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Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Ken Faust, left, hands out one of several challenge coins to one of the team members at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital who saved his life three months ago.
Members of the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Emergency Center and Heart & Vascular teams share a moment with Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Ken Faust, center, whose life they saved three months ago.
Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Ken Faust, left, hands out one of several challenge coins to one of the team members at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital who saved his life three months ago.
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Members of the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Emergency Center and Heart & Vascular teams share a moment with Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Ken Faust, center, whose life they saved three months ago.
ALBANY – One of the top officers with the Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office was reunited Wednesday with Phoebe Family members who saved his life three months ago.
“God gave everybody talent, and he gave them so much talent," Maj. Ken Faust said. "They have a purpose, and God has a plan for them, and I appreciate everybody who touched me.”
On May 8, Faust suffered a major heart attack at his Terrell County home. Thanks to equipment donated by the Phoebe Foundation, the Terrell County EMS crew THAT responded was able to electronically transmit real-time cardiac data to Phoebe’s main emergency center, where the emergency cardiac team quickly gathered to await Faust’s arrival.
As soon as he got to the ER, Faust went into cardiac arrest. The Phoebe team performed CPR for 45 minutes and shocked his heart with a defibrillator 70 times before they were able to take him to the catherization lab for a procedure to clear his blocked arteries.
“They could’ve stopped and said, ‘He’s not going to make it,’ but they didn’t,” Faust said. “They kept going, and they had belief that they could save me. That’s just an amazing thing to do for somebody.”
Earlier this year, Phoebe’s Heart and Vascular team began a new tradition of honoring emergency responders and caregivers who go above and beyond in caring for patients with cardiac emergencies by presenting them with Challenge Coins. Wednesday morning, they honored members of the emergency center team who cared for Faust, and he personally handed out the coins.
“That coin is a symbol of a relationship that I have with these people, but in my heart, it’s just a symbol,” an emotional Faust said. “I remember everyone who was in that room that night. I don’t know their names, but I remember them. Hopefully, what they remember is that this guy should be dead, but he’s not.”
Faust returned to work only a few weeks after the heart attack that could have taken his life, and he was recently promoted from captain to major. He said he feels great, and he was grateful to have the opportunity to thank the Phoebe care teams in person and present the ER staff with a memento he hopes they will value.
“Years from now, maybe they’ll see the coin and think, ‘I remember this guy. We saved him,’” Faust said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Attached photos show Major Ken Faust handing out challenge coins and gathered with members of the Phoebe Emergency Center and Heart & Vascular teams.
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With This Expansion the Company Brings Over-the-Counter Crypto Trading and Support to 49 States
CHICAGO, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoinFlip, a leading provider of cryptocurrency financial services, announces today the expansion of its Trade Desk – an over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading desk – to Nevada. With coverage across 49 US states, more customers have access to CoinFlip's crypto pros for help purchasing crypto. This expansion marks another milestone in the company's growth trajectory.
"Bringing our services to nearly every state in the US is integral for us as we continue to build a comprehensive platform for the digital economy," said CEO and Co-Founder of CoinFlip, Ben Weiss. "It is important to our brand to now be able to serve the citizens and tourists of Nevada. We will continue to expand our resources so we can best serve our communities at a grassroots level, a primary objective as we look ahead both within state lines and all over the world."
Delivering guidance to investors entering into the crypto space, Trade Desk offers dedicated account managers who are available to walk customers through the process step-by-step and support with any questions. Trade Desk commands low minimums and high limits with the ability to buy via wire or ACH transfer.
When Trade Desk launched in 2020, it was a small yet ambitious unit with a mission to deliver a comprehensive virtual experience for crypto transactions. "From buying, selling or trading, we wanted to ensure each and every customer was satisfied with their experience," said Founder and Chairman, Daniel Polotsky. "Now, with the expansion of our services to nearly all 50 states, we are fulfilling that promise to more Americans than ever before."
Named the No. 1 fastest-growing company in Chicago by Crain's Chicago Business, CoinFlip had a five-year growth rate of 1.7 million percent and revenue of nearly $100 million in 2021. The company was also ranked No. 60 on the Inc. 5000, the highest-ranking crypto company included on the list. Since inception, the company has expanded to over 3,500 ATMs across 49 states, taking its place on the frontline of a financial revolution where cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can empower investors across the country.
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CoinFlip is a leading financial services provider powered by cryptocurrency. The company operates the world's largest network of cryptocurrency kiosks by transaction volume with over 3,500 machines across 49 states supporting the buying and selling of major cryptocurrencies with cash. In 2020, CoinFlip launched Trade Desk, an over-the-counter trading service that provides investors a personal account manager and competitive coin pricing. The company does not charge hidden fees, cuts typical transaction fees by as much as half, and provides 24/7 customer support.
CoinFlip was founded in 2015 by Daniel Polotsky, Kristoffer Dayrit, Alan Gurevich, and Benjamin Weiss. Headquartered in Chicago, CoinFlip placed 60th on the 2021 Inc. 5000 list as the top-ranked cryptocurrency company, was named the 2021 #1 fastest-growing company in Chicago by Crain's and was awarded the 2021 Silver Stevie ® Award for Customer Service. For more information about CoinFlip, please visit www.CoinFlip.tech.
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Medical Oncologist Replaces Michael Diaz, MD
FORT MYERS, Fla., Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC (FCS) announced today that Lucio Gordan, MD has assumed the role of President & Managing Physician, effective January 16, 2023. Dr. Gordan will continue to practice as a medical oncologist at the FCS Gainesville Cancer Center and lead the practice in further advancing its commitment to value-based care, precision medicine, and high-quality cancer care in communities across Florida. This will be Dr. Gordan's second term as President and Managing Physician, having previously served the statewide practice from 2018-2021.
"Dr. Gordan is a highly respected leader across our practice and throughout the entire industry. His vision for FCS – cultivating a culture that embraces innovation, technology, and altruism – perfectly aligns with our organizational strategies that will continue to place our practice at the forefront of oncology care," remarked FCS Chief Executive Officer Nathan H. Walcker.
Michael Diaz, MD has formally stepped down from the role as president and managing physician to focus on patient care and advocacy. He will continue to see patients at two locations in St. Petersburg, Florida.
"It has been both an honor and a privilege to have served our practice in this capacity," says Mike Diaz, MD. "There are so many opportunities to make a difference in oncology, between patient care, research, advocacy, and philanthropic efforts, I look forward to this next chapter and phase within FCS," he continues.
"On behalf of the Executive Board and our entire organization, I would like to thank Dr. Diaz for his leadership. His passion for patient care and advocacy has, and continues to make a great impact, driving legislative efforts that benefit community oncology providers and patients on a national scale," says Walcker.
"We are well-positioned for continued success here at FCS, as we are focused on the singular goal of providing the best possible cancer care to patients throughout the state. My sincere thanks and gratitude to my colleague and friend Dr. Diaz for his many efforts and significant contributions toward this end," says Lucio Gordan, MD. "Our future is bright, the path forward is clear, and I look forward to leading FCS forward," he added.
Recognized by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) with a national Clinical Trials Participation Award, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) offers patients access to more clinical trials than any private oncology practice in Florida. The majority of new cancer drugs recently approved for use in the U.S. were studied in clinical trials with Florida Cancer Specialists participation.* Trained in prestigious medical schools and research institutes, our physicians are consistently ranked nationally as Top Doctors by U.S. News & World Report.
Founded in 1984, Florida Cancer Specialists has built a national reputation for excellence that is reflected in exceptional and compassionate patient care, driven by innovative clinical research, cutting-edge technologies and advanced treatments, including targeted therapies, genomic-based treatment, and immunotherapy. Our highest values are embodied by our outstanding team of highly trained and dedicated physicians, clinicians and staff.
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BOSTON, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Lawyers Group (BLG) today announced the retirement of Carolyn Golden Hebsgaard, who has led the organization as its Executive Director since 1993. BLG was founded more than 35 years ago to support the efforts of its member legal organizations – which today include 40 premier law firms, corporate law offices, and government agencies – to identify, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color.
"While this marks the end of my nearly 30-year journey, the organization is stronger than ever, and the work towards building a more diverse legal community will continue," said Carolyn Golden Hebsgaard. "I am proud of not only the impact BLG has had on the careers of many individual attorneys, but also of the progress I have seen across our partners and the entire legal industry. This impact will only continue to grow, and I am excited to see what the future has in store."
Hebsgaard's many accomplishments during her BLG tenure include creating an annual job fair, summer internship program, and mentorship program for law students of color; establishing five 10-week clerkships for rising 1Ls with BLG member organizations to work in both the public and private sectors; developing a mock interview program; and implementing social skills training programs to advance networking and relationship-building skills with judges and other legal leaders. Thousands of law students have participated in BLG's events and programs.
"When Carolyn stepped into the role of Executive Director in 1993, not one member firm had a diversity committee or a DEI professional on their teams. Thanks to her impressive leadership, BLG members now have a variety of DEI resources on-hand, including diversity committees, mentor programs, diversity and inclusion professionals, diversity training, and websites that speak to diversity-related missions and goals," said Dan Halston, Partner-in-Charge of WilmerHale's Boston office. "We are fortunate to have had Carolyn's wisdom and guidance for so many years. BLG was the first-of-its-kind organization, and Carolyn's work has helped create a path towards increasing diversity within the Boston legal community. She will be greatly missed," added Kenneth Leonetti, former Co-Managing Partner of Foley Hoag.
Moving forward, BLG has established a 501(c)(6) organizational structure with a newly formed Board of Directors, including Ayeshah Johnson, Goulston & Storrs, and former BLG participants Louis Mercedes, Mintz, and Adrianne Ortega, Ropes & Gray, with others to be added over the next several months. In addition to continuing its current programming and success, BLG intends to expand its programming and reach to further establish itself as a resource for attracting diverse talent to Boston. The group will also enhance its positioning as a support system for attorneys navigating their careers and the city through new relationships with similar organizations within other fields, including other nonprofit organizations and an expanded outreach effort to corporate law offices and government agencies. The search for a new Executive Director is currently underway.
"Carolyn has played a pivotal role in advancing BLG's mission of a more equitable and diverse legal community in Boston. She has raised the bar and made every organization involved better. The entire legal community is grateful to Carolyn for everything she has done to prepare BLG for its next exciting chapter," said Louis Mercedes, Member at Mintz.
Founded in 1986, the Boston Lawyers Group (BLG) was established by 13 Boston law firms with the mission to support the efforts of its member organizations to identify, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color. Since then, BLG has seen its membership grow to more than 40 organizations, including law firms, corporate law offices, and government agencies. Each member gathers information through the consortium and takes steps independently to achieve the goal of greater diversity within in its own organization.
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Senators Tim Scott & Sherrod Brown Praised by Robert L. Johnson for Introducing the Advancing Auto Portability Act to Enable Traditionally Underserved & Under-Saved Americans to Preserve Retirement Savings
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies and Chairman of Retirement Clearinghouse, LLC, applauds Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) for the introduction of the Advancing Auto Portability Act of 2022. The U.S. Senate legislation has the potential to preserve up to $1.5 trillion in retirement savings for the next generation of workers by encouraging auto portability. With auto portability, a participant's 401(k) account can follow them as they change jobs, making it less likely that people prematurely cash-out their savings and improving retirement security.
"I congratulate Senators Tim Scott and Sherrod Brown for leading this bipartisan push to build wealth for underrepresented American communities. Auto portability will help historically underserved and under-saved workers, especially Black Americans, realize greater benefits from the U.S. retirement system—and achieve the American dream of a financially secure retirement," said Mr. Johnson. "Enshrining auto portability in law is a significant milestone in our national effort to bridge America's wealth gap."
"This legislation recognizes that cash-out leakage—driven by the frictions prevalent in moving money between plans in our country's retirement system—is adversely affecting Americans' retirement outcomes in a very big way," said Spencer Williams, Founder, President, and CEO of Retirement Clearinghouse. "401(k) savings portability will institute a new default in plan designs, which will enable participants to opt out of having their small balances automatically moved to their new employers' plans when they change jobs, instead of having to opt in. Senators Scott and Brown have crafted legislation which would make this default available to all plans across the U.S. retirement system—a huge win for America's hardworking retirement-savers. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 greenlighted auto enrollment and the use of target-date funds as default investment vehicles—and now, we are closer than ever to a default setting for auto portability of small accounts, at the point of job-change. Finally, the leveling-up of retirement-saving outcomes is within reach."
The lack of seamless plan-to-plan account portability when participants switch employers has historically made cashing out an easier option than moving and consolidating 401(k) account balances. Prematurely cashing out a retirement savings account can have destructive consequences for retirement-savers.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) estimates that as much as $92 billion in savings leaves the U.S. retirement system every year, as workers prematurely cash out their 401(k)s when they change jobs, and pay taxes and penalties on those cash-outs. Retirement Clearinghouse research indicates that a hypothetical 30-year-old participant who cashes out a 401(k) account with $5,000 today would forfeit up to $52,000 in earnings they would have accrued by age 65, assuming the account would have grown by 7% per year.
Unfortunately, minorities and low-income workers are more likely to make this cash-out decision. According to EBRI, 14.8 million plan participants change jobs every year—and data from the largest retirement plan recordkeepers indicates that nearly one-third (31%) of them will cash out their 401(k) savings accounts within one year of moving to new employers. However, these rates are higher among plan participants who belong to minority communities (63% for Black Americans and 57% for Latinos), are between ages 20 and 29 (44%), or earn $20,000 to $30,000 in annual income (50%). Similarly, the percentage is higher for women (41%), especially women between ages 25 and 34 (71%).
"Women often wind up having to work longer than they expected due to unforeseen circumstances and expenses, especially if they outlive their spouses," said Cindy Hounsell, President of the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER). "This new legislation will make it easier for women to overcome the inequities that have, historically, placed them at a disadvantage when saving for retirement."
To address this growing problem, members of the private and public sectors have worked together to develop and implement auto portability—the routine, standardized, and automated movement of a retirement plan participant's 401(k) savings account from their former employer's plan to an active account in their current employer's plan. Auto portability was conceived and built to meet the needs of plan participants with account balances of less than $5,000, who often lack access to the portability solutions afforded to their counterparts with larger accounts. The auto portability solution is designed to connect recordkeepers operating within the U.S. qualified 401(k) plan system, establishing a network that facilitates data flows. The Department of Labor provided Retirement Clearinghouse with guidance for its auto portability service in 2018 and 2019.
EBRI estimates that the widespread adoption of auto portability would preserve up to $1.5 trillion in additional retirement savings—measured in today's dollars—in the U.S. retirement system over a 40-year period. That $1.5 trillion would include approximately $191 billion for 21 million Black Americans, and $619 billion for all minority retirement savers.
Over the past few years, several large defined contribution plan recordkeepers have adopted auto portability for the plans they service. The Advancing Auto Portability Act supports the continued expansion of auto portability by creating a $500 tax credit to help businesses—and in particular, small businesses—with implementation costs and making the Department of Labor's 2019 guidance permanent.
More information is available at https://rch1.com/plan-sponsors.
The National Urban League and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have sent letters to Mr. Johnson in support of auto portability.
Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, ended his letter of support by stating: "Based on the far-reaching benefits of auto portability, the Urban League is pleased to join this public policy conversation, as our entire economy benefits when Americans can afford a secure and timely retirement. By strengthening the defined contribution leg of America's 'three-legged stool,' the Urban League believes all sectors of our economy benefit, including the private sector, the taxpaying public, and all levels of government. Now is the time for all of us to work together to reduce the wealth gap and make retirement more secure for Black families. The National Urban League stands behind all efforts to empower Black Americans and we are pleased to be aligned with you on the issue of Auto Portability."
Derrick Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP, wrote in his letter of support, "The implementation of Auto Portability is a necessary and transformational tool in addressing the racial wealth gap. It will ensure that Black families, and other communities of color, have the financial infrastructure necessary to maintain economic stability for retirement." He also wrote, "Although Auto Portability alone will not address the racial wealth gap, it has the ability to positively support the ability of Black workers to build lucrative retirement investments by creating a streamlined approach to savings; one that reduces the opportunities of workers to withdraw investments. As an organization committed to identifying solutions to economic challenges and inequities experienced by Black people, and other communities of color, the NAACP is committed to being a partner in advancing the implementation of Auto Portability as an essential tool to address racialized economic inequities."
To learn more about auto portability, please visit https://www.rch1.com/auto-portability.
Retirement Clearinghouse, LLC is the leading provider of portability and consolidation services for defined contribution plans, acting as a trusted, unbiased intermediary between plan sponsors, participants, recordkeepers and other parties. Retirement Clearinghouse's integrated financial technology, data and information solutions facilitate automated consolidation of small, redundant accounts for sponsors to improve plan performance, and enable participants, regardless of account balance, to seamlessly transport their retirement savings through every phase of their careers.
Retirement Clearinghouse's portability solutions have been proven to cut cash-outs by over 50% and significantly increase average account balances. The firm's portability solutions include a domestic call center providing specialized assistance designed to enable end-to-end portability and account consolidation; uncashed check services; and the capability to search for lost and missing participants.
Retirement Clearinghouse (RCH) remains the only independent provider that defines its primary business as the consolidation of retirement savings into active 401(k) or IRA accounts and provides plans and their participants with services that streamline the transfer of savings between retirement accounts.
Originally established as RolloverSystems in 2001, Charlotte, N.C.-based Retirement Clearinghouse works with more than 33,000 retirement plans and has helped guide over 1.7 million plan participants with more than $27 billion in retirement savings. Retirement Clearinghouse is a portfolio company of The RLJ Companies, founded by Robert L. Johnson. For more information, please visit www.rch1.com.
Victoria Castelbuono
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(973) 590-9314
rch@jconnelly.com
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New effort to connect adults 50-70+ with employment, mentoring, entrepreneurship opportunities so they remain engaged in community – that's critical for economy and healthcare systems as percentage of older adults is forecast to skyrocket by 2030
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Like many other states, New Mexico's older population is expected to dramatically increase as a percentage of the state's overall population by 2030. That's why CNM Ingenuity, an economic development arm of Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), has acquired New Mexico-New Elder World (NM-NEW), a non-profit organization that proactively engages New Mexico residents who are age 50-to 70-plus through work, mentoring and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Keeping older New Mexicans engaged in the community and economy will be increasingly important for the New Mexico economy due to drastic shifts in the state's age demographics. In 2010, New Mexico ranked No. 39 in the country for the percentage of residents age 65-plus. In 2030, New Mexico's 65-plus population is expected to rank No. 4 in the country due to a variety of factors. By 2030, 28 percent of New Mexico's population is expected to be 60-plus, making the role of NM-NEW critical for the state. In Bernalillo County, home to Albuquerque, the 60-plus age group is forecasted to be over 40 percent.
"It can be easy to see problems when it comes to a large aging population, but we see an opportunity," says Kyle Lee, CEO of CNM Ingenuity. "There are not as many people who want to retire in the traditional sense, and by acquiring NM-NEW we hope to provide New Mexicans with new and meaningful ways to engage with the community."
NM-NEW was founded in October 2020 by Paula Getz, a New Mexico native who had a successful career in the tech industry. When it was time to retire, she wasn't ready to stop sharing her knowledge with young entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses.
"After spending 40 years in tech, I developed a wealth of skills that can be incredibly useful to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, municipalities and nonprofits in New Mexico," she explains. "I was ready to retire, but I also wanted to find a way for myself, and other older adults, to share what we know, so we started NM-NEW. By creating a way to easily engage that population, they can not only give back to New Mexico but will also stay happier and healthier."
CNM and CNM Ingenuity have already been engaging with older adults through other programs, including entrepreneurial programs. With the acquisition of NM-NEW, CNM Ingenuity will increase the momentum and engagement with older adults interested in entrepreneurship. The average age of a small business founder in the U.S. is 42. And data shows businesses started by 50-and-over founders are 1.8 times more likely to achieve high growth compared to businesses founded by an entrepreneur in their 30s.
Proactive engagement with older adults will not only have a positive impact on this population's mental and physical health, but will also have a positive impact on the state's economy by helping reduce New Mexico's labor shortage and taking strain off the healthcare system.
This acquisition will also help CNM and CNM Ingenuity to hire high-quality, experienced instructors who want to share their expertise with students. The older adult population can also become students themselves as they look to reskill or upskill to pursue their next endeavor.
"Our learners need instructors who have both professional and life experience, and there is no better place to find that than in the older population," Lee explains. "The union of NM-NEW and CNM Ingenuity is truly a win-win for those who want to continue to share what they know and for our learners who need that knowledge."
Over the next five years, the plan is for NM-NEW to become a driving force in the community, like many other CNM Ingenuity programs have become in meeting the needs of the workforce. A community college managing a program like this for older adults will also be of interest as a potential model for other regions and states facing similar challenges.
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Zambezi Zinger roller coaster returning to Worlds of Fun amusement park
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A popular Worlds of Fun roller coaster is returning after it was discontinued over 20 years ago.
KCTV reports the theme park announced Thursday that a reimagined Zambezi Zinger will open to the public in 2023.
The ride had been one of the original roller coasters at Worlds of Fun when the park opened in 1973.
Park representatives said the ride would have side-by-side seating instead of the original toboggan-style seating. It will also be built on a new Titan Track, which sits on top of a galvanized steel and wood hybrid frame.
The ride will also reach 74 feet high, compared to the original design of 57 feet.
Worlds of Fun said it would host a “season-long celebration of fun, memories and adventure” to mark the park’s 50th anniversary.
A park spokesperson said the reimagined ride will feature the following:
- Length: 2,428 feet
- Speed: 45 mph
- Duration: 2 minutes
- Track Style: Hybrid Titan Track
- Trains: New Infinity Flyer Trains, capable of taking on the most extreme coaster elements
- Number of Trains: 2
- Riders/Train: 16
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(NEXSTAR) – Costco will follow the likes of Sam’s Club, Amazon, and most streaming services in raising its membership fee, the company’s chief financial officer confirmed last week.
Ultimately, it’s not a question of if the cost will rise, it’s when.
During a recent earnings call, Costco CFO Richard Galanti repeatedly noted membership fees have, historically, risen roughly every five years. The last three price increases have happened five years and seven months apart.
If the next price hike were to follow the same five-year, seven months pattern, it could happen as soon as January (the most recent cost increase happened in June 2017). But, don’t expect it.
While Galanti explained Costco has “no problem thinking about [raising the membership fee] and doing it ultimately,” he remained “purposely coy” on when the price increase may happen.
“If we have to wait a few months or several months, that’s fine,” he said, adding later in the call that amid inflation and fears of a recession, “there’s no rush” to raise the membership fee. He went on to say that Costco feels “very good about where our renewal rates are and then the loyalty that our members have.”
Galanti has been hinting since early this year that a membership price hike would happen “at some point.”
Currently, a Costco Gold Star Membership is $60 and an Executive Membership is $120.
Two months ago, Costco competitor Sam’s Club raised its Club membership fee for the first time in nine years. It also hiked its Plus membership fee for the first time since 1999. Other subscription services like Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ have also raised their rates this year. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/costco-memberships-will-get-more-expensive-cfo-says/ | 2022-12-11 21:55:42 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/costco-memberships-will-get-more-expensive-cfo-says/ |
Annual conference and tradeshow is the country's largest gathering of local leaders in aging.
TAMPA, Fla., July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GroundGame.Health (GGH), the leading solution that connects Community Based Organizations with Payers and Providers to meet Social Determinant of Health (SDoH) needs on the Ground, launched a new partnership with USAging, while serving as a premier sponsor of the USAging Conference and Tradeshow for the second year in a row. The Conference, July 16-19 in Salt Lake City, includes 1,200 local leaders in aging along with government experts, policymakers, business leaders, and other Aging Network practitioners.
The hub of the expanding GroundGame.Health USAging partnership is a new and exciting Interoperability and Data Affinity Group. This new group will feature year-round in-person and virtual interactions, as well as an engagement platform to facilitate collaboration and connection among members. The commitment is for three years.
USAging members cite interoperability/data as one of their top challenges, and the demand for this Affinity Group comes directly from local leaders. Coming together like this will enable previously unconnected Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to share best practices and speak with a more unified voice when interacting with policymakers as well as large national payers and providers. Sandy Markwood, USAging CEO, announced the Affinity Group and partnership at Conference general sessions. GroundGame.Health was selected by USAging as the Founding Partner for the Affinity Group and engagement platform because of their proven track record efficiently delivering resources to Community Based Organizations on the Ground, where it could help the most people and empower CBOs to scale their missions.
There are currently more than 55 million Americans age 65 or older. Within this age group, 14% of all expenditures are health-related, compared to just 8% for all others. It is estimated that the majority of risk factors that affect health outcomes for people age 65+ sit beyond the traditional scope of care.
Research by the American Journal for Preventive Medicine suggests that Social Determinant of Health (SDOH) risk factors can affect up to 80% of an individual's overall health outcome.
"The only way to truly make a difference is to talk one to one with people who need assistance," said Susan Rawlings Molina, co-Founder and CEO, GroundGame.Health. "During just the most recent 12 months, we are proud to have been able to address nearly 80,000 SDoH needs. Through our platform and partnerships, we connect the unconnected™."
Much of the work to meet SDoH needs for seniors is performed by local Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs). USAging is the association representing and supporting the national network of AAAs, composed of the local leaders who develop, coordinate, and deliver a wide range of home and community-based services, including information and referral/assistance, case management, home-delivered and congregate meals, in-home services, caregiver supports, transportation, evidence-based health and wellness programs, long-term care ombudsman programs and more.
The USAging Conference and Tradeshow is the country's largest gathering of local leaders in aging, with a rich history of peer-to-peer learning, federal policy and trends insight, and industry learning opportunities.
If you are interested in learning more about the positive impact GroundGame.Health has on the health and wellness of local communities, please visit their sponsored Conversation Café, located on the USAging Conference and Tradeshow main floor. For those not attending this year's event, please visit our website.
About GroundGame.Health
GroundGame.Health is a team of healthcare leaders who have come together to create a platform and process that opens the power of innovation, data-driven insights, and relationships to smash barriers in the healthcare ecosystem. This means resources get to ground level where they amplify and accelerate the missions of community-based organizations to help people who need it most. GroundGame.Health already has proven success with one of the nation's largest payers and hundreds of ground level organizations to improve outcomes, lower costs, and enable people to live their best quality lives.
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5 things to know for Oct. 7: Biden pardons, Las Vegas stabbings, Iran, Trump, Amazon
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN
The Nobel Peace Prize, one of humanity’s most coveted accolades, was jointly awarded today to human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organization Memorial, and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties. This year’s announcement ranked among the most closely watched — and complicated — decisions made by the Nobel Committee in recent times due to Russia’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.
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1. Biden pardons
President Joe Biden on Thursday pardoned all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, a move that senior administration officials said would affect thousands of Americans charged with that crime. “No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” Biden said in a video announcing his executive actions. As part of the announcement, Biden also encouraged governors to take similar steps to pardon those with state marijuana possession charges. The announcement comes a month ahead of critical November elections that will determine control of Congress and as Democrats seek to rebuff allegations that they are soft on crime, an issue that has risen to the top of some voters’ agendas in certain swing districts.
2. Las Vegas stabbings
A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and six others were wounded in a series of stabbings in front of Las Vegas casino on Thursday. The incident took place near the Wynn hotel and casino shortly before noon, police said. The 32-year old suspect was taken into custody on two counts of open murder with a deadly weapon and six counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon. Authorities have not shared the suspect’s motive, but the stabbings appear to be unprovoked and without any altercation beforehand, police said. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said the victims were a combination of locals and tourists, and police will provide information on them after their families have been contacted.
3. Iran
The US issued new sanctions Thursday on seven senior Iranian officials over the Iranian government’s violent crackdown on mass protests and restrictions on internet access in the country. For weeks, a protest movement in Iran’s capital of Tehran has gathered momentum since the death in mid-September of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who died after being detained by the country’s morality police for apparently not wearing her hijab properly. More than 1,000 people are believed to have been detained in the demonstrations. CNN has not been able to independently verify the number of the dead and injured, but state media says 40 people have died since the start of protests in September. Human rights group Amnesty International says at least 52 have been killed.
4. Trump
Justice Department officials are insisting to former President Donald Trump’s attorneys that he return any outstanding documents marked as classified, making it clear they do not believe he has returned all materials taken when he left the White House, a person familiar with the outreach told CNN. Whether the FBI rounded up all of the sensitive federal records in Trump’s possession during its search of his Mar-a-Lago residence is a question that’s loomed over the situation in recent weeks. But in numerous court filings, prosecutors indicated they had concerns that classified records were possibly still missing. Justice officials — including Jay Bratt, a top lawyer in the Department of Justice’s national security division — have communicated to Trump’s attorneys that he has an ongoing obligation to return the documents marked as classified.
5. Amazon
Amazon plans to hire 150,000 new workers in the US to meet demand ahead of the busy holiday shopping season, the company said Thursday. The openings — which include full-time, seasonal, and part-time roles — range from picking and packing to sorting and shipping. While Amazon typically opens new roles each holiday season, this large hiring spree comes in the heat of a tight labor market and as rising inflation continues to put more pressure on companies to raise wages. In response, Amazon said it would increase wages to $19 an hour based on the position, up from an average of $18 previously, and provide sign-on bonuses. Some of the states with the highest number of jobs available include California, Illinois and Texas.
BREAKFAST BROWSE
Pet sitter is no match for rambunctious puppies
Watch this dog sitter faceplant while trying to wrangle some adorable puppies. Clearly, he was having a ruff day.
‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ teaser trailer is here
A new adaptation of the iconic Nintendo video game features Chris Pratt as Mario and several other big-name stars.
The real-life ‘Inventing Anna’ could be released from jail soon
Did you watch the Netflix show “Inventing Anna”? Well, a judge ruled the fake heiress that the show is based on can be released from jail on bond — but she isn’t allowed on social media.
Yayoi Kusama’s yellow pumpkin sculpture is back on Naoshima Island
Japan’s famous yellow pumpkin has been reinstalled after it was swept into the sea during a typhoon last summer. And the timing couldn’t be better.
Should you compost?
For some, composting food is a confusing process that may not seem worth the hassle … but this is why you should consider doing it.
You can also sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter here and receive a guide to help you minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce your eco-anxiety.
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IN MEMORIAM
Sara Lee, a former WWE wrestler and winner of the reality competition series “Tough Enough,” has died, according to a statement from her mother shared on social media. She was 30. The competitive powerlifter was married to former WWE wrestler Westin Blake.
TODAY’S NUMBER
53%
That’s how much of the lower 48 US states are experiencing drought, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Amid abnormal dryness nationwide, low water levels — particularly along the Mississippi River — have forced some barges to run aground, the US Coast Guard said. Low levels in the Mississippi also prevented a Viking river cruise ship from finishing its voyage this week, the company said.
TODAY’S QUOTE
“We have a direct threat of the use (of a) nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path they are going… I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.”
— President Biden, delivering a stark warning about the dangers behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats as Moscow continues to face military setbacks in Ukraine. Biden’s remarks at a fundraiser on Thursday come as the US considers how to respond to a range of potential scenarios, including fears that Russia could use tactical nuclear weapons, according to three sources briefed on the latest intelligence.
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AND FINALLY
Today is World Smile Day
Celebrate the unofficial holiday by trying to make someone smile today! Here, I’ll go first. You’ll likely grin, maybe even laugh, after watching this epic dance battle. (Click here to view)
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US criticizes Israeli settlement plans but offers no action
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has criticized new Israeli plans to build thousands of new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. But it is giving no indication it plans to take any action against its close Middle Eastern ally. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the plans late Sunday, saying they were in response to recent deadly Palestinian violence. Officials said Israel will legalize nine unauthorized settlement outposts and give the green light to some 10,000 new homes in other settlements. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday he was “deeply troubled” by the decision, which he said hurts peace prospects. But he made no mention of any action the U.S. might plan in response. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/13/us-criticizes-israeli-settlement-plans-but-offers-no-action/ | 2023-02-13 21:14:55 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/13/us-criticizes-israeli-settlement-plans-but-offers-no-action/ |
TOKYO, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
Fiscal Year Results
Honda's consolidated sales revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023 increased by 16.2%, to JPY 16,907.7 billion from the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, due mainly to increased sales revenue in Motorcycle business as well as positive foreign currency translation effects. Operating profit decreased by 3.7%, to JPY 839.3 billion from the previous fiscal year, due mainly to decreased profit attributable to sales impacts and increased expenses including product warranty expenses, which was partially offset by positive foreign currency effects. Profit before income taxes decreased by 12.3%, to JPY 938.1 billion from the previous fiscal year. Profit for the year attributable to owners of the parent decreased by 1.7%, to JPY 695.2 billion from the previous fiscal year.
Earnings per share attributable to owners of the parent for the year amounted to JPY 409.87, a decrease of JPY 1.22 from the previous fiscal year. One Honda American Depository Share represents one common share.
Forecasts for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2024
In regard to the forecasts of the financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, Honda projects consolidated results to be as shown below:
Dividend per Share of Common Stock
This announcement contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements are based on management's assumptions and beliefs taking into account information currently available to it. Therefore, please be advised that the actual results of the Company could differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements as a result of numerous factors, including general economic conditions in the principal markets of the Company, its consolidated subsidiaries and its affiliates accounted for by the equity-method, and fluctuation of foreign exchange rates, as well as other factors detailed from time to time. The various factors for increases and decreases in profit have been classified in accordance with a method that Honda considers reasonable.
Information about per common share
Equity per share attributable to owners of the parent as of March 31, 2022 and 2023 are calculated based on the following information.
Earnings per share attributable to owners of the parent for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2023 are calculated based on the following information. There were no significant potentially dilutive common shares outstanding for the years ended March 31, 2022 and 2023.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. He was 78.
Officials with the Red Bull racing team at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, announced Mateschitz’s death Saturday. There was no immediate word where he died, or a cause of death.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem, president of motor sports governing body FIA, said Mateschitz was “a towering figure in motor sport.”
“The thoughts of all the FIA family are with his loved ones at this time and he will be greatly missed.”
Mateschitz gained fame as the public face of Red Bull, an Austrian-Thai conglomerate that says it sold nearly 10 billion cans of its caffeine and taurine-based drink in 172 countries worldwide last year.
Mateschitz not only helped the energy drink become popular around the world, but also built up a sports, media, real estate and gastronomy empire around the brand.
With the growing success of Red Bull, he significantly expanded his investments in sports, specifically motorsports and extreme sports, and Red Bull now operates football clubs, ice hockey teams and F1 racing teams. Red Bull also has contracts with hundreds of athletes in various sports and a deep driver development program to get racers to the top level.
“It’s been hard news for everyone — what he has meant for Red Bull, and of course the sport, and especially for me,” said Max Verstappen, who wrapped up his second consecutive F1 title two weeks ago.
Verstappen on Sunday at Circuit of the Americas will try to tie Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel with an F1-record 13 victories in a season, and he’ll also attempt to clinch the constructors championship for Red Bull.
“What he has done for me, my career so far, and in general my life, it’s really tough, it’s a really tough day,” Verstappen said. “There’s still a race ahead and we’re going to try to make him proud tomorrow.”
Mateschitz and Thai investor Chaleo Yoovidhya founded the company in 1984 after Mateschitz recognized the potential in marketing Krating Daeng – another energy drink created by Chaleo – for a western audience. Red Bull says Mateschitz worked on the formula for three years before the modified drink was launched under its new name in his native Austria in 1987.
Under Mateschitz’ stewardship, Red Bull quickly increased its market share, first in Europe, then in the United States, helped by marketing campaigns promoting the drink’s claimed stimulating properties and extensive sponsorship agreements in motorsports, soccer, extreme sports and the music industry.
The Red Bull Racing team has enjoyed success in Formula 1, winning the constructors’ championship in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, while German driver Vettel won four drivers’ championships in row while signed to the team.
Verstappen started in Red Bull’s driver development program and became the youngest driver in F1 history to start a grand prix when he started with the junior Toro Rosso team at age 17 in 2015. The Dutchman is now the most dominant driver in the sport.
“So many of us have to be so grateful to him for the opportunities he’s provided and the vision he had, the strength of character, and never being afraid to follow dreams, and chase dreams. That’s what he did here in F1, proving that you can make a difference,” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner told Sky Sports F1.
“We’re just incredibly grateful for him, everything that he’s done, everything that he’s supported us with over the years,” Horner added. “So many drivers, so many team members, so many people in this pit lane owe him so much. He was incredibly proud of the team, incredibly proud of everything we’ve done and have been achieving, and he’s been a passionate supporter and the backbone of everything that we do.”
Red Bull operates soccer teams in top divisions across Austria, Germany, Brazil and the United States. The company started by buying Austrian club SV Austria Salzburg in 2005 and rebranding it in the company colors under the name Red Bull Salzburg.
It repeated the move in Germany, where it bought fifth-tier club SSV Markranstädt in 2009, rebranded it as RasenBallsport Leipzig, and financed its steady progress through the league system till it was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2016. German league regulations prevented the company from naming the team Red Bull Leipzig – its name in German, RasenBallsport, means “grass ball sport Leipzig” but the club just refers to itself as RB Leipzig.
Mateschitz also made headlines for his populist views. He previously criticized German chancellor Angela Merkel for her handling of the refugee crisis over 2015-16. The Austrian Servus TV station, owned by Red Bull Media House GmbH, is known for promoting right-wing provocative views.
Mateschitz bought the Jaguar Racing team from previous owner Ford at the end of 2004 and rebranded it as Red Bull for the 2005 season. Later that year, he then also bought Minardi and renamed it Toro Rosso, astutely using it as a feeder team for Red Bull.
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Auto Racing Writer Jenna Fryer and Associated Press Sports Writer Jerome Pugmire contributed to this report.
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Beyoncé announces ‘Renaissance’ tour
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
This is not a drill: Beyoncé is heading on tour.
On Wednesday superstar singer announced her eagerly awaited “Renaissance World Tour” is coming with a post on her verified Instagram account.
According to her official site, the tour will kick off in May at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden and wind through Europe before hitting Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in July.
The dates currently isted have the tour wrapping up in September at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
“Renaissance,” the Grammy winner’s seventh album, dropped to much acclaim in July and her devoted fan base, the Bey Hive, has been waiting on word of a tour since then.
Her last worldwide tour was “On the Run II” in 2018, which featured her and her husband, Rapper Jay-Z, on 48 stops across North America and Europe.
Speculation that a new tour announcement was coming reached a fevered pitch after Beyoncé recently performed an private concert at the Atlantis The Royal resort in Dubai.
Her “Renaissance” album is up for several Grammy Awards, taking place Sunday in Los Angeles.
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GUWAHATI, India (WXIN) — Marriage is full of compromises, and one Indian couple has gone viral for their prenuptial contract in which they agreed to limit the amount of pizza they ate.
The couple, 24-year-old Shanti Prasad and her groom, 25-year-old Mintu Rai, were married in June in India’s northern state of Assam, reported the BBC.
A video of them signing an oversized contract has since reached more than 20 million views on Instagram.
According to the BBC, the couple’s friends helped them draw up the contract, and at the top of the list, it says “only one pizza in a month.”
Prasad is the pizza fanatic in the relationship and would always want to get some cheesy slices during their dates. Rai told the BBC he “also likes pizzas but can’t eat them every day.”
“Her love for pizza is second only to her love for Mintu. I think she thinks about pizza in her free time and even in sleep,” one friend told the BBC.
The newlyweds also agreed to the following terms, among others, as outlined in the contract:
- Prasad must go to the gym daily.
- Rai must make breakfast every Sunday.
- Rai must take Prasad shopping every 15 days.
- Rai can only go to “late night parties” with his wife.
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Prosecutors want 25-year sentence in Texas protest killing
By JIM VERTUNO
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors want a U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed man during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Texas to be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. They say Daniel Perry’s history of racist and provocative texts and social media posts expose a threat of violence likely to resurface. Perry is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday even as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott presses to pardon him under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law. Perry was working as a ride-share driver the night he shot Garrett Foster. His lawyers have asked for a sentence of no more than 10 years. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/09/prosecutors-want-25-year-sentence-in-texas-protest-killing/ | 2023-05-10 06:05:21 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/09/prosecutors-want-25-year-sentence-in-texas-protest-killing/ |
With negotiations in the White House underway this week, House Republicans are getting more candid about what compromises they consider most feasible in a debt ceiling deal.
Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), a deputy to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who was central to outlining the House GOP debt limit bill, told reporters in a lengthy pen-and-pad discussion Thursday that the lowest-hanging fruits for agreement with Democrats are permitting reform, work requirements for public assistance programs, spending caps and rescinding unspent COVID-19 funds.
“If I were the person that were trying to lead a successful negotiation, I would grab those four and start with those,” Graves said.
Other House Republicans echoed those expectations — but some in the conference will likely expect more in the final agreement. And they point out that Democrats have not yet outlined any alternative to their own plan.
McCarthy also said Thursday that the talks between the White House and Republicans have not been productive so far.
“The president does not want a deal on this. He just wants to have default,” McCarthy said.
House Republicans’ debt bill — which was intended to be a starting point for negotiations — paired a $1.5 trillion debt ceiling increase with about $4.8 trillion in spending cuts and policy reforms. But they knew that much of that was a nonstarter for Democrats.
In addition to capping spending at fiscal 2022 levels, clawing back unused COVID-19 funds, blocking President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and rescinding a boost in IRS funding passed last year, the legislation included the entirety of Republicans’ H.R. 1 energy bill that would boost production of fossil fuels.
Here are the areas where Republicans are optimistic about reaching a deal.
Permitting reform
Efforts to streamline regulations and procedures for building new energy projects have been a priority in both parties, though they have disagreed on the details.
Graves highlighted comments from White House clean energy adviser John Podesta about the need for permitting reform at the Bipartisan Policy Center this week. And the White House is supporting Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) recently reintroduced permitting reform bill.
“I think that Dems need permitting reform more than Republicans do,” Graves said.
Graves thinks “it’s doable” to strike a deal. “We could perhaps do some permitting reform now and come back even in months and do some of these other things that need to be done.”
Even House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) did not rule out the possibility of supporting permitting reform when asked about it at a press briefing Thursday.
Work requirements
House Republicans’ debt increase bill beefed up work requirements to 20 hours per week for recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously known as food stamps) between 50 and 56 years old. There were also changes proposed to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and an outline for work requirements for Medicaid.
“The lowest-hanging fruit are those areas where common-sense Democrats in the past have had robust support, and work requirements are certainly among them,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), the chair of the Republican Main Street Caucus who has spent a lot of time on crafting work requirements.
“We don’t live in a world with unlimited resources, and so for those who want to increase SNAP benefits for the most needy Americans, I would say work requirements are one way that we can make sure that we prioritize resources for people who need it most,” Johnson said.
Spending caps
A centerpiece of the GOP’s debt limit bill was putting a cap on discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels while allowing for 1 percent annual growth for 10 years.
Graves said that the White House is “certainly pushing for a shorter window” on a spending caps agreement.
Cutting spending has been central to the Republican wish list for the debt limit, and was a major issue in McCarthy’s drawn-out Speaker election.
“My guess is the president would have to spend less than he likes, we would have to spend more than we like,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the House Rules Committee.
Rescind unspent COVID-19 funds
Biden said following his meeting with McCarthy and other top leaders at the White House on Thursday that rescinding unspent COVID-19 relief funds is “on the table,” giving Republicans reason to believe that a compromise there is possible.
“The fact that within 24 hours at the end of the meeting, they’re already stepping forward acknowledging Republicans’ strength in those areas is exceedingly good news,” Johnson said. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/here-are-the-top-four-areas-of-debt-ceiling-compromise-the-gop-is-eyeing/ | 2023-05-12 12:34:19 | 0 | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/here-are-the-top-four-areas-of-debt-ceiling-compromise-the-gop-is-eyeing/ |
LONDON and NEW YORK, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- uMotif today announced a new investment of $25.5m from a fund managed by Athyrium Capital Management, LP, the New York-based investment firm. The new funding will support continued scale up of uMotif's unique patient-first software platform for clinical research.
Catalysed by the Covid pandemic, the life sciences industry is increasingly adopting digital approaches for clinical and real-world research, including decentralization of trials. uMotif's unique software is available from app stores on any device, and is designed to provide pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech and Contract Research Organisation (CRO) clients with the most engaging patient data capture experience. By focusing on high quality design and modern cloud-native software, uMotif delivers high rates of data capture, patient retention, data quality and delivery speed - ultimately helping achieve faster, better trials. In an immunology study, uMotif's software engaged and retained participants so effectively, the data capture timelines were reduced by 33%, generating new insights faster.
Having deployed its software in over 30 countries globally including China and Japan, the uMotif platform powers all study designs, in all research settings. As study designs get more complex, with more burden placed on patients, uMotif helps simplify studies and delight the participants. uMotif has worked with many of the world's top pharma and biotech companies and CROs, including AstraZeneca, Abbvie and Syneos, powering unique insights and incredibly high data capture rates in excess of 90%.
The company continues to be supported by its existing investors AlbionVC and DNV, which led a Series A investment round in 2020. The new investment supports further international expansion and continued development of world-leading technologies, including unique and patent-protected solutions for pain, clinical outcome and symptom tracking. Having entered the US in 2021, and with support of a US-based healthcare investor, uMotif's North American team will significantly grow – including in sales, marketing and service delivery. This growth takes place alongside a continued focus on developing the industry's most patient-centric technology. uMotif works closely with partners to offer trial sponsors a seamless, beautiful and engaging patient-first experience to power site-based and decentralized trials.
Steve Rosenberg, CEO of uMotif said:
"We are delighted to welcome Athyrium to support our journey to be the most patient-centric platform for research. I truly believe that clinical research must put patients first, delivering more engaging research studies. With this investment from Athyrium I'm excited to grow our global capabilities to better serve our sponsors, partners and – most importantly – the patients we help take part in research."
Mark Kavulich, Partner at Athyrium said:
"Over recent years we have seen how the global eClinical market is significantly growing and quickly changing. uMotif's approach to engaging patients in research is truly differentiated, patent-protected and is built on technology ready to scale. We're excited to be joining the uMotif journey and supporting significant scale up in the coming years."
Rothschild & Co acted as financial advisor to Athyrium, and Ropes & Gray LLP acted as legal advisor to Athyrium. Bird & Bird LLP acted as legal advisor to uMotif.
About uMotif
uMotif's mission is to put patients at the center of clinical research. Designed with patients for patients, the uMotif patient-first eClinical platform powers site-based to fully decentralised clinical, real-world, and post-marketing research. By engaging patients and healthcare professionals, uMotif is trusted by global pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, CROs, and academic institutions to capture large volumes of eCOA/ePRO, symptom, and wearable device data. www.umotif.com
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About Athyrium Capital Management
Athyrium is a specialized asset management company formed in 2008 to focus on investment opportunities in the global healthcare sector. Athyrium advises funds with over $4.6 billion in committed capital. The Athyrium team has substantial investment experience across a wide range of asset classes including public equity, private equity, fixed income, royalties, and other structured securities. Athyrium invests across all healthcare verticals including biopharma, medical devices and products, healthcare focused services, and healthcare information technology. The team partners with management teams to implement creative financing solutions to companies' capital needs. For more information, please visit www.athyrium.com.
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PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of FS Credit Opportunities Corp. (the Fund) (NYSE: FSCO) announced today the monthly distribution for April 2023. The April distribution will be paid on April 28, 2023 at $0.04945 per share. Further information on the distribution is summarized in the charts below.
The Fund has approximately $2 billion in AUM and invests in event-driven credit, special situations, private capital solutions and other non-traditional credit opportunities.
The distribution will be made on the following schedule:
The Fund pays regular monthly cash distributions to common shareholders at a level rate that may be adjusted from time to time. The amount of monthly distributions may be affected by numerous factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions. The Fund's distributions reflect the Fund's net income.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. The Fund will send a Form 1099-DIV to shareholders for the calendar year that will tell them how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
Investors should consider, among other things, the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. Investors can find the Fund's most recent reports and other filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database or on the Fund's website (https://fsinvestments.com/fs-credit-opportunities-corp/).
About FS Investments
FS Investments is a leading asset manager dedicated to helping individuals, financial professionals and institutions design better portfolios. The firm provides access to alternative sources of income and growth, and focuses on setting industry standards for investor protection, education and transparency. FS Investments is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA with offices in New York, NY, Orlando, FL and Leawood, KS.
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XIAN, Shaanxi, China, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shaanxi carried out an online marketing campaign— "Living Relics"—on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram from 17th to 21st May. During this campaign, "cultural relics" were placed in ancient environments, such as the "Western Zhou bronze mother and baby tigers" in the mountains and the "terra cotta senior officer" on the battlefield. The background of the cultural relics and the creative thinking behind them were perfectly presented. The charming cultural relics kept by major museums in Shaanxi Province and the profound historical, cultural accumulation of Shaanxi are demonstrated to overseas fans.
Visit Shaanxi launched the "Living Relics" campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where it introduced cultural relics of well-known museums in Shaanxi and historical stories about the cultural relics. The relics of Shaanxi were displayed to overseas fans in a more direct and more infectious manner with exquisite posters, which inspired the fans' exploratory curiosity.
The marketing campaign lasted for five days, gaining over 5.1 million impressions and over 100,000 interactions in total. Though the campaign has come to an end, its impressions and interactions are still growing. This online campaign has brought the platforms closer to the fans and enriched the image of Shaanxi's cultural tourism to its fans worldwide.
Cultural relics are not merely exhibits in the museum, they should be shown to the public with a more direct and more distinctive approach. By combining the rich historical and cultural deposits of Shaanxi and the media habits of overseas users, this "Living Relics" online event was an important effort to increase the global influence of Shaanxi's cultural tourism brand. In the future, Shaanxi will continue operating its cultural tourism brand regularly, and actively explore new possibilities for its cultural tourism to go global. It will give full play to its deep historical and cultural foundation and let fans from all over the world to get to know and fall in love with Shaanxi with cultural relics as the bridge.
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REDMOND, Wash., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. will publish fiscal year 2022 fourth-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, on the Microsoft Investor Relations website at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Over $6.5 billion in funding awarded to date; leading tech investment conference continues to select large and diverse lineup of innovators from the Southeast's hottest tech markets
ATLANTA, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooleaf announced today that it has been chosen out of a record-breaking 450-plus applicants as one of the top technology companies in the Southeast to present at Venture Atlanta FORWARD 2022 to be held October 19-20. For 15 years, the annual conference has been selecting the most promising tech companies and bringing in the top investment firms from across the nation to hear them pitch. Venture Atlanta has helped launch more than 700 companies and raise $6.5 billion in funding to date, spinning out $17 billion in successful exits.
"Venture Atlanta is an incredible opportunity for emerging and scaling tech companies," said Cooleaf co-founder, Prem Bhatia. "Cooleaf is honored to present this year and share the story of our perseverance, growth, and leadership in the employee experience arena. We're also thrilled to represent the Atlanta tech community and meet other amazing founders from the Southeast."
A leader in the employee engagement space, Cooleaf's platform is transforming employee recognition across top companies. Recently named one of Atlanta's Best Places to Work in 2022, Cooleaf is pioneering the future of employee engagement for high-performing teams.
As in previous years, Venture Atlanta FORWARD 2022 is anticipated to be a sold-out event, with over 1,200 entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and business leaders expected to be in attendance. A new venue for this year's Venture Atlanta—the Woodruff Arts Center at 1280 Peachtree Street—reflects the growing intersection of art and technology.
"Venture Atlanta has established itself as the authority for recognizing technology innovation across the Southeast and beyond, connecting the best and brightest innovators with top-tier, national investors and other leaders in the tech ecosystem," said Venture Atlanta CEO Allyson Eman. "We again set a new record with nearly 500 applicants for Venture Atlanta Forward 2022—it's our most competitive year yet in terms of presenter quality. With an impressive slate of 87 presenting and showcase companies, a record number of sponsors, and a brand-new venue, we're continuing to raise the bar for what will be our 15th-anniversary event."
Venture Atlanta boasts a roster of highly successful alumni, including CallRail, Car360, Flock Safety, Florence Healthcare, Kabbage, ParkMobile, Pindrop Security, Salesforce Pardot, Salesloft, SingleOps, Stax, and Terminus.
To learn more about Cooleaf, visit www.cooleaf.com. For additional information about Venture Atlanta, to register for the event, or to view the conference schedule, please visit www.ventureatlanta.org.
Venture Atlanta, the Southeast's technology innovation event, is where the region's most promising tech companies meet the country's top-tier investors. As the Southeast's largest investor showcase helping launch more than 700 companies and raise $6.5 billion in funding to date, the event connects the region's top entrepreneurs with local and national investors and others in the technology ecosystem who can help them raise the capital they need to grow their businesses. The annual nonprofit event is a collaboration of the Atlanta CEO Council, Metro Atlanta Chamber, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). For more information, visit www.ventureatlanta.org. Visit our blog and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for updates.
Cooleaf is the leading solution for companies looking to drive extraordinary experiences for their employees, customers, and prospects. Through Cooleaf's platform, forward-thinking brands are empowered to listen to sentiment and signals through pulse surveys and SaaS platform integrations, take action to engage stakeholders through recognition, incentives, and virtual experiences, and glean data insights through a powerful suite of analytics tools.
Visit www.cooleaf.com to learn more.
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Melissa Perry, Senior Marketing Manager at Cooleaf
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Position rooted in strong ecosystem of best-of-breed procurement technology solutions delivering transformation for global clients
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, today announced that it has earned the rank of Leader in Everest Group's Procurement Outsourcing (PO) Services PEAK Matrix Assessment 2022 for the second consecutive year. The report examines 21 PO service providers on market and industry deliverables and client interactions.
The report cites Genpact's operational consulting capabilities, deep domain expertise, and advanced technologies that provide end-to-end procurement services and enable digital transformation of client operations. Beyond its strategic sourcing and category management expertise, the company is also noted for its ability to successfully leverage a flexible operating model to support clients with end-to-end integrated risk management and analytics solutions.
"As organizations respond to volatile global markets, strategic procurement solutions are imperative to effectively manage costs in an inflationary environment, increase business resilience, and optimize overall value from supplier relationships," said Katie Stein, chief strategy officer and global business leader, Enterprise Services, Genpact. "With the depth and breadth of our procurement services, we are proud that Everest Group recognizes Genpact's talent upskilling initiatives that help us continuously evolve and enhance our offerings for clients worldwide."
"Genpact drives transformation for clients' procurement functions through its operational consulting capability, deep domain expertise, and comprehensive digital solutions which strengthened its position as a Leader in Everest Group's 2022 Procurement Outsourcing Services PEAK Matrix Assessment," said Vignesh Kannan, Practice Director, Everest Group. "It offers a strong ecosystem of best-of-breed procurement technology solutions comprising targeted acquisitions and third-party partnerships to enhance user experience and improve digital transformation and talent management capabilities along with its in-house solutions such as UXnxt - an AI/ML based tool to evaluate user experience, a cognitive buying assistant, analytics solutions, and Genome - its training and development platform. It has further augmented its source-to-contract capabilities and developed offerings covering emerging themes such as ESG and risk management."
Genpact is recognized by the Everest Group for its strong experience serving clients across industries in North America and Europe and having good traction in APAC and MEA regions, while expanding its delivery presence in the US, South Africa, and Mexico.
For more information, read the customer version of Everest Group's report.
About Genpact
Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services firm delivering the outcomes that transform our clients' businesses and shape their future. We're guided by our real-world experience redesigning and running thousands of processes for hundreds of global companies. Our clients – including many in the Global Fortune 500 – partner with us for our unique ability to combine deep industry and functional expertise, leading talent, and proven methodologies to drive collaborative innovation that turns insights into action and delivers outcomes at scale. We create lasting competitive advantages for our clients and their customers, running digitally enabled operations and applying our Data-Tech-AI services to design, build, and transform their businesses. And we do it all with purpose. From New York to New Delhi and more than 30 countries in between, our 115,000+ team is passionate in its relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people. Get to know us at Genpact.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
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Genpact
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for GE, SHW, ROST, TWTR, and AAPL.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 50/50 Women on Boards™ (50/50WOB), the leading non-profit education and advocacy campaign driving the movement toward gender balance and diversity on corporate boards, hosted its annual Global Conversation on Board Diversity™ series of events in October and November 2022.
More than 200 global, local, and in-kind sponsors and donors partnered with 50/50WOB to drive awareness for the business imperative of gender parity on boards and to provide women in their networks the opportunity to advance by investing in their leadership mobility. Global Sponsors include Equilar, EY, Mastercard®, Bank of America, Marsh, Unum Group, Target, AMN Healthcare, and BTIG, LLC.
The annual events included:
- Four virtual Industry Conversations in live discussions with CEOs and Board Chairs from Target, eBay, e.l.f., Mastercard, Bank of America, BNY Mellon, HP, HubSpot, Upwork, Merck, Rite Aid, and Quest Diagnostics from the Consumer, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Technology sectors.
- 18 in-person networking events in the U.S. and five international cities, attracting nearly 3,000 women coached by corporate directors based on their career level.
- The third annual Global Conversation, with the leaders of seven international stock exchanges, including New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Tokyo, India, and London, who focused on how to move beyond representation on the board among their listed companies.
"We are grateful for the support of all our sponsors and in-kind donors. Their commitment advances women by engaging and inviting their networks to our events, workshops, and the Networking Hub, which support a woman's board journey," said Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire, CEO of 50/50 Women on Boards. "In 2022, we saw a slower pace of women joining corporate boards, so it is more critical now for corporations to invest in women's leadership mobility. We applaud our enlightened sponsors for helping us accelerate more women to boards."
Holding a Platinum Transparency Rating on GuideStar, more than 83% of funds raised by 50/50WOB goes directly to support its research, board-readiness workshops, educational events, and advocacy efforts. Benefits for partnering with the organization, include access to the events, board readiness workshops, subscriptions to the Networking Hub, and visibility for their company's DEI efforts.
To learn more about 50/50 Women on Boards or to get involved, visit: https://5050wob.com/.
50/50 Women on Boards™ (50/50WOB) is the leading global nonprofit education and advocacy campaign driving the movement toward gender balance and diversity on corporate boards. Since 2011 the campaign has published its 50/50 Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index™ directory and research reports to track the gender and racial diversity of Russell 3000 company board directors. Educational programs and advocacy efforts produced by 50/50WOB include its annual Global Conversation on Board Diversity, year-round board-readiness educational workshops, and the Networking Hub for alumni to connect to experts and corporate directors in support of their board journey. For more information, www.5050wob.com.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) are set to introduce legislation on Tuesday to require federal agencies to address supply chain issues as the country fights the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The legislation, which is entitled the National Development Strategy and Coordination Act of 2022, would require Cabinet-level agencies to identify weaknesses in supply chains that could impact national security and domestic manufacturing, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The heads of these agencies would also need to periodically recommend ways for their departments to attract private investment and change federal financing programs to advance economic development.
Khanna told The Hill in a statement that the bill will invest in “critical industries” and create well-paying jobs.
“Workers across the country have seen their jobs shipped abroad and their communities hurt by deindustrialization,” he said. “With such a narrowly divided Congress, restoring American manufacturing leadership is work that can be done in a bipartisan fashion and unify Americans around a shared purpose.”
Rubio told the Journal that the bill would be a “road map” to invest in “things that actually matter” by using the government’s existing tools.
“If we want to be a strong nation, we have to rebuild and invest in critical industries at home,” he said.
The legislation would give the Treasury Department’s Federal Financing Bank $20 billion to be invested over the course of 10 years to take action on the recommendations using loan guarantees, issuing securities-backed financing or purchasing debt, the Journal reported.
The Hill has reached out to Rubio’s office for comment. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/bipartisan-lawmakers-unveiling-bill-targeting-supply-chain-shortfalls/ | 2022-12-13 20:14:09 | 0 | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/bipartisan-lawmakers-unveiling-bill-targeting-supply-chain-shortfalls/ |
Russian advance stalls in Ukraine’s Bakhmut, think tank says
By KARL RITTER
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s advance seems to have stalled in Moscow’s campaign to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a leading think tank said in an assessment of the longest ground battle of the war.
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said there were no confirmed advances by Russian forces in Bakhmut. Russian forces and units from the Kremlin-controlled paramilitary Wagner Group continued to launch ground attacks in the city, but there was no evidence that they were able to make any progress, ISW said late Saturday.
The report cited the spokesperson of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Eastern Group, Serhii Cherevaty, who said that fighting in the Bakhmut area had been more intense this week than the previous one. According to Cherevaty, there were 23 clashes in the city over the previous 24 hours.
The ISW’s report comes following claims of Russian progress earlier this week. The U.K. Defense Ministry said Saturday that paramilitary units from the Kremlin-controlled Wagner Group had seized most of eastern Bakhmut, with a river flowing through the city now marking the front line of the fighting. The assessment highlighted that Russia’s assault will be difficult to sustain without more significant personnel losses.
The mining city of Bakhmut is located in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk province, one of four regions of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed last year. Russia’s military opened the campaign to take control of Bakhmut in August, and both sides have experienced staggering casualties. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed not to retreat.
In its latest report Sunday, the U.K. Defense Ministry said Sunday that the impact of the heavy casualties Russia is continuing to suffer in Ukraine varies dramatically across the country. The ministry’s intelligence update said that the major cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg remain “relatively unscathed,” particularly among members of Russia’s elite. In contrast, in many of Russia’s eastern regions, the death rate as a percentage of the population is “30-40 times higher than in Moscow.”
The report highlighted that ethnic minorities often take the biggest hit. In the southern Astrakhan region, for example, about “75% of casualties come from the minority Kazakh and Tartar populations.”
Russia’s mounting casualties are reflected in a loss of government control over the country’s information sphere, ISW said. The think tank said that Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova confirmed “infighting in the Kremlin inner circle” and that the Kremlin has effectively ceded control over the country’s information space, with Putin unable to readily regain control.
The ISW sees Zakharova’s comments, made at a forum on the “practical and technological aspects of information and cognitive warfare in modern realities” in Moscow, as “noteworthy” and in line with the think tank’s long standing assessments about the “deteriorating Kremlin regime and information space control dynamics.”
Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russian attacks over the previous day killed at least five people and wounded another seven across Ukraine’s Donetsk and Kherson regions, local Ukrainian authorities reported on Sunday morning.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said that two people were killed in the region, one in the city of Kostyantynivka and one in the village of Tonenke. Four further civilians were wounded.
Local officials in the southern Kherson province confirmed that Russian forces fired 29 times on Ukrainian-controlled territory in the region on Saturday, with residential areas of the regional capital, Kherson, coming under fire three times. Three people died in the province and a further three were wounded.
In Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv province, the Kharkiv, Chuhuiv and Kupiansk districts came under fire, but no civilian casualties were reported.
The head of Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv province Gov. Vitali Kim said Sunday morning that the town of Ochakiv, set at the mouth of the Dnieper River, came under artillery fire in the early hours of Sunday. Cars were set ablaze, while private houses and high-rise buildings sustained damage. No casualties were reported.
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Fire truck crashes Monday while responding to call in Bourbon County
UNIONTOWN, Kan. (WIBW) - A fire truck crashed while responding to a call Monday afternoon in Bourbon County in southeast Kansas, authorities said.
The crash was reported at 3:08 p.m. Monday at K-3 highway and Hickory Road. The location was about four miles south of Uniontown.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2012 Freightliner fire truck was southbound on K-3 highway responding to a call when the passenger-side tires dropped off the edge of the road. The driver over-corrected to the left and back to the right. The vehicle overturned in the northbound ditch, where it came to rest on its side.
The driver, Matthew B. Troyer, 20, of Pittsburg, taken to the hospital with suspected minor injuries. The patrol said Troyer was wearing his seat belt.
No other injuries were reported.
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for TSLA, DQ, HSY, HUM, and ED.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money.
The 6-3 outcome could fuel a renewed push for school choice programs in some of the 18 states that have so far not directed taxpayer money to private, religious education. The most immediate effect of the court’s ruling beyond Maine probably will be felt next door in Vermont, which has a similar program.
The decision is the latest in a line of rulings from the Supreme Court that have favored religion-based discrimination claims. The court is separately weighing the case of a football coach who says he has a First Amendment right to pray at midfield immediately after games.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative majority that the Maine program violates the Constitution’s protections for religious freedoms.
“Maine’s ‘nonsectarian’ requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise,” Roberts wrote.
The court’s three liberal justices dissented. “This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.
Justice Stephen Breyer noted in a separate dissent that Maine “wishes to provide children within the State with a secular, public education. This wish embodies, in significant part, the constitutional need to avoid spending public money to support what is essentially the teaching and practice of religion.”
But Roberts wrote that states are not obligated to subsidize private education. Once they do, however, they can’t cut out religious schools, he wrote, echoing his opinion in a similar case from two years ago. “Maine chose to allow some parents to direct state tuition payments to private schools; that decision was not ‘forced upon’ it,” Roberts wrote, quoting from Sotomayor’s dissent.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said during a Tuesday radio appearance that he was not surprised by the court’s decision, but he felt it was not consistent with his reading of the Constitution.
Frey also said the court’s ruling will require a reevaluation of how it applies to state law.
Until now, Maine’s exclusion of religious schools has been upheld, Frey said during the appearance on Maine Public. “Frankly, it is concerning, even though we saw it coming.”
The ideological split in Tuesday’s decision also was evident during arguments in December, when the conservative justices seemed largely unpersuaded by Maine’s position that the state is willing to pay for the rough equivalent of a public education, but not religious inculcation.
In largely rural Maine, the state allows families who live in towns that don’t have public schools to receive public tuition dollars to send their children to the public or private school of their choosing. The program has excluded religious schools.
Students who live in a district with public schools or in a district that contracts with another public system are ineligible for the tuition program.
Parents who challenged the program argued that the exclusion of religious schools violates their religious rights under the Constitution. Teacher unions and school boards said states can impose limits on public money for private education without running afoul of religious freedoms.
Michael Bindas, a lawyer for the libertarian Institute for Justice who argued for the parents at the high court, said the court made clear Tuesday that “there is no basis for this notion that the government is able to single out and exclude religious options.”
Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, sharply criticized the court for “forcing taxpayers to fund religious education” and cloaking “this assault on our Constitution in the language of non-discrimination.”
In the Maine case, parents sued in federal court to be able to use state aid to send their children to Christian schools in Bangor and Waterville. The schools in question, Bangor Christian School and Temple Academy, are uncertain whether they would accept public funds, according to court filings.
The Bangor school said it would not hire teachers or admit students who are transgender. Both schools said they do not hire gay or lesbian teachers, according to court records.
In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that states must give religious schools the same access to public funding that other private schools receive, preserving a Montana scholarship program that had largely benefited students at religious institutions.
In that case, the court said states don’t have to allow public money to be used in private education. But they can’t keep religious schools out of such programs, once created.
But even after that ruling, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Maine program, holding that the state was not violating anyone’s constitutional rights by refusing to allow taxpayer money to be used for religious instruction. The three-judge panel included retired Justice David Souter, who occasionally hears cases in the appeals court.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland next week in part to help mark the the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday accord, a U.S.-brokered agreement that helped end decades of deadly sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
Biden will first visit Belfast, Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., from April 11-12 to mark progress since the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was signed a quarter century ago and to underscore U.S. readiness to support Northern Ireland’s economic potential, the White House said.
Biden will then spend April 12-14 in the Republic of Ireland, holding engagements in Dublin, County Louth and County Mayo, where he will deliver an address celebrating the “deep, historic ties” between the United States and Ireland, the White House said.
Signed on April 10, 1998 — which was Good Friday — the landmark accord helped end three decades of sectarian violence over the issue of Northern Ireland uniting with Ireland or remaining in the United Kingdom.
The anniversary is being marked with celebration that peace has endured, but concern about entrenched divisions and political instability. And the specter of violence has not wholly disappeared — last month U.K. intelligence services raised the terrorism threat level for Northern Ireland from “substantial” to “severe.”
Asked whether the heightened terrorism threat level would affect his plans to visit, Biden, who is proud of his Irish heritage and has long wanted to visit Ireland, said it would not.
“No, they can’t keep me out,” he said last month.
The agreement has come under increasing stress following the U.K.’s exit from the European Union. A recent accord known as the Windsor Framework between the U.K. and the EU addresses some of the issues that arose around commerce and goods that cross the Irish Sea from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
Biden, who quotes Irish poets quite often, recently praised the Windsor Framework as an important step in maintaining the peace accord, though Northern Ireland’s political leaders have called for changes.
“It’s a vital, vital step and that’s going to help ensure all the people in Northern Ireland have an opportunity to realize their full potential,” Biden said of the framework during remarks at a Capitol Hill luncheon on St. Patrick’s Day.
Biden had hosted Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office and at a White House reception on the holiday, a tradition that had been scuttled in recent years by the coronavirus pandemic.
Varadkar promised Biden a jolly good time when he visits.
“I promise you that we’re going to roll out the red carpet, and it’s going to be a visit like no other,” Varadkar told Biden in the Oval Office. “Everyone is excited about it already. We’re going to have great crowds who would love to see you.”
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/PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Unity Software
Inc. ("Unity" or the "Company") (NYSE: U) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in
District Court for the Northern District of
, and docketed under 22-cv-03962, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Unity securities between
and
, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule
-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Unity securities during the Class Period, you have until September 6, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Unity creates and operates an interactive real-time 3D content platform. The Company's platform provides software solutions to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. One of the tools on the Company's product platform is the Audience Pinpointer, a user acquisition service which uses real-time user valuation at the time of an ad request.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (ii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (iii) accordingly, Unity had overstated the Company's commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; (iv) as a result, the Company was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On May 10, 2022, after the market closed, Unity announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2022. The Company also reduced its fiscal 2022 guidance, citing "challenges with monetization products." Specifically, Unity stated that "a fault in [Unity's] platform . . . resulted in reduced accuracy for [its] Audience Pinpointer tool, a revenue expensive issue given that [the] Pinpointer tool experienced significant growth post the IDFA changes."
On this news, Unity's stock price fell $17.83 per share, or approximately 37%, to close at $30.30 per share on May 11, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Warner Brothers Discovery, Inc. ("WBD" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: WBD). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether WBD and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On May 17, 2021, AT&T, Inc. ("AT&T") and Discovery, Inc. ("Discovery") issued a press release announcing a definitive agreement to combine WarnerMedia's "premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading nonfiction and international entertainment and sports businesses to create a premier, standalone global entertainment company" (the "Merger"). On February 4, 2022, a definitive Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the Merger. On March 11, 2022, Discovery shareholders overwhelming voted to approve the Merger, which subsequently closed on April 8, 2022. On April 11, 2022, shares of the combined company WBD began trading on the NASDAQ. Investors subsequently learned, though a series of post-Merger disclosures, that: (i) WarnerMedia's HBO Max streaming business had an unacceptable churn rate that made the business not "viable" unless reversed; (ii) WarnerMedia was overinvesting in entertainment content for streaming, without sufficient concern for return on investment; (iii) WarnerMedia had a business model to grow the number of subscribers to its streaming service without regard to cost or profitability; and (iv) WarnerMedia had overstated the number of subscribers to HBO Max by as many as 10 million subscribers, by including as subscribers AT&T customers who had received bundled access to HBO Max, but had not signed onto the service.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Pope rallies UC San Diego to 85-83 OT win over Long Beach St
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Bryce Pope scored 25 points and sank a jumper with one second left in overtime to rally UC San Diego to an 85-83 victory over Long Beach State in a Big West Conference opener. Pope had eight rebounds for the Tritons (6-7). Justin DeGraaf added 14 points, while Emmanuel Tshimanga scored 12. Joel Murray led the way for the Beach (6-7) with 22 points. Murray hit a jumper with 35 seconds left to send the game to overtime tied at 73. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/29/pope-rallies-uc-san-diego-to-85-83-ot-win-over-long-beach-st/ | 2022-12-30 08:24:38 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/29/pope-rallies-uc-san-diego-to-85-83-ot-win-over-long-beach-st/ |
LONDON (AP) — London seems like a no-brainer for a European road trip. Paris is all but assured next. Why not throw in Germany and the Netherlands?
Major League Baseball has big plans for Europe, starting with an English reintroduction to the sport this weekend when the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs play a two-game series in London.
The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox featured in London four years ago, smashing six home runs in a European debut for MLB that was higher scoring — the Yankees won 17-13 — than the NFL’s first one in London in 2007, when the New York Giants beat the Miami Dolphins 13-10.
Though the coronavirus pandemic threw a curveball — the Cards-Cubs series was slated for 2020 — the success of the World Baseball Classic has provided a boost. Britain won a game at the tournament for the first time and found a star in Seattle Mariners prospect Harry Ford, who was born in Atlanta but has parents from the U.K.
“The U.K. has really been identified for us, London in particular, as the jumping off point for us to get into Europe,” Chris Marinak, MLB’s chief operations and strategy officer, told The Associated Press. “We feel like we proved that out in 2019. By coming back and having a really strong showing … we’re going to have the opportunity to really make some headway for growth both in the U.K. and throughout Europe.”
Britain is MLB’s biggest market in Europe in terms of broadcast revenue, merchandise sales and subscribers to digital products, though it trails the likes of Mexico, Japan, South Korea, China and Australia.
Audience research company GWI’s data showed that interest in baseball among British sports fans increased from 4% in 2019 to 5.9% last year, the league said. It added that MLB Europe’s social media channels since the 2019 series have more than tripled their followers to 452,000.
The New York-Boston series, a two-game set that drew nearly 119,000 fans to London Stadium, was a driver in the BBC signing a deal last fall to begin broadcasting a handful of games, including the London series, each season. MLB’s lead broadcaster in the U.K., the pay-TV service BT Sport, last year renewed its agreement to broadcast 15 games per season.
“We feel like the U.K. offers us a good model for growth in the Europe market,” Marinak said.
MLB’s first regular-season game outside of the United States — including Puerto Rico — and Canada was in 1996 when the New York Mets and San Diego Padres played a three-game series in Monterrey, Mexico. The league has also staged games in Tokyo and Australia. Earlier this season, Mexico City hosted a two-game series between the Padres and San Francisco Giants.
The Yankees are lobbying to play in Paris in 2025. The league hasn’t announced the City of Light just yet, but Marinak noted: “We see a lot of engagement in France.” The players’ association signed off on MLB holding a game in Paris in 2025 as part of last year’s collective bargaining agreement.
London is locked in for a series next year and another in 2026.
The Netherlands — bolstered by baseball’s popularity in Aruba and Curacao — and Italy boast the best national teams in Europe, though the Czech Republic is improving. Germany — which has become the NFL’s leading market in Europe — has a big U.S. military presence and has produced several big leaguers, including Minnesota’s Max Kepler.
“We’ve really focused on looking into Europe as once a year, maybe max twice a year … just because it’s such an effort to get over there, and it doesn’t really fit into the normal cadence of the major league schedule, but we really do think it’s important to bring live game content to the market,” Marinak said.
“We want to hit our priority markets but we may rotate around to a Germany in the long run or if there’s a facility in the Netherlands that we could potentially look at, France we’ve talked about, the UK,” he continued. ”But for the medium term we’re really focused on the UK as our primary vehicle.”
A suitable venue is the tricky part. Olympic-style, multi-use stadiums are possibilities, like Stade de France. Baseball was a demonstration sport at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin’s Olympiastadion. Renovating the Sydney Cricket Ground for the Australia series in 2014 “was sort of a complicated endeavor,” Marinak said.
The NFL, NBA and NHL have been staging games in Europe for years, leaving MLB playing catch up. Thirty years ago, MLB scheduled exhibitions between Mets and Red Sox minor leaguers at the Oval, but rain at the London cricket venue washed out the first two days. Technically, baseball’s connection with Britain goes way back, starting with exhibitions between the Boston Red Stockings and Philadelphia Athletics in 1874.
In a more modern development, MLB is giving individual teams certain marketing rights abroad, like the NFL does.
“They have the opportunity to pick a few markets and do sponsorships,” Marinak said. “We think that’s an opportunity to grow, where teams can activate in local markets and really pick places where they can bring their brand to bear and then also bring those relationships with some of those international partners back to the United States.”
Having a star player from abroad is vital, said sports economist Victor Matheson, a professor at the College of the Holy Cross. Pro leagues “tend to generate a reasonable amount of revenue in those players’ home countries.” Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is the shining example.
“That being said, with so few MLB players hailing from the UK or the rest of the EU, it’s my impression that MLB has made almost no inroads into Europe,” Matheson said.
MLB hopes Britain’s relative success in the WBC planted a seed. The 20-year-old Ford, whose parents are British, was Seattle’s top pick in the 2021 draft and hit a home run in Britain’s 7-5 win over Colombia — which qualified the team for the next WBC.
“You need that type of star to create the engagement and the interest in the local market,” Marinak said.
For now, the focus is on the weekend games at London Stadium.
“We’re optimistic that this is the next step in a long journey of linking Major League Baseball to the U.K. and the rest of Europe.”
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The innovation powerhouse donates E/SMART™ Mattress Toppers to refresh sleeping quarters for youth experiencing homelessness and escaping trafficking.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Piana Technology, the 439-year-old textile company known for fiber and nonwoven textiles innovation, is donating 117 mattress toppers to Covenant House Georgia, a nonprofit organization providing shelter, food and immediate crisis care to housing youth who are experiencing homelessness and escaping trafficking. This charitable contribution comes on the heels of Covenant House's 50-year anniversary celebration and arrives at the conclusion of Pride Month, amplifying the organization's much-needed services and long term commitment to our most vulnerable populations. Piana Technology hopes that refreshed mattress toppers—powered by E/SMART™ Fiber technology—will provide an exceptional quality of sleep for youth who have been displaced.
Piana's E/SMART™ mattresses are a technological achievement; non-toxic and odor free with reduced weight, superior compressional and thermal resistance, and part of the Piana E/SMART™ Ecosystem. At the end of life, these toppers can be 100% reclaimed, molded with the latest bedding technology, and reintroduced to a new generation of Covenant House Georgia youth at their most urgent stage of need.
"We are so grateful for this donation to refresh and renew the bedrooms available to youth in need," said Dr. Alie Redd, executive director of Covenant House Georgia. "Beyond the immediate need, we are excited about the renewable future of these toppers in Piana's circular model. They will provide a good night's sleep for decades."
"Everybody deserves a safe and comfortable place to sleep," said Andrea Piana, CEO of Piana Technology. "Community involvement is a fundamental component of who we are. It is not enough to simply create technological advancements for those who can afford luxury, we must also volunteer resources where we can provide the most impact in our communities."
Partnership is key to establishing the future Piana Technology is building toward; a vision of People, Planet and Purpose. Piana's responsibility is the creation of sustainable, empathetically-driven solutions within an ever-improving circular economy. Creating accessible technology moves the needle on important issues, as the world we envision becomes increasingly reachable.
About Piana Technology:
The Piana family's roots began in the textile business in 1582 in Biella, Italy before evolving to develop novel solutions in its industry, starting with traditional textile dyeing in 1950 and the opening of their first American factory in Cartersville, Georgia in 1995. Today, Piana Technology is a multinational company tackling common problems with uncommon solutions with nonwovens, digital printing, and fiber treatments. Piana makes the hidden technology behind many everyday consumer products—from automotive to home furnishings—replacing conventional materials with socially and environmentally responsible technologies.
About Covenant House:
Covenant House Georgia is a subsidiary of Covenant House International, the largest, privately funded nonprofit service organization serving young people experiencing homelessness in the Americas. Covenant House Georgia has been providing food, shelter, counseling, education and vocational training to homeless, runaway, and trafficked youth in the Greater Atlanta area since 2000. For more information on special events, accomplishments, services and volunteer opportunities, please visit Covenant House Georgia's website at www.covenanthousega.org or contact us at 404.589.0163.
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China has widened its already sweeping counter-espionage law. Experts say foreign businesses should be worried
By Simone McCarthy and Nectar Gan, CNN
China has broadened the scope of its already sweeping counter-espionage law in a move that analysts warn could create further legal risks or uncertainty for foreign companies, journalists and academics.
The changes expand the definition of espionage from covering state secrets and intelligence to any “documents, data, materials or items related to national security and interests,” without specifying specific parameters for how these terms are defined.
Cyber attacks targeting China’s key information infrastructure in connection with spy agencies are also categorized as espionage under the new version of the law, which goes into effect on July 1.
The amendment, approved by China’s top legislative body Wednesday, comes amid an increasing emphasis on national security under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the country’s most assertive leader in a generation.
Xi has overseen a raft of new measures to crack down on perceived threats within and outside China and sought to control the flow of information outside the country during his 10 years in power.
The original version of the law, passed in 2014, was already “very ambiguous and very powerful,” said Yasuhiro Matsuda, an international relations professor at the University of Tokyo. “But China thinks it’s not enough,” he said.
The broadened counter-espionage law comes just months after China lifted its pandemic-era border restrictions following three years of self-imposed Covid isolation — measures which had kept most foreign businesspeople and researchers away.
“China is opening up, and that makes it much more vulnerable” in the eyes of Chinese leaders, Matsuda said.
The revision is likely to heighten concerns of foreign individuals, such as academic researchers or journalists, and businesses about visiting or operating in China.
The new language in the amendment suggests “any organization and anyone can be suspect … and anything can be counted as a threat to national security” in the arbitrary application of the law, Matsuda said. “This will definitely cause a chilling effect,” he said.
Heightened risks
The lack of clarity around what kind of documents, data or materials could be considered relevant to national security will pose major legal risks to academics and businesses trying to gain a better understanding of China.
According to analysts, topics such as the origin of Covid, China’s real pandemic death toll, and authentic data on the Chinese economy could all fall within the crosshairs of the law.
“Before (some activities) used to be normal engagement, but now they could be espionage,” said Alfred Wu, an associate professor in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore.
“Something like a local government budget you could broadly define as relating to national security, or even food security,” he said. “Researchers definitely need to be careful.”
China says its laws related to national security and espionage are meant to safeguard the country.
Concerns about application of the law have been compounded by a series of arrests of foreign nationals on espionage charges in recent years.
Foreign governments have described the cases as being politically motivated and accused Beijing of violating due process, such as denying access to counsel and holding close-door trials.
In one high-profile example, two Canadians — former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor — were detained by China for nearly three years.
Their arrest on espionage charges in late 2018 came shortly after Canada arrested Chinese businesswoman and Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant related to the company’s business dealings in Iran.
Beijing repeatedly denied that their cases were a political retaliation, but the two men were released on the same day Meng was allowed by Canada to return to China.
Businesses on edge
In recent weeks, Japan has called for the release of one of its nationals employed by Astellas Pharma, who was detained in China last month on espionage charges.
At least 17 Japanese nationals have been detained in China on suspicion of spying and other activities since 2015, according to Japanese state broadcaster NHK.
These circumstances have already had an impact on personnel traveling to China from Japan, according to Kawashima Shin, a professor of international relations at the University of Tokyo.
“It is so difficult — so many Japanese scholars have already decided not to go China,” said Kawashima.
Japanese companies also note the definition of espionage under the law is “vague,” so they also “hesitate to send businesspeople” to China, he said. “It’s a big problem.”
One issue is that in past detentions details of the court cases have not been open, so it becomes difficult for companies or individuals to make risk assessments and judge at what point an activity may be crossing a legal line, Kawashima said.
“Even with this amendment we still don’t understand what kind of document constitutes a national security issue,” he added. “China can decide case by case.”
Western businesses are also on edge.
Last month, Chinese authorities closed the Beijing office of Mintz Group, an American corporate due diligence firm, and detained five local staff. And on Thursday, US consultancy Bain & Company said Chinese police have questioned staff at its Shanghai office.
Chinese authorities did not offer details about both cases, including the reason for the crackdown, but analysts say the move is likely to further spook foreign businesses operating in China.
“The Chinese government has continuously said it welcomes foreign investment. However, a flurry of recent actions taken against US enterprises in China has sent the opposite message,” said Michael Hart, President of AmCham China.
“Our business community is spooked, and our members are asking, ‘Who’s next?.’ Irrespective of the government’s intention, that’s the message being received.”
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Leading Swimming Pool Service Franchise Expands into New Communities Throughout Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and the Midwest
MACON, Ga., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Swimming Pool Company (ASP), the nation's leading swimming pool service franchise, is expanding rapidly throughout the country, opening 10 new locations in the first half of 2022. This growth includes the brand's first-ever territory in Michigan and a second in New York, as well as new franchises in key states such as Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Missouri. Each location provides swimming pool maintenance, repair, remodeling and cleaning programs to its respective cities and surrounding communities.
ASP openings in the first half of 2022 include the following:
Texas
- ASP of Central Texas is owned and operated by Michael Blackburn and serves Temple and the surrounding area.
- ASP of East Fort Worth is owned and operated by Niyi Uthman and is serving the eastern area of Fort Worth.
- ASP of West Fort Worth is owned and operated by Jeff Jerousek and serves the western area of Fort Worth. Jerousek is also planning to open an ASP retail location in 2023.
- ASP of Flower Mound is owned and operated by Nick Makhani and is serving Flower Mound and the surrounding area. This is the third ASP franchise purchase for Makhani, who opened ASP of McKinney in fall 2019 and recently acquired the ASP of Dallas franchise.
Florida
- ASP of Lakeland is owned and operated by Tom and Danelle Geraci and is serving Lakeland and the surrounding area.
- ASP of Wesley Chapel is owned and operated by Joey Wilkinson and serves Wesley Chapel and the surrounding area.
New York
- ASP of Dutchess County is owned and operated by Lazare Pouani and is serving Dutchess County and the surrounding area. This is the second ASP to open in New York.
New Jersey
- ASP of Northeast Jersey Shore is owned and operated by Steve Fischetti and is serving the northeastern area of the New Jersey shore. This is the second ASP franchise purchase for Fischetti, who opened ASP of Monmouth County in spring 2021.
Midwest
- ASP of Innsbrook is owned and operated by Dustin Loeffler and is serving Innsbrook, Missouri, and the surrounding area.
- ASP of Troy is owned and operated by Dave and Danielle Boddington and is serving Troy, Michigan, and the surrounding area. This is the first location for ASP in Michigan.
"It has been a very successful 2022 summer season, but our momentum started even earlier in the year with these fantastic new franchise owners joining the ASP family," said Stewart Vernon, COO and founder of America's Swimming Pool Company. "We are thrilled to be expanding in the Midwest and doing business in Michigan for the first time, as well as continued growth in established states like Texas and Florida. It's a testament to the strength of the pool care industry and the ASP business model that continues to attract top-notch talent to seize the opportunities in their markets."
Since its inception in 2002, ASP has continued to set a higher standard of performance and stability within the industry. The company has since cemented itself as the largest and most trusted swimming pool service in the country, with over 382 franchise locations sprawling across 23 states. Swimming pool owners nationwide trust ASP for its affordable, reliable and knowledgeable service—including maintenance, inspections, repairs and renovations.
ASP is currently looking for qualified individuals who are ready to dive into a successful swimming pool service franchise opportunity. The company has regularly been featured as a best franchise to buy and publicly recognized for its leadership, performance, and growth. Franchise opportunities are available in markets throughout the United States. For more information and to find an open ASP market by state, visit aspfranchising.com/available-territories or call (800) 734-7886.
ASP is the largest swimming pool cleaning, repair, and renovation franchise system in the nation. Founded in 2002 by Stewart C. Vernon, the company is based on the belief that by providing a higher quality pool service at a reasonable price, the brand would raise the industry standards for pool service. In 2005, ASP began franchising and now covers 23 states across the nation. For more information on ASP's swimming pool franchise opportunities, click here. For more information on ASP - America's Swimming Pool Company, visit the website or find us on Facebook @asppoolco.
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Russia’s Putin makes surprise trip to occupied Mariupol
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September and a show of defiance after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.
Putin arrived in Mariupol late Saturday after visiting Crimea, southwest of Mariupol, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday. He was shown chatting with Mariupol residents and visiting an art school and a children’s center in Sevastopol, Crimea.
Mariupol became a worldwide symbol of resistance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out in a steel mill there for nearly three months before Moscow finally took control of it in May. Much of the city was pounded to rubble by Russian shelling.
Putin has not commented on the arrest warrant, which deepened his international isolation despite the unlikelihood of him facing trial anytime soon. The Kremlin, which does not recognize the authority of the ICC, has rejected its move as “legally null and void.”
The surprise trip also came ahead of a planned visit to Moscow by Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expected to provide a major diplomatic boost to Putin in his confrontation with the West.
Putin arrived in Mariupol by helicopter and then drove himself around the city’s “memorial sites,” concert hall and coastline, Russian news reports said. The state Rossiya 24 channel on Sunday showed Putin chatting with locals outside what looked like a newly built residential complex, and being shown around one of the apartments.
Following his trip to Mariupol, Putin met with Russian military leaders and troops at a command post in Rostov-on-Don, a southern Russian city some 180 kilometers (about 112 miles) farther east, and conferred with Gen. Valery Gerasimov, who is in charge of the Russian military operations in Ukraine. Peskov said.
Peskov said the trip had been unannounced, and that Putin intended to “inspect the work of the (command) post in its ordinary mode of operation.”
Speaking to the state RIA-Novosti agency, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin made clear that Russia was in Mariupol to stay. He said the government hoped to finish the reconstruction of its blasted downtown by the end of the year.
“People have started to return. When they saw that reconstruction is under way, people started actively returning,” Khusnullin told RIA.
When Moscow fully captured the city in May, an estimated 100,000 people remained, out of a prewar population of 450,000. Many were trapped without food, water, heat or electricity. Relentless bombardment left rows of shattered or hollowed-out buildings.
Mariupol’s plight first came into international focus with a Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital on March 9, 2022, less than two weeks after the invasion of Ukraine began. A week later, about 300 people were reported killed in the bombing of a theater being used as the city’s largest bomb shelter. Evidence obtained by The Associated Press suggested the real death toll could be closer to 600.
A small group of Ukrainian fighters held out for 83 days in the sprawling Azovstal steel works in eastern Mariupol before surrendering, their dogged defense tying down Russian forces and coming to symbolize Ukrainian tenacity in the face of Moscow’s aggression.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world denounced as illegal, and moved in September to officially claim four regions in Ukraine’s south and east as Russian territory, following referendums that Kyiv and the West described as a sham.
The ICC on Friday accused Putin of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. U.N. investigators also said there was evidence for the forced transfer of “hundreds” of Ukrainian children to Russia. According to Ukrainian government figures, over 16,000 children have been deported to Russian-controlled territories or Russia itself, many of them from Mariupol.
While the ICC’s move was welcomed by Kyiv, the chances of Putin facing trial are slim because Moscow does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction or extradite its nationals.
Ukrainian officials reported Sunday that at least three civilians had been killed and 19 wounded by Russian shelling in the previous 24 hours. The deaths were in the eastern Donetsk region, amid fierce battles for control of the city of Bakhmut, according to Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko on Ukrainian TV.
Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said in a Telegram update that a 51-year-old woman was “fighting for her life” after being hit by shrapnel as Russian troops fired on the border town of Dvorichna.
Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said Ukrainian troops were holding the line near Bakhmut, a key target of a long, grinding Russian offensive, adding that the enemy’s plan to occupy the city “are now foundering.”
Taking Bakhmut would give the Kremlin a battlefield victory after months of setbacks, and could pave the way for Russia to threaten other Ukrainian strongholds in the region, including Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
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JUNO BEACH, Fla., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) today announced that Eric Silagy, chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), has notified the company of his intention to retire after 20 years with the company, including 11 years leading FPL.
Armando Pimentel, who previously served in several senior executive roles with NextEra Energy, will rejoin the company and is named president and CEO, FPL. John Ketchum, chairman, president and CEO, NextEra Energy, is named chairman, FPL.
"I want to thank Eric for his 20 years of dedicated service to our company, our customers and the communities where we do business," said Mr. Ketchum. "Eric is a passionate advocate for continuous improvement and under his leadership FPL has transformed into the nation's largest electric utility, providing our customers with the country's most reliable service with bills significantly lower than the national average. His commitment to putting customers first was on full display last year during hurricanes Ian and Nicole, where his dedication, commitment and compassion drove the FPL team to restore power in record time and quickly put the state of Florida back on its feet. Eric has been a devoted supporter of the state and his work for a variety of organizations has helped to foster Florida's economic growth, strengthen the state university system and grow the next generation of Florida leaders. I wish Eric and his family all the best on this next chapter in life."
Mr. Silagy has worked for NextEra Energy for nearly two decades. Prior to his appointment as president of FPL in 2011, he served as senior vice president of regulatory and state governmental affairs and as chief development officer, managing all generation development, including solar, natural gas and nuclear energy projects. Mr. Silagy also spent time working for NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, where he served as vice president and general manager of the southern region, and vice president of business development.
Prior to joining NextEra Energy, Mr. Silagy served as vice president, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures at Entergy Wholesale Operations, and as vice president and managing director, Southeast Asia, for The Wing Group, a subsidiary of Western Resources. He also worked for U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana in several capacities, including chief of staff.
"It has been an honor and privilege to lead the FPL team for more than a decade and I couldn't be more proud of the accomplishments we have delivered to our customers and the state of Florida," said Mr. Silagy. "Over the last decade, we have transformed FPL's generation fleet into one of the cleanest, most reliable and lowest-cost portfolios in the country, delivered award-winning customer service, ensured bills are significantly lower than the national average and provided our customers the best grid reliability in the country. These results are the consequence of the hard work and dedication of our nearly 10,000 FPL employees, who every day put the customer first and always strive to innovate and do better. I know the future is bright and that I am leaving the company in great hands."
Mr. Silagy continued, "When John became CEO of NextEra Energy last year, I committed to him that I would stay in my role for at least one more year and I've now satisfied that commitment. While saying 'goodbye' to such a great organization is always difficult, I know that now is the right time for me to hand over the reins of FPL."
Commenting on Mr. Pimentel rejoining NextEra Energy, Ketchum said, "We welcome Armando back to our company. He is a good friend and colleague who I've worked closely with for many years and I am delighted that he will be rejoining our team. Armando has deep knowledge of our company and our culture and he will bring incredible discipline and industry experience to his role leading FPL. He is also a life-long Floridian who cares deeply about serving our customers. His previous experience as chief financial officer (CFO) for both NextEra Energy and FPL will allow him to quickly hit the ground running with a focus on delivering value to our many stakeholders."
From May 2008 to March 2019, Mr. Pimentel was a member of NextEra Energy's senior executive team. Initially, he served as NextEra Energy's and FPL's CFO. In October 2011, he was named president and CEO of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the company's competitive power generation subsidiary, a position he held until March 2019 when he retired. He also served as president and a member of the board of NextEra Energy Partners, LP from June 2014 until March 2019.
Prior to joining NextEra Energy, Mr. Pimentel was a senior partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP. He also previously worked as an accounting fellow with the Office of the Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Pimentel currently serves on the board of Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
Mr. Pimentel will officially take up his new role at FPL on Feb. 15, 2023, after which he and Mr. Silagy will work closely together to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities. Mr. Silagy's last day with NextEra Energy will be May 15, 2023.
NextEra Energy, Inc.
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is a leading clean energy company headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida. NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light Company, which is America's largest electric utility that sells more power than any other utility, providing clean, affordable, reliable electricity to approximately 5.8 million customer accounts, or more than 12 million people across Florida. NextEra Energy also owns a competitive clean energy business, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which, together with its affiliated entities, is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage. Through its subsidiaries, NextEra Energy generates clean, emissions-free electricity from seven commercial nuclear power units in Florida, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. NextEra Energy has been recognized often by third parties for its efforts in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ethics and compliance, and diversity. NextEra Energy is ranked No. 1 in the electric and gas utilities industry on Fortune's 2022 list of "World's Most Admired Companies," recognized on Fortune's 2021 list of companies that "Change the World" and received the S&P Global Platts 2020 Energy Transition Award for leadership in environmental, social and governance. For more information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites: www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com, www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
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Taking up residence inside the iconic King Power Mahanakhon, this urban retreat offers world-class design, retail and cultural programming anchored by dynamic food, drink, and after-dark offerings
BANGKOK, July 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Standard is delighted to announce the opening of The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon, its flagship in Asia and the latest addition to the King Power Group portfolio. The hotel will leverage the iconic building's architecture and energy and will bring the brand's signature mix of culture, design, entertainment and hospitality to the Thai capital. With 155 rooms and suites and a central location in downtown Bangkok, the property offers the perfect getaway to Old Town, where a wealth of cultural attractions and a dynamic art scene await. To reflect the unmistakable energy of the Thai capital, The Standard's "anything but standard" ethos is translated into exciting amenities, one-of-a-kind culinary programming at six food and beverage spaces, and meeting venues that break the mold.
Srettha Thavisin, Chairman of Standard International, revealed: "We are incredibly thrilled about the launch of The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon in Thailand. This iconic flagship hotel of The Standard represents an extraordinary phenomenon in the hospitality industry not only in Asia, but globally as well. We are confident that The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon will have huge success in delivering the ultimate hotel experience – unlike any other in Thailand."
At one with the city
To conceptualize the uber-social property, Spanish artist and designer Jaime Hayon and The Standard's award-winning in-house design team delved into the synergy between Bangkok's melting pot of cultures and free-form artistic exploration. The resulting spaces are fresh and intertwined with reinterpretations of cultural cues, such as Marco Brambilla's video monument to Hollywood dreams and excesses, in the lobby. Titled "Heaven's Gate", this provocative artwork is the first installment in the "Box" series, a concept inspired by the brand's first property in Hollywood that showcased an ever-changing roster of art installations.
A feast for the senses
With six distinctive dining, drinking and nightlife venues, The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon promises to shake things up in Bangkok's neighborhood on the up. The Standard Grill, a spirited American brasserie informed by the brand's celebrated original at The Standard, High Line in New York's Meatpacking District, seamlessly transitions from power breakfast to social hotspot at night. On the menu are all-day classics such as The Standard BKK Wagyu Burger with foie gras as well as beef tartare and whole carved ribs served table-side from custom-made wood and marble trolleys.
High up on the 76th floor, guests can experience one of Bangkok's most anticipated restaurant unveilings of the year – a collaboration with award-winning chef Francisco "Paco" Ruano. His Mexican-inspired restaurant Ojo draws on Bangkok's progressive outlook and the venue's whimsical design, referencing Mexico's ancient civilizations to deliver flavors never experienced in Thailand or the region, such as aguachile seasonal prawns and bone marrow tortillas, complemented by inventive cocktails and a thoughtful wine list. Bringing together Chef Paco's culinary prowess, panoramic views, creative beverage program and genre-bending décor, Ojo will sit proudly beside The Standard's legendary Boom Boom Room in New York City and London's star attraction Decimo as one of the world's best rooftop venues.
For 360-degree views from the 78th floor perch there is Sky Beach, Bangkok's highest rooftop bar mixing blissed-out ambiance, downtempo beats, a hard-hitting cocktail selection from one of Thailand's most celebrated mixologists and all-day froze. Guests can also enjoy award-winning Chinese cuisine at Mott 32 Bangkok's open-air terrace dotted with lush greenery. The famous apple wood roasted Peking duck is not to be missed, as are expertly curated cocktails and authentic Cantonese, Beijing and Szechuan cuisine. At Tease, a strikingly graphic, black and white bijoux tea room, the room overflows with whimsy and wonder. Guests can discover alcohol-infused brews, tasty savory and sweet treats such as Quail & Whiskey Party Pie, and Chocolate Praline, Mixed Berry Milkshakes found nowhere else in Bangkok, and a setting inspired by Vienna's grand cafes. The elegant Fuerstenberg-porzellan Chinaware completes this special experience.
For comfort food with a side of The Standard's cultural programming, guests can visit The Parlor. The menu offers authentic Thai cuisine, all day breakfast and cocktails like Honey Trap and Be Wild, created by "Milk" Thanaworachayakit, the hotel's beverage manager,. In addition to an eclectic playlist spotlighting local and global talent, curated by The Standard's music division, the hotel's relaxed social hub hosts talks and workshops, including astrology sessions, live performances, and themed bingo nights inspired by the fabled bingo sessions at The Standard, High Line.
Artful touches
Public spaces at the hotel immerse guests into the local community and introduce them to Bangkok's vibrant creative scene through the elements of fine art hidden in plain sight. A stunning and vibrant Marc Quinn, "Flood Plain of the Tributaries of the Orinocco", 2018, from King Power's private collection, enhances the color and personality at reception. Hidden in plain sight in the corridors leading to the elevator and The Parlor is a breathtaking, original, Joan Miro sculpture, entitled, "Personnage" (bronze sculpture at L4), 1976, also from the King Power collection. In the lobby they are greeted by a portrait of a couple, caught in an embrace, embedded in the floor. Overhead, locally handmade rattan lamps create an intricate canopy, while fine objects in the shop are the labor of love of local artists as well as The Standard and its collaborators. Chief Design Officer, Verena Haller and design team, hand-picked art, antiques and curiosities, creating their version of a shoppable flee market, enhancing both the custom designed and locally sourced furniture, creating meticulously designed and incredibly inviting spaces guests never want to leave.
The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon now introduces its opening offer "Bite into Bangkok". Offering guests staying between 29th July and 30th September 2022 the opportunity to experience Bangkok's most exciting restaurant concepts, the package comes with up to THB 5,000 hotel and dining credits per day, depending on the room category.
For more information on the hotel, guests can visit www.standardhotels.com/bangkok/properties/bangkok, call 02 085 8888, email stbkk@standardhotels.com or add us via LINE OA @TheStandardBangkok.
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About The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon:
Created in partnership with King Power Group and Standard International, The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon is The Standard's Asia flagship and a world-class global destination. Bangkok's spirit of innovation and unconventionality made Bangkok the perfect locale for The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon. Located in one of the most iconic buildings in Bangkok, the King Power Mahanakhon, the 155-room hotel is already a landmark. With rooms ranging from 40 sq. m. to 144 sq. m. penthouse, a terrace pool, gym and spa, meeting rooms and a variety of food, drink and nightlife venues, the hotel is a fit for any traveler, at any time of day or night. There's Parlor, the hub of the hotel for check-in and out, cocktails, work or lounging, the eclectic and unexpected Tea Room, American steakhouse classics at The Standard Grill, and award-winning Chinese cuisine by Mott 32, and two sky-high dining experience from Ojo a Mexican-inspired restaurant directed by one of the finest chefs in Mexico to Sky Beach the highest alfresco rooftop bar in Bangkok.
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LAS VEGAS, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- kadara™ medical, makers of premium, patient-centric trocar kits, and sets, launches an educational social media campaign to recognize and support the diversity of transgender and non-binary people. The goals of the campaign are to increase the visibility of gender-diverse people, open a supportive dialogue, illuminate the fact that no two gender affirmation journeys are alike, and bring elevated support to "new year's affirmations"—while bringing to light awareness of 'authentication of self' this holiday season.
The advertising campaign, "A Device As Diverse As Its Patients" features five people with stories about their authentic, unique gender identity journeys. While reassuring transgender and non-binary individuals that there is no one path forward, the campaign also aims to educate medical professionals and the general population about the exceptional diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. Crow, one of the campaign models, shares their journey. "When I was young, I was taught that sex and gender were inextricably linked. Femininity was an exhausting daily performance that led to severe mental health struggles," says Crow. "Thanks to the trans visibility and trans community support, I was able to break free of these limiting beliefs and imagine new possibilities. Today, I identify as "non-binary". I see my gender as a creative process of self-expression that is responsive, emergent, and fluid."
Kadara Medical, which has a unique diamond-shaped trocar design to reduce discomfort during minimally invasive surgical procedures, has taken an inclusive, supportive approach to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and hormone affirming therapy (HAT). At the same time, the company continues to emphasize that gender affirmation hormone therapy is a choice, not a certainty, among transitioning and de-transitioning persons. "At Kadara Medical, we champion individuality as an LGBTQ+ owned business. We recognize that we are an exceptional choice for some transgender and non-binary people—but not all. That said, we celebrate all. That's the difference between a corporation and a family-run business, as this is our family." said Jonathan Bergstrom, CEO of Kadara Medical.
Trocars have been traditionally used in hormone replacement therapy procedures and are becoming more commonplace as the demand for transgender and non-binary gender-affirming hormone therapies increase. Today, there are 1.6 million transgender people ages 13 and older and 1.2 million non-binary people in the United States.
Through research and focus groups, Kadara Medical discovered an alarming lack of access to gender-affirming healthcare, making it difficult for transgender and non-binary people to get quality care. Additionally, insurance often does not cover specialized care, making gender-affirming therapies expensive, sometimes prohibitively. Kadara Medical is a champion for the LGBTQ+ community in shining a rainbow spotlight on this under-served community, during the holiday season and beyond.
Kadara Medical is committed to expanding diversity training among medical professionals, furthering HAT, and increasing LGBTQ+ access to healthcare. From the campaign, "A Device As Diverse As Its Patients", three important messages have surfaced in the context of Kadara Medical: there is a great need to inform and educate medical practitioners on how to connect with their transgender and non-binary patients; affordability of therapies itself is essential to pass onto patients, and patient comfort delivered by Kadara's proprietary medical device design.
Kadara Medical is a world-recognized manufacturer of premium, comfort-designed disposable trocar kits and reusable trocar sets for all pellet therapy. FDA registered, ISO 13485 Certified for quality management systems, and queer family-owned, Kadara is a leading trocar supplier to medical professionals who offer hormone replacement therapy, for every letter as represented by LGBTQ+.
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Wrongfully convicted Kansas man to get $7.5 million payment
OSKALOOSA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit will receive $7.5 million from the county where he was arrested and convicted of the crime.
Jefferson County commissioners approved the settlement last week with Floyd Bledsoe, who was released from prison in 2015 after DNA evidence showed he could not have been the killer of 14-year-old Camille Arfmann in Oskaloosa.
Bledsoe will receive $1.5 million initially, with the rest to be paid over the next 10 years, The Kansas City Star reported.
Bledsoe, who is now 46, was 23 when he was convicted in 2000 of killing the girl. He was arrested even though his brother, Tom, confessed to the killing in 1999, turned himself in and led authorities to the girl’s body.
According to a lawsuit Floyd Bledsoe filed in 2016, Jefferson County authorities persuaded Tom Bledsoe to recant his confession and “framed” his brother by hiding evidence of his innocence.
In 2015, DNA testing revealed Tom Bledsoe was the likely source of sperm found in the victim. Tom Bledsoe died by suicide that year after writing a note again confessing to killing Arfmann.
The charges against Floyd Bledsoe were dismissed and he was freed from prison that year.
One of Bledsoe’s attorneys, Russell Ainsworth of Loevy & Loevy in Chicago, said Jefferson County was facing up to $40 million in liability if the case went to trial.
Jefferson County Commissioner Richard Malm said the county’s annual budget is about $20 million and the commission would have had to propose a bond if Bledsoe had not agreed to have the payment spread over 10 years.
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NYC bike path killer convicted, could face the death penalty
NEW YORK (AP) — An Islamic extremist who killed eight people with a speeding truck in a 2017 rampage on a popular New York City bike path was convicted Thursday of 28 federal crimes and could face the death penalty.
Sayfullo Saipov bowed his head as he heard the verdict in the trial for an Halloween attack that prosecutors said was inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State militant group. Saipov was tried in a Manhattan courtroom just a few blocks from where the attack ended.
The dozen jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before convicting Sapoiv, 34, of crimes including murder in aid of racketeering and supporting a foreign terrorist organization. The jury will return to court no earlier than Feb. 6 to hear more evidence to help them decide whether he should be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison.
A death sentence for Saipov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, would be an extreme rarity in New York. The state no longer has capital punishment and the last state execution was in 1963. A federal jury in New York has not rendered a death sentence that withstood legal appeals in decades, with the last execution in 1954.
Even before the trial, there was little doubt Saipov was a killer.
His lawyers conceded to the jury that he rented a pickup truck near his New Jersey home, steered it onto the path along the Hudson River and mowed down bicyclists for blocks before crashing into a school bus near the World Trade Center.
He emerged from his truck yelling “God is great,” in Arabic, with pellet and paintball guns in his hands before he was shot by a police officer who thought the guns were real firearms.
The vehicle attack killed a woman visiting from Belgium with her family, five friends from Argentina and two Americans. It left others with permanent injuries, including a woman who lost her legs.
“His actions were senseless, horrific, and there’s no justification for them,” defense attorney David Patton told the jury during the trial.
The defense asked jurors to acquit Saipov of racketeering charges, saying he intended to die a martyr and was not conspiring with the Islamic State organization, despite voluminous amounts of propaganda from the group found on his electronic devices and at his home.
Saipov, who moved legally to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010 and lived in Ohio and Florida before joining his family in Paterson, New Jersey, did not testify at his trial.
He sat quietly each day, unlike at a pretrial hearing in 2019 when he insisted on questioning the judge about why he should be judged for eight deaths when “thousands and thousands of Muslims are dying all over the world.”
Prosecutors said Saipov attacked civilians to impress the Islamic State group so he could become a member and appeared pleased with his work, smiling when he spoke to an FBI agent afterward.
Among those testifying were several family members from Belgium who were injured in the attack. Aristide Melissas, a father, said he had challenged family members to race their bikes to the World Trade Center with the loser paying for ice cream. Struck by Saipov’s truck, his skull was fractured and he underwent brain surgery.
His wife, Marion Van Reeth, spoke of waking up in a hospital to learn her legs had been amputated.
Saipov’s lawyers have said the death penalty process was irrevocably tainted by former President Donald Trump, who tweeted a day after the attack that Saipov “SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!”
President Joe Biden instituted a moratorium on executions for federal crimes after taking office.
Until Saipov’s trial, Biden’s Justice Department, under Attorney General Merrick Garland, had not launched any new attempt to obtain the death penalty in a federal case. But Garland has allowed U.S. prosecutors to continue advocating for capital punishment in cases inherited from previous administrations.
It has been a decade since a jury in New York last considered the death penalty
Federal juries in Brooklyn twice gave a death sentence to a man who murdered two New York police detectives, once in 2007 and again in 2013, but both sentences were tossed out on appeal. A judge ultimately ruled the killer was intellectually disabled.
In 2001, just weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal jurors in Manhattan declined to impose a death sentence on two men convicted in the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa after their lawyers urged them not to make the defendants into martyrs.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Lakes Dental Partners ("GLDP") is excited to announce the addition of Signature Dental Group to its network of affiliated practices, growing its reach in the greater Chicagoland area.
GLDP, a Shore Capital Partners portfolio company, provides practice management services to 40+ partner locations. GLDP provides best-in-class support in operations, recruiting, technology, marketing, and collaboration among clinicians.
"Dr. Mohammed Shakeel is a well-known and highly sought-after dental implantologist. His cutting-edge techniques and years of dental experience have earned him an impeccable reputation with patients in the Chicagoland area," said Fletcher Boyle, VP of Business Development at GLDP. "Partnering with an award-winning Oral Implant provider further validates our commitment to partner with best-in-class providers," said Flecther.
As a renowned and trusted dentist, it was important for Dr. Shakeel to partner with a DSO that mirrored his values and vision. "After meeting with several DSOs, I'm confident I chose the right partner," said Dr. Mohammed Shakeel, Licensed General Dentist. "GLDP has the support I need to continue to grow my business and provide patients with top-notch dentistry," says Dr. Shakeel.
GLDP is actively seeking dental office partnerships in the Midwest and is backed by Shore Capital Partners. Ideal affiliation opportunities include owner doctors who want to partner with functional experts to grow their practices.
Great Lakes Dental Partners is a dental support organization (DSO) committed to offering dentists and dental specialists the opportunity to focus on the clinical aspects of dentistry, providing exceptional care for every patient.
With a centrally located support center, operational best practices, access to the latest dental technology, and a best-in-class continuing education program, GLDP is dedicated to advancing dental healthcare in the Midwest.
For more information and a list of clinic locations, visit www.greatlakesdentalpartners.com. GLDP is actively seeking new partnerships in the Midwest. Those interested in affiliation opportunities should contact Fletcher Boyle at fboyle@gldpdental.com.
Shore Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on microcap healthcare and food & beverage investments. Shore supports management partners with capital, business development expertise, and industry knowledge to accelerate growth, fund acquisitions, and generate value to shareholders. Shore targets investments in proven, successful private companies with superior management teams, stable cash flow, and significant growth potential, including organic and growth through industry consolidation. More information visit www.shorecp.com.
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Eleven soldiers were killed and nearly two dozen injured by jihadis targeting a military base in eastern Burkina Faso, the government said.
Injured soldiers have been taken to hospital and aerial support killed 15 attackers trying to flee after Thursday’s attack in Madjoari in Kompienga province, Burkina Faso’s army said in a statement.
For six years the West African country has been ravaged by violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that has killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people. Mutinous soldiers ousted the democratically elected president in January promising to stem the violence, but since then attacks have increased.
Within a 72-hour period last week nearly 60 people, including civilians and security forces, were killed in violence targeting villages in four regions across the country, according to an internal security report for aid workers seen by The Associated Press.
“This attack in Madjoari is yet another indication of militants’ capability to target security forces bases and unfortunately showing the severity of (the) security situation in northern and eastern regions,” said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Moroccan-based organization focused on economics and policy. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/jihadis-attack-in-eastern-burkina-faso-kills-11-soldiers/ | 2022-05-20 17:07:49 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/jihadis-attack-in-eastern-burkina-faso-kills-11-soldiers/ |
Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist and ex-conductor of the Philly Pops, dies at 89
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist who interpreted pop songs through classical and jazz forms and served as the Philly Pops’ conductor for more than three decades, has died. Nero was 89.
Nero died Thursday at Home Care Assisted Living Facility in Eustis, Fla., according to his daughter, Beverly Nero, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Services will be private.
Nero colored his renditions of pop songs — from Cole Porter and George Gershwin to the Beatles and Bob Dylan — with classical, swing, Broadway, blues and jazz melodies. He often called his sound “undefinable” and was not offended when others called it “middle of the road.” (He once told a newspaper, “Middle of the road and doing great business.”)
Recruited by Philadelphia concert promoter Moe Septee, Nero started the Philly Pops orchestra in 1979, the year Arthur Fiedler died. Fiedler is credited with virtually inventing the modern version of the pops orchestra in Boston, and Nero hoped to rival it in popularity.
“I’d like to beat the pants off them,” Nero said at the time.
Nero’s orchestra wasn’t as prominent as Boston’s, but it did tout routine sellouts in Philadelphia, no doubt helped by Nero’s lively playing style and warm stage presence.
In his work as both performer and conductor, Nero returned frequently to Broadway tunes, Hollywood themes and Gershwin, the subject of the Philly Pops’ first concert. But he also dipped into Motown’s catalog and farther afield to bands such as Procol Harum and an album devoted to disco and ‘70s love songs.
In 1975, he lamented to The Washington Post: “I find it impossible to use a lot of the new material that’s coming out. There is some rock material in my repertoire ... but a lot of rock groups are selling a sound, not music. You take the tune apart and there’s nothing there to work with.”
He led the Philly Pops until 2013, exiting his leadership role when the orchestra said it could no longer afford him.
By his own admission, Nero struggled early in his career — under the name Bernie Nerow — during stints in New York and Las Vegas. But he found his stride in his late 20s playing in New York’s club circuit.
He was signed to RCA by Stan Greeson, who saw a potential star and had him change his name to Peter Nero. A steady stream of early 1960s club shows led to regular radio and TV appearances and two dozen RCA albums over the span of a decade.
Nero earned Grammy Awards in 1961 for best new artist and in 1962 for best performance by an orchestra or instrumentalist for his record “The Colorful Peter Nero.”
A 1963 album, “Hail the Conquering Nero,” peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard pop album chart. It included versions of “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” and “Mack the Knife.”
He also charted with a version of “Theme from `The Summer of ‘42,’” a song written by Michel Legrand for the 1971 movie. Nero’s version hit No. 21 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
Nero also wrote the score for the 1963 Jane Fonda film “Sunday in New York” and made an appearance in the movie.
Born Bernard Nierow in 1934, Nero was raised in Brooklyn. He started taking piano lessons at age 7 and, by age 11, he was said to have been able to play Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D Major from memory. He later won a scholarship to take classes at Juilliard, won several talent contests and graduated from Brooklyn College.
When headlining, Nero disliked having a set list and would pick songs on the spot. The idea of mixing styles and genres carried over to the Philly Pops.
“My programs for the Philly Pops may open with ‘Die Meistersinger,’ then ‘Chariots of Fire,’ then Enesco’s Rumanian Rhapsodies, then a television theme,” Nero told The New York Times in 1982. “I keep going back and forth, and the audience bought it from the beginning.”
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Leading Architectural Coatings Manufacturer Based in Canada Joins Association as a Manufacturer Member
FALLS CHURCH, Va. , Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The EIFS Industry Members Association (EIMA) is pleased to announce that ADEX Systems has joined the association as a manufacturer member.
"We are thrilled that ADEX is joining EIMA," said Steve Smithwick, the 2022/2024 president of EIMA and president of Master Wall, Inc. "ADEX Systems has been a major force in the EIFS industry for decades, and the company is a leading influence in the design and building professional community in Canada. Their participation, leadership, and perspective will help the entire EIFS industry solidify its position as the technically superior, energy-efficient, flexible and aesthetically-appealing wall system that we all know it is."
Stephen Sears, EIMA's Executive Director and CEO said, "this is great news for both EIMA and our industry. For over a year, the Board worked diligently in developing a new strategic plan and dues structure. Now that those initiatives are complete, the timing for ADEX's membership couldn't be better."
Rafaël Bao, President and CEO of ADEX Systems, Inc. is very pleased to join the association. "I have really liked what I have seen happening at EIMA recently, and we know that there can be tremendous benefit to pooling our resources for initiatives that benefit the entire industry," said Bao. "Since EIMA covers all of North America and there is growing demand for energy-efficient building solutions, we decided that now is the right time for us to join the group,"
ADEX Systems has been a leading Canadian manufacturer of quality architectural coatings and EIFS for over 30 years. The company's innovation and expertise within the EIFS industry - combined with its focus on customer service - have been ideally suited to address the demands of the design community and building professionals in Canada. ADEX's offices are located in Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Saguenay/Lac St. Jean, and the company's products are available at 55 distributorships throughout Canada.
EIMA's newest member will join Dryvit Systems, Inc., Master Builders Solutions, Master Wall, Inc., Parex USA, Inc., and Sto Corp as the manufacturer members of the association. In addition, EIMA's Board of Directors includes Gypsum Management and Supply, Inc., L&W Supply, Inc., Dow, Saint-Gobain ADFORS and James River Exteriors, Inc.
Founded in 1981, EIMA is a 501(c)(6) trade association comprised of leading manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, applicators, and architects involved in the North American exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS) industry.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Joint Corp. (NASDAQ: JYNT), the nation's largest provider of chiropractic care through The Joint Chiropractic® network, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced a multi-year partnership. As part of the agreement, The Joint becomes the team's Official Chiropractor and Official Partner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is The Joint's first NFL partnership and second major league sports sponsorship.
"This partnership is made possible by the Tampa and Orlando Marketing Co-Op groups coming together to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity," said Richard Vandesteeg, president of The Joint Chiropractic Tampa co-op. "Through this partnership, The Joint will be able to highlight the benefits of routine chiropractic care with the Buccaneers loyal fan base and the surrounding community. The agreement covers almost forty Joint clinics in the Tampa / Orlando marketplace."
"The Joint is honored to be named an official chiropractor and official Partner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and connect with an organization competing at one of the most elite levels of sports," said Peter D. Holt, president and CEO of The Joint Corp.
According to Chiropractic Economics, sports performance can be improved with regular chiropractic care. Chiropractic can improve hand-eye coordination and reaction time and is helpful for healing play-related injuries, such as "stingers."1 Chiropractors are now on the medical staff for nearly every professional sports team to provide rehabilitation and minimize the risk of future injuries.2
"We are always excited to partner with top tier leaders and The Joint is no exception. As a trailblazer in their industry, The Joint has proven putting clients first ultimately leads to success," said Buccaneers COO Brian Ford. "The Joint's affordable chiropractic care will allow Buccaneers fans to cheer on their favorite team feeling their best."
There are 18 The Joint Chiropractic clinics located in the greater Tampa Bay area and 21 The Joint Chiropractic locations in the Orlando region.
About The Joint Corp.
The Joint Corp. revolutionized access to chiropractic care when it introduced its retail healthcare business model in 2010. Today, it is the nation's largest operator, manager and franchisor of chiropractic clinics through The Joint Chiropractic network. The company is making quality care convenient and affordable, while eliminating the need for insurance, for millions of patients seeking pain relief and ongoing wellness. With over 850 locations nationwide and more than 12 million patient visits annually, The Joint Chiropractic is a key leader in the chiropractic industry. Consistently named to Franchise Times "Top 500+ Franchises" and Entrepreneur's "Franchise 500" lists and recognized by FRANdata with the TopFUND award, as well as Franchise Business Review's "Top Franchise for 2023," "Most Profitable Franchises" and "Top Franchises for Veterans" ranking, The Joint Chiropractic is an innovative force, where healthcare meets retail. For more information, visit www.thejoint.com.
Business Structure
The Joint Corp. is a franchisor of clinics and an operator of clinics in certain states. In Arkansas, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming, The Joint Corp. and its franchisees provide management services to affiliated professional chiropractic practices.
About the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are in their 48th year as members of the National Football League and compete in the National Football Conference's South Division. They were purchased by the late Malcolm Glazer in 1995 and are currently owned by the Glazer Family. Established in 1976, the Buccaneers have totaled eight division championships, two conference championships and two Super Bowl Championships, including Super Bowl LV that was played on their home field at Raymond James Stadium. The Buccaneers are also very active in the community, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation and the Glazer Vision Foundation. For more information, visit www.buccaneers.com.
1 Chiropractic Economics. Top 7 ways chiropractic boosts sports performance. chiroeco.com; July 2019.
2 Chiropractic Economics. Chiropractic and pro sports rehab: DCs in the big leagues. Chiroeco.com; July 2021.
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Hires Paul Maguire as Senior Vice President, EMEA, to meet growing European demand
LONDON, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Coupa Software, a leader in Business Spend Management (BSM), today announced that it now manages over €1.4 trillion of cumulative business spend for European businesses. The Coupa platform has helped businesses realise over €43.1 billion in savings since 2014, and more than €10.2 billion in 2022 alone.
Globally, Coupa has processed more than €3.7 trillion cumulative business spend across its platform and helped customers realise €143.5 billion in savings since 2014, and over €34.7 billion in 2022 alone.
At a time when businesses are facing a challenging global economic environment, Coupa has specialised in helping its customers adapt to these challenging conditions, reinventing how they manage business spend, and improving visibility across their finances. Crucially, this has helped Coupa customers unlock billions in capital to fund critical projects.
Kantar, a world leading data, insights, and consulting company headquartered in London, uses the Coupa platform for its BSM transformation. With Coupa, Kantar is driving profitability through savings, and improving D&I through a growing supplier diversity program.
"Rather than make cost reduction the primary objective, as it often is in procurement, we're addressing strategic bottom-line issues first. By doing so, we've been better positioned to deliver sustainable cost reduction over the long term," said Stephen Day, Kantar Chief Procurement Officer. "We're also putting D&I at the heart of everything in procurement. Not only are we working to build a diverse, inclusive procurement organisation, we're using Coupa data to be quite specific in terms of how we source and measure the diversity in our supply chain."
Over the past year, Coupa's EMEA customer base has grown by 25%. Recent customer wins in Europe include Equans, Villeroy & Boch AG, Ratepay, and Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Limited, to name a few.
To help businesses in Europe boost financial resilience, optimise financial health, and respond to challenges, Coupa has appointed Paul Maguire as SVP, EMEA. Maguire has spent more than 30 years working in the enterprise software industry. He has a proven track record of scaling businesses and cross-functional teams to achieve consistent, predictable, and sustainable levels of success and growth.
Prior to Coupa, Maguire served as SVP International at Appian and has held senior management positions at Genesys, Pegasystems - where he helped achieve dramatic 6-fold growth in eight years - and Staffware (now Tibco). He started his career in software engineering, before roles in consulting, project management, pre-sales and sales, with executive leadership responsibilities for the past 20 years. To further strengthen its growth in Europe, Coupa recently made another senior appointment, with Patrick Scully joining the company as the VP of Operations.
"Coupa helps organisations substantially improve their underlying foundations so they're on rock-solid ground to unlock capital and build for the future," said Paul Maguire, SVP EMEA at Coupa. "A huge part of my role is ensuring our growing customer base in Europe enjoy maximum benefit from our BSM platform, helping them thrive during these challenging times, rather than simply survive."
On 19-21, June 2023, Coupa will bring together its global BSM community at Inspire, where industry professionals across supply chain, procurement, IT, finance, and treasury come together to collaborate and innovate with peers and thought leaders. The event is focused on helping organisations to accelerate performance and elevate purpose.
About Coupa
Coupa is the cloud-based Business Spend Management (BSM) platform that unifies processes across supply chain, procurement, and finance functions. Coupa empowers organisations around the world to maximise value and operationalize purpose through their business spend. To learn more about Coupa, visit www.coupa.com or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Note: Currency was converted from US Dollars to Euros on 15th June 2023 when the exchange rate was 1.00 US Dollar = 0.914109 EUR using XE.com
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Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan host Casino Night
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Boys and Girls Club of Manhattan held its 24th annual casino night at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
The event is a fundraiser to raise funds for kids to be able to come to before and after-school programming. There were fake gaming tables for people to play, a few performances from the kids on the step team, the youth of the year speaking, a live silent auction, as well as great food and drinks. Having the community show out to support the kids while having a good time was a big success.
”It means everything to us to have the community involved in our programming. It just really shows this amazing support for our kids and our teenagers that live here as well,” said Hannah Coash, CEO of Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan.
This event was more specifically for the teens to be able to go to a conference this summer as well as to provide dinners for teen nights throughout the year.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against NeoGenomics, Inc. ("NeoGenomics" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEO).
Class Period: February 27, 2020 – April 26, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: February 6, 2023
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) NeoGenomics was anything but a "one-stop-shop" for cancer testing because it did not offer the most technologically advanced NGS tests, which led to a significant decrease in revenue as current and prospective customers went elsewhere for their testing needs; (2) the Company's costs were not fixed because NeoGenomics needed to hire additional employees to process more complex customized testing demanded by customers utilizing the Company's outdated portfolio of tests, leading to operational challenges, decreased lab efficiency, and increased testing turnaround times; (3) NeoGenomics violated federal healthcare laws and regulations related to fraud, waste, and abuse; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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Taylor Lautner makes rare comment about ex Taylor Swift that leaves his wife ‘deceased’
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
This is a true tale of Taylors, as actor Taylor Lautner’s wife, Taylor Dome, was all of us with her reaction to him spilling tea about that infamous Taylor Swift and Kanye West MTV VMAs moment.
In a video from their podcast “The Squeeze” posted Wednesday on Tik Tok, Dome asked Lautner, “If you could go back to one moment in your life, what moment would that be and what would you say to yourself?”
“Probably the 2009 VMAs, when I presented the award to Taylor and was unaware that the Kanye thing was not a skit,” he said, causing his Dome to literally fall back in surprise and say, “I’m deceased.”
West, who now goes by “Ye,” famously came up on stage and interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech to announce, “Imma let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time!”
Dome pointed out that Lautner and Swift, who briefly dated in 2009, had just gone public with their then relationship.
Lautner explained that he had presented Swift with the award and “took five steps back and was standing five feet behind her” when West jumped on stage while she was talking.
“I can barely hear it. I can’t see them,” Lautner said. “I’m just assuming this whole thing was a practiced and rehearsed skit, because why else would Kanye West be jumping on the stage interrupting Taylor Swift? It just didn’t make sense.”
It wasn’t until Swift turned around and he could see her face that he realized it hadn’t been planed Lautner said.
In 2016, Lautner confirmed that he was the inspiration for Swift’s 2010 song “Back to December.” He and Dome married last year.
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2022 is the 15th year OnPoint has partnered with the KGW School Supply Drive to send students back to school with the tools they need to learn.
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To support local students heading back to school in the fall, OnPoint Community Credit Union announced today it will give an additional $5 for every $1 donated to the KGW School Supply Drive at OnPoint branches between August 1-6*. OnPoint branches will also be accepting school supply donations, which will stay in the community in which the donation is made, going directly to help local teachers and students, and distributed with the help of Schoolhouse Supplies. The KGW School Supply Drive, which runs through August 31, aims to send 15,000 students across Oregon and Southwest Washington back to school with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom.
"Helping children succeed today builds a better future for us all, and that success starts with education," said Rob Stuart, President and Chief Executive Officer, OnPoint Community Credit Union. "Nearly half of all children in Oregon don't have the resources to start the school year with even the most basic school supplies. A donation of just $25 helps a student get the necessary supplies. Education is at the heart of who we are, and we also know how important it is to our community. We hope our neighbors will join us to alleviate some of this pressure on families and teachers."
As part of this year's drive, OnPoint will be hosting community Collection Events where the community can drop off new school supplies and cash donations at its Lloyd Center Branch (1100 NE Weidler St., Portland, OR 97232) and at the Clackamas Promenade in the Target parking lot. To learn more or review other drop-off locations, please visit KGW.com/School.
- Saturday, August 6
- 11:00 – 2:00 PM
- Drop off location:
Clackamas Promenade: Look for the OnPoint tent in the Target parking lot.
- Friday, August 12
- 11:00 – 2:00 PM
- Drop off location:
OnPoint Lloyd Center Branch: 1100 NE Weidler St., Portland, OR 97232
"Re-entering the classroom environment can be stressful all on its own, and returning to school without the necessary supplies can increase these feelings of anxiety and concern. That's why supporting this drive is so important," said Alice Forbes, Executive Director, Schoolhouse Supplies. "We are grateful every year to OnPoint for its continued support of Schoolhouse Supplies and the many local students we serve. We hope OnPoint's generosity inspires the rest of our community to support our students during this critical back-to-school season by donating."
Click here to learn more about Schoolhouse Supplies and its mission to equip as many local families as possible with the school supplies they need to succeed.
*OnPoint donation not to exceed $25,000.
OnPoint Community Credit Union is the largest credit union in Oregon, serving over 483,000 members and with assets of $9.3 billion. Founded in 1932, OnPoint Community Credit Union's membership is available to anyone who lives or works in one of 28 Oregon counties (Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Crook, Curry, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Hood River, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Morrow, Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, Wasco, Washington, Wheeler, and Yamhill) and two Washington counties (Skamania and Clark) and their immediate family members. More information is available at www.onpointcu.com or 503-228-7077 or 800-527-3932.
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SEAL BEACH, Calif., Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the youngest U.S. Olympic swimmer in 27 years, the two-time World Champion Silver Medalist has already established herself as a force in the sport, joining the ranks of the world's most elite swimmers and showing no signs of slowing down.
Katie Grimes has proven that dedication, consistency, and innovation are the keys to success. Grimes was a 2024 Olympic hopeful, but when circumstances changed and the 2020 Trials were pushed back to 2021, it was the opportunity she needed to make the necessary adjustments to balance out the 4" growth spurt that would've otherwise kept her waiting for Paris. Her determination to learn how to work with her new height and longer arms earned her a berth to Tokyo, and clearly she was ready. At just 15-years-old, Grimes beat the odds by claiming her rightful place on the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team where she went on to earn 4th place in the 800m Freestyle.
Grimes finished the 2022 season strong earning two silver medals at the World Championship, one in the 400 Individual Medley and the other in the 1500 Freestyle right behind teammate Katie Ledecky. At the USA Junior Nationals, Grimes became the fifth woman in history to break 4:30 in the 500y freestyle and swam the fourth fastest 400y Individual Medley of all-time. And, this is only the beginning for this prodigy. 2023 is shaping up to be equally spectacular. At the Pro Swim Series in Knoxville, Grimes earned gold medals in the 800m Freestyle, 400m Medley, and 200m Butterfly, along with three more trips to the podium where she collected a silver medal in the 1500m Freestyle and bronze medals in both the 400m Freestyle and 200m Backstroke.
"I am so excited to finally announce my partnership with TYR!! For me, training and racing in a brand that I can trust is very important. Our shared value to commitment and discipline has helped me get where I am today and where I'm heading in the future," said Grimes. "I'm so blessed to be part of this amazing TYR family."
Grimes is currently a high school junior, and as she prepares for the 2024 Trials, she continues to train with the Sandpipers of Nevada, a longstanding TYR team, under Coach Ron Aitken. Her unwavering work ethic and dedication to being the best has earned her a place alongside the growing TYR Team family of champions including Olympic teammates Katie Ledecky, Phoebe Bacon, Claire Curzan, Lilly King, Annie Lazor, and Torri Huske.
"TYR Sport is very excited to welcome Katie onto our team," Matt Dilorenzo, CEO of TYR, said. "Having made such an impactful name for herself at just 17-years-old, there are no limits to what she can accomplish. She embodies all of the characteristics that TYR values: unmatched work ethic, determination, and camaraderie."
Since its inception more than three decades ago, TYR Sport has grown to exist as one of the world's most recognizable swimming and triathlon brands. Founded in Huntington Beach, California, the American company has garnered industry success for major technologies including the celebrated Venzo technical suit. Today, TYR has become synonymous with the most groundbreaking athletes in swimming and continues to be the choice of champions.
Named for TYR the Norse god of valor and sacrifice, we're a company built on commitment and discipline. We've been pushing the limits of innovation to propel athletes to their absolute best for over 35 years. Whether it's personal records or world championships, we have the hard-earned hardware to back it up.
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Flags to be flown at half-staff on Memorial Day
Published: May. 26, 2023 at 3:28 PM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Per tradition, flags will be flown at half-staff on Memorial Day.
Flags throughout the State of Kansas have been ordered to be flown at half-staff from sunup to noon and then raised to its full height from noon to sundown on Monday, May 29.
Memorial Day is a day to pay tribute to military personnel who have passed away in the line of duty. For many, this is a day to remember and honor the fallen as families decorate the gravesites of their lost loved ones and remember U.S. history.
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TAMPA, Fla., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HRTG) ("Heritage" or the "Company"), a super-regional property and casualty insurance holding company, will announce Second quarter 2022 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, August 4, 2022, followed by a 9:30 am ET conference call on Friday, August 5, 2022.
Conference Call Details:
Participant Dial-in Numbers Toll Free: 1- 888-346-3095
Participant International Dial In: 1-412-902-4258
Telephone participants should ask to be joined into the Heritage Insurance Holdings call.
Webcast:
A live audio webcast of the earnings call will be available in the investors section of the company's website. The call will be archived and available for replay.
Financial information, including material announcements about Heritage, is routinely posted on investors.heritagepci.com.
About Heritage
Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. is a super-regional property and casualty insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries and a large network of experienced agents, the Company writes approximately $1.2 billion of gross personal and commercial residential premium across its multi-state footprint.
Investor Contact:
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Encouraging people to eat plants, not animals, the campaign comments on as well as pays homage to the classic Think Different campaign.
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In one of the largest campaigns ever produced to inspire people to eat plants, not animals, "Eat Differently" launched today with a massive outdoor campaign which includes 29 billboards that will be displayed for three months in the Greater San Diego area.
The billboards feature luminaries, all of whom have been vocal and/or passionate about eating a plant-forward diet. The campaign illustrates the fact that a large portion of the original icons featured in the Think Different campaign ate differently as well, including Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Cesar Chavez, and many others.
Eat Differently is an homage to and commentary on Apple's classic Think Different campaign introduced in the late 90's. The Eat Differently campaign hopes to inspire people to question the status quo and think–and eat–for themselves.
Accompanying the PSA is a poignant video featuring iconic figures, both from history and the present day, who have advocated consuming plants over animals. The website will also feature famous quotes from more than 25 historic figures such as this quote from Sir David Attenborough, "We must change our diet. The planet can't support billions of meat-eaters."
States GenV.org CEO, Naomi Hallum, "It's extremely pressing that people switch from eating meat to a diet that centers on plants." Hallum further adds, "And I can't wait for the people of San Diego to see these stunningly beautiful billboards and to make the connection between thinking differently and eating differently."
The billboard images were painted exclusively for the Eat Differently PSA by renowned speed artist, Amy Burkman. Amy's freehand artistic interpretation of seven icons is chronicled in this video.
The campaign will punctuate why consuming plants over animals is critically important to transition to a plant-based diet for improving our health, stopping animal cruelty, protecting our planet, fighting world hunger, and preventing diseases and pandemics.
ABOUT EAT DIFFERENTLY
Eat Differently, LLC was formed in 2023 as a public service resource. The Eat Differently mission is to inspire the world to eat plants, not animals. @eatlikeanicon eatdifferently.com
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Year-over-year total contract value increased by 10% to $349.4 million
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced strong results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, headlined by contract value growth of 10% with revenue growth of 15%. On a GAAP basis, earnings per share (EPS) was $0.72, and on an adjusted basis, EPS was $1.00. The Company also reaffirmed its full-year guidance for adjusted operating margin and adjusted EPS.
"This was another strong quarter for us," said George F. Colony, Forrester's chairman and chief executive officer. "We continued to experience double-digit contract value growth and delivered revenue growth of 15% for the period. Additionally, we had strong adjusted EPS performance. We also continued to generate positive cash flow, which allowed us to make investments in our sales, marketing, people, and technology. Given these strong results and our confidence in our ability to manage costs, we are reiterating our guidance for margins and adjusted EPS for the full year.
"Given the uncertain macroeconomic conditions we are reducing our top-line guidance. Our Forrester Decisions product portfolio is continuing to perform well, and I remain confident that Forrester can deliver shareholder value in the quarters and years ahead. I am thankful to all our employees for their continued hard work."
Second-Quarter Consolidated Results
Total revenues for the second quarter of 2022 were $148.2 million, compared with $128.7 million for the comparable quarter in 2021.
On a GAAP basis, net income was $13.9 million, or $0.72 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2022, compared with $8.3 million, or $0.43 per diluted share, for the same period in 2021.
On an adjusted basis, net income was $19.2 million, or $1.00 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2022, reflecting an adjusted effective tax rate of 30%. Adjusted net income excludes stock-based compensation of $3.8 million and amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets of $3.4 million. This compares with an adjusted net income of $12.7 million, or $0.66 per diluted share, for the same period in 2021, which reflects an adjusted tax rate of 31%. Adjusted net income for the second quarter of 2021 excludes stock-based compensation of $2.4 million, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets of $4.0 million, and integration costs of $0.2 million.
Forrester is providing third-quarter and full-year 2022 financial guidance as follows:
Third Quarter 2022 (GAAP):
- Total revenues of approximately $125 million to $129 million
- Operating margin of approximately 2.5% to 3.5%
- Interest expense of approximately $0.6 million
- An effective tax rate of 31%
- Earnings per share of approximately $0.10 to $0.16
Third Quarter 2022 (Adjusted):
Adjusted financial guidance for the third quarter of 2022 excludes stock-based compensation expense of $3.4 million to $3.6 million, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets of approximately $3.4 million, and any investment gains or losses.
- Adjusted operating margin of approximately 8.0% to 10.0%
- Adjusted effective tax rate of approximately 30%
- Adjusted diluted earnings per share of approximately $0.35 to $0.41
Full Year 2022 (GAAP):
- Total revenues of approximately $535 million to $545 million
- Operating margin of approximately 6.5% to 7.5%
- Interest expense of approximately $2.5 million
- An effective tax rate of 31%
- Earnings per share of approximately $1.25 to $1.35
Full Year 2022 (Adjusted):
Adjusted financial guidance for full-year 2022 excludes stock-based compensation expense of $14.0 million to $14.5 million, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets of approximately $13.2 million, and any investment gains or losses.
- Adjusted operating margin of approximately 11.5% to 12.5%
- Adjusted effective tax rate of approximately 30%
- Adjusted diluted earnings per share of approximately $2.25 to $2.35
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TORONTO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hydro One Limited (TSX: H), announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend to common shareholders of $0.2796 per share to be paid on September 29, 2022 to shareholders of record on September 14, 2022.
Unless indicated otherwise, all common share dividends paid by Hydro One Limited to shareholders are designated as "eligible" dividends for the purpose of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any similar provincial legislation. Such quarterly dividends, unless and until changed, are only payable as and when declared by Hydro One Limited's Board of Directors and there is no entitlement to any dividend prior thereto.
Hydro One Limited, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is Ontario's largest electricity transmission and distribution provider with approximately 1.5 million valued customers, approximately $30.4 billion in assets as at December 31, 2021, and annual revenues in 2021 of approximately $7.2 billion.
Our team of approximately 9,300 skilled and dedicated employees proudly build and maintain a safe and reliable electricity system which is essential to supporting strong and successful communities. In 2021, Hydro One invested approximately $2.1 billion in its transmission and distribution networks, and supported the economy through buying approximately $1.7 billion of goods and services.
We are committed to the communities where we live and work through community investment, sustainability and diversity initiatives. We are designated as a Sustainable Electricity Company by the Canadian Electricity Association.
Hydro One Limited's common shares are listed on the TSX and certain of Hydro One Inc.'s medium term notes are listed on the NYSE. Additional information can be accessed at www.hydroone.com, www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov.
For more information about everything Hydro One, please visit www.HydroOne.com where you can find additional information including links to securities filings, historical financial reports, and information about the Company's governance practices, corporate social responsibility, customer solutions, and further information about its business.
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(The Hill) – Special counsel Jack Smith has reached agreements with at least two fake GOP electors to provide them limited immunity in exchange for testifying before a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, CNN reported Friday.
People familiar with the situation told the outlet that federal prosecutors have been trying to quickly confirm evidence on the record recently and have refused to grant extensions to subpoenas for testimony for some witnesses.
They also said Smith’s office was prepared to compel testimony from witnesses who were given immunity but indicated they would refuse to answer questions under their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
CNN reported that the testimony has allowed the office to gain information that other investigations looking into the aftermath of the 2020 race could not get.
One source told the outlet that at least one other witness has also spoken to investigators in the past two weeks in exchange for not facing prosecution.
At least six witnesses testified before the grand jury organized in Washington, D.C., during four days in the past two weeks, many of them centered around the fake electors plan.
Following former President Trump’s electoral defeat in the 2020 election, fake electors organized in multiple key swing states that decided the election in favor of President Biden to falsely declare Trump the winner.
Several people familiar with the probe told CNN that the number of witnesses testifying, their profile and prosecutors’ tactics hint that Smith’s office is increasing the pace of the probe.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him because of voter fraud, but multiple election audits and lawsuits brought by Trump’s 2020 campaign determined that no evidence existed of widespread fraud affecting the results of any state.
The Hill has reached out to a spokesperson for the special counsel’s office for comment.
CNN also reported that the two witnesses given immunity for testifying before the grand jury were Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald and Nevada Republican Party official Jim DeGraffenreid. Attorneys for both of them declined to comment to CNN.
The updates in Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection come after Trump was indicted earlier this month on 37 federal charges related to the classified and sensitive documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago property after he left the White House. Smith is also overseeing that investigation.
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As a young girl in Vietnam in the '50s and '60s, Le Ly Hayslip awaited Tết the way many children look forward to Christmas.
The Vietnamese Lunar New Year was a time for welcoming deceased ancestors into the home, and preparations for their arrival would begin months earlier. The house was cleaned, the rice crop harvested and a rooster raised to sacrifice for the altar.
The night before Tết, Hayslip would look to the winter sky for shooting stars -- a message from her ancestors. She'd be treated to new shoes and clothes, and if she was lucky, a small toy. And of course, there was the food: bánh chưng, bánh tét and the aforementioned rooster.
When Hayslip arrived in San Diego in 1970 with an American husband and two children in tow, Tết was virtually nonexistent. There were few Vietnamese people in the area at the time, and procuring incense, sticky rice and other items for the altar was difficult. Finding someone who could raise and kill a whole chicken for the celebratory meal was another ordeal. Still, she made sure that Tết felt as true to her Buddhist traditions as possible.
"Every year in my home, even though I'm over 70, I still do the same thing," the author and activist told CNN. "I harvest the oranges and I harvest the grapefruit that I have around here. The flowers, passionfruit, whatever I can get my hands on, I put at the altar."
It's been decades since Hayslip first came to the US, and San Diego now has one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the country. But while Tết is more widely celebrated these days, it's important to her that the traditions at the heart of the holiday aren't lost.
Lunar New Year has become more of an event
Come January 22, millions of Americans with roots in China, Vietnam, South Korea and other Asian countries will ring in the Lunar New Year. As waves of Asian immigrants have settled in the US and continue coming over in large numbers, the festival in many parts of the country is no longer the quiet occasion that Hayslip first encountered.
In cities with large East and Southeast Asian populations, family celebrations at home are accompanied by Lunar New Year flower markets, parades, banquet dinners and firework displays. Some public schools have added the holiday to their calendars. Even outside of ethnic enclaves, there's a greater awareness of Lunar New Year, signaled in part by its commercialization in the West -- consumers can buy gift sets from Lego and Sephora and paper lanterns and garlands from Target.
It's a dramatic shift from Judy Leung's early experiences in the US. One of the people behind the popular food blog and cookbook The Woks of Life, Leung found when she emigrated from China as a teenager that Chinese immigrants didn't celebrate Lunar New Year in a big way. Most were unable to take time off from work for fear of losing their jobs, so they marked the occasion through food. The holiday meal might consist of chicken, two fishes and pork, with tang yuan and fa gao for dessert -- or perhaps dim sum with family on the weekend of the new year.
These days, Leung has more time to cook an elaborate Chinese New Year feast. She, her husband Bill, and their daughters Sarah and Kaitlin, share festive recipes and food traditions on the family blog to help others plan out their own Lunar New Year menus. As they note on the blog, many of the customary dishes symbolize something: a whole chicken for prosperity, spring rolls for wealth, noodles for long life. Even for novice cooks or those with limited bandwidth, the New Jersey-based family has suggestions for how to partake in the culinary fun.
"As I get older, carrying out the old traditions not only makes me feel close to my roots, but it's like a comforting blanket," Leung wrote in an email to CNN. "It warms me and gives me a strong sense of belonging. More and more, I'd like the younger generations to feel the same emotions and carry on the nostalgia."
Leung's youngest daughter Kaitlin says that as time goes on, she's made Lunar New Year more of a priority. Ahead of this year's holiday, she plans to clean and decorate her apartment and buy something red to wear. She'll make sure to get her hair cut beforehand, so as not to wash her fortune away.
Aside from the usual traditions, Kaitlin is finding other ways to connect with her culture. On a recent trip to a Chinese grocery store, she came across húlu -- dried gourds on red string meant to bring good fortune. Her grandfather gave some to her mother a while back to keep in her pantry, but Kaitlin realized that she and her sister didn't have them in their own apartments. So she bought some for both of them.
"Just because I'm getting older, I don't want to let go of those (traditions) and have them fall to the wayside because of other obligations," she said.
Kaitlin says she feels a sense of pride when she hangs her Chinese New Year decorations on her door each year. Given the spate of attacks on Asian Americans between 2020 and 2022, it sometimes felt unsettling to be signaling her Chinese heritage to the outside world. But those fears weren't enough to deter her.
"There's a lot wrapped up into it," she added. "Yes, it's a holiday and it's cheerful. But it's also your identity."
Books and businesses are helping others celebrate
For decades, the storied Manhattan institution Pearl River Mart was about introducing Chinese culture to New Yorkers. But when Joanne Kwong took over the Asian goods emporium from her in-laws Ming Yi and Ching Yeh Chen in 2016, the mission evolved.
Kwong, the daughter of Chinese immigrants from the Philippines who grew up in New York and Seoul, says that today Pearl River Mart is geared toward preserving traditions and cultural knowledge -- and that includes helping people celebrate Lunar New Year.
"Many of us don't live with our grandparents anymore," she said. "With each generation, the traditions and the superstitions and what you're supposed to eat and do gets a little bit more tenuous."
Lunar New Year for Kwong is about togetherness, and she's created opportunities through the store for people to come together for the holiday. Pearl River Mart has three lion dance performances planned in New York over the 15 days of Chinese New Year, along with an ongoing exhibition by the Chinese American artist Warren King at its flagship location.
For those who live elsewhere, the store also sells Lunar New Year gift boxes to help make celebrations more accessible for younger generations. One includes rabbit trinkets, red money envelopes and lucky charms, while another contains the hard-to-find sweets that make up a togetherness tray, which is used to welcome guests for the Lunar New Year. On the Pearl River Mart blog, Kwong shares explainers about different aspects of the holiday, as well as family recipes like the 10-veggie delight that her mother-in-law makes each Lunar New Year's Day.
Through such efforts, Kwong hopes Pearl River Mart can serve as a resource for newer generations of Asian Americans, as well as those who are simply interested in engaging with Lunar New Year celebrations.
"In a city like New York and a country like the United States, it is an expression of solidarity and neighborliness to participate in a holiday that half the world celebrates," she added.
That cross-cultural exchange is partly what illustrator Aram Kim set out to do when she wrote the children's book "Tomorrow Is New Year's Day: Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year." Though many people are now aware of Lunar New Year, Kim says the holiday is often thought of as primarily Chinese, and one of her Korean American readers wanted a book to help break down those notions.
The conversation eventually inspired the story of Mina, a young Korean American who can't wait for Seollal. Mina's parents come to her school to share their Lunar New Year traditions with her classmates, while Mina wears the traditional hanbok, shows her friends how to perform sebae (the Seollal tradition of bowing to elders to show respect) and eats some delicious tteokguk.
"There are many different cultures that are celebrating Lunar New Year in different ways," Kim said. "It's not always one story or one way to celebrate it."
Some traditions are evolving
Lunar New Year in the West is perhaps a bigger holiday than it's ever been. But as the years go on, Hayslip fears that the Tết traditions she holds so dear are slipping away.
As Asian Americans assimilate into Western culture and become burdened with busy lives, Lunar New Year celebrations often get reduced to enjoying a big meal, Hayslip says. But though the next generation's traditions might look different from what she grew up with in Vietnam, they're being carried forward in new ways.
Just as Tết for Hayslip is about honoring her ancestors, her son Thomas sees it as a time to remember and appreciate where he came from. Lunar New Year at his Los Angeles home, where he lives with his wife and two daughters, is a blended celebration.
Thomas marks Tết by lighting some incense and saying a prayer before an altar decorated with bowls of rice and fruit. He doesn't consider himself Buddhist, but he says the ritual helps him realign and reconnect to who he is each year. He also invites his friends, many of whom aren't Vietnamese or Asian, to participate in whatever way that makes sense to them. After the ceremony, he and his wife Sandy -- who is ethnically Chinese from Vietnam -- host a big party at their home, with gambling games and a mix of Vietnamese and Chinese dishes.
"We all look for times of the year that we can have a reason to come together and be thankful and remember things and commune with our friends and eat good food," Thomas said. "Luckily, my culture brings another day into the mix."
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What is AI? Stark County professor talks ChatGPT, rise of technology
- Artificial intelligence has been in headlines recently as Google and Microsoft announced new tools powered by the technology.
- The Canton Repository spoke to a computer sciences professor from Malone University about what the technology means.
Artificial intelligence has been making headlines in recent weeks as major tech companies like Google and Microsoft have announced new tools powered by the technology.
Experts say the rapid growth of AI could affect manufacturing, health care and other industries.
The Canton Repository spoke to Shawn Campbell, an assistant professor of computer science and cybersecurity at Malone University, about the rise of AI technology and what it means for the future.
What is artificial intelligence?
It is the ability for computers to perform functions typically done by humans, including decision making or speech or visual recognition. The study has been around since the 1950s, according to an article from Harvard University.
Campbell said one type of AI commonly used in the medical field is expert systems. This technology uses knowledge databases to offer advice or make decisions regarding medical diagnoses.
How are Microsoft and Google using ChatGPT?
A developer called OpenAI launched an AI chatbot in November 2022 known as ChatGPT. Users can interact with the chatbot and receive conversational responses.
Campbell said the rise of this technology has created competition between Microsoft and Google. Microsoft plans to invest billions into ChatGPT, and recently announced AI upgrades to its search engine, Bing. Google, meanwhile, has introduced new AI features in Gmail and Google Docs that create text.
The major tech companies are in an arms race, Campbell said, to see who can develop the best AI technology.
Will the growth of AI affect job opportunities in different industries?
There is some concern that AI technology will replace jobs traditionally held by humans. In some cases, it's already happened. For example, fast-food chain White Castle started installing hamburger-flipping robots in some of its locations in 2020 to reduce human contact with food during the cooking process.
Campbell said it's possible that AI will result in fewer employees doing certain tasks.
"If you have a product line that had 100 people on it, and they get a new type of machine in and kind of redesign the process, then they do it with 80 people or 60 people, ... I do think you're going to find more of the same jobs being done by fewer people, and those people being freed up to do other tasks, essentially," Campbell said.
Some worry that trucking jobs will disappear if developers figure out self-driving technology, but Campbell doesn't expect that to happen anytime soon.
What kind of changes will AI like ChatGPT have on daily life?
Campbell said he expects AI to become a tool that makes life easier, noting that technology like adaptive cruise control and camera tools that let users remove unwanted objects from the background of photos involve AI and are already used on a daily basis.
"I think that's really the progression it will follow. ... It's being used as a tool, and it's making people's jobs easier, or making a long drive more enjoyable and safer as well," he said.
One of the biggest changes Campbell expects is for data science and analytics to be emphasized more in education. Some employers are already paying for their employees to receive data analytics and literacy training, he said, and Malone University recently added a data analytics major.
Campbell predicted these skills will become important in the job market and that educational institutions may start incorporating data analytics into general curriculum, like they do with writing and public speaking.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProPricer, the leading proposal pricing solution for government contractors and federal agencies, today announced plans to launch its new BOE software – BOE Pro™. This estimating innovation creates versatile cost and writing templates, helping to boost the accuracy of both estimating tables and their complementary text throughout a proposal.
ProPricer is familiar with the functional needs across the industries we serve, and we have been meeting those needs in various ways since our inception. Nikolai Slepushkin, Director of Product Management, stated, "We have listened and heard our customers' frustration dealing with ad-hoc spreadsheets, homegrown systems, and siloed data. By leveraging BOE Pro's functionality, customers can seamlessly harmonize their BOE-related functions in a single solution, ensuring the integrity of their estimates."
Government contractors of all sizes continue to seek business value by integrating disparate systems to behave and support business processes in an optimized and unified way. This December that ends.
BOE Pro includes a holistic BOE view, a BOE list, and a Responsibility Assignment Matrix that helps users stay on top of who is responsible for pricing data and its proposal narrative. The platform drives the estimating change-order process forward through a comprehensive, systematic approach.
BOE Pro by ProPricer allows users to:
- Streamline and standardize the estimating and BOE writing processes
- Integrate pricing, assuring that BOEs always reflect the latest data changes
- Merge all data inputs
BOE Pro launches this December 2022. To learn about the product, secure a live demo, and view application pricing tiers, visit https://www.propricer.com/boepro.
ProPricer is software that maximizes the efficiency and accuracy of the development, submission, evaluation, negotiation, and auditing of proposal pricing. At ProPricer, we are committed to ensuring the best possible resources are available to our customers. With everything we do, we believe in thinking differently and serving our customers well.
Founded in 1984, ProPricer is trusted by organizations worldwide, including the top 10 US defense contractors. The company thrives on transforming its customers' needs into product features and enhancements that benefit all its current and future users. ProPricer is a trademark of Executive Business Services, Inc. (EBS). Visit us at propricer.com to learn more.
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McDonald’s McNuggets are going fowl-free.
The Chicago-based fast food giant is introducing plant-based McNuggets next week. Germany will be the first market to get them.
McPlant Nuggets __ made from peas, corn and wheat with a tempura batter __ are the second product McDonald’s has co-developed with Beyond Meat, an El Segundo, California-based maker of plant-based meats. McDonald’s has been selling a McPlant burger since 2021.
McDonald’s said the nationwide nugget rollout to more than 1,400 restaurants in Germany follows a limited-time test at nine restaurants in the Stuttgart area in August. McDonald’s will also start selling the McPlant burger in Germany next week.
Availability of the McPlant nuggets and burger in future markets will depend on customer demand, McDonald’s said.
European customers have generally been more receptive to McDonald’s plant-based meat products than those in the U.S. The McPlant burger is now a permanent menu item in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands. Last month, McDonald’s rolled out the Double McPlant burger in the U.K. and Ireland.
But in the U.S., McDonald’s ended a test of the McPlant burger last summer without announcing any future plans for its sale.
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Xi Jinping’s speech: yes to zero-Covid, no to market reforms?
By Laura He, CNN Business
Even though China’s economy is beset by problems ranging from a real estate crisis to youth unemployment, Xi Jinping did not offer any grand ideas to set the country back on track during his two-hour opening speech at the Communist Party Congress on Sunday.
The Chinese leader is expected to secure an unprecedented third term in power at the week-long congress. Priorities presented at the political gathering of more than 2,000 party members will also set China’s trajectory for the next five years or even longer.
In his speech Sunday, Xi struck a confident tone, highlighting China’s growing strength and rising influence under his first decade in power. He also repeatedly underscored the risks and challenges the country faces, including the Covid pandemic, Hong Kong and Taiwan — all of which he claimed China had come away from victorious.
But experts are concerned that Xi offered no signs of moving away from the country’s rigid zero-Covid policy or its tight regulatory stance on various businesses, both of which have hampered growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
“Yesterday’s speech confirms what many China watchers have long suspected — Xi has no intention of embracing market liberalization or relaxing China’s zero-Covid policies, at least not anytime soon,” said Craig Singleton, senior China fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a DC-based think tank.
“Instead, he intends to double down on policies geared towards security and self-reliance at the expense of China’s long-term economic growth.”
China is the world’s last major economy still enforcing strict zero-Covid measures, which aim to stamp out chains of transmission through border restrictions, mass testing, extensive quarantines, and uncompromising snap lockdowns.
And China’s economy is in bad shape. Growth has stalled, youth unemployment is at a record high, and the housing market is in shambles. Constant Covid lockdowns have not only wreaked havoc on the economy, but also sparked rising social discontent.
Last week, two large banners were hung on an overpass of a major thoroughfare in Beijing, protesting against Xi’s Covid policy and authoritarian rule. It was a rare protest against the top leadership in the country, signaling the frustration and anger among the public.
Many international organizations, including the IMF and World Bank, have recently downgraded China’s GDP growth forecasts for this year, citing zero-Covid as one of the major drags.
Xi, however, praised the government’s adherence to zero-Covid, saying it has “achieved significant positive results.”
Crackdown to continue
Xi’s speech — a summary of the Communist Party’s work report, or action plan — was similarly short on concrete solutions to other challenges facing the economy in the near term.
“We believe the ongoing Party Congress may not be an inflection point for major policy changes,” Goldman Sachs analysts said on Sunday, adding that they believe China may not loosen its Covid restrictions until at least the second quarter of 2023.
On the property sector, Xi emphasized the need to provide affordable housing and dampen speculative demand — but there was no specific mention of the slump in real estate, which has mushroomed into a major crisis over the past few years, threatening both economic and social stability.
“We maintain our view that a comprehensive solution to the beleaguered property sector might not be introduced until after March 2023, when the political reshuffle is fully completed,” said Nomura analysts on Monday.
Nor did Xi mention record youth unemployment, which is mainly a result of his year-long crackdown on the tech industry set against the backdrop of punishing zero-Covid policies.
In the full version of the official 20th Party Congress work report, which was published shortly after his speech, Xi emphasized the need to continue the party’s “anti-monopoly” crackdown and regulate “excessive incomes,” a sign that he will continue to get tough on big businesses and wealthy individuals.
Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the country’s private sector, under the banner of Xi’s “common prosperity” campaign, has pummeled several companies in sectors ranging from tech and finance to gaming and private education.
The government has defended the campaign as necessary for “social fairness” and narrowing income gaps.
‘Challenging’ to revive growth
In his speech, Xi also made clear that development was the “top priority” and stressed continued focus on “high-quality growth.”
That may dispel some market concerns that the government no longer cared much about economic growth, UBS analysts said.
However, to achieve Xi’s target of making China a “medium developed country” by 2035, the country’s annual real GDP growth needs to average around 4.7% a year from 2021 to 2035, the UBS analysts said. That could be “quite challenging,” they noted, adding they expect China’s potential growth to average between 4% to 4.5% a year this decade, and fall lower after 2030.
Meantime, a comparison between this year’s speech and the last one delivered by Xi in 2017 at the 19th party congress revealed a potentially worrying trend.
The frequency of words such as “security,” “people,” and “socialism” used in 2022 had increased compared to 2017, while that of “economy,” “market” and “reform” declined, Goldman analysts said.
The change was also noticed by Nomura analysts, who said it could point to “a shift in the party’s mandate.”
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is welcoming some first timers to the list of 2023 nominees.
This year's group of 14 includes:
Kate Bush
Sheryl Crow
Missy Elliott
Iron Maiden
Joy Division/New Order
Cyndi Lauper
George Michael
Willie Nelson
Rage Against the Machine
Soundgarden
The Spinners
A Tribe Called Quest
The White Stripes
Warren Zevon
Eight artists or groups are appearing on the list for the first time, including Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Joy Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, Willie Nelson, The White Stripes and Warren Zevon.
"This remarkable list of Nominees reflects the diverse artists and music that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors and celebrates," John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said in a statement. "These artists have created their own sounds that have impacted generations and influenced countless others that have followed in their footsteps."
To be eligible to be nominated, an individual artist or band must have released its first commercial recording at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. According to the Hall of Fame, this year is the first year of eligibility for Missy Elliott and The White Stripes.
Fans are able to vote for their picks at vote.rockhall.com through April 28 or in person at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland.
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BOUNTIFUL, Utah, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KwikClick, Inc. (OTCQB: KWIK) ("the Company or "KWIK"), an industry-first, free, multi-purpose service platform that utilizes KWIK's intellectual properties to pay "waves" of commissions and other incentives to anyone willing to make a product recommendation through social media provides first-ever revenue guidance for its fiscal year 2023.
Dr. Fred W. Cooper, Ph.D. and KWIK founder said, " The company projects doing $40 million in revenues for 2023. But after completing our initial integration with Shopify, which facilitates over $200 billion Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) annually, planned integrations with WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Magento, we believe the company is now on an even steeper trajectory and positioned to deliver up to $100 million in revenues by the end of the year. Also, through our intellectual properties, cutting-edge technology, and relationships with many leading E-Commerce companies worldwide, accordingly as deals accrue, guidance may be revised to reflect the value inherent to those new relationships."
KWIK is revolutionizing how affiliate and influencer marketing works by offering a place for everyone, including companies, to earn money, save money, and benefit from our innovative platform. Moreover, the patent-protected KWIK platform provides value to all parties in the sales channel. For brands, it can help create an unlimited number of brand ambassadors, who, through a single KWIK-generated link, can represent their brand to multiple influencers in a single click. Then, those influencers can share with their spheres of influence and so on.
Dr. Cooper added, "the progression of KWIK from development to the commercial stage has been quick and rewarding. Our first-ever publicly disseminated revenue guidance is a product of the work completed, initiatives in the queue, and the response, interest, and adoption by the largest E-commerce platforms in the world, which, combined, make the trillion-dollar GMV market opportunity more than a target, they put it into KWIK's revenue-generating crosshairs."
For more information about KWIKClick, Inc., please visit our website at KWIK.com
About KWIKClick Inc.
KWIKClick is a social software platform developed to connect sellers with buyers (participants) while merging the benefits of social media marketing with the intense power of individual affiliate marketing typically associated only with network marketing organizations. The free account has the potential to turn all social media activity into a product solicitation on behalf of sellers in an unobtrusive manner. Furthermore, the app allows participants to be compensated for all sales resulting from referring any product or service they wish to promote actively or passively as they correspond socially, through mobile devices, or online. Visit us at kwik.com
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FinVolution Subsidiary AdaKami Cooperates with PT Bank Seabank Indonesia to propel growth in Indonesia
Published: Jul. 27, 2023 at 3:00 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
SHANGHAI, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FinVolution Group ("FinVolution," or the "Company") (NYSE: FINV), a leading fintech platform, today announced that its Indonesian financial application, AdaKami, has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with PT Bank Seabank Indonesia ("SeaBank"), a digital bank dedicated to bettering the lives of consumers and small businesses in the region with technology. Under the terms of the agreement, SeaBank will provide AdaKami with a funding facility of approximately 300 billion Rupiah (US$20.0 million) to enhance AdaKami's integrated API services for direct transactions, expanding FinVolution's international service offerings and advancing the Company's mission of connecting underserved borrowers with financial institutions.
Building upon FinVolution's cutting-edge technologies and extensive experience in the region, AdaKami's various partnerships with leading Indonesian banks have flourished, boosting the platform's service efficiency and user connectivity while also promoting financial inclusion in the region. AdaKami's latest strategic collaboration with SeaBank will enable customers to seamlessly conduct real-time funding transactions through API, supplying individuals and small businesses with direct access to fintech solutions that contribute to Indonesian economic development.
Mr. Tiezheng Li, President and Chief Executive Officer of FinVolution Group, commented, "Driven by our Local Focus, Global Outlook strategy, FinVolution is proud to support Indonesia's economic growth through technology. AdaKami's partnership with SeaBank will empower underserved customers throughout the country with faster, simpler and more direct banking services. With FinVolution's commitment to financial inclusion firmly in mind, we will continue to invent and deploy creative technologies, expanding our customer base and elevating user experience while improving efficiency across our operations. We are confident that as we forge new partnerships and deliver enhanced financial solutions to more customers, we will replicate our domestic success in international markets, propelling the rapid growth of the fintech industry in Southeast Asia and beyond."
About FinVolution Group
FinVolution Group is a leading fintech platform in China and internationally connecting underserved borrowers with financial institutions. Established in 2007, the Company is a pioneer in China's online consumer finance industry and has developed innovative technologies and has accumulated in-depth experience in the core areas of credit risk assessment, fraud detection, big data and artificial intelligence. The Company's platform, empowered by proprietary cutting-edge technologies, features a highly automated loan transaction process, which enables a superior user experience. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had over 164.5 million cumulative registered users.
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LEUVEN, Belgium and BOSTON, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- icometrix, world leader in imaging artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for people with neurological conditions, has been awarded a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) to continue efforts in research towards brain MRI biomarkers for Parkinson's disease (PD). The research is led in collaboration with co-principal investigator Kathleen Poston, MD, professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences at Stanford Medicine.
Nearly 10 million people worldwide are living with PD. The most common symptoms include motor problems such as shaking, stiffness as well as difficulties with walking and balance. In addition, approximately 30% of patients with PD develop cognitive problems in the early stages of the disease, with a life-long risk of up to 80%. However, PD is extremely diverse with no two people experiencing the disease in the same way. This highlights the need for a personalized prognosis and treatment approach.
"PD monitoring is typically performed based on clinical scores that are subjective and do not allow for a fine-grained evaluation of disease characteristics. Early and specific prediction of the disease progression is therefore challenging. It also restricts our understanding of the underlying neurodegenerative pathophysiology and thereby hampers research on disease modifying therapies in an already highly diverse PD population," explains Annemie Ribbens, VP Science & Trials at icometrix. "With this research, we aim to evaluate brain MRI patterns of PD patients that identify, early on, patients at risk for cognitive or motor problems."
This grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation supports the development of a regulatory cleared solution to automatically analyze brain MRI scans to improve monitoring of PD patients in clinical routine, as well as for patient selection and outcome assessment in multi-center drug development trials. This PD-specific MRI solution will be added to the CE-marked* and FDA-cleared icobrain portfolio of icometrix that also contains solutions for Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, stroke and traumatic brain injury.
The first promising results of this project were presented at ADPD on April 1st 2023. Brain MRI scans from Stanford and MJFF's landmark, Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI),were evaluated in terms of volumetric patterns and correlated to corresponding clinical scores for motor and cognitive function. The results show that regional brain volumetry assessment can serve as an important biomarker in prediction and differentiation of PD patients at risk for motor and/or cognitive disability progression.
About icometrix
Founded in 2011, icometrix (Leuven, Belgium | Boston, MA, USA) strives for data-driven insights and personalized patient care, supported by AI. icometrix offers a portfolio of eight regulatory approved AI solutions to assist healthcare with various challenges; icobrain extracts data from brain MRI and CT scans for the radiological reporting and clinical management of neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis, brain trauma, epilepsy, stroke, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. icompanion, a digital platform, and mobile app helps people with MS and their care team to monitor clinical symptoms and treatments efficiently and objectively.
Today, icometrix is internationally active and integrated into more than 100 clinical practices. In addition, icometrix supports pharmaceutical companies in phase I-III trials as well as in Real-World Evidence (RWE) studies through imaging and data services, and digital health strategy.
* CE 1639 icobrain mr and icobrain ct is CE marked as class Im device
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Kyle Lowry NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Heat vs. Bucks - April 22
Kyle Lowry and the rest of the Miami Heat take on the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Playoffs on Saturday, at 7:30 PM ET.
In this piece we'll examine Lowry's stats and trends, helping you with your prop bets.
Kyle Lowry Prop Bets vs. the Bucks
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Kyle Lowry Insights vs. the Bucks
- Lowry has taken 8.8 shots per game this season and made 3.6 per game, which account for 6.9% and 6.1%, respectively, of his team's total.
- This season, he's accounted for 10.9% of his team's three-pointers made, averaging 1.9 per game.
- Lowry's Heat average 99.2 possessions per game, which ranks 29th among NBA teams, while the Bucks have a middling offense in terms of tempo, ranking 12th with 102.4 possessions per contest.
- The Bucks are the 14th-best defensive squad in the league, allowing 113.3 points per contest.
- The Bucks give up 44.2 rebounds per contest, ranking 20th in the league.
- The Bucks give up 23.9 assists per game, fifth-ranked in the league.
- Conceding 12.1 made 3-pointers per game, the Bucks are the 11th-ranked team in the NBA.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple people have been fatally poisoned with narcotics in what investigators say were schemes by criminal crews to incapacitate and rob people at New York City bars and nightclubs.
The killings — at least five, according to police — stretch back months and appear to be the work of different crews, operating independently from each other but using similar tactics, police and prosecutors said Thursday.
Men surreptitiously slip revelers dangerous levels of drugs to knock them out, then take their wallets and phones, sometimes using their digital banking info to drain their accounts.
In March, Nurbu Sherpa, a 29-year-old chef, was found dead on the sidewalk after leaving a bar where he had been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
In April, Julio Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker, died in a taxi after leaving a Manhattan bar with a group of men. Later, relatives discovered some of his savings had been stolen.
In May, John Umberger, a 33-year-old political consultant visiting from Washington D.C., was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in the townhouse where he was staying. Surveillance video showed him leaving a popular club being propped up by a group of men. Money was also taken from his bank account.
Other men have come forward with stories about being drugged by strangers and waking up to find money gone.
Many of the crimes remain unsolved, but the Manhattan district attorney on Thursday announced that one suspect, Kenwood Allen, of the Bronx, had been charged with murder in Sherpa’s death and in the killing of Ardijan Berisha, 26.
Berisha, of South Salem, New York, and a friend passed out on the sidewalk in July after drinking at a bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Allen drugged both of his victims with fentanyl, prosecutors said, then robbed them. He is accused in three other instances where victims survived.
Allen’s sister told the Daily News her brother is innocent.
“My brother is not a murderer,” said Lauren Allen, 39. “My brother has always taken care of his family, his mother and his sisters. He’s not in no gang. He’s not in some crew going around drugging and robbing people. That’s just not true, that’s ridiculous.”
No one has been charged in the other killings, which are still under investigation.
“Nobody should have to worry that a night out at a Manhattan bar with friends could end in tragedy,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.
At a news conference Thursday, New York Police Department Lt. Det. Dave Leonardi said some of the victims were given a mix of drugs including lidocaine, fentanyl and cocaine — with lidocaine being the substance that really incapacitated them.
The deaths of Ramirez and Umberger prompted concern that gay men were being targeted. Both died after leaving Manhattan LGBTQ bars. Some victims and their relatives have complained that the crimes weren’t treated with more urgency by police.
Umberger’s mother, Linda Clary of Dawsonville, Georgia, said that after hearing about Ramirez’s death and stories from others, she felt frustrated by authorities’ response.
“There were enough cases reported that NYPD should have sounded the warning bells to say this is going on, people need to be careful, but they didn’t,” she said.
NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said robberies have occurred beyond the gay community.
“We don’t particularly think they’re targeting gay members,” he said. “This is based solely on monetary gain.”
Still, unease about possible targeting remains, especially in an environment when an anti-LGBTQ atmosphere has been felt around the country, said Beverly Tillary, executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, an organization that advocates for LGBTQ communities.
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Victims ready to speak at Christmas parade crash sentencing
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of people who were hurt or saw their loved ones killed or injured when a man drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee plan to address him for the first time Tuesday during what promises to be a raw, tearful two-day sentencing hearing.
Darrell Brooks Jr. drove his red Ford Escape through the parade in downtown Waukesha on Nov. 21, 2021. Six people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy. Scores of others were injured. A jury convicted Brooks last month of 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and 61 counts of reckless endangerment.
Judge Jennifer Dorow set aside Tuesday for victim impact statements and Wednesday for sentencing.
Brooks, 40, almost certainly will spend the rest of his life in prison. Each homicide count carries a mandatory life sentence, and each endangerment count carries a maximum sentence of 17 1/2 years. Legal experts said they expect Dorow to make the life sentences consecutive, with no chance of parole, because to do otherwise would likely mean an intense backlash from the community.
“This guy’s never getting out,” said Tom Grieve, a Madison-based defense attorney. “He’s never going to see the light of day.”
The crash left deep scars across southeastern Wisconsin that still haven’t healed. Several witnesses wept on the stand during Brooks’ trial as they described how the SUV barreled through the crowd, sending bodies flying through the air. Someone in the gallery yelled, “Burn in hell,” as Dorow read the guilty verdicts last month.
Prosecutors have said at least 45 people have asked to speak in court, including nine children.
Brooks chose to represent himself during his trial despite overwhelming evidence against him. His interactions with victim witnesses were tense, but he generally treated them respectfully, and they kept their answers short. Tuesday will be the victims’ first chance to confront Brooks while he is forced to sit and listen.
State law doesn’t place any restrictions on what can be said during victim impact statements other than that the remarks must be relevant to the sentence. The law doesn’t define relevance; as long as people don’t lapse into screaming or profanity, they will be free to say what they want.
Brooks told the judge this month that nine people will speak on his behalf, including his mother. Brooks had said she would testify at the trial, but he never called her to the stand.
The monthlong trial was punctuated by erratic outbursts from Brooks, who refused to answer to his own name, frequently interrupted Dorow and often refused to stop talking. The judge often had bailiffs move him to another courtroom where he could participate via video but she could mute his microphone.
After he was removed from the main courtroom during jury selection, he removed his shirt, sat on the defense table bare-chested and stuck down his pants a sign he’d been given to signal objections. Later in the trial, he built a small fort out of his boxes of legal documents and hid behind it so the camera couldn’t pick up his face. At other times, he hid his face behind a Bible.
Dorow said in a memo to Brooks and prosecutors this month that she has received emails, letters, cards and gifts, including candy and other food, in connection with the case.
Any perception of judicial bias against Brooks could provide him with grounds for an appeal.
Dorow wrote that the gifts will not influence her sentencing decision, saying that she has taken “every step possible” to not read the correspondence and that she has distributed the candy among the clerk of court’s staff.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that much of the correspondence came from livestream viewers who praised the judge’s handling of a difficult case.
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Pentagon: China’s conducted spy balloon program for years
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years,” the Pentagon said Wednesday.
When similar balloons passed over U.S. territory on four occasions during the Trump and Biden administrations, the U.S. did not immediately identify them as Chinese surveillance balloons, said Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary. But he said “subsequent intelligence analysis” allowed the U.S. to confirm they were part of a Chinese spying effort and learn “a lot more” about the program.
He refused to provide any new details about those previous balloons. When pressed, Ryder would only say that the balloons flew over “sites that would be of interest to the Chinese.”
One of the possible incidents was last February.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara, the adjutant general in Hawaii, tweeted about a balloon over Kauai a year ago. He said U.S. Indo-Pacific Command “detected a high-altitude object floating in air in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands” and sent up aircraft to intercept it. He said they visually confirmed it was an unmanned balloon with no identification markings.
Ryder declined to say whether this was one of the four previous incidents that the U.S. had discussed. Pacific Air Forces, the Air Force command in the Indo-Pacific, said that balloon was not shot down.
The recent balloon was shot down by a U.S. military fighter jet on Saturday. The Navy and Coast Guard are still working to recover pieces of the downed balloon so they can be analyzed.
China claims it was a civilian balloon used for meteorological research and sharply criticized the U.S. for shooting it down.
Ryder said North American Aerospace Defense Command began tracking the balloon as it approached U.S. airspace. It passed north of the Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28 and moved largely over land across Alaska and then into Canadian airspace before crossing back into the U.S. over northern Idaho on Jan. 31, U.S. officials have said.
Top administration officials were briefing members of Congress on the Chinese balloon surveillance program in classified sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. Avril Haines, director of national intelligence; Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman; Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. Northern Command; and Colin Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, were among those expected to brief lawmakers.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. has briefed dozens of countries on the program, which officials said has been active over five continents.
“The United States was not the only target,” he said at a news conference with visiting NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. Blinken said he and Stoltenberg had spoken about the “systemic and tactical challenges” that China poses to the alliance and the importance of combatting them.
The foreign countries would include nations the U.S. believes have been surveilled in the past as well as NATO allies.
Those briefings were continuing Wednesday, and the State Department has sent a cable to all U.S. embassies and consulates outlining the administration’s case against China and instructing American diplomats to discuss these points with their host governments. However, the cable is less specific than what has been briefed to allies and partners.
Off the South Carolina coast, meanwhile, Navy divers began pulling pieces of the downed Chinese spy balloon from the depths of the ocean floor on Tuesday, using sophisticated reconnaissance drones dubbed the Kingfish and the Swordfish to locate the debris.
Ryder said agents from the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are cataloguing the debris and transporting it for further processing.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
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Valery Gergiev, the star Russian conductor fired in Germany last year for his refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine, was given a warm welcome in China this week as he started a three-day performance at the country's top art center.
"It is like coming home," Gergiev said at a news conference Monday night, according to state-run tabloid Global Times, before his first performance at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
His show with Russia's Mariinsky Orchestra marks the first time an overseas group has performed in China since the country resumed accepting foreign artists this month, according to Chinese state media.
Gergiev, who has close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was dismissed as the chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic last March, shortly after Russia's invasion began.
In a statement at the time, Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said he had asked Gergiev to "clearly and unambiguously" distance himself from the war. "That's not what he did," he said.
At Gergiev's performance Monday, Chinese audiences noticed heightened security, with staff checking "books and paper, especially those with notes or that could be written on," said one audience member, who asked not to be named.
"Previously, they would sometimes check your food and drinks, or things like lighters," they said. "But I don't remember they had this special attention on paper like this time."
Others who attended the show said security personnel went through their books and notebooks "page by page."
The show was given glowing coverage in Chinese state media, with the Global Times highlighting the close partnership between Russia and China and referring to Gergiev by his Chinese nickname "Brother-in-law."
It also defended Gergiev from his critics, claiming that Russian music and art had been "targeted by the West."
It wasn't just the Munich orchestra that dropped Gergiev after the invasion -- New York's Carnegie Hall also announced last year that it had canceled performances by the Russian conductor.
Meanwhile, New York's Metropolitan Opera said it would not work with Russian artists and organizations who support Putin until the invasion of Ukraine ends.
US public broadcaster NPR reported in 2014 that Gergiev's friendship with Putin spans decades. Gergiev has also supported Putin's policies that restrict the rights of LGBTQ citizens, which led to protests against the conductor at arts venues in previous years.
In 2014, Gergiev signed an open letter with a group of Russian cultural figures stating their support for Putin's annexation of Crimea, prompting more protests against him in New York.
The show in Beijing this week comes after Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Putin in Moscow earlier this month, with the two leaders releasing a joint statement vowing to deepen their countries' cooperation and friendship.
China remains a lone voice supporting an increasingly isolated Putin; throughout the war, Beijing has backed Kremlin rhetoric blaming NATO for the conflict, refused to condemn the invasion, and increased economic support for Moscow by upping purchases of Russian fuel. | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/russian-conductor-makes-a-comeback-in-china-after-he-was-fired-for-refusing-to-condemn/article_7b6f383a-0d50-562b-a108-f775ee134cda.html | 2023-03-29 10:14:58 | 1 | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/russian-conductor-makes-a-comeback-in-china-after-he-was-fired-for-refusing-to-condemn/article_7b6f383a-0d50-562b-a108-f775ee134cda.html |
HOLLISTON, Mass., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Biostage, Inc. (OTCQB: BSTG) ("Biostage" or the "Company"), a cell-therapy biotechnology company with successful first-in-human experience in treating esophageal cancer (conducted at the Mayo Clinic and published last August) and FDA approval to commence a clinical trial of the Biostage Esophageal Implant for severe esophageal disease including cancer, today announced the appointment of Joseph Damasio as the company's new Chief Financial Officer.
Joe provides Biostage with considerable experience in raising capital and running operations for small-cap biotech companies. Recently his experience has included CFO, VP Finance and Controller roles at: Inhibikase Therapeutics, Cue Biopharma and Pressure Biosciences. He has managed multiple capital raises, both private and public, including uplisting to NASDAQ. Joe holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth), an MS in Finance from Boston College and an MBA from Boston College. He is a Massachusetts-licensed CPA, a former auditor with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and formerly served in the U.S. Navy.
David Green, Biostage's founder, Chair of the Board and interim Chief Executive Officer said, "Joe's skills and experience will help Biostage with its intended relisting on NASDAQ, its future capital raises and its operational management as we prepare for our clinical trial in patients with severe esophageal disease."
"I very much look forward to joining the highly motivated team at Biostage and contributing to future progress," said Mr. Damasio. "Biostage is well positioned to achieve its strategic goals with the first-in-human clinical trial starting soon. The product candidate has a significant commercial potential as the best-in-class therapy to fill the unmet need."
Biostage is a clinical-stage biotech company that uses cell therapy to regenerate organs inside the human body to treat cancer, trauma and birth defects. We have performed the world's first regeneration of an esophagus in a human cancer patient. This surgery was performed at Mayo Clinic and was published in August 2021.
Biostage has eight issued U.S. patents, two issued China patents, two orphan-drug designations (which provide seven years of market exclusivity in addition to any patents), and the possibility of two Priority Review Vouchers from the FDA.
Biostage's current goals include raising capital, uplisting from the OTC bulletin board to NASDAQ and beginning its clinical trial for patients requiring short-segment esophageal replacement in adults.
Some of the statements in this press release are "forward-looking" and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These "forward-looking" statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the capabilities and performance of our products and product candidates; our capital raising plans and expectations, including uplifting to NASDAQ; development expectations and regulatory approval of any of the Company's products, including those utilizing its Biostage Esophageal Implant technology, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency or otherwise, which expectations or approvals may not be achieved or obtained on a timely basis or at all; and success with respect to any collaborations, clinical trials and other development and commercialization efforts of the Company's products, which such success may not be achieved or obtained on a timely basis or at all. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ materially from the statements set forth in this press release, including, among other things, the Company's inability to obtain needed funds in the immediate future; the Company's ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval for its products; plus other factors described under the heading "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 or described in the Company's other public filings. The Company's results may also be affected by factors of which the Company is not currently aware. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to such statements to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto or any changes in the events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Investor Relations Contact
Shunfu Hu
Vice President of Business Development
and Operations
774-233-7300
shu@biostage.com
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Collaboration between Wildlife Works, the community, and leading corporations, demonstrates a successful model for ending deforestation by 2030
LONDON, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate executives and Kenyan conservationists featured in a Netflix mini-documentary gathered at the screening of the award-winning short film "Kasigau" that was held at the Curzon Soho Cinema.
Kasigau recently won Best Human and Nature Short Film at the 2022 Wildlife Conservation Film Festival. It's now available on the WeAreNetflix and AfricaonNetflix Youtube channels.
The mini-documentary, produced in a collaboration between Netflix, Freeborne Impact, Wildlife Works and Everland, is about the Wildlife Works Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project, a pioneering, community-based, wildlife-centered forest conservation project that is located in southeastern Kenya. Netflix voluntarily purchases carbon credits from the project to compensate for the impact of its unavoidable emissions.
REDD+, short for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is a UN-envisioned climate change mitigation mechanism that enables communities and governments to secure performance-based payments from the voluntary carbon markets for emission reductions generated through effective forest protection.
As the first-ever project to issue verified REDD+ credits, Kasigau has avoided more than 20 million tCO2e to date, roughly equivalent to offsetting nearly two decades of London's rail transport emissions.
Using revenues from the sale of its carbon credits, the project protects over 200,000 hectares of dryland forest which is home to wildlife such as African elephants, lions, and Grevy's zebras.
Revenues from carbon credit sales fund social service programs co-created with the community and relieve pressure to participate in extractive activities. These sustained services include school bursaries, access to health care, clean water, food security and improved livelihoods for a community of approximately 120,000 people.
Shola Sanni, Director of Public Policy, SSA-Netflix said, "Netflix is privileged to be one of the partners of the Wildlife Works Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project, providing financial support to the initiative through the purchase of verified carbon credits. By participating in the project, Netflix helps to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Kasigau Corridor, while supporting sustainable land use practices and the improvement of local communities' livelihoods. This partnership aligns with our efforts to mitigate our carbon footprint and promote sustainable business practices."
Sanni added, "Before now, Africans have had their stories told for them by others. The continent before now had been seen and perceived, narrated and interpreted through the filter of the subjective portrayal of the foreign voices telling the African story. Tropes about an Africa in need of rescuing have abounded. But this mini documentary created by Everland in partnership with Netflix showcases how leading Kenyan experts, yes, African heroes, are taking charge of their own narrative and spearheading the effort to preserve their wild spaces for future generations. It is an authentic Kenyan story of courage in the face of adversity, and Netflix is proud to be a part of its telling."
Jane Okoth, Media and Communications Officer at Wildlife Works said, "Indigenous people and local communities are the traditional guardians of the forest. The success of the Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project demonstrates that when our voices are heard, forest conservation realizes its potential as the most effective and immediate way to end deforestation."
About Wildlife Works
Wildlife Works is a community-centered wildlife conservation company that implements market-based initiatives to protect the planet's threatened wilderness and endangered wildlife. The company was founded on the premise that if we want wildlife in our world, it must work for local communities who share their environment. Wildlife Works' conservation projects drive direct financing to forest communities to fund their self-determined economic development and prevent millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from entering the atmosphere annually.
https://www.wildlifeworks.com/
About Everland
Everland represents the world's largest portfolio of high-impact forest conservation (REDD+) projects in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Everland brings forest communities and corporations together in a common cause to protect some of the world's most important and vulnerable forests.
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Durant library has engaging material for kids this summer
DURANT, Okla. (KXII) -A lot of children are put in front of a screen these days to keep busy and the content on those screens may not always be educational or safe.
The Donald W. Reynolds Library in Durant has an engaging, educational way to give your kids quality screen time this summer.
“It’s been a blessing for people, especially some of the grandparents,” said library director, Robbee Tonubbee.
The Durant library carries small tablets to check out for grades pre-k to fifth, “there is no internet, no wifi, no webcam, all it is is app-based,” Tonubbee said.
So parents don’t have to think twice about the content on the tablets.
“You don’t have to worry about what they’re getting into. It’s all safe learning based. There’s categories: there can be life skills, reading, language arts, science, there’s some stem,” Tonubbee added.
Studies show that the average student loses about 2.6 months’ worth of learning during summer break.
“A lot of them, they play these games and don’t even realize they’re learning something at the same time,” said Tonubbee.
You can check these out for up to a week, which is perfect for your next summer trip, “if the kids have to be in the car for an extended period of time, you don’t have to loan out your cell phone,” Tonubbee said.
So you can keep your kiddos busy and most importantly learning all at the same time.
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Pay It Forward: Madison Cares Secret Santa
REXBURG - Idaho (KXPI) - A local organization is setting out to make a difference this holiday season with your help. Eyewitness News 3 anchor Todd Kunz stopped by to see their operation within the Madison School District.
Time to Pay It Forward.
"In its early days, when we first started, it was much smaller than it is today," said Rick Croft. Kunz received word that a Secret Santa was headquartered inside the administration building for the Madison School District at 60 E. Main Street in Rexburg, Idaho. In fact, one of the elves, Croft himself, said this is the sixth year for the Secret Santa program. Croft is actually the director. Welcome to Madison Cares.
"We helped 83 families last year. And over the six years that we've done this, that's the most families that we've ever helped. And each year we do our Secret Santa program, we help more and more families. So I'm fully anticipating, as far as need goes, that we'll eclipse that 83 this year and help out even more families," said Croft.
They have a lot of people behind the scenes of this operation. The staff of Madison Cares spearhead the effort and reach out to area businesses and other families to see if they want to adopt a family or place a Giving Tree in their business.
"We have such a giving community here in Rexburg. It just amazes me. We have families always stepping up saying they want to help another family, a family that has the means to do that. They're so kind to just step forward and say that they would love to help out a family. We've even had families in the past say that they want to adopt two families or three families. And I think that just goes to show, you know, the caliber of folks here in our community. I mean they're just very giving. Very supportive," said Croft.
They offer volunteer opportunities for people to come in and wrap presents. This includes students and everyday families.
"I think for students to just have that moment to where they can give back and feel like that they're just doing a nice gesture for someone. It really just kind of warms their heart a little bit," said Croft.
They have six Giving Trees throughout Rexburg and two also at the Madison Cares office on Main Street. Each tag has generic information on it.
"(It) Might say, 13-year-old male, needs a coat. Something like that. And so they just take that and they buy a coat for a 13-year-old male and they bring it back into us and we set that aside for that young man and give that out as part of their Secret Santa," said Croft, describing how the donation process works.
Kunz asked Croft why they do this every year.
"Deep question. We do this because we know that there are families that are having a hard time. And it's just our little piece of something we can do to help some of those families rather than knowing that those families are there and doing nothing," he replied.
Let's do something. Time to Pay It Forward.
"Hi. Sorry to barge in," said a woman coming into the office and walking up to Croft's desk.
"Just one second," replied Croft.
"You're Rick right?" asked the woman.
"I am," Croft replied.
"Rick, I'm Cassey (Leatham). I'm with Mountain America Credit Union," said the woman.
"Oh," replied Croft, wondering what was happening.
"And we're here to award you with a Pay It Forward with $500 for your Secret Santa program," said Leatham.
"Oh my gosh! Look at that. OK. Thank you so much," said Croft, taking the envelope of cash from Leatham.
"Yeah, we just greatly appreciate everything you do for the community and everything you do for kids that are in need of everything from mental health services to Christmas trees and gifts and you do a phenomenal job and we really appreciate it," said Leatham.
"Oh thank you," replied Croft.
"We wanted to help you out a little bit," said Leatham.
"Thank you so much. That is going to help out a lot," said Croft.
"Good. I hope so," said Leatham.
"Gonna go directly to a family or families in need," said Croft, holding up the cash.
"Wonderful. Well good," said Leatham.
"Thank you so much. I appreciate that," said Croft.
"Thank you. Very nice to meet you," said Leatham.
"Yeah. Nice to meet you," replied Croft.
"Yeah, thank you," said Leatham.
"You're welcome," said Croft.
Click here for the link to donate to the Secret Santa program and the form.
Madison Cares is also looking for volunteers. If you would like to volunteer and do some Christmas service by wrapping gifts, call Rick Croft directly at the Madison Cares department of the Madison School District office at 208-359-1256 ext. 3444.
All gifts need to be delivered the district office at 60 West Main no later than Dec. 15 by 4pm. The elves will start sorting and delivering Dec. 16.
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World Food Program chief Somali famine slowed, not avoided
By JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in Somalia. But WFP Executive Director David Beasley stressed that “we’re not out of this yet.” He told The Associated Press that countries in the Horn of Africa have faced “unprecedented climate impact” from years of drought, and the U.N. agency had been expecting to announce famine in Somalia before donors “stepped up in magnificent ways.” Speaking Tuesday at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Beasley warned that “we still could end up with a famine technically in Somalia” because “famine-like conditions” already exist. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/01/17/world-food-program-chief-somali-famine-slowed-not-avoided/ | 2023-01-17 17:03:38 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/01/17/world-food-program-chief-somali-famine-slowed-not-avoided/ |
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH), owner of Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEXTM), and Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSXTM), announced today that Webull Financial LLC (Webull) is now offering SPIKES® Options on its trading platform. SPIKES Options will be available to customers who are approved to trade options on Webull's trading platform.
SPIKES Options are traded on the SPIKES Volatility Index (Ticker: SPIKE), which updates every 100 milliseconds for pinpoint accuracy. The index is a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY). SPIKES products, built on SPY, are transforming the volatility asset class. SPIKE Options trade under the symbol "SPIKE" on the MIAX Options Exchange and are cash-settled with monthly expirations. More information about SPIKES products can be found here.
"MIH is committed to providing innovative products and solutions to the derivatives marketplace. We are excited to be working with Webull to make volatility products more accessible to the end user," said Thomas P. Gallagher, Chairman and CEO of MIH. "With the launch of SPIKES Options on Webull's platform, Webull customers around the world now have a choice when it comes to trading U.S. equity volatility products, as SPIKES Options offer the ability to directly trade volatility on SPY, the largest ETF in the world."
Webull, an independent, self-directed broker dealer synergizes technology with finance by providing reliable, professional and efficient products and services. By expanding its offering to include SPIKES Options, individual traders now have greater access to trading volatility.
"Diversification is important for our clients and we want to be able to offer a comprehensive suite of investment products across our platform," said Anthony Denier, CEO of Webull. "Providing access to SPIKES Options through the Webull platform is another example of how we are bringing innovative products to individual traders that have traditionally only been accessible to institutional market participants."
About MIAX
MIAX's parent holding company, Miami International Holdings, Inc., owns Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEX™), and Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX™).
MIAX, MIAX Pearl and MIAX Emerald are national securities exchanges registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that are enabled by state-of-the-art, in-house built, proprietary technology providing industry-leading speed and performance to their member firms trading listed options on all three exchanges as well as cash equities through MIAX Pearl Equities™. MIAX also serves as the exclusive exchange venue for cash-settled options on the SPIKES® Volatility Index (Ticker: SPIKE), a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY).
MGEX is a registered exchange with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and is a Notice Registered Securities Futures Product Exchange with the SEC. MGEX serves as the exclusive market for a variety of products including Hard Red Spring Wheat, SPIKES Futures, BRIXX Commercial Real Estate Futures and TAX Futures. MGEX is a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) under the CFTC, providing DCM, DCO and cash market services in an array of asset classes.
BSX is a leading electronic international securities market regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) specializing in the listing and trading of capital market instruments such as equities, debt issues, funds, hedge funds, derivative warrants and insurance linked securities. A full member of the World Federation of Exchanges and affiliate member of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, BSX is globally recognized, including by the SEC.
MIAX's executive offices and National Operations Center are located in Princeton, NJ, with additional offices located in Miami, FL, Minneapolis, MN, and Hamilton, Bermuda.
To learn more about MIAX visit www.MIAXOptions.com.
To learn more about MGEX visit www.mgex.com.
To learn more about BSX visit www.bsx.com.
About Webull
Webull Financial LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). Webull Financial LLC is a subsidiary of Webull Corporation, which is headquartered at 44 Wall Street, New York, NY, USA. To learn more, visit: www.webull.com. For information on options trading on Webull, visit: https://www.webull.com/options.
Disclaimer and Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
The press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, the Company) or Webull Financial LLC (Webull) and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer; solicitation or sale would be unlawful. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may," "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
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Meet Fiona from Helping Hands Humane Society
Published: May. 26, 2023 at 5:18 PM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Meet Fiona, a boxer-pit bull mix puppy from Helping Hands Humane Society in Topeka.
Fiona is about 9 weeks old and came to the shelter as part of a litter. The shelter is still offering no fees on dog/puppy adoptions to help ease overcrowding. For more information visit the shelter on 21st street in Topeka, or check out www.hhhstopeka.org.
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After months of uncertainty and feeling left in the dark, many former Twitter employees impacted by a mass layoff in early November began receiving their severance offers over the weekend. But some are frustrated by the offer and the conditions attached to it.
The severance offer promises one month's pay in exchange for agreeing to various terms, including a non-disparagement agreement and waiving the right to take any legal action against the company, according to Lisa Bloom, a lawyer representing dozens of former Twitter employees affected by the layoffs.
Many were dissatisfied by the offer, according to public posts and attorneys representing ex-employees, saying it falls short of the "3 months of severance" that new owner Elon Musk had previously promised would be provided. (That time period appeared to include pay for the 60-days advanced notice Twitter was obligated to provide under various state laws.) The amount is also significantly less than provided at rivals like Facebook-parent Meta, which laid off thousands of workers around the same time and guaranteed them 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for each year they were employed at the company.
The former Twitter employees are now stuck deciding whether to accept the money or join the hundreds of others who have already filed arbitration demands or lawsuits against the company.
"We've been hearing from hundreds of Twitter employees who are considering their options and not happy about only being offered one month severance, after they were promised much more," Shannon Liss-Riordan, another lawyer working on behalf of former Twitter employees, told CNN in a statement Monday. "We have filed hundreds of arbitration claims already and will continue to file them."
The severance fight comes as Musk scrambles to cut costs at the company he bought in October for $44 billion, including a significant amount of debt. After laying off half the company in early November, Musk continued cutting and pushing out additional employees, including by requiring anyone who remained to sign a pledge committing to "hardcore" work.
Twitter's trust and safety team experienced at least a dozen additional cuts on Friday, according to a report from Bloomberg over the weekend.
Bloom, who said she has also filed dozens of demands for arbitration on behalf of former Twitter employees, said the severance offer does not include pro-rated bonuses or accelerated stock vesting for eligible employees, which could amount to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost funds for some affected workers. The company typically provided such benefits to laid-off employees prior to Musk's acquisition, she said.
The severance offer would also require that employees who sign agree not to cooperate as a witness in any legal actions brought by third parties against Twitter. But they would also have to agree to cooperate on behalf of Twitter in its defense to "provide truthful information" as a witness in any legal action against the company, according to the attorneys.
One Twitter employee laid off during the early November mass layoffs tweeted over the weekend urging fellow affected employees not to "click or accept ANYTHING in that package" without first speaking to an attorney. "For me personally, the money is one component," they said. "It's about principle. I strongly believe that we should be keeping people accountable for the promises that they make and failing to deliver on them."
To add insult to injury, at least one former employee claimed on Twitter that the severance offer went to their email's spam folder.
After being sworn in Sunday evening as Dougherty County's first Commission Chairman, Lorenzo Heard presided over his first meeting on Monday. A large crowd turned out for the occasion. Commissioners Victor Edwards, Russell Gray and Anthony Jones were sworn in to new four-year terms during th… Click for more.PHOTOS: Dougherty County Commission starts the year with new chairman | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/former-twitter-employees-get-severance-offer-after-months-of-waiting-many-are-unhappy-with-it/article_78218d8f-7273-5ec0-aae4-e9293577b2c9.html | 2023-01-10 00:02:03 | 1 | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/former-twitter-employees-get-severance-offer-after-months-of-waiting-many-are-unhappy-with-it/article_78218d8f-7273-5ec0-aae4-e9293577b2c9.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Chances are if you just got hitched you have probably settled down in one of these Texas towns. If not, this new study may convince you otherwise.
A recent study by Storage Cafe revealed Plano, Austin and Irving as offering newlyweds the perfect ingredients for lasting happiness.
“The city provides the perfect foundation for building long-lasting marital connections, with only two places in the country being better for young couples to live in than Plano. Moreover, North Texas is home to another newlywed-friendly hotspot: Irving landed twelfth in terms of offering a prime setting for newlyweds to thrive,” Storage Cafe mentions.
Plano stands out with its high percentage of married residents coming in at 60 percent, while boasting a vibrant culinary scene and outdoor amenities for romantic adventures.
Meanwhile, Irving captivates with its thriving millennial community, low divorce rates and a diverse array of entertainment options. Austin has been dubbed the “best place to be for newlyweds”, due to its wide variety of activities throughout the city as well as its vibrant and exciting atmosphere.
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CHANGZHOU, China, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trina Solar's Vertex S Aesthetic Module, an upgraded product highly anticipated by global customers, has arrived in Europe, Australia, Japan and other markets recently. It is the first solar PV module to win the Red Dot Award and is turning heads because of its efficient and reliable performance and an outstanding design and visual appearance, making it a favorite among distributed solar rooftops in global markets.
Vertex S Aesthetic Module, a ground-breaking innovation, defines the category of aesthetic black solar modules through all-around top and precise technology, including cells, bus bars, back sheets, frames, glass, modules, and packaging, delivery, unpacking, and installation in rooftop scenarios.
The high-standard design is aesthetically appealing in every detail, aiming to provide customers with an enjoyable experience of high technology and aesthetics that co-exist in harmony.
Trina Solar, keenly aware of customer demand for products both technologically sophisticated and aesthetically appealing, has become one of the first leading companies in the industry to develop and launch an aesthetic black PV module.
Define Aesthetic Module by three dimensions
1. Black solar cell defines a rigorous aesthetic principle
Trina Solar is committed to innovatively upgrading film-forming technologies, improving the cell appearance graphic processing capabilities through the rigorous automated vision algorithm solutions, to achieve consistency in color and free of any flaw.
2. Aesthetic black module establishes the color uniformity criteria
Aesthetic glass: Trina Solar has innovatively developed and applied the double layer ARC (antireflection coating) glass technology that delivers a more consistent black effect to solar modules and reduces glass reflection.
Uniformity: The Vertex S Aesthetic Module also features strict control over the uniformity of black chromaticity, make for a seamless and scratch-free appearance, thus ensuring high stability and consistency in hue, brightness and uniformity.
In October, Trina Solar, led by the China Photovoltaic Industry Association, developed a group standard as for coating chromaticity.
3. Aesthetic black solar roof offers an all-round tech-savvy and aesthetic experience
Multiple rows of aesthetic black modules, installed on the same plane, present a uniform and consistent almost-all-black effect, regardless of the roof type and angle of inclination, perfectly blend with the building and the surroundings.
To deliver an all-around black experience, Trina Solar has also adopted an outdoor installation scenario-specific evaluation method to inspect precisely.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) was named to JUST Capital's 2022 Top 100 U.S. Companies For Workforce Equity and Mobility list, which recognizes companies that set the bar in advancing racial equity and workforce opportunity and mobility.
JUST Capital, in partnership with the Anne E. Casey Foundation, created the list by evaluating Russell 1000 companies on key areas including the opportunity for job advancement, career development programs, diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, fair pay and overall worker benefits.
"AEP is honored to be recognized by JUST Capital for advancing our workforce in diversity, equity and mobility," said Nicholas K. Akins, AEP's chairman and chief executive officer. "Workforce equity and mobility are a crucial part of supporting our employees and creating a culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We strive to create a supportive, inclusive work environment and will continue our efforts to empower our employees."
Learn more about AEP's strategy to build the workforce of the future.
American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, is powering a cleaner, brighter energy future for its customers and communities. AEP's approximately 16,700 employees operate and maintain the nation's largest electricity transmission system and more than 224,000 miles of distribution lines to safely deliver reliable and affordable power to 5.5 million regulated customers in 11 states. AEP also is one of the nation's largest electricity producers with approximately 31,000 megawatts of diverse generating capacity, including more than 7,100 megawatts of renewable energy. The company's plans include growing its renewable generation portfolio to approximately 50% of total capacity by 2030. AEP is on track to reach an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2030 and has committed to achieving net zero by 2050. AEP is recognized consistently for its focus on sustainability, community engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion. AEP's family of companies includes utilities AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana, east Texas and the Texas Panhandle). AEP also owns AEP Energy, which provides innovative competitive energy solutions nationwide. For more information, visit aep.com.
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InsureTech Connect 2022: Novidea, the creator of the cloud-native, data-driven insurance Agency Management System (AMS), today announced significant new enhancements to its low-code automation rules engine. These enhancements will empower independent agents, brokers, managing general agents (MGAs) and wholesalers to work smarter and more efficiently, while providing a great customer experience.
Each insurance policy transaction involves multiple functions and processes that carry out specific tasks across an MGA's or agency's front, middle and back offices. Each of these tasks involves rules, regulations, and agency policies that drive decision-making for agents and their customers. Novidea's newest system upgrade includes dynamic questionnaires based on the specific rules for each customer, enabling agents to reduce manual intervention. This low-code approach to automation results in less time on repetitive tasks for agents so they can focus on what they do best: servicing clients and finding more ways to maximize profits for the business.
With the new rules engine update, the Novidea platform:
- Calculates premiums and assesses risk based on responses to the dynamic questionnaire and generates a quote
- Streamlines the quote and bind process, saving time and costs for agents
- Provides dynamic accounting behavior enabling agencies to tailor their specific financial workflows to address their bespoke processes
"Speed to market is vital for insurance businesses to stay competitive. Embracing automated technology improves efficiency and allows them to match digital experiences with carriers," said Sharone Volk, Novidea VP Product. "This, combined with our open API architecture built on Salesforce, delivers a cloud-based agency management solution that transforms how agents manage the insurance distribution lifecycle."
Learn more about the Novidea agency management platform live at InsureTech Connect 2022, September 20-22 at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas – Booth #2422.
About Novidea
Novidea is a leading provider of the first born-on-the-cloud, data-driven insurance platform that enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey end-to-end and drive growth across the entire insurance distribution lifecycle. The Novidea platform, built to leverage the power of Salesforce's Big Technology, provides a complete ecosystem spanning every aspect of an insurance business. The platform's technology provides a 360-degree view of the customer and all stakeholders, enabling full integration between customer-facing policy transactions and the middle and back office. Brokers, agencies, and MGAs extract more value from customer and policy data with actionable intelligence from any device, anywhere. Novidea turns data into insight at the point of need, enabling better-informed decisions and delivering greater customer value through products and services tailored to individual needs. Novidea, a member of MGAA and an ACORD partner, supports more than 100 customers, including agents, brokers, MGAs, and the London market, managing tens of millions of policies across 22 countries.
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Experts say having a will critical to your family’s future
Only 33% of Americans have an estate plan according to a recent survey from Caring.com
InvestigateTV - Having a will is one an overlooked step of life, according to a recent survey from Caring.com. Only 33% of Americans have an estate plan, even though experts said having a will is crucial to successful financial planning.
Patrick Hicks is the head of legal with Trust & Will, an online service that allows you to create estate plans, wills and or trust. Hicks said in the absence of a will family members could be confused or at odds over your estate.
In most states, you can have a will as young as 18 years old. Hicks explained that once you have a will it should be updated it regularly. Changes such as getting married, having a family, or other big life events could alter your plan.
Hicks also pointed out that making a will does not have to be expensive or time consuming. Online sites make it a little bit faster and cheaper, and you can create the estate plans on your own timeframe at sites like Trust and Will or LegalZoom.
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Cautious optimism surrounds Arsenal’s resurgence with fans uniting behind Mikel Arteta
By Ben Church, CNN
It’s all looking very positive at Arsenal football club this season.
The men’s team sits atop the English Premier League, with a manager full of ideas and a fearless new generation breaking through into the first team.
The atmosphere at the Emirates Stadium is the best it’s ever been and the frustrations that have surrounded the club in recent years seem to be a thing of the past.
Arsenal fans expect their club to be challenging for titles and mixing it with the very best teams in the world but that hasn’t been the case following Arsene Wenger’s decision to step down as manager in 2018.
The club hasn’t featured in the Champions League since 2017 and has been light-years away from challenging the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City in the Premier League.
Its brief membership of the failed European Super League only created further division between the club’s American owners and the fans but, whisper it quietly, Arsenal might be on its way back.
“Right now it feels like there’s a big change, a big difference, back to the football that we once loved,” presenter of Arsenal fan channel, AFTV, Cecil Jee Thomas told CNN Sport.
“The way we’re playing and the connection between the club and the fans is the best I’ve seen at the Emirates.
“This is the best start Arsenal have had in many years. It’s amazing to be a fan right now. I’ll be honest, it feels really nice.”
Fans united
Thomas’ work with AFTV means he’s immersed in Arsenal’s fanbase and he’s been enjoying speaking to supporters this season.
He says the majority of fans are now united behind Spanish manager Mikel Arteta who had previously split opinion, especially after the club finished eighth in his first two years in charge.
But a fifth place finish last season showed progression and the team’s development seemingly accelerated over the off-season. It’s won 10 out of its 12 games in the league so far, losing just once to Manchester United.
Arteta’s Arsenal now leads Manchester City in the Premier League — a team that is touted for greatness — and shows very little signs of slowing down.
Arsenal also breezed through Europa League qualification, cementing top spot in the group after a 1-0 win against Zurich on Thursday.
“Winning helps winning. The atmosphere in the dressing room is much better after a win than a loss,” Arteta said after the game.
Arteta, who was schooled by Pep Guardiola during his time as an assistant at Manchester City, seems to have laid the foundations of the team’s return to the top.
The summer signings of Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko from the Etihad has provided some quality and experience which has blended perfectly with the host of young players coming through Arsenal’s ranks.
Academy graduate Bukayo Saka and Brazilian youngster Gabriel Martinelli are busy establishing themselves as top-class Premier League attackers and even the Arsenal defense, something that has long been deemed too soft, looks to have clicked into gear.
Despite not scoring in eight games now, Jesus continues to offer so much as a striker.
His tenacious pressing and expert hold-up play has helped Arsenal dominate matches and his manager is fully aware of his importance.
“That’s going to change,” Arteta told reporters when asked about the Brazilian’s bad luck in front of goal on Thursday.
“He’s getting the situations, he’s getting the chances, he’s contributing to the team an awful lot, he’s helping to win matches, the way he competes for every ball in every single action is incredible.
“It will come, he needs to be patient, he’s been through that in the past and he needs to learn those lessons and don’t stop doing those other things that he’s doing so well, because that’s going to maintain the level of him and the team.”
All or Nothing
Fans have enjoyed watching Arsenal’s rebuilding process and have been able to do so more closely than ever before.
The club’s Amazon ‘All or Nothing’ series was released at the start of the season and documented Arsenal’s previous campaign.
It included behind-the-scenes footage of training, the changing room and meetings between the club’s hierarchy.
The series allowed fans to see the human side of players who have recently been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism — none more so than Granit Xhaka.
The midfielder’s time at the club looking to be over in 2019 after he reacted angrily to boos from the crowd after being subbed off. He took his shirt off, swore at the Arsenal fans and stormed down the tunnel in what looked to be his last act as a player for the club.
But two seasons later and the midfield general is one of Arteta’s most important and consistent performers. The decision to give Xhaka another chance was yet another big call that Arteta got right.
The Amazon series did, however, highlight some novel ways in which Arteta looked to motivate his team — from the use of drawings to playing Liverpool’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone” anthem during training before the game.
“I think before it came out, a lot of fans were worried to see what it was going to be, whether it would be something to be laughed at,” Thomas said.
“But I think it depicted Arsenal in such a great way, the way Arteta is with his players and how much he puts emphasis on trying to build the relationship between the fans and the team.”
AFTV has continued to grow as a channel, though it has sometimes drawn criticism for being too negative about the team.
But it now seems the club’s leadership team is determined to rebuild the relationship with its fans, especially after the protests around the proposed European Super League.
Technical director Edu, a former player at the club who is now responsible for player recruitment, appears to be leading that charge and has also been praised for helping to create an identity around this current team that fans have been able to connect with.
“I don’t believe they realized how powerful the fans were,” Thomas said.
The club’s subsequent hard work has reaped rewards and Arteta has been able to create a warmth around the club, demonstrating the potential reward for owners who stick by their manager through tough times.
The unity is perhaps best demonstrated by the new anthem ‘North London Forever’ which is sung at the Emirates Stadium before every home game.
“Arteta addresses the fans in his press conferences as well and he says how important we are,” Thomas added, saying some fans have even begun tentatively warming to the club’s owners, the Kroenke family.
“The unity that we have is so different and it’s so lovely to be a part of. It’s something that I’m really appreciating.
“Fans were saying the owners weren’t connected to us and this is all about business and money, but now they [owners] seem to play a bit more of a part when it comes to the success of this club.”
Realistic expectations
In truth, there have been multiple false dawns at Arsenal since it last won a league title in 2004 and Thomas says fans aren’t getting carried away just yet.
Squad depth in certain positions is still not what many would hope for. Jesus, for example, has been a revelation upfront but should he get injured, there isn’t a replacement at the same level.
The realistic expectation, then, is not necessarily to win the Premier League title but to cement itself back in the Champions League.
“Right now we are sitting top of the Premier League and we are in a conversation for the title but I think the expectation is top four,” Thomas concedes.
‘If you get a second, you still get Champions League football. If you get fourth, you still get Champions League football — you don’t get a trophy for either of those positions.
“So for me and for many others, top four is definitely the expectation and if we get a trophy on top of that, for me that’s a bonus.”
Given the momentum at the club as of late, the World Cup in Qatar could not have come at a worse time.
The Premier League will pause for over a month as many of Arsenal’s players will travel to the Gulf nation to join their respective teams.
It’s impact on the season is somewhat of a unknown quantity but fans will be hope the team can continue its good form going into the break.
It faces a tough fixture against Chelsea on Sunday before a midweek tie against Brighton in the EFL Cup on Wednesday.
If it comes through those fixtures unscathed then reasons to not believe in Arteta’s Arsenal will quickly be running out.
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LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SYLVOX is a brand that focuses on the development and production of all-scene televisions. They are committed to providing high-quality television products to meet consumers' needs in home entertainment and multimedia experiences.
Sylvox products cover various needs points in daily life, including living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, outdoor courtyard, swimming pool, and recreational vehicles. With the core of building a home TV multimedia smart ecosystem, Sylvox products achieve linkage with multiple living areas in the home. In the first half of 2023, SYLVOX has gained a large number of supporters and fans worldwide. To show their appreciation, SYLVOX has launched a "Mid-year customer feedback" event. This limited-time event will take place from June 25th to July 15th in the United States, Canada, European Union, and the United Kingdom.
Outdoor TV
SYLVOX Outdoor TV is a perfect match for "private outdoor cinemas". Due to the IP55 waterproof property of the Sylvox outdoor TV, there is no need to worry about the impact of outdoor weather changes. You can install a Sylvox outdoor TV in your backyard, small garden, or even near the swimming pool. The highlight up to 2000 nit will perfectly adapt to the outdoor lighting environment, completely without worrying about the strong outdoor light, that allows you to enjoy the outdoor sunshine and nature with family and friends, as well as the ultra-high image quality, perfect Dolby sound effect and the comfort of adaptive environment provided by Sylvox. The "Mid-year customer feedback" will offer a price reduction of up to $900.
Kitchen TV
Begin to pursue the sense of ceremony in life with the ownership of a SYLVOX Kitchen TV. The kitchen TV can be placed under the cabinet, with a 360 degree rotatable body and a 90 degree right angle fold, can be folded and stored when not use it, without occupying a large amount of usage space. There is no need to worry during the time of waiting for cooking due to the built-in alarm clock timing. Waterproof buttons allow you to change channels or videos as you like, even if your hands are wet. The "Mid-year customer feedback" will offer a price reduction of up to $140.
RV TV
A great trip requires a SYLVOX RV TV. While you're having a great time in your RV, the RV series TV has been equipped with the genuine license Android 11.0 system from Google, which supports downloading software from the app store, so that you will not miss the sports events and current affairs information you want to watch during the journey. The multi-port design can connect different peripherals, and the built-in DVD play system can also allow you to enjoy your favorite albums/media exclusively.The "Mid-year customer feedback" will offer a price reduction of up to $100.
You can find a complete list of products with price reductions in the sales promotions below, and see the details of discounts and activity time in your area.
Sylvox official Mid-year customer feedback
Time of price reduction: 7.9-7.15 (US), 7.2-7.15 (EU, UK)
Area of price reduction: US, EU, UK
Sylvox Official Website:
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EU and UK: https://sylvoxtv.eu/
Walmart Prime Day
Time of price reduction: 6.25-7.15
Area of price reduction: US
Walmart Store:
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Amazon Prime Day
Time of price reduction: 7.11-7.12 (US), 7.2-7.15 (EU, UK)
Area of price reduction: US, CAN, EU, UK
Amazon Store:
Amazon US:
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Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/sylvox
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/sylvox
Amazon DE: https://www.amazon.de/sylvox
Whether you're a fan of the full set of "Private Outdoor Cinema" or just want to upgrade your home TV, this is a great chance for you to buy some better TVs at an unbelievable price.
About Sylvox
Sylvox is a global company researches, develops and manufactures smart TVs, with the aim to provide users with full-scene TV solutions, such as outdoor TV, bathroom TV, kitchen TV, RV TV and portable TV, so as to meet their viewing needs anytime and anywhere. Sylvox achieved No. 1 online sales volume in the U.S. on the outdoor TV series products in 2022.
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.COM, the world's first socially infused trading platform, is thrilled to announce the listing of PLCU on its platform in the innovation zone, and the PLCU/USDT trading pair will be open for trading from 2023-02-03 10:00 (UTC).
- Users can deposit PLCU for trading at 2023-02-02 10:00(UTC)
- Withdrawals for PLCU will open at 2023-02-04 10:00 (UTC)
About PLCU
PLC Ultima (PLCU) is a cryptocurrency running on its own native blockchain using the CryptoNight hashing algorithm with a max supply of 11,000,000. This cryptocurrency aims to solve the problems of online payments and is designed to be easily accessible and usable by everyone, with the ability to mine PLCU coins on a smartphone. All users using PLCU cryptocurrency as payment can experience fast and secure service with low transaction fees. The development team has added the option for minting as a reward for network participation. The blockchain is decentralized, ensuring complete anonymity and independence.
Users in the network can take advantage of this network feature to accumulate their PLCU holdings. The rewards that users earn from mining can be stored in the platform's digital wallet called Ultima wallet. It offers various functionality, from payment for goods and services to tracking and sending PLCU and other tokens globally.
PLCU coin is not competing with other coins in the market but rather creating its own market. The goal is to become a leader in cryptocurrency payments, particularly as a means of mass payment. It intends to become a major entry point for fiat currencies with fast transaction times and low volatility risks. Currently, PLC Ultima network utilizes PLCU coins in their marketing campaigns to expand their reach in the cryptocurrency space currently and in the future.
About PLC Ultima Blockchain
PLC Ultima Blockchain is a blockchain-based network that aims to provide a global financial infrastructure and instant payments to millions of people who have no access to fintech services. The PLC Ultima technology is built on the Litecoin blockchain. The network chose the Litecoin blockchain because it is stable, transparent, and has a fast transaction speed that can benefit all PLC Ultima users around the world. Through this partnership with Litecoin, PLC Ultima is able to bridge the gap between traditional business and the crypto world by offering innovative solutions that will help its community stay competitive in a world where technology changes quickly.
PLC Ultima was established in 2016 as a cutting-edge new business in Switzerland. A group of highly skilled crypto professionals with many years of experience designed the project. Currently, PLC Ultima consists of businesses from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the United Arab Emirates, and Hong Kong. Each of these nations is renowned for its stability, security, sophisticated legal system, openness to experimentation, and dedication to identifying workable international solutions.
Website: https://plcultima.com/en
Whitepaper: plcultima.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLCU_OFFICIAL
Telegram: https://t.me/plcultima
"We're delighted to have PLCU listed on our trading platform. 2023 will be a great turning point for XT.COM as I'll be ensuring the utmost quality in trading opportunities and experience for XT.COM users," said Albin Warin, CEO of XT.COM. "The company is headed toward a brighter future, and users can look forward to more unique web3 opportunities with our various trading portfolios."
About XT.COM
Founded in 2018, XT.COM cryptocurrency exchange now serves more than 6 million registered users, over 1,000,000+ monthly active users, 40+ million users in the ecosystem, and 800+ trading pairs. Covering a rich variety of trading categories together with an NFT aggregated marketplace, our platform strives to cater to its large user base by providing a secure, trusted, and intuitive trading experience.
As the world's first social-infused digital assets trading platform, XT.COM also supports social networking platform-based transactions to make our crypto services more accessible to users all over the world. Furthermore, to ensure optimal data integrity and security, we see user security as our top priority at XT.COM.
Website: https://www.xt.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/XTexchange
Telegram: https://t.me/XTsupport_EN
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Prosecutors hid evidence of his innocence, but a Florida man is still denied chance for new trial
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The family of Crowell & Moring pro bono client Crosley Green was grief-stricken today as they learned that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has denied Green's request for a rehearing. However, Green, a man of strong faith, remains confident that eventually, justice will be done and he will be exonerated.
After serving 32 years in prison while maintaining his innocence in the 1989 shooting death of Charles "Chip" Flynn Jr, Green was released on house arrest in April 2021 while his case was pending appeal of a favorable district court decision finding that Green's constitutional rights were violated because the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence that the first police responders suspected that another perpetrator committed the crime. Now, he may have to return to prison.
"Today is surely one of the hardest days of Crosley Green's life, and though his faith keeps him strong, it is a terrible day for the American system of justice," said Keith J. Harrison, a partner at Crowell, which has fought for Green's release pro bono for the past 14 years.
Green and his lawyers will host an in-person press conference on Monday, Sept. 26., in Titusville, Fla. Members of the media, please RSVP via prteam@crowell.com. Please advise special requests in advance.
Press Conference (in-person for media)
12:30 pm ET, Sept. 26
Holiday Inn – Kennedy Space Center
4715 Helen Hauser Blvd, Titusville, FL 32780
Members of the public are invited to watch on Facebook Live:
https://www.facebook.com/crosleygreen/
Petition to Supreme Court
The Crowell team will petition the U.S. Supreme Court for writ of certiorari, asking the high court to consider the potential national implications of Green's case, which goes to the heart of how prosecutors must handle evidence in criminal cases. They will also ask the Middle District of Florida to keep Green free as they petition his case to the Supreme Court.
Green served 32 years for the murder, including 19 years on Florida's death row, even though no physical evidence tied him to the crime. In a 2018 landmark ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Roy B. Dalton found that Green's constitutional rights were violated when Brevard County, Fla., prosecutors withheld key exculpatory evidence of Green's innocence at his original trial. The court declared Green's conviction "unconstitutional" and ordered the state of Florida to set him free or grant him a new trial.
On April 7, 2021, Green was released on house arrest while his case was pending appeal. Since then, he has held a full-time job and spent time with his large extended family, including grandchildren he met for the first time upon his release.
In March 2022, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Green's victory, ruling in part that evidence of the prosecutor's misconduct was not introduced properly by prior counsel. Crowell lawyers petitioned for a re-hearing en banc—asking the same three-judge panel or the full 11-judge panel of the 11th Circuit to reconsider the decision. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed an amicus brief in support of Green, arguing that there are strong indications that this case was a racial hoax.
The 11th Circuit denied Green's petition for re-hearing on September 22, 2022.
"Mr. Green was denied justice on procedural grounds, not basis of the evidence. This is a case of actual innocence that could have a ripple effect throughout the Deep South and indeed the nation. The decision in Mr. Green's case encourages state prosecutors to violate constitutional rights in order to achieve a conviction and makes it difficult if not impossible for federal courts to grant justice," Harrison said.
"The 11th Circuit decision reinstates a clearly unconstitutional conviction and departs from long-standing requirements of prosecutors' duties to disclose favorable evidence under the Brady line of cases. What happened to Mr. Green was a constitutional violation of exceptional importance. The 11th Circuit panel got it wrong, and we will be petitioning the Supreme Court to reverse," Harrison said.
A Supreme Court decision to grant certiorari to Green would allow the high court to re-affirm that prosecutors may not hide evidence directly pointing to a defendant's innocence, and therefore impact how prosecutors handle evidence of all crimes in the future.
For more information on the case, visit the firm's Crosley Green information page.
About Crowell & Moring LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia that represents clients in litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and transactional and corporate matters. The firm is internationally recognized for its representation of Fortune 500 companies in high-stakes litigation and government-facing matters, as well as its ongoing commitment to pro bono service and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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‘She will be missed’: Family remembers 21-year-old found dead in burned-out car
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - The family and friends of a 21-year-old woman who was found dead in a burned-out car in Hawaii are celebrating her life before laying her to rest Saturday.
Luau Jordan Laulusa was an enlisted soldier who served as a supply specialist with the Hawaii National Guard.
KHNL spoke to her uncle, Sasoa Feagai, who said the family’s focus is to lay her to rest.
“We just remember the good things about Jordan,” Feagai said. “She’s a very beautiful young woman and very loving to her family and friends and she will be missed.”
On March 13, Laulusa’s body was found in a burned car on the Mililani High School campus.
According to court records, she was stabbed.
Police charged 25-year-old Samuel Jones with murder and arson in connection to the case.
Witnesses told authorities they saw Jones gathering items from the burning car before leaving the area, including a sharp object.
Feagai said Laulusa’s family is trying to think only about the good parts of her life. He said the support they have received from the community has been overwhelming and is helping them get through the tragedy.
“The whole family wants to thank the people that got involved early on with the case with the police department and fire department, all the people that did what they did, and the witnesses,” Feagai said. “All the good things that happened, that’s the only thing we focus on now. All the bad things, we just want to forget that.”
The family is holding a private celebration of life for Laulusa next weekend.
Jones remains behind bars on $1 million bail and is expected to enter a plea on the charges.
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Grieving parents believe stillborn baby’s remains were thrown away at funeral home
LODI, Calif. (KCRA) – A California couple is devastated after they say their baby’s remains were thrown away at a funeral home.
Mari Jo Planas and Everardo Munoz said their daughter, Amiliana-Rose Navarro Romero, was stillborn in June.
Her body was taken to the Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home. The couple told KCRA that Amiliana-Rose’s remains are missing, and they believe her body was thrown away while at the funeral home.
The funeral was supposed to be on Monday.
“I just want her,” Planas said, fighting back tears. “As a mom, you want to protect all your kids, and this is my first daughter, and I couldn’t even have her alive. Now, I couldn’t even have her as a whole.”
The baby’s body has still not been found – and Munoz said he is heartbroken he cannot lay her to rest yet.
“I don’t have her alive. I don’t even have her, like passed away, as her body,” Munoz said. “I don’t have anywhere to go to talk to her, to see her, and that’s the hardest thing is just I have nothing.”
The couple told KCRA they filed a police report with the Lodi Police Department. Late Sunday night, KCRA confirmed with the Lodi Police Department that they have “begun an active investigation into this case.”
Munoz said he wants answers, and he wants the funeral home to be held accountable.
“All we wanted was for her body to be respected and to be treated with care and for her to have her peace, that we could give her at least. And none of that happened at all,” Munoz said.
The Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home told KCRA they are cooperating with police. The funeral home said in a statement:
“Cherokee Memorial is aware of a situation that has arisen with a grieving family we are currently serving. We are working closely with the family to investigate and resolve the issue quickly.”
As the investigation continues, Planas and Munoz are clinging to the memory of their daughter. They keep a box inside their home, filled with everything from the hospital that reminds them of their her – including blankets and food wrappers. They are also holding onto a teddy bear that includes the sound of their baby’s first heartbeat.
“I don’t wish upon this pain for anyone else, because no one should be going through this pain like this,” Planas said.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) Project announced that Robert Bosch GmbH and XPENG Motors have joined the project, marking its commitment to Linux and its effective use in safety-critical applications in connected cars. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, ELISA is an open source initiative that aims to create a shared set of tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications and systems.
Bosch is one of the world's leading automotive suppliers. Bosch solutions combine automotive software know-how across all domains with expertise in electrical/electronic architecture of large integrated systems, complex real-time software, IoT, and automotive hardware. Their middleware offers functional safety, real-time behavior, and reliability under automotive requirements, combined with cyber-security. The Bosch experience and formal membership in ELISA fits well within the project goals and mission.
"Increasing product complexity and driving requirements in various areas of the software defined vehicle towards mixed-critical workloads requires thinking and going new ways to widen traditional approaches of systems engineering. Due to Bosch's existing expertise in Linux and functional safety, the formal membership of Bosch within the ELISA project is a logical and consequent step," said Philipp Ahmann, Business Development Manager - Embedded Open Source, Cross-Domain Computing Solutions at Robert Bosch GmbH. "The enthusiastic collaboration between functional safety experts combined with the recent excellent contributions from Linux experts are adding the value and momentum needed to enable Linux in safety applications and to make ELISA a success story."
Earlier this month, Philipp Ahmann was nominated and elected as the new Chair of the ELISA Project Technical Steering Committee (TSC). He has been involved in the ELISA Project since May 2019 as an ambassador and member of the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) who has written blogs and given presentations in various Linux Foundation conferences and industry shows.
Philipp Ahmann steps into this role after TSC Chair Shuah Khan, Linux Fellow and Kernel Maintainer at The Linux Foundation, who has helped build the technical governance of the project and advance its mission and goals for more than two years. She will continue to contribute to the ELISA by helping Philipp Ahmann in his TSC role and supporting the working group leads.
"Philipp has made vast contributions during his time with the ELISA Project," said Shuah Khan. "Since the day he joined the community, he's been actively involved and has led the Automotive Working Group to real-world use cases like tell tales. His leadership will play an important role in setting up priorities and in providing guidance to the project. We are very excited about this next step in our evolution as an open source project setting the standard for safety-critical applications."
Linux is used in all major industries because it can enable faster time to market for new features and take advantage of the quality of the code development processes. Launched in February 2019, ELISA works with Linux kernel and safety communities to agree on what should be considered when Linux is used in safety-critical systems. The project has several dedicated working groups that focus on providing resources for system integrators to apply and use to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively on their systems.
ELISA is open to everyone. Anyone can develop and contribute code, get elected to the Technical Steering Committee, or help steer the project forward in any number of ways. Developers who are elected to the Technical Steering Committee or who participate as project leaders will provide leadership regarding the technical direction.
XPENG Motors, a leading Chinese smart EV company with hubs in China, the United States, and Europe, was founded in 2014 with a belief that technology is bound to transform the future of mobility.
"We are a technology company at heart. By addressing the needs of our customers with our expertise, we can solve the complicated questions in unchartered territory," said Yu Peng, Embedded Systems General Manager at XPENG Motors. "We recognize the crucial and diverse role mobility plays in people's lives, and aspire to expand future mobility through intelligent revolution, from the road to the air."
"We joined ELISA because we wanted to get more technology and experience in improving the functional safety and stability of Linux-based system software. Through communications and participation, we hope the ELISA Project helps us to make products safer and more reliable," said Peng.
Other ELISA Project members include ADIT, AISIN AW CO., Arm, Automotive Grade Linux, Automotive Intelligence and Control of China, Banma, Boeing, BMW Car IT GmbH, Codethink, Elektrobit, Horizon Robotics, Huawei Technologies, Intel, Lotus Cars, Toyota, Kuka, Linuxtronix. Mentor, NVIDIA, SUSE, Suzuki, Wind River, OTH Regensburg, Toyota and ZTE.
ELISA Presentations
The ELISA Project will be represented at Open Source Summit Japan, hosted on December 5-6 in Yokohama, Japan, and virtually. Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation, will give a keynote address titled "Japan's Critical Infrastructure – Open Source Evolution," on Tuesday, December 6 that will feature ELISA and a few other open source projects. On Wednesday, December 7, there will be an ELISA Mini-Summit that will offer a deep dive into the mission of the project and activities of the various working groups. There is a $10 fee when adding the ELISA Summit to the Open Source Summit Japan registration. Learn more about the conference or register here.
Other presentations this year include:
- ELISA Summit - Hosted virtually on September 7-8, this event included speakers from Aptiv Services Deutschland GmbH, Boeing, Codethink, The Linux Foundation, Mobileye, Red Hat and Robert Bosch GmbH. Watch the videos here.
- Open Source Summit Europe - Hosted in-person in Dublin on September 13-16, ELISA had two dedicated presentations about enabling safety in safety-critical applications and safety and open source software. Watch the videos here.
For more information about ELISA, visit https://elisa.tech/.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 3,000 members. The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, Hyperledger, RISC-V, PyTorch, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jackson State University generated two back-to-back winning weekends for the city of Jackson as the university celebrated its 2022 Homecoming and BoomBox Classic football home games. Visit Jackson officials estimate an economic impact to the city of $8.9 million and $4.4 million respectively for the JSU events.
"As the largest university in the city of Jackson and the state's only urban research institution, we are excited that Jackson State University can contribute to the economic engine within our local community and the surrounding areas in such a meaningful way," said President Thomas K. Hudson, J.D. "The past two weeks were not only a win for JSU football and our students, faculty and staff, but also a win for the region. This is a great example of what can be accomplished when city, state and institutional leadership works together to show our visiting guests what Southern hospitality is all about."
Adding to the festivities, JSU was selected to host the week 9 broadcast of ESPN's College GameDay live show, becoming the second on-campus HBCU visit for the organization. Fans arrived as early at 4 a.m. to get a prime spot for the popular show. Colorful and humorous signs filled the air as the Jackson State and Southern University marching bands and cheerleaders took turns entertaining the crowd. ESPN released statistics indicating more than 1.8 million viewers tuned into the show and 2.8 million viewers watched the final hour of the show, making the visit to "Thee I Love" the show's best 9-week start since 2009.
"It was an honor to get the call to host College Gameday and to continue to shine a spotlight on the great work that Coach Prime is doing with our young men," said Vice President and Athletics Director Ashley Robinson. "The response from the Jackson community and our visiting guests has been overwhelming. Being featured was a great opportunity to pique the curiosity of those who want to know what makes Jackson State one of America's premiere institutions."
Although JSU's regular home season has ended, there is the possibility that the school may host the SWAC Championship at the end of November. If JSU is selected to serve as the host location, tickets will become available at www.GoJSUTigers.com.
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Turkey’s parliament ratifies Finland’s membership in NATO
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament on Thursday ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.
All 276 lawmakers present voted in favor of Finland’s bid, days after Hungary’s parliament also endorsed Helsinki’s accession.
Alarmed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Finland and Sweden abandoned their decades-long policy of nonalignment and applied to join the alliance.
Full unanimity is required to admit new members into the 30-member alliance, and Turkey and Hungary were the last two NATO members to ratify Finland’s accession.
Sweden’s bid to join the alliance, meanwhile, has been left hanging, with both Turkey and Hungary holding out on giving it the green light despite expressing support for NATO’s expansion.
Turkey’s government accuses Sweden of being too lenient toward groups it deems to be terrorist organizations and security threats, including militant Kurdish groups and people associated with a 2016 coup attempt.
More recently, Turkey was angered by a series of demonstrations in Sweden, including a protest by an anti-Islam activist who burned the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy.
Hungary’s government contends some Swedish politicians have made derisive statements about the condition of Hungary’s democracy and played an active role in ensuring that billions in European Union funds were frozen over alleged rule-of-law and democracy violations.
Turkish officials have said that unlike Sweden, Finland fulfilled its obligations under a memorandum signed last year under which the two countries pledged to address Turkey’s security concerns.
“As a NATO member, we naturally had some expectations and requests regarding the security concerns of our country,” Akif Cagatay Kilic, a legislator from Erdogan’s governing party, told parliament before the vote. “I would like to underline the concrete steps and their implementation by Finland, which supported and shaped the decision we are taking here.”
Kilic added: “I’m aware that there is a large number of people watching us from Finland. … We can say to them: ‘Welcome to NATO.’”
Some opposition parties were critical of the Turkish government’s position toward the two Nordic countries.
“Unfortunately, (Erdogan’s ruling party) turned the right to veto Finland and Sweden’s membership bids into a tool for blackmail and threat. We do not approve of it,” said Hisyar Ozsoy, a legislator from the pro-Kurdish party. “We find the bargaining process (to press for) the extradition of Kurdish dissident writers, politicians and journalists … to be ugly, wrong and unlawful.”
Asked earlier this week about Sweden’s NATO membership, Erdogan told reporters: “There are certain things we expect of them. They must be fulfilled first.”
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The Rockefeller Foundation to Present Energy Transition and Access Solutions at CERAWeek 2023
Published: Mar. 6, 2023 at 2:46 PM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
HOUSTON, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation, Ashvin Dayal, Senior Vice President of Power & Climate, and Eileen O'Connor, Senior Vice President of Communications, Policy, and Advocacy, will travel to Houston, Texas, to join more than 900 global leaders at CERAWeek by S&P Global 2023. During the conference, themed: Navigating a Turbulent World: Energy, Climate and Security, the three will discuss challenges and breakthrough opportunities related to accelerating just energy transitions, expanding energy access, and ending energy poverty. In addition, Dr. Shah will participate in a conversation on addressing climate change in the developing world at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
"If humanity continues with business as usual, the world is on track to warm by about 3 degrees Celsius, at which temperature life for far too many people will be harsher, poorer, and more fragile," said Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. "I look forward to speaking in Houston about how The Rockefeller Foundation is working with partners around the world to scale innovative technologies, and identify new ways to mobilize financing, to both avert climate catastrophe and improve the lives of millions of underrepresented people around the world."
Alongside the engagement at Rice University, Dr. Shah, Ms. O'Connor, and Mr. Dayal will talk about The Rockefeller Foundation's efforts to advance just energy transitions in emerging and developing countries via the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). A year after its official launch, GEAPP released early results of its efforts in its 12 partner countries during COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The $500 million that The Rockefeller Foundation committed to GEAPP is the single largest investment in The Rockefeller Foundation's $22-billion, 109-year giving history.
About The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We work to promote the well-being of humanity and make opportunity universal and sustainable. Our focus is on scaling renewable energy for all, stimulating economic mobility, and ensuring equitable access to health care and nutritious food. For more information, sign up for our newsletter at rockefellerfoundation.org and follow us on Twitter @RockefellerFdn.
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Version 23.2 includes more powerful tools to drive direct lead conversion in its immersive sales and marketing platform
TAMPA, Fla., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Threshold 360, a trusted sales platform provider that features immersive virtual tour technology, announces the general availability of its latest release, 23.2. Boasting an array of powerful sales and analytic capabilities, 23.2 represents a significant leap forward for the company. After extensive field testing, 23.2 is now ready to serve organizations of all sizes across industries, including travel and tourism, hospitality, and the senior living industries, among others.
The 23.2 release improves the way businesses engage with their customers. Enhanced with an upgraded 360° viewer, innovative call-to-action functions, and advanced analytics to track campaign effectiveness, this release empowers businesses dependent on in-person traffic to convert online views into in-person visits and tours.
"Threshold 360 provides our partners with the advantage they require. It lets visitors, conference planners, sports organizers, and the community discover their ideal place," said Vimal Vyas, Vice President of Data, Security, and Digital Innovation for Greater Raleigh CVB. "With their most recent virtual tour technology and analytics release, Threshold360 continues to develop enterprise-level products, with faster loading visual content that is clear, sharp, and vivid."
By harnessing the power of 23.2, Threshold 360 customers gain valuable insights through intuitive data dashboards. The new viewer and analytics system features tagging at the campaign, per-session, source, and metadata levels. With this tagging, customer dashboards unveil the story behind tour viewership, revealing who is engaging with specific tours or landing pages.
"The upgraded user interface 23.2 allows us to dynamically tweak the spec requirements so it is configured for the differently sized templates across our website," said Lee Prutsman, Marketing Manager for Visit KC. "Using the new reporting and analytics features, we're able to tag and track tours to monitor the levels of engagement for locations with multiple website integrations."
"Our goal with this release is to provide our customers with tools that minimize conversion friction through enhanced analytics and call-to-action features that ultimately convert online viewers into in-person visitors," said Jesse Taylor, VP of Engineering at Threshold 360. "The improved analytics give actionable insights to enable our customers to effectively manage their virtual tours, and maximize their reach, engagement, and conversions."
With the general availability of 23.2, Threshold 360 solidifies its position as an industry leader in delivering immersive experiences that drive tangible business outcomes. The company remains committed to empowering organizations in the hospitality, senior living, and tourism sectors to thrive in an increasingly digital landscape.
About Threshold 360
Threshold 360 is the leading virtual tour platform for the hospitality and tourism industry. With a library of over 100,000 locations and over 1 billion views, Threshold 360's immersive virtual experiences increase lead conversion rates, viewer engagement, and drive business growth for its customers.
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