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Updated July 14, 2022 at 9:38 AM ET
The third supermoon of 2022 rose on Wednesday.
It's also known as a buck moon because it falls in July. The name doesn't come from its appearance — you won't see the shape of a buck on the moon's surface or anything. Instead, it refers to something that's happening in nature.
"The full Moon in July is called the Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time," as The Old Farmer's Almanac says. "Bucks shed and regrow their antlers each year, producing a larger and more impressive set as the years go by."
What is a supermoon?
What makes this particular buck moon a supermoon is something else. Supermoons by definition happen "when a full moon coincides with the Moon's closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point known as perigee," according to NASA.
"During every 27-day orbit around Earth, the Moon reaches both its perigee, about 226,000 miles (363,300 km) from Earth, and its farthest point, or apogee, about 251,000 miles (405,500 km) from Earth."
Supermoons happen when a full moon comes within at least 90% of the perigee. That happened Wednesday afternoon at 2:38 p.m. ET.
But the moon will appear full for about three days, through early Friday morning, so there are still viewing opportunities.
And this isn't the last supermoon of the year either. The sturgeon moon on the night of Aug. 11 will be the final supermoon in this year's set of four.
What to look for
Supermoons in general appear 17% bigger and 30% brighter than when the moon is at its farthest point away from Earth, according to NASA. Supermoons are slightly bigger and brighter than most full moons, too. Just because it's bigger and brighter doesn't necessarily mean you'll see it unaided, so binoculars may give you a better view.
And if you're looking for some photography tips to capture this event, NASA has you covered with these handy tips.
The best times to view the buck moon will be at moonrise and moonset. You can find your local times for those here.
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WASHINGTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Winston & Strawn LLP announced today the addition of Amy H. Kearbey as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. Amy joins the firm as a member of the Litigation Department with a focus in health care and life sciences.
Amy comes to Winston after serving as senior counsel for the Industry Guidance Branch of the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General at the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C. In that role, Amy provided legal analysis and advice regarding the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law in connection with advisory opinion requests, policy development, and Office of the Inspector General and United States Department of Justice investigations and enforcement actions. She was also instrumental in drafting and finalizing significant regulatory changes that established new value-based safe harbors as part of the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, which aims to accelerate the transformation of the entire health care industry from a fee-for-service model to a value-based system.
"I am pleased to join a firm with the resources, insight, and experience that the health care sector demands," said Amy. "The ongoing pandemic heightens the need for legal clarity and strategic thinking for all stakeholders, and I look forward to working with my new colleagues to add value and provide critical insight to client matters."
"Our Washington, D.C., attorneys have known Amy for many years," said David Rogers, Washington, D.C., office managing partner. "Her experience at HHS and her leadership at the highest levels of this sector will greatly expand Winston's current knowledge of the administration's interpretation of regulations and compliance."
Prior to her time at HHS, Amy worked on fraud and abuse matters, with a special focus on False Claims Act litigation and regulatory compliance. She has advised a wide range of health industry stakeholders, including hospitals and health systems, medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, IT vendors, laboratories, and life sciences companies on compliance with federal and state health care fraud and abuse laws, including the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law.
"Litigation in the health care sector continues to accelerate post-pandemic," said Winston Chairman Tom Fitzgerald. "Amy brings an outstanding investigative and prosecutorial mind to our team, and we welcome her strong and sharp legal insights on these important matters."
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 16 offices in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. More information about the firm is available at www.winston.com.
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Scottish bird flu taskforce to respond to crisis
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A taskforce to respond to the bird flu crisis is being launched by NatureScot.
Scotland's natural heritage agency said the new strain of the virus was devastating wild bird populations.
NatureScot warned that the disease could remain "for some time." The team will respond to the current outbreak and take action to protect and restore the bird population.
It comes as large numbers of dead and dying seabirds have been found across Scotland in recent few weeks.
The main birds affected are gannets, skuas, geese and gulls.
Shetland has been one of the worst affected areas, with carcasses also found from the Mull of Galloway to St Kilda and East Lothian.
NatureScot said it would gather expertise from government bodies, conservation groups, local authorities and the research community on the impact of the H5N1 strain of the virus.
The latest confirmed figures found 508 positive cases of the strain in Scotland, among 28 species over 139 locations.
NatureScot said the figures are likely a significant underestimate of the true number, as they only include dead birds that have been reported to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Chief executive, Francesca Osowska, said: "The avian flu crisis has been rapidly evolving and deteriorating.
"Tragically, this disease could be with us for some time to come, with early evidence confirming avian flu has moved into our urban gull and raptor populations, developments we and partners are monitoring closely.
"Responding to this crisis involves a national endeavour, and this task force will bring together partners who are already doing fantastic work, to better share expertise and co-ordinate action on the ground."
The agency said that an international response to the virus would be needed long-term.
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Tequila fans are invited to the brand's "Visions of Agave" art experience celebrating the roots of tequila, with the chance to win a trip to Mexico
CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of National Tequila Day, Hornitos® Tequila has teamed up with street artist and muralist, MADSTEEZ, to transport the agave fields of Mexico to New York City in a tequila-themed immersive art experience titled "Visions of Agave".
Inspired by his time spent in Jalisco, MADSTEEZ – a disrupter in the art world – collaborated with Hornitos to create "Visions of Agave" as a way of capturing the bold vibrancy and rich heritage of the Tequila region in Mexico. Designed in his own unique vision, Madsteez looked to encapsulate the magical essence of the agave fields and circulate an attainable, unforgettable exhibit for those unable to visit in person.
"Walking into the vibrant agave fields at both sunrise and sunset, I was immediately inspired by the Jimadores and their craft of harvesting the agave plants -- an artform that has been passed down over many generations," said MADSTEEZ. "With "Visions of Agave," I wanted to recreate this beautiful scene in my own image and color palette and allow others to be able to "see" the landscape and experience the agave fields firsthand while still in the heart of Manhattan."
For one day only on Thursday, July 21, consumers are invited to visit Studio 525 in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood where they will be visually transported to Tequila, Mexico. Guests in attendance will learn about the people and elements that must all work in harmony to create the spirit that bears the name of its region. Tequila fans will also have the opportunity to taste test custom cocktails and enter onsite for the chance to win a trip to Mexico to experience the agave fields and birthplace of Hornitos firsthand.1 To attend, RSVP to the invitation-only event HERE. Must be 21 or older to attend.
Fans 21 years of age or older that live outside of the New York area can also enter digitally for the chance to win a trip to Mexico.2 Both onsite and nationwide winners will receive a three-day, two-night trip for them and one guest (must be 21 years or older) to Tequila, Mexico where they will experience a private tour of the agave fields. National online sweeps to open on Thursday, July 14 and close on National Tequila Day, Sunday, July 24. Winners to be selected and announced the week of July 25. To enter and see full rules and regulations, please visit the entry page and enter the keyword TEQUILADAY for your chance to win.
"As a pioneering brand in the tequila space, we're celebrating the holiday by paying homage to the place where it all begins," said Jessica Hochberg, Global Brand Director of Hornitos. "Hornitos was founded with a boundary-pushing spirit that drives our commitment to the craft of tequila and our mission of championing others who go beyond the limits in their own industries. MADSTEEZ's passion and vision makes him the perfect fit to bring this celebration of tequila and creativity to life."
To learn more about Hornitos Tequila and its tradition breaking brand history, visit www.hornitostequila.com or follow along with Hornitos Tequila on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
About MADSTEEZ
Born blind in his left eye and given three first names, artist Mark Paul Deren, (aka MADSTEEZ) is a human color wheel spinning on overdrive. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, his doodles and larger-than-life pop-soaked paintings, portraits and multi-layered, massive-scale murals have granted him worldwide appreciation by transforming blank canvases into a voyage of acidic cosmic explosions.
MADSTEEZ's eclectic personality breaths through each colorful piece he masters. He is known for his vivid, large-scale, multi-layered paintings, where strange and familiar figures are integrated into abstract landscapes.
About Hornitos® Tequila
Hornitos® Tequila has a history of breaking tradition dating back to 1950 when founder Don Francisco launched the brand in honor of Mexican Independence Day. The Hornitos family of tequilas keeps Don Francisco's legacy alive, using the same high standards to cultivate the best and most flavorful agaves, molding them into premium tequilas that everyone can enjoy. Hornitos inspires its fans to adopt the same boundary-pushing mindset through its "A Shot Worth Taking" campaign that highlights the extraordinary things that can happen when people are willing to take a chance. Since the inception of "A Shot Worth Taking" in 2017, Hornitos has empowered fans to take their shot and provided funds and opportunities to make their aspirations achievable.
Hornitos' portfolio of premium tequilas includes Hornitos® Plata Tequila, Hornitos® Reposado Tequila, Hornitos® Añejo Tequila, Hornitos® Cristalino Tequila, Hornitos® Black Barrel Tequila as well as the recently launched Hornitos® Tequila Seltzer – which comes in Lime, Mango and now Pineapple – ready-to-serve Hornitos® Ranch Water and a line of ready-to-serve premixed margaritas – available in Lime, Hibiscus, Strawberry Tamarind & Pineapple Poblano.
About Beam Suntory
As a world leader in premium spirits, Beam Suntory inspires human connections. Consumers from all corners of the globe call for the company's brands, including the iconic Jim Beam® and Maker's Mark® bourbon brands and Courvoisier® cognac, as well as world renowned premium brands including Basil Hayden®, Knob Creek®, and Legent™ bourbon; Yamazaki®, Hakushu®, Hibiki® and Toki™ Japanese whisky; Teacher's, Laphroaig® and Bowmore® Scotch whisky; Canadian Club® whisky; Hornitos® and Sauza® tequila; EFFEN®, Haku® and Pinnacle® vodka; Sipsmith® and Roku™ gin; and On The Rocks Premium Cocktails.
Beam Suntory was created in 2014 by combining the world leader in bourbon and the pioneer in Japanese whisky to form a new company with a deep heritage, passion for quality, innovative spirit and vision of Growing for Good, which now includes its transformative sustainability strategy, Proof Positive. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Beam Suntory is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited of Japan. For more information on Beam Suntory, its brands, and its commitment to social responsibility, please visit www.beamsuntory.com and www.drinksmart.com.
1 NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Must be 21 years or older and a legal resident of 50 US/DC to enter. Sweepstakes Start Date: 7/21/22 @12:00PM EST. Sweepstakes End Date: 7/24/22 @11:59PM EST. Sweepstakes Draw Date: 7/25/22. Limit (1) one entry per person per day. One winner will be selected the prize winners will receive a Hornitos Distillery experience, ARV: $4,330. Each Prize winner will receive a 3 day, 2 night trip for winner and one (1) guest (each of whom must be 21 years of age or older) to Tequila, Mexico. Trip includes round-trip coach class airfare for each winner and guest from the major commercial airport nearest the winner's residence to Guadalajara, Mexico, one (1) double-occupancy hotel room for 2 nights, including ground transportation between airport and hotel and distillery tour, two (2) distillery tour tickets, and $250 (for winner only). To enter (1) visit www.BeamSweeps.com and (2) submit registration form including the Keyword VISIONSOFAGAVE. All entries must be submitted by 7/24/22 @11:59PM EST. See Official Rules at www.BeamSweeps.com. To view our Privacy Policy, visit https://www.beamsuntory.com/en/privacy-policy. Void where prohibited.
2 NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Must be 21 years or older and a legal resident of 50 US/DC to enter. Sweepstakes Start Date: 7/14/22 @12:00PM EST. Sweepstakes End Date: 7/24/22 @11:59PM EST. Sweepstakes Draw Date: 7/25/22. Limit (1) one entry per person per day. One winner will be selected the prize winners will receive a Hornitos Distillery experience, ARV: $4,330. Each Prize winner will receive a 3 day, 2 night trip for winner and one (1) guest (each of whom must be 21 years of age or older) to Tequila, Mexico. Trip includes round-trip coach class airfare for each winner and guest from the major commercial airport nearest the winner's residence to Guadalajara, Mexico, one (1) double-occupancy hotel room for 2 nights, including ground transportation between airport and hotel and distillery tour, two (2) distillery tour tickets, and $250 (for winner only). To enter (1) visit www.BeamSweeps.com and (2) submit registration form including the Keyword TEQUILADAY. All entries must be submitted by 7/24/22 @11:59PM EST. See Official Rules at www.BeamSweeps.com. To view our Privacy Policy, visit https://www.beamsuntory.com/en/privacy-policy. Void where prohibited.
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WESTFORD, Ma., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HTCIA today announced that Lesley Carhart, Director of Incident Response for North America at Dragos, will serve as the 2nd day keynote speaker for the 2022 HTCIA International Conference & Expo scheduled for Sept 28-30 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. The in-person event also includes a virtual day on Sept 27 that features numerous lectures and vendor presentations.
Early registration is now extended through July 31. For more information and to register for the conference, visit www.htciaconference.org.
Titled, "The Unexplored Continent of Industrial Forensics," Carhart's 2nd day keynote is scheduled for Thursday, September 29. She'll discuss the increasing awareness surrounding the fundamentals of security in the long-ignored environments, but how digital forensics in these environments remains a gap to close. Carhart will highlight the growing differences between traditional DFIR and OT forensics skillsets, and where help and study are needed.
Prior to joining Dragos, Carhart served as the incident response team lead at Motorola Solutions. Following four years as a Principal Incident Responder for Dragos, she now manages a team of incident response and digital forensics professionals who perform investigations of commodity, targeted and insider threat cases in industrial networks. Carhart is also a certified instructor and curriculum developer at Dragos. Retired from the United States Air Force Reserves, Carhart's recognition includes "DEF CON Hacker of the Year," "SANS Difference Maker," and "Power Player" from SC Magazine.
"We're extremely pleased to announce Lesley's 2nd day keynote address for this year's HTCIA International Conference," said Warren G. Kruse II, HTCIA International President. "Her keynote stands as the latest addition to a superb lineup of insightful sessions for our flagship event. HTCIA's committed to offering a wide variety of talented and renowned speakers, creating excellent value and opportunity for knowledge sharing during this 38th annual event."
Founded in 1986, the High Technology Crime Investigation Association provides its global members with education and collaboration for the prevention and investigation of high-tech crimes. Holding ongoing seminars, summits and conferences each year, HTCIA is a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit with chapters worldwide. Visit www.htcia.org.
HTCIA Contact:
Susan Barber
Executive Director
contact@htcia.org
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Zintel Public Relations
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Arendt is the first firm to offer the cloud-based data discovery product in Luxembourg and has a unique model in the European Union
CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, today announced that Arendt, a Luxembourg-based legal, tax and business services firm, is the first independent European firm to offer RelativityOne in Luxembourg. The adoption of RelativityOne, Relativity's cloud-based data discovery product, will enable Arendt's dedicated consulting branch, Arendt Regulatory & Consulting (ARC) to securely handle massive amounts of data and help clients globally respond to complex investigations, litigations, arbitrations and regulatory compliance matters.
Through RelativityOne, ARC will be able to better protect its data by storing it in Relativity's secure, flexible, and extensible platform backed by the power of automation and integrated artificial intelligence. RelativityOne helps users protect their most sensitive data and reduce risk with proactive threat prevention, 24/7 monitoring, automated security processes and leading compliance certifications. RelativityOne's scalability features and functionality will allow ARC to navigate the complexity of managing large volumes of data.
"As the sheer amount and complexity of data continues to grow, it is imperative that we continue to support the security of data management strategies," said Kieran McPate, Senior Manager, EMEA New Business at Relativity. "We are thrilled to bring RelativityOne's built-in security and end-to-end capabilities to Arendt, where it will integrate with Arendt's existing service offering to increase the level of detail and speed delivered to clients."
ARC uniquely offers forensic investigations, corporate intelligence and litigation support to its global clientele of corporations, law firms and financial institutions. Use of RelativityOne alongside ARC's forensic investigation expertise will allow ARC to best help organizations effectively respond to their most critical matters.
"Our aim is to assist clients across the globe with their investigation needs and to be the first Luxembourgish firm to do so, in addition to being a truly independent and European firm offering the full forensic services," said Stephanie Lhomme, Head of Forensic Investigations, Corporate Intelligence & Litigation Support at ARC. "RelativityOne usage is rapidly growing in our region, and we are excited to integrate this cutting-edge technology into the wider Arendt portfolio that we can present to our clients. As we work hand in hand with Arendt & Medernach, a leading law firm in Luxembourg, we are able to offer a unique complementary approach to our clients that currently none of our competitors can match."
Szilárd Karakai, Head of Forensic Technology & eDiscovery added: "Arendt is proud to become the first independent Luxembourgish firm to utilise RelativityOne, and we look forward to continuing to increase the level of legal technology awareness in Luxembourg and across Europe. Our partnership with Relativity, combined with Arendt & Medernach's expertise in providing legal advice, can realistically transform the way eDiscovery investigations are conducted."
RelativityOne is currently available across 15 global geographies with two more to be added in 2022.
Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product RelativityOne manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. The AI-powered communication surveillance product, Relativity Trace proactively detects regulatory misconduct like insider trading, collusion and other non-compliant behavior. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for 10 consecutive years. Please contact Relativity at sales@relativity.com or visit http://www.relativity.com for more information.
Arendt Regulatory & Consulting (ARC) is Arendt's dedicated regulatory consulting company composed of experienced professionals with a strong background in regulatory and business consultancy.
It offers a range of services from the classic regulatory consulting, working with funds, their asset managers and asset servicers on the practical implementation of rules and regulations, to topics such as risk management, fund distribution, fund governance and compliance of Luxembourg regulated entities, responding to the growing needs of clients for a practical, yet legally effective approach to regulatory change management and other regulatory issues.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Geneva Financial (Geneva), a direct mortgage lender operating in 46 states, has announced the opening of a new branch location in Mount Pleasant, SC led by Branch Manager Adam Kernen. The opening of this new branch provides opportunities for local borrowers and buyers looking to navigate the current housing market.
"The growth in the South Carolina market over the past year showed us it was time for a new base of operations." South Carolina Branch Manager Adam Kernen stated. "This new branch location is our opportunity to better serve borrowers in our community and across the Carolina's achieve their goals of homeownership and refinance strategy."
Whether buying a first home, or 20th, the Kernen Team is there to help their borrowers every step of the way. They pride themselves on a very open and positive approach, getting to know you and your personal situation first to make sure the loan process is smooth, reliable, and predictable.
Based out of Mount Pleasant, SC, Kernen and his team continue to proudly serve homebuyers throughout the state. The new location will continue Geneva's exceptional service and extensive product offering through countless homebuyer and homeowner-focused products including Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, Refinance, Reverse, Jumbo Loans, Condo Financing, and so much more.
Geneva Financial Home Loans is currently expanding in all markets and seeking branch managers and loan originators across the United States looking to advance their mortgage careers. For information on opportunities, visit www.GenevaFi.com/opportunity
Founded in 2007 by Aaron VanTrojen, Geneva Financial (NMLS 42056) is a direct mortgage lender headquartered in Chandler, Arizona with more than 130 branch locations in 46 states. Our mission at Geneva Financial is to approach every aspect of our business from the "inside-out". With a culture-forward mindset, we focus on our loan originators and support staff first to ensure an unbeatable experience for our customers.
Our Core Values were created as a daily reminder to operate with the inside-out approach in mind. Core Value #1 is the backbone of all our Core Values, our mission, and our brand vision: Home Loans Powered by Humans®. Learn more about Geneva Financial Home Loans at www.GenevaFi.com
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MARBELLA'S LATEST PROPERTY IS SET TO ELECTRIFY COSTA DEL SOL
LONDON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 14th July will mark the opening of Marbella's hotly anticipated new property, Hard Rock Hotel Marbella, after a full renovation. The adults-only property will offer unique experiences through its state-of-the-art facilities and services, while reflecting the immersive music environment for which Hard Rock Hotels are known.The new property, acquired in June 2021 by Stoneweg and Bain Capital Credit, the real estate investment firm, and managed by Palladium Hotel Group, has been designed by international designers Studio Gronda. It will be Palladium Hotel Group's third Hard Rock Hotel operated and also the group's third hotel located in the Costa Del Sol.
Jesús Sobrino, CEO of Palladium Hotel Group said, "We are delighted to announce the launch of Hard Rock Hotel Marbella in Puerto Banús, one of the most stunning parts of the Costa del Sol. Puerto Banús is a perfect destination for the Hard Rock Hotels brand and its magnificent offering. Its inimitable style, it's gastronomic and leisure offering and its eagerness to impress guests will make this hotel a reference point for the area. We are convinced that Hard Rock Hotel Marbella is going to become a really key destination for visitors and residents in a very short time."
The hotel is located in the gorgeous Puerto Banús and contains a total of 383 rooms, including 64 suites. Showcasing contemporary interior designs seamlessly blending Hard Rock's signature musically infused aesthetic with local cultural references from Picasso to Flamenco. Guests can look forward to unique experiences at the Hard Rock Hotel Marbella, with impressive culinary options, an incredible VIP rooftop infinity pool and bar, swimming pool surrounded by a lush and oasis-like garden, musical events and, of course, a curated collection of music Memorabilia featuring Spanish musical icons, as well as international music legends. Notable pieces including an acoustic guitar from the legendary Elvis Presley, a satin purple jacket worn by Prince and sequined dresses worn by Lady Gaga.
'We are proud to build on our success with numerous recent openings in Europe," said Graham Kiy, Area Vice President of Hotel Operations EMEA at Hard Rock International. "Hard Rock's partnership with Palladium Hotel Group has been a great success in Ibiza and Tenerife we are thrilled to expand to Marbella where we will integrate into the brand into the fabric of this much loved and vibrant destination"
AN INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND LOCATION
The jewel of Marbella has a new star that will provide all its distinctive rhythm and sophistication. One of the most important tourist centers of Andalusia has now become Hard Rock Hotel's new stage. Idyllically situated just steps away from the sea, the property will be the go-to destination for those looking to combine attentive and contemporary service alongside the aqua blue waters of the Mediterranean.
Designed by international architecture and interior design firm, Studio Gronda the hotel effortlessly blends Hard Rock's signature design with elements that recall Andalusian style and culture. Local ceramics, reds and the iconic flamenco polka dots are cleverly used to blend tradition with contemporary design. The bright and airy interiors are enhanced by vibrant artwork that was carefully curated to compliment the Memorabilia collection displayed throughout the hotel.
The hotel is located in Puerto Banús, the epicenter of exclusivity and glamour in Marbella – one of the most exclusive regions of Spain. Just 40 minutes from Malaga Airport, the property is easily accessible to all those looking for a sophisticated retreat.
A CULINARY SCENE FOR THE MOST DISCERNING TASTEBUDS
Hard Rock Hotel Marbella presents an unparalleled culinary scene that will satisfy even the most discerning palates. Two restaurants will offer an impressive selection of culinary delights from around the world, including the finest Asian food at Nu Downtown. Alongside world-class food, diners will also enjoy live music performances and DJ's during their meal – as well as an electrifying after party after dessert. With a refreshed programme every week, the venue is set to be the trendiest place in town to grab a bite.
There is also the Spanish show-cooking restaurant, Sessions. Ready to delight and tantalize, this restaurant offers guests unique Spanish flavours and seasonal products in an immersive dining space. The impressive breakfast display offers impeccably prepared dishes, using the freshest produce suited to every taste.
For some of the best views from the hotel, the sky lounge bar Sun Society is a must. The stunning space also features an incredible VIP infinity rooftop pool with a pool bar for guests to truly enjoy the Spanish sunshine. Offering a carefully curated cocktail selection as well as Mexican and Japanese fusion snacks, guests will be able to indulge in panoramic views of the beautiful area alongside eclectic flavors. The gorgeous setting is sure to be one of the most in demand spots in Marbella.
Throughout the day, guests can also stop by the Eden Pool Club, snack bar where to enjoy a selection of the best cocktails and delight the palate with salads, burgers, and succulent desserts, or the delicious sushi food truck offering. During the afternoon, the GMT +1 Lobby Bar for specialty coffees, craft cocktails and light bites, perfect for when hopping between activities.
UNIQUE AND IMMSERSIVE BRAND EXPERIENCES
In true Hard Rock style, a variety of signature brand experiences and amenities exclusive to Hard Rock Hotels can be found in Marbella. Amenities include the Sound of Your Stay® which allows guests to listen to Tracks® curated playlists inspired by the city they're in, Crosley record players available upon request with Wax®, or play a Fender guitar with Picks® in the privacy of their room. The Unleashed® pet program will welcome four legged friends to enjoy the same memorable experience as their pet parents. Guests are invited to exchange the traditional city map for Soundtracks® interactive area guides which are curated by Hard Rock and musical artists to showcase the best of each destination.
Known for sparkling events and incredible live concerts and performances, those visiting the Hard Rock Hotel Marbella can prepare for a similar program of star-studded line-ups and shows.
Guests can find tranquility by enjoying the Rock Om® amenity and experience the perfect blend of yoga and music to relax the body and mind. Those interested in fitness can make use of the modern BODY ROCK® Fitness Centre where the hotel offers innovative training systems to keep up with cutting-edge workouts while matching the rhythm of a curated playlist every step of the way.
Hard Rock Hotel Marbella's introductory nightly rates start from 299 €. For more information and reservations, please visit www.hardrockhotels.com/marbella.
About Hard Rock®:
About Hard Rock®: Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in 68 countries spanning 253 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Hotels, Casinos, Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. In 2021, Hard Rock was honoured as one of Forbes Magazine's Best Employers for Diversity, a Top Employer for Women and the Top Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. Hard Rock was also designated as a U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal and named the top performing hotel brand in J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study for the fourth consecutive year in 2022. The brand is owned by HRI parent entity The Seminole Tribe of Florida. For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
About Palladium Hotel Group:
Palladium Hotel Group is a Spanish hotel chain with over 50 years of experience, owned by Grupo Empresas Matutes (GEM). The group operates 41 hotels and over 13,000 rooms, distributed amongst six countries: Spain, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Italy, and Brazil, and manages nine brands: TRS Hotels, Grand Palladium Hotels & Resorts, Palladium Hotels, Palladium Boutique Hotels, Fiesta Hotels & Resorts, Ushuaïa Unexpected Hotels, Only YOU Hotels, BLESS Collection Hotels and the Hard Rock Hotels Brand under licence with three hotels in Ibiza, Tenerife and Marbella. Palladium Hotel Group is characterised by its philosophy of attention to its team and to offering its clients high quality products and services. www.palladiumhotelgroup.com.
About Bain Capital Credit
Bain Capital Credit (www.baincapitalcredit.com) is a leading global credit specialist with approximately $52 billion in assets under management. Bain Capital Credit invests across a full spectrum of strategies, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt and special situations, private lending, structured products, non-performing loans, special situations real estate and majority and minority equity stakes. Founded in 1998 as a private, employee-owned firm, Bain Capital Credit's experienced team of over 150 investment professionals seeks to identify attractive equity and credit investment opportunities across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In addition to credit, Bain Capital invests across asset classes including private equity, public equity, real estate and venture capital, and leverages the firm's shared platform to capture opportunities in strategic areas of focus.
About Stoneweg
Stoneweg (www.stoneweg.com) is a real estate investment adviser and asset manager established in 2015 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The firm leverages in-house local operational teams to source, develop and manage real estate investments.
To date, Stoneweg has executed and advised on almost €5 billion of real estate investments across different sectors including developments. Stoneweg expertise includes both equity and debt strategies, advising its client base of financial institutions and family offices across a range of structures including club deals, joint ventures, co-investments and funds.
The firm's investment philosophy is driven by a bottom-up approach to project selection, utilising Stoneweg's own teams on the ground and deep networks to seize the best opportunities.
Stoneweg has a dedicated presence in Switzerland, the United States, Spain, Italy, Andorra and Ireland, enabling many of the operational aspects of the firm's investments to be carried out in house and locally.
Stoneweg has completed more than 300 acquisitions alongside best-in-class partners since 2015.
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Visakhapatnam: Restore ‘Shanku Chakralu’ atop Kailasagiri, says GVL
Rajya Sabha Member G.V.L. Narasimha Rao has sought restoration of the lighting and support structure of ‘Venkateswara Swamy Namam’ and ‘Shanku Chakralu’, on Kailasagiri in Visakhapatnam.
In a memorandum submitted to Collector A. Mallikarjuna on Thursday, Mr. Narasimha Rao said that the ‘namam’ on the Kailasagiri had an emotional connect with the citizens.
He noted that the lighting had been inoperative for the last three years. “The facility has not been restored, despite several requests to the authorities concerned. Even as an assurance on its restoration was given a year ago, it has not been done till date,” said the MP.
He sought the intervention of the Collector for restoration of the ‘namam’.
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US regulators clear way for more monkeypox vaccine shipments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more doses of monkeypox vaccine are expected to soon begin shipping to the U.S. after federal health officials said they had completed an inspection of the overseas plant where they were manufactured.
The update from the Food and Drug Administration comes amid soaring demand for the two-dose vaccine as thousands of people in New York City, California and other parts of the U.S. await a chance to get the shot.
More than 1.1 million doses of the vaccine purchased by the U.S. government are currently at Bavarian Nordic’s facility in Denmark. The company said earlier this week it needed authorization from an on-site FDA inspection before it could ship them to the U.S.
An FDA spokeswoman said late Wednesday that regulators “expedited and completed an inspection of the company’s plant.”
“We do not expect any delay in vaccine availability due to this process,” she said in an emailed statement.
Bavarian Nordic has already shipped 300,000 vaccine doses that were made at a third-party facility that had previously been authorized by the FDA.
The FDA requires prior inspections of all vaccine plants to assure their safety, sterility and consistency of production. A company spokesman said Bavarian Nordic sped up its plans to undergo the inspection after monkeypox began spreading in Europe in May. Initially, the company planned to submit its paperwork to the FDA in August for an inspection later in the fall.
Bavarian Nordic’s two-dose vaccine, Jynneos, is one of two vaccines approved for monkeypox in the U.S. The government has many more doses of an older smallpox vaccine — ACAM2000 — that can also be used, but that vaccine is considered to have a greater risk of side effects and is not recommended for people who have HIV. So it’s the Jynneos vaccine that officials have been trying to use as a primary weapon against the outbreak.
White House officials have promised more supplies, chiefly from the more than 1 million-dose Bavarian Nordic stockpile.
Last month, New York-based activists blasted the FDA in a letter to the White House for not moving more swiftly to inspect the company’s plant and begin shipping the vaccines to the U.S. The letter from the HIV non-profit, PrEP4All, noted that European regulators had signed off on the plant last year.
While the FDA relies on inspections by foreign regulators to review some facilities, the FDA conducts its own inspections for vaccines “to ensure consistency in the inspection process,” the FDA spokeswoman noted.
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(WFRV) – Two people are facing charges after allegedly kidnapping a man in Wisconsin and bringing him to Florida to work off a debt.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, 34-year-old Gerardo Hernandez Anselmo and 39-year-old Felipe Engracia-Gonzalez are charged with kidnapping a man and holding him for money. The incident allegedly happened on June 9 in Abbotsford.
The two reportedly forced a man into a vehicle and then brought him to Florida to work off a debt. The debt was allegedly owed to Hernandez Anselmo and Engracia-Gonzalez.
Both were arrested in Florida and are in federal custody. There is no date set for their initial appearance in Wisconsin. Abbotsford is about two hours west of Green Bay.
If convicted both men would face a maximum of life in federal prison. No additional information was provided. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/two-charged-with-kidnapping-man-in-wisconsin-bringing-him-to-florida/ | 2022-07-14T14:50:33Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/two-charged-with-kidnapping-man-in-wisconsin-bringing-him-to-florida/ | false |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The largest school district in Tennessee has placed its superintendent on paid leave while an outside attorney investigates allegations that he abused his power and violated policies, officials said.
The Memphis-Shelby County School Board voted 7-2 Wednesday to take the actions during a special called meeting, news outlets reported. Board chair Michelle McKissack said legal counsel recommended Superintendent Joris Ray be placed on paid leave during the investigation, which will be led by former U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
Two deputy superintendents will assume Ray’s responsibilities, McKissack said.
The investigation stems from allegations made in divorce proceedings between Ray and his wife, who is also a school district employee. A board resolution says it took action “to review the allegations to determine whether Superintendent Ray, during his tenure as Superintendent, engaged in relationships with District employees violative of MSCS policies.”
Ray was appointed in 2019. He said after the vote that he was disappointed in the decision, but respected the board’s oversight.
“They will have my full cooperation during the review process. It’s imperative that we remain focused on our children and their academic progress,” he said.
It wasn't clear how long the investigation might take. The school district has about 100,000 students. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Memphis-schools-chief-suspended-during-17304733.php | 2022-07-14T14:51:15Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Memphis-schools-chief-suspended-during-17304733.php | false |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A product that was offered as a replacement for a March bicycle helmet recall is now finding itself the subject of a recall.
On Thursday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Tony Hawk Silver Helmets are being recalled. The recall comes after they were found to not be in compliance with positional stability and retention system requirements. This means they can fail to protect in the event of a crash, posing risks of head injury.
The helmets are silver with black straps and a black buckle. Tony Hawk’s signature is printed on the outside of the helmet. They have a white warning label on the inside of the helmet with item number AGE2515STH-SIL on the top right corner.
The CPSC said the helmets were sold at Walmart stores nationwide and online from March 2022 through June 2022 for about $30. They were also provided as replacements for Sarkar Dimensions Bluetooth Speaker Helmets in March.
Anyone with the recalled helmets should stop using them and contact Sakar for instructions on receiving a refund in the form of a $40 Walmart gift card. Sakar is contacting people who got the helmet as a remedy for the prior recall.
Anyone with questions can contact Sakar at 800-592-9541 anytime or email support@sakar.com. | https://fox59.com/news/walmart-recalling-bicycle-helmets-for-not-complying-with-safety-standard/ | 2022-07-14T14:51:54Z | https://fox59.com/news/walmart-recalling-bicycle-helmets-for-not-complying-with-safety-standard/ | false |
Lady M is Committed to Deepening its investment in China with a Continual Focus on Product Excellence and Consistency
NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last two decades, Lady M Confections Co., Ltd. ("Lady M") has seen remarkable growth as a renowned patisserie brand, with its cakes and confectioneries highly sought after all over the world. With over 50 locations globally, Lady M has set its sights on a company-owned strategy in Mainland China to strengthen the business and drive more growth in the region.
"Lady M is looking forward to taking a direct role in elevating the China business, a market that is pivotal to our growth strategy. We are fully committed to strengthening our presence, and to continue serving our loyal customers by having the ability to maintain and operate our boutiques to our brand standards," said Ken Romaniszyn, CEO of Lady M.
Lady M had worked with a licensing partner Shun Lee Shanghai Commercial Management Co., Ltd. ("Shun Lee") since 2017 when it made its entry into Mainland China. Shun Lee opened and operated over 20 boutiques in five approved provinces and cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Their License Agreement with Lady M expired on April 9, 2022, and was not renewed.
Lady M plans to shift operations to a 100% company-owned strategy. According to Romaniszyn, "We are excited to focus on developing the China market with new concept boutiques and innovative product offerings. This decision is important to us since it allows us to maintain the highest quality and consistency customers around the world have come to expect from Lady M."
About Lady M:
Lady M is a New York City luxury confections brand with over 50 boutiques worldwide. Created in 2001 and led by CEO Ken Romaniszyn, Lady M is the creator of the world famous Mille Crêpes. Lady M marries French pastry techniques with Japanese sensibilities, resulting in delicate cakes that are a touch sweet and perfect for every occasion. All cakes are handmade and prepared fresh without food additives or preservatives. Lady M's recipes have been refined over years to provide the finest quality in taste and appearance. Indulge in a world of cakes and confections at LadyM.com.
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FDA listing paves the way for Sleepiz' entry into the U.S. market and enables contactless, in-home respiration and heart rate measurement for remote patient monitoring and innovative medical study design
ZURICH, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Switzerland-based medical technology company Sleepiz has registered its Sleepiz One+ contactless respiration and heart rate measuring device with the FDA. Following the company's successful market launch in Europe and India, the FDA listing paves the way for Sleepiz to offer its solution for remote patient monitoring and clinical trials in the United States.
Sleepiz One+ is one of the first respiration monitoring devices to track and record patient data in a contactless manner during sleep. Sleepiz' technology allows for entirely new insights into patients' health as clinicians no longer have to rely on spot-check measurements but have access to continuous data. This new depth of information allows to detect changes in respiratory rate, which can be an early predictor of diseases like pneumonia and cardiac arrest, or point to an exacerbation in patients with chronic pulmonary disease.
The FDA listing allows Sleepiz partners in the United States to use Sleepiz One+ for remote patient monitoring and integrate the device into clinical study platforms in order to monitor respiration rate in a convenient and clinically-validated way. U.S. physicians can prescribe Sleepiz One+ to their patients to measure their vital parameters over the short and long term, allowing them to gain better insight into patients' physiological status. For patients, Sleepiz One+ brings a new and convenient way of continuous monitoring at home by simply placing a small device on their bedside table, while they rest.
To drive Sleepiz' market strategy in the United States, the company has appointed Robb LaChappelle as VP of Sleepiz USA. Mr. LaChappelle is an accomplished business development leader with extensive experience in the fields of medical devices, remote patient monitoring, life sciences and sleep. He has previously worked with innovators like Nonin Medical and Vital Images (Canon Medical) as well as with global players, such as Silicon Graphics/SGI (Hewlett Packard) and Honeywell.
Sleepiz CEO Soumya Dash said: "We are thrilled to welcome Robb to our management team and, together with him, extend the success of our business to the U.S. market. Robb will lead the buildup of our operations in the United States and work closely with our local partners to bring the benefits of our technology to patients, physicians and researchers."
Sleepiz VP for the United States Robb LaChappelle said: "Sleepiz offers a truly innovative solution, which provides a new level of comfort to patients, while fulfilling the highest standards in terms of data accuracy. I'm looking forward to working with the company founders on establishing and growing our presence in the United States."
Product visuals and portrait pictures are available for download at https://we.tl/t-fED1yygtix.
About Sleepiz
Sleepiz AG (Ltd.) is a Zurich, Switzerland-based medical technology company with a mission to provide patient-centric disease management through seamless integration of contactless monitoring into people's homes. Sleepiz leverages the power of sleep insights with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a contactless fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions and breathing patterns, as well as body motions with medical-grade accuracy. While focusing on respiratory illnesses in a first step, Sleepiz aims to improve people's lives by creating the future of healthcare. By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence, Sleepiz will not only be able to diagnose sleep disorders but also perform long-term monitoring in the future. This will allow the monitoring of the progression of chronic diseases for faster intervention and better treatment.
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Indigenous people fight to save New York shoreline and heritage
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US STOCKS-Wall St set to open lower as earnings of big banks disappoint
By Amruta Khandekar and Bansari Mayur Kamdar
July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were set to open lower on Thursday as downbeat earnings from big U.S. banks JPMorgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley underscored concerns about a sharp economic downturn caused by aggressive monetary policy tightening.
Shares of JPMorgan were 3.2% lower in premarket trading after it reported a bigger-than-expected 28% fall in quarterly profit and suspended share buybacks as it set aside more money to cover potential losses.
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of the largest U.S. bank, flagged a number of concerns including geopolitical tension, high inflation and the "never-before-seen" quantitative tightening as threats to global economic growth.
"The big concern is that the slowdown of the economy and higher inflation are really just the beginning of what investors have been worrying about," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA.
"We saw the P/E ratios come down pretty dramatically in the first half of this year. And now the question is, did the price decline anticipate an earnings decline? That is what I think is the reaction today."
Morgan Stanley slipped 0.5% after the bank missed quarterly profit estimates as its investment banking unit struggled to cope with a slump in global dealmaking.
Shares of other banks Wells Fargo & Co, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Citigroup fell between 2.4% and 2.5%.
At 08:58 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were down 477 points, or 1.55%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 49.25 points, or 1.29%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 97 points, or 0.82%.
"We expect much of the upcoming reporting season to represent an earnings 'confession' period for chief executive officers as guidance to analysts will likely be adjusted noticeably to the downside," Wells Fargo's senior global market strategist Scott Wren wrote in a note.
As of last Friday, analysts saw aggregate annual S&P earnings growth of 5.7% for the April-to-June period, down from the 6.8% forecast at the beginning of the quarter, according to Refinitiv.
Recession fears have roiled financial markets this year as central banks across the world move to aggressively raise borrowing costs to curb sky-high inflation, pushing Wall Street to its worst first-half performance in decades.
After a robust jobs report last week cemented the case for a 75-basis-point rate hike in July, investors were rattled by hotter-than-expected consumer prices data on Wednesday that pushed traders to bet on an ever bigger full percentage point interest rate hike later this month.
A Labor Department report on Thursday showed that U.S. producer prices increased more than expected in June amid rising costs for energy products, but underlying producer inflation appeared to have peaked.
Another report showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose for a second straight week last week. (Reporting by Amruta Khandekar and Bansari Mayur Kamdar in Bengaluru; additional reporting by Medha Singh; Editing by Aditya Soni) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11013925/US-STOCKS-Wall-St-set-open-lower-earnings-big-banks-disappoint.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T14:54:17Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11013925/US-STOCKS-Wall-St-set-open-lower-earnings-big-banks-disappoint.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Oro, Inc., marks 10th anniversary with global digital commerce event
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oro, Inc., the pioneering ecommerce leader behind OroCommerce, the No.1 open source B2B digital commerce platform, today announced the eagerly awaited return of its flagship digital commerce event, OroVibe. The landmark celebration will be held in Paris on Thursday, October 6 2022 — and for the first time will be followed next year with a North American OroVibe event to mark the Oro's ecosystem rapid global expansion.
The eagerly awaited gatherings come as Oro marks its 10th anniversary, and will celebrate Oro's fast-growing community while giving hundreds of today's top B2B, B2C, and B2X merchants an opportunity to learn more about Oro's industry-leading solutions. OroVibe will feature a packed agenda including keynotes and panels where attendees will learn about new and improved Oro features and the latest B2B trends and digital commerce strategies. Oro customers will also be invited to take the stage and share their experiences and digitization stories — all while networking with eCommerce thought leaders and B2B peers from around the world.
This year's OroVibe will also host the 2022 Oro Brilliance Awards, celebrating the most innovative and successful B2B leaders from a range of industries. The prestigious awards will honor the most creative and effective deployments of Oro's digital commerce solutions, and also recognize the partnerships and collaborations that unlocked value for B2B merchants and their customers over the past year.
Later next year, Oro will also host the first-ever North American OroVibe event, marking the company's rapid expansion in the United States and the broader region. Like its European counterpart, the U.S. OroVibe will bring together top B2B and eCommerce leaders from around the world, and will honor Oro's customers, partners, and the continent's thriving B2B eCommerce sector.
"We're celebrating Oro's 10th anniversary this year, and there's no better way to do that than by bringing back OroVibe," said Yoav Kutner, Oro CEO and co-founder. "Digital merchants have faced big challenges in recent years, and OroVibe is a space where B2B eCommerce leaders can come together to get inspired, build relationships, and share new strategies for success. We're looking forward to reconnecting with our entire ecosystem — including valued customers, trusted partners, and friends from across a wide range of industries."
OroVibe will be held at Verso in Paris on Thursday, October 6 2022. Full details about the inaugural U.S. OroVibe will be published later in the year. Register now to reserve your spot.
About Oro, Inc.
Oro, Inc. offers a suite of open-source commerce applications: OroCommerce, the B2B eCommerce platform purpose-built for manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and brands; OroMarketplace, the analyst-recognized marketplace management platform for all business use cases; OroCRM, the industry's most flexible multi-channel CRM solution; and OroPlatform, a streamlined solution for developers of custom business applications. Oro's founders previously founded Magento and have deep experience in the eCommerce industry. They include Yoav Kutner, CEO; Dima Soroka, Chief Technology Officer; and Roy Rubin, director of Oro's advisory board. For more information on OroCommerce, visit https://oroinc.com/b2b-ecommerce/.
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It's time for a trip to Middle-earth.
The awe-inspiring teaser for Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power was released July 14, transporting viewers back to the Second Age. "There was a time when the Earth was so young, there had not yet been a sunrise," a voice says as the sun peeks through the Two Trees. "But even then, there was light."
The preview includes breathtaking views of the Elven realms of Lindon and Eregion, the Dwarven realm Khazad-dûm, the Southlands, the Northernmost Wastes, the Sundering Seas and the island kingdom of Númenór, as described by J.R.R. Tolkien in the books that inspired the films. "Elves had forests to protect, dwarves their mines, men their fields of grain," the voice continues, "but we harfoots have each other."
But these idyllic scenes are disrupted by an unseen evil that threatens to destroy life as they know it. Galadriel (Morfydd Clark)—who was played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson's trilogy—argues with Elrond (Robert Aramayo) about the urgency to fight this evil, telling him, "The enemy is out there. The question is where."
Elrond tells her their fight is over, but Galadriel insists, "You have not seen what I have seen."
The sneak peek gives a glimpse of the ensuing fight to save the realms, with men on horseback wielding swords and ships fighting against strong currents.
This is the first time Lord of the Rings fans have seen the legendary characters from the island kingdom of Númenor, including Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Elendil (Lloyd Owen), Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle) and Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). "People have some ideas of what elves look like or what dwarves look like and what those kingdoms might look like," showrunner J.D. Payne told Entertainment Weekly. "But Númenor was, in some ways, a blank canvas."
In fact, Payne and co-showrunner Patrick McKay were responsible with crafting many aspects of Rings of Power, as the series is inspired by Tolkien's appendices to Lord of the Rings.
"This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and one of the greatest villains that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness," the series description reads. "Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth."
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Stepping out of your comfort zone to get the job done is a big part of growing and maturing, and that is something that I have been doing over the past week.
Now that most summer practices and games have come to an end, we have entered the real dog days of summer, but of course, the show must go on. I have taken this sluggish period to work ahead on stories, figure out ways to improve my work and dabble in the art of feature writing.
I have learned that feature writing can be fun and challenging at the same time because it challenges writers to turn regular news stories into more compelling, personal stories.
This whole concept of feature writing was fairly new to me as I have only written a few feature stories in my college courses at Mississippi State, writing about a former NFL player from the area, how COVID affected local journalists and things of that nature.
I also did a story for the Chickasaw Journal on Houston’s Luke Hancock after Mississippi State won the College World Series, but even with my limited experience, I still found myself a little nervous going into my first big feature for this week’s paper.
Despite having my own personal doubts, I did not let that hinder me during the process, and I became more and more comfortable listening to and telling these people’s stories.
We started the week by interviewing Amory’s Morgan Mitchell, who decided to continue her soccer career with the United States Merchant Marines Academy. Mitchell’s decision received a lot of attention on social media and getting the opportunity to learn even more about her story was pretty interesting, to say the least.
After that, we interviewed Hatley’s Emilee Slade and Amory’s Andin Johnson. These two were considered high school standouts for their respective schools and after solid years at Meridian Community College, they both have committed to universities.
Slade committed to play softball at the Mississippi University for Women, while Johnson committed to play baseball at the University of North Alabama. One cool takeaway that I got from their interview was how much they have continued to improve at the next level.
Lastly, we talked with Amory’s JJ Jernighan about his journey from walk-on athlete at Mississippi State to earning a scholarship. Jernighan’s story really hit close to home for me considering our parents are close friends, and I have known him since we were kids.
Listening to him talk about everything that he has gone through to get to this point was really inspirational, and I am excited to tell his story along with the other blessed athletes that I have interviewed.
Working on stories like these not only allows me to share people’s stories with the public but also helps me become a better reporter. These four interviews have made me more comfortable conducting them, and I am excited to do more feature stories in the future. | https://www.djournal.com/monroe/sports/a-column-featuring-talented-young-men-and-women-doing-big-things/article_19f85e28-ac95-55b1-882c-bc4212e90566.html | 2022-07-14T15:02:36Z | https://www.djournal.com/monroe/sports/a-column-featuring-talented-young-men-and-women-doing-big-things/article_19f85e28-ac95-55b1-882c-bc4212e90566.html | true |
Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson has launched a new death/thrash metal band, Dieth, and shared the international trio's first single, In The Hall of the Hanging Serpents.
Dieth features guitarist/vocalist Guilherme Miranda (ex-Entombed A.D.), and drummer Michal Łysejko (ex-Decapitated) alongside bassist Ellefson.
“The three of us have all been recognised in our respective bands and careers," says Ellefson, "but at some point, we had to close the door on those exploits to let something new begin and now we have found it in DIETH. In fact, the name itself is about dying to one’s past so that something new can spring forth to create the next chapter of life. And, that is a connection the three of us hold in common.”
"Personally, it was a matter of life or death to come back playing music," says Guilherme Miranda. "To do something truly meaningful and finally cope with the anger and grief. Sometimes you have to die inside to be reborn. This is what DIETH represents, a new sonic driving force that leave the past behind."
The video for the group’s first single In The Hall of the Hanging Serpents was filmed in Gdańsk, Poland. Watch it below:
Mustaine sacked Megadeth's long-standing bassist in May last year, after footage emerged online of Ellefson engaging in what he admitted were “private, adult interactions” with a fan.
At the time, the bassist said that the graphic video footage and texts were “taken out of context and manipulated to inflict maximum damage to my reputation, my career and family", and he later suggested that he would sue for defamation if the source of the 'revenge porn' leaks could be identified.
Dave Mustaine is on the cover of Metal Hammer this month, and in a typically forthright interview he describes his decision to dismiss Ellefson from Megadeth as "a hard decision that had to be made."
"There were a lot of people involved and I had to make a decision, because unfortunately, when you’re the leader, you’re the one that has to suck it up and face the music," he says.
"All I wanted to do was make a clean break, and not hurt anyone, not hurt the fans and not hurt him," he continues. "I just wanted to move on, and I hope the gentleman concerned is doing okay. I imagine there was some adjustment that had to take place when it happened. It was hard for me when I lost my job.
"But I’ve forgiven him before when he sued me [Ellefson filed a lawsuit against Mustaine in 2004, claiming that he was owed millions in outstanding royalties. The case was dismissed] and I’ll forgive him a thousand times. I just won’t play music with him anymore.”
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Globally, women are more at risk for mental health issues than men. Rates of burnout are highest in the U.S. and Japan, but preference for support varies by region.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern Health, a leading workplace mental health platform supporting enterprises globally, announced findings today from its Global Insights Playbook analyzing the care preferences and utilization rates of over 100,000+ global members, a cross-section of its member base, to determine how employee mental health needs vary across the globe.
According to the World Health Organization, one in every eight people has a mental health condition, but 85% go untreated. And it's not just a personal problem – these issues are bad for business. Anxiety and depression contribute to a loss of productivity that costs the global economy an estimated $1 trillion yearly and by 2030, this will exceed $6 trillion.
"One-size-fits-all simply doesn't work when it comes to mental health support," said Dr. Myra Altman, VP of Clinical Strategy & Research at Modern Health. "These findings reinforce the need for a deeper commitment to equitable mental health support for all populations regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or geographical location. It has never been clearer that cultural differences can affect an individual's mental health needs and care preferences. This research empowers leaders with a better understanding of how these nuances present themselves in the workplace and the critical need for culturally centered support."
Using clinically-validated WHO-5 member assessments obtained during member onboarding, Modern Health analyzed anonymous utilization from over 100,000 members across the US & Canada, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America, to reveal how employee needs and care preferences vary by country and region.
"From our research we can see that members in the U.S. and Canada have the highest preference for one-on-one services like therapy and coaching compared to regions such as APAC which shows a stronger preference for self-guided care than other regions. Out of all the regions, Japan and the U.S. are reporting the highest levels of employee burnout with females in the U.S. more at risk for mental health challenges than men," adds Altman.
According to the data, employees across the globe are struggling with burnout, resulting in losses in productivity, engagement and retention across organizations, to the tune of $322 billion in lost revenue.
- The countries with the most employees citing burnout (every day or a few times per week) were Japan (32%) and the U.S. (32%), followed by Pakistan (30%) and Mexico (30%).
- Burnout was less common in the Netherlands (22%) and Germany (22%) which demonstrated the lowest levels of burnout among members.
- During member onboarding, Pakistan had the highest risk for mental health issues, (37%) followed by India (33%), the UK (27%), Canada (26%), then the U.S. (25%).
- Overall, men reported feeling higher levels of well-being. Globally, on average more men (22%) than women (17%) appear to be in the low risk category. Amongst men, the UK and Pakistan report lower levels of well-being, thus making men in these countries most likely to be at risk.
- In the U.S., more than a quarter of women members (26%) are at risk for mental health challenges compared to 21% of men members.
- This could be attributed to the fact that women may be more likely to self-report their emotional distress than men. Women's increased rate of mental health concerns is likely also related to a variety of disparities like gender-based violence or socioeconomic disadvantage.
- The biggest difference between men and women's well-being are in India and Pakistan:
- Members were asked to rank areas they'd like the most support and the highest-ranked focus areas globally were anxiety, depression, burnout, and relationships/communication.
- Out of all the regions, Canada, the UK and the US report the highest desire to focus on burnout and anxiety to improve their mental health, while India, Ireland and Pakistan are showing the least.
- In the U.S., anxiety was the top concern (20%), followed by relationships/communication (18%).
- In the U.K., anxiety dominates (22%) followed by depression (15%).
- In Pakistan, depression is the top concern (21%) followed by anxiety (10%).
EMEA shows the highest levels of engagement. Engagement is defined by the number of individuals who have either performed a clinical assessment, used digital meditations and programs, attended group sessions, or participated in 1:1 coaching or therapy.
- EMEA shows the highest levels of engagement with a 35% engagement rate, followed by the U.S. & Canada (28%), LATAM (23%) and APAC (21%).
- As a benchmark, most Employee Assistance Programs have less than 5% engagement.
- Members in APAC utilize digital tools or small group circles for mental health support with 83% using these care modalities and only 9% using therapy.
- In the U.S. & Canada, 35% of members use coaching and 19% use therapy, the highest member utilization across regions.
- Members in Germany, Ireland, U.K., Netherlands and U.S. have the highest utilization rates of therapy, while India and Pakistan have the lowest utilization of coaching and therapy.
- Members in Canada, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, and U.K. have the highest engagement with coaching.
- EMEA members are most likely to be utilizing 2+ modalities of care (61%) compared to other regions.
To recognize the hard work of HR professionals and mental health providers, Modern Health recently launched its inaugural industry awards program Modern Health Heroes. This award honors individuals who have gone above and beyond to support the mental health and general well-being of the communities they serve, including employees and patients. The deadline to submit is July 27, 2022 at 5pm EDT.
Using clinically-validated WHO-5 member assessments obtained during member onboarding, Modern Health's clinical experts with 130+ years of collective psychology experience analyzed utilization from a cross-section of its members base, over 100,000 members, to reveal how employee needs and care preferences vary by country and region. The data examines regions including US & Canada, Asia and the Pacific Ocean region (APAC), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Latin America (LATAM). The assessments were readministered throughout the member care journey to incorporate final clinical outcomes into the final results.
Modern Health is the comprehensive mental health and wellness platform that combines the WHO well-being assessment, self-service wellness kits, a global network of certified coaches, and licensed therapists, all available in a single app. Modern Health empowers employers to lead the charge in acknowledging that mental health is just as important as physical health, destigmatizing the conversation, and increasing accessibility of mental health services for all.
Founded in 2017, Modern Health incorporates evidence-based psychology principles and seamless technology to serve the needs of companies globally. Headquartered in San Francisco, Modern Health has raised more than $172 million from Founders Fund, Battery Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Afore Capital, MGV, Frederic Kerrest (co-founder of Okta), and 01 Advisors.
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CLEVELAND, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Freedonia Group analysis forecasts pipe demand to increase 2.2% annually to $57.9 billion in 2026, with growth coming mostly from volume increases as average prices for some metal and plastic products are expected to decline following a major spike in 2021:
- The structural and mechanical market – which accounts for the largest share of pipe demand in value terms – will see gains driven by ongoing growth in refrigerator and air conditioner production.
- The oil and gas market will grow at the fastest rate as drilling activity significantly rebounds from the declines of the prior five-year period.
- A decline in copper pipe pricing will cause DWV demand in value terms to decline, but in linear feet terms, demand will rise as more bathrooms per structure are installed in residential and commercial buildings.
The oil and gas market is expected to be the fastest growing pipe market, supported by a significant rebound in the number of wells drilled in the US as oil and natural gas prices increase from very low levels in 2020 and early 2021. Oil and gas drilling activity has increased significantly in 2022, as international production has not been able to keep up with demand and sanctions against Russia have limited the supply of available oil, causing prices to increase at a rapid pace.
Pipes Products & Markets provides historical data (2011, 2016, and 2021) and forecasts for the years 2026, and 2031 for the following competitive pipe materials:
- steel
- plastic (broken out by PVC, HDPE, PEX, CPVC, fiberglass, ABS, and other resins)
- copper
- ductile iron
- concrete
- aluminum
- other nonferrous metals (e.g., titanium, nickel)
- clay
Also included are breakouts for pipe markets:
- structural and mechanical (refrigeration and HVAC equipment, appliances, transportation equipment, other structural and mechanical products)
- potable water (water transmission, water distribution, service and rural water)
- oil and natural gas (oil and natural gas drilling and transmission, natural gas distribution)
- storm and sanitary sewer
- conduit
- industrial processing
- drain, waste, and vent
- irrigation
About the Freedonia Group - The Freedonia Group, a division of MarketResearch.com, is the premier international industrial research company, providing our clients with product analyses, market forecasts, industry trends, and market share information. From one-person consulting firms to global conglomerates, our analysts provide companies with unbiased, reliable industry market research and analysis to help them make important business decisions. With over 100 studies published annually, we support over 90% of the industrial Fortune 500 companies. Find off-the-shelf studies at https://www.freedoniagroup.com/ or contact us for custom research: +1 440.842.2400.
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Deal count and fundraising by VC funds remained strong in Q2 while deal values across all stages and VC-backed public listings were hit harder by the economic downturn
SEATTLE, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite an uncertain macroeconomic environment, US venture capital (VC) deal activity in the first half of 2022 was strong, according to the Q2 2022 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, the authoritative quarterly report jointly produced by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) with support from Insperity and J.P. Morgan.
While deal count remained strong, when compared with the highs of 2021, deal value declined significantly across all stages. The mega-deals that defined 2021 slowed in the first half of 2022 as investors took a more cautious approach. With more than $290 billion in dry powder, and nearly 3,000 funds closed since the beginning of 2019, the VC industry is likely to see the trends of steady deal count but readjusted pricing continue until certainty returns to the market.
VC-backed exit activity in Q2 2022 largely mirrored Q1. Corporate M&A exit count activity remained steady, but the biggest change was the precipitous decline in traditional IPOs. SPAC mergers also declined in Q2, bringing the total number of public listings in the first half of 2022 to 42. This decline is most concerning for the potential for billion-dollar exits, as IPOs have traditionally been the main source of liquidity for private companies operating at that scale. This decline is also concerning because VC-backed IPOs have historically had an outsized positive impact on the U.S. public markets.
"The second quarter of 2022 brought an expected continuation of market tightening in some parts of the U.S. venture ecosystem," said NVCA President and CEO Bobby Franklin. "However, the industry's record dry powder continues to fuel critical innovation that is addressing the country's important needs. The venture industry's long-term view of investing, even during uncertain fiscal times, is further proof it is a reliable economic engine with an eye toward funding the next generation of great American companies."
"As the market continues to react to volatility over the past six months, the venture ecosystem demonstrates strength as dry powder reaches new heights and fundraising levels surpass more than $100 billion for the second consecutive year," said John Gabbert, founder and CEO of PitchBook. "Exits remain extremely low while late-stage companies act with caution as a result of bearish public market activity. There are still uncertainties as to what to expect in the second half of the year, however, market indicators show resilience to weathering the potential economic downturn."
HIGHLIGHTS:
Investment Activity
- Seed-stage investments are generally furthest from the public market and have been relatively insulated more than the rest of the industry from economic volatility. The Q2 estimated total seed deal count is near the highest figure in the dataset.
- Q2 early-stage VC saw additional pressure affecting deal activity with roughly $16 billion invested across an estimated 1,340 deals. The quarter's total deal value dropped well below the record quarterly highs set in 2021, but is still ahead of pre-pandemic levels.
- A substantial decline in late-stage deal count has yet to surface in the data, but average deal size and valuation have fallen significantly from recent highs.
Fundraising Activity
- US VC fundraising has exceeded $100 billion for the second consecutive year. A strong showing from established managers in the first half of the year has pushed capital raised to a near record.
- Through six months, we tracked $121.5 billion closed across 415 funds, making 2022 already the second-highest year on record for US VC fundraising and the second consecutive year this total has exceeded $100 billion.
- First-time fundraising has had a more difficult start to the year, raising just $7.6 billion after a record $16.8 billion was raised by new managers in 2021.
Exit Activity
- Q2 2022 saw very similar exit activity to Q1 as counts tracked to the historical pace of 1,100 annual exits that we saw from 2014-2020, with exit value lagging the last three years.
- IPOs continued to be essentially nonexistent for VC-backed companies in 2022, with only 22 closed during the first half of the year, relative to 183 in 2021, and 108 in 2020.
- Corporate M&A exit count remained steady with more than 200 closed in Q2. With public listings halted, private companies may be looking to strategic acquirers as a more viable liquidity option, albeit with exit value expectations readjusted to align with overall repricing happening across the ecosystem.
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PitchBook and NVCA are hosting the webinar in partnership with Insperity and J.P. Morgan.
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The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) empowers the next generation of American companies that will fuel the economy of tomorrow. As the voice of the US venture capital and startup community, NVCA advocates for public policy that supports the American entrepreneurial ecosystem. Serving the venture community as the preeminent trade association, NVCA arms the venture community for success, serving as the leading resource for venture capital data, practical education, peer-led initiatives, and networking. For more information about NVCA, please visit www.nvca.org.
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Sarah Grimstead, Sales Regional Vice President, Insperity
"Human capital management should be top priority as we continue to find solutions in a world of uncertainty. With deal count still strong in Q2 2022, new and existing startups will be looking to maximize their most important asset, their people. With over $200 billion in dry powder, record fundraising the last two years, and lower exit activity, startups need to continue hiring and retaining the right people for their company. Having a strong company culture can increase employee engagement, reduce turnover, and faster growth compared to the rest of the economy."
Pamela Aldsworth, Head of Venture Capital Coverage, J.P. Morgan Commerical Banking
"Over the last quarter, the pace of fundraising has slowed sharply and valuations (mostly in the later stages) are beginning to correct. We expect valuations will come down across all investment stages as this cycle plays out - and in our view, this is a healthy resetting of the bar. But if the next few months are as quiet as we anticipate, founders will need to make some tough choices to preserve runway. Meanwhile, with IPO markets currently challenged, a consolidation wave could be just around the corner.
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Company expands its portfolio of musculoskeletal oncology and complex orthopaedic solutions to include conditions of the pelvis
PARSIPPANY, N.J., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Onkos Surgical, a rapidly growing, leading innovator of solutions for musculoskeletal oncology and complex orthopaedic procedures, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance for its My3D® Personalized Pelvic Reconstruction system.
The My3D Personalized Pelvic Reconstruction system is the first of its kind solution that includes 3D printed implants, instruments, and models, as well as an advanced planning service to treat deformity, trauma, disease, and revisions where other treatments or revisions have failed. Included in the offering are patient-specific implants for both acetabular reconstruction and advanced reconstruction that span multiple regions of the pelvis. The implants are designed and printed with unique features that help address the challenges of bone and soft tissue attachment and accuracy of anatomic restoration.
"This offering from Onkos Surgical will greatly advance how I, and my colleagues treat these patients," said Matthew Seidel, MD, orthopedic surgeon with HonorHealth Orthopedics in Scottsdale, AZ. "Patients with these conditions of the pelvis have many clinical challenges. Historically, our implant options are mass produced and may not be best suited for the individuality that each patient requires. With this platform, Onkos has developed a process that allows me to virtually plan the surgery in advance and delivers a patient specific implant and instruments in a matter of weeks. It changes the way I can treat my patients."
The My3D service includes access to the Onkos uDesign® Digital Ecosystem, where a surgeon can send patient images through a secure, HIPAA compliant, cloud-based portal. Anatomical images are then rendered into 3D models for the surgeon to collaborate on a virtual surgical planning session for the resection of the diseased bone and for the implant that matches precisely to the patient. With this clearance and capability, Onkos can meet surgery requirements in 6 weeks from start to finish.
Onkos Surgical Co-Founder and CEO Patrick Treacy stated, "This clearance is a major milestone for Onkos Surgical as we continue to leverage our experience and expertise in 3D planning and printing to optimize patient specific solutions for complex orthopaedic conditions. We founded the company with the belief that patients with these challenging conditions deserve solutions designed specifically for them. Our My3D platform and Digital Ecosystem enable us not only to provide that personalized solution faster, but also to lay the foundation for future clearances in musculoskeletal personalization."
More than 350 leading medical institutions in the US choose Onkos' innovative Precision Orthopaedics solutions. This approach supports improved patient outcomes and experiences, leveraging the latest innovations in virtual surgical planning, 3D anatomic modeling and printing, implant design, and workflow optimization.
For more information on Onkos Surgical and its solutions, please visit www.onkossurgical.com.
Onkos Surgical is a leader in innovative solutions for musculoskeletal oncology and complex orthopaedic procedures. With our Precision Orthopaedics approach, surgeons are better informed about patient-specific clinical challenges and are able to plan and implement a more precise reconstruction. Our personalized approach supports improved patient outcomes and experiences using the latest innovations in virtual surgical planning, 3D modeling and printing, implant design, and workflow optimization for both adult and pediatric conditions. More than 350 of the leading academic medical institutions in the US choose Onkos Surgical Precision Orthopaedics.
Certain statements made in this release that are not statements of historical or current facts are forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the company to be materially different from historical results or from any future results or projections expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In many cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terms such as "future," "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "potential," "estimates," "intends," "anticipates" or "plans" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are based upon management's beliefs, assumptions and current expectations but are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, market trends and demand. Although management believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not, and should not be relied upon as a guarantee of future performance or results. The forward-looking statements included are made only as the date of this release. The company assumes no obligation to update any information or forward-looking statement contained herein, save for any information required to be disclosed by law.
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights The Howard Hughes, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Greif, CVR Energy and Avis Budget Group
For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – July 14, 2022 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Pfizer Inc. PFE, Raytheon Technologies Corp. RTX, Diageo plc DEO, Infosys Ltd. INFY and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. CP.
Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:
Top Analyst Reports for Pfizer, Raytheon and Diageo
The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Pfizer Inc., Raytheon Technologies Corp., and Diageo plc. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
You can see all of today's research reports here >>>
Pfizer shares have outperformed the Zacks Large Cap Pharmaceuticals industry over the past year (+34.7% vs. +17.6%). The company boasts a diversified portfolio of innovative drugs and vaccines including Ibrance and Prevnar. The zacks analyst believes that no company is as strongly placed in the COVID vaccines/treatment market as Pfizer right now.
Its COVID-19 vaccine has become a key contributor to the top line. The vaccine together with Pfizer's promising oral antiviral pill for COVID-19, Paxlovid is expected to generate a combined $54 billion in sales in 2022. Pfizer boasts a sustainable pipeline with multiple late-stage programs that can drive growth.
However, currency headwinds and pricing pressure are key top-line headwinds. Concerns remain about long-term growth drivers beyond its COVID-related products due to competitive pressure.
(You can read the full research report on Pfizer here >>>)
Raytheon Technologies shares have outperformed the Zacks Aerospace - Defense Equipment industry over the past year (+13.4% vs. -0.8%). The company continues to receive ample orders for its combat-proven defense products from the Pentagon. It expects both domestic and international program growth to boost its defense business.
Raytheon achieved $90 million of incremental merger synergies in the first quarter. Looking ahead, the company aims at achieving $335 million of incremental cost synergies during 2022. The stock holds a solid solvency position.
However, economic sanctions imposed by governments in response to Russia's invasion in Ukraine might hurt Raytheon. A comparative analysis of its trailing 12-month Price/Book ratio reflects a relatively gloomy picture. Purchase order declines, witnessed lately, with original equipment manufacturer customers delaying orders pose a risk to the stock.
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Diageo shares have declined -9.6% over the past year against the Zacks Beverages - Alcohol industry's decline of -10.0%. The company is facing continued inflationary pressures and also currency headwinds are concerning. Nevertheless, margin growth was driven by supply productivity savings and price increases, which more than offset the higher cost inflation.
It provided a decent view for fiscal 2022, with organic sales momentum likely to continue in the second half of fiscal 2022. However, continued recovery in the on-trade channel, strong consumer demand in the off-trade and market share gains, which also aided the company's first-half fiscal 2022 performance.
The company witnessed sales, operating margin and earnings growth in first-half fiscal 2021 driven by organic sales growth across all regions. Strong recovery in gross margin and operating cost leverage along with higher marketing investments aided organic operating margin growth.
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DULLES, Va., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unison, the leading provider of contract management software and insight to government contractors and federal agencies, today announced its Preferred Partnership with VisibleThread.
Together, Unison's Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software for leading prime contractors and VisibleThread's natural language processing and artificial intelligence capabilities provide rapid and powerful insight to contracts professionals.
"Government contractors don't want to choose between compliance and low wrap rates. Our CLM software—now working with VisibleThread's capabilities—enables our customers to have both," said Paul Edelmann, Unison's General Manager of Commerce, Commercial, and Content.
"VisibleThread is uniquely able to extract contractual terms, discover inconsistent requirements, and delineate responsibilities for managing risks. Partnering with Unison allows contracts professionals to streamline this important work within the overall contract lifecycle that Unison CLM manages," said Fergal McGovern, CEO of VisibleThread.
GovCon contracts professionals using Unison CLM and VisibleThread can now instantly extract, archive, and search terms in award documents—and easily manage FAR/DFARS, compliance, security, and other material risks.
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Unison's secure cloud and on-premise software, marketplace, and information products support more than 200,000 users in leading prime contractors, all cabinet-level agencies, and major DoD programs. For more than 30 years, Unison has continually advanced its software and insight-generating products to help customers efficiently achieve their missions. Unison is headquartered in Northern Virginia, with offices in New Jersey, London, Munich, and Paris.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CLNN, GOEV, EVGO, PAYO, and ALLK.
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Former Coca-Cola Company Sales Executive Brings Nearly Three Decades of Industry Expertise to Fast-Rising Hydrating Lemon Water Brand
ATLANTA, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lemon Perfect, the fastest-growing brand in the enhanced water category*, announced today the hiring of former Coca-Cola Company executive Jim Brennan as President and Chief Revenue Officer.
Lemon Perfect Founder and CEO Yanni Hufnagel says Brennan is a transformational sales leader who will be instrumental in developing and implementing plans for driving future growth and profitability. "Lemon Perfect is disrupting the enhanced water category by offering a better-for you, better-tasting product that is resonating broadly with the American consumer," Hufnagel said. "Today is a monumental day for Lemon Perfect. Jim is a best-in-industry sales executive and passionate people leader whose experience is unsurpassed. His sales strategy will drive revenue and profit while accelerating Lemon Perfect's rise toward its goal of becoming the number one brand in the multibillion-dollar enhanced water category by market share."
Brennan joined Atlanta-based Lemon Perfect as a Board Member and Operating Advisor in April 2021 after concluding a 32-year run across various sales roles at The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Enterprises. Brennan's day-to-day advisory played a key role in quadrupling Lemon Perfect's revenue in 2021. In his last role at Coca-Cola as Executive Vice President, National Retail Sales, Brennan led total customer management and the strategic selling vision for the top national retail customers across multiple channels of trade. In the role, Brennan was responsible for an $8B+ beverage portfolio and was heralded for his focus on developing people and talent.
"After retiring from The Coca-Cola Company, I thought my full-time roles were complete," said Brennan. "Then I met Yanni. I was motivated by his passion, vision, and unwavering commitment to changing the beverage landscape and making a healthier option accessible to all. Lemon Perfect is simply the best-tasting zero sugar product on the market and has unlimited growth potential. I am honored to lead the highly talented, energized Lemon Perfect team that is charging the hill every day with our distributor partners across the country. We are going to have fun scaling this great brand!"
"Jim is a seasoned beverage industry rockstar," said former Bai Brands Chief Operating Officer and Lemon Perfect Board Member Barak Bar-Cohen. "It is rare to find someone with Jim's experience, sales prowess, and tenacity who has the passion and drive to lead a commercial organization through triple-digit hypergrowth. On behalf of the Board, I would like to congratulate Yanni and Jim on this exciting new chapter in the Lemon Perfect journey. We are all delighted to have Jim in the C-suite alongside Yanni and the rest of the Lemon Perfect team."
In April, the Company announced the closing of a $31 million Series A headlined by internationally celebrated award-winning artist and entrepreneur Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. The financing brought Lemon Perfect's total valuation to over $100 million in less than three years from the Company's selling its first bottle.
Lemon Perfect is a great-tasting and hydrating flavored lemon water with zero sugar and no artificial flavors or sweeteners. Powered by squeezed organic lemons, Lemon Perfect contains electrolytes from potassium and is packed with vitamin C, making healthy hydration more convenient, delicious, and refreshing than ever.
Lemon Perfect is widely considered by industry insiders to be one of the most scalable, exciting, and innovative emerging beverages in the marketplace. The company's mission is to promote healthy hydration and deliver the joy of flavor—anytime, anywhere, and for everyone-.
Lemon Perfect is available at retailers nationwide, on Amazon, and on lemonperfect.com. The Lemon Perfect Company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.
*Source: IRi Total MULO YTD Period Ending June 26, 2022
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Georgia Cold Case Killing Arrest: Mother charged in the murder of her 6-year-old son
Authorities in Georgia say have captured the person responsible for killing a 6-year-old child more than 20 years ago: his own mother.
Authorities in Georgia say have captured the person responsible for killing a 6-year-old child more than 20 years ago: his own mother.
Authorities in Georgia say have captured the person responsible for killing a 6-year-old child more than 20 years ago: his own mother.
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 6-year-old son outside Atlanta more than 23 years ago, her arrest brought about by a forensic artist’s rendering of the child that led to a tip, authorities said Wednesday.
A DeKalb County grand jury returned an indictment on June 28 against Teresa Ann Bailey Black, District Attorney Sherry Boston said in a news release.
Black, 45, is charged with felony murder, cruelty to children, aggravated assault and concealing the death of another in the death of William DaShawn Hamilton. She was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 29 and is awaiting extradition to Georgia.
No attorney was listed for Black in online court records.
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When the boy’s body was found in a wooded area on Feb. 26, 1999, authorities estimated he had been dead for three to six months. His identity was unknown and the manner and cause of his death was undetermined.
He remained unidentified for decades, despite the efforts of DeKalb County police and the county medical examiner’s office, as well as news coverage of the case. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children got involved in 2000, providing renderings of the boy and featuring the story. A forensic artist with the center produced a new rendering in 2019 that was featured by news outlets.
A person who knew Black and her son in 1998 saw a rendering in May 2020 and contacted the center, according to the news release. DeKalb County police and prosecutors then followed that lead.
DNA collected from Black earlier this year linked her to the remains, authorities said.
“For far too long, this precious little boy had no name and no story,” Boston said in the news release. “Through the tireless efforts of several individuals and organizations who were determined not to let this boy be forgotten, William has been identified, and justice will be served in his memory.”
Black and her son had been living in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a family member when she withdrew William from school in December 1998 and moved with him to Atlanta, the release says. She returned to Charlotte in late 1999 without the boy and told different stories about where he was.
Angeline Hartmann, spokesperson for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, said the case demonstrates “why we never give up hope.”
“For more than two decades, a woman in Charlotte who knew William and his mother followed her gut feeling that something wasn’t right and kept looking for him,” Hartmann said in the release. “We’re grateful she never stopped until she found a rendering of William online and gave investigators the missing piece to help solve this 23-year-old mystery.”
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Shiv Nadar - Awards and Achievements of the HCL Founder
Happy Birthday Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar, the self-made billionaire, celebrates his 77th birthday. He was born on July 14, 1945, in Moolaipozhi, Tamil Nadu State. Here's a look at Shiv Nadar's awards and achievements.
1995
Mr Nadar was crowned Dataquest's IT Man of the Year.
2005
He was awarded the CNBC Business Excellence Award.
2007
He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Madras.
2008
He received the Padma Bhushan Award, the third highest civilian award in India, for his contribution to the IT sector.
2010
Mr Nadar was honoured with the Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award.
2011
Mr Nadar was named as one of Forbes Asia Pacific's 48 Philanthropy Heroes.
2017
India Today magazine ranked him 16th among the 50 most powerful people in India. | https://www.thehansindia.com/photo-stories/tech/shiv-nadar-awards-and-achievements-of-the-hcl-founder-1370 | 2022-07-14T15:15:06Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/photo-stories/tech/shiv-nadar-awards-and-achievements-of-the-hcl-founder-1370 | false |
Following landmark rebranding effort, company renames existing Franchise, Brokerage, and Title & Settlement businesses, debuting Anywhere Brands, Anywhere Advisors, and Anywhere Integrated Services
MADISON, N.J., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS), a global leader in residential real estate services (formerly known as Realogy Holdings Corp.), today announced new naming conventions for its business units as part of its recent corporate rebrand.
Realogy Franchise Group, a leading franchisor of residential real estate brokerages with over 21,000 offices and approximately 332,000 independent sales associates in 119 countries and territories around the world, will be rebranded as Anywhere Brands. Realogy Brokerage Group, one of the nation's largest owners and operators of residential real estate brokerages with 680 brokerage offices and approximately 56,000 independent sales agents principally under the Coldwell Banker®, Corcoran®, and Sotheby's International Realty® brand names, will be rebranded as Anywhere Advisors. Finally, Realogy Title Group, the company's title, mortgage and insurance business, will be rebranded as Anywhere Integrated Services.
"The scale and synergy of our core businesses make Anywhere a global leader in real estate, and now, the renaming of these segments will more effectively highlight our renowned brokerage brands, trusted relationship with the consumer, and deep service integration," said Ryan Schneider, Anywhere president and chief executive officer. "Each of these businesses play an essential role as we move forward with our vision to empower everyone's next move by building a more push-button-simple real estate transaction process."
In June 2022, the company officially completed its corporate rebrand from Realogy to Anywhere, signifying a strategic emphasis on building a more frictionless and digitized home buying and selling experience for anyone, anywhere. With its renowned brokerage brands – Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Corcoran®, ERA®, and Sotheby's International Realty® – as well as national title, settlement, and relocation companies and scaled mortgage origination and underwriting joint ventures, Anywhere is uniquely positioned to deliver a more streamlined transaction framework for consumers at any point in the real estate transaction.
For more information, please visit anywhere.re and sign up for investor alerts at ir.anywhere.re. Follow Anywhere on social media by visiting its LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
About AnywhereSM
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) is on a mission to empower everyone's next move. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate – Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Corcoran®, ERA®, and Sotheby's International Realty® – the AnywhereSM portfolio includes franchise and brokerage operations as well as national title, settlement, and relocation companies and nationally scaled mortgage origination and underwriting joint ventures. Supporting approximately 1.5 million home transactions in 2021, Anywhere is focused on simplifying, digitizing, and integrating the real estate transaction for all consumers, no matter where they may be in their home buying and selling journey. With innovative products and technology, Anywhere fuels the productivity of its approximately 196,200 independent sales agents in the U.S. and approximately 136,400 independent sales agents in 118 other countries and territories. Recognized for eleven consecutive years as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies, Anywhere has also been designated a Great Place to Work four years in a row, named one of LinkedIn's 2022 Top Companies in the U.S., and honored by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers 2021.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall
Florida commissioned the project after a grassroots campaign succeeded last year in removing a statue of Edmund Kirby Smith, among the last Confederate generals to surrender after the Civil War. Bethune joins John Gorrie, a pioneer in air conditioning and refrigeration, in representing Florida.
Bethune was born in South Carolina in 1875, seven years after the ratification of the 14th Amendment, with its guarantee of equal protection under the law for all in the United States. She died in 1955, having helped to lay the groundwork for the civil rights movement.
“To have her statue here is quite phenomenal, absolutely, as a reminder of what our democracy is about,” said granddaughter Evelyn Bethune.
Mary McLeod Bethune is perhaps most remembered for founding the school now known as Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, which she started as a girls school in 1904. She also was one of the founders of the United Negro College Fund, which became a financial backbone for predominantly Black higher institutions nationwide.
After forming a strong friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, Bethune became director of the Negro Affairs Division for the National Youth Administration, a New Deal-era program.
Bethune led the “Black Cabinet” of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the highest-ranking Black government official, pushing him to diversify the defense industry and later helping draft President Harry Truman’s executive order desegregating the armed forces, said Ashley Robertson Preston at Howard University, a Bethune biographer.
“She was the Oprah of her time. She was the Booker T. Washington of her time. She was the Martin Luther King of her time,” Preston said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. hosted the unveiling of her statue, joined by members of Florida’s congressional delegation.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said that “in the face of the ignorance, the cruelty and the prejudice of others, she refused to surrender to bitterness, cynicism, or despair.”
To Democratic Rep. Val Demings, who is running against Rubio this year, Bethune “made what seemed impossible, possible.”
The white marble statue shows Bethune in academic robes, holding a black rose. She endearingly called her students “black roses,” Preston said, after visiting a garden in Europe where she saw black roses growing among the yellows and reds.
Books stacked at the statue’s feet are inscribed with some of the core values from her last will and testament: love, hope, faith, racial dignity, a thirst for education, courage and peace.
The statue of Kirby Smith — who fled to Mexico fearing treason charges after surrendering in Galveston, Texas, on May 26, 1865 — was installed in the Capitol in 1922, during a decade when Black people in Florida were being lynched for trying to vote and white mobs burned down entire towns.
The Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement that “there is still work to do” in removing statues that honor “men who voluntarily fought on behalf of the Confederacy.” The group urged replacing them in Statuary Hall with those who represent “their state’s values of diversity, equality and justice.”
In 2013, civil rights figure Rosa Parks became the first Black woman to be depicted in a full-length statue in Statuary Hall, but she is not part of the National Statuary Hall Collection, according to the Architect of the Capitol. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, leading to her arrest and touching off a bus boycott that stretched over a year. Parks died in 2005.
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BALTIMORE, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- emocha Health swept the awards at Tuesday's inaugural Digital Quality Summit Shark Tank event hosted by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and Health Level Seven Int. (HL7). emocha won the "Game Changer" award recognizing exceptional innovation, and the "Best in Show" award recognizing the audience favorite. The contest judges included more than 70 healthcare leaders across the government and private sectors.
Amy Cummings, MBA, MSN, RN, emocha's senior vice president of business development and client success, delivered a pitch that conveyed emocha's ability to help health plans improve clinical and pharmacy metrics and engage members. Amy's pitch personalized emocha's mission by highlighting one of emocha's littlest patients, Elajah. She detailed how emocha helped 8-year-old Elajah manage her asthma with better habits. Through daily one-on-one, human-to-human engagements with her emocha nurse and health coach, Elajah was able to perfect her inhaler technique with a 79% medication adherence rate—up to 49% better than the national average.
"Our passionate team is incredibly motivated by the patient success stories we hear and see every day," said Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of emocha Health. "NCQA's quality standards for medication adherence have the potential to promote the correct and consistent taking of medication and truly change healthcare in the coming years, so these honors are welcome acknowledgment. "
As reflected by these awards, emocha provides an innovative and valuable solution that's building a world where taking all of your medication is a cultural norm, and the deadly consequences of nonadherence are history.
About emocha Health
emocha Health is a 360° model of care that improves medication adherence through personalized video coaching. The platform is used by health plans, public health departments, hospitals, health centers, and managed care organizations across the globe to improve metrics and outcomes for patients with diabetes, tuberculosis, opioid use disorder, asthma, hepatitis C, and other chronic and infectious conditions. Learn more at www.emocha.com.
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A.J. Ferrari is no longer a part of the Oklahoma State University wrestling team following sexual assault allegations.
According to NBC News, Ferrari is being investigated in a case out of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Ferrari’s attorney told the network that “the allegations against A.J. are false.”
A woman was granted a protective order against Ferrari last week, The Associated Press reported.
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Stunning aerial images show London’s new £4billion super sewer stretching 15 miles along the banks of the Thames as replacement for capital's crumbling Victorian system creates three acres of new riverside space
- London's new £4.2billion 'super sewer' project that stretches across 15 miles along the banks of the Thames
- The giant tunnel has created three extra acres of 'architecturally beautiful spaces' along the embankment
- Work for the new sewage system began in 2016 and is the biggest infrastructure project ever undertaken
Stunning new aerial images have shown London's new £4.2billion 'super sewer' project that stretches across 15 miles from Acton in West London along the banks of the Thames to Abbey Mills Pumping Station.
The giant tunnel has created three extra acres of 'architecturally beautiful spaces' along the embankment due to the lack of room above ground.
Work for the new sewage system began in 2016 and is the biggest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the UK water industry.
Tunnelling is now complete on the 15-and-a-half mile sewer designed to clean up the Thames that still uses to crumbling Victorian sewage system.
As a result, construction is now due to start on the above-ground public spaces that will be left once it is finished.
Tideway - the firm building the super sewer - have been forced to build out into the Thames to house the new infrastructure due to the lack of space in the capital.
Brand new helicopter images of the giant tunnel has created three extra acres of 'beautiful' public space along the capital's embankment due to the lack of space above ground
As space is short in London, Tideway - the firm building the super sewer - have been forced to build out into the Thames to house the new infrastructure
The new system will intercept the sewage before it enters the river and carefully treat it before pumping it back into the water in East London
Built from three main construction sites in Fulham, Battersea and Southwark, the Thames Tideway Tunnel is expected to help treat some of the 55million tonnes of 'overflow' raw sewage which the current system cannot cope with and is expected to be finished in 2024
Work for the new sewage system began in 2016 and is the biggest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the UK water industry. Pictured a CGI image of the finished £4bn project
These new spaces are now being turned into a combined three acres of public space - giving Londoners and visitors all-new areas for the first time in over a century.
The project will stretch all the way from Acton in West London, along the general path of the River Thames, towards Limehouse where it will veer north-east to Abbey Mills Pumping Station near Stratford.
Clare Donnelly, lead architect on the Tideway project, said: 'Creating new public spaces in the heart of London is an incredible opportunity and it's so exciting after all these years to see these spaces coming to life.
'New public spaces in Wapping, Blackfriars, Victoria, Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Chelsea and Putney will benefit Londoners and visitors to the city for generations to come, and we can't wait for them to open.'
Thames Water previously insisted the multi-billion pound project was crucial to stop London returning to the days of the 'Great Stink' when the river acted as an open sewer.
At the time, in the mid-1880s, residents complained of the smell from the river which was full of raw sewage.
The project will stretch all the way from Acton in West London, along the general path of the River Thames, towards Limehouse where it will veer north-east to Abbey Mills Pumping Station near Stratford. Pictured: A CGI image of the 'super sewer' that stretches 15 miles along the banks of the Thames
Pictured: An aerial view of the work site at Chelsea Embankment Foreshore on the River Thames
The Tideway project began construction in 2016 and is due to be completed by 2025. Pictured: Aerial view of the work site at Putney Embankment Foreshore on the River Thames
These new spaces are now being turned into a combined three acres of public space - giving Londoners and visitors all-new areas for the first time in over a century
The problem was eventually solved by engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who built a 1,300 mile network of Victorian sewers to stop untreated sewage being pumped into the Thames. He had to build out into the river to house his brick-lined tunnels, above-ground spaces that are known as Victoria, Albert and Chelsea Embankments.
Tideway said it is continuing that tradition and - much like Bazalgette's - these public spaces will create new destinations for Londoners and tourists.
Built from three main construction sites in Fulham, Battersea and Southwark, the Thames Tideway Tunnel is expected to help treat some of the 55million tonnes of 'overflow' raw sewage which the current system cannot cope with and is expected to be finished in 2024.
The new system will intercept the sewage before it enters the river and carefully treat it before pumping it back into the water in East London.
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Keith Mann’s life is divided into two parts — pre amputation and post amputation — but athletics remains the common thread between them.
It’s been 20 years since the 37-year-old Plainfield native’s world changed in an instant. A tragic accident his junior year of high school led to him becoming a member of the US National Amputee Soccer Team, training for triathlons and running the New York City marathon at the age of 19 on forearm crutches, nearly breaking the crutch world record.
In one week, he’ll be taking on his latest challenge, competing in the TRI Mountain Lake Sprint Triathlon in Liberty Township on July 16 for the second consecutive year. The race is part of his training for October, when he’ll travel to Istanbul, Turkey, to compete in his third World Cup as a defender with the U.S. National Amputee Soccer Team.
“I’ve always kind of set goals for myself, like I am doing that right now with my training. Trying to reach personal bests on runs and I am doing bike rides, Mann said. “I always try to challenge myself and get the best out of myself.”
The course is a quarter mile swim in the glacial lake hidden among the mountains, a 15 mile bike ride up and down the mountain and a three mile run. The race benefits The Arc of Warren County, whose mission is to help people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
Mann’s training regimen consists of trail running up to 3.5 miles, riding his bike and swimming at the local high school pool.
And he does it all without the use of a prosthesis.
“For him to get up and down those hills is insane and just impressive,” TRI Mountain Lake race director Dana Baffuto said. “It takes a lot of mental willpower to do those races. You get to run after doing a swim and bike. I always say, a lot of people who do triathlons say that it is 50/50 mental and physical. So you can train all you want, but you are working against your mind out there too, so to know he has got that physical aspect that is much harder for him, and then push through mentally is even crazier and very impressive for the part too.”
Mann was 17 years old when his left leg was amputated below the knee. Hanging out with friends after school, he attempted a wall running stunt that went tragically wrong. While traveling up a wall, he crashed through a window and landed on the broken glass at the bottom, nearly severing his left knee.
The multi-sport athlete was hospitalized for two months. Efforts were made to save the leg, but complications eventually led to amputation. It was a life-altering summer, but sports helped Mann with the transition.
“I had a lot of really great friends that were able to visit throughout the summer and family. My family never left my side that whole summer. .. It was a long summer, but I really did have a lot of great friends that helped push me through, and athletics kind of pushed me through, because it was always a part of who I was pre-amputation, so why not it be something post-amputation too? I will just have to do things in a slightly different way.”
And that’s exactly what he did.
Mann, an elementary teacher who now resides in Milford, Pa., with his wife, Sam Dietz, continued to compete. His senior year, he was a member of the swim team and also wore his prosthesis to compete in singles tennis. He missed his favorite sport, soccer, and eventually found his way back to it a decade later, joining the US team.
A striker in high school, Mann now plays center back and has emerged as a leader on the field.
“I enjoy it from a tactical standpoint and being able to see the field. I like to think I have a pretty high IQ on the field, especially since I have been part of the team for so long,” Mann said. “And I used to be a striker, so when I played before amputation, I was all about trying to score goals and trying to disrupt the defense. So it is kind of strange how now I am in the position where I am kind of defending against what I used to do and try to diagnosis in the opposite way.”
During the last World Cup in 2018, U.S. National Amputee Soccer Team head coach Dr. Eric Lamberg said they came up with an award especially for Mann — “The Beast” award, based off of the competitiveness he displays on the field.
“You can’t leave a game without saying: Wow. He played an unbelievable match,” Lamberg said.
“Keith clearly demonstrated that he is one of our most pivotal players on the field. He is a very skilled defensiveman who sees the field and plays with determination. He’s always been one of the most valuable players on the field and has been extremely important not just on the field but to help our team stay solidified and to allow us to attract new players and to grow as better team.”
Dietz backed up her husband’s competitive, beast mentality.
“He really is. It’s crazy. On the field, he is very competitive, but in the best way,” Dietz said. “He wants to win. He wants to lift his teammates up. He does tend to be pretty physical when he is playing, but it is really cool to see his passion when he is out on the field.”
But more than the rush of competitiveness Mann enjoys while competing, it’s the camaraderie of being part of a team and representing his country that gives him goosebumps.
“I’ve always been interested in watching sports and the ability to play at a high level, and to be able to do it with amputees and showing people what we can do with whatever limited exposure we do have,” Mann said. “To show we have stories and that we all have different backgrounds and all had amputations for different reasons.
“We all have our individual stories that make each one of us kind of incredible, and so being able to share in that when you get together and hear about different things people are doing, it also kind of inspires you to do more. To do more for yourself and to do more for others.”
And in turn, he continues to inspire others. At the finish line of last year’s Tri Mountain race, Mann was met with cheers and given an honorable mention medal for his efforts.
“I think it also inspires me. I love that he is able to feel that from people,” Dietz said. “I know that it can be hard with his disability — which is really not a disability for him at all — to feel connected and I think when he sees that people are appreciating what he is doing and getting their respect and treating him like everyone else, it makes me feel good, because he does get on occasion, when we will be walking around and people will look at him differently, but I think he just feels connected to those people and that is a great feeling for me too.”
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The charities that offer free breaks to the UK’s unpaid carers, arranging well-deserved stays in vacant hotel rooms and their own accommodation
- A survey has found that 72% of carers didn't take a break during the pandemic
- Not-for-profit organisation Carefree works with 130 hotels to arrange stays
- Other charities, such as After Umbrage, have their own holiday accommodation
The lyrics in Madonna’s 1980s hit Holiday – ‘Just one day out of life / It would be so nice’ – may not be the most profound, but will resonate with many of the UK’s 10.5 million unpaid carers, many of whom provide care all day, every day.
Carers UK, a charity whose annual surveys provide a stark insight into the lives of Britain’s unofficial carers, said in its 2021 State Of Caring report that 72 per cent of respondents had not taken a break during the pandemic.
While it might be convenient to blame Covid, this is a long-standing problem: in 2017, the charity reported that 25 per cent of respondents had not had a day off in five years.
Carefree arranges for vacant rooms in more than 130 hotels to be offered free to carers and a plus one (file photo)
It’s great news, then, that there is help available.
Carefree is a not-for-profit organisation that arranges for vacant rooms in more than 130 hotels to be offered free to carers and a plus one on a B&B basis for up to three nights, while cottages can be booked for between four and seven nights (carefreespace.org).
Other charities have their own holiday accommodation.
After Umbrage provides up to four nights free in Kingham Cottage, Bath, to those caring for someone with a life-limiting illness or who have been bereaved for less than a year (afterumbrage.org.uk).
Several UK charities have their own holiday accommodation. The Respite Association has Joanna’s Cottage in Cornwall (pictured) and Lan y mor Hafan caravan in North Wales
After Umbrage offers stays in Kingham Cottage, Bath (pictured), to those caring for someone with a life-limiting illness or who have been bereaved for less than a year
A room at After Umbrage's Kingham Cottage
The Respite Association has Joanna’s Cottage in Cornwall and Lan y mor Hafan caravan in North Wales, both available for a week and sleeping four.
The charity can also fund holiday cover (respiteassociation.org).
Honeypot provides three-night stays to child carers aged five to 13 during school holidays and weekends.
It has two houses – in Hampshire and Mid Wales (honeypot.org.uk). | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-10999383/Charity-offers-free-breaks-UKs-unpaid-carers-arranging-stays-vacant-hotel-rooms.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T15:22:50Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-10999383/Charity-offers-free-breaks-UKs-unpaid-carers-arranging-stays-vacant-hotel-rooms.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
By FRANCES D’EMILIO
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — The survival of Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s government hung in the balance Thursday before a crucial Senate vote on a relief bill for soaring energy costs, after a key ally vowed to boycott the measure.
While senators publicly debated the bill, which extends gasoline subsidies expiring within days, backdoor maneuvering by allies in Draghi’s 17-month-old pandemic unity government explored possible strategy to avoid risking the premier’s stepping down.
On Wednesday night, former Premier Giuseppe Conte announced that his splintering, populist 5-Star Movement would boycott the vote.
At the debate’s conclusion, Minister for Parliamentary Relations Federico D’Inca announced that the government was tying the bill to a make-or-break confidence vote.
If the government loses, Draghi would be forced to tender his resignation to the Italian president, who tapped him to replace Conte’s tottering premiership in February 2021.
But even if it squeaks by, thanks to the votes of dozens of lawmakers who during the legislature’s term, have defected from the 5-Stars, Draghi was largely expected to offer his resignation over Conte’s betrayal on the measure vital to the premier’s plans to help citizens and industry during the energy crisis.
The 5-Stars oppose a provision of the bill to allow Rome to operate a garbage incinerator on the outskirts of the chronically trash-choked Italian capital. Conte has refused allies’ cajoling to budge, even after Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio recently broke from the Movement over the populists’ stance, forming his own party.
The vote on the bill, which reduces taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, as well as extends utility bill relief, was being held in early afternoon.
Draghi had repeatedly made clear that the populists were among the coalition partners, ranging from left to right, that signed up to be part of his government, and he wouldn’t continue without them.
President Sergio Mattarella could accept or reject any resignation by Draghi. The president could also ask Draghi to go before Parliament in the coming days to seek a formal vote on the government itself, to see if the ranks of squabbling allies would rally around him to keep the premier in office.
Parliament’s term expires in spring 2023. If Mattarella can’t come up with a solution so Draghi’s government can continue, he is expected to dissolve the legislature and call an early election, which could come as early as late September.
In the debate, several senators blasted Conte’s decision.
Being in a government “is not like picking up a menu and deciding, antipasto, no, gelato, yes,” said Emma Bonino, who leads a tiny pro-Europe party.
Others noted that Draghi had increasing become a pivotal figure in Europe, while Russia wages war against Ukraine, especially with the downfall of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
An ally of center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian premier, argued in the Senate that a collapse of Draghi’s government could trigger “the destabilization of Europe.”
“You’d be doing a favor to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” thundered Sen. Antonio Saccone against the 5-Stars.
Draghi has governed with the support of virtually all of Italy’s main parties, with the exception of the fast-rising far-right Brothers of Italy party, which is demanding that Mattarella pull the plug on Parliament and give Italians their say at the ballot box.
Among Draghi’s achievements has been keeping Italy on track with reforms that the European Union has made a condition for the country to receive 200 billion euros (dollars) in pandemic recovery assistance.
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Arendt is the first firm to offer the cloud-based data discovery product in Luxembourg and has a unique model in the European Union
CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, today announced that Arendt, a Luxembourg-based legal, tax and business services firm, is the first independent European firm to offer RelativityOne in Luxembourg. The adoption of RelativityOne, Relativity's cloud-based data discovery product, will enable Arendt's dedicated consulting branch, Arendt Regulatory & Consulting (ARC) to securely handle massive amounts of data and help clients globally respond to complex investigations, litigations, arbitrations and regulatory compliance matters.
Through RelativityOne, ARC will be able to better protect its data by storing it in Relativity's secure, flexible, and extensible platform backed by the power of automation and integrated artificial intelligence. RelativityOne helps users protect their most sensitive data and reduce risk with proactive threat prevention, 24/7 monitoring, automated security processes and leading compliance certifications. RelativityOne's scalability features and functionality will allow ARC to navigate the complexity of managing large volumes of data.
"As the sheer amount and complexity of data continues to grow, it is imperative that we continue to support the security of data management strategies," said Kieran McPate, Senior Manager, EMEA New Business at Relativity. "We are thrilled to bring RelativityOne's built-in security and end-to-end capabilities to Arendt, where it will integrate with Arendt's existing service offering to increase the level of detail and speed delivered to clients."
ARC uniquely offers forensic investigations, corporate intelligence and litigation support to its global clientele of corporations, law firms and financial institutions. Use of RelativityOne alongside ARC's forensic investigation expertise will allow ARC to best help organizations effectively respond to their most critical matters.
"Our aim is to assist clients across the globe with their investigation needs and to be the first Luxembourgish firm to do so, in addition to being a truly independent and European firm offering the full forensic services," said Stephanie Lhomme, Head of Forensic Investigations, Corporate Intelligence & Litigation Support at ARC. "RelativityOne usage is rapidly growing in our region, and we are excited to integrate this cutting-edge technology into the wider Arendt portfolio that we can present to our clients. As we work hand in hand with Arendt & Medernach, a leading law firm in Luxembourg, we are able to offer a unique complementary approach to our clients that currently none of our competitors can match."
Szilárd Karakai, Head of Forensic Technology & eDiscovery added: "Arendt is proud to become the first independent Luxembourgish firm to utilise RelativityOne, and we look forward to continuing to increase the level of legal technology awareness in Luxembourg and across Europe. Our partnership with Relativity, combined with Arendt & Medernach's expertise in providing legal advice, can realistically transform the way eDiscovery investigations are conducted."
RelativityOne is currently available across 15 global geographies with two more to be added in 2022.
Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product RelativityOne manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. The AI-powered communication surveillance product, Relativity Trace proactively detects regulatory misconduct like insider trading, collusion and other non-compliant behavior. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for 10 consecutive years. Please contact Relativity at sales@relativity.com or visit http://www.relativity.com for more information.
Arendt Regulatory & Consulting (ARC) is Arendt's dedicated regulatory consulting company composed of experienced professionals with a strong background in regulatory and business consultancy.
It offers a range of services from the classic regulatory consulting, working with funds, their asset managers and asset servicers on the practical implementation of rules and regulations, to topics such as risk management, fund distribution, fund governance and compliance of Luxembourg regulated entities, responding to the growing needs of clients for a practical, yet legally effective approach to regulatory change management and other regulatory issues.
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SawStop brings 20 years of proven safety to new customers with the release of its smallest, most portable saw
TUALATIN, Ore., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SawStop today announced the upcoming launch of their new Compact Table Saw. The new 10" Compact Table Saw (CTS) is a robust benchtop saw built for the rigors of the jobsite while offering the precision and safety that SawStop is known for.
The foundation of the Compact Table Saw is SawStop's contact detection technology. Just like other SawStop saws, the Compact Table Saw detects when skin comes in contact with the blade and stops and drops the blade in less than five milliseconds. Injuries are dramatically minimized, and the saw reset is quick and easy – so operators can get back to work in minutes after a brake activation.
Beyond offering SawStop's legendary safety system, the Compact Table Saw is packed with features that stand out against the competition including:
- 10" Blade for maximum cut capacity
- Rack & Pinion Fence that is easy to adjust and reliably square with a built-in high and low face to support all kinds of cuts
- Quick-Tilt Bevel allows for easy blade angle adjustments with one hand while the Micro Adjust feature provides the ability to quickly dial in a precise cutting angle. A SawStop Exclusive.
- Highly portable with an Easy-Carry Handle and an Optional Stand available for purchase.
- On-Saw Storage Compartment secures your accessories and tools for easy access and quick retrieval. A SawStop Exclusive.
"Since we began, here at SawStop we have been focused on protecting Woodworkers and helping them work better through practical innovation" said SawStop CEO Matt Howard. "The portability and affordability of the Compact Table Saw makes SawStop technology more accessible than ever before. We're excited to welcome an entirely new group of customers to the SawStop Family so they can experience the quality and safety at the heart of each of our saws."
The new Compact Table Saw will be available this fall at authorized SawStop dealer locations across the USA and Canada. The retail price will be $899 USD and $1,149 CAD.
For more information, visit www.SawStop.com/CTS
Established in 2000, SawStop is the world leader in power tool safety. SawStop designs, engineers, and manufactures innovative woodworking power tools and accessories for private and professional markets. All SawStop power tools feature their revolutionary safety technology that has saved tens of thousands of woodworkers from devastating, life-changing injuries.
SawStop is a proud part of the TTS Group, a third-generation, family-owned company headquartered in Wendlingen, Germany.
Learn more at SawStop.com
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Reality and Digital Culture Merge to Showcase Fresh Fits and Styles in #MyDenimStory
LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Pacsun released its 2022 Back-to-School #MyDenimStory Campaign, launching an entirely new denim offering with an elevated new logo and premium branding package. Featuring over 200 fresh styles, Pacsun brings some of the emerging aesthetics to the mainstream, inclusive of genderless designs, 90's nostalgia and workwear inspired silhouettes.
With the exit from skinny jeans accelerating quickly post-pandemic, there has been a range of leg shapes trending as well as heavier, less stretch and non-stretch denim gaining popularity. With that, the trend cycle that Pacsun has seen emerge is "anything goes" denim, and the retailer is voicing this to their audiences throughout the #MyDenimStory campaign, encouraging their community to engage in telling their personal denim stories.
"The past has provided inspiration for our new denim collection's fits and styles. Everything old is new again, particularly to our Gen Z consumer, who brings relevancy to trends through social media sharing, and we are encouraging them to get creative with self-expression through their fashion choices," said Brieane (Brie Olson), President at Pacsun.
Content creators and brand ambassadors joining Pacsun for the campaign include Amelie Zilber (@AmelieZilber), Charlotte Briar D'Alessio (@CharlotteDAlessio), Gaëlle Lily Ames (@gigibearrrr), Kat (@WhoIsKat), Malik (@_malikanderson_), Peter Dupont (@peter_dupont), Tyler (@zaptyler) , Travis (@YungTaco), who can be seen sporting the latest from Pacsun, like low rise to mid rise, flare, bootcut, cargo, balloon, straight, mom, relaxed and more. All creators were involved in styling the campaign and their individual denim looks as part of the #MyDenimStory community.
"Through this campaign, we wanted to develop new styles that enable our consumers to channel the best versions of themselves. Denim is so versatile, and it's incredible to see how people express their mood and embrace their personality with different fits and styling," continued Olson. "As a leading retailer at the forefront of virtual and digital relevancy, it was important for us to incorporate mixed reality and cyberculture so that our community, who really value their physical and virtual identities, could engage with the campaign and denim beyond the IRL aspect."
With continued investment in digital and leveraging hybrid IRL and Virtual experiences, Pacsun is positioning itself as the go-to denim destination and launching the campaign simultaneously in both the physical and digital worlds. Each Pacsun retail location will have denim themed decor throughout and window displays showcasing campaign talent and imagery. Select stores will also feature prominent Bear sculptures, designed and made completely out of recycled denim, which intentionally ties in with a standalone commemorative NFT.
Digital and social media will be the catalyst for emerging denim trends, as Pacsun and its consumers share their lives and love for denim across social media platforms. Pacsun will provide amplification of their community voices in #MyDenimStory on Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter and Discord, and will share the #MyDenimStory of their creators, brand ambassadors, employees and customers. Pacsun will also be partnering with DRESSX to launch a virtual try-on experience featuring top denim styles and integrate the campaign into its existing Metaverse initiatives with an all-new Denim Shop in PACWORLD on Roblox, new Pac Mall Rat NFT denim mini-series with unlockable content, and the stand-alone NFT.
In support of the launch, an exclusive and interactive Fall event will be hosted at Pacsun's SoHo Flagship store later this month with guest influencers, talent and performances. The event will be livestreamed on Pacsun's social channels and feature denim embroidery stations, a photobooth, NFT bidding opportunities, and much more.
Pacun's label for its youngest consumer, Pacsun Kids, will highlight new denim, fleece, jackets, sneakers and more, for back-to-school staples. Select stores like Mall of America, Brea, and Cerritos, will offer activities to get kids ready for the school year, like hosted livestreams and more!
Campaign images and videos can be accessed here.
Pacsun is a leading specialty retailer offering a cross section of emerging brands and trending fashion through the lens of youth culture. Throughout the contemporary, streetwear and active lifestyle markets, Pacsun partners with the best brands to offer curated collections, rare and exclusive products, and creative collaborations on every level. Founded in 1980, Newport, CA. Curated in Los Angeles. Follow @pacsun on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok.
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By FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ
Associated Press
SAN MARCOS ATEXQUILAPAN, Mexico (AP) — After days of preparation and donations to cover funeral costs, this mountain community in eastern Mexico on Thursday mourned the return of three teens, all cousins, lost among the 53 migrants who died inside a semitrailer in San Antonio, Texas.
The previous 24 hours were a flurry of activity as residents of San Marcos Atexquilapan stepped forward to help the Olivares family receive the bodies of brothers Jaír and Yovani Valencia Olivares, ages 19 and 16, as well as their cousin, 16-year-old Misael Olivares.
Women cleaned banana leaves to make tamales, men carried chairs from one house to another, while the boys’ friends plastered a wall with photos of all three.
Similar scenes of solemn preparation played out across Mexico as the bodies of 16 of those lost in the tragedy were brought back on two military flights Wednesday and then sent to their hometowns. At least one more flight was planned for Thursday. Mexico’s Foreign Affairs ministry said it would bring back 25 of Mexico’s 26 victims in accordance with their families’ wishes.
The repatriation of victims was expected to continue in coming days in Guatemala and Honduras, which also lost 21 and six migrants, respectively.
Ten of the 53 fatal victims were teenagers, including the Olivares. In the darkness, men carried the caskets and arranged them side by side before a large crucifix sheltered by tarps strung up above the mourners.
The youths were to buried Friday.
Hundreds of people from the area flocked to the families’ homes, which sit in a row. The youths all played on a local soccer team and were well known.
“I can’t accept it,” whispered Yolanda Valencia, mother of Jaír and Yovani. You have to “work hard” in life, “try to fight to make their dreams reality.”
Her sons wanted to build a house and open a shoe store in this town of about 1,500 people known for its shoemaking. “They went with a lot of goals that weren’t realized,” she said.
The investigation continues into the smuggling ring that ultimately abandoned the trailer of migrants on the outskirts of San Antonio on a day temperatures neared 100 degrees. U.S. authorities have arrested four people, including the truck’s driver.
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By FRANCES D’EMILIO
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — The survival of Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s government hung in the balance Thursday before a crucial Senate vote on a relief bill for soaring energy costs, after a key ally vowed to boycott the measure.
While senators publicly debated the bill, which extends gasoline subsidies expiring within days, backdoor maneuvering by allies in Draghi’s 17-month-old pandemic unity government explored possible strategy to avoid risking the premier’s stepping down.
On Wednesday night, former Premier Giuseppe Conte announced that his splintering, populist 5-Star Movement would boycott the vote.
At the debate’s conclusion, Minister for Parliamentary Relations Federico D’Inca announced that the government was tying the bill to a make-or-break confidence vote.
If the government loses, Draghi would be forced to tender his resignation to the Italian president, who tapped him to replace Conte’s tottering premiership in February 2021.
But even if it squeaks by, thanks to the votes of dozens of lawmakers who during the legislature’s term, have defected from the 5-Stars, Draghi was largely expected to offer his resignation over Conte’s betrayal on the measure vital to the premier’s plans to help citizens and industry during the energy crisis.
The 5-Stars oppose a provision of the bill to allow Rome to operate a garbage incinerator on the outskirts of the chronically trash-choked Italian capital. Conte has refused allies’ cajoling to budge, even after Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio recently broke from the Movement over the populists’ stance, forming his own party.
The vote on the bill, which reduces taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, as well as extends utility bill relief, was being held in early afternoon.
Draghi had repeatedly made clear that the populists were among the coalition partners, ranging from left to right, that signed up to be part of his government, and he wouldn’t continue without them.
President Sergio Mattarella could accept or reject any resignation by Draghi. The president could also ask Draghi to go before Parliament in the coming days to seek a formal vote on the government itself, to see if the ranks of squabbling allies would rally around him to keep the premier in office.
Parliament’s term expires in spring 2023. If Mattarella can’t come up with a solution so Draghi’s government can continue, he is expected to dissolve the legislature and call an early election, which could come as early as late September.
In the debate, several senators blasted Conte’s decision.
Being in a government “is not like picking up a menu and deciding, antipasto, no, gelato, yes,” said Emma Bonino, who leads a tiny pro-Europe party.
Others noted that Draghi had increasing become a pivotal figure in Europe, while Russia wages war against Ukraine, especially with the downfall of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
An ally of center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian premier, argued in the Senate that a collapse of Draghi’s government could trigger “the destabilization of Europe.”
“You’d be doing a favor to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” thundered Sen. Antonio Saccone against the 5-Stars.
Draghi has governed with the support of virtually all of Italy’s main parties, with the exception of the fast-rising far-right Brothers of Italy party, which is demanding that Mattarella pull the plug on Parliament and give Italians their say at the ballot box.
Among Draghi’s achievements has been keeping Italy on track with reforms that the European Union has made a condition for the country to receive 200 billion euros (dollars) in pandemic recovery assistance.
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Several hundred birds found dead at Norfolk nature reserve
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Several hundred sea birds have been lost to bird flu at a nature reserve in Norfolk.
The breeding colony of sandwich terns, at Scolt Head Island near Brancaster, may have lost three-quarters of its chicks to the virus, say experts.
Bird flu is devastating several species, including gannets, terns and great skewers along the UK coastline.
The government confirmed the outbreak and said it was monitoring the effect of bird flu on wild species.
The nature reserve off the north Norfolk coast, managed under lease by Natural England, is home to about 4,000 breeding pairs of sandwich terns.
'Can't bounce back quickly'
Its warden has taken to Twitter to post images of binbags of carcasses and posed the question "are we witnessing the collapse of seabird colonies around the North Sea?"
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), based in Thetford, said the impact of bird flu was "devastating" - particularly as sea bird populations take a long time to recover.
Unlike garden birds, which may lay eight to 10 eggs, possibly twice a year, sea birds have one breeding season and lay one, perhaps two eggs.
"They are long-lived and slow-reproducing birds and they can't bounce back quickly from mass mortality like this," said Viola Ross-Smith of BTO.
"They are already under pressure from other threats - from fishing, climate change, development, pollution, they really don't need this and it's awful to watch.
"We probably won't know the longer-term impact for some time."
The virus has been identified along the coast, from the Shetlands and Orkneys, through north-east England to East Anglia and the Channel Islands.
A colony of great skewers in the Shetlands, which amounts to 60% of the global breeding population, have been "absolutely hammered" by bird flu, Ms Ross-Smith added.
In the north-east, hundreds of sea birds have died, with several species affected and some found washed up on the coastline.
Ms Ross-Smith said surveillance was "key", with the public urged to keep themselves and their dogs away from dead birds and report them to the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra).
"It's the best we can do at the moment," she added.
"Staff are bagging up the corpses, which is particularly important, especially as other species scavenge dead birds."
Martin Fowlie, of the RSPB, agreed that the impact of bird flu on sea bird populations this year was "unprecedented".
"We need the government to get a grip on this in order to do better testing, monitoring and surveillance," he added.
Defra said it was aware dead sandwich terns found at Scolt Head Island had tested positive for bird flu.
It said it was working with groups including the RSPB and Natural England to study its impact.
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MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner is due back in a Russian court Thursday to resume a trial that was jolted last week when she abruptly pleaded guilty to drug possession charges.
In Russia, a guilty plea doesn’t mean that the trial is automatically over. Griner’s defense may put forward arguments during the hearing to mitigate the punishment, or a verdict could be announced. But it wasn’t immediately clear what would happen at the hearing.
With the U.S. government under pressure at home to do more to secure her freedom, the guilty plea could be an effort to expedite the court proceedings so any negotiations could move forward. A senior Russian diplomat has said no action could be taken by Moscow until the trial was over.
The Phoenix Mercury center and WNBA all-star was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February while returning to play basketball in Russia. Police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. In custody ever since, Griner, 31, faces charges that could bring her a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
In pleading guilty during the previous court hearing on July 7, Griner said she had no intention of committing a crime and had acted unintentionally because she packed for Moscow in a hurry.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have said they were doing all they could to win the release of Griner, as well as other Americans the U.S. considers “wrongly detained” by Russia, including former Marine Paul Whelan.
Washington may have little leverage with Moscow, though, because of strong animosity over its military operation in Ukraine.
Russian media have speculated that Griner could be swapped for Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. after being convicted of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and providing aid to a terrorist organization.
Russia has agitated for Bout’s release for years. But the wide discrepancy in the seriousness of their cases could make such a trade unpalatable to Washington. Others have suggested that Griner could be traded along with Whelan, who is serving 16 years in Russia on an espionage conviction that the U.S. has described as a setup.
The State Department’s designation of Griner as wrongfully detained moves her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator. The classification has irritated Russia.
Asked about the possibility of Griner being swapped for a Russian jailed in the U.S., Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the senior Russian diplomat, noted that until her trial is over “there are no formal or procedural reasons to talk about any further steps.”
Ryabkov warned that U.S. criticism, including the description of Griner as wrongfully detained and dismissive comments about the Russian judicial system, “makes it difficult to engage in detailed discussion of any possible exchanges.”
Griner’s detention has been authorized through Dec. 20, suggesting the trial could last months. Griner’s lawyers, however, said they expect it to conclude around the beginning of the August.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
1010 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Freestone, northern
Leon and Anderson Counties through 1100 AM CDT...
At 1008 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms
along a line extending from Cayuga to Tennessee Colony to Slocum
moving southwest at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Palestine, Teague, Fairfield, Buffalo, Elkhart, Wortham, Fairfield
Lake State Park, Jewett, Oakwood, Streetman and Kirvin.
This includes Interstate 45 between mile markers 168 and 212.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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A group of scientists are heading to the Arctic to check the results of a survey counting walruses from space.
The Walrus From Space Project, launched in October 2021, asked people around the world to count the number of walruses in satellite images taken from space.
Now researchers from the British Antarctic Survey, WWF-UK and the Norwegian Polar Institute will travel to Svalbard, Norway to count the mammals and compare the results with the survey.
So far, more than 11,000 members of the public have looked at over half a million images of the Arctic, detecting walruses and giving scientists vital data on walrus populations.
The aim is to see how walruses are affected by climate change.
The research team will be based at a research station in Svalbard, Norway for eight days.
They will then travel by boat to walrus haul-outs - where walruses gather to rest on land - to count them by eye and by using drones.
They will then compare this count to the numbers counted from the satellite images.
Hannah Cubaynes, the Wildlife from Space research associate at British Antarctic Survey, said: "Assessing walrus populations across their whole distribution range by boats or plane is very difficult as they live in extremely remote areas.
"Satellite images can solve this problem as they can survey huge tracts of coastline to assess where walrus are and help us count the ones that we find."
If the numbers match up the scientists believe it could be an effective way to count the animals in the future.
Conservationists are worried about the walrus' Arctic home which is warming almost three times faster than the rest of the world.
Walruses use sea ice for resting and to give birth to their young.
As sea ice diminishes, more walruses are forced to find somewhere to rest on land.
The British Antarctic Survey says overcrowded beaches can be dangerous for walruses as they can sometimes trample one another when frightened.
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Outstanding Service Earns Top Ten Ranking and Award of Excellence
BERKELEY, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Line Tele Response, of Berkeley, CA has achieved two significant milestones for excellence in call answering services this year. They have been honored for achieving their first top ten industry ranking for call answering excellence as well as earning the exclusive ATSI Award of Excellence for the 21st consecutive year.
These awards are presented annually by the Association of TeleServices International (ATSI), the industry's Trade Association for providers of telecommunications and call center services including telephone answering and message delivery across North America and the UK. Direct Line was presented with these awards at ATSI's 2022 annual conference in Denver, CO.
Kindra Fox, Operations Manager for Direct Line says, "Direct Line has always been centered around providing quality service to our clients and their callers. With our QA processes, we can effectively define areas of opportunity and make the necessary changes to ensure excellence in our call answering services. For the first time in our history, we achieved an industrywide Top Ten ranking. This is a big win for us, and one that I am personally very proud of."
Independent judges are contracted by ATSI to evaluate message services over a six-month period. The scoring criteria includes:
- Response Time
- Courteousness of Call Agent
- Accuracy of Call
- Knowledge of Account
- Overall Impression of Call
"For the past 26 years, The ATSI Award of Excellence has been a vital part of our industry. Continually evaluating our members' service levels, they are providing to their clients is an essential business tool. We've had members that have participated in the program for decades and look forward to winning their awards each year. This is a testament to the dedication to excellence that their teams embody and ATSI is proud to be a part of this program!", says ATSI President Tifani Leal.
The award started 26 years ago to improve the overall quality of the call center industry by setting expectations and measurements to ensure a successful call handling experience.
Now a twenty-one-time winner Direct Line Tele Response has earned the Onyx Award. ATSI extends its congratulations to their entire staff on their proven industry TOP TEN quality service to their clients.
The Association of TeleServices International was founded in 1942 as a national Trade Association representing live answering services. ATSI now encompasses companies across North America and the UK offering specialized and enhanced operator-based services including call centers, contact centers, inbound telemarketing (order entry), paging, voice messaging, emergency dispatch, fax, and internet services among others.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Relief, a PENS (percutaneous electrical neurostimulation) device, has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration for multiple treatments up to 56 days for symptomatic relief of chronic, intractable pain from diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Dyansys Inc. has announced.
The wearable device placed on the ear administers continuous pulses of a low-level electrical current over several days.
"We are excited to have the FDA clearance of First Relief so that this device, which has been proven effective, can now be used to treat patients who have been experiencing pain related to diabetic neuropathy, said DyAnsys CEO Srini Nageshwar. "First Relief offers a significant treatment option without drugs or narcotics."
The approval was based on a study that tested First Relief against a placebo and another device previously cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration.
The study was conducted at the Jeevak Multispeciality Hospital in Warangal, India, renowned for the treatment of diabetes. The single center, three-arm, randomized, controlled, parallel assignment, double blinded, prospective study involved 63 patients age 30 to 74.
The devices were applied on a bi-weekly basis for 16 weeks. The primary efficacy endpoint was pain intensity measured through Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score and the secondary efficacy endpoints are vibration perception threshold (VPT) value, insomnia severity index (ISI), overall neuropathy limitations scale (ONLS), Hamilton rating scale for anxiety.
The VAS pain score analysis showed a significant reduction in the pain score of patients being treated with First Relief from start of the treatment to the end. This improvement persisted throughout the 90-day follow-up, suggesting that the treatment was a long-term improvement in neuropathic pain and not a short-term improvement. The secondary outcome measures (VPT, Insomnia, ONLS and HAM) also showed similar improvements to the pain score, showing significant improvement in sleep and mood as the neuropathic pain decreased.
No complications or adverse events were observed in any of the subjects during the study period.
DyAnsys Inc. is a global company headquartered in California with subsidiaries in Switzerland and India. DyAnsys provides advanced medical diagnostic and monitoring systems to clinicians in individual practices and hospitals. DyAnsys, ANSiscope. First Relief, Primary Relief and Drug Relief are registered trademarks, of DyAnsys, Inc.
Website: www.dyansys.com
For more information, contact Srini Nageshwar, (888) 950-4321
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Upgrading Outdated Cumulus Linux Deployment Allowed 2600Hz To Retain Hardware Systems With Full Support
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 2600Hz is a telecom services provider delivering cloud communications solutions to MSPs, ISPs, and telecom resellers. 2600Hz's platform KAZOO modernizes how businesses provide communications services to their customers. Whether it be voice, mobile, video, fax or SMS, 2600Hz simplifies and opens the cryptic black box of telecom.
2600Hz is privately held and is based in the San Francisco Bay area, with international offices.
2600Hz had standardized on Edgecore equipment with Cumulus Linux before NVIDIA acquired Cumulus and stopped supporting Broadcom. 2600Hz wanted to stay on an open networking platform to avoid lock-in. Upgrading to a Pica8 solution allowed 2600Hz to retain their hardware system of choice, and enabled a logical path to upgrade for future expansion.
After a short evaluation, 2600Hz initially upgraded a small cluster from Cumulus to PicOS, and over time have transitioned 3 sites to PicOS. Pica8 spine/leaf software switches are deployed using Edgecore Open Network Platform in three Data Centers: New Jersey, Chicago and Sunnyvale
2600Hz uses PicOS in both Top-of-Rack (TOR) and aggregation switches. The use cases are standard Data Center Networks where the TOR uses an MLAG configuration for high availability and the aggregation layer requires L3 routing. For the TOR layer, the MLAG must provide maximum LACP flexibility, including LACP fallback and fast mode, to enable PXE boot and fast fail over handling for various servers.
When asked about the decision process of choosing Pica8 during the evaluation stage, Tyler Kiziah, 2600Hz DevOps Manager, pointed out that support of open networking standards was crucial. PicOS is a Linux based NOS running on an unmodified Debian Linux. "Orchestration with Ansible was the decisive factor in choosing Pica8. It is very similar to Juniper Junos. Anyone with Junos experience will easily make the transition to PicOS with minimal training," said Kiziah.
Kiziah also shared his experience migrating from Cumulus Linux to PicOS. The migration itself was done easily, and usability was intuitive. He highlighted the role of Pica8 Support in the transition process: "Pica8 Support has been extremely helpful to introduce features that the network depends on. LACP Fall Back is an example. This made the transition from Cumulus to Pica8 easier," said Kiziah.
2600Hz has been running Juniper Junos, so the minimal learning curve between the two was especially important.
Additionally, "PicOS integrates with 2600Hz's product offerings such as Self Sign-up; PicOS is very easy to use," said Kiziah.
ROI will become greater over time with tighter integration of Pica8. For example, they are considering Pica8's AmpCon™ Network Controller for automation to eliminate manual changes and other mundane routine tasks.
Pica8 is the industry's open networking software alternative to Cisco, Juniper and Arista for the enterprise. Pica8's AmpCon™ Network Controller for centralized management and automation and PicOS® Software Switches for networking and security have successfully replaced Cisco DNA Center and Catalyst Switches and competing Juniper and Arista solutions for campus, data center and distributed site networks within Fortune 500 enterprises. Pica8 software is deployed at over 1,000 customers in over 40 countries. For more information, visit www.pica8.com.
Joseph Kwak for Pica8
408-370-0100
press@pica8.com
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked a court to lift an injunction blocking the enforcement of a law that bans all abortions except when the life of the mother is at risk.
The filing from Attorney General Mark Brnovich asks a court in Tucson to lift an order in place since shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973’s Roe v. Wade case that abortions are a constitutional right.
The newly conservative high court overturned that decision last month, leaving it again to the states to decide how to regulate abortions. Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions has been on the books since at least 1901, and Brnovich said with Roe overturned it should now be enforceable.
“We believe this is the best and most accurate state of the law,” Brnovich said in a statement. “We know this is an important issue to so many Arizonans, and our hope is that the court will provide clarity and uniformity for our state.”
Brnovich, who is running for U.S. Senate, announced late last month that the old abortion ban was enforceable and that he would seek to have the injunction lifted.
Providers across the state stopped abortions after the Supreme Court’s June 24 opinion, saying it was too risky to move ahead with the old ban still on the books and with a 2021 law that grants all rights to pre-born children also in play.
A federal judge on Monday blocked that law after abortion rights groups successfully argued that it was unconstitutionally vague. The judge agreed that it was unclear what criminal laws abortion providers may be breaking if they perform otherwise-legal abortions.
Abortion rights groups slammed Brnovich for moving to again allow enforcement of the pre-statehood ban
“It is outrageous that Arizona’s Attorney General is trying to revive this zombie law that has long been blocked,” Gail Deady, an attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “Arizonans’ personal health decisions, lives, and futures should not be dictated by a century-old, draconian law.”
Deady said that the high court’s decision to overturn Roe has caused “absolute chaos” in Arizona and other states with Republican Legislatures that have previously unenforceable abortion restrictions on the books. Numerous court battles are underway to try to block “trigger laws” designed to ban abortion if Roe fell or opposing so-called “zombie laws” like Arizona’s that predate Roe.
Arizona also has a 15-week ban that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law in March, and he has insisted that it takes precedence over the total ban Brnovich wants to enforce. But the 15-week ban law specifically said it did not overturn the 1901 law.
In the attorney general’s court filing, assistant Attorney General Beau Roysden III laid out the history of the injunction that blocked the old abortion law.
That case started in 1971, two years before Roe was handed down, when the Tucson affiliate of Planned Parenthood, several doctors and a woman who wanted an abortion sued to overturn the law. A trial judge in Pima County Superior Court ruled the next year that a fetus does not have constitutionally protected rights and that the law banning abortion also violated the doctors’ rights to practice medicine as they saw fit.
The Arizona Court of Appeals overturned that ruling, rejecting wholesale the lower court’s reasoning that the abortion ban was unconstitutional and saying it could be enforced.
“Appellees’ complaints against the abortion statutes are peculiarly within the field occupied by the Legislature and any problem concerning abortion should be solved by that body,” the appeals court ruling said. “We can only reiterate that we are not a super-legislature.”
Less than three weeks later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe, and the appeals court reversed its earlier judgment. The law was then permanently blocked.
Roysden noted that the “Legislature, however, did not acquiesce in the declaration that these laws were unconstitutional but rather took affirmative steps to ensure their continuing validity in the event that Roe was overruled.”
The Legislature reenacted the pre-statehood ban in 1977, and this year said it was still on the books when they passed the ban on abortions after 15 weeks. The intent was to ensure it would be enforceable if Roe v. Wade were overturned, according to Wednesday’s court filing.
The president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Arizona, Brittany Fonteno, said Brnovich’s action shows he is “out of touch” with the majority of Arizonans who support abortion rights. She said the group plans to fight his request in court. Fonteno noted that the Legislature over the past 50 years has passed numerous laws allowing doctors to perform abortions.
“As a result, we believe that providers should still be able to provide this essential health care to the thousands of Arizonans who need it annually,” Fonteno said in a statement.
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KaiNexus (www.kainexus.com), the leading continuous improvement and Lean software company, recently passed $5 Billion in total financial impact.
"Passing $5B in total financial impact would not have been possible without all the customers that KaiNexus is lucky enough to partner with on this journey to spread continuous improvement," said Greg Jacobson, KaiNexus CEO and Co-Founder.
KaiNexus supports companies varying in size and industry. With KaiNexus, organizations receive anywhere from 2-10x the number of improvements from their employees, and the average improvement managed in KaiNexus has an impact of about $15,000. KaiNexus provides advanced reporting solutions that enable people to see KPIs and the aggregate impact of improvement work across their organization, arming themselves with the data they need to assess their improvement culture's health.
"1 in 3 improvements has a financial impact. KaiNexus customers understand that these metrics play a direct role in ensuring the success of the business, and they strive to achieve the highest possible level of safety, satisfaction, and quality," states Greg Jacobson.
KaiNexus (www.kainexus.com) is a rapidly growing software company with offices in Austin, Texas, and Dallas, Texas. KaiNexus empowers leading organizations in every industry to engage more people in improvement for an accelerated rate of change and maximum impact. With software that provides unprecedented visibility and standardization, KaiNexus is revolutionizing how the world captures, implements, measures, and spreads improvement at scale.
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2 dead after taking counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pills in St. Tammany
ST. TAMMANY PARISH (WVUE) - The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office is issuing a warning about the risk of fentanyl-laced pills after two overdose deaths Tuesday, July 12.
“A very small amount can kill someone, less than a milligram,” Chief Deputy Coroner Dr. Robert Sigillito said.
Officials are waiting on toxicology reports from the sheriff’s office, but they say a 15-year-old from the Bush area died after taking multiple pills and a 22-year-old from Slidell died after taking just one pill.
“We are concerned that there may be counterfeit drugs that are sold in the area,” Sigillito said.
Since 2019, the coroner’s office says St. Tammany has seen 410 overdose deaths and 343 opiate deaths. The available data for 2022 lists 40 overdose deaths and 35 opiate deaths. Officials say most of them are linked to fentanyl.
The drug is sometimes sold as a pill but the coroner’s office says they are seeing it laced in other drugs without people knowing.
According to the DEA New Orleans Field Division, agents have seized three kilograms of fentanyl in the New Orleans area since January alone. They say the fentanyl problem is much more than just a local issue.
Last year, more than 170,000 people died from overdoses in the United States, according to the DEA. To put that in perspective, that’s about 70,000 more people than could fit in Tiger Stadium on LSU’s campus.
“Imagine a football game on any given Saturday. Everyone at the game, in the last year, we lost to overdoses,” Special Agent in Charge of the DEA New Orleans Field Division Brad Byerley said. “Around 67% of those are from synthetic opioids, which is fentanyl.”
DEA officials say agents nationwide are working to take the drug off the street with 15,000 pounds seized in 2021.
“That would provide a lethal dose of fentanyl for everyone in the United States,” Byerley said.
Despite those efforts, DEA agents and coroners say the issue is increasing each year, so much so they have to wear protective gear to work.
“Masks, respirators, we have to protect ourselves as well as our personnel,” Sigillito said.
Sigillito also mentions that the coroner’s office, St. Tammany Parish fire departments, and other first responders have Narcan available to help with overdoses. He says, however, that Narcan can’t totally cure an overdose and advises anyone suffering from one to seek medical attention immediately.
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ROME (AP) — Italy’s agriculture minister warned Parliament on Wednesday that a third of Italy’s agricultural production was at risk because of drought and poor water infrastructure, and that the situation is only going to get worse in years to come.
Stefano Patuanelli provided the latest data from government research institutes which showed that Italy lost 19% of its available water resources from 1991-2020 compared to 1921-1950, and that the next decades could see further decreases of up to 40%.
“We are thus witnessing a slow but unrelenting wasting away of water availability in our country,” Patuanelli told the lower Chamber of Deputies.
The government has declared a state of emergency in several northern regions because of a prolonged drought and accompanying heat wave that has dried up the Po River, a crucial artery for irrigation across an area of north-central Italy that is a key producer of fruits, vegetables and grain.
The drought followed unusually light precipitation during the winter that deprived mountains of fresh snowfall which would normally feed rivers and reservoirs in summer. The combined climactic events have been blamed for the July 3 cleaving off of the melting Marmolada glacier and ensuing avalanche that killed 11 hikers in northern Trento.
Patuanelli told lawmakers that such droughts occur cyclically in Italy, roughly every five years, but that they are projected to occur more often and “with ever more devastating consequences.”
He said the Po River basin is currently the biggest worry “because the area concerns a third of national agricultural production.”
“We’re talking about the cultivation of fruit, vegetables, tomatoes and cereals, especially corn and rice,” as well as the breeding farms that produce the region’s famed Parmesan cheese and prosciutto.
Italian farm lobby Coldiretti has said the emergency has already cost Italian farmers about 3 billion euros in losses, coupled with soaring energy prices stemming from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
While unusual heat and lack of rainfall are to blame for the current crisis, Italy has a notoriously wasteful water infrastructure that national statistics agency ISTAT estimates loses 42% of drinking water from distribution networks each year, in large part due to old and poorly maintained pipes. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/drought-italy-warns-a-third-of-farm-production-at-risk/ | 2022-07-14T15:44:33Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/drought-italy-warns-a-third-of-farm-production-at-risk/ | false |
Kohl’s and Target are offering back-to-school discounts for educators and school staff
(Gray News) – Kohl’s and Target are offering discounts for educators and school staff as teachers prepare to get back in the classroom for the upcoming school year.
Kohl’s is offering a 25% discount from July 15 through July 17 to recognize school employees for all their hard work.
Any K-12 teachers, daycare/early learning educators, post-secondary educators and school staff can show a valid school ID to take advantage of the discounts.
Target is also offering discounts and is extending its Teacher Prep Event to run July 17-Sept. 10 this year.
Teachers will have the opportunity to save 15% on school supplies and more.
Target said all K-12 teachers, homeschool teachers, teachers working at daycare centers and early childhood learning centers, university or college professors and vocational/trade/technical schoolteachers with valid identification are eligible.
The retailer has also increased its Target Circle offer to 20% for college students as they get ready for the fall semester.
“From supplies and stylish apparel to snacks and the latest electronics, guests can count on Target to make the most of their budgets, with thousands of items under $10,” said Jill Sando, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for Target.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Health Software company, ilumivu, announces a new study on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) using its heart health application Cardiogram at the Dysautonomia International Annual Conference July 14-17.
The Dysautonomia International Annual Conference is the world's largest conference on autonomic nervous system disorders where ilumivu is a participating sponsor. This year's event will stream live and feature expert presentations on autonomic nervous system disorders like Dysautonomia and POTS.
During the event, ilumivu will reveal the details of a new study into POTS — a disorder characterized by an increase in heart rate by 30 to 40 beats per minute within ten minutes of standing. POTS is a common condition that affects an estimated 1 to 3 million Americans, 80-85% of which are female. The disease has become more prevalent since the pandemic and has been linked to long-haul COVID. Some common symptoms of POTS include fainting, sweating, light-headedness, fatigue and headaches and can go undiagnosed for up to six years. Additionally, 59% of individuals are initially misdiagnosed with anxiety instead of POTS.
ilumivu will be collecting data using their Cardiogram heart health application to gain greater insight on how individuals with POTS can track and manage their symptoms. The data will be used exclusively for the company's research to help improve the quality of their recommendations and the health of their patients.
Cardiogram is a leading heart health mobile app providing continuous cardiovascular monitoring using off-the-shelf wearables such as Garmin, Apple Watch, and Fitbit. The app is a clinically validated heart health monitor that has become a reliable ally to help individuals monitor their heart health and pre-diagnose heart related conditions for hypertension, sleep apnea, diabetes and atrial fibrillation. Cardiogram is available for download on the Apple and Google store with over 3.7 million downloads to date.
President of ilumivu, T. David Smith, is excited about the new POTS study. He said: "We want to champion proactive intervention of POTS with this new study. We believe that if people living with POTS are empowered with reliable data, they can implement changes to improve their quality of life through ongoing monitoring of symptoms.
For further information or to participate in the POTS study, visit: https://ilumivu.com. To register for the Dysautonomia International Annual Conference, visit: https://web.cvent.com/event/843f4246-2147-4653-bfc4-caafce8a8192/summary Learn more about Cardiogram at: https://cardiogram.com.
Founded in 2009, ilumivu provides healthcare decision support applications using the psychology of behavior change, combined with real-time data from smartwatches and smartphones to reduce healthcare costs. With a pedigree in research in multiple disease areas at over 100 leading research universities and health systems, ilumivu delivers just-in-time interventions based on individualized baselines to improve measurable member care outcomes. https://ilumivu.com/
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Email: stacy.earl@ilumivu.com
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkeley Research Group (BRG) announced today that Michael Salve, PhD, has joined as a New York-based managing director in the firm's Economics & Damages practice. Salve is an applied economist with experience in advanced statistical sampling methods, complex damage models, class actions, healthcare claims sampling, False Claims Act matters, econometric modeling and commercial disputes.
"We are delighted to welcome Michael to BRG," said Jeffery A. Stec, PhD, a leader of BRG's Intellectual Property practice and a co-leader of its Economics & Damages community. "He has an outstanding reputation, and his statistical expertise and knowledge of advanced quantitative methods will be an asset to our clients around the world."
Salve has testified in more than 40 dispute matters in state and federal courts and arbitrations regarding economic damages, liability and class certification issues. He has extensive experience in designing statistical samples, developing complex extrapolation and benchmarking models, and evaluating achieved precision levels for clients in the healthcare and financial industries.
Salve also testifies on the use of econometric and statistical models for estimating exposure and potential damages for clients in litigation. Results of his statistical work have been presented to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice (DOJ). He has presented testimony in federal court in a qui tam False Claims Act matter and has been deposed by the DOJ. He has provided testimony before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medi-Cal and the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General regarding statistical sampling issues.
"I am excited to join BRG during this remarkable period of growth," said Salve. "BRG's world-class platform will allow me to address my clients' most complex problems in this ever-changing environment."
Salve previously was the global leader of an applied data science practice that worked with Fortune 50 clients on sophisticated damage models for use in litigation. He also was a principal with the Forensic and Dispute Services group of a Big Four accounting firm, where he led the Economic Consulting Services practice in New York; and was a managing director at a private consulting firm, where he led the statistical sampling work in the US. He has been a teaching fellow and graduate mathematics instructor at Boston College and was an adjunct faculty member in the graduate economics program at City University of New York, Hunter College, where he taught econometrics as well as law and economics.
About BRG
Berkeley Research Group (BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps leading organizations advance in three key areas: disputes and investigations, corporate finance, and performance improvement and advisory. Headquartered in California with offices around the world, we are an integrated group of experts, industry leaders, academics, data scientists and professionals working across borders and disciplines. We harness our collective expertise to deliver the inspired insights and practical strategies our clients need to stay ahead of what's next. Visit www.thinkbrg.com to learn more.
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The Inaugural Don Carano Legacy Scholarship Awarded to Caesars Team Member's Dependents Currently Enrolled in or Planning to Attend College
LAS VEGAS, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment awarded 22 U.S. students with up to $20,000 to go toward a college or degree-granting program. Recipients will receive $5,000 a year, renewable up to four years. The Don Carano Legacy Scholarship is a tribute to Don Carano's passion for the gaming industry and the family values shared by all Caesars Team Members. The scholarship was open to dependents of Team Members who are high school seniors or currently enrolled in college.
"We were incredibly impressed by the applicants for our inaugural year of the Don Carano Legacy Scholarship," said Tom Reeg, CEO of Caesars Entertainment. "Supporting our Team Members is our top priority, and that means supporting their families as well. We're proud to launch this scholarship program and provide financial aid to these remarkable and diverse students."
In partnership with the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada, students were selected from a diverse pool of applicants whose parents or legal guardians represent a wide range of positions and properties across Caesars Entertainment. Scholarship recipients hail from across the company's footprint, including students from Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
"At Caesars Entertainment, our primary focus is treating our Team Members and guests like family, something my grandfather started with the launch of Eldorado Resorts in 1973," said Anthony Carano, President and COO of Caesars Entertainment. "He always considered education a fundamental building block, and I know he would be so proud to help open doors for our Team Members' families. Congratulations to all the recipients of this year's award. We can't wait to continue to watch these young people flourish over the next four years."
The Don Carano Legacy Scholarship is part of Caesars Entertainment's recently launched "All-in On Education" program, which offers low to no cost education, tuition reimbursement, student loan debt repayment options, 529 college savings plan options and scholarship opportunities.
Caesars Entertainment strives to be a top employer in the industry and offers Team Members a full suite of benefits. In addition to the Don Carano Legacy Scholarship and "All-In On Education," Caesars offers affordable best-in-class healthcare and wellness, 401k with employer match, paid time off, family bonding leave, professional development, Team Member discounts and much more.
For more information about Caesars Entertainment's benefits, please visit https://www.caesars.com/careers.
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR) is the largest casino-entertainment company in the U.S. and one of the world's most diversified gaming-entertainment providers. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment has grown through development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Caesars Entertainment's resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's®, Horseshoe® and Eldorado® brand names. Caesars Entertainment offers diversified amenities and one-of-a-kind destinations, with a focus on building loyalty and value with its guests through a unique combination of impeccable service, operational excellence and technology leadership. Caesars Entertainment is committed to its employees, suppliers, communities and the environment through its PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework. If you think you or someone you care about may have a gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. For more information, please visit www.caesars.com/corporate.
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Seed+ funding round led by Seven Seven Six nets $14 million
New York, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nucleus Genomics, a next-generation consumer genetic testing and analysis company, has raised $14 million in a new funding round led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six. The NYC-based company, founded by Kian Sadeghi, is building a DTC genetic testing platform that provides innovative genetic risk and disposition score analyses on an extensive number of diseases and traits by leveraging whole-genome sequencing (WGS). The company also believes in maximal data ownership and liberty by providing its users total autonomy over their genetic data.
Ohanian joins a lineup of investors across technology, healthcare, and media, including Founders Fund, Adrian Aoun (CEO, Forward Health), Brent Saunders (former CEO, Allergan), Patrick Hsu (Bioengineering Professor, UC Berkeley), Hugo Barra (CEO, Detect), Austen Allred (CEO, Bloom Institute of Technology), Packy McCormick (Founder, Not Boring), Shrug Capital, Alexandra Botez (influencer), Anthony Pompliano, and many others.
The additional funding, along with the company's initial seed financing raised in 2021, will help Nucleus bolster its scientific and engineering team. They are continuing to set up the computational and physical infrastructure required to analyze whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data at scale, customize disease and trait reports, and send genetic testing kits to users.
Nucleus provides WGS genetic testing kits for users to receive rare variant analysis and polygenic scores across a wide variety of diseases and traits — ranging from breast cancer risk to longevity disposition. Individuals who have done DTC microarray genetic testing from companies such as 23andMe can upload their genotyped DNA on the Nucleus platform to receive a subset of the possible genetic analyses, centering around polygenic scores. These scores are calculated by combining the effects of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of DNA letters that vary from one individual to another.
A big part of Nucleus' mission is to ensure that the user's overall experience from the reports is personalized by combining genetic and non-genetic data.
"We want people to see all their data — their whole-genome sequence, blood tests, doctors' reports, sleep cycle, running duration — their entire health story in one place," said Lasse Folkersen, Ph.D., Nucleus' Chief Scientific Officer. "But most importantly, they will see how their daily life decisions, combined with their genetics, influence their traits and risk for disease. That's where our algorithms and scientific expertise play a critical role."
Nucleus is acutely aware of the lack of diversity in genomic datasets. The company is looking to help gradually fix this issue by making their reports accessible, informative and inclusive.
"Nucleus is reimagining the DTC genetic analysis experience for people of all ages, across all places," said Caio Hachem, Nucleus' Chief Operations Officer. "Our team, which consists of people across the globe, reflects the diversity we want to see in our user base."
"The promise of personalizing the healthcare experience was made decades ago," Sadeghi added. "Nucleus is bringing that promise to fruition, starting with consumer genetic testing."
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Nucleus is redefining DTC genetic testing. By combining polygenic scores with traditional rare variant DNA analysis, the company provides comprehensive assessments of genetic disposition across a myriad of diseases and traits. Nucleus' mission is to empower people to take agency over their health so no one dies from preventable disease -- that's why the company is building a platform based on cutting-edge science, where everyone has their genome in their pocket, complete clarity on their risks, and are empowered by personalized health measures. Nucleus is also bridging the gap between people, doctors, and scientists to help discoveries, therapies, and cures find their way to people faster. Learn more at mynucleus.com.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs determined that Twilio Inc. provided a reasonable basis for claims that its customer data platform is the "#1 CDP," provided it makes clear that the basis for such claim is 2020 market share, as measured by the International Data Corporation (IDC). Accordingly, NAD recommended that the advertiser make certain modifications to the claim as it appears in Google search results, press releases, a Twilio billboard, and on Twilio's website.
The claims at issue were challenged by Adobe Inc. The parties are competing providers of customer data platform (CDP) services to clients, a technology solution that allows businesses to gather customer data from disparate systems and sources - such as websites, apps, and email - and unify the data to provide a 360-degree customer profile and, thus, tailor and improve a client's marketing and customer experience.
As support for its #1 CDP claims, Twilio relied on the 2020 IDC Report which provided a "Worldwide Customer Data Platform 2020 Share Snapshot." NAD was persuaded by the advertiser's argument that the 2020 IDC Report is the most recent, annual study by IDC on the entire CDP market and of companies with the top market share by revenue. NAD noted that while the CDP market may be rapidly changing with new market entrants, the 2020 IDC Report acknowledged that fact but nonetheless determined the advertiser to have the largest CDP market share in 2020 (with 10.2% of the market).
Therefore, NAD determined Twilio's "#1 CDP" claim to be substantiated provided the advertiser makes clear that the basis of the claim is 2020 market share as determined by IDC.
The advertiser stated that it was willing to work with Google to modify its claims and add references to 2020 market share and the substantiating IDC Report wherever #1 CDP appears in Twilio search results. NAD recommended that the advertiser do so to modify such search results to make clear that the #1 CDP claim is for 2020 market share as determined by the 2020 IDC Report.
The challenger, Adobe, Inc., took issue with a static billboard with the words "Twilio Segment" in larger type, with the claim "The #1 CDP" appearing under the claim on the billboard in smaller font. In front of the bottom right of the billboard is a digital screen that states "#1 CDP for worldwide market share (IDC 2020)."
NAD determined that the parenthetical "(IDC 2020)" as it appears on the billboard may be confusing to consumers and that it does not adequately disclose the basis of the #1 claim. Therefore, NAD recommended that the advertiser incorporate the basis for its claim – 2020 market share as determined by IDC – into the body of the digital disclosure rather than in a separate parenthetical following the main claim.
The claim "Twilio #1 Customer Data Platforms" had appeared on the advertiser's website, with a disclosure in smaller font underneath the claim stating, "IDC report on 2020 market share rankings for Customer Data Platforms is now available."
NAD found that this claim was potentially confusing because the statement "IDC report on 2020 market share rankings for Customer Data Platforms is now available" does not sufficiently make clear that the advertiser's "Twilio #1 Customer Data Platforms" claim is based on market share. Therefore, NAD recommended that the advertiser modify any future use of such claim to make clear that the #1 CDP claim is for 2020 market share as determined by the 2020 IDC Report.
Finally, during the proceeding Twilio voluntarily revised two press releases that both contained the claim "the world's #1 Customer Data Platform (CDP)" to read "the world's #1 Customer Data Platform (CDP) for worldwide market share (IDC 2020)." NAD recommended that the advertiser use bona fide good faith efforts to effectuate the same revisions to press releases appearing on third-party websites by contacting Business Wire to request the change.
In its advertiser statement, Twilio stated that it "intends to comply with NAD's decision." The advertiser further stated that it "respectfully disagrees" with NAD's views that "the reference to '(IDC 2020)' on Twilio's billboard may be confusing as attribution for its #1 CDP claim," but "will modify that language consistent with NAD's guidance and space constraints."
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DUBLIN, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waystone announced today that it has launched Waystone ETFs, an institutional ETF platform operator with an expert team with over 40 years' combined experience in the asset management industry. The launch of Waystone ETFs will further reinforce Waystone's capabilities as a full-service provider to the asset management industry.
Waystone offers the most comprehensive suite of fund hosting capabilities in the market with Waystone ETFs partnering with leading financial institutions to build quality investment products whilst leveraging open architecture solutions. These will include the ability to offer clients institutional platform solutions including white label and standalone operator solutions together with management company ETF solutions. Through its ETF solutions, clients will benefit from tailored ETF expertise across governance, capital markets and operations.
In addition, Waystone ETFs will provide its clients with dedicated ETF capital markets and distribution services, led by Henry Glynn, a global expert in ETFs.
Paul Heffernan, CEO Waystone ETFs, comments, "Waystone is delighted to be able to offer its clients fully customisable ETF solutions to meet their growing needs, whether it be a white label ETF solution, a customised platform or a specialist ETF Management Company solution. We are seeing institutional client demand for specialist ETF support to aid new product development into the industry which Waystone ETFs is ideally placed to provide."
Cyril Delamare, Chief Growth Officer at Waystone, adds, "The launch of the Waystone ETF platform is a natural next step in our mission to offer the asset management industry a full suite of fund solutions. We are proud to be the first ETF platform headquartered in Ireland with a highly experienced team in place."
Waystone is a leading provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry. Partnering with institutional investors, investment funds and asset managers Waystone builds, supports and protects investment structures and strategies worldwide. With over 20 years' experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone is now supporting asset managers with more than US$1Tn in AUM globally. Waystone provides its clients with the guidance and tools to allow them to focus on managing their investment goals with confidence.
Press contact: Alison Mitsas
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Tel: +39 327 751 1500
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America's Second-Largest Federal Credit Union Funds a Record $18.2 Billion in Mortgages and Consumer Loans during First Half of 2022
TYSONS, Va., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PenFed Credit Union, the nation's second largest federal credit union, today released financials highlighting continued financial strength in an increasingly challenging economic environment. In second-quarter 2022, PenFed originated $3.4 billion in mortgage loans and $4.1 billion in consumer loans, bringing the year-to-date totals to $9.8 billion and $8.4 billion, respectively. Consumer loans include auto loans, credit cards, personal loans and refinanced student loans.
"Helping our 2.8 million members do better financially is how we measure success," said PenFed President and CEO James Schenck. "Adding an average of 47,800 new members per month during the first six months of this year is the result of PenFed's value proposition of great rates for everyone and the dedication to member service of over 4,000 financial professionals who power PenFed forward. In a world where members have 10,000 other choices of where to conduct their financial business, PenFed's membership growth is truly remarkable. I'm extremely proud of the entire PenFed team and their performance in an extremely volatile economic environment."
Among PenFed's highlights in second-quarter 2022:
- Membership grew to over 2.8 million, adding over 130,000 net new members in the second quarter.
- PenFed's member shares grew year-over-year by $5.7 billion, which represents over 27% growth.
- PenFed continues to experience strong asset growth, achieving $36.6 billion in assets at the end of the second quarter.
- PenFed's overall loan portfolio grew year-over-year by $9.4 billion, which represents 43% growth.
- Even with the slowing market demand, PenFed's mortgage division still managed to originate $3.4 billion in the second quarter.
- The consumer lending division originated $4.1 billion for the second-quarter. This represents 31% growth over the prior year's second quarter.
- PenFed credit cards, as part of consumer lending, continued strong performance with $1.3 billion of originations in the second quarter.
- PenFed ended the second quarter with over $740 million of capital in excess of required regulatory net worth while generating $93 million of net income during the second quarter and $170 million of net income during the first half of 2022.
- Total operating expenses year to date are $5 million under budget.
In addition to accomplishing these key business milestones, PenFed donated nearly $1.2 million to charitable organizations during the first half of 2022.
"Most recently," Schenck pointed out, "we partnered with America's VetDogs to provide life-changing service dogs for veterans with disabilities; we aligned with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to provide mental wellness during our nation's mental health crisis; and we are working with the Honor Flight Network to plan the first-ever free flight for United States veterans living in Puerto Rico to visit the memorials in our nation's capital that honor their military service. True to the credit union philosophy of 'People Helping People,' we will continue giving back to the communities where our members and employees live and serve."
During the second half of 2022, Schenck acknowledged, "we expect loan demand will decline as the Federal Reserve continues raising interest rates. Our business priorities for the second half of 2022 are to continue building capital, deposits and liquidity while maintaining credit quality and delivering world-class service to members. Our teammates are fully engaged and working collaboratively across divisions to execute our strategic plan."
About PenFed Credit Union
Established in 1935, Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is America's second-largest federal credit union, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $36.6 billion in assets. PenFed Credit Union offers market-leading certificates, checking, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, student loans, and a wide range of other financial services. Our mission is to empower members of our community to achieve their financial well-being. PenFed Credit Union is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender. To learn more about PenFed Credit Union, visit PenFed.org, like us on Facebook and follow us @PenFed on Twitter. Interested in working for PenFed? Check us out on LinkedIn. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
*Loan originations represent funded balances.
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GLENDALE, AZ — Arrowhead Towne Center, a large indoor mall in Glendale, will soon be home to the Valley’s first Round1 Bowling & Amusement location.
Macerich Co. (NYSE: MAC), the owner of Arrowhead Towne Center and other major shopping destinations in the Valley like Scottsdale Fashion Square and Kierland Commons, announced it has signed a lease with Round One Entertainment Inc. for a 83,114-square-foot space at the Glendale mall.
Round One, which is based out of Japan and started opening stores in the U.S. in 2008, will be opening its Round1 Bowling concept there, as well as its Sports Challenge — or Spo-Cha — brand, which includes several activities like basketball, batting cages, trampolines, dodgeball, billiards, ping pong, a mechanical bull and kids play area.
There is a Round1 location in Tucson, but the Arrowhead store will be the first one in the Valley and the first with dual Spo-Cha concept in the state. | https://www.abc15.com/news/business/japan-based-bowling-and-entertainment-concept-coming-to-glendale-mall | 2022-07-14T15:54:40Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/business/japan-based-bowling-and-entertainment-concept-coming-to-glendale-mall | true |
'Naughty' retired vicar, 74, caught carrying out a sex act with a HENRY HOOVER in church while wearing stockings claims he did it because his 'diabetes was not medicated'
- John Jeffs, 74, was caught in the act in Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire
- Retired vicar was in his office at the town's Baptist Centre at the time of offence
- He was spotted standing beside a hoover while wearing only a pair of stockings
- Jeffs guilty of indecent exposure after trial at Northampton Magistrates' Court
A 'naughty' church leader carried out a sex act with a Henry Hoover while wearing nothing but stockings.
John Jeffs, 74, was caught in the act while in his office at a Baptist centre in Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire.
Jeffs was spotted by churchgoer who saw the retired vicar standing by the hoover while it was being rested between two chairs.
A court heard that Jeffs noticed the member of the public but continued to perform the sex act because he was feeling 'naughty'.
Yesterday, during a court appearance, Jeff's solicitor said the perverted pensioner was in 'a lot of pain' because he was ignoring his health.
He also claimed his client's diabetes was not being medicated at the time of the incident, in September 2020.
Jeffs, of Middleton Cheney, Nothants., was found guilty of indecent exposure after a trial at Northampton Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
John Jeffs, 74, was caught in the act while in his office at a Baptist centre in Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire
JPs heard Jeffs committed the sex act while working as a pastoral manager at Christian faith-based group, Parents Talking Asperger's.
The court heard he was in his office at The Baptist Centre in Middleton Cheney in September 2020 when he was seen.
A witness walked past and said they saw Jeffs almost completely naked, except for a pair of ladies stockings.
Prosecution barrister, Ellie Hutchinson, said that Jeffs accepted in a police interview that he was performing a sex act in a church but claimed he did not know he would be seen.
Jeffs, who previously had a clean record, was given an 18-month community order and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register.
Jeffs was spotted by churchgoer who saw the retired vicar standing by the branded hoover (pictured: Not the actual Henry Hoover used in the sex act) while it rested between two chairs
He was also ordered to pay £845 in court costs and £200 in compensation to the victim who witnessed the sex act.
The defence solicitor, Alistair Evans, said that Jeffs was still coming to terms with the loss of his wife at a young age and was in 'a lot of pain' because he was ignoring his health and his diabetes was not medicated.
The magistrate said: 'Why you thought it best to bring this matter to trial, I have no idea.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11013975/Naughty-retired-vicar-74-caught-carrying-sex-act-Henry-Hoover.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-14T15:57:40Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11013975/Naughty-retired-vicar-74-caught-carrying-sex-act-Henry-Hoover.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is giving its ultimate final salute Thursday to Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, a hero of the battle for Iwo Jima who was the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II.
Williams, who died last month at age 98, is lying in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, a tribute reserved for the nation's most distinguished private citizens. Only six others have received the honor: civil rights icon Rosa Parks, the Rev. Billy Graham and four Capitol police officers.
Just 21, Williams was a Marine corporal when U.S. forces came ashore on the strategic Japanese island in early 1945. Williams moved ahead of his unit and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions. Facing small-arms fire, he fought for four hours, repeatedly returning to prepare demolition charges and obtain flamethrowers. President Harry Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest decoration, later that year.
But the new tribute to Williams is about more than his bravery in combat service. It serves as recognition for a generation of heroes, now dwindling in numbers, who fought in World War II. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said Williams wanted to lie in honor as a way to recognize every Medal of Honor recipient from that war.
Lawmakers have lauded Williams throughout the week, marveling that he was so young during his actions at Iwo Jima. They have hailed his public service following his military career, which included establishing a foundation that works with local stakeholders to create monuments for Gold Star families of the fallen throughout the country.
Williams was well known in his native West Virginia. In 2018, a Huntington, Va., medical center was renamed in his honor, and the Navy commissioned a mobile base sea vessel in his name in 2020.
The state's two senators took the Senate floor Wednesday to remember him. Democrat Joe Manchin called him the “greatest of the greatest generation." Republican Shelley Moore Capito recalled his humility, saying that when Truman presented him with the Medal of Honor, Williams remembered asking himself why he was selected for the nation's highest military honor when Marines right beside him did not make it home.
“That shows you the kind of man that Woody Williams was, always putting his country and his comrades first and never concerned with who got the credit," Capito said. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Congress-salutes-last-WWII-Medal-of-Honor-17304838.php | 2022-07-14T16:00:17Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Congress-salutes-last-WWII-Medal-of-Honor-17304838.php | true |
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The deadline for President Joe Biden to intervene and keep 115,000 railroad workers from going on strike and disrupting deliveries of cars, crops, containers of imported goods and countless other products and raw materials is looming.
Biden is widely expected to name a board of arbitrators to review the contract dispute and make recommendations on how to settle it before Monday's deadline. Once he does that, any strike or lockout will be delayed 60 days under the federal law that governs railroad contract talks.
A White House official said the Biden administration is going through the standard process to decide whether to appoint this special board to intervene in the contract talks.
Businesses that rely on railroads have urged Biden to appoint that Presidential Emergency Board to try to bring the freight railroads and workers together to reach a deal. Groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and major trade groups of railroad shippers all wrote to Biden over the past month since the talks deadlocked and mediation officially ended to say a rail strike could cause catastrophic disruptions in the economy.
“Any strike is bad," said Rob Benedict with the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers group that represents refineries and other chemical companies. "We want to avoid that at all costs especially when we are in a precarious situation like our nation is now in kind of our current supply chain crisis.”
Adding to the supply chain worries is a separate labor dispute involving 22,000 West Coast dockworkers at ports that handle roughly 40% of U.S. imports. Both sides in those negotiations have said they plan to keep cargo moving until a new agreement is reached even though their contract expired at the beginning of July. The ports rely on railroads to deliver many of the goods they handle.
The presidential board can only make nonbinding recommendations on the railroad contracts, but those will serve as the basis for a new round of negotiations that could yield a contract that has eluded the railroads since talks began more than two years ago.
Even if those efforts fail, Congress would likely intervene to prevent a strike. Lawmakers could impose terms on the railroads and their 12 unions at that point or take other action to keep the trains moving.
The National Carriers’ Conference Committee that represents Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and other railroads said it believes the wage increases railroads are offering are fair based on other recent major labor agreements, but the unions say none of the offers so far do enough to offset inflation or reflect the current worker shortages. Plus, the railroads want workers to pay more of their health insurance costs, which the unions say would eat up most, if not all, of the proposed raises.
NCCC Chairman Brendan Branon said the railroads are disappointed a deal hasn't been reached yet, but they're hopeful the presidential board will help.
“It remains in the best interests of all parties – and the public – for the railroads and rail labor organizations to settle this bargaining round by entering mutually acceptable agreements that provide prompt pay increases to the nation’s hard working rail employees and prevent rail service disruptions,” Branon said in a statement.
The unions say a better contract would likely help ease the railroads' struggles to hire more workers to reduce delays in deliveries and improve service in response to complaints from shippers and regulators. The railroads have been having significant problems keeping up with demand this year as the economy improves — forcing some businesses to slow production while waiting for trains — and they say hiring hundreds more workers is key to improving service.
Many of the companies who ship goods on the rails, labor groups and regulators blame the railroads’ current shipping problems on those deep worker cuts while the railroads say the nationwide worker shortages and difficult hiring environment has kept them from hiring enough workers to handle all the shipments as the economy recovers.
In the contract talks, the unions also adamantly oppose railroad proposals to cut train crews down from two people to one.
Union officials say they don't want to strike but they appear ready to act if it does come to that. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said this week that more then 99% of its members voted to authorize the union to go on strike if a deal can't be reached.
“In the end, the question of whether or not any of the rail industry’s union-represented employees want to legally strike is secondary to what they truly want,” BLET President Dennis Pierce said. “They want a contract with meaningful wage increases and good benefits. They want jobs that give them the ability to have a life outside of work. To be clear, there would be no need for a strike vote if any of that had happened in these negotiations.”
The workers who kept the railroads running throughout the pandemic are frustrated they haven't had a raise since 2019, and they're fed up with the working conditions and schedules they have to endure after the major freight railroads cut nearly one-third of their jobs over the past six years as they overhauled operations.
“With a stale contract that has been in effect since prior to inflation taking hold, the workers have nothing to show for their blood, sweat and tears, as well as the sacrifices they and their families have made,” said Jeremy Ferguson, president of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division union that represents conductors. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Deadline-to-block-freight-rail-strike-looms-17304923.php | 2022-07-14T16:00:23Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Deadline-to-block-freight-rail-strike-looms-17304923.php | false |
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Built in 1971, the home still boasts Midcentury charm with sharp angles, long hallways and loads of wood and glass.
The 1970s home. (Jason Ragle)
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PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Senior European Union officials on Thursday praised Montenegro for siding with the bloc's policies against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine and urged the small Balkan nation to press on with reforms needed to advance toward EU membership.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and the Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi attended a joint Montenegro-EU Stabilization and Association Council that was held for the first time in a Balkan candidate country, an apparent expression of the EU's commitment to the integration of the volatile region.
Montenegro is widely seen as next in line for EU membership, but the nation's advance has been stalled because of internal political tensions between the pro-Western camp and those favoring closer ties with neighboring Serbia and Russia.
With Russia vying to maintain its historic influence in the Balkans, the EU has sought to keep alive countries' bid to join the bloc despite slow progress. Apart from Montenegro, EU hopefuls in the region include Serbia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, whose minority government enjoys a slim parliamentary majority, insisted that membership in the EU remains the only option for Montenegro. He promised to seek broader support for further reform.
“We need to do our homework,” Abazović said.
Borrell said he thanked Montenegro for its “steady 100% alignment with EU foreign policy decisions.” Montenegro has joined EU sanctions against Russia and defied Moscow, a traditional Slavic ally, back in 2017 to join NATO.
“Montenegro needs to keep the focus on the EU path,” Borrell added. “There is nothing more important. The window of opportunity is now.”
Borrell also urged Montenegro to abolish its program of granting citizenship to rich foreign investors. Analysts have said the EU apparently fears that some Russian or Belarusian individuals could benefit while facing Western sanctions.
Montenegro must implement judicial and rule of law reform, improve media freedom and boost the fight against crime and corruption, officials said. Várhelyi is set to visit Albania later Thursday. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/EU-officials-encourage-Montenegro-to-press-on-17304911.php | 2022-07-14T16:00:36Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/EU-officials-encourage-Montenegro-to-press-on-17304911.php | false |
Internal emails from the Wyoming Department of Education show a discrepancy between Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder’s scathing public messaging and more tempered behind-the-scenes guidance and discussion of a federal reinterpretation of anti-discrimination protections involving schools.
Schroeder has depicted the change in multiple statements as forcing schools to comply with a federal agenda of “social engineering” in order to continue receiving federal money that pays for school meals. He implied that the change would allow “boys in girls’ locker rooms” and was meant to pave the way for “boys in girls sports” and the “forced usage of pronouns.”
But emails that the Star-Tribune obtained from the Wyoming Department of Education through a public records request show that, behind the scenes, Schroeder had received guidance indicating the change was just meant to allow students to file complaints if they were denied a meal because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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The USDA Food and Nutrition Service announced May 5 that it would reinterpret federal protections against sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
That reinterpretation is based on the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that that the prohibition on sex discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Under the change, any organization that gets money from the Food and Nutrition Service is supposed to “investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation” and “update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation,” according to the May 5 statement. The policy update was effective immediately, although the USDA is allowing some flexibility around the timeline for organizations to make those updates to their policies and signage, according to a USDA spokesperson.
Wyoming participates in several Food and Nutrition Service programs, including the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. The state gets federal money to pay for those programs.
“Program operators who fail to comply will be in violation of civil rights laws and in breach of the agreements they signed in order to receive federal funds,” the spokesperson said in an email to the Star-Tribune. “At that time, USDA will interpret the prohibition through traditional compliance and discrimination complaint mechanisms, which could include up to referring the case to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).”
The emails obtained by the Star-Tribune offer insight into how department leaders responded to the federal policy change.
On June 2, Schroeder responded to an email from department spokesperson Linda Finnerty that included a link to the May 5 USDA announcement.
“My own view: the only updating of our non-discrimination policies and signage that needs to happen (if at all) should include prohibitions based on the humanity of a person, not on sexual identity issues [sic] which fits their worldview and value system but [sic] conflicts with the majority of Americans,” Schroeder wrote. “Otherwise, if that doesn’t work for the feds, we reject their money.”
Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Chad Auer sent out an email to local school superintendents on the same day letting them know that the department was working with state agencies to “evaluate the implications of the USDA’s recent action.”
The following day, the Department of Education issued a blistering statement on behalf of Schroeder, in which he denounced the USDA’s reinterpreted nondiscrimination protections and accused the federal government of tying “the school lunches of little kids to its ever-relentless agenda of social engineering.”
A blistering statement from Wyoming's schools superintendent is again fanning the flames of debate over gender identity and sexual orientation.
Schroeder didn’t mention that the Department of Education was still looking into the impact that the USDA’s nondiscrimination update could have on Wyoming schools.
He added further on in the statement that the USDA’s reinterpretation conflicts with “the majority of Wyomingites [sic] who’s faith or common sense inform them differently.”
Several polls actually suggest otherwise.
In 2014, a University of Wyoming survey found that 53% of respondents agreed and 39% disagreed with the statement that gay marriage should be allowed. Another statewide poll from 2014 showed that 62% of respondents said they favored adding sexual orientation and gender identity to Wyoming’s employment non-discrimination law, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization, found in a 2017 survey that 66% of respondents favored adding LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws.
(Finnerty later said in a June 9 email to the Star-Tribune that Schroeder’s statement about the “majority of Wyomingites” was “based on Wyoming’s voter roles reflecting it is a primarily conservative, republican state”).
The day after the Department of Education released Schroeder’s statement, an education advocate who has worked with the department sent the agency an email expressing concerns about Schroeder’s messaging around the USDA’s nondiscrimination update. Finnerty forwarded that email to Schroeder and Auer.
The advocate pointed out specifically that Schroeder’s portrayal of the Biden administration’s role in the USDA update could be misleading.
To be clear, Biden did sign an executive order in January 2021 that directs government agencies to review and revise policies so they align with the previously mentioned Bostock decision. The USDA also says explicitly in its May 5 statement that the nondiscrimination update “is in line” with Biden’s executive order.
But Schroeder didn’t mention the Bostock Supreme Court decision in his first statement. Neither did he point out in his subsequent statements that Justice Neil Gorsuch, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by former president Donald Trump, wrote the majority opinion for that case.
The advocate wrote in closing that “misleading communications like this one will make it harder for (Schroeder) to get elected.”
The superintendent of public instruction post is an elected position. But Schroeder wasn’t elected. Gov. Mark Gordon appointed him to the position in January after former superintendent Jillian Balow took a similar job in Virginia. His appointment ends this January. Schroeder is running for election to the post against five other candidates. Next month is the Republican primary.
The Wyoming Department of Education issued another statement on June 8, reiterating that Schroeder stood by his denouncement of the USDA updates. That statement addressed the Bostock decision and Biden’s executive order.
Wyoming's schools chief put out another statement denouncing non-discrimination policy changes involving gender identity and sexual origination. Critics accused him of politicking at the cost of children's well-being.
Following that statement, a department official shared with fellow administrators a June 16 email from the Council of Chief State School Officers — a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization made up of people who head K-12 education departments in the U.S. — that outlined the council’s understanding at the time of the USDA nondiscrimination update and its impact for Wyoming schools. The council clarified that this guidance was “unofficial information” and that it shouldn’t be considered legal advice.
“Our understanding is that this non-binding guidance is specifically related to ensuring students cannot be denied a meal or separated from other students in a cafeteria setting based on their gender identity or sexual orientation,” a representative of the council wrote in the email.
The representative added that, per the council’s understanding at the time, the USDA’s updated requirement was “not intended to be related to laws or policies that may be related to student use of bathrooms, ability to play sports, etc.”
A USDA spokesperson later confirmed with the Star-Tribune that the update only relates to discrimination around Food and Nutrition Service programs.
“The change gives recourse for LGBTQ+ Americans who experience discrimination by or within a Food and Nutrition Service Program,” the spokesperson said in an email. “If discrimination does occur, that person can now file a complaint of sex discrimination—nothing more.”
The spokesperson clarified that the USDA Food and Nutrition Service investigates Title IX discrimination complaints “only when an alleged discriminatory act impacts a person’s ability to participate in an (Food and Nutrition Service) nutrition program such as the National School Lunch Program.”
Finnerty had also responded along these lines to a member of the public, who wrote in a June 9 email to the education department that “our young women deserve to feel safe when using the bathroom.”
“This update to the USDA non-discrimination statement does not have any connection to bathrooms in the schools,” Finnerty wrote in response. “It relates only to food services.”
But in his most vitriolic June 22 statement on the topic, Schroeder still suggested, albeit implicitly, that the USDA’s update would impact other areas of school activity.
Wyoming's top schools official says the state "will not comply" with federal requirements to change non-discrimination policies and called on the state to reject federal money tied to lunch programs.
“Vulnerable children will not go unfed in Wyoming, and we will not allow boys in girls’ locker rooms,” he said. “We categorically reject gender ideology and will not bow to the coercive will of a bully government.”
He implied further on in the statement that the USDA’s updated requirement will eventually lead to “boys in girls sports, forced usage of pronouns, etc.”
The Star-Tribune asked Schroeder why he suggested that the USDA’s nondiscrimination update would impact who plays on which sports teams, who uses which locker rooms and the usage of pronouns, when the guidance he received behind-the-scenes suggested otherwise.
He responded to the question in an email relayed through Finnerty.
“Wyoming has a right to govern its own schools without agendas from outside the state,” he said in the email.
The Star-Tribune also asked Schroeder to comment on the seeming contradiction between his assertion that “vulnerable children will not go unfed in Wyoming…” and the USDA’s aim to provide extra protections so that kids’ participation in a Food and Nutrition Service program isn’t denied or impacted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
“I stand by my comment,” Schroeder responded in the email.
He said that he has “the interests of all Wyoming children in mind as well as their parents.”
When asked if he had consulted with other entities about the real-world impact of the USDA’s nondiscrimination update, Schroeder said that he’s “coordinating with other states.”
He didn’t say whether he had received other guidance that contradicted the Council of Chief State School Officers’ understanding of the USDA’s nondiscrimination update and its implications for Wyoming schools.
“What the USDA will ultimately do is yet to be determined,” he said in response to the question.
It doesn’t appear that Schroeder has taken steps to learn about the experiences of Wyoming’s LGBTQ students.
“When speaking with students I do not inquire as to their sexuality,” Schroeder responded when the Star-Tribune asked if he had taken steps learn about LGBTQ students in Wyoming. | https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/emails-show-disconnect-between-school-chiefs-public-statements-private-guidance/article_b547fefc-0225-11ed-abe6-6fefad676652.html | 2022-07-14T16:00:51Z | https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/emails-show-disconnect-between-school-chiefs-public-statements-private-guidance/article_b547fefc-0225-11ed-abe6-6fefad676652.html | false |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo supermarket where 10 Black people were killed by a white gunman is set to reopen its doors to the public Friday, two months after the racist attack.
A moment of silence and prayer will be held Thursday at Tops Friendly Market to honor the victims, employees and community impacted by the May 14 mass shooting, with a ceremonial reopening of the overhauled store before customers return Friday, the company said.
Ten Black people were killed when a then-18-year-old gunman wearing body armor and carrying a semi-automatic rifle opened fire on weekend shoppers and employees. Three people were wounded in the massacre.
Investigators say the shooter was motivated by white supremacist beliefs and researched the demographics of the predominantly Black neighborhood where the market is located with the intent of killing as many Black people as possible. He drove for more than three hours from his home in Conklin, New York, to carry out the attack, authorities said.
The decision to reopen, rather than relocate, the store has been met with mixed emotions in the East Buffalo neighborhood that, beset by high poverty, fought for years to get a grocery store. Since opening in 2003, the Tops location remains the only supermarket in the immediate area. Its closure in the wake of the shooting forced many residents to take buses to other locations or rely on stopgap measures like neighborhood giveaways to access fresh food.
“We must go on,” said Tops employee Rosalie Bishop, who has worked at the store for 12 years. She wants the store open again — and never for a moment considered not returning to work with colleagues who she considers family.
“The store is there for a reason. The store is still there for a reason," said Bishop, 58, who was on her way to work when the shooting happened and said she's still processing her near miss. "The people will come back. They might not come today or tomorrow, but they will come back.”
Other neighbors say reopening isn't the best path forward.
Suggestions to local media and on social networks include turning the site into a park or recreational center that would bring the community together, or having several supermarkets that are more dispersed throughout Buffalo's East Side.
Some simply can’t imagine entering a store where such terrible events took place.
The shooter, Payton Gendron, was arrested just outside the store’s front entrance. He is charged with numerous counts, including federal hate crime charges punishable by the death penalty, and has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges.
Authorities say the gunman was motivated by white supremacist beliefs, including a baseless conspiracy theory about a plot to diminish the influence of white people. He chronicled his plans for months in an online diary, authorities said, and livestreamed the attack via a helmet camera.
Mayor Byron Brown said he was apprehensive while first touring the remodeled store but believes the overhaul will be helpful to customers.
“I realize that not everyone will feel comfortable returning to the store,” he said in a statement, adding that he is encouraging other retailers to serve the area.
“None of us will ever forget the cruel, racist attack,” Brown said. The reopening is a step toward healing, he said.
Bishop already has returned to the store to help prepare. Her first day went smoothly, but a security drill with flashing lights on the second day sent her home, shaken, mid-shift. Still, she said she is not afraid for her safety.
“I just want peace. I just want peace,” Bishop said. “It’ll never go back to the way it was. We’re not looking for the way it was. But peace." | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/buffalo-supermarket-to-reopen-2-months-after-mass-shooting/article_293b9be6-c0fb-5a57-88ed-346f6966d5f1.html | 2022-07-14T16:00:58Z | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/across_america/buffalo-supermarket-to-reopen-2-months-after-mass-shooting/article_293b9be6-c0fb-5a57-88ed-346f6966d5f1.html | false |
CLEVELAND, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Freedonia Group analysis forecasts pipe demand to increase 2.2% annually to $57.9 billion in 2026, with growth coming mostly from volume increases as average prices for some metal and plastic products are expected to decline following a major spike in 2021:
- The structural and mechanical market – which accounts for the largest share of pipe demand in value terms – will see gains driven by ongoing growth in refrigerator and air conditioner production.
- The oil and gas market will grow at the fastest rate as drilling activity significantly rebounds from the declines of the prior five-year period.
- A decline in copper pipe pricing will cause DWV demand in value terms to decline, but in linear feet terms, demand will rise as more bathrooms per structure are installed in residential and commercial buildings.
The oil and gas market is expected to be the fastest growing pipe market, supported by a significant rebound in the number of wells drilled in the US as oil and natural gas prices increase from very low levels in 2020 and early 2021. Oil and gas drilling activity has increased significantly in 2022, as international production has not been able to keep up with demand and sanctions against Russia have limited the supply of available oil, causing prices to increase at a rapid pace.
Pipes Products & Markets provides historical data (2011, 2016, and 2021) and forecasts for the years 2026, and 2031 for the following competitive pipe materials:
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- plastic (broken out by PVC, HDPE, PEX, CPVC, fiberglass, ABS, and other resins)
- copper
- ductile iron
- concrete
- aluminum
- other nonferrous metals (e.g., titanium, nickel)
- clay
Also included are breakouts for pipe markets:
- structural and mechanical (refrigeration and HVAC equipment, appliances, transportation equipment, other structural and mechanical products)
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- irrigation
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The Kanwar Yatra, which began on Thursday, is an important part of the religious calendar of thousands of Shiva devotees in north India, especially western Uttar Pradesh. In the past few years, it has become the site of intense political contestation between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party (SP), which was in power in UP between 2012 and 2017.
“Akhilesh Yadav had put a blanket ban on DJs and loudspeakers during the Yatra, free meals in temples for devotees were disallowed, and the then official machinery deliberately diverted the routes of the Yatra to ensure that devotees had to go through a long route to bring the holy water from the Ganga in Haridwar,” alleged BJP Trade Cell chief for west UP Vineet Sharda.
Several devotees concur with the BJP’s view and claim that it had become easier for them to conduct the yatra on their terms since the Yogi Adityanath government came to power in 2017. The pilgrims were also feted by the Adityanath government in 2018, with the CM undertaking an aerial survey of a yatra route and showering the Kanwarias, as the devotees are known, with flower petals. The government’s support received an enthusiastic response from the devotees, with slogans such as “DJ bajwa diye Yogi ne, Bhole nachwa diye Yogi ne (Yogi switched on DJ, Yogi made the devotees dance)” and “Akhilesh ne hukum sunaya tha, DJ per ban lagaya tha, 2017 ke chunav me Bhole ne usey haraya tha. Chhakke chhura diye Yogi ne (Akhilesh had issued a diktat, DJs were banned. In 2017, Lord Shiva ensured his defeat, Yogi has cut him to size).”
State Home Secretary Awanish Kumar Awasthi, who supervised the Yatra preparations in Meerut on Thursday along with Director General of Police (DGP) DS Chauhan said the CM had instructed that devotees be showered with flower petals this year too to “boost their morale”. He added, “There also will be no restriction on DJs but they will have to maintain the sound limit within the allowed decibel units. We are ready to turn the Kanwar Yatra into an unprecedented one this time. Besides the showering of flower petals, there will be elaborate arrangements for boarding and lodging of the devotees and high-class medical facilities will also be available for them during the fortnight.”
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Awasthi and Chauhan also performed puja at the famous Augarnath temple before taking a tour of the Yatra route. The state police chief appealed to people not to post objectionable material on the internet during or after the yatra and added that a strict vigil was being maintained on social media websites.
RSS leader Ajay Tyagi also alleged that the SP government used to hassle the Kanwarias and claimed that since coming to power Adityanath had taken an “active interest” in their welfare and instructed the state government machinery to ensure a hassle-free yatra for the pilgrims.
Among the Kanwarias, several belong to Dalit and Other Backward Class (OBC) communities and the BJP’s gesture for the pilgrims helps the party consolidate its position in these groups.
Dismissing the BJP-RSS allegations, SP Meerut president Rajpal Singh said a lie if told a hundred times becomes the “truth”. He added, “If the BJP leaders say that Akhilesh Yadav put a ban on DJs during the Kanwar Yatra and restricted free food distribution from temples, why did they not come out with a government order supporting their allegation? Akhilesh ji never put a ban on DJs or put spoke about the movement of devotees. They are in the government, why don’t they come out with documents to corroborate their allegations?”
Curbs in place
Since the BJP has come to power, the sale of meat and liquor along the Kanwar Yatra route from Ghaziabad to Haridwar remains on hold, with many shops shutting down during the entirety of the yatra or selling vegetable or soya biryani. This time around, the Noida administration instructed the closure of meat and liquor shops along all routes of the Yatra in the district. The same thing is seen in other parts of west UP too.
“We voluntarily decided not to sell meat biryani during the auspicious days of the Kanwar Yatra in 2018 and 2019 and sold paneer biryani,” said Abdul Rehman who sells biryani in Meerut’s Ghantaghar area. “This year too, we will do the same. Though our sales go down by 20 per cent during the two weeks, we are ready to bear the losses for our Hindu brothers.”
A 20 per cent decline in sales amounts to a loss of about Rs 6,000 per day or approximately Rs 84,000 during the fortnight of the yatra.
Not only biryani and meat sellers, owners of small and big industrial units along the Yatra route also face problems because of restrictions on the movement of heavy vehicles on the highway. These curbs affect the supply of raw materials to these units. Partapur Industrial Association official Rajeev Singhal said, “We have to shut down our units for these days as we do not get raw material. There are around 600 major and minor industrial units dotted on the highway or in cities and the estimated loss is almost Rs 150 crore. But we are happy to bear it for Lord Shiva and the Kanwarias’ faith.”
Explaining the traffic restrictions that will be in place beginning Thursday, Meerut Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Jitendra Kumar said, “There was a movement of around three crore devotees on the route during the Kanwar days in 2019 and this year we are expecting almost double of that figure (around six crore) because the Yatra remained suspended for two years due to Covid-19. We have decided to restrict the movement of heavy vehicles on the highway from July 14 to 26 and will also block lighter vehicles from July 23 to ensure that devotees who walk 200-300 km on the route do not face any hurdles.”
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Drug-sniffing K-9s alert police to 400 pounds of meth in man’s storage unit, officials say
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A Missouri man has been indicted by a grand jury after authorities made the largest meth seizure in the St. Louis DEA division’s history.
Police said they found nearly 500 pounds of meth valued at more than $1 million in a storage unit rented by Kolby L. Kristiansen, 68.
Drug-sniffing K-9s alerted authorities to Kristiansen’s storage unit on June 29. A federal search warrant was then executed on July 1 at the storage unit. Authorities found three plastic containers containing suspected methamphetamine, charging documents say.
The containers weighed a total of 476 pounds, including the suspected meth and packaging materials.
Kristiansen was charged with possession of meth with the intent to sell.
Michael A. Davis, special agent in charge of DEA’s St. Louis Division, said in a press release the seized drugs are valued at more than $1 million. That makes it the largest meth seizure in the St. Louis DEA division’s history.
Kristiansen was recently released from federal prison after serving time for similar charges back in 2014. A mugshot of Kristiansen was not immediately available.
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While the New Jersey Devils missed out on the top prize in NHL free agency, they landed a two-time Stanley Cup winner with a track record of playoff success.
The Devils have greed to terms with left winger Ondrej Palat on a $30 million, five-year contract, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday because the deal had not been announced.
Palat had 52 points in 71 games during Tampa Bay's three consecutive trips to the Cup Final. He finished sixth in Conn Smythe Trophy voting as playoff MVP this year.
Tampa Bay attempted to keep the 31-year-old from Czechia and defenseman Jan Rutta, who signed with Pittsburgh, but couldn't make the salary cap numbers work. Instead, general manager Julien BriseBois turned to locking up defensemen Mikhail Sergachev and Erik Cernak and center Anthony Cirelli to eight-year extensions through 2031.
The Devils landed Palat after losing the Johnny Gaudreau sweepstakes to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Gaudreau signed a $68.25 million, eight-year contract with Columbus after deciding to leave Calgary. His decision came after an initial frenzy of signings, including the Washington Capitals getting Cup-winning goaltender Darcy Kuemper and Claude Giroux leaving Florida for Ottawa.
In a year the salary cap going up just $1 million — the first increase in three years — several big names remained unsigned early Thursday. They include center Nazem Kadri and defenseman John Klingberg, considered the best free agents available.
The reigning champion Colorado Avalanche have said they would like to bring back Kadri, who helped them win it all. The Dallas Stars all but ruled out keeping Klingberg, who could still sign one of the biggest contracts of the offseason.
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A comprehensive and 'Enterprise-ready Slack to Teams Migration Platform' available in the market
BLUE BELL, Pa., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AVASOFT, a Next-Gen products and solutions company, and an industry leader in accelerating the digital transformation for corporates and enterprises is excited to announce its release of enhanced AVAMIGRATRON, the Next-Generation cloud-based Slack to Teams migration platform. The tool comes with myriad features to support enterprises with a secure and seamless migration from Slack to Microsoft Teams.
AVAMIGRATRON is an all-encompassing Slack to Teams migration platform that helps SMBs and large enterprises to migrate their workspace from Slack to Teams. With its comprehensive list of in-demand features, the platform is the 'Enterprise-ready Slack to Teams migration platform' available in the market that supports all the facets of Slack to Teams migration right from detailed inventory assessment to effective Teams deployment. With decades of experience in data migration, AVASOFT has now released the enhanced Web App of AVAMIGRATRON to enable SMEs to migrate on the go with best-in-class security.
"Regardless of the size of the enterprise or the number of channels and groups, we wanted to render a secure and seamless workspace transformation for all. And the result is our AVAMIGRATRON Web App. Now, we have made it possible for SMBs to make the move from Slack to Teams in the most seamless and easiest way possible," said Sairam, the CTO of AVASOFT.
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With a team of 1000+ members, AVASOFT unleashes the true potential of cutting-edge technologies to create maximum business impact. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, and Plano, Texas for the US, Toronto for Canada, and Chennai for the Asia Pacific, AVASOFT serves enterprises across the globe to shape the future of software.
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Deal count and fundraising by VC funds remained strong in Q2 while deal values across all stages and VC-backed public listings were hit harder by the economic downturn
SEATTLE, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite an uncertain macroeconomic environment, US venture capital (VC) deal activity in the first half of 2022 was strong, according to the Q2 2022 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, the authoritative quarterly report jointly produced by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) with support from Insperity and J.P. Morgan.
While deal count remained strong, when compared with the highs of 2021, deal value declined significantly across all stages. The mega-deals that defined 2021 slowed in the first half of 2022 as investors took a more cautious approach. With more than $290 billion in dry powder, and nearly 3,000 funds closed since the beginning of 2019, the VC industry is likely to see the trends of steady deal count but readjusted pricing continue until certainty returns to the market.
VC-backed exit activity in Q2 2022 largely mirrored Q1. Corporate M&A exit count activity remained steady, but the biggest change was the precipitous decline in traditional IPOs. SPAC mergers also declined in Q2, bringing the total number of public listings in the first half of 2022 to 42. This decline is most concerning for the potential for billion-dollar exits, as IPOs have traditionally been the main source of liquidity for private companies operating at that scale. This decline is also concerning because VC-backed IPOs have historically had an outsized positive impact on the U.S. public markets.
"The second quarter of 2022 brought an expected continuation of market tightening in some parts of the U.S. venture ecosystem," said NVCA President and CEO Bobby Franklin. "However, the industry's record dry powder continues to fuel critical innovation that is addressing the country's important needs. The venture industry's long-term view of investing, even during uncertain fiscal times, is further proof it is a reliable economic engine with an eye toward funding the next generation of great American companies."
"As the market continues to react to volatility over the past six months, the venture ecosystem demonstrates strength as dry powder reaches new heights and fundraising levels surpass more than $100 billion for the second consecutive year," said John Gabbert, founder and CEO of PitchBook. "Exits remain extremely low while late-stage companies act with caution as a result of bearish public market activity. There are still uncertainties as to what to expect in the second half of the year, however, market indicators show resilience to weathering the potential economic downturn."
HIGHLIGHTS:
Investment Activity
- Seed-stage investments are generally furthest from the public market and have been relatively insulated more than the rest of the industry from economic volatility. The Q2 estimated total seed deal count is near the highest figure in the dataset.
- Q2 early-stage VC saw additional pressure affecting deal activity with roughly $16 billion invested across an estimated 1,340 deals. The quarter's total deal value dropped well below the record quarterly highs set in 2021, but is still ahead of pre-pandemic levels.
- A substantial decline in late-stage deal count has yet to surface in the data, but average deal size and valuation have fallen significantly from recent highs.
Fundraising Activity
- US VC fundraising has exceeded $100 billion for the second consecutive year. A strong showing from established managers in the first half of the year has pushed capital raised to a near record.
- Through six months, we tracked $121.5 billion closed across 415 funds, making 2022 already the second-highest year on record for US VC fundraising and the second consecutive year this total has exceeded $100 billion.
- First-time fundraising has had a more difficult start to the year, raising just $7.6 billion after a record $16.8 billion was raised by new managers in 2021.
Exit Activity
- Q2 2022 saw very similar exit activity to Q1 as counts tracked to the historical pace of 1,100 annual exits that we saw from 2014-2020, with exit value lagging the last three years.
- IPOs continued to be essentially nonexistent for VC-backed companies in 2022, with only 22 closed during the first half of the year, relative to 183 in 2021, and 108 in 2020.
- Corporate M&A exit count remained steady with more than 200 closed in Q2. With public listings halted, private companies may be looking to strategic acquirers as a more viable liquidity option, albeit with exit value expectations readjusted to align with overall repricing happening across the ecosystem.
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Sarah Grimstead, Sales Regional Vice President, Insperity
"Human capital management should be top priority as we continue to find solutions in a world of uncertainty. With deal count still strong in Q2 2022, new and existing startups will be looking to maximize their most important asset, their people. With over $200 billion in dry powder, record fundraising the last two years, and lower exit activity, startups need to continue hiring and retaining the right people for their company. Having a strong company culture can increase employee engagement, reduce turnover, and faster growth compared to the rest of the economy."
Pamela Aldsworth, Head of Venture Capital Coverage, J.P. Morgan Commerical Banking
"Over the last quarter, the pace of fundraising has slowed sharply and valuations (mostly in the later stages) are beginning to correct. We expect valuations will come down across all investment stages as this cycle plays out - and in our view, this is a healthy resetting of the bar. But if the next few months are as quiet as we anticipate, founders will need to make some tough choices to preserve runway. Meanwhile, with IPO markets currently challenged, a consolidation wave could be just around the corner.
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LONDON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprises are not only increasing their IoT spending and their deployment of devices but are doing so because IoT projects are meeting or exceeding return on investment (ROI) expectations according to the latest Omdia Internet of Things (IoT) Enterprise Survey. Omdia surveyed approximately 500 enterprises across countries that are deploying or are in the process of rolling out IoT solutions and found that over 90% of enterprises said their IoT projects have met or exceeded expectations.
"Both IoT and 5G have been derided as overpromising and underdelivering," said John Canali, IoT Principal Analyst, Omdia, "yet the IoT market is still developing and 5G technology is still evolving. While sometimes outrageous proofs of concept are touted for headlines, our survey results are clear: enterprises are embracing IoT and 5G is emerging as the preferred type of connectivity."
Omdia's survey results are positive for players across the IoT value chain. Communications service providers will likely see growth in high-bandwidth, high-value connections as 66% of enterprises are using or plan to use 5G connections while 53% of enterprises are using or plan on deploying new connections using LTE. The responses were similarly encouraging for growth in low-bandwidth connectivity such as NB-IoT and LoRaWAN.
"For enterprises, IoT solutions do not come without hurdles. Security, privacy, and complexity continue to be the three greatest pain points for enterprises. These issues all present opportunities for systems integrators (SIs), cloud providers, hardware vendors, component suppliers, and various other IoT vendors."
In spite of the current economic climate and uncertainty around inflation, Omdia believes that enterprises will increasingly look to IoT solutions to address emerging enterprise needs including managing their supply chain or meeting environmental, social, and corporate governance goals (ESGs).
To learn more about the survey results from Omdia's fourth annual IoT Enterprise Survey, please click here.
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Omdia is a leading research and advisory group focused on the technology industry. With clients operating in over 120 countries, Omdia provides market-critical data, analysis, advice, and custom consulting.
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizens National Life Insurance Company ("Citizens National"), a subsidiary of Citizens, Inc. (NYSE: CIA) announces its expansion into Texas with its Critical Illness Coverage product. After launching in Florida, Citizens National set its sights on expanding to allow more policyholders to have access to this important coverage product.
Bob Mauldin, President and Chief Marketing Officer of Citizens National shares, "It's exciting news that we are now in Texas, the home of our parent company Citizens, Inc. Our Critical Illness Coverage product is an exceptional product designed to give policyholders coverage where they need it and help supplement their Health insurance. One of the best features is it gives the policyholder the power to decide where to spend it. We are proud to bring this product to Texas and continue to develop products that can help our policyholders."
Citizens National Critical Illness Coverage product pays benefits directly to the policyholder to assist with added expenses in the event of a qualifying critical illness. The Critical Illness Coverage is unique in that a policyholder with a qualifying illness is directly paid benefits and decides where to spend the money – its uses are flexible and can be used for anything from medical deductibles to everyday expenses such as rent, food or childcare.
Citizens National offers an exclusive, customized service with its understanding of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and the Hispanic culture so customers can be confident in making the most informed decisions. The entire customer and agent experience is provided in a choice of Spanish, Portuguese and English languages. Our broad trajectory and experience in the life insurance market in Latin American, along with our excellent digital and customized service, make Citizens National a top option.
To learn more about Citizens National or its products, you can visit, https://www.citizensinc.com/citizens-national
Citizens National Life Insurance Company is a member of the Citizens, Inc. group of life insurance Companies. Citizens National was incorporated in the State of Texas on June 2, 1965 and began transacting business in 1966. CNLIC is licensed in 9 states. The company gains additional financial stability through the long trajectory and strength of its holding company, Citizens, Inc., which adds value to each of our policies by providing state-of-the-art technology systems, strong investment strategies and streamlined operational leadership.
Citizens, Inc. (NYSE: CIA) is a diversified financial services company providing life, final expense, and limited liability property insurance and other financial products to individuals and small businesses in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia. Through its customer-centric growth strategy, Citizens offers innovative products to address the evolving needs of its customers. The company operates two primary segments: Life Insurance, where the Company is a market leader of U.S. dollar denominated whole life cash value insurance policies in Latin America, and Home Services, which operates primarily in the U.S. Gulf coast region. For more information about Citizens, please visit www.citizensinc.com.
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Former 100 Thieves executive focused on profitability across their apparel, content creators and esports teams as XSET celebrates its 2nd anniversary
BOSTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XSET, the world's fastest-growing gaming and lifestyle organization, announced the new hire of sales expert, Tim Mulligan, to their team as XSET's new Head of Sales.
Mulligan is joining XSET with a plan to develop forecasts and strategies to achieve sales at price levels to ensure profitability across their apparel, content creators, and esports teams, including its VALORANT team who was recently crowned North American champions beating FaZe Clan and OpTic at the VCT NA Stage 2 Challengers Grand Final. XSET has curated a platform that is the perfect combination of esports and cultural content for everyone to enjoy on a global scale.
"I'm beyond thrilled to join XSET as this is a huge opportunity to work with one of the best up-and-coming lifestyle/esports organizations in the world!" said Tim Mulligan. "I joined XSET, specifically, to have the opportunity to work with one of the most exciting lifestyle/gaming companies that truly is shaping and redefining pop culture -- which is focusing on inclusion, equality, creative expression, and cultural diversity. XSET is at the forefront of elevating that messaging."
With over two decades of experience in the lifestyle and gaming industry, Mulligan comes from 100 Thieves where he was the Head of Strategic Accounts. At 100 Thieves Mulligan led the charge in securing long and short-term partnerships for the esports teams and content creators. He secured their first gaming apparel collection with Halo: Infinite, created a campaign with Vistaprint focused on helping small businesses rebrand at the peak of the pandemic, and has worked on partnerships with celebrities like Channing Tatum. Mulligan has a vast amount of experience in PR, marketing, and sales that will help to elevate XSET as they continue to grow their organization as the leading lifestyle and gaming brand.
"Since starting XSET two years ago, we have been putting business decisions into play to help further the growth of the XSET brand." Said Clinton Sparks, Co-Founder and CBDO of XSET. "We are on a mission to build a culturally inclusive and diverse community and are bringing like minded people to our team to help build on that mission. Tim's presence and experience in the gaming world is important to the development of XSET and we are excited to bring on such a valuable player."
"XSET is growing and reaching completely new heights coming into its second year," said Co-Founder and CEO of XSET, Greg Selkoe. "With brand growth, comes team growth. We are excited for Tim to join our team and bring his ability to create profitable growth to help our development as a brand that is breaking down barriers in the esports industry."
About XSET
Founded in 2020 in Boston by gaming and pop culture veterans Greg Selkoe, Marco Mereu, Clinton Sparks and Wil Eddins, XSET is the fastest growing gaming organization and lifestyle brand in history. XSET fields some of the world's top competitive esports teams in titles including Valorant, Rocket League, Rainbow Six, Fortnite, Warzone, Apex Legends, eNASCAR and more. Built on a foundation of a diverse and inclusive gaming culture, XSET is building the preeminent brand for today's growing Gen Z audience of gamers. The organization continues to grow at a breakneck pace, partnering with high-profile brands such as Ghost Lifestyle, SCUF Gaming, Roots Canada, HyperX, Quality Control Music, Respawn, Fanshark and Wahlburgers and is working with socially positive causes including Big Brother Big Sister of America. Since its launch, XSET has attracted top-tier, world famous talent across music, sports and entertainment to its shared vision, including Grammy-nominated hip-hop artists Swae Lee and Ozuna, NFL superstar Ezekiel Elliot, BMX legend Nigel Sylvester, Rapper and GTA streamer Tee Grizzley, 14-year-old female Olympic skateboarding phenom Minna Stess, and professional athletes such as NFL star Ezekiel Elliot of the Dallas Cowboys. Sitting at the intersection of gaming and culture, XSET's robust merchandise offerings are some of the most sought-after in the industry, featuring high-profile collaborations and exclusive pieces fans can't find anywhere else. XSET is defining what it means to be cultural leaders in the space for future generations to come. For more information visit XSET.com #reptheset
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WHITEFISH, Mont., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Save Farmland, a new Montana nonprofit organization that protects agricultural land while strengthening local food systems, announced today a long-term partnership with the Under the Big Sky Festival to raise awareness and funds.
The five-year partnership makes Save Farmland the official nonprofit of the event, working closely with festival leadership to create awareness and money-raising opportunities for its programs through music and arts. The partnership kicks off at this year's event on July 15th through the 17th in Whitefish, Montana, where Save Farmland merchandise will be sold throughout the event, with 100% of proceeds going to its cause.
"Our team is extremely excited to partner with Save Farmland to help protect agricultural and ranch land across the Flathead Valley," said Johnny Shockey, CEO of Outrider's Present, and owner of Under the Big Sky Festival. "We're starting with merchandise this year, and hope to expand to benefit shows and other creative fundraising opportunities in the years to come for this important cause."
Save Farmland also announced the first three members of its Board of Directors, which includes Shockey:
- Scot Chisholm, Chairman and co-founder of Haskill Creek Farms, and founder of online fundraising software company, Classy (now an affiliate of GoFundMe);
- Robin Kelson, Executive Director of AERO (Alternative Energy Resources Organization) and CEO and owner of The Good Seed Company;
- Johnny Shockey, CEO of Outrider's Present, which owns Under the Big Sky Music Festival and a portfolio of other investments in the music and arts industry
Other organizations that have been integral to Save Farmland's early strategic planning include North Valley Food Bank, Land to Hand Montana, Wicked Good Produce, Two Bear Farm, and the FVCC (Flathead Valley Community College) Agriculture Program.
"Over the past twelve months, we've been talking with local nonprofit leaders, the farming community, and city officials to shape the vision for Save Farmland," said Robin Kelson, Save Farmland Board Director. "The question we've been asking is: How do we increase production of healthy local food in our community? Through these conversations, a dual mission emerged: one part land conservation and the other part a focus on programs that strengthen sustainable local food production, distribution, and access."
To kick off its first capital campaign, Save Farmland also announced a $2.35 million land donation by Whitefish residents Scot and Carrie Chisholm, with Scot also serving on the Board of Directors.
The 40-acre plot is located on the north side of Voerman Road, less than five minutes from downtown Whitefish, MT. It will serve as Save Farmland's first "Farm Hub", which includes an incubator program for new farmers, and resources for seasoned farmers to support existing food production and distribution.
"The goal of the Farm Hub is to provide farmers with a comprehensive path to success, including access to land and infrastructure, continuing education and sales distribution," said Scot Chisholm, Chairman at Save Farmland. "Flathead Valley has seen unprecedented growth in the last couple of years, so it's critically important that we continue to invest in the local food system to ensure that our community has healthy organic food for years to come."
The land donation on Voerman Road will also serve the broader Whitefish community, with plans for a large community garden and demonstration farm, a farmer's market, cooking and gardening classes, and public access to walking and bike paths throughout.
Concept drawings for the Farm Hub are underway, and Save Farmland's first capital campaign will continue to roll out this summer to raise money and awareness.
For more information please contact: hello@savefarmland.org
About Save Farmland:
Save Farmland is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that protects agricultural land and strengthens local food systems in Montana. Its unique Farm Hub strategy builds a pipeline of new farmers for a community, while supporting seasoned farmers and offering gardening and culinary amenities to the general public.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ:SCHL) today announced the following schedule and teleconference information for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 earnings release:
- Earnings Release: Thursday, July 21, 2022 at approximately 4:00 PM (Eastern) by public distribution and on the Company's websites at investor.scholastic.com and mediaroom.scholastic.com.
- Conference Call: Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 4:30 PM (Eastern) hosted by Peter Warwick, President and CEO and Kenneth Cleary, CFO. A live webcast of the call will be available on the "Investor Relations" page of the Scholastic Corporation's website at Online Registration. To access the conference call by phone, please go to this link (Phone Registration), and you will be provided with dial in details. To avoid delays, we encourage participants to dial into the conference call fifteen minutes ahead of the scheduled start time.
- Archived Webcast and Audio Replay: The archived webcast and accompanying slides will be available on the Company's website, investor.scholastic.com, shortly after the completion of the live call.
About Scholastic
For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been encouraging the personal and intellectual growth of all children, beginning with literacy. Having earned a reputation as a trusted partner to educators and families, Scholastic is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, a leading provider of literacy curriculum, professional services, and classroom magazines, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media. The Company creates and distributes bestselling books and e-books, print and technology-based learning programs for pre-K to grade 12, and other products and services that support children's learning and literacy, both in school and at home. With 15 international operations and exports to 165 countries, Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to all children around the world through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for SISI, HGEN, ENDP, CFRX, and WTRH.
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Multi-center study to evaluate safety and efficacy of S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ™ Vascular Stent System via Radial Access
MIAMI LAKES, Fla., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cordis, a global leader in cardiovascular technologies, today announced the start of the RADIANCY pre-market clinical study in Europe. It is a prospective, multi-center, single-arm study to assess the safety and efficacy of the S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ™ Vascular Stent System intended for treatment of lesions in the iliac, superficial femoral, or proximal popliteal arteries via radial artery access through 30-day follow up.
The first procedure was performed by Dr. Mercedes Guerra, Chief of Angiology, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the University Hospital of Guadalajara in Spain, using the BRITE TIP RADIANZ™ Guiding Sheath and SABERX RADIANZ™ PTA Balloon Catheter to facilitate delivery of the S.M.A.R.T RADIANZ™ self-expanding stent in an iliac lesion.
Upon completion of the procedure, Dr. Guerra said, "My colleagues and I are pleased to have the opportunity to perform the first case in this significant clinical study. We applaud Cordis for pursuing the technological innovation to meet the need for radial access solutions in lower extremity interventions. We look forward to contributing our findings to the global endovascular community as part of the RADIANCY clinical study."
The RADIANCY study, led by Principal Investigator Raphaël Coscas MD, PhD, Professor of Vascular Surgery at Ambroise Paré Hospital in France, is planned to enroll 159 patients at approximately 15 sites across seven European countries. "The RADIANCY study initiation marks a new course for the future management of patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) by expanding their treatment options from current conventional femoral to radial access," Professor Coscas said.
Professor Coscas also highlighted the era of practice evolution in this space, "As the gold-standard approach in coronary interventions, radial is in its exciting inception phase for PAD and offers unequivocal patient-centric advantages in terms of early mobility and comfort, critical in both in-patient and out-patient practice settings."
The S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ™ Vascular Stent System, specifically engineered for radial access, was approved for use in the United States by the FDA earlier this year, and successful first-in-human procedures were performed in June 2022 by Dr. Jihad Mustapha, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Endovascular Intervention at Advanced Cardiac & Vascular Centers (ACV) for Amputation Prevention, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Dr. George Adams, Cordis Chief Medical Officer, said, "Cordis is committed to developing tools to treat complex PAD patients. Understanding the real-world, 10-year S.M.A.R.T.® Vascular Stent System data combined with the innovation of a radial approach allows the interventionalist to treat PAD safely, efficaciously, and cost effectively. Mirroring this innovation with research and a strong educational program to advance the field is truly at Cordis' core."
For healthcare professionals only.
CAUTION: Federal (USA) law restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a physician.
The S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ™ Vascular Stent System is NOT CE marked and not yet available for sale in Europe and other countries. In Europe, the S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ™ Vascular Stent System is exclusively for clinical investigations. CORDIS, Cordis LOGO, S.M.A.R.T., S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ, SABERX RADIANZ, BRITE TIP RADIANZ and Radianz Radial Peripheral System are trademarks of Cordis and may be registered in the US and/or in other countries. ©2022 Cordis. All Rights Reserved.
About Cordis
Cordis is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of interventional vascular technology with a more than 60-year history of pioneering breakthrough cardiovascular technologies to treat millions of patients. With a reputation for clinical acumen, training, and service, Cordis established a legacy of innovation in high-quality and less-invasive cardiovascular products and built a strong global footprint with operations in more than 70 countries around the world.
About the RADIANCY Clinical Study
RADIANCY is a prospective, multi-center, single-arm study to assess safety and efficacy of the S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ™ Vascular Stent System intended for treatment of lesions in the iliac, superficial femoral or proximal popliteal arteries via radial artery access through 30-day follow up when used with the BRITE TIP RADIANZ™ Guiding Sheath and SABERX RADIANZ™ PTA Balloon Catheter. Both the stent and balloon are specifically engineered with a rapid exchange design and improved shaft pushability to optimize radial access delivery, and deployment. The study plans to enroll 159 subjects approximately 15 investigational sites in seven European countries.
About the Products
Cordis' Radianz Radial Peripheral System™ is purposely engineered to deliver exceptional outcomes and a high level of patient satisfaction with tools optimized for radial access and treatment – including the first and only self-expandable stent indicated for iliac lesions with a radial delivery system. The portfolio includes BRITE TIP RADIANZ™ Guiding Sheath, the first multi-segmented thin-walled guiding sheath specifically designed to optimize lower-extremity lesion access from a radial approach. SABERX RADIANZ™ Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) Dilatation Catheter features the most clinically comprehensive radial peripheral PTA size matrix to facilitate broader treatment of lesions. S.M.A.R.T. RADIANZ™ Vascular Stent System treats iliac, superficial femoral artery, and proximal popliteal lesions from the radial approach. It is the first radial peripheral self-expanding stent indicated for iliac lesions.
Media contact:
Margaret-Sarah Alexander
Vice President, Head of Global Strategic Marketing
margaretsarah.alexander@cordis.com
m. 203-297-4182
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
02-04-07-09-13-15-17-18-19-21-23-24
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New legislation would allow mothers to get child support while they are pregnant
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - Senate Republicans are looking to pass legislation that would allow mothers to get child support while they are still pregnant, WLBT reports.
According to a press release by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), the Unborn Child Support Act would allow a court to award child support payments while the child is still in the womb and, retroactively, up to the point of conception.
The legislation comes nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Mississippi’s only abortion provider closed as a result of the ruling.
“I hope good legislation, like the Unborn Child Support Act, gets more support now that the Dobbs decision encourages us to look more seriously at supporting mothers and their unborn children,” Hyde-Smith said.
Senator Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., introduced the legislation in the Senate, with Republican senators Steve Daines of Montana, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Rick Scott of Florida, Roger Marshall of Kansas and James Lankford of Oklahoma as additional original co-sponsors.
The Unborn Child Support Act would also:
- rrovide flexibility for mothers, who do not want the involvement of the father, by not requiring those mothers to receive child support.
- require judges to consult with mothers on payment plans and gives mothers discretion as to whether or not child support payments will be awarded retroactively.
- mandate that all paternity tests be at the discretion of the mother and not be conducted if the test would put the child at risk.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade could potentially lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
947 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Van Zandt County
through 1030 AM CDT...
At 947 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Fruitvale, or 7 miles north of Canton, moving south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Canton, Grand Saline, Van, Edgewood, Fruitvale, Edom and Purtis Creek
State Park.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 518 and 541.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3236 9601 3262 9599 3277 9585 3274 9570
3271 9566 3272 9564 3235 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1447Z 001DEG 16KT 3265 9582
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
1010 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Freestone, northern
Leon and Anderson Counties through 1100 AM CDT...
At 1008 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms
along a line extending from Cayuga to Tennessee Colony to Slocum
moving southwest at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Palestine, Teague, Fairfield, Buffalo, Elkhart, Wortham, Fairfield
Lake State Park, Jewett, Oakwood, Streetman and Kirvin.
This includes Interstate 45 between mile markers 168 and 212.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3161 9526 3159 9528 3154 9565 3152 9566
3151 9574 3147 9572 3146 9575 3145 9571
3132 9566 3127 9573 3121 9575 3141 9623
3179 9649 3201 9606 3204 9577 3165 9528
3163 9529
TIME...MOT...LOC 1508Z 027DEG 22KT 3201 9603 3173 9571 3158 9536
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Week 4's Games are The 8th Highest Rated Games Ever on CBS, Saw Double Digit Growth in All Demographics
LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the BIG3 announced the ratings for the league's Week 4 games, marking the highest rated CBS BIG3 broadcast since July 20, 2019, and now among the top 15 rated broadcasts of all time in the BIG3's 5 seasons. Sunday's BIG3 games were the most watched basketball program of the week and beat out the Barbasol Championship and Sunday afternoon Major League Baseball. In addition to the 625,000 U.S. viewers on CBS, the BIG3 also reached millions of fans worldwide in 100 countries on The BIG3 YouTube channel, VYRE Network, DAZN, and many other partners internationally.
Week 4's games saw significant week-over-week and year-over-year growth in all demographics, including:
Week 4 2022 vs. Week 3 2022
- 625K vs. 487K (+28%)
- 18-34: 70K vs. 47K (+49%)
- 18-49: 206K vs. 121K (+70%)
- 25-54: 222K vs. 162K (+37%)
Week 4 2022 vs Week 4 2021
- P2+: 625K vs. 430K (+45%)
- P18-34: 70K vs. 49K (+43%)
- P18-49: 206K vs. 153K (+35%)
- P25-54: 222K vs. 172K (+29%)
ABOUT BIG3:
BIG3 (BIG3.com) is where FIREBALL3 superstars play. The premier global BIG3 league features many of the greatest, most popular, and skilled professional athletes of all time. Founded by producer, actor, and music legend Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG3 combines highly competitive, physical, fast game experiences and incredible fan experiences.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Hannah Palacios, hpalacios@hstrategies.com
Gaby Moran, gmoran@hstrategies.com
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and Delaware saw population growth in the 2010s that dramatically expanded the property damage a hurricane could cause in those states, according to a new Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) Issues Brief.
"The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be "well above average" in terms of the number of named storms, hurricanes, and "major" (Category 3, 4, or 5) hurricanes," states the Issues Brief -- Hurricanes: State of the Risk. "Insured losses from hurricanes have risen over the past 15 years as hurricane activity has intensified. When adjusted for inflation, nine of the 10 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history have struck since 2005. In addition to increased storm activity, coastal construction has continued, and property values risen, resulting in higher loss exposure."
Citing 2020 U.S. Census data, Triple-I reported double-digit percentage population growth occurred in four states with coastal exposure to hurricanes since 2010: Florida (+14.6 percent), South Carolina (+10.7 percent), Georgia (+10.6 percent), and Delaware (+10.2 percent).
"While wind speeds and storm surge in coastal areas grab headlines, inland flooding is on the rise," Triple-I's Issues Brief added. Hurricane Ida, for example, made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021, and days later brought deadly flooding to parts of Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania far, from the coastline, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report found.
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and ends on Nov. 30. Colorado State University's (CSU) Department of Atmospheric Science last week projected the formation of 17 more named storms this year, on top of the three which already developed: Alex, Bonnie, and Colin. In addition, CSU envisions 10 of the 17 storms will become hurricanes, and five of the 10 will be classified as major ones. A typical hurricane season includes 14 named storms, seven hurricanes, and three major hurricanes.
Triple-I's Issues Brief offers three pieces of insurance advice to those in hurricane-prone states:
- Check your homeowners' insurance policy to make sure the structure's policy limit, listed under Coverage A, is high enough to rebuild the home in the event of a total loss;
- Review your policy for hurricane deductibles; and
- Consider purchasing a flood insurance policy, because flood-caused property damage is not covered under standard homeowners insurance policies
Standard homeowners insurance policies cover a house's structure and contents for wind-caused property damage. Flood policies cover a house's structure and contents damaged by flood. The latter are offered through FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and several private insurers.
Moreover, Triple-I's Resilience Accelerator uses advanced data analytics to create tools that empower residents to build more resilient communities before hurricanes happen. It also demonstrates the power of insurance as a force for resilience by showing how insured communities recover faster and more completely after a natural disaster.
RELATED LINKS
Facts & Statistics
Hurricanes
Consumer Information
Catastrophes: Insurance Issues
Videos
Triple-I Non-Resident Scholar Dr. Phil Klotzbach Discusses CSU's Hurricane Season Forecast (July 7 report)
Hurricane Insurance Guide
The Triple-I has a full library of educational videos on its YouTube Channel.
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CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors in Chicago filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Cubs, alleging the team failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act when it executed a series of renovations at Wrigley Field.
Attorneys for the government on Thursday said that while the ballpark renovations “significantly enhanced the gameday experience for many fans, particularly those able to take advantage of premium clubs and other luxury accommodations, the same can not be said for fans with disabilities.”
The suit states that the Cubs “removed the best wheelchair seating in the stadium, failed to incorporate wheelchair seating into new premium clubs and group seating areas … and failed to remove architectural barriers to access in unaltered portions of Wrigley Field where it was readily achievable to do so.”
Federal prosecutors noted that the alleged violations all occurred even though they “had ample opportunity and a significant ADA obligation to incorporate wheelchair seating and other accessible elements into and throughout the new and improved facility.”
The lawsuit seeks an injunction that would force the Cubs to bring the ballpark into ADA compliance as well as “compensatory damages in an appropriate amount for injuries suffered as a result of defendants noncompliance with the ADA.”
The following statement was released by Cubs officials:
We are disappointed in the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to file suit and hope the matter can be resolved amicably, but we will defend Wrigley Field and our position it meets accessibility requirements for fans. The renovation of Wrigley Field greatly increased accessibility of the ballpark and was completed in accordance with applicable law and historic preservation standards consistent with the ballpark’s designation as a National and City of Chicago landmark. Since the Department of Justice’s initiation of its review in November 2019, we have fully cooperated with every inquiry and made several offers to voluntarily further enhance accessible features of the ballpark, including seating, restrooms, concessions and other key accessibility elements, in response to the Department’s inquiry.
Wrigley Field is now more accessible than ever in its 108-year history, demonstrated by increasing accessible seating options by more than 50 percent on and across more levels and in more locations. Wrigley Field has 11 more elevators than it did prior to the start of the renovation, more accessible restroom facilities, assistive listening technology for fans with hearing impairments, enhanced audio speakers and sound systems throughout the ballpark, and upgraded ticketing and online systems for purchase of seating, including accessible seating. The Friendly Confines today is more welcoming than ever to fans with accessibility needs.
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Netflix announces cheaper version with ads
(CNN) - Netflix and Microsoft announced Wednesday they are teaming up to create a cheaper, ad-supported version of the streaming service.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings resisted an ad-supported option for years, but the company is going through one of the roughest periods in its 25-year history.
Netflix says it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 and expects to lose another 2 million in the second quarter.
The service currently has 221.6 million subscribers globally.
The New York Times reported in May that Netflix told employees the ad-supported version may come by the end of 2022.
The company did not say how much the ad-supported plan will cost per month. Netflix currently offers three ad-free subscription levels based on video quality and resolution, ranging from $9.99 per month to $19.99 per month.
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Log4j software flaw 'endemic,' new cyber safety panel says
A computer vulnerability discovered last year in a ubiquitous piece of software is an "endemic" problem that will pose security risks for potentially a decade or more, according to a new cybersecurity panel created by President Joe Biden.
The Cyber Safety Review Board said in a report Thursday that while there hasn´t been sign of any major cyberattack due to the Log4j flaw, it will still "be exploited for years to come."
"Log4j is one of the most serious software vulnerabilities in history," the board´s chairman, Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary Rob Silvers, told reporters Wednesday.
The Log4j flaw, made public late last year, lets internet-based attackers easily seize control of everything from industrial control systems to web servers and consumer electronics. The first obvious signs of the flaw´s exploitation appeared in Minecraft, a hugely popular online game owned by Microsoft.
The flaw´s discovery prompted urgent warnings by government officials and massive efforts by cybersecurity professionals to patch vulnerable systems.
The board said Thursday that "somewhat surprisingly" the exploitation of the Log4j bug had occurred at lower levels than experts predicted. The board also said that it was unaware of any "significant" Log4j attacks on critical infrastructure systems but noted that some cyberattacks go unreported.
FILE - The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen during a news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. A new cybersecurity panel created by President Joe Biden says a computer vulnerability discovered last year in a ubiquitous piece of software is an "endemic" problem that will pose security risks for potentially a decade or more. The Cyber Safety Review Board said in a new report Thursday that while there hasn't been sign of any major cyberattack due to the Log4j flaw, it will still "be exploited for years to come." The Log4j flaw was first made public late last year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
The board said future attacks are likely in large part because Log4j is routinely embedded with other software and can be hard for organizations to find running in their systems.
"This event is not over," Silvers said.
Log4j, written in the Java programming language, logs user activity on computers. Developed and maintained by a handful of volunteers under the auspices of the open-source Apache Software Foundation, it is extremely popular with commercial software developers.
A security researcher at the Chinese tech giant Alibaba notified the foundation on Nov. 24. It took two weeks to develop and release a fix. Chinese media reported that the government punished Alibaba for not reporting the flaw earlier to state officials.
The board said Thursday it found "troubling elements" with the Chinese government´s policy toward vulnerability disclosures, saying it could give Chinese state hackers an early look at computer flaws they could use for nefarious means like stealing trade secrets or spying on dissidents. The Chinese government has long denied wrongdoing in cyberspace and told the board that it encourages improved information sharing on software vulnerabilities.
The board offered a number of recommendations on mitigating the fallout of the Log4j flaw as well as improving cybersecurity generally. That includes the suggestion that universities and community colleges make cybersecurity training a required part of computer science degree and certification programs.
The Cyber Safety Review Board is modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, which reviews plane crashes and other major accidents, and was mandated by an executive order Biden signed last May. The 15-member board is made up of FBI, National Security Agency and other government officials as well as people from the private sector. Some supporters of the new board criticized DHS for taking so long to get it up and running.
Biden´s executive order directed the board to conduct its first review on the massive Russian cyber espionage campaign known as SolarWinds. Russian hackers were able to breach several federal agencies, including accounts belonging to top cybersecurity officials at DHS, though the full fallout from that campaign is still unclear.
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Police caution employers following major thefts involving guest workers in Coimbatore
The Coimbatore City Police have instructed jewellery manufacturers, hoteliers, owners of textile showrooms and industries to strictly check the background of guest workers before employing them. The police issued the caution in the wake of several incidents of guest workers getting away with cash and jewellery after working for a brief period in the city.
Jewellery manufacturers and owners of goldsmitheries were among the worst affected as some guest workers got away with large quantities of gold in the past few months.
According to B. Muthu Venkatraman, president of Coimbatore Jewellery Manufacturers Association, guest workers absconding with gold given to them for works has been a concern for several years. Jewellery manufacturers and smithery owners called on senior police officers on Wednesday to discuss the issue.
“We get job orders from jewellery manufacturers and jewellery showrooms for which the gold is provided. The gold is given to the goldsmiths, majority of them from other States like West Bengal, who work under us. Of late, owners of many goldsmitheries suffered huge losses after guest workers absconded with gold in large quantities like one kg and above. Over 20 kg of gold was stolen in the past one month or so,” said T.S. Sasikumar of Kovai Goldsmith Welfare Association.
Some of the owners of the goldsmitheries alleged that the police hesitated to register case as it was a tough task to go to places like remote villages in West Bengal, trace the accused and recover the stolen gold. The addresses given by the workers to employers were also found to be false in some of the cases.
Owner of a goldsmithery said theft of gold happened mostly during the IPL season. “Workers have been found engaged in betting which is illegal. We suspect that some of them resorted to stealing gold given for jewellery works after facing loss in IPL betting,” he said.
The police instructed jewellery manufacturers and smithery owners to employ guest workers after verifying their background with original ID proofs. The police suggested them to admit guest workers who produced a clearance certificate from the police station of their native place that attested they did not have criminal antecedents. The employers had been asked to share the list with the police and step up surveillance at workplaces.
G.S. Madhavan, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore north, said the city police held meetings with jewellery manufacturers, hoteliers, owners of textile showrooms and industries to chalk out solutions.
“The police need to ensure that workplaces in the city do not turn a safe hideout for persons with criminal antecedents. Employers should exercise caution while recruiting new employees,” he said.
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Former Washington Post Journalist to Advance ID.me Efforts to Expand Access, Protect Privacy and Streamline Customer Experience
MCLEAN, Va., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ID.me, the secure digital identity network, today announced the appointment of Terry Neal as Chief Communications Officer. Mr. Neal brings deep communications experience and expertise, including as a Washington Post reporter and editor, to ID.me. He will oversee ID.me's corporate communications strategy to further advance company efforts to increase access, protect privacy and streamline the customer experience.
"Terry Neal is an elite communications leader. He will play a critical role - ensuring the public understands ID.me's mission while deepening ID.me's engagement with a diverse group of stakeholders regarding new and existing initiatives tied to accessibility, privacy, and customer experience," said Blake Hall, co-founder and CEO of ID.me. "We are very proud of our work to advance equity by making identity verification work better for historically underserved communities, and Terry will shine a light on those efforts."
Neal was previously an Executive Vice President and Managing Director in the Corporate Affairs Practice at Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW), a global communications agency. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Communications Consultant at Fannie Mae and in senior communications positions at a number of technology companies. Neal also has previous media experience including twelve years at the Washington Post and early in his career at two local Florida newspapers.
"ID.me represents the future of identity verification," said Neal. "ID.me is a forward-thinking company that is committed to opening doors that have been previously closed to many underserved communities. ID.me is truly committed to its mission of 'No Identity Left Behind' and I am looking forward to telling that story to the American people."
The ID.me secure digital identity network includes partnerships in 30 states, 10 federal agencies, and over 500 name-brand retailers. The company provides identity proofing, authentication and group affiliation verification for organizations across sectors. The company's technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 conformant credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me's Identity Gateway also maintains a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate Authority to Operate (ATO). ID.me strives towards its mission of "No Identity Left Behind" to enable all people to have secure access to services. To learn more, visit https://www.ID.me
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2021 was a record year for insurance case filings with increases in cases concerning hurricanes, automobiles, and business liability
MENLO PARK, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its 2022 Insurance Litigation Report. The report examines insurance litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts. It focuses on the five-year period from 2017 to 2021 and surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages.
In 2021, 14,793 insurance cases were filed in federal district court. This is the most case filings of any year in the Lex Machina database, which goes back to 2009. Lex Machina's insurance module specifically groups cases by the following case types: automobile insurance, uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage (UM/UIM), homeowners insurance, hurricane-related cases, business liability, business interruption and life insurance. Hurricane-related cases saw the largest increase between 2020 and 2021; however, automobile insurance and business liability insurance cases also increased between 2020 and 2021.
In 2021, 26% of all insurance litigation in federal district courts was hurricane-related. Over 3,800 hurricane-related insurance lawsuits were filed in 2021. These filings vary greatly from year to year depending on whether there were large storms, but this was the highest-number of filings of any year since 2009.
"Insurance is a very active practice area right now, and filtering between similar groups of cases is crucial," said Ron Porter, Lex Machina's insurance legal data expert. "By filtering case types, we are able to understand how much hurricane-related cases have affected the insurance practice, as well as look at trends in cases with very different fact patterns such as business interruption and automobile insurance cases."
Findings from the report include:
- In 2021, insurance case filings reached a record 14,793 cases, which was a 47% increase in case filings over the last five years (2017-2021).
- Business interruption cases peaked in 2020, but a significant number of cases continued to be filed in 2021.
- In 2021, 26% of all insurance litigation in federal district courts was hurricane-related.
- From 2017 to 2021, the Southern District of Florida heard the highest number of insurance case filings with 4,084 cases, while the Ninth Circuit heard the highest number of appeals with 647 appeals docketed.
- Despite the fact that State Farm separates its automobile coverage and fire and casualty coverage into two separate companies, both companies were the most active defendants, each with over 1000 cases more than the next most active defendant.
- The most active plaintiffs' law firm was Pandit Law, and the most active defendants' law firm was Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig.
- Insurance cases that were appealed and received a decision on the merits of the appeal were reversed 25% of the time.
- In 2021, over $157M damages were awarded in 123 cases.
Lex Machina's reports and software enable practitioners to devise data-driven litigation strategies. The metrics in this report may help readers decide who to pursue as clients, whether to pursue a particular motion, or when to settle. This research supplements traditional legal research and anecdotal data for a competitive edge in litigation.
Register here for a copy of the report: https://pages.lexmachina.com/2022InsuranceLitigationReport_LP.html
Lex Machina is hosting a webcast to discuss the report on July 14, 2022 at noon ET/9am PT with Ron Porter (Lex Machina's Insurance Legal Data Expert) and Jonathan Zobrist (Lex Machina's Customer Success Manager). Register for the event or view a recording: https://pages.lexmachina.com/20220707-InsuranceLitigationReportWebcast.html
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ATLANTA, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, as the organization prepares kids and teens for the best school year yet, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, alongside over 20 trusted partners, launched its 2022 Back to School cause campaign to support youth on a path toward a successful school year.
As a leading youth organization dedicated to meeting kids right where they are, Boys & Girls Clubs of America is committed to helping kids and teens across the country thrive as they head back to school this year. From providing academic support and homework help to social emotional wellness tools and resources and offering a safe place with positive mentors, Clubs provide new opportunities to help every young person reach their full potential.
"We know that young people need the support of Boys & Girls Clubs more than ever, and we are committed to meeting youth where they are as we create new access and opportunities to help kids and teens thrive in an ever-changing world," said Jim Clark, president and CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. "Local Clubs will continue to meet young people where they are, remaining dedicated to keeping youth on track through safe places, caring mentors and life-enhancing programs."
As a part of the Back-to-School promotion, corporate partners are coming together to support America's youth through donations, employee volunteer events, transportation solutions, homework help and more, and encourage the public to do the same.
Comcast NBCUniversal, Darden Foundation, FedEx, Kohl's, Krusteaz, Lenovo, Panda Express, Papa John's, Planet Fitness, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Toyota and UScellular have stepped up to ensure America's youth is prepared to succeed this back-to-school season.
Additionally, the following partners are offering ways for their customers to get involved by supporting Boys & Girls Clubs of America in the following programs:
Ross Stores
Ross Stores is hosting its 8th annual Help Local Kids Learn fundraiser from July 30 to August 21 in more than 1,600 stores around the country. The fundraiser invites customers to donate at the register to support a local Club's Power Hour Program, which helps Club Kids with their schoolwork.
In addition to Ross' national sponsorship of Power Hour, Ross is also matching the first $400,000 raised during the fundraiser. Over the lifetime of its partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs, Ross, along with its customers and associates, have contributed nearly $35 million.
adidas
Beginning July 15, participating adidas stores will invite customers to round-up their purchase or donate to support Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide. adidas believes that sport has the power to change lives. Through the partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, adidas will play an important role to create access to sport for kids and teens.
Buffalo Wild Wings
Help build future legends! Through July 24th, Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant guests nationwide will have the opportunity to donate $1 or more to support local youth through programs such as Boys & Girls Clubs of America's ALL STARS youth sports program.
Cox
Kicking off back-to-school season, Kelley Blue Book, Cox Communications and CARS (Charitable Adult Rides & Services) are collaborating to help nonprofits make a difference in local communities. This summer, consumers with a vehicle past its prime can help turn their used vehicle into charitable funds that will provide technology and devices to Cox Communications Innovation Labs within Boys & Girls Clubs to help kids get on the road to a great future. In partnership with CARS, on Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com, consumers can choose to donate almost any type of vehicle to Boys & Girls Clubs of America, from cars and trucks to boats, RVs and more. Donating a vehicle is easy, the pick-up is free, and your gift is tax-deductible. To donate, visit https://www.kbb.com/donate-your-car/.
Charles Schwab Foundation
Since 2004, Charles Schwab Foundation and BGCA have partnered to help teens gain critical financial literacy skills through Money Matters: Make It Count. The program promotes financial responsibility and independence by building basic money management skills and providing an early start for making sound financial decisions. It has helped more than 1 million Club youth (and counting!) prepare for a successful future.
Family Dollar
From July 18 through September 5, 2022, Family Dollar customers can donate $1, $2 or $3 at the register to support Boys & Girls Clubs of America during this back-to-school season.
Forever 21
For every graphic tee purchased between July 14 and September 7, Forever 21 will donate $1 to Boys & Girls Clubs of America, up to $500,000. Additionally, customers will have the opportunity to round up their purchase to the nearest dollar to donate the rounded-up portion to Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Hertz
Hertz is donating vehicles and providing grants to select clubs to support student success and economic mobility for America's youth this upcoming school year. Hertz employees will also volunteer their time to assist with school supply drives and days of service at clubs across the country from July through September.
Kids Foot Locker
Kids Foot Locker is kicking off back to school for the 5th year in a row by empowering Great Futures as it hosts a nationwide donation program in-store where customers can donate $1, $3, $5 or $10 at check-out to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of America from July 31 – September 17.
Leslie's
Through October 31, Leslie's will invite customers to donate at the register to help keep communities safe in and around water and support water safety education.
Murphy USA
August 3 – November 1, Murphy USA and Murphy Express stores will invite their customers to round up or donate $1, $5, $10 in-store to support Boys & Girls Clubs. Additionally, from September 6th – 30th, Murphy USA's QuickChek Division will invite their customers to round up or donate $1, $3, $5 in-store to support Boys & Girls Clubs.
Panda Express
In celebration of their foundation's anniversary (8/8) Panda Cares Day, Panda is feeding over 100 clubs throughout the country and gifting members brand new reading books, limited-edition Panda swag and a fun-filled celebration in conjunction with a national virtual fundraiser on 8/8, where proceeds will benefit the clubs.
Shoe Carnival
From now through mid-September, Shoe Carnival invites their customers to round up at checkout to support Boys & Girls Clubs.
Looking for more ways to support Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Back2School campaign? Click here to learn more.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of America
For 160 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA.org) has provided a safe place for kids and teens to learn and grow. Clubs offer caring adult mentors, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Boys & Girls Clubs programming promotes academic success, good character and leadership, and healthy lifestyles. More than 4,900 Clubs serve over 4.3 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Clubs are located in cities, towns, public housing and on Native lands throughout the country, and serve military families in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. military installations worldwide. National headquarters are located in Atlanta. Learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America on Facebook and Twitter.
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Preliminary Itinerary Announced Ahead of FC Bayern Munich vs. Manchester City FC Friendly on July 23 at Lambeau Field
Published: Jul. 14, 2022 at 11:05 AM CDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
Capacity Crowd Expected for Historic Match at NFL Venue; Event to be Broadcast Live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes
Match Week to Feature Fan Events on July 22 & July 23
CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CMN Sports, an international sports and entertainment multimedia company, announced a preliminary itinerary for all media and public events in advance of its upcoming international friendly featuring FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City FC on Saturday, July 23 (6:00 p.m.) at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI. The match will be broadcast live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.
A capacity crowd is expected for the first-ever soccer match to be played at the iconic NFL venue—home of 13-Time NFL Champion Green Bay Packers. FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City FC, the respective 2021/22 Bundesliga and Premier League Champions, will be displaying their championship trophies at Lambeau Field on the day of the game. Fans will also enjoy pre and post-game ceremonies including a spectacular fireworks display.
Prior to the match, on Friday, July 22 and Saturday, July 23, both clubs are set to host fan events in the Green Bay area. Please see below for more detailed information.
Media availability at training sessions are at the discretion of the technical staff. Information below is subject to change. All times local (CT).
SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING MEDIA ACCREDITATION AND PARKING:
All media must show a photo ID to pick up credentials.
Media must be present to receive credentials.
A limited amount of game day parking passes are available and will be distributed during accreditation hours on a first-come first-served basis on Friday, July 22.
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