.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses and want to talk to the event promoter and security company, the news release said.
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Customers, partners, and community members gather to learn about solar energy's economic benefits
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of American Clean Power Week 2022, National Grid Renewables hosted a two-day event to educate visitors on the economic benefits that solar energy projects provide national, state, and local communities. For a short video covering the two-day event, click here.
Customers, partners, and community members first assembled for a tour of National Grid Renewables' Yellowbud Solar Project, a 274 megawatt (MW) project located in Ross and Pickaway counties, Ohio that is currently under construction.
"The Yellowbud Solar Project currently employs over 550 onsite construction workers and is anticipated to produce $90 million in tax revenue, landowner income, local spending, and charitable funding throughout the first twenty years of operation," commented Blake Nixon, President of National Grid Renewables. "Across the nation, solar energy projects like Yellowbud Solar are providing significant positive economic impact on local, statewide, and national economies."
Event guests were then invited on a tour of the First Solar manufacturing plant in Toledo, where attendees learned how First Solar modules are built, packaged, and shipped. Experts from across the industry discussed solar energy projects and the benefits they offer the economy.
"First Solar joins National Grid Renewables in celebrating a remarkable Midwestern project that sources modules that utilize U.S. technology to benefit the local community with renewable solar energy," said Georges Antoun, First Solar's Chief Commercial Officer. "A testament to the value of American solar manufacturing, the project exemplifies a sustainable energy model for the future of Ohio – as well any community that wishes to spur job growth, economic impact, and renewable energy security. The Yellowbud Solar Project is a fantastic achievement for the community, and First Solar is proud to have supplied our responsibly sourced modules to support its success."
"We appreciate the opportunity to join National Grid Renewables in commemorating American Clean Power Week and to see the incredible progress that has been made to further utilize solar power in Ohio," said Mike Gammill, Vice President for Kiewit Power Constructors Co., the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor for the Yellowbud Solar Project. "We are proud to serve as the EPC contractor and to contribute to the ongoing innovation and collaboration that is driving its success."
National Grid Renewables, part of the National Grid Ventures division of National Grid (NYSE: NGG), develops, owns, and operates large-scale renewable energy assets across the United States, including solar, wind, and energy storage. As a farmer-friendly and community-focused business, National Grid Renewables seeks to repower America's electricity grid by reigniting local economies and reinvesting in a sustainable, clean energy future. National Grid Renewables supports National Grid's vision of being at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future for all. To learn more about National Grid Renewables, visit www.nationalgridrenewables.com or follow the company on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aircastle Limited ("Aircastle") announced today that Joe Schreiner will retire from his position as Chief Technical Officer at the end of the current fiscal year, effective February 28, 2023.
Mike Inglese, Aircastle's CEO, commented, "Joe has been a foundational member of Aircastle since its earliest days. As we've progressed over many years from a start-up into a leading global aircraft leasing company, Joe has guided the vital technical oversight of our fleet. As we wish Joe a well-earned retirement, we also know the insight and mentorship he brought to our team will be difficult to replace."
Joe Schreiner joined Aircastle at its origination in 2004 as Executive Vice President, Technical and was appointed Chief Technical Officer in 2020. He began his career in aviation with McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) where he performed various technical management positions over nineteen years.
About Aircastle Limited
Aircastle Limited acquires, leases and sells commercial jet aircraft to airlines throughout the world. As of August 31, 2022, Aircastle owned and managed on behalf of its joint ventures 252 aircraft leased to 74 customers located in 45 countries.
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The user-friendly Factory Drive Recorder software from Omron lets engineers use different triggering methods to capture video around key production events and quickly identify the source of quality issues.
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. , July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry-leading automation solution provider Omron Automation Americas recently launched a new Factory Drive Recorder software that is fully compatible with the popular Omron M Series cameras. This easy-to-use solution helps engineers perform high-level corrective maintenance in the life science, automotive, semiconductor, electronics, machine tooling, and food and beverage industries.
Determining the causes of errors during production can be difficult and time-consuming due to a lack of readily available evidence leading up to and immediately following a precipitating event. Many traditional event capture systems are either too expensive to purchase or too complicated to set up, so companies must often have experts and dedicated personnel available to maintain and run them.
Factory Drive Recorder is designed to be an affordable, out-of-the-box solution that has the ability to record video up to 5 minutes before and after a designated incident based on a variety of triggers. It can monitor up to 8 cameras on a single system, allowing designers and engineers to monitor error detection at multiple locations when an incident occurs.
Engineers can utilize the following four triggering methods to prompt recording:
- Time-based (triggering every X period of time)
- Motion detection (e.g., when a door opens)
- Master image comparison
- Trigger signal (whether from a sensor, PLC, or another external source).
Factory Drive Recorder is designed to work seamlessly with Omron industrial cameras, and it has a significantly lower cost compared with traditional event capture software systems. It is compatible with the M Series GigE Vision and the M Series USB3 Vision. These cameras feature resolutions from 0.4 to 20 MP and frame rates as high as 527 FPS, including a multitude of high-end Sony Pregius sensors with Global Shutter.
Industrial professionals seeking economical and flexible event capture software to perform high-quality corrective maintenance can find more details here.
Omron Automation is an industrial automation partner that creates, sells and services fully integrated automation solutions that include sensing, control, safety, vision, motion, robotics and more. Established in 1933 and currently headed by President Yoshihito Yamada, Omron's about 30,000 employees help businesses solve problems with creativity in more than 110 countries. Learn more at http://automation.omron.com/.
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Turkey: Sweden’s extradition refusal “very negative”
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has called the refusal of Sweden’s top court to extradite a man wanted by Turkey a “very negative development,” as Ankara continues to delay Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO. Speaking Tuesday, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey’s request for the extradition of Bulent Kenes was rejected despite a memorandum signed by Turkey, Sweden and Finland. Kenes, 55, who has been granted asylum in Sweden, was the editor of the English-language Today’s Zaman newspaper, which was owned by the network linked to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Turkey blames Gulen for the failed coup in 2016 and considers his network to be a terror organization. Turkey also accuses Kenes of being among the coup plotters.
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India not planning to invite Ukraine to G20 summit in September
By ASHOK SHARMA
Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it is not planning to invite Ukraine to the G20 summit of industrialized and developing nations in September. Its external affairs minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, says Ukrainian participation in the summit is not something that India has reviewed or discussed with others. Ukraine is not a G20 member, while Russia with whom it is fighting a war is part of the grouping. The Ukraine war and the disruption in global food and fuel supplies are expected to be high on the agenda of the G20 summit in New Delhi. Indonesia invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to participate in last year’s G20 summit in Bali.
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Passport Parking now available for more than 2,000 parking spaces throughout the City
CHICO, Calif., Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In partnership with mobility software and payments company Passport, the City of Chico is introducing its first mobile payment option for parking. The Passport Parking application, powered by Passport, allows parkers to seamlessly pay for and extend their parking sessions from their smartphones. Passport's technology also enables the City to access parking insights and data and to operate more efficiently. The City of Chico will also continue to offer coin and card payment options.
Using the Passport Parking app is convenient and hassle-free. After downloading the free app from the App Store or Google Play, a user enters the respective zone number, license plate number and the desired length of time for parking. Users can receive notifications when their sessions are about to expire and view receipts and parking history directly from their smartphones.
"Passport allows us to upgrade Chico's downtown parking options and offer our residents and visitors more ways to pay for parking so that they can stroll through the City's one-of-a-kind shops, dine downtown and visit historic museums with peace of mind about parking," says Wyatt West, Project Manager. "Additionally, with Passport's technology our team is equipped to more accurately assess and respond to our current and future parking needs."
More than 800 cities, private operators and universities, including California State University, Chico, trust Passport's digital mobility platform as the only end-to-end system for managing mobile pay parking, parking enforcement, digital parking permits and mobility management. Other Northern California cities that trust Passport to manage their parking and mobility needs include Santa Rosa, Fremont and Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority.
"We are proud to bring even more innovative parking and mobility solutions to the City of Chico," says Director of Sales at Passport, Sam Warnecke. "With Passport's platform in place, the City of Chico can now join its neighboring cities and California State University, Chico, in streamlining its operations and collecting, aggregating and visualizing mobility data in one centralized location."
The Passport Parking app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. Users can also manage their parking online at passportparking.com.
About Passport
Passport is a mobility software and payments company that builds solutions to centrally manage complexities at the curb. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is trusted by more than 800 cities, universities and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Miami. Passport's mobility management platform helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure, creating more livable, equitable communities. One of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, Passport was also the 2021 Fintech category winner for the NC Tech Association's Industry Driven award.
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Pfizer COVID shots appear 73% effective in children younger than 5
(AP) - Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.
Vaccinations for babies, toddlers and preschoolers opened in the U.S. in June after months of delay. Only about 6% of youngsters ages 6 months through 4 years had gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by mid-August, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Health authorities authorized tot-sized vaccine doses made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech based on a study showing they were safe and produced high levels of virus-fighting antibodies. But there was only preliminary data on how that translated into effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19.
The new update analyzed COVID-19 diagnoses between March and June in Pfizer’s ongoing study of the three-dose vaccine. There were 21 COVID-19 cases among the 351 tots who got dummy shots -- compared to just 13 among the 794 youngsters given three vaccine doses.
The child cases primarily were caused by the BA.2 omicron version that was circulating at the time. Currently, another omicron relative, BA.5, is causing most COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and much of the world.
In older children and adults, the COVID-19 vaccines have been used long enough to prove that they remain strongly protective against severe disease and death even as the coronavirus mutates -- while early protection against infection wanes. Still, scientists track that initial effectiveness rate as extra evidence of vaccine performance and to look for signs of how they initially hold up against new mutants.
Pfizer this week asked U.S. regulators to authorize modified vaccine doses that better match the newest omicron variants for people 12 and older as boosters this fall. The company said it also is developing updated shots for kids younger than 12.
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Pet owner says 4-foot-long python has gone missing from his yard
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR/Gray News) - Residents in an Illinois neighborhood are currently on the lookout for a pet snake.
Jonathan Delaney told WIFR that his 15-year-old ball python named Bubba slithered away from his yard last weekend.
Delaney said his exotic 4-foot-long snake is missing, but neighbors shouldn’t be worried.
“He’s completely harmless,” Delaney said. “We’ve had him for 15 years. He’s never been mean and the biggest thing he’d eat is a rat.”
Fellow Edgewater resident Rhonda Hanley said she’d likely be startled if she came across Bubba. But because he’s someone’s pet, she’ll try to help find him.
“I’ll try and put something over the top of it like a blanket or a garbage can if I find him,” Hanley said.
Delaney is thankful that his neighbors are concerned enough to lend a helping hand.
“We are hoping he’s still around here and nobody harms him,” he said. “We are hoping to find him as soon as possible.”
Experts say because ball pythons prefer to be hidden most of the time the snake doesn’t appear to pose a threat to the public.
The snake can strike if it gets agitated, but those bites don’t normally require medical attention.
“The most that could happen is that the snake could take a defensive swipe,” Stephanie Stone, owner of Jurassic Reptile Supply, said. “It’s less impact than a cat scratch or a cat bite.”
Stone added that ball pythons typically don’t travel very far.
“Unless it feels the need to try to find a meal, it’s probably very close to where it was originally,” she said.
Anyone who spots Bubba has been urged to contact Delaney on social media.
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New Centers Will Empower Incarcerated Women to Successfully Transition from Prison to Today's Workforce
PHOENIX, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Televerde Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides personal and professional development opportunities to incarcerated women so they can attain meaningful and rewarding careers upon release, officially announced the graduation of the inaugural class of their three new Career PATHS Workforce Development Centers within the Indiana Department of Correction. One center resides within the Indiana Women's Prison, the second within the Rockville Correctional Facility, and the third within the Madison Correctional Facility. Construction of the Indiana centers was made possible by support and sponsorship from Aventiv Technologies, a leading technology company driving efforts to bridge the digital divide with technologies that support rehabilitative justice, and a U.S. Department of Labor Federal Pathways Home 3 Grant. Aventiv Technologies has been a longtime Televerde Foundation partner and Televerde client, providing career opportunities to incarcerated women in Indiana since 2020. Through these partnerships, Aventiv helps to accelerate professional and personal opportunities for justice-impacted women.
"We're excited to expand Televerde Foundation's Career PATHS Workforce Development Centers in the Indiana Department of Correction and replicate our success in Arizona. Thanks to Aventiv Technologies' generous donation and the company's ongoing commitment to second chances, reentry, and rehabilitative efforts, we could do this much sooner than we expected," said Michelle Cirocco, CEO of Televerde Foundation. "Each year, our Career PATHS program will provide 150 women in Indiana with a combination of best practice models and outcomes in education, certified and accredited curricula, and reputable life skills and business training to enable them to realize their full potential; take care of themselves, their families, and their children; and never go back to prison."
Televerde's Career PATHS Workforce Development Centers give women the skills needed to join the professional workforce, eliminating one of the most significant barriers for formerly incarcerated individuals when they return home. Career PATHS is a robust prison-to-workforce reentry program that provides end-to-end wrap-around services for currently and formerly incarcerated women. The women participating in this program are less than 12 months from their release dates and at a critical point to start preparing for reintegration into the community. The foundation's first Career PATHS Workforce Development Center opened in May 2021 inside the Arizona Department of Corrections Perryville. To date, 450 women have participated in the Foundation's Career PATHS and Reentry program, with 97 percent earning employment within 29 days of release with average starting salaries of $41,664.
"We chose to partner with Televerde and work alongside the foundation because we know how vital reentry resources are to planning for a successful second chance and empowering individuals and communities for better futures. We are pleased to work with Televerde to boost the impact of their programs for incarcerated women and expand the tools they provide to overcome the many systemic barriers that impact reentry outcomes," said Dave Abel, President and CEO of Aventiv Technologies. "Aventiv is proud to support the Televerde Foundation and is thrilled to see three Career PATHS Workforce Development Centers now available to help incarcerated women in Indiana find employment opportunities and develop the professional skills they need to succeed and thrive in their communities."
The opening of the new Indiana Career PATHS centers will be celebrated with a formal graduation ceremony, official presentations by the graduates, and testimonials from program partners and community leaders emphasizing the importance of education and workforce development in reducing recidivism. For access to event soundbites and b-roll footage and to request media interviews, email kellie.walenciak@televerde.com.
Supporting Quotes
"Programs like this provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to gain valuable work experience while in prison which increases their chances of being successful when they are released." -- Christine Blessinger, deputy commissioner of Re-Entry and Youth Services
About Televerde Foundation
Televerde Foundation's mission is to provide women impacted by incarceration with the personal and professional development programs necessary to join and advance in the global workforce successfully. We seek to enable women to break the cycle of poverty and recidivism by becoming financially independent, positive role models for their children and families, thereby changing the lives of future generations and building stronger communities. Learn more: https://www.televerdefoundation.org/.
About Aventiv Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Aventiv Technologies serves more than 3,450 public safety, law enforcement, and corrections agencies and over 1,100,000 incarcerated individuals across North America. Aventiv is committed to serve and connect by providing emergency response, incident management, public information, investigation, biometric analysis, communication, information management, incarcerated self-service, and monitoring products and services in order to make our world a safer place to live. For more information, please visit www.Aventiv.com. Aventiv is a portfolio company of Platinum Equity. Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with a portfolio of approximately 40 operating companies that serve customers around the world.
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Pony Cars Forever Stamps Issued at the Great American Stamp Show
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service issued its Pony Cars Forever stamps at the Great American Stamp Show today.
"My mother had a 1970 Mustang with a 351 cubic inch V8," said Scott Bombaugh, the Postal Service's chief technology officer and executive vice president, who served as the dedicating official. "My brother learned to drive in that car, but by the time I was ready to drive, my parents sold the Mustang and had a Pinto wagon. Is it any wonder I have bought two Mustang GTs since then?"
Joining Bombaugh at the dedication were Scott English, executive director of the American Philatelic Society; Greg Breeding, the stamp's art director; Zach Bryant, the stamp's designer; and Tom Fritz, the stamp's artist.
"If you don't collect cars on stamps today, the Pony Cars Forever stamps will be a great way to start," English said. "Since the 1960s, the Camaro, Mustang and Challenger have been at the top of the dream car list for generations of young drivers. The Pony Cars Forever stamps will let you relive one of the most exciting eras of cars or fulfill the dream of owning one."
"The USPS team was incredible to work with," said Fritz. "Having had the keys thrown at me to create a second-stamp series was humbling. My challenge was to create five jewel-like, descriptive portrayals that every person who fell in love with this era can appreciate. The adventure isn't just painting the cars' details but capturing their emotion and power – cars don't just 'sit there'. They hunker down, they lurch, they shake, they shimmy and skitter. Those are the thrilling moments I look for."
Over the past six decades, fast and fun pony cars have become a uniquely American obsession. Since their emergence, these performance coupes and convertibles have brought a youthful spirit to the automotive world.
These stamps celebrate five iconic U.S. automobiles — the 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302, the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, the 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, the 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 GT and the 1969 AMC Javelin SST. Painted using oil paint on panels, the stamp artwork, with bold colors and dramatic light, captures the energy and mystique of pony cars.
In the mid-to-late 20th century, American automakers began catering to a segment of their customer base that was rapidly growing — younger drivers. They craved sporty, affordable cars that looked and felt different from what was in their parents' garages. Several manufacturers initially produced models that fit that description, but the pony car trend didn't begin in earnest until 1964.
Pony cars were hot. But in truth, the new classification of vehicle didn't have a name until Car Life editor Dennis Shattuck is thought to have given it one. Inspired by the Ford Mustang, he coined the term "pony cars" to describe the customizable automobiles that were becoming wildly popular.
More recently, automakers have reintroduced many of the beloved models first launched in the genre's heyday. Today, adventurous young — and young-at-heart — drivers enjoy the thrill of driving pony cars.
The Pony Cars Commemorative Forever pane of 20 stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1- ounce price.
News of the Pony Cars stamps is being shared with the hashtag #PonyCarsStamps.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy technology industry press releases from PR Newswire, including new OLED TVs from LG and tips for staying safe from scammers using ChatGPT.
NEW YORK, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the business technology industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- LG Begins U.S. Rollout of 2023 OLED TV Lineup LG's latest OLED TVs elevate the viewing experience with self-lit picture quality, powerful image processing technologies, and an upgraded webOS platform providing even more smart features, as well as access to an ever-increasing library of lifestyle services.
- Norton Consumer Cyber Safety Pulse Report: Scammers Up Their Game With New AI Tools Here's what you need to know to stay safe from cybercriminals using ChatGPT to create deepfake chatbots, phishing campaigns, and malware.
- UScellular Encourages Disconnecting on National Day of Unplugging
The Phones Down For 5 challenge asks people to voluntarily stop using their phone to reveal how addicted they are to it. The challenge is built on a simple action: taking a phone break for 5 days, 5 hours, or even just 5 minutes, to reset your relationship with technology. - MultiversX Labs launches xPortal, the first Super App to reimagine digital finance, AI avatars, chat, opening Web3 and Metaverse experiences to everyone
"xPortal's ability to make Web3 and the Metaverse accessible to any smartphone user in the world shifts the entire conversation around all-accessible digital experiences from a distant vision of the future into a reality today," said Sergiu Biris, MultiversX Labs Head of Product. - Opera announces collaboration with OpenAI to realize AIGC Ambitions
This will allow the Oslo-based browser company to reshape the upcoming versions of its PC and mobile browsers towards the needs of the future versions of the Web. Opera browser users will be able to benefit from everything AI-backed browsing has to offer. - ArcBest Launches Revolutionary Freight Movement Technology
Vaux enables the entire contents of a trailer to be unloaded in under five minutes and offers complete visibility into freight movement within warehouse facilities, on the dock and over the road. It creates extreme efficiencies and orchestrates seamless warehouse operations. - Quizlet Launches 'Q-Chat,' AI Tutor Built with OpenAI API
Q-chat automatically quizzes students and helps deepen their knowledge of whatever concepts they are learning in a conversational and engaging way. - MobileX Officially Launches as the Most Customizable Wireless Service Solely Designed to Save Consumers Money
MobileX's unique app-based service utilizes AI to predict how much data customers need, delivering a dramatic reduction in cost while ensuring reliable speed and service.
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Mobile World Congress News
In addition to the popular releases above, we also saw a number of announcements hit the wire this week related to Mobile World Congress, which kicked off on Monday in Barcelona. Here are a few of those releases:
- GSMA MWC Barcelona 2023 Opens its Doors
Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA, said in his welcoming keynote. "Whether you're a mobile operator, a start-up, a large traffic originator or a public sector body, there has never been a more exciting and rewarding time to be involved in this industry." - Mercedes-Benz AG Partners with Cisco to Drive Hybrid Work Innovation in Automotive New Mercedes-Benz E Class vehicles will be equipped with Webex Meetings and Calling and utilize Webex AI audio capabilities to enable greater flexibility for the hybrid workforce – while putting safety at the forefront.
- Deloitte Unveils Unlimited Reality™ Immersive Experience Platform 'Mirror World' at Mobile World Congress
With "Mirror World," Deloitte booth visitors, as well as those not attending the event, will be able to speak with Deloitte subject matter specialists and learn more about AI-meets-metaverse use cases.
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PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Four people fell off a Southern California ocean cliff before dawn Monday and a man was killed and two women were critically injured, authorities said.
The fourth person, a man who suffered minor injuries, managed to climb back up from the beach below and alert a passing officer at about 4:30 a.m., said Capt. Steve Barber of the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department.
A 25-year-old man from Los Angeles died at the scene, Barber said. Two women were airlifted from the beach and each hospitalized in critical condition, he said.
TV news helicopters showed a Los Angeles County Fire Department helicopter hoisting one of the victims to a rescue vehicle at the top of the cliff.
Police were investigating the event as an accident, Barber said.
The man who survived, 25-year-old Vincent Avila of Los Angeles, was hospitalized with broken ribs and minor kidney damage, KNBC-TV reported.
“This is a miracle,” his mother, Irma, told the news station.
Her son told her that the four friends went to the cliffs Sunday night to hike and hang out. She said when one of the women went to relieve herself in the dark, she slipped and fell. The other three sat at the edge trying to find her in the dark, and they slipped too.
Palos Verdes Estates is on the Palos Verdes Peninsula at the southern end of Los Angeles County. A trail runs along the bluff top about 300 feet (91 meters) above the Pacific Ocean.
There have been several accidents in the area over the years, Barber said, and a few suicides.
“There’s no indication at this point that this was anything other than an accident,” he said.
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Henlius (2696.HK) announced its 2022 interim results. As a global innovative biopharmaceutical company, Henlius is committed to offering high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to patients worldwide with 5 products launched in China, 1 in global, 13 indications approved and 4 New Drug Applications (NDAs) now accepted by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), focusing on oncology, autoimmune diseases, ophthalmic diseases, etc. In the first half of 2022, Henlius revenue reached approximately RMB1.289 billion, representing an increase of 103.5% YoY, which mainly benefited from the sales revenue and licensing revenue brought by the successive commercialisation of various products. While promoting the commercialisation of products at full speed, Henlius continued increasing innovation and research and development. In the first half of 2022, the company's R&D expenditure reached approximately RMB827.4 million.
Wenjie Zhang, Chairman, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Henlius, remarked: "In the first half of 2022, we worked as one to navigate the challenges of the pandemic, spared no effort to ensure operation, went all out to meet patient needs, and delivered robust growth in performance. It was a key six months for Henlius to evolve from biotech to biopharma. We launched the first innovative product HANSIZHUANG. We joined hands with Organon to achieve a breakthrough in out-licensing. We doubled commercial capacity to 48,000L. We presented ES-SCLC data of HANSIZHUANG in oral on ASCO. Going forward, we will continue to focus on clinical needs to bring more products to patients worldwide."
Accelerated sales growth in the Chinese market, comprehensive layout of the global commercialisation network
Henlius has launched 5 products in China, which have been widely recognized for their excellent quality, safety and clinical efficiency, and have established a certain brand presence in the field. The company has established a professional and efficient commercialisation team with more than 800 professionals for core products in tumour and immunotherapy and steadily advances the commercialisation of various products, actively improves accessibility, and provides high-quality clinical services with solid professional knowledge and efficient response speed to maximize the benefits of patients.
In the first half of 2022, Henlius' core anti-tumour product, HANQUYOU (trastuzumab, Zercepac® in Europe, Tuzucip® and Trastucip® in Australia) has recorded a steady growth in sales across China and Europe market, with domestic sales revenue reaching approximately RMB800.2 million, an increase of 178.2% YoY. Overseas sales revenue recorded RMB12.5 million approximately, while revenues from overseas licensing recorded RMB2.4 million, both are based on the collaboration with Accord. Up to now, HANQUYOU has been launched in more than 30 countries including China, the United Kingdom (UK), France, Germany, Switzerland, and Australia. It is the first product commercialized by the company's in-house commercial team in the Chinese market. With 150mg/60mg dual specifications, no preservatives and other differentiated advantages, HANQUYOU meets the flexible clinical needs of medication, and can be used immediately without residual liquid storage. It has been widely recognized by clinicians, patients and the industry. So far, the product has benefited more than 70,000 patients in China.
HANSIZHUANG (serplulimab) is Henlius' first self-developed innovative monoclonal antibody and the fifth product launched into the market. In March 2022, HANSIZHUANG was approved by the NMPA for the treatment of microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) solid tumours. By the end of June 2022, HANSIZHUANG sales revenue recorded RMB76.9 million. Meanwhile, the NDAs of HANSIZHUANG in combination with chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of ES-SCLC and for the first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (sqNSCLC) have been accepted by the NMPA. The phase 3 clinical study of HANSIZHUANG in combination with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with locally advanced/metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma also met the co-primary endpoints. The company plans to submit the NDA for this indication in the second half of 2022.
HANLIKANG (rituximab) is the first biosimilar in China. It is also the rituximab with the most approved indications in China. It has benefited more than 130,000 Chinese patients since its launch to the market. The domestic commercial sales of HANLIKANG is being handled by Jiangsu Fosun. In the first half of 2022, HANLIKANG received a profit-sharing of RMB272.1 million from the partner and licensing revenue of RMB9.3 million. In February 2022, HANLIKANG has been approved for the new indication for the treatment of adult patients with moderately- to severely-active rheumatoid arthritis. By providing low-frequency dosing and long-lasting efficacy, it can improve the quality of life for a wide range of patients.
In the first half of 2022, Henlius has closed over multiple out-licensing deals for Henlius' four biosimilars on the market and other products in development. Through commercial collaborations with overseas pharmaceutical companies, the company aimed to further promote the entry of self-developed products into the global market. In the first half of 2022, Henlius has collaborated with Getz Pharma, Eurofarma and Abbott to bring HANDAYUAN, HANLIKANG, HANQUYOU and HANBEITAI to 27 emerging market countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Brazil respectively. In June 2022, Henlius entered into a license and supply agreement with Organon for the exclusive commercialisation of Henlius' independently developed HLX11 (pertuzumab biosimilar) and HLX14 (denosumab biosimilar) in ex-China countries, covering mature markets such as the United States (US), the European Union (EU) and Japan, as well as a number of emerging markets. Under the agreement terms, Henlius may receive up to a total of USD541 million including a USD73 million upfront payment.
"Self-developed products + license in", steady progress in innovative R&D layouts
The first half of 2022 saw Henlius continue its innovation and R&D initiatives, reaching 10 important milestones in clinical trials, approving 5 products and 2 combination therapies. Up to now, Henlius has accumulatively obtained more than 70 clinical trial approvals worldwide, and conducted over 20 clinical trials in China, the EU, Australia and other countries and regions.
Henlius has actively expanded its differentiated advantages for HANSIZHUANG and has launched 11 clinical trials of combination therapy worldwide, covering a wide range of high-incidence and large tumour types such as lung cancer, esophageal cancer, head and neck cancer, and gastric cancer, with over 3,100 patients enrolled globally. The company has comprehensively deployed the first-line treatment of lung cancer, carried out a phase 3 multi-centre clinical trial, also known as ASTRUM-005, for the indication of ES-SCLC in research centres in China, Turkey, Poland, Georgia and other countries, and enrolled more than 30% of the Caucasian population. The clinical trial data of ASTRUM-005 were first presented as an oral presentation at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In April 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan-Drug Designation (ODD) for HANSIZHUANG for the treatment of small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Based on the positive feedback of FDA Biologics license Application (BLA) submission for HANSIZHUANG for the treatment of ES-SCLC and the discussion results of the FDA's Class C consultation meeting, Henlius is planning to soon carry out a bridging study in the US and expected to submit BLA to FDA by the end of 2023. At present, there is no anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody approved for the first-line treatment of SCLC in the world. HANSIZHUANG is expected to become the world's first anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody for the first-line treatment of SCLC and to fill the clinical gap in the first-line treatment of SCLC with PD-1 inhibitors in the next five years.
As of the first half of 2022, HLX11 (pertuzumab biosimilar) and HLX14 (denosumab biosimilar) developed by Henlius independently has successfully completed the first subject dosing in its phase 3 clinical studies. Recently, HLX14 received clinical trial approval in Australia for the phase 3 multicentre clinical study. Moreover, first patient in Australia and the EU country Latvia was dosed in a global multicentre phase 3 clinical trial of HLX04-O, a recombinant anti-VEGF humanised monoclonal antibody injection jointly developed by the company and Essex. It has also received approval for conducting clinical trials in several countries and regions, including China, the US, the EU and Singapore. In the first half of 2022, HLX208 (BRAF V600E inhibitor) and HLX07 (anti-EGFR mAb) have entered into the phase 2 clinical trial which has the potential to create synergies with multiple products in the company's own pipeline.
In addition, the company continues to make every effort to promote LAG-3, TIGIT, 4-1BB, GARP and other innovative target products into the clinical research stage. The potential first-in-class HLX301 (anti-PD-L1×TIGIT BsAb) and HLX35 (anti-EGFR×4-1BB BsAb) has dosed the first subject in its phase 1 clinical studies in Australia and China, respectively. The investigational new drug applications (IND) of HLX53 (anti-TIGIT Fc fusion protein) and HLX26 (anti-LAG-3 mAb), both developed independently by Henlius, have been approved by the NMPA for the treatment of advanced/metastatic solid tumours or lymphomas.
Synergising the Innovation centres in China and the US, the company continues to strengthen translational medicine capabilities, with antibody technology as the core, combined with novel coupling techniques to vigorously construct various forms of antibody conjugated platform and promote differentiated innovation, and strive to meet unmet clinical needs. Henlius has also expanded its pipeline of innovative potential targets through in-licensing and partnerships. In the first half of 2022, the company has entered a strategic collaboration with Palleon Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize two bifunctional sialidase programs which will further enhance the company's competitiveness in the global oncology field.
Double the production capacity to boost market expansion with an integrated production platform
Henlius has been building an integrated and comprehensive production platform to further consolidate the company's entire industrial chain layout. The current total commercial production capacity has reached 48,000 liters, and the total production capacity in 2026 is expected to reach 144,000 liters. In the first half of 2022, the company continued scaling up production capacity. Songjiang First Plant was approved for the commercial production of HANQUYOU and has been officially put into operation, which effectively ensures market penetration and forms synergy with the Xuhui Facility with a commercial production capacity of 24,000 liters. The company's commercial production facility and supporting quality management system have been certificated by China and the EU GMP. They have also passed on-site inspections and audits conducted by the NMPA, European Medicines Agency, the EU Qualified Person, and international business partners. The 5 launched products are now available for commercial production, and can be stably supplied in the Chinese and the EU markets.
In order to meet the global commercial production needs, the company is constructing the Songjiang Second Plant, with a total capacity of 96,000 liters in the first phase. The designed production capacity for the first and second stages of the first phase is a total of 36,000 liters, and the first engineering run of the Songjiang Second Plant project is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The designed production capacity of the third stage of the first phase is 60,000 liters. The piling work has been completed. The main structure is expected to be topped out in 2023. In the future, the company will continue delivering products with "Henlius Quality" based on international standards, ramping up capacity progress in a bid to build competitiveness with economics of scale, and driving cost reduction and efficiency by lean operation, thus spurring the evolution to Biopharma.
Henlius has always been patient-centred, continuously promoting the construction of the entire industry chain platform, enhancing the ability to integrate research, production and sales, and accelerating the company's evolution to Biopharma. In the future, the company will continue to deepen global innovation, expand production capacity, empower the commercialisation process, and bring more and better treatment options to patients around the world.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to allow the entire contents of a lotion bottle to be dispensed with ease and minimal effort," said an inventor, from Toledo, Wash., "so I invented the LOTION RETRIEVER. My design would help to prevent product waste and the tedious task of tilting or turning lotion bottles upside down."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved way to utilize the entire contents of a bottle of lotion. In doing so, it eliminates the need to shake or scrape the bottle. As a result, it increases efficiency and convenience and it helps to prevent waste. The invention features a simple and effective design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Seattle sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-FED-2364, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of complex challenges, including a lack of funding and political will as well as rising insecurity linked to extremist groups al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Burkina Faso, are obstructing progress on Africa’s Great Green Wall, according to experts involved in the initiative.
There have been some modest gains for the project, which plans to build an 8000-kilometer (4970-mile) long forest through 11 nations across the width of Africa to hold back the ever-growing Sahara Desert and fend off climate change impacts, but many involved with the plan are calling for renewed momentum to combat both insecurity and environmental decline.
Just 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of land has been afforested since work on the Green Wall began 15 years ago — a mere 4% of the program’s ultimate goal.
Adama Doulkom, the coordinator for the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative in Burkina Faso, said political instability and security issues are significantly stalling progress in nearly 4,000 villages across the country.
“Terrorist attacks in the affected regions have forced populations to disperse. This limits people’s movements, making it hard for us to directly monitor field actions which could lead to difficulty in creating improvements in certain areas,” Doulkom said.
In the last three years Burkinabe’s Sahel, north and east regions have become inaccessible. Much of the Sahelian region designated for the Green Wall is rife with security issues, with efforts in Sudan, Ethiopia, Mali, Chad, Niger and Nigeria all impacted.
The United Nation’s desertification agency said the plan has several additional challenges to overcome, such as lukewarm high-level political support, weak organizational structures, insufficient coordination and financing, and not enough consideration in national environmental priorities.
The Great Green Wall featured prominently at the U.N. agency’s two-week summit in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, which wrapped up Friday. Desertification, which has severe impacts on food production and security, is exacerbated by climate change and agricultural activity.
First proposed in 2005, the program aims to plant a forest all the way from Senegal on the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti in the east. It’s hoped the initiative will create millions of green jobs in rural Africa, reduce levels of climate-related migration in the region and capture hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Several countries have struggled to keep up with the demands of the project, with Mali, Nigeria, Djibouti and Mauritania in particular lagging behind.
The U.N. desertification agency says up to 45% of Africa’s land is impacted by desertification, making it more vulnerable than any other continent. The agency’s director, Ibrahim Thiaw, believes that can have multiple negative effects on surrounding communities, including security concerns.
A report released Sunday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute also noted the link between environmental degradation and conflict. “In the Sahel, social tensions combined with inadequate governance and environmental decline to produce a bigger security risk,” it said.
“By restoring land, you reduce conflicts and irregular migration. There is a link between land restoration and irregular migration,” said Ibrahim Thiaw. “Land restoration is a no-regrets option in that any effort to recover soil health, replenish natural capital and restore land health will deliver benefits that far exceed the costs.”
“What we are calling for now is action to accelerate the implementation of such a program to make sure that farmers, pastoralists, local communities and women are all associated with it,” he added.
Despite a multitude of setbacks, those involved in the project remain optimistic. The coordinator of the Great Green Wall, Elvis Tangem, told the Associated Press that while conflict has slowed down the progress of the project, it has also opened up newer opportunities.
“It started as an environmental project but the dynamics of the region have made us look beyond the ecological aspects of the project and to embrace direct community concerns such as conflict resolution, peace building, youth development, women empowerment and rural development especially among pastoralists and farming communities,” he said.
Some progress has been made in recent years in the east of the continent, according the the program’s coordination office in Addis Ababa.
Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan have all expanded their efforts, with Ethiopia producing 5.5 billion seedlings leading to thousands of hectares of restored land as well as an uptick in job creation. Efforts in Eritrea and Sudan have also resulted in nearly 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres) of afforestation.
Niger is also hailed for making considerable progress.
“In terms of measurable restoration milestones on the ground, Niger can be said to be far ahead of most of the countries with significant citizen awareness and contributing reforestation activities at all levels,” said Tabi Joda, a Great Green Wall ambassador. “More communities are embracing the initiative and taking the lead through their own community led solutions.”
Joda, who heads up youth mobilization for the project, noted that the scheme has seen strong governmental support in Senegal and Nigeria.
Between $36 and $43 billion are needed to realize the Green Wall by 2030, according to estimates by the World Resources Institute. The African Development Bank pledged approximately $6.5 billion for the wall by 2025 during the U.N.’s climate conference in November last year following an effort led by France in early 2021 which committed $14.5 billion towards the project, falling significantly short of the WRI’s estimate.
The U.N. desertification agency says the current land restoration pace must be ramped up to an average of 8.2 million hectares (20 million acres) per year if the project is to achieve its self-imposed goal of 100 million hectares (247 million acres) restored by 2030.
“Investments must be intentional to deliver opportunities that create the right dose of green jobs needed by the critical mass of youths and communities vulnerable to irregular migration and violence due to competition over scarce resources caused by land degradation,” Tabi Joda said.
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Wanjohi Kabukuru reported from Mombasa, Kenya.
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Teamster Service Workers Call Out Worker Abuse at Big 10 Black Alumni Conference
CHICAGO, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the weekend, University of Minnesota (UMN) workers represented by Teamsters Local 320 attended BANboree, the inaugural Big 10 Black Alumni Network Conference in Chicago, to call on school administrators to end worker abuse at the university.
With significant assistance from Chicago-area Teamsters and Teamsters Joint Council 25, the workers distributed leaflets and spoke with many Big 10 alumni about their struggle to get UMN to address their concerns regarding poverty-level wages, discrimination, food insecurity and homelessness. The leaflets and banners read, "UMN: Worker Abuse Doesn't Belong in the Big 10."
Local 320 represents custodians, dormitory attendants, food service workers, animal research caregivers, and members at the five main UMN campuses. Many of the workers are Black, including immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and other east African countries.
"It's disgusting that a major university like the University of Minnesota, which is paying its president over $1 million every year and has excess revenues of almost $1 billion each year, has workers who can't afford to buy groceries or cover the cost of rent," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "We are supporting our brothers and sisters in this fight for a fair contract, no matter the costs."
According to a recent survey of more than 450 current and former UMN service workers, over 62 percent reported not earning enough money to pay for basic expenses every month. Almost 12 percent reported experiencing homelessness at least one time while working at the university and 19 percent reported sometimes being hungry but not eating because they did not have enough money for food.
A recent study on staff compensation conducted by the UMN Office of Human Resources shows that job salaries for campus operations positions are, on average, 13 percent below the market median and 74.5 percent of workers' salaries are below the market salary median.
Sandra Johnson has been a building and grounds worker at UMN for over twenty years.
"I've worked here for many years, and it's still a struggle to afford rent and pay the bills," said Johnson. "It's time for university administrators to answer the call to address the needless pain and suffering they are inflicting on their frontline workers' families and our communities."
The survey results also indicate that UMN workers are concerned about discriminatory treatment in the workplace. Twenty-eight percent of workers of color "strongly agree" or "agree" that their race, nationality, or ethnic group affects the way university supervisors treat them. Almost 50 percent of female and non-binary workers report that university supervisors discriminate against workers based on their race, nationality, gender, religion, disability, or sexual orientation at least some of the time.
"The University of Minnesota is one of our state's most respected and treasured institutions," said Brian Aldes, Local 320 Secretary-Treasurer. "But until the university's current administration moves beyond marketing campaigns and makes a real commitment to supporting its diverse workforce of 1,500 frontline workers and addressing their concerns, the university will never reach its true potential."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
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Despite shakeup at the Fed, a rate hike in September is likely
By Bryan Mena, CNN
Washington, DC (CNN) — Some Federal Reserve officials are already advocating for two consecutive rate hikes starting this month to ensure inflation’s defeat, but will their sway hold amid a shakeup at the Fed committee that decides interest rates?
Probably.
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, the Fed’s most hawkish voice, announced Thursday he is stepping down in August. Economist Adriana Kugler, known for her dovish posture, is likely to win Senate confirmation for a governor role at the central bank.
While a July rate hike has been baked in for some time, the Fed’s decision in September isn’t as clear and plenty of data will be released until then.
What is clear, however, is that the Fed chair historically has a major influence in the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s monetary policymaking arm. Fed Chair Powell has said the Fed still has more work to do, and he himself hasn’t ruled out back-to-back rate hikes. The central bank has a tradition of collegiality, meaning that although officials debate their views, they still respect the view of the majority. That’s why the vote in June was unanimous, despite the debating that was evident from the meeting minutes, released earlier this month.
Right now, it seems like the hawks outnumber the doves.
Why the bias is toward hiking in September
Fed Governor Christopher Waller, who has a permanent vote on the Fed committee that decides interest rates, doubled down late last week on the widely held view among Fed officials that two more rate hikes are needed this year.
“Since the June meeting, with another month of data to evaluate lending conditions, I am more confident that the banking turmoil is not going to result in a significant problem for the economy, and I see no reason why the first of those two hikes should not occur at our meeting later this month,” Waller said at a Money Marketeers of New York University forum on Thursday.
But he also suggested that the Fed prefers to get rate hikes over with as soon as possible.
“From there, I will need to see how the data come in,” he said. “If inflation does not continue to show progress and there are no suggestions of a significant slowdown in economic activity, then a second 25-basis-point [quarter-point] hike should come sooner rather than later, but that decision is for the future.”
In other words, if inflation’s slowdown stalls, the labor market remains strong by historical standards and if the economy’s expansion cools only marginally, it would be best to rip the bandage off and hike in September.
The longer inflation remains elevated, “the greater the risk of inflation expectations becoming unanchored,” according to the minutes from the June meeting. That means there’s a dangerous risk Americans could simply begin to accept permanently higher prices if inflation doesn’t come down soon.
The Fed is overwhelmingly expected to raise its key federal funds rate later this month after it paused in June after 10 straight rate hikes. Officials voted to hold rates steady at a range of 5-5.25% to reassess the economy’s health, but mostly over uncertainty about how bank stresses from the spring would affect access to credit.
The minutes from that meeting showed officials weren’t as united in their decision, even though they eventually voted to pause unanimously. So far, most officials have signaled that the bias is toward a hike in July, after they voted to hawkishly pause last month.
But the decision in September will be a difficult one because the Fed will have to decide whether to get its second hike out of the way or wait for worse signs that inflation is not on track to hit the central bank’s target of 2%. And officials have made clear they want inflation to come down as soon as possible.
So will Kugler’s addition to the FOMC convince the hawks that a hike in September isn’t necessary? Kugler is a labor economist, so she’s well attuned to the Fed’s employment mandate. But she also recognizes that the focus right now is on inflation.
“I truly believe that both sides of the mandate are very important,” she told lawmakers last month during her confirmation hearing. “Right now, the inflation side is critical.”
A data-dependent Fed
Concerns with bank stresses weighing too heavily on credit have largely faded, and credit conditions have not substantially tightened since the collapse of three regional banks earlier this year. Some of the nation’s top banks reported blockbuster second-quarter earnings last week, and the Fed’s Beige Book showed that access to credit hasn’t contracted drastically.
That’s given Fed officials some reassurance that they can press ahead, making the likelihood of a rate hike in September a growing possibility — but, of course, it all depends on what economic indicators ultimately reveal in the coming months.
On the inflation front, officials are squarely focused on core inflation and other sub-measures such as services inflation excluding energy services and housing costs. Those haven’t decelerated as fast as the headline number. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index — the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge — rose 3.8% in May from a year earlier, down from April’s 4.3% increase. Meanwhile, the core measure only edged lower to 4.6% from 4.7%, though it landed at its lowest point since October 2021.
If core inflation continues to moderate only slightly, Fed officials might just want to get the second rate hike over with.
The tight labor market also continues to be a source of inflationary pressure, so officials need to it slow further. Between 70,000 and 100,000 job gains are needed a month to keep up with population growth, so job gains close to that range would signal that the labor market has finally pumped the brakes. Employers added 209,000 jobs in June, so if officials were to consider not hiking, the August jobs report would have to be close to that range.
The FOMC next meets on July 25-26, with an announcement on rate hikes due at 2 p.m. ET that Wednesday and a press conference from Chair Powell at 2:30 p.m.
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Patients seeking PRP therapy for COVID-related hair loss, but does it work?
By Megan DeLaire, CTVNews.ca writer
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — The list of ways a COVID-19 infection disrupts the body’s natural functions is long and diverse, and, as Viktorya Skrypnyk’s clients have come to learn, includes hair loss.
Skrypnyk is a registered nurse who owns and operates VBeauty Spa, a medical aesthetic clinic in Toronto. The last two years have sent a parade of people through the doors of her clinic struggling with hair loss they say began after a COVID-19 infection.
“Lately, I do see that there’s people that are coming in that have no history of hair loss in the family, no history of alopecia that are developing these symptoms of alopecia within last few years,” she told CTVNews.ca on Friday. “Most of them are saying that they generally noticed an increase in the year loss specifically after acquiring COVID.”
Multiple published studies have shown COVID infections can trigger a type of hair shedding called telogen effluvium (TE). With TE, thinning typically occurs around the top of the head.
When clients suffering from TE come to Skrypnyk, it’s usually for a treatment she offers known as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy. Before the pandemic, Skrypnyk estimates 70 per cent of her PRP therapy clients were men. Now?
“Lately I’ve noticed, after COVID especially, it’s been more popular among women,” she said. WHAT IS PRP THERAPY?
Platelet-rich plasma therapy is a form of regenerative medicine that uses a patient’s own blood cells – specifically platelets – to accelerate healing in a specific area of the body.
Plasma is the liquid portion of blood; the medium that carries red and white blood cells and platelets through the body. It’s made mostly of water and proteins. Platelets are blood cells that aid in blood clotting and contain a naturally-occurring substance called growth factor, which stimulates cell growth and wound healing.
In PRP therapy, a patient’s blood is collected and spun in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelet component of the blood. The patient’s own platelet-rich plasma is then injected into an area of the body that needs help with growth or healing, like an injured muscle or, in some cases, a scalp losing hair.
“We usually withdraw the platelets and re-inject them back into the hairline, specifically where there’s a lot of hair loss,” Skrypnyk said.
PRP meets the definition of a drug under Canada’s Food and Drugs Act, but isn’t covered by provincial health insurance plans. At VBeauty Spa, a treatment typically costs $600, though other clinics may charge more or less.
According to an entry by doctors Neera Nathan and Maryanne Makredes Senna in the Harvard Health Blog, most of the research on PRP for hair loss has looked at its use to treat androgenetic alopecia, also known as hormone-related baldness. Androgenetic alopecia affects both men and women, resulting in balding at the crown and front of the head in men, and balding that begins with a widening of the part in women.
“There is not enough evidence to make conclusions about the effectiveness of PRP for other types of hair loss, like telogen effluvium, alopecia areata or forms of scarring hair loss,” Nathan and Senna wrote. YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY
A person can elect to receive PRP therapy for any type of hair loss, but Dr. Jeff Donovan cautions it should only be considered as a second- or third-line treatment for most patients and most types of hair loss.
“PRP is very popular, but the overwhelming message that I would have is that there is no hair loss condition for which PRP is the first-line option,” Donovan told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview on Friday.
Donovan is a dermatologist and member of the Canadian Dermatology Association who specializes in hair loss. Like Skrypnyk, he sometimes treats patients using PRP therapy. However, he rarely uses it to treat the type of hair loss most commonly linked to COVID-19 infections – telogen effluvium – and he never prescribes it as a first-line treatment.
For one thing, he explained, TE normally resolves on its own after four to eight months, as long as the condition that triggered it has resolved. It often doesn’t respond to the typical hair loss treatments.
“Telogen effluvium is a hair loss condition that happens due to a trigger,” Donovan told CTVNews.ca on Friday. “The treatment for telogen effluvium involves treating the trigger, not a bandaid with some other treatment plan.”
If a patient’s TE was triggered by low iron, treatment would involve restoring their iron levels, he said. Likewise, TE triggered by a thyroid condition, or a condition like anorexia nervosa, should resolve after the underlying condition has been treated.
In rare cases, Donovan will recommend PRP therapy for a patient suffering from TE for which an underlying cause can’t be pinpointed. More often, he’ll recommend it for patients suffering from other types of hair loss, but even then, only after exhausting other treatment options.
“When we speak about treatment for hair loss, we must speak about what is the first-line treatment, what is the second-line treatment and what is the third-line treatment,” he said. “These are treatment ladders according to evidence-based medicine.”
For a client with alopecia areata, a type of hair loss that results in circular bald patches, Donovan said the first-line treatments are topical steroid injections and topical minoxidil, which is the active ingredient in Rogaine. For genetic hair loss or androgenetic hair loss, Donovan would first recommend oral and topical minoxidil as well as topical and oral anti-androgens.
Among clients who do end up using PRP therapy, Donovan said between 20 and 40 per cent will see mild benefits, such as a slower rate of hair loss or some modest growth. In order for PRP therapy to provide long-term benefits, however, Donovan said clients typically need to return for treatments three times per year, indefinitely.
Like Skrypnyk, Donovan has noticed more people seeking out PRP therapy for TE in the past year or two. However, he cautions against shelling out for the treatment before speaking to a doctor.
“Due to the popular nature of PRP and the marketing that goes into PRP, there has been an increase in the number of patients demanding that therapy,” he said. “However, that is not necessarily reflective of the benefit of the treatment. Nor is it reflective of how these conditions should be managed based on current scientific evidence.”
Instead, Dovovan said anyone who has hair loss concerns should start by seeking a diagnosis from their usual health-care provider, who can screen for underlying triggers and suggest treatments.
“In my practice, I really prefer when patients come after having tried several therapies,” he said, “because then I get a sense of how well the hair is responding to certain types of treatments.”
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Agreements mark continued investment behind Gravity's growing water infrastructure platform focused on recycling, disposal and environmentally friendly water management solutions in the Permian and Bakken
MIDLAND, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravity, a growth-oriented water and power infrastructure company backed by affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. ("Clearlake"), today announced it has signed two new produced water gathering and disposal agreements backed by long term commitments in McKenzie County, North Dakota.
To service the contracts, Gravity will construct over 11 miles of new pipelines to gather produced water from two of the largest operators in the Bakken. The new pipelines will connect to Gravity's existing disposal system in McKenzie County allowing for bilateral flow of produced water for reuse or disposal solutions. In conjunction with the new pipelines, Gravity is applying for new saltwater disposal permits near these fields that will provide optionality to expand capacity to over 100,000 barrels per day.
"We are very excited with these new agreements, which are expected to double our volumes in the Bakken within the next 12 months and allow for us to organically expand our systems into strategic Tier 1 acreage growth areas that are in need of even more water midstream infrastructure to support future development," stated Trace Hight, Gravity's Chief Commercial Officer of Water Midstream.
Gravity now owns and manages more than 50 active saltwater disposal wells with more than 1.5 million barrels per day of permitted disposal capacity in the United States. With the addition of its cost-effective produced water reuse services, Gravity has provided over 95 million barrels of midstream sourcing, reuse, gathering and disposal water solutions in multiple Basins to its customers to date in 2022.
"Gravity continues to add new organic water midstream volumes to our system, and it is nice to see new growth activity with new and existing customers in the Bakken," said Rob Rice, Gravity's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The Bakken team has worked hard to provide a reliable pipeline and disposal system that our customers can rely on to manage their water midstream needs as they focus on their oil and gas production."
About Gravity
Gravity is a growth-oriented provider of energy infrastructure services to U.S. onshore oil and natural gas exploration and production companies, providing water midstream solutions, critical power generation offerings and other production focused services. Gravity has significant coverage density in the Permian Basin and benefits from a national footprint supported by facilities, operations and management personnel in several other key domestic resource plays including the Bakken, Eagle Ford, SCOOP/STACK, DJ Basin, Haynesville and Marcellus, among others. More information is available at www.gvty.com.
About Clearlake Capital
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to businesses that can benefit from Clearlake's operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm's core target sectors are industrials, technology, and consumer. Clearlake currently has more than $72 billion of assets under management, and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK and Dublin, Ireland. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.
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The weather was fair Saturday for the Texas Early Day Tractor and Engine Association’s 51st annual state show at 1717 Eberhardt Road.
Tractor pulls, wheat thrashing, corn shelling and blacksmithing demonstrations were part of the show, which regularly draws about 2,500 visitors and more than 600 antique tractors and engines from around the country.
Patrons of the various food trucks dined under the Miller Pavilion. Many of them stopped by the Ice Cream House for a dish of homemade ice cream.
In one of the endless rows of tractors, Russell Herzog of Westphalia showed off his 68 model Allis Chalmers tractor, with about 65 horsepower.
“We just try to tune them up and get a little bit more out of them,” he said. “I use this one. I’ve got attachments for the blades, a little shredder, a little plow.”
He has a machine shop and works on small engines and all-terrain vehicles.
“It’s kind of like my forklift,” he said of the tractor.
His two sons, Jacob and Tyler, also were at the show.
Jacob brought a Moline 335 tractor.
“It didn’t need much work when we got it, just the linkage and carburetor work,” Jacob said.
He was entered in the tractor pull, but hasn’t made any trial pulls at home.
“We mainly just get a feel for it by taking off,” he said. “I think it’s running good now.”
His dad said it would be “a complete victory if it doesn’t break down.”
Weston Tsthirhart, 23, of Medina Valley brought a 70 Oliver Hart-Parr tractor that he and a buddy restored when they were in high school. He got this particular model because his great-grandfather had one, and Weston’s dad remembers it from his childhood.
The one his great-grandfather had was fitted with wooden spokes, he said. The original models had steel tires, he said. The model entered in the show had been adapted and was fitted with rubber tires.
Another difference is that the original model had four forward gears. Now the “bump stock” has been removed, he said, which allows for a fifth and sixth gear, so “you can take off.”
With the steel tires, that speed — 12-13 mph — would make for a bumpy ride, he said.
“We use it,” he said. “We have a two or three-acre cane field. We use that to make our molasses.”
Formerly they cut the cane with machetes, he said. They found a corn binder from the early 1940s that cuts and binds the cane.
He showed the old tractor’s canvas seat, a mockup of the original, which the Amish make, he said. It’s the same size as a burlap sack, common in the old days.
“If it ripped, they could put a burlap sack over it and have a seat again,” he said.
Kyle Crawford of New London had a 1929 McCormick-Deering 22-36 model with steel tires.
He’s a small-time cattle rancher, he said, and does a lot of service work for people in the agricultural industry.
“I just bought this tractor about eight months ago,” he said. “It had sat for two years. I got it back running. Now it’s a show machine.”
It only has a hand crank, he said, but if it’s set right it starts easily.
Originally, the engine would start on gasoline and switch to the cheaper kerosene, he said. Now it runs solely on gasoline.
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DETROIT, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Airspace Link Inc., a leading provider of scalable drone software and solutions, and Volatus Aerospace, a leader in uncrewed aircraft operations, are announcing a newly formed global partnership.
In this partnership, the two companies will collaborate on advanced uncrewed operations, bringing together Airspace Link's advanced planning, integration, and data capabilities with Volatus technological and operational excellence. This partnership will enable the two companies to collaborate on advanced operations that propel the industry forward, while ensuring and showcasing the safe integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems.
The group will be teaming on a multitude of projects which will include continued work on cross-border operations between Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan. The United States and Canada enjoy the world's most lucrative and enduring trade relationship. Over the past few years, supply chain systems have experienced a growing hardship with transportation of goods through air, ground, and maritime transport. The partnership between Airspace Link and Volatus will explore remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) and applications for secured cargo package delivery between Windsor, Canada and Detroit, Michigan. The pair feels that RPAS will propose new mobility solutions to help solve some of the supply chain challenges as well as provide new solutions in times of need and Volatus, as a bonded carrier, can advance those operations even further.
Extending west, the team will explore development of oil and gas operations, as well as utility and rail inspections in North Dakota using the Vantis Network. Additional public safety and cargo operations are also underway to support local community development in Texas and other states.
On a global scale, the partnership will spread operational investments into Europe and the Middle East with their first project focused on airspace modernization for Dubai. Other target areas for advancement will include intra-island operations for cargo delivery around the Caribbean Islands along with opportunities in South America.
Volatus' team of experts have paved the way for advancing the use of uncrewed aircraft for BVLOS operations in Canada. Already conducting high volumes of oil and gas pipeline and utility inspections globally and leveraging opportunities in new applications such as methane detection and middle mile cargo operations, Volatus offers a variety of different aircraft platforms and capabilities, each one outfitted for the specific mission at hand.
"Airspace Link's AirHub™ platform connects with key stakeholders that need to participate in the implementation of these valuable services so that there is safe integration and community acceptance from local authorities. We work to manage, inform, and obtain authorizations, if required, from the regulatory agencies as well as communicate with drone operators and the community through digital data transfer, all in one shared platform. We are excited about partnering with Volatus to integrate our application services and data to inform the safe planning and execution of these challenging missions" said Michael Healander, Co-Founder & CEO of Airspace Link.
"Partnering with Airspace Link is a critical component in supporting our strategic global business efforts," says Michael Hill, Regional Director at Volatus Aerospace. "We look forward to advancing drone operations through these focused efforts with Airspace Link."
Airspace Link's AirHub™ solution assists with controlled airspace operations requiring Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) approval from the FAA in the United States. The AirHub™ solution offers approval for further justification digitally with the FAA.
About Airspace Link, Inc:
Airspace Link's vision is to create a world where the safe integration of drone's fuels human progress, advancing social equity, the environment, and the economy. Founded in Detroit in 2018 by CEO Michael Healander, Airspace Link is one of the few FAA Approved UAS Service Suppliers of the Low Altitude Authorization & Notification Capability (LAANC). Airspace Link's cloud-based platform, AirHub™, provides the digital infrastructure required to support the safe use of recreational and commercial drone use in communities at scale, supporting the growth of drone operations, drone service providers, drone manufacturers, package delivery and air taxi deployment in the future.
Visit https://airspacelink.com/ to learn more and stay up to date on the latest innovations in this space.
About Volatus Aerospace:
Volatus Aerospace Corp. is a leading provider of integrated drone solutions throughout North America and growing into Latin America and globally. Volatus serves civil, public safety, and defense markets with imaging and inspection, security and surveillance, equipment sales and support, training, as well as R&D, design, and manufacturing. Through our subsidiary, Volatus Aviation, we are introducing green and innovative drone solutions to supplement and replace traditional aircraft and helicopters for long-linear inspections such as pipeline, energy, rail, and cargo services. Volatus is committed to carbon neutrality; the fostering of a safe, equitable and inclusive workplace; and responsible governance.
Learn more today at https://volatusaerospace.com/
For partnership inquiries, please reach out to Alice Griffith alicegriffith@airspacelink.com
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DeSantis says Florida requires African American history. Advocates say the state is failing that mandate
By Steve Contorno, CNN
Facing accusations of whitewashing history after his administration blocked a new Black studies course for high-achieving high schoolers, Gov. Ron DeSantis has countered that Florida students already must learn about the triumphs and plight of African Americans.
“The state of Florida education standards not only don’t prevent, but they require teaching Black history,” DeSantis said last week. “All the important things, that’s part of our core curriculum.”
Indeed, Florida has required its schools to teach African American history since 1994, long before the recent push in many states to move toward a more complete telling of the country’s story. The stated goal at the time was to introduce the Black experience to a generation of young people. That included DeSantis himself, then a student in Florida’s public school system when the mandate became law.
But nearly three decades later, advocates say many Florida schools are failing to teach that history. Only 11 of the state’s 67 county school districts meet all of the benchmarks for teaching Black history set by the African American History Task Force, a state board created to help school districts abide by the mandate. Many schools only cover the topic during Black History Month in February, said Bernadette Kelley-Brown, the principal investigator for the task force.
“The idea that every Florida student learns African American history, it’s not reality,” Kelley-Brown said. “Some districts don’t even realize it’s required instruction.”
The persistent focus in Florida on instruction of African American topics comes as DeSantis has partially built his Republican stardom by targeting public schools for signs of progressive ideologies. His administration has forced K-12 schools to comb their textbooks and curriculum for any evidence of Critical Race Theory or related topics and he championed a new law that puts guardrails on lessons about racism and oppression. Both measures were cited in the state’s decision last month to block a new Advanced Placement class on African American Studies from Florida high schools. (On Wednesday, the College Board, which oversees AP courses and exams, released an updated framework of African American Studies class that did not include many of the authors and topics DeSantis had objected to. His administration said it was reviewing the changes to see if the course now complies with state law.)
Black Democratic lawmakers say the state Department of Education under DeSantis has shown far more zeal in enforcing these new restrictions on how race can be taught in schools than the state, in almost 30 years, has ever demonstrated toward ensuring that Black history is taught at all.
“If we say that the speed limit is 70 and someone goes 80, the Highway Patrol is there with some consequences,” state Sen. Geraldine Thompson said at a recent press conference. “But there have been no consequences for not teaching African American history.”
The governor’s office and the Florida Department of Education did not respond when asked about the state’s efforts to enforce the mandate to teach Black history. But DeSantis recently elaborated on how he expects the subject to be taught.
“It’s just cut and dried history,” DeSantis said. “You learn all the basics. You learn about the great figures, and you know, I view it as American history. I don’t view it as separate history.”
A mandate with no money
For a state that had to be dragged to desegregate all of its schools well into the 1970s, the move to require African American history in Florida classrooms was notably unceremonious. Lawmakers unanimously approved the mandate in 1994 with little debate. Few newspapers covered then-Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles signing the bill into law.
After it passed, the state created the African American History Task Force to help school districts with this new directive and to come up with a strategy for implementation. But neither the law nor the Florida Department of Education set a deadline for districts to comply.
Former state Rep. Rudolph Bradley, the Black lawmaker who sponsored the bill to require African American history back then, now says there was a major flaw in the legislation that kept it from accomplishing what he set out to achieve: Lawmakers didn’t set aside any money for school districts to update their textbooks, buy new instructional materials or train teachers.
“The mistake on my part, being a freshman, I didn’t understand the importance of attaching appropriations,” Bradley told CNN in a recent interview. “I didn’t understand what an unfunded mandate was and how difficult that would make it for school districts to incorporate it.”
Even districts that had sought to comply with the law faced hurdles. Among those early adopters in 1994 was Pinellas County, where efforts to incorporate African American history into their lessons were underway prior to the law’s passage — and where a teenage DeSantis was entering sophomore year of high school that fall.
At Dunedin High School, a predominantly White school within walking distance of Florida’s gulf shores, DeSantis should have been among the first wave of students to be exposed to this more complete telling of history. The school already offered African American history as an elective and the district had tapped the teacher of that class, Randy Lightfoot, to guide Pinellas schools into compliance with the new law. (Lightfoot said DeSantis was not a student in his African American history class.)
Lightfoot and his team met after school for three hours a day, four times a week for months to forge a plan to incorporate Black history, culture and figures into every grade level, he told CNN in a recent interview. They printed a blueprint called “African American Connections.”
The accurate teaching of African American studies, the document said, “explains the causes of racial division in society, including prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination” and the “systematic oppression perspective of Africans and African-Americans and their resistance to that oppression.”
The state heralded Lightfoot’s efforts as a model for adhering to the new law, according to news accounts from the time. The Florida education commissioner liked it so much he handed a copy to every school district, Lightfoot said. DeSantis more recently has called the idea of systemic racism “a bunch of horse manure.”
By 1996, Lightfoot was warning that his efforts were being stymied by lack of resources. Lightfoot struggled to convince the Pinellas school board to acquire textbooks that included the new lessons on Black history, according to the St. Petersburg Times, which also noted that the district cut his staff.
The attempts to expand the curriculum to teach African American history also came during a period of racial strife in Pinellas County. In 1996, riots broke out in St. Petersburg, the city 20 minutes south of DeSantis’ suburban home, after the police killed an unarmed Black teenager during a traffic stop, and again when the officers involved were cleared of charges. Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black male students remained stubbornly low in Pinellas, the Times reported, and the county school board had broached the controversial idea of curbing forced busing to desegregate the public schools, leading to a period of distrust between the board and Black residents.
By the time DeSantis graduated in 1997 — having earned recognition as a decorated Advanced Placement history student, according to his senior yearbook — getting African American history in Pinellas schools was still a work in progress, Lightfoot said.
Statewide, only a handful of schools had earned “exemplary” status from the African American History Task Force by the end of that decade, meaning they had reached benchmarks for compliance. “Exemplary” school districts must demonstrate their curriculum included African American topics beyond Black History Month, training for teachers in the subject, involvement of parents in the learning and collaboration with a local university for support. In 1999, a bill that would have required public school textbooks to include African American history went nowhere in the state legislature.
Carlton Owens, a Black classmate of DeSantis’ at Dunedin High, said he only saw people like himself reflected in the curriculum during Black History Month or lessons around slavery and the Civil Rights movement.
“There’s so much more history that’s inspiring that is interwoven in the American story as a whole,” Owens, now a lawyer and small business owner, said. “And that wasn’t highlighted then, and that needs to be happening now.”
The state “put the material out there for districts,” said Lightfoot, now a history professor at St. Petersburg College. “But they didn’t put the kind of money in to check and make sure everyone is doing what they’re supposed to be doing.”
“We were trying to fill in the gaps and the holes in history,” he added. “At the same time, we had Black male students who we thought we could help improve their grades if they saw their stories in history and science and literature. Where it worked, we had pretty good success with it. But we had the support of state leaders to do it. It was a different climate then.”
Discrepancies in teaching African American history
In a 2019 press release, the Florida Department of Education announced it would require districts for the first time to report how they were teaching required subjects including “Holocaust education, African American history, Hispanic heritage, women’s history, civics and more.”
A CNN review of those reports for the 2021-22 school year found wide discrepancies in how districts lesson-plan around the subject of African American history. Some districts provide lengthy plans for weaving the African American experience into social studies from kindergarten through high school graduation; others suggest exploration comes primarily during Black History month. More than a dozen submissions largely parroted the requirements listed in state law without including any details of the instruction.
Leon County, declared an exemplary school district by the African American History Task Force, included details like its lessons on African American scientists, songwriters and artists during grades K-5. Dixie County, near the Florida Panhandle, submitted 1,600 words on how it teaches African American history to high schoolers. Madison County, a school district near the Florida-Georgia border, simply wrote: “Courses are taught on a daily basis by a Florida certified teacher. The district also stresses Black History Month with daily mini-lessons for all grade levels.”
The Florida Association of School Superintendents did not respond to a request for comment.
Democrats and advocates contend the state has done little with this information. They also say the administration has not yet indicated how it will ensure schools are complying with a new state law signed by DeSantis that requires annual instruction of the 1920 Ocoee massacre, when dozens of Black Floridians were murdered in a horrific Election Day racial cleansing.
Democratic lawmakers say they intend to introduce legislation that would require the state to enforce whether school districts are teaching African American history as the law intends, though its supporters acknowledge any bill is unlikely to gain traction in a statehouse controlled by Republicans.
“It won’t go anywhere,” said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a member of the legislature’s Black caucus. “But it’ll be a helluva message that we’re getting behind true and accurate Black history being taught in the state of Florida.”
Early in his first term, there was some hope from the state’s Black community that DeSantis would forge a different path than some of his Republican predecessors. In one of his first acts as governor, DeSantis voted to pardon the Groveland Four — two Black men who were lynched and two who received lengthy sentences for allegedly raping a White woman in 1949 — widely considered one of the darkest episodes in Florida’s violent past. Former Gov. Rick Scott, who served two terms prior to DeSantis taking office, had refused to pardon the four men despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence.
But DeSantis’ posture changed following the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. DeSantis responded to the national unrest by mobilizing the state’s national guard and pushing through what he called an “anti-riot” law that included harsh new penalties for protesters if a demonstration turns violent.
DeSantis then turned his attention to schools. In June 2021, he urged the state Board of Education to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory, an academic framework based around the idea that systemic racism is embedded in many American institutions and society. His administration then rejected math textbooks on the grounds that they included Critical Race Theory and other forbidden topics. Last year, lawmakers approved one of DeSantis’ top legislative priorities: the so-called “Stop WOKE Act,” which said schools cannot teach that anyone is inherently racist or responsible for past atrocities because of their skin color. The bill, which DeSantis signed into law, also said schools could teach that oppression of races has existed throughout US history but not persuade students to a particular point of view.
The controversies around these actions have catapulted DeSantis into the national conversation on teaching race and helped fuel his rise as a potential presidential contender. Throughout these episodes, DeSantis has often maintained that African American history is built into Florida’s education framework.
“Florida statutes require teaching all of American history including slavery, civil rights, segregation,” DeSantis contended during his debate against his Democratic opponent last year, Charlie Crist. “It’s important that that’s taught. But what I think is not good is to scapegoat students based on skin color.”
Reginald Ellis, a professor of History and African-American Studies at Florida A&M University, said if students were adequately learning Black history, he would see it first hand in his classroom.
“What I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience,” Ellis said. “It is a law on the books. There is a task force. But, for the most part, it clearly isn’t a curriculum that is being enforced. School districts effectively have the option to opt-in or opt-out.”
Bradley, the original bill sponsor, said the law’s shortcomings fall on those who have held power in Tallahassee and in school districts for the past three decades, and not DeSantis. Bradley, who changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican later in his political career, said he was supportive of DeSantis’ education agenda and accused activists of using schools to “drive a wedge between Blacks and Whites.”
“The law is still a work in progress, but if we want to use it as a tool to divide then that is a total violation of the spirit of the law,” Bradley said. “When I passed that bill, it was designed to bring people together, not divide.”
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First Alert Traffic : Crash closes N. Orange Avenue near Sarasota Military Academy
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A crash that knocked down a power pole early Thursday has closed a section of N. Orange Avenue, between Sixth Street and Eighth Street.
The crash happened shortly after 1 a.m. at the intersection of N. Orange and Seventh Street. The crash has knocked out power in the area.
At about 6:45 a.m. Thursday, Sarasota Police announced on Twitter they expect Orange Ave from Boulevard of the Arts to Eighth Street will remain closed for several more hours. Florida Power & Light crews are on the scene replacing the power pole that was downed from a traffic crash.
“Many residents will not have power for several hours,” the tweet said.
🚨 TRAFFIC ALERT 🚨 6th St to 8th St at Orange Ave, @CityofSarasota, is shut down due to a crash. The crash happened shortly after 1 a.m. at the intersection of 7th St and Orange Ave. Please avoid the area as officers work to clear the scene. pic.twitter.com/dK3D1NLuol
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Winter Storm Warning issued October 21 at 3:56AM MDT until October 23 at 6:00AM MDT by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Snow, heavy at times above 7000 feet. Total snow
accumulations of 2 to 6 inches below 7000 feet, except 8 to 14
inches across ridge tops and passes. Locally higher totals in
excess of 14 inches above 9000 feet. Winds could gust as high
as 40 mph.
* WHERE…Idaho Central Mountains above 7000 feet, Galena Summit,
and Stanley Basin.
* WHEN…From 6 PM this evening to 6 AM MDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS…Travel could be difficult at times, especially over
mountain passes where blowing snow is possible.
* ADDITIONAL IMPACTS…Backcountry enthusiasts and hunters
should be prepared for wintry conditions and the potential for
hypothermia if caught in a storm unprepared.
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SinglePoint invites individual and institutional investors as well as advisors and analysts, to attend its real-time, interactive presentation at the Emerging Growth Conference.
PHOENIX, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB: SING), a leading renewable energy and sustainable lifestyle provider, (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has been invited to present at the Emerging Growth Conference on March 8th 2023.
This live, interactive online event will give existing shareholders and the investment community the opportunity to interact with the Company's CEO, Wil Ralston in real time.
Mr. Ralston will conduct a presentation and may open the floor for questions. Please submit your questions in advance to Questions@EmergingGrowth.com or ask your questions during the event and Mr. Ralston will, time permitting, answer as many as possible.
SinglePoint Inc. will be presenting 12:35PM Eastern time for approximately 30 minutes.
Please register here to ensure you are able to attend the conference and receive any updates that are released.
If attendees are not able to join the event live on the day of the conference, an archived webcast will also be made available on EmergingGrowth.com and on the Emerging Growth YouTube Channel, http://www.YouTube.com/EmergingGrowthConference. We will release a link to that after the event.
About the Emerging Growth Conference
The Emerging Growth conference is an effective way for public companies to present and communicate their new products, services and other major announcements to the investment community from the convenience of their office, in a time efficient manner.
The Conference focus and coverage includes companies in a wide range of growth sectors, with strong management teams, innovative products & services, focused strategy, execution, and the overall potential for long term growth. Its audience includes potentially tens of thousands of Individual and Institutional investors, as well as Investment advisors and analysts.
All sessions will be conducted through video webcasts and will take place in the Eastern time zone.
About SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB:SING)
SinglePoint is a sustainable lifestyle Company focused on the solar energy and storage and indoor air purification markets. The Company plans to build the largest renewable energy solutions network by modernizing the traditional solar energy and energy storage business model. SinglePoint continues to execute its acquisition strategy by identifying and exploring future growth opportunities in indoor air purification and ventilation, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and other additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and healthier life. For more information, visit the Company's websites: www.singlepoint.com, www.bostonsolar.us, and www.boxpureair.com.
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Technical and other complications, which may arise, could prevent the prompt implementation of any strategically significant plan(s) outlined above. The Company undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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Acquisitions Position Corteva as a Global Leader in Biologicals
INDIANAPOLIS, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) cements its position as a global leader in the rapidly expanding Biologicals market with today's announcement that it has closed the acquisitions of Symborg, an expert in microbiological technologies based in Murcia, Spain; and Stoller, one of the largest independent companies in the Biologicals industry, based in Houston, Texas, U.S.
"These acquisitions illustrate Corteva's commitment to providing farmers with sustainable solutions that bring value and productivity to the farm," said Chuck Magro, Chief Executive Officer, Corteva Agriscience. "We are pleased to officially welcome Symborg and Stoller employees to Corteva. We believe their knowledge and expertise, combined with Corteva's innovations capabilities, will come together to form a leading Biologicals Business ready to accelerate and grow with the rapidly expanding biologicals market."
Corteva first collaborated with Symborg to scale up and bring farmers Utrisha™ N and BlueN™ nutrient efficiency optimizers under a distribution agreement between the two companies. Symborg possesses a diversified portfolio, emerging biocontrol pipeline, and skilled employees with robust technical knowledge and demand generation expertise. With subsidiaries in Brazil, Chile, China, France, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Turkey, and the United States, Symborg reaches more than 50 countries with its innovative biological solutions. Stoller brings a strong track record of success with more than 50 years of experience in more than 60 countries. The company's strong technical expertise and exceptional commercial model built on sharing knowledge have earned it a trusted reputation throughout the Biologicals industry.
The biologicals market is expected to be the fastest-growing crop protection segment in the industry, representing 25% of the overall market by 2035.
The acquisitions of Symborg and Stoller were announced in the second half of 2022. The acquisitions, which will be accretive to EBITDA in 2023, reinforce Corteva's commitment to providing farmers with environmentally friendly, sustainable tools that complement evolving farming practices with proven effectiveness.
About Corteva
Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) is a publicly traded, global pure-play agriculture company that combines industry-leading innovation, high-touch customer engagement and operational execution to profitably deliver solutions for the world's most pressing agriculture challenges. Corteva generates advantaged market preference through its unique distribution strategy, together with its balanced and globally diverse mix of seed, crop protection, and digital products and services. With some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and a technology pipeline well positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to maximizing productivity for farmers, while working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. More information can be found at www.corteva.com.
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Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and expectations of future events which may not be accurate or realized. Forward-looking statements and other estimates also involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Corteva's control. While the list of factors presented below is considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Consequences of material differences in results as compared with those anticipated in the forward-looking statements could include, among other things, business disruption, operational problems, financial loss, legal liability to third parties and similar risks, any of which could have a material adverse effect on Corteva's business, results of operations and financial condition. With respect to the contemplated transactions, forward-looking statements include, without limitation, financial estimates, statements as to the benefits or effects of the transactions, including financial and operating results, the combined company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, and other statements that are not historical facts. The following risks, uncertainties and other factors could affect the company's financial performance and cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements: the risk that any post-acquisition regulatory approvals may not be obtained as a result of conditions that are not anticipated; the failure to realize the benefits of the transactions or Corteva's biologicals strategy; the effect of the announcement of the transactions on the ability of Symborg and Stoller to retain customers and key personnel and to maintain relationships with suppliers, and on their operating results and business generally; and potential litigation in connection with the transactions.
Additionally, there may be other risks and uncertainties that Corteva is unable to currently identify or that Corteva does not currently expect to have a material impact on its business. Where, in any forward-looking statement, an expectation or belief as to future results or events is expressed, such expectation or belief is based on the current plans and expectations of Corteva's management and expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that the expectation or belief will result or be achieved or accomplished. Corteva disclaims and does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except as required by applicable law. A detailed discussion of some of the significant risks and uncertainties which may cause results and events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements is included in the "Risk Factors" section of Corteva's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as modified by subsequent Quarterly Reports on Forms 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.
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WASHINGTON, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marking a significant advance in infant safety, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given De Novo approval to Happiest Baby's SNOO Smart Sleeper. This is the first time the FDA has given De Novo approval to a product designed to keep sleeping babies safely positioned on the back. Babies who are positioned to sleep on the back are at a lower risk of SIDS.
Every year, 3,500 American babies die in their sleep from suffocation and unexplained causes including SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). These deaths are collectively referred to as SUID (Sudden Unexpected Infant Death) and constitute the leading cause of death of healthy, full-term infants during the first year of life (90% of SUID cases occur in the first six months).
Tragically, the number of these deaths has continued unchanged at 3500 every year for over 20 years.
In the 1990s, doctors discovered that sleeping on the back dramatically reduced the incidence of SUID. Today, it is one of the key safe sleep recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The National Institutes of Health encourages back sleeping as "the single most effective action that parents and caregivers can take to lower a baby's risk of SIDS." And, the CDC advises that "babies who sleep on their backs are much less likely to die of SIDS than babies who sleep on their sides or stomachs."
Despite this universal recommendation, almost two-thirds of SUID deaths still occur when babies roll to, or are placed on, the side or stomach. SNOO is the first and only bed that facilitates back (supine) sleeping. The SNOO Sack safely swaddles babies and attaches to the bed, keeping them securely on the back throughout sleep.
SNOO is for use by babies under 6 months of age or until they have demonstrated they can consistently roll from stomach to back during sleep. In a study of 1,012 infants, SNOO was found to reduce unsafe stomach sleeping by 91.5%. However, SNOO has not directly demonstrated a reduction in the incidence of SIDS/SUID.
"As a pediatrician for over 40 years, I've witnessed far too many times the unbearable pain of parents who placed their baby in bed at night, only to find them lifeless in the morning," said Dr. Harvey Karp, co-founder and CEO of Happiest Baby, Inc. "Stomach sleeping leads to the tragic death of thousands of healthy infants every year. Yet, we routinely put babies in bed totally unsecured for 12 to 14 hours every day. Just as infant seats dramatically improve car safety, we hope to dramatically improve sleep safety by keeping babies on the back and reducing risky rolling."
On March 30, 2023, the FDA granted the De Novo application of Happiest Baby's SNOO Smart Sleeper:
"The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its review of your De Novo request for classification of the SNOO Smart Sleeper, an over-the-counter device under 21 CFR Part 801 Subpart C with the following indications for use:
"The SNOO Smart Sleeper bassinet plus the SNOO Sleep Sack are jointly intended to facilitate a supine position during sleep. Infants who are placed in a supine sleep position are at lower risk of SIDS/SUID. The device is intended for home use by caregivers of infants from birth to 6 months of age, who are not yet able to roll over consistently.
"FDA concludes that this device should be classified into Class II. This order, therefore, classifies the SNOO Smart Sleeper, and substantially equivalent devices of this generic type, into Class II under the generic name infant supine sleep system.
"FDA identifies this generic type of device as:
"Infant supine sleep system. An infant supine sleep system is a device intended to facilitate a supine position during sleep for use in infants that are not yet able to roll over consistently. Infants placed in a supine sleep position are at lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)."
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ABOUT SNOO
SNOO was created by renowned pediatrician and child development expert, Dr. Harvey Karp. Launched in 2016, SNOO helps lull babies to sleep faster and keep them sleeping longer. In recognition of these landmark advances, SNOO has received over 30 top honors, including the National Sleep Foundation's Innovation of the Year and Fast Company's World Changing Idea. SNOO has been featured at the London Design Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, SF MOMA, and is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
In an advance in pediatric sleep science, SNOO uses specially designed, continuous rhythmic sensations that mimic the motion, sound, and tactile embrace babies experience in the womb. Although the current practice is to place babies to sleep in a dark, still, silent room, babies actually sleep better with constant motion, sound, and snug holding (e.g., rocking in a lounger, long walks in a carrier or stroller, car rides, etc.). This was shown in a large infant sleep study (7,157 babies, 0-6 months of age). It demonstrated that SNOO's constant rhythms were associated with an unprecedented one hour per night average increase in sleep. Furthermore, by two months, SNOO increased the longest continuous period of night sleep from an average of five hours to almost seven hours; a 40% boost in the sleep most precious to new parents—and most helpful for infant well-being—consolidated, continuous sleep.
Hundreds of thousands of families have used SNOO as their baby's first bed. Most parents obtain it directly through Happiest Baby's rental program and thousands get a free, six month SNOO rental from their employer. Over 60 top American companies, including, JP Morgan, Activision-Blizzard, Snapchat, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, and Under Armour, offer SNOOs to support new parents.
ABOUT HAPPIEST BABY
Happiest Baby is an LA-based company co-founded by Dr. Harvey Karp and Nina Montée Karp. It's a
mission-driven company dedicated to protecting the health and wellness of children, parents, and healthcare workers across America and around the world. The company develops innovative, science-based products and content to solve every-day childcare challenges and to enhance the well-being of families and healthcare providers.
Dr. Karp is the author of the celebrated parent books and streaming videos, The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block and the book, The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep: Birth to 5, which have been used by millions of families and translated into dozens of languages.
In addition to SNOO, the company makes numerous other parent-support products, including Sleepea (an award-winning, "5-second" swaddle), SNOObear (a white noise, plush toy that aids infant/toddler soothing and sleep), and SNOObie (a white noise and nightlight device to improve a child's sleep and teach mindful breathing, used from birth to school age).
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Three federally recognized tribes have devoted decades to restoring the condition of their ancestral lands in southeastern Washington state to what they were before those lands became the most radioactively contaminated site in the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
But the Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and Nez Perce Tribe have been left out of negotiations on a major decision affecting the future cleanup of millions of gallons of radioactive waste stored in underground tanks on the Hanford site near Richland.
In May, federal and state agencies reached an agreement that hasn’t been released publicly but will likely involve milestone and deadline changes in the cleanup, according to a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Ecology, a regulator for the site. As they privately draft their proposed changes, the tribes are bracing for a decision that could threaten their fundamental vision for the site.
“As original stewards of that area, we’ve always been taught to leave it better than you found it,” said Laurene Contreras, program administrator for the Yakama Nation’s Environmental Restoration/Waste Management program, which is responsible for the tribe’s Hanford work. “And so that’s what we’re asking for.”
From World War II through the Cold War, Hanford produced more than two-thirds of the United States’ plutonium for nuclear weapons, including the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. Production ceased in 1989, and the site’s mission shifted to cleaning up the chemical and radioactive waste left behind.
For these tribes, which have served as vital watchdogs in the cleanup process, the area’s history dates back long before Hanford, to pre-colonization. It was a place where some fished, hunted, gathered and lived. It’s home to culturally significant sites. And in 1855 treaties with the U.S. government in which the tribes ceded millions of acres of land, they were assured continued access.
The U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Washington State Department of Ecology have held confidential negotiations since 2020 on revising plans for the approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks at Hanford. The discerning eyes of the tribal experts have been kept out, though EPA and Ecology have said there will eventually be opportunities for the tribes to meet with them about this.
The revisions are expected to affect an agreement among the three agencies that outlines the Hanford cleanup. Mason Murphy, program manager for the Confederated Tribes’ Energy and Environmental Sciences program, points out that the tribes also weren’t consulted in that original 1989 agreement.
“It’s an old scabbed-over wound,” Murphy said.
Currently, the agencies plan to convert high-level radioactive waste into glass form that would be sent to a deep geological repository, said Ecology Department spokesperson Ryan Miller. Low-level waste would be converted and disposed of permanently in stainless steel containers at a landfill at the Hanford site.
But there isn’t a deep geologic repository in the U.S. to dispose of the high-level waste, he said. And turning that waste into a glass form is reliant on a plant that hasn’t been completed and “faces ongoing technical challenges,” according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report published last month.
Changes to plans to turn the high-level waste into a glass form could have wide-ranging consequences, said Dan Serres, conservation director for the environmental group Columbia Riverkeeper.
“There’s nothing that I’m aware of that demonstrates that another path is going to protect the Columbia River, or groundwater, or the interests of tribes (that) have a right to be using as much of this area as possible,” he said.
The tribes do have small teams of experts dedicated to the cleanup, and they’ve had an impact.
Through testimony to lawmakers in the 1980s, the Yakama Nation was instrumental in keeping the 580-square-mile (1,500-square-kilometer) site from becoming a deep repository where high-level nuclear waste from across the U.S. would be stored indefinitely.
More recently, tribal experts determined the U.S. Department of Energy’s work to remove the radionuclide strontium from groundwater at Hanford would push it into the nearby Columbia River. Their findings prompted the federal agency to reconsider its plans, said Rose Ferri, project tracking resource analyst for Yakama Nation.
“It is important for someone to be that other level of review; to be like, ‘Does this really make sense? Are you really understanding the science here or was there a mistake made?’” said McClure Tosch, a natural resource injury assessment lead for the Yakama Nation.
Last week, experts from the tribe traveled to a Nike Missile site, which had been used to protect Hanford from enemy aircraft, to examine completed cleanup work and determine future restoration options.
The Nez Perce Tribe has four experts within its Environmental Restoration and Waste Management program, which handles much of its Hanford work. Program director Jack Bell said the team’s hydrogeologist determined that Energy Department contractors underestimated to what extent a radioactive contaminant could travel into groundwater. The tribe sent letters to the agencies, and the model was updated.
“That model will be used over and over again,” Bell said.
The state Ecology Department said it plans to consult with the tribes once the draft agreement is more finalized. But when that will happen and in what form is still unclear. An energy department spokesperson said in a statement that while the tribes are not included in the negotiations, in other instances the department “consults with Tribal Nations when its action affects, or has the potential to affect, tribal rights or resources.” A regional EPA spokesperson said in a statement when the negotiations are completed, there will be opportunity for “tribal consultation and input ahead of public comment.”
Tosch said every chance he gets, he brings up the Yakama Nation not being included in the negotiations.
“If there are permit decisions made, where there is a lot more on-site closure of waste, rather than what we assumed would have been all high-level waste that would have been treated and taken off site … that’s more land that will forever be a waste disposal facility,” he said. “That is very much against the direction and vision for tribal council.”
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GOP strategist comes forward publicly in sexual assault case against conservative leader Matt Schlapp
By Jamie Gangel, Gregory Krieg and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN
The Republican political strategist who accused conservative leader Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, of sexual assault is revealing his identity after a judge ruled Wednesday that he cannot move forward with his lawsuit anonymously.
Carlton Huffman, 39, was working for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign in Georgia when Huffman said Schlapp groped and fondled his groin without his consent as he drove the ACU president back from two area bars to an Atlanta hotel several weeks before the November midterm election.
Huffman, who gave CNN permission to use his name ahead of the court’s decision being made public, plans to proceed with his civil lawsuit, which is seeking more than $9 million in damages for alleged sexual battery, defamation and conspiracy to impugn the accuser.
In a statement given to CNN, Huffman said, “On Oct 19, 2022, Matt Schlapp attempted to take my dignity but he did not take my voice. Today, I reclaim that voice and for every victim of sexual assault, I am here to say there is justice and there will be accountability. I look forward to our day in court.”
Lawyers for Huffman and Schlapp, respectively, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Schlapp, best known for his role in hosting the ACU’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference, has denied Huffman’s allegations. But some Republicans linked diminished interest and attendance at the CPAC gathering last week in Maryland, which was also riven by internal divisions over former President Donald Trump, to allegations against Schlapp.
“It’s a scandal,” one Republican operative who has worked on several presidential campaigns told CNN. “If you are thinking about running for president and you’re not Donald Trump, you can’t afford a misstep. You can’t afford to be linked to a scandal.”
Huffman was working for the Georgia GOP and Walker’s campaign at the time and had been assigned to drive Schlapp to campaign events in the Atlanta area.
Huffman, who was listed as John Doe in the initial lawsuit, alleges that after he came forward with his accusations, Schlapp and Mercedes Schlapp, his wife, partook in “dishonest efforts” along with “others associated with and acting in concert with them, to discredit Mr. Doe.”
The lawsuit goes on to claim that, as a result of the Schlapps’ alleged conspiracy, Huffman “suffered damages, including and without limitation embarrassment, humiliation, stress, and reputational harm.”
Despite occasionally butting heads with Trump before the 2016 presidential election, Matt Schlapp and the ACU have since become fierce loyalists of the former president. Schlapp, who served in the George W. Bush White House as director of political affairs, took over the organization in 2014. Mercedes Schlapp worked as Trump’s communications director for nearly two years, from 2017 to 2019.
ACU leadership defended Schlapp after the allegations became public earlier this year, calling the initial report an attempt at “character assassination.” The group’s first and second vice chairs added, “We stand squarely behind Matt Schlapp, and the ACU Board of Directors has full confidence in his leadership of the organization.”
Huffman said he had agreed to meet Schlapp for a beer in October because he was “eager to make a connection” due to Schlapp’s prominence within the Republican Party. The men met up for drinks at two Atlanta bars, and while at the second bar, the lawsuit says Schlapp “sat unusually close to Mr. Doe, such that his leg repeatedly contacted and was in almost constant contact with Mr. Doe’s leg,” making him uncomfortable, according to the lawsuit.
Huffman alleged that as he drove Schlapp to his hotel, Schlapp “began aggressively fondling (his) genital area in a sustained fashion,” the lawsuit says, causing Huffman to freeze with “fear and panic from what was happening.”
Later that evening, Schlapp called Huffman, according to a call log reviewed by CNN, to confirm that Huffman would be driving him to another Walker event the next morning. After receiving the call, Huffman said he broke down and memorialized what happened by recording videos of himself describing the alleged assault.
“Matt Schlapp, of the CPAC, grabbed my junk and pummeled it at length. And I’m sitting there (in the car) saying, ‘What the hell is going on that this person with a wife and kids is literally doing this to me, from Manuel’s Tavern to the Hilton Garden Inn there at the Atlanta Airport,'” Huffman said in one of the self-recorded clips, which CNN reviewed. “He literally has his hands on me. And I feel so f**king dirty. Feel so f**king dirty. So I don’t know what to do in the morning.”
Huffman ultimately decided to tell top Walker campaign officials about the alleged incident. They immediately directed him not to drive Schlapp and to pass on a phone number for a car service.
Senior Walker campaign officials confirmed to CNN that they spoke with Huffman and immediately notified campaign lawyers. One source told CNN that Huffman was offered options, including legal counsel, contacting law enforcement, a therapist, or if he wanted, to speak to reporters. The source added that he thought Huffman was angry and mortified by the situation.
The suit also stated that, in the wake of the sexual assault accusations first becoming public earlier this month, Mercedes Schlapp allegedly sent a message to a neighborhood group “chat or text” claiming the accuser was a “troubled individual” who had been fired from multiple jobs, including for “lying and lying on his resume.”
Huffman, in the filing, said he has never been fired from a job for lying or lying on his resume and alleged that the Schlapps have engaged in “a campaign to impugn” him.
Tim Hyland, an attorney for Huffman, said in an earlier statement that, “Because Mr. Schlapp has refused to own up to his misbehavior, this suit aims to make Mr. Schlapp, and those who lie for him, accountable for their actions.”
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The 2024 edition of the trucking atlas for professional drivers released today
CHICAGO, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rand McNally today released the new annual edition of its best-selling Motor Carriers' Road Atlas for professional drivers.
Despite near ubiquitous use of GPS for routing trucks, Rand McNally's best-selling atlas is often the go-to navigation device that experienced drivers use to plot their course and to use when GPS devices fail to operate appropriately. This is why Rand McNally's Motor Carrier's Road Atlases continue to elicit five-star reviews for accuracy, dependability, and ease of use.
Each edition includes updated state and national truck-accessible routes; the latest state-by-state regulations; fuel tax charts; restricted routes, low-clearance, and more.
The 2024 edition updates include:
- Comprehensive update of fuel tax information, tractor/trailer inspection procedures
- Hazmat route regulations, tips and facts, on-the-road resources, state access policies, and more
- Updated restricted routes, low clearance, and weigh station locations
- Updated population values in the index
- The addition of mileage-based exit numbers along Interstate 95 in Rhode Island
- Revised 22-page mileage directory that includes more than 40,000 truck route-specific, city-to-city mileages
- Detailed coverage of state and national designated routes
- Road construction and conditions hotlines
- Easy-to-use chart of state and provincial permit agency phone numbers and websites
- Redesignation of U.S. Highway 264 in North Carolina along I-95 near Wilson to Greenville to Interstate 587
The new editions of the atlas are available in paperback; a spiral-bound, laminated Deluxe version; and a Large Scale edition with maps that are 37% larger printed on laminated pages with a tough spiral binding that allows the book to lay open easily. All can be purchased at travel centers, in bookstores, online at the Rand McNally Store, and other e-commerce stores.
To learn more about these atlases, visit randmcnally.com/motor-carriers-road-atlas.
Visit randmcnally.com/roadatlas for more information on all Road Atlas products, celebrating 100 years with the 2024 editions.
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Bud Light wanted to market to all. Instead, it’s alienating everyone
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN
For years, Bud Light leaned on jokey ad campaigns and its designation as a light beer to push sales. But recently, interest in beer has faltered, and beer brands have had to rethink their offerings and marketing strategies to reach new audiences.
Now, Bud Light finds itself seeking younger drinkers, and stumbling through America’s polarized landscape in the process.
The brand’s sponsorship of an April 1 Instagram post by a transgender woman, Dylan Mulvaney, set off a firestorm of anti-trans backlash and calls for a boycott. The company first responded with a straightforward explanation of its relationship with social media influencers. But later it released a milquetoast statement from the CEO, which angered both sides, and made changes it its management structure, suggesting that there had been some sort of miscommunication about how to market the brand.
Bud Light is not alone in struggling to reach some audiences without offending others. Customers increasingly want to feel like the products they buy represent their values. But those values are often opposed, creating a tricky situation for advertisers who want to convince everyone that their product is right for them.
“There are two trends that are colliding,” said Daniel Korschun, associate professor of marketing at Drexel University. “People are much more interested than ever before in the underlying values of brands,” and at the same time, there’s “the political polarization of the country.”
Some brands are able to walk the line, or pick a side and stick with it. Bud Light failed on both counts.
“Bud Light misunderstood their ability to reach out to a new target market and the backlash they would face with some segment of their current market,” said Jared Watson, assistant professor of marketing at New York University.
With the CEO’s response, “they did this half-step backwards, which doesn’t satisfy their existing market.” Meanwhile, “this market they’re trying to appeal to … sees this as an inauthentic move. And so they end up in a position where they’ve satisfied nobody.”
How we got here
The controversy started with a single commemorative can of beer, one which wasn’t even for sale. The can wasn’t featured in a 30-second Super Bowl commercial, a billboard on the highway, or a glossy magazine spread, but in an Instagram post.
The post is a video from Mulvaney, a performer and influencer who had posted about Bud Light previously as a brand partner. This specific post, however, showcased a customized Bud Light can the brand sent her as a gift to mark a milestone in her transition. The video went viral, with some supporting Mulvaney and the company, and others responding with anti-trans reactions and calls for a Bud Light boycott.
BeerBoard, which tracks sales data, previously told CNN that the 3,000 locations it tracks poured 6% less Bud Light than rivals — including Miller Lite and Coors Light — from April 2 to April 15, a turnaround from previous weeks. Also, Bud Light sales fell 17% in the week ended April 15 compared to the same week in 2022, according to an analysis of NIQ data compiled by Bump Williams Consulting provided to the Wall Street Journal.
Still, it’s too soon to tell whether the boycott efforts will have long-lasting sales impacts, as customers often don’t commit to them for long. And the stock of Bud Light owner Anheuser-Busch has fallen only about 3% in the last month, suggesting Wall Street isn’t too worried. Anheuser-Busch reports earnings on May 4.
At first, Anheuser-Busch offered a straightforward explanation of its relationship with social media influencers in reaction to the backlash.
“Anheuser-Busch works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics,” an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson told CNN in April. “From time to time we produce unique commemorative cans for fans and for brand influencers.”
Yet there was enough of an uproar to prompt a an additional response from Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth, who released a vague statement calling for unity.
The CEO speaks
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer,” Whitworth said in an April 14 statement titled “Our Responsibility to America.” He said the company has “a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere” and that he would “continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation.”
The words said nothing much, and they managed to anger many on both sides: those who thought Bud Light owed them an apology, and trans rights advocates who wanted a stronger defense of the at-risk community. Transgender people are more than four times as likely to be victims of violent crime than cisgender people, according to a study from the UCLA School of Law.
“Whitworth’s statement was indefensible,” wrote the Advocate’s senior editor John Casey in an article calling for a Bud Light boycott. “It exacerbates the disgust for trans people that is seething in Republican-led state legislatures all across the country.” Over 400 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures this year through April 3, according to American Civil Liberties Union, including ones restricting access to gender-affirming care for trans youth. The Human Rights Campaign, which fights for LGBTQ rights, reportedly sent a letter to Anheuser-Busch asking it to stand with the trans community.
Tim Calkins, associate chair of the marketing department at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, said the statement was “remarkable in its lack of substance … it said basically nothing.” Still, Calkins said, he understands why a CEO would try to stay neutral. “You really can’t go either way, you’re caught.”
But recent history shows that there are consequences for backing away from a controversial topic. In March of last year, Disney’s then CEO Bob Chapek at first declined to condemn Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, telling staffers that corporate statements “are often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame.” The non-statement was roundly criticized and Chapek eventually apologized, saying “you needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down. I am sorry,” in a letter to employees. In November, Chapek was replaced by Bob Iger.
Marketing team shakeup
In addition to issuing a statement from the CEO, Anheuser-Busch made changes to its marketing team in the wake of the backlash.
Two marketing vice presidents, Alissa Heinerscheid of Bud Light and Daniel Blake of A-B, have taken leaves of absences. Heinerscheid — who discussed efforts to update the brand in a podcast episode that aired prior to Mulvaney’s April 1 post — has been heavily targeted in the conservative press.
The changes are designed “to streamline the structure of our marketing function to reduce layers so that our most senior marketers are more closely connected to every aspect of our brands’ activities,” a spokesperson said in a statement in response to a request for comment to this story.
For Calkins, the moves suggest Bud Light’s management team wasn’t fully behind the decision to sponsor Mulvaney’s posts.
“I think it is safe to say that there was not alignment with the strategy … The brand embarked on [it], but without the full support of senior leadership,” he said.
Calkins, who spoke with CNN previously about the challenges and importance of inclusive marketing, reiterated the message. “There really is a need to be inclusive, and welcoming,” he said. “But you want to do that without getting into the middle of the most controversial issues.”
For her part, Mulvaney, who had stayed quiet on social media in the weeks since the backlash began, spoke directly to her followers in a TikTok video on Thursday. “What I’m struggling to understand is the need to dehumanize and to be cruel. I don’t think that’s right,” she said, adding “what I’m interested in is getting back to making people laugh.”
Staying the course
For Bud Light, the problem wasn’t partnering with Mulvaney, but failing to show her supporters that it was willing to stand behind her when she was targeted, noted NYU’s Watson.
“It makes a world of sense to partner with Dylan, to reach a younger audience, a more diverse audience,” he said. Mulvaney, who is in her mid-20s, has 10.8 million TikTok followers and 1.8 million Instagram followers, an attractive group for a company trying to reach young customers.
But, Watson said, “that partnership has to also have additional evidence of support.”
Some companies have weathered backlash by staying steadfast in their convictions.
Take Nike. The athletics brand featured Colin Kaepernick in an ad in 2018, after the football player became a polarizing figure for kneeling during the national anthem to raise awareness about police brutality. It faced plenty of backlash and calls for a boycott at the time. But it stuck the course, and the following year won an Emmy for its Kaepernick commercial. Over the past five years, Nike’s stock has grown about 86%.
Nike “understood that some segment of [their] market would feel disenfranchised by their action, but a large segment … would feel empowered,” Watson said. Bud Light, he thinks, could be missing out on that type of support. “It appears that they pulled the plug far too early.”
— CNN’s Jordan Valinsky and Vanessa Yurkevich contributed reporting.
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Which smokeless fire pit is best?
There’s nothing better on a cool night than sitting around a fire with your friends. The downside to a fire is somehow someone is always sitting directly in the path of the smoke. Not so with a smokeless fire pit — these use propane bottles to fuel the flames, which means less mess in addition to no smoke.
The best smokeless fire pit is the Outland Living Firebowl Mega Outdoor Propane Gas Fire Pit. It outputs up to 58,000 British thermal units, keeping you warm on the coldest nights.
What to know before you buy a smokeless fire pit
Size
Smokeless fire pits have two key dimensions: width and height.
- Width: Most pits have diameters of 20-32 inches, though there are a handful of options outside this range. The wider the pit the more area — and people — it can warm effectively. Just make sure it also has enough power.
- Height: Most pits have heights of 10-30 inches. Choose the height that works best for your planned seating arrangement.
Portability and weight
Many smokeless fire pits are designed with travel in mind and especially for camping. If you plan on traveling, look for fire pits that include transportation assistance or easy-carry handles and check to make sure it isn’t heavier than you can handle. Most travel-minded pits weigh 20-40 pounds.
What to look for in a quality smokeless fire pit
Power
Smokeless fire pits measure their power with British thermal units. Most pits have 30,000-58,000 Btu. Aim for at least 40,000 Btu to stay warm. Though, if you’re in a cold climate, you should aim for at least 50,000 Btu. Any Btu less than 40,000 is more for show than for heating.
Ignition system
Igniting gas is never completely safe. As such, the best smokeless fire pits have ignition systems that let you ignite the gas at a distance. The best ignition systems trigger with the push of a button.
Cover
The best smokeless fire pits include a cover, with the best covers having weather and ultraviolet light protection plus a method to secure the cover in place. These covers are invaluable for extending the life span of your fire pit.
Lava rocks
Many smokeless fire pits include lava rocks, glass beads or other similar items. These help the propane-fueled flames look more natural and also help to spread out the heat of the flames.
How much you can expect to spend on a smokeless fire pit
Smokeless fire pits typically cost $100-$400. Smaller pits typically cost $150 or less while most cost $200-$300. The largest and most decorative pits typically cost $400 or more.
Smokeless fire pit FAQ
Can I use a smokeless fire pit inside?
A. No, smokeless fire pits must only be used in a well-ventilated outdoor area since propane gives off toxic fumes as it burns. This means no using one on a sealed patio, even if it has some ventilation.
Can I use natural gas instead of propane to fuel my smokeless fire pit?
A. Some smokeless fire pits are designed to use natural gas, but most are set up to use propane. It’s possible to convert a propane pit into a natural gas pit, but it’s difficult to do and — because of natural gas’s high flammability — dangerous. If you want to use natural gas, buy the correct fire pit.
What safety precautions should I take when using a smokeless fire pit?
A. There are a few.
- First, never use your pit near anything flammable. This includes the propane tank, which should be kept as far from the pit as possible.
- Secondly, never leave a burning pit unattended and never use it in especially dry or windy areas.
- Thirdly, stay as far from the pit as possible when lighting it. Once lit, it’s safe to get closer to stay warm — just stay at least two feet away.
What’s the best smokeless fire pit to buy?
Top smokeless fire pit
Outland Living Firebowl Mega Outdoor Propane Gas Fire Pit
What you need to know: This large fire pit is perfect for backyards as well as campgrounds.
What you’ll love: The pit is 24 inches wide and has a maximum power of 58,000 Btu to comfortably warm up to six people. Included is a weather-resistant cover, decorative rock set and a 10-foot hose with a regulator. It’s made of strong, durable steel to last for years.
What you should consider: It takes time for the rocks to heat enough to better spread out the heat, plus the heat is mostly directed upward rather than outward.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top smokeless fire pit for the money
Outland Living Firebowl Deluxe Outdoor Portable Propane Gas Fire Pit
What you need to know: This smaller fire pit is designed for travel and includes extras to make it easier.
What you’ll love: The pit is 19 inches wide and has a maximum power of 58,000 Btu to comfortably warm up to four people. A weather-resistant cover-and-carry kit lets you carry the pit with one hand and your propane bottle in the other.
What you should consider: There’s no igniter. The pit takes time to cool enough to place the travel cover and straps on — packing up early melts the straps.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Bond Manufacturing Newcastle Propane Firebowl
What you need to know: If you value aesthetics, take a look at this fire pit.
What you’ll love: The raised design places the flame at chest height when seated or waist height when standing. Its power is 40,000 Btu at maximum. A pulse ignition system and control knob make lighting and adjusting it safe and easy.
What you should consider: A few purchasers received damaged columns. Others reported cracks appearing after a year or two. It’s among the priciest pits.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Wayfair
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Brandon Hagel Player Prop Bets: Lightning vs. Maple Leafs - NHL Playoffs First Round Game 5
Brandon Hagel will be in action Thursday when his Tampa Bay Lightning face the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 5 of the NHL Playoffs First Round at Scotiabank Arena. If you'd like to wager on Hagel's prop bets, we've got lots of information to help you.
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Brandon Hagel vs. Maple Leafs Game Info & Odds
- When: Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TBS, CBC, SportsNet, TVAS, and BSSUN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Points Prop: 0.5 points (Over odds: -125)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 assists (Over odds: +180)
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Hagel Season Stats Insights
- Hagel has averaged 18:38 of ice time this season (with a plus-minus rating of +23).
- Hagel has a goal in 26 games this season out of 81 games played, including multiple goals four times.
- Hagel has a point in 44 games this season (out of 81), including multiple points 18 times.
- In 33 of 81 games this year, Hagel has registered an assist, and in four of those matches recorded two or more.
- Hagel's odds on his points over/under carry an implied probability of 55.6% that he hits the over.
- There is a 35.7% chance of Hagel having more than 0.5 assists, based on the moneyline odds.
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Hagel Stats vs. the Maple Leafs
- The Maple Leafs have given up 220 goals in total (2.7 per game), which ranks seventh in the NHL for fewest goals allowed.
- The team has the NHL's fifth-best goal differential at +58.
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Trump calls for ‘immediate’ release of Mar-a-Lago warrant
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump called late Thursday for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.”
In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents ... I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.” He continued to assail the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago as “unAmerican, unwarranted and unnecessary.”
“Release the documents now!” he wrote.
The Justice Department request earlier Thursday is striking because such documents traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and his allies, and that the public was entitled to the FBI’s side about what prompted Monday’s action at the former president’s home.
“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” said a motion filed in federal court in Florida on Thursday.
Should the warrant be released — the request is now with the judge — it could disclose unflattering information about the former president and about FBI scrutiny of his handling of sensitive government documents right as he prepares for another run for the White House. During his successful 2016 campaign, he pointed frequently to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information.
It’s unclear at this point how much information would be included in the documents, if made public, or if they would encompass an FBI affidavit that would presumably lay out a detailed factual basis for the search. The department specifically requested the unsealing of the warrant as well as a property receipt listing the items that were seized, along with two unspecified attachments.
To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must prove to a judge that probable cause exists to believe that a crime was committed. Garland said he personally approved the warrant, a decision he said the department did not take lightly given that standard practice where possible is to select less intrusive tactics than a search of one’s home.
In this case, according to a person familiar with the matter, there was substantial engagement with Trump and his representatives prior to the search warrant, including a subpoena for records and a visit to Mar-a-Lago a couple of months ago by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the documents were stored. The person was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Neither Trump nor the FBI has said anything about what documents the FBI might have recovered, or what precisely agents were looking for. But the former president complained anew Thursday about the search.
Trump, who for years has lambasted the FBI and sought to sow distrust among his supporters in its decisions, said the warrant was served and the search conducted despite his cooperation with the Justice Department over the search.
In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump said that his “attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully” prior to the search, and that government officials “could have had whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, if we had it.”
The Justice Department has until Friday afternoon to alert the judge about whether Trump will object to the release.
FBI and Justice Department policy cautions against discussing ongoing investigations, both to protect the integrity of probes and to avoid unfairly maligning someone who is being scrutinized but winds up ultimately not being charged. That’s especially true in the case of search warrants, where supporting court papers are routinely kept secret as the investigation proceeds.
In this case, though, Garland cited the fact that Trump himself had provided the first public confirmation of the FBI search, “as is his right.” The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court’s functions.
Even so, Garland, in a hastily scheduled public statement delivered from the Justice Department podium, appeared to acknowledge the unusual nature of the department’s request as he declined to take questions or provide any substantive details about the FBI’s investigation.
“Much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. We do that to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations,” he said. “Federal law, longstanding department rules and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further details as to the basis of the search at this time.”
The Justice Department under Garland has been leery of public statements about politically charged investigations, or of confirming to what extent it might be investigating Trump as part of a broader probe into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The department has tried to avoid being seen as injecting itself into presidential politics, as happened in 2016 when then-FBI Director James Comey made an unusual public statement announcing that the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against Clinton regarding her handling of email — and when he spoke up again just over a week before the election to notify Congress that the probe was being effectively reopened because of the discovery of new emails.
The Mar-a-Lago search warrant served Monday was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year. The National Archives had asked the department to investigate after saying 15 boxes of records it retrieved from the estate included classified records. Multiple federal laws govern the handling of classified information.
The attorney general also condemned verbal attacks on FBI and Justice Department personnel over the search. Some Republican allies of Trump have called for the FBI to be defunded. Large numbers of Trump supporters have called for the warrant to be released hoping they it will show that Trump was unfairly targeted.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said of federal law enforcement agents, calling them “dedicated, patriotic public servants.”
Earlier Thursday, an armed man wearing body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio, then fled and was later killed after a standoff with law enforcement. A law enforcement official briefed on the matter identified the man as Ricky Shiffer and said he is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol and may have been there on the day it took place.
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Roughly 3 in 4 gig and corporate workers worry about their financial health if a recession were to hit in the next year, and findings reveal corporate workers are using additional gig work to supplement their income
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wonolo, an on-demand job marketplace that connects workers to hourly and flat-rate jobs posted by thousands of businesses across the United States, today released The State of Financial Health of Today's Workforce report, dialing into how the current economy is impacting gig workers and full-time corporate workers.
The report reveals that a vast majority of corporate workers (92%) and gig workers (85%) said the cost of their bills have increased in the last six months, but just two in five corporate workers (41%) and gig workers (42%) have received a raise, or cost of living increase, in the last six months. Additionally, 55% of gig workers and 42% of corporate workers are living paycheck to paycheck.
Nearly the same number of corporate workers (75%) and gig workers (78%) worry about their financial health if a recession were to hit in the next year. A quarter (25%) of corporate workers don't feel they can comfortably pay for all the necessities of their family with their full-time job income, while almost a third (32%) of gig workers feel the same. However, 28% of corporate workers have a part-time job or side gig in addition to their full-time job – with Gen Zers (44%) the most likely to take on side work.
"Volatilities in our economy are impacting workers across the board. Our data shows corporate workers supplementing their income with additional gig work to be able to pay their bills," said Yong Kim, CEO of Wonolo. "Gig workers are increasingly playing a key role in filling critical jobs for our economy to thrive. Yet, companies have not paid close attention to the needs of gig workers. Investing properly in all types of workers will help create a more agile labor force across the nation that can adapt to economic change."
Additional findings from the report include:
Both gig and corporate workers experience mental and physical health impacts from their jobs, but employers can combat the effects with benefits adjustments
- Nearly one in three (29%) of gig workers think their job negatively affects their mental and physical health – the top three things that would help improve their health are designated mental health days (76%), better financial benefits (73%), and better health benefits (69%).
- In comparison, a quarter (25%) of corporate workers think their job is negatively affecting both their physical and mental health and the top three things that would help improve their health are designated mental health days (76%), if their company hired more workers to lessen the workload (72%), and more flexibility in their scheduled work hours (71%).
Despite corporate workers often having more benefits, gig workers win out on flexibility
- While 61% of both corporate and gig workers have set work hours that can be adjusted in special cases, gig workers tend to have more flexibility overall, with 19% of gig workers able to work any time or day they want as long as they get their work done, compared to 14% of corporate workers.
- Working 9-5 may be the traditional schedule that 88% of corporate workers follow, but just 66% of gig workers take on work during that time, with a quarter (26%) most likely to take on work at night and 8% most likely to take on work over the weekend, when it might be more convenient.
Corporate Gen Zers fear job loss in a recession, and it's impacting their mental health
- Corporate Gen Zers (35%) are the most worried about losing their job if a recession were to happen in the next year, compared to Millennials (19%), Gen Xers (23%) or Baby Boomers (13%).
- Corporate Gen Zers (41%) are the most likely to miss family vacations because of work, compared to Millennials (34%), Gen Xers (28%) or Baby Boomers (14%), which may contribute to why they are the most likely (24%) to say their job negatively affects their mental health.
Gig workers get their start for a variety of reasons – from passion to money – but younger workers tend to think most about gaining experience
- Roughly 1 in 3 of gig workers (32%) went into their line of work because they're passionate about the work, while 21% went into it because they like the flexibility, 16% were in between salaried jobs and needed to make extra money.
- Gen Z gig workers (16%) are nearly twice as likely as other generations to go into their line of work to gain more experience for other opportunities.
For the complete survey findings, check out the full report: The State of Financial Health of Today's Workforce
Wonolo is an on-demand job marketplace that has connected over one million workers ("Wonoloers") to retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and other types of hourly and flat-rate jobs posted by thousands of businesses across the United States. Wonolo is on a mission to make work flexible and fulfilling for everyone, while enabling businesses to efficiently fill local job opportunities. For more information, visit www.wonolo.com.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has used his first face-to-face meetings with America’s Asia-Pacific allies since 2020 to try to forge diplomatic inroads as Washington pushes back against Beijing’s influence in the region.
Xi has not backed away from China’s longstanding claims to Taiwan and most of the South China Sea. But his comments to various leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Bangkok this week have focused more on Beijing’s pivotal economic role for its neighbors.
As China’s stature has risen, its diplomacy has grown more nuanced than the high-handed approach that has sometimes sparked resentment in the past.
“Xi Jinping’s diplomatic engagements and the supporting chorus of propaganda messages have sought to put forward a softer, smiling facade in what appears to be an effort to reduce friction and tensions, particularly with the U.S. and European countries that have become increasingly critical, frustrated and committed to competing with China,” said Drew Thompson, a visiting senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
In his address to the annual summit of APEC, whose 21-member economies ring the Pacific, Xi said that “China is ready to pursue peaceful coexistence and common development with all countries on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit.”
China will “continue to share our development opportunities with the world, particularly with the Asia-Pacific region,” added Xi, who has garnered a reputation as an ardent nationalist who would always put China’s interests first and never surrender “one inch” of Chinese territory.
Thompson said Xi’s reappearance on the world stage after staying in China for more than two years during the pandemic “was reassuring for many countries that have sought to establish contact with the top, perhaps the only decision-maker in China.”
The APEC forum is the third of three high-level summits in Asia where the U.S. has been pushing the message that Washington is a reliable economic and security partner, as it seeks to counter China’s growing influence.
In a speech to a business conference Friday on the sidelines of APEC, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris assured Asian leaders “the United States is here to stay.”
“And there is no better economic partner for this region than the United States of America,” she said.
Sometimes leaders in Tokyo and Beijing can go years without meeting, reflecting longstanding grievances from Japan’s World War II invasion and occupation of China and other issues. In a meeting Thursday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Bangkok, Xi stressed that the two countries should be “partners, not threats.”
Kishida told reporters after the 45-minute meeting that he had a “candid and detailed discussion” with Xi.
He said he expressed “serious concerns” over China’s activity in the East China Sea, including around the disputed Senkaku islands, as well as Beijing’s military activity such as launches of ballistic missiles. But he also told Xi there were various possibilities for cooperation and that it was important for Japan and China to achieve “constructive and stable” relations.
While not a U.S. ally like Japan, tiny Singapore largely embodies the region’s desire to balance its ties with Washington and Beijing. The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet plays an active role in the strategically key South China Sea, which China claims virtually in its entirety, and Singapore supports the American military presence.
The object appears to be to take advantage of development opportunities and close economic ties with Beijing while resisting Chinese domination.
In his meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Xi pledged to work with the city-state whose population is largely ethnically Chinese to “keep to the right direction of economic and regional integration.”
In another bilateral meeting, Xi told Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whose country is a treaty ally and important security partner of the U.S., that China is willing to boost its imports of food and other products and work together on agriculture, infrastructure, energy and people-to-people exchanges.
The Philippines, Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia have long had territorial disputes with China over its claims in the South China Sea.
That came up at the meeting with Marcos, where Xi appeared to give no ground, saying only that “on the South China Sea, the two sides must stick to friendly consultations and handle differences and disputes properly.”
After the meeting, Marcos’ office issued a short statement saying he had “expressed elation” after speaking with Xi and looked forward to a state visit to China in January.
Marcos’ office later added that the two agreed their maritime issues “do not define the totality of Philippines-China relations.”
“Our foreign policy refuses to fall into the trap of a Cold War mindset,” Marcos said. “Ours is an independent foreign policy guided by our national interest and commitment to peace.”
President Joe Biden represented the U.S. at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Cambodia and then the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia, with Vice President Kamala Harris representing the U.S. in Thailand.
Xi was not at the ASEAN summit, where Premier Li Keqiang represented China. At the G-20 meetings earlier this week in Bali, Indonesia, he met on the sidelines with Biden.
There was no remarkable sign of a warming of the chill between Beijing and Washington from that encounter, perhaps unsurprising given the raft of contentious issues between them.
According to the U.S., Biden reiterated Washington’s longstanding “One China” policy, which recognizes the government in Beijing — while allowing for informal American relations and defense ties with Taiwan, a separately governed island democracy that China claims as its territory.
Xi stressed that “the Taiwan question is at the very core of China’s core interests, the bedrock of the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, and the first red line that must not be crossed in China-U.S. relations,” according to the Chinese government’s account of the meeting.
China staged major military drills in areas surrounding Taiwan in August in an angry response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit there, and fired five ballistic missiles into waters near the Japanese island of Okinawa, infuriating Japan.
While Xi might have adopted a softer approach, he is not giving ground on any substantive issues, Thompson said.
“The discourse did not seek to address underlying diverging interests or describe an alternate paradigm where China might be willing to compromise and accommodate other country’s interests, rather than relentlessly pursuing their own at other countries’ expense,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this story.
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Integrating Millimeter-Wave Radar Module for Smart Cars to Improve Driving Safety with Accuracy and Stability
TAIPEI, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HCMF Group and TMY Technology Inc. (TMYTEK) have developed the latest millimeter wave smart car door sensing technology significantly improving the sensitivity, efficiency and safety of automatic car door opening and closing. This Door Control Unit (DCU) solution, on display at CES 2023 (Booth #7065), combines HCMF Group's 60 years of experience in automotive component and system design and development with TMYTEK's revolutionary millimeter wave radar module.
Accidents caused by inadvertent opening of car doors are common because of the inability to detect objects approaching quickly from a distance. The millimeter wave radar module developed by TMYTEK has the feature of detecting frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW), which can measure a very small target range (the minimum measurement range is equivalent to the transmission wavelength) and its relative speed, so that such long-distance and fast moving objects can be efficiently and accurately sensed, allowing the automatic car door to response accordingly and reduce the risk of an accident. HCMF group's door system also combines blind spot detection with an e-mirror, when a passenger wants to exit the vehicle and opens the door, electronic rearview mirror and radar detects oncoming cars. There is an object outside the car door and provides warning, and can even lock the car door when there is a risk of collision.
Su-Wei Chang, Founder and President of TMYTEK, stated that, "We are pleased to be working with HCMF group, a major manufacturer of automotive systems, as the beginning of our entry into the automotive market. Millimeter wave radar will play an increasingly important role in the automotive field, with applications such as road vehicle monitoring and recording, autonomous driving, traffic flow detection, and vehicle collision avoidance. We are developing safety applications such as breath detection to meet different market needs."
Another example of the synergies between the two companies includes integrating TMYTEK's antenna system technologies into the Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (PDLC) automobile sunroofs developed by HCMF group.. These sunroofs retain their original ventilation and lighting features, but add advanced intelligence, heat insulation, and noise reduction technologies, while maintaining key performance and aesthetics.
"We are pleased to be able to work with TMYTEK and other partners to build system products," said Jeffrey Hsi, CTO of HCMF group. "In the development of smart cars, Tier 1 system vendors like HCMF need to integrate new technologies in our familiar body and closure systems (roofs, side doors, tailgates) to provide customers with a complete electromechanical solution. This allows OEMs to focus their resources on core technology such as batteries, motors, autonomous driving, etc. HCMF group seeks to help OEM customers with closure systems and provide new technology features on their vehicles."
About HCMF Group
HCMF was established in 1961 and as a global automobile Tier 1 system supplier with more than 60 years experience in design and manufacturing. HCMF has around 30 sites globally to provide tailored service to our customers. Our vast knowledge and expertise through years of product experience provide solutions to satisfy our customer needs. We believe strongly in upholding integrity and cooperation to maximize benefits to our customers and partners.
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Dutch court finds two Russians, one Ukrainian separatist guilty over downing of flight MH17
By Sophie Tanno, CNN
Two Russians and a separatist Ukrainian have been found guilty in absentia of mass murder for their involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, a Dutch court ruled Thursday.
A fourth suspect, a Russian, was acquitted by the court.
MH17 was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, when it was shot out of the sky over territory held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
All 298 people on board were killed in the incident, including 15 crew members and 283 passengers from 17 countries. The downing of the jet happened in the early phase of a conflict between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian forces.
The four suspects, including Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian separatist Leonid Kharchenko, were put on trial in absentia over two years at Schiphol Judicial Complex in Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands. Only Pulatov was acquitted.
The Dutch court’s verdict comes nearly nine months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and weeks after Moscow sought to illegally annex four Ukrainian regions, including the area where prosecutors say the missile that brought down MH17 was fired from eight years earlier.
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Jill Biden to visit Namibia, Kenya, part of US-Africa push
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden will visit Namibia and Kenya this week as part of a United States push to step up engagement with Africa. President Joe Biden told African leaders at a summit last year that the U.S. is “all in” on the continent’s future. He promised multiple visits by U.S. officials, including himself. The U.S. is trying to catch up with China, which has outpaced the United States in terms of trade with African countries. The first lady opens the trip Wednesday in Namibia and will highlight issues around empowering women and young people, food insecurity and U.S. relations with Namibia and Kenya.
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- 56th annual award presented to engineers Luca De Angelis, Luca Pierrettori, Taylor Prohaska and Simone Pusca
- Award sponsored by BorgWarner and presented by the Indiana Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers International
- Technology provides two-way over-the-air communication to each car, team, race control and track flag system
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the 56th annual Louis Schwitzer Award was presented to EM Motorsport engineers Luca De Angelis, Luca Pierrettori and Simone Pusca, as well as NTT INDYCAR® SERIES engineer Taylor Prohaska for their creative thinking and engineering innovation in bringing the EM Marshalling System to life. This technology has been adopted by INDYCAR and is making a significant impact by providing new, two-way over-the-air communication to each car, team, race control and track flag system. The award, along with a $10,000 prize, was given to De Angelis, Pierrettori, Prohaska and Pusca today at Indianapolis Motor Speedway by BorgWarner and the Indiana Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International.
The Louis Schwitzer Award celebrates the engineers behind developing new, innovative concepts aimed toward increasing competitive potential. Presented to engineers by engineers, the award focuses on cutting-edge technology with applications related to the engine, powertrain, profile, chassis or safety that meet the NTT INDYCAR SERIES specifications. Ultimately, judges recognize inventions that advance performance, safety or efficiency in motorsports.
"At BorgWarner, it's important that we not only honor the racers competing to win the Borg-Warner Trophy®, but also those who have worked tirelessly to bring new, cutting-edge technology to the racetrack and recognize the crucial role engineers play in driving the innovative future of motorsports," said Frédéric Lissalde, President and CEO, BorgWarner Inc. "As a proud sponsor of the Louis Schwitzer Award, we congratulate these four talented engineers for their engineering achievements and contributions to the racing industry. As the official turbocharger partner of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, BorgWarner has a vested interest in witnessing the evolution of this Series' technology and commend the hard work and engineering excellence that powers it."
The EM Marshalling System provides key information to increase the quantity and quality of data for safety, performance and future applications. For example, the system improves the visibility of cars on the track for race control. Additionally, the flag types have been animated to better illuminate track conditions to drivers.
Along with celebrating engineering excellence, this award commemorates the spirit of Louis Schwitzer, the winner of the first auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909 and designer of the "Marmon Yellow Jacket" engine that powered the Marmon Wasp to victory during the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911. Schwitzer went on to lead the Indianapolis Motor Speedway technical committee and founded the Schwitzer Corporation in 1918, which was acquired by BorgWarner in 1999 to expand the company's line of engine cooling systems, turbochargers and more.
BorgWarner's historical legacy with the Indianapolis 500 runs deep featuring the Borg-Warner Trophy as the main attraction. Each year since 1936, the winner of the big race has had the honor of having their face sculpted and forever engraved onto the iconic trophy, as well as receiving a miniature version of the award known as the "Baby Borg", as a personal keepsake. BorgWarner's heritage continues with its EFR™ (Engineered for Racing) turbochargers boosting the engines of every racecar participating in the Indianapolis 500. The turbochargers are built for reliability, featuring Gamma-Ti (titanium aluminide) turbine wheels, stainless steel turbine housings and ceramic ball bearings.
About BorgWarner
For more than 130 years, BorgWarner has been a transformative global product leader bringing successful mobility innovation to market. Today, we're accelerating the world's transition to eMobility — to help build a cleaner, healthier, safer future for all.
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Industry leader to spearhead training for HVAC, plumbing and electrical technicians
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leap Partners, a home services company with businesses across the Southeast, has hired Mitch Mobley as vice president of Operational Support. In this new role, Mobley will lead the HVAC, plumbing and electrical technician training and development program for all of Leap Partners' companies. His responsibilities will include training technicians on improving efficiencies and customer service.
"In addition to having industry expertise, Mitch is an excellent training and development leader," said John Cerasuolo, Leap Partners CEO. "We're confident that, with him leading our technician training program, Leap Partners' companies will have the best team of technicians in the industry."
Mobley joins Leap Partners with more than a decade of experience. Prior to his new role, at Leap Partners, he was general manager of the northern middle Tennessee territory for Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical. Before that role, he led Hiller's efforts in developing and implementing the company's training programs.
"The Leap Partners team is full of home service industry veterans, and I'm excited to join them," Mobley said. "I'm energized by the big ambitions to set up a program that trains technicians to deliver the best customer service with the highest level of professionalism and expertise."
Mobley is a Nashville, Tenn., native and in his spare time enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons. He is an avid sports fan who enjoys watching his boys learn and play the sports he grew up playing.
Headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., Leap Partners is working to connect the best small and medium-sized HVAC, plumbing and electrical service businesses in the Southeast to build a world-class service provider. The company's family of service businesses currently includes Conditioned Air Solutions (Huntsville, Ala.), Scenic City Heating & AC (Chattanooga, Tenn.), George Plumbing (Hartselle, Ala.), and Drain Werks (Birmingham, Ala.). Under Leap Partners' ownership, these businesses are committed to providing industry-leading customer satisfaction and employee engagement. For more information and to read partner testimonials, visit theleappartners.com and theleappartners.com/testimonials.
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SHELTON, Conn., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Liza Lee Ginoni-Gambino, a local Shelton resident and lifelong resident of Connecticut has been selected to participate in the Mrs. Connecticut America Pageant on June 4, 2023, at the Hilton Stamford Hotel & Executive Meeting Center. Liza will be competing with other women throughout CT for the title and crown to represent her state at the National Mrs. America Pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada in August of this year.
The Mrs. Connecticut Pageant incorporates a panel-style interview with five judges which counts for 50% of the participant's score. The contestants will also be judged in an evening gown, swimsuit, and a final question encompassing being a wife in today's world.
Liza is excited to be a part of such a wonderful event that will allow her to show her love and her light unto women, young and old, that beauty is about loving yourself and being strong. When Liza was asked why she was doing the Pageant, she simply said, "I am inspired to do this pageant to empower others to dig deep and truly love themselves enough to see their own beauty; to feel like you are enough in this crazy world. And to find their peace. In my profession as a fitness trainer and nutritionist, I empower others to be strong in mind and strong in body. This plays a big part in who I am today as a mom, a wife, a friend, and almost a 50-year-old woman. I inspire others to lead healthy lifestyles and know that they can heal their bodies from injuries, health conditions, and ailments. I have always said...It's not about having a 6-pack or a perfect body. It is about being strong.... strong enough to fight the battles in life and to truly LOVE YOURSELF."
Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-state-pageant-for-mrs-ct-ri-america-miss-ct-ri-for-america-tickets-631251940547?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
About Liza Lee Ginoni-Gambino
Liza is married and has two teenage daughters. She is a fitness trainer specializing in Pilates with a focus on healing the body while strengthening the spine and core. She currently works for the Club Pilates franchise studios in the local area for over five years and at CT Fitness Pros in Shelton. She has been teaching fitness classes for over 21 years. She attended Saint Joseph High School in Trumbull and continued to Eastern Connecticut State University and obtained her BS in Business with a concentration in Marketing. She worked in Advertising & Sales for ten years in the newspaper/magazine field working for such companies as The Connecticut Post, The New Haven Register, and Travelware Magazine. While working in sales, Liza also attended the University of Bridgeport for the Master's Program in Human Nutrition. A couple of years later in 2001, she had a life-threatening surgery, which in turn shifted her career path to fitness. She hung up her high heel shoes for a pair of Nike's. Her first focus became rehabbing herself which transformed into 21 years of helping others heal their bodies. Even when Covid hit in 2020, Liza began virtual training which she continues today so that her friends, family, neighbors, and clients could still be able to continue their workout journey.
Her children, which are 16 and 19, have been an enormous part of Liza's life and journey. She has been an active volunteer in all the schools her daughters attended from pre-school to high school. She began a wellness program along with the school director as Wellness President at Susanna Wesley School and was an active volunteer in all schools in the PTO, as a Room Parent, and overall volunteer at school events, field trips, and classroom gatherings. She was also a volunteer for the Girl Scouts of America for her daughters throughout elementary school. Liza also ran a mother's group with another local woman with over 100 members at the same time. Lastly, she is currently on the cheer board for Shelton High School for the past six years. Her life is her children and bringing health and wellness to them is a priority. Both children have been competitive athletes since they were five years old. Her oldest is competing in her first fitness bodybuilding show in June and her younger daughter was nominated as Cheer Captain for the 2023-2024 season. Liza also donates blood to the Red Cross every 59 days. Due to the surgery that almost ended her life, she decided that there were many donors that enabled her to stay alive, therefore she donates to help save the lives of those who need her donation. She is a Red Cross advocate and encourages others to donate.
Liza's decision to compete in the pageant was just recent. A good friend and professional make-up artist, Kristina Foreman of makemakeup.com approached Liza about the upcoming pageant about a week ago. Liza has worked with Kristina in the past on several projects. You can see her featured at makeupmakeup.com/services. Kristina had just recently worked professionally with the local director of the Connecticut chapter of the Mrs. America pageant, Tracy Brank. Tracy is a Professional Model, Entrepreneur, and the current Director of the Mrs. CT & RI America/American/Miss CT & RI for America Strong at Mrs. America Presents. She reached out to Liza for Kristina thought she would be a strong candidate for the local pageant in June. Liza was hesitant to get involved because she had just undergone surgery a few days earlier and was recently diagnosed with a heart condition that is rare for someone so healthy and active. Liza decided that this was a sign to help others in her quest for fitness and overall wellness in the body, mind, and soul.
Support
Liza is looking to the community for support in her journey at the local level and even more so if she continues to compete for the national title in Las Vegas. Individuals, businesses, and private organizations looking to sponsor Liza on this journey are encouraged to contact her at: lizaleegambino@gmail.com and at 203.922.2662. Local businesses are encouraged to reach out for all things beauty! Sponsors will be advertised on social media as well as in the Pageant Program at the event. Donations can also be made directly to Liza via Venmo @ctfitnesspros
Instagram: @lizaleeginoni, @ctfitnesspros Facebook: @lizaleeginoni, @ctfitnesspros Twitter: @LGinoni
Kristina Foreman Makeup: IG @kristinamakeupmakeup
Tracy Brank Pageant Director: IG @tracy_brank13, @tcb_pageants
Club Pilates: IG @clubpilatesnewhaven, @clubpilateswestport, @clubpilatesdarien, @clubpilatesnewcanaan
Check out the Pageant: Mrs. America Pageant
Photography by: Jim Norkawich IG @jamesnorkawich and Magdalena Niziol
Hair by: Beauty by Linda IG @lindahidri
Nails by: Young Nails IG @angelayoungnails
Eyebrows/Spa Services by: Pam Kehlenbach of BelvisoSpa
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Press groups: Spyware again used against Mexican activists
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Press freedom groups say the Mexican government apparently continued to use Pegasus spyware to infect the telephones of human rights activists as recently as late 2022, despite a pledge by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop such spying. The activists targeted by the spyware work for the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez human rights center. The center has been spied on in the past, and has worked to expose abuses by the government, including the Mexican Army. The Pegasus infection was confirmed through a forensic investigation by the University of Toronto group Citizen Lab, the groups said Tuesday.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma wind came sweeping through Southern Hills and then swiftly left town in time for Will Zalatoris, Bubba Watson and yes, even Tiger Woods, to bring a sleepy PGA Championship to life on Friday.
Zalatoris hit the ball on the button whether he was in the fairway or the rough, running off three straight birdies in gentler afternoon conditions for a 5-under 65 and a one-shot lead over Mito Pereira of Chile.
Pereira missed a 7-foot putt on his final hole and had to settle for 64.
About an hour later, Watson missed a birdie putt from just inside 25 feet on the 18th hole and still delivered the 18th round of 63 in PGA Championship history.
Woods wasn’t that spectacular, yet no less compelling. Outside the cut line with seven holes to play, he made a pair of 15-foot par putts and two birdies on his battered right leg for a 69 to make the cut in his second straight major.
He’s still 12 shots behind Zalatoris, the 25-year-old from Dallas who is built like a 1-iron and could probably hit one flush with his eyes closed. Zalatoris, a premier ball-striker, was quick to acknowledge that timing was everything.
“We lucked out with the draw, for sure,” he said. “I played the last eight holes with not much wind. But take it when you can get it.”
His side of the draw faced the least of the wind on Thursday morning and Friday afternoon, and it showed. Of the 22 players under par going into the weekend, only five had to endure the worst of Oklahoma’s notorious wind.
Justin Thomas concentrated on every shot, even short putts, in gusts that topped 30 mph in the morning and he was rightly proud of another 67 that put him atop the leaderboard. And then he could only watch from the couch of his rental home as the trees stopped swaying, the flags stopped whipping and birdies kept dropping.
Now it’s 36 more holes of more wild weather — temperatures in the low 60s for Saturday with a strong chance of some rain — and an even playing field.
Zalatoris was at 9-under 131, the lowest 36-hole score in eight majors at Southern Hills, and will be in the final group with Pereira. Neither has won on the PGA Tour.
“I think it was lucky to get that draw,” Pereira said. “Sometimes you get the bad draw, sometimes you get the good one. But today for sure the wind in the back nine, there was almost none.”
Thomas was at 6-under 134, with Watson another shot behind.
Rory McIlroy was on the good side of the draw and failed to take advantage. He didn’t make a birdie until the 13th hole. That was his only one in a round of 71, though three par saves at the end kept him within five of the lead.
“There’s a long way to go, a lot of golf left,” McIlroy said. “We’re going to see a completely different golf course the next two days because of the wind direction. It’s going to play completely differently. And that makes it very interesting.”
Jordan Spieth, playing alongside McIlroy and Woods, finally got back to even par for the tournament until driving into the water on the 18th for a bogey and a 69. He was 10 shots behind in his bid to get the major keeping him from the career Grand Slam.
Zalatoris has some history at Southern Hills, winning the Trans-Mississippi Amateur in 2014 when the final two rounds were washed out by rain. His game works well here, and it showed.
He opened with a shot from the rough that tumbled across the length of the green to 2 feet. He hit another through a gap in the trees to 7 feet. Not only did he have a bogey-free card, all five of his birdies were inside 8 feet.
Zalatoris has plenty of experience in the majors. He was runner-up in the Masters to Hideki Matsuyama in his debut in 2021. This is his eighth major, and he already has four top 10s.
“They’re tough golf courses that allows my ball-striking to really give me the best chances,” he said. “Obviously, these greens aren’t easy, but hitting them on the right tiers and being able to have the 15- to 25-footers where I’m not going up and down slopes is huge.”
The weekend will not include Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, who stumbled badly down the stretch and finished with a double bogey for a 75 to miss the cut — 4-over par — by two.
Jon Rahm thought he might have worked his way back into the mix with a 69 to get to 2-over 142, and he was skeptical about the forecast of wind abating.
“They said the wind was going to go down this afternoon. No, it’s not. It’s Oklahoma,” Rahm said. “It’s going to stay just as windy as we had.”
If only.
Watson had never scored better than 68 in his previous 49 rounds in the PGA Championship. And then he dropped nine birdies and goes into the weekend with a chance. Woods in the 2007 PGA and Raymond Floyd in the 1982 PGA were the others with a 63 at Southern Hills. Both went on to win.
“Without the heat, the cloud cover made it a little bit softer. But when that wind died down, you just felt like you had a chance to score,” Watson said.
Woods looked to be headed home after his double bogey on the par-3 11th, where he went from the high grass framing a stream to the bunker on the other side of the green. And then he saved par from a bunker on No. 12, hit wedge to 4 feet for birdie on the par-5 13th, saved par with another 15-footer on the next hole and hit his best shot on the 16th to 4 feet.
“I had to go grind and go to work, and I did,” Woods said. “Hopefully, I can get a hot weekend and you never know.”
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Pentagon rejects DC request for National Guard migrant help
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon on Monday once again denied a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in dealing with thousands of migrants being bused to the city from Texas and Arizona.
According to a copy of a letter to the city reviewed by The Associated Press, the Defense Department said use of the D.C. National Guard would be inappropriate and would hurt the overall readiness of the troops, forcing some to cancel or disrupt military training.
The letter said the department also is concerned about putting uniformed military members in direct contact with migrants to provide food, sanitation or other support, saying the troops have no real experience or training for that mission.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rejected a similar D.C. request earlier this month, and Mayor Muriel Bowser had said she would send an amended, “more specific” proposal. Bowser had initially asked for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as a “suitable federal location” for a mass housing and processing center, mentioning the D.C. Armory as a logical candidate. The revised request asked that the help be provided for just 90 days.
The Pentagon also denied the use of the armory, saying it is not air conditioned and would have to undergo costly changes and repairs to make it suitable for overnight stays.
When the Defense Department rejected the first request, officials said the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s food and shelter program has provided funding for the problem, and has indicated those funds are sufficient at this point. The latest letter said the city should continue to work with non-government groups to address the issue.
During the spring, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C., in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers by denying them a chance to seek asylum. The rule remains in effect under court order.
As of Aug. 5, Texas had bused more than 7,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., and more than 900 to New York City, according to the governor’s office. As of Aug. 22, the state of Arizona has sent 1,516 migrants to D.C., in 41 trips, according to the governor’s office. Two to three buses leave each week, and each can hold a maximum of 40 migrants.
The governors call the practice a voluntary free ride - paid for by state taxpayers — that gets migrants closer to family or support networks.
But Bowser has argued that the asylum-seekers are being “tricked,” as many don’t get close enough to their final destinations and some are ditched at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol and the White House. Often they arrive with no resources and no clue what to do next.
Ducey, who began the program in May, has said everyone on the bus trips is going voluntarily to the nation’s capital with intended final destinations in East Coast cities. They leave from Arizona’s western Yuma County, a small border county without a shelter or other infrastructure needed to house and process the large number of asylum seekers now arriving.
When her initial request was turned down, Bowser said she expects the problem to only get worse and that if D.C. were a state, she would have already used the Guard for assistance.
State governors control the use of their Guard troops for any state duties. But, as the D.C. mayor, Bowser does not have the authority to personally order a National Guard deployment, an issue that has become emotionally charged in recent years as a symbol of the district’s entrenched status as less than a state.
Her limited authority played a role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. When it became clear that Capitol Police were overmatched by the crowds, Bowser couldn’t immediately deploy the district guard. Instead, crucial time was lost while the request was considered inside the Pentagon, and protesters rampaged through the building.
A coalition of local charitable groups has been working to feed and shelter the migrants, aided by a $1 million grant from FEMA. But organizers have been warning that both their resources and personnel were nearing exhaustion. Bowser has said relying on the groups is not sustainable because they are overwhelmed and underfunded.
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Associated Press writers Bob Christie in Phoenix, Az., and Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.
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Lintz joins G FUEL's roster of content creators as part of a long-term agreement
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G FUEL – The Official Energy Drink of Esports® – is pleased to announce that actor Matt Lintz (Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel, AMC's The Walking Dead) has joined the brand's elite roster of content creators.
"Becoming a member of the G FUEL team is a dream come true," said Lintz. "Growing up, playing games was a part of who I was, and who I still am today. To have the opportunity to be a part of a company who values gaming as much as I do is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I can't wait to represent what it means to be a G FUEL partner!"
Lintz recently starred as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel's best friend Bruno Carrelli in the critically acclaimed Marvel Studios series Ms. Marvel on Disney+. A longtime G FUEL fan and gamer, the 21-year-old regularly plays such games as Valorant, Apex Legends and MLB The Show 22, but Fortnite remains his all-time favorite title.
"When it comes to G FUEL partners, excitement and authenticity are incredibly important, and Matt Lintz brings both of those qualities to everything he does," said G FUEL Founder and CEO Cliff Morgan. "We're thrilled to welcome Matt into our passionate community of creators."
Lintz's partnership includes custom G FUEL content on his social media platforms as well as in-person appearances at retailers and fan events, including the following conventions:
- Aug. 19 - 21 – Colorado Springs Comic Con, Denver CO
- Sept. 30. - Oct 1 – SiouxperCon, Sioux Falls, SD
- Nov. 4 - 6 – Rhode Island Comic Con, Providence, RI
- Dec. 3 - 4 – Wales Comic Con, Wales, UK
Now at GFUEL.com, fans can save 30% on their next order by entering Code "LINTZ" at checkout.
Keep your eyes on G FUEL and Lintz's social media platforms for updates on this exciting partnership!
As The Official Energy Drink of Esports®, G FUEL provides gamers with a performance-driven alternative to standard energy drink products. With an ever-expanding, sugar-free product lineup that includes a powdered Energy Formula, ready-to-drink cans, powdered Hydration Formula and Sparkling Hydration bottles, G FUEL has firmly established itself as the market leader in the gamer energy drink industry.
With over 340,000 5-star Shopper Approved Ratings, a shipping network that spans over 125 countries, a nationwide retail campaign, and a global social media footprint of over 1 billion followers, G FUEL maintains the industry's largest and most passionate community of fans, customers, content creators, and partners including the likes of Ninja, Sentinels Esports, Logic, NoisyButters, Luminosity Gaming, PewDiePie, Mikal Bridges, Summit1G, xQc, Ghost Gaming, Activision, SEGA of America, Capcom®, Bethesda Game Studios, Warner Bros., Disney, Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures, The Tetris Company, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., RESPAWN Products, SteelSeries, and Digital Storm.
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Matt Lintz possesses range atypical from other actors his age. Being raised in an acting family of five he gained on set Film/Television experience early on in his life. Besides his recent Ms. Marvel television gig, Matt has been a regular on the Emmy-nominated drama The Alienist and AMC's The Walking Dead. Some of his film credits are Free State of Jones with Matthew McConaughey and Sony's Pixels with Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Peter Dinklage.
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HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the recent growth capital investment from Ampersand Capital Partners, Phosphorex, a drug delivery-focused contract development and manufacturing organization ("CDMO") providing microspheres and polymer / lipid nanoparticles, announced today the appointment of Jarlath Keating as Chief Executive Officer. Jarlath has over 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including senior management positions within various contract research and contract manufacturing organizations. Most recently, Jarlath served as the President and CEO at Advanced BioScience Laboratories, a CDMO focused on gene therapy viral vectors and oncolytic virus applications. Prior to Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, Jarlath held various senior commercial roles at MilliporeSigma, leading the global BioReliance® commercial operations function. Jarlath also held commercial and technical roles at industry leading organizations such as Thermo Fisher, GE and Lonza Biologics.
Bin Wu, Ph.D., Founder of Phosphorex, will assume the newly created role of President and Chief Scientific Officer. Bin commented, "Jarlath is a highly accomplished leader of customer-focused, science-driven organizations. His depth of global experience makes him well positioned to lead Phosphorex as we execute on our growth strategy to establish cGMP manufacturing for lipid nanoparticles."
Jarlath Keating commented, "Dr. Wu has founded, grown, and led an exceptional drug delivery focused CDMO and team of premier scientists serving the pharma and biotech industries. Our vision is to build upon this knowledge and experience, allowing Phosphorex to fulfill its mission as an end-to-end CDMO provider for lipid / polymer nanoparticles, microspheres, and other nanoparticle technologies. I am thrilled to join the organization at this pivotal point in the company's evolution and look forward to serving our world-class client base and driving Phosphorex's strategic growth plan."
Phosphorex is a leading provider of drug delivery technologies and solutions. By harnessing the potential of microspheres and nanoparticles for drug delivery, Phosphorex offers tailored solutions and enabling technologies to optimize a drug's release rate, targeting ability, bioavailability, and deliverability, with the goal of achieving desired therapeutic effects while reducing adverse clinical outcomes. Phosphorex supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies through all phases of their development, from proof of concept to clinical studies. Phosphorex's mission is to help our partners solve complex problems and develop successful drugs to help patients. Additional information about Phosphorex is available at www.phosphorex.com.
Founded in 1988, Ampersand is a middle market private equity firm with more than $3 billion of assets under management dedicated to growth-oriented investments in the healthcare sector. With offices in Boston, MA and Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ampersand leverages a unique blend of private equity and operating experience to build value and drive superior long-term performance alongside its portfolio company management teams. Ampersand has helped build numerous market-leading companies across each of the firm's core healthcare sectors. Additional information about Ampersand is available at www.ampersandcapital.com.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stampli, the A.I.-powered Accounts Payable (AP) solution, today announced that it will significantly increase its workforce in downtown Nashville, where the number of employees has already more than doubled in the past 18 months.
Stampli opened its downtown Nashville office in December 2020 and has quickly expanded in the past two years.
"Our local workforce grew from 35 at the end of 2021 to 75 today, and we expect to reach at least 100 workers in Nashville by the end of this year," said Eyal Feldman, CEO and Co-founder of Stampli.
Nashville is an ideal location for a growing fintech startup because of its young and vibrant workforce and proximity to high-quality colleges. The region is quickly becoming known as a hub for tech talent.
Stampli, which operates from headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., intends to add more than 90 sales, support and customer success team members by the end of 2023 alone. Many of those hires will be based in Nashville.
For Nashville locals, a rare entry point into the tech world
To best serve its customer base of finance professionals, Stampli places a special emphasis on candidates with real-world experience in Accounts Payable. This creates rare opportunities for people with accounting backgrounds to jump from the back office into the world of technology and startups.
"When I was an accountant, I had a desk in the corner, and nobody really communicated with me other than to pass me papers," says Miranda Franklin-Ford, a senior customer success manager who joined Stampli in 2020. "Today, I get to work with many Stampli customers, nerd out on their different accounting processes, and directly help them achieve their goals. I can see how this product would have benefitted me as an accountant and freed up my time. Because I've been in their shoes, I know exactly how to help them."
Stampli is hiring sales development representatives, account executives, customer support and customer success representatives in Nashville. Those jobs have competitive salaries as well as significant perks, including stock options (common in Silicon Valley, but less so in Nashville), generous healthcare benefits, 401(k), opportunities for internal promotions, free snacks, catered meals, happy hours and an inclusive, tight-knit and exciting startup culture that offers career and personal growth.
A unique office environment, down to the decor
Stampli's Nashville office is downtown, where it leases an entire floor — nearly 19,000 square feet — with 360-degree views of greater Nashville. Its conference rooms are even named after Nashville sports teams (Titans, Preds, Sounds and Nashville SC) whose arenas are all visible from Stampli's office.
Stampli's Nashville office was previously the home of a boutique furniture retailer, which left behind unique, quirky and visually compelling office designs that Stampli kept intact, creating an office environment that's as unique as the culture.
"Our Nashville office is a great place to work, great location, high energy, a lot of engagement," said Jena Garrett, Director of Employee Success at Stampli. "Our employees spend a lot of time together. There are after-work events and genuine bonding within teams. We take our work seriously, but we also like to relax and have fun with each other."
Employees currently work hybrid schedules, gathering in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and working from home on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. "We still find people in the office five days a week because it's an environment they like. People come to the office because they enjoy being here," Garrett said.
Nashville-area businesses love being Stampli customers
Among the growing list of Nashville-based companies that have chosen to use Stampli to automate Accounts Payable is FarmVet, an equine pharmaceutical and supplement company based in Franklin, Tenn.
Growing fast, despite the economy
Stampli's rapid expansion is due to the increasing demand for its Accounts Payable automation solution, which simplifies and streamlines AP workflows. Stampli is the only AP automation solution that's purpose-built for Accounts Payable. It centers all communication, documentation, and workflows on top of each invoice, eliminating the need for workarounds, external communications channels, 3rd-party solutions, or manual AP work inside the ERP.
Beyond AP, Stampli offers a suite of integrated products that extend the same levels of efficiency, visibility, and control to direct payments (check, ACH, and credit card), your physical and virtual credit card program, vendor management, and more.
"I love Nashville, and I love being able to create new opportunities for Nashvillians to join the tech industry," Feldman said. "We offer a fantastic work culture that promotes career growth, open communication and teamwork, all while having a great time together. Our employees' satisfaction is important to us because happy employees create happy customers."
About Stampli
Stampli is an AI-powered Accounts Payable automation solution that makes AP departments far more efficient, without requiring them to rework their ERP or change their existing processes. Stampli's unique approach centers all AP-related communication, documentation, and workflows into one place for complete visibility and control.
Stampli is simple for users to learn and even simpler to use, especially with Billy the Bot™ automating capture, coding, routing, fraud detection, and other manual tasks. For even greater efficiency, Stampli's core AP solution is complemented by a suite of integrated products that include Direct Pay, Credit Cards, Advanced Vendor Management, and others.
Stampli supports all native functionality for more than 70 ERPs, including those from Sage, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks, and 70 others, enabling it to deploy in a matter of days, not months.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — According to Russian state TV, the future of the Ukrainian regions captured by Moscow’s forces is all but decided: Referendums on becoming part of Russia will soon take place there, and the joyful residents who were abandoned by Kyiv will be able to prosper in peace.
In reality, the Kremlin appears to be in no rush to seal the deal on Ukraine’s southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, even though officials it installed there already have announced plans for a vote to join Russia.
As the war in Ukraine nears its six-month mark, Moscow faces multiple problems in the territory it occupies -– from pulverized civilian infrastructure that needs urgent rebuilding as colder weather looms, to guerrilla resistance and increasingly debilitating attacks by Kyiv’s military forces that have been gearing up for a counteroffensive in the south.
Analysts say that what could have been a clear victory for the Kremlin is becoming something of a muddle.
“It is clear that the situation won’t stabilize for a long time,” even if referendums eventually are held, says Nikolai Petrov, a senior research fellow in Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Program. “There will be the guerrilla movement, there will be underground resistance, there will be terrorist acts, there will be shelling. … Right now, the impression is that even the Kremlin doesn’t really believe that by holding these referendums, it would draw a thick line under it.”
Moscow’s plans to incorporate captured territories were clear from the outset of the Feb. 24 invasion. Several weeks in, separatist leaders of the self-proclaimed “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk, which the Kremlin recognized as independent states, voiced plans to hold votes on becoming part of Russia. While forces backed by Moscow control almost all of Luhansk, some estimates say Russia and the separatists control about 60% of the Donetsk region.
Similar announcements followed from Kremlin-backed administrations of the southern Kherson region, which is almost completely occupied by Russians, and in the Zaporizhzhia region, large swaths of which are under Moscow’s control.
While the Kremlin coyly says it is up to the residents to decide whether they formally want to live in Russia or Ukraine, lower-level officials talked about possible dates for the balloting.
Senior lawmaker Leonid Slutksy once mentioned July, although it did not occur. Vladimir Rogov, a Moscow-installed official in the Zaporizhzhia region, suggested the first half of September. Kirill Stremousov, a Kremlin-backed official in Kherson, talked about scheduling it before the end of the year.
As summer wanes, there is still no date for the referendums. Pro-Russian officials in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia say the votes will take place after Moscow takes full control of the rest of the Donetsk region, but the Kremlin’s gains there have been minimal recently. Still, campaigns promoting the votes are reportedly well underway.
Russian TV shows cities with billboards proclaiming, “Together with Russia.” Stremousov reports from Kherson almost daily on social media about his trips around the region, where he meets people adamant about joining Russia. In the Russian-controlled part of Zaporizhzhia, the Moscow-installed administration already has ordered an election commission to prepare for a referendum.
Balloting aside, there are other signs that Russia is planning on staying.
The ruble has been introduced alongside the Ukrainian hryvnia and has been used to pay out pensions and other benefits. Russian passports were offered to residents in a fast-track citizenship procedure. Schools were reported to have switched to a Russian curriculum, starting in September.
Russian license plates were given to car owners by traffic police, with Kherson and Zaporizhzhia assigned Russian region numbers 184 and 185. The Russian Interior Ministry, which oversees the traffic police, did not responded to an Associated Press request for comment to clarify how that was legal, given that both regions are still part of Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials and activists, meanwhile, paint a picture that contrasts sharply with the Russian TV portrayal of a bright future for the occupied territories under Moscow’s generous care.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai told AP that 90% of the population in the province’s large cities has left. Devastation and squalor “reigns” in the cities and towns seized by Russia, he said, and there are only a few villages not under Moscow’s control after weeks of exhausting battles.
Residents use “water from puddles” and build “a bonfire in the yard to cook food on, right next to garbage, Haidai said.
“Our people that manage to return home to collect their belongings don’t recognize towns and villages that used to blossom,” he added.
The situation isn’t as dire in the southern city of Kherson, which sits just north of the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, according to pro-Ukrainian activist Konstantin Ryzhenko. Kherson was captured without much destruction early in the war, so most of its infrastructure is intact.
But supplies of essential goods have been uneven, and prices for food and medicine brought in from Russia have spiked, Ryzhenko told AP, adding that both are of “disgustingly low quality.”
Early in the war, thousands of Kherson residents regularly protested the occupation, but mass repressions forced many either to flee the city or to hide their views.
“Demonstrations have been impossible since May. If you publicly express anything pro-Ukrainian, an opinion on whatever subject, you are guaranteed to be taken into detention, tortured and beaten there,” Ryzhenko said.
Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov, whose city in the Zaporizhzhia region also was occupied early in the war, echoed Ryzhenko’s sentiment.
Mass arrests and purges of activists and opinion-makers with pro-Kyiv views began in May, said Fedorov, who spent time in Russian captivity for refusing to cooperate. More than 500 people in Melitopol remain in captivity, he told AP.
Despite that intimidation, he estimated that only about 10% of those who remain in the city would vote to join Russia if a referendum takes place.
“The idea of a referendum has discredited itself,” Fedorov said.
Kherson activist Ryzhenko believes a referendum would be rigged because “they’re already talking about voting online, voting at home. … So, you understand, the legitimacy of this voting will be nil.”
Russian political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin said that because so many people have left the occupied regions, “there will be nothing close to a proper polling of the population about their preferences.”
But Ukrainian authorities still have to regard such votes as a serious issue, said Vadim Karasev, head of the Kyiv-based Institute of Global Strategies think tank.
“After the referendums take place, Russia will consider the southern lands as part of its own territory and view Ukrainian attacks as attacks on Russia,” Karasev said in an interview.
He said the Kremlin might also be using the threat of referendums to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree to negotiations on Moscow’s conditions or else risk “losing the south” and a large part of its vital access to the sea.
Zelenskyy has said that if Moscow goes ahead with the votes, there will be no talks of any kind.
In the meantime, Ukrainian forces continue sporadic strikes against the Russian military in the Kherson region. On Thursday, Ukraine’s Operational Command South reported killing 29 “occupiers” near the town of Bilohirka, northeast of Kherson, as well as destroying artillery, armored vehicles and a military supply depot.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — An Australian-listed company exploring for oil and gas in Zimbabwe said Monday it has found deposits of both as well as helium in the Cabora Bassa Basin in the north of the country.
Invictus Energy said in a statement that results from an analysis of samples from drilling conducted last year confirmed “the presence of light oil and rich natural gas-condensate, with condensate gas ratios estimated at between 30 to 135 barrels per million cubic feet.”
The results also showed the presence of helium gas “in commercial concentrations,” the company said.
Helium is used in the production of semi-conductors and liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.
Invictus Energy is planning to drill another exploration well in the same area later this year.
There was no immediate comment from the Zimbabwean government on the find.
It could be years before Zimbabwe starts commercial production of any of the deposits. Neighboring Mozambique only started exporting liquefied natural gas last year after discovering reserves off its coast in 2010.
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Buying bank stocks before a recession used to be madness. Not anymore
By Anna Cooban, CNN
Investors are bucking tradition this year by piling into big bank stocks just as major economies are expected to either slow down or fall into recession.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Banks index, a group of 42 big European banks, climbed 21% between the start of the year and late February — when it hit a five-year high — outperforming its broader benchmark index, the Euro Stoxx 600. The KBW Bank Index, which tracks 24 leading US banks, has risen by a more modest 4% so far this year, slightly outpacing the broader S&P 500.
Both bank-specific indexes have surged since lows hit last fall.
The economic picture is far less rosy. The United States and the biggest economies in the European Union are expected to grow at a much slower rate this year than last, while UK output is likely to contract. A sudden recession “at some stage” is also a risk for the United States, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told CNN Monday.
But the widespread economic weakness has coincided with high inflation, forcing central banks to raise interest rates. That’s been a boon for banks, helping them make heftier returns on loans to households and businesses, and as savers deposit more of their money into savings accounts.
Rate hikes have buoyed the stocks of big banks, but so too has a greater confidence in their ability to weather economic storms 15 years after the 2008 global financial crisis nearly toppled them, fund managers and analysts told CNN.
“Banks are, generally speaking, much stronger, more resilient, more capable to [withstand a] recession,” than in the past, said Roberto Frazzitta, global head of banking at consultancy Bain & Company.
Interest rate rises
Interest rates in major economies started climbing last year as policymakers launched their campaigns against soaring inflation.
The steep rate hikes followed a prolonged period of ultra-low borrowing costs that started in 2008. As the financial crisis ravaged economies, central banks slashed interest rates to unprecedented lows to incentivize spending and investment. And, for more than a decade, they barely budged.
Banks are a less attractive bet for investors in that environment as lower interest rates often feed into lower returns for lenders.
“[The] post-crisis period of very low interest rates was seen as very bad for bank profitability, it squeezed their margins,” said Thomas Mathews, senior markets economist at Capital Economics.
But the rate hiking cycle that got underway last year, and shows few signs of abating, has changed investors’ calculations. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that interest rates would rise more than people anticipated.
Higher potential returns for shareholders are drawing investors back into the sector. For example, the average dividend yield for bank stocks in Europe — the amount of money a company pays its shareholders every year as a proportion of its share price — is now around 7%, said Ciaran Callaghan, head of European equity research at Amundi, a French asset management firm.
By comparison, the dividend yield for the S&P 500 currently stands at 2.1%, and for the Euro Stoxx 600 at 3.3%, according to Refinitiv data.
European bank stocks have risen particularly sharply in the past six months.
Mathews at Capital Economics attributed their outperformance relative to US peers partly to the fact that interest rates in the countries that use the euro are still closer to zero than in the United States, meaning that investors have more to gain from rates rising.
It can also be put down to Europe’s remarkable reversal of fortune, he said.
Wholesale natural gas prices in the region, which hit a record high in August, have tumbled back to their levels seen before the Ukraine war, and a much-feared energy shortage has been avoided this winter.
“Only a few months ago people were talking about a very deep recession in Europe compared to the US,” Mathews said. “As those worries have unwound, European banks have done particularly well.”
No ‘hidden skeletons’
But European economies are still fragile. When economic activity slows down, bank stocks are typically among those hit hardest. That’s because banks’ earnings are, to varying extents, tied to borrowers’ ability to repay their loans, as well as to consumers’ and businesses’ appetite for more credit.
This time around, though — unlike in 2008 — banks are in a much better position to withstand defaults on loans.
After the global financial crisis, regulators sprang into action, requiring lenders, among other measures, to have a large capital cushion against future losses. Capital is made up of a bank’s own funds, rather than borrowed money such as customer deposits.
Lenders must also hold enough cash, or assets that can be quickly converted into cash, to repay depositors and other creditors.
Luc Plouvier, a senior portfolio manager at Van Lanschot Kempen, a Dutch wealth management firm, noted that banks had undergone “structural change” in the past decade.
“A lot of the regulation that’s been put in place [has] forced these banks to be more liquid, to have much more [of a] capital buffer, to take less risk,” he said.
Joost de Graaf, co-head of European credit at Van Lanschot Kempen, agreed.
“There are not any hidden skeletons in [banks’] balance sheets as far as we know.”
— Julia Horowitz contributed reporting.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy had to be freed from a claw machine after he climbed inside hoping to score a prize, according to an official at a North Carolina amusement park.
Carowinds officials were alerted just before 2 p.m. Sunday that the boy was inside the Cosmic XL Bonus Game, which contained plush prizes, according to Courtney C. McGarry Weber, a spokesperson for the park south of Charlotte.
The medical response team unlocked the machine and the boy was able to get out, she said. He was treated and released from first aid to his guardian.
The boy has been banned from the park for one year for attempted theft, Weber said.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 5, MINISO (NYSE: MNSO; HKEX: 9896), a global value retailer, started its #Lifeisforfun! world tour with its popular characters from the brand's original MINI Family. Traveling from Thailand, Italy, to Mexico, MINISO spreads holiday cheer and kindness during this holiday season.
The tour began in Mexico and then arrived in Italy and Thailand. Mascots of Penpen, the penguin, and Pickle, the Shiba Inu, traveled in MINISO-themed public transport such as BTS Skytrain in Bangkok and buses in Florence, channeling love and encouragement to commuters. They also appeared on the streets of Bangkok, Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Mexico City, bringing the festive atmosphere to residents.
In Mexico, the Penpen mascot toured Mexico City in a red pickup truck and brought drones that drop off mystery gift bags, cheering citizens up on a stressful Monday morning. In Italy, virtual reality and augmented reality technologies were adopted where customers can search for Penpen in the city of Florence through an interactive game, in exchange for prizes. In Bangkok, Thailand, MINISO painted a BTS Skytrain into its iconic red color. Along with adorable characters from MINI Family, MINISO spread holiday cheer to hundreds of millions of commuters in the Bangkok metropolitan area.
Earlier in 2022, MINISO and the MINI Family toured the world and visited some of the world's famous landmarks in different cities, actualizing wishes from shoppers and spreading love and kindness across the globe. #Lifeisforfun! brought joy to city dwellers on their everyday journeys and wrapped up 2022 for MINISO. "Our MINI Family characters are like good friends to our customers. After an exhausting year full of turbulence and uncertainties, we want these little friends to provide our customers with a moment of warmth and relaxation," said Vincent Huang, MINISO's VP of International Business Development.
The holiday fun is also extended online where MINISO organized the #MINISOPentaClaus challenge on Tik Tok. Users can join the challenge by using the MINI Family stickers designed by MINISO for the occasion. In the first week since the commencement of the challenge, Tik Tok users have created over 100,000 videos and accumulated 300 million views.
"Guided by our mission to bring joy and fun to the world, MINISO strives to create a positive impact in society and the everyday life of our customers. As 2022 draws to a close, MINISO is looking forward to spreading more smiles and happiness through our broad selection of cute and fun products as well as meaningful campaigns in the upcoming year," said Huang.
About MINISO
MINISO Group is a global value retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products. The Company serves consumers primarily through its large network of MINISO stores, and promotes a relaxing, treasure-hunting and engaging shopping experience full of delightful surprises that appeals to all demographics. Aesthetically pleasing design, quality and affordability are at the core of every product in MINISO's wide product portfolio, and the Company continually and frequently rolls out products with these qualities. Since the opening of its first store in China in 2013, the Company has built its flagship brand "MINISO" as a globally recognized retail brand and established a massive store network worldwide.
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What is the best Foreo product?
Foreo is a Swedish health and beauty brand founded by Filip Sedic in 2013. The brand creates beauty-tech skin solutions and products that transform your regular grooming routine into a luxurious at-home spa treatment that leaves you feeling revitalized and beautiful. The Foreo Luna Mini 3 Silicone Face Cleansing Brush is the best Foreo product, versatile and travel-friendly.
What to know before you buy a Foreo product
Skin type
Foreo products can be used on all skin types, and some are designed in different colors tailored to particular skin types. For example, the Luna 3 comes in pink for normal skin, purple for sensitive skin and blue for combination skin.
Connected to the app
To get the full experience of your Foreo device, you need to download the Foreo app to your phone and link it to the device. The app tells you how to use each product and is automated with a soothing, relaxing voice. While the products can be used without being connected to the app, you will not get all the features available and will have a less pleasurable, less optimized experience.
T-sonic technologies
Foreo makes use of its trademarked T-sonic pulsation technology. The “T” in “T-sonic” stands for transdermal, which means that the device’s pulsations travel through the outer layers of the skin to deeply cleanse it of debris that clogs the pores, such as dirt and makeup. The pulsations also help exfoliate the skin, getting rid of dead skin cells, making it easier for the skin to absorb active ingredients from skin care products.
Models and sizes
Most Foreo products are made in different models that differ in size. Some have a full-sized and a mini version; others have three sizes. If you’ll be traveling, a mini size will be the most portable.
What to look for in a quality Foreo product
Silicone bristles
According to Foreo, its classic Luna massagers were the world’s first cleansing massagers with silicone bristles. Foreo uses silicone and thermoplastic polymer instead of the more commonly used nylon. Silicone absorbs less water than nylon, making it dry faster. This discourages the growth of bacteria and makes Foreo massagers more hygienic.
Magnetic disc
All Foreo devices come with a magnetic silicone disc. This disc is a scratch card known as the authenticity card — it reveals a serial number or voucher code that helps you register the device with the app. This ensures that your device is authentic and will work correctly.
Long-lasting power
Some Foreo devices are equipped with USB rechargeable ports and come with USB cables. Other devices are battery operated and require a change of batteries after extended use. Regardless of whether they’re rechargeable or battery-operated, the devices are durable and have long-lasting power.
How much you can expect to spend on a Foreo product
Expect to spend about $10-$300 for most products, although some cost up to $8,800.
Foreo product FAQ
Can I use my Foreo device in the shower?
A. Yes, they are waterproof and safe to be used in the shower.
How often should I use my Foreo?
A. It can be used every day.
How often should I replace my Foreo batteries?
A. The batteries can last up to eight weeks.
What’s the best Foreo product to buy?
Top Foreo product
Foreo Luna Mini 3 Silicone Cleansing Brush
What you need to know: This USB rechargeable cleansing face brush is suitable for all skin types.
What you’ll love: Its sonic pulsations offer 12 intensities, letting you adjust it to your preferred level. Higher intensities are usually used for exfoliation while lower ones are used for anti-aging routines. It fits into the palm of your hand like a bar of soap, making it convenient to use and easy to travel with.
What you should consider: This mini version of the full-sized Luna 3 doesn’t offer different models for different skin types.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Sephora and Kohl’s
Top Foreo product for the money
Foreo Call It a Night Revitalizing and Nourishing Ufo Activated Mask
What you need to know: This revitalizing face mask is suitable for all skin types.
What you’ll love: It uses thermo therapy, which helps open up your pores, improving the level at which products are absorbed. Its olive oil and ginseng concentrates help lock in moisture on the skin surface and smooth out fine lines and wrinkles.
What you should consider: It is highly concentrated and might feel sticky on the skin. Also, it works best with the Foreo Ufo device, as it was made to be paired with it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Sephora
Worth checking out
Foreo Bear Microcurrent Facial Device
What you need to know: This non-invasive facial sculpting tool is palm-sized and shaped like a bear.
What you’ll love: It uses microcurrent technology to ease tension around the face and neck area. This enhances the skin, giving it a firmer and more toned appearance. Its built-in anti-shock system automatically adjusts the microcurrents according to your skin’s needs, so it is always safe to use, with no chance of shock when used with water.
What you should consider: Because it uses microcurrents, it should not be used on bare skin, but with a conductive serum.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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EDINBURGH, U.K. and HOPKINTON, Mass., March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RoslinCT and Lykan Bioscience, leaders in ground-breaking Contract Development and Manufacturing for cell therapies, are delighted to announce that following a successful inspection at their Edinburgh, UK facility, from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), a Manufacturer's Authorisation Licence (MIA) for commercial manufacturing of cell therapy products has been granted.
Completed in late 2021, RoslinCT's newest 1,600 square-meter state-of-the-art facility, located in Edinburgh's BioQuarter, was designed to operate as a flexible and scalable manufacturing hub, housing five cGMP clean rooms and a dedicated training laboratory. The cGMP facility has been designed and purpose-built specifically to accommodate cell therapy manufacturing processes for both allogeneic and autologous therapies with or without genome editing requirements.
The license granted by the UK's regulatory body will allow RoslinCT and Lykan Bioscience, who are currently working with their partners to develop and manufacture cutting edge life-changing therapies and cures for patients suffering from some of the most debilitating medical conditions, to expand their service offering to produce market-approved cell therapy products.
Peter Coleman, Chief Executive Officer of RoslinCT said: "At RoslinCT we thrive on being pioneers in our sector, accelerating the delivery of these novel life-changing therapies to patients. The MIA commercial manufacturing licence is a huge landmark in the history of RoslinCT and is testament to the relationship we have developed with the MHRA and the hard work of our team. We will continue to work with our partners to deliver these life-saving therapies to patients".
Patrick Lucy, President & Chief Executive Officer of Lykan Bioscience, commented: "This license is a significant milestone for RoslinCT, Lykan Bioscience and our partners. Empowering our partners to progress efficiently from development to commercialization and deliver life-saving cell therapies to patients worldwide is at the core of our mission. The learnings acquired by RoslinCT that ultimately resulted in the receipt of the commercial manufacturing license will be invaluable as we align our global manufacturing operations".
About RoslinCT
RoslinCT is a leading UK Cell Therapy Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO) focused on providing services for companies developing cell-based therapeutic products. Originally founded in 2006 as a spin-out from the Roslin Institute, RoslinCT expanded the broad range of scientific expertise available in the field of cell biology. Based at the Edinburgh BioQuarter, the company operates fully licensed GMP manufacturing facilities and has a proven track record in delivering cell-based products. For further information, please visit www.roslinct.com.
About Lykan Bioscience
Lykan Bioscience is an innovative contract development and manufacturing services organization (CDMO) focused on cell-based therapies. With decades of biopharmaceutical industry experience, Lykan offers a full range of development and manufacturing services. The state-of-the-art, purpose-built facility offering 14 independent manufacturing suites is uniquely designed to fully integrate cGMP principles and advanced software solutions to enable real-time testing, US/EU clinical and commercial manufacturing and release of product. Located in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 25 miles southwest of downtown Boston and in the proximity of four international airports, Lykan Bioscience is ideally situated to deliver life-saving cell therapy treatments to patients on behalf of their partners. Visit www.lykanbio.com
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