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Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides protection against evolving cyberthreats like ransomware, and is now transactable in Azure Marketplace
Highlights:
- Barracuda grew its Data Protection new business sales by 30% year-over-year at the end of Q2FY23, significantly boosted by the growth in its Cloud-to-Cloud Backup SaaS product line that protects data stored in Microsoft 365.
- Barracuda Data Protection solutions achieved impressive growth in international markets with sales growth of 75% year-over-year at the end of Q2FY23.
- Barracuda has grown its Data Protection customer base to more than 40,000 organizations and protects their data in the cloud.
CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda Secured.22 Conference -- Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced product milestones and strong business growth for its data protection business, which accelerated due to the increasing need for secure backup driven by ransomware and other cyberthreats.
Through cloud-first innovations Barracuda grew its Data Protection new business sales by 30% year-over-year at the end of Q2FY23. Barracuda Data Protection solutions achieved impressive sales growth in international markets with new business sales up 75% year-over-year at the end of Q2FY23. Barracuda has grown its Data Protection customer base to more than 40,000 organizations and protects their data in the cloud.
Business momentum was boosted by the growth in Barracuda's Cloud-to-Cloud Backup SaaS product line that protects data stored in Microsoft 365. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup new business sales are growing at 34% year-over-year at the end of Q2FY23, including 87% growth in international sales.
Now transactable in Azure Marketplace for customers and channel partners that want to take advantage of simplified and streamlined procurement and deployment processes, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup delivers a fast search and restore experience for Microsoft 365 data, including Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Compared to traditional backup and recovery solutions, Barracuda's cloud-native solution provides greater scale and resiliency, fast performance, and wide global coverage to protect Microsoft 365 data created in the cloud.
"We saw strong momentum across our data protection business last fiscal year and continuing into this fiscal year," said Tim Jefferson, SVP, Engineering and Product Management for Data, Networks and Application Security at Barracuda. "With the explosive increase in the usage of Microsoft 365 apps, a modern cloud-native approach is required for protection. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is built and runs natively in the cloud, which enables fast set up, simple management, and no maintenance for Microsoft 365 apps."
Customers: Barracuda currently serves more than 40,000 data protection customers worldwide. New customers include: Mendocino Family of Companies (MFC), Belfast Metropolitan College, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Explore Learning, and more.
Industry Recognition:
- Barracuda wins overall in Data Protection category for CRN's 2022 Annual Report Card (ARC)
- Barracuda named a finalist for Best Customer Service in 2022 SC Awards U.S.
- Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup wins 2021 CRN Products of the Year
- Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup named a finalist in 2021 CRN Tech Innovator Awards
- Barracuda wins Data Protection Company of the Year at 2021 Storage Awards
Barracuda has added several innovations across its Data Protection technology. For a deep dive into these innovations see this Q&A with Barracuda Product Manager Shawn Lubahn: https://blog.barracuda.com/2022/09/13/qa-barracuda-data-protection-innovation-and-momentum/
"A massive cyber-attack had hit us overnight. Of all the infrastructure available to us in the IT team we had one working laptop: no servers, no domain controllers, nothing. It had all been corrupted by the PYSA ransomware gang," explains Myerscough College Director of IT, Ian Brown, in a Barracuda case study. "Obviously the first reaction is one of total shock and disbelief," he stated. According to the case study, "A year previously, Ian invested in Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup. Within days the college had recovered most of its key infrastructure to the point where it could begin to support staff and students once again without having to engage with the threat actors or paying any ransom."
According to Vinny Phul, Head of IT for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), in a Barracuda case study, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup more than met their needs. "It took only minutes to set up," Vinny explained. "Having a true Office 365 backup gives us additional peace of mind against the ransomware threat. Cloud-to-Cloud Backup makes it very easy to find lost files for our day-today needs."
"With a cloud-native solution, you get the benefit of scale on your backup, and your solution is fully managed. So unlike with traditional backup solutions, where you have to do capacity management and capacity planning and make sure you have enough storage, a cloud-native solution, like Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup really offers you a managed solution with virtually unlimited capacity to store your data." - Nills Franssens, Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
Read the full Q&A with Nills in this blog post: http://cuda.co/43251
Read the blog post:
Barracuda Data Protection innovation and momentum: http://cuda.co/bg0913data
Find Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup in Azure Marketplace: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=barracuda&page=1
Get more information about Barracuda Data Protection:
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup product page: http://cuda.co/ccb
Barracuda Backup product page: https://www.barracuda.com/products/backup
Barracuda Secured.22 Customer Conference, happening this week September 13 and 14, is the company's annual global virtual conference for Barracuda customers. Barracuda Secured.22 is an informative event covering technical security scenarios that enable practitioners to identify, prevent, recover, and respond quickly to cyber security attacks. For more information, please visit: https://barracuda.events/secured.22/.
At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-first, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers' journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. For more information, visit barracuda.com.
Barracuda Networks, Barracuda and the Barracuda Networks logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Barracuda Networks, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
Contacts
Anne Campbell
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
978-328-1642
acampbell@barracuda.com
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Enhanced detection and response service offering further empowers MSP partners via new integration, addition of SOAR, and more
Highlights:
- Barracuda introduces integration between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Barracuda XDR as well as mapping of detection rules with MITRE ATT&CK(R) framework to quickly address detection gaps.
- Barracuda XDR and CloudGen Firewall integration enables managed service providers (MSPs) to gain visibility and insights, and to help increase efficiency with 24x7 SOC services.
- Barracuda is also enhancing its Security Operations Center (SOC) with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) to ensure faster response time.
CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced continued innovation of its XDR platform with integration between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Barracuda XDR; the mapping of threat detection rules against MITRE ATT&CK(™) framework; and the addition of Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) capabilities to its Security Operations Center (SOC).
The intensified threat landscape has created an environment where it's no longer 'if' but 'when' an attack will occur. In the past 12 months, Barracuda researchers identified and analyzed 106 highly publicized ransomware attacks and found the dominant targets are still in five key industries: education, municipalities, healthcare, infrastructure, and financial. The number of ransomware attacks increased year-over-year across each of these five industry verticals, and attacks against other industries more than doubled compared to what we saw last year.
Spear phishing is also on the rise and according to the recent Barracuda report, Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends Vol. 7, the average employee of a small business with less than 100 employees will experience 350% more social engineering attacks than an employee of a larger enterprise.
With cyberattacks increasing in both frequency and sophistication, having standalone security solutions is no longer sufficient for partners to effectively protect their customers. To be successful, partners need to enable businesses to achieve the basic cybersecurity hygiene required by today's environment. That cybersecurity hygiene includes proactive monitoring with extended visibility, building concentric rings of security layers, and 24x7 detection & response, because cybercriminals work around the clock.
With the new integration between Barracuda XDR and CloudGen Firewall, partners can gain visibility and insights by offering 24x7 SOC services, and increase efficiency by reducing product silos, mitigating alert fatigue, and streamlining management of their customers' environments. The new mapping of detection rules to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework provides the Barracuda SOC team with guidelines and the ability to quickly address detection gaps. The introduction of SOAR to the Barracuda SOC infrastructure ensures faster response time, streamlines processes, and more importantly, provides increased protection when a cyberattack takes place.
Barracuda acquired SKOUT Cybersecurity in 2021 to further enable partners with their security offerings. During the past year, Barracuda has integrated the Barracuda email protection portfolio, and now Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, with Barracuda XDR services.
The Barracuda XDR offering spans Endpoint Security, Email Security, Cloud Security, Network Security, and Server Security, enabling partners to create security services that align with today's business environments and to deliver holistic cybersecurity-as-a-service for their customers.
"We're always looking for ways to empower partners, and MSPs specifically, to take their business to the next level and an important part of that is enabling them to confidently secure their clients' environments," said Neal Bradbury, SVP, MSP Business at Barracuda. "Earlier this year, we completed the integration of Barracuda XDR with our email protection portfolio. Now, by integrating the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall with Barracuda XDR, mapping detection rules to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and adding SOAR to our SOC infrastructure, we can provide comprehensive visibility across multiple attack surfaces through the Barracuda XDR dashboard, while increasing the speed of detection and response time through our SOC."
"The security requirements businesses must continue to change as the overall threat landscape evolves. As an MSP, our customers expect us to provide comprehensive security services that not only prevent but also proactively detect and respond to cyberthreats. This is not something most managed service providers are built for. The Barracuda XDR solution combines data across our security stacks through a single dashboard view, giving us the visibility we need to proactively monitor our customers' infrastructure. Its team of security experts and mature SOC is a strong differentiator we can rely on to expand our service to support 24x7 detection and response," said Richard Flanders, Customer Strategy Director, Aura Technology.
Read the blog post:
Expanded XDR capabilities strengthen Barracuda's security offering to MSPs: http://cuda.co/bg0913xdr
Get more information about Barracuda MSP solutions:
https://barracudamsp.com/
Barracuda Secured.22 Customer Conference, happening this week September 13 and 14, is the company's annual global virtual conference for Barracuda customers. Barracuda Secured.22 is an informative event covering technical security scenarios that enable practitioners to identify, prevent, recover, and respond quickly to cyber security attacks. For more information, please visit: https://barracuda.events/secured.22/.
At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-first, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers' journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. For more information, visit barracuda.com.
Barracuda Networks, Barracuda and the Barracuda Networks logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Barracuda Networks, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
Contacts
Anne Campbell
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
978-328-1642
acampbell@barracuda.com
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Artwork by Nancy Lee Smith, IHM, to be featured at Motherhouse exhibit
Artwork by Nancy Lee Smith, Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, will be on view Sept. 18 through Oct. 31 at the IHM Motherhouse Gallery, 610 W. Elm Ave.
An opening reception will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in the gallery.Attendees are required to wear masks, enter through the A-wing entrance and sign-in for contact tracing.
“Touching the Divine: Landscapes, Icons and More” will feature works Sister Nancy created over the last 29 years.
“Nature’s beauty is a window to find peace. In fact, beauty in any form brings us such,” Sister Nancy said. “Another window is an icon, allowing us to see and be seen through the eyes of love. The exhibit invites you to explore what moves you to that inner place of quiet.”
A native of St. Louis, Mo., Sister Nancy said she was called to the Motherhouse in front of an icon, which are paintings that form a communication with the religious figure they represent.
“The symbol actually communicates the reality of love," Sister Nancy told The Monroe News in 2002. “Icons act as a window into eternity."
Sister Nancy Lee began writing icons full-time in 1995. She studied under Kseenia Pokrovsky and Vladislav Andrejev before teaching icon writing herself.
Today, Sr. Nancy gives retreats and presentations on the spirituality of icons used in prayer. She has installations in Europe and the Americas and various parts of the U.S. She has been a teacher, retreat director, pastoral coordinator in a priest-less parish, and a hospital and hospice chaplain.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and theology, a bachelor of fine art degree in metal sculpture and a master of divinity degree from St. John Seminary. She also has had formal training in spiritual direction.
The exhibit is free. The public is welcome by appointment and asked to give 48 hour’s notice. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.
For more information and to arrange a visit, contact Emilie Connor at econner@ihmsisters.org. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/13/icons-landcapes-by-ihm-sister-to-be-exhbited/65470206007/ | 2022-09-13T10:45:05Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/13/icons-landcapes-by-ihm-sister-to-be-exhbited/65470206007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Police, firefighters honored at Erie St. Joseph homecoming
ERIE – Erie Township Police and firefighters and other first responders, veterans and other members of the Armed Forces were feted during an outdoor Mass held as part of a Homecoming Celebration Sunday at St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Rev. Mark Prill, pastor, gave a blessing to police, firefighters and veterans in observance of Patriots Day and the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The liturgy was held under a tent on the school grounds.
“9-11 was a day that truly changed the world,” Father Mark told an overflow crowd of more than 175 people in attendance. “We want to remember all those who gave their lives on 9-11.”
The pastor also blessed all grandparents present to mark Grandparents Day.
“You have a very powerful impact on kids by (how) you teach and how you live out your faith,” he said.
In his sermon, the pastor spoke about parables in Luke’s gospel regarding the Prodigal Son, the lost sheep and the woman who searches hard to find a lost coin. He said it was time for people who feel lost to “come home and encounter Jesus.”
“We feel lost and hopeless and the world is beating us down,” Father Mark said. “There is a God who loves us, there is hope in Jesus Christ and letting God in our lives. Embrace the call of God and be welcomed home… your life will never be the same.”
He said the parish would not exist without the saving power of Jesus Christ.
“Don’t be afraid to let go” of what’s holding you back, he said. “Let go and put your trust in him and reclaim this world.”
Father Mark also celebrated the first Sunday evening Mass at St. Joseph’s. About 80 people attended the liturgy held in church, the pastor said. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/13/police-firefighters-honored-at-erie-homecoming/69486747007/ | 2022-09-13T10:45:11Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/13/police-firefighters-honored-at-erie-homecoming/69486747007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dundee trustee talked out of resignation, returns to village council
Trustee Howard Cilley has reversed course on his decision to resign from the Dundee Village Council.
Cilley was in attendance and participated in the governing body's meeting on September 6, and at the end of the session he acknowledged that he was talked out of the shock resignation he announced at council's previous meeting.
Cilley, whose current term expires November 18, 2024, cited numerous, recent decisions made by council that he said he does not agree with when announcing his resignation two weeks ago.
Earlier report:Dundee hires interim village manager, trustee resigns
In particular, Cilley said he objects to a pending proposal to construct a new community civic pavilion at Waterworks Park. Village council was asked Tuesday night to consider a resolution of support for the project, which came to them after receiving unanimous approval by the village’s Parks and Recreation Committee. The project would be at least partially funded through grants and the current pavilion at the park would be torn down, with the intent being that the new structure could serve as an ideal meeting place for scouts and other youth organizations.
No member of council chose to make a motion to approve the resolution of support. Instead, Trustee Lindsay Cross moved that the demolition of the existing building at the park be delayed until at least 60 days after the plan for the overall project has been finalized.
Cross’ motion passed 6-1, with only Village President Andrea Hickey voting no.
At last week's meeting, Cilley said it was the support he received from his fellow council members and other village residents in the days that followed his decision that ultimately made him change his mind.
"It was rough, because I just didn't really care for how things were going," he said. "But I want to thank everybody for the support. A lot of people up here support me... Everyone knows that there's probably not anybody else that loves this community more than (I do). I do all I can, and sometimes it hasn't treated me well, but I look past that...
"For me, I've got to stick it out. I've got too much fight in me left."
Cilley said he was overwhelmed by well-wishing residents who called or stopped by his business, Dundee Truck & Trim, to attempt to convince him to stay on the council.
"It was hard to get anything done," he joked. "I really didn't realize I had that much support, to be honest with you. I'm very thankful for everyone that called and stopped over. It means a lot to me. I'm here for the long haul."
Cilley's words were met with applause by both those in attendance at the meeting, as well as his fellow council members.
"Glad you came back," said Trustee Jennifer Howard. "I'm glad you are here. We all need you up here. I'm glad you returned."
Cilley's decision to remain on council means that it is guaranteed at least three returning members following the general election in November. Trustees Howard and Lindsay Cross' terms also don't expire until November 18, 2024, while the remaining seats are all up for grabs this fall. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/13/dundee-trustee-reverses-course-on-resignation/69486283007/ | 2022-09-13T10:45:23Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/local/2022/09/13/dundee-trustee-reverses-course-on-resignation/69486283007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Inaugural Award from the Indianapolis Prize honors conservationists early in their careers
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Officials from the Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation, today named ten Finalists for the newly created Emerging Conservationist Award. The Winner will be awarded $50,000 to advance their work to protect species.
The Emerging Conservationist Award recognizes professional wildlife conservationists, biologists and scientists under 40 years of age working to make strides in saving animal species from extinction. The inaugural Emerging Conservationist Award Winner will be announced in April 2023 and will be recognized at the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Gala presented by Cummins Inc. in downtown Indianapolis on Sept. 30, 2023.
"The Emerging Conservationist Award supports the next generation of conservationists who are actively making a positive difference for the future of biodiversity," said Dr. Rob Shumaker, President & CEO of the Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc. "These Finalists, along with all of the Prize honorees, share a deep commitment to protecting nature and inspiring people to care for our world."
The Indianapolis Prize recognizes the world's leading conservationists whose work provides future generations with replicable and actionable conservation practices. The Finalists of the Emerging Conservationists represent the people we can rely on to save species around the world.
The Finalists of the 2023 Emerging Conservationist Award include:
Alejandro Arteaga (Tropical Herping, Ecuador) – Alejandro Arteaga is a biologist, conservationist and wildlife photographer. Arteaga co-founded Tropical Herping, a tour agency that offers nature photography trips and tours throughout the tropics. His research is focused on tropical amphibians and reptiles. He has discovered and described 20 new species to science and raised funds to save 106 hectares of Chocó rainforest in Ecuador.
Sergio A. Balaguera-Reina, Ph.D. (University of Florida – Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, USA) – Dr. Sergio Balaguera-Reina is a conservation biologist focused on understanding the roles that crocodile species play in aquatic and coastal systems. Dr. Balaguera-Reina also develops conservation plans that provide support for other species as well as the habitats and landscapes that they inhabit.
Fanny M. Cornejo (Rainforest Partnership, USA; Yunkawasi, Peru) – Fanny Cornejo is a primatologist, anthropologist and the director of Yunkawasi, an organization that works with Amazonian and Andean communities for the conservation of threatened species through sustainable economic development and protected area management approach. Fanny is also executive director of the Rainforest Partnership in Peru, Yunkawasi's strategic partner for conservation and sustainable development activities in Peru.
Akbar John, Ph.D. (Institute of Oceanography and Maritime Studies, INOCEM; International Islamic University Malaysia, IIUM, Malaysia) – Dr. Akbar John is an Associate Professor and conservation scientist focused on advancing the science and conservation of horseshoe crabs in Southeast Asia. Dr. John is responsible for establishing a facility to track global horseshoe crab biology, which serves as a referral source for future research on horseshoe crabs.
Corinne J. Kendall, Ph.D. (North Carolina Zoo, USA) – Dr. Corinne Kendall launched the first effort to protect vultures in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Dr. Kendall is the founder of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' African Vulture Saving Animals from Extinction program, which has developed a tool for discovering poaching and poisoning activities in real-time, based on the movements of vultures fitted with satellite tracking tags.
Arthur Bienvenu Muneza, Ph.D. (Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Africa) – Dr. Arthur Muneza is a wildlife ecologist investigating a variety of factors affecting the survival and reproduction of giraffe populations across East Africa by calculating population, mapping disease ecology, assessing sources of mortality and evaluating predatory interactions with lions.
Megan Murgatroyd, Ph.D. (HawkWatch International, USA) – Dr. Megan Murgatroyd is a conservation biologist focused on understanding and conserving the world's most understudied and threatened raptors globally. Dr. Murgatroyd investigates the impacts of land-use change on Verreaux's Eagles and implements GPS tracking to understand and predict wind turbine collision risk for Verreaux's Eagles.
Nguyen Van Thai (Save Vietnam's Wildlife, Vietnam) – Nguyen Thai is the founder of Save Vietnam's Wildlife, which works to halt the extinction and champion the recovery of threatened species in Vietnam such as the critically endangered pangolin. He established Vietnam's first anti-poaching units, which have destroyed 9,701 animal traps, dismantled 775 illegal camps, confiscated 78 guns, and arrested 558 people for poaching, leading to a significant decline in illegal activities in PúMát National Park.
Olivier Nsengimana (Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, Rwanda) – Olivier Nsengimana is responsible for designing and implementing a conservation project to save the endangered grey-crowned crane. He established a database of illegally kept cranes in Rwanda, which led to 233 cranes being freed and 160 of those individuals being reintroduced to the wild. A licensed veterinarian, Nsengimana is the founder and director of the Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, an organization working to expand research and conservation connected to endangered or threatened species in Rwanda.
Stephanie Vaz Nogueira Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – Stephanie Vaz is an entomologist dedicated to firefly conservation. She is responsible for describing dozens of firefly species and providing tools and resources to facilitate firefly identification in the Neotropics. She discovered past conservation components were not protecting firefly populations from light pollution.
The Emerging Conservationist Award – made possible through a grant from the Kobé Foundation – was created to identify and support conservationists under 40 years of age with the talent to make a significant impact on saving an animal species or group of species. The Emerging Conservationist Finalists are selected through a two-stage selection process, where a Review Committee evaluates and then narrows the application pool to 10 Finalists who are then sent to the Selection Committee to choose a Winner. The Inaugural Emerging Conservationist Award Winner will be announced in April 2023 and will then be recognized at the Indianapolis Prize Gala presented by Cummins Inc. in downtown Indianapolis on Sept. 30, 2023.
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To learn more about the Emerging Conservationist Award, visit IndianapolisPrize.org/EmergingConservationist/
ABOUT THE EMERGING CONSERVATIONIST AWARD
The Indianapolis Prize Emerging Conservationist Award – made possible through a grant from the Kobé Foundation – is a biennial award that supports conservationists under 40 years of age with the talent and drive to make a significant impact on saving an animal species or group of species.
ABOUT THE INDIANAPOLIS PRIZE
The Indianapolis Prize is a signature conservation initiative of the Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc. The Indianapolis Prize recognizes and rewards conservationists who have achieved major victories in advancing the sustainability of an animal species or group of species. Winners receive an unrestricted $250,000 award. Remaining Finalists each receive $50,000. Since 2006, the Indianapolis Prize has administered more than $5 million in cash awards.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of NIO Inc. (NYSE: NIO) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: August 20, 2020 to July 11, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 24, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in NIO:
https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/nio-inc-loss-submission-form-2?id=31574&from=4
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that NIO Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) NIO pulled forward revenue by selling batteries to a related party, which owned the batteries and managed users' subscriptions; (2) through the related party, NIO also recognized enormous depreciation savings; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's revenue and net loss were overstated; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in NIO you have until October 24, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased NIO securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the NIO lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/nio-inc-loss-submission-form-2?id=31574&from=4.
ABOUT KLEIN LAW FIRM
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: October 20, 2020 to May 19, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 1, 2022
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Kohl's Corporation NEWS - KSS NEWS
CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Kohl's Corporation made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Kohl's new strategic framework to "drive top-line growth," "expand operating margin," and become "the most trusted retailer of choice for the active and casual lifestyle" (the "Strategic Plan") was not well tailored to achieving the Company's stated goals; (ii) the defendants had likewise overstated the Company's success in executing its Strategic Plan; (iii) Kohl's had deficient disclosure controls and procedures, internal control over financial reporting, and corporate governance mechanisms; (iv) as a result, the Company's board of directors was able to and did withhold material information from shareholders about the state of Kohl's in the lead-up to the Company's annual meeting; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Kohl's financial condition and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Kohl's you have until November 1, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Kohl's securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the KSS lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/kohls-class-action-loss-submission-form?id=31582&from=4.
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Quarterly PSN Top Guns List published by Zephyr identifies best-in-class separate accounts, managed accounts, and managed ETF strategies
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- L&S Advisors, Inc. announced today it has been named to the celebrated PSN Top Guns List of best performing separate accounts, managed accounts, and managed ETF strategies for Q2 2022. The highly anticipated list, published by Zephyr, remains one of the most important references for investors and asset managers.
L&S strategies were honored with the following distinctions:
L&S Short Duration Investment Grade
3 Star Category ★★★
L&S High Yield Fixed Income
2 Star Category ★★
L&S Short-Duration High Yield
3 Star Category ★★★
L&S Short Duration Investment Grade, L&S High Yield Fixed Income and L&S Short-Duration High Yield are co-managed by Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Kenneth Malamed and Portfolio Manager and Senior Analyst Matthew Nussbaum, CFA.
Through a combination of PSN's proprietary performance screens, the PSN Top Guns List ranks products in six proprietary categories in over 75 universes based on continued performance over time.
[2-Star Category:] had one of the top ten returns for the one-year period in their respective universes.
[3-Star Category:] had one of the top ten returns for the three-year period in their respective universes.
The complete list of PSN Top Guns and an overview of the methodology can be located on https://psn.fi.informais.com/
"With the growing interest in separately managed accounts, the PSN Top Guns List has attracted greater attention," says Margaret Tobiasen, SVP of Data Distribution who cites PSN's pioneering efforts as the first SMA database as the reason for the list's popularity. "L&S Advisors has done remarkable work and we are pleased to include them as a top performer."
For more details on the methodology behind the PSN Top Guns Rankings or to purchase PSN Top Guns Reports, contact Margaret Tobiasen at Margaret.tobiasen@informa.com.
About L&S Advisors, Inc.
L&S Advisors, Inc. is a registered investment advisor (RIA) headquartered in Los Angeles that was originally founded in 1979. L&S specializes in investment advisory services for high-net-worth investors, as well as institutional accounts, endowments and family offices. As an independent, fee-only RIA dedicated exclusively to managing assets, L&S Advisors provides objective and unbiased investment advice. The firm is defined by its client-focused, flexible investment strategies and its complete commitment to objectivity, independence, and transparency in all areas of its business. For more information, visit https://www.lsadvisors.com.
About Informa Financial Intelligence's Zephyr
Financial Intelligence, part of the Informa Intelligence Division of Informa plc, is a leading provider of products and services helping financial institutions around the world cut through the noise and take decisive action. Informa Financial Intelligence's solutions provide unparalleled insight into market opportunity, competitive performance and customer segment behavioral patterns and performance through specialized industry research, intelligence, and insight. IFI's Zephyr portfolio supports asset allocation, investment analysis, portfolio construction, and client communications that combine to help advisors and portfolio managers retain and grow client relationships. For more information about IFI, visit https://financialintelligence.informa.com. For more information about Zephyr's PSN Separately Managed Accounts data, visit https://financialintelligence.informa.com/products-and-services/data-analysis-and-tools/psn-sma.
Media Contact:
L&S Media Relations
info@lsadvisors.com
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SÃO PAULO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuseed and GranBio have entered into a long-term strategic alliance to accelerate R&D and commercialization into global energy cane markets. Nuseed acquired GranBio's energy cane breeding and commercial assets, and R&D program aiming to fundamentally improve the output energy value through innovation in bioenergy cane.
This is an enormous opportunity, with ready now technology and is a fundamental step change in energy creation and renewable product generation from cane. The opportunity includes two exciting platforms:
- Scalable, drop-in improvement in energy output with the existing ethanol + cogeneration bioelectricity cane industry in Brazil (and other markets), and
- Expansion of energy cane as a reliable feedstock into emerging 2G process technology, which will make it possible to help decarbonize hydrocarbons for applications such as biochemicals and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
Nuseed will accelerate breeding product development and broad scale commercial adoption into the existing ethanol + bioelectric cane industry in Brazil and other world markets.
GranBio will continue to invest in energy cane development through Nuseed and will be the exclusive licensor of energy cane feedstock into GranBio proprietary process applications in the lignocellulosic field, such as cellulosic sugars and lignin, 2G ethanol, biochemicals, SAF and renewable materials worldwide.
Nuseed and GranBio's agreement will enable the biomass-to-fuel value chain to become a powerful solution to the challenge of securing renewable feedstock at large scale. Dedicated energy cane next generation clusters will also enable carbon neutral biorefineries to respond to global SAF demand and IATA 2050 goals.
Nuseed Group Executive, Brent Zacharias said, "This is a fundamental step change in energy creation and renewable product generation from cane. Nuseed sees enormous opportunity with this exciting new acquisition and strategic partnership with GranBio. As part of our bioenergy platform, we are focused on building technology, capability and partnerships to optimize delivery of bioenergy feedstocks and industrial materials. The proprietary energy cane platform, combined with existing Nuseed innovation, global reach and partnerships, can transform sustainable energy output from a highly scalable crop."
GranBio's CEO and Founder, Bernardo Gradin said, "GranBio has been developing energy cane since 2012 as one of the most effective feedstocks to enable and secure sustainable advanced biofuels and biochemicals with a biopower-to-biomass value chain with net zero carbon footprint.
"The long-term alliance with Nuseed will accelerate and improve the worldwide agricultural and technology advancement of energy cane and allow GranBio to focus on its core technology deployment of its Net Zero Carbon Renewable Biorefineries Program. This cooperation agreement will create a very powerful global solution to secure biomass as a reliable feedstock at scale to biofuels including 2G ethanol and 2G SAF. GranBio's biorefineries, powered by proprietary and partner technologies, projects 50,000 ha of planted energy cane clusters capable of producing the equivalent of 100 million gallons of cellulosic SAF (which aims at cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible) starting in 2028. There are tropical and sub-tropical zones in regions of Latin America, South of US, Africa, Asia and Australia corresponding to over 700 million hectares of potentially available land not used for food crops."
Energy cane, with GranBio's demonstrated technologies, can potentially reduce gasoline consumption in tropical countries where the biomass from sugar cane is superior to other crops. It has the potential to reduce to neutral, or even negative, its carbon footprint.
Nuseed Media Contact:
Rhonda Macdonald
mediarelations@nuseed.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Weber Inc. (NYSE: WEBR) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Weber Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's August 2021 initial public offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 27, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Weber Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Weber you have until September 27, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Weber securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the WEBR lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/weber-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31567&from=4.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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For four days only, Continental Circus Berlin is bringing its jaw dropping acts, scintillating costumes, world-class crossbow stunts and hilarious clowns to Rochester.
An amalgamation of brilliant circus acts, music and real youthful energy, everyone will enjoy the one-of-a-kind performances which will have you not only sitting on the edge of your seat, but trying not to fall off it with laughter.
From October 12 to 16, talented Continental Circus Berlin performers from across the world will put on a show to remember in true Berlin cabaret style - promising an evening of exceptional entertainment.
And to make it even better, the circus is offering free and discounted tickets so even more people can experience the magic.
Claim a discount by using the promo code 'CLOWN' online or via the onsite box-office - or if you're a NHS or care worker, keeping reading.
In an age where so much entertainment is unreal, made up of special effects, CGI and virtual reality, being pre-recorded and digitally enhanced - the sheer reality of a live show is a breath of fresh air, though the spectacular stunts are often stunning that circus-goers can't believe their eyes!
Housed in a climate controlled, Covid-secure, Cabaret style big top, this magical production is brimming with an international cast of breath-taking artistes and featuring an unrivalled mix of genuine circus talent from every corner of the globe.
The feats and skills seen at Continental Circus Berlin include amazing high wire walkers, a hula hoop queen, Wheel of Death performers, tantalising aerialists and even the ultimate Globe of Death stunt riders, all presented by superstar Mexican clown, Eddy. Plus, you don't want to miss the astounding cross bow act where a wife shots a bolt through an apple perched upon her husbands head.
Continental Circus Berlin has always been your guarantee of a great show which offers great fun with something for all ages, so you don't want to miss this rare treat.
Free tickets for healthcare workers
As a special thank you to NHS and care workers, the show is offering them free tickets to the preview shows in Rochester
John Haze, director of Continental Circus Berlin said: "We are offering NHS staff and care workers free tickets as a thank you for all their hard work especially during the last two years. As well as saving lives. they have also indirectly help to get our industry up and running again and for that we are forever grateful. Continental Circus Berlin cast and crew look forward to welcoming the NHS staff and care workers in Rochester- we promise them great entertainment!'
These preview shows will take place at 5pm and 7.45pm on Wednesday, October 12.
Any NHS staff or care workers are invited to come along with one guest each while there is availability, with the offer capped at the first 300 seats.
To reserve your seats, call the box office or email boxoffice@euevents.co.uk. You will have to bring proof employment when collecting your tickets.
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Melbourne: Australian Test skipper Pat Cummins believes it is unrealistic for him to lead in all three formats of the game, given his workload as a pace bowler and the extremely competitive nature of the game.
The captaincy debate has gathered momentum after white-ball skipper Aaron Finch retired from One-day International cricket following a prolonged form slump in the 50-over game and injury issues. Finch, though, will continue to lead the T20I side as Australia aim to retain the ICC T20 World Cup at home in October-November this year.
With the ODI captaincy slot falling vacant, several names, including that of David Warner, former all-format skipper Steve Smith and Test captain Cummins, are floating around.
Cummins has missed 28 of the last 66 ODIs, which means he might skip some matches or series, given the kind of bowling workload he will have to shoulder if he is made all-format captain.
"I think if you were going to do all the formats and every game, I don't think that's realistic," Cummins was quoted as saying by The West Australian. "Especially as a fast bowler I think you do need to find windows to rest. But I think you can manage that as well.
"It's not something I have really thought about. I am really happy with captaining the Test side ... I don't think they (Cricket Australia) need to rush into any decision," added Cummins, who guided his side to a 4-0 Ashes win followed by a 1-0 Test series win against Babar Azam's Pakistan in the sub-continent.
Cummins had recently urged Cricket Australia (CA) to lift the leadership role ban on batting stalwart David Warner for his involvement in the ball-tampering episode during the 2018 Test series in South Africa.
Warner throws his hat into the ring
CA has two months' time to decide who will replace Finch as their ODI skipper and Warner too has thrown his hat into the ring.
"Obviously (Pat Cummins) is the key (on whether he wants to lead the ODI team), he is the Test captain and gets the first opportunity," Warner said.
"But any opportunity you get asked to captain, it's a privilege. For my circumstances that's in Cricket Australia's hands. I can only concentrate on what I have to do, and that's using the bat and scoring as many runs as I can. My phone is here (if CA wants to talk). At the end of the day what is done is done in the past.
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HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Holyoke Saint Patrick’s Committee will be announcing the 56th Citizenship Award Recipient this evening at the Elks Lodge in Holyoke.
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Over the last several weeks, the concept of "quiet quitting" has exploded like a supernova across the media universe.
The big bang began on TikTok, with a video uploaded by a 20-something engineer named Zaid Khan. With the sound of a piano playing a ragtime-style tune and summertime shots of New York City flashing across the screen, Khan narrates a 17-second video that has introduced millions of people to the idea.
"I recently learned about this term called quiet quitting, where you're not outright quitting your job, but you're quitting the idea of going above and beyond," Khan says. "You're still performing your duties, but you're no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. The reality is it's not — and your worth as a person is not defined by your labor."
Quiet quitting, in other words, is not really about quitting. It's more like a philosophy for doing the bare minimum at your job.
In Japan, there's a concept called shokunin, which refers to an artisan who is deeply dedicated to their craft, always striving for perfection in what they make. Quiet quitting is like the opposite of that. It's about divorcing your ego from what you do for a living and not striving for perfection. Setting boundaries and simply completing the tasks you're supposed to complete within the time that you're paid to do them — with no extra frills. No more kowtowing to your boss or customers. No more working nights and weekends, incessantly checking your email.
Workaholism is out. Coasting is in. Call it the work-life balance manifesto.
Tapping Into The Post-Pandemic Zeitgeist
Most observers seem to agree that the recent enthusiasm for quiet quitting says something about our post-pandemic zeitgeist. With a super-tight labor market giving workers multiple job options, and an ongoing battle being fought over the preservation and expansion of remote work, many workers seem to be reevaluating where and how they do their jobs.
Maybe quiet quitting is just an extension of "The Great Resignation" (or, as we rebranded it, "The Great Renegotiation"). Maybe a large chunk of our labor force was always phoning it in, but now they have a loud social-media presence and better branding. Maybe it's people feeling like suckers for going the extra mile pre-pandemic just to get laid off en masse. Or maybe quiet quitting is a BS pseudo-trend. To be honest, we don't know. But there is at least some data to suggest there's something real going in the psyche of the workforce.
"With layoffs and firings at a record low... people have unprecedented job security," says Julia Pollak, chief economist at the job-search website ZipRecruiter. "And so the risk of termination is lower. And that's also why the incentive to work harder is reduced. The consequences of being found to shirk have become much smaller. One, because companies can't afford to fire people. And two, because there are so many alternatives out there if you do lose your job."
Meanwhile, government data shows an historic drop in productivity over the last two quarters. There could be many reasons for this: the supply chain fiasco, a record rate of job switching, business hiring decisions during a weird time for the economy, scars from the pandemic, growing pains from the mass adoption of remote work, you name it. But some argue that something like quiet quitting might have something to do with it. It would certainly play into a sentiment expressed by some of America's biggest corporations: their employees just aren't being productive enough.
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Gallup recently did a survey about quiet quitting, counting workers who report being neither engaged nor "actively disengaged" at work. They found that these quiet quitters make up at least half of the U.S. workforce. Overall, Gallup's data doesn't really show a sizable shift in how workers feel about their jobs over the last few years, suggesting that quiet quitting could be a normal feature of the American workplace. One area where the data did show a somewhat significant change, however, was among younger workers. "The percentage of engaged employees under the age of 35 dropped by six percentage points from 2019 to 2022," Gallup finds, suggesting that while feeling meh about work may be par for the course for a lot of Americans, it may be gathering momentum among Gen Zers and millennials.
"It's clear that quiet quitting is a symptom of poor management," Gallup writes. The organization recommends that company managers do a better job communicating with their underlings. "Gallup finds the best requirement and habit to develop for successful managers is having one meaningful conversation per week with each team member — 15-30 minutes."
The Loud Reaction To Quiet Quitting
Since the concept of quiet quitting began ricocheting around the internet, there have been countless takes on it. Supporters argue that quiet quitting is a way to safeguard your mental health, prioritize your family, friends and passions, and avoid burnout. But many movers and shakers are against it.
"Quiet quitting isn't just about quitting on a job, it's a step toward quitting on life," complains Arianna Huffington, arguing quiet quitters would be better served finding jobs they are passionate about.
"People who shut down their laptop at 5... they don't work for me," says business thinkfluencer Kevin O'Leary in a CNBC video. "I hope they work for my competitors."
Others worry that quiet quitting is too passive aggressive, can't accomplish what workers really want, and puts an extra burden on coworkers. Kami Rieck, writing in The Washington Post, suggests "the people who tend to experience the highest levels of burnout — women and people of color — probably can't afford to 'quiet quit.'" Instead of silently refusing to put in extra effort, Rieck writes, "it would probably be more helpful to raise these concerns with your boss and brainstorm other solutions."
Hamilton Nolan, writing in The Guardian, stresses that workers in generations past also felt a "collective sense of malaise," but they channeled their frustrations into something more productive than coasting at their jobs: creating unions. "All of these working people did not quit. Nor were they quiet. They knew what was wrong, and they fixed it. Loudly."
Even U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh recently chimed in on quiet quitting: "If you are an employer, you should catch on early enough that your employees aren't satisfied, aren't happy, and then there needs to be a dialogue, a conversation."
The Economics Of Quiet Quitting
One of the more simple models in neoclassical economics says that, in a competitive market, workers are paid their "marginal product." That means the more productive they are — the more extra widgets they make per hour — the more they get paid. In this cartoon world, there would be strong incentives against quiet quitting. You work harder, you get paid more: You coast, and you get paid less. And, we should say, for some workplaces, that may actually be a good approximation of how the world works. You're more likely to get raises and promotions when your boss believes you're working hard.
But, of course, the world is much more messy than workers simply getting paid for how efficiently they work. A more sophisticated cartoon of the workplace is known as "the principal-agent model." In this model, the principal (the boss) enlists an agent (the worker) to do a specific job for them. The problem: the principal doesn't have complete information on exactly what their agent is doing. Is their agent being productive on the job? Or are they slacking? In order to make sure the agent is doing their bidding, the principal must figure out ways to incentivize and monitor them. The model has implications for the dramatic changes in office life — or lack-of-office life — we've seen in recent years. With the mass adoption of remote work, many managers seem to be struggling with how to effectively monitor and motivate their employees.
But companies are trying. A recent investigation by the New York Times finds "eight of the 10 largest private U.S. employers track the productivity metrics of individual workers, many in real time." And they document a surge in companies investing in "digital productivity monitoring" to oversee their white-collar employees. "Many employees, whether working remotely or in person, are subject to trackers, scores, 'idle' buttons, or just quiet, constantly accumulating records. Pauses can lead to penalties, from lost pay to lost jobs." It's all a bit icky.
Workers Tell NPR What They Think
Of course, the mantra of quiet quitting, at least according to TikTok, is not really about failing to do your job. It's about "quitting the idea of going above and beyond." But the concept has drawn much criticism — for being a misnomer, for example. Or for overshadowing the "quiet firing" trend, where companies passively aggressively make their employees' work lives unhappy, and "quiet fleecing," which refers to workers' pay lagging behind their increased productivity for decades.
NPR reached out to listeners and readers to get their perspective on quiet quitting. Some dislike the name. It's pretty confusing. So they offered some rebranding alternatives:
Reverse hustle
Work-life integration
Acting your wage
Workforce disassociation
Corporate coasting
Working at work
DYJ: Doing Your Job
Working to rule
Working to thrive
Morale-adjusted productivity
Our audience members also shared their real-life experiences with setting boundaries at work. Below are some of their comments (with two people asking to shorten their last names for fear of repercussions at work).
Sara M., department manager: "Since COVID, I feel like my priorities, values, who and what are important to me have shifted drastically. I now leave my office at the end of the day not thinking about what I need to work on when I go home at night. I set boundaries for checking my emails and reaching out to co-workers during non-office hours. Most importantly, I do not feel any bit of anxiety when it comes to requesting time off, taking personal days or especially taking sick time. Before it was something I would agonize over. Now it's something I can do without hesitation or worry."
Lane Sheldon, attorney: "Many of my friends work in Big Law and while they're paid very well, the expectations placed on Associates are extremely demanding and often unfair/emotionally abusive. They can't or won't draw similar boundaries, often for fear of retaliation, but they all recognize the toll it takes on their mental AND physical health. Many have left their positions as a result."
Christy G., administrative assistant: "I do not interact with anything from work before 7:00 or after 4:30, which is the time my office is open. I work in a corporate setting so my tasks are not life or death. If someone asks for something, like maybe a file scanned or something like that, at the end of the day — it can wait until the next day. My colleagues do not feel the same way. They answer their phones and answer emails outside of work and on vacations. Sometimes I'll come in on Monday morning and will see 5+ emails from co-workers sent at 7 pm on Saturday."
James Holverstott, laborer: "I have zero ability to do anything but do as I am required by my boss. The idea that 'quiet quitting' fits any jobs besides ones laden with keyboard strokes, spreadsheets, and meetings is patently foolish. It feels like more of a realization by people who have been more than happy to work 24/7/365 to chase the almighty dollar that their lives are being wasted in the pursuit of more stuff, and now they are presenting some laughable notion of 'I just realized I work too much, but luckily I can afford to do less because no one will notice anyway!' as somehow a paradigm shift in worker's rights. I am disgusted that this has even become something people believe could be effective for the bulk of the workforce."
Nick Ivanov, university research assistant: "No boundaries. I will do whatever necessary to make it possible to get a green card in the future. I cannot return to where I am originally from. I have to work 10 times more to be entitled to one tenth of what U.S. citizens take for granted."
Adrian Brothers, school bus driver: "The company I work for wants me to voluntarily put an app on my personal phone. I don't put it on there. ... If they want to communicate with me about work, they can either give me a phone call, a text-message, heck, even send me a letter in the mail. But I will not give the company access to my phone. If they want me to sign on to an app so they can message me every day, they can shell out the money for the phone to come with it."
Misty Moore, nurse: "I have the boundary of accepting as many assignments as I can handle and yet still provide excellent results. I do take on extra work but that is 100% my choice. No one should be looked down upon for not doing extra work."
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NPR is celebrating its 1,000th Tiny Desk Concert. And who better to mark the occasion than the 5-time Grammy award-winning Beninese artist and international sensation Angélique Kidjo?
Kidjo's music is equal parts boisterous and soulful. The strength of her voice commands attention while her band impressively manages to keep up with awe-invoking and radiant energy she displays. Her music transcends mere danceability and instead possesses you with its rhythm, leaving you no choice but to move with the groove.
We spoke to Kidjo about her music, her activism on behalf of girls and women – and what it means to perform at supercharged events like the Olympics and of course, the 1,000th Tiny Desk, which marked the occasion with a cake (it was ... delicious).
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What was is like performing for the 1,000th episode of NPR's Tiny Desk?
I'm speechless. I've always been a listener to the Tiny Desk Concerts. They show that there's more than just American musicians we have to focus on. The Tiny Desk Concerts bring the whole world into this tiny place where you can make miracles and wonder.
The Tiny Desk Concerts remind us that we are each other's keepers and that music is a universal language. It doesn't matter who is behind the microphone, the music goes straight into our DNA and touches our hearts.
Last year you performed during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic games. How does that experience, being on an immense stage in front of people from all over the world, compare to performing here behind a tiny desk?
One thing that Tiny Desk shares in common with the Olympics is that they're both moments where we rediscover other people. You realize that, gee, this world is big, yet these moments bring all of us together in one place. The Tiny Desk and the Olympics bring everybody together in one place to speak to the largest public around the world.
What does African music mean in the context of this new world where technology can bring us all together no matter where we are?
There is no music without African input. Why? Because Africa is the cradle of humanity, all Homo sapiens originally came from Africa. The music from Africa is here to last forever.
The new generation of artists coming up from Africa are talented and unapologetic. What's changed now is the platform that the internet has given them. They don't have to come all the way to the U.S. to get recognized. You just click and see how many millions of people like their work.
Your new album, Queen of Sheba, which was made in collaboration with French-Lebanese jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, combines African music and Middle Eastern music in a way that's new for you. What inspired this collaboration – and how did that album come together?
I thought about what is the link between Africa and the Middle East, and I found the myth of the queen Sheba asking King Solomon riddles to tap into his wisdom. At the time, power had always been male, but here was a woman who had wisdom, too.
We scraped the whole project together from performances we did on stage. Ibrahim Maalouf and I did three shows, then looked at each other and said "We're going to do an album." And that was how we got Queen of Sheba.
How has your advocacy work been going? You've led campaigns against child marriage and domestic violence against women. Has the pandemic had an impact on those efforts?
I'm campaigning every day, because when you witness abuse and you say nothing or do nothing, you are a part of that abuse. Lately, I've learned a great lesson of humility. I realized we don't have all the answers, we don't have all the solutions.
We lost a lot of progress on the fight against child marriage and violence against women during the lockdown. We are back at zero, really. The lockdown allowed a lot of abuse from men who didn't have a job and had to stay home. Men going away to work protected a lot of women in Africa. Without that women and children were forced to live with the perpetrator at home all the time.
My father always said, a great man is one who accepts both sexes, men and women. We all come into this world created by the two. So when you embrace that, you cannot see another person of a different sex as inferior to you.
How can people help? There are so many people out there who want to make a difference but don't know how.
Everybody is an advocate, that's what the song "Free and Equal" we sang today is saying. It's saying that we belong to the same human family and we all have to advocate for that human family so that justice can exist for everybody, no matter your skin color or where you come from.
You need to embrace love more than hate and violence. Life demands courage, I tell people to live every day like it's going to be your last one. Challenge yourself to be the best version of yourself. If you see somebody saying something outrageous, fight back.
That being said. We in Africa are not your charity work. As long as you have homeless people here in America who don't eat three meals a day or have access to basic health care, then the human rights of the American people are being infringed too.
Last question, you've been on the biggest stages and had all of this success, so what's next for Angelique Kidjo?
I don't know. If I knew, then I would have the pretension and arrogance of God, so I don't know.
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NPR is celebrating its 1,000th Tiny Desk Concert. And who better to mark the occasion than the 5-time Grammy award-winning Beninese artist and international sensation Angélique Kidjo?
Kidjo's music is equal parts boisterous and soulful. The strength of her voice commands attention while her band impressively manages to keep up with awe-invoking and radiant energy she displays. Her music transcends mere danceability and instead possesses you with its rhythm, leaving you no choice but to move with the groove.
We spoke to Kidjo about her music, her activism on behalf of girls and women – and what it means to perform at supercharged events like the Olympics and of course, the 1,000th Tiny Desk, which marked the occasion with a cake (it was ... delicious).
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What was is like performing for the 1,000th episode of NPR's Tiny Desk?
I'm speechless. I've always been a listener to the Tiny Desk Concerts. They show that there's more than just American musicians we have to focus on. The Tiny Desk Concerts bring the whole world into this tiny place where you can make miracles and wonder.
The Tiny Desk Concerts remind us that we are each other's keepers and that music is a universal language. It doesn't matter who is behind the microphone, the music goes straight into our DNA and touches our hearts.
Last year you performed during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic games. How does that experience, being on an immense stage in front of people from all over the world, compare to performing here behind a tiny desk?
One thing that Tiny Desk shares in common with the Olympics is that they're both moments where we rediscover other people. You realize that, gee, this world is big, yet these moments bring all of us together in one place. The Tiny Desk and the Olympics bring everybody together in one place to speak to the largest public around the world.
What does African music mean in the context of this new world where technology can bring us all together no matter where we are?
There is no music without African input. Why? Because Africa is the cradle of humanity, all Homo sapiens originally came from Africa. The music from Africa is here to last forever.
The new generation of artists coming up from Africa are talented and unapologetic. What's changed now is the platform that the internet has given them. They don't have to come all the way to the U.S. to get recognized. You just click and see how many millions of people like their work.
Your new album, Queen of Sheba, which was made in collaboration with French-Lebanese jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, combines African music and Middle Eastern music in a way that's new for you. What inspired this collaboration – and how did that album come together?
I thought about what is the link between Africa and the Middle East, and I found the myth of the queen Sheba asking King Solomon riddles to tap into his wisdom. At the time, power had always been male, but here was a woman who had wisdom, too.
We scraped the whole project together from performances we did on stage. Ibrahim Maalouf and I did three shows, then looked at each other and said "We're going to do an album." And that was how we got Queen of Sheba.
How has your advocacy work been going? You've led campaigns against child marriage and domestic violence against women. Has the pandemic had an impact on those efforts?
I'm campaigning every day, because when you witness abuse and you say nothing or do nothing, you are a part of that abuse. Lately, I've learned a great lesson of humility. I realized we don't have all the answers, we don't have all the solutions.
We lost a lot of progress on the fight against child marriage and violence against women during the lockdown. We are back at zero, really. The lockdown allowed a lot of abuse from men who didn't have a job and had to stay home. Men going away to work protected a lot of women in Africa. Without that women and children were forced to live with the perpetrator at home all the time.
My father always said, a great man is one who accepts both sexes, men and women. We all come into this world created by the two. So when you embrace that, you cannot see another person of a different sex as inferior to you.
How can people help? There are so many people out there who want to make a difference but don't know how.
Everybody is an advocate, that's what the song "Free and Equal" we sang today is saying. It's saying that we belong to the same human family and we all have to advocate for that human family so that justice can exist for everybody, no matter your skin color or where you come from.
You need to embrace love more than hate and violence. Life demands courage, I tell people to live every day like it's going to be your last one. Challenge yourself to be the best version of yourself. If you see somebody saying something outrageous, fight back.
That being said. We in Africa are not your charity work. As long as you have homeless people here in America who don't eat three meals a day or have access to basic health care, then the human rights of the American people are being infringed too.
Last question, you've been on the biggest stages and had all of this success, so what's next for Angelique Kidjo?
I don't know. If I knew, then I would have the pretension and arrogance of God, so I don't know.
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Students and staff at Seattle Pacific University are taking members of school's board of trustees to court for refusing to hire individuals in same-sex relationships.
The lawsuit alleges that the six defendants, members of the university's board of trustees, use their position of power to "advance the interests of a religious denomination at the expense of the students, alumni, staff, and faculty of the university." It goes on to say that the hiring practices at SPU, a private Christian university, prohibit individuals in same-sex relationships from full-time employment.
This filing comes after Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced in late July that his office was investigating potential discrimination charges. The university filed suit against the attorney general's office after learning about the probe.
In a news release, Ferguson said SPU admits that it refuses to hire gay faculty, despite protests from students, staff and community members.
"Numerous Seattle Pacific University students, faculty, and others reached out to my office to file complaints or otherwise express deep concern that the University administration's policies illegally violate Washingtonians' civil rights," Ferguson said in the release.
Seattle Pacific University Interim President Pete Menjares, one of the six leaders being sued, said in a July 28 statement that the university was asking a federal court to defend its right to make hiring decisions based on religion.
The lawsuit argues that though the university may be faith-based, its primary function is education. Additionally, the lawsuit says that SPU is incorporated under the Washington Nonprofit Corporation Act and doesn't meet the definition of a religious corporation.
The lawsuit also refers to another case that went to the Supreme Court of Washington, Woods v. Seattle's Union Gospel Mission, which ruled that the state's religious exemption laws don't protect nonprofit employment practices unless the employees are ministers. The U.S Supreme Court denied the mission a request for a writ of certiorari, stating that a religious exemption would become a "license to discriminate."
Students protested last May after the board voted to retain the controversial hiring practices, despite support for change by many faculty, staff and students, the Seattle Times reported. And at graduation, KIRO-7 reported, students handed Pride flags to Menjares instead of shaking his hand.
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The 2022 primary season comes to a close Tuesday. While nominees in other states have hit the campaign trail gearing up for November, voters in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island will decide on their picks with fewer than two months to go until the general election.
Perhaps the most-watched state is New Hampshire, where the stakes are high in the five-way Republican Senate primary. The winner of that race will take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in a race that's among a handful that could decide party control over the U.S. Senate.
New Hampshire Senate
Former President Donald Trump has, so far, stayed out of these races but has loomed large as candidates have fought to play up their fealty to him. The sprawling field includes Chuck Morse, who is the president of New Hampshire's state Senate, and Don Bolduc, a former Army general who has backed Trump's false claims about the 2020 election being stolen.
Bolduc has been dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist-type" by New Hampshire's Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who is backing Morse. Morse also has the support of an outside group run by a former aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. It's spent $4 million to boost Morse and attack Bolduc, but Bolduc, who also ran for Senate in 2020, has campaigned doggedly, stoking conservative anger over COVID-19 lockdowns and promising to hold leaders in both parties accountable.
The field also includes Lincoln, N.H., businessman Vikram Mansharamani.
New Hampshire congressional primaries
New Hampshire's 1st congressional District — which includes Manchester, the state's seacoast and vote-rich commuter towns along the Massachusetts border — is seen as a true swing district. There are five Republicans fighting to take on two-term incumbent Democrat Chris Pappas. Prime among them is Matt Mowers, a former Trump administration state department staffer, who got his political start in New Jersey as an aide to then-Gov. Chris Christie.
Mowers was the GOP's 2020 nominee for the seat, losing to Pappas by five points. Mowers, 33, entered this race as the frontrunner and has been endorsed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, but Mowers' victory is far from assured. Karoline Leavitt — a 25-year-old former Trump administration assistant press secretary who has derided Mowers as the establishment's "handpicked puppet" — has gained ground in polling.
The race for New Hampshire's 2nd District, which runs along the border with Vermont and tilts more liberal, features Bob Burns, a serial candidate well-known in GOP activist circles. Burns bills himself as "pro-life, pro-Trump, America first." He faces George Hansel, the Republican mayor of the liberal city of Keene, N.H. Hansel supports some abortion rights and has the support of Gov. Sununu. Hansel has accused Burns of repeatedly lying about his record but has tacked right over the course of this race. The winner of that primary faces five-term incumbent Democrat Annie Kuster, a prolific fundraiser.
Rhode Island governor
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee remains the favorite in a five-way Democratic primary, although two rivals — Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea and former CVS Health executive Helena Buonanno Foulkes — could pull off an upset.
In March 2021, McKee, then the lieutenant governor, moved up to governor when Gina Raimondo left office to become the U.S. Commerce secretary. McKee touts his leadership in guiding Rhode Island through the pandemic since then.
Gorbea and Foulkes did not rush to criticize McKee's record. When they did, they targeted a potential soccer stadium in Pawtucket with $60 million in public investment and an ongoing FBI probe of an educational consulting contract awarded by McKee's administration. The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican businesswoman Ashley Kalus, a Rhode Island newcomer. Republicans held the governor's office from 2003 until 2011, but have been locked out since then.
New Hampshire governor
Three-term incumbent Chris Sununu, the most successful Republican in the Granite State in a generation, is almost certain to win the primary for governor. He faces three challengers, all staunch conservatives who are taking particular aim at the Sununu's handling of COVID-19.
New Hampshire was less restrictive in terms of pandemic policies than any of its New England neighbors, but conservative activists were still galvanized by school closures, business closings and mask mandates.
If Sununu wins tomorrow, he'll face Democratic challenger Dr. Tom Sherman, who now serves in the state Senate.
Josh Rogers is the senior political editor and reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. Ian Donnis is a political reporter for The Public's Radio in Rhode Island.
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PERTH, Australia (AP) — A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday. It was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since 1936.
A relative found the 77-year-old man with “serious injuries” on his property Sunday in semirural Redmond, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of the Western Australia state capital Perth.
It was believed he had been attacked earlier in the day by the kangaroo, which police shot dead because it was preventing paramedics from reaching the injured man, police said.
“The kangaroo was posing an ongoing threat to emergency responders,” the statement said.
The man died at the scene. Police are preparing a report for a coroner who will record an official cause to death.
Police believe the victim had been keeping the wild kangaroo as a pet.
There are legal restrictions on keeping Australian native fauna as pets, but the police media office said Tuesday they had no information to make public regarding whether the victim had a permit.
Tanya Irwin, who cares for macropods at the Native Animal Rescue service in Perth, said authorities rarely issue permits to keep kangaroos in Western Australia.
“This looks like it was an adult male and they become quite aggressive and they don’t do well in captivity,” Irwin said.
“We don’t know what the situation was; If he was in pain or why he was being kept in captivity and unfortunately … they’re not a cute animal, they’re a wild animal,” Irwin added.
Irwin said her rescue center always rehabilitates native animals with the aim of returning them to the wild, particularly kangaroos.
“You do need a special permit to be able to do that. I don’t believe they really give them out very often unless you’re a wildlife center with trained people who know what they’re doing,” she said.
Western gray kangaroos are common in Australia’s southwest. They can weigh up to 54 kilograms (119 pounds) and stand 1.3 meters (4 feet 3 inches) tall.
The males can be aggressive and fight people with the same techniques as they use with each other. They use their short upper limbs to grapple with their opponent, use their muscular tails to take their body weight, then lash out with both their powerful clawed hind legs.
In 1936, William Cruickshank, 38, died in a hospital in Hillston in New South Wales state on the Australian east coast months after he’d been attacked by a kangaroo.
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Amazon Prime includes Thursday Night Football, new savings
Amazon's latest benefit for Prime members kicks off this week with the debut of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video.
Why it matters: This season marks the first in NFL history that an entire rights package will be made available exclusively via a streaming platform.
- The 11-year deal includes 15 regular-season games and one preseason game per year with new pregame, halftime and postgame shows.
- The NFL has been aggressive in its efforts to bring more of its games to streaming without cannibalizing its lucrative live TV contracts with various TV networks.
Driving the news: Amazon announced Tuesday that in addition to the games Prime members can get rolling discounts on a special Thursday Night Football hub.
Amazon Prime benefits, free shipping
Top Prime benefits include free two-day delivery on millions of items and Whole Foods Market Prime member deals. Others:
- Free one-day delivery on more than 20 million items
- Free same-day delivery in more than 90 major metropolitan areas
- Streaming and digital benefits with Prime Video, Amazon Music
- Prescription savings at Amazon Pharmacy and more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S., including CVS and Walgreens.
Flashback: Amazon raised the price of its Prime membership earlier this year for the first time since 2018.
- An annual membership went up $20 from $119 to $139 and the monthly fee increased $2 from $12.99 to $14.99.
What they're saying: "Right now with what’s going on in the world with the economy and inflation, I think it’s particularly important for families, households, single folks to make their dollars stretch as far as possible," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime, in an interview with Axios.
By the numbers: Prime members in the U.S. earned billions of dollars in rewards using Amazon Prime credit cards in 2021, Ghani said.
- Last year, more than 70% of Amazon Pharmacy customers enjoyed savings on a least one of their medication purchases by using the Prime prescription savings benefit.
Grubhub+ membership with Prime
Amazon started offering U.S. Prime members a free one-year Grubhub+ membership in June, typically $9.99 per month.
- The offer includes "unlimited, $0 food delivery fees on orders over $12" and "exclusive perks for Grubhub+ members and rewards like free food and order discounts."
- The free membership needs to be activated at Amazon.
State of play: "If you do the math, the Grubhub benefit alone pays for the price of Prime in terms of the delivery fee savings and the membership savings," Ghani told Axios, adding Prime members are saving hundreds of millions in fees annually.
Between the lines: After the free year of Grubhub+ ends, it will auto-renew at $9.99 a month until canceled, Amazon says in its fine print.
Walmart+ benefits include free Paramount+
Meanwhile, Walmart+ members now get access to the ad-supported tier of Paramount's subscription streaming service, Paramount+, for free.
- With the Walmart membership, which costs $12.95 a month or $98 a year, members save 10 cents per gallon of gas at participating Exxon and Mobil locations.
- Members also get free delivery from the store, free shipping with no order minimum and access to Walmart Rewards, a new loyalty program.
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Why we need to be talking about vaccines that offer "mucosal immunity"
As the U.S. rolls out updated mRNA-based COVID shots, a growing chorus of experts say it's a mistake not to focus on treatments that boost immunity through mucous membranes.
Why it matters: Next-generation nasal or oral vaccines could quickly boost the immune response in the very airways where COVID-19 enters the body and ultimately break our reliance on the constant development of reformulated shots to target new variants of concern.
- But the U.S. isn't putting money into such products, which experts say could augment current vaccines on the market.
Driving the news: China made headlines this month for the emergency approval of CanSino's inhaled COVID-19 vaccine. Last week, India approved Bharat Biotech's intranasal vaccine for emergency use.
- Both claim to stimulate mucosal immunity, which not only protects against the virus, but blocks it from spreading.
- They come on the heels of research in Science Immunology this summer saying mucosal booster vaccination is needed to establish robust "sterilizing immunity" against COVID, including infection by Omicron variants and future variants of concern.
State of play: Experts say mRNA shots did a remarkable job protecting against infection and the spread of earlier strains of COVID. They also continue to keep people from being hospitalized or dying.
- But they don't prevent transmission in a way that could actually end the pandemic.
- Eric Topol, executive vice president of Scripps Research, points to the number of reinfections as the more contagious Omicron variant swept the nation.
- "That signified that we had a leak. A big leak. That leak is the fact Omicron has become so much more transmissible, so much more able to get into our upper airway," Topol said.
- The answer he, and other experts say, could lie in vaccines that work in the membranes where respiratory diseases take root.
Be smart: Mucosal membranes are the moist, inner lining of some organs and body cavities, such as the nose, mouth, lungs, and stomach.
- Mucosal immunity is a key compartment in our immune system, different from the antibody response in the blood that's stimulated by vaccine shots, said Michael Mina, an epidemiologist and chief scientific officer for at-home testing company eMed.
- "Muscosal immunity has evolved to recognize what you need immunity to and where — so it's much more localized," he said. "You could spray a nasal vaccine into a somebody's nose and that's where a lot of those immune cells will actually populate."
- There are other oral and spray vaccines on the market, such as AstraZeneca's FluMist Quadrivalent flu vaccine.
Between the lines: Experts have expressed ongoing frustration with the lack of enthusiasm for bulking up our arsenal with new weapons against COVID.
- A number of smaller biotechs in the U.S. have been working on next-generation vaccine candidates. For example, Vaxart, which recently reported promising Phase 2 trial results, says its oral vaccine tablet stimulated a mucosal response.
- And researchers from the Catholic University of America and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston demonstrated an effective intranasal COVID vaccine tested in mice in July.
- Late last month, Senate Republicans sent a letter to the Biden administration calling for an Operation Warp Speed-like project for intranasal vaccines to reduce transmission, as well as pan-coronavirus approaches.
- "We continue to do our part, including by hosting a vaccine summit in July to talk about next-generation COVID needs including a mucosal vaccine, but we need Congress to provide funding to innovate and continue fighting this pandemic with the best tools possible," a White House spokesperson said in a statement.
What they're saying: "It just hasn't been a priority in this country," Topol said.
- "If we don't put up a wall, a mucosal wall of immunity, we're succumbing to the viruses' enhanced ability to spread and induce infection," he said. "We're surrendering."
- There are a number of vaccine technologies, including those that stimulate a mucosal response, that have been choked out of the COVID response, Mina said.
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Georgia ranks among worst states for workers
State lawmakers and business boosters love to tout Georgia's reputation as a great place to do business. But, according to Oxfam America, it’s a terrible place to work.
Driving the news: Georgia was the one of the worst places to earn a paycheck, beating only North Carolina and Mississippi in the anti-poverty nonprofit's new study of the best — and worst — states to work.
- Oregon topped the list, followed by its West coast neighbors California and Washington.
Details: The state lost points for its lackluster wage policies. Georgia has not raised the state minimum wage higher than the federal standard of $7.25.
The nonprofit also dinged Georgia for its lack of workplace protections, such as not providing some form of paid family leave or offering accommodations for pregnant workers.
- And while the state does offer some protections, including a mandate for equal pay across gender and race, it stops short of extending those protections to domestic workers, Oxfam America says.
The big picture: Southern states, where lawmakers have passed employer-friendly "right to work" laws, dominated the bottom of the "best places to work" list.
- The laws make labor organizing difficult by prohibiting unions from requiring membership as a condition of employment.
The other side: Last October, Gov. Brian Kemp celebrated Georgia being named the best state to do business by trade publication Area Development for the eighth consecutive year.
- The state has also topped Site Selection magazine's version of the same list.
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A COVID-19 booster Q&A
New COVID-19 boosters are now rolling out to Central Ohio providers.
🤔 Your questions, answered:
Why is there a new vaccine?
- The updated Pfizer and Moderna shots are tailored to be more effective against Omicron subvariants that are now the country's dominant virus strains. This is similar to how the flu vaccine is updated each year.
When am I eligible?
- Recipients must first have a regular two-dose COVID-19 vaccine.
- Two months later — or two months after receiving an old booster — the new Pfizer shots are available for people 12 and older, while Moderna's are 18+.
- Children ages 5-11 can still receive a booster of the original formula after 5 months.
Can I also get my flu shot at the same time?
- Yes, which means only one round of potential vaccine side effects.
- September and October are the ideal months to get a flu shot.
Where can I get it?
- Anywhere. Providers such as doctor's offices, pharmacies and health departments are only offering the new bivalent boosters going forward.
- Columbus Public Health and Franklin County Public Health tell Axios they have hundreds of doses ready for their clinics.
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Denver murders rose in first half of 2022 — unlike most major cities
The number of murders in Denver increased in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, city figures show.
Why it matters: The Mile High City appears to be bucking a national trend.
- Homicides in major U.S. cities dropped in the first half of 2022 — though total violent crime rose from the same period the year prior, Axios' Russell Contreras writes from a midyear survey of large law enforcement agencies.
By the numbers: Denver recorded 53 murders from Jan. 1 to June 30, a 23% jump from the same stretch in 2021, according to the survey.
- Robberies increased 7%, and aggravated assaults rose 11%.
- Year-to-date, violent crime remains 21% higher compared to the city's three-year average between 2019 and 2021, per police department data.
Threat level: With at least 62 murders year-to-date, local law enforcement leaders have warned that the city is on pace to exceed last year's total of 96 — and could potentially break its all-time annual high of 100 homicides set in 1981.
What's happening: Socioeconomic issues associated with the pandemic are fueling violence here and nationwide, crime researchers tell Axios.
- Another factor at play, experts say, is that police departments — including in Denver — remain understaffed.
The intrigue: Violent crime this year has also plagued numerous Colorado cities outside Denver — many of which are Republican-led — like Aurora, Colorado Springs, Greeley and Pueblo.
- Ahead of the 2022 midterms, the uptick in crime could throw a curveball at GOP candidates, who've tended to blame Democrats for laws they claim embolden criminals.
The big picture: Violent crime has risen across the country, the Major Cities Chiefs Association's survey of 70 agencies found.
- Violent crime jumped 4.2% from Jan. 1 to June 30, compared to the same period last year. Robbery skyrocketed by nearly 12%.
- Yes, but: Unlike Denver, homicides in the country's biggest cities decreased by 2.4%, offering hope that some of the nation's most violent crimes might be leveling off from significant increases in 2020.
What to watch: Division chief Ron Thomas has taken over the Denver Police Department since outgoing leader Paul Pazen announced his retirement, effective in October.
- Thomas inherits an agency struggling with rising crime, staffing shortages and diminished public trust from the community. How successfully he can address these issues remains to be seen.
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5 takeaways from the Lions' Week 1 loss
There are no moral victories in the NFL, but the Lions stayed resilient in a 38-35 loss to Philadelphia — a team they lost to by 38 last year.
Here are five things that caught our attention:
🔊 Home-field advantage: Ford Field was so loud the Eagles' offense had trouble communicating.
📉 Aidan Hutchinson struggles: The second pick in this year's draft recorded only one tackle in his pro debut. As it turns out, it's unlikely his presence alone can save the defense.
🫣 Jared Goff buckles: Down 14-7 in the second quarter, Goff threw a pick-six as the pocket collapsed. The Eagles took a two-touchdown lead and never looked back.
🚧 Dual-threat QBs: Detroit's defense must figure out how to defend running quarterbacks — they're becoming much more common. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts had 90 rushing yards.
🏃🏽 Jamaal Williams' journey: The veteran running back scored two touchdowns to complement D'Andre Swift's 144 yards on the ground. Teams should worry about facing the Lions' rushing attack, Williams told reporters postgame.
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Michigan Supreme Court justice to leave court early
Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack unexpectedly announced yesterday that she's retiring from the court by the end of the year.
Driving the news: McCormack, who joined the Supreme Court in 2013 and became chief justice in 2019, will leave with six years left on her term.
- Her retirement gives Gov. Gretchen Whitmer her first opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice.
Between the lines: McCormack leaves behind an impactful legacy after leading the court into the digital age and advancing criminal justice efforts.
- She sought to make remote hearings the new normal during the pandemic in the name of expanding access to justice.
What they're saying: "In the coming months, I will appoint a new justice with Michigan values and an unwavering commitment to the Michigan constitution who can be an arbiter of justice and live up to the great responsibility that comes with the role," Whitmer said in a statement.
Flashback: Conrad Mallett, now Detroit's top government lawyer, also resigned midterm as chief justice in 1999. He quit to join a Detroit law firm.
- But unlike McCormack, Mallett resigned with a GOP governor in office, and Gov. John Engler appointed judicial conservative Robert Young to replace him on the court.
What we're watching: It will be interesting to see who Whitmer appoints to the state's high court, where Democrats currently hold a 4-3 majority.
- The Detroit News' Nolan Finley reports that the governor is said to be committed to seeing the first African-American woman on the high court bench.
- State Rep. Kyra Bolden (D-Southfield) is one of two Democratic Supreme Court candidates on the Nov. 8 ballot. Gubernatorial appointment could be another path for Bolden to reach the high court if she loses her race to flip incumbent Justice Brian Zahra's seat.
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New twists emerge in Billy Mitchell "Donkey Kong" saga
Freshly filed court documents and a third-party forensic analysis are adding new twists to a long-running saga in South Florida: whether video game icon Billy Mitchell's record-setting scores should be disqualified.
Background: In 1999, Mitchell became the first known person to reach a perfect score in "Pac-Man." He also set records in "Donkey Kong" and achieved video game fame when he was featured in a 2007 documentary, "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."
- In 2018, Twin Galaxies — an organization that tracks official video game records — stripped Mitchell of his "Donkey Kong" records set in the 2000s.
- The group alleged that Mitchell used an emulator — software that mimics original arcade games — rather than actual arcade hardware. Such play is allowed, but records achieved that way would be distinct from records achieved on original hardware.
- Mitchell later sued the organization for defamation, arguing that Twin Galaxies' statement about his scores implied that he's a cheater. The case is unfolding in a Los Angeles court.
Fast forward: Over the past two weeks, interest in the saga has been reignited by recent court documents published by perfectpacman.com. In them, Mitchell claims:
- He's lost out on more than $900,000 from potential appearances in movies and at video game conventions.
- His business Rickey's World Famous Hot Sauce saw sales drop in light of the controversy.
Perfectpacman.com also published a 48-page forensic technical analysis by an independent electrical engineer, Tanner Fokkens, which claims to prove Mitchell did not use an original arcade machine.
- "I wrote this document independently in hopes that the drama and vitriol associated with the Billy Mitchell dispute can be put to rest in the court of public opinion," Fokkens wrote.
What they're saying: Twin Galaxies has disputed Mitchell's argument that the site's statements are defamatory, according to court documents published by Ars Technica.
- "It is not as if Twin Galaxies made the statement on its own volition without being prompted," Twin Galaxies' attorneys wrote in a motion to dismiss the suit. "Instead, it was asked by the community as the final adjudicator of video game scores appearing on its website to consider evidence and render its opinion."
Fokkens and an attorney for Mitchell didn't respond to Axios' request for comment.
Of note: Mitchell sued Cartoon Network in 2015 after a show featured an evil character who cheated at video games.
- Both he and the character had long dark hair and beards, but a judge threw out the case, ruling that the two don't bear a resemblance because the character "appears as a non-human creature, a giant floating head with no body from outer space, while plaintiff is a human being."
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Miami interior designers star in new Netflix reality show
A Miami "power couple" — Ray and Eilyn Jimenez — are the stars of a new Netflix reality show about their lives as competing interior designers.
Driving the news: "Designing Miami," which comes out Sept. 21, follows the Jimenezes as they take on projects in Miami's luxury real estate market and build their own home, all while navigating their clashing design philosophies.
What she's saying: Eilyn Jimenez, founder of Sire Design, told Axios they're "excited to give viewers a behind-the-curtain look at the world of high-end design in the competitive Miami market."
His take: Ray Jimenez, who founded Raymond Nicolas, said there are no downsides to marrying someone who works in the same industry as you.
- "The healthy competitive edge pushes us to be better and better every day," he said.
Between the lines: From "Selling Sunset" to "Dream Home Makeover," real estate and home-improvement shows are flooding Netflix.
Design tips: Eilyn and Ray were nice enough to give us some design pointers (free of charge!).
- Refresh the kitchen: Repaint your cabinets, swap out the hardware, and declutter your countertops by storing appliances out of sight.
- Tiny but mighty: Make a small space look bigger by painting it a light color, adding more natural or artificial light, and buying proportional furniture whenever possible.
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Teen charged in fatal shooting outside West Philly rec center
A 14-year-old is facing charges for the murder of a city employee who police say was caught in crossfire outside a West Philly recreation center on Friday.
The latest: City officials announced Monday that the teen is being charged as an adult in the shooting that killed Parks and Recreation Department employee Tiffany Fletcher while she was working at the Mill Creek Playground.
- If convicted for first-degree murder, the teenager would face a sentence of 30 years to life.
- Police recovered a 9mm "ghost gun," a homemade firearm that is unserialized and untraceable, in a trash can on the same block where the teen was arrested, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.
The big picture: Homicides are on pace to reach an all-time high for the second year in a row in Philadelphia.
- The city has logged 384 killings through Monday, up 3% over the same time last year.
What they're saying: "Fourteen years old is very young to be charged with a homicide and it's young to be in the adult system," Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said at a press conference.
- "What we want to do is the thing that's going to make Philadelphians safest in the future and bring justice to the family," he said.
What to watch: The investigation into the shooting near the rec center is ongoing.
- Police believe up to three other individuals could have fired shots that afternoon.
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Triangle businesses celebrate Negroni Week
One of Italy's best gifts to the world — the Negroni — is on full display at Triangle bars and restaurants this week.
Driving the news: The ruby-red cocktail, which brings together bitter and sweet flavors in perfect harmony, is being celebrated across the world for Negroni Week, an event organized by Imbibe Magazine and the Campari Group, known for its liqueur Campari, which is a critical ingredient in a Negroni.
- Not that you needed an excuse to imbibe, but it's also for a good cause. Some of the proceeds will go to charity Slow Food, which advocates for sustainability and diversity in the food industry.
Here are the local bars and restaurants participating:
Killjoy, 116 N. West St., Raleigh
The Willard Rooftop Lounge, 9 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh
- The rooftop bar in Glenwood South will sell their Barrel-aged Negroni at a discount price as well as a "New-groni," which features chicory liqueur and coffee bitters.
Clockwork, 519 W. North St., Raleigh
Bittersweet, 16 E. Martin St., Raleigh
- The downtown cocktail bar will have a special menu for the week, offering different variations of the Negroni.
Dram & Draught, 701 W. Main St., Durham and 1 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh
Oak Steakhouse, 417 W. Hargett St., Raleigh
Mothers & Sons, 107 W. Chapel Hill St., Durham
- The downtown Italian restaurant will offer a Negroni sangria.
Mateo, 109 W. Chapel Hill St., Durham
- The Spanish tapas eatery is serving three different Negronis: one with a coffee liqueur, one with lime vermouth and one with mezcal and grapefruit-infused Punt e Mes.
Alley Twenty Six, 320 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham
Crude Bitters, 501 E. Davie St., Raleigh
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If you Google search ‘Gatebil’, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll find photos and videos of all-wheel drive cars being drifted about in Sweden and Norway. At Gatebil Mantorp back in June, I found a machine that’s certainly capable of four-wheel smoky slides, but this one’s not built for gathering style points – although it is very stylish. It’s built for ripping fast lap times.
I did some digging around, and found out that it was featured on Speedhunters almost a decade ago. What’s happened with it in the time since then? Let’s find out…
The Audi Ur-Quattro is still owned and driven by Börje Hansson, a racing veteran who has been involved in motorsport for more than 50 years now. I caught up with Börje on the Saturday evening of the Mantorp Park event, and he was happy to give me a run down on everything that’s changed since his first Speedhunters spotlight in 2013.
If you compare the then and now, it’s obvious that the exterior has seen some work. Custom-made over-fenders were fitted in 2015, at the same time Börje was stepping up to an 18-inch wheel and tire package. On top of this, a new wing – 80mm taller than the previous – was added to improve downforce, and a carbon fiber rear diffuser was fitted too.
One year prior to the exterior makeover, Börje fitted a new 2,180cc engine that revved to almost 9,000rpm and pumped out a solid 650hp. It wasn’t enough though, and in 2015, VS Motor in Norway was called upon to take the Audi five-cylinder engine to the next level. A BorgWarner EFR 8374 turbo was added along with a bigger and more-efficient intercooler setup in the rear. All told, the upgrades lifted power output to 780hp, which is where it still sits today.
To make the most of the Audi’s newfound power, Börje now also shifts through a sequential transmission.
I mentioned a moment ago Börje switching to 18-inch wheels, and these come in the form of Braid Forged Is wrapped up in super-soft compound Yokohama rubber. The brake system has been upgraded too, with AP Racing DTM 6-pot calipers biting down on 380mm carbon-ceramic discs at the front, and an AP Racing DTM 4-pot/340mm setup in use at the rear.
There’s certainly a lot to love about Börje’s Quattro, but my favorite aspect of the car is its interior. The carbon dashboard, white interior paint and fighter jet-style switches – everything goes so well together. Especially when it’s dark outside and the bright red lights on the dash illuminate the cabin.
Given how stunning this build is, you might think that Börje goes easy on it, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. He’s an absolute maniac on track, and the Audi is blisteringly quick.
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Lucknow: Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, who was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court, will continue to remain in a jail here as a case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate against him is still pending, officials of the prison department said.
A court here on Monday issued the release order of Kappan, who was lodged in jail after his arrest in October 2020 while he was on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, where a Dalit woman had died after allegedly being raped.
“Kappan will continue to remain in jail as a case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate is still pending," DG Jail PRO Santosh Verma told PTI.
While ordering his release, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Anurodh Mishra had directed Kappan to furnish two sureties of Rs 1 lakh each and a personal bond of the same amount.
The judge also sought an undertaking from the journalist that he would not breach the conditions imposed on him by the apex court.
Kappan along with three others -- Athikur Rehman, Alam and Masood -- was arrested by the police in Mathura for allegedly having links with the Popular Front of India and being a part of conspiracy to instigate violence.
He was booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology (IT) Act.
The Supreme Court on Friday had granted bail to Kappan.
The court had also taken note of the submissions of the Uttar Pradesh government and laid down several conditions for bail, including that he will have to remain in Delhi for the next six weeks after release from the prison and report to Nizamuddin police station in the national capital on Monday every week.
Opposition parties and journalist bodies had welcomed the Supreme Court order granting bail to Kappan.
They claimed Kappan was made a soft target by the Uttar Pradesh government and hoped he will also be granted bail in another case filed against him under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The Dalit woman had died at a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was allegedly gang-raped on September 14, 2020. She was cremated in the middle of the night in her village. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/despite-securing-bail--siddique-kappan-to-remain-in-jail.amp.html | 2022-09-13T11:35:57Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/despite-securing-bail--siddique-kappan-to-remain-in-jail.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vaikom: Several stray dogs were found dead and buried in Mulakulam panchayat in Vaikom on Tuesday.
Ten dogs were found dead in the area. It is alleged that the dogs were poisoned by the locals here after authorities failed to cull their numbers.
It is likely that enraged locals took the matter into their own hands. Several people were bitten by stray dogs here in the past few weeks.
However, it can only be verified after the postmortem results. The police has also launched a probe into the incident.
Existing laws do not allow the killing of stray dogs. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and the subordinate rules it spawned, prohibit killing or even maiming of stray dogs.
In 2016, the Supreme Court had warned vigilante groups in Kerala that had taken it upon themselves to shoot down the ferocious canine population and who had gone around distributing cheap air guns to the public and exhorting them to do the same. The apex court had then said that human life was not superior to animal life.
The incident comes against the backdrop of Kerala government's move to use extreme measures to keep stray dog menace in check.
Local self government minister MB Ragesh on Monday said that the State will seek the permission of the apex court to cull aggressive and rabies-infected stray dogs. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dogs-found-dead-vaikom.amp.html | 2022-09-13T11:36:22Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dogs-found-dead-vaikom.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vaikom: Several stray dogs were found dead and buried in Mulakulam panchayat in Vaikom on Tuesday.
Ten dogs were found dead in the area. It is alleged that the dogs were poisoned by the locals here after authorities failed to cull their numbers.
It is likely that enraged locals took the matter into their own hands. Several people were bitten by stray dogs here in the past few weeks.
However, it can only be verified after the postmortem results. The police has also launched a probe into the incident.
Existing laws do not allow the killing of stray dogs. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and the subordinate rules it spawned, prohibit killing or even maiming of stray dogs.
In 2016, the Supreme Court had warned vigilante groups in Kerala that had taken it upon themselves to shoot down the ferocious canine population and who had gone around distributing cheap air guns to the public and exhorting them to do the same. The apex court had then said that human life was not superior to animal life.
The incident comes against the backdrop of Kerala government's move to use extreme measures to keep stray dog menace in check.
Local self government minister MB Ragesh on Monday said that the State will seek the permission of the apex court to cull aggressive and rabies-infected stray dogs. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dogs-found-dead-vaikom.html | 2022-09-13T11:36:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/stray-dogs-found-dead-vaikom.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Veterinary doctors will be appointed to resolve the stray dog menace in Kerala, Minister of Animal Husbandry J Chinchu Rani said on Tuesday.
'The doctors will be deployed to execute the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme. Vacant positions in panchayats will be filled via employment exchanges,” the minister said.
Meanwhile, the Kerala Veterinary University has come up with six-pronged approach to address the stray dog situation in the state. They are:
1. Train labourers, including guest workers, to catch stray dogs that show aggressive behaviour.
2. Train paramedical staff and those under veterinary deployment to administer anti-rabies vaccine.
3. Administer anti-rabies vaccines free of cost at Mannuthy, Pookod campuses.
4. Give technical assistance to build animal shelters for hosting stray dogs.
5. Train doctors to conduct neutering and related procedures.
6. Conduct awareness programmes for the public, under the guidance of Preventive Medicine, Public Health departments, at the Veterinary University.
Local self-government minister M B Rajesh on Monday said that the Kerala government would seek the permission of the Supreme Court to cull aggressive and rabies-infected stray dogs. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, and the subordinate rules it spawned, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2001, prohibit killing or even maiming of stray dogs.
Meanwhile, the minister said that a stepped-up month-long vaccination drive would be conducted from September 20 to October 20. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/veterinary-doctors-stray-dog-menace-chinchu-rani.html | 2022-09-13T11:36:42Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/13/veterinary-doctors-stray-dog-menace-chinchu-rani.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Group advances from gold rating last year
LUXEMBOURG, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardagh Group S.A., including Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. and Ardagh Glass Packaging, has been awarded the prestigious platinum rating – the highest sustainability ranking awarded by EcoVadis. The Platinum rating recognises Ardagh's responsible and sustainable business practices and underlines the scope and ambition of its sustainability efforts. Ardagh is now part of the top 1% of companies recognised with a platinum EcoVadis rating.
The new rating identifies Ardagh's performance and transparency across four appraisal themes - labour and human rights, environment, sustainable procurement and ethics. Ardagh's sustainability efforts have also recently been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
"The EcoVadis rating is an important sustainability rating for our customers to whom we supply infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging," said John Sadlier, Chief Sustainability Officer, Ardagh Group. "Together with our recent SBTi approvals, EcoVadis platinum rating demonstrates how we have integrated sustainability into every aspect of our operations. We really are delivering strong sustainability performance across our business."
Ardagh has a clear goal of alignment with the UN and Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 in achieving net zero emissions by 2050. For more on Ardagh's sustainability progress, including its latest sustainability reports, visit ardaghgroup.com/sustainability.
Ardagh Group is a global supplier of infinitely recyclable metal and glass packaging for brand owners around the world. Ardagh operates 65 metal and glass production facilities in 16 countries, employing more than 20,000 people with sales of approximately $10bn.
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The Best SaaS Product for Communication, Collaboration or Conferencing.
LONDON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dstny Automate (formerly Qunifi), with its Call2Teams solution, has been declared the winner of the Best SaaS Product for Communication, Collaboration, or Conferencing this week in the international SaaS Awards program.
Earlier this year, Dstny announced the acquisition of the leading UK-based Microsoft Teams integration specialist Qunifi, now Dstny Automate. The 2022 SaaS Award reinforces that the unit is an essential part of Dstny's strategy in business integrations and a perfect example of how Dstny brings business value to end users by playing well with others.
Call2Teams is a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution developed and maintained by Dstny Automate (formerly Qunifi). With extensive interoperability and ongoing innovation, Call2Teams gives Voice, Telco, and IT partners a leading go-to-market solution for voice-enabling Teams. Call2Teams comes with multi-tenant, multi-tiered subscription management, is Microsoft approved, with enterprise-grade encryption and security built-in.
This year's SaaS praises, now in its seventh edition, received hundreds of entries from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Jeannie Arthur, Dstny Automate CEO, said: "It is an incredible honor to win this international SaaS Award for best Communication, Collaboration, or Conferencing product. The last few years have seen huge disruption in how organizations use technology to enable remote, home, and hybrid working. We are proud to work with the biggest global communications and collaboration companies to voice-enable workers wherever they are - in the office, in the field, on the frontline, or at home. It is also a huge honor to work with an incredible team of people. With a remote-first team spread across eight time zones, I'm proud of what we deliver today and excited about what we will deliver tomorrow."
Lead Judge Annabelle Whittall commented, "The leading experts on telephone middleware truly are Call2Teams. A creative way to integrate Microsoft Teams with your current telephony system. Call2Teams deserves to be a winner at SaaS Awards 2022 given its flawless streamlining and cutting-edge integration!"
Head of Operations for the Cloud Awards, James Williams, said: "Call2Teams is a worthy winner of the SaaS Awards, offering something truly and effectively stand-out in an incredibly competitive category.
You can view the full shortlist for the SaaS Awards here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2022-saas-awards-shortlist/
For further information
For Call2Teams
Helen Johnstone – Marketing Manager
helen.johnstone@qunifi.com
For the SaaS Awards
James Williams – head of operations
james@cloud-awards.com
About the SaaS Awards
The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011. The SaaS Awards focuses on recognizing excellence and innovation in software solutions. Categories range from Best Enterprise-Level SaaS to Best UX or UI Design in a SaaS Product.
For more information about the SaaS Awards, please visit www.cloud-awards.com/software-as-a-service-awards/.
About Call2Teams
Call2Teams easily voice-enables Microsoft Teams around existing enterprise-grade telephony. Call2Teams is a cloud-native, middleware product that sits between any phone system, PBX or SIP Trunk provider, and Microsoft Teams. No hardware or software is needed - there is no need to port numbers, change carrier, or throw away an existing phone system.
Call2Teams is a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution developed and maintained by Dstny Automate (formerly Qunifi). Call2Teams gives Voice, Telco, and IT partners a leading go-to-market solution for voice-enabling Teams. Call2Teams comes with multi-tenant, multi-tiered subscription management, is Microsoft approved, with enterprise-grade encryption and security built-in.
With scalable per-user, per-month pricing, Call2Teams gives businesses a low-cost, flexible, and immediate solution for making and receiving calls in Microsoft Teams. Call2Teams is available worldwide and can be deployed in minutes.
For more information, visit www.call2teams.com
Contact - Helen Johnstone, +44 (0)330 008 4523, helen.johnstone@qunifi.com
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DERMALA, the only personalized, clinically proven treatment for acne powered by the human microbiome, extends its product range to include a daily-use body spray for blemish-prone skin.
Launching today, Baby Got BACNE™ is a gentle yet powerful body spray that banishes body breakouts in hard-to-reach areas like the chest, shoulders, and back. Utilizing DERMALA's unique SE Microbiome® and SE Sugar™ Complexes, Baby Got BACNE works to support beneficial skin bacteria while targeting acne-associated bacteria, balancing the skin microbiome to heal breakouts and stop them before they start.
Baby Got BACNE is the first product in the DERMALA Body Acne line, with future launches to follow. With twice-daily use, Baby Got BACNE gets excess oil under control while gently exfoliating the skin. In addition to the SE Microbiome and SE Sugar Complexes, it is formulated with powerful ingredients such as niacinamide, witch hazel extract, and salicylic acid to help open pores, exfoliate and target acne-causing bacteria.
"We know that acne does not just happen on the face only. In fact, body acne is a top concern for many of our current customers," said Lada Rasochova, Ph.D. MBA, Founder & CEO of DERMALA. "We decided to develop the Baby Got BACNE soothing spray to help our customers control body acne in hard-to reach-areas by targeting acne-causing bacteria, supporting the growth of beneficial bacteria, and getting the skin microbiome back into balance."
Baby got BACNE body spray is incorporated into the DERMALA personalization platform, a user-friendly digital engagement tool that DERMALA customers use to receive individual recommendations for the best combination of topical and ingestible products and product formulations for both the face and body acne.
Visit www.dermala.com to learn more about Baby Got BACNE, and all other products in the range. All DERMALA products are based on cutting-edge human microbiome science. They are formulated with patented microbiome-derived prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics that improve skin health naturally.
DERMALA, Inc. is a San Diego-based consumer dermatology company leveraging a scientific understanding of the human microbiome and data analytics to develop the next generation of science-backed, personalized, human microbiome-powered, clinically tested, and patented topical and ingestible products for chronic skin conditions and skin wellness. Visit www.dermala.com to learn more.
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BELOIT, Wis., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX) is hosting its 2022 Investor Day today at The New York Stock Exchange beginning at 8:00AM ET. The event will be webcast live on the Company's investor relations website at investors.regalrexnord.com.
CEO Louis Pinkham, CFO Rob Rehard, and other members of the executive leadership team will discuss the Company's strategic growth objectives, including plans to accelerate profitable organic sales growth, continue to expand adjusted gross margins and adjusted EBITDA margins, grow free cash flow, and drive significant potential value creation through various capital deployment initiatives.
In conjunction with today's event, the Company is reaffirming its annual 2022 guidance, including organic revenue growth at a high single digit rate, to approximately $5.2 billion, GAAP earnings per share in a range of $7.01 to $7.61, and adjusted earnings per share* in a range of $10.20 to $10.80.
The Company is also introducing the following financial targets for the 2023 to 2025 period:
- Organic net sales growth at a CAGR of 4% to 6%
- Adjusted EBITDA margin expansion of ~300 basis points
- Adjusted earnings per share growth at a low double digit CAGR
- Annual free cash flow conversion of at least 100%
The Company also announced today plans to achieve carbon emission neutrality on scopes 1 and 2 by 2032, and targets net zero across scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2050.
Commenting on the new Net Zero goals, CEO Louis Pinkham said: "We are proud to be setting more aggressive environmental impact goals, which are aligned with our Regal Rexnord values. Our teams have been working diligently to improve the integrity of our environmental data, to develop the skills and tools needed to aggressively make our operations more environmentally friendly, and to establish relevant metrics, plus a governance structure, to ensure we progress towards our net zero goals."
Regal Rexnord Corporation is a global leader in the engineering and manufacturing of industrial powertrain solutions, power transmission components, electric motors and electronic controls, air moving products and specialty electrical components and systems, serving customers around the world. Through longstanding technology leadership and an intentional focus on producing more energy-efficient products and systems, Regal Rexnord helps create a better tomorrow – for its customers and for the planet.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of four segments: Motion Control Solutions, Climate Solutions, Commercial Systems and Industrial Systems. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Beloit, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales, and service facilities worldwide. For more information, visit RegalRexnord.com.
* Non-GAAP Financial Measurement, See Appendix for Reconciliation
This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect Regal Rexnord's current estimates, expectations and projections about Regal Rexnord's future results, performance, prospects and opportunities. Forward-looking statements include statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "confident," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "project," "forecast," "would," "could," "should," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are based upon information currently available to Regal Rexnord and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results referred to in the forward-looking statements Regal Rexnord makes in this release include: dependence on key suppliers and the potential effects of supply disruptions; fluctuations in commodity prices and raw material costs; any unforeseen changes to or the effects on liabilities, future capital expenditures, revenue, expenses, synergies, indebtedness, financial condition, losses and future prospects; the possibility that Regal Rexnord may be unable to achieve expected synergies and operating efficiencies in connection with the merger with the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business (the "Rexnord PMC business") and the acquisition of Arrowhead Systems, LLC ("Arrowhead") (together with the merger with the Rexnord PMC business, the "Transactions") within the expected time-frames or at all and to successfully integrate the Rexnord PMC business and Arrowhead; Regal Rexnord's ability to identify and execute on future M&A opportunities, including significant M&A transactions; the impact of any such M&A transactions on Regal Rexnord's results, operations and financial condition, including the impact from costs to execute and finance any such transactions; expected or targeted future financial and operating performance and results; operating costs, customer loss and business disruption (including, without limitation, difficulties in maintaining relationships with employees, customers, clients or suppliers) being greater than expected following the Transactions; Regal Rexnord's ability to retain key executives and employees; the continued financial and operational impacts of and uncertainties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic on customers and suppliers and the geographies in which they operate; uncertainties regarding the ability to execute restructuring plans within expected costs and timing; challenges to the tax treatment that was elected with respect to the acquisition of the Rexnord PMC business and related transactions; requirements to abide by potentially significant restrictions with respect to the tax treatment of the Rexnord PMC business which could limit Regal Rexnord's ability to undertake certain corporate actions that otherwise could be advantageous; actions taken by competitors and their ability to effectively compete in the increasingly competitive global electric motor, drives and controls, power generation and power transmission industries; the ability to develop new products based on technological innovation, such as the Internet of Things, and marketplace acceptance of new and existing products, including products related to technology not yet adopted or utilized in geographic locations in which Regal Rexnord does business; dependence on significant customers; seasonal impact on sales of products into HVAC systems and other residential applications; risks associated with global manufacturing, including public health crises and political, societal or economic instability, including instability caused by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine; issues and costs arising from the integration of acquired companies and businesses and the timing and impact of purchase accounting adjustments; Regal Rexnord's overall debt levels and its ability to repay principal and interest on its outstanding debt; prolonged declines in one or more markets, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, power generation, oil and gas, unit material handling, water heating and aerospace; economic changes in global markets, such as reduced demand for products, currency exchange rates, inflation rates, interest rates, recession, government policies, including policy changes affecting taxation, trade, tariffs, immigration, customs, border actions and the like, and other external factors that Regal Rexnord cannot control; product liability, asbestos and other litigation, or claims by end users, government agencies or others that products or customers' applications failed to perform as anticipated, particularly in high volume applications or where such failures are alleged to be the cause of property or casualty claims; unanticipated liabilities of acquired businesses; unanticipated adverse effects or liabilities from business exits or divestitures; unanticipated costs or expenses that may be incurred related to product warranty issues; infringement of intellectual property by third parties, challenges to intellectual property, and claims of infringement on third party technologies; effects on earnings of any significant impairment of goodwill; losses from failures, breaches, attacks or disclosures involving information technology infrastructure and data; cyclical downturns affecting the global market for capital goods; and other risks and uncertainties including, but not limited, to those described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Regal Rexnord's Annual Report on Form 10-K on file with the SEC and from time to time in other filed reports including Regal Rexnord's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. For a more detailed description of the risk factors associated with Regal Rexnord, please refer to Part I, Item 1A in the Regal Rexnord Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2022 on file with the SEC and subsequent SEC filings. Shareholders, potential investors, and other readers are urged to consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this release are made only as of the date of this release, and Regal Rexnord undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this release or with respect to the announcements described herein to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
(Dollars in Millions, Except per Share Data)
We prepare financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). We also periodically disclose certain financial measures in our quarterly earnings releases, on investor conference calls, and in investor presentations and similar events that may be considered "non-GAAP" financial measures. This additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our results of operations prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
In this press release, we disclose adjusted earnings per share, and we reconcile this measure in the table below to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. We believe that this non-GAAP financial measure is useful for providing investors with additional information regarding our results of operations and for helping investors understand and compare our operating results across accounting periods and compared to our peers. Our management uses this measure to help us evaluate our business and forecast our future results. Accordingly, we believe disclosing and reconciling this measure helps investors evaluate our business in the same manner as management.
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Borrowing Capacity Increased to $1.0 Billion from $800 Million; No Amount Currently Outstanding
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE: TMHC), a leading national land developer and homebuilder, today announced that it entered into an amended credit agreement to increase the aggregate commitment available under its revolving credit facility from $800 million to $1.0 billion. The incremental borrowing capacity provides additional liquidity and financial flexibility, and no borrowings were outstanding as of the closing date.
"The increase in our revolving credit facility to $1.0 billion further enhances our strong capital position, with which we are well equipped to maintain a disciplined and opportunistic capital allocation approach," said Lou Steffens, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Taylor Morrison is one of the nation's leading developers and homebuilders. We serve a wide array of consumers from coast to coast, including first-time, move-up, luxury, and 55-plus active lifestyle homebuyers under our family of brands—including Taylor Morrison, Esplanade, Darling Homes Collection by Taylor Morrison, and Christopher Todd Communities built by Taylor Morrison. From 2016-2022, Taylor Morrison has been recognized as America's Most Trusted® Builder by Lifestory Research. Our strong commitment to sustainability, our communities, and our team is highlighted in our latest Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report on our website.
For more information about Taylor Morrison, please visit www.taylormorrison.com.
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Taylor Morrison Home Corporation
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R. Kelly lawyer to deliver closing before jurors deliberate
CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s lead attorney gets her chance Tuesday to deliver her closing argument to federal jurors in Chicago, a day after a prosecutor told them that weeks of evidence proved the singer parlayed his fame to sexually abuse minors and record the abuse on video.
Kelly faces charges including production of child pornography, enticing minor girls for sex and obstruction of justice by rigging his 2008 child pornography trial in state court, at which he was acquitted. Jurors were expected to began deliberating later Tuesday.
In her closing, prosecutor Elizabeth Pozolo described Kelly as a secret sexual predator.
“Robert Kelly abused many girls over many years,” she said, referring to the 55-year-old Grammy winner by his full first name. “He committed horrible crimes against children. … All these years later, the hidden side of Robert Kelly has come out.”
Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean twice called for a mistrial Monday, complaining that closing arguments by attorneys for Kelly co-defendants Derrell McDavid and Milton Brown were grounded in the presumption that “the world now knows Mr. Kelly is a sex predator.”
“The presumption of innocence has been abolished for him,” Bonjean said, meaning Kelly was unable to get a fair trial. Judge Harry Leinenweber denied the requests.
Prosecutors will have the opportunity for a short rebuttal after Bonjean gives her closing argument in Kelly’s hometown of Chicago, where he rose from poverty to become an R&B superstar.
Known for his smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and for sex-infused songs such as “Bump n’ Grind,” Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct began circulating in the 1990s. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly and McDavid, Kelly’s former business manager, are accused of fixing the 2008 trial by intimidating and paying off witnesses. Both face child pornography charges. Brown, a former Kelly associate, is accused of receiving child pornography.
Kelly was sentenced in June to 30 years in prison after a separate federal trial in New York, where he was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. Convictions on just a few of the 13 counts Kelly faces at his current trial could add years to his imprisonment.
Pozolo focused much of her closing argument on the government’s star witness, an accuser who went by “Jane” and who said Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times starting when she was 14.
“He performed degrading acts upon her for his own sick pleasure,” Pozolo said.
She reminded jurors of graphic video footage they had watched, which Jane testified depicted Kelly, at around age 30, abusing her when she was 14. The videos shown included one at the heart of Kelly’s 2008 trial. Jurors said later they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because Jane didn’t testify.
“Who does that? Who uses a 14-year-old child to film a video like this?” she said. “This man. Robert Kelly.”
Before Kelly’s 2008 trial, Pozolo said, Kelly and his associates scrambled to recover multiple sex videos that had gone missing from a collection he often carried around in a large gym bag.
By doing so, she said, Kelly associates sought “to cover up the fact that ... R. Kelly, the R&B superstar, is actually a sexual predator.”
In his closing, an attorney for McDavid said prosecutors had to show that his client actually knew about any abuse of Jane by Kelly in the 2000s — not just that it was likely he knew.
“Did they prove he knew ... behind a reasonable doubt?” Beau Brindley asked. “They did not.”
Pozolo balked at the idea that McDavid had no inkling in the 2000s that the abuse allegations might be credible after helping to recover missing recordings and handing bags of cash to people who returned videos McDavid knew could destroy Kelly.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — King Charles III was flying to Northern Ireland Tuesday on the latest leg of his tour of the nations that make up the United Kingdom, as thousands of people lined up through the night to pay their last respects to his mother’s coffin in Edinburgh.
On Monday night, Charles and his siblings, Anne, Andrew and Edward, their heads bowed, briefly stood vigil around their mother’s flag-draped coffin in St. Giles’ Cathedral as members of the public filed past.
Early Tuesday, a man wearing a suit adorned with medals stood silently, bowed his head and moved on. A woman dabbed away tears with a handkerchief. Another woman with two young children in their school uniforms walked slowly past the coffin.
Some people even paid their respects and then rejoined the end of the line to get a second view of the coffin of the only monarch most people in the United Kingdom have ever known.
In the line of mourners outside St. Giles’ Cathedral in the historic heart of Edinburgh, Sheila McLeay called the queen “a wonderful ambassador for our country.”
“She was such an example for every single one of us. She was dignified. She was just, she was beautiful inside and out. And I have known her all of my life. And I miss her very much,” she added.
Scotland, where the queen died Thursday at her beloved Balmoral estate in the Highlands after a 70-year reign, has been almost universal in its praise for the queen.
The British monarchy draws more mixed emotions in Northern Ireland, where there are two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves British and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish.
That split fueled three decades of violence known as “the Troubles” involving paramilitary groups on both sides and U.K. security forces, in which 3,600 people died. The royal family was touched personally by the violence: Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and a much-loved mentor to Charles, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979.
A deep sectarian divide remains, a quarter century after Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
But in a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein — the main Irish nationalist party, linked during the Troubles to the IRA — are attending commemorative events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.
Sinn Fein’s president, Mary Lou McDonald, paid tribute to the 96-year-old monarch following her death last Thursday, calling her “a powerful advocate and ally of those who believe in peace and reconciliation.”
The president and prime minister of the neighboring Republic of Ireland are also due to attend the memorial service in Belfast, despite tense relations between Dublin and London over Brexit. Since Britain left the European Union in 2020, the U.K. and the EU have been wrangling over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with a member of the bloc.
After lying in the cathedral through most of Tuesday, the queen’s coffin will be flown back to London and driven to her official London home, Buckingham Palace.
The Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster plane that will carry the coffin has in the past been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and to take humanitarian aid and weapons to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
In the early hours of Tuesday, scores of workers were seen cleaning litter and weeds from the road between the air force base where the plane carrying the queen’s coffin will land and central London. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/king-charles-flies-to-belfast-queens-coffin-to-return-to-london/ | 2022-09-13T11:58:35Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/king-charles-flies-to-belfast-queens-coffin-to-return-to-london/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MONTGOMERY, Mass. (WWLP) – Early Monday afternoon, Russell – Montgomery Police Department were called to a motor vehicle crash. The incident occurred on Main Road in Montgomery.
Upon arrival, a motorcyclist appeared injured, while approaching a work zone in the area. According to police, the operator has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
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PERTH, Australia (AP) — A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday. It was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since 1936.
A relative found the 77-year-old man with “serious injuries” on his property Sunday in semirural Redmond, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of the Western Australia state capital Perth.
It was believed he had been attacked earlier in the day by the kangaroo, which police shot dead because it was preventing paramedics from reaching the injured man, police said.
“The kangaroo was posing an ongoing threat to emergency responders,” the statement said.
The man died at the scene. Police are preparing a report for a coroner who will record an official cause to death.
Police believe the victim had been keeping the wild kangaroo as a pet.
There are legal restrictions on keeping Australian native fauna as pets, but the police media office said Tuesday they had no information to make public regarding whether the victim had a permit.
Tanya Irwin, who cares for macropods at the Native Animal Rescue service in Perth, said authorities rarely issue permits to keep kangaroos in Western Australia.
“This looks like it was an adult male and they become quite aggressive and they don’t do well in captivity,” Irwin said.
“We don’t know what the situation was; If he was in pain or why he was being kept in captivity and unfortunately … they’re not a cute animal, they’re a wild animal,” Irwin added.
Irwin said her rescue center always rehabilitates native animals with the aim of returning them to the wild, particularly kangaroos.
“You do need a special permit to be able to do that. I don’t believe they really give them out very often unless you’re a wildlife center with trained people who know what they’re doing,” she said.
Western gray kangaroos are common in Australia’s southwest. They can weigh up to 54 kilograms (119 pounds) and stand 1.3 meters (4 feet 3 inches) tall.
The males can be aggressive and fight people with the same techniques as they use with each other. They use their short upper limbs to grapple with their opponent, use their muscular tails to take their body weight, then lash out with both their powerful clawed hind legs.
In 1936, William Cruickshank, 38, died in a hospital in Hillston in New South Wales state on the Australian east coast months after he’d been attacked by a kangaroo.
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There's not much in terms of headlines driving markets today but we are seeing the dollar retreat amid positiong flows ahead of the key risk event later in the day. EUR/USD is now up 0.5% to 1.0170 levels as buyers look to build on the break yesterday above the swing region resistance at 1.0075-90:
There is still scope for the rally to extend towards the 100-day moving average (red line) at 1.0333, so just be wary of that in the aftermath of the US CPI data later this week.
Meanwhile, GBP/USD holds higher by 0.4% at 1.1720 levels as seen earlier here. And USD/JPY is down 0.5% to 142.18 as it continues to toy in between the 100 and 200-hour moving averages at the moment:
Elsewhere, with the risk mood being more positive for now, commodity currencies are also holding a slight advance against the dollar. USD/CAD is down 0.3% to 1.2960 while AUD/USD is up 0.3% to 0.6910 on the day currently. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-on-the-backfoot-awaiting-us-cpi-data-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T12:01:55Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-on-the-backfoot-awaiting-us-cpi-data-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Victims of flooding in Borno to get compensation ― Zulum
Governor Babagana Zulum has assured that the victims of flooding in the state will be compensated accordingly as the government set up an assessment team to tour all affected Local Government Areas for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of damages.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Maiduguri during the inspection of Moromoro bridge where flooding ravaged the trading activities near Ngabaru Market, the governor said there is a need for a permanent solution to the perennial flooding in the state.
According to him, the state government will provide the needed emergency assistance to the individuals and communities impacted by the disaster across the state.
He noted that the state government has set up a technical committee under the supervision of the deputy governor of the state Umar Usman Kadafur to expeditiously look into the prevailing incidents of flooding occasioned by the intermittent downpours in the state.
Kadafur will also lead an assessment team on a tour of all affected Local Government Areas for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of damages and supporting victims.
“We are once again visited by this unfortunate flooding which has affected communities not only in Maiduguri but in some Local Government Areas. Insha’Allah, the Deputy Governor, His Excellency, Umar Usman Kadafur will be heading an assessment team that will visit all affected communities in all the Local Government Areas that have been affected, with a view to determining the extent of damages, and identify victims for the purpose of intervention by the State Government.
“More than 1,000 houses have been illegally built on routes that ought to be water channels and as a result, forcing water to pass through communities and cause destructions.
Zulum urged inhabitants of flood-prone areas to always adhere to the early warning advisories as issued by the organisations saddled with climate monitoring and disaster management.
“The State Government will provide temporary measures for now but after the rainy season, there will be a need for permanent measures that may require resettling shelters currently located on waterways, after coming with a consultative approach,” Zulum added.
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Jean-Luc Godard, iconic French New Wave director, dies at 91
GENEVA - Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious "enfant terrible" of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his debut feature "Breathless" and stood for years as one of the world’s most vital and provocative directors has died. He was 91.
Swiss news agency ATS quoted Godard’s partner, Anne-Marie Mieville, and her producers as saying he died peacefully and surrounded by his loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, on Tuesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Godard as "the most iconoclastic of the New Wave directors" who "invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art form."
He added: "We have lost a national treasure, the eye of a genius."
Godard defied convention over a long career that began in the 1950s as a film critic. He rewrote rules for camera, sound and narrative.
His films propelled Jean-Paul Belmondo to stardom and his controversial modern nativity play "Hail Mary" grabbed headlines when Pope John Paul II denounced it in 1985.
But Godard also made a string of films, often politically charged and experimental, which pleased few outside a small circle of fans and frustrated many critics through their purported overblown intellectualism.
Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Fremaux told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was "sad, sad. Immensely so" at the news of Godard's death.
Born into a wealthy French-Swiss family on Dec. 3, 1930 in Paris, Godard grew up in Nyon, Switzerland, studied ethnology at the Sorbonne in France’s capital, where he was increasingly drawn to the cultural scene that flourished in the Latin Quarter "cine-club" after World War II.
He became friends with future big-name directors Francois Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer and in 1950 founded the shortlived Gazette du Cinema. By 1952 he had begun writing for the prestigious movie magazine Cahiers du Cinema.
After working on two films by Rivette and Rohmer in 1951, Godard tried to direct his first movie while traveling through North and South America with his father, but never finished it.
Back in Europe, he took a job in Switzerland as a construction worker on a dam project. He used the pay to finance his first complete film, the 1954 "Operation Concrete," a 20-minute documentary about the building of the dam.
Returning to Paris, Godard worked as spokesman for an artists’ agency and made his first feature in 1957 — "All Boys Are Called Patrick," released in 1959 — and continued to hone his writing.
He also began work on "Breathless," based on a story by Truffaut. It was to be Godard’s first big success when it was released in March 1960.
The movie stars Belmondo as a penniless young thief who models himself on Hollywood movie gangsters and who, after he shoots a police officer, goes on the run to Italy with his American girlfriend, played by Jean Seeberg.
Like Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, released in 1959, Godard’s film set the new tone for French movie aesthetics. Godard rejected conventional narrative style and instead used frequent jump-cuts that mingled philosophical discussions with action scenes.
He spiced it all up with references to Hollywood gangster movies, and nods to literature and visual art.
Godard also launched what was to be a career-long participation in collective film projects, contributing scenes to "The Seven Deadly Sins" along with directors such as Claude Chabrol and Roger Vadim. He also worked with Ugo Gregoretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Rossellini on the Italian movie "Let’s Have a Brainwash," with Godard’s scenes portraying a disturbing post-apocalypse world.
Godard, who was later to gain a reputation for his uncompromising left-wing political views, had a brush with French authorities in 1960 when he made "The Little Soldier." The movie, filled with references to France’s colonial war in Algeria, was not released until 1963, a year after the conflict ended.
His work turned more starkly political by the late 1960s. In "Week End," his characters lampoon the hypocrisy of bourgeois society even as they demonstrate the comic futility of violent class war. It came out a year before popular anger at the establishment shook France, culminating in the iconic but short-lived student unrests of May 1968.
Godard harbored a life-long sympathy for various forms of socialism depicted in films ranging from the early 1970s to early 1990s. In December 2007 he was honored by the European Film Academy with a lifetime achievement award.
Godard took potshots at Hollywood over the years.
He remained home in Switzerland rather than travel to Hollywood to receive an honorary Oscar at a private ceremony in November 2010 alongside film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, director-producer Francis Ford Coppola and actor Eli Wallach.
His lifelong advocacy of the Palestinian cause also brought him repeated accusations of antisemitism, despite his insistence that he sympathized with the Jewish people and their plight in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Though the academy received some complaints about Godard being selected to receive the award, academy President Tom Sherak said the director was recognized solely "for his contributions to film in the New Wave era."
In 2010, Godard released "Film Socialisme," a film in three chapters first shown at the Cannes Film Festival.
Godard married Danish-born model and actress Anna Karina in 1961. She appeared in a string of movies he made during the remainder of the 1960s, all of them seen as New Wave landmarks. Notable among them were "My Life to Live," "Alphaville" and "Crazy Pete," — which also starred Belmondo and was rumored to have been shot without a script. They divorced in 1965.
Godard married his second wife, Anne Wiazemsky, in 1967. He later started a relationship with Swiss filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville. Godard divorced Wiazemsky in 1979, after he had moved in with Miéville to the Swiss municipality of Rolle, where he lived with her for the rest of his life.
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Man shot by family member during argument in South Chicago
CHICAGO - A man was shot during an argument with a family member Monday night in the South Chicago neighborhood.
The 20-year-old was arguing with a family member around 10 p.m. in the 8600 block of South Phillips Avenue when they shot him in the foot, according to Chicago police.
The victim refused to give any details to police and refused a medical transport, officials said.
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R. Kelly case expected to be turned over to jurors Tuesday
CHCIAGO - R&B star R. Kelly’s lawyer is expected to make her final arguments when the singer’s trial on federal child pornography charges resumes Tuesday morning.
Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean has been allotted two hours to make the case for acquitting Kelly, who faces 13 counts related to allegedly filming himself engaged in sex acts with an underage girl, sexually abusing four others, and conspiring with two of his former employees to rig his 2008 child pornography trial in state court.
Jurors on Monday heard closing arguments from the government and Kelly’s two co-defendants, former business manager Derrel McDavid and former assistant Milton "June" Brown. Jurors should begin deliberations as soon as Tuesday afternoon.
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Laying out the case against Kelly, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Pozolo described the trio as a "team" that worked together to hide Kelly’s sexual abuse of underage girls for decades.
"They did their level best… to cover up the fact that Robert Kelly, R. Kelly the R&B superstar, is actually a sexual predator," Pozolo said.
She pointed to the government’s strongest evidence against the singer: video that purportedly shows the singer performing sex acts with an underage girl whom Kelly considered his unofficial goddaughter, identified in court by the pseudonym, "Jane."
"They did their best, but in the end, they failed," Pozolo said. "We are here today because those tapes that they concealed for 20 years are no longer their secret. You have seen the tapes. You have seen what Kelly did to Jane."
Testimony in the trial spanned four weeks, with Jane herself taking the witness stand to testify that she and her parents for years had lied about sexual abuse by the singer, including false statements made to Chicago police investigators and a state grand jury, which, nonetheless indicted the singer in 2002. Jane did not testify when the singer went to trial in 2008, and he was acquitted by a Cook County jury.
Bonjean is known for her fiery courtroom demeanor, but would seem to face an uphill battle to overcome Jane’s emotional testimony in Kelly’s current trial when she took the stand last month. During her testimony, Jane identified herself in videos that purportedly show her abuse by the singer, including a tape in which Kelly and Jane could be heard referring repeatedly to her age as they perform sex acts in the late 1990s.
Monday, McDavid’s lawyers — as they did during the accountant’s three days on the witness stand — attacked the credibility of prosecution witnesses who had admitted to taking cash bounties to conceal alleged child porn videos. McDavid testified her believed the singer’s denials at the time.
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Succession,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ win big at the Emmys: Everything you need to know
LOS ANGELES - The HBO drama "Succession" and comedy "Ted Lasso" took top honors at the Emmy Awards in a ceremony that spread its awards between repeat winners and also honored several first-timers.
Jason Sudeikis and Jean Smart collected back-to-back acting trophies, while Zendaya picked up her second drama actress prize for "Euphoria."
Several new Emmy winners were minted, with Lizzo, Lee Jung-jae of "Squid Game" and Quinta Brunson and Sheryl Lee Ralph of "Abbott Elementary" collecting trophies.
"Thanks for making such a safe space to make this very difficult show," said Zendaya, a two-time winner for "Euphoria," the drama series about teens and their tough coming-of-age.
"My greatest wish for "Euphoria’ was that it could help heal people. Thank you for everyone who has shared your story with me. I carry them with me, and I carry them with" her character, Rue, as well, Zendaya said.
Sudeikis won his second consecutive trophy for the soccer comedy "Ted Lasso," with Smart matching that haul for the standup-centered comedy "Hacks." Sudeikis gave a rare awards show shoutout to TV consumers.
"Thanks to the people who watch this show and dig it as much as we dig making it," he said.
Ralph stopped the Emmy Awards show by accepting the best supporting actress comedy award for "Abbott Elementary" with a brief but rousing song of affirmation.
"I am an endangered species, but I sing no victim song. I am a woman, I am an artist and I know where my voice belongs," she belted out. She then encouraged anyone doubting their dream "I am here to tell you this is what believing looks like."
The audience, including Lizzo and many of television’s biggest stars, leapt to their feet to cheer on Ralph.
When Lizzo herself accepted the award for best-competition series trophy for "Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls," she offered another emotional pep talk.
"When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me," the music artist said.
"Ted Lasso" co-star Brett Goldstein, won comedy supporting actors, while Matthew Macfadyen of "Succession" and Julia Garner of "Ozark" earned drama seires supporting actor honors.
"It’s such a a pleasure and privilege for me to play this bonkers gift of a role in this wonderful show," Macfadyen said in accepting the trophy for his role as a scheming member of a media empire family.
Garner was among the winners who took advantage of covering all bases by thanking her husband and others in an on-screen message.
"The White Lotus" collected several honors, including best limited or anthology series.
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Host Kenan Thompson kicked off the Emmys with a tribute to TV, dismissing Tik-Tok as "tiny vertical television," and a musical number saluting series’ theme songs from "Friends" to "The Brady Bunch" to "Game of Thrones."
Once the music stopped, Thompson provided a mic drop moment — announcing Oprah Winfrey as the first presenter. Winfrey strutted onto the stage holding an Emmy statuette, declaring the night "a party!" The night’s first award went to Michael Keaton for his role in "Dopesick." Winfrey and Keaton hugged before she handed him his trophy.
"It means something," Keaton said of the award for playing a caring doctor ensnared with his patients by addiction. He went on to recall the "magic" of being introduced to TV when his dad won a set at a raffle and thanked his parents for not mocking his youthful attempts at acting.
Amanda Seyfried earned the limited-series lead actress trophy for "The Dropout," in which she played ill-fated Silicon Valley whiz kid Elizabeth Holmes. She thanked a list of family and colleagues and even her dog, Finn.
Murray Bartlett won the best supporting actor award for limited series of "The White Lotus," a tragicomedy set in a Hawaii resort. Jennifer Coolidge, who won best supporting actress honors for the show, delighted the audience by shimmying to the music intended to cut off her acceptance speech.
The award for best variety talk show went to "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver," with stand-up special "Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel" winning for best writing for a comedy special.
"Good night, everybody. I’ma go home. I’m not like a sore winner, but I’m going to go home because I can’t top this right now," an overcome Carmichael told the audience.
The vibrant start to Monday’s show was very different from the best drama contenders include the violently dystopian "Squid Game," bleak workplace satire "Severance" and "Succession," about a powerful and cutthroat family. Even comedy nominee "Ted Lasso," the defending champ, took a storytelling dark turn.
The Emmys aired live on NBC and streamed on Peacock.
Early arrivals on the show’s gold carpet struck a fun, upbeat tone despite temperatures being in the 80s with unseasonable humidity in downtown Los Angeles. Glamour was back with some metallic sparkle and lots of bright color as an otherworldly Britt Lower, Old Hollywood Elle Fanning and their fellow stars posed for photographers.
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Immersive Three-Day Program Provides a Strategic Blueprint for Driving Marketing Outcomes
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, big – a Horizon Media company dedicated to supporting companies in a state of business transformation – announced its inaugural Sightline Bootcamp, September 13-15. big will host founders, CEOs, and marketing executives at emerging and high-growth brands to address some of their most pressing challenges, including customer acquisition, channel distribution and how to maximize budget allocations. The Bootcamp has been designed to provide the participating companies with an actionable roadmap for media strategy and investment through a rigorous, collaborative, and case-based agenda.
The program encapsulates big's tested strategic frameworks and concepts and will provide marketing and business leaders with tangible outputs that can directly inform and refine how they go to market and address target audiences. Throughout the immersive three-day workshop, participating founders and CMOs will experience Sightline Bootcamp as a cohort – coming together to engage in dynamic discussions and summarizing learnings and insights as a group, while also taking away individual applications for their brands.
"Transformational brands trying to set a path for growth often experience a range of complex challenges and trade-offs. Through the Sightline Bootcamp, we're sharing the suite of best practices we've learned – how we've helped companies scale their businesses – to provide clear and actionable steps for how to get from where they are to where they are trying to go," said John Koenigsberg, Head of big. "For the Bootcamp, we're taking methods, frameworks, tools, and solutions that we use to unlock growth for transformational brands and packaging those takeaways into a bitesize and scalable format."
The Bootcamp consists of two distinct programming streams:
- Interactive case-based learning: inspired by a Harvard Business School case model, five original and interactive cases that coach participants on how to put marketing theory into action
- Mentor Masterclasses: a curated collection of masterclass presentations from big and Horizon Media experts on topics of special interest and relevance to the cohort
Each of the participating brands applied and were accepted after being nominated by VC firms. The brands span sectors including retail, financial technology, and consumer packaged goods.
"Sightline stays true to big's core philosophy that success stems from the convergence of curiosity, creativity, accountability, and business acumen," said Suzanne McEachern Gross, Director of Strategic Projects, big. "The program will help brands see additional opportunities in front of them and reframe their growth potential in new ways."
Sightline will launch subsequent cohorts in the coming year. Questions and inquiries should be directed to sightline@horizon-big.com.
Founded in 2019, big is a marketing acceleration partner for a new wave of transformational brands. Integrating the unrivalled capabilities and clout of Horizon Media, its parent company, big empowers lean marketing organizations to scale ambitious ideas in the pursuit of strategic & enduring business growth. big supports high potential brands poised for transformation, and partners directly with founders, CMO's, and entrepreneurial marketing leaders to drive exceptional outcomes.
Horizon Media, Inc, the largest U.S. media agency according to AdAge Data Center 2022, delivers data-driven business outcomes for some of the most innovative and ambitious brands. Founded in 1989, headquartered in New York, and with offices in Los Angeles and Toronto, the company employs 2,400 people and has media investments of more than $9 billion. Horizon Media's fundamental belief is that business is personal, which drives its approach to connecting brands with their customers and engaging with its own employees resulting in industry-leading workplace satisfaction levels (Glassdoor). The company is consistently recognized by independent media outlets for its client excellence and has earned several "Best Workplaces" awards reflecting its commitment to DEI and the life and well-being of everyone at Horizon Media.
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E-commerce holiday sales projected to grow 12.8% to 14.3%, compared to 2021 season
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Holiday retail sales are likely to increase between 4% and 6% in 2022, according to Deloitte's annual holiday retail forecast.
Overall, Deloitte's retail and consumer products practice projects holiday sales will total $1.45 to $1.47 trillion during the November to January timeframe. In 2021, holiday sales grew by 15.1% in the same period.
Deloitte also forecasts e-commerce sales will grow by 12.8% to 14.3%, year-over-year, during the 2022-2023 holiday season. This will likely result in e-commerce holiday sales reaching between $260 billion and $264 billion this season.
"The lower projected growth for the 2022 holiday season reflects the slowdown in the economy this year. Retail sales are likely to be further affected by declining demand for durable consumer goods, which had been the centerpiece of pandemic spending. However, we anticipate more spending on consumer services, such as restaurants, as the effects of the pandemic continue to wane," said Daniel Bachman, Deloitte's U.S. economic forecaster. He added "inflation will also help to raise dollar sales, although retailers will see less growth in sales volume."
"As inflation weighs on consumer demand, we can expect consumers to continue to shift how they spend their holiday budget this upcoming season," said Nick Handrinos, vice chair, Deloitte LLP, and U.S. retail, wholesale and distribution and consumer products leader. "Retail sales are set to increase as a result of higher prices, and this dynamic has the potential to further drive e-commerce sales as consumers look for online deals to maximize their spending. Retailers across channels who remain aligned with consumer demand and offer convenient and affordable options can be well positioned for success this season."
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Deloitte is forecasting a 4% to 6% increase in 2022 holiday sales compared with the same period in 2021. Retail sales between November 2021 and January 2022 (seasonally adjusted and excluding automotive and gasoline) grew 15.1% and totaled $1.39 trillion according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Deloitte is forecasting a 12.8% to 14.3% increase in 2022 holiday e-commerce sales compared with the same period in 2021. E-commerce sales between November 2021 and January 2022 (seasonally adjusted and excluding gasoline stations, motor vehicles and parts dealers, and food services) grew 8.4% totaling $231 billion.
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Acquisition will expand CES' tech-enabled service offering by adding GIS and smart mapping services and assisting customers with achieving their sustainability goals
MEMPHIS, Tenn. and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CES Power LLC ("CES Power"), a leading global provider of mobile power generation, distribution and temperature control equipment backed by industrial-focused private equity firm Allied Industrial Partners ("AIP"), today announced that it has acquired Brickworks ("Brickworks"), one of the leading providers of smart mapping software, Geographic Information System ("GIS") services and zero-emissions infrastructure to the entertainment industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2017 by Sam Simmons and Peter Winer, Brickworks has developed site plans and design services for over 150 music festivals, live events, and related projects. Brickworks' proprietary software turns CAD site plans into online and interactive smart maps, enabling telemetry and real-time location data to be used as the backbone for site operations and providing real-time data to live event planners. Brickworks' unified dashboard aims to enhance operational oversight by integrating dynamic data feeds such as security cameras, heavy equipment locations, and severe weather alerts on top of a CAD site plan unique to each live event.
"The addition of Brickworks will enhance our ability to offer tech-enabled services to our customers while assisting them with tracking and monitoring emissions in order to reduce their carbon footprint and achieve their sustainability goals," said Greg Landa, CEO of CES Power. "Brickworks' proprietary software will also allow us to apply real-time telematics to our power and HVAC assets, enhance our onsite capabilities and provide customers with more real-time visibility into event operations."
"I have admired CES Power as a leader within the entertainment industry and look forward to working with the team in expanding the capabilities of Brickwork to enhance customer experiences," said Sam Simmons, Brickworks' CEO who will join CES Power as Chief Technology Officer in conjunction with the transaction. "CES Power's mission critical service offering, stellar reputation, and substantial asset base make it the right partner for deploying and enhancing our technology."
Mr. Winer will continue on as a consultant to the company to further enhance Brickworks' development. A 25+ year technology-industry veteran, Mr. Winer has significant experience engineering and commercializing new technology including developing software licensed to Apple.
CES Power, which was acquired by AIP in June 2021, will continue to actively seek further add-on acquisitions in areas of strategic interest. The Brickworks acquisition represents CES Power's third acquisition, following the company's previously announced acquisitions of Florida-based Production Power in December 2021 and California-based West Coast Cinema in March 2022.
"We are thrilled to be partnering with Sam and Peter and believe they will be great additions to the CES team," said Bradford Rossi and Philip Wright, Co-Founders and Managing Partners at AIP. "The application of telematics will allow CES and its customers to have greater visibility, transparency, and control over their events and will be instrumental in assisting with their mission to be more sustainable."
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Memphis, TN, CES Power has a multi-decade track record of providing reliable and safe power solutions to its blue-chip customer base, including at the world's most complex and highest profile events. The Company offers a full range of technology driven power services to the broadcasting, entertainment, and industrial sectors. For more information, visit www.cespower.com and www.brickworksllc.co.
Founded in 2019, Allied Industrial Partners LLC ("AIP") is a lower and middle market private equity firm that thematically invests in high-growth companies within various industrial subsectors, including industrial rentals, manufacturing, distribution, environmental services and critical infrastructure. AIP seeks to partner with experienced management teams that can benefit from its operational enhancement capabilities and its active, hands-on involvement, which allows the firm to execute on buy and build strategies. For more information, visit www.alliedindustrialpartners.com.
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Five-time Entertainer of the Year invites people to visit metaphorical five-star hotel to address common myths about modern pig farming
DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its ongoing effort to dispel common misconceptions about modern pig farming, the National Pork Board is teaming up with country music superstar and five-time Entertainer of the Year winner, Luke Bryan. Drawing on his childhood upbringing on a Georgia farm, Bryan understands and appreciates the hard work more than 60,000 pig farmers across the United States put in every day.
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"I have so much respect for pig farmers," said Bryan. "I know how hard they work – from sun-up to sundown, and it's exciting to be a part of a project helping show consumers the real care that happens on pig farms around the country."
The National Pork Board's latest campaign centers around a focus group video that metaphorically compares a modern pig farm to a five-star hotel. The focus group participants think they are providing feedback on a state-of-the-art hotel that includes strict cleaning protocols, well-balanced diets recommended by trained experts and reusing and recycling initiatives to use less land, water and energy. At the end of the conversation, participants realize that the discussion was not about a five-star hotel, but rather the real story of what happens every day on a modern pig farm.
As the gap continues to widen between the farm and the fork, there is an opportunity to help share the story of people and practices involved in pig farming today.
"Pig farmers are dedicated to people, pigs and the planet, and that means contributing to local communities, making sure their animals are well cared for and focusing on the environment for the next generation," Bryan said. "Farmers are the backbone of this country and with my 13th Farm Tour coming up, I can't wait to get back to visiting with farmers and fans."
Bryan's Farm Tour is a rural concert series held on farms throughout the Midwest during September. As part of this year's tour, the National Pork Board is partnering with Farmland®, a brand of Smithfield Foods, to donate a truckload of pork to local foodbanks in each of the states hosting the six tour stops. The donations will help provide high-quality protein, which is one of the most valuable resources food banks distribute - to help fight food insecurity across the Midwest. Supporting people and communities in this way are just a few of the We Care® ethical principles pig farmers live by.
Launching in early September with the social media debut of the Luke Bryan promotional spots and the hotel focus group video, the campaign will be supported by national, regional, local and trade media outreach and digital advertising.
"Last year, the National Pork Board launched its first campaign to take the biggest questions surrounding how pork is raised head-on," explained Heather Hill, president of the board of directors for the National Pork Board.
"This year we are taking our efforts to the next level by partnering with Luke Bryan," said Hill. "The topic of raising animals for food is personal to him, so he is a natural fit to help us share our passion for doing what's right."
Consumers can learn more about pig farming and the National Pork Board at http://go.pork.org/wecare and on the National Pork Board's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube accounts.
The tour is sponsored by Fendt, Bayer, Farmland, National Pork Board, Citi and DISH.
The National Pork Board has responsibility for Pork Checkoff-funded research, promotion and consumer information projects and for communicating with pork producers and the public. The Pork Checkoff funds national and state programs in consumer education and marketing, retail and foodservice marketing, export market promotion, production improvement, science and technology, swine health, pork safety, and environmental management and sustainability. For the past half century, the U.S. pork industry has delivered on its commitment to sustainable production and has made significant strides in reducing the environmental impact of pig farming. Through a legislative national Pork Checkoff, pork producers invest $0.40 for each $100 value of hogs sold. Importers of pork products contribute a like amount, based on a formula. For information on Checkoff-funded programs, pork producers can call the Pork Checkoff Service Center at (800) 456-7675 or visit www.pork.org.
Since his debut, Bryan has garnered 29 No. 1 hits and has more RIAA certified digital singles than any other Country artist with 68.5 million. His worldwide global streams are over 18.9 billion and he has sold nearly 13 million albums. His headline concert tours have played sold-out shows for 12 million fans inclusive of 36 stadium concerts, Farm Tours, Spring Break shows, and seven sold-out 'Crash My Playa' destination concert events. The Georgia native is currently headlining his "Raised Up Right Tour." Bryan has won over 50 major music awards including five wins as Entertainer of the Year. His third and most recent Entertainer win was awarded by the Academy of Country Music in 2021. Additional awards include six recognitions as a CMT Artist of the Year, NSAI Artist/Songwriter of the Year, the first-ever recipient of the ACM Album of the Decade Award for Crash My Party, seven CMT Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, and four American Music Awards—as well as being named Billboard's Top Country Artist of the 2010s, the Most Heard Artist of the Decade by Country Aircheck, and the Artist Humanitarian Recipient by the Country Radio Broadcasters last year. On Nov.9, Luke and NFL superstar Peyton Manning will host "The 56th Annual CMA Awards" live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena 8:00-11:00 PM/EST on ABC. In 2023, Luke, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie are back for their sixth season as celebrity judges on ABC's American Idol.
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Founded in 1959, Farmland is the maker of high-quality, flavorful meats. Rooted in rich traditions of America's heartland, Farmland is committed to a strong work ethic, community, substance over flash, and wholesome, quality food that people feel good about serving. Farmland's robust portfolio of products includes varieties of bacon, sausage, ham and lunch meat. For more information about our products and recipe inspiration, please visit www.FarmlandFoods.com or follow us on Facebook (@FarmlandFoods), Instagram (@farmlandfoods) or Twitter (@FarmlandFoods). Farmland is a brand of Smithfield Foods.
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Increases the Strategic Vision of Midwest Food Bank with the Goal of Increasing Awareness of Food Insecurity in Southwest Florida.
CHICAGO and FORT MYERS, Fla., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwest Food Bank, an industry leading, faith-based non-profit food bank, announced the appointment of Jeanne Richmond to its Advisory Board to help further the mission of the organization in advancing the fight against food insecurity.
Midwest Food Bank (MFB) was founded in 2003 by David Keiser and his family on their farm in Bloomington, Illinois. Since then, dedicated staff and countless volunteers have embraced the founder's philosophy of "Humility Equals Success." Since the beginning, Midwest Food Bank has worked diligently to advance this philosophy, providing food relief to those in need while also feeding them spiritually. The organization has expanded to twelve locations in recent years, including Haiti and Kenya.
The Florida location in Fort Myers is positioned in an area where there is both significant wealth and increasing poverty. This gap is accentuated by the frequency of extreme weather events and natural disasters in Florida. Midwest Food Bank is uniquely positioned to bridge this gap by responding to these events and distributing resources where they are needed most.
Jeanne Richmond's appointment to the Advisory Board is very timely and will help broaden the impact of Midwest Food Bank in the region. The role of this board is to provide governance, accountability, and strategic vision for the organization. Jeanne is a proven business leader who grew up in Illinois, and her career has followed a similar growth trajectory as the Midwest Food Bank.
"Jeanne brings fantastic leadership skills and a unique perspective to help us strategically plan and address food insecurity in Southwest Florida," said Karl Steidinger, executive director of Midwest Food Bank Florida.
Richmond is also the chairperson and principal for e2Companies, a leading provider of energy solutions committed to economic stability and sustainability. In addition to Jeanne's Advisory Board appointment, e2 employees will partner with Midwest Food Bank on volunteer activities and fundraising events.
"Looking ahead, the goal of this partnership is to help raise awareness of food insecurity in the region," explained Richmond. "We share many core values, and e2 Companies is grateful to be a part of the growing legacy of the Midwest Food Bank."
Midwest Food Bank is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that gathers food donations, primarily from large companies, and distributes them to other non-profit organizations and disaster sites. Midwest Food Bank currently distributes nearly $36 million worth of food to over 2,050 non-profits each month.
If you have a heart to serve, consider the numerous opportunities at Midwest Food Bank for donating and volunteering.
e2Companies is the creator of the industry's first Virtual Utility® and the leading provider of integrated solutions for power generation, distribution, and energy economics. Virtual Utility® is the first utility-grade network designed for the end user that delivers full visibility and control with a 360° integrated solution. Including the patented R3Di® system.
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Named ElectroForge, the new JV will leverage the technology expertise and manufacturing excellence of both organizations to offer best-in-class EV drivetrains, delivering superior efficiency and cost competency
- ElectroForge to manufacture electric powertrains for medium-duty commercial vehicles
- Company's products will be developed specifically to support the needs of the growing commercial electric vehicle market, with a wide range of customized and scalable solutions appropriate for Class 3 through 8 trucks
- Initial drivetrains to be manufactured at Kalyani Powertrain Limited's Pune, India facility with expansion anticipated worldwide
LOS ANGELES and PUNE, India, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kalyani Powertrain Limited (KPTL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharat Forge Ltd. and a leading global supplier of critical chassis and powertrain components, joins hands with Harbinger Motors Inc. (Harbinger), a company revolutionizing the medium-duty commercial electric vehicle industry, to form a joint venture focused on developing electric drivetrain solutions for the commercial vehicle market.
The new JV, named ElectroForge, will leverage the strengths of both the partners to offer best-in-class drivetrains developed for the Class 3 through 8 markets, delivering superior efficiency and cost competency. The partnership will perfectly balance the forward-thinking innovation of Harbinger's experienced EV team and the vast manufacturing knowledge and scalability of Bharat Forge.
"This collaboration marks the beginning of a new chapter for commercial electric powertrains," said John Harris, CEO of Harbinger. "Both companies bring class-leading manufacturing and intellectual capital that enables us to scale an industry solution that will blend efficiency with unmatched value."
Beginning with operations at KPTL's Pune, India facility, ElectroForge will leverage cutting edge technology to deliver high-power, low-mass drivetrains with a revolutionary new architecture tailored specifically for the durability and performance requirements of commercial vehicles. The joint venture will serve as the volume manufacturer of electric powertrains for Harbinger, leveraging KPTL's global manufacturing experience in India, Europe, and North America.
"For over 20 years, Bharat Forge has been one of the leading suppliers of safety critical components for chassis and engines to the global commercial vehicle markets. As this sector is electrified, we have joined hands with Harbinger in bringing world-class products to support customers globally in their electrification journey. The JV accelerates our efforts and adds to the existing product portfolio in Power Electronics & light weighting solutions for the EV space. This JV fully aligns with our organizational vision of being PLANET-POSITIVE® and reducing our enterprise carbon footprint," said Amit Kalyani, Deputy Managing Director, Bharat Forge.
For more information on ElectroForge, visit our website at www.electroforge.com
Harbinger is a commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to revolutionize an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger Motors Inc.'s best-in-class team of EV, battery and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs. Leveraging a foundation of proprietary, in-house developed technologies specifically designed for commercial vehicles, Harbinger is bringing a first-of-its-kind EV platform to market, priced for zero acquisition premium. Harbinger: familiar form, revolutionary foundation.
To learn more about Harbinger, please visit www.harbingermotors.com.
Bharat Forge LTD is India's largest automotive forging company with a 60-year legacy of manufacturing automotive components for export and domestic growth, supplying crankshafts and other key parts to leading OEMs around the world. Formed with the objective of developing solutions for the electrification of vehicles, KPTL is a company that serves the automotive industry with an e-mobility portfolio that ranges from providing individual components up to complete electric powertrain kits.
To learn more about Bharat Forge, please visit www.bharatforge.com
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HOUSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calvetti Ferguson LLC announced today that Kelly Waibel-Rangel, CPA, has joined the firm's Houston office as a partner in the tax practice and will serve as the family office practice leader.
Kelly, who most recently was a senior manager in the private client and family office enterprise practice at RSM, will focus her practice on advising high-net-worth individuals, family groups, family offices, private trust companies, and closely-held business owners on tax, estate planning, and financial matters.
Jason Ferguson, the managing partner of Calvetti Ferguson, said, "Kelly is well known throughout Texas as a family office tax leader. We know she will be an excellent fit for our values-based culture and take great care of our clients."
"Kelly brings over 13 years of experience to the firm of advising clients on the tax aspects of formation and restructuring family offices, partnerships, wealth transfer planning, family governance, and succession planning," said tax partner in charge, Lori Lato. "Kelly's skillset and exceptional leadership allow her to provide clients with unique insights into how they can effectively navigate a complex tax landscape."
With 11 tax partners located in Texas metropolitan areas, Calvetti Ferguson's tax practice focuses on providing clients with a full range of tax services including comprehensive tax planning, international tax consulting, federal and state tax credits and incentives, multi-state tax issues, and tax controversy matters. The firm helps businesses and individuals achieve their goals by working with the firm's other service lines – audit, advisory, and accounting services – and connecting clients to service providers best suited to their unique situations and plans.
Calvetti Ferguson is an award-winning Texas CPA and advisory firm. As trusted business advisors to privately held and public companies, private equity funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals, we provide assurance, tax, advisory, accounting, and technology risk services. We advise beyond accounting to eliminate hurdles, identify opportunities, and ensure the best for our clients and their businesses.
Recognized by Forbes as one of America's Top Recommended Tax and Accounting Firms, Calvetti Ferguson is also an INSIDE Public Accounting Top 200 Firm. Calvetti Ferguson is an independent member firm of PrimeGlobal an award-winning association of independent accounting and business advisory firms comprised of more than 300 highly successful member firms in over 100 countries.
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Keynote speakers AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Behring, and GSK headline one of the industry's largest events for driving collaboration and innovation
PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) today announced that visionaries from AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Behring, and GSK will be keynote speakers at the 2022 Veeva R&D and Quality Summit on Oct.19 and 20 in Boston. Speakers will showcase how innovations and advancements in clinical, quality, regulatory, and safety enable greater efficiency and speed across the product lifecycle.
With more than 2,000 industry professionals and over 100 sessions, Veeva R&D and Quality Summit is one of life sciences' largest and most impactful events. Attendees will learn strategies to establish a clinical data foundation for patient-centric digital trials, transform quality management across the value chain, optimize regulatory operations, and deliver new levels of productivity in safety. Featured keynotes and sessions include:
- AbbVie sharing its vision for transforming safety to improve patient outcomes.
- AstraZeneca highlighting how modern quality management enables tangible value creation.
- Boehringer Ingelheim on enabling digital execution in clinical trials to bring treatments to patients faster.
- Global Blood Therapeutics explaining ways to turn the trial master file (TMF) into a strategic advantage for fast, accurate clinical trials.
- GSK showing how they built a unified development ecosystem across clinical, quality, and regulatory for speed and agility.
- Forge Biologics discussing how digital quality management helps to accelerate processes and build trust with partners.
- Moderna on the benefits of establishing an end-to-end regulatory system for increased agility and visibility.
"Life sciences has made significant progress in streamlining processes and making information sharing easier," said Jim Reilly, vice president, Veeva Development Cloud strategy. "Veeva R&D and Quality Summit will bring the industry back together in person to connect with peers, share learnings, and discuss strategies that can move the industry forward."
The event is open exclusively to life sciences industry professionals. Register and stay up to date on the agenda and program details at veeva.com/Summit.
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Veeva is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,000 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves. For more information, visit veeva.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - First Mining Gold Corp. ("First Mining" or the "Company") (TSX: FF) (OTCQX: FFMGF) (FRANKFURT: FMG) is pleased to announce that Big Ridge Gold Corp. ("Big Ridge") (TSXV: BRAU) has completed the Stage 1 earn-in requirements (the "Stage 1 Earn-In") with respect to the Hope Brook Gold Project ("Hope Brook") as set out in the earn-in agreement (the "Agreement") that Big Ridge signed with First Mining on April 5, 2021. As required under the Agreement, Big Ridge has (i) incurred $10 million in qualifying exploration expenditures at Hope Brook, (ii) issued 15,000,000 common shares of Big Ridge ("Big Ridge Shares") to First Mining, and (iii) granted to First Mining a 1.5% net smelter returns ("NSR") royalty on Hope Brook, of which 0.5% can be bought back by Big Ridge for $2 million.
With the Stage 1 Earn-In now complete, Big Ridge has earned a 51% ownership interest in Hope Brook and has until June 8, 2026 to acquire an additional 29% direct interest in Hope Brook (the "Stage 2 Earn-In") by: (i) incurring a further $10 million in exploration expenditures (the "Additional Expenditures"); and (ii) issuing additional Big Ridge Shares to First Mining in the amount that is the lesser of (a) 10,000,000 Big Ridge Shares; or (ii) the number of Big Ridge Shares which, when combined with the number of Big Ridge Shares owned by First Mining at the time of issuance, would result in First Mining owning 19.9% of the issued and outstanding Big Ridge Shares outstanding. Upon completion of the Stage 2 Earn-In, First Mining will hold a 20% interest in Hope Brook which will be free carried until the completion of a Feasibility Study by Big Ridge.
"First Mining is delighted that Big Ridge has completed its $10 million worth of Stage 1 expenditures on the Hope Brook project in such an expeditious timeframe", stated Dan Wilton, CEO of First Mining. "Our partnership with Big Ridge has surfaced significant value for First Mining's shareholders and continues to highlight the potential value for the Hope Brook deposit. Our team remains encouraged and eagerly awaits results from Big Ridge's ongoing Phase 1 drill program."
"The successful completion of the Stage 1 earn-in at Hope Brook marks a significant milestone in the development of this exciting project" commented Mike Bandrowski, CEO of Big Ridge. "The promising results from our Phase 1 drill program have motivated the Big Ridge team to continue to advance the Hope Brook Project and highlight that it is a much larger, high-grade deposit in a Tier-1 location."
To date, Big Ridge has completed 61 diamond drill holes and released results from 33 of those holes. The Phase 1 drill program at Hope Brook has focused on connecting the Main Zone and the 240 Zone near surface and at depth, respectively, and testing the down dip extensions to both the Main and 240 Zones. Results from the Phase 1 drill program will be included in the updated mineral resource estimate that Big Ridge expects to issue in H1 2023.
The Hope Brook Gold Project is an advanced stage, high-grade gold project that produced 752,162 ounces of gold from 1987 – 1997. Hope Brook hosts an indicated gold resource totalling 5,500,000 tonnes grading 4.77 grams per tonne gold for 844,000 ounces and inferred resources totalling 836,000 tonnes grading 4.11 grams per tonne gold for 110,000 ounces based on a 3.0 gram per tonne cut-off grade and a long-term gold price of US$1,200, according to a technical report for Big Ridge Gold Corp., prepared by authors Michael Cullen, P. Geo., and Matthew Harrington, P. Geo., of Mercator Geological Services Limited and Jeffrey Burke, P. Geo., and titled "NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Hope Brook Gold Project, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada", May 6, 2021.
The Hope Brook gold deposit is a high-sulfidation epithermal gold deposit hosted in the Proterozoic aged Whittle Hill Sandstone and is intruded by a Late Proterozoic quartz-feldspar porphyry sill-dyke complex of the Roti Intrusive Suite. The deposit is located adjacent to and within an extensive advanced argillic alteration envelope which includes pyrophyllite, kaolinite, andalusite, and alunite. The principal gold mineralization occurs in a buff-coloured massive, vuggy silicic alteration with an associated, less developed grey silicic alteration with pyrite, chalcopyrite and lesser bornite. Gold mineralization is also found with pyrite in units of advanced argillic alteration adjacent to or near silicic alteration horizons. The altered and mineralized zone is cut by mafic dykes whose contacts are often mineralized. All of the altered and mineralized sequences and the intruded dykes have been folded.
Hope Brook is located 85 kilometres east of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. The project has well maintained infrastructure on site, including an operational 28-person camp, an 1,100-meter airstrip, ice-free docking facility and importantly, connection to the provincial electrical power grid via an on-site substation.
Significant exploration potential remains on the ~26,000-hectare concession providing a great opportunity to expand the mine area as well as surface showings throughout the concessions.
Big Ridge Gold Corp. is an exploration and development company managed by a disciplined and experienced team of officers and directors. The Company is committed to the development of advanced stage mining projects using industry best practices combined with strong social license from the local communities. Big Ridge owns a 100% interest in the highly prospective Oxford Gold Project located in Manitoba and the Destiny Gold Project in Quebec. Big Ridge is the operator of the Hope Brook Gold Project located in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hazel Mullin, P.Geo., Director, Data Management and Technical Services of First Mining, is a "Qualified Person" for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"), and she has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure contained in this news release.
First Mining is a gold developer advancing a portfolio of gold projects in Canada, with our most advanced project being the Springpole Gold Project in northwestern Ontario, which is one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in Canada, and where we have commenced a Feasibility Study and permitting activities are on-going with a draft Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") for the project published in June 2022. First Mining also owns the Cameron, Duparquet, Duquesne and Pitt gold projects, all advanced-stage gold projects in Ontario (in the case of Cameron) and Québec. Our portfolio of gold project interests also includes the Pickle Crow gold project (being advanced in partnership with Auteco Minerals Ltd.), the Hope Brook gold project (being advanced in partnership with Big Ridge Gold Corp.), an equity interest in Treasury Metals Inc., and a portfolio of 21 gold royalties.
First Mining was established in 2015 by Mr. Keith Neumeyer, founding President and CEO of First Majestic Silver Corp.
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Daniel W. Wilton
Chief Executive Officer and Director
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "plans", "projects", "intends", "estimates", "envisages", "potential", "possible", "strategy", "goals", "opportunities", "objectives", or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions.
Forward-looking statements in this news release relate to future events or future performance and reflect current estimates, predictions, expectations or beliefs regarding future events and include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to: (i) completion and timing of the Stage 2 Earn-In; (ii) the timing for results of Big Ridge's Phase 1 exploration drill program at Hope Brook; (iii) timing for the release by Big Ridge of an updated mineral resource estimate for Big Ridge; (iv) the Company's plans with respect to advancing its portfolio of gold projects; and (v) Feasibility and permitting activities related to the Springpole Gold Project. All forward-looking statements are based on First Mining's or its consultants' current beliefs as well as various assumptions made by them and information currently available to them. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the respective parties, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Such factors include, without limitation the Company's business, operations and financial condition potentially being materially adversely affected by the outbreak of epidemics, pandemics or other health crises, such as COVID-19, and by reactions by government and private actors to such outbreaks; risks to employee health and safety as a result of the outbreak of epidemics, pandemics or other health crises, such as COVID-19, that may result in a slowdown or temporary suspension of operations at some or all of the Company's mineral properties as well as its head office; fluctuations in the spot and forward price of gold, silver, base metals or certain other commodities; fluctuations in the currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar); changes in national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments; risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected formations, pressures, cave-ins and flooding); the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on mining; employee relations; relationships with and claims by local communities, indigenous populations and other stakeholders; availability and increasing costs associated with mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development; title to properties.; and the additional risks described in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities under the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, and in the Company's Annual Report on Form 40-F filed with the SEC on EDGAR.
First Mining cautions that the foregoing list of factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on our forward-looking statements to make decisions with respect to First Mining, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. First Mining does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by the Company or on our behalf, except as required by law.
The Company is a "foreign private issuer" as defined in Rule 3b-4 under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is eligible to rely upon the Canada-U.S. Multi-Jurisdictional Disclosure System, and is therefore permitted to prepare the technical information contained herein in accordance with the requirements of the securities laws in effect in Canada, which differ from the requirements of the securities laws currently in effect in the United States. Accordingly, information concerning mineral deposits set forth herein may not be comparable with information made public by companies that report in accordance with U.S. standards.
Technical disclosure contained in this news release has not been prepared in accordance with the requirements of United States securities laws and uses terms that comply with reporting standards in Canada with certain estimates prepared in accordance with NI 43-101.
NI 43-101 is a rule developed by the Canadian Securities Administrators that establishes standards for all public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical information concerning the issuer's material mineral projects.
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LOS ANGELES and ARLINGTON, Va. , Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) have renewed a partnership to support audiovisual copyright compliance in senior centers that are affiliates of NCOA's National Institute of Senior Centers (NISC).
The partnership establishes a framework by which MPLC and NCOA will work together to provide NISC affiliate members with a special member rate for its Umbrella License® to NISC affiliate members for showing movies and TV shows. It will also advise members of the risks of failing to comply with copyright laws. Ideas and information will be shared via an MPLC educational strategy that will include partnering with NCOA on outreach to senior centers.
"Senior centers are vital and vibrant gathering places in the community. Showing movies at these locations is a wonderful way to strengthen connections among older adults and across generations. We're thrilled that MPLC is able to offer a discount to NISC affiliate members," said Dianne Stone, NCOA's Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement.
Since its founding in 1986, MPLC has taken an educational approach to the licensing of television, movies, and other audiovisual content, forging partnerships with industry associations in a variety of verticals to educate businesses about copyright compliance.
"We are excited to be working with NCOA's National Institute of Senior Centers," said Dave Davis, Chief Commercial Officer at MPLC. "They are passionate about the quality of life for America's senior citizens. We are pleased that through our license senior citizens are able to legally engage in public, shared movie and TV viewing experiences at senior centers across America."
According to the US Copyright Act, Title 17 of the United States Code, copyrighted movies, television, and other audiovisual content originally intended for personal, private use, require a public performance license when exhibited in public. Showing audiovisual content in auto dealerships and other public spaces via broadcast, cable, or satellite television; DVDs, downloads, or streaming services requires a public performance license.
About the National Council on Aging: NCOA is the national voice for every person's right to age well. We believe that how we age should not be determined by gender, color, sexuality, income, or ZIP code. Working with thousands of national and local partners, we provide resources, tools, best practices, and advocacy to ensure every person can age with health and financial security. Founded in 1950, we are the oldest national organization focused on older adults. NCOA's National Institute of Senior Centers (NISC) supports senior centers nationwide with best practices and innovations in programming, as well as networking and training opportunities.
About MPLC: MPLC is the global leader in non-theatrical licensing, supporting legal public performances of film, television, and other audiovisual content in more than 40 countries around the world. Under the Umbrella License®, a blanket license for public performance, MPLC represents rights holders ranging from major Hollywood studios to independent producers. MPLC licensees include government, corporations, and non-profit organizations. Hundreds of thousands of locations around the world publicly perform content legally with the Umbrella License.
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AMSTERDAM, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flytxt B.V. today announced that its Flytxt CLTV AI for CX solution is now available on SAP® Store and is part of SAP's industry cloud portfolio for the telecommunication industry.
Flytxt CLTV AI leverages integration capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and integrates with SAP Customer Data Platform to deliver actionable customer and product intelligence to improve customer experience workflows and decisions, resulting in better business outcomes.
"Capitalizing on customer lifetime value (CLTV) is rapidly becoming a key factor for subscription business success; however, maximizing CLTV has been difficult despite having access to vast amounts of customer data and computing resources," said Dr. Vinod Vasudevan, CEO of Flytxt. "Simultaneously, subscription businesses are increasingly turning toward outcome-based business models to secure recurring revenue streams. The Flytxt solution helps businesses in the SAP ecosystem maximize CLTV through our well-trained and market-proven AI."
Subscription businesses using SAP Customer Data Platform can make use of this add-on solution from Flytxt to have additional customer intelligence in the form of predictive insights, recommendations, and next best actions.
"The Flytxt CLTV AI for CX solution complements our portfolio and enables actionable customer and product intelligence for our customers," said Carl Kehres, Head of Telecommunication Industry Business Unit at SAP. "We look forward to collaborating with Flytxt to bring the value of our partnership to customers who want to drive cost-effective and sustainable growth in their industry."
The Flytxt CLTV AI for CX solution:
- Leverages Flytxt's AI/ML models trained with trillions of curated data points to derive accurate and deeper insights on historical and predicted usage behavior of customers
- Prescribes recommendations and next best actions at scale for users of SAP Customer Data Platform to help optimize the value of every customer interaction across touch points and journeys
- Performs no-code analytics; saves time in performing manual analysis and custom AI/ML model development and training
- Supports APIs that can access customer, product, and campaign data from SAP Customer Data Platform and other CX applications and then feeds actionable intelligence back into these systems
To help enable companies to become intelligent enterprises, SAP is expanding its vertical solutions with an ecosystem of industry cloud solutions. The solutions leverage SAP BTP, with advanced technologies, and are interoperable with SAP's intelligent suite. Flytxt is working with SAP to create offerings that meet specific, telecommunications industry requirements to provide customers with tools to help achieve positive business outcomes. Learn more at SAP Store.
Flytxt is a partner in the SAP® PartnerEdge® program. Businesses that use SAP technologies from telecommunication, media, financial services, utilities, and travel sectors can subscribe to Flytxt's CLTV AI to gain additional intelligence for maximizing customer and product lifetime value.
About Flytxt B.V.
Flytxt is the trusted technology partner of 80+ digital enterprises across more than 50 countries, as well as of top CX platform vendors for CLTV maximization. Its award-winning, CLTV maximization AI has been designed and trained using real-world insights and patterns from more than a billion consumers and trillions of data points. The firm has a corporate office in Dubai, global development centres in India, and presence in Mexico, Netherlands, Colombia, Czech Republic, Spain, and Kenya.
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Ocado feels heat as cash-strapped shoppers switch to cheaper products: reaction
Shoppers have cut back their spending as they try to offset the growing cost of living, online grocery business Ocado has revealed.
The average basket that customers checked out reduced by 6 per cent to £116 in the 13 weeks to the end of August, and has shrunk even more rapidly since. A large part of the change was due to customers switching to cheaper alternative products, Ocado said.
Chief executive Tim Steiner said: “We remain focused on providing Ocado Retail customers with the best possible value to help them navigate the cost-of-living crisis, and are encouraged by the positive underlying trends in the business which underline the value of Ocado’s differentiated proposition to customers.”
Meanwhile, the business itself is also feeling the pinch, warning of a £20 million to £25m additional hit from its annual electricity and fuel bill. Electricity prices have tripled, while fuel is up 15 per cent, Ocado warned.
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The cost of dry ice - vital for chilling its products - also soared and will add between £15m and £20m to its annual bill.
Bosses said they are exploring alternatives to dry ice, but added that increased costs are likely to weigh on the group’s profitability in the fourth quarter.
However, on the upside, the order book looks healthy, with the number of orders per week rising by nearly 11 per cent from a year ago to 374,000.
It shows that a record number of new customers are using the company - active customer numbers rose 23 per cent year on year to 946,000.
Third-quarter sales lifted 2.7 per cent to £532m as a result, and are up 42 per cent compared with before the pandemic. Even stronger growth is expected in the fourth quarter, Ocado said.
Steiner added: “As we have seen in (the third quarter), customer numbers are sharply up as consumers either switch from other providers or try online grocery for the first time; underlying productivity in fulfilment and the last mile continues to improve.”
Adam Vettese, analyst at social investing network eToro, said: “Ocado Retail’s latest update feels a little like one step forward and two steps back.
“While the online supermarket has grown customer numbers by an impressive 23 per cent year-on-year, soaring inflation and falling real wages mean that customers are opting for cheaper brands and putting less in their baskets.
“On top of that, Ocado, like all firms, is contending with sky-high energy and fuel bills, which is acting as a major drag on profitability.”
Julie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor, the corporate restructuring specialist, said: “Ocado is facing a chilling and unusual effect of inflation, with rising prices of dry ice used to cool customers’ shopping during deliveries sending a shiver through the online grocer’s finances.
“The question for Ocado is the extent to which customers continue to splash out for the privilege of having their weekly shops delivered to their doorsteps. The online grocery trend is here to stay but many cash-strapped consumers may instead trade down from Ocado to cheaper alternatives such as Asda and Morrisons.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/ocado-feels-heat-as-cash-strapped-shoppers-switch-to-cheaper-products-reaction-3841307 | 2022-09-13T12:19:13Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/ocado-feels-heat-as-cash-strapped-shoppers-switch-to-cheaper-products-reaction-3841307 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Modern Eskbank family home for sale
Our latest property of the week, in conjunction with the ESPC, is an immaculately presented and spacious four-bedroom, three-storey semi-detached family home with gardens and a driveway.
Located in the desirable Eskbank area, 5 Viscount Drive is currently on the market at offers over £400,000.
The property includes two en-suites, a shower room, and a ground-floor WC.
Speaking about the property, a spokesperson for selling agent Mov8 Real Estate said: “A welcoming entrance hall gives access throughout the ground floor including a WC and to the carpeted stairway and features a built-in storage cupboard, and quality Calacatta marble flooring into the kitchen.
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"To the front is a good-sized lounge with French doors opening to the dining area. An impressive open-plan dining and kitchen space includes French patio doors to the garden.
"A quality fitted kitchen features quartz worktops with matching upstands and an inset sink. Integrated appliances include a washing machine, dishwasher, fridge/freezer, microwave, double oven and a gas hob with a full quartz splashback.
“On the first floor, a master bedroom overlooks the rear garden and features built-in wardrobes and an en-suite shower room. To the front is bedroom two giving access to a generous family size en-suite bathroom. On the second floor there are two further double bedrooms with a shower room.
“Externally, there is a lawn and a driveway to the front, whilst a large enclosed rear garden features a lawn and paved patio.”
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Keynote speakers AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Behring, and GSK headline one of the industry's largest events for driving collaboration and innovation
PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) today announced that visionaries from AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Behring, and GSK will be keynote speakers at the 2022 Veeva R&D and Quality Summit on Oct.19 and 20 in Boston. Speakers will showcase how innovations and advancements in clinical, quality, regulatory, and safety enable greater efficiency and speed across the product lifecycle.
With more than 2,000 industry professionals and over 100 sessions, Veeva R&D and Quality Summit is one of life sciences' largest and most impactful events. Attendees will learn strategies to establish a clinical data foundation for patient-centric digital trials, transform quality management across the value chain, optimize regulatory operations, and deliver new levels of productivity in safety. Featured keynotes and sessions include:
- AbbVie sharing its vision for transforming safety to improve patient outcomes.
- AstraZeneca highlighting how modern quality management enables tangible value creation.
- Boehringer Ingelheim on enabling digital execution in clinical trials to bring treatments to patients faster.
- Global Blood Therapeutics explaining ways to turn the trial master file (TMF) into a strategic advantage for fast, accurate clinical trials.
- GSK showing how they built a unified development ecosystem across clinical, quality, and regulatory for speed and agility.
- Forge Biologics discussing how digital quality management helps to accelerate processes and build trust with partners.
- Moderna on the benefits of establishing an end-to-end regulatory system for increased agility and visibility.
"Life sciences has made significant progress in streamlining processes and making information sharing easier," said Jim Reilly, vice president, Veeva Development Cloud strategy. "Veeva R&D and Quality Summit will bring the industry back together in person to connect with peers, share learnings, and discuss strategies that can move the industry forward."
The event is open exclusively to life sciences industry professionals. Register and stay up to date on the agenda and program details at veeva.com/Summit.
Register for Veeva R&D and Quality Summit: veeva.com/Summit/register
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Veeva is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,000 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves. For more information, visit veeva.com.
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- US clinics acquired from Novamind demonstrating continued growth
- Physical rebranding of clinics is underway
- Announcing new client financing options in Canada
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Numinus Wellness Inc. ("Numinus", the "Company") (TSX: NUMI) (OTCQX: NUMIF) is pleased to provide an update on the integration of the Novamind acquisition, which completed on June 10, 2022.
The Company's US clinics have continued to perform well during fiscal Q4 (the three months ended August 31, 2022), with strong client appointment growth in recent months. During August, more than 6,200 client appointments were held across Canada and the US, representing 25% growth compared to July. In total, the Company's eight US wellness clinics – six in Utah and two in Arizona – completed more than 4,900 client appointments in August, representing an increase of 22% from July.
"We continue to be pleased with the performance of our recently acquired US clinics – and their continued success in building strong client relationships," said Payton Nyquvest, Founder and CEO, Numinus. "Impressively, 15% of the client appointments held in August at our US clinics were from new clients."
Numinus is proud to provide a wide range of mental health care services, including traditional therapy, counseling, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Ketamine-assisted therapy, and – when approved through Canada's Special Access Programme – psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Numinus is currently focused on growing its Ketamine-assisted therapy ("KAT") offering across Canada. Ketamine Therapy sessions at Numinus' US clinics (including KAT, Spravato and Ketamine medicine) grew 35% in August, compared to July, to 1,520 appointments. Demand for TMS services also continues to grow. During August, the Company completed 725 TMS appointments – a 23% increase relative to the prior month.
Cedar Clinical Research, the clinical trial management division of Numinus that was acquired through Novamind, also continues to achieve positive operational growth. During Numinus' fiscal fourth quarter, the division recruited 178 clinical trial participants for 16 third-party clinical studies, representing an 19% increase in clinical trial participation compared to the fiscal third quarter.
Numinus will release its fiscal fourth quarter and annual 2022 financial results on November 29, 2022.
Numinus' new brand has already been successfully applied to all of the Company's digital assets. By the end of 2022, Numinus intends to launch a new comprehensive client website, providing information and booking tools for all of the Company's wellness clinics. The rebranding of Numinus' physical wellness clinics is also now underway. Signage and office designs across all 13 wellness clinics are expected to be updated before the end of 2022 to reflect the new unified Numinus brand.
Numinus is pleased to announce that it is launching a new financing option for clinic patients in Canada. The Company expects this new option will increase the accessibility of its traditional therapy and Ketamine-assisted therapy to a wider client population.
"We understand that some people in need of therapy face financial hurdles in accessing treatments, so we're proud to provide another option for clients to consider," said Jason Lapensee, SVP, Operations.
Offered through iFinance, a third-party financing partner, Numinus' new financing option will allow Canadian clients to apply for financing with interest rates based on the applicant's credit history. Once approved, Numinus will provide the requested therapy services and collect full payment from iFinance following the completion of the treatment plan.
Numinus Wellness (TSX: NUMI) helps people to heal and be well through the development and delivery of innovative mental health care and access to safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies. The Numinus model - including psychedelic production, research and clinic care - is at the forefront of a transformation aimed at healing rather than managing symptoms for depression, anxiety, trauma, pain and substance use. At Numinus, we are leading the integration of psychedelic-assisted therapies into mainstream clinical practice and building the foundation for a healthier society.
Learn more at www.numinus.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Neither Numinus Wellness Inc., nor any of its subsidiaries is a professional corporation licensed to practice health services. In jurisdictions where health services may only be provided by a corporation if that corporation holds a valid permit to do so, Numinus and its subsidiaries operate in a management services function to affiliated professional corporations, who provide health services to patients. Numinus and its subsidiaries do provide health services directly to patients in those jurisdictions where authorized to do so.
This news release includes certain "forward‐looking information" and "forward‐looking statements" (collectively "forward‐looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, including statements regarding the plans, intentions, beliefs and current expectations of the Company with respect to future business activities and operating performance. All statements in this news release that address events or developments that the Company expects to occur in the future are forward‐looking statements. There is no assurance that Numinus will achieve a US listing. Forward‐looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are often identified by words such as "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "project", "target", "potential", "schedule", "forecast", "budget", "estimate", "intend" or "believe" and similar expressions or their negative connotations, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could", "should" or "might" occur, and include information regarding expectations around the rebranding, and expectation for other economic, business and/or competitive factors.
Forward‐looking statements necessarily involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the Company's control. These forward‐looking statements are qualified in their entirety by cautionary statements and risk factor disclosure contained in filings made by the Company with the Canadian securities regulators, including the Company's financial statements, related MD&A and Annual Information Form for the financial year ended August 31, 2021 and its interim financial statements and related MD&A for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2022, all filed with the securities regulatory authorities in all provinces and territories of Canada and available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. The risk factors are not exhaustive of the factors that may affect the Company's forward‐looking statements. The Company's forward‐looking statements are based on the applicable assumptions and factors management considers reasonable as of the date hereof, based on the information available to management of the Company at such time. The Company does not assume any obligation to update forward‐looking statements if circumstances or management's beliefs, expectations or opinions should change other than as required by applicable securities laws. There can be no assurance that forward‐looking statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward‐looking statements. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed on forward‐looking statements.
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Periscope adds tourism account to growing client roster
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Periscope, an award-winning, full-service advertising agency, today announced a three-year engagement as the official creative agency of record for Meet Minneapolis, securing its first venture into the tourism space and further solidifying the agency's ties to the Twin Cities.
Periscope will lead the campaign and media strategy to attract more visitors to Minneapolis, touting the breadth of unique experiences and opportunities the city offers to visitors from across the nation as leisure travel bounces back. This win gives Periscope the unique opportunity to help revitalize tourism in its home city, and continues a growth trend with 10 clients added to the agency's roster in 2022.
"Our team has a wealth of tourism experience, and we are proud to add Meet Minneapolis as a client under the Periscope logo. We've been a part of the Minneapolis landscape for 60+ years, and we've earned the right to knock this work out of the park. We owe it to our city," said Liz Grabek, SVP, Consumer Strategy at Periscope.
This new partnership demonstrates Periscope's dedication to celebrating Minneapolis and to drive growth to local businesses that benefit the city.
"We have a unique opportunity to reintroduce Minneapolis to regional visitors that have heard a lot about us, but not a lot from us," stated Courtney Ries, Senior Vice President of Destination Branding and Strategy for Meet Minneapolis. "Periscope's keen understanding and excitement for this opportunity — coupled with their unbridled passion for the city — makes them a great partner for this work."
The full scope includes Strategy, Creative Concepting and Campaign Execution, as well as PR and Influencer Marketing managed in partnership with Minneapolis-based PR and influencer marketing agency Friend of a Friend. Work is expected to begin rolling out early in 2023.
ABOUT PERISCOPE
Periscope, a Quad company, is an award-winning agency that provides a full spectrum of integrated marketing services for a wide range of acclaimed brands. As a part of Quad, Periscope represents a key creative discipline that enables Quad to provide a full through-the-line offering and help brands reimagine their marketing experience to be more streamlined, impactful, flexible and frictionless. Learn more at www.periscope.com.
ABOUT MEET MINNEAPOLIS
Meet Minneapolis is a private, not-for-profit, member-based association. It actively promotes and sells the Minneapolis area as a destination for conventions and meetings, works to maximize the visitor experience and markets the city as a desirable tourist destination to maximize the economic and social benefit to the greater Minneapolis area. Meet Minneapolis is accredited by the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP) of Destinations International.
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Top news and notes from around Northern Virginia and beyond.
5. Marine Corps Marathon changes
The Marine Corps Marathon Organization announced new locations for the 2022 Marine Corps Marathon Runners Village and MCM Kids Run during a news conference Monday.
4. Teacher, wife deaths
A science teacher at Auburn Middle School in Fauquier County and his wife were found dead at their Culpeper home Friday, according to the Culpeper Police Department.
3. Clearing skies
Skies will be clearing today with drier and slightly cooler weather as highs barely reach 80 degrees. Click here for a detailed forecast by ZIP code.
2. Special Olympics
Two weeks comprising more than 70 events kicked off Sept. 10, but for participants in the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics, competition is only one part of the story.
1. School security
Prince William County Schools will be adding new full-time school security assistants for every elementary school this year, intended to help monitor entrances to school buildings and deal with any security issues on the property.
InsideOut
The Vienna Halloween Parade, a tradition since 1946, returns this year on Oct. 26. Applications for businesses and organizations that would like to participate are due Sept. 16. Click here for details. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/infive-fauquier-teacher-death-school-security-and-clearing-skies/article_080add7c-3344-11ed-8a3b-1bcecc785ea3.html | 2022-09-13T12:23:08Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/infive-fauquier-teacher-death-school-security-and-clearing-skies/article_080add7c-3344-11ed-8a3b-1bcecc785ea3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bishop O’Connell High School junior Molly Weithman finished third in 17 minutes, 48 seconds in the girls varsity race at the annual Monroe Parker Invitational cross country meet run the morning of Sept. 10 at Burke Lake Park.
She was the highest finisher, girl or boys, from any of the four Arlington high schools entered in the competition. She also had a top finish in the same meet last season.
Wakefield High School senior Elizabeth Coe placed 16th (19:13) in the girls race on Sept. 10 and Yorktown High School junior Eleanor Whitehouse was 24th (19:55).
In the girls team standings, Washington-Liberty was the highest Arlington finisher in eighth and Yorktown was 10th. Seniors Karenna Keane (20:45) and Cameron Bunker (20:46) finished 45th and 46th, respectively, to lead the W-L girls.
In the boys varsity race, Yorktown senior Jack Levine finished fourth in 15:47 and Yorktown junior Roman Steis was eighth (16:03).
Levine is one of the top returns from last season’s Yorktown team that won the Liberty District championship.
Bishop O’Connell’s Anthony Lenzini was 23rd (16:34) in the boys meet at Monroe Parker.
In the boys team standings, Washington-Liberty was 18th and O’Connell 25. Yorktown did not have enough runners in the race to count in the team standings.
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Woodbridge resident Jeremy Garay will be in camp with the El Salvador Men's National Soccer team in preparation for its international friendly Sept. 27 against Peru at Audi Field in Washington D.C.
Garay is a member of D.C. United who has previously appeared with the El Salvador men’s senior national team. Garay signed a home-grown contract with D.C. United in July, 2021.
Garay, a dual citizen, has also played for the U.S. U-20 Men’s Soccer Team as well as El Salvador's U-20 National Team.
VOLLEYBALL
Colgan swept Battlefield Monday 3-0 by scores of 25-20, 25-17 and 25-14.
Colgan (9-0) was led by Brielle Kemavor with 11kills and 4 blocks, Aubrey Hatch with 7 blocks and Skylar Johnson with5 kills. Alexis Scipione had 28 assists and 7 digs while Paula Sigurani led the defense with 8 digs.
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The Irish Whiskey's Newest Campaign in More Than a Decade Will Make its U.S. Debut and Features Irish Actor & Comedian Aisling Bea
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Jameson introduced its biggest U.S. campaign in more than a decade, titled Widen the Circle. As a brand that believes in a world where there are no strangers, only friends you have yet to meet, the new campaign is an open invitation to seek out and embrace those spontaneous, serendipitous moments that spark new connections and cherished memories.
"Jameson has always understood the power of togetherness, especially those that are seemingly random or unexpected," said Pam Forbus, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Pernod Ricard North America. "Widen the Circle is a celebration of those powerful encounters that authentically bring new friends together and ultimately make the world feel like a smaller place."
Widen the Circle builds upon the world's number one Irish Whiskey's 240-year legacy of craftmanship, collaboration and celebration of life's everyday moments, both big and small. Anchoring the campaign is a :30 second TV spot starring Irish comedian, actor and writer Aisling Bea – the creator and star of BAFTA award-winning show 'This Way Up' and star of Netflix's 'Living with Yourself' – whose witty tone raises a toast to those who embrace authentic, unexpected and often cheeky moments when people find their kindred spirits.
"As a comedian and performer, I always look to connect with my audience. It's those small moments when you recognize a kindred spirit in the crowd that make for the most memorable sets," said Aisling. "And when that unspoken bond happens over a Jameson Whiskey? Well, there's nothing better in my opinion."
Created by TBWA\Dublin, "Widen the Circle" is a 360-degree campaign, running on TV, online video, social and e-commerce. Jameson believes that life is better shared with friends, family and a glass of Jameson Irish Whiskey. To learn more about the new campaign, please visit JamesonWhiskey.com/Widen-the-Circle and check out the new TVC on YouTube.
About Jameson ® Irish Whiskey
Jameson is the world's most awarded* and bestselling Irish whiskey, ranked in the top 4 global whiskey brands and number 9 in spirits. Leading the Irish Whiskey category with a 67% market share and having experienced 30 years of consecutive growth up until 2019, Jameson reached unprecedented sales of 10 million cases in March 2022.
The Jameson portfolio is led by its core expression of Jameson Original, with dynamic growth being experienced with its Super Premium offering, Jameson Black Barrel. The range also includes ultra-premium offerings such as Jameson 18 Years, as well as some recently added flavored whiskeys, Jameson Orange and Jameson Cold Brew.
Triple distilled and twice as smooth, every bottle of Jameson is distilled and matured at the world renowned Midleton Distillery in County Cork, Ireland.
Follow @Jameson_US and visit JamesonWhiskey.com for the latest from Jameson.
* Based on the tasting results of the six most influential tasting competitions over the past 10 years (2011-2021), including The Irish Whiskey Masters, IWSC, ISC, Beverage Testing Institute, San Francisco World Spirits Competition and Ultimate Spirits Challenge.
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About Pernod Ricard USA ®
Pernod Ricard USA is the premium spirits and wine company in the U.S., and the largest subsidiary of Paris, France-based Pernod Ricard SA., the world's second-largest spirits and wine company. Pernod Ricard employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide, is listed on Euronext (Ticker: RI) and is part of the CAC 40 index. The company's leading spirits include such prestigious brands as Absolut ® Vodka, Avión ® Tequila, Chivas Regal ® Scotch Whisky, The Glenlivet ® Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Jameson ® Irish Whiskey, Kahlúa ® Liqueur, Malibu ®, Martell ® Cognac, Olmeca Altos ® Tequila , Beefeater ® Gin, Del Maguey ® Single Village Mezcal, Monkey 47 ® Gin, Plymouth ® Gin, Seagram's ® Extra Dry Gin, Malfy ® Gin, Hiram Walker ® Liqueurs, Midleton ® Irish Whiskey, Powers ® Irish Whiskey, Redbreast ® Irish Whiskey, Aberlour ® Single Malt Scotch Whisky; Lillet ®; Smithworks ® Vodka, Jefferson's ® Bourbon, Smooth Ambler ® Whiskey, Rabbit Hole ® Whiskey, Pernod ® and Ricard ®; such superior wines as Jacob's Creek ®, Kenwood ® Vineyards, Campo Viejo ® and Brancott Estate ®; and such exquisite champagnes and sparkling wines as Perrier-Jouët ® Champagne, G.H. Mumm™ Champagne and Mumm Napa ® sparkling wines.
Pernod Ricard USA is headquartered in New York, New York, and has more than 700 employees across the country. As "creators of conviviality," we are committed to sustainable and responsible business practices in service of our customers, consumers, employees and the planet. Pernod Ricard USA urges all adults to consume its products responsibly and has an active program to promote responsible drinking. For more information on this, please visit: www.responsibility.org.
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Blaine Rueber, blaine.rueber@pernod-ricard.com
Gabby Deitsch, gdeitsch@webershandwick.com
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Art reviews: Sam Ainsley | Research + Practice | Henry Fraser | Kirsty Wither | Jana Emburey
Sam Ainsley’s paintings at the RSA blur the line between between geography and biology, and also highlight the similarities between visual images of the ‘micro’ and the ‘macro’, writes Duncan Macmillan
Sam Ainsley: Stories Real and Imagined, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh ****
Research + Practice, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh ****
Henry Fraser, Keep the Heid, Open Eye, Edinburgh *****
Kirsty Wither, In Colour, Open Eye, Edinburgh ****
Jana Emburey, Elemental, &Gallery, Edinburgh ****
If you could conceivably imagine the view of the neighbouring atomic or sub-atomic world enjoyed by a single electron, it might well resemble our view of the stars in the night sky, and the macroscopic and microscopic do sometimes have a strange affinity. Their unequal symmetry is one starting point for the art of Sam Ainsley, and indeed in her show at the RSA Academicians’ Gallery, Stories Real and Imagined. She says she is “fascinated by the relationship between visual images of the ’micro’ and the ’macro’” and in the show there is a painting called The Milky Way that suggests just such a connection between the microscopic world below and the starry heavens above. Two prints entitled Scotland’s Waterways 1 and Scotland’s Waterways Doubled also demonstrate what she means. In them she has taken a simplified map of Scotland’s rivers and then repeated it in a mirror image. Going from geography to biology, the result is still clearly an image of Scotland, but it also resembles the two hemispheres of the brain with the waterways suggesting the patterns of its interconnecting fibres.
In a similar way, another print titled The Darkened Splinterecho Brainstream Tide suggests at once the organic matter of the brain and an aerial view of a river among hills, while Interior/Exterior seems to shift from an image of a hand and arm through diagrammatic veins, to a partial outline of the sun and a dark, starry sky. It is a poetic idea to suggest such an analogy between the natural world, the human body and indeed the human condition. At times it is her own condition too, and her perspective as a woman artist. Her Wild Scared Heart is a circular painting of something that could be at once an aorta and a tree, but tucked within it is a heart transformed into a scarlet flower. In The Ribcage Flower and the Blue Dress, a scarlet ribcage on a stem like a flower sits alongside abstract folds of deep blue velvet.
A print called Homage to D'Arcy Thompson, apparently an abstraction of the intricate patterns organic growth, also points to part of her inspiration. Thompson was a polymath. Professor of natural history at St Andrews University, he is described on the university website as the first bio-mathematician. His great book On Growth and Form published in 1917 described the logic, the beauty and mathematical symmetry of the dynamic processes that shape the natural world. Ainsley’s Worlds within Worlds is composed of a honeycomb pattern of hexagons, each suggesting different forms of cellular growth, and so does seem directly to explore Thompson’s analysis of structure in nature. He has been an inspiration to many leading artists, but his book has also been widely influential in modern art education, a field in which Ainsley has herself also been prominent.
The RSA lower galleries are adjacent to the Academicians’ Gallery and in them Research + Practice shows a selection of the work of six artists who have recently enjoyed support from the Academy’s programme of grants and awards. Since its inception in 2009, we are told, this programme has disbursed £313,000 to 106 artists. A really significant contribution to the visual arts in Scotland, it has supported both established artists and others at the beginning of their careers.
Among those showing work, Robert Powell, for instance, is a well-known printmaker. He has had a residency at WASPS in Shetland supported by the RSA. He went there, he says, to think about “how objects haunt us” – not in the ghostly sense, he assures us, though that happens often enough in his art – and correspondingly to unclutter himself and, he says, his own “cocoon of objects was scraped away.” Not that his prints show it. The Library of the Blind, for example, is a wonderful, phantasmagoric variation on the Tower of Babel, while The Work of the Dead is a crowded, multi-storey prison-like interior. Both are gloriously cluttered and repay endless investigation of their extraordinary details.
Powell’s bizarre world finds an echo in the work nearby of Flore Gardner who has used a residency at Edinburgh Printmakers to learn to etch and has put her new skill to good use in a set of images every bit as strange as his. There are echoes too of Sam Ainsley’s metamorphic imagery in her prints as arms and legs and breasts ramify into strange, compound creatures, half-human half-vegetable. She touches the truly bizarre, however, when she creates a headless torso with an open mouth in its belly, or a row of headless torsos strung up like butchered carcasses with macabre inscriptions such as “the dead can wait” written on them, while another print is just an overall pattern of disembodied eyes. It is all thoroughly surreal.
Among the other artists whose work is included here, Samantha Clark, awarded the William Littlejohn prize for excellence and innovation in water-based media, has respected the prescription of her award but in a technically inventive way to create paintings that are broadly abstract but suggest the sea. Meanwhile, working in the RSA Collections, by ingenious research Victoria Bernie has restored the name – Elizabeth Maria Ouchterlony – to an early 19th-century artist represented in the collection but hitherto only known baldly as Mrs Cumming.
At the Open Eye Gallery, the strain of dark surrealism seen in Flore Gardner and Robert Powell’s prints finds an echo in Henry Fraser’s show Keep the Heid. Mostly paintings of single heads, but so roughly executed and so little defined that they can hardly be called portraits, they nevertheless have striking individuality, each one a distinct and haunting presence. They reflect, he says, human fragility and resilience during these times of global chaos and uncertainty.
His sitters certainly seem haunted. Brother is a white-faced figure. A halo and a small cross suggest a religious brother rather than a sibling, but his religion doesn’t seem to offer him much comfort. Encore is a roughly painted skull with spooky black holes for eyes. Inferno, an exception among the heads, is a flaming sky with terrified figures massed beneath it. Perhaps the painting that best encapsulates it all, however, is Perfect Storm. A dark figure against a dark sky with a snowstorm whirling round his head seems nearly blown off his feet by the wind. It is an icon for our times.
“Give me an ounce of civet; good apothecary. Sweeten my imagination”, says poor blinded Gloucester in King Lear, and also at the Open Eye, Kirsty Wither’s show In Colour does just that. Not that it is simply sweet. A laden brush and palette knife give body to her pictures. Consequently the colour in a painting like Lemons in Luxury, for instance, or in flower pictures like Fruit and Roses, is rich, but it is much more than decorative. On the contrary, her pictures have a very satisfactory kind of poetic solidity.
Round the corner at the &Gallery, in Jana Emburey’s show, Elemental, paint matters too, but in a very different way. She has revisited abstract expressionism in a series of elegant paintings carried out with freely handled paint on unprimed canvas, or absorbent Japanese paper. The balance she strikes between freedom and control is quite perfect.
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BPO Philippines: A lifeline for struggling SMEs
There’s no way to sugarcoat the current economic climate in the UK – which can only be described as grim.
In the wake of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s July departure from office, annual inflation is currently above 10%.
The British pound has registered its lowest showing against the US dollar in over 37 years.
“Skyrocketing food and energy costs have compounded the inflation problem, and the Bank of England estimates inflation could hit 13% if prices continue to rise,” says Ralf Ellspermann, CEO of PITON-Global, a mid-sized BPO in the Philippines.
The threat to British startups and SMEs
The UK’s current economic problems could also force businesses to permanently shut their doors, particularly startups and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) still struggling to survive in the wake of the pandemic.
Businesses will need to cut corners wherever they can just to stay afloat. For these companies, business processing outsourcing (BPO) to the Philippines offers an economic lifeline to help them ride out the current economic storms, explains Mr Ellspermann.
The many benefits of BPO to the Philippines
“Outsourcing to the Philippines is no ‘best-kept secret’ for UK businesses, who have long partnered with Philippine BPO providers to cut costs, increase business efficiency, and boost revenue as well as profits,” he said.
“In fact, seven in ten companies in the UK outsource services to third parties, with 30% of UK businesses planning to outsource more by 2023. Most businesses cite cost reductions and transformation as the main reasons for outsourcing.
“The Philippine BPO industry offers small businesses many advantages over operating an in-house call centre or outsourcing to an onshore provider. A skilled and highly educated workforce, access to world-class technology and infrastructure, and an English-proficient population are attributes highly valued by companies. Additionally, the country boasts a 20-year track record of outsourcing excellence and currently ranks just behind India as the world’s second largest BPO destination.”
How outsourcing to the Philippines is a money-saving game changer for SMEs
According to Ellspermann: “Significant cost savings are the main reason companies outsource their BPO requirements to the Philippines. Since Philippine labour costs are much lower that in other countries, companies can save up to 60%.”
Additionally, BPO providers in the country cover secondary expenses like office space, equipment, technology, taxes, employee health insurance and benefits. These savings can be a game changer for small businesses, which can funnel them into resources that will contribute to healthy and substantial growth.
Enhanced focus on core business competencies
Companies typically rely on outsourced teams to handle front and back-office related tasks. This allows executives and employees to focus on essential business tasks like growing a client base, developing marketing strategies, and investing in research and development. In the long run, BPO to the Philippines offers startups and SMEs quick, flexible, and affordable scaling and company growth.
Outsourcing to the Philippines makes good economic sense
The current British economy will most likely get worse before it gets better, and small businesses will need to be resourceful if they want to get by. BPO to the Philippines offers a high ROI with little risk for cash-starved British startups and SMEs, concludes Ellspermann.
“The cost-cutting benefits highlighted here can help UK-based SMEs survive the current turbulent economic climate and provide a cost-effective way to scale, grow, and help ensure long-term success,” he said. | https://www.scotsman.com/business/bpo-philippines-a-lifeline-for-struggling-smes-3840944 | 2022-09-13T12:28:33Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/business/bpo-philippines-a-lifeline-for-struggling-smes-3840944 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What were the Queen's favourite hymns?
Religion played a key role in Queen Elizabeth II's public and private life. We take a closer look at five of her most cherished hymns
Which hymns were most beloved by Queen Elizabeth II? Here is a selection of religious songs that she is known to have loved – or that featured at prominent moments during her reign.
Which hymns did the Queen love the most during her lifetime?
Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven
The Queen loved this Christian hymn, written by Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte. First published in 1834, Lyte’s hymn draws on Psalm 103, which is believed to have been written during the life of the Hebrew King David.
Lyte first published the hymn in his collection The Spirit of the Psalms, which he used with his congregation in Brixham, south Devon.
The music with which the lyrics are most frequently heard today, however, was written in 1868 by John Goss. Appropriately, there was a Royal connection: Goss was a boy chorister of the Chapel Royal, the establishment that ministers to the spiritual needs of the monarch and Royal Family.
The hymn is already a familiar staple from state ceremonies, having been played during Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. More recently, soprano Alexandra Stevenson performed ''Praise, My Soul the King of Heaven' during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier in 2022.
The Lord’s My Shepherd
To mark the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations back in 2016, BBC Radio 2 produced a show entitled Our Queen: 90 Musical Years. As part of this, the Queen listed her ten favourite pieces of music.
Two hymns featured in this list. One was 'Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven' mentioned above: the other was 'The Lord’s My Shepherd'.
The words of this beautiful hymn are believed to have been written by the 17th-century Puritan politician and author Francis Rous, based on Psalm 23. It is most commonly sung, meanwhile, to the tune of 'CRIMOND', by Scottish hymnist Jessie Seymour Irvine.
All People that on Earth do Dwell
We don’t know whether this was a favourite of the Queen’s – but it was sung at her Coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953, so it’s bound to have some strong resonances.
The words to 'All People that on Earth do Dwell' are an arrangement of Psalm 100 (also known as ‘The Old Hundredth’), by Elizabethan churchman William Kethe.
For the Coronation, no less a composer than Ralph Vaughan Williams set Kethe’s translation to music – for all four vocal parts, plus organ, orchestra and congregation.
I Vow to Thee My Country
This rousing and emotional piece was also performed at the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. The music, famously, is from the Jupiter section of Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite, The Planets. The words to 'I Vow to Thee My Country', meanwhile, originate in a poem by the Edwardian diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice.
Lead us, Heavenly Father
This traditional Christian hymn asks for guidance and protection from God. Sung during the Queen's 90th Birthday Service of Thanksgiving, it is another strong candidate for one of her favourite hymns.
The words to Lead Us, Heavenly Father were composed by Victorian architect and surveyor James Edmeston. He sounds like a remarkable fellow: on top of the busy day job, Edmeston found the time to compose some 2000 hymns – one every Sunday.
The hymn has been set to music in several different arrangements, including one by the 19th century German musicologist Friedrich Filitz.
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Picky Eater Dogs: Here are the 10 breeds of adorable dog notorious for being fussy eaters - including the loving French Bulldog 🐕
Owners of certain dog breeds shouldn’t be too worried if their pup occasionally turns their nose up at their dinner – they are notorious for it.
A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes over the last three years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared and demand for four-legged friends remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
One thing to take into consideration is that some dogs aren’t as simple as others when it comes to food.
Breeds like the Labrador Retriever will eat pretty much anything (creating its own problems), whereas other breeds have a tendency to eat very little or even refuse food.
Here are the 10 breeds of dog that are the pickiest eaters.
Read more: | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/picky-eater-dogs-here-are-the-10-breeds-of-adorable-dog-notorious-for-being-fussy-eaters-including-the-loving-french-bulldog-3406157 | 2022-09-13T12:30:34Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/picky-eater-dogs-here-are-the-10-breeds-of-adorable-dog-notorious-for-being-fussy-eaters-including-the-loving-french-bulldog-3406157 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Queen Elizabeth II: 12 pictures as thousands queue overnight in Edinburgh to pay respects to Queen
Thousands of people have queued through the night to see the Queen's coffin at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.
While many people were warned to expect a 12-hour wait to see the monarch’s coffin at St Giles’ Cathedral, those who queued overnight said their wait-time was five or six hours.
Members of the public started going into the cathedral at about 6pm, and the procession was temporarily paused to allow the royal family to take part in a short vigil at about 8pm.
Lord Ian Duncan, the Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords, said crowds along the Royal Mile were “ten-deep”, while the streets surrounding the historic precinct were equally crammed with people.
“The sheer quantity of individuals moving into Edinburgh today (indicates) that there will be many tens – possibly even hundreds – of thousands of people who will wish to pay their respects to the late Queen,” Lord Duncan told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National programme on Tuesday morning.
Resting on top of the Queen's coffin at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is the Crown of Scotland.
It dates back to the reign of James V, who was King of Scotland from 1513 until his death in 1542. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/queen-elizabeth-ii-12-pictures-as-thousands-queue-overnight-in-edinburgh-to-pay-respects-to-queen-3840988 | 2022-09-13T12:31:27Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/queen-elizabeth-ii-12-pictures-as-thousands-queue-overnight-in-edinburgh-to-pay-respects-to-queen-3840988 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cold front to bring cool, sunny, and dry conditions to Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – An approaching cold front will bring cooler and drier air to Middle Georgia as well as clear out the cloudy pattern.
Tonight
Storm activity around Middle Georgia has subsided. We now play the waiting game as cloud cover overhead slowly clears out. Wind from the northwest at 5-10 mph will transport cool and dry air into Middle Georgia, replacing the warm and humid airmass that has been in place for the last few months. Low temperatures tonight will drop into the lower 60s for the first time since June.. Some Middle Georgians may want a light sweater out the door in the morning.
Tomorrow
Skies will be mostly clear to begin our Tuesday. It will be a cool start, and there will be no need to clear any moisture off of your windshield. Humidity will remain low throughout the day as sunshine dominates the sky. Only a few cirrus clouds are likely in the afternoon. Ambient wind will blow in from the north-northwest at 5-10 mph. High temperatures will reach the mid 80s around the region.
Tomorrow night we will see clear skies almost everywhere in Middle Georgia, however a couple of cirrus clouds may stick around. Lows will reach their coolest point of the week as they dip into the upper 50s in many Middle Georgia towns. Ambient wind will continue to blow from the north northwest at about 5 mph.
Wednesday and Beyond
The sunny pattern will stick around through the middle of the week. Highs will stick in mid to upper 80s, however the wind will shift towards the north-northeast heading into Wednesday afternoon. We likely will not see any rain in Middle Georgia again until Friday. The tropics are also quiet at this time, so benevolent weather should stick around the region for the foreseeable future.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m). | https://www.41nbc.com/cold-front-to-bring-cool-sunny-and-dry-conditions-to-middle-georgia/ | 2022-09-13T12:31:55Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/cold-front-to-bring-cool-sunny-and-dry-conditions-to-middle-georgia/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Cold front to bring cool, sunny, and dry conditions to Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – An approaching cold front will bring cooler and drier air to Middle Georgia as well as clear out the cloudy pattern.
Tonight
Storm activity around Middle Georgia has subsided. We now play the waiting game as cloud cover overhead slowly clears out. Wind from the northwest at 5-10 mph will transport cool and dry air into Middle Georgia, replacing the warm and humid airmass that has been in place for the last few months. Low temperatures tonight will drop into the lower 60s for the first time since June.. Some Middle Georgians may want a light sweater out the door in the morning.
Tomorrow
Skies will be mostly clear to begin our Tuesday. It will be a cool start, and there will be no need to clear any moisture off of your windshield. Humidity will remain low throughout the day as sunshine dominates the sky. Only a few cirrus clouds are likely in the afternoon. Ambient wind will blow in from the north-northwest at 5-10 mph. High temperatures will reach the mid 80s around the region.
Tomorrow night we will see clear skies almost everywhere in Middle Georgia, however a couple of cirrus clouds may stick around. Lows will reach their coolest point of the week as they dip into the upper 50s in many Middle Georgia towns. Ambient wind will continue to blow from the north northwest at about 5 mph.
Wednesday and Beyond
The sunny pattern will stick around through the middle of the week. Highs will stick in mid to upper 80s, however the wind will shift towards the north-northeast heading into Wednesday afternoon. We likely will not see any rain in Middle Georgia again until Friday. The tropics are also quiet at this time, so benevolent weather should stick around the region for the foreseeable future.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m). | https://www.41nbc.com/cold-front-to-bring-cool-sunny-and-dry-conditions-to-middle-georgia/ | 2022-09-13T12:31:55Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/cold-front-to-bring-cool-sunny-and-dry-conditions-to-middle-georgia/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
LiveUpdates: Queue to view the Queen’s coffin at St Giles’ Cathedral closed | Thousands expected to line route to Edinburgh Airport
The queue to view the Queen’s coffin at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh has closed, the Scottish Government has said.
Some 26,000 people have viewed the late monarch’s coffin since Monday, a tweet from the government said.
The Queen’s coffin will be taken from the cathedral to Edinburgh Airport on Tuesday afternoon, bound for London.
People are expected to line the route of the Queen’s final departure from Edinburgh as her coffin is taken to the airport this evening, with the Queen’s coffin heading to Buckingham Palace.
Here’s live updates throughout the afternoon on D-Day +4, or D+4, in the plans marking the Queen’s death.
Updates as Queen’s coffin to leave Edinburgh | Thousands expected to line route to Edinburgh Airport
Last updated: Tuesday, 13 September, 2022, 13:19
No guest list has been published yet, but US President Joe Biden was among the first to declare he will be flying in with his wife, Jill.
The leaders of most Commonwealth countries are expected to attend, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying she will make the nearly 24-hour journey.
Her Canadian and Australian counterparts, Justin Trudeau and Anthony Albanese, have also confirmed their presence.
The Scottish Government has asked that people do not attempt to join the queue, and endeavours will be made to ensure all those already waiting will be able to view the coffin before the lying at rest ends at 3pm.
“The queue has now closed. Please do not attempt to join the queue,” the government said on Twitter.
“Over 26,000 people have already had a chance to pay their last respects.
“We are doing everything we can to ensure that those currently in the queue can do so before 3pm, when the Lying at Rest will end.”
The queue to view the Queen’s coffin at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh has closed, the Scottish Government has said.
Some 26,000 people have viewed the late monarch’s coffin since Monday, a tweet from the government said.
The Queen’s coffin will be taken from the cathedral to Edinburgh Airport on Tuesday afternoon, bound for London.
An early morning rehearsal for the procession of Queen Elizabeth’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, London, where it will lie in state until her funeral on Monday.
Invitations to the Queen’s state funeral have not been sent to Russia, Belarus or Myanmar, while Iran will only be represented at an ambassadorial level, Whitehall sources have said.
The event will see around 500 dignitaries from around the world descend on London to pay their last respects to the long-reigning monarch.
They will join members of the royal family, UK prime ministers past and present, and key figures from public life at Westminster Abbey – the historic church which can hold around 2,000 people – at 11am next Monday. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/updates-queue-to-view-the-queens-coffin-at-st-giles-cathedral-closed-thousands-expected-to-line-route-to-edinburgh-airport-3841008 | 2022-09-13T12:32:00Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/updates-queue-to-view-the-queens-coffin-at-st-giles-cathedral-closed-thousands-expected-to-line-route-to-edinburgh-airport-3841008 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Downtown Macon gas station robbed at gunpoint
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – According to a press release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, just before 12:00 a.m. Tuesday two men entered the Nams Gas Station, located at 885 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard with guns and demanded money from the clerk. After getting an undisclosed amount of cash they fled the store on foot. One of the clerks was checked by EMS and cleared on the scene with minor injuries.
The suspects were completely covered in dark clothes with their faces hidden.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/downtown-macon-gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:05Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/downtown-macon-gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Downtown Macon gas station robbed at gunpoint
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – According to a press release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, just before 12:00 a.m. Tuesday two men entered the Nams Gas Station, located at 885 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard with guns and demanded money from the clerk. After getting an undisclosed amount of cash they fled the store on foot. One of the clerks was checked by EMS and cleared on the scene with minor injuries.
The suspects were completely covered in dark clothes with their faces hidden.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500, or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/downtown-macon-gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:05Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/downtown-macon-gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
eWIC program rollout starting soon
The North Central Health District will soon implement the Georgia eWIC system for all WIC participants.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The North Central Health District will soon implement the Georgia eWIC system for all WIC participants.
The eWIC system will replace WIC paper vouchers with a debit-like card.
Funds will be loaded on to the card for WIC participants to use for WIC-approved items.
“Paper vouchers are a part of an outdated model, and moving on to a card where everything is stored, all you need is that little card,” NCHD Public Information Officer Michael Hokanson said. “You don’t have to handle those paper vouchers anymore. It works just like a debit card, so it simplifies the entire process.”
Statewide adoption of the e-WIC program is expected to be complete by the end of October. | https://www.41nbc.com/ewic-program-rollout-starting-soon/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:07Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/ewic-program-rollout-starting-soon/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
eWIC program rollout starting soon
The North Central Health District will soon implement the Georgia eWIC system for all WIC participants.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The North Central Health District will soon implement the Georgia eWIC system for all WIC participants.
The eWIC system will replace WIC paper vouchers with a debit-like card.
Funds will be loaded on to the card for WIC participants to use for WIC-approved items.
“Paper vouchers are a part of an outdated model, and moving on to a card where everything is stored, all you need is that little card,” NCHD Public Information Officer Michael Hokanson said. “You don’t have to handle those paper vouchers anymore. It works just like a debit card, so it simplifies the entire process.”
Statewide adoption of the e-WIC program is expected to be complete by the end of October. | https://www.41nbc.com/ewic-program-rollout-starting-soon/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:07Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/ewic-program-rollout-starting-soon/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News Top stories from September 12, 2022 September 12, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, BCSO: Macon-Bibb at 50 homicides for 2022 eWIC program rollout starting soon Middle Georgia man shares journey with AFIB For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-139/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:09Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-139/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News Top stories from September 12, 2022 September 12, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, BCSO: Macon-Bibb at 50 homicides for 2022 eWIC program rollout starting soon Middle Georgia man shares journey with AFIB For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-139/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:09Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-139/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BCSO: Macon-Bibb at 50 homicides for 2022
50 homicides for the year according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) – After three gun violence victims died within 24 hours over the weekend, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says Macon-Bibb’s homicide count for the year is now at 50.
According to the sheriff’s office, 54 homicides were recorded all of last year.
Bibb County Sheriff David Davis is upset with the violence that occurred in Macon over the weekend and wants the community to know the sheriff’s office is doing everything in its power to stop the violence.
“This was a tragic weekend for our community where we had seven different incidents of violence and we had nine people who were shot,” he said. “And then three out of those nine passed away. “It’s just saddening. Our grief and regards and condolences go out to all of those who’ve lost lives, to their families and all of those who are suffering, so we are re-doubling our efforts to have our investigators work, but we need the public to help us.”
Macon-Bibb Mayor Lester Miller also gave statement about the recent deaths.
“The number of murders in our community this year is horrific and unacceptable,” he said. “I am outraged that time and time again, we hear about another life lost, about another family that will be grieving.
As Mayor, I am doing everything in my power to fund law enforcement and programs to help turn this epidemic around. We have made an unprecedented investment in this effort, and that work will take time.
Meanwhile, we need to make sure the people who are preying on our community are caught and kept in jail. Our community deserves nothing less. Our families deserve to live in safe neighborhoods.”
Investigators need your help tracking down leads. If you have any tips, contact Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME or the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-county-50-homicides-for-2022/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:15Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-county-50-homicides-for-2022/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
BCSO: Macon-Bibb at 50 homicides for 2022
50 homicides for the year according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) – After three gun violence victims died within 24 hours over the weekend, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says Macon-Bibb’s homicide count for the year is now at 50.
According to the sheriff’s office, 54 homicides were recorded all of last year.
Bibb County Sheriff David Davis is upset with the violence that occurred in Macon over the weekend and wants the community to know the sheriff’s office is doing everything in its power to stop the violence.
“This was a tragic weekend for our community where we had seven different incidents of violence and we had nine people who were shot,” he said. “And then three out of those nine passed away. “It’s just saddening. Our grief and regards and condolences go out to all of those who’ve lost lives, to their families and all of those who are suffering, so we are re-doubling our efforts to have our investigators work, but we need the public to help us.”
Macon-Bibb Mayor Lester Miller also gave statement about the recent deaths.
“The number of murders in our community this year is horrific and unacceptable,” he said. “I am outraged that time and time again, we hear about another life lost, about another family that will be grieving.
As Mayor, I am doing everything in my power to fund law enforcement and programs to help turn this epidemic around. We have made an unprecedented investment in this effort, and that work will take time.
Meanwhile, we need to make sure the people who are preying on our community are caught and kept in jail. Our community deserves nothing less. Our families deserve to live in safe neighborhoods.”
Investigators need your help tracking down leads. If you have any tips, contact Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME or the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-county-50-homicides-for-2022/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:15Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-county-50-homicides-for-2022/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Macon-Bibb Fire Department puts finishing touches on new facility
The Macon-Bibb Fire Department celebrated the last beam being put in place on its new training facility Monday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Macon Bibb Fire Department celebrated the last beam being put in place on its new training facility Monday.
The department broke ground at the Charles A. Smallwood training complex in May.
The fire department invited families of deceased firefighters to sign the final beam.
Fire Chief Shane Edwards shared what it meant to have the families there.
“We wanted all the history of the Macon-Bibb Fire department, people who helped who we are today, because of those people in our history,” he said. “We wanted them here to partake in this ceremony.”
The five-story structure will allow for live fire training as well as rope training and confined area rescue training as well.
Chief Edwards says he expects the facility to open in January 2023. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-puts-finishing-touches-on-new-facility/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:21Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-puts-finishing-touches-on-new-facility/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Macon-Bibb Fire Department puts finishing touches on new facility
The Macon-Bibb Fire Department celebrated the last beam being put in place on its new training facility Monday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Macon Bibb Fire Department celebrated the last beam being put in place on its new training facility Monday.
The department broke ground at the Charles A. Smallwood training complex in May.
The fire department invited families of deceased firefighters to sign the final beam.
Fire Chief Shane Edwards shared what it meant to have the families there.
“We wanted all the history of the Macon-Bibb Fire department, people who helped who we are today, because of those people in our history,” he said. “We wanted them here to partake in this ceremony.”
The five-story structure will allow for live fire training as well as rope training and confined area rescue training as well.
Chief Edwards says he expects the facility to open in January 2023. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-puts-finishing-touches-on-new-facility/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:21Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-puts-finishing-touches-on-new-facility/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Macon Touchdown Club Players of Week 4
Kennesaw State University football head coach Brian Bohannon spoke at the first meeting of the season.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Touchdown Club hosted its first meeting of the 2022 high school football season.
Kennesaw State University football head coach Brian Bohannon spoke at this week’s meeting.
Outside of Bohannon’s speech, the club gave out the players of the week honors for the first four weeks of play.
Week four features three players.
The Back of the Week is Westside freshman quarterback James Neville. Neville completed 12 of 16 passes for 250 yards and four touchdowns in the Seminoles’ 51-7 victory over Rutland.
The first Co-Lineman of the Week is Howard junior linebacker Ethan Ellington. Ellington had 12 tackles, seven solo and five assists, two tackles for loss and a safety in the Huskies’ 16-7 victory over Harris County.
The second Co-Lineman of the Week is Northeast senior defensive end Carlton Jackson. Jackson had 15 tackles, eight solo and seven assists, four tackles for loss, and three sacks in the Raiders’ 26-8 victory over Carver. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-touchdown-club-players-of-week-4/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:27Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-touchdown-club-players-of-week-4/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Macon Touchdown Club Players of Week 4
Kennesaw State University football head coach Brian Bohannon spoke at the first meeting of the season.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Touchdown Club hosted its first meeting of the 2022 high school football season.
Kennesaw State University football head coach Brian Bohannon spoke at this week’s meeting.
Outside of Bohannon’s speech, the club gave out the players of the week honors for the first four weeks of play.
Week four features three players.
The Back of the Week is Westside freshman quarterback James Neville. Neville completed 12 of 16 passes for 250 yards and four touchdowns in the Seminoles’ 51-7 victory over Rutland.
The first Co-Lineman of the Week is Howard junior linebacker Ethan Ellington. Ellington had 12 tackles, seven solo and five assists, two tackles for loss and a safety in the Huskies’ 16-7 victory over Harris County.
The second Co-Lineman of the Week is Northeast senior defensive end Carlton Jackson. Jackson had 15 tackles, eight solo and seven assists, four tackles for loss, and three sacks in the Raiders’ 26-8 victory over Carver. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-touchdown-club-players-of-week-4/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:27Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-touchdown-club-players-of-week-4/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Middle Georgia man shares journey with AFIB
September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month. The condition, known as 'AFIB,' is one doctors in Macon say is far too common.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month.
The condition, known as ‘AFIB,’ is one doctors in Macon say is far too common.
For Jarred Mimbs, AFIB could have cost him his life.
“They saved my life,” he said. “I mean I could have had a stroke. I could have had a heart attack.”
Just nine months ago, Mimbs was undergoing a procedure known as ablation, which would ultimately help him survive AFIB, a condition that causes the heart to beat irregularly.
“I didn’t know anything that I was going through, and when you don’t know anything, you’re just lost,” he said.
He realized he had AFIB in his mid-30s when his heart would skip a beat.
According to doctors at Piedmont, that’s just one of the symptoms. Others include shortness of breath, sweating and fatigue.
Carmine Oddis, an electrophysiologist with Piedmont Macon, says there’s no way to prevent AFIB from happening, because it’s passed down genetically. Although it’s a serious condition, it is not deadly.
Oddis says he sees about three to four AFIB patients a day.
“It’s a big problem,” he said. “And it’s only getting bigger as the population ages.”
Generally, patients who have AFIB go through medication therapy first, but if that doesn’t work, doctors have to perform the ablation procedure.
“The goal is to make everybody feel better and actually get rid of the AFIB if we can,” Oddis said.
“Now that I know what’s going on, I want to share my story with other people so it will help them,” Mimbs said.
If you experience any symptoms of the aforementioned symptoms, you should call your doctor right away. | https://www.41nbc.com/middle-georgia-man-shares-journey-with-afib/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:34Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/middle-georgia-man-shares-journey-with-afib/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Middle Georgia man shares journey with AFIB
September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month. The condition, known as 'AFIB,' is one doctors in Macon say is far too common.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — September is National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month.
The condition, known as ‘AFIB,’ is one doctors in Macon say is far too common.
For Jarred Mimbs, AFIB could have cost him his life.
“They saved my life,” he said. “I mean I could have had a stroke. I could have had a heart attack.”
Just nine months ago, Mimbs was undergoing a procedure known as ablation, which would ultimately help him survive AFIB, a condition that causes the heart to beat irregularly.
“I didn’t know anything that I was going through, and when you don’t know anything, you’re just lost,” he said.
He realized he had AFIB in his mid-30s when his heart would skip a beat.
According to doctors at Piedmont, that’s just one of the symptoms. Others include shortness of breath, sweating and fatigue.
Carmine Oddis, an electrophysiologist with Piedmont Macon, says there’s no way to prevent AFIB from happening, because it’s passed down genetically. Although it’s a serious condition, it is not deadly.
Oddis says he sees about three to four AFIB patients a day.
“It’s a big problem,” he said. “And it’s only getting bigger as the population ages.”
Generally, patients who have AFIB go through medication therapy first, but if that doesn’t work, doctors have to perform the ablation procedure.
“The goal is to make everybody feel better and actually get rid of the AFIB if we can,” Oddis said.
“Now that I know what’s going on, I want to share my story with other people so it will help them,” Mimbs said.
If you experience any symptoms of the aforementioned symptoms, you should call your doctor right away. | https://www.41nbc.com/middle-georgia-man-shares-journey-with-afib/ | 2022-09-13T12:32:34Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/middle-georgia-man-shares-journey-with-afib/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Readers' letters: Monarchy offers a bulwark against rapacious capitalism
The crucial role played by a hereditary monarchy in an age of turbo-charged capitalism and an increasingly challenged and stressed democracy has been highlighted as we reflect on the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III.
The monarchy provides a link between feudalism and the economic and social order that preceded the emergence of capitalism. Feudalism privileged stability, continuity and hierarchy leavened by adaptability. There was a place for everyone, and everyone had a place. The late Queen adapted and overcame challenges to reaffirm and personify these feudal fundamentals following a period of instability and uncertainty in the monarchy.
Capitalism, in contrast to feudalism, privileges change, growth, disruption and mobility. Everything is up for grabs, and there is a cycle of creation and destruction and creation again. There are winners and losers, the rich, the middle and the poor.
The losers include the homeless, the refugees, the lonely, the oppressed and too many more. Nature and planetary survival have now joined the ranks of the losers, and the threatened as the carbon-charged capitalism of the 20th century became the turbo-charged capitalism of the 21st century.
This is the world that Charles III and the rest of us inhabit. It is no surprise that embedded in and drawing on his feudal heritage and sensibility, the then Prince Charles extended his involvement in charities that responded to the inequalities and inequities of capitalism to encompass concerns about the land, the built environment and city, nature and environment and climate change.
King Charles III will do no less and no more.
Stewart Sweeney, Adelaide, Australia
Family life
Back in August 1978, I was invited to be minister for the weekend at Balmoral. Dinner on the Sunday was definitely a close family occasion, though Prince Philip was absent. So it was no surprise when 18 year-old Prince Andrew piped up across the small table to his mother, “Have you heard how Papa got on?” “Oh, yes”, the Queen replied, “He came in sixth.”
“Sixth?” came the response, with a stress that showed not just disappointment but real disgust.
What came into my mind was that with a typical teenager to cope with the Queen has normal family problems too! But instantly, the maturer and ever-sensitive brother Prince Charles intervened to explain to me, the only guest present, that Prince Philip was over in Switzerland for a carriage-driving event, and while he just used horses from the Windsor stables other competitors had much superior Welsh ponies.
Early the next summer, I noticed in The Scotsman that the Queen’s birthday gift to her husband was a team of Welsh ponies.
(Rev) Jack Kellet, Innerleithen, Scottish Borders
Numbers game
It was always regrettable that the late Queen was officially designated “Elizabeth II”. Everyone, and especially Scots, know that Scotland never had a previous monarch with the regnal name “Elizabeth”. Consequently some referred to her as “Elizabeth I & II”. In 1953, the use of “II” on pillar boxes here caused considerable objection, even public protest, resulting in it being replaced by the Crown of Scotland.
But then the United Kingdom itself had no previous monarch of that name. Created in 1801, at a time when George III was king of Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth was the first monarch of the UK with that name. Consequently she was neither the first nor second “Elizabeth” and no regnal number should have been applied.
For the same reason, the new king is not the third Charles of the UK, as the two previous monarchs of that name were kings of Great Britain, a state that disappeared when it was subsumed into the UK.
Steuart Campbell, Edinburgh
Lying in state
It seems particularly fitting that the late Queen's body lay for one night at Holyroodhouse – even more had it been in the adjoining former Abbey and Chapel Royal. For here lie the remains of so many of her royal ancestors: David II, James II, Mary of Gueldres, James V, Mary of Guise, Lord Darnley, and others. Many of their remains were desecrated by the mob in the anti-Catholic riots of 1688 and reinterred by Queen Victoria.
As St George’s, Windsor, later came to replace Westminster as chief royal mausoleum, so did Holyrood and others replace Iona and Dunfermline. Indeed, this must be the first time a royal corpse has lain at Holyrood since 1567.
St Giles’, for the second night in Edinburgh, is differently significant in being where Queen Elizabeth was proffered the Honours of Scotland in June 1953.
H.I.R. Allan, Edinburgh
Kick in the teeth
Aidan Smith’s article should be compulsory reading for the Scottish football authorities who overreacted in cancelling the weekend’s fixtures and caused unnecessary expense for many travelling fans, not to mention additional fixture congestion.
Matches could have continued with a minute’s applause, which should have been the protocol at Tynecastle last Thursday evening, rather than silence which has been disrupted on several occasions in the past at various grounds.
The couple of idiots who disrupted the proceedings at Tynecastle just encouraged the anti-Catholic sectarian bigots in Lower Section N, who embarrass Hearts away supporters on a regular basis, when they retaliated by politicising matters with their renditions of Rule Britannia and Born Under a Union Flag and led to more booing from the crowd.
As an individual, the Queen was universally admired and worked on despite her declining health but the latest surveys suggest that the monarchy is only supported by a minority in Scotland.
It is also time to reconsider the archaic British national anthem as even the North Korean anthem, which was originally to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, does not glorify the head of state or evoke the crushing of one constitute part of the country.
Fraser Grant, Edinburgh
Exemplary dignity
Over the years I have often criticised the First Minister for her lack of dignity and grace and I found her body language when with Boris Johnson or with members of the royal family embarrassing and merely and obviously playing up to her party’s extremist fringe. As well, I thought the SNP’s attitude to the free book produced at UK level for children to mark the 70th anniversary of Elizabeth’s accession to the throne was churlish, mean-minded and totally unnecessary.
However, in the wake of the Queen’s death, may I say the First Minister has acted to date in exemplary fashion. Being dignified is not as hard as perhaps she thought.
Maybe she will now realise that being pleasant and courteous and graceful is easier than being churlish and does not diminish political views in any way, in fact much the opposite. It is a pity for Scotland’s image that she could not have learned this a long time ago.
Alexander McKay, Edinburgh
Charles’ qualities
I suppose it was inevitable that there would be one spiteful comment on our new head of state, but Joe Moir (Letters, 10 September) cannot even decide if he favours a monarchy or a republic.
Charles’s long apprenticeship makes him the best-prepared incoming monarch ever. To pass the baton to William now would be disgracefully insulting to Charles and to the memory and legacy of the late Queen, and grossly unfair to William, Catherine and their young family.
John Birkett, St Andrews, Fife
Polish lessons
It is the time of year when, all over Scotland, adults are enrolling for language classes, whether daytime or evening.
In most council areas, one can sign up for French, German, Italian and Spanish. However, we now have more than 100,000 Scots who speak Polish as their first language at home and I suggest the time has come to address that omission in our leisure classes.
Poles are the most common non-British nationality in Scotland.
John V Lloyd, Inverkeithing, Fife
Green oasis
John Lightfoot (Letters, 10 September) highlights the fact that Edinburgh residents are constantly fighting to preserve the city's green spaces for future generations against repeated attempts to exploit and destroy them for profit by property developers.
One such green space is Midmar Paddock, a large field dominated by a large copse of trees beside Blackford Hill, the Hermitage of Braid and Blackford Pond. At one time in the not-too-distant past, it was used for grazing. Now, it is a quiet space for members of the public to stroll, away from the busy, nearby streets; to walk their dogs; to jog, or sometimes to have small get-togethers in the afternoon sun and chat. A number of councillors for the area have been expressing their deep concern at a developer's plans to build "two substantial detached houses, a large private care home and six special needs flats plus various amenities such as a cafe and an extended car park", to quote a recent message sent by Councillor Neil Ross.
I understand that none of the councillors for that area are in favour and I would be very surprised if any local residents are either. This area is an oasis of peace, a valuable green space for wildlife to live in with trees and plants around them, not streets and tarmac. It is part of the city's lungs.
Edinburgh is full of nursing homes as it is. It is regrettable that the City of Edinburgh Council has not taken a stand against this sort of cynical exploitation – it is hard to think of any other expression that would express the outrage many of us feel about this matter – and taken the land into public ownership to safeguard it for everyone. It is high time that it did.
Andrew HN Gray, Edinburgh
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