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FEATURING NEW SURPRISES FOR FIVE SPECIAL PERFORMANCES AT
THE JIM HENSON COMPANY'S HISTORIC HOLLYWOOD SOUNDSTAGE
AUGUST 12-14, 2022
Tickets On Sale Now for Upcoming Performances of
Acclaimed Live Comedy Show from Henson Alternative
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Henson Alternative's Puppet Up! – Uncensored returns for an outrageous summer weekend for five performances only of adult comedy, puppet mayhem, and new surprises on The Jim Henson Company's historic lot in Hollywood. Tickets to the not-to-be-missed production are on sale now: Friday, August 12th at 8pm, Saturday, August 13th at 5pm & 9pm and Sunday, August 14th at 3pm & 7pm.
Created by award-winning director and producer Brian Henson (Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island), and actor, director, and improv expert Patrick Bristow (Ellen, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Whose Line Is It Anyway?), Puppet Up! – Uncensored is never the same show twice, effortlessly blending increasingly unhinged feats of improv comedy with the unparalleled skill and originality of Henson puppeteers. Based on suggestions from the audience, the puppet anarchy – starring the unforgettable Miskreant puppets - is two shows in one: the improvised puppet action projected live on screens above the stage, and the puppeteers racing around below in full view of the audience to bring it all to life. These five performances will also feature new interpretations of classic sketches originally created by Jim Henson that will be making their Puppet Up! – Uncensored debut.
Available tickets include General Admission ($60) and VIP tickets ($150; includes priority seating, a souvenir, and a 90-minute preshow experience with a tour and question & answer with Brian Henson). A limited amount of advance purchase parking is also available for $15.00. Doors open and full cash bar will be available starting an hour before the show. Puppet Up! – Uncensored is not recommended for anyone under 16 and anyone under 14 will not be admitted.
Puppet Up! – Uncensored is following all local health and safety protocols. Vaccination is appreciated but guests will not have to provide proof of vaccination. Face masks and social distancing are strongly encouraged.
Henson Alternative is The Jim Henson Company's label for content created specifically and exclusively for adult audiences. In 1955, Jim Henson's first television production "Sam & Friends" appeared on late-night television as a lead-in to "The Tonight Show," establishing a standard in the Company's work for irreverent, creative, comedy projects that spoke to adults. Appearances on "The Jimmy Dean Show," "The Ed Sullivan Show," and "Saturday Night Live," as well as numerous short films for clients like IBM and AT&T, proved that Henson puppetry was not limited to children. Today, Henson Alternative continues to produce and develop projects for this audience. Credits include "The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell" (Netflix), "The Happytime Murders" (STX), "No, You Shut Up!" (Fusion), "Neil's Puppet Dreams" (Nerdist), "Tinseltown" (Logo), and "Puppet Up! – Uncensored" (a live puppet improvisational show named one of the top 10 "Best Stage Shows" by Entertainment Weekly).
The Miskreant Puppets are the motley troupe of puppets featured in many Henson Alternative productions like "The Happytime Murders," "Puppet Up! – Uncensored," and "No, You Shut Up!" as well as Coldplay's recent music video "Biutyful."
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New Zealand is spending $4 million to help teens recover from breakups
By Tara Subramaniam, CNN
New Zealand thinks it’s time for its teenagers to say “thank u, next” to their exes and they’re spending millions to make it happen.
The Love Better campaign, launched Wednesday, will receive $4 million (NZ$ 6.4 million) over three years from the Ministry of Social Development to help teens recover from breakups and minimize harm in their relationships, CNN affiliate RNZ reported.
The campaign is being driven by New Zealand’s youth and what the government says they’ve identified as one of their key issues.
“Over 1,200 young kiwis told us they need support to deal with early experiences of love and hurt, and breakups were identified as a common challenge,” Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment Priyanca Radhakrishnan said in a statement.
“Breakups suck,” a promotional video for the campaign declares. The video features clips of teens talking about needing to block their exes and move on from their past relationships, with one saying: “This is getting ridiculous. This is getting so out of hand. I need to sleep at night. I need to get over her.”
Part of the campaign — which uses the tagline “own the feels” — includes a dedicated phone, text or email helpline for young people going through a breakup, run by Youthline, an organization dedicated to supporting people ages 12 to 24. Youthline is receiving a portion of the $4 million to support this expansion of its existing helpline service.
“This is an authentic way to inspire others to build their own strength, self-worth, and resilience,” Radhakrishnan said in the statement, noting the Love Better campaign’s approach leveraging social media and creating a community to address the impact of breakups has not been tried before.
“We know there can be very negative impacts from breakups done badly — both at a personal and community level,” Youthline’s chief executive Shae Ronald said, adding that relationship issues were one of the top reasons young people generally contacted the helpline, RNZ reported.
According to the Ministry of Social Development, a survey of 1,200 young New Zealanders found that 68% had experienced something bad “beyond the ‘normal’ hurt of breaking up.”
Radhakrishnan said the goal of the campaign is to support young people through “these formative experiences” in hopes of positively impacting how they approach future relationships.
The Love Better campaign is part of the government’s broader national strategy to eliminate family violence and sexual violence.
“New Zealand has shameful statistics of family and sexual violence and we need innovative approaches to break the cycle,” Radhakrishnan added.
According to the Ministry of Justice, each year, the New Zealand Police investigate more than 100,000 incidents of family violence.
In 2020, police received 9,723 reports of sexual violence and about half of the people who reported a sexual violence offense in New Zealand were under age 18 at the time of the incident, according to the Ministry of Justice.
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DENVER (AP) — A mentally ill man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 could become well enough to stand trial if he is forcibly given anti-psychotic medication, a prison psychologist and psychiatrist said Tuesday.
During a federal court hearing in Denver which Robert Dear interrupted proceedings several times with outbursts, psychologist Lea Ann Preston Baecht testified that there was a substantial likelihood medication would be able to treat his delusional disorder to a point where he would be able to participate in his case and help his defense, even if it did not completely get rid of his delusions.
Neither Preston Bacht nor Dr. Robert Sarrazin, who worked with her to evaluate Dear, 64, at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri, thought psychotherapy alone would help Dear. Preston Bacht said Dear, 64, does not have an understanding of his illness, which she said is mainly marked by beliefs of being persecuted by others, including former President Barack Obama and the FBI.
“I don’t believe there is a less intrusive option in Mr. Dear’s case,” Preston Baecht said.
Dear responded by shouting “Marijuana,” one of many comments from him during the hearing.
When Preston Baecht said she did not think there would be any side effects from the medication that would make him incompetent to stand trial or communicate with his attorneys, Dear said loudly, “Bull—-t.”
“This is my brain at stake. They want to turn me into a zombie,” he said, prompting Judge Robert E. Blackburn to issue another warning to be quiet or risk being removed from the hearing.
Previously in court, Dear has declared himself a “warrior of the babies” and said he was guilty. He made other similar statements during Tuesday’s hearing, such as “I’m glad I did what I did. Total success.” At the end of the day as he was being led out of the courtroom by U.S. Marshals, he shouted at the judge “I had a right to take the stand, you bastard. Go to hell.”
The hearing was set to continue Wednesday, when Dear’s lawyers are expected to present their case. In questioning Sarrazin, federal public defender Natalie Stricklin stressed that the anti-psychotic medication proposed for Dear could cause side effects that would aggravate Dear’s existing health problems including high blood pressure and high cholesterol, which Dear has refused medication for.
Sarrazin said Dear could also be forced to take drugs to treat those health problems as part of his forcible medication for his delusions and blood could also be drawn from Dear against his will for laboratory tests to monitor his overall health. However, he acknowledged that it would be difficult to force him to submit to an electrocardigram to check the condition of of his heart since it would require him to be still.
Dear’s prosecution in state court and then federal court for the attack on the clinic in Colorado Springs has been stalled because he has been repeatedly found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial. Federal prosecutors are asking Blackburn to order that Dear be given medication against his will.
According to medical records cited by prosecutors, Dear said he had a heart attack after being forcibly medicated while at the state hospital in Colorado but Sarrazin said there was nothing to back that up in the records.
Dear was forcibly given medication over the course of about several days during a stay at Colorado’s state mental hospital, not long enough to determine if it was effective, Preston Baecht said.
Preston Baecht said she was recommending medication for Dear based on her experience as a psychologist and studies that have done been on prisoners given medication for delusional disorder.
While being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Beck, Preston Baecht acknowledged that delusional disorder is relatively rare and not much research has been done on its treatment as a result.
According to state court documents, Dear told police he attacked the clinic because he was upset with Planned Parenthood for “the selling of baby parts.”
Federal prosecutors allege that Dear intended to wage “war” against the clinic because it offered abortion services, arming himself with four semi-automatic SKS rifles, five handguns, two other rifles, a shotgun, propane tanks and 500 rounds of ammunition. He allegedly began shooting outside the clinic before getting inside by shooting his way through a door, according to his federal indictment. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/ap-medication-recommended-for-colorado-clinic-shooting-suspect/ | 2022-08-31 20:04:46 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/ap-medication-recommended-for-colorado-clinic-shooting-suspect/ |
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Helen L. Simek
Helen L. Simek, age 93 of Belton, passed from this life Sunday, November 20, 2022, at Park Place Manor Rehabilitation and Health Care Facility. Graveside services will be held at 11 am Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at Seaton Cemetery.
Helen was born on June 26, 1929, to Leslie William and Hazel Dale (McDermit) Heller in Millett, Texas. She loved working in the yard and was very good at crochet. She crocheted all of her clothes hangers. She also loved her fur babies, Chloe and Baleigh. She referred to them as her “girls”. She will be greatly missed.
Helen is preceded in death by her parents; son, David Leslie Simek; sister, Ruthie Pitts; and brothers, Bill Heller and Louis Heller.
Those left to honor and cherish her memory are her daughter, Sherry Starling and husband, A.C.; grandchildren, Justin Starling and wife, Erin, and Brandi Labelle and husband, Pierre; step grandson, Jeff Starling and wife, Robin; great grandchildren, Emmalyn Starling, and Easton Starling; step great grandchildren, Macy Tripp Starling, Ellana Odette, Alexis Starling, and Tyler Starling and wife, Samantha; and step great great grandchildren, Ava Starling, and Cooper Starling.
The family wishes to express a special thank you to Park Place Manor, Gentiva Hospice, and to Susan Monroe.
A time of visitation will be held from 5-7 pm Monday, November 28, 2022, at Harper-Talasek Funeral Home in Temple.
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Barbados spearheads push on climate disaster financing
By KELVIN CHAN
AP Business Writer
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — At the U.N. climate summit in Egypt, leaders of developing nations have repeatedly said it’s not fair to expect them to cover the costs of rebuilding from devastating weather events in a warming world, plus invest in cleaner industry while they also pay much higher interest rates on loans than rich nations.
A plan put forward by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley would overhaul the way much of development lending works. It is also giving voice to developing nations struggling under rising debt from climate damage.
“We were the ones whose blood, sweat, and tears financed the Industrial Revolution,” Mottley said in a scathing address. “Are we now to face double jeopardy by having to pay the cost as a result of those greenhouse gases from the Industrial Revolution?”
Debt has been growing in developing countries, sapping funds for education, health and clean energy. Much of the increase in debt in some Caribbean countries is related to extreme storms, Mottley said in a recent essay. The plan would make it easier for countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and Asia to get funds to beef up defenses against warming and put off debt payments when disasters strike.
Here’s a look at the Barbados plan, dubbed the Bridgetown Initiative for the island nation’s capital. Advocates say it could be a pathway to unlocking $1 trillion in climate financing.
THE BIG IDEA
The plan calls for special loan clauses that allow for suspending payments when a country is hit by a natural disaster or pandemic. That would immediately free up millions of dollars for governments to spend on relief and rebuilding. Barbados has been a pioneer in such clauses, last month issuing its first sovereign bond with a provision allowing for payments to creditors to be deferred for up to two years if the country experiences a “pre-defined natural disaster.”
The initiative includes a push to expand lending by international development banks such as the World Bank. The bank and its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, were set up after the Second World War with the aim of financing reconstruction and reducing poverty. The power of rich countries such as the United States and Germany is built into the institutions. But the World Bank in particular has been criticized for being too risk averse in lending. The Barbados plan would change risk ratings, crucially lowering interest rates.
Another idea is setting up a Climate Mitigation Trust backed by $500 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights, dues that member countries pay in to the IMF that can be drawn in times of crisis. Much of it is held by countries that don’t need it, said Avinash Persaud, Mottley’s special envoy for climate. The trust could be used to borrow a further $500 billion from the private sector that could be lent out at low rates for investment in big climate mitigation infrastructure projects. Up to $5 trillion in private financing could be unlocked this way, the plan’s architects say.
Other proposals include a levy on fossil fuel production or an international carbon border tax.
CREDITWORTHY
Mottley’s plan takes aim at a central problem: Poorer nations face much steeper borrowing costs.
When most wealthy countries borrow money, they pay 1 to 4% in interest, while countries in the so-called Global South face rates of 12-14%, Mottley told reporters.
“You begin to see the disparity,” Mottley said. “The system is broken.”
Following World War II, she said, victorious Allied nations agreed to cap Germany’s debt costs so that it could rebuild. Britain refinanced its First World War debt, paying off the last of it only in 2014.
“We are simply saying in the developing world that we also need the space to be able to finance our development in the case of climate,” Mottley said. Wealthy nations account for four fifths of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Hanan Morsy, chief economist at the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, told The Associated Press that a number of the Bridgetown Initiative’s ideas also have been advanced by African finance ministers. He pointed out another financial inequity: The green bond market which helps finance environmental projects has reached $500 billion, but only one percent reaches Africa.
RICH NATIONS
Mottley first unveiled her idea at the COP26 meeting a year ago in Glasgow, Scotland. Over the summer she and Persaud convened economists, other academics and civil society groups to work on it.
Now, she said, momentum for her ideas is gathering.
French president Emmanuel Macron was the first leader from a rich country to give his backing.
“We need a huge financial shock of concessional financing,” Macron said in a speech at the opening of COP27. “We must change the rules, the rules of our major international banks, the development banks, the IMF and the World Bank,” he said. “We can’t wait for the next COP.”
To support Mottley’s plan, “a group of wise minds at the highest level” has been set up, tasked with drawing up climate financing solutions by spring 2023, when the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund hold their annual meetings, Macron said.
As climate-amped disasters ratchet up the suffering, the staid international system for finance designed for an earlier age may be on the brink of change, driven by those on the front lines.
Germany, the World Bank’s fourth largest shareholder, has been among those pushing for “fundamental reform,” including “climate lending on better terms.” Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen said multilateral development banks need to “evolve” and move beyond their traditional work of poverty reduction to tackle climate and other complex global challenges.
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Wanjohi Kabukuru contributed to this report.
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Extra Space Storage Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: EXR) announced today it will release financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 after the market closes. The Company will host a conference call at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 to discuss its financial results. Hosting the call will be Extra Space Storage's CEO, Joe Margolis. Joining him will be Scott Stubbs, Executive Vice President and CFO.
During the conference call, company officers will review operating performance, discuss recent events, and conduct a question-and-answer period. The question-and-answer period will be limited to registered financial analysts. All other participants will have listen-only capability.
A live webcast of the conference call will be available online from the investor relations page of the Company's corporate website at www.extraspace.com. Telephone participants may avoid any delays in joining the conference call by pre-registering for the call using the following link to receive a special dial-in number and PIN: https://register.vevent.com/register/BI2bb007ca412e407b82c93299102763ba.
The conference call will also be available on the Company's website under Investor Relations at www.extraspace.com. To listen to a live broadcast, go to the site at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time in order to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
A replay of the webcast will be available on the Extra Space Storage Investor Relations website beginning August 3, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. ET, and will remain available for 30 days after the call.
The full text of the earnings report and supplemental data will be available at the Company's website at http://ir.extraspace.com immediately following the earnings release to the wire services after the market close on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, and a member of the S&P 500. As of March 31, 2022, the Company owned and/or operated 2,130 self-storage properties, which comprise approximately 1.5 million units and approximately 164.2 million square feet of rentable storage space offering customers conveniently located and secure storage units across the country, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage. The Company is the second largest owner and/or operator of self-storage properties in the United States and is the largest self-storage management company in the United States.
For more information, please visit www.extraspace.com.
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House Judiciary Chair proposes budget cuts to FBI and Justice Department
By Annie Grayer, CNN
(CNN) — House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio is calling on Congress to stop funding Department of Justice investigations into elected officials, political candidates and their families until a new policy for how they are managed is developed.
The a far-fetched ask from a key Donald Trump ally would indirectly vault the federal investigations of the former president into an already messy spending fight.
In a letter to House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, Jordan, who has used his powerful position as committee chairman to criticize the DOJ for its investigations into former President Donald Trump, is calling on Congress to stop funding what he describes as “politically sensitive” investigations until the DOJ “establishes a policy requiring non-partisan career staff to oversee such investigations.”
Jordan classified politically sensitive investigations as those that target “elected officials and their family members, political candidates and their family members, political organizations, religious organizations, and members of the media.”
The letter from Jordan to Granger obtained by CNN comes after Jordan deployed his staff to work with Granger’s team behind the scenes for months and builds on momentum from House Republicans who have vowed to limit funding to the FBI and DOJ.
Beyond political investigations, Jordan laid out a series of dramatic budget cuts and policy changes to federal law enforcement agencies that he wants to see incorporated into this year’s spending bills, making the divisive issue over whether to defund or restrict the Department of Justice and FBI a central question House Republicans will have to answer as they try to fund the government by September 30.
Regarding the FBI specifically, Jordan wrote, “We recommend that the appropriations bills eliminate any funding for the FBI that is not absolutely essential for the agency to execute its mission.”
That target includes prohibiting funding for a new FBI headquarters in the Washington DC area. Instead, Jordan is asking the Appropriations panel to submit an operational plan to move the headquarters and to consider Huntsville, Alabama as a relocation option.
In a statement, the FBI said, “The fiscal year (FY) 2024 President’s Budget includes mission critical resources to equip the FBI to address persistent and evolving threats. Any reductions to the FBI’s budget would be detrimental to the support the FBI provides to the American people.”
The Ohio Republican, who also chairs an entire subcommittee dedicated to investigating assertions that the FBI and DOJ have become increasingly weaponized against conservatives in recent years, is also seeking revenge on behalf of the individuals who have served as his FBI whistleblowers by calling on the House Appropriations panel to cancel the salaries of any DOJ or FBI employees who have retaliated against a whistleblower. There are already laws in place that protect whistleblowers against retaliation. The first of Jordan’s whistleblowers who sat for closed-door interviews with the subcommittee earlier this year, including two of the whistleblowers who testified at a hearing in May, became an early flashpoint in the panel’s investigation, with Democrats raising questions about their legitimacy as whistleblowers and the credibility of their testimony.
Jordan is also trying to use the power of the purse to help enforce his oversight efforts by requesting funds to a DOJ immigration court be frozen until he gets answers about the termination of immigration judges. Last year, Jordan launched an investigation into whether the Biden administration terminated federal immigration judges and replaced them with more progressive ones.
His proposals even target the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for its use of stabilizing braces, which has long faced backlash from Republicans, reprise attacks on the Biden administration’s response to school board threats in and list a number of cuts related to the Department of Homeland Security.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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Biden unveils LGBTQ+ initiatives ahead of Pride Month celebration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has invited thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals to celebrate Pride Month on Thursday in a high-profile show of support at a time when the community feels under attack like never before and the White House has little recourse to beat back a flood of state-level legislation against them.
Biden announced new initiatives to protect LGBTQ+ communities from attacks, help youths with mental health resources and homelessness and counter book bans, though the impacts may be limited.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White House press secretary, said Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses are strong supporters of the LGBTQ+ community and think that having a celebration is an important way to “lift up” their accomplishments and contributions.
She said LGBTQ+ people need to know that Biden “has their back” and “will continue to fight for them. And that’s the message that we want to make sure that gets out there.”
The White House was closely monitoring air quality due to hazardous smoke from Canadian wildfires to determine whether to proceed with plans for a Thursday night picnic featuring food, games, face painting and photos. Queen HD the DJ was handling the music; singer Betty Who was on tap to perform. The nation’s capital was under a “code purple” air quality alert, the fifth-highest level on the six-level U.S. air quality index, with authorities recommending that all people limit their exposure to smoke, and District of Columbia schools canceled all outdoor activities for a second day Thursday.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer individuals, earlier this week declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ individuals in the United States and released a guidebook outlining laws it deems discriminatory in each state.
Just a few days into June’s Pride Month, the campaign said it acted in response to an “unprecedented and dangerous” spike in discriminatory laws sweeping statehouses this year, with more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced and more than 70 signed into law so far — more than double last year’s number.
Kelley Robinson, the campaign’s president, called for a “swift and powerful” response by people in power, including in government, business and education.
“This is a full-out crisis for our communities that demands a concerted response,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think this is kind of a national call to action and a call to arms to stand up and fight back.”
Biden, a Democrat, announced that the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Justice and Health and Human Services departments, will partner with LGBTQ+ community organizations to provide safety resources and training to help thwart violent attacks.
Separately, HHS and the Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide resources to help LGBTQ+ young people with mental health needs, support in foster care and homelessness.
To confront a spike in book bans, the Department of Education’s civil rights office will appoint a new coordinator to work with schools to address that threat. The White House said banning books erodes democracy, deprives students of material needed for learning and can contribute to the stigma and isolation that LGBTQ+ youth feel because books about them are often the ones that are prohibited.
Hundreds of bills have been proposed restricting the rights of transgender people, including limiting their access to certain forms of health care, and LGBTQ+ advocates say they’ve seen a record number of such measures in statehouses.
The White House points to Biden’s support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals, including appointing them to prominent positions in the White House, such as Jean-Pierre, and across the federal government.
After the Supreme Court last year overturned a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, Biden signed legislation to protect marriage equality. He continues to urge Congress to send him the Equality Act, which would add civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ individuals to federal law.
Polls show public support for the rights of people who are gay and lesbian has expanded dramatically over the last two decades, with about 7 in 10 U.S. adults in polling by Gallup saying that marriages between same-sex adults should be legally valid and that gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable.
But attitudes toward transgender people are complex: In polls conducted in 2022 by KFF and the Washington Post and by the Pew Research Center, majorities said they support laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in areas such as housing, jobs and schools.
At the same time, both polls found that a majority of Americans think that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by sex assigned at birth, and many also support restrictive policies aimed at people who are transgender, for example preventing transgender women and girls from participating in sports teams matching their gender identity, along with restrictions on access to medical treatment like puberty blockers and hormone treatment for transgender teens and children.
The Log Cabin Republicans, which represents LGBTQ+ conservatives, criticized the Human Rights Campaign’s declaration of a “state of emergency” as a “PR stunt so ignorantly detached” from the community’s progress over the past decade.
Charles Moran, the group’s president, noted the gay marriage legislation Biden signed, increased public support for equal rights for LGBTQ+ Americans and their higher visibility across society and accused the campaign of “destructively redefining” support for these individuals around trans surgeries for minors, biological men competing in women’s sports, and sex and gender identity lessons in kindergarten.
“While these issues can be emotional and complex, they in no way pose an unprecedented ‘state of emergency’ to the LGBT community, which has persevered through far worse,” Moran said.
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Associated Press writers Emily Swanson in Washington and Hannah Schoenbaum in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority has blocked the registration of a legal advocacy group representing critics and opponents detained in Palestinian prisons, the group said Friday, a move condemned as the authority’s latest effort to stifle civil society in the occupied West Bank.
Without proper registration, the group, Lawyers for Justice, could lose access to its funds and be forced to close. The organization was told it had violated the law by engaging in non-profit work and accepting foreign aid despite being registered as a “civil corporation,” said director Mohannad Karaje. Palestinian security forces refused to renew the registration even though Lawyers for Justice has operated as a civil corporation without issue for years, he added.
The New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch on Thursday described the authority’s bureaucratic explanation as a thinly veiled attack on a group that has represented torture victims and helped document the self-rule government’s arbitrary arrests of critics to crush dissent.
“So long as the Palestinian Authority blocks groups from carrying out work focused on their abuses, their calls to safeguard Palestinian civil society and protect Palestinian rights will continue to ring hollow,” Human Rights Watch said.
A spokesperson for the Palestinian security services did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Karaje denounced the move as a sign of the authority’s increasingly autocratic rule and a warning for groups fighting abuses in the West Bank. He said Lawyers for Justice would appeal the decision.
“This is a very dangerous step, an attempt to control civil society and human rights groups trying to work in Palestine,” Karaje told The Associated Press. “We have no doubt this is because of our work.”
With peace talks frozen for over a decade, experts say the Palestinian Authority, which was set up nearly three decades ago as an interim administration to lead the Palestinians toward statehood, faces a crisis of legitimacy. Many Palestinians deride the authority, headed by 88-year-old Mahmoud Abbas, as a vehicle for collaboration with Israel. Abbas is now in his 19th year of what was meant to be a four-year term.
Last month, prominent Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki found that for the first time, a majority — 52% of Palestinians — believe that the collapse of the authority is in their best interest. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/palestinian-authority-blocks-registration-of-legal-aid-group/ | 2023-04-15 01:29:34 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/palestinian-authority-blocks-registration-of-legal-aid-group/ |
Halle Bailey calls Halle Berry an ‘angel,’ years after that ‘Little Mermaid’ casting confusion
By Dan Heching, CNN
(CNN) — Halle Bailey might be one of the biggest up-and-coming stars, but even she gets starstruck when it comes to a certain other Halle.
On Thursday’s episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark,” Bailey – who stars as Ariel in the new live-action “Little Mermaid” – discussed the moment she met Halle Berry at this year’s Oscars ceremony.
“She was so kind to me. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I love you!’ ” Bailey exclaimed to the cohosts. “She’s been always really supportive to me over social media, so we’ve had a few inbox interactions, but that was my first time meeting her. And she’s like, an angel.”
Those “inbox interactions” most surely stemmed from a well-documented mixup in 2019, when news of Bailey’s casting as the underwater Disney princess Ariel caused widespread confusion online – where many internet and social media users mistook Halle Bailey for Halle Berry.
“I can’t be the only person who saw news that ‘Halle Bailey is “The Little Mermaid”’ and got very confused because my mind misspelled her last name to make it read ‘Halle Berry is The Little Mermaid,”’ right?” one user tweeted in July of 2019, echoing the thoughts of many.
Ever the graceful Hollywood veteran, Oscar-winner Berry took to Twitter at the time to say, “In case you needed a reminder… Halles get it DONE. Congratulations @chloexhalle on this amazing opportunity, we can’t wait to see what you do!”
Bailey in turn responded, writing, “this means the world. happy to share names with you,” adding, “love you lots.”
The actress and singer reiterated that sentiment this week, saying on “Live,” “There’s no one else I would rather have a similar name to, because she’s so cool.”
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TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DocuPhase, a leading provider of Business Process Automation (BPA), accounting automation, and B2B payments software and solutions, announced the acquisition of Frevvo, a workflow automation company providing digital online web forms to capture and manage data. The addition of Frevvo's form and signature technologies further enhances the DocuPhase automation platform, which today offers data recognition (OCR), document management, workflow automation, accounting automation, and payment processing technologies to more than 1,000 customers.
Frevvo, founded in 2008, is a rapidly growing online forms and workflow automation solution serving various industries and businesses of all sizes. The company is well established within Higher Education intuitions and K-12 school districts for delivering automation solutions for student enrollment process, financial aid applications, transcript requests, and various other functions within registrars and student administration offices.
DocuPhase, backed by growth equity firm LoneTree, continues to invest in technology and the resources needed to serve growing market demand in automation software. "The lingering pandemic and rising business expenses on top of a competitive job market has forced businesses to reevaluate their back-office inefficiencies and find ways to operate remotely. For organizations, this means finding ways to transition from manual, paper-based processes to more modern automated systems." Said Matt Koven, Managing Partner at LoneTree. "The acquisition of Frevvo extends DocuPhase's platform solution capabilities, keeping us in position to meet the digital transformation needs of our customers and the market."
"Education is a market Docuphase has targeted for growth," said Dan Gaertner, CEO of DocuPhase. "Frevvo accelerates that strategy with a customer base that features an extensive list of the world's largest, most respected educational institutions. The simplicity of Frevvo's technology inherently creates new market opportunities." Dan Gaertner continued, "It can be as simple as an elementary school deploying a student field trip consent form online with a digital signature for parents or as robust to service a Fortune 500 company automating new vendors and invoice approvals for 15,000 invoices a month. DocuPhase plans to integrate their payment processing technology within Frevvo's digital forms allowing customers to collect payments on form submissions. Dan Gaertner concluded, "You'd be surprised how many parents still clip that $20.00 bill to a signed paper field trip form."
About DocuPhase: DocuPhase is the ultimate solution for companies looking to automate their business processes and provide unprecedented productivity. Founded in 2000 in Tampa Bay, Florida, DocuPhase specializes in automating bookkeeping processes, purchasing orders, sales orders, capturing invoices, approving payments, managing vendors, student, and employee onboarding, and other business processes.
For more information, please visit www.docuphase.com.
About LoneTree: LoneTree is a private, growth-oriented equity investment firm providing flexible financing, mergers & acquisitions, and operating support for leading companies in high-growth sectors. LoneTree invests between $10M - $50M per deal across selected sectors, including software, digital infrastructure, health IT/services, enterprise & consumer services, and financial tech/specialty finance.
For additional information, visit www.lonetreecap.com
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NextStep Arthropedix, a growing orthopedics company, has launched the first retractorless, assistantless, anterior hip approach eliminating soft tissue and bone injury caused by retractors.
AKRON, Ohio , July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NextStep Arthropedix, a growing orthopedic implants and procedures company, today announced the launch of The Preserve by NextStep, the first retractorless, assistantless, anterior hip approach eliminating soft tissue and bone injury caused by retractors.
The Preserve by NextStep is a revolutionary new hip replacement procedure. It decreases the number of assistants required for a procedure, improves operational efficiency, and ultimately maximizes surgical reproducibility.
The Preserve:
- Requires one less person in the operating room
- Eliminates soft tissue disruption from retractors
- Compatible with Athello table and competitors' direct anterior tables
Benefits of The Preserve include a decreased surgical footprint, less soft tissue and bony trauma, assistantless surgery, cost savings, and ASC-friendly in nature. Assistantless surgery means that The Preserve can be performed by a surgeon without an assistant. This offers the potential for decreased risk of infection, is a solution to widespread staffing issues, and allows for safe transition to an ASC setting.
The Preserve is performed using the NextStep "Helpi," a custom instrument created especially for the femur-first Preserve Technique. The Helpi has a rounded end which custom fits into the NextStep female broach, eliminating bone injuries. It has a blunt tip that reduces soft tissue injuries and is easily maneuverable enabling maximum exposure.
The Preserve technique was pioneered by Timothy Henderson, MD. Dr. Henderson explained its benefits, "My patients routinely can perform straight leg raises in the recovery room and walk out of the operating room without difficulty. The direct anterior retractorless technique which we've named The Preserve is a technique that allows us to perform direct anterior replacements without handheld retractors within the wound."
Dr. Henderson continued, "I recommend this process because it is extremely minimally invasive. By removing the retractors from the hip, you decrease soft tissue disruption or chance of injury to bone. All of those things add together for less pain post-operatively."
Randy Theken, Founder of NextStep Arthropedix, expressed his excitement over the procedure. "We are very excited to launch The Preserve. I'm proud of our team for coming together to develop a procedure that makes the lives of our surgeons easier and offers their patients a potentially quicker and less painful recovery."
About NextStep Arthropedix
NextStep Arthropedix is a division of the Akron, Ohio-based company, Theken. Its team is focused on the design and development of joint implants and procedures. The NextStep Arthropedix team combines successful industry experience with fresh ideas and new technologies to create a lasting impact on the lives of its surgeons and their patients. The company incorporates 3D-printing technology in its design and manufacturing processes and has formed several new divisions focused on medical ceramics, antimicrobials, and microelectronics.
In 2017, NextStep launched its flagship iNSitu™ Hip Systems and since has added several product lines: iNSitu™ Blade Hip System, iNSitu™ Cemented Stem, iNSitu™ Bipolar Hip System, iNSitu™ Multi-Hole 3D printed cup. In 2023, NextStep will launch two new products, a new collared hip stem system and kinematic knee system.
Learn more at https://www.nextsteparthropedix.com/.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar is to supply liquefied natural gas to Germany under a 15-year deal signed Tuesday as the European economic powerhouse scrambles to replace Russian gas supplies that have been cut during the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Officials gave no dollar value for the deal, which would begin in 2026. Under the agreement, Qatar would send up to 2 million tons of the gas to Germany through an under-construction terminal at Brunsbuettel.
The deal involves both Qatar Energy, the nation’s state-run firm, and ConocoPhillips, which has stakes in Qatar’s offshore natural gas field in the Persian Gulf that it shares with Iran.
As European countries have supported Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February, Moscow has slashed supplies of natural gas used to heat homes, generate electricity and power industry. That has created an energy crisis that is fueling inflation and increasing pressure on companies as prices have risen.
Germany, which got more than half its gas from Russia before the war, hasn’t received any gas from Russia since the end of August.
The country is building five liquefied natural gas terminals as a key part of its plan to replace Russian supplies, and the first are expected to go into service shortly. Much of Germany’s current gas supply comes from or via Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Germany’s drive to prevent a short-term energy crunch also includes temporarily reactivating old oil- and coal-fired power stations and extending the life of the country’s last three nuclear power plants, which were supposed to be switched off at the end of this year, until mid-April.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who is also responsible for energy, visited Qatar in March — about a month after Russia invaded Ukraine — as part of the government’s effort to diversify gas supplies. Chancellor Olaf Scholz was there in September.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BERKELEY, Calif., March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Regel Therapeutics, a next generation gene therapy company utilizing proprietary technology to develop clinical products modulating gene expression, today announced that Jordane Dimidschstein, Ph.D., co-founder and COO, will present Regel's technology and pipeline at the Dravet Conference Meeting 2023 in Madrid on March 23rd and will discuss how Regel's proprietary T3 platform (Targeted Therapeutic Technology) is being leveraged to develop RT101, a novel therapeutics approach for the treatment of Dravet Syndrome. Dr. Dimidscshtein will also attend the European DS Advanced Therapies Meeting on March 24th 2023.
"We are encouraged by the significant progress we made on the development of our proprietary technology and pipeline," says Navneet Matharu, co-founder and CSO. "As we continue to progress our lead program on Dravet towards clinical development, we think it is important to engage in dialogue with the community of patients and families suffering from this devastating disorder."
About Regel Therapeutics. Derived from breakthrough technologies developed by co-founders Jordane Dimidschstein Ph.D and Navneet Matharu Ph.D at the Broad Institute and UCSF, respectively, Regel's T3 platform combines a deactivated Cas system, which precisely targets the epigenome without editing or damaging the DNA, and proprietary regulatory elements restricting the intervention exclusively to specific cell types. This approach allows for efficient and permanent restoration of normal gene expression exclusively to the cells affected by the disease. By providing three layers of specificity of intervention, this technology bears the promise of significantly increasing the efficiency while reducing potential off-target or side effects. Regel's approach is supported by years of discovery and innovation and is now poised to become the first-in-class therapeutic intervention to transform the lives of patients suffering from severe and life-threatening genetic diseases. More information here: https://regeltherapeutics.com.
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CALGARY, AB, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Decibel Cannabis Company Inc. (the "Company" or "Decibel") (TSXV: DB) (OTCQB: DBCCF), announces the timing of its annual general meeting (the "Meeting") of holders of common shares (the "Shareholders") of the Company will be held at 4:00pm (Calgary Time) on Friday, December 9, 2022 (the "Meeting"). The management information circular related to the Meeting was mailed to Shareholders on November 18th and is also publicly available on Decibel's SEDAR page.
"We are launching the next chapter of the Decibel story with an exceptional new group of experienced cannabis and CPG board members who will create immense value for the Decibel shareholders", said Cody Church current Chairman of Decibel. "I would like to sincerely thank Mike Kelly and Ivan Casselman for their tireless work and outstanding contributions over the last few years and as we transition off the board, we would like to thank Decibel for the opportunity to be part of this great story", said Church.
"Decibel is very excited by the proposed slate of directors. We are very fortunate to have attracted such an accomplished group, all with notable cannabis pedigrees. This is a testament to Decibel's success and most importantly our obvious potential", said Paul Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Decibel.
Paul is currently a director and CEO of Decibel. Prior to joining Decibel, Paul served as CEO, President, EVP, and officer for consumer businesses, including leadership roles at Canadian Tire, Mark's, Princess Auto, Spence Diamonds and Alcanna Nova Cannabis. As an experienced brand builder, Mr. Wilson has a consistent winning record in sectors ranging from hard goods to apparel and in formats ranging from start-ups and small chains to department stores and national chains.
Manjit has significant CPG expertise, having co-founded the Minhas Brewery, Distillery and Winery with over 90 brands of beers, spirits liqueurs and wines. Her products are sold in 5 provinces as well as 47 states throughout the USA and 16 other countries. She also appears as a television personality on the Canadian reality series, Dragon's Den, where she has invested in dozens of Canadian businesses. Manjit also has specific cannabis industry experience as a former member of the board of directors of Inner Spirit Holdings Ltd (Spiritleaf).
Shawn is an early investor and strategic thought leader in the North American cannabis industry. As an early investor in Aphria, he served on their board until November 2019. In addition, he co-founded and serves as an advisor to the board of Green Acre Capital (Canada's largest cannabis private investment fund) and serves as a director of Humble & Fume Inc. ("Humble & Fume"), a leading North American distributor of cannabis products. He currently oversees the investment and growth of his personal holding company.
Jakob is the Chief Executive Officer of Perennial Brands Inc, a full life-cycle brand strategy organization. He was formerly the President of Aphria and held multiple roles at Diageo PLC including CFO of Diageo North America. In June 2021 Jakob joined Humble & Fume, as Chairman of the Board. He also serves on the Audit Committee and Compensation and Corporate Governance Committee of Humble & Fume.
Nadia is CFO and Head of Logistics for Sporting Life Group. Her experience includes launching and overseeing new multi-jurisdictional companies and business lines, extensive M&A, leading the execution of complex multi-functional initiatives, transformation and navigating regulatory environments. Prior to her current role, Nadia was the COO of Fire & Flower, a cannabis retailer with over 100 locations across Canada, and held senior finance roles at Holt Renfrew, Canadian Tire, and Maple Leaf Foods.
Decibel would like to thank all of the directors not standing for re-election for their efforts in helping the Corporation achieve its success to date.
Decibel is uncompromising in the process and craftsmanship needed to deliver the highest quality cannabis products and retail experiences. Decibel has three operating production houses along with its wholly owned retail business, Prairie Records. The Qwest Estate in Creston, BC is a licensed and operating 26,000 square foot cultivation space which produces the widely championed, rare cultivar-focused brands Qwest and Qwest Reserve, which are sold in six provinces across Canada. Thunderchild Cultivation, is a licensed and operating 80,000 square foot indoor cultivation facility in Battleford, SK. The Plant, Decibel's extraction facility, in Calgary, AB has 15,000 square feet of Health Canada licensed extraction and product development space. This production house will fuel the growth of our brands Qwest, Qwest Reserve, Blendcraft, and General Admission, into new and innovative product formats like concentrates, vapes, edibles and beyond.
Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements.
In this news release, forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, Decibel's expectations regarding future appointment and success of its director nominees; that Decibel and the Shareholders will be positively affected by the appointment of such director nominees; and that Decibel's production house will fuel the growth of its brands Qwest, Qwest Reserve, Blendcraft, and General Admission, into new and innovative product formats like concentrates, vapes, edibles and beyond..
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: risks relating to delays; regulatory changes and impacts; capital requirements; construction impacts; displacement requirements and unforeseen requirements resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic; the ability to obtain and maintain licences to retail cannabis products; review of the Company's production facilities by Health Canada and maintenance of licences (including any amendments thereto) from Health Canada in respect thereof; future legislative and regulatory developments involving cannabis; inability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favourable terms; the labour market generally and the ability to access, hire and retain employees; general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; timing and completion of construction and expansion of the Company's production facilities and retail locations; the risk that the Company may not remain in compliance with all of its financial covenants for the remainder of its twelve-month forecast period; and the delay or failure to receive board, regulatory or other approvals, including any approvals of the TSXV, as applicable. Many of these risks and uncertainties and additional risk factors are described in the Company's Annual Information Form and Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2021, which are available at www.sedar.com.
With respect to forward-looking statements contained in this press release, Decibel has made assumptions regarding, but not limited to: Decibel's ability to raise additional capital and to execute on its plans; the timelines for new product launches, Decibel's ability to continue investing in infrastructure and implement scalable controls, systems and processes to support its growth; the impact of competition; the changes and trends in Decibel's industry or the global economy; the Company's ability to generate sufficient cash flow from operations and obtain financing, if needed, on acceptable terms or at all; the general economic, financial market, regulatory and political conditions in which the Company operates; the ability of the Company to ship its products and maintain supply chain stability; consumer interest in the Company's products; anticipated and unanticipated costs; government regulation of the Company's activities and products; the timely receipt of any required regulatory approvals; the Company's ability to conduct operations in a safe, efficient and effective manner; the Company's construction plans and timeframe for completion of such plans; and the changes in laws, rules, regulations, and global standards.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of assumptions and risk factors is not exhaustive. The forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements included in this news release are made as of the date hereof and Decibel does not undertake any obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect new information, subsequent events or otherwise unless so required by applicable securities laws. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities laws.
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HARRISONVILLE, Mo., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction of the first phase of the new Mills Cancer and Rheumatology Center at Cass Regional Medical Center is now complete.
Infusion therapy capacity has expanded from five to seven bays. The new bays are more spacious and each has windows featuring views of the hospital's Healing Garden.
"The new infusion center is beautiful and very nicely done," said oncologist/hematologist Jaswinder Singh, MD, who leads the cancer care team at Cass Regional. "It offers compassionate treatment close to home, with care that is comparable to any academic medical center."
"It is a beautiful addition to an already top-notch facility," agreed rheumatologist Kevin Latinis, MD, PhD. "The design with large windows overlooking the gardens makes the experience of getting infusions for rheumatic disorders and cancer therapy a bit more cheerful."
Construction of the Mills Cancer and Rheumatology Center began in March of this year and was made possible in part by a donation from Harrisonville businessman Bill Mills. The next phase of construction will involve renovating the former infusion space, which will become the new waiting area.
"The Cass County community has a lot to be proud of with this facility and we are looking forward to the next stages of enhancement of the rheumatology and oncology clinics," Latinis added.
The entire project is scheduled for completion in mid-2023.
As a critical access hospital, Cass Regional Medical Center maintains a 21-bed medical/surgical unit, a four-bed intensive care unit, and a 10-bed behavioral health unit. Services provided by Cass Regional Medical Center include emergency care; general and specialty surgery; and rehabilitation services which include nationally-recognized cardiac rehabilitation and diabetes education programs. The hospital offers advanced diagnostic capabilities such as MRI, CT and PET-CT scanning, digital and 3-D mammography, nuclear medicine and a nationally-accredited sleep study lab.
Specialists in nearly 20 different areas treat patients on the Cass Regional campus in either the medical center or the adjoining Rock Haven Medical Mall, which is home to Cass Regional's Rock Haven Specialty Clinic, Cass Regional Orthopedics, and Harrisonville Medical Clinic (family medicine, general surgery, and ear, nose and throat). The Wound Center at Rock Haven Specialty Clinic provides comprehensive treatment for chronic, slow-to-heal and serious wounds. Cass Regional also operates five additional family medicine clinics in the communities of Archie, Garden City, Kingsville, Peculiar and Pleasant Hill. For more information, visit www.cassregional.org.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy health industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the healthcare industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- John Hancock becomes the first life insurance carrier to offer access to GRAIL's multi-cancer early detection test to customers
As the first life insurance carrier to make this breakthrough screening technology available, John Hancock is enabling eligible customers to take proactive steps to better understand and make more informed choices about their health. - OSHA Reveals Top 10 Safety Violations for Fiscal Year 2022 at NSC Safety Congress & Expo
Lorraine Martin, NSC president and CEO, said, "Despite advancements in workplace safety, we continue to see the same types of violations each year. It's more important than ever employers seek education and resources to keep their workers safe." - FDA Concludes Internal Review of Agency Actions Related to the U.S. Infant Formula Supply
"This incident demonstrated the need for an integrated, multidisciplinary approach that included scientific, clinical, nutritional, analytical, and inspectional expertise; legal processes; supply chain and policy considerations; and resources to support this multidisciplinary work." - McKesson Signs Agreement to Acquire Rx Savings Solutions
"Rx Savings Solutions' offerings for employers and patients will strengthen McKesson's ability to help solve the most common medication challenges related to access, affordability and adherence," said Brian Tyler, chief executive officer, McKesson. - Janssen Joins Forces with Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Shannon Sharpe to Address Health Disparities in Prostate Cancer
Talk That Talk™ is an educational campaign and call to action to drive prostate cancer awareness and reinforce the importance of screening for early detection among Black men. - Fundraising for Medical Expenses: What You Need to Know
Sonny Mullen, Director of Outreach for Help Hope Live, will present the Top 10 Tips & Tricks for Successful Fundraising and keeping a Medical Crisis from Being a Financial Crisis on October 13 at CONVENE in Washington, DC, for the Reeve Foundation Summit. - WebMD Announces 2022 Health Heroes: A physician, veteran, a neuroscientist, and three college students confront mental health challenges
Their work arrives at a moment of urgency. Mental health disorders were already on the rise, but the impact of the pandemic, the burnout of health care professionals, and the isolation and loneliness of lockdowns exacerbated the problem. - Staffing Shortages Push Nurses to the Brink, With Nearly Two-Thirds Considering a Departure from the Profession in Next Two Years
According to the Annual State of Nursing Report, the vast majority of nurses who are considering leaving the profession (93%) say having the ability to control their schedule would make them more willing to stay. - Amare Global Announces Acquisition of Kyäni, Inc.
"This has been a year of transformative growth and momentum at Amare, and we could not ask for a better partner than Kyäni to help propel our global vision to share the benefits of mental wellness," says Jared Turner, Chief Executive Officer. - The Trevor Project Honors Janelle Monáe with Annual Suicide Prevention Advocate of the Year Award
The Grammy-nominated global superstar is the second-ever recipient of the award, which recognizes influential public figures who champion the LGBTQ community and advocate for mental health awareness. - Supira Medical Announces Successful First-In-Human Use of its Next Generation Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device
The prospective, single-arm, single-center study will evaluate the safety and performance of Supira's low-profile, high-flow percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) to support cardiovascular hemodynamics in patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (HRPCI). - Gates Foundation Announces $1.27 Billion in Health and Development Commitments to Advance Progress Toward the Global Goals
The funding will address overlapping global crises that have reversed the progress already made toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals).
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After controversial call on Chris Jones, NFL to discuss roughing calls: AP source
The NFL did not give officials a directive to emphasize roughing-the-passer penalties following Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion, but the topic will be discussed next week when NFL owners meet in New York, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press.
The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because the conversations are internal, said the league isn’t planning to make any rule changes amid outrage over two disputed calls in Week 5. Roughing-the-passer penalties are down 45% from this point last year. Through Week 5 in 2021, 51 were called. Only 28 have been called this season, according to league stats.
The league’s Competition Committee — comprised of six team owners/executives and four head coaches — makes most of the recommendations for rule changes. Teams can also propose rule changes to be voted on by owners, which require 24 votes to pass.
One idea, suggested by Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones on Monday night after he was flagged, might be to allow video review of roughing calls.
ALSO READ: Chris Jones flagged for roughing the passer on strip sack. It didn’t go over well.
That is unlikely, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
The league already went down that road, making pass interference reviewable for one season after an egregious missed foul late in the fourth quarter in the NFC championship in January 2019 cost the New Orleans Saints a trip to the Super Bowl.
The experiment failed miserably and the rule wasn’t considered the next year.
Protecting quarterbacks is a priority for owners, who pay big bucks for the faces of their franchises. Twenty-five QBs are making at least $25 million this season.
The questionable call against Jones — the second in two days — nearly cost Kansas City in its 30-29 comeback victory over the Las Vegas Raiders.
The Chiefs had just scored to trim their deficit to 17-7 when Jones stripped Raiders quarterback Derek Carr from behind just before halftime. The Pro Bowl defensive tackle landed on Carr while also coming up with the ball — replays showed it was clearly loose and that Jones cleanly recovered — but referee Carl Cheffers threw a flag for roughing the passer.
“The quarterback is in the pocket and he’s in a passing posture. He gets full protection of all the aspects of what we give the quarterback in a passing posture,” Cheffers told a pool reporter after the game. “My ruling was the defender landed on him with full body weight. The quarterback is protected from being tackled with full body weight.”
On Sunday, Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett was flagged by referee Jerome Boger for a seemingly harmless sack on Tom Brady. The penalty gave the Buccaneers a first down and allowed them to run out the clock on a 21-15 victory.
Boger made a similar critical call late in the fourth quarter of the Ravens-Bills game a week earlier on a play that many also thought didn’t to warrant a flag.
Boger called another borderline roughing penalty in the Falcons-Buccaneers game when Vita Vea was pushed into Atlanta quarterback Marcus Mariota.
Roughing the passer is the only rule where referees are instructed to err on the side of caution.
The NFL rulebook notes: “When in doubt about a roughness call or potentially dangerous tactic against the quarterback, the referee should always call roughing the passer.”
Jones, who has been flagged for roughing the passer nine times in his career, has a solution.
“We’ve got to be able to review it in the booth, you know what I mean?” Jones said. “I think that’s the next step for the NFL as a whole. If we’re going to call it a penalty at that high (of rate), then we’ve got to be able to review it and make sure, because sometimes looks can be deceiving.”
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9-month-old baby boy shot and killed identified
By Corin Hoggard and Alyssa Flores
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MERCED, California (KFSN) — The people who live near Q and 12th Street in Merced can’t make sense of what unfolded there around midday Wednesday.
A woman and her friend were walking down the street, pushing the woman’s baby boy in a stroller — 9-month-old Darius King Grigsby.
At some point, a vehicle pulled up and someone fired toward the three of them. At least one of the bullets hit and killed baby Darius. The shooter took off.
A neighbor in the area showed Action News the home surveillance video they turned over to police.
You can hear the gunshots then see the mother realize her baby had been hit.
Video then shows the child’s mother screaming as she scoops him out of the stroller and cries for help, yelling “they killed my baby.”
Someone there called 911. Baby Darius was declared dead at the scene. Detectives don’t believe he was the intended target.
“We don’t know what the motive is,” Perez said. “At this point, it’s possible that maybe one of the parents was a possible target and the child was just tragically caught in the crossfire.”
Baby Darius’ Aunt Andrea Bolanos shared a statement with Action News, saying in part, “Always a cheerful baby. Always smiling and laughing. He didn’t deserve to go like this, especially this soon. He was just starting to enjoy food and being mobile.”
Neighbors looked on as Merced PD spent hours investigating and gathering evidence, including the stroller that the baby was laying in when he was shot.
A GoFundMe has been started to help pay for funeral expenses.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier this month, plaintiffs filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging Instant Pot pressure cookers are "dangerously defective" because their lids can open while the contents are still under pressure, causing second- and third-degree burns. The lawsuit seeks to consolidate customers who purchased an Instant Pot and reimburse them for their economic losses, such as the cost of replacing their pressure cooker.
The legal action against Instant Brands, manufacturer of Instant Pot, comes as no surprise to attorneys at Johnson // Becker, PLLC, a nationwide products liability law firm with experience representing victims of pressure cooker explosions, including over 80 clients injured by their Instant Pot.
Instant Pot is the industry leader in electric pressure cookers, and typically dominates the best-seller list on Amazon.com. But those profits have come at the expense of consumers, whose safety was put at risk by defective Instant Pot lids and locking mechanisms.
Instant Pot touts "10 safety features" on its devices, including an automatically locking lid that prevents it from opening under pressure. However, Johnson // Becker attorneys are aware of at least 177 incidents in which an Instant Pot user has suffered substantial burn injuries due to a pressure cooker explosion.
Johnson//Becker has represented over 500 clients who have been severely burned by exploding pressure cookers manufactured by numerous companies, and feels strongly the interests of consumers who have unfortunately been burned by their exploding pressure cookers are best represented individually, rather than in a class action. Product liability class action lawsuits typically result in far lower settlements, and at Johnson//Becker, PLLC our goal is to maximize compensation for our clients.
If you or a loved one has been injured by a defective Instant Pot pressure cooker, you may want to speak with the lawyers at Johnson//Becker. We are actively filing new Instant Pot pressure cooker burn lawsuits across the country, and you may be entitled to financial compensation for your burn injuries.
We offer a free case evaluation. To learn more about Johnson//Becker's product liability cases, or to arrange a free, no obligation case review, please visit Johnson //Becker at https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/pressure-cooker-lawsuit/ or contact Johnson//Becker directly at (800) 279-6386.
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LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- L. Javier Fernandez, president & chief executive officer of the Omaha Public Power District, has been elected to the Ameritas Mutual Holding Company board of directors, Ameritas President and CEO Bill Lester announced.
Fernandez also will serve as a director for Ameritas Holding Company and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
"Javier's business and financial acumen will be a great asset as Ameritas continues developing growth strategies for the future," Lester said. "We look forward to benefiting from his insight."
Fernandez joined OPPD in June 2017 as vice president and chief financial officer. He was selected by the OPPD Board of Directors to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer starting in July 2021.
Fernandez came to OPPD from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), U.S. Department of Energy, in Portland, Oregon. He had been with the federal power marketing organization since 2012, most recently serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He previously served as senior vice president of Fixed Income Capital Markets for D.A. Davidson & Company and vice president of Public Finance for Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation.
Before joining BPA, Fernandez served for three years as senior vice president with D.A. Davidson & Co., a financial services firm, and seven years with Seattle-Northwest Securities, where he performed public finance banking and financial advisory services to municipal jurisdictions, primarily in Oregon.
He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City, a Master of Business Administration from Yale University, a Utility Management Certificate from Willamette University, and a Utility Executive Certificate from the University of Idaho.
He currently serves as a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Omaha Branch, Bellevue University, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and Habitat for Humanity Omaha.
About Ameritas®
Ameritas is a marketing name for Ameritas Mutual Holding Company and its affiliated subsidiary companies, including Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York. Founded in 1887, Ameritas offers a wide range of insurance and financial products and services to individuals, families and businesses. These products and services include life insurance; annuities; individual disability income insurance; group dental, vision and hearing care insurance; retirement plans; investments; asset management; and public finance. Securities offered through affiliate Ameritas Investment Company LLC, member FINRA/SIPC and investment advisory services offered through Ameritas Advisory Services, LLC. For more information, visit ameritas.com.
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SEOUL, South Korea, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Smilegate plans to release its new mobile turn-based role-playing game (RPG) 'OUTERPLANE' globally in May. The company unveiled the teaser page and brand page for the game on March 28th and is now actively preparing for the global launch to release the game at the end of May.
Developed by VA Games and serviced by Smilegate, 'OUTERPLANE' is a turn-based RPG that follows the story of a protagonist suddenly summoned from Earth to a fantasy world and sets off on an adventure with his/her companions. The game features smooth graphics rendered in a cartoon style and exciting action scenes, with various strategic elements such as skill bursts and skill chains that allow players to enjoy strategic combat.
The teaser page (https://OUTERPLANE.game.onstove.com/teaser) introduces the automatic doll 'Eva' who welcomes the 'owner' (player) who will enjoy OUTERPLANE. The mysterious expressions of Eva and the presence of the star 'Mirsha' evoke curiosity.
On the brand page (https://OUTERPLANE.game.onstove.com/), you can get a sneak peek into the detailed character information and the universe of the game. In addition, various content such as character introduction videos and 4-cut cartoons showcasing the charm of 'OUTERPLANE' can be found through social media.
'OUTERPLANE; is being developed with the goal of global release at the end of May. Smilegate plans to continue releasing game information through the teaser page, brand page, official Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/OUTERPLANEGLOBAL), official Twitter (https://twitter.com/OUTERPLANE), and official YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@OUTER_PLANE).
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Uno wins Grand Prix Final gold, Americans rally for medals
By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer
Shoma Uno has won gold at the Grand Prix Final by holding off Japanese countryman Sota Yamamoto. Eighteen-year-old American Ilia Malinin has rallied from a poor short program to take bronze. Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada has kept American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates at bay to win gold and Italy’s Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri were third. In the women’s competition, Mai Mihara took advantage of a mistake-strewn program by Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto to win gold. Fifteen-year-old American Isabeau Levito leaped from fifth place into second while Loena Hendrickx of Belgium held on to take bronze. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/10/uno-wins-grand-prix-final-gold-americans-rally-for-medals/ | 2022-12-10 22:35:37 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/10/uno-wins-grand-prix-final-gold-americans-rally-for-medals/ |
LONDON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LCM Partners, a leading European Alternatives Investment Manager, today announced that it has appointed Roger Kibble-White as the Group CFO.
Roger has significant experience in the investment industry as a CFO and joins from Fidelity International, a leading fund manager with over $600bn of assets under manager, where he was the Group Finance Director. Prior to this role, Roger spent 16 years at JP Morgan Chase where he held several positions including Global CFO for Asset Management and CFO for EMEA Treasury and the Chief Investment Office. He is a KPMG-trained chartered accountant and a qualified corporate treasurer.
Roger will lead the Group's finance team, which will include supporting the business with its corporate development, corporate finance, tax and treasury strategy and the execution of the Group's growth strategy. As part of the senior leadership team Roger will work closely with the Board to help build the business as the company's scale and geographic reach grows.
Paul Burdell, CEO of LCM Partners, said: "We are really happy that Roger chose to join our Group and believe that his significant experience across the investment industry will complement our team at all levels as we look to further develop and grow the business over the coming years."
Roger Kibble-White, CFO of LC Financial Holdings, said: "I am also very happy to join the Group and am really looking forward to working with the Team to help maintain and continue the firm's success in-order to support the company's long-term growth ambitions."
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Paul D Burdell
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About LCM Partners:
LCM Partner is one of Europe's leading alternative investors in credit.
Established in 1998, we have an unrivalled 23-year track record as a specialist in Private Credit targeting performing and non-performing loans. With over 1,100 people in 14 offices across 9 European countries, our Group is responsible for over €60bn of loan value.
For more information, please visit LCM's website at www.lcmpartners.eu.
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Motivational speakers Blair Braverman and Shanna Adamic will kick off two days of educational sessions by sharing insights on courage and inspiration with a hybrid audience of 1,000+ fundraising professionals
INDIANAPOLIS, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OneCause, an Indianapolis-based event and online fundraising software company, today announced Blair Braverman and Shanna Adamic as keynote speakers for the Raise 2022 fundraising conference in Chicago. This year's conference will bring together the nonprofit industry in person and online, with an immersive hybrid experience for learning, collaboration and innovation. In-person sessions will take place September 12-13, 2022, with select sessions and virtual-only tracks simultaneously livestreamed around the world.
"Bringing together nonprofit professionals and experts for shared learning, exploration and connection is what Raise is all about," said Karrie Wozniak, chief marketing officer for OneCause. "As nonprofits push through changes brought on by the global pandemic, what donors want from a nonprofit and their giving experience continues to evolve. This year's Raise lineup will deliver new ideas and practical strategies to help fundraisers boost donor engagement in innovative ways, expand access to philanthropy and create a personalized giving experience that meets the needs of today's donors."
This year's conference will feature two keynote speakers: Blair Braverman, writer and adventurer; and Shanna Adamic, Executive Director for Cerner Charitable Foundation. Through personal stories of bravery and perseverance, the keynotes promise to energize and inspire fundraising leaders in unexpected ways. Other featured speakers include:
- Raise Conference Emcee Reggie Rivers, President of The Gala Team
- Barbara O'Reilly, Principal and Founder of Windmill Hill Consulting LLC
- Deborah Barge, Chief Development Officer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
- T. Clay Buck, Principal and Founder of TCB Fundraising
- Leticia Martinez-Hermosillo, Director of Philanthropy for International Community Foundation
- Katie Koglman, CEO of United Way of Wayne and Holmes Counties
- Patrick Kirby, Founder of Do Good Better Consulting
- Mia Willis, co-Coordinator of Development & Communications for Highlander Research and Education Center
In addition to dynamic plenaries, this year's Raise conference will feature more than 30 speakers in a multi-track session lineup of today's top fundraising professionals and industry experts, interactive panels, and unique networking and collaboration opportunities. Topics include:
- Making Sense of Fundraising: A Fundraiser's Guide to What's Working in 2022 And Beyond
- Back to the Ballroom Trends | How Attendees Changed Post-COVID
- Why Should I Give to You? | 4 Keys to Answering Your Donors' Most Fundamental Question
- How to Talk About Your Fundraising Event So People Will Engage, Register, and Fundraise
- Expand Your Fundraising Potential with Digital Accessibility
Tickets are on sale for Raise 2022, including limited in-person tickets with access to onsite sessions, fun networking events and exclusive swag. Virtual attendees will enjoy select livestreamed onsite sessions, activities and a virtual-only track. Both in-person and virtual attendees will have access to on-demand recordings of conference sessions.
OneCause is driving the future of fundraising with easy-to-use event and online fundraising solutions that help nonprofits improve the giving experience and raise more money. OneCause builds technology that optimizes everyday generosity, making it easier for nonprofit organizations to fundraise and for nonprofit supporters to give. Since 2008, OneCause has helped over 10,000 nonprofits raise more than $4 billion for their missions. Headquartered in Indianapolis, OneCause is committed to driving innovation in the charitable sector, bringing together nonprofit professionals across the world for the annual Raise Conference to exchange ideas that further fundraising. For more information, visit www.onecause.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Blair Braverman has completed some of the toughest dogsled races in the world. She is the author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube and Dogs on the Trail, a contributing editor to Outside magazine, and a contributor to The New York Times, Vogue, This American Life, and elsewhere. She lives in the Wisconsin Northwoods with her husband and their team of very enthusiastic huskies.
Shanna Adamic is Director of Philanthropy and Community Engagement for Cerner, a global healthcare technology company. She also serves as Executive Director of Cerner Charitable Foundation, passionately advocating for equitable access to healthcare for children and reducing disparities in communities around the world.
As a rare brain tumor survivor, Shanna remains committed to Cerner's purpose of helping health happen. Her training as a former NFL cheerleader is core to her competitive, bold and optimistic personality. She is a powerful, passionate speaker delivering messages of empowerment and hope to fellow philanthropy professionals.
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The new attraction offers fast-paced fun for all ages as Bally's continues its transition to Horseshoe Las Vegas
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LAS VEGAS, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The ARCADE at Bally's Las Vegas is now open as the resort continues its rebrand into Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Designed by Aria Group, the 7,000-square-foot arcade is illuminated by a glow of bright neon lights and offers a high-energy, multi-sensory experience for all ages and skill levels. The venue features more than 80 supersized games, including classics like Skee-Ball, air hockey, Rock the Rim and an epic claw machine, Big One Extreme. Additionally, players are transported into immersive adventures via virtual reality with games like "King Kong" and "Mission Impossible," a four-player interactive gaming experience.
"We aim to entertain, and The ARCADE captivates guests with its larger-than-life games and electric atmosphere," said Jason Gregorec, SVP and General Manager of the property. "The opening of The ARCADE brings additional excitement to the property as it transforms into Horseshoe Las Vegas."
Games are played with The ARCADE's cashless currency on re-loadable cards. The cards can be loaded with a credit card or cash; instead of tickets, points are accumulated on the cards to redeem larger prizes.
The ARCADE will also feature an enhanced and refreshed bar that is scheduled to open in the coming weeks and will serve a selection of bottled and draft beer, cocktails and wine. The ARCADE is on the first level near the food court and is open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday – Thursday and 10 a.m. to midnight Friday – Sunday.
The ARCADE is one of the several projects associated with the Horseshoe rebrand and follows the recent addition of Jack Binion's Steak and the upcoming opening of M.Y. Asia by Chef Martin Yan. The property transformation will also include a renovated exterior, casino floor and public areas. Sports fans can still enjoy best-in-class sports wagering via the Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill app and at the new Caesars Sportsbook ticket counter. For more information, guests may visit www.caesars.com/ballys-las-vegas.
About Bally's Las Vegas
Bally's Las Vegas, which is undergoing a transformation into legendary casino brand Horseshoe Las Vegas, is located at the center of the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip, across from Caesars Palace and next to Paris Las Vegas. The 44-acre resort consists of two 26-story hotel towers with more than 2,800 guestrooms, including the renovated Resort Rooms and 244 suites. For entertainment, Bally's Las Vegas offers "EXTRAVAGANZA – The Vegas Spectacular" on the iconic Jubilee Theater stage and The Magic Attic, a 3,685-square-foot showroom exclusively for magic-inspired productions. Dining options include Horseshoe's signature fine dining experience, Jack Binion's Steak, as well as Burger Brasserie, Bally's Food Court, Nosh Deli and LavAzza. Joining the roster of dining establishments is Chef Martin Yan's first Las Vegas restaurant, M.Y. Asia. The resort also offers a fitness center, a tennis complex, the Blu Pool at Bally's and attractions such as Twilight Zone by Monster Mini Golf, REAL BODIES, The Cabinet of Curiosities Lounge, National Geographic's Rarely Seen at Bally's Las Vegas and the ARCADE at Bally's Las Vegas. Bally's Las Vegas features nearly 70,000 square feet of casino space and is home to the World Series of Poker. Bally's Las Vegas is operated by a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR). For more information, please visit ballyslasvegas.com or the Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas media room. Find Bally's Las Vegas on Facebook and follow on Twitter and Instagram. Must be 21 or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-522-4700 ©2021, Caesars License Company, LLC.
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Hiring event to fill roles across customer service, IT support and alarm center dispatch
IRVING, Texas, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Today 7-Eleven, Inc. announced the creation of new jobs based out of the organization's Store Support Center in Enon, OH, supporting customers, employees and Franchisees across the 7-Eleven, Inc. banner of brands including 7-Eleven®, Speedway®, Stripes®, Laredo Taco Company® and Raise the Roost® Chicken and Biscuits.
Next week, the company is hosting a hiring event to fill the open roles across customer service, IT support and alarm center dispatch. The event is scheduled for 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7 at the Enon Store Support Center located at 500 Speedway Dr., Enon, OH 45323.
IT support jobs will be responsible for troubleshooting IT issues and ensuring compliance of in-store equipment, in addition to fulfilling requests from our loyal customers. Alarm center dispatch jobs will support stores' emergency mitigation and response and ensure customer safety protocol.
Employee benefits include competitive hourly wages, flexible work schedules, paid time off and career advancement opportunities. Tuition reimbursement is also available to qualifying employees.
"For more than 95 years, 7-Eleven has been leading the way to revolutionize convenience – and in 2023 our family of brands is committed to investing in even more local growth opportunities to continue this legacy to serve our customers, stores and Franchisees," said Sam Mulkey, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Speedway and Speedway Integration. "Bringing local, domestic jobs to the hometown of Speedway helps fulfill our mission to give our customers what they want, when and where they want it."
In addition to the in-person hiring event, interested applicants can also apply online at the Speedway careers website. All levels of work experience will be considered.
About 7-Eleven, Inc.
7-Eleven, Inc. is the premier name in the convenience-retailing industry. Based in Irving, Texas, 7-Eleven operates, franchises and/or licenses more than 13,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to 7-Eleven® stores, 7-Eleven, Inc. operates and franchises Speedway®, Stripes®, Laredo Taco Company® and Raise the Roost® Chicken and Biscuits locations. Known for its iconic brands such as Slurpee®, Big Bite® and Big Gulp®, 7-Eleven has expanded into high-quality sandwiches, salads, side dishes, cut fruit and protein boxes, as well as pizza, chicken wings and mini beef tacos. 7-Eleven offers customers industry-leading private brand products under the 7-Select™ brand including healthy options, decadent treats and everyday favorites at an outstanding value. Customers can earn and redeem points on various items in stores nationwide through its 7Rewards® loyalty program with more than 50 million members, place an order in the 7NOW® delivery app in over 2,000 cities, or rely on 7-Eleven for bill payment service, self-service lockers and other convenient services. Find out more online at www.7-Eleven.com.
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New York City public schools will ban students and teachers from using ChatGPT, a powerful new AI chatbot tool, on the district's networks and devices, an official confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
The move comes amid growing concerns that the tool, which generates eerily convincing responses and even essays in response to user prompts, could make it easier for students to cheat on assignments. Some also worry that ChatGPT could be used to spread inaccurate information.
"Due to concerns about negative impacts on student learning, and concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of content, access to ChatGPT is restricted on New York City Public Schools' networks and devices," Jenna Lyle, the deputy press secretary for the New York public schools, said in a statement. "While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success."
Although the chatbot is restricted under the new policy, New York City public schools can request to gain specific access to the tool for AI and tech-related educational purposes.
Education publication ChalkBeat first reported the news.
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab behind the tool, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
New York City appears to be the first major school district to crack down on ChatGPT, barely a month after the tool first launched. While there are genuine concerns about how ChatGPT could be used, it's unclear how widely adopted it is among students. Other districts, meanwhile, appear to be moving more slowly.
A representative for the Palo Alto Unified School District in California told CNN: "We have not discussed this one yet." Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the School District of Philadelphia said it has "no knowledge of students using the ChatGPT nor have we received any complaints from principals or teachers."
OpenAI opened up access to ChatGPT in late November. It is able to provide lengthy, thoughtful and thorough responses to questions and prompts, ranging from factual questions like "Who was the president of the United States in 1955" to more open-ended questions such as "What's the meaning of life?"
The tool stunned users, including academics and some in the tech industry. ChatGPT is a large language model trained on a massive trove of information online to create its responses. It comes from the same company behind DALL-E, which generates a seemingly limitless range of images in response to prompts from users.
ChatGPT went viral just days after its launch. Open AI co-founder Sam Altman, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, said on Twitter in early December that ChatGPT had topped one million users.
But many educators fear students will use the tool to cheat on assignments. One user, for example, fed ChatGPT an AP English exam question; it responded with a 5 paragraph essay about Wuthering Heights. Another user asked the chat bot to write an essay about the life of William Shakespeare four times; he received a unique version with the same prompt each time.
Darren Hicks, assistant professor of philosophy at Furman University, previously told CNN it will be harder to prove when a student misuses ChatGPT than with other forms of cheating.
"In more traditional forms of plagiarism -- cheating off the internet, copy pasting stuff -- I can go and find additional proof, evidence that I can then bring into a board hearing," he said. "In this case, there's nothing out there that I can point to and say, 'Here's the material they took.'"
"It's really a new form of an old problem where students would pay somebody or get somebody to write their paper for them -- say an essay farm or a friend that has taken a course before," Hicks added. "This is like that only it's instantaneous and free."
Some companies such as Turnitin -- a detection tool that thousands of school districts use to scan the internet for signs of plagiarism -- are now looking into how its software could detect the usage of AI generated text in student submissions.
Hicks said teachers will need to rethink assignments so they couldn't be easily written by the tool. "The bigger issue," Hicks added, "is going to be administrations who have to figure out how they're going to adjudicate these kinds of cases."
-- CNN's Abby Phillip contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) announced today a new partnership with LVMH North America through which the two organizations will work together towards a more diverse, equitable and inclusive fashion industry. The partnership marks a historic commitment from LVMH in support of HFR's mission of discovering, mentoring and showcasing the emerging talent of color through multi-platform, high-visibility events and customized pipeline programs.
LVMH has committed resources to address issues of diversity, equity and inclusion across the sector through people, business and brand initiatives and to support the next generation of diverse talent.
HFR and LVMH are on a mission to create impactful change for the community of Harlem while opening new doors to the next generation of talented BIPOC designers and connecting emerging black designers to globally recognized luxury brands across the LVMH group of Maisons.
Brands from across the LVMH portfolio, including Tiffany & Co. and Louis Vuitton will continue to collaborate with HFR to offer mentorship and activation opportunities throughout the year and beyond. Some examples of supported initiatives include:
- The HFR ICON 360 HBCU Summit: The HBCU Summit is a commitment intended to transform the art and fashion programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across North America by providing direct design expertise from industry experts that will advance the next generation of diverse creative talent. In collaboration with HFR and North Carolina A&T State University's Art and Fashion Department, Tiffany & Co. will sponsor the Tenacity Talks 10-week lecture series—featuring key industry experts—on topics such as jewelry design and innovation.
HFR's Designer Retreat: As the first of many mentorship opportunities to come, this three-day retreat hosted more than 75 designers and featured several notable fashion speakers. During "Industry Stops," designers were notably able to visit the North American offices of Louis Vuitton and meet with key executives, including Lanessa Elrod, Zone President & CEO; and Thomas Haupt, SVP of US Retail.- Black History Month Summit: Proving a forum for conversation with industry leaders, LVMH North America CEO Anish Melwani and Vice President of D&I Corey Smith joined Brandice Daniel, Founder & CEO of Harlem's Fashion Row to discuss the current state of diversity in fashion.
"Through this partnership, HFR and LVMH North America look forward to continuing their mission of giving designers of color access to individuals and organizations that can help shape their future". said Brandice Daniel, CEO and Founder of HFR. "We've successfully introduced a wealth of diverse designers to a world-class fashion curriculum consisting of invaluable tools and resources to grow their businesses, and have educated Gen Z on how they too can change fashion's course. Conjunctively, we've created opportunities for youth to engage as early as high school, meeting the marginalized, particularly HBCU students, where they are in their fashion careers."
"LVMH is committed to having a positive impact in our communities and realizing the path forward set by Virgil Abloh and others who helped foster equity and inclusion in the fashion industry by supporting and building a pool of diverse creative talent," said Corey Smith, Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, LVMH Inc. "It is critical for LVMH as an organization to continue developing talent of color internally, while ensuring the relevance of our brands and our products in an evolving and diverse consumer landscape. We see this partnership with HFR as a wonderful opportunity to focus on values, culture, business and community all at the same time, as these notions are not mutually exclusive, but interconnected and reinforcing one another."
For more information about Harlem's Fashion Row, visit https://www.harlemsfashionrow.com/.
For more information about LVMH, visit https://www.lvmh.com/.
Founded in 2007 by Brandice Daniel, the organization supports emerging talent and provides a platform for underrepresented Black and Latinx designers. Harlem's Fashion Row is the premier agency creating a bridge between brands and designers of color through product collaborations, experiential marketing events, and brand strategy. The objective is to provide real business opportunities that will enable designers to showcase their skills and abilities in an industry that is often inaccessible to this group. To learn more, please visit www.harlemsfashionrow.com.
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Suspect detained after deadly shootout at Ariz. business
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD) - Arizona sheriff’s deputies took a suspect into custody after what they called an “unprovoked” shooting at a store selling recreational vehicles.
Cochise County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a shooting around 5:15 p.m. Monday at Desert RV in Whetstone. They say the suspect, described as a 37-year-old military veteran, came into the business with two AR-15 rifles and opened fire, prompting the store owners to fire back.
The suspect shot two employees before he fled into the desert. One was killed, while the other was seriously injured, KOLD reports.
Authorities say they’ve identified the suspect but have not publicly named him. They say the man had come into Desert RV two times earlier that day but hadn’t acted out of the ordinary. No one had recognized him.
Hundreds of law enforcement personnel from multiple agencies responded to the scene.
An active lockdown was put in place for four miles around the area, and Highway 90 leading to Sierra Vista was also shut down, as deputies searched for the suspect. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Anyone who has information on the shooting is urged to call 911.
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(NEXSTAR) — How difficult is it to vote in Texas?
As this year’s midterm election approaches quickly, new data has been released showing Texas ranks slightly lower among the 50 U.S. states in terms of how easy it is to vote than it did just one year ago — landing at no. 46.
The 2022 Cost of Voting in the American States index, published in the Election Law Journal, used several factors to find the cost of voting, including registration deadline timeframes, voter registration restrictions, voting inconvenience, poll hours and voter ID laws. Each state received an index score, where a negative score actually indicates voting access. Texas’ score was 1.29, while the top state, Oregon, received a -2.54.
The Lone Star State ranked 45th last year, so while that’s not a huge difference, the index authors outline why it dropped a spot in just a year. Authors Scot Schraufnagel, Michael J. Pomante, and Quan Li say Texas Senate Bill 1, signed into law in September 2021, followed up measures taken during the 2020 election.
The controversial — and challenged — SB 1:
- Banned 24-hour polling locations
- Increased ID requirements
- Imposed restrictions on drive-thru voting
- Imposed limits on vote-by-mail, including making it a state jail felony to send voters requests for mail-in ballots
- Allows partisan poll watchers to observe at polling sites
Detractors of SB 1, particularly Democrats, say the law is “voter suppression” — especially among communities of color. State Republicans, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, say SB 1 makes it “harder to cheat.”
“One thing that all Texans can agree [on] and that is that we must have trust and confidence in our elections. The bill that I’m about to sign helps to achieve that goal,” Abbott said in September 2021. “The law does, however, make it harder for fraudulent votes to be cast.”
Abbott has previously said he’s not aware of any fraud that happened in Texas during the 2020 election, though he added that “voter fraud does occur.”
Many of these changes, the index authors explain, were only 2020 changes, however.
“… However, as best as we can tell, there was no intention to make the 2020 provisions permanent, so banning them is curious,” the authors write.
Authors of the COVI say SB 1’s restrictions also place the state in a precarious position should another health emergency like the first COVID-19 outbreak happen again.
The four states with worse index scores than Texas are Wisconsin and Arkansas (1.37 index scores), Mississippi (1.57) and New Hampshire (1.69).
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Police: Arizona girl escapes after mom attacked by a man hiding in closet
By Ben Bradley and Michael Raimondi
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MESA, Arizona (KPHO, KTVK) — A man is in custody, accused of breaking into a Mesa home and hiding in a closet before attacking the woman who lives there on Monday afternoon.
Yesenia Cano was the woman who was attacked just after 2:30 p.m. at home on Marilyn Avenue, near Horne and Broadway Road. Arizona’s Family spoke exclusively to her. Cano said she and her daughter arrived home and found the door was not locked the way she had left it. “When I noticed that, I thought my husband must have returned from work because he’s the other one with a house key. I walked in and didn’t see him. I went to the kitchen and didn’t see him, went into the room, the restroom, and nothing,” she said in Spanish.
She said it was dark when she went into her son’s bedroom. She turned on the light and said a man, later identified as 42-year-old Reyes Vender, jumped out of the closet and grabbed her by the neck with the crease of his elbow, yelling that he had a gun and knife. “I fought him off to save my daughter’s life,” she said. “I don’t know why he did this.” She told police that Vender began hitting her in the ribs, stomach, and legs.
Cano’s 10-year-old daughter called 911 and said a man she didn’t know was holding a gun to her mother’s head. Vender reportedly told the girl to “get out of the house before I shoot you.”
Cano says she told her daughter to get out. As she worked to hold off the man, her daughter ran outside and called for help. Court documents describe what happened next. A Mesa police officer arrived at the home about a minute after the 911 call and found the young girl waiting outside. The officer went to the front door and yelled for anyone inside to show themselves. The officer noticed a bedroom door slowly open, then saw Cano and Vender. The officer told both to come out of the room, and Cano was able to run outside to safety while the officer held Vender at gunpoint. Other officers arrived, and after a brief struggle, Vender was arrested.
Nobody was severely hurt, but it was a traumatizing experience for the family. “I have a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress, I can’t sleep well, and parts of my body hurt after the physical struggle with him. I’ve seen my daughter a little stressed and very frightened. She had to sleep with the light on after the incident. But she’s been very scared,” Cano said.
According to court documents, Vender told investigators that he did threaten to shoot the mother and girl, but it’s unclear why he was in that home or if any weapons were recovered. He’s facing charges including aggravated assault, burglary, kidnapping, and resisting arrest.
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New Hampshire Senate passes GOP-backed parents’ rights bill
By HOLLY RAMER
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has moved closer to adopting “parents’ bill of rights” legislation. Supporters say would strengthen family relationships and opponents say would harm transgender youth and violates the state’s anti-discrimination laws. The Republican-led Senate voted 14-10 along party lines Thursday to pass the bill. It now goes to the House. Much of the debate has focused on provisions that would require school officials, when asked by parents, to disclose that a child is using a different name or being referred to as being a different gender. Many states with Republican-controlled legislatures have enacted similar measures, fueled by some parents’ frustration with schools that boiled over during the coronavirus pandemic. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/03/16/new-hampshire-senate-passes-gop-backed-parents-rights-bill/ | 2023-03-16 20:59:32 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/03/16/new-hampshire-senate-passes-gop-backed-parents-rights-bill/ |
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazars, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm in the US, today announced that effective September 1, 2022 Toby Akrab, Florie Bourrel-Heleine, Alanna Dible, Shabbir Hassanali, Ryan Layman, Shaun Maloney and Matthew Mittman have been admitted as Partners.
"We're excited to announce that these phenomenal leaders have been named to our partnership," said Victor Wahba, Mazars in the US Chairman and CEO. "Each of these seven individuals have driven growth for our firm by delivering top quality services, demonstrating their unique expertise to our clients and exemplary leadership contributing to the growth of our people. This year's group of newly named Partners will continue to strengthen our capabilities in key industry sectors and service lines and provide exceptional services to guide the firm for years to come."
Toby Akrab has been at Mazars for nearly three years as a key member of the Mazars Quality & Risk Management Team and has over 16 years of experience providing audit and advisory services. Toby leads the design and implementation of the firm's system of quality management. As the Mazars North America regional quality leader, she actively participates in various networks and other technical groups as a key quality liaison across the US and globally.
Florie Bourrel-Heleine has been a part of the Mazars family for more than 15 years, first in Paris and then New York since 2015. She delivers accounting, audit, advisory and consulting services to clients in the insurance sector. Florie serves insurance, reinsurance, mutual companies, captives, managing general agents and third-party administrators, both in property and casualty and life & health industries, specializing in leading international and local audits as well as consulting engagements.
Alanna Dible has 13 years of experience providing audit and accounting services in the US and Europe. She serves middle market and publicly traded multinational companies, with a focus on the manufacturing and distribution, technology, retail and consumer products industries. Alanna leads attest engagements under US GAAP and IFRS, presenting findings to improve internal control efficiency and risk management.
Shabbir Hassanali has been with the firm for nearly five years and has over a decade of experience providing system and organization controls reporting, risk assurance, IT advisory, and compliance assessments such as HITRUST and SOX for organizations in various sectors. Shabbir maintains a strong external presence, recently demonstrated by receiving the 2021 AICPA Standing Ovation Award for his extensive involvement in and contribution to the information technology assurance field.
Ryan Layman has been at Mazars for nearly three years, with 14 years of experience providing audit and assurance services to a wide variety of industries including manufacturing and distribution, restaurants and retail, entertainment, energy, telecommunications and information technology. He has advised many high-growth businesses on complex financial reporting challenges and executing efficient and effective financial audits. Ryan has extensive experience helping clients navigate challenging technical accounting issues.
Shaun Maloney has been at Mazars in the US for over a year and has over 13 years of experience specializing in valuing businesses, intangible assets and other complex financial instruments. Throughout his career, Shaun has covered valuations for financial reporting, tax reporting, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder buyouts, corporate planning, and various civil and commercial litigation matters for public and private corporations. He is a past recipient of the AICPA's Standing Ovation Award.
Matthew Mittman has been at the firm for nearly four years and leads the firm's M&A Tax practice. He provides tax consulting and advisory services to clients in private equity, alternative investments, manufacturing and distribution, professional services and technology. During his 20-year career, Matthew has advised large and middle-market national and international private equity and alternative investment funds, and closely held businesses. He frequently works with other Mazars tax and advisory professionals, both in the US and internationally.
For more information on Mazars in the US, please visit https://www.mazars.us.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official increasingly seen as a successor to the 86-year-old President Mahmoud Abbas, says relations with Israel have gotten so bad that Palestinian leaders cannot go on with business as usual.
But even if they are serious this time around, they have few options. And they appear unlikely to do anything that undermines their own limited power in parts of the occupied West Bank, which largely stems from their willingness to cooperate with Israel.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press on Monday, al-Sheikh defended the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, saying it was doing the best it could under the difficult circumstances of Israel’s 55-year-old military occupation. As the point man in charge of dealing with Israel, he said there is no choice but to cooperate to meet the basic needs of Palestinians.
“I am not a representative for Israel in the Palestinian territories,” he said. “We undertake the coordination because this is the prelude to a political solution for ending the occupation.”
Al-Sheikh saw his profile rise further last month after Abbas named him the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The appointment has generated speculation that al-Sheikh is being groomed for the top job — as well as criticism that the autocratic Abbas, who has not held a nationwide election since 2006, is once again ignoring the wishes of his people.
Al-Sheikh, 61, declined to say whether he wants to succeed Abbas. He said the next president should be chosen through elections, but that they could only be held if Israel allows voting in all of east Jerusalem, effectively giving it a veto over any alternative leadership.
“The Palestinian president cannot be appointed, or come to power by force, or come because of some regional or international interest, or arrive on an Israeli tank,” he said.
Al-Sheikh recited a familiar litany of complaints: Israel’s government is beholden to right-wing nationalists, its prime minister opposed to Palestinian statehood. Settlements are expanding, Palestinians are being forcibly relocated, and the U.S. and Europe seem powerless to stop it.
“The Palestinian leadership is on the verge of making major and difficult decisions,” al-Sheikh said, when asked about Abbas’ threat to cut security ties or even withdraw recognition of Israel, a cornerstone of the Oslo peace process in the 1990s. “We have no partner in Israel. They don’t want a two-state solution. They don’t want to negotiate.”
But the Israelis meet with al-Sheikh all the time.
As head of the Palestinian body that coordinates Israeli permits — and a close aide to Abbas — he meets with senior Israeli officials more often than any other Palestinian.
Israeli officials view him as “a very, very positive player in the Palestinian arena,” said Michael Milshtein, an Israeli expert on Palestinian affairs who used to advise COGAT, the military body in charge of civilian affairs in the West Bank.
“Because of his close relations with Israel, he can achieve a lot of positive things for the Palestinian people,” including permits and development projects, he said. But most Palestinians “cannot really accept this kind of image of a Palestinian leader who actually is the one who serves Israel’s interest.”
Al-Sheikh’s career follows the trajectory of his generation of Palestinian leaders — aspiring revolutionaries transformed into local power brokers by the failed, decades-long peace process.
His official biography says he was imprisoned by Israel from 1978-1989 and took part in the first intifada, or uprising against Israeli rule, upon his release. After the Palestinians secured limited self-rule in Gaza and parts of the occupied West Bank through the 1993 Oslo agreements, al-Sheikh joined the nascent security forces, rising to the level of colonel. He says he was a wanted man during the second and more violent intifada in the early 2000s.
He is a lifelong member of Fatah, a movement launched by Yasser Arafat in the late 1950s. Today Fatah dominates the PLO, which is supposed to represent all Palestinians, and the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank and cooperates with Israel on security.
Abbas, who was elected in 2005 after Arafat’s death, is opposed to armed struggle and committed to a two-state solution. But during his 17 years in power the peace process has become a distant memory, the Palestinians have been split politically and geographically by the rift with the Islamic militant group Hamas, and the PA has become increasingly unpopular.
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer who used to advise the PA, said Abbas believes “that the future of the Palestinian people is tied up to him as an individual,” surrounding himself with loyalists who won’t challenge him.
Abbas called off the first elections in 15 years in April 2021, a vote in which his Fatah party was widely expected to suffer a humiliating defeat. He said he was delaying the vote until Israel explicitly allowed voting in all of east Jerusalem. But only a small number of voters in the city require Israeli permission, and the PA refused to consider alternative arrangements.
Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a move not recognized internationally and views the entire city as its unified capital. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem — which includes major holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims — to be the capital of their future state.
“If the price of elections is that I concede on Jerusalem, it is impossible. You won’t find a single Palestinian who will agree to that,” al-Sheikh said.
That may be true, but it could also effectively prevent the Palestinians from replacing the current leadership, leaving it entrenched for years to come.
Dimitri Diliani, a senior member of Fatah who supports an anti-Abbas faction, said none of the president’s inner circle are electable, pointing to recent polls showing that nearly 80% of Palestinians want Abbas to resign.
Diliani described al-Sheikh as “an active, smart person,” a pragmatist who who seizes opportunities — but who was also short-sighted. “Abu Mazen is a sinking ship, and whoever is on it is going down with him,” Diliani said.
Still, al-Sheikh has a unique lever of power that could prove more important than electability — access to Israeli permits.
He has been in charge of the General Authority of Civil Affairs since 2007. That’s where Palestinians must apply if they want to enter Israel for work, family visits or medical care; to import or export anything; or to get national ID cards.
“If you need anything, absolutely anything, in Palestine, he’s your go-to man. He’s actively hated among Palestinians, but he’s also very, very much needed for that reason,” said Tahani Mustafa, a Palestinian analyst at the International Crisis Group.
“If succession was to happen through legitimate channels, there’s no way Hussein al-Sheikh would withstand a popular vote,” she said. “If you are to impose that kind of leadership on Palestinians, then absolutely you are going to face pushback.”
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I heard that a few years ago Camp Lejeune had some water problems. I'm surprised that lawyers haven't started running commercials on TV.
So long, Bruce Capps. And good riddance.
With the opening of dove season imminent, I am reminded that "True love is the feel of the recoil and the smell of gunpowder."
Can anyone believe that John Hayes is running for state office? I guess he's like most politicians ... try to fail your way up.
Christians follow Gods word, the Bible. The reason there are fewer Christians is probably like it was in the days of Noah. Matt. 6:5 says, ”Every intention of the thoughts of men's hearts were only evil continually.” Eight souls were saved from the flood. Matt .7:14. “The gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life and those who find it are few.”
I love Ulf Kirchdorfer's pictures, too. Some of them, like the ones of birds capturing bugs for food, are just amazing.
The perilous, global threat of China and Russia is no less acute than the internally eroding of America’s sovereignty and economic sustainability by Biden’s never ending moronic progressive policies in the likes of the Inflation Reduction Act, continued illegal migration and student loan forgiveness.
Interestingly enough, we are seeing names printed in this space. I wonder if the crazies are going to get threats to their safety. I doubt it, as they are the ones generally doing the threatening.
Thank you for covering local prep and college sports. Exciting to read and watch for these sports players and teams. Fantastic 15 is great.
While many are trying to remove any reference to the American Civil War, the vile carpetbaggers are still with us: defined as political candidates who seek election in an area where they have no local connections. Hmmm ... sounds a lot like Ms. Abrams and Mr. Walker. The only reason they are now in the state of Georgia is to run for office.
I'd forgotten some of those Paul Simon songs. You're right: If anybody's music can pick you up and make you appreciate the art, it's definitely Paul Simon.
It amuses me when racist SMRs accuse me of being racist. What they're really mad about is that they can't be openly racist without consequences anymore. The days of the "good ole boys" are long gone. So SMRs, as long as you hate me, I know I'm doing something right. And I'm gonna keep on doing it. Signed, Yours Truly
As a former runner and triathlete, I enjoyed and looked forward to Scott Ludwig’s weekly column until last week. I would recommend that he stick to writing about his running exploits and excursions while staying away from politics. Otherwise, he will alienate about half of his readership.
Dear city of Albany: It's high time to repave our streets along with carving out new right turning lanes. Our tires and alignment are too expensive to maintain during this economy.
B.J. Fletcher was falsely accused regarding voter qualification, and it’s happening again. She objected to individuals who had moved away from voting and had no idea what race they were. Later it was learned most of them were Caucasian.
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MADDOCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman walked into a North Dakota bar carrying a raccoon, leading health officials to warn those who had contact with the animal about possible rabies exposure.
Bartender Cindy Smith said she was serving drinks at the Maddock Bar last week when a local resident brought in the animal during happy hour. There were about 10 people in the saloon at the time, she said.
Smith said she immediately asked the woman to leave but instead she took the raccoon around the bar to show another customer. The woman eventually departed with the animal after about five minutes.
“We finally got her out with it, and that’s all that happened,” Smith told The Bismarck Tribune. “It never left her arms one time, and there was absolutely no biting.”
Maddock is town of about 500 people located about 85 miles (137 kilometers) from the Canadian border.
Rabies is a viral infection that affects mammals, including humans. In an alert issued Tuesday, North Dakota’s Health and Human Services Department is asking anyone who may have been bitten or had contact with the raccoon’s saliva to seek medical care.
“Because rabies is such a serious disease with a nearly 100% fatality rate, we are making this information available to the public as a precautionary measure,” epidemiologist Amanda Bakken said in a statement.
Six rabid animals have been reported in North Dakota this year, including two bats, two cats, one bovine and one skunk.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Passengers can make a difference in reducing the number of devastating traffic crashes by speaking up when in a vehicle being driven unsafely. That's the theme of National Passenger Safety Week, January 22-29, 2023.
The campaign was initially launched last January by We Save Lives, based in Alexandria, VA and The National Road Safety Foundation, New York City, two non-profits whose focus is on highway safety.
Passengers accounted for 24 percent of traffic fatalities nationwide in 2020, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
"Many of those lives might have been saved had a passenger in the car insisted that the driver slow down, stop texting or not get behind the wheel in the first place," said Candace Lightner, the campaign's organizer and the founder of We Save Lives.
More than 60 traffic safety and advocacy groups nationwide will help encourage passengers to SPEAK UP. The campaign will include a nationwide media blitz, social media outreach and involvement from groups including the Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents traffic safety offices in all 50 states, the National Safety Council and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), with more than 400,000 student members.
Plans for the campaign include distribution of materials about how to speak out, scripts and videos giving examples of when and how to SPEAK UP, and calls for people to sign the "Courage to Intervene" promise.
"Whether a driver is impaired by alcohol or drugs, is speeding or driving too aggressively, or can't stay awake at the wheel, bad driving choices puts passengers at risk of serious injury or death," said Lightner, who has been a leading traffic safety advocate since founding MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) in 1980 after losing her 13-year-old daughter Cari to a multiple repeat offender drunk driver. "Passengers need to speak up when they see dangerous driving behavior," she said. "We hope this ongoing campaign will empower passengers to be safety advocates, to the point where it becomes acceptable – even expected – for passengers to SPEAK UP when confronted with an irresponsible driver."
"Much of being a safe driver comes from education," said Michelle Anderson, director of operations at The National Road Safety Foundation, a non-profit founded 60 years ago to promote safe driving behavior through education. "When people are knowledgeable about driving risks like impairment, speed, aggression and drowsiness, there's a better chance they will avoid taking those risks or letting others do so. The National Passenger Safety Campaign educates and empowers passengers about how they can save lives by calling out unsafe driving in the vehicle before crashes happen."
Visit nationalpassengersafety.org for more information and to sign the Courage to Intervene promise.
We Save Lives, founded by in 2014 by Candace Lightner, who started Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), is an umbrella organization of more than 50 highway safety advocates, law enforcement agencies, companies, local, state, national and international organizations, victim's/survivor groups, and others who want to stop the carnage on our highways.
The National Road Safety Foundation, in its 60th year, produces free videos and teaching materials on distracted driving, speed and aggression, impaired driving, drowsy driving, driver proficiency, pedestrian safety and a host of other safety issues. It also sponsors contests to engage teens in promoting safe driving to their peers and in their communities, partnering nationally with youth advocacy groups including SADD and FCCLA.
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VAUGHAN, ON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - GFL Environmental Inc. (NYSE: GFL) (TSX: GFL) ("GFL" or the "Company") today announced that the Board of Directors of the Company has declared a cash dividend of US$0.012 for each outstanding subordinate voting share and multiple voting share of the Company for the second quarter of 2022.
The cash dividend will be paid on July 29, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 18, 2022. The Company has designated this dividend as an eligible dividend within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
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PARK CITY, Utah (KTVX) – As Day 5 of his ski crash case against Gwyneth Paltrow continued this morning, plaintiff Terry Sanderson took the stand to discuss his version of events and his physical and mental health since the incident.
Sanderson is suing Paltrow over a 2016 skiing collision at a Utah ski resort. He’s asking for more than $300,000, claiming Paltrow caused the crash, which he says lead to permanent brain damage that altered his personality. That’s the opposite of what Paltrow testified last week.
The 76-year-old retired optometrist’s Monday testimony came just minutes after the court revealed that a viewer in the case was finally able to access an internet link believed to hold GoPro footage of the crash. While the jury was informed of the possible footage, and both the plaintiffs and the defense agreed the contents were “authentic,” it has not been played for the jury or the public. Nor were any other contents behind the link made available.
Sanderson has long held to the notion that someone on the slopes at Deer Valley Resort must have had a running camera while on the slopes on the day of the crash. While both legal teams have had access to the link for some time now, neither was able to access any data behind the link before this week.
Sanderson has not been in the courtroom for much of the trial, except Friday, when he attended while Paltrow was on the stand. Sanderson testified that he chose to stay out of the courtroom as two of his daughters testified last week, saying he wanted them to “speak totally freely.” While Sanderson’s attorney, Kristin van Orman, asked some questions about his relationship with his daughters, the two mostly spoke about the crash itself.
According to Sanderson, he had met up with a group of semi-regular friends to ski at Deer Valley Resort. Despite being a lifelong skier and describing himself as “advanced intermediate” in skill, he had never been to the resort prior to that day.
Sanderson testified that he and his group started down the resort’s Bandana Run on the way to another run they wanted to try. The group was told by a more experienced skier to stay to the sides of the run, since it was usually very busy. He testified that he saw at least two large signs telling skiers to slow down and said he did.
Shortly after starting his run, however, Sanderson said no one was in front of him. Instead, he heard a “bloodcurdling” scream behind him.
“It was like somebody was out of control and was going to hit a tree and die,” Sanderson testified. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, somebody’s out of control.'”
He then stated he was hit hard from behind, feeling fists and poles in his upper back, which sent him “flying.” While van Orman asked if he was airborne, he replied, “All I saw was a whole lot of snow, and I didn’t see the sky, but I was flying in that sense.”
He called the collision “a serious smack.”
Sanderson noted he tried to deflect his body to the right as best he could to make sure he didn’t entangle other skiers in his fall, but then he landed and he blacked out. When asked if someone landed on top of him, he said he couldn’t know because he was out. He was not clear as to how long he had blacked out.
Sanderson testified that he awoke slowly, feeling afraid and unable to move. A man, he said, was yelling at him repeatedly, telling him he had broken the rules and hit someone. Sanderson said out of fear, he tried to mumble that he was sorry, hoping the man would leave him alone. However, Sanderson said no sound came out of his mouth as he tried to speak. His skis remained on after the crash, he said.
“I was thinking I’ve got to placate this guy,” said Sanderson. “If he wanted to jump on me right now, he could finish me off.” He added that he did not know who the man was. He also noted he had no memory of a woman yelling at him, though Paltrow testified Friday that she had yelled at Sanderson as he lay on the ground after the crash.
Sanderson noted he had a “purple throbbing pain” coming from his ribs and said his brain felt like it was under Novocaine. While he knew who he was and where he was, he was having trouble moving and standing up. Eventually, he said he was “grabbed and jerked up,” though he said he was not ready to be on his feet. He said he felt vulnerable as other skiers shot past him and he was unable to finish the run on his own.
Since the crash, Sanderson testified that he has had trouble communicating with people, and he’s noticed personality changes in himself. He admitted to “being in denial” about his brain injury and trying to do things he did prior to the crash, with poor results. He noted that on at least two occasions, he got lost trying to drive home from volunteer events. He now needs maps to drive and feels he has lost “visual memory,” such as landmarks he might use in trying to travel home.
He testified that he stays home now as a “self-imposed recluse,” having lost confidence and feeling insecure about traveling alone, and that the changes in his personality have caused a relationship to collapse.
While the defense asked Sanderson some questions, it has been agreed that most of the cross-examination will be moved to another date as other witnesses are in town only for a short amount of time. Both Sanderson and Paltrow are expected to take the stand again before the trial ends.
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Sleep may be as important for heart health as diet, study says
(CNN) - If you want to keep your heart in tip-top shape, make sure to get enough sleep.
According to a study in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Heart Association, the more sleep a person gets, the better it is for their heart health.
The findings are based on sleep data from 2,000 participants who were middle-aged or older.
Researchers said people who sleep less than seven hours per night have an increased risk of heart disease risk issues including type 2 diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends adults get at least seven hours of sleep per day.
Earlier this year, the American Heart Association added sleep duration to its heart checklist known as “Life’s Essential Eight.”
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RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Indivior PLC (LON: INDV) September is National Recovery Month, a time to educate about substance use disorder (SUD) and the effectiveness of evidence-based treatment and counseling, and let people know that recovery is possible.
Substance use disorder is a chronic disease which affects a person's brain and behavior, leaving them unable to control their use of substances such as legal or illegal drugs, alcohol, or medications.1 It is also a disease of epidemic proportion; according to the latest provisional data released by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 104,000 people reportedly died from a drug overdose in the 12-month period ending March 2022, with 78,828 of these deaths resulting from illicit opioids, like fentanyl.2
"At Indivior, we are committed to helping those suffering with substance use disorders break the cycle of addiction," said Christian Heidbreder, Chief Scientific Officer. "By reducing stigma, increasing access to evidence-based treatment, and normalizing substance use disorder as a disease, we can move more people on the path to active recovery and help them to reclaim their lives."
Despite the significant progress made during the last two decades defining addiction as a disease, advancing our understanding of how it affects the brain, and advocating for evidence-based treatment, recent estimates suggest that only 13.4 percent of people nationwide who may benefit from medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) receive it.3 People in urgent need of help are often unaware of their treatment options, have limited access to treatment and counseling, or simply do not seek it out because they are afraid of being stigmatized.4 Lack of access to treatment continues to drive the treatment gap, especially among under-served and marginalized communities.5
"Recovery from substance use disorder is possible," said Terry Horton, MD, FACP, FASAM, Vice President, Patient Insights and Advocacy at Indivior. "But advocacy and patient support are critically important," he continued. "As stakeholders, our policy response to the opioid epidemic should seek to normalize treatment and categorize addiction like any other chronic medical condition. Only then can we transform access to treatment, resource it, and deliver it to the people who need it most."
Indivior looks toward a future where there is no longer a stigma of addiction and where people have access to evidence-based treatment for SUD in order to manage it like other chronic diseases.
More information on National Recovery Month can be found here.
Indivior is a global pharmaceutical company working to help change patients' lives by developing medicines to treat substance use disorders (SUD) and serious mental illnesses. Our vision is that all patients around the world will have access to evidence-based treatment for the chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of SUD. Indivior is dedicated to transforming SUD from a global human crisis to a recognized and treated chronic disease. Building on its global portfolio of OUD treatments, Indivior has a pipeline of product candidates designed to both expand on its heritage in this category and potentially address other chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of SUD, including alcohol use disorder and cannabis use disorder. Headquartered in the United States in Richmond, VA, Indivior employs more than 900 individuals globally and its portfolio of products is available in over 40 countries worldwide. Visit www.indivior.com to learn more. Connect with Indivior on LinkedIn by visiting www.linkedin.com/company/indivior.
1. Substance Use and Co-Occurring Mental Disorders. (n.d.). National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/substance-use-and-mental-health#:%7E:text=A%20substance%20use%20disorder%20(SUD,drugs%2C%20alcohol%2C%20or%20medications
2. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm, Accessed on August 24, 2022
3. Krawczyk N, Rivera BD, Jent V, Keyes KM, Jones CM, Cerdá M. Has the treatment gap for opioid use disorder narrowed in the U.S.?: A yearly assessment from 2010 to 2019". Int J Drug Policy. 2022 Jul 19:103786. Epub ahead of print.
4. National Drug Control Strategy, The White House, Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2022
5. National-Drug-Control-2022Strategy.pdf (whitehouse.gov)
6. NIDA. 2021, August 31. Drug overdose deaths in 2020 were horrifying. Radical change is needed to address the drug crisis. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2021/08/drug-overdose-deaths-in-2020-were-horrifying-radical-change-needed-to-address-drug-crisis
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Lava from Mauna Loa is less than 4 miles from a key highway. Officials say they have a plan in case the road closes
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN
With the Mauna Loa volcano continuing to erupt on Hawaii’s Big Island, local officials and residents are keeping an eye on the lava flow as it creeps closer to a major roadway and making plans for the possibility that access to the highway could soon be cut off and have a major impact on daily life.
Lava from Mauna Loa was 3.6 miles from Saddle Road, also known as Daniel K. Inouye Highway, as of Wednesday morning, the US Geological Survey said. The crucial roadway is the fastest route linking the east and west sides of the island.
“County officials have been working with the state Department of Transportation on a plan to shut down the Daniel K. Inouye Highway if the lava moves close enough to the road to pose a hazard,” Adam Weintraub, communication director with Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement to CNN. “The plans are preliminary and subject to change based on how the lava advances.”
As of Wednesday, the lava was moving into a relatively flat area, “so it is slowing down and spreading out,” Weintraub said.
Emmanuel Carrasco Escalante, who lives in Hilo on the island’s east side, told CNN if the road ends up being shut down, his commute to work would take about four hours round trip — twice as long as normal, not accounting for traffic.
Carrasco Escalante works in landscaping in Kona on the west side of the island and said he usually leaves for work around 3:30 a.m.
If Saddle Road is closed, he’ll have to detour to either the north or south coastal roadways, he said.
“That would add almost two hours, more gas, and more miles so hopefully it (lava) doesn’t cross that road,” Carrasco Escalante told CNN.
The fountains of lava that began pouring from Mauna Loa this week marked the first time it has erupted in 38 years, joining nearby Kilauea, which has been erupting since last year, and creating rare duel volcanic eruptions on the Big Island. At 13,681 feet above sea level, Mauna Loa is the world’s largest active volcano.
The transportation department can provide a six-hour notice of the road’s closure, Weintraub said. “And the staff at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say that they can provide at least 24-48 hours advance warning if the lava appears to be threatening the roadway,” he added.
According to the US Geological Survey, the lava’s pace has slowed in the days since the eruption and it could take at least two days for the lava to reach Saddle Road.
In case of emergencies if the road closes, there are hospitals and first responders on each side of the island, Weintraub said, noting there is already “substantial coordination” between hospitals in the state.
Hawaii’s transportation department is monitoring the situation and response plans are in place if the highway must be closed, according to a statement from earlier this week. The department also shared a preliminary plan for the possibility of closure.
No threat to property, but air quality could be compromised
Despite the dual eruptions of Mauna Loa and Kilauea just 21 miles apart in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii Gov. David Ige has maintained it’s still safe to visit the Big Island. And the park has said neither eruption is threatening homes.
“The eruption site is high up the mountain, and it’s in a relatively isolated location,” Ige said.
State health officials, however, have warned of potential air quality issues, including vog, or volcanic smog.
Residents and visitors can expect “vog conditions, ash in the air, and levels of sulfur dioxide to increase and fluctuate in various areas of the state,” the Hawaii health department said.
Volcanic gas, fine ash and Pele’s Hair (strands of volcanic glass) could be carried downwind, the US Geological Survey said. A field team has found Pele’s hairs across older lava flows, the geological survey said Wednesday, adding: “Hairs deposited many km (mi) from active vents by the windblown eruption plume.”
Children, the elderly and those with respiratory conditions should reduce outdoor activities that cause heavy breathing and reduce exposure by staying indoors and closing windows and doors if vog conditions develop, the health department said.
The governor acknowledged the potential for air hazards and said officials are tracking air quality monitors across the island.
“The concern is about dangerous gases from the fissures. And the most dangerous is sulfur dioxide,” Ige said Wednesday. “Observing the volcano should occur at a distance. It’s not safe to get up close.”
While evacuation orders have not been issued, Ige said he signed an emergency proclamation as a “proactive” measure.
Volcanoes also erupting in Alaska
More than 3,000 miles to the north, officials in Alaska are also monitoring two erupting volcanoes in their state.
Both the Pavlof Volcano and Great Sitkin Volcano are experiencing low-level eruptions in the remote Aleutian Islands chain, according to Cheryl Searcy, duty scientist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
“Pavlof has been erupting for over a year,” Searcy told CNN in a phone interview from Anchorage. “Roughly 15 months of activity, longer than any of the previous eruptions.”
During that time, Pavlof — which stands at 8,261 feet– has not produced a high ash cloud, posing no threat to aviation, Searcy said.
As for the Great Sitkin Volcano, lava is still erupting in its summit crater, according to a report from the state’s volcano observatory. Searcy noted the 5,709-foot Great Sitkin has also been active for quite a while.
Researchers are also keeping an eye on three other volcanoes that have shown signs of unrest, including the Semisopochnoi, Takawangha and Cleveland volcanoes.
Overall, Alaska has more than 40 active volcanoes stretching across the Aleutian Islands chain.
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The team is focused on providing BMO's broad array of banking services and industry expertise to a wide variety of local industries
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BMO Financial Group announced today a commercial banking office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, led by BMO's Michigan Managing Director, James Hess. Located at 250 Monroe Ave., it is comprised of five commercial bankers focused on diversified industries, equipment finance and treasury & payment solutions, all supported by BMO's national industry sector expertise.
"Grand Rapids and the surrounding area represent a very appealing market for us given the growth potential and its proximity to our footprint in both the United States and Canada," said Ray Whitacre, Co-Head, U.S. Commercial Banking, BMO Financial Group. "We've had commercial clients in Michigan for decades, but with this office we can provide the breadth and depth of BMO's capabilities and services to our existing and prospective clients from a team of experienced commercial bankers who are based in the area and know the market well."
"BMO's cross-border banking capabilities are a market differentiator, and considering that Canada is Michigan's top export market, we see tremendous opportunity to serve clients doing business on both sides of the border," added Hess.
The team will be focused on a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, transportation, engineering and construction, food and business services.
About BMO Financial Group
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.02 trillion as of January 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
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Steve Bannon must find new lawyers to advise him in ‘We Build the Wall’ criminal fraud case
By Kara Scannell, CNN
A New York judge has given Steve Bannon until the end of February to find new lawyers to advise him in a criminal fraud case after the former Donald Trump aide’s attorney said there were “irreconcilable differences” and communications have broken down.
Bannon attorney David Schoen said in court Thursday that he no longer communicates directly with Bannon and that all conversations about the case go through a third party. He said they differ about how to approach the case and defense theories, among other matters. Schoen and another attorney pleaded repeatedly to be removed immediately from the case.
Judge Juan Merchan said Schoen and another attorney could withdraw but they would not be dismissed from the case until Bannon obtains new counsel because of the seriousness of the charges.
“I’m doing this for the benefit of Mr. Bannon even though it may not feel that way,” the judge said.
Bannon was charged last year with defrauding donors to a fundraising effort called “We Build the Wall” to construct a wall along the southern US border. He has pleaded not guilty.
The judge said he understood that Bannon is close to obtaining a new lawyer and would give him until February 28 to find one. He added that this would delay the case, which is set for trial later this year.
Schoen said Bannon has reached out to “at least seven law firms” and one individual may get involved in the case.
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NEW YORK, July 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (commonly known as the "Unification Church") would like to express our shock and grief over the assassination of the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family in the wake of this tragedy.
Prime Minister Abe was a globally respected statesman of Japan and active in building peace in Asia, a subject close to the heart of our organization. Mr. Abe often spoke of the need to value freedom and democracy and believe in the hope that such values will bring. We pray that his work to build peace in the Indo-Pacific region will endure.
As an organization, Family Federation stresses the value of family in building a peaceful society. We condemn this act of violence. Guns have no place in our religious beliefs or practices.
May we each take this moment to let our loved ones know that we care, and continue to pray for Mr. Abe's family and the people of Japan at this time.
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Nancy Jubb
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Rexburg man flown to hospital following accident on I-15
BINGHAM COUNTY, Idaho (KIFI) - Northbound traffic on Interstate 15 was blocked for nearly two and a half hours for a crash.
Idaho State police said the crash happened at approximately 5:30 p.m. Tuesday near milepost 102.
A 53-year-old Rexburg man was driving northbound in a 2006 Dodge Durango. He drove off the right shoulder at a high rate of speed before the vehicle overturned several times, ISP reported.
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Police: Louisville shooting suspect bought gun legally a week ago
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The bank employee who opened fire at his Louisville workplace targeted specific people with the rifle he bought legally a week earlier, police said Tuesday.
Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a news conference that bank employee Connor Sturgeon, 25, bought the AR-15 rifle on April 4 and targeted certain people in the attack.
Armed with the rifle, Sturgeon killed five people — including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor — while livestreaming the attack Monday on Instagram, authorities said. Another eight people were wounded.
Gwinn-Villaroel also said that officers’ body camera video from shooting will be released Tuesday afternoon.
The chief said that a rookie officer who was shot in the head while responding to the mass shooting remained in critical but stable condition Tuesday morning.
“It’s looking hopeful,” Gwinn-Villaroel told WDRB-TV about Officer Nickolas Wilt, who had graduated from training just 10 days earlier.
She said Wilt and other officers “unflinchingly” engaged the shooter at Old National Bank and stopped him from killing more people.
Police arrived as shots were still being fired inside the building and killed the shooter, Gwinn-Villaroel said.
“The act of heroism can’t be overstated on yesterday. They did what they were called to do. They answered that call to protect and serve,” she said.
The shooting, the 15th mass killing in the country this year, comes just two weeks after a former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) to the south. That state’s governor and his wife also had friends killed in that shooting.
Four of the injured remained hospitalized Tuesday — one in critical condition and three in stable but fair condition, University of Louisville Hospital said in a statement.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he lost one of his closest friends in the shooting.
“Tommy Elliott helped me build my law career, helped me become governor, gave me advice on being a good dad,” said Beshear, his voice shaking with emotion. “He’s one of the people I talked to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. He was an incredible friend.”
Also killed in the shooting were Josh Barrick, Jim Tutt, Juliana Farmer and Deana Eckert, police said.
“There are no words to adequately describe the sadness and devastation that our Old National family is experiencing as we grieve the tragic loss of our team members and pray for the recovery of all those who were injured,” Old National Bank CEO Jim Ryan said in a statement.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told WDRB-TV that his focus moving forward would be on trying to unify residents in the city.
“We can’t let the targeted acts of evil violence that we saw yesterday in our city deter us from continuing on the path to make our city the vibrant, safe, strong healthy city that we all know it can be and all want it to be,” he said.
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States, local communities, and Tribes will receive $3.7 billion for opioid epidemic recovery along with $1.2 billion worth of drugs used to treat overdoses
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Prescription Opiate Litigation Plaintiffs' Executive Committee confirmed that they, alongside the working group of States' Attorneys General, counsel for Native American Tribes and plaintiffs' lawyers representing the States and local communities, have reached an agreement in principle with pharmaceutical manufacturer Teva on the primary financial terms of a nationwide opioid settlement. This agreement follows years of litigation naming Teva as a defendant responsible for fueling the opioid epidemic in America.
As part of the agreement to resolve these claims, Teva will pay approximately $3.7 billion, which includes approximately $650,000,000 in funds earmarked for already settled cases along with more than $3 billion in additional abatement funds, evenly spread over 13 years plus relevant legal fees and costs over six years. In addition, there will be approximately $100,000,000 for Native American Tribes. Teva will also offer the option of $1.2 billion worth of its generic version of the drug Narcan (naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray used to reverse an opioid overdose) over 10 years or, in lieu of the product, an agreed upon cash equivalent.
Statement from National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL Plaintiffs' Executive Committee co-leads and negotiation team of: Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy; Paul T. Farrell Jr. of Farrell & Fuller Law LLC; Joe Rice of Motley Rice LLC; Russell Budd of Baron & Budd, P.C.; Elizabeth Cabraser of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP; Paul Geller of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP; Peter Mougey of Levin Papantonio Rafferty; Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP; Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC; and Steven Skikos of Skikos, Crawford, Skikos & Joseph LLP:
"Today's development is a direct result of the years of hard work by community leaders, first responders, and the MDL litigation teams who have dedicated their efforts to gathering the resources necessary to battle the opioid epidemic across the country for years ahead. This latest step will provide additional long overdue support to those on the frontline in thousands of communities who will strongly benefit from the influx of financial and medical resources as they continue their life-saving work. While this settlement will resolve claims against a defendant accused of fueling this epidemic in multiple state and federal trials across the country, the agreement can only go into effect with the support of states, subdivisions, and Native American Tribes. We encourage all these groups to sign onto this agreement to allow these resources to get into the hands of those who need them as fast as possible. While this agreement is a vital step, we also recognize that this alone will not put an end to the opioid epidemic. We will continue to work to hold companies up and down the opioid supply chain accountable."
Announced today by Teva, this settlement is contingent upon finalization of terms between the working group and Teva. Once the documentation is finalized, the nationwide agreement will then need to be adopted by a sufficient number of states, subdivisions, and Native-American tribes in the United States to take effect. The parties expect that they will have the documentation for the nationwide settlement agreement finalized within the coming weeks, with the nationwide settlement sign-on process for states, subdivisions, and tribes to follow.
Similar to the provisions of the Global Settlement with drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, the settlement will distribute resources based on factors including population and proportionate share of the opioid epidemic impact as measured by overdose deaths and opioid use disorder diagnoses.
This settlement news comes as multidistrict federal litigation and state litigation continues in courtrooms around the country against other companies in the opioid supply chain. Current litigation includes the federal trial in Ohio that found CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart liable for fueling the opioid crisis in Lake County and Trumbull County, and now awaits the judge's determination of the value of the opioid epidemic abatement funds owed by pharmacy chains to these communities. Another trial in federal court in San Francisco against Walgreens is also awaiting a bench decision. Teva and Allergan were defendants in that trial until July 12, 2022 when the parties reached a $58M settlement agreement. The New York state trial is also anticipating an abatement trial date this fall following a jury finding in favor of the plaintiffs in December 2021. Teva and Anda are defendants in that case.
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Remains of fourteen soldiers excavated on the site of significant Revolutionary War battle
CHARLESTON, S.C., Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust today announced a significant historic discovery at the Revolutionary War Camden Battlefield. The Trust, acting on behalf of Historic Camden Foundation, contracted with the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina to excavate a number of bodies of Revolutionary War soldiers killed in the August 16, 1780 Battle of Camden. A team of archaeologists from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, along with biological anthropologists from the Richland County Coroner's office and the University of South Carolina unearthed the skeletal remains and accompanying artifacts of 14 Revolutionary War soldiers.
"These young men demonstrated their allegiance in an intense battle for liberty. They are truly America's first veterans," said Doug Bostick, CEO, South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust. "We have a responsibility to honor their sacrifice by ensuring their remains are protected in perpetuity and their stories of bravery are shared."
These human remains, some discovered less than six inches below the surface in seven separate locations across the battlefield, were located during site research, and were carefully excavated, and removed over an eight-week period beginning in September. "This discovery is particularly significant to the history of our state and nation," said Dr. Steven D. Smith, research professor, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and principal investigator for the project. "This is a rare opportunity to examine and analyze a large sample of Revolutionary War soldiers to get information about their health and diet, age, gender, and compare the forensic data to the historic record."
Based on preliminary field examinations, the team believes that twelve bodies are Patriot Continental soldiers from either Maryland or Delaware, one is likely a North Carolina Loyalist, and one served with the British 71st Regiment of Foot, Fraser's Highlanders. SCIAA archeologist James Legg has conducted research on the Camden Battlefield for more than 40 years and led the onsite field team. "People visit battlefields like Camden, Cowpens and Kings Mountain every day and don't often consider that they are walking in unmarked cemeteries. The dead are still there," remarked Legg. "The work we are doing honors their sacrifice by shedding light on details that are not yet documented in the historical record and by providing them with decent marked graves for the contemplation of battlefield visitors."
Forensic anthropologists from the Richland County Coroner's Office assisted in the final stages of removal, transport to the coroner's office, and will assist in the forensic study of the remains. "The Richland County Coroner's Office is one of only two coroner's offices in the state with forensic anthropologists on staff," commented Dr. Bill Stevens, deputy coroner, director of anthropology, Richland County Coroner's Office. "Over the next five months, we will gather information to uncover details such as age, race, and potentially the region of their birth, further telling the personal stories of these soldiers."
In 1780, Camden was the oldest and largest town in the Carolina backcountry. It was strategic to both the British Army, which occupied the town, and the Patriots in the Revolutionary War. Following a series of strategic errors before and during the Battle of Camden, the Patriot army under command of Major General Horatio Gates was soundly defeated. Although the Battle of Camden was disastrous for the American cause, it ushered in changes in military leadership that altered the war's course. After the battle, Major General Nathanael Greene was promoted to command of the Southern Campaign, and his leadership ultimately led to the evacuation of the British army from Charleston, South Carolina, in December 1782.
Historic Camden Foundation, a non-profit with the mission to protect, educate, and celebrate Camden's colonial and Revolutionary War history, owns the largest portion of the Camden battlefield. "As property owners, we are the caretakers and stewards of not only the resources we can see above ground, but also to the rich history below ground," remarked Cary Briggs, executive director, Historic Camden Foundation.
The Liberty Trail, a partnership between the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust and the American Battlefield Trust, owns another recently acquired part of the Camden battlefield. The Liberty Trail has introduced Voices of Camden, an immersive audio play that is an excellent companion to The Liberty Trail app. The Liberty Trail is also writing, designing, and will be installing new interpretive signage on the Camden battlefield.
Planning is underway by SCBPT and Camden area partners for reinterment ceremonies April 20-22, 2023, in Camden. Bostick continued, "When these young men marched into the darkness on that summer night in 1780, they did so out of love for their country despite the consequences that may befall them. Our intent is to lay them to rest with the respect and honor they earned more than two centuries ago."
The South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust seeks to protect and preserve these battlefields and historic military sites across South Carolina to not only honor the soldiers who gave their lives in service to their country, but also provide current and future generations a space at which to remember, contemplate, discuss, and learn how our history not only shapes the past, but is also relevant to the present and future of our great state. Over the last 30 years, the organization has protected 72 sites. For more information visit, www.scbattlegroundtrust.org.
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The 2023 U.S. Women’s Open Odds & Preview: Yuka Saso
Yuka Saso will take to the course at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California to play in the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open from July 6- 9. It's a par-72 that spans 6,509 yards, with a purse of $10,000,000.00 up for grabs.
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Yuka Saso Insights
- Saso has finished under par six times and carded nine rounds with a better-than-average score over her last 14 rounds.
- She has recorded a top-five score twice and a top-10 score six times in her last 14 rounds.
- Saso has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in three of her last 14 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day five times.
- Saso has finished in the top 10 twice in her past five events, and as high as the top five in one.
- The past five times she has played a tournament, she's made the cut twice.
- In her past five tournaments, Saso has finished within three shots of the leader twice and posted a score better than average twice.
Over the last year
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U.S. Women’s Open Insights and Stats
- Courses on the Tour in the past year have averaged 7,026 yards, which is longer than the 6,509-yard length for this tournament.
- Players have carded an average score of -5 per tournament in the past year on the Tour, with an average par of 71. Events hosted at this course have the same average score relative to par.
- Pebble Beach Golf Links is 6,509 yards, 58 yards shorter than the average course Saso has played in the past year (6,567).
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -4. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -5.
Saso's Last Time Out
- Saso was relatively mediocre over the 16 par-3 holes at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, averaging par to finish in the 66th percentile of the field.
- She shot well to finish in the 97th percentile on par 4s at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, averaging 3.93 strokes on those 44 holes.
- Saso was better than 70% of the golfers at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 4.67 strokes per hole, compared to the field average of 4.83.
- Saso carded a birdie or better on four of 16 par-3s at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship (the other golfers averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Saso carded three bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 2.6).
- Saso had more birdies or better (eight) than the tournament average of 3.5 on the 44 par-4s at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
- At that most recent outing, Saso's par-4 performance (on 44 holes) included a bogey or worse four times (better than the field's average, 8.8).
- Saso ended the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship with a birdie or better on five of the 12 par-5s, more than the field average of 2.9.
- On the 12 par-5s at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Saso carded two bogeys or worse, more than the tournament average of 1.3.
U.S. Women’s Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 6- 9, 2023
- Course: Pebble Beach Golf Links
- Location: Pebble Beach, California
- Par: 72 / 6,509 yards
- Saso Odds to Win: +4500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Author Eavan Gilhuly has no limits with 'Recognize.'
BERMUDA DUNES, Calif., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eavan Gilhuly is thrilled to announce that Recognize, her devotional, is now available on MyStore, a popular e-store founded by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. This 50-day devotional is perfect for anyone seeking to deepen their faith and grow closer to God.
What started as a tribute to her 2019 graduating class, was quickly picked up by Harper Collins Publishing, making the devotional available nationwide. "It all started in April of my junior year of high school at Desert Christian Academy when my pastor told us to turn to a passage in the Bible, and I suddenly realized I had highlighted much of that exact passage and had also written some commentary on it," explains Gilhuly. "As I further scrolled through my Bible, I realized there were more pages like that, with arrows connecting passages and themes. That's what inspired the name Recognize."
Recognize is designed for readers to spend time with their Heavenly Father with no strings attached. Gilhuly's goal in creating Recognize was a devotional that does not put readers in a category. The devotional begins with Bible verses, followed by Gilhuly's thoughts and feelings about the verse and a subsequent journal prompt.
"I have written Recognize for readers to dig deeper into who the Lord is, their relationship with Him, and how they will take His love for them into the world." says Gilhuly, "I want to continue to make Recognize available to as many people as possible. I know that with God there are truly no limits".
MyStore is a popular e-store founded by Mike Lindell, the creator of the enormously popular MyPillow brand. Lindell created the store to provide a platform for small U.S. based businesses to market their products nationwide.
MyStore is the perfect platform for the continued growth of Recognize. Readers can easily order their physical copy of Recognize and start their journey towards a more fulfilling life of faith. Every purchase of Recognize includes a beautifully branded pen and bookmark, making it the perfect gift for anyone ages 13-30.
Don't miss out on this powerful devotional - order your copy of Recognize today! Recognize retails on MyStore for $11.99. Visit MyStore.com.
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Voters across the U.S. agree that permitting reform and domestic critical mineral production are essential to America's clean energy future.
WASHINGTON , March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) President Heather Reams today unveiled results from a CRES Forum national survey conducted by Moore Information Group, which found Republican and Independent voters overwhelmingly support an all-of-the-above energy approach that includes many policies championed by House Republicans in H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, such as permitting and regulatory reform, securing America's critical mineral supply chain, improving energy infrastructure, and responsible development of U.S. energy resources.
"As the Lower Energy Costs Act is being debated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, the findings of our poll could not be timelier," said CRES President Heather Reams. "Republican and Independent voters are aligned with many of the conservative, commonsense policies included in H.R. 1 to unlock our domestic resources, let America build to expand clean energy projects and lower energy costs, and empower the United States to capitalize on our global carbon advantage and help mitigate the impacts of climate change."
"Our CRES Forum poll shows overwhelming support for provisions that increase American energy production, reduce global emissions, and support the U.S. economy—which is exactly what H.R. 1 will do," Reams continued. "From making it easier to permit and build clean energy projects to increasing extraction and processing of critical minerals, CRES is proud to champion these key policies—backed by Republicans and Independents across the country—that will strengthen American energy security and leadership."
Republicans and Independents Nationwide Support Provisions in H.R. 1:
- 83% support an "all of the above" energy approach, which includes sources such as nuclear and natural gas as well as renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydropower.
- 87% support making it easier to develop the American minerals and resources necessary for clean energy production in the U.S. and our allies.
- 80% favor speeding up government review of energy infrastructure project applications to build more in America faster.
- 77% want to streamline permitting and remove regulatory barriers to make it easier extract and process the critical minerals in the United States.
- 85% say developing America's natural gas supplies is critical to our national security and the planet is better off with more energy being produced in the U.S. because the lifecycle emissions of American natural gas is 41% lower than that of Russia.
- 79% support exporting more American-made natural gas to meet demand, while reducing global emissions.
Find the poll results from Moore Information Group here.
Methodology:
The CRES Forum survey was conducted March 8-9, 2023, by Moore Information Group. A total of 1,000 online interviews were conducted among a nationwide representative sample of self-identifying Republican and Independent voters. The potential sampling error is plus or minus 3% at the 95% confidence level.
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LONDON (AP) — Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was no reply from the church, which at the time was accumulating a tidy profit from the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The handwritten letter from 1723 — whose author says they must remain anonymous for fear they will “swing upon the gallows tree” if exposed — has gone on display in London as part of efforts by the Anglican church to reckon with its historic complicity in slavery.
“It’s a very poignant document, and also extraordinarily rare,” Giles Mandelbrote, archivist at the church’s Lambeth Palace Library, said Tuesday.
The letter is included in an exhibition at the library exploring the church’s role in the 18th-cenury slave trade. It coincides with a new report setting out that role in hard facts and figures.
The Church Commissioners, the body that administers the church’s 10 billion-pound ($12.3 billion) investment fund, hired forensic accountants in 2019 to dig through the church’s archives for evidence of slave trade links. They spent two years poring over centuries-old ledgers, and what they found is “shaming,” the church said.
The investment fund has its roots in Queen Anne’s Bounty, established in 1704 to help support impoverished clergy. It invested heavily in the South Sea Company, which held a monopoly on transporting enslaved people from Africa to Spanish-controlled ports in the Americas. Between 1714 and 1739, the company transported 34,000 people on at least 96 voyages.
The commissioners’ report says the church at the time knew what it was involved in.
“Investors in the South Sea Company would have known that it was trading in enslaved people,” it said.
The fund also received donations from individuals enriched by the slave trade, including Edward Colston, a British slave trader whose statue in his home city of Bristol was toppled by anti-racism protesters in 2020.
Those ledgers recording the profits of human bondage are now on display, alongside documents showing how views of slavery within the church ranged from justification to opposition.
Some Anglicans wanted to convert slaves to Christianity, while others saw that as a “slippery slope” that could lead to demands for freedom. The exhibition contains a version of the Bible intended for slaves, with all references to freedom from bondage removed. That meant cutting 90% of the Old Testament and half the New Testament.
The exhibition includes tracts justifying slavery in religious terms, and others using faith to argue for abolition, including a 1680 book by Anglican clergyman Morgan Godwyn, who argued that those endorsing the slave trade were making a deal with the devil.
There is a speech to Parliament from 1789 by leading abolitionist William Wilberforce, who would campaign for 18 more years before Britain outlawed the slave trade. And there is a letter to John Newton, the captain of a slave ship, from a trader who says “I have sent you one boy slave on board.” Newton later repented, became an abolitionist and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace.”
“In the late 18th century, increasingly there was more and more publicity about the horrors of the slave trade and the inhumanity of it, and that helped to generate a movement for abolition,” Mandelbrote said.
Britain outlawed the slave trade in 1807, but did not legislate to emancipate slaves in its territories until 1833.
When the commissioners’ report was published Jan. 10, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby promised to “take action to address our shameful past.”
That action includes a 100 million pound ($123 million) fund to support projects “focused on improving opportunities for communities adversely impacted by historic slavery.”
The commitment falls short of demands from some campaigners for institutions that benefitted from slavery to pay compensation to descendants of the enslaved.
“This isn’t about paying compensation to individuals, and its not really just about the money,” said Church Commissioners chief executive Gareth Mostyn. He said the new fund is part of the church’s “journey of repentance.”
“No amount of money will ever be enough to repair the damage done through the trans-Atlantic slave trade,” he said. “But we hope that our response will be a means of investing in a better future for all.”
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VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MiniTool Software Limited has released the new MiniTool Power Data Recovery 11.4, professional data recovery software for Windows. In this new update, MiniTool Software added a new Search box in the scan results interface, improved the disk scanning speed, and fixed the bug that the status displayed is incorrect when selecting files.
Added a New Search Box in the Scan Results Interface
One big change in MiniTool Power Data Recovery 11.4 is that there is a brand-new search box in the scan results interface. This new search box is located on the top-right side of the scan results interface and it is available when the scanning process ends completely.
Usually, a lot of files will appear in the scan results interface after scanning the specified drive or disk. However, finding the needed files from the displayed paths take a lot of effort. To save time, users can enter a file name into the search box to directly locate the target file. Be aware that any extra or missing space in the filename can affect search results. MiniTool Power Data Recovery 11.4 will show a No Result Found prompt if no related file is found.
By viewing the upgrade history of MiniTool Power Data Recovery, we can find that MiniTool has been devoted to updating this software interface for a year. Now, this software has been completely revamped, giving users a more flexible user experience.
Fixed the Bug that the Status Displayed Is Incorrect when Selecting Files
In the scan result interface, the file check box has three states: unselected, all selected, and partially selected. In the previous version of MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a partial selection might appear as a full selection. MiniTool Software has noted this issue and fixed it in MiniTool Power Data Recovery V11.4. This issue will not confuse users anymore.
Improved the Disk Scanning Speed to Quickly Find Needed Files
Scanning the selected drive or disk takes time. The larger the disk and the more files it has, the longer it will take for MiniTool Power Data Recovery to finish the whole scan. MiniTool Software keeps continuously improving the disk scanning speed and has made big progress in this new update.
About MiniTool Power Data Recovery
MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a dedicated file recovery tool that can work on all versions of Windows including the latest Windows 11. It can recover lost or deleted files like images, videos, music files, documents, emails, and more from different types of data storage devices. This MiniTool data recovery software can rescue files even when the hard drive is inaccessible, the system crashes, or the files get lost due to a virus attack.
About MiniTool Software
MiniTool Software Limited is a professional software research and development company, which has more than 10-year history and millions of users all over the world. It devotes itself to the development of data care software like MiniTool Power Data Recovery, MiniTool Partition Wizard, and MiniTool ShadowMaker. Its products also spread to creative tools including MiniTool MovieMaker, MiniTool Video Converter, and more.
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Take 5 Oil Change® expands total footprint to over 800 locations across the U.S. and Canada, with over 950 additional locations in pipeline, providing a multiyear runway for growth
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Driven Brands Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: DRVN) ("Driven Brands" or the "Company") the largest automotive aftermarket company in North America, announced today that Take 5 Oil Change® opened its 200th U.S. franchised location this week, in Hutto, Texas. Ranked in Entrepreneur magazine's 2022 list of the Fastest-Growing Franchises, Take 5 Oil Change® has doubled its U.S. franchise store count over the last year.
Since acquiring Take 5 Oil Change® in 2016 with its differentiated fast, friendly, 10-minute stay-in-you-car oil change model, Driven Brands has scaled the business from less than 50 locations to more than 800 company-operated and franchised locations across the U.S. and Canada today. Franchise openings have accelerated as the differentiated speed and service of the Take 5 Oil Change® offering continues to resonate with consumers and drive strong unit level economics and high return on investment.
"The Take 5 Oil Change® team has done a phenomenal job at taking a differentiated go-to-market strategy and building it into one of the most well-respected brands in the category. We offer a simple operating model with compelling unit level economics and operate in a highly fragmented industry that provides us with a significant runway for growth," said Danny Rivera, EVP and Group President of Maintenance at Driven Brands. "That momentum has continued with an expanded pipeline of over 950 future locations, primarily franchised, that provide us strong visibility into unit growth over the next few years."
Take 5 Oil Change® franchisees are often multi-unit developers and operators who commit to opening multiple locations in a geographic region. Given the strong return on investment, many franchisees are already signing their second multi-location development agreement. The 200th U.S. franchisee, Larry King is a longtime CARSTAR® franchise owner, who expanded his Driven Brands relationship to also own and manage four Take 5 Oil Change® locations, with two more to open later this year.
Take 5 Oil Change® is a quick lube service featuring a unique drive-thru concept that allows customers to never leave the comfort of their car. It offers a convenience to retail and commercial customers with a simple operating model and focused menu that enables industry-leading speed of service.
Driven Brands™, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is the largest automotive services company in North America, providing a range of consumer and commercial automotive needs, including paint, collision, glass, vehicle repair, oil change, maintenance and car wash. Driven Brands is the parent company of some of North America's leading automotive service businesses including Take 5 Oil Change®, Take 5 Car Wash®, Meineke Car Care Centers®, Maaco®, 1-800-Radiator & A/C®, and CARSTAR®. Driven Brands has more than 4,600 locations across 15 countries, and services over 50 million vehicles annually. Driven Brands' network generates more than $1.7 billion in annual revenue from more than $5.0 billion in system-wide sales.
Established in 1984, Take 5 Oil Change® is a quick lube service featuring a unique drive-thru concept that allows customers to never leave the comfort of their car. The brand offers an on average 10-minute oil change service and ancillary services such as air filter replacement, wiper blade changes, and coolant exchanges. Take 5 has more than 800 company-owned and franchised service centers throughout the United States and Canada. For more information, visit www.take5oilchange.com.
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The 2023 PGA Championship Odds & Preview: Min Woo Lee
After the second round of the PGA Championship, Min Woo Lee is in 10th at E.
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Min Woo Lee Insights
- Over his last 12 rounds, Lee has scored under par five times, while also carding four rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded a top-five score once and a top-10 score twice in his last 12 rounds.
- Over his last 12 rounds, Lee has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round once, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on three occasions.
- Lee has finished in the top 10 once in his past five events.
- He has made one cut in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five events, Lee has finished in the top 10 once.
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PGA Championship Insights and Stats
- Lee did not make the cut in his most recent appearance at this tournament (2022).
- This tournament will take place on a par 70 that registers at 7,394 yards, 94 yards longer than the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- In the past year, PGA Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Oak Hill Country Club has a recent scoring average of +3.
- Courses that Lee has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,322 yards, 72 yards shorter than the 7,394-yard Oak Hill Country Club this week.
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -2. That is lower than this course's recent scoring average of +3.
Lee's Last Time Out
- Lee was in the fourth percentile on par 3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, with an average of 3.38 strokes on the eight par-3 holes.
- He averaged 4.14 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 22) at the AT&T Byron Nelson, which landed him in the 12th percentile of the field.
- On the six par-5 holes at the AT&T Byron Nelson, Lee was better than 69% of the golfers (averaging 4.33 strokes).
- Lee carded a birdie or better on two of eight par-3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson (the other participants averaged 1.7).
- On the eight par-3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, Lee had more bogeys or worse (three) than the tournament average (1.8).
- Lee had fewer birdies or better (one) than the tournament average of 6.8 on the 22 par-4s at the AT&T Byron Nelson.
- In that last outing, Lee's performance on the 22 par-4s included a bogey or worse four times (the field's average was worse, at 4.5).
- Lee ended the AT&T Byron Nelson with a birdie or better on four par-5 holes, while the field averaged 4.9 on the six par-5s.
- The field at the AT&T Byron Nelson averaged 0.4 bogeys or worse on the six par-5s, but Lee finished without one.
PGA Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: May 18-21, 2023
- Course: Oak Hill Country Club
- Location: Rochester, New York
- Par: 70 / 7,394 yards
- Lee Odds to Win: +10000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) announced that Edmund Reese, Chief Financial Officer, will be hosting individual investor meetings at the D.A. Davidson FinTech & Payments Spotlight Conference in New York City on Thursday, December 8, 2022.
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with over $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge's infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. In addition, Broadridge's technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of on average more than U.S. $9 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is a part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.
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SEOUL, South Korea, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- d'Alba's waterfull sunscreens are their other signature line of products apart from the best-selling white truffle first spray serum. The steady selling sunscreen line includes three products with variations to accommodate different needs. The products are: waterfull essence sunscreen (chemical sunscreen), waterfull mild sunscreen (mineral/physical sunscreen), and waterfull tone-up sunscreen (pink tinted hybrid sunscreen). The sunscreens have sold over 2 million bottles globally and the waterfull essence sunscreen has received 5.0/5.0 rating from beauty and skincare experts on Beautytap.com. Reviewed well for being non-greasy, fast absorbing, smooth, and having strong sun protection.
Although the sunscreens have different sun protecting ingredients, all three products have smooth application, like an essence, concurring with "waterfull" in their names. All d'Alba's sunscreens have been certified vegan by V-Label, an Italian Vegetarian Union that is currently recognized internationally and a registered symbol for labelling vegan products. Their sunscreens have gentle and mild plant-based ingredients, making them suitable for all skin types. Like all other d'Alba products, the sunscreens are infused with high quality white truffles harvested from Piedmont Alba in Italy.
d'Alba's sunscreen line is loved by consumers in Korea. Just in 2022, d'Alba maintained as the No.1 vegan beauty brand and kept its place within the Top 3 sunscreens in Korea. They have received this ranking in the sunscreen category for being vegan, light weight, having no harsh white cast, essence-like texture, and many other reasons. d'Alba is constantly growing in the United States and the sunscreens are loved by makeup and skincare experts as they work well under makeup as well.
All three sunscreens have strong sun protecting ingredients, with SPF 50+ PA++++ ratings. The sun protection ratings were in-vivo tested by Korea Institute of Dermatological Sciences against UVA and UVB rays. The waterfull essence sunscreen even provides some protection from blue light. The waterfull mild sunscreen is especially great for sensitive skin and can be used by all family members. The waterfull tone-up sunscreen has a pinkish tint to give a natural glow to the skin. The waterfull tone-up sunscreen can be applied in small amounts to give sun protection and even out the skin for a no makeup day.
d'Alba is working harder to create more content to inform the consumers about their products. The new YouTube collaboration is with Tina Tanaka Harris, a skincare and beauty YouTuber that reviews mostly Japanese and Korean skincare products. In her video, all three sunscreens are featured, and Tina shows how the d'Alba vegan sunscreens apply and set after time for the viewers.
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Co-developed by neurosurgeons from Hoag's Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, SyncAR for Spine receives FDA-clearance
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoag's innovative spine team has performed the first spinal fusion surgery utilizing the recently FDA-cleared augmented reality (SyncAR) surgical navigator for Spine, co-developed by neurosurgeons from Hoag's Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute and medical visualization platform leader Surgical Theater.
SyncAR for Spine utiizes 3D virtual reconstructions of CT and MRI images to enable detailed visualization of anatomic structures as well as the surgical tools and hardware. The data-rich hologram produces a life-like reconstruction of the spine to assist surgeons in making detailed pre-planned surgical decisions down to the millimeter. Using multiple displays within the AR goggles, 3D real-time feedback maximizes the accuracy of surgical precision and hardware placement.
Hoag's neurosurgeons have already studied and published the benefits of SyncAR technology in the lab, demonstrating an improved accuracy of >99% for screw placement in the spine. SyncAR for Spine subsequently received FDA clearance in September 2022 paving the way for its utilization in the operating room to help real people.
"Integrating augmented reality into the operating room has the potential to improve surgical precision and patient outcomes at hospitals around the world," said Burak Ozgur, M.D., director of Hoag's Spine Center at the Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, and one of the surgeons who performed the recent SyncAR for Spine procedure.
"SyncAR for Spine is allowing not only enhanced navigation in the operating room, it is enabling more enlightening and informed pre-operative conversations with our patients. They put on the goggles and get to see their own anatomy, and the pathology, with their own eyes. It's truly empowering," said Adam Kanter, M.D., associate executive medical director of the Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, who assisted Dr. Ozgur during the first SyncAR for Spine patient.
Hoag's comprehensive Spine Center is a recognized leader and provider of the most advanced non-operative and minimally invasive treatment options available. Hoag's board-certified, fellowship-trained spine experts provide personalized patient-centered care that enables them to achieve some of the best clinical outcomes in the nation.
"Much of the discussion of surgical innovation centers around the next hardware iteration," said Daniel Yanni, M.D., F.A.A.N.S., vice chair of the division of neurosurgery, who worked closely with Robert Louis, M.D., chief of neurosurgery and the Empower360 Endowed Chair in Skull Base and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, to develop the AR software. "Few people think, 'How do we change surgical execution?' It takes a hospital as forward-thinking as Hoag to advance the way surgery is conducted."
Dr. Louis agreed, saying the speed at which Hoag's expert neurosurgeons were able to develop expertise in and deploy this cutting-edge technology in the operating room can only happen at a hospital as nimble and innovative as Hoag.
"In an academic setting, the speed of evolution would be much slower," said Dr. Louis. "We are leaps and bounds ahead in terms of both the development and deployment of advanced technologies. We are thrilled to bring this technology to our community and beyond."
Dr. Kanter, who spent his previous 15 years in academia at UPMC concurs, "I spent over a decade trying to bring advanced equipment such as robotics and augmented reality to Pittsburgh. At Hoag, it's all already here! Bringing innovative technology into the community is part of the culture at Hoag, we are imagining and creating the future of spine surgery right here in Orange County."
The patient is recovering well, and many more patients will benefit from the technology going forward.
SyncAR for Spine enhanced view could result in more efficient surgeries, streamlined surgical planning, less exposure to X-rays and optimal surgical precision. It also enables training of existing and future spine surgeons while deploying Hoag's technological capabilities to hospitals anywhere.
For his part, Dr. Ozgur is thrilled that this homegrown technological innovation elevates the entire field of neurosurgery.
ABOUT HOAG
Hoag is a nonprofit, regional health care delivery system in Orange County, California. Delivering world-class, comprehensive, personalized care, Hoag consists of 1,800 top physicians, 15 urgent care facilities, 10 health & wellness centers, and two award-winning hospitals. Hoag offers a comprehensive blend of health care services that includes six institutes providing specialized services in the following areas: cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular, neurosciences, women's health, and orthopedics through Hoag's affiliate, Hoag Orthopedic Institute, which consists of an orthopedic hospital and four ambulatory surgical centers. Hoag is the highest ranked hospital in Orange County by U.S. News & World Report and the only OC hospital ranked in the Top 10 in California, as well as a designated Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). For more information, visit hoag.org.
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Human-centric security leader will deliver passwordless technology across every major device, browser, and operating system
TORONTO, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 1Password, a leader in human-centric security and privacy, today announced the acquisition of Passage, a developer-first passwordless authentication company. 1Password will use Passage's technology to launch a passwordless authentication platform for enterprises – enabling a safer, simpler, and more secure end-user experience across any platform or device.
"1Password is focused on empowering companies and consumers to have safer and simpler digital experiences. As the world evolves, that means helping companies and consumers navigate all the complexities on the path to a passwordless future," said Jeff Shiner, chief executive officer of 1Password. "With today's Passage acquisition, we are committing to giving businesses and end users what they want and deserve: the convenience of passwordless without compromising security."
Together, 1Password and Passage Identity will enable developers, businesses, and consumers to make progress toward a passwordless future by accelerating adoption of passkeys. Passkeys represent the opportunity to replace passwords in favor of more secure and seamless user experiences. With passkeys, the pain of forgotten passwords is a thing of the past, and users minimize exposure to phishing attacks. For businesses, passwordless authentication can improve top- and bottom-line revenue by eliminating forgotten customer passwords and reducing sign-up friction.
"Passwords are ubiquitous, but ever-changing requirements can make them a hassle to use, and that can harm the user experience and cause real ramifications for businesses," said Cole Hecht, co-founder and chief executive officer of Passage. "1Password's market leadership and human-centric mission make them a natural fit to achieve our shared vision of a secure, user-friendly experience that enables businesses to deliver a frictionless and safe experience to users on any device – no QR codes required."
The entire Passage team, including co-founders Cole Hecht (CEO) and Anna Pobletts (CTO), will bring their technical expertise and exclusive focus on passkey authentication to 1Password. The Passage team will continue to focus on developing passkey-first authentication for consumer-facing businesses. This solution will be available in beta in early 2023.
The FIDO Alliance is an open industry association focused on improving authentication standards to minimize password use and improve online security. "Enterprises around the world are rapidly adopting FIDO-based solutions in order to accelerate the journey toward a safer, passwordless future," said Andrew Shikiar, executive director and CMO of the FIDO Alliance. "With the Passage acquisition, 1Password has bolstered their solution offering which stands to help more companies reduce reliance on passwords in favor of user-friendly and unphishable FIDO authentication."
About 1Password
1Password's human-centric security keeps people safe, at work and at home. Our solution is built from the ground up to enable anyone – no matter the level of technical proficiency – to navigate the digital world without fear or friction. The company's award-winning security platform is re-shaping the future of authentication, including passwordless. 1Password is trusted by over 100,000 businesses such as IBM, Slack, Snowflake, Shopify, and Under Armour and protects the most sensitive information of millions of individuals and families across the globe. The company's ultimate goal is to help consumers and businesses get more done in less time – with security and privacy as a given. Learn more at 1Password.com.
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Gov. Little recognizes National Invasive Species Awareness Week
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – Governor Brad Little proclaimed this week, February 20-26, 2023, as National Invasive Species Awareness Week.
In the proclamation, the Governor recognized the great impact that invasive species have on Idaho’s productivity and management of land and water resources. The proclamation acknowledged the value in the collaboration of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture and other county, state and federal entities working together to address this threat.
“This week, ISDA is looking to raise awareness on invasive species and what can be done to prevent the spread,” ISDA Invasive Species Program section manager Nic Zurfluh said. “As we continue our efforts across the state, we look to the public remaining as our best line of defense to invasive species.”
The ISDA Invasive Species Program is proactively addressing the threat through prevention, education, early detection and treatment programs. Some of the programs include the Watercraft Inspection Stations, Noxious Weed Management and Control, Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Control, and Regulated and Invasive Insect Pests. The Watercraft Inspection Station Program is the largest program, inspecting over 100,000 watercrafts at station locations across the state in 2022. Invasive quagga and zebra mussels have not been detected in Idaho waterways nor the Columbia River Basin, but infestations elsewhere in North America have had significant impacts on native habitats, water quality, hydropower generation, water delivery and recreational opportunities.
National Invasive Species Awareness Week is an opportunity to recognize the efforts that prevent the spread of invasive species and noxious weeds in Idaho and across the Nation. This is a nationwide event to educate citizens, policymakers, agency leaders and elected officials on what can be done to stop the spread of invasive species. This week invasive species programs across the country are focusing on policy issues related to biodiversity, infrastructure, mussel and other aquatic invasive species, forest health and more.
Idaho has invested significant funding and energy into the Invasive Species Program. The direct efforts of each program are carried out by ISDA employees and cooperators while strongly supported by stakeholders, legislators and industry. The ISDA’s Invasive Species Program has been in place for 15 years working to protect Idaho’s waterways and environment from invasive species.
ISDA Invasive Species Program highlights:
- Blue Heart Springs, located on the Snake River near Hagerman, had an infestation of Eurasian watermilfoil, which has since been removed by ISDA staff. This natural area is enjoyed by visitors for its clear and unique blue water.
- ISDA staff surveyed and treated Bear Lake and the Bear Lake Wildlife Refuge for a Eurasian watermilfoil infestation. Bear Lake is an important headwaters and home to multiple species of wildlife and fish, an important source of irrigation water in the Bear River Basin, and a popular recreation destination.
- In the Coeur d’Alene and Pend Oreille basins, crews have surveyed and treated flowering rush and curly leaf pondweed. These aquatic weeds impact native habitats and recreation.
- In the Bruneau River, a survey and removal of an infestation of hydrilla was conducted by ISDA. Hydrilla affects native habitat and the efficiency of water delivery.
- Along the Snake River in Hells Canyon, Turkish thistle has been identified and ISDA staff have planned treatment for the area. This species has never been seen in Idaho or North America, and ISDA is working cooperatively with Idaho County and the U.S. Forest Service to survey and define the infestation area and identify treatment options to eradicate this highly invasive weed.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has activated an intricate process that hasn't been in motion since the passing of King George VI in 1952. Among many items that need to be changed will be currency and coinage.
Queen Elizabeth II has been depicted on British banknotes and coins for decades. Now the Bank of England and mints around the world that produce coins with her effigy will undertake the task of changing these to images of King Charles III. How will this process take place?
U.S. Money Reserve, America's Gold Authority®, asked two former United States Mint Directors for their insights into the process.
This is a new issue for the U.K. and its Commonwealth nations. When Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne, the monarch was not on banknotes (that occurred 8 years later in 1960, when she appeared on the £1 note). The closest precedent is when the U.K. went to a synthetic £50 banknote, and it took 16 months to recall existing banknotes and issue replacements. There will likely not be a recall and replacement of current banknotes, but instead the U.K. will print new notes with King Charles III that will co-circulate with existing banknotes.
U.K coins will likely change the same way. In the past, when there was a new monarch, the new coins circulated alongside the old.
New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and 25+ other countries of the Commonwealth (Grenada, Jamaica, Tuvalu, etc.) will follow suit.
Some collectors who want a keepsake might also collect (and thus take out of circulation) the coins/bills with Queen Elizabeth II made in the year of her passing and coins/bills with King Charles III made in the year of his ascendancy, as well as various numismatic products commemorating both Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III.
There are more than 29 billion coins depicting Queen Elizabeth II in circulation in the U.K, as well as 4.7 million banknotes, according to the Royal Mint. That number does not include banknotes from the numerous nations in the Commonwealth that also have her on their money. Initiating a new coin launch can be a complicated process, and it becomes even more intricate when every coin will be changed. The process of changeover will likely take a long period of time, during which the different versions of bills and coins will coexist.
U.S. Money Reserve is America's Gold Authority and a leading and trusted distributor of precious metals. Learn more insights from these former Mint Directors on U.S. Money Reserve's website:
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Customers asked, Dutch Bros answered!
GRANTS PASS, Ore., Jan. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dutch Bros is starting the new year with a fan fave! Back by popular demand, the drive-thru coffee company is now featuring White Chocolate Lavender as a Cold Brew, Breve or Freeze at all of its more than 650 locations.
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- White Chocolate Lavender features white chocolate and lavender flavors topped with Dutch Bros' signature Soft Top. It can be ordered as a cold brew, breve or Dutch Freeze (a blended coffee drink). This drink is also delicious as an oat milk latte for a non-dairy option!
"Our customers have shown their love for lavender and requested we specifically bring back White Chocolate Lavender," said Charles Swindler, senior vice president of brand at Dutch Bros. "The calls for it were overwhelming. We're always so stoked when we can give customers what they want!"
Non-coffee drinkers looking to enjoy lavender can try out the Strawberry Lavender lemonade, tea or frost (Dutch Bros' version of a milkshake)!
White Chocolate Lavender is available through the end of March.
About Dutch Bros
Dutch Bros Coffee is a drive-thru coffee company dedicated to making a massive difference one cup at a time. Headquartered in Grants Pass, Oregon, where it was founded in 1992 by Dane and Travis Boersma, it's now sharing the "Dutch Luv" with more than 650 locations in 14 states. Dutch Bros serves specialty coffee, smoothies, freezes, teas, an exclusive Dutch Bros Rebel™ energy drink and nitrogen-infused cold brew coffee. Its rich, proprietary coffee blend is handcrafted from start to finish.
In addition to its mission of speed, quality and service, Dutch Bros is committed to giving back to the communities it serves. Through its Dutch Bros Foundation and local franchisees, the company donates several million dollars to causes across the country each year.
To learn more about Dutch Bros, visit www.dutchbros.com, follow Dutch Bros Coffee on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, & TikTok, and download the Dutch Bros app to earn points and score rewards!
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3M Board of Directors (NYSE:MMM) today declared a dividend on the company's common stock of $1.49 per share for the third quarter of 2022. The dividend is payable Sept. 12, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug. 22, 2022.
3M has paid dividends to its shareholders without interruption for more than 100 years.
As of June 30, 2022, 3M had 569,603,928 common shares outstanding and 64,391 shareholders of record.
About 3M
3M (NYSE: MMM) believes science helps create a brighter world for everyone. By unlocking the power of people, ideas and science to reimagine what's possible, our global team uniquely addresses the opportunities and challenges of our customers, communities, and planet. Learn how we're working to improve lives and make what's next at 3M.com/news or on Twitter at @3M or @3MNews.
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa., Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PGT Trucking Inc., a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services, announces two new appointments to the Executive Leadership Team, naming Luis Guzman as Chief Financial Officer and Andrew Erin as Vice President, Technology Advancement.
"Every year, PGT Leadership evaluates our annual accomplishments and goals for the new term," stated Gregg Troian, PGT Trucking President. "I am confident that in these new roles, Luis Guzman and Andrew Erin will help lead PGT to success, supporting our company's commitment to strategic growth and innovation in 2023."
Guzman joined PGT in 2004, serving most recently as Vice President, Finance. With more than 18 years of experience in the company's financial departments, Guzman is well prepared for his new position. As Chief Financial Officer, Guzman will oversee PGT's financial management, maximize the company's earnings and identify strategic growth opportunities.
"I am honored to transition into this new leadership role," said Guzman. "I will remain focused on maintaining PGT's strong financial position, and with my expanded responsibilities, look forward to reaching new levels of success and growth."
Guzman holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration – Finance from Robert Morris University and earned his Masters of Business Administration in 2009. He was also a member of RMU's NCAA Division I men's basketball team. Originally a native of Ecuador, Guzman became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and now resides in Oakdale, PA, with his wife and two sons.
Erin began working at PGT in 2013 and has held several positions in the Operations, Safety and Risk Departments. Erin is the Chairman of the company's Innovation Committee, and in his new role, he will be tasked with promoting PGT's Future of Flatbed® initiatives by adding quality talent to the Applied Technology department, overseeing the implementation of new software in company systems and leading PGT's innovative approach to transportation solutions.
"The Future of Flatbed will revolutionize our internal and external operating structures to increase efficiency, improve safety standards and reduce carbon emissions, and the Applied Technology department is a vital component of this successful execution," said Erin. "PGT is actively preparing for the future by leading the way to progressive freight solutions, and I am excited to be a part of this evolution in my new role."
Erin earned a bachelor's degree in History, Secondary Education from American University, and he was part of the American Trucking Associations' LEAD program in 2020. Erin currently resides in Beaver, PA, with his wife and three children.
PGT Trucking, Inc. is a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services. PGT is the leader in progressive freight transportation and fleet evolution, exceeding customer expectations with a strong focus on the Future of Flatbed®. At PGT Trucking, "Safety is Everyone's Job – All the Time." Visit www.pgttrucking.com.
Contact: Katie Irvine, PGT Trucking
Phone: 724.987.1812 Email: kirvine@pgttrucking.com
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Sheriff: Caretaker kills terminally ill women, then himself
RIVERVIEW, Fla. (AP) — A 64-year-old Florida man who said caring for his terminally ill wife and stepdaughter had become overwhelming fatally shot the women and then called 911 before killing himself, authorities said.
Thomas Schultz told the dispatcher on Wednesday morning that the family was “in an impossible situation with no way out,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said.
The man asked the dispatcher to send someone to “secure the residence,” the sheriff said.
“As she tries to even engage in conversation, he says, ‘I have to go, I’m fixing to shoot myself,’” Chronister said.
Deputies arrived moments later and found Shultz dead on the back porch, with a revolver next to him, the sheriff said. The body of his wife, Joy, was in one bedroom. The stepdaughter, who was in her 50s, was in a hospital bed with a feeding tube in another room.
Family members told investigators that both women had terminal illnesses, the sheriff said.
Troy Quinn, who lived next door to the family in the Tampa suburb of Riverview, told the Tampa Bay Times that Schultz had recently shared a bit about being a caretaker to both women.
“He was saying it’s kind of stressful, kind of getting overwhelming,” Quinn said. “I said, ‘I’m here for you if you ever need to talk, and if there’s anything I can do, let me know.’ He said he would.”
Quinn said he woke up Wednesday morning and saw deputies at his neighbor’s home.
“I was numb. It’s heartbreaking to me and my wife,” Quinn told the newspaper, “It just doesn’t seem real.”
He said Schultz was retired from the Air Force and loved working in the yard of the ranch style home.
On Tuesday evening, Quinn said he pulled into his driveway and waved at Schultz. He told the Times that “something on my heart” told him to go talk to his neighbor, but by the time he got out of his car, Schultz had driven away.
“I’ve been thinking about that all day,” Quinn said.
In his news conference, the sheriff noted that May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
“There is no such thing as ‘an impossible situation’ with no way out,” Chronister said. “There is always hope, there is always help. It’s OK not to be OK; it’s just not OK not to ask for help.”
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Greg Ergenbright Appointed Chief Executive Officer
DALLAS, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trive Capital, a Dallas, TX-based private equity firm, along with strategic operating partner, SideKick Operators, announces the formation of OWL Services ("OWL" or the "Company"), the leading sales, installation, program management, and service provider to petroleum and clean energy companies across North America.
The Company is the result of the recent acquisition of seven industry leading businesses—including, WildcoPES, CBE, Crompco, e-Structure Solutions, Great Dane Petroleum, JBI Electrical Systems and Oscar W. Larson Company ("Oscar Larson"). Oscar Larson's accomplished management team, skilled staff and technicians, and state-of-the-art technology platform, combined with the expert service offering of these six other leading companies, are the foundation of the OWL Services platform.
OWL Services will be headquartered in the Metro Detroit area, and has 21 offices and more than 1,300 field service professionals located across the U.S. OWL provides integrated solutions for all facets of the petroleum convenience and electric vehicle markets, including security, point-of-sale, environmental compliance, and petroleum convenience and EV charging station design, construction, and maintenance.
Greg Ergenbright, former President of U.S. Operations for Schindler Elevator Group, joins the newly formed company as its Chief Executive Officer. A 30-year equipment, construction, and maintenance veteran, Ergenbright is a strategic and collaborative leader with a demonstrated record of success building business and driving high-performance cultures focused on operational excellence.
"It's an exciting and transformative time—not only for OWL, but also for our industry," says Ergenbright. "By combining the capabilities and strengths of these seven businesses, we have created a turnkey solutions company that will shape and define the future of how we fuel and power our vehicles. I'm thrilled to be a part of this transformation."
Beyond its existing offering, OWL will continue to invest in its already industry-leading eMobility services. The Company is a premier partner for fast-charging original equipment manufacturers and customers looking for a solutions provider that can comprehensively build, operate, and manage the electrical charging infrastructure needed to support the rising number of electric vehicles in the U.S. "OWL is fully equipped to take on the unique demands of electrification safely, efficiently, and sustainably, just as our partner companies have done for decades with petroleum equipment," says Ergenbright.
Blake Bonner, Partner at Trive Capital, added, "We are thrilled to announce the formation of OWL Services and onboarding of Greg Ergenbright after completing seven transactions in less than two years from the original acquisition of Oscar W. Larson. We have built a differentiated facility maintenance platform to address the unprecedented challenges faced by OWL customers in managing electrification while also maintaining existing infrastructure. OWL is another example of Trive's ability to serve as the preferred partner for owner-operators who want to quickly execute a shared strategic plan."
"It has been an honor working side-by-side with the tremendous leadership of these companies," says SideKick CEO Justin Steen. "For over 70 years, OWL's leadership team has fostered a culture of service excellence, fueling the future of these combined organizations. They understand the importance of relentless service to its customers 24/7/365, which positions OWL as the nation's partner of choice for maintaining existing infrastructure and future innovations."
Headquartered in the Metro Detroit area with over 21 offices and 1,300 field service staff, OWL Services is the leading sales, installation, program management, and service provider to petroleum and clean energy companies nationally. OWL keeps America fueled up, plugged in and on the go 24/7/365 days a year. The Company's portfolio of brands includes:
- Oscar W. Larson Company is the Midwest leader in full-service petroleum and fluid handling equipment contracting for more than 75 years.
- WildcoPES is the East Coast's leading distributor of comprehensive vehicle fueling equipment sales, maintenance, inspection, testing and construction management services.
- CBE is a leading supplier and service provider of in-store technologies, including point-of-sale systems, video surveillance, alarms, audio, network infrastructure and digital signage.
- Crompco is the nation's leader in environmental compliance management, site inspection, and managed and information services that are designed and supported specifically for today's underground storage tank owners.
- e-Structure Solutions is the leader in electrifying gas stations, parking lots, parking garages, shopping malls, office parks and more.
- Great Dane Petroleum is a full-service petroleum and general contractor covering the Southeastern U.S.
- JBI Electrical Systems is a nationally recognized and award-winning provider of electrical systems that cater to clients in a diverse range of industries.
Learn more about OWL and its services, as well as employment opportunities, at www.owlservices.com
Trive Capital is a Dallas, Texas based private equity firm with more than $4 billion of regulatory assets under management. Trive focuses on investing equity and debt in what it sees as strategically viable middle-market companies with the potential for transformational upside through operational improvement. We seek to maximize returns through a hands-on partnership that calls for identifying and implementing value creation ideas.
The Trive team is comprised of seasoned investment professionals who have been involved in over 100 middle-market transactions representing more than $6 billion in revenue across Trive's targeted industry sectors and situations.
For more than four decades, the partners of SideKick Operators have been building long lasting and sustainable companies across North America. SideKick is a strategic operating partner investing in mission critical trades providing repair, maintenance, inspection and testing services. SideKick joins in partnership with business leaders to build national brand reputations through operational excellence. SideKick comes from a history of deep-rooted appreciation for founder and family-owned businesses.
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New Deal Underscores Long-Term Commitment to The IMAX Experience® by China's Largest Exhibitor
NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and Wanda Film, China's largest exhibitor, today announced a nine-theatre deal spanning key Chinese markets. Under the agreement, six new IMAX systems will be installed in newly built multiplexes across top Chinese markets. Additionally, Wanda will relocate and upgrade three of its existing IMAX systems to forthcoming new multiplexes.
The agreement marks an expansion of IMAX and Wanda's longstanding, successful partnership, and a sign of renewed momentum in the Chinese market; it is IMAX's first agreement for more than five new theatres in China since February 2021.
"Wanda Film is among our biggest and most dynamic partners in the world, and this agreement further enhances the value of our longstanding relationship with a strong slate of local language and Hollywood releases ahead," said Rich Gelfond, CEO of IMAX. "This expansion of our biggest partnership in China is a great sign that this critical theatrical market is recovering and ready to reclaim its position as a global box office powerhouse."
Under the agreement, new IMAX theatres will open in newly built Wanda Cinemas multiplexes in top tier cities including Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, among others. Wanda and IMAX's partnership dates back more than a decade and spans several major, multi-theatre deals.
Wanda boasts the most IMAX locations in China, with 371 IMAX theatres in operation and another 23 in backlog. IMAX also enjoys a longstanding partnership with Wanda Pictures — the company's production, and distribution arm — on blockbuster releases including the record-breaking 2021 Filmed for IMAX title "Detective Chinatown 3."
About IMAX Corporation
IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture, and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you've never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theaters to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of June 30, 2022, there were 1,694 IMAX theater systems (1,610 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 72 institutional) operating in 87 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
IMAX®, IMAX® Dome, IMAX® 3D, IMAX® 3D Dome, Experience It In IMAX®, The IMAX Experience®, An IMAX Experience®, An IMAX 3D Experience®, IMAX DMR®, DMR®, Filmed For IMAX™, IMAX LIVE™, IMAX Enhanced™, IMAX nXos® and Films to the Fullest®, are trademarks and trade names of the Company or its subsidiaries that are registered or otherwise protected under laws of various jurisdictions. More information about the Company can be found at www.imax.com. You may also connect with IMAX on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/imax), Facebook (www.facebook.com/imax), Twitter (www.twitter.com/imax) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/imaxmovies).
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WEST BABYLON, N.Y., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon Dental Care is excited to announce that Dr. Monika Pogoda will be joining the practice on a full-time basis beginning October 29th. Dr. Monika is a graduate of New York University, where she earned her Doctorate of Dental Surgery. She began practicing on Long Island after completing her residency at Queens Hospital Center and will now be treating patients exclusively at Babylon Dental Care in West Babylon.
Over the course of her career, Dr. Monika has worked to build strong, trusting relationships with each of her patients. She takes time to fully understand what her patients are going through and hear their concerns. Her compassion, transparency, and integrity make her a natural fit at Babylon Dental Care. "She is 100% aligned with our company's core values," said Director of Operations Jenn Brown.
"Whether a patient is dealing with a cracked tooth, a cavity, or another dental issue, I listen to their questions, offer my perspective, suggest possible solutions, and help them to the best of my ability," Dr. Monika said. "I had a lot of dental work done when I was younger. It meant a lot to me when my dentist would talk with me, help me understand the situation, and offer me tips and techniques. Education is something all patients appreciate."
Dr. Monika has long considered dentistry her life's purpose. She first became interested in dentistry as a child. Her brother suffered from a cleft lip, which took a significant emotional and financial toll on her family. That experience inspired her to pursue her dream of becoming a dentist. For Dr. Monika, nothing is more satisfying than helping her patients regain confidence by restoring their smiles.
Dr. Monika loves interacting and building relationships with her patients. She understands that many patients suffer from dental phobias, which is why patient comfort is a top priority for her. Dr. Monika works to create a warm, welcoming environment for her patients so that they feel entirely at ease while they are receiving treatment.
When she isn't seeing patients at Babylon Dental Care, Dr. Monika spends her spare time with family and friends, traveling the world, learning about different cultures, and participating in winter sports. Join Babylon Dental Care in welcoming Dr. Monika to our full-time team.
Babylon Dental Care has been serving the Long Island community with excellent dental care since 1983 with locations in West Babylon (785 W Montauk Highway, West Babylon, NY 11704) and Patchogue (499 Sunrise Highway, Ste. 13B, Patchogue, NY 11772). Visit us online at www.babylondentalcare.com and call us at (631) 587-7373.
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Authorities: 6 killed in shootings in Mississippi; suspect in custody
TATE CO., Miss. (WMC/Gray News) - Six people are dead in Mississippi after a series of shootings Friday.
The shootings all happened within the Arkabutla community, according to Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance.
The first incident happened outside a store on Arkabutla Road around 11 a.m. A man was shot and killed there.
A woman was also killed inside a home on Bend Road. A man was also injured, but appeared to have been hit by an object.
Deputies spotted the suspect inside a vehicle on Arkabutla Dam Road and he was taken into custody without incident. The suspect’s identity has not been revealed.
Deputies later found four more people who had been killed. Two were found inside a home and two were found outside on Arkabutla Dam Road, not far from the suspect’s home.
The suspect has not yet been identified but is expected to be charged soon.
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has been called in to assist with the investigation.
Gov. Tate Reeves issued a statement on social media, saying it was believed the gunman acted alone.
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Rebyota Approved for the Prevention of Recurrence of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults
SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Rebyota, the first fecal microbiota product approved by the agency. Rebyota is approved for the prevention of recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in individuals 18 years of age and older. It is for use after an individual has completed antibiotic treatment for recurrent CDI.
"Today's approval of Rebyota is an advance in caring for patients who have recurrent C. difficile infection," said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. "Recurrent CDI impacts an individual's quality of life and can also potentially be life-threatening. As the first FDA-approved fecal microbiota product, today's action represents an important milestone, as it provides an additional approved option to prevent recurrent CDI."
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that can cause CDI, a potentially life-threatening disease resulting in diarrhea and significant inflammation of the colon. In the United States, CDI is associated with 15,000-30,000 deaths annually.
The intestinal tract contains millions of microorganisms, often referred to as the "gut flora," or "gut microbiome." Certain situations, such as taking antibiotics to treat an infection, may change the balance of microorganisms in the gut, allowing C. difficile to multiply and release toxins causing diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever, and in some cases, organ failure and death. Other factors that can increase the risk for CDI include age older than 65 years, hospitalization, a weakened immune system and a previous history of CDI. After recovering from CDI, individuals may get the infection again—often multiple times—a condition known as recurrent CDI. The risk of additional recurrences increases with each infection and treatment options for recurrent CDI are limited. The administration of fecal microbiota is thought to facilitate restoration of the gut flora to prevent further episodes of CDI.
Rebyota is administered rectally as a single dose. Rebyota is prepared from stool donated by qualified individuals. The donors and the donated stool are tested for a panel of transmissible pathogens, however, as Rebyota is manufactured from human fecal matter, it may carry a risk of transmitting infectious agents. In addition, Rebyota may contain food allergens; the potential for the product to cause adverse reactions due to food allergens is unknown.
The safety of Rebyota was assessed from two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical studies and from open-label clinical studies conducted in the United States and in Canada. The participants had a history of one or more recurrences of CDI. They received one or more doses of Rebyota or placebo 24 to 72 hours after completion of antibiotic treatment for their CDI; participants' CDI was under control at the time of receipt of Rebyota or placebo. Across these studies, 978 individuals aged 18 years and older received at least one dose of Rebyota. In one study, among 180 Rebyota recipients, when compared to 87 placebo recipients, the most common side effects after receiving one dose of Rebyota were abdominal pain, diarrhea, abdominal bloating, gas and nausea.
The effectiveness of Rebyota was evaluated in an analysis of data from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study. The analysis included 177 adults who received one dose of Rebyota and 85 who received one dose of placebo in this study. It also incorporated success rates from a different placebo-controlled study in which 39 adults received one dose of Rebyota and one dose of placebo and 43 adults received two doses of placebo. Success in preventing recurrent CDI was defined as the absence of CDI diarrhea within 8 weeks of administration of Rebyota or placebo. In a statistical analysis that took into account both studies, the overall estimated rate of success in preventing recurrent CDI through 8 weeks was significantly higher in the Rebyota group (70.6%) than in the placebo group (57.5%).
The application was granted Fast Track, Breakthrough Therapy and Orphan designations.
The FDA granted approval of Rebyota to Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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LEHI, Utah, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PCF Insurance Services (PCF), a top 20 U.S. insurance brokerage firm, has acquired Oak Point Risk Advisors, a niche risk management and insurance agency focusing on commercial insurance for the maritime, oil and gas, and construction industries.
"We are excited to welcome Oak Point Risk Advisors to our PCF Agency Partner network," said Peter C. Foy, Founder, Chairman and CEO of PCF Insurance. "Oak Point is a growing agency with a unique and deep understanding of the risks businesses along the Gulf Coast face, and their expertise in mitigating risks in the hazardous industries that they serve will be invaluable to our partner network."
PCF Insurance partners with agencies that have a strong desire to expand capacity by utilizing a deep bench strength of collective experience. Furthermore, through its partnership with PCF Insurance, agencies look to preserve the local client and community relationships that built its business by offering clients enhanced coverage offerings, more competitive pricing, and innovative solutions for protection against even the most unique risks.
Ronny Sternfels, President of Oak Point Risk Advisors, added, "At our very core, Oak Point Risk Advisors is a client service organization that prides itself on being a trusted advocate for our clients. By joining the PCF Agency Partner network, we are empowered to build upon and expand our risk management and insurance packages to protect the workforce and business continuity of our clients."
The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
About Oak Point Risk Advisors
Based in Louisiana, Oak Point Risk Advisors is an insurance and risk management services company that works closely with businesses along and on the Gulf of Mexico. With an understanding that business insurance is not one-size-fits-all, Oak Point Risk Advisors builds tailor-made insurance programs for every client. Learn more at oakpointrisk.com.
About PCF Insurance Services
A top 20 U.S. broker headquartered in Lehi, Utah, PCF Insurance Services is a leading full-service consultant and insurance brokerage firm offering a broad array of commercial, life and health, employee benefits, and workers' compensation solutions. Propelled by its people, PCF Insurance's agency-centric operating model and entrepreneurial environment support its tremendous growth profile, offering partners alignment through equity ownership, significant leadership incentives, and resources to over 3,100 employees throughout the U.S. Ranked #20 on Business Insurance's 2022 Top 100 Brokers and #13 on Insurance Journal's 2022 Top Property/Casualty Agencies, PCF Insurance is a notable leader in the insurance space. Learn more at pcfins.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Waste Management, Inc. ("Waste Management") (NYSE: WM) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of certain Waste Management redeemable senior notes between February 13, 2020 and June 23, 2020.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Waste Management, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Waste Management includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the U.S. Department of Justice had indicated to Waste Management that it would require Waste Management to divest significantly more assets than the $200 million indicated in the merger agreement between the Company and Advanced Disposal Services; (ii) as a result, the merger would not be completed by July 14, 2020, the end date under the merger agreement; and (iii) the Waste Management redeemable senior notes would be subject to mandatory redemption at 101% of par.
DEADLINE: August 8, 2022
Aggrieved Waste Management investors only have until August 8, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Kylian Mbappé leads France past Poland 3-1 at World Cup
By ANDREW DAMPF
AP Sports Writer
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Kylian Mbappé scored two goals and set up another for Olivier Giroud, giving France a 3-1 victory over Poland and a spot in the World Cup quarterfinals on Sunday.
The Paris Saint-German forward now has a tournament-leading five goals and the 2018 champions are within three wins of defending their title.
Robert Lewandowski scored from the penalty spot in second-half stoppage time for Poland.
No country has repeated as World Cup champions in six decades — since Brazil achieved the feat by claiming consecutive trophies in 1958 and 1962. Italy is the only other nation to have won two straight, in 1934 and 1938.
France’s quarterfinal opponent will be either England or Senegal.
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STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola Power" or the "Company") (www.renesolapower.com) (NYSE: SOL), a leading fully integrated solar project developer, today announced that its management team is scheduled to participate in the following investor conferences.
- September 12th – 14th: H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference (New York, NY)
o Presentation scheduled at 10:30 am EDT on Tuesday, September 13th
- Tuesday, September 20th: Roth Capital Partners 9th Annual Solar & Storage Symposium (Anaheim, CA)
Management will also participate in one-on-one and group meetings with institutional investors at each conference. For more information or to request a meeting, please contact your institutional sales representative at each sponsoring company.
About ReneSola Power
ReneSola Power (NYSE: SOL) is a leading global solar project developer and operator. The Company focuses on solar power project development, construction management and project financing services. With local professional teams in more than 10 countries around the world, the business is spread across number of regions where the solar power project markets are growing rapidly and can sustain that growth due to improved clarity around government policies. The Company's strategy is to pursue high-margin project development opportunities in these profitable and growing markets; specifically, in the U.S. and Europe, where the Company has a market-leading position in several geographies, including Poland, Hungary, Minnesota and New York. For more information, please visit www.renesolapower.com.
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Tech industry companies add workers for the 25th consecutive month; tech occupation unemployment rate drops to 1.8%
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology employment continues to hold steady to begin the new year, according to analysis of the latest labor market day by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce.
Technology industry companies added 17,600 workers in December, with job gains recorded in four of five sector categories, CompTIA's analysis of today's U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics #JobsReport reveals. It was the 25th straight month of net employment growth in the tech industry.
Employers throughout the economy added an estimated 130,000 tech workers in December, helping to drive down the tech occupations unemployment rate to 1.8%, compared to the overall national rate of 3.5%.1
Employer job postings for future tech hiring declined for the second consecutive month, but still totaled more than 246,000 in December. Positions for software developers and engineers accounted for nearly 30% of last month's jobs postings. IT support specialists, IT project managers, systems engineers and network engineers were also in demand.
"Another wave of positive tech employment data speaks to the many moving parts of a complex labor market," said Tim Herbert, chief research officer at CompTIA. "Despite the layoffs there continues to be more employers hiring tech talent than shedding it."
Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas led the list of metro markets with the highest volumes of tech jobs postings, which Richmond (VA), Tallahassee (FL), Las Vegas (NV) and Lansing (MI) recorded the largest month-over-month increases in employer job postings. Among industry sectors, professional, scientific and technical services (38,654), finance and insurance (33,538) and manufacturing (26,763) reported the most activity.
CompTIA's analysis also shows that 30% of all tech jobs postings are for positions in emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, or in roles requiring emerging tech skills.
Within the tech sector three occupation categories paced December hiring – IT services and custom software development (+7,200), other information services, including search engines (+6,600) and data processing, hosting and related services (+5,600).
Recent layoff announcements by technology companies may not show up immediately in government reports, such as today's BLS "Employment Situation" report.
The "CompTIA Tech Jobs Report" is available at https://www.comptia.org/content/tech-jobs-report. For more analysis and perspective visit the CompTIA Tech Job Report video series at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuqIJd7KnBU_nZd2oXEwa0I5X7Vt124eM.
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is a leading voice and advocate for the $5 trillion global information technology ecosystem; and the estimated 75 million industry and tech professionals who design, implement, manage, and safeguard the technology that powers the world's economy. Through education, training, certifications, advocacy, philanthropy, and market research, CompTIA is the hub for unlocking the potential of the tech industry and its workforce. https://www.comptia.org/
1 Monthly occupation level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tends to experience higher levels of variance and volatility. Labor market data from the BLS and employer job posting data from Lightcast may be subject to backward revisions.
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CHICAGO, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Pat Tillman Foundation (PTF) announced the names of the 60 U.S. service members, veterans and military spouses chosen as 2023 Tillman Scholars. In recognition of their service and leadership potential, the newly selected class will receive scholarship funding to pursue higher education and continue their service in the fields of healthcare, business, law, public service, STEM, education and the humanities. For the full list of 2023 Tillman Scholars, along with their service branches, institutions and fields of study, please visit http://scholars.ptf.org.
"We're thrilled to welcome these impressive 60 veterans and military spouses as part of our global Tillman Scholar community," said Dan Futrell, CEO and 2011 Tillman Scholar. "These individuals are key to closing the leadership gap in our country, and it is our honor to support them with scholarship, community, and leadership development as they lead through action to impact the most pressing challenges facing our world today."
"Selecting a new class of Tillman Scholars and supporting their goals is such a special time for the foundation each year," said Marie Tillman Shenton, board chair and co-founder of PTF. "It means so much to see these leaders continue to carry Pat's legacy and values forward, in fields as diverse as medicine, STEM, humanities and engineering."
To date, PTF has invested more than $26 million in scholar support and named more than 850 Tillman Scholars at nearly 150 academic institutions nationwide.
For more information on the Pat Tillman Foundation and the impact of the Tillman Scholars, visit pattillmanfoundation.org.
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At least 6 teens shot after Milwaukee Juneteenth celebration ends
MILWAUKEE (AP) — At least six teenagers were shot Monday afternoon around where Milwaukee’s Juneteenth celebration had just wrapped up, according to police and fire officials.
The shooting happened about 4:20 p.m. outside Greater Philadelphia Church of God in Christ, according to witnesses and a Facebook Live video taken by a bystander in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, according to local media outlets.
Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said six teens were shot, including a 17-year-old who may have been a gunman himself and is in custody. Police were still seeking additional suspects who hadn’t yet been identified.
Police said the victims, four girls and two boys, ranged in age from 14-19.
Norman said the shooting may have stemmed from a fight among a number of girls and young women, but he didn’t know what sparked the dispute. The injuries of those wounded varied but did not appear life-threatening, the chief said.
“Milwaukee, what’s going on with our children?” Norman wondered aloud at a news conference. He noted that he has taken part in the city’s Juneteenth celebrations for eight years without any such bloody aftermath.
“Parents, guardians, elders, we need to engage in ensuring that this violence that our children are bringing these streets ceases. No handgun, no weapons of destruction, should be in the hands of our young ones.”
“This is a story that plays out too often, and it’s getting really old. Really old,” Norman said.
The violence followed a bloody weekend of shootings across the United States.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson stressed that Monday’s Juneteenth observance itself was a safe and growing event, calling the subsequent violence “totally, totally unacceptable.”
“We had thousands and thousands of people here celebrating and bringing themselves together and having a sense of community. That’s a powerful thing. That’s the true story about what this day is,” said Johnson, a Democrat.
A man who identified himself as T. Jenkins told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that a fight between two women preceded the shooting. A young man pulled out a gun and everyone scattered, Jenkins said. The man did some of the shooting, he said.
Jenkins provided aid to a young woman with a neck wound. There was blood coming out of the left side of her neck, he said. “I applied pressure to her neck,” he said. “I tried to keep everyone calm around me.”
A Facebook Live video taken in the immediate aftermath of the shooting shows at least two young people with gunshot wounds being treated by paramedics on the pavement.
The person who filmed the Facebook Live said in the video that a teenage girl or young woman had suffered a gunshot wound to the neck. The Facebook user tried to comfort her sobbing friend, who was trying to contact her mother. Only about 20 minutes after the festival had officially ended, hundreds of people were still walking along the street.
Thousands of people packed King Drive for the festival, which ran from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vendors selling food and wares lined the street along with community organizations offering resources, snacks and free giveaways.
Music thumped from booths and food trucks offering refreshing treats in the heat drew long lines. Youth dance groups, marching bands and drill teams entertained crowds in a parade along King Drive earlier in the day. Police officers were stationed in several places along the route.
Keith Caldwell, another vendor, described the scene this way: “I just heard commotion, gunshots, people screaming.”
On security at the event, Caldwell talked of the need for gun control.
“Right now, it’s like an uncontrollable situation,” he said.
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movr Prescribe helps organizations provide personalized exercise recommendations at scale
VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - movr (www.movewithmovr.com), a leading movement health company, announced today the launch of movr Prescribe, its exercise prescription technology. Following the release of movr Assess last month, movr is furthering its movement health offering to better serve fitness tech, health, tactical and high-performance organizations looking to connect movement assessments to personalized exercise recommendations and insights. movr Prescribe automates the process of recommending movements that measurably improve function, specific to the needs of an individual.
"Scaling personalized movement health solutions is a complex task and Prescribe as a product is many years in the making for us. The technology behind it combines the best assessment-based methodology and the experience of thousands of in-person client sessions with a scalable and individualized prescription element delivered digitally," said Aaron De Jong, movr Founder and CEO. "Coming to market with a proven, evidence-based solution at a time when individuals, companies, and technologies are realizing that step and rep counting doesn't solve for specific MSK dysfunction is important for us and our partners."
While movr Assess enables organizations to create unique movement health profiles for their people, movr Prescribe uses the assessment data to curate personalized movement protocols that improve feel and function for every individual. Working together, the two products enable the real-time and on-demand delivery of individualized corrective exercises and programming that until now has required in-person, one-on-one coaching.
"Missed workdays, pain, physical discomfort, unmet performance goals, MSK injuries and physical therapy spend are all pain points experienced by our partners and the markets we are in. We can now solve for the root causes associated with movement dysfunction, giving individuals and companies an easy-to-implement, actionable and effective way forward," continued De Jong. "One size fits all doesn't work with movement health. Personalized recommendations are needed, and with Prescribe, we can deploy these in any platform or alongside any technology with our platform-agnostic software. We are excited about the opportunity to grow through channel partners and direct integrations and are already in-market with Prescribe alongside several commercial partners in digital fitness, health and tactical."
Access to movr's library of corrective exercises is made available via its API and cross-platform mobile SDK to deliver dynamic and personalized exercise prescriptions. movr Prescribe also seamlessly integrates with any existing exercise library. To learn more about movr Prescribe or to book a free demo of the platform, please reach out: hello@movewithmovr.com.
movr measurably improves how people move, feel, and perform by providing personalized movement health assessments, recommendations and data insights. To learn more, please visit: www.movewithmovr.com.
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The best time to inspect and repair your roof is before snow, sleet and ice arrive. Finding places to patch ahead of time makes the job easier, but still comes with important considerations.
You need to review the safety precautions of working on your roof, identify problem areas and make sure you have the right tools and equipment to fix the problem. Even if your roof has already been covered by snow, though, there are tools available to clear the space needed to make repairs.
In this article: Getyiyi Pickaxe, Henry Roof Cement and BXI Flashing Roll Tape.
Safety steps before you inspect your roof
Any time you work on your roof, safety is a priority to prevent falls and injuries.
Ensure that your ladder is in good working order and placed firmly on the ground. If there is snow on the ground, use a snow shovel to clear the area before erecting the ladder. Ladder accidents are a common cause of injuries even before you reach the roof.
You should wear work boots with intact tread for a tight grip on the ladder rungs. Avoid wearing open-toed shoes or sneakers.
What to look for when you inspect your roof
The first thing to look for when you reach the roof are missing or damaged shingles. Over time, some shingles can curl or crack, which can lead to problems.
Check pipes and eaves for mineral granules that have washed off of shingles. If you have a large accumulation of granules, it may be time to consider replacing your roof due to deterioration.
If you’ve noticed a leak inside your house, try to identify the location on the roof where the water is entering.
If winter has beaten you to the punch and your roof is covered in snow, look for ice dams that have formed. You will want to remove these immediately, since they can cause a lot of damage.
What you will need to patch and repair your roof
If you roof is already covered in snow and ice, you will need several items to clear a space for your repair.
An electric roof cable or roof salt warms snow and ice to melt away ice dams safely without damaging the roof. For extra-thick ice dams, you may need to use a pickaxe. Use extra caution to make sure you don’t damage the roof or eaves while chipping away at the ice.
For minor repairs, keep a supply of roofing cement to seal leaks and fix broken shingles. A roll of flashing tape can be used as a protective barrier between the roof and shingles, forming a permanent seal against the elements. Some roofing material requires a torch to heat and activate the sealant. This should only be done by homeowners experienced using torches.
FAQ
Q. Do cracked shingles need to be replaced?
A. No, most cracked or torn shingles simply require a quick repair. Apply a small drop of roofing cement to one side of the crack and then the other side, spreading it across the crack with a putty knife.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund Inc. (NYSE: NBXG) (the "Fund") has announced a conference call with Fund Portfolio Manager Hari Ramanan and members of his team, to be held on Monday, July 25, 2022 at 4:00 PM (Eastern). During the call, members of the Portfolio Management team will review the Fund's investment process and provide an update and perspective on the rapidly evolving next generation connectivity investment opportunity.
Questions may be submitted in advance to the following email address: nbxg@nb.com. The deadline for email submission of questions is Friday, July 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM (Eastern). Details for the call, including the Zoom link and the dial-in information, will also be posted to the Neuberger Berman website, www.nb.com, in advance of the call.
A replay of the call will be available on nb.com.
Call Details:
Zoom Link:
https://nb.zoom.us/j/95257194412?pwd=QjVTcnJidGxBSitUeGs0RHgybnR1UT09
Participant Dial-In: (646) 558 8656
Meeting ID: 952 5719 4412
Passcode: 07252022
About The Fund
The Fund, which is advised by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, has an investment objective to provide capital appreciation and income. The Fund is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. No assurance can be given that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved. Shares of closed-end funds frequently trade at a discount of their net asset value. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that the shares may be worth more or less than their original cost.
About Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $447 billion in client assets as of March 31, 2022. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
Statements made in this release that look forward in time involve risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the adverse effect from a decline in the securities markets or a decline in the Fund's performance, a general downturn in the economy, competition from other closed end investment companies, changes in government policy or regulation, inability of the Fund's investment adviser to attract or retain key employees, inability of the Fund to implement its investment strategy, inability of the Fund to manage rapid expansion and unforeseen costs and other effects related to legal proceedings or investigations of governmental and self-regulatory organizations.
NBXG Contact: Tony Maltese, 212.476.9229, AMaltese@NB.com
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The 2024 Volvo EX90 is still a few months away from the start of deliveries, but the electric SUV is already sold out for its first year of production.
Volvo confirmed this in a press release detailing its first-quarter 2023 financial results, although it didn’t disclose how many vehicles would be built in the first-year production run, only saying that customer interest has surpassed internal projections.
“As a result, Volvo Cars has closed the order book for the time being because the first scheduled production run is sold out,” the company said in a statement, “but it will re-open again soon.”
Unveiled in November 2022 as an electric counterpart to the three-row XC90 SUV, the EX90 shares the new Sustainable Electric Architecture (SEA) with the upcoming Polestar 3, and is slated to be built at Volvo’s South Carolina factory. Volvo previously said that plant will be the first to go-all electric, with all factories transitioning to making only EVs by 2030.
Overall Volvo EV sales have also been quite strong. In Q1 2023, 18% of Volvo’s vehicle sales are EVs—up from 8% in Q1 2022, the company reported. In the U.S., Volvo recently reported that its Recharge vehicles—meaning EVs and plug-in hybrids combined—make up 26% of sales. But as Volvo points out, its entire U.S. lineup for 2023 is now mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or EV.
The only two all-electric Volvo models currently on sale are the XC40 Recharge and its coupe-like sibling, the C40 Recharge. Both get a range boost, and will pivot to rear-wheel drive, for the 2024 model year (dual-motor all-wheel drive has been available throughout, but the current/previous single-motor versions were front-wheel drive). At the EX90’s unveiling last year, Volvo also confirmed another, smaller electric SUV to be unveiled in 2023.
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BEIJING, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: FFHL) ("Fuwei Films" or the "Company"), a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality BOPET plastic films in China, today announced that the Company has delivered a notice of termination (the "Termination Notice"), dated as of May 22, 2022, to Enesoon New Energy Limited, a British Virgin Islands company ("Enesoon"), pursuant to which, the Company notified Enesoon and the current shareholders of Enesoon (the "Sellers") that the Company is terminating the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 31, 2021, as amended on July 31, 2021 (collectively, the "Agreement"), by and among the Company, Enesoon, the Sellers and Enesoon New Energy (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., with immediate effect in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement.
About Fuwei Films
Fuwei Films conducts its business through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co., Ltd. ("Shandong Fuwei"). Shandong Fuwei develops, manufactures and distributes high-quality plastic films using the biaxial oriented stretch technique, otherwise known as BOPET film (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate). Fuwei's BOPET film is widely used for packaging food, medicine, cosmetics, tobacco, and alcohol, as well as in the imaging, electronics, and magnetic products industries.
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This press release contains information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to risks. Risk factors that could contribute to such differences include those matters more fully disclosed in the Company's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which, among other things, include the significant oversupply of BOPET films resulting from the rapid growth of the Chinese BOPET industry capacity, changes in the international market and trade barriers, especially the uncertainty of the antidumping investigation and imposition of an anti-dumping duty on imports of the BOPET films originating from the People's Republic of China ("China") conducted by certain countries; uncertainty around coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, potential delisting of our ordinary shares under the Holding Foreign Company Affordable Act if the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is unable to inspect our auditors located in China, uncertainty around U.S.-China trade war and its effect on the Company's operation, fluctuations of the RMB exchange rate, and our ability to obtain adequate financing for our planned capital expenditure requirements; uncertainty as to our ability to continuously develop new BOPET film products and keep up with changes in BOPET film technology; risks associated with possible defects and errors in our products; uncertainty as to our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights; uncertainty as to our ability to attract and retain qualified executives and personnel; and uncertainty in acquiring raw materials on time and on acceptable terms, particularly in view of the volatility in the prices of petroleum products in recent years. The forward-looking information provided herein represents the Company's estimates as of the date of the press release, and subsequent events and developments may cause the Company's estimates to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking information in the future. Therefore, this forward-looking information should not be relied upon as representing the Company's estimates of its future financial performance as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Actual results of our operations may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of the risk factors.
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3 killed in Southern California small plane crash
BIG BEAR CITY, Calif. (AP) — A single-engine plane crashed near a California mountain airport on Monday, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.
The Beechcraft A36 went down about 2 p.m. near Big Bear City Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The plane struck a vacant lot, and there was no fire, fire officials said.
The victims weren’t immediately identified.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation. Weather reports said it was partly cloudy at the time of the crash.
Big Bear Airport is in the San Bernardino Mountains near Big Bear Lake, a popular resort area about a two-hour’s drive east of Los Angeles.
It was the second deadly small plane crash in three days in Southern California. On Saturday, one person was killed when a single-engine plane slammed into a grassy hillside above homes in a Los Angeles neighborhood amid dense fog, authorities said.
The Cessna C172 crashed around 8:45 p.m. Saturday on the city’s west side, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Van Nuys Airport, the Los Angeles Fire Department and Federal Aviation Administration said.
Joubin Solemani was at home with his family in the upscale Beverly Crest area when they all heard a loud crash.
“We thought it might be a car crash. But we looked outside and didn’t see anything. We didn’t know what the heck it was,” Solemani said Sunday. “Then search-and-rescue showed up and were all over the hillside.”
After searching for several hours in darkness and “thick ground-level fog,” crews found the crash site and one person dead in the wreckage, the fire department said in a statement. The pilot was the plane’s lone occupant, the FAA said.
When the sun came up Sunday, Solemani said he could see the plane a few hundred feet (meters) above his property in the Santa Monica Mountains. “It’s totally mangled,” he told The Associated Press.
The pilot was not immediately identified. Fire department personnel recovered the body Sunday afternoon.
The plane avoided hitting power lines and a large water tank and, officials said, there was minimal fire.
An air traffic controller initially reported the plane as missing after losing radar contact with the aircraft while it was en route to Van Nuys Airport, the fire department said in an alert shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
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Train with hazardous materials derails in rural Maine
ROCKWOOD, Maine (AP) — A train carrying hazardous materials has derailed and caught fire in Rockwood, Maine, fire officials said.
Rockwood Fire & Rescue posted a photo of the derailment Saturday on its Facebook page and advised residents “to stay clear!” It was unclear if there were injuries in the derailment. The department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rockwood is in the north-central part of the state in a mostly rural area. It’s near Moosehead Lake, one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the state.
The derailment is the latest one to plague the rail industry. Federal regulators and members of Congress are urging railroads to do more to prevent derailments after recent fiery wrecks involving hazardous chemicals in Ohio and Minnesota prompted evacuations.
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Coco Gauff suffers shock first-round defeat at Wimbledon amid mixed results for other US players
By Ben Morse, CNN
(CNN) — Coco Gauff suffered a shock defeat in the first round of Wimbledon on Monday, whilst there were mixed results for her US compatriots elsewhere at the third grand slam of the year.
World No. 7 Gauff lost in three sets – 6-4 4-6 6-2 – to fellow American Sofia Kenin in a match which continued late into the London evening.
Kenin, who won the Australian Open in 2020 and is a former world No. 4 before injuries hampered her career, delivered the tournament’s first big shock, showing her teeth by breaking early in the first set.
Gauff, 19, did battle back to take a hard-earned second set but was blown away by world No. 128 Kenin in the decider.
“I knew I had to play my best to win,” the 24-year-old Kenin told reporters. “I just took it point by point, not getting anxious or excited. I really battled out there. I’m so happy I was able to finish it before it got dark – I didn’t want to come back tomorrow.”
Gauff, who made her Wimbledon debut at the age of 15, says she will use the defeat as motivation for her career going forward.
“She had nothing to lose,” Gauff said. “I knew, coming in, she would play with a lot of motivation. It was all about how I would play today and how I would take care of my end of the court.
“Defeat makes me want to work even harder. Right now I feel very frustrated and disappointed. I feel like I have been working hard, but clearly it’s not enough.”
Kenin will face 21-year-old Xinyu Wang in the second round.
Gauff and Kenin were two of 19 US players in the women’s draw at Wimbledon.
The highest seeded amongst the American players was Jessica Pegula, who beat compatriot Lauren Davis in a three-set battle.
Pegula, the No. 4 seed, failed to convert three match points in the second set tie-break as both players dealt with windy conditions.
Eventually, Pegula, who has never made it past the third round of Wimbledon, was able to eke out a tight final set and advance to the second round with a 6-2 6-7(8) 6-3 victory. She will now face Spain’s Cristina Bucșa.
Elsewhere, five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams was beaten in straight sets – 6-4 6-3 – by Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina.
Williams looked to have suffered a nasty injury in the opening set when she slipped and fell, grabbing her knee in pain. However, after having treatment, Williams was able to continue.
But the 43-year-old, playing in just her third tournament of the year, was unable to overcome her fellow wildcard Svitolina.
“Grass is inherently going to be slippery, Williams said afterwards. “You’re going to fall at some point.
It was just bad luck for me. I started the match perfectly. I was literally killing it, then I got killed by the grass.
“It’s not fun right now. I felt like I was in great form coming into this tournament, and great form in the match.
It’s all very shocking at the moment. This is sports. I’m hitting the ball well. Hopefully I can just figure out what’s happening with me and move forward.
“I think what makes this one hard to process is I’ve had so many injuries. I’ve been missing from tour for quite a while. This is not what I want for myself. This kind of fall, I didn’t do anything wrong.
“I just went for the ball. There’s nothing I can really do about it. Those kinds of things are hard to process emotionally, mentally and physically on the court.
“I’ve played through a lot of injuries and won a lot of matches injured. It’s almost a specialty of mine. I just couldn’t figure it out today.”
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SINGAPORE, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bit.Store, a global social cryptocurrency investment platform announced its integration with OKC (OKX Chain)- an EVM-compatible, Cosmos-based L1 chain powered by OKX- the second largest global exchange by trading volume. This latest integration with OKC supports users to experience OKC swap through Bit.Store Swap feature.
Bit.Store was launched in 2020 as a way for people new to crypto to start trading Bitcoin and a small basket of other cryptocurrencies with easy access to education and a community of other traders. Social tools of the platform provide traders of varying experience a place to join a community that shares a data bank of trades, investment strategies, profitability records, transaction records, and more, all of which can be freely discussed online, so that traders can make more informed investment decisions and gain experience at a comfortable pace.
The platform gained momentum as a popular gateway to crypto adoption, adding partners along the way among payment processors and trade facilitators like Alchemy Pay, Paytend, Unlimint, Nganluong, and Payby. Bit.Store's latest integration with OKC (OKX Chain) allows users to enjoy swap, staking, airdrop and other features of OKC though Bit.Store Swap, with more features under development and will be added in the future. In addition, Bit.Store App will be soon integrated with OKX Web3 wallet, which enables users to purchase OKT via fiat deposits with Visa and MasterCard.
When it first started in 2020, Bit.Store entered a market exclusively serving technically advanced crypto traders. The market for crypto-curious was impeded by the complex challenges of private keys, public keys, wallet addresses, digital signatures, seed phrases, and a host of other esoterica that made the blockchain an exclusive club of technocrats. These issues discouraged average consumers from participating in crypto trading, despite the popularity of crypto in the media.
Bit.Store's dedicated asset allocation manager is a key feature of the Bit.Store platform, serving a group of investors who are automatically classified into a membership club based on the net value of their accounts. The manager offers educational resources, news, investment analysis, and other services that are tailored to the manager's assigned class.
"Bit.Store alleviates the stress of investing with an easy-to-use and intuitive platform interface and no fees for purchasing cryptocurrency," said Moss. "We have already gained traction in Europe and South-East Asia, and we are now Indonesia's most popular social crypto investment platform for novice traders. We're growing because of the way we pool together reliable knowledge resources for all types of traders to use, plus it's fun."
Bit.Store currently allows fiat payments from 40 different services from all over the globe, including Visa, MasterCard and American Express, among many other local providers.
About Bit.Store
Bit.Store is a global social digital asset investment platform that aims to make it possible for novices, average investors, and experts alike to conveniently and securely access the crypto investment market. We are also a social platform that provides access to education, news, and other investment tools to help all investors increase their knowledge and make informed investment decisions.
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About OKC - A Super Scalable, Compatible L1 Blockchain
OKC (OKX Chain) is an EVM-compatible L1 built on Cosmos with a focus on true interoperability (IBC) and maximized performance. At high scalability, developers can build and scale with low gas fees. The OKC ecosystem and infrastructure, including the all-in-one multi-chain Web3 interface, enables a seamless experience for both developers and users.
Advantages of OKC
- High Scalability & Maximized Performance: Based on enhanced Tendermint and Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus that can support up to 5000 Transactions per Second (TPS), Web3 applications shall reach their full potential at extremely low cost.
- Enhanced Interoperability: OKC supports Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol that — together with the Tendermint consensus algorithm, featuring instant finality — can be used to realize value transmission between Cosmos ecosystem within seconds. Being fully EVM compatible, OKC allows developers to build projects without any learning cost.
- Developer Friendly: OKC is completely open-source. Anyone can read it, check the progress, comment on it, and help build the ecosystem. OKC also provides native oracle protocol and industry-leader Chainlink for maximum flexibility to access price feeds.
- Secure: The OKC team offers a reliable smart contract auditing service, making it a genuinely decentralized protocol that avoids the centralization risks of most blockchain networks today.
Twitter: @okcnetwork
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Near's Tourism Dashboard and Origin Market Length of Stay datasets help drive growth and marketing alignment to enable strategic business decisions
PASADENA, Calif., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As travel rebounds to pre-pandemic levels, Near, a global SaaS leader in privacy-led data intelligence on people, places, and products, is working with Greater Palm Springs to provide insights into where both its domestic and international travelers are coming from to help it understand its business better, make smarter resource decisions, and to better leverage the recovery in tourism in the wake of COVID-19. To assist in this effort, Near is providing Greater Palm Springs its Tourism Dashboard and Origin Market Length of Stay datasets, which are created specifically for analyzing the tourism market, both internally for the company, as well as for sharing with its industry partners.
Greater Palm Springs attracts over 14 million visitors annually, with 6.4 million of those visitors staying overnight. One in four jobs in the area is in the hospitality industry, and the overall economic impact of tourism for the region is $7.5 billion. With the pandemic, the region saw direct spending reduced by $3.4 billion, a 54% drop. To navigate this tremendous shift, the team needed insights and data on where visitors were coming from and what they were doing while visiting to adapt their strategy. By identifying the most common countries of origin for international travelers, Greater Palm Springs knew where to better allocate its resources to draw more tourists and help compensate for events canceled due to the pandemic. This helped lead to full occupancy by summer 2021. As travel continues to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, The Near data is also helping to track visitor/traveler consumer behavior to understand where visitors are dining, shopping, and the attractions they are visiting.
Read the Case Study Here: How Greater Palm Springs used Near's data to understand visitor origins and visitation patterns
"Our partnership with Near has provided our organization with quality data to validate strategy and resource allocation along with gaining new insights into visitor profiles, originating source markets, and their movements within the destination. Since the data is consistently updated and customizable, we are finding new ways to incorporate the data in real-time along with educating our local hospitality businesses to better support their internal programming. Everyone at Near has always been responsive and easy to work with while also accommodating all our requests," said Gary Orfield, Director of Tourism Development, at Greater Palm Springs.
The data from Near helped the team collaborate with the airline network planners on routes, which was especially useful in responding to the changes during the pandemic. The data helped inform and validate recommendations for building new airline routes or extending routes for certain seasons. Thanks in part to these recommendations, Palm Springs International Airport has set ten monthly records since June 2022.
Greater Palm Springs was also able to gather intelligence from regional airports like LAX, San Diego, Orange County, and Ontario to understand where visitors were coming from in terms of the U.S. point of entry, and where they were going once they left the airport. This resulted in a better understanding of international markets and led to increased growth during the summer months. With this and the strategic allocation of resources, Greater Palm Springs was able to attract greater-than-usual numbers of leisure travelers, which made up for a reduction in convention business, which historically had made up 40% of visitors and business. Greater Palm Springs has seen leisure occupancy growth during the summer outpace peak season with a 17.2% increase in the past decade (versus 13.3% for January - May). The Average Daily Rate (ADR) for leisure guests in the summer months has also grown by 34.7% in this same period.
"Near is empowering Greater Palm Springs with the data and insights it needs to make strategic business decisions that will help increase its ROI and the overall tourist experience," said Anil Mathews, Founder, and CEO at Near. "Near is the gold standard in the tourism industry and we are delighted to empower destination marketing organizations (DMOs) of all sizes as well as cities and states around the world with our people and places data to make them more competitive"
Through their partnership with Near, Greater Palm Springs has been able to use data to validate strategy and decisions in many ways. While the overall ROI contributed directly through their work with Near is challenging to measure, the data helped the team: make a case for developing new routes and expanding existing services for flights to Palm Springs International Airport, which reached record numbers of monthly passengers starting in June 2021.
Visit Greater Palm Springs is the official tourism marketing agency for the Coachella Valley. Founded in May 1989 by a Joint Powers Authority comprising the cities of Palm Springs, Desert Hot Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta, and Indio, Visit Greater Palm Springs was created as a public-private partnership to help grow the region's tourism economy. The mission of Visit Greater Palm Springs is to positively affect the destination's tourism economy and quality of life for its citizens, serving more than 5000 GPSTBID partners and providing sales, marketing, and public relations support targeting potential leisure travelers from around the world as well as event, meeting and convention groups. Learn more here: https://www.visitgreaterpalmsprings.com/
Near, a global SaaS leader in privacy-led data intelligence curates one of the world's largest sources of intelligence on people, places, and products. Near processes data from over 1.6 billion unique user IDs, in over 70 million places across 44 countries to empower marketing and operational data leaders to confidently reach, understand, and market to consumers and optimize their business results. With offices in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Paris, Bangalore, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, Near serves major enterprises in retail, real estate, restaurants, tourism, technology, marketing, and other industries. For more information, please visit https://near.com
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These are alternatives to teacher licensing requirements across 16 states
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These are alternatives to teacher licensing requirements across 16 states
Group of school kids sitting and listening to teacher in classroom.
The United States was already facing a critical shortage of teachers before COVID-19 brought the world to a screeching halt; the pandemic only exacerbated the problem.
To address this, many states are testing out alternative programs that loosen the requirements for obtaining teaching licensure, including considering sufficient education or internship experience in lieu of sitting for and passing a qualification exam. Some criticize these loopholes for supposedly degrading the quality of public education. However, there are a variety of potential benefits that come with introducing nontraditional routes to becoming a teacher.
Alternative pathway programs could help address teacher shortages in critical specialized areas, including foreign languages and special education. They could lead to teacher preparation that emphasizes learning to teach in practical settings rather than focusing so heavily on theory. They could also help diversify teaching staff by bringing in people of varied educational and social backgrounds, thus leading to an education system better equipped to address unique variations among students.
Such programs could pave the way for expanding routes to teaching licensure even further. For instance, Florida is the only state so far to consider military experience in lieu of and equivalent to a teaching degree.
TeacherCertification.com collected data on states that allow alternatives to standardized teacher licensing tests. These states are spread throughout the U.S., have diverse socioeconomic statuses, and have largely different political leanings—indicating that the shortage of teachers is due to universal stressors rather than legislative shortfalls or infrastructural differences.
Read on to learn about alternative paths some states are offering aspiring educators and what it could mean for the future of the teaching workforce.
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No teacher licensure tests required
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– State(s) that use this alternative: Iowa
Iowa has removed the requirement for teacher licensure tests entirely. On June 13, 2022, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds formalized HF2081, which removed the requirement for teachers to undergo an assessment upon completing a preparation program. The relatively recent development was meant to address the severe lack of educators in the state—as of Jan. 31, 2022, there were more than 1,000 teaching positions open.
To become an educator in Iowa, prospective teachers can use either of two alternative licensure programs, which are only available for teaching at the high school level. Rather than pass an exam, candidates can take a minimum amount of courses in teaching methods before spending a year in a classroom as an intern.
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Teacher licensure tests only for reading
Female teacher reading story to group of elementary students.
– State(s) that use this alternative: New Mexico, Montana, Maine, and Wisconsin
Citing the prohibitive costs—around $700 total in New Mexico, for example—of taking multiple licensure tests to become a teacher, these states only require testing to teach elementary-level reading.
Additionally, in Wisconsin, alternative ways of obtaining a teaching license aim to help fill gaps in subject areas lacking educators, such as the STEM fields. Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree but can then prove their teaching competency via practical work experience.
In Montana and New Mexico, candidates can choose to complete a non-content-specific portfolio in lieu of taking a test. Additionally, prospective teachers in Montana can also skip the test if they had a 3.0 GPA or higher while completing teaching-related coursework.
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Teacher licensure tests with some flexibility
Teacher and pupils using flower shapes on table.
– State(s) that use this alternative: Alabama, Delaware, Missouri, and Colorado
In these states, taking a licensure exam is a must—but not necessarily passing with flying colors. In Alabama, those who fail their test within a certain narrow margin are able to submit alternative evidence to qualify for a teaching license.
In Delaware, otherwise-qualified educators will still receive their licenses if they make no more than two standard errors below passing. Missouri has adopted the same rule, albeit with a stricter allowance of only one standard error below passing. In Colorado, a still-developing program will allow aspiring educators to submit a portfolio of work or transcripts above a certain caliber in lieu of a passing exam score.
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College degree in teaching subject
Group of students in laboratory.
– State(s) that use this alternative: West Virginia, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Utah
These states waived the need for examination in elementary content for those who have already achieved a degree in their teaching area. Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation in July 2022 allowing anyone with five years of experience in a subject area to teach that subject, a move that was commended for recognizing the high debt that many take on in order to become teachers. The move is also expected to address teaching shortages in niche areas, such as special education and foreign languages.
In Utah, a full degree is not even necessary: Candidates who have completed coursework in their teaching subject without necessarily obtaining a finished degree may be eligible for exemptions. However, those who are hired must undergo three years of mentoring with a “master teacher” as designated by the school at which they are teaching in order to become licensed.
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Allowing districts to apply for waivers
Audience listening to lecturer.
– State(s) that use this alternative: New Jersey
New Jersey is grappling with a teacher shortage due to both the COVID-19 pandemic and a plethora of aging educators moving into retirement. To address this, the state just finalized a five-year pilot that will allow individual districts to apply to the state for approval to hire new teachers directly, waiving either the minimum content test score or GPA requirements.
Districts must submit alternative evidence that prospective teachers are qualified for their position, such as recommendations or evaluations from previous practical teaching experience. However, such hires will only be granted limited certificates of eligibility. Applications from districts are expected to be processed within just five days, indicating the urgency with which the state views the teaching shortage.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM today announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.0219615 per share of common stock, payable in cash on August 31, 2022, to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 5, 2022.
About SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM's platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Stitcher, Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company's advertising sales arm, SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization, and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers. For more about SiriusXM, please go to: www.siriusxm.com.
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Introduces new laboratory supply chain and product standardization solutions
NORTHFIELD, Ill., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medline has become the laboratory supplies prime vendor for Ohio-based Dayton Children's Hospital, entering a $10 million, multi-year partnership. The partnership also marks Medline's first pediatric hospital laboratory prime vendor agreement. As Dayton Children's exclusive medical and surgical supplies partner for more than eight years, Medline will now also provide an extensive portfolio of laboratory supplies and solutions for the acute care facility.
During the height of the pandemic, Dayton Children's tapped Medline for new laboratory supply chain and product standardization solutions, focusing on inventory allocations and transparency across ordering, stocking and utilization of testing kits and other laboratory supplies.
"Children's hospitals have different needs than adult hospitals, so it's imperative that we have the right guidance on which products to utilize and the alternatives, and overall visibility into what is and is not attainable," said David Farrall, corporate director of sourcing and supply chain at Dayton Children's Hospital. "Medline has been able to do just that, and more, while being extremely attentive with great follow-up and bringing new ideas to the table."
Medline's supply chain capabilities will help Dayton Children's improve its operational results without compromising quality by streamlining the integration of the laboratory business, which traditionally operated separately, into the hospital's broader supply chain operations. The two organizations will also work together to harmonize internal processes to maintain inventory effectiveness and transparency while providing advisory on product substitutions.
"The unique needs of the pediatrics segment allow us to think outside the box when it comes to delivering the best laboratory solutions," said Rick Hammerly, acute care sales at Medline. "We're thrilled to break into this space and partner with a health system that shares the same values as Medline, which is a commitment to helping healthcare run better for all."
Medline bridges the gap between clinical lab and supply chain efficiency, offering a broad portfolio of 120,000 products covering all major lab categories, including various Medline-branded products, and is rapidly approaching 100 lab prime vendor partnerships.
See how Medline customizes solutions across the entire continuum of care as one of the industry's fastest growing health system distribution partners at www.medline.com/pages/supply-chain.
About Dayton Children's Hospital
One of only 31 independent freestanding children's hospitals in the country, Dayton Children's is the region's only medical facility dedicated to children. Magnet-designated and recognized as a top hospital by U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals in orthopedics and pulmonology, the experts at Dayton Children's care for more than 380,000 children each year. Consistently recognized as one of the country's best and most cost-effective pediatric hospitals, Dayton Children's is home to the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and together with the United States Air Force shares the nation's only civilian-military integrated pediatric training program. For more children's health and safety information, visit our web site at www.childrensdayton.org.
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Medline is a healthcare company; a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthcare. Partnering with healthcare systems and facilities across the continuum of care, Medline provides the clinical and supply chain resources required for long-term financial viability in delivering high-quality care. With the scale of one of the country's largest companies and the agility of a family-led business, Medline is able to invest in its customers for the future and rapidly respond to a dynamically changing market with customized solutions. Headquartered in Northfield, Ill., Medline has 30,000+ employees worldwide and does business in more than 125 countries and territories. Learn more about Medline at www.medline.com.
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Fatal Hawaii shooting shows dangers of popular cockfights
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) — Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up illegal gambling enforcement after one of the most serious shootings in state history called attention to the dangers that come with cockfighting. The clandestine fights happen all over Hawaii, usually on large, remote properties shrouded by brush and accessible only by dirt roads, like in Waianae, where the weekend shooting took place. Despite being illegal in Hawaii since 1884, it is especially popular in the islands partly because of a large Filipino population who brought the practice from the Philippines, where it was introduced by Spaniards. In the wake of the deadly shooting, some are now saying cultural claims should not be used to excuse the illegal fights that happen every weekend. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/04/18/fatal-hawaii-shooting-shows-dangers-of-popular-cockfights/ | 2023-04-19 07:21:31 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/04/18/fatal-hawaii-shooting-shows-dangers-of-popular-cockfights/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Capella Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: CMIL) (OTCQB: CMILF) (FRA: N7D2) ("Capella" or the "Company") is pleased to advise that Prospector Metals Corp. ("Prospector") (TSXV: PPP) has today provided the market with a further update on its ongoing exploration activities at the Savant Gold Project ("Savant") in Ontario, Canada.
Prospector is currently earning-in to a 70% interest in Savant in return for a combination of annual cash and share payments to Capella together with the sole funding of CAD 2M of staged work commitments prior to November 15, 2024.
Highlights from Prospector's latest exploration update include:
- Assay results have now been received for the outstanding 439 rock (grab1) samples taken as part of the May/June field campaign at Savant. Assays received for the first 155 samples were previously reported upon by the Company on June 28, 2022.
- Prospector has identified a second, previously-unrecognized structural corridor (the Snowbird-Shoal Deformation Zone; "SSDZ"), which is host to numerous high-grade gold occurrences including Snowbird and Horseshoe (Figure 1). New sampling from around the Snowbird and Horseshoe occurrences included two samples containing 99.6 grams per tonne gold ("g/t Au") and 60 g/t Au; metallic screen assay results are pending.
- Prospector had previously reported further high-grade gold assays from samples taken from a significant, first-order deformation zone named the Wiggle Deformation Zone ("WDZ")(see also Figure 1). The Wiggle Creek prospect currently contains at least 1.3km strike of known gold-bearing structure and remains open in all directions.
- A new LiDar survey was completed in June 2022 and data are currently being processed.
Link to Prospector's full News Release: https://prospectormetalscorp.com/news/2022
Eric Roth, Capella's President and CEO, commented: "Prospector's summer field program at Savant has so far successfully delineated two key gold-bearing structural corridors - the Wiggle and Snowbird-Shoal Deformation Zones – both of which appear to be important regional conduits for gold mineralization. The interaction between these structural corridors and undrilled fold hinges in iron formation (favourable sites for gold deposition, such as at the past-producing Lupin and Homestake gold mines) confirm the district-scale potential of Savant. I look forward to keeping the market updated on progress at Savant, including timing to the drill testing of priority targets".
Figure 1. Key target areas and assay results from the Savant project (Prospector Metals Corp. News Release dated August 15, 2022).
All Savant grab samples were sent to ALS Canada Ltd. (ALS) in Thunder Bay, ON, for preparation and analysis. ALS meets all requirements of International Standards ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and ISO 9001:2015 for analytical procedures. Samples were analyzed using ALS's Au by fire assay and AAS, 50 g nominal sample weight or Au by fire assay and gravimetric finish, 50 g nominal sample weight, and by a 48-element four acid ICP-MS analysis (ME-ICP61). Check samples were analyzed by metallic screen.
The technical information in this news release relating to the Savant gold project has been prepared in accordance with Canadian regulatory requirements set out in NI 43-101, and approved by Eric Roth, the Company's President & CEO, a Director, and a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. Mr. Roth holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geology from the University of Western Australia, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Mr. Roth has 30 years of experience in international minerals exploration and mining project evaluation.
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"Eric Roth"
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Capella is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of quality mineral resource properties in favourable jurisdictions with a focus on high-grade copper(-zinc-cobalt) and gold deposits. With respect to its base and battery metals projects, the Company's current focus is on: i) the advancement of its advanced exploration stage Hessjøgruva project in central Norway, ii) the discovery of further high-grade VMS-type deposits in district-scale land positions around the past-producing Løkken (Løkken Verk District) and Kjøli / Kongensgruve (northern Røros District) copper mines, and iii) the evaluation of newly-staked claims in the former Vaddas-Birtavarre copper-cobalt mining district of northern Norway.
The Company's precious metals focus is on the discovery of high-grade gold deposits on the Katajavaara-Aakenus JV in Finland, its 100%-owned Southern Gold Line Project in Sweden, and its active Canadian Joint Ventures with Prospector Metals Corp (TSXV: PPP) at Savant (Ontario) and Yamana Gold Inc. at Domain (Manitoba). The Company also retains a residual interest (subject to an option to purchase agreement with Austral Gold Ltd) in the Sierra Blanca gold-silver divestiture in Santa Cruz, Argentina.
This news release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. Forward-looking information is typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. Such statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the future results of operations, performance and achievements of Capella, including the timing, completion of and results from the exploration and drill programs described in this release. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurances that such expectations will prove to be correct. All such forward-looking information is based on certain assumptions and analyses made by Capella in light of their experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believes are appropriate in the circumstances. This information, however, is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from this forward-looking information include those described under the heading "Risks and Uncertainties" in Capella's most recently filed MD&A. Capella does not intend, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or revise the forward-looking information contained in this news release, except as required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information.
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Ukrainian Peewees playing through reminders of war at home
By JOHN WAWROW
AP Hockey Writer
QUEBEC CITY (AP) — If Mykyta Staskevich needed another reminder of what his boys hockey team of Ukrainian refugees was playing for back home, it came in the poignant form of the nation’s flag unfolded in the locker room before its game against Romania on Monday.
In blue, representing the sky, were the nicknames of a player’s father and the father of a player’s friend, who have died on the front lines in the war with Russia. In yellow, representing the ground, were the nicknames of two of the player’s fathers — including Staskevich — who are still fighting.
Speaking in Ukrainian, Staskevich’s eyes welled as he provided an answer to what the flag symbolized.
“He wants Ukraine to win the war and to stop the war,” Ukrainian Selects coach Evgheniy Pysarenko said, translating his team’s captain. “Peace.”
The flag was brought to Pysarenko by one of the player’s parents, and served as both motivation and a poignant reminder of why the team is competing in the International Peewee Tournament in Quebec City. The Selects are more than just a hockey team of 11- and 12-year-olds. They’ve come to represent a symbol of peace and a far more hopeful future for a battle-torn nation nearly a year since Russia invaded Ukraine.
“You can imagine a kid, he saw the name of his father, and he start to cry. And the whole team come to him and give big hug. It was quiet a couple of minutes,” Pysarenko said, following a 2-0 victory over Team Romania Wolves.
“It was more than a hockey game,” he said. “This game we dedicated to these people.”
Tears turned to smiles by the end of the game, when Ivan Bilozerov capped the scoring by converting a rebound with 61 seconds remaining. And the excitement in the locker room grew when word got around that the Selects were boarding a bus headed for Montreal, where the team will be the special guests of the Canadiens for their game against Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night.
One of the team’s dreams was having a chance to attend an NHL game during what’s now growing into a three-week stay in Canada.
The Selects extended their stay by beating Romania in an elimination game. Maksym Kukharenko scored a power-play goal and Matvii Kulish earned the shutout (shot totals are not tracked at the tournament).
The Ukrainians, who have been celebrated around town since their arrival some two weeks ago, are three wins from clinching a spot in the tournament Class AA championship on Sunday. They advanced to play the Vermont Flames Academy on Friday.
“It’s a special story, special kids,” Pysarenko said of the resilience his players have shown. “They’re a lot more grown up than everyone else.”
The Selects blamed nerves and the pressure of playing in front of a near-capacity crowd of 18,000 blue-and-white flag-waving fans as a factor in their slow start to a tournament-opening 3-1 win over the Boston Junior Bruins. Ukraine overcame a 1-0 deficit by scoring three times in the final five minutes.
On Monday, the Selects had pre-game emotions to overcome.
This time, they got an early lead with Kukharenko scoring 4:37 into the 10-minute first period off a shot from the left point that appeared to deflect in off a Romanian defender. The Selects weren’t able to exhale until Bilozerov scored by slapping in a shot from the right circle.
The Ukrainians once again celebrated with a victory lap, while paying tribute to their supporters, who made up a majority of the fans who filled about half of the lower bowl of the arena.
A smaller contingent of Romanian fans were gathered in one section, and made their presence known with chants, songs and the banging of cowbells.
Tournament officials don’t release attendance figures, but the crowd on Monday was still far larger than the 20 or so people Selects forward Zahar Kovalenko said he was used to playing in front of in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian’s presence has placed a larger global spotlight on the 63-year-old tournament with the war in Ukraine showing signs of once again escalating. The Selects are regarded as symbol of peace for Ukraine and hope for a better future, and they’ve merited mention from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The matchup of teams from bordering nations featured several coincidences. Romania is where the Selects held training camp, because that’s where Pysarenko now lives, and began holding camps for players after watching many youth fleeing Ukraine with hockey equipment in tow.
And the Romanian team’s presence in the tournament stems from Pysarenko, who recommended to the nation’s hockey officials to seek sending a team to the Quebec City tournament four years ago.
“I know these kids and I saw them crying after the game and I was so sorry for them because I work with them, too. And know, personally them, and parents and coach,” Pysarenko said. “But the situation was we need this win probably more than them.”
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Kohler also tops Sustainability list and is a finalist on 2022 Large Companies list
KOHLER, Wis., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Company today announced its fourth annual Best Workplaces for Innovators list, honoring organizations and businesses that demonstrate a steadfast commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels. Kohler Co. is listed No.10 on the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators list, named the winner of Fast Company's 2022 Best Workplaces for Innovators Sustainability list and a finalist on the Large Companies list.
Initiatives that secured Kohler's high rankings are rooted in the company's Believing in Better operating philosophy that strives to enhance the quality of life for current and future generations through design, craftsmanship, and innovation. The company's cultural belief in Boldly Innovating, encourages and empowers associates to take action. These and other initiatives including innovative solutions from the company's Kitchen & Bath, Power and Hospitality & Real Estate businesses were recently shared in Kohler's first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report.
"We work hard to foster a supportive and inspiring workplace where all associates have the opportunity to boldly innovate and to achieve their full potential," says Laura Kohler, SVP of HR, Stewardship and Sustainability. "That means we engage our associates in meaningful work, match them with their purpose and passion, and give them the freedom to innovate for the greater good."
- Kohler provides opportunities for associates to connect to their purpose and passion through Business Resource Groups (BRGs), community stewardship teams, engagement committees and more. These opportunities give associates a platform to solve challenges, bring forward solutions, and grow and develop personally and professionally – all while making a meaningful impact in our workplace and world.
- More than 500 Kohler associates around the globe act as Sustainability Champions, driving sustainability efforts and constant improvement throughout all areas of the company. A virtuous cycle, this program empowers all associates to be innovators and take ownership in the company's journey for a better planet.
- Kohler Innovation for Good started out as an associate led initiative to drive further sustainable and social innovation. It has since evolved into a formal idea incubator focused on commercializing new business opportunities with a social and environmental purpose.
- Kohler WasteLAB is one of several success stories born out of Kohler's Innovation for Good® program. It looks to nature as a model for sustainable processes – where waste simply doesn't exist. Through this approach, Kohler WasteLAB® leverages a manufacturing process that transforms landfill-bound materials into functional products of style and beauty.
- The I-Prize challenge, an annual internal global competition within Kohler's Innovation for Good program, propels innovation from interested Kohler associates who team up to pitch new business solutions that address social and environmental issues.
- Through its signature Safe Water for All program, Kohler partners with organizations to bring about meaningful innovation and change to communities who lack adequate access to clean water and safe sanitation. Kohler's partnership with Dig Deep is funding projects on the Navajo Nation that are beginning to bridge the gap in access to clean water and sanitation through community-based service models or new technologies.
"This year's list of the Best Workplaces for Innovators recognizes organizations that have demonstrated a deep commitment to cultivating creativity across the board," says Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. "In the face of powerful headwinds, these leaders and teams continue to spur innovation."
Developed in collaboration with Accenture, the 2022 Best Workplaces for Innovators ranks 100 winners from nearly 1500 applications in a variety of industries, including computer science, biotech, consumer packaged goods, nonprofit, education, financial services, cybersecurity, engineering, diversity, sustainability, B2B, and consumer products and services.
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com.
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song — all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 710,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.
Founded in 1873 and headquartered in Kohler, Wisconsin, Kohler Co. is one of America's oldest and largest privately held companies comprised of more than 40,000 associates. With more than 50 manufacturing locations worldwide, Kohler is a global leader in the design, innovation and manufacture of kitchen and bath products; engines, power systems and clean energy solutions; luxury cabinetry, tile and lighting; and owner/operator of two, five-star hospitality and golf resort destinations in Kohler, Wisconsin, and St. Andrews, Scotland. The company also develops solutions to address pressing issues, such as clean water and safe sanitation, for underserved communities around the world to enhance the quality of life for current and future generations. For more details, please visit kohlercompany.com.
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XI'AN, China, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LONGi has announced a new world record conversion efficiency of 26.12% for its p-type silicon heterojunction (HJT) cells. The record, validated in testing carried out by the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany, was achieved on full-size (M6, 274.3cm2) gallium-doped p-type monocrystalline wafers and is the highest record for p-type cell efficiency to date, further confirming the feasibility of low-cost HJT mass production technology.
The cell efficiency is 0.65% higher than that of 25.47% released earlier this year, demonstrating LONGi's ongoing commitment to driving industrial progress via technical innovation. The LONGi R&D team has enhanced the crystal pulling process in response to increased demand for performance indicators for p-HJT wafers, such as resistivity and lifespan. The efficiency of the cell has been significantly improved in terms of short-circuit current (Isc), open-circuit voltage (Voc) and fill-factor (FF), with increases of 1.06%, 0.3%, and 1.1% respectively, due to continuous developments in interface passivation and window layer micro crystallization processes. It should be noted that the development process is similar to that for an n-type cell, fully demonstrating the technology's versatility and reliability.
As a world-leading solar technology company, LONGi has a long-term record of delivering higher value to end users via continuous technological innovation, consolidating the company's leading position in new solar cell technology. In 2021 alone, LONGi broke the world record for cell conversion efficiency seven times, with efficiencies for n-type TOPCon, p-type TOPCon and n-type HJT cells reaching 25.21%, 25.19% and 26.30% respectively.
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Founded in 2000, LONGi is committed to being the world's leading solar technology company, focusing on customer-driven value creation for full scenario energy transformation.
Under its mission of 'making the best of solar energy to build a green world', LONGi has dedicated itself to technology innovation and established five business sectors, covering mono silicon wafers cells and modules, commercial & industrial distributed solar solutions, green energy solutions and hydrogen equipment. The company has honed its capabilities to provide green energy and has more recently, also embraced green hydrogen products and solutions to support global zero carbon development. www.longi.com/en
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MILWAUKEE, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating Akouos (NASDAQ: AKUS) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Eli Lilly.
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Ademi LLP alleges Akouos' financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet Akouos holders will receive only $12.50 per share in cash (an aggregate of approximately $487 million) payable at closing plus one non-tradeable contingent value right per share that entitles the holder to receive up to an additional $3.00 in cash, for a total consideration of up to $15.50 per share in cash without interest (an aggregate of up to approximately $610 million). The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for Akouos by imposing a significant penalty if Akouos accepts a superior bid. Akouos insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of Akouos' board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for Akouos.
If you own Akouos common stock and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Guri Ademi either at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995, or https://www.ademilaw.com/case/akouos-inc.
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