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MERRILLVILLE, Ind., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NiSource Inc. has been recognized on the Forbes list of Best Employers for Women 2022. The listing recognizes companies who provide a diverse, equal and inclusive environment for women, giving them the tools to grow and advance within organizations.
The Forbes list of The Best Employers for Women 2022 was conducted through an independent survey by Statista that included around 50,000 individuals employed at companies with a minimum of 1,000 employees. The sample includes more than 30,000 women nationwide.
"At NiSource, we aim to foster a more diverse and representative workforce across all levels of our company and to ensure equal opportunities for growth, advancement and belonging," said Lloyd Yates, President & CEO of NiSource. "We are honored to be recognized on the Forbes list for Best Employers for Women 2022 and look forward to strengthening our workforce which is foundational to our success in advancing the economic interests of the customers and communities we serve."
Background on Award:
The evaluation was based on four different criteria:
Direct recommendations – General work topics: The employees were asked to give their opinion on a series of statements surrounding likelihood of recommendation, atmosphere and development, image, working conditions, salary and wage, workplace and diversity regarding their own employer.
Direct recommendations – Topics relevant to women: To focus on topics which are in general more relevant for women. Women were asked to rate their own employers regarding parental leave, family support, flexibility, discrimination, representation and career and pay equity.
Indirect recommendations: Additionally, participants were given the chance to evaluate other employers in their respective industries that stand out either positively or negatively regarding diversity. Only the recommendations of women were considered.
Diversity among top executives / board: Based on extensive research, an index was built based on the share of women in executive management or board positions. Statista researched this data for each company using publicly available company information.
About NiSource
NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI) is one of the largest fully regulated utility companies in the United States, serving approximately 3.2 million natural gas customers and 500,000 electric customers across six states through its local Columbia Gas and NIPSCO brands. Its employees focus on providing customers with safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable energy. NiSource is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability - North America Index. Additional information about NiSource and its investment-driven growth plan can be found at www.nisource.com. Follow us at facebook.com/nisource, linkedin.com/company/nisource and twitter.com/nisourceinc. NI-F
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Joni Mitchell, 78, graces stage after 2 decades away
NEWPORT, RI (AP) — Surprise! Joni Mitchell is back onstage.
The folk legend performed her first full-length concert in two decades on Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, The Boston Globe reported. Mitchell has contended with health complications since suffering an aneurysm in 2015, and her last full show was in late 2002, according to reports.
Seated in a wingback chair and wearing a blue beret and sunglasses, Mitchell joined festival headliner Brandi Carlile and a bevy of other artists, including Wynonna Judd, Allison Russell and Marcus Mumford. It was Mitchell’s first Newport festival performance since 1969.
This was, Carlile explained, a recreation of the “Joni Jam” musical gatherings that have brought famous friends like Elton John to Mitchell’s Los Angeles home in recent years.
And Mitchell wasn’t there to just to sing. Halfway through the 13-song set, she played an electric guitar solo, which was her first time playing guitar in public since her aneurysm, Carlile said.
The ensemble played Mitchell’s most familiar songs (“Circle Game,” “Big Yellow Taxi”) and a few of her favorites (“Love Potion No. 9,” “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”).
After their rendition of “Both Sides Now,” Carlile was fighting back tears. Addressing the audience, she asked: “Did the world just stop?”
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Hospital serving Chicago's South Side communities implements industry's leading electronic hand hygiene monitoring technology
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Bernard Hospital, a leading Catholic community hospital and essential Safety-Net healthcare facility serving Chicago's South Side, has selected BioVigil's Hand Hygiene Monitoring Solution to help prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and provide peace of mind to patients, families, staff, and the community. With the implementation of the BioVigil Solution, St. Bernard chose cutting edge technology and analytics to support its ongoing commitment to be among the safest hospitals serving their unique community.
Hand hygiene compliance is largely recognized as one of the most critical patient safety measures to avoid preventable harm. It is now more important than ever to keep both the patients and staff as safe as possible. Poor hand hygiene contributes to 1.7 million HAIs annually – and 75,000 of those HAIs result in deaths.
"We wanted to share with our patients and families that we know patient safety is important to them. BioVigil Solution allows us to do that through visibility, transparency, and increasing compliance" said Michael Richardson, Chief Clinical, Quality & Patient Safety Officer. "When we decided to move to an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system, it needed to meet the needs of the organization and the employees who would be using it. The planning, contracting, installation, and education process could not have gone any smoother. With onsite visits, equipment checks, and reconfiguration as needed, BioVigil could answer all our questions and deal with our nuances as they arose. Over a month after installation, we gathered lots of incredible data insights from their analytics to enable our leaders to monitor their department and individual employees' overall compliance for better outcomes."
"BioVigil helps empower the healthcare team to work towards the prevention of HAIs" said Dr. Rochelle D. Bello, Director, Infection Prevention & Employee Health. "Understanding the importance of hand hygiene in the prevention of infections, we realized that our current manual method of monitoring hand hygiene was unable to provide the large quantity of detailed data needed to ensure overall hand hygiene compliance. In the interest of patient and staff safety, we looked into electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems, and after reviewing several companies, we chose BioVigil as many of the features embodied what we were looking for to help empower our healthcare team to work towards the prevention of HAIs with the ultimate goal of zero HAIs."
"BioVigil is a mission driven company that is passionate about saving lives by keeping patients and healthcare workers safe," Sanjay Gupta, CEO at BioVigil. "We are honored to partner with St. Bernard Hospital to provide the highest quality care in an under-served part of Chicago. Our values are so aligned, and we saw first-hand how deeply Mr. Richardson, Dr. Bello, and the entire team at St. Bernard genuinely care about providing the best and safest care to their community, even under challenging circumstances.'
BioVigil's technology helps hospitals ensure 97+% hand hygiene compliance, up to 80% reduction in Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), improved Leapfrog scores, and increased patient satisfaction scores. BioVigil has helped numerous customers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, with effective digital contact tracing and workflow optimization with cutting edge data analytics, helping healthcare providers to take care of patients and themselves in the safest possible environment.
St. Bernard Hospital has served the Englewood community and Chicago's South Side since 1904. The hospital has 174 licensed beds and offers primary and specialty care, behavioral health services, dental care, imaging, and rehabilitation among its services. Their mission calls to care for the sick and promote the health of the residents in the community while witnessing the Christian values of respect, dignity, caring and compassion for all persons.
BioVigil is a leader in electronic hand hygiene monitoring. Innovating since 2012, BioVigil uses technology to increase hand hygiene compliance in healthcare facilities resulting in decreased healthcare acquired infections (HAIs), improved patient engagement, accessibility to data analytics and insights, and improved Leapfrog Group grades. Learn more at https://biovigil.com/
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amanda@biovigil.com
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WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, DC and Minnesota-based public affairs firm Arc Initiatives and digital-first communications firm True Blue Strategies announced the beginning of a new strategic partnership just weeks after the firms were awarded five AAPC Pollie Awards and two Campaigns & Elections Reed Awards for their collaboration on the ongoing effort to Stop Pebble Mine.
Arc Initiatives' experience managing high-profile political campaigns combined with True Blue's award-winning digital creative and strategy team will bring together unmatched talent, providing clients with comprehensive campaign services for some of the most pressing political issues of our time.
From working with Indigenous Tribes in Minnesota to protect their sovereign rights and clean water to fighting for permanent protections against mining near the Boundary Waters and influencing national energy policy, the firms have already proven to be critical partners in the fight for bold environmental action. With the combined force of over 40 world-class communications, creative, and policy professionals, this new phase of collaboration will broaden the teams' ability to take on the toughest fights and policy change from Washington, DC to Washington state.
Led by Minnesota natives Dan Kanninen and Aaron Wells, key leaders in Democratic communications and campaigns with roots in Minnesota and Midwestern politics, Arc Initiatives consists of a team of nearly 30 leading communications, political, and policy professionals. While working nationally and with statewide electeds, ballot measures, and issue advocacy campaigns throughout Minnesota, Arc has led campaigns that reached and moved target audiences to change the conversation and bent the arc of the issue to achieve its clients' most ambitious campaign goals.
As a full-service creative and strategic communications firm, TrueBlue Strategies employs a dynamic approach and deep expertise in a wide array of services to help clients connect impactful messages with the audiences who need to hear them.
"Arc Initiatives couldn't be more excited to enter this new phase of our partnership with True Blue Strategies. Solidifying our alliance will elevate our digital and creative strategies and open a whole new window of opportunity for growth," said Jonae Wartel, Managing Director of Arc Initiatives.
"Bringing together some of DC and Minnesota's communications and political strategists with an award-winning digital creative team, the Arc-True Blue strategic partnership is a winning combination. With a talented partner like TrueBlue on our side, our team is eager to continue bending the arc of our clients' boldest campaigns and delivering winning results. take on the important fights from the White House to the statehouse," said Aaron Wells, Partner & President of Arc Initiatives.
"Past collaborations between True Blue and Arc prove that we can deliver for our clients on their boldest, most ambitious goals. By bringing our firms closer together, we'll be able to offer our clients even more while continuing to provide best-in-class work," said Brooke Blue, President, and Founder of True Blue Strategies.
"Since the beginning of our work with Arc Initiatives and True Blue, we've been completely impressed with how they have partnered to go above and beyond for our campaign to protect Bristol Bay. We're eager to see them continue to deliver extraordinary results as their collaboration evolves," said Erin Dovichin, Alaska Venture Fund.
About Arc Initiatives
You can learn more about how Arc Initiatives is bringing together political stakeholders, paid and earned media, lobbying strategies, and grassroots organizing to create change from Capitol Hill down to the state and local level here.
About True Blue Strategies
You can learn more about how True Blue Strategies' dynamic approach and innovative campaigns are helping clients connect impactful messages with the audiences who need to hear them here.
Contact: Alana Murphy, alana@team-arc.com, 973-953-9697
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Nearly Two-Thirds of U.S. Unicorn Companies Were Founded or Cofounded By An Immigrant or the Child of an Immigrant
ARLINGTON, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immigrants have started more than half (319 of 582, or 55%) of America's startup companies valued at $1 billion or more, according to a new study from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), a nonpartisan research organization. Moreover, nearly two-thirds (64%) of U.S. billion-dollar companies (unicorns) were founded or cofounded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. Almost 80% of America's unicorn companies (privately-held, billion-dollar companies) have an immigrant founder or an immigrant in a key leadership role, such as CEO or vice president of engineering.
"The research shows the importance of immigrants in cutting-edge companies and the U.S. economy at a time when U.S. immigration policies have pushed talent to other countries for talent," said Stuart Anderson, the author of the study and NFAP's executive director. "The story of immigrant entrepreneurs and billion-dollar companies is not only about impressive numbers but about immigrants coming to this country, working hard and achieving the American Dream."
The research involved interviews and gathering information on over 580 U.S. startup companies valued at over $1 billion (as of May 2022) that have yet to become publicly traded on the U.S. stock market and are tracked by the firm CB Insights. These "unicorn" companies are all privately held, valued at $1 billion or more and have received venture capital financing.
The collective value of the over 300 immigrant-founded U.S. companies is $1.2 trillion, more than the value of all the companies listed on the main stock markets of many countries, including Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.
The research finds that the privately held U.S. billion-dollar startup companies with immigrant founders have created an average of 859 jobs per company.
At least 10 immigrants have founded multiple billion-dollar companies, including Al Goldstein (born in Uzbekistan, Avant and Amount), Noubar Afeyan (Lebanon, Moderna and Indigo Ag) and Elon Musk (South Africa, SpaceX, OpenAI and The Boring Company).
Rihanna, an immigrant from Barbados, founded Savage X Fenty, valued at $1 billion.
One-quarter (143 of 582, or 25%) of billion-dollar startup companies in the U.S. have a founder who first came to America as an international student.
The report, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs and U.S. Billion-Dollar Companies," can be found at https://nfap.com/.
Contact: Stuart Anderson, 703-351-5042, press@nfap.com
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DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The town of Dover-Foxcroft has a new building that Foxcroft Academy hopes will benefit the students and the community.
The $7 million Jim Robinson Field House, located next to the academy, is just about finished after a few years of planning and construction.
The new space provides the school with indoor soccer, field hockey, and softball fields, as well as space for indoor wrestling and more.
It will also provide a space for community members to go for indoor workouts, and Foxcroft Academy hopes the community will take full advantage of that.
“I hope that they feel very comfortable to come here for wellness and to stay healthy, whether it’s walking or working out with a trainer or running and playing in league games. It really benefits the students of Foxcroft Academy, but really we are going to share this with our community,” Arnold Shorey, Foxcroft Academy's head of school, told NEWS CENTER Maine.
The grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Jim Robinson Field House will be held at 5 p.m. on August 5.
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was nationally ranked in nine of 14 specialties and top 10 in two. MossRehab (Einstein Healthcare Network) was nationally ranked in the top 10 in the nation for Rehabilitation.
PHILADELPHIA, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jefferson Health hospitals and specialties are ranked among the best in the United States in the annual U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Hospitals rankings. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was recognized as second in the nation for Ophthalmology (Wills Eye Hospital) and seventh in Orthopedics (Rothman Orthopaedics and Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health.) MossRehab, now a part of Jefferson Health, was ranked ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
Locally, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. remains 2nd in the Philadelphia metro area and 3rd in Pennsylvania. Abington Hospital ranked 10th in the Philadelphia region and 17th in Pennsylvania. Jefferson Northeast ranked 17th in the Philadelphia metro area, while Jefferson New Jersey ranked 13th in New Jersey and 15th in the Philadelphia region.
"I am very proud that Jefferson Health hospitals have again earned impressive rankings in numerous U.S. News & World Report categories. This is the result of the hard work of our exceptional doctors, nurses, and all the staff who are improving our patients' lives," said Bruce Meyer, MD, MBA, President of Jefferson Health and SEVP, Thomas Jefferson University.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the following Thomas Jefferson University Hospital specialties among the nation's best:
- Ophthalmology (2nd) – Wills Eye Hospital
- Orthopedics (7th) – Rothman Orthopaedics at Jefferson Health and The Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health
- Gastroenterology and GI Surgery (25th)
- Urology (36th)
- Cancer (41st) – Jefferson Health - Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Ear, Nose & Throat (42nd)
- Neurology & Neurosurgery (43rd)
- Diabetes & Endocrinology (44th)
- Pulmonology (47th)
Cardiology & Heart Surgery and Geriatrics were also mentioned as high performers in the specialties rankings. In addition to specialty rankings, U.S. News & World Report rates hospitals for procedures and conditions. Below are some highlights of the 2022-2023 ranking:
- Nationally ranked in the top 10, ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
- High performing in Diabetes & Endocrinology
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Colon Cancer Surgery, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Hip Fracture and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia
- High performing in Urology
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Kidney Failure and Stroke
Einstein Medical Center Montgomery
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Hip Fracture, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
About Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, is reimagining health care in the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. Jefferson's dedicated team of doctors, nurses, health professionals and staff provides a range of primary to highly-specialized care through 18 hospitals (ten are Magnet®-designated by the ANCC for nursing excellence), more than 50 outpatient and urgent care locations, the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, MossRehab, Magee Rehabilitation and the JeffConnect® telemedicine program. Jefferson Health is also home to Health Partners Plan, a not-for-profit managed healthcare organization serving more than 290,000 members in Southeastern Pennsylvania with a broad range of health coverage options through Health Partners Medicare, Health Partners (Medicaid) and KidzPartners (Children's Health Insurance Program). Jefferson Health's mission is to improve the lives of patients in the communities it is privileged to serve through safe, effective, equitable and compassionate care.
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PSG announce Mukiele transfer from RB Leipzig in defensive boost
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Paris Saint-Germain have announced the transfer signing of Nordi Mukiele from RB Leipzig. The defender has signed a five-year contract with the club.
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By Dr Helge Sachs, Senior Vice President Sasol ecoFT
JOHANNESBURG, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Investment in mobility is increasing, not slowing down. Billions of dollars are being spent on researching and developing new technologies, like autonomous driving or the production of carbon neutral fuels for shipping, vehicles and aviation. This increased mobility will result in an increase in carbon emissions if these new technologies are not implemented quickly and if we do not do something fundamentally different.
CO2 emissions have risen rapidly in the last two decades with almost 50%* of total global carbon emissions coming from aviation (308 million tonnes per annum), shipping (262 million tonnes per annum) and heavy-duty traffic (762 million tonnes per annum). The world needs to decarbonise, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors and industries where the change needed is unprecedented.
Significant research and development is going into exploring and pursuing technologies to help these sectors and industries reduce their global carbon emissions. Many of these technologies are nascent and not yet tested scale. However, Sasol has existing, commercial proven technology at scale that can advance decarbonisation - FT (Fischer Trospch) technology.
FT technology has enormous potential for tomorrow's sustainable world. FT is one of the most unique and readily available technologies that can produce sustainable "drop-in" fuels and chemicals. Its hydrogen and carbon feedstock flexibility means it can use green hydrogen and bio-based carbon or captured carbon to produce sustainable synthetic fuels and chemicals. These products are derived from syngas, which is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, traditionally from gasification of solid feedstocks, such as coal or biomass or by reforming of natural gas.
However, as mentioned FT is agnostic to the origin of the components of the syngas (derived from the combination of carbon and hydrogen) as an input/feedstock to the FT process, and with different catalyst formulations and operating conditions, the product slate can be adjusted to suit particular market requirements. By manipulating the catalyst formulation and operating conditions of the process, FT products can range from hard waxes to diesel, aviation fuel, other lighter fuels and a range of intermediate products for chemicals manufacturing.
Power-to-Liquids (PtL), leveraging FT technology, is set to be the winner in the Sustainable Aviation Fuels market from 2035 onwards, as other technologies face feedstock availability limitations, retained carbon emission footprint, scalability and/or land and water use limitations. FT technology is fully compatible with green feedstocks to produce sustainable products that are sought after in a low-carbon world.
Our existing synthetic aviation fuels are already accredited by a number of industry players, such as IATA, aircraft and engine manufacturers, airlines and government agencies.
We have partnerships with leading industry players and companies to advance our ambitions of helping the world transition to net zero. Together with like-minded partners, we have the technology to achieve this ambition. And the opportunity is now.
*Source: International Energy Outlook 2019
About Sasol ecoFT
Sasol ecoFT is a pioneer in sustainable fuels and chemicals through its proprietary FT (Fischer-Tropsch) technology that converts green hydrogen and sustainable carbon sources into sustainable products. As part of Sasol, a global leader in synthetic fuels and chemicals, we have more than 70 years' experience in providing sustainable FT solutions globally. We seek to contribute to a thriving planet, society, enterprise and innovate for a better world.
For more information:
Ezena Reyneke
Brand and Communications Lead
Sasol ecoFT
Email: Ezena.reyneke@sasol.com
Mobile: (+27) 82 776 0855
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Nearly Two-Thirds of U.S. Unicorn Companies Were Founded or Cofounded By An Immigrant or the Child of an Immigrant
ARLINGTON, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immigrants have started more than half (319 of 582, or 55%) of America's startup companies valued at $1 billion or more, according to a new study from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), a nonpartisan research organization. Moreover, nearly two-thirds (64%) of U.S. billion-dollar companies (unicorns) were founded or cofounded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. Almost 80% of America's unicorn companies (privately-held, billion-dollar companies) have an immigrant founder or an immigrant in a key leadership role, such as CEO or vice president of engineering.
"The research shows the importance of immigrants in cutting-edge companies and the U.S. economy at a time when U.S. immigration policies have pushed talent to other countries for talent," said Stuart Anderson, the author of the study and NFAP's executive director. "The story of immigrant entrepreneurs and billion-dollar companies is not only about impressive numbers but about immigrants coming to this country, working hard and achieving the American Dream."
The research involved interviews and gathering information on over 580 U.S. startup companies valued at over $1 billion (as of May 2022) that have yet to become publicly traded on the U.S. stock market and are tracked by the firm CB Insights. These "unicorn" companies are all privately held, valued at $1 billion or more and have received venture capital financing.
The collective value of the over 300 immigrant-founded U.S. companies is $1.2 trillion, more than the value of all the companies listed on the main stock markets of many countries, including Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.
The research finds that the privately held U.S. billion-dollar startup companies with immigrant founders have created an average of 859 jobs per company.
At least 10 immigrants have founded multiple billion-dollar companies, including Al Goldstein (born in Uzbekistan, Avant and Amount), Noubar Afeyan (Lebanon, Moderna and Indigo Ag) and Elon Musk (South Africa, SpaceX, OpenAI and The Boring Company).
Rihanna, an immigrant from Barbados, founded Savage X Fenty, valued at $1 billion.
One-quarter (143 of 582, or 25%) of billion-dollar startup companies in the U.S. have a founder who first came to America as an international student.
The report, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs and U.S. Billion-Dollar Companies," can be found at https://nfap.com/.
Contact: Stuart Anderson, 703-351-5042, press@nfap.com
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Some Texas lawmakers claim immigration amounts to an ‘invasion’
Constitutional questions of protection against invasion at issue
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Some Texas lawmakers are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to take deportation out of the federal government’s hands and authorize state officials to return migrants to Mexico.
This comes as the number of migrants crossing the border is setting records, although the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agency noted numbers were down slightly in June. Also that more, more than 50 migrants died from heat exposure in a smuggling incident.
Rep. Jodi Arrington (R-Texas) said the state should declare the situation at the border an invasion.
“While it’s not an armed attack, it is nonetheless an invasion,” Arrington said. “Nonetheless, disastrous. Nonetheless costing us in many ways.”
The term “invasion” is key because the U.S. Constitution guarantees the federal government will protect states from invasion and prohibits states from engaging in war without Congressional approval unless “actually invaded.”
Arrington argues Texas now has authority to deport migrants because the clause has been breached.
He says it was, “a promise, a covenant, to all of the states to provide a protection, and repel an invasion.”
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Arizona immigration law and declared the federal government had “broad” and “undoubted” immigration law authority over the states.
Texas immigration attorney Denise Gilman says Texas deporting migrants would clearly be unconstitutional based on precedent. But Gilman noted the Supreme Court is changing.
“We’re going to see some states and other parties trying to make arguments that were previously rejected in the hope that they might get a different result with a very different Supreme Court.”
So far Abbott has cited the so-called “guarantee” clause of the constitution in his state orders, but he has only arrested migrants as opposed to deporting them.
Immigration advocacy group American Gateways said state action is missing the point.
“What we need is comprehensive immigration reform that recognizes the humanity of those individuals who are coming across the border, and their reasons for leaving their home country,” Co-Executive Director Edna Yang said.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) was not sure invoking the invasion clause would be possible, but he said the federal government has left the state with few options to address issues at the border.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said he is concerned about the reputation of the area could lead to more migrants, as people are now flying from other countries in an attempt to enter the U.S. via the southern border.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for May 2022 show that home prices continue to increase across the U.S. More than 27 years of history are available for the data series and can be accessed in full by going to https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/index-family/indicators/sp-corelogic-case-shiller/.
YEAR-OVER-YEAR
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 19.7% annual gain in May, down from 20.6% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 19.0%, down from 19.6% in the previous month. The 20-City Composite posted a 20.5% year-over-year gain, down from 21.2% in the previous month.
Tampa, Miami, and Dallas reported the highest year-over-year gains among the 20 cities in May. Tampa led the way with a 36.1% year-over-year price increase, followed by Miami with a 34.0% increase, and Dallas with a 30.8% increase. Four of the 20 cities reported higher price increases in the year ending May 2022 versus the year ending April 2022.
MONTH-OVER-MONTH
Before seasonal adjustment, the U.S. National Index posted a 1.5% month-over-month increase in May, while the 10-City and 20-City Composites posted increases of 1.4% and 1.5%, respectively.
After seasonal adjustment, the U.S. National Index posted a month-over-month increase of 1.0%, and the 10-City and 20-City Composites both posted increases of 1.3%.
In May, all 20 cities reported increases before and after seasonal adjustments.
ANALYSIS
"Housing data for May 2022 continued strong, as price gains decelerated slightly from very high levels," says Craig J. Lazzara, Managing Director at S&P DJI. "The National Composite Index rose by 19.7% for the 12 months ended May, down from April's 20.6% year-over-year gain. We see a similar pattern in the 10-City Composite (up 19.0% in May vs. 19.6% in April) and in the 20-City Composite (+20.5% vs. +21.2%). Despite this deceleration, growth rates are still extremely robust, with all three composites at or above the 98th percentile historically.
"The market's strength continues to be broadly based, as all 20 cities recorded double-digit price increases for the 12 months ended in May. May's gains ranked in the top quintile of historical experience for 19 cities, and in the top decile for 17 of them. However, at the city level we also see evidence of deceleration. Price gains for May exceeded those for April in only four cities. As recently as February of this year, all 20 cities were accelerating.
"Tampa (+36.1%) was the fastest growing city for the third consecutive month, with Miami (+34.0%) in second place. In May, Dallas fought its way into the top three with a gain of 30.8%. Prices continued strongest in the South and Southeast, both of which recorded 30.7% gains year-over-year.
"We've noted previously that mortgage financing has become more expensive as the Federal Reserve ratchets up interest rates, a process that was ongoing as our May data were gathered. Accordingly, a more-challenging macroeconomic environment may not support extraordinary home price growth for much longer."
SUPPORTING DATA
Table 1 below shows the housing boom/bust peaks and troughs for the three composites along with the current levels and percentage changes from the peaks and troughs.
Table 2 below summarizes the results for May 2022. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices could be revised for the prior 24 months, based on the receipt of additional source data.
Table 3 below shows a summary of the monthly changes using the seasonally adjusted (SA) and non-seasonally adjusted (NSA) data. Since its launch in early 2006, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices have published, and the markets have followed and reported on, the non-seasonally adjusted data set used in the headline indices. For analytical purposes, S&P Dow Jones Indices publishes a seasonally adjusted data set covered in the headline indices, as well as for the 17 of 20 markets with tiered price indices and the five condo markets that are tracked.
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The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices are published on the last Tuesday of each month at 9:00 am ET. They are constructed to accurately track the price path of typical single-family homes located in each metropolitan area provided. Each index combines matched price pairs for thousands of individual houses from the available universe of arms-length sales data. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index tracks the value of single-family housing within the United States. The index is a composite of single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated quarterly. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 10-City Composite Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 10 original metro area indices. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 20 metro area indices. The indices have a base value of 100 in January 2000; thus, for example, a current index value of 150 translates to a 50% appreciation rate since January 2000 for a typical home located within the subject market.
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If you play the lottery, you may want to buy a ticket at Sheetz.
That's because the convenience store is partnering with the Pennsylvania Lottery to give one customer free gas for a year.
All 299 Sheetz locations in Pennsylvania are participating in the contest, which runs until September 20, the company said.
To enter, buy a minimum $10 Match 6 lottery ticket. Once purchased, each customer will receive a play ticket, as well as a trailing ticket that will include a QR code.
Customers need to scan the QR code on their phone, which will take them to the MySheetz app. Then enter the promo code on their trailing ticket to automatically be entered to win free gas for a year.
While there is only one grand prize winner, every participant will have a free coffee or soda item loaded onto their MySheetz account.
The winner will be announced in October.
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Hospital serving Chicago's South Side communities implements industry's leading electronic hand hygiene monitoring technology
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Bernard Hospital, a leading Catholic community hospital and essential Safety-Net healthcare facility serving Chicago's South Side, has selected BioVigil's Hand Hygiene Monitoring Solution to help prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and provide peace of mind to patients, families, staff, and the community. With the implementation of the BioVigil Solution, St. Bernard chose cutting edge technology and analytics to support its ongoing commitment to be among the safest hospitals serving their unique community.
Hand hygiene compliance is largely recognized as one of the most critical patient safety measures to avoid preventable harm. It is now more important than ever to keep both the patients and staff as safe as possible. Poor hand hygiene contributes to 1.7 million HAIs annually – and 75,000 of those HAIs result in deaths.
"We wanted to share with our patients and families that we know patient safety is important to them. BioVigil Solution allows us to do that through visibility, transparency, and increasing compliance" said Michael Richardson, Chief Clinical, Quality & Patient Safety Officer. "When we decided to move to an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system, it needed to meet the needs of the organization and the employees who would be using it. The planning, contracting, installation, and education process could not have gone any smoother. With onsite visits, equipment checks, and reconfiguration as needed, BioVigil could answer all our questions and deal with our nuances as they arose. Over a month after installation, we gathered lots of incredible data insights from their analytics to enable our leaders to monitor their department and individual employees' overall compliance for better outcomes."
"BioVigil helps empower the healthcare team to work towards the prevention of HAIs" said Dr. Rochelle D. Bello, Director, Infection Prevention & Employee Health. "Understanding the importance of hand hygiene in the prevention of infections, we realized that our current manual method of monitoring hand hygiene was unable to provide the large quantity of detailed data needed to ensure overall hand hygiene compliance. In the interest of patient and staff safety, we looked into electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems, and after reviewing several companies, we chose BioVigil as many of the features embodied what we were looking for to help empower our healthcare team to work towards the prevention of HAIs with the ultimate goal of zero HAIs."
"BioVigil is a mission driven company that is passionate about saving lives by keeping patients and healthcare workers safe," Sanjay Gupta, CEO at BioVigil. "We are honored to partner with St. Bernard Hospital to provide the highest quality care in an under-served part of Chicago. Our values are so aligned, and we saw first-hand how deeply Mr. Richardson, Dr. Bello, and the entire team at St. Bernard genuinely care about providing the best and safest care to their community, even under challenging circumstances.'
BioVigil's technology helps hospitals ensure 97+% hand hygiene compliance, up to 80% reduction in Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), improved Leapfrog scores, and increased patient satisfaction scores. BioVigil has helped numerous customers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, with effective digital contact tracing and workflow optimization with cutting edge data analytics, helping healthcare providers to take care of patients and themselves in the safest possible environment.
St. Bernard Hospital has served the Englewood community and Chicago's South Side since 1904. The hospital has 174 licensed beds and offers primary and specialty care, behavioral health services, dental care, imaging, and rehabilitation among its services. Their mission calls to care for the sick and promote the health of the residents in the community while witnessing the Christian values of respect, dignity, caring and compassion for all persons.
BioVigil is a leader in electronic hand hygiene monitoring. Innovating since 2012, BioVigil uses technology to increase hand hygiene compliance in healthcare facilities resulting in decreased healthcare acquired infections (HAIs), improved patient engagement, accessibility to data analytics and insights, and improved Leapfrog Group grades. Learn more at https://biovigil.com/
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was nationally ranked in nine of 14 specialties and top 10 in two. MossRehab (Einstein Healthcare Network) was nationally ranked in the top 10 in the nation for Rehabilitation.
PHILADELPHIA, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jefferson Health hospitals and specialties are ranked among the best in the United States in the annual U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Hospitals rankings. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was recognized as second in the nation for Ophthalmology (Wills Eye Hospital) and seventh in Orthopedics (Rothman Orthopaedics and Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health.) MossRehab, now a part of Jefferson Health, was ranked ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
Locally, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. remains 2nd in the Philadelphia metro area and 3rd in Pennsylvania. Abington Hospital ranked 10th in the Philadelphia region and 17th in Pennsylvania. Jefferson Northeast ranked 17th in the Philadelphia metro area, while Jefferson New Jersey ranked 13th in New Jersey and 15th in the Philadelphia region.
"I am very proud that Jefferson Health hospitals have again earned impressive rankings in numerous U.S. News & World Report categories. This is the result of the hard work of our exceptional doctors, nurses, and all the staff who are improving our patients' lives," said Bruce Meyer, MD, MBA, President of Jefferson Health and SEVP, Thomas Jefferson University.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the following Thomas Jefferson University Hospital specialties among the nation's best:
- Ophthalmology (2nd) – Wills Eye Hospital
- Orthopedics (7th) – Rothman Orthopaedics at Jefferson Health and The Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health
- Gastroenterology and GI Surgery (25th)
- Urology (36th)
- Cancer (41st) – Jefferson Health - Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Ear, Nose & Throat (42nd)
- Neurology & Neurosurgery (43rd)
- Diabetes & Endocrinology (44th)
- Pulmonology (47th)
Cardiology & Heart Surgery and Geriatrics were also mentioned as high performers in the specialties rankings. In addition to specialty rankings, U.S. News & World Report rates hospitals for procedures and conditions. Below are some highlights of the 2022-2023 ranking:
- Nationally ranked in the top 10, ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
- High performing in Diabetes & Endocrinology
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Colon Cancer Surgery, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Hip Fracture and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia
- High performing in Urology
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Kidney Failure and Stroke
Einstein Medical Center Montgomery
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Hip Fracture, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
About Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, is reimagining health care in the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. Jefferson's dedicated team of doctors, nurses, health professionals and staff provides a range of primary to highly-specialized care through 18 hospitals (ten are Magnet®-designated by the ANCC for nursing excellence), more than 50 outpatient and urgent care locations, the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, MossRehab, Magee Rehabilitation and the JeffConnect® telemedicine program. Jefferson Health is also home to Health Partners Plan, a not-for-profit managed healthcare organization serving more than 290,000 members in Southeastern Pennsylvania with a broad range of health coverage options through Health Partners Medicare, Health Partners (Medicaid) and KidzPartners (Children's Health Insurance Program). Jefferson Health's mission is to improve the lives of patients in the communities it is privileged to serve through safe, effective, equitable and compassionate care.
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Offering Arizona an all-encompassing internal and external integrated construction solution, Corporate Interior Systems is pleased to announce that The Berg Group has acquired digg.
PHOENIX, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Berg Group, a 53-year-old specialty contractor based in the upper Midwest and Phoenix, has acquired digg, the interior construction division of Corporate Interior Systems (CIS).
"CIS is excited to announce this acquisition with a strategic alliance to transition future DIRTT opportunities and projects to The Berg Group from digg," stated Lisa Johnson, President and CEO of Corporate Interior Systems. Over the past nine years, digg/CIS has been a part of the significant growth and adoption of DIRTT prefabricated construction in Arizona and is grateful for the opportunities and relationships that have resulted from this partnership. As prefab demand continues to accelerate, it is apparent that to meet the needs in Arizona, an all-encompassing general contractor is critical to successfully implement DIRTT solutions as an integrated partner. Johnson further stated, "As this acquisition progresses, we look forward to continuing to work with The Berg Group and their clients on any furniture-related needs."
"We are excited to move forward in partnership with Corporate Interior Systems|digg and DIRTT to serve the Arizona construction market," said Ron Johnson, CEO of the Berg Group. "We have been working with clients from our Phoenix location since 2008 and this transition will allow our clients the benefits of developing projects through the convergence of traditional, offsite prefab and engineered modular construction solutions to create environments to meet their current and future needs."
CIS will continue to work with The Berg Group to make sure all existing clients are taken care of for the next year. digg/CIS will be completing currently contracted projects, some in collaboration with The Berg Group, through the end of 2022 and remain a resource to ensure client confidence beyond this. CIS will continue its 37-year legacy to serve the community as the preferred Haworth furniture dealership in Arizona.
About Corporate Interior Systems – Established in 1985, CIS is in the Top 10 Woman-Owned Businesses and Office Furniture Dealerships in the state of Arizona. CIS represents over 250 manufacturers and is the premier and preferred Haworth dealer in the state.
About The Berg Group – The Berg Group is a 53-year-old specialty contractor based in the upper Midwest and Phoenix. Berg's integrated solutions focus on pre-construction services, interior and exterior framing, and finishes.
About digg – digg (Design-Integrate-Go-Grow), the former interior construction division of CIS, uses DIRTT software and manufacturing to design and fabricate interior construction.
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Survey Finds Private Company Boards Lagging Behind on ESG
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 23,000 board members, today released findings from its 2022 NACD Private Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey report.
Despite the conflict in Ukraine, a supply chain crunch, inflation, an ongoing pandemic, skepticism towards globalization, and other issues, the increased competition for talent remains the chief concern for private company directors, with 77 percent of survey respondents placing it among the five issues most likely to affect their company in the coming year.
By comparison, 69 percent of respondents in NACD's 2022 Public Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey, released in June, listed competition for talent as a top-five concern. Inflation is also a growing concern to private company directors, trending upward on respondents' lists for two years in a row.
"We're proud to share the results of our latest Board Practices and Oversight Survey for private companies, which provide tangible, real-time benefits to directors throughout the country," said NACD president and CEO Peter Gleason. "Beyond current trends and statistics, the report offers insights into board dynamics and other areas that are critical for boards to succeed in today's rapidly changing and often tumultuous business environment."
The results outlined below present an overview of boardroom activities and trends in several key areas—including ESG, climate change, cybersecurity, and more—and provide directors with pertinent information to help them meaningfully lead their boards in 2023 and beyond.
Other Key Trends from the 2022 Private Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey:
- ESG practices have not matured to the extent seen in public company boardrooms.
- Cybersecurity threats are being met by boards adopting best practices in greater numbers.
- Human capital oversight practices like talent development strategies and metrics reporting are increasing.
- Board dynamics are improving, owing in part to better and more frequent reporting from management.
- Climate discussions lack priority compared to public company boards.
- DE&I practices have increased, but overall board understanding of issues has slowed.
Read the full report released by NACD.
About the Survey Data Collection
Leveraging its proprietary member database as a sample frame, NACD sent email invitations to directors and others who serve on boards asking them to participate in the 2022 Board Practices & Oversight survey. The survey was in the field from March 28 to April 21, 2022, and the questionnaire was administered electronically. Respondents were instructed to respond on behalf of one of the boards on which they serve.
Analysis
Percentages are based on the total number of responses specific to each question. For example, if a question received responses from only 100 out of 168 total respondents, and 75 respondents answered "yes" while 25 answered "no," the result is reported as 75 percent affirmative. In some cases, survey responses totaling fewer than 5 percent are not represented in graphs for the sake of clarity.
About NACD
For more than 40 years, NACD has been on the leading edge of corporate governance, setting standards of excellence that have elevated board performance. NACD arms today's directors with insights and education that drive their mission forward, while preparing a new generation of boardroom leaders to meet tomorrow's biggest challenges. NACD is a community of more than 23,000 directors driven by a common purpose: to be trusted catalysts of economic opportunity and positive change—in businesses and in the communities they serve. To learn more about NACD, visit nacdonline.org.
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DUBAI, UAE, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webb Fontaine, a leading provider of advanced and innovative trade and Customs services, has announced it's Customs Webb solution has been chosen by Benin as their new Customs system, in replacement of ASYCUDA World.
The project strengthens Webb Fontaine's long-standing partnership with Benin Government, who has ambitions to expand and develop into one of the region's most technologically advanced trade environments.
The project continues towards a fully integrated approach to trade, interconnecting all major trade platforms such as the Single Window, the Port Community System, the e-Tracking solution and now through Customs Webb the Customs System. As a central and critical part of the trade environment, it is crucial and urgent for Governments to operate modern and efficient Customs Systems.
"Customs Webb, Webb Fontaine's Customs system, based on artificial intelligence, was chosen by Benin to continue the modernization of customs and optimize the trade environment.
Webb Fontaine's ability to provide cutting-edge technology and digital solutions is a guarantee of success. With this new system, the objective of the public authorities to make Benin an exemplary platform in the simplification and transparency of Customs clearance procedures has taken a major step forward.
All economic players are supported by Customs as part of a successful partnership with the entire industrial, commercial and logistics community."
Alain HINKATI, Director General of Customs, Benin
"We are honoured to have been selected by Benin Customs for such an important project. The longevity of our partnership is a true testament to Benin's commitment to trade digitalization. Customs Webb is a powerful system that uses AI technology to fully digitise the entire clearance process. To implement Customs Webb will be a huge step forward in their mission and the impacts of such will be felt by the entire trade community."
Samy Zayani, Chief Commercial Officer Webb Fontaine
For Webb Fontaine, a successful track record demonstrates its ability to use AI to facilitate trade, secure revenue and reduce clearance times and costly congestion while greatly improving trade governance.
About Webb Fontaine
Webb Fontaine is an AI company re-shaping the future of trade through technology. Trusted by governments globally, Webb Fontaine provides industry wide solutions to accelerate trade development and modernization. The company uses unique technology including Artificial Intelligence to enable countries to emerge as leaders in the future of trade.
Knowledge transfer is at the core of Webb Fontaine; comprising a team of experts who work across the world, empowering local communities and governments.
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With increased investment in the company's developer-friendly, multi-cloud, fully-managed Postgres, Neon more than doubles funding to $54.3M.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neon, Inc., the first open-source, fully-managed, multi-cloud Postgres as a service, has raised $30 million in its Series A-1 round. GGV Capital led an expert investment group that includes Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and Elad Gil with support from a group of notable angels, including Nat Friedman, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Wes McKinney, Ryan Noon, and Søren Brammer Schmidt. Following a successful Series A round, Neon has now more than doubled its total funding to $54.3 million.
Neon, co-founded by Postgres hackers Heikki Linnakangas and Stas Kelvich, was incubated at Khosla Ventures by Nikita Shamgunov, who joined as CEO earlier this year. With this new funding, Neon will continue to build its engineering team, accelerate product expansion and overall growth as well as bootstrap a GTM team. The company is also focused on building developer relations with continued plans to prioritize developer experience. Neon offers a modern, robust platform that includes bottomless storage, and autoscaling, leading to substantial cost savings.
Neon's unique architecture separating storage and compute underpins features to improve the developer experience and save costs. Over 3,600 developers "starred" Neon on GitHub after its Technical Preview launch, with interest generating a front page listing on Hacker News.
"Modern applications are cloud-based, distributed, run at the edge, and perform at unparalleled speeds. At GGV Capital, we've been looking for a serverless Postgres-based backend solution that's tuned to the needs of modern application developers," said Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner at GGV Capital and Neon board member. "Nikita Shamgunov and the Neon team have built an incredible solution, empowering developers with the cloud-based backend database they need to complement their front-end projects. Given the strong developer traction, Neon's future is very bright."
Neon's scalable features contain costs, provide elasticity, offer bottomless storage, and easily integrate with Amazon S3. The company will further improve application development with its substantial roadmap, including features such as branching, which will enable developers to instantly branch their production database, saving time and resources.
"The Postgres community is already responding to what's possible with a modern, cloud-native architecture," said Neon CEO Nikita Shamgunov. "This additional investment ensures Neon is well-positioned to build and ship new features that will transform developer experience."
This impressive funding round validates investor confidence in Neon's mission, goals, and capabilities. As Neon continues its growth, the company will continue expanding features to further empower developers with a modern, serverless Postgres experience.
About Neon
Neon is an open-source, multi-cloud, fully-managed Postgres as a service backed by an impressive list of top-tier investors, including GGV Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund. By separating storage from compute, Neon offers autoscaling, one-click start, multi-cloud compatibility, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. With a generous free tier, developers can quickly start and efficiently scale at will. Learn more at neon.tech.
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BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa says it will have to cancel almost all flights at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs on Wednesday because of a strike by its German ground staff, affecting tens of thousands of passengers in the latest travel turmoil to hit Europe.
The airline said Tuesday that the strike will force the cancellation of 678 flights at Frankfurt, 32 of them on Tuesday and the rest on Wednesday. It also is canceling 345 flights at Munich, including 15 on Tuesday.
Lufthansa said that 92,000 passengers will be affected by the Frankfurt cancellations and 42,000 by the Munich disruption. It said those affected will be contacted Tuesday and rebooked on alternative flights where possible but warned that “the capacities available for this are very limited.”
The company said the strike may still lead to “individual flight cancellations or delays” on Thursday and Friday.
The ver.di service workers’ union announced the one-day strike on Monday as it seeks to raise pressure on Lufthansa in negotiations on pay for about 20,000 employees of logistical, technical and cargo subsidiaries of the airline.
The walkout comes at a time when airports in Germany and across Europe already are seeing disruption and long lines for security checks because of staff shortages and soaring travel demand.
As inflation soars, strikes for higher pay by airport crews in France and Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have deepened the chaos for travelers who have faced last-minute cancellations, lengthy delays, lost luggage or long waits for bags in airports across Europe.
Travel is booming this summer after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, swamping airlines and airports that don’t have enough workers after pandemic-era layoffs. Airports like London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol have limited daily flights or passenger numbers.
The Lufthansa strike is set to start early Wednesday and end early Thursday. Such “warning strikes” are a common tactic in German labor negotiations and typically last from several hours to a day or two.
Ver.di is calling for a 9.5% pay increase this year and says an offer by Lufthansa earlier this month, which would involve a deal for an 18-month period, falls far short of its demands.
Lufthansa’s chief personnel officer, Michael Niggemann, argued that “this so-called warning strike in the middle of the peak summer travel season is simply no longer proportionate.” | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/german-strike-forces-lufthansa-to-cancel-hundreds-of-flights/ | 2022-07-26T15:59:27Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/german-strike-forces-lufthansa-to-cancel-hundreds-of-flights/ | true |
The event and learning technology provider reveals innovative content delivery methods at Cadmium Spark
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of learning and event professionals convened yesterday for the first day of Cadmium's annual conference, Cadmium Spark. The conference, a two-day hybrid event consisting of informational sessions, workshops, panel discussions, and more, revealed innovative ways for content-driven organizations to generate customer engagement, retain membership, and drive revenue.
Conceived as a crucial event for event, association, and continuing education professionals from around the country, Cadmium Spark marks the company's first annual conference to be attended by a broader audience than users of its technology. Cadmium is the leading software provider offering continuing education, professional development, events, learning, and content management solutions.
"The first day of Cadmium Spark has been a resounding success," said Jessie Reyes, Director of Marketing at Cadmium. "It's been incredible to see so many association professionals connect, learn, and inspire one another. We look forward to what the rest of the conference will bring for virtual and in-person attendees."
The conference opened with an address by John Pierson, CEO of Cadmium. During the session, Pierson revealed the company's advancements in its mission to build a suite of event and learning technology products that capture the chemistry of people, ideas, and knowledge. Pierson also reviewed the company's legacy and reiterated its commitment to excellence in the industry.
Artesha Moore, FASAE, CAE, President and CEO of Association Forum, concluded the program with a keynote address entitled "Looking Ahead at the Future of Associations." Leveraging more than 20 years of association management experience, Moore urged conference attendees to embrace the insights of younger generations, to create systems of extreme ownership, and to leverage virtual and hybrid communities.
"Together, I think we are going to do something monumental," Moore said. "We're going to change the game. And that makes me very excited."
Other noteworthy sessions included:
- "Driving Revenue with Elevate" by Molly S. Mazuk, Director of Professional Development at the American Society of Addiction Medicine
- "Think Before You Build: A Lesson on More Effective Scorecards" by Shaina Dorow, Conference Program Manager, and Brittney Peters, Event Technology Manager at NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- "The Do's and Don'ts of Virtual and Hybrid Events" by Monte Evans, MS, Senior Vice President of Video Technology at Cadmium
Cadmium Spark will continue through July 26, 2022, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
Cadmium simplifies the production of live, hybrid and virtual events and maximizes the value of online learning with a single, flexible platform designed to capture the chemistry of people, ideas and knowledge. The company's software products are trusted by more than 1000 content-driven organizations worldwide to generate revenue, drive customer retention, and lower operational costs for their events and education initiatives. For more information, visit gocadmium.com.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFST), holding company for Southern First Bank, today announced its financial results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022.
"I am incredibly proud of the Southern First team as they generated significant new client relationships and record loan growth for the second quarter," stated Art Seaver, the company's Chief Executive Officer. "During this time of high inflation, rising interest rates, and the resulting transition in housing and mortgage, our team's efforts resulted in strong performance with solid growth in net interest income and book value."
2022 Second Quarter Highlights
- Net income was $7.2 million and diluted earnings per common share were $0.90 for Q2 2022
- Net interest income increased 16.1% to $24.9 million at Q2 2022, compared to $21.4 million at Q2 2021
- Total loans increased 26% to $2.8 billion at Q2 2022, compared to $2.3 billion at Q2 2021
- Total deposits increased 24% to $2.9 billion at Q2 2022, compared to $2.3 billion at Q2 2021
- Book value per common share increased to $35.39, or 11%, over Q2 2021
- Completed move to new headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina
Net income for the second quarter of 2022 was $7.2 million, or $0.90 per diluted share, a $731 thousand decrease from the first quarter of 2022 and a $3.1 million decrease from the second quarter of 2021. The decrease in net income was driven by an increase in noninterest expenses, as well as an increased provision for credit losses and a decrease in mortgage banking income. Net interest income increased $1.7 million, or 7.4%, for the second quarter of 2022, compared with the first quarter of 2022, and increased $3.5 million, or 16.1%, compared to the second quarter of 2021. The increase in net interest income was driven by $184.5 million of loan growth during the second quarter of 2022.
The provision for credit losses was $1.8 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $1.1 million for the first quarter of 2022 and a negative provision of $1.9 million for the second quarter of 2021. The provision expense during the second quarter of 2022, calculated under the new CECL methodology, includes a $1.5 million provision for loan losses and a $250,000 provision for unfunded commitments, compared to a reversal in the provision during the second quarter of 2022 as the economy showed improvement after the onset of the pandemic.
Noninterest income totaled $2.3 million for the second quarter of 2022, a $662 thousand decrease from the first quarter of 2022 and a $1.4 million decrease from the second quarter of 2021. As the largest component of our noninterest income, mortgage banking income was the driving factor in the change in noninterest income from the prior quarter and the prior year due to lower mortgage origination volume during the past 12 months. In addition, we recorded a loss on disposal of assets during the second quarter of 2022 as we completed construction and relocated to our new headquarters building in Greenville, South Carolina.
Noninterest expense for the second quarter of 2022 was $15.8 million, or a $1.1 million increase from the first quarter of 2022, and a $2.3 million increase from the second quarter of 2021. Compensation and benefits expense increased from the prior periods due to hiring of new team members, combined with annual salary increases, while occupancy expense increased from the prior quarter and prior year due to costs associated with the relocation of our headquarters. Our insurance costs increased during the second quarter of 2022 related to higher FDIC insurance premiums, while the increase in professional fees related to higher legal, consulting and appraisal fees.
Our effective tax rate was 24.5% for the second quarter of 2022, 22.6% for the first quarter of 2022, and 23.3% for the second quarter of 2021. The higher tax rate in the second quarter of 2022 relates to the lesser impact of equity compensation transactions on our tax rate during the quarter.
Net interest income was $24.9 million for the second quarter of 2022, a $1.7 million increase from the first quarter of 2022, resulting primarily from a $2.8 million increase in interest income, on a tax-equivalent basis, partially offset by a $1.1 million increase in interest expense. The increase in interest income was driven by $221.3 million growth in average loan balances at an average rate of 3.82%, five basis points higher than the previous quarter. In comparison to the second quarter of 2021, net interest income increased $3.5 million, resulting primarily from $555.0 million growth in average loan balances during the 2022 period, despite a 19-basis point decrease in loan yield. Our net interest margin, on a tax-equivalent basis, was 3.35% for the second quarter of 2022, a two-basis point decrease from 3.37% for the first quarter of 2022, and a 15-basis point decrease from 3.50% for the second quarter of 2021. Reduced rates on our interest-earning assets, combined with higher costs on our interest-bearing liabilities, resulted in the lower net interest margin during the second quarter of 2022 in comparison to the second quarter of 2021.
Total nonperforming assets decreased by $1.6 million to $2.9 million for the second quarter of 2022, representing 0.09% of total assets, compared to 0.15% in the first quarter of 2022. The allowance for credit losses as a percentage of nonaccrual loans was 1,166.7% on June 30, 2022, compared to 726.9% on March 31, 2022 and 619.5% on June 30, 2021. During the second quarter of 2022, our classified asset ratio improved to 7.29%. The improvement over the second quarter of 2021 was primarily the result of five, or $14.1 million in the aggregate, hotel loans we upgraded from substandard during the first quarter of 2022.
Effective January 1, 2022, we early adopted the Current Expected Credit Loss ("CECL") methodology for estimating credit losses, which resulted in an increase of $1.5 million to our allowance for credit losses and an increase of $2.0 million to our reserve for unfunded commitments. The tax-effected impact of these two items totaled $2.8 million and was recorded as an adjustment to our retained earnings as of January 1, 2022.
On June 30, 2022, the allowance for credit losses was $34.2 million, or 1.20% of total loans, compared to $32.9 million, or 1.24% of total loans, at March 31, 2022, and $41.9 million, or 1.86% of total loans, at June 30, 2021. We had net charge-offs of $277 thousand, or 0.04% annualized, for the second quarter of 2022 compared to net recoveries of $11 thousand for the first quarter of 2022. Net recoveries were $313 thousand for the second quarter of 2021. There was a provision for credit losses of $1.5 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to a provision of $1.0 million for the first quarter of 2022 and a reversal of $1.9 million for the second quarter of 2021.
ABOUT SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES
Southern First Bancshares, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina is a registered bank holding company incorporated under the laws of South Carolina. The company's wholly owned subsidiary, Southern First Bank, is the largest bank headquartered in South Carolina. Southern First Bank has been providing financial services since 1999 and now operates in 12 locations in the Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston markets of South Carolina as well as the Charlotte, Triangle and Triad regions of North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Southern First Bancshares has consolidated assets of approximately $3.3 billion and its common stock is traded on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol "SFST." More information can be found at www.southernfirst.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements in this news release contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as statements relating to future plans and expectations, and are thus prospective. Such forward-looking statements are identified by words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "target," and "project," as well as similar expressions. Such statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could prove to be inaccurate. Therefore, we can give no assurance that the results contemplated in the forward-looking statements will be realized. The inclusion of this forward-looking information should not be construed as a representation by our company or any person that the future events, plans, or expectations contemplated by our company will be achieved.
The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements: (1) competitive pressures among depository and other financial institutions may increase significantly and have an effect on pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues; (2) the strength of the United States economy in general and the strength of the local economies in which the company conducts operations may be different than expected; (3) the rate of delinquencies and amounts of charge-offs, the level of allowance for credit loss, the rates of loan growth, or adverse changes in asset quality in our loan portfolio, which may result in increased credit risk-related losses and expenses; (4) changes in legislation, regulation, policies, or administrative practices, whether by judicial, governmental, or legislative action, including, but not limited to, changes affecting oversight of the financial services industry or consumer protection; (5) the impact of changes to the U.S. presidential administration and Congress on the regulatory landscape and capital markets; (6) adverse conditions in the stock market, the public debt market and other capital markets (including changes in interest rate conditions) could have a negative impact on the company; (7) changes in interest rates, which may affect the company's net income, interest expense, prepayment penalty income, mortgage banking income, and other future cash flows, or the market value of the company's assets, including its investment securities; and (8) changes in accounting principles, policies, practices, or guidelines. Additional factors that could cause our results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in our reports (such as Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K) filed with the SEC and available at the SEC's Internet site (http://www.sec.gov). All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the company or any person acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements above. We do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made, except as required by law.
FINANCIAL CONTACT: MIKE DOWLING 864-679-9070
MEDIA CONTACT: ART SEAVER 864-679-9010
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Harlow, Lil Nas X and Kendrick Lamar are top contenders with seven nominations at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.
MTV announced Tuesday that Lil Nas X and Harlow earned multiple nominations for their collaborative hit “Industry Baby,” which is nominated for video of the year. Both performers along with Drake, Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and Lizzo will compete for artist of the year.
Lamar, who is nominated for the first time since 2018, has two songs “family ties” and “N95” that will vie for best cinematography. The rapper was also nominated for best hip-hop, direction, visual effects, editing and video for good.
Styles and Doja Cat received the second-most nominations with six. Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Tayler Swift and The Weeknd each pulled in five.
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, becomes the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album “Madame X.”
The awards will have 26 first-time nominees including Baby Keem with four along with Kacey Musgraves, GAYLE and Måneskin – who each have two nominations.
The VMAs will take place Aug. 28 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Fan-voting begins Tuesday across 22 categories at vote.mtv.com. | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/kendrick-lamar-lil-nas-x-jack-harlow-top-mtv-vma-nominees/ | 2022-07-26T16:03:44Z | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/kendrick-lamar-lil-nas-x-jack-harlow-top-mtv-vma-nominees/ | true |
3rd body found at Lake Mead due to low water levels, officials say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) – More human remains have been found at Lake Mead in Nevada, marking the third body found there in the past few months.
Rangers with the National Park Service said a witness alerted them Monday afternoon to remains spotted at Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office will determine the cause of death.
Because of low water levels, discoveries like this have become more common.
The first body was found in May inside a barrel that washed up from the receding lake. Officials believe the body is that of a murder victim from the 1970s or 1980s.
Days later, a second body was found, but officials believe no foul play was involved.
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WINTER PARK, Fla., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Timbers Company, a leading developer and operator of boutique luxury resorts and private residence clubs, announces today the appointment of John Starr to chief financial officer (CFO). With more than 20 years of financial management experience, John joins Timbers Company's executive leadership team in Winter Park, Fla., further supporting the Company's strategic growth and perfectly timed for new locations and announcements to come.
"We couldn't be more excited to welcome John Starr to the Timbers Company team," said Greg Spencer, CEO of Timbers Company. "John brings a deep experience gained through years of leadership in the REIT industry and will play an important role in the future growth of Timbers as a company."
As CFO, John will oversee and manage business development and financial operations across the Timbers portfolio, including external capital raising efforts for future projects, managing Timbers' investments, investor relations and management of the Company's accounting, acquisitions, asset management and information technology departments.
John previously served as chief operating officer of CNL Financial Group, specifically in REIT fund management where his principal area of focus included developing and implementing strategies to maximize the financial performance of CNL's real estate portfolios. Before serving as COO, John also served CNL as CNL Private Equity Corp's senior vice president of asset management, chief operating officer of CNL Healthcare Properties II and chief portfolio officer of both Global Income Trust and Global Growth Trust.
John began his career at First Union Bank as a commercial lender after receiving his Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida with a dual major in Economics and Management.
For more information, please visit TimbersCompany.com.
Timbers Company is a leading developer and operator of luxury hotels, private residence clubs, master planned resorts and boutique properties in the world's most exclusive ski, golf, leisure and beach destinations. Timbers Company brands include Timbers Resorts and Soleil Hotels & Resorts. Since 1999, Timbers Resorts has been committed to being authentic, unique and respectful of the destinations in which the properties reside, focusing on family and immersive experiences, offering approachable luxury and never compromising quality and service. Timbers Owners have access to properties in the following locations: Aspen, Beaver Creek, Cabo San Lucas, Jupiter, Kauai, Kiawah Island, Maui, Napa, Scottsdale, Sonoma, Southern California, Steamboat, Tuscany, U.S. Virgin Islands and Vail. Now, Timbers has taken that formula for success and launched a new brand – Soleil Hotels & Resorts – a luxury collection of hotels, resorts and whole ownership residences. Travelers to Soleil properties can expect the authentic family experiences that Timbers is known for, available to a wider audience in a broader array of destinations across the U.S. For more information visit timberscompany.com.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied took to the streets to celebrate after the end of voting on a controversial new constitution that critics say could reverse hard-won democratic gains and entrench a presidential power grab
President Kais Saied joined a large crowd of supporters early Tuesday as they marched down Tunis’ central thoroughfare, waving national flags, cheering and blaring car horns after an unofficial exit poll result late Monday suggested that a majority of voters approved the new constitution.
Escorted by a strong security detail, Saied told the media he would ensure “a much better future” for Tunisians and pledged improved living conditions while continuing the fight against corruption.
“We have gone from the shore of despair and disillusion to the shore of hope” he said. “There will be no turning back… This is a total break with a system forever rejected”
Many supporters ululated and jostled to get a photo of Saied on their smartphones as he walked down the avenue.
“I wish him victory against his enemies, we hope that God will protect him from the wicked. Congratulations, congratulations, look after yourself Kais Saied!” said one supporter, Haida, who only gave her first name.
According to the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), an official preliminary result is expected Tuesday evening and the final result on August 28.
The proposed constitution gives the office of the president all executive powers and removes key checks and balances. The power of Tunisia’s judiciary and parliament would be greatly reduced.
Critics warn that Saied’s new political structure could pave the way to a new autocracy in the country that rose up against former autocratic strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 and kicked off the Arab Spring pro-democracy protests. Tunisia is the only nation to emerge with a democracy from those protests.
Monday’s referendum took place a year to the day after Saied froze Tunisia’s parliament and dismissed his government. Critics then derided the move as “a coup” but Tunisians, who had grown exasperated with the country’s political elites and years of economic stagnation, celebrated it. In the year since then, Saied has given himself the power to rule by decree and has fired dozens of judges, decisions that have provoked a series of protests.
Saied still enjoys widespread popular support. In 2019, Saied won the Presidency with over 70% of the votes in the second round, while recent polls put his approval rating at well over 50%. Many believe the new constitution will put an end to years of political deadlock and will reduce the political influence of Tunisia’s largest party, Ennahdha, the deeply unpopular Islamist party.
A desire for change was evident among voters who spoke to the Associated Press after the polls closed late Monday.
“This was an important day, I hope that all Tunisians vote to raise the level of the country and improve it” said Yahia Arafet, after casting his vote.
Olfa Hmid said she felt Tunisia had reached “the stage of collapse”.
“The future is not clear and we do not see anything clear. We are thinking about the future of our children and our country and we want to see it advanced. It is a really unfortunate situation and we hope for a better tomorrow” said Hmid.
With Saied’s critics calling for a boycott of the referendum, turnout was a sticking point for the president. Many observers expected a low voter turnout partly because the boycott but also because of Tunisians’ disenchantment with politics and their struggles with rising inflation that has reached 8.1%.
ISIE President Farouk Bouaskar said late Monday that preliminary figures suggested a turnout of 27.5% of 9.3 million registered voters.
Saied had sidestepped an AP question whether a low turn out would cast doubt on the referendum’s validity. Speaking as we walked with supporters early Tuesday, Saied said that he had tried to get “as many Tunisians as possible engaged with this election”. | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/some-tunisians-celebrate-ahead-of-constitution-vote-result/ | 2022-07-26T16:05:55Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/some-tunisians-celebrate-ahead-of-constitution-vote-result/ | true |
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BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa says it will have to cancel almost all flights at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs on Wednesday because of a strike by its German ground staff, affecting tens of thousands of passengers in the latest travel turmoil to hit Europe.
The airline said Tuesday that the strike will force the cancellation of 678 flights at Frankfurt, 32 of them on Tuesday and the rest on Wednesday. It also is canceling 345 flights at Munich, including 15 on Tuesday.
Lufthansa said that 92,000 passengers will be affected by the Frankfurt cancellations and 42,000 by the Munich disruption. It said those affected will be contacted Tuesday and rebooked on alternative flights where possible but warned that “the capacities available for this are very limited.”
The company said the strike may still lead to “individual flight cancellations or delays” on Thursday and Friday.
The ver.di service workers’ union announced the one-day strike on Monday as it seeks to raise pressure on Lufthansa in negotiations on pay for about 20,000 employees of logistical, technical and cargo subsidiaries of the airline.
The walkout comes at a time when airports in Germany and across Europe already are seeing disruption and long lines for security checks because of staff shortages and soaring travel demand.
As inflation soars, strikes for higher pay by airport crews in France and Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have deepened the chaos for travelers who have faced last-minute cancellations, lengthy delays, lost luggage or long waits for bags in airports across Europe.
Travel is booming this summer after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, swamping airlines and airports that don’t have enough workers after pandemic-era layoffs. Airports like London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol have limited daily flights or passenger numbers.
The Lufthansa strike is set to start early Wednesday and end early Thursday. Such “warning strikes” are a common tactic in German labor negotiations and typically last from several hours to a day or two.
Ver.di is calling for a 9.5% pay increase this year and says an offer by Lufthansa earlier this month, which would involve a deal for an 18-month period, falls far short of its demands.
Lufthansa’s chief personnel officer, Michael Niggemann, argued that “this so-called warning strike in the middle of the peak summer travel season is simply no longer proportionate.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/german-strike-forces-lufthansa-to-cancel-hundreds-of-flights/ | 2022-07-26T16:06:18Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/german-strike-forces-lufthansa-to-cancel-hundreds-of-flights/ | false |
Name change for B.C. hospital in city considering similar move after request from local First Nation
The city its located in is still mulling the decision, but a British Columbia hospital has moved forward in changing its name following a request from a local First Nation.
The Powell River General Hospital has been renamed qathet General, following a proposal from the Tla'amin government to the health authority in charge of the facility.
The word comes from from q̓at̓ᶿət, which means "working together, bringing together" in the nation's language, the provincial health minister said.
Vancouver Coastal Health said the new title is "an alternative, culturally appropriate name" for the acute care facility in Powell River, on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.
"The name Powell River is associated with a public official dating back to the 1800s who promoted policies that continue to cause harms to Indigenous peoples today," VCH said in a news release Monday.
The actions of Israel Powell, who was a superintendent of Indian affairs for B.C., were meant to assimilate Indigenous people, according to the city. Staff issued a statement earlier this year saying the city too is considering a name change, though a decision has not yet been made.
"This included the implementation of residential schools, banning of the potlatch, and removing ceremonial objects from communities," the statement said. "The impacts of these policies, such as loss of land, language, culture, and family ties for Tla’amin people, are still felt today."
Powell was not actually involved in the founding of the city and there is no record of him even visiting, according to city staff.
The hospital's new name is shared with the regional district. In a written statement announcing the change, Vancouver Coastal Health CEO Vivian Eliopoulos said the authority is committed to providing Indigenous people with culturally appropriate care.
Dillon Johnson, an executive councillor with the nation, said, "This name change is meaningful for our people as it addresses a barrier to culturally safe care, and it symbolizes a positive path forward."
In addition to the new name, a local Indigenous artist will be commissioned to design a new sign for the hospital.
Today, VCH—in partnership with Tla’amin Nation—announced the renaming of Powell River General Hospital to qathet General Hospital.
The word qathet, from q̓at̓ᶿət, means "working together, bringing together" in the Tla’amin Nation language.
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3rd body found at Lake Mead due to low water levels, officials say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) – More human remains have been found at Lake Mead in Nevada, marking the third body found there in the past few months.
Rangers with the National Park Service said a witness alerted them Monday afternoon to remains spotted at Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office will determine the cause of death.
Because of low water levels, discoveries like this have become more common.
The first body was found in May inside a barrel that washed up from the receding lake. Officials believe the body is that of a murder victim from the 1970s or 1980s.
Days later, a second body was found, but officials believe no foul play was involved.
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Tony Dow, Wally of ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ dies
(Gray News) - Tony Dow, the actor who played Wally Cleaver in the hit 1950′s television show “Leave It to Beaver,” has died. He was 77.
His management team announced the news on his official Facebook page Tuesday morning.
“The world has lost an amazing human being, but we are all richer for the memories that he has left us. From the warm reminiscences of Wally Cleaver to those of us fortunate enough to know him personally - thank you Tony. And thank you for the reflections of a simpler time, the laughter, the friendship and for the feeling that you were a big brother to us all,” the Facebook message said in part.
The actor appeared in several TV shows spanning decades and genres, including “Adam-12,” “Mod Squad,” “Emergency,” “The Love Boat,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Babylon 5,” according to his iMDB page.
But he was best known as the older brother of The Beaver, played by Jerry Mathers, in the quintessential TV sitcom, which ran for six seasons, from 1957 to 1963.
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USPS Celebrates James Webb Space Telescope Published: Jul. 26, 2022 at 10:00 AM CDT | Updated: 1 hour ago
Device Seeks to Answer Age-Old Questions As It Reveals New Cosmic Mysteries
WASHINGTON , July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
James Webb Space Telescope Forever stamp - Pane of 20(PRNewswire)
What:
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sensitive ever launched, can peer to the limits of the known universe.
The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate this remarkable device with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope Forever stamp.
Art director Derry Noyes was the designer for the stamp, using existing art by James Vaughan and an image provided by NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute.
The first-day-of-issue event is free and open to the public. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtag #WebbTelescopeStamp .
Who:
Anton Hajjar, vice chairman, U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors
When:
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET
Where:
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002-4945
RSVP:
Dedication ceremony attendees are encouraged to RSVP at: usps.com/ webbtelescope .
Background:
The U.S. Postal Service celebrates NASA's remarkable James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex telescope ever deployed in space — capable of peering directly into the early cosmos and studying every phase of cosmic history.
Its gold-coated mirror segments form a 21-foot-wide lens that captures faint infrared rays from billions of light-years away that represent the universe's first accessible starlight. Revealed is the universe in its infancy, including galaxy formation. The Webb Telescope can also analyze exoplanets for potentially life-supporting conditions and provide unprecedentedly high-resolution views of our own solar system.
The heat-sensitive telescope must operate in extreme cold. From its orbit of the sun about a million miles from Earth, it is constantly positioned above the planet's night side, orienting its optics and instruments in perpetual shade from the sun and Earth behind its tennis-court-size solar shield.
Launched on Christmas Day 2021, the telescope represents multinational cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies.
During the telescope's expected five- to 10-year mission, scientists anticipate answers to age-old questions — plus introductions to new cosmic mysteries.
The image on the stamp is an artist's digitally created depiction of the telescope against a dazzling starscape. The selvage image of a star and distant space was taken by the telescope early in its mission, brilliantly confirming the perfect alignment of the telescope's 18 mirror segments.
The James Webb Space Telescope stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp in panes of 20. This Forever stamp is always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
Preorders for the James Webb Space Telescope Forever stamp can be made online at usps.com/stamps beginning August 8 .
Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/ shopstamps , by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic or at Post Office locations nationwide.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
Please Note: For U.S. Postal Service media resources, including broadcast-quality video and audio and photo stills, visit the USPS Newsroom . Follow us on Twitter , Instagram , Pinterest and LinkedIn . Subscribe to the USPS YouTube channel , like us on Facebook and enjoy our Postal Posts blog . For more information about the Postal Service, visit usps.com and facts.usps.com .
National contact: Jonathan Castillo jonathan.r.castillo@usps.gov usps.com/news
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Reformulated COVID vaccine boosters may be available earlier than expected
The Biden administration may scrap plans to let more younger adults get second COVID-19 boosters this summer. Instead, officials are trying to speed up availability of the next generation of boosters in the fall, NPR has learned.
The new strategy is aimed at trying to balance protecting people this summer with keeping people safe next winter, when the country will probably get hit by yet another surge.
But the possible shift is being met with mixed reactions. The Food and Drug Administration could make a final decision by the end of the week.
The dilemma facing the FDA is that the immunity many people have gotten from getting vaccinated or infected has been wearing off. At the same time, the most contagious version of the virus to emerge yet — the omicron subvariant BA.5 — is making people even more vulnerable.
So as COVID is starting to become more serious than a cold or flu again, most people younger than age 50 aren't eligible for fourth shots — second boosters — to protect themselves. In response, the FDA was considering opening up eligibility for second boosters for all adults.
But letting more people get boosted with the original vaccine now could interfere with plans to boost them with updated, hopefully more protective vaccines in the fall to blunt the toll of the winter surge.
That's why the administration is considering shifting the focus to the next generation of boosters. Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech were already scrambling to comply with the FDA's request to get new, hopefully more powerful "bivalent" boosters ready by October or November that target both the original strain of the virus and omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
The FDA is trying to get the companies to make those shots available even sooner — possibly as soon as September, according to a federal official familiar with the situation who is not authorized to talk about it publicly. The possible shift was first reported by The Washington Post.
If the bivalent boosters can be accelerated, the FDA would skip opening up fourth shots of the original vaccines this summer and just wait for the new double-barreled omicron vaccines in the fall.
The possible shift is provoking mixed reactions.
Some think it is the smartest strategy. Three shots are still protecting most younger, otherwise healthy people against serious illness, they say. And boosting people again now, and then so soon again in the fall, could confuse people, potentially eroding their willingness to get any boosters, according to some experts.
"I think this will increase trust," Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in an email to NPR. "We can't give a booster now and then again in 1.5 months or two months – that will decrease trust."
And giving two shots too close together could actually backfire from a health perspective, according to some experts.
"I think this is the right call," Dr. Celine Gounder, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said during an interview with NPR. "If you get a booster now with the original formulation of the vaccine, this may in fact be counter-productive. It may prevent the second booster dose given this fall from taking and from you developing an immune response to that booster."
But others aren't so sure. They say the new vaccines may not be significantly better.
"People should not regard them as some sort of magic bullet that gives them super-strong protection," says Dr. John Moore, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine. "These are not going to be magic bullet game-changers because they're not that much better than the already available vaccine boosters."
It's also unclear whether the new boosters can be ready by September. And who knows if BA.5 will even been the main virus by the fall and winter?
"I don't see the benefit waiting for a BA.5-specific booster since BA.5 may be in the rearview mirror and well past us by the time that's available," says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine.
People younger than 50 should at least have the option to protect themselves now, especially with BA.5 already surging, some say.
"You're talking about you know literally hundreds of millions of people who are at a higher risk than they need to be for months," says Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
"And that will mean potentially millions of preventable infections, certainly thousands of preventable hospitalizations, and probably hundreds of preventable deaths." | https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/26/1113615330/reformulated-covid-vaccine-boosters-may-be-available-earlier-than-expected?ft=nprml&f= | 2022-07-26T16:11:30Z | https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/26/1113615330/reformulated-covid-vaccine-boosters-may-be-available-earlier-than-expected?ft=nprml&f= | false |
Little boy dressed as Chucky roaming his neighborhood, spooking the neighbors
Little boy dressed as Chucky roaming his neighborhood, spooking the neighbors
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Little boy dressed as Chucky roaming his neighborhood, spooking the neighbors
What would you do if you saw Chucky taking a stroll down your street? A little boy in Alabama is giving some folks quite the scare with his old Halloween costume!Check out the video above.Kendra Walden shared photos of Chucky with the following message:"Dear Parents of the little boy in the chucky costume in Pinson. GET YOUR KID.… I almost had a heart attack."Walden's post has been shared more than 105,000 times on Facebook.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --J.P. Morgan Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. ("JPMREIT") today announced that its registration statement on Form S-11 has been declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The initial public offering of common stock consists of up to $4,000,000 of Class T, Class S, Class D and Class I shares in the primary offering and up to $1,000,000 of shares pursuant to a distribution reinvestment plan. JPMREIT is externally advised and sponsored by J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. ("JPMIM" or the "Adviser").
JPMREIT's equity real estate investments will include a range of asset types with a focus on stabilized, income-generating properties. To a lesser extent, JPMREIT will also invest in real estate value creation opportunities that incorporate property refurbishment, redevelopment and development, which are expected to be owned long-term for both income generation and potential capital appreciation.
JPMREIT seeks to build a property portfolio comprised of approximately 75% stabilized, income-generating properties and 25% refurbishment, redevelopment and development properties. JPMREIT expects to invest in the property types helped by the manner in which the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated fundamental changes in the way Americans use real estate to consume, work and live and expects to qualify as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes.
Shares in JPMREIT will be offered on a continuous basis at a price generally equal to the net asset value per share of each class of common stock, updated monthly. The initial per share purchase price was $10.00 per share, plus applicable upfront selling commissions and manager fees.
J.P. Morgan Institutional Investments Inc. will act as the dealer manager for the offering on a best efforts basis and will engage selected broker-dealers to participate in the distribution of the shares to individual investors.
Written copies of the prospectus may be obtained from J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc., Attn: Sam Wallman.
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In six months of this year, small- and medium-sized businesses received micro-loans to the tune of KZT10.5bn in Zhambyl region. Over 2 thousand beginner entrepreneurs were given grants worth KZT3.3bn," said governor of Zhambyl region Nurzhan Nurzhigitov.
He went on to say that four platforms to establish contacts with investors are operational in the region.
Special attention is attached to the development of the special economic zone Chemical Park Taraz in Zhambyl region. Three investment projects, including a sugar plant with a capacity of 150 thou tons per year, a sodium cyanide plant producing up to 25 thou tons a year, and a metallurgical plant for the production of ferrosilicon, ferrosilicon manganese, industrial silicon, non-ferrous metals with a capacity of 60-100 thou tones a year, are being carried out within the zone.
"As part of the region's development plan, there are plans to launch 443 projects worth KZT2.1tln and create 10.1 thou new jobs in the industry," said the governor.
Once implemented the industrial output of the region is expected to rise by KZT275bn. The export could reach KZT95.9bn. The number of SMEs will rise from 77.2 to 85 thousand in the region.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia State Police has temporarily reduced the operating hours for its Med-Flight helicopter service in central and southwest Virginia due to a shortage of pilots.
State police said until more pilots can be hired and trained, the service has been reduced from 24-hour coverage to 16 hours per day, from 8 a.m. through midnight, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The changes went into effect on Sunday.
In the meantime, private, for-hire air ambulance services such as those offered by VCU Health Systems and HCA Hospitals will fill the gap in the Richmond area. Med-Flight is free of charge, but the private services bill patients for the transport. In most cases, the fee is covered by a patient’s health care insurance.
Traditionally, sworn state police officers have piloted Med-Flight helicopters, but civilian pilots have been employed in the past and the shortage has opened hiring to civilians.
The state has posted job listings seeking pilots for the Med-Flight programs based in Chesterfield County and Abingdon. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/pilot-shortage-leads-to-med-flight-service-hour-cuts | 2022-07-26T16:14:53Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/pilot-shortage-leads-to-med-flight-service-hour-cuts | false |
IRS working to increase audit rates for high-earning Americans
WASHINGTON - The IRS has been increasing its audit rates for earners making $100,000 or more based on data starting from the 2021 fiscal year.
The IRS said "resource constraints" have limited the agency’s ability to conduct audits against high net worth individuals as well as major corporations and complex businesses," according to a statement released in May.
"Audit rates for taxpayers with incomes of more than $200,000 decreased the most, largely because higher-income audits tend to be more complicated and require auditors to manually review multiple issues," Ken Corbin, chief taxpayer experience officer for the agency, told the House Oversight Subcommittee in May.
A 2021 report found that IRS audits overall declined by 44% between the fiscal years of 2015 and 2019.
The report found that Americans making more than $5 million per year only had a 2% chance of being audited, according to the report.
The most recent announcement by the IRS comes as Democratic leaders push to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare.
Under the latest proposal, people earning more than $400,000 a year and couples making more than $500,000 would have to pay a 3.8% tax on their earnings from tax-advantaged businesses called pass throughs. Until now, many of them have been using a loophole to avoid paying that levy.
That would raise an estimated $203 billion over a decade, which Democrats say would be used to delay until 2031 a shortfall in the Medicare trust fund that pays for hospital care. That fund is currently projected to start running out of money in 2028, three years earlier.
Most U.S. businesses are pass throughs, which include partnerships and sole proprietorships and range from one-person law practices to some large companies. Owners count the profits as income when they pay individual income taxes, but such companies do not pay corporate taxes — meaning they avoid paying two levels of taxation.
With November elections for control of Congress approaching, Democrats hope the two proposals will be a remedy for a campaign season that so far looks bleak. Republicans are favored to win a majority in the House and could do the same in the Senate.
Democrats say both plans will show voters they are battling to curb health care costs and protect the widely popular Medicare program, positions they say will be dangerous for Republicans to oppose. Polls show widespread public alarm over recent months' historically high inflation rates, supply chain problems and other economic issues that along with President Joe Biden's dismal popularity ratings are pushing voters Republicans' way, the GOP says.
The Associated Press contributed to this story. It was reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/irs-working-to-increase-audit-rates-for-high-earning-americans | 2022-07-26T16:17:15Z | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/irs-working-to-increase-audit-rates-for-high-earning-americans | false |
Home Service Providers using Angi can now automatically text consumers as new quote requests come in.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Text Request, the business text messaging platform built to ignite customer engagement, today announced a new partnership with Angi, a leading platform for finding, hiring and booking home service providers. This partnership will enable connections between home service providers and consumers through text.
Service pros can now connect their Angi Leads and Text Request accounts, so that texts are automatically sent from their business phone numbers to consumers' cell phones whenever new quote requests come in via Angi. This opens up two-way texting between consumer and service pro. The partnership is expected to create better consumer experiences while enabling service pros to close more sales.
"Home service businesses have been our largest market since the beginning," said Text Request CEO and Co-Founder Brian Elrod. "Angie's List and HomeAdvisor have been standards in this market for decades, and with this partnership and integration with Angi, we'll be able to better serve our growing base of service pros."
Text Request home service users have seen improvements in their lead-to-sales ratios of 100% and higher by adding conversational texting into the sales process.
"When homeowners come to Angi looking to find and hire a pro for their projects, connecting with a pro quickly is a key factor in their hiring decision," said Rupa Mehta, General Manager, Angi. "We are excited to partner with Text Request to give pros another helpful tool."
Existing Text Request customers who want to sign up for Angi Leads services can receive a 25% discount on their first 30 days, and an ongoing 5% quarterly rebate. Existing Angi Leads customers who want to sign up for Text Request can receive a 20% monthly discount on all Text Request subscriptions.
For more information, visit textrequest.com.
Text Request is the business texting platform built to ignite customer engagement. We've crafted plug-and-play messaging solutions to your everyday communication problems, so you can cut through the noise and connect with customers anytime, anywhere. See how we help at textrequest.com.
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Micro 3D Printing Provider Has Doubled Its Install Base in the Past Year as Demand for Tiny Parts Grows
CHONGQING, China and BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF), the pioneer in microscale 3D printing systems, today announced the successful closing of a Series C round of funding, totaling $43 million. The round was led by Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. ("SCGC").
Additive manufacturing has proven to add the most value when used to produce parts that are expensive or difficult to make using conventional techniques. In the past, those parts usually fell into two categories: low volume and/or high geometric complexity. Since its founding in 2016, BMF has been addressing another market need: small, high precision parts. The demand for parts on the millimeter scale, with micron level tolerance, is on the rise and, historically, there were no additive manufacturing systems capable of producing at this level of quality while at the same time providing good throughput. BMF has changed that paradigm with its microArch 3D printing systems, built upon patented Projection Micro Stereolithography (PµSL) technology that enables ultra high-resolution parts (down to 2μm) to be 3D printed with unparalleled accuracy, precision and speed.
The investment comes during a time of significant growth for the company. BMF doubled its install base in the past year, now with installed systems at over 200 customer locations around the world, bringing high precision additive manufacturing capabilities to industries that are driven to miniaturize, including electronics, medical device, optics/photonics, microfluidics and advanced research. The company also recently expanded its global operations with new state-of-the-art facilities in Greater Boston and Shenzhen, China, with additional locations in Chongqing, China and Tokyo, Japan.
"Our business has scaled strongly, and we plan to use new capital to further expand our capability," stated John Kawola, CEO of BMF. "Our global reach has been appreciated and valued by our customers, and our systems are now being used all over the world to both prototype parts that previously could not be 3D printed and drive end-use part production where conventional methods are difficult."
BMF will use the funding to advance product development, sales and marketing and customer support as the company continues to expand and serve its global customer base. For more information about what this funding means for BMF, please visit www.bmf3d.com.
Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. ("SCGC") was established by the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government and commercial shareholders in 1999. With the mission of discovering and making great companies, and as the discoverer and cultivator of innovative value-added companies, SCGC has become a comprehensive investment conglomerate in VC/PE with registered capital of RMB 10 billion and total assets under management of approximately RMB 423.9 billion.
Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) specializes in micro precision 3D printing. The company's microArch systems uses a 3D printing approach called PμSL (Projection Micro Stereolithography) that leverages light, customizable optics, a high-quality movement platform and controlled processing technology to produce the industry's most accurate and precise high-resolution 3D prints for product development, research and industrial short run production. The technology represents a true industry breakthrough by empowering product manufacturers to capitalize on the benefits of 3D printing without sacrificing quality or scale.
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There’s long been a craving for dining experiences that feel uniquely personal. From Omakase experiences to chef’s tastings, to restaurants with a view of the kitchen, everyone wants a meal that is not just delicious but unlike any other they have had before.
We don’t often expect to get that in a place like Las Vegas, known for their large buffets where the only thing bigger than the variety of dishes is the size of the crowd. But that’s all about to change as The Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens just launched The Garden Table dining experience.
These pre-fixe menus, available at brunch or dinner, created by the teams at MICHAEL MINA Bellagio and Sadelle's Café, are meant to be a complete experience for the senses, both on and off the plate. And they are sure to be intimate and meaningful, as only six people can sit at the Garden Table at a time and the table can be reserved for up to two hours.
"The Bellagio Conservatory is one of Las Vegas' most visited and most photographed attractions. We wanted to create an entirely new and immersive way for our guests to experience the beauty of this space, " said Bellagio Vice President of Food & Beverage Josef Wagner in a statement.. "The sights, sounds, colors, and energy of the Conservatory, combined with chefs Michael Mina and Mario Carbone curating the culinary journey, make for an epic experience that only Bellagio can deliver."
The first Garden Table will be in conjunction with Conservatory's Jungle of Dreams summer installation, and be surrounded by all kinds of animal-inspired sculptures and plant life.
The menus will include a Dinner by MICHAEL MINA Bellagio with dishes ranging from Crispy Spot Prawns with young coconut, makrut lime, sweet & sour mango, and curry leaf to Miso-Marinated Hamachi Kama with ginger scallion and sudachi. The Conservatory Brunch by Sadelle's Café will include their famous Signature Bagel Tower with Smoked Salmon and bagels among other traditional accouterments.
These Garden Table experiences will be available for future Bellagio Conservatory displays as well with menus rotating seasonally. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/alywalansky/2022/07/26/the-bellagio-conservatory-has-launched-a-meal-experience-that-is-like-no-other-in-las-vegas/ | 2022-07-26T16:19:24Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/alywalansky/2022/07/26/the-bellagio-conservatory-has-launched-a-meal-experience-that-is-like-no-other-in-las-vegas/ | false |
We're calling this post the one where Jennifer Aniston enjoys a beach vacation.
The Friends alum, 53, shared a selfie from her getaway on Instagram July 25. The snap showed Aniston smiling at the camera while sporting a swimsuit, hat, shades and beachy waves with the white sand and blue water behind her.
However, followers weren't just focused on the stunning scenery. "Gorgeous and so is that pristine beach!!!" Octavia Spencer wrote in the comments section. Added Poppy Delevingne, "Sunshine beauty…!" Wrote Rita Wilson, "J Greeky…….."
And while the weather looked nice and sunny, Sara Foster implied Aniston was also turning up the heat with her selfie and dropped a series of fire emojis.
Wishing you were there? You're not the only one. In fact, Whitney Cummings joked she was ready to come on over by writing, "OMW."
Aniston's trip is a well-deserved break as she's been quite busy lately. The Morning Show actress finished filming Murder Mystery 2 earlier this year and has continued to grow her empire, including her haircare brand LolaVie, which launched last year.
And a beach vacation can be the perfect way for her to recharge.
"When I'm really wiped out its time to go on a trip," Aniston told Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand goop in a 2015 Q&A. "I have my go-to places in warm climates and sandy beaches like Mexico that really allow me to relax and get back on track. I like massages and spa treatments, too—they help if I can't get on a plane and go on vacation." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1339426/jennifer-aniston-shares-glimpse-into-her-beach-getaway-in-new-selfie?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-26T16:22:28Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1339426/jennifer-aniston-shares-glimpse-into-her-beach-getaway-in-new-selfie?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | true |
Asian American and Pacific Islander-owned businesses were some of the hardest hit by the pandemic, but a new grant program is providing some hope for recovery.
Cash grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 are now available for AAPI business owners. Businesses that launched during the pandemic and ones that were already established are eligible.
“AAPI and other minority businesses face economic barriers that too often challenge their ability to thrive,” Chiling Tong, CEO of National Ace, said.
Tong said although loans were offered to small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program, many Asian American owners didn't see that money.
“Because they did not think they qualified or they were unaware the opportunities existed,” Tong said.
Access to money isn't the only hurdle that these businesses are facing. Tong said the recent surge in anti-Asian hate and violence is also threatening their survival
She hopes the grants will help owners move past the pandemic and thrive.
Information on how to apply is available on the National Ace website. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/aapi-business-owners-eligible-for-post-pandemic-grants | 2022-07-26T16:22:32Z | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/aapi-business-owners-eligible-for-post-pandemic-grants | true |
CHICAGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists have developed a cheap, convenient smartphone test for monitoring patients at risk for dangerous blood clots. Research demonstrating that this test works, along with a second study on using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve testing and treatment for people with kidney stones, will be presented at the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo. Both studies could help resolve longstanding challenges in healthcare and laboratory testing.
Test With Smartphone App May Predict Blood Clot Risk
People who take the blood-thinning medication warfarin to prevent blood clots—which can lead to heart attacks—need frequent blood testing to ensure that the drug is working. Currently, this testing occurs in a clinical laboratory or with expensive at-home testing systems. It involves a particular measure of the time it takes for a clot to form, called prothrombin time (PT), and calculating the international normalized ratio (INR) so doctors can compare results between different tests or laboratories.
A team led by Kelly Michaelsen, MD, PhD, of the University of Washington developed a test that quickly and inexpensively determines PT/INR using a smartphone. The test uses a smartphone's built-in vibration motor and camera to track movement of a copper particle in a drop of blood. To see whether the test works, the researchers tested blood from 140 anonymous patients at the University of Washington Medical Center. The team also tested blood from 79 patients with known blood-clotting issues. In both groups, the new test produced results similar to laboratory PT/INR tests.
As a next step, Michaelsen is planning to research whether patients can use the new test by themselves at home. She envisions it being helpful for people in rural areas, to minimize long and increasingly expensive trips to doctors.
Michaelsen hopes her test will lead to more people spending more time in the desirable PT/INR range, which would mean they are not at risk for clots or (on the flipside) for uncontrolled bleeding. "The goal is to decrease complications while making PT/INR testing more convenient and less expensive," she said.
Improving Kidney Stone Analysis and Treatment
Kidney stones are common, affecting more than 1 in 10 people. If left untreated, these hard deposits made of minerals and salts can lead to severe pain, urinary tract infections, and loss of kidney function. Effective treatment and prevention rely on knowing what stones are made of, which is often determined through a manual process using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). However, mistakes in FTIR interpretation and reporting can lead to inappropriate treatments and undermine efforts to prevent future kidney stones through medication, diet, and lifestyle changes.
To improve diagnosis and better guide treatment, researchers led by Patrick Day, MPH, MLS (ASCP)cm, of Mayo Clinic created a group of artificial intelligence (AI)-trained algorithms that analyze FTIR kidney stone composition results. The researchers then conducted a study to determine whether the algorithms could find errors in kidney stone composition results that had been reviewed and reported by a clinical laboratory technologist.
Within the 12-month study period, these AI-trained algorithms reviewed manual analyses of 81,517 kidney stones. While the technologist's and AI's interpretations agreed 90% of the time, the researchers determined that manual entry errors and/or incorrect technologist interpretations before use of AI occurred at a rate nearly 8 times higher than after the start of AI use.
"Clinical laboratories continuously adopt technology to improve the accuracy of lab tests. By adopting AI, clinical laboratories can reduce errors in results sent to physicians. This study is an example of how the fields of laboratory medicine, data science, information technology, and biostatistics can work together to improve patient care," said Day.
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AACC Annual Scientific Meeting registration is free for members of the media. Reporters can register online here: https://www.xpressreg.net/register/aacc0722/media/landing.asp
Abstract B-183: Micro-mechanical PT/INR testing using smartphones will be presented during:
Scientific Poster Session
Wednesday, July 27
9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. (presenting author in attendance from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.)
Abstract A-140: Classification of kidney stone composition using an artificial intelligence model: Twelve month prospective study demonstrates improvements in quality and patient safety will be presented during:
Scientific Poster Session
Tuesday, July 26
9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. (presenting author in attendance from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.)
Both sessions will take place in the Poster Hall of the Clinical Lab Expo show floor at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
About the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo
The AACC Annual Scientific Meeting offers 5 days packed with opportunities to learn about exciting science from July 24-28. Plenary sessions will explore artificial intelligence-based clinical prediction models, advances in multiplex technologies, human brain organogenesis, building trust between the public and healthcare experts, and direct mass spectrometry techniques.
At the AACC Clinical Lab Expo, more than 750 exhibitors will fill the show floor of the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago with displays of the latest diagnostic technology, including but not limited to COVID-19 testing, artificial intelligence, mobile health, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, point-of-care, and automation.
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Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 70,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit www.aacc.org.
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Biden fights talk of recession as key economic report looms
(AP) - Facing a potentially grim report this week on the economy’s overall health, President Joe Biden wants to convince a skeptical public that the U.S. is not, in fact, heading into a recession.
The Commerce Department on Thursday will release new gross domestic product figures. Top forecasts such as the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow are predicting that the figure will be negative for the second straight quarter — an informal signal that the country is stuck in a downturn. That’s political chum for Republicans in an election year.
The Biden administration is pre-emptively telling voters not to judge the economy by GDP or inflation alone. It says people should look at job gains, industrial output and other measures that point toward continued growth, even as Americans are downbeat in polls on the economy and Biden. The president maintains the economy is just cooling off after a sharp recovery from the 2020 recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re not going to be in a recession, in my view,” Biden said Monday. “My hope is we go from this rapid growth to steady growth.”
The specter of a recession could worsen what already appears to a bleak round of midterm elections this November, in which Biden’s Democrats could possibly lose control of the House and Senate. Biden’s team gave technical arguments in a report issued last week about how recessions depend on a dashboard of indicators and that only the non-governmental National Bureau of Economic Research can formally say when a downturn begins.
Republicans warn that the GDP report could show an economy in collapse, noting that Biden was also wrong on inflation as the consumer price index has jumped to a 40-year high despite assurances that the price increases would fade as the country moved past the pandemic.
“The White House published a whole explanation insisting that even if the new data suggest that our country is in recession, we actually won’t be,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in Monday in a speech to the Senate.
“The same people who said inflation wouldn’t happen,” he continued, “are now insisting we aren’t headed into a recession. Draw your own conclusions.”
The GDP report will likely be a “choose your own economy” kind of messaging in which voters will decide which numbers resonate with them the most. It’s GOP bluntness against Democratic nuance.
“You’ll have Republicans saying two consecutive quarters of negative growth — that’s a recession,” said Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the center-right American Enterprise Institute. “And you’ll have Democrats making this kind of hard to follow argument that we’re not in recession, but, yes, we are slowing down. If I had to bet, I would bet that the Republican argument gets more traction.”
Not only is the likely GOP message more direct, it also leans into how many Americans feel right now.
A July poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 83% believe the U.S. is going in the wrong direction. That’s a sharp reversal from May of 2021 when 54% said the country was headed in the right direction, a level of approval that overlapped with an increase in vaccinations against COVID-19 and payments flowing from Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package.
Separately, the University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment is lower now than it was during the worst months of the 2008 financial crisis, an epic recession that involved the crash of the housing and stock markets and required a burst of government aid.
The negativity has left the Biden administration trying to make the case that things are better than people think. Their argument starts with the torrid pace of hiring, with an average of 375,000 jobs being added monthly during the second quarter. Unemployment has held at 3.6% since March.
An alternative measure of the overall economy called gross domestic income contradicts GDP, showing that there was growth during the first three months of the year instead of decline. And gasoline prices, a core vulnerability for Biden, have fallen more than 60 cents a gallon since the middle of June, evidence that some inflationary pressures are easing.
Both publicly and privately, administration officials say the GDP report won’t tell the whole story.
“When you’re creating almost 400,000 jobs a month, that is not a recession,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Still, inflation has undermined the robust job market. Wage gains have failed to keep pace with price increases, meaning many people are effectively earning less money. There are also economic threats from abroad as China and many European economies are slowing down in ways that could spill over to the U.S. as the Federal Reserve is focused on raising interest rates in order to lower inflation.
But so long as hiring continues, liberal economists believe that public opinion will change and fears of a recession will fade. The White House analyses are “grounded in data,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
“People will understand that if we continue to have extremely low unemployment that the idea we’re in a recession just doesn’t make a lot of sense,” she said.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle chapter of the Audubon Society says it is dropping “Audubon” from its name because the man the organization is named after was a slave owner and opposed abolition.
KNKX reports that Seattle Audubon is one the largest chapters of the National Audubon Society, the nonprofit dedicated to protecting birds and their habitats, but Seattle Audubon is one of the largest in the country.
Earlier this month, the board voted to change the chapter’s name because the man the organization is named after – illustrator, painter and bird lover John James Audubon, author of the seminal work “The Birds of America” – owned enslaved people.
J. Drew Lanham, a former board member of the National Audubon Society and a wildlife ecology professor at Clemson University, called the move courageous.
Lanham, who has written about Audubon and left the national chapter over concerns the nonprofit was not doing enough about racial equity, says organizations need to grapple with what to do about problematic monuments.
“To excuse inhumane acts as just being in the context of their time is, I think, a lazy excuse,” Lanham said.
Last year, the Audubon Naturalist Society, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental organization, announced it, too, would be removing “Audubon” from its name, but it is not affiliated with the National Audubon Society.
Seattle Audubon plans to choose a new name by the end of the year. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/health-2/ap-health/seattle-audubon-society-dropping-audubon-from-name/ | 2022-07-26T16:27:14Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/health-2/ap-health/seattle-audubon-society-dropping-audubon-from-name/ | false |
Spain raises inflation forecast for 2022, lowers GDP growth target for 2023
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MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - Spain raised its inflation forecasts for 2022 and 2023 and lowered its economic growth target for 2023, Economy Minister Nadia Calvino said on Tuesday, citing the war in Ukraine for its continued negative impact on European economies.
The inflation target was lifted to 7.8% in 2022 from a previous 6.1% projected in April, while for 2023 it was revised upwards to 2.9% from 2.2%.
Driven by rising energy and food prices, annual inflation in Spain surpassed 10% for the first time in 37 years in June, forcing the government to raise its expectations for consumer prices.
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"The war is having major economic and social effects. All governments are revising growth forecasts downwards and inflation forecasts upwards," Calvino said.
Spain maintained its growth target for 2022 at 4.3%, partially helped by a strong tourist season leading to "strong GDP expansion" in the second quarter, she said.
The country's statistics institute is due to release second quarter GDP growth later this week.
For 2023, however, Calvino lowered the economic growth target to 2.7% from a previous target of 3.5%.
The downgrade came on the same day the International Monetary Fund revised its growth forecast for Spain down to 4% in 2022 from 4.8%. The IMF expects 2% growth in 2023.
The government also maintained its budget deficit targets for this year at 5% of GDP and 3.9% for 2023, Budget Minister Maria Jesus Montero said, as the fiscal straightjacket rules that set a 3% budget gap limit on EU member countries remain suspended. Spain expects a 3% budget deficit in 2025, she added.
The spending ceiling will be a record 198 billion euros in 2023, slightly more than this year, Montero said.
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Busy work schedules and daily routines can affect your sleep quality.
But health experts are sharing advice to help you sleep better and wake up more refreshed.
They suggest limiting the caffeine you drink by noon or 4 p.m. at the latest, according to a report.
Experts also say it’s best to avoid working late, hitting the gym three hours before bedtime, or having a late dinner.
They say getting extra sleep during the weekends to “catch up” doesn’t actually help and advise instead to aim for eight hours of sleep and try to go to bed around the same time every night.
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FAYETTEVILLE — According to ESPN’s Chris Low, Arkansas once again has the most difficult football schedule of all Power 5 schools.
Arkansas opens the season on Saturday, Sept. 3, at home against Cincinnati. The Bearcats made the College Football Playoffs last year where the fell to Alabama. Low explained why Arkansas’ schedule is considered the toughest.
“A handful of schools can make strong cases here, including Auburn, Georgia Tech, Indiana, LSU, Mississippi State, Stanford and Vanderbilt. But for the second straight year, Arkansas‘ schedule is brutal, with five games against top-25 teams. The Hogs are one of five Power 5 teams (Georgia Tech, Oregon, Stanford and Texas Tech the others) that have two nonconference games against ranked teams — No. 23 Cincinnati at home to open the season Sept. 3 and No. 19 BYU on the road Oct. 15. In the three weeks leading up to that BYU trip, Arkansas faces No. 5 Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas, No. 1 Alabama at home and Mississippi State on the road. Throw in the trip to Auburn on Oct. 29, and the Hogs have a stretch where they play four of five games away from home.”
Sam Pittman is seeing his Razorbacks come off a 9-4 season. He realizes what the team was able to do against the difficult schedule last year and hopes for success again in 2022.
“Challenging schedule again,” Pittman said. “I think this is the third year in a row, only been here year years, so I know it’s the third year in a row that we’ve been awarded the toughest schedule in college football. All 12 of this year’s opponents made post-season play last year. Our crossover games are with South Carolina and Missouri.
“Excited about our non-conference opponents this year. Week one we play the University of Cincinnati. Luke
Fickell is the head coach there. They went to College Football Playoff, AAC conference champions, AFCA Coach of the Year. Week three we play Missouri State. Bobby Petrino, Arkansas coach, had great success at the University of Arkansas. Has been in the FCS Playoffs the last two seasons. BYU, they’re 21-4. They have two top-20 finishes over the last two years, 20 returning starters. We go to BYU. Then Liberty, they have three straight bowl wins under Coach (Hugh) Freeze. We all know about Coach Freeze.”
Pittman was asked if the intention is to scale back some on the non-conference games in the future since the difficulty of the SEC is obvious?
“Well, you know, schedules are scheduled out so many years in advance,” Pittman said. “Nobody knew, maybe they did, but Cincinnati, when they were scheduled, I know they weren’t in the College Football Playoff. BYU has always been really, really a good program. But they’re at the top of their game. Well, not top. I think they played for a national championship a few years back. I may be all messed up on that one.
But being 21-4, having 20 starters coming back, I laugh at home saying they’re trying to fire me. I hope not. I mean, I like it there.”
Pittman also talked about when the Razorbacks started 4-0 last season including wins over Texas and Texas A&M how some said they wouldn’t be able to slip up on teams after that.
“So I think with the realignment, which thank you for not asking me that question, everything is trying to become fair,” Pittman said. “Right now the West, if you’re in the West, it’s a beast. I’m not saying the East isn’t. You have that, then play another couple, three teams in your non-conference schedule that are go-getters, it’s hard, hard to maintain.
“Last year we went 4-0. Somebody said, You’re not going to be able to slip on anybody. We didn’t slip up on Georgia last year either. I think they knew we was coming in there. I don’t know. One point I’m hoping it will ease up a little bit. But right now it hasn’t.”
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USPS Celebrates James Webb Space Telescope Published: Jul. 26, 2022 at 10:00 AM CDT | Updated: 2 hours ago
Device Seeks to Answer Age-Old Questions As It Reveals New Cosmic Mysteries
WASHINGTON , July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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What:
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sensitive ever launched, can peer to the limits of the known universe.
The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate this remarkable device with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope Forever stamp.
Art director Derry Noyes was the designer for the stamp, using existing art by James Vaughan and an image provided by NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute.
The first-day-of-issue event is free and open to the public. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtag #WebbTelescopeStamp .
Who:
Anton Hajjar, vice chairman, U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors
When:
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET
Where:
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002-4945
RSVP:
Dedication ceremony attendees are encouraged to RSVP at: usps.com/ webbtelescope .
Background:
The U.S. Postal Service celebrates NASA's remarkable James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex telescope ever deployed in space — capable of peering directly into the early cosmos and studying every phase of cosmic history.
Its gold-coated mirror segments form a 21-foot-wide lens that captures faint infrared rays from billions of light-years away that represent the universe's first accessible starlight. Revealed is the universe in its infancy, including galaxy formation. The Webb Telescope can also analyze exoplanets for potentially life-supporting conditions and provide unprecedentedly high-resolution views of our own solar system.
The heat-sensitive telescope must operate in extreme cold. From its orbit of the sun about a million miles from Earth, it is constantly positioned above the planet's night side, orienting its optics and instruments in perpetual shade from the sun and Earth behind its tennis-court-size solar shield.
Launched on Christmas Day 2021, the telescope represents multinational cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies.
During the telescope's expected five- to 10-year mission, scientists anticipate answers to age-old questions — plus introductions to new cosmic mysteries.
The image on the stamp is an artist's digitally created depiction of the telescope against a dazzling starscape. The selvage image of a star and distant space was taken by the telescope early in its mission, brilliantly confirming the perfect alignment of the telescope's 18 mirror segments.
The James Webb Space Telescope stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp in panes of 20. This Forever stamp is always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
Preorders for the James Webb Space Telescope Forever stamp can be made online at usps.com/stamps beginning August 8 .
Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/ shopstamps , by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic or at Post Office locations nationwide.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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After Celebrating 102 Years of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood, and Finer Womanhood, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. Says Goodbye to the City of Brotherly Love
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., one of the country's largest women's service organizations, ended their 2022 Grand Boulè on Sunday, July 24, 2022 after a week of sorority business meetings, service-oriented projects, and celebratory moments.
Valerie Hollingsworth Baker, the sorority's 25th "Centennial" International President, focused this Grand Boulè on honoring the legacy of the sorority's founders through the theme, "Honoring Our Founders, Continuing Their Legacy, The Dream Lives On!"
"It was an absolute honor to celebrate our 2022 Grand Boulè in Philadelphia this year," said Hollingsworth Baker. "Over the week-long period, our sorority brought over 6,000 members to the city, provided over $640,000 in donations, and left behind an economic impact of over $6.5 million. With scholarship being a principle I hold in high regard, I am especially happy that Zeta Phi Beta provided a $125,000 scholarship to a deserving high school student as she embarks on a college education."
During the 7-day Grand Boulè, the agenda included:
- A Zeta National Educational Foundation (Z-NEF) sponsored "Z-NEF Scholars for Dollars" event that comprised of a Battle of the DJs and Step Show
- The 2022 Grand Boulè Opening Ceremony where the Founder Myrtle Tyler Faithful $125,000 scholarship was awarded to Skyler Evans, a high school senior from Baton Rouge; Zeta members Opal Lee, "the Grandmother of Juneteenth," and Elisabeth Omilami, actress and CEO of Hosea Helps, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization, received recognition as P.E.A.R.L.S. Society honorees
- The Macy's x Kasper Fashion Show event
- Honorary member induction of Dawnn Lewis, actress, singer and philanthropist into Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
- A gala awards dinner where the work of local chapters across the sorority were honored and celebrated. Donations were provided to St. Jude Children Research Hospital, Micah's Voice, and Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia
- A concert by the legendary Mary J. Blige and a closing inspirational breakfast with performances by gospel artists Jekalyn Carr and Hezekiah Walker
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded in 1920 on the campus of Howard University, and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Zeta has initiated a diverse membership of more than 125,000 college-educated women with more than 850 chapters in North America, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East.
For more information about Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. visit www.zphib1920.org.
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Baked custard is a classic and comforting dessert that is perfectly suited for summertime. With a silky, chilled filling and a crisp, toothsome crumb base, egg custard is an elegant but deceptively simple recipe.
That’s right: Even though baked custard might sound like a fancy dish straight out of “Bridgerton” or “Downton Abbey,” the dish (also known as custard tarts) can easily be made even by novice chefs at home.
Best of all, baked custards only require a few simple ingredients. To make a classic egg custard, you only need eggs, butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, and nutmeg. You will also need milk, but you have options here. For example, this recipe for Homemade Baked Egg Custard from Allrecipes calls for regular milk, but you can also use sweetened condensed milk (as The Southern Lady Cooks does) or evaporated milk (as Nestle recommends for its recipe).
To make the baked egg custard from Marcea on Allrecipes, you first need to make your dough. Using butter, sugar, flour, and an egg, mix your pastry dough and then roll it out onto your work surface. You can roll the pastry to the size of a standard 9-inch pie dish or you can make individual egg custards in oven-safe ramekins. (If you are baking the latter, roll out your dough and then use a jam jar or a circle-shaped cookie cutter to expertly cut your dough to the size of your baking ramekins).
To prevent your custard bottom from getting soggy, many baking experts advise that you first “blind blake” your crust. This means you bake your crust for 15-20 minutes before putting your filling in. This helps the crust firm up and not get overly soggy when you put your wet ingredients inside of the pie. For mini pies, reduce the time to 10-12 minutes.
Next, add in your egg custard filling and bake for about 45 minutes, until the egg custard is firm and only ever-so-slightly jiggly. Then, pop in the fridge and let your egg custard cool for at least an hour.
Find the full instructions for homemade baked egg custard from Allrecipes here.
You can serve your egg custard warm or chilled. Once you perfect your egg custard technique, try other variations like Baked Lemon Custard from the North Carolina Egg Association or Maple Custard from Martha Stewart.
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Volkswagen starts U.S. electric vehicle assembly in Tennessee
Volkswagen starts U.S. electric vehicle assembly in Tennessee
Volkswagen began production of its first electric vehicle assembled in the United States at a Tennessee plant Tuesday.
In a news release, the German automaker said it plans to ramp up production in Chattanooga of the ID.4 electric compact SUV to 7,000 cars per month in the fourth quarter of this year, with a goal of increasing that rate next year.
The kickoff comes after Volkswagen announced an $800 million investment in the company's manufacturing of electric vehicles in North America at the Chattanooga plant in 2019, including facilities for vehicle and battery pack assembly. The company says it is hiring more than 1,000 production team workers there through the end of the year. Volkswagen Chattanooga currently employs more than 4,000 people.
The start of production comes as America's automakers take aim with electric vehicles at the largest segment of the U.S. market: modest-sized SUVs, representing about 20% of new-vehicle sales.
Volkswagen says the ID.4 is its most popular electric vehicle, with more than 190,000 delivered to customers around the world since last year.
The company says customers can expect ID.4s to be delivered as early as October. The starting manufacturer's suggested retail price price is about $41,000.
The Chattanooga factory is now the sixth site globally to produce electric vehicles for Volkswagen. Volkswagen's goal is for 55% of U.S. sales to be fully electric by 2030.
Initially, Volkswagen will offer the American-built vehicles in either rear wheel drive or all wheel drive with a 82-kilowatt-hour battery. A lower-priced version with a 62-kilowatt-hour battery and rear-wheel drive will go into production later this year.
Volkswagen says it will mainly rely on North American parts for the vehicle, including materials and components assembled in 11 U.S. states. SK Innovation in Georgia will supply the batteries.
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Which Bosch dishwasher is best?
Known for cutting-edge products that range from automotive components to consumer goods, Bosch is a trusted brand that uses the latest technology. It started making dishwashers in 1964, before they were common household appliances, and continues to bring these quality products to the public.
Bosch produces a range of dishwashers with a variety of features. The 300 Series Front Control Tall Tub Dishwasher is an excellent choice because it’s large, versatile and stylish.
What to know before you buy a Bosch dishwasher
Front control vs. top control
There are two types of dishwashers: front control and top control.
- Front control: This means the control panel is on the front. It’s visible and bigger than on top control dishwashers, making it easier to access and use. This style makes for a classic look.
- Top control: This means the control panel is on the top of the door and not visible when the door is closed. This style gives the dishwasher a sleek, minimal look and makes it easy to clean.
Noise level
All Bosch dishwashers are extremely quiet and operate with low decibel levels. This is perfect if you live in a small household or run the dishwasher overnight and don’t want the noise to keep you awake.
Since you can’t always hear when the cycle has finished, Bosch created the InfoLight, which shines on the floor to let you know when it’s done.
Drying technology
What sets Bosch dishwashers apart are their three energy-efficient drying technologies.
- PureDry: This closed drying system doesn’t rely on outside air or an exposed heating system. The sanitizing feature ends the cycle with an extra-hot wash to kill bacteria and whisk away moisture while dishes dry.
- AutoAir: This method opens the door at the end of the cycle, letting air circulate and uses natural condensation to dry the dishes. It’s an energy-efficient solution, perfect for those who run the dishwasher overnight.
- CrystalDry: An ideal system for plastics, this technology uses natural minerals to collect moisture and turn it into heat circulated throughout the tub.
What to look for in a quality Bosch dishwasher
Third rack
Some Bosch dishwashers offer a third rack, designed for flatware, cereal bowls, large utensils and measuring cups that don’t fit neatly in the main racks. If you want even more space, dishwasher baskets can be purchased separately.
Energy Star certified
All Bosch dishwashers are Energy Star certified. A Bosch dishwasher gets your dishes clean while using less water and energy. It’s also better for the environment and saves you money on your electric bill.
Half-load setting
If you don’t want to leave dirty dishes sitting in the dishwasher but the load is too small to run a normal cycle, the half-load setting lets you run a cycle using less water, energy and detergent, so you can clean fewer dishes when necessary.
Home Connect
This technology makes your life easier by letting you control your dishwasher settings from an app on your smartphone. You can also get alerts when the cycle is done and monitor diagnostics.
How much you can expect to spend on a Bosch dishwasher
Bosch dishwashers range from $600-$2,200 depending on their size, features and technology.
Bosch Dishwasher FAQ
How do I clean the exterior of my Bosch dishwasher?
A. To clean the stainless-steel portions of the dishwasher, soak a soft cloth in warm, soapy water and wipe along the steel grain. Avoid harsh or chlorine-based cleaners. To clean the seal along the door, use a damp cloth without soap.
What warranties come with a Bosch dishwasher?
A. It comes with a one-year limited warranty for the entire appliance, including parts and labor. From years two to five, the warranty is limited to the racks and the microprocessor. There is a limited lifetime warranty for the inner tube lining. For more details, you can visit the manufacturer’s website.
What’s the best Bosch dishwasher to buy?
Top Bosch dishwasher
300 Series Front Control Tall Tub Dishwasher
What you need to know: This attractive stainless-steel dishwasher has maximum cleaning power, yet remains quiet.
What you’ll love: Loaded with space and amenities, this three-rack dishwasher has five wash cycles, including the sanitizing feature, which reduces 99.9% of bacteria with its ultra-hot cycle. The half-cycle is ideal for smaller loads while reducing time and water consumption.
What you should consider: The front control panel is smaller than those of other dishwashers and has been difficult for some customers to read.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top Bosch dishwasher for the price
100 Series Anti-Fingerprint Stainless Dishwasher
What you need to know: With 14 place settings and high-tech features, this dishwasher still packs a powerful cleaning punch.
What you’ll love: It features six wash cycles and remains whisper-quiet when in use. The PrecisionWash technology with intelligent sensors tracks the cleaning cycle, while the spray arms can target all items inside.
What you should consider: This dishwasher is on the smaller side, so if you have a large household, you may need to size up.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
800 Series Stainless Steel Top Control Tall Tub Dishwasher
What you need to know: This top-of-line dishwasher comes fitted with the latest technology to thoroughly clean and dry all dishes, even plastics.
What you’ll love: The three adjustable racks that can be moved into nine positions make this dishwasher versatile and easy to load while leaving room for oversized pots and pans. The updated detergent trays are connected to their own spray jet to provide a deeper clean and prevent detergent buildup.
What you should consider: The stainless steel on this dishwasher tends to show fingerprints more than others.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — As one of two Republican members of Congress from Washington to have voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler faces one of her toughest primaries since she was first elected to represent the southwest region of the state in 2010.
The number of Republicans in the race — including a former Green Beret endorsed by Trump — and the anger that the six-term congresswoman sparked among some in her party with her impeachment vote means Herrera Beutler could face a scenario that seemed unfathomable in her previous re-election bids: not making it through the primary.
“For me and my team and the way we look at it, it’s another tough election,” Herrera Beutler told The Associated Press. “I’m not changing course. I’m still the same Republican I’ve always been.”
Under Washington’s primary system, the top two vote getters in each race Aug. 2 advance to the November election, regardless of party. Washington is a vote by mail state, and voters don’t have to declare a party affiliation.
Rep. Dan Newhouse, a four-term congressman in the 4th Congressional District, is the other Washington state member of Congress who has drawn Republican challengers, including one endorsed by Trump, due to his vote.
Perhaps the best known outside candidate in Newhouse’s intraparty feud is Loren Culp, a former small town police chief who lost the 2020 governor’s race to Democrat Jay Inslee but refused to concede. He won Trump’s endorsement in February, but has lagged other candidates in reported fundraising figures.
Due to the nature of the top-two primary, the vote in the 3rd Congressional District could cut in a variety of ways, including the incumbent advancing to the general election against a fellow Republican or against a Democratic challenger — in previous elections Democrats have always captured enough of the primary vote to advance to November. But Herrera Beutler could also be edged out.
It all comes down who turns out to vote and how much power the Trump endorsement holds, said Mark Stephan, an associate professor of political science at Washington State University-Vancouver.
“The 3rd District taps into that national story of, where is the Republican Party headed,” he said. “How much continued influence does President Trump have over the party?”
Trump had vowed revenge against the 10 House Republicans who crossed party lines to impeach him but has had mixed results in the primaries to date.
Rep. Tom Rice, a five-term congressman, was ousted by a Trump-endorsed state lawmaker in last month’s South Carolina primary. Rep. David Valadao of California advanced from that state’s top two primary to advance to the general election with a Democratic state lawmaker, surviving a challenge from a fellow Republican who faulted the congressman for his impeachment vote.
The impeachment vote came in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob that supported the president’s efforts to have the 2020 election overturned, driven by false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Hererra Beutler says she has no regrets about her impeachment vote — and stands by her comments made both on the floor and on Twitterafterward — including her revelation that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told her he spoke with Trump as rioters were storming the Capitol, and that according to McCarthy the president said: ”‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.’”
But she said her focus since then has been on issues related to the district, like prescription drug prices and protecting salmon populations.
“I would hope anybody, whether they agree with me on the vote or not, would understand that you want a representative who feels their obligation is to their oath, which is an obligation to the Constitution,” she said.
Trump has endorsed Joe Kent, a regular on conservative cable shows who echoes the former president’s grievances about the 2020 election outcome.
Heidi St. John, a Christian author and home-school advocate who shares those views, rescinded a pledge to drop out of the race and support whomever Trump endorsed and has attacked Kent, saying she’s the only true conservative in the race.
The main Democrat in the race, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, has secured the support of key Democrats in the region.
Kent says the impeachment vote is what led him to get into elected politics. He had already established a relationship with the former president, whom he first met at Dover Air Force Base days after his wife, Navy cryptologist Shannon Kent, was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria during a mission to fight the Islamic State in 2019. Kent, who moved to Portland with his two young sons to be closer to family, ultimately moved across the border to Washington state the following year.
Kent said he’s part of the “America First” movement, and said that when he talks to voters, he contrasts himself against not just Democrats, but traditional Republicans as well. Kent said if Republicans win the majority in Congress, he would push for the impeachment of President Joe Biden and an investigation into the 2020 election.
“We are in the midst of the Republican civil war and America First is going to win that civil war and we are going to take over the Republican party,” he said.
Trump garnered about 38% of the statewide vote in 2020 but won the 3rd District with 50.6%. She’s fallen under 50% in crowded primaries before, most recently in 2018, but has never been at serious risk of not clearing the primary in her previous re-election bids.
St. John said some of his public stances and the fact he was registered as a Democrat and voted for Bernie Sanders in Oregon’s 2020 presidential primary – which Kent said he did to help Trump since he felt Sanders would be a weaker candidate against Trump than Biden – is among the reasons why she’s decided to stay in the race.
“I’m more concerned about electing a good representative than this narrative about splitting the vote,” she said. St. John — who is trailing in fundraising behind Herrera Beutler and Kent — is benefiting in more than $1.3 million in outside spending from a newly created political action committee called Conservatives For A Stronger America.
For Gluesenkamp Perez, she sees the Republican infighting as an opportunity for Democrats who haven’t held this seat since Herrera Beutler first won it 12 years ago.
“I’m the only candidate who understands what it’s like to navigate America as a small business owner working in the trades, and that’s what this district looks like,” said Gluesenkamp Perez, who own an auto shop with her husband across the border in Portland.
Ballots were mailed to the state’s nearly 4.8 million registered voters last week, including the more than 499,000 in the 3rd Congressional District, whose borders changed recently under redistricting. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/house-incumbent-targeted-by-trump-faces-tough-primary-in-wa/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-07-26T16:36:01Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/house-incumbent-targeted-by-trump-faces-tough-primary-in-wa/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian soccer fan who came to the U.S. as a political refugee is creating a training camp for young people in New Mexico with former players from Colombia as the instructors.
David Certain, who owns a coffee company, hopes one day to expand the program in the United States and also take it back to his home country.
Former Philadelphia Union player Carlos Valdés and ex-Colombia midfielder Víctor Pacheco are among those teaching the skills and disciplines of soccer to young people in Albuquerque this week, along with former midfielder Jorge Bolaño and ex-goalkeeper Julián Viafara.
Certain wants to create a physical but also emotional and mental training camp for young people who like to play soccer.
“You see a lot of talent that looks very robotic. We want to focus a lot on the emotional part, so that they can control their emotions a little more and know that, when there are emotions, it is normal”, the 42-year-old Colombian said. “It is totally normal to feel failure when the goal is not scored, but how do you manage the moment after that? After that, a lot of kids get stuck.”
The daily camp, which is the first project of the new Alianza Sports, ends Friday in Albuquerque. New Mexico United forward Devon Sandoval will also be involved.
Certain says he is working with companies to provide scholarships for the camp. Sessions are for 10-14-year-olds and the 15-20 age group.
Certain and his family fled Cali, Colombia, in 1999 after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) tried to kidnap him when he was 19.
Certain had an aunt in New Mexico and, after living in Miami for a while, the family moved to Albuquerque. Certain’s 11-year-old son, who plays soccer, inspired him to create the program.
During work trips to Colombia, Certain was able to contact the former players, some of whom already teach soccer and have helped create the program.
“We are very excited, really, we are very happy with everything that has been happening,” Valdés said from Colombia during a telephone interview. “It has not been an easy job, but I know that everyone who is part of it, and those who will go through this experience, will love it.”
Valdés hopes that young people learn not only soccer techniques but also values such as discipline, respect, tolerance and teamwork.
“Getting involved in something in which everyone must go in the same direction helps develop skills that make you a better person,” Valdés said.
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‘Look back into history to know the future’
The country’s freedom came with the sacrifice of our elders, says Minister Halappa Achar
“The country’s freedom came with the sacrifice made by our elders and martyrdom of our people and to know our future, we need to look back into history,” Minister for Mines and Geology and Dharwad in-charge Halappa Achar has said.
He was inaugurating a three-day photography exhibition and special awareness campaign on Amrit Mahotsav of India’s Independence and Central government schemes at Karnatak College in Dharwad on Monday.
Mr. Achar said that along with textbooks, learning history should be the responsibility of everyone. One should know what hardships the elders underwent to get freedom for the country, he said.
“Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is a series of events organised to create awareness, honour and celebrate India’s independence and commemorate the sacrifice of freedom fighters. It is dedicated to the people of India who have been instrumental in bringing India thus far in its evolutionary journey,” he said.
Presiding over the programme, Member of Legislative Assembly Arvind Bellad asked the younger generation to remember and honour the unsung heroes of the Indian freedom movement.
Member of Legislative Assembly Amrut Desai, Deputy Commissioner Gurudutta Hegde, Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Suresh Itnal, Central Communication Bureau officer Shruti S.T. and others were present.
The photo exhibition showcases the glorious history of freedom milestones and the freedom movement, while remembering the brave hearts and heroes and all prominent leaders and revolutionaries whose patriotism and sacrifices have made freedom a reality.
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Serves 6
Many vegan substitutes are time consuming and require expensive, specialty ingredients. Vegan mayonnaise is the exception. It's made with common pantry staples in the same amount of time it would take to make any mayo from scratch. The secret ingredient is the liquid in a can of chickpeas, often drained and discarded. Called aquafaba, canned chickpea liquid is prized in plant-based diets. Starchy aquafaba whips up beautifully and can be used as an egg substitute in both sweet and savory dishes. Other bean liquids yield similar results, but none are as fluffy and consistent as chickpeas. Each can of chickpeas will yield at least enough for a double batch of mayonnaise (you need 1/4 cup for this recipe). Store the remaining in the fridge for a week for a future recipe or freeze in ice cube trays. Refrigerate any mayonnaise that you don't use in this potato salad for about five days. To make vegan mayonnaise, drain the chickpeas, keeping both the liquid and the beans. Measure out 1/4 cup liquid with 2 tablespoons whole chickpeas; blending a few whole chickpeas into the base will add stability to the mayo. Save the rest of the chickpeas for the potato salad. Then, in a blender or food processor, pulse the chickpea liquid, whole chickpeas, mustard, lemon juice, a pinch of sugar, and salt until frothy and homogenous. With the motor running, slowly drizzle the oil through the feed tube until the mixture is thick and fluffy, slightly looser than store-bought mayo. Some vegan mayo experts say that you get the thickest product with sunflower oil, but if you don't want to purchase a specialty oil for one recipe, canola works well. This salad calls for a second can of chickpeas to add to the bowl. After that, it's no different from any other potato salad. Both vegan and omnivore guests will be delighted (and we think the omnivores won't notice they're eating vegan mayo).
MAYONNAISE
1. Set a strainer over a bowl. Drain the chickpeas into the strainer, reserving the liquid (aquafaba) and the chickpeas. Measure out 1/4 cup of liquid; save the rest for another recipe. Measure 2 tablespoons whole chickpeas; save the remaining chickpeas for the salad.
2. In a small blender or food processor, combine the 1/4 cup chickpea liquid, 2 tablespoons whole chickpeas, mustard, lemon juice, sugar, and a pinch of salt. Pulse until slightly frothy and homogenous.
3. With the motor running, remove the insert in the cap. Slowly stream in the canola oil. Continue blending until the mixture is thick. It will not be as thick as store-bought mayonnaise.
SALAD
1. Place the potatoes in a large saucepan and add cold water to cover with a generous pinch of salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Let the water bubble gently for 5 minutes, or until a paring knife easily pierces the potatoes. With a slotted spoon, transfer the potatoes to a large bowl.
2. Add both cans of chickpeas to the potatoes with the scallions, celery, vinegar, thyme, and a generous pinch each of salt and pepper. Use a rubber spatula to toss gently. Cool to room temperature.
3. Add the parsley and mayonnaise. Toss gently again. Taste for seasoning and add more salt and pepper, if you like.
Karoline Boehm Goodnick
Serves 6
Many vegan substitutes are time consuming and require expensive, specialty ingredients. Vegan mayonnaise is the exception. It's made with common pantry staples in the same amount of time it would take to make any mayo from scratch. The secret ingredient is the liquid in a can of chickpeas, often drained and discarded. Called aquafaba, canned chickpea liquid is prized in plant-based diets. Starchy aquafaba whips up beautifully and can be used as an egg substitute in both sweet and savory dishes. Other bean liquids yield similar results, but none are as fluffy and consistent as chickpeas. Each can of chickpeas will yield at least enough for a double batch of mayonnaise (you need 1/4 cup for this recipe). Store the remaining in the fridge for a week for a future recipe or freeze in ice cube trays. Refrigerate any mayonnaise that you don't use in this potato salad for about five days. To make vegan mayonnaise, drain the chickpeas, keeping both the liquid and the beans. Measure out 1/4 cup liquid with 2 tablespoons whole chickpeas; blending a few whole chickpeas into the base will add stability to the mayo. Save the rest of the chickpeas for the potato salad. Then, in a blender or food processor, pulse the chickpea liquid, whole chickpeas, mustard, lemon juice, a pinch of sugar, and salt until frothy and homogenous. With the motor running, slowly drizzle the oil through the feed tube until the mixture is thick and fluffy, slightly looser than store-bought mayo. Some vegan mayo experts say that you get the thickest product with sunflower oil, but if you don't want to purchase a specialty oil for one recipe, canola works well. This salad calls for a second can of chickpeas to add to the bowl. After that, it's no different from any other potato salad. Both vegan and omnivore guests will be delighted (and we think the omnivores won't notice they're eating vegan mayo).
MAYONNAISE
1. Set a strainer over a bowl. Drain the chickpeas into the strainer, reserving the liquid (aquafaba) and the chickpeas. Measure out 1/4 cup of liquid; save the rest for another recipe. Measure 2 tablespoons whole chickpeas; save the remaining chickpeas for the salad.
2. In a small blender or food processor, combine the 1/4 cup chickpea liquid, 2 tablespoons whole chickpeas, mustard, lemon juice, sugar, and a pinch of salt. Pulse until slightly frothy and homogenous.
3. With the motor running, remove the insert in the cap. Slowly stream in the canola oil. Continue blending until the mixture is thick. It will not be as thick as store-bought mayonnaise.
SALAD
1. Place the potatoes in a large saucepan and add cold water to cover with a generous pinch of salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Let the water bubble gently for 5 minutes, or until a paring knife easily pierces the potatoes. With a slotted spoon, transfer the potatoes to a large bowl.
2. Add both cans of chickpeas to the potatoes with the scallions, celery, vinegar, thyme, and a generous pinch each of salt and pepper. Use a rubber spatula to toss gently. Cool to room temperature.
3. Add the parsley and mayonnaise. Toss gently again. Taste for seasoning and add more salt and pepper, if you like. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/26/lifestyle/recipe-make-your-own-vegan-mayonnaise-super-easy-this-potato-chickpea-salad/ | 2022-07-26T16:45:01Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/26/lifestyle/recipe-make-your-own-vegan-mayonnaise-super-easy-this-potato-chickpea-salad/ | false |
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was nationally ranked in nine of 14 specialties and top 10 in two. MossRehab (Einstein Healthcare Network) was nationally ranked in the top 10 in the nation for Rehabilitation.
PHILADELPHIA, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jefferson Health hospitals and specialties are ranked among the best in the United States in the annual U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Hospitals rankings. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was recognized as second in the nation for Ophthalmology (Wills Eye Hospital) and seventh in Orthopedics (Rothman Orthopaedics and Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health.) MossRehab, now a part of Jefferson Health, was ranked ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
Locally, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. remains 2nd in the Philadelphia metro area and 3rd in Pennsylvania. Abington Hospital ranked 10th in the Philadelphia region and 17th in Pennsylvania. Jefferson Northeast ranked 17th in the Philadelphia metro area, while Jefferson New Jersey ranked 13th in New Jersey and 15th in the Philadelphia region.
"I am very proud that Jefferson Health hospitals have again earned impressive rankings in numerous U.S. News & World Report categories. This is the result of the hard work of our exceptional doctors, nurses, and all the staff who are improving our patients' lives," said Bruce Meyer, MD, MBA, President of Jefferson Health and SEVP, Thomas Jefferson University.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the following Thomas Jefferson University Hospital specialties among the nation's best:
- Ophthalmology (2nd) – Wills Eye Hospital
- Orthopedics (7th) – Rothman Orthopaedics at Jefferson Health and The Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health
- Gastroenterology and GI Surgery (25th)
- Urology (36th)
- Cancer (41st) – Jefferson Health - Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Ear, Nose & Throat (42nd)
- Neurology & Neurosurgery (43rd)
- Diabetes & Endocrinology (44th)
- Pulmonology (47th)
Cardiology & Heart Surgery and Geriatrics were also mentioned as high performers in the specialties rankings. In addition to specialty rankings, U.S. News & World Report rates hospitals for procedures and conditions. Below are some highlights of the 2022-2023 ranking:
- Nationally ranked in the top 10, ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
- High performing in Diabetes & Endocrinology
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Colon Cancer Surgery, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Hip Fracture and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia
- High performing in Urology
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Kidney Failure and Stroke
Einstein Medical Center Montgomery
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Hip Fracture, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
About Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, is reimagining health care in the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. Jefferson's dedicated team of doctors, nurses, health professionals and staff provides a range of primary to highly-specialized care through 18 hospitals (ten are Magnet®-designated by the ANCC for nursing excellence), more than 50 outpatient and urgent care locations, the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, MossRehab, Magee Rehabilitation and the JeffConnect® telemedicine program. Jefferson Health is also home to Health Partners Plan, a not-for-profit managed healthcare organization serving more than 290,000 members in Southeastern Pennsylvania with a broad range of health coverage options through Health Partners Medicare, Health Partners (Medicaid) and KidzPartners (Children's Health Insurance Program). Jefferson Health's mission is to improve the lives of patients in the communities it is privileged to serve through safe, effective, equitable and compassionate care.
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With a new coach in Matt Eberflus and hopes for continued development of second-year quarterback Justin Fields, the Chicago Bears open training camp this week featuring new enticements aimed at getting more fans to Halas Hall.
On Thursday, the Bears are set to open up the first of 11 scheduled public training camp sessions at their Lake Forest headquarters. It will be the third consecutive year of training camp at Halas Hall, and the second one open to fans as the 2020 camp was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Scott Hagel, the Bears senior vice president for marketing and communications, said the team hopes to see an increase in attendance this year. Pioneer Press reported in Sept. that approximately 14,000 fans watched 18 sessions in 2021, when 14 were completely open to the public. Four others were limited to season ticket holders, military members and community groups.
“We’ve learned a lot the first two years,” he said. “I think we have made some improvements to make the experience better.”
With an easing of safety mitigations that were in place at the 2021 camp, fans will be able to seek autographs from players and coaches this year after practice.
“It brings energy to both sides,” Hagel said.
Also on tap will be a wider variety of food trucks with different items to eat and drink, and there will be an entertainment zone with video games, where fans can try their version of radio play-by-play and take some virtual reality tours, along with other offerings.
In another switch, there will be additional standing room capacity in the bleachers at the multiple fields used for the practice sessions.
“It was clear that fans like to be close to the action and standing, so we wanted to make sure those opportunities were increased this year,” Hagel said.
Fans should be prepared to wear hats and apply sunscreen as they sit on the potentially hot summer days, he said. While there will be some shaded areas, they will not be plentiful.
“Shade will still be at a premium when people come on campus,” Hagel acknowledged.
The parking situation will remain the same as it was last year, with a rotating series of shuttle buses going back and forth from Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills, roughly 4.5 miles to the west, with fan parking not allowed at Conway Park.
“The shuttle system made for an easy entry process because of how it spaced out fans arriving on campus. We learned a lot from that,” Hagel said.
With all the open practices scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and the facility opening at 9 a.m., the first buses will leave Hawthorn at 8:30 a.m., with last ones departing the mall at 10:30 a.m., according to Hagel.
With the practices anticipated to run between 90 minutes to two hours, the last buses will leave Halas Hall between 2:00 and 2:30 p.m., Hagel said.
To get into camp, fans need to go to chicagobears.com/camp, where they can select up to four mobile tickets for the open sessions as the team moved away from last year’s lottery system.
As of Monday, all the dates were listed as sold out, but Hagel said the team plans to make more tickets — which are free — available after the first week of camp.
“Fans that might not have been able to get a ticket to this point, we would encourage them to continue checking the websites if additional tickets have been released,” he noted.
Serving as title sponsor for this year’s camp will be The Illinois Office of Tourism (IOT), resuming a role it last had in 2019 when training camp was at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais.
The tourism office wants to lure people to come back and visit other parts of the state.
“According to data provided by the Chicago Bears, nearly 20% of fans who attended training camp last year traveled 60 miles or more, and 18% of fans came from outside Illinois, as far away as Alaska, Hawaii and Canada,” noted a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the IOT.
Promotional materials will be available for the state, Lake County and the city of Lake Forest, which sees the camps as a badge of honor for the city.
“There continues to be excitement and pride that Lake Forest gets to host training camp,” community development director Catherine Czerniak said. “Last year went very smoothly. There were no surprises, no hiccups. So we are building on that.”
However, Czerniak said she does not anticipate fans leaving practice and then taking in sites and businesses in the city.
“We are certainly going to make information about Lake Forest available and encourage people to come back,” she said. “It is a great way to introduce people to Lake Forest. What we did hear (last year) was that after spending hours in the hot sun, most people are probably not inclined to stay around and spend much time in Lake Forest and come back from out west from the parking (site).”
Hagel believes there is a unique perspective provided by the practice sessions as he hopes fans make the trip.
“Training camp is one of the neatest, most intimate sports experiences a fan can have,” he said. “Because there are no other opportunities to get as close, or to see a process of getting ready for a season, like this in any other sport.”
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The Biden administration may scrap plans to let more younger adults get second COVID-19 boosters this summer. Instead, officials are trying to speed up availability of the next generation of boosters in the fall, NPR has learned.
The new strategy is aimed at trying to balance protecting people this summer with keeping people safe next winter, when the country will probably get hit by yet another surge.
But the possible shift is being met with mixed reactions. The Food and Drug Administration could make a final decision by the end of the week.
The dilemma facing the FDA is that the immunity many people have gotten from getting vaccinated or infected has been wearing off. At the same time, the most contagious version of the virus to emerge yet — the omicron subvariant BA.5 — is making people even more vulnerable.
So as COVID is starting to become more serious than a cold or flu again, most people younger than age 50 aren't eligible for fourth shots — second boosters — to protect themselves. In response, the FDA was considering opening up eligibility for second boosters for all adults.
But letting more people get boosted with the original vaccine now could interfere with plans to boost them with updated, hopefully more protective vaccines in the fall to blunt the toll of the winter surge.
That's why the administration is considering shifting the focus to the next generation of boosters. Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech were already scrambling to comply with the FDA's request to get new, hopefully more powerful "bivalent" boosters ready by October or November that target both the original strain of the virus and omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
The FDA is trying to get the companies to make those shots available even sooner — possibly as soon as September, according to a federal official familiar with the situation who is not authorized to talk about it publicly. The possible shift was first reported by The Washington Post.
If the bivalent boosters can be accelerated, the FDA would skip opening up fourth shots of the original vaccines this summer and just wait for the new double-barreled omicron vaccines in the fall.
The possible shift is provoking mixed reactions.
Some think it is the smartest strategy. Three shots are still protecting most younger, otherwise healthy people against serious illness, they say. And boosting people again now, and then so soon again in the fall, could confuse people, potentially eroding their willingness to get any boosters, according to some experts.
"I think this will increase trust," Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in an email to NPR. "We can't give a booster now and then again in 1.5 months or two months – that will decrease trust."
And giving two shots too close together could actually backfire from a health perspective, according to some experts.
"I think this is the right call," Dr. Celine Gounder, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said during an interview with NPR. "If you get a booster now with the original formulation of the vaccine, this may in fact be counter-productive. It may prevent the second booster dose given this fall from taking and from you developing an immune response to that booster."
But others aren't so sure. They say the new vaccines may not be significantly better.
"People should not regard them as some sort of magic bullet that gives them super-strong protection," says Dr. John Moore, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine. "These are not going to be magic bullet game-changers because they're not that much better than the already available vaccine boosters."
It's also unclear whether the new boosters can be ready by September. And who knows if BA.5 will even been the main virus by the fall and winter?
"I don't see the benefit waiting for a BA.5-specific booster since BA.5 may be in the rearview mirror and well past us by the time that's available," says Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine.
People younger than 50 should at least have the option to protect themselves now, especially with BA.5 already surging, some say.
"You're talking about you know literally hundreds of millions of people who are at a higher risk than they need to be for months," says Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
"And that will mean potentially millions of preventable infections, certainly thousands of preventable hospitalizations, and probably hundreds of preventable deaths."
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‘LIC stock performance must be gauged over medium term’
NEW DELHI July 26, 2022 21:59 ISTSeveral factors affect trading price of an entity: FinMin
The LIC Board and management ‘have been continuously engaged’ in improving its performance parameters and the performance of the recently listed insurance behemoth’s shares must be analysed over a longer period, the Finance Ministry told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
“The market capitalisation of a listed entity changes on a continuous basis, based on a small volume of shares traded in the market,” Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad told the Parliament in a written reply to a query from MP Raghav Chadha.
Mr. Chadha had sought to know the reasons why shares of LIC ‘wiped out over ₹1.5 lakh crore of investors’ capital, becoming one of the largest wealth guzzlers of recent times’. Mr. Chadha also asked why LIC shares were ‘continuously crashing’ in the market and the steps taken by Government to ensure that they ‘do not touch new lows every day’.
“The stock market performance of a particular stock needs to be analysed on a medium to long-term basis for a newly listed entity. There are several factors that affect the trading price of an entity such as geo-political factors, global and national macro-economic environment and perceptions of market participants on the prospects of a particular sector and/or the entity,” the minister said.
“The LIC Board and management have been continuously engaged in strengthening and improving the performance parameters, keeping in view the interest of policyholders, shareholders and other stakeholders,” he emphasised.
The government had sold 3.5% of its stake in LIC through an initial public offer this year which fetched about ₹21,000 crore at an issue price of ₹949 a share. Since its listing on May 17, the LIC stock has been trending down and closed at ₹675.50 apiece on Tuesday. | https://www.thehindu.com/business/lic-stock-performance-must-be-gauged-over-medium-term/article65687106.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-26T16:49:42Z | https://www.thehindu.com/business/lic-stock-performance-must-be-gauged-over-medium-term/article65687106.ece/amp/ | true |
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Police have arrested a 29-year-old man they say fired at officers who were responding to a disturbance at a home in suburban Denver on Sunday night.
Police said Monday that the 29-year-old was arrested “for his role shooting at police officers last night.”
Police did not specifically mention the 29-year-old man in their initial statement on the shooting. In it, they said officers were met with gunfire when they responded to the home and shot at the person who was firing at them. They said a 22-year-old man was killed as a result of the incident but have not explained his role, including whether he fired any shots.
A police spokesman, Investigator Scot Allen, said he could not comment on his role because the shooting is under investigation. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2519260/man-arrested-for-allegedly-firing-at-suburban-denver-police.html | 2022-07-26T16:49:43Z | https://www.abqjournal.com/2519260/man-arrested-for-allegedly-firing-at-suburban-denver-police.html | false |
Amazon is raising its Prime fees in Europe, the company told customers on Tuesday, days ahead of its second-quarter earnings report.
Among other places, the price of a monthly Prime membership will tick up in the United Kingdom from 7.99 to 8.99 pounds, while the annual cost will increase from 79 to 95 pounds ($114.26), the company said in the notice sent to customers. In Spain, the monthly price will tick up one euro to 4.99 and the annual cost will go up nearly 14 euros to 49.90 ($50.54).
The new charges will take effect on September 15 for those who sign-up for Prime or renew their membership.
In Germany and France, annual prices will go up 30% and 42.6%, respectively, to nearly 90 and 70 euros. In Italy, it will tick up about 38% to 49.90 euros.
The changes comes as the company aims to bolster its profits amid a slowdown in demand. Consumers who were once homebound during the COVID-19 pandemic have pulled back from online shopping, and the retail sector's online sales growth has slowed. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is also facing increasing costs due to inflation, which is at its highest in 40 years.
In the notice sent to customers in Spain, the company pointed to inflation as one reason for the change. An Amazon spokesperson said the increasing cost of shipping is another factor.
Amazon said it has also increased the number of products it offers for Prime members, including adding more content to stream on Prime Video. Besides free two-day shipping, Prime members get other perks, like access to Amazon’s video and music streaming services.
Earlier this year, Amazon raised the price of a Prime membership in the U.S. from to $139 a year from $119 a year.
Pressure from inflation has also hit Amazon sellers. In April, the company added a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to fees it charges third-party merchants to offset rising costs.
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Highlights: One Million Small Business Jobs Created, Small Disadvantaged Business Goal Achieved a Year Ahead of Schedule
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice for America's 33 million small businesses in President Biden's Cabinet, announced that the Biden-Harris Administration exceeded its small business federal contracting goal, awarding 27.2 percent or $154.2 billion in federal contract dollars to small businesses, an $8 billion increase from the previous fiscal year.
The share of contracts going to small businesses equates to 27.2 percent of total federal contracting funds. Combined with $72 billion in subprime contracting goals, this historic spend has supported over one million jobs in the American economy.
Overall, the federal government exceeded its goal of 23 percent in prime contract dollars and earned an "A" on this year's government-wide Scorecard. Eleven federal agencies earned an "A+" for their agencies' achievements in small business contracting, and an additional ten agencies received an "A" grade. SBA sets contracting goals for each agency and works with government buyers to ensure that they prioritize small businesses.
"The Biden-Harris Administration set historic records in small business contracting, including the highest percentage spend to Small Disadvantaged Businesses and growth for our Service-disabled Veteran Small Businesses, which has advanced competition, strengthened local economies, and supported job growth across the nation," said Administrator Guzman. "By expanding small business opportunities and building equity in federal procurement, we have helped to ensure that federal agencies can fully leverage the extraordinary talent and innovation delivered by our nation's entrepreneurs. Building on the major procurement reforms announced last year; the SBA will continue to further progress in all federal procurement goals so more entrepreneurs can grow their businesses with government contracts, including those presented by President Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act."
"Small businesses know how to get the job done, and they have a key role to play in delivering the generational infrastructure investment underway through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. "We know that it hasn't been easy for small businesses – particularly those owned by women and people of color – to reap the benefits of past infrastructure investments, and we're proud of the actions this Administration is taking to level the playing field, remove barriers to opportunities, and increase access to wealth creation for small businesses across America."
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is honored to receive an A+ for the sixth year in a row – the largest federal agency to have such a record - for the accomplishments of our acquisition professionals in maximizing opportunities for small businesses," said Homeland Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. "Last year alone, DHS obligated $8 billion to American small businesses working to support the homeland security mission. DHS will continue to lead in small business contracting by focusing on small business outreach and engagement as we support diversity, equity, and inclusion."
"At NASA, we work to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all, and a big part of that is how we improve life on Earth through innovation – including technology, medicine, and access to space," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "Our relationships with small businesses help NASA stay on the cutting edge of innovation while allowing us to achieve our small business prime contracting goal to make investments in this country's future. We will continue to work to identify the barriers to access for small businesses and find ways to create more favorable, equitable procurement practices to help establish the future of space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research."
"Small businesses play a vital role in the American economy, and they are essential to the mission of the Department of Defense (DoD), enabling us to develop, deliver and sustain critical capabilities to our Warfighter. DoD achieved our small business prime contracting goal for eight consecutive years. This shows our commitment to maximize opportunities for small businesses, which increases competition and strengthens our national and economic security," said DOD Undersecretary William LaPlante.
The individual agency scorecards were released today, and a detailed explanation of the methodology is available at SBA.gov. Highlights include:
- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) spending reached 11.0 percent for the first time in history. This achieves the President's committed increase to SDB contracting one year ahead of schedule.
- Service-disabled Veteran-owned small business spending reached 4.4 percent out of a three percent goal, which represents $25 billion in procurement and an important $1 billion spending increase over the prior year.
- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small businesses received a historic $14.3 billion in federal contract awards; although the federal government has never met the 3-percent statutory goal, it reached the highest amount awarded to HUBZone businesses in the program's history.
- Women-owned Small Businesses (WOSB) received more than $26 billion for the third straight year, translating to 4.6 percent of the FY21 total eligible dollars. The SBA is actively working with contracting agencies to make future progress toward achieving the WOSB goal. For instance, SBA has increased the number of certified firms from approximately 1,000 to nearly 6,000 and expanded the NAICS codes for which women-owned businesses can receive set-aside awards. Now over 92 percent of federal spending is covered by NAICS codes eligible for WOSB set-aside awards.
- The federal government achieved its small business subcontracting goals, awarding 30.9 percent, or $72 billion, to small-business subcontractors. Women-owned Small Business subcontractors received 5.2% of subcontracts, or $12.2 billion, exceeding the 5 percent WOSB subcontracting goal.
- Despite the overall increase in the dollar value of small-business awards, the absolute number of small businesses receiving prime contracts with the federal government decreased again in FY21. This continues a multi-year trend of decreases in small-business vendors, dating back over a decade. In December, the government issued a policy memorandum intended to reverse the decline in the small-business supplier base, in part by tracking new entrants to ensure that new government contractors are entering and then finding opportunities in the federal marketplace.
*The prime contract goal achievements by dollars and percentages for all categories are as follows:
The SBA continues to collaborate with federal agencies to expand small business opportunities for small business contractors to compete and win federal contracts. The FY2021 Scorecard analyzed the prime contracting and subcontracting performance and other contributing factors, which resulted in an overall "A" grade for the federal government.
The annual Procurement Scorecard is an assessment tool to measure how well federal agencies reach their small business and socio-economic prime contracting and subcontracting goals. The Scorecard also provides accurate and transparent contracting data and reports agency-specific progress. The prime and subcontracting component goals include goals for small businesses, WOSBs, SDBs, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and small businesses located in HUBZones.
Every year, the SBA works with agencies to set their individual prime and subcontracting goals. The SBA ensures that, in the aggregate, the federal government meets or exceeds the government-wide statutory goals mandated in 15(g)(1) of the Small Business Act in each category. While each federal agency ensures the quality of its own contracting data, SBA conducts additional analyses to help identify potential data anomalies and with federal agency procurement staff to provide analysis and tools to facilitate a review of data, implement improvements to procurement systems, and conduct training to improve accuracy.
The U.S. Small Business Administration helps power the American dream of business ownership. As the only go-to resource and voice for small businesses backed by the strength of the federal government, the SBA empowers entrepreneurs and small business owners with the resources and support they need to start, grow or expand their businesses, or recover from a declared disaster. It delivers services through an extensive network of SBA field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations. To learn more, visit www.sba.gov.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
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DONETSK REGION (AP) — All over the Donetsk region, close to the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Nataliia Voronkova turns up at Ukrainian field positions and hospitals wearing high heels. A colleague bought her running shoes, but Voronkova gave them away.
A helmet and a protective vest aren’t part of her uniform, either, as she distributes first-aid kits and other equipment to Ukrainian soldiers and paramedics. She is a civilian, the founder of a medical non-profit, and looking like one is something no one can take from her, even in a combat zone.
“I am myself, and I will never give up my heels for anything,” Voronkova said of the red strappy sandals, beige pumps and other elegant footwear she typically pairs with full skirts and midi dresses as she makes her dangerous rounds.
The former adviser to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry with graduate degrees in banking and finance is a familiar sight to officers and troops in eastern Ukraine. For eight years after Moscow seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, Voronkova dedicated her life to providing tactical medical training and equipment for Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russia separatists.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February has created exponentially more need for her organization, Volunteers Hundred Dobrovolia, and new challenges.
Working on their own, Voronkova and her assistant, Yevhen Veselov, drive a van filled with donated supplies – everything from night vision goggles and battlefield basics like tourniquets and medical staplers to the advances equipment needed for brain surgery — swiftly through checkpoints, irrespective of curfews. Servicemen recognize Voronkova and with one look, let them through.
The smell of her sweet cherry cigarillos fills the air when she gets out of her van to smoke one with her manicured red nails. Although she manages 20 people and lives in Kyiv, Voronkova has been in eastern Ukraine since the Russians focused their attention there in April, and she insists on delivering first-aid kits to the front line herself.
“A woman is like the neck of the head. She moves everything,” she said.
Voronkova grew up loving medicine, but her family did not want her to pursue it. They were bankers and thought she should take the same career path. The separatist conflict that started in 2014 persuaded her to study combat medicine, and she eventually received certification as an instructor.
From 2015 until Russia invaded Ukraine, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry tasked her with finding solutions to problems encountered by army units in the Donbas. Now, she uses her own teaching techniques to help the units protect themselves and their comrades in battle.
“I still remind my mother that when I was in 10th grade, I had a box filled with (over-the-counter) pills, and all my friends at school knew I had medicine for everything,” she said. “Unfortunately, I could not pursue my dream. But today I am implementing it by giving aid.”
Martial law has swelled the ranks of Ukraine’s defenders, but many of the people who have joined the military during the war entering its sixth month do not have combat experience or the supplies they need.
“It feels like 2014. We need first-aid kits and uniforms for the territorial defense. I think it was created with hardly any time to allocate a budget for them. Therefore, they need support from volunteers,” Voronkova says.
As she brought boxes of scalpels, electrocoagulation devices, emergency catheters and other supplies to a hospital in the city of Kurakhove, the roar of outgoing rockets and incoming shelling did not make her flinch.
In her tactical medical class, Voronkova commands a room filled with soldiers, paramedics, and technicians spanning a range of ages. She grabs their attention with her loud voice, humor and experience. Air raid sirens blasted as she taught a class in Dobropillia, but she went on with her lesson in an underground bomb shelter.
The training she provides has become more crucial during the long battle for Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Russian forces have both carried out relentless air strikes and shelling but also engaged in street-by-street fighting as they try to seize control of villages, cities and towns.
Voronkova thinks the opportunity for Ukraine’s government to work out a peaceful solution with Moscow has long passed and “at the moment, the price of victory is our lives.”
During her travels around Donetsk, in Bakhmut, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Toretsk and other places Russia hopes to capture, she meets and gives advice to everyone from high-ranking officers to paramedics. The male officers listen, and the young medics open up to her about their experiences.
Voronkova stands for hours, patiently listening and giving guidance.
“Every evening when I go to sleep, I ask myself, ‘What good thing have I done today?’ she said. “I want people to understand that they come into this world not only to eat, drink, and have fun every day, but to do something good. No day should be wasted.” | https://www.koin.com/news/photos-medic-in-heels-commands-respect-on-front-lines-of-ukraine-war/ | 2022-07-26T16:50:20Z | https://www.koin.com/news/photos-medic-in-heels-commands-respect-on-front-lines-of-ukraine-war/ | true |
Cooksey will drive expansion of the branded content practice for the growth and transformation company
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Butchershop® Global, a growth and transformation company, has hired Christina Cooksey as Vice President, Content, a new leadership role at the company. Cooksey joins Butchershop from Red Antler, where she served as Head of Content and Campaigns for clients like Hinge, Prose and Jellysmack. As VP Content, Cooksey will be responsible for managing strategy, planning, development and production of creative content for client partners breaking in or out of emerging sectors and markets. Cooksey will also work to expand the current content product suite, growing a core pillar of the company's connected model. She will report directly to Chief Creative Officer and Associate Partner, Ben McNutt.
The hire marks a move by Butchershop to build out its digital and content production capabilities to meet the high stakes growth and transformation needs of clients. Christina brings a wide range of content experience across platforms and activations, adding deep expertise to the burgeoning content business at Butchershop. In an era where content and marketing tactics have blended together to form a new editorial landscape, the content team will work to create unique experiences and connections with audiences and customers. Throughout her career, campaign work led by Cooksey has garnered recognition from The Webby's, The Shorty Awards, w3, SMARTIES and OMMA.
"We continue to attract talented leadership to Butchershop, putting more subject matter experts in place to provide our client partners with the guidance they need at critical inflection points," said Trevor Hubbard, Global CEO of Butchershop. "Christina is a proven multi-disciplinary creative leader who has built branded content experiences tailored for today's marketing landscape. As the way we engage with one another changes, our methods for starting conversations for our clients will also continue to evolve."
In addition to Red Antler, Christina has worked as executive director content innovation and integration at Engine US and has held a variety of production and content development roles at Deep Focus, DDB and Tracy Locke among other agencies.
"It's an exciting time to join Butchershop – I'm energized by the vision the team has for the future and am looking forward to leading the team in creating inspired content that helps our clients shift narratives, change conversations and break into new markets and audience groups," said Cooksey.
Cooksey's arrival at Butchershop comes as the company has increased revenue by 60% YOY and nearly tripled its employee headcount to 120 employees in three countries and 12 cities. As a hybrid remote workforce, Butchershop plans to open "pod" spaces for collaborative occasions in Los Angeles and New York where Cooksey is based, with a first US location to open in San Francisco Summer 2022. Further expansion into EMEA, LATAM and APAC markets is being executed through the agency's M+A strategy.
Founded in 2009, Butchershop® Global is a growth and transformation company born and raised in Silicon Valley with teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Guadalajara, Mexico City and Vienna. The company connects consulting, creativity and technology to help brands break into emerging sectors or break out to lead them. Butchershop has turned an unwavering emphasis on clarity into the Beat Failure™ methodology, helping companies steer through the challenges of inflection points ᠆ whether they be at a moment of growth, scale, evolution, transformation or launch. For more information, visit Butchershop.co
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Communications Director
Butchershop Global
dania@butchershop.co
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My cholesterol pill, white and about half the size of a pea, slipped through my fingers and landed on the beige-and-white shag throw rug that ran down the center of our bathroom floor. I thought, I need to find it before Walter gets here.
Walter is the 2-year-old shaggy, black and white Bernedoodle belonging to my daughter, Jackie, and son-in-law, Lorin. His tongue is almost as big as his bread-loaf-sized paws. He reminds me of a feisty toddler on a sugar high.
Jackie and Lorin were leaving for a summer vacation and had asked me and my husband, Charles, to “babysit” for their beloved pooch while they were gone.
I was not about to risk anything happening to Walter under my watch.
I scanned the room and shook the carpet looking for the tablet. Then I got down on all fours and, starting at the bathroom door, ran my hands inch by inch over the rug and the surrounding marble tile.
Still no sign of the statin.
I began to sweat.
I knew that dogs have a keen sense of smell. What if the pill elicits an odor, undetectable to me, but attractive to Walter? I imagined him lumbering into the bathroom, ingesting my medicine, and going into some kind of shock or seizure.
I Googled “effects of dogs eating statins.”
It turned out that if he ate it, he could have diarrhea, vomiting or gas.
I would keep the bathroom door closed for the 10 days of his stay.
As Walter’s grandparents we take our responsibilities seriously — too seriously. Charles inspects his poop to make sure that the consistency is solid. He sleeps in our bed along with Einstein, our 5-year-old Cavachon; it’s cramped. And while I’d have given the bathroom floor a good once-over for Einstein, there is no way I’d have scoured it from end to end on my hands and knees.
What was our problem?
When we babysit for our son Danny and daughter-in-law Laura’s three kids, our human grandchildren, we are also a bit overprotective and overindulgent. I grab my twin grandsons’ hands when we’re in a parking lot; they’re 11 years old. I warn my 14-year-old granddaughter, “be careful,” when she opens her microwaved mac and cheese with a knife. And we keep a large crystal bowl overflowing with individually wrapped miniature candy bars on our living room table — the kids like chocolate.
But Walter is a dog.
It was more than a missing pill.
We are hoping that their pandemic puppy is a prelude to more grandchildren, this time from our daughter.
And we hypothesized that if we lightened the burden of handling Walter, perhaps she and her husband would see that they have the capacity to handle a child (or three).
To that end, Charles drove from our home in Baltimore to pick up Walter at Jackie and Lorin’s home in D.C. while they were busy packing and tying up loose ends. Jackie had offered to bring him to us, but I told her, “We’re happy to get him. You have enough on your plate.”
And they do. Like most 30-something couples today, they both are consumed with full-time-plus careers and other responsibilities.
Nevertheless, I brought it up with my daughter.
“So, now that you and Lorin have been married for three years, are you thinking about starting a family?” I gingerly posed with bated breath.
“Mom, we’re just not sure.”
“Why wouldn’t you?” I pushed.
After a deep sigh, she rattled off a litany of concerns: global warming, mass shootings, rampant crime, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Jan. 6, political divisiveness, extremists, the pandemic, world hunger and the lack of affordable day care.
In short, my daughter was afraid to bring a child into this world.
Walter may be as close as I get to spoiling a mammal that Jackie loves.
She’s right, the world is a mess. But every generation has its demons. Is it worse today than when I gave birth to her and my two sons? When my mother gave birth to me? When my grandmother birthed my mother?
I’m not sure. I silently enumerate past atrocities: world wars, The Holocaust, the Great Depression, assassinations, Sept. 11th, as well as the ever-present suffering, inequalities and injustices.
I am sure, however, that nothing in my life means more to me than my children and grandchildren. They are what give me meaning, perspective, hope and love.
I want the same for my daughter.
But am I also being selfish?
Maybe.
It’s Jackie and Lorin’s decision, and a tough one. I will support it — whatever it may be.
In the meantime, that Walter is awfully cute, and I don’t think he ate the pill. He had a great visit — we even took him and Einstein to the doggy toy store. Einstein got a snake, Walter a dragon.
When we brought him back to the kids in D.C., my daughter hugged him and said, “I missed you. Did you have a good time with Bubbie and Zadie?”
Laura Black (www.laurablack.net) is an attorney, businessperson, author and speaker, who focuses on the challenges of midlife-plus women with humor and affirmation. Her latest book, “Climbing Down the Ladder: A Journey to a Different Kind of Happy,” is expected later this year. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-xxxx-granddog-settling-20220726-pn2mgucbubeqhmgvide4bpvbdu-story.html | 2022-07-26T16:50:39Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-xxxx-granddog-settling-20220726-pn2mgucbubeqhmgvide4bpvbdu-story.html | false |
Flucker will focus on equity in curriculum, solutions and services and serve as strategic advisor for HMH employee resource groups
BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning technology company HMH today announced the appointment of Benita Flucker as Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer. In this critical new position, Flucker will oversee HMH's multifaceted commitment to building and delivering curriculum solutions and services that foster a holistic understanding of the world and honor the diverse students, educators and communities HMH serves each day. Working closely with HMH's Chief People Officer Alejandro Reyes, who will continue to lead HMH's employee-focused diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, Flucker will also be an essential guiding voice for HMH's employee community as leader and strategic advisor for its nine employee resource groups, which are devoted to nurturing an inclusive, affirming culture at HMH.
Flucker's appointment builds upon deep industry experience and more than a decade of exceptional service at HMH, most recently in the role of senior vice president of the cross-functional Enterprise Development Strategy and Services team, driving strategic content development operations in close partnership across all lines of business.
In 2018, Flucker launched HMH's content equity, inclusion and diversity initiative and became a founding member of Innovation for Equity, of which HMH is a proud sponsor. In 2020, she became the executive sponsor and co-founder of HMH's Black Alliance Employee Resource Group.
"HMH's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion spans four key pillars—business, talent, leadership and culture. With our customer-facing solutions and business top of mind, I am thrilled that Benita will step into this expanded and critical role to elevate and expand our vision for inclusive education, further our mission and reinforce our values so that the meaningful work we do each day is in service of all students and teachers," said Jack Lynch, CEO, HMH. "Benita is a passionate champion for educators and students, and she is relied on by internal and external partners for her solution-oriented and collaborative mindset."
"I am excited to take on such an important role for HMH and to further our commitment to creating programs that reflect and resonate across learning communities. I have focused my career on equity in education and creating high-quality programs that empower teachers to do their best work," added Flucker. "I have a deep passion for ensuring students feel affirmed and can excel academically, and I strongly believe that it is essential all students see themselves and the possibilities for their future success in the materials we offer."
Flucker will focus on the essential intersection of internal and public-facing DEI efforts through leadership within two key areas: She will continue to ensure equity in curriculum, solutions and services, leading ongoing content equity, inclusion and diversity projects forward and working with internal and external stakeholders, including program authors and advisors, to advance this critical work. She will lead process and policy-making across lines of business and will connect directly with customers and other external audiences to uphold HMH's values-driven approach to equity and inclusivity in its content.
Working closely with Reyes, Flucker will continue HMH's efforts to align an inclusive and affirming culture with business strategy through HMH's employee resource groups and serve as a prominent voice on HMH's DEI Council, ensuring alignment with HR initiatives. HMH takes direct actions to attract, hire and retain diverse talent, nurture an inclusive workplace and create opportunities for meaningful conversations with its community.
About HMH
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students' potential and extend teachers' capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com
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BJP, NDPP agree on seat-sharing for Nagaland election
GUWAHATI July 26, 2022 22:04 ISTThe two parties had tied up for the first time ahead of the 2018 poll
GUWAHATI
The BJP and the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) have decided to continue with their pre-poll alliance for the Nagaland Assembly election in 2023.
The two parties had tied up for the first time ahead of the 2018 election in the State.
“The NDPP will contest 40 seats and we will contest 20,” Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told journalists in New Delhi on Tuesday. He is the convenor of the North East Democratic Alliance, a BJP-fronted forum for anti-Congress regional parties in the northeast.
A few leaders who had broken away from the Naga People’s Front (NPF) had formed the NDPP in 2017 after the former severed its ties with the BJP. The NDPP received a shot in the arm when Neiphiu Rio, Nagaland’s Chief Minister, quit the NPF and joined it a month ahead of the February 2018 poll. Ten more NPF legislators followed him.
The NDPP and the BJP, with a combined strength of 30 MLAs, formed the government along with some smaller parties. In April, 21 of the NPF’s 25 MLAs switched over to the NDPP. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/bjp-ndpp-agree-on-seat-sharing-for-nagaland-election/article65687023.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-26T16:51:08Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/bjp-ndpp-agree-on-seat-sharing-for-nagaland-election/article65687023.ece/amp/ | false |
Five articles highlight expanding role of EHRs in primary care, impact on doctor-patient relationships.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In Use of the Electronic Health Record During Clinical Encounters: An Experience Survey, researchers conducted a survey to assess the impact of EHR practices on doctor-patient communication. Describing experiences with EHRs during clinical encounters, most clinicians reported less eye contact with patients (80%), listening less carefully (54%), and less focus (65%). Only one-third of clinicians thought patients saw EHR use as a positive experience.
However, most patients surveyed (91.7%) reported positive experiences with EHR use. Patients reported clinicians provided sufficient eye contact (96.8%), listening (97.0%), and clinician focus (86.7%). The authors argue this gap in experiences indicates clinician stress and burnout with patient data documentation and the need to address clinicians' user experience of EHR.
In Communication Gaps Persist Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians, researchers studied the impact of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model, which leverages EHRs to increase information sharing between primary care physicians and specialists about referred patients.
The authors found gaps in communication between primary care physicians and specialists have persisted over the last decade. They argue that although EHR technology was developed to improve care coordination, physicians do not always intentionally engage in communication on referrals and consultations. This communication gap can impact patients negatively, increasing the likelihood of delayed diagnoses, unnecessary testing, and patient and physician dissatisfaction.
However, opportunities to improve patient outcomes through EHRs do exist. In Impact of Home Blood Pressure Data Visualization on Hypertension Medical Decision Making in Primary Care, new research explores how clinicians might incorporate at-home blood pressure readings into a patient's EHR to help control hypertension.
The researchers developed and implemented a visualization tool that combines clinical and home blood pressure readings, and displays aggregated data in a single chart within each patient's EHR. Through analyzing doctor-patient interactions, researchers found that the visualization tool promoted shared decision-making in hypertension management in the primary care setting.
The article Designing and Implementing an Electronic Health Record–Embedded Card Study in Primary Care: Methods and Considerations describes how EHRs can help streamline data collection in the clinic. The authors report on the development and implementation of EHR-embedded digital surveys to replace paper-based surveys at community health centers. The research team developed a digital alternative to paper studies to reduce complexity and costs for users, and to facilitate rich analyses by linking participant responses to clinic and patient data.
In an accompanying editorial, Uplifting Primary Care Through the Electronic Health Record, Anthony Sunjaya notes that health care is rapidly becoming digital, helping to increase patient engagement in their own care, and improve primary care research. "However, we need to be able to measure these benefits through fit-for-purpose metrics in order to motivate practices to adopt them," he writes. Best practice goals for these metrics can then be developed and their integration linked to reimbursement, as well as other rewards for the benefit of clinicians, patients, and health systems.
Use of the Electronic Health Record During Clinical Encounters: An Experience Survey
Ellen C. Meltzer et al.
Communication Gaps Persist Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians
Lori Timmins et al.
Impact of Home Blood Pressure Data Visualization on Hypertension Medical Decision Making in Primary Care
Deborah J. Cohen et al.
Designing and Implementing an Electronic Health Record–Embedded Card Study in Primary Care: Methods and Considerations
Arwen Bunce et al.
Uplifting Primary Care Through the Electronic Health Record
Anthony Paulo Sunjaya
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NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index Hits All-Time High of 388.83
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Homeowners 62 and older saw their housing wealth grow by 4.91 percent or $520 billion in the first quarter to a record $11.12 trillion from Q4 2021, according to the latest quarterly release of the NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index.
The NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI) rose in Q1 2022 to 388.83, another all-time high since the index was first published in 2000. The increase in older homeowners' wealth was mainly driven by an estimated 4.4 percent or $563 billion increase in home values, offset by a 2.06 percent or $43 billion increase in senior-held mortgage debt.
NRMLA President Steve Irwin, said: "Inflationary fears, market volatility and concerns about a possible recession have created a great deal of anxiety for America's aging population. Now may be an appropriate time to consider the strategic use of home equity to help improve older homeowners' retirement security."
About Reverse Mortgages
Reverse mortgages are available to homeowners who are 62 and older with significant home equity. They are a versatile financial tool that seniors can use to borrow against the equity in their home without having to make monthly principal or interest payments as with a traditional "forward" mortgage or a home equity loan. Under a reverse mortgage, funds are advanced to the borrower and interest accrues, but the outstanding balance is not due until the last borrower leaves the home, sells or passes away.
To date, more than 1.21 million households have utilized an FHA-insured reverse mortgage to help meet their financial needs. For more information, please visit www.ReverseMortgage.org
About the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association
The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) is the national voice for the industry and represents the lenders, loan servicers, and housing counseling agencies responsible for more than 90 percent of reverse mortgage transactions in the United States. All NRMLA member companies commit themselves to a Code of Ethics & Professional Responsibility. Learn more at www.nrmlaonline.org.
About RiskSpan, Inc.
RiskSpan offers end-to-end solutions for data management, risk management analytics, and visualization on a highly secure, fast, and fully scalable platform that has earned the trust of the industry's largest firms. Combining the strength of subject matter experts, quantitative analysts, and technologists, the RiskSpan platform integrates a range of data-sets–including both structured and unstructured–and off-the-shelf analytical tools to provide you with powerful insights and a competitive advantage. Learn more at www.riskspan.com.
Contact:
Darryl Hicks, 202-939-1784, dhicks@dworbell.com
National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association
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Brings Over 25 Years of Finance, Audit, and Digital Transformation Expertise
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, immersive well-being software leader Limeade announced that Lisa Nelson joins Limeade as a new Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors, effective immediately.
"We are delighted to welcome Lisa to the Limeade Board of Directors," says Henry Albrecht, CEO of Limeade. "Lisa has an outstanding track-record, matched by her passion for driving growth, accelerating the digital transformation of work, and managing risk. Lisa's extensive experience will be a tremendous asset as we continue to pioneer well-being and listening as essential to positive employee experiences across industries and geographies."
"Well-being at work is now a baseline expectation of employees," said Lisa Nelson. "Limeade is a true frontrunner in this industry and continues to pave the path forward. I look forward to partnering with Limeade to transform work into a source of positivity, energy, and purpose worldwide."
Nelson currently serves as board director at Astra (NASDAQ: ASTR), Seattle Bank, and DNA Seattle. She brings over 25 years of executive leadership excellence in the software, technology, and financial services sectors. Her experience includes various executive roles at Microsoft, including Co-Founder and Managing Director at M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, and Chief Operating Officer, Global Business Development, as well as roles at Willis Towers Watson in London and Ernst & Young in Australia. Nelson holds a Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration from the University of Washington.
For more information about Limeade, visit www.Limeade.com
Limeade is an immersive employee well-being company that creates healthy employee experiences. Limeade Institute science guides its industry-leading software and its own award-winning culture. Today, millions of users in over 100 countries use Limeade solutions to navigate the future of work. By putting well-being at the heart of the employee experience, Limeade reduces burnout and turnover while increasing well-being and engagement — ultimately elevating business performance. To learn more, visit www.limeade.com (ASX listing: LME).
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MADRID, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gamelearn's serious game Echo was one of three educational games developed for Corporate/Vocational Skills Training to have been awarded a gold medal in the 2022 International Serious Play Awards Program. This is where creativity, innovation, and new technology meet, and the awards are a measuring stick for excellence in serious games and simulators that promote learning in various fields.
Echo is a dynamic game about coaching. Through eight interactive lessons and three real-life cases, learners assume the role of a prestigious coach tasked with assisting an important public figure in effectively implementing a global strategy to eliminate plastic from our oceans. It teaches and reinforces skills for coaching, empathy, assertive communication, neutrality, and effective questioning.
Echo has been played by almost 14,000 students in over 500 organizations all over the world, including Coca-Cola, KPMG, Michelin, and Santander. This serious game has achieved an average completion rate of 96.9% and a total score of 8.6 out of 10, earning it an average NPS (Net Promoter Score) of 53.3%. Quite a contrast compared to the NPS of -29 that employees give to traditional e-learning courses. The majority of users (98.7%) find it applicable to their daily life and 95% of them would recommend it to their colleagues.
Echo is only one of the many serious games in Gamelearn's catalog, the most-awarded game-based learning catalog in the world, which includes over 40 games on a variety of topics, including leadership, teamwork, diversity, inclusivity, or negotiation, among many others.
The winning formula for Gamelearn's serious games consists of:
- Quality content that's applicable to students' day-to-day lives both in and out of the office.
- Gamification and storytelling to hook players and promote engagement (levels, rankings, minigames, etc.), ensuring higher completion rates.
- Real-life simulations that give students the opportunity to practice their skills in a safe environment—all with instant and personalized feedback.
All of this earned Gamelearn's serious game a place in the Serious Play Awards' top three skills training games. Every year, the Serious Play Conference recognizes new and interesting developments in the world of serious games. It brings together professionals who are exploring the use of game-based learning, sharing their experience, and working together to shape the future of training and education.
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Achieving status reaffirms cloud leadership role in AWS Marketplace
DALLAS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that it has achieved the updated Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status. This designation demonstrates that Trend Micro continues to be a key AWS Partner Network (APN) member in helping secure joint customers' cloud environments.
Trend Micro Cloud One can be purchased in minutes in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. To see how Trend Micro Cloud One can help secure your cloud environment, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-g232pyu6l55l4.
"Every day, there are new AWS services available. Cloudnexa, Trend Micro, and AWS work together, so whenever a new AWS service is released, Trend Micro already has it covered," said MJ DiBerardino, CEO at Cloudnexa. "Trend Micro is open to our concept and also willing to collaborate with us to meet our customers' needs, including developing a usage-based licensing model, showing that they are as forward-thinking and visionary as we are."
AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners will deep industry experience and expertise.
Mike Milner, vice president of cloud technology at Trend Micro: "Global organizations continue to migrate to the cloud in droves to drive innovation and growth in the post-pandemic era. However, security remains a concern for many. That's why we're delighted to work with AWS to ensure these organizations can optimize their cloud migration without incurring additional cyber risk. Security in the cloud can and should be better than on-premises."
Trend Micro remains a committed and long-term AWS Security Competency Partner. The seamless integration provides automated, flexible, all-in-one security for AWS customers, helping them optimize cloud migrations, and cloud-native applications and achieve cloud operational excellence.
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.TrendMicro.com.
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LAS VEGAS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas-based revolutionary casino intelligence company OPTX is proud to announce the addition of Palace Casino Resort to its rapidly expanding book of business.
OPTX, which is focused on analyzing complex data to provide real-time insights and recommendations to casino operators, is pleased to add this partnership to its growing portfolio. Brooke Fiumara, co-CEO of OPTX, said, "I am confident OPTX will boost Palace Casino Resort's overall profitability through our proactive database management and identification of slot floor opportunities. With web and mobile applications, our technology is designed to transform the way properties manage their data. We are thrilled to partner with Palace Casino Resort and bring the next generation of casino operations to them."
Palace Casino Resort has purchased OPTX's Marketing, Player Development, Slots, and Connect modules. Aimed at reshaping the future of data, these solutions place OPTX at the forefront of the casino tech industry by providing a tool that will be utilized across multiple departments to create a sole source of data.
Keith Crosby, General Manager at Palace Casino Resort, expressed his excitement of bringing the award-winning technology to the property. "Being able to replace multiple operational systems with one integrated platform is exactly what we needed to make smarter and faster decisions. OPTX allows Palace Casino Resort to get powerful analytics via an intuitive, streamlined, single system. Our team members are constantly on the move and having a mobile solution that can keep up is a win-win."
To learn more about OPTX and its award-winning casino intelligence, visit https://optx.com/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is returning to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a speech hours after former Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 rival, who called on the Republican Party to stop looking backward.
Trump’s appearance in the nation’s capital — his first trip back since Jan. 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden was sworn into office — comes as some who are mulling White House bids have been increasingly willing to challenge him directly. They include Pence, who on Tuesday outlined his “Freedom Agenda ” not far from where Trump was to speak before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second term.
While Trump still often complains about the election he falsely claims was stolen from him a year and a half ago, Pence said, “Some people may choose to focus on the past, but elections are about the future.”
“I believe conservatives must focus on the future to win back America,” Pence said before the Young America’s Foundation, a student conservative group. “We can’t afford to take our eyes off the road in front of us because what’s at stake is the very survival of our way of life.”
The former White House partners are making dueling appearances again after campaigning for rival candidates in Arizona on Friday. Their separate speeches come amid news that Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Short was at the Capitol that day as Pence fled an angry mob of rioters who called for his hanging after Trump wrongly insisted Pence had the power to overturn to the election results.
Asked about the growing divide between Trump and himself, a man who was once the former president’s most loyal sidekick, Pence said the two don’t differ on issues.
“But we may differ on focus. I truly do believe that elections are about the future and that it’s absolutely essential, at a time when so many Americans are hurting and so many families are struggling, that we don’t give way to the temptation to look back,” he said.
On Tuesday, Simon & Schuster announced the title of Pence’s upcoming book, “So Help Me God,” which will be published in November. The publisher said the book is the “most robust defense of the Trump record of anyone who served in the administration,” but also “chronicles President Trump’s severing of their relationship on January 6, 2021,when Pence kept his oath to the Constitution.”
Allies have urged Trump to spend more time talking about his vision for the future and less time relitigating the 2020 election as he prepares to announce an expected 2024 White House campaign.
He has spent much of his time since leaving office spreading lies about his loss to sow doubt about Biden’s victory. Indeed, even as the House Jan. 6 committee was laying bare his desperate attempts to remain in power and his refusal to call off a violent mob of his supporters as they tried to halt the peaceful transition of power, Trump has continued to try to pressure officials to overturn Biden’s win, despite there being no legal means to decertify it.
In his speech Tuesday, Trump planned to focus on public safety, said his spokesperson, Taylor Budowich.
Republican Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said he’d be among several GOP senators planning to attend Trump’s speech.
“You’re going to hear the same thing that you hear at all the other speeches,” Tuberville told reporters at the Capitol. “But, you know, go down there and listen, as a lot of us will.”
The nonprofit America First Policy Institute, which is holding the two-day America First Agenda Summit, is composed of former Trump administration officials and allies and is widely seen as an “administration in waiting” that could quickly move to the West Wing if Trump should run again and win.
Beyond the summit, staff at the America First Policy Institute have been laying their own groundwork for the future, “making sure we do have the policies, personnel and process nailed down for every key agency when we do take the White House back,” said Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute.
The group is one of several Trump-allied organizations that have continued to push his polices in his absence, including America First Legal, dedicated to fighting Biden’s agenda through the court system, the Center for Renewing America and the Conservative Partnership Institute.
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Which Bosch dishwasher is best?
Known for cutting-edge products that range from automotive components to consumer goods, Bosch is a trusted brand that uses the latest technology. It started making dishwashers in 1964, before they were common household appliances, and continues to bring these quality products to the public.
Bosch produces a range of dishwashers with a variety of features. The 300 Series Front Control Tall Tub Dishwasher is an excellent choice because it’s large, versatile and stylish.
What to know before you buy a Bosch dishwasher
Front control vs. top control
There are two types of dishwashers: front control and top control.
- Front control: This means the control panel is on the front. It’s visible and bigger than on top control dishwashers, making it easier to access and use. This style makes for a classic look.
- Top control: This means the control panel is on the top of the door and not visible when the door is closed. This style gives the dishwasher a sleek, minimal look and makes it easy to clean.
Noise level
All Bosch dishwashers are extremely quiet and operate with low decibel levels. This is perfect if you live in a small household or run the dishwasher overnight and don’t want the noise to keep you awake.
Since you can’t always hear when the cycle has finished, Bosch created the InfoLight, which shines on the floor to let you know when it’s done.
Drying technology
What sets Bosch dishwashers apart are their three energy-efficient drying technologies.
- PureDry: This closed drying system doesn’t rely on outside air or an exposed heating system. The sanitizing feature ends the cycle with an extra-hot wash to kill bacteria and whisk away moisture while dishes dry.
- AutoAir: This method opens the door at the end of the cycle, letting air circulate and uses natural condensation to dry the dishes. It’s an energy-efficient solution, perfect for those who run the dishwasher overnight.
- CrystalDry: An ideal system for plastics, this technology uses natural minerals to collect moisture and turn it into heat circulated throughout the tub.
What to look for in a quality Bosch dishwasher
Third rack
Some Bosch dishwashers offer a third rack, designed for flatware, cereal bowls, large utensils and measuring cups that don’t fit neatly in the main racks. If you want even more space, dishwasher baskets can be purchased separately.
Energy Star certified
All Bosch dishwashers are Energy Star certified. A Bosch dishwasher gets your dishes clean while using less water and energy. It’s also better for the environment and saves you money on your electric bill.
Half-load setting
If you don’t want to leave dirty dishes sitting in the dishwasher but the load is too small to run a normal cycle, the half-load setting lets you run a cycle using less water, energy and detergent, so you can clean fewer dishes when necessary.
Home Connect
This technology makes your life easier by letting you control your dishwasher settings from an app on your smartphone. You can also get alerts when the cycle is done and monitor diagnostics.
How much you can expect to spend on a Bosch dishwasher
Bosch dishwashers range from $600-$2,200 depending on their size, features and technology.
Bosch Dishwasher FAQ
How do I clean the exterior of my Bosch dishwasher?
A. To clean the stainless-steel portions of the dishwasher, soak a soft cloth in warm, soapy water and wipe along the steel grain. Avoid harsh or chlorine-based cleaners. To clean the seal along the door, use a damp cloth without soap.
What warranties come with a Bosch dishwasher?
A. It comes with a one-year limited warranty for the entire appliance, including parts and labor. From years two to five, the warranty is limited to the racks and the microprocessor. There is a limited lifetime warranty for the inner tube lining. For more details, you can visit the manufacturer’s website.
What’s the best Bosch dishwasher to buy?
Top Bosch dishwasher
300 Series Front Control Tall Tub Dishwasher
What you need to know: This attractive stainless-steel dishwasher has maximum cleaning power, yet remains quiet.
What you’ll love: Loaded with space and amenities, this three-rack dishwasher has five wash cycles, including the sanitizing feature, which reduces 99.9% of bacteria with its ultra-hot cycle. The half-cycle is ideal for smaller loads while reducing time and water consumption.
What you should consider: The front control panel is smaller than those of other dishwashers and has been difficult for some customers to read.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top Bosch dishwasher for the price
100 Series Anti-Fingerprint Stainless Dishwasher
What you need to know: With 14 place settings and high-tech features, this dishwasher still packs a powerful cleaning punch.
What you’ll love: It features six wash cycles and remains whisper-quiet when in use. The PrecisionWash technology with intelligent sensors tracks the cleaning cycle, while the spray arms can target all items inside.
What you should consider: This dishwasher is on the smaller side, so if you have a large household, you may need to size up.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
800 Series Stainless Steel Top Control Tall Tub Dishwasher
What you need to know: This top-of-line dishwasher comes fitted with the latest technology to thoroughly clean and dry all dishes, even plastics.
What you’ll love: The three adjustable racks that can be moved into nine positions make this dishwasher versatile and easy to load while leaving room for oversized pots and pans. The updated detergent trays are connected to their own spray jet to provide a deeper clean and prevent detergent buildup.
What you should consider: The stainless steel on this dishwasher tends to show fingerprints more than others.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wells Fargo Advisors today announced an expansion in the New York Madison Avenue branch with the addition of Yakub Mathew. Mathew will serve as Managing Director – Investments for the New York City office, which now includes 34 financial advisors in the New York City Area. Mathew has more than 34 years of wealth management experience and will focus on building and managing the investment business, strengthening client relationships and growing services for Ultra High Net Worth clients, focusing on the South-Asian market segment.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo Advisors, he served as a Managing Director and Global India Head, USA at Citi Private Bank for 12 years. Mathew also served as National Head of South Asian Banking at HSBC for 8 years.
Yakub graduated from St. Stephens College, Delhi, India with a B.A. (Honors) Degree in Economics and a Masters in Economics. He also holds an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila.
Wells Fargo Advisors' Madison Avenue office is located at 535 Madison Avenue.
With $1.88 trillion in client assets as of March 31, 2022, Wells Fargo Advisors provides advice and guidance to help clients maximize all aspects of their financial lives. Our vast network of financial advisors, one of the nation's largest, serves investors through locations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Wells Fargo Advisors is a part of Wells Fargo Wealth & Investment Management (WIM), a division within Wells Fargo & Company and one of the largest wealth managers in the U.S. WIM provides financial products and services through various bank and brokerage affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC, Members SIPC, separate registered broker-dealers and non-bank affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company. All data includes Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC, as of March 31, 2022. www.wellsfargoadvisors.com
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Achieving status reaffirms cloud leadership role in AWS Marketplace
DALLAS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that it has achieved the updated Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status. This designation demonstrates that Trend Micro continues to be a key AWS Partner Network (APN) member in helping secure joint customers' cloud environments.
Trend Micro Cloud One can be purchased in minutes in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. To see how Trend Micro Cloud One can help secure your cloud environment, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-g232pyu6l55l4.
"Every day, there are new AWS services available. Cloudnexa, Trend Micro, and AWS work together, so whenever a new AWS service is released, Trend Micro already has it covered," said MJ DiBerardino, CEO at Cloudnexa. "Trend Micro is open to our concept and also willing to collaborate with us to meet our customers' needs, including developing a usage-based licensing model, showing that they are as forward-thinking and visionary as we are."
AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners will deep industry experience and expertise.
Mike Milner, vice president of cloud technology at Trend Micro: "Global organizations continue to migrate to the cloud in droves to drive innovation and growth in the post-pandemic era. However, security remains a concern for many. That's why we're delighted to work with AWS to ensure these organizations can optimize their cloud migration without incurring additional cyber risk. Security in the cloud can and should be better than on-premises."
Trend Micro remains a committed and long-term AWS Security Competency Partner. The seamless integration provides automated, flexible, all-in-one security for AWS customers, helping them optimize cloud migrations, and cloud-native applications and achieve cloud operational excellence.
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.TrendMicro.com.
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NEWPORT, RI (AP) — Surprise! Joni Mitchell is back onstage.
The folk legend performed her first full-length concert on Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, The Boston Globe reported. Mitchell has contended with health complications since suffering an aneurysm in 2015, and her last full show was in late 2002, according to reports.
Seated in a wingback chair and wearing a blue beret and sunglasses, Mitchell joined festival headliner Brandi Carlile and a bevy of other artists, including Wynonna Judd, Allison Russell and Marcus Mumford. It was Mitchell’s first Newport festival performance since 1969.
This was, Carlile explained, a recreation of the “Joni Jam” musical gatherings that have brought famous friends like Elton John to Mitchell’s Los Angeles home in recent years.
And Mitchell wasn’t there to just to sing. Halfway through the 13-song set, she played an electric guitar solo, which was her first time playing guitar in public since her aneurysm, Carlile said.
The ensemble played Mitchell’s most familiar songs (“Circle Game,” “Big Yellow Taxi”) and a few of her favorites (“Love Potion No. 9,” “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”).
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Croydon’s mayor has doubled down on a promise to reopen Purley Pool in the face of concerns about the running costs of the leisure centre. Before the facility closed down in March 2020, it was making a significant loss.
In the next two months, a report on possible options for reopening the swimming pool is expected to be completed. The project is set to cost at least £3.4 million which the council said will come from Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) money which is paid by developers when new homes are built.
At a council meeting on Monday night, shadow cabinet member for communities and culture, Councillor Brigitte Graham, brought up a letter from the Local Government Association and other bodies. This letter said leisure providers feared they could shut down as energy bills rise.
READ MORE: Purley Pool reopening set to cost £3.4 million as Croydon Council looks at options
Cllr Graham said: “Does the mayor really believe that reopening Purley Pool which was already operating at a loss of £150,000 at these uncertain times, especially with the cost of living crisis, is a good use of public money.”
Mayor Jason Perry said reopening the pool was a manifesto pledge of his in May’s mayoral election. He said: “You want me to not deliver on the election that I just won? The energy crisis affects our residents, it affects us as a borough and the resources we have.
“I too have written to the secretary of state about energy costs that are going to come on to councils, particularly with swimming pools etcetera. Purley Pool is a key election pledge of this administration. Purley Pool is fully funded and Purley Pool will be reopened by this administration.”
There are six options outlined for the future of the leisure centre in Purley High Street, which include a new floor above the pool to create an 80-station gym which would “cost considerably more” but could improve the long-term viability of the pool.
The other options are to carry out only urgent repairs, refurbishing the centre in its current form, refurbishing and knocking through to the vacant supermarket next door, a new leisure centre on a different site and a redevelopment of the whole site with flats and a new pool.
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Ochsner Health facilities lead the region with 51 "high performing" procedure and condition ratings
NEW ORLEANS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, U.S. News & World Report named Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans (OMC), including its Baptist and West Bank campuses, the Best Hospital in Louisiana for the 11th consecutive year. As part of the annual review, Ochsner and its partners also received more than 50 additional accolades by U.S. News, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice.
"Ochsner is honored to continuously hold the rankings for the top hospital and top children's hospital in Louisiana," said Warner Thomas, Ochsner Health President & CEO. "These rankings and ratings are designed to help families find the best care for adults and children when they need it most; and in Louisiana, that's at Ochsner. This recognition reflects our commitment to providing high-quality care close to home."
- The Nation's Top Specialties: Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialty ranked in the nation's top 50 (#43) and five specialties ranked in the nation's top 10 percent: Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery, and Urology.
- 17 "High Performing" Procedures and Conditions: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Aortic Valve Surgery, Colon Cancer Surgery, COPD, Diabetes, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Hip Fracture, Hip Replacement, Kidney Failure, Knee Replacement, Lung Cancer Surgery, Pneumonia, Prostate Cancer surgery, Stroke, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, and Uterine Cancer Surgery.
Last month, U.S. News named Ochsner Hospital for Children as Louisiana's Top Children's Hospital. Three pediatric specialties – Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Orthopedics and Gastroenterology and GI Surgery – were also named as top national programs.
The following Ochsner hospitals and partners* received 51 "High Performing" Procedure and Condition Awards this year by U.S. News:
- Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans
- Ochsner Medical Center – Northshore
- Ochsner Medical Center – Baton Rouge
- Ochsner Medical Center – Kenner
- Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
- St. Bernard Parish Hospital*
- Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Academic Medical Center*
- CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital*
- St. Tammany Health System – Main Campus*
- Slidell Memorial Hospital*
- Singing River Health System – Pascagoula*
- Terrebonne General Medical Center*
"Ochsner's Otorhinolaryngology and Communication Sciences Department has been an integral part of Ochsner's 80-year history, dating back to the hospital's founding in 1942. We have a long-standing reputation for providing excellent care for diseases of the head and neck," said Dr. John Carter, Interim Chair, Ochsner Department of Otolaryngology. "Our group of otolaryngologists is both humbled and honored to receive this national ranking from U.S. News & World Report. This recognition would not be possible without our team of talented surgeons, advanced practice providers, audiologists, speech therapists, residents, nurses, and clinic and operating room staff."
The annual Best Hospitals rankings and ratings, now in their 33rd year, are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive quality care for challenging health conditions or elective procedures. For the 2022-2023 rankings and ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions.
"When patients and their medical professionals are considering their options for care, the rankings are designed to help them identify hospitals that are superior in the kind of care they may need," said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News.
U.S. News evaluated each hospital's performance using a variety of measures such as survival rates, complication rates, patient experience and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals methodology factors in data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American Hospital Association, professional organizations, and medical specialists.
For more information, visit Best Hospitals and use #BestHospitals on Facebook and Twitter. To learn more about Ochsner, please visit ochsner.org.
Ochsner Health is an integrated healthcare system with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate. Celebrating 80 years in 2022, it leads nationally in cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, liver and heart transplants and pediatrics, among other areas. Ochsner is consistently named both the top hospital and top children's hospital in Louisiana by U.S. News & World Report. The not-for-profit organization is inspiring healthier lives and stronger communities. Its focus is on preventing diseases and providing patient-centered care that is accessible, affordable, convenient and effective. Ochsner Health pioneers new treatments, deploys emerging technologies and performs groundbreaking research, including over 700 clinical studies. It has more than 34,000 employees and over 4,500 employed and affiliated physicians in over 90 medical specialties and subspecialties. It operates 40 hospitals and more than 300 health and urgent care centers across Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South; and its cutting-edge Connected Health digital medicine program is caring for patients beyond its walls. In 2021, Ochsner Health treated more than 1 million people from every state and 75 countries. As Louisiana's top healthcare educator, Ochsner Health and its partners educate thousands of healthcare professionals annually. To learn more, visit https://www.ochsner.org/.
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The 24/7 Automated Pizzeria Concept Expands to Houston and Friendswood
HOUSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PizzaForno, one of North America's only automated pizzerias that bakes artisanal pizzas in less than three minutes, has announced the kick-off of its 'Pizza with a Purpose' program in the United States. Its first stop: Houston, Texas.
'Pizza with a Purpose,' is the foundation for how PizzaForno selects licensees to join in on the development of their "Pizzaruption." In addition to staying focused on purpose driven initiatives, they work with each of their local owners to identify opportunities to help support non-profit organizations within their community.
The local entrepreneurs developing PizzaForno in the marketplace have chosen to support the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston (RMHCGHG). Every Tuesday, the PizzaForno Houston licensees will donate $1.00 for every pizza sold at their Texas locations to help pay for vaccines, exams, and quality medical treatment for thousands of children. Licensee Daniel Albelice has a personal connection to The Ronald McDonald House Charities. When Albelice's son was just 18-months old, he was diagnosed with leukemia and underwent medical treatment for three years. Throughout this difficult time, the Albelice family leaned on the organization for support, which is why it was important for him to show his gratitude and give back.
Participating locations include the first units to enter the state with fully-operational locations at Social Beer Garden HTX (3101 San Jacinto St. Houston, TX 77004) and 3312 FM-528, Friendswood, TX 77546. In addition, there are two more locations to open soon; one in downtown Houston (625 Fannin St, Houston, TX, 77002) and the other in Galveston's Tiki Island.
Daniel Albelice and Keith Stephenson plan to open an additional 12 units by September of 2023 across Houston, which will extend into a 50-unit development deal. They're also seeking spirited entrepreneurs who are looking to expand their portfolio or add this turn-key, fully automatic gourmet food concept that can be placed indoor or outdoor with as little as 60 square feet onto their existing business. They have already garnered interest from potential sub licensees within the community.
"We are excited about delivering the future of pizza to the people of Houston. PizzaForno has it all: convenience, deliciousness, and quality ingredients at a great price," said master licensee, Daniel Albelice. "We anticipate we will continue to partner with local non-profit organizations as we believe we can make a difference one pizza at a time."
"There is endless growth potential throughout Texas at places like shopping malls, truck stops and universities, and we couldn't be happier about Daniel Albelice and Keith Stephenson leading the way," said Les Tomlin, Co-Founder and President of PizzaForno. "They both have really meaningful ties to the Houston community, and I am really proud of their entrepreneurial ambition, and the fact that they have taken on the very first Pizza with a Purpose campaign in the U.S."
PizzaForno not only offers a high ROI but has the ability to operate 24/7 with zero on-site labor costs, limited waste and gives the option for licensees to scale quickly. Unlike most on-the-go pizza options loaded with added preservatives, PizzaForno has selected healthy, natural ingredients to deliver on quality and consistency to scale the business.
As volume demands, each unit can hold up to 70 fully prepared pre-boxed pizzas made fresh in the U.S. and replenished frequently. As soon as the customer selects their preferred menu item, the state-of-the-art oven gives the customer the option to Take-n-Bake or bake the 12" premium artisan pizza in under three minutes.
To learn more about PizzaForno and their licensing opportunities, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/become-a-licensee/.
ABOUT PIZZAFORNO
Founded in 2018 by Canadian entrepreneurs William Moyer and Les Tomlin, PizzaForno is North America's only automated pizzeria which introduces gourmet artisanal pizzas in less than three minutes. Accessible 24/7 at the tap of a digital screen, PizzaForno offers a selection of innovative menu options, each made with high quality ingredients, with an authentic approach. In 2020, PizzaForno was honored with the Restaurants Canada 2020 Innovation Award. Utilizing technology made popular in France by ADIAL, PizzaForno currently has 40 operating locations and over 100 additional locations committed – with the first U.S. locations already established in Michigan. To learn more about PizzaForno, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/. To inquire about the licensee opportunity, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/become-a-licensee/.
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On this day in history in 1775, US postal system established under Ben Franklin
On July 26, 1775, America's newly created postal system began expediting the exchange of ideas
The American postal system, under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, was created on this date, July 26, 1775.
The Second Continental Congress met in the immediate aftermath of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April while preparing to declare independence from the British the following year.
It also began the optimistic yet provocative-to-the-crown work of building the infrastructure of a future independent nation.
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The Congress on this day in 1775 resolved: "That a postmaster general be appointed for the United Colonies ... and so many deputies as to him may seem proper and necessary. That a line of posts be appointed under the direction of the postmaster general, from Falmouth in New England to Savannah in Georgia, with as many cross posts as he shall think fit."
Franklin had served as postmaster for Philadelphia starting in 1737 and became a colonial postmaster in 1753.
British authorities in 1774 fired him as punishment for his stance and activities on behalf of American independence.
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He was appointed the first postmaster by the Continental Congress, a position he held until Nov. 7, 1776.
Among other achievements during his career, Franklin helped make it possible to send and receive correspondence between New York and Philadelphia in less than 24 hours, according to History.com — a remarkable achievement in its era.
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"Under Franklin and his immediate successors, the postal system mainly carried communications between Congress and the armies," the U.S. Postal Service reported in its official "An American History" of the mail system, published in 2020.
"Postmasters and post riders were exempt from military duties, so service would not be interrupted," it also said.
The postal system also promoted the free exchange of ideas colonial leaders saw as essential to the cause of independence.
Ben Franklin helped make it possible to send and receive correspondence between New York and Philadelphia in less than 24 hours.
"As the first American communications network, our postal system not only facilitated commerce and strengthened the bonds of family and friendship — it united a nation," said the U.S. Postal Service report.
"The Founding Fathers believed that to succeed, a democratic form of government depended upon the free exchange of news, ideas and opinions."
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"The first major postal law, passed by [the U.S.] Congress in 1792, encouraged the exchange of newspapers by allowing them to travel through the U.S. Mail at extremely low rates of postage — in some cases for free — to ensure the success of the democracy."
Americans can experience the post office in the era of Ben Franklin today at the B. Free Franklin Post Office and Museum in Philadelphia.
It's the only colonial-era post office operated today by the U.S Postal Service.
Letters and postcards sent from this location are stamped with Postmaster Benjamin Franklin's cancellation, "B. Free Franklin," written in script.
The Franklin cancel stamp is a souvenir for many Americans today.
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The United States had just 75 post offices in Franklin's era. Today, there are more than 31,000, according to the USPS. | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/day-history-1775-us-postal-system-established-ben-franklin | 2022-07-26T17:03:37Z | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/day-history-1775-us-postal-system-established-ben-franklin | true |
Doctor: Biden’s COVID symptoms ‘almost completely resolved’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has improved enough from his coronavirus infection that he’s able to resume his regular exercise routine, according to an update Tuesday from his doctor.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote in a new note that Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms “have now almost completely resolved,” and all of his vital signs are good.
Biden took his fifth and final dose of Paxlovid, which is intended to prevent severe symptoms from COVID-19, on Monday night.
Tuesday is Biden’s fifth full day of isolation, and he plans to test for the virus on Wednesday.
If he tests negative, he will return to working in person.
“The moment that he turns negative, he’ll return to work,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, during Monday’s briefing at the White House.
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Google fires employee who claimed AI system had become sentient
(CNN) - Google has fired the engineer who claimed an unreleased artificial intelligence system called LaMDA has become sentient.
The company said Blake Lemoine violated employment and data security policies.
The software engineer claimed the conversation technology had reached a level of consciousness after he exchanged thousands of messages with it.
Google first put him on leave in June.
The company said it reviewed his sentient claims extensively and determined they were wholly unfounded.
Google said it takes the development of AI “very seriously” and that it’s committed to “responsible innovation.”
LaMDA stands for “language model for dialog applications.”
The wider AI community has held that LaMDA is not near a level of consciousness.
Lemoine said he is discussing his firing with legal counsel and is not available for comment.
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Vermont McDonald's evacuated after live ammunition explodes on grill, police say
Employee with handgun surrendered to police in South Burlington, Vermont
A McDonald’s restaurant in Vermont was evacuated Sunday after an employee threw live ammunition on a grill and exploded, authorities said.
The incident occurred just after 5 p.m. inside the fast-food restaurant on Shelburne Road in South Burlington, WPTZ-TV reported, citing police.
An employee had reportedly removed ammunition from a handgun and tossed three live rounds onto the grill, police said. As the ammunition exploded, police said the employee continued to act erratically.
All employees and patrons were evacuated from the establishment. Police said no injuries were reported.
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Responding officers negotiated with the employee, who still possessed the handgun and additional ammunition, the report said. The employee agreed to leave the gun inside and surrender to police.
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The employee was taken to a hospital for evaluation. Police did not immediately release the employee’s identity. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/vermont-mcdonalds-evacuated-live-ammunition-explodes-grill-police | 2022-07-26T17:05:13Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/vermont-mcdonalds-evacuated-live-ammunition-explodes-grill-police | true |
(KLAS) – National Park Service (NPS) rangers have confirmed there was a report of human remains found at Lake Mead Monday afternoon. According to the NPS, the report came from a person at Swim Beach near Boulder Beach at Lake Mead around 4:30 p.m.
Park rangers set up a perimeter to recover the apparent remains, and said the Clark County Medical Examiner had been contacted to determine the cause of death.
This would not be the first time human remains have been found as the lake dramatically shrinks.
Earlier this year, a body was found in a barrel in an area that had previously been a half mile from shore before water levels receded. The person, believed to be a man, is suspected to have been murdered in the late-1970s or 1980s, investigators said.
Since Lake Mead’s filling in the 1930s, 300 people have drowned in its waters, park service officials told KLAS. The decade with the most drownings is the 1990s, records showed.
One person has drowned in the reservoir so far this year, park officials said. The number for 2021 is also one death. In 2020, eight people drowned.
In 2017, Outside Magazine ranked Lake Mead as the top deadliest national park in America.
Many wrecks, including a WWII-era Higgins landing craft have emerged from the waters recently.
Experts say climate change and drought have led to the lake dropping to its lowest level since it was full about 20 years ago.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton said last month that the agency would take action to protect the system if the seven states in the Colorado River basin don’t quickly come up with a way to cut the use of up to 4 million acre-feet of water — more than Arizona and Nevada’s share combined.
An acre-foot is about 325,850 gallons (about 1.23 million liters). An average household uses one-half to one acre-foot of water a year.
The two states, California and Mexico already have enacted voluntary and mandatory cuts. Water from some reservoirs in the upper basin — Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah — has been released to prop up Lake Powell.
Farmers use a majority of the river’s supply.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/new-human-remains-reportedly-found-in-lake-mead/ | 2022-07-26T17:07:10Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/new-human-remains-reportedly-found-in-lake-mead/ | false |
ATLANTA — A program launching Thursday is meant to help residents in Atlanta catch up on their water bills, according to the city's watershed management department.
Customers who are accepted into the department's F.L.O.A.T. program are eligible for "account adjustments, interest-free payment plans, and one-time grants and credits" for their water bills, including a comprehensive assistance program for single-family residences with,
- Account Balance Minimum of $300
- Flexible Payment Plans from 6 to 24 months
- Affordable down payments up to $300
The department said the program would also increase flexibility for seniors and fixed-income populations utilizing their Care and Conserve Program, Senior Citizen Discount Program and the federally funded Low Income Household Water Assistance Program.
F.L.O.A.T. is meant for customers with financial challenges, to "address field service requests and correct billing errors." It is available from July 28 till October 20; get more information at their website or by calling them at 404-546-0311.
Use their scheduler to make an appointment online or visit their locations in Atlanta to get registered for the program.
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WATCH: Woman arrested after waving pitchfork, whip outside grocery store
Published: Jul. 26, 2022 at 10:38 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
CLERMONT, Fla. (CNN) – A woman was arrested in Florida for waving a pitchfork and whip outside a Publix last week.
Video from the Florida Highway Patrol shows the woman standing outside in the rain in the parking lot.
Police identified her as 56-year-old Lisa Anne Slone and said she caused damage to a vehicle with the pitchfork.
Police said Slone was at the store trying to sell teddy bears. When an officer asked if she had taken anything that day, she answered yes.
Slone has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Devils sign D Jonas Siegenthaler for 5 years, $17 million
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Devils have signed defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler to a five-year, $17 million contract extension starting next season. General Manager Tom Fitzgerald announced the signing, saying the Swiss defenseman would make an annual average of $3.4 million with the two biggest paychecks in the first two years of the extension. Siegenthaler set career highs last season in games played (70), assists (13), points (14), shots (92), and in all-time, on-ice metrics. The 25-year-old led New Jersey defensemen in hits and ranked second in blocked shots. He was acquired from Washington in April 2021 for a draft pick. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/26/devils-sign-d-jonas-siegenthaler-for-5-years-17-million/ | 2022-07-26T17:08:24Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/26/devils-sign-d-jonas-siegenthaler-for-5-years-17-million/ | true |
MADRID, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gamelearn's serious game Echo was one of three educational games developed for Corporate/Vocational Skills Training to have been awarded a gold medal in the 2022 International Serious Play Awards Program. This is where creativity, innovation, and new technology meet, and the awards are a measuring stick for excellence in serious games and simulators that promote learning in various fields.
Echo is a dynamic game about coaching. Through eight interactive lessons and three real-life cases, learners assume the role of a prestigious coach tasked with assisting an important public figure in effectively implementing a global strategy to eliminate plastic from our oceans. It teaches and reinforces skills for coaching, empathy, assertive communication, neutrality, and effective questioning.
Echo has been played by almost 14,000 students in over 500 organizations all over the world, including Coca-Cola, KPMG, Michelin, and Santander. This serious game has achieved an average completion rate of 96.9% and a total score of 8.6 out of 10, earning it an average NPS (Net Promoter Score) of 53.3%. Quite a contrast compared to the NPS of -29 that employees give to traditional e-learning courses. The majority of users (98.7%) find it applicable to their daily life and 95% of them would recommend it to their colleagues.
Echo is only one of the many serious games in Gamelearn's catalog, the most-awarded game-based learning catalog in the world, which includes over 40 games on a variety of topics, including leadership, teamwork, diversity, inclusivity, or negotiation, among many others.
The winning formula for Gamelearn's serious games consists of:
- Quality content that's applicable to students' day-to-day lives both in and out of the office.
- Gamification and storytelling to hook players and promote engagement (levels, rankings, minigames, etc.), ensuring higher completion rates.
- Real-life simulations that give students the opportunity to practice their skills in a safe environment—all with instant and personalized feedback.
All of this earned Gamelearn's serious game a place in the Serious Play Awards' top three skills training games. Every year, the Serious Play Conference recognizes new and interesting developments in the world of serious games. It brings together professionals who are exploring the use of game-based learning, sharing their experience, and working together to shape the future of training and education.
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PORTLAND, Ore., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- theLotter Oregon, which launched two years ago, is reporting selling a massive number of lottery tickets after the multi-state Mega Millions rolled over last Friday. The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $810 million after no one picked the right numbers for the Friday night drawing. Eager to take part in tonight's draw, a growing number of people turn to Oregon's premier online lottery service.
"A jackpot like this reminds us all of events in 2016 and 2018," says Peggy Daniel, theLotter's U.S. Managing Director. "First, in January of 2016, Powerball rose to $1.586 billion: a sum which was won and shared by 3 ticketholders in Florida, California, and Tennessee. Mega Millions itself set a record in October 2018 when a single player in South Carolina won the $1.537 billion jackpot, making this the biggest win by a single ticket in lottery history. If the $810 Million Mega Millions jackpot isn't won tonight, it is set to rise towards the billion mark once again. And there is no reason why it couldn't be won by an Oregonian this time."
theLotter Oregon provides customers with a courier service for lottery tickets, meaning that people can order an official Oregon Lottery ticket on its website. It offers further features which differentiate it from other retailers: from subscriptions to special multi-draw packages.
So how does it work? "Our service aims to make playing Oregon's lotteries convenient and safe: a client simply places an order on our site and one of our couriers buys the ticket on the client's behalf. We then upload a scan of the actual paper ticket and always notify the client after winning any prize. Wins of up to $600 are transferred directly to a client's account, bigger prizes can be collected in person at Oregon Lottery offices," clarifies Daniel.
About theLotter Oregon
theLotter Oregon is an online ticket purchasing service enabling residents of Oregon to play Oregon lottery games online, with official Oregon Lottery tickets, from the comfort of home.
Download the app on iOS or Android and follow theLotter Oregon on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Gambling can be harmful if not controlled. Please play responsibly.
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Tel: (732) 546-8634
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Salmon stocks in England and Wales reaching crisis point, report warns
By Emaan Warraich
BBC News
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Wild Atlantic salmon stocks in England and Wales are at their lowest levels on record and are reaching crisis point, according to the Environment Agency.
Many factors such as climate change and overfishing are impacting salmon numbers globally.
In the latest EA survey 74% of salmon rivers are thought to be "at risk" - meaning salmon numbers are not at sustainable levels.
Only one river in England, the River Tyne, is in the 'not at risk" category.
Rivers in the South West, North West and Wales are the most affected.
Kevin Austin, deputy director for agriculture, fisheries and the natural environment for the Environment Agency said: "Today's assessment for England is of great concern and without urgent action wild Atlantic salmon could be lost from our rivers in our lifetimes.
"We have seen some real successes through our work with partners, particularly on the river Don and Tyne, but more much progress is needed.
"As the climate emergency becomes more acute, we need coordinated action between governments, partners and industry to enable stocks to stabilise and recover to sustainable levels."
In its annual survey of water quality, the Environment Agency called for tougher fines and prison sentences for those responsible for serious and deliberate pollution affecting water quality.
The Environment Agency and its partners are attempting to ease the pressures that affect the different life stages of salmon.
The priorities are:
- Improve marine survival
- Further reduce exploitation by nets and rods
- Remove barriers to migration and enhance habitat
- Safeguard sufficient flows
- Maximise spawning success by improving water quality
Work is also taking place to improve water quality and reduce the exploitation of salmon by both net and rod fisheries.
The Scottish government has described their salmon population as being at "crisis point" and have put £500,000 of funding to support wild salmon conservation measures.
Reported rod catching of salmon is the lowest since records began, and 75% of the previous five-year average according to the Scottish government. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62309252 | 2022-07-26T17:12:48Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62309252 | false |
(The Hill) — Over 1,000 cases of monkeypox were reported in New York City with cases still rising as the city continues to manage the outbreak.
The New York City Health Department said as of Monday, 1,040 people have been infected with monkeypox, with more cases likely not diagnosed. The department noted that cases are still rising.
The city has ramped up testing since the outbreak as the department urges anyone with possible symptoms see a health care provider for testing. Residents without a healthcare provider can also call 311.
While health experts are recommending the two-dose vaccine to protect against the virus, appointments in New York City are filled as the vaccine supply is low.
As of Monday, the state of New York had the most reported cases of monkeypox in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The grim milestone comes only days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency.
“We’re grateful for the World Health Organization’s recognition that monkeypox is a global emergency. In New York City, the outbreak has been a local emergency for weeks and we are putting every resource we have to stopping the spread,” NYC Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan tweeted Monday. “This outbreak must be met with urgency, action and resources, nationally and globally. This declaration reflects the seriousness of the moment.”
While the city health department asserted that “anyone can get and spread monkeypox,” it noted that infections have primarily spread among “social networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.”
The virus can cause symptoms like lesions, a rash and swelling of lymph nodes.
Nationwide, the (CDC) has confirmed more than 3,800 cases and over 18,000 globally. Cases in the U.S. were first detected in May and have spread rapidly ever since. | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/nyc-monkeypox-infections-surpass-1000/ | 2022-07-26T17:12:52Z | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/nyc-monkeypox-infections-surpass-1000/ | false |
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