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The partnership will leverage each organization's strengths and areas of expertise to offer expanded mental health care.
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Minnesota and PrairieCare are pleased to announce a new partnership that will deliver high-quality psychiatric care to kids as young as six years old. As Children's Minnesota prepares to open its first inpatient mental health unit this fall, PrairieCare will provide programmatic guidance and joint clinical leadership for the new unit.
Dr. Ryan Williams, PrairieCare's physician executive, has been appointed as the medical director of inpatient psychiatry at Children's Minnesota for the new unit.
"We're excited to partner with PrairieCare to deliver the highest quality mental health services to kids in our community," said Dr. Gigi Chawla, vice president and chief of general pediatrics at Children's Minnesota. "Children's Minnesota is committed to providing the full continuum of mental health services tailored for kids in the region to improve access, equitable care and treatment throughout a child's mental health journey."
"This partnership is a testament to the dedication of both PrairieCare and Children's Minnesota to address the unmet mental health needs of our children," said Dr. Williams. "Kids and young adults need access to mental health resources designed for their specific, age-appropriate and medical needs, and we look forward to providing this personalized care to our community soon."
The new Children's Minnesota inpatient mental health unit will care for approximately 1,000 children and adolescents each year and will provide a healing environment, which includes:
- 22 dedicated inpatient psychiatric beds at the system's St. Paul hospital that will allow parents to stay overnight with their child.
- The first inpatient unit in the east metro to treat kids under 12 years old. It will also be able to serve children with more complex medical needs, meeting the urgent mental health needs of the most vulnerable kids in Minnesota and the region.
- A dedicated, multi-disciplinary care team of psychiatrists, psychologists, program therapists, nurses, occupational therapists, child life and music therapists to provide individualized treatment tailored to meet each child's needs.
Children's Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children, from before birth through young adulthood. An independent and not-for-profit system since 1924, Children's Minnesota is one system serving kids throughout the Upper Midwest at two free-standing hospitals, nine primary care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and seven rehabilitation sites. As The Kids ExpertsTM in our region, Children's Minnesota is regularly ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top children's hospital.
Find us on Facebook @childrensminnesota or on Twitter and Instagram @childrensmn. Please visit childrensMN.org.
PrairieCare is one of the nation's most innovative, fastest-growing psychiatric health systems, offering psychiatric services for all ages, including free mental health assessments, clinic services, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), partial hospital programs (PHP) and residential services. PrairieCare is based in Minnesota, with 10 locations across the Twin Cities metro, Mankato and Rochester. For more information about services offered, visit prairie-care.com.
Media contact:
Dina Elrashidy
Dina.elrashidy@childrensmn.org
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Russian forces pushed deeper into Donbas Tuesday with Ukraine announcing the capture of the frontline village of Toshkivka near the twin cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, the site of fierce weeks-long fighting.
"As of today, according to our information, Toshkivka is controlled entirely by the Russians," Roman Vlasenko, the head of the Severodonetsk district told Ukrainian television, adding that the battle for Donbas is "now in full swing". | https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2022/06/21/russia-has-captured-donbas-frontline-village-toshkivka-ukraine | 2022-06-21T13:41:25Z | https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2022/06/21/russia-has-captured-donbas-frontline-village-toshkivka-ukraine | true | null |
GUANGZHOU, China, June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the “Company”), the world’s leading autonomous aerial vehicle (“AAV”) technology platform company, today announced that it has received an initial purchase order for five units of EH216 AAVs from Tianxingjian Cultural Tourism Investment and Development LLC. (“Tianxingjian”), an affiliated enterprise of the Jishou city government in Hunan province, China. The two parties plan to develop a scenic flight project at the Aizhai Wonder Tourist Area (“Aizhai Wonder”) in Jishou. Tianxingjian plans to purchase additional 25 units of EH216 as the project evolves. It is an implementation of EHang’s previous strategic partnership with the Jishou city government for in-depth and extensive collaborations on urban air mobility (“UAM”), such as aerial tourism, UAM infrastructure and operation center development, professional technician training, etc. It also represents one of EH216’s typical programs in the field of aerial tourism in China with great market potential and application opportunities.
In recent years, the State Council and the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued policies to propel and accelerate integrated development of general aviation and aerial tourism. Given this, EHang has been expanding cooperation with more partners to apply its AAV solutions in various tourism sightseeing use cases in China and overseas, leveraging its state-of-the-art AAV solutions’ advantages of safety, auto flight, fleet management for large-scale operations, cost-effectiveness and sustainability.
Aizhai Wonder is a renowned landmark and a part of Scenic Area of Aizhai Wonder, Shibadong Village, and Dehang Canyon, a national 5A scenic spot in Hunan. During the Workers’ Day holiday in May, some tourists experienced EHang’s demo flights for the sightseeing of the natural landscape at Aizhai Wonder.
“The Jishou city government is striving to develop strategic emerging industries for tourism. The integration of EH216 AAV technologies and Aizhai cultural tourism resources can further enhance Jishou’s tourism brand,” said Xiufeng Wu, Director of the Management Office of Dehang Scenic Spot in Jishou.
“Aizhai Wonder has a breathtaking landscape of steep cliffs, waterfalls and primitive forests, making it ideal for aerial sightseeing, air mobility, and related projects,” said Min Sun, Chairperson of Tianxingjian. “As a world’s leading AAV technology platform company, EHang has advanced software and hardware technologies as well as rich flight experience. With our respective advantages combined, we will work together to set up vertiports at scenic spots including the Aizhai Bridge and the Jiulongxi Canyon, and to gradually roll out trial operations for aerial sightseeing.”
Xin Fang, Chief Operating Officer of EHang, commented, “We are delighted to partner with the Jishou city government to jointly bring UAM solutions to Aizhai Wonder. EHang has been doing trial operations for aerial sightseeing since last year. We believe with our business expansion, EH216 AAVs will fly in more scenic spots around the world, bringing tourists safe and comfortable aerial sightseeing experiences.”
Video of EH216 demo flights at Aizhai Wonder in Jishou, China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8oahA2p0sg
About EHang
EHang (Nasdaq: EH) is the world's leading autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company. Our mission is to make safe, autonomous, and eco-friendly air mobility accessible to everyone. EHang provides customers in various industries with AAV products and commercial solutions: air mobility (including passenger transportation and logistics), smart city management, and aerial media solutions. As the forerunner of cutting-edge AAV technologies and commercial solutions in the global Urban Air Mobility (UAM) industry, EHang continues to explore the boundaries of the sky to make flying technologies benefit our life in smart cities. For more information, please visit www.ehang.com.
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Media Contact: pr@ehang.com
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Anything can generate conversation when it comes to “Teen Mom” fans on Reddit, and this time social media users were interested in David Eason’s new hair.
He and his wife, “Teen Mom 2” alum Jenelle Evans, went on vacation to the U.S. Virgin Islands for Father’s Day. They didn’t post any pictures of their children, hinting the trip was an adults only getaway.
The North Carolina native posted a picture of himself smiling widely for the camera, donning two French braids atop his head. “We had so much fun in St. Thomas and St. John we can’t wait to go back! @j_evans1219,” he wrote.
“That hair 😍😂🔥,” Evans wrote in the comments section.
On his Instagram stories, Eason showed he and Evans were on a boat listening to music by American rapper Ryan Upchurch. Evans cozied up to her husband and grinned for the camera.
Evans didn’t immediately post any pictures or videos of the trip to her personal social media accounts.
The last video she posted turned her nose up at people who criticized her OnlyFans account. “I’m a good mother first. Whatever I do second is none of your business,” she said. “No shame in my game 📸🔥.”
Scores of Fans Piled on In the Comments
Social media users had plenty of thoughts about Eason’s vacation, as well as his hairstyle.
“I love braids on men david just can’t pull it off,” one person said.
Others were reminded of an episode of “Friends” with Courtney Cox. “What kind of Monica Gellar in Hawaii with braids storyline is this?” they said.
One of the most popular comments was from someone who snarked about the way Eason and Evans take care about their 5-year-old daughter, Ensley.
“They’ve spent more time doing David’s hair than Ensley’s,” they wrote, garnering at least 100 upvotes.
Evans has two more children: 7-year-old Kaiser and 12-year-old Jace. Jace lives with his maternal grandmother, Barbara, and Kaiser is spending the summer with his father, Nathan Griffith.
Evans and Eason didn’t reveal who was watching Ensley while they were away.
Evans Has Been Struggling With Her Health
Evans, who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in March, now fears that she has small fiber peripheral neuropathy.
Evans said she had two skin biopsies done to test for the disorder. She has also suspected she has Myasthenia Gravis.
She’s afraid of becoming paralyzed because of the cysts in her spine.
“Once you have a cyst in your spine, it can either get bigger, longer, and could paralyze you. I said I had the possibility of going paralyzed and I still do any day now,” Evans said in a TikTok video. “If I got paralyzed or lose any bowel movements without trying, then I have to go immediately to the hospital and get an emergency surgery.”
“I swear y’all listen to nothing I say,” she added. “You can’t just recover from a cyst in your spine.”
Evans celebrated her new lifestyle hack, claiming she lost weight by switching from beer to wine.
“So maybe I’m a wino now 🙂,” she wrote in a blog post. | https://heavy.com/entertainment/teen-mom/david-eason-new-hair-braids-jenelle-evans/ | 2022-06-21T13:42:41Z | https://heavy.com/entertainment/teen-mom/david-eason-new-hair-braids-jenelle-evans/ | false | 1 |
Marshmallow Games Secures €2 Million Investment to Strengthen Internationalization and Development of New Apps Dedicated to Preschool Age
CDP Venture Capital and Sì Social Impact invest in the edtech company
MILAN, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marshmallow Games, an edtech company that creates and distributes educational apps for children worldwide, has completed a €2 million investment, led by CDP Venture Capital SGR, through the Italia Venture II Fund - Fondo Imprese Sud, together with the impact investing fund Sefea Impact SGR.
This operation will allow the global development of the company to become the point of reference for the educational entertainment sector in the preschool range, a market that is worth 9.5 billion dollars, with a growth rate (CAGR) of 17% in the last 10 years (source: Blinc Invest).
Marshmallow Games, founded in 2014 by Cristina Angelillo (CEO), Massimo Michetti (COO), Marianna Pappalardi (Creative Director) and Francesco Capozzi (CTO), represents excellence in the international edtech scene.
"We are proud of this important step. It rewards the work done in recent years and represents a first step to grow globally, from the point of view of the user base and access to networks of international investors for future growth phases. More than a point of arrival, today is a new departure," comments Cristina Angelillo, CEO and co-founder of Marshmallow Games.
In recent years, the company has launched over 20 apps on the market that have exceeded 2 million downloads on a global scale - the USA and China are the two reference markets - and reached top places in rankings in the kids category in over 150 countries. Thanks to its proprietary technology and high quality content, it has won prestigious awards from international associations of parents and educators, including the Educational App Store and Mom's Choice Award.
"Marshmallow Games is one of the most promising companies in Italy in the sector of educational technologies applied to children and we are proud to be able to contribute to its development plans," comments Francesca Ottier, Head of Fondo Italia Venture II - Fondo Imprese Sud of CDP Venture Capital SGR.
"We are really happy to be able to start this adventure with Marshmallow Games," says the President of Sefea Impact, Massimo Giusti, "because we firmly believe that its founders have solved a very important social problem: the incorrect use of digital technology by the youngest ones."
With the investment injection that has just ended, the value of capital raised over the years by Marshmallow Games has risen to €3.5 million.
The investment will further push the company's flagship product, Smart Tales. The app is the only collection of interactive stories to teach children (3-6 years) STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and raise awareness of social issues and healthy habits. With hundreds of thousands of downloads worldwide and available in 5 languages (Italian, Spanish, English, French and German), Smart Tales is constantly recommended on the App Store and has been "App of the day" in over 50 countries. In Italy it was chosen by Unicef for charitable initiatives and to raise awareness among children about children's rights.
A new product ZenCreate will also be launched, which allows users to create apps, interactive books, advergames without technical skills. ZenCreate is part of the no-code tool market, which is in constant development: it will reach 187 billion dollars in 2030 and will affect 65% of the applications created in the next 5 years.
Finally, a hiring plan will be launched that will bring the team from 19 to over 30 employees in the next 12 months.
http://www.marshmallow-games.com/
https://smarttales.app/
https://zencreate.io/
Contact:
Roberto Attolico
+393921725521
[email protected]
SOURCE Marshmallow Games | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marshmallow-games-secures-2-million-investment-to-strengthen-internationalization-and-development-of-new-apps-dedicated-to-preschool-age-301571183.html | 2022-06-21T13:44:58Z | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marshmallow-games-secures-2-million-investment-to-strengthen-internationalization-and-development-of-new-apps-dedicated-to-preschool-age-301571183.html | false | 2 |
Beautiful Woman Goes Viral After Ditching Boyfriend for His Dad in Video: "Betrayal on a New Level"
- A video of a young woman going after her boyfriend’s father has been doing the rounds on the social media streets
- In the viral footage, she is seen seated in a car as she waves hello to her boyfriend’s dad and indicates that he is now her future boyfriend
- Netizens were left both amused and gobsmacked at her calm yet savage move, with many asking for more details
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A beautiful yet shameless lady had netizens shook after sharing a video that indicated how she pursued her boyfriend’s dad.
The lady Vanessa Arzaga (@varzaga) posted the video on TikTok, which shows her acting out the scenario. She is seen seated in a car as she waves hello to her boyfriend’s dad.
The clip then switches to the driver who happens to be “her future boyfriend saying hi back”. The two are seen looking nice and cozy together before the clip ends.
Mzansi left amused and confused as short man gets carried away after attempting to ruin a couple’s wedding
Social media users were left gobsmacked at Vanessa's bold move as she went for her man’s father in the clip which has gained over 2.7M views.
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Check out the video and some of the comments below:
Ela Uhuru wrote:
“She for the whole family .”
Kay remarked:
“See now because y’all kept saying story time she won’t take us seriously.”
Mandypandy reacted:
“I don’t blame you.”
Xosandyyy replied:
“Babe give us a tutorial.”
Elyahnee wrote:
“She said “babe... I’m your mom now.”
Whovian said:
“She took "mommy" too seriously.”
Oscar commented:
“Damn, his own father did him like that…”
Pretty nurse set to marry man she once friend zoned on social media
In another story, Briefly News reported that a beautiful nurse is set to walk down the aisle with a man she met on Twitter and shared her excitement on the platform.
Adorable video of little girl looking like she's over everything leaves SA with bellyaches from laughter
The lady with the handle @IAMBLUEMAGIC_ shared on Twitter a picture in which she flaunted her engagement ring.
In another photofriend-zoned she shared, the nurse and her man posed as if they were about to have a handshake. The overjoyed lady went on to share her chat with the man identified as Steve.
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of dogs started competing Monday toward the best in show prize at the illustrious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. To the casual viewer, the annual exhibition of dressed-up handlers leading well-mannered dogs around a ring might seem like a somewhat stilted walk in the park, but there’s more than that to choosing a champion. So here’s some show lowdown:
HOW MANY DOGS COMPETE?
More than 3,000 canines, as wee as Chihuahuas and as massive as mastiffs, signed up to vie for best in show. The contestants represent 209 breeds and varieties (a variety is a subset of a breed; think toy poodle vs. standard poodle).
Penny Allen and Bryson Allen each showed a mudi, a Hungarian herding breed appearing for the first time this year. The Hico, Texas, duo are mother and son, and he’s only 11, but “when we get in the ring, it’s gloves off – let the best mudi win,” Penny Allen said.
Another newly added breed, the Russian toy, competes Tuesday. Separately, about 350 dogs competed in agility and obedience.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
First, dogs go up against others of their breed – sometimes dozens of others, sometimes far fewer. Buzz the Norwegian buhund bested just one opponent, his half-sister, to win their breed Monday while 43 Rhodesian ridgebacks faced off one ring away.
Buzz’s breeder, owner and handler, Amie McLaughlin of Kent, Washington, was a little sad not to see more of the small, affectionate herders that she considers “the hidden gem of the dog world.” But Buzz won’t rest on his laurels — “we have a lot of up-and-comers,” she said.
The winner from each breed moves on to a semifinal round, where they’re judged against others in their “group” – such as hounds, herding dogs, or terriers. In the final round, the group winners compete for best in show, which will be awarded Wednesday night.
WHAT ARE THE JUDGES LOOKING FOR?
Judges are tasked with determining which dog best matches the ideal, or “standard,” for its breed.
“You see an Afghan and a beagle — they’re not saying which one is better. They’re saying which one more closely resembles its breed’s written standard,” Westminster spokesperson Gail Miller Bisher said. “It’s what dog will pass on the key features of that breed.”
The standard is derived from the breed’s original function and can speak to everything from teeth to tail to temperament. For example, a hound that was developed to hunt in rough terrain might be required to have thick paw pads, or a herding dog to have proportions that allow for quick, tight turns.
So a borzoi’s handler, for instance, needs to show the dog can “move like they can catch a wolf,” said handler Ron Williams of Wantage, New Jersey. Someone showing a miniature pinscher wants to showcase the high-stepping hackney gait that is a hallmark of the breed. A saluki will be examined for certain angles in its legs and feet that underlie the running speed and athleticism of these lanky, elegant-looking desert hunters.
So elegant-looking that owner Jennifer Rimerman, who was at Westminster on Monday with her saluki Haney, has heard would-be owners gush the likes of “they would drape on my furniture so lovely.”
Indeed, they would, but Rimerman’s show dog can also snag a bird in midair.
“A saluki’s form really needs to follow its function, and its function was not to look pretty on a couch,” said Rimerman, of Cape May, New Jersey.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO PREPARE?
Westminster’s canine competitors are well-trained to handle being handled in the ring. But getting ready can still take hours. Or longer.
Bergamasco sheepdogs Coco and Sapphire got their baths two days before their turn in the ring Monday — that’s because their dense, flocked coats take a day or so to dry. “It’s like a wet wool sweater that’s very thick,” explained breeder Yvonne Bunevich of Quaker Hill, Connecticut. “It’s not a wash-and-go dog.”
ARE THERE ANY MIXED-BREED DOGS AT WESTMINSTER?
Yes. They can compete in agility and obedience, but only purebreds are eligible for best in show.
WHAT ABOUT THAT FOCUS ON PUREBREDS?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals regularly stages protests outside the Westminster show to decry what the animal rights group sees as an irresponsible purebred pageant. The kennel club says the show highlights the preservation of the wide range of dog breeds.
WHAT DOES THE BEST IN SHOW WINNER GET?
Bragging rights and a trophy. There’s no cash prize.
SO WHAT’S THE POINT?
“Showcasing the dogs — letting people see a good dog,” says Vickie Venzen of Jarretsville, Maryland, who handled Coco on Monday while daughter Tia Williams squired Sapphire.
Many participants also prize the sense of community that comes with spending weekend after weekend at shows together, sharing tips, grooming space and their love of dogs.
“You develop this rapport because we are more like a family,” Robin Greenslade of Hudson, New Hampshire, said Monday as she helped look after her miniature pinscher, Adele, and a half-dozen other dogs under handler Kim Calvacca’s care.
“It’s truly a lifestyle,” Greenslade said. “And it’s a labor of love.” | https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/sports/dog-show-101-whats-what-at-the-westminster-kennel-club/ | 2022-06-21T13:46:26Z | https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/sports/dog-show-101-whats-what-at-the-westminster-kennel-club/ | false | 43 |
Seasonable and nice conditions for the First Day of Summer; Warmup for the rest of the workweek
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) -SCOTTSBLUFF,Neb.(KNEP)- After a hot and sort of stormy day here Monday, conditions will turn mostly sunny to partly cloudy conditions with seasonable temperatures for the first day of Summer, but a warmup is in store for the rest of the workweek.
During the morning Tuesday, temperatures were cool to mild with morning lows approaching the 40s to 60s with sunny to mostly sunny conditions across the Panhandle and partly to mostly cloudy conditions across Greater Nebraska. The wind were relatively light with speeds around 5 to 10 mph and the dew points drying up as the area of high pressure continues to build into the area.
During the fist day of the Summer season, temperatures will be around the climatologcal mean with highs in the mid to upper 80s and partly to mostly cloudy conditions will continue with wind speeds being light and variable with no rain showers throughout the day. During the overnight hours, temperatures will drop into the 40s and 50s with clearing conditions and wind speeds will remain calm.
During the rest of the workweek, temperatures will be increasing into the upper 80s to low 90s on Wednesday with sunnier conditions, but increasing to the upper 90s on Thursday with dry conditions remaining. During the day Friday, highs will increase into the upper 90s to low 100s due to our area of high pressure continuing to march its way eastward and this will increase the humidity around here as well. Over the weekend, highs will be dropping below average with highs in the mid to upper 70s with mostly cloudy condtions with isolated thunderstorms possible across the Panhandle.
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The Tory candidate in the Tiverton and Honiton by-election says she almost missed an election debate because of the rail strike. Helen Hurford said her daughter had been due to travel by train from Honiton to Exeter for an exam, but the strike meant she had to go early by bus or car.
Ms Hurford was speaking during a debate in Tiverton on Tuesday organised by BBC Radio Devon. The former headteacher condemned the strike for its effect on travellers, especially schoolchildren sitting exams. She said: “It is going to cost parents, and put stress on our children who are already under a huge amount of pressure.
“Our children have been through a really rough time in the pandemic with their education, and the strike action is worsening an already stressful time for parents and children in the exam period, let alone what it is going to cost.”
Read more: Tiverton's blunt message to Boris Johnson
Liberal Democrat candidate Richard Foord said public sector workers had seen below-inflation pay rises for years. He said the Conservatives were “stoking this industrial action for their own political advantage.” He added: “They’re confecting a fight with the unions. They could bring employers round the table with unions, but instead they are choosing to pick a fight.”
Mr Foord said the Liberal Democrats wanted a Pay Commission for public sector wages to take the decision out of the hands of politicians and unions. Labour’s Liz Pole said the Conservatives were “spoiling for a fight to distract from their chaotic, discredited and aimless government.”
Voters in the constituency will choose their new MP on Thursday, following the resignation of Tory Neil Parish after he admitted watching porn on his phone in the House of Commons chamber. The Conservatives are defending a majority of more than 24,000 from the 2019 General Election, but the Liberal Democrats feel they have a good chance of winning the seat. It is being seen as a test of the prime minister’s popularity following the Downing Street parties and cost of living crisis.
Passengers across the UK were affected on Tuesday as thousands of rail workers staged the first of a series of strikes in a dispute over pay.
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The eight candidates standing in the by-election are:
- Jordan Donoghue-Morgan – Heritage Party
- Andy Foan – Reform UK
- Richard Foord – Liberal Democrats
- Helen Hurford – Conservative
- Liz Pole – Labour
- Frankie Rufolo – The For Britain Movement
- Ben Walker – UK Independence Party
- Gill Westcott – Green Party | https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/tory-election-candidate-condemns-rail-7233396 | 2022-06-21T13:48:31Z | https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/tory-election-candidate-condemns-rail-7233396 | true | 1 |
Richard P Slaughter Associates Inc cut its stake in Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VOE – Get Rating) by 20.9% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 10,402 shares of the company’s stock after selling 2,754 shares during the quarter. Richard P Slaughter Associates Inc’s holdings in Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF were worth $1,556,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. FMR LLC boosted its position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF by 4.7% during the 1st quarter. FMR LLC now owns 243,952 shares of the company’s stock worth $26,318,000 after acquiring an additional 10,948 shares during the last quarter. Millennium Management LLC acquired a new position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $474,000. Center for Financial Planning Inc. boosted its position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF by 33.3% during the 3rd quarter. Center for Financial Planning Inc. now owns 1,173 shares of the company’s stock worth $164,000 after acquiring an additional 293 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. boosted its position in Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF by 28.9% during the 3rd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 517 shares of the company’s stock worth $72,000 after acquiring an additional 116 shares during the last quarter. Finally, United Capital Financial Advisers LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF by 2.0% in the 3rd quarter. United Capital Financial Advisers LLC now owns 22,584 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,153,000 after buying an additional 439 shares during the last quarter.
NYSEARCA VOE opened at $126.30 on Tuesday. Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF has a 12 month low of $124.80 and a 12 month high of $154.69. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $142.61 and a 200-day moving average of $145.72.
Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund (Fund) is an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund offers two classes of shares: Investor Shares and ETF Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. ETF Shares can be purchased and sold through a broker.
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Clear Out Negative Vibes and Welcome Positive Energy With These 7 Cleanses
If you've been feeling low in energy or really moody, it may be time to cleanse your aura and protect yourself from negative vibes. This #MondayMotivation we're bringing you seven ways to protect yourself, cleanse your space and boost your energy.
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Burn Palo Santo
Palo Santo is one of the best tools for purifying and cleansing your aura and space.
It is said that Palo Santo has the ability to bring peace, clarity and calm to any place or situation.
Light it up and smudge around your home for renewed energy.
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Set up a Sacred Corner
Create a space in your home for protection with incense, quartz, candles, palo santo, sage and more.
When you're in a pinch, go to this space to garner positive energy from your sacred tools.
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Burn Sage
Burning sage has been used to connect to the spiritual realm, heal and purify the air.
To clear your house, burn the sage starting at the back of your house and bring it to the front.
Make sure to open a window so the bad vibes can leave.
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Egg Cleanse
If you're feeling like you may have been affected by mal de ojo or "evil eye" then you may want to do an egg cleanse.
Take an egg and move it along your body starting at your forehead and working your way down. Wipe all of your energy and aura that surrounds your body.
Once you've completed this, crack the egg in a cup of water.
Use chili flakes, salt and hot sauce on top of the egg to send any bad energy back to sender.
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Carry Black Tourmaline
Say goodbye to negative energy with black tourmaline.
This stone is excellent at transforming anxious feelings and thoughts into ones of clarity as it swallows all the negative energy up and out.
Carry this around with you as a cloak of protection.
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Focused Meditation
Focused meditations help decode stuck or broken energies.
Tune in to high-frequency meditations to raise your vibrations.
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Sleep With Crystals Under Your Bed
If you're having recurring nightmares or feel like you're waking up more tired than is normal, then it's time to place some crystals under your pillow.
Use amethyst, rose quartz or clear quartz near you when you sleep, then in the morning, wash them while picturing a golden aura around them.
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Tokenlon Network Token (LON) traded down 0.2% against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 8:00 AM E.T. on June 21st. Tokenlon Network Token has a market capitalization of $27.86 million and approximately $2.78 million worth of Tokenlon Network Token was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Tokenlon Network Token coin can currently be bought for $0.63 or 0.00002982 BTC on popular exchanges. In the last week, Tokenlon Network Token has traded 1% lower against the U.S. dollar.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004778 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded up 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $20,981.03 or 1.00080518 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.79 or 0.00008523 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004769 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00002385 BTC.
Tokenlon Network Token Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “LON is a utility token issued by the Tokenlon DEX, used to align all ecosystem stakeholders and incentivize participation and expansion of the ecosystem. Currently, it’s hard to find the best price as liquidity is fragmented over the whole DEX market. Tokenlon solves this by aggregating multiple liquidity sources, including professional market makers off-chain and automatic market makers (such as Uniswap, Curve) on-chain, automatically selecting the best trading venue for the user. The net fees collected by Tokenlon are used to buyback LON on the open market, and transferred to the treasury and staking reward pool.LON holders enjoy fee discounts and governance rights by participating in the staking. In return, the stakers receive LON as staking reward.As long as the total LON is within the maximum cap, each buyback triggers LON mint, which is used as rewards in the Tokenlon Incentive Plan.LON is held in the treasury pool governed by the community, used to develop and promote the development of the Tokenlon ecosystem.Tokenlon's governance is opened in stages with decision-making power gradually handed over to the community. Participate on Snapshot. “
Tokenlon Network Token Coin Trading
It is usually not possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Tokenlon Network Token directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Tokenlon Network Token should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, Changelly or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Tokenlon Network Token using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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The newly appointed VP of Sales EMEA, David Rogers, will bring proven local knowledge and sales expertise to guide WorkJam through their EMEA expansion. Part of this will include building a stellar sales team that focuses on customer needs and requirements to help connect HQs with their frontline.
LONDON, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WorkJam, the world leader in the digital frontline workplace, continues to strengthen its expansion in the European market with the recent appointment of David Rogers as VP of Sales EMEA. Known for its people-first approach that revolutionises the way HQs and their frontline work together, the solution connects and engages employees while driving operational efficiencies and productivity. Already well established in North America, the organisation aims to increase its investment and respond to rising demands.
David brings 20 years of SaaS experience to WorkJam. Beginning with Netstore, one of the first SaaS businesses in the UK. Across his career, David has worked with retail, hospitality, and banking SaaS organisations, including Aptos and Reflexis, recently acquired by Zebra – helping them to execute their plans and expand into their respective marketplaces.
"We are excited to have David join the team," states Mark Williams, Managing Director of EMEA. "His expertise and profound understanding of the challenges our European customers face will be integral to helping us solve their challenges and revolutionise their frontline workforce in the process by helping them to build a people-first culture."
With a deep understanding of end-to-end processes, everything from the point of sale to omni-channel and e-commerce, David has experience bridging operational efficiencies, compliance, and service, finding solutions to core operational problems.
WorkJam's modular, scalable architecture and the fact that millions of employees use it in more than 45 countries and languages lends itself to localisation as well as adaptation to local labour laws and business practices.
"David cements our position to support sales with a highly strategic outlook," explains Will Eadie, WorkJam's Chief Revenue Officer. "Europe is extremely diverse with different cultures and languages, and we're sensitive to the individual market requirements to create a compelling use-case for each country. David's background will further reinforce our positioning in three areas that include customer and frontline workforce engagement strategies, workflow optimisation, and improving organisations' omni anywhere capabilities."
About WorkJam
WorkJam's mission is to revolutionise how HQs and their frontline work together. As the world leader in the digital frontline workplace, WorkJam combines two-way communication, task management, learning, scheduling tools and more to drive efficiencies and productivity. Available in over 45 languages, WorkJam turns workflow chaos into workforce orchestration®. HQs love it for its ROI (a whopping 410%), and employees love it because it puts workplace competencies right into their hands. If we want a happier frontline, we need to support them as individuals with upskilling, shift scheduling, and processes – all on one app.
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Stewart brings significant global underwriting expertise across industries
TORONTO , June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NFP, a leading property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement advisor, today announced the hiring of John Stewart to serve as senior vice president, surety leader, in Canada. In this role Stewart will leverage his underwriting expertise with multinational companies to lead strategic surety business development in Canada and build a national surety team to service clients' contract and commercial bonding needs. He will report to Guy Jolicoeur, managing director, Technical Risk Construction Surety Natural Resources, NFP in Canada.
"John is an excellent addition to NFP and a highly motivated and results oriented leader," said Jolicoeur. "His strong background analyzing financial statements, legal documents and qualitative reports to provide surety bond underwriting insights and recommendations will provide an exceptional resource for our clients and surety team."
Stewart joins NFP from Allianz Trade in North America where he served as senior underwriter. Prior to this, he worked in a variety of underwriting and leadership roles for Liberty International Underwriting/Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Ally Financial Inc. In addition to a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Stewart holds an Associate in Fidelity and Surety Bonding designation from the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters.
"I'm looking forward to working with this diverse, experienced and knowledgeable team," said Stewart. "NFP is poised to continue expanding in the Canadian surety marketplace and I will be an enthusiastic leader and contributor as we provide unparalleled expertise and service to clients."
NFP is a leading property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager, and retirement plan advisor that provides solutions enabling client success through the expertise of over 6,900 global employees, investments in innovative technologies, and enduring relationships with highly rated insurers, vendors and financial institutions. NFP is the 9th best place to work for large employers in insurance, 7th largest privately-owned broker, 5th largest benefits broker by global revenue and 13th largest broker of US business (all rankings according to Business Insurance).
Visit NFP.ca to discover how NFP empowers clients to meet their goals.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Italy’s Thomas Ceccon set a world record in the men’s 100 backstroke and Katie Ledecky claimed yet another gold at the swimming world championships on Monday.
Ceccon stunned the competition in Budapest by clocking 51.60 seconds to shave 0.15 seconds off the previous best mark set by American Ryan Murphy at the 2016 Olympics.
“Yesterday I swam 52.1, very easy,” Ceccon said. “I am feeling good in water and just doing my race, staying calm and focusing on my race. And that’s it.”
Murphy finished second, 0.37 seconds behind, followed by compatriot Hunter Armstrong, 0.38 behind Ceccon.
“Hats off to Thomas,” Murphy said of seeing his record beaten. “That’s a really, really fast time and it’s going to be an exciting couple of years.”
While the young mustached Italian claimed his first world title, Ledecky extended her record title haul to 17 with her fourth in the 1,500 freestyle.
Ledecky never looked threatened and clocked 15:30.15 – just under 10 seconds more than her world record from 2018 – to finish 14.74 seconds ahead of fellow American Katie Grimes.
Ledecky punched the water in delight then embraced her teammate.
“To share this moment with her is really special,” Ledecky said.
The 16-year-old Grimes is the second youngest medalist in the 1,500 at a worlds since Ledecky won it for the first time in 2013.
“I was really nervous leading up to it because it’s my first world championships and Team USA has been doing a great job, so I wanted to keep that going,” Grimes said.
Ledecky also won in 2015 and 2017 and has at least four world titles in the each of the 1,500, 800 and 400 freestyle events. Only compatriot Michael Phelps also won at least four gold medals in three different swimming events at the worlds.
“I don’t think that anyone will be topping Katie for a little while, but I definitely think it’s a goal for everyone moving forward,” said Australia’s Lani Pallister, who finished third, 18.81 off Ledecky’s pace. “She’s definitely set the standard of distance swimming in the world.”
Pallister’s bronze was her country’s first medal in this race. The 1,500 freestyle was the only women’s event at a worlds in which an Australian swimmer had not reached the podium.
Italy’s Simona Quadarella, who was second fastest in qualifying, finished fifth, more than half a minute behind.
Regan Smith got another gold for the United States in the women’s 100 backstroke, clocking 58.22 to finish 0.18 ahead of Canadian rival Kylie Masse with another American, Claire Curzan, finishing third.
Then Italy’s show began with Ceccon.
He is the second Italian man to set a world record in long course swimming after Giorgio Lambert. Lambert held the record in the men’s 200 freestyle from 1989-99.
Italy’s Benedetta Pilato followed up by winning the women’s 100 breaststroke in 1:05.93, 0.05 ahead of Germany’s Anna Elendt and 0.09 ahead of Lithuania’s Rūta Meilutytė.
The 17-year-old Pilato, who couldn’t contain her delight, is the youngest Italian swimmer to win gold at a worlds.
She brought her country’s tally of golds to three, already as many as Italy’s swimmers ever managed at a previous worlds.
Also, Romania’s David Popovici set a world junior record to win the men’s 200 meters in 1:43.21 – 1.26 seconds ahead of the competition.
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Mr. Steven Robert Fugel, age 55, of Dacula, Georgia, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Steven (Steve) was born October 1, 1966, in Washington, DC. He was a loving son, husband, father and grandfather. Steve loved working in the yard, high performance cars and trucks and coaching basketball, baseball and soccer, especially when his children were playing. He also enjoyed fishing with his sons, Bobby and Blake. Steve desired to always be a help to others. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2640203916017/john-austin-edmondson | 2022-06-21T14:00:11Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2640203916017/john-austin-edmondson | true | null |
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The head of an NGO explained in a recent interview why they filed a war crimes complaint against the Shin Bet for allegedly torturing Palestinian detainees before the International Criminal Court earlier in June.
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) Executive Director Tal Steiner said that her organization finally decided to go to the ICC with 17 different case files after multiple factors fell into place.
First, in 2017, the High Court of Justice issued multiple rulings closing the door on various avenues which PCATI had thought could lead to judicial intervention. This included when the justices significantly broadened the “ticking bomb” defense for permitting the security agency to use “moderate physical pressure” when interrogating detainees.
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So the next important element for Steiner was in March 2021, when the ICC switched from a six-year-long preliminary review of war crimes allegations against Israel to a full-fledged criminal probe.
Finally, there were two decisions by the Justice Ministry unit for overseeing complaints against the Shin Bet which came down in January and April of 2021.
According to Steiner, the abuse of the Palestinian detainees in question was so clear in these two cases, that when even they were closed without an indictment, it proved that the ministry would never take the alleged torture of Palestinians seriously.
This was also in the context when these two cases were the only ones that led to full criminal probes, despite 1,300 complaints being filed over 20 years.
Shin Bet agents 'gone too far'
In one of the cases, the Palestinian detainee, accused of a terror murder, almost died during his Shin Bet interrogation and was rushed to the emergency room, where his life was saved. The ministry found that the agents might have gone too far, but that the danger to life came from an unexpected preexisting health condition and that since their actions were to stop a future attack, they were not criminal. PCATI disputed that the interrogation had anything to do with disrupting any concrete imminent future attack and said the Shin Bet was so aggressive that it had culpability even if there was a medical condition.
The second case saw the security forces perform a vaginal and anal search for a SIM card they suspected a Palestinian woman was concealing on behalf of Hamas, despite unclear authority for doing so and no imminent danger. In fact, she had hidden the SIM card in her room, where they later found it. But a SIM card is a standard intelligence item which certainly did not justify such an invasive search and the reason the ministry cited for not filing charges was confusion between those involved about who ordered the search.
PCATI said that they are waiting for the ICC to respond, but that if the response is positive, they will give them the names of the allegedly tortured detainees, with a commitment to keep their identities from the public.
ICC's jurisdiction
Each of the 17 cases comes after the ICC’s jurisdiction over Palestinian issues may have started in 2014 and involved allegations of the most problematic physical abuse, including beatings, use of the body-bending “frog” position, sexual harassment, extreme sleep deprivation and threats against detainees’ family and religious beliefs.
Steiner said that the detainees have rights under international law and cannot be tortured regardless of whether they are suspected of a crime.
She stated that PCATI looks to aid any detainee who may have been tortured, including Jewish-Israelis like Amiram Ben Uliel, who was convicted in the 2015 arson terror murders of the Palestinian Dawabshe family from Duma.
It happens to be that Ben Uliel is not one of the 17 case files sent to the ICC, but that is more related to the technicality that Israel itself has not signed on to the ICC’s Rome Statute.
Next, she was questioned about ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, who has made a number of pragmatic decisions, closing cases such as the one against the US for torturing detainees in Afghanistan to avoid a political deadlock.
Steiner said, "I believe he will act professionally and believe he will make the right decision.”
Asked if she or PCATI have faced new punitive consequences from the Israeli government or from activists, she said not to date and that she viewed her actions as having been for the sake of Israel – in the sense of trying to keep it acting at a higher moral level.
Moreover, she said PCATI’s filing with the ICC did not signal an end to contact with the ministry or the courts, such as B’Tselem’s decision a few years ago to start limiting its cooperation with the Israeli authorities.
Rather, she said that regular dialogue and contacts she has with the ministry oversight unit’s chief, Guy Asher, have continued the last couple of weeks even after PCATI filed the ICC complaint.
She said she would also still continue to testify before Knesset committees about the issue.
For example, she said it is important to voice criticism to the Knesset that it has not included in a new proposed basic law about defendants’ rights, a clear prohibition on torturing detainees.
The High Court has prohibited torture since 1999, but she said the absence of a statute on the issue has helped the Shin Bet wiggle out of liability many times.
Steiner did compliment Asher on speeding up the response time for new complaints.
However, she said that the average response time, including older files, was still four-and-a-half years and the ministry has still rejected every complaint. | https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-709996 | 2022-06-21T14:04:58Z | https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-709996 | false | 1 |
Alio CEO and former US Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services announce webinar on innovation and the future of kidney health
BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alio and The Hargan Group are pleased to announce they will host a webinar "Bending the Cost Curve in End-Stage Kidney Disease." The webinar will take place on Tuesday, July 12th at 2pm EDT, and feature both Alio Co-founder and CEO, David Kuraguntla, and former US Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, Eric Hargan.
The webinar will discuss a number of timely topics, including:
- The scope and scale of the challenges facing the End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) population
- The evolving reimbursement landscape - expanding on how to pay for remote patient monitoring and AI technologies
- The new role for private payors in the kidney sector and what to expect
- Innovation in the medical technology sector that address the current challenges in the health care system – to prevent hospitalizations and improve patients' lives
- Progress on eliminating barriers and creating the momentum necessary for scalable systemic change, building on the successes of the CURES Act and KidneyX
As the number of people living with ESKD increases across the U.S. this conversation is all the more important in how innovation can benefit these patient populations in a sustainable and scalable way. With approximately 800,000 patients in the U.S. living with ESKD, and almost 150,000 new patients diagnosed per year, these dialogues help increase awareness while offering actionable clinical insights to help patients and lower costs.
ESKD patients make up 1% of the Medicare population but account for 7.2% of Medicare spending, or $37 Billion. The conversation between startup CEO, David Kuraguntla, and former Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, represents the type of public-private partnership that will not only move the needle from a public policy perspective, but also attract significant investment from the start-up and venture capital community.
If you're interested in joining the Alio payer webinar, "Bending the Cost Curve in End-Stage Kidney Disease," you may register here. We look forward to your participation and an engaging conversation on the future of innovation in kidney health and how we can provide better peace of mind to those managing chronic conditions like ESKD.
Speaker Profiles:
Eric D. Hargan, Founder and CEO, The Hargan Group; Mr. Hargan has 30 years of experience working for the public and private sectors and unique insight and experience working for the U.S. Government. He served as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2017 to 2021, as well as Acting Secretary in 2017-2018. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Hargan also served at HHS in a variety of capacities, including holding the position of Acting Deputy Secretary. In addition to serving on the Board of Operation Warp Speed, Eric oversaw the set-up and launch of the Provider Relief Fund, KidneyX and the HHS Kidney Health Initiative. Since leaving his post at HHS, Hargan has joined the boards of Alio, University Hospitals in Cleveland, Tomorrow Health, and HealthTrackRx.
David Kuraguntla, CEO and Co-Founder of Alio: Dave is the Co-Founder and CEO of Alio, a noninvasive remote monitoring company dedicated to improving the lives of those living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and other chronic conditions. Dave received his master's degree from Boston University and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. He then went to medical school on an Air Force scholarship. He was preparing for a surgical residency when he experienced firsthand the need for better technological solutions for those with chronic conditions. Drawing on his experience, he began to explore the potential of noninvasive wearables for conditions like End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) and started Alio. Since then, Alio has secured $35 million in funding to-date and formed key strategic partnerships with organizations including the NHS in the UK, Intermountain, Lifeline and US Renal Care.
Alio, Inc. (Broomfield, CO), is a medical technology company bringing peace of mind to people with chronic conditions through noninvasive, wireless remote patient monitoring. Currently, Alio uses its SmartPatchTM technology to monitor individuals with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) undergoing dialysis. Alio's platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze data and create actionable insights. These insights enable targeted interventions with the potential for improved health outcomes and reduced hospitalizations. Alio has built a team of seasoned leaders with diverse backgrounds spanning across industries and segments such as medical technology, medical devices, wearable technology, government relations, commercialization, and reimbursement. Visit our website for more information: https://alio.ai/
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Millennial Money: 4 items for your midyear money checklist
By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet
Heading into the second half of 2022, it’s a good time to pause and check in on your financial life. But what should your midyear money checklist include? While you may not be able to address every financial matter, there are a few items that are worth some extra attention. With inflation and rising interest rates driving up the cost of goods and services, financial planners say it’s important to reflect on and adjust your spending, pay down debt, plan out holiday shopping, and assess your taxes and benefits. | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/06/21/millennial-money-4-items-for-your-midyear-money-checklist/ | 2022-06-21T14:09:32Z | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/06/21/millennial-money-4-items-for-your-midyear-money-checklist/ | true | null |
SAN DIEGO , June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invetech launches Korus™, a closed system for autologous cell therapies that features elutriation and cell wash using gentle counterflow centrifugation. Korus has the potential to transform cell therapy industry standards, with supporting data demonstrating improved manufacturing performance compared to samples prepared by standard washing. The system delivers purified cell populations for downstream processing development and commercial manufacturing, resulting in better overall process performance through higher recovery and purity of target cells.
Innovation in cell processing is much needed to improve process development and GMP manufacturing performance and ensure a high enough yield for a viable therapy. Developers can now speed up clinical development, efficiently scale-out and be poised to be first to market with Invetech's new Korus system.
"To fast-track the commercialization of cell and gene therapies, our industry needs efficient and scalable manufacturing technologies that can deliver high quality therapies cost-effectively," says Andreas Knaack, Invetech's President. "Invetech's new technology offering, as demonstrated by our new Korus™ system, represents our continued commitment to helping make life-saving therapies accessible to more patients."
Invetech's Korus system uses a gentle elutriation process to provide a cleaner cell population for cell therapy production. Study results show a transformative change to processing starting materials compared to current industry standards that will set manufacturers up for downstream success.
Compared to standard washing protocols, the Korus can resulti in:
- 31% purer lymphocyte population
- 49% improvement in T cell recovery after selection
- 70% more T cells during expansion
- 2.5X improvement in manufacturing yield
Integrating Korus technology into a cell therapy manufacturing process can lead to better downstream performance including significantly higher target cell recovery during selection and significantly higher cell growth during expansion. The 2.5X improvement in manufacturing yield means that cell therapy developers can expect to more consistently grow enough cells for a viable final cell therapy product.
During testing in the above internal study, similar lymphocyte recovery performance was seen in both Korus™ and CS5+ (wash) control arms despite the increase in purity in the Korus arm due to elutriation. Relative Korus T cell selection recovery and fold expansion were considerably higher leading to over 70% more cells cultured in the Korus arm.
Jon Ellis, who leads Invetech's Cell Therapy Science & Application team explains the results of Korus's testing program. "Manufacturing efficiency of cell therapies needs improvement and innovation if the cell therapy industry is going to reach its commercialization goals. Our data shows that whilst achieving similar apheresis lymphocyte cell recovery to the control wash process, Korus eluted lymphocytes to high purity which resulted in improvements in downstream performance including greater Dynabead cell selection recovery and fold expansion."
"Overall, this innovation in cell processing will reduce the impact of starting material variability, contribute to higher manufacturing yield and reduced risk of batch failure; and potentially reduce the cost of goods for future therapies."
The Korus system is for research, laboratory or further manufacturing use only. It is not intended as a medical device in therapeutic or diagnostic procedures. Customers are responsible for validating the use of Korus within their process or therapy.
About Invetech
Invetech helps cell and gene therapy developers to visualize, strategize and manage the future. Through ready-to-run systems, custom solutions and full-spectrum services, we swiftly accelerate vital, emerging therapies from the clinic to commercial-scale manufacturing. Together with our partners, we expand the reach of next-generation medical advances that are revolutionizing healthcare.
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota senators on Tuesday began hearing evidence for the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, whose account of a fatal 2020 traffic accident led criminal investigators, some lawmakers and the victim’s family to question his truthfulness.
Ravnsborg, a Republican who only recently announced he wouldn’t seek a second term, faces two charges in the state’s first-ever impeachment trial, with conviction on either one triggering immediate removal from office. Senators may also vote on whether Ravnsborg should be barred from holding future office.
Either way, the outcome of a proceeding expected to take two days will close a chapter that has roiled state politics, pitting Republican Gov. Kristi Noem against Ravnsborg and some in her own party who objected to her aggressive pursuit of his removal.
Ravnsborg was driving home from a political fundraiser after dark on Sept. 12, 2020, on a state highway in central South Dakota when his car struck “something,” according to a transcript of his 911 call afterward. He later said it might have been a deer or other animal.
Ravnsborg said neither he nor the county sheriff who came to the scene knew that he had struck and killed a man — 55-year-old Joseph Boever — until Ravnsborg returned to the scene the following morning.
Investigators said they doubted some of Ravnsborg’s statements. In earlier testimony to lawmakers, they said they determined the attorney general had walked right past Boever’s body and the flashlight Boever had been carrying — still illuminated the next morning — as he looked around the scene the night of the crash.
They also identified what they thought were small slips in Ravnsborg’s statements, such as when he said he turned around at the accident scene and “saw him” before quickly correcting himself and saying: “I didn’t see him.” And they suggested that Boever’s face had come through Ravnsborg’s windshield because his glasses were found in the car.
Ravnsborg has maintained that he did nothing wrong and cast the impeachment trial as a chance to clear himself. He resolved the criminal case last year by pleading no contest to a pair of traffic misdemeanors, including making an illegal lane change and using a phone while driving, and was fined by a judge.
The GOP-controlled Senate, which has 32 Republican members and three Democrats, will hear from impeachment prosecutors, defense attorneys, crash investigators and former members of Ravnsborg’s staff.
It will take 24 senators, or two-thirds of the body’s 35 members, to convict Ravnsborg on either of two articles of impeachment: committing a crime that caused death, and malfeasance.
The latter alleges that he misled investigators and abused the power of his office. Investigators said Ravnsborg asked a state Division of Criminal Investigation agent about what crash investigators could find on his cellphone. He has said he was simply seeking factual information.
Noem called for Ravnsborg to resign soon after the crash and later pressed lawmakers to pursue impeachment. Noem also publicly endorsed Ravnsborg’s predecessor, Republican Marty Jackley, for election as his replacement. If Ravnsborg is forced out, the governor will appoint an interim to fill the post until the new attorney general elected in November is sworn in.
Ravnsborg has argued that the governor, who has positioned herself for a possible 2024 White House bid, pushed for his removal in part because he had investigated ethics complaints against Noem.
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General News of Tuesday, 21 June 2022
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Simons lists projects single-sourced to Sir Adjaye
Why has govt been giving projects to Sir Adjaye without competition? - Simons
Bright Simons raises questions about payment of architect for National Cathedral project
Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons, has bemoaned the decision of the government to offer major architecture projects in the country to Sir David Adjaye and Associates Limited without any competitive bidding process.
According to him, the government has so far sole-sourced five major projects to Sir David Adjaye’s company which will be worth more than $300 million, given the current rate he is currently charging.
Speaking on Newsfile on Saturday, Simons mentioned that some of the projects that have been sole-sourced to Adjaye include the Ghana Trade Fair Centre project, National Cathedral project, Marine Drive Ghana, W.E.B Du Bois Museum Complex, the Agenda 111 projects and the Ghana Freedom Pavilion in Venice.
"(There is) this new pattern whereby the government is consistently single-sourcing large projects to a single architect (Sir David Adjaye), it is unusual. We have never seen these in this country... what has all of a sudden changed? We appreciate the fact that Sir David Adjaye is a global architect and internationally renowned, but he has been practicing for years since 2000. He has been famous around the world. Why is that from 2018 onwards, we are seeing massive projects being awarded to him without design competition?
"... how can we award the Ghana Trade Fair Centre (which he will be paid $300 million at the current rate)? We decided to do the Ghana Freedom Pavilion in Venice (Italy) and we went for him, … we are going to pay him another $100 for Agenda 111 project using the same scaling fee he has been applying.
“By the time we are through, we will have paid a single architect more than $300 million as a country. Somebody must ask some questions,” he said.
He added that even though Sir Adjaye is an internationally acclaimed architect, he must compete to get the projects that have been given to him to help reduce the cost of these projects because the amount he is currently charging are inflated.
Simon, in a previous post on social media, alleged that the architecture work for the National Cathedral project was sole-sourced to Sir David Adjaye and Associates Limited at $22 million.
The $22 million agreement, Simons said, is 10 percent of the total cost to be incurred for the National Cathedral project, which is a breach of Ghana’s procurement laws on architecture practice.
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A Subway in Covington lost its perfect health score and threw away a lot of food because the reach-in cooler was malfunctioning.
The sandwich shop had to discard roasted chicken, shredded cheese and vegetable patties due to unsafe temperatures. The cooler had an ambient air temperature of 50 degrees, well above the 41-degree limit.
In other violations, meatballs were not reheated to the proper temperature range for food safety. Also, lettuce was discarded because it was not cooling at a safe temperature. The lettuce was in a sealed bag in the walk-in cooler.
Some prepared food items were marked with incorrect dates of preparation. In addition, several clean food containers were still dirty around the lids and inside. Shelving for the dishes had dust and debris, too.
The facility also needs written procedures for employees to follow when responding to an emergency with contamination, and a chemical solution for the clean-up.
Subway, 13015 Brown Bridge Road, Covington, scored 66/U on the routine health inspection and will be re-inspected. Its last two health scores, in 2021, were 100/A.
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- Showcasing MORAI SIM Cloud, a SaaS model to increase efficiency through test automation feature at Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2022
- MORAI to enhance engagement with industry leaders to foster global partnership
STUTTGART, Germany, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MORAI, a leading developer of full-stack autonomous vehicle simulation technology in Korea, announced today that it will showcase MORAI SIM Cloud, a cloud-based solution that builds a myriad of simulation environments without hardware restrictions and enable simultaneous testing at Automotive Testing Expo 2022. As Europe's largest vehicle and component testing and validation technology exhibition, Automotive Testing Expo Europe brings the latest in automotive testing, development, and validation technologies. This year, the expo is held from June 21 to 23 in Stuttgart, Germany and MORAI will exhibit its latest autonomous driving simulation technology at the booth 1358.
MORAI SIM Cloud is the Software as a Service (SaaS) model of the existing MORAI autonomous driving simulator, MORAI SIM, that will allow users to perform simulation tests in the cloud without installing any software onto local computers. The cloud-based offering increases test efficiency as it enables users to run a large number of simulation tests requiring multiple computers to run, with a single computer simultaneously and without hardware restrictions. MORAI SIM Cloud is applied to a variety of industries, including automotive, academia, trucking, defense, aerial, among others.
"As a first-time exhibitor at Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2022, we are looking forward to showcasing our advanced technologies and bringing innovation to the autonomous driving industry," said Jiwon Jung, CEO of MORAI. "We aim to actively engage in sharing our insights in autonomous driving simulation technology with industry leaders at the world's leading industry trade fair and to further foster global partnership."
MORAI is the only developer and distributor of a full-stack autonomous driving simulation platform in South Korea, with more than 100 clients, including Hyundai Mobis, Naver Labs, and Samsung Engineering. MORAI has established its US office in the Bay Area in 2020, and it has been proactively expanding domestic and global business opportunities. MORAI's competitive edge comes from its technology to automatically convert HD map data into digital twins, thereby providing large-scale simulation environments. In February 2022, MORAI successfully secured a USD 23 million Series B funding round to expand its global presence. The round included investment from new investors Korea Investment Partners, KB Investment, and the state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB), bringing MORAI's total funding to date to USD 27 million.
About MORAI
MORAI (www.MORAI.ai) was founded in 2018 as a startup by former Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) autonomous driving researchers dedicated to creating autonomous driving simulation platforms, and has since started to provide simulation software for verifying the safety and reliability of self-driving systems. MORAI is the first Korean company to have independently developed a full-stack self-driving simulation solution which includes the core simulation engine. MORAI currently supplies industry, research organizations, and universities with autonomous driving simulation solutions, and is looking to form partnerships with companies from around the world. With a team of over 95 experts dedicated to their respective fields, Naver, Hyundai Motor Company, Kakao Ventures, Korea Credit Guarantee Fund, Atinum Investment, and other major Korean industry players recognized MORAI's potential by participating in its funding rounds. Recently, in February 2022, the company raised USD 23 million through Series B Funding Round with existing investors and new investors such as Korea Investment Partners, KB Investment, and Korea Development Bank, bringing MORAI's total funding to date to USD 27 million.
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Aamir Khan plays football with son Azad Rao Khan in heavy Mumbai rains - Watch video
Aamir Khan, who is an avid sports watcher and supporter is popularly known for showing his keen interest in every sports activity. From table tennis to wrestling and cricket, the actor is inclined toward every sport.
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New Delhi: A video of actor Aamir Khan along with his son Azad Rao Khan was shared on the Instagram handle of AK productions. The father-son duo can be seen enjoying a fun football match. Amidst the heavy Mumbai monsoons, Aamir and his son relished the rain while drenching in it as they played the fun game together.
Aamir Khan spends quality time with his family and is often seen encouraging the kids toward sports as it plays an important part in one’s fitness and physical growth.
Aamir, who is an avid sports watcher and supporter is popularly known for showing his keen interest in every sports activity. From table tennis to wrestling and cricket, the actor is inclined toward every sport. Not only does the actor show his keen interest in sports but also indulges his kids in the same.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan will be next seen in Laal Singh Chaddha along with Kareena Kapoor Khan and Mona Singh in the lead roles. The film is an official Hindi adaptation of the 1994 Hollywood classic Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks.
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Tuesday, June 21st
Former longtime Columbus East football coach Bob Gaddis will be inducted into the National High School Athletic Hall of Fame Tuesday night in Altoona, Iowa.
USA Swimming’s Michael Brinegar will be unable to compete in the Open Water 25K event at the World Championships in Budapest due to a bout with COVID-19.
Columbus North JV and Freshman basketball teams reached the championship games of a recent summer tourney at Indiana Wesleyan University. The JV lost in the title tilt by 2 points, and the 9th graders dropped their game by one marker.
Several former Columbus Babe Ruth baseball players got together at Otter Creek on Saturday to visit with their coach, Jim Gullett, who now resides in Madison, IN. Jim coached the ’79 Ruthers to the state title. Former members of that team included Scotty Earl of Jennings County High School, who later was a member of the Detroit Tigers. | https://1010wcsi.com/local-sports/tuesday-june-21st/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tuesday-june-21st | 2022-06-21T14:19:52Z | https://1010wcsi.com/local-sports/tuesday-june-21st/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tuesday-june-21st | false | 1 |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Jesuit priests have been killed inside a church in a remote mountainous area of northern Mexico, the religious order’s Mexican branch announced Tuesday.
Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar were killed Monday inside the church in Cerocahui, Chihuahua.
Violence has plagued the Tarahumara mountains for years. Cerocahui is near a point where Chihuahua state meets Sonora and Sinaloa, a major drug producing region.
A statement from the Society of Jesus in Mexico demanded justice and the return of the men’s bodies. It said gunmen had taken them from the church.
The Chihuahua state prosecutor's office had not commented.
“Acts like these are not isolated,” the statement said. “The Tarahumara mountains, like many other regions of the country, face conditions of violence and abandonment that have not been reversed. Every day men and women are arbitrarily deprived of life, as our murdered brothers were today.”
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Budapest [Hungary], June 21 (ANI): Attending the opening of the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest last weekend, IOC President Thomas Bach addressed the Extraordinary FINA Congress.
Congratulating FINA on its latest reforms with regard to athlete representation, the independence of its doping programme, gender equality and good governance, the IOC President emphasised the continuous need to adapt.
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The Championships in Budapest were opened on Saturday night by the recently elected Hungarian President, Katalin Novak, who welcomed President Bach to the Presidential Palace before the opening ceremony. The two discussed a range of topics, including the development of sport in schools and at elite level in Hungary.
The IOC President was accompanied by the IOC Members in Hungary, Pal Schmitt and Daniel Gyurta, as well as the President of the National Olympic Committee of Hungary, Zsolt Gyulay.
The IOC President invited FINA to join the Sports for Climate Action Framework, in which 300 sports organisations are already participating. The initiative was launched by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in partnership with the IOC.
It aims to set the course for the sports world to address climate change through concrete commitments and partnerships, while applying verified standards to measure, reduce and report greenhouse gas emissions - in line with the Paris Agreement.
President Bach also met with Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, during his three-day stay in Budapest. The IOC President congratulated the Prime Minister on the excellent development of sport in Hungary.
The country has been and will be host to many international championships recently and in the years to come. The two leaders also discussed the geopolitical situation.
Meeting the organisers and watching the competitions, the IOC President congratulated the Organising Committee on their remarkable work. It was only in February that they took on the organisation of these Championships. Building on the experience of 2017, when Budapest also organised the FINA World Aquatics Championships, the Hungarian organisers put the event together on very short notice.
A number of IOC Members were also present in Budapest during the first weekend of the Championships, including IOC Vice-President Ser Miang Ng, Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul, Morinari Watanabe, Spyros Capralos, Mustapha Berraf and Sebastian Coe. (ANI)
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon, Egypt and Syria signed an agreement Tuesday to import Egyptian gas to a power plant in northern Lebanon through Syria. The deal would increase badly needed electricity supplies in Lebanon, which is suffering under a severe energy crisis and chronic outages.
The agreement still needs to be signed off on by the World Bank, which is supposed to finance the process. Also, U.S. assurances are needed that the countries involved will not be targeted by American sanctions imposed on Syria, Lebanese Energy Minister Walid Fayad said.
Egypt had agreed to supply Lebanon with natural gas to its power plants through Jordan and Syria. Syrian and Lebanese experts have finished renovation work on the pipeline, which has been ready for months.
Fayad had said that about 650 million cubic meters (22.95 billion cubic feet) of gas will be brought to Lebanon through the pipeline annually to the Deir Ammar power station in the north. He added that the amount will lead to the production of 450 megawatts of electricity adding four hours of electricity supplies a day.
“The agreement signed today crowns hard work that began nine months ago,” Fayad said, adding that “we hope that all the obstacles have been removed in order to guarantee funding from the World Bank.”
The Syrian government is under U.S. and Western sanctions for its role in the country's 11-year war, which has left nearly half a million dead and disappeared and nearly half of the population displaced.
As part of the deal, Syria will not get any cash but will take a small amount of the gas.
“We are looking forward to get the final guarantees from the United States, especially regarding sanctions, therefore the support of the United States and the international community is essential,” Fayad said.
The director general of Syria’s General Petroleum Corp., Nabih Khrestin, said the deal would cover some of Lebanon’s need “and we are in more need.”
In January, Lebanon signed deals to purchase electricity from Jordan via Syria to help the small Mediterranean country that is in the grip of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history.
The deal with the Jordanians, which is expected to bring Lebanon up to 250 megawatts of electricity a day — enough for about two hours of power a day — has not been implemented yet.
Lebanon’s state electricity company now offers about two hours of power a day as part of a deal with Iraq that supplies two power stations with fuel. The deal with Iraq expires in September.
Washington in the past had offered reassurances to Lebanon and Egypt that it supports regional efforts to help Lebanon deal with its energy crisis, while reviewing such agreements to ensure that no sanctions are triggered.
Most residents in Lebanon have been heavily relying on costly, polluting private generators. The aging national grid has not been able to provide 24-hour electricity in the country since the end of the civil war in 1990, and fuel oil subsidies for the state electricity company have been the main driver of the country’s massive national debt. | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Lebanon-Syria-and-Egypt-sign-deal-to-supply-17254904.php | 2022-06-21T14:21:54Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Lebanon-Syria-and-Egypt-sign-deal-to-supply-17254904.php | true | 15 |
Kannada actor Diganth (38) suffered a cervical spine injury after he fell off a trampoline while he was on vacation with his family in Goa. The actor was airlifted to the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru Tuesday and rushed to the Manipal Hospital for treatment.
The hospital officials in Goa confirmed that Diganth was brought to the hospital Monday and he underwent an MRI. They said that he had suffered a cervical spine injury and was in need of surgery. While doctors in Goa were prepared to perform the surgery, they said the actor, who was with his wife Aindrita Ray, wished to go back to Bengaluru where the rest of his family is.
Sources said that the Goa Chief Minister’s office had also requested the hospital to enable a speedy air-lifting of Diganth to Bengaluru. Speaking with The Indian Express, Dr Sunny Kamat, consultant, spine Orthopedic Surgeon, Manipal Hospital in Dona Paula said, “The actor suffered a cervical spine injury after he fell off a trampoline on Sunday evening. He was admitted to our hospital yesterday (Monday) and is stable as of now. Since he required surgery, the actor was more comfortable in being treated in Bengaluru. He wanted his family to be present during the surgery so he was airlifted from Goa to Bengaluru. There was nothing major and the surgery was required as a precautionary measure.”
Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, in a statement said, “Mr Diganth has arrived at Manipal Hospital, Old airport road, Bangalore at 4:30pm. He is admitted under Dr Vidyadhara S, HOD & Consultant Spine Surgeon and is being evaluated for his present status. He had sustained a sports injury in Goa, two days ago and was being treated at Manipal Hospital, Goa prior to this. His investigations are being carried out and the results are awaited.”
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In February 2016, Diganth injured his right eye on the set of the Hindi film ‘Ticket to Bollywood’. As a part of the shooting, a fellow artist had thrown a stiletto at him which hit his eye.
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More strike calls cloud summer for European low-cost airlines
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Europe's low-cost airlines are facing more strikes this summer as staff in Spain and France announced new walkouts on Tuesday.
Trade unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have called for strikes this coming weekend, while easyJet's operations in Spain face a nine-day strike next month.
Damien Mourgues, a representative of the SNPNC trade union at Ryanair in France, said the airline doesn't respect rest time laws and is calling for a raise for cabin crew still paid at the minimum wage.
Cabin crew will go on strike on Saturday and Sunday.
A strike on the weekend of June 12 and 13 already prompted the cancellation of about 40 Ryanair flights in France, or about a quarter of the total.
Ryanair's low-cost rival easyJet also faces nine days of strikes on different days in July at the Barcelona, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca airports.
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The union said Tuesday that Spanish easyJet cabin crew, with a base pay of 950 euros per month, have the lowest wages of the airline's European bases.
The strikes come as air travel has rebounded since Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted.
But many airlines, which laid off staff during the pandemic, are having trouble rehiring enough workers and have been forced to cancel flights, including easyJet, which has been particularly hard hit by employee shortages.
On Monday, the European Transport Workers' Federation called "on passengers not to blame the workers for the disasters in the airports, the cancelled flights, the long queues and longer time for check-ins, and lost luggage or delays caused by decades of corporate greed and a removal of decent jobs in the sector."
The Federation said it expects "the chaos the aviation sector is currently facing will only grow over the summer as workers are pushed to the brink."
Aviation sector 'chaos'
In Spain, trade unions have urged Ryanair cabin crews to strike from June 24 to July 2 to secure their "fundamental labour rights" and "decent work conditions for all staff".
Ryanair staff in Portugal plan to go on strike from Friday to Sunday to protest work conditions, as are employees in Belgium.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has been dismissive of the strikes.
"We operate two and half thousand flights every day," he said earlier this month in Belgium.
"Most of those flights will continue to operate even if there is a strike in Spain by some Mickey Mouse union or if the Belgian cabin crew unions want to go on strike over here," he added in a media conference.
In Italy, a 24-hour strike is set to hit Ryanair operations on Saturday with pilots and cabin crew calling for the airline to respect the minimum wages set for the sector under a national agreement.
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NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fillogic, the logistics-as-a-service platform for retail, and Recurate, the technology-enabled resale service for brands, announce a partnership that creates a value-retaining and revenue-generating circular economy for popular retail goods using the power of localized logistics at scale.
The new Recurate and Fillogic partnership enables retail brands to get closer to their customers and simplify the management and distribution of resale inventory using Recurate's ecommerce technology, which is tightly integrated with Fillogic's network of tech-enabled distribution hubs based at convenient mall locations.
Amour Vert, the original sustainable fashion brand, launched its resale program ReAmour in 2021 and has utilized Recurate and Fillogic's services since its inception. Amour Vert's goal was to offer a seamless integrated resale experience for its customers, but needed a system in place that would guarantee the resale products met the brand's high standards. ReAmour was made possible through the hand-in-hand approach between Recurate, creating the customized, fully-integrated resale site, and Fillogic, handling the logistical back-end to confirm quality and provide an easy process for ReAmour consumers.
"As the original sustainable fashion brand we are excited to expand our customer's experience through the Recurate platform and Fillogic partnership," said Taylor Hansen, VP of Global Marketing & Ecommerce at Amour Vert. "Through the Amour Vert ReAmour peer-to-peer resale marketplace our fans may experience access to past small-batch, limited edition styles that have become fan favorites. We're also pleased to be able to offer a more accessible pricepoint on sustainable fashion, while giving our 'future vintage' styles a second life to a wider range of customers."
Fillogic Hubs offer returns/reverse logistics and distribution for brand's utilizing Recurate's resale platform. Fillogic inspects the item to ensure it meets the brand's quality standards, captures photos, and integrates with Recurate to list the item on the brand's ecommerce site. The innovative and quality-controlled circular economy retail model results in less waste in landfills and a lower carbon footprint for all involved because of how Fillogic manages inventory, distribution, last-mile delivery and recycling.
"This partnership is one of those unique situations where 1+1 = 3, and we're more than happy to be supporting Recurate's mission," said Gregory Cioffi, Vice President of Implementation and Customer Success at Fillogic. "Fillogic's technology and localized logistics infrastructure are extremely agile and able to meet all of our customers' requirements. This flexibility has allowed for a quick implementation of specific requirements for Recurate's customers, while enabling their business model to sustainably scale across multiple, localized facilities."
Recurate empowers brands and retailers to sell "pre-loved" products directly on their ecommerce sites. Recurate's technology facilitates several models of branded resale, including peer-to-peer transactions where customers can list products from their order history, take-back programs online and in-store, charity auctions and sample sales.
"The growth of the resale market is outpacing traditional retail commerce 11-to-1 because consumers are looking for ways to not only spend less, but to cause less damage to the environment," explains Cynthia Power, Recurate's VP of Brand Success. "We make it easy for brands like Amour Vert to control their resale inventory while also making it easy for consumers to quickly list and sell their 'pre-loved' items. And Fillogic's infrastructure makes it easy to receive, store and deliver brand-owned inventory – like returns and sample products – for a seamless transaction."
The Fillogic and Recurate partnership will continue to allow brands to offer a turnkey resale experience for consumers.
Amour Vert is the ethically made, women-led, sustainable fashion brand that combines Parisian sophistication with Northern California ease. Since 2010, their labor of environmental love has led to the pioneering of new fabrics and the conscious adjustment of their business practices across the board. Instead of investing in trends that inevitably lead to the landfill, they are dedicated to addressing the environmental impact of everything they design before going into production. For more information about Amour Vert, please visit www.amourvert.com.
Fillogic is a NYC-based technology company dedicated to maximizing efficiencies for retailers and freight delivery networks via mall-based micro distribution hubs. It is an experienced team of retail and logistics professionals, technologists, serial entrepreneurs and creative problem solvers with more than 160 years of combined experience. Fillogic is driven by a mission to help our partners decipher the writing on the wall as technology continues to rapidly transform the retail landscape. For more information, please visit: www.fillogic.com.
Founded in 2020, Recurate, Inc. is a leading circular economy technology company that offers brands an ecommerce solution to capture their secondhand sales. Recurate enables an integrated peer-to-peer marketplace on brands' ecommerce stores, allowing their customers to resell items they previously purchased from those brands. Recurate works with fashion, outdoor gear, electronics, and equipment brand companies. To learn more about Recurate, please visit: www.recurate.com.
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Vishwas Kini & 'She' Co-Star Aaditi Pohankar's Onscreen Bond Stems From Their Real Life Rapport
Actor Vishwas Kini discusses how Aaditi Pohankar and his persona in the web series 'She 2' differs from Season 1. Kini has appeared in a number of Bollywood films, including Raag Desh, Luv Ka The End, Veere Di Wedding, and others. For the film Punjab 1984, he received the National Award for Best Regional Feature Film in 2014.
SHE 1 has left me and the fans hanging, what will happen to Bhumi now that Sasya is dead? Nayak is aware of Bhumi's secret? What is Bhumi's boss, Jason Fernandez, going to do now? Is it game over?
SHE Season 1 depicted Bhumi as a woman thrown into a dark corridor by her journey, one side of which ends in death and another in self-regret. Although viewers can see Bhumi's personality change in SHE season 2, the biggest surprise is that she has now decided to side with Nayak and has promised to be at his service.
The complex relationship between Bhumi and her boss Jason Fernandez changes drastically as a result of her changing attitude.
In an interview with IANS, Vishwas discusses, "The first season was a stepping stone for Fernandez and Bhumika's relationship. Fernandez took Bhumika under his wing and turned the demure and docile constable into a street-smart undercover agent. She was his greatest achievement."
He continues to state," In this season, however, he realises that a lot has changed and she is now not the same silent, submissive Bhumika she once was."
Vishwas describes himself and Aaditi as friends with very similar interests. When asked about the series, he said he had a great time on set with her and the SHE crew. Her desire to go above and beyond for each and every shot is palpable. He believes that our on-screen bond was translated with such authenticity because of their genuine friendship in real life.
'She 2' stars cast includes Kishore Kumar G, Shivani Rangole, Sam Mohan, and Suhita Thatte in important aspects. Arif Ali directs this seven-part series written and created by Imtiaz Ali.
SHE Season 1 and SHE Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
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Tributes have been paid to a man killed in a crash on the A47 at Thorney near Peterborough.
Shahrose Nawaz, 29, of Waterlea, in Crawley, Sussex, was driving a yellow Mercedes A Class which was in collision with a blue Mercedes Vito at about 11.50pm on Saturday, 11 June.
Mr Nawaz died at the scene.
Three other men who were in the yellow Mercedes suffered serious injuries.
A 47-year-old man from March was arrested and bailed on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol.
He also suffered serious injuries.
A statement released by Shahrose’s family said: “Shahrose is a beautiful person inside and out. A lot of people were touched by Shahrose and had a connection with him. In our religion we believe that Shahrose is a martyr. This means we believe he is alive. According to the Holy Quran one of the best ways for a person to die is martyrdom.
“Quran 3:169 states: ‘Do not consider as dead those who are slain in the path of God; rather they are alive and well-provided for in the presence of their Lord.’
“We as a family find comfort knowing Shahrose is taken care of and has definitely gone to a place where he will receive the best, much better than this world.
“We thank the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough community, the police officers, the family liaison officers, coroners, funeral directors and religious leaders for being able to be patient with us and help us in ensuring that Shahrose returned to his resting place in Crawley, West Sussex. He now rests in the Little Trees graveyard in an area called ‘Bird’s Paradise’ which was allocated to him.
“We see everything as a sign and we believe in the will of our Lord first and foremost. We now ask that everybody pray for us to be able to have strength to move forward. We humbly request as a family time to grieve and ask for privacy in which to do so. May we all be reunited with you in paradise. Ameen.
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- Investment in new technology creates value for businesses in more than 140 jurisdictions globally
- KPMG Digital Gateway, enabled by Microsoft Azure, is designed to provide real-time holistic view of tax and finance data necessary for making better business decisions
- Three new Digital Gateway applications, Tax Advance, Data Factory and Connected Modeling, help transform tax and finance functions
NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The future of tax is at a tipping point as organizations work to keep pace with a rapidly changing business landscape, shifts in tax policy, heightened compliance and reporting requirements, workforce challenges, and the untapped potential of data. As part of their multi-billion-dollar global alliance, KPMG1 and Microsoft are making significant investments to deliver advanced cloud-based tax technologies that are designed to help companies transform and lead amid continued market disruption.
KPMG and Microsoft are helping companies enable their operations to be future-ready through AI, machine learning, automation, and data & analytics applications on the KPMG proprietary Digital Gateway platform, enabled by the Microsoft Azure cloud. The collaboration is resulting in a wealth of new technology capabilities for tax and finance leaders in more than 140 jurisdictions globally through the KPMG Tax Reimagined service offering.
KPMG Digital Gateway is built with the C-suite in mind. It puts easy-to-use technology in the hands of non-technologists, so that business leaders can leverage insights to help predict what's ahead. Digital Gateway offers a holistic view of a company's total tax and finance data, in real time, and within a single platform. Business leaders use Digital Gateway's data-driven applications, powerful modeling tools and interactive visualizations to help inform strategy, forecast outcomes, plan tax requirements, minimize risk, generate cost savings, and, ultimately, drive tangible business results.
KPMG and Microsoft have augmented the Digital Gateway platform with three new applications – Tax Advance, Data Factory and Connected Modeling. The latter two process, synthesize and visualize data from an organization's ERP system, while Tax Advance is a cloud-based collaboration tool that uses Microsoft technology to connect and optimize an organization's existing document management, process and workflow approaches within the tax and finance functions.
More about KPMG Digital Gateway enabled by Microsoft
- Provides a single point of entry for a company's entire suite of tax data
- Translates unstructured data into actionable insights
- Allows non-technology professionals to easily use the tool
- Leverages AI and machine learning to reduce data redundancies across applications
- Syncs with a suite of third-party tools
- Equips C-suite with a Control Tower home screen, which features a suite of applications that process data, generate powerful visualizations and more
As part of KPMG's US$5 billion investment in technology, people and innovation to accelerate digital transformation, and more than US$1billion in tax and legal technology, specifically, KPMG is utilizing Microsoft Azure and Azure AI as the backbone for a common, global cloud-based platform that helps to strengthen its range of digital offerings with new innovations in cloud-based audit capabilities, tax solutions and risk management.
KPMG and Microsoft hosted a June 1 virtual event on the transformation of tax and how technology and data can unlock value to drive business growth. The event was tailored to Chief Financial, Chief Tax and Chief Executive officers. Register to access the replay for the event by emailing tax@kpmg.com, and follow the conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn, #KPMGTaxReImagined.
Quotes:
"C-suites are being challenged by tremendous disruption and uncertainty. Whether it's preparing for potential changes to U.S. tax policies, implementing the OECD global tax policies, addressing the rising pressure to consider ESG in their total tax stories, or determining how to do more with less, many leaders are struggling with how to prepare and respond," said Greg Engel (@Greg_Engel_KPMG), Vice Chair – Tax at KPMG in the US. "The KPMG Digital Gateway was built to equip executives with a single access point to their entire suite of tax and finance data so that they can see around the corner and make smart business decisions even amid a time of great uncertainty."
"Together, KPMG and Microsoft are on a multi-year journey to change tax and finance leaders' lives for the better and transform tax departments from a cost-center to a value center. The relationship with KPMG Tax is in direct response to the tremendous disruptions that companies are being faced with and the need to help them grapple with it. KPMG is helping Microsoft push the envelope on our technology to meet these executives' needs." – Jacky Wright, Chief Digital Officer, Microsoft
"An organization's data is both vast and complex and in order to generate real value from it, the right technology is critical," said Brad Brown, Global Head of Tax Technology & Innovation, KPMG International. "Digital Gateway is intended to be an organization's single source of truth for all its tax and finance information. Our relationship with Microsoft is a testament to our investment in tax technology built to help the C-suite make sense of their data so that they can ultimately drive value and benefit the bottom line."
About KPMG International
KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG is the brand under which the member firms of KPMG International Limited ("KPMG International") operate and provide professional services. "KPMG" is used to refer to individual member firms within the KPMG organization or to one or more member firms collectively.
KPMG firms operate in 144 countries and territories with more than 236,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. Each KPMG member firm is responsible for its own obligations and liabilities.
KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.
For more detail about our structure, please visit home.kpmg/governance.
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BRIDGEPORT, Texas (WXIN) – It stood tall among the smoking debris surrounding it.
A cross was all that remained of Balsora Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Texas, after a fire swept through the building Friday, leading to a response from a dozen area agencies.
The Boonesville-Balsora Volunteer Fire Department described the church fire as a “devastating loss” to the community but noted that the cross was a “sight to behold.”
“A symbol that the building was just that, a building. The Church is the congregation, and where 2 or more gather, there he shall be also,” the department wrote in a Facebook post, alluding to Matthew 18:20.
The roof began to collapse while firefighters were still inside, and several firefighters were treated at the scene. Extreme temperatures taxed resources and available manpower, the department said.
There were no other injuries reported, according to the fire department, and no one was inside when crews entered the church.
The Facebook post featured an image taken by the Lake Bridgeport Volunteer Fire Department of the cross standing among the destroyed remnants of the church building.
“The cross reminds us all to stand tall!” the Lake Bridgeport Volunteer Fire Department wrote on its page. “It remains standing in all of its glory, while its background is nothing but ash and debris. Simple reminder how precious life is and how quickly it can turn.”
The fire didn’t stop the congregation from worshipping over the weekend. The church gathered for prayer Sunday morning.
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Draghi Vows to Keep Supporting Ukraine Amid Coalition Tensions
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,(Bloomberg) -- Italy’s biggest party is set to splinter over the country’s support for Ukraine, just as Prime Minister Mario Draghi defended in parliament his government’s stance on the conflict.
Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio may soon quit the Five Star Movement and set up a new parliamentary group of his own, in a clash with party leader Giuseppe Conte, according to people familiar with the issue who declined to be named on a confidential matter.
Di Maio, 35, favors Draghi’s plan to continue providing military support to Ukraine, while Conte is opposed. Di Maio would remain foreign minister even if he leaves Five Star, one of the people said.
“The Italian government, together with EU and G-7 partners, intends to continue to support Ukraine as this parliament has told us to do,” Draghi said in a speech to the Rome Senate ahead of the June 23-24 summit of European Union leaders in Brussels. “Sanctions are working, and are more and more effective,” he added. Group of Seven countries will meet in Germany this weekend.
Coalition Divisions
Draghi is seeking to patch up divisions that saw coalition parties argue for days over a non-binding resolution on continuing to support Ukraine militarily as it fights Russia’s invasion, in line with European Union and other Western allies.
Parties failed to agree on a joint resolution to be voted in the Senate on Tuesday. But a vote of broad support for the government action is still expected to take place.
The survival of Draghi’s government is not at stake, as most lawmakers are expected to back him and he would not be forced to resign over the issue. But the stance taken by Five Star, the biggest force in parliament which has been plagued by infighting amid plunging voter support, is particularly significant.
Draghi made no mention of arms shipments in his speech. As he arrived at the Senate, Draghi only replied “we’ll see” when asked by reporters whether he is worried about the political situation, according to newswire Ansa.
Ex-premier Conte, 57, has opposed sending the military aid and his supporters want parliament to have a say on new weapons shipments to Ukraine. The government has so far decided on these without fresh backing from lawmakers.
It’s unclear whether Conte will decide to stay in government, or consider joining the opposition in a bid to revive his party’s fortunes. The ex-premier is seeking to ride part of Italian public opinion, with about 45% of Italians against sending weapons to Ukraine, according to a poll by Rai1 state television at the end of May.
The turmoil in Five Star is straining the unity of Draghi’s government, amid splits on how to deal with the impact of inflation on the cost of fuel, and on how to replace lower energy supplies from Russia.
Five Star suffered a blow in local elections earlier this month, winning only a handful of votes in key constituencies such as Genoa, the city of its founder Beppe Grillo, and Taranto, where it was the most-voted party in the 2018 general election with a green plan for the Ilva steel plant.
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The third week of the regular season was a unique one for the Auburn Doubledays.
Not only did the D'days have their first rain cancellation of the season, they also welcomed a unique opponent for an exhibition game.
In games that counted, the week was a struggle for Auburn. The Doubledays finished 1-3 in their four games.
Here are notes from games played Monday, June 13 through Sunday, June 19:
THE LONE WIN
In an otherwise slog of a week, the D'days' win was of the 9-3 variety last Tuesday against the now 2-12 Watertown Rapids.
Auburn had it all working against lowly Watertown, pumping out 10 hits and allowing only six.
The top three batters in the order — Ryan Cesarini (St. Joseph’s), Michael Cervantes (Louisiana-Monroe) and Dylan Mackenzie (SUNY Cortland) — combined for five hits and six runs.
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It was a team effort on the mound. Jake Danyluk (Oswego State) earned his first win on the mound with one unearned run against in five innings.
Relievers Richie Paul (Oswego State), Brandon Matthews (Youngstown State), Jacob Kocuba (Hiram College) and Eddy Rives (Ithaca College) then held the Rapids to five hits and one earned run in the final four innings.
Danyluk’s ERA through 13 innings is now a minuscule 0.69, and the D’days have won all three games he’s appeared in.
ROUGH GO
While Auburn had its way with Watertown, its three other PGCBL games were a struggle.
The D’days were held to one run and three hits by Oneonta last Monday. The defense also did Auburn no favors, as three errors led to three unearned runs for the Outlaws — the difference in the game.
While Auburn managed nine hits on Friday against Jamestown, it could not overcome a six-run second inning by the Tarp Skunks.
To wrap up the week against 8-3 Utica, Auburn allowed the winning run to score in the top of the ninth inning.
RECORD: Through Sunday Auburn is 6-7, fourth place in PGCBL's West Division.
THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE
Tuesday, June 21: Auburn vs. Amsterdam, 5 p.m. at Falcon Park (doubleheader).
Wednesday, June 22: Auburn vs. Ottawa, 7 p.m. at Falcon Park.
Thursday, June 23: Auburn at Watertown, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, June 24: Auburn at Geneva, 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 25: Utica at Auburn, 7 p.m. at Falcon Park.
Sunday, June 26: Off.
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Global Skin Health Testing Equipment Market 2022-2028 (Impact of Covid-19) | Cortex Technology,Canfield Scientific, Inc., etc.
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Global key manufacturers of Skin Health Testing Equipment include Cortex Technology, Canfield Scientific, Inc., Courage + Khazaka, Delfin Technologies, and Biox Systems Ltd, etc. In terms of revenue, the global top four players hold a share over % in 2021.
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Cortex Technology
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Hospital
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- New research finds that America is securing a dominant position in many new robot categories, outpacing Asia and Europe
- Mobile robots predicted to fuel demand
A research study released today by Strategic Exits Partners, a boutique investment bank specializing in the sale of technology companies, found that although America has lagged behind Asia in design and production of manufacturing robots, it is now positioned to catch up and lead in a new global robotics race. The study analyzed the last five years of transactions including 300 exits, and 5000 investments into 3000 global companies.
"Our research found that despite America's minor role in manufacturing robots, it is now making robot acquisitions at a rapid rate that exceeds its geopolitical rivals. And although America has not historically, on a systems level, been a leader in robotic technology, we concluded that America is buying its way into many robot categories," says Len Zapalowski, Partner, Strategic Exits Partners.
Analysis of the available data on global robotic acquisitions by industry, found that America is on par with Europe and Asia in the acquisition of technologies in industries such as manufacturing, and medical healthcare. However, the trends suggest it is outspending other regions in technologies such as transportation (autonomous guided vehicles or autonomously guided robots used in logistics, agriculture and consumer applications), integrators (service companies that implement solutions), and workplace robots (collaborative robots that help people clean, serve food or in retail).
The study concluded that if America is focusing on service robots in these industries, and the largest robot manufacturing density is in Asia (robot density measured by the number of robots per population, a key indicator of the level of automation a society has achieved), then it will continue to import manufacturing robots in the assembly of these service robots from Japan and Europe. The service robots, made in America, will assist Americans with everyday life, which will in turn provide export opportunities of novel robots for American companies. The study also concluded that the US manufacturing robot density will increase, as robot adoption is still in its infancy, and the service robots can be made as easily in America as overseas.
"Korea currently has a 3.5x greater robot density than America. However, robots cost more or less the same anywhere, so the manufacturing base will return to America in the form of robots and advanced automation. However, this boom in service robots is not expected to result in a commensurate job increase for the human workforce," says Zapalowski.
The research also examined global robotic acquisitions by robot form, revealing a trend on the future of automation and robotics.
"Surprisingly, at least two thirds of the global acquisitions are related to robots that are in motion: drones, autonomous guided vehicles, autonomous mobile robots, maritime robots, shuttle robots, etcetera," added Zapalowski. "The significance of this finding is that there is vigorous demand for robots that are mobile, and this is expected to increase over the decade. The next wave of innovation will be all about what these robots can perform on mobile or stationary platforms. Robot dexterity and intelligence is becoming increasingly relevant around the globe."
The overall finding of the proprietary research conducted by Strategic Exits Partners was that America is well positioned in the global robotics race, but the stakes have been moved. No longer is the race to produce traditional manufacturing robots, but rather for mobile or stationary, service robots. Through acquisitions, America is gaining the intellectual property to maintain a dominant position.
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Reservations Are Now Open For The Modern Japanese Restaurant, Debuting On June 25, 2022
LAS VEGAS, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Elevated Japanese restaurant, WAKUDA Las Vegas officially opens reservations, marking its highly anticipated debut at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas on June 25, 2022. WAKUDA offers a bold and inventive menu and omakase experience featuring Japanese flavors steeped in culinary tradition. Located in the lobby of The Venetian Resort's Palazzo tower, WAKUDA is helmed by globally acclaimed chef, Tetsuya Wakuda and marks his second restaurant with 50 Eggs Hospitality Group, and his first restaurant in the United States. Inspired by the Shinjuku area of Tokyo with its vibrant, eclectic ambiance – WAKUDA's dishes are rooted in the simplicity of Japanese cuisine and pay homage to Japanese culture through a heightened sensory experience of both flavors and aesthetics.
"After successfully opening WAKUDA Singapore in April, I am pleased to finally make our debut in the magic city of Las Vegas, a city I've loved for quite some time," said Chef Tetsuya Wakuda. "The omakase experience will incorporate fresh, pristine ingredients from around the world to provide guests with an unparalleled dining experience that uncovers the complexities of reimagined Japanese cuisine."
The restaurant presents a multitude of experiences, from à la carte style dining in the main dining room, to alfresco dining on the patio, to artful Japanese mixology at the bar. Diners can also look forward to the unveiling of WAKUDA's omakase and private sushi room, the first heightened private dining experience of its kind on the strip. With only eight seats available in the omakase room, each guest will have a truly personalized gastronomic journey. WAKUDA's revolutionary omakase experience will be individualized for each person and feature courses prepared à la minute, determined by the interplay of chef and guest. The experience is priced at $500 per person (exclusive of tax and gratuity) and will feature multiple courses.
"We've been working on this concept for 5 years, and I am proud to finally open in Las Vegas," said 50 Eggs Founder & CEO, John Kunkel. "WAKUDA is incredibly different from our other concepts in the 50 Eggs portfolio, and a complete change of pace from Tetsuya's other restaurants. WAKUDA brings a different dynamic to The Strip, and offers something for everyone, from those that enjoy elevated Japanese cuisine, to those looking for a sophisticated dining experience."
Guests will be provided the opportunity to savor Chef Tetsuya's innovative interpretations of Japanese classics including a combination of appetizers, sashimi, sushi, tempura, as well as high-quality small plates of grilled items, rice bowls and cold soba. Signature dishes will include Lobster with Lobster Jus & Tarragon, Poached Angel Prawns with Shellfish Soy Sauce, Smoked Ocean Trout Salad, Aburi, New Zealand Ora King Salmon, Australian Grass Fed Beef Tenderloin, Canadian Lobster, and Yaki Shabu Omi Beef.
In addition to an extensive wine collection ranging from the best Old World vintages to eclectic New World wines, the highlight of WAKUDA's beverage program is the variety of close to 100 different sakes, and a cutting-edge cocktail program. A revered sake lover and long-time advocate of Japanese gastronomy, Chef Tetsuya was honored as the first international Sake Ambassador by the Japanese sake industry (2006) and will share his expert perspective on this classic Japanese spirit with guests at WAKUDA. Guests with a penchant for sake will discover the versatility of sakes from the diverse repertoire, including rare sakes produced in small batches by sake artisans, as well as sake specially brewed for the restaurant, such as the Masuizami, Kotobuki Platinum Nama, a Junmai Daiginjo from Toyama prefecture.
The restaurant also boasts expertly crafted Japanese-style cocktails by 50 Eggs Hospitality Group's talented beverage team. Guests will revel at WAKUDA's bold and inventive renditions of classic cocktails such as the Tom Collins-inspired, Stone, Water, Plants cocktail, featuring a well-balanced combination of Roku Gin, cucumber shiso, green tea and cucumber tonic, with its name inspired by the imagery of a lush symphony of nature, with a delicate shiso flower atop a block of ice amidst the green-hued tipple. Not to be missed is the Smoked Oolong Old Fashioned, comprised of Toki Whisky, smoked oolong tea syrup, bitters and water.
WAKUDA Las Vegas is open Monday to Sunday from 5 PM to late. Following dinner, guests can enjoy the lounge, a sophisticated, club-like space, lined with dark woods and neon elements that express modern takes on traditional Japanese imagery. The lounge will feature guest DJs weekly and a special late-night menu till midnight. For more information and updates please visit: WakudaJapanese.com and @wakudavegas. For reservations please call (702) 665-8592.
Over the course of his career, chef Tetsuya Wakuda has won international acclaim, receiving top accolades including The World's 50 Best Restaurant distinction for his eponymous restaurant Tetsuya's in Sydney, Australia, and two Michelin stars for Waku Ghin at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Originally from the town of Hamamatsu in the Shizuoka Prefecture, Chef Tetsuya was the first-ever global chef to be recognized by the Japanese government as Japan's 'Master of Cuisine' in 2013 and, in 2017, won the Relais & Chateaux's coveted Chefs Trophy. He consistently receives the highest praise for his unique style of cuisine, marrying French technique with the Japanese philosophy of using only the highest quality and seasonal ingredients.
Founded in 2001 by seasoned restaurateur John Kunkel, 50 Eggs Hospitality Group is a globally acclaimed restaurant group known for its game-changing concepts, critically acclaimed chef partners, and signature warmth hospitality. Named Restaurant Hospitality Magazine's "Coolest Multi-Concept Companies in the Land," 50 Eggs, Inc. focuses its efforts on developing cutting-edge brands that deliver unparalleled dining experiences throughout the United States and abroad. The multi-faceted full-creative firm owns and operates some of the country's most influential restaurants, with 13 successful restaurants in its current portfolio, and several more brands and location expansions on the horizon. Signature concepts include the James Beard Foundation Award-nominated Yardbird, with six eateries in Miami, Las Vegas, Singapore, Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and more to come, including Chicago and Denver in 2022. CHICA, a collaboration with Partner and Celebrity Chef Lorena Garcia debuted at The Venetian® Resort Las Vegas in 2017 followed by Miami in late-2019. The Venetian Resort is also home to additional 50 Eggs Hospitality Group concepts including Spritz Restaurant & Bar and Capri Pool Restaurant & Bar. Lastly, the group's fast-casual Spring Chicken concept delights guests in both Miami International Airport and Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium. Last year (2021), also marking the group's twenty-year anniversary, 50 Eggs Hospitality Group opened CHICA's third outpost in Aspen and reopened Yardbird in Beverly Hills. The group's award-winning restaurant concepts continue to expand throughout the United States, and internationally, with the addition of its newest concept, WAKUDA, a Modern Japanese concept that opened in Singapore in April, followed by Las Vegas in June 2022, created in collaboration with world-renowned, two-Michelin-starred Chef Tetsuya Wakuda.
The Venetian Resort Las Vegas is comprised of three all-suite towers: The Venetian, The Palazzo, and Venezia. The iconic resort experience is marked by a commitment to sophisticated play and light-hearted luxury, with world-class restaurants from celebrated chefs; the rejuvenating Canyon Ranch spa + fitness; a five-acre pool and garden deck inspired by the Italian Riviera including TAO Beach Dayclub, a Balinese-inspired tropical oasis; two landmark casinos and a poker room; TAO Nightclub; and unparalleled retail experiences at Grand Canal Shoppes. A premier event and conference center, the resort is home to more than 2.25 million square feet of meeting, exposition, and convention space. The Venetian Resort offers Grazie® Rewards, a resort-wide loyalty program that provides guests with access and benefits based on their activities throughout the resort and casinos, including slots, table games, hotel, food and beverage outlets, and retail.
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Capital C Corporation Secures Singapore $74 Million
The funds will be utilized towards expanding Capital C's core team and tech capabilities to empower underserved individuals and companies in Singapore, and also to expand its ecosystem of financial services
Capital C Corporation, a Singapore-based financial services provider, has secured S$74 million in a funding from PhillipCapital, Luminor Capital, Paradise Group, Citystate Group, various family offices and Ultra-High NetWorth-Individuals. The fund raised will be utilized to serve their lending capabilities and expand their digital financial offerings to provide a seamless experience and also competitive credit rates to underserved communities in Singapore.
"Capital C came about after John and I started a business in our early years, where we struggled to obtain loans as a relatively new and small business in the market. This inspired us to help those who find themselves caught in the same struggle. With our experience, we were able to venture into the financial sector, and started Capital C with one goal in mind, to develop and provide financial services for any individual or business seeking credit access from all walks of life," said Jeames Cheow, co-founder, Capital C.
Capital C expects a forecasted compound annual growth rate of 132 per cent between 2021 and 2025. The company has disbursed over 260,000 loans in Singapore. Beyond Singapore, Capital C plans to expand into the Philippines and Malaysia, where they are licensed to operate and subsequently into the wider ASEAN and Oceanic region, the company claimed in a statement.
"Citystate Group Pte Ltd invested S$2.25 million via a mix of debt and equity into Capital C's digital auto financing arm, Capitall Auto, in 2019. We are confident that Capital C's unique positioning will enable it to continue expand and grow exponentially in the coming years through good leadership, digitization and progressive market capture," said Leow Tze Wen, CEO, Citystate Capital Asia Pte Ltd.
Founded by two brothers, Jeames Cheow and J John Cheow in 2011, Capital C is a conglomerate that offers an ecosystem of curated financial services to change the conventional financing landscape using its innovative loan origination methods with a keen focus on the financially underserved. Its financial services include, Individual financing (customers can acquire cash loans within 8 minutes), Capitall (empowers SMEs through various financial solutions) and Capitall Auto (digital automotive financing platform provides car flooring as well as in-house loans). | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/429841 | 2022-06-21T14:49:03Z | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/429841 | true | 1 |
CROMWELL, Conn. — The Saudi-backed LIV Golf series that has been plucking away at PGA Tour players has one of their biggest fish yet in four-time major champion Brooks Koepka, according to reports from Sky Sports and the The Telegraph.
Koepka is reportedly joining ahead of the second LIV Golf Invitational event next week at Pumpkin Ridge outside of Portland, Ore.
On Monday night, Twitter users noticed Koepka had removed references of the PGA Tour from his social media bios, as another big announcement from LIV Golf was expected soon.
The financial commitment to Koepka has not yet been released, but considering LIV Golf offered one-time major winner Bryson DeChambeau over $100 million to join the series, Koepka's pay day is expected to be very high.
Koepka, 32, won the U.S. Open twice and the PGA Championship twice between the best stretch of his career 2017-2019. Koepka also has eight wins all-time on the PGA Tour. Now, he will be suspended from the PGA Tour indefinitely with his reported decision to join the LIV Golf series.
Koepka was asked at a press conference before last weekend's U.S. Open about the LIV Golf series and his thoughts on the Saudi-backed rival tour numerous times.
"I’m here at the U.S. Open," Koepka told reporters last week. "I’m ready to play U.S. Open, and I think it kind of sucks, too, you are all throwing this black cloud over the U.S. Open. It’s one of my favorite events. I don’t know why you guys keep doing that. The more legs you give it, the more you keep talking about it.”
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There were signs that the LIV Golf series may be suitable for Koepka. By his own admission in the past, the golfer has said he cares much more about majors than regular Tour events. The LIV Golf series allows golfers to play in fewer events for much more money, with just 10 tournaments next year and 14 announced for 2023-2025. And, right now, those golfers can qualify for major tournaments.
Another sign that Brooks Koepka may be gone, his younger brother Chase Koepka was among the 48 players who competed in the inaugural LIV Golf event outside London earlier this month.
Brooks Koepka (world No. 19), joins Dustin Johnson (world No. 16), Phil Mickelson (world No. 88), Bryson DeChambeau (world no. 30), Patrick Reed (world No. 38), and now world No. 20 Abraham Ancer, who was also announced this week, as the biggest names who have left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf.
Koepka was previously committed to this week's Traveler's Championship on the PGA Tour in Cromwell, Connecticut. | https://www.fox61.com/article/sports/report-brooks-koepka-to-join-saudi-backed-liv-golf-series-phil-mickelson-bryson-dechambeau-dustin-johnson-pga-tour-golf-us-open/535-eae417b1-471b-40d0-afa6-ba6e17549daf | 2022-06-21T14:50:55Z | https://www.fox61.com/article/sports/report-brooks-koepka-to-join-saudi-backed-liv-golf-series-phil-mickelson-bryson-dechambeau-dustin-johnson-pga-tour-golf-us-open/535-eae417b1-471b-40d0-afa6-ba6e17549daf | false | 12 |
Didi makes privacy fixes to ousted apps in run-up to restoring them - SCMP
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June 21 (Reuters) - Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Global is making final updates to address cybersecurity concerns on its apps that were ousted from domestic app stores last year, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
The fixes focus on data compliance, especially to observe multiple new rules on privacy protection and app user consent, the report said, adding the apps could soon be restored.
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Didi did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Didi has struggled to bring its business back to normal after angering Chinese regulators by pushing ahead with its $4.4 billion New York listing in June last year despite being asked to put it on hold.
Days after Didi went public, China's powerful internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), launched a cybersecurity probe into the company's data practices and ordered app stores to remove 25 mobile apps operated by Didi.
The firm delisted its shares from the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, and moved to the over-the-counter market. The stock closed at $2.81, a fraction of the company's initial public offering price of $14.
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Charitable giving in the United States reached a record $485 billion in 2021, though the increase did not keep pace with inflation, according to a report Tuesday offering a comprehensive look at American philanthropy.
The Giving USA report says donations in 2021 were 4% higher than the record-setting $466 billion contributed in 2020. But they were down 0.7% when adjusted for inflation.
Many nonprofits are now feeling the strain because giving is not growing as fast as price increases, said Laura MacDonald, chair of the Giving USA Foundation. In response to the intense needs of the early COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the calls for racial justice, giving increased in unusual ways in 2020, but has generally returned to previous patterns.
“In 2021, many donors returned to their favored causes, with many of the sectors that struggled in 2020 making a recovery in 2021,” MacDonald said in a statement.
The proportion of giving by individuals totaled less than 70% of overall giving for the fourth year in a row in 2021 and the report found that giving from individuals was essentially flat in 2021 when accounting for inflation, up 4.9% to $327 billion. That's still not near the peak of 2017 when individuals donated about $342 billion when adjusted for inflation. Experts say those totals contradict proponents of the Tax Cuts and Job Acts, which passed in 2017, who claimed the legislation would increase giving.
“Everyday households are not participating in charitable giving to the extent that they did a decade or two ago," MacDonald said in an interview. "And that’s concerning. That’s troubling.”
She noted some large donors have transitioned to giving through donor-advised funds, a type of charitable investment account, or family foundations and those donations would be counted in other categories.
Giving to arts and culture groups, which suffered during the pandemic, climbed 27.5% in 2021 to more than $23.5 billion. Conversely, giving to education declined 2.8% to $71 billion. It had spiked in 2020 in part because of donations related to vaccines which went to university affiliated hospitals and research.
“The environment for giving is evolving in multiple ways,” said Amir Pasic,dean of Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, which researched and wrote the report published by the Giving USA Foundation. “Robust economic growth translated to strong performance by institutional forms of philanthropy such as foundations and corporations."
Corporate giving also raised questions. Though it increased 23.8% to $21 billion in 2021, that was during a banner year for corporate profits, which were up 37% before taxes. The report says corporate giving still represents less than 1% of corporate pre-tax profits.
However, the report finds that donations are generally strong. Giving grew or stayed flat in eight of the nine major philanthropic sectors, with only education declining.
“The growth that we see for the majority of the subsectors in 2021 is a reminder of the resilience and innovation that help to drive the philanthropic sector,” said Una Osili, associate dean for research and international programs at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Giving to what the report categorizes as public benefit organizations, including civil rights and voting groups as well as donor advised funds, jumped 23.5% in 2021 from the previous year.
“Many of those organizations like the civil rights groups gained a lot of visibility and momentum during 2020 following the killing of George Floyd, and many of the new events that happened in 2021, like the Stop Asian Hate Movement, those also garnered a lot of support,” Osili said.
The report draws on multiple data sets, including tax information, but does not capture giving done through crowdfunding campaigns or mutual aid groups. Previous research by the Lilly Family School found that person to person giving is not yet replacing donations to charitable organizations, Osili said, but rather is in addition to those gifts.
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Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ:VTRS) went up by 1.75% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $15.60. The company’s stock price has collected -6.61% of loss in the last five trading sessions. Barron’s reported on 11/17/21 that Viatris’s CEO Sees a Unique Drug Business. The Stock Fell in Its First Year.
Is It Worth Investing in Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ :VTRS) Right Now?
Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ:VTRS) scored a price-to-earnings ratio above its average ratio, recording 76.35 x from its present earnings ratio. Plus, the 36-month beta value for VTRS is at 1.27. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 2 analysts out of 12 who provided ratings for Viatris Inc. declared the stock was a “buy,” while 2 rated the stock as “overweight,” 6 rated it as “hold,” and 2 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $13.56, which is $4.07 above the current price. VTRS currently public float of 1.21B and currently shorts hold a 1.90% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of VTRS was 12.26M shares.
VTRS’s Market Performance
VTRS stocks went down by -6.61% for the week, with a monthly drop of -7.19% and a quarterly performance of -1.88%, while its annual performance rate touched -26.65%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 4.03% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 3.33% for Viatris Inc. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -9.56% for VTRS stocks with a simple moving average of -17.85% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of VTRS
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for VTRS stocks, with UBS repeating the rating for VTRS by listing it as a “Sell.” The predicted price for VTRS in the upcoming period, according to UBS is $9 based on the research report published on June 14th of the current year 2022.
Piper Sandler, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see VTRS reach a price target of $10. The rating they have provided for VTRS stocks is “Underweight” according to the report published on May 10th, 2022.
VTRS Trading at -5.03% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought VTRS to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -32.95% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 3.33%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 4.03%, as shares sank -10.52% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -2.15% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, VTRS fell by -6.61%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -28.31% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $11.50. In addition, Viatris Inc. saw -22.69% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at VTRS starting from Taddese Menassie, who sale 8,813 shares at the price of $12.07 back on May 27. After this action, Taddese Menassie now owns 0 shares of Viatris Inc., valued at $106,406 using the latest closing price.
CORNWELL W DON, the Director of Viatris Inc., purchase 2,700 shares at $9.90 during a trade that took place back on Mar 15, which means that CORNWELL W DON is holding 22,031 shares at $26,721 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for VTRS
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- +9.34 for the present operating margin
- +34.70 for the gross margin
The net margin for Viatris Inc. stands at -7.11. Equity return is now at value 0.80, with 0.30 for asset returns.
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Parking Assist
Reverse Camera with Guidance
Vanity Mirrors on Sun Visors
Driver & Co-Driver
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Yes (Automatic Three Zone)
Anti-glare Mirrors
Electronic - Internal Only
Headlight & Ignition On Reminder
Yes
Front AC
Two Zones, Individual Fan Speed Controls
Rear AC
Separate Zone, Vents Behind Front Armrest, Individual Fan Speed Controls
Adjustable Cluster Brightness
Yes
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Multi-Function Display
Low Fuel Level Warning
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Instantaneous Consumption
Yes
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Analogue
Heads Up Display (HUD)
No
Average Fuel Consumption
Yes
Body-Coloured Bumpers
Yes
Chrome Finish Exhaust pipe
No
Sunroof / Moonroof
Electrically Adjustable
Adjustable ORVM
Electrically Adjustable & Retractable
Power Windows
Front & Rear
Turn Indicators on ORVM
Yes
Exterior Door Handles
Body Coloured
Interior Door Handles
Painted
Outside Rear View Mirrors (ORVMs)
Body Coloured
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Front & Rear
Rear Windshield Blind
Electric
Boot-lid Opener
Internal with Remote
Side Window Blinds
Rear - Manual
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Regenerative Braking, Idle Start/Stop
Max Torque (Nm@rpm)
320 Nm @ 1450 rpm
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Acceleration (0-100 kmph)
7.3
Turbocharger/Supercharger
Turbocharged
Engine
1984 cc, 4 Cylinders Inline, 4 Valves/Cylinder, DOHC
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5.8
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Power assisted (Electric)
Rear Suspension
5-link Suspension with Tubular Anti-roll Bar
Front Suspension
5-link Suspension with Tubular Anti-roll Bar
Battery Warranty (Kilometres)
No
Warranty (Kilometres)
Unlimited
Cabin Lamps
Front and Rear
Lights on Vanity Mirrors
Co-Driver Only
Ambient Interior Lighting
Yes
Headlight Height Adjuster
Yes
Daytime Running Lights
LED
Follow me home headlamps
Yes
Steering mounted controls
Yes
Display Screen for Rear Passengers
No
Smart Connectivity
Android Auto (Yes), Apple Car Play (Yes)
Bluetooth Compatibility
Phone & Audio Streaming
Integrated (in-dash) Music System
Yes
Remote Car Light Flashing & Honking Via app
No
Remote AC On/Off Via app
No
Over The Air (OTA) Updates
No
Remote Sunroof Open/Close Via app
No
Check Vehicle Status Via App
No
Remote Car Lock/Unlock Via app
No
Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS)
Yes
Traction Control System (TC/TCS)
Yes
Electronic Stability Program (ESP)
Yes
Ride Height Adjustment
No
Limited Slip Differential (LSD)
No
Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD)
Yes
Middle Rear Head Rest
Yes
Airbags
8 Airbags (Driver, Passenger, 2 Curtain, Driver Side, Front Passenger Side, 2 Rear Passenger Side)
Forward Collision Warning (FCW)
No
Overspeed Warning
1 beep over 80kmph, Continuous beeps over 120kmph
Lane Departure Warning
No
Child Seat Anchor Points
Yes
Emergency Brake Light Flashing
Yes
Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS)
Yes
Rear Cross-Traffic Assist
No
Lane Departure Prevention
No
Middle rear three-point seatbelt
Yes
Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB)
No
NCAP Rating
5 Star (Euro NCAP)
Rear Row Seat Adjustment
2 way manually adjustable (headrest up / down)
Leather-wrapped Gear Knob
No
Driver Seat Adjustment
12 way electrically adjustable (seat forward / back, backrest tilt forward / back, seat height up / down, lumbar up / down, lumbar forward / back, seat base angle up / down) + 2 way manually adjustable (headrest up / down)
Interior Colours
Black / Atlas Beige with Sliver Aluminum Ellipse Trim, Black / Okapi Brown with Sliver Aluminum Ellipse Trim
Rear Passenger Seats Type
Bench
Leather-wrapped Steering Wheel
Yes
Front Seatback Pockets
Yes
Front Passenger Seat Adjustment
12 way electrically adjustable (seat forward / back, backrest tilt forward / back, seat height up / down, lumbar up / down, lumbar forward / back, seat base angle up / down) + 2 way manually adjustable (headrest up / down) | https://auto.hindustantimes.com/new-cars/audi/a4/on-road-price-kochi | 2022-06-21T14:56:30Z | https://auto.hindustantimes.com/new-cars/audi/a4/on-road-price-kochi | true | 33 |
Acquisition expands company's glass packaging solutions for the olive oil, home fragrance, and spirits markets in Iberia
CÓRDOBA, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berlin Packaging, the world's largest Hybrid Packaging Supplier®, announced today the acquisition of Vidrierías Pérez Campos SL, a family-owned Spanish distributor of glass packaging for the olive oil, home fragrance, and spirits markets.
Founded in 1987 and based in Rute (Córdoba) in southern Spain, Vidrierías Pérez Campos serves the local market with high-quality glass packaging solutions. The acquisition expands Berlin Packaging's market coverage in Iberia and enables Vidrierías Pérez Campos' customers to have access to Berlin Packaging's extensive product range. The company's General Manager, Juan de Dios Pérez, will continue with the company, offering his deep knowledge of the business and extensive experience within the glass sector.
"The olive oil industry is key for the Iberian market. The strategic acquisition of Vidrierías Pérez Campos extends our coverage to southern Spain. The company also possesses expertise in home fragrances and spirits, other important end-markets for Berlin Packaging," said Paolo Recrosio, CEO of Berlin Packaging EMEA.
"We have been offering packaging solutions for the olive oil, home fragrances and spirits markets for more than 30 years. Joining Berlin Packaging is an important step in the company's development," said Juan de Dios Pérez, General Manager of Vidrierías Pérez Campos.
"Targeted acquisitions such as Vidrierías Pérez Campos are important to our European growth. The addition of Vidrierías Pérez Campos expands our glass packaging offerings for key markets and builds upon our strong presence in Iberia," said Bill Hayes, Global CEO of Berlin Packaging.
Pérez Campos is the 3rd acquisition Berlin Packaging has completed in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) in 2022 and 5th acquisition completed globally in 2022.
About Berlin Packaging
Berlin Packaging is the world's largest Hybrid Packaging Supplier® of glass, plastic, and metal containers and closures. The company supplies billions of items annually along with package design, financing, consulting, warehousing, and logistics services for customers across all industries. Berlin Packaging brings together the best of manufacturing, distribution, and income-adding service providers. Its mission is to increase the net income of its customers through packaging products and services.
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STUART, Fla., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Cell Engineering (ACE) announced that it has retained Societe Generale (SG), one of the world's leading financial services groups, as its exclusive financial advisor. ACE, a Florida-based developer and licensor of next-generation battery cell technology for electric vehicles, is bringing to market cost-effective battery chemistries and cell formats that extend vehicle range while maintaining the highest safety standards.
William Turlington, Head of Mining, Metals and Industries Finance, Americas for Societe Generale, said, "We have long recognized the role battery technology and electric vehicles will play as a key driver in our decarbonisation and sustainability efforts and we feel ACE's technology will be a game-changer. We are very proud that Advanced Cell Engineering has put their trust in Societe Generale to advise it in the next phase in the company's growth."
Societe Generale has been at the forefront of sustainable finance for over 20 years and has embedded positive impact solutions across all of its advisory, financing and investment activities. Societe Generale was recently named "Bank of the Year for Sustainability" by the International Financing Review (IFR) for its leading role in financing the energy transition.
"In searching for a financial advisor, we wanted a firm deeply experienced within the battery and electric vehicle industries and with a proven track record of success. Societe Generale checks all of those boxes and we are excited to work with them," said John Kaufman, founder and chairman of Advanced Cell Engineering. "Our technology represents a substantial leap forward in battery chemistry, and in a deeply competitive battery and EV marketplace, partners like Societe Generale help us validate and accelerate our path to market."
About Advanced Cell Engineering:
Advanced Cell Engineering develops and licenses advanced lithium-ion battery cell technologies for the electric vehicle industry. The higher energy density of ACE's Advanced LFP battery technology will transform the EV industry by offering significantly longer range in a safe, cost-effective cell. ACE's team leverages unparalleled experience in developing and commercializing innovative battery technologies. For more information visit https://www.advancedcellengineering.com/
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A reported crash on the A63 Clive Sullivan Way, close to Hessle, is causing significant traffic delays this afternoon.
The accident has partially blocked the A63 westbound, with traffic queueing from A1166 Brighton Street (St Andrews Quay to Priory Way in Hessle.
Traffic service Inrix stated: "A63 Clive Sullivan Way Westbound partially blocked due to accident at A1166 Brighton Street (St Andrews Quay)."
Follow the live blog below for further updates as we receive them.
Road now cleared and 'traffic easing'
The road is now cleared following the crash earlier on the Westbound carriageway. Inrix states: "Road cleared and traffic easing, accident cleared on A63 Clive Sullivan Way Westbound from A1166 Brighton Street (St Andrews Quay, St Andrews, Hull) to Priory Way (Hessle, Hull)."
Elsewhere on the M62...
Elsewhere, on the M62 in another part of Yorkshire, an enterprising ice cream man was keeping people hydrated and making a quick trade while stuck in a seven mile tailback.
Meanwhile, on the A63 Westbound the delays are now at 18 minutes between Madeley Street and Priory Way, according to AA traffic monitor. It is also understood that no-one was injured in the crash which occurred earlier.
'Severe delays' warning
The AA's traffic monitor is warning of severe delays on the A63 Clive Sullivan Way as a result of the reported crash. The latest AA update, which indicates the crash took place prior to 1pm, says: "Severe delays of 24 minutes and delays easing on A63 Clive Sullivan Way Westbound between Queen Street and Priory Way. Average speed five mph." | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/a63-hull-crash-causing-tailbacks-7234427 | 2022-06-21T14:58:00Z | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/a63-hull-crash-causing-tailbacks-7234427 | false | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is the network behind Rise Films’ drama about the phone hacking scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The Salisbury Poisonings screenwriters Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson and director Saul Dibb are linked and US buyers are understood to be circling.
revealed Thank you and goodbye was in development with Oscar and Emmy-winning British production company Rise in early 2021 and we now understand that the show is at an advanced stage of development with the British public broadcaster.
Lawn and Patterson replace Des scribe Luke Neal as writers and come back with Dibb, who directed O Salisbury Intoxications, which was one of the most watched British shows of 2020. Lawn and Patterson have just written another BBC drama, blue lights, about three rookie cops in Belfast.
US buyers are already circling Thank you and goodbye and the producers are getting ready for the casting.
The British phone hacking scandal was one of the most important and controversial in recent decades and Rise gained access to journalists, private investigators and criminals involved in the show, which started as a doc.
Thank you and goodbye examine the wording of world Newsthe British tabloid that was forced to close due to the scandal, and how journalists hacked into the private messages and voicemails of the likes of Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller.
The aftermath that followed led to a highly publicized inquiry that sparked 100 arrests and changed the UK’s relationship with the tabloid press forever.
Thank you and goodbye, a nod to the headline in world news final edit before Murdoch shuts it down, is Rise’s debut drama and the first drama to depict the scandal. The ordeal has been highlighted in several documentaries, including, most recently, the BBC Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty from Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story producer 72 Films.
Rise has earned a solid reputation for producing a variety of complex, high-profile documents over the years, including the Oscar-winning Netflix movie icaro and, more recently, the highly rated Sky documentary series Once upon a time in Londongrad.
The BBC and Rise declined to comment. | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/06/21/bbc-developing-drama-about-phone-hacking-scandal-that-rocked-rupert-murdochs-media-empire-the-salisbury-poisonings-creators-declan-lawn-adam-patterson-and-saul-dibb-attached/ | 2022-06-21T14:58:03Z | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/06/21/bbc-developing-drama-about-phone-hacking-scandal-that-rocked-rupert-murdochs-media-empire-the-salisbury-poisonings-creators-declan-lawn-adam-patterson-and-saul-dibb-attached/ | false | 3 |
Once again, Kamm’s Corners in the Westpark neighborhood hosts its biggest faily festival of the year, the Hooley. It features two stages of performers — a main stage and a family stage — with the festival kickoff taking place on the main stage at noon (expect speeches from local officials!), followed by the drum & pipe bands from both the Cleveland Firefighters and Cleveland Police. Performances by singer/songwriter/guitarist Taylor Lamborn, bluesman Wallace Coleman, the West Side Irish Pipes & Drums, Window Dogs and swamp rockers Cats on Holiday round out the day. The family stage gives a whole bunch of Irish dance schools the chance to shine, along with line dancers, hip hop dancers and a karate school. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2640446422005/pamela-grimm-retires-after-30-years-at-kent-state | 2022-06-21T15:00:20Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2640446422005/pamela-grimm-retires-after-30-years-at-kent-state | true | null |
Thompson-Okanagan post-fire road closures have not been enforced and the B.C. Wildlife Federation wants to establish equitable and cautious access to trails.
After the summer wildfires last year, Okanagan forest trails were closed by the B.C. government to protect and preserve wildlife as the area recovers, but B.C. Wildlife Federation executive director Jesse Zeman said there has been little oversight to ensure rules are followed.
It now appears any commercial operators including guides, ATV tour operators and anyone with a commercial interest are exempt from the closures while the public is locked out, he said. The group has also received several complaints about mushroom pickers and people driving into the forests to cut wood.
“I’ve been getting calls almost daily about what’s been going on here in the North Okanagan from my members,” he told Black Press Media, adding that signage indicating closures and restrictions is minimal.
“It’s very poor, this now falls into the responsibility of the natural resource officers. There are not even a couple of handfuls of them in the entire Okanagan Valley.”
READ MORE: Thompson-Okanagan backcountry roads a no-go this summer
Closures were done to give the forests a regeneration break after-burn damages, the province said in a statement to Black Press Media. Impacts include erosion, ecosystems and habitat loss, the potential spread of invasive species, increased vulnerability of wildlife and loss of vegetation cover.
Assessment of burn severity and reinforcement of regulations is crucial to restoring the forest, Zeman said emphasizing that in the absense of this work the ministry issued two permits for mushroom buyers to go scout out areas and those permits were photocopied and handed out to mushroom pickers.
Mushroom picking is unregulated and is currently allowed under restrictions.
People have been accessing trails in vehicles due to leniency and permits, Zeman said.
BCWF is calling for the province to review burn severity and forest access to determine what is and isn’t viable regarding commercial and public activity.
“… It needs to be everyone in or everyone out,” he said. “If you want to walk, bike or go in on horseback, and you do it responsibly, that should be no problem.”
The federation is urging its members and the public to contact their MLAs and Forests Minister Katrine Conroy asking for a return to sensible restrictions on access to fire-damaged forests and a moratorium on commercial activity in those areas.
In an emailed statement, the forest ministry said they are committed to removing or replacing the closures with a mechanism that prevents damage to vulnerable fire-affected landscapes, while enabling broader recreational access. | https://www.saobserver.net/news/free-for-all-access-to-burned-okanagan-forests-stopping-post-wildfire-regeneration-advocates/ | 2022-06-21T15:04:32Z | https://www.saobserver.net/news/free-for-all-access-to-burned-okanagan-forests-stopping-post-wildfire-regeneration-advocates/ | false | 6 |
Consumers must be prepared to endure up to five years of turbulent oil markets, the head of ExxonMobil said Tuesday, citing under-investment and the coronavirus pandemic.
Energy markets have been roiled by the Ukraine war as Russia has reduced some exports and faced sanctions while Europe has announced plans to wean itself off dependency on Russian fossil fuels in coming years.
Speaking ahead of ExxonMobil’s unveiling as the fourth international partner for Qatar’s natural gas expansion, chairman and chief executive Darren Woods said major uncertainty lies ahead.
“You are probably looking at three to five years of continued fairly tight markets,” Woods told the Qatar Economic Forum. “How that manifests itself in price will obviously be a big function of demand, which is difficult to predict.”
On top of under-investment in finding new oil sources in 2014-2015, Woods said the pandemic “really sucked a lot of revenues out of the industry”.
Woods said companies and governments needed to think long-term. “We are going to see a lot of volatility and discontinuity in the market place if we don’t get to more thoughtful policies,” he predicted. | https://michaelsavage.com/oil-turbulence-could-last-five-years-exxonmobil-boss-warns/ | 2022-06-21T15:05:55Z | https://michaelsavage.com/oil-turbulence-could-last-five-years-exxonmobil-boss-warns/ | false | 1 |
The acquisition gives Coin98 a gaming arm, fulfilling its ecosystem to push for Web3 mass adoption.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The acquisition gives Coin98 a gaming arm, fulfilling its ecosystem to push for Web3 mass adoption.
First established in 2021, Yunero is a new game studio based in Vietnam, on a journey to build its dream. The team consists of professionals from the traditional gaming industry, who have worked at leading companies including VNG Corporation, Eway JSC, Vega Corporation.
According to Fortune, Vietnam was the third most popular destination globally for many crypto wallets. The popularity of crypto wallets in Vietnam shows that people are not just buying crypto, but they are actively engaging with crypto games and other platforms, especially GameFi.
Rongos is Yunero's very first attempt at Web3 gaming. It's a revolutionary play-to-earn NFT game that will revamp the current blockchain gaming ecosystem. The game is expected to launch later this year.
"Incubating a game studio is our fundamental step toward onboarding the next billion users with blockchain gaming'', Thanh Le, Coin98's Founder shared.
The gaming market has witnessed a gradual growth annually. According to Coin98 Insights report, at this rate, this market can reach over $200B revenue and 3 billion global players by 2023.
"Game is not only a product, but also our language to write a new chapter for gamers, to simplify the blockchain world, and bring Web3 to the masses." - said Du Nguyen, CEO's Yunero Studios - "With our incredible experience and passion for game development combined with Coin98's global presence and value, we believe both ecosystems will be much stronger and more extensive.
About Coin98 Labs
Coin98 Labs is a DeFi product builder focusing on creating and developing an ecosystem of DeFi protocols, Web3 applications, and NFTs on multiple blockchains. Our mission is to fulfill untapped demand and enhance in-demand utilities in the DeFi space, helping people to access DeFi services effortlessly. The Coin98 universe is now consolidating Coin98 Super App, Coin98 Exchange, Coin98 SpaceGate (cross-chain bridge), Saros Finance (A DeFi Super-Network on Solana) and many more incubating initiatives.
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About Yunero
First established in 2021, Yunero is a new game studio developed with a vision to set a new standard for the game industry and build hit games in the blockchain world. Yunero's games are developed across various platforms, including PC and mobile to bring users the best experience. At Yunero Studios, creativity and innovation are the core. They believe that the best products are often generated from random ideas or concepts, no matter how bizarre they may be.
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200 Russian deserters wandering in woods in Kharkiv Oblast
The Russian deserters were noticed by residents of Borova, a small town near the city of Izyum, close to Kharkiv. Borova community council in turn wrote about them on social media.
Read also: Ukraine’s General Staff reports that low morale is leading Russian soldiers to disobey order
“They (the Russians) came back here – injured, covered with dirt, hungry, full of anger, with their equipment damaged,” an official with the council wrote.
“Then they found a place for refuge in our village to recover. We have information that approximately 200 Russians are now hiding in the woods close to our village. They’re being sought by their commanders.”
After suffering losses in another battle for control over Izyum, a group of Russian soldiers retreated to Gorohovatka, a small village on the outskirts of Borova.
Another group of Russian servicemen went into hiding in the local woods. While Borova is located on the eastern bank of Oskil river, Gorohovatka is located on the western bank. The two locations are connected by a bridge.
Vast areas in this part of the country are covered with woods. The closest Russia-controlled area is likely to be Severodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast, while the distance to Russia’s Belgorod Oblast is pretty much the same.
This week, the Ukrainian army destroyed the command and intelligence center of Russia’s 20th army, which was located in Kharkiv Oblast, leaving many Russian troops without tactical guidance.
In the northeast, the Russian army has been experiencing interruptions in logistics bringing supplies, including food and ammunition, since the beginning of the war. | https://news.yahoo.com/200-russian-deserters-wandering-woods-125600639.html | 2022-06-21T15:10:26Z | https://news.yahoo.com/200-russian-deserters-wandering-woods-125600639.html | true | 1 |
PITTSBURGH, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safety system to detect and alert a driver of medical abnormalities to help prevent accidents," said an inventor, from Yonkers, N.Y., "so I invented the SMART WHEEL. My design would provide added protection and peace of mind for drivers with health-related issues as well as nervous beginners."
The invention provides an effective way to monitor the health and focus of a driver. In doing so, it helps to detect and alert the driver of an impending medical or other issue. As a result, it enables the driver to pull over and get help and it enhances safety. The invention features an automatic design that is easy to use so it is ideal for vehicle owners, individuals with medical conditions, new drivers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Manhattan sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-MBQ-143, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ChangeNOW Token (NOW) traded up 4.7% against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 10:00 AM ET on June 21st. One ChangeNOW Token coin can now be purchased for approximately $0.0424 or 0.00000197 BTC on exchanges. Over the last seven days, ChangeNOW Token has traded 10.9% lower against the US dollar. ChangeNOW Token has a market cap of $3.59 million and approximately $495.00 worth of ChangeNOW Token was traded on exchanges in the last day.
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Supreme Court rejects Bayer bid to stop Roundup lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected Bayer’s appeal to shut down thousands of lawsuits claiming that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer.
The justices on Tuesday left in place a $25 million judgment in favor of Edwin Hardeman, a California man who says he developed cancer from using Roundup for decades to treat poison oak, overgrowth and weeds on his San Francisco Bay Area property. Hardeman’s lawsuit had served as a test case for thousands of similar lawsuits.
The high court’s action comes amid a series of court fights over Roundup that have pointed in different directions.
On Friday, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an Environmental Protection Agency finding from 2020 that glyphosate does not pose a serious health risk and is “not likely” to cause cancer in humans. The appellate court ordered the EPA to reexamine its finding.
At the same time, Bayer has won four consecutive trials in state court against people who claimed they got cancer from their use of Roundup. The latest verdict in favor of the company came last week in Oregon.
Bayer had argued that federal regulators have repeatedly determined its products are safe, and that lawsuits based on claims under state laws should be dismissed.
In a statement, Bayer said it disagreed with the Supreme Court’s decision not to take up its case. “The company believes that the decision undermines the ability of companies to rely on official actions taken by expert regulatory agencies, as it permits every U.S. state to require a different product label” in conflict with federal laws, Bayer said.
Last year, Bayer set aside $4.5 billion to deal with the claims that glyphosate, the weed-killing ingredient in Roundup, causes non-Hodgins lymphoma, a type of cancer. The company had previously taken a charge of nearly $10 billion for earlier rounds of litigation.
Bayer also had warned that allowing these sorts of claims will damage innovation in agriculture, health and other industries.
Bayer inherited Roundup and the litigation when it acquired Monsanto in 2018.
The EPA says on its website that there is “no evidence glyphosate causes cancer humans.” But in 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The agency said it relied on “limited” evidence of cancer in people and “sufficient” evidence of cancer in study animals.
The Justice Department, which had sided with Bayer in the lower courts during the Trump administration, recommended that the high court not get involved.
Bayer maintains the product is safe, but said that it would replace glyphosate in Roundup for residential use beginning in 2023. Products containing glyphosate will still be available for professional and farm use.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.ksla.com/2022/06/21/supreme-court-rejects-bayer-bid-stop-roundup-lawsuits/ | 2022-06-21T15:19:24Z | https://www.ksla.com/2022/06/21/supreme-court-rejects-bayer-bid-stop-roundup-lawsuits/ | true | 38 |
Texas leader says Uvalde police response an ‘abject failure’
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to stop the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas public safety chief testified Tuesday, condemning the police response as an “abject failure.”
Police officers with rifles instead stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly an hour while the gunman carried out the May 24 attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified at a state Senate hearing on the police handling of the tragedy.
Delays in the law enforcement response have been the focus of federal, state and local investigations of the mass shooting.
McCraw told the Senate committee that Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, decided to put the lives of officers ahead of the lives of children.
The public safety chief began outlining for the committee a series of missed opportunities.
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Bleiberg and Associated Press writer Jamie Stengle contributed to this report from Dallas.
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Ed Sheeran and co-writers awarded £900,000 legal costs after copyright win
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Ed Sheeran and two songwriting partners have been awarded more than £900,000 in legal costs, 11 weeks after winning a High Court copyright case.
Sheeran and Shape of You co-writers Steven McCutcheon and John McDaid had been accused of copying a song by grime artist Sami Chokri and Ross O'Donoghue.
Chokri and O'Donoghue had said the three Shape of You writers should foot their own legal bill.
But on Tuesday, a judge awarded the trio an interim payment of £916,200.
Sheeran and his fellow claimants denied plagiarism, with the pop star saying afterwards such "baseless" claims "are way too common".
Chokri and O'Donoghue, the defendants in the 11-day trial, had said the chart-topping singer was a "magpie" who "habitually copies" other artists and part of Shape of You was "strikingly similar" to a section of their 2015 song Oh Why.
In his latest ruling, Mr Justice Zacaroli said: "I consider it is appropriate that the claimants' success is reflected in an order that their costs are paid by the defendants, without reduction save for that which is made as part of the process of detailed assessment."
The judge rejected Chokri and O'Donoghue's suggestion Sheeran and his partners should pay their own legal costs because they had failed to provide documents and demonstrated "awkwardness and opacity".
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TACOMA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Green Transportation Summit & Expo (GTSE) is excited to announce that Battle Motors, an innovator in clean energy and electric vehicle (EV) space, will sponsor its 11th annual show. The Green Transportation Summit & Expo (GTSE) is the West Coast’s premier fleet modernization and sustainable transportation event. GTSE offers attendees an inside look at the latest in fleet technologies and innovation and provides informative sessions featuring a who is who of national and regional transportation leaders.
Battle Motors, a leader in the development of electric vehicle (EV) technology and in the vocational truck industry, produces work-ready diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), and now fully electric chassis designed and manufactured in America. Battle Motors’ durable, dependable trucks are built to excel in a multitude of applications including refuse, recycling, construction, utility, and now middle-mile and last-mile delivery. Built upon the seventy-five-year legacy of Crane Carrier Company, the newly rebranded Battle Motors is leading the way in the electrification of the vocational and delivery truck markets.
GTSE is excited to have Battle Motors as a partner, as 2022 will focus more than ever on clean vehicle technology and taking advantage of funding opportunities at the local, state, and national levels. Battle Motors is a top solution for customers to invest in and discover their EV trucks and there has never been a better time to reduce vehicle carbon footprint as the conference will highlight the collaborations and pathways that are key for reducing carbon emissions to Zero!
Battle Motors is bringing their Battle Ready Class 8 severe-duty electric truck to the market with twelve top-tier municipal customers. Battle Ready Electric delivers the same comfort, visibility, and reliability as CNG and diesel trucks while boasting lower maintenance costs, reduced noise and zero carbon emissions. Battle Motors’ electric trucks are available for front, rear and automated side loader applications within the refuse and recycling space and are available in standard and crew cab configurations.
About Battle Motors
Battle Motors, a leader in the development of electric vehicle (EV) technology and in the vocational truck industry, produces work-ready diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), and now fully electric chassis designed and manufactured in America. Battle Motors acquired commercial vehicle Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Crane Carrier Company, LLC (CCC) in 2021. CCC has been manufacturing commercial vehicles for 75 years and is based in New Philadelphia, Ohio. For more information, please visit battlemotors.com and follow us @BattleMotors on Instagram and Twitter.
About GTSE
From August 16 to 18th 2022 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center, fleets from across the country, national and regional transportation leaders, plus technology providers in the electrification, hydrogen and alternative fuel industries will flock to a GTSE sponsored by Battle Motors. GTSE boasts an intimate conference networking experience, numerous education opportunities, a tangible look at what clean energy looks and feels like with a Performance ride-and-drive event, and much more. For more information, please visit https://www.gtsummitexpo.com/
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MADRID, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Idoven, a pioneering health tech company advancing early detection and precision medicine of cardiovascular disease, today announced that it has raised $19.8 million in funding. The funding consists of a $12.9 million Series A round co-led by global software investor Insight Partners and Northzone with participation from Wayra.
The round is also supplemented by $6.9 million in grant and equity funding awarded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The new funding will be used to further develop the company's best-in-class AI platform to identify arrhythmias and cardiac abnormalities, as well as accelerate hiring to build on its mission to advance early diagnosis and precision medicine of cardiovascular diseases.
A prominent list of angel investors joined the round, including Ron Vianu, Founder and CEO of Covera Health; Brad Fluegel, Former SVP, Chief Healthcare Commercial Officer and Strategy Officer at Walgreens; and Vlad Lata, Founder and CEO of Avi Medical, among others. The round was also joined by existing angels, including Iker Casillas, captain of Spain's World Cup-winning football team and UNDP ambassador, and former senior executives from Amazon and Apple, Diego Piacentini and Sebastian Gunningham. This round follows a $2 million seed round raised 12 months ago from leading business angels, Wayra and the Accel Starter programme.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and is expected to be a $1 trillion public health burden by 2035, based on a study by the American Heart Association1. Managing this public health challenge starts with early diagnosis, and the most ubiquitous point-of-care test to detect heart problems is the electrocardiogram (ECG). However, today's healthcare outdated systems are not sufficient to keep up with the demand for ECG interpretation. Over 1 million hours are spent by physicians just in Europe every day analysing patients' ECG data to diagnose arrhythmias and other heart conditions. Moreover, with the use of wearables and other biosensors rapidly accelerating, the healthcare industry requires new approaches to analyse data at unprecedented speed and scale. Idoven was born to solve this problem.
Idoven's team of data scientists, engineers and cardiologists leverage a proprietary deep learning system applied to cardiology to develop the world's first cardiology-as-a-service platform powered by AI that augments a clinician's ability to identify, triage and diagnose patients at scale. The solution is cloud-based and hardware-agnostic, able to analyse ECGs of any duration and from any device, and is made available to customers via API. The algorithms detect heart conditions that affect over 90% of the global population.
Unlike other health technology companies using AI to detect heart problems that are proprietary to their own hardware, Idoven's technology is hardware agnostic. This ensures that Idoven's algorithms are trained on the most complete database of signals, from 1-lead smartwatch ECGs to 12-lead hospital ECGs and long-duration ambulatory ECGs. Interpreting all types of ECG data is critical for obtaining a complete and standardised picture of the patient's cardiac history at any moment during the patient journey.
Dr. Marina Manuel Breysse, cardiologist, co-founder and CEO of Idoven said "Our AI software, Willem, has been learning cardiology for years and today, can help diagnose heart disease, anywhere and at any time, dramatically increasing our capacity to identify people in need of care. Our vision is to transform the way cardiovascular diseases are identified by augmenting the physician's decision making through integration of AI algorithms into the everyday clinical workflow. Deep learning algorithms can significantly improve the diagnostic accuracy of software found in existing ECG hardware, and create new prediction capabilities. Our technology is being used by leading medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies to standardise at scale the analysis of ECGs. ECGs are used in virtually all clinical trials, to track patients' heart conditions in almost any medical specialty, as well as to monitor the safety of treatments with cardiac effects, particularly prevalent in cardiac and cancer treatments. We are excited to be at the very forefront of this movement in cardiovascular care to help doctors and patients all over the world."
One of the company's early backers, Iker Casillas, legendary Real Madrid goalkeeper and World Cup-winning Spain football team captain, refers to Idoven as "the AI that saved my life." After suffering a life-changing heart attack during training in 2019, Casillas and his foundation have teamed up with Idoven to promote the early detection and intervention of cardiovascular diseases, particularly among the most vulnerable groups like children with Down Syndrome and patients with congenital heart diseases or at high risk of sudden cardiac death.
Scott Barclay, Managing Director at Insight Partners said, "The future of medicine requires deeply validated artificial intelligence deployed via API to augment clinicians, and this is especially true in cardiology given the importance of heart health and the explosion of monitoring technology. Idoven has the chance to improve healthcare and save lives, at scale. This is the essence of the type of software-driven technology and empathy that Insight looks for in early healthcare investments."
Michiel Kotting, Partner at Northzone said, "In meeting the team at Idoven we were instantly struck with how big the impact of their work can be on global health. Starting with cardiologist-level accuracy in seconds and at scale for hospital ECGs, saving cost and avoiding delays, the database they are building up will enable potential heart problems to be spotted in advance on everyday fitness trackers. The unique skill set of a phenomenal team with deep backgrounds in cardiology, statistics, AI/ML and operations will enable this exciting future. We are incredibly proud and excited to join the team on this journey."
Through exclusive partnerships and research collaborations with world-class research institutions, Idoven has developed one of the world's largest ECG databases for AI development and scientific innovations. Among them is the pan-European MAESTRIA Consortium (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Early Detection of Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation) that involves collaboration with 17 other leading European and US research centres, and industry partners to develop and validate the first European integrative diagnostic digital platform, starting with atrial fibrillation.
Idoven is a health technology company advancing early detection and precision medicine for cardiovascular diseases. Idoven's AI-powered platform, WillemTM, delivers substantial improvements to the speed, consistency and accuracy of electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation and prediction. Its powerful, proprietary AI algorithms, which work with existing ECG devices, are also being applied to develop disease biomarkers towards patient identification, risk stratification and prognosis, as well as drug cardiac safety monitoring. Idoven partners with leading medical device and pharmaceutical companies on AI-driven innovations to develop a new standard of cardiovascular care. Idoven has been awarded with numerous distinctions for its AI technology in Europe and the US, including the prestigious European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator and Horizon 2020 (H2020) awards and the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the US National Academy of Medicine. The company is backed by top tier investors including Insight Partners, Northzone and Wayra (Telefónica), the Accel Starters programme, leading business angels and EIT Health. For more information on Idoven, visit idoven.ai or follow us on LinkedIn @idoven.
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of February 24, 2022, the closing of the firm's recent fundraise, Fund XII, brings Insight Partners' regulatory assets under management to over $90B. Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners meets great software leaders where they are in their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.
Northzone (northzone.com) is an early-stage venture capital fund built on experience spanning multiple economic and disruptive technology cycles and has over $1.7 billion under management. Founded in 1996 and with a team spread across three main hubs, New York, London and Stockholm, Northzone has to date raised nine funds and invested in more than 150 companies, including category-defining businesses like Spotify, iZettle, Avito, Kahoot!, Hopin, Klarna and Trustpilot.
1 https://www.rti.org/news/cardiovascular-disease-costs-will-exceed-1-trillion-2035
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Former politician accused of burning ex-police officer husband to death
The 66-year-old allegedly told a dispatcher she believed her husband had died after ‘starting a fire and burning himself’
A former political candidate in Pennsylvania has been charged by police for murdering her retired sheriff husband and later burning his naked body on the couple’s back porch, according to local authorities.
Evelyn Zigerelli-Henderson, 66, reportedly called 911 in the middle of the night on Thursday 16 June and informed them she believed her husband, Carmen Henderson, 84, had taken his life by “starting a fire and burning himself”, CBS 12 reported.
The dispatcher, according to court documents seen by the news outlet, noted in their report that the 66-year-old, who spent several years trying to win elected office in Dauphin County, seemed “off” during the call, and added that she had seemed “hesitant to answer questions”.
By 5am, officers from the Susquehanna Township Police had been called about a potential death investigation at the couple’s home, located about 100 miles west of Philadelphia.
Upon arriving early in the morning, officers reportedly found the 84-year-old’s torched naked body on the back porch with what appeared to be fly larvae nesting in his mouth and nostrils, suggesting that the man had been dead for some time.
Officers from Dauphin County Prison booked the 66-year-old into the county prison and charged her with criminal homicide, aggravated arson and arson resulting in danger of death or bodily injury.
Ms Henderson, who made a bid for elected office as recently as 2017, was initially deemed a suspect by local authorities after they reported that the timeline around her retired sheriff husband’s death became unclear and the details mixed up.
First, the 66-year-old suspected murderer told police that she had been in an argument with her husband the night before and had discovered his dead body the next morning when she woke.
When police pointed out that this timeline of events didn’t match with her recorded 911 call, where she described hearing her husband scream at around 1am, Henderson recanted her initial version of events and proposed instead that he had died by accidentally starting a fire from his cigar.
This suggestion was deemed by the Dauphin County Fire Investigation Team to be “improbable”, according Law & Crime.
Many other versions of the night’s events were relayed by Henderson during questioning, most of which were found to be inconsistent, according to police reports viewed by CBS 12.
The final version of events that the 66-year-old wife of the retired sheriff allegedly landed on was that she had found him sitting in a folding camp chair with a lower pant leg on fire, screaming her name, at around 3pm and she’d held off on calling 911 till later that night, according to court documents cited by FOX affiliate WPMT.
Police said that Henderson couldn’t provide a reason for delaying her 911 call and they added that physical evidence, so far, did not match the details she’d provided to them.
Investigators had reportedly also grilled Ms Henderson about her personal and financial relationship with her husband, and quickly learned from the wife that the couple were allegedly in deep debt.
According to the police report, Ms Henderson and her deceased husband owed $40,000 (£32,591) on a second mortgage for their Pennsylvania home and the pair also believed that their property could be seized, ABC affiliate WHTM reported.
“E. Henderson stated that she knew she would be homeless shortly,” the criminal complaint stated, according to WGAL. Her husband, who had children from a previous marriage, she believed would go on to live with them, the complaint reads, noting that “she was not welcome to live with the children”.
Police were told by the suspect during an interview that she stood to gain $10,000 in a life insurance policy from her 84-year-old husband.
An initial hearing for the accused has not been announced.
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NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) announced today that Ray Barretto has joined the firm as a Director and Head ABS Trader.
Based in New York, Ray reports to Michael McCarthy, Head of Macro Trading. He will be responsible for building out MUFG's ABS trading platform with a specific focus on growing the esoteric business, and looking to increase the bank's market share in the flow ABS space.
"Ray's experience in trading consumer and esoteric asset-backed securities and establishing core relationships with top-tier asset managers, insurance companies, and hedge funds, will help support our ambitious FY 2022 business goals," said Michael McCarthy, Head of Macro Trading.
Ray brings nearly two decades of financial services experience to MUFG. Prior to joining the bank, Ray was a Vice President in ABS Secondary Trading at Barclays. Ray started his career in the Global Technology Services unit at Lehman, giving him a unique understanding of the front- and back-office relationship.
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About Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.'s U.S. Operations including MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation
The U.S. operations of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups, has total assets of $332.4 billion at March 31, 2022. As part of that total, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation (MUAH), a financial holding company, bank holding company, and intermediate holding company, has total assets of $159.2 billion at March 31, 2022. MUAH's main subsidiaries are MUFG Union Bank, N.A. and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. provides a wide range of financial services to consumers, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. As of March 31, 2022, MUFG Union Bank, N.A. operated 297 branches, consisting primarily of retail banking branches in the West Coast states. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. is a registered securities broker-dealer which engages in capital markets origination transactions, domestic and foreign debt and equities securities transactions, private placements, collateralized financings, and securities borrowing and lending transactions. MUAH is owned by MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. MUFG Bank, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. Visit www.unionbank.com or www.mufgamericas.com for more information.
About MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,500 locations in more than 50 countries. The Group has about 170,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to "be the world's most trusted financial group" through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english.
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More refugees due to stay with sponsors in North Warwickshire had arrived in the UK as of last week, according to new figures, as charities warn of rising numbers of homeless refugees across England.
Ukrainians fleeing the conflict with Russia can apply for a visa to stay in the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme and Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.
The Family Scheme allows Ukrainian nationals to stay with relatives already living in the UK, and the Sponsorship Scheme, also known as 'Homes for Ukraine' allows individuals to host refugees for a minimum of six months.
But the schemes have been beset with delays to processing visas – and some have warned of safeguarding issues and mismatches between hosts and refugees.
Home Office data shows 58 refugees staying with sponsors in North Warwickshire under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme had arrived in the UK by June 13 – up from 33 on May 16.
There has also been an increase in the number of visas issued, with 99 successful applications as of June 14, a rise on the 85 four weeks prior.
The uptick in refugee arrivals has come with warnings of refugees being made homeless in some areas of England – although there were no homeless refugee households in North Warwickshire.
Home Office figures published last week showed 660 refugee households across England had been given homeless prevention or relief duties by June 3, including, including 480 households with children.
Shadow levelling up and housing secretary Lisa Nandy described the situation as “shameful”.
“The British people showed amazing generosity in stepping up in their thousands to provide the care and sanctuary that these people – many of them families with young children – needed and deserved in such awful circumstances.
“But the Government has failed miserably to play its part.
“Ministers were warned about the risk of refugees becoming homeless on the day they launched the sponsorship scheme, but they were more interested in grandstanding in television studios than doing their jobs to protect vulnerable people.”
The data also shows that as of June 14, more than 64,000 visas had been issued under the Homes for Ukraine scheme for English hosts, with almost 43,000 refugees arriving in the UK as of the day before.
Enver Solomon, CEO of the Refugee Council, a group which campaigns for those fleeing conflict, said there were worrying differences in the level of support provided by the two schemes.
“We're concerned that Ukrainians arriving on family visas are running into problems as not all relatives will have the space or the resources to support their family members – which is why there needs to be the same level of funding available to them and local councils as is provided under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.”
A spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: “All arrivals have access to benefits and public services, as well as the right to work or study, from the day they arrive.
“The overwhelming majority of people are settling in well but in the minority of cases where family or sponsor relationships break down, councils have a duty to ensure families are not left without a roof over their head.
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Scramble for the last train home! Commuters battle reach to stations as final services out of London are ALREADY leaving after rail and Tube strikes brought UK cities to a 'grinding halt'... and walkout chaos is set to last until Sunday
- Britain's railways came to a halt today after last-ditch talks failed to avert the biggest strikes for 30 years
- Militant RMT union is accused of 'punishing millions of innocent people' by pressing ahead with the walkouts
- Walkouts will hinder millions trying to get to work and stop patients from attending vital health appointments
- They will last for months to come as RMT chief said striking would continue for 'as long as it needs to go on'
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- Train strike live: Follow the latest TfL Tube and UK rail updates here as traffic chaos builds throughout country
Hardy commuters rushed to get their last train home this evening as strikes meant they risked being stuck in London if they didn't make it to the station by 5.30pm - or in some cases hours earlier - as the crippling rail strikes are set to cause misery until Sunday.
Britain's 13 operators caught up in the industrial action are not running any services after 6.30pm but some lines are closed completely and the latest Scotland-bound service left Euston at 1.30pm. The last train south to England from Edinburgh via the east coast was 12.30pm and 3pm from Glasgow via the west coast mainline.
The last train to the West Country from Paddington leaves at 5.42pm or 5.50pm from Waterloo, while the final services to East Anglia from Liverpool Street are 5.40pm. The last train from Victoria to the south coast including Brighton is 5.35pm and 6pm for Gatwick.
Nicole Perl, 33 was forced to spend £50 on a taxi to make it to London Euston Station on time to make the last Scotland-bound train which would take her to her home in Carlisle.
She said: 'I checked the trains yesterday when I arrived back from Stansted Airport and they seemed to be running fairly regularly, every two hours or so up until 6pm and it seemed to be the case this morning as well.
'But when I checked again at noon it said the last train was at 1.30pm so it was a bit of a rush to get here. It was quite stressful and sweaty'.
Another passenger, who did not want to be identified, said they had spent £100 on a taxi as their planned public transport route would not get them to the station in time.
Tempers flared today after furious commuters were forced to battle for buses, drive or cycle to the office during the biggest rail strike in 30 years – as union baron Mick Lynch caught a cab after plunging Britain into chaos.
More than 50,000 members have walked out over demands for a 11 per cent pay rise as millions battled into work, were forced to work from home or unable to earn money at all this week in a hammer blow to the already creaking economy.
The UK has been forced into another de facto lockdown that could be the death knell for many small businesses who have already been struggling for the past two years due to the pandemic and were just getting back on their feet.
Andrew Haines, Chief Executive of Network Rail, said the strikes are 'devastating' for the country, declaring at an empty Waterloo: 'This is a wasteland. It's like the darkest days of COVID'. He admitted it's 'likely' the rail strikes will go ahead on Thursday and Saturday - but added: 'I will do everything I can to try turn that around'.
And the frustrations of millions was reflected in an incident in east London this morning when a commuter stood in front of a 123 bus between Ilford and Lordship Lane, Tottenham, after it refused to stop for dozens waiting at a bus stop. Witnesses said the irate man had been waiting for 30 minutes but bus after bus flew by. Commuters could be heard angrily talking on their phones about the 'f****** rail strikes' as the drama unfolded.
It was filmed by a witness named David, believed to be a NHS worker, who said: 'Since 6:30am waiting for a bus but the buses still passing without stopping. And my patients and coworkers still waiting for me because of the Rail strikes. And we are not allowed to strike. And my salary is totally worse than the ones that are striking. The country needs a change'.
It came as RMT boss Mr Lynch was pictured jumped into a taxi in central London - a luxury not likely to be affordable to the swathes of Brits desperately trying to get to work - after dominating the airwaves this morning, in which he defended his union's industrial action that has ground huge areas of the country to a halt.
Much of Britain has no passenger trains for the entire day, including most of Scotland and Wales, the whole of Cornwall and Dorset, and places such as Chester, Hull, Lincoln and Worcester cut off. If services are going ahead they will be limited with no trains travelling after 6.30pm this evening.
London's Tube network is also shut down, forcing commuters on to rammed buses or into their cars. There were long queues on the roads including worse than usual traffic at hotspots such as the Blackwall Tunnel in Greenwich, south-east London, and roads in the west close to Heathrow,
Traffic data from TomTom showed that a 30-minute journey was taking almost an hour this morning with traffic almost 30 per cent higher than yesterday.
The RMT union has been accused of 'punishing millions of innocent people' by pressing ahead with the walkouts, despite rail bosses offering workers a pay rise of at least 3 per cent – the same given last year to NHS staff who battled the Covid-19 crisis. They want an 11 per cent rise to match inflation levels.
Today its militant left-wing leader Mick Lynch threatened to 'co-ordinate industrial action across every town and city in Britain' amid warnings they will strike until Christmas over pay and jobs.
EUSTON: Passengers await their trains to be announced, at a quiet Euston station today. The last train to Scotland was at 1.30pm today
Rail operators have urged commuters to check their last trains because the latest services will leave London at 6.30pm, but in most cases, much earlier than that because of emergency timetables
EUSTON STATION: RMT Union boss Mick Lynch on the picket as he vowed to shut down transport in every town and city over pay
Speaking outside a deserted Euston Station he said: 'If the Government doesn't change direction, I believe more strike action is inevitable. We as trade unions need to synchronise'. He said striking would continue for 'as long as it needs to go on'.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps soon hit back and accused Mr Lynch of wanting to transform himself into one of the '1970s union barons'.
Labour is in disarray over the strikes as MPs ignored a warning from their leader Sir Keir Starmer and joined picket lines this morning as Britain's railway stations, usually rammed with commuters were deserted. Even his deputy Angela Rayner was in revolt, insisting those on strike had 'no choice'.
Train passengers are facing chaos with half of the UK's rail network closed completely and only a fifth of services running due to the biggest strike by rail workers for a generation.
Those who struggled in by train said that a ten to 15 minute journey by train into the capital took 90 minutes or more. People who had to go into the city either rammed on to buses that were packed at 5.30am or walked or cycled.
Some paid a small fortune for black taxis or mini cabs. Uber users in London are being hit with a surge in prices amid strikes on the railways and London Underground. A three-mile journey from Paddington to King's Cross was estimated to cost £27 at 8.45am - more than double the usual price.
In another return to lockdown Britain, schools were forced to have teach virtually because children couldn't get it. GCSE and A-level exams are disrupted, with children sleeping on floors of classmates so they don't risk missing them. The NHS said it was open as usual but patients were forced to miss appointments because they simply couldn't get there.
As Britain went back into lockdown because of nationwide strikes, it also emerged:
- Unions threaten to shut down towns and cities in the UK unless workers receive a huge pay rise and Government drops plans to use agency workers. Grant Shapps says that RMT leader Mick Lynch wishes to become a union baron reminiscent of the 1970s;
- Wales and regions of the UK are cut off by strikes. Cornwall and Dorset have no services nor do Chester and Hull. Tube largely shut down with Uber cashing in, charging £27 for just a three-mile journey;
- Business leaders say the strike action will send some small firms as well as pubs and restaurants to the wall;
- Labour is in meltdown over rail strikes today as a slew of MPs ignored Sir Keir Starmer's orders against joining picket lines. Even his deputy Angela Rayner sided with the strikers and said 'Workers have been left with no choice';
- SCHOOLS: A-Level and GCSE students were forced to sleep on friends' floors or travel for up to four hours just to get to their exams this morning;
- NHS: Patients were forced to miss important appointments because they could not get to their local hospitals or medical centres;
RMT union boss Mick Lynch gets into a taxi after speaking out following the UK's biggest rail strike in 30 years
EAST LONDON: One man had enough during the strike this morning after a busy bus failed to stop to pick people waiting up
WEST LONDON: Long queues on the A40 at Perivale in West London on the first day of national rail strikes. The last time the congestion in London was at the levels seen today was during the last RMT strike on March 1
CENTRAL LONDON: A crowded bus in London at 5.30am this morning as people struggled to get to work and school due to a lack of trains
EMBANKMENT: Cycle use was up markedly in the capital today as people took to two wheels to get to work
Traffic data from TomTom showed that a 30-minute journey was taking almost an hour this morning with traffic almost 30 per cent higher than yesterday
Transport for London and Network Rail's websites crashed under the weight of traffic this morning as people desperately tried to find a route to get to work or school.
Transport for London said that up until 10am this morning, the Underground saw 80,000 entries and exits across the network.
This was about 4 per cent of levels before the pandemic – and was also down 95 per cent on Tuesday last week.
Meanwhile there were 1.42million journeys on the buses up until 10am today.
This was around 85 per cent of pre-pandemic levels - but was up 7 per cent on last Tuesday.
The rail industry will also take a £150million hit at a time when pre-pandemic passenger numbers are yet to return. The taxpayer has also pumped in £16billion to keep the network going through the pandemic. The walkouts will hinder millions trying to get to work, stop patients attending vital health appointments and inflict undue stress on students sitting exams.
Boris Johnson warned train passengers they must 'stay the course' in the face of the 'unnecessary aggravation' caused by rail strikes.
The Prime Minister told a meeting of the Cabinet that reforms are vital for the rail industry and those who work in it.
Millions of people are suffering disruption as only a fifth of trains are running on Tuesday and half of lines are closed.
Services are generally restricted to main lines, but even those are only open between 7.30am and 6.30pm.
Around 40,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Network Rail and 13 train operators have walked out in a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
Mr Johnson said: 'I say this to the country as a whole, we need to get ready to stay the course.
'To stay the course, because these reforms, these improvements in the way we run our railways are in the interests of the travelling public, they will help to cut costs for farepayers up and down the country.'
But the modernisation programme is also in the interests of workers because 'if we don't do this, these great companies, this great industry, will face further financial pressure, it will go bust and the result will be they have to hike up the cost of tickets still further', he warned.
That would result in the 'disaster' of declining rail use.
Usually busy stations such as London Euston are nearly deserted except for union picket lines.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said ministers would change the law so firms could bring in agency workers to minimise disruption from strikes.
He told Sky News: 'What we will do in the future is we'll make sure we've put in some additional protections in place for the travelling public, for example through minimal service levels.
'That would mean on a day like today a certain level of service would still have to be run and through changes to allow for transferable workers, that's a much quicker change we could take.
'For future strikes, both in this current but also for other strikes, we are going to ensure that the law is firmly on the passengers side. One of the ways is through transferable skills, or agency workers, as you call it.
'And there are a number of other technical changes we can make to union laws to make sure the public is always protected.'
He said law changes would be required through primary and secondary legislation.
Mr Shapps said the industrial action on the railways is 'taking us back to the bad old days of union strikes' as he vowed to 'push on with these reforms anyway'.
He told Sky News: 'I hear the unions say it's about pay, it's about job cuts, in fact there's a pay offer on the table and the job cuts are by and large voluntary.
'So it's unnecessary, it's taking us back to the bad old days of union strikes and they've walked away now from the negotiations saying they're going to strike and calling off any chance of a resolution.
'We're going to have to push on with these reforms anyway.'
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch accused Grant Shapps of 'spouting nonsense' with plans to allow agency staff to replace striking workers.
He told the PA news agency: 'Well, I don't know how bringing in untrained, non-safety critical, inexperienced workers into a dangerous environment like the railway with high-speed trains, there are high voltage distribution systems, are there are rules and regulations that have the power of statute, how that will help anyone, whether they are a passenger or a worker or manager or whatever.
'I don't see how the use, the deployment, of students or people who have got no work experience that are working for an agency will help anyone to resolve this situation so as usual he's just spouting nonsense given to him from some policy unit which doesn't help to resolve the situations which re in front of us.'
GREENWICH: Lengthy traffic queues on the A102M Blackwall Tunnel approach in South East London as people were forced into their
LONDON BRIDGE: Huge queues as people waited for a bus to work as Tube and rail services were axed
A number of Labour MPs joined the pickets at Victoria Station in London. Politicians often have flats near Westminster where they stay during the week, and that are within easy walking distance of Victoria and Waterloo
MANCHESTER PICCADILLY: The north-west's busiest railway station stands completely deserted at 8am today
KINGS CROSS: A LNER train sits on the empty platform of Kings Cross station in London this morning on the first day of the worst strike in 30 years today
WATERLOO: A few commuters stand under the world famous clock at Waterloo today as industrial action crippled the railways
VICTORIA: London's second busiest station, serving South London and Sussex including Gatwick, was also deserted today
VICTORIA: The departures screen at Victoria that showed the level of disruption in London this morning on the Tube and railways
PETERBOROUGH: Trains in sidings near the railway station on the first morning of the nationwide rail strike
LONDON VICTORIA: Miffed commuters get off buses at the station as they battle across the capital for work
LONDON WATERLOO: Commuters arrive in London on a rare - and packed - service into the capital this morning
CAMDEN TOWN: A shuttered station on the Northern Line today as London Underground workers also walked out
PARLIAMENT SQUARE: A Boris biker and other cyclists in traffic in central London as they took to alternative forms of transport
BRISTOL TEMPLE MEADSL Union members wave RMT flags and banners as they walked out over pay
MANCHESTER: RMT members set up a picket outside Piccadilly Station this morning over pay and jobs
NOTTINGHAM: RMT strikers hold up their banner that claims they are walking out to defend the railways
NOTTINGHAM: One striker held a copy of the Socialist Worker, which claims winning the strike would be a win over the Tories
CARLISLE: RMT members stand outside a Network Rail maintenance yard in the north-west early this morning
BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET: Services from the Midlands' busiest railway station were also decimated by the strikes
NORTH LONDON: Piccadilly Line trains at Northfields depot on the first day of three planned days of national rail strikes over pay, conditions and job security
VICTORIA: Commuters waiting for busses outside of Victoria Station due to the nation wide rail strike
MANCHESTER PICCADILLY: The platforms at Manchester's main railway station were completely empty of trains and people
MNACHESTER CITY CENTRE: Outside the station people queued for buses to try to get around the city
Several Labour MPs have joined RMT pickets to show their support for rail workers taking strike action on Tuesday morning.
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had the whip removed in 2020, and several of his close supporters have shared messages of solidarity with rail workers taking part in the strikes.
'Solidarity with @RMTunion railway workers striking up and down the country this week,' Mr Corbyn tweeted.
'We cannot let the profits of the rich continue to grow at the expense of workers' jobs, wages, conditions, pensions and safety.'
Coventry South Labour MP Zarah Sultana shared a picture of herself at a picket in London, tweeting: 'Great to join striking @RMTunion members at Victoria Station this morning alongside Socialist Campaign Group comrades.'
Richard Burgon, a former shadow cabinet member under Mr Corbyn, tweeted: 'We can't just keep accepting workers' wages and conditions being driven down so that the profits of the rich are driven up.'
North of Tyne Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll joined the picket of around 25 people outside Newcastle Central station.
He told the PA news agency: 'What I want to see is Britain be a high-wage economy with good public services, which is exactly what the RMT is fighting for.
'When it gets to the point where people are giving up their pay to fight for industry, something's already gone wrong.
'I sit on the Rail North committee and on Transport for the North and we have been warning ministers for two years that the system is creaking - they should have acted.
'If you want Britain to be a modern, high-wage economy with world-leading services, you've got to fund it.
'The fact that the Government hasn't come to the table despite the fact this has been brewing for years is the problem.'
Ian Lavery, the MP for Wansbeck and former chair of the Labour Party, joined a picket in Morpeth, tweeting: 'Solidarity with the @RMTunion today and all days.'
Beth Winter, the Labour MP for Cynon Valley, tweeted: 'Complete solidarity with striking @RMTunion members today.
'The Trades Unions are the organised working class... the workers united will never be defeated.'
Tahir Ali, the MP for Birmingham Hall Green, said he would be joining pickets later on Tuesday and posted: 'Solidarity to all those who are out taking action to protect jobs, ensure safety, and win better pay and conditions.'
At Birmingham New Street station, a few would-be passengers and commuters were trying to work out their travel plans, gazing at timetables on their phones and the destination on the main concourse.
Carol Hutchinson, who is on her way back to the Lake District after coming off a six-hour flight from Egypt, arrived back in the UK to find her direct train from Birmingham International station cancelled.
Having made her way to New Street, she was waiting to board, with her luggage, what appeared to be one of the few trains still running.
'I think it's going to be standing room only... I'm not even sure I'll get on with my suitcase,' she said.
Gordon Martin, RMT regional organiser for Scotland, said the strike is the last resort for members and said they were looking for a 'meaningful offer' to resolve the dispute.
He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: 'This is not the first option, this is the last resort for our members.'
Mr Martin added: 'It's a fight that we didn't want, this is a defensive action by this trade union but it will be 'til we get a reasonable settlement and the members have made that abundantly clear to me and others.
'This is a defensive measure by our members in defence of their jobs, their terms and conditions and, I would argue, the safety of the rail industry.'
Manchester Piccadilly was also largely deserted this morning.
Its platforms were empty and there were more cleaners and station staff.
Andy and Hannah Walton, a couple in their 40s, told MailOnline: 'The strike has really impacted our holiday - we're flying from Manchester to Prague.
'We're flying today but had to take extra measures to make sure we get our flights.
'We had to come up from Stoke last night and stay in a hotel as we weren't sure if the direct train to the airport would be running - and it's not.
'This has cost us a lot more money which is not what we need when we're going away.'
Colleen Smith, 54, a customer services worker, said: 'I don't often rely on the trains for my commute to work or rarely in the week, but I support the workers.
'There's good and bad sides to the situation. You see train staff tolerate so much. You can always see they are understaffed and they need more jobs and a raise of pay.
'The other side is people are unable to get to work themselves which is frustrating. It's affecting too many people so I believe it will be sorted soon.'
John Jeffery, 32, a retail worker, said: 'I'm actually on my way home from work and I've had to wait an extra half hour for my train. I'm lucky compared to others who just had their journey cancelled.
'I've had to cancel my shift tonight which means I've lost a day's pay which is very frustrating.
'I can sympathise with the workers because everyone at the moment needs a pay rise and working conditions should always be satisfactory.
'They've known these strikes were coming and there are no running replacement services on the buses - I had to find this out over an announcement in the station.
'This just makes me feel like they don't care about the rest of us trying to get to work.'
Cassie Bywater, 28, a content writer, said: 'I've got to the station only to see my train isn't coming so I've had to book an Uber which is going to cost me a lot of money.
'I was aware the strikes were happening, but the information provided said a 'limited service'. But there are no live train times for where i need to go - which is the office.
'It's frustrating as if I knew this I could have travelled straight from my house to the office in a taxi - and I do rely on train services a lot of the time.
'I think this will be sorted fairly quickly as a lot of lives are affected. Sometimes the power of protest is the only way your voice can be heard, and I hope that this is sorted soon'.
Glasgow Queen Street station was very quiet on Tuesday morning with just a handful of passengers waiting for trains.
Two trains an hour are running between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh.
Glasgow Central Station was also largely empty with just a few passengers waiting.
One train an hour is running between there and the Scottish capital.
Scott Dallas, 28, from Kirkintilloch, said getting to Glasgow Queen Street wasn't too difficult but he will have to leave early later in the day.
He told the PA news agency: 'I usually get the train from Lenzie but I went to Croy today so it was not too bad.
'The problem is tonight I will have to leave early because the last train I think is 6pm so I'll just have to make sure I'm out on time because I'm going to a conference today at Glasgow University.
'It is a bit of a pain but it could be worse.
'If I didn't have to come to this conference today I probably would've stayed at home and worked at home.'
Clapham Junction station in southwest London has been left eerily empty after rush hour.
Platforms at what is usually one of the busiest commuter hubs in the UK were quiet by 9:30 as a small number of travellers boarded the limited number of services.
Only trains on branches to Windsor or Southampton are running from Clapham Junction and at reduced times.
A handful of trains to stations like Dalston Junction and Stratford were cancelled while some trains to stations like Brighton were delayed.
Two commuters could be heard angrily talking on their phones about the 'f****** rail strikes' as they waited for buses outside the station.
London Waterloo and Victoria train station were deserted this morning and the shutters were down at major London Underground stations as Britons face a summer of discontent.
By 9am, the normally busy London Bridge Underground station was deserted.
The entrances were closed off by metal fences, and boards inside told anyone who had arrived that the station was shut due to the industrial action.
Behind the barriers, the concourse and ticket area, which would normally be teeming during the morning rush-hour, was empty.
A message running across a ticker board stated 'This station is closed owing to strike', and station staff could be seen telling travellers where they might be able to take a different route and how to pay with their cards.
Electrical engineer Harry Charles said his normal 10-minute journey to work by train to London Bridge took him 90 minutes.
The 30-year-old, from Lewisham, south-east London, said: 'Obviously I had to wake up early and left my house at 6am.
'I am with the employees who are striking because their money is not going up and the cost of everything is rising.
'The strike has caused a lot of hassle for people but everyone wants be able to eat and be able to afford to put in a good day's work.'
The father of three added: 'I had to go in as I work in a hospital.
'I travelled by bus and it was full. I had to let three or four buses go.
'One thing is - just imagine what it would be like getting through this if the weather was bad.'
Network Rail (NR) has asked the biggest rail workers' union to attend formal consultation talks next month on introducing 'modern working practices'.
A letter was handed to Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), at the end of talks on Monday evening.
Meetings were held throughout the day but failed to avert three days of strikes by RMT members which crippled train services on Tuesday and will be repeated on Thursday and Saturday.
The letter, written by Paul Rutter of NR, says: 'We have always made clear to you that we needed to make material progress in these discussions and that we needed to implement meaningful changes to working practices by April 2023.
'I am still hopeful that we can agree a way forward. We cannot, however, delay any longer and with that in mind we intend to consult formally with you on the implementation of changes to a number of working practices which we believe can be changed within the existing agreements and T&Cs (terms and conditions) under which our Maintenance and Works Delivery staff are employed.
'We will also press ahead with consultation on the implementation of certain technologies in order to make the railway a safer and more efficient workplace.
'Whilst we do not believe that we need the agreement from our trade unions to make these changes, we would much prefer to implement them with your agreement and co-operation.'
NR official Tim Shoveller said: 'Last night Network Rail passed a letter to the RMT asking them to attend the start of formal consultation talks on July 1 on the introduction of modern working practices in our maintenance organisation.
'The changes will mean dumping outdated working practices and introducing new technology, both of which will lead to a more effective and safer maintenance organisation.
'We expect this will reduce roles by around 1,800, the vast majority of which will be lost through voluntary severance and natural wastage.
'With retraining and redeployment also available to us, we anticipate there will be a job for everyone that wants one.
'These changes are vital for to put our railway on a firm financial footing for the future and will help us to save £100 million, while potentially giving us the flexibility needed to solve this industrial dispute.'
In Manchester a trickle of travellers entered and left a largely deserted Piccadilly train station, along with some confused and bewildered tourists, as RMT pickets manned the entrances.
The station, which handled more than 130,000 visitors last weekend, was running just 20% of normal weekday services.
Trains were running on some main lines, to Liverpool, York and Newcastle, but local routes were stopped.
Phil James, route director for Network Rail in the North West, said: 'So some of the more local commuter lines are seeing very little in terms of train services today.
'So it's not great for passengers, we recognise that and we have been advising passengers to check before they travel and clearly you can see some people have heeded our advice.'
An RMT source admitted that strikes were failing to have a major impact at Britain's third-busiest station as a number of lines kept running.
At Liverpool Street, commuters flooded off Overground trains from Chingford and Enfield Town approximately every half an hour, most of them heading to the Central and Elizabeth lines.
The union source said: 'I think it's been more minor inconvenience than straight direct impact.'
A Pret a Manger, a Pure, and the International Cheese shop all remained closed, while The Savanna, a grocer's, left a notice apologising to customers for keeping its shutters up.
MJ Shannon had to take a £30 Uber taxi, instead of a local train service, from Hale, Cheshire, where she was at a training event, to get to Manchester Piccadilly before a train home to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Ms Shannon, a bar manager, said: 'I'm trying to get back to Newcastle. It's not the worst inconvenience in the world, all the major lines are still running.
'Hopefully my train home will be in 45 minutes. We will see what happens.'
Amber Zito, 24, a canine hydrotherapist from Holme Firth, West Yorkshire, had just missed her train back to Huddersfield at Piccadilly train station in Manchester after vising her boyfriend in the city.
Ms Zito was waiting for the next train in an hour's time.
She said: 'They are usually more frequent. It is not great is it?
'Everything is kind of going tits up at the moment, planes, trains, everything. Nothing seems to be running properly at the moment.
'I blame the Government for the strike. I don't blame the people who work for train companies at all.
'They are only trying to do what everyone wants for their job. But it's frustrating when you want to get somewhere.'
Paris Herne, 43, lives in Edinburgh but came to Glasgow for work and said his journey to Queen Street was not much affected by the strike, though some of his colleagues are working from home.
He said: 'The central line is fine, I don't use any of the district lines at all.
'I had to wait an extra 15 minutes but that is all.
'I came from Edinburgh and there are two trains an hour so it's fine.
'But lots of my colleagues live on district lines so they are getting cabs or working from home.'
The sun rises over London on the day of the Summer Solstice - which also happens to be the first day of the rail strike
BRISTOL TEMPLE MEADS: The station serving the West Country and Wales opened at 7am today due to the rail strikes, with only a small number of services running
WATERLOO: The shutters were down at Waterloo Underground Station, which leads to the Bakerloo, Northern and Waterloo and City lines
VICTORIA: Members of the public locked out of Victoria Station on the first day of national rail strikes. Rail lines across Britain will be closed for three days when thousands of rail workers walk out on 21, 23 and 25 June over a pay dispute
LONDON BRIDGE: Commuters wait at at a bus stop outside London Bridge station this morning - as tube strikes set to cause travel disruption across the capital
VICTORIA: Victoria Underground Station is closed today following the start of national rail strikes this wee
Clinical nurse manager Priya Govender said she has 'already had a horrible day and it has only just started'.
The 37-year-old had stayed at a hotel in Liverpool Street, central London, after working at her office on Monday, hoping that an early start would enable her to get home to South Coulsdon.
Her day started at 6.15am and she does not think she will arrive until after 10am.
Still trying to figure out what route to take from London Bridge, she said: 'I did not think it would be this bad. Some trains are running but a lot have been cancelled.
'I definitely will not be able to get a bus because they are packed. I will have to get an Uber.
'I still have to start work at 9am but at least I can work from home and have some flexibility.
'My day has been horrible. It is going to be a long day and I still have a full day's work to do. After this, I will just work from home on a strike day.'
Ms Govender, who works for a private healthcare group, said she is 'with' the strikers, adding: 'I know what people are feeling in today's world and it is hard, even though travelling is really not great for me now.'
Just before rush-hour, a huge influx of commuters suddenly swarmed Paddington station in London as they departed from trains in an apparent attempt to beat the crowds.
Several travellers appeared to try to avoid tapping out and left through separate barriers in order to jump the queue.
Within minutes of the rush the station was largely deserted, with fewer than a dozen travellers waiting on the platforms.
A usually busy London Euston Station was almost deserted on Tuesday morning, with just a tiny fraction of the usual crowds of commuters present.
Little more than two dozen people waited for a reduced number of trains during what would normally be rush hour.
Jack Pook, from Winchester, described the strikes as 'very stressful' as he waited to board a train home at Clapham Junction in south-west London after spending the night in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Mr Pook, a family support officer, said he had travelled up to London for work on Monday morning and was waiting on Platform 9 for his train home in the evening when he collapsed.
'I suddenly very instantly started feeling very unwell. I went completely pale, profuse sweating,' the 54-year-old told the PA news agency, adding that people must have thought he was drunk. 'It was very humiliating.'
He said the train staff were 'lovely with me' and called the paramedics, who treated him for about an hour before taking him to hospital, where he was diagnosed with a 'one-off virus'.
Mr Pook was still wearing hospital pyjamas when he returned to the station on Tuesday morning.
Having planned to travel home on Monday, he said he had been 'very stressed' about the strikes when he woke up in hospital.
'I didn't know if they were still on until this morning - I asked someone at a bus stop at about 7 this morning,' he said.
Mr Pook said he was lucky there was a train to Westminster from Clapham Junction at about 8.30am and that staff had let him use his ticket from Monday.
He said the experience has been 'humiliating, stressful and caused worry, but strangers this morning have been really kind to me'.
He also said he had left his dog, Bardy, in day care, adding: 'I just want to get back to him. He's never been separated from me for this long.'
Nick King, a spokesman for Network Rail in Scotland, said a modernised railway could improve its pay offer for staff by passing on savings.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: 'We do feel that, with a bit of compromise, we could get this dispute resolved, and we could get trains back on the move.'
He said the strike could be resolved if the union moved its position on working practices and any reduction in staff would take place on a voluntary basis.
Mr King said: 'The dispute is not going to be solved through strike action. It's not going to be solved on a picket line.
'It's going to be solved by negotiations in a room, and negotiations have been taking place for 18 months now on this issue.
Amanda Testa, RMT branch secretary in Bristol, dismissed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to change the rules to allow agency staff to work while rail employees are on strike as 'a gimmick'.
She told the PA news agency: 'There aren't any agency staff - we have seen that in other industries.'
She added that it is almost impossible to find agency staff to help, even when there are no strikes.
Luc Johnston, a project manager for a charity, said he supports the strikes despite the disruption he faced as he waited for a train back to London at Liverpool Lime Street.
The 30-year-old said: 'I was in Belfast yesterday for a work trip.
'I knew there was going to be disruption but I had to travel for work and thought I'd chance it anyway.
'I think the strike is the right thing to do even if it causes me a bit of hassle.'
Brazilian tourist Evelin Minowa, 35, was due to travel to London from Liverpool for a concert on Tuesday evening.
She said: 'I knew about the strikes but there were meant to be trains running every hour to London.
'When I got here the first train was cancelled so I'm waiting to see if the next one arrives.
'It is annoying for people but I think if workers are striking there is a reason for it.'
At Liverpool Lime Street station, couple Sheila and Steve, who did not want to give their last name, were due to travel to London for a theatre trip.
Steve said: 'It's been planned for months and it's to celebrate a retirement and a 65th birthday.
'We're due to go to the theatre to see Pretty Woman tonight and the Savoy Grill tomorrow. It cost £500.
'The 8.47am train has been cancelled and we're just keeping our fingers crossed for the next one at 9.47am.
'I think they have got the right to strike but this seems a bit unfair on other people.'
Window cleaner Anthony Noble was soaping down the glass panels on The Railway pub opposite the main picket line at Birmingham New Street station.
The 46-year-old is fully supportive of the industrial action, saying 'fair play to them'.
'At the end of the day they do a good service. They should be on strike,' he added.
He said talk of a conditional below-inflation pay offer, or proposed rule changes to allow rail operators to hire agency staff, is 'desperate'.
'What are they going to do, replace them?'
He added. 'I hope they get what they're asking for.'
Scottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson said the RMT is 'militant' and needs to get back around the negotiating table.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme he thinks a strike is a 'first resort for the RMT'.
'What the RMT has to do is stop being so militant, and get back around the table and get the country moving again,' he said.
Mr Simpson was asked why he called for Scottish Transport Minister Jenny Gilruth to get involved in the dispute between Aslef and ScotRail, but not her UK counterpart, Grant Shapps.
He said: 'It's different because it's not just Network Rail.
'As I said earlier, there are 13 train companies involved. So it's very, very complicated.'
He continued: 'I don't think that Grant Shapps going in would achieve anything right now.'
'We feel that there are clear ways in which we could modernise and change the way we currently operate and that would then enable us to free up savings that we could then use to fund a pay rise.'
A team of cleaners at Birmingham New Street station, who are employed by a third party and have not gone on strike, wryly remarked that they were still having to work.
One, who declined to give his name or that of the company he works for, said: 'We're the unlucky ones who still have to work, for the same pay, while everyone else is on strike.'
Last-ditch talks failed to resolve the bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, with all sides blaming each other for the lack of progress.
Services will primarily be restricted to main lines, with 20 per cent of services running - but even those will only be open between 7.30am and 6.30pm.
The father of an 18-year-old with his final A-Level exam on Thursday said his son has been 'very anxious about how to get to school' for the test.
Johnny, 49, from the Westminster area of London, and who did not want to give his surname, will drive his son the 25 miles to school instead, setting out at around 6am to make sure he arrives on time.
'He has been very anxious about how to get to school and not to be late. Although we understand the reasons behind the strike this is very disrupting. I think children have suffered enough during the pandemic,' he told the PA news agency.
'Some of (my son's) friends from school don't live nearby and they also have to travel long distances. His exam starts at 9am and they have to be at school by 8.30 the latest. I have to start working at 10 so I will have to be late.
'I actually do sympathise (with the industrial action) but I disagree with the timing. The timing isn't good. I strongly believe the Government should have never allowed the situation to escalate to this.'
A healthcare support worker in north London who was an hour and a half late for work amid the travel disruption has said NHS staff like him 'aren't able to strike' like those from rail companies.
David Raposo Buzon was waiting at a bus stop from 6.30am to make it in for his 7.30am scheduled start, but facing long queues and packed services he did not make it to his workplace until 9am.
'I feel OK with people doing strikes, but at the same time I feel angry when I think that NHS workers are not able to strike even if our conditions at work are really bad,' the 34-year-old, originally from Spain, told the PA news agency.
'We aren't able to strike because we need to provide a minimum service but the service is already under minimum right now and, on the top of that, if you strike, people literally die, so you feel guilty and, at the end, don't do it.'
Mr Buzon shared footage of long queues waiting for a bus on his commute on Twitter, posting: 'My patients and coworkers (are) still waiting for me because of the #RailStrikes.
'And we are not allowed to strike. And my salary is totally worse than the ones that are striking. The country needs a change.'
Ryan, 28, a train guard on the picket line at Bristol Temple Meads station, also expressed confusion at the Government's plan to replace railway staff with agency workers to break the strikes.
'All I can say is best of luck to them,' he told the PA news agency.
'In my role as a train guard it takes six months to be deemed competent, is the plan to take those agency staff and give them that six months training?' he said.
'If they can't train them up for the required amount of time, it is going to leave us with unsafe railways, where the passengers are at risk, the staff are at risk and the infrastructure is at risk.'
Ryan, who chose not to give his last name, said that the primary role of the guard was to coordinate the movement of the train with the driver, station teams and the signallers.
Guards have extensive training on track speeds, platform length, track junctions as well as track and electrical infrastructure so they can alert signallers to obstructions, damage and other hazards, he said.
Thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Network Rail and 13 train operators will walk out on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Those operators not involved in the industrial action will still suffer from disruption due to Network Rail signallers going on strike.
London Underground workers also walked out on Tuesday.
Unions reacted with fury to reports Labour has banned its frontbenchers from picket lines, in a memo leaked to Politics Home, Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, told the PA news agency: 'The Labour Party was founded by the trade unions and we expect Labour MPs to defend workers, by words and by actions.'
This week's strikes will cause travel misery for millions.
Pupils and parents are being urged to make an alternative plan for getting to school for A-level and GCSE exams on Tuesday and Thursday.
Motorists are warned to expect a surge in traffic as train passengers switch to road transport.
The AA predicted that the worst affected roads are likely to be main motorway arteries, as well as rural and suburban areas.
About half of Great Western Railway's trains due to serve Castle Cary in Somerset, carrying revellers to the Glastonbury Festival between Wednesday and Friday, are cancelled.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said Network Rail had offered a 2 per cent pay rise with the possibility of a further 1 per cent later dependent on efficiency savings.
He told BBC's Newsnight that Network Rail had 'escalated' the dispute during Monday's talks, saying: 'They have issued me a letter saying that there are going to be redundancies starting from July 1.
'So rather than trying to come to an agreement in this dispute, they've escalated it by giving us formal notice of redundancy amongst our Network Rail members.'
He warned the dispute could continue for months, adding: 'It is clear that the Tory Government, after slashing £4bn of funding from National Rail and Transport for London, has now actively prevented a settlement to this dispute.
'The rail companies have now proposed pay rates that are massively under the relevant rates of inflation, coming on top of the pay freezes of the past few years.
'At the behest of the Government, companies are also seeking to implement thousands of job cuts and have failed to give any guarantee against compulsory redundancies.'
The Department for Transport disputed Mr Lynch's clams, adding that it has cost taxpayers about £600 per household to keep the railway running during the coronavirus pandemic.
Labour frontbenchers have been told they are banned from joining RMT members on the picket lines this week.
Keir Starmer has neither condemned, nor backed the walkouts amid criticism from union boss Mick Lynch that he is 'standing to one side and waiting for somebody to tell them what to do'.
In a message sent to shadow cabinet members today, seen by PoliticsHome, frontbenchers were told: 'We have robust lines. We do not want to see these strikes to go ahead with the resulting disruption to the public. The government have failed to engage in any negotiations.
'However, we also must show leadership and to that end, please be reminded that frontbenchers including [parliamentary private secretaries] should not be on picket lines.
'Please speak to all the members of your team to remind them of this and confirm with me that you have done so.'
But left-wing Labour MPs have vowed 'solidarity' with the RMT, with some confirming they will join rail workers on the picket lines.
Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry, confirmed her attendance on Monday evening, tweeting: 'I will be on an RMT picket tomorrow to show my solidarity with workers fighting for jobs and fair pay.'
Mary Kelly Foy, MP for City of Durham, also said she will be attending a protest in a statement on Twitter.
She added: 'I stand with RMT and all workers striking for better pay and conditions. I will be joining workers on the picket line this week.'
How will rail strikes affect me? From employee's WFH rights to refunds, what sectors will walkout and which parts of the UK will be hit: Your questions about this week's industrial action answered
By Mark Duell for MailOnline
The UK's biggest rail strike in a generation is set to cripple train services over the coming days, with only around half of the network set to be open and for just an 11-hour period on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday this week.
Almost all stations across Scotland and Wales will be completely cut off, while there will also be no services to the likes of Penzance in Cornwall, Bournemouth in Dorset, Chester in Cheshire and Blackpool in Lancashire.
There will also be no passenger trains running north from Glasgow or Edinburgh, and the number of services on the three strike days is expected to be limited to around 4,500 compared with 20,000 normally.
Passengers also face further disruption over the coming months as more ballots are held, while strike threats are also looming within the NHS, education and local government sectors amid a 'summer of discontent'.
Here, MailOnline looks at how the rail strike could affect you - and what other action could be on the horizon:
What dates are the rail strikes taking place?
A national rail strike is planned by the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union for tomorrow (June 21), Thursday (June 23) and Saturday (June 25) which will affect the entire UK rail network. It is going ahead as it stands.
The action will involve members of the RMT at Network Rail and 13 operators. It will also have a knock-on effort on services on the three days after each strike day - Wednesday (June 22), Friday (June 24) and Sunday (June 26).
Separately, another strike is planned by the RMT and Unite on London Underground tomorrow (June 21) which will affect services until 8am on Wednesday (June 22). Most Underground services should be unaffected after then.
There is also a strike by Aslef on Greater Anglia trains on Thursday (June 23) and Croydon Tramlink on June 28 and June 29, and on July 13 and July 14). An Aslef strike on Hull Trains on Sunday (June 26) has been called off.
Which UK operators are affected by the rail strike?
Just 20 per cent of normal services are expected to run on the three strike days. Every UK rail operator will be affected by the action, with most running a limited service between 7.30am and 6.30pm on these days.
These operators running a limited service on the strike days are: Avanti West Coast, c2c, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Eurostar, Grand Central, Great Northern, Great Western Railway, Greater Anglia, Heathrow Express, Hull Trains, LNER, London Northwestern Railway, Lumo, Northern, ScotRail, South Western Railway, Southeastern, Southern, Stansted Express, Thameslink, TransPennine Express, Transport for Greater Manchester, Transport for Wales and West Midlands Railway.
Three operators say they will have no service on strike days – those being Gatwick Express, Caledonian Sleeper and Merseyrail. The only unaffected area is the Isle of Wight where the Island Line will run a normal service.
In London, the national rail strike means there will be a reduced service on the Overground and Elizabeth line on the three strike days. And the separate Tube strike tomorrow will likely cancel all Underground trains that day.
Why is the rail strike taking place?
The strikes involve a row over pay, jobs and conditions. The RMT wants pay rises for workers that recognise the RPI rate of inflation, which is currently 11.1 per cent, and a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies.
The union has claimed that Network Rail plans to cut jobs and reduce spending – with an impact on safety. It says that it is striking 'due to the inability of the rail employers to come to a negotiated settlement with RMT'.
The RMT claims Network Rail and train operators have 'subjected their staff to multi-year pay freezes and plan to cut thousands of jobs', while also accusing the Government of 'abjectly failing in their responsibilities'.
But Network Rail and the Government say the union is unwilling to modernise work practices. Despite a pay freeze in 2021 – during the height of the pandemic – Network Rail has offered a rise of at least 2 per cent for 2022.
The context of the dispute is that railway bosses are proposing to make efficiency savings, especially as fewer passengers are travelling by train because of the pandemic, which has led to more people working from home.
The Government is not involved in negotiations. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it is up to the unions and employers to negotiate pay and conditions, but Labour and the unions believe he should be taking part in talks.
How much do train drivers get paid?
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said last week that train drivers have a median salary of £59,000 – compared to a nurse at £31,000 and a care worker at £21,000. He said the median salary within the rail sector as a whole is £44,000. However the RMT says the median salary of a rail member in its union is £31,000 - the same as a nurse.
Are more rail strikes planned after this week?
Yes, there is the prospect of further strike action affecting the school summer holidays - and further warnings of more walkouts for the rest of the year if no deal is reached between the unions, rail operators and Network Rail.
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) is balloting workers at Network Rail, Southeastern, Great Western Railway, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, Northern, LNER and c2c.
The Southeastern ballot closes on July 11 with the earliest possible action on July 25; while the Great Western Railway ends on July 12 before any action takes place from July 26. CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway and West Midlands Trains staff will be balloted for action until July 7, but no potential date for strike action has yet been set.
Workers at c2c, LNER and Northern will be balloted until July 6, with the earliest potential date for strike action being July 20. The Avanti West Coast ballot began last Wednesday but no date for a walkout has been released.
In addition, RMT union boss Mick Lynch yesterday suggested the rail strikes could stretch into the autumn, warning: 'There are going to be many unions balloting across the country, because people can't take it anymore.'
Unite is balloting about 500 British Airways check-in staff at Heathrow Airport over a refusal to reverse a 10 per cent pandemic pay cut. If workers vote in favour, strikes are likely in July – potentially ruining summer holidays.
London Waterloo Underground station is closed during the Rail, Maritime and Transport's Underground strike on June 6
Can you work from home this week during the rail strike?
Lauren Harkin, partner in the employment law team at RWK Goodman, told the publication People Management that employers should try to accommodate reasonable requests by staff trying to get into work during the strikes – including allowing them to come in late or leave early, and fund overnight accommodation if necessary.
She said: 'Don't unreasonably discipline employees who are genuinely unable to make it to work or who are late. There are no legal requirements about what businesses must do, but thinking outside the box will be a key consideration for critical staff in certain industries.'
And Alan Price, chief executive of BrightHR, said companies should speak with workers and agree alternative arrangements, adding: 'Where this isn't possible, there is the option of enforcing annual leave – with correct notice – or asking staff to use accrued time off in lieu.'
Downing Street has said employers should allow staff to work from home during the strikes if possible, but that it is up to individuals to decide whether they can get in. A spokesman said: 'As during the pandemic, it obviously remains sensible for public and private-sector organisations to offer flexible working arrangements for some jobs.'
Train operators such as Govia Thameslink Railway - which manages Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express routes - have encouraged passengers to stay at home and only travel if 'absolutely necessary'. A GTR spokesman said: 'The pandemic has given people more options to work flexibly, which will help next week.'
Can I get a refund on my train ticket during the rail strike?
National Rail has confirmed that anyone who had booked a ticket for a service which has been cancelled, delayed or rescheduled will be entitled to a change or refund from the original retailer of their ticket.
If you have a ticket for travel on a strike day, you can use this ticket either on the day before the date on the ticket, or through and including the Monday and Tuesday of next week - excluding season tickets.
However, National Rail has warned of an exception in that if your ticket is for a journey that crosses London, it will not be valid on Underground services on an alternative date. Contact your ticket provider if this applies to you.
You may be able to use your ticket on another train company or an alternative route as disruption continues, with passengers advised to contact the train company they are due to travel with for more information.
Can season ticket holders get a refund for rail strike disruption?
Season ticket holders who choose not to travel on the three strike days can claim 100 per cent compensation for these days through the 'Delay Repay' scheme via the operator you were due to be travelling with.
If you have purchased a season ticket but would like a full refund due to the strike action affecting your journey, you can apply for a refund from the original retailer of your ticket, but a fee of up to £10 could apply.
National Rail added: 'Refunds are calculated from the date you return your season ticket to the original retailer and will be the difference between the price you paid, and the cost of any ticket or tickets for the period for which you have used your season ticket, up to and including the date you request a refund.'
How will the rail strike impact the economy?
The Centre for Economics and Business Research consultancy has calculated that 0.8 per cent of staff in Britain – more than 250,000 people – will not be able to get to work tomorrow and therefore be unable to work.
It estimates that the strikes are likely to cost the economy at least £91million in staff absences. Some £45.1million of this will be tomorrow, because of the greater number of commuters then and the separate Tube strike.
How will the rail strike impact Glastonbury and other events?
More than half of the trains due to serve the Glastonbury Festival have been cancelled because of the rail strikes – with tens of thousands of revellers set to be forced to find alternative routes to the site in Pilton, Somerset.
There will be just five services from London Paddington to Castle Cary on Thursday, with a total of 24 between Wednesday and Friday. Before the strike was announced, 51 trains were expected to run over the three-day period.
Great Western Railway told passengers: 'We plan to maintain timetabled trains between Castle Cary and London Paddington throughout the course of the Glastonbury Festival. Some services might be subject to alterations to train times and we will be in contact with customers who have already booked seats on board those trains.'
National Express reported 'a significant increase in both inquiries and bookings' for people wanting to travel by coach instead. Most people travelling by rail to Glastonbury arrive at Castle Cary before catching a shuttle bus.
Other events affected this week include England's cricketers playing their third Test match against New Zealand at Headingley in Leeds from June 23 to 27, and the UK Athletics Championships running from Friday in Manchester.
There will also be by-elections in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton on Thursday, while Elton John and the Rolling Stones are playing BST Hyde Park gigs in London's Hyde Park on Friday and Saturday respectively.
Commuters queue for buses outside London Victoria train station during the most recent Underground strike on June 6
How will roads be affected by the rail strike?
Motorists are being warned to expect a surge in traffic as train passengers switch to road transport. The AA said that the worst affected roads are likely to be main motorway arteries, as well as rural and suburban areas.
Drivers in Scotland and Wales are expected to face long queues as most railway lines there will be closed during the industrial action tomorrow and on Thursday and Saturday. The M74, M8 and A9 in Scotland and the M4, A55, A5, and A483 in Wales could see severe traffic, according to the AA.
An AA spokesman said: 'Generally we predict a big increase in traffic in Scotland, Wales and major routes across the UK. The impact will be slightly cushioned by record fuel prices deterring some and more commuters deciding to work from home but congestion will still be a problem.'
How will the rail strike impact the NHS?
Thousands of Britons are likely to miss appointments or operations because they will be unable to get to hospitals and surgeries, while the walkouts will also cause problems for doctors, nurses and other staff travelling to work.
Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said it was 'vital' that people sought appointments and treatment despite the disruption, adding: 'I am urging those who have appointments booked in to plan ahead and look at alternative options for getting to their GP practice or hospital if needed.'
The biggest concern is for hospitals in London because of the limited parking available for those who decide to drive in, and the Underground strike tomorrow making it even harder to travel. Both London Ambulance Service Trust and South Central Ambulance Service Foundation Trust are now on the highest level of alert.
How will schools be affected by the rail strike?
Families of pupils sitting exams this week have been advised to make alternative arrangements for getting to school during the rail strikes, which are expected to impact 17 GCSE and 22 A-level papers.
Tomorrow, pupils sitting GCSE history or dance with exam board AQA may be impacted by the strikes, while on Thursday those sitting GCSE physics papers could be affected. A-level pupils studying German, religious studies or maths with this board could be impacted by strike action tomorrow, while pupils sitting papers in A-level chemistry could experience disruptions to their journey to school on Thursday.
Headteachers have said families should look into alternative arrangements for getting their children to school to sit papers on time. Julie McCulloch, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: 'We are concerned about the potential impact on exam students of the industrial action affecting train services planned in June.
'The majority of students live local to schools and colleges and tend to take buses rather than trains so we are hopeful that the impact will be minimal. However, it is important that families are conscious of the industrial action and make alternative arrangements where students are reliant on train services.'
Headteachers have been told to relocate A-level and GCSE papers if they cannot go ahead in the exam hall and that exams may begin up to half an hour later than scheduled to mitigate disruption.
Will teachers go on strike this year?
Teachers could also go on strike later this year, with two key teaching unions considering balloting members over industrial action if a significant pay increase is not offered.
The National Education Union said a letter will be sent to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi on Wednesday saying the union is prepared to ballot its members if a pay rise more in line with inflation is not offered.
However, a ballot will not be called until Mr Zahawi responds to the conclusions of the School Teachers' Review Body report, which is expected to be released at the end of the school year. The union said an initial indicative ballot would be taken, followed by a formal ballot if the first result suggests members support strike action.
NASUWT leaders have also called for a 12 per cent pay rise for teachers this year, and said it will ballot members in England, Wales and Scotland for a strike if its demands are not met. A pay award for 2022/23 is due in November.
Will doctors or nurses strike?
Junior doctors and nurses are among the NHS staff who could strike. They have claimed their pay has declined by 22 per cent in real terms since 2009 and are demanding a significant pay rise.
The British Medical Association, a union for UK doctors with 160,000 members, has plans to ballot for industrial action by early next year if the dispute over junior doctors' pay is not resolved.
The Royal College of Nursing, which has 500,000 members, is demanding a pay rise for nurses of five percentage points above inflation. This would result in a 16.1 per cent increase on current numbers, which compares with the Government's aim to cap pay increases at 3 per cent. Nurses could also strike if their demands are not met.
Could local government workers and civil servants go on strike?
The Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents civil service workers, will hold a ballot in September over pay, pensions and redundancies amid plans for possible industrial action.
Representatives have warned that delays in issuing passports and driving licences will get worse if staff numbers are cut – and that they could strike in response to Boris Johnson's planned 91,000 civil service job cuts.
Meanwhile the Unison, GMB and Unite unions have said local government staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland should receive a pay increase of at least £2,000 each. Workers include rubbish collectors, library staff, teaching assistants and care workers. Unite said it will support 'any action' by workers to achieve a pay rise.
In addition, the Communication Workers Union will ballot Royal Mail workers over a pay rise offer of 2 per cent. It has also sent ballot papers to BT workers including engineers, contact centre staff and retail employees over pay.
Why have barristers now decided to go on strike?
Barristers have voted to go on strike in a row over legal aid funding. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents barristers in England and Wales, said several days of court walkouts will begin from next week.
The promised industrial action, announced today, comes at a time of significant backlogs across the court system. The CBA said around 81.5 per cent of the more than 2,000 members to respond supported industrial action.
The strike action is intended to last for four weeks, beginning with walkouts on Monday, June 27 and Tuesday, June 28, increasing by one day each week until a five-day strike from Monday, July 18 to Friday, July 22It means that cases at which barristers are required are likely to have to be postponed, including crown court trials. Barristers are expected to stage picket lines outside court, including at the Old Bailey in London. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10938235/Rail-Tube-strikes-Final-services-London-leaving.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-06-21T15:33:59Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10938235/Rail-Tube-strikes-Final-services-London-leaving.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 6 |
Trump’s Closest Pals Turn: ‘IT’S TIME’ Republicans ‘Dump The Donald’ & Back Florida Governor Ron DeSantis For 2024 Prez Bid
Jun. 21 2022, Published 9:17 a.m. ET
Donald Trump’s most outspoken supporters are turning on the embattled ex-president in favor of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, Radar has learned.
The surprising development is taking place in a number of new reports, including one piece written by Piers Morgan and published to The Post on Monday.
The article, titled Memo to Republicans: It’s time to dump The Donald and run with The Ronald, compares former-President Trump to current-Governor DeSantis.
Morgan’s piece also suggests that the GOP might be better off in backing DeSantis, especially because ex-President Trump’s “stranglehold” over the Republican Party is quickly loosening.
“The once omnipotent GOP beast bestriding the American political world like a paw-crunching King Kong is now seeing his stranglehold over the party ebb away faster than the infamous gorilla tumbled to his demise from the Empire State Building after being shot by US Navy jets,” Morgan wrote in his scathing op-ed.
“And the same foe is proving to be the deadly weapon again now, in the form of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,” Morgan continued, “a US Navy war hero who advised SEAL Team commanders in Iraq, and who still serves with the US Navy Reserve.”
Morgan, who supported Trump for nearly his entire four years in office, also revealed that Republican billionaire donors have ditched Trump and are instead starting to back DeSantis – something has helped DeSantis raise upwards of $124 million for his campaign leading up to Florida’s gubernatorial election this coming November.
Making these donations from Republican billionaires even more surprising is the fact that, although many of them donated to Trump during his 2018 presidential campaign, almost none of them ever donated to the nominees of state-level elections before.
For example, Bernie Marcus – the billionaire founder of Home Depot – gave DeSantis $500,000 for his gubernational campaign.
Other Republican billionaires – such as retired venture capitalist William Buckley, Illinois-based businessman Richard Uihlein and casino mogul Phil Ruffin – all gave DeSantis anywhere between $100,000 and $1.2 million in an effort to help him win November’s election.
Despite Trump and DeSantis being political allies ever since the former president endorsed DeSantis when he ran for Florida governor in 2018, that alliance is expected to fall apart should both Trump and DeSantis officially decide to run as the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election.
“If I didn't endorse him, he wouldn't have won,” Trump said on Monday night, suggesting his and DeSantis’ alliance is already seeing cracks in its foundation.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Trump is also facing mounting scrutiny in connection to his role in the January 6 Capitol riots – a scandal that not only drove a wedge between Trump and former-Vice President Mike Pence, but also between Trump and his once-favorite daughter, Ivanka Trump. | https://radaronline.com/p/republicans-dump-donald-trump-back-ron-desantis-2024-presidential-bid/ | 2022-06-21T15:34:51Z | https://radaronline.com/p/republicans-dump-donald-trump-back-ron-desantis-2024-presidential-bid/ | false | 1 |
ATLANTA and BOSTON , June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HSBlox, the leading provider of value-based care program administration in healthcare, and HealthCorum, an innovator in health data analytics whose insights drive high-value care in provider networks, have partnered to deliver high-performance networks and increase medical cost savings.
The partnership brings complementary capabilities together to enable payer and provider stakeholders in value-based care to align resources under value-based programs and alternative payment models. The combined capabilities integrate HealthCorum's proprietary scores and metrics, which identify high-performing providers, into HSBlox's CureAlign® platform that models, operationalizes and scales value-based contracts, delivered in a network-of-networks approach that addresses the unique financial funding, data-sharing, and timely performance reporting needs of the shift from traditional fee-for-service to more global and prospective models.
"Identification of high-value services and referrals under risk-bearing contracts is an imperative as the industry continues its migration to value-base care," said Lynn Carroll, HSBlox COO. "Partnering with HealthCorum gives our payer, employer and risk-bearing provider customers additional capability for managing financial performance and quality metrics under value-based programs."
Whether in fee-for-service, pay-for-performance or risk-contracting programs, healthcare organizations are focused on reducing wasteful health spending. An analysis published in The Journal of the American Medical Association pegged wasteful spending in the U.S. healthcare system at 25%, equating to over $1 trillion annually as national health spending eclipsed $4.3 trillion in 2021. The shift to value-based care remains as critical as ever, with success often hinging on an organization's ability to predict how providers will perform in at-risk arrangements. Additionally, payers in traditional fee-for-service models still need actionable data to employ provider network optimization strategies that will curb unnecessary spending.
"HealthCorum was founded with the mission to reduce healthcare costs through the identification and reduction of low-value care," said Keith Somers, Chief Revenue Officer at HealthCorum. "We admire what HSBlox has developed in its CureAlign® solution and are excited to announce that current and future clients can leverage HealthCorum's data and insights to amplify already powerful capabilities within the platform."
As HSBlox clients model value-based programs in the CureAlign Contract Builder, HealthCorum's provider analytics can now help enable participating provider evaluation to ensure high-performance program development. HealthCorum's solution delivers insights focused on care quality, cost, and efficiency, catalyzing ample opportunities to increase network value.
HSBlox is an Atlanta-based technology company empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and support to deliver value-based care (VBC) successfully and sustainably. HSBlox's CureAlign® platform enables healthcare organizations to administer value-based programs, including contract modeling, network build-out, contract administration, permissioned data exchange and payment. Recently, the company released CureAlign 3.5, combining its Contract Builder and modeling capabilities with its Contract Library for seamless deployment of value-based programs. Along with CureAlign's one-of-a-kind hierarchical approach to VBC participant onboarding, alternative payment models can combine global reimbursement programs with episode-specific arrangements to deliver unparalleled transparency in pursuit of the Quintuple Aim for healthcare improvement.
Follow HSBlox on LinkedIn to see the latest about value-based program administration or visit www.hsblox.com to read more about scaling of value-based programs.
HealthCorum is a Boston-based health data analytics company focused on identifying unnecessary care, optimizing referral patterns, and reducing wasteful spending. HealthCorum's proprietary technologies combined with its AI-powered algorithms help to save money for healthcare organizations, offering a holistic view of provider efficiency and value-driven practice patterns. Work is done collaboratively with clients to achieve better outcomes while reducing low-value care delivery. The level of transparency delivered also allows provider network stakeholders to have better and more meaningful relationships with providers to truly affect change. Visit www.healthcorum.com to learn more about our methodologies and solutions.
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London: India head coach Rahul Dravid on Tuesday joined India’s Test team in Leicestershire ahead of the much-anticipated rescheduled 5th Test against England, scheduled to be held in Birmingham from July 1 to 5.
Dravid along with Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer, who were part of the just-concluded T20I series against South Africa, flew from Bengaluru a day after the fifth and final T20I ended on Sunday.
In the pictures, shared by BCCI’s official Twitter handle, the head coach can be seen interacting with the players, who had their training session in Leicestershire County Ground.
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“Look who’s here! Head Coach Rahul Dravid has joined the Test squad in Leicester #TeamIndia,” tweeted BCCI along with pictures.
Before Dravid’s arrival, India’s training sessions in England were handled by bowling coach Paras Mhambrey and batting coach Vikram Rathour. While the Rishabh Pant-led side was playing T20Is in India, Test regulars, including Virat Kohli, captain Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara and Shardul Thakur among others had left for England earlier.
Meanwhile, premier Indian spinner R Ashwin, who missed the flight to the UK with the Test squad last week, will reach England in the next couple of days. He is expected to join the squad in Leicester before the four-day warm-up game against the county which begins on June 24.
The off-spinner had failed to board the flight from Mumbai on June 16 along with other members because of a positive Covid-19 result. It has been learnt that new travel arrangements are being made for the veteran cricketer and he should be with the rest of his teammates soon, a Cricbuzz report said.
Jayant Yadav was kept as a standby should Ashwin fail to recover in time. The Haryana spinner was called to the NCA in Bangalore. However, that option has been ruled out as Ashwin has recovered fully and is expected to fly out in the next 24 hours, most probably on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected Bayer's appeal to shut down thousands of lawsuits claiming that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer.
The justices on Tuesday left in place a $25 million judgment in favor of Edwin Hardeman, a California man who says he developed cancer from using Roundup for decades to treat poison oak, overgrowth and weeds on his San Francisco Bay Area property. Hardeman's lawsuit had served as a test case for thousands of similar lawsuits.
The high court’s action comes amid a series of court fights over Roundup that have pointed in different directions.
On Friday, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an Environmental Protection Agency finding from 2020 that glyphosate does not pose a serious health risk and is “not likely” to cause cancer in humans. The appellate court ordered the EPA to reexamine its finding.
At the same time, Bayer has won four consecutive trials in state court against people who claimed they got cancer from their use of Roundup. The latest verdict in favor of the company came last week in Oregon.
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Bayer had argued that federal regulators have repeatedly determined its products are safe, and that lawsuits based on claims under state laws should be dismissed.
In a statement, Bayer said it disagreed with the Supreme Court's decision not to take up its case. “The company believes that the decision undermines the ability of companies to rely on official actions taken by expert regulatory agencies, as it permits every U.S. state to require a different product label” in conflict with federal laws, Bayer said.
Last year, Bayer set aside $4.5 billion to deal with the claims that glyphosate, the weed-killing ingredient in Roundup, causes non-Hodgins lymphoma, a type of cancer. The company had previously taken a charge of nearly $10 billion for earlier rounds of litigation.
Bayer also had warned that allowing these sorts of claims will damage innovation in agriculture, health and other industries.
Bayer inherited Roundup and the litigation when it acquired Monsanto in 2018.
The EPA says on its website that there is “no evidence glyphosate causes cancer humans.” But in 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate as ”probably carcinogenic to humans.” The agency said it relied on “limited” evidence of cancer in people and “sufficient” evidence of cancer in study animals.
The Justice Department, which had sided with Bayer in the lower courts during the Trump administration, recommended that the high court not get involved.
Bayer maintains the product is safe, but said that it would replace glyphosate in Roundup for residential use beginning in 2023. Products containing glyphosate will still be available for professional and farm use.
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QINGDAO, China, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Exhibition on Multinationals and China opened in Qingdao International Convention and Exhibition Center on June 19, 2022. The theme exhibition, held in parallel with Qingdao Multinationals Summit, provided a new opportunity for multinational firms to show their new products and technologies. With a focus on the businesses participating in the Summit and creating a exhibition platform for multinationals, the event is on a mission to demonstrate Shandong province's transformation achievements, industrial advantages and development opportunities.
The theme exhibition shared cooperation results between multinationals and Shandong province, improving the confidence of both domestic and foreign business communities to invest in the region. The event, including two major sessions, "Opening-up Shandong" and "Multinationals and China", displayed high-end equipment, core components and high-tech achievements of local leading companies, summit participants, and Global 500 enterprises, as well as the advances of a pilot innovation program for RCEP Qingdao economic and trade cooperation.
Multinationals and leading companies gathered together to highlight the province's position as an industrial development base with huge market potential. Shandong Heavy Industry Group, Inspur, Shandong Energy Group, China Resources, Haier, Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group, Continental AG, Desoutter Industrial Tools, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi UFJ, Korea GS, and other Global 500 enterprises attended the exhibition.
A wide range of leading products both at home and abroad were launched at the event. Shandong Heavy Industry Group made an appearance with the world's first unmanned bulldozer and China's first self-developed intelligent snow wax vehicle. BGI showcased one of the world's leading high-throughput gene sequencer - a one-stop shop solution for large population genomics. Finland-based Tarw-Trading Oy, Ltd. exhibited its FS52 tourist submarine for the first time in China. The National Deep Sea Center brought Qianlong III, the most advanced unmanned cableless submersible in China, to the site. Befar Group presented its Da Sheng I intelligent inspection robot, the first integrated intelligent unmanned inspection solution.
Across space and time, the theme exhibition created a "technology + interactive" experience in an all-round manner. The outdoor exhibition area incorporated the seaside scenery, resulting in an international, inclusive and future-oriented theme exhibition.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparta Science has expanded to bring Force Plate Machine Learning™ to additional orthopedic and rehabilitation practices, including Orlando Health, it was announced today.
Sparta Science's technology helps drive community engagement, provides more value to community partners, increases patient engagement, and provides more comprehensive care for all patients.
The Sparta Movement Health Platform acts as an unbiased second opinion to confirm treatment plans and advance rehabilitation timelines. By using the software to validate rehabilitation plans and track progress objectively, patients are likely to be more engaged and invested in their treatment leading to better outcomes and patient experience.
"We are thrilled to provide this technology to Orlando Health, one of the nation's leading healthcare organizations, and to aid in the treatment of their patients," said Sparta Science founder and CEO Dr. Phil Wagner. "It is exciting to work with an organization that understands the value of technology and its ability to improve the continuum of care for better engagement and outcomes at scale."
With the recent expansion, Orlando Health becomes the 7th healthcare organization to incorporate Sparta Science with the aim of standardizing care across orthopedic and rehabilitation centers.
Sparta Science helps organizations protect their most valuable resource — their people. Leveraging the power of machine learning, Sparta's Movement Health Platform captures an individual's data in minutes, assesses performance and risk of injury, then assigns personalized exercise prescriptions to improve performance and accelerate rehabilitation. Elite and conventional military units, sports organizations and healthcare providers use Sparta Science's Force Plate Machine Learning™ as a readiness multiplier to reduce injuries and associated costs while creating a culture of improved fitness.
For more information, go to spartascience.com and follow Sparta Science on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
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REDDING, Conn., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Multiple Grammy Winning Co-Producer Paul Avgerinos, announces through his Unicorn Studios the release of an inspirational new single, ACROSS LIGHT & TIME, featuring internationally renowned artists Assia Ahhatt and David Arkenstone.
ACROSS LIGHT & TIME, which dropped June 10, is the first featured track on Assia and David's collaborative New Age album currently in production across three continents and slated for release in September.
"Creating music together with Assia has been a joyous and rewarding experience I can't wait to share with the world!" said Arkenstone, a 5-time Grammy® Nominee.
Assia Ahhatt, a classically trained child prodigy, has entertained global audiences as one of the world's premier violin virtuosos. Always seeking new musical challenges, she performed in unique venues and has written, arranged, and recorded across genres from Classical to Pop, Latin to Contemporary Instrumental, and now, New Age. Assia has been honored as a Merited Artist of Ukraine, as well as for her participation with several charitable organizations currently assisting millions displaced by the war in Ukraine.
David Arkenstone is a multiple-Grammy nominated lifelong musical innovator, producer, collaborator, and instrumentalist mainly performing within the genre of New Age. Several of his original creations are heard as background music daily around the world. It would be difficult to mention an instrument that David does not play, although this production primarily features his mastery of guitar and piano.
Joining Assia and David in the video of Across Light & Time is young multi-talented twice Latin Grammy-winning producer, arranger, percussionist and fellow Co-Producer, Tony Succar.
"Assia and David are two of my favorite artists, so I'm thrilled to be a producer on their first collaboration," said Paul Avgerinos.
"David's emotional melodies interpreted by Assia's soulful violin truly connect. I feel this project is going to touch the hearts of fans around the globe," said Tony Succar.
Assia's web-site: http://assiaahhatt.com/home_en
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DURHAM, N.C., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pregnant Black women may sleep less and wake up more often than pregnant White women, according to a new study funded by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Poor sleep during pregnancy is common, and it's associated with poor outcomes in late pregnancy and after birth. Although minority groups in the United States often experience worse sleep than non-Hispanic White people, sleep disparities during pregnancy are understudied. Better understanding maternal sleep disparities—and what causes them—can help improve health outcomes for pregnant people and their children.
"Research shows poor sleep contributes to adverse maternal outcomes that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority communities," said Maristella Lucchini, PhD, of Columbia University Irving Medical Center. "We wanted to know if sleep was a factor that contributed to racial and ethnic disparities in overall maternal health."
Dr. Lucchini, an ECHO Program investigator, led this collaborative research effort, which is now published in Sleep.
The research team analyzed data from 2,500 pregnant participants in 14 ECHO cohorts nationwide. They found that compared to non-Hispanic white participants:
- Non-Hispanic black participants reported:
- Hispanic participants reported:
Lucchini, M. et al. Racial/ethnic disparities in subjective sleep duration, sleep quality, and sleep disturbances during pregnancy: an ECHO study. Sleep. DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac075
About ECHO: ECHO is a nationwide research program supported by the NIH. Launched in 2016, ECHO aims to enhance the health of children for generations to come. ECHO investigators study the effects of a broad range of early environmental influences on child health and development. For more information, visit echochildren.org.
About the NIH: NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information, visit www.nih.gov.
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During Flipkart’s End Of Season Sale 2022, the e-commerce company saw close to 100 hours of engagement through live and video commerce.
Women fashion, kids clothing categories and footwear categories are said to have seen maximum engagement from customers during their live videos. This EOSS 2022 also saw the debut of a 24X7 live commerce initiative that connected brands, sellers and influencers with customers engaging in real-time. During the sale, over 10,000 brands and 2,00,000 sellers came together to offer 10 lakh+ styles of apparel and accessories for men, women and children.
The weeklong event, from June 10-17, saw the highest sales jump in men’s t-shirts, jeans, formal & Wedding wear, Women Western Wear, Sarees, Shoes, Luggage, Handbags, shoes and watches. With the oncoming monsoon and pick-up of travel, raincoats, backpacks, handbags, suitcases and duffle bags also saw increased traction. As children across the country head back to school, increased demand for uniforms, badges and black shoes was also witnessed.
Huge response
Further, fitness and health products emerged as priority buys for Flipkart consumers with over 70 per cent of purchases accounting for sports goods including — running, gym, badminton and cricket shoes. Customers in cities such as Bengaluru, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Guwahati and Muzaffarpur clocked the highest engagement. The platform witnessed a strong response from Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra followed by Bihar and West Bengal.
Abhishek Maloo, Senior Director, Flipkart Fashion, said, “This year’s End Of Season Sale has been steeped in the spirit of the comeback of fashion, as we saw a resurgence in consumption and a drastic increase in engagement post the pandemic. We have continued to serve our customers with an expansive range of offerings supported by technology-led innovations such as 24*7 Live commerce, for the first time, enriching their shopping experience. Our efforts to uplift the entire fashion ecosystem also ushered in growth for thousands of homegrown fashion brands and sellers across the country. We are overwhelmed by the tremendous success of this End Of Season Sale and are confident that this will further propel growth for Flipkart’s Fashion portfolio.”
Started in 2007, Flipkart said it has enabled millions of consumers, sellers, merchants, and small businesses to be a part of India’s digital commerce revolution, with a registered customer base of more than 400 million, offering over 150 million products across 80+ categories.
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Surat: Two leaders of Shiv Sena dispatched by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray met and held a detailed discussion with rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and other MLAs at a hotel in Surat on Tuesday to defuse the internecine crisis having the potential to threaten the survival of the MVA government in the neighbouring state.
The discussions were held between Thackeray’s confidants Milind Narvekar and Ravindra Phatak and Shinde and other MLAs at the hotel where they have been camping since the late Monday night.
Narvekar and Phatak left for Mumbai by road without responding to queries of the media after the meeting which lasted for nearly two hours.
Shinde and his loyalist MLAs reached the hotel in Surat late Monday night, hours after the results of the MLC polls in Maharashtra were declared.
In the elections held for the 10 seats up for grabs, the BJP won all the five seats it had contested despite having votes to win four candidates apparently on the back of cross-voting by some MLAs of the MVA constituents.
The NCP and Shiv Sena won two seats each contested by them. Another MVA ally, Congress, suffered a jolt as the party lost one of its two candidates to BJP’s fifth nominee in the MLC polls.
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Telecommunications group plans to modernize and move critical systems to dedicated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions to support rollout of next-generation communications services
AUSTIN, Texas and LONDON, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle and Vodafone, the largest pan-European and African technology communications company, today announced a strategic partnership to modernize the operator's European IT infrastructure and accelerate its transition to the cloud.
Under the multi-year agreement, Vodafone will modernize and migrate a large number of its systems to OCI Dedicated Region, a fully managed cloud region that brings all of Oracle's public cloud services into Vodafone's own network and data centers. This will provide a dedicated cloud platform for Vodafone to modernize its thousands of Oracle databases as well as to support and scale its mission-critical OSS and BSS systems, including CRM and order management.
The implementation will also enable Vodafone to build new cloud-based applications faster, and by taking advantage of its geographical scale, launch them in multiple markets at the same time.
Oracle will deploy OCI Dedicated Region in Vodafone's main data centers that manage its European IT and network operations. The deployment of public cloud services directly inside Vodafone's own network and data centers will enable the operator to flexibly modernize, manage and automate its critical systems using new technologies such as autonomous services, and more easily meet the latency and performance requirements of these applications.
Vodafone will also have close access to compute resources that enable it to dynamically augment and scale services in multiple geographies according to changing business requirements, while reducing operational costs and meeting data residency regulations.
The partnership supports Vodafone's multi-year initiative to consolidate and modernize the technology infrastructure that supports its mission-critical systems into a shared, on-premises, open-standard platform capable of supporting and scaling next-generation digital services. It will also help Vodafone further its Tech 2025 goals: reducing time-to-market of its services, providing stand-out customer experiences through always-on services, and reducing operational costs through automation.
"As Vodafone focuses on growth, data is key to how we evolve our business, build new capabilities and innovate to meet the needs of our customers. Our collaboration with Oracle supports our vision of becoming a technology communications company," said Scott Petty, Chief Digital & IT Officer, Vodafone. "The agreement enables Oracle to bring its entire portfolio of cloud services directly into Vodafone data centers. This includes the same architecture, software, services and control plane used in OCI public cloud. The flexibility offered by OCI enables us to build a robust, secure, and extensible cloud platform in our own data centers, while also providing the operational agility and scalability required to support the growth and diversification of our business."
"Telecom companies are reimagining their business models to innovate and monetize new opportunities at speed and at scale," said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Vodafone is at the forefront of this thinking, and we are excited to bring the power of OCI to Vodafone's data centers to support the company and its partners as they fast-track this vision and deliver the next generation of connected services."
"Now more than ever, telecom companies need to quickly adopt new technologies to deliver new innovative products at speed while continuing to meet evolving regulatory requirements. Our partnership with Vodafone is based on achieving this balance, providing a cloud platform that enables Vodafone to modernize and consolidate its existing infrastructure while also building a foundation for a digital future. We are looking forward to partnering with one of the telecom sector's digital trailblazers as we help shape the next generation of communication services and business models," said Jonathan Tikochinsky, executive vice president, global strategic clients, Oracle.
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POTOMAC, Md., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curbio, Inc., a PropTech company providing fix now, pay when you sell pre-listing home improvement services to real estate agents and their clients, today announced that it will be expanding its workforce by 68% by the end of 2022. The announcement follows six months of tremendous growth for Curbio, beginning with the closing of a $65M Series B funding round in January 2022 and continuing with the organization's successful launch in six new markets.
Curbio's announcement comes at a time when several tech companies are implementing layoffs, a development many in the VC world have warned about following an unprecedented year in the space. Despite recent uncertainty in both the stock and housing markets, Curbio continues to grow more than 100% year over year, a testament to the strength of the organization's business model and market positioning.
"Pre-listing home improvements have always been, and will always be, the key to selling a home quickly and for top dollar. We've been in a strong seller's market for the past two years, but have continued to grow as a company due to the inherent value that Curbio provides to both real estate agents and homeowners. With the market cooling in some areas, our solution continues to be in demand for homeowners looking to sell quickly and for the best possible price in a time when buyers want turnkey, move-in ready homes," said Olivia Mariani, VP of Marketing at Curbio.
Curbio ended the year 2021 with 104 full-time employees on their staff. That number has grown to 145 employees today, with the company still hiring for at least 30 more positions by the end of 2022. This growth encompasses all areas of the organization, including marketing, operations, sales, human resources and technology. It also expands to existing employees, over 20% of which have earned a promotion internally since joining the company.
"Curbio was built to transform home improvement for real estate, and I am incredibly proud of our success so far. We have taken an outdated, painstaking process and dramatically improved it to benefit real estate agents, homeowners, brokerages and subcontractors. Our growth this year has proven that our solution is an invaluable resource for the real estate community in any market. I am confident that our growth will continue to accelerate as we expand our incredibly talented, dedicated workforce," said Rick Rudman, CEO of Curbio.
To learn more about Curbio and view open positions, visit www.curbio.com/careers.
Curbio was founded in 2017 to transform the multi-billion-dollar home improvement industry and has quickly become the nation's leading pay-at-closing home improvement solution. The company partners exclusively with real estate agents and their clients to get any home ready for the market, allowing it to sell faster and for top dollar. Using technology to power their service, Curbio completes pre-listing home improvement projects of any size quickly and without hassle, from start to finish, with zero payment due until the home sells. Curbio is trusted by thousands of realtors and brokerages nationwide, and has been continuously recognized for its exemplary solution, receiving nods in HousingWire, Qualified Remodeler and Comparably, to name a few.
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The case was heard in Naas District Court on Thursday, June 16. File Photograph
A barrister told Naas District Court that a woman would drop charges against her ex-partner if he agreed to go on a holiday with her.
The comments were heard on Thursday, June 16, during a case involving alleged domestic violence.
Barrister Aisling Murphy told Judge Desmond Zaidan that the woman had accused of her client, the woman's ex-partner, of breaching a protection order by messaging her over social media.
She said that the woman allegedly told her client that she would drop the charges against him if he agreed to go on a holiday with her.
This prompted a brief outburst from the woman, who denied the allegations.
Ms Murphy also told Judge Zaidan that her client is able to prove that she had been in 'constant, full contact' with him over social media, and said that he was willing to hand over his phone to gardaí to show them the alleged messages.
"There have also been requests for money made by this woman too," she said: "The allegations (by the woman) are a waste of court time, gardaí time and even this lady's time.
"It is an abuse of the court process," Ms Murphy added.
The ex-partner then told the judge that the only reason he had contacted her was to discuss their children.
Judge Zaidan agreed to grant bail for the ex-partner and adjourned the case to a date in September.
He added that any discussions involving their children until this date must be done between the woman and the ex-partner's respective legal representatives.
The gardaí took the man's phone after the case was heard.
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PITTSBURGH, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Many people require vision correction glasses and there is a growing population of people who require home oxygen and nasal cannula. I wanted to create a more comfortable way to wear glasses and support nasal cannula," said the inventor, from Dallas, Texas, "so I invented the NASAL CANNULA SUPPORT. My design would reduce stress on your ears and it provides secure placement of the nasal cannula for maximal effect."
The invention provides an improved way to support a nasal cannula when wearing eyeglasses. In doing so, it eliminates the common problems associated with the cannula and glasses sharing space behind the ear of the wearer. This unique design ensures that the cannula tubing remains properly in place using the frame of the prescription or stylish eyeglasses. The invention features an effective design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for hospital and home environments. It can be produced with many creative design variations while still maintaining the basic functionality.
The original design was submitted to the Houston sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-MHO-130, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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DENVER, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- APITech™ (API Technologies Corp.), a leading provider of capabilities that protect, power, and process critical RF and electronics applications today announced early samples of the company's new line of High Power SAW Filters.
The backbone of digital transformation is the wireless spectrum. One of the key threats to systems using that backbone is electromagnetic confusion, which will increase exponentially as the transformation accelerates. The wireless interface of every digitally transformed device, machine, or service will need RF filtering technology to ensure that a clean signal is received and processed.
High power SAW (surface acoustic wave) technology provides essential signal filtering/conditioning for systems that require sustained input power of 1W and higher. These include satellite, defense, electronic warfare, and other high-reliability and high-power applications.
APITech has developed new SAW Filter technology using an advanced manufacturing process that will deliver the higher power, tighter bandwidths, and expanded package options required by these systems. APITech is the only US-based manufacturer of this high-power technology.
"As an industry leader in SAW Filter development for decades, APITech has been working with our customers to understand and respond to these higher power requirements," says Ian Dunn, Chief Technology Officer at APITech. "We are excited to announce this new line of high-power SAW filters that can meet those demands. Going forward we plan to extend this high-power capability across the entire frequency range and all package types."
Prospective customers may meet with our product experts at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO, USA from June 21st-23rd, 2022, APITech will exhibit at Booth #11080.
First samples of these new SAW Filters will be available to key development customers in Q3. For more information on APITech's new High Power SAW Filters visit: https://www.apitech.com/products/rf-solutions/saw-filters-oscillators/hp-saw-filters/
APITech™ (API Technologies Corp.) is an innovative designer and manufacturer of high-performance subsystems, modules, and components to Protect, Power, and Process critical RF and electronics applications. A high-reliability technology pioneer with over 70 years of heritage, APITech's products are used by global defense, industrial, and commercial customers for critical applications including electronic warfare, Radar, C4ISR, Space, missile defense, commercial aerospace, wireless communications, medical, oil and gas, and harsh environments.
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QINGDAO, China, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Exhibition on Multinationals and China opened in Qingdao International Convention and Exhibition Center on June 19, 2022. The theme exhibition, held in parallel with Qingdao Multinationals Summit, provided a new opportunity for multinational firms to show their new products and technologies. With a focus on the businesses participating in the Summit and creating a exhibition platform for multinationals, the event is on a mission to demonstrate Shandong province's transformation achievements, industrial advantages and development opportunities.
The theme exhibition shared cooperation results between multinationals and Shandong province, improving the confidence of both domestic and foreign business communities to invest in the region. The event, including two major sessions, "Opening-up Shandong" and "Multinationals and China", displayed high-end equipment, core components and high-tech achievements of local leading companies, summit participants, and Global 500 enterprises, as well as the advances of a pilot innovation program for RCEP Qingdao economic and trade cooperation.
Multinationals and leading companies gathered together to highlight the province's position as an industrial development base with huge market potential. Shandong Heavy Industry Group, Inspur, Shandong Energy Group, China Resources, Haier, Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group, Continental AG, Desoutter Industrial Tools, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi UFJ, Korea GS, and other Global 500 enterprises attended the exhibition.
A wide range of leading products both at home and abroad were launched at the event. Shandong Heavy Industry Group made an appearance with the world's first unmanned bulldozer and China's first self-developed intelligent snow wax vehicle. BGI showcased one of the world's leading high-throughput gene sequencer - a one-stop shop solution for large population genomics. Finland-based Tarw-Trading Oy, Ltd. exhibited its FS52 tourist submarine for the first time in China. The National Deep Sea Center brought Qianlong III, the most advanced unmanned cableless submersible in China, to the site. Befar Group presented its Da Sheng I intelligent inspection robot, the first integrated intelligent unmanned inspection solution.
Across space and time, the theme exhibition created a "technology + interactive" experience in an all-round manner. The outdoor exhibition area incorporated the seaside scenery, resulting in an international, inclusive and future-oriented theme exhibition.
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NEW YORK — A visitor center dedicated to telling the story of LGBTQ rights movement will open next door to the Stonewall Inn, according to an announcement Tuesday by the nonprofit that will manage the center in partnership with the National Park Service.
The groundbreaking for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood will take place Friday, with the center expected to open in summer 2024, said Ann Marie Gothard, board president of Pride Live, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.
“The opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center is a remarkable moment in the history of Stonewall,” Gothard said. “We honor all those who came before us, most especially the queer people fighting for equality at the Stonewall riots.”
The Stonewall National Monument became the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ history when it was dedicated in 2016 across the street from the Stonewall Inn, where patrons fought back against a police raid on June 28, 1969, and helped spark the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement.
The Stonewall rebellion is commemorated every year with Pride marches in cities across the U.S. and the world.
This year's Pride Month in New York kicked off June 1 with the dedication of a rainbow flag at the Stonewall monument, the first rainbow flag to fly daily on federal land. The ceremony followed a yearslong battle by activists to ensure that a rainbow flag would fly on federal land at the Stonewall monument.
The 7.7-acre monument includes the park known Christopher Park, across from the Stonewall, but does not include the Stonewall itself, which is still a bar. The visitor center will be housed in the storefront adjoining the Stonewall, which was part of the bar in 1969.
Gothard said that when the national monument was created in 2016 “it became clear that a visitor center was needed.”
The Stonewall visitor center will offer in-person and virtual tours, lectures and visual arts displays dedicated to the history of the LGBTQ rights movement, Gothard said.
Although it will be managed by Pride Live, the center will also serve as home base for National Park Service staff members.
“As President Biden declared in Title VII, ‘every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear,’ and the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center will serve as a place where the LGBTQ community can safely gather to celebrate and commemorate its hard-fought history,” U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose department includes the park service, said in a statement.
Corporations including Google and JPMorgan Chase are providing funding for the center.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparta Science has expanded to bring Force Plate Machine Learning™ to additional orthopedic and rehabilitation practices, including Orlando Health, it was announced today.
Sparta Science's technology helps drive community engagement, provides more value to community partners, increases patient engagement, and provides more comprehensive care for all patients.
The Sparta Movement Health Platform acts as an unbiased second opinion to confirm treatment plans and advance rehabilitation timelines. By using the software to validate rehabilitation plans and track progress objectively, patients are likely to be more engaged and invested in their treatment leading to better outcomes and patient experience.
"We are thrilled to provide this technology to Orlando Health, one of the nation's leading healthcare organizations, and to aid in the treatment of their patients," said Sparta Science founder and CEO Dr. Phil Wagner. "It is exciting to work with an organization that understands the value of technology and its ability to improve the continuum of care for better engagement and outcomes at scale."
With the recent expansion, Orlando Health becomes the 7th healthcare organization to incorporate Sparta Science with the aim of standardizing care across orthopedic and rehabilitation centers.
Sparta Science helps organizations protect their most valuable resource — their people. Leveraging the power of machine learning, Sparta's Movement Health Platform captures an individual's data in minutes, assesses performance and risk of injury, then assigns personalized exercise prescriptions to improve performance and accelerate rehabilitation. Elite and conventional military units, sports organizations and healthcare providers use Sparta Science's Force Plate Machine Learning™ as a readiness multiplier to reduce injuries and associated costs while creating a culture of improved fitness.
For more information, go to spartascience.com and follow Sparta Science on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
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US pools close, go without lifeguards amid labor shortage
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Manager Ashley Ford strode the perimeter of one of Indianapolis’ five open swimming pools, monitoring kids as they jumped off a diving board or careened into the water from a curved slide. Four lifeguards, whistles at the ready, watched from their tall chairs stationed around the water.
With a dozen of the city’s pools shuttered due to a lifeguard shortage, families sometimes line up more than an hour before the one at Frederick Douglass Park opens, Ford said. Many days, it reaches capacity.
A national lifeguard shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted communities such as Indianapolis to cut back on pools and hours. In other spots around the United States, swimming areas go without attendants.
That’s left some Americans with fewer or riskier options, even as a significant part of the nation endures a second heat wave in as many weeks. Public health experts say the risk of drowning decreases significantly when lifeguards are present.
“That’s my biggest thing, is making everybody safe,” Ford said.
The American Lifeguard Association estimates the shortage impacts one-third of U.S. pools. Bernard J. Fisher II, director of health and safety at the association, expects that to grow to half of all pools by August, when many teenage lifeguards return to school.
“It is a disaster,” Fisher said.
Summer shortages aren’t unusual, but U.S. pools are also dealing with the fallout from earlier in the pandemic, when they closed and lifeguard certification stopped, Fisher said. Starting pay lags behind many other jobs, though some cities are ramping up incentives.
Indy Parks and Recreation has 100 lifeguards on staff this year when normally it would have double that, said Ford, who was worked for the agency for 20 years. Even as lifeguards from closed neighboring pools bulk up the open facilities, pools in Indianapolis must still close for an hourlong lunch and cleaning break each day.
When a local pool is not open, young people may go swimming in places without lifeguards, Fisher said. That can result in more drownings, which disproportionately affect people of color. In the U.S., Black people under 29 are 1.5 times more likely to drown compared with white Americans of the same age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 330,000 people enroll the American Red Cross’ lifeguarding course annually. That figure shrank, as many pools shuttered due to the pandemic, but is now rising, Jenelle Eli, senior director of media relations for the American Red Cross said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Indy Parks requires its lifeguards to pass a course in which they swim 100 yards, tread water for a minute without using their hands and retrieve a 10-pound object from the bottom of a pool. Starting pay is $15 per hour, up from $13 an hour earlier this year. Those who stay through the season will receive a $100 retention bonus, Boyd said.
“I’ve tried to get some of my friends that want to get a summer job and want to have money in their pockets,” said second-year lifeguard Donald Harris, 17. “They’ve just said lifeguarding isn’t for them.”
At Indiana’s state parks, lifeguards are paid $11 an hour. All of the state’s 37 facilities remain open, but some operate on limited hours, said Terry Coleman, director of the Division of Indiana State Parks. Many Indiana state parks additionally have shallow swimming areas without lifeguards, Coleman said.
“We’re looking at potential incentives for maybe the 2023 recreation season, but nothing in stone yet,” he said.
In Maine, several state parks started the season without lifeguards, and visitors are informed at the park entrance when no lifeguard is on duty, said Jim Britt, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The state pays lifeguards about $16 an hour.
“It’s a concern,” Britt said. “There’s no two ways about it. We want lifeguards to be there and to be on duty.”
Chicago, which boasts one of the nation’s largest aquatic programs — 77 public pools and 22 beaches that serve a population of nearly 2.75 million — pushed opening day for pools back to July 5 from June 24.
“Chicago families rely on our park programs during the summer, so we are not giving up,” Chicago Park District Superintendent Rosa Escareño said in a news release.
Escareño attributed the scarcity in part to “mass resignation” — referring to post-pandemic labor shortages.
Chicago Park District pays $15.88 hourly and is now offering bonuses of $600, up from $500 in May, to new hires who stay through the summer. It also relaxed residency requirements, meaning applicants do not have to live in the city.
One cause for applicant hesitation unrelated to the pandemic may be a lifeguard sexual abuse scandal that rocked Chicago Park District last year.
Escareño said the organization has since strengthened its accountability and reporting systems.
“I think right now, the most important thing is to ensure that we open safely, and that we place the greatest priority on safety, not just the safety of our residents, but also the safety of our employees,” she said.
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Associated Press reporter David Sharp in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report. Savage reported from Chicago. She and Rodgers are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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By KIM CHANDLER and JILL COLVIN | Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks has run his race for Senate on former President Donald Trump’s election lies, refusing to accept the outcome of the 2020 contest. He’s campaigned alongside the organizers of the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol building — the rally where he infamously told the crowd it was time to start “kicking ass.”
“I was proud to stand with Mo Brooks on that stage that day,” said Amy Kremer, chair of Women for America First. “Mo has the truth on his side.”
But Brooks’ efforts weren’t enough to keep him in Trump’s favor. The former president rescinded his early Brooks endorsement back in March and then snubbed him a second time, endorsing his rival Katie Britt ahead of Tuesday’s Republican runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Britt’s former boss, retiring GOP Sen. Richard Shelby.
Alabama is one of a handful of states holding contests Tuesday at the midpoint of a primary season that has been shaped by Trump’s effort to influence the GOP. In Virginia, Republicans are choosing between Trump-aligned congressional candidates to take on some of the most vulnerable Democrats in the fall. And in Georgia, Democrats will settle several close races, including deciding which Democrat will challenge Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who overcame a Trump-backed challenge last month.
In Washington, D.C., meanwhile, Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking reelection amid concerns over homelessness and rising crime.
But the Alabama Senate runoff has drawn particular attention both because of the drama surrounding Trump’s endorsement and the fact that the winner will likely prevail in November in a state Trump won twice by more than 25 percentage points.
Trump initially endorsed Brooks in the spring of 2021, rewarding an ardent champion of his baseless claims of a stolen election. Brooks had voted against certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory and delivered a fiery speech at the rally before the U.S. Capitol insurrection, telling the crowd, “Today is the day that American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”
But nearly a year later, Trump rescinded his support after the pair’s relationship soured and as the conservative firebrand languished in the polls. Trump blamed his decision on comments Brooks had made months earlier, at an August rally, when he said it was time for the party to move on from the 2020 presidential race — comments Trump claimed showed Brooks, one of the most conservative members of Congress, had gone “woke.”
But the move was widely seen as an effort by Trump to save face amid other losses, and Brooks alleged that it came after he informed Trump that there was no way to “rescind” the 2020 election, remove Biden from power, or hold a new special election for the presidency.
Trump’s un-endorsement was widely expected to end Brooks’ campaign. Instead, Brooks managed to finish second in the state’s May 24 primary, earning 29% of the vote to Britt’s 45% and forcing a runoff.
Brooks tried once again to get Trump to endorse him, but Trump, who has had a mixed record in backing winning candidates, instead chose Britt, Shelby’s former chief of staff, calling her a “fearless America First Warrior.”
While Brooks and Britt have similar views, their race represents a clash between two wings of the party and different generations. Shelby for decades epitomized the old-guard political style, using his clout and relationships to quietly steer federal projects and funding to his home state.
Britt, 40, has the endorsement of Shelby and other establishment Republicans, as well as deep ties to the state’s business community, reflected in her 2-1 fundraising advantage over Brooks.
Brooks, 68, is known for his bombastic oratory style. The six-term congressman was a founding member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and has made his opposition to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a pillar of his campaign, embarking on a “Fire McConnell Tour” of town halls. A super PAC affiliated with McConnell contributed $2 million to a PAC opposing Brooks.
He also has the backing of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who say he would be a needed hard-line addition to the Senate.
“This is a race about conservatives versus the establishment,” Paul said Friday in north Alabama. “We need a fighter. We’re not going to get it if you send us any old Republican. We need a fighter like Mo Brooks.”
Britt, meanwhile, stresses her own social conservative beliefs and has tried to paint Brooks as a career politician, saying Alabamians want “new blood.”
“President Trump knows that Alabamians are sick and tired of failed, do-nothing career politicians. It’s time for the next generation of conservatives to step up and shake things up in Washington,” she said after Trump’s endorsement.
Brooks has disparaged Britt as a RINO — the GOP pejorative meaning “Republican in name only” — and maintained he is the only one with a proven conservative record.
Turnout in the race is expected to be low, with fewer than 15% of registered voters likely to cast ballots, according to Secretary of State John Merrill.
Elsewhere, in the nation’s capital, where Democratic primaries effectively decide winners, Bowser is trying to fend off challenges from a pair of City Council members as the city contends with a rash of crime, including a shooting Sunday in one of the city’s busiest nightlife destinations that left a 15-year-old dead and a police officer and at least two others wounded.
In Virginia, voters are set to pick Republican nominees for what is expected to be a pair of the year’s most competitive U.S. House races.
In the coastal 2nd District, state Sen. Jen Kiggans is widely seen as the GOP front-runner in the Republican race to take on Democrat Elaine Luria, a retired Naval commander and member of the House Jan. 6 committee, in the general election. In central Virginia’s 7th District, six candidates are in a competitive race to face Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer.
And in Georgia, Democratic state Rep. Bee Nguyen is trying to defeat former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler in the secretary of state’s race. The winner will face Republican Raffensperger, who rebuffed Trump’s efforts to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s win in the state’s 2020 presidential election and beat back a Trump-endorsed challenger in his May 24 primary.
In congressional runoffs, Republican Vernon Jones, a Trump-backed candidate and former Democrat, is competing against trucking company owner Mike Collins for the Republican nomination for the 10th Congressional District seat east of Atlanta.
Republicans also have high hopes of knocking off 30-year Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop in southwest Georgia’s 2nd District. The GOP is choosing between former Army officer Jeremy Hunt and real estate developer Chris West.
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Colvin reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Va., contributed to this report. | https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/06/21/election-2022-trump-endorsement-flip-scrambles-alabama-race/ | 2022-06-21T16:04:48Z | https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/06/21/election-2022-trump-endorsement-flip-scrambles-alabama-race/ | false | 54 |
This is a close-up of one of the dinosaur sculptures in Homestead Park, York, and this shows more clearly the detail in the sculpture, and how effective the woven structure is.
While I was taking photos, a dad and his young son (3 or perhaps 4 years old) were walking past, with the young boy looking rather cautiously at these creatures before checking with his dad if they were safe. His dad explained that the temporary rope alongside the path was to keep the dinosaurs away from people. The child didn't look too convinced by the explanation, but he did have quite a list of questions about dinosaurs for his dad after that!. | https://365project.org/fishers/365/2022-06-21 | 2022-06-21T16:07:42Z | https://365project.org/fishers/365/2022-06-21 | true | null |
Suite #615, 800 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, V6C 2V6
Phone: James Place (604-928-6358)
Phone: Gary Musil (604-787-7356)
E-Mail: gmusil@highbankresources.com www.highbankresources.com
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON JULY 8, 2022 AND INFORMATION CIRCULAR
DATED: June 3, 2022
This document requires immediate attention. If you are in doubt as to how to deal with the documents or matters referred to in this Information Circular, you should immediately contact your advisor.
If you are a registered shareholder of the Company and are unable to attend the Meeting in person, please date and sign the enclosed form of proxy and return it in the envelope provided. All proxies to be valid, must be received by TSX Trust Company, Proxy Department, POX Box 721 Agincourt, ON, M1S 0A1 or via fax (416) 368-2502 or toll free in Canada and the United States to 1-866-781-3111 or scan and email to ProxyVote@TMX.comat least 48 hours prior to the Meeting or any adjournment thereof. If you are not a registered shareholder of the Company and receive these materials through your broker or through another intermediary, please complete and return the voting instruction form in accordance with the instructions provided to you by your broker or intermediary.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the Shareholders of HIGHBANK RESOURCES LTD. (the "Company") will be held at Suite 615, 800 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, on July 8, 2022, at the hour of 10:00 A.M., Vancouver time, for the following purposes:
The accompanying information circular provides additional information relating to the matters to be dealt with at the Meeting and is supplemental to, and expressly made a part of, this Notice of Meeting.
The Company's Board of Directors has fixed June 3, 2022 as the record date for the determination of Shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Meeting and at any adjournment or postponement thereof. Each registered Shareholder at the close of business on that date is entitled to such notice and to vote at the Meeting in the circumstances set out in the accompanying Information Circular.
If you are a registered shareholder of the Company and unable to attend the Meeting in person, please complete, date and sign the accompanying form of proxy and deposit it with the Company's transfer agent, TSX Trust Company, Proxy Department, POX Box 721 Agincourt, ON, M1S 0A1 or via fax (416) 368-2502or toll free in Canada and the United States to 1-866-781-3111or scan and email to ProxyVote@TMX.comat least 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays recognized in the Province of British Columbia) before the time and date of the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.
If you are a non-registered Shareholder of the Company and received this Notice of Meeting and accompanying materials through a broker, a financial institution, a participant, a trustee or administrator of a self-administered retirement savings plan, retirement income fund, education savings plan or other similar self-administered savings or investment plan registered under the Income Tax Act (Canada), or a nominee of any of the foregoing that holds your securities on your behalf (the "Intermediary"), please complete and return the materials in accordance with the instructions provided to you by your Intermediary.
2
NOTE OF CAUTION CONCERNING COVID-19 OUTBREAK
At the date of this Notice and the accompanying Information Circular it is the intention of the Company to hold the Meeting at the location stated above in this Notice. We are continuously monitoring development of current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak ("COVID-19"). In light of the rapidly evolving public health guidelines related to COVID-19, we ask shareholders to consider voting their shares by proxy and NOT attend the meeting in person. Shareholders who do wish to attend the Meeting in person, should carefully consider and follow the instructions of the federal Public Health Agency of Canada: (https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirusdisease-covid-19.html). We ask that shareholders also review and follow the instructions of any regional health authorities of the Province of British Columbia, including the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, the Fraser Health Authority and any other health authority holding jurisdiction over the areas you must travel through to attend the Meeting. Please do not attend the Meeting in person if you are experiencing any cold or flu-like symptoms, or if you or someone with whom you have been in close contact has travelled to/from outside of Canada within the 14 days immediately prior to the Meeting. All shareholders are strongly encouraged to vote by submitting their completed form of proxy (or voting instruction form) prior to the Meeting by one of the means described on pages 1, 2 and 3 of the Information Circular accompanying this Notice.
The Company reserves the right to take any additional pre-cautionary measures deemed to be appropriate, necessary or advisable in relation to the Meeting in response to further developments in the COVID-19 outbreak, including: (i) holding the Meeting virtually or by providing a webcast of the Meeting; (ii) hosting the Meeting solely by means of remote communication; (iii) changing the Meeting date and/or changing the means of holding the Meeting; (iv) denying access to persons who exhibit cold or flu-like symptoms, or who have, or have been in close contact with someone who has, travelled to/from outside of Canada within the 14 days immediately prior to the Meeting; and (v) such other measures as may be recommended by public health authorities in connection with gatherings of persons such as the Meeting. Should any such changes to the Meeting format occur, the Company will announce any and all of these changes by way of news release, which will be filed under the Company's profile on SEDAR as well as on our Company website at www.highbankresources.com.We strongly recommend you check the Company's website prior to the Meeting for the most current information. In the event of any changes to the Meeting format due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Company will not prepare or mail amended Meeting Proxy Materials.
While registered shareholders are entitled to attend the Meeting in person we strongly recommend that all Shareholders vote by proxy and accordingly ask that registered shareholders complete, date and sign the enclosed form of proxy, or another suitable form of proxy, and deliver it in accordance with the instructions set out in the form of proxy and in the Information Circular.
If you hold your Common Shares in a brokerage account, you are a non-registered shareholder ("Beneficial Shareholder''). Beneficial Shareholders who hold their Common Shares through a bank, broker or other financial intermediary should carefully follow the instructions found on the form of Proxy or VIF provided to them by their intermediary, in order to cast their vote.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND MANAGEMENT REQUEST ALL SHAREHOLDERS VOTE BY PROXY AND NOT ATTEND THE MEETING IN PERSON.
DATED at Vancouver, BC, this 14th day of June, 2022.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
HIGHBANK RESOURCES LTD.
James H. Place, President, CEO
INFORMATION CIRCULAR
(As at June 3, 2022 except as indicated)
HIGHBANK RESOURCES LTD. (the "Company") is providing this information circular (the "Information Circular") and a form of proxy in connection with management's solicitation of proxies for use at the annual general meeting (the "Meeting") of the Company to be held at 10:00 A.M (Vancouver time) on July 8, 2022 at Suite 615, 800 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, and at any adjournments thereof. Unless the context otherwise requires, when we refer in this Information Circular to the Company, its subsidiaries are also included. The Company will conduct its solicitation by mail and officers and employees of the Company may, without receiving special compensation, also telephone or make other personal contact. The Company will pay the cost of solicitation.
Date and Currency
The date of this Information Circular is June 3, 2022. Unless otherwise stated, all amounts herein are in Canadian dollars.
At the date of this Information Circular it is the intention of the Company to hold the Meeting at the location stated above. We are continuously monitoring development of current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak ("COVID-19"). In light of the rapidly evolving public health guidelines related to COVID-19, we ask shareholders to consider voting their shares by proxy and NOT attend the meeting in person. Shareholders who do wish to attend the Meeting in person, should carefully consider and follow the instructions of the federal Public Health Agency of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html. We ask that shareholders also review and follow the instructions of any regional health authorities of the Province of British Columbia, including the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, the Fraser Health Authority and any other health authority holding jurisdiction over the areas you must travel through to attend the Meeting. Please do not attend the Meeting in person if you are experiencing any cold or flulike symptoms, or if you or someone with whom you have been in close contact has travelled to/from outside of Canada within the 14 days immediately prior to the Meeting. All shareholders are strongly encouraged to vote by submitting their completed form of proxy (or voting instruction form) prior to the Meeting by one of the means described on pages 3, 4 and 5 of this Information Circular.
The Company reserves the right to take any additional pre-cautionary measures deemed to be appropriate, necessary or advisable in relation to the Meeting in response to further developments in the COVID-19 outbreak, including: (i) holding the Meeting virtually or by providing a webcast of the Meeting; (ii) hosting the Meeting solely by means of remote communication; (iii) changing the Meeting date and/or changing the means of holding the Meeting; (iv) denying access to persons who exhibit cold or flu-like symptoms, or who have, or have been in close contact with someone who has, travelled to/from outside of Canada within the 14 days immediately prior to the Meeting; and (v) such other measures as may be recommended by public health authorities in connection with gatherings of persons such as the Meeting. Should any such changes to the Meeting format occur, the Company will announce any and all of these changes by way of news release, which will be filed under the Company's profile on SEDAR as well as on our Company website at www.HighbankResources.com. We strongly recommend you check the Company's website prior to the Meeting for the most current information. In the event of any changes to the Meeting format due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Company will not prepare or mail amended Meeting Proxy Materials.
APPOINTMENT OF PROXYHOLDER
The purpose of a proxy is to designate persons who will vote the proxy on a shareholder's behalf in accordance with the instructions given by the shareholder in the proxy. The persons whose names are printed in the enclosed form of proxy are officers or Directors of the Company (the "Management Proxyholders").
A shareholder has the right to appoint a person other than a Management Proxyholder, to represent the shareholder at the Meeting by striking out the names of the Management Proxyholders and by inserting the desired person's name in the blank space provided or by executing a proxy in a form similar to the enclosed form. A proxyholder need not be a shareholder.
VOTING BY PROXY
Only registered shareholders or duly appointed proxyholders are permitted to vote at the Meeting. Shares represented by a properly executed proxy will be voted or be withheld from voting on each matter referred to in the Notice of Meeting in accordance with the instructions of the shareholder on any ballot that may be called for and if the shareholder specifies a choice with respect to any matter to be acted upon, the shares will be voted accordingly.
If a shareholder does not specify a choice and the shareholder has appointed one of the Management Proxyholders as proxyholder, the Management Proxyholder will vote in favour of the matters specified in the Notice of Meeting and in favour of all other matters proposed by management at the Meeting.
The enclosed form of proxy also gives discretionary authority to the person named therein as proxyholder with respect to amendments or variations to matters identified in the Notice of the Meeting and with respect to other matters which may properly come before the Meeting. At the date of this Information Circular, management of the Company knows of no such amendments, variations or other matters to come before the Meeting.
COMPLETION AND RETURN OF PROXY
Completed forms of proxy must be deposited at the office of the Company's registrar and transfer agent, TSX Trust Company, Proxy Department, POX Box 721 Agincourt, ON, M1S 0A1 or via fax (416) 368-2502 or toll free in Canada and the United States to 1-866-781-3111 or scan and email to ProxyVote@TMX.comor Votezprocuration@astfinancial.comnot later than forty-eight (48) hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, prior to the time of the Meeting, unless the chairman of the Meeting elects to exercise his discretion to accept proxies received subsequently.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR NON-REGISTERED HOLDERS
Only shareholders whose names appear on the records of the Company as the registered holders of shares or duly appointed proxyholders are permitted to vote at the Meeting. Most shareholders of the Company are "non-registered"shareholders because the shares they own are not registered in their names but instead registered in the name of a nominee such as a brokerage firm through which they purchased the shares; bank, trust company, trustee or administrator of self-administeredRRSP's, RRIF's, RESP's and similar plans; or clearing agency such as The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (a "Nominee"). If you purchased your shares through a broker, you are likely a non-registeredholder.
In accordance with securities regulatory policy, the Company has distributed copies of the Meeting materials, being the Notice of Meeting, this Information Circular and the Proxy, to the Nominees for distribution to non-registered holders.
Nominees are required to forward the Meeting materials to non-registered holders to seek their voting instructions in advance of the Meeting. Shares held by Nominees can only be voted in accordance with the instructions of the non-registered holder. The Nominees often have their own form of proxy, mailing procedures and provide their own return instructions. If you wish to vote by proxy, you should carefully follow the instructions from the Nominee in order that your Shares are voted at the Meeting.
If you, as a non-registered holder, wish to vote at the Meeting in person, you should appoint yourself as proxyholder by writing your name in the space provided on the request for voting instructions or proxy provided by the Nominee and return the form to the Nominee in the envelope provided. Do not complete the voting section of the form as your vote will be taken at the Meeting.
Non-registered holders who have not objected to their Nominee disclosing certain ownership information about themselves to the Company are referred to as "non-objecting beneficial owners ("NOBOs"). Those non-registered holders who have objected to their Nominee disclosing ownership information about themselves to the Company are referred to as "objecting beneficial owners" ("OBOs").
The Company is not sending the Meeting materials directly to NOBOs in connection with the Meeting, but rather has distributed copies of the Meeting materials to the Nominees for distribution to NOBOs.
The Company does not intend to pay for Nominees to deliver the Meeting materials and Form 54-101F7 - Request for Voting Instructions Made by Intermediary to OBOs. As a result, OBOs will not receive the Meeting Materials unless their Nominee assumes the costs of delivery.
NOTICE-AND-ACCESS
The Company is not sending the Meeting materials to Shareholders using "notice-and-access", as defined under NI 54-101.
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Progress is being made on a Kemah Community Development Corp. project that will bring long-awaited improvements to a nature park.
Widely known as 57 Acre Park, the nature area is to the south of the Kemah Oaks subdivision at 1894 Park Oaks Drive, on the site of a former dredge spoils dump.
Possible additions include pavilions, walkways, docks and an outdoor learning center.
Isaac Saldaña, president of the Kemah Community Development Corp. and also a Kemah City Council member, has been involved in the effort to create the park for years.
“I was first involved with the KCDC in 2009, and we were talking about it back then,” he said. “When I got back on KCDC for my second stint, I picked it back up because it had been sitting dormant for a long time.
“Now we have big plans for it.”
The park will still be treated as a nature facility.
“It won’t have a traditional football field or baseball field, but it will have a big open space,” Saldaña said. “If we do it all, it will have pavilions, and outlooks and tiers, walkways, an outdoor theater area and all kinds of other stuff.”
Saldaña said the community development corporation will fund the project.
“We have been budgeting about $400,000 to $500,000 per year to the project,” he said. “The KCDC has been very diligent about saving money for big projects like this; so we have funds to start.
“We probably could fund a couple of years right now.”
If all of the improvements are made, the project could take 10 years to finish.
Idea for park languished for years
Starting in 1986, Galveston and Harris counties partnered on a dredging project to mitigate flooding along Clear Creek where silt was piped from Clear Lake to the spoils site to improve water flow.
When the project wrapped up in the mid-1990s, Galveston County assumed control of the area with the intention of building a park, which never came to fruition.
Eventually, the city of Kemah took over the nature facility in an agreement where the county still owned the property but the city maintained it.
Kemah also hoped to build a park, but the project languished.
Little has been done to develop the park over the years. A 15-foot-high berm made out of the dredge spoils looms over a small parking lot. The berm is topped with a trail made of shell and is roughly one-mile square. The interior of the berm is filled with trees, wildflowers and a small pond. Two more trails extend into the thicket.
Area frequented by deer and bobcats
But there’s more than meets the eye.
“My house actually backs up to the nature facility,” Saldaña said. We first started appreciating (the park) in 2008 when Hurricane Ike came and knocked our fence down.
“My daughter was 8 or 9 years old at the time and her window faced the nature facility. She asked if we could not put the fence back up and I said we had to. She said, ‘Well, in the morning and evening these big giant deer walk by.’ I went to her window one morning and this giant buck walked by.”
That’s not all.
“There’s a family of bobcats out there and I saw it with my own eyes,” Saldaña said. “There’s also hogs out there, coyotes and birds.”
Construction on the improvements will take a phased approach, with each one taking about a year to complete. Some of those phases are:
• Developing electrical, water, sewer and drainage Infrastructure.
• Removing dirt, underbrush and some trees
• Building another parking lot
• Installing lights and water fountains
• Building pavilions and bathrooms
• Dredging the pond
• Adding docks and outlooks, and
• Constructing an outdoor learning center.
John DeLapp is a freelance writer. He can be contacted at texdelapp@gmail.com. | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/home/article/Pavilions-walkways-part-of-ambitious-plans-for-17255173.php | 2022-06-21T16:11:03Z | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/home/article/Pavilions-walkways-part-of-ambitious-plans-for-17255173.php | false | 1 |
If you rely on Google Maps to help you navigate while driving then it may be time to celebrate as Google has finally fixed that annoying Android Auto dark mode problem.
Before the update dropped, Android smartphone users might have noticed that Android Auto always loaded Google Maps in dark mode. Even if your smartphone and personal settings were set otherwise you were forced to follow a dark map on your travels.
Now, all of you light mode fans can rejoice as Google Maps update 11.35.1. has quietly patched the issue (via Autoevolution (opens in new tab)). The same site also notes that an official thread of users discussing the problem was removed by Google, perhaps indicating that the problem is a thing of the past.
While being forced into dark mode was a fairly minor inconvenience, if you're relying on the service over a long trip, the design could grate on you if you think it's ugly. Additionally, some users may find light mode easier to read. So, being forced into a different design might make traveling by car less easy for them.
The update should automatically roll out to all Google Maps users over the coming days if it hasn’t already.
Now that you're back to driving around using Google Maps, you might want to check out these awesome features that could save you money on gas. | https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/google-finally-fixes-android-autos-dark-mode-issue-for-google-maps | 2022-06-21T16:11:54Z | https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/google-finally-fixes-android-autos-dark-mode-issue-for-google-maps | false | 6 |
Ad Net Zero Expansion Led By Advertisers, Agency Groups, Media & Trade Bodies
Companies Invited to Join Global Efforts To Drive Rapid Change
CANNES, France, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders from many of the largest companies and associations in the world's advertising industry have announced their intent to apply learning from the UK and plan the roll out of Ad Net Zero internationally to major markets. The world's major advertising agency holding companies, dentsu international, Havas, Interpublic Group, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and WPP, along with Unilever - one of the world's largest advertisers, global tech companies, Google and Meta, plus European media company Sky, will be supported by US trade bodies, ANA, 4A's and the IAB, European and global agency associations, EACA and Voxcomm, the WFA representing global advertisers and the IAA to extend the Ad Net Zero programme from the UK to other major advertising markets. Ascential, owner of LIONS, has played a major role in convening this international action to tackle the climate emergency. The group invited more organisations with international reach to join and help support the roll-out plans.
The Ad Net Zero programme was launched in the UK in November 2020 by the Advertising Association, ISBA and the IPA and counts over 100 advertisers, agencies, commercial media owners and production companies in its membership. All the partners in the global coalition are supporters in the UK and are committed to build plans to extend Ad Net Zero into other major markets. The focus of the new Ad Net Zero group will be to rapidly establish plans for roll-out in major advertising markets with immediate focus on the US and the EU, working in partnership with the UK team. The next update will be presented at the Ad Net Zero Global Summit which will take place online on November 9 and 10, alongside COP27. Going forward, progress will be shared and discussed at Cannes Lions each summer and the Global Summit each November, in line with the COP event, to maintain momentum during this critical decade.
Stephen Woodford, Chief Executive, Advertising Association, said: "Our 5-point action plan pledges to reduce carbon emissions from UK advertising operations to net zero by 2030, with businesses committing to robust, verified plans to reduce their emissions. It also pledges to use advertising's power to accelerate the switch to more sustainable products and services for consumers. We are excited to be working now on a roadmap for development internationally, with the flexibility to adapt and develop market specific solutions and share best practice in sustainable ad operations. We welcome all organisations interested in this to contact us to find out more."
The global advertising industry, as measured by advertising media investment, was worth $594,322bn in 2020. The top 20 advertising markets account for 89.3% of this spend and these markets will be the focus for the programme's rollout.
For more details, please visit: https://adnetzero.com
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