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Christian Lee is adamant about getting a $50K bonus in his upcoming rematch against Ok Rae Yoon next month. After a controversial loss to Ok at ONE: Revolution last year, Lee hopes that this time, it will be a golden night to remember.
With many athletes racking up bonuses of up to $100K in one night, like interim heavyweight world champion Anatoly Malykhin did at ONE: Bad Blood earlier this year, Christian ‘The Warrior’ Lee expects to bag a bonus cash prize of his own on August 26.
He told Sportskeeda MMA's Andrew Whitelaw:
“Absolutely. It's exciting that they've been giving out bonuses, and I definitely feel like my fight style is good for that. So I'm hoping I get a good performance and maybe a nice bonus on the next fight too.”
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This is the first year in ONE’s history where the promotion has granted performance bonuses at every single event. That includes extra cash for not just the winners, but also the fighters who have come up short but displayed heroic efforts. Danielle Kelly, for example, was given a $50K bonus for her amazing grappling performance at ONE X, despite the bout ending in a draw.
The main criteria for a performance bonus is ‘gameness', meaning that the fighter in question has given their all down to the very last second of a fight. If Christian Lee recaptures his world title via a stupendous knockout or a memorable submission, his performance could well be in contention for a bonus.
Christian Lee is focused on pushing the pace if he goes the distance with Ok Rae Yoon
Christian Lee said he is focused on pushing the pace if he can’t find an early finish against Ok Rae Yoon at ONE 160.
In his third world title defense against Ok, Christian Lee fell short in the eyes of the judges at the end of the five-round bout. The 24-year-old was losing momentum fast after the third round due to prior submission attempts, which required a lot of energy.
In the championship rounds, Ok looked the fresher fighter, which may have given him the edge over Christian Lee to earn the belt.
The Singaporean-American fighter is adamant about fixing past mistakes. He told SCMP MMA:
"I'm going to make sure that I can push the pace hard for 25 minutes without breaking a sweat. And I plan on finishing him much sooner than that. But if it does go throughout five rounds, that's definitely not going to happen again.”
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HOD HASHARON, Israel,, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a premier provider of high-speed connectivity solutions for the audio-video and automotive markets, today announced that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, August 10, 2022.
In conjunction with this announcement, Valens will host a conference call on Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results and business outlook. To access this call, dial +1 (888) 642-5032 (U.S.), 0 (800) 917-5108 (UK), 03 918 0609 (Israel) or +972 3 918 0609 (all other locations).
A live webcast of the conference call will be available via the investor relations section of Valens' website at Valens - Financials - Quarterly Results. The live webcast can also be accessed by clicking herehttps://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3738517/9AF0A0B38E949620B4B996A6ACF5DE38. A replay of the conference call will be available on Valens' website shortly after the call concludes.
About Valens Semiconductor
Valens Semiconductor pushes the boundaries of connectivity by enabling long-reach, high-speed video and data transmission for the Audio-Video and Automotive industries. Valens' HDBaseT® technology is the leading standard in the Audio-Video market with tens of millions of Valens' chipsets integrated into thousands of products in a wide range of applications. Valens' Automotive chipsets are deployed in systems manufactured by leading customers and are on the road in vehicles around the world. Valens is a key enabler of the evolution of ADAS and autonomous driving and its advanced technology is the basis for the new industry standard for high-speed in-vehicle connectivity. For more information, visit https://www.valens.com/.
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Daphna Golden
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Valens Semiconductor Ltd.
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Moriah Shilton
Financial Profiles, Inc.
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HOLON, Israel, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNS) (TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, announced today that it will report on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022, the financial results for the second quarter 2022.
The company will host a conference call and webcast on August 3rd, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time (4:30 p.m. in Israel) to review and discuss Sapiens' results. Please call the following numbers (at least 10 minutes before the scheduled time) to participate:
- North America (toll-free): + 1-888-642-5032
- International: +972-3-918-0609
- UK: 0-800-917-5108
The live webcast of the call can be accessed on Sapiens' website at https://veidan.activetrail.biz/sapiensq2-2022 . A replay of the call will be available one business day following the completion of the event for 90 days.
About Sapiens
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative and agile. Backed by 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers' digital transformation. Serving more than 600 customers in 30 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across property and casualty, workers compensation and life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management. Sapiens' team of more than 4,800 employees operates through our fully-owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information visit www.sapiens.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
Investor Contact
Dina Vince
Head of Investor Relations, Sapiens
dina.vince@sapiens.com
Media Contact
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Chief of Marketing, Sapiens
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Forward Looking Statements
Certain matters discussed in this press release that are incorporated herein by reference are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act, Section 21E of the Exchange Act and the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are based on our beliefs, assumptions and expectations, as well as information currently available to us. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "may," "will," "plan" and similar expressions. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: the degree of our success in our plans to leverage our global footprint to grow our sales; the degree of our success in integrating the companies that we have acquired through the implementation of our M&A growth strategy; the lengthy development cycles for our solutions, which may frustrate our ability to realize revenues and/or profits from our potential new solutions; our lengthy and complex sales cycles, which do not always result in the realization of revenues; the degree of our success in retaining our existing customers or competing effectively for greater market share; difficulties in successfully planning and managing changes in the size of our operations; the frequency of the long-term, large, complex projects that we perform that involve complex estimates of project costs and profit margins, which sometimes change mid-stream; the challenges and potential liability that heightened privacy laws and regulations pose to our business; occasional disputes with clients, which may adversely impact our results of operations and our reputation; various intellectual property issues related to our business; potential unanticipated product vulnerabilities or cybersecurity breaches of our or our customers' systems; risks related to the insurance industry in which our clients operate; risks associated with our global sales and operations, such as changes in regulatory requirements, wide-spread viruses and epidemics like the recent novel coronavirus pandemic, which adversely affected our results of operations, or fluctuations in currency exchange rates; and risks related to our principal location in Israel and our status as a Cayman Islands company. While we believe such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, should one or more of the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, or these risks or uncertainties materialize, our actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Please read the risks discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F, in order to review conditions that we believe could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that future results, levels of activity, performance and events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or will occur. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason, to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations.
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ANA HOLDINGS INC. new brand operation, AirJapan, has selected a full suite of Radixx products including the Radixx Res Passenger Service System (PSS) to support its aim of combining the best of full-service and low-cost carrier offerings to travelers.
SOUTHLAKE, Texas and SINGAPORE and NARITA, Japan, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- – Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, today announced a new agreement between Sabre company Radixx and All Nippon Airways' (ANA) new airline brand, AirJapan. The carrier will use the full suite of Radixx products including the Radixx Res passenger services system (PSS) and mobile check-in capabilities to support its aim of meeting emerging trends for international travel with superior service at a competitive price.
While Air Japan Co., Ltd. currently operates flights on behalf of its parent company ANA HOLDINGS INC., under this venture AirJapan will be launched as an entirely new brand that will concentrate on value-based services on medium-haul international routes; aiming to provide a caring passenger experience with a newly created service concept and will be positioned between the ANA full-service and Peach Aviation low-cost brands within the ANA group of airlines.
"It's incredibly important to us that we have the right technology partner who not only understands the ever-evolving travel marketplace and specificities of the Japanese market, but who can enable us to ensure success as we prepare to launch AirJapan under the ANA Group umbrella," said Hideki Mineguchi, President CEO, AirJapan. "The broad range of solutions we have selected from Radixx will support us in our strategy of focusing on medium-haul international routes while creating a new kind of air travel experience that is neither a full-service carrier nor low-cost carrier, combining the best of both worlds while being firmly rooted in Japanese culture and quality."
In the agreement which further strengthens Radixx's presence in the Japanese market, AirJapan has selected a full suite of Radixx solutions:
Radixx Res – Radixx's proven, industry-leading core passenger system will enable AirJapan to centrally manage all passenger operations, sales channels and partnerships.
Radixx Go and Radixx Go Touch – to evolve AirJapan's check-in operation at airports and enable easy ramping up of operations during the high-demand season. Radixx Go Touch helps airline employees to transact full departure control capabilities from a mobile device, giving them freedom to check-in passengers away from the constraints of physical airport desks and counters. Mobile agents can fully process passenger sales at multiple touchpoints throughout the journey, from the hotel lobby to the airline lounge to the boarding gate.
Radixx ezyCommerce – an integrated e-commerce and mobile solution will allow AirJapan easy to differentiate their brand with personalized offers, and the flexibility to add ancillary offers and mobile check-in capability.
Radixx Insight – an analytics and revenue optimization platform that will enable AirJapan to leverage data to increase retailing effectiveness and optimize operations. By providing comprehensive views of the customer lifecycle with timely recommendations, Radixx Insight will enable better decision-making for AirJapan executives, while powering the airline's back-office systems.
"We're thrilled to enhance our relationship with ANA at this pivotal time for the AirJapan and for the Japanese travel industry by providing Radixx solutions that are built with robust security and system stability through our Google Cloud partnership," said Chris Collins, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Radixx. "AirJapan has carefully chosen a wide spectrum of complementary Radixx solutions that will enable them to make intelligent, intuitive decisions to streamline operations, optimize the traveler experience and enhance revenue opportunities while benefiting from ongoing innovation through Sabre's Google partnership. We look forward to seeing AirJapan aircraft take to the skies next year, supported by Radixx technology."
About Sabre Corporation
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visit www.sabre.com.
About Air Japan
As a member of ANA group, Air Japan was established in 1990 as an airline to operate international charter flights. The company changed its name from World Air Network. Co.ltd to Air Japan Co.,Ltd. in 2000, and started operating its first scheduled international flights between Osaka and Seoul. From 2003, Air Japan started operating flights from Narita to Asian countries and Honolulu as "ANA brand" international airline. Air Japan has always strived and will continue to meet the needs of our customers with promising safety, operation quality, and inflight services. We are honored to announce that Air Japan will start service as a new brand from 2023 with our firm foundation of experiences. With the new "AirJapan brand", we explore the way to fly, with a touch of Japanese thoughtfulness by refocusing on customer's true needs and delivering them simply. New "AirJapan brand" will operate with equal safety and operation standard as "ANA brand". We will also continue to operate Asian routes as "ANA brand". It is a whole new experience for one airline to take on the challenges of operating different brands. We are committed to making further strides through preparation and are looking forward to providing new values in the future.
About ANA HOLDINGS
Founded in 1952 with just two helicopters, All Nippon Airways (ANA) has grown to become the largest airline in Japan. ANA HOLDINGS Inc. (ANA HD) was established in 2013 as the largest airline group holding company in Japan, comprising 71 companies including ANA and Peach Aviation, the leading LCC in Japan. ANA is a launch customer and the largest operator of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, making ANA HD the biggest Dreamliner owner in the world. A member of Star Alliance since 1999, ANA has joint venture agreements with United Airlines, Lufthansa German Airlines, Swiss International Airlines and Austrian Airlines - giving it a truly global presence. The airline's legacy of superior service has helped it earn SKYTRAX's respected 5-Star rating every year since 2013, with ANA being the only Japanese airline to win this prestigious designation for nine consecutive years. ANA also has been recognized by Air Transport World as "Airline of the Year" three times (2007, 2013 and 2018); it is one of only a select few airlines to win this prominent award multiple times. In 2021, ANA was awarded the 5-star COVID-19 safety rating by SKYTRAX, recognizing the airline's initiatives to provide a safe, clean and hygienic environment at airports and aboard aircraft, embodied in the ANA Care Promise. ANA is the only company in the aviation industry to receive the Gold Class distinction from the 2022 S&P Global Sustainability Awards and ANA HD has been selected as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index list for the fifth consecutive year and the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index list for the sixth consecutive year.
For more information, please refer to the following link.
https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/
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- Monitors equipment health and issues maintenance requests
- Increases factory productivity and reduces downtime for major manufacturer
- Implements local AI for low cost, fast reaction times, and high data security
PORTLAND, Ore., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SensiML™ Corporation, a leading developer of AI tools for building intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, today announced that its customer, aiSensing, has successfully completed and deployed an endpoint AI-based vibration sensor for a large multi-national manufacturer in Asia. This intelligent endpoint monitors vibration patterns for multiple machines, detects potential anomalies, and issues maintenance requests when necessary. The result is reduced equipment downtime and higher overall factory productivity. Since the AI implementation is local, rather than cloud-based, the system features low cost, low latency and fast reaction times while simultaneously providing higher data security.
aiSensing's customer is one of the largest and most successful manufacturing companies in Taiwan. It is the leading manufacturer of specialty adhesives, footwear adhesives, hot-melt adhesives, and liquid and powder coatings. The company has adopted this Edge AI-based approach to detect anomalies for vacuum pumps and chilling machines used in its manufacturing flow, including problems related to lack of lubrication, water leakage, bearing failures, and belt failures. By identifying potential problems before they arise, maintenance issues can be addressed in a managed way rather than as ad hoc emergency situations. This type of predictive maintenance is a key component of modern smart manufacturing initiatives.
The AI-based endpoint was developed on a QuickLogic EOS S3 ultra-low power multi-core Arm Cortex® MCU-based SoC, which delivered more than enough processing bandwidth for the application at a low cost. The AI application running on the QuickLogic device was built using the SensiML Analytics Toolkit, which provided a complete solution for the quick development of this sophisticated IoT endpoint.
"Smart manufacturing is a significant trend across a broad range of industries," said Chris Rogers, chief executive officer at SensiML. "Predictive maintenance is one of the core initiatives in that trend, and aiSensing's vibration sensor is a great example of how to effectively use AI to implement a practical and cost-effective predictive maintenance solution."
"Our endpoint AI-based vibration sensor has been very successful," said Dennis Chu, chief technology officer at aiSensing. "Its low power consumption, fast response times, and low cost are the ideal combination of features for this predictive maintenance application. With the SensiML tools, we can easily modify the design to address new and unique requirements for our customers."
The SensiML Analytics Toolkit, QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC, and aiSensing's endpoint AI vibration sensor are each available now.
For more information on the SensiML tools, visit the SensiML website at: https://sensiML.com/products. More information on QuickLogic's EOS S3 SoC is available at https://www.quicklogic.com/products/soc. For more information on the aiSensing vibration sensor, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7TPI7i2vn4.
About SensiML
SensiML, a subsidiary of QuickLogic (NASDAQ: QUIK), offers cutting-edge software that enables ultra-low power IoT endpoints that implement AI to transform raw sensor data into meaningful insight at the device itself. The company's flagship solution, the SensiML Analytics Toolkit, provides an end-to-end development platform spanning data collection, labeling, algorithm and firmware auto generation, and testing. The SensiML Toolkit supports Arm® Cortex®-M class and higher microcontroller cores, Intel® x86 instruction set processors, and heterogeneous core QuickLogic SoCs and QuickAI platforms with FPGA optimizations. For more information, visit www.sensiml.com.
SensiML and logo are trademarks of SensiML. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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TORONTO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF) will release its second quarter 2022 financial results on Wednesday, August 3, after markets close. Sun Life will hold its earnings conference call and live webcast at 10:00 a.m. ET the following day.
Date: Thursday, August 4, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. ET
To listen to the live webcast and view the presentation slides, visit www.sunlife.com/QuarterlyReports 10 minutes prior to the start of the presentation. An archive will be available on the website following the event.
To listen via telephone, please call 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time as follows:
Participant Dial In (Toll Free): 1-833-634-2605, event name: Sun Life Q2 earnings call
Participant Dial In (International): 1-412-902-4130, event name: Sun Life Q2 earnings call
A replay of the conference call will be available from Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 1 p.m. ET until 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, August 18, 2022 by calling 1-855-669-9658 (Canada Toll Free), 1-877-344-7529 (U.S. Toll Free) or 1-412-317-0088 (International), using access code: 2586651.
Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing asset management, wealth, insurance and health solutions to individual and institutional Clients. Sun Life has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of March 31, 2022, Sun Life had total assets under management of $1.35 trillion. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com.
Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.
Media Relations Contact:
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Director, Corporate Communications
T. 226-751-2391
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Vice-President, Head of Investor Relations & Capital Markets
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NEW YORK – Ivana Trump, an icon of 1980s style, wealth and excess and a businesswoman who helped her husband build an empire that launched him to the presidency, is set to be celebrated at a funeral Mass in New York City on Wednesday following her death last week.
Ivana's three children with former President Donald Trump — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — are expected at the Wednesday afternoon gathering at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It wasn't clear whether the ex-president would join them.
Trump’s family announced Thursday that the 73-year-old had died at her Manhattan home. Authorities said the death was an accident, with blunt impact injuries to her torso as the cause.
“We all want to remember Ivana as the vibrant, sociable person she was,” said R. Couri Hay, a longtime friend of Trump’s who planned to attend the service.
Ivana and Donald Trump met in the 1970s and were married from 1977 to 1992. In the 1980s, they were a power couple, and she became well known in her own right, instantly recognizable with her blond hair in an updo and her glamorous look.
Ivana Trump also took part in her husband's businesses, managing one of his Atlantic City casinos and picking out some of the design elements in New York City's Trump Tower.
Their very public divorce was ugly, but in recent years they were friendly. Ivana Trump an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and said they spoke on a regular basis. | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2022/07/20/ivana-trumps-life-to-be-celebrated-at-a-funeral-mass-in-nyc/ | 2022-07-20T13:24:43Z | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2022/07/20/ivana-trumps-life-to-be-celebrated-at-a-funeral-mass-in-nyc/ | true |
- Monitors equipment health and issues maintenance requests
- Increases factory productivity and reduces downtime for major manufacturer
- Implements local AI for low cost, fast reaction times, and high data security
PORTLAND, Ore., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SensiML™ Corporation, a leading developer of AI tools for building intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, today announced that its customer, aiSensing, has successfully completed and deployed an endpoint AI-based vibration sensor for a large multi-national manufacturer in Asia. This intelligent endpoint monitors vibration patterns for multiple machines, detects potential anomalies, and issues maintenance requests when necessary. The result is reduced equipment downtime and higher overall factory productivity. Since the AI implementation is local, rather than cloud-based, the system features low cost, low latency and fast reaction times while simultaneously providing higher data security.
aiSensing's customer is one of the largest and most successful manufacturing companies in Taiwan. It is the leading manufacturer of specialty adhesives, footwear adhesives, hot-melt adhesives, and liquid and powder coatings. The company has adopted this Edge AI-based approach to detect anomalies for vacuum pumps and chilling machines used in its manufacturing flow, including problems related to lack of lubrication, water leakage, bearing failures, and belt failures. By identifying potential problems before they arise, maintenance issues can be addressed in a managed way rather than as ad hoc emergency situations. This type of predictive maintenance is a key component of modern smart manufacturing initiatives.
The AI-based endpoint was developed on a QuickLogic EOS S3 ultra-low power multi-core Arm Cortex® MCU-based SoC, which delivered more than enough processing bandwidth for the application at a low cost. The AI application running on the QuickLogic device was built using the SensiML Analytics Toolkit, which provided a complete solution for the quick development of this sophisticated IoT endpoint.
"Smart manufacturing is a significant trend across a broad range of industries," said Chris Rogers, chief executive officer at SensiML. "Predictive maintenance is one of the core initiatives in that trend, and aiSensing's vibration sensor is a great example of how to effectively use AI to implement a practical and cost-effective predictive maintenance solution."
"Our endpoint AI-based vibration sensor has been very successful," said Dennis Chu, chief technology officer at aiSensing. "Its low power consumption, fast response times, and low cost are the ideal combination of features for this predictive maintenance application. With the SensiML tools, we can easily modify the design to address new and unique requirements for our customers."
The SensiML Analytics Toolkit, QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC, and aiSensing's endpoint AI vibration sensor are each available now.
For more information on the SensiML tools, visit the SensiML website at: https://sensiML.com/products. More information on QuickLogic's EOS S3 SoC is available at https://www.quicklogic.com/products/soc. For more information on the aiSensing vibration sensor, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7TPI7i2vn4.
About SensiML
SensiML, a subsidiary of QuickLogic (NASDAQ: QUIK), offers cutting-edge software that enables ultra-low power IoT endpoints that implement AI to transform raw sensor data into meaningful insight at the device itself. The company's flagship solution, the SensiML Analytics Toolkit, provides an end-to-end development platform spanning data collection, labeling, algorithm and firmware auto generation, and testing. The SensiML Toolkit supports Arm® Cortex®-M class and higher microcontroller cores, Intel® x86 instruction set processors, and heterogeneous core QuickLogic SoCs and QuickAI platforms with FPGA optimizations. For more information, visit www.sensiml.com.
SensiML and logo are trademarks of SensiML. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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Five things to know about Tennessee soccer assistant coach Becky Edwards' professional career
With Joe Kirt's promotion to Tennessee soccer coach, an assistant position opened up. Kirt has filled it with former professional player Becky Edwards, who most recently served as an assistant at Penn for two years.
Edwards helped lead the Quakers to a 9-5-2 record in 2021, working directly with the offense which turned in 29 goals over 16 games. Before her time at Penn, Edwards was a graduate assistant at her alma mater, Florida State.
"For our players, Becky brings a firsthand perspective of what (success) looks like at a high level in college and also professionally," Kirt told Knox News. "We've got a lot of players that have aspirations to continue playing after their careers here. She can help guide them through that and talk through this is what it looks like."
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Decorated college career at Florida State
Edwards' career began at Florida State from 2006-09, where she was a two-time First Team All-American and made the semifinal list for the MAC Hermann Trophy, given to college soccer’s best player. The Seminoles had a 72-18-11 record and made the NCAA Tournament all four seasons Edwards played, making it to the College Cup twice.
She has won three professional championships
Edwards was drafted No. 12 overall in 2010 by FC Gold Pride, which played in the now-defunct Women's Professional Soccer league. She made 21 starts in 25 appearances as a rookie, helping lead the team to a WPS title alongside teammates like Canadian legend Christine Sinclair.
Edwards joined the Western New York Flash for the 2011 season where she won her second WPS Championship. Edwards signed with the Portland Thorns for the National Women's Soccer League's inaugural season in 2013. She only played 10 games that season before tearing her ACL, but the Thorns went on to win the NWSL title.
Was on the path to USWNT senior team
Edwards made a number of appearances for U.S. teams throughout her career. She was a captain for the team that won the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, playing with future USWNT stars like Alex Morgan, Alyssa Naeher and Sydney Leroux.
In 2011 she made the U.S. U-23 team and won the Four Nations Tournament Championship in Spain. Her performance earned her a call-up to the USWNT senior camp the same year and many thought she was due for another call-up in 2013 before she tore her ACL.
Had a nine-year professional career
Edwards was a veteran of U.S. women's professional soccer, playing through the folding of the WPS and in the early years of the NWSL. She also played two stints in Sweden.
Edwards played on four different NWSL teams in her four seasons in the league. She was picked once in an expansion draft and was part of a blockbuster trade in 2014 for former USWNT member Carli Lloyd. She finished her NWSL career with the Orlando Pride in the club's inaugural season in 2016.
Longtime teammate of Alex Morgan
Edwards played with Morgan at both the international level and club level. First in 2008 for the U.S. U-20 team and then again in 2011 when Morgan was drafted No. 1 overall by the Western New York Flash.
They played together for a season with the Thorns in 2013 and were reunited in 2016 for Edwards' final NWSL season when they were both traded to Orlando.
“My first professional team, Western New York Flash, Becky was the captain of that team and she was only maybe 24-years-old and that just shows the professionalism that she carries around and that she can lead no matter if she’s given the captain’s armband or not,” Morgan said when Edwards retired. “This year she wasn’t named captain but in a lot of ways she was a huge leader and a huge influence to this team and a lot of people looked up to her." | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/other-sports/2022/07/20/what-know-tennessee-soccer-assistant-coach-becky-edwards/10075085002/ | 2022-07-20T13:29:53Z | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/other-sports/2022/07/20/what-know-tennessee-soccer-assistant-coach-becky-edwards/10075085002/ | false |
Acquisition Expands SCA's Market Leading Position in California
CLEVELAND, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sweeping Corporation of America ("SCA"), the largest power sweeping company in the United States, acquired Central Valley Sweeping, LLC and Vacusweep, LLC. (collectively "the Companies"). The Companies, located in Visalia and Bakersfield, California, provide sweeping services to commercial customers, contractors, government entities and property management companies throughout the state. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
SCA's acquisition of the Companies marks SCA's tenth and eleventh transactions in 2022. Combined with SCA's February 2022 acquisitions of Contract Sweeping Services and Dickson Sweeping, the transaction expands SCA's footprint throughout the state of California.
"SCA is ecstatic about the opportunity to broaden our California footprint," said Michael Latanza, Chief Development Officer at SCA. "These transactions continue our strategy of contiguous growth by acquiring well established, best-in-class businesses. We look forward to continuing the Bawks family tradition of excellence."
The Companies management team, Matt Bawks and Christy Bawks, will continue to lead operations in the region for SCA. "Partnering with SCA allows us to continue our growth while providing greater resources to our employees and customers," said Matt Bawks, President of Central Valley Services.
This marks SCA's 45th & 46th acquisitions to-date. With these transactions, SCA has grown its team to over 2,000 employees in over 70 locations.
ABOUT SCA
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, SCA is the largest power sweeping services company in the United States. SCA self-performs power sweeping for highways, streets, industrial and commercial applications for both private and government entities. For more information on SCA, please visit www.sweepingcorp.com.
ABOUT CENTRAL VALLEY SWEEPING, LLC AND VACUSWEEP, LLC
Central Valley Sweeping (CVS) and Vacusweep, founded by Bill and Joanne Bawks, have been in business for over 30 years. They are currently owned and led by Matt Bawks and Christy Bawks, the second generation of the Bawks family in the industry, providing sweeping services to commercial customers, contractors, government entities, and property management companies throughout the state of California. CVS's and Vacusweep's missions are to provide quality professional cleaning and industrial sweeping services to meet their customers unique needs.
CONTACT:
Sweeping Corp of America:
Michael Latanza, Chief Development Officer
mlatanza@sweepingcorp.com
1-888-793-3746
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7 Delicious $7 Dishes is a Menu Featuring Seven Fresh, Made-to-Order, High-Quality, Classic and Fan-Favorite Dishes Now Available at Noodles & Company
BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noodles & Company, (NASDAQ: NDLS) the national fast-casual chain known for spreading Uncommon Goodness with its globally inspired noodle bowls, best-in-class service, and values-centric culture, announced today the introduction of 7 Delicious $7 Dishes, a tailored menu that features fresh and flavorful Noodles dishes starting at $7. The 7 Delicious $7 Dishes menu is now available at Noodles & Company restaurants nationwide. This menu includes regular full-size entrees with a variety of options for guests to choose from.
Uncommon Flavor
At Noodles & Company, guests will always find satisfying, fresh quality food, now at an even more valued price point. 7 Delicious $7 Dishes brings forth a satisfying, fresh, and made-to-order combination of flavors that guests cannot find at other fast-casual dining spots. 7 Delicious $7 Dishes features seven classic and fan-favorite dishes including Wisconsin Mac & Cheese, Japanese Pan Noodles, Pesto Cavatappi, Med Salad, Pasta Fresca, Spaghetti and Buttered Noodles. The variety on this menu highlights Noodles' range of globally inspired dishes while celebrating the delicious, high-quality food Noodles' guests know and love. From classic to indulgent to health-conscious dishes, there is something for everyone on the menu, all for a $7 price that's easy to swallow.
Noodles & Company Welcomes 7 Delicious $7 Dishes
"We're dedicated to bringing Uncommon Goodness to every step of our guest experience. We create options that not only satisfy our guests but add comfort and value to their lives," said Stacey Pool, chief marketing officer at Noodles & Company. "7 Delicious $7 Dishes features a combination of our fresh, high-quality dishes made from world-class ingredients that are now available at a value price point, so guests never have to sacrifice quality in their favorite dishes."
More for Noodles Rewards Members Including Free Delivery in August
All guests can enjoy 7 Delicious $7 Dishes, however, only Noodles Rewards members have access to even more exclusive value price points and rewards. Throughout August, Noodles Rewards members will have access to unlimited free delivery* with every order placed through Noodles.com and the Noodles app, making 7 Delicious $7 Dishes an even more satisfying deal. For more details, visit https://www.noodles.com/rewards/.
Becoming a Noodles Rewards member is simple. Guests can sign up for free via the Noodles mobile app or the Noodles website. Guests can conveniently get their value menu fix via quick-pickup, curbside pick-up, or delivery by placing an order online at noodles.com, via the Noodles mobile app, or by visiting their nearby Noodles location. 7 Delicious $7 Dishes is available now for a limited time only. For more details on 7 Delicious $7 Dishes visit Noodles.com.
*Offer valid from 8/1/2022 – 8/31/2022 only (Promotion Period). Get unlimited Free Delivery during the Promotion Period. Minimum order of $15, maximum order $200 (excluding taxes, gratuity, delivery or other fees). Must apply Free Delivery reward on 'my cart' screen prior to checkout to receive free delivery. Delivery available within Noodles' delivery areas from participating locations and is subject to availability. Free delivery reward cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions. Not valid on orders placed via third-party delivery platforms, call-in orders, catering orders delivery, carry-out or dine-in orders. For full Noodles Rewards terms and conditions, click here.
About Noodles & Company
Since 1995, Noodles & Company has been serving guests Uncommon Goodness and noodles your way, with noodles and flavors that you know and love as well as new ones you're about to discover. From indulgent Wisconsin Mac & Cheese to better-for-you Zoodles and Other Noodles, the company serves a world of flavor in every bowl. Made up of more than 450 restaurants and thousands of passionate team members and named one of America's Favorite Restaurants by Newsweek, Noodles is well-known for its delicious noodles and industry-leading team member benefits. Noodles has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity in 2021 and 2022 and one of America's Best Employers for Women in 2021. Additionally, Denver Business Journal has called Noodles one of the Best Places to Work for its unique culture focused on Uncommon Goodness and built on the value of "Loving Life" which begins by nourishing and inspiring its communities and every team member and guest who walks through the door. The company has also earned the Women in the Lead Certification for its investment in women-empowering initiatives for its female team members and has proudly partnered with the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance to build cultural intelligence within its teams. To learn more and to find the location nearest you, visit www.noodles.com
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The Stunning Fine Dining Restaurant and Lounge Located in Santa Clara's Westfield Valley Fair Focuses on Innovative Chinese Cuisine with High-Quality, Locally Sourced Ingredients
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iChina, a refined Chinese dining concept located in Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara, is pleased to announce the launch of it a la carte menu to be offered during dinner service. Additionally, Executive Chef Eddie Lam has created new dishes that reflect his innovative take on Chinese cuisine featuring locally sourced organic produce and humane and sustainable meats and seafood.
Due to its popularity during lunch service, guests can now partake in a grander version of iChina's a la carte menu when visiting for dinner. The menu features dishes inspired by all eight of China's culinary regions with an emphasis on Cantonese, Sichuan, and Shandong cuisine. With pricing starting at $14, guests can enjoy a wide range of flavor profiles and cooking techniques that allow for the high-quality ingredients to shine.
"My goal at iChina is to take guests on a journey to discover Chinese flavors as they've never tasted before," said Executive Chef Eddie Lam. "By restructuring the menu offerings and introducing our new dishes, we hope people feel inspired to try new cuisines and explore different cultures through our food."
Chef Lam believes in serving only the freshest and in-season ingredients such as locally sourced produce from farming partners and the most-high grade meat and seafood from purveyors across the world. Chef Lam's utilizes these stellar ingredients in his new menu items inspired by both tradition and innovation. Dishes include the Seafood Soup Dumplings, Typhoon Jumbo Soft Shell Crab, 48-hour Hong Siu Pork Belly, and Buddha's Delight with Braised Tofu.
iChina is inspired by its location in the heart of Silicon Valley where innovation is prominently ingrained in the local culture. One way Chef Lam demonstrates this is by valuing plating as well as taste, balancing artistry and authenticity to highlight the intricate flavors featured in every dish. For his new porridge dish, the base is served spread across an artist's palette with the seafood components intricately placed atop in a stunning design guaranteed to wow guests. The cuisine's thoughtfully intricate preparation contributes to the impeccable dining experience at iChina.
iChina means "love China" – a name that reflects a passion for Chinese cuisine, heritage, and culture. The restaurant offers three distinct dining options for guests: the JiuBa cocktail lounge on the first floor perfect for pre-dinner cocktails, a full-service dining room on the second floor, and four exclusive private dining spaces including a unique virtual reality room. Each setting is inspired by China's ancient imperial palaces and designed with an eye for grandeur.
iChina offers set lunch and a la carte menu from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays and a la carte menu for lunch on weekends. For dinner service, the new a la carte dinner menu will be introduced from July 19, 2022. iChina is conveniently located at Westfield Valley Fair at 2855 Stevens Creek Blvd. Ste 1891 in Santa Clara, CA. For more information on iChina, please visit www.ichinarestaurant.com.
Media Contact: iChinaPR@glodownead.com
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Achievement demonstrates commitment to delivering best-of-breed SaaS solutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif. , July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberRes, a Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) line of business, announced today that its cyber resilience products offered via software-as-a-service (SaaS) have all achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001.2013 certification of the Information Security Management System (ISMS) category.
By reaching this milestone, CyberRes' efforts to utilize industry best practices for developing, securing and operating SaaS products were validated by one of the industry's most well-known standards boards. To gain certification, CyberRes demonstrated that it implements, maintains and continually improves its SaaS offerings for information security management systems as it pertains to customer data and customer privacy.
"Receiving ISO 27001 certification is another example of why CyberRes is a trusted leader in the cyber security market," said David Gahan, Sr. Director CyberRes SaaS. "ISO 27001 certification is the gold standard when it comes to ensuring a business operates SaaS at a high level of professionalism with steadfast focus on protecting customers' most treasured assets - their intellectual property and other data. This external certification is a strong indication that CyberRes' SaaS offerings meet the standards needed for hosting mission critical processes and services."
The CyberRes SaaS offerings covered by the ISO 27001:2013 ISMS certification include:
- Security Operations
- ArcSight Intelligence
- ArcSight Intelligence for CrowdStrike
- ArcSight Recon Galaxy Public
- Galaxy Threat Acceleration Program Basic
- Galaxy Threat Acceleration Program Plus
- Identity and Access Management
- NetIQ Advanced Authentication
- NetIQ Identity Governance
- Data Security
- Voltage File Analysis Suite
- Voltage Secure Mail
- Application Security
- Fortify on Demand
- Fortify Hosted
More Information
Learn about ISO 27001 certification.
To see all of CyberRes' certifications, please visit CyberRes Certification and Standards page.
Join CyberRes on LinkedIn and follow @MicroFocusSec Twitter.
Note: The ISO 27001 Certification only for the SaaS offerings, not the individual products.
About CyberRes
CyberRes is a Micro Focus line of business. We bring the expertise of one of the world's largest security portfolios to help our customers navigate the changing threat landscape by building both cyber and business resiliency within their teams and organizations. CyberRes is part of a larger set of digital transformation solutions that fight adverse conditions so businesses can continue to run today, keep the lights on, and transform to grow and take advantage of tomorrow's opportunities.
Contact: microfocus@pancomm.com
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stoneweg U.S. LLC (Stoneweg US), a real estate investment firm specializing in multifamily acquisitions and developments, today announced the newest appointment to its Executive Leadership Team (ELT) Karen Weller, who joins as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.
As the EVP, Chief Financial Officer, Weller will oversee the Company's finance and accounting functions, which is currently comprised of Treasury, Finance, Accounting, and Fund Management teams; to ensure that the foregoing activities are aligned with the Company's overarching financial and strategic goals. Weller will lead all aspects of financial reporting, budgeting, transactions, forecasting, auditing, taxation, and financial compliance while working cross-functionally to cultivate effective and refined best practices that safeguard the Company's assets and financial interests. Weller will also head the department's automation efforts to propel the Company's innovation forward; while overseeing all third party relationships with key financial strategic partners.
"We are delighted to add Karen to the Executive Leadership Team," said Patrick Richard, CEO for Stoneweg US. "As our Chief Financial Officer, Karen's accounting acumen and broad range of industry experience will not only be valuable, but vital to the elevation and reshaping of our accounting processes; we welcome her leadership to catapult this critical component of our business to the next level."
Weller brings over 30 years of extensive accounting, treasury, and operations experience in structured finance, commercial real estate, and hospitality to the role. She began her accounting career with Deloitte & Touche where she worked in various senior capacities for over 10 years in four different countries, giving her experience with different cultures, industries and accounting standards. Following her 'Big Four' tenure, Weller entered the commercial real estate industry as Director of Technical Accounting for LNR Property Corporation, where she worked on structuring CMBS transactions before serving as Director of Operations for the firm's London office, garnering valuable expertise in investor relations, international debt and financing, and credit facility negotiations. Thereafter, Weller joined Royal Caribbean Cruises where she developed and executed the company's financial risk management strategies to hedge exposures to commodities, foreign currencies and interest rates before becoming
AVP of Finance tasked with managing strategic planning and expense management for the company's Celebrity Cruises division. Most recently, Weller headed up the accounting department for the Related Group, one of the largest condo and multifamily developers in South Florida before assuming the role of CFO for Housing Trust Group, a top 50 developer of affordable multifamily housing.
Weller holds a Bachelor of Commerce (BCOMM) degree from the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), and is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CTP (Certified Treasury Professional), and CA (Chartered Accountant).
About Stoneweg US: Stoneweg US is a multifamily real estate investment firm located in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, FL, with a portfolio valuation of approximately $1.9 Billion comprised of ~14,000 units. Dedicated to redefining multifamily housing, Stoneweg US invests in and develops communities through sustainable housing solutions and proven value-add strategies to drive healthy returns and enhance the resident experience. For more information on Stoneweg US, please visit: www.stoneweg.us.
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Henrik Stenson was removed as Ryder Cup captain for Europe, choosing guaranteed money offered by a Saudi-funded rival league over leading his team in the most celebrated event on the European tour schedule.
The LIV Golf series has three additions for its next 54-hole tournament at Trump National in New Jersey next week and Sky Sports said Stenson would be leaving for the rival league.
That meant giving up a captaincy that he accepted four months ago when he said, “I'm fully committed to my role as a captain and working hard toward the result we want in Rome.”
The Americans are coming off a record rout at Whistling Straits last year. The Ryder Cup next goes to Marco Simone outside Rome in 2023.
The European tour did not mention LIV Golf in its short statement Wednesday after meeting with the Swedish star, only that Stenson's captaincy “has been brought to an end with immediate effect.”
“In light of decisions made by Henrik in relation to his personal circumstances, it has become clear that he will not be able to fulfil certain contractual obligations to Ryder Cup Europe that he had committed to prior to his announcement as captain,” the statement said.
Luke Donald also was considered as European captain when the job was given to Stenson. Robert Karlsson also was an option and it would be surprising if Europe went back to Thomas Bjorn, the winning captain in France in 2018 and Europe's strongest voice.
Stenson is No. 171 in the world and has gone five years since winning a tournament against more than 20 players. He fits the profile of many players Greg Norman has signed up for his LIV Golf series — major champions whose best days are behind them.
He was thought to be the ideal candidate for the Saudis, but had to weigh cash against his legacy as a Ryder Cup captain. He chose one, then the other.
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South Hutchison Council clears some stumbling blocks to help IdeaTek bring in internet
SOUTH HUTCHINSON – Some “creative financing” on the part of the city of South Hutchinson will assist internet provider IdeaTek in bringing its high-speed fiber-optic service to the community of 2,500.
The South Hutchinson City Council approved a couple of actions on Monday night to set the plan in motion.
That included creating a “Community Improvement District (CID)” that encompasses a small parcel of ground in South Hutchinson the Buhler-based provider will build its service hub on.
The board also approved hiring bond counsel to assist in selling at least $1.5 million in taxable general obligation bonds to pay for the installation of the service.
Creating the CID will allow the company to pay off the pass-through bonds using a portion of customer service fees, explained South Hutchinson City Administrator Joseph Turner.
Turner said he's been working with the provider for months to find a way to bring the company to town.
Using the public bonds will let the company spread financing over 20 years, rather than a traditional seven to 10-year financing plan.
That would significantly lower monthly payments and enable the company to assume higher risk it would otherwise not take coming into a community where there is already a national competitor and unsure demand.
“This has been an extremely difficult process for a variety of reasons,” Turner said.
“South Hutchinson is not eligible for any available grant funding, stimulus funding, or statewide initiative opportunities even though we are a rural community, and our average household income is fairly low.”
The city has about 1,200 households and an average annual household income of just $36,500, Census data shows.
The town also has an existing internet provider, Cox, that provides some internet connectivity options.
A representative from Cox was present at Monday's meeting and objected to the plan as creating an “unfair playing field,” but Turner said he met with Cox officials previously and they indicated it was "not economically feasible to bring fiber to existing customers, only new neighborhoods."
IdeaTek’s practice has been to not go into an area already served by another provider until they have a committed number of customers to make it profitable.
Turner said some businesses in town are currently being served by the provider, but the plan is to make fiber-optic service accessible to every household and business in the community and it will be up to individuals whether to purchase the service.
Officials expected it to take about a year to get service available citywide.
Historically with a CID, sales taxes collected within the district are used to pay off the bonds. But there will be no sales taxes associated with the parcel, Turner said.
Instead, they will use special assessments levied against the IdeaTek property at the corner of Avenue C and Washington Street.
“Technically, we’ll be assessing the parcel (contained within the CID) and IdeaTek will be responsible for paying those special assessments,” Turner explained.
Special assessments often are used to finance infrastructure improvements like roads or waterlines serving a business or new housing subdivision.
IdeaTek will use money collected from user fees to make the assessment payments, though it may take a while to build up the customer base to cover the monthly assessment fee.
If payments are insufficient, the ordinance adopted on Monday allows the city to assess extra ad valorem taxes against the parcel to cover them.
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“According to conversations with our bond counsel, Gilmore & Bell, it is believed that this may be the very first usage of a CID to build out a fiber network in Kansas,” he said.
Following Monday's action, the next step, Turner said, is creating a development agreement outlining the obligations of each party, which will come back to the council sometime in the future.
The bonds will also cover any administrative costs incurred by the city in creating the CID or issuing the bonds.
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While the project cost currently is estimated at $1.5 million, the language creating the CID allows that to increase by 1% a month until the project begins.
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Which Diamond Naturals dog food is best?
When it comes to their care, our dogs rely on us to provide the best food possible. Diamond Naturals dog food can support a healthy dog at any stage of its life. Their formulas offer a balance of real meat and healthy superfoods along with a variety of fatty acids, vitamins and minerals designed to support overall good health.
If your dog is generally healthy and you’d like to switch it to a cleaner kibble, try Diamond Naturals Adult Premium Dry Dog Food With Pasture-Raised Lamb. This selection is formulated for adult dogs in need of general maintenance and solid nutrition.
What to know before you buy Diamond Naturals dog food
Stage of life
No matter which type of Diamond dog food you choose, it’s critical to tailor it to your dog’s stage of life. Puppies, adult dogs and senior canines all have different nutritional needs. Diamond Naturals offers specific formulas to support your pup no matter how young or old it is.
Wet vs. dry
There is some disagreement about whether wet or dry food is best for a dog — even among veterinarians.
- Wet food is easier to digest and can be more appetizing to picky eaters. Wet food may be best for dogs with sensitive teeth or gums or those needing additional hydration. However, this is an expensive choice and may lead to waste if your dog does not finish the entire can.
- Dry dog food is more economical. It also works to clean teeth and massage gums as your dog eats. However, it can be challenging to find a dry dog food that your dog enjoys.
What to look for in a quality Diamond Naturals dog food
Probiotics
Probiotics improve the health of your dog’s digestive system, as they help it access the nutrition in food. High-quality probiotics in Diamond Naturals dog food support overall wellness, too.
Added vitamins and minerals
Because dogs’ nutritional needs vary over a lifetime, it’s critical that it gets the proper vitamins and minerals at every stage of development. Diamond Naturals has created formulas for your dog ranging from puppy to senior.
No additives or preservatives
When dogs display tummy upset or skin sensitivity after eating, it may be in response to artificial additives or preservatives in the food. Diamond Naturals uses no additives or preservatives.
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While some dog foods use meat meal or meat by-products, Diamond Naturals uses real meat as the first ingredient in most of their premium dog foods.
Superfood ingredients
With superfood ingredients such as sweet potatoes, blueberries and cruciferous vegetables, your dog has natural dietary support that mimics what it might find in the wild. Superfoods for dogs convey many of the same benefits as humans, contributing antioxidants and vitamins that include C and E.
Grain-free options
If your dog is sensitive to grain, Diamond Naturals has you covered. With formulas for all life stages, this variety of food uses meat as the first ingredient and rounds out the list with zero fillers or artificial ingredients.
How much you can expect to spend on Diamond Naturals dog food
Diamond Naturals dog food is a premium dog food with a premium price tag. Expect to spend $20-$60 depending on the size of the bag and the formula you select.
Diamond Naturals dog food FAQ
Does your dog need a grain-free diet?
A. Some dogs are sensitive to grains and can experience symptoms such as upset stomach and excessive itching. If this is the case, a grain-free diet might help. However, you must be careful as some dogs can develop heart problems when on a grain-free diet for the long term. Talk to your veterinarian before switching to grain-free dog food.
What’s the best way to switch to Diamond Naturals?
A. Any change to your dog’s food should be made gradually.
- Swap 25% of the new food for your dog’s regular food every three days until you are feeding only the new food. This should take a week or two.
- Watch for any changes in behavior as you transition. This might include excessive itching or irritability.
- You may also notice changes in your dog’s bowel movements. This can be normal, but call your vet if you are concerned.
- Offer fresh, clean water along with the new food.
- When in doubt, check in with your vet.
What’s the best Diamond Naturals dog food to buy?
Top Diamond Naturals dog food
Diamond Naturals Adult Premium Dry Dog Food With Pasture-Raised Lamb
What you need to know: This is perfect for dogs at a healthy weight who need general nutrition and maintenance.
What you’ll love: This food contains real lamb and healthy omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. It’s made without corn, wheat or soy and includes probiotics for healthy digestion.
What you should consider: This is for adult dogs only. Some dogs may experience excessive gas when they first transition to this food.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Diamond Naturals dog food for the money
Diamond Naturals Senior Natural Dry Dog Food With Cage-Free Chicken
What you need to know: It has the perfect nutritional profile for your senior dog.
What you’ll love: Cage-free chicken is the first ingredient. It has probiotics and fatty acids in perfect balance for easy digestion and proper nutrition as your dog ages. It also includes glucosamine and chondroitin to support healthy joints.
What you should consider: Be sure to transition your older dog to this food slowly to help avoid digestive upsets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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Diamond Naturals Grain-Free Premium Dry Dog Food With Pasture-Raised Beef
What you need to know: This grain-free food provides a nutritious mix of proteins and superfoods that mimic a dog’s diet in the wild
What you’ll love: It is packed with protein such as beef and lamb and has probiotics and healthy fatty acids for a shiny coat and healthy skin. There are no grains, additives or fillers in this food.
What you should consider: It’s a very expensive option, and some dogs may not like it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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Henrik Stenson was removed as Ryder Cup captain for Europe, choosing guaranteed money offered by a Saudi-funded rival league over leading his team in the most celebrated event on the European tour schedule.
The LIV Golf series has three additions for its next 54-hole tournament at Trump National in New Jersey next week and Sky Sports said Stenson would be leaving for the rival league.
That meant giving up a captaincy that he accepted four months ago when he said, “I'm fully committed to my role as a captain and working hard toward the result we want in Rome.”
The Americans are coming off a record rout at Whistling Straits last year. The Ryder Cup next goes to Marco Simone outside Rome in 2023.
The European tour did not mention LIV Golf in its short statement Wednesday after meeting with the Swedish star, only that Stenson's captaincy “has been brought to an end with immediate effect.”
“In light of decisions made by Henrik in relation to his personal circumstances, it has become clear that he will not be able to fulfil certain contractual obligations to Ryder Cup Europe that he had committed to prior to his announcement as captain,” the statement said.
Luke Donald also was considered as European captain when the job was given to Stenson. Robert Karlsson also was an option and it would be surprising if Europe went back to Thomas Bjorn, the winning captain in France in 2018 and Europe's strongest voice.
Stenson is No. 171 in the world and has gone five years since winning a tournament against more than 20 players. He fits the profile of many players Greg Norman has signed up for his LIV Golf series — major champions whose best days are behind them.
He was thought to be the ideal candidate for the Saudis, but had to weigh cash against his legacy as a Ryder Cup captain. He chose one, then the other.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LS Power, a leading development, investment and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, today announced the release of its latest sustainability report covering the year ending 2021.
"Over the past year, our dedicated, passionate people have continued to make the nation's energy system cleaner, more efficient, and more resilient," said LS Power CEO Paul Segal in his letter accompanying the report. "Our 2021 Sustainability Report details our growing Energy Transition Platforms, our decarbonization efforts, our talented team, and the incredible philanthropy work that our people do," Segal said.
The report, entitled "Accelerating the Energy Transition," highlights LS Power's Energy Transition Platforms, which have grown to include nation-leading companies:
- CPower Energy Management (demand response and energy efficiency)
- Endurant Energy (microgrids)
- EVgo (EV charging)
- REV Renewables
- Rise Light & Power (New York City's largest energy provider)
- Waste-to-Renewable Fuel initiatives
REV Renewables is the newest member of the LS Power Energy Transition family. Formed in July 2021 out of LS Power's existing assets, REV consists of the largest non-utility owned portfolio of pumped storage hydro in the country, a sizeable lithium-ion battery portfolio, and a wind and solar portfolio that spans 14 states. "With an operating portfolio of more than 2.6 gigawatts and a substantial development pipeline, we see REV and its business model as critical to accelerating the energy transition," Segal said.
LS Power recognizes that identifying and developing a talented team requires unwavering focus. To support this effort and maintain a competitive advantage, LS Power's "Powering Change" initiative expands recruitment to qualified candidates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Powering Change complements LS Power's ongoing sponsorship programs that encourage women and other underrepresented communities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
In 2021, LS Power's community engagement program contributed nearly $1.7 million to over 250 charities and organizations across 16 states, including food banks, crisis centers, youth and STEM programs, environmental programs, and more.
The report also discusses LS Power's advocacy efforts to support competitive markets and the important role its flexible natural gas generation fleet plays in the energy transition by balancing the grid and avoiding power interruptions when renewable energy resources like wind and solar power are curtailed or offline due to weather conditions. "We recognize a void in the quest toward decarbonization — how to enable it smoothly and responsibly while keeping energy affordable and accessible. With our unique platform of resources, LS Power is driven to help fill that void," Segal said.
As with LS Power's inaugural sustainability report, the new report is informed by the Global Reporting Initiative Standards (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and accounts for LS Power's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance for the 2021 calendar year.
The LS Power Sustainability Report can be found on LS Power's website at https://www.lspower.com/sustainability.
About LS Power
LS Power is a development, investment and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector. Since its inception in 1990, in addition to its development of more than 660 miles of high voltage transmission, LS Power has developed, constructed, managed or acquired in total more than 45,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, natural gas-fired and battery energy storage projects. LS Power actively invests in distributed energy resource platforms, such as CPower Energy Management, Endurant Energy and EVgo, as well as Waste-to-Renewable Generation and Fuel initiatives. Additionally, LS Power invests in renewables and energy storage through REV Renewables. Across its efforts, LS Power has raised in excess of $48 billion in debt and equity financing to support North American infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.LSPower.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote new efforts to combat climate change, although he will not declare an emergency that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue despite increasing pressure from climate activists and Democratic lawmakers.
The White House said Tuesday it has not ruled out issuing such a declaration later, which would allow the president to reroute funds to climate efforts without congressional approval. On Wednesday, Biden will announce other new climate actions when he visits a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, which shuttered in 2017 but has since been reborn as an offshore wind power facility.
But since Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., hit pause on negotiations over climate spending and taxes last week, the public attention has shifted to a presidential emergency declaration and what the Biden administration could do with the newfound powers.
“It’s not on the table for this week,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of a climate emergency declaration. “We are still considering it. I don’t have the upsides or the downsides of it.”
The president has been trying to signal to Democratic voters that he’s aggressively tackling global warming at a time when some of his supporters have despaired about the lack of progress. He has pledged to push forward on his own in the absence of congressional action.
Declaration of a climate emergency would be similar to one issued by former President Donald Trump boosting construction of a southern border wall. It would allow Biden to redirect spending to accelerate renewable energy such as wind and solar power and speed the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. The declaration also could be used as a legal basis to block oil and gas drilling or other projects, although such actions would likely be challenged in court by energy companies or Republican-led states.
The focus on climate action comes amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, with Britain reaching the highest temperature ever registered in a country ill-prepared for such weather extremes.
The typically temperate nation was just the latest to be walloped by unusually hot, dry weather that has triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans and led to hundreds of heat-related deaths. Images of flames racing toward a French beach and Britons sweltering — even at the seaside — have driven home concerns about climate change.
The president vowed late last week to take robust executive action on climate after Manchin — who has wielded outsized influence on Biden’s legislative agenda because of Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate — hit the brakes on negotiations over proposals for new environmental programs and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
One of the biggest backers of fossil fuels within the Democratic caucus, Manchin has blamed persistently high inflation for his hesitation to go along with another spending package. His resistance has enraged other congressional Democrats who have ramped up pressure on Biden to act on his own on climate.
“I think given the global crisis that we’re facing, given the inability of Congress to address this existential threat, I think the White House has got to use all of the resources and tools that they can,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. On a climate emergency, “that’s something that I’ve called for, a long time ago.”
Biden, who served in the Senate for more than three decades, “has been chained to the legislative process, thinking about his past as a senator,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said at a news conference Monday night. “Now he’s unchained, and he has to go.”
John Podesta, board chairman of the liberal Center for American Progress, said environmental leaders met with senior White House officials on Friday to discuss policy ideas. Some proposals included ramping up regulations on vehicle emissions and power plants, reinstating a ban on crude oil exports and suspending new leases for oil drilling on federal lands and waters.
“If he’s going to make good on his commitments to do everything he can to bring emissions down, he’s got to pay attention to those critical regulatory issues that are facing him,” said Podesta, a former climate counselor for President Barack Obama.
Ben King, an associate director at the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm, said the United States is “nowhere close” to meeting ambitious goals set by Biden for reducing emissions.
Biden escalated the country’s emissions reduction target to at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. Under current policies in place at the federal and state level, the U.S. is on track to reach a reduction of 24% to 35%, according to the Rhodium Group’s latest analysis.
“Absent meaningful policy action, we’re far off track from meeting the goals that the U.S. is committed to under the Paris accord,” King said, referring to a 2015 global conference on addressing climate change.
Even as Democrats and environmental groups pushed Biden to act on his own, some legal scholars questioned whether an emergency declaration on climate change is justified.
“Emergency powers are designed for events such as terrorist attacks, epidemics and natural disasters,’’ said Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the liberty and national security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Jacob deGrom pushed back a simulated game scheduled for Tuesday after experiencing muscle soreness in his right shoulder.
New York said deGrom’s soreness was mild and the right-hander’s live batting practice was delayed to Thursday “out of an abundance of caution.”
The two-time Cy Young Award winner has been sidelined since spring training with a stress reaction in his right scapula. He made his third minor league rehab start last Thursday, pitching four innings of one-run ball for Triple-A Syracuse. He has been expected to return shortly after the All-Star break.
The Mets say he played catch Monday and Tuesday before opting not to face hitters at the team’s spring complex in Florida.
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TAMPA, Fla., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seafarer Exploration Corp. (OTCQB: SFRX) announced today the construction of the second-generation SeaSearcher platform focused on deeper water and multi-mode exploration. The upgraded design, which has a wider path of metal discrimination and 3D imaging, is more streamlined and rugged. It is designed to operate in both autonomous and towfish modes with in-field change out for high current sites. It will be an industry-leading device that integrates sub-bottom imaging, side-scan sonar, precision MEMS differential magnetometer array/direction finder, video recording, and metal discrimination on a single platform. All sensors will feed back to the SeaSearcher control panel to be displayed or processed by the machine learning algorithms. These changes will allow the second-generation SeaSearcher to cover more ground in a shorter time while continuing to produce results in real-time.
Kyle Kennedy, CEO of Seafarer, stated, "We have been impressed with the open water tests and live field tests on the Melbourne Beach Area 2 Ring Site where we have been working under an exploration permit from the Florida Division of Historic Resources (DHR). While the SeaSearcher did not see any gold or silver on its initial scan of the Ring Site, it did identify numerous materials including brass, iron, copper, aluminum, lead, and stainless steel."
"Our confidence increases with every area or site we scan with the SeaSearcher. Because the SeaSearcher is based on AI machine learning algorithms, the more it's used, the more its learning base grows. The more it learns, combined with known training sets, the more its abilities increase and the more it focuses our efforts towards high-precision, surgical archaeology. So, the process is working."
"We are now using the SeaSearcher, as weather permits, to scan several other shipwreck sites of interest. We have part of a shipwreck in Melbourne Beach Area 1 that we call the HTQ site. Additionally, we have pieces of what appears to be a shipwreck trail that is potentially from a historic sunken fleet, though a more thorough inspection of diagnostic artifacts must be completed to fully determine its origin. We have located several shipwreck sites that are beyond the nautical three-mile mark which all need to be scanned by the SeaSearcher. We are excited to scan the Juno Beach Admiralty Arrest site, where previously-conducted survey data was withheld from us by two different entities for the past 14 years. We have found the Juno Beach site has a large and thick teredo crust in the vicinity of the ballast pile that previous salvors assumed was the seabed. Obviously, the crew is anxious to use the SeaSearcher to scan the crust and see what lies beneath it."
Mr. Kennedy concluded, "There are also treasure salvors, both domestic and abroad, who would like to lease the SeaSearcher for use on their shipwreck sites. With all of these sites in our immediate and near future, we have plenty to keep us busy. I believe our shareholders will enjoy and appreciate seeing our technological advances and future finds. All of this professional work bodes well for our newly initiated media endeavor."
Seafarer Exploration Corp. is a publicly traded underwater exploration and technology company traded under the symbol SFRX. The principal business of the company is to develop the infrastructure and technology necessary to engage in the archaeologically-sensitive research, documentation, exploration, recovery, and conservation of historic shipwrecks. The company has secured multiple sites it believes contain historic and valuable shipwrecks. The company will use accepted archaeological methods to properly document, research and recover portions of the wrecks. Seafarer employs scientists and historians and is committed to preserving the cultural and historical significance of every wreck it finds. www.seafarercorp.com.
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Company recognized as a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion" for the second year in a row
BLUE BELL, Pa., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion received a top score for the second consecutive year in the 2022 Disability Equality Index®. For this year's index, Unisys scored a 100, signifying the company as a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion."
The Disability Equality Index (DEI) is a joint initiative of Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). The index is a comprehensive benchmarking tool to measure disability workplace inclusion and is designed to help companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions to help reinforce their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Each company receives a score on a scale of zero to 100 based on a review of key performance indicators, including: culture and leadership, enterprise-wide access, employment practices, community engagement, supplier diversity and non-U.S. operations.
"There is no single best way to practice disability inclusion, however, the companies taking the DEI share the desire to create a workplace that fosters the concept of bringing your whole self to the office," said Maria Town, president and CEO of AAPD. "We look forward to working with all of the participants to help identify meaningful ways to build upon their current practices as we continue on the disability inclusion journey together."
"At Unisys, we prioritize breaking down the barriers individuals face and fostering an inclusive culture that cultivates respect, positivity and equal opportunity for all," said Katie Ebrahimi, senior vice president and chief human resources officer, Unisys. "We are humbled by this recognition for the second year in a row and are inspired to continue nurturing an environment in which all of our people, partners and suppliers are valued."
Unisys releases an annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report, highlighting the company's initiatives to champion a culture that welcomes all perspectives and people. For more information about Unisys' diversity, equity and inclusion program, click here.
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Grim warnings issued as oppressive heat wave in US shows no signs of slowing
As an oppressive heat wave spreads across the United States — and shows no sign of slowing until at least through the weekend — local leaders across the country are urging extreme caution.
The scorching heat that has already settled across much of the south-central U.S. and prompted heat warnings and advisories across the region is now beginning to extend into the Northeast Wednesday, bringing "steamy temperatures into the 90s" and heat index values — in other words, how hot it will actually feel, based on both the air temperature and humidity — that are even higher, according to the Weather Prediction Center.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared a heat emergency through Thursday and announced there will be at least a dozen cooling centers at facilities across the city and more than 50 splash pads at parks and playgrounds.
"It is clear that a changing climate is a risk to our health," the mayor said.
A heat advisory is in effect Wednesday morning through 8 p.m., and theheat index is forecast to soar past 100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Boston.
Connecticut's governor activated the state's extreme hot weather protocol through Sunday which will help, in part, ensure the availability of cooling centers.
In New York, state leaders urged residents to stay indoors in the coming days to avoid the "dangerous conditions that can lead to heat stress and illness," said Jackie Bray, commissioner of the state's homeland security and emergency services division.
At least one-third of the U.S. population is under heat advisories and excessive heat warnings and roughly 265 million people will see temperatures above 90 degrees in the coming days — with some of the highest temperatures forecast over the southern Plains.
Little Rock, Arkansas, recorded its 10th day this year with temperatures of at least 100 degrees on Tuesday, according to the NWS. The service warned Wednesday will be "another brutal day," with both hot temperatures and dangerous heat indices.
Fort Worth, Texas, which Tuesday reported a record 109 degrees, is under an excessive heat warning Wednesday with temperatures forecast to reach up to 110 degrees.
In Oklahoma, where temperatures topped 100 degrees in much of the state Tuesday, the extreme heat and drought has led to wildfires and rural water system outages, Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security spokesperson Keli Cain told CNN.
And it's not just the U.S.: The climate crisis has been pushing weather to the extreme all over the world, with a searing heat wave also sweeping through Europe this week.
In Texas, some prisons are without air conditioning
Oklahoma and Texas saw some of the highest temperatures in the region Tuesday — with a record high 115 degrees recorded in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Other parts of the state also soared past triple-digit highs, including Abilene, which recorded 110 degrees Tuesday. Austin set its own daily record high with 106 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
But a number of incarceration facilities across the state do not have working air conditioning, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
"There are 100 (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) units, 31 have full AC, 55 have partial AC, and 14 have no AC. We take numerous precautions to lessen the effects of hot temperatures for those incarcerated within our facilities," Amanda Hernandez, a spokesperson for the department, told CNN In an email.
The state has had at least four heat waves this season, a hot streak that started impacting residents even before summer's official start. And with the ongoing sweltering heat, some people in the criminal justice system have fallen ill from heat-related injuries.
"In 2022, there have been seven inmates who required medical care beyond first aid for heat related injuries, " Hernandez said. "None were fatal."
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the organization that operates much of the state's electric grid, set another unofficial record for demand Tuesday, a spokesperson told CNN. Another record is expected Wednesday.
Chief heat officers helping cities cope
As longer stretches of excessive heat have become more common, some local governments have hired chief heat officers to help navigate the response.
Jane Gilbert, chief heat officer for Miami-Dade County, told CNN's Don Lemon Tuesday that Miami now has nearly double the days with a heat index over 90 degrees than it did in the 1970s.
"And we're getting many, many more days with the heat index, the more extreme levels of 103, 105," Gilbert said. "That is not only concerning to people's health but their pocketbooks. Our outdoor workers can't work as long, they lose work time. People can't afford this AC, the higher electricity cost. It's both a health and an economic crisis."
Those without air conditioning can keep cool by leaving windows open, using fans and putting cold towels on their necks, Gilbert said. She also suggested people check on their friends, family and neighbors.
"Elderly, young children, people with certain health conditions can be more vulnerable to the heat. It's really important to check on those people and make sure that they have the ability to take care of themselves," Gilbert said.
David Hondula, director of the Office of Heat Response and Mitigation for Phoenix, echoed that sentiment, saying, "The heat can affect everyone, we're all at risk."
Hondula suggested particularly keeping an eye on community members who may not have access to regular shelter.
"If we see somebody sleeping, for example, out in the sun on a hot surface, don't assume they're just taking a nap. There could be a real medical emergency there and a call to 911 might be necessary," he said.
Why heat and humidity are especially dangerous
Heat is one of the top weather-related causes of death in the U.S., according to Kimberly McMahon, public weather services program manager with the National Weather Service.
"Heat affects everyone by limiting the body's ability to cool down," McMahon said.
High humidity levels only further limit that ability.
"Sweating removes 22% of excess body heat by redirecting heat towards the evaporation of the sweat," CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said. "High humidity means that there is more moisture in the air. Since there is significantly more moisture in the air, it causes sweat to evaporate slower, which leads to a slowing down of your body's natural ability to cool. That is why heat indices on a day with high humidity can feel significantly hotter than the actual temperature of the air."
Too much heat and humidity can lead to heat-related illnesses including heat cramps, a heat rash, heat exhaustion "and — the worst of all — heat stroke, which can result in death," McMahon said.
There are an average of 702 heat-related deaths and 9,235 hospitalizations each year across the country, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the threat is only increasing, according to the agency.
"Extreme heat is a real threat and needs to be taken seriously," McMahon added.
Those who are more vulnerable to the high temperatures include outdoor workers, pregnant women, people with heart or lung conditions, young children, older adults and athletes, according to the CDC. | https://www.wxii12.com/article/grim-warnings-issued-heat-wave-us-shows-no-signs-of-slowing/40664150 | 2022-07-20T13:47:06Z | https://www.wxii12.com/article/grim-warnings-issued-heat-wave-us-shows-no-signs-of-slowing/40664150 | true |
LITLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock police are investigating after a shooting left one person dead Tuesday night.
According to the Little Rock Police Department, detectives were notified that a victim arrived at Arkansas Children’s Hospital shortly after 10 p.m.
Officers said that the victim received medical attention, but later died from his injuries. Police have not released the victim’s identity at this time
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With the year now more than half over, Marion County Commission President Randy Elliott is optimistic about how the rest of 2022 will go, and he’s looking forward to broadening the economic, recreational and housing opportunities for residents.
Elliott said these three opportunities are the most important a county commission can provide to make their county the “complete package,” and he believes that he and his fellow commissioners — Ernie VanGilder and Linda Longstreth — have been able to further those opportunities this year.
“The future looks bright, and I like what I see,” Elliott said. “A lot of great things are happening. We just have to be on top of it and make sure we take advantage of the opportunity we have. … You can’t stand still. You’ve got to keep moving and finding things to better Marion County, and we’re doing that. … We’re firing on all cylinders; we’re connecting all of the dots; and we’re right where we want to be.”
On the economic side, Elliott said he’s proud of the growing relationship the county has with the Marion Regional Development Corporation, which acts as the economic arm of both the county and Fairmont.
“Any kind of economic development creates jobs, opportunity, prosperity and taxes,” Elliott said. “We are very happy with the things we’re doing economically with our partnership with the MRDC. We have great people running the show, and they have a lot of things in the making now.”
Meanwhile, the county invested $500,000 in Palatine Park earlier this year to add hundreds of new seats, including bleachers, new benches and picnic tables and more. The project also added more coverings to protect park-goers from the rain and sun.
“It’s very important to have things for people to do,” Elliott said during a February commission meeting. “You can’t charge the taxpayer for everything. To provide them with quality entertainment at a quality park at no cost is important for us. It’s something that the taxpayers and citizens of Marion County deserve. … The people deserve something for the taxes they already pay.”
Marion County Administrator Kris Cinalli, who oversees the park’s events, said the improvements should be fully completed by next week, and so far, people are loving them.
“We’re still kicking around the idea of taking the tiered bank clear across the park, and we probably will, but timing is going to be tough on that,’ Cinalli said. “(Overall), so far, so good, especially with the covered seating. There are people who prefer not to carry their own chairs and all of that stuff and sit up there. I think it’s a little more convenient and easy to sit up there. Everyone has taken well to it.”
Next week, the Marion County Development Authority will meet in person for the first time since 2019. The authority offer interest-free loans to the county’s 11 municipalities, and it currently has $680,000 ready to give out, according to Elliott.
Over the past few county commission meetings, commissioners have taken steps to appoint new people to the authority in an attempt to “reactivate” it. While Elliott himself is ready for the MCDA to meet once again, so is fellow commissioner Linda Longstreth.
“What we’re hoping to do is reach out and find out what kind of projects we have,” Longstreth said during a June commission meeting. “Mainly, it’ll be infrastructure, like something with water or sewer or something, but these small towns don’t have any money. … (We want to) sit down and say, ‘What’s needed in this county? What’s needed in Grant Town or Fairview? What can we do to help?’ We haven’t done that in so long that I feel left out. …
“We talk about Fairmont and we talk about Palatine, but we have these small communities that are really trying very hard to do something good. Mannington has put up two or three new businesses recently. They’re trying to do their own and make their own money and stand on their own, but we need to be there as a county commission to help them,” she said.
Elliott also is hoping that Marion County soon receives the second half of the $10.9 million that was allocated to it through the American Rescue Plan Act. He said the first half of the allocation has already been dedicated or spent to help the municipalities and public service districts.
“We (worked) a priority list up of all the applicants,” Elliott said. “With that money, we had about 30 (applicants) and made a priority list: ones, twos and threes, ones being the most important. Fortunately enough, with all of the applicants we had for the money, we were able to fill all of the ones and all of the twos.”
With the second half of the allocation, though, Elliott said the rules are a little different, and the county commission may be able to use the funds to help backfill its budget or expand other services.
“For example, during COVID, nobody traveled,” Elliott said. “Our hotel/motel tax was down a lot of money. Things like that were affected during the two years we’ve struggled under COVID. … I’d assume we’ll backfill some of the money that was needed in the general funds. What I’d hope to do is look in another direction, too, like maybe broadband. …
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EXCLUSIVE: Another 101 Ash St Legal Memo Questioned City’s Motives in Using Lease
By Arturo Castañares
Editor-at-Large
A legal memo addressed to the San Diego City Attorney’s office regarding the 101 Ash Street building raised critical questions about the City’s true motives in approving a 20-year lease that the outside lawyers said City Attorney Mara Elliott signed despite being “disproportionately unfavorable to the City”, but the memo, along with a later version, were withheld from the City Council by the City Attorney’s office.
The City acquired the 19-story downtown office tower in 2016 through a controversial 20-year lease-to-own agreement with Cisterra Development who, in turn, simultaneously purchased the building from sellers Sandor “Sandy“ Shapery and “Papa” Doug Manchester.
For over four years, no one involved in the deal has explained exactly why the City chose the more costly alternative of a lease rather than purchasing the building directly, but the newly obtained legal memo from last year concluded that “the rationale provided by City staff in the available staff reports is incongruous and raises questions on its own.“
La Prensa San Diego reported last month on a leaked June 15, 2020, memo written by outside lawyers from the law firm of Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP, which concluded that San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott failed to properly vet the 101 Ash Street building deal before she approved it, which later led to the abandonment of the building because of asbestos exposure, over $25 million in lease payments paid for the empty building, over $30 million in renovations, and several pending lawsuits, including a taxpayer challenge to cancel the lease.
The June 15, 2020, memo was the basis of a news report by NBC 7/39 in September 2020 which the City Attorney’s office and others disputed because of one footnote which Elliott contends was “fabricated” and not included in the memo sent to the City, but now an earlier memo seems to bolster the legitimacy of the disputed footnote by asking the same line of questioning included in that comment.
EARLY MEMO ASKED QUESTIONS
The newly obtained memo is dated April 7, 2020, five weeks before the June 15th memo, but is substantially similar in that it too calls out the City Attorney’s office for its lack of due diligence review which “deviated from acceptable standards by failing to conduct further analysis, commissioned on its own, to further explore the presence of asbestos on the Property.“
This earlier version also includes an additional fifth section which posed nine questions to the City Attorney’s office and included eleven requests for documents “that could aid Burke in further analyzing the transaction.”
The April 7th memo asked the City Attorney’s office nine questions to better research and understand the process that led to the City signing the 20-year lease, as well as documents and correspondence regarding the interactions between City staff and Cisterra, and correspondence between City staff and the building’s sellers before the deal was signed.
The questions and requested documents are later referenced in the June 15th memo, re-enforcing the view that the Burke law firm was attempting to understand the facts and exact steps preceding the approval of the lease agreement, and which led their later memo to conclude the lease terms were “disproportionately unfavorable to the City.”
The questions and documents in the April 7th memo concern the issue of why the City chose to acquire the building through a lease instead of purchasing it directly from the sellers or from Cisterra after its purchase, a question not clearly answered by pretextual arguments made by City officials at the time.
The April 7th memo asks “Why did the City not consider simply purchasing the property from Cisterra after it closed, or negotiating directly with the former owner for a higher price?“, questioning why City leaders chose the path that cost taxpayers at least $17 million more than a purchase would have.
“Ultimately, despite the fact that the lease-to-own option would cost approximately $17 million more than the purchase option, the City opted not to pursue the purchase option because language in Cisterra’s agreement with the former owner purportedly disallowed a transfer of Cisterra’s purchase rights,” the April 7th memo states.
Interestingly, the April 7 memo then includes a footnote, number 4, that calls attention to “multiple incongruities” in the explanations City officials have given for choosing a lease over a purchase.
“There are multiple incongruities in this factual history, as discussed later in this Memorandum. For instance, if Cisterra knew it was contemplating a transfer of its purchase rights to the City when it was negotiating with the former owner, why did it agree to a restriction on such a transfer?”
The memo also challenged the position of City officials that the agreement with Cisterra prohibited the City from buying the building directly from the sellers.
“Was the City ever given a copy of Cisterra’s purchase agreement with the prior owner? Did it truly prevent a transfer of Cisterra’s purchase rights to the City as stated in the City’s staff reports? If so, why did Cisterra agree to that if it knew it may seek to transfer its purchase rights to the City?”
After receiving answers and documents requested in the April 7th memo, the Burke lawyers then refined their analysis in the June 15th memo relative to the arguments used by the City to justify a lease instead of a purchase.
“The City also provided Burke with additional documents that it requested after its initial review, including but not limited to (i) the contract by which Cisterra purchased the property from the former owner, (ii) certain City legal analysis relating thereto, (iii) correspondence between the City and Cisterra leading up to the transaction. and (iv) City analyses and external communications relating to alternative proposed deals. In addition, the City’s Director of Real Estate Assets, Cybele Thompson, answered a number of questions from Burke, both in writing and ultimately in a series of telephonic interviews on May 21 and 22, 2020.”
The June 15th memo notes language found in the City’s agreement with Cisterra which specifically stated that Cisterra was “able and willing” to assign its rights to purchase the building to the City, contradicting City officials’ statements.
“If the City ultimately desires to buy the Property directly, using its own financing capabilities, Cisterra is able and willing to assign its rights under the (purchase agreement) to the City.”
The memo then points out that the Purchase Agreement between the sellers and Cisterra specifically contemplated an assignment to the City if it wanted to purchase the building directly, because the agreement states that the seller’s consent is required for assignment, except for transfers “in connection with effecting a City Transaction“, which was defined as “a transaction by which the City of San Diego (‘City’) will occupy the Building.“
The June 15th memo, however, also notes the City Attorney’s office issued a confidential memo to the City Council arguing that there was ambiguity in the Agreement as to whether the term “will occupy” would be met if the City purchased the building to be occupied by its own staff.
Although a plain reading of the language seems clear that the City purchasing the building for use by its employees would constitute occupying the building, the “ambiguity” was cited as the only reason the City would not pursue a purchase instead of a lease.
La Prensa San Diego recently asked current City Council members if they had seen or been briefed on the Burke memo. Four current members said they had not seen the memo until La Prensa published it last month. Additionally, two members who served on the Council last year when the memos were written also said they had not seen the memo.
FOOTNOTE 15 NOW SEEMS MORE PLAUSIBLE
The June 15th memo outlines an “Analysis of City’s Review of Transaction”, and concludes that the “history of the transaction gives rise to other concerns regarding the City’s overall structure and review of the transaction.”
The memo reviews the three main arguments used by City officials to justify the more expensive lease over a purchase, but then concludes that “there are at least some questions raised by these explanations that are not answered by the known facts.“
This is where a comment in a footnote, known as Footnote 15, lays out some lingering questions that could have been answered by interviewing City officials involved in the decision to use a lease, including Todd Gloria, who championed the lease deal when he was still on the City Council in 2016.
“One question is whether Ms. Thompson, Deputy COO Ron Villa, COO Scott Chadwick, and a member of the City Council misrepresented the transaction to the public and other members of the City Council. Apparently on September 16, before the revised transaction was scheduled to be presented to a City Council Committee, Ms. Thompson and Mr. Villa met with Council President Todd Gloria and two of his staff members for an ‘update’ on the transaction; Mr. Gloria had previously been skeptical about the lease-to-own structure when it was used for a prior acquisition, but was supportive of the 101 Ash transaction when it came to the Committee and made the Council motion to approve the Lease Agreement. The discussions during the update could be informative about why the City went forward with the transaction despite the unfavorable language in the lease Agreement, the due diligence materials available to the City, and the substantially higher cost of the lease-to-own structure. However, we were unable to obtain the City Attorney’s approval to interview Mr. Gloria or his staff (all of whom are no longer in the employ of the City).”
NBC7’s inclusion of the footnote in its September 2020 story set off a firestorm of denials and accusations from both City Attorney Mara Elliott and Todd Gloria, at that time a candidate for Mayor. Elliott disputed that any such comments were sent to her office by the outside lawyers, and both she and Gloria disputed that Burke lawyers ever questioned or attempted to question him in relation to the issues raised in the memo.
But the comments in Footnote 15 only stated that the Burke lawyers could not understand the reasoning behind opting for a lease and that interviewing Gloria could be “informative” about why the City chose the more expensive option.
The language of Footnote 15 and its parenthetical usage to clarify statements in the memo seem consistent with the language in other footnotes in the June 15 memo, as well as Footnote 4 in the April 7th memo.
Regardless of Footnote 15, the June 15th memo dedicated four paragraphs in the body to analyzing the public reasons given by City officials for pursuing a lease instead of a purchase.
Now, in the context of the April 7th memo and findings of the June 15th memo, it appears that the lawyers for Burke were still confused as to why the City chose the more expensive and less transparent process of the lease instead of using its cheaper public bond financing to buy the building directly because none of the reasons articulated by City officials provided sound legal or financial justifications for the lease.
The Burke lawyers were not alone in questioning the narrative.
During the discussions of the lease deal at the City Council’s Land Use Committee on September 16, 2016, Councilman David Alvarez challenged City Chief Operating Officer Ron Villa and City Real Estate Director Cybele Thompson as to why the City wasn’t buying the building directly.
“What’s the reason why we can’t buy the building directly?”
Thompson repeated the argument that Cisterra’s Purchase Agreement could not be assigned to the City, then Villa jumped in to say that “the language in that purchase and sale agreement is not clear enough to our bond counsel to be comfortable in making sure that that sale could go through or could be completed and then both parties would be liable.”
Alvarez was still not convinced. He again asked why the City could not buy the building directly from the owners instead of through Cisterra and realize an estimated $16 million or more in additional savings for taxpayers. Thompson and Villa both pushed back that the language was not clear that the City could step into Cisterra’s place to buy the building directly.
In the end, Alvarez backed down from his line of questioning and the lease was unanimously approved by the Committee and later unanimously approved by the entire City Council the following month.
City Attorney Mara Elliott signed the deal on December 19, 2016, just seven days after assuming office.
THE MISSING PIECE TO THE PUZZLE
What Councilman Alvarez didn’t know during that committee hearing on September 21, 2016 -and what the Burke lawyers also didn’t know last year when writing their memos attempting to analyze the decision to pursue a lease instead of a purchase- was that a private meeting had taken place in then-Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s office which shut down any attempt to purchase the building directly, and it was not for legitimate financial or legal reasons.
La Prensa San Diego was the first media outlet to report last year that, during a meeting in his office on September 6, 2016, then-Mayor Kevin Faulconer directed the top officials in the City to only pursue a lease deal instead of a direct purchase so that Faulconer would not be seen as paying the windfall profits from the deal directly from the City to Doug Manchester.
Manchester was one of the two owners of the building but also one of Faulconer’s biggest campaign contributors and an antagonist among Democrats and the gay community over his past support for a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
City staffers in that pivotal meeting included Faulconer’s Chief of Staff Stephen Puetz, City Chief Operating Officer (COO) Scott Chadwick, Assistant COO Stacey LoMedico, Deputy COO Ron Villa, City Chief Financial Officer Mary Lewis, Real Estate Director Cybele Thompson, and two additional mayoral staffers.
Multiple people in the meeting confirm that Faulconer directed staff to only pursue a lease to void the political ramifications of paying Manchester directly, and also to not use Manchester’s name in any of the documents or presentations related to the lease deal. Manchester’s name was conspicuously absent from all subsequent discussions of the building.
In fact, two weeks later, during the Council committee meeting to approve the deal, Gloria asked staff how quickly the marque name could be removed from the building without mentioning that the name was Manchester Financial owned by Manchester.
La Prensa San Diego’s revealing story about Faulconer’s directive was published a few months after the Burke memos had been written, leaving the pivotal fact about the true reason for pursuing a lease out of the discussions.
It would appear from the April 7 and June 15 memos that the Burke lawyers could not fully understand or conclude from “the known facts” why the City chose the more costly option because none of the public statements or documents clearly pointed to any justifiable financial or legal reason to do so.
The existence of Faulconer’s directive to pursue of lease for political reasons -not financial or legal considerations- provides the missing piece of the puzzle which could have provided the Burke lawyers much needed clarity into the deal had it been disclosed during their review of the building transaction.
A former high-ranking City official involved in the transaction told La Prensa San Diego that there were no coherent financial or legal reasons to pursue a lease over a direct purchase, but that it was solely Faulconer’s directive which led that decision.
DRIVERS BEHIND THE DEAL
Additional information has come out this year that sheds more light on the transaction and the motives behind using a lease rather than a direct purchase.
After months of avoiding questions, the City’s private real estate advisor, broker Jason Hughes, admitted earlier this year that he received over $4.4 million as part of a profit split with Cisterra on the 101 Ash deal, in addition to another $5 million in splits from a nearly-identical lease deal signed with the City one year earlier for the Civic Center Plaza (CCP) building where the City Attorney’s office is housed.
Emails and documents show that Hughes helped convince the City to execute both leases which allowed him to receive hidden profits instead of traditional broker fees which would have been disclosed in a purchase. Until his admission this year, no one beyond Cisterra and “higher ups” in the City knew Hughes had an economic interest in the leases, seemingly in violation of state conflict-of-interest laws.
The City has filed lawsuits to invalidate both the 101 Ash and the CCP leases based on Hughes’ previously undisclosed profits in the deals. Hughes has since produced a letter he sent to Faulconer’s office in November 2014 stating that he would “seek to be paid customary compensation from any other parties in the [CCP] transaction“, but no records have been made public showing Hughes ever informed the City that he had actually executed a split of profits with Cisterra on that deal, or any such letter sent to the City relating to the 101 Ash deal two years later.
Hughes was first appointed to be an unpaid “Special Advisor to the Mayor” in 2013 by then-Mayor Bob Filner, who highlighted at a press conference “Jason’s commitment to public service in this advisory role, which he will perform without compensation from any party“.
Filner also sent Hughes a letter at the time, thanking him for his “commitment to public service by performing this advisory role without compensation from any party.” We now know Hughes decided to seek compensation from Cisterra about a year after his appointment, but he did not disclose his financial arrangement to City staff who relied on Hughes to help them negotiate the two leases.
La Prensa San Diego has reviewed dozens of emails between Hughes and City staff at the time they were working on both the CCP and 101 Ash deals. The emails span from 2014 to 2017, both before and after he signed his profit split deal with Cisterra. None of those emails reference his financial participation in the leases.
It is now clear that both Hughes and Cisterra worked to convince the City to execute the 101 Ash lease instead of a direct purchase, and both reaped millions of dollars in the deal. The use of a lease helped to mask the true costs of the deal to the City, as well as limit the disclosure of Hughes’ participation in the deals.
The two City lawsuits seeking to invalidate the leases based on Hughes’ conflict-of-interest are still pending.
LEGAL CASES OVER FOOTNOTE 15
Two legal cases are also currently pending related to disputed Footnote 15; one filed by La Prensa San Diego, and the other filed by NBC reporter Dorian Hargrove.
La Prensa San Diego filed a lawsuit in February after the City denied a request under the California Public Records Act seeking copies of the Burke memo. An internal City staff message suggested that several versions exist within the City Attorney’s office. The City Attorney’s office has argued that only one final version of the memo was sent to the City from Burke lawyers, but that the memo is protected by attorney-client privilege.
Two weeks ago, Judge Ronald F. Frazier overruled the City’s motion to dismiss the case, saying more evidence is needed to prove the memo is protected from disclosure.
“A determination as to whether documents are privileged would require the court to evaluate facts and evidence,” Judge Frazier wrote in his decision. “The mere allegation within the pleading that a memo was drafted by an attorney does not conclusively establish it is privileged.”
That case will continue with discovery and depositions.
The other case was filed in federal court by NBC reporter Dorian Hargrove who was damaged after City officials called Footnote 15 “fabricated” which led NBC to retract that part of its reporting, and Hargrove was disciplined for using the contested memo.
Hargrove is suing the City of San Diego, City Attorney Mara Elliott, and Deputy City Attorney John Hemmerling for civil rights violations, defamation, negligent and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and intentional infliction of emotional distress for having claimed that he used a “fabricated” footnote without producing any evidence to prove the memo was not authentic. Elliott and Hemmerling were each named in both their official and personal capacities.
Hargrove maintains he had an anonymous source who provided the memo, as well as a reliable and known source within the City of San Diego who he believed corroborated the document, but then later retracted the confirmation as a miscommunication.
The City Attorney’s office has filed motions to dismiss Hargrove’s case, claiming Elliott and Hemmerling have immunity from lawsuits while performing their official duties. Hargrove contends the public lawyers were acting in their own personal capacities and damaged his reputation and career.
The judge is set to issue her ruling this week to determine whether Hargrove’s case continues.
CITY ATTORNEY’S NON-DENIAL DENIAL
La Prensa San Diego submitted a copy of the April 7th memo used in this article to the City Attorney’s office, asking if “this document is an accurate copy of a memo received by your office.”
In response, City Attorney Mara Elliott’s Director of Communications, Hilary Nemchik, wrote, “Legitimate memos issued from Burke Williams Sorensen on 101 Ash were marked “CONFIDENTIAL” as an attorney-client communication and as attorney work product. This document does not have those markings.” The comment was not clear if the City Attorney’s office was calling into question the legitimacy of the memo or simply stating facts.
La Prensa San Diego then requested clarification as to whether the City Attorney’s office was disputing the authenticity of the April 7th memo by asking if Elliott’s office was stating that “this version is not legitimate?” No further response or clarification was received from Nemchik or anyone at the City Attorney’s office.
The City Attorney’s office did not dispute the authenticity of the June 15th memo published by La Prensa San Diego last month as part of an October 11 article. That version of the Burke memo included Footnote 15.
La Prensa San Diego has never received any correspondence from the City Attorney’s office contesting any articles or demanding any corrections or retractions in its reporting.
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DALLAS, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinity pools, cabanas and DJ party sets may give you modern beach baller status, but do you ever crave just plain beach balls and unplugged fun in the sun? If your idea of a perfect somewhere is a blast from the past beachside paradise unchanged by the modern world, Hotels.com has the gig for you as the "Retro Beach Motelier."
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Instead of spending vacation scrolling their smartphone and listening to podcasts by the pool, our Motelier will indulge in offline activities, like documenting the trip "for future generations." And we're not talking on the gram, but with a classic polaroid camera (instant film and camera provided). The IRL photo album of the trip may even appear on Hotels.com – because pics, or it didn't happen.
The Hotels.com Retro Beach Motelier will also be armed with old-school seaside accessories to help them unplug and unwind, including high SPF zinc, striped umbrellas, vintage sunnies, a cooler for beachside beverages, and a solar-powered AM/FM radio. Plus, we'll award them a $5,000 "salary" to spend on beachside snacks their grandparents would approve of: frozen custard, salt water taffy and snow cones.
"Travelers these days tend to search for all-inclusive hotels and resorts when planning their summer getaways, but our Retro Beach Motelier is out to prove that beach motels can be just as luxurious," says Melissa Dohmen of Hotels.com. "These timeless motels are not only budget-friendly but will transport beachgoers – literally and figuratively – back in time to truly disconnect and relax."
How to Apply
If you're ready to hit the beach like it's 1950 and enjoy kitschy poolside flair and analog experiences, go to www.hotels.com/beachmotel to apply to be our Retro Beach Motelier by August 5 at 11:59 p.m. CT. The most qualified Retro Beach Motelier will be selected and notified by August 12. Must be 21+ to apply, check out the full contest rules here.
Best Retro Beach Motels in America
Looking for some good old-fashioned beachside fun this summer? Hotels.com has selected the 10 best retro beach motels across America based on overall design, location, value and guest reviews. These properties feature incredible guest ratings (7.5 or higher), ocean views and plenty of vintage flair and décor.
- Waikiki Village Retro Hotel – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Casa Morada – Islamorada, Florida
- Sound View Greenport – Greenport, New York (Long Island)
- Parker Beach Lodge – South Yarmouth, Massachusetts
- Vagabond Hotel – Miami, Florida
- Cambria Beach Lodge – Cambria, California
- The Montauk Beach House – Montauk, New York (Long Island)
- LOGE Westport – Westport, Washington
- The Pearl Hotel – San Diego, California
- Lincolnville Motel – Lincolnville, Maine
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Dear Abby: I retired to Malaga, Spain, after my marriage of 38 years ended in divorce. I have gone to dinner with a few men since moving here. This is a lovely community with many retired residents from all over Europe and the U.K. My problem is, after a few dates, they assume that because they bought me dinner it entitles them to sex. I am fit and fairly attractive, but I may be out of touch on dating.
These men have implied to others that we did have sex, and now single and married men are calling me. The only way they could have gotten my number is through these men. I have tried to make light of this, but I'm worried that when my sons or grandchildren visit next month, they will hear something that isn't true. How do I stop this nonsense without causing hard feelings? -- NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL
Dear Not Like That: What has been done to you is vile and disgusting. Someone you refused to have sex with has retaliated with the equivalent of writing your phone number on a bathroom wall. Tell your sons now what has been going on so they will be prepared when they visit. And if you accept any more invitations, make clear in advance that you will be paying for your dinner yourself.
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Dear Abby: My husband and I have been trying to have a child for nine years with no success. We have been through 14 rounds of fertility drugs, only two of which were successful, but neither one produced a child. My husband wants me to stop treatments because he doesn't like what the medications do to me, and I have agreed to stop because I think my body is just too tired. But, Abby, all of me wants to be a mother. Must I give up, or should I keep trying even though it might lead to further heartbreak? -- MATERNAL IN WASHINGTON
Dear Maternal: Listen to your body. It may be time to consider other options than fertility drugs. These include fostering, adoption or hiring a surrogate to help. These are subjects to pursue, first with your husband, then your physician and possibly an attorney who specializes in adoption law. And don't forget, it isn't unheard of for some women who adopt to later become pregnant without medical intervention. I wish you luck on whichever path you choose.
Dear Abby: My son is getting married for the third time. I paid for half of his first wedding and also gave a generous gift. I gave him a significant cash gift for his second wedding. Do I give him and his new bride yet another cash gift?
They are planning a small wedding overseas, which I won't be attending. All have been -- or will be -- first weddings for the brides. I don't want the new bride to feel slighted, but on the other hand, it's getting really expensive for me. They live a nomadic life, so material gifts would not be appreciated by them. What's a perplexed mother to do? -- DISGUSTED MOM IN FLORIDA
Dear Mom: Write them a check and hope the third time is the charm for your nomadic son. Then tell him you're closing your checkbook.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stoneweg U.S. LLC (Stoneweg US), a real estate investment firm specializing in multifamily acquisitions and developments, today announced the newest appointment to its Executive Leadership Team (ELT) Karen Weller, who joins as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer.
As the EVP, Chief Financial Officer, Weller will oversee the Company's finance and accounting functions, which is currently comprised of Treasury, Finance, Accounting, and Fund Management teams; to ensure that the foregoing activities are aligned with the Company's overarching financial and strategic goals. Weller will lead all aspects of financial reporting, budgeting, transactions, forecasting, auditing, taxation, and financial compliance while working cross-functionally to cultivate effective and refined best practices that safeguard the Company's assets and financial interests. Weller will also head the department's automation efforts to propel the Company's innovation forward; while overseeing all third party relationships with key financial strategic partners.
"We are delighted to add Karen to the Executive Leadership Team," said Patrick Richard, CEO for Stoneweg US. "As our Chief Financial Officer, Karen's accounting acumen and broad range of industry experience will not only be valuable, but vital to the elevation and reshaping of our accounting processes; we welcome her leadership to catapult this critical component of our business to the next level."
Weller brings over 30 years of extensive accounting, treasury, and operations experience in structured finance, commercial real estate, and hospitality to the role. She began her accounting career with Deloitte & Touche where she worked in various senior capacities for over 10 years in four different countries, giving her experience with different cultures, industries and accounting standards. Following her 'Big Four' tenure, Weller entered the commercial real estate industry as Director of Technical Accounting for LNR Property Corporation, where she worked on structuring CMBS transactions before serving as Director of Operations for the firm's London office, garnering valuable expertise in investor relations, international debt and financing, and credit facility negotiations. Thereafter, Weller joined Royal Caribbean Cruises where she developed and executed the company's financial risk management strategies to hedge exposures to commodities, foreign currencies and interest rates before becoming
AVP of Finance tasked with managing strategic planning and expense management for the company's Celebrity Cruises division. Most recently, Weller headed up the accounting department for the Related Group, one of the largest condo and multifamily developers in South Florida before assuming the role of CFO for Housing Trust Group, a top 50 developer of affordable multifamily housing.
Weller holds a Bachelor of Commerce (BCOMM) degree from the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), and is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CTP (Certified Treasury Professional), and CA (Chartered Accountant).
About Stoneweg US: Stoneweg US is a multifamily real estate investment firm located in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, FL, with a portfolio valuation of approximately $1.9 Billion comprised of ~14,000 units. Dedicated to redefining multifamily housing, Stoneweg US invests in and develops communities through sustainable housing solutions and proven value-add strategies to drive healthy returns and enhance the resident experience. For more information on Stoneweg US, please visit: www.stoneweg.us.
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Melanie Fellay is the CEO and co-founder of Spekit, a highly rated and easy-to-use digital enablement platform.
Many of us are failing our sales reps.
In a world where hitting quota makes or breaks your annual compensation, successful onboarding is critical to the success of each new member of your sales team. If a rep struggles through onboarding, they are unlikely to hit their quota—and if they are unlikely to hit quota, they are increasingly likely to go to a company where they can. It’s no wonder that the average sales rep quits after 18 months—fed up with trying to achieve quota while slogging through clunky processes and systems.
My company’s research backs this up. We recently surveyed over 500 people and found that 47% of sales reps had left a job due to a poor onboarding and training process (pg. 5).
If you’re responsible for sales enablement or revenue generation, you may be nodding in agreement because you know that sales quotas and revenue goals can feel next to impossible to reach due to:
• Aggressive ramp goals and the pressure to start selling quickly.
• Difficulty hiring and retaining talent.
• A plethora of enablement resources that are going unused and tools going unadopted.
• Lack of insight into whether enablement and onboarding programs are being used and are successful.
• No way to evaluate how your reps are progressing with individual learning needs.
As sales and enablement leaders, we must ensure our reps are successful and able to achieve their quotas. And the reps agree. My company’s research shows that top sales performers are nearly three times more likely to report their onboarding experience as “good” or “excellent” compared to poor performers (pg. 9). But for this to happen, we have to understand why today’s onboarding and enablement programs are failing.
Onboarding is a pain.
Your reps are no strangers to pressure. Every day, they must win over decision makers, tailor messaging and address objections, compete for budget in a complex, competitive landscape, stay up to speed with product launches and changes, accurately forecast their pipeline and manage a multitude of tools. Unfortunately, the training they receive takes them away from doing their actual job.
We’ve all sat through painfully boring presentations that will no doubt be outdated a month later. And your reps will likely forget this information by the time they actually need it. These problems really hit home when you consider that even top performers struggle to hit quota in their first year. And poor performers are five times more likely to report that they aren’t fully onboarded after one year (pg. 19).
Most sales training is not designed for adult learners.
Training and enablement programs fail because they’re not designed for how adults learn. Unlike children who learn to advance to the next level, adults learn best independently and when they are motivated to learn.
Traditional sales training is modeled after pedagogy, the way children learn. But adults prefer to learn independently and autonomously. Enter heutagogy, or self-directed learning.
With heutagogy, the learner is able to decide what and when they learn, but the enablement or training team is providing the resources for them to do so. For adult learning to be successful, it must be attractive so the learners will self-select. If not, your training program will be largely ignored because your sellers will view it as another task on their list rather than seeing the value.
Learning is constantly happening for your sales reps as they are getting better at their jobs. Part of that is gaining experience. Another part of that equation is reinforcement. As a sales leader or enablement professional, you want learning to be a seamless “habit.”
Habit formation is valuable.
Onboarding is treated as a one-time activity, but the reality is that learning shouldn’t stop, especially because processes will change as your business grows and responds to customer needs. This “tick the box” mentality must change.
Habits shape our lives and contribute to how we work and our level of success. In his book, The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg explains that habits consist of a cue, a routine and a reward. So in order to change habits, he recommends a framework for distilling and reshaping habits in a practical way.
1. Identify the routine.
2. Experiment with rewards.
3. Isolate the cue.
4. Have a plan.
As sales and enablement leaders, we have to consider the habits our sales team has today. Who are your most successful reps? Can you emulate their habits for success and make them scalable for your entire sales organization? How can you embed these habits into your onboarding and enablement program? Imagine the power that scaling the success of your best reps could have for your quota achievement and the success of your organization.
Friction is the enemy of successful, positive habit formation. Your goal should be to eliminate the friction of learning in any way possible. Switching between systems, searching through wikis and knowledge bases and long-winded compulsory webinars and videos are all likely to cause your salespeople to abandon their learning efforts.
And at what cost? Sales reps spend three to 11 hours per week searching for information they need to do their jobs (pg. 7). If your average base salary for a sales rep is $100,000, you are paying each rep $22,500 per year to look for information.
The future of sales learning and enablement can improve.
We now live in a work-from-anywhere world. This places a burden on enablement and training teams. We have more tools and systems to learn and processes change quickly. Onboarding new sales reps quickly is critical to the success of their careers and to your organization’s ability to reduce churn and achieve your sales targets. Sales onboarding must adapt to these changes.
To ensure the success of your sales organizations, you must provide a better self-directed learning experience. You must enable your reps anytime, anyplace. You must make learning frictionless and self-sufficient. If you do this successfully, knowledge retention will increase, and overall satisfaction will improve—as well as your salespeople’s ability to achieve their goals.
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Managed solution lets users browse the web or access SaaS applications without exposing enterprise data to risk; providing highly advanced security for native browsers, while ensuring user productivity
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perception Point, a leading provider of advanced threat prevention across digital channels, announced today the release of Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, a new web security solution which adds enterprise-grade security to native Chrome and Edge browsers. Perception Point Advanced Browser Security fuses patented browser security technology powered by Hysolate, a next-gen web isolation platform acquired by Perception Point in March 2022, and Perception Point's unmatched multi-layer detection engines. This combination delivers the unprecedented ability to isolate, detect and remediate all malicious threats from the web, including phishing, ransomware, malware, APTs, and more, while also securing access to sensitive corporate apps via an isolated, trusted Chrome or Edge browser - preventing data loss (DLP) by design on both managed and unmanaged endpoints.
Perception Point Advanced Browser Security can be simply deployed via a browser extension or a light agent on PC or Mac, and is easily managed from the cloud. There are no added cloud infrastructure or data center expenses.
Customers deploying the solution will experience fewer breaches and prevent data loss, while also providing their users with a better user experience as they will have the freedom to browse the web, use the SaaS applications that they require, and access privileged corporate apps, confidently, securely, and without added latency.
Perception Point customers also receive a fully managed Incident Response service that manages all incidents and optimizes detection engines. This all-included service drastically reduces the need for SOC team resources, reducing the time required to mitigate web-borne attacks by up to 75%.
"Our customers want to be able to leverage the latest standard browsers while significantly upgrading their web security to include better, deeper, and earlier threat detection, built-in data loss prevention, and strong threat isolation, all of which dramatically reduce the attack surface," said Tal Zamir, CTO of Perception Point and former founder and CTO of Hysolate. "Perception Point Advanced Browser Security transforms the security of organizations' Chrome and Edge browsers, while supporting full compatibility with the web and the Microsoft and Google ecosystems, all without changing the way people work and without slowing them down."
With the availability of Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, Perception Point has significantly advanced its overall product offering to become a one-stop-shop for isolating, detecting and remediating all threats across the organization's top attack vectors - email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration apps. This wide coverage consolidates multiple point solutions, and adds significant value by merging data from multiple sources to deliver unmatched security and advanced threat protection along with a seamless user experience and enterprise manageability.
"Digitization, hybrid work models, and the shift to SaaS and web-based applications have made the browser a prime target for attackers who use malicious websites and file downloads to breach organizations," said Yoram Salinger, CEO, Perception Point. "In parallel, malicious insiders and third parties can easily extract data from web-based enterprise apps which lack the necessary security controls. With the addition of Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, customers of all sizes can now protect their web browsers alongside email and other cloud collaboration apps from one platform, designed to provide the accuracy, speed and scale they require to reduce breaches, lower total cost of ownership, and provide the best user experience."
For more information about Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, see here.
About Perception Point
Perception Point is a Prevention-as-a-Service company for the fastest and most accurate next-generation detection and response to all attacks across email, cloud collaboration channels, and web browsers. The solution's natively integrated incident response service acts as a force multiplier to the SOC team, reducing management overhead, improving user experience and delivering continuous insights; providing proven best protection for all organizations.
Deployed in minutes, with no change to the enterprise's infrastructure, the patented, cloud-native and easy-to-use service replaces cumbersome legacy systems to prevent phishing, BEC, spam, malware, Zero-days, ATO, and other advanced attacks well before they reach end-users. Fortune 500 enterprises and organizations across the globe are preventing content-borne attacks across their email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration channels with Perception Point.
To learn more about Perception Point, visit our website, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
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There’s nothing like a fresh bowl of pasta. A South Jersey business owner has the recipe down pat. His family migrated to south jersey jersey all the way from Italy. Now, his pasta and sauce are sold all around the world. PHL17’s Alyssa Sullivan shows us Conte’s Pasta. | https://phl17.com/phl17-news/south-jersey-pasta-factory-supplies-pasta-around-the-world/ | 2022-07-20T13:58:25Z | https://phl17.com/phl17-news/south-jersey-pasta-factory-supplies-pasta-around-the-world/ | true |
BEIJING, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TAL Education Group ("TAL" or the "Company") (NYSE: TAL), a smart learning solutions provider in China, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 ended May 31, 2022, before the market opens on Friday, July 29, 2022.
The Company will host a corresponding conference call and live webcast at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (8:00 p.m. Beijing Time) on Friday, July 29, 2022.
Please note that you will need to pre-register for conference call participation at https://register.vevent.com/register/BI2f124a2b4d054342a99323e38a074715.
Upon registration, you will receive an email containing participant dial-in numbers and unique Direct Event Passcode. This information will allow you to gain immediate access to the call. Participants may pre-register at any time, including up to and after the call start time.
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of TAL's website at https://ir.100tal.com/.
About TAL Education Group
TAL Education Group is a smart learning solutions provider in China. The acronym "TAL" stands for "Tomorrow Advancing Life", which reflects our vision to promote top learning opportunities for students through both high-quality teaching and content, as well as leading edge application of technology in the education experience. TAL Education Group offers comprehensive learning services to students from pre-school to the twelfth grade primarily through three flexible class formats: small classes, personalized premium services, and online courses. Our learning services mainly cover enrichment learnings programs and some academic subjects in and out of China. Our ADSs trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TAL".
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Jackson Ding
Investor Relations
TAL Education Group
Tel: +86 10 5292 6669-8809
Email: ir@tal.com
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Helen Wu
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
Email: TAL@thepiacentegroup.com
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The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Phone: +1-212-481-2050
Email: TAL@thepiacentegroup.com
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Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University
(THE CONVERSATION) Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment.
These challenges may not always come to mind when people think about how to improve America’s public schools.
But when my colleagues and I studied the 21st Century School Buildings Program, a US$1.1 billion school building and renovation initiative in Baltimore, these were the kinds of issues that staff from community-based organizations, schools, philanthropic organizations and city agencies hoped to address through improved school facilities.
Schools are the “hubs and hearts” of neighborhoods, as one community member told us during our research in the Southeast, Southwest and Cherry Hill sections of Baltimore. If, as one community school coordinator shared, schools want to achieve their goals to educate students, they should strengthen the communities that surround them.
Our research suggests four ways schools might play a more meaningful role in supporting community development:
1. Open schools to the wider community
Making schools accessible to residents can strengthen the connection between schools and neighborhoods.
In Southeast, one school included space to host programs for newcomers to the United States. Those programs provided English language classes for students, as well as academic and social supports to help students and their families understand U.S. schools’ culture.
As a community school coordinator in Cherry Hill told us: “We can promote events and workshops and services to the entire community because they’re all happening here.”
However, although schools in our study were open in theory, they were not always easily accessible. Organizations sometimes encountered barriers, such as needing permits or having to pay fees to cover custodians or security, to host public events at schools. Our research suggests that collaboration between school districts and other city agencies can help make shared spaces more accessible by using a broader definition of community beyond just the school community, such as parents and teachers. They can also eliminate required permits and fees.
Meet community needs
Schools in our study partnered with community-based organizations and governmental agencies to provide services to meet their community’s needs.
In Southwest, a school partnered with local organizations to offer families a food pantry and adult education, including GED preparation.
In Cherry Hill, where access to full-service grocery stores is limited, a community school coordinator reached out to a local organization to host a morning produce market at the school once per week. A representative from the city housing authority also visited the school to make it easier for families to file complaints about poor housing conditions, such as mold.
Engage the community
Across all three communities, officials sought input from students, families and residents about the renovation plans or designs for new schools. They also provided updates about the construction process.
Other projects included creating a walking school bus – where adult volunteers walked with children to school – in Southwest to help students travel to and from school safely.
In Southeast, parents’ advocacy to improve school facilities – such as heating and cooling systems – helped them become more involved in their neighborhoods. Families from the schools have participated in neighborhood beautification projects, community cleanups and other activities.
Strong family and community engagement, however, is not a given. Successful partnerships also require trust among schools, families and community members. In Southwest, one school’s construction resulted in another school’s closure. The students from the old school would be sent to the new school. Families from the closed school saw their school as a safe haven and fought to prevent its closure. According to one community advocate, the process of closing the school led some families to lose faith in community organizations, the school district and city agencies.
Attract new residents and development
Many stakeholders that we talked to saw the new and renovated schools as a way to bring new residents, businesses and development to their communities.
In Southwest, one stakeholder told us that the new school building has led to greater interest among residents to invest in the neighborhood. “There’s a lot of residents who are organized and involved in these neighborhoods. They’re saying, ‘Hey, we got a new school. Let’s build up this neighborhood.’” Similarly, families in Southeast have become more excited about the renovated schools. A nonprofit representative said, “We see it on Facebook feeds. Because we put the [school] designs out there as much as we can, they’re starting to think, ‘Maybe I’ll put my child there.’”
However, as schools attract more residents, people in Cherry Hill and Southeast wanted to be sure existing residents weren’t pushed out. In both neighborhoods, school and community partners are creating pathways to help existing residents to purchase homes in their neighborhoods. This includes home ownership counseling and loan programs for qualifying residents.
Education will always be the primary function of America’s public schools. But as our research suggests, schools need not only concern themselves with what takes place in the classroom – they can also play an important part in improving the conditions in the surrounding community.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/schools-are-the-hubs-and-hearts-of-neighborhoods-heres-how-they-can-strengthen-the-communities-around-them-185946. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Schools-are-the-hubs-and-hearts-of-17316798.php | 2022-07-20T13:59:35Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Schools-are-the-hubs-and-hearts-of-17316798.php | false |
JINJIANG, China, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited (NASDAQ Capital Market: AEHL) ("Antelope Enterprise" or the "Company"), a leading Chinese manufacturer of ceramic tiles used for exterior siding and for interior flooring and design in residential and commercial buildings, and which also engages in business management, information system consulting, and online social commerce and live streaming, today announced that on July 19, 2022, it received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("NASDAQ") confirming the Company has regained compliance with NASDAQ's minimum bid price requirement under Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). The Company regained compliance with NASDAQ's requirements when the closing bid price for the Company's common stock was at or above $1.00 for 10 consecutive business days and the matter is now closed.
About Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited
Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited is a leading manufacturer of ceramic tiles in China. The Company's ceramic tiles are used for exterior siding, interior flooring, and design in residential and commercial buildings. Antelope Enterprise's products, sold under the "Hengda" or "HD", are available in over 2,000 style, color and size combinations and are distributed through a network of exclusive distributors as well as directly to large property developers. The Company also engages in business management, information system consulting, and online social commerce and live streaming in China. For more information, please visit http://www.aehltd.com.
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On the third day of the monsoon session of Parliament on Wednesday, Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, said 10% of posts in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles will be reserved for ex-agniveers.
Raj said there would be 10% reservation of vacancies for ex-agniveer in recruitment for the post of constable (general duty)/ rifleman in CAPFs and Assam Rifles.
“The relaxation of the upper age limit and exemption from the physical efficiency test will also be given,” he said.
Also read: Agnipath: Indian Army aims to reduce strength to under 11 lakh in a decade
“Ex-agniveers can opt to avail the reservations after completing an engagement period of four years in defence forces,” the minister said.
The move comes days after Army aspirants across the country held protests against the Centre’s brand new short-term recruitment policy for the Armed Forces. The youths have been apprehensive about the viability of the policy as they would be out of jobs in four years.
Two people died, 35 were injured and 2,642 arrested from railway premises during the agitation against the Agnipath scheme, the Railways informed the Parliament.
Also read: OPINION | What’s the real intent behind Agnipath scheme? There are no clear answers.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said separate data on the refund granted to passengers due to disruption of rail services on account of public disorder consequent to various agitations is not maintained.
He, however, said from June 1422, a total refund of approximately Rs 102.96 crore was granted on account of cancellation of trains.
The minister said due to strikes and agitations the Railways has incurred a loss of Rs 151 crore in 2019-20, Rs 904 crore in 2020-21 and Rs 62 crore in 2021-22.
''No compensation has been paid to the passengers and their families who died/injured during this protest,'' the reply said.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkish airstrikes killed eight tourists in northern Iraq and wounded over 20, Iraqi Kurdish officials said on Wednesday.
At least four missiles struck the resort area of Barakh in the Zakho district in the semi-autonomous Kurdish-run region, district mayor Mushir Mohammed told The Associated Press. All the casualties were Iraqi citizens.
Hundreds of Iraqi tourists come to the Kurdish region from the south during the peak summer months because the weather is relatively cooler. The touristic sites in Zakho is nearby military bases set up by Turkey.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi dispatched a delegation to the area lead by Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.
Turkey regularly carries out airstrikes into northern Iraq and has sent commandos to support its offensives targeting elements of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party or PKK.
Wednesday's attack marked the first time that tourists had been killed in the frequent attacks by Turkey in the area, the officials said.
In April, Turkey launched its latest offensive, named Operation Claw Lock, in parts of northern Iraq - part of a series of cross-border operations started in 2019 to combat the outlawed PKK who are based in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq.
The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, and has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 which has killed tens of thousands of people.
Ankara has pressed Baghdad to root out PKK elements from the northern region. Iraq, in turn, has said Turkey's ongoing attacks are in breach of its sovereignty. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/turkish-strikes-in-north-iraq-kill-8-tourists-wound-over-20/KYMM5JCRARAUTFBOZVZAJ6Q2AA/ | 2022-07-20T14:01:34Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/turkish-strikes-in-north-iraq-kill-8-tourists-wound-over-20/KYMM5JCRARAUTFBOZVZAJ6Q2AA/ | true |
Mixpanel Makes Startup Program Available to More Companies, Introduces Free Company KPIs Dashboard Template to Help Startups Measure Metrics that Matter
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mixpanel, the leading product analytics solution powering more than 6,000 of the world's most innovative digital companies, today announced that more than 1,000 companies have graduated Mixpanel for Startups, a free program that helps startups find product-market fit faster by giving them up to $50,000 in free credits a year, worth up to 430 million monthly events—more than double the number offered by comparable programs. To celebrate the milestone, Mixpanel is expanding eligibility for the program and introducing a free Company KPIs Dashboard Template—nine out-of-the-box, fully customizable reports that make it easy for all companies to measure metrics that matter.
Today, we are seeing high inflation, increasing interest rates, war in Europe, and signs that we could be headed for an economic downturn of an unknown duration. Capital is becoming increasingly scarce and startups must think twice about how they deploy their resources. In times like these, product analytics becomes indispensable, showing startups what is and isn't working with their websites and apps, what to prioritize, and what to invest in.
"Even in the best conditions, very few startups make it. That's why we introduced Mixpanel for Startups in 2020," said Mixpanel VP of Product Neil Rahilly. "In just two years, it has become the world's most comprehensive product analytics program and we've given $25 million in free credits to help more startups succeed. It's a dream come true to be working with so many startups, and to see them using their product analytics dashboards to secure funding. I'm so excited to celebrate this milestone by making the program available to more startups and introducing our new Company KPIs Dashboard Template."
Starting today, Mixpanel is expanding the criteria for startups that want to join: now every startup under five-years-old that has raised up to $8 million is eligible to apply for Mixpanel for Startups.
Paris headquartered healthtech app May is a graduate. It has provided more than 100,000 soon-to-be parents with access to pediatricians, midwives, and pediatric nurses since its launch in 2020. The company uses Mixpanel to better understand how customers use its product and make more informed decisions about its product roadmap, which has resulted in monthly user growth of more than 10 percent and a doubling in user retention. Being able to easily capture and visualize its growth metrics also supported May's pitch to investors during Q2 2022, helping the app secure $3.3 million in additional funding.
"Before Mixpanel, we made decisions based on conversations with users. Now we have dashboards measuring metrics including conversion, user growth, and stickiness," said May Co-Founder Antoine Creuzet. "Mixpanel is an absolutely critical tool—it gives us valuable insights into what our users want, which has helped us find product-market fit faster and made fundraising much easier. But most importantly, it has instilled within us a confidence that we truly know our business inside and out."
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template is available for free today to all Mixpanel customers. It includes a number of features that make it easier for startups in different industries and geographies to quickly get started with product analytics and measure engagement, retention, and growth metrics.
It's easy to get started. Companies only need two events in Mixpanel—a signup or session start event and a value moment event. The template also includes a new feature called Mixpanel Primers. The three primers link directly from the template dashboards and provide how-to's for interpreting the reports, as well as explanations for why certain metrics matter and what "good" looks like.
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template takes the guesswork out of determining which metrics to measure. It helps companies quickly answer questions like:
- How many users are experiencing value in my product?
- Who are my most engaged users?
- Which channels generate the most signups?
- How many of my engaged users come back?
The template also produces investor-worthy, intuitive, and fully-customizable public and private dashboards so that everyone can benefit from the insights.
"Mixpanel's Company KPIs Dashboard Template puts metrics at our fingertips that we didn't even think to measure," said Kelvin Yu, founding engineer at Zage. "It only took five seconds to set up our KPIs dashboard, and the reports were very easy to understand and take action on."
Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better digital products through data. With its powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has an award-winning employee experience and culture, with offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore. For more information, visit: www.mixpanel.com.
Media Contact: Joe Roualdes, joe.roualdes@mixpanel.com
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7 Delicious $7 Dishes is a Menu Featuring Seven Fresh, Made-to-Order, High-Quality, Classic and Fan-Favorite Dishes Now Available at Noodles & Company
BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noodles & Company, (NASDAQ: NDLS) the national fast-casual chain known for spreading Uncommon Goodness with its globally inspired noodle bowls, best-in-class service, and values-centric culture, announced today the introduction of 7 Delicious $7 Dishes, a tailored menu that features fresh and flavorful Noodles dishes starting at $7. The 7 Delicious $7 Dishes menu is now available at Noodles & Company restaurants nationwide. This menu includes regular full-size entrees with a variety of options for guests to choose from.
Uncommon Flavor
At Noodles & Company, guests will always find satisfying, fresh quality food, now at an even more valued price point. 7 Delicious $7 Dishes brings forth a satisfying, fresh, and made-to-order combination of flavors that guests cannot find at other fast-casual dining spots. 7 Delicious $7 Dishes features seven classic and fan-favorite dishes including Wisconsin Mac & Cheese, Japanese Pan Noodles, Pesto Cavatappi, Med Salad, Pasta Fresca, Spaghetti and Buttered Noodles. The variety on this menu highlights Noodles' range of globally inspired dishes while celebrating the delicious, high-quality food Noodles' guests know and love. From classic to indulgent to health-conscious dishes, there is something for everyone on the menu, all for a $7 price that's easy to swallow.
Noodles & Company Welcomes 7 Delicious $7 Dishes
"We're dedicated to bringing Uncommon Goodness to every step of our guest experience. We create options that not only satisfy our guests but add comfort and value to their lives," said Stacey Pool, chief marketing officer at Noodles & Company. "7 Delicious $7 Dishes features a combination of our fresh, high-quality dishes made from world-class ingredients that are now available at a value price point, so guests never have to sacrifice quality in their favorite dishes."
More for Noodles Rewards Members Including Free Delivery in August
All guests can enjoy 7 Delicious $7 Dishes, however, only Noodles Rewards members have access to even more exclusive value price points and rewards. Throughout August, Noodles Rewards members will have access to unlimited free delivery* with every order placed through Noodles.com and the Noodles app, making 7 Delicious $7 Dishes an even more satisfying deal. For more details, visit https://www.noodles.com/rewards/.
Becoming a Noodles Rewards member is simple. Guests can sign up for free via the Noodles mobile app or the Noodles website. Guests can conveniently get their value menu fix via quick-pickup, curbside pick-up, or delivery by placing an order online at noodles.com, via the Noodles mobile app, or by visiting their nearby Noodles location. 7 Delicious $7 Dishes is available now for a limited time only. For more details on 7 Delicious $7 Dishes visit Noodles.com.
*Offer valid from 8/1/2022 – 8/31/2022 only (Promotion Period). Get unlimited Free Delivery during the Promotion Period. Minimum order of $15, maximum order $200 (excluding taxes, gratuity, delivery or other fees). Must apply Free Delivery reward on 'my cart' screen prior to checkout to receive free delivery. Delivery available within Noodles' delivery areas from participating locations and is subject to availability. Free delivery reward cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions. Not valid on orders placed via third-party delivery platforms, call-in orders, catering orders delivery, carry-out or dine-in orders. For full Noodles Rewards terms and conditions, click here.
About Noodles & Company
Since 1995, Noodles & Company has been serving guests Uncommon Goodness and noodles your way, with noodles and flavors that you know and love as well as new ones you're about to discover. From indulgent Wisconsin Mac & Cheese to better-for-you Zoodles and Other Noodles, the company serves a world of flavor in every bowl. Made up of more than 450 restaurants and thousands of passionate team members and named one of America's Favorite Restaurants by Newsweek, Noodles is well-known for its delicious noodles and industry-leading team member benefits. Noodles has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity in 2021 and 2022 and one of America's Best Employers for Women in 2021. Additionally, Denver Business Journal has called Noodles one of the Best Places to Work for its unique culture focused on Uncommon Goodness and built on the value of "Loving Life" which begins by nourishing and inspiring its communities and every team member and guest who walks through the door. The company has also earned the Women in the Lead Certification for its investment in women-empowering initiatives for its female team members and has proudly partnered with the Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance to build cultural intelligence within its teams. To learn more and to find the location nearest you, visit www.noodles.com
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RICHMOND, Va., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2017, Energix began acquiring and developing solar projects in Virginia.
In 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights placed Energix on a list of problematic companies because it operates on Israeli occupied lands for commercial benefit. Energix has built solar utilities in the West Bank and wind turbines in the Golan Heights and uses Israeli police protection in clashes with indigenous groups.
According to data gathered by the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights, ten counties and two state agencies in Virginia have pushed back against Energix's worst practices.
- In Wythe County, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality issued an Enforcement Action and fined Energix $68,250 for environmental violations at its Wytheville Solar site.
- In Buckingham County, the State Water Control Board issued an Enforcement Action and fined Energix $23,772.50 over environmental violations at its Buckingham Solar II site.
- In Rockingham County, neighboring landowners sued the BoS and Energix over the planned 30MW Endless Caverns site because the BoS permitted a project that violated newly passed restrictive solar zoning guidelines.
- In Dinwiddie County, the Board of Supervisors voted down Energix's bid to build the 80 MW "Lily Pond" utility over concerns about the environment.
- In Franklin County, Smith Mountain Lake property owners prompted Energix to withdraw the application for a proposed 20MW Westlake Solar project because of concerns over toxic runoff from its Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) solar panels.
- In Buckingham, Caroline, Chesterfield, Madison, Prince George, and Spotsylvania counties, county officials banned or prohibited the installation of CdTe solar panels that contain toxic heavy metals.
Although Energix predicts a sunny future to its minority shareholders and to county officials, at least six solar projects have been withdrawn, have not been permitted, or have not been submitted to county planning departments.
Perhaps in recognition that its potential to grow in Virginia is limited, Energix has quietly taken over development, production and ownership of the 70 MW Adams Solar project, which is to provide 22 percent of electricity for city-owned buildings in Philadelphia.
Jeanne Trabulsi of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights (VCHR) presented a March 22 information overview about how Energix is importing its worst overseas practices into the U.S. at the National Press Club in Washington. Her contact is: vacoalition4hr@gmail.com.
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Twitter salaries for the same job can vary by up to 225% depending on where in the world staff are based, new figures reveal
- Internal data shows staff earn vastly different salaries for the same job
- Legal counsel directors in the US earn $135,000 more than UK counterparts
- Staff say it is based on average salary in each country rather than cost of living
- Twitter said it 'ensures we are competitive against local market practices'
Salaries for the same job at Twitter can vary by up to 225 per cent depending on where the staff work, internal data has revealed.
The social media giant's Salary Range Dashboard shows staff how much their colleagues in the same roles in different offices around the world are earning.
The leaked data shows the US employees are far better remunerated than their counterparts in other countries.
For instance, legal counsel directors at a Level 8 position can earn a maximum of $338,000 in New York but only $203,000 in the UK.
Curation leads, a Level 6 role, earn up to $226,000 in San Francisco but $149,000 in Australia and $65,000 in Mexico.
Level 3 data specialists take home $51,000 in the UK but only pocket $15,600 in Ghana.
Salaries for the same job at Twitter can vary by up to 225 per cent depending on where the staff work, internal data has revealed
A non-US Twitter employee told Input, who have reviewed the data: 'A manager in the UK is being paid less than someone they'd manage in the US, and of course, offices outside the UK and US are being paid horribly.'
The data was labeled 'Twitter confidential. For internal use only. Do not distribute', and is current as of April 2022.
The figures have allegedly led some Twitter employees to consider their futures at the company.
They say that issues over pay have been their main concern, over the aborted takeover by Elon Musk.
One employee said: 'Elon kind of feels like an annoyance.'
Because of Twitter's global structure, employees at the same level but on vastly different salaries will work together, knowing of the huge disparity.
Staff claim they have raised it with bosses but they have ignored their complaints.
The figures have allegedly led some Twitter employees to consider their futures at the company (pictured: San Francisco headquarters)
Another Twitter staffer based outside the US said: 'The company released the salary dashboard with the caveat that they were doing so for transparency, but with no intention to change the huge pay discrepancy.'
They said the company has justified the difference because of the average salary in each region rather than the cost of living.
Disgruntled employees also say staff in the US are the ones who make the rules and they are the ones who benefit the most from it.
A Twitter spokesman told Input: 'Twitter regularly evaluates compensation in each market where our employees are based to ensure we pay equitably and remain market competitive.
'Each role's compensation is localized depending on location, and our approach ensures we are competitive against local market practices.'
The leak comes as Twitter faces a crucial moment, with Musk fighting a lawsuit after backing out of a $44billion takeover deal.
Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk lost his fight to delay Twitter 's lawsuit against him as a Delaware judge on Tuesday set an October trial
The Tesla CEO lost his fight to delay the case yesterday and a Delaware judge on Tuesday set an October trial, citing the 'cloud of uncertainty' over the social media company.
Twitter had asked for an expedited trial in September, while Musk's team called for waiting until early next year because of the complexity of the case.
'Delay threatens irreparable harm,' said Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the head judge of Delaware's Court of Chancery, which handles many high-profile business disputes. 'The longer the delay, the greater the risk.'
Regarding the request by Musk's team for a later date, McCormick said they underestimated the Delaware court's ability to 'quickly process complex litigation.'
Twitter is trying to force the billionaire to make good on his April promise to buy the social media giant for $44 billion — and the company wants it to happen quickly because it says the ongoing dispute is harming its business.
Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick set an October trial, citing the 'cloud of uncertainty' over the social media company after Musk backed out of a deal to buy it
Musk, the world's richest man, pledged to pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, but informed the company in July that he wants to back out of the agreement.
'It's attempted sabotage. He's doing his best to run Twitter down,' said attorney William Savitt, representing Twitter before McCormick on Tuesday. The hearing was held virtually after McCormick said she tested positive for COVID-19.
Musk has claimed the company has failed to provide adequate information about the number of fake, or 'spam bot,' Twitter accounts, and that it has breached its obligations under the deal by firing top managers and laying off a significant number of employees.
Musk's team expects more information about the bot numbers to be revealed in the trial court discovery process, when both sides must hand over evidence.
Twitter argues that Musk's reasons for backing out are just a cover for buyer's remorse after agreeing to pay 38 percent above Twitter's stock price shortly before the stock market stumbled and shares of the electric-car maker Tesla, where most of Musk's personal wealth resides, lost more than $100 billion of their value.
Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho earlier this month
Twitter filed the lawsuit (above) on Tuesday in Delaware Chancery Court and will look forward to October for the expected start of the trial
The lawsuit was a widely anticipated step after Musk announced his intent to pull out of the April 25 merger agreement (file photo)
Savitt said the contested merger agreement and Musk's tweets disparaging the company were inflicting harm on the business and questioned Musk's request for a delayed trial, asking 'whether the real plan is to run out the clock.'
'He's banking on wriggling out of the deal he signed,' Savitt said.
But the idea the Tesla CEO is trying to damage Twitter is 'preposterous. He has no interest in damaging the company,' said Musk attorney Andrew Rossman, noting he is Twitter's second largest shareholder with a 'far larger stake' than the company's entire board of directors.
Savitt emphasized the importance of an expedited trial starting in September for Twitter to be able to make important business decisions affecting everything from employee retention to relationships with suppliers and customers.
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Last known photo of little girl Charlie, six, who died of malnutrition in alleged 'house of horror' emerges - as neighbours reveal her mother is 'traumatised': 'she watched her child die'
- Charlie was found unresponsive at her family's Adelaide home on Friday
- Five other siblings, aged between seven and 16 have been removed from home
- It has been revealed Charlie had been diagnosed with coeliac disease
Just two weeks ago, Charlie - dressed in a baby-pink tracksuit and broad-brimmed hat - posed for a photo at her family home hunched over with her eyes closed.
It was the last picture of the six-year-old ever taken before the little girl was found unresponsive at her family's housing commission home in Munno Para, in Adelaide's northern suburbs, in the early hours of Friday morning.
Her tragic death - which has been officially recorded as malnutrition - sparked a major crimes investigation by police and has led her five siblings to be taken into the care of the state as their mother is investigated for criminal neglect.
Now, sources have told The Advertiser that Charlie had been diagnosed with coeliac disease, a serious immune disorder in which the digestive system reacts to gluten.
Pictured: The last known photo of Charlie taken two weeks ago
The reaction causes damage to the small intestine which can prevent the absorption of some nutrients, leading to deficiencies.
Neighbours say Charlie's mother is 'distraught' over her youngest child's death.
'She watched her child die … any mother who has gone through that would be traumatised and scared and confused and just heartbroken that her child, her baby that she carried for nine months is gone,' one said on Wednesday.
It comes after Tuesday's revelations that authorities allowed Charlie to stay at the home despite being exposed to drug abuse and domestic violence.
Court documents show the family was already known to at least three government agencies - including the Department of Child Protection.
In January last year, Charlie and her siblings watched their 'drug-fuelled' father stab their mother multiple times - including to the neck - at their home.
But despite the children witnessing the horrifying attack - and their father's history of domestic violence and drug use - authorities did not remove them.
Neighbours say Charlie's mother (pictured) is 'distraught' over her daughter's death
Charlie (pictured) was raced to Lyell McEwin Hospital in the early hours of Friday morning in Adelaide's north
Neighbours claim they contacted the department eight times over a three-week period in the lead up to Charlie's death, with the agency reportedly having more than 500 case notes in relation to the little girl.
They believe the department was responsible for Charlie's death for not taking any action.
'It wasn't her (Charlie's mother), it was the state that failed,' one said.
'We're not blaming her for what happened to Charlie ... she needed help and DCP (Department for Child Protection) did nothing to support her in the ways she needed help.'
Outside the home on Tuesday, Charlie's aunt - wearing a pink hoodie with a slogan that read 'but did you die? #mumlife' - lashed out at media when asked how the six-year-old's mother was feeling.
Charlie (pictured) died on the floor of her mother's house in an alleged case of criminal neglect
Charlie's aunt arrived that afternoon, wearing a pink hoodie with a slogan that read: 'But did you die? #mumlife (pictured, left)
'How do you think she's feeling? Her daughter just died in her arms! Of course she's upset.'
One neighbour, Bec, told Daily Mail Australia the girl's mum had raised the alarm late at night - leading her to do everything she could to try and save Charlie's life.
'It was about 1am and we were about to go to sleep, and we heard this banging on the door. Charlie's mum was screaming 'Charlie isn't breathing!' so we raced over there.
'She was on the floor in a nappy and she was paper white ... and when I touched her she was stone cold and her eyes were open and fixated on the ceiling.
'We did everything to try and get Charlie to breathe.'
Paramedics arrived soon after and worked on Charlie for half an hour, but the six-year-old was pronounced dead at the hospital.
When asked about the cause of death, Bec said she didn't know whether she choked to death or whether there were health issues going on that no one knew about.
However, she noted that no one saw Charlie for the last few weeks of her life because she was suffering a mystery illness.
The house Charlie died in was surrounded by junk - old toys, a tent, bikes and a disused freezer
The cause of death is still unknown, but a neighbour said Charlie had something in her throat when she died (family home, pictured)
She also said the girl and her siblings never looked healthy. They often had head lice, which Bec tried her best to help with.
'After a while, she came over less and less and then she wasn't allowed to come over and play with my two-year-old daughter, and she wasn't allowed to leave the house,' Bec said.
Bec remembered Charlie as a 'beautiful' girl who was shy, but always smiling happy, and carried around a pink teddy bear.
Eighteen months ago, police were also called to the home after Charlie's father attacked her mother, his partner of 18-years, during a fight while he was under the influence of methylamphetamine.
During a sentencing hearing in February, the court heard he had been a habitual user of the drug for many years and, after quitting for a while, relapsed on the night of the attack.
The fight started in the bedroom before moving to the front yard, where the mother was stabbed three times.
'It (the attack) occurred in front of the house and was witnessed by at least one civilian, who had to pull the defendant away from the victim not once, but twice,' a prosecutor told the District Court.
Pictured: The front of the house Charlie died in, which has a single swing out the front
Debris, including an old mattress, bedding, and unused rabbit hutch, were seen scattered around the yard of the home on Tuesday
'Had he not been pulled away there can be no doubt far more serious consequences could have flowed.'
The prosecutor told the court the mother wished to return to her partner despite the stabbing.
'I think it would be fair to say the victim is probably lacking in insight into the preservation of her own safety,' the prosecutor said.
'I can tell you that the Department of Child Protection has an interest in this matter and certainly should the defendant return to that home, I would anticipate the department would get involved again.'
The father was initially charged with attempted murder before pleaded guilty to the downgraded offence of causing harm with intent.
He was sentenced in March this year to five years and six months in jail with a non-parole period of three years and six months.
Investigators will now probe what other interactions they had with the family in the years leading up to Charlie's death.
SA Deputy Police Commissioner Linda Williams said the six-year-old's living conditions were 'poor' and said it was too early to determine if her death could have been prevented.
The grass was overgrown and the yard littered with kids toys and miscellaneous items
She could not confirm the last time Charlie had been seen or even attended school.
A special taskforce has been formed to investigate her death and the circumstances behind it.
Task Force Prime will investigate possible criminal neglect charges relating to her five siblings living in the same house.
Acting Premier Susan Close said a government review would investigate the interactions between Charlie's family and the state's human services, child protection, education and housing agencies.
The chief executive of the Department of Premier and Cabinet will determine which services were engaged, how they collaborated, how effective they were, and what changes might be required.
Child Protection Minister Katrine Hildyard said these were 'absolutely tragic and heart breaking circumstances' and offered her sympathies to Charlie's family. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11031805/Adelaide-house-horrors-photo-Charlie-emerges-revealed-coeliac-disease.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-20T14:04:29Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11031805/Adelaide-house-horrors-photo-Charlie-emerges-revealed-coeliac-disease.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
CAMBRIDGE, Iowa — One of Iowa's largest youth-oriented nonprofits is set to break ground on a new youth recovery campus.
Youth Shelter and Services (YSS) released designs for the new campus, Ember, at an unveiling event Tuesday.
"[With] the trauma inflicted by the pandemic, kids and families are really struggling," said Andrew Allen, president and CEO of YSS. "There's 7,000 kids in Iowa that need treatment every year and don't get it. These are desperately needed beds to support the behavioral health needs of kids across the state."
The 53-acre campus near Cambridge, Iowa, will offer 70 beds for emergency shelter, crisis stabilization and residential addiction treatment for youth.
"Cambridge is centrally located. Really, we wanted it to be a nature-based, trauma-informed campus, and it's 53 acres of prairie and timber really easily accessible," Allen said.
The campus' main building, the "Hub," will offer a welcome center, family visit room, offices, a classroom, gathering spaces, a fitness center, café and kitchen.
Surrounding cabins will house youth bedrooms as well as caseworker offices and spaces for group therapy and activities.
"These are life saving services," Allen said. "As a teenager, I was helped by YSS. Today, I get to lead the organization that saved my life. And there's kids and families are struggling. They're desperate, and this brings hope."
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Pega received the highest possible score of 100 for its dedication to disability inclusion and equality in the workplace
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world's leading organizations, today announced it has earned the top score on the Disability Equality Index (DEI), which is recognized as one of the most robust disability inclusion assessment tools. Pega received the highest possible scores across all of DEI's evaluation categories – including culture & leadership, enterprise-wide access, employment practices, and community engagement – resulting in the highest possible score of 100 and the distinction of "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion."
Built on the idea of adaptability, Pega supports its people and communities by providing a safe and inclusive work environment. In its people-focused approach to technology and business, Pega has significantly invested in creating accessible, inclusive user experiences.
Key initiatives include:
- Launching its Persons with Disabilities employee resource group, which focuses on recruitment, retention, career advancement, and social impact, including building partnerships with global and local charitable organizations that support people with disabilities.
- Building an accessibility team that works with design, product, and engineering teams to test and provide guidance and feedback on software applications.
- Creating an internal accessibility portal with role-based training and guidance for understanding and implementing accessibility best practices.
- Launching the Advanced Allyship Program to help employees learn about allyship, discover implicit biases, build empathy, and understand the challenges of underserved groups. Pega also hosted a series of inclusive leadership and workplace sessions for its employees.
- Conducting usability testing with users with varying visual impairments and working with third parties for accessibility audits of its low-code Pega Platform™, as well as hiring specialists in accessibility requirements and native users of assistive technology.
The DEI is a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network, to collectively advance the inclusion of people with disabilities. The DEI Advisory Committee, a diverse group of business leaders, policy experts, and disability advocates, developed the DEI, a comprehensive benchmarking tool that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality. Each company receives a score, on a scale of zero (0) to 100, with those earning 80 and above recognized as a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion."
For more information about the awards program and the full list of top scorers, visit: https://disabilityin.org/what-we-do/disability-equality-index/2022companies/
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'Pega is committed to maintaining a diverse and equitable culture where differences are not only respected but broadly celebrated," said Kate Parente, chief people officer, Pega. "We provide accessible work environments for all employees and aim to create an inclusive experience for clients and users of our low-code platform. Our DEI score recognizes Pega amongst the best in the industry for our initiatives and efforts towards disability inclusion and equity. We look forward to continuing our journey of cultivating a workplace dedicated to supporting and advancing persons with disabilities."
Supporting Resources
- Blog: Pega Celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- Pega's Accessibility Statement
- Report: Global Inclusion and Diversity Update
- Background: Pega Global Inclusion and Diversity
- Blog: PegaCares: How Pega employees do good, together
About Pegasystems
Pega provides a powerful low-code platform that builds agility into the world's leading organizations so they can adapt to change. Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we've built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today's customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), visit www.pega.com.
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Addition of respected attorney bolsters already-stout bankruptcy group
DALLAS, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigator Mark Castillo has joined Dallas-based Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal LLP as a partner.
Mr. Castillo represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, official committees, and trustees in all areas of bankruptcy law, litigation, and corporate matters. He has tried lawsuits involving millions of dollars in bankruptcy-related claims, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, turnover, conversion, and contract matters, and has litigated or settled millions more in preference and fraudulent-transfer claims.
"Our firm is dedicated to protecting the interests of our clients and their businesses and has a longstanding reputation for excellence in the bankruptcy arena," says Carrington Coleman's Managing Partner Monica Latin. "We are excited to welcome to the team a colleague of Mark's stature and experience."
A frequent speaker and author on bankruptcy and litigation topics, Mr. Castillo is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, an honorary society for qualified attorneys dedicated to both high ethical standards and improved training for all attorneys. He is also a Master and Pupilage Group Leader with the Hon. John C. Ford American Inn of Court, and has earned professional honors from Texas Super Lawyers, D Magazine, and the Dallas Business Journal.
Mr. Castillo joins Carrington Coleman from Curtis Castillo PC, along with bankruptcy associate Robert Rowe. Also joining the firm is litigation associate Rae Guyse, formerly of Haynes and Boone.
Carrington Coleman is a 52-year-old Dallas-based law firm focused on litigation and transactional services in the real estate, oil and gas, securities, construction, professional services, technology, and health care industries, among others. The firm provides counsel in corporate transactions, corporate governance, banking, bankruptcy/restructuring, intellectual property, litigation and appeals, employment, and family wealth/estate planning. Learn more about the firm at https://www.ccsb.com/.
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The Venerable Mixed-Gender League Founded in 1974 Is Currently Accepting Proposals From Expansion Markets In Preparation For Return To Model Of Playing In Home Cities Next Year
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World TeamTennis, the nation's only professional, mixed-gender team tennis league, has announced that it is accepting expansion proposals from prospective ownership groups and markets that are interested in acquiring a WTT franchise.
WTT, which played in single locations during the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is also planning to return match play to venues hosted by the individual teams' markets in the summer of 2023.
"We are excited to announce that WTT is looking to add expansion franchises and returning to playing in individual cities across the United States in 2023," WTT Chairman & CEO Eric Davidson said. "While hosting all of the WTT matches at one site in 2020 and 2021 was necessary due to the pandemic, our fans have missed the access that the teams bring in their home markets and we are excited to bring that model back in 2023."
WTT, which hosted the 2021 WTT season last November at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, Calif., will not play in 2022 as it looks to reload for 2023.
"With the 2021 season finishing up in late November and the damage that COVID caused to our franchises, we decided against rushing to host a 2022 season so our teams can get healthy as we look to relaunch in the summer of 2023," Davidson said.
For potential ownership groups and markets that are interested in acquiring a WTT franchise, the expansion franchise fee is set at $1,000,000. The league is also open to adding new investors and owners at the league level as WTT looks to continue its growth as the leader in professional team tennis.
While the pandemic hampered much of the sports industry the past two years, WTT saw significant growth in its 2020 and 2021 seasons. Grand Slam champions who participated during the last two WTT campaigns included Venus Williams, the Bryan Brothers (Bob and Mike Bryan), Kim Clijsters, Jack Sock, Sloane Stephens, Sofia Kenin, CoCo Vandewedghe and Ryan Harrison. In addition, top-ranked American's Taylor Fritz (ATP No. 13), Jessica Pegula (WTA No. 7) and Danielle Collins (WTA No. 8) have also participated over the past few seasons.
The league also broke single-match viewership records on national network television for both the regular season (484,000 viewers) and WTT Finals (556,000 viewers) in 2020 when all nine WTT franchises competed at America's Resort at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.V.
For those seeking more information about purchasing an expansion franchise or investing in WTT, interested parties should reach out to WTT's national office in Southern California or inquire via e-mail to Contact@wtt.com.
World TeamTennis was co-founded by tennis legend and visionary Billie Jean King and has continued to innovate the sport every year since its debut season in 1974. The fast-paced action and unique scoring format creates an energized and exciting atmosphere for WTT fans and players. The team event affords the opportunity for men's and women's Major champions to share the court in each and every match throughout the season, including in the championship with the King Trophy on the line. More information can be found at wtt.com.
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Opening Marks International Fast-Food Brand's Third Location in New York City and 59th in the U.S.
WEST COVINA, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International fast-food brand, Jollibee, known for its mouth-watering Chickenjoy fried chicken, crispy and juicy Jollibee Chicken Sandwich, and other delicious menu items, will open its doors in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York, on Thursday, July 21, 2022. The new store marks the second location in the city's largest borough, as Jollibee continues to grow its fanbase in "The Big Apple" by offering customers great-tasting food at a great value that is always served with joy.
Located at 16008 Jamaica Avenue in the heart of downtown Jamaica, Queens, the new Jollibee will be open seven days a week, from 8AM – 10PM daily. Those who are familiar with Jollibee know that the star of the menu is Chickenjoy – the brand's take on a classic American comfort food – bone-in fried chicken; customers can enjoy Jollibee's classic original recipe or go with the spicy version, which offers a delicious kick of heat. In addition to its world-famous fried chicken, Jollibee's diverse menu line-up is what sets it apart. Whether you're craving a new take on a familiar comfort-food favorite, or you want to discover something completely different that you can't find anywhere else, Jollibee offers something for everyone.
Jollibee's mission is to bring people together through the joy of eating. The brand's most popular menu items include:
- Chickenjoy: Jollibee's flagship product features chicken that is delicately hand-breaded to be crispy on the outside, cooked with precision to be juicy on the inside, and marinated to the bone for exceptional flavor.
- Spicy Chickenjoy: Another top seller is Spicy Chickenjoy, which is the fiery version of the classic Chickenjoy.
- Chicken Sandwich: This sandwich features a crispy, juicy chicken breast fillet, spread with umami mayo, and served on a toasted brioche bun. Find out why this newly launched sandwich shot to the top of the menu charts.
- Spicy Chicken Sandwich: A spicy version of the original chicken sandwich features sriracha mayo and fresh jalapeños for added crunch and heat.
- Peach Mango Pie: Make sure to leave room for this mouth-watering dessert made with peaches and real Philippine mangoes enveloped in a light and crispy crust.
In addition to dining at the restaurant, customers can enjoy their favorite Jollibee menu items to-go or through the following online ordering channels: Jollibee's ordering app (available for download at the App Store and Google Play), the jollibeefoods.com website and the DoorDash delivery platform.
"We are so excited to expand our presence in Queens, as it is home to such a beautiful, dynamic melting pot of people from all different backgrounds and cultures," said Maribeth Dela Cruz, Business Group Head, Honeybee Foods Corporation dba Jollibee. "While Jollibee was founded in the Philippines, we believe that great taste knows no boundaries; Queens County is one of America's most diverse populations, which makes it a perfect fit for exposing our brand to a broader audience who have yet to discover our special brand of joy."
Set in a vibrant district in southeast Queens, the Jamaica neighborhood offers a wide variety of independent businesses that reflect the diverse population that calls the area home. Queens is the largest and fastest growing of New York City's five boroughs and Jollibee will be positioned at the heart of this neighborhood in close proximity to York College and amongst the hundreds of businesses that serve the area. This store marks the brand's 59th U.S. location and joins its two existing New York City locations – Manhattan (609 8th Avenue) and Woodside, Queens (6229 Roosevelt Avenue). Jollibee store openings in the U.S. and around the world are known for drawing massive crowds, which was the case when Jollibee first opened its doors in Manhattan in 2018; despite the cold, rainy weather, hundreds of hungry fans waited up to 20 hours to be among the first in line on opening day.
Stay updated on Jollibee's upcoming store openings by following @jollibeeus on Facebook and @jollibeeus on Instagram.
Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC, also known as Jollibee Group) is one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in the world. It operates in 34 countries, with over 6,200 stores globally with branches in the Philippines, United States, Canada, the People's Republic of China, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Panama, Malaysia, South Korea, India, and Australia.
Jollibee Group has eight wholly owned brands (Jollibee, Chowking, Greenwich, Red Ribbon, Mang Inasal, Yonghe King, Hong Zhuang Yuan, Smashburger); six franchised brands (Burger King, Panda Express, PHO24, and Yoshinoya in the Philippines; Dunkin' and Tim Ho Wan in certain territories in China); 80% ownership of The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf; 60% ownership in the SuperFoods Group that owns Highlands Coffee and PHO24; and 51% ownership of Milksha, a popular Taiwanese bubble tea brand.
Jollibee Group, through its subsidiary Jollibee Worldwide Pte. Ltd. (JWPL) owns 90% participating interest in Titan Dining LP, a private equity fund that ultimately owns the Tim Ho Wan brand. It also has a joint venture with the THW Group to open and operate THW restaurants in Mainland China. Jollibee Group also has a business venture with award-winning Chef Rick Bayless for Tortazo, a Mexican fast-casual restaurant business in the United States.
Jollibee Group was named the Philippines' most admired company by the Asian Wall Street Journal for ten years. It was also honored as one of Asia's Fab 50 Companies and among the World's Best Employers and World's Top Female-Friendly Companies by Forbes. In 2020, Gallup awarded the Jollibee Group with the Exceptional Workplace Award, making it the first Philippine-based company to receive the distinction.
Jollibee Group has grown brands that bring delightful dining experiences to its customers worldwide, thus spreading the joy of eating to everyone. To learn more about Jollibee Group, visit www.jollibeegroup.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles aimed high with their 13th-round draft pick.
A full seven feet — and that’s before their new pitching prospect gets on the mound.
The O’s selected 7-foot left-hander Jared Beck from Saint Leo University with the first pick in Round 13 of baseball’s amateur draft Tuesday. If Beck makes it to the majors, he’d pass 6-foot-11 pitchers Sean Hjelle and Jon Rauch as the tallest player in major league history.
Beck struck out 105 batters in 68 1/3 innings for Division II Saint Leo this season, posting a 3.95 ERA. He’s also pitched summer ball for the Savannah Bananas, where he stood out on a minor league club focused more on wacky entertainment than player development.
The O’s see Beck as more than an oddity, citing a fastball they clocked up to 95 mph. Baltimore draft director Brad Ciolek acknowledged Tuesday there’s work to do helping Beck manage his extra-long limbs, and they plan to help him improve his breaking ball and changeup, too.
“Jared’s a really interesting case,” Ciolek said. “Obviously, he’s a little bit of a bigger guy, and that might take a little bit more, I guess, in terms of delivery, refining his mechanics. But we have faith in our player-development staff, our pitching coaches, that they’ll be able to get the most out of his ability.”
There have been at least two minor league baseball players taller than Beck at 7-foot-1. Dutch pitcher Loek Van Mil played 10 seasons in affiliated ball, mostly with Minnesota, and Ryan Doherty pitched parts of three seasons in Arizona’s system before transitioning to professional beach volleyball.
Here are some other selections worth noting from the draft’s third and final day, which covered rounds 11-20:
— RHP Marquis Grissom Jr., Washington: Grissom’s father was a third-round pick by the Montreal Expos in 1988 and played six seasons as an outfielder for the club, which relocated to Washington in 2005. The younger Grissom was a 13th-round selection for the same franchise after going 4-5 with 57 strikeouts in 61 innings as a starting pitcher at Georgia Tech.
— 3B Jackson Jaha, New York Mets: Jaha, a 15th-round pick, is the son of former big league slugger John, who played 10 seasons with Milwaukee and Oakland. Jackson is a high school player out of Clackamas High School in Oregon and is committed to the University of Oregon.
— RHP Caden Dana and OF Casey Dana, Los Angeles Angels: LA picked Caden, a high school pitcher, in the 11th round, then selected his brother Casey, an outfielder from UConn, in the 16th round. Caden is committed to Kentucky for college and might require a hefty signing bonus. Finding a job for his brother, a fifth-year senior with the Huskies, might help with those negotiations.
— RHP Jared Karros, Los Angeles Dodgers: Eric Karros played 12 seasons in Dodger Blue, winning Rookie of the Year in 1992 as a first baseman. Jared went to UCLA just like his dad, where he had a 3.33 ERA for the Bruins, good enough for the Dodgers to take him in the 16th round.
— RHP/LHP Jurrangelo Cijntje, Milwaukee: Cinjtje is a pro pitching prospect with both arms, reaching 96 mph from the right side and 92 mph from the left. The Florida high school player lasted until the 18th round and might honor his college commitment to Mississippi State. If he decides to sign, he could follow Pat Venditte’s path as an ambidextrous big league hurler.
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In Georgia, another week has passed. As the international order is consumed in the flames of Russia’s atrocious aggression in Ukraine, and as Europe burns in the throes of the climate change whose catastrophic effects become ever-harder to ignore, the Georgian government is prioritizing one lawsuit. Of a private person towards a Swiss bank. A private person that, the government argues, is fully detached from the business of government. His name is Ivanishvili, Bidzina Ivanishvili. And he is NOT an oligarch. This is the Dispatch, with news that were, and those that might have been.
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(DON’T) CALL HIM BY HIS NAME The epistolary malediction that befell the Georgian leadership has continued unabated. Worse, it has expanded to the international arena. PM Irakli Garibashvili wrote a flamboyant letter to the EC President Ursula von der Leyen, asking her, by and large, to disavow the “falsehoods” that the European Parliament has been spinning about one Bidzina Ivanishvili. Let’s ignore, for a second, the fact that the said letter (you can see the full official version here) foregoes all the diplomatic polite form, habitual for such correspondence. Let us also forget, for a second, that it seems to be drafted by a homegrown attorney, positioning the government legally for a lawsuit in such as misplaced way, as to make it sound ridiculous.
Several things jump to the eye. For one, Georgian PM thinks the EC President can tut-tut the EU Parliament into submission. No wonder he does, since this is the same PM that called Georgian MPs “maniacs” and “traitors” not so long ago. But it is worrying that the diplomatic corps, who know better, was not consulted or their opinion was ignored. Second, for a letter, which is supposed to take up an issue with the EU Parliament calling Mr. Ivanishvili an oligarch, PM Garibashvili certainly refers to private-citizen-Ivanishvili’s financial and other concerns a lot. More, he attaches his own recent “Open Letter”, which refers to Mr. Ivanishvili no less than 40 times in five pages. A curious way to put some air-gap between the government and the said “non-oligarch”. As observers noted, the Georgian Dream is in the tight spot: they try to demonstrate to the Western powers that they are not beholden to Ivanishvili, while simultaneously trying to signal to their Georgian supporters, that Ivanishvili is firmly in control, and is suffering an unfair onslaught from the West. For if Ivanishvili were not in control, who would support the Georgian Dream?! The resulting contortionist gymnastics are putting a visible strain on the leadership’s ability to stay at least somewhat coherent.
KIDS ARE NOT OK In the meantime, the government’s international standing is slipping. The government StratCom (let us say in passing, lavishly supported by the foreign donors, who thought they’d counter Russian propaganda) is desperately pushing out jubilatory posts purporting Georgia’s ascension in various ratings. Even those reports are shaky: they ignore other ratings and do not exactly hold up to superficial fact-checking, journalists found. But it is the political reality that bites the hardest. The European Parliament (yes, the one derided by the PM) has heard a critical report about the implementation of the Association Agreement, particularly noting failures in the judiciary. The Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner lambasted the government for failures to protect the rights of LGBT community, and those of the religious minorities. The GRECO report raises questions about financial transparency. And when we hear the government say “coordinated campaign to discredit Georgia’s governance system”, we can but roll our eyes and hope they’d grew up a little.
TINKER, TAILOR… Once Georgia’s deputy top-spy has landed in jail, after alleging the government conspiracy to fix the election results. Even on surface, the story sounds spicy. Scratch that surface, and – as often in Georgia – the picture becomes surreal. Ioseb (Soso) Gogashvili has been the tough cop of Georgia’s security service. His name is associated with 2017 operation in Tbilisi and Pankisi, which caused death of 18-year-old Temirlan Machalikashvili who was apparently shot in his bed and succumbed to his wounds. Gogashvili exited the scene after Machalikashvili’s father, Malkhaz, emerged as a prominent protest figure. Ex-spy came in from the cold slamming the Georgian Dream and saying the “ugly system must be dismantled” in 2021, after a set of alleged security service recordings documenting massive surveillance was leaked to the media. At the time, it was rumored that Gogashvili was behind that leak.
The circumstances leading up to Gogashvili’s arrest were no less intriguing, and included a release of the illegal covert recording of the critical Mtavari Arkhi TV newsroom, where the editor and journalists were discussing how to handle the security service recordings’ leak in 2021.
Now, Gogashvili says the repressive government machinery came to get him for trying to expose Russian spies in the system. As the prosecution levels charges of abuse of office, illegal distribution of private data, and illegal possession of firearms, Gogashvili’s family claims the weapon was planted on him, seeking support of the rights groups. Ironically, one civic activist does recall, that Gogashvilis son, Nika, was prominent in attacking the protesters against ruling party… Truly, the boomerang of bad governance and police brutality strikes its erstwhile authors, too. But finding justice in their defense is just as crucial.
POINTING FINGERS Pointing accusatory fingers towards the West is the new fad in Georgia, and everyone has a field day. Justice Lasha Chkhikvadze, who recently sent the TV owner and political persona, Nika Gvaramia to jail on – Ombudsperson says – absurd charges, says the U.S. Embassy and Members of the European Parliament are interfering with the Georgian justice system. In the meantime, the Georgian Dream-affiliated pundit, Zaza Shatirishvili alleges the U.S. “controls” the Swiss banking system as well as the international media through – you’d laugh – its “invisible hand”. Why? Because Credit Suisse is pursuing a self-destructive effort against Bidzina Ivanishvili’s assets and the Swiss press refuses to publish his lobbyists’ letters unveiling this plot, which undermines the whole Swiss banking system. A point of view from a slightly deranged conspiracy theorist, you say?! Well, wait, MP Mamuka Mdinaradze, head of the Georgian Dream’s parliamentary faction, is of the same opinion: “everyone understands that there are forces that may put into question even the reputation of the Swiss banking system. When I speak of those forces, I purposefully avoid being more specific.” Luckily, Mr. Shatirishvili and Mr. Ivanishvili’s law firm MKD are there to cast aside those bashful diplomatic brackets. U.S. Ambassador Kelly Degnan had to respond, once again, to absurd allegations…
As the main thrust of the government’s effort has been directed at strongarming the Credit Suisse in the interests of one simple Georgian citizen (NOT an oligarch), the ruling party has successfully scuttled the effort to hold the parliament session on the EU accession priorities. And as PM Garibashvili was addressing long and angry letter to EC President, Mrs. Von der Leyen was within arm’s reach – visiting Baku to negotiate additional gas supplies. But PM Garibashvili had other things to do. He was marveling at the state-of-the-art skating arena in…Uzbekistan, and went on to visit Turkmenistan. A hint, perhaps, at the vector of the Georgian foreign and domestic policy in the making?! | https://civil.ge/archives/501346 | 2022-07-20T14:11:51Z | https://civil.ge/archives/501346 | false |
The rankings were based on more than 15 million employee ratings across the US
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pipefy, the low-code business process automation platform that empowers "doers" to build automated workflows, has been named Best Company for Career Growth in 2022 by Comparably. Alessio Alionço, Pipefy's Founder and CEO, was also recognized among the Best CEOs for Diversity in the annual Comparably's awards, which were made public in July 2022. The list of awarded enterprises and leaders was based on ratings provided by employees who anonymously evaluated their workplaces on Comparably.com.
The process took 12 months, from June 2021 to June 2022. Comparably considered an amount of 15 million ratings across 70,000 US companies, either large or small. Besides the categories Pipefy won, the annual awards also recognize the Best CEOs for Women and the companies with the Best Leadership. "These lists showcase the leaders who are helping to drive positive culture change across companies large and small", states the employee evaluation platform.
In Alessio's view, every global CEO needs to understand diversity as a value, and make it a significant investment. "You can believe in diversity and respect it, but to drive inclusion, these foundations need to be present from the beginning," Alionco says.
"I would say that 50% of your success is first allowing yourself to have the chance to be successful in creating those opportunities. And part of that is due to your mental model, it's about how high your bar is in anything you expect to do", he says.
It is not the first time that Pipefy appears among the recognized companies in Comparably's awards. In April 2022, the company was named in four key categories - Best Company Outlook, Best Company Bay Area, Best Teams for Engineering and Best Teams for Marketing.
Pipefy is the low-code business process automation platform that increases team productivity, centralizes data, and standardizes processes for Finance and Procurement, HR, and Revenue teams, so those requesting services, those processing the requests, and those managing the operation are more efficient. Through automation and a low-code platform, Pipefy enhances speed, increases visibility, and delivers higher quality outcomes with ready-to-use, customizable workflows. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Comparably is a leading workplace culture and compensation monitoring site that provides the most comprehensive and accurate representation of what it's like to work at companies. Employees can anonymously rate their employers in 20 workplace culture categories, providing the public a transparent and in-depth look at the experiences different segments of workers have based on gender, ethnicity, age, department, tenure, location, education, and company size. Since launching in 2016, Comparably has accumulated 10 million ratings on 60,000 U.S. companies. The platform has become one of the fastest-growing SaaS solutions for employer branding and a trusted third-party site for workplace and salary data, most notably for its annual Best Places to Work series.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Nucor's (NYSE: NUE) second-quarter earnings release, you are invited to listen to its live conference call with host Leon Topalian, Nucor's President and Chief Executive Officer. This conference call will include a review of Nucor's results for the second quarter ended July 2, 2022, followed by a question-and-answer session. The event will be available on the Internet on July 21, 2022, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time.
Nucor and its affiliates are manufacturers of steel and steel products, with operating facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Products produced include: carbon and alloy steel -- in bars, beams, sheet and plate; hollow structural section tubing; electrical conduit; steel racking; steel piling; steel joists and joist girders; steel deck; fabricated concrete reinforcing steel; cold finished steel; precision castings; steel fasteners; metal building systems; insulated metal panels; overhead doors; steel grating; and wire and wire mesh. Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company, also brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron and hot briquetted iron / direct reduced iron; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap. Nucor is North America's largest recycler.
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New board president combines history with the organization with a fresh approach
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, known in the MS community as MS Focus, announced today that Eric Schenk, long-time president of the Board of Directors has retired, and Charles Eader, an officer with more than 20 years' experience with the organization, was elected as his successor.
"We're grateful to Eric Schenk for all his years of service and dedication to the MS community," said Natalie Blake, Executive Director of MS Focus," and excited to have Charles Eader step into the role. Charles has a long history with the organization and thoroughly understands our culture, challenges, and goals. But as a long-time activist in his community, he also brings advocacy and community-building skills that are a great asset. It's really the best of both worlds for our organization."
Mr. Eader received his degree in Business Administration from Emory University – Goizueta Business School in 1988. A twenty-six year career at AT&T followed, retiring as a Sr. Project Program Manager. He is very active in community affairs, currently serving as the tax administrator for Somerset County, New Jersey, after more than ten years on the county board of taxation. He also serves as chairperson of the Somerset County Democratic LGBTQ+ Caucus.
"I thoroughly believe in the mission of MS Focus to help improve the quality of life for those challenged by MS. This is why I have actively been involved with the organization for over two decades," said Mr. Eader. "Building on the legacy of Eric Schenk, who welcomed me into the organization all those years ago, I am excited to expand my role and to continue to be an advocate."
Other officers of the Foundation's Board include Mark Shalloway of Shalloway & Shalloway, P.A. in West Palm Beach, Fla. elected to the position of Vice President; Elaine LaFlamme of Gallagher and Basset in Miami, Fla. elected to the position of Treasurer; and retired retail executive John Blackstock of Bradenton, Fla re-elected to the position of secretary.
About Us: MS Focus: Multiple Sclerosis Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on providing free services that address the critical needs of people with MS, helping them maintain the best quality of life. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, MS Focus provides services throughout the United States and its territories. Learn more at www.msfocus.org.
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The beauty brand will take over the streets of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to celebrate Black moms and their village, as part of their 'Love Delivered' initiative
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bump Day was created to raise awareness and support around the need for equitable care for every mom, everywhere. Since maternal mortality rates continue to disproportionately impact the Black community, Brooklyn's own, Carol's Daughter is hosting a community block party as part of its Love Delivered initiative to celebrate Black mothers and birthing people while generating awareness around Black Maternal Health. "The Bump Day Block Party" will take place on Thursday, July 21st from 5-8pm on 372 Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn. This event is family-friendly, free, and open to everyone, please register (here).
The block party will include local Black-owned vendors, many with a focus on motherhood and children and feature live entertainment from DJ and music producer DJ Fulano and the dynamic Brooklyn United Marching Band. Registered attendees will be entered into a raffle and be eligible to receive additional prizes, free products, and access to maternal health and wellness resources on-site. Additionally, beauty pioneer and Carol's Daughter founder, Lisa Price will deliver remarks, alongside the Mama Glow Foundation's founder, world-renowned doula, Latham Thomas.
In honor of Bump Day, Carol's Daughter is also committing additional funds to the Mama Glow Foundation for doula grants. The grants will continue to help Black families by funding doula services. The next cycle of applications is now open through August 1st. Individuals and families in need of Birth or Postpartum Doula Support, located in New York (Metro Area), Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles can apply online here. You can also learn more at the Mama Glow Foundation's tent on-site at the block party.
Love Delivered is the Black Maternal Health initiative by Carol's Daughter and its founder, Lisa Price, in partnership with the Mama Glow Foundation and its founder, Latham Thomas. It was created to empower, support, and equip Black women and birthing people and the greater community to advocate for their health and wellness by providing expanded access to doula services, trainings for doulas, and resources for families, birth workers, partners, and allies to be well-informed in supporting positive birthing experiences.
To join Carol's Daughter in the fight for Black Maternal Health, head to www.carolsdaughter.com/lovedelivered. Also, follow @CarolsDaughter and @MamaGlow on Instagram for program announcements and information.
In 1993, encouraged by my mother, Carol, I began creating high-quality products made with love in my Brooklyn kitchen. As family and friends experienced how these products transformed their hair and skin, I knew that I was onto something good. I needed a name for my company, so I made a list of everything I was and everything I wanted to be, and I realized that the most special thing that I am is Lisa, Carol's Daughter.
- Lisa Price, Carol's Daughter Founder
Mama Glow Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to advancing reproductive justice and birth equity through Education, Advocacy and The Arts. The Mama Glow Foundation was founded by the dynamic world-renowned doula and Oprah Super Soul 100 member, Latham Thomas. www.mamaglowfoundation.org
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Smart Grid Products Surpasses 1.5 Million Real-Time Energy Grid Dispatches, Based on a Suite of 13 Granted or Pending Patents Deployed Worldwide
OTTAWA, ON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Built on a comprehensive IP portfolio, BluWave-ai's suite of grid and fleet optimization products are being used both in live networks and offline simulations worldwide. The IP portfolio is the culmination of four years of strategic research and development focusing on key areas of energy transition technology. The company patents cover state-of-the-art grid optimization, renewable energy prediction, electric vehicle fleet energy management, and real-time control systems. The resulting technology will accelerate the path to future net-zero communities, electricity system operators, and transportation networks, as large-scale adoption of solar, wind, and Electric Vehicles (EVs) transform our economies worldwide.
"We have worked diligently in the past few years to build a strong IP portfolio at the intersection of energy systems optimization, machine learning, and software development. Our patents target key strategic areas of BluWave-ai's technology, including our hierarchical cloud-based platform, energy predictor, grid optimizer, and EV orchestrator," said Mostafa Farrokhabadi, Vice President of Technology at BluWave-ai. "We have achieved a 100% success rate for pending applications progressing to issued patents, a rate considerably higher than average; this success is a testament to the strength of our innovative platform and our grasp of crucial technology in the smart grid and transportation electrification domains."
BluWave-ai's growing IP portfolio consists of three granted and seven pending US patents, as well as three continuations, all of which protect the company's cutting-edge technology in three main areas:
- cloud-based distributed energy IoT platform
- energy forecasting
- energy optimization
These key ingredients form the backbone of the company's major product lines: Smart Grid OptimizationTM, EV EverywhereTM, and EV Fleet OrchestratorTM.
"Our patent portfolio has been strategically curated from day one, and will allow BluWave-ai customers and partners to build decarbonized systems," said Devashish Paul, CEO of BluWave-ai. "After our Freedom-to-operate investigation identified a relative greenfield in the prior art, we successfully embarked upon an ambitious invention filing strategy with the USPTO to underpin and support our smart grid deployed products, which were used for the first ever AI enabled energy market dispatches in the Canadian and Indian markets going back to 2018 and 2020 respectively."
BluWave-ai's IP rights include the following issued patents and pending patent applications:
- US Pat. 1170456: Systems and Methods for an Enhanced Energy Grid System
- US Pat. 1133676: System and Methods for Fluctuating Renewable Energy-Battery Optimization to Improve Battery Life-Time
- US Pat. 1267362: Systems and Methods for Adaptive Optimization of Electric Vehicle Fleet Charging
- US appl. 17/102,480: System and Methods for Data-Driven Energy Management of Mixed Vehicle Fleet with no Historical Electric Vehicle Data
- US appl. 16/548,072: System and Methods for Hyper Short-Term Wind Power Prediction Using Real-Time Wind Parameter Measurements
- US appl. 17/039,015: Systems and Methods for Efficient Charging of Energy Storage Systems
- US appl. 62/876,214: Systems and Methods for Distributed Hierarchical Artificial Intelligence in Smart Grids
- US appl. 17/371,398: Systems and Methods for Accelerated Optimization of Data-Driven Energy Management Systems
- US appl. 17/528,830: Systems and Methods for Dynamic Tuning of Controllers in Power Grids
- US appl. 63/283,262: System and Methods for Phantom Diagnostic Metering of Energy Systems
"BLG is proud to work with this exciting, dynamic Canadian success story, assisting BluWave-ai to build a robust and diverse IP portfolio, to mine and protect their multiple innovations, to increase their shareholder value, and to open up new opportunities nationally and overseas'" said Carina De Pellegrin, Senior Technology Counsel at BLG LLP. "BluWave's strong and growing patent portfolio is a validation of its cutting-edge technology. We look forward to expanding our collaboration with BluWave-ai, as the company ushers in a new era of energy transition and transportation electrification."
The BluWave-ai technology team has also identified four key strategic areas within which to further extend the patent rights portfolio by the end of 2022, focused primarily on transportation electrification and automated data platforms.
This builds off the IP instantiated in the company products that have exceeded in excess of 1.5 million discrete real-time energy market dispatches for wind, solar, load and battery optimization.
BluWave-ai is open to discussing strategic opportunities for licensing and cross-licensing its IP portfolio to select customers, partners, research labs and universities.
Contact info@bluwave-ai.com to learn more.
About BluWave-ai
BluWave-ai is focused on driving the proliferation of renewable energy and electric transportation worldwide. Our solutions apply artificial intelligence (AI) cloud software to optimize the cost, carbon footprint and reliability of different energy sources, both renewable and non-renewable, in real-time. This lets our customers – utilities, fleet operators and electricity system operators to improve their energy-related decision making in planning and in live systems to decrease costs and carbon footprint. Every day our employees come to BluWave-ai with the mission to decarbonize the planet by using hardware assets more efficiently with AI software while we build the world's premier renewable energy and transport electrification AI company based in Canada.
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(The Hill) — When Michelle Obama declared “When they go low, we go high” about Republicans in 2016, Democrats generally agreed with the sentiment.
After all, the party was up against Donald Trump, a man who seemed to find joy in making personal attacks part of his daily routine.
But nearly six years later, the party that pledged to play nice is fed up.
Democrats are tired of being stomped on by the opposition. They hate the public perception of President Joe Biden as a president in peril. And the conservative Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing them past their limits.
Going low suddenly seems more appealing, some Democrats now say.
“This is a time to say ‘We’ve had enough. [Republicans] are taking away every freedom we’ve had and we’re full of rage,’ ” said one Democratic strategist. “This isn’t the time to say we’re the honorable party, because that clearly isn’t working.”
Democrats generally have sought to improve Biden’s public image by punctuating bad news with an optimistic tone. But with roughly three months until the midterm elections, they now are encouraging a more forceful approach from Biden on down.
“Democrats should be savaging Republicans for destroying people’s lives,” said Bill Neidhardt, a progressive operative who worked on messaging strategy for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, Lis Smith, a Democratic strategist who served as a communications adviser to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during his presidential campaign, said Democrats have to present the midterms as a choice between their party “trying to bring relief to the American people” and a GOP “trying to take away freedoms, like a woman’s right to choose.”
She pointed to key states like Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, where the race for the Senate could be decided. Casting the GOP as a party of election deniers and those in favor of a complete ban on abortion with no exception can help Democrats in the midterms.
“That is what Democrats need to be screaming from the rooftops about every single day of the week,” she said.
A few Democrats point fingers internally, saying there are already some who are not going high. The problem is that those Democrats are going after one another, these voices say.
“There are moderates like Josh Gottheimer who are quicker to attack progressive Democrats than Republicans. That’s just straight-up stupid,” Neidhardt said, referencing the prominent New Jersey centrist who pushed to separate parts of Biden’s agenda during negotiations on infrastructure and social spending legislation.
Moderates, however, can see some payoff to bucking the left wing of their party, at least on messaging. And some may also not want to go on a full-frontal attack on the GOP.
Democrats in front-line districts have to carefully weigh their rhetoric as they seek to win over liberal and independent voters. What works in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) district may not work as well in battleground areas in Michigan or Arizona.
Perhaps the best example of a Democrat running against his own party comes at the Senate level, where Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) last week effectively killed Biden’s legislative agenda on taxes on the wealthy and climate change by saying he couldn’t support the moves due to inflation.
Manchin’s move provoked howls among his colleagues but may go over well in red-state West Virginia.
In recent weeks, Biden has turned up the rhetoric against the GOP, describing parts of the party as “MAGA Republicans” to tie them to Trump.
But Biden is generally careful in his wording, saying not all congressional Republicans are part of the MAGA faction, and some prominent progressives want to hear something more forceful.
“Biden likes Republicans more than he likes his own voters,” said Cenk Uygur, an alternative media fixture who hosts the leftist “Young Turks.” Uygur is among a chorus of outspoken voices who have been calling for Biden to use a scorched-earth approach to take on Republicans.
Some are not convinced that Biden — a veteran politician who served decades in the Senate and is known as a unifier — is the right person to make the GOP public enemy No. 1. They see him as attempting to return to an era where attacks on political opponents were civil in nature and deal-making was done through a handshake in private.
Biden’s famous “Will you shut up, man?” moment at a September 2020 general election debate against Trump was a rare departure from that standard, and got mixed reviews at the time.
“There are several problems with a Democrat attack dog strategy, the foremost being President Biden is ineffective when he uses an angry and combative tone,” said Tobe Berkovitz, professor of communications emeritus at Boston University. “When his temper comes through, his message gets stepped on.”
Democrats calling for a tougher approach argue many Republicans have no such qualms. The GOP has been eager to label the president as ineffective, lazy, corrupt and a liar. They make personal attacks on his family, particularly his son Hunter. Some have even called for him to be impeached.
The Republican National Committee in recent months has circulated email blasts with subject lines like “You Ain’t Safe” in Biden’s America and “Biden’s American nightmare.” One email from May called attention to the record-high inflation rate with the eye-catching title: “Biden’s lies won’t pay the bills.”
What’s there to lose, these Democrats say, in turning up the heat?
“If you want to win in November, and Republicans are voting to kill extremely popular bills, then we need to make that extremely clear,” Neidhardt said. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/democrats-want-biden-to-go-scorched-earth-on-gop/ | 2022-07-20T14:14:16Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/democrats-want-biden-to-go-scorched-earth-on-gop/ | true |
Man gets 10 years jail for sexual assault in Dharmapuri
A 32-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment under POCSO Act here by the Mahila court on Tuesday. The accused Santhanakumar of Palacoddde had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in the neighbourhood in 2015. The accused was arrested under POCSO Act and Scheduled Castes Prevention of Atrocities Act. On Tuesday, a fast track Mahila Court sentenced the accused Santhanakumar to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of ₹5,000 under POCSO Act, and 3 years imprisonment under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, with both sentences to be served concurrently.
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LENEXA, Kan. and CENTENNIAL, Colo., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolution Digital and the National Cable Television Cooperative, Inc., ("NCTC") today announced a new multi-year agreement that will continue to make Evolution Digital's robust suite of broadband and Android TV products available to more than 700 independent service providers across the U.S.
As part of the deal, NCTC's member operators may access Evolution Digital's leading OpenSync™-certified devices which, in combination with Plume's award-winning SaaS Experience Platform, enable service providers to deploy a new bundle of cloud-driven Smart Home Services.
The deal also provides the option for NCTC members to offer to end-user customers Evolution Digital's line of Android TV hardware including EVO FORCE 1™ and EVO PRO™.
"This new agreement further builds upon the trusted and long-standing relationship between Evolution Digital and NCTC," said Marc Cohen, Chief Revenue Officer. "We are excited to continue our close partnership to enable best-in-breed services for the connected whole-home ecosystem. Evolution Digital's acumen for delivering the latest innovative technology at a competitive price point, coupled with NCTC's reliability and efficiency for managing materials and transactions, breeds reliability and promptness with the service providers that we jointly serve. We look forward to working closely with NCTC."
Lou Borrelli, CEO of NCTC said," Evolution Digital is simply a great NCTC partner. They are offering our members the Western Hemisphere's leading Android TV hardware and terrific software products to our members at the best prices. This is a win-win for all."
NCTC members and companies interested in learning more about Evolution Digital's offerings should contact their NCTC representative.
Evolution Digital L.L.C. is a leading provider of a broad portfolio of integrated video products and whole-home Wi-Fi offerings for the global industry. Our customers include service providers and their subscribers who use our products daily to enhance their lives. We take an aggressive approach to product innovation to embrace new technologies and ever-evolving connected lifestyles that require high-performance, reliable and user-friendly solutions. Visit www.evolutiondigital.com.
The National Cable Television Cooperative, Inc. (NCTC) is a Kansas-based, not-for-profit corporation that operates as a programming, broadband solutions and hardware purchasing organization for its member companies serving 40 million broadband and video customers throughout the U.S. and its territories. NCTC seeks to maximize current and future opportunities to ensure the profitability, competitive stature and long-term sustainability of its member companies. NCTC represents more than 700 independent cable and broadband operators across the U.S., in programming and technology acquisition. NCTC is actively engaged in helping network providers and suppliers evolve their business models to deploy new video/data solutions to match the changes in the media landscape. For more information, visit www.nctconline.org
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Dropping gas prices could rise again by end of year with potential sanctions on Russian oil
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Experts said the U.S. is expected to place higher sanctions on Russia that could cause dropping gas prices to rise again. They said it could be a 50% increase between early October and December.
That’s because the U.S. and other countries are expected to increase sanctions against Russia, which could prevent Russian oil from accessing international waterways.
Alabama’s state average has dropped 52 cents in this last month and Clay Ingram with Alabama AAA said he thinks that will continue. He said there are already many sanctions placed on Russian oil by America and other countries. If potential sanctions cause crude oil to increase, Ingram said it likely wont be that much of a difference for you.
“I’m not sure this will have much of an impact as they are predicting,” Ingram said. “It’s certainly possible, but right now, I think its just too early to tell.”
Ingram said there are no supply issues with oil right now, so he believes Alabama gas prices will continue dropping for the next few months.
The state’s average is $4.07 per gallon as of July 19.
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Company continues to excel through values established by its founders in 1947
SCHOFIELD, Wis., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenheck, the global leader in engineering and manufacturing air movement, control, conditioning, and distribution equipment, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Founded by brothers Bob and Bernie Greenheck upon their return home from World War II, the company started out as a small sheet metal shop in Schofield, Wisconsin. In its early days, Greenheck manufactured a variety of metal products but soon found its niche in its first HVAC product – a powerless gravity ventilator. Today, Greenheck offers the industry's most comprehensive product line of ventilation equipment from the roof to the room including fans and ventilators, make-up air units, energy recovery ventilators, kitchen ventilation systems, dedicated outdoor air systems, indoor air handlers, dampers, louvers, laboratory exhaust systems, grilles, registers, diffusers, and air terminal units.
"Bob and Bernie Greenheck's business philosophy was based on the core values of reinvestment in our people and operations, dedication to continuous improvement, and the determination to be the easiest company to do business with," said Tim Kilgore, President of Greenheck Sales. "These enduring values guide our company to this day through our extraordinary team members, strong sales partners and suppliers, and constant product innovation to meet changing customer needs."
Greenheck continuously works with its mechanical representative network, consulting engineers, and mechanical contractor customers to design and manufacture products that improve indoor air quality and provide healthy and safe environments in commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities such as schools, hospitals, warehouses, offices, data centers, restaurants and more. To accommodate this growing product line, Greenheck developed its Computer Aided Product Selection (CAPS®) program during the 1980s and later introduced the web-based eCAPS® program in 2015 to make product selection easier for engineers, contractors and its representative network. Greenheck also expanded its manufacturing reach throughout the years to be closer to the customer. In addition to Wisconsin, manufacturing campuses and facilities are currently located in California, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mexico and India.
Never living in the past, Greenheck continues to find ways to better serve its customers and meet the challenges of the future. Energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and net-zero buildings are among the leading factors driving innovation in the design of air movement and control products. Greenheck is leading the HVAC industry in the development of materials, technology and standards to address these factors and ensure customer ventilation needs are met.
A family-owned company, founder Bob Greenheck still serves as chairman emeritus of the board of directors that today includes three generations of the Greenheck family. The Bernard A. Greenheck Education Center and the Robert C. Greenheck Innovation Center, located on the Schofield, Wisconsin campus, ensure Greenheck's industry-leading position in education, standards, product quality and product innovation continue now and into the future.
For more on Greenheck's 75-year history, visit www.greenheck.com/anniversary
Greenheck is a global leader in engineering and manufacturing air movement, control, conditioning, and distribution equipment. For 75 years, we have been committed to promoting the highest levels of indoor air quality by offering the widest range of ventilation products for commercial and institutional buildings. Through superior customer service, we continue our legacy of innovation as experts in air movement by connecting our mechanical representative partners and customers with the newest products. With our CAPS® product selection tool and HVAC University product education series, Greenheck offers technology and product knowledge to ensure that when you work with us, you are working with the easiest company to do business with.
To learn more, visit www.greenheck.com or contact Greenheck, P.O. Box 410, Schofield, WI 54476-0410, (715) 359-6171, FAX (715) 355-2399.
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Jody McCormick
Senior PR/Media Specialist
715-355-2434
jody.mccormick@greenheck.com
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SSP Kicked Off 2022 With Significant Revenue Growth – Q1 2021 vs Q1 2022 Marks 540% Upswing – Driven by Diverse Marketplace Approach & Opportunity for Marketers to Invest in Under-Represented Communities
HOUSTON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT) announced today that its supply-side advertising platform, Colossus SSP, had a strong first quarter, with comparisons between Q1 2021 to Q1 2022 showing a 540 percent surge in revenue. This uptick comes on the heels of year-over-year revenue growing by 330 percent between 2020 and 2021, as well as a triple digit increase the previous year, with the platform's revenue rising by 235 percent between 2019 and 2020. Leadership credits the dramatic growth to the company's commitment to normalize diversity in the field of programmatic advertising – delivering multicultural and general market audiences at scale. In addition, it points to several brands living up to their promises to support under-represented communities in their media buys.
"Colossus SSP's approach has always been one of inclusivity, bringing together a diverse set of audiences – Black, Hispanic, Asian, LGBTQ, and more – alongside general market, to serve as a one-stop-shop for advertisers who want to reach a cross-section of consumers," said Lashawnda Goffin, CEO, Colossus SSP. "Not only has this allowed savvy marketers the opportunity to reach a vibrant range of consumers, but it has helped them increase investment in minority-owned media properties that have often been left out of the programmatic mix. Moreover, by putting their budgets to work to support multicultural voices, these brands are seeing remarkable results in meeting critical KPIs."
The number of brands and media agencies tapping into Colossus SSP's inclusive audience approach rose by 87 percent comparing Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, with clients such as Bayer, HP, and the NBA coming on board.
"At Bayer, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live the healthiest life possible, and that we have a responsibility to make our vision of Health for All, Hunger for None a reality," said Gary Guarnaccia, Head of Platform & Publisher Investment, Bayer Consumer Health, North America. "Partnering with Colossus SSP and their growing marketplace of diverse content and minority-owned publishers has enabled our in-house digital media buying team to expand our reach to consumers with important information about our healthcare products and brands, such as Aleve, Midol and One-A-Day."
In lockstep with demand, in Q1 2022 Colossus SSP significantly expanded its publisher inventory supply. Currently Colossus SSP makes over approximately 90 billion impressions available each month with a diverse audience marketplace that includes over 13,000 sites and apps.
Blavity Inc, a market leader for Black media, reaching over 100 million millennials per month, began working with Colossus SSP in January 2020 and over the course of the following two years saw a 7-fold increase in revenues derived from the partnership.
"Colossus SSP has proven to be a valuable partner, one that has a deep understanding of publishers – especially multicultural publishers – as well as the media and marketing landscape at large," said Orchid Richardson, Senior Vice President of Digital, Blavity Inc. "After two years of exponential growth, we are on track to see revenues from our relationship with Colossus SSP rise at a steady clip – if not outpace."
"Colossus SSP's rapid growth is a testament to its distinct approach to diversity, technology and the dynamic team that Lashawnda Goffin has been able to build," said Mark Walker, CEO, Direct Digital Holdings. "Marketers are experiencing the benefits through multiple ROI metrics and subsequently publisher partners are experiencing significant growth in revenues. It's a win-win situation."
About Direct Digital Holdings
Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT) brings state-of-the-art sell- and buy-side advertising platforms together under one umbrella company. The holding group's Sell-side platform Colossus SSP offers advertisers of all sizes extensive reach within general market and multicultural media properties. Its operating companies Huddled Masses and Orange142 deliver significant ROI for middle market advertisers by providing data-optimized programmatic solutions at scale for businesses in sectors that range from energy to healthcare and travel to financial services. Direct Digital Holdings' sell- and buy-side solutions manage approximately 70,000 clients monthly, generating over 90 billion impressions per month across display, CTV, in-app, and other media channels. The company has been named a top minority-owned business by The Houston Business Journal ("HBJ").
About Colossus SSP
Part of Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT), Colossus SSP is a leading custom supply-side platform (SSP) that delivers a diverse marketplace, enabling programmatic media buyers to connect with multicultural and general market audiences at scale. Colossus SSP's consulting arm provides brands of all sizes with meaningful insights and actionable guidance for reaching curated audiences. For more information, visit www.colossusmediassp.com.
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Andhra Pradesh: EPDCL puts preliminary loss due to floods at ₹1.53 crore
Action plan in place to restore power supply in the affected areas, says official
The Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEPDCL) has pegged the loss caused to its infrastructure by the Godavari floods in Alluri Sitarama Raju (ASR), Konaseema, East Godavari, Eluru and West Godavari districts at ₹1.53 crore as per a preliminary estimate.
The loss is likely to go up as the Discom gets a clearer picture of the impact in the next few days. Meanwhile, it is carrying out power restoration works on a war-footing.
APEPDCL Chairman and Managing Director K. Santosh Rao told Special Chief Secretary (energy) K. Vijayanand in a review meeting on Wednesday that the Discom had prepared an action plan to restore power supply in all the flood-hit areas and that engineers, up to the rank of divisional engineer, were involved in the restoration works.
Mr. Santosh Rao said that 415 villages of 12 mandals in the above districts were affected.
Damage to equipment
As far as the electrical equipment was concerned, eight 33/11 kV substations with 250 km of 33 kV line, 46 11 kV feeders, 4,022 distribution transformers, 5,453 agricultural services and 71,443 non-agricultural services were found to be affected, and a detailed assessment of the damages was being done.
More than 35,936 domestic connections had been restored in the flooded areas in the last three days, he said.
Around 35,507 domestic services in the fully submerged mandals of Chintoor, V.R. Puram, Kunavaram and Yetapaka in ASR district and Kukunur and Velerupadu Mandals in Eluru district were pending restoration.
All the 33kV affected feeders had been charged. Restoration of power supply was completed in most areas except in Rampachodavaram and Jangareddygudem divisions where submergence was high.
Mr. Vijayanand instructed the officials to monitor the progress of works and visit the affected villages. The required men and material were made available for the execution of works.
AP-Genco MD and AP-Transco CMD B. Sreedhar, AP-Transco JMD I. Prudhvi Tej and DISCOMs’ CMDs J. Padma Janardhana Reddy (CPDCL) and H. Haranatha Rao (SPDCL) were present.
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Mixpanel Makes Startup Program Available to More Companies, Introduces Free Company KPIs Dashboard Template to Help Startups Measure Metrics that Matter
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mixpanel, the leading product analytics solution powering more than 6,000 of the world's most innovative digital companies, today announced that more than 1,000 companies have graduated Mixpanel for Startups, a free program that helps startups find product-market fit faster by giving them up to $50,000 in free credits a year, worth up to 430 million monthly events—more than double the number offered by comparable programs. To celebrate the milestone, Mixpanel is expanding eligibility for the program and introducing a free Company KPIs Dashboard Template—nine out-of-the-box, fully customizable reports that make it easy for all companies to measure metrics that matter.
Today, we are seeing high inflation, increasing interest rates, war in Europe, and signs that we could be headed for an economic downturn of an unknown duration. Capital is becoming increasingly scarce and startups must think twice about how they deploy their resources. In times like these, product analytics becomes indispensable, showing startups what is and isn't working with their websites and apps, what to prioritize, and what to invest in.
"Even in the best conditions, very few startups make it. That's why we introduced Mixpanel for Startups in 2020," said Mixpanel VP of Product Neil Rahilly. "In just two years, it has become the world's most comprehensive product analytics program and we've given $25 million in free credits to help more startups succeed. It's a dream come true to be working with so many startups, and to see them using their product analytics dashboards to secure funding. I'm so excited to celebrate this milestone by making the program available to more startups and introducing our new Company KPIs Dashboard Template."
Starting today, Mixpanel is expanding the criteria for startups that want to join: now every startup under five-years-old that has raised up to $8 million is eligible to apply for Mixpanel for Startups.
Paris headquartered healthtech app May is a graduate. It has provided more than 100,000 soon-to-be parents with access to pediatricians, midwives, and pediatric nurses since its launch in 2020. The company uses Mixpanel to better understand how customers use its product and make more informed decisions about its product roadmap, which has resulted in monthly user growth of more than 10 percent and a doubling in user retention. Being able to easily capture and visualize its growth metrics also supported May's pitch to investors during Q2 2022, helping the app secure $3.3 million in additional funding.
"Before Mixpanel, we made decisions based on conversations with users. Now we have dashboards measuring metrics including conversion, user growth, and stickiness," said May Co-Founder Antoine Creuzet. "Mixpanel is an absolutely critical tool—it gives us valuable insights into what our users want, which has helped us find product-market fit faster and made fundraising much easier. But most importantly, it has instilled within us a confidence that we truly know our business inside and out."
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template is available for free today to all Mixpanel customers. It includes a number of features that make it easier for startups in different industries and geographies to quickly get started with product analytics and measure engagement, retention, and growth metrics.
It's easy to get started. Companies only need two events in Mixpanel—a signup or session start event and a value moment event. The template also includes a new feature called Mixpanel Primers. The three primers link directly from the template dashboards and provide how-to's for interpreting the reports, as well as explanations for why certain metrics matter and what "good" looks like.
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template takes the guesswork out of determining which metrics to measure. It helps companies quickly answer questions like:
- How many users are experiencing value in my product?
- Who are my most engaged users?
- Which channels generate the most signups?
- How many of my engaged users come back?
The template also produces investor-worthy, intuitive, and fully-customizable public and private dashboards so that everyone can benefit from the insights.
"Mixpanel's Company KPIs Dashboard Template puts metrics at our fingertips that we didn't even think to measure," said Kelvin Yu, founding engineer at Zage. "It only took five seconds to set up our KPIs dashboard, and the reports were very easy to understand and take action on."
Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better digital products through data. With its powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has an award-winning employee experience and culture, with offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore. For more information, visit: www.mixpanel.com.
Media Contact: Joe Roualdes, joe.roualdes@mixpanel.com
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Widely used insecticides that harm bees and songbirds would face far-reaching restrictions in California under regulations proposed by the state’s pesticide agency.
The new limits would be among the nation’s most extensive for agricultural use of neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides used to kill plant-damaging pests like aphids. The highly potent pesticides have been shown to harm bees, birds and other creatures.
Aimed at protecting bees that pollinate crops, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s proposed rules would restrict four closely-related neonicotinoid chemicals: imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, clothianidin and dinotefuran.
Unveiled in February, the rules would limit when and how much can be applied, depending on the specific chemical, the crop and, in some cases, the presence of honeybees or other pollinators. California’s pesticide regulators are still evaluating public feedback and there is no specific timeframe for finalizing the proposal.
Neonicotinoids are the most popular insecticides in the world — although not in California, according to the state pesticide agency.
More than a decade in the making, California’s reevaluation of neonicotinoids began in 2009, after the agency received a report from pesticide manufacturer Bayer CropScience that “showed potentially harmful effects of imidacloprid to pollinators.” A 2014 law set a series of deadlines for reevaluating their risks and adopting “any control measures necessary to protect pollinator health.”
In addition, a bill in the Legislature would ban use of neonicotinoids in homes, yards and other outdoor non-agricultural settings, starting in 2024. A variety of consumer products are registered for use in California, such as BioAdvanced All-in-One Rose and Flower Care Liquid Concentrate, which contains imidacloprid.
The bill trails other states, including New Jersey and Maine, that have already banned outdoor uses in gardens and residential areas. New Jersey’s ban extends to commercial landscapes, like golf courses, too.
The European Union banned several neonicotinoids for all outdoor uses because of the risks to bees. And other states already have some restrictions on agricultural use, largely by allowing the chemicals to be bought or used only by those with specific training. Rhode Island has also barred neonicotinoids when crops are blooming.
If finalized, California’s proposal to restrict agricultural use could “significantly impact when and how” neonicotinoid products can be used in the nation’s No. 1 agricultural state, according to an analysis by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
“This is critical,” said Karen Morrison, acting chief deputy director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation. “Pollinators play a very important role in the ecosystem at large as well as for crops and being able to produce food in the state.”
California regulators anticipate the rule would reduce neonicotinoids applied to plants and soil by 45%. Seeds coated in neonicotinoids — a major use of the chemicals — would not be restricted.
California growers say the restrictions could hamstring their power to protect crops and could ultimately lead to worse outcomes for pollinators.
Limiting the use of neonicotinoids could force the citrus industry, for instance, to use other pesticides that are “not necessarily what the state of California wants” and could require “multiple sprays, something that may pose more risk to bees,” said Casey Creamer, president and CEO of California Citrus Mutual, a trade association of citrus growers.
Almonds, cherries, citrus, cotton, grapes, strawberries, tomatoes and walnuts are major crops expected to be highly affected by the restrictions. These crops make up about half of the state’s agricultural exports and two-thirds of the acreage treated with neonicotinoids from 2017 to 2019. Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Monterey and San Joaquin top the list of counties where the most neonicotinoids were applied.
Some replacement chemicals may be more toxic to pests’ natural enemies — worsening infestations, the California agriculture department warned in its analysis.
Such alternatives like pyrethroids, for instance, are also “very toxic to bees, in that they hit the bee, the bee dies. If they’re in the spray, they all die,” said Robert Van Steenwyk, a cooperative extension specialist emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the authors of the report. “So, that isn’t a great alternative.”
The regulation contains some exceptions to allow neonicotinoids for invasive pests like the Asian citrus psyllid, which spreads citrus greening disease.
Though the California agriculture department does not anticipate any crop losses, its experts do expect an increase in costs because of the price of replacement pesticides.
The eight highly affected crops collectively earned nearly $19 billion in revenue in 2019, according to the assessment by the California agriculture department. Had the regulations been in place, costs to the growers would have ranged between $13.3 million in 2017 to $12.1 million in 2019.
Representatives of pesticide manufacturer Bayer CropScience raised several concerns about the proposal in a letter to the pesticide agency, including that it “is not grounded in science.” In addition, the proposed pesticide application rates “are not efficacious and therefore will not provide control of target pests” on some crops, the company said.
Birds, bees and aquatic life
Neonicotinoids are a relatively new class of pesticides that hit the market in the 1990s, billed as being less harmful to mammals and other vertebrates.
Inspired by the toxicity of nicotine, neonicotinoids coat crop seeds, are sprayed on plants and drench the soil in fields. The chemicals suffuse the plant and its pollen and nectar, attacking the central nervous systems of insects.
As their use has climbed, so too have studies revealing that they threaten birds, bees, aquatic creatures. Potential human health risks remain under investigation.
Wild bees living and foraging near crops grown from neonicotinoid-treated seeds showed large population die-offs in a study funded by pesticide manufacturers.
Honey bees are reared and managed for their honey production and ability to pollinate crops, among other services. Research shows the insecticides kill worker bees, reduce immunity of the hive and leave colonies without their queens.
The insecticides also decimate zooplankton and therefore the fish that feed on them. Birds stop eating, and delay migration. In an assessment of three of the chemicals, the US Environmental Protection Agency found they are likely to harm between 67% and 79% of federally endangered or threatened species and between 56% and 83% of their critical habitats.
Part of the problem is that the chemicals don’t stay put. They “can move from treated plants to pollinators and from plants to pests to natural enemies,” wrote entomology professors Steve Frank at North Carolina State University and John Tooker of The Pennsylvania State University in the journal PNAS in 2020. “We believe that neonicotinoids pose broader risks to biodiversity and food webs than previously recognized.”
The chemicals are turning up in groundwater and surface water, including 93% of water samples pulled from creeks, rivers, and runoff in Southern California and 97% of samples drawn from agricultural stretches of the Central Coast and Southern California.
Jacob Cecala learned that neonicotinoids are far more toxic to bees than he anticipated during his graduate research at the University of California, Riverside.
A month after he treated native plants from a California nursery with the neonicotinoid imidacloprid, following the label instructions exactly, Cecala discovered that all his bees were dying — their little bodies still on the flowers.
His goal had been to study the non-fatal effects of the pesticide on a species of bee used for pollinating alfalfa crops. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, what am I going to do? How am I going to complete my dissertation?’” Cecala said.
It took him another year — and cutting down the amount of pesticide by two-thirds — to find out that although more bees survived, the survivors still stopped foraging for food as much and their reproduction dropped drastically.
“Bees are insects — they’re just as susceptible to these compounds as an aphid or some other insect pest would be,” said Cecala, who is now a postdoctoral scientist at the University of California, Davis. “That’s where the problem lies.”
‘Some very concerning gaps remain’
Though environmental advocates applaud state pesticide regulators for the proposed restrictions, they say they’re too limited in scope to address the risks that neonicotinoids pose.
“As is often the case, California is leading the way with the first state regulatory system for neonics in the nation,” said Daniel Raichel, acting director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s pollinator initiative. “It’s an important first step — especially in regards to pollinator protection — but some very concerning gaps remain.”
California does not address, for instance, crop seeds coated with neonicotinoids, which permeate the plant as it grows but also seep into water, soil and other plants. Coated seeds “may introduce a significant contribution of pesticide mass that remains unreported” in California, state officials said in a November workshop.
But the state doesn’t regulate treated seeds as pesticides and found that the seeds don’t pose a significant risk to pollinators, Morrison said, although she added, “this is an area that we’re actively looking at.”
Environmentalists also raised concerns that the proposal is primarily aimed at reducing risk to carefully tended hives of honeybees — not its native bee species and other pollinators.
But state officials said even though their assessment analyzed the risks to honeybees, the rules would protect wild bees, too.
The proposal bars spraying plants and drenching soil with neonicotinoids when crops that are attractive to bees are blooming, and sets a cap for seasonal application. It also establishes crop-specific restrictions on application rates and timing that, for crops moderately attractive to bees, only apply when hives of honey bees or other managed pollinators are on the field.
“Honey bees are actually pretty odd as far as bees go,” Cecala said. They make honey, for one thing, and live in hives. The consequences of pesticide exposure can be much more drastic for California’s solitary bees. If a solitary mother bee “gets exposed to a pesticide and she is not able to reproduce, that essentially ends her entire genetic line,” Cecala said.
Legislators are considering closing one gap environmental groups have identified in California’s draft regulation: non-agricultural use of the pesticides, including in gardens and commercial landscapes like golf courses. These account for 15 to 20% of known neonicotinoid use in California, according to a legislative analysis of the bill.
The bill, which contains exceptions for veterinary use and indoor pest control, is set to be triaged by the Senate Appropriations Committee in August, when it decides which bills will survive and which will die.
Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Democrat from San Ramon and author of the bill, said other states have already taken the lead on banning the use of these chemicals in households and neighborhoods.
“We’re not leading the way,” she said. “We’ve got to get our act together!” | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/07/20/california-poised-to-restrict-bee-killing-pesticides/ | 2022-07-20T14:18:22Z | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/07/20/california-poised-to-restrict-bee-killing-pesticides/ | true |
Mixpanel Makes Startup Program Available to More Companies, Introduces Free Company KPIs Dashboard Template to Help Startups Measure Metrics that Matter
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mixpanel, the leading product analytics solution powering more than 6,000 of the world's most innovative digital companies, today announced that more than 1,000 companies have graduated Mixpanel for Startups, a free program that helps startups find product-market fit faster by giving them up to $50,000 in free credits a year, worth up to 430 million monthly events—more than double the number offered by comparable programs. To celebrate the milestone, Mixpanel is expanding eligibility for the program and introducing a free Company KPIs Dashboard Template—nine out-of-the-box, fully customizable reports that make it easy for all companies to measure metrics that matter.
Today, we are seeing high inflation, increasing interest rates, war in Europe, and signs that we could be headed for an economic downturn of an unknown duration. Capital is becoming increasingly scarce and startups must think twice about how they deploy their resources. In times like these, product analytics becomes indispensable, showing startups what is and isn't working with their websites and apps, what to prioritize, and what to invest in.
"Even in the best conditions, very few startups make it. That's why we introduced Mixpanel for Startups in 2020," said Mixpanel VP of Product Neil Rahilly. "In just two years, it has become the world's most comprehensive product analytics program and we've given $25 million in free credits to help more startups succeed. It's a dream come true to be working with so many startups, and to see them using their product analytics dashboards to secure funding. I'm so excited to celebrate this milestone by making the program available to more startups and introducing our new Company KPIs Dashboard Template."
Starting today, Mixpanel is expanding the criteria for startups that want to join: now every startup under five-years-old that has raised up to $8 million is eligible to apply for Mixpanel for Startups.
Paris headquartered healthtech app May is a graduate. It has provided more than 100,000 soon-to-be parents with access to pediatricians, midwives, and pediatric nurses since its launch in 2020. The company uses Mixpanel to better understand how customers use its product and make more informed decisions about its product roadmap, which has resulted in monthly user growth of more than 10 percent and a doubling in user retention. Being able to easily capture and visualize its growth metrics also supported May's pitch to investors during Q2 2022, helping the app secure $3.3 million in additional funding.
"Before Mixpanel, we made decisions based on conversations with users. Now we have dashboards measuring metrics including conversion, user growth, and stickiness," said May Co-Founder Antoine Creuzet. "Mixpanel is an absolutely critical tool—it gives us valuable insights into what our users want, which has helped us find product-market fit faster and made fundraising much easier. But most importantly, it has instilled within us a confidence that we truly know our business inside and out."
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template is available for free today to all Mixpanel customers. It includes a number of features that make it easier for startups in different industries and geographies to quickly get started with product analytics and measure engagement, retention, and growth metrics.
It's easy to get started. Companies only need two events in Mixpanel—a signup or session start event and a value moment event. The template also includes a new feature called Mixpanel Primers. The three primers link directly from the template dashboards and provide how-to's for interpreting the reports, as well as explanations for why certain metrics matter and what "good" looks like.
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template takes the guesswork out of determining which metrics to measure. It helps companies quickly answer questions like:
- How many users are experiencing value in my product?
- Who are my most engaged users?
- Which channels generate the most signups?
- How many of my engaged users come back?
The template also produces investor-worthy, intuitive, and fully-customizable public and private dashboards so that everyone can benefit from the insights.
"Mixpanel's Company KPIs Dashboard Template puts metrics at our fingertips that we didn't even think to measure," said Kelvin Yu, founding engineer at Zage. "It only took five seconds to set up our KPIs dashboard, and the reports were very easy to understand and take action on."
Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better digital products through data. With its powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has an award-winning employee experience and culture, with offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore. For more information, visit: www.mixpanel.com.
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- Texas Waves II, 30 megawatt battery storage project
- Project recently completed installation of all inverters on site
- Completion expected by end of 2022
AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Silvia Ortín, CEO RWE Renewables Americas: "Battery storage solutions like Texas Waves II, with its responsive reserve capability, are a proven proposition for storing energy and improving grid reliability. These types of projects will become increasingly important as renewables form a bigger part of the energy mix as we expand our operating portfolio in the U.S., one of our focus markets."
RWE continues to expand its storage portfolio with Texas Waves II, a 30 MW battery storage project with a 1-hour lithium-ion battery, co-located at the existing Pyron Wind Farm in Scurry County, Texas.
Texas Waves II is under construction and is expected to be online by the end of 2022. The project recently achieved a major equipment milestone installing all inverters on site, with no lost time injuries and two weeks ahead of schedule.
The project will provide ancillary services to the ERCOT grid as well as participate in the energy market. In addition, Texas Waves II has the potential to reduce the cost of energy to consumers by storing energy when it is readily available from renewable resources and discharging when energy would otherwise have to be provided from more expensive fossil fuel generation.
Texas Waves II is the next phase of a series of energy storage projects, where RWE is able to add a storage facility where it makes the most sense in the existing RWE wind fleet. Texas Waves I, consisting of two 9.9 MW short duration energy storage projects, at the existing RWE Pyron and Inadale wind farms in West Texas, came online in 2018.
By its online date, the project will be RWE's largest AC-coupled battery in the Americas to date. RWE is now significantly increasing its standalone and co-located storage project pipeline, with more and larger projects upcoming in the U.S.
The U.S. accounts for more than one third of the RWE Group's renewables capacity playing a key role in RWE's strategy to grow its renewables business and to become carbon neutral by 2040.
RWE's very experienced U.S. team is driving our expansion plans not only in onshore wind, solar PV and storage, but also in offshore wind, to contribute to RWE's ambitious goal of 50 gigawatts net installed capacity in 2030.
RWE constructs, owns and operates some of the highest performing wind, solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. As a leading renewable energy player, the company has more than 30 projects in operation in the U.S., totalling an installed generation capacity of more than 5,000 MW (4,288 MW pro rata) to date with more to come.
The company, together with its joint venture partner National Grid Ventures, secured area OCS-A 0539 in the New York Bight offshore lease auction in the U.S. with a potential to host 3 GW of capacity, enough to power 1.1 million U.S. homes. In addition, RWE has entered a joint venture, New England Aqua Ventus, focused on floating offshore wind in the state of Maine.
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RWE is leading the way to a green energy world. With an extensive investment and growth strategy, the company will expand its powerful, green generation capacity to 50 gigawatts internationally by 2030. RWE is investing €50 billion gross for this purpose in this decade. The portfolio is based on offshore and onshore wind, solar, hydrogen, batteries, biomass and gas.
RWE Supply & Trading provides tailored energy solutions for large customers. RWE has locations in the attractive markets of Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. The company is responsibly phasing out nuclear energy and coal. Government-mandated phaseout roadmaps have been defined for both of these energy sources. RWE employs around 19,000 people worldwide and has a clear target: to get to net zero by 2040. On its way there, the company has set itself ambitious targets for all activities that cause greenhouse gas emissions. The Science Based Targets initiative has confirmed that these emission reduction targets are in line with the Paris Agreement. Very much in the spirit of the company's purpose: Our energy for a sustainable life.
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The Venerable Mixed-Gender League Founded in 1974 Is Currently Accepting Proposals From Expansion Markets In Preparation For Return To Model Of Playing In Home Cities Next Year
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World TeamTennis, the nation's only professional, mixed-gender team tennis league, has announced that it is accepting expansion proposals from prospective ownership groups and markets that are interested in acquiring a WTT franchise.
WTT, which played in single locations during the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is also planning to return match play to venues hosted by the individual teams' markets in the summer of 2023.
"We are excited to announce that WTT is looking to add expansion franchises and returning to playing in individual cities across the United States in 2023," WTT Chairman & CEO Eric Davidson said. "While hosting all of the WTT matches at one site in 2020 and 2021 was necessary due to the pandemic, our fans have missed the access that the teams bring in their home markets and we are excited to bring that model back in 2023."
WTT, which hosted the 2021 WTT season last November at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, Calif., will not play in 2022 as it looks to reload for 2023.
"With the 2021 season finishing up in late November and the damage that COVID caused to our franchises, we decided against rushing to host a 2022 season so our teams can get healthy as we look to relaunch in the summer of 2023," Davidson said.
For potential ownership groups and markets that are interested in acquiring a WTT franchise, the expansion franchise fee is set at $1,000,000. The league is also open to adding new investors and owners at the league level as WTT looks to continue its growth as the leader in professional team tennis.
While the pandemic hampered much of the sports industry the past two years, WTT saw significant growth in its 2020 and 2021 seasons. Grand Slam champions who participated during the last two WTT campaigns included Venus Williams, the Bryan Brothers (Bob and Mike Bryan), Kim Clijsters, Jack Sock, Sloane Stephens, Sofia Kenin, CoCo Vandewedghe and Ryan Harrison. In addition, top-ranked American's Taylor Fritz (ATP No. 13), Jessica Pegula (WTA No. 7) and Danielle Collins (WTA No. 8) have also participated over the past few seasons.
The league also broke single-match viewership records on national network television for both the regular season (484,000 viewers) and WTT Finals (556,000 viewers) in 2020 when all nine WTT franchises competed at America's Resort at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.V.
For those seeking more information about purchasing an expansion franchise or investing in WTT, interested parties should reach out to WTT's national office in Southern California or inquire via e-mail to Contact@wtt.com.
World TeamTennis was co-founded by tennis legend and visionary Billie Jean King and has continued to innovate the sport every year since its debut season in 1974. The fast-paced action and unique scoring format creates an energized and exciting atmosphere for WTT fans and players. The team event affords the opportunity for men's and women's Major champions to share the court in each and every match throughout the season, including in the championship with the King Trophy on the line. More information can be found at wtt.com.
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Rare and Unique Primary Sources Expand Student and Faculty Access to Humanities and Social Sciences Research Materials
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. and SHANGHAI, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai University has acquired Gale Scholar from Gale, part of Cengage Group, opening up new possibilities for research and study using the expansive content and powerful search technologies of Gale Primary Sources. The resources are available to nearly 58,000 students across the university's three campuses. The university also purchased Gale Digital Scholar Lab (the Lab) as it looks to advance in the growing field of digital humanities. The Lab makes digital humanities methods available to students and researchers, enabling them to analyze and interpret large amounts of data, fostering 21st-century skills they can use post-graduation. Shanghai University joins the list of distinguished universities in China to implement Gale Scholar.
Founded in 1922, Shanghai University is an esteemed, research-heavy institution that is a member of the national Project 211, an initiative that supports the development of the country's best universities. As exemplified by their more than 3,000 international students, Shanghai University places an emphasis on international ties.
"Shanghai University was the first university established by the Communist Party of China. Our mission is to build a world-class research institution by giving scholars diverse digital resources that bring new perspectives," said Pan Shouyong, Director of Shanghai University Library. "Gale Scholar and the Lab support this goal by providing primary sources from prestigious institutions across the world to build our digital humanities capabilities."
The university selected Gale Scholar to increase its humanities and social sciences resources, allowing for more research in the area of liberal arts. Gale Scholar will also encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and critical thinking while granting access to high-quality primary sources that were previously unavailable because of their location in Europe and North America.
"We are pleased to partner with Shanghai University through Gale Scholar and the Lab," said Terry Robinson, senior vice president of Gale global academic. "These tools will support the institution in keeping pace with international scholars, growing research output and improving student outcomes."
Gale Scholar provides Shanghai University researchers curated digital collections of books, maps, photographs, newspapers, periodicals and manuscripts from well-known libraries including the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the British Library. Acclaimed Gale Primary Sources series in the university's program include:
- China and the Modern World
- Smithsonian Collections Online
- Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online
- The Making of the Modern World
- The Making of the Modern Law
For more information on Gale Scholar, visit its webpage.
Cengage Group, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide. Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 65 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when and how people need it. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit: http://www.gale.com.
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Additions continue growth of IgniteTech software library
AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IgniteTech™, the company "Where Software Goes to Live™," today announced a transition of two software products from the ESW Capital portfolio to IgniteTech. Two solutions previously managed under the DevGraph Business Unit, FogBugz and ScaleArc, have transitioned to IgniteTech effective immediately.
FogBugz is an easy-to-use project management system for agile development teams. It supports numerous project management methodologies — including Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban — with a lightweight design and customization to easily integrate with any project management workflow.
"FogBugz has been trusted for decades by hundreds of thousands of developers," said Eric Vaughan, CEO of IgniteTech. "We're excited to be the new home for this legendary solution and diverse customer base."
The second solution transitioning is ScaleArc, a database load balancer that boosts performance and overcomes scaling limits. It simplifies the process of managing databases and database migrations while preventing service outages and downtime. IgniteTech was involved in the initial acquisition of the ScaleArc company on Jan 18, 2018.
"I'm thrilled to welcome ScaleArc customers back to IgniteTech," said Vaughan. "ScaleArc is an incredibly powerful tool, used by customers with the highest performance and reliability demands — including one of the world's largest securities exchanges — and it's exciting to drive innovation forward for the customer base who depends on its performance."
These new additions will continue the Company's record growth in 2021 and 2022, as the IgniteTech software library now houses over 60 solutions across all industries, markets, and technologies.
The transition is also good news for all existing IgniteTech customers because it adds two additional titles available to them at no additional cost under IgniteTech Unlimited — the groundbreaking, Netflix-style licensing model that gives every customer access to the entire IgniteTech enterprise solution portfolio at no additional cost. Watch the video here to quickly understand the incredible value this program offers.
The IgniteTech team will communicate changes directly to customers, if any; however, a smooth and effortless transition should be expected. Any questions regarding this change can be sent to success@ignitetech.com.
IgniteTech is one of the world's leading enterprise software companies. Founded in 2010, IgniteTech is an innovative, privately-held company and a member of the ESW Capital group of companies. Building on its corporate vision, "Where Software Goes to Live™," IgniteTech grows exclusively through acquisitions. The Company continues to deliver on its promise of revitalizing enterprise software through the three pillars of the IgniteTech corporate vision: 1) to save and stabilize the software and businesses it acquires; 2) to continuously innovate and transition products to the AWS cloud; and 3) to add unlimited value with its one-of-a-kind, Netflix-style software subscription, which provides customers access to all products in IgniteTech's solution suites.
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Terry Healey will help enterprises drive network transformation in strategic industries and markets
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gluware, the leader in intelligent network automation, today announced the hiring of Terry Healey as Vice President of Sales Acceleration Marketing. This move builds on a string of strategic hires over the last year. Healey is a key addition for Gluware as the company continues to invest during this period of platform enhancements and high growth. Through this hire, Gluware continues to advance the goals it established following its $43 million dollar funding round in October 2021. Key goals include expanding into new markets, addressing demand to de-risk complex networks, and accelerating enterprise hyperautomation and digital transformation strategies.
"Gluware's intelligent network automation platform spans multi-vendor, multi-domain and multi-cloud networks and enables enterprises to scale network management activities and deliver more secure, higher performance networks," said Terry Healey, VP of Sales Acceleration Marketing, "Time to value is critical in fast growth and belt-tightening environments alike, and Gluware's technology can deliver on that across a multitude of high impact use cases that IT professionals and CIO's can control to drive greater efficiency within their organizations. I am thrilled to join this talented team."
Healey comes to Gluware with over 30 years of experience in high tech marketing and business development, having spent the past 22 years consulting for emerging and large technology vendors. In addition, Healey spent the last 19 years with M Squared Consulting in go-to-market roles, supporting numerous growth marketing and transformation initiatives across Cisco Systems' technology portfolio. Prior to that, he was on the founding team and served as Senior VP of Marketing for Intraware, a software services company that he led marketing for through a successful IPO.
"Terry is passionate and proven in building programmatic approaches to drive more scalable, revenue-generating sales programs," said Traci Soward, Chief Marketing Officer at Gluware. "His ability to build simplified messaging for complex technology solutions will help Gluware deliver clear messaging and business outcomes that resonate with both technical and business decision makers." Soward continued, "Terry will be an integral part of our team as Gluware continues to provide industry-defining solutions to both new and existing customers."
Healey joins an expanding executive team built to take full advantage of Gluware's explosive growth. Since the beginning of 2022, Gluware has added two C-Suite and four VP-level executives to its leadership. With a well-rounded executive team, Gluware looks to continue to deliver a platform that transforms enterprises worldwide through ease of use and ability to deliver rapid time to value.
In the face of increasingly complex network management and orchestration challenges, Gluware's intelligent network automation simplifies how networks are discovered, analyzed, updated, and maintained. The Gluware Intelligent Network Automation suite accelerates network automation with a commercial-off-the-shelf platform that offers no-code/low-code development with built-in applications for security and compliance. Committed to improving and innovating suite offerings, Gluware recently released its Network Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution and Gluware Topology application for network visualization, site documentation, and enhanced troubleshooting to simplify the management and troubleshooting of network infrastructure.
For more information on Gluware and the latest innovations in the Gluware Intelligent Network Automation suite, please visit www.gluware.com.
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Gluware is the leading intelligent network automation suite for the cloud era, trusted by Global 2000 enterprises, across industries, from Pharma to Finance. Gluware automates the networks of the world's largest and most complex enterprises by simplifying how multi-domain, multi-vendor enterprise networks are discovered, analyzed, and maintained. The company's code-free, intent-based approach to network automation reduces the business risk of unplanned outages and downtime while elevating the performance of people and systems.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaskela Law LLC announces that it is investigating Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. ("Hemisphere") (NASDAQ: HMTV) on behalf of the company's investors.
On May 9, 2022, Hemisphere announced that it had agreed to be acquired by its controlling stockholder, Gato Investments LP ("Gato"), a portfolio investment of Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P., at a price of $7.00 per share. Following the closing of the proposed transaction, Hemisphere's investors will be cashed out of their investment position, and shares of Hemisphere's stock will no longer be publicly traded.
According to Edenbrook Capital, LLC ("Edenbrook"), a holder of approximately 15% of Hemisphere's publicly traded shares, the takeover transaction "is borne out of a flawed, unfair process that benefits insiders at the expense of public shareholders." Further, Edenbrook calculates "that the equity value for public shareholders should be at least $16 – 23 per share."
The investigation seeks to determine (i) whether Hemisphere shareholders will be receiving sufficient monetary consideration for their shares, and (ii) whether Hemisphere's directors breached their fiduciary duties to HMTV stockholders in agreeing to sell the company to Gato.
Hemisphere shareholders who wish to receive additional information about this investigation and their legal rights and options are encouraged to contact Kaskela Law LLC (D. Seamus Kaskela, Esq. or Adrienne Bell, Esq.) at (888) 715 – 1740, or by email (abell@kaskelalaw.com) or online at https://kaskelalaw.com/cases/hemisphere-media-group-inc/ .
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(The Hill) — CEOs of the top 500 companies in the U.S. earned 324 times more money in 2021 than their employees, with executive compensation climbing $2.8 million in the past year on average as worker wages declined, according to an AFL-CIO report.
While the report found that real worker wages fell 2.4 percent in 2021 after adjusting for inflation, the average compensation for the top CEOs in the nation last year was $18.3 million, a more than $5 million increase over the past decade.
CEO pay, which includes salary, stocks, bonuses and nonequity incentives, rose 18.2 percent last year, much faster than the 7.1 percent rate of inflation.
Meanwhile, workers earned on average $58,260 last year, a roughly $1,300 increase annually over the past decade, according to the report.
The disparity between the average worker’s pay and CEO compensation shows how inequality has ballooned during the pandemic.
At Amazon, where workers unionized for the first time this year at a Staten Island location, CEO Andrew Jassy earned more than $212 million in 2021. That was 6,474 times the median pay of the average Amazon worker, according to the AFL-CIO report.
Apple CEO Tim Cook earned more than $98 million last year, 1,447 times higher than his employees’ median pay. Apple workers also unionized for the first time at a store location near Baltimore last month.
Netflix, which just reported better-than-expected earnings and slowed subscriber loss in its second-quarter results, has a slightly smaller disparity. CEO Reed Hastings collected more than $40 million in 2021, about 200 times higher than the median employees’ pay.
Other CEOs at the top of the list include executives at Expedia, JPMorganChase, Intel, Etsy and Adobe. | https://www.wane.com/news/ceos-average-pay-in-2021-was-324-times-higher-than-employees-report/ | 2022-07-20T14:23:23Z | https://www.wane.com/news/ceos-average-pay-in-2021-was-324-times-higher-than-employees-report/ | false |
Addition of respected attorney bolsters already-stout bankruptcy group
DALLAS, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigator Mark Castillo has joined Dallas-based Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal LLP as a partner.
Mr. Castillo represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, official committees, and trustees in all areas of bankruptcy law, litigation, and corporate matters. He has tried lawsuits involving millions of dollars in bankruptcy-related claims, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, turnover, conversion, and contract matters, and has litigated or settled millions more in preference and fraudulent-transfer claims.
"Our firm is dedicated to protecting the interests of our clients and their businesses and has a longstanding reputation for excellence in the bankruptcy arena," says Carrington Coleman's Managing Partner Monica Latin. "We are excited to welcome to the team a colleague of Mark's stature and experience."
A frequent speaker and author on bankruptcy and litigation topics, Mr. Castillo is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, an honorary society for qualified attorneys dedicated to both high ethical standards and improved training for all attorneys. He is also a Master and Pupilage Group Leader with the Hon. John C. Ford American Inn of Court, and has earned professional honors from Texas Super Lawyers, D Magazine, and the Dallas Business Journal.
Mr. Castillo joins Carrington Coleman from Curtis Castillo PC, along with bankruptcy associate Robert Rowe. Also joining the firm is litigation associate Rae Guyse, formerly of Haynes and Boone.
Carrington Coleman is a 52-year-old Dallas-based law firm focused on litigation and transactional services in the real estate, oil and gas, securities, construction, professional services, technology, and health care industries, among others. The firm provides counsel in corporate transactions, corporate governance, banking, bankruptcy/restructuring, intellectual property, litigation and appeals, employment, and family wealth/estate planning. Learn more about the firm at https://www.ccsb.com/.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.
Employees at the Augusta, Maine, Chipotle filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in June asking to hold a union election at the store. It was the first of the Mexican food chain's stores to file such a petition, according to NLRB filings.
The NLRB had scheduled a hearing Tuesday on Chipotle’s objections to the union election. But early Tuesday, Chipotle announced it was permanently closing the store.
Labor organizers say they will fight the closure. They say Chipotle is retaliating for their unionization efforts and trying to send a message to other stores that might try to unionize.
“We’re calling this union busting 101,” said Jeffrey Young, an attorney for Chipotle United, the group that was trying to unionize the Augusta store.
But Chipotle said the closure was due to staffing issues and not related to union activity.
“Chipotle respects our employees’ rights to organize,” Laurie Schalow, Chipotle’s chief corporate affairs officer, said in a statement.
The closure comes amid a broader unionization push across the country. Chipotle United has said it was inspired by labor organizers at Starbucks, who have unionized more than 180 U.S. stores since late last year. Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York also voted to unionize in the spring
Newport Beach, California-based Chipotle said the Augusta store had been closed to the public since June 17 because of staffing issues. The company said it was facing “excessive” absences and lack of availability from existing staff and was having a hard time finding managers for the store.
Chipotle said the store’s workers will receive severance pay and assistance finding new jobs. Young said there were about 20 workers at the store.
Young said inadequate staffing at the store is one of the chief complaints of union organizers. Chipotle United plans to ask the NLRB to file an injunction that would prevent Chipotle from closing the Augusta store and allow the union election to go forward.
Starbucks has also been criticized by labor organizers for closing stores that have unionized, including a store it shuttered last month in Ithaca, New York.
Unlike Starbucks' unionization effort, which is backed by the larger Workers United union, Chipotle United is an independent organization.
But big unions are also backing organizing efforts at Chipotle. The Teamsters filed a unionization petition with the NLRB this month on behalf of workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan. There is also a group called Chipotle Workers Union that is backed by the Service Employees International Union.
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Secret memo links citizenship question to apportionment
(AP) - Trump officials tried to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census in a move experts said would benefit Republicans despite initial doubts among some in the administration that it was legal, according to an investigative report released Wednesday by a congressional oversight committee.
The report offers a smoking gun of sorts — a secret memo the committee obtained after a two-year legal battle showing that a top Trump appointee in the Commerce Department explored apportionment as a reason to include the question.
“The Committee’s investigation has exposed how a group of political appointees sought to use the census to advance an ideological agenda and potentially exclude non-citizens from the apportionment count,” the report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform said.
It has long been speculated that the Trump administration wanted the citizenship question in order to exclude people in the country illegally from apportionment numbers.
The report includes several drafts showing how the memo evolved from recognizing that doing so would likely be unconstitutional to coming up with other justifications for adding the citizenship question.
The apportionment process uses state population counts gathered during the once-a-decade census to divide up the number of congressional seats each state gets.
Opponents feared a citizenship question would scare off Hispanics and immigrants from participating in the 2020 census, whether they were in the country legally or not. The citizenship question was blocked by the Supreme Court in 2019. In the high court’s decision, Chief Justice John Roberts said the reason the Commerce Department had given for the citizenship question — it was needed for the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Voting Rights Act — appeared to be contrived.
The Commerce Department oversees the Census Bureau, which conducts the count used to determine political power and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding each year. Then-Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testified before the oversight committee that apportionment wasn’t the reason for the citizenship question, even though the Commerce Department memo suggests otherwise, the House report said.
“I have never intentionally misled Congress or intentionally said anything incorrect under oath,” Ross said during a 2019 hearing before the oversight committee.
According to the House committee report, during planning for the citizenship question, an adviser to the Commerce Department reached out to a Republican redistricting expert who had written that using citizen voting-age population instead of the total population for the purpose of redrawing of congressional and legislative districts could be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.
The August 2017 memo prepared by senior Commerce Department political appointee James Uthmeier went to the heart of of interactions by the Commerce Department and the Justice Department to come up with a contrived reason for the citizenship question, the House report said.
An initial draft of the memo raised doubts that a citizenship question would be legal since it can only be added to the once-a-decade census if the Commerce Secretary concludes that gathering that information in survey sampling is not feasible. But a later draft removed that concern and added that the Commerce Secretary had the discretion to add a citizenship question for reasons other than apportionment.
An even later draft removed apportionment as an exception to the Commerce Secretary’s discretion and added “there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional about adding a citizenship question.”
An early draft of the memo also noted that using a citizenship data for apportionment was likely unconstitutional and went against 200 years of precedent, but that language also was removed in later drafts.
The House report says Uthmeier researched using Voting Rights Act enforcement as a reason for the citizenship question three months before the Justice Department requested it, and hand-delivered his memo with that suggestion to the Justice Department in order to avoid a digital fingerprint.
Uthmeier, who now is working as chief of staff to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, didn’t immediately respond to an email inquiry Wednesday.
In an effort to prevent future attempts at politicizing the census, members of the oversight committee on Wednesday planned to debate a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., that would require new questions for the head count to be vetted by Congress, and prohibit a Census Bureau director from being fired without cause.
The Trump administration named an unusually high number of political appointees without prior experience in the statistical agency to top positions in the Census Bureau. The legislation would limit the number of political appointees to three, with all other positions being filled by career civil service workers.
Even though many of the Trump administration’s political efforts ultimately failed, some advocates believe they did have an impact, resulting in significantly larger undercounts of most racial and ethnic minorities in the 2020 census compared to the 2010 census.
“It is clear that legislative reforms are needed to prevent any future illegal or unconstitutional efforts to interfere with the census and chip away at our democracy,” said Maloney, who chairs the oversight committee.
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MORRISTOWN, N.J., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crum & Forster, a leading national property and casualty specialty insurance company with a 200-year history of helping customers manage risk has won the Insurance Marketing and Communications Association's (IMCA) SAMMY Award. Crum & Forster was honored for its website redesign, and also received the Award of Excellence for its signature "Why C&F is a Great Place to Work" social media campaign.
"We're excited to win this prestigious award, which recognizes the hard work and dedication of our corporate communications team," said Hallie Harenski who heads up the team for Crum & Forster. "The redesign highlights C&F's breadth as a specialty insurer, and, just as importantly, our social campaign captures our 200-year-old story of growth and the company we are today."
With a three-person, in-house team, Crum & Forster refreshed and wrote page copy for 90 percent of the pages on the new website. The team built 324 pages, reviewed, updated and created 401 PDFs, recoded the site for better analytics, remapped the site's navigation, and overhauled redundant pages and new redirects, among other accomplishments.
These efforts led to a 15 percent increase in page views, a 12 percent increase in the average time on a page, and a five percent increase in organic traffic.
Crum & Forster (www.cfins.com) is a leading national property, casualty, and accident & health insurer, providing specialty insurance products through its admitted and surplus lines insurance companies, conducting business through a network of independent agents, brokers and wholesalers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce new actions on climate change that he can take on his own just days after an influential Democratic senator quashed hopes for a sweeping legislative package of new environmental programs this year.
Biden is to unveil the latest efforts during a visit on Wednesday to a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, that is shifting to offshore wind manufacturing. It’s the embodiment of the transition to clean energy that Biden is seeking but has struggled to realize in the first 18 months of his presidency.
Wednesday’s executive actions include new initiatives to bolster the domestic offshore wind industry as well as efforts to help communities cope with soaring temperatures through programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a White House official.
But the actions that Biden announces on Wednesday will not include a national emergency declaration to address the climate crisis — something that has been sought by activists and Democratic lawmakers after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., last week scuttled talks on a legislative package.
White House officials have said the option remains under consideration. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday declined to outline a timetable for a decision aside from saying no such order would be issued this week.
Gina McCarthy, Biden’s climate adviser, said the president is not “shying away” from treating climate as an emergency. She told CNN on Wednesday that he will be announcing a series of actions “over the next few weeks” to address the threat.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said he was “confident that the president is ultimately ready to do whatever it takes in order to deal with this crisis.”
“I think that he’s made that clear in his statement last Friday, and I think coming to Massachusetts is a further articulation of that goal,” Markey told reporters on Tuesday.
Biden has come under considerable pressure to issue an emergency declaration on climate, which would allow him to redirect federal resources to bolster renewable energy programs that would help accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.
Jean-Pierre declined to detail internal deliberations on such a declaration, which would be similar to the one issued by Biden’s Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, who declared a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border when lawmakers refused to allocate money for that effort.
Biden pledged last week to take significant executive actions on climate after monthslong discussions between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., came to a standstill. The West Virginia senator cited stubbornly high inflation as the reason for his hesitation.
For now, Manchin has said he will only agree to a legislative package that shores up subsidies to help people buy insurance under the 2010 health care law as well as allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices that will ultimately lower the cost of pharmaceuticals for consumers.
The White House has indicated it wants Congress to take that deal, and the president will address the climate issue on his own.
“I’m going to use every power I have as president to continue to fulfill my pledge to move toward dealing with global warming,” Biden told reporters over the weekend in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after the talks between Schumer and Manchin were derailed.
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MEXICO CITY, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, declared today a cash distribution of Ps. 527.7 million (US$ 25.7 million), or Ps. 0.6162 per Certificado Bursátil Fiduciario Inmobiliario ("CBFI") (US$ 0.0300 per CBFI) related to the results of the second quarter ending June 30, 2022.
The distribution is payable July 29, 2022 to CBFI holders with an ex-dividend date of July 27, 2022, and a record date of July 28, 2022.
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FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of June 30, 2022, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 227 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 43.4 million square feet (4.0 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
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Company continues to excel through values established by its founders in 1947
SCHOFIELD, Wis., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenheck, the global leader in engineering and manufacturing air movement, control, conditioning, and distribution equipment, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Founded by brothers Bob and Bernie Greenheck upon their return home from World War II, the company started out as a small sheet metal shop in Schofield, Wisconsin. In its early days, Greenheck manufactured a variety of metal products but soon found its niche in its first HVAC product – a powerless gravity ventilator. Today, Greenheck offers the industry's most comprehensive product line of ventilation equipment from the roof to the room including fans and ventilators, make-up air units, energy recovery ventilators, kitchen ventilation systems, dedicated outdoor air systems, indoor air handlers, dampers, louvers, laboratory exhaust systems, grilles, registers, diffusers, and air terminal units.
"Bob and Bernie Greenheck's business philosophy was based on the core values of reinvestment in our people and operations, dedication to continuous improvement, and the determination to be the easiest company to do business with," said Tim Kilgore, President of Greenheck Sales. "These enduring values guide our company to this day through our extraordinary team members, strong sales partners and suppliers, and constant product innovation to meet changing customer needs."
Greenheck continuously works with its mechanical representative network, consulting engineers, and mechanical contractor customers to design and manufacture products that improve indoor air quality and provide healthy and safe environments in commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities such as schools, hospitals, warehouses, offices, data centers, restaurants and more. To accommodate this growing product line, Greenheck developed its Computer Aided Product Selection (CAPS®) program during the 1980s and later introduced the web-based eCAPS® program in 2015 to make product selection easier for engineers, contractors and its representative network. Greenheck also expanded its manufacturing reach throughout the years to be closer to the customer. In addition to Wisconsin, manufacturing campuses and facilities are currently located in California, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mexico and India.
Never living in the past, Greenheck continues to find ways to better serve its customers and meet the challenges of the future. Energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and net-zero buildings are among the leading factors driving innovation in the design of air movement and control products. Greenheck is leading the HVAC industry in the development of materials, technology and standards to address these factors and ensure customer ventilation needs are met.
A family-owned company, founder Bob Greenheck still serves as chairman emeritus of the board of directors that today includes three generations of the Greenheck family. The Bernard A. Greenheck Education Center and the Robert C. Greenheck Innovation Center, located on the Schofield, Wisconsin campus, ensure Greenheck's industry-leading position in education, standards, product quality and product innovation continue now and into the future.
For more on Greenheck's 75-year history, visit www.greenheck.com/anniversary
Greenheck is a global leader in engineering and manufacturing air movement, control, conditioning, and distribution equipment. For 75 years, we have been committed to promoting the highest levels of indoor air quality by offering the widest range of ventilation products for commercial and institutional buildings. Through superior customer service, we continue our legacy of innovation as experts in air movement by connecting our mechanical representative partners and customers with the newest products. With our CAPS® product selection tool and HVAC University product education series, Greenheck offers technology and product knowledge to ensure that when you work with us, you are working with the easiest company to do business with.
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Updated July 20, 2022 at 10:05 AM ET
Former President Donald Trump's administration spent years trying to add a census citizenship question as part of a secret strategy for altering the population numbers used to divide up seats in Congress and the Electoral College, internal documents released Wednesday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee confirm.
Long kept from the public, the Trump administration memos and emails were disclosed by lawmakers following a more than two-year legal fight that began after Trump officials refused to turn them over for a congressional investigation. Citing the "exceptional circumstances" of the case, the Biden administration, which inherited the lawsuit last year, agreed to allow House oversight committee members and their staff to review the documents.
The hotly contested question — "Is this a person a citizen of the United States?" — ultimately did not end up on the 2020 census forms. In 2019, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's unprecedented efforts after finding its use of the Voting Rights Act as the stated reasoning for the question "seems to have been contrived," as Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.
Before Trump eventually released a presidential memo in 2020 calling for the unprecedented exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from a key set of census numbers, earlier releases of internal documents and public statements by Trump officials signaled their interest in using citizenship data to try to break with more than two centuries of precedent in how congressional seats and Electoral College votes are redistributed among the states.
Still, the newly disclosed documents provide a detailed look into some of the early behind-the-scenes discussions at a time when Trump officials were focused on keeping their plans under wraps.
The documents' release, along with a new report by the House oversight committee, comes as Congress considers a House bill that could help shield upcoming national head counts from the kind of interference that saddled the 2020 census during the Trump administration.
"Today's Committee memo pulls back the curtain on this shameful conduct and shows clearly how the Trump Administration secretly tried to manipulate the census for political gain while lying to the public and Congress about their goals," says Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, who chairs the House oversight committee and introduced the bill, in a statement. "It is clear that legislative reforms are needed to prevent any future illegal or unconstitutional efforts to interfere with the census and chip away at our democracy."
A memo focused on congressional apportionment
Multiple drafts of a newly released memo from 2017 show that in the months before the March 2018 announcement of then-Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' decision to add a citizenship question, Trump officials were particularly focused on who specifically should be included in the census numbers used to reapportion congressional seats and electoral votes among the states once a decade.
Both U.S. citizens and noncitizens, regardless of their immigration status, have been part of those official numbers since the country's first national head count in 1790. Despite the 14th Amendment's requirement to include the "whole number of persons in each state," however, Trump officials were searching for a way to exclude unauthorized immigrants.
In the version of the memo presented in August 2017 to Ross, who oversaw the Census Bureau, a key section referring to the Constitution's instructions for divvying up congressional seats is titled: "The Apportionment Clauses Do Not Address the Exclusion of Noncitizens or Illegal Aliens From the Population When Apportioning United States Representatives."
Then-Commerce Department attorney James Uthmeier wrote the memo at the request of Earl Comstock, another Trump appointee who was under pressure from Ross to figure out how to get a citizenship question onto the 2020 census forms.
An earlier draft by Uthmeier appeared to be skeptical of the administration's ambitions. "Over two hundred years of precedent, along with substantially convincing historical and textual arguments suggest that citizenship data likely cannot be used for purposes of apportioning representatives," wrote Uthmeier, who is now chief of staff to Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
But after multiple revisions following Comstock's feedback, the revised memo sent to Ross claimed, without citing any evidence, that "there are bases for legal arguments that the Founding Fathers intended for the apportionment count to be based on legal inhabitants."
In an email sharing that revised memo with another Trump appointee in the Commerce Department, Uthmeier noted: "Feel free to let me know if this is sugar coating the analysis too much."
Uthmeier, Ross and Comstock did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A handwritten note suggested using the Voting Rights Act as cover
In fall 2017, Uthmeier hand-delivered the memo and a handwritten cover note to John Gore, a Trump appointee at the Justice Department who ghostwrote a letter that Ross used to publicly justify his decision to add a citizenship question.
Ross repeatedly testified in Congress that his decision to add the question was in response "solely" to that Justice Department letter, which requested more detailed U.S. citizenship data that could be used to enforce Voting Rights Act protections for racial and language minorities.
But the handwritten note obtained by the House oversight committee shows that Ross helped to orchestrate that DOJ request. "Sec Ross has reviewed concerns and thinks DOJ would have a legitimate use of data for VRA purposes," Uthmeier wrote to Gore by hand.
Months before the DOJ submitted its request in December 2017, Uthmeier also followed up on a request from Ross by researching which states have used citizenship data in redistricting for Voting Rights Act enforcement, according to emails from September 2017.
One of those emails emphasized that the work should be kept quiet.
"Ultimately, everyone is in agreement with our approach to move slowly, carefully, and deliberately so as to not expose us to litigation risk," Uthmeier wrote to Comstock and other Trump appointees at the Commerce Department, adding that they were "not yet discussing our analysis with outside parties that may take our discussions public."
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers elected the unpopular prime minister as their new president Wednesday, a choice that risked reigniting turmoil in the South Asian nation reeling from economic collapse.
The crisis has already forced one Sri Lankan leader out, and a few hundred protesters quickly gathered after the vote to express their outrage that Ranil Wickremesinghe — a six-time prime minister whom they see as part of the problematic political establishment — would stay in power.
Sri Lankans have taken to the street for months to demand their top leaders step down as the country spiraled into economic chaos that left its 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food. After demonstrators stormed the presidential palace and several other government buildings last week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled and then resigned.
Much of the protesters’ ire is focused on Rajapaksa and his family’s political dynasty, which ruled Sri Lanka for most of the past two decades. But many also blame Wickremesinghe for protecting Rajapaksa, and during demonstrations last week, crowds set his personal residence on fire and occupied his office.
Wednesday’s vote means Wickremesinghe — who was also Rajapaksa’s finance minister and became acting president after the leader fled — will finish the presidential term ending in 2024. He can now also appoint a new prime minister.
“I need not tell you what state our country is in,” Wickremesinghe, 73, told fellow lawmakers after his victory was announced. “People are not expecting the old politics from us, they expect us to work together.”
He pleaded for the country to move on: “Now that the election is over, we have to end this division.”
But protesters flocked to the presidential residence instead, chanting, “Ranil, go home.”
“We are very sad, very disappointed with the 225 parliament members who we elected to speak for us, which they have not done,” said Visaka Jayawware, a performance artist in the crowd. “We will keep fighting for the people of Sri Lanka. We have to ask for a general election.”
Wickremesinghe has wide experience in diplomatic and international affairs — he noted Wednesday that he had spent 45 years of his life in Parliament — and has led the talks on a bailout package for the bankrupt country with the International Monetary Fund.
But many voters view him with suspicion since he was appointed prime minister by Rajapaksa in May, in hopes he would restore stability.
The protesters accuse the Rajapaksa and his powerful family of siphoning money from government coffers and of hastening the country’s collapse by mismanaging the economy. The family has denied the corruption allegations, but the former president acknowledged that some of his policies contributed to Sri Lanka’s meltdown.
“The struggle will continue until our demands are met. (Wickremesinghe) doesn’t have a mandate to rule the country,” said Nemel Jayaweera, a human resources professional. “We will oppose him.”
Still, the ruling party’s majority in Parliament swept Wickremesinghe to victory in Wednesday’s vote, with 134 votes. Populist Dullas Alahapperuma, a longtime ally of Rajapaksa and also a minister in his government, secured 82, while a Marxist candidate netted three.
The vote, shown on national television, was a decorous, solemn affair. While the balloting was secret, as the results were announced, lawmakers thumped their tables in support of their candidates.
After the vote, some supporters celebrated Wickremesinghe’s win in the streets. He will be sworn in on Thursday.
Only a few lawmakers had publicly said they would vote for Wickremesinghe given the widespread hostility against him — but dozens loyal to Rajapaksa had been expected to back him because he had assured them he would severely punish protesters who burned politicians’ homes in the unrest.
On Monday, in his role as acting president, Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency that gave him broad authority to act in the interest of public security and order. Authorities can carry out searches and detain people, and Wickremesinghe can also change or suspend any law.
The political turmoil in Sri Lanka has only worsened the economic disaster. But Wickremesinghe said Monday that negotiations with the IMF were nearing a conclusion, while talks on help from other countries had also progressed. He also said that the government has taken steps to resolve shortages of fuel and cooking gas.
Hours before Wednesday’s vote, the IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told financial magazine Nikkei Asia that the organization hoped to complete the rescue talks “as quickly as possible.”
As prime minister, Wickremesinghe delivered weekly addresses in Parliament cautioning that the path out of the crisis would be difficult, while also pledging to overhaul a government that increasingly has concentrated power under the presidency.
Presidents in Sri Lanka are normally elected by the public. The responsibility falls to Parliament only if the presidency becomes vacant before the term officially ends.
That has happened only once before in Sri Lanka when then-Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunga was chosen by Parliament uncontested in 1993 after former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, father of the current opposition leader, was assassinated.
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Associated Press writer Bharatha Mallawarachi contributed to this report.
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Chips mayai, Bongo Flava, and daladala are now in the Oxford English dictionary
Wednesday July 20 2022
Tanzania's very own famous local dish - chipsi mayai, is gaining global recognition beyond kitchen corridors. The delicacy joins a host of other Kiswahili words that have become infused into the way Tanzanians and East Africans speak English. So much so that Oxford decided to add the words to the English Dictionary.
This comes as the popularity and growth of Kiswahili is now influencing other languages.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)—the largest dictionary of the English language—has added 200 new and revised entries from East African English, which are primarily used in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Due to cultural backgrounds and influences, the three East African countries have variety of ways of speaking English. The OED said despite the different ways English is at times spoken in the three East African countries, they share a common Anglophone background despite their different colonial histories.
The words span from popular street snacks to musical genres in the region.
East African English is influencing the language globally
Nyama choma, which is a favorite across Tanzania and Kenya’s entertainment spots, is meat roasted over an open fire. While chips mayai can be found in any local restaurant in Tanzania and is a mix of omelette and chips. Katogo is a Ugandan breakfast dish using banana.
Local terms for shopping are also included. Mama ntilie, which is a slang term used in Tanzania to describe female vendors who sell street food along the roadside, has been added, along with duka—a local shop selling everything from toiletries to soft drinks.
With the global rise of afrobeats, it’s no wonder that ‘Bongo Flava’ now features in the dictionary. This is a type of music originating from Tanzania and made famous by the country’s biggest artist, Diamond Platnumz.
Daladala—buses which are used across East Africa—is also a new entry. The word comes from ‘dollar’, which is what bus conductors called out as people boarded, and was recreated to ‘daladala.’
Sayings and greetings, which form an important part of east African culture, have been incorporated. While in English, it is typical to say ‘long time no see’ after some time has passed, in Uganda, it is common to say ‘you are lost’, while ‘Well done!’ can also be used as a greeting, particularly when someone is at work.
Swahili language is a huge influence in east Africa
“East Africa has ‘altered (English) to suit its new African surroundings’—to cite Chinua Achebe who was referring to his experience,” said Dr Ida Hadjivayanis, Senior Swahili lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
“I see the language change in my work where through assessing international Swahili exams, I find candidates using the bantu structure with English words, for example ‘kupay’ as opposed to ‘to pay’.”
“This stems from the code switching that is rooted in our experience of living with both Kiswahili and English as well as integrating English into the east African milieu. Hence, greeting someone with ‘umepotea’—‘you are lost’ is common and simply means ‘long time no see’.”
Sheng—Kenya’s beloved urban slang—has also become a popular dialect in the country, mixing English and Swahili, as well as other languages.
“Adopting words of another language is a normal process in the growth and development of languages,” said Chege Githiora, Professor of Linguistics at Kenyatta University. “In this case, it is a recognition by English of the growing prestige of Swahili as a global language, and the east African culture it embodies.”
“Similarly, English and Arabic (and others) have enriched Swahili which has adopted many words and expressions over the centuries.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors called their first witness to the stand Tuesday and began building their case that former Trump adviser Steve Bannon willfully ignored a congressional subpoena in open defiance of the U.S. government.
Bannon, a longtime adviser and strategist for former President Donald Trump, was brought to trial on a pair of federal charges for criminal contempt of Congress after refusing for months to cooperate with the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Under questioning Tuesday from Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Vaughn, Kristin Amerling, the chief counsel for the Jan. 6 committee, went through a detailed explanation of the committee’s role, the Bannon subpoena and why the panel felt it was important to compel his testimony. Amerling said Bannon’s public statements leading up to the riot “suggested he might have some advanced knowledge of the events of Jan. 6.”
Amerling said there were multiple indications that Bannon “might have had some discussions with individuals in the White House, including the president.” The day’s session ended with Amerling being questioned by the prosecution. The trial was scheduled to resume Wednesday morning.
In her opening statement, Vaughn told jurors that the subpoena issued to Bannon by the committee investigating the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and the events leading up to the Capitol insurrection “wasn’t optional. It wasn’t a request, and it wasn’t an invitation. It was mandatory.” She added: “The defendant’s failure to comply was deliberate. It wasn’t an accident, it wasn’t a mistake. It was a choice.”
Bannon’s lawyers argued that the charges against him were politically motivated and that Bannon was engaged in good-faith negotiations with the congressional committee when he was charged.
“No one ignored the subpoena,” defense lawyer Evan Corcoran told the jury.
In reality, Corcoran said, one of Bannon’s previous lawyers, Robert Costello, contacted an attorney for the House committee to express some of Bannon’s concerns about testifying.
“They did what two lawyers do. They negotiated,” Corcoran said, adding that Bannon and his legal team believed “the dates of the subpoena were not fixed; they were flexible.”
An unofficial adviser to Trump at the time of the Capitol attack, Bannon was charged with defying a subpoena that sought his records and testimony. He was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, one month after the Justice Department received a congressional referral. Upon conviction, each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, had previously ruled that major elements of Bannon’s planned defense were irrelevant and could not be introduced in court. He ruled last week that Bannon could not claim he believed he was covered by executive privilege or that he was acting on the advice of his lawyers.
Outside the courthouse, Bannon launched into an extended rant against the committee chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, and the committee hearing, calling it “a show trial.” He also repeated the discredited claim that Trump won the 2020 election and called President Joe Biden illegitimate. But he did not criticize his trial or Nichols.
Bannon, 68, was one of the most prominent of the Trump-allied holdouts refusing to testify before the committee. He had argued that his testimony was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege, which allows presidents to withhold confidential information from the courts and the legislative branch.
Trump has repeatedly asserted executive privilege — even though he’s not a current president — to try to block witness testimony and the release of White House documents. The Supreme Court in January ruled against Trump’s efforts to stop the National Archives from cooperating with the committee after a lower court judge — Tanya S. Chutkan — noted, in part, “Presidents are not kings.”
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New board president combines history with the organization with a fresh approach
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, known in the MS community as MS Focus, announced today that Eric Schenk, long-time president of the Board of Directors has retired, and Charles Eader, an officer with more than 20 years' experience with the organization, was elected as his successor.
"We're grateful to Eric Schenk for all his years of service and dedication to the MS community," said Natalie Blake, Executive Director of MS Focus," and excited to have Charles Eader step into the role. Charles has a long history with the organization and thoroughly understands our culture, challenges, and goals. But as a long-time activist in his community, he also brings advocacy and community-building skills that are a great asset. It's really the best of both worlds for our organization."
Mr. Eader received his degree in Business Administration from Emory University – Goizueta Business School in 1988. A twenty-six year career at AT&T followed, retiring as a Sr. Project Program Manager. He is very active in community affairs, currently serving as the tax administrator for Somerset County, New Jersey, after more than ten years on the county board of taxation. He also serves as chairperson of the Somerset County Democratic LGBTQ+ Caucus.
"I thoroughly believe in the mission of MS Focus to help improve the quality of life for those challenged by MS. This is why I have actively been involved with the organization for over two decades," said Mr. Eader. "Building on the legacy of Eric Schenk, who welcomed me into the organization all those years ago, I am excited to expand my role and to continue to be an advocate."
Other officers of the Foundation's Board include Mark Shalloway of Shalloway & Shalloway, P.A. in West Palm Beach, Fla. elected to the position of Vice President; Elaine LaFlamme of Gallagher and Basset in Miami, Fla. elected to the position of Treasurer; and retired retail executive John Blackstock of Bradenton, Fla re-elected to the position of secretary.
About Us: MS Focus: Multiple Sclerosis Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on providing free services that address the critical needs of people with MS, helping them maintain the best quality of life. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, MS Focus provides services throughout the United States and its territories. Learn more at www.msfocus.org.
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Two men suspected in a string of robberies and shootings at 7-Elevens in Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties that left two people dead were trying to buy more ammunition in the days following their crime spree, prosecutors said during the suspects’ first court appearances on Tuesday, July 19.
Malik Patt, 20, and Jason Payne, 44, were arrested Friday in Los Angeles, and both face two counts of robbery in Orange County Superior Court related to a series of heists in Brea, La Habra, Santa Ana, Ontario, Riverside and Upland during the early hours of July 11. Payne has also been accused of one count of attempted robbery.
In addition, Patt has been charged with the murders of a clerk and a bystander that day, and another homicide that took place during another attempted robbery in Los Angeles County two days earlier. He also faces two counts of attempted murder and one count of carjacking.
The two defendants walked into room C47 of the Orange County Superior Courthouse Tuesday escorted by sheriff’s deputies. During Tuesday’s hearing, Superior Court Judge Larry Yellin ordered Patt to remain in custody without bail. A $100,000 bail was tentatively set for Payne, which is double what would normally be assigned for the charges he faces, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer told reporters outside the courtroom Tuesday.
“The public needs to know that Mr. Patt, the one who is … charged with three murders, has no bail and he will not be released under any circumstances without an additional court hearing,” Spitzer said.
In arguing for the higher bail amount for Payne, Spitzer and prosecutor Seton Hunt said they had evidence showing that Patt and Payne tried to buy more ammunition at a sporting goods store in the days following the violence that unfolded last week.
They did not provide details on the attempted purchases, or say when and where they occurred.
UPDATE – Malik Patt will continue to be held on no bail. Jason Payne will be held on $100k bail – which is twice the statutory bail for the crimes he is facing. Prosecutors said in court the pair were together at a sporting goods store after the murders & tried to buy ammunition
— OCDA Todd Spitzer (@OCDAToddSpitzer) July 19, 2022
“Mr. Payne was involved in the robberies, two of which resulted in death,” Hunt told reporters Tuesday. “And he is with that same person, Mr. Patt, attempting to purchase ammunition after the fact. That shows he poses an additional danger to the public.”
The defendants did not submit pleas in response to the charges. The court-appointed attorneys representing Patt and Payne, Michael Hill and Tracy LeSage, said they had not yet received relevant police reports and evidence. They asked the court to continue Tuesday’s hearing to August 18. Yellin granted the request.
Matt Hirsch, a 40-year-old clerk who worked at a 7-Eleven that was robbed in Brea, and Matt Rule, a 24-year-old gunned down during an attempted robbery outside another franchise location in Santa Ana, were killed last week. Three others were wounded, including a bystander shot at a 7-Eleven in Riverside who was in grave condition as of Tuesday, Spitzer said.
The Riverside County District Attorney’s office currently has plans to file charges related to the robbery and shooting that happened in their jurisdiction, Spitzer said. However, if the man shot in that crime dies, Orange County prosecutors may take over that case, similar to how they assumed responsibility for the killing in Los Angeles County that Patt is accused of committing.
Authorities in Los Angeles were also investigating whether the two men might have been involved in several robberies that took place in their jurisdiction. | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/07/20/2-accused-in-deadly-7-eleven-spree-tried-to-buy-more-ammo-prosecutors-say/ | 2022-07-20T14:42:09Z | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/07/20/2-accused-in-deadly-7-eleven-spree-tried-to-buy-more-ammo-prosecutors-say/ | true |
It's only July but that's not stopping one of our favorite kitchen brands from dropping some Black Friday-style deals. Ninja Kitchen has a sitewide sale happening and you can save as much as 35% off the brand's excellent blenders, air fryers, coffee makers, kitchen knives and cookware.
While there are plenty of savings to be had on a wide range of top-rated kitchen gear, the best Ninja deal I've found so far is actually on Amazon where my all-time favorite smoothie blender, the Ninja Twisti, is down to $110 (normally $140). This blender is packed with 1,600 watts of power but small enough to store in a kitchen cabinet. But the best feature is its genius built-in, twisting tampers, which keep all your frozen and dry ingredients moving without having to stop and scrape.
Read my full review of the Ninja Twisti here and snatch it up while it's at this all-time low price.
If you're looking for other reliable kitchen equipment, shop Ninja's Black Friday in July sales event and grab air fryers, multicookers and loads more down as much as 35%. | https://www.cnet.com/deals/best-smoothie-blender-ever-is-30-off-right-now/ | 2022-07-20T14:42:51Z | https://www.cnet.com/deals/best-smoothie-blender-ever-is-30-off-right-now/ | true |
The Fort Worth Herd is a must-see for millions of visitors to the city's Historic Stockyards.
Tourists and locals alike have watched drovers slowly move a herd of longhorn cattle down Exchange Street in a re-creation of the cattle drive era.
Wednesday brings a significant anniversary. July 20, 2022 marks 20 years since Kristin Jaworksi took over the reins of the world's only twice-daily cattle drive.
"I'll never forget what it was like to be new and how much I had to learn and the journey that this program has taken me. Meeting such wonderful people and mentors but also learning what professional development area I needed to progress. And horsemanship like you mentioned. It's so important that we sharpen our skills to be able to drive the longhorns down the street," Jaworksi said.
In her two decades as trail boss, the Fort Worth Herd has earned new accreditations and certifications that validate the drovers, the program and the facilities as being up to standard.
While those are things visitors don't see, they are points of pride for Jaworski. The Tarleton State University graduate also prides herself on the day-to-day focus on authenticity.
"I really make it a goal every single day that we are authentic, that we never have strayed from that historic authentic story. And so, what you see when those drovers are driving the longhorns down the street is period correct clothing, saddles that are replicas from the late 1800s. And that story is something that is important to Fort Worth's western heritage and the American cowboy and the history here in Fort Worth," she said.
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The city debuted the Fort Worth Herd on June 12, 1999. It was created as part of the city's sesquicentennial celebration.
Jaworski is the only woman to serve as the herd's trail boss but she is quick to point out that women were on the trail back in the 1800s and in leadership positions. The diversity back then is the story she strives to tell today.
The cattle drives are held daily at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. along East Exchange in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/trail-boss-celebrates-20-years-with-fort-worth-herd/3019141/ | 2022-07-20T14:44:30Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/trail-boss-celebrates-20-years-with-fort-worth-herd/3019141/ | false |
Which paleo bar is best?
The paleo diet is an excellent way to avoid foods that are highly processed and low in nutritional value. However, it can be difficult to find diversity in your food. Everything about your dietary patterns and habits shifts, so you must be more vigilant about what you put into your body.
Paleo protein bars are a great way to follow your diet and can help keep your hunger at bay until your next meal. For example, the Universal Bakery Organic Paleo Bars taste great and are made with high-quality organic ingredients.
What to know before you buy a paleo bar
Snack vs. meal replacement
Most paleo bars are snack bars, meaning you should eat them between meals. Very few paleo bars serve as viable meal replacements because they don’t pack enough calories or carbohydrates to keep you full for several hours. They also don’t have enough nutrients and vitamins necessary for a healthy diet.
Health goals
You don’t need to be following a paleo diet to have a paleo bar; they’re an excellent snack for anybody. However, you should consider your health goals to determine if paleo bars suit you. Depending on your dietary needs and lifestyle, a paleo bar might not cut it as a between-meals snack. That said, they may help you cut down on calories and can promote weight loss.
Fitness goals
If you have specific fitness goals, you may follow a paleo diet to avoid processed foods and limit your caloric intake. However, if you’re a weightlifter or athlete, you need to ensure you’re getting enough protein. Weightlifters and athletes require more protein and branched-chain amino acids to maintain and facilitate muscle recovery and growth. Paleo bars contain some protein, but likely not enough if you want to build muscle. If you’re working on increasing muscle mass, try boosting your protein intake with a regular protein bar or shake.
What to look for in a quality paleo bar
Diet-friendly bars
All paleo bars are suitable for those following a paleo diet. However, you should check the label or product description if you have other dietary restrictions or food allergies. If you need a paleo bar that’s dairy-free, gluten-free and soy-free, you may want to consider a vegan bar instead. Also, many paleo bars use nuts and seeds, so if you’re allergic to them, it’s in your best interest to avoid bars that are completely nut-free.
Sugars and fats
Many people who eat paleo bars do so for weight loss. If that’s your goal, you need a bar that’s low in fat and sugar. The best paleo bars have minimal sugar, and some bars use artificial sweeteners for additional flavor. A paleo bar shouldn’t have more than 4 grams of saturated fat; anything over that can inhibit weight loss and exacerbate certain medical conditions.
Organic ingredients
The best paleo bars use premium organic ingredients. Ingredients such as coconut oil, pumpkin seeds and Brazil nuts promote healthy digestion and improve the texture and flavor of many paleo bars. Also, the protein in paleo in protein often comes from a non-dairy source such as egg whites, which can be easier on the stomach.
How much you can expect to spend on a paleo bar
For a box of 12 high-quality paleo bars, you can expect to spend anywhere from $20-$45. However, bars made with premium organic ingredients or other botanicals can cost $40-$60 for a pack of 12.
Paleo bar FAQ
How much protein do paleo bars have compared to protein bars?
A. The average protein bar contains 15-20 grams of protein, while paleo bars usually offer 4-8 grams.
What does GMO-free mean?
A. If a product says it is GMO-free, that means that there are no ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms.
What’s the best paleo bar to buy?
Top paleo bars
Universal Bakery Organic Paleo Bars
What you need to know: These bars are made fresh and individually wrapped, so you can take them on the go as a snack.
What you’ll love: These bars taste great and contain high-quality organic ingredients such as honey, whole almonds, shredded coconut and Brazil nuts. They pack just 19 grams of fat, 14 grams of total carbohydrates and 6 grams of protein derived from pumpkin seeds.
What you should consider: They aren’t gluten-free, and some customers report that the packaging is difficult to open.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top paleo bars for the money
Yes Bar Macadamia Chocolate Snack Bars
What you need to know: These bars are flavorful, made with high-quality ingredients and suitable for vegan, paleo and gluten-free diets.
What you’ll love: These bars do an excellent job at keeping you full until your next meal. Each bar contains 15 grams of high-quality nuts, including macadamia nuts, almonds, and cashews. Other ingredients such as dark chocolate and coconut nectar give them a lightly sweetened flavor.
What you should consider: Each bar only contains 4 grams of protein, so they’re not ideal for athletes looking to supplement their protein intake.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb
Worth checking out
Julian Bakery Paleo Thin Protein Bars
What you need to know: These bars are great for curbing your appetite and contain organic prebiotics for promoting healthy digestion.
What you’ll love: You’ll get a healthy snack that’s paleo-friendly, gluten-free, dairy-free and just 150 calories per bar. They have 20 grams of egg white protein, 1 gram of naturally-occurring sugar and 5 grams of net carbs. Best of all, it has a delicious peanut flavor but doesn’t contain any actual nuts.
What you should consider: Some customers complained about them being too stiff and that they tend to stick to your teeth.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Addition of respected attorney bolsters already-stout bankruptcy group
DALLAS, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigator Mark Castillo has joined Dallas-based Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal LLP as a partner.
Mr. Castillo represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, official committees, and trustees in all areas of bankruptcy law, litigation, and corporate matters. He has tried lawsuits involving millions of dollars in bankruptcy-related claims, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, turnover, conversion, and contract matters, and has litigated or settled millions more in preference and fraudulent-transfer claims.
"Our firm is dedicated to protecting the interests of our clients and their businesses and has a longstanding reputation for excellence in the bankruptcy arena," says Carrington Coleman's Managing Partner Monica Latin. "We are excited to welcome to the team a colleague of Mark's stature and experience."
A frequent speaker and author on bankruptcy and litigation topics, Mr. Castillo is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, an honorary society for qualified attorneys dedicated to both high ethical standards and improved training for all attorneys. He is also a Master and Pupilage Group Leader with the Hon. John C. Ford American Inn of Court, and has earned professional honors from Texas Super Lawyers, D Magazine, and the Dallas Business Journal.
Mr. Castillo joins Carrington Coleman from Curtis Castillo PC, along with bankruptcy associate Robert Rowe. Also joining the firm is litigation associate Rae Guyse, formerly of Haynes and Boone.
Carrington Coleman is a 52-year-old Dallas-based law firm focused on litigation and transactional services in the real estate, oil and gas, securities, construction, professional services, technology, and health care industries, among others. The firm provides counsel in corporate transactions, corporate governance, banking, bankruptcy/restructuring, intellectual property, litigation and appeals, employment, and family wealth/estate planning. Learn more about the firm at https://www.ccsb.com/.
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Company continues its growth trajectory
TAMPA, Fla., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LeadingResponse, the leader in performance marketing for professional services, is expanding its leadership team with the appointment of Greg Ryan as Executive Vice President of Sales.
Ryan will oversee all LeadingResponse's sales efforts, serving clients across the Legal, Financial Services, and Healthcare sectors throughout the United States from its offices in Dallas, Tampa, Boston, and Los Angeles.
Prior to joining LeadingResponse, Ryan served as Chief Revenue Officer of ThriveHive, the performance marketing division of Gannett, the owner of USA Today. He also served as co-founder and senior vice president of Propel Marketing, which grew to more than 300 employees across five locations, before being acquired by Gannett's parent company.
"Greg has a deep understanding of the performance marketing industry, technology, and first-party data that enable us to deliver results for our clients," said LeadingResponse CEO Matthew Kearney. "He and LeadingResponse share a commitment to building collaborative partnerships with clients, technology partners and colleagues. We are delighted he is joining us."
"LeadingResponse is entrepreneurial, invests in growth, and believes in delivering results for its clients and all its stakeholders," said Ryan. "I am looking forward to working with the team, our customers and all our partners to deliver on another prosperous chapter of growth for us all."
To learn more about LeadingResponse and its suite of performance marketing solutions, visit www.LeadingResponse.com.
About LeadingResponse
LeadingResponse, the premier provider of customer acquisition solutions for the financial, legal, and healthcare markets, understands the consumer journey that leads to a meaningful engagement with our professional clients. LeadingResponse is uniquely qualified to help our clients grow and scale their organizations. Via our proven multi-channel solutions, online and offline, we consistently drive over 170,000 consumers/per month to our clients for scheduled appointments. Learn more at LeadingResponse.
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'6.5 weeks to go!' Joe Wicks shares photos of his pregnant wife Rosie during their Ibiza babymoon ahead of the birth of their third child
They're expecting their third child in a matter of weeks.
And an excited Joe Wicks shared a sweet photo of his pregnant wife Rosie on Tuesday, as they celebrated the model's 32nd birthday during an Ibiza babymoon.
The Body Coach snapped a glowing pic of Rosie, who showed off her bump in a tight white dress.
Expecting: Joe Wicks shared a sweet photo of his pregnant wife Rosie on Tuesday, as they celebrated the model's 32nd birthday during an Ibiza babymoon
Rosie cradled her bump as she posed in her bodycon dress, which was layered under a pretty floral print cover-up.
Joe captioned the snap with their baby's due date, gushing: '6.5 weeks to go.'
He shared the same snap on his Stories as he wished his gorgeous wife a happy birthday, writing: '32 years beautiful.'
Babymoon: Rosie cradled her bump as she posed in her bodycon dress, which was layered under a pretty floral print cover-up
Celebrating: The couple marked Rosie's 32nd birthday during their getaway with Joe telling her he felt like 'the luckiest man in the world'
He captioned a selfie of the pair: 'Happy birthday Rosie❤️ I feel like the luckiest man in the world spending another birthday with you. Love you more than ever.'
Joe and Rosie, who are already parents to Indigo, three, and two-year-old Marley, are expecting their third child together in September.
Joe took to Instagram to announce their third bout of baby joy, writing: I’ve been sooo excited to share this news [sic] We are having another baby [sic] Indie and Marley are super excited about having a little brother or sister.
Congratulations! Joe and Rosie announced they are expecting their third child in an adorable Instagram post earlier this year
'We can’t wait to welcome them into the world in September♥️ Love you Rosie. Thank you for making me the happiest Dad in the world [sic]'.
The post captured the delighted pair beaming at the camera as they held a sonogram for Joe's 4.3million followers to gush over.
During a recent interview with The Sun, Joe revealed that he and Rosie - who wed in 2019 - want 'four kids, minimum' as there is 'nothing better' than being a parent.
This is not the first time Joe has spoken of his desire to expand his brood.
Family: During a recent interview with The Sun , Joe revealed that he and Rosie - who wed in 2019 - want 'four kids, minimum' as there is 'nothing better' than being a parent
In June 2020, he told the Loose Women panel: 'I do want a big family. I tell you what though, the reality when you have two kids and you realise how challenging it is.
'I do respect and admire people who have five, six, seven kids – I think, "How do they do it?" Not at the moment, but definitely in the future we'll be having more kids together. Rosie is up for it.
'She loves being a mum. She's said she's always wanted a big family. I do like the chaos.
'This is the only room in the house that is clean and tidy. Everything else is chaos, there's toys everywhere! This is my studio. But we will have a big family in the future.'
Proud parents: Joe previously said of his wife: 'She loves being a mum. She's said she's always wanted a big family. I do like the chaos' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11032137/Joe-Wicks-shares-photos-pregnant-wife-Rosie-Ibiza-babymoon.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-20T14:53:11Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11032137/Joe-Wicks-shares-photos-pregnant-wife-Rosie-Ibiza-babymoon.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
The disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murdering his wife and son.His defense lawyers and prosecutors agreed to keep the evidence secret amid media attention. His defense asked the judge to deny him bond, saying he can't afford to post it anyway and wants a speedy trial because he feels the killer or killers are still at loose.The prosecution denied that, telling the judge that all the evidence points to his guilt in the shootings of his wife and son.Circuit Judge Clifton Newman had previously denied Murdaugh bond after he was charged with stealing money from clients. A different judge later set bond at $7 million but Murdaugh was unable to pay and has remained in jail since October.His lawyers have complained several times that the bond was set too high, and said that because of lawsuits and frozen assets Murdaugh couldn't even afford to buy underwear from the jail store.Murdaugh, 54, was indicted on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, at the family's Colleton County hunting estate in June 2021. He also faces more than 80 other charges, including stealing money from clients; running a money laundering and drug ring; and trying to arrange his own death so that his surviving son could receive a $10 million life insurance payout.
WALTERBORO, S.C. — The disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murdering his wife and son.
His defense lawyers and prosecutors agreed to keep the evidence secret amid media attention. His defense asked the judge to deny him bond, saying he can't afford to post it anyway and wants a speedy trial because he feels the killer or killers are still at loose.
The prosecution denied that, telling the judge that all the evidence points to his guilt in the shootings of his wife and son.
Circuit Judge Clifton Newman had previously denied Murdaugh bond after he was charged with stealing money from clients. A different judge later set bond at $7 million but Murdaugh was unable to pay and has remained in jail since October.
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Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, left, walks into court for his bond hearing on Sept. 16, 2021, in Varnville, S.C.
His lawyers have complained several times that the bond was set too high, and said that because of lawsuits and frozen assets Murdaugh couldn't even afford to buy underwear from the jail store.
Murdaugh, 54, was indicted on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, at the family's Colleton County hunting estate in June 2021. He also faces more than 80 other charges, including stealing money from clients; running a money laundering and drug ring; and trying to arrange his own death so that his surviving son could receive a $10 million life insurance payout. | https://www.koat.com/article/alex-murdaugh-pleads-not-guilty/40665685 | 2022-07-20T14:58:49Z | https://www.koat.com/article/alex-murdaugh-pleads-not-guilty/40665685 | false |
Azerbaijan Airlines signs MoU for four more Boeing 787 jets
By David Shepardson
FARNBOROUGH, England July 20 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Farnborough Airshow to acquire four more Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jets, its president Jahangir Askerov said on Wednesday.
Askerov said the airline is due to sign a contract for the planes in December and plans to own 10 of the planes by 2030, allowing it open new routes across Central Asia. It currently operates two 787-8 jets.
The airline previously had a contract with Boeing to purchase 10 737 MAX jets that it postponed in 2019.
"We're not thinking about purchasing MAX for now. This would be the topic for negotiations," Askerov said.
"Azerbaijan Airlines was the first airline in the Caspian and Central Asia region to operate the 787-8 Dreamliner and we currently have two 787-8s in service," he added.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by David Goodman and Jason Neely) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11032185/Azerbaijan-Airlines-signs-MoU-four-Boeing-787-jets.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-20T14:59:38Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11032185/Azerbaijan-Airlines-signs-MoU-four-Boeing-787-jets.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Israel exports to grow 15% in 2022 to record $165 billion -ministry
JERUSALEM, July 20 (Reuters) - Israeli exports are on track to hit a record $165 billion in 2022, up 15% from 2021, the Economy Ministry said on Wednesday.
Economy Minister Orna Barbivai attributed the rise from $143 billion last year - which was up 25% from 2020 - to opening more economic annexes globally that help exporters, as well as easing regulations for businesses and bringing foreign retailers to Israel.
Exports have risen sharply from $96 billion in 2016.
The ministry noted that much of the rise this year will come from services, such as in transportation, tourism and R&D from sales of start-up companies. Goods exports, it added, look to rise due to growth in medical and optical equipment, chemicals and diamonds.
Europe remains Israel's largest trading partner with $37 billion of bilateral trade over the first half 2022, excluding diamonds, followed by Asia with $21 billion, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed. The United States stayed as Israel's largest partner by country at more than $10 billion over the first half of the year, followed by China at nearly $9 billion.
(Reporting by Steven Scheer Editing by Bernadette Baum) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11032201/Israel-exports-grow-15-2022-record-165-billion-ministry.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-20T14:59:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11032201/Israel-exports-grow-15-2022-record-165-billion-ministry.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The death of an Indianapolis man who died in police custody in April has been ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the Marion County Coroner’s Office.
The coroner’s report lists the cause of death for Herman Whitfield III as “cardiopulmonary arrest in the setting of law enforcement subdual, prone resistant, and conducted electrical weapon use.” The report lists morbid obesity and hypertensive cardiovascular disease as contributing conditions.
The coroner found blunt force injuries to Whitfield’s head, neck, torso, right arm and wrist, left wrist, and left ankle and located a probe barb from a Taser in the left side of Whitfield’s abdomen.
Toxicology tests show Whitfield had marijuana, including Delta-9 THC, in his system when he died. The Delta-9 THC found in his system “is consistent with empty packages of Delta-9 THC gummies found in his room,” according to the coroner. No other substances were detected.
Body camera footage provided by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department shows Whitfield being hit at least twice with a Taser while having a “mental health crisis” in the dining room of his parents’ home on Marrison Place.
In a lawsuit filed in June, Whitfield’s family said four IMPD officers got on top of Whitfield and handcuffed him while he “writhed in pain” from the Taser.
According to the lawsuit, “The officers’ body cam videos clearly reveal Mr. Whitfield gasping for breath and telling the officers at least three times: ‘I can’t breathe.’”
Medics arrived and asked Whitfield to roll over, but he did not respond, IMPD said.
After medics failed to find a pulse, Whitfield was given CPR. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Lawyers for the Whitfield family released a statement Wednesday, saying in part:
“Mr. Whitfield did not present a danger to the officers, and there was no need to taser him. Moreover, the officers violated their own training by keeping Mr. Whitfield handcuffed face down after he was restrained, and after he had told them he couldn’t breathe, and when he was not moving or breathing, which led to his death.
For over twenty-five years, the policing community has agreed that officers should not keep a restrained individual in the prone position because of the significant risk of death. Mr. Whitfield,
who was in his family home, needed professional mental health care, not the use of deadly force.”
IMPD said Wednesday that, with the coroner’s report, “investigators can now move forward with the next steps in the criminal and administrative investigations.”
IMPD Chief Randal Taylor has asked the department’s Critical Incident Response Team to finish the criminal investigation and present their case to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office by the end of the day Friday, according to IMPD. The prosecutor will review the investigation and determine if criminal charges should be filed.
A separate investigation into Whitfield’s death is being conducted by IMPD Internal Affairs.
IMPD says the officers involved “remain on a non-enforcement, administrative duty.”
Mental health resources
- Be Well Indiana
- Indiana Suicide Prevention
- Indiana Department of Child Services’ Children’s Mental Health Initiative
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255
- More resources | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/coroner-death-of-herman-whitfield-iii-man-who-died-in-impd-custody-was-homicide/ | 2022-07-20T15:00:51Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/coroner-death-of-herman-whitfield-iii-man-who-died-in-impd-custody-was-homicide/ | false |
U.S. existing home sales slide again in June
NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) - U.S. existing home sales fell for a fifth straight month in June to the lowest level in two years as record-high prices and fast-rising interest rates make buying a home too expensive for a growing share of American households.
Sales of previously owned homes fell 5.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.12 million units last month, the lowest level since June 2020 when sales were rebounding from the COVID-19 lockdown slump, the National Association of Realtors said on Wednesday. Sales have now fallen each month since January.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast sales decreasing to a rate of 5.38 million units. Sales were unchanged in the Northeast and fell in the Midwest, the West and South.
Home resales, which account for nearly 90% of U.S. home sales, dropped 14.2% on a year-on-year basis.
The median existing house price climbed by 13.4% from a year earlier to an all-time high of $416,000 in June. Sales remained concentrated in the upper-price end of the market amid a paucity of entry-level houses.
"Falling housing affordability continues to take a toll on potential home buyers," NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. "Both mortgage rates and home prices have risen too sharply in a short span of time."
There were 1.26 million previously-owned homes on the market, up 9.6% from May and up 2.4% from a year earlier. With demand cooling, monthly supply is likely to continue steadily improving. The government reported on Tuesday that housing completions in June decreased 4.6%, but the backlog of homes yet to be built hovered near record highs.
At June's sales pace, it would take 3.0 months to exhaust the current inventory of existing homes, up from 2.6 months a year ago. A six-to-seven-month supply is viewed as a healthy balance between supply and demand.
Properties typically remained on the market for 14 days, the shortest ever. First-time buyers accounted for 30% of sales, up from 27% in May. All-cash sales made up 25% of transactions.
The housing market, which is very sensitive to interest rates, has softened notably this year as the Federal Reserve lifts rates aggressively to blunt inflation that is running at its highest pace in four decades.
The average contract rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed to nearly 6% in June, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, up from about 3.3% at the start of the year, which has put home purchases out of reach for a growing number of prospective buyers, particularly first-time purchasers. The rate in the latest week was 5.82%, MBA said earlier on Wednesday.
While it is unclear how much higher mortgage rates will climb, it's almost certain they will remain high for some time with the Fed set to raise interest rates again at its policy meeting next week and more hikes to come through the end of the year.
An Oxford Economics index out last week showed homes were the least affordable in the first quarter of 2022 at any time since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and it forecast that picture would worsen through the rest of this year.
Meanwhile, a survey out on Monday showed the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index suffering its second-largest drop on record in July, with a gauge of prospective buyer traffic falling below the break-even level of 50 for a second straight month. (Editing by Nick Zieminski) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11032253/U-S-existing-home-sales-slide-June.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-20T15:01:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11032253/U-S-existing-home-sales-slide-June.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
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