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ATLANTA, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eagles Landing Health is a name well known around south metro Atlanta for its very important mission: to improve people's lives by providing quality healthcare when and where they need it. It's a mission that the doctors and staff at Eagles Landing Health have been living up to for more than thirty years in Georgia. What started as a single office and a single doctor, quickly grew to meet the pressing needs of a growing community.
This month Eagles Landing Health announced they will become Aylo Health. The rebrand signals a reaffirmation of the provider's long-standing mission and the desire to reach more patients in need of high-quality, accessible healthcare.
"The model of care we've developed is truly something exceptional," said Eagles Landing Health / Aylo Chief Executive Officer, Nick Williams in a statement to staff. "We needed a name that was not tied just to our geographic location, but to represent our overall mission. By redefining healthcare, we are defining what it means to be Aylo Health."
Beyond the traditional family medicine model, patients here have access to services like Diagnostic Imaging, Diabetic Care (Endocrinology), Pediatrics and Sleep Medicine. This unique and expansive network of services has allowed Eagles Landing Health to provide help for so many patients over the years, and it will allow Aylo to continue to do so for many more to come.
When Eagles Landing Health officially transitions to Aylo Health later this month, the provider ensures there will be zero changes or disruptions for patients. The new Aylo brand aims to make patient experiences a top priority, committing to their patients that Aylo will be 'changing the way healthcare was designed by providing quality care at your convenience.'
"Aylo is an exciting new chapter in our history," said Tim Reichert, Eagles Landing Health / Aylo Vice President of Marketing. "We're on a mission to redefine great healthcare, and in the process give it a new name."
To find out more about the Aylo brand, and Aylo Health providers visit ELHealth.com/ComingSoon
CONTACT: Tim Reichert, Vice President of Marketing, (770) 914 - 0116 x 11820
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Halifax burglar James Chatterton jailed for funeral urn theft
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A burglar who stole a funeral urn containing the ashes of the homeowner's late mother has been jailed.
James Chatterton, 28, was sentenced to 20 months for the burglary in Southowram on 5 June, in which he also took jewellery and electrical items.
He was foiled when a taxi he was loading with the stolen items was blocked in, Bradford Crown Court heard.
The trial heard Chatterton had taken "a cocktail of drugs" before posing as a charity collector through the village.
The drug addict, of Carmel Road, Halifax, had earlier knocked at another home nearby claiming to be collecting for charity as his brother had died from cancer, the court heard.
The first householder declined and when she later checked her CCTV she saw him trying the conservatory door and peering through doors and windows. He also tried the car door handle and she phoned her father and the police.
Chatterton then broke into the house on Church Lane while the owner was out, and took the funeral urn well as medication and other personal items.
At that point the father of the woman who phoned the police returned and thwarted Chatterton's escape by blocking the taxi with his car.
'Extremely ashamed'
Chatterton, who had been out of trouble for about six years, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, attempted burglary and vehicle interference.
His barrister, Eleanor Durdy, said the burglary was on impulse after Chatterton took a "cocktail of drugs".
She said Chatterton was "extremely ashamed", particularly of taking the urn with the ashes, and would personally apologise to his victims and take part in rehab on leaving prison.
All the stolen property had now been returned, the barrister said.
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New Delhi, Aug 16 (PTI) A delegation from International Hockey Federation (FIH) is in the capital to discuss the way forward and avert a possible suspension of Hockey India, currently placed under a Committee of Administrators.
A two-member delegation, led by newly-appointed acting president Seif Ahmed, arrived here on Monday for an emergency meeting to assess progress made with regards to the adoption of a new Constitution at HI.
India is scheduled to host the 2023 Men's World Cup.
The FIH delegation is scheduled to hold a meeting with the Delhi High Court- appointed three-member CoA here on Wednesday.
The delegation is also scheduled to meet senior sports ministry officials, besides top officials of the Odisha government, the hosts for next year's World Cup.
The FIH had last month sought a "detailed timeline" from the CoA on adoption of an amended Constitution and holding of fresh elections at HI.
If the HI fails to adopt a Sports Code-compliant Constitution at the earliest, the country runs the risk of losing the hosting rights of World Cup, scheduled to be held from January 13 to 29.
According to a source, the required amendments in HI Constitution has already been made and elections to the executive board of the sports body are expected to be held on October 1.
"The CoA members are scheduled to meet FIH delegation on Wednesday. The amendments to the HI Constitution, as per Delhi High Court orders, have already been done and it will be put before the FIH on Wednesday," the source told PTI.
"As per the Delhi High Court orders, some amendments, like removing illegal posts, were needed to be made in HI Constitution to bring it in line with the National Sports Code, which has been done. Now the FIH will have to ensure whether it is in line with their Constitution.
"The CoA is in no mood to hang in there, and plans to hold the elections of HI executive board by October 1," he added.
The world body delegation met with senior sports ministry officials on Tuesday and is set to visit next year's World Cup host cities -- Bhubaneswar and Rourkela -- on Thursday and Friday to oversee preparations.
It will also hold discussions with senior Odisha government officials, including Vineel Krishna, Secretary Sports and Youth Services and Special Secretary to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Besides the FIH acting president, the world body delegation includes CEO Thierry Weil.
The FIH CEO had last month said they were hopeful of hosting the World Cup in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
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LEHI, Utah, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A&W Restaurants has partnered with Jolt Software, the leader in digital food safety and operations execution software, for checklist, employee communication, and content management tools.
Founded in 1919 as a Root Beer stand in California, A&W was the United States' first franchise restaurant chain. Known for their signature Root Beer and Root Beer Floats, A&W popularized drive-in restaurants and was the first U.S. chain restaurant to expand to Southeast Asia.
"We are extremely excited to roll out Jolt to our franchisees," stated Rona Lascano, Sr. Director of Training and Restaurant Support at A&W. "The platform will give them the tools to increase consistency and build accountability within their stores, which will ultimately strengthen sales."
A&W has signed up to use Jolt's Lists, Communication Manager, and Information Library products. Combined, these products will foster cleaner stores, greater order accuracy, and employee accountability.
"Words cannot describe how honored we are to have been selected as the operations management platform for A&W. They are a fantastic organization to work with, and we are committed to helping in their continued business growth" stated CJ Lewis, Co-Founder & COO of Jolt.
Jolt creates digital operations management solutions to help restaurants, hotels, and retail outlets build accountability, enhance food safety, and boost employee performance, with confidence. Supported by solutions dedicated to creating peace of mind, Jolt's mission is to empower everyone to love work and live life. To learn more, visit www.jolt.com.
Now in its 103rd year, A&W is America's oldest franchised restaurant chain. Known for its All American Food, as well as Root Beer that is made fresh in each restaurant and served in frosty mugs, there are more than 900 A&Ws in the U.S. and Asia. Visit www.awrestaurants.com and www.awfranchising.com for more information.
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Mercedes Benz EQE SUV interior showcased ahead of launch on October 16
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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the 17th anniversary of the world-renowned digital art brand XPPen, which is celebrating the event with the debut of its elevated mascot image, Fenix, and the bold theme of "Dare to be YOU".
Staying true to XPPen's brand mantra "Dream, Brave, True" and vision, the new Fenix keeps an overall fennec fox image but evolves to be more chic, clean-cut and three-dimensional. To up the game, a series of appealing Fenix memes, as well as some customized peripherals, are going to be released in the hope that it can generate more engaging interactions with Generation Z and establish a deeper connection with them.
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IPOR Labs Unveils Protocol to Make DeFi Credit Markets More Transparent and Stable
IPOR Labs AG is launching a protocol to bring transparency and stability to the volatile decentralized finance (DeFi) credit market, the creator of blockchain-based derivatives software announced Tuesday.
Through the Inter Protocol Overblock Rate (IPOR) traders will be able to hedge, arbitrage and take directional positions on the interest rate movements to manage risk across their credit portfolios on the Ethereum blockchain.
“Decentralized finance (DeFi) has immature markets that need market transparency for all actors,” Darren Camas, CEO of Zug, Switzerland-based IPOR Labs, told CoinDesk.
The protocol offers the "IPOR Index," a standardized benchmark rate based on smart contract transactions and its own interest rate derivatives decentralized exchange (DEX).
IPOR is an algorithmic model of The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), but for DeFi. The LIBOR was once a benchmark interest rate that global banks lend to one another in the interbank market for short-terms loans, but it was discontinued in 2021.
Darren said the IPOR is crucial in the current market for institutional participation. “We need to connect the institutional fixed income world to DeFi, and for this to happen they need risk management tools and transparency,”
IPOR consists of two parts. One is the IPOR index, a LIBOR-like benchmark interest rate sourced directly from DeFi smart contracts. Camas explained that unlike the LIBOR, which was discontinued due to manipulation by traders and inside banks, the IPOR Index is based on auditable and real-time smart contract interactions.
The second part is the DEX, which IPOR says is the first derivative instrument. It is based on the IPOR index and is a 28-day cancellable swap that uses a peer-to-pool model between a trader and the liquidity pool as underwriter for both pay-fixed and receive-fixed contracts.
“In the wake of the market collapse due to multiple [U.S. Federal Reserve interest] rate hikes, and the downfall of bad actors such as Three Arrows Capital, Celsius Network and Terra, risk management comes to the forefront of crypto, particularly in the credit markets,” Camas said.
“Where [centralized finance] becomes the villain, DeFi has taken a hero role, particularly in the credit markets where major platforms have functioned flawlessly during the market downturn,” he added.
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Egypt Church Fire Kills 41 People Including 10 Children In Cairo
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A church fire in Egypt has killed at least 41 people, including 10 children and injured 45 others.
The blaze ripped through a packed Coptic Orthodox church during morning services in the working-class neighbourhood of Imbaba, in the country’s capitol.
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The blaze started just before 9 a.m. in the Abu Sifin church in the city of Giza, where up to 5000 worshippers had gathered for Mass.
Fifteen fire engines were dispatched to put out the blaze, while ambulances transported the wounded to nearby hospitals.
An electrical fire which blocked an entrance to the church was allegedly behind Sunday's blaze, causing a stampede which killed dozens and left many more suffering from smoke inhalation.
In a statement, the interior ministry said a forensic examination showed the fire began in the second-floor air conditioning as a result of an electrical malfunction.
Smoke inhalation was the main cause of death, it said.
"I offer my sincere condolences to the families of the innocent victims that have passed on to be with their Lord in one of his houses of worship," said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a tweet.
According to a cabinet statement, families of those who died will receive 100,000 Egyptian pounds ($5,220).
Egypt's second-largest city, Giza sits across the Nile from Cairo.
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OSLO, Norway, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Borr Drilling Limited (the "Company") (NYSE and OSE: "BORR") advises that a Special General Meeting of the Company was held on August 16, 2022 at 09:00 ADT at 2nd Floor, The S.E. Pearman Building, 9 Par-la-Ville Road, Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda
The following resolution was passed:
To approve the increase of the Company's authorized share capital from US$18,000,000.00 divided into 180,000,000 common shares of US$0.10 par value each to US$22,000,000.00 divided into 220,000,000 common shares of US$0.10 par value each by the authorization of an additional 40,000,000 common shares of US$0.10 par value each.
The increase in authorized share capital is one of the two conditions for the Company to complete the first settlement of the previously announced public offering. In addition, the Company has entered into the required binding term sheets/other binding agreements with all applicable lenders, which is the second condition for the first settlement, and as such, the first settlement is expected to be completed as announced on August 17, 2022
The offering referred to herein was made pursuant to an effective automatic shelf registration statement, previously filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on July 26, 2022. The offering of the common shares was made only by means of a prospectus and a related prospectus supplement. A final prospectus supplement relating to the offering was filed with the SEC on August 11, 2022. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus related to the offering may be obtained by contacting DNB Markets, Inc., Attn: Compliance Department, by telephone: 212-681-3800, or by email at: compliance.marketsinc@dnb.no
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor will there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements with respect to the expected settlement date of the offering and other non-historical statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are subject to significant risks, uncertainties, contingencies and factors that may cause the Company's actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements including risks related to settlement of the offering and other risks described in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and other filings of the Company with the SEC. The forward-looking statements made in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Atlanta Black Radio Stations Team Again For 'Black Radio United For The Vote'
by Sam Weaver
August 16, 2022 at 6:46 AM (PT)
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Following the success of higher voter turnout for the 2020 primary and FALL elections, several ATLANTA Black radio stations have reactivated the BLACK RADIO UNITED FOR THE VOTE Initiative. The goal is to increase voter registration, voter education, and voter mobilization for the NOVEMBER 2022 GEORGIA elections for Governor, Secretary of State, and a Senate seat.
The initiative includes COX MEDIA GROUP R&B WALR (KISS 104.1), AUDACY Urban WVEE (V-103) & WAOK-A (NEWS & Talk 1380), URBAN ONE-RADIO ONE R&B WAMJ/WUMJ (MAJIC 107.5/97.5), Urban WHTA (HOT 107.9), Inspiration WPEZ (PRAISE 102.5), and Urban Oldies WAMJ-HD2 (CLASSIX 102.9); CORE RADIO GROUP Hip-Hop WWSZ-A-W233BF (STREETZ 94.5); and CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY NPR affiliate WCLK (JAZZ 91.9).
WALR Dir./Branding/Programming TERRI AVERY said, “BLACK RADIO UNITED FOR THE VOTE comes together again to educate and mobilize our communities for the upcoming NOVEMBER elections. Nowhere else in the country has Black Radio made such an impact on the decisions our communities have made, since the presidential election in ATLANTA, GEORGIA. KISS 104.1 is honored to be part of this movement."
AUDACY SVP/Market Mgr. RICK CAFFEY added, "AUDACY/ATLANTA, V-103 and 1380 WAOK are pleased to partner with the BLACK RADIO UNITED FOR THE VOTE Initiative as we continue to provide education and information to our community on the voting process. It is important that all in our country and communities know how to vote, when to vote and where to vote as all of us as citizens, have a fundamental obligation to exercise our right to vote."
URBAN ONE-RADIO ONE/ATLANTA OM DEREK HARPER commented, “It is an honor to be able to team up once again with our fellow broadcasters to serve the best interests of communities of color throughout the ATLANTA metropolitan area.”
WCLK PD DAVID LINTON said, “Every election is important but what’s just as important is an informed and motivated electorate. This initiative by BLACK RADIO UNITED is designed to ensure our listeners are properly equipped with the knowledge they need in terms of changes in election laws, as well as, knowing where the candidates stand on issues that will affect their everyday lives. It’s our responsibility as broadcasters to provide that information, so they can make informed decisions.”
WWSZ PD/Promotions Dir./SOLO added, "The change starts with us making our voice heard and exercising our right to vote is our right. Actually a responsibility. Don't complain if you not going to vote."
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(RTTNews) - Tech major Apple Inc. has asked corporate employees to return to offices at least three days a week by September 5, Bloomberg reported. The latest deadline was issued following several delays to its previous deadlines amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases.
As per the report, the company will require employees to work from offices on Tuesdays, Thursdays and a regular third day to be determined by individual teams.
The new policy, which was notified to employees, is expected to first take effect in Silicon Valley and then spread to other offices. Apple has been continuing with its plan of two days in office a week since April as COVID-19 cases declined and local governments loosened restrictions.
The Cupertino, California-based company's initial three-day policy had called employees for in-person work on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
Since CEO Tim Cook's initial announcement regarding the hybrid model, the iPhone maker has been shifting many deadlines amid COVID-19 spikes in between, leaving workers on a two-day-a-week schedule.
Apple recently dropped its mask mandate in common areas of offices. At individual desks, the requirement was removed several months ago.
In May, the company had again required its staff to wear masks in common spaces, meeting rooms, hallways, and elevators, as well as at 100 U.S. stores.
Also, for the first time since 2019, the company held an in-person gathering at its campus to watch a developers' conference presentation.
Like many other major companies, Apple had allowed its employees to work remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. The hybrid work model has been a part of its efforts to return to normal functioning.
Meanwhile, the employees have been objecting to the hybrid office return plan, saying that it limits productivity. They pointed out that commute time takes away hours that could be put toward their work.
In early May, in an open letter to the iPhone maker's executive team, a group of Apple employees had complained about the three-day policy, which only allows two days of working from home. The employees alleged that the policy is wasteful, inflexible, and will lead to a "younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied" workforce.
Among others, luxury electric car maker's CEO Elon Musk recently asked its employees to stop working from home and to return to office or else quit.
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BOSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) has released their list of 2022's Largest IT Staffing Firms, ranking Motion Recruitment #15 on the competitive list of IT staffing companies. This is Motion's debut on the list, propelled by its continued success and notable addition of industry leading IT Staffing & Consulting provider MATRIX Resources in 2021.
"We're excited to be ranked in the Top 15 of Largest IT Staffing firms. What really makes this special is the drive and teamwork that has been behind our incredible collective growth across both Motion and MATRIX," said Matt Milano, President of Motion Recruitment. "We have officially arrived with this industry recognition by SIA and will continue to evolve and innovate as an industry leader to serve our customers and communities."
SIA reported that IT temporary staffing was the largest revenue segment at 38% of the total staffing companies listed.
"While some industries experienced disruptions in 2021, this staffing industry instead flourished in an environment of record demand," said Timothy Landhuis, VP of Research at SIA. "We salute the hard work and resourcefulness of the staffing firms that appear on this year's list, that were able to deliver at record scale, and that altogether generated an extraordinary $135 billion in staffing revenue."
While this is Motion Recruitment's first time on SIA's Largest Staffing Firms list, the company has been a leader in tech specialty recruiting for more than three decades and received a number of industry awards, most recently winning Agile One's Innovator Award for Supplier Excellence in 2022.
Motion Recruitment offers IT Staffing & Consulting solutions across North America and also hosts 'Tech in Motion' a networking event and award series connecting tech enthusiasts to meet, learn, and innovate. Motion's highly specialized tech placement teams offer unparalleled consultation to clients and candidates in Cybersecurity, DataOp, Software Engineering, Web and Mobile Development, Cloud Engineering, Network Infrastructure & DevOps, Product & UX, and Functional/Project Management. Learn more at motionrecruitment.com.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clark Construction Group has reached substantial completion on the renovation of George Washington University's historic Thurston Hall residence hall. The project, which broke ground in 2020, was delivered to the GW on time and on budget.
Designed by VMDO Architects, the project was a complete interior overhaul of the nine-story building that has long been a staple on GW's Foggy Bottom campus in Washington, DC. The new Thurston Hall features new dormitories for approximately 820 students, space for a planned 225-seat dining hall, and 16 lounges, including a penthouse that offers sweeping views of the city.
"Thurston Hall was the first place I lived on campus," said Gaby Porras, a project manager at Clark who helped oversee the construction project's safety program. "I feel lucky to have been part of the Clark team that helped deliver this much-needed renovation project and give back to the school that gave me so much."
The 9-story renovation was designed around a courtyard that enables students to congregate and provides natural light throughout the building. Throughout construction, Clark crews took care to maintain the historic facade of the 95-year-old building.
With the project substantially complete, the University will continue activating the building in anticipation of students moving into the building later this month.
For more than a century, Clark Construction Group has been transforming the ideas and visions of its clients into world-class projects that make the United States a stronger, safer place. As one of the nation's largest asset creators, Clark has offices strategically located across the country to serve the needs of its clients. For more information, visit www.clarkconstruction.com.
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In pics: Massive flooding in Thane amid heavy rains
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DENVER, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SMT Energy LLC ("SMT"), an experienced developer and operator of renewable energy and energy storage projects in the U.S., has reached an agreement with SUSI Partners AG ("SUSI"), a leading Swiss-based sustainable energy infrastructure fund manager, to jointly develop, own and operate multiple battery energy storage systems ("BESS") in the United States.
The SUSI-SMT partnership incorporates a ready-to-build portfolio of ten (10) standalone BESS projects in South Texas, with a combined capacity of 100 MW. The assets are expected to commence commercial operations in the first half of 2023 and will alleviate pressure on power grids by balancing mismatches in electricity supply and demand. In addition to the initial portfolio, the partnership includes a further capital commitment to develop, own and operate additional BESS projects.
David Spotts, Co-Founder of SMT noted, "This portfolio, and partnership with SUSI, is a key step in SMT's efforts to lead the U.S.' energy transition in battery energy storage development. Bringing this portfolio into service will advance SMT Energy's commitment to the development of clean energy infrastructure in ERCOT and signals our continued expansion into the BESS market."
Texas' electricity grid has been under high scrutiny with both winter storms and extremely high summer temperatures presenting challenges that are only expected to increase in frequency as climate change progresses. While renewable energy generation has proven invaluable in the face of recent spikes in power demand, its integration has far outpaced the buildout of energy storage capacity, which is crucial to counterbalance intermittencies in power supply. The need for storage is further accentuated by pending retirements of thermal generation plants, which are expected to keep price volatility at a high level throughout the 2020s.
"In just over one year we were able to bring this portfolio from ideation to shovel-ready," stated John Switzer, Co-Founder of SMT. "The vision was to own and operate a fully merchant, front-of-the-meter energy storage portfolio in Texas, and it took the right partner to appreciate our concept. SMT is thankful to the entire SUSI team for their efforts and look forward to the partnership as a springboard for further BESS projects across the U.S."
Richard Braakenburg, Head Equity Investments at SUSI Partners, said: "SUSI Partners has a longstanding track record of investing across the entire energy transition spectrum. Having successfully finalized the deployment of our dedicated energy storage fund last year, this investment through our equity energy transition fund continues our commitment to battery storage as an important enabler of renewables integration. We see a lot of potential in the U.S. market and look forward to our cooperation with SMT Energy to deliver clean energy solutions to the world's largest economy."
Piper Sandler & Co. served as the exclusive financial advisor to SMT in this transaction.
SMT Energy is a U.S.-based developer and operator of distributed generation and utility-scale renewable and energy storage projects. The company is led by industry veterans John Switzer and David Spotts. In its first three years, SMT Energy has transacted with institutional investors, independent power producers, sustainable infrastructure funds and other sustainable investors on $250 million worth of renewable energy and energy storage deals. The company relies on their deep experience, wide network, and strong problem-solving abilities to create above-market returns for investors and meaningful benefits for local and global communities.
Founded in 2009, SUSI Partners is a Swiss-based fund manager specialized in sustainable energy infrastructure investments with EUR 1.7bn in capital commitments from institutional investors. The firm's investment strategy focuses on private equity and credit opportunities across the energy transition spectrum, including clean energy generation, energy efficiency measures, and solutions enabling clean energy use. With a successful track record of more than 140 transactions in over 20 countries to date, SUSI Partners seeks to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns for its clients and their beneficiaries while contributing meaningfully to achieving global climate neutrality.
SETF was launched in 2020 as SUSI's flagship equity fund. The fund has an evergreen structure and invests in sustainable energy infrastructure with a focus on OECD countries, covering the wide spectrum of investment opportunities arising from the energy transition.
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Hall of Fame Resort expands fantasy football league for second season
CANTON ‒ Two teams have been added as the Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Co. launches its second fantasy football league season.
The league expanded to 12 teams with the addition of the Green Bay Winter Haze and the New Jersey Boardwalkers. The league also will offer a season-long competition and week-to-week contests. Participants must be 21 or older, and there is a cash prize pool totaling $75,000.
Season Two commissioner is Emmitt Smith, the NFL's all-time leading rusher.
The draft for the new season is at 4 p.m. Sunday. Matt Camp, host of WWE's The Bump, will host a livestream event from Hall of Fame Village , while the draft will be broadcast live on Sirius XM Fantasy Sports (Channel 87) and can be viewed on the Hall of Fantasy League YouTube channel .
Expert fantasy football players have been selected as general managers for teams in the league. Joe Dolan , who led the defending champion Atlanta Hot Wings last season, returns this year. Other returning general managers are Melissa Jacobs for the Denver Mile Highs, Josh Hayes for the New York Bodega Cats, Jeff Ratcliffe for the Philadelphia Powderkegs, Scott Engel for the Seattle Haze, and Jeff Mans for the Vegas Pocket Kings.
New managers this season are Mark Blook, known as " Dr. Roto " for the Boston Barflies, Stephie Smalls for the Chicago Hogmollies, Lindsay Rhodes for the Green Bay Winter Haze, Marcas Grant for the Los Angeles Sidekicks, Lawrence Jackson Jr. for the New Jersey Boardwalkers, and Matt Harmon for the Ohio GOATs.
Registration for the Hall of Fantasy League contest is open until Sept. 8, but participants can still play in the weekly format throughout the season. More information on league rules and terms and conditions can be found at www.theHOFL.com .
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MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcantara threw seven innings of four-hit ball and the Miami Marlins beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 on Monday night.
Although the Padres made Alcantara throw 76 pitches through the first four, the All-Star right-hander notched his 17th outing of at last seven innings. Alcantara (11-5) walked two and struck out seven on 108 pitches.
“It’s always frustrating, you want to get out of innings with seven or 10 pitches,” Alcantara said. “They were aggressive with me tonight and I was competing, throwing my best stuff.”
Miguel Rojas and Jacob Stallings had three hits apiece and rookie JJ Bleday homered for the Marlins, who snapped a four-game skid.
Alcantara lasted a season-low 4 2/3 innings at San Diego on May 6, allowing three runs and five hits.
“The second half divides the men from the boys,” Alcantara said. “I feel just as strong as I did at the beginning of the season.”
Padres star slugger Juan Soto had one of the hardest-hit balls against Alcantara but Marlins left-fielder Luke Williams retreated and caught his drive on the warning track to end the fifth inning. Soto ended 0 for 2 with a walk.
“Everybody was grinding, everybody was taking really good at-bats the whole game,” Soto said. “He’s a great pitcher. He threw his stuff and at the end of the day, it didn’t go our way.”
While one streak ended, another continued for the Marlins. In the division era, they surpassed the 1979 Chicago Cubs for the second-longest stretch of games with three runs or fewer at 16. The 1969 California Angels had the longest drought at 17.
Miami struck early against Padres starter Joe Musgrove (8-6) with a two-run second. Bleday hit a leadoff homer and Rojas followed with a single. Rojas advanced to third on Stallings’ single to right and scored on Lewin Díaz’s sacrifice fly.
Rojas tripled in the sixth and Stallings followed with an RBI single to center over a drawn-in infield to pad Miami’s lead.
“They were the best two guys in the order all night,” Miami manager Don Mattingly said of Rojas and Stallings. “It was good to see Miggy use the whole field again and get back to being himself, not trying to do too much.”
Steven Okert relieved Alcantara and pitched a perfect eighth. Tanner Scott followed and got the first two outs, then walked Jake Cronenworth and allowed pinch-hitter Wil Myers’ single. Ha-Seong Kim lined out to second baseman Jon Berti after a 12-pitch at-bat for Scott’s 17th save.
“Redemption — today’s another day,” said Scott, who squandered a save opportunity in the ninth Sunday. “It’s my saying, and I was just going with it.”
Musgrove was lifted after six innings. The right-hander allowed three runs, eight hits, struck out five and hit a batter. | https://www.10news.com/sports/padres-cant-overcome-alcantara-in-3-0-loss-to-marlins | 2022-08-16T14:51:56Z | https://www.10news.com/sports/padres-cant-overcome-alcantara-in-3-0-loss-to-marlins | true | 9 |
The American Depository Shares (ADS) of BHP Group Limited (NYSE: BHP) (GB: BHP) increased 1.6% in the extended trading session on Monday after the company announced impressive results for the Fiscal Year 2022 (ended June 30, 2022). High commodity prices, mainly coal, helped the company triple its attributable profits in the year.
It is worth noting that BHP Group's ADS was up 2.6% early Tuesday, at the time of writing. The $138.3-billion Australian company engages in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, and the extraction of metals like iron ore, copper, gold, and zinc.
Highlights of BHP Group’s Fiscal 2022 Results
- High coal prices boost attributable profit by 173% year-over-year to $30.9 billion
- The underlying attributable profit of $23.8 billion surpassed the consensus estimate of $20.9 billion
- Free cash flow grew 24% to $24.3 billion
- Announced final dividend of $1.75 per share
- Revenues were $65.1 billion, up 14.4% year-over-year
The company noted that growth in attributable profit in Fiscal 2022 was driven by high commodity prices, especially of coal. Average realized prices surged 225% for metallurgical coal and 271% for thermal coal.
Also, realized prices for copper grew 9% and for nickel expanded 43%, partially offset by a 13% decline in iron ore prices. In addition to commodity prices, a gain from the divestment of the petroleum business boosted profits in the year.
Cash generated from operating activities was $29.3 billion, and capital and exploration expenditure totaled $6.1 billion in the year. The company used its available resources to repay debts, with net debt down from $4.1 billion in Fiscal 2021 to $0.3 billion in Fiscal 2022.
Talking about rewards to shareholders, BHP Group’s dividends for its stakeholders amounted to $3.25 per share. This amount includes the impact of the company’s final dividend payment of $1.75 per share.
Earnings were $6.11 per share in Fiscal 2022, up 173% year-over-year. Also, underlying earnings advanced 39% to $4.71 per share in Fiscal 2022. The consensus estimate for earnings was $6.14 per share.
Revenues totaled $65.1 billion in the year versus the consensus estimate of $65.5 billion. On a year-over-year basis, the top line grew 14.4%, driven by sales growth of 7.1% for Copper, 201.7% for Coal, and 23.4% for Group and unallocated items segments. The sales of the Iron Ore segment decreased 10.8% year-over-year.
Production of copper in the year was down 4% year-over-year, while that of metallurgical coal and energy coal was down 9% and 4%, respectively. Also, the production of nickel declined 14% but remained flat for iron ore.
CEO’s Comment
The CEO of BHP Group, Mike Henry, said, “These strong results were due to safe and reliable operations, project delivery and capital discipline, which allowed us to capture the value of strong commodity prices.”
Henry said, “BHP enters the 2023 financial year in great shape strategically, operationally and financially, and well prepared to manage an uncertain near-term environment.”
The CEO opined that BHP Group “expect China to emerge as a source of stability for commodity demand” while seeing “a slowdown in advanced economies as monetary policy tightens, as well as ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and inflationary pressures.”
“The direct and indirect impacts of Europe’s energy crisis are a particular point of concern. Tight labour markets will remain a challenge for global and local supply chains. Waves of COVID-19 infection continue to occur in the communities where we operate, and we are planning accordingly,” Henry added.
According to the TipRanks Risk Analysis tool, BHP Group’s prime risk category is Macro & Political. This category accounts for four risks of the total eight risks identified for the company.
Is BHP Stock a Buy or Sell?
As of now, BHP stock is neither a Buy nor a Sell. On TipRanks, BHP Group has a Hold consensus rating based on one Buy and three Holds. BHP’s average price forecast of $59 mirrors 7.78% upside potential from the current level.
Considering BHP's risk profile, the macroeconomic challenges (especially rising interest rates and geopolitical uncertainties), and analysts' neutral view on the stock, a wait-and-watch approach could be a good idea for prospective investors in the near term.
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They now look set to break it a seventh time with the imminent signing of midfielder Matheus Nunes for an initial £38million, with £4million in add-ons.
With that signing set to go through, we looked back at each occasion Wolves smashed their transfer fee.
Ivan Cavaleiro – £7million
In August 2016, Portuguese winger Cavaleiro arrived for £7million from Monaco and at the time was the 13th signing of Fosun's first window in charge.
His signing broke the record that was jointly held by strikers Kevin Doyle and Steven Fletcher, who were both signed for £6.5million each in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
Cavaleiro enjoyed three successful seasons at Molineux and was part of the team that earned promotion back to the Premier League.
Helder Costa – £13million
It did not take long for Fosun to break the record again, when Costa's loan was made permanent in January 2017 for £13million.
The winger starred in a Wolves team that was initially struggling in the Championship and after a superb first half of the season, Wolves wasted no time in taking up their option to buy the Benfica loanee.
Injuries and team selections hampered the following two seasons, but he still played an integral part in Wolves' journey back to the Premier League and back into Europe – and is still fondly remembered for his electric first season at the club.
Ruben Neves – £15million
Neves arrived in July 2017 and was unveiled alongside the new away kit – and on the same day that Willy Boly's loan from Porto was announced.
His arrival was not only Wolves' record transfer, but also equalled the Championship record alongside Villa's capture of Jonathan Kodjia the year before.
After five years, Neves is now club captain and has already certified himself as a Wolves legend.
Adama Traore – £18million
Following the trend of swiftly breaking the transfer record, Traore then arrived in August 2018 for £18million from Middlesbrough.
The dazzling winger was one of several high-profile signings Wolves made that summer as they returned to the Premier League.
Traore has never signed a new deal with Wolves, after his initial five-year contract, and he will become a free agent next summer.
Raul Jimenez – £32million
Having slowly increased the transfer record over the years, Fosun smashed the record in April 2019 when Jimenez arrived from Benfica for £32million.
He had spent the 2018/19 season on-loan at Molineux, during the first season back in the Premier League, and enjoyed a stellar campaign with 15 goals and seven assists.
Wolves took up the option to sign the star striker, who suffered a fractured skull injury in 2020.
Fabio Silva – £35million
The last time Wolves broke their transfer record came in September 2020, with the surprise acquisition of Silva from Porto for £35million in September 2020.
He was thrown straight into the starting XI shortly after when Jimenez suffered his serious injury in November of the same year, and he scored four goals in his first season.
Last year, in his second season, he found minutes hard to come by and did not register a goal.
However, now on a season-long loan at Belgium club Anderlecht, Silva is enjoying a purple patch with five goals and two assists in his first six games. | https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2022/08/16/wolves-six-transfer-records-of-the-fosun-era/ | 2022-08-16T14:53:51Z | https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2022/08/16/wolves-six-transfer-records-of-the-fosun-era/ | true | 2 |
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Rapper A$AP Rocky has been charged in connection with a 2021 shooting in Hollywood, officials announced Monday.
The 33-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, faces two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm with allegations of personally using a firearm.
The shooting occurred on Nov. 6, 2021, following an argument between two acquaintances in the area of Selma and Argyle avenues in Hollywood.
The argument escalated and resulted in the rapper firing a semi-automatic handgun at his former friend, who sustained a minor injury, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Mayers ran from the scene with two other people following the shooting.
He was arrested earlier this year at LAX after vacationing in Barbados with singer Rihanna.
“Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with tragic consequences not only for the person targeted but also for innocent bystanders visiting Hollywood,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a news release. “My office conducted a thorough review of the evidence in this case and determined that the addition of a special firearm allegation was warranted.”
The rapper is set to be arraigned Wednesday. The case remains under investigation by the LAPD’s elite Robbery Homicide division.
Mayers was convicted of assault in Sweden in 2019 and received a conditional sentence, meaning he did not serve any additional jail time. | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/rapper-aap-rocky-charged-in-connection-with-2021-shooting-in-hollywood/ | 2022-08-16T14:55:12Z | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/rapper-aap-rocky-charged-in-connection-with-2021-shooting-in-hollywood/ | false | 21 |
It provides a variety of gifts as well as discounts up to 70% from Aug. 16 to Sep. 18.
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 GobizWEEK 1st is scheduled to be held from Aug. 16 to Sep. 18 by Gobiz KOREA, an online B2B marketplace which is operated by Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, a government agency.
It announced that the event will be held during the same period of the 2022 Korea Accompanying Sale for a week from Sep. 1 through to 7th. The 2022 Korea Accompanying Sale is a large scale promotional event held by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to help SMEs to promote and sell their products. The official said the concurrent event was planned for the GobizWeek to use a halo effect of the 2022 Korea Accompanying Sale.
GobizWeek, scheduled twice a year (B2C/B2B), is a useful promotion event where overseas buyers can get excellent Korean SMEs' products at discounted prices.
Focused on B2C products, the upcoming campaign to be held this Aug. is planning a large scale promotion including discount benefits and participation events in order to help Korean companies promote various products and win a deal in exports. (B2B product promotion is planned in Oct.)
During the promotion, the overseas buyers who are registering inquiries on their products can get a deal at a discounted price up to 70%. Furthermore, the buyers participating in the survey posted in the promotion page can get freebies including Amazon gift cards by lot.
The official said, "I hope the promotion can serve as a great opportunity for Korean companies to create growth engines, introducing the excellence of Korean products to global buyers."
For more details on the promotion, see the link below.
Gobiz KOREA, a B2B online marketplace, operated by the government agency Korea SMSs and Startups Agency is providing trade support with a high credibility for free in order to offer high quality Korean products fast and easily. It is giving support with realistic services to both importers and exporters, for example, planning a virtual exhibition in line with the untact trend and its trade professionals exploring appropriate products and matching businesses if buyers provide the information on the product they are seeking.
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Editor’s note: NewsNation has clarified Griggs’ age. She was 49, not 53.
(NewsNation) — Soap opera actress Robyn Griggs has died, her publicist Lisa Rodrigo confirmed to USA TODAY on Sunday. She was 49.
Star of the popular daytime soap “Another World,” Griggs did not hide her health struggles after being diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer in 2020. Just this past July, the actress revealed on Facebook she contracted four new tumors.
“Hi I have an update, Unfortunately, I have 4 new tumors. 2 new tumors on my liver, one on abdominal muscle and large one on right side lymph node. So in pain and I goto chemo Monday am. I told them whatever it takes,. I’m in for the fight. I’ll be very sore, nauseous etc, but who knows, maybe it works and relieves some pain. You never know. Please keep those prayers coming,. Hugs to all!!!,” she wrote.
Two months later, she has died.
“With a heavy heart, I am saddened to announce Robyn’s passing,” the post said. “However, she is no longer suffering and would want us to remember that and the good memories,” Griggs’ official Facebook account wrote in a post about her death Saturday.
“I will never forget how open she was to telling her story and accepting of me helping her tell it. She wanted to help people and spread the word of her story to do it. I was honored to do so. RIP my friend, I love you and smile when I think of you,” the post continued.
The Pennsylvania native was largely known for her role as Maggie Cory in “Another World” but she was also known for her roles in horror movies like “Zombiegeddon,” “Severe Injuries” and “Minds of Terror.” | https://www.news10.com/news/national/another-world-actress-robyn-griggs-dead-at-53/ | 2022-08-16T14:57:08Z | https://www.news10.com/news/national/another-world-actress-robyn-griggs-dead-at-53/ | false | 22 |
Former LA fire captain tells trial he was ORDERED to take pictures of Kobe Bryant's mangled body amid wreckage of helicopter crash - as NBA legend's wife Vanessa attends court
- Brian Jordan, a retired LA County fire fighter, testified on Monday that he was told to take photos of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant
- Deputy Chief Anthony Marrone has denied asking Jordan to take photos, and says he instructed everyone not to photograph any crash victims
- Jordan retired from the fire department in 2021, in part from the stress and memories of the January 2020 crash in Calabasas
- On Monday he asked repeated to take a break and step down from the witness stand
- Bryant's widow Vanessa is suing LA County firefighters and sheriff's office for invasion of privacy after it emerged they shared the photos
A retired Los Angeles County fire fighter has claimed he was ordered by his superiors to take photos of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant - orders the fire chiefs deny ever issuing.
Brian Jordan, who retired in 2021, asked to be excused from the witness stand three times during his two-hour testimony, Law and Crime reported - citing the emotional trauma.
He was asked about the photos he took of the January 2020 crash that killed Bryant, 41, and his daughter Gianni, 13.
Bryant's widow Vanessa is suing LA County fire department and the sheriff's office for invasion of privacy after the images of the crash were shared by officers.
Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, is seen on Monday leaving court in Los Angeles. She is suing LA County fire department and sheriff's office for invasion of privacy after photos of the bodies of her husband and daughter Gianna, 13, were taken and shared
Bryant, 40, is seeking unspecified damages in the case, which is expected to last another week
Brian Jordan, a retired fire fighter, is seen on Monday testifying in Los Angeles about photos he took of the crash site in Calabasas
Firefighters work at the scene of the helicopter crash where former NBA basketball star Kobe Bryant died in Calabasas
Crash seen investigators are seen examining the wreckage of the helicopter
Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna. The pair were killed in January 2020 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas
Jordan denied sending the images to anyone outside the sheriff's or fire departments, but at times appeared confused about events.
The former fire fighters told the court repeatedly he does not 'really remember being at the accident' and does not 'remember what was up there.'
Luis Li, Bryant's attorney, asked why the laptop he handed in was missing its hard drive, and Jordan replied he was unaware of what had happened.
'I have no clue,' Jordan said, but added: 'I did not manipulate any devices.'
Asked if he'd photographed Gianna Bryant's remains, he said, according to Law and Crime: 'I don't even know who that is.'
He added: 'I don't know what I was photographing. I'm here because of false allegations, so please refrain from taking my brain back to that crash.'
Vanessa Bryant, left, and Kobe Bryant arrive at the Oscars in Los Angeles in 2018
Jordan insisted Anthony Marrone, the then-deputy chief, who since August 1 this year has been acting chief, told him to take the photos.
'He said, 'Take pictures, take pictures, take pictures,' Jordan said, and described a stairwell he and Marrone were standing in when the order was given.
Jordan added: 'Maybe that's the one time I should have been insubordinate.' Marrone, in a sworn testimony provided in August 2020, denied instructing Jordan to take photos.
He said he instructed everyone not to photograph any crash victims 'as taking such photographs would neither be right nor appropriate.'
Vanessa Bryant is seeking unspecified damages from both the fire department and sheriff's office.
The trial is expected to last another week. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11115285/Former-LA-fire-captain-claims-ORDERED-pictures-Kobe-Bryants-helicopter.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-16T14:59:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11115285/Former-LA-fire-captain-claims-ORDERED-pictures-Kobe-Bryants-helicopter.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false | 3 |
ERIN, Tenn. — Kyle Kopec gets a kick out of leading tours through the run-down hospitals his boss is buying, pointing out what he calls relics of poor management left by a revolving door of operators.
For instance, at a hospital in this town of 1,700 about a 90-minute drive northwest from Nashville, the X-ray machine is beyond repair.
"This system is so old, it's been using a floppy disk," said Kopec, 23, marveling at the bendy black square that hardly has enough memory to hold a single digital photo. "I've never actually seen a floppy disk in use. I've seen them in the Smithsonian."
There's a point to exposing these rural hospitals' state of disrepair — the company Kopec works for, Braden Health, is buying buildings worth millions of dollars for next to nothing with a promise to keep running them as health centers serving their communities. Braden for its part, thinks it can run them more effectively than the previous owners and turn a profit.
The hospitals Braden Health is taking over sit in one of the worst spots in one of the worst states for rural hospital closures. Tennessee has experienced 16 closures since 2010 — second only to the far more populous state of Texas, which has had at least 21 closures.
The local governments that own these facilities are finding that remarkably few companies — with any level of experience — are interested in buying them. And those that are willing don't want to pay much, if anything.
"When you're on the ropes or even got your head under water, it's really difficult to negotiate with any terms of strength," said Michael Topchik, director of the Chartis Center for Rural Health, which tracks distressed rural hospitals closely. "And so you, oftentimes, are choosing whoever is willing to choose you."
At this point, large health systems have already acquired or affiliated with the hospitals that have the fewest problems, Topchik said. The hospitals that are left are those that other potential buyers passed on. Turning a profit on a small rural hospital with mostly older or low-income patients can be challenging. Some operators who take over rural hospitals have gotten in trouble with insurers and even law enforcement for shady billing practices.
"You can make it profitable," Topchik said. "But it takes an awful lot to get there."
Dr. Beau Braden, who runs Braden Health, used his savings and some inherited wealth to get into the hospital-buying business in 2020. An emergency room doctor and addiction specialist, he previously tried to build a hospital in southwestern Florida, where he owns the large rural clinic in Ave Maria. After running into regulatory roadblocks, he saw more opportunity in reopening hospitals — which brought him to Tennessee.
"A lot of people aren't willing to put in the time, effort, energy, and work for a small hospital with less than 25 beds. But it needs just as much time, energy, and effort as a hospital with 300 beds," Braden said. "I just see there's a huge need in rural hospitals and not a lot of people who can focus their time doing it."
Braden Health's corporate headquarters has 40 employees, according to Kopec, who is Braden's second in command as the company's chief compliance officer. He had never worked in a hospital before helping lead a hospital-buying spree at Braden Health.
Braden Health is a limited liability company and privately held, so it doesn't have to publicly share much about its financial figures. But in filings for a certificate of need that outlines why a health care facility should be allowed to operate, Braden revealed $2 million in monthly revenue from the one hospital it ran in Lexington, Tennessee, and its balance sheet showed more than $7.5 million cash on hand.
Since buying that Lexington hospital in 2020, Braden Health has signed deals for three other failing or failed hospitals and has looked at acquiring at least 10 others, mostly in Tennessee and North Carolina. Braden Health's strategy is to build mini-networks to share staff and supplies.
At the hospital in Erin, much of the facility's equipment is older than Kopec. And he said using outdated technology has caused Medicare to penalize the hospital with reduced payments.
The attic houses a ham radio system that seemingly never got much use, Kopec said on his way out to the roof. He wanted to show how the giant HVAC system can be controlled only from a rusty side panel accessible by a ladder. Down below, an emergency room has never been used. During a recent renovation that predated Braden Health's ownership, its doors were built too narrow for a gurney, among other design flaws.
An old operating room is temporarily housing the ER while Braden Health starts work on new renovations. The Tennessee attorney general, who must approve any sale of a public hospital to private investors, signed off in July.
To prevent this hospital's closure in 2013, Houston County bought it for $2.4 million and raised taxes locally to subsidize operations. "We had no business being in the hospital business," Mayor James Bridges said. "The majority of county governments do not have the expertise and the education and knowledge that it takes to run health care facilities in 2022."
Those with the most experience, like big corporate hospital chains based in Nashville, have been getting out of the small hospital business, too.
Communities have seen unqualified managers come and go. In Decatur County, where Braden Health is also taking over the local hospital, the previous CEO was indicted on theft charges that remain pending. And the Tennessee comptroller determined the hospital helped endanger the finances of the entire county.
"You're looking to someone who supposedly knows what to do, who can supposedly solve the issue. And you trust them, then you're disappointed," said Lori Brasher, a member of Decatur County's economic development board. "And not disappointed once, but disappointed multiple times."
Brasher expressed much more confidence in Braden Health, which she said has concrete plans to reopen, though the timing has been delayed by an unresolved insurance claim from a burst water line that flooded a wing of the hospital.
Local residents still have trouble stomaching the sticker price: $100 for a property valued at $1.4 million by the local tax assessor. In addition to that low price, Braden Health won tax breaks for committing to invest $2 million into the building.
The Houston County hospital is valued at $4.1 million by the property assessor. But the final sale price was just $20,000 — and that wasn't for the land or the building. Kopec said the amount was for a 2016 ambulance with 180,000 miles — deemed the only equipment with any remaining value.
An agreement with Braden Health to take over the shuttered hospital in Haywood County, Tennessee, valued at $4.6 million, was a similarly symbolic payment. All told, Braden Health is getting more than $10 million worth of real estate for less than the price of an appendectomy.
Kopec contends the value for each property is essentially negative given that the hospitals require so much investment to comply with health care standards and — according to the company's purchase agreements — must be run as hospitals. If not, the hospitals revert to the counties.
Most of the funding for restoring these facilities comes directly from Braden, who thinks people overestimate the value of hospitals his company is taking over.
"If you look honestly at a lot of transactions that take place with rural hospitals and how many liabilities are tied up with them, there's really not a lot of value there," he said. Braden recently paid off a $2.3 million debt with Medicare for the Houston County hospital.
He said there's no secret sauce, in his mind, except that small hospitals require just as much diligence as big medical centers — especially since their profit margins are so thin and patient volume so low. He wants to improve technology in ways that health plans reward hospitals, limit nurse staffing when business is slow, and watch medical supply inventories to cut waste.
It's a tall order. Braden said he can understand any skepticism, even from the hospitals' employees. They've heard turnaround promises before, and even they can be wary of the care they'd get at such run-down facilities.
Still, as Kopec bounced through the Erin hospital's halls, he greeted nurses and clerical staff by name with a confidence that belies his age and experience. He tells anyone who will listen that rural hospitals require specialized knowledge.
"They're not the most complicated things in the world," Kopec said. "But if you don't know exactly how to run them, you're just going to run them straight into the ground."
This article is from a partnership that includes Nashville Public Radio and KHN.
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Seasoned product leader Steve Won to expand 1Password's cross-platform product suite
TORONTO, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 1Password, the human-centric security leader, today announced Steve Won as Chief Product Officer. Steve brings a wealth of experience from leading companies including Duo Security, Cisco and Shogun, where he led strategy for a range of products recognized for improved performance and usability, as well as enhanced security and authentication. He will lead 1Password's product team in expanding its portfolio of intuitive consumer and business security solutions, ensuring convenient and frictionless security that helps everyone accomplish more – whether at work or at home.
"As a loyal 1Password user since 2008, it's a rare opportunity and responsibility to lead product for a company I love and depend upon every day," said Steve Won, chief product officer of 1Password. "I've always been impressed by 1Password's dedication to the customer experience, making secure and easy-to-use products instead of designing just for technical teams. Few companies have 1Password's direct, trusted relationship with millions of customers, and I can't wait to work with this talented team to build on this great foundation."
Steve joins 1Password on the heels of one of the largest cybersecurity funding rounds in history that saw the company triple its valuation to $6.8 billion USD in under six months. Steve most recently built the product team from the ground up at Shogun to develop its initial product roadmap, creating several products to enhance ecommerce web experiences and set the foundation for a customer-first culture. Prior to Shogun, he led authentication products at Duo Security where he supported growing their revenue by 20x and led their passwordless strategy. Duo Security was acquired by Cisco during Steve's tenure.
"We're extremely fortunate to have Steve join our 1Password leadership team. His experience in designing world-class products that deepen security, improve authentication, and are easier to use perfectly aligns with our mission to make human-centric security a reality for everyone," said Jeff Shiner, CEO of 1Password. "His expertise will be invaluable to our product innovation – allowing us to continue building a world-class product team that's shaping the future of authentication and a passwordless world."
To learn more about 1Password and its leadership team, visit https://1password.com/company/.
About 1Password
1Password's human-centric approach to security keeps people safe, at work and at home. 1Password is the only solution built from the ground up to enable anyone – no matter the level of technical proficiency – to navigate the digital world without fear or friction. The company's award-winning credentials management security platform is re-shaping the future of authentication and is trusted by over 100,000 businesses, including IBM, Slack, Snowflake, Shopify, and Under Armour. 1Password protects the most sensitive information of millions of individuals and families across the globe, helping consumers and businesses get more done in less time – with security and privacy as a given. Learn more at 1Password.com.
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Messaging platform Signal was a huge beneficiary of rival WhatsApps woes early last year. When the Facebook-owned chat application introduced new terms in January 2021, it prompted a backlash from customers who started moving to rival free-to-use encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and Telegram.
Indeed, Signal and Telegram are generally regarded as more secure messaging services with greater privacy protections, even though every WhatsApp message is in fact protected by the same Signal encryption protocol.
However, this is after all the Internet, and it appears few services can remain entirely immune to some sort of privacy breach or attack.
Signal itself is facing such a moment. Recently Twilio, the company that provides Signal with phone number verification services, suffered a phishing attack.
Essentially, someone gained access to Twilios customer support console via phishing – an attack that also affected around 1,900 Signal users.
Insecure line
According to Signals own investigations, either the phone numbers or SMS verification codes of these users were potentially revealed. The company said it is notifying all 1,900 potentially affected users directly via SMS and will also require those customers to re-register with Signal.
The messaging service insists that users private data and information "remain private and secure and were not affected".
"Signal is designed to keep your data in your hands rather than ours," it said.
Light Reading.
"And this information certainly is not available to Twilio, or via the access temporarily gained by Twilios attackers."
However, it warns that in the case that an attacker was able to re-register an account during the time that the Twilio attack was active, they could send and receive messages from that phone number on Signal.
Users are now being encouraged to enable registration lock for their Signal account to gain additional protection. In the meantime, Signal says it is "actively working" with Twilio and other providers to improve their security practices.
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A man who held multiple people hostage inside a Beirut bank in an attempt to get access to his own savings was hailed as a hero in Lebanon, which is suffering from its worst economic crisis in modern history.
Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, a 42-year-old food delivery driver, held up to 10 people hostage during the seven-hour standoff last Thursday, according to The Associated Press. He entered the Federal Bank with a shotgun and canister of gasoline, fired three warning shots, locked himself in with several bank employees and customers and threatened to set himself on fire unless he was allowed to withdraw his savings — which he said he needed to pay his father's medical bills.
Like many people in Lebanon, Hussein had been unable to access his life savings because of the strict limits the government put on withdrawals of foreign currency assets — effectively freezing them — when the economic crisis started in 2019. He had some $210,000 trapped in the bank, the AP reported.
The incident ended hours of negotiations later, and without any injuries, when Hussein was arrested after surrendering in exchange for what his lawyer said was $35,000 of his money. His wife told reporters outside that he "did what he had to do," while his brother called him "a decent man" who "takes what he has from his own pocket to give to others."
People are angry at Lebanon's government and banks
In the meantime, sympathetic bystanders gathered at the scene to show support for him and rally against Lebanon's political and financial leaders, who are widely blamed for forcing much of the country's population into poverty (the World Bank has described the situation as a "deliberate depression ... orchestrated by the country's elite").
People praised Hussein in social media posts, while some bystanders chanted, "Down with the rule of the banks!"
Nearly 80% of Lebanon's population now lives in poverty, according to Human Rights Watch. The Lebanese pound has lost 90% of its value since October 2019 and inflation has soared to a whopping 890% percent — making it hard for most people to access basic goods like food, water and health care.
On top of that, fuel shortages cause widespread electricity blackouts (which HRW says last up to 23 hours a day) and the country's strained health care system is on the verge of collapse, according to the UN.
Rami Rajeh, who was in the crowd outside the bank, tells Morning Edition's Leila Fadel that last week's incident was both symbolic and a symptom of the broader economic meltdown.
"[It] sheds light on a crisis that has dragged, where the ruling elite have shoved aside one proposal for a solution after the other — there have been four proposals that they have just put to death," he says. "And this is creating a lot of frustration, and one way that it manifests itself is in people taking matters into their own hands."
While Rajeh understands the frustration, he thinks "hero" is kind of a big title to bestow on the perpetrator.
"The reason I say that is because the next day, if you're a depositor that had money and hard currency, nothing changed for you," he adds.
Life in Beirut, three years into the economic crisis
Rajeh says daily life in Beirut is dirtier, darker and more dangerous than it was just two or three years ago.
About half of the commercial areas that line the streets are visibly empty, and "you have to convince yourself that it's okay to walk from Point A to Point B at night because the streets are all so dark."
Rajeh says his family's income and purchasing power have diminished, so they're spending more on things like running water, electricity and medical insurance than they have in the past. The bills have increased in two ways, he adds: They're paying more for less.
It's also not uncommon to hear about patients' relatives or siblings looking for a certain medication, he says, because even if they can afford it, they probably can't find it.
Rajeh, who is a father of two, stays in Beirut because even though their family is struggling, they are able to make ends meet. He says as long as they don't feel that they are compromising their kids' safety and education, they don't plan to leave. But his vision for the country is not an optimistic one.
"I feel you can sense the air of, I don't want to say despair, but there's a lot of anger and there's a depression because it's lasted so long," he says. "There doesn't seem to be an end in sight."
This interview was conducted by Leila Fadel, produced by Ben Abrams and Shelby Hawkins and edited by John Helton.
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This photograph taken on August 4, 2022 shows the home video game console Atari 2600 belonging to the Charles Cros collection exposed at the Francois-Mitterrand National Library of France in Paris.
Image: Bertrand Guay / AFPIn the bowels of an imposing modernist tower in Paris, Laurent Duplouy carefully handles a pristine copy of "Tomb Raider" before slotting it back on the shelf alongside thousands of other classic video games.
Duplouy oversees a huge archive of games at France's National Library (BNF), one of the longest-running efforts to preserve a part of global heritage that is often overlooked by cultural institutions.
"The video game can be regarded as total art, because it combines graphic art, narrative art and a narrative structure," Duplouy told AFP.
The 1990s glass and steel structure, a short hop from the banks of the River Seine, houses room upon room of archived books, where researchers and students quietly go about their business.
But Duplouy is adamant the video game collection is not out of place in the august surroundings.
"For the BNF, video games are as precious as the other documents deposited here," he said.
"We pay the same attention to them. It is cultural heritage in its own right."
The treasured collection now holds some 20,000 titles in all possible formats, from cartridges to diskettes and CD-ROM, and adds a further 2,000 samples each year.
A team of 20 looks after the collection, empowered by a 1992 law on the preservation of multimedia documents.
While the law did not mention video games specifically, its wording is wide enough to be interpreted that way, making it one of the oldest pieces of legislation of its kind anywhere in the world.
The US Library of Congress only began its efforts to preserve digital media in 2000, and there are many other initiatives led by enthusiasts across the world.
Emulator hunt
The video games are stored on darkened shelves at a constant temperature of 19 degrees to protect them from humidity.
A few floors above, there is also an enviable collection of vintage gaming consoles -- from the earliest examples such as the rare Magnavox Odyssey from the early 1970s, to the Atari Lynx and Sega Saturn, all the way to the Nintendo Game Boy, the ultimate 1990s icon.
"We are keeping these consoles to give future researchers, decades or even hundreds of years from now, an understanding of how to play these video games, what hardware was used," said Duplouy.
While the consoles and physical games can be stored on shelves and behind glass, there are huge challenges with many games that can no longer be found in physical form.
For these, the library relies on communities of enthusiasts who re-create old games on modern computers.
"We have two engineers in the multimedia department who are constantly monitoring these issues to find emulators, make them work and make them compatible with our collections," said Duplouy.
The archivists also face a problem that many games are now played in the cloud and never exist in physical form.
Duplouy said the library was locked in negotiations with publishers and platforms to find a workaround.
Ultimately, he said, the ambition is to hold the largest collection in the world.
"It would be great for French heritage," he said.
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Bob has been designing hardware and coding software for decades. He likes to draw and write. He’s a web cadet wannabe.
I like to write code, especially code which presents things like web pages, and in particular code that writes web page code. I like to draw and write fiction as well. So it occurred to me that an application to share comic books or other sequential documents created from my (and other’s) content would be useful, and certainly fun to write. That is the impetus for the Storybook Comic Book Builder.
The Builder is an accessible Content Creator Application that in turn creates accessible documents. We have set the following requirements for the Builder, that the comics or documents it makes
Based upon the evidence presented by the evaluation results from running these tests
On our example comic as shown in these screen shots snips above, it would be fair to say that the Builder is relatively successful in addressing the areas of accessibility, semantics, and SEO. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) resources linked in the document and others were used as a basis for informing our expectations of the user provided content and how we present that content in an easy to navigate accessible fashion. Understanding WCAG 2.1
In addition to addressing those areas relative to accessibility, a good web page is going to be mobile-first responsive and fast.
Why mobile-first? Simply that the large majority of web traffic today is on mobile devices. On average your likely visitor is on a mobile device. However, mobile-first should not mean that a page is unfriendly to other devices. The key is obviously to cater to your audience whatever device they may be on. Our example comic achieved these results from the Google “Mobile Friendly” evaluation.
Another important consideration is the speed with which our image content is loaded and displayed. In fact, amazing as it may seem, people will abandon their visit to a site they deem to be slow or unresponsive! Usually the major contribution to the download speed is the size of the downloaded content. That can be a significant factor on a cellular network as an example.
When we look at methods for the content presentation of web pages, especially image content, we are likely to encounter the concepts of adaptive and responsive design. For our purposes we will call a method that serves different content based on viewport dimensions as being an “adaptive design” while a method that modifies or scales the served content will be called a “responsive design”. In a comic much of the content is typically images, and one aspect of the quality of the comic (besides the content itself of course) is the quality of the presentation of those images.
The remainder of this article will focus on a method that synergistically uses both adaptive design and responsive design to accomplish a fast responsive image download and display. All of the code for the Builder along with our example comic is available from a GitHub repository but we will limit our discussion to those portions relevant to our image display method. The example comic can be viewed at , and there are also some other comics in our Hyenas comics gallery.
There is a relatively new paradigm for image selection in HTML5 and that is the notion of a “source set” attribute for an image, and the way that this is accomplished is basically to present the browser with a list of images that it may choose from. This idea of choosing an image from a list is of course demonstrative of “adaptive design”. In general the list may offer a number of image sizes listed by their width and it may also offer a number of image formats. A list of media breakpoints is also provided to assist the browser in making its choice. This sample shows how this HTML code appears in the comic web page as generated by our PHP builder code.
As can be seen in the code sample, there are five distinct image width choices in two image formats along with five distinct media width selections, and we can see that the image width values and the media width breakpoint values correlate. The values of these dimensional choices were determined based upon the set of breakpoint values used by Bootstrap.
The basic premise of how this source set scheme operates is that the server provides our browser with HTML similar to our example, that is HTML that includes a list of choices for image content. Then our browser selects the appropriate image from the list and downloads just that image for display. The source list is ordered by our nominal preference among the images, and the browser stops analyzing the image list once it finds an image that satisfies its interpretation of the display environment. In our case we order the list by image format and image width in pixels.
The five image size selections are presented in both WEBP and JPG format filetypes, and the filenames for a particular size image are the same in both file formats except for the filetype extension. In general there is no visual benefit to serving images that the browser has to downscale to display, and an image that is twice the size of the viewport is four times the size of an image that just fits. Images that must be upscaled for display frequently suffer in visual quality. It is usually better to serve images that approximate or that are slightly larger than the viewport dimensions. The image widths based on the Bootstrap breakpoints seem to provide an excellent range and granularity of dimension choices for the vast majority of use cases.
The WEBP format is relatively new but it has been widely adopted and has some substantial benefits. On the average converting our comic JPG images to WEBP images with the default compression setting (75) has reduced the image file size of the resulting WEBP to just over 10% of the JPG file size with no obvious visual degradation. Obviously this will substantially improve download speeds, and since we have listed the WEBP format images first the browser will default to that format if it is supported.
Now let’s look at how the Builder generates this image element and its contents, especially the source set list.
The Builder application that creates the comics is written in PHP (our site runs version 7.3) and as was previously stated, all of the source code and an example comic along with some explanatory documentation is presented in a GitHub repository. The source code itself is contained in a repository subfolder named Storybook. There are quite a few program files in that folder, however for our discussion we will only need to reference a few specific programs. The image display concepts we will expose in those few programs are also reused or adapted in some of the remaining code.
The index.php program is the landing page for the Builder application. It largely consists of a list of forms that gather user input to obtain, for example, the name of our comic. Most of this information is used to populate a "card" for our comic which we display in our comics gallery. Besides this function however, the index.php program also calls subprograms that create the folders that will be used for our comic content. So for our example comic, "Hyenas", index.php creates a folder with that name under the site Comics folder within the document root. After this is accomplished, the index.php program will then proceed by turning control over to a sequence of programs that each allow the user to select and upload the content that will be used to generate the comic.
The image in our example was selected by thegetComic.php program. This program in turn leverages a lovely JavaScript program I found some time ago to sort and display a list of image files to be uploaded. The script also uses an AJAX call to in turn invoke the program which validates the uploaded files and constructs the image files listed in our image element content. The JS file is named imgUploader.php and its author has a site at vpb_uploader.js to share their work. However, while I am fairly certain that this is the source of the code I adapted, I cannot locate that code on the blog site. Meanwhile, the script itself can be found on the Internet and without attribution. I said lovely just now, and that aspect of the code influenced my approach to code, so the author gets “shout outs and props”, as well as attribution. Here is a link to his blog: https://www.vasplus.info/
The getComic.php and vpb_uploader.js scripts basically serve as part of the user interface to the Builder while the actual content evaluation and creation is accomplished by the imgUploader.php code. These scripts pass each file to be uploaded to the imgUploader.php program one at a time in turn by an AJAX call for each file. The first 120 odd lines of the imgUploader code invoke the SESSION handler and set some variables, then the code checks to be sure we are here by a properly constructed POST call before it does checks for upload success and the image file size and file extension and the filename as well as to replace spaces in the filename with underscores.
The Builder supports the upload of image files of filetypes JPG, PNG, and GIF. The first thing we do with an uploaded JPG image that passes our initial checks is to regenerate it using the PHP image functions, which serves to help “sanitize” the file. PNG files are converted to JPG format using the PHP image functions. However, while the Builder supports GIF images and also generates a WEBP alternate format file for the uploaded GIF file, it does not scale or generate a source set for uploaded GIF images. I anticipate adding this resizing facility by using the imagemagick utility and the imagick PHP extension. Stay tuned!
Besides the present exclusion of GIF filetypes the comic has three other categories of “non-content” images that are not presented by a list of sizes in an image element source set. One such category is the image used for the gallery card, another is any logo images, and finally the OG image. Our interest in the image element source set as a list of sizes is for “content” images, for example the images that are the comic’s pages. Based upon our previously discussed breakpoint and image size choices, the optimum uploaded image size will be 1400 pixels in width. In this code segment shown below we can see that the program takes the sanitized and verified JPG upload and scales it to a 1400 pixel width if required. The JPG is then copied as a WEBP format file of the same dimensions. This gives us the two largest (dimensionally) files in the source set list.
In addition to the scaling and conversion functions much of the code in this first segment serves to generate a uniquely constructed name for this pair of images. The image name syntax we use allows us to include some information about the image in its name. In this first segment we have appended a -X- to the base filename and then further we have appended a formatted string for the image height, and we append the same string to both the JPG and WEBP filenames. The scaling and conversion and copy functions along with the naming generation could well be accomplished in a function call, but in our example we have instead embraced the simple expedient of a “step and repeat” construct. So this segment shown next is virtually the same as that above save for the width dimension we seek to change (1200 instead of 1400) along with the appropriate changes to the filename suffix. The program replicates this segment slightly modified five times, once for each of the image sizes we wish to serve. Thus at the bottom of this scaling and conversion stack we will have a collection of ten images that are five sizes in two formats. You may note that some of the code in these segments generates “report entries” which we can display with a dumpsession.php utility program included in this GitHub repository.
Once the images are available the imgUploader.php program continues by placing the image files in an appropriate folder and then updating a mySQL database to reflect the newly added image before finally returning to the vpb_uploader.js caller. The code to implement these two tasks is shown in these next two program segments.
At this point in the Builder process we have created the Image Element’s Source Set contents for a comic image, and this process is repeated for each image or page of comic content. When all of the image and other comic content is finally gathered we can then generate a comic with this content as we discuss next.
When the makeComic.php script starts it first checks to see that it was invoked by a proper POST request. If so it starts the PHP SESSION and loads some variables including font choices particular to our comic. The script then sets up a buffer to contain the comic HTML that it will next generate. The Builder can generate some fairly complex documents or comics that can include text captions, alternate images, animations, and audio. The makeComic.php program is about 800 lines of code but our focus here can concentrate on a small part of that total.
You may recall that the imgUploader.php script we discussed earlier creates and saves the image files that will be listed in the Image Element Source Set, and that it also saves some information about each base image in a mySQL database. After the makeComic.php script generates the HTML Head section and some embedded CSS for our comic, it uses the database contents to obtain information in turn about each base image. The PHP class that we use as our database handler is included in the code repository for those who want to take a deep dive. This next code listing shows the procedure we use to loop through the database to process each page image.
This next code segment shows how we parse the folder directory of image files we created earlier with the imgUploader.php program to extract an array of image file names that we subsequently use to generate an Image Element containing the Source Set attribute as we showed in our earlier code listing example.
So we have examined the methods we use to generate the comic HTML Image Elements and their included Source Set attributes. Our generated base HTML uses this construct to present an adaptive image display for the comic contents. In and of itself the HTML5 Image Element Source Set method we have described here does a fairly decent job of serving and displaying images sized appropriately to our viewport dimensions.
But now let’s consider that the Source Set image list is ordered by width, and that the browser selects an image based on this dimension. Now let’s further suppose that the content image has a portrait or vertical aspect ratio and that we are viewing the image on a landscape or horizontal aspect ratio device. We can see that this might result in an image that is taller than our viewport, an image that would be cropped. Of course a similar problem can present with landscape content on a portrait device. For our choice of content which is largely images, that is comics, it is likely better to size the page to fit within the viewport while maintaining its original aspect ratio. This next section of our discussion explains how we use some JavaScript code to appropriately scale the image that was chosen by the Source Set HTML such that it just fits within the device viewport while preserving the image aspect ratio.
The comics that the Builder creates use a Javascript program named Reader.js to modify the Source Set adaptive image choice by scaling it responsively. The Reader.js script itself is just over 400 lines of code, but that part of the script used to do our scaling functions is not very long or complex. A key part of the script’s scaling function depends upon its knowing the dimensions of the image it is expected to scale. This next figure illustrates how the browser exposes its image selection (along with some other information about the image display) as may be viewed in the debugger.
The browser exposes the name of the Current Source Image file as “currentSrc”, and this segment of Reader.js shown next illustrates how we parse that name to obtain our image dimensions. You will recall that the image name generated by the imgUploader.php program encodes these dimensions in the filename. When this code segment completes we will have the image filename along with its width and height dimensions. Note that these dimensions will be the same as those shown as the image “Intrinsic size” in the debug popup in the figure above and which for our example browser selected image file are 1400 x 1575 pixels. The viewport dimensions for our example browser meanwhile are 1150 x 1258. Why the browser chose this source image from the Source Set list I cannot say. However, and most importantly, this is the image that was downloaded to our browser.
The next thing our Reader.js script does is a ratiometric scaling of our downloaded image so as to just have it fit within our viewport while preserving its aspect ratio. This is a fairly straightforward process as is shown here next. Once the new scaled dimensions are determined, the script writes these dimensions as width and height Image Element attributes, and then writes the image filename as the Image Element src attribute.
The newly modified Image Element which results from our Javascript is shown here, and we can see that it differs from the originally generated HTML by the addition of the Source (src) and the Width and Height attributes. These newly appended attributes override the Source Set list. The dimensions resulting from our example source image present a width of 1118 pixels and a height of 1258 pixels. These dimensions are shown in the debug console figure above as the “Rendered size”, and as we stated previously our viewport is 1150 x 1258 pixels. Obviously the rendered image dimensions now fit wholly within the viewport at the maximum size possible while maintaining the original image aspect ratio.
Another final bit of interest is the CSS code we use to be sure our scaled image is centered horizontally within the viewport:
.imgblock img { position: relative; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%); }
Building on the foundations of design principles that embrace accessibility guidelines, we have extended our Builder application to improve the image download and display experience for our readers through a combination of adaptive and responsive design techniques.
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TYLER, Texas, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. Magazine today revealed Education Advanced, Inc., a leading provider of operations management and workflow solutions for K-12 school districts, reached 1689 on its 2022 list of the fastest-growing private companies. This marks the company's third consecutive year on Inc.'s prestigious ranking, entering the list in 2020 at 2,618 and moving up to 2,121 in 2021. Of the thousands of companies included on the annual Inc. 5000 ranking, only a fraction have received this award more than once.
"Over the past three years, we have seen how critical it is for school districts to reduce operational inefficiencies to save time, save money, and improve the educational experience for students and staff alike," said Dr. Eli Crow, founder and CEO of Education Advanced, Inc. "This recognition belongs to the school districts across the nation who have entrusted their operations to the Education Advanced team. As a company made up of former educators, our focus remains on providing value to education leaders and the students they serve."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
About Education Advanced, Inc.
Education Advanced is a provider of operations management and workflow solutions for K-12 school districts that enable educators to be more efficient, allowing them to dedicate more of their time and resources to exceeding student needs. EAI's product offering includes Cardonex, TestHound, Embarc, Pathways, and Evaluation. These award-winning and patented technology solutions advance the efficacy of master scheduling, staff planning, curriculum management, assessment coordination, educator growth, and graduation tracking for K-12 school districts across the country. Learn more at www.educationadvanced.com.
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Van Strum & Towne Inc. lessened its position in shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY – Get Rating) by 1.8% in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 17,782 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock after selling 322 shares during the period. Van Strum & Towne Inc.’s holdings in Bristol-Myers Squibb were worth $1,298,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Good Life Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb by 3.1% in the first quarter. Good Life Advisors LLC now owns 15,703 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $1,147,000 after buying an additional 477 shares during the period. Cooper Financial Group lifted its stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb by 3.6% during the first quarter. Cooper Financial Group now owns 9,446 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $690,000 after purchasing an additional 332 shares during the last quarter. Miracle Mile Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb by 206.2% during the first quarter. Miracle Mile Advisors LLC now owns 13,486 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $985,000 after purchasing an additional 9,081 shares during the last quarter. Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd. lifted its stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb by 726.0% during the first quarter. Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd. now owns 2,891 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $213,000 after purchasing an additional 2,541 shares during the last quarter. Finally, MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH lifted its stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb by 104.1% during the first quarter. MEAG MUNICH ERGO Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH now owns 11,019 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $815,000 after purchasing an additional 5,619 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 73.07% of the company’s stock.
Insider Activity at Bristol-Myers Squibb
In other Bristol-Myers Squibb news, EVP Sandra Leung sold 65,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, June 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $74.89, for a total value of $4,867,850.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 308,627 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $23,113,076.03. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. In other news, CEO Giovanni Caforio sold 30,000 shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb stock in a transaction on Monday, June 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $74.04, for a total transaction of $2,221,200.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 551,104 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $40,803,740.16. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Sandra Leung sold 65,000 shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb stock in a transaction on Monday, June 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $74.89, for a total transaction of $4,867,850.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 308,627 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $23,113,076.03. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 0.09% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Trading Down 1.4 %
Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 27th. The biopharmaceutical company reported $1.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.79 by $0.14. Bristol-Myers Squibb had a net margin of 14.04% and a return on equity of 49.31%. The company had revenue of $11.89 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $11.50 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.93 EPS. Bristol-Myers Squibb’s quarterly revenue was up 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts expect that Bristol-Myers Squibb will post 7.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces Dividend
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, August 1st. Investors of record on Friday, July 1st were paid a $0.54 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, June 30th. This represents a $2.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.90%. Bristol-Myers Squibb’s dividend payout ratio is 71.76%.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several equities research analysts have weighed in on BMY shares. UBS Group upped their target price on Bristol-Myers Squibb to $73.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 27th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on Bristol-Myers Squibb from $80.00 to $85.00 in a research note on Thursday, July 28th. Atlantic Securities upped their price target on shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb from $82.00 to $83.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, July 28th. Citigroup reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $90.00 price target on shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb in a report on Friday, June 3rd. Finally, Raymond James downgraded shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a report on Friday, June 3rd. They noted that the move was a valuation call. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating, seven have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $75.57.
About Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company discovers, develops, licenses, manufactures, and markets biopharmaceutical products worldwide. It offers products for hematology, oncology, cardiovascular, immunology, fibrotic, neuroscience, and covid-19 diseases. The company's products include Revlimid, an oral immunomodulatory drug for the treatment of multiple myeloma; Eliquis, an oral inhibitor for reduction in risk of stroke/systemic embolism in NVAF, and for the treatment of DVT/PE; Opdivo for anti-cancer indications; Pomalyst/Imnovid indicated for patients with multiple myeloma; and Orencia for adult patients with active RA and psoriatic arthritis.
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LOVO, a synthetic voice company, has raised an additional $2 million in its pre-Series A round, raising the total amount to $6.5 million. The extension was led by Hashed, an international crypto venture capital firm active in the blockchain gaming and NFT ecosystem, which has previously invested in Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, and Decentraland, as well as PKO Investments, which is bringing on prominent angels like Yat Siu, Founder of Animoca Brands, Patrick Lee Founder of Rotten Tomatoes, Holly Liu, Founder of Kabam, Kun Gao, Founder of Crunchyroll and Ray Chan.
The funds will aid LOVO in developing new methods to connect its AI speech technology to Web 3.0. It follows the success of the Voiceverse NFT collection, which consists of 8,888 NFTs, each representing a distinct AI-generated voice. Each Voiceverse NFT unlocks a unique AI voice model that can be used to create any speech content or even utilised in real-time on voice chat services like Discord.
Voiceverse NFTs went on sale in late January 2022 and sold out in less than 10 minutes. They demonstrated the power of LOVO's synthetic speech technology by creating all 8,888 distinct voices from a seed of 100 genuine recordings. Jonny Cruz and Charlet Chung, well known for their roles in the popular game Overwatch, were among the initial voices leased from LOVO's partner voice actors. Each sale on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea pays all partner voice performers a considerable fee.
Tom Lee, Co-Founder of LOVO, said:
With Voiceverse, people can now add another layer of personalization and pseudonymity, completing their persona for the metaverse. As a company that’s spent years researching and developing applications leveraging AI Voice & Synthetic Speech, this was a no-brainer — Voiceverse is simply a natural progression in line with LOVO’s vision and tech.
The LOVO concept, which the company pioneered, now enables voice performers to receive a significantly larger share of the earnings earned by their labour. Previously, voice actors were paid fixed rates for their job and did not earn any further compensation if the material they created generated billions of dollars in income.
Combining the unique NFTs with existing profile image NFTs and distinctive avatars like BAYC is one of the fascinating uses of voice in the metaverse. With the addition of a voice to the picture, the NFT becomes a totally complete digital avatar, thanks to advancements in AI technology.
In the future, LOVO wants to collaborate with crypto games and Metaverse worlds to allow users to create their virtual identities using Voice NFTs and mint new Voice NFT collections featuring well-known celebrity voices.
LOVO, Inc. is a next-generation synthetic speech platform for use in education, marketing, entertainment, and the creation of audio material in general. A group of U.C. Berkeley AI and machine learning scientists started the startup. The site is used by over 40,000 people in 41 countries, who have created over 3 million pieces of speech content so far. The startup has collaborative ties with Google, Intel, NVIDIA, AWS, and LG CNS as a Berkeley SkyDeck alum.
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Published: Published Date - 06:58 PM, Tue - 16 August 22
Hyderabad: TS Transco and Genco Chairman and Managing Director D Prabhakar Rao here on Tuesday said the High Temperature Low Sag (HTLS) conductors that can withstand high heat were installed with the latest technology replacing conventional Aluminium Conductors Steel Reinforced (ACSR).
These HTLS conductors were installed for further standardization of the supply system within the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits, he said while participating in national anthem mass recitation event organized as part of “Swatantra Bharata Vajrotsava” celebrations here.
In view of rapid urbanization, the power utilities were leveraging the latest technology from time to time to supply power continuously. As part of this, the power utilities installed HTLS conductors, he said.
The energy department has already completed installation of HTLS conductors in half a dozen power lines in twin cities including Chandrayangutta and Jubilee Hills. Once the HTLS conductors were installed, the transmission capacity of the power lines would be doubled.
Since the State government ambitiously took up TS-iPASS, 24-hour power supply to agricultural consumers, Mission Bhagiratha and lift irrigation schemes, the power companies were working hard to ensure continuous quality power supply to all sectors of consumers, Rao said.
He said the State was witnessing significant development in industrial and agricultural sectors due to availability of quality power supply.
Referring to “Swatantra Bharata Vajrotsava” celebrations, Rao said all the government organizations were conducting ‘vajrotsavam’ celebrations across the State with an intention to convey the sacrifices made by the freedom fighters to future generations.
Following directions from the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, the government organizations were conducting the celebrations on a spectacular note. TS Transco Joint Managing Director C Srinivasa Rao, Transco and Genco Directors, Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers and other officials participated in the event. | https://telanganatoday.com/ts-transco-installing-htls-conductors-to-improve-power-supply | 2022-08-16T15:15:50Z | https://telanganatoday.com/ts-transco-installing-htls-conductors-to-improve-power-supply | false | 1 |
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Pope: I’m not perfect, forgive my mistake – Lalong begs Catholic Bishops
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has once again apologised to the Catholic Bishops over his recent comment on the Holy Father, Pope Francis.
LaLong gave the apology at the opening mass for the 2022 General Assembly of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos on Tuesday in Jos.
Recall that the governor had recently said the Pope endorsed his appointment as the Director General of the presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The comment did not go down well with a majority of Catholics.
But, Lalong, who was at the event as Special Guest of Honour, said that his comment was misconstrued to be disrespectful to the Pope.
Lalong, who said he was human and could make mistakes, sought forgiveness from Catholics all over the world over the comment.
”I have apologised, I hope my apology is granted and I am forgiven.
”I feel very fine now and as we go forward, I will be more careful.
”Anytime I make mistakes, I don’t feel ashamed to seek forgiveness and this is why in the Catholic Church, we go to the priests for confession every Saturday.
”I am not perfect and I will not be afraid of making mistakes.” | https://dailypost.ng/2022/08/16/pope-im-not-perfect-forgive-my-mistake-lalong-begs-catholic-bishops/ | 2022-08-16T15:20:04Z | https://dailypost.ng/2022/08/16/pope-im-not-perfect-forgive-my-mistake-lalong-begs-catholic-bishops/ | true | 2 |
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Miri Ofir, R&D Director, Check Point: "The broad distribution of IoT devices in enterprises enables cyber attackers to enter organizational networks through them. In our experience, routers and communication devices provide attackers with an entry point into the organizational network. At present, a widespread cyber-attack named ZuoRAT is taking place on routers that are usually found in small organizations, branches and homes. It is estimated that thousands of organizations have been affected by this attack. The Nano Agent® that we embed in IoT devices identifies and blocks attack attempts in real time, including exploitation of Zero-Day vulnerabilities. We thank BBT.Live for their cooperation and are confident that their clients will be secured at the highest level".
Moshe Levinson, Founder and CEO, BBT.Live: "The cooperation with Check Point brings us great pride and is a vote of confidence in the product we have developed. There is no match to Check Point's capabilities in the field of security and we are delighted to have been chosen as their partner and for their assistance in delivering a complete and wholesome product to our customers."
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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading provider of cyber security solutions to corporate enterprises and governments globally. Check Point's portfolio of solutions (Infinity) protects enterprises and public organizations from 5th generation cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other threats. Infinity comprises three core pillars delivering uncompromised security and 5th generation threat prevention across enterprise environments: Check Point Harmony, for remote users, Check Point CloudGuard, to automatically secure clouds, Check Point Quantum, to protect network perimeters and data centers. All controlled by the industry's most comprehensive, intuitive and unified security management. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.
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BBT.live has developed a unique, software-based solution to provide cloud-based secure connectivity to service providers and their customers in Israel and in the world. BBT.Live seeks to provide a simple and high-quality solution to service providers, enabling them to deliver excellent service to their clients while significantly increasing their average revenue per client. The company, founded in August 2020, has already signed contracts with communications giants such as Cellcom and its partners, as well as with global companies such as Intel, Dell and Advantech, which integrate BBT.Live's system into their products. The company is led by an experienced and highly skilled team, including Prof. David Hay, head of the Cyber Security Research Center at the Hebrew University (HUJ), Dani Harari, Brig. General (res.) and formerly head of 8200 Unit, as well as a team of experts in the field of communications and security.
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Let's say you're hiking, and you drop a piece of glass on the trail. Eventually someone will walk along the trail and might cut themselves on the glass.
You'd be really sorry to hear if it happens to someone you know in a week. But what if the victim lived thousands, even millions of years in the future?
Philosopher William MacAskill, 35, likes to bring up this scenario to drive home a point: "If you're thinking about the possibility of harming someone, [it doesn't] really matter that person will be harmed next week or next year, or even in a hundred or a thousand years. Harm is harm."
That's MacAskill's argument behind longtermism, a term he coined to describe the idea that humans have a moral responsibility to protect the future of humanity, prevent it from going extinct — and create a better future for many generations to come. He outlines this concept in his new book, What We Owe the Future.
In the book, MacAskill explains why today's humans need to figure out how to minimize the harm that global threats such as pandemics, biowarfare, climate change or nuclear disaster could have on future humans. And he encourages readers to think outside the box about what a sustainable far-future could look like. Perhaps humans could find a way to live on other planets or prevent the sun from expanding and burning up Earth in half a billion years.
It sounds wild. But MacAskill, an associate professor in philosophy and a senior research fellow at Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, is dead serious. In a conversation with NPR ranging from the earliest hunter-gatherers to space flight, he talks about what we can do to ensure that humanity lasts trillions of years. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
In your book, you urge people to protect the "future of humanity." How many years into the future are you talking about?
Well, we don't know because we don't know how long human civilization will last. But it could be an extremely long time. Typical mammal species last for a million years. Homo sapiens have [already] existed for 300,000 years. That would give us 700,000 years to come. The Earth, meanwhile, will remain habitable for hundreds of millions of years, and if we one day escaped Earth and took to the stars, then we could live for hundreds of trillions of years.
The idea of earthlings flying out across the universe to find a home on other planets sounds like science fiction.
We don't have the technology to do that now. But there's nothing in principle to say why we couldn't do that with continued technological progress over the coming thousands of years and the patience to do so over hundreds of millions of years.
You say that if we can have the potential to harm people in the future, we can benefit them, too. What are some things that people can do today to safeguard the future?
When we store and bury radioactive nuclear waste, we're thinking [about protecting humans] tens of thousands of years into the future. When we think about the creation of political institutions or legal systems, we're often thinking they will be beneficial in the short term but also far into the future.
How do we know that the things we do can have a long-term impact? Can you share an example?
There are many examples from the past. Even looking at early hunter-gatherers, the world today is very different as a result of their actions. There used to be a wide variety of megafauna — glyptodonts (armadillos the size of small cars); giant ground sloths weighing up to half a ton; dire wolves [a large canine related to the wolf]. The evidence is clear that it was human beings [who] killed off many beautiful creatures by overhunting or [causing] environmental change. And that means there are many fewer species of large animals around today.
In the past 250 years, we've made incredible advances in science and technology. And you argue that currently, we're in a unique position to make a difference for future humans. Why?
We're still living through an era of fast technological progress. That means we're encountering new technology that could be very good for humanity but also risky. One category is biotechnology. We're able to create new vaccines much more quickly, but we're also developing the ability to create novel, [lab-created] pathogens with greater destructive power than existing pathogens — pathogens that could cause the extinction of the human race.
Artificial intelligence is another one. The leading A.I. models [today] have the computational power of something like an insect brain. Over the course of our lifetimes, that will change. They will start to have the computational power of the human brain or even significantly greater.
That sounds exciting. How is that risky?
If we get to the point of developing human-level AI, that will be one of the most important inventions of all time. It could be enormously beneficial in creating abundance and prosperity for everyone. It could also mean that power gets concentrated into the hands of a very small number of people who reap the gains and then use A.I. to gain power for themselves.
So you're saying that because these technologies are in these early stages of development, we have the power to choose the way they go, whether they harm people in the long run or help us.
That's exactly right.
There are a lot of ways that civilization could be wiped out: climate change, nuclear war. But the greatest threat, you say, is biowarfare. How do we protect ourselves and future generations from a catastrophic pandemic?
One thing we can do is implement projects for early detection. Our organization Future Fund has already been promoting and funding some work in this area, such as the Nucleic Acid Observatory. Essentially, all around the world, [people can] take samples of wastewater and scan it for DNA to see if there are any pathogens we haven't seen yet. If there were, we could have a much faster response to future pandemics.
A second thing we could [implement] — that Future Fund is helping to fund — is technology called Far-UVC Lighting. It uses a small spectrum of light at high intensity to essentially sterilize a room — if it's implanted into a light bulb — of all pathogens. We need to do further studies to see if it is OK for humans to be underneath that light for long periods of time.
Those are examples of people today developing technology for future good. Let's talk about what a perfect future for humans looks like.
We often suffer from a lack of imagination in this regard. There's an enormous amount of dystopian future fiction. There's not a huge amount of utopian fiction.
The future could be very good indeed. Just look at the progress we've made in the last 300 years. In 1700, three-quarters of the world was in some form of forced labor, slavery or serfdom. There was no anesthetic. Even if Englishmen could travel, they couldn't go very far. No one lived in a democracy.
If we imagine a good future as being just as good as the best lives today, maybe like a global Sweden or something, that's a real failure of imagination. Instead, we should reflect on what your very best days [are like] and then think, wow, imagine if life for everyone were as good as those very best days — but all the time. And then think, OK, now take that [and make it] ten times or 100 times better. That's how good the future could be if we play our cards right.
What do you think humans could achieve in the very far future?
Life on Earth will end in something like half a billion years because of the expanding sun. That's kind of guaranteed unless we are able to extend the sun's time period. And it seems like future generations could have the technology to do so. They might be able to siphon out some of the hydrogen in the sun to make it a little smaller and burn cooler. [Then when the sun starts cooling down] they could return the hydrogen to keep the sun burning for billions of years.
That just sounds so unimaginable.
The funny thing about space is that the basic physics is not that hard in terms of complexity. Space is [comprised of] lumps of rock kind of just floating around – and gas clouds coalescing in very predictable ways.
What actions can people take now that could have a real effect on people living, you know, 5,000 years from now?
In terms of mitigating climate change, donate 10% of your income to the most effective climate charities. Or think about a career change.
Like doing what?
Work on the safe design of artificial intelligence systems. Or work in think tanks or government institutions to ensure we have sensible regulation that can get at the benefit of these AI technologies while avoiding the harms. Or try to boost some of the defensive technology within biotechnology, like creating vaccines fairly quickly or very good PPE so we can be protected against novel pathogens
What about my job?
We also need writers and documentary makers and good speakers who can help inspire others to get out of their seats and use their time and money to make the world a better place.
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Shinde faction MLA threatens Sena workers; Thackeray supporters complain to police
Mumbai: An MLA from Maharashtra Chief Eknath Shinde-led faction has asked his supporters to beat up workers of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena amid the growing rift between the two groups.
A video on Monday went viral on social media platforms wherein MLA Prakash Surve was also seen assuring his supporters to bail them out if they face any legal action.
Later, workers of the Thackeray-led Sena complained to police, seeking action against Surve, the legislator from Magathane in northwest Mumbai.
In the video, the MLA was seen saying, We will not be complacent. We have to show them their place and not tolerate anyone bullying us...If anyone says anything then beat him up, Prakash Surve is sitting here...pulp them."
If you cannot break their hands, then break their legs. I will ensure your bail the next day. We will not spare anyone who needles us. We will them by horns and disembowel them, Surve said.
When contacted, Surve refused to comment on the video.
Surve is one of the Shiv Sena MLAs backing Chief Minister Shinde, who led a revolt against the party leadership in June this year, resulting in the collapse of the Thackeray-led government.
Meanwhile, workers of the Thackeray faction filed a complaint with Dahisar police in Mumbai, seeking action against Surve.
An official from Dahisar police station said, We have received a written complaint from the Shiv Sena workers against Prakash Surve. They have demanded action against Surve, but we are verifying the facts and an investigation is on. No FIR has been registered yet." PTI PR ZA
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UFC announcer Laura Sanko has shared a video of herself running while simultaneously trying to tan in the sun.
The 39-year-old posted the clip on her Instagram which showed her exercising with just one strap on her shoulders.
Attaching a comment to the video, Sanko said: "5.5 mile Sunday run as usual.
"Switch the straps every 10 mins so I don't get weird lines 😂."
And she added a caption to the post which read: "Still don’t love running …but today hit different for sure 💪🏼. Stay on the grind folks."
Sanko's social media following responded to the video praising the style she was rocking while running.
One said: "One strap is impressively supportive - that’s the kind of support people need in their lives 👏🏼."
Another fan added: "Am i the only one hope that sports bra slips 😂😂😂.
"What brand is that? Because that kind of support is what all women need with one strap 😂."
And a third hilariously said: "Wish my father was as supportive of me as that sports bra is to you."
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As well as being an announcer, Sanko also has actual experience competing in the octagon.
Back in 2013, she took on Cassie Robb at Invicta FC 4 and won via second round submission.
Going by the name 'Fancy' during her MMA career, Laura quit the fighting game for family reasons after just one pro bout.
But after debuting on the same card as Paige VanZant almost a decade ago, she claims she'd have thrived in the UFC if they had an atomweight division.
Sanko told VolumeSports: "Paige VanZant and I debuted on the same card, on the same night. And we both got wins, both got finishes.
“I know that if there had been an atomweight division in the UFC, I know I could’ve gone on to have a solid career in the UFC. There’s no doubt in my mind.
"There’s not much footage out there of me fighting, and I’m so much better than the footage that does exist.
"That’s the irritating part because my growth as a fighter really happened after I quit competing actively.
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2.5-Megawatt solar facility to provide discounted electricity for over 800 income-qualified customers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable America is pleased to announce the first phase of its West Tambo Clean Power solar project was selected by the City of San José to provide clean electricity for San José Clean Energy's (SJCE) Solar Access program. The 2.5-megawatt (DC) facility in Merced County will provide carbon-free electricity over the course of a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SJCE. The project is expected to come online in April 2023.
"Thanks to San José Clean Energy, local solar power projects such as those under development by Renewable America will directly benefit residents in disadvantaged communities. Through the Solar Access program and Renewable America's collaboration with SJCE, residents can opt into renewable energy even if they cannot put solar panels on a rooftop," said Renewable America CEO, Ardi Arian.
Despite the growth of renewable energy across the United States, many utility customers remain unable to access benefits because they do not have the means to install solar. SJCE launched its Solar Access program in fall 2021 to connect these customers with off-site solar energy at a 20 percent discount on electric generation and delivery charges. Eligible SJCE customers are those that meet certain income qualifications and live in a disadvantaged community designated by the state. These areas are disproportionately impacted by environmental and socioeconomic burdens such as poverty, air pollution, or other environmental factors which contribute to asthma.
"SJCE is thrilled that local companies like Renewable America are developing solar energy resources for residents who need it most," said Lori Mitchell, Director of San José's Community Energy Department, which operates SJCE. "Our transition to a clean energy future can only be considered successful if it includes customers from all socioeconomic backgrounds."
The Renewable America team is leading project development, financing, construction, and ongoing operation of the solar energy facility. This development process focuses on minimizing any environmental damage while producing low-cost renewable energy. For example, the project is planned to include the integration of pollinator-friendly vegetation to benefit the surrounding ecosystem. Furthermore, the project investment is aimed at improving public health, quality of life, and economic opportunity for local residents – including those from disadvantaged communities. At the same time, energy production will offset the need for carbon-based electricity, reducing pollution that causes climate change.
The West Tambo Clean Power project that will serve SJCE is a part of Renewable America's pipeline of 255 megawatts of solar energy capacity and 590 megawatt-hours of energy storage. The company works closely with multiple Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) like Marin Clean Energy, Redwood Coast Energy Authority, and others across California to provide local, affordable renewable energy.
"We are thrilled to partner with CCAs across California to make clean energy affordable and accessible for their members," said Arian. "We applaud the City of San José for their leadership in this sustainable initiative."
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, the West Tambo Clean Power project will offset over 3,750 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. This is equivalent to taking more than 700 vehicles off the road for a year.
Renewable America is dedicated to advancing critical community resiliency through optimally-sized solar and storage projects and serving communities across California, with over 255 megawatts (MW) of solar and 590 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy storage projects under development. Its projects are strategically located to provide maximum benefits to the region, while also meeting the community's demand needs. Renewable America's extensive services include land acquisition, project engineering, interconnection feasibility, PPA origination, financing, and construction management. For more information, visit the website at www.renewam.com.
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A performer in a frog costume comically jumped onto a stage and bowed before a priest during the event at Kinpusenji temple, a World Heritage site in the town of Yoshino.
According to legend, a man who insulted the deity and temple acolytes was taken by an eagle and left on a cliff. A priest transformed the man into a frog to rescue him and later returned him to human form.
At the event on July 7, applause rippled through the crowd when the frog was transformed into a human by the priest’s sutra chanting.
While the temple continued to hold the performance amid the pandemic, a parade featuring the frog on a taikodai, a kind of float, was canceled in 2020, and ’21.
A 55-year-old local who runs a sweets shop has played the part of the frog for about 20 years.
“It was hot, but I’m happy we could put on a cheerful show,” he said.
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Dallas County declares health emergency as monkeypox cases continue to rise
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — Concerns about spread of monkeypox cases here in North Texas continues to grow. Just last weekend, one county declared a health emergency.
"The trend of monkeypox cases continues to go up, so we are alerting the community," Dallas County Health and Human Services spokesperson Christian Grisales said.
As of Thursday, August 11, Dallas County has recorded 265 monkeypox cases, Tarrant County has recorded 65, and Denton County has recorded 17.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins decided to issue the order after cases passed 200 last week. The order allows the county to allocate more resources towards the outbreak, and city leaders hope to make more vaccines available.
The city received 5,000 doses of last week, but supplies are quickly running out. "We've been distributing those vaccines to anyone who needs it, so we are running low at this moment," Grisales said.
City officials are also concerned about kids going back to school and other large events. They're reminding people to be mindful of the symptoms of monkeypox and to avoid skin-to-skin contact in large crowds.
"There's many things we can do at the moment, and that's why we want people to be proactive," Grisales said. "Learning more about this virus, and just taking every precaution."
Dallas County Health and Human Services said they hope to receive more doses of the vaccine soon. They've already requested them from the state and the federal governments.
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HILTON HEAD, S. C. (WSAV) — One woman has died following an alligator attack in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a call at approximately 11:15 a.m. on Monday about a large alligator near the edge of a pond in Sun City, an age-restricted planned community on Hilton Head. The alligator was guarding what was believed to be a person.
Upon arrival, emergency services located the alligator and a deceased person, later identified as 88-year-old Nancy Becker.
Becker was on the ground near a lagoon. When the alligator was moved, the woman was revealed to be dead.
“When we responded, that’s what we observed, as well as that the alligator was basically holding her hostage, was guarding her and didn’t want anyone close by,” said Major Angela Viens with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. “There’s no indication that it was a dog-walking event. That is what we commonly see and hear about in the Lowcountry.”
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (DNR) believed Becker slipped and fell while gardening.
The nearly 10-foot-long alligator has been euthanized.
Monday’s attack marks the second time in four years a person has been killed by a gator in South Carolina’s Beaufort County. The previous deadly attack occurred in 2018.
The victim, Cassandra Cline, was walking near a lagoon in the Sea Pines neighborhood on Hilton Head and was dragged into the water, where she drowned. Her husband subsequently filed a lawsuit against Sea Pines Resort, Inc., claiming “gross negligence” on the part of the company. | https://www.abc4.com/news/national/holding-her-hostage-alligator-kills-88-year-old-woman-during-south-carolina-attack-deputies-say/ | 2022-08-16T15:51:01Z | https://www.abc4.com/news/national/holding-her-hostage-alligator-kills-88-year-old-woman-during-south-carolina-attack-deputies-say/ | true | 24 |
Darwin Nunez and Liverpool left to rue and reflect on unwanted first
Jurgen Klopp had no excuses for the Uruguayan’s behaviour, which while being a first under the German’s stewardship could also prove hugely costly in the title race
Jurgen Klopp has seen his Liverpool players win the Premier League and the Champions League, watched them beat Barcelona 4-0 and Manchester United 5-0, but there was something he had never witnessed in his first 383 games as Liverpool manager. That changed on Darwin Nunez’s Anfield bow as, in something that had never happened in a reign that began in 2015, one of his charges was dismissed for violent conduct.
“There is always a first time,” said the German, but his downbeat demeanour showed that this was one he would rather not have happened. Initially, he was not sure how it had: he spotted Joachim Andersen on the Anfield turf and Nunez walking away. It was not until he was shown a replay that he realised the £64m striker had headbutted the Crystal Palace defender. “Yes, it is a red card,” he said. In a weekend when one German manager found fault with refereeing decisions, another did not.
Andersen may have been the agent provocateur, with a shove, but the reality Nunez had attempted a butt with the back of his head seconds earlier meant there was still less mitigation. “It was provocation and definitely the wrong reaction but he will learn off that,” said Klopp. “Unfortunately he has now three games to do that. It is not cool for us. That is not how he should behave.”
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- Powerful Ford F-150® Lightning™ all-electric truck batteries have vehicle-to-grid two-way charging capabilities.
- Growing number of electric vehicle batteries could provide extensive value to customers and grid.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) is looking at new ways customers in Florida may one day be able to use two-way, or bidirectional, charging from electric vehicles to power their own homes during outages and to help support the power grid.
The company will launch a research and development pilot program in the state to test and evaluate the viability of the new Ford F-150 Lightning all-electric truck's high-capacity batteries as a grid edge resource that could help transform the energy system.
As part of the pilot, Duke Energy will add approximately five Ford F-150 Lightning trucks to its Florida fleet and perform additional testing of the technology, with a focus on leveraging homes that have solar energy and stationary storage. Using the Ford Charge Station Pro and Intelligent Backup Power Home Integration System's bidirectional charging infrastructure, the company will perform extensive testing using the vehicles to feed and draw energy from the power grid. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration will push and pull energy between the connected electric trucks and the grid in a bidirectional energy flow.
The pilot will focus on real-world use cases with the Ford F-150 Lightning to benefit the grid – such as how the vehicle interacts with other customer-owned distributed energy resources (like rooftop photovoltaic – or PV – solar and customer home batteries), how the truck's battery performs powering customers' homes during an outage, how the vehicles will be used to feed the grid during peak times of use, and how such usage might impact the trucks' batteries over time.
"We're continually testing clean energy innovations to gauge how they perform in complex real-life scenarios," said Lon Huber, Duke Energy's senior vice president of pricing and customer solutions. "Like our customers, we're excited about the prospects of these advancements, and we're working to evaluate them in controlled environments so we can find ways to maximize their value and benefits."
Testing driven by the future
The F-150 Lightning is the smartest, most innovative F-150 that Ford has ever built – a 10-kilowatt smart distributed energy resource with extensive and continuous software updates – and offers the functionality of a full-sized truck with even more innovative features, designed for electric charging rather than fuel consumption.
"Ford's electric vehicles are unlocking new possibilities in energy management for our customers, becoming valuable energy storage sources that are changing the game on the benefits an EV can deliver," said Steven Croley, chief policy officer and general counsel, Ford Motor Company. "Alongside Duke Energy and our mutual customers, we're working to fine-tune and expand these capabilities that will not only power their lives, but also accelerate the development of a less carbon-intensive grid."
All-electric vehicles like the Ford F-150 Lightning contain an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine and essentially can act as an electric power generator on wheels. Expanded storage through connected EV batteries offers more capacity to capture and store valuable energy. That energy can then be used for customers' personal needs (vehicle-to-home, or V2H) or delivered back to the power grid (V2G) to help support the demand for electricity when it is highest.
With the F-150 Lightning Ford introduced Intelligent Backup Power, a feature that when purchased with the necessary installation equipment can allow customers to power their homes for up to 10 days during a power outage, all from the vehicle's battery. Sunrun, one of the nation's leading home solar panel and energy storage companies, is the preferred installer for F-150 Lightning home charging solutions and will contribute to the charging and Intelligent Backup Power infrastructure for the Ford-150 Lightning.
"The potential is enormous when it comes to emerging vehicle-to-grid technologies," said Huber. "As a clean energy leader, we're committed to helping shape the net-zero-carbon landscape. This includes working hands-on to validate new technologies that can benefit our customers and sustain the clean, smart and reliable grid of the future."
Duke Energy
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan, that is committed to helping build a better world, where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. The company's Ford+ plan for growth and value creation combines existing strengths, new capabilities and always-on relationships with customers to enrich experiences for and deepen the loyalty of those customers. Ford develops and delivers innovative, must-have Ford trucks, sport utility vehicles, commercial vans and cars and Lincoln luxury vehicles, as well as connected services. Additionally, Ford is establishing leadership positions in mobility solutions, including self-driving technology, and provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. Ford employs about 182,000 people worldwide. More information about the company, its products and Ford Credit is available at corporate.ford.com.
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Hedges Asset Management LLC raised its holdings in C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI – Get Rating) by 15.5% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 24,600 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 3,300 shares during the period. Hedges Asset Management LLC’s holdings in C3.ai were worth $558,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AI. CENTRAL TRUST Co purchased a new stake in shares of C3.ai during the 4th quarter worth $25,000. Benjamin Edwards Inc. acquired a new stake in C3.ai during the 1st quarter worth $40,000. Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. acquired a new stake in C3.ai during the 4th quarter worth $48,000. Claremont Financial Group Inc. raised its stake in C3.ai by 26.0% during the 1st quarter. Claremont Financial Group Inc. now owns 2,520 shares of the company’s stock worth $54,000 after acquiring an additional 520 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Prospera Financial Services Inc acquired a new stake in C3.ai during the 1st quarter worth $56,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 45.41% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of research analysts have commented on the stock. Canaccord Genuity Group dropped their price objective on shares of C3.ai from $23.00 to $19.00 in a research note on Thursday, June 2nd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price target on shares of C3.ai from $24.00 to $20.00 in a research note on Thursday, June 2nd. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft dropped their price target on shares of C3.ai from $18.00 to $14.50 in a research note on Thursday, June 2nd. JMP Securities decreased their price objective on shares of C3.ai from $59.00 to $28.00 and set a “market outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, June 2nd. Finally, Needham & Company LLC decreased their price objective on shares of C3.ai from $26.00 to $20.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, June 2nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $20.06.
C3.ai Stock Down 1.6 %
C3.ai (NYSE:AI – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, June 1st. The company reported ($0.55) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.58) by $0.03. The business had revenue of $72.32 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $71.28 million. C3.ai had a negative net margin of 75.99% and a negative return on equity of 14.11%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 38.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted ($0.24) earnings per share. Research analysts forecast that C3.ai, Inc. will post -2.09 EPS for the current year.
Insider Activity at C3.ai
In related news, CFO Juho Parkkinen sold 2,120 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $18.19, for a total transaction of $38,562.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 363,926 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,619,813.94. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 4,390 shares of company stock valued at $79,912. Company insiders own 52.65% of the company’s stock.
C3.ai Profile
C3.ai, Inc operates as an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software company. The company provides software-as-a-service applications for enterprises. Its software solutions include C3 AI Suite, a platform-as-a-service application development and runtime environment that enables customers to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI applications; and C3 AI Applications, which include industry-specific and application-specific turnkey AI solutions.
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High On Life, from one of the creators of Rick and Morty, will be taught at the event hosted by Geoff Keighley.
Gamescom 2022 will kick off in just a few days with the celebration of the Opening Live Nightan event hosted by Geoff Keighley that we already know about duration and first confirmed gamesbut that is expanding its cast as the August 23rdwhen it will be broadcast from 20:00.
High On Life will be taught on August 23Geoff Keighley himself is confirming several games that we will see among the thirty that will be shown during the direct show, and in the last few hours he has announced that High On Life, the game from the creator of Rick and Morty Justin Roiland and the Squanch Games studio will be one of those who will offer us a new video.
High On Life is a first person shooter with a touch of humor which is not usually common in video games, although action prevails, alien bounty hunters and a large number of worlds in which we can get lost. It premieres on October 25, 2022 para PC, Xbox One y Xbox Series X|S.
More confirmed games
Other games that we know will be at the Opening Live Night presented by Geoff Keighley will be Sonic Frontiers, which will show a new gameplay in the context of Gamescom or the new project from the creators of Subnautica, which is one of the most anticipated by those who have played the underwater title.
In addition, GOAT Simulator 3 and Return to Monkey Island have joined the latest confirmations made by the presenter through his personal Twitter account, where he is usually very active as these types of events approach.
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Campion Asset Management grew its stake in iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (NYSEARCA:IWD – Get Rating) by 4.4% in the first quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 6,179 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after buying an additional 260 shares during the period. iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF makes up approximately 0.9% of Campion Asset Management’s holdings, making the stock its 24th biggest position. Campion Asset Management’s holdings in iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF were worth $1,026,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in IWD. Aaron Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF during the first quarter worth $970,000. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV lifted its position in iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF by 24.1% during the 1st quarter. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV now owns 138,615 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $23,007,000 after purchasing an additional 26,910 shares during the period. Steel Peak Wealth Management LLC raised its position in shares of iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF by 3.5% in the 1st quarter. Steel Peak Wealth Management LLC now owns 3,045 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $506,000 after acquiring an additional 102 shares during the period. Buckingham Strategic Partners bought a new stake in iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF during the 1st quarter worth approximately $895,000. Finally, Buckingham Strategic Wealth LLC lifted its stake in iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF by 4.6% in the 1st quarter. Buckingham Strategic Wealth LLC now owns 71,023 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $11,788,000 after acquiring an additional 3,097 shares in the last quarter.
iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF Price Performance
NYSEARCA:IWD traded up $0.35 on Tuesday, hitting $160.83. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 72,799 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,410,593. iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF has a one year low of $139.96 and a one year high of $171.42. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $149.49 and a two-hundred day moving average of $157.32.
iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF Profile
iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (the Fund), formerly iShares Russell 1000 Value Index Fund, is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the large capitalization value sector of the U.S. equity market, as represented by the Russell 1000 Value Index (the Index).
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Cannabis-themed golf tourney trial run a success; funds to aid social justice group POSE
Marijuana and golf.
All for a great cause.
The first annual Green Goddess Invitational, a female-centered, cannabis-themed golf tournament, was held on Monday, Aug. 1 at the Renaissance Golf Course in Haverhill.
“The bar has not just been raised on cannabis industry events, it’s been obliterated by Caroline Pineau and the entire team at Stem Haverhill and everyone who came together to flawlessly execute the Green Goddess Invitational,” said Kim Napoli, counsel and director of diversity and inclusion in the Boston office of Vicente Sederberg, a national cannabis firm. “Keep your eyes out for next year’s event. It is an absolute must-attend.”
Napoli was a panelist on one of the seminars at the first-of-its-kind tournament, which was founded and organized by Pineau, owner of Stem, a cannabis retail store in Haverhill. The event featured a nine-hole golf tournament, panel discussions, lessons with an LPGA golf pro, unique cannabis educational offerings, wellness clinics, a painting workshop and other activities.
All proceeds from the tournament benefited Power of Self-Education (POSE), a Haverhill-based nonprofit that promotes racial and social justice through community engagement, youth engagement and cross-sector collaborations.
The event attracted more than 250 people and more than 40 co-sponsors. In addition to bringing together female cannabis entrepreneurs from throughout Massachusetts, the event featured a strong civil rights component, with the nationally known cannabis entrepreneur and social justice advocate Freeway Ricky Ross leading a discussion on restorative justice.
Pineau, who conceived of the tournament late last year and spent hundreds of hours putting it together, said the event was the kickoff of a movement with the potential to reshape women’s status in the cannabis industry and the industry’s approach to social justice and inclusion issues.
Pineau noted the event was meant to “spark joy, inspire activism, and create space for connection and self-care.”
“You are all here today as trailblazers," she added. "You are defining our industry, and with that comes an incredible opportunity to do everything we possibly can to address social equity. We recognize this work can be draining at times, and emotional. We need a reminder to have grace with each other, and especially ourselves."
More about the Green Goddess Invitational
This day-long event is held to experience the sisterhood of the community and a day of fulfilling activities including yoga, good eats, shopping, art, music, education and of course, golf.
The tournament is rooted in a spirit of activism and women empowerment.
"We want to change the face of cannabis and its positive impact in our world," the tourney website states. "We believe in community building that is inclusive and energizing. For this event, 100% of the profits will go directly to POSE, a community engagement and advocacy organization in Haverhill whose mission is to inspire individuals and mobilize resources to strengthen communities." | https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/regional/massachusetts/2022/08/16/cannabis-themed-golf-tourney-trial-run-success-benefits-women-green-goddess-haverhill-advocacy/10327396002/ | 2022-08-16T16:01:00Z | https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/regional/massachusetts/2022/08/16/cannabis-themed-golf-tourney-trial-run-success-benefits-women-green-goddess-haverhill-advocacy/10327396002/ | true | 1 |
Stephen Flavall makes his living by playing video games to an audience of thousands on Twitch. When he first started streaming, he only had about fifteen people at a time watching him. He liked how he could engage with a small community, cracking jokes while people cheered him on.
Unfortunately, the vibe changed as his popularity grew.
"Around 200 viewers was when it started getting exhausting," says Flavall. "Now I have like 2,000 viewers [at a time] and when that many people are asking you questions and telling you what to do, it becomes absolutely unmanageable. I started having anxiety, bordering on full panic attacks."
Flavall's gotten to a better place now, but his story isn't unique. Burnout is on the rise across the country, even for those whose work is — quite literally — play.
Few breaks, fewer vacations
While professional video gaming can sound like an enviable gig, it's not too different from being a performer. Streamers have an audience, a persona, and act in the same role for long hours.
Streamers can't really take breaks, either. They risk their fanbase losing interest during a stream and logging off. Since they're self-employed, they can't rely on paid vacation, or sick leave. That leaves streamers wondering how to navigate making an income that isn't an official "job."
"If you have breaks during your stream, how do they work?" asked a reddit user on r/Twitch. "I've been streaming for a little bit, but found it's been difficult for me to go for much longer than two hours."
Another redditor commented on the appropriate length of a break: "20 minutes is way too long. I recommend five minutes because you don't want people to lose interest."
When Flavall, who goes by jorbs on Twitch, first started out, he also wasn't too keen on taking breaks, and that extended to time offline for vacation.
"I would worry about viewers losing interest in my channel if it was offline for a week or two," says Flavall. "But nowadays my content is unique enough and my viewers are long term enough that my viewerbase consistently returns when I come back."
Yet, even now, many of Flavall's "vacations" are really still work.
"Conventions like TwitchCon, opening celebrations for different game studios and production companies, in-person content creation opportunities, and other private chances to schmooze with sponsors or investors, all give the illusion of taking a break while ultimately actually being another work weekend," says Flavall.
Mixing it up and risking it all
Twitch audiences can also demand that streamers play games they may have soured on. Haelian, another Twitch streamer known for playing rogue-likes, got tired of trying to escape the underworld of Hades day-in and day-out. But that game made his stream popular, and his fans weren't pleased.
"I was already burnt out from Hades, but I was splitting my time 50% other games and 50% Hades," says Haelian. "You get people that you don't really wanna hear say 'When is he gonna switch to Hades?' 'Why hasn't he started Hades yet?'"
What followed was a different kind of hell. Viewer participation dropped when Haelian started dedicating more time to other games. Fewer people would tune in if he wasn't fighting the Furies or squaring off against the Bull of Minos. That risked his livelihood. "How interactive people are with me and how interactive I am with them, all those things directly hit my wallet," says Haelian.
"Every content creator has gone through this, especially the ones that play games," says Haelian. "They start with this one thing that's popular, and then they try to do something else, and it's a struggle."
Stiff competition and inconsistent support
Twitch's competitive culture also fans the flames. It's not just that a streamer can tire of a game or rude viewers; they can also fall victim to a pervasive "always on" mentality.
Taylor Chou, Director of Talent Management at Evil Geniuses, an esports and gaming entertainment company, says that Twitch can be a pretty toxic work environment.
"When you're a streamer, you truly know that every single second that you are not online, grinding, posting, streaming — somebody [else] is," Chou says. "That's a lot of pressure for people to learn how to manage."
Chou also says that communicating with your audience and having a support system is key to mitigating streamer burnout.
"Most of the best ways to deal with burnout start with a support system," says Chou. "When you're a streamer, make sure that your community has a sense that this is a person they're watching."
That support has helped Stephen Flavall get his mojo back. He still plays his favorite game — Slay the Spire — for his audience every week, and has a small team to help manage sponsorship contracts and interviews.
But that kind of structure can take years to build, and while fans have rallied around streamers, they can just as often stress or even harass them. That leaves many burnt out and on their way to signing off for good.
Keller Gordon is a columnist for Join The Game. Find him on Twitter: @kelbot_
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For thousands of pupils across Teesside, the back to school countdown is well underway.
But with the ongoing cost of living crisis, the prospect of splashing out on brand new school uniform is anxiety inducing for many households. According to figures, some parents and carers are spending £337 on school uniform - from jumpers and trousers to shirts and shoes, it can be a costly time for those with school age children.
To help manage the costs of getting children ready for their first day back at school in September, experts at MoneyTransfers.com have pulled together seven top tips to save money on school uniform fees, including how to tackle tough stains and looking out for cheap shopping deals.
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Jonathan Merry, financial expert and CEO at MoneyTransfers.com has listed seven tips for getting the most out of your child’s school uniform when money is tight.
1. Tackle stains - don't avoid them!
For many parents, there's nothing more frustrating than the kids coming home from school covered in stains all over their shiny new uniforms, however it is inevitable but they can be easily sorted. Whether it’s ink, crayon, mud or grass, there are a few easy cleaning hacks you should try out first before you throw any stained clothing in the bin.
- Ink stains: Spray it with hairspray first and then blot over the area with a paper towel. However, if it's a biro pen instead, then these stains can be removed if you lightly soak the item of clothing in some milk.
- Crayon stains: Try freezing the fabric first, this will harden the crayon and then you should be able to scrape off any excess crayon. Once this is done, turn on an iron at a medium heat setting. While it’s heating up, put a paper towel on top of and underneath the stained area and gently press the warm iron over it. Hopefully, it should move the stain onto the paper towel instead.
- Mud stains: When it comes to playtime at school, this is where the real damage happens. As soon as you see any mud on your child’s uniform, soak it immediately in a cold bowl of water with 3 tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda. Leave this soaking for an hour and then wash as normal.
- Grass stains : With this type of stain it’s important to dab over the area with methylated spirits and then let it dry out completely. Once it dries, you can then throw it in your washing machine.
2. Changing out of school uniform at home
Try and get the kids into a habit of changing out of their school uniform as soon as they get home. This can obviously stop their uniform from wearing out as fast and prevent it from getting even messier at home after school.
3. Wash clothes correctly
How clothes are washed is the key to helping them stand the test of time, and the school year! Top washing tips include aiming to wash all clothes at 30 degrees, with low temperatures not only helping clothes last longer but can also cut down on your energy bills.
Also, only use the tumble dryer if you really need to as drying your clothes out on the line will help maintain their quality better. Another positive that comes from line drying is that the sun will help to brighten any white items of clothing and keep them looking fresh, which is a useful hack to bear in mind when the polo shirts start looking a bit grey.
4. Don't be afraid to pass any school uniform down
If you have more than one child who attends the same school, then passing the school uniform down between siblings is a great way to save money each year. Especially when children grow so fast, it can get very expensive trying to keep up with the jumps in sizing.
It’s also worth asking around at the school for parents who are wanting to get rid of any hand-me-downs, especially for children who are moving schools and will no longer require the same uniform anymore. In fact, you’re probably doing them more of a favour. Some schools and local Facebook groups even organise uniform swaps and sales, where you can pick up uniform pieces for bargain prices.
5. Get creative with repairs and alterations
Rather than throwing out any school uniform that has a button missing or a small hole for example, you could try to repair it instead - doing this is often much easier than you realise and a more sustainable way to extend the use of clothing. Also, if certain school clothes are too big or have become too small after a recent growth spurt, rather than buying a brand new uniform that fits perfectly, get them altered and that’ll do the job.
Some alterations, for example letting down a hemline, won’t take much practice at all.
6. Look out for deals
If you have more than one child, it’s a good idea to keep an eye out for bundle deals and offers if you’re out shopping for new school uniforms, as this will help to knock off a quid or two. All of the major supermarkets which have clothing ranges in store offer discounts on uniforms each year, so look out for those and know when to shop.
7. Use name tags
Last but not least, once the school uniform is ready to go for another year, the most important thing you can do next is to put name tags on every piece of clothing your child wears. This may seem like an unnecessary step but something as simple as this can prevent any uniform from getting lost forever and needing to be replaced.
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Updated August 16, 2022 at 11:48 AM ET
4moms is recalling more than 2 million of its MamaRoo and RockaRoo infant swings and rockers because of entanglement and strangulation hazards, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced.
There have been two reports of children becoming entangled in the restraint straps of the MamaRoo swing, which hang below the seat of the swing when it's not in use.
In one case, a 10-month-old died from asphyxiation. The other case also involved a 10-month-old who had bruising along his neck.
"We are deeply saddened by the two incidents that occurred when babies crawled under the seat of unoccupied MamaRoo swings," 4moms CEO Gary Waters said in a statement emailed to NPR. "After investigating the circumstances behind these two reported incidents, 4moms decided to conduct a voluntary recall in partnership with the CPSC."
There have not been any reported incidents with the RockaRoo, according to 4moms.
"Consumers with infants who can crawl should immediately stop using the recalled swings and rockers, place them in an area where crawling infants cannot access and register your product immediately to receive a free strap fastener that will prevent the straps from extending under the swing when not in use," 4moms said in a statement.
The recall covers MamaRoo swings versions 1.0 to 4.0 and all RockaRoo rockers sold between January 2010 and August 2022. Both products were sold at BuyBuy Baby and Target stores, as well as online through Amazon and the 4moms website. A smaller number of these products were also sold in Canada.
The products do not need to be disposed of. 4moms has created a strap fastener that secures the straps when the swings and rockers are not in use.
The straps are free, you just need to email safetyandrecall@4moms.com, call the recall hotline at 877-870-7390, or order a strap online through the website.
4moms said it would also be reaching out to known consumers to let them know about the recall.
"We will continue to hold ourselves to the highest quality and safety standards so that parents feel safe, secure, and confident in their decision to have 4moms support their family," Watersthe company CEO, said.
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Non-profit aged care home Mercy Place Mandurah has been lighting an exceptional number of birthdays candles over recent times, with half a dozen of its nonagenarian residents celebrating birthdays - and a number of others due in coming days.
Born and bred Western Australian Lesley Williams is the oldest resident at the Mandurah home, having celebrated his 99th birthday last week on August 6, while Northam-born great, great grandmother Doreen Bullen celebrated her 94th birthday on August 3.
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The youngest member of the 90s club, Shirley Burton, also celebrated her 91st birthday on July 19.
Next up to celebrate is Kalgoorlie-born resident and great, great grandfather, Mark Levis, who will turn 97 on August 23 and claims that his long life is down to having an adoring wife, Eva, and never drinking or smoking, though he does admit to having 'half a whiskey' to celebrate every New Year.
Mercy Place Mandurah service manager Simone Baxter said several more residents were due to celebrate big birthdays over the next two months, though they were a little more shy about revealing their impressive ages.
"Over more than nine decades that has seen two world wars, the landing of the man on the moon and a myriad of world-shaping events, pretty much all of our nonagenarians put their longevity down to hard work, not drinking or smoking and good, old fashioned 'plain food'," Ms Baxter said.
"At the end of the day, reaching such great ages really is a wonderful achievement for each and every one of our beloved residents and it is genuinely very special indeed for all of our Mercy Health community to celebrate with them on their birthdays and wish them all the very best for continued good health.
"We even look forward to celebrating 100 year birthdays with all of these wonderful seniors in the coming years."
Mercy Health is a Catholic community care provider, founded by the Sisters of Mercy and grounded in a 2000 year history of caring for those in need. The organisation is a national service provider of health and aged care throughout Victoria, Southern New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.
In Western Australia, the organisation cares for over 300 people across five residential homes, with 78 independent living units. | https://www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/7863443/flurry-of-birthdays-for-mandurah-nonagenarians/ | 2022-08-16T16:03:28Z | https://www.mandurahmail.com.au/story/7863443/flurry-of-birthdays-for-mandurah-nonagenarians/ | false | 1 |
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Russia’s actions could “cause a catastrophe” should Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine not be defended properly.
“If Russia's actions cause a catastrophe, the consequences may also hit those who remain silent so far,” Zelensky warned.
He continued, “Any radiation incident at the Zaporizhzhia NPP can affect the countries of the European Union, Turkey, Georgia and countries from more distant regions.”
Zelensky elaborated on the effects of Russia’s presence near the power plant on the international community, saying that Russia is ignoring and rejecting other countries’ demands.
“If a terrorist state allows itself to completely ignore the demands of the international community, especially in such a sensitive topic, this clearly indicates the need for immediate action,” he said, adding that Russia is “rejecting the security demands” of 42 countries that have asked the country to withdraw its forces from the plant.
The countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and the nations of the European Union, released a joint statement earlier Monday calling on Russia to withdraw from the area.
“We urge the Russian Federation to immediately withdraw its military forces and all other unauthorised personnel from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, its immediate surroundings, and all of Ukraine,” the countries wrote.
In his address, the Ukrainian president called for “new tough sanctions against Russia,” calling it a “terrorist state” and calling on other countries to support Ukraine’s fight against its neighbor’s takeover of nuclear plants.
“And if now the world lacks the strength and determination to protect one nuclear plant, it means that the world loses,” said Zelensky.
He ended his speech with a warning to Russia: “All Russian terrorists should know that every meter of Ukrainian land is an absolute danger for them. No matter how they try to hide. No matter where it is. They will be found and destroyed.” | https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/component/content/article/122-us-politics/965407-zelensky-warns-of-%E2%80%98catastrophe%E2%80%99-if-ukraine-nuclear-power-station-not-defended | 2022-08-16T16:03:48Z | https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/component/content/article/122-us-politics/965407-zelensky-warns-of-%E2%80%98catastrophe%E2%80%99-if-ukraine-nuclear-power-station-not-defended | true | 3 |
Google finally released Android 13 to the stable channel, which means you can finally upgrade your Pixel phone from Android 12 without having to join the beta. For those who own a Pixel 6a, 6, or 6 Pro, there is no way back, though. Google warns that once you upgrade your new Pixel phone to Android 13, you will no longer be able to flash an earlier version of the OS on it. That’s because the bootloader is updated along with the OS, and to prevent security issues, it’s not possible to go back to an older version anymore.
When the Android 13 update hit, we quickly spotted a new warning on the Google Developer website that hosts all Android releases for Pixel and Nexus phones. It reads,
Warning: The Android 13 update for Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, and the Pixel 6a contains a bootloader update that increments the anti-roll back version. After flashing an Android 13 build on these devices you will not be able to flash older Android 12 builds.
Google remained cryptic on what exactly the reasoning is for this, and we haven’t heard back from the company after reaching out to it on August 15. However, thanks to some digging from Esper.io’s Mishaal Rahman, we have an idea of what's going on. The Android Flash Tool, which offers a mostly automated way to quickly flash Android builds on your Pixel phone, has a more extensive description of the issue at hand. It reads,
WARNING - If this is FLASHED you CANNOT go back to an old Android build
Your device is running a vulnerable version of the bootloader. After flashing this build your device's anti-roll back counter will be incremented to prevent previous vulnerable versions of the bootloader from being flashed on the device in the future. This will prevent flashing existing Android 12 releases.
As stated in this more detailed warning, Google has found a vulnerability in the Pixel 6 series’ bootloader, which forced it to upgrade this underlying software along with the stable Android 13 release. Normally, flashing an older version of Android could then override the new bootloader with an older one. In this case, though, Google removed the option to downgrade to prevent the vulnerable, potentially dangerous bootloader from ever gracing a Pixel 6 unit again.
You could say that it’s the personal risk of anyone advanced enough to tinker with their Android phone. The thing is that an attacker could use a yet-to-be-discovered Android kernel exploit to downgrade a phone to an insecure Android version, reboot into it, and use that version to install a permanent exploit. Google is using its Rollback Protection to prevent this from happening for Pixel 6 and 6a phones in this case. It’s a measure first introduced in Android 8.0 Oreo and a part of Verified Boot. All of this security architecture is meant to prevent exactly these kinds of exploits.
Unfortunately, the deployment of Rollback Protection for the Pixel 6 series has a serious side effect for developers that use an AOSP build on their devices. When they upgrade, they need to ensure that they flash Android 13 to both boot slots. Otherwise, their devices will be permanently bricked and not usable anymore. | https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-6-6a-no-android-13-downgrade-why/ | 2022-08-16T16:06:06Z | https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-6-6a-no-android-13-downgrade-why/ | true | 1 |
(NEXSTAR) – Are you looking to move? Picking a new place can be tricky, especially if you’re considering a different state. A new report may help make your decision a little easier – or even convince you to stay in the state you’re already in.
Reviewing dozens of metrics across five key dimensions – affordability, economy, education and health, quality of life, and safety – personal finance site WalletHub analyzed all 50 states to determine which are the best – and worst – states to live in. An overall score was then assigned to each state based on those metrics.
States in New England and the Midwest ranked toward the top of the list while states in the southern portion of the country landed toward the bottom.
Taking the top spot was Massachusetts, which scored highly in terms of education and health, quality of life, safety, and economy, but was among the worst states for affordability. The second and third-ranked states – New Jersey and New York, respectively – also had low affordability scores.
Rounding out the top 10 best states were Idaho, Virginia, New Hampshire, Florida, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Alternatively, the study’s authors ranked Mississippi as the worst state to live in. While it was considered one of the more affordable states, it scored poorly across the four other dimensions.
The nine other states landing in the bottom 10, following Mississippi, were Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
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While Alabama landed toward the bottom, it received the best affordability score in this study. California received the worst score. North Dakota was found to have the best economy, Massachusetts the best education and health, New York the best quality of life, and New Jersey the best safety.
Of the 10 best states to live in, three were recently ranked among the best to have a baby in – Massachusetts again topped out the list. Seven of the worst states to live in were also among the worst to have a baby in – Alabama was the worst, followed by Mississippi.
A study released earlier this year found four of the best states to live in – New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Minnesota – had among the longest life expectancies, all greater than 80 years old. Seven of the worst-ranked states had the lowest life expectancies: Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. | https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/these-are-the-top-states-to-live-in-study-finds-how-does-yours-rank/ | 2022-08-16T16:06:30Z | https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/these-are-the-top-states-to-live-in-study-finds-how-does-yours-rank/ | false | 23 |
Portland Global Advisors LLC reduced its holdings in ManpowerGroup Inc. (NYSE:MAN – Get Rating) by 13.5% in the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 3,395 shares of the business services provider’s stock after selling 530 shares during the period. Portland Global Advisors LLC’s holdings in ManpowerGroup were worth $319,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the business. People s United Financial Inc. increased its stake in ManpowerGroup by 47.5% during the first quarter. People s United Financial Inc. now owns 18,175 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,707,000 after acquiring an additional 5,849 shares during the last quarter. MUFG Securities EMEA plc bought a new stake in ManpowerGroup in the first quarter worth $1,418,000. B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. AG purchased a new position in ManpowerGroup during the first quarter worth $220,000. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina increased its position in ManpowerGroup by 1.6% during the first quarter. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina now owns 20,004 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $1,879,000 after acquiring an additional 310 shares during the last quarter. Finally, MQS Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of ManpowerGroup in the first quarter valued at $208,000. 95.26% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Truist Financial lowered shares of ManpowerGroup from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $80.00 price objective on the stock. in a research report on Friday, July 15th. StockNews.com cut ManpowerGroup from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, July 11th. BMO Capital Markets lowered ManpowerGroup from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and reduced their target price for the stock from $120.00 to $84.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 26th. Robert W. Baird lowered their target price on shares of ManpowerGroup from $120.00 to $94.00 in a research note on Friday, July 15th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group decreased their price objective on shares of ManpowerGroup to $80.00 in a report on Friday, July 22nd. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and five have issued a hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $82.67.
Insider Transactions at ManpowerGroup
ManpowerGroup Trading Up 0.2 %
NYSE MAN opened at $81.48 on Tuesday. ManpowerGroup Inc. has a one year low of $73.66 and a one year high of $123.84. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.39, a quick ratio of 1.19 and a current ratio of 1.19. The company has a market capitalization of $4.22 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.50, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.92 and a beta of 1.70. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $78.56 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $89.68.
ManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July 19th. The business services provider reported $2.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.31 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $5.07 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.28 billion. ManpowerGroup had a net margin of 2.04% and a return on equity of 18.15%. Equities analysts forecast that ManpowerGroup Inc. will post 8.72 EPS for the current fiscal year.
About ManpowerGroup
ManpowerGroup Inc provides workforce solutions and services in the Americas, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, and the Asia Pacific Middle East region. The company offers recruitment services, including permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment of professionals, as well as administrative and industrial positions under the Manpower and Experis brands.
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Texas man, 23, is charged with murdering 67-year-old man who he tortured by pressing PUSH PINS into the bottom of his feet before stabbing him to death
- Richard Plata, 23, was arrested for murdering an elderly man at an abandoned Houston apartment in July
- Richard Davis, 67, was found dead by police on July 19 at about 5am with trauma to his body, including push pins at the bottom of his feet
- The Houston Police Department responded to a call about a deceased man in an apartment located at 6550 Hillcroft Ave
- Police say the two knew each other leading up to the horrid incident at the Houston complex
A 23-year-old Texas man is charged with the murder of an elderly man he tortured in an abandoned Houston apartment with push pins.
Richard Plata, 23, was arrested and charged with the murder of his friend Richard Davis on August 4, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department told DailyMail.com.
Davis, 67, was found deceased in the apartment located at 6550 Hillcroft Avenue at about 5 am on July 19. His body was found at the same complex police uncovered a dead body in a dumpster last May.
Prosecutors say Davis was tied up by the 23-year-old, who then inserted push pins at the soles of his feet, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Police found blunt force trauma on Davis, including stab wounds.
Plata was arrested on a $1 million bond and is set to appear in court on August 29.
Richard Plata (above), was arrested on August 4 for the murder of his friend, Richard Davis. Davis was a 67-year-old man that was found deceased in an abandoned apartment with trauma to his body. Plata was arrested on a $1 million bond and is set to appear in court on August 29
Davis was found deceased in an abandoned apartment located at 6550 Hillcroft Avenue about 5am on July 19
Before Davis was murdered at the complex, a tenant had discovered a dead body at the complex in May 2021.
Officers responded to a report of a deceased individual inside a dumpster at the apartment complex.
The victim, later discovered as Leondra Addis, 41, was found wrapped in a tarp with various stab wounds.
Police later charged Walter Michael Oliver with murder in August 2021. At the time investigators linked Oliver with the death of the 41-year-old, he had already been in jail on aggravated assault charge.
The Houston murder of Davis occurred around the same time a grandfather and his four grandchildren were killed by an escaped convict in Texas on June 2.
The five victims were slain after arriving on a weekend visit to the family's ranch in Centerville, about 100 miles north of Houston, where Mexican Mafia hitman Gonzalo Lopez was apparently hiding out after escaping from a prison transport van in the area three weeks before.
Mexican Mafia hitman Gonzalo Lopez was killed in a police shootout after escaping prison and killing five family members
Mark Collins, 66, brothers Waylon, 18, Carson, 16, and Hudson, 11, and their cousin Bryson, also 11, were killed by Lopez.
Lopez killed the family, stole their truck as well as a pistol and AR-15 rifle, and was killed on the same day in a shootout with police after an all-points bulletin was issued on the stolen vehicle.
Following his escape, law enforcement vigorously patrolled Highway 7 and other roads in Centerville, escorting many of the city´s nearly 1,000 residents to their homes to ensure they felt safe.
Concerns over his whereabouts were justified: Lopez's long criminal history included convictions for capital murder, attempted capital murder, kidnapping and aggravated assault.
Authorities said he belonged to the Mexican Mafia, which is a prison gang, and was a contract killer for at least two drug cartels.
Waylon Collins, 18, played baseball at Tomball High School, where he had just graduated, and also worked as an umpire for Little League games
Brothers Waylon, 18, Carson, 16, and Hudson, 11, (together left) and their cousin Bryson, also 11 (right) were killed alongside their grandfather at the family's Texas ranch
Grandfather Mark Collins, 66, was taking the four boys out to the family ranch for a weekend of fishing, boating, and target shooting | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11116573/Texas-man-23-charged-murdering-67-year-old-man-tortured.html | 2022-08-16T16:09:48Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11116573/Texas-man-23-charged-murdering-67-year-old-man-tortured.html | true | 2 |
Couple Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover, who tied-the-knot in 2016, are expecting their first child.
The duo took the internet with a storm with their pregnancy news alongside love-filled photos.
Taking to Instagram, the Raaz actor shared pictures from their maternity shoot and penned, "A new time, a new phase, a new light adds another unique shade to our prism of life. Making us a little more whole than we used to be.
"We began this life individually and then we met each other and from then we were two. Too much love for only two, seemed a little unfair for us to see…so soon, we who once were two will now become three."
"A creation manifested by our love, our baby will join us soon and add to our glee. Thank you all, for your unconditional love, your prayers and good wishes as they are and will always be a part of us. Thank you for being a part of our lives and manifesting with us another beautiful life, our baby. Durga Durga.''
Basu was seen flaunting her baby bump as Grover caressed and hugged her baby bump.
The parents-to-be twinned in white as they posed together for the camera. | https://jang.com.pk/en/news/7858-karan-singh-grover-wife-bipasha-basu-announce-pregnancy-a-new-time-a-new-phase | 2022-08-16T16:10:24Z | https://jang.com.pk/en/news/7858-karan-singh-grover-wife-bipasha-basu-announce-pregnancy-a-new-time-a-new-phase | false | 1 |
A Rwandese delegation arrived in the country on Monday to supervise the recruitment of teachers to work in east African country.
The recruitment examinations is set to start tomorrow in Harare, Bulawayo, Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central and Midlands and expected to end on Thursday with more than 491 teachers from different fields to be selected and undergo the virtual interviews under a worker-exchange agreement between the two countries.
Addressing journalists after meeting the delegation, Chief Director in the Ministry of Labour Clifford Matorera said the activity will also be an opportunity to implement for the first time, the use of Rwanda’s e-recruitment system at an international level.
“They are here in Zimbabwe specifically following up on the Memorandum of Understanding signed by our two principals, the President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame, and President Mnangagwa which is to do with the exchange of our personnel expertise in the field of education, science and medicine among others.
“The issue was discussed on May 4, 2022 followed by a signing of the MoU between our Minister of Labour, Public Service and Social Welfare and the Minister of Education in the Republic of Rwanda. This is the first of its kind when we are going to do an e-recruitment, which is being facilitated by a system that our colleagues from Rwanda have come with, we have dedicated centres, one in Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Chinhoyi where those who want to work in Rwanda will be sitting for the e-recruitment examinations on August 17 and 18,” Matorera said
He added that “The team has come to facilitate the smooth transition of conducting the e-recruitment. They will also conduct some training to the Zimbabwean team on how to conduct the invigilation.”
Rwanda’s permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education Charles Karakye said they were here to supervise the recruitment process.
“We are here to supervise, invigilate and work gently with the team here in Zimbabwe to ensure that we conduct a fast online recruitment exam which will be followed by interviews if they manage to make it to the next stage.” said Karakye. | https://www.263chat.com/rwandese-delegation-jets-in-for-teacher-recruitment-exercise/ | 2022-08-16T16:10:32Z | https://www.263chat.com/rwandese-delegation-jets-in-for-teacher-recruitment-exercise/ | true | 1 |
A huge building in the centre of Carmarthen which was the home of Debenhams for more than a decade is to be re-opened and transformed into a town centre hub containing a state-of-the art gym.
The plans are part of a wider scheme to develop town centre hubs in south west Wales, with £19.9m in funding having been secured from the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund to create spaces that will, according to Carmarthenshire Council, “benefit local residents, businesses, and visitors”, with £3.5m in match funding also coming from the council's capital budget. You can keep up to date with the latest Carmarthenshire news by signing up to the local newsletter here.
A smaller hub will be developed at South Quay in Pembroke, but the larger venue will be created at the former Debenhams building in Carmarthen in a project the council is spearheading in partnership with Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), along with other service providers. The building has been largely empty - apart from temporary pop-up shops for a limited time - since Debenhams closed the doors for the last time in May, 2021.
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Before that, it had been the biggest shop in Carmarthen since April, 2010, when it opened to much fanfare and excitement as the main draw for the new multi-million pound St Catherine’s Walk Shopping Centre, which was built on and around the site of the old Carmarthen Mart, which was subsequently moved out of town to the Nantyci area just off the A40 as you head west towards Pembrokeshire.
The new hub - which will be called ‘Carmarthen Hwb’ - will be the first of its kind in Carmarthenshire, bringing together a range of key public services including state-of-the-art leisure, culture and exhibition spaces alongside health and tourist information, customer services and access to further and higher education.
According to the plans, the ground floor of the building will be home to a new health and fitness centre, comprising a council-run 50-station gym, health studios and changing and shower facilities. The ground floor will also boast a reception area and a large health suite managed by the health board, made up of three clinical departments and wellbeing zones. There are also plans for an external courtyard in the centre of the building.
On the first floor, a large section will be taken up by Carmarthenshire Council Museums, with a reception area, shop, collections, exhibits and more. It will be an "entirely new, behind the scenes museum experience" which will being together collections that are currently in storage at other locations across the county. Elsewhere on the first floor there will be a section taken up by the health board focusing on community mental health, adult mental health and support areas, and a flexible space including open plan classrooms managed by UWTSD.
According to the plans, there will also be a second floor (located in the building's partial third storey) with more space taken by the health board, comprising offices, meeting rooms and a staff roof terrace. It is hoped that the building's transformation will be complete and ready to be opened to the public by the spring of 2024.
“We are delighted to be working with our public sector partners on this ground-breaking project which will bring this prime commercial space back into use to help boost the local economy and transform the town centre,” said Councillor Gareth John, cabinet member for regeneration, leisure, culture and tourism at Carmarthenshire Council. "One of the main aims of our post-pandemic economic recovery plan is to strengthen the vitality and longevity of our town centres and by delivering a new mix of services to the traditional high street, we can attract more people and help to increase footfall for neighbouring shops and businesses.
“People will be able to call in to the Carmarthen Hwb to access health and social care services, a state-of-the-art town centre gym, access to employment support and public services, as well as university facilities and lifelong learning opportunities. It could also provide a more central home for some of our museum collections, with exhibition space, and act as a welcome point for visitors to the town. It is important that we work with local businesses on this project which will add value to the products and services already on offer in the town centre to encourage more people into town, and in turn increase trade for everyone.”
Lee Davies, executive director of strategic development and operational planning at HDUHB, added: “We’re excited to be working with our partners on the Carmarthen Hwb development. The new facility is an important part of our strategy for a healthier mid and west Wales, bringing health and well-being closer to home for our communities. It will provide a range of health, well-being, learning and cultural services to help people of all ages access key services all in one place.”
The vice-chancellor of the UWTSD Group, professor Medwin Hughes, said: “The university is delighted to be part of this exciting project. It offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with partners to revitalise our town centres by offering a mix of leisure, cultural and education opportunities to benefit residents and businesses. The university looks forward to working with Carmarthenshire Council on realising the vision for the Carmarthen Hwb.”
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PHOENIX, Ariz. (KNXV) — Her feet may be back on the ground, but Xitlali Vazquez’s thoughts and eyes remain on the sky.
The 17-year-old recently returned to her home in Arizona after spending eight weeks in North Carolina. She was selected as one of just 20 high schoolers across the nation to attend the elite National Flight Academy.
“You just feel this warm rush of heat running through your body. It’s really this excitement that you feel. You feel a sense of freedom,” said Xitlali.
Soaring thousands of feet in the sky, she sees her future as a military combat pilot on the horizon. Xitlali said she would be the first in her family to serve.
“When I first expressed interest in the military to my family, they were surprised, they were like, 'Ok, you're the first one to join the military, or show any interest in joining the military and you want to be a pilot,'” said Xitlali.
Since then, they’ve been on a mission to make her dreams come true. But flight time and training are extremely expensive. That’s why the straight “A” student applied to the Navy’s program.
“It was just an amazing opportunity, my family didn’t have to worry about paying for my flight training and that’s just amazing,” said Xitlali.
The eight-week camp hosted at Elizabeth City State University combined rigorous air and ground training from top instructors. Xitlali eventually left with 46 flight hours, something that would normally cost $48,000.
Xitlali’s NJROTC Chief Corey Stevens says it’s her dedication and determination that will lead her to achieve her private pilot's license before her 18th birthday.
“She knows how to get there, and if there’s an obstacle in her way, she’ll either go around it or blow right through it,” said Stevens.
But it’s her ambition and ability that’s sure to land her in the cockpit of a fighter jet flying for our country’s military.
“I’ll do whatever it takes to get there. It’s worth it to me. There’s a lot of pride when you put on that uniform,” said Xitlali. “I can’t wait to serve my country and I can’t wait to wear that flight suit for my day job.”
Xitlali hopes to be accepted into the Air Force Academy when she completes high school.
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VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard today announced its plans to launch Vanguard Global Environmental Opportunities Stock Fund. The actively managed fund will hold a concentrated portfolio of companies that both are involved in the process of decarbonization and derive at least half of their revenue from activities deemed by the fund's advisor to contribute positively to environmental change. The fund will be managed by Ninety One, an experienced active investment manager with a proven track record in environmental, decarbonization, and global investing.
"Vanguard has been thoughtful and deliberate in building out our ESG lineup by ensuring each new fund addresses investors' enduring needs," said Dan Reyes, head of Vanguard Portfolio Review Department. "We are confident that Ninety One's differentiated approach to global ESG investing will add long-term value for risk-tolerant investors who have a preference for environmental investing."
Founded in 1991, Ninety One manages approximately $160 billion globally.1 The Global Environmental Opportunities Stock Fund takes a structured, research-driven approach to investing that targets companies seeking to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon world. Ninety One's investment philosophy is cemented in the conviction that there are structural growth opportunities resulting from trends in regulation, technology, and consumer preferences, which are driving a multi-decade energy transition. The firm believes that companies that successfully navigate this transition are likely to create value for investors over the long term. This will be the first Vanguard fund advised by Ninety One.
The fund is designed for environmentally conscious investors who have a high tolerance for risk and want to augment a broadly diversified portfolio with a satellite position. The fund is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022 with a competitive expense ratio of 0.75% for Investor Shares and 0.60% for Admiral Shares, compared with the industry average of 0.99% for similar funds.2 The fund's minimum investments are $3,000 for Investor Shares and $50,000 for Admiral Shares.
Vanguard's ESG lineup
Vanguard takes a disciplined, research-based approach to product development and has thoughtfully expanded its lineup of ESG funds, introducing funds and ETFs that exhibit enduring investment merit while addressing investors' evolving preferences. The new fund will complement Vanguard's existing ESG lineup, including its two existing actively managed ESG funds. The recently launched Vanguard Baillie Gifford Global Positive Impact Stock Fund is designed for clients who want a strategy that targets both investment and impact objectives. Vanguard Global ESG Select Stock Fund caters to clients who want to maximize returns while having greater exposure to companies with attractive ESG characteristics. Vanguard also offers exclusionary-screened index equity and fixed income ETFs for investors who want to avoid or reduce exposure to certain sectors or ESG risks in their portfolio.
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Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to individual investors, institutions, and financial professionals. Vanguard operates under a unique, investor-owned structure where Vanguard fund shareholders own the funds, which in turn own Vanguard. As such, Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success. For more information, visit vanguard.com.
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2 Sources: Morningstar, Vanguard.
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Acquisition Solidifies ATTOM's Position as The One-Stop Shop for Comprehensive Property Data
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today announced it has acquired Estated, a property data licensing company.
"ATTOM remains focused on providing the most comprehensive property data available, while delivering data-driven critical insights and analytics-ready property data solutions addressing a wide range of business needs," said Rob Barber, CEO at ATTOM. "The synergy between our two companies further enhances our value proposition and will benefit existing customers of both companies – and the entire marketplace – solidifying ATTOM's unique position as the one-stop shop for premium property data fueling innovation."
This exciting announcement comes on the heels of ATTOM's recent acquisitions of GeoData Plus, Home Junction, and the divesture of RealtyTrac, allowing ATTOM to focus 100 percent on accelerating the growth of its already-successful data licensing business, while solidifying ATTOM's mission to increase real estate transparency, and showcasing its steadfast investment in data and people.
"ATTOM has completed several strategic initiatives to bring more comprehensive real estate data and solutions to the marketplace," said Stuart Bern, EVP of Corporate Development. "Despite current economic uncertainty, ATTOM continues to thrive and evolve to drive ATTOM even further in serving as the most trusted comprehensive property data provider."
The strategic acquisition of Estated was seen as a natural fit, with both companies focused on powering clients with property data, as well as committed to providing greater insight into the marketplace to ensure clients make more informed and educated decisions. The collaboration between the two companies will further strengthen ATTOM's competitive positioning in the enterprise data licensing marketplace, along with the consumer and investor real estate market.
"Our focus at Estated has always been to provide the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive property data with simple delivery solutions, so our customers can seamlessly integrate data into their business more quickly," said Joshua Fraser, CEO and Founder of Estated. "By joining forces and having common goals, we are confident that ATTOM will continue to power innovation across various industries with premium property data and analytics, while increasing efficiencies in the marketplace."
Estated fuels companies of all sizes across insurance, real estate, mortgage lending and home service industries with simple yet reliable property data solutions. The acquisition of Estated, whose mission is to make working with data simple, was seen as a seamless fit for ATTOM given its mission to increase real estate transparency in America. With aligned goals, ATTOM continues to expand its data footprint as well as its presence in the property data marketplace.
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ATTOM provides premium property data to power products that improve transparency, innovation, efficiency and disruption in a data-driven economy. ATTOM multi-sources property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard, and neighborhood data for more than 155 million U.S. residential and commercial properties covering 99 percent of the nation's population. A rigorous data management process involving more than 20 steps validates, standardizes, and enhances the real estate data collected by ATTOM, assigning each property record with a persistent, unique ID — the ATTOM ID. The 20TB ATTOM Data Warehouse fuels innovation in many industries including mortgage, real estate, insurance, marketing, government and more through flexible data delivery solutions that include bulk file licenses, property data APIs, real estate market trends, property reports and more. Also, introducing our newest innovative solution, that offers immediate access and streamlines data management – ATTOM Cloud.
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Estated is a property data licensing company. With organized and verified information on over 155 million properties and access to full historical and real-time insights on every property in the U.S. Estated makes property data universally accessible and helps to power workflows and automations.
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Police launch appeal following spate of quadbike thefts
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Police are appealing for information following three separate reports of stolen quadbikes.
North Wales Police (NWP), said the thefts took place in the last week.
An NWP spokesperson said: “ We have received three separate reports of stolen quadbikes in the Abergynolwyn and Tywyn areas this week.
“The first theft was reported from a farm in Llanfihangel y Pennant, Tywyn.
“A red Honda 420 2017, with no registration number, is believed to have been taken from the farm, sometime between 4pm on Monday, 8 August and 8.30am on Tuesday, 9 August (B118728).
“The second theft, a red Honda TRX420FM quad bike, with the serial number 1HFTE405M4700183 and engine serial number 8723331, was also reported stolen from another farm in Llanfihangel y Pennant, Tywyn.
“It is understood to have been taken sometime between 3.30pm on Monday, 8 August and 10am on Tuesday, 9 August (B118837).
“Shortly after 9am this morning, we received a third report of a Honda quad bike theft from a farm in Rhoslefain, Tywyn overnight (B120648).”
“PC Richard Smith of the Rural Crime Team is urging anyone with a quad bike to take all reasonable steps to safeguard their possessions and consider placing a tracker on all vehicles.More prevention advice is available here https://orlo.uk/J7ECZ.
“Anyone with information relating to these thefts that could assist with our enquiries is asked to contact us on 101, or via website, quoting the above reference numbers.”
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A lucky player recently had a super day at Border Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma, hitting a $uper Hit$ Jackpot$TM progressive jackpot for $361,706.82 on the Star Spangled 7s Super HitsTM slot game.
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Automotive technology industry veteran will lead team of engineers to harness transformative technologies and unlock growth for retailers and partners
ATLANTA, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PureCars, a leading provider of digital marketing technology and services for automotive dealers, announced today that Tony Compton has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer.
Compton has consistently progressed with PureCars, beginning with his start in 2014 as a software developer. He will now lead the planning for all digital and technology operations for the company. He will focus on harnessing transformative technologies to unlock growth and enable continued efficiency for PureCars and their valued customers and partners.
"Tony has been an integral member of the PureCars team for close to a decade and we're very excited to reward his hard work, commitment, and dedication by appointing him our new Chief Technology Officer," said Stephane Ferri, CEO of PureCars. "Tony brings both a proven track record of technical accomplishment and extensive management experience to his new role. I'm confident in Tony's abilities to lead PureCars' technology teams as we scale our business and advance our solutions."
Tony has twelve years of experience envisioning and architecting advanced digital products. He has been a leader and key contributor in all phases of product development - requirements definition, product definition, system design, implementation, and continuing engineering. Tony's expertise includes software design and development, systems engineering, project management, and program management.
Prior to joining PureCars, Compton began his career in 2010 as a software developer with eVision Services before moving to HP Exstream in 2012 in a similar role.
Since 2007, PureCars has helped thousands of dealers improve their advertising effectiveness, while lowering ad costs per unit sold and per repair order. Through our unique combination of advanced advertising solutions, digital merchandising and market analytics, we provide dealers and partners with best-in-class solutions that increase efficiency and profitability. We are a certified digital provider for 16 OEMs in the U.S. and 1 in Canada, compliant with 40+ brands and serve 65 of the top 100 dealer groups in North America. To learn more, please visit http://www.purecars.com.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The team at The Driscoll Firm is proud to announce that they have secured a $299 million judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of families of U.S. service members wounded or killed in terrorist attacks in Iraq. The Driscoll Firm is committed to fighting for the rights of servicemembers and military families in all branches of the armed forces. We are proud to help them seek the answers, compensation, and justice they deserve. This judgment is a historic victory for these families, and we are honored to represent them.
From 2005 to 2008, 17 members of the U.S. military were injured or killed in fifteen separate terrorist attacks in Iraq. The Driscoll Firm brought the federal civil lawsuit, Pennington v. Islamic Republic of Iran, on behalf of servicemembers who were injured and the estates and families of those killed.
The plaintiffs successfully sought damages for economic and psychological injuries under the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). The defendant, as expected, did not appear in court, leading The Driscoll Firm to move for a default judgment on behalf of the plaintiffs, which was granted by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg.
The lawsuit claimed that EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) were used in the attacks. Commonly referred to as "roadside bombs," these weapons are capable of causing severe or fatal injuries. In 2015, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey testified that hundreds of Americans had been killed by these devices. The terrorist attacks in question occurred in Iraq, but the court determined that the Islamic Republic of Iran provided material support or resources to those responsible for the attacks.
The families and estates of those injured or killed individuals first took legal action against Iran in March of 2019. Now, after more than three years, they have finally obtained the justice they deserve.
Attorney John J. Driscoll says of the judgment:
"We're very proud of the large judgment that we have obtained for our clients. Each one of them is a hero. Our clients and the family members that support them have given so much for our country. We are pleased that we could do something to help and honor them."
The Driscoll Firm is a nationally recognized civil litigation firm with a strong track record of providing top-notch representation to military servicemembers, veterans, and their families. For more information about our firm, visit CampLeJeune.com or call us at (888) 209-0003.
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WOBURN, Mass., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Volly, an industry-leading provider of dynamic technology and marketing services for banks and mortgage companies, is proud to announce the appointment of Katharine Loveland as Chief Executive Officer. Jerry Halbrook, who has been Chief Executive Officer for the past three plus years, will transition to Executive Chairman.
Volly's technology provides digital engagement platforms, lending technology, and creative marketing services to facilitate the lending process for the borrower as well as the loan officer. Volly is a portfolio company of New Capital Partners, an operationally focused, lower middle-market private equity firm based in Birmingham, AL.
Loveland brings over 15 years of mortgage technology and financial services experience in driving growth across a broad portfolio of services and markets. Loveland will lead Volly's continued expansion in the mortgage technology market through new and innovative services backed by technology and industry expertise.
"Kat brings a wealth of knowledge and a strong track record of building customer relationships and executing on strategic initiatives in the mortgage industry," says Volly board member James Outland. "We appreciate Jerry's leadership for the past three and a half years."
Loveland most recently served as Vice President of Customer Success at Reggora. Prior to Reggora, she was an Executive Vice President with Accenture, where she led the Mortgage Cadence Delivery and Client Success teams. During her tenure at Accenture, she managed several teams, including Professional Services, Training, Client Success Executives, Strategic Engagement Managers, and Solution Architecture.
"I am thrilled to be joining the Volly team," said Loveland. "I look forward to scaling Volly's business by bolstering our customers' ability to thrive in this volatile mortgage market through the use of Volly's comprehensive technology suite of products and services."
"We are delighted to welcome Kat to the CEO role for its next phase of growth," said Jerry Halbrook, former CEO and Executive Chairman of Volly.
Loveland is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds an International MBA from the University of Denver - Daniels College of Business with additional leadership credentials earned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management.
Volly powers borrower journeys with world-class lending technology and a team of marketing specialists with extensive industry experience. Volly provides an overall better financing process by ensuring that borrower, lender, and real estate professional operate in total synchronicity throughout a transaction. For more information, visit www.myvolly.com or call (866) 435-7050.
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is promoting fishing this summer as a way of relaxation and leisure. Here they give tips about catching and releasing trout:
Today’s anglers can take simple steps to improve the quality of future fishing. Some anglers practice catch-and-release fishing all or much of the time, while others release only sub-legal (undersize) trout. The guidelines below are intended to help anglers reduce mortality of trout that are released. How many of the measures are you using?
handle fish as little as possible and release them quickly – do not fight fish to exhaustionminimize or eliminate the time fish are out of the waterconsider using only artificial lures – their use is mandatory on some waterswhen a fish is deeply hooked, do not try to remove the hook – clip the leader insteadduring the warm summer months when stream temperatures are elevated, do not fish for trout if you plan to release them – these fish are already stressed and additional handling may kill them. Likewise, do not fish for trout in spring holes when water temperatures are in the mid-70’s or higher (especially if you plan to release them).
Special Rules for Taking Trout and Salmon in Deep WaterA moderate steady retrieve will give the fish time to adjust to changes in water pressure. Trout and salmon caught in many cold water lakes are caught in very deep water. Bringing them to the surface is particularly stressful because the fish experiences a substantial reduction in water pressure.
At 100 feet deep the pressure per inch is four times greater than at the surface. In this situation it is important not to “horse in” the fish but to bring it to the surface slowly but steadily.
Fish brought up from deep water may need “burping.” Burping is a method of expelling excess air from the fish’s swim bladder. The drop in pressure causes the swim bladder to expand, increasing the fish’s buoyancy and causing it to float belly up. Left in this condition, many fish die as a result of the surface water’s warm temperatures or attacks by predators.
But in trout and salmon, the swim bladder is connected to the esophagus, making it possible to squeeze excess air out. To do so, hold the fish gently on its side and gently, but firmly, squeeze the belly from the vent toward the head. You will be able to hear the burp as air is expelled from the bladder. Do not squeeze the head and gill area, as that could damage vital organs.
Stimulate the fish to dive deeply. Once burped, the fish should be able to dive down to the deep cold water. But it may require further assistance.
Two methods have proved useful in stimulating fish to dive. One is to vigorously thrust the fish, head first, into the water. The slap of the water, and the plunge downward usually stimulates the fish to swim down.
Another technique is the “release when recovered” method. Hold the fish gently at the middle of its body with its head pointed downward at a 45 degree angle. In that position a gentle side-to-side motion (or slow speed of the boat if trolling) can be used to move water into the mouth and over the gills.
As the fish recovers, it will begin to kick, and slide out of your hand. When its tail passes through your hand, give the tail a quick squeeze. This seems to stimulate the fish’s swimming action, causing to dive with more vigor. Remember, the idea is not to catch the tail, but to compress it as it slides through your hand.
When is burping and additional handling needed? Let the fish tell you that. Start by handling the fish as little as possible, i.e., flip it off the hook with needle-nosed pliers. If it is able to recover and returns to the depths, you have avoided a lot of handling. If it is unable to dive, the head first plunge may be enough or burping and the “release when recovered” technique may be required.
Based on fisherman observations landlocked salmon taken from 30 feet deep can be flipped off the hook will do fine. Salmon from 60 feet deep may need some help to recover. Lake trout seem to be more sensitive than salmon. A lake trout brought up from 60 feet will probably need to be burped and given some help to dive back to deep water.
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Tributes for Brian Traynor, a man who ‘fought for Gibraltar’
Brian Traynor, the former Acting Deputy Governor and Finance Secretary to Sir Joshua Hassan and then to Sir Joe Bossano, has died in his home in London at the age of 89. Sir Joe paid tribute to Mr Traynor, telling the Chronicle he had “very fond memories” of working with him. “When I asked Brian...
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LONDON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy and commodities price reporting agency Argus has launched daily Carbon Cost of Freight (CCF) indexes, helping businesses involved in transporting a wide range of commodities with accurate pricing of the emissions from their ships. Offsetting shipping emissions is becoming compulsory under EU legislation passed this summer.
The Argus CCF prices give an insight into the cost of emissions generated when moving crude oil, refined products, LPG, coal, iron ore, grains and petroleum coke into or from the EU. They are published as lump sums paid per cargo and as $/t rates, as well as in $/bl for certain crude grades.
The European Parliament on 22 June voted to speed up the inclusion of shipping emissions into the EU emissions trading system (ETS). Shipowners will be obligated to hold EU emissions allowances for their emissions on trade routes that include calling at EU ports. The latest proposal states that from 2024, shipowners would have to cover 100pc of their emissions if the voyage is between EU ports. For voyages that start or end in an EU country, it would be 50pc of emissions for 2024-26, increasing to 100pc from 2027.
The new legislation means that there will be an additional cost for every tonne or barrel of cargo imported to or exported from the EU, which will have to be accounted for by both shipowners and participants involved in trading the commodities that are being shipped. Argus CCF indexes provide the market with accurate references to manage this exposure.
"As the energy transition gains pace, the effect that freight will have on commodity trade will only grow in complexity," Argus Media chairman and chief executive Adrian Binks said. "So we are delighted to offer Carbon Cost of Freight indexes to the market as a tool for participants to deal with that complexity."
Argus CCF indexes are based on the type and amount of fuel consumed on each voyage, using assumptions about vessels specifications, speed and fuel consumption, both while at sea and during port operations. All assumptions are the product of an extensive market survey and are reviewed regularly.
The CO2 price component is the Argus assessment of the December-delivery EU ETS allowance price, converted to $/t. The new indexes are part of the daily Argus Freight service.
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There’s no ranked choice voting in the upcoming congressional primary, but we’re seeing some interesting alliances form anyway. Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou and suburban Rep. Mondaire Jones joined up to bash Trump impeachment lawyer Dan Goldman in the race for the vacant congressional district spanning lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, calling him a conservative Democrat who cannot be allowed to buy the seat.
The maxim goes that the guy everyone else is ganging up on is the front runner, and sure enough, a poll released later Monday confirmed that view. The poll put Goldman ahead with 22 percent of Democratic voters in the new 10th district, followed by Niou at 17 percent, and then Jones and City Council Member Carlina Rivera at 13 percent each. The survey was mostly conducted before the New York Times weighed in with its endorsement of Goldman this weekend.
Opponents are seeking to paint Goldman, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, as both a rich guy seeking to buy the seat and too conservative for the liberal district. Pushing an “anyone but Goldman” message, they went after his lack of support for lefty priorities like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. Goldman has pumped $2 million of his own money into the race and spent heavily on TV ads. “He cannot be allowed to purchase this congressional seat,” said Jones (who is also well-funded, having brought his hefty campaign account from his current Westchester and Rockland district with him to the city).
Goldman later defended his own progressive credentials, saying he thinks voters know where he stands. Since voters can only pick one candidate in this race and a majority isn’t needed to win, it’s not clear how much impact other candidates ganging up against Goldman will have with more progressive voters divided among multiple candidates. Some are calling for candidates to drop out and unite behind one standard bearer to really move the needle, but there’s been no indication of that happening. The hopefuls meet for a televised debate on Pix11 Wednesday night as early voting continues.
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WHERE’S ERIC? Announcing the return of the 18th annual New York Comedy Festival.
What City Hall's reading
“Key Homeless Group Says NYC Hiding Shelter Problems in Missing Data,” by NBC 4’s Melissa Russo: “Data is missing from certain of New York City's daily homeless shelter reports, potentially concealing serious problems like a failure to place families by legally mandated deadlines, according to the Coalition for the Homeless. New York City officials, for their part, acknowledge a key inaccuracy in at least one report but say they are working to make sure the reports are consistently correct in future. City officials have already acknowledged that on the evening of July 17 into the morning of July 18, four families were not placed in a timely manner and remained overnight on chairs and floors at the shelter system intake office known as PATH, a practice that is prohibited under local law and a 2008 court settlement. But the daily report for the 17th, a copy of which was obtained last week by the Coalition for the Homeless and provided to News 4, indicates that no families spent the night there.”
— “City government investigators interviewed the Department of Social Services’ recently fired spokeswoman on Monday as part of a probe into allegations that her ex-boss tried to cover up the agency’s failure to provide housing for Latin American migrants, according to two sources directly familiar with the matter.”
— The city is putting together a plan to help migrant children enroll in schools.
“‘Blindsided’ Bronx, Staten Island, Jersey lawmakers rip MTA congestion pricing plans,” by New York Post’s David Meyer: “Members of Congress from two outer boroughs and New Jersey slammed the MTA’s congestion pricing plan on Monday — after the authority warned the new tolls could send hundreds of smog-emitting trucks from downtown Manhattan to asthma-plagued parts of the city’s outskirts and suburbs. South Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres, a past supporter of the tolls, said his borough felt ‘ambushed’ by the agency’s prediction that the Cross-Bronx Expressway could see up to 704 new trucks per day under the tolling program. ‘I’ve long been a principled supporter of congestion pricing,’ Torres said. ‘Those of us who are proponents of congestion pricing in the Bronx, we feel blindsided and misled.’”
“NYC doctor Ricardo Cruciani, who sexually abused patients, hangs himself in Rikers Island jail,” by New York Daily News’ Graham Rayman and Molly Crane-Newman: “A high profile doctor convicted of sexually abusing patients hanged himself in a Rikers Island jail early Monday, multiple sources confirmed to the Daily News. Ricardo Cruciani, 67, was convicted by a Manhattan jury in July of four counts of sexual abuse after six of his former patients testified against him. During his trial, prosecutors said victims including a disabled woman told them Cruciani would threaten to kill himself if any of them came forward to disclose his crimes. … Cruciani’s death is the 12th in the city jails in 2022, following 16 in the jails in 2021 — a rate of mortality unprecedented in the modern era of the jails.”
— “New data highlights overdose crisis at Rikers,” by NY1’s Courtney Gross: “NY1 obtained data from Correctional Health Services, which provides medical care on Rikers, revealing that between January 2021 and June 2022, there were at least 431 overdoses or suspected overdoses in city jails.”
— On duty uniformed staff at Rikers were used to set up a lavish retirement party last month for a departing chief.
“Adams fires new shot at far left, backs bid to unseat state Sen. Brisport,” by New York Post’s Zach Williams and Bernadette Hogan: “Mayor Eric Adams opened a new front in his war against the far left Monday by backing Rev. Conrad Tillard‘s primary challenge against Democratic socialist Brooklyn state Sen. Jabari Brisport ahead of next week’s vote. ‘Conrad has served this community as a minister, activist, and educator,’ Adams said in a statement. ‘As your next senator, Conrad will work hard to pass laws that ensure that all New Yorkers are safe, and create affordable housing, and good quality school.’ Brisport, a former teacher, has angered moderates like Adams by supporting pet lefty causes like decriminalizing prostitution and increasing taxes on the wealthy since his election in 2020.”
“City Council bill would require businesses to give gig workers 56 hours of paid sick leave,” by Crain’s Brian Pascus: “A new bill introduced in the City Council would require companies to give gig workers and other independent contractors up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year. Employer advocates worry that the bill could create more costs for small businesses and confuse the relationship that firms have with their independent contractors. Legislation introduced by Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif would expand worker coverage under the city’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act. City employers are required to offer employees between 40 and 56 hours of paid sick leave per year, depending on the size of the employer.”
WHAT ALBANY'S READING
“Suspect petitions were assembled at NY Republican headquarters,” by Times Union’s Chris Bragg: “State Republican Party headquarters in Albany served as a final hub of a dubious petitioning effort that's since sparked controversy and a Democrat-led call for a criminal investigation. The petitioning centered on statewide Republican candidates seeking to run on an additional, key ballot line in the November election by reviving the moribund state Independence Party. This spring, the GOP attempted a massive petitioning effort, spearheaded in part by the Republican gubernatorial campaign of U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin of Long Island. A spokeswoman for the state Republican Party, Jessica Proud, confirmed to the Times Union that signed Independence Party petitions were later dropped at their party headquarters on State Street in Albany — and bound in volumes at the party office — before submission to the state Board of Elections on the May 31 deadline.”
“Progressive groups tell Hochul next chief judge must not be former prosecutor,” by City & State’s Peter Sterne: “As the process to replace Chief Judge DiFiore begins, this coalition is beginning to organize once again – this time, with backing from some of the state’s largest progressive advocacy groups. On Friday, the coalition sent a letter to Hochul laying out a set of criteria for her to consider when nominating DiFiore’s replacement as chief judge. The letter was spearheaded by the Center for Community Alternatives and co-signed by more than 100 other progressive organizations – including such heavy hitters as the state Working Families Party, New York Communities for Change, Make the Road NY, and the United Auto Workers Region 9A.”
“Erie County DA appointed special prosecutor in Lee Zeldin attack case,” by Spectrum’s Nick Reisman: “Erie County District Attorney John Flynn was appointed the special prosecutor to oversee the case against the 43-year-old Fairport man accused of attempting to assault Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin during a rally last month. David Jakubonis faces second-degree attempted assault, a felony. Flynn's office was handed the case by Acting state Supreme Court Justice Richard Healy after questions arose over Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley's support for Zeldin.”
New York’s New State Government Ethics and Lobbying Oversight Body Takes Shape,” by Gotham Gazette’s Ethan Geringer-Sameth: “CELG, like JCOPE before it, is responsible for overseeing New York’s ethics and lobbying laws with jurisdiction over state elected officials and employees, lobbyists and their clients. When it is fully established, it will be able to issue formal guidance, advisory opinions and regulations, and investigate potential corruption cases and ethics violations. That could conceivably happen as soon as six members – a majority of the commission – are seated, though at only six members commission votes would have to be unanimous to make a final decision on any action.”
“Brooklyn state Sen. Kevin Parker, staff treat themselves on donors’ dime,” by New York Post’s Zach Williams: “Nothing like a boss who shares the wealth! Brooklyn state Sen. Kevin Parker and his staff have enjoyed luxury food, travel and jewelry with the help of thousands of dollars in donations to the 10-term incumbent — who is battling for his political life in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary. Since last year, Parker has stuck his campaign committee with $1,814.01 in bills from the Royal Sonesta New Orleans hotel, $825 in jewelry for ‘staff appreciation,’ as well as nearly $2,000 more for luxury wellness products and services, campaign finance records show.”
#UpstateAmerica: A new documentary, “Potty Town: Where Protest Meets Porcelain,” “aims to flush out the story” about one man’s 25-year grudge against the town of Potsdam and the toilet gardens that ensued.
FROM THE DELEGATION
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Rep. Mondaire Jones is going negative against rival Dan Goldman in his closing ad of the contentious primary in the 10th Congressional District. "Dan Goldman has dangerous views on abortion; Mondaire Jones is 100 percent pro-choice," the narrator says in the 30-second spot — a reference to Goldman's comment in Jewish media outlet Hamodia that he would not object to a state law prohibiting the termination of a healthy, viable fetus if the pregnancy posed no risk to the mother. (After conferring with an aide during the interview, Goldman backtracked.) The ad, which will run online and on broadcast TV through Election Day next Tuesday, slams the Trump impeachment attorney as a "conservative" who "profited off gun manufacturers" and "made money off FOX News," regarding his personal investment portfolio that includes holdings in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. A Jones spokesman said the campaign is spending more than $500,000 on the ad buy. It is Jones' final push to sway Democratic voters away from the self-funded multi-millionaire who has won support from an Orthodox Jewish voting bloc in the district. — Sally Goldenberg
“Schumer Backs Nadler Over Maloney in N.Y. Democratic Primary,” by the New York Times’ Nicholas Fandos: “Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s most powerful Democrat in Washington, will throw his support behind Representative Jerrold Nadler on Monday in a bruising Manhattan primary contest against the congressman’s longtime ally, Representative Carolyn Maloney. Mr. Schumer becomes the first member of the state’s congressional delegation to take a side in the Aug. 23 race, which pits two House committee chairs with three decades’ service against one another. Given his stature — both as the Senate majority leader and as a power broker in his home state — and the relative lack of input from fellow political leaders, Mr. Schumer’s last-minute endorsement could prove decisive for voters torn between two popular incumbents.”
A House candidate in New York may be in Congress for just four months. And he’s fine with it, by POLITICO’s Bill Mahoney: Now he’s well-positioned to be elected to the U.S. House in his own right — but don't blink. If he wins, he will have the second-briefest stint in Congress of the nearly 1,500 New Yorkers who have ever served in the chamber. Sempolinski is running in an Aug. 23 special election to fill, until year's end, the heavily Republican seat that was vacated in May by Republican Rep. Tom Reed, his former boss. But Sempolinski isn't looking to be elected to a full two-year term in November under new district lines. So if he wins the special election as expected, come January he'll be back home in Canisteo rather than the halls of Washington. “I’m running to serve for approximately four months. I would do it if it were for four minutes — because this is my home,” he said in a recent interview in Ithaca.
TRUMP'S NEW YORK
“Trump Executive Nears Plea Deal With Manhattan Prosecutors,” by the New York Times’ Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Jonah E. Bromwich: “A senior executive at Donald J. Trump’s family business who was charged with participating in a yearslong tax scheme is nearing a deal with Manhattan prosecutors but will not cooperate with a broader investigation into Mr. Trump, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. If it becomes final, a plea deal for the executive, Allen H. Weisselberg, would bring prosecutors no closer to indicting the former president but would nonetheless brand one of his most trusted lieutenants a felon. On Monday, Mr. Weisselberg’s lawyers and prosecutors met with the judge overseeing the case, according to a court database. The judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday, a possible indication that a deal has been reached and a plea could be entered then.”
AROUND NEW YORK
— Iran denied any involvement in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.
— Adams refused to say whether the Conflicts of Interest Board gave an aide the green light to simultaneously hold jobs with the city and at a casino.
— The city and the union representing Staten Island Ferry workers agreed to use a mediator to settle their longstanding contract dispute.
— Hospitals and health care workers failed to reach consensus on staffing plans.
— Sen. Chuck Schumer says the secret to his success is his flip phone.
— Hochul accelerated the use of NYPA settlement funds for the Buffalo waterfront.
— State cannabis officials approved the first processor licenses.
— Staff shortages led to delays at New York airports.
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Real Estate
“In Bronx Senate Race, Democrats Unite in Opposition to New Affordable Housing,” by City Limits’ David Brand: “Three candidates running for an open State Senate seat in the East Bronx agree that New York City is in desperate need of affordable housing. But that doesn’t mean they support plans for new income-restricted apartments in their district. … The candidates find common ground when it comes to a proposed supportive housing site for critically ill former Rikers detainees on the campus of Jacobi Hospital, and a 349-unit apartment complex planned for vacant lots along the Bruckner Expressway. They oppose both of the projects, one of which requires a rezoning and both of which have sparked furious backlash among local community groups in a district with a reputation for NIMBYism.” | https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2022/08/16/ny10-pileup-00052105 | 2022-08-16T16:25:04Z | https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2022/08/16/ny10-pileup-00052105 | false | 1 |
Former Australian PM Morrison took on extra powers in secret
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday accused his predecessor Scott Morrison of “trashing democracy” after revealing that while Morrison was in power, he took on five ministerial roles without the knowledge of most other lawmakers or the public.
Albanese said Morrison had been operating in secret, keeping the Australian people in the dark and misleading Parliament over who was in charge of what portfolios.
“This has been government by deception,” Albanese said.
Adding to revelations first detailed over the weekend by News Corp. media, Albanese said that between March 2020 and May 2021, Morrison was appointed minister of health, finance, home affairs, treasury and industry — moves which appeared to have given Morrison equal powers to the ministers already appointed to those positions.
“It is completely extraordinary that these appointments were kept secret by the Morrison government from the Australian people,” Albanese told reporters in Canberra.
Speaking on Sydney radio station 2GB, Morrison defended taking on the extra portfolios, saying they were a safeguard during the coronavirus pandemic and that he would have made the appointments public had he needed to use the powers involved.
“Sometimes we forget what was happening two years ago and the situation we were dealing with. It was an unconventional time and an unprecedented time,” Morrison told the radio station.
He pointed to the coronavirus hospitalization of the then-British prime minister.
“Boris Johnson almost died one night,” Morrison said. “We had ministers go down with COVID.”
Morrison used his additional powers on at least one occasion, to overturn a decision by former minister Keith Pitt to approve a contentious gas project off the New South Wales coast.
Pitt said in a statement he was unaware Morrison had joint oversight over his ministerial portfolio and that he stands by the decisions he made at the time.
In a more detailed account published on Facebook later Tuesday, Morrison wrote that the gas project was the only matter he got directly involved with and that “I believe I made the right decision in the national interest.”
Morrison said that “for any offense to my colleagues, I apologize.”
But Karen Andrews, who served as home affairs minister under Morrison, said Morrison never told her that he was also being appointed to the portfolio. She said Morrison, who remains in Parliament on the opposition benches, should resign.
“The Australian people have been let down, they have been betrayed,” she said. “For a former prime minister to have behaved in that manner, to secretly be sworn into other portfolios, undermines the Westminster system, it’s absolutely unacceptable.”
Albanese said he was seeking an opinion from the solicitor-general as to the legality of some of Morrison’s moves, including on the gas project, and expected to get that on Monday.
“This is a sad indictment of not just Mr. Morrison, but all those Cabinet colleagues of his who sat back and allowed this to happen. It has undermined our democracy, it’s an attack on the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy as we know it,” Albanese said. “And not just Mr. Morrison, but others who were involved in this need to be held to account.”
Morrison’s moves have left legal scholars scratching their heads.
Professor Anne Twomey, a constitutional law expert at the University of Sydney, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that it was reasonable that Morrison might want to have a second person who was able to take over if the first person was incapacitated.
But she said any ministerial appointments would typically be recorded and published in the government gazette.
“Doing that kind of thing in secret? Very, very odd,” Twomey said.
Morrison’s moves were signed off by Governor-General David Hurley.
A spokesperson for Hurley said the governor-general followed processes consistent with the constitution.
“It is not uncommon for ministers to be appointed to administer departments other than their portfolio responsibility,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “These appointments do not require a swearing-in ceremony. The governor-general signs an administrative instrument on the advice of the prime minister.”
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Which brush cutter is best?
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The Badger Brush Cutter and String Trimmer is built to accommodate bush clearing and weed trimming alike. It includes the attachments you need for both tasks as well as a harness to make it easy to carry.
What to know before you buy a brush cutter
Brush cutters vs. weed whackers
Many people understandably confuse brush cutters with weed whackers. They look nearly identical at first glance, but there are some key differences. Brush cutters use a hard, spinning blade to tackle thick undergrowth, whereas weed whackers use a nylon string to zip through tall grass and light weeds.
While dedicated brush cutters are more powerful than weed whackers, some let you swap out their blade for a string cutter, further blurring the line between the two tools.
Motor type
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Thanks to advances in technology, manufacturers are now offering brush trimmers that forego fuel in favor of powerful batteries. These machines run quieter, don’t require gasoline and don’t produce any noxious fumes or smoke during operation. However, with their high cost and short battery life, electric brush cutters are not ideal for business owners or people that have to clear large areas.
Required safety gear
Brush cutters are messy. While in use, they throw chips, sawdust and debris in all directions. Because of this, protective eyewear is a must. You will likely also want to invest in rugged work gloves to prevent blisters while holding the machine’s grips as well as sturdy work boots to keep your feet, toes and ankles protected from any airborne sticks or stones.
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Changeable heads
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Brush trimmers are held using grips and a shoulder strap. Because they require enough strength and endurance to move them back and forth while trimming, select one that is light enough to not exhaust you during long jobs.
Extra batteries
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Brush cutters typically cost $200-$600. People shopping for four-stroke and electric cutters will find the ones they prefer at the higher end of this price range.
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Can I cut wood with a brush trimmer?
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What’s the best brush cutter to buy?
Top brush cutter
Badger Brush Cutter and String Trimmer
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What you should consider: Even with its harness and handlebars, some users feel that this cutter is too heavy to use comfortably.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top brush cutter for the money
DeWalt Two-Stroke Gas Brush Cutter
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Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Makita LXT Lithium-Ion Cordless Brush Cutter
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Department of Labor & Industry officially recognizes modern method used by advanced builders like Apis Cor as a replacement for traditional CMU blocks
MELBOURNE, Fla. and HELENA, Mont., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Building code regulators at the state level in Montana made history as the first to approve 3D-printed walls as an equal replacement for walls made with concrete masonry units (CMUs), or a standard cored concrete block.
The approval was granted to Tim Stark, a contractor based in Billings, Montana, after filing documents, specifications and testing reports developed by Apis Cor, the Florida-based construction technology company that holds the Guiness World Record for the largest (volume) 3D-printed building globally.
Apis Cor is the only construction company that has designed 3D-printed walls that comply with international building codes. Their 3D-printed walls and material have been tested by an independent, third-party lab in Boston, Massachusetts, and at the Civil and Environmental Engineering School of the University of Connecticut. The resulting specification was published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
The company has completed multiple pilot homes in the United States and in the United Arab Emirates.
General Contractor Tim Stark sought to get permission to use Apis Cor's 3D-printing process and equipment for a housing development project in Billings and in other areas of Montana, leveraging automation and materials to lower the cost of production. The cost of a finished home printed with an Apis Cor printer can be up to 30% less than traditionally built concrete block or wood-framed houses. In addition to cost reduction, developers who lease Apis Cor's portable, mobile 3D-printing equipment will dramatically increase their speed of production, to boost supply at a faster rate.
While housing prices nationwide have risen dramatically over the past few years, Montana was more affected than most interior states as residents left coastal cities seeking a higher quality of life and affordable living. Statewide, Montana's average home price increase was 23.8% in 2021 compared to the national average of 17.4%, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Billings was in the Top 10 of the WSJ/Realtor.com Emerging Housing Markets Index and has seen a 32% increase in home prices from 2020 as demand outstrips supply.
Housing developers are eager to make up for two decades of underproduction that led to the housing crisis by increasing their output, but in many cases, red tape, excessive fees and exclusionary zoning policies can artificially cap the supply of housing. In the case of Montana, regulators are doing the opposite.
"In so many states, regulations are getting in the way of building more homes," said Tim Stark. "I'm proud of my home state of Montana for being so forward-thinking and leading the way with this approval of 3D printing as a modern construction method on par to CMU block construction, which opens the door instead of closing it."
The approval applies not just to single-family dwellings, like the kind that Stark has planned, but also for all types of construction that must follow the state building code. The code includes requirements for construction and construction materials to be consistent with accepted standards of design, engineering, and fire prevention practices, and to use technology that reduces cost of construction and promotes efficient use of energy use but still complies with health and safety standards.
"The need for safe, quality affordable housing is significant across Montana, and this approval puts Montana at the forefront of innovative housing construction technologies nationwide," said Commissioner of Labor & Industry Laurie Esau. "The Department will continue to work to ensure that our standards and regulations are keeping pace with the innovation taking place in the industry to help facilitate new construction for Montana's workers and families."
"This is exciting news for all home builders and of course the 3D-printed homes industry," said Apis Cor co-founder and CEO Anna Cheniuntai. "Having this clear support from the state of Montana paves the way for faster decisions at the county level, which will make it easier for developers to move forward on their 3D-printed housing projects. While the path is open in all states, Montana is taking a stand in advocating for the smooth approval process, thus opening up massive opportunities for efficiently produced housing."
About Apis Cor
Founded in 2016 by Nikita and Anna Cheniuntai, Apis Cor is an American technology corporation headquartered in Melbourne, Florida that develops advanced technologies and materials for construction 3D-printing. The company holds the Guinness Book World Record for the Largest 3D-Printed Building on Earth and is proud to be a resident of the Autodesk Technology Centers Outsight Network. A successful participant in NASA's "3D Printed Habitat Challenge" – Apis Cor was awarded top honors in several categories. Apis Cor is backed by Alchemist Accelerator, the premier accelerator for Enterprise startups, and At One Ventures, a VC and private equity firm which supports deep tech ventures that are a net positive to nature and the planet. Learn more about 3D-printing construction technology at: www.Apis-Cor.com.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alani Nu, the better-for-you health and wellness brand founded by entrepreneur and influencer Katy Hearn, launched a new beverage category within its portfolio today – Alani Coffee. This new, ready-to-drink line offers 10 grams of protein and natural caffeine derived from coffee beans, with only 90 calories per 12 oz. bottle.
"Expanding into the coffee category has been a dream for us. As a highly requested product for so long, we have taken every step possible to curate the best-tasting flavors," said Founder, Katy Hearn. "We are excited to share this new line with our Alani community."
Alani Coffee is gluten-free, high in calcium, low in fat and cholesterol, and sweetened with only 6 grams of sugar. A perfect blend of cold-brewed coffee and cream, Alani Coffee comes in four flavors including cappuccino, vanilla, maple donut and mocha, each sold in a 12-pack case.
Alani Coffee is now available on Walmart.com and rolling into select retail partners' brick and mortar locations including Walmart, GNC and The Vitamin Shoppe.
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Founded in 2018 by entrepreneur and influencer, Katy Hearn, Alani Nu® is a better-for-you health and wellness brand focused on providing low-calorie products with unique flavors. Alani Nu offers a range of products including energy drinks, daily essentials, healthy snacks and more, and can be found at Walmart, Target, on Amazon, in GNC, The Vitamin Shoppe and Kroger nationwide.
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Agri-tourism unlocks economic potential in rural areas – providing visitors with a unique, behind the scenes experience of farming while creating much-needed jobs.
Along the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, where the Agri-Culture Tours are proving a successful initiative, it’s women who are leading in this particular field.
“Promoting tourism in the hinterland region while supporting our women tourism operators is a major drive for us and we’re excited to shine a spotlight on these three exceptional women,” said Phelisa Mangcu, CEO of South Coast Tourism and Investment Enterprise (SCTIE).
“By sharing their stories this Women’s Day, we hope to inspire others to find opportunities in the agritourism industry and develop this incredibly worthwhile sector along the KZN South Coast.”
The KZN South Coast is an accessible, year-round leisure destination that accommodates families, adventure travellers, business visitors and keen investors.
“SCTIE will continue to leverage this to achieve its goal in positioning the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast as the province’s leading regional tourism and investment destination.”
The organisation facilitates key stakeholder meetings, eliminate barriers, and increases access to incentives that support local and international investments.
BBS Farm
Meet Busisiwe Lubanya, Silindile Zondi and Bongi Lushaba, co-founders of BBS Farm in Southport. Named after its three women founders – BBS Farm was first established as a subsistence farm but quickly grew in popularity, with the women finding a niche market in commercial produce.
The trio decided to start their own enterprise after finding themselves with the right certifications, but without employment.
Lushaba recalls meeting Lubanya and Zondi at a co-operative summit where the three were elected onto the committee as chair, secretary and treasurer.
“The three of us were unemployed graduates, so we decided to work together, helping other co-operatives and also training further in the industry. We then decided to register our farm as the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development was running a programme calling for such proposals, and we were lucky,” said Lushaba.
Zondi added: “I studied plant production in agriculture at Mangosuthu University of Technology… In 2005 I met Bongi and Busi and we decided to put our experience to good use.”
After securing land through the department, and a loan through Ithala Bank, the trio embarked on their agricultural journey. “We started with our
Heritage tomatoes which come in a variety of red, green, yellow, orange and maroon, which we packaged differently, mixing in cherry tomatoes,” said Lubanya, who focuses on production. Zondi deals with finances, while Lushaba is in charge of labour relations.
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BBS Farm offers:
- Farm tours showcasing the organically-grown produce; a tour of the hydroponic system that waters the world-class tomato selection (including the Heritage tomato); and a macadamia tour.
- Fishing for carp, tilapia and bass at the dam.
- Food and a cup of coffee while enjoying some great views.
Ubumbano Farm:
Meet sisters Nelly and Nolwazi Zama, co-founders of Ubumbano Farm in Amandawe. The Zama family started this agricultural co-operative in 2017, on a smallholding in Amandawe as a mixed farming venture.
They produced choice-grade crops which gained local attention, prompting the shift to commercial farming with the addition of a retail sector. “The smallholding has always been owned by our dad and we all got involved as we grew up,” said Nelly.
“We currently have sugar cane, seasonal vegetables, macadamia nuts and bananas growing on the farm, running under a family-owned business.
SCTIE identified the farm as an ideal addition to the Agri-Culture Tours, which has proved a success for tourism and the Zama family.
“Our offering is different as we don’t only have the crop, we also make products from some of our produce, including chilli jam.”
Ubumbano Farm offers:
- Farm tours to witness growing techniques, harvesting and a chance to sample fresh produce.
- Home-made eats from the farm stall and a picnic under the trees.
- Shopping at Ubumbano Farm Stall which stocks freshly-made macadamia nut and rocket pesto, macadamia nut biscuits and brittle, baked mielie loaf and steamed mielie bread.
- There’s also locally-manufactured arts, crafts and other memorabilia in the Curio Shop.
Mpenjati Coffee:
Meet Leigh Wichmann, co-found[1]er of Mpenjati Coffee in Munster.
Leigh and Des Wichmann started farming coffee almost five years ago at their Jericho Farm with the processing performed at their Larkfield Farm.
The couple has started brewing some of the region’s best coffee blends with visitors welcome to experience the process from plant to cup.
“This has been my husband’s dream for a while but I was always too nervous to branch out until he convinced me it was the right time,” said Wichmann.
“We did the crazy thing of opening in the December season but I just loved the busyness of it all.”
She said that balancing the business demands with that of the family can be tricky, but it’s worth all those long hours of baking and preparation.
“I love that we get to show everyone what we actually do, and I think it is so important to understand the process that goes into every cup of coffee, understanding how you get that perfect cup.
“We have also been able to open a small farm stall supporting numerous other small businesses along the KZN South Coast, many of which are women-owned.”
Mpenjati Coffee offers:
- Delicious food and a cup of locally brewed coffee at the café.
- A tour of the farm to view the pulping, drying, hulling, separating, grading and roasting of the coffee.
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Solar research, test lab and training facility builds on Nextracker's 5.5 gigawatts of smart solar trackers in Brazil and 70 gigawatts worldwide
SOROCABA, Brazil, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nextracker™, the global leader in smart solar trackers with the no. 1 market share position in Brazil, is partnering with FIT (Flex Instituto de Tecnologia) to launch South America's largest solar tracker R&D facility, the Brazil Center for Solar Excellence (CFSE). This state-of-the-art multi-million-dollar photovoltaic research and development center will be officially unveiled in Sorocaba, Brazil on August 22.
The CFSE technology hub will encompass the full lifecycle of solar tracker systems including structural, mechanical, and electrical design, construction, operation, and maintenance. CFSE researchers will conduct in-depth research and testing on wind dynamics, soil mechanics, and tracker performance enhancement via software and battery backup systems. The Nextracker - FIT facility includes an adjacent 770 kilowatt (kW) solar installation which serves as an outdoor laboratory for prototyping and testing new products and a workforce training center totaling 30,000 square meters.
"We're proud to have Nextracker as a partner on our Guañizul project in Argentina and looking forward to our collaboration on upcoming South American projects using their high performing NX Horizon smart solar tracker systems," stated Aleksander Skaare, Vice President of projects at Scatec. "This facility is an exciting development to help advance the solar industry in Brazil and South America."
According to Woodmackenzie Power & Renewables, Nextracker holds the no. 1 position for solar trackers in Brazil with 38% market share. The company won six projects in the past nine months with a cumulative capacity of 2.6 GW, bringing their total tracker projects in Brazil to 5.5 GW either in operation or under fulfillment.
"Brazil is one of the fastest-growing solar power markets in the world," stated Dan Shugar, CEO and founder of Nextracker. "We've been making our electronic controllers and key components in Brazil for over five years, now investing heavily in a world-class R&D and test facility. We've provided installer training to hundreds of solar professionals through our PowerworX Academy and together with FIT, hired dozens of highly specialized and talented staff to continue to advance the state-of-the-art technology to best support our customers. This center is an expansion of this effort." For Dan Shugar, the initiative is another step toward accelerating solar as the world's fastest growing source of energy.
Carlos Ohde, General Manager of the FIT Institute of Technology said, "We're focused on careful design, empirical testing, and performance with well-designed measurement and verification protocol. We're thrilled to partner with Nextracker as the core anchor in this R&D center and as the leading solar technology company to take solar power generation to new heights."
Nextracker's new Brazilian R&D hub is modeled after the company's existing Center of Excellence facility co-located at their headquarters in Fremont, California (USA). Brazil's fast-growing pipeline of PV projects led Nextracker to choose the country for its largest investment in R&D and training outside of North America.
According to analyst firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, Brazil's solar tracker market is growing four times as fast as the international market, with single-axis tracker installations having increased by 105% (or 5.7 GW) in 2021. Brazil has a goal to achieve 45% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.
About Nextracker
With 70 GW of single-axis trackers delivered worldwide, Nextracker is a world leader in smart, integrated tracker solutions and software. Its solar trackers and intelligent software allow utility-scale solar power plants to track the movement of the sun and optimize the performance of these assets.
Notable Brazil projects include the Janaúba complex (1.2 GW) and Sol do Cerrado (766 MW). With a local workforce to support the complete life cycle of solar projects spanning sales, operations, and technical support, Nextracker has already supplied solar trackers to 16 utility-scale solar plants in Brazil, from Ceará to São Paulo.
The company entered the Brazilian market in 2015. Its administrative headquarters, factory, and training program for installers, PowerworX Academy, are in Sorocaba. Nextracker's PowerworX installer training academy provides cross-functional, hands-on instruction to solar workers on the fundamentals and finer points of the design, installation, commissioning, software, and operations and maintenance of Nextracker's advanced PV systems.
For more information, please visit: www.nextracker.com
About FIT
Founded in 2003, FIT - Institute of Technology is a national non-profit organization, accredited by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation. FIT is a leading institute developing technological solutions for a wide range of industries; solutions that anticipate the needs of the market, industry, and people. With state-of-the-art equipment and a highly qualified team, FIT contributes to technological developments that surprise and reveal trends. We are building the future every day and bringing technology to everyone. For more information, please visit FIT.
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(NEXSTAR) – A large metal object fell from the sky over the Maine State Capitol in Augusta, nearly hitting a police worker who was standing nearby.
The object, weighing between 6 and 7 pounds, is believed to be a piece of aircraft debris that fell from “a large airliner on an international route,” the state’s Department of Public Safety announced.
The incident took place Friday just after noon, according to the department. The object “landed at a high velocity” near the entrance to the building, narrowly missing Capitol Police Screener Craig Donahue by about 6 to 8 feet.
“Two other individuals were also in the area and witnessed the incident,” Chief Matthew Clancy of the Maine Capitol Police wrote in a news release. “No one was injured.”
The source of the object remained unknown as of Tuesday morning, though Clancy said the Federal Aviation Administration indicated it could be part of a passenger jet’s wing flap, the Associated Press reported.
A representative for the FAA confirmed to Nexstar that the agency is aware of the incident and has launched an investigation.
The area where the part fell, meanwhile, is usually busier when the state’s legislature is in session, Clancy said.
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S. Korean team completes development of testing equipment for NASA's SPHEREx telescope
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Yonhap) -- A team of South Korean scientists has completed the development of key testing equipment for SPHEREx, the world's first all-sky spectral space telescope being constructed under the leadership of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), South Korea's science ministry said Wednesday.
The team led by Jeong Woong-seob at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) completed the development of the cryogenic vacuum chamber for SPHEREx, and transported and installed the testing equipment at the California Institute of Technology in Los Angeles in June, the Ministry of Science and ICT said.
The chamber will allow engineers to test the capabilities of the near-infrared space telescope by recreating simulated space environments.
KASI is the sole international team participating in the U.S. project launched in 2015. Other participating organizations include the California Institute of Technology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Johns Hopkins University.
NASA plans to launch SPHEREx in April 2025. The telescope will use a spectrophotometer to perform an all-sky survey that will measure near-infrared spectra from 0.75 to 5.0 micrometers while traveling along a Sun-synchronous orbit.
The mission is expected to last for about 30 months after its launch and to help scientists better understand the origin and history of galaxies and explore the origin of water in planetary systems.
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Patrick Vieira appears to name Arsenal as a title challenger while speaking about the clubs his Crystal Palace team has faced this season.
The Eagles held Liverpool to a 1-1 draw yesterday as the Reds continue their winless start to this campaign.
Palace’s first game of the season was against Arsenal and the Gunners beat them 2-0.
It was a good performance from them, but the Gunners were the better team and they went on to beat Leicester City in their next match.
Mikel Arteta’s side is currently chasing Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table and that makes them early title challengers.
Vieira seems to think so, and he said in his post-match press conference yesterday, as quoted by Metro Sport:
‘When you look at the number of points, of course playing against two teams who are fighting to win the Premier League, is always going to be challenging.’
Just Arsenal Opinion
We have made a bright start to this campaign and we probably will keep getting better.
Our new signings have made the team better and it will be hard to stop us from winning matches now.
However, we must keep working hard and stay humble because the season is very long.
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The Chicago Bulls can make a deep playoff run, says Bulls commentator Adam Amin. They got off to a hot start this past season. But a late-season swoon has put the earlier stint’s legitimacy in doubt.
ESPN has them finishing as the eight-seed next season.
That is quite the gloomy outlook for a team that sat in first place in the Eastern Conference after returning from the All-Star break.
A 4-1 first-round elimination in which they looked largely non-competitive against the Milwaukee Bucks will do that. But Amin thinks that the pieces are in place for the Bulls to surprise some people and he’s not alone in that thinking.
Health is First and Foremost
Amin was a guest on “Unfiltered” with David Kaplan on August 15. The pair talked about their outlook on the Bulls ahead of training camp in just over a month. Kaplan framed his question around the Bulls’ push for continuity this offseason.
They have a good reason to do so, says Amin.
“I think if they’re healthy…this core, as proven through the first half of last season, is good enough to be a competitive second-round team. Meaning they could potentially win, with the right matchup, a second-round series. But they need to be healthy.”
The Bulls had neither the benefit of health nor a positive matchup against the Bucks. Alex Caruso played in four of the five games. Zach LaVine played but was severely limited by a knee injury.
And Lonzo Ball had been out since January.
Amin went on to cite the Bulls’ offseason, which has come under fire for the lack of sizzle with the additions that they did make, as a positive.
“I think this team got better along the margins where they needed to – they didn’t have to get drastically better. And if the core is healthy…that core is good enough in my estimation to make some noise. And they’re better on the margins.”
Kap’s Keys to Bulls Success
Kaplan also chimed in with his take on what it will take for the Bulls to take that next step. His answer included health but in a much more specific way. He feels the key to Chicago’s progress lies in their youth.
Amin had cited what rookie Dalen Terry could offer. But Kaplan wasn’t ready to put that responsibility on the rookie’s shoulder.
“I do believe the key to the season is player development of Patrick Williams and Ayo Dosunmu. Look, rookies are what rookies are. Whatever you get. Patrick Williams, I believe, has a chance to be a star. A star! He’s got to take the next step. He’s got to stay healthy.”
Amin concurred with Kaplan that health was a key for Williams. The third-year forward missed all but 17 regular season games last season before being thrust into his first playoff series.
Williams has flashed tremendous potential. But he himself admits that he has to find a way to deliver upon all of his talent consistently. To that end, Williams flew to Los Angeles earlier in the offseason to work with teammate DeMar DeRozan; one of the most consistent performers in the NBA today.
The DeRozan Connection
Williams spoke highly of his time spent training with and learning from DeRozan. He said his biggest takeaways were that DeRozan is constantly challenging himself mentally and the importance of having a routine.
The duo also appeared in a pro-am game together that got plenty of attention.
But Williams is not the only player on his own team who has benefitted from being under the tutelage of DeRozan.
Dosunmu quickly formed a bond with the five-time All-Star last season as a rookie, even being the one to calm the veteran down in heated moments, and it paid off for him in real-time with a second-team All-Rookie selection.
Both players being keys to the Bulls’ success makes sense. It is also a risky proposition. But it is one that would be even riskier if they weren’t able to have such a great example set for them as the one being set by DeRozan on a daily basis. | https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bulls/analyst-sounds-off-on-ayo-dosunmu-patrick-williams/ | 2022-08-16T16:49:54Z | https://heavy.com/sports/chicago-bulls/analyst-sounds-off-on-ayo-dosunmu-patrick-williams/ | true | 1 |
Parents are being warned to be on the alert after a huge stash of ‘stoner sweets’ laced with cannabis were found in ‘copycat’ packaging at two suspected drugs dens in Sussex.
The edibles – which can contain up to six times more of the psychedelic chemical THC than is permitted in similar medicinal products – were found by police in colourful packs marked ‘Stoney Patch’, making them look almost identical to children’s Sour Patch favourites.
Experts warned that youngsters who eat cannabis edibles can become ‘very sick’ and may struggle to walk, sit up or breathe normally.
Even though cannabis plant designs on the outlawed packets made them distinguishable from the actual children’s sweets, officers are warning they could easily be mistaken for legal brands – or slipped into homes under the noses of parents who don’t notice the difference.
A spokesman for Sussex Police said officers attended East Sussex addresses in Bexhill Road, St Leonards and Preston Road, Bexhill on Monday, August 8 following information received from the community around suspected drug-related activity.
More than 5kg of cannabis and cannabis resin was found at the two properties, alongside nearly £5,000 in cash and hoards of cannabis edibles.
Two men aged 33 and 34 years were arrested on ‘being concerned in the supply of cannabis’ before they were released under investigation while enquiries continue.
Inspector Aidan Cornwall said: ‘This was a significant operation with more than 150 separate items seized during lengthy searches at both addresses. It was an operation that also highlights our commitment to listening to the community’s concerns and following up on the information we receive.
‘Cannabis edibles can be incredibly dangerous. For one, they are often packaged in brightly-coloured and professional-looking packaging which can not only look like legitimate food, but can also be particularly appealing to children and young people.
‘However, these items are produced in often unsanitary conditions and with no quality-control, meaning those consuming these products have no idea what the strength of them will be, nor what contaminants they may also contain.
‘The consumption of cannabis edibles has been linked with a number of hospitalisations and even deaths, and so we are particularly pleased to have removed such a large quantity from circulation.’
From November 1, 2018, patients in the UK could be prescribed medicinal cannabis.
But the drug is still controlled as a Class B substance under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 for recreational use.
Scientific studies have shown the drug can alleviate depression, anxiety and stress, but heavy use may prompt paranoia and worsen depression in the long term by reducing the brain’s ability to let go of traumatic memories.
The popularity of products containing cannabis oil with the psychoactive chemical THC has soared as it is claimed to have cancer-fighting and other medicinal properties.
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US Bestseller List - Paid Books
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1. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - 9781982185848 - (Simon & Schuster)
2. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781501110375 - (Atria Books)
3. Verity by Colleen Hoover - 9781538724743 - (Grand Central Publishing)
4. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover - 9781476753195 - (Atria Books)
5. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - 9780735219113 - (Penguin Publishing Group)
6. The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell - 9781982178918 - (Atria Books)
7. The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci - 9781538719879 - (Grand Central Publishing)
8. Forever Protected by Kathleen Brooks - 9781943805549 - (Laurens Publishing)
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Supreme Court Denies Coinbase’s Motion to Stay, Allowing Consumers to Pursue Justice for Stolen Crypto
The Supreme Court denied cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s motion to stay litigation in two cases, and its bid to expedite consideration for a writ of certiorari, which is how the Supreme Court identifies cases that it will decide. Later this year, the Supreme Court will decide Coinbase’s request for certiorari.
Two cases against Coinbase generated this flurry of Supreme Court motions. In one case, plaintiff Abraham Bielski was a Coinbase user who alleges he lost more than $31,000 after his bitcoin wallet was hacked. Bielski alleges he attempted to contact the company through multiple channels to no avail, getting lost in a customer service nightmare. Coinbase has certain responsibilities under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act to protect its customers from fraud; Bielski alleges the company failed to comply with this law. When he sought civil justice in federal court, Coinbase tried to compel him to arbitrate his claims. A Northern District of California court ruled that the arbitration provisions in Coinbase’s terms of service are unenforceable under California contract law, a ruling which would allow the case to proceed to trial.
Coinbase appealed the decision in Bielski and a similar ruling in another case to the Ninth Circuit and asked the Ninth Circuit to stay the district court proceedings in both cases while the appeals were pending. When the Ninth Circuit refused to halt the litigation in the district courts, the crypto exchange asked the Supreme Court to hear the cases (writ of certiorari), to expedite its consideration of them, and to stay the district court proceedings during the Supreme Court’s review.
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Liz Cheney's Husband Has Only One Degree of Separation from Hunter Biden's 'Tax Issues'
Barring a miracle on her behalf, GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming will soon become a lame duck.
Cheney is one of two token anti-Donald Trump Republicans on the Democrats’ Jan. 6 kangaroo kommittee in the House. The other, Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, had the self-awareness not to seek another term.
On Tuesday, Wyoming voters will make Cheney aware of how they feel about her. The polls provide a bit of a spoiler alert: The latest survey has her down by 29 points to Trump-endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman, and the margin has been widening.
However, if Cheney is worried about money matters, she should cheer up. Her husband’s law firm has been given the gift that keeps on giving: Hunter Biden’s patronage.
As the New York Post noted on Saturday, Cheney’s husband, Philip Perry, is a partner at a firm representing President Joe Biden’s wayward son as the Department of Justice probes his “tax issues” — just one degree of separation from a case that could have dramatic effects on the November midterms and 2024 presidential election.
“Philip Perry has worked at Latham & Watkins since 2007, and focuses on white collar cases, commercial and Supreme Court litigation, according to his company biography,” the Post reported.
“Another Latham partner, Chris Clark, has been representing Hunter Biden since December 2020 — but Cheney’s husband’s involvement at the firm had not been previously known.”
This isn’t entirely accurate — although it’s worth noting the media has been slow at putting two and two together on this.
In February 2021, Axios reported that Hunter had hired Latham & Watkins to represent him in December 2020. In February of this year, Just the News made the connection, noting “Liz Cheney’s Hunter Biden problem.”
The issue seems to have gotten traction in the final days of the Wyoming GOP primary campaign, however, after conservative outlet The Federalist picked it up last week.
Philip Perry (Liz Cheney’s husband) is a partner at same firm that Hunter’s lawyer is partner at. Meaning, Liz Cheney’s husband is making money from Hunter Biden. pic.twitter.com/FnIHtI1BH5
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 5, 2022
According to the Post, Clark’s profile at the firm’s website prominently mentions that he’s been representing Hunter Biden in a “grand jury investigation regarding tax issues.” I’m not quite sure why that would be considered a feather in a litigator’s cap, although I’ll concede the fact that Hunter has yet to face any serious charges for his behavior is a minor miracle. (As Breitbart noted, the president’s son is also under investigation for potentially lying on a federal firearm purchase form, although it’s unclear if anyone at Latham & Watkins is representing him for this.)
Then again, perhaps this minor miracle has nothing to do with Clark himself. Consider this error-splattered email from the lawyer to a reporter for the U.K.’s Daily Mail when he was asked for comment on a different Hunter-related matter:
Perhaps the most surprising thing about this was Hunter’s lawyer’s response when I asked him for comment: pic.twitter.com/BSTsoukXOs
— Josh Boswell (@JoshTBoswell) August 5, 2022
I hope someone else is typing up his court documents.
Poor spelling and grammar from one of its partners aside, though, Latham & Watkins is considered a “Democratic powerhouse,” according to the Post, with its employees ponying up more than half a million dollars to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
While the connection between Latham, Perry and Hunter Biden has been a new wrinkle in the final days of Cheney’s primary run, Perry’s partnership at the firm was already a campaign issue, although mostly over its ties to China.
Just the News reported in February that while Perry “does not work directly on accounts linked to Chinese companies, as a partner, he reaps directly the financial rewards of the firm as a whole.”
Hageman said this arrangement “is exactly the problem with Washington, D.C.”
“What do we find out when we dig a little bit deeper,” Hageman said, is that Cheney and Perry “are personally, financially benefiting from working for China and Kazakhstan and Belarus and Saudi Arabia.”
“He has a choice, he can either work with his firm and take the stand that his wife is apparently advocating publicly, and say, ‘We’re not going to represent countries or companies that, number one have problems with human rights abuses, and number two, who are really kind of in a soft war with the United States.’ Or you can go to another law firm,” she said.
“Have some integrity.”
Those three words are the crux of the issue, though: If Perry is anything like the woman he married, he might not have any.
It’s not that Liz Cheney turned on then-President Donald Trump after Jan. 6, 2021. It’s that, as the haze from the Capitol incursion lifted on Jan. 7, she saw little more than a branding opportunity.
Like so many before her, she became a careerist NeverTrumper — someone whose entire political future was a gamble that the soon-to-be-former president would be so radioactive that loudly, constantly decrying his existence would be enough to catapult her from a middling position in GOP leadership to the speaker’s chair or the White House.
She gambled wrongly, but rest assured the swamp has plenty of job opportunities for her. The only question left to ask is whether CNN or MSNBC secures her services when she leaves office in January.
Not that she needs them. An estimate cited by Breitbart said Cheney’s net worth has increased more than 600 percent, “from an estimated $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020.”
Liz Cheney doesn’t represent the people of Wyoming. She represents herself first and foremost, and then the Beltway machine that created her.
And, as for her husband, at least you can’t say she didn’t marry someone who shares her values — skewed though they may be.
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Abandoned as a baby, meet Tjili, the girl with cerebral palsy whose paintings sell for thousands
Watch Tjili's remarkable painting technique, as she creates a colourful hare.
Her paintings sell for thousands, and she lights up every room she enters, but when Tjili was born, a bright future was far from certain.
She was abandoned on a hospital doorstep in Cambodia, the only survivor of three triplets.
She had cerebral palsy, was deaf, and could not speak.
Now aged 21, her disabilities remain, but she has defied the doctors' prognoses that she'd be unlikely to walk or feed herself, let alone have fine control over her movements.
Her young life was transformed when a British couple James and Vik Grant Wetherill, found her in an orphanage and decided to adopt her.
Years of intensive occupational therapy strengthened her body, and as she grew, she started to show an interest in art and painting.
Growing up in Singapore, Malaysia and eventually Hampshire, Tjili loved watching animals and drawing them.
Despite the challenges of holding pens and a paint brush, she worked hard to develop her skills and her own unique style.
"She really has put in the hours," says her father, James. "She watches other artists on You Tube and learns from them.
"Lots of pieces of paper have ended up in the bin, but she will keep going until she gets it right."
Tjili grips her watercolour pencils backwards, using her whole body to control the paper.
The marks might appear random at first, but each is intentional, which becomes clear as the picture emerges.
Despite her challenges she's able to create beautiful works of art.
Two of her paintings were chosen for a major exhibition by the Watercolour Society- the judges had no idea of her unique circumstances, and she has two paintings on display at the Limewood Hotel in Lyndhurst, perfectly at home next to a Tracy Emin original.
This week she was invited to paint a picture of a hare, to be auctioned for the Murray Parish Trust, a charity run by the acting couple Sarah Parish and James Murray.
They've already raised £5 million for Southampton Children's Hospital, and this year's project, The Hares of Hampshire, is an artistic trail through Winchester and Southampton, featuring 30 uniquely decorated giant hares, painted by local artists.
Living in Romsey, Tjili and her family were keen to help, so she offered to paint a hare of her own.
The results were charming, and a joy to watch as the outline, then the vibrant colours appeared on the page.
"Her eye for animals is incredible," says Sarah. "It's amazing to watch, and overcoming all her physical difficulties to create such magical colourful pieces in the way she does is really inspirational."
Watch timelapse of Tjili painting her hare.
In less than an hour, Tjili completes her painting with her own unique heart signature.
She may not be able to speak, but her happiness at creating art is clear to see.
"Well done Tjili- it's a 10 out of 10!" says her father, and sister Poppi loves it too.
"Look at the eyes," she says, "I love the gleam in the eyes. It brings the whole painting to life."
"It's fabulous," says James. "Every day we wake up. She's got her new pad of paper out and we wait to see what will emerge. It's a miracle to see it unfold.
"We're lucky- we get to see it every day. Definitely a good hare day!"
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Heavy rain across Derbyshire has led to traffic chaos on the M1 after flooding has caused a slip road to be closed. The exit slip road on the M1 Southbound at J28 ( Alfreton / Mansfield) has been temporarily closed due to the weather.
Alongside this closure, one lane on the M1 Northbound at the same junction is closed due to surface water. There is congestion back to J27 Hucknall and traffic is queueing.
National Highways is reporting approximately 30 minute delays for motorists. The heavy rainfall comes after the Met Office issued a thunderstorm warning for Derbyshire.
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One lane on the M1 Southbound near J28 is also now closed
This is in addition to the slip road on the M1 Southbound near J28, as well as a lane of the M1 Northbound near J28
Highways England issue update
Highways England have warned motorists travelling in the area to expect delays.
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The J28 southbound exit slip is closed due to flooding, following very heavy rainfall. On the M1 northbound, lane 4 (of 4 lanes) is closed at J28. Delays of approx. 30 minutes above normal in both directions. | https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/motoring/live-updates-flash-flooding-closes-7472301 | 2022-08-16T16:58:42Z | https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/motoring/live-updates-flash-flooding-closes-7472301 | false | 1 |
Officials at York are anticipating four days of top-class sport as the eyes of the racing world turn to the Knavesmire on Wednesday.
The Sky Bet Ebor Festival offers three Group One races across four days and has attracted some of the best horses in training as the British season is in full swing.
William Haggas’ Baaeed – who is currently the world’s highest rated runner – will put his unbeaten record on the line as he steps up to 10 furlongs for the first time in the Juddmonte International Stakes, the highlight on the opening day.
“To have the highest-rated horse in the world, Baaeed, running in our flagship race is a great honour for everyone connected to the track,” said York’s chief executive William Derby.
“Defending champion, Mishriff, who won so convincingly last year, is back and so is Sir Busker, who won the Sky Bet York Stakes here in July over course and distance.
“There’s the Godolphin horse, Native Trail, who was second in the 2000 Guineas, so it is a fascinating race.
“It’s a small-ish field but with Baaeed stepping up in trip to 10 furlongs for the first time, it looks set to be a thriller.”
Another highly-anticipated Group One is Thursday’s Darley Yorkshire Oaks, with Sir Mark Prescott’s four-time Group One winner Alpinista seeking a first domestic title at the highest level after taking big prizes in both Germany and France.
Though Friday’s Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes is not restricted to fillies, much of the discussion surrounding the race focuses on James Tate’s superb City Walls Stakes winner Royal Aclaim and Richard Fahey’s highly-impressive juvenile, The Platinum Queen.
“He haven’t got a Battaash dominating the sector and it looks a really open race, you can make a case for a huge number of the Nunthorpe runners,” Derby said.
“The Platinum Queen is in off a featherweight of 8st with Hollie Doyle on board as a two-year-old and I think the oldest horse is six, you don’t often get a range of two to six in a Flat race.
“The defending champion, Winter Power, hasn’t always shown her best form this year but Tim Easterby has always said she’ll bloom in August, so it’ll be interesting to see how she runs. You could make a case for a dozen of them.”
John and Thady Gosden’s Stradivarius has been a headline act at York throughout his career and is unbeaten at the track, a record he will look to continue when bids for a fourth Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup on Friday.
“He’s unbeaten in six runs on the Knavesmire and he won the two £1million bonuses,” Derby said of the eight-year-old.
“The Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup, he’s won that three times, and the Paddy Power Yorkshire Cup, he’s won that three times as well.
“He’s going for the record of wins on the Knavesmire at seven. It’s really exciting to see him back, we weren’t sure in May if we would see him back, but he returns and he’ll bring the roof down here if he were to win on Friday.”
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Pipeline burst affects water supply to Kamothe residents
The water supply of over two lakh residents in Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, was cut off after an 800mm pipeline from Morbe Dam that supplies over 37MLD water to the node burst on Tuesday.
This Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) pipeline burst at the intersection adjacent to the Marble Market in Kalamboli, leading to disruption in water supply to the node.
Though Kamothe falls under CIDCO, the daily water requirement is provided by the NMMC. The pipeline burst at 8.30am. As per the messages circulated by CIDCO to the consumers, the water supply was to be restored by evening.
In Kamothe, there are a total of 2,142 water meters installed, supplying water to approximately 2.30 lakh residents across 24 sectors.
“A sudden increase in pressure of water supplied from Morbe appears to have caused the burst in the pipeline. The NMMC undertook the repair work immediately and the matter was resolved by evening,” said a CIDCO official.
“Since it was said that by evening the supply would be restored, we managed through the day with the water already stored in society tanks. At some places, water tankers were called for,” said Ranjana Sadolikar, a resident of Sector 34.
The water supply was discontinued to allow NMMC to conduct the repair work. Towards the creek side of Sion-Panvel Highway, water could be seen gushing out over 30 feet high. The NMMC officials informed that the supply from the treatment plant was stopped within 15 minutes of the pipeline burst to avoid more wastage of water.
“The valve of the pipeline was displaced due to excess pressure. Water supply to Kamothe was affected for the day. However, by evening, the repair work was completed and supply was restored but the pressure was low,” said an official from NMMC.
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18 foetuses found at municipal dumping ground in West Bengal
Howrah’s district chief medical officer Nitaichandra Mondol said: “This is a serious matter. Police have started an investigation. Whether any racket is going on in any hospital or any nursing home needs to be found out”.
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Post-pandemic return to school a back-breaking exercise for kids
Arundhati Chavan, president, Parent Teachers Association United Forum added, despite following a timetable, students end up carrying 7-8 kg-heavy bags. Lack of physical activity among school students over the last two years has also led to high cases of weak bones being reported. Several city schools are trying to ease students into the new routine, after two years of online classes. The Podar International School, in Santacruz, introduced a cupboard system for the students in April this year.
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65-year-old killed in road accident in Bhiwandi
A 65-year-old retired public prosecutor was mowed down by an unidentified vehicle when he was on his way for a morning walk on the Kalyan- Bhiwandi road on August 15. The deceased left home at around 4.50am and was hit by a vehicle at around 5am. The deceased, identified as Pandurang Rupla Rathod of Raghukul Colony in Ganeshnagar area in Kongaon, lived with his son and daughter-in-law. His two daughters are married.
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Jewellery shop owner arrested for threatening Ambanis sent to four-day police custody
The jewellery shop owner used Afzal Guru's name to threaten Reliance Industries Limited chairman Mukesh Ambani without knowing that the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist was hanged to death on February 9, 2013 in the 2001 parliament attack case, a police officer said. Between 10.39 am and 12.04 pm on Independence Day, the jewellery shop owner made nine calls to Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital.
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Woman police constable dies by suicide at police station in Thane
A woman police constable attached to Shrinagar police station died by suicide in the police station on Tuesday afternoon after reporting to duty. She is survived by her husband and two daughters, aged 10 and seven years. The Shrinagar police are yet to record the statement of the family. The deceased joined the Shrinagar police station in 2019. The police station and crime branch are investigating the matter. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/pipeline-burst-affects-water-supply-to-kamothe-residents-101660665747228.html | 2022-08-16T17:07:29Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/pipeline-burst-affects-water-supply-to-kamothe-residents-101660665747228.html | true | 1 |
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ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New York Bariatric Group (NYBG), the nationally renowned bariatric practice with the country's most accomplished bariatric surgeons establishes NYBG Veins and opens 2 offices in Nassau and Westchester County, New York. Utilizing NYBG methodology of combining the latest technology, talent, and experience, NYBG Veins was developed to diagnose and treat chronic venous diseases such as varicose veins, spider veins and venous insufficiency.
NYBG Veins will be led by accomplished Interventional Radiologist Dr. Jiyong Ahn. Dr. Ahn brings over 20 years of diverse experiences in diagnostic and interventional vascular radiology. Combining minimally invasive image-guided techniques with specialized training in phlebology, Dr. Ahn and his team can provide patients with customized vein treatment plans with reduced risks, less pain, and faster recovery.
"I am proud to be part of the NYBG Veins team," says Dr. Ahn. "We can provide best-in-class techniques to treat vein disorders in a patient friendly environment. Venous diseases present symptoms like cramping, pain, swelling, heaviness, itching, and throbbing with accompanying skin changes. If left untreated, it can lead to more serious and potentially life-threatening conditions. Discussing your concerns with a vein specialist is the first step in addressing the condition."
Vein disease can be contributed to several factors such as genetics, age, gender, pregnancies, obesity and even a job that involves standing for extended periods of time. Founder of NYBG, Dr. Shawn Garber explains why it was essential to develop NYBG Veins and provide resources to address vein disease, especially for those who are symptomatic and overweight. "Extra weight increases venous pressure and causes veins to stretch, dilate and bulge. Patients should consult a qualified vein specialist who has the skill and experience to properly address the condition, alleviate pain, and improve health outcomes."
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