text stringlengths 46 525k | url stringlengths 24 420 | crawl_date timestamp[us, tz=UTC]date 2022-04-01 00:01:42 2022-09-25 07:27:13 | id stringlengths 24 420 | label bool 2
classes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Johnny Sexton wants best display of season to seal historic win over All Blacks
Captain Johnny Sexton says Ireland intend to sign off for the summer with their “best performance of the season” as they seek to claim a landmark series win in New Zealand.
The Irish rewrote the record books with last weekend’s maiden away victory over the All Blacks and are now aiming to make more history on Saturday in Wellington.
Sexton celebrated his 37th birthday on Monday and is poised to move level with Paul O’Connell as his country’s fifth most-capped player by making his 108th Test appearance.
Ireland will leapfrog France to the top of the world rankings with a win at Sky Stadium, albeit the Kiwis have not lost a home series since 1994.
“The group are in good spirits, gearing up for a massive game,” said the fly-half. “We’re really looking forward to it.
“It’s a great place to be; creating a little bit of history last week but now we’ve got a chance to do something a little bit bigger and a little bit more special.
Johnny Sexton could be the first Ireland captain to enjoy series success in New Zealand (Andrew Matthews/PA)
“All the boys are just concentrating on getting our best performance of the season out there and see where that leaves us.”
Ireland won 23-12 in Dunedin last Saturday to cancel out a 42-19 drubbing in the Auckland opener.
Sexton, who needs six more points to reach 1,000 in the green jersey, hopes to lead another performance worthy of making the country proud.
“It’s something we speak about all the time, the people back home watching, whether it’s family, friends,” he said.
“But also the whole country will be up tomorrow morning watching and it doesn’t go unnoticed. Hopefully we can do them proud.” | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11017391/Johnny-Sexton-wants-best-display-season-seal-historic-win-All-Blacks.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-15T12:26:03Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11017391/Johnny-Sexton-wants-best-display-season-seal-historic-win-All-Blacks.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
ECB's Rehn says Italy could face particularly tough time ahead
HELSINKI, July 15 (Reuters) - Italy could be particularly hard hit by a European energy crisis in the wake of political turmoil in the country, Finnish ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said in a panel discussion on Friday.
"The former president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, has brought much-needed stability, perseverance and firmness to Italian decision-making," Rehn said a day after Italy's president rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Draghi.
"It may be that we will see a very difficult period in Italy," Rehn added.
He also said it was "clear" that the ECB's mandate is price stability "and we act accordingly and emphasise that each euro state has its own responsibility for its own economy and economic policy".
Rehn believes that the ECB is likely to raise interest rates by 25 basis points next week and by 50 basis points in September. (Reporting by Essi Lehto Editing by Stine Jacobsen and David Goodman) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11017223/ECBs-Rehn-says-Italy-face-particularly-tough-time-ahead.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-15T12:27:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11017223/ECBs-Rehn-says-Italy-face-particularly-tough-time-ahead.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
It's the president’s first trip to the Middle East since taking office, and he’s capping it with a controversial move: a visit to Saudi Arabia.
As a candidate, President Joe Biden called the kingdom a pariah state.
So why the about-face?
"It seems to be driven by a couple of factors," said Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "Oil is obviously one of them, but a bigger one seems to be that right now, Biden is very worried that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, will start orienting themselves more towards China and Russia.”
The war in Ukraine and record prices at the pump are pushing the president to soften his stance on the oil-rich kingdom and its de facto ruler: Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS.
The two leaders are slated to meet on Friday, but it’s unclear if they’ll have a one-on-one chat or even shake hands.
Biden had previously refused to engage with the prince after U.S. Intelligence concluded he orchestrated the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi — something the 36-year-old Saudi prince denies.
Prince bin Salman is all but ensured to succeed soon his 86-year-old father, King Salman, who is in poor health. To get there, the prince has been ruthless.
"He consolidated his power a couple of years ago by imprisoning almost all of his cousins and taking power away from them," Parsi said.
Bin Salman is moving to modernize Saudi Arabia by removing the religious police, allowing women to drive and legalizing cinemas and concerts. But experts say he’s doing so as the vindictive tyrant of an increasingly repressive country.
“It is true he allowed women to drive cars, but he also then imprisoned all of the leaders of the women’s movement who had pushed for women to be able to drive cars," said Abdullah Alaoudh, research director for Saudi Arabia at Democracy for the Arab World Now. "He did not want to give them credit.”
U.S.-based political dissident Alaoudh, a friend of the late Khashoggi, knows firsthand how oppressive Saudi Arabia has become.
“I have been surveilled, being threatened, intimidated," Alaoudh said. "My cousin, my uncle, my father have been arrested for years. 19 members of my family are banned from travel and just because they are relatives.”
As president, Donald Trump made his first overseas trip to Saudi Arabia.
Eager to boost U.S. arms sales to the kingdom, Trump overlooked the prince’s human rights record.
But when Biden took office, he promised to change course. He quickly declassified the intelligence report on Khashoggi’s killing and imposed sanctions on the Saudis involved, but not on the prince himself. The White House decided it couldn’t afford a total breakup with such a strategic ally.
“It is an important country because it is the largest oil producer in the world, and we are currently suffering from very high oil prices," Parsi said. "It's an important country because it is a host of some of the holiest places in the religion of Islam, and it's one of the most influential countries in the Muslim world."
Defending his decision to now travel to Saudi Arabia, Biden writes in a Washington Post op-ed that from the start, his aim was “to reorient — but not rupture — relations with a country that’s been a strategic partner for 80 years.”
But ultimately, the question is: Will the meeting be about theatrics only or will it bring actual concessions from either side on oil, security or other issues?
Newsy is the nation’s only free 24/7 national news network. You can find Newsy using your TV’s digital antenna or stream for free. See all the ways you can watch Newsy here: https://bit.ly/Newsy1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/who-is-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman | 2022-07-15T12:30:55Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/who-is-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman | false |
Log In
Reset Password
Friday, July 15, 2022
Subscribe
Login
ePaper
Home
News
Latest News
Clovis Toons
Regional
Environment
Health
International
Business
Social Love
Sport
World Champs
Entertainment
Lifestyle
Page 2
Food
Tuesday Style
Under The Dryer
Fashion
All Woman
Webinars
Classifieds
Employment
Property
Motor Vehicles
Place an Ad
More
Jobs & Careers
Study Centre
Jnr Study Centre
Letters
Columns
Editorial
Supplements
Search
HOME
NEWS
BUSINESS
SPORT
LIFESTYLE
ALL WOMAN
REGIONAL NEWS
ENTERTAINMENT
ENVIRONMENT
HEALTH
AUTO
OLYMPICS
Editorial
Columns
Career
Food
Letters
Clovis Toons
Page2
Weather
Supplements
Football
Study Centre
Jnr Study Centre
RSS Feeds
Contact Us
Feedback
Privacy Policy
Editorial Code of Conduct
Change Consent
Site Map
Terms and Conditions
Editoral Code of Conduct
Advertising
Latest News
July 15 05:46 am
World Champs 2022: Schedule - Friday, July 15
Latest News
July 14 11:31 pm
Canada blank Reggae Girlz 3-0
Latest News
July 14 09:55 pm
Child found wandering in Cross Roads, Kingston
Latest News
July 14 08:56 pm
PHOTOS: SRC recognises nine women in STEM
Latest News
July 14 08:49 pm
US advances to Women's Championship final 3-0 over Costa Rica
Newer Posts
Older Posts
Recent Posts
Latest News
Tokyo chosen to host 2025 track world championships
July 15, 2022 ·
World Champs
Key moment
July 15, 2022 ·
Page2
Friday, July 15, 2022
July 15, 2022 ·
Cartoon
Friday, July 15, 2022
July 15, 2022 ·
News
'Nonsense!'
July 15, 2022 ·
Archives
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021 | https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/section/?Template=sitemap_google&end_date=20190730&mime=xml&nocache=1&start_date=20190730 | 2022-07-15T12:34:45Z | https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/section/?Template=sitemap_google&end_date=20190730&mime=xml&nocache=1&start_date=20190730 | true |
Hire underscores continued growth of the firm's EC-VC practice and California offices
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayer Brown announced today that emerging companies and venture capital lawyer Matteo Daste has joined the firm's Northern California offices.
Mr. Daste joins the firm's global Technology group and will head the firm's emerging companies and venture practice in Northern California. His practice focuses on advising tech and tech-enabled growth companies, as well as entrepreneurs and investors, with an emphasis on advising on cross-border transactions between Europe and Silicon Valley. Mr. Daste has more than 20 years of experience in the Bay Area counseling technology companies and investors on venture financings and strategic transactions.
"We're pleased to welcome Matteo to the firm, and know he'll play a key role as we continue to grow our emerging companies and venture capital practice in Northern California," said Ward Johnson, Managing Partner of the firm's Northern California offices.
"I'm delighted to join Mayer Brown and look forward to contributing to its tech and emerging companies practice," said Mr. Daste. "As global technology markets mature and become more intertwined, the firm's global reach make it an ideal platform for cross-border work."
Mayer Brown's industry experience and global reach differentiates it from competitors. The firm is ranked by Chambers USA for Technology and for Outsourcing and Chambers FinTech for four FinTech: Legal categories. In addition, the firm is ranked globally as a leading Capital Markets and Corporate/M&A law firm by Chambers Global, The Legal 500 US and by IFLR1000. Chambers USA ranks Mayer Brown in Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded (Nationwide).
Mayer Brown is a distinctively global law firm, uniquely positioned to advise the world's leading companies and financial institutions on their most complex deals and disputes. With extensive reach across four continents, we are the only integrated law firm in the world with approximately 200 lawyers in each of the world's three largest financial centers—New York, London and Hong Kong—the backbone of the global economy. We have deep experience in high-stakes litigation and complex transactions across industry sectors, including our signature strength, the global financial services industry. Our diverse teams of lawyers are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do. Our "one-firm" culture—seamless and integrated across all practices and regions—ensures that our clients receive the best of our knowledge and experience.
View original content:
SOURCE Mayer Brown | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/mayer-brown-adds-emerging-companies-partner-northern-california/ | 2022-07-15T12:35:21Z | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/mayer-brown-adds-emerging-companies-partner-northern-california/ | false |
SUNDSVALL, Sweden, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA (publ) on May 8, 2018 established a Medium Term Note program (MTN) with a loan framework amounting to SEK 8 billion. Up to and including July 15, 2022 SCA has issued SEK 6.2 billion under the MTN program, of which SEK 4 billion is outstanding.
In relation to the MTN program, SCA on May 8, 2018 prepared and published a base prospectus, which will be updated annually. For this reason, SCA has updated the base prospectus which today, July 15, 2022, has been approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). The updated base prospectus will be available via the web sites of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (www.fi.se) and SCA (www.sca.com). Hard copies may be obtained at SCAs headoffice in Sundsvall.
For further information, please contact:
Anders Edholm, Svp Sustainability and Communications, +46 60 19 32 12, anders.edholm@sca.com
Andreas Ewertz, CFO, +46 60 19 31 97, andreas.ewertz@sca.com
This information was brought to you by Cision http://news.cision.com
The following files are available for download:
View original content:
SOURCE SCA | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sca-updates-mtn-program-publishes-prospectus/ | 2022-07-15T12:35:48Z | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sca-updates-mtn-program-publishes-prospectus/ | true |
Regarded as the gold standard in the field of cross-border employment, the global recruitment platform teamed up with a consortium of Canadian companies and Starlight Investments, to help Ukrainian refugees obtain protected status under the CUAET program and find jobs and housing.
MIAMI, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joblio Inc has today announced that it has successfully secured jobs for the first group of Ukrainian refugees resettled in Canada. The ethical recruitment platform is regarded as the gold standard in the field of cross-border employment and teamed up with Canadian companies to help the refugees find employment in across Canada.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Joblio has helped Ukrainian refugees fleeing the horrendous conflict to find employment in Germany, Romania, Poland, and the USA. Jon Purizhansky, CEO and co-founder of Joblio Inc, has reiterated the company's commitment to assisting refugees from Ukraine and insists that it will continue to channel its resources to facilitate their rapid introduction into safer countries.
"Our focus at Joblio is to revolutionize migrant assimilation by offering continuous support to help them face unexpected challenges." - Jon Purizhansky.
Joblio Inc. efficiently handled all aspects of their job hunting process - from the preparation and execution of documents to resume development, search for sponsors, organization of meetings, and search for housing.
To ease the difficult affair of relocation, Starlight Investments came forward to provide accommodations for resettled refugees, with flexible terms to allow them to build stability without worrying about immediate bills. Founded in 2011, the North American Real Estate firm manages assets on behalf of publicly listed, institutional, and private investors and has reaffirmed its commitment to creating sustainable and modern living spaces where people want to live, work, shop, and play.
"Our hearts and thoughts are with the people of Ukraine, and we will continue to do all we can to support and help them get through these trying times. We understand the challenges of a sudden move abroad and are working together to be as flexible as possible."
– Simone Webb, Starlight Executive Director of National Leasing, Starlight Investments.
Founded by Jon Purizhansky and chaired by the former president of the Manpower Group David Arkless, Joblio operates more efficient recruitment, training, and retraining process for cross-border employment. The company's proprietary Applicant Concierge Experience (ACE) program is focused on pre-departure and post-arrival community management, helping international job seekers to begin acclimating to their new homes even before they leave their countries of origin.
Differentiated from the non-transparent and inefficient practices of the current global migrant labor market, Joblio's accessible global platform removes the unethical middlemen from the process, freeing up more economic value for both employers and laborers. Its streamlined and transparent hiring process results in faster applicant processing, higher employee satisfaction, and lower employee attrition.
To learn more about the revolutionary practices of the leading recruitment company please reach out to Joblio via the contact info below.
Media Contacts:
Starlight Investments
Attn: Talia Shwebel
Director of Marketing, Starlight Investments
tschwebel@starlightinvest.com
www.starlightinvest.com
www.linkedin.com/company/starlight-investments-ltd-
Starlight Investments is a privately held Toronto-based, full service, multi-family and commercial real estate investment and asset management company driven by an experienced team of over 300 professionals. The company currently manages over $25.0 billion of direct real estate as well as real estate investment securities. Investment vehicles include institutional joint ventures, True North Commercial REIT, Starlight U.S. Multi-Family Funds, the Northview Fund and Starlight Capital Funds. Starlight Investment's portfolio consists of approximately 73,000 multi-residential units across Canada and the U.S. and over 8.0 million square feet of commercial properties.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Joblio | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/ukrainian-refugees-find-employment-ontario-canada-through-joblio-platform/ | 2022-07-15T12:36:29Z | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/ukrainian-refugees-find-employment-ontario-canada-through-joblio-platform/ | true |
Aaron Silverman vowed to “smash to the ground” the traditional fine-dining model on his way to reopening the posh Pineapple & Pearls on Capitol Hill in May.
I prepaid $325 a person to give the reimagined restaurant a whirl in June and strolled in with high hopes. Silverman is also behind the imaginative Rose’s Luxury and Little Pearl, after all, and my pre-pandemic review of Pineapple & Pearls, the crown jewel in his empire, was four stars strong, a rare “superlative” dining experience.
Initial impression of Pineapple & Pearls 2.0, aside from the steep admission price? Deja vu, thanks to a cool cloth and a glass of bubbly as we stepped inside the foyer. For a brief moment, I thought I might be in for a couple hours of memory lane-ing. Then my companion and I were ushered to our seats in a dining room rethought with myriad silver-tipped wooden rods hanging from the ceiling (disco balls for 2022!) and, closer to the chef’s counter in back, a flotilla of green balloons forming what appeared to be clouds by Dr. Seuss. We were handed a book to peruse, a collection of stories and photographs explaining parts of the meal to come. Now that’s a first. So is the arrival of an absinthe fountain and someone to fix you a Hemingway-inspired cocktail called “Death in the Afternoon.”
The printed menu is a surprise, a mere five courses with two choices per course. Anyone tired of tasting menus stretching several hours is apt to cheer the shorter script, although entertaining “gifts” alternate with the courses. First out of the gate are tall glass plinths topped with beggar’s purses fashioned from crepes colored with beet and saffron. The pouches, pumped with creme fraiche, lemon zest and shimmering caviar, come with instructions on how to eat the designer bags: Mouth only, no hands. Following orders looks a little obscene, but this is part of what Silverman had in mind when he was tinkering with fine dining. The chef borrowed the idea from the late, great Quilted Giraffe in New York, whose chef-owner, Barry Wine, showed up for dinner at the new restaurant’s second week of service, returning the next night for drinks at the bar. (The cheerleader even gifted Silverman a silk bomber jacket, plates and other mementos from his famous restaurant.)
Fret not. What sounds like a gimmick turns out to be luscious, and a first course of either chawanmushi or roast squab underscores a kitchen steeped in the classics. The first, silken Japanese egg custard, is cradled in the hollow of a bamboo stalk and lavished with a little forest of mushrooms, hazelnuts and ginger. The second choice, brined squab glazed with Guinness and cocoa, summons one of those restaurants you book months ahead for in France. The elegant entree, topped with toasted pine nuts and cocoa nibs, comes with a twist on boulangère potatoes: sliced celery root paired with squab mousse. Curlicues of sauce on the plate appear to be etched by a calligrapher.
It takes a village to sustain a restaurant like Pineapple & Pearls: 35 or so servers, cooks and others to feed and pamper no more than 24 guests at a time. The owner says he sought out servers who “love hosting,” a detail repeatedly demonstrated during my visit by a cool cat named Cosmo. (Eyeing a cocktail that featured a bump of caviar on the side, he whispered, “I’m not jealous.”) Silverman gets in on the act, too. The night I dined, the chef dropped by tables with a gift of “everything” gougeres, delicate cheese puffs stuffed with pimento cheese, flecked with a spice rack of accents and plucked from a stunning Hermes platter. Ha! And more, please.
You will dream of the pastas long after they’ve slipped over your tongue. Rarely do flour and potatoes defy gravity the way the ethereal, truffle-topped gnocchi do here. Finer still is the Mont Blanc pasta, a riff on a classic European dessert in which a chestnut-oat stuffing swells housemade agnolotti arranged with a lovely sage-scented pesto. Tufts of mousse are a mound of fun coaxed from white chocolate and Parmesan cheese. Try it, you’ll love it.
Unlike some high-end dinners, this does not feel like an endurance contest. The evening is paced so that you can marvel at the richness of grilled lobster, lit with spices including star anise and brushed with brown butter; ponder the wine in your glass (a “fancy” pairing costs $195, “extra fancy” is $500 and includes a pre-dinner consultation with a master sommelier); and wonder how the team dreamed up Époisses ice cream and Grayson cheese fondue — together in the same dish. “The right kind of stink,” our waiter said in introducing the funky, cold-hot combination, the only thing I left unfinished during what otherwise felt like a great dinner party.
Los Angeles tacos were the inspiration for an imaginative and restorative dessert hatched from pineapple tartare, coconut “snow” and ice cream flavored with chamoy, the Mexican condiment based on pickled fruit and chiles. The creation is yet another example of the restaurant’s pleasure principle at work, and how apt to enjoy it while Cheryl Lynn is singing “Got to Be Real.”
Before diners leave, they revisit the foyer, where they’re invited to help themselves to a soft-serve ice cream machine and an attendant snaps their photo with a Polaroid camera. The cool swirl goes back to the table — set with amaretto, warmed by a candle — to be enjoyed separately or on the ice cream.
The parting gifts are fun, too. A sleek goody bag is filled with elegant postcards, matches inscribed with phrases including “Always classy/Never trashy/And a little bit sassy” and a treat that can be enjoyed as a midnight snack or lunch the next day. Leave it to Pineapple & Pearls to gift us a wagyu cheeseburger.
Silverman says his team is just getting started. “This is a never-ending journey,” he told me in a telephone interview. “We have a lot of good ideas, but we ran out of time” to implement them all.
Patrons pay for the extreme pleasure. Silverman says the check average is about $525 per person. That’s a lot of dough, especially now, and I can already hear some of my audience complaining about how many groceries that might buy, or what else they would do with the money, as if consumers of fine dining can’t also be charitable. Funny how those concerns are rarely directed at people who shell out similar sums for the Super Bowl, Broadway or other indulgences, or how they fail to consider that restaurants are places of employment, and that the cost of everything has skyrocketed.
In the end, the transporting new Pineapple & Pearls is a singular sensation that I’d be willing to pay for myself — the ultimate test for any restaurant.
Pineapple & Pearls
715 Eighth St. SE. 202-595-7375. pineappleandpearls.com. Open: Indoor dining Wednesday through Saturday. Seating times are 5 to 6 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. Price: $325 per person, excluding tax, 22 percent service charge and drinks. Sound check: 69 decibels/Conversation is easy. Accessibility: No barriers to entry; restrooms are ADA-compliant. Pandemic protocols: Masks and vaccinations for staff are encouraged but optional. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/07/15/pineapple-and-pearls-review/ | 2022-07-15T12:37:47Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/07/15/pineapple-and-pearls-review/ | false |
Crucial Bunker call cruels Cowboys in loss to Sharks, Eels cruise to win over Warriors
A controversial Bunker call has cost North Queensland dearly in their loss to Cronulla while Parramatta did it easy against the Warriors.
Check out all the live scores and stats below.
Sharks 26 def Cowboys 12
A controversial no-try to North Queensland's Jason Taumalolo has left the Cowboys scratching their heads following their 26-12 loss to Cronulla.
With the Sharks leading 14-12 shortly after halftime, Taumalolo appeared to have scored one of the solo tries of the season when he busted through the Cronulla defence from 20 metres out to touch down under the posts.
But the Bunker denied the try, ruling Sharks prop Toby Rudolf was obstructed in the lead up.
From the ensuing set, the Sharks scored through backrower Teig Wilton.
Cowboys winger Kyle Feldt told Grandstand after the game he was perplexed by the decision.
"Yeah, I didn’t even think it was obstruction. It’s touch and go that rule nowadays," Feldt said.
"In the first half we were hard done by by one of their tries. Hessy got taken out and they classed it as initiating contact.
"It’s not black and white, it’s a gray area in our game at the moment. But we’ve just got to live with it."
In the top-four showdown, it was the Sharks who made all the running against a Cowboys team missing six of their regular starting side.
The Cowboys were without Tom Dearden, Valentine Holmes, Jeremiah Nanai when they were rested after State of Origin while Murray Taulagi wasn't named because of COVID-19 protocols.
Reuben Cotter and Jordan McLean are still sidelined with hamstring injuries, gifting the Sharks a golden opportunity to shore up a place inside the top four.
Team stats
And the visitors accepted their chances with open arms to now sit third on the premiership table after powering to their fifth consecutive win.
They are equal on 26 points with the second-placed Cowboys and will continue their chase for a top-two berth in a tantalising clash with ladder leaders Penrith next week.
Cronulla winger Sione Katoa the iced the game in the 69th minute when he blitzed through a hole from a 30-metre scrum inside the Sharks' half to put the result beyond doubt.
His try backed up Wilton's four-pointer 10 minutes earlier.
That 12-point turnaround was the dagger in a gassed Cowboys side whose streak at home ends at five consecutive wins.
AAP/ABC
Eels 28 def Warriors 18
Parramatta remain in the race for an all-important NRL top-four spot by accounting for the Warriors 28-18 at CommBank Stadium.
At virtually full strength, the Eels were made to work for their victory by the Warriors, whose preparations were disrupted by a non-COVID sickness that swept through camp during the week.
But the New Zealanders had reason for positivity heading into Friday night's game. They returned to Auckland for a win before the bye and had unveiled Andrew Webster as their new coach for 2023.
The Warriors' confidence was evident in their defence early. The Eels were tackled 25 times in their 20 metre zone and forced three drop-outs before they could finally score.
Team stats
When centre Waqa Blake broke through, his four-pointer marked the first time since round seven that Parramatta had crossed the tryline before their opponent.
Maika Sivo snaffled a wayward Shaun Johnson pass and streaked away 10 minutes later, teaming up with Blake for his second and the Warriors were 10 points in arrears.
But the Warriors refused to fold.
They struck back through Marcelo Montoya and remained in the contest after the break, thanks in no small part to ill discipline from both sides.
In the first 10 minutes of the second half, the referee blew his whistle for four errors, two penalties and two ruck infringements but the Eels were better equipped to rise from the mire and reignite their attack.
Seven members of Parramatta's forward pack finished with over 100 run metres, laying the platform for a 15-minute period of dominance that saw the Eels home.
Isaiah Papali'i's reported indecision about honouring his Wests Tigers contract made news this week but the headlines didn't stop him from barging through with the try that set the Eels on the path for victory.
The win will be crucial to Parramatta's hopes of securing a top-four spot, especially given their tough draw to round the season out.
In their final seven regular season games, the Eels face only one side that are not currently in the top eight but are now only outside of the top four on points differential.
The Warriors were already at long odds to play finals football but their latest loss all but confirms they will watch from afar.
By the end of the round, they could be as many as four wins out of the top eight and only one win off the bottom of the ladder, pending other results.
AAP | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-15/nrl-cowboys-sharks-eels-warriors/101238222 | 2022-07-15T12:37:47Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-15/nrl-cowboys-sharks-eels-warriors/101238222 | false |
Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner for 1912 Olympic golds
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time.
The International Olympic Committee planned to announce the change Friday on the 110th anniversary of Thorpe winning the decathlon and later being proclaimed by King Gustav V of Sweden as “the greatest athlete in the world.”
Thorpe, a Native American, returned to a ticker-tape parade in New York, but months later it was discovered he had been paid to play minor league baseball over two summers, an infringement of the Olympic amateurism rules. He was stripped of his gold medals in what was described as the first major international sports scandal.
Thorpe to some remains the greatest all-around athlete ever. He was voted as the Associated Press’ Athlete of the Half Century in a poll in 1950.
In 1982 — 29 years after Thorpe’s death — the IOC gave duplicate gold medals to his family but his Olympic records were not reinstated, nor was his status as the sole gold medalist of the two events.
Two years ago, a Bright Path Strong petition advocated declaring Thorpe the outright winner of the pentathlon and decathlon in 1912. The IOC had listed him as a co-champion in the official record book.
“We welcome the fact that, thanks to the great engagement of Bright Path Strong, a solution could be found,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement as part of Friday’s announcement. “This is a most exceptional and unique situation, which has been addressed by an extraordinary gesture of fair play from the National Olympic Committees concerned.”
World Athletics, the governing body of track and field, has also agreed to amend its records, the IOC said.
Thorpe tripled the score of his nearest competitor in the pentathlon and had 688 more points than the second-place finisher in the decathlon.
During the closing ceremony, King Gustav V told Thorpe: “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.”
___
More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/15/jim-thorpe-reinstated-as-sole-winner-for-1912-olympic-golds/ | 2022-07-15T12:38:08Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/15/jim-thorpe-reinstated-as-sole-winner-for-1912-olympic-golds/ | false |
Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai sent a surprising memo to his staff this week: “Moving forward, we need to be more entrepreneurial, working with greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days,” he wrote, according to tech news site The Verge.
It’s a little jarring to hear a tech CEO turn up the heat in a way that echoes Jack Welch’s rank-and-yank approach to culling low performers. Tech companies, after all, have generally operated like employee nirvanas, paying high salaries and offering lavish perks from catered meals and free concerts, to on-site massage and egg freezing.
But the sharper tone is necessary. Tech has entered an unfamiliar era of uncertainty, marked by tumbling shares and hiring slowdowns — challenges that would have been shocking even a year ago. To make matters worse, social media firms like Google’s YouTube, Facebook and Instagram are also facing heightened regulatory scrutiny while trying to refashion their products on the fly to fend off competition from ByteDance Inc.’s TikTok.
All told, the sunny days of tech’s unstoppable growth are over, and the latest warnings from Pichai and Zuckerberg suggest not only that second-quarter earnings due later this month could leave investors aghast, but that they are positioning themselves to get tougher on the workforces they have indulged for years.
Zuckerberg is, according to his own reported description, a wartime CEO by nature. He was influenced by the writings of Facebook investor Ben Horowitz, who posits that a peacetime CEO “focuses on the big picture,” while a wartime CEO “cares about a speck of dust on a gnat’s ass.” While a peacetime CEO tries to minimize conflict, a wartime CEO “heightens the contradictions.”
Relentlessly ambitious and competitive to the point of being paranoid, Zuckerberg has run Facebook with a sense of urgency even when times were good. In 2012 he chased Instagram and bought the company for $1 billion after warning his CFO that the company “could be very disruptive to us,” according to emails published in antitrust proceedings against the company. Two years later he bought WhatsApp for $19 billion for apparently similar, defensive reasons.
That naturally caught the ire of antitrust regulators, and Zuckerberg’s shameless approach to cloning competitors has also earned him accusations of being a copycat. (A running joke is that Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel is Facebook’s head of R&D, thanks to all the features Facebook has aped from the smaller company.) But when times are lean, that kind of ruthlessness can also help protect a company’s bottom line.
“He’s competitive like nobody I’ve ever seen before,” said Instagram’s former vice president of product, Kevin Weil, in an interview with the Big Technology Podcast last week. “Even in the times when Facebook was up and to the right, and nothing could go wrong, there was always something urgent, something existential that he would get everyone focused on, and [he had] a way of creating focus and drive when you could be forgiven for being lazy for a little while. Mark always had that thing.”
Zuckerberg has, for better or worse, made his job harder by pivoting the entire company to the metaverse, something other tech firms might not have had the guts to do for years, if at all. But his previous big and decisive bets — such as his purchase of Instagram or his shift to mobile for Facebook — have paid off handsomely,(1)and Facebook’s shares have more than quintupled in the past decade, even factoring in their more recent, steep decline.
Now as technology giants navigate a potentially perilous moment for their businesses, those with adversarial CEOs will probably fare better in the battle to retain talent, fend off competition and wrangle increasingly disparate hybrid workforces. It’s unclear whether Google’s Sundar Pichai is a CEO for this more challenging moment: In a 2020 Wall Street Journal profile of Pichai for instance, his leadership team largely agreed that he was “nice.” Perhaps his recent memo to colleagues shows a willingness to be more confrontational.
Zuckerberg still has much to do to fix the harms Facebook’s algorithms have inflicted on society.(2) But when it comes to protecting the company’s bottom line, there seems to be no one more committed to the task. He could well become the envy of his peers.
More From Other Writers at Bloomberg Opinion:
•
Twitter Still Wants Musk’s Money: Matt Levine
•
When Data Privacy Became a Startup’s Nightmare: Andy Mukherjee
•
Why the IPhone Is Missing From Foxconn’s Asia Tour: Tim Culpan
(1) Zuckerberg’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp has yet to prove a major financial benefit to Meta, though. The company has for years said it was planning to bring advertising to WhatsApp, which has not happened, though there are more than 1 million businesses paying it for “click to WhatsApp” ads. The division’s contribution to revenue is still unclear.
(2) There is only one sign that Zuckerberg is making amends for Facebook’s social harms: his shift to the metaverse. Virtual reality is not very addictive and likely won’t have the same kind of harmful social impact that Facebook has had.
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “We Are Anonymous.”
More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com/opinion
©2022 Bloomberg L.P. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/mark-zuckerbergs-ruthlessness-is-what-facebook-needs-now/2022/07/15/14bca374-042e-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | 2022-07-15T12:42:10Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/mark-zuckerbergs-ruthlessness-is-what-facebook-needs-now/2022/07/15/14bca374-042e-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | true |
JERUSALEM — Whether Joe Biden’s first trip to the Middle East as president ends a success or a failure may hinge on what happens when the American leader first locks eyes with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
There’s been considerable speculation about both the choreography and the substance of how Biden, who had vowed as a presidential candidate to treat the Saudis as a “pariah” for their human rights record, will go about interacting with the crown prince.
Asked Thursday whether he would raise the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based journalist and critic of the kingdom, with the crown prince, Biden didn’t give a direct answer.
The Democratic president last year approved the release of a U.S. intelligence finding that determined the crown prince, known as MBS, likely approved Khashoggi’s killing. The release of the report caused a further rupture in U.S.-Saudi relations.
“My views on Khashoggi have been absolutely, positively clear. And I have never been quiet about talking about human rights,” Biden said. “The reason I’m going to Saudi Arabia, though, is much broader. It’s to promote U.S. interests — promote U.S. interests in a way that I think we have an opportunity to reassert what I think we made a mistake of walking away from: our influence in the Middle East.”
Biden arrives in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah on the third day of a four-day swing through the Middle East. He spent the first two days meeting with Israeli officials and traveled to the West Bank on Friday to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and others before flying to Saudi Arabia.
Once in Jeddah, Biden will meet with Saudi King Salman and then hold a larger working meeting that is to include Prince Mohammed and other senior Saudi officials as well as the president’s top advisers.
Asked if Biden would shake hands with MBS, a senior administration official demurred and noted the Biden White House is “focused on the meetings, not the greetings.”
The Saudis did make a step toward normalization of relations with Israel before Biden’s visit, announcing early Friday that it was opening its airspace to “all air carriers,” signaling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights flying over its territory.
Biden hailed the decision as “an important step towards building a more integrated and stable Middle East region,” adding that the decision “can help build momentum toward Israel’s further integration into the region, including with Saudi Arabia.”
Biden also will take part in a Saturday gathering of leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council —Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — before returning to Washington. The leaders of Mideast neighbors Egypt, Iraq and Jordan are also to attend.
The Saudi visit is one of the most delicate that Biden has faced on the international stage. Any kind of respectful greeting that Biden can manage, and the Saudi crown prince can reflect back, might help both sides soothe relations.
But it could also open Biden, already floundering in the polls at home, to deeper criticism that he is backtracking on his pledges to put human rights at the center of foreign policy.
Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, said that, with the visit to Saudi Arabia, Biden was backing down on human rights.
“It’s a very huge backing down actually,” Cengiz told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. “It’s heartbreaking and disappointing. And Biden will lose his moral authority by putting oil and expediency over principles and values.”
Biden’s criticism of the Saudis as a candidate became more tempered in recent months as Russia’s war on Ukraine aggravated what was already a global supply crunch for oil and gas. Elevated gasoline prices have driven inflation in the United States to its highest levels in four decades.
Saudi political analyst Turki al Hamad said he was not optimistic about the prospects for Biden’s trip.
“Biden and his team will come and set their eyes on the U.S. elections, and improving the Democrats’ situation by coming out with an agreement on increasing oil production,” Hamad tweeted, saying that “does not matter to the Saudi leadership.”
Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. State Department official, said Biden is looking forward to visiting Saudi Arabia “like I would look forward to a root canal operation.”
Miller contrasted Biden with his predecessor, President Donald Trump, who visited Saudi Arabia on his first foreign trip. That trip was highlighted by a mystifying photo op of the leaders gathered around a glowing orb and Trump briefly joining a ceremonial sword dance.
With Biden and Prince Mohammed, “there aren’t going to be a lot of sword dances, or smiling photo ops, or warm embraces,” Miller said.
___
Knickmeyer reported from Sacramento, Calif., and Megerian from Washington. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-to-meet-saudi-king-prince-mbs-after-human-rights-rift/2022/07/15/fb52ef9e-0435-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | 2022-07-15T12:43:42Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-to-meet-saudi-king-prince-mbs-after-human-rights-rift/2022/07/15/fb52ef9e-0435-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | false |
KEVIN Alas sat out NLEX’s PBA Philippine Cup game against Blackwater on Friday due to a sore hamstring.
The 30-year-old Alas said he suffered the injury during the fourth quarter of the Road Warriors’ 96-86 loss to Rain or Shine last week.
“Sabi naman ni Doc Canlas rest lang naman ito,” said the NLEX guard following the team’s huge 98-68 victory over the Bossing at the Ynares Center in Antipolo.
“Pero next game laro na ulit ako,” Alas added.
Don Trollano and the Road Warriors score an easy win without starting guard Kevin Alas.
That would be on the final day of the eliminations on July 22 when the Road Warriors take on the NorthPort Batang Pier, a team that is still in the running for a playoffs berth.
But even without its starting point guard, NLEX took care of business against Blackwater, racing to an early 31-2 lead from which the Bossing never recovered.
The NLEX defense held Blackwater to a 32 percent shooting from the field that aided the Road Warriors to snap out of a three-game skid and improve at an even 5-5 record.
We are now on Quento! Download the app to enjoy more articles and videos from SPIN.ph and other Summit Media websites. | https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/kevin-alas-sat-out-nlex-game-against-blackwater-a793-20220715 | 2022-07-15T12:44:31Z | https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/kevin-alas-sat-out-nlex-game-against-blackwater-a793-20220715 | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday that the criminal contempt trial of Steve Bannon can start as scheduled next week and that the extensive media coverage of the onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump should not be a barrier to selecting an unbiased jury to hear the case.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols had earlier in the week rejected a bid by Bannon’s lawyers to delay his trial, which is scheduled to start Monday with jury selection. He made a similar ruling Thursday, turning aside concerns from Bannon’s lawyers about a CNN report set to air on the eve of trial and what they said were prejudicial comments made during a hearing this week hosted by the House committee investigating the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“I am cognizant of current concerns about publicity and bias and whether we can seat a jury that is going to be appropriate and fair, but as I said before, I believe the appropriate course is to go through the voir dire process,” Nichols said, referring to the questioning of individual jurors before they are selected. “And I have every intention of getting a jury that is going to be appropriate, fair and unbiased.”
Bannon is charged in Washington’s federal court with defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee that sought his records and testimony. Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, one month after the Justice Department received a congressional referral. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars.
He previously argued that his testimony is protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege.
A lawyer for Bannon told the committee in a letter over the weekend that Bannon was now prepared to testify after Trump issued his own letter saying he would waive any claim of executive privilege.
Though such a professed willingness to testify won’t erase the criminal charges Bannon faces, Nichols left open the possibility that the letters could be referenced at trial, saying the information was “at least potentially relevant” to Bannon’s defense.
The judge mused earlier Thursday that Bannon could argue that he believed the committee’s dates for compliance with the subpoena were malleable and flexible — an argument prosecutors say is belied by the facts and the law.
“The crime of default (with regard to a subpoena) is complete at the time,” prosecutor Amanda Vaughn said.
_____
Follow Eric Tucker on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/etuckerAP | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/judge-again-denies-bannon-bid-to-delay-his-trial-next-week/ | 2022-07-15T12:45:09Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/judge-again-denies-bannon-bid-to-delay-his-trial-next-week/ | true |
UnitedHealth Group hiked its 2022 forecast Friday after riding both growing health insurance enrollment and its newer care-providing businesses to a better-than-expected second quarter.
The health care giant said a nearly 9% surge in Medicare Advantage customers pushed its total enrollment past 51 million people.
UnitedHealth Group runs UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation’s largest insurers. But it also has been investing for several years now in its Optum segment, which provides care, manages prescription plans and offers technology support.
Revenue from that segment grew 18% to about $45.1 billion in the quarter, helped by Optum Health, which runs a growing network of doctor offices and surgery centers and provides care delivered at patient homes.
Optum Health brought in more than $17 billion, and the company said its revenue per customer grew 30% in the quarter, which it attributed to growth in value-based care arrangements. That involves reimbursing care providers based more on the patient’s health and how it improves instead of for each service performed.
This can give doctors more flexibility to address issues like whether the patient has a ride to an appointment or enough healthy food to eat.
UnitedHealthcare and other insurers have shown a growing interest in approaches like this with the idea that connecting people to more regular care can help them ward off or at least manage expensive medical conditions.
Overall, UnitedHealth Group’s second-quarter earnings grew 19% to more than $5 billion while earnings adjusted for one-time items totaled $5.57 per share.
The company’s total revenue grew 13% to $80.3 billion.
Analysts forecast earnings of $5.21 per share on $79.68 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
UnitedHealth Group now expects adjusted earnings for 2022 to range between $21.40 and $21.90 per share. That represents an increase of 20 cents per share on both ends of the range.
FactSet says analysts expect, on average, earnings of $21.69 per share.
Shares of Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. climbed more than 1% to $510 in early-morning trading before markets opened.
The stock is up slightly on the year while the Dow Jones industrial average, of which UnitedHealth Group is a member, has plunged nearly 16%.
___
Follow Tom Murphy on Twitter. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/growing-enrollment-optum-health-propel-unitedhealth-in-2q/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-15T12:46:20Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/growing-enrollment-optum-health-propel-unitedhealth-in-2q/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | false |
Today is Friday, July 15, 2022. Let's get caught up.
Here are today's top stories, celebrity birthdays and a look back at this date in history:
***
TODAY'S WEATHER
Temperatures will continue to be above average for the central US. Showers and thunderstorms will develop in the afternoon. CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar has the latest forecast.
***
TOP STORIES
This morning's top headlines: Friday, July 15
The House is expected to vote on two bills that would restore and guarantee abortion access nationwide. It’s the Democrats’ first attempt at responding legislatively to the Supreme Court’s seismic decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The legislation coming to the floor Friday stands almost no chance of becoming law, with support lacking in the 50-50 Senate. Yet it marks the beginning of a new era in the abortion debate as lawmakers, governors and legislatures grapple with the impact of the high court’s decision. The ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Sen. Joe Manchin has told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he will oppose an economic measure if it includes climate or energy provisions or boosts taxes on the rich or corporations. That's according to a Democrat briefed on the conversations. Manchin's demands upend party leaders’ hopes for a more sweeping package and leave the measure’s future unclear. The West Virginia senator derailed his party’s far bigger and wider-ranging social and environment package last December. The official says that now, Manchin has told Schumer he will only support a package limited to curbing pharmaceutical prices and extending federal subsidies for buying health care coverage.
A government watchdog has found that Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after an inspector general requested them as part of the investigation into the insurrection. That is according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. The letter from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General informs Congress that it has been informed that many Secret Service messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, were erased “as part of a device-replacement program.” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says, “The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false."
President Joe Biden has called for “two states for two peoples” — the Israelis and Palestinians - while visiting the West Bank on Friday. But he also acknowledged that the “ground is not ripe" at this moment for restarting peace talks between them. The stalemate has dimmed hopes for a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict, and millions of Palestinians continue to live under Israeli military rule. Biden announced more than $300 million in aid to the Palestinians. But American money is only a limited balm for a situation that has frequently flared into violence.
The grocery store in Buffalo where 10 people were killed in a racist shooting in May is part of an ever-growing list of public spaces and retail establishments where gun violence shattered a community’s way of living. Whether it’s a school, a church, a movie theater or a grocery store, how and when do you reopen the site of a mass atrocity? Managers at the Tops Friendly Market say they were confident that neighborhood residents overwhelmingly wanted and needed their most accessible supermarket to reopen. But some residents question whether opening two months after a tragedy is too soon.
Protesters have retreated from government buildings in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country. And the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled a day earlier under pressure from the protesters enraged by the island nation’s economic collapse. An official said he finally emailed his resignation a day later than promised. But the crisis was far from over because he has further angered the crowds by making his prime minister the acting leader. Protesters have pressed for both men to leave and for a unity government to address the economic calamity that has triggered widespread shortages of food, fuel and other necessities.
Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother to his oldest children, has died in New York City. She was 73. People familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press that police are investigating whether she fell accidentally down the stairs at her home. The people spoke Thursday on the condition of anonymity. Ivana Trump was a Czech-born ski racer and businesswoman who with Donald Trump formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s. They had a messy, public divorce after he met his next wife, Marla Maples. But Ivana had recently been on good terms with her former husband.
The white woman who was at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi denies wanting him killed. The claim comes in a memoir by Carolyn Bryant Donham that was obtained by The Associated Press. In the 99-page manuscript, Donham says she attempted to help Till once he’d been located by her husband and brother-in-law and brought to her for identification. She says she denied that the youth was Till because she didn't want any harm to come to him. The AP obtained the memoir from a historian. An unserved arrest warrant charging Donham in Till's abduction was recently found in a Mississippi courthouse basement.
Rescue teams with sniffer dogs are combing through the debris in a central Ukrainian city looking for people still missing after Russia’s devastating missile strike that killed at least 23 and wounded over 100 others. Russian forces pounded other sites in Ukraine in a relentless push to wrest territory from Ukraine and try to soften the unbending morale of its leaders, troops and civilians. The cruise missile strikes on the city of Vinnytsia launched by a Russian submarine on Thursday marked the latest carnage to fan international outrage since Russia President Vladimir Putin launched the military invasion of Ukraine in February. Meanwhile, Russia said some progress was being made on a plan to get blocked Ukrainian grain to the world.
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with murder in connection with the mysterious 2021 deaths of his wife and son. The charges were announced Thursday. Murdaugh’s 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, were shot to death outside their home on June 7, 2021. The indictments say Murdaugh killed his wife with a rifle and his son with a shotgun. They released no details on how police linked Murdaugh to the deaths after 13 months of investigation. Murdaugh is already jailed and facing dozens of other criminal charges from money laundering to stealing from clients to lying to police who say he tried to arrange his own death last September.
The Old Course at St. Andrews was fast as ever. The same couldn't be said for the pace of play at the British Open. The heralded start of the 150th Open featured Cameron Young making his debut with a 64. He had a two-shot lead over Rory McIlroy. And the long day could make for a short week for Tiger Woods. The two-time winner at St. Andrews had two double bogeys on his way to a 78. That's his second-highest score ever in the Open and leaves him six shots out of the cut line.
The U.S. women’s national team will play Canada in the final of the CONCACAF W Championship for a spot in the 2024 Olympics. The United States beat Costa Rica 3-0 in the semifinals on Thursday night, on goals from Emily Sonnett, Mallory Pugh and Ashley Sanchez. Canada downed Jamaica 3-0 in the late game to advance to earn the other spot in Monday’s championship. The four teams finished atop their groups to qualify for the region’s berths at the 2023 Women’s World Cup. The winner of the W Championship additionally earns one of the region’s spots in the Olympics.
***
MORNING LISTEN: "STREAMED & SCREENED" PODCAST
Theater marquees this weekend will be topped with Where the Crawdads Sing, the adaptation of Delia Owens' wildly successful, Reese Witherspoon approved, novel, along with the cuteness overdose of Jenny Slate's Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. At home we've got the latest season of What We Do In The Shadows on HULU, a new series premiering from Nathan Fielder, The Rehearsal on HBO, and the last set of episodes kick off Better Call Saul's curtain call on AMC. All that plus we kick things off by getting into the nitty gritty of our Thor and the "GentleMinions" phenomena.
People are also reading…
***
IMAGE OF THE DAY
***
TODAY IN HISTORY
A Russian Soyuz craft launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan, carrying three space travelers, including NASA astronaut Sunita William…
In 1961, Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale to win his first British Open title. See more sports moments from this date:
*** | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/house-plans-vote-to-codify-abortion-rights-secret-service-1-6-texts-deleted-buffalo-market/article_c864074f-adad-5c60-b90d-41218b806574.html | 2022-07-15T12:46:43Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/house-plans-vote-to-codify-abortion-rights-secret-service-1-6-texts-deleted-buffalo-market/article_c864074f-adad-5c60-b90d-41218b806574.html | false |
Federal judge rules Brevard School Board speaker policies don't violate First Amendment
An Orlando judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Brevard chapter of Moms for Liberty and four Brevard parents who said the School Board and Brevard Public Schools discriminated against conservative parents who criticized the board with its public speaker policy.
Judge David Baker ruled that the School Board’s policy itself didn’t violate the plaintiff’s rights to free speech or right to petition, and didn’t violate the constitution by being too vague or broad. But Moms for Liberty and the four parents may still argue that the board applied the policy prejudicially if they file an amended complaint by July 26.
Brevard Public Schools and School Board Chair Misty Belford remain active defendants in the case, but the four other board members have been removed from future proceedings. Judge David Baker said other board members could not be said to have violated speakers’ constitutional rights because Belford was responsible for enforcing the policy.
In November, the Brevard chapter of Moms for Liberty and four Brevard parents filed a suit against the School Board alleging that the board used its speaker policy to silence conservative parents who opposed the board, especially those who spoke up against the mask mandate the district implemented in Fall 2021.
Previously:Judge denies injunction in Moms for Liberty First Amendment suit, says group unlikely to win
And:Moms for Liberty sues Brevard School Board, saying speech rules discriminate by view
What is Moms for Liberty? Here's a look at its roots, its philosophy and its mission
They argued the board chilled free speech by only halting speakers who criticized the board and by reading a statement before each meeting stating that attempts to disrupt board meetings were illegal under state law and that people who refused to leave meetings could be charged with trespassing.
Baker wrote that the plaintiffs could not provide sufficient evidence that the free speech of members had been chilled by Belford’s reading of criminal statutes before meetings because speakers at meetings nonetheless continued criticizing the board.
Brevard Public Schools declined to comment. The defendant’s legal counsel has not responded to a request for comment.
The board’s speaker policy forbids speakers from making remarks that are “personally directed,” “abusive” or “obscene,” and speakers are told to direct all remarks to School Board Chair Misty Belford instead of addressing individual board members, BPS staff or other parties.
Sheriff Ivey to Misty Belford:Deputies won't enforce Brevard School Board speaking policies
DeSantis endorses school board candidate:DeSantis endorses Megan Wright, Brevard School Board candidate challenging Misty Belford
At several School Board meetings, Belford has halted speakers who made remarks deemed uncivil or who repeatedly addressed people other than and asked them to return to their seats or leave the meetings.
Some speakers have left meetings after district security officers began walking toward them to lead them out, but none have been charged with trespassing.
Two anti-mask protestors were arrested before a September meeting and charged with trespassing and disrupting a school board meeting after they attempted to enter district headquarters without wearing masks. They waived their rights to a speedy trial, and their cases are still pending in Brevard County criminal court.
Bailey Gallion is the education reporter for FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallion at 321-242-3786 or bgallion@floridatoday.com. | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/07/15/moms-liberty-lawsuit-brevard-school-board-speaker-policies-first-amendment-ruling/10051883002/ | 2022-07-15T12:47:53Z | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/07/15/moms-liberty-lawsuit-brevard-school-board-speaker-policies-first-amendment-ruling/10051883002/ | false |
2022 has been the summer of the "flightmare". Every weekend comes reports of hundreds (if not thousands) of canceled flights, lost luggage, and long delays.
It all had traveler Tamara Mims very nervous.
"My flight doesn't leave till 4, so I am having a little anxiety about it being delayed," she said, rushing to catch her fight.
On top of all the problems, ticket prices are up 25% over last summer, according to the government's most recent price data. So what can you do if you were hoping for an end-of-summer deal?
The first thing to do is to lessen your chances of getting stuck somewhere, or at home, with your vacation flight canceled.
Make sure you get there on time
To improve your chances of avoiding delays, Caroline Teel of SmarterTravel.com says:
- Avoid connecting flights, which double your chance of a problem.
- Don't check a bag if possible.
- Book a morning flight. And never the last flight of the day.
"Try to get the first flight of the day if you can," Teel said. "I know no one wants to wake up and get a 4 am taxi to the airport, but you are so much less likely to be delayed if you are on that first flight."
Where are the end-of-summer deals?
Normally by late July, airlines and hotels start lowering prices for late August travel. But there are fewer deals this year.
Soaring jet fuel prices, pilot and other staffing shortages, and higher-than-normal demand this year are all contributing to high prices, as well as a record number of delays and cancellations.
Unfortunately, those same factors are why it's also tough to find some end-of-summer deals this year, as there are so few empty seats that airlines need to fill.
Lousson Smith of Scott's Cheap Flights said, "it's not that there aren't any deals out there. It's just that when they do happen, they move really quickly."
Smith says Scott's Cheap Flights notifies members when great deals pop up.
He recommends you:
- Use an aggregator, like Google Flights or Kayak, to compare prices.
- Avoid Monday and Friday business travelers (who are now flying again), by flying Tuesday through Thursday and on Saturday.
- Get the best deals by waiting until after Labor Day to travel. Mid-September to mid-November, when kids are all in school, have some of the lowest fares of the year,
If you're hoping for one last family trip this summer, however, be sure to book the flight you want before it's gone. Airlines are not adding extra planes right now.
"The longer you wait, the more likely it is that you're not gonna find those deals," Lousson said.
Tamara Mims says high fares are not keeping her home....yet.
"People want to vacation, gotta pay the price," she said.
But with some pre-planning and a careful choice of travel dates, you'll be set up so that you don't waste your money.
___________________________
Don't Waste Your Money" is a registered trademark of Scripps Media, Inc. ("Scripps").
Like" John Matarese Money on Facebook
Follow John on Instagram @johnmataresemoney
Follow John on Twitter (@JohnMatarese)
For more consumer news and money saving advice, go to www.dontwasteyourmoney.com | https://www.wptv.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/are-there-any-end-of-summer-travel-deals-left-when-it-comes-to-flights | 2022-07-15T12:48:54Z | https://www.wptv.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/are-there-any-end-of-summer-travel-deals-left-when-it-comes-to-flights | false |
TORONTO (AP) — Hockey Canada made a series of announcements on Thursday in an open letter to Canadians, including the reopening of a third-party investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving members of the country’s 2018 world junior team.
The national federation said participation in the investigation by the players in question is mandatory, adding anyone who declines will be banned from all of the federation’s activities and programs effective immediately. It previously said it “strongly encouraged” players take part in the investigation into the alleged incident, which occurred at a Hockey Canada function in London, Ontario.
Hockey Canada CEO Scott Smith, who took on the role July 1 and has held various jobs at the federation since 1995, testified on last month that “12 or 13″ of the 19 players from the team were interviewed before the original and incomplete investigation concluded in September 2020.
“We know we have not done enough to address the actions of some members of the 2018 national junior team or to end the culture of toxic behavior within our game. For that we unreservedly apologize,” Hockey Canada’s letter said. “We know we need to do more to address the behaviors, on and off the ice, that conflict with what Canadians want hockey to be, and which undermine the many good things that the game brings to our country.”
Hockey Canada quietly settled a lawsuit in May after a woman claimed she was assaulted by eight players, including members of the country’s 2018 gold-medal winning junior team. None of the allegations have been proven in court.
Smith, Hockey Canada’s then-president, and outgoing CEO Tom Renney were grilled by MPs in Ottawa last month after news of the alleged assault and settlement broke. Unhappy with what it heard from the executives, the federal government subsequently paused public funding for the national body. A number of companies also suspended sponsorships as they awaited next steps.
“We recognize many of the actions we are taking now should have been taken sooner, and faster,” Hockey Canada’s letter read. “We own that and will do better to deliver on our responsibilities to Canadians.”
Hockey Canada said it will now require players, coaches, team staff and volunteers associated with its high-performance program to participate in mandatory sexual violence and consent training.
It will also conduct a full third-party review of the organization’s governance, and is committing to become a full signatory to the Office of the Integrity Commissioner, a new government agency with the power to independently investigate abuse complaints and levy sanctions.
Hockey Canada said it will also create an “independent and confidential complaint mechanism” to provide victims and survivors tools and support to come forward.
Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge said last month federal money would only be restored once officials produced the incomplete third-party report and became a signatory to the Office of the Integrity Commissioner. Hockey Canada received $14 million from Ottawa in 2020 and 2021, including $3.4 million in COVID-19 subsidies, according to government records.
Hockey Canada did not commit to releasing either the incomplete or full report to the government in its letter. Once the investigation is completed — by the same Toronto law firm hired in 2018 — it will be referred to “an independent adjudicative panel of current and former judges who will determine the appropriate consequences, which may include a lifetime ban from Hockey Canada activity, on and off the ice.”
The woman who made the assault allegation was seeking $3.55 million in damages from Hockey Canada, the Canadian Hockey League and the unnamed players.
“We acknowledge the courage of the young woman involved and respect her decision to participate with the investigation in the manner she chooses,” Hockey Canada wrote Thursday.
Hockey Canada has said it learned of the incident the day after it was alleged to have occurred, started to investigate and notified police.
Details of the settlement have not been publicized, but Smith testified before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in June that Hockey Canada came up with the funds and paid the entire sum, adding no government money was used. St-Onge ordered an audit to make sure that’s the case.
The committee is set to meet July 26 and 27 to hear from more witnesses. It has also requested a redacted copy of the nondisclosure agreement related to the settlement along with a long list of Hockey Canada communications.
The NHL is also conducting an investigation because some of the players from the team are now in the league.
Companies that paused or withdrew funding from Hockey Canada or specific events include Scotiabank, Telus, Tim Hortons and Imperial Oil, under its Esso brand.
___
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/hockey-canada-reopens-probe-into-alleged-2018-sexual-assault/ | 2022-07-15T12:49:53Z | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/hockey-canada-reopens-probe-into-alleged-2018-sexual-assault/ | true |
New partnerships to benefit all customers
ST. LOUIS, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a group of leading organizations from across Missouri announced they're joining Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE), to bring more clean energy to the state. These organizations are committing to clean energy by choosing to purchase up to 100% of their total energy use from renewable generation sources. To meet these organizations' renewable energy goals, Ameren Missouri created the Renewable Solutions program. The program would be served by a 150 megawatt (MW) solar facility being acquired by Ameren Missouri, marking another step toward its transition to renewable energy.
"We know that reaching our goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 will take innovative solutions and partnerships," said Mark Birk, chairman and president of Ameren Missouri. "This creative partnership with local businesses and organizations is just one of the ways that we're working to increase the amount of clean energy on the grid while still maintaining the affordability and reliability our customers expect."
The solar facility, in White County, Illinois, is being developed by Invenergy, a leading developer, owner and operator of sustainable energy solutions. This facility, which Ameren Missouri previously announced an agreement to acquire, is expected to produce the energy equivalent to powering nearly 27,500 homes annually. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions and could begin serving customers as soon as 2024.
"As we advance our plans to grow renewable energy generation, locating projects in Missouri and surrounding states is necessary to maintain the reliability our customers expect and the resiliency necessary for the grid," Birk said.
All customers will benefit from the successful implementation of the program through:
- Clean energy on the grid at a lower cost to all customers.
- Investment in local construction jobs, suppliers and increased economic activity.
- Support of Ameren Missouri's transformative expansion of wind and solar energy as part of the transformational changes toward net-zero carbon emissions.
The following are some of the 10 organizations that have committed to the growth of renewable energy in our region as part of the Renewable Solutions program:
- Bi-State Development
- bioMérieux
- Emerson
- General Motors
- Mastercard
- SSM Health
- Walmart
"It's clear many business customers share our vision of a sustainable energy future and are seeking to power their operations with clean energy," said Patrick Smith, vice president of economic, community and business development at Ameren Missouri. "We created the Renewable Solutions program as an easy way for these customers to take an active role in reducing carbon emissions across the region."
Subscribers will receive Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) for their participation, a tangible way to denote their own reduction in emissions. They also will benefit from predictable pricing, and the program will help them avoid the large capital investment required to construct their own solar facilities.
The Renewable Solutions program may be expanded in the future to provide additional options for commercial, industrial and governmental customers.
Small businesses and residential customers looking to increase their own renewable energy usage have several options, including Ameren Missouri's popular Community Solar program.
Both programs will help Ameren reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 and the company's strong interim goals of a 60% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and an 85% reduction by 2040, from 2005 levels. These goals are included in Ameren Missouri's comprehensive integrated resource plan to safeguard long-term energy reliability and resiliency while also accelerating the company's planned additions of clean wind and solar generation by 2030.
Renewable Solutions would not be possible without the support of local organizations.
"Being part of Ameren Missouri's Renewable Solutions program to develop clean energy is fully aligned with bioMérieux's CSR strategy. We actively work to reduce our emissions in all our operations and along the entire value chain. We are excited to partner with the energy experts at Ameren Missouri to bring this innovative concept to life." – Bart van den Brand, Senior Vice President, Americas Operations, bioMérieux
"Emerson has established a target to achieve net-zero operations and source 100% renewable electricity by 2030. We commend the Ameren Missouri team for developing this opportunity to invest in renewable energy as businesses in our region work together toward a more sustainable future." – Mike Train, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Emerson
"GM is proud to be part of this innovative and forward-thinking new program that will directly impact the region's transition to clean energy, as well as move GM even closer to achieving our goal of powering all our US facilities with 100% renewable energy by 2025. Ameren Missouri's Renewable Solutions program is a great complement to GM's bold environmental goals and will help us create a better future for all." – Kristen Siemen, Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors
"Everyone deserves the opportunity to live in a healthy environment, free of pollution and with access to nutritious foods and green spaces to play and work. As a faith-based, Catholic health care system, preservation of the earth is part of our Mission and Vision. This project enables us to lend our voice, and our economic resources, as an advocate for smart policies, alternative energy sources and greening our communities. We are glad to partner with others to improve our environment and help us all lead healthier lives." – Gerry Kaiser, Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate, SSM Health
Ameren Missouri has been providing electric and gas service for more than 100 years, and the company's electric rates are among the lowest in the nation. Ameren Missouri's mission is to power the quality of life for its 1.2 million electric and 135,000 natural gas customers in central and eastern Missouri. The company's service area covers 64 counties and more than 500 communities, including the greater St. Louis area. For more information, visit Ameren.com/Missouri or follow us on Twitter at @AmerenMissouri or Facebook.com/AmerenMissouri.
Statements in this release not based on historical facts are considered "forward-looking" and, accordingly, involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed. Although such forward-looking statements have been made in good faith and are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance that the expected results will be achieved. These statements include (without limitation) statements as to future expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, strategies, targets, estimates, objectives, events, conditions, and financial performance. In connection with the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, we are providing this cautionary statement to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. The following factors, in addition to those discussed under Risk Factors in Ameren's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and elsewhere in this release and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause actual results to differ materially from management expectations suggested in such forward-looking statements:
- regulatory, judicial, or legislative actions, and any changes in regulatory policies and ratemaking determinations, that may change regulatory recovery mechanisms, such as those that may result from the impact of a final ruling to be issued by the United States Court for the Eastern District of Missouri regarding its September 2019 remedy order for the Rush Island Energy Center, the Missouri Public Service Commission ("MoPSC") staff review of the planned Rush Island Energy Center retirement, the July 2020 appeal filed by Ameren Missouri, Ameren Illinois, and ATXI challenging the refund period related to the FERC's May 2020 order determining the allowed base return on equity ("ROE") under the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. ("MISO") tariff, the July 2020 appeal filed by Ameren Missouri, Ameren Illinois, and ATXI challenging the FERC's rehearing denials in the transmission formula rate revision cases, and Ameren Illinois' electric distribution service rate reconciliation request filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission in April 2022;
- the length and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its impacts on our business continuity plans and our results of operations, financial position, and liquidity, including but not limited to changes in customer demand resulting in changes to sales volumes; customers' payment for our services; the health, welfare, and availability of our workforce and contractors; supplier disruptions; delays in the completion of construction projects, which could impact our expected capital expenditures and rate base growth; changes in how we operate our business and increased data security risks as a result of remote working arrangements for a significant portion of our workforce; and our ability to access the capital markets on reasonable terms and when needed;
- the effect on Ameren Missouri's investment plan and earnings if an extension to use plant-in-service accounting ("PISA") is not sought by Ameren Missouri or approved by the MoPSC;
- the effect on Ameren Missouri of any customer rate caps pursuant to Ameren Missouri's election to use PISA, including an extension of use beyond 2023, if requested by Ameren Missouri and approved by the MoPSC;
- the effects of changes in federal, state, or local laws and other governmental actions, including monetary, fiscal, foreign trade, and energy policies;
- the effects of changes in federal, state, or local tax laws, regulations, interpretations, or rates, and challenges to the tax positions taken by Ameren or its affiliates, if any, as well as resulting effects on customer rates;
- the effects on energy prices and demand for our services resulting from technological advances, including advances in customer energy efficiency, electric vehicles, electrification of various industries, energy storage, and private generation sources, which generate electricity at the site of consumption and are becoming more cost-competitive;
- the effectiveness of Ameren Missouri's customer energy-efficiency programs and the related revenues and performance incentives earned under its Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act programs;
- our ability to control costs and make substantial investments in our businesses, including our ability to recover costs and investments, and to earn our allowed returns on equity, within frameworks established by our regulators, while maintaining affordability of our services for our customers;
- the cost and availability of fuel, such as low-sulfur coal, natural gas, and enriched uranium used to produce electricity; the cost and availability of purchased power, zero emission credits, renewable energy credits, emission allowances, and natural gas for distribution; and the level and volatility of future market prices for such commodities and credits;
- disruptions in the delivery of fuel, failure of our fuel suppliers to provide adequate quantities or quality of fuel, or lack of adequate inventories of fuel, including nuclear fuel assemblies from the one Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed supplier of Ameren Missouri's Callaway Energy Center assemblies;
- the cost and availability of transmission capacity for the energy generated by Ameren Missouri's energy centers or required to satisfy Ameren Missouri's energy sales;
- the effectiveness of our risk management strategies and our use of financial and derivative instruments;
- the ability to obtain sufficient insurance, or in the absence of insurance, the ability to timely recover uninsured losses from our customers;
- the impact of cyberattacks on us or our suppliers, which could, among other things, result in the loss of operational control of energy centers and electric and natural gas transmission and distribution systems and/or the loss of data, such as customer, employee, financial, and operating system information;
- business and economic conditions, which have been affected by, and will be affected by the length and severity of, the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impact of such conditions on interest rates and inflation;
- disruptions of the capital markets, deterioration in credit metrics of Ameren or its affiliates, or other events that may have an adverse effect on the cost or availability of capital, including short-term credit and liquidity;
- the actions of credit rating agencies and the effects of such actions, including any impacts on our credit ratings that may result from the economic conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- the inability of our counterparties to meet their obligations with respect to contracts, credit agreements, and financial instruments, including as they relate to the construction and acquisition of electric and natural gas utility infrastructure and the ability of counterparties to complete projects, which is dependent upon the availability of necessary materials and equipment, including those obligations that are affected by disruptions in the global supply chain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic;
- the impact of weather conditions and other natural phenomena on us and our customers, including the impact of system outages and the level of wind and solar resources;
- the construction, installation, performance, and cost recovery of generation, transmission, and distribution assets;
- the effects of failures of electric generation, electric and natural gas transmission or distribution, or natural gas storage facilities systems and equipment, which could result in unanticipated liabilities or unplanned outages;
- the operation of Ameren Missouri's Callaway Energy Center, including planned and unplanned outages, as well as the ability to recover costs associated with such outages and the impact of such outages on off-system sales and purchased power, among other things;
- Ameren Missouri's ability to recover the remaining investment and decommissioning costs associated with the retirement of an energy center, as well as the ability to earn a return on that remaining investment and those decommissioning costs;
- the impact of current environmental laws and new, more stringent, or changing requirements, including those related to the New Source Review provisions of the Clean Air Act and CO2, other emissions and discharges, cooling water intake structures, coal combustion residuals, energy efficiency, and wildlife protection, that could limit or terminate the operation of certain of Ameren Missouri's energy centers, increase our operating costs or investment requirements, result in an impairment of our assets, cause us to sell our assets, reduce our customers' demand for electricity or natural gas, or otherwise have a negative financial effect;
- the impact of complying with renewable energy standards in Missouri;
- Ameren Missouri's ability to construct and/or acquire wind, solar, and other renewable energy generation facilities, retire energy centers, and implement new or existing customer energy-efficiency programs, including any such construction, acquisition, retirement, or implementation in connection with its Smart Energy Plan, integrated resource plan, or emissions reduction goals, and to recover its cost of investment, related return, and, in the case of customer energy-efficiency programs, any lost margins in a timely manner, which is affected by the ability to obtain all necessary regulatory and project approvals, including certificates of convenience and necessity from the MoPSC or any other required approvals for the addition of renewable resources;
- the availability of federal production and investment tax credits related to renewable energy and Ameren Missouri's ability to use such credits; the cost of wind, solar, and other renewable generation and storage technologies; and our ability to obtain timely interconnection agreements with the MISO or other regional transmission operators at an acceptable cost for each facility;
- advancements in carbon-free generation and storage technologies, and the impact of constructive federal and state energy and economic policies with respect to those technologies;
- labor disputes, work force reductions, changes in future wage and employee benefits costs, including those resulting from changes in discount rates, mortality tables, returns on benefit plan assets, and other assumptions;
- the impact of negative opinions of us or our utility services that our customers, investors, legislators, regulators, or other stakeholders may have or develop, which could result from a variety of factors, including failures in system reliability, failure to implement our
- investment plans or to protect sensitive customer information, increases in rates, negative media coverage, or concerns about ESG practices;
- the impact of adopting new accounting guidance;
- the effects of strategic initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures;
- legal and administrative proceedings;
- the impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, related sanctions imposed by the U.S. and other governments, and any broadening of the conflict, including potential impacts on the cost and availability of fuel, natural gas, enriched uranium, or other commodities, materials, or services, the inability of our counterparties to perform their obligations, disruptions in the capital and credit markets, and other impacts on business and economic conditions, including inflation; and
- acts of sabotage, war, terrorism, or other intentionally disruptive acts.
New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all of such factors, nor can it assess the impact of each such factor on the business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained or implied in any forward-looking statement. Given these uncertainties, undue reliance should not be placed on these forward-looking statements. Except to the extent required by the federal securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or future events.
View original content:
SOURCE Ameren Missouri | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/local-organizations-join-ameren-missouri-leading-clean-energy-transformation/ | 2022-07-15T12:50:39Z | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/local-organizations-join-ameren-missouri-leading-clean-energy-transformation/ | true |
The products and services mentioned below were selected independent of sales and advertising. However, Don't Waste Your Money may receive a small commission from the purchase of any products or services through an affiliate link to the retailer's website.
Stretch marks, scars and uneven skin tone can make people feel self-conscious or uncomfortable. A skin care product called Bio-Oil promises to help improve the appearance of these imperfections without clogging pores or irritating sensitive skin — and Amazon reviewers are big fans of this product.
Bio-Oil Skincare Oil is a natural body oil formulated with vitamin A, vitamin E, chamomile oil, sunflower oil and lavender oil for soothing, anti-inflammatory properties. The oil absorbs into the skin quickly, leaving it feeling smooth and soft.
The company says bio oil is gentle enough to use on all skin types, tones, textures and areas of the body. It can improve the uneven appearance of light or dark skin tones and has a natural emollient to improve the texture, as well.
Bio-Oil Skincare Oil has 4.6 stars and more than 129,100 ratings on Amazon. Over 100,000 customers have given this skincare product 5 stars.
Customers rave over its ability to lighten everything from stretch marks to scars left by acne, cuts and even bug bites.
“This saved my skin,” wrote one reviewer, Boca Doce Baking, who shared a before-and-after photo. “Amazing results after less than 2 months. Followed instructions, applied every night and morning to my legs to help with my big bite scars, I suffer from an allergy to mosquito bites.”
They also say it is gentle enough to use on sensitive skin and a little goes a long way.
“I am very happy with this purchase,” said reviewer Brandon. “The doctors are not sure what caused a reaction on my hands, followed by scarring. I tried Bio-oil and after 4 weeks (applying 2 times a day) I am very happy with the results. The product did work for me and I didn’t have any reaction (I have sensitive skin).”
Bio-Oil Skincare Oil is also economical. Different sizes are available on Amazon; you can get three 0.85-ounce containers for $17.97 (or $17.07 if you use Subscribe and Save), choose a 1-ounce bottle for $8.92, or try a 4.2-ounce bottle that costs $16.
Bio-Oil isn’t the only affordable and well-loved skin care product available on Amazon, of course. RoC Retinol Correxion Under Eye Cream has more than 27,800 ratings with an overall rating of 4.4 stars.
RoC Eye Cream has retinol and is advertised as helping to reduce puffiness, dark circles and wrinkles. It will reportedly brighten and diminish puffiness in the eyes in four weeks. It also promises to decrease the appearance of fine lines by 50% in 12 weeks.
“I am 43 with heavy lines on my forehead that I hate,” wrote reviewer Stephanie Kerry, who had been using the cream for two weeks. “This has already made a visible difference.”
This eye cream is just $17.94 for a 0.5-ounce container.
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | https://www.abc15.com/bio-oil-scars-stretch-marks-is-inexpensive | 2022-07-15T12:50:45Z | https://www.abc15.com/bio-oil-scars-stretch-marks-is-inexpensive | false |
Kimberly-Clark Commemorates 150th Anniversary with Grants to Three Global Nonprofit Organizations Selected by Its Employees
Published: Jul. 15, 2022 at 7:06 AM CDT|Updated: 50 minutes ago
DALLAS, July 15, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- As Kimberly-Clark celebrates 150 years of providing Better Care for a Better World, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation announced that it will honor this milestone anniversary by awarding three $150,000 grants to global nonprofit organizations that are working to improve the well-being of people around the world.
Since its inception in 1952, the Foundation has provided over $440 million in financial support to targeted causes that align with the company's social impact goals.
Kimberly-Clark employees selected the grant recipients via online voting from a list of nonprofit organizations that focus their work on the priority areas of the company's brands and the Kimberly-Clark Foundation. The awardees are:
Water.org has positively transformed more than 45 million lives around the world with access to safe water or sanitation;
She's the First has worked with grassroots organizations to make sure girls everywhere are educated, respected and heard; and
Project HOPE has provided nurses and midwives with the skills they need to save the lives of women and babies around the world.
"As Kimberly-Clark celebrates 150 years in business, it was incredibly powerful to partner with our 45,000 employees around the world to help us select the recipients of these global grants," said Jenny Lewis, Vice President of the Kimberly-Clark Foundation. "These grants deepen our commitment to the Foundation's priority areas and build on the momentum of our global social impact programs' continued expansion."
Kimberly-Clark's recent grant initiative contributes to the company's global ambition that aims to advance the well-being of 1 billion people in underserved communities around the globe by 2030 – through programs and innovation focused on delivering essentials for a better life. In partnership with the company's trusted brands including Huggies®, Kotex® and Andrex®, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation's recent progress toward this ambition includes:
Celebrating seven years of the 'Toilets Change Lives' program, which has improved access to safe sanitation and clean water for more than 10.7 million people across 15 countries;
Expanding Huggies®' 'No Baby Unhugged' initiative into Latin America, which has reached 3.9 million children and more than 3 million caregivers across 15 countries;
Impacting 3.8 million girls since 2020 through menstrual health partnerships with Kotex® and global nonprofits to help tackle period stigma and other misperceptions that hold women and girls back.
"We are thankful that Kimberly-Clark's employees chose to support Water.org's efforts to empower families with lasting access to safe water and sanitation," said Michael Mayernik, Head of Corporate Partnerships at Water.org. "This will help thousands of families in need gain access to toilets in their home, giving women and girls privacy, safety and improved health and hygiene."
"Kimberly-Clark's grant funding will provide critical support to our coalition of community-based organizations serving girls in 11 countries around the world," said Christina Martin Kenny, Director of Development at She's the First. "Like Kimberly-Clark, She's the First believes in mitigating any obstacle that keeps girls from attending school. Through our work to build a healthy and thriving ecosystem of girl-centered organizations, we are creating space for girls to choose their own futures where they can be educated, respected, and heard. We are thrilled to have the Kimberly-Clark Foundation partner with us on this important work."
"Collaborative partnerships like this one with Kimberly-Clark allow Project HOPE to meet one of the world's greatest health crises, and the company's support helps us place power in the hands of nurses and midwives to give all mothers and babies a healthy future," said Cinira Baldi, Vice President, Chief Development & Communications Officer at Project HOPE.
Overall, Kimberly-Clark Foundation-funded programs and brand partnerships have positively impacted more than 21 million people over the last seven years.
Established in 1952, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation is the charitable arm of Kimberly-Clark Corporation and is dedicated to supporting global causes that create lasting social change. supporting and strengthening families around the world. Together with funding from the corporation and employees, its primary focus is on social and community investments that increase access to sanitation, help women and children thrive, and empower women and girls.
About Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what's important to them. Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries. We use sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, build stronger communities, and ensure our business thrives for decades to come. To keep up with the latest news and to learn more about the company's 150-year history of innovation, visit kimberly-clark.com.
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc. | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/kimberly-clark-commemorates-150th-anniversary-with-grants-three-global-nonprofit-organizations-selected-by-its-employees/ | 2022-07-15T12:56:29Z | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/kimberly-clark-commemorates-150th-anniversary-with-grants-three-global-nonprofit-organizations-selected-by-its-employees/ | true |
HP Pavilion 15 (2022) vs Dell Inspiron 14 5420
48
out of 100
VS
50
out of 100
You can select specific configurations for the laptops to get a more accurate comparative review
Review
Evaluation of HP Pavilion 15 (2022) and Dell Inspiron 14 5420 important characteristics
Performance
System and application performance
Gaming
Performance in popular 3D games
Display
Viewing angle, color accuracy, brightness
Battery Life
Potential battery life in light and average use
Connectivity
Ports, webcam and other interfaces
Case
Design, materials, durability and usability
Key Differences
What are the key differences between the notebooks
Advantages of the HP Pavilion 15 (2022)
- Provides 20% higher max. screen brightness: 300 vs 250 nits
Advantages of the Dell Inspiron 14 5420
- Can run popular games at about 132-180% higher FPS
- Easier to carry: weighs 200 grams less (around 0.44 lbs)
- Features a much bigger (~32%) battery – 54 against 41 watt-hours
- Around 8% better multi-core CPU performance in the Cinebench R23 test
- Better webcam recording quality
- Much smaller footprint: 15% more compact case (110.7 vs 130.7 square inches)
- 15% sharper screen – 162 versus 141 pixels per inch (PPI)
We may earn commissions from Amazon for purchases made via the links below. This does not affect our assessment methodology.
Tests and Specifications
Comparison table of test results and technical specs
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
*Disclaimer! Ports, speakers, display, and other specifications can be different depending on the laptop’s particular configuration or region.
Cast your vote
So, which laptop would you choose?
Write your opinion about the comparison of Dell Inspiron 14 5420 and HP Pavilion 15 (2022) or ask any questions | https://nanoreview.net/en/laptop-compare/hp-pavilion-15-2022-vs-dell-inspiron-14-5420 | 2022-07-15T12:56:32Z | https://nanoreview.net/en/laptop-compare/hp-pavilion-15-2022-vs-dell-inspiron-14-5420 | true |
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner faced a Russian court again on Friday as her drug possession trial resumed after she pleaded guilty to the charges.
Griner’s defense lawyers presented evidence that the basketball player received permission from Arizona health authorities to use cannabis for chronic pain.
“The attending physician gave Brittney recommendations for the use of medical cannabis. The permission was issued on behalf of the Arizona Department of Health,” lawyer Maria Blagovolina was cited by Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti as saying.
The defense on Friday also submitted tests she underwent as part of an anti-doping check, the RIA-Novosti report said. They didn’t detect any prohibited substances in her system.
The next hearing of Griner’s case was scheduled for July 26.
Griner was arrested at the Russian capital’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February when customs officials said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. She acknowledged in court that she possessed the canisters, but said she had no criminal intent and that their presence in her luggage was due to hasty packing. She is facing up to 10 years in prison.
In Russia’s judicial system, admitting guilt doesn’t automatically end a trial.
Griner is one of the most prominent female athletes in the U.S., a standout for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have said they are doing all they could to win her release, as well as that of 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, has 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 August. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/brittney-griner-back-in-russian-court-as-trial-continues/ | 2022-07-15T13:07:26Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/brittney-griner-back-in-russian-court-as-trial-continues/ | false |
You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. | https://sportspyder.com/cf/kentucky-wildcats-football/articles/40083840 | 2022-07-15T13:07:32Z | https://sportspyder.com/cf/kentucky-wildcats-football/articles/40083840 | false |
Conference Call Scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE: WPC), a leading net lease REIT specializing in corporate sale-leasebacks, build-to-suits and the acquisition of single-tenant net lease properties, announced today that it will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 before the market opens on Friday, July 29, 2022.
The company will host a conference call and live audio webcast to discuss its financial results at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time the same day, details of which are provided below.
Live Conference Call and Audio Webcast
Date/Time: Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Call-in Number: 1 (877) 465-1289 (U.S.) or +1 (201) 689-8762 (international)
Please dial in at least 10 minutes prior to the start time.
Live Audio Webcast and Replay: www.wpcarey.com/earnings
W. P. Carey Inc.
W. P. Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with an enterprise value of approximately $22 billion and a diversified portfolio of operationally critical commercial real estate that includes 1,336 net lease properties covering approximately 157 million square feet as of March 31, 2022. For nearly five decades, the company has invested in high-quality single-tenant industrial, warehouse, office, retail and self-storage properties subject to long-term net leases with built-in rent escalators. Its portfolio is located primarily in the U.S. and Northern and Western Europe and is well-diversified by tenant, property type, geographic location and tenant industry.
Institutional Investors:
Peter Sands
1 (212) 492-1110
institutionalir@wpcarey.com
Individual Investors:
W. P. Carey Inc.
1 (212) 492-8920
ir@wpcarey.com
Press Contact:
Anna McGrath
1 (212) 492-1166
amcgrath@wpcarey.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE W. P. Carey Inc. | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/w-p-carey-inc-release-second-quarter-2022-financial-results-friday-july-29-2022/ | 2022-07-15T13:07:45Z | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/w-p-carey-inc-release-second-quarter-2022-financial-results-friday-july-29-2022/ | true |
MANILA, Philippines, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globe Capital Venture Holdings, Inc. (917Ventures), the corporate venture builder of top Philippine digital solutions platform Globe Telecom, has partnered with AC Ventures, a subsidiary of Filipino conglomerate Ayala Corp. (Ayala), to explore business opportunities and grow its ecosystem.
AC Ventures is the conglomerate's platform for its investments in adjacent businesses that are complementary to its existing portfolio as well as in emerging trends and innovative businesses.
Under the arrangement, AC Ventures will participate in funding the research, development, and launch of 917Ventures' new business ventures.
"We are very excited to work with AC Ventures. We can leverage the ecosystem and network advantage that they provide to solve the pain points of consumers and businesses. Through digital solutions, we can help pave the way and deliver indelible value to the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific region," said Vince Yamat, Managing Director of 917Ventures.
"The accelerated growth of digital adoption has become ingrained in many Filipinos who have quickly transitioned how they work, study, play, and access basic services. Ayala intends to participate in this multi-decade transformation by contributing to the research and development and incubation of disruptive solutions across different consumer touchpoints in our portfolio. With its strong track record of developing startups to achieve scale and profitability, we believe that 917Ventures is the natural vehicle for Ayala's digital ventures," said Alberto de Larrazabal, Ayala's Chief Finance Officer and AC Ventures' President and CEO.
917Ventures has successfully spun-off 9 new companies since its inception in 2019, including HealthNow and PureGo to name a few. This is attributed to the fact that Globe Telecom has unlocked its unique advantages of data and customer base, distribution points, enterprise partners, marketing and execution capability, and capital.
The partnership with AC Ventures hopes to further accelerate both the quantity and quality of its future companies as the unique advantages now encompass the broader Ayala group, including real estate, banking, power, healthcare, and logistics.
917Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globe Telecom, is a corporate venture builder that "ideates, launches, accelerates, and scales new business ideas". Some of the companies under its portfolio are telehealth service platform KonsultaMD, digital and mobile advertising agency AdSpark, and Mynt, the Philippines' #1 digital financial solutions provider and the company behind the popular GCash payment services app.
To know more about 917Ventures, visit https://917ventures.com/.
About 917Ventures
917Ventures is the Philippines' largest corporate venture builder that ideates, launches, accelerates, and scales new businesses that have the potential to grow. Delivering indelible value to the Philippines and beyond, 917Ventures leverages the rich asset base of the Globe Group and Ayala Corporation. 917Ventures' portfolio companies include some of the country's distinguished tech solutions, including double unicorn GCash, telehealth provider KonsultaMD, and digital health platform HealthNow.
About AC Ventures
AC Ventures is Ayala's platform for strategic investments in digital ventures and other emerging trends.Through AC Ventures, Ayala intends to embrace disruptive business models and technologies that enable Ayala's existing business units or lead to promising new business verticals.
View original content:
SOURCE Globe Telecom | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/globes-917ventures-partners-with-ac-ventures-explore-business-opportunities-grow-ecosystem/ | 2022-07-15T13:10:58Z | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/globes-917ventures-partners-with-ac-ventures-explore-business-opportunities-grow-ecosystem/ | true |
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unum ID, the digital ID card network, has raised a $2M strategic round led by 1414 Ventures and Outliers, with participation from Draper Associates, TappanHill Ventures, and others. This round of funding will cement Unum ID's position as the leader in reusable identity, supercharging growth from thousands to millions of verified digital ID cards to crack the cold start problem of reusable identity.
"We're on the verge of a revolution in digital identity," says founder Aidan McCarty, recently named Forbes 30 Under 30 with his brother and co-founder Liam McCarty. "Soon you'll be able to prove who you are with a single click, anywhere online. Our dream is that you'll never have to fill out a form again; you'll present a verified digital ID instead."
Unum ID's patent pending tech leverages a first-of-its-kind Web Wallet to securely store and share digital ID – no app download or software install required. Users receive digital ID cards from issuers in under 10 seconds, and can leverage those cards to sign up instantly at any relying party. It's as simple as clicking "Continue with 1-Click" and consenting to share the required data – slashing onboarding time from 6 minutes to 6 seconds. This solves the biggest pain point for financial services, which see upwards of 30% abandonment in account creation.
"Unum ID puts each person in control of their information – but ultimately this is about solving for a business need," says Bradley Hinson, BD Lead at Unum ID. We dramatically cut abandonment rates with an amazing UX. One-click onboarding – who wouldn't want that?" The company is growing fast, with dozens of FinTechs waiting in line to access the service. They are choosing partners selectively, cementing relationships with leading FinTechs, financial services, and IdV players that cover over 90% of US adults.
The reusable identity space is booming despite the bear market. Mckinsey and Liminal have projected the industry to be worth $100B+ by the end of the decade, and Unum ID is paving the way – generating powerful network effects to unlock the long-term value of tokenized, reusable IDs.
Redundant user identities permeate almost every industry, crying out for a unified ID to consolidate disparate records into one. You have 137 passwords, 215 usernames, 3 credit cards, and 2 bank accounts – but there's only one you. You should have one digital ID. You should have Unum ID.
Unum ID is the digital ID card network. As the world leader in reusable ID, the company unlocks seamless, secure 1-Click sign-up, apply, and log-in across industries. Unum ID is supported by Franklin Templeton, Samsung, Draper Associates, and a range of world class angel investors and advisors. Its founders were named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Unum ID | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-id-card-network-closes-key-strategic-funding-expand-millions-digital-id-cards/ | 2022-07-15T13:13:46Z | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-id-card-network-closes-key-strategic-funding-expand-millions-digital-id-cards/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Christopher Waller, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, said Thursday that he would be open to supporting a huge 1 percentage point increase in the Fed’s key short-term interest rate later this month if upcoming economic data points to robust consumer spending.
Such an increase would mark a further ramping up of the Fed’s rate hikes as it intensifies its fight against accelerating inflation. Faster rate increases would heighten the risk that the central bank’s anti-inflationary policies would cause a recession. The Fed hasn’t raised its rate by 1 percentage point in several decades.
In a speech in Victor, Idaho, Waller said he still supports a 0.75% point increase at the central bank’s next policymaking meeting in two weeks, even after a government report Wednesday showed consumer inflation accelerating to a new 40-year high.
But further economic data — including a report Friday on June retail sales and several reports on home sales and prices — will be released before the Fed’s next meeting. If those figures “come in materially stronger than expected,” Waller said Thursday, “it would make me lean towards a larger hike.”
Wednesday’s inflation report showed that prices spiked 9.1% in June from 12 months earlier, the biggest such increase since 1981. Though much of the inflation was driven by higher costs for food and gas, price increases were widespread and in many cases accelerating in such areas as rents, restaurant meals, and medical services.
Speaking during a question-and-answer session, Waller suggested that a 1-point rate increase at the Fed’s meeting late this month is less likely than the 80% probability that financial markets had given it late Wednesday, according to the CME Group.
“The markets may have gotten ahead of themselves a little bit yesterday,” he said.
As of Thursday, traders had swung back to regarding a three-quarter-point Fed rate increase as more likely than a full-point hike.
Waller stressed, though, that Wednesday’s worrisome consumer inflation report sealed the case for a three-quarter-point hike, rather than the half-point increase that Chair Jerome Powell had suggested was also on the table for the Fed’s upcoming meeting.
On Wednesday, after the inflation figures were released, Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, suggested that “everything is in play” at the July meeting — including a potential 1 point rate hike.
In an interview on Bloomberg TV on Wednesday evening, Loretta Mester, head of the Cleveland Fed, declined to say what size rate hike might be considered. But she said the consumer inflation report “was uniformly bad — there was no good news in that report at all.”
In his remarks Thursday, Waller discounted concerns that the economy might be nearing a recession. He pointed to healthy job gains this year and an unemployment rate that is near a half-century low.
Those job gains, he said, “leave me feeling fairly confident that the U.S. economy did not enter a recession in the first half of 2022 and that the economic expansion will continue.”
As a result, a “soft landing” in which the economy grows at a slower pace, bringing inflation toward the Fed’s 2% target, “is very plausible.”
With the economy still growing, the Fed must focus on inflation, Waller added. Wednesday’s inflation report “was a major league disappointment.”
“No matter how you look at the data, inflation is far too high, and my job is to move it down toward our 2% target,” he said. | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/fed-board-member-opens-door-to-1-point-hike-if-demand-rises/ | 2022-07-15T13:22:45Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/fed-board-member-opens-door-to-1-point-hike-if-demand-rises/ | true |
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she neither identified him to the killers nor wanted him murdered.
In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press, Carolyn Bryant Donham says she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till, who lived in Chicago and was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was abducted, killed and tossed in a river. Now 87, Donham was only 21 at the time. Her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were acquitted of murder charges but later confessed in a magazine interview.
The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP on Thursday.
Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded last year. He said he decided to make it public now following the recent discovery of an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for Donham in 1955 but never served.
“The potential for an investigation was more important than the archival agreements, though those are important things,” Tyson said. “But this is probably the last chance for an indictment in this case.”
A cousin of Till who leads the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, Deborah Watts, said the memoir is new evidence that shows Donham’s involvement in the case and is particularly important when combined with the arrest warrant.
“I truly believe these developments cannot be ignored by the authorities in Mississippi,” she said.
In the memoir, Donham says she attempted to help Till once he’d been located by her husband and brother-in-law and brought to her in the middle of the night for identification.
“I did not wish Emmett any harm and could not stop harm from coming to him, since I didn’t know what was planned for him,” Donham says in the manuscript compiled by her daughter-in-law. “I tried to protect him by telling Roy that ‘He’s not the one. That’s not him. Please take him home.’” She claims in the manuscript that Till, who had been dragged from a family home at gunpoint in the middle of the night, spoke up and identified himself.
Donham adds that she “always felt like a victim as well as Emmett” and “paid dearly with an altered life” for what happened to him.
“I have always prayed that God would bless Emmett’s family. I am truly sorry for the pain his family was caused,” she says at the end of the manuscript, which is signed “Carolyn” but indicates that it was written by her daughter-in-law Marsha Bryant.
The memoir is remarkable not only because it’s the most extensive account of the sensational episode ever recorded by Donham, but also because it contains contradictions that raise questions about her truthfulness through the years, said Dale Killinger, a retired FBI agent who investigated the case more than 15 years ago.
For instance, Donham claims in the memoir to have yelled for help after being confronted by Till inside the family grocery store in Money, Mississippi, yet no one ever reported hearing her screams, Killinger said. Also, Donham never previously mentioned that she and Roy Bryant chatted about the abduction. In the manuscript, she says they did.
“That seems ludicrous,” Killinger said. “How would you have a major event in your life and not talk about it?”
The Justice Department closed its most recent investigation into the case in December and Mississippi authorities haven’t given any indication they plan to pursue the kidnapping warrant or other charges against Donham. But the Till family is pushing authorities to act.
Keith Beauchamp, a filmmaker whose documentary preceded the Justice Department probe in which Killinger was involved and that ended without charges in 2007, said the memoir shows that Donham “is culpable in the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Louis Till and to not hold her accountable for her actions, is an injustice to us all.”
“Our fight will continue until justice is finally served,” Beauchamp said.
It was Beauchamp, along with two of Till’s relatives, who discovered the arrest warrant with Donham’s name on it earlier this month in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse.
Tyson, the historian who provided the roughly 35,000-word manuscript to the AP, helped spur the government’s most recent investigation into the killing by publishing a book in 2017 in which he quoted Donham as saying she lied when she claimed Till grabbed her, whistled and made sexual advances. In the memoir, however, she claims Till did do those things. During the most recent investigation, Donham told the FBI she had never recanted, the Justice Department said.
Tyson said Donham’s statements in the memoir exonerating herself of wrongdoing need to be taken with “a good-sized shovel full of salt,” particularly her claim that Till identified himself to the men who took him from the family home and later admitted killing him.
“Two big white men with guns came and dragged him out of his aunt and great-uncle’s house at 2 o’clock in the morning in the Mississippi Delta in 1955. I do not believe for one minute that he identified himself,” Tyson said.
Neither Donham nor any of her relatives have responded to messages and phone calls from the AP seeking comment. It is unclear where Donham currently lives or if she has an attorney. Her last known address was in Raleigh, North Carolina.
___
This story has been edited to clarify that Tyson provided a copy of the manuscript to the FBI for an investigation that ended last year, not in 2007.
___
Reeves reported from Birmingham, Alabama. He is a member of AP’s Race and Ethnicity Team. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/emmett-till-accuser-in-memoir-denies-wanting-teen-killed/ | 2022-07-15T13:23:41Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/emmett-till-accuser-in-memoir-denies-wanting-teen-killed/ | false |
AUSTIN, Texas, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Charge America, the first exclusively focused electric vehicle (EV) charging installation company in the United States, has officially become the exclusive installer in Texas for Amazon.
During the terms of the agreement, which began June 7, 2022, every Texas customer that purchases an EV charging station from Amazon will be referred to Smart Charge for installation services. The agreement provides services for all Amazon customers in Texas purchasing EV charging stations to do so through their dashboard for a seamless experience. All payments are through Amazon's portal.
A $2,500 EV rebate will be available to Texas EV owners (except for Tesla owners) on the purchase of a Smart Charge America charging station.
For Smart Charge, which currently services 20 cities, the agreement is a milestone achievement toward its goal to service the top 50 EV-friendly U.S. cities by 2025, according to Joseph Barletta, president of the Austin-based company. "The partnership in Texas lays the foundation for planned expansion of Smart Charge's service offerings to other states throughout the nation."
There were more than 65,000 EVs registered in Texas in 2021, with projections for 2022 reaching 100,000 and for 2025 of 250,000.
Amazon, the world's largest retailer outside of China, has sold EV charging stations since 2018.
More information on Smart Charge America's exclusive agreement with Amazon is available from David Laderberg, Smart Charge vice president, at david@smartchargeamerica.com. Information about Smart Charge America is available at www.smartchargeamerica.com.
Founded in 2007, Smart Charge America, Inc. is committed to providing the infrastructure for sustainable electric mobility, one charging station at a time. As the largest dedicated U.S. seller, installer and servicer of electric vehicle chargers, Smart Charge America is leveraging its resources to innovate within its industry, drive down costs and quickly make affordable EV charging products accessible to residential, commercial and utility/municipal markets.
Smart Charge America encourages the widespread adoption of the electric vehicle lifestyle by building trust relationships with existing and future customers through public education about EV charging and by providing superior customer service to those who invest in EV charging stations.
View original content:
SOURCE Smart Charge America | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/smart-charge-america-signs-exclusive-texas-rights-amazon/ | 2022-07-15T13:26:57Z | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/smart-charge-america-signs-exclusive-texas-rights-amazon/ | true |
(NEXSTAR) – A new study found that the top 20 most dangerous states for pedestrians have all became increasingly deadly between 2011 and 2020 – a sign of a troubling trend that the study’s authors say is growing nationwide.
“While the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic upended many aspects of daily life, including how people get around, one terrible, long-term trend was unchanged: the alarming increase in people being struck and killed while walking,” urban policy group Smart Growth America wrote in their report, Dangerous by Design 2022.
Pedestrian deaths across the country jumped to a new high in 2020 – more than 6,500, or nearly 18 each day – the report found, citing the latest available federal data. Once the data is released, annual deaths in 2021 may surpass 7,200, according to projections from the Governors Highway Safety Association.
The Washington D.C.-based nonprofit found that the metro area with the most average annual deaths per 100,000 people was in Florida, Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, 4.25. Rounding out the top five were Albuquerque, New Mexico (4.19); Memphis, Tennessee (3.93); Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater in Florida (3.55); and Charleston-North Charleston, South Carolina (3.54).
Stockton was ninth with 3.35 deaths on average, and Fresno tenth, with 3.25 deaths.
Also in the top 25 deadliest cities:
When it comes to state rankings, the top 10 most dangerous are:
- New Mexico
- Florida
- South Carolina
- Arizona
- Delaware
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Nevada
- Georgia
- California (tied with Georgia)
An uneven death toll
The study found that, just as in past years, the people struck and killed by motor vehicles tended to be older and were more likely to be walking in low-income neighborhoods.
“Although everyone is affected by dangerous street design in some way, this burden is not shared equally,” the authors stated. “Despite other changes, the pandemic perpetuated existing disparities in who is being killed at the highest rates: Black and Native Americans.”
The study blamed those disparities on lower-income neighborhoods being less likely to have sidewalks, marked crosswalks, streets designed for lower speeds and parks or other areas that provide safe spaces for recreational walking.
“Lower-income neighborhoods are also much more likely to contain major arterial roads built for high speeds and higher traffic volumes at intersections, exacerbating dangerous conditions for people walking,” according to the study.
What can be done?
The authors of Dangerous by Design say fatality numbers continue to climb each year because our nation’s streets and intersections are planned with driving efficiency, not pedestrian safety, in mind.
“The result in 2020 was a significant increase in all traffic fatalities, even with less driving overall due to the pandemic,” according to the study.
While speed limit signs may provide periodic reminders to drive safely, the design of city roads can be far more influential, the group argues.
Long, straight, multi-lane thoroughfares built to allow the maximum number of vehicles to get from one point to another are a recipe for higher speeds, according to one example from the study. Add rounded sidewalk corners at intersections and drivers will be able to turn off those thoroughfares at maximum speed, potentially endangering pedestrians trying to cross the street.
A Texas A&M study found that reducing the turning radius at an intersection from 30 feet to 10 feet will likely decrease pedestrian-involved accidents by 30 percent.
The group is calling on public planners to prioritize safe street design as well as mixed land use – creating neighborhoods in which work, restaurants, shops, parks and other attractions are close by.
“To do so, they will have to unwind the deeply embedded, invisible yet powerful emphasis on speed, which is completely incompatible with safety,” the study says. | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/these-are-the-deadliest-u-s-metros-for-pedestrians-study-finds/ | 2022-07-15T13:29:37Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/these-are-the-deadliest-u-s-metros-for-pedestrians-study-finds/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ascend, a modern insurance payments platform, announced a partnership with Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC), which has named Ascend as its preferred premium payments company for its members.
Ascend is the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. They are modernizing agency workflow by creating a streamlined process for operational and payment procedures. IIANC is a statewide trade association that empowers independent agents to rise above the competition by offering them the tools and resources to succeed in today's insurance industry.
The two have come together to provide value specific to payments for IIANC's independent agency channel. Through this partnership, IIANC members will have affiliate referrals to Ascend's finance solutions. They are providing the best solutions for the best startup agencies that continue to improve and develop their own internal processes, now streamlined with Ascend's technology and automated funds flow.
"The IIANC is an incredible advocate for the independent agency channel, providing extensive resources and tools for their members to be successful, and we're excited to partner in support of this effort," says Chris Peabody, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Ascend. "At Ascend, we believe in empowering the IA channel with a modern payments solution while creating a modern checkout process for their clients and by doing so, enabling agencies to do what they do best, be a trusted advisor. Through this partnership, we are able to empower agents across the state of North Carolina."
This partnership will reduce the workload for IIANC agents and provide them with a modern white-labeled checkout experience that is tailored specifically for the agencies. Additionally, this partnership will unlock a series of webinars and resources for agents to utilize in the growth and development of their business.
"We believe in advocating on behalf of independent agents everywhere, and this includes offering them the best possible tools and resources for success," says Rebecca Shigley, COO at IIANC. "Aligning ourselves with companies like Ascend opens our community up to a whole new world of streamlined and modern workflow and payments solutions – the necessary tools for our independent agents to compete and differentiate themselves from major players in insurance. To be the best possible version of themselves, they need the best possible tools, and Ascend is offering them just that."
This is one of many partnerships and alignments Ascend has been a part of this year, as they deepen their relationships with other insurtechs, MGAs, AMS, and carriers to complement the innovations being made by companies in the insurance market. To learn more, please visit https://useascend.com/.
Ascend is the modern insurance payments platform that provides automated all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. Founded by two-time insurtech entrepreneurs Andrew Wynn and Praveen Chekuri, Ascend helps distributors sell more by eliminating labor-intensive, expensive processes while providing customers with the great online checkout and financing experience they've come to expect. To learn more, please visit https://useascend.com/.
The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina ("IIANC") is a statewide trade association representing nearly 900 independent insurance agencies in North Carolina, with more than 7,000 employees, who work to protect the insurance and financial needs of the state's citizens. IIANC members are Trusted Choice independent insurance agencies that can represent more than one insurance company. As a result, independent agents can offer clients a wider choice of auto, home, business, life, and health coverages. Trusted Choice independent agents not only advise clients about insurance, they recommend loss-prevention ideas, and if a loss occurs, the independent agent will work with the client until the claim is settled.
Contact:
Kathy Osborne
press@useascend.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Ascend | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/ascend-partners-with-independent-insurance-agents-north-carolina-preferred-payments-amp-financing-platform-their-independent-agency-channel/ | 2022-07-15T13:30:18Z | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/ascend-partners-with-independent-insurance-agents-north-carolina-preferred-payments-amp-financing-platform-their-independent-agency-channel/ | true |
HUDSON, Ohio, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD) will release 2022 second quarter financial results on Tuesday, Aug. 2 before trading begins on the New York Stock Exchange. Octavio Marquez, president and chief executive officer, and Jeffrey Rutherford, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will discuss the results during a conference call and webcast beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET.
Prior to the call, Diebold Nixdorf will provide a press release summarizing business and financial results, and a shareholder letter containing other highlights from the period. The press release and letter will be accessible by visiting the Investor Relations section of Diebold Nixdorf's website located at http://www.dieboldnixdorf.com/earnings. Live access to the conference call, as well as the replay, will also be available on this website.
To access the call, we encourage you to pre-register at https://ige.netroadshow.com/registration/q4inc/11304/diebold-nixdorf-inc-second-quarter-2022-earnings-call/. After registering, a confirmation will be sent via email and will include dial-in details and a unique PIN code for entry to the call. To avoid long wait times, we suggest registering at least one day in advance to receive your unique PIN code. Registration will be open throughout the live call. You may also access the call and register with a live operator. The conference call will last approximately one hour. Participants should plan to dial in 15 minutes prior to the session. Details on the call are as follows:
About Diebold Nixdorf
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is a world leader in enabling connected commerce. We automate, digitize and transform the way people bank and shop. As a partner to the majority of the world's top 100 financial institutions and top 25 global retailers, our integrated solutions connect digital and physical channels conveniently, securely and efficiently for millions of consumers each day. The company has a presence in more than 100 countries with approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. Visit www.DieboldNixdorf.com for more information.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/diebold
Twitter: twitter.com/dieboldnixdorf
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DieboldNixdorf
YouTube: www.youtube.com/dieboldnixdorf
DN-F
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/diebold-nixdorf-conduct-2022-second-quarter-investor-call-aug-2/ | 2022-07-15T13:31:13Z | https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/diebold-nixdorf-conduct-2022-second-quarter-investor-call-aug-2/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Frederick Wildman and Sons announced today that Marc Hirten has left his position as President and COO of Frederick Wildman and Sons Ltd.
Corrado Casoli, Chairman of Frederick Wildman, and Roberta Corrà, CEO, along with all the other shareholders, would like to thank Marc for his contribution over the years to the leadership of the company. Roberta Corrà will cover Mr. Hirten's role until a replacement is named.
Frederick Wildman has great pleasure in announcing the appointment effective July 15, 2022 of Mr. Matt Munn in the role of Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Mr. Munn can boast long and varied experience in the Wine and Spirits sector having worked for over twenty years at leading Suppliers and Distributors such as E&J Gallo, Schieffelin & Somerset (now Moet Hennessy USA) and most recently with Southern Glazer's where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager. The Sales, Logistics and, on an interim basis, Marketing Management teams will report directly to Mr. Munn.
"I am sure that the entire company will benefit from the contribution of this new managerial figure and that he will lend great support to all the Sales team thanks to his professionalism and commercial know-how," states Chairman Corrado Casoli.
"With the arrival of Matt Munn in Frederick Wildman, we are taking a significant step towards continued company growth and all of the French partners wish him every success and much satisfaction," says Laurent d'Harcourt, CEO of Champagne Pol Roger, commenting on behalf of the French shareholders.
The Chairman, CEO and all the shareholders will continue working to ensure that Frederick Wildman is, and continues to be, a benchmark company in the industry.
Frederick Wildman and Sons is a New York based fine wine importer offering the leading properties from France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, and other regions. The portfolio includes more than 75 brands, including: Pol Roger, Olivier Leflaive, Pascal Jolivet, Château Fuissé, Famille Hugel, Domaine Faiveley, Marchesi di Barolo, as well as Cantine Riunite; CIV's full portfolio, and the fine wines of Gruppo Italiano Vini including Nino Negri, Santi and Re Manfredi. For more information, visit frederickwildman.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Frederick Wildman and Sons | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/frederick-wildman-announces-that-matt-munn-is-joining-company-role-chief-commercial-officer-that-marc-hirten-ends-his-tenure-president-coo/ | 2022-07-15T13:32:17Z | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/frederick-wildman-announces-that-matt-munn-is-joining-company-role-chief-commercial-officer-that-marc-hirten-ends-his-tenure-president-coo/ | true |
DENVER (AP) — An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for an indicted Colorado clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists after she allegedly traveled out of state despite a court order not to do so, according to court documents.
But a lawyer for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters asked the judge to cancel the warrant because he said she was unaware of the order before she traveled to a conference in Las Vegas.
The judge earlier revoked bond and issued the warrant for Peters, who is accused of tampering with voting equipment, after District Attorney Dan Rubinstein said in the documents that he had learned she traveled to Nevada for a conference after she sent a letter notarized in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
The letter, sent to Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold, requested a recount in her failed primary election bid for the GOP nomination in the state secretary of state’s race.
Rubinstein, a Republican, had previously said he would not object to Peters traveling outside of Colorado during her campaign for secretary of state. But the election was held June 28, and the the court documents said the letter was notarized on July 12. Judge Matthew Barrett issued an order Monday that Peters not travel until the post-election approval process for her travel was resolved.
In a court filing Thursday, Peters’ lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, said he did not learn about the order in time to warn Peters about it before she left for Las Vegas earlier this week.
She did not try to conceal her appearance at the conference, which was livestreamed, he said. In addition, Steinberg said Peters is still a candidate for the secretary of state, noting that the election results have not been certified yet.
Peters has echoed former President Donald Trump’s false theories about the 2020 election. She and her chief deputy, Belinda Knisley, are being prosecuted for allegedly allowing a copy of a hard drive to be made during an update of election equipment in May 2021. A former employee in her office, Sandra Brown, was arrested this week and is now also accused of being part of the scheme.
Peters is charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, one count of identity theft, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with the secretary of state.
Both Peters and Knisley have denied wrongdoing, with Peters calling the charges politically motivated.
Brown, the former elections manager in Peter’s office, was charged Thursday with an attempt to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation.
According to a court document, Knisley worked to get a security badge for a man Peters said she was hiring in the clerk’s office. Peters then used it to allow another, unauthorized person inside the room to make a copy of the election equipment hard drive, it said. Brown was present when the copy was made and conspired to misrepresent who the person using the badge was, it said.
Efforts to reach Brown for comment were unsuccessful via phone numbers that may be associated with her. Court records did not list an attorney who could speak on her behalf.
Mesa County, in western Colorado, is largely rural and heavily Republican. Trump won it in the 2020 presidential election with nearly 63% of the vote. President Joe Biden won Colorado overall with 55.4% of the state’s vote. | https://www.ksn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/arrest-sought-of-colorado-clerk-in-voting-tampering-case/ | 2022-07-15T13:33:32Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/arrest-sought-of-colorado-clerk-in-voting-tampering-case/ | false |
First BBMP road remade under CSR initiative has citizen-friendly amenities
The road is disabled-friendly with footpaths all on the same level having no highs and lows or breaks in between, and also has 24/7 CCTV surveillance
In a one-of-its-kind project, a Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) road in Dasarahalli zone has been remade by a private company, ABB India Limited, under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. Although other common public properties like parks were developed under such initiatives, officials say this is a first for roads. Ever since the work was completed a few months ago, the Dasarahalli Lake road, is now being used by lakhs of commuters on a daily basis.
The grant for the road was provided in 2021 and the work was completed in 2022. The road has been developed at a cost of around ₹10 crores, according to B. S. Prahalad, Chief Engineer (Road and Infrastructure), BBMP. “It is a 1.2 kilometre stretch near Peenya Industrial Area where the company has set up infrastructure. The road belongs to the BBMP only,” he explained. When asked if more roads will be given for CSR initiatives, he said “If any more companies come forward to take up such initiatives, then we will be open to it.” The work on the road was executed by a company called Pothole Raja.
Also read: In Bengaluru, road built with 100% recycled plastic waste between Ecoworld and ORR
Pedestrian-friendly infrastructure
The “model road” has many pedestrians friendly infrastructure like high-rise pedestrian medians, wider footpaths and steel barricades to prevent the vehicles from getting on to the footpaths. Along with this, a good drainage system, utility trenches for cross wiring, road markings, reflectors, LED lights and traffic signals have also been provided. “They have developed this road in such a way that any further civic works will not cause inconvenience to the commuters,” said a person who takes the road every day.
Another highlight of the road is that it has been made disabled-friendly as the footpaths are all on the same level with no highs and lows (breaks in between). The road also has 24/7 continuous CCTV surveillance. Speaking about the road, a senior BBMP official said, “That road has been redone in such a nice way that I began wondering why we were not designing such roads.”
Commuters are also quite happy about the facilities on the road. Most people who use the road are those who come to Peenya Industrial area everyday for work. “My friends and I used to observe everyday during our commute to and from work that some work was going on in this road. We sometimes used to talk to workers also and they would tell us the plans. When it was completed, the road was better than we had expected it to be. It is now very comfortable to walk on this road,” said Prema, a worker at a private industry on an adjacent road.
- Comments will be moderated by The Hindu editorial team.
- Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant cannot be published.
- Please write complete sentences. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text. (example: u cannot substitute for you, d is not 'the', n is not 'and').
- We may remove hyperlinks within comments.
- Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/first-bbmp-road-remade-under-csr-initiative-has-citizen-friendly-amenities/article65636153.ece | 2022-07-15T13:35:55Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/first-bbmp-road-remade-under-csr-initiative-has-citizen-friendly-amenities/article65636153.ece | false |
Tips on keeping squirrels out of your garden
Squirrels can be an adorable addition to your garden, and they’re entertaining to watch. Although there are some benefits to having squirrels around, they can also be a major nuisance. And many homeowners look for ways to keep them out of the garden. If you want to prevent these rodents from getting into your yard, there are several ways to repel them. You can try natural, mechanical and decoy-based repellents.
Ways to identify squirrel damage in your garden
If you’re not sure if you have a pest problem, here are some ways to tell.
- The bulbs are damaged or missing. Squirrels, groundhogs and chipmunks frequently dig up new bulbs. They either eat them or take them back to their nests to store for later.
- There are small holes in the garden. Squirrels tend to leave behind small holes in the soil, usually about two inches in diameter. If you see new holes in the dirt, chances are you have a squirrel problem.
- Items around the house or garden have been chewed on. Squirrels need to chew on things to keep their teeth from growing too sharp or long. This includes wood, vinyl siding, plastic and mortar.
- Your plants are missing or damaged. Rodents eat all sorts of things in the garden, including tomatoes, melons, cucumbers and squash. Sometimes, they take the fruit or vegetables with them. Usually, they chew on parts of the plants or produce and leave the rest.
- They’re hanging around the bird feeders. Similar to birds, squirrels enjoy bird food. If your bird feeder is running out of feed quickly, it could be due to squirrels.
How to keep squirrels out of the garden
Install garden covers
One way to protect your crops is to set up a barrier with garden covers such as nets, crop cages, tents or hardware cloth. These can protect plants from rodents and birds. Some need to be reinforced to prevent them from blowing away or keep persistent animals out.
Plant specific crops
Squirrels and other garden pests eat many types of plants, but they stay away from certain ones, including:
- Jalapeno peppers
- Chili peppers
- Cayenne peppers
- Hyacinths
- Marigolds
- Daffodils
- Geraniums
- Mint
- Onions
- Garlic
If squirrels go after your garden, you can plant flowers and herbs around them that deter squirrels. The smell and flavor of these plants may keep the rodents away. If you primarily grow flowers, switch to ones squirrels dislike instead. As an added benefit, you can use most of these flowers to decorate the garden.
You can also mix water and hot sauce in a spray bottle and apply the solution to growing crops. This natural repellent isn’t harmful to plants, but it can keep squirrels away due to its strong smell.
Use a liquid squirrel repellent
Squirrels and other rodents have a strong sense of smell. Many liquid repellents use strong scents like peppermint or rosemary oil to deter them from your plants. Since these are natural solutions, they are also safe around children and household pets. They’re best for smaller gardens since they require you to spray each plant individually.
Use a solid or granular squirrel repellent
There are granular and solid repellents that also prevent squirrels from digging and eating in the garden. These work similarly to sprays but cover a larger surface area. Most also last several weeks or even months once applied.
Set up mechanical repellents
Another thing that deters squirrels and similar garden pests is loud sounds and sudden movement. Motion-detecting machines can scare off many rodents before they damage your plants. Some machines are freestanding, while you can install others on nearby trees or posts.
Set up the machines around the perimeter of your garden or any areas you don’t want squirrels invading. When a squirrel passes by, the machine will either flash lights or play ultrasonic sounds to keep them away.
Place decoys around the garden
If you want to add some flair to your garden, consider getting a couple of decoys. Strategically placed decoys can scare off rodents before they get near your plants. Common options include owls and snakes.
Some decoys, such as the Gardeneer 18.5-Inch High SOL-R Action Owl, can even rotate. This is especially useful if the squirrels are starting to get used to non-moving statues. If you go with a non-moving decoy, reposition it every few days or so in the yard to keep pests away.
Protect bird feeders
Squirrels often enjoy eating the seeds commonly found in bird feeders. Since many bird feeders are open, these rodents can easily get into the bird food.
One way to prevent this problem is to get a squirrel-proof bird feeder. Another option is to get birdfeed that squirrels don’t like, such as the Wild Delight Sizzle N’ Heat Bird Food. If that doesn’t work, use petroleum jelly along the feeder pole to keep squirrels from climbing it.
What you need to buy to keep squirrels out of your garden
AlpineReach Garden Netting Kit
This heavy-duty woven mesh netting kit goes on and around plants and fruit trees. It keeps out birds, deer and squirrels. It’s secured with zip ties, so it stays in place even when it’s windy.
Sold by Amazon
Measuring 4 feet by 8 feet, this crop cage goes over small to medium-sized plants to protect them from rodents. It comes with everything you need to set it up, including ground staples, steel tubes and connectors. It also doesn’t keep sunlight or water from getting in.
Sold by Amazon
If you want to keep squirrels away from other crops, this 15-pack of herb seeds can help. It includes mint, rosemary, chives and more.
Sold by Amazon
Mighty Mint Peppermint Oil Rodent Repellent Spray
This non-toxic liquid rodent repellent comes in a 16-ounce bottle. It contains highly concentrated peppermint essential oil that smells pleasant to humans but keeps away rodents without harming plants.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Defendy Ultrasonic Animal Repeller
This solar-powered machine can repel rodents, cats and dogs. It uses motion sensors to protect plants within 31 feet. It works by emitting an ultrasonic sound, LED flashing lights and an alarm to scare off unwanted pests.
Sold by Amazon
This hanging bird feeder is designed to keep squirrels out. It also has a gazebo-style design and 360-degree panorama feeding for those who enjoy watching the birds.
Sold by Amazon
Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews.
Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Angela Watson writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | https://www.ksn.com/reviews/how-to-keep-squirrels-out-of-your-garden/ | 2022-07-15T13:37:58Z | https://www.ksn.com/reviews/how-to-keep-squirrels-out-of-your-garden/ | false |
SAN DIEGO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.75 per common share, payable on September 22, 2022, to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2022.
Qualcomm is the world's leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.
Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. For more information, visit www.qualcomm.com.
Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Qualcomm Contact:
Mauricio Lopez-Hodoyan, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com
View original content:
SOURCE Qualcomm Incorporated | https://www.wsaz.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/qualcomm-announces-quarterly-cash-dividend/ | 2022-07-15T13:39:04Z | https://www.wsaz.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/qualcomm-announces-quarterly-cash-dividend/ | true |
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- The Jeep® brand retains the No. 1 spot as America's most patriotic brand for second consecutive decade in annual Brand Keys survey
- "Since 1941" is a badge of honor proudly displayed on all Jeep brand vehicles, recognizing the Jeep brand's long-standing military heritage and legendary 4x4 capability leadership for more than 80 years
- American flags are prominently positioned on doors of the new Jeep Grand Cherokee, Wrangler and Gladiator Freedom special editions as a tribute to the Americans who design, engineer, build and drive the vehicles
- Jeep brand delivers an open invitation to live life to the fullest by offering a broad portfolio of vehicles, including Jeep Cherokee, Compass, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee, new three-row Grand Cherokee L, Grand Cherokee 4xe, Renegade, Wrangler and Wrangler 4xe, as well as the premium extension of the Jeep brand with the all-new Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer
- The legendary Jeep brand's off-road capability is enhanced by a global electrification initiative that is transforming 4xe into new 4x4 in pursuit of the brand's vision of accomplishing Zero Emission Freedom. All Jeep brand SUVs will offer an electrified variant by 2025
- Jeep Wave, a premium owner loyalty and customer care program that is available to the entire Jeep 4x4 lineup, is filled with benefits and exclusive perks to deliver Jeep vehicle owners the utmost care and dedicated 24/7 support
The Jeep® brand, celebrating more than eight decades of freedom, adventure, passion and authenticity, is ringing in another year as America's most patriotic brand. For the 20th year in a row, the Jeep brand is America's most patriotic*, according to Brand Keys Most Patriotic Brands survey. Consumers surveyed based results on brands that best embody the value of patriotism in 2022.
"The Jeep brand is a classic. Its ability to literally own the value of patriotism seems timeless. For the 20 years Brand Keys has conducted the Most Patriotic Brands survey, Jeep has been rated No. 1 by consumers," said Robert Passikoff, president and founder of Brand Keys. "That value, 'patriotism,' is the emotional part of decision-making that accounts for an enormous portion of why consumers have emotionally engaged with the brand. Jeep resonates a degree of allegiance consumers recognize, appreciate and, most importantly, act upon when making a purchase decision. Consumers know there's a difference between wrapping yourself in the flag and being a brand people believe has actually earned that right. Jeep earned it, owns it, and we congratulate them again this year."
To determine the 2022 rankings, Brand Keys surveyed more than 5,800 consumers, 16 to 65 years of age, balanced for gender and political affiliation, assessed 1,172 brands in 131 B2C and B2B categories, using Brand Keys emotional engagement measures. The assessments evaluate brand resonance for the single value of patriotism, and the Jeep brand was identified as the best for meeting today's patriotism challenges.
"The Jeep brand is incredibly proud of its military heritage with origins that date back to 1941 – the birth of an iconic 4x4-capable vehicle the U.S. Army specifically requested," said Jim Morrison, senior vice president and head of Jeep brand North America. "The Jeep brand has become synonymous around the world for outdoor adventure and freedom, and being recognized as America's most patriotic brand for two decades running is a testament to our passionate Jeep community and to all those who protect our independence."
As a tribute to U.S. military members, the Jeep brand is offering a military-themed, special limited-edition Freedom package for the 2023 Gladiator and Wrangler, featuring military-themed exterior and interior design cues. The Jeep brand will make a $250 donation to military charities with every Freedom edition sold.
Fans can visit the Jeep Store by Amazon for patriotic Jeep merchandise.
*Based on Brand Keys 2003-2022 Most Patriotic Brands Survey
Built on 80 years of legendary heritage, Jeep is the authentic SUV brand that brings capability, craftsmanship and versatility to people who seek extraordinary journeys. The Jeep brand delivers an open invitation to live life to the fullest by offering a broad portfolio of vehicles that continues to provide owners with a sense of safety and security to handle any journey with confidence. The Jeep vehicle range consists of the Cherokee, Compass, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee, new three-row Grand Cherokee L, Grand Cherokee 4xe, Renegade and Wrangler and Wrangler 4xe. Jeep Wave, a premium owner loyalty and customer care program that is available to the entire Jeep 4x4 lineup, is filled with benefits and exclusive perks to deliver Jeep brand owners the utmost care and dedicated 24/7 support. The legendary Jeep brand's off-road capability is enhanced by a global electrification initiative that is transforming 4xe into new 4x4 in pursuit of the brand's vision of accomplishing Zero Emission Freedom. All Jeep brand SUVs will offer an electrified variant by 2025.
Company blog: http://blog.stellantisnorthamerica.com
Media website: http://media.stellantisnorthamerica.com
Jeep brand: www.jeep.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jeep
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jeep
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jeep
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/jeep
YouTube: www.youtube.com/thejeepchannel or https://www.youtube.com/StellantisNA
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Stellantis | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/let-freedom-ring-jeep-brand-recognized-20th-consecutive-year-americas-most-patriotic-brand/ | 2022-07-15T13:39:12Z | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/let-freedom-ring-jeep-brand-recognized-20th-consecutive-year-americas-most-patriotic-brand/ | false |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Ty France hit a two-run single in the eighth inning as the Seattle Mariners rallied from a four-run deficit and beat the Texas Rangers 6-5 on Thursday night, extending their winning streak to 11 games.
Seattle’s win streak is the second-longest in club history behind the 2001 Mariners, who won 15 straight. That team was the franchise’s most recent playoff team. The run is also the second-longest streak in the majors this season, behind Atlanta’s 14-game win streak.
The Mariners have gone 19-3 since being 10 games under .500 on June 19 and have moved into the AL wild-card race.
The Mariners trailed 5-1 going to the seventh inning before tagging Texas’ bullpen for two runs in the seventh and three in the eighth. Up to that point, Seattle’s only run came on Sam Haggarty’s inside-the-park homer in the fourth inning.
Matt Festa (2-0) pitched a perfect seventh inning and earned the win. Diego Castillo stranded runners at first and second in the ninth inning and picked up his sixth save in six chances.
Haggarty had his fourth career four-hit game and his second in 10 days.
Corey Seager, added to the American League All-Star team earlier Thursday, had a double and two RBIs for Texas.
Rangers starter Martin Perez allowed one run on three hits, and matched a career high with nine strikeouts before being pulled after five innings and 102 pitches.
Haggarty and Julio Rodriguez scored on Eugenio Suarez’s single in the seventh inning, pulling Seattle within 5-3. After pinch-hitter Adam Frazier, Abraham Toro and Haggarty loaded the bases in the eighth with none out, reliever Dennis Santana (3-5) hit Rodriguez to pull Seattle within a run. France followed with his single to left, scoring Toro and Haggarty.
Seattle starter Marco Gonzales gave up all five runs on a season-high 11 hits, one short of his career high, in six innings.
WELCOME TO THE SHOW
Elier Hernandez made his big-league debut as Texas’ DH after having his contract selected from Triple-A Round Rock. The 27-year-old singled in his first at-bat, scored, and singled again in the sixth.
SHORT HOPS
Texas RF Adolis Garcia singled in the first to end an 0-for-18 skid. … Heim had two doubles and Taveras two singles for Texas. … The Rangers optioned OF Steven Duggar to Round Rock to make room for Hernandez on the roster. … Mariners manager Scott Servais said RHP Chris Flexen will start Sunday’s series finale on short rest on the final day before the All-Star break.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mariners SS J.P. Crawford was scratched from the original lineup following on-field warmups.
UP NEXT
Friday night’s game will match Mariners LHP Robbie Ray (7-6, 3.51 ERA) against Rangers RHP Taylor Hearn (4-5, 5.86). Ray has allowed only four earned runs in 39 2/3 innings in his last six starts. Hearn, added to the taxi squad on Thursday, most recently pitched for the Rangers on June 25 and started twice for Round Rock since then.
___
More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/mariners-rally-past-rangers-6-5-for-11th-consecutive-victory/ | 2022-07-15T13:39:55Z | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/mariners-rally-past-rangers-6-5-for-11th-consecutive-victory/ | true |
Category: World Politics Hits: 4
Texas sued the federal government on Thursday over new guidance from the Biden administration directing hospitals to provide emergency abortions regardless of state bans on the procedure that came into effect in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the lawsuit argued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was trying to "use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic." The lawsuit focused on guidance issued Monday advising that a federal law protecting patients' access to emergency treatment requires performing abortions when doctors believe a pregnant woman's life or health is threatened. The guidance came after President Joe Biden, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Friday seeking to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies after the June 24 overturning of Roe v. Wade, which recognized a nationwide right of women to obtain abortions. Abortion services ceased July 2 in Texas after the state's highest court, at Paxton's urging, cleared the way for a nearly century-old abortion ban to take effect. HHS said the guidance from its U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services agency did not constitute new policy but merely reminded doctors of their obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. But in the lawsuit filed in Lubbock, the Republican-led state of Texas argued that federal law has never authorized the federal government to compel doctors and hospitals to perform abortions and that the guidance was unlawful. In a statement, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called it "unthinkable that this public official would sue to block women from receiving lifesaving care in emergency rooms, a right protected under U.S. law." About half the states are expected to move to restrict or ban abortions. Thirteen states, including Texas, had "trigger" laws on the books designed to snap into effect if Roe v. Wade was overturned. | https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/component/content/article/69-world-politics/957298-texas-sues-to-block-federal-guidance-on-abortions-to-save-mother-s-life%20 | 2022-07-15T13:40:01Z | https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/component/content/article/69-world-politics/957298-texas-sues-to-block-federal-guidance-on-abortions-to-save-mother-s-life%20 | false |
PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Federated Hermes, Inc. today announced that monthly fund composition and performance data for Federated Hermes Premier Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: FMN) as of June 30, 2022, is now available in the Products section of FederatedInvestors.com. To order hard copies of this data or to be placed on a mailing list, call 800-245-0242 x5587538, email CEinfo@federatedinv.com or write to Federated Hermes, 1001 Liberty Avenue, Floor 23, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.
Federated Hermes, Inc. (NYSE: FHI) is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $631.1 billion in assets under management, as of March 31, 2022. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide. Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has nearly 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide. For more information, visit FederatedHermes.com.
###
View original content:
SOURCE Federated Hermes, Inc. | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/month-end-portfolio-data-now-available-federated-hermes-premier-municipal-income-fund/ | 2022-07-15T13:40:05Z | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/month-end-portfolio-data-now-available-federated-hermes-premier-municipal-income-fund/ | true |
ERIE, Pa., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The term "high-mileage vehicle" can sometimes be interpreted as "rust bucket" or "clunker," but the truth is today's vehicles are built better than ever. A car with 100,000 miles is no longer the maximum life expectancy for a vehicle. And let's face it – buying a car these days is no easy task. If you keep up with routine maintenance, you could push your vehicle to well over 200,000 miles.
Erie Insurance has five ways to help you keep your current vehicle as long as possible.
- Fix any problems immediately. Don't ignore that check engine light or any other issue that arises with your high-mileage car. Problems don't just go away – in fact, they usually get worse. As soon as you feel, see, or hear something unusual, take your car to your mechanic to have it serviced immediately.
- Choose high-quality replacement parts. When it comes to auto parts, you generally get what you pay for. If you want to keep your car on the road, make sure that any worn-out parts are replaced with high-quality options.
- Follow your owner's maintenance manual. This means getting your oil changed on time, checking your tire pressure, rotating tires and maintaining your fluids. Ignoring regular maintenance during your car's early life will lead to larger problems down the road.
- Keep it clean. Aside from scrubbing away bugs and grime, cleaning your car can help prevent corrosion both on and under your vehicle. If you drive in the snow, you should know the damage road salt can do to your car – it might surprise you!
- Drive gently. The better you treat your high-mileage car, the longer it will last. Don't slam on the brakes or the gas; make gradual turns; and avoid potholes or other rough road conditions that can put stress on your vehicle.
We believe your auto insurance should go the distance – just like your trusted ride. Learn more about the built-in extras that come with every ERIE auto policy, or find a local ERIE agent to help you pick out the right coverage for your needs and budget.
According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written. Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and the 19th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. Rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, ERIE has more than 6 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. News releases and more information are available on ERIE's website at www.erieinsurance.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Erie Insurance Group | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/5-ways-make-high-mileage-car-last/ | 2022-07-15T13:43:07Z | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/5-ways-make-high-mileage-car-last/ | false |
BANGKOK (AP) — European shares opened higher Friday after a mixed session in Asia following a report that China’s economy contracted by 2.6% in the last quarter due to virus shutdowns that kept businesses closed and people at home.
Stocks in Hong Kong and Shanghai fell while most other benchmarks advanced. U.S. futures were little changed and oil prices were mixed.
Official data showed the Chinese economy shrank by 2.6% compared with the January-March period’s already weak quarter-on-quarter rate of 1.4%. Compared with a year earlier, which can hide recent fluctuations, growth slid to a weak 0.4% from the earlier quarter’s 4.8%.
Anti-virus controls shut down Shanghai, site of the world’s busiest port, and other manufacturing centers starting in late March, fueling concerns global trade and manufacturing might be disrupted. Millions of families were confined to their homes, depressing consumer spending.
More outbreaks this week in China and elsewhere in Asia have raised worries that COVID-19 controls might be restored, on top of existing precautions.
Germany’s DAX gained 1.5% to 12,706.96 while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.6% to 5,950.63. Britain’s FTSE 100 advanced 0.9% to 7,104.57. The futures for the S&P 500 and Dow industrials were barely changed, gaining less than 0.1%.
In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index added 0.5% to 26,788.47. The Kospi in Seoul was up 0.4% at 2,330.98 and shares also rose in India and Taiwan.
The Shanghai Composite index lost 1.6% to 3,228.06. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.7% to 6,605.60 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong declined 2.2% to 20,297.72.
On Thursday on Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 0.3% with nearly early three out of every four stocks in the benchmark index ending in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5%, while the Nasdaq rose less than 0.1%.
The Russell 2000 of small company stocks fell 1.1%.
Wall Street has been assessing the latest government reports showing that inflation remains hot and shows no signs of cooling, even as central banks try to loosen its grip on businesses and consumers by hiking interest rates.
Inflation and the Federal Reserve’s fight against it remain key concerns for investors. Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier. It is the latest painful reminder that inflation is running hot, following a report on Wednesday that showed prices at the consumer level were 9.1% higher last month than a year earlier.
Pervasive inflation has been squeezing businesses and consumers for months and the Federal Reserve has moved aggressively to try to bring prices down by raising interest rates. That has raised concerns that it could go too far and actually cause a recession.
But markets have been bracing for this for months, buying on dips and looking for silver linings.
“Within the gloom, buyers are attempting to seek for some pockets of optimism. Guidance for economic conditions from the major U.S. banks point towards an impending slowdown, but it came with some downplaying of risks of a severe U.S. recession with strength in consumer spending and labor market,” Jun Rong Yeap of IG said in a report.
Investors are will get a clearer picture in the coming weeks about how badly inflation is hurting companies. Several more U.S. banks are on deck to report earnings Friday, including Citigroup and Wells Fargo, along with insurer UnitedHealth Group.
In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude oil gained 24 cents to $96.02 a barrel. It lost 52 cents to $95.78 a barrel on Thursday.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, added 73 cents to $99.83 a barrel.
The U.S. dollar fell to 138.84 Japanese yen from 138.94 yen. Rising U.S. interest rates have continued to push the dollar higher against other major currencies in countries where rates have not risen or have lagged the hikes by the Fed.
The euro rose to $1.0036 from $1.0020.
___
AP Business Writer Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/asian-shares-mixed-after-china-says-growth-weakened-in-2q/ | 2022-07-15T13:45:06Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/asian-shares-mixed-after-china-says-growth-weakened-in-2q/ | false |
Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Birds and the Bees.
Talking with kids about sex can be awkward - for children and parents. Comedian Julia Sweeney remembers having "The Talk" with her daughter, and how it went in some unexpected directions.
About Julia Sweeney
Julia Sweeney is a writer, actress, and comedian. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1990-1995, where she was known for an androgynous character named Pat.
Known for her comedic and dramatic monologues, Sweeney has performed across the U.S. Another of her monologues was fashioned into a book, If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother.
Her most recent show, "Older & Wider," was filmed in 2020 and will be available soon.
This segment of the TED Radio Hour was produced by Katherine Sypher and edited by Katie Simon and Rachel Faulkner. You can follow us on Twitter @TEDRadioHour and email us at TEDRadio@npr.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-07-15/julia-sweeney-when-its-finally-time-to-have-the-talk | 2022-07-15T13:46:21Z | https://www.kcbx.org/2022-07-15/julia-sweeney-when-its-finally-time-to-have-the-talk | false |
AUSTIN, Texas, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonim Technologies (Nasdaq: SONM) today announced the launch of the XP5plus on the AT&T network, which offers the best of both cellular and radio-like capabilities for businesses and employees working in extreme conditions.
The XP5plus builds on the legacy of its predecessor, the XP5s, one of the most widely used PTT-over-Cellular ultra-rugged devices among frontline workers and first responders who need instant reliable communications when it matters most. The new XP5plus is purpose-built for critical communications and includes many features that enhance the Push-to-Talk (PTT) experience. At the top of its long list of new features is a version with two easy-to-use control knobs – for channel select and volume control. PTT can now be accessed without users ever taking their eyes off the mission in front of them.
With longer battery life and a larger screen, the XP5plus raises the bar on what a device can do. Third-party tested and validated to MIL-STD-810H, this rugged device is drop proof and waterproof and will thrive in the most punishing conditions. Sonim is long recognized for the superior audio quality built into all its devices. The XP5plus does not disappoint with Goodix echo and noise cancellation technology built into the new 100dB+ speakers.
"We are pleased to continue our relationship with AT&T and provide businesses with the latest rugged communications that will unlock mission-critical team communication and outlast any given day in the field," said Peter Liu, CEO, Sonim Technologies.
The XP5plus is also FirstNet Ready®, which means first responders can use it to tap into specialized capabilities designed to meet their needs on FirstNet® – the only nationwide, high-speed broadband communications platform dedicated to and purpose-built for America's first responders and the extended public safety community. First responders maintain voice communications with always-on priority and preemption on LTE, while the intuitive FirstNet network determines the best route for data traffic, whether that's 5G or LTEi.
The XP5plus is packed with other extra features including SonimWare Enterprise Mobility Software that helps customers more easily deploy, manage and support mobile devices in the field. The Sonim SecureAudio Connector provides secure, more reliable connections so audio accessories and Remote Speaker Microphones (RSM) are locked in place and always ready, even while engaged in rigorous activity. It is compatible with a wide range of industrial grade accessories including headsets, RSMs, vehicle mounts and more. The XP5plus also comes with Sonim's 3-year comprehensive warranty which lowers the total cost of ownership, especially compared to consumer devices.
The XP5plus will be available online and in AT&T stores on Friday, July 15. For more information, visit Sonim XP5plus.
FirstNet and the FirstNet logo are registered trademarks and service marks of the First Responder Network Authority. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
Sonim Technologies is a leading U.S. provider of ultra-rugged mobility solutions designed specifically for task workers physically engaged in their work environments, often in mission-critical roles. The Sonim solution includes ultra-rugged mobile phones, a suite of industrial-grade accessories, and data and workflow applications which are collectively designed to increase worker productivity, communication and safety on the job site. Please visit https://sonimtech.com/.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements relate to, among other things, the expected timing of the availability of Sonim's XP5 Plus and XP10 5G smartphones, the expected market demand for these products and the expected benefits from the proposed equity investment by AJP. These forward-looking statements are based on Sonim's current expectations, estimates and projections about its business and industry, management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by Sonim, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "future", "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, the following: Sonim's ability to continue as a going concern and improve its liquidity and financial position; the risk that the proposed equity investment in Sonim by AJP as disclosed in April 2022 may be consummated on a timely basis, if at all; Sonim's exploration of strategic or financial alternatives may not result in any transaction or alternative that enhances value; risks related to Sonim's ability to comply with the continued listing standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market and the potential delisting of Sonim's common stock; Sonim's ability to continue to develop solutions to address user needs effectively, including its next generation products; anticipated sales levels of both new and legacy products; Sonim's reliance on its channel partners to generate a substantial majority of its revenues; the limited operating history in Sonim's markets; Sonim's ongoing restructuring and transformation of its business; the variation of Sonim's quarterly results; the lengthy customization and certification processes for Sonim's wireless carries customers; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; and the ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation on Sonim's business, as well as the other risk factors described under "Risk Factors" included in Sonim's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and any risk factors contained in subsequent quarterly and annual reports it files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Sonim cautions you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Sonim assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release, except as required by law.
i FirstNet and the FirstNet logo are registered trademarks and service marks of the First Responder Network Authority. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Plans sold separately. Limited to eligible public safety entities (first responders and select support personnel). Limited availability; Coverage not available everywhere. Additional restrictions apply. See http://www.firstnet.com for details. 5G+ Service: Req's a compatible 5G+ device, FirstNet SIM, FirstNet 5G rate plan, and no Custom APN. Not avail. in most areas; 5G+ service is avail. only in limited parts of select cities. Other restrictions apply.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Sonim Technologies, Inc. | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sonim-technologies-launches-new-xp5plus-rugged-device-with-atampt/ | 2022-07-15T13:47:44Z | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sonim-technologies-launches-new-xp5plus-rugged-device-with-atampt/ | true |
EV Driven program provides customer incentives that support the state's electric vehicle expansion goals
MORRISTOWN, N.J., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), has launched EV Driven, a new four-year program that provides incentives for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The program, recently approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), will benefit the state's environment by reducing auto emissions.
"New Jersey is a national leader in clean energy and electric vehicle adoption, and the EV Driven program helps our customers build the charging backbone necessary to reach our state's goal of registering 330,000 electric vehicles by 2025," said James Fakult, president of JCP&L. "We're excited to support New Jersey's efforts to expand the charging station network as we continue providing safe, reliable and affordable service to our customers."
The $39.8 million program has three components:
- Residential charging - provides up to $1,500 in incentives for customer electrical upgrades necessary for the installation of up to 2,000 qualified Level Two electric vehicle chargers in JCP&L's service area. Qualified residential customers may also be eligible for up to $5,500 in utility upgrades, such as new poles, transformers and service wires, required to support the chargers. Additionally, bill credit incentives may be available to encourage off-peak-hours charging.
- Mixed-use commercial and multifamily property charging – the mixed-use commercial program provides up to $6,700 per qualified Level Two charger for up to 500 public-access ports, and up to $5,000 per port for a maximum of 100 ports dedicated to workplace use across JCP&L's service territory. Multifamily property owners also can qualify for off-peak charging credits as well as incentives of up to $8,375 per qualified Level Two charger for up to 150 ports in state-designated overburdened communities within JCP&L's service territory, and up to $6,700 per smart charging port for up to 150 ports in non-overburdened communities in JCP&L's service territory. The mixed-use commercial and multifamily property component also covers the costs of utility upgrades at qualifying locations.
- Public-access DC Fast charging - provides incentives of up to $25,000 per DC fast charger port for up to 248 charging locations accessible to the public across JCP&L's service territory. Additionally, JCP&L will install new underground cabling, transformers, metering connections and poles for up to 124 public DC Fast charging locations at a cost of up to $50,500 per location. To help manage the increased electrical costs of DC fast charging, demand charge discounts are also available.
Customers can find more information on the program and apply for incentives at www.jcp-l.com/evdriven.
Electric vehicles offer a clean, efficient alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles, averaging as low as one-third the cost-per-mile of gasoline. Depending on the battery capacity, EV driving range can vary from about 80 miles up to 280 miles. New Jersey's Energy Master Plan calls for an increase in electric vehicle adoption to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state, accounting for 46% of the state's net emissions.
JCP&L serves 1.1 million customers in the counties of Burlington, Essex, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren. Follow JCP&L on Twitter @JCP_L, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/JCPandL or online at www.jcp-l.com.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp or online at www.firstenergycorp.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE FirstEnergy Corp. | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/jcpampl-launches-electric-vehicle-charging-incentive-program/ | 2022-07-15T13:50:02Z | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/jcpampl-launches-electric-vehicle-charging-incentive-program/ | false |
Orange Fire Department celebrates new leaders
Published 12:04 am Friday, July 15, 2022
Orange Fire Chief John Bilbo introduced newly appointed Deputy Fire Chief Payton Smith and Fire Marshal Randy Ener this week to city leaders.
The introductions took place at the Orange City Council meeting.
“Please join us in congratulating both Payton and Randy on their promotions within the Orange Fire Department,” a city statement read. | https://www.orangeleader.com/2022/07/15/orange-fire-department-celebrates-new-leaders/ | 2022-07-15T13:51:33Z | https://www.orangeleader.com/2022/07/15/orange-fire-department-celebrates-new-leaders/ | false |
Program Expands to Research Institutions in addition to Universities
TOKYO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Group Corporation (Sony) announced today that it is now accepting submissions for its Sony Research Award Program, currently in its seventh year. The program provides funding for projects researching emerging and innovative technologies in collaboration with Sony's own research groups, and is open to universities and, starting this year, to other research institutions such as government research institutes and nonprofit organizations. The program is offered in the U.S., Canada, 17 European countries*1 and India.
"Through the Sony Research Award Program, we have been working with universities around the world to promote research and development that will lead to new innovations and cutting-edge technologies," said Hisashi Tamai, President, R&D Center and Senior Vice President, Sony Group Corporation. "Since the establishment of the program in 2016, we have expanded the regions covered by the program from North America to Europe and India. We expect that this year's addition of research institutions other than universities provides opportunities for us to collaborate with a broader pool of talented researchers in the coming year."
The Sony Research Award Program is comprised of two awards – the Faculty Innovation Award and the Focused Research Award. The awards create new opportunities for academics to engage in cutting-edge research, leading to the introduction of breakthrough technologies.
The Faculty Innovation Award grants up to $100,000 USD to principal investigators for one year*2, for research projects that may fall within three broad subject categories (Information Technology, Devices & Materials, and Biomedical & Life Sciences) relevant to Sony's current research interests.
The Focused Research Award provides support for up to $150,000 USD for one year*2, to conduct research more focused in the areas of Sony's immediate interest.
"Working with Sony has been incredibly valuable for us," said Professor Virginia de Sa, University of California San Diego. "Brainstorming about the utility of various candidate biologically motivated architectural additions, such as lateral and feedback connections, has helped us to identify and focus on specific inductive priors that entail strong functional advantages for computer vision tasks, particularly in semantic segmentation. Our work with Sony has also helped focus our algorithm tests on specific application areas that are most relevant to real-world applications."
"It has been an honor to be funded and do research in collaboration with Sony for the past three years," said Assistant Professor Dimitris Papailiopoulos, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The support and feedback from Sony have been very fruitful for my research group. Our collaboration has propelled our projects forward to tackle the many challenges of machine learning when deployed at a large scale. Our Sony colleagues helped us calibrate our research towards important and practical problems and steered us towards exciting new avenues."
"Collaborating with Sony for the past several years has been an amazing experience," said Associate Professor Daniel Sanchez of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Sony researchers have been eager to work on transformative computer architectures, sharing their challenges in accelerating important applications and adopting our ideas and prototypes to address these challenges. This collaboration has provided us with invaluable insights about real-world problems, and enabled technology transfer and impact that would not have been possible otherwise."
For more information about the awards, as well as a list of previous award recipients, please visit https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research-award-program/ .
*1European countries included in the Program are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
*2 With the possibility of an extension
View original content:
SOURCE Sony Group Corporation | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sony-research-award-program-now-accepting-submissions-focused-emerging-innovative-technological-development/ | 2022-07-15T13:53:23Z | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sony-research-award-program-now-accepting-submissions-focused-emerging-innovative-technological-development/ | true |
Program Expands to Research Institutions in addition to Universities
TOKYO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Group Corporation (Sony) announced today that it is now accepting submissions for its Sony Research Award Program, currently in its seventh year. The program provides funding for projects researching emerging and innovative technologies in collaboration with Sony's own research groups, and is open to universities and, starting this year, to other research institutions such as government research institutes and nonprofit organizations. The program is offered in the U.S., Canada, 17 European countries*1 and India.
"Through the Sony Research Award Program, we have been working with universities around the world to promote research and development that will lead to new innovations and cutting-edge technologies," said Hisashi Tamai, President, R&D Center and Senior Vice President, Sony Group Corporation. "Since the establishment of the program in 2016, we have expanded the regions covered by the program from North America to Europe and India. We expect that this year's addition of research institutions other than universities provides opportunities for us to collaborate with a broader pool of talented researchers in the coming year."
The Sony Research Award Program is comprised of two awards – the Faculty Innovation Award and the Focused Research Award. The awards create new opportunities for academics to engage in cutting-edge research, leading to the introduction of breakthrough technologies.
The Faculty Innovation Award grants up to $100,000 USD to principal investigators for one year*2, for research projects that may fall within three broad subject categories (Information Technology, Devices & Materials, and Biomedical & Life Sciences) relevant to Sony's current research interests.
The Focused Research Award provides support for up to $150,000 USD for one year*2, to conduct research more focused in the areas of Sony's immediate interest.
"Working with Sony has been incredibly valuable for us," said Professor Virginia de Sa, University of California San Diego. "Brainstorming about the utility of various candidate biologically motivated architectural additions, such as lateral and feedback connections, has helped us to identify and focus on specific inductive priors that entail strong functional advantages for computer vision tasks, particularly in semantic segmentation. Our work with Sony has also helped focus our algorithm tests on specific application areas that are most relevant to real-world applications."
"It has been an honor to be funded and do research in collaboration with Sony for the past three years," said Assistant Professor Dimitris Papailiopoulos, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The support and feedback from Sony have been very fruitful for my research group. Our collaboration has propelled our projects forward to tackle the many challenges of machine learning when deployed at a large scale. Our Sony colleagues helped us calibrate our research towards important and practical problems and steered us towards exciting new avenues."
"Collaborating with Sony for the past several years has been an amazing experience," said Associate Professor Daniel Sanchez of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Sony researchers have been eager to work on transformative computer architectures, sharing their challenges in accelerating important applications and adopting our ideas and prototypes to address these challenges. This collaboration has provided us with invaluable insights about real-world problems, and enabled technology transfer and impact that would not have been possible otherwise."
For more information about the awards, as well as a list of previous award recipients, please visit https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research-award-program/ .
*1European countries included in the Program are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
*2 With the possibility of an extension
View original content:
SOURCE Sony Group Corporation | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sony-research-award-program-now-accepting-submissions-focused-emerging-innovative-technological-development/ | 2022-07-15T13:53:42Z | https://www.kold.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sony-research-award-program-now-accepting-submissions-focused-emerging-innovative-technological-development/ | false |
LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rising queer female pop artist Hazy Shea announced the release of her newest single, Basements. This catchy and rhythmic genre-bending hit marks Hazy's sixth release since co-founding Indie label Genre 22.
With its unparalleled upbeat melody, "Basements" blends elements of indie rock, dance-pop, and alternative r&b and transports the listener into Hazy's world of poetic heartbreak and hypnotic layers. Not one to disappoint her listeners, Hazy's latest drop is built on a foundation of her signature ambedo and rhythmic cadences, creating a unique alignment with the cheerful, optimistic instrumentals.
Produced by Project X of the Grammy award-winning powerhouse 808 Mafia and platinum producer Nico Baron of Internet Money, this track is guaranteed to be a hit with listeners as they venture into the adrenaline-filled, youthful world of spontaneity and impulse in "Basements."
Hazy started releasing music just three short months ago and quickly gained 80k monthly listeners and over 21k followers across her portfolio of social media channels that continues to climb daily.
The female pop artist's latest track, her fifth release, made it on FOUR (4) Spotify Editorial Playlists, putting her alongside artists like Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Tate McRae, Olivia O'Brien, Karol G, Dua Lipa, Rosa Linn, Sabrina Carpenter, Tove Lo, Ava Max, Emeline, Zoe Wees, Yuna, Madeline The Person, Aespa.
"Basements" is available for streaming across all platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, and Soundcloud.
Hazy Shea (she/her/they) is a female pop singer, songwriter, and producer hailing from Los Angeles with a distinct and expressive melancholic edge. Hazy's subversive tunes and story-telling warps dreamscape with indie-rock and alt-pop. She evokes a visceral response in her listeners by creating a nostalgic vibe, transporting each to a specific moment in time but universal in nature. Find out more about Hazy Shea here.
Hazy Shea on Instagram
Hazy Shea on TikTok
Press Inquiries:
Katheleen
katheleen@tribebuildermedia.com
Tribe Builder Media
929-367-8993
press@tribebuildermedia.com
View original content:
SOURCE Genre 22 | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/trending-female-pop-artist-hazy-shea-takes-unique-sound-with-release-new-music-basements/ | 2022-07-15T13:54:19Z | https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/trending-female-pop-artist-hazy-shea-takes-unique-sound-with-release-new-music-basements/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global software investor Insight Partners announced the establishment of its Enterprise Technology Exchange, a council of preeminent technology leaders in Europe and North America, who will drive enterprise innovation and leadership alongside Insight's portfolio of startup and ScaleUp software companies.
The Enterprise Technology Exchange will identify and discuss technology trends, advise and innovate with the firm's companies and leverage global networks to bring valuable insights to the software sector and enterprise ecosystem. With members from leading Fortune 1000 companies, Insight Partners and its portfolio companies will have the opportunity to benefit from the decades of wisdom and experience the Enterprise Technology Exchange leaders bring to the table – in a trusted, private forum.
Insight Partners' Enterprise Technology Exchange comprises distinguished executives with exemplary leadership experience from across the globe, including:
- Boeing, Global CIO and Data Analytics Officer – Susan Doniz
- Bayer, Chief Information Technology & Digital Transformation - Bijoy Sagar
- Cigna, Global Chief Information Officer - Noelle Eder
- Deutsche Telekom, Group Chief Information Officer - Peter Leukert
- Mercedes-Benz Group, Global Chief Information Officer - Jan Brecht
- Reckitt, Chief Information and Digitization Officer - Filippo Catalano
- Schneider Electric, Global Chief Information Officer - Elizabeth Hackenson
- S&P Global, Global Chief Information Officer - Swamy Kocherlakota
- Walgreen Boots Alliance, Group Chief Information Officer - Francesco Tinto
- Zurich Insurance, Group Chief Information & Digital Officer - Ericson Chan
- Exchange Facilitator and former Chief Digital & Technology Officer at GSK - Karenann Terrell
"Today's announcement is the culmination of years of experience working with global technology leaders to help them access innovation that can bring about digital excellence and agility in their business operations. The knowledge transfer from startups and ScaleUps to enterprises, and vice versa, is invaluable to the vitality of the software sector and we are pleased to provide a forum for information exchange and learning between the innovation ecosystem and the corporate leaders of global business," said Elizabeth van den Berg, executive vice president at Insight Partners. "We are fortunate to convene this outstanding group of CIOs and we look forward to opportunities to collaborate on achieving common business goals for both emerging and established companies."
"I've spent my career learning how and working to drive innovation across a number of industries. I'm honored to be a part of the Enterprise Technology Exchange and to have this opportunity to continue that learning with such a distinguished group. I'm energized and motivated by our work on topics ranging from innovation and organizational transformation to new technical approaches and patterns that pave a smoother road to value creation." Noelle Eder, Global Chief Information Officer, Cigna
"Software is key for the digital transformation, not only for our company. ScaleUps play an important part in that, as they can be fast and innovative, while having proven to be relevant. I look forward to partnering with Insight and the leading CIOs in the industry as we explore with founders what will shape the future." Jan Brecht, Chief Information Officer, Mercedes-Benz Group
"Joining the Enterprise Technology Exchange is a privilege and an opportunity to engage with companies that are paving the way in developing break-through technologies to solve big problems. The team from Insight Partners is well versed in current and future challenges, which provides both tactical and strategic outlooks for the members. I am grateful to be part of a group of accomplished and inspiring leaders." Elizabeth Hackenson, Global Chief Information Officer, Schneider Electric
"Today's digital leaders and entrepreneurs are expected to navigate through uncertainty with agility, and through opportunity with velocity. The fusion of thought leadership between diverse global CIOs and founders of ScaleUps collectively creates a digital melting pot for applied innovation and value creation." Swamy Socherlakota, Global Chief Information Officer, S&P Global
"Throughout my career, I have always had an ambition to use technology to shape the future and support the development of various products and capabilities to inspire and benefit all stakeholders. Being a part of Insight Partners' Enterprise Technology Exchange is truly an acceleration of that work." Francesco Tinto, Global Chief Information Officer, Walgreen Boots Alliance
This Enterprise Technology Exchange follows on the heels of Insight Partners' Government Advisory Board which seeks to connect Government leaders with ScaleUps. Insight believes that with the right strategic partner and access to a dynamic global network, software companies can drive an outsized impact on the economy and job creation, and the Government Advisory Board and Enterprise Technology Exchange are pivotal to executing this powerful opportunity.
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of February 24, 2022, the closing of the firm's recent fundraise, Fund XII, brings Insight Partners' regulatory assets under management to over $90B. Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners supports great software leaders at all stages of their growth journey, from first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners
View original content:
SOURCE Insight Partners | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/insight-partners-announces-enterprise-technology-exchange-drive-unparalleled-innovation-leadership-within-enterprise-software-sector/ | 2022-07-15T13:55:00Z | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/insight-partners-announces-enterprise-technology-exchange-drive-unparalleled-innovation-leadership-within-enterprise-software-sector/ | true |
Medical examiner: Jayland Walker shot, grazed, 46 times by Akron police
Published: Jul. 15, 2022 at 8:52 AM CDT|Updated: moments ago
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A medical examiner says Jayland Walker was shot and grazed, 46 times by Akron police.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | 2022-07-15T13:57:04Z | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | false |
Program Expands to Research Institutions in addition to Universities
TOKYO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Group Corporation (Sony) announced today that it is now accepting submissions for its Sony Research Award Program, currently in its seventh year. The program provides funding for projects researching emerging and innovative technologies in collaboration with Sony's own research groups, and is open to universities and, starting this year, to other research institutions such as government research institutes and nonprofit organizations. The program is offered in the U.S., Canada, 17 European countries*1 and India.
"Through the Sony Research Award Program, we have been working with universities around the world to promote research and development that will lead to new innovations and cutting-edge technologies," said Hisashi Tamai, President, R&D Center and Senior Vice President, Sony Group Corporation. "Since the establishment of the program in 2016, we have expanded the regions covered by the program from North America to Europe and India. We expect that this year's addition of research institutions other than universities provides opportunities for us to collaborate with a broader pool of talented researchers in the coming year."
The Sony Research Award Program is comprised of two awards – the Faculty Innovation Award and the Focused Research Award. The awards create new opportunities for academics to engage in cutting-edge research, leading to the introduction of breakthrough technologies.
The Faculty Innovation Award grants up to $100,000 USD to principal investigators for one year*2, for research projects that may fall within three broad subject categories (Information Technology, Devices & Materials, and Biomedical & Life Sciences) relevant to Sony's current research interests.
The Focused Research Award provides support for up to $150,000 USD for one year*2, to conduct research more focused in the areas of Sony's immediate interest.
"Working with Sony has been incredibly valuable for us," said Professor Virginia de Sa, University of California San Diego. "Brainstorming about the utility of various candidate biologically motivated architectural additions, such as lateral and feedback connections, has helped us to identify and focus on specific inductive priors that entail strong functional advantages for computer vision tasks, particularly in semantic segmentation. Our work with Sony has also helped focus our algorithm tests on specific application areas that are most relevant to real-world applications."
"It has been an honor to be funded and do research in collaboration with Sony for the past three years," said Assistant Professor Dimitris Papailiopoulos, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The support and feedback from Sony have been very fruitful for my research group. Our collaboration has propelled our projects forward to tackle the many challenges of machine learning when deployed at a large scale. Our Sony colleagues helped us calibrate our research towards important and practical problems and steered us towards exciting new avenues."
"Collaborating with Sony for the past several years has been an amazing experience," said Associate Professor Daniel Sanchez of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Sony researchers have been eager to work on transformative computer architectures, sharing their challenges in accelerating important applications and adopting our ideas and prototypes to address these challenges. This collaboration has provided us with invaluable insights about real-world problems, and enabled technology transfer and impact that would not have been possible otherwise."
For more information about the awards, as well as a list of previous award recipients, please visit https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research-award-program/ .
*1European countries included in the Program are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
*2 With the possibility of an extension
View original content:
SOURCE Sony Group Corporation | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sony-research-award-program-now-accepting-submissions-focused-emerging-innovative-technological-development/ | 2022-07-15T13:58:42Z | https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/sony-research-award-program-now-accepting-submissions-focused-emerging-innovative-technological-development/ | true |
MPs eulogise late Zebilla MP
Ndebugre acted with integrity – Haruna Iddrisu
Ndebugre given state pre-burial
Wife of the late former Zebilla Member of Parliament, John A. Ndebugre, has shared details about the last days spent with her late husband before his demise.
In a tribute to him, Sophia Ndebugre recounted how she enjoyed so much care and love from her husband but was particularly emphatic about his ‘overprotective’ tendencies during the period before his death.
“John, in your last days, you were over-caring and overprotective of me. Your love for me was so strong. You pampered me like a baby. Little did I know that it was your way of saying goodbye to me.
"You have left me alone in the lonely world. May 4, 2022 was the last day of being with you,” her words read.
The widow also noted that her husband sounded and seemed quite well, not showing any signs of sickness prior to his demise.
She recounted how he rather expressed worry about her health condition when she had to go to Accra to seek medical attention and urged her to come home immediately she was done.
“You came out of the room to say goodbye to me when Patience was taking me to Accra for a medical check-up. We spoke the next day – Thursday. You did not complain of any headache or pain in any part of your body.
“The morning of the day you finally left us, we spoke again. You were rather worried about me and asked me to quickly return after consulting with my doctors.
“You sounded very well. A few hours later, my heart was broken when the news of your sudden demise started tripling in.
“You never had the chance to say goodbye,” Sophia noted.
Background:
The death of the former Member of Parliament for Zebilla, John Akparibo Ndebugre, was announced on Friday, May 6, 2022.
The former Peoples National Convention (PNC) MP died at the age of 72 after a short illness at Zebilla in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region.
He was a lawyer by profession, was married and had four children. | https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/How-Ndebugre-spent-his-last-moments-with-his-wife-1583117 | 2022-07-15T13:59:24Z | https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/How-Ndebugre-spent-his-last-moments-with-his-wife-1583117 | true |
EV Driven program provides customer incentives that support the state's electric vehicle expansion goals
MORRISTOWN, N.J., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), has launched EV Driven, a new four-year program that provides incentives for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The program, recently approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), will benefit the state's environment by reducing auto emissions.
"New Jersey is a national leader in clean energy and electric vehicle adoption, and the EV Driven program helps our customers build the charging backbone necessary to reach our state's goal of registering 330,000 electric vehicles by 2025," said James Fakult, president of JCP&L. "We're excited to support New Jersey's efforts to expand the charging station network as we continue providing safe, reliable and affordable service to our customers."
The $39.8 million program has three components:
- Residential charging - provides up to $1,500 in incentives for customer electrical upgrades necessary for the installation of up to 2,000 qualified Level Two electric vehicle chargers in JCP&L's service area. Qualified residential customers may also be eligible for up to $5,500 in utility upgrades, such as new poles, transformers and service wires, required to support the chargers. Additionally, bill credit incentives may be available to encourage off-peak-hours charging.
- Mixed-use commercial and multifamily property charging – the mixed-use commercial program provides up to $6,700 per qualified Level Two charger for up to 500 public-access ports, and up to $5,000 per port for a maximum of 100 ports dedicated to workplace use across JCP&L's service territory. Multifamily property owners also can qualify for off-peak charging credits as well as incentives of up to $8,375 per qualified Level Two charger for up to 150 ports in state-designated overburdened communities within JCP&L's service territory, and up to $6,700 per smart charging port for up to 150 ports in non-overburdened communities in JCP&L's service territory. The mixed-use commercial and multifamily property component also covers the costs of utility upgrades at qualifying locations.
- Public-access DC Fast charging - provides incentives of up to $25,000 per DC fast charger port for up to 248 charging locations accessible to the public across JCP&L's service territory. Additionally, JCP&L will install new underground cabling, transformers, metering connections and poles for up to 124 public DC Fast charging locations at a cost of up to $50,500 per location. To help manage the increased electrical costs of DC fast charging, demand charge discounts are also available.
Customers can find more information on the program and apply for incentives at www.jcp-l.com/evdriven.
Electric vehicles offer a clean, efficient alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles, averaging as low as one-third the cost-per-mile of gasoline. Depending on the battery capacity, EV driving range can vary from about 80 miles up to 280 miles. New Jersey's Energy Master Plan calls for an increase in electric vehicle adoption to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state, accounting for 46% of the state's net emissions.
JCP&L serves 1.1 million customers in the counties of Burlington, Essex, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren. Follow JCP&L on Twitter @JCP_L, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/JCPandL or online at www.jcp-l.com.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp or online at www.firstenergycorp.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE FirstEnergy Corp. | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/jcpampl-launches-electric-vehicle-charging-incentive-program/ | 2022-07-15T14:00:35Z | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/jcpampl-launches-electric-vehicle-charging-incentive-program/ | false |
4th Generation Smart Graphic Display Controllers Enable Panoramic and Multi-displays
LANGEN, Germany and MILPITAS, Calif. and YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Socionext, a global leader in the design and development of innovative System-on-Chip products, has announced a new series of smart display controllers, "SC1721/ SC1722/ SC1723 Series", certified with ISO26262 for functional safety. Samples will be available at the end of July 2022.
The automotive industry is currently undergoing major transformations that occur approximately once every 100 years. The E/E (Electrical/Electronic) architecture, which is the system structure of automobiles, is changing from a distributed architecture to a domain/zone architecture. Automakers are adopting integrated cockpit systems linking multiple displays, such as meters, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), and head-up displays. Larger display size and screen resolution are also driving the demand for improved image quality. Due to the changes, complying with the ISO26262 functional safety standard is critical for new automotive ADAS and infotainment systems development.
Socionext has been developing smart display controllers for automotive applications for many years. This fourth generation is equipped with an APIX®3 SerDes-repeater function that allows daisy-chaining of multiple smart display controllers, enabling up to four display connections in a chain. Compared to the previous generation, this function greatly improves the wiring efficiency of the vehicle and facilitates the cooperation of multiple displays. In addition, the company's proprietary SEERIS™ 2D graphics IP is integrated with cutting-edge functions, such as LED control and pixel compensation by Local Dimming, and Warping-on-the-fly dynamic interpolation of the Warp Map. Socionext improves vehicle safety by adding a mechanism to monitor external LED driver error detection and internal algorithm, and supports functional safety (ASIL-B) by complying with the ISO26262 development process.
These features enable new architectures, such as panoramic displays for dashboards, to meet a growing trend of larger multi-display applications.
SC1721/ SC1722/ SC1723 Series Main Lineup and Specifications
Click here for an image of the SC1721AH5
Click here to view a system configuration image
About Socionext America Inc.
Socionext America Inc. (SNA) is the US branch of Socionext Inc., one of the world's leading fabless SoC suppliers. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, the company provides leading-edge technologies and offers a wide range of standard and customizable SoC solutions. Socionext America meets customers' requirements with quality semiconductor products based on extensive and differentiated IPs, proven design methodologies, and state-of-the-art implementation expertise, with full support.
For product information, visit our website, e-mail sna_inquiry@us.socionext.com or call 1-844-680-3453. For company news and updates, connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
About Socionext Inc.
Socionext Inc. is a global SoC (System-on-Chip) supplier and a pioneer of a unique "Solution SoC" business model through decades of industry experience and expertise. Socionext contributes to global innovation in advanced technologies including automotive, data center, networking, and smart devices. As a trusted silicon partner, Socionext delivers superior features, performance, and quality that differentiate its customers' products and services from their competition.
Socionext Inc. is headquartered in Yokohama, and has offices in Japan, Asia, United States and Europe to lead its development and sales activities. For more information, visit https://www.socionext.com/en/.
About Socionext Europe GmbH
Socionext Europe (SNEU) plays a major role in the worldwide activities of Socionext Inc., one of the world's leading fabless SoC suppliers. Its Headquarters is in Frankfurt, Germany with offices in Munich, Germany and Maidenhead, UK. The Munich Design and Support Center, a leader in embedded graphic solutions, specializes in hardware and software product development for the automotive sector. Maidenhead supports Socionext's IP Development & Engineering Center with a focus on ultra-high speed data conversion IP. Socionext Europe offers customers a range of innovative Custom SoC solutions for today's state-of-the-art applications with total support from start to finish. For more information please visit our website, email: info@eu.socionext.com or connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
All company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Information provided in this press release is accurate at time of publication and is subject to change without advance notice.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Socionext America Inc. | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/socionext-introduces-iso26262-certified-smart-graphic-display-controllers/ | 2022-07-15T14:03:24Z | https://www.wbay.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/socionext-introduces-iso26262-certified-smart-graphic-display-controllers/ | false |
The construction of Mumbai Metro’s line 3 has led to a 200m stretch on Lamington Road, which connects Dadar and Girgaon Chowpatty, being dug up one lane and barricaded on the other. This has resulted in half of the shops being shut. Also affected are the pedestrians.
Location: Lamington Road, near the Grant Road railway station in south Mumbai.
Project: Mumbai Metro’s line 3, also known as Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Line, which is a 33.5-km underground metro corridor running along Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ. The corridor has 27 key stations, out of which 26 will be underground.
Dug-up for: Construction of the underground Grant Road Metro station.
Subscriber Only Stories
Implementing agency: Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd, a joint venture of the central governments and the Maharashtra government.
Importance: Mumbai Metro’s line 3 would be running along the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ corridor connecting Mumbai’s key financial hubs. Once implemented, MML-3 would reduce traffic by about 35 per cent or by 4.5 lakh vehicles leading to the decongestion of roads and the travel time would be reduced to 50 minutes from 100 minutes on the route.
Total initial cost: Rs 23,000 crore
Revised cost till now: Rs 33,000 crore +
Work started in: 2016
Initial deadline for completion: June 2022
Expected completion: after 2024
Reasons cited for delays: slow pace of work by the contractor
How local businesses are feeling the pinch
Jahid Shaikh, who works in a tyre shop on the road, said, “The road has been dead since the work started as the motorists are not travelling on the road and those travelling cannot stop and come to the shop. Our 90 per cent business and income has been affected. They earlier said the work would be completed within three years but it has not been completed even after five years and they are now saying it will take three more years. How can one whose livelihood depends on the shops can live?
Nawab Saudagar, who has been running a sticker shop on the ground floor of a building and stays on its upper floor for the past 60 years, said, “My business depends on the movement of people on the road. But since the work has started, a barricade has been put up and my shop is not visible. My regular customers are finding it difficult to reach the shop as there is no parking space. Nor can vehicles be stopped on the road. Our incomes have taken a hit but the government or the implementing agency has not given us any compensation.” Saudagar also said that when the shopkeepers complained they were told that they should be grateful for being allowed to open their shops.
A jewellery shop owner said, “The business has been affected so much that it is better to keep the shop shut. Our business now depends on old and regular customers; there are no new customers.
Lucky Patel, a resident, said, “Now there is no construction work because of the rain. But in winter and summer, the work goes on at night as well and the noise is unbearable. The resident cannot sleep at all. Whenever we complain, we are told “it is government work”.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-metro-line-local-businesses-8031788/ | 2022-07-15T14:05:40Z | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-metro-line-local-businesses-8031788/ | false |
Cryptocurrencies have seen better days. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shattered the belief in Bitcoin
Another approach to cryptocurrency, however, is growing in popularity around the world while showcasing a totally different face of blockchain payments. Central bank digital currencies, unlike Bitcoin and other first-generation crypto products, are centrally controlled by governments in the same way traditional currencies are. Despite this being the polar opposite to the idea behind decentralized, non-traceable Bitcoins, the two currency products can use the same blockchain technology. Several small countries and—as of October 2021, Nigeria—have launched their central bank digital currencies, and several more populous nations are getting ready to jump aboard a different crypto hype train.
According to the Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker by Atlantic Council, official digital currencies were launched even earlier than in Nigeria in the Caribbean, including in the Bahamas, Grenada, Dominica and Saint Lucia. The Sand Dollar of the Bahamas was the first CBDC of the world upon its launch in 2019 and set the stage for rapid adoption around the region’s small nations.
Despite making big headlines in April of 2021, the Chinese digital Yuan has not left its pilot phase more than one year after its launch. Like Nigeria, China already has a solid digital and mobile payment infrastructure. Large parts of the population in both countries leapfrogged card payments and went straight from cash to digital payments, which gained a massive following among the respective populations, may they be app or text-based. In developing countries, central banks also consider the potential of official digital currencies reaching the unbanked population.
Blockchain surveillance?
Another reason for governments to champion digital currencies is the collection of data. In the case of China, authorities said upon the pilot launch that they will guarantee anonymity, but doubts persist. Either way, data collected on official blockchain payments could be valuable for governments—whether they utilize anonymized research or more invasive tracing like feared in China’s case.
Other countries which are in a pilot phase of a central bank digital currency include Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, even though it is unclear which program could see a proper launch next. Concrete plans to launch a CBDC are recorded by the Atlantic Council tracker in Canada, Australia, Brazil and India, among others.
The digital Euro is also in its development phase, with a pilot scheduled for 2023 in participating nations (as seen on the chart). Lithuania is the only Eurozone country with its own CBDC project, a collectible coin in its pilot phase, while Eurozone country Austria is researching a wholesale blockchain currency. As far as non-Eurozone nations go, Sweden has come the furthest in Europe, with a second pilot phase of the digital krona having wrapped up this April. A digital currency pilot happened in Ukraine in 2019 and work on the project reportedly continues despite the war.
With CBDC, for every piece of currency issued digitally, one piece of physical currency is taken out of circulation (or subtracted from new issuance) to create dedicated currency units that are traded exclusively on the blockchain.
—
Charted by Statista | https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2022/07/15/where-central-banks-have-issued-digital-currencies-infographic/ | 2022-07-15T14:08:03Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2022/07/15/where-central-banks-have-issued-digital-currencies-infographic/ | true |
Variety has a new interview with Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp up that I found rather fascinating. The actor who plays will is the youngest member of the cast at 17, and recently made headlines with a feud with Doja Cat, of all people, after he shared her DMs about his co-star, Eddie actor Joseph Quinn.
While Schnapp buries that beef in the interview, what I found more interesting what was he had to say about his character Will, and cutting through all the obvious hints and subtext to simply say the following outright:
“Obviously, it was hinted at in Season 1: It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends? Now that he’s gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing. Now it’s 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike. But before, it was a slow arc.”
Stranger Things season 4 does not literally have Will come out and say he’s gay, using those words, but over the course of a season, we see him flinch when a girl flirts with him, we hear him pour out his feelings for Mike acting like it’s just how Eleven feels about him, and then has a conversation with his brother that is kind of him almost coming out, but again, not explicitly. Schnapp does hope that a true coming out scene is coming in season 5:
“Obviously, we hope for a coming out scene,” he says, and I do wonder if that does happen, how exactly it will be handled. While the show has made it obvious that Will has feeling for his best friend Mike, Mike and Eleven are very clearly in love with each other, and it seems unlikely Mike has the same feelings for Will. I very much doubt that they would flip that switch and end the series with Mike and Will paired up, though of course I don’t imagine Mike or his other friends rejecting him once they know either.
Schnapp also comments on what the Duffer Brothers have said about Will’s larger role in season 5, and he has many of the questions we all have:
“I also want to see them address this connection to the Mind Flayer and how that fits into the world. And I’ve always been wondering, why was Will the first victim and the first one captured? I just want to see it all tie in and all work out. So I’m excited to see what happens.”
A growing theory among fans is that Will is more than just the “first victim” that forged a connection with the Upside Down, but that he may have had either some unwitting role in its creation, or that he may have been a part of freezing its world in time, a few years in the past. The theory is that Will has an “ideal” time in his life, hanging with his friends playing D+D, that he wants to preserve forever, and that may have been manifested in the Upside Down. Schnapp brings that up as well:
“He just wants his best friend back and wants it to be like what it was in Season 1, when they were playing D&D in his basement.”
I expect big things from Will in season 5 of Stranger Things. Both personally, with his feelings for Mike, but for the larger picture of the whole of the series. Stay tuned.
Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls.
Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/07/15/stranger-things-star-says-its-100-clear-will-is-gay-and-he-does-love-mike/ | 2022-07-15T14:09:03Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/07/15/stranger-things-star-says-its-100-clear-will-is-gay-and-he-does-love-mike/ | false |
UnitedHealth Group hiked its 2022 forecast Friday after riding both growing health insurance enrollment and its newer care-providing businesses to a better-than-expected second quarter.
The health care giant said a nearly 9% surge in Medicare Advantage customers pushed its total enrollment past 51 million people.
UnitedHealth Group runs UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation’s largest insurers. But it also has been investing for several years now in its Optum segment, which provides care, manages prescription plans and offers technology support.
Revenue from that segment grew 18% to about $45.1 billion in the quarter, helped by Optum Health, which runs a growing network of doctor offices and surgery centers and provides care delivered at patient homes.
Optum Health brought in more than $17 billion, and the company said its revenue per customer grew 30% in the quarter, which it attributed to growth in value-based care arrangements. That involves reimbursing care providers based more on the patient’s health and how it improves instead of for each service performed.
This can give doctors more flexibility to address issues like whether the patient has a ride to an appointment or enough healthy food to eat.
UnitedHealthcare and other insurers have shown a growing interest in approaches like this with the idea that connecting people to more regular care can help them ward off or at least manage expensive medical conditions.
Overall, UnitedHealth Group’s second-quarter earnings grew 19% to more than $5 billion while earnings adjusted for one-time items totaled $5.57 per share.
The company’s total revenue grew 13% to $80.3 billion.
Analysts forecast earnings of $5.21 per share on $79.68 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
UnitedHealth Group now expects adjusted earnings for 2022 to range between $21.40 and $21.90 per share. That represents an increase of 20 cents per share on both ends of the range.
FactSet says analysts expect, on average, earnings of $21.69 per share.
Shares of Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. climbed more than 1% to $510 in early-morning trading before markets opened.
The stock is up slightly on the year while the Dow Jones industrial average, of which UnitedHealth Group is a member, has plunged nearly 16%.
___
Follow Tom Murphy on Twitter. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/growing-enrollment-optum-health-propel-unitedhealth-in-2q/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2022-07-15T14:09:11Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/growing-enrollment-optum-health-propel-unitedhealth-in-2q/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | true |
Hundreds of city of Seattle employees working remotely may be ready to quit over proposed return-to-office rules that some think are less about productivity than about repopulating downtown’s flagging business district.
But city officials say the new policy is necessary to help move the city toward a post-pandemic normal and it gives employees far more flexibility than before COVID-19.
The dispute has been simmering since June 13, when Mayor Bruce Harrell emailed employees that he was preparing a “long-term remote/hybrid work policy” for later this year “with an expectation that staff will report to the office or worksite at least two workdays a week.” That’s roughly on par with what many private employers have announced.
Harrell’s email arrived two months after a majority of the city employees who could work remotely in some form — about 35% of the roughly 13,000-member city workforce — were told in March to return to the office.
A new city policy for remote and hybrid work was always going to be needed to replace the “hastily developed policies adopted at the heights of a global pandemic,” Harrell spokesperson Jamie Housen said in an email Thursday.
Since March, all but around 2,300 workers, or roughly 18% of the total, have come back to at least twice a week, Housen said, adding that “employee access to remote and hybrid options has significantly increased compared to pre-pandemic policies.”
But those explanations aren’t working for many of the affected employees, including the roughly 1,300 who are fully remote and the 1,000 who come in once a week, according to the union representing most of them.
They say Harrell’s proposal poses the risk of COVID spread to remote employees and their families, and subjects employees to potential security risks downtown, said Shomari Anderson, a union steward with PROTEC17, which has been negotiating with the city over the return-to-office proposal since June 28. (Under the union’s collective bargaining agreement with the city, policies that change working conditions are subject to negotiation, said Anderson.)
Although the number of new COVID cases in Washington state has leveled off recently and deaths are falling, hospitalizations have ticked up, according to state data.
Many union members are also unhappy about the prospect of resuming their pre-pandemic commutes — all the more for employees who relocated to communities where housing is more affordable, Anderson said.
And many of those affected workers say they’d rather quit than come back, according to a recent survey by the union, which found that 23% of respondents are “considering separating from city employment due to return-to-office plans” and another 31% said they “wouldn’t rule out the possibility.”
Those sentiments represent “a very, very strong signal, that, if I was on the other side, I would actually listen to,” said Anderson.
The tensions mirror those emerging across the job market, as many employees resist the ending of a remote work model some feel was just as productive as its in-person predecessor.
That sentiment is pronounced among some union members, who say the city hasn’t yet demonstrated why, after more than two years, a fully or mostly remote work model no longer works, union officials say. “We’ve been out of office for almost two-and-a-half years now,” Anderson said. “And the metrics all point towards us having … excelled at our job.”
In last month’s email, Harrell argued that in-person work is “key to enhancing the collaboration, communication, and relationship-building that will allow us to build One Seattle,” as the mayor calls his broader efforts to solve city challenges and move the city away from COVID-related emergency measures. Housen, the mayor’s spokesperson, said the mayor “is primarily focused on ensuring the city provides the highest quality of services and support to its residents.”
Harrell also noted that being able to work remotely all or most of the time is a “privilege” available to only roughly a third of the city’s workforce.
But union officials say those explanations don’t support further limitations on remote work. They also say the mayor’s proposal may conflict with previously negotiated contact language over so-called Alternative Work Arrangements, which include remote and hybrid work.
Under that language, “unless the city could demonstrate that there was a ‘business need’ for employees to come in,” the city was required to work with employees to “accommodate their Alternative Work Arrangement,” said Karen Estevenin, executive director of PROTEC17.
Instead, many union members feel Harrell’s proposal partly reflects pressure on City Hall by Seattle business leaders.
Many members still believe city workers are “being brought back so they can walk down the street during their lunch hour and buy a sandwich,” said Karen Estevenin, executive director of PROTEC17. And members “don’t feel good about that,” she added.
Since February, the number of workers in downtown offices has averaged 34% of pre-pandemic levels and was at 32% last week, according to cellphone location data from Placer.ai posted by the Downtown Seattle Association.
Housen said that “while bringing employees back to the office has helped activate and revitalize downtown and neighborhoods across the city, Mayor Harrell is primarily focused on ensuring the city provides the highest quality of services and support to its residents.”
Housen did not respond when asked whether the mayor’s office has data or analysis showing remote work is negatively affecting those services or support.
Downtown business leaders welcomed the mayor’s proposal, but rejected the suggestion that they’ve pressured the city to bring back office workers any sooner that it otherwise would have.
The city is “one of the biggest employers downtown, so there’s real significant impact,” said Jon Scholes, president and CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association.
Although the DSA had conversations in February with both the incoming Harrell administration and with King County government officials about the importance of bringing office workers back downtown, both Harrell and King County Executive Dow Constantine were already keenly aware of the positive impact government office workers would have downtown, Scholes said.
“We don’t need to beat that into them,” he added. “They come to the table really recognizing that and wanting to help where they can.”
King County has been slowly bringing its roughly 5,000 remote workers back to their offices since March 1, but does not appear to have a new, more stringent policy.
Harrell’s proposal comes after earlier attempts to rein in pandemic-related work arrangements were delayed by COVID.
In December, as omicron cases surged, outgoing Mayor Jenny Dukan and Mayor-elect Harrell agreed that employees “currently teleworking may continue until department return-to-office plans are implemented in the Spring of 2022, unless there is an ongoing business need for them to return to the worksite,” according to a Dec. 20, 2021, notice from the mayor’s office.
In March, Harrell announced that city employees would begin the return to in-person work on March 16.
Estevenin said it wasn’t clear why the Harrell administration chose June to announce the new policy, though she thinks the mayor wants the issue resolved before starting negotiations this fall over a new union contract.
Union officials want to push Harrell to dump his two-day minimum “one-size-fits-all” requirement for remote workers in favor of continuing to set remote work arrangements on a case-by-case basis, Estevenin said. Existing policy has been “working exceptionally” by allowed employees and managers to jointly figure out how to “move the work forward with mutual partnership,” Estevenin said.
The mayor’s office declined to discuss bargaining objectives. But according to Anderson, city officials say the two-day minimum isn’t negotiable and want to focus instead on ways to lessen the impacts on remote employees who are now required to be in-office part of the week.
Timothy Emery, managing partner at Emery Reddy, a Seattle-based employment law firm, said it’s not clear whether union members can override the city’s legal right to set conditions of work, “unless there’s a very specific provision in the [union’s] collective bargaining agreement that prevents that from occurring.”
But Emery said union members may still have more leverage, given Seattle’s tight labor market. “It’s pretty obvious that if you don’t make this group of people happy, they’re just going to go work somewhere else,” Emery said.
Pushing a mandatory office return may not be “a great strategy if the city wants to retain long-term employees.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/some-city-of-seattle-workers-ready-to-quit-rather-than-return-to-the-office/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2022-07-15T14:09:24Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/some-city-of-seattle-workers-ready-to-quit-rather-than-return-to-the-office/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | true |
The pandemic, though dark in so many respects, has a green lining. The halt in travel allowed Mother Earth to rest and recover after a busy year in which about 1.5 billion people flitted around the globe. Before borders closed, many destinations were buckling under the weight of overtourism. Several tourist magnets, such as Barcelona and Venice, were considering actions to counter the environmental and cultural assault.
And then everything shut down. Except, of course, nature, which flourished.
“The pandemic provided a wake-up call,” said Gregory Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsible Travel, a D.C.-based nonprofit. “We’re not saying don’t travel, but be a responsible traveler. Take a holistic approach to sustainable travel that includes the natural, cultural and spiritual elements of a place.” (Disclaimer: I contributed a chapter to the organization’s book about overtourism.)
A variety of tools can help travelers plan a sustainable vacation, including several that debuted during this health crisis. For example, last October, Google Flights added carbon emission estimates to its searches, as well as recommendations for less polluted routes. In April, Skyscanner’s Greener Choice, which provides a similar service for air travel, expanded to car rentals: Road-trippers can now search for hybrid and electric cars. In November, Booking.com launched a Travel Sustainable badge and filter that highlights eco-friendly lodgings. The same month, Wilderness Scotland and its sister companies in England and Ireland introduced a carbon labeling program that displays an emissions figure beside each adventure tour, similar to calories posted on a menu.
As the world cautiously reopens, here are more tips to assembling a green holiday that would earn the approval of Mother Earth.
Choosing a destination
When picking a vacation spot, start with the Environmental Performance Index, a Yale and Columbia University research project that ranks 180 countries for their greenness. This year, Denmark took the top spot, followed by the United Kingdom, Finland, Malta and Sweden. The United States came in at No. 43, between Dominica (No. 42) and Namibia (No. 44). The researchers determined that several countries, including the top two placers, are on track to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. However, several nations, such as China and India, are moving in the opposite direction, so you might want to wait until they pull a U-turn on the road to sustainability.
Anna Spenceley, a sustainable tourism expert and author, recommends places (and businesses) that organizations accredited by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council have certified. She also directs travelers to destinations that support global environmental agreements, such as the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, which boasts nearly 540 signatories, and Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency, whose 438 members include the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, Visit Valencia and Tourism Vancouver Island.
Green Destinations, a Tourism Declares supporter, releases the Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories every year. Recent winners include the return of European bison to Romania’s Vanatori Neamt Nature Park and a marine cleanup on Japan’s Yoron Island. The Dutch organization also runs the Good Travel Guide, a trip-planning resource with such inspiring ideas as Nahuelbuta, the oldest mountain range in Chile, and the Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia.
Larry Yu, a professor of hospitality management at George Washington University’s School of Business, mentioned several countries with environmental chops. Among his picks: the Netherlands (“they bike a lot”), Bhutan (“more than 50 percent of land is covered by forest”), Palau (visitors must sign an eco-pledge), Uruguay (most of its electricity comes from renewable sources), Cambodia (“pursuing sustainable development”) and Costa Rica, the valedictorian of eco-tourism.
It is equally important to know when to skip a destination because of cultural sensitivities, vulnerable resources or overtourism. Jared Sternberg, founder of Gondwana Ecotours, scrapped an itinerary to see the polar bears in Kaktovik because of the undue pressure it would place on the tiny Alaskan community, in addition to what he described as the villagers’ “polarized” sentiments toward tourism. “It wasn’t doing any favors to sustainability,” he said by phone from Alaska. Also on his dump-the-bucket list: the Galápagos Islands and Yucatán, Mexico. “It needs a serious break,” he said of the Mexican state that set a record in 2019 with more than 3.2 million visitors.
Finally, remember that vacationing is a state of mind, not a mileage contest. The pandemic taught us that we don’t need to travel far to escape mentally. “Look for options that are a bit closer to home,” said Bradley Cox, communications director at Green Globe, a lodging certification organization based in California. “Domestic businesses might be in need of your patronage and have better availability and choices, particularly midweek. Choosing domestic also helps lower the environmental footprint.”
Choosing accommodations
To dream in green, you don’t need to sever ties with civilization and fall off the grid; hundreds of lodgings are sustainable and swanky, or at least comfy and connected. For a broad sampling, check out the collections on Green Pearls, Kind Traveler, Wayaj and Eco Hotels & Resorts, which specialize in eco-stays around the world.
Whenever possible, choose smaller, independently run accommodations, which will typically generate less waste and cultivate deeper ties with the community. One exemplar: Lapa Rios Lodge in Costa Rica: 17 deluxe bungalows and villas surrounded by more than 1,000 acres of protected rainforest on the Osa Peninsula.
“I would be honored to bring people down here,” Sternberg said of the eco-lodge he discovered during a scouting trip in Costa Rica. “Every building is built by locals. They are solar- and hydro-powered and use a biodigester to produce gas. Pigs eat all the scraps, and what minimal trash is created is recycled or composted. It is luxurious for the right person.”
Of course, sometimes you may need to book a chain hotel. Rest assured: Most of the major hospitality companies have devised sustainable programs, such as Hilton’s Travel with Purpose, IHG Hotels & Resorts’ Green Engage and Marriott International’s Serve360. In addition to recycling and reducing food waste — i.e., the Hotel Kitchen project spearheaded by the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) and the World Wildlife Fund — hotels are phasing out single-use plastic. First came straws. Next up: elfin bathroom amenities. In 2019, Marriott, Hyatt and IHG properties announced the switch to refillable pump bottles. States have also entered the conversation. California and New York passed laws that will ban the minis starting in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
“America’s hotel brands, owners, operators, employees and guests are working to reduce carbon emissions, lower energy usage, conserve water, source responsibly and minimize waste through innovative and sustainable experiences and events,” said Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the AHLA, adding: “While America’s hotels have made significant strides in the effort to be more sustainable, we also recognize that there is still more to do.”
Be aware that just because a hotel claims to be eco-friendly doesn’t mean it is. Greenwashing is an unfortunate byproduct of the sustainable movement. For reassurance, seek out properties that have received a stamp of approval from a reputable environmental organization, such as the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, EarthCheck, Green Globe or the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which runs the LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certification program.
“Independent, third-party verification is the only way to assure that a business is adhering to the internationally accepted criteria for sustainable tourism,” said Cox of Green Globe, which counts more than 500 members in 80-plus countries.
The USGBC has certified more than 800 hotels around the world, a diverse group that includes the Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort in Aruba, the Caribbean’s first carbon-neutral hotel; Courtyard Brussels EU, a Marriott property in Belgium; and Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, N.C., the first hotel to acquire the highest Platinum level. In 2018, the organization unveiled LEED Zero, which awards buildings that have achieved net-zero carbon emissions in one of four categories over a 12-month period. The group has handed out about 100 certifications to date.
“When choosing a destination or an accommodation, travelers can compare environmental initiatives, conservation efforts and how much investment and commitment it is putting in to truly deliver a sustainable experience,” said Julia Simpson, president and CEO of the London-based World Travel and Tourism Council, which recently launched Hotel Sustainability Basics, a set of criteria geared toward the hospitality industry.
Choosing a mode of transportation
Sobering news for travelers: Transportation releases a lot of greenhouse gases. According to 2020 data from the Environmental Protection Agency, 27 percent of emissions in the United States stems from cars, trucks, ships, trains, planes and more, the highest percentage of any major industry. Of that total, airlines account for 8 percent of emissions stateside, according to the EPA. Worldwide, the D.C.-based Environmental and Energy Study Institute reported that aviation was responsible for 2.4 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions in 2018 — and it could get worse. “By 2050, commercial aircraft emissions could triple given the projected growth of passenger air travel and freight,” the nonprofit surmised in a recent brief.
Airlines are pointing their noses toward greener horizons. Last October, members of the International Air Travel Association, which includes nearly 300 carriers in some 120 countries, backed the Net Zero Carbon Emission Challenge by 2050. Separately, Delta shared in early 2020 its aspiration of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral airline, funneling $1 billion dollars into its 10-year goal. JetBlue, the first U.S. airline to voluntarily offset carbon dioxide emissions on all domestic flights, is aiming for 2040, as is Alaska Airlines. United, Southwest and American Airlines are shooting for 2050.
“The airlines are working hard to change,” Yu said. “But they need to find a way to increase production of biofuel.”
Passengers can do their part by making conscientious decisions before and during flights. For example, planes guzzle fuel during takeoff and landing, so book a nonstop flight. Bonus points for choosing a sustainable airport, such as Seattle-Tacoma International or Chicago O’Hare. Support airlines that are ditching single-use plastic, such as Air France and Alaska Airlines, which serve Boxed Water. Contribute to the carrier’s carbon offset program. American Airlines, for instance, has partnered with Cool Effect, which uses the proceeds to fund environmental projects in Mexico, Indonesia and Honduras. Also, reduce your airtime by remaining in one location for a longer period.
“We got drunk on these amazingly cheap flights,” said Paul Easto, CEO and founder of Wilderness Scotland. “You can fly less, but you don’t have to necessarily holiday less.”
If you have the vacation days, consider snail rail, the gentler option. According to the Amtrak Connects Us report from May 2021: “Travel on Amtrak trains outside the [Northeast Corridor] emits up to 55% fewer [greenhouse gases] than driving alone, and up to 30% fewer than flying.” As part of its long-term strategy, the railway hopes to add nearly 40 new routes in the coming years. More immediately, trains are crossing the northern border again, more than two years after Amtrak suspended international trips. Last month, service resumed between New York City and Toronto; trains from Seattle to Vancouver are slated to return in September.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the Trans-European Transport Network will shorten travel times between European Union cities, in addition to electrifying the entire rail system by 2030. Overnight train travel is also getting a chic makeover: Midnight, a “hotel on rails” with private cabins and a restaurant, will launch in 2024 from its Paris hub. Its elevator pitch: “A combination of modern sustainability and glorious Roaring [’20s] charm.”
Cruise ships are often cited as environmental disasters. Friends of the Earth doesn’t mince words: “Cruise ships are a catastrophe for the environment. … They dump toxic waste into our waters, fill the planet with carbon dioxide, and kill marine wildlife.” The cruise lines have been trying to turn over a green leaf, communally and individually. The Cruise Lines International Association’s 2021 Environmental Technologies and Practices Report defines its goals and achievements, such as expanding the number of ships powered by liquefied natural gas, a cleaner alternative fuel.
When choosing a cruise, research the company’s sustainability doctrine, such as Norwegian Cruise Line’s Sail & Sustain and Virgin Voyages’ Epic Sea Change for All. The latter cruise line, which was founded by English ocean conservationist Richard Branson, has eliminated the traditional Henry VIII-style buffet, to reduce food waste; banned unnecessary single-use plastic, such as condiment packets and to-go cups; and incorporated such energy-efficient designs as tinted windows, LED lighting and room sensors, among other eco-friendly measures.
In the Galápagos Islands and Antarctica, cruise ships must abide by governmental laws geared toward protecting the fragile landscape and wildlife. To lessen your effects, seek out smaller vessels affiliated with environmental stalwarts, such as the World Wildlife Fund or National Geographic. In addition, avoid itineraries that visit ports overwhelmed by cruisers, such as Venice, which recently passed a law forbidding large vessels from entering its historic center. To control crowds, the Italian city will start requiring visitors to make a reservation and pay an entrance fee in mid-January.
For road trips, rent a car with good gas mileage — 30 miles per gallon or more — or slide behind the wheel of an electric or hybrid vehicle. Last year, Hertz started offering Teslas in North America. Turo, a peer-to-peer site, has a range of EVs; European rental agencies also have large inventories of plug-in models. Cars are more efficient on highways than stop-and-go streets, so once you are settled into your urban destination, consider parking your ride or returning it.
Of course, human-powered transportation — walking, cycling, paddling — is the greenest form of travel. Take advantage of bike-share programs or hotel loaner bikes. To cover greater distances, hop on an electric bike or scooter. Just be sure to learn the phrase, “On your left,” in the host country’s tongue.
Choosing activities
For excursions, the type of tour you choose is as critical as the mode of transportation.
“Sustainability is not only about the environment,” said Heather Kelly, director of research and sustainability for the Adventure Travel Trade Association, whose members strive to adhere to sustainable practices. “We need to maintain economically viable jobs for local people and keep them included in decisions, particularly Indigenous communities and underrepresented groups like women and youth.”
Most cities have tip-based walking tours led by locals, such as Free Tours by Foot, which is offered in cities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Free services such as the International Greeter Association pairs residents with visitors in popular tourist destinations (Berlin, Montreal) as well as surprising spots (Iringa, Tanzania; Nis, Serbia). After a short hiatus, Airbnb Experiences is back. Visitors can sign up for such personal excursions as a pasta-making class taught by a Roman family or a graffiti art tour that includes a mango ice cream stop at the Colombian guide’s grandmother’s house in Medellín.
For additional green outing ideas and tour companies, check with the city, state or country’s tourism office, which often has materials dedicated to eco-tourism. Native American and Indigenous tour operators and organizations, such as the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada and Go Native America, provide an intimate look at their art, culture and traditions within the framework of the natural world.
The locavore movement has gone global, with more restaurants basing their menus on the seasons and harvests of nearby farms. For North American dining, Yu, the hospitality professor at George Washington, recommends the Green Restaurant Association, which has certified restaurants in 47 U.S. states and Canada. HappyCow and Thrillist (the veg city editions) cater to plant-centric diners. If you are craving something from Neptune’s kitchen, Surfrider Foundation’s Ocean Friendly Restaurants gives the thumbs-up to 750 dining spots around the country. The nonprofit’s European chapters boast more than 80 restaurants.
In 2020, the venerable Michelin Guide launched Michelin Green Star. About 375 restaurants in the United States and Europe have earned the eco-accolade. The universe of sustainable culinary stars is expanding.
PLEASE NOTE
Potential travelers should take local and national public health directives regarding the pandemic into consideration before planning any trips. Travel health notice information can be found on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s interactive map showing travel recommendations by destination and the CDC’s travel health notice webpage. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/07/15/green-trip-travel-planning/ | 2022-07-15T14:12:34Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/07/15/green-trip-travel-planning/ | true |
Operating under the Airedale by Modine™ brand, Modine secures significant order at new Rockbridge, VA facility
RACINE, Wis., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, today announced that it has commenced full scale production of chillers for the data center market at their new production facility in Rockbridge, Virginia, and further confirmed a significant order with data center giant, Corscale, with plans for further business in the coming months.
Airedale by Modine™ is Modine's data center cooling brand. Headquartered in Leeds, UK and with facilities in Consett (UK), Guadalajara (Spain), Dubai (UAE), Rockbridge, VA (US) and Grenada, MI (US), Airedale by Modine products provide energy and water efficient cooling solutions for a data center market that is expanding to meet the demands of a planet increasingly reliant on data.
With Airedale by Modine cooling solutions set to be installed at Corscale's Gainesville Crossing Data Campus, the Company has secured a healthy pipeline for its OptiChill™ free-cooling chillers, AireWall™ fan walls & SmartCool ONE™ computer room air handling units.
Corscale, the exclusive data center platform of Patrinely Group, is focused on delivering sustainability at scale for hyperscale operators and enterprise clients. Following a substantial period of consultation, Corscale appointed Modine due to its history of ground-breaking, free-cooling technology paired with its in-depth knowledge and understanding of the data center industry.
Having worked closely with engineers from Corscale, Modine has developed a specialized data center chiller based on their existing OptiChill range. The Corscale chiller, with enhanced free cooling, has been designed to meet North American safety standards, using American materials and components, to offer a world-class energy efficient solution. Engineering specialists at the chiller plant in Virginia have worked with their colleagues at Modine's center of excellence in Leeds, UK, to deliver a cooling solution that delivers on performance while operating at higher water temperatures and fluid temperature differentials than traditional offerings, enhancing energy efficiency and free-cooling potential.
Prior to the commencement of site deliveries, the team from Corscale will be invited to a witness test at Modine's brand new state-of-the-art laboratories in Rockbridge, VA, where the units will be put through their paces under various conditions and tested at different heat loads, simulating the environment and conditions they will be operational under. The test center at Rockbridge is capable of testing a complete range of air conditioning equipment up to 2.2MW (expanding to 5MW in future for water-cooled chillers), the climate temperature being fully controllable anywhere from 59°F to 126°F.
The new Corscale chiller operates using twin screw compressors and has a number of special features, included to enhance efficiency and performance, including:
- High-capacity twin-screw compressors offer reliability and flexibility, with staged capacity control
- High water temperatures to suit modern data center designs that prioritize sustainability
- Enhanced controls including fast-start, input power limiting and intelligent management of compressors, refrigerant and pumps
- An on-board variable speed pump to precisely match cooling demand, reducing waste energy expenditure while maintaining water-side temperature differential and saving on space and electrical distribution requirements
- Optimized economizers to provide unmatched free cooling potential
- 100% contained Glycol loop to isolate the economizer from the cooling loop and increase efficiency of the Airwall units
- Enhanced controls platform including redundancy back-up and fast-start mode, to minimize the risk of disruption in the event of mechanical breakdown
- On-board active harmonic filtration, ensuring a clean power supply to the data center, while saving on external plant requirements.
AireWall is a low energy cooling solution for mission-critical environments. This range of computer room air handlers, which doesn't require a raised floor, has been specially designed for low velocity air cooling and suits high-density data center applications with hot-aisle containment. The units are available in a 4, 6 or 8 fan configuration and have been engineered to the highest design and build standards you would expect from an Airedale by Modine precision unit, with the simplicity and effectiveness of a fan wall. AireWall comprises a filter, fan bank and an optimized high surface area chilled water coil. It includes integrated intelligent controls that enable dynamic cooling output variation based on changing IT loads and operates at low fan power to help achieve low installation PUE. AireWall has been designed to operate in tandem with Airedale by Modine's range of free cooling chillers, delivering a high efficiency cooling solution.
SmartCool ONE is a 35kW to 1MW computer room air handler. An evolution of the multi award-winning SmartCool™ precision cooling range, it has been developed to meet the increasing demand for ultra-efficient, large capacity precision cooling systems in colocation and hyperscale data centers across the globe. With a cooling capacity of up to 1MW, optimized air and water conditions and an intelligent controls platform to maximize efficiencies and cooling power, SmartCool ONE is the intelligent solution for large scale data center cooling.
"We are delighted to announce our order with Corscale, as we start full-scale production at our first-class facilities in Virginia, the largest data center market in the world," said Jonas Caino, Vice President and General Manager, Data Centers. "Having invested heavily in our US production facilities, ensuring they deliver the same high-quality service and product that our clients have grown to expect and respect from our European production sites, it has been really interesting and enjoyable to work with our American-based colleagues on such a fantastic project and client as Corscale. This order is just the start for our Rockbridge facility, and I am excited to see what the next few years holds."
Nic Bustamante, Senior Vice President, Development at Corscale added, "We selected to work with Airedale by Modine because we wanted something that mirrors our dedication to deliver sustainability at scale. We wanted to work with an established brand that our customers can trust. Airedale products are renowned for their innovative approach and commitment to efficiency, which in turn reduces wastage, and we were impressed by the work they have done across the world with other data centers."
Modine's Rockbridge facility is ideally located to serve the US data center market, with Virginia being the largest data center market in the world. Northern Virginia is home to more than 20% (100) of all known hyperscale data centers worldwide. Alongside chillers, Modine will also manufacture SmartCool ONE CRAHs and AireWall fan walls in the US, offering complete cooling solutions for colocation and hyperscale data center operators.
At Airedale by Modine, we believe that air conditioning has a critical role to play in an increasingly connected world. We also passionately believe that air conditioning equipment must play a responsible role in an era where sustainability is key to the preservation of our planet.
Airedale by Modine is a global brand providing complete cooling solutions to industries where HVAC is mission critical, like data centers, healthcare, telecoms, education and pharmaceuticals. Our leading-edge products, including chillers, close control and air handling units, are backed up with intelligent software solutions and complete applications & service support. With a strong R&D ethos rooted in sustainability and quality, we are committed to providing experiences, products, service and solutions that support our clients and meet their performance, efficiency and sustainability goals.
At Modine, we are engineering a cleaner, healthier world. Building on more than 100 years of excellence in thermal management, we provide trusted systems and solutions that improve air quality and conserve natural resources. More than 11,000 employees are at work in every corner of the globe, delivering the solutions our customers need, where they need them. Our Climate Solutions and Performance Technologies segments support our purpose by improving air quality, reducing energy and water consumption, lowering harmful emissions and enabling cleaner running vehicles and environmentally-friendly refrigerants. Modine is a global company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin (USA), with operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Modine, visit www.modine.com.
Kathleen Powers
(262) 636-1687
kathleen.t.powers@modine.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Modine Manufacturing Company | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/modine-launches-us-chiller-production-with-corscale-data-centers/ | 2022-07-15T14:14:59Z | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/modine-launches-us-chiller-production-with-corscale-data-centers/ | false |
LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based live arts entertainment brand Secret Walls is proud to announce the first-ever Support Your Local Artist North America Tour (SYLA Tour). Kicking off in August, the multi-city tour will bring Secret Walls' high-energy physical illustration and design battles to cities across North America. Each stop will shine a spotlight on local talent, delivering an unforgettable battle event as the next generation of superstar artists compete for Secret Walls glory. Special guest artists, DJs, live performances, and Secret Walls Academy Workshops will be scheduled throughout the tour. Confirmed guests to appear at select cities include Greg Mike, Allison Bamcat, Ally Grimm, Matt Gondek, Sentrock, Woes, The Obanoth, LAmour Supreme, and musical guests Boom Bap Kids and Soulection.
"We started Secret Walls in 2006 with a mission to support local artists. Over the years we've produced over 2,000 battles in more than 50 countries and thanks to our supporters, Secret Walls has grown to become the world's premier live paint and pixel battle platform," says Terry Guy, Founder of Secret Walls. "Working with great partners like Palm NFT Studio and Moonwalk, we're extremely excited to present the SYLA Tour providing artists a unique platform - for themselves and their communities - to gather, celebrate, and be inspired."
"Palm NFT Studio believes strongly in supporting local artists around the world and empowering them to build communities and fans in an innovative way based on Web3. We are thrilled to partner with Secret Walls on the upcoming SYLA Tour given our collective value around creativity shaping culture," says Alexis Miller, VP of Marketing at Palm NFT Studio.
"Moonwalk is proud to be partnering with Secret Walls and the SYLA Tour," says Greg Consiglio Co-Founder of Moonwalk. "We're looking forward to delivering engaging Web3 experiences for the community throughout this summer's tour."
By building a community and high energy around the "Art of Competition," the concept of a Secret Walls battle is specific and distinctive. The artists are divided randomly into teams and equipped with markers, paint brushes, spray paint, and paint rollers. Nothing is revealed to the artists prior to the start of the competition. The artists will have exactly 90 minutes on the clock to ideate and create their artwork. A select team of judges and a decibel meter measuring the audience's cheers determine the winner of each battle.
Secret Walls will also bring its Secret Walls Academy to select stops on the SYLA Tour. This artist-led youth workshop provides a crash course in art history and illustration techniques while building confidence in the next generation of freestyle street artists.
Tickets for the Secret Walls Support Your Local Artist Tour are on sale now. General Admission tickets are $25 with limited VIP Admission available for $99, which includes early entry, limited-edition merchandise, artist meet and greet, and more. For tickets and more details, please visit www.secretwalls.world and follow Secret Walls on Instagram and Twitter.
Founded in London in 2006, Secret Walls is the world's premier live arts entertainment brand, where artists take a stage to show off their talent and compete to win. We exist to entertain fans, support local, develop artists and showcase the best creativity on the planet. We operate across the realms of physical and digital art - IRL + URL - and we are always expanding our universe in exciting new ways.
Media Contact: secretwalls@notedcomm.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Secret Walls | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/secret-walls-brings-their-legendary-live-art-competitions-cities-across-north-america-with-first-ever-support-your-local-artist-tour/ | 2022-07-15T14:16:46Z | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/secret-walls-brings-their-legendary-live-art-competitions-cities-across-north-america-with-first-ever-support-your-local-artist-tour/ | false |
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited the northwestern Xinjiang region this week amid concerns over China’s detention of a million or more members of primarily Muslim ethnic native minorities.
Xi called Xinjiang a “core area and a hub” in China’s program of building ports, railways and power stations connecting it to economies reaching from Central Asia to Eastern Europe, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
Under Xi, authorities have carried out a sweeping crackdown on Xinjiang’s native Uygur and Kazakh communities following an outburst of deadly separatist violence.
Critics have described the crackdown that placed thousands in prison-like indoctrination camps as cultural genocide. The U.S. and others have placed officials responsible under visa bans for their part in extra-legal detentions, separation of families and incarcerating people for studying abroad or having foreign contacts.
Xi met with leaders of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a supra-governmental body that operates its own courts, schools and health system under the military system imposed on the region after the Communist Party’s rise to power in 1949.
Xi “learned about the history of the XPCC in cultivating and guarding the frontier areas,” Xinhua reported.
Xinjiang borders Russia, Afghanistan and volatile Central Asia, which China has sought to draw within its orbit through economic incentives and security alliances. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/china-leader-xi-visits-xinjiang-amid-human-rights-concerns/ | 2022-07-15T14:17:45Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/china-leader-xi-visits-xinjiang-amid-human-rights-concerns/ | true |
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — One million pills containing fentanyl were seized during a raid near Los Angeles this month in what the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration called largest bust of its kind in California.
The pills were found when agents served a search warrant July 5 at a home in Inglewood that investigators believe was a stash house with links to Sinaloa cartel traffickers, the DEA said in a statement Thursday.
“This massive seizure disrupted the flow of dangerous amounts of fentanyl into our streets and probably saved many lives,” DEA special agent Bill Bodner said in the statement.
The pills have an estimated street value of $15 to $20 million dollars, officials said. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/1-million-pills-with-fentanyl-seized-in-record-bust-near-la/ | 2022-07-15T14:18:05Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/1-million-pills-with-fentanyl-seized-in-record-bust-near-la/ | false |
BEIJING, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn on Xinjiang:
Amid an endless desert, a train runs along an elevated section of track as sand flies below. What a magnificent sight.
This scene is in China's Xinjiang. Recently, an 825 km rail line from Hotan to Ruoqiang has entered operation. The new line links up with the Golmud-Korla and Southern Xinjiang rail lines, forming the world's first desert rail loop line encircling the Taklamakan, the world's second-largest shifting-sand desert.
Sitting in a speeding train, passengers can enjoy views of the vast dunes through the windows. The Niya Ruins, the ancient city of Andil, and various other cultural sites all stand along the route, offering unique vistas.
During the past three years building the Hotan-Ruoqiang rail line, construction workers crossed 460 km of uninhabited areas where there is no water, electricity or cellphone signal, braving quicksand, sandstorms, extreme heat and freezing temperatures. It is their painstaking efforts that have created this extraordinary engineering feat.
However, the railway line has much more significance.
Due to their natural conditions, many places along the route were not previously connected to the railway network, with locals having to cross the Tianshan Mountains if they wanted to go out of Xinjiang. High quality specialties such as cotton and dates, although produced in large quantities, were unable to reach the market due to poor transportation links. With a harsh ecological environment and weak economic foundation, four of the five counties where stations are located along the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway used to be in severe poverty.
During the construction of the railway, priority was given to purchasing locally produced goods for workers, and impoverished residents were recruited to help boost their incomes. After the railway entered operation, two passenger trains have been arranged a day for the convenience of local people of all ethnic groups. Meanwhile, eight freight trains run daily transporting local specialties such as cotton, walnuts, red dates and minerals out of Xinjiang.
The railway, so to speak, has brought life to the desert.
Railways and highways are highlights of the wondrous Xinjiang. For example, the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway linking vast land and kaleidoscopic landscapes has enabled crude oil, cotton and other resources from Xinjiang to be delivered to other parts of the country. The Duku Highway, dubbed "China's most beautiful road," offering a wide range of scenery along its route, has accelerated the development of such resources as coal and timber. The opening and operation of China-Europe freight trains has also expanded Xinjiang's foreign trade market.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, enormous human and material resources were invested to build overland routes connecting Xinjiang and the rest of the country. The more stunning and magnificent these roads and railways are, the more it means that they have broken through the bottlenecks hampering the survival and development prospects of local people.
The rail loop encircling the Taklamakan Desert has drawn what netizens call the "strongest closed loop on earth." While transporting delicious fruits and rich resources in Southern Xinjiang, it also contributes to a picture of people of all ethnic groups living with satisfaction and dignity. With the railway, even more changes are in sight.
China Mosaic
http://chinamosaic.china.com.cn/index.htm
World's first desert-circling railway brings vitality to Xinjiang
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2022-07/15/content_78324983.htm
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE China.org.cn | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-desert-circling-railway-brings-vitality-xinjiang/ | 2022-07-15T14:18:30Z | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-desert-circling-railway-brings-vitality-xinjiang/ | false |
Medical examiner: Jayland Walker shot, grazed, 46 times by Akron police
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in the Ohio city of Akron last month, was shot or grazed 46 times, according to a preliminary autopsy report released Friday by the Medical Examiners Office in Summit County.
The medical examiner detailed a summary of the report into Walker’s death at a news conference. The report had been finalized Thursday.
Akron police have acknowledged initial findings showed more than 60 wounds on Walker’s body. The June 27 pursuit began when officers tried to pull him over for equipment violations. Authorities say Walker fired a gunshot from his car 40 seconds into the chase.
An attorney for Walker’s family says there was no need for officers to kill him.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio medical examiner on Friday will provide a summary of the autopsy performed on Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of gunfire from eight Akron police officers after a chase.
It is anticipated that Summit County’s medical examiner, Dr. Lisa Kohler, will reveal how many times Walker was shot on June 27 after an early morning car and foot pursuit.
The update comes a day after the NAACP made a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death.
Preliminary findings released earlier indicated Walker’s body had more than 60 wounds. No information has been released about how many of those were entrance or exit wounds.
Police said he fled an attempted traffic stop for minor equipment violations and fired a shot from his car during the vehicle chase, but he wasn’t armed when officers shot him.
Police body camera footage shows Walker wearing a ski mask, jumping out the front passenger door of his still-moving car and then running into a parking lot where police opened fire. That blurry footage does not clearly show what authorities say was a threatening gesture made by Walker before he was shot.
An unloaded handgun, an ammunition clip and what appeared to be a wedding band were found on the front driver’s seat of Walker’s car, authorities said.
The officers involved are on paid leave while the state investigates the shooting. Seven of those officers are white, and one is Black. None of them has a record of discipline, substantiated complaints or fatal shootings, according to the police department.
The local police union has said the officers thought there was an immediate threat of serious harm, and that it believes their actions and the number of shots will be found justified in line with their training and protocols.
Police in neighboring New Franklin Township had tried to stop and then chased a car matching Walker’s for the same minor equipment violations less than 24 hours before the Akron chase. A supervisor there called off the pursuit when the car crossed the township’s border with Akron.
Bobby DiCello, an attorney for Walker’s family, has said Walker did not deserve to die. DiCello said after Walker’s funeral service that he will hold police accountable for every round fired from their guns.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbay.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | 2022-07-15T14:19:06Z | https://www.wbay.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | true |
Medical examiner: Jayland Walker shot, grazed, 46 times by Akron police
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in the Ohio city of Akron last month, was shot or grazed 46 times, according to a preliminary autopsy report released Friday by the Medical Examiners Office in Summit County.
The medical examiner detailed a summary of the report into Walker’s death at a news conference. The report had been finalized Thursday.
Akron police have acknowledged initial findings showed more than 60 wounds on Walker’s body. The June 27 pursuit began when officers tried to pull him over for equipment violations. Authorities say Walker fired a gunshot from his car 40 seconds into the chase.
An attorney for Walker’s family says there was no need for officers to kill him.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio medical examiner on Friday will provide a summary of the autopsy performed on Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of gunfire from eight Akron police officers after a chase.
It is anticipated that Summit County’s medical examiner, Dr. Lisa Kohler, will reveal how many times Walker was shot on June 27 after an early morning car and foot pursuit.
The update comes a day after the NAACP made a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death.
Preliminary findings released earlier indicated Walker’s body had more than 60 wounds. No information has been released about how many of those were entrance or exit wounds.
Police said he fled an attempted traffic stop for minor equipment violations and fired a shot from his car during the vehicle chase, but he wasn’t armed when officers shot him.
Police body camera footage shows Walker wearing a ski mask, jumping out the front passenger door of his still-moving car and then running into a parking lot where police opened fire. That blurry footage does not clearly show what authorities say was a threatening gesture made by Walker before he was shot.
An unloaded handgun, an ammunition clip and what appeared to be a wedding band were found on the front driver’s seat of Walker’s car, authorities said.
The officers involved are on paid leave while the state investigates the shooting. Seven of those officers are white, and one is Black. None of them has a record of discipline, substantiated complaints or fatal shootings, according to the police department.
The local police union has said the officers thought there was an immediate threat of serious harm, and that it believes their actions and the number of shots will be found justified in line with their training and protocols.
Police in neighboring New Franklin Township had tried to stop and then chased a car matching Walker’s for the same minor equipment violations less than 24 hours before the Akron chase. A supervisor there called off the pursuit when the car crossed the township’s border with Akron.
Bobby DiCello, an attorney for Walker’s family, has said Walker did not deserve to die. DiCello said after Walker’s funeral service that he will hold police accountable for every round fired from their guns.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbrc.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | 2022-07-15T14:22:37Z | https://www.wbrc.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | false |
As heatwave temperatures are forecast to break records, schools around the country have relaxed uniform rules and adjusted timetables in order to cope with the heatwave. Clapton Girls' Academy, in East London, will be sending pupils home early at 12.30pm on Monday and Tuesday (July 18 and 19) when temperatures reach their highest.
Headteacher Anna Feltham wrote to parents to say: “Already, many classrooms are very hot, even with fans, and students are struggling to keep cool, drink enough water and maintain concentration in lessons.” This comes as the Met Office issued an 'amber' alert for the period of hot weather, stating the extreme heat could pose a danger to life.
In an update to schools on Thursday, July 14 the Government signposted heatwave guidance for teachers and other early years professionals, noting that children sweat less than adults and cannot regulate their body temperature as well, which puts them at risk of heat stress and exhaustion.
READ MORE: All the towns and neighbourhoods in London BBC forecasts will hit 40C or 41C next week
Meanwhile, in the West Midlands, where temperatures up to 37 degrees are expected next week, Oldbury’s Rounds Green Primary School will allow children to wear “loose and comfortable” non-uniform on Monday and Tuesday. Similarly, Pepe DiIasio, headteacher at Wales High School in Rotherham, said: “We’ve asked parents to let students come in in appropriate clothing for the weather, given that we’ve now got a red weather warning… they can wear whatever they want that is best for that weather.”
Mr DiIasio said he would “never say never” regarding closing the school because of the heat, but added that students seemed to be more safely accommodated in school with air-conditioning, whereas if they were at home or outside “they might actually be worse off in that situation. Weirdly, we’re all praying for it not to be quite so hot."
Great Dunham Primary in Norfolk has also advised that all pupils should “wear PE kits rather than uniform on Monday and Tuesday”. The school in the East of England added: “Please ensure they have a sunhat, lotion and water bottles. We will not be going out at lunchtime, instead the children will eat and do activities in class. Stay safe.”
During heatwaves, teachers are advised to encourage pupils to wear loose clothing and sunhats “with wide brims”. Staff should open windows as early as possible before pupils arrive in the morning to improve ventilation and should keep the use of electric light and equipment to a minimum.
Mechanical fans can be used when temperatures are below 35C but not at higher temperatures as they can make dehydration worse. The Government warned that pupils with heat stress “may seem out of character and show signs of discomfort and irritability”, while signs of heat exhaustion can include tiredness, nausea and confusion.
Want more from MyLondon? Sign up to our daily newsletters for all the latest and greatest from across London here.
- School children sent home for summer after Monkeypox case found in pupil
- London school sees energy bill sky rocket by £100,000 which could pay for two new teachers
- London school staff 'skip meals because they can't afford to eat' and 'dodge bus fares' to get to work in cost of living crisis | https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/london-school-closing-early-pupils-24500780 | 2022-07-15T14:23:02Z | https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/london-school-closing-early-pupils-24500780 | true |
Medium
Rarely used
This asset has some traction but few have discovered it yet.
Stock Illustration ID: 7704250
Illustration Formats
2950 × 2094 pixels • 9.8 × 7 in • DPI 300 • JPG
1000 × 710 pixels • 3.3 × 2.4 in • DPI 300 • JPG
500 × 355 pixels • 1.7 × 1.2 in • DPI 300 • JPG
Illustration Contributor | https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/dynamic-graphic-7704250 | 2022-07-15T14:24:01Z | https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/dynamic-graphic-7704250 | false |
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and he had methamphetamine in his system, investigators said Thursday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said two days after the March 15 collision in rural West Texas that its early findings suggested that the 13-year-old was driving the pickup that struck the van carrying University of the Southwest students and their coach back to Hobbs, New Mexico, from a golf tournament in Midland. But the NTSB said in a preliminary report released Thursday that DNA testing confirmed that the father, 38-year-old Henrich Siemens, was driving and that toxicological testing showed the presence of methamphetamine in Siemens’ blood.
“This was a very difficult investigation to determine some of the facts based on the catastrophic nature of the damage and the post-crash fire,” Robert Molloy, the NTSB’s director of highway safety, said at a news conference.
Siemens and his son died in the crash along with six members of the men’s and women’s golf teams and their coach, who was driving the van, which was towing a cargo trailer.
Molloy said they are still analyzing the toxicological report and that although they know methamphetamine can affect driver performance, it’s too early to say whether it was a contributing factor in the crash.
Investigators are still working to determine the probable cause of the crash, and Molloy said he didn’t expect a final report until next year.
The collision happened at about 8:17 p.m. in Andrews County, which is roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Texas’ border with New Mexico.
In the days after the crash, the NTSB had said that the truck’s left front tire blew before impact. But it said Thursday that so far, investigators haven’t found evidence of a loss in tire pressure or any other indicators that the tire failed.
The NTSB said the road they were traveling on consisted of a northbound lane and southbound lane. Near the crash site, the roadway was straight but there was no highway lighting.
The speed limit on the road was 75 mph (120 kph), but Molloy said they have not yet determined the vehicles’ speeds at the time of the crash.
Those killed in the van were coach Tyler James, 26, of Hobbs, New Mexico; and golfers Mauricio Sanchez, 19, of Mexico; Travis Garcia, 19, of Pleasanton, Texas; Jackson Zinn, 22, of Westminster, Colorado; Karisa Raines, 21, of Fort Stockton, Texas; Laci Stone, 18, of Nocona, Texas; and Tiago Sousa, 18, of Portugal.
Two other students who were in the van were seriously injured.
Most of the students were freshman who were getting their first taste of life away from home at the private Christian university with enrollment numbering in the hundreds. Those who knew James, the coach, said it had been his goal to be a head coach, and he was excited to be there.
The crash was the latest tragedy for the Siemens family, who lived in Seminole, Texas, a rural community of around 7,500 people, some of whom first relocated to the area in the 1970s with other Mennonite families who started farming and ranching operations. Community members had rallied around Siemens and his wife months earlier when a fire that started in the kitchen destroyed the home where they had lived for a decade. | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/ap-sports/ntsb-dad-not-boy-was-driving-truck-that-hit-golfers-van/ | 2022-07-15T14:24:08Z | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/ap-sports/ntsb-dad-not-boy-was-driving-truck-that-hit-golfers-van/ | true |
Revolutionary automotive technology developed with NASA now featured on innovative investment platform
SANTA ROSA, Calif., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The future of braking meets the future of investing. Orbis Brakes has announced it is now be available for public investing through StartEngine, the first-ever equity crowdfunding campaign, heralded by Kevin O'Leary — Mr. Wonderful of Shark Tank fame.
StartEngine allows anyone to invest in startups, private companies, and collectibles, and has helped more than 500 businesses raise more than $60 million. Now, the platform's 760,000+ users will have the opportunity to invest in Orbis Brakes Inc., the Northern California makers of Periodic Wave ™ disc brakes, a design breakthrough that industry analysts expect to shake up the $30 billion vehicle brake market.
Although considered the most important part of any car or truck, brakes have not seen a significant disruption since the introduction of carbon-ceramic brakes 20 years ago. Orbis had been pioneering a design innovation that would cool brakes more efficiently when a NASA engineer offered his agency's heat-dissipation expertise. The resulting partnership with NASA developed a line of proprietary Periodic Wave™ disc brakes, which use advanced aerodynamics to provide superior surface cooling, reduce dangerous brake fade, and extend vehicle range and fuel efficiency.
"Our brakes are lighter, cooler, and vastly more efficient than conventional brakes," says Orbis co-CEO and co-Founder Marcus Hays. "That's why they will deliver the market disruption carbon-ceramic brakes couldn't — racecar performance at consumer prices."
"StartEngine is a great opportunity for us, and we think we're a great opportunity for their investors."
Orbis Brakes have added another newsworthy advantage: lower environmental impact. The Orbis brake weighs 50% less on average than conventional cast iron brakes, reducing the energy needed to manufacture them by half and lowering carbon consumption across the supply chain. Made from 100% recyclable iron, the unique design also dramatically reduces brown emissions, the particulate matter from brakes, tires, and road surfaces that is considered exponentially more toxic than tailpipe emissions and is expected to become a major regulatory issue in coming years.
Industry analysts expect high-performance and commercial vehicle owners to be a prime initial audience for the Orbis upgrade, as well as the fast-growing number of electric car owners looking for aftermarket products that share their high-efficiency, low-emission values.
To invest in Orbis Brakes, go to https://www.startengine.com/orbis-brakes
Visit Orbis Brakes, orbisbrakes.com
Media Contact:
Chance Claxton
chance@orbisbrakes.com
Marcus Hays
415.225.1094
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Orbis Brakes Inc. | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/orbis-brakes-teams-with-startengine-launch-future-braking/ | 2022-07-15T14:27:53Z | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/orbis-brakes-teams-with-startengine-launch-future-braking/ | true |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The lawyer for an Indiana doctor at the center of a political firestorm after speaking out about a 10-year-old child abuse victim who traveled from Ohio for an abortion said Thursday that her client provided proper treatment and did not violate any patient privacy laws in discussing the unidentified girl's case.
Attorney Kathleen DeLaney issued the statement on behalf of Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard the same day Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said his office was investigating Bernard's actions. He offered no specific allegations of wrongdoing.
A 27-year-old man was charged in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday with raping the girl, confirming the existence of a case initially met with skepticism by some media outlets and Republican politicians. The pushback grew after Democratic President Joe Biden expressed empathy for the girl during the signing of an executive order last week aimed at protecting some abortion access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the constitutional protection for abortion.
Bernard's attorney said the physician “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”
“She followed all relevant policies, procedures, and regulations in this case, just as she does every day to provide the best possible care for her patients,” DeLaney said in a statement. “She has not violated any law, including patient privacy laws, and she has not been disciplined by her employer.”
Bernard reported a June 30 medication abortion for a 10-year-old patient to the state health department on July 2, within the three-day requirement set in state law for a girl younger than 16, according to a report obtained by The Indianapolis Star and WXIN-TV of Indianapolis under public records requests. The report indicated the girl seeking the abortion had been abused.
DeLaney said they are considering taking legal action against “those who have smeared my client,” including Rokita, who had said he would investigate whether Bernard violated child abuse notification or abortion reporting laws. He also said his office would look into whether anything Bernard said to the Star about the case violated federal medical privacy laws. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would not say whether any privacy law complaints had been filed against Bernard, nor would Indiana University Health, where Bernard is an obstetrician. But the HIPAA Privacy Rule only protects most “individually identifiable health information,” the department’s website said.
The prosecutor for Indianapolis, where the abortion took place, said his office alone has the authority to pursue any criminal charges in such situations and that Bernard was being “subjected to intimidation and bullying.”
“I think it’s really dangerous when people in law enforcement start trying to launch a criminal investigation based on rumors on the internet,” Democratic Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said.
Some Republicans who have backed stringent abortion restrictions imposed in Ohio after the Supreme Court ruling, including Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, initially questioned whether the story relayed by Bernard to the newspaper was real. After telling Fox News on Monday that there was not “a whisper” of evidence supporting the case's existence, Yost said his “heart aches for the pain suffered by this young child" and his investigative unit stands ready to support police in the case.
On Thursday, Yost faced intense backlash for his public statements, including a claim that medical exceptions in the Ohio “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban would have allowed the girl to receive her abortion in the state.
Apparently in response, he released a “legal explainer” detailing the law’s medical exceptions. Abortion rights advocates and attorneys said the law’s medical exceptions – for the life of the mother, dire risks of bodily harm and ectopic pregnancies – would not have protected an Ohio doctor who performed an abortion for the girl from prosecution.
Bernard did not reply to email and text messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
__
Carr Smyth reported from Columbus, Ohio.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/ap-online/2022/07/15/doctors-lawyer-defends-steps-in-girls-cross-state-abortion | 2022-07-15T14:28:31Z | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/ap-online/2022/07/15/doctors-lawyer-defends-steps-in-girls-cross-state-abortion | false |
AEROSOLES TO INTRODUCE MEN'S SLIPPER'S, MEN'S AND LADIES FLIP FLOPS, MEN'S SOCKS AND ROLLER SKATES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND YOUTH
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AEROSOLES, the leading global footwear brand established in 1987 and recently acquired by American Exchange Group, known for its innovative technology and superior comfort, today announced it has signed a new licensing agreement for the distribution of men's slippers, men's and ladies flip flops, hanging footwear, men's socks and roller skates for men, women and youth. Aerosoles has partnered with Orly Corporation, the leading designer and marketer of fashion-forward footwear and accessories for women, men and children for over 40 years.
This new collection of men's slippers, socks, men's, and ladies flip flops and roller skates offers a fresh and contemporary feel with comfort at their core to complement the brand's assortment of classic women's styles. The first collections are scheduled to be launched in summer 2023 and will be available at Nordstrom, Macy's and other major department and specialty stores to follow. Retail price points for men's and ladies flip flops, socks and slippers range from $20- $50 and roller skates range from $80 - $150.
"This is an exciting time for Aerosoles and we are thrilled to be working with one of the best-in-class companies to further provide a comprehensive product offering to our consumers. As a global lifestyle brand, we are committed to showcasing a cohesive retail presentation, with a wide variety of products for men, women and youth. This is the first licensing partner we have signed since the acquisition and we look forward to partnering with Orly to utilize their expertise, capabilities and expand our consumer base," said Alen Mamrout, President and CEO of American Exchange Group.
"Our newly established partnership with Orly aligns perfectly with our strategy to leverage our brand pillars of comfort and technology into additional licensed categories. Our proprietary technology is what has positioned Aerosoles as a leader in the comfort space for decades and will continue to evolve and expand to our licensed categories. This will remain as the trademark that makes our products so unique," said Steve Velasquez, Chief Strategy Officer of American Exchange Group.
"My goal is to create and build new licensing partnerships and continue to propel the Aerosoles brand forward by developing and expanding into exciting, new product categories. I am looking forward to partnering with the team at Orly to offer comfortable and stylish hanging footwear options to our male consumers, flip-flops to women, and drive our brand DNA into the niche market of roller skates!" said Cynthia Nixon, Vice President, Licensing & Brand Development at American Exchange Group.
"Orly is thrilled to include Aerosoles into our diverse portfolio of brands. Our company has a longstanding history of private branding for comfort driven products, so we are very excited to have the opportunity to partner with an internationally recognized brand like Aerosoles, known for their comfort, style and innovation. Our main mission is to consistently deliver trend right and comfortable designs to our customers. To further build our business, we will leverage our brand equity, dominant position in fashion-forward footwear, and industry-leading design team expand upon Aerosoles' style and offerings," said Albert Antebi, Founder/CEO of Orly.
Flynn Collective served as Aerosoles' agent and TSG Brands served as Orly's agent.
Aerosoles is a leading global footwear company delivering high quality products with both fashion and performance to customers in over 40 countries around the world.
American Exchange Group is an industry leader in accessories design and manufacturing. By facilitating distribution to major retailers globally for our proprietary brands, custom private label brands and exclusive licensed brands, including footwear, tech wearables, watches, jewelry, handbags and fashion accessories, American Exchange Group raises the bar by disrupting status quo pricing while staying at the forefront of trends.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE American Exchange Group | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/aerosoles-signs-licensing-agreement-with-orly-expand-into-mens/ | 2022-07-15T14:28:49Z | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/aerosoles-signs-licensing-agreement-with-orly-expand-into-mens/ | false |
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A seventh grade math teacher from northeast Florida has been chosen as the state's Teacher of the Year.
Melissa Matz, who teaches at Lakeside Junior High School in Clay County, was picked for the award among the state's almost 185,000 public school teachers. The award was presented Thursday evening during a banquet in Orlando.
With the honor, she receives a $20,000 award from the Florida Department of Education, a tuition waiver to pursue a graduate degree from the Florida State University College of Education and a two-year college scholarship to present to a student of her choice.
Four other finalist for the annual award are getting $15,000 from the Florida Department of Education. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Northeast-Florida-teacher-is-state-s-Teacher-of-17307144.php | 2022-07-15T14:29:51Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Northeast-Florida-teacher-is-state-s-Teacher-of-17307144.php | true |
COVINGTON, Ky., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Commonwealth Hotels announced today that Michael O'Malley has been appointed the general manager of the Courtyard by Marriott Columbus Dublin. Mr. O'Malley brings over 23 years of hospitality experience to his new role as general manager having previously served as the area director of operations and general manager with Sonesta International.
"We are excited to welcome Michael to the team," said Jennifer Porter, chief operations officer of Commonwealth Hotels. "We look forward to his strong leadership of the property's executive team."
Prior to joining the Courtyard by Marriott Columbus Dublin, O'Malley served in various hospitality leadership roles. Prior to Sonesta, Michael was the general manager for the Residence Inn Lexington North in Lexington, Kentucky for nearly seven years. Prior to joining the Island Hospitality Group, O'Malley served as the hotel manager for both the Residence Inn, Springhill Suites, and Extended Stay Hotel brands overseeing the daily operations and the opening of several properties. O'Malley is a graduate of Columbus State Community College and serves as an executive board member for the Dublin Convention and Visitors Bureau.
About Commonwealth Hotels, LLC
Commonwealth Hotels, LLC was founded in 1986 and is a proven partner in providing hotel management services with superior financial results. The company has extensive experience managing premium branded full service and select service hotels. Commonwealth Hotels currently manages 61 properties with nearly 7,600 rooms. Additional information may be found at www.commonwealthhotels.com.
Contact
Barbara E. Willen
Commonwealth Hotels, LLC
bwillen@commonwealthhotels.com
859.392-2254
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Commonwealth Hotels, Inc. | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/commonwealth-hotels-appoints-michael-omalley-general-manager-courtyard-by-marriott-columbus-dublin/ | 2022-07-15T14:31:14Z | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/commonwealth-hotels-appoints-michael-omalley-general-manager-courtyard-by-marriott-columbus-dublin/ | true |
PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We thought there could be a more sanitary means of lifting and lowering a toilet seat and lid," said one of two inventors, from N. Chesterfield, Va., "so we invented the MOTION-ACTIVATED TOILET SEAT. Our design would automatically open and close the toilet seat/lid and it would ensure that the lid and seat is closed until it is ready for use."
The patent-pending invention provides a hands-free design for a toilet seat and lid. In doing so, it eliminates the need to touch the seat/lid. As a result, it enhances sanitation and convenience and it helps to reduce the spread of germs. The invention features a practical design that is easy to install and use with no electrical use so it is ideal for households, commercial restrooms and individuals with physical disabilities. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Richmond sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-RKH-259, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE InventHelp | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/inventhelp-inventors-develop-hands-free-design-toilet-seatlid-rkh-259/ | 2022-07-15T14:31:43Z | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/inventhelp-inventors-develop-hands-free-design-toilet-seatlid-rkh-259/ | false |
GREENSBORO, N.C., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brooks Group promoted Russ Sharer to Chief Sales Officer.
Russ' new role will utilize his 30+ years of B2B Sales and Marketing and leadership experience to ensure The Brooks Group meets its growth and sales revenue targets while successfully navigating organizational and marketplace complexities to drive real results to the company's bottom line.
He will get to focus his sales expertise and passion for helping people maximize their strengths to improve sales performance into The Brooks Group's own internal sales team, while also maintaining relationships with existing clients. Russ has been associated with The Brooks Group for 10 years, most recently serving as Director of Strategic Sales Excellence.
Russ is the co-author of Agile & Resilient: Sales Leadership for the New Normal and is one of The Brooks Group's most sought after facilitators. He has spent the past several years helping Brooks Group program participants connect the dots with his practical, "easy-to-learn" approach and style. He is an incredible leader, educator, and the natural choice to lead the company's sales efforts.
"Russ is an exceptional leader. I'm very happy that our own sales team will now directly benefit from his vast experience." remarked Gary Fly, CEO of The Brooks Group.
About The Brooks Group
The Brooks Group teaches straightforward, actionable sales training skills to sales managers and their teams. Their IMPACT Selling® Sales Training Program has been taught to over one million sales professionals nation-wide, and they've been recognized as one of the top sales training companies annually since 2010.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE The Brooks Group | https://www.ktre.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/brooks-group-names-russ-sharer-chief-sales-officer/ | 2022-07-15T14:32:05Z | https://www.ktre.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/brooks-group-names-russ-sharer-chief-sales-officer/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ascend, a modern insurance payments platform, announced a partnership with Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC), which has named Ascend as its preferred premium payments company for its members.
Ascend is the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. They are modernizing agency workflow by creating a streamlined process for operational and payment procedures. IIANC is a statewide trade association that empowers independent agents to rise above the competition by offering them the tools and resources to succeed in today's insurance industry.
The two have come together to provide value specific to payments for IIANC's independent agency channel. Through this partnership, IIANC members will have affiliate referrals to Ascend's finance solutions. They are providing the best solutions for the best startup agencies that continue to improve and develop their own internal processes, now streamlined with Ascend's technology and automated funds flow.
"The IIANC is an incredible advocate for the independent agency channel, providing extensive resources and tools for their members to be successful, and we're excited to partner in support of this effort," says Chris Peabody, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Ascend. "At Ascend, we believe in empowering the IA channel with a modern payments solution while creating a modern checkout process for their clients and by doing so, enabling agencies to do what they do best, be a trusted advisor. Through this partnership, we are able to empower agents across the state of North Carolina."
This partnership will reduce the workload for IIANC agents and provide them with a modern white-labeled checkout experience that is tailored specifically for the agencies. Additionally, this partnership will unlock a series of webinars and resources for agents to utilize in the growth and development of their business.
"We believe in advocating on behalf of independent agents everywhere, and this includes offering them the best possible tools and resources for success," says Rebecca Shigley, COO at IIANC. "Aligning ourselves with companies like Ascend opens our community up to a whole new world of streamlined and modern workflow and payments solutions – the necessary tools for our independent agents to compete and differentiate themselves from major players in insurance. To be the best possible version of themselves, they need the best possible tools, and Ascend is offering them just that."
This is one of many partnerships and alignments Ascend has been a part of this year, as they deepen their relationships with other insurtechs, MGAs, AMS, and carriers to complement the innovations being made by companies in the insurance market. To learn more, please visit https://useascend.com/.
Ascend is the modern insurance payments platform that provides automated all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. Founded by two-time insurtech entrepreneurs Andrew Wynn and Praveen Chekuri, Ascend helps distributors sell more by eliminating labor-intensive, expensive processes while providing customers with the great online checkout and financing experience they've come to expect. To learn more, please visit https://useascend.com/.
The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina ("IIANC") is a statewide trade association representing nearly 900 independent insurance agencies in North Carolina, with more than 7,000 employees, who work to protect the insurance and financial needs of the state's citizens. IIANC members are Trusted Choice independent insurance agencies that can represent more than one insurance company. As a result, independent agents can offer clients a wider choice of auto, home, business, life, and health coverages. Trusted Choice independent agents not only advise clients about insurance, they recommend loss-prevention ideas, and if a loss occurs, the independent agent will work with the client until the claim is settled.
Contact:
Kathy Osborne
press@useascend.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Ascend | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/ascend-partners-with-independent-insurance-agents-north-carolina-preferred-payments-amp-financing-platform-their-independent-agency-channel/ | 2022-07-15T14:33:44Z | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/ascend-partners-with-independent-insurance-agents-north-carolina-preferred-payments-amp-financing-platform-their-independent-agency-channel/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5WPR, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announced today the expansion of its fintech PR division in response to increased interest and industry growth. The agency works with a variety of B2B and consumer-focused fintech clients across payments, online and mobile banking, personal finance, direct and marketplace lending, crypto investment, stock trading, and more.
"The ubiquity of smartphones, alongside improvements in security and adaptation by governments and legacy financial institutions, is propelling the industry," explains 5WPR CEO, Matthew Caiola. "We've seen support for open banking, embedded finance, and decentralized finance, or DeFi, spur innovation despite consolidation. At 5W, we've become adept at developing media-worthy narratives around the pain points our fintech clients are solving or the opportunities they are providing."
PR services offered to FinTech companies include media relations, targeted outreach to fintech industry publications, executive visibility programs, fundraising announcements, content creation, digital media campaigns and speaking opportunities.
About 5WPR
5W Public Relations is a full-service PR agency in NYC known for cutting-edge programs that engage with businesses, issues and ideas. With more than 275 professionals serving clients in B2C (Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, Nonprofit), B2B (Corporate Communications and Reputation Management), Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Digital Marketing (Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, SEO). 5W was named to Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces 2022 list, awarded 2020 PR Agency of The Year, and brings leading businesses a resourceful, bold and results-driven approach to communication.
Media Contact
Matthew Caiola
mcaiola@5wpr.com / 212.999.5585
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE 5W Public Relations | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/5wpr-announces-expansion-fintech-pr-division/ | 2022-07-15T14:35:26Z | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/5wpr-announces-expansion-fintech-pr-division/ | true |
Between long out-of-town work assignments and bike travel trips, I often find myself away from home for months at a time. I hate asking people for help (yes, this can sometimes be a problem) so rather than have someone come by to water my plant family, I use an automatic watering system.
Most indoor automatic watering systems have the capability to supply water to up to ten or so containers via tubing that extends from a small, central water pump. The pump, which is attached to a programmable timer, hooks onto the edge of a bucket. I’ve always set these up so that the water source (5-gallon bucket) is at a higher level than all the containers I want to water. It’s also important to position the pump mechanism above the water source it's drawing from to prevent siphoning (water flowing into the reservoir instead of out).
Cheap automatic watering systems
None of the following watering systems are especially high tech but they (mostly) do what they’re intended to do – which is provide water to your plant babies when you’re not around. None are very expensive either which sort of lends itself to the fact that they’ll probably not last for more than four or five years.
Here are the best, low-cost, automatic watering systems for indoor plants that I’ve found.
Continental AWS-10 Automatic Watering System
I purchased this automatic watering system six years ago and it worked beautifully until my most recent out-of-town stint in April of 2022. The Continental AWS-10 takes four AA batteries to run and, while I had replaced those, the system still failed to function. I’m not sure exactly what went wrong but considering it only cost me $41.78 (with tax) I still feel as if it was worth the money.
Of course, it is no longer manufactured so I wasn’t able to purchase a new one. I did find this one, though, from a company called Inshow which looks identical to my original one.
The pump on this system is one of the most effective and strongest ones I’ve tried. Even when the watering duration is set for a low amount of time (10 seconds) enough water is drawn and distributed to the end of each tube through 10 separate output holes at the pump. I use mine with a 5-gallon bucket filled almost completely with water. I set the watering duration for 20 seconds every third day and use all ten possible water holes. I have never come home to find sad, dying plants (yay!).
The downside of this automatic watering system is that the batteries could run out at any time leaving your plants without water – which could have devastating results if you’re on an extended trip away from home. I also found the actual changing of the batteries to be a bit difficult only because opening the back access panel requires a tiny screwdriver and some creative prying. It doesn’t just snap or slide open easily. Overall, I was very happy with this system.
Kollea Reliable Automatic Self Watering System
I bought this Kollea watering system when the battery-operated one I’d been using for years stopped working. I especially like that it’s powered by a USB cable.
Initially, I wasn’t very impressed as the pump wasn’t powerful enough to push water all the way through the length of the tubes extending to my plants. Unlike the Continental and Inshow watering systems described above, this pump has just one output hole, meaning you have to set up little t-joints to distribute water to multiple pots.
After some experimentation – cutting the tubes shorter and moving the pump higher than even the edge of the bucket, it worked better. I think if you only have two to four plants to water, this watering system would be sufficient.
sPlant LCD Automatic Drip Irrigation System
I bought the sPlant Automatic drip irrigation system because it is equipped with what the company calls an “upgraded” pump that could efficiently water up to 15 plants.
As of this writing, I’ve only used this particular system one time for three weeks but can definitely attest that the pump is more powerful than other systems I’ve tried (and definitely more so than the smaller Kollea one mentioned above). Both the Kollea and sPlant cost around $45.00.
The sPlant version comes with a longer USB cord and slightly wider tubing. It was easily programmable without reading the instructions. So far, I’m quite happy with its performance.
Self-watering Probes
These self-watering probes are the “no-tech” version of automatic watering systems. They do not come with instructions but work the same way as you would siphon gas from a vehicle’s tank.
The ceramic probes attach to small lengths of hose. Soak the probe in water for about thirty minutes then attach the hose to the ceramic probe (while still in a bucket of water) so that the hose itself also fills with water. The idea is to allow as little air as possible into the hose and the probe.
Next, insert the watering probes into the soil of the potted plant, making sure the hose part remains filled with water. You can do this by capping the open end with your finger. This review on Amazon explains a slightly different version of the process. The main things to keep in mind are to have as little air as possible in the hoses and to place the water source at the same level as the plants – because of gravity.
Automatic plant watering systems alleviate having to ask a neighbor or friend to water your plants while you’re gone, which frees up the barter favor-asking system for possibly more dire situations like a ride to the airport for one of those out-of-town trips you keep going on. | https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/automatic-watering-systems-indoor-plants-17307178.php | 2022-07-15T14:35:41Z | https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/automatic-watering-systems-indoor-plants-17307178.php | false |
Medical examiner: Jayland Walker shot, grazed, 46 times by Akron police
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in the Ohio city of Akron last month, was shot or grazed 46 times, according to a preliminary autopsy report released Friday by the Medical Examiners Office in Summit County.
The medical examiner detailed a summary of the report into Walker’s death at a news conference. The report had been finalized Thursday.
Akron police have acknowledged initial findings showed more than 60 wounds on Walker’s body. The June 27 pursuit began when officers tried to pull him over for equipment violations. Authorities say Walker fired a gunshot from his car 40 seconds into the chase.
An attorney for Walker’s family says there was no need for officers to kill him.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio medical examiner on Friday will provide a summary of the autopsy performed on Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of gunfire from eight Akron police officers after a chase.
It is anticipated that Summit County’s medical examiner, Dr. Lisa Kohler, will reveal how many times Walker was shot on June 27 after an early morning car and foot pursuit.
The update comes a day after the NAACP made a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death.
Preliminary findings released earlier indicated Walker’s body had more than 60 wounds. No information has been released about how many of those were entrance or exit wounds.
Police said he fled an attempted traffic stop for minor equipment violations and fired a shot from his car during the vehicle chase, but he wasn’t armed when officers shot him.
Police body camera footage shows Walker wearing a ski mask, jumping out the front passenger door of his still-moving car and then running into a parking lot where police opened fire. That blurry footage does not clearly show what authorities say was a threatening gesture made by Walker before he was shot.
An unloaded handgun, an ammunition clip and what appeared to be a wedding band were found on the front driver’s seat of Walker’s car, authorities said.
The officers involved are on paid leave while the state investigates the shooting. Seven of those officers are white, and one is Black. None of them has a record of discipline, substantiated complaints or fatal shootings, according to the police department.
The local police union has said the officers thought there was an immediate threat of serious harm, and that it believes their actions and the number of shots will be found justified in line with their training and protocols.
Police in neighboring New Franklin Township had tried to stop and then chased a car matching Walker’s for the same minor equipment violations less than 24 hours before the Akron chase. A supervisor there called off the pursuit when the car crossed the township’s border with Akron.
Bobby DiCello, an attorney for Walker’s family, has said Walker did not deserve to die. DiCello said after Walker’s funeral service that he will hold police accountable for every round fired from their guns.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wkyt.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | 2022-07-15T14:35:42Z | https://www.wkyt.com/2022/07/15/medical-examiner-jayland-walker-shot-grazed-46-times-by-akron-police/ | false |
Skip to content
WSYR
Syracuse
76°
Syracuse
76°
Toggle Menu
Open Navigation
Close Navigation
Search
Please enter a search term.
Primary Menu
Local News
Watch Now
Your Stories
Buffalo Supermarket Shooting
Northern NY News
Coronavirus
Consumer Reports
Interviews
Newsmakers with Andrew Donovan
OntheLookout.Net
Regional News
National News
Your Local Election Headquarters
Washington DC
Money In Your Pocket
NY Capitol News
Russia and Ukraine Conflict
Entertainment
Tax Season
Automotive News
Newsletters
Regional News Partners
Press Releases
Weather
Live Doppler 9
7-Day Forecast
Syracuse Interactive Weather Radar
Hourly Weather Forecast – Timecast
Storm Team Headlines
Boating Forecast
Regional Forecast
Northeast Radar
Weather Alerts
SkyNET9
Storm Team Academy
Summer Outlook 2022
Sports
Orange Nation
Syracuse Mets
High School Sports
Athlete of the Week
Buffalo Bills
Syracuse Crunch
Indy 500
Closings
Your Stories
Bridge Street
Best Reviews
Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York
Organization Motivation
Recipes
Community
Destination NY
2022 Senior Spotlight
Meet the Team
Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York
Picture of the Day
Newsletter Signup
The Daily Pledge
Champions Birthdays
Tell Me Something Good
Family Healthcast
Extraordinary
What’s Going Around
BestReviews
BestReviews Daily Deals
Wellness Wednesday
Petsavers
Calendar
Exploring Central New York
Jobs
Find a Job
Post a job
Work for Us
Marketplace
Contact NewsChannel 9
Download the NewsChannel 9 App
Advertise with NewsChannel 9
Antenna TV
TV Schedule
NewsChannel 9 Store
Internships at NewsChannel 9
Alexa
Joe Knows
Games
Lottery
Horoscope
About BestReviews
Sponsored Content
Contests
Contests
Contest Winners
Search
Please enter a search term.
Tires & Wheels
Best mud tires for trucks
Top Tires & Wheels Headlines
Your Stories link
Live Doppler 9 Map Center
CNY View
Oswego Area
Syracuse Area | https://www.localsyr.com/reviews/br-reviews/automotive-br/tires-wheels-br/ | 2022-07-15T14:35:51Z | https://www.localsyr.com/reviews/br-reviews/automotive-br/tires-wheels-br/ | false |
Planning to vote early? Get your ballot in the mail by the 26th
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - If you are looking to submit your ballot by mail the counted recommends you do so by the 26 as they need to have it by 7 p.m. on election day.
The Primary election is on Aug. 2nd with the state general election to come in November. The county needs about 3000 workers and these positions are paid. The pay varies but averages $15 an hour. The positions they are looking for are poll workers, call center, warehouse workers, as well as many others. These positions vary, from working for a couple of days to lasting the entire election season. To apply you have to be at least 18 and registered to vote in Arizona. The need is high so the county is also offering bonuses.
“We’ve increased the wages for that, and we’re even offering a bonus at this point to those workers who complete 250 hours get a $1,000 bonus, and if you complete 400 hours working with us then you get a $1,750 bonus. And in addition to that, you get a civic bonus,” said Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.
Richer suggests going online to BeBallotReady.vote here to track your ballot and to sign up for text alerts regarding your ballot’s status. “You can see your voter registration status, you can see and track your ballot which I know is something that people enjoy,” Richer said. “You can track it by text message or you can go online. And you can see where we’ve mailed it out. You can see when we’ve received it, you can see when we’ve signature-verified it.”
According to Maricopa County, already 85,000 ballots have been returned and signatures verified. While it’s too soon to notice any sort of voter habits or trends this election season, the number of people on the active early voting list is up since 2 years ago from 75% of registered voters to 77%.
Copyright 2022 KTVK/KPHO. All rights reserved. | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/07/15/planning-vote-early-get-your-ballot-mail-by-26th/ | 2022-07-15T14:36:02Z | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/07/15/planning-vote-early-get-your-ballot-mail-by-26th/ | false |
GREENSBORO, N.C., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brooks Group promoted Russ Sharer to Chief Sales Officer.
Russ' new role will utilize his 30+ years of B2B Sales and Marketing and leadership experience to ensure The Brooks Group meets its growth and sales revenue targets while successfully navigating organizational and marketplace complexities to drive real results to the company's bottom line.
He will get to focus his sales expertise and passion for helping people maximize their strengths to improve sales performance into The Brooks Group's own internal sales team, while also maintaining relationships with existing clients. Russ has been associated with The Brooks Group for 10 years, most recently serving as Director of Strategic Sales Excellence.
Russ is the co-author of Agile & Resilient: Sales Leadership for the New Normal and is one of The Brooks Group's most sought after facilitators. He has spent the past several years helping Brooks Group program participants connect the dots with his practical, "easy-to-learn" approach and style. He is an incredible leader, educator, and the natural choice to lead the company's sales efforts.
"Russ is an exceptional leader. I'm very happy that our own sales team will now directly benefit from his vast experience." remarked Gary Fly, CEO of The Brooks Group.
About The Brooks Group
The Brooks Group teaches straightforward, actionable sales training skills to sales managers and their teams. Their IMPACT Selling® Sales Training Program has been taught to over one million sales professionals nation-wide, and they've been recognized as one of the top sales training companies annually since 2010.
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE The Brooks Group | https://www.1011now.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/brooks-group-names-russ-sharer-chief-sales-officer/ | 2022-07-15T14:37:02Z | https://www.1011now.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/brooks-group-names-russ-sharer-chief-sales-officer/ | true |
UVALDE, Texas — "Uvalde police officer criticized for checking his phone was waiting to hear from his dying wife" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
After leaked surveillance of law enforcement responding to the Uvalde shooting was published earlier this week, angry snap judgments and criticisms of individual officers flooded the internet.
Media organizations and social media users were up in arms over an image pulled from the video posted by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV that showed a policeman glancing at his phone as the shooter, in two adjoining classrooms just down the hall, was killing children and teachers with a semiautomatic rifle.
“This really makes my blood boil,” Terrance Carroll, a former speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, wrote in a tweet. “This officer is checking his phone while kids & teachers are literally dying a few doors down.”
Some observers homed in on the officer’s phone background which depicted the logo for the Punisher, a Marvel Comics vigilante antihero — using it as fodder to cast aspersions.
“That cop in Uvalde having his lock screen be the punisher logo and him being scared to take on an active shooter is truly the perfect encapsulation of how cops see themselves vs who they really are,” said Albert Jaragua Corado, a podcast host in Los Angeles.
But to Uvalde residents and officials investigating the shooting, the footage showed something else. The officer depicted is Ruben Ruiz, whose wife, Eva Mireles, lay dying inside one of the classrooms with the gunman.
Mireles told Ruiz in a phone call that she had been shot. Ruiz, standing in the hallway with his pistol drawn, was unable to get to her. Other officers ultimately escorted Ruiz from the scene and took his gun. Mireles was alive when police transported her from the classroom, but she died before reaching the hospital.
The online criticism of Ruiz prompted a member of the Texas House of Representatives committee investigating the shooting to speak out. Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, said he had not planned to make any public comments until the committee’s report is finished, but felt he needed to set the record straight about Ruiz.
“I couldn’t say nothing seeing this man, who’s lost everything, maligned as if he was indifferent or actively malicious,” Moody said on Twitter. “Context matters. To those who haven’t bothered to read even the news that’s been reported in your rush to judgment, he attempted to engage but was removed from the building and disarmed. We’ll have much to say about the police response, but no criticism of this officer.”
The release of the video came days before the House committee had planned to show it privately to Uvalde victims’ families before making it public. Its publication Tuesday evening disappointed some officials, including Department of Public Safety Commissioner Steve McCraw and Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.
Though the events of the video had already been described for the public — first by The Texas Tribune on June 20 and then by McCraw during testimony to a Senate committee the following day — the sight of officers dawdling in the hallway for more than an hour before engaging the shooter shocked many viewers.
The footage underscored how inaccurate Gov. Greg Abbott’s initial account of the police response was. At a news conference the day after the shooting, he said the death toll would have been worse if not for the quick response of officers, who “showed amazing courage by running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives.”
The trickle of leaks in the seven weeks since the massacre, as government agencies have refused to release information through official channels, have painted a far different picture of law enforcement conduct that day. The surprise release of the hallway surveillance video on Tuesday reached an audience already bracing for evidence of profound police incompetence.
A second portion of the hallway surveillance video also drew widespread criticism. It shows, nearly an hour after the shooting began, an officer wearing body armor over street clothes using a hand sanitizer dispenser in the hallway. It, too, became an example of police indifference to dying children, and even became the subject of an essay in Slate.
But sources involved in the shooting investigations, who are not law enforcement, said there is more to the story. One identified the officer as a Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office deputy who had been asked by the U.S. Border Patrol tactical unit on scene to prepare to help triage victims. Other officers put on gloves and begin to stage medical equipment in the hallway.
Twenty-one minutes later, Border Patrol agents led a team into the classrooms and killed the gunman. Footage from the hallway camera not published by Statesman but reviewed by The Texas Tribune shows officers removing children from the classrooms immediately afterward.
Join us at The Texas Tribune Festival, happening Sept. 22-24 in downtown Austin, and hear from 300+ speakers shaping the future of Texas including Joe Straus, Jen Psaki, Joaquin Castro, Mayra Flores and many others. See all speakers announced to date and buy tickets.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/14/uvalde-video-officer-phone-ruben-ruiz-wife/.
The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy. Learn more at texastribune.org. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/texas-school-massacre-2022/uvalde-police-officer-criticized-for-checking-his-phone-was-waiting-to-hear-from-his-dying-wife | 2022-07-15T14:38:17Z | https://www.kxxv.com/news/texas-school-massacre-2022/uvalde-police-officer-criticized-for-checking-his-phone-was-waiting-to-hear-from-his-dying-wife | true |
SALT LAKE CITY, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reinstates Jim Thorpe as the sole champion of the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games.
For 110 years, advocates for the Sac and Fox and Potawatomi athlete, including two American Presidents, have urged the IOC to reinstate Jim Thorpe as the sole champion in his events. Bright Path Strong (BPS) www.brightpathstrong.org is honored to have played a part in removing this injustice that tarnished Thorpe's enduring legacy.
IOC President, Thomas Bach, said: "Thanks to the great engagement of Bright Path Strong a solution could be found. This is a most exceptional and unique situation. It is addressed by an extraordinary gesture of fair play from the concerned National Olympic Committees."
Anita Thorpe, granddaughter of Jim Thorpe, Vice Chairman/Sac and Fox Gaming Commission, and BPS Honorary Board Member, proclaimed: "A moment 110 years in the making to finally hear the words officially spoken again, 'Jim Thorpe is the sole winner of the 1912 decathlon and pentathlon.' A glorious time of celebrations to all of his friends, family, and supporters. Hooray!!!"
Bright Path Strong commends the IOC for setting the record straight and fully reinstating Jim Thorpe. "We are so grateful this nearly 110-year-old injustice has finally been corrected, and there is no confusion about the most remarkable athlete in history," said Nedra Darling, BPS co-founder and citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
In 1913, the IOC wrongfully stripped Jim of his wins after it was revealed that he played minor league baseball prior to the 1912 Summer Games, declaring he had infringed the rules regarding amateurism in place at the time. In 1982, the IOC returned replica gold medals to the Thorpe family and designated him a co-champion in the official records, though he dominated the competition, and his opponents only reluctantly accepted the gold medals reallocated to them.
Dennis Hendricks, council member of Tuolumne Band of Me Wuk Indians and BPS Board Member said, "Jim Thorpe faced seemingly insurmountable odds on and off the field. He represented this country before it even recognized Native Americans as citizens but he never gave up. He was an inspiration then and he is an inspiration now. Today is yet another victory for this great hero."
On July 15, 2020, Bright Path Strong and its Tribal partners launched a major campaign to right the greatest injustice in Olympic history and have Jim Thorpe reinstated as the sole champion in his events. This included an online petition and support from National Congress of American Indians, Native American Rights Fund, National Native Boarding School Coalition, Indian Gaming Association, Native American Finance Officers Association, Amateur Athletic Union, Pro Football Hall of Fame, The Doug Williams Center, and the unprecedented efforts of IOC Representative to the U.S., Ms. Anita DeFrantz, who became an ally after learning how Thorpe was wrongfully stripped of his gold medals while a student at Carlisle Indian Industrial School where he "survived an education designed to rob him of his culture."
"This was made possible by supporters from Indian Country and from around the world," said Chris Taylor, citizen of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana and BPS co-founder. "This could not have been accomplished without our Tribal partners: Tuolumne Band of Me Wuk Indians, Chicken Ranch Rancheria Me-Wuk Indians of California, Tonto Apache Tribe, The Mohegan Tribe, Sealaska, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, and Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians."
Chairman Lloyd Mathiesen of Chicken Ranch Rancheria said, "We are excited this injustice has finally been corrected and are proud to be a part of changing history and helping tell Jim's story. Jim's resilience and perseverance stands as a beacon to our youth and shows them anything is possible."
Nedra Darling concludes, "I pray that Jim, his family, and our ancestors are celebrating that the truth has been upheld today, on this 110th anniversary of Jim being awarded his Olympic gold medals. This is a day for great celebration."
Inspired by Jim's given name of Wa-Tho-Huk which translates to "Bright Path," Bright Path Strong is a Native-lead non-profit organization whose mission is to continue Jim Thorpe's legacy of community service. For more information visit www.brightpathstrong.org.
For press inquiries contact:
Bob Wheeler
830-822-2326
BobWheelerWRC@gmail.com
Flo Ridlon
830-822-4701
FloRidlonWRC@gmail.com
View original content:
SOURCE Bright Path Strong | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/justice-jim-thorpe-olympic-wins-fully-reinstated-by-ioc-110th-anniversary/ | 2022-07-15T14:38:57Z | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/justice-jim-thorpe-olympic-wins-fully-reinstated-by-ioc-110th-anniversary/ | true |
ST. PAUL — Grace Baptist Church in St. Paul is welcoming everyone to an Old Gospel Hour Hymn Sing.
Everyone can enjoy singing those wonderful old hymns beginning at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 31, at the church located at Ninth and Baxter streets.
Refreshments and a sweet treat will be served after the Hymn Sing.
For more information, check the church’s website at www.stpaulgrace.org or contact Dennis at 702-469-0788.
Beast Feast set for Aug. 13 in St. Paul
ST. PAUL — Grace Church in St. Paul will host its annual Beast Feast event on Saturday, Aug. 13, at the St. Paul Civic Center.
Beast Feast is an outreach event focused on attracting men and boys, age 10 or older, with an interest in outdoor activities and adventure.
People are also reading…
The event, set for 6 to 8:30 p.m., will include a meal with New York strip steaks and a variety of side dishes, plus dessert.
Special guest will be Sam Larson, a primitive skills expert and survival instructor. He has appeared in two seasons of the internationally acclaimed survival show “ALONE,” produced by The History Channel
Larson won the competition during season five as the last man standing in “Patagonia.” He will be present during the event and teach a primitive skills training class before hand.
Beast Feast will feature door prize drawings, including a variety of outdoor camping items, with the grand prize being a pellet grill from Green Mountain Grills.
The civic center is located at 423 Howard Ave. in St. Paul. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Cost is $15 per person. Tickets can be purchased at the church office, from any church deacon and online at www.stpaulgrace.org or by contacting Eric at 402-699-6064 or eric@stpaulgrace.org
To submit items for Church Notes (which run on Friday), contact Diane Cook at 308-381-9409 or email to diane.cook@theindependent.com. Deadline for Friday publication is noon Thursday. | https://theindependent.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/church-notes-grace-baptist-hosts-old-gospel-hour-hymn-sing-on-july-31/article_e8cb1e00-03d1-11ed-8a8e-174f72b121bf.html | 2022-07-15T14:40:03Z | https://theindependent.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/church-notes-grace-baptist-hosts-old-gospel-hour-hymn-sing-on-july-31/article_e8cb1e00-03d1-11ed-8a8e-174f72b121bf.html | false |
BEIJING, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn on Xinjiang:
Amid an endless desert, a train runs along an elevated section of track as sand flies below. What a magnificent sight.
This scene is in China's Xinjiang. Recently, an 825 km rail line from Hotan to Ruoqiang has entered operation. The new line links up with the Golmud-Korla and Southern Xinjiang rail lines, forming the world's first desert rail loop line encircling the Taklamakan, the world's second-largest shifting-sand desert.
Sitting in a speeding train, passengers can enjoy views of the vast dunes through the windows. The Niya Ruins, the ancient city of Andil, and various other cultural sites all stand along the route, offering unique vistas.
During the past three years building the Hotan-Ruoqiang rail line, construction workers crossed 460 km of uninhabited areas where there is no water, electricity or cellphone signal, braving quicksand, sandstorms, extreme heat and freezing temperatures. It is their painstaking efforts that have created this extraordinary engineering feat.
However, the railway line has much more significance.
Due to their natural conditions, many places along the route were not previously connected to the railway network, with locals having to cross the Tianshan Mountains if they wanted to go out of Xinjiang. High quality specialties such as cotton and dates, although produced in large quantities, were unable to reach the market due to poor transportation links. With a harsh ecological environment and weak economic foundation, four of the five counties where stations are located along the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway used to be in severe poverty.
During the construction of the railway, priority was given to purchasing locally produced goods for workers, and impoverished residents were recruited to help boost their incomes. After the railway entered operation, two passenger trains have been arranged a day for the convenience of local people of all ethnic groups. Meanwhile, eight freight trains run daily transporting local specialties such as cotton, walnuts, red dates and minerals out of Xinjiang.
The railway, so to speak, has brought life to the desert.
Railways and highways are highlights of the wondrous Xinjiang. For example, the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway linking vast land and kaleidoscopic landscapes has enabled crude oil, cotton and other resources from Xinjiang to be delivered to other parts of the country. The Duku Highway, dubbed "China's most beautiful road," offering a wide range of scenery along its route, has accelerated the development of such resources as coal and timber. The opening and operation of China-Europe freight trains has also expanded Xinjiang's foreign trade market.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, enormous human and material resources were invested to build overland routes connecting Xinjiang and the rest of the country. The more stunning and magnificent these roads and railways are, the more it means that they have broken through the bottlenecks hampering the survival and development prospects of local people.
The rail loop encircling the Taklamakan Desert has drawn what netizens call the "strongest closed loop on earth." While transporting delicious fruits and rich resources in Southern Xinjiang, it also contributes to a picture of people of all ethnic groups living with satisfaction and dignity. With the railway, even more changes are in sight.
China Mosaic
http://chinamosaic.china.com.cn/index.htm
World's first desert-circling railway brings vitality to Xinjiang
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2022-07/15/content_78324983.htm
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE China.org.cn | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-desert-circling-railway-brings-vitality-xinjiang/ | 2022-07-15T14:40:45Z | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-desert-circling-railway-brings-vitality-xinjiang/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5WPR, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announced today the expansion of its fintech PR division in response to increased interest and industry growth. The agency works with a variety of B2B and consumer-focused fintech clients across payments, online and mobile banking, personal finance, direct and marketplace lending, crypto investment, stock trading, and more.
"The ubiquity of smartphones, alongside improvements in security and adaptation by governments and legacy financial institutions, is propelling the industry," explains 5WPR CEO, Matthew Caiola. "We've seen support for open banking, embedded finance, and decentralized finance, or DeFi, spur innovation despite consolidation. At 5W, we've become adept at developing media-worthy narratives around the pain points our fintech clients are solving or the opportunities they are providing."
PR services offered to FinTech companies include media relations, targeted outreach to fintech industry publications, executive visibility programs, fundraising announcements, content creation, digital media campaigns and speaking opportunities.
About 5WPR
5W Public Relations is a full-service PR agency in NYC known for cutting-edge programs that engage with businesses, issues and ideas. With more than 275 professionals serving clients in B2C (Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, Nonprofit), B2B (Corporate Communications and Reputation Management), Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Digital Marketing (Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, SEO). 5W was named to Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces 2022 list, awarded 2020 PR Agency of The Year, and brings leading businesses a resourceful, bold and results-driven approach to communication.
Media Contact
Matthew Caiola
mcaiola@5wpr.com / 212.999.5585
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE 5W Public Relations | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/5wpr-announces-expansion-fintech-pr-division/ | 2022-07-15T14:40:50Z | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/5wpr-announces-expansion-fintech-pr-division/ | false |
GENEVA (AP) — About 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common diseases like diptheria, largely because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted regular health services or triggered misinformation about vaccines, according to the U.N.
In a new report published Friday, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said their figures show 25 million children last year failed to get vaccinated against diptheria, tetanus and pertussis, a marker for childhood immunization coverage, continuing a downward trend that began in 2019.
“This is a red alert for child health,” said Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s Executive Director.
“We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immunization in a generation,” she said, adding that the consequences would be measured in lives lost.
Data showed the vast majority of the children who failed to get immunized were living in developing countries, namely Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the Philippines. While vaccine coverage fell in every world region, the worst effects were seen in East Asia and the Pacific.
Experts said this “historic backsliding” in vaccination coverage was especially disturbing since it was occurring as rates of severe malnutrition were rising. Malnourished children typically have weaker immune systems and infections like measles can often prove fatal to them.
“The convergence of a hunger crisis with a growing immunization gap threatens to create the conditions for a child survival crisis,” the U.N. said.
Scientists said low vaccine coverage rates had already resulted in preventable outbreaks of diseases like measles and polio. In March 2020, WHO and partners asked countries to suspend their polio eradication efforts amid the accelerating COVID-19 pandemic. There have since been dozens of polio epidemics in more than 30 countries.
“This is particularly tragic as tremendous progress was made in the two decades before the COVID pandemic to improve childhood vaccination rates globally,” said Helen Bedford, a professor of children’s health at University College London, who was not connected to the U.N. report. She said the news was shocking but not surprising, noting that immunization services are frequently an “early casualty” of major social or economic disasters.
Dr. David Elliman, a consultant pediatrician at Britain’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, said it was critical to reverse the declining vaccination trend among children.
“The effects of what happens in one part of the world can ripple out to affect the whole globe,” he said in a statement, noting the rapid spread of COVID-19 and more recently, monkeypox. “Whether we act on the basis of ethics or ‘enlightened self interest’, we must put (children) top of our list of priorities.”
___
Follow all AP stories about developments related to the pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/25-million-kids-missed-routine-vaccinations-because-of-covid/ | 2022-07-15T14:41:17Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/25-million-kids-missed-routine-vaccinations-because-of-covid/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Missfresh Limited ("Missfresh" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MF) and certain of its officers, on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Missfresh securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with Missfresh's June 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/mf.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act").
The Complaint alleges the Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements that misrepresented and failed to disclose the following adverse facts pertaining to the Company's business, operational and financial results. Specifically, the Registration Statement contained false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company provided false financial figures in its Registration Statement; (2) the Company would need to amend its financial figures; (3) the Company, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and (4) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/mf or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Law Clerk and Client Relations Manager, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in Missfresh you have until September 12, 2022, to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC represents investors in securities fraud class actions and shareholder derivative suits. The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors nationwide. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
Contact:
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC
Peretz Bronstein or Yael Nathanson
212-697-6484 | info@bgandg.com
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/bronstein-gewirtz-amp-grossman-llc-notifies-missfresh-limited-mf-investors-class-action-encourages-investors-contact-firm/ | 2022-07-15T14:41:31Z | https://www.valleynewslive.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/bronstein-gewirtz-amp-grossman-llc-notifies-missfresh-limited-mf-investors-class-action-encourages-investors-contact-firm/ | false |
BEIJING, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn on Xinjiang:
Amid an endless desert, a train runs along an elevated section of track as sand flies below. What a magnificent sight.
This scene is in China's Xinjiang. Recently, an 825 km rail line from Hotan to Ruoqiang has entered operation. The new line links up with the Golmud-Korla and Southern Xinjiang rail lines, forming the world's first desert rail loop line encircling the Taklamakan, the world's second-largest shifting-sand desert.
Sitting in a speeding train, passengers can enjoy views of the vast dunes through the windows. The Niya Ruins, the ancient city of Andil, and various other cultural sites all stand along the route, offering unique vistas.
During the past three years building the Hotan-Ruoqiang rail line, construction workers crossed 460 km of uninhabited areas where there is no water, electricity or cellphone signal, braving quicksand, sandstorms, extreme heat and freezing temperatures. It is their painstaking efforts that have created this extraordinary engineering feat.
However, the railway line has much more significance.
Due to their natural conditions, many places along the route were not previously connected to the railway network, with locals having to cross the Tianshan Mountains if they wanted to go out of Xinjiang. High quality specialties such as cotton and dates, although produced in large quantities, were unable to reach the market due to poor transportation links. With a harsh ecological environment and weak economic foundation, four of the five counties where stations are located along the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway used to be in severe poverty.
During the construction of the railway, priority was given to purchasing locally produced goods for workers, and impoverished residents were recruited to help boost their incomes. After the railway entered operation, two passenger trains have been arranged a day for the convenience of local people of all ethnic groups. Meanwhile, eight freight trains run daily transporting local specialties such as cotton, walnuts, red dates and minerals out of Xinjiang.
The railway, so to speak, has brought life to the desert.
Railways and highways are highlights of the wondrous Xinjiang. For example, the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway linking vast land and kaleidoscopic landscapes has enabled crude oil, cotton and other resources from Xinjiang to be delivered to other parts of the country. The Duku Highway, dubbed "China's most beautiful road," offering a wide range of scenery along its route, has accelerated the development of such resources as coal and timber. The opening and operation of China-Europe freight trains has also expanded Xinjiang's foreign trade market.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, enormous human and material resources were invested to build overland routes connecting Xinjiang and the rest of the country. The more stunning and magnificent these roads and railways are, the more it means that they have broken through the bottlenecks hampering the survival and development prospects of local people.
The rail loop encircling the Taklamakan Desert has drawn what netizens call the "strongest closed loop on earth." While transporting delicious fruits and rich resources in Southern Xinjiang, it also contributes to a picture of people of all ethnic groups living with satisfaction and dignity. With the railway, even more changes are in sight.
China Mosaic
http://chinamosaic.china.com.cn/index.htm
World's first desert-circling railway brings vitality to Xinjiang
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2022-07/15/content_78324983.htm
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE China.org.cn | https://www.1011now.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-desert-circling-railway-brings-vitality-xinjiang/ | 2022-07-15T14:43:32Z | https://www.1011now.com/prnewswire/2022/07/15/worlds-first-desert-circling-railway-brings-vitality-xinjiang/ | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Hoosiers have a chance to help the Indianapolis Zoo name two out of the three tiger cubs born there recently.
The cubs, two boys and a girl, were born to mother Zoya and father Pavel on May 27.
One of the male cubs has been named Nicolas in honor of the veterinary surgeon who helped with the delivery.
The zoo has already created a list of names for the other two cubs and is asking for people to vote for their favorites.
Names for the girl cub include:
- Helina
- Vesna
- Yeva
Names for the boy cub include:
- Jarek
- Kuzma
- Roman
The contest will close July 28 at midnight and the official names will be released the next day, International Tiger Day.
Participants have a chance to win a Family-Fun Prize Pack, which includes free tickets to the zoo. Two winners will be selected at random.
To vote, visit the website and click on your favorite names. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis-zoo-holding-contest-to-name-tiger-cubs/ | 2022-07-15T14:44:05Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis-zoo-holding-contest-to-name-tiger-cubs/ | false |
HAMMOND — Almost three years ago, city leaders and residents gathered at the Towle Theater to hear an ambitious plan for the redevelopment of downtown Hammond.
Now construction workers and safety cones fill the partially torn-up road right outside the historic theater — the reimagination of downtown Hammond has begun.
Located at 5205 Hohman Ave., the Towle Theater, formerly the Towle Opera House, sits on the edge of downtown Hammond. Once lined with an array of movie theaters, department stores and hotels, Hohman Avenue storefronts began to empty in the 1950s as malls became more popular.
People are also reading…
Past revitalization efforts have largely been focused on bringing businesses back to the downtown, said Hammond Director of Economic Development Anne Anderson.
However, when the city hired Massachusetts-based urban planner Jeff Speck in 2018, redevelopment plans shifted to look at the importance of residential development.
"Businesses would come but not stay because no one was down here," Anderson said. "We realized that we need residential."
Though Hammond's downtown is bordered by neighborhoods, there are no apartment buildings located right in the heart of downtown. Downtown housing creates a strong customer base for local businesses.
Three upcoming development projects hope to fill the city's rental gap.
Walkable urban housing
"Today’s housing market shows that people want to live in downtowns, as opposed to the suburbs," Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. wrote in a letter included at the beginning of the 132-page Downtown Hammond Master Plan.
Over the next few years, some 360 market-rate rental units will be coming to downtown Hammond.
The former Bank Calumet building, at 5231 Hohman Ave., is slated to undergo a $24 million redesign that will include over 100 residential units and 7,000 square-feet of retail. Anderson said construction will likely begin this fall and last a year to 18 months.
Construction on Tailor Row, a $25 million apartment complex coming to an underutilized parking lot off Hohman Avenue, will also start this fall. Tailor Row will have 208 units, a bottom floor filled with commercial space and an outdoor plaza.
The final apartment complex, Madison Lofts, is planned for the northeast corner of Sibley Street and Hohman Avenue. The development will be five stories tall and consist of about 55 residential units and 87,000 square-feet of retail.
Anderson said both Tailor Row and Madison Lofts will likely be completed by the spring of 2024.
The residential development, paired with the South Shore Line's West Lake Corridor expansion, is "a recipe for success," Anderson said.
The South Shore project will create a direct line to Chicago. It will include two Hammond stations: a South Hammond station off of 173rd street and the Hammond Gateway station, located about three blocks west of the city's current South Shore station.
The city has also committed to constructing a third station downtown near the federal courthouse once the train is running.
To ensure residents, commuters and visitors feel welcome, the city is working to make the downtown more pedestrian-friendly with two major projects: the Rimbach realignment and the Hohman redesign.
The leg of Rimbach Street that intersects with Hohman Avenue used to be swooped, aligning it with Fayette Street, encouraging speeding. Construction crews are currently working to straighten the curve.
Once complete, the outdoor plaza planned for the Tailor Row complex will sit at the new intersection of Rimbach and Hohman.
The large Rotunda Fountain sculpture that was located at the former intersection of Rimbach and Hohman will be relocated to the outdoor plaza, where it will be surrounded by benches and storefronts.
Construction has also started on the west side of Hohman Avenue. Once complete, the Hohman redesign will bring the street down to one travel lane in each direction with a shared bike lane and add 40 spaces of angled parking down the center of Hohman, parallel parking on both sides of the street, 8-foot and 11-foot sidewalks on either side of Hohman, decorative lighting with banner arms, and large, fast-growing trees along curb lines and down the center of Hohman.
Both the Hohman and Rimbach projects are expected to be largely complete by the end of this year.
Preparing for transformation
Nearby businesses are already preparing for Hammond's new downtown.
Though deals have not been finalized, Anderson said the developers for all three apartment complexes are "in talks" with different businesses looking to locate in the ground floor retail spaces.
The nearby Strack & Van Til grocery store is completing a $1 million exterior renovation with help from the city's façade rebate program, and the Hammond Development Corporation is looking to bring more businesses to its rental office space.
The HDC operates two buildings with rental office space along Hohman: The HUB and the Business Center. After receiving a $75,000 grant from the Hammond Redevelopment Commission, the HDC is launching a rent subsidy program for any technology-related businesses that want to locate downtown.
For the first six months, program participants would pay just 20% of the rent. The cost will increase 20% every six months for two years, until tenants are paying the full price.
HDC Executive Director Jennifer Bussey said the goal is to get companies to invest in the downtown area. The subsidized rent will help businesses get on their feet and establish a client base.
With so many projects underway, downtown Hammond "looks a little messy" for the time being, Anderson said, but the end result will be "completely transformative for our downtown." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/watch-now-redevelopment-of-downtown-hammond-is-underway/article_be819a33-327d-5a7e-b5e8-273b20331b25.html | 2022-07-15T14:47:19Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/watch-now-redevelopment-of-downtown-hammond-is-underway/article_be819a33-327d-5a7e-b5e8-273b20331b25.html | false |
'My saddest moment': Camilla's first husband Andrew Parker-Bowles relives IRA Hyde Park bombing that killed four soldiers and seven horses in new documentary 40 years on as families continue fight for justice
- The bomb exploded on July 20, 1982, after being planted in a blue Austin Morris car
- John Downey, who was ruled by a judge to have been partly responsible for the attack, was never convicted
- Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles has joined survivors in speaking on camera for the first time about attack
- Ex-guardsman Steve Sullivan, 58, said explosion was like having 'every bit of oxygen drawn out of your body'
Camilla's first husband Andrew Parker Bowles has relived the horror of the 1982 Hyde Park bombing by the IRA that killed four soldiers and seven horses - before the perpetrators escaped justice.
On July 20, 1982, the soldiers of the Household Cavalry had just left their barracks and were riding their steeds through London's Hyde Park to Horse Guards Parade when the bomb - hidden in a blue Austin Morris - tore through their ranks.
IRA terrorist John Downey, who was ruled by a judge to have been partly responsible for the attack, was never convicted after it emerged he had been assured by the Metropolitan Police in a letter that he would not be prosecuted. No one else has ever been convicted in connection with the bombing.
Now, as families of the murdered soldiers continue to fight for justice for their loved ones, survivors have told their stories on camera for the first time in a crowd-funded documentary.
The then Lieutenant-Colonel Parker-Bowles, who was married to the Duchess of Cornwall from 1976 until 1995, was the commander of Household Cavalry when the attack took place.
Speaking in the upcoming documentary, the now-retired brigadier, 82, said the attack was the 'saddest moment' of his military life, whilst former guardsman Steve Sullivan, 58, said that the moment the bomb went off was 'like having every little bit of oxygen drawn out of your body'.
Two hours after the 10.43am Hyde Park explosion, a second bomb that had been planted underneath the bandstand in Regent's Park went off as 30 military bandsmen of the Royal Green Jackets were performing. Seven bandsmen lost their lives.
Camilla's first husband Andrew Parker Bowles has relived the horror of the 1982 Hyde Park bombing by the IRA that killed four soldiers and seven horses - before the perpetrator escaped justice. The then Lieutenant-Colonel Parker-Bowles, who was married to the Duchess of Cornwall from 1976 until 1995, was the commander of Household Cavalry when the attack took place
On July 20, 1982, the soldiers of the Household Cavalry had just left their barracks and were riding their steeds through London's Hyde Park to Horse Guards Parade when the bomb - hidden in a blue Austin Morris - tore through their ranks. Above: The aftermath of the attack
The new documentary, which needs further crowdfunding before it can be finished, is directed by former cavalryman Mauricio Gris and has been produced by independent production company Thread Films.
So far, £10,380 has been raised out of a £12,000 target to pay for the film.
Brigadier Parker-Bowles said in a clip from the new film: 'It was probably the saddest moment of my military life. I had under me three squadrons of soldiers, and I was responsible for their welfare, training and I suppose happiness.
'I suddenly heard this explosion, which, having been in Northern Ireland, as had many of the soldiers under my command, we recognized as an explosion but didn't realize it was aimed at the guard until one of the, I think was a farrier up in the tower block, could see down and said they've blown up the guard.
'On which we all set off as fast as we could down to the scene.'
Mr Sullivan, who was 19 at the time, said: 'It still hurts I mean, you know, there's not been one day of my life since that day that I haven't remembered something about something that went on that day.
'You know, it's always, always been part of my life ever since then. But, you know, that's terrorism. This inflicts terror on the living, doesn't it?
Two hours after the 10.43am Hyde Park explosion, a second bomb that had been planted underneath the bandstand in Regent's Park went off as 30 military bandsmen of the Royal Green Jackets were performing. Seven bandsmen lost their lives
Former guardsman Steve Sullivan (left in the documentary and right during his time in the Household Cavalary), 58, said that the moment the bomb went off was 'like having every little bit of oxygen drawn out of your body'.
Fellow former guardsman Simon Utley, who was 18 at the time and is now 57, said the noise of the explosion was so loud that his horse 'just took off'. 'It took off into Hyde Park and galloped away,' he added. 'I could not stop my horse. My horse had its bit in its mouth. It was biting onto it and I couldn't stop it'
'I never forget the feeling when that bomb went off was like having every little bit of oxygen drawn out of your body.
'I don't know if you've ever fainted. It's that feeling you get just before you pass out. And it's an emptiness. It just sucks the life out of you. Awful feeling horrible.
'You know, when you feel that feeling where you're going to faint or pass out, the last place you want to do that is sitting on top of a horse.
'And so I just remember grabbing hold of my horse and she ran into the park, hit the tree straight away. And I've come straight off the back of the horse.'
Mr Sullivan said he initially thought he had caused a 'car accident' because he was so disorientated.
'I lay down on the floor and I thought, I'm in a lot of trouble here,' he said.
'That was my only, that was my first initial thought. I remember lying there thinking, should I stay here? Shall I get up? And then as I looked up and then I saw the carnage over the road, it was horrendous.
'The fire and the horses lying down. People just standing and staring. I mean, I immediately got up, ran as fast as I could back over to the guard.'
In the immediate aftermath, Brigadier Parker Bowles ordered that the gravely wounded horses who had survived the initial blast be put of their misery. As well as the seven that died, another, named Sefton, survived despite having terrible injuries
Simon Tipper (top left) and Jeffrey Young (top right) and Anthony 'Denis' Daly (left) and Roy Bright (right) were killed in the terror attack in Hyde Park in a devastating 1982 car bombing
IRA terrorist John Downey, who was ruled by a judge to have been partly responsible for the attack, was never convicted after it emerged he had been assured by the Metropolitan Police in a letter that he would not be prosecuted. No one else has ever been convicted in connection with the bombing
Fellow former guardsman Simon Utley, who was 18 at the time and is now 57, said the noise of the explosion was so loud that his horse 'just took off'.
'It took off into Hyde Park and galloped away,' he added. 'I could not stop my horse. My horse had its bit in its mouth. It was biting onto it and I couldn't stop it.'
He said he was eventually able to stop it when they arrived near the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park. But when he tried to get off his horse, he got his boots stuck in one of the stirrups of his saddle.
He added: 'And so I'm laying on the floor like some see now of a medieval knight from being dragged along in full ceremonial uniform, lying on my back with my horse just walking along.
'And I remember looking up at my horse and seeing a hole the size of a dustbin. It in his hindquarters, his stomach.
'I could not, I could not take in what I was what I was looking at. I couldn't take it because my and also because my ear had gone into shock. It was like the loudest ringing noise ever and I remember
'And I remember looking over in the distance and I was I reckon I was I had to have been six, 800 meters away.
'That's how far my horse went and I remember looking over in the distance and all I could see was the blackest billowing smoke that I've ever seen.'
Squadron Quartermaster Corporal Roy Bright, 36, Lieutenant Dennis Daly, 23, Trooper Simon Tipper, 19, and Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young, 19, were the soldiers who were killed in the bombing.
The then Lieutenant-Colonel is seen with his wife Camilla and their children, son Tom and daughter Laura, in 1984
The members of the Household Cavalry were taking part in their daily Changing of the Guard procession from their barracks in Knightsbridge when they were hit by the blast. Above: The aftermath
The carcasses of the horses of the Household Cavalry lie in the road in Hyde Park after the horrendous attack
The road is seen being cleaned of blood and debris after the bombing in Hyde Park on July 20, 1982. As well as those who died, dozens of people were injured
The bomb had been surrounded by hundreds of four and six-inch nails so that it would cause maximum damage when it went off
In the immediate aftermath, Brigadier Parker Bowles ordered that the gravely wounded horses who had survived the initial blast be put of their misery. As well as the seven that died, another, named Sefton, survived despite having terrible injuries.
The bomb had been surrounded by hundreds of four and six-inch nails so that it would cause maximum damage when it went off.
As well as those who were killed, the other soldiers in the procession were among at least 51 people - including civilians and police officers - who were injured.
The members of the Household Cavalry were taking part in their daily Changing of the Guard procession from their barracks in Knightsbridge when they were hit by the blast.
The device is believed to have been triggered by an IRA member who was nearby inside Hyde Park.
In 2013, Downey was arrested and charged with the four soldiers' murders. However, he was told in 2014 that he would not face prosecution because of a letter mistakenly sent to him saying he was not wanted by police.
The Daily Mail's coverage of the Hyde Park attack is seen above. It told of the 'cruel murder of the Queen's men'
On another page, the paper reported on the subsequent attack on the bandstand in Regent's Park. The second explosion killed seven bandsmen
Downey was among 200 suspected terrorists who received similar letters, which effectively granted them an amnesty under a deal by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and the then Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
The suspect was wrongly given a letter in July 2007 that assured him he was not wanted for any offence, even though a warrant for his arrest had existed since May 29, 1983.
In 2019, the High Court ruled that Downey had been an 'active participant' in the bombing.
But at a hearing in 2020, a judge refused to award 'exemplary damages' to relatives of the victims of the Hyde Park bombing.
The relatives were asking for the damage because those killed had been denied 'some measure of justice, and thereby closure'.
Mr Justice Martin Spencer said awarding such damages would require an extension of the law which would be 'for either Parliament or the higher courts, and probably the Supreme Court'.
To donate to the crowdfunding campaign for the new documentary, click here. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11016791/Camillas-husband-Andrew-Parker-Bowles-relives-IRA-Hyde-Park-bombing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-15T14:48:10Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11016791/Camillas-husband-Andrew-Parker-Bowles-relives-IRA-Hyde-Park-bombing.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
ABRAMS, Wis. (WFRV) – A man from Antigo reportedly died after his motorcycle crashed into the median on USH 41 in Abrams.
On July 10 around 4 p.m., the Oconto County Sheriff’s Office was made aware of a traffic incident on USH 41 near Falk Road in Abrams. When deputies arrived, a motorcycle was found crashed into the median.
Officials say that 42-year-old Jonathan Collins, from Antigo, was driving northbound when the motorcycle lost control and crashed into the median. Collins was the only driver and reportedly was ejected from the motorcycle.
He was airlifted to a hospital in Green Bay and later died from his injuries.
The investigation is still active, and no additional information was provided. Local 5 will continue to update this story as more details are released. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/antigo-man-dies-after-motorcycle-crash-in-oconto-county/ | 2022-07-15T14:49:58Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/antigo-man-dies-after-motorcycle-crash-in-oconto-county/ | true |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.