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5 things to know for August 4: Alex Jones, January 6, Covid, Taiwan, Jackie Walorski
By AJ Willingham, CNN
Gas prices have been sinking for more than 50 days straight now, with the average nationwide price hovering around $4.16 a gallon. Still high, but better than the average of $5.02 a gallon in mid-June.
Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.
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1. Alex Jones
Court proceedings against far-right commentator Alex Jones took a dramatic turn Wednesday when a lawyer for two Sandy Hook parents revealed he had recently acquired evidence proving Jones had lied when he claimed under oath that he had never texted about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. In another notable moment during cross-examination, Jones was asked whether he had connected the judge overseeing the trial to pedophilia and human trafficking. When Jones denied having done so, lawyers played an Infowars video for the court that featured Jones leveling just such an attack. Jones has been sued by several Sandy Hook families for his relentless peddling of conspiracy theories related to the tragedy. This hearing will determine how much Jones will have to pay one pair of parents who won a default judgment against him earlier this year.
2. January 6
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and former deputy counsel Patrick Philbin have been subpoenaed in the federal criminal probe of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Philbin and Cipollone were both key witnesses to former President Donald Trump’s actions in the last days of his presidency, and these developments could suggest the Department of Justice’s probe could be aiming straight for Trump. This is also significant because, unlike the House probe, the DOJ could bring criminal charges against former Trump administration officials if it sees fit. The probe could also survive a shakeup in November if Republicans win the House and shut down the select committee’s investigation.
3. Covid-19
The CDC is expected to ease its guidance for Covid-19 control as early as this week, which could affect how the virus is handled in schools as a new year begins. A preview of the plans obtained by CNN shows the new recommendations ease quarantine restrictions for infected people and deemphasize social distancing. They also downplay regular screening testing for Covid-19 in schools as a way to monitor the spread of the virus. The recommendations aren’t legally binding, so different school districts can still make their own plans, including options like masks. Right now, more than 200 million people — about 60% of the total population — live in a county with a “high Covid-19 community level.”
4. Taiwan
China is following through on its promise to punish Taiwan for hosting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during her congressional visit to Asia this week. The country fired multiple missiles toward waters near northeastern and southwestern Taiwan and has begun exercises that Chinese state media claims simulate an air and sea “blockade” around the island. The display has already caused disruption to flight and ship schedules, and is causing unease among nearby powers like Japan. Taiwan, meanwhile, is bracing for further retaliatory attacks from China, which has long laid claim to the self-governing island. The Taiwanese government says it plans to strengthen security against cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns.
5. Jackie Walorski
Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski and two of her staffers were killed in a car crash Wednesday. Walorski, who was 58, represented Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District and had previously served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives. The congresswoman also served as the top Republican on the House Ethics Committee, a spot that put her in line to become chair of the panel if the GOP retakes the House majority in the upcoming midterm elections. News of her death sent shockwaves through the House, with representatives from both sides of the aisle honoring her for her civic service. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered flags at the Capitol to be flown at half-staff in her memory.
BREAKFAST BROWSE
The FAA is asking for public feedback on airplane seat size
Obviously we all want chaise lounges, but the FAA is just asking about safety issues — not comfort.
Get free entry to all US National Park sites today
If you were thinking about playing hooky and just enjoying the day today, this is your sign to do it.
Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions of consumers
As if credit scores aren’t confusing enough.
Chrissy Teigen is expecting another baby with husband John Legend
One more super talented child on the way!
Oreo is bringing back pumpkin spice sandwich cookies for fall
Have we met critical mass on the pumpkin spice flavor phenomenon? Ha! Never. Hand ’em over.
HAPPENING LATER
Closing arguments are expected today in WNBA star Brittney Griner’s drug-smuggling trial in Russia amid concerns that she is being used as a political pawn in the country’s war on Ukraine. The two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist has been in detention for six months and is being accused by Russian prosecutors of trying to smuggle less than 1 gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
TODAY’S NUMBER
6
That’s how many games Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will be suspended as punishment for “non-violent sexual misconduct” stemming from 24 civil lawsuits filed against him by massage therapists. The situation has mired the sports world in controversy, and the NFL says it is appealing the decision and pushing for a harsher full-season suspension instead.
TODAY’S QUOTE
“The Tour has ventured to harm the careers and livelihoods of any golfers … who have the temerity to defy the Tour and play in tournaments sponsored by the new entrant.”
— An excerpt from an antitrust lawsuit filed by six-time major champion Phil Mickelson and 10 other golfers on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series. The PGA Tour announced in June that any golfers that participated in the breakaway tour would be suspended and no longer eligible to play in PGA Tour tournaments. The LIV Golf series has been controversial because it is backed by a fund chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, whom US intelligence reports say was responsible for approving the operation that led to the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
TODAY’S WEATHER
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AND FINALLY
Quite a buzz
I have a lot of cool music things to share and I’m only in the 5 Things driver’s seat until the end of the week. So anyway, here is Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” played on a theremin. What’s a theremin, you ask? A very cool, very eerie electrical instrument that is played without any manual contact whatsoever. (Click here to view)
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Maloney doubles down on debate remark that she doesn’t think Biden will run in 2024 despite apologizing
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York publicly apologized to President Joe Biden while standing by her comments earlier in the week that she didn’t believe he would run for reelection in 2024.
“Mr. President, I apologize. I want you to run. I happen to think you won’t be running, but when you run or if you run, I will be there 100%,” she said during an appearance on CNN “New Day” Thursday.
Maloney, who’s running for reelection herself this year in the New York’s 12th Congressional District, had said “I don’t believe” Biden is running for reelection during a Tuesday night primary debate.
The comments from Maloney drew attention as she’s the latest high profile Democrat to publicly cast doubt on a second Biden term.
Asked Thursday by CNN’s Brianna Keilar why she thinks Biden won’t seek the White House again, Maloney replied that it was “just my own personal belief.” Pressed further, the New York congresswoman said: “Well, we are all entitled to have our own information and our own beliefs.”
She reiterated that she would support Biden if he decides to run, adding that “it’s totally his decision.”
A few Democrats have privately expressed concerns about Biden, who is approaching 80 and facing poor approval ratings, seeking a second term, while a few, including Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, have gone further in saying that Biden shouldn’t run.
Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and the President’s aides have pushed back on any idea that he won’t run again, with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying just last week that “the President intends to run in 2024.”
But an overwhelming number — 75% — of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters would like to see someone other than Biden be the party’s nominee in the 2024 election, according to a CNN poll out last month.
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The business mogul and founder of the Virgin Group teaches members how to transform
their wild ideas into sound business ventures—and have fun doing it
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects, today announced that Richard Branson will teach a class on disruptive entrepreneurship. As one of the most prominent business leaders in the world, Branson will provide members with invaluable insight into harnessing the adventurer's mindset and how leading with purpose, taking care of your people and an emphasis on entertaining both customers and the world at large can guide them to success. Branson's class is now available exclusively on MasterClass, where subscribers get unlimited access to all 150+ instructors with an annual membership.
"Richard has disrupted every industry he's touched," said David Rogier, founder and CEO of MasterClass. "In his class, Richard teaches his approach to building a business and breaking molds. He will shift members' perspectives and inspire them to pursue their biggest dreams."
Through honest reflection and humorous storytelling, Branson will authentically share the inspirations that motivated him, the failures that he grew from and the philosophy that guides him—while also outlining tangible key learnings that members can apply to their own pursuits. He will discuss his purpose, lessons from pioneers and disruptors, how to go up against industry goliaths and when to take business risks to build your personal brand. Branson also shares what it means to listen deeply and gives an exclusive look into his notebooks—the organizing foundation of how he keeps his businesses running at a high standard.
"Throughout my life, I've been drawn to the impossible business ventures that spark my curiosity," Branson said. "However, I've learned that reaching for the stars requires a daring and disruptive mindset, and I'm delighted to share my personal and professional experiences to help guide the next generation of innovators looking to change the world."
Richard Branson is the founder of the Virgin Group—a British multinational venture capital conglomerate that owns more than 400 subsidiary companies in entertainment, retail, travel, hospitality, mobile communications, banking, sports and aerospace. At 16, Branson started his first business venture—a magazine called Student. In 1970, he launched Virgin as a mail-order record retailer before founding Virgin Records, which went on to sign household names from the Sex Pistols to the Rolling Stones. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In 1997, he founded the Virgin Rail Group. He paved the way for space tourism in 2004, founding spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic and in 2017 founded the small satellite launch service Virgin Orbit. Branson is passionate about finding ways to drive positive change in the world. For his "services to entrepreneurship," Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace in March 2000. And in 2004, he established Virgin Unite, the nonprofit foundation of the Virgin Group, which unites people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world.
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MasterClass is the streaming platform where the world's best come together so anyone, anywhere, can access and be inspired by their knowledge and stories. With an annual membership, members get unprecedented access to 150+ instructors and classes across a wide variety of fields, including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more. Step into Nas' recording studio, Gordon Ramsay's kitchen and go behind the big screen with James Cameron. Design your career with Elaine Welteroth, get ready to win with Lewis Hamilton, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes and discover your inner negotiator with Chris Voss. Each class features about 20 video lessons, at an average of 10 minutes per lesson. You can learn and discover at a pace that best serves your lifestyle—in bite-size pieces or in a single binge, on mobile, tablet, desktop, Android™ TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku® players and devices. Cinematic visuals and close-up demonstrations make you feel like you're one-on-one with the instructors, while the downloadable Class Guides help reinforce your learning. For those looking to learn by doing, Sessions by MasterClass offers a structured, 30-day curriculum where members can roll up their sleeves, get hands-on and learn meaningful skills through step-by-step guidance from world-class instructors and an active community of peers. With MasterClass at Work, companies can keep their employees engaged and boost morale and motivation with immersive, short-form lessons from the world's best.
Follow MasterClass:
Twitter @masterclass
Instagram @masterclass
Facebook @masterclassofficial
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Congratulations! You just scored a backstage pass to the hottest tickets in town.
After COVID-19 put a pause on live entertainment, your favorite artists are ready to hit the road and entertain audiences safely with brand-new tours and experiences. And regardless of where you are, we're offering an all-access ticket to every must-see concert of the year. Welcome to E!'s Backstage Pass.
Ronnie Dunn wasn't sure what to expect when Brooks & Dunn decided to hit the road again.
After avoiding a tour bus, hectic travel schedule and massive arenas for more than 10 years, the country music duo—also made up of Kix Brooks—did not know if fans would be dusting off their cowboy boots to see them again.
"We jumped right in and, sure enough, the crowds were there in spades," Ronnie exclusively shared with E! News. "It's been going better than it ever has much to our surprise."
According to the 69-year-old, there's a "renewed excitement" after taking nearly a decade off. Now, everything is fresh and fun again."
"It's a different dynamic with our head game too," he explained. "We're not out there thinking each show is gonna make or break us. Our bills are paid now. We are free to play music now however we want to."
Ronnie is also relishing in sharing new music with both new and old fans. On July 29, the Grammy winner released a solo album titled 100 Proof Neon. As listeners are transported back in time to enjoy the sounds of ‘90s country, they also hear new collaborations with rising country artists like Parker McCollum and The Voice alum Jake Worthington.
"To see someone that young and that talented honoring hardcore country is really fun," Ronnie said of Jake. "He's great and funny. Parker's the same way. When he opens his mouth to sing, you just hear Texas all over the place."
As Brooks & Dunn prepare to wrap up the season with their final summer shows, E! News is getting an exclusive look at their Cheyenne Frontier Days performance in Wyoming. Keep scrolling for more backstage access.
Still looking for inside scoop on your favorite artists' tours? Here's how LeAnn Rimes is celebrating 25 years of music on the story...so far tour. Plus, Jewel shares how she follows her heart and intuition for a unique concert experience. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1340627/here-s-what-surprised-brooks-dunn-during-their-return-to-touring | 2022-08-04T14:23:33Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1340627/here-s-what-surprised-brooks-dunn-during-their-return-to-touring | false |
MARYVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clayton, a national home builder, and Family Promise, the nation's leading nonprofit addressing family homelessness, have expanded their partnership strategy, changing the way corporations are helping fight family homelessness.
In 2018, Clayton and Family Promise partnered to donate one off-site built home to a family facing housing insecurity. Just a few months later, the two organizations expanded the partnership significantly to establish A Future Begins at Home, an innovative prevention program that addresses the underlying causes of family homelessness and catalyzes funding from other sources to increase reach and impact. A Future Begins at Home has attracted more than $4.3 million in funding, serving more than 5,100 families facing housing insecurity, including over 11,300 children. In addition, Clayton has donated 12 homes to Family Promise Affiliates to support families facing housing insecurity.
"By partnering with corporations like Clayton, we are able to significantly increase our impact to help prevent even more families and children from experiencing the trauma of homelessness," said Claas Ehlers, Family Promise CEO. "When we were forced to close our shelters due to the pandemic, we were able to continue to serve our communities well through innovative prevention programs made possible by Clayton and other corporate partners. In 2021, 31,034 episodes of homelessness were avoided or shortened through prevention and diversion."
A Future Begins at Home awards grants to Family Promise Affiliates to provide case management, rental assistance, landlord mediation, transportation, childcare support and other important resources to families facing homelessness. With support from Clayton, Family Promise also piloted innovative prevention and diversion strategies - including landlord partnerships and pandemic relief efforts - enabling these programs to gain traction and prove results before scaling up nationally.
"At Family Promise, we work to help families avoid the trauma that comes from a family losing their housing," said Caroline Lamar, Regional Director (South), and former Executive Director of Family Promise of Blount County (TN). "Clayton understands the diverse and compounding challenges low-income families face nationwide with incredibly limited affordable housing options. Our partnership allows us to focus on preventing families from experiencing homelessness and providing them with alternatives to shelters if necessary."
During the last two years of the pandemic, thanks to the support of Clayton, Lamar says her Affiliate was well-positioned to keep families in their existing housing or identify emergency solutions that avoid shelter. "We supported a family with four children, one who needed heart surgery, which required the parents to travel to receive care. We ensured childcare, food, and transportation to school for the other siblings. We found mom and dad a place to stay near the hospital, so they didn't have to sleep in their car. In these kinds of situations, financially insecure families often are so overwhelmed they don't know what resources are available to them. They can lose income, and then, housing. I don't know how they would have cared for all of their kids if not for A Future Begins at Home."
"At Clayton, we believe companies have the privilege and ability to drive positive social change," said Kevin Clayton, Clayton CEO. "As we explore ways to expand our impact, our partnership with Family Promise helps us develop housing innovations that improve lives and build a better tomorrow for everyone."
In 2022, funding from Clayton aims to prevent 1,000 families and more than 2,400 children from becoming homeless through A Future Begins at Home. The company will also donate three off-site built homes to be used for transitional housing, which bridges the gap between shelter and permanent housing.
About Clayton
Founded in 1956, Clayton is committed to opening doors to a better life and building happyness® through homeownership. As a diverse builder committed to quality and durability, Clayton offers traditional site-built homes and off-site built housing – including modular homes, manufactured homes, CrossMod™ homes, tiny homes, college dormitories, military barracks and apartments. All Clayton Built® homes are proudly designed, engineered and assembled in America. In 2021, Clayton built 60,701 homes across the country. Clayton is a Berkshire Hathaway® company. For more information, visit claytonhomes.com.
CrossMod is a trademark of the Manufactured Housing Institute.
About the Family Promise
Family Promise envisions a nation in which every family has a home, a livelihood, and the chance to build a better future. What began as a local initiative in Summit, NJ, has become a national movement that operates in 200+ communities in 43 states. Family Promise delivers innovative solutions for family homelessness including prevention, shelter, and stabilization services. We have served 1 million family members since our founding more than 30 years ago, and we aspire to change the future for 1 million children by 2030 through our community-based programs. Learn more at FamilyPromise.org.
Family Promise is a trademark of Family Promise, Inc.
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The business mogul and founder of the Virgin Group teaches members how to transform
their wild ideas into sound business ventures—and have fun doing it
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best across a wide range of subjects, today announced that Richard Branson will teach a class on disruptive entrepreneurship. As one of the most prominent business leaders in the world, Branson will provide members with invaluable insight into harnessing the adventurer's mindset and how leading with purpose, taking care of your people and an emphasis on entertaining both customers and the world at large can guide them to success. Branson's class is now available exclusively on MasterClass, where subscribers get unlimited access to all 150+ instructors with an annual membership.
"Richard has disrupted every industry he's touched," said David Rogier, founder and CEO of MasterClass. "In his class, Richard teaches his approach to building a business and breaking molds. He will shift members' perspectives and inspire them to pursue their biggest dreams."
Through honest reflection and humorous storytelling, Branson will authentically share the inspirations that motivated him, the failures that he grew from and the philosophy that guides him—while also outlining tangible key learnings that members can apply to their own pursuits. He will discuss his purpose, lessons from pioneers and disruptors, how to go up against industry goliaths and when to take business risks to build your personal brand. Branson also shares what it means to listen deeply and gives an exclusive look into his notebooks—the organizing foundation of how he keeps his businesses running at a high standard.
"Throughout my life, I've been drawn to the impossible business ventures that spark my curiosity," Branson said. "However, I've learned that reaching for the stars requires a daring and disruptive mindset, and I'm delighted to share my personal and professional experiences to help guide the next generation of innovators looking to change the world."
Richard Branson is the founder of the Virgin Group—a British multinational venture capital conglomerate that owns more than 400 subsidiary companies in entertainment, retail, travel, hospitality, mobile communications, banking, sports and aerospace. At 16, Branson started his first business venture—a magazine called Student. In 1970, he launched Virgin as a mail-order record retailer before founding Virgin Records, which went on to sign household names from the Sex Pistols to the Rolling Stones. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In 1997, he founded the Virgin Rail Group. He paved the way for space tourism in 2004, founding spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic and in 2017 founded the small satellite launch service Virgin Orbit. Branson is passionate about finding ways to drive positive change in the world. For his "services to entrepreneurship," Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace in March 2000. And in 2004, he established Virgin Unite, the nonprofit foundation of the Virgin Group, which unites people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world.
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Credit: Courtesy of MasterClass
MasterClass is the streaming platform where the world's best come together so anyone, anywhere, can access and be inspired by their knowledge and stories. With an annual membership, members get unprecedented access to 150+ instructors and classes across a wide variety of fields, including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more. Step into Nas' recording studio, Gordon Ramsay's kitchen and go behind the big screen with James Cameron. Design your career with Elaine Welteroth, get ready to win with Lewis Hamilton, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes and discover your inner negotiator with Chris Voss. Each class features about 20 video lessons, at an average of 10 minutes per lesson. You can learn and discover at a pace that best serves your lifestyle—in bite-size pieces or in a single binge, on mobile, tablet, desktop, Android™ TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku® players and devices. Cinematic visuals and close-up demonstrations make you feel like you're one-on-one with the instructors, while the downloadable Class Guides help reinforce your learning. For those looking to learn by doing, Sessions by MasterClass offers a structured, 30-day curriculum where members can roll up their sleeves, get hands-on and learn meaningful skills through step-by-step guidance from world-class instructors and an active community of peers. With MasterClass at Work, companies can keep their employees engaged and boost morale and motivation with immersive, short-form lessons from the world's best.
Follow MasterClass:
Twitter @masterclass
Instagram @masterclass
Facebook @masterclassofficial
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Instagram @richardbranson
Facebook @RichardBranson
LinkedIn @rbranson
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House buyers in Wales may have to prove they can speak the language under new scheme intended to curb numbers of outsiders buying second homes
- In some areas of Wales, second homes make up 40% of the housing market
- Welsh-speakers could now be pushed to the front of the property queue
- From April 2023, councils will will be given discretionary powers to increase council tax premiums on second homes by up to 300%
House buyers in Welsh-speaking communities may have to start proving they can speak the language in a bid to curb the number of second home buyers in the country.
The proposed 'Fair Chance' scheme has been brought in to tackle the lack of affordable housing in Wales, particularly in places where there are large numbers of second homes.
In some areas, second homes make up almost 40% of housing in Wales which has been further increased by Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.
But the new scheme means that Welsh-speakers could be pushed to the front of the property queue in the latest move to address the housing crisis in Wales.
It is believed that the scheme will be voluntary and sellers may be able to offer their properties to locals for a set period before they go onto the open market to everyone else.
The trend of buying second homes has created a social crisis with a generation of young people unable to buy homes in the places where they grew up, driving migration and fuelling resentment.
Residents of Welsh-speaking communities have formed the Hawi i Fyw Adra (Right to Live Locally) pressure group to raise awareness around second homes and the lack of safeguards for Welsh communities
Steps to protect Welsh place names will also be announced by the Welsh Government today at the National Eisteddfod in Tregaron, Ceredigion.
Overseeing the measures will be a new ten-strong Commission for Welsh-speaking Communities in Comisiwn Cymunedau Cymraeg, where experts will combine to help protect the Welsh language.
In Tregaron, Jeremy Miles, minister for education and Welsh language, will give a taste of Cardiff's plans to safeguard Welsh-speaking communities - and to stem the rise of second homes.
'For the Welsh language to thrive, we need sustainable communities and good job opportunities in the areas where it is widely spoken,' he said.
'This isn't about imposing solutions, so everything we do will be in line with local communities' aspirations.'
But there is still major concern over whether houses will even be affordable, given their sharp rise in price in recent years.
Critics have called for the supply of affordable housing to increase before the property crisis can be eased.
The Welsh Government said it will work with estate agents in worst-hit communities ahead of the publication of the final Welsh Language Community Housing Plan (WLCHP) in the autumn.
Second home buyers have played a role in pushing house prices up but new curbs may force them out as the Welsh government looks to offer Welsh-speakers priority in the property queue. Pictured: Abersoch, North Wales - known by some as Cheshire by the Sea due to its popularity
This plan will also include support for social enterprises and community housing co-operatives, as well as steps to protect Welsh place names from erosion by English language alternatives.
Chairing the Commission is Swansea University academic Dr Simon Brook whose appointment stems from an independent review of second homes policy he undertook for the Welsh Government in 2021.
The report led to a handful of interventions implemented by Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru as part of their Co-operation Agreement, most notably when it was announced councils will be given discretionary powers to increase council tax premiums on second homes - and long-term empty homes - by up to 300%.
From next April, self-catered accommodation must be let for half the year to avoid council tax premiums.
The measures appear to be having an effect already, with second home numbers falling slightly in counties like Gwynedd as owners grapple with a 100% council tax premium.
Despite the interventions, there is still concert that there is little being done to address the rise of Airbnb short-term holiday lets which has further tightened property supplies.
Mr Miles expects the Commission to provide more solutions and warned some may be 'difficult' to swallow.
'I've said many times that the Cymraeg belongs to us all, as does the responsibility for its future,' he said. 'We'll have to be brave and tackle things together that might be difficult.
'I'm sure that some of the things the Commission will tell us will be challenging, but that's important - that's what will help us find the most effective answers!'
Comisiwn Cymunedau Cymraeg will produce a report spanning policy areas from education to the economy. Its views are expected to be 'candid'.
As chair, Dr Brooks said the report will 'examine the linguistic reality of Welsh-speaking communities' in order to 'safeguard them for future generations'. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11080801/House-buyers-prove-speak-WELSH-purchase-properties-curb-second-home-numbers.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-04T14:25:18Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11080801/House-buyers-prove-speak-WELSH-purchase-properties-curb-second-home-numbers.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CCXI, NVIV, GRNA, MF, and NNVC.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- CCXI: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=CCXI&prnumber=080420222
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Donations to Support Local Member Hospitals of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and Boys & Girls Clubs Nationwide
ROSEMEAD, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Cares®, the philanthropic arm of Panda Express®, honors its anniversary on August 8, Panda Cares Day®, every year with a celebration of giving. To invite its guests to the special occasion this year, Panda Express is launching its largest national virtual fundraiser yet. For every online and mobile order placed using the code 'PCD2022' on August 8, 2022, Panda will donate 28 percent of pre-tax event sales to their local member hospital of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN Hospitals) and Boys & Girls Club, matching the total donation up to $250,000.
Furthermore, Panda Cares is bringing the celebration to youth in underserved communities across the nation through more than 100 local events in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The children will be gifted school supplies, books, and exclusive Panda Express swag.
"Panda Cares Day is very special to us, as each year we experience the power of coming together with our extended Panda family of guests and associates to uplift the communities we serve," said Dr. Peggy Cherng, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Panda Express. "The donations we raise through the Panda Cares donation program every day and the virtual fundraiser initiative provide health and educational resources that open up doors to opportunities and a brighter future."
Following a recent pledge of $10.5 million to Boys & Girls Clubs of America to fund in-person educational opportunities across more than 600 clubs, Panda Cares unveiled the first Center of Hope located within a Chicago club in May 2022, with plans to open more across the country. The Panda Cares Centers of Hope across CMN Hospitals and Boys & Girls Clubs inspire hope and promote healing and growth by providing specially curated programs that address each child's entire well-being, including their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs. Art, music, libraries, and counseling are some of the many initiatives housed in these Panda Cares Centers of Hope. CMN Hospitals and Boys & Girls Clubs of America are longtime partners of Panda Cares and have enabled the foundation to support millions of children and families over the years.
"We are thrilled to partner with Panda Cares today, on its anniversary, and every day, as we continue to provide positive social-emotional and academic learning experiences to help young people thrive," said Jim Clark, president and CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America. "Not only will this high-quality programming help kids and teens reach their full potential, but it will continue to address the opportunity gap, enabling youth to explore their interests and passions, positioning them for a great future."
"Panda Express has instilled a culture of giving and caring among their guests and associates that translates into impact in the communities they serve," said Teri Nestel, President and CEO of CMN Hospitals. "Our shared values to positively change kids' health goes beyond helping those in critical situations; it's about helping make sure that all kids receive the best possible care."
Panda Cares is funded by guests, business partners and associates of Panda Express, Panda Inn, Hibachi-San, and other Panda Restaurant Group partners through the in-store/online donation box program. The Foundation also offers food donations and provides volunteers to support underserved youth nationwide and for disaster relief efforts. To date, Panda Cares has raised more than $282 million and countless volunteer hours in bettering the health and education for over 13 million young people and supporting communities.
For more information about Panda Cares, please visit PandaCares.org.
About Panda Express
On a mission to inspire better lives, Panda Express® is the largest Asian dining concept in the U.S. Family-owned and operated since 1983 by Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Andrew and Peggy Cherng, Panda Express is best known as a trailblazer for creating a wide variety of industry-first recipes, including its best seller The Original Orange Chicken® and award-winning Honey Walnut Shrimp, which have defined the category of authentic American Chinese cuisine. Each dish at Panda Express is thoughtfully crafted with quality ingredients and inspired by bold Chinese flavors and culinary principles. The restaurant brand has more than 2,300 locations and has introduced American Chinese cuisine to 12 international countries.
Powered by this global family of associates, Panda Cares®, Panda's philanthropic arm, has raised more than $282 million and dedicated countless volunteer hours in bettering the health and education for over 13 million youth, as well as supporting communities in need since 1999. In 2021, Panda Express established the Panda CommUnity Fund — a five-year, $10 million community investment and response program that supports immediate and sustainable solutions from national and local organizations to uplift diverse groups, including people of color and other marginalized communities. For more information about Panda, visit pandaexpress.com, or find us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
About Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds for 170 children's hospitals that support the health of 10 million kids each year across the U.S. and Canada. Donations go to local hospitals to fund critical life-saving treatments and healthcare services, along with innovative research, vital pediatric medical equipment, child life services that put kids' and families' minds at ease during difficult hospital stays and financial assistance for families who could not otherwise afford these health services. When we improve the health of all children and allow them the opportunity to reach their full potential, we also improve our communities for years to come. Together, we can change kids' health. Together, we can change the future. To learn about Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and your local children's hospital, visit cmnhospitals.org.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of America
For 160 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA.org) has enabled young people most in need to achieve great futures as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Today, more than 4,900 Clubs serve over 4.3 million young people through Club membership and community outreach. Clubs are located in cities, towns, public housing and on Native lands throughout the country, and serve military families in BGCA-affiliated Youth Centers on U.S. military installations worldwide. They provide a safe place, caring adult mentors, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Club programs promote academic success, good character and citizenship, and healthy lifestyles. In a Harris Survey of alumni, 54 percent said the Club saved their lives. National headquarters are located in Atlanta. Learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America on Facebook and Twitter.
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MIAMI, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sneaker Impact is proud to announce a new partnership with Westland Mall in Hialeah, FL as we continue our mission to grow the sustainability movement in the Hispanic community and educate about environmental and social health around the world.
Westland Mall, owned by Centennial Real Estate, is located just 20 minutes North from Miami International Airport in Hialeah, FL (the 5th largest city in Florida and the largest Cuban American population in the US). Westland is a regional mall that features nearly 100 stores and restaurants and has been the hub of this community for several decades. Partnering with Sneaker Impact aligns with Centennial's corporate social responsibility program, See Centennial, built on three cornerstones of Sustainability, Efficiency and the Environment. See Centennial strives to maintain environmental operations that foster a sustainable future for its properties and leads to improvements in the communities where they do business.
In addition to our past Sustainability initiatives to make buildings more energy-efficient and green, reduce waste by increasing recycling and composting, adding EV (electric vehicle) charging stations and other green certifications and upgrades, Sneaker Impact will now collect and upcycle used sneakers at their educationally-branded collection boxes throughout Westland Mall and its stores throughout the year. The shoes are rehabilitated when needed and shipped to developing countries around the globe where jobs are created through micro-businesses in marketplaces.
This is significant because 87% of all sneakers (estimates are 300 million pairs or more per year in the US alone) are thrown away into the landfill after their first life vs. the small minority that are upcycled. And it can take over 1,000 years for a modern sneaker to break down due to plastics and other materials. Upcycling means reusing discarded objects or materials, giving something a second life in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original. In the case of used sneakers, that means providing essential footwear to those in need, supporting micro-businesses who sell them and protecting the environment. Through sustainability efforts we help by maintaining a balance between nature, healthy communities, and economic vitality.
An impactful amount of the world depends on "second hand" sneakers. Sneaker Impact fulfills the urgent demand for gently used sneakers in these developing countries by supplying merchants with footwear to improve the quality of life within their community.
Without access to proper footwear, 1.5 billion people have been infected by diseases that are transmitted through contaminated soils, children are not permitted to attend school, and many people are unable to work. By partnering with Westland Mall, local businesses and people like you in our community, we give your sneakers a second life while transforming lives.
"We partner with Hispanic communities throughout South Florida and the United States to support many disadvantaged communities in the Caribbean, Central and South America, bringing awareness and spreading the message about the sneaker upcycling movement" says Moe Hachem, CEO of Sneaker Impact. "Recycling comes in many forms, but the only competition we have is the landfills. Global awareness and sustainability begins with us because if we don't do our part, then there will be no us."
These efforts are starting to gain traction. Through fundraising programs in Miami Dade County Public Schools, Sneaker Impact has been able to collect over 1,500 pairs in as little as one semester. And at the 2022 Miami Marathon, over 20,000 runners received a compostable collection bag from Sneaker Impact to give their sneakers a second life and help in places of need. Regional malls like Westland Mall in Hialeah are leading the movement in sustainability, educating locally while benefiting globally.
To learn more please visit sneakerimpact.com or if you would like to partner as a drop off location or wish to speak to their team to start recycling your sneakers, please send an email to info@sneakerimpact.com.
Centennial is a real estate investment firm with a national portfolio of shopping, dining, entertainment and mixed-use destinations as well as a full-service property management platform delivered through Centennial Advisory Services, its third-party property and asset management division.
Rooted in retail since 1997, Centennial is focused on shaping the evolution of American retail by creating a superior multi-faceted shopping experience through properties that serve not only as a place of commerce, but as a place of community. For more information, visit CentennialREC.com.
Westland Mall is an 835,000-square-foot regional shopping center in Hialeah, Florida, just northwest of Miami. The shopping center boasts nearly 100 retailers, services and restaurants, including Macy's, JCPenney, H&M, Bath & Body Works, Foot Locker, Windsor, Pandora, TOUS, G by Guess, Victoria's Secret, Aeropostale, T-Mobile, Outback Steakhouse, Chili's Grill & Bar, and Subway. Westland Mall is conveniently located in the heart of Dade County and provides visitors with easy access from every major thoroughfare, including the I-75, Palmetto Expressway, Florida Turnpike, and US-27. For more information, visit https://www.shoppingwestlandmall.com/ or follow the center on Facebook and Instagram.
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A New Jersey man had a suspended license and was under the influence of “intoxicating substances” when he caused a three-vehicle crash in Wall earlier this summer that left an 82-year-old man dead.
Nolan T. Dickerson, 27, of Wall, was charged Monday with vehicular homicide and causing death while operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, Wall police said Thursday.
The crash, which happened just after 10 a.m. on June 27, killed Paul Yuro, 82, of Brick. | https://www.nj.com/news/2022/08/driver-was-unlicensed-intoxicated-in-crash-that-killed-82-year-old-man-cops-say.html | 2022-08-04T14:34:59Z | https://www.nj.com/news/2022/08/driver-was-unlicensed-intoxicated-in-crash-that-killed-82-year-old-man-cops-say.html | false |
Home / Coffee Access\nDutch International Airport\nCappucccio Caption (s.v): Italian 4.a › Capellino (n): Capes, baskets woven with red threads over their shoulders to use around hedgers when making corn plantains (Granosal.com / Un Pintas / El Mundo and El Diario; August to November, from November from March - September, at El Dor. More employers are being required to include salary in their job postings. Colorado already does this, New York City will require it in November and Washington state's requirement starts in January.
"If I'm a job seeker, and I see an organization posting a salary range, I know what this organization values their employees, that it is there in black and white," said Lulu Seikaly, a senior corporate attorney with Payscale.
She said it's not that companies don't want job seekers to know salary information up-front, it's that getting it right takes work.
"We hear from our customers, 'Well, we don't know that we can compete with a Google or Amazon if we post our salary ranges' and what we tell them is, 'Well, do the work do the work on the back end make sure that you're taking care of your folks internally,'" she said. "Then figure out what your budget allows in terms of how you're going to recruit the future of your company."
Seikaly said this kind of salary transparency benefits both employers and job seekers. Employers can attract top talent and candidates, especially women and people of color, know the value of the job. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/more-states-will-require-employers-to-list-salaries | 2022-08-04T14:35:05Z | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/more-states-will-require-employers-to-list-salaries | true |
Ashok Leyland dealer ties up with Kenya Commercial Bank
Ashok Leyland Ltd.’s (ALL) authorised distributor in Kenya, Deluxe Trucks and Buses, has signed an agreement with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) to jointly promote the commercial vehicle manufacturer’s brand.
“The partnership targets individuals, small, medium-sized companies, and large commercial businesses for flexible financing of up to 95% of the vehicle cost,” Ameet Shroff, MD, Deluxe Trucks and Buses E.A, said in a statement.
Owned by Simba Corp, Deluxe Trucks & Buses is the sole authorised distributor of ALL trucks and buses in Kenya. The vehicles are locally assembled at Associated Vehicle Assemblers (AVA) which is also owned by Simba Corp.
.Deluxe Trucks and Buses current network includes dealerships in Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa and Thika
Meanwhile, ALL announced it has strengthened its AVTR portfolio by introducing 250HP, 6-cylinder 4 Valve engine with premium N Cabin in haulage, tractor and tipper segments.
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More employers are being required to include salary in their job postings. Colorado already does this, New York City will require it in November and Washington state's requirement starts in January.
"If I'm a job seeker, and I see an organization posting a salary range, I know what this organization values their employees, that it is there in black and white," said Lulu Seikaly, a senior corporate attorney with Payscale.
She said it's not that companies don't want job seekers to know salary information up-front, it's that getting it right takes work.
"We hear from our customers, 'Well, we don't know that we can compete with a Google or Amazon if we post our salary ranges' and what we tell them is, 'Well, do the work do the work on the back end make sure that you're taking care of your folks internally,'" she said. "Then figure out what your budget allows in terms of how you're going to recruit the future of your company."
Seikaly said this kind of salary transparency benefits both employers and job seekers. Employers can attract top talent and candidates, especially women and people of color, know the value of the job. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/more-states-will-require-employers-to-list-salaries | 2022-08-04T14:40:57Z | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/more-states-will-require-employers-to-list-salaries | false |
2022 Meijer LPGA Classic achieved highest fundraising total, attendance in event history
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meijer is pleased to announce that it's making a $25,000 donation to Kids' Food Basket in Grand Rapids for the second consecutive year on behalf of Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give Champion Jennifer Kupcho.
This donation comes after the highest fundraising total in tournament history and supports a tradition that started last year to support a hunger relief program of the champion's choice. In 2021, Champion Nelly Korda also elected to give the surprise $25,000 donation to Grand Rapids-based Kids' Food Basket.
"It speaks volumes to the spectacular community support these players feel during tournament week that two consecutive champions would choose to keep their donation in Grand Rapids," Meijer President & CEO Rick Keyes said. "Our spectators, volunteers and business partners make the tournament experience one of the best on the tour – not just for our community but clearly for the players, as well."
Beyond the tournament's $1.25 million donation to Simply Give, the 2022 Meijer LPGA Classic also set attendance records with more than 60,000 spectators and 1,000 volunteers throughout the week.
Included in those 60,000 spectators was the Bouwkamp family, who live near Blythefield Country Club and have hosted Kupcho, and her husband, in their home for the last two tournaments. Kupcho chose to support Kids' Food Basket as a thank you to her host family, who have a special tie to the organization.
"I learned about this incredible organization from the host family that I've stayed with during tournament week for the past 2 years, as my host Damon Bouwkamp works at Kids' Food Basket," Kupcho said. "The efforts they're leading to increase access to healthy foods for children and foster food equity in this community are amazing and having this personal connection to the organization makes this even more special to me."
Bouwkamp said her choice to donate to Kids' Food Basket came as a welcome surprise but credits the West Michigan community for inspiring her decision, not just his family.
"Jennifer is a great golfer, but now she's also shown her great heart for West Michigan," said Bouwkamp, Manager of Volunteer Services at Kids' Food Basket. "In her last 2 years staying with us and competing in the tournament, she's seen what our community is about – caring for each other."
A long-time partner of Kids' Food Basket, Meijer donated $1 million to the children's food equity nonprofit in March to support the expansion of Grand Rapids Public Schools' Meijer Weekend Meal Program.
"For more than 10 years, Kids' Food Basket has partnered with Meijer to nourish kids to reach their full potential in school and in life, while helping to break down the barriers to food equity in our community. We are so inspired by and grateful for this incredible gift from Jennifer Kupcho," said Bridget Clark Whitney, President and Founding CEO of Kids' Food Basket. "Through this gift Jennifer continues to showcase how to be a role model for kids in local communities and demonstrates that we can all use our talents to work toward a greater good. This donation helps increase healthy food access for children and families in our West Michigan communities, which is needed now more than ever."
Tournament officials credit the remarkable community support they receive as the primary driving factor for the tournament's ongoing success.
"Our tournament is a testament to our community and our collective commitment to supporting each other here in West Michigan," said Cathy Cooper, Executive Director of the Meijer LPGA Classic. "On behalf of everyone involved in the tournament, we'd like to thank our community, business and nonprofit partners for making this donation and all our donations possible."
Next year's tournament will take place over Father's Day weekend on June 15-18, 2023.
About Meijer: Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates 262 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer has a fundamental philosophy aimed at strengthening the communities it serves and proudly donates more than 6 percent of its net profit each year to charities throughout the Midwest. With hunger as a corporate philanthropic focus, Meijer partners with hundreds of food banks and pantries through its Simply Give and food rescue programs. Meijer also supports education, disaster relief, and health and wellness initiatives. For additional information on Meijer philanthropy, please visit meijercommunity.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.
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DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Energy is pleased to announce that Johan van Walsem has been promoted to President and COO, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Mr. van Walsem will focus on executing the strategic goal of commercializing and deploying the company's FastOx gasification technology for conversion of waste to energy and products on an international basis.
Chairman and CEO Mike Hart will continue to lead the company's strategic direction to ensure the transformative potential of FastOx technology is fully realized.
Mr. van Walsem joined Sierra Energy in December of 2019 as the COO. Under his leadership, the company has made great progress and achieved significant commercial traction with strong interest from international partners to license the FastOx gasification technology. In addition, he will lead the company's efforts to explore project opportunities in the United States where it can capture significant value by building, owning, and operating a FastOx gasification showcase facility.
Prior to joining Sierra Energy as COO, Mr. van Walsem held similar roles at Metabolix and Lygos, leading successful scale-up and commercialization of biobased products for both entities.
Mr. van Walsem holds a Master of Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and an MBA from the University of South Africa. He began his career executing engineering projects and operating coal gasification to ammonia and fermentation-based lysine plants in South Africa.
Sierra Energy is a waste gasification company founded in Davis, California. The company has developed FastOx gasification, a technology that transforms waste into particulate and tar-free synthesis gas suitable for downstream conversion to clean, renewable energy and fuels without creating new waste byproducts. Sierra Energy believes gasification is the path to a zero-waste future for us all. Visit https://sierraenergy.com for more information or follow us on Twitter via @FastOx.
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DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Energy is pleased to announce that Johan van Walsem has been promoted to President and COO, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Mr. van Walsem will focus on executing the strategic goal of commercializing and deploying the company's FastOx gasification technology for conversion of waste to energy and products on an international basis.
Chairman and CEO Mike Hart will continue to lead the company's strategic direction to ensure the transformative potential of FastOx technology is fully realized.
Mr. van Walsem joined Sierra Energy in December of 2019 as the COO. Under his leadership, the company has made great progress and achieved significant commercial traction with strong interest from international partners to license the FastOx gasification technology. In addition, he will lead the company's efforts to explore project opportunities in the United States where it can capture significant value by building, owning, and operating a FastOx gasification showcase facility.
Prior to joining Sierra Energy as COO, Mr. van Walsem held similar roles at Metabolix and Lygos, leading successful scale-up and commercialization of biobased products for both entities.
Mr. van Walsem holds a Master of Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and an MBA from the University of South Africa. He began his career executing engineering projects and operating coal gasification to ammonia and fermentation-based lysine plants in South Africa.
Sierra Energy is a waste gasification company founded in Davis, California. The company has developed FastOx gasification, a technology that transforms waste into particulate and tar-free synthesis gas suitable for downstream conversion to clean, renewable energy and fuels without creating new waste byproducts. Sierra Energy believes gasification is the path to a zero-waste future for us all. Visit https://sierraenergy.com for more information or follow us on Twitter via @FastOx.
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Aligned with CHOP and AHA's shared mission to improve cardiac care, grant supports research aiming to discover new hormones secreted from the heart
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has received a $400,000 grant from the American Heart Association (AHA) to help study heart-secreted hormones. The funding, which will be disbursed in yearly increments through 2027, supports CHOP researcher Liming Pei, PhD, who studies heart-derived hormones in physiology and disease, an emerging new field known as "cardiac endocrinology."
"Our hearts secrete hormones that play important functional roles in cardiovascular physiology and disease; however, few heart-derived hormones have been identified," said Liming Pei, PhD, Principal Investigator and Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This grant will provide critical support for a highly innovative research project that could lead to new and better treatments for those with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases."
The funding will help the Pei Lab develop novel tools and models to discover new heart-secreted proteins and reveal the mechanism and functional importance of these hormones in cardiovascular biology and disease. The researchers hope to significantly advance the understanding of how the heart communicates with the rest of the body and, in doing so, identify new therapeutic targets for cardiovascular diseases and related conditions.
"We, along with the American Heart Association, aspire to advance research that improves cardiac care," said Daniel Kelly, MD, Director of the CHOP Cardiovascular Institute. "This generous grant from the organization will further assist critical research in understanding the heart, advance our understanding of cardiovascular diseases, and help ensure the health and wellness the next generation of children."
A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
The American Heart Association is a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. We are dedicated to ensuring equitable health in all communities. Through collaboration with numerous organizations, and powered by millions of volunteers, we fund innovative research, advocate for the public's health and share lifesaving resources. The Dallas-based organization has been a leading source of health information for nearly a century. Connect with us on heart.org, Facebook, Twitter or by calling 1-800- AHA-USA1.
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SÃO PAULO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EMBRAER S.A. (NYSE: ERJ; B3: EMBR3) releases its Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Results.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Firm order backlog ended 2Q22 at US$ 17.8 billion (+US$0.5 billion versus 1Q22). This is the highest quarter backlog post pandemic, driven by solid order activity. Recent announcement of 20 E195-E2 firm order of Porter will be included in 3Q22 backlog.
- Reported 2Q22 consolidated gross margin of 22.9% higher than 18.2% reported in 2Q21, with y-o-y improvement in most segments due to product mix, pricing increase and overall operational performance, including tax efficiencies.
- Adjusted EBIT and EBITDA were US$ 81.2 million and US$ 124.6 million, respectively, yielding Adjusted EBIT margin of 8.0% and Adjusted EBITDA margin of 12.2%.
- In 2Q22, Embraer reported Adjusted Net Income (excluding deferred taxes and special items) of US$ 39.4 million and Earnings per Share of US$ 0.40.
- Free cash flow (FCF) in 2Q22 was a surplus of US$ 91.2 million, representing a significant improvement compared to the US$ 45.1 million in FCF in 2Q21, supported by divestment of Évora's facilities and EVE's IPO offset by working capital needs and liability management strategy.
- The Company finished the quarter with net debt of US$ 1.198 billion, or US$ 0.255 billion less than 1Q22 in line with the strategy to improve our capital structure and liability management.
- We reaffirm all aspects of our 2022 financial and deliveries guidance, with no material variation.
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WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — The baby formula shortage continues; however, help is reportedly on the way. For more information concerning which states are experiencing hardships during the shortage, watch the video above.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
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Caladrius Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLBS)'s merger with Cend Therapeutics, Inc. Upon closing of the proposed merger, Cend shareholders will receive approximately 60.5 million shares of Caladrius common stock, subject to certain closing conditions, resulting in the shareholders of each company owning approximately 50% of the combined company. If you are a Caladrius shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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Landmark installation located at the Port of Jaffa in Tel Aviv will be the first wave-powered energy station connected to Israel's energy grid.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (Nasdaq Capital Market: WAVE) ("Eco Wave Power" or the "Company") announced today that it has officially commenced test runs of its newly installed wave energy pilot project at the Port of Jaffa in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The EWP-EDF One project is executed in collaboration and co-funding from EDF Renewables IL and the Israeli Energy Ministry, which recognized the Eco Wave Power technology as "Pioneering Technology."
The real-conditions testing was initiated in July 2022 with the purpose of examining the operation of the mechanical and hydraulic subsystems of the project. During the testing, the Eco Wave Power floaters were lowered to the water and tested for the very first time, resulting in a green light for the next phases of the project, which will include grid connection and testing of the overall system, to be followed by full operation.
Once testing and final works are completed including the grid-connection, the Company will have an official launch of its power station.
"Lowering the floaters into the water for the very first time was an exciting moment for our team. It is incredible to witness a technology that starts from sketches and calculations to an actual soon-to-be grid connected wave energy project. We are now working hard to ensure that the EWP-EDF One pilot project will be functioning and operating at optimum levels," said Inna Braverman, Founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power.
"We are pleased with the results of our very first real-conditions test run," said David Leb, Founder and Board Member of Eco Wave Power. "We are looking forward to the completion of the grid connection works by the Israeli Electric Company ("IEC"), which will enable us to start providing clean, renewable electricity to Israel's national grid through the power of the waves."
On August 1st, 2022, Eco Wave Power's engineering team met with representatives from the Israeli Electric Company (IEC) to coordinate the next steps for the actual grid connection works.
Once connected to the grid, the EWP-EDF One wave energy pilot project will be the first time in the history of Israel that electricity produced by the power of the waves will be officially transmitted to Israel's national electric grid.
About Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ)
Eco Wave Power is a leading onshore wave energy technology company that developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient technology for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity. Eco Wave Power's mission is to assist in the fight against climate change by enabling commercial power production from the ocean and sea waves.
The Company is currently finalizing the construction of its grid connected project in Israel, with co-investment from the Israeli Energy Ministry, which recognized the Eco Wave Power technology as "Pioneering Technology" and will soon commence the installation of its newest pilot in AltaSea's premises in the Port of Los Angeles. The Company also holds concession agreements for commercial installations in Europe and has a total projects pipeline of 327.7MW.
Eco Wave Power received funding from the European Union Regional Development Fund, Innovate UK and the European Commission's Horizon 2020 framework program. The Company has also received the "Global Climate Action Award" from the United Nations.
Eco Wave Power's American Depositary Shares (WAVE) are traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market. More info: www.ecowavepower.com.
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By Stephen Nakrosis
Shares of Applied DNA Sciences Inc., which gained 311% on Tuesday, are still heading up on Wednesday, following news the company initiated analytical validation of a company-developed monkeypox virus test.
At 3:22 p.m. ET, Applied DNA's shares were trading 44.64% higher at $4.05 a share. Volume at the time topped 101 million shares, above the stock's 65-day average volume of some 1.9 million shares.
The company said its wholly owned clinical laboratory subsidiary, Applied DNA Clinical Labs LLC, initiated the analytical validation. If the test is validated by its subsidiary, a validation package will be submitted to New York State Department of Health for approval, Applied DNA said.
Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/applied-dna-shares-continue-to-rise-day-after-stock-gains-over-300-271659554900 | 2022-08-04T14:56:37Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/applied-dna-shares-continue-to-rise-day-after-stock-gains-over-300-271659554900 | false |
Ad spending on audio/video streaming services to see strong gains
CLEVELAND, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- US advertising service revenues are forecast to advance 8.0% yearly in nominal dollars through 2026, according to Advertising Services: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Rising levels of consumer spending are expected to support expansion of corporate revenues and the creation of new firms and brands, and by extension, advertising budgets, fueling growth. As more consumers turn to streaming audio and video services, spending on advertising on those platforms is expected to see rapid growth. The presence of a US presidential election year (2024) is also expected to boost election advertising spending. However, revenue growth will slow down over the forecast period as the streaming market matures and competition from management consultancies and tech firms siphon away advertising revenue.
Advertising revenues are projected to expand 16% in 2022. Gains reflect a pickup in consumer spending and corporate revenues as the economy continues to recover. Advertisers will also raise prices to cover rising wage and other expenses due to a tight labor market and inflation.
These and other key insights are featured in Advertising Services: United States. This report forecasts to 2022 and 2026 US advertising services revenues in nominal US dollars. Total demand is segmented by establishment type in terms of:
- advertising agencies
- media representatives
- public relations agencies
- media buying agencies
- direct mail advertisers
- display advertisers
- ad material distributors
- other establishments such as product demonstration, display lettering, and welcoming services
To illustrate historical trends, total revenues, the various segments, and advertising spending by media type are provided in annual series from 2011 to 2021.
Excluded from the scope of this report are advertising revenues from establishments that do not provide advertising services as their primary activity, as reported to the US Census Bureau. For example, advertising revenues earned by television networks, newspaper publishers, social media websites, and internet search engine providers are excluded. Search engine optimization (SEO) services are also excluded.
This report includes the results of a proprietary national online consumer survey of US adults (age 18+). This Freedonia Focus Reports National Survey has a sample size of approximately 2,000, screened for response quality, and representative of the US population on the demographic measures of age, gender, geographic region, race/ethnicity, household income, and the presence/absence of children in the household.
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Analysis is intended to guide the busy reader through pertinent topics in rapid succession, including:
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Creek runs red after food dye mishap
Published: Aug. 4, 2022 at 9:10 AM CDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (WPVI) - It was a bizarre sight in New Jersey where a creek ran red due to a food dye mishap.
Just outside of Philadelphia, a portion of the Pennsauken Creek turned bright red.
It turns out that a beverage facility was to blame.
Officials said it happened after the TopPop Packaging Company improperly discharged red dye into the wastewater treatment system.
While the substance was not hazardous, the beverage manufacturer did receive a violation.
Officials said the red dye should clear in 24 to 48 hours.
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Two cats and one popular Twitter artist helped unite a man and woman separated by more than 4,600 miles.
It all started on Twitter — specifically, with the account called "poorly drawn cats." The account's premise is pretty simple: Artist Heloísa Nora uses photos of people's cats and draws them. The drawings don't have a lot of details, but they're still perfect in how they really do capture each individual cat.
Grant Schroeder was following the account when he decided to try to get a commission of his cat, Luna, then a cute little black kitten with green eyes.
Nora made the drawing in 2019 and posted it to her account as she normally does. That's when Emma Ferguson, of the United Kingdom, took notice. She also had a cat named Luna. After seeing Nora's drawing, Ferguson went to Schroeder's account.
"I saw a pic on his account of him holding his Luna. Cute boy with cat — must follow, of course!" she told NPR.
Schroeder then did the natural thing of taking a look at Ferguson's profile and saw her cats.
"So I then messaged her on Twitter, saying, 'Hey, your cats are cute,'" he told NPR. "We then just started talking about our cats, getting to know each other, and eventually we started FaceTiming every day and slowly fell in love with each other."
FaceTiming was the only way the couple could see each other at first because Schroeder lived in Oregon at the time while Ferguson was in Liverpool, England.
The pair finally met in person in January 2020, when Schroeder hopped on a plane. He returned a few weeks later. The plan was for Ferguson to fly to Oregon in May 2020, but by then the coronavirus pandemic and its travel restrictions were in full force. The two finally reunited in August 2021 after more than a year of travel delays.
"We had known from the start that we both loved each other and wanted to make this work," Schroeder said.
The two got engaged last New Year's Eve and got married on July 24.
"Obviously, I had no clue that I was about to find my wife through Twitter, but things have a funny way of turning out," he said.
Ferguson had similar thoughts.
"I just thought I'd get to see posts of his cat on my timeline," she said. "I got a lot more than that, and I'm very glad I did."
Nora said she is incredibly happy for the couple and the part she played in uniting them serendipitously.
"It's nice what we can do with the internet these days," she said. "I would've never imagined that a cat drawing would result in a beautiful story."
The couple now lives together in Liverpool with two cats, Leighton, "an 11-year-old angel of a girl," and Phil, a stray who has taken a liking to their house and the food and naps that accompany it, Grant said.
As for the two Lunas, Schroeder's is much bigger than she was in the illustration and is living with his parents in Oregon. Ferguson's Luna died following an illness.
The couple said they have plans to get a third cat and already have a name picked out — Cheddar.
"They will be big and orange and beautiful, we hope," Schroeder said.
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Gov't Data Show Youth Usage is "Minuscule"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cigar Association of America (CAA) today announced it filed comments opposing the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed flavored cigar ban, saying FDA's own data show that underage usage of flavored cigars -- the main rationale for the proposal – is at historic lows, after years of continued decline.
"This clearly shows that FDA is proposing a solution in search of a problem. The underage usage of flavored cigars is minuscule," said CAA President David M. Ozgo. "It is a blatant example of targeting an industry that is clearly marketing its products to legal age adults."
The comments note that one of the key purposes of the Tobacco Control Act – the law giving FDA authority to regulate tobacco -- is to continue to permit the sale of tobacco products to adults, in conjunction with measures to ensure tobacco products are not sold or accessible to underage purchasers. The current historically low youth usage rates show the success of existing measures.
Government evidence shows that youth usage of cigars is so low as to be almost immeasurable. When the FDA first sought to exercise regulatory authority over certain tobacco products in 1996, the only survey that tracked youth usage of cigars in 1997, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), showed last 30-day youth usage at 5% in 1997. In 2020 NSDUH tracked last 30-day youth usage of cigars at 0.8%.
The CAA comments highlight the most recent data from the government's Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Survey (PATH) showing that youth last 30-day usage of cigars overall was down to 0.75% and that youth usage of flavored cigars is around just 0.29%.
"In short, youth usage of flavored cigars continues to decline to almost unmeasurable levels," Ozgo stated in the filed comment, pointing to the government's own data. "FDA asserts that flavored cigars attract youth. If that were true, we would expect flavored cigars to account for a majority of youth cigar use," the comment added.
"But the government data clearly show that youth usage of flavored cigars is tiny and declining further," Ozgo noted.
The comments also state there is no scientific basis for the proposed ban, but there would be devastating economic consequences. Many small businesses, often minority owned, would be negatively impacted as well as an assortment of cigar manufacturers, suppliers and producing countries such as the Dominican Republic and Honduras.
Additionally, the CAA comments go on to demonstrate how the FDA does not show any differentiated health effects posed by flavored cigars and that banning flavored cigars would only lead to the development of an unregulated illegal market for flavored cigars. Illegally produced and sold product can often have dangerous additives.
The Cigar Association of America FDA Comment can be found here. The FDA Flavored Cigar Proposed Standard can be found here.
The Cigar Association of America represents all segments of the cigar industry in state capitals and Washington, D.C.
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LEHI, Utah, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CallForce, an industry-leading scheduling platform helping dental practices increase patient engagement and revenue, announces its rebrand under the new name Reach. Reach's team of professional schedulers are trusted by thousands of dental offices to fill their calendars with new and overdue patients.
The name change to Reach was inspired by the company's narrowed focus to holistically help practices reach their greatest level of profit while providing ease of mind for dentists and staff.
"Over the past five years we have honed in on who we are and the solution we provide to dental practices, and we wanted our name to reflect that," said Cory Pinegar, CEO of Reach. "Reach describes the company's natural progression as well as the direction we're going, think CallForce 2.0, and I could not be more thrilled."
Reach was established in 2016 and has since grown to thousands of clients and is closing in on 200 team members. The company has been named one of the fastest-growing companies by Inc. 500 and has been recognized repeatedly by the Salt Lake Tribune as one of the Best Places to Work.
Reach is the largest patient service provider in the United States offering inbound call answering services for new and existing dental patients. Reach's highly trained team of scheduling professionals schedule 33% of every recall directly into a practice's calendar, which is two times higher than the industry average. With 56% of patients in a practice's system overdue for a dental hygiene appointment, Reach not only takes the burden off staff, but also helps to keeps patients healthier.
Reach also offers dental insurance verification to optimize patient services. Prior to a patient's visit, Reach employees verify that insurance is active and communicate to the patient what services they are eligible for so that they can maximize the value of their dental plan. It is proven that dentists can earn $200 more per patient cleaning by using a verification service like Reach.
On average, Reach provides nine times the return on spend, but more importantly, allows dental office staff to be present to focus on high-level patient care.
"Our clients can expect the same great services and fantastic patient care, just with a new look," said Pinegar.
For more information visit www.Getreach.co or call 801.901.0502.
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Man arrested on abduction charge
KOCHI August 04, 2022 20:09 ISTNabbed from his hideout at Nedumbassery
The Perumbavoor police arrested one more person in the case related to the abduction and assault of a man, besides robbing him, in December last year.
The arrested is Maseebul Rahman, 32, of Nagaon in Assam. The case pertains to an incident in which a three-member gang abducted a resident of Assam and assaulted him before robbing ₹50,000.
The police had already arrested two persons. The accused was absconding and was nabbed from his hideout at Nedumbassery.
A team led by Inspector R. Ranjith, Sub Inspectors Rinse M. Thomas and Josy M. Johnson, and senior civil police officers V.M. Jamal, Abdul Manaf, and K.A. Abhilash made the arrest.
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Co-founder of Faros AI — a connected engineering operations platform.
The recent market correction has been a long time coming. For over a decade, low interest rates and easy access to capital fueled a period of unprincipled growth in Silicon Valley. “Cash-flow positive” had become a distant memory of a bygone era. But as Edward Abbey put it, “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” He was referring to the erosion of wilderness at the hands of uncontrolled urban expansion in his beloved Arizona, but the analogy applies to companies as well.
Software engineering organizations in particular experienced rapid growth during this period, disproportionate to other functions. Headcount has always been the primary lever for engineering leaders to substantially increase output. The belief being that more engineers will deliver more software, faster. Hiring is the solution for everything. Need more features? Hire more engineers. Engineers are complaining? Hire more infrastructure people. Things are moving slowly? Hire more engineering managers, product managers, project managers and recruiters to fill these positions. It’s time to grow up!
Adding more headcount to an organization is an expensive Band-Aid fix that substantially increases the complexity of the system and often slows it down. The Mythical Man-Month talks about this phenomenon. More engineers mean more teams, more dependencies, more interviewing and onboarding, more processes, more analysis-paralysis, more tech debt, more feature creep, and most debilitatingly, less focus on the truly important. Austen Allred, CEO of the Bloom Institute of Technology, calls it the “death spiral of bullshit.”
On the flip side, headcount has also been the primary lever for engineering leaders when it comes time to cut costs, and we are witnessing the fallout now.
So why have engineering leaders only had such a blunt tool at their disposal? The answer is the lack of visibility into engineering operations. Ask sales or marketing leaders about their metrics—funnel conversion rates, channel efficiency, sales cycles, forecasted revenues. The answers would be ready. But if you were to ask engineering leaders for a breakdown of monthly spend, forecasts for the next month or the impact in dollars of an unresolved incident, the answers would require weeks of effort, gathering data from different sources, digging through logs, writing ad hoc scripts and more. The irony is that for an organization teeming with analytical minds, decisions rely on incomplete data, and intuition is a frequent substitute.
It’s not the fault of engineering leaders. They’ve never been held accountable. Other functions don’t know enough to challenge them. They could go through an entire hour of content in a board meeting with no questions asked. But just because they haven’t been held accountable, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do their jobs better.
So why is visibility into software engineering operations poor? There are two main reasons. First, it’s just plain hard. Engineering data sources are incredibly fragmented and siloed. Organizations use dozens of systems to manage their engineering processes—from source control to task and incident management to continuous integration/delivery, cloud operations, budgeting, HR and more. These systems don’t talk to each other or to any central system, yet answers require data from across these sources.
The second reason is fear. Fear of alienating a volatile and rare resource—the software engineer. Software engineering is a creative craft. Some operational metrics may be “big brotherly” and would stifle the creativity that leads to innovation.
But the result of tip-toeing around is that engineering organizations today are flying blind. Engineering leaders have only one way to grow: hire people. They also only have one way to cut costs: fire people. They have bloated teams—many of which are overwhelmed with dependencies or tech debt—and not enough visibility to provide timely support. Constant reorgs are a typical symptom of this dysfunction. It’s time to grow up.
In the interests of keeping the peace, engineering leaders have forgotten that while organizations are made of people, they should function like well-oiled machines. Especially now. Sticking your head in the sand like an ostrich is a temporary fix to avoid “upsetting” engineers with “metrics,” but it doesn’t solve for what the business actually needs, what a team’s pain points are and how to best help them. Constant reorgs and layoffs do not make engineers happy.
So where do we go from here? The good news is that while visibility into engineering operations is hard due to the fragmentation and diversity of data sources, software teams don’t need to build the necessary instrumentation themselves anymore. There are platforms and tooling available to provide this much-needed visibility out of the box. Simultaneously, benchmarks and frameworks such as DORA and SPACE are emerging and gaining traction, enabling teams to ascertain how they’re doing and the room for improvement.
So now, envision a world where engineering organizations have all their operational data at their fingertips. The velocity and quality of software delivery could actually be measured. Bottlenecks in processes could be uncovered and continuously improved on. Leaders would know how much time and resources are spent on major initiatives and whether these align with overall business priorities. Teams could be supported with the resources they need when they need them. More generally, growth could be methodical, driven by need and informed by data (e.g., what areas actually need investment? What areas would really move the needle?). Course correction could be timely and incremental, avoiding big bang reorgs and layoffs. Focus on velocity and quality would usher in practices and technical capabilities that would allow organizations to do a lot more with a lot less.
The ongoing technology revolution is changing our world more rapidly than ever before. It has given us the internet, smartphones and artificial intelligence, and it will give us, in the near future, self-driving cars, private space exploration and more. The technology industry employs some of the brightest minds of our generation, and yet we are nowhere close to realizing their full potential because of the immaturity of our engineering practices. Engineering leaders are winging it and rely too much on instinct. It is time to grow up.
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East-side man beaten to death; friends cry out for justice
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The Tucson Police Department needs your help finding suspects involved in a murder on the city’s east side.
Chris Hart, 37, was beaten to death in a parking lot near 22nd Street and Kolb Road in June. Police said the men responsible have not been found.
Those closest to the victim are pleading for justice.
“He means everything to me. He was my family,” said friend Jesse Vanleuven.
Friends of Hart said he was full of life. He had a heart of gold, gave the best hugs and always put a smile on your face.
“He had jokes for days. He got the name “Crazy Chris” for a reason.”
He had other names like dad, son, brother, uncle and best friend.
But now these friends, who are more like family, are crying out for justice.
“He was a good person, a really good person. He didn’t deserve to die,” said friend Bianca Wade.
Hart was killed in the Eastpointe Market Place parking lot on June 22.
According to police, Hart got into an argument with a group of men. A short time later, more men arrived and began assaulting him.
When officers arrived, they found Hart with obvious signs of blunt-force trauma. He was taken to the hospital where he later died.
“It was so hard to see him lying on that bed like that. Someone that has known him his whole life and then to see that, it was tough,” said Vanleuven. “He means the world to me.”
“I just miss him in general. I miss him being there. I miss him coming over and maybe we can go hang out and do something,” said friend Malainie Arratia.
Authorities say they believe two vehicles were involved. A black early 2000s BMW and a 2005-2008 Kia, possibly an Optima.
“The truth is these people did this to him, and they need to be brought to justice,” said Vanleuven.
If you have any information, please call 88-CRIME. A reward is also being offered for any information leading to arrests.
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A family friend of a "kind, gentle and caring" young mum has launched a fundraiser for her following her disappearance and assumed death. Councillor and barrister David Dadds, of Billericay East ward at Basildon Council, has known Madison Wright for most of her life.
Ms Wright, 30, went missing on July 22 this year and has not been seen since. Her car was discovered in Basildon on July 26 and on Saturday (July 30), a body was discovered in Way Tyler Country Park in Pitsea. While formal identification has yet to take place, Madison's family have been informed and a man charged with her murder.
Mr Dadds paid an emotional tribute to Ms Wright online following the discovery of a body, and subsequently launched the fundraiser to support her family with the costs of a funeral, including support for her nine-year-old son that she leaves behind.
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He said: "I am saddened and devastated to hear of the news about Madison. I have known Madison since she was a child. She was a caring, kind and gentle person and a loving mother. Madison leaves a void that’s cannot ever be filled. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends."
Writing on the page, Mr Dadds added: "We are all saddened and devastated by the news and the loss of Madison. Madison was a caring, kind and gentle person. She was a loving mother to her son, and will be deeply missed by all that knew her.
"Any donations, however small, would be much appreciated. I know we all have the family of Madison in our thoughts and prayers at this difficult time. Thank you for your help."
The page was created on Tuesday (August 2) and in the first day had raised more than £6,500, with one anonymous contributor donating £2,000 alone. As of today (August 4), the page has raised more than £6,700 of its £10,000 target.
Speaking to EssexLive, Mr Dadds said: "Over 100 people have made donations and contributions and there's been a number of messages sending their condolences to the family, which shows that the community are shocked by the events, and their sadness." Mr Dadds added that he and Madison's family were grateful for the "generosity and kindess" shown by people.
Gary Bennett, 36, of Caister Drive, Pitsea, has been charged with Madison's murder, appearing in Southend Magistrates' Court on Monday where he sobbed in the dock. He is next due at Basildon Crown Court on September 23 for a plea hearing.
Another man and woman have been arrested in connection to Madison's disappearance on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They have both since been released on bail. A spokesman for Essex Police said: "So far, the local community have been assisting officers with this investigation by submitting information as well as dashcam and CCTV footage.
"We are continuing to reach out to anyone who we haven’t spoken to already. We are particularly interested in speaking to anyone who was driving around the Pitsea area towards Wat Tyler Park in Basildon between 8:30am on 22 July and 26 July.
"A dedicated phone line has been set up and the number is: 0207 1267612. We have also set up a special portal through which information can be reported: https://mipp.police.uk/operation/4201020122Q20-PO. You can let us know by submitting a report on our website or by using our online Live Chat service available Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) between 10am-9pm. Visit www.essex.police.uk/digital101 to find out more about our website reporting services. Alternatively, you can call us on 101 and quote the crime reference number 42/197308/22."
To donate to the fundraiser, click here.
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The DRIPBaR Aims to Help the Mind and Body Through IV Vitamin Therapy
WRENTHAM, Mass., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking to change the way people perceive intravenous IV vitamin therapy and turn cellular health into a lifestyle, The DRIPBaR, an IV nutrient therapy franchise growing expeditiously across America, is serving up vitamins via IV. The brand, which has seen tremendous year-over-year growth, is estimated to open 50 locations by years end. The DRIPBaR is on a mission to set itself apart by focusing on cellular health and treating the mind and body at a cellular level. The brand continues to grow nationwide with the help of new CEO Ben Crosbie.
"Now more than ever, people are starting to recognize the power of intravenous therapies to maintain their best health and are seeking new ways to complement conventional treatment options," said Crosbie. "With 450 locations in various stages of development, wellness is still very much at the top of people's minds and The DRIPBaR is eager to serve those wanting to treat the mind and body at the cellular level."
The CellVie approach offered through The DRIPBaR gives people the opportunity to address their health at a cellular level in an effort to preserve vitality and obtain a more energized life more resilient to disease. IV vitamin therapy is the most direct way for the body to deliver the highest concentration of vitamins directly to the cells. The DRIPBaR has made it a point of emphasis of having registered nurses and nurse practitioners at every location during all operating hours. Going through an extensive training course, nurses and nurse practitioners are taught and trained to perform IV vitamin therapy services with the upmost care and precision.
"People of all ages are realizing now more than ever the importance of proactive healthcare. The DRIPBaR is allowing their clients and members to be the best version of themselves by treating the mind and body directly," said Chief Development Office, Candace Byrnes. "The DRIPBaR is bringing a modern and accessible approach to help individuals live their best CellVie and it is our mission to maintain the high standards we have set forth to continue to be the most professional IV therapy franchise with the highest quality out there."
Each DRIPBaR location offers 20 IV Lifestyle or Health Support drips including the Jet Setter, Time Machine, Restoration, Flu Fighter, and High C. All IV drips are handled by registered nurses under the guidance of a licensed medical director. For those who don't have time for a full IV vitamin infusion but are looking for the benefit, The DRIPBaR can give your body a boost in just five minutes with one of its five IM Quick Shots. IV therapy provides positive nourishment for conditions such as the common cold, headaches, cancer, and chronic illness and even helps slow the signs of aging.
Including a franchise fee of $55,000, the initial investment to open a 1,000 - 1,500 square foot location is around $136,500 to $338,300. The DRIPBaR is proud to offer first responder and Military discounts. For more information about the franchise opportunity, visit www.thedripbar.com/own-a-dripbar.
About The DRIPBaR
Founded in 2016 and franchising since late 2019, The DRIPBaR is a franchise focused on helping people obtain their best physical and mental health using intravenous therapies. Through advances in cellular and biological science, The DRIPBaR helps clients fight the consequences of chronic illness, address the effects of aging, and achieve balanced wellness. With 26 locations currently open and operating, The DRIPBaR already has over 450 additional locations in various stages of development across 28 states. For more information, visit www.thedripbar.com.
Contact: Hunter Devereux, Franchise Elevator PR, (914) 486-0330, [email protected]
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Updated August 4, 2022 at 10:55 AM ET
China has fired several waves of missiles over the Taiwan Strait, hitting targets in the waters that encircle the island of Taiwan after a visit from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi triggered a tense military standoff in the East Asia region.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry confirmed 11 Chinese Dongfeng type missiles were fired in Taiwan's direction between 1:56 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, local time. Taiwan's armed forces said it was on high alert status, monitoring Chinese military activity in the region, and that the island's long-range radar had detected the incoming missiles.
"We condemn such irrational action that has jeopardized regional peace," Taiwan's Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Five of the missiles fired landed in waters around Taiwan that are part of the Exclusive Economic Zone that Japan oversees and claims economic rights over, risking drawing Japan, a U.S. ally, into the standoff.
"This is a grave issue that concerns our country's national security and the safety of the people," Japan's Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said, per Kyodo News.
Japan has steadily taken a more assertive approach to national defense and security during the last two years, in large part due to China's threats to Taiwan.
"We have to protect Taiwan, as a democratic country," Yasuhide Nakayama, Japan's deputy defense minister, said at a conference in June 2021.
Pelosi is scheduled to visit Japan on Friday.
China is in the midst of conducting live-fire military drills in six zones that encircle Taiwan. The joint sea and air exercises kicked off Thursday morning and will continue through at least Aug. 7.
China says it launched multiple fighter jets, bombers, ships and early warning aircraft toward the waters around Taiwan on Thursday morning local time. Taiwan's Defense Ministry said that it detected some of that aircraft, possibly drones, flew above Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, which lie only a few miles off China's eastern coast, and that it fired flares to drive them off.
Since Tuesday, Chinese fighter jets also have been flying sorties over the Taiwan Strait, sometimes even venturing over the median line that separates Chinese-controlled airspace from Taiwan's, according to Taiwan defense forces.
National security advisor Jake Sullivan criticized the Chinese military drills, in an interview with NPR on Wednesday. "It will create risks and challenges, we think unnecessarily. And so what we are hopeful for is that the PRC acts responsibly and avoids the kind of escalation that could lead to a mistake or miscalculation in the air or on the seas," he said.
China has fired missiles at Taiwan before. During what's called the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, China repeatedly shelled waters around Taiwan throughout 1995 to 1996. That crisis was sparked by the visit of Taiwan's then-President Lee Teng-hui to the U.S. to speak at Cornell University, over China's objections.
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Kennedy brings with her 15 years of experience scaling companies and fostering innovation
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kickstart, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on the Mountain West, today announced Kat Kennedy as General Partner. Kennedy brings with her 15 years of operating experience and her appointment will enable the firm to continue creating fruitful opportunities for the Mountain West region.
With the experience of working her way from a startup's first employee to President — one that grew from seed to late-stage under her watch — Kennedy brings a new perspective and empathy for founders navigating the roller coaster that is growing a venture-backed company.
"Kat has an unmatched skill set when it comes to scaling companies. Her gritty, entrepreneurial spirit and passion for helping other entrepreneurs was exactly what we have been looking for," said Gavin Christensen, General Partner and founder of Kickstart. "Kat's addition allows us to scale at a time when so many venture firms are pulling back, not only on investments but on building their teams. Kat truly embodies everything we value here and we're excited to see what the future holds with her perspective on board."
Prior to joining Kickstart, Kennedy spent the last decade at Degreed, a workplace upskilling platform, where she most recently served as the company's President and Chief Experience Officer. Kennedy helped scale Degreed from a $0 to $1.5B valuation in 9 years and brings with her deep experience in acquisitions, growing into a global company, and scaling a world-class product.
Kennedy's appointment makes her one of just a few female partners in the state. Despite years of efforts to increase diversity among venture capital decision-makers, a significant gender gap still exists. Women make up only approximately 11% of investing partners at firms in the U.S. and, because venture capitalists play a critical gatekeeping role in deciding whose ideas, products, and innovations receive capital, only around 13% of venture capital dollars go to startups with a woman on the founding team.
"The goal of venture capital is to generate returns by fostering innovation. As a woman born and raised here in Utah, who has gone through the various stages of growth at a venture-backed company, I saw no better way to drive impact in the Mountain West than by supporting founders who are starting their own journeys," said Kennedy. "Kickstart has always done an incredible job finding and funding entrepreneurs of all backgrounds, and I'm excited to expand that support."
"Kat is an inspiration to women in Utah and beyond when it comes to the rising influence that women can and must have in the future of business. I'm proud to see her take this next step in her career, as Kat is proof of the impact a single person can have in their community, their company, and their industry. I'm confident she will take all she's learned as an operator, and deploy not only capital but also her experience," said David Blake, Co-Founder and CEO, Degreed.
Kickstart was founded in 2008 as the first ever seed fund in Utah and its fund has grown in tandem with the exploding Utah technology scene. To date, the company has $311M assets under management, 150+ active portfolio companies, and has raised $2.7B in capital.
Kickstart is a seed-stage venture capital firm on a mission to help build great startups in Utah, Colorado, and the Mountain West. Founded in 2008 as the first seed fund in Utah, Kickstart worked with local universities, angel investors, entrepreneurs, venture capital funds, and other key stakeholders to build a seed fund that the community could rally behind. The company is committed to being accessible, leading investments in promising but early teams, and being fair with entrepreneurs and investors alike. Kickstart aspires to always be the choice for seed capital in the region with a reputation for fierce loyalty, deep competence, and complete alignment with founders.
For more information, visit www.kickstartseedfund.com
MEDIA CONTACT
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kickstart@bamtheagency.com
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The restaurant is to open to the public on August 8 at 6 p.m.
UTICA, Mich., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smokey Bones, the Masters of Meat, is expanding its footprint in Michigan with a brand new location in Utica, MI at 45001 Schoenherr Road. The new location features Smokey Bones' famous sweeping central bar and reflects Smokey Bones' commitment as the "Masters of Meat" in the interior artwork. Guests are invited to come in and dine at the new location beginning Monday, August 8 at 6 pm.
"We are thrilled to open our newest location in Utica, as we continue to expand our footprint and bring our meat mastery to more communities," said James O'Reilly, CEO of Smokey Bones. "We look forward to welcoming our new neighbors to our 'protein candy store' and sharing some of our hand-crafted cocktails together."
The Utica location boasts the brand's sleek new design and is a new build. The restaurant is designed to create a more intimate dining experience, while the to-go vestibule will include a dedicated entrance, separate menu board, POS, a dedicated waiting area with seating, as well as to-go parking directly outside the door.
"Smokey Bones is committed to offering our guests a broad selection of quality proteins and craveable sides at a great value," added O'Reilly. "We are constantly innovating on new items while maintaining the key favorites our guests know and love."
The back-of-the-house is also being redesigned to accommodate Smokey Bones' two virtual brands, The Wing Experience and Burger Experience, as well as have space for future virtual restaurant concepts being developed as part of Smokey Bones' portfolio. The virtual brands will be available for delivery or pick-up early this fall.
About Smokey Bones
The Masters of Meat Smokey Bones is a full-service restaurant delivering great barbecue, award-winning ribs, perfectly seared steaks, and memorable moments in 63 locations across 16 states. Smokey Bones serves lunch, dinner, and late night, and has a full bar featuring a variety of bourbons and whiskeys, a selection of domestic, import, and local craft beers, and several signatures, handcrafted cocktails. Smokey Bones offers a 10% discount to active duty and veterans with ID. Smokey Bones is an affiliate of Boca Raton, FL-based Sun Capital Partners. For additional information and a list of locations nationwide, please visit www.SmokeyBones.com. Smokey Bones, Meat is What We Do!
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SBIRS GEO-6 Sets Stage for Upcoming Next Generation Resilient Missile Warning Architecture
BUCKLEY SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today, the U.S. Space Force is now communicating with the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) -6 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT).
The final satellite in the SBIRS program series, GEO-6 joins the U.S. Space Force's constellation of missile warning satellites equipped with powerful scanning and staring infrared surveillance sensors.
"The need for Overhead Persistent Infrared systems has never been more critical," said Michael Corriea, vice president of Lockheed Martin Space's Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Mission Area. "At Lockheed Martin, we are making advancements to keep pace with evolving needs based on emerging threats in our military customers' environment, helping pave the way for the future."
The GEO-6 satellite is a stepping stone toward the resilient missile warning to be provided by SBIRS' successor, the Next Generation OPIR GEO System (NGG). Like SBIRS GEO-5 and GEO-6, NGG will be based on Lockheed Martin's modernized LM 2100 Combat Bus™, which provides additional capabilities such as cyber hardening, resiliency features, enhanced spacecraft power, and improved propulsion and electronics.
The SBIRS GEO-6 satellite is responding to the U.S. Space Force's commands as planned. Signal acquisition was confirmed 3 hours and 43 minutes after the satellite's 6:29 a.m. EDT lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The satellite is now orbiting under its own propulsion following separation from the rocket. The onboard sensors collect data that allow the U.S. military to detect missile launches, support ballistic missile defense, expand technical intelligence gathering and bolstering situational awareness on the battlefield.
A Step Toward More Resiliency
The OPIR mission has become more critical as ballistic missile technology has proliferated around the world with over 1,000 missile launches tracked annually. Lockheed Martin recognizes that modernized technology is needed to augment the current missile warning architecture and improve resiliency against attacks.
"SBIRS GEO-6 fortifies the current missile warning architecture, and it also signifies that we are on our way to achieving even greater technological capacity and expanded coverage with NGG," Corriea said.
Lockheed Martin is proud to be part of the SBIRS team led by Space Systems Command's Space Sensing Directorate at Los Angeles Air Force Base. Lockheed Martin Space, Sunnyvale, California, is the SBIRS prime contractor, with Northrop Grumman of Azusa, California, as the payload supplier.
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin Corporation is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 114,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
Please follow @LMNews on Twitter for the latest announcements and news across the corporation, and follow @LMSpace to learn more about the latest technologies, missions and people driving the future of space.
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Kennedy brings with her 15 years of experience scaling companies and fostering innovation
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kickstart, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on the Mountain West, today announced Kat Kennedy as General Partner. Kennedy brings with her 15 years of operating experience and her appointment will enable the firm to continue creating fruitful opportunities for the Mountain West region.
With the experience of working her way from a startup's first employee to President — one that grew from seed to late-stage under her watch — Kennedy brings a new perspective and empathy for founders navigating the roller coaster that is growing a venture-backed company.
"Kat has an unmatched skill set when it comes to scaling companies. Her gritty, entrepreneurial spirit and passion for helping other entrepreneurs was exactly what we have been looking for," said Gavin Christensen, General Partner and founder of Kickstart. "Kat's addition allows us to scale at a time when so many venture firms are pulling back, not only on investments but on building their teams. Kat truly embodies everything we value here and we're excited to see what the future holds with her perspective on board."
Prior to joining Kickstart, Kennedy spent the last decade at Degreed, a workplace upskilling platform, where she most recently served as the company's President and Chief Experience Officer. Kennedy helped scale Degreed from a $0 to $1.5B valuation in 9 years and brings with her deep experience in acquisitions, growing into a global company, and scaling a world-class product.
Kennedy's appointment makes her one of just a few female partners in the state. Despite years of efforts to increase diversity among venture capital decision-makers, a significant gender gap still exists. Women make up only approximately 11% of investing partners at firms in the U.S. and, because venture capitalists play a critical gatekeeping role in deciding whose ideas, products, and innovations receive capital, only around 13% of venture capital dollars go to startups with a woman on the founding team.
"The goal of venture capital is to generate returns by fostering innovation. As a woman born and raised here in Utah, who has gone through the various stages of growth at a venture-backed company, I saw no better way to drive impact in the Mountain West than by supporting founders who are starting their own journeys," said Kennedy. "Kickstart has always done an incredible job finding and funding entrepreneurs of all backgrounds, and I'm excited to expand that support."
"Kat is an inspiration to women in Utah and beyond when it comes to the rising influence that women can and must have in the future of business. I'm proud to see her take this next step in her career, as Kat is proof of the impact a single person can have in their community, their company, and their industry. I'm confident she will take all she's learned as an operator, and deploy not only capital but also her experience," said David Blake, Co-Founder and CEO, Degreed.
Kickstart was founded in 2008 as the first ever seed fund in Utah and its fund has grown in tandem with the exploding Utah technology scene. To date, the company has $311M assets under management, 150+ active portfolio companies, and has raised $2.7B in capital.
Kickstart is a seed-stage venture capital firm on a mission to help build great startups in Utah, Colorado, and the Mountain West. Founded in 2008 as the first seed fund in Utah, Kickstart worked with local universities, angel investors, entrepreneurs, venture capital funds, and other key stakeholders to build a seed fund that the community could rally behind. The company is committed to being accessible, leading investments in promising but early teams, and being fair with entrepreneurs and investors alike. Kickstart aspires to always be the choice for seed capital in the region with a reputation for fierce loyalty, deep competence, and complete alignment with founders.
For more information, visit www.kickstartseedfund.com
MEDIA CONTACT
BAM for Kickstart
kickstart@bamtheagency.com
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The calendar may still say summer, but at Krispy Kreme, it’s about to be fall!
The doughnut shop is launching its pumpkin spice collection earlier than ever this year, with the doughnuts hitting shops nationwide on Aug. 8. The collection includes some returning favorites — Pumpkin Spice Original Glazed Doughnut, Pumpkin Spice Original Filled Cheesecake Doughnut and Pumpkin Spice Cake Doughnut — plus a new Pumpkin Spice Latte Swirl Doughnut.
The Pumpkin Spice Original Glazed Doughnut and Pumpkin Spice Cake Doughnut are the simplest treats in the collection. The first is a classic Original Glazed doughnut with pumpkin spice flavoring and the second is a spiced old-fashioned cake doughnut covered in glaze.
The Pumpkin Spice Original Filled Cheesecake Doughnut is a pumpkin spice glazed doughnut with cheesecake filling, decorated with cheesecake icing. The brand new Pumpkin Spice Latte Swirl Doughnut is a pumpkin spice doughnut that is dipped in a pumpkin spice/sugar blend, then topped with a swirl of vanilla and coffee buttercream.
Along with the doughnuts, you’ll also find Krispy Kreme’s Pumpkin Spice Latte and the new Pumpkin Spice Iced Coffee, which is iced coffee blended with pumpkin pie sauce.
While the pumpkin spice doughnuts will hit shops Aug. 8, you’ll still be able to get Krispy Kreme’s summer doughnuts until Aug. 17. The summer Ice Cream Truck Doughnut Collection is inspired by classic Popsicle flavors and includes a Firecracker Popsicle, Vanilla King Cone and the beloved Creamsicle.
The Popsicle Firecracker doughnut is a glazed doughnut with blue raspberry sugar and creme inspired by the Popsicle Firecracker, while the Vanilla King Cone doughnut is filled with vanilla custard creme, dipped in chocolate icing, topped with sugar cone pieces and chopped peanuts and has a drizzle of chocolate icing. The Creamsicle doughnut is filled with vanilla custard creme, has icing inspired by the orange-flavored treat and is topped with a drizzle of white icing and mini sprinkles.
Are you excited for fall treats or hoping to hold on to summer a bit longer?
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A lineup of new products exclusive to Brother Authorized Dealers as well as the new Artspira mobile app, aimed at giving hobbyists and entrepreneurs the power to create from anywhere
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Brother International Corporation announced its New for 2023 product innovations featuring five new best-in-class sewing, quilting, and embroidery machines.
Brother also unveiled its newest tech feature, the Artspira Mobile App. The Artspira Mobile App is a one-stop shop for embroidery and cutting designs so customers can easily customize their next project. This cloud-based design studio for Brother customers offers expanded design features and embedded drawing tools right at their fingertips to empower artists to create from anywhere and share their custom patterns with the world. This brand-new platform for Brother spans retail and dealer markets and further enhances the customer journey and experience. Through the Brother Artspira app, makers, artists, and designers, will be able to:
- Design line-art-inspired drawings with built-in embroidery drawing tools and optional stitch types (straight stitch and zigzag stitch)
- Transfer wirelessly between any connected WLAN capable Brother machine
- Watch designs come to life with the Stitch Simulator feature: Stitch Simulator will show how a design will look before it gets stitched out
- Easily access additional Brother benefits all from the in-app experience
- Receive a dedicated digital publication sharing projects, designs, inspiration and tips and tricks
- Share designs from the Artspira app right to social media channels to share with friends and family, offering more community collaboration and engagement.
"We're continuing to see exponential growth of interest in the creative space from our consumers," said Shannon Sullivan, Vice President, Home Appliance Division, of Brother International Corporation. "For many consumers, the sewing, arts and crafts market remains key as crafters, entrepreneurs, and small business owners continue to push the limits of their businesses, projects, and creativity. In releasing five new products and the anticipated Artspira app, were looking to enhance the customer journey as Brother continues to place an emphasis on connectivity, increasing lifetime value by providing new services and meeting consumers where they are."
The Brother Artspira App will be available Fall 2022. To learn more, visit Brother-usa.com/home/sewing-embroidery/artspira.
The New for 2023 lineup also features the innovative Luminaire XP3 completing the trilogy of the famed Luminaire series.
Explore New Sewing, Quilting, and Embroidery Features with the Luminaire 3 Innov-ís XP3
The Luminaire 3 Innov-ís XP3 features a host of new sewing, quilting, and embroidery innovations, wireless LAN capabilities for increased efficiency, and app-based features for your mobile devices for expanded productivity.
- Elevate any project with the Luminaire 3 XP3 which features more than 1,500 built-in embroidery designs, 192 Disney character patterns, 695 decorative stitches, and 28 embroidery fonts. The 10.1" LCD touch screen displays every detail while the 65 square inches of workspace is built for the largest projects including home décor. Preview creations with StitchVision Technology which projects designs directly on the fabric for ultimate precision.
To learn more and find a dealer near you for a test drive, visit Brother-usa.com/home/sewing-embroidery/xp3.
Breaking ground as the first air serger in the Brother lineup, the Innov-ís AIRFLOW 3000 Air Threading Serger also makes its debut in the New for 2023 lineup. The Airflow 3000 is ideal for advanced sewers who are already using a serger looking to upgrade. The serger will feature the same precision and quality you have come to expect from Brother as well as the innovative jet air threading system to bring a new level of inspiration, ease-of-use and creativity to each project.
Complete Your Sewing Room with the AIRFLOW 3000 Air Threading Serger
The AIRFLOW 3000 Air Threading Serger joins the Brother lineup of Serger Sewing Machines & Coverstitch Machines as the first ever air serger in the series.
- Air Serger AIRFLOW 3000: Threading is a breeze with the AIRFLOW 3000, which features state-of-the-art jet air technology to push thread through the one-touch looper. Made for mastering delicate materials, the AIRFLOW 3000 achieves outstanding finishing touches on the most challenging projects.
Learn more by visiting Brother-usa.com/home/sewing-embroidery/airflow-3000 and find an Authorized dealer near you to experience the jet air technology.
The New for 2023 lineup includes two Disney-inspired additions to the combination sewing & embroidery machines, including the Innov-ís NS1850D and Innov-ís NS2850D, along with the embroidery only Innov-ís NS1250E.
Reaching Disney Enthusiasts with the Innov-ís NS1850D and Innov-ís NS2850D Combo Sewing & Embroidery Machines: The enhanced NS1850D and NS2850D will join the Brother Combo Sewing & Embroidery Machine Lineup.
- NS1850D: The NS1850D combines sewing and embroidery in one stylish, tech-savvy machine. Built with features essential for beginners, the NS1850D comes equipped with 181 built-in sewing stitches, 11 built-in lettering fonts, and 65 Disney embroidery designs to create, customize, or repair beloved articles of clothing. The My Custom Stitch feature allows artists to create and save stitch patterns for even more customization. At the same time, the inventive Artspira App will enable customers to develop their next embroidery design right in the palm of their hand and optimize their embroidery, sewing, and crafting skills.
- NS2850D: The travel-friendly NS2850D offers 200 embroidery designs, 241 built-in sewing stitches, and 55 licensed Disney designs for all sewing and embroidery needs. Featuring innovative technology synonymous with Brother products, including compatibility with the Brother iBroidery platform, the free downloadable Design Database Transfer software, and the artistic Artspira App, the NS2850D is the ideal upgrade for any sewing room.
Effortlessly Embroider with the Innov-ís NS1250E Embroidery Only Machine
The embroidery only Innov-ís NS1250E is the perfect addition to any sewing room.
- NS1250E: Effortlessly efficient, the dedicated, embroidery-only NS1250E features 193 built-in embroidery designs and speeds up to 650 stitches per minute. Advanced tech features include compatibility with apps for mobile devices such as the Artspira App, wireless file sharing, and access to a library of built-in and downloadable embroidery designs.
To learn more about the full line up of new for 2023 Brother machines or locate an Authorized Brother Dealer near you, please visit Brother-usa.com/home/sewing-embroidery/new-for-2023.
ABOUT BROTHER INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Brother International Corporation has earned its reputation as a leading supplier of innovative products for the home sewing and crafting enthusiast. Through a growing network of sewing machine dealers and retail outlets nationwide, Brother offers a full line of home sewing machines, from basic to top-of-the-line sewing and embroidery machines. Brother also offers a full line of electronic cutting machines and accessories. The company is recognized for its high-quality, state-of-the-art machines and accessories, offering ease of use and flexibility at affordable prices. Brother International Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brother Industries Ltd. With worldwide sales approaching $6 billion, this global manufacturer was started more than 100 years ago. Brother offers a diversified product line that includes fax machines, Multi-Function Center machines, P-touch Labeling Systems and both color and mono laser printers for home, office, and industry. Bridgewater, New Jersey is the corporate headquarters for Brother in the Americas. It has fully integrated sales, marketing services, manufacturing, and research and development capabilities located in the U.S. In addition to its headquarters, Brother has facilities in California, Illinois, and Tennessee, as well as subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. For more information, visit www.Brother.com.
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Renowned Houston trial lawyer selects Emily Smith, John MacVane, and Leah Graham to help lead Houston firm
HOUSTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP is pleased to announce it has named Emily Smith, John MacVane, and Leah Graham as new partners at the Houston-based civil and criminal litigation firm.
"I would comfortably go anywhere in the country to try a case with these three attorneys," said Rusty Hardin. "Their constant loyalty to their clients, their impeccable ability to anticipate what a client or case needs, and just sheer talent all make me confident that I can rely on them in every respect."
Ms. Smith, who joined Rusty Hardin & Associates in 2019, handles complex commercial litigation and business disputes involving a variety of issues, including contract, fiduciary duty, negligence, trade secrets, oil and gas, and bankruptcy. Her previous experience includes an internship with Judge Lisabeth Tabor Hughes of the Kentucky Supreme Court, as well as one with Judge Jennifer Elrod of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She also served as a judicial clerk for Chief Bankruptcy Judge Jeff Bohm of the Southern District of Texas. Ms. Smith has been named to the list of Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers in America in both 2021 and 2022.
Mr. MacVane's extensive experience in both criminal and civil matters allows him to focus his practice on civil cases with possible criminal implications. His practice also includes criminal defense, catastrophic personal injury, and commercial litigation. Before joining Rusty Hardin & Associates in 2019, Mr. MacVane served as an assistant federal public defender in the Southern District of Texas. He also clerked for Texas Supreme Court Justice Brett Busby when Judge Busby was on the 14TH Court of Appeals and also for New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda S. Dalianis.
Ms. Graham joined Rusty Hardin & Associates in 2019 and focuses her practice on high-stakes business disputes both at trial and in arbitration. Her experience includes matters involving construction, sports, employment, oil and gas, real estate, environmental, product liability, intellectual property, partnership, trustee and fiduciary matters, and personal injury claims. Ms. Graham has been recognized as a Texas Rising Star by Thomson Reuters every year since 2018 and was named to the 2019 and 2020 list of Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers by National Trial Lawyers.
"The beauty of these promotions is that our clients will not see a difference at all – Leah, John, and Emily have been operating on a partner level for some time now," said Mr. Hardin. "This is confirmation of just how much we value them and their work. They are just great lawyers."
Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP has built a solid reputation for taking on the causes of its clients and obtaining favorable results in commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense, plaintiffs' personal injury, appellate matters, and general civil and criminal litigation. To learn more about the firm's representative matters, visit https://www.rustyhardin.com/.
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MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Manchester United today announced a multi-year global strategic collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
The arrangement will feature the Snapdragon brand. Snapdragon platforms power many of the world's premium smartphones, PCs, gaming devices, connected cars, smart wearables and more.
Bringing together the world's most popular football club with a global leader in technology innovation, the strategic collaboration will create unique events and experiences for Manchester United fans at Old Trafford and around the world, powered by the premium performance that Snapdragon® platforms deliver.
In addition, Qualcomm Technologies will advise Manchester United on planned improvements to mobile connectivity at Old Trafford, which will enhance fans' experience on match days.
Victoria Timpson, CEO Alliances and Partnerships at Manchester United, said: "Snapdragon platforms will enable ground-breaking experiences for fans across the globe, deepening their engagement with the football club they love."
"Manchester United has always pushed boundaries of what's possible and we are excited to be partnering with a company at the forefront of innovation."
Don McGuire, SVP of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and CMO of Qualcomm said: "We are proud to bring the power of Snapdragon together with one of the most iconic names in world sport."
"We look forward to showcasing Snapdragon to Manchester United fans everywhere and joining the new era of technology innovation at Old Trafford."
About Manchester United
Manchester United is one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, playing one of the most popular spectator sports on Earth. Through our 144-year heritage we have won 66 trophies, enabling us to develop the world's leading sports brand and a global community of 1.1 billion fans and followers. Our large, passionate community provides Manchester United with a worldwide platform to generate significant revenue from multiple sources, including sponsorship, merchandising, product licensing, new media & mobile, broadcasting and match day.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is the world's leading 5G technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born.
Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G, and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.
Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business.
Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
Snapdragon is a trademark or registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated.
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WHAT’S GOING ON? Here is a small sample of area happenings you may want to check out in the coming days.
Art/Museums
ONGOING
BORDENTOWN “At Home With Joseph Bonaparte,” Bordentown Historical Society exhibit of furniture, archives and paintings from Bonaparte’s Point Breeze estate, through Dec. 31. Friends Meeting House, 302 Farnsworth Ave. $5 suggested donation. bordentownhistory.org, 609-947-8247.
CLINTON “Dish-Oriented,” ceramics by Maxwell Mustardo, through Sept. 4. “Selections from the Collection,” works on paper, through Sept. 4. “Blemish, In Deep Pink Everyplace Begins,” works by Rina Banerjee, through Sept. 4. Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center St. hunterdonartmuseum.org, 908-735-8415.
HAMILTON “Fragile — Earth,” ceramic arts by artists of color, through Jan. 8. “Roberto Lugo — the Village Potter,” ceramic arts by artist in residence, through Jan. 8. Grounds for Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way. groundsforsculpture.org, 609-586-0616.
LAMBERTVILLE “Light & Shadow,” watercolors by Gail Bracegirdle and oil paintings by Joe Kazimierczyk, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., through Sept. 4. Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge St. lambertvillearts.com, 609-397-4588.
PLAINSBORO “Color Play Times Two: Paintings by Ilene Dube and Karen Schoenitz,” through Aug. 20. Merwick Care & Rehabilitation, 100 Plainsboro Road. By appointment. windsorhealthcare.org/merwick, ilene.dube@gmail.com or kschoenitz@gmail.com .
“Inks,” exhibit of alcohol ink and acrylic works by local artist Mukti Belahal, through Aug. 27. Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren St. lmxac.org/plainsboro, 609-275-2897.
PRINCETON “Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age,” Princeton Art Museum group show exploring the evolving role of video and photography in an era of digital communication and social media, through Aug. 7. Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish St. artmuseum.princeton.edu, 609-921-2121.
“Ma Bell — the Mother of Invention in New Jersey,” exhibit exploring ways NJ-born creations advanced today’s technology, through March 5. Morven Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton St. morven.org, 609-924-8144. Registration required.
“Our Inner Ocean,” exhibit of paintings by Minako Ota, through Aug. 30. “In Lunch with Love,” exhibit of works by local illustrator and painter Karen Stolper, through Aug. 28. Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon St. princetonlibrary.org, 609-924-9529.
TRENTON “New Jersey Arts Annual — Reemergence,” showcase of 95 visual artists and craftspeople from around the state, through April 30. “Jaw Dropping World of Sharks,” exhibit of specimens and artifacts from the New Jersey State Museum collections,through Jan. 8. New Jersey State Museum, 205 W. State St. statemuseum.nj.gov, 609-292-6464.
Ellarslie Open 39, annual juried show, through Oct. 2. Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Mansion, Cadwalader Park. ellarslie.org, 609-989-1191.
WEST WINDSOR “Mercer County Artists Exhibition 2022,” juried group show, through Aug. 24. Mercer County Community College, Communication Building, second floor, 1200 Old Trenton Road. mccc.edu/gallery, 609-570-3589.
“By the Light of Day,” group show of plein air painting, through Aug. 27. West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road in Princeton Junction. westwindsorarts.org, 609-919-1931.
AUG. 6
FLORENCE Walking Tour of Historic Roebling, 1 p.m., Roebling Museum, 100 Second Ave. in Roebling. Free with $7 museum admission. roeblingmuseum.org, 609-499-7200.
LAMBERTVILLE “Light & Shadow,” reception, 5-8 p.m., Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge St. lambertvillearts.com, 609-397-4588.
Comedy
AUG. 6
WEST WINDSOR Jerrold Benford, 7:30 p.m., Catch a Rising Star Comedy Club, Hyatt Regency Princeton, 102 Carnegie Center Drive. $23.69. catcharisingstar.com, 781-568-1471.
Dance
AUG. 6
PRINCETON “Salsa Sensation” Dance, hosted by Central Jersey Dance Society with lesson, 7-11 p.m., Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton St. $15; $10 students. centraljerseydance.org, 609-945-1883.
Fairs/Festivals
AUG. 6
NEW BRUNSWICK Indo-American Festival, free Hub City Sounds music and dance performances inspired by the culture and traditions from Northern and Southern India, yoga, zumba and Bollywood demonstrations, art workshop and competition, 2-6 p.m., Boyd Park, Route 18 North. newbrunswickarts.org, 908-917-2862.
Music
AUG. 5
CAMDEN Incubus, Sublime with Rome, 7 p.m., Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd. $25-$99. waterfrontamphitheater.com, 856-365-1300.
AUG. 6
FLEMINGTON Box of Rain, Grateful Dead tribute, 7-10 p.m., Lone Eagle Brewing, 44 Stangl Road. loneeaglebrewing.com, 908-237-2255.
LAMBERTVILLE The Ladies, 8 p.m., Birdhouse Center for the Arts, 7 N. Main St. $20. birdhousecenter.org, 609-397-3964.
NEW BRUNSWICK Get the Led Out, Led Zeppelin tribute, 8 p.m., State Theatre New Jersey, 15 Livingston Ave. $25-$65. stnj.org, 732-246-7469.
PRINCETON Lazy Bird, outdoor concert, with Ophiocoma, 6:30 p.m., Arts Council of Princeton, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St. artscouncilofprinceton.org, 609-924-8777.
TRENTON Madame Pat Tandy, free Levitt AMP outdoor concert, 5 p.m., Mill Hill Park, East Front and South Broad streets. trenton-downtown.com, 609-337-8439. Registration required.
AUG. 11
CAMDEN Alice in Chains, Breaking Benjamin, Bush, 5:30 p.m., Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd. $18-$119. waterfrontamphitheater.com, 856-365-1300.
Theater
AUG. 5
LAMBERTVILLE “Moana Jr.,” family musical production, 11 a.m., also Aug. 5, 1 p.m.; Aug. 6, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. $10. “Crazy for You,” musical about a rich boy falling in love with a hometown girl, 8 p.m., also Aug. 6, 3 and 8 p.m.; Aug. 7, 3 p.m.$23-$25. Music Mountain Theatre, 1483 Route 179. musicmountaintheatre.org, 609-397-3337.
AUG. 6
NEW BRUNSWICK South Asian Theater Festival, Epic Actors Workshop production of “Silence! The Court is in Session” adapted from a play by Vijay Tendulkar and “The Girl Who Touched the Star” by Mahesh Dattani (in English) and Aajir (The Bonded)” based on a story by Mahasweta Devi (in Hindi), 2 p.m., New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Ave. $40. nbpac.org, 732-745-8000.
AUG. 7
NEW BRUNSWICK South Asian Theater Festival, Epic Actors Workshop production of “Aami Jagadish” in Bengali and “Sakharam Binder” in English, 2:30 p.m., New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Ave. $40. nbpac.org, 732-745-8000.
Other
AUG. 6
TRENTON Fifth Annual Beauty to the Block Outreach, free haircuts, clothing, breakfast, lunch, music and community games offered by In His Image hair studio, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Rescue Mission of Trenton, 98 Carroll St. 609-533-0601.
Back-to-School Readiness Fair, distribution of free backpacks, school supplies and food bags, vaccinations, physicals, and dental screenings and treatment and other services, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Thomas Edison State University, 101 W. State St. Registration required. www.tesc.edu, ommunity@tesu.edu.
AUG. 7
TRENTON “The Good Americans — His Majesty’s Loyal American Troops,” free in-person and live-streamed talk by Todd Braisted, 2 p.m., 1719 William Trent House Museum, 15 Market St. Registration required. williamtrenthouse.org, 609-989-0087.
AUG. 9
PRINCETON Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Commemoration, sponsored by Coalition for Peace Action with addresses by Princeton University physicists Frank von Hippel and Rob Goldston, music by Solidarity Singers of New Jersey State Industrial Union Council, 7-8:30 p.m., Hinds Plaza, 65 Witherspoon St. cfpa@peacecoalition.org, 609-924-5022.
AUG. 11
EWING Volunteer Information Session, 11 a.m., CASA of Mercer and Burlington Counties, 1450 Parkside Ave., suite 22. Registration required. casamb.org, jduffy@casamercer.org
LAWRENCE Mercer’s Best Toastmasters Open House, information on the public speaking or interview skills group, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence Community Center, 295 Eggerts Crossing Road in Lawrenceville. mercersbest.toastmastersclubs.org, 732-631-0114.
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- New Series B funding of $33 million will advance Sibel's FDA-cleared ANNE® One platform for home and hospital monitoring through global partnerships.
- Jon P. Otterstatter, ex-CEO and co-founder of Preventice, joins Sibel as its chairman of the board, and Matt Banet, PhD, cofounder of Sotera Wireless and toSense, joins Sibel as president.
- Dräger's previous convertible note changes to equity in Sibel, along with a renewed and deeper strategic partnership.
NILES, Ill., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sibel Health, an award-winning medical technology company spun out of the world-renowned John Rogers Research Group and the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University, has recently closed a $33 million Series B financing round, bringing Sibel's total funding to date to more than $50 million.
In addition, Sibel has announced two new executive appointments. Jon Otterstatter, the former CEO and co-founder of Preventice (acquired by Boston Scientific in 2021), will join as chairman of the board. Matthew Banet, PhD, a world expert in advanced body-worn sensors and previously the CTO and cofounder of toSense and Sotera, joins as president from Baxter International.
The funding round was led by the Steele Foundation for Hope—a private foundation seeking to fund solutions for humanity's hardest challenges with an emphasis on technology and innovation. Joe Exner, CEO of Steele Foundation for Hope, said, "Sibel was founded by the world's leading engineers and scientists. We invested in their ingenuity to advance bio-integrated sensors and wireless data collection to promote better care, especially for mothers and newborns in developing countries." Dräger, a leading medical and safety technology company, previous convertible note changes to equity.
With the funding, Sibel will scale up its FDA-cleared ANNE® One platform for global deployments across the entire continuum of care from the home to the hospital. "What makes us unique as a digital health company is that our product is vertically integrated—we believe that everything matters, from the adhesive we place on the skin to how the sensor fits on the body to the final alert a clinician sees for medical decision-making," said Steve Xu, MD, CEO and co-founder. "We're proud that our technology can be potentially deployed in both the neonatal intensive care unit and in the home for remote patient monitoring."
Steffen Protsch, president of monitoring at Dräger and Sibel board member, said, "As an early investor in Sibel, we have been impressed by the company's growth and technology over such a short period of time. We look forward to integrating and scaling their technology as part of Dräger's offerings to our hospital customers."
Since 2020, Sibel has seen a significant increase in revenue driven by partnerships with leading Fortune 500 companies and funding support from the U.S. military, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The appointment of new executives will accelerate Sibel's transition to scaled commercialization.
"I look forward to joining Sibel as chairman of the board in this time of rapid acceleration and growth," Otterstatter said. "The company's advanced wearable monitoring platform is industry-changing—the comprehensive suite of on-body sensors, best-in-class analytics, robust machine-learning algorithms and extensible software capabilities make the ANNE® One platform a very unique offering. I look forward to supporting Sibel's transition towards commercial scale." He continued, "Having led a team and a company that successfully developed and achieved commercial success with a breakthrough remote cardiac monitoring solutions, I am convinced that the ANNE® sensors are raising the bar for the market." John Rogers, PhD, the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and Sibel co-founder, said, "It is exciting to see the research from my research group translate into a successful product with the potential to impact millions of lives worldwide, particularly in the area of neonatal and women's health."
About Sibel Health:
Sibel Health is an award-winning digital health company with a mission to deliver Better Health Data for All®. Based in the greater Chicago area with offices in Seoul (South Korea) and San Diego, the company's FDA-cleared ANNE® platform includes advanced wearable sensors, AI-enabled data analytics, and an integrated mobile software and cloud platform. Sibel's partnerships include some of the most respected healthcare organizations worldwide. For more information, please visit www.sibelhealth.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Energy is pleased to announce that Johan van Walsem has been promoted to President and COO, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Mr. van Walsem will focus on executing the strategic goal of commercializing and deploying the company's FastOx gasification technology for conversion of waste to energy and products on an international basis.
Chairman and CEO Mike Hart will continue to lead the company's strategic direction to ensure the transformative potential of FastOx technology is fully realized.
Mr. van Walsem joined Sierra Energy in December of 2019 as the COO. Under his leadership, the company has made great progress and achieved significant commercial traction with strong interest from international partners to license the FastOx gasification technology. In addition, he will lead the company's efforts to explore project opportunities in the United States where it can capture significant value by building, owning, and operating a FastOx gasification showcase facility.
Prior to joining Sierra Energy as COO, Mr. van Walsem held similar roles at Metabolix and Lygos, leading successful scale-up and commercialization of biobased products for both entities.
Mr. van Walsem holds a Master of Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and an MBA from the University of South Africa. He began his career executing engineering projects and operating coal gasification to ammonia and fermentation-based lysine plants in South Africa.
Sierra Energy is a waste gasification company founded in Davis, California. The company has developed FastOx gasification, a technology that transforms waste into particulate and tar-free synthesis gas suitable for downstream conversion to clean, renewable energy and fuels without creating new waste byproducts. Sierra Energy believes gasification is the path to a zero-waste future for us all. Visit https://sierraenergy.com for more information or follow us on Twitter via @FastOx.
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High school football player collapses, dies during practice
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – A high school student in Mississippi died after he collapsed on the field during football practice on Monday.
The Brandon High School community is in shock following the sudden death of 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr. He was just weeks away from starting his senior year and was determined to help his football team win the state title.
Laster’s body was taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office to rule a cause of death.
His family said Laster spent his final moments on the football field doing what he loved.
His father, Phillip Laster Sr., said he was driving when he received a call from his son’s football coach on Monday. By the time his father made it to the hospital, it was too late.
“[The coach] told me it would probably be best for me to just come on in if I could because it was a serious situation,” Phillip Laster Sr. said. “On my way, I got the call that they lost him.”
Phillip Laster Jr. leaves behind his parents and three siblings. His family remembers him as a “gentle giant” who was loved by many.
“I’m speechless that I’m not going to hear his footsteps coming through the door, or ‘Mom, what are you cooking?’ in his deep voice,” his mother, Ashanta Laster, said. “He was a lovely kid. I love my son.”
Phillip Laster Sr. said his son was the kind of person who no one could say a bad word about.
“It’s just hard to find anybody that has anything bad to say about this guy,” he said. “The outpouring of love is just a testament to what his life was like. This was a good kid.”
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Owami Davies: Fourth man arrested on suspicion of murder over missing student nurse in south London
Ms Davies is a 24-year-old nursing student. She has been missing since leaving her family home in Essex on 4 July.
Thursday 4 August 2022 15:41, UK
A fourth man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of student nurse Owami Davies.
The 24-year-old went missing after leaving her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July.
She was last seen just after midnight on 7 July in Derby Road, West Croydon, south London.
On Wednesday, her mother made a "desperate" plea to the public to help find her daughter, whom she said was months away from finishing her nursing course and starting a job at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital.
"I am begging, I am asking for the public's help, from the people, to say if you know, if you have heard or seen her, or she passed you, please speak up," Ms Davies's mother, Nicol Davies, said.
On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police arrested a 22-year-old man at an address in Croydon on suspicion of murder.
He is the fourth person to be arrested, after police had previously detained three men, aged 23, 27 and 32.
Police also released new CCTV images of Ms Davies, from the night she was last seen in a shop and on Derby Road.
Investigators are looking to speak to the driver of a white van, that was parked on the road.
Ms Davies was with a man and crossed the road just as the van pulled out, police said, adding the driver would have had a "good opportunity" to see both of them.
The Met Police said this remains a missing person enquiry. | https://news.sky.com/story/owami-davies-fourth-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-over-missing-student-nurse-in-south-london-12665523 | 2022-08-04T15:32:25Z | https://news.sky.com/story/owami-davies-fourth-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-over-missing-student-nurse-in-south-london-12665523 | false |
NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA) and certain of its officers, on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Carvana securities between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/cvna.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the Securities Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
The Complaint alleges that throughout the Cclass Period, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/cvna or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Law Clerk and Client Relations Manager, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in Carvana you have until October 3, 2022, to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Kari Lake is going to be the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona. It’s not official yet, but her camp is confident that whatever outstanding votes will break her way. There doesn’t appear to be enough of the vote left for her opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson, to reclaim the lead. Robson was leading for most of the night Tuesday. Currently, the map shows her winning only Maricopa County which is moving like molasses in tallying the rest of the ballots. Even anti-Lake pundits are conceding on social media that she will be the nominee. The former journalist smeared by the media as a conspiracy theorist peddler and all-around nutcase pulled ahead in Wednesday's early morning hours.
Lake became known as the candidate who trashed liberal outlets like CNN right to their faces. She clinched Donald Trump's endorsement, and her eventual win is a gentle reminder to the Never Trump wing of the Republican Party that it’s time to pack up shop. The fight for the heart and soul of the party did happen in 2016, and this side lost. If 2022 has shown anything, it’s that the Republican Party underwent a seismic shift in 2016. It’s the party of Donald Trump. How Arizona Republicans voted in Tuesday’s primary is illustrative of that adjustment.
Now, was Lake always a die-hard Trump Republican? Hell no. There are a ton of converts. I don't care if she was a former Obama supporter. The media once again fails to dig deeper into the new GOP base. There are millions of Obama-Trump voters. Also, a solid chunk of Trump's base identifies as economically progressive, though the cultural issues and immigration prevent them from veering into the Democrat camp. In the weeks before primary day, Fox News ran a piece on Lake's anti-Trump days:
An Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate backed by Donald Trump shared a post on Facebook stating that Trump was "Not My President" just days before the former president's inauguration in 2017.
The anti-Trump post from Kari Lake's account read, "Will you be protesting the inauguration? If so, which of these suggestions will you adopt? Will you boycott TV coverage? Wear black? Donate money the ACLU, NAACP or Planned Parenthood? Use the hashtag #NotMyPresident? Will you unfollow Donald Trump?"
After Fox News Digital requested a statement from the Kari Lake for Governor campaign, the post disappeared from her page.
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The Facebook post was accompanied by a meme that appears to have been sent to Lake by one of her Facebook followers. The meme referred to Trump's Inauguration Day as a "National Day of Mourning and Protest."
"This is very clearly a news-anchor's post; reporting that there was outrage against President Trump's election and asking if people were going to visibly protest his inauguration as the meme suggests. To make anything more out of it is just silly," a spokesperson for Lake's campaign told Fox News Digital.
It's not the best look, but you would think by now that the media gets that everyone hates them. Progressives feel the legacy media is in the tank for establishment Democrats. Conservatives view all media as a bunch of lying Democrats. The Russian collusion hoax and nonstop anti-Trump coverage convinced many to consider anything peddled by these folks with skepticism and suspicion. Unless it’s something heinous, no one cares. In Ohio, Republican U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance was not kind to Trump. He’ll probably win the election. The media needs to stop telling people whom to vote for in elections, but they keep trying and motivating voters to back whoever isn’t in the good graces of the national press. Also, the holier-than-thou Republicans need to shut it since everyone sees through their act. Do they think it wasn’t until Trump that people changed opinions due to the political winds? By default, voters view politicians as corrupt snake oil salesmen. For the most part, they’re right.
If Lake wins tonight, she is currently polling around 10-12 points behind the Democratic candidate, Katie Hobbs. That is a LOT of runway to make up. I don't know why it hasn't occurred to the Arizona GOP that Arizona is filled with independents and free thinkers... https://t.co/hRLtiEiWnQ
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 3, 2022
Kari Lake will most likely win despite the fact that she was a lifelong progressive liberal, maxed out to Obama for her entire life. All she had to do was vomit up MAGA talking points and people bought it. She is a fraud, a conspiracy theorist, and not up to the character of Gov. https://t.co/0QIgGv7VDF
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 3, 2022
I see my initial predictions were right despite the initial excitement of Robson pulling ahead -
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) August 3, 2022
Congratulations to my home state for full making the transition to full blown MAGA/conspiracy theory/fraudster.
The voters have spoken - be careful what you wish for…
How it started.. how it’s going #MeghanMcCainMeltdown ???? pic.twitter.com/jGVAKto3lj
— Tammie McDonald (@TammieMcDonal17) August 3, 2022
How it started.. how it’s going #MeghanMcCainMeltdown ???? pic.twitter.com/jGVAKto3lj
— Tammie McDonald (@TammieMcDonal17) August 3, 2022
Only the dying Never Trump elements of the GOP view this occupation with some sort of prestige. The rest of the party doesn’t care. Just win. | https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/08/04/what-the-media-and-never-trump-gop-still-dont-get-about-kari-lake-in-arizona-n2611260 | 2022-08-04T15:38:47Z | https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/08/04/what-the-media-and-never-trump-gop-still-dont-get-about-kari-lake-in-arizona-n2611260 | true |
Comprehensive third-party risk management solution to automate the vendor risk management process by enabling enterprises and third-party vendors to seamlessly connect, conduct, and share assessments
BOSTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, announced today its intent to acquire ThirdPartyTrust, a comprehensive Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) platform which automates the processes of vendor assessment and onboarding. By integrating ThirdPartyTrust into its existing TPRM solutions, BitSight provides an end-to-end third-party risk management solution that delivers real-time insights to drive strategic decision-making throughout the entire vendor lifecycle.
In today's ever-evolving global threat landscape, risk management teams must assess cyber risk quickly across their entire third-party ecosystem – but most businesses still deploy slow, manual assessment processes. ThirdPartyTrust from BitSight combines the intuitive intelligence of an automated vendor validation tool with BitSight's market-leading continuous monitoring solution. With BitSight, third-party risk managers can work smarter and more efficiently by discovering and mitigating unforeseen cybersecurity risks in real-time, allowing them to make well-informed decisions quickly.
"By providing our customers with ThirdPartyTrust from BitSight, an automated tool for assessing cyber risk across all phases of the vendor lifecycle, BitSight continues to evolve and innovate its approach to third-party cyber risk management," said BitSight CEO, Stephen Harvey. "In today's digital economy, organizations are more reliant on their extended supply chain than ever and need to keep it as secure as possible. By integrating ThirdPartyTrust into our existing TPRM offering, we are providing them an integrated tool to better collaborate and share important cyber risk information across an ever-growing community of stakeholders involved in the management of cyber risk."
With ThirdPartyTrust from BitSight, third-party risk managers will be able to:
- Manage their vendor risk assessment workflows and right-size their efforts based on risk;
- Quickly assess and validate third-party vendors using custom and standard security questionnaires strengthened with objective cyber security evidence;
- Collaborate and communicate with third-party vendors across their entire digital supply chain; and
- Increase their organization's capacity to manage and respond to third-party security risks across the entire vendor lifecycle, including during major security events
"We started ThirdPartyTrust to help organizations increase their capacity to assess cyber risk during the vendor selection process. As our business grew, we built a strategic partnership with BitSight to deliver an end-to-end third-party risk management solution that provided a holistic view of the life cycle of risk assessments," said ThirdPartyTrust CEO, Anders Noremo. "That partnership received tremendous positive feedback from our mutual customers. I'm extremely excited to join BitSight as we integrate these two great products to deliver an outstanding and comprehensive third-party risk management platform."
"More than a decade ago, BitSight pioneered cybersecurity ratings backed by the most reliable, expansive, and objective data available. Today, we are the industry leader in managing cyber risk for third- and fourth-party vendors," said BitSight Vice President and General Manager, Third-Party Risk Management, Vanessa Jankowski. "Our customers trust BitSight and look to us to continue to innovate and deliver new solutions and capabilities that help them manage a risk that is becoming more complicated, more far-reaching, and more urgent every day. I'm very excited to bring ThirdPartyTrust into the BitSight family as we continue to expand our customers' ability to manage cyber risk across their entire third-party lifecycle and extended supply chain."
About BitSight
BitSight creates trust in the digital economy and transforms how organizations manage cyber risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help organizations manage their own security performance; mitigate third party risk; underwrite cyber insurance policies; conduct financial diligence; and assess aggregate risk. With the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the Standard in Security Ratings. For more information, please visit www.bitsight.com, read our blog or follow @BitSight on Twitter.
About ThirdPartyTrust
ThirdPartyTrust is a third party risk management platform for companies and vendors to perform assessments, automate risk and compliance workflows, and share security documents. ThirdPartyTrust gets programs out of email and spreadsheets and accelerates risk assessments through automation and centralized communication. Customers can get a holistic view of their vendors' security, quantify their impact, and gain insight into fourth parties, ultimately fostering more secure digital supply chains. Vendors can build a single, centralized security profile comprising all their questionnaires, certifications, and attestations so they can answer them once, and easily share them. For more information, visit www.thirdpartytrust.com
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New Studio adds to Globant's Reinvention Studios portfolio, which includes Smart Payments, EdTech, Airlines, and Gaming, among others.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, today announced the launch of its Automotive Studio. With this new offering, the company aims to become the bridge the automotive industry needs toward mobility and digital revolutions.
As the newest addition to Globant's Reinvention Studios portfolio, the Automotive Studio will help reinvent the industry by capturing the best capabilities from different technologies, including Metaverse, Gaming, Blockchain, Sustainability, Data & AI, IoT, UI Engineering, and Conversational Interfaces, leading to immersive customer experiences and augmented design.
"The automotive industry has been changing over the last decade with exceptional speed. Software is quickly becoming the value of the car. Security aspects such as ADAS, connected vehicles, and service-based functionality are all increasing the demand for our capabilities," said Diego Tartara, Chief Technology Officer at Globant. "With this new Studio, Globant will leverage its cutting-edge capabilities to empower and support the ultimate mobility reinvention."
The Automotive Studio provides eight innovative practices that deliver added value:
- Software-Defined Vehicle: Help original equipment manufacturers and mobility companies implement software architecture to better access, understand, use, and update services necessary for new mobility solutions.
- Mobile Customer Engagement: Design personalized marketing content, engaging digital experiences, and real-time data analysis.
- Connected Mobility: Unlock the power of a vast data lake to build intelligent, personalized features and revenue-generating mobility services.
- Autonomous Driving: Help clients implement robotics and machine learning to accelerate autonomous vehicle development.
- Manufacturing & Supply Chain: Implement AI and machine learning to process supply chain information to track and trace the entire production process with unparalleled efficiency.
- Product Engineering: Reduce time to market by empowering product developers and engineers to solve complex problems using high-performance computing, model-based design, and large-scale parallel simulations.
- Mobility enters the Metaverse: Help clients boost new revenue streams through the development and launch of gaming platforms, NFT design, product showcases, virtual venues, and even virtual immerse training.
- Sustainability: Counsel clients on embedding sustainability and sustainable innovation across the value chain.
"Vehicles are quickly evolving into digital software platforms, with AI, IoT, and data and other technologies accelerating the change," said Marina Saint-Lary, Globant CSO and Automotive Studio Lead. "We're enthusiastic about leveraging opportunities in this industry, building the bridge from where the automotive industry is coming from to where it's going. Our experts and partners are creating cutting-edge solutions, scaling and enhancing customer experiences, leveraging AI to increase efficiency in the ICE business and boosting new business models, building the future of mobility."
In the past year, Globant launched Reinvention Studios to leverage its industry knowledge and enable the profound transformation of specific industries by leaning on the deep technology expertise of the existing Digital Studios (which are focused on technologies like the Metaverse, Data & AI, and Blockchain, among others). Its portfolio includes Airlines, Bluecap Future Finance, EdTech, Gaming, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Smart Payments, and Travel & Hospitality Studios.
To learn more about Automotive Studio, click here.
About Globant
We are a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves to create a way forward and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design, and engineering meet scale.
- We have more than 24,500 employees, and we are present in 19 countries working for companies like Google, Electronic Arts, and Santander, among others.
- We were named a Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services by IDC MarketScape report.
- We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
- We are a member of the Green Software Foundation (GSF) and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord.
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NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
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Los Angeles FC 2, Seattle 1
Portland 4, Minnesota 4, tie
Atlanta 0, Chicago 0, tie
New York City FC 0, CF Montréal 0, tie
Philadelphia 6, Houston 0
Cincinnati 4, Miami 4, tie
Vancouver 1, Nashville 1, tie
Toronto FC 0, New England 0, tie
Austin FC 2, Sporting Kansas City 0
FC Dallas 1, LA Galaxy 0
Real Salt Lake 2, San Jose 2, tie
Columbus at Charlotte FC, 10:15 p.m.
D.C. United 2, Orlando City 1
Colorado 5, New York 4
Seattle 1, FC Dallas 0
Charlotte FC 3, D.C. United 0
CF Montréal 2, Columbus 1
Nashville 1, Portland 1, tie
Miami 1, San Jose 0
Houston at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m.
Seattle at Atlanta, 3 p.m.
Chicago at Charlotte FC, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
New York City FC at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
New York at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m.
Miami at CF Montréal, 7:30 p.m.
New England at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m.
Toronto FC at Nashville, 8 p.m.
LA Galaxy at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.
San Jose at Austin FC, 9 p.m.
Minnesota at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Los Angeles FC at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m.
FC Dallas at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
Orlando City at New York, 6 p.m.
Atlanta at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
D.C. United at New England, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.
Portland at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m.
New York City FC at Miami, 8 p.m.
Sporting Kansas City at Austin FC, 9 p.m.
Columbus at Colorado, 9 p.m.
San Jose at FC Dallas, 9 p.m.
CF Montréal at Houston, 9 p.m.
Vancouver at LA Galaxy, 10 p.m.
Charlotte FC at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Nashville, 9 p.m.
Real Salt Lake at Seattle, 10 p.m. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4616650 | 2022-08-04T15:46:00Z | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4616650 | true |
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Discreet Labs is proud to announce that Peter Abilla, previously part of Harmony's core team, has signed on as Chief Business Officer. Abilla will be involved with Discreet Labs' flagship project Findora, a protocol focused on scaling Ethereum privacy.
Abilla has a long history in software development and the crypto space. Before working at Harmony, he served as the Vice President of Growth Marketing and Community for both Mainframe and ThunderCore. He has also worked with Oasis Labs in Community and Developer Marketing.
In Abilla's more than two years at Harmony, he led the pivot to focus on developers and building a healthy DeFi system, which resulted in unprecedented growth for the ecosystem.
Discreet Labs believes he can bring that same developer-focus to their flagship privacy project, Findora. Abilla is excited to support developers and help established projects integrate Findora's unique privacy-preserving zero-knowledge technology across GameFi, DeFi, TradFi, and other Web3 areas.
Findora provides a foundation for web3 privacy through advanced zero-knowledge proof cryptography and revolutionary blockchain architecture.
Findora combines a UTXO ledger with an EVM ledger so developers can leverage both blockchain models as they build. This allows Findora to be scalable, private, and as programmable as any EVM-compatible chain.
"I'm excited to be working with Discreet Labs," Abilla commented. "Their researchers have contributed to major breakthroughs that can revolutionize blockchain privacy – a field of research that is often overlooked but desperately needed. Findora's technology has the potential to speed mass adoption of Web3 through giving institutions the privacy they need to participate in the space."
"Peter has done great things for other ecosystems, and we know he can do the same for the Findora ecosystem," says Warren Paul Anderson, CEO of Discreet Labs. "He will be instrumental in building partnerships and getting the message out to key players about the importance of building scaleable privacy for crypto and Web3."
Discreet Labs is building scalable privacy systems for Web3 and believes our digital future must be private and self-sovereign. It has launched multiple exciting protocols, including Findora, the Rialto Bridge, and Yellow Submarine. Applications developed by Discreet Labs provide the transaction privacy that institutions want with auditability regulators require for compliance.
Learn more about Discreet Labs at discreetlabs.io.
Findora scales Ethereum privacy with next-generation zero-knowledge proof technology. It is a leading privacy-preserving smart contract platform for Web3, giving developers the tools they need to build a new financial internet. Founded in 2017 and born out of next-generation cryptography research, Findora finally launched publicly in 2021 and is poised to use privacy to make DeFi a safe place for individuals and financial institutions.
Learn more at findora.org.
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Enables customers to achieve successful business outcomes using healthy data in Amazon Redshift Serverless
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talend, a global leader in data integration and governance, announced its support for Amazon Redshift Serverless. Talend's integration with Amazon Redshift Serverless reinforces our commitment and leadership in supporting businesses to enable analytics with a foundation of healthy data they can access, trust, and act on to achieve successful outcomes.
"Support for Amazon Redshift Serverless gives customers further validation and assurance of our commitment to provide high-quality integrations and governance solutions with Amazon Redshift," said Rolf Heimes, global head of business development, Talend. "Our continued close collaboration with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team is focused on bringing innovative solutions to market that help companies use reliable, healthy data to make critical decisions and drive desired business outcomes."
Amazon Redshift Serverless is a new serverless option for Amazon Redshift that makes it easy to run and scale high-performance analytics workloads on petabytes of data in seconds without having to manage data warehouse infrastructure. By supporting Amazon Redshift Serverless, Talend also provides complementary features, including Talend Trust Score™, which automatically crawls and provides a health assessment of data in Amazon Redshift.
"Using Talend and AWS Redshift means our business teams can now execute reports in minutes rather than hours or even days," says David Clifton, Head of Data and Architecture, Affinity Water, a water supplier to 3.6 million customers daily in the UK. "Without this underlying technology we'd struggle to operate and meet our business commitments, and also risk financial penalties from regulators and other areas, including requirements such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We're certainly achieving benefits by using AWS and Talend."
Prezzee, a leading global eGift card platform, found a way to simplify and integrate its operational tracking. "Using Talend Stitch and Amazon Redshift, we have automated reporting, monitoring, and alerting across all platforms, our production database (AWS), and our customer data platform," said Anthony Wakulicz, Head of Data, Prezzee. "Now it saves team members countless hours of work — and helps us confidently scale and manage our business. With Stitch and AWS, anyone in the company can have visibility over all of our business processes, whether built in-house or not."
Integration with Amazon Redshift Serverless is Talend's latest advancement in supporting Amazon Redshift customers. Talend also supports native integration of Stitch with the Amazon Redshift Console, a user interface that simplifies management and improves insights into Amazon Redshift clusters and workloads. With this integration, Amazon Redshift customers can rapidly integrate multiple data sources into a fully managed secure platform and immediately enable analytics across a business.
Customers can begin to use Talend or Talend Stitch with Amazon Redshift Serverless immediately.
Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, is taking the work out of working with data.
Talend offers the only end-to-end platform that combines enterprise-grade data integration, integrity, and governance capabilities to unify data across any cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. With Talend's no-code and low-code modules, data experts and business users actively collaborate to make data more discoverable, usable, and valuable organization-wide. Over 7,250 customers around the world rely on Talend for healthy data and a healthy business. Top analyst firms and industry media recognize Talend as a leader in data management software.
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BOSTON (AP) _ X4 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (XFOR) on Thursday reported a loss of $21.2 million in its second quarter.
The Boston-based company said it had a loss of 60 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 65 cents per share.
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Best Things To Do This Weekend in Los Angeles And SoCal: Aug. 5 - 7
View a new solo art show from D*Face. Listen to La Marisoul’s latest bolero project. Catch A League of Their Own’s 25th anniversary screening. Attend the opening of the House of the Dragon: The Targaryen Dynasty. Or take in an “alternate reality” film screening at the Norton Simon.
Through the end of September
Flight – A Live Butterfly Experience
The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park
1801 East Chestnut Ave., Santa Ana
Visitors can immerse themselves in the beauty, color and flight of hundreds of tropical butterflies in the 2,000-square-foot aviary. Study the butterfly life cycle through the outdoor experience, which is included with Zoo admission.
COST: $9- $12; MORE INFO
Friday, Aug. 5 - Sunday, Aug. 7
Pasadena Bead & Design Show
Hilton Pasadena
168 South Los Robles Ave., Pasadena
The summer show returns with contemporary handwork, lapidary, art couture, jewelry, and bead-making arts. Meet artists, shop their wares and designs or for antique beads and hand-printed fabrics and clothing. There will be more than 200 exhibits and vendors on view and workshops will be held throughout the weekend.
COST: $8 - $10; MORE INFO
Friday, Aug. 5; 9 p.m.
Spanish Aqui Presents En Directo
The Paramount
2708 E. Cesar E Chavez Ave., Boyle Heights
Attend the latest show from the all-Latinx improv comedy team for the best in Latinx standup, improv and music. Special guests Harvey Guillen, Cristela Alonzo, Erik Rivera as well as accompanying dance performances.
COST: $22.66; MORE INFO
Friday, Aug. 5; 6 - 8 p.m.
Soundscapes: Justen LeRoy
Kenneth Hahn Park
4100 S. La Cienega Blvd., Culver City
LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) presents the second iteration of its summer programming series, L.A. Summer Mixes, with a picnic release party in the park. LeRoy has created a mix of songs born from his love and the experience of being from the Crenshaw District neighborhood. In addition to the mix, the artist has curated a list of his neighborhood’s favorite spots, encouraging people to go out and explore.
COST: FREE with RSVP; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6 - Saturday, Sept. 10
D*Face: Painting Over the Cracks
Corey Helford Gallery
571 S. Anderson St., Boyle Heights
Know for work for blending art, design, and graffiti, the prolific urban contemporary UK artist D*Face (Dean Stockton) has a new solo show that opens this weekend at the CHG. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, Aug. 6 from 7 to 10 p.m. Also opening at the gallery this weekend is All Signs Point to No, featuring new works from Chicago-based artist, illustrator and toymaker Travis Lampe in Gallery 3.
COST: FREE; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6; 8:30 p.m.
A League of Their Own
Cinespia at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood
Catch the 30th anniversary screening of the feature film with Geena Davis and the stars of the upcoming Prime Video Series of the same name. The new series reimagines the iconic film, following the adventures of an all-women pro baseball team during WWII. DJ sets bookend the night, featuring concessions for sale, from snacks to coffees and a beer and wine bar.
COST: $20 - $30; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6 - Saturday, Aug. 27
25th Anniversary Group Show
KP Projects Gallery
633 N. LA Brea Ave., Fairfax
KP Projects/ Merry Karnowsky Gallery presents a group exhibition that celebrates the gallery’s 25th anniversary and legacy in L.A.’s art scene that embraced the pop, surrealist, lowbrow and street art movements. View works by more than 30 artists from their 25 years. The show opens on Aug. 6 with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. (RSVP to attend.)
COST: FREE; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6; 7 p.m.
Davinci's Films of Hollywood
Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W 24th St., University Park
Watch a retrospective of the works of visionary artist and filmmaker Pa,Sacio Davinci, who for the past 24 years has made films with actors and significant individuals from the South LA neighborhood, “weaving Hollywood tropes with hallucinogenic dream-like visuals that expand beyond generic conceptions of everyday filmmaking.” This screening features two of his films—Black Terk Big Foot - Part 3 and The First Black Cheyenne - Part 4—along with an in-person discussion with the filmmaker.
COST: $6 - $10; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6; 9 p.m.
Rostam
El Rey
5515 Wilshire Blvd., Mid-Wilshire
Rostam, a record producer and a founding member of Vampire Weekend, performs a solo, all-ages show with Sam Buck in support. He performs a few select dates in support of his latest album, Changephobia.
COST: $25; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6; 8 p.m.
6th Annual Boleros De Noche: La Marisoul and the Love Notes Orchestra
The Ford
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. E, Hollywood Hills
Listen to the latest bolero project from La Marisol, lead singer of La Santa Cecilia. She’s accompanied by a big band orchestra, playing tribute to Olga Guillot, Toña La Negra, and Ella Fitzgerald in a show that encompasses bolero music and American jazz. Only a few tickets remain. (And the Kamasi Washington Friday night show at the Ford is already sold out.)
COST: $85; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6 - Sunday, Sept. 7
House of the Dragon: The Targaryen Dynasty
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd., Exposition Park
NHM partners with HBO Max for the pop-up exhibition of props, costumes and artifacts from the upcoming TV show House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones. The mini-exhibition also features tutorials on the Valyrian language.
COST: $7 - $15 NHM general admission; MORE INFO
Saturdays, Aug. 6 - 20; 5 p.m.
Alternate Realities Film Screenings
Norton Simon Museum
411 West Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
The museum holds a science-fiction film series inspired by the theme “alternate realities.” Watch films that transport you to distant or unfamiliar worlds. The series starts this Saturday with the original Planet of the Apes (1968), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Other upcoming Forbidden Planet (1956) and Fantastic Planet (1973). Included with the cost of museum admission.
COST: $12 - $15 adult admission; MORE INFO
Saturday, Aug. 6 - Sunday, Aug. 7; 4 p.m.
Garden Concerts for Kids
The Getty Center’s Central Garden
1200 Getty Center Dr., Brentwood
The free outdoor music series for kids and their families returns this month, featuring some of the best children's musical artists from across the nation. Bring a picnic basket and blanket (no lawn chairs). Performing this weekend is The Lucky Band.
COST: FREE; MORE INFO
Sunday, Aug. 7; 3 and 5 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome
Mt. Wilson Observatory (MWO)
RedBox-Mount Wilson Rd., Mount Wilson
Mt. Wilson Observatory's concert series presents an afternoon of chamber brass enhanced by the great acoustics of the 100-inch telescope's dome. Listen to an eclectic mix of songs by Bach, Ewazen, Kamen, Barber, Arnold, Ewald and others performed by the L.A. Chamber Brass.
COST: $50; MORE INFO
Outdoor Pick
Bird Walk at King Gillette Ranch
Bring your binoculars and camera and join in the monthly, easy bird walk around the grounds of King Gillette Ranch on Saturday, Aug. 6. Over 1.5 hours and less than a mile walk, catch songbirds, water birds, woodpeckers, raptors or other birds along the way. The walk leaves promptly at 8:30 a.m. from the flagpole. Address: Anthony C. Beilenson Interagency Visitor Center, 26876 Mulholland Hwy, Calabasas.
Viewing Pick
The Sandman
The long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s DC comic book series (1989–1996) debuts its 10 episodes on Netflix on Friday, Aug. 5. The series follows Dream aka Morpheus — the King of Dreams — who embarks on a journey across worlds to restore his power after years of imprisonment. The series stars Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, among others and counts Gaiman as one of the executive producers.
Dine and Drink Deals
Check out the 411 on restaurant, bar, and food happenings in SoCal this week:
- The Uncorked Wine Festival returns to LA on Saturday, Aug. 6 at the California Science Center. From 7 - 11 p.m., ticket holders can enjoy more than 100 wines and Champagnes from around the world, and enjoy after-hours access to the museum with DJ and favorite local food trucks. Tickets: $65 - $100.
- Roots & Yam Jerk Festival, which features Caribbean food and music, returns to Exposition Park this weekend, Aug. 6 -7. Taste Jerk chicken, shrimp, fish, with pineapple, jasmine rice, beans and other dishes. Tickets: $100 - $260.
- 22nd Annual Taste of Ecuador Food Festival & Parade takes place on Sunday, Aug. 7 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at Placita Olvera. Enjoy Ecuadorian cuisine plus musical groups, folklore customs and exhibiting companies. Admission is free.
- Citrin in Santa Monica offers a Glass Off at the Citrin bar happy hour Tuesday - Saturday, from 5:30 to 7p.m. The food includes the signature egg caviar, lobster bolognese, and Mélisse burger. Glasses of wine are $10, beers are $7.50 and cocktails are $11.
- Pitfire Pizza has launched a new summer seasonal menu that also includes Thick Cut chili cornbread, an heirloom tomato bowl, charred corn on the cob, watermelon & cucumber salad and Dippers (side sauces marinara, avocado crema, hot honey and house ranch).
- Although the pricey Mélisse’s dinner with Washington D.C.’s two-star Michelin Jont on Saturday is already sold out (at $495 per person), reservations are now being offered for the Mélisse monthly Chef's Tasting Menu. The 2.5-hour experience featuring seasonal dishes from Josiah Citrin is a little easier on the wallet (at $295 per person). | https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/best-events-things-to-do-this-week-los-angeles-southern-california-aug-5-7-2022 | 2022-08-04T15:48:11Z | https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/best-events-things-to-do-this-week-los-angeles-southern-california-aug-5-7-2022 | false |
New Studio adds to Globant's Reinvention Studios portfolio, which includes Smart Payments, EdTech, Airlines, and Gaming, among others.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, today announced the launch of its Automotive Studio. With this new offering, the company aims to become the bridge the automotive industry needs toward mobility and digital revolutions.
As the newest addition to Globant's Reinvention Studios portfolio, the Automotive Studio will help reinvent the industry by capturing the best capabilities from different technologies, including Metaverse, Gaming, Blockchain, Sustainability, Data & AI, IoT, UI Engineering, and Conversational Interfaces, leading to immersive customer experiences and augmented design.
"The automotive industry has been changing over the last decade with exceptional speed. Software is quickly becoming the value of the car. Security aspects such as ADAS, connected vehicles, and service-based functionality are all increasing the demand for our capabilities," said Diego Tartara, Chief Technology Officer at Globant. "With this new Studio, Globant will leverage its cutting-edge capabilities to empower and support the ultimate mobility reinvention."
The Automotive Studio provides eight innovative practices that deliver added value:
- Software-Defined Vehicle: Help original equipment manufacturers and mobility companies implement software architecture to better access, understand, use, and update services necessary for new mobility solutions.
- Mobile Customer Engagement: Design personalized marketing content, engaging digital experiences, and real-time data analysis.
- Connected Mobility: Unlock the power of a vast data lake to build intelligent, personalized features and revenue-generating mobility services.
- Autonomous Driving: Help clients implement robotics and machine learning to accelerate autonomous vehicle development.
- Manufacturing & Supply Chain: Implement AI and machine learning to process supply chain information to track and trace the entire production process with unparalleled efficiency.
- Product Engineering: Reduce time to market by empowering product developers and engineers to solve complex problems using high-performance computing, model-based design, and large-scale parallel simulations.
- Mobility enters the Metaverse: Help clients boost new revenue streams through the development and launch of gaming platforms, NFT design, product showcases, virtual venues, and even virtual immerse training.
- Sustainability: Counsel clients on embedding sustainability and sustainable innovation across the value chain.
"Vehicles are quickly evolving into digital software platforms, with AI, IoT, and data and other technologies accelerating the change," said Marina Saint-Lary, Globant CSO and Automotive Studio Lead. "We're enthusiastic about leveraging opportunities in this industry, building the bridge from where the automotive industry is coming from to where it's going. Our experts and partners are creating cutting-edge solutions, scaling and enhancing customer experiences, leveraging AI to increase efficiency in the ICE business and boosting new business models, building the future of mobility."
In the past year, Globant launched Reinvention Studios to leverage its industry knowledge and enable the profound transformation of specific industries by leaning on the deep technology expertise of the existing Digital Studios (which are focused on technologies like the Metaverse, Data & AI, and Blockchain, among others). Its portfolio includes Airlines, Bluecap Future Finance, EdTech, Gaming, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Smart Payments, and Travel & Hospitality Studios.
To learn more about Automotive Studio, click here.
About Globant
We are a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves to create a way forward and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design, and engineering meet scale.
- We have more than 24,500 employees, and we are present in 19 countries working for companies like Google, Electronic Arts, and Santander, among others.
- We were named a Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services by IDC MarketScape report.
- We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
- We are a member of the Green Software Foundation (GSF) and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord.
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INVERNESS, Fla., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Twistid Ink, a Central Florida Tattoo Studio, wanted to bring unique art forms to the youth of their community. Introducing, Walk of Arts: an inclusive music and arts festival taking place on September 3rd at Liberty Park in Inverness, Florida.
This all-day festival includes a FREE sidewalk chalk competition for children aged 5-18 with celebrity & local artist judges and $4,200 in total prizes, various food trucks, an entire day of entertainment, and raffles going on throughout the day sponsored by local businesses.
The sidewalk chalk competition will host 150 competitors of various age ranges. Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis but is required prior to the festival at twistidink.com/woa . The competition is free to register. Chalk is provided for each contestant, so junior artists need only bring their imaginations to the competition!
"To expose the local youths to professional artists of varied forms, we decided to have the competition judged by both award-winning local judges and two celebrity artists," Elisha Belden, owner of Twistid Ink, states. "Aaron Is and Robbie Ripoll from Paramount Network's popular show, Ink Master, will join us as judges and be available to meet with the junior contestants throughout the day."
Not competing? No worries - there's still plenty to do at the Walk of Arts Festival! Seven bands in various musical styles will provide entertainment throughout the day. Featuring local, regional, and national artists, the Walk of Arts will showcase talent from across the country with a little something for everyone. Closing the festival is the one and only Tiffany, who is most well known for her 80s cult classic, "I Think We're Alone Now."
Surrounding the event space will be a variety of food trucks, various art-based vendors, performance artists, and cosplayers. In addition, a children's corner providing kids' activities and games will be available for those not participating in the sidewalk chalk competition.
The Walk of Arts is a free event to attend and is suitable for all ages. Kicking off at 10 am for general attendees, this event is open to the public. So join us for this incredible, one-of-a-kind event celebrating arts of all forms right here in Citrus County!
To check out the lineup or register a child, click on over to www.twistidink.com/woa.
For more information please contact info@twistidink.com
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Ohio State kicked off the 2022 football season Thursday morning with its first practice of the preseason.
A brief viewing window for the media at the start of the session confirmed the Buckeyes begin the season in relatively good health.
Josh Proctor and Lathan Ransom, a pair of safeties returning from broken legs, were both seen working with the safeties while Cody Simon was back with the linebackers after missing spring practice.
Josh Fryer, a third-year sophomore expected to add critical depth at tackle, was also back in action after missing the spring while senior Tyler Friday returned to the mix on the defensive line.
Ohio State is set to have 25 practices leading up to the season-opening game at home against Notre Dame on Sept. 3.
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Kiambu lad Muigwa new Junior Stroke Play champ
What you need to know:
- Vet Lab’s Wanjiru scores 339 gross to win the girls title, Wambari claims boys 19-21 years title
- Assured winner fires three birdies in final round to beat Vet Lab’s Orinda by three shots at Muthaiga golf club
Kiambu Golf Club’s Elvis Muigwa completed a four rounds total of 307 gross, to become the new Kenya Junior Stroke Play Champion at Muthaiga Golf Club’s par 71 course on Wednesday.
Muigwa, one of the four juniors who formed the Kenya junior golf team for the All Africa Junior Golf Championship in Egypt early this year, fired three over par 74 in the closing round to beat Vet Lab Sports Club’s Steve Orinda by three shots.
During the first two round played on Monday, Muigwa posted two identical scores of 77 each, then posted 79 in the third round on Tuesday.
However, during the final round, Muigwa, 18, playing of handicap five, made two birdies at the third and fourth holes, dropped shots over the sixth, eighth and ninth for one over par 37.
At the back nine the Kiambu lad bogeyed three holes but ended the day with a birdie at the 18th for two over par 37.
On the other hand, Orinda fired sis over par 77 in the final round for a total of 310 gross.
Taking the Girls title with a score of 339 gross was Belinda Wanjiru also from Vet Lab.
The Boys 19 to 21 Years title was won by John Wambari on 328 gross, followed in second place by Peter Waiharo on 341 while finishing third was Kenneth Muraya on 352.
The net title went to Jesse Waithaka with a score of 299.
In the 16 to 18 years, Krish Shah of Vet Lab carded 316 to win ahead of Lee Kimanthi of Windsor on 320. Kevin Anyien came third on 330 gross.
The 14 to 15 yYears title went to home player Junaid Manji on on 326 gross, beating Royal’s Kimani Gicheru into second place on 353 while Ishan Samani was third on 361 gross. Taking the net title was Karyn Ombisi with a score of 284.
In the 13 Years and Under, Shashwat Harish posted gross 320 to win ahead of Jelani Kihanya and Ronan Patel on 336 and 349 gross while Ephrahim Mugisha clinched the net title with a score of 283 nett.
This year the event, also known as Boys and Girls Championship, attracted a field of 75 players (64 boys and 11 girls) hence a cut off for the top 49 was after two rounds was introduced for the remaining two rounds.
Speaking during the prize giving ceremony, Junior Golf Foundation (JGF) vice president Judy Wanjiku thanked Muthaiga Golf Club for hosting the event over the years, and for the parents for supporting their children and giving them the opportunity to play the game of golf. | https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/golf/kiambu-lad-muigwa-new-junior-stroke-play-champ-3903130 | 2022-08-04T15:50:36Z | https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/golf/kiambu-lad-muigwa-new-junior-stroke-play-champ-3903130 | false |
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Blinken says he hopes ‘Beijing will not manufacture a crisis’ after Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that he “(hopes) very much that Beijing will not manufacture a crisis or seek a pretense to increase its aggressive military action” as China fired missiles towards waters near Taiwan as part of exercises near the self-governing island in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit there.
Speaking at the ASEAN-US Ministerial meeting in Cambodia, Blinken noted that the “many countries around the world believe that escalation serves no one and could have unintended consequences that serve no one’s interests, including ASEAN members and including China.”
“We’ve reached out to engage our PRC counterparts in recent days at every level of government to convey this message,” the top US diplomat said. “Maintaining cross-strait stability is the interest all countries in the region, including all of our colleagues within ASEAN.”
“The United States continues to have an abiding interest in peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. We oppose any unilateral efforts to change the status quo, especially by force,” Blinken reiterated.
Blinken said the US remains “committed to our One China policy guided by our commitments to the Taiwan Relations Act, Three Communiques, and Six Assurances.”
“And I want to emphasize: nothing has changed about our position and I hope very much that Beijing will not manufacture a crisis or seek a pretense to increase its aggressive military action,” he said.
The Chinese military’s Eastern Theater Command said in a statement Thursday that multiple missiles had been fired into the sea off the eastern part of Taiwan. It said all the missiles hit their target accurately.
“The entire live-fire training mission has been successfully completed and the relevant air and sea area control is now lifted,” China’s statement said.
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan this week marked the first time a House speaker has visited the self-governed island in 25 years and prompted immense backlash from Beijing in the lead-up to, during and after the trip.
In addition to the military drills, China also hit Taiwan with trade restrictions in apparent retaliation.
On Tuesday night, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Feng summoned US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns to protest Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
According to a US State Department spokesperson, Burns “explained that the Speaker of the House has the right to travel to Taiwan and that her trip is fully consistent with our one China policy.”
They said Burns “also reiterated that the United States will not escalate and stands ready to work with China to prevent escalation altogether.”
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GENEVA (AP) — The world’s richest soccer league starts a new season in England on Friday as the rest of Europe looks for ways to catch up.
Off the field, the English Premier League is a commercial juggernaut with broadcasting deals worldwide fueling player transfers and wages most others cannot match. It helps explain why some clubs created the Super League project.
League riches helped English champion Manchester City make the marquee summer signing. Erling Haaland’s arrival from Borussia Dortmund cost City more than 100 million pounds ($122 million) in transfer and agent fees.
While Haaland was a boyhood City fan whose father played there, he was also lured to a competitive league that avoids the one-club dominance recently seen in Germany, Italy and France.
On the field, five different teams have won the Premier League in the past 10 seasons, including Leicester’s stunning 2016 title. Though City has four of the past five titles, two were epic duels with Liverpool.
The Champions League is also feeling Premier League power with four different teams in the past four finals, including two all-English games. Liverpool was in three of the past five finals while winning just one Premier League title.
Those same four teams — City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham — are England’s entry in the Champions League this season.
Manchester United and Arsenal qualified only for the second-tier Europa League and are by far the wealthiest clubs in it.
Here’s a look at English financial dominance and the challenge for other top leagues:
ENGLAND’S EARNING
Premier League broadcast rights earned 3.64 billion euros ($3.7 billion) last season with Spain’s La Liga next best at around 2 billion euros ($2.04 billion), according to UEFA’s annual survey of European soccer.
“This is of course the best example in the world of how to market a sports competition,” Jacco Swart, managing director of the 30-nation European Leagues group, said in praise.
Evenly weighted cash distribution gave the worst Premier League team, Norwich, 98 million pounds ($119 million) in prize money that beat the entire budget for most European clubs.
English clubs took 10 of the top 18 places in the latest Deloitte list of highest earners. Abu Dhabi-owned Man City led with 644.9 million euros ($657 million).
The total wage bill for 20 Premier League clubs was 2.88 billion euros ($2.93 billion) in 2020, according to UEFA – 1 billion euros ($1.02 billion) above La Liga, and more than Germany’s Bundesliga and Italy’s Serie A combined.
SPAIN'S CHASING
La Liga skews prize money toward top clubs with the winner taking about 160 million euros ($163 million), up to three times more than other clubs.
It's good for Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atlético Madrid — who have won all the league titles since Valencia’s in 2004 — though not for competitive balance.
“They do not have a very long tradition of selling (rights) collectively,” Swart said.
Real Madrid’s response to tough times was winning yet another Champions League by improbably ousting the top three English clubs and Paris Saint-Germain.
Madrid and Barcelona have long raised their Champions League earnings by using influence at the European Club Association — which they left to launch the failed Super League — to steer prize money toward storied clubs.
Barcelona has eased its own financial crisis, fueled by long-term overspending on wages, by trading future TV rights money for cash now from an investment firm.
Signing FIFA player of the year Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich was one result, though Barcelona's reputation is being hit by pressuring Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong to take a pay cut.
A Spanish success has been coach Unai Emery lifting, first, Sevilla and now small-town Villarreal to overachieve and win a combined four Europa League titles.
GERMANY'S CULTURE
The Bundesliga’s “50+1” ownership rule is widely liked for protecting clubs’ identity and preventing takeovers by the oil-rich states, oligarchs and billionaires lured to the Premier League.
Clubs controlling a majority of voting rights is embedded in German culture, which also curbs ticket and pay-TV prices — a principled stand which reduces revenue.
“What people are willing to pay to watch football in England is totally different to what people are prepared to pay in Germany,” Swart said.
The average season ticket price is 1,095 pounds ($1,325) at Arsenal but some Dortmund fans can pay just 240 euros ($244).
Dortmund also excels signing and nurturing English teenagers, then selling them back to the Premier League. Haaland’s former teammate, Jadon Sancho, went to Man United for a four-fold profit and Jude Bellingham is likely next.
ITALY’S DECLINE
After hosting the 1990 World Cup, Serie A was the rich, glamor league. Decline followed the 1992 launches of the Premier League and Champions League, and Italian stars started moving to Chelsea and even unfashionable Middlesbrough.
Serie A clubs fell further back by playing in city-owned stadiums -- some shared, with an athletics track, and dating fast -- they could not exploit commercially.
Juventus opened its own stadium in 2011 and won nine straight titles. Red tape has not helped stadium building plans in Rome, Milan and elsewhere, frustrating a new wave of American club owners.
Chinese ownership at AC Milan and Inter Milan has been complicated, though both ended a decade-long wait to win Serie A.
Italy’s favored bid to host the 2032 European Championship can spark a needed stadium modernization program and play has improved on the field.
Attack-minded teams Atalanta and Napoli helped Serie A shed a reputation for negative play, which dulled global interest in paying for broadcast rights.
FRANCE
Ligue 1 has mostly been owned by Paris Saint-Germain since Qatar bought the club in 2011 months after being named the 2022 World Cup host.
Lyon and Marseille have not won titles since 2008 and 2010, respectively, and both are now in American ownership.
Lyon’s new majority owner, John Textor, arrived in June promising to spend to pursue PSG at home with European ambitions next.
Marseille has had turmoil in six years under former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, though is now back in the Champions League.
Another foreign owner driving a renewed challenge at Nice is Monaco-based British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, who was often linked to bids for Chelsea.
The overseas ownership model offers some stability after the collapse two years ago of the league’s touted new broadcast deal.
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Comprehensive third-party risk management solution to automate the vendor risk management process by enabling enterprises and third-party vendors to seamlessly connect, conduct, and share assessments
BOSTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, announced today its intent to acquire ThirdPartyTrust, a comprehensive Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) platform which automates the processes of vendor assessment and onboarding. By integrating ThirdPartyTrust into its existing TPRM solutions, BitSight provides an end-to-end third-party risk management solution that delivers real-time insights to drive strategic decision-making throughout the entire vendor lifecycle.
In today's ever-evolving global threat landscape, risk management teams must assess cyber risk quickly across their entire third-party ecosystem – but most businesses still deploy slow, manual assessment processes. ThirdPartyTrust from BitSight combines the intuitive intelligence of an automated vendor validation tool with BitSight's market-leading continuous monitoring solution. With BitSight, third-party risk managers can work smarter and more efficiently by discovering and mitigating unforeseen cybersecurity risks in real-time, allowing them to make well-informed decisions quickly.
"By providing our customers with ThirdPartyTrust from BitSight, an automated tool for assessing cyber risk across all phases of the vendor lifecycle, BitSight continues to evolve and innovate its approach to third-party cyber risk management," said BitSight CEO, Stephen Harvey. "In today's digital economy, organizations are more reliant on their extended supply chain than ever and need to keep it as secure as possible. By integrating ThirdPartyTrust into our existing TPRM offering, we are providing them an integrated tool to better collaborate and share important cyber risk information across an ever-growing community of stakeholders involved in the management of cyber risk."
With ThirdPartyTrust from BitSight, third-party risk managers will be able to:
- Manage their vendor risk assessment workflows and right-size their efforts based on risk;
- Quickly assess and validate third-party vendors using custom and standard security questionnaires strengthened with objective cyber security evidence;
- Collaborate and communicate with third-party vendors across their entire digital supply chain; and
- Increase their organization's capacity to manage and respond to third-party security risks across the entire vendor lifecycle, including during major security events
"We started ThirdPartyTrust to help organizations increase their capacity to assess cyber risk during the vendor selection process. As our business grew, we built a strategic partnership with BitSight to deliver an end-to-end third-party risk management solution that provided a holistic view of the life cycle of risk assessments," said ThirdPartyTrust CEO, Anders Noremo. "That partnership received tremendous positive feedback from our mutual customers. I'm extremely excited to join BitSight as we integrate these two great products to deliver an outstanding and comprehensive third-party risk management platform."
"More than a decade ago, BitSight pioneered cybersecurity ratings backed by the most reliable, expansive, and objective data available. Today, we are the industry leader in managing cyber risk for third- and fourth-party vendors," said BitSight Vice President and General Manager, Third-Party Risk Management, Vanessa Jankowski. "Our customers trust BitSight and look to us to continue to innovate and deliver new solutions and capabilities that help them manage a risk that is becoming more complicated, more far-reaching, and more urgent every day. I'm very excited to bring ThirdPartyTrust into the BitSight family as we continue to expand our customers' ability to manage cyber risk across their entire third-party lifecycle and extended supply chain."
About BitSight
BitSight creates trust in the digital economy and transforms how organizations manage cyber risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help organizations manage their own security performance; mitigate third party risk; underwrite cyber insurance policies; conduct financial diligence; and assess aggregate risk. With the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the Standard in Security Ratings. For more information, please visit www.bitsight.com, read our blog or follow @BitSight on Twitter.
About ThirdPartyTrust
ThirdPartyTrust is a third party risk management platform for companies and vendors to perform assessments, automate risk and compliance workflows, and share security documents. ThirdPartyTrust gets programs out of email and spreadsheets and accelerates risk assessments through automation and centralized communication. Customers can get a holistic view of their vendors' security, quantify their impact, and gain insight into fourth parties, ultimately fostering more secure digital supply chains. Vendors can build a single, centralized security profile comprising all their questionnaires, certifications, and attestations so they can answer them once, and easily share them. For more information, visit www.thirdpartytrust.com
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OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiftMaster®, the number one brand of professionally installed residential garage door openers, is expanding its line of Secure View™ garage door openers that include myQ® smart access technology and a built-in camera. The new LiftMaster Secure View 84505R comes with the same streaming videos, recorded events, motion detection and 2-way communication capabilities as the Secure View 87504-267. Plus, it provides homeowners who place a high importance around the security/safety of their home with a mid-tier price point.
"The garage is the main entry point to the home for 70 percent of today's homeowners," said Jackie Lorenty, LiftMaster's Executive Vice President, Residential Services & International. "Being able to monitor who is coming and going from the garage (kids, friends, extended family), while being able to control who you let in (the dog walker) or keep out (a family of raccoons) makes the Secure View garage door opener a must have smart home device that puts homeowners in control and enhances the security of the home."
As the desire to have a smart garage door opener with video capabilities continues to grow, LiftMaster is looking to meet those needs with its Secure View openers. In a recent survey of 1,000 homeowners, over half of young families would like a smart garage door opener with video capabilities. Eighty-six percent said they would feel better if they could visually confirm their garage door was closed and 77 percent believe having a smart garage door opener with video capabilities would make them feel their home is safer overall.
The Secure View line of smart garage door openers work with the myQ app so homeowners can check and SEE if they left the garage door open and close it – anytime, from anywhere. "With most smart cameras you can monitor your home from anywhere, but you don't have the control to do anything about what you see. With a LiftMaster Secure View garage door opener you get vision and control over what is happening in your garage no matter where you are," added Lorenty.
Secure View garage door openers also work with Amazon Key for secure and convenient in-garage delivery of Amazon packages and groceries. With Secure View's streaming video, recorded events and motion detection capabilities, homeowners will be alerted when there is a delivery taking place and can watch deliveries happen in real time for extra peace of mind.
Features of the Secure View 84505R include:
- Built-in camera – keep your family safe and take away all the guesswork with a built-in camera that adds streaming video, recorded events and 2-way communication to the myQ app so you can see what's happening from anywhere.
- Integrated LED lighting – dual lighting system provides 1,500 lumens of long-lasting LED light that brightens high-traffic areas of the garage.
- Quiet operation – ultra-quiet DC motor and strong belt drive system ensures for comfortable living spaces near the garage.
- Smartphone control – control, secure and monitor the garage with the myQ app- anytime, from anywhere.
- Remote diagnostic capabilities – myQ Diagnostics in the myQ app keep track of the device's health and ensures for quick and easy service repairs when needed.
To learn more about LiftMaster Secure View garage door openers, please visit LiftMaster.com. To find your nearest LiftMaster dealer, please visit Liftmaster.com/Locate-a-Dealer.
About LiftMaster
LiftMaster is the number one brand of professionally installed residential garage door openers, as well as a leading manufacturer of commercial door operators, residential and commercial gate operators, smart video intercoms and related access control products. Driven by the access and security needs of the marketplace, LiftMaster's expansive line of state-of-the-art residential and commercial products are designed to fit any lifestyle or application, providing the latest technology and innovations in safety, security and convenience. More information at LiftMaster.com.
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More than a dozen people were hurt, one of them critically, when an MTA bus crashed head-on into an elevated subway track pillar in the Bronx Thursday, fire officials say.
The FDNY says it responded to Boston Road and East Tremont Avenue after getting a call about the crash around 8:30 a.m.
Footage from the scene showed the front windshield of the MTA bus completely smashed, a spiderweb of glass overtaking the front of the vehicle.
Details on the critically injured person weren't immediately made available. The other 12 people who were hurt were taken to area hospitals with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, officials said.
The investigation is ongoing.
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The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 50 basis pointsthis is the biggest increase in the cost of money since 1995. The BoE also announced that the UK will face the longest recession since the global financial crisis.
This is the sixth consecutive increase that has brought the reference rates from 1.25% to1,75%. Recall that it is the first increase of half a percentage point since the Bank was made independent by the British government in 1997.
The Monetary Policy Committee voted with a majority of 8-1 in favor to raise rates by half a point, citing rising inflationary pressures in the UK and the rest of Europe compared to the previous May meeting.
“This largely reflects an almost doubling of wholesale gas prices since May, due to Russia’s restriction of gas supplies to Europe and the risk of further cuts,” states the Monetary Policy Committee in the press release.
The Bank now expects headline inflation to peak at 13,3% in October and remains at high levels for much of 2023, before falling towards its target of 2% in 2025. Markets had largely priced the more aggressive rate approach at the August meeting, as UK inflation hit a new high in June in June. 40 years of 9,4% a while the prices of food and energy continued to rise, exacerbating the country’s historical cost of living crisis.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey promised last month that there would be no “ifs” and “buts” in the central bank’s pledge to push inflation back towards the 2% target.
BoE starts selling unexpired government bonds
The central bank outlined plans to sell some of the bonds acquired during the QE (Quantitative Easing) programs that began in the wake of the global financial crisis due to the pandemic. The BoE began reducing the amount of government bonds it still holds in March. So far it has done so by letting the acquired bonds mature without buying new ones to replace them, an approach similar to that of the Fed. Today, however, he proposed a plan to start selling government bonds that have not yet matured as early as September. Together with the maturing bonds, a total of 80 billion of pounds in a year. MPC members will vote on the proposal at their September meeting.
Furthermore, the BoE has stated that it intends to start sales of government bonds even before maturity for a value of approximately 10 billion pounds quarterly starting from September, subject to the final green light from policy makers (the UK government).
Recession in sight for five quarters
The Bank showed the UK’s economic growth prospects disastrous suggesting that the latest gas price hike led to another “significant deterioration” in the outlook for business in the UK and the rest of Europe.
According to estimates by the Monetary Policy Committee, the UK will enter a recession from the fourth quarter of 2022 e the recession will last five quarters as real after-tax household income will decline dramatically in 2022 and 2023 and consumption will begin to contract.
Negative prospects in the medium term also with regard to the labor market, according to the forecasts of the BoE economists, the unemployment rate by 2025 will increase to 6.3% compared to the current 3.8%.
The economic forecasts offer a grim reading – a significant decline in GDP that will extend into 2024 – although it is not possible to ignore the fiscal easing that a new Prime Minister could implement in the fall. Further rate hikes are likely as inflation will remain uncomfortably high in the coming months “, writes in a note Hetal Mehta, Senior European Economist di Legal & General Investment Management
The reaction of the market and analysts
According to most analysts, the historical rise of half a percentage point was widely expected and priced by the markets, what surprised are the outlook on inflation and economic growth. The pound marks a decrease of 0.30% against the dollar to 1.2107, the Ftse 100 remains just above par (+ 0.08%) just before the end of the session while the yield of the 10-year gilt currently falls to 1 , 85%.
The 50 basis point rate hike was expected by the market with Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey making it clear last month that such a move was ‘on the table’. However, the outlook painted today is extremely negative, with a recession expected to start in the fourth quarter of this year. While an expected inflation spike of over 13% in the near term suggests that more hikes will be needed, it is clear that the impact this will have on the real economy is being realized, with a particularly surprising forecast for unemployment jumping to 6. 3% by 2025. As a result, we maintain our view that, in the end, the Bank of England will be less aggressive than the Fed in raising rates, given the relative growth prospects, writes Jamie Niven, Senior Fund Manager at Candriam
“The Bank of England has accelerated the pace of tightening as it faces the ongoing trade-off between rising inflation and worsening growth prospects, confirming that tackling high prices is the priority in the short term. Hetal Mehta di Legal & General Investment Management. “The economic forecasts offer a grim reading – a significant decline in GDP that will extend into 2024 – even if it is not possible to ignore the fiscal easing that a new Prime Minister could implement in the fall. Further rate hikes are likely as inflation will remain uncomfortably high in the coming months “, goes on. | https://www.breakinglatest.news/business/bank-of-england-raises-rates-by-50bps-sees-inflation-peak-at-13-in-october-and-recession/ | 2022-08-04T15:54:01Z | https://www.breakinglatest.news/business/bank-of-england-raises-rates-by-50bps-sees-inflation-peak-at-13-in-october-and-recession/ | false |
NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for ALNA, EMBK, AMC, LCID, and APDN.
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“Luck” is a somewhat confounding blend of past, present, and future. The confoundedness comes of throwback elements and visionary never quite cohering — that, and an increasingly cluttered plot turning a sweet-natured film into a bit of a slog. The Apple TV+ animated feature starts streaming Friday.
Past takes the form of a dragon (voiced by Jane Fonda), a unicorn (a mustachioed German unicorn, no less, voiced by Flula Borg), and lots and lots of leprechauns. Forget popcorn. Open up a box of Lucky Charms. It’s hard to get elements more fairy- or folk-tale traditional than all those.
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Dragon, unicorn, and leprechauns inhabit the Land of Luck. It’s the place where good fortune is manufactured. It’s also where where the future — or futuristic, at least — comes into the movie. The Land of Luck is very Tomorrowland in look: sleek and shiny, all curves instead of angles. Antiseptic and unintimidatingly techno, it’s rendered in colors of such spun-sugar hue they could give you cavities. As the Candyland palette and the presence of a dragon and unicorn might indicate — and “Luck” has a G rating — it’s aimed more at little ones than most animated features are these days.
As for the present — or, if you prefer, the here and now — that comes courtesy of the movie’s rather delightful heroine, Sam (voiced by Eva Noblezada). Sam has just turned 18, which means she has to leave the orphanage where she has lived all her life. Sam never managed to find “a forever family” and get adopted. It’s an example of her consistent bad luck. That bad luck is despite Sam’s being so spunky and good-hearted.
One day Sam encounters a black cat. It’s a sign of her good-heartedness that she shares a sandwich with him. “Meat bread,” Bob calls it. That’s the cat’s name, Bob, and he can talk. Clearly, he’s a far-fetched feline. It turns out that he’s from the Land of Luck. Simon Pegg voices Bob, and he pretty much steals the movie.
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A portal connects our world with the Land of Luck. Sam follows Bob through it, going in search of a lucky penny. “Lucky penny” isn’t just a figure of speech down there. That’s where they’re manufactured, and they help produce good luck back up here.
Humans aren’t supposed to be in the Land of Luck, so Sam disguises herself as a leprechaun. A very tall leprechaun. When her height elicits double takes, Bob explains that she’s from Latvia. This becomes a running gag, and a pretty funny one. Fans of the early days of “Saturday Night Live” may find themselves recalling how the Coneheads are from “France.”
An already-busy plot shifts into overdrive. There’s Bob’s suspicious supervisor, The Captain (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg). There’s a visit to the Inbetween, which lies between the Land of Luck and the Land of Bad Luck (fat chance there wouldn’t be one of those). There’s also a visit to, yes, the Land of Bad Luck. It all gets very confusing.
One of the odd things about “Luck” is that it’s at its most buoyant and charming in the everyday world, the one we know, rather than the fantasy world that the filmmakers have imagined. The liberation that you’d expect from arrival in the Land of Luck doesn’t happen. Dragons and unicorns and leprechauns are all well and good, and cavity-causing Candyland colors are pretty to look at, but they’re all also kind of tired and predictable. Maybe it’s Bob’s fault. Could black cats really be bad luck, after all?
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LUCK
Directed by Peggy Holmes. Written by Kiel Murray, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger. Featuring the voices of Eva Noblezada, Simon Pegg, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Flula Borg. Streaming on Apple TV+. 106 minutes. G.
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By Andrea Mandala
MILANO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Italy's Banco BPM BAMI.MI on Wednesday joined bigger rivals Intesa Sanpaolo ISP.MI and UniCredit CRDI.MI in posting a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by a surprise rise in net fees and higher interest rates.
Italy's third-largest bank said its net profit for the three months through June was 206 million euros ($209 million), well above a forecas of 180 million euros in a Reuters analyst poll though down 21% from a year earlier.
Banco BPM, whose largest shareholder is French bank Credit Agricole CAGR.PA, said it expected to decide by the end of the quarter over a possible new insurance partnership it would limit to the sole non-life sector.
Credit Agricole and French insurer AXA AXAF.PA are the lead contenders for the deal.
Banco BPM CEO Giuseppe Castagna told analysts the bank would keep in full control of its life insurance business after recently repurchasing French partner Covea's stake in their joint venture, while looking for a non-life insurance partner.
"The first understanding of the non-binding offers is that there's room to improve our results" in non-life, Castagna said after the board examined initial bids.
Second-quarter revenues stood at 1.12 billion euros, slightly above expectations and down 6.4% compared with the previous year when they had been boosted by trading gains.
Core revenues made up of net interest income and net fees rose both on quarterly and a yearly basis.
Analysts had anticipated a drop in fee income due to difficult markets, but Banco BPM said commercial banking fees had performed strongly, rising 3% quarter-on-quarter.
Banco BPM said it was geared to benefit significantly from rising rates, despite the less favourable terms of European Central Bank longer-term funds, noting that a 100 basis point rise in interest rates translated into a 443 million euro income boost.
Banco BPM said it expected net earnings of more than 40 euro cents per share in 2022 with a payout ratio of 50%.
($1 = 0.9864 euros)
(Andrea Mandalà; editing by Valentina Za and Leslie Adler)
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— Upcoming Projects Include "47," Starring Dan Lauria;
"I Met Her at Birkenau"; and "Pink Boa" —
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Laurel Harris, an award-winning producer and actress—best known as Willem Dafoe's wife in the screen adaptation of Dean Koontz's best selling novel, "Odd Thomas," and for the American Girl film, "Saige Paints the Sky," opposite Jane Seymour—announces the launch of Laurel Leaf Productions, a multimedia company aimed at creating conscious film and television content. On the heels of her recurring role on the hit television series, "Big Sky," Harris unites an award-winning team of collaborators to present the 2022 slate of projects, including "47," "Pink Boa," and "I Met Her at Birkenau."
Harris says, "Working with Nobel Peace Laureates—including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—in the 'Nobel Legacy Film Series' fueled a burning desire to create stories that uplift and empower humanity. At Laurel Leaf Productions, we spark intelligent conversations around delicate or less popular topics, while creating content that inspires and empowers people from all walks of life."
Laurel Leaf Production's first film, "47," which begins filming this month, focuses on the often lonely anguish facing women with infertility issues. It grapples with the complex social dilemma of what it means to be a woman and working professional over 40 in America struggling with the stigmas of motherhood.
Dan Lauria, who is set to star in "47," is a familiar face to the Broadway and off-Broadway scene, having performed, written or directed over fifty equity productions—including starring on Broadway as Vince Lombardi in "Lombardi," and as the narrator in "Christmas Story, The Musical." Lauria has a score of feature films and over 70 TV guest spots to his credit. He is most familiar to audiences as the dad on the Emmy-winning television show, "The Wonder Years."
"Pink Boa" examines the seedy world of sex-trafficking through the innocent eyes of a teen girl grappling with sexuality, family and social acceptance, while reminding us that predators are not always who they seem.
"I Met Her At Birkenau" explores the more obscure side of concentration camp life in Nazi Germany through the manipulation of a brilliant girl determined to save her family no matter what the cost.
"47" is co-written by Harris and Laurie Clemmens Maier, who also wrote "Pink Boa" and the award-winning screenplay, "I Met Her At Birkenau." Maier is an accomplished screenwriter whose lengthy awards list includes the American Movie Awards, New York City International Screenplay Awards, Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition, and winner of Best Feature Script at the California Women's Film Festival, and a Silver Winner at the WRPN Women's International Film Festival.
Award-winning writer, director and producer Rick Ramage serves on the Laurel Leaf Productions Advisory Board. As an alumni of The American Film Institute, Ramage has numerous credits from his illustrious career as a screenwriter, including involvement in over 40 Hollywood scripts. He is perhaps best known for "The Proposition" starring Kenneth Branagh, William Hurt, Madeleine Stowe and Neil Patrick Harris, as well as "Stigmata," starring Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne.
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Founded in 2022 by Emmy-winning producer and renowned actress Laurel Harris, Laurel Leaf Productions explores bolder, often delicate topics, with grace, all the while seeking to inspire humanity to greater levels of connection with themselves and each other. The company's value for tolerance, compassion and creativity speaks to its vow to create entertainment that offers better human connections for and to the world around us.
Harris unites an award-winning team of entertainment professionals with her decades long experience in the entertainment industry. Working alongside teams from the BBC and PBS, she traveled the world to film such notable figures as Nobel Peace Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, fueling her passion to create media content that highlights underserved populations. Harris has been recognized with an EMMY, multiple NATOA, and TELLY awards for producing.
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Residents of Krugersdorp's Kagiso township also barricaded roads with rocks and burning tires during a protest against the presence of the miners. They say they are frustrated with high levels of crime in the area that they blame on the illegal miners and the failure of the police to deal with them.
Some suspected illegal miners were stripped of their clothes and whipped by residents. Residents chased others out of their camps and beat and kicked them before handing them over to police. In some cases, the miners were rescued from the protesters by police.
Police responded by firing rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the protesters, who also clashed with police officers.
“We want support from the police because the illegal miners are terrorizing us. We cannot simply walk around the neighborhood at night because they rape us," said Nhlanhla Felatsi, who was part of the protest. “We recently had an incident where two female security officers were raped by the same people. The police are not protecting us.”
Eight women were allegedly raped last Thursday when a television crew filming a music video at a mine dump in the nearby township of West Village was attacked by heavily-armed men, some suspected of being illegal miners. Police said they were investigating 32 counts of rape.
The attack was a shocking incident, even for a country used to high levels of violent crime like South Africa. More than 80 men accused of being involved in the gang rapes appeared in a court on Monday.
Illegal mining is rife in South Africa, with miners known as zama-zamas searching for gold at the many disused and abandoned mines in and around the Johannesburg region. Krugersdorp is a mining city on the western edges of Johannesburg.
Illegal mining gangs are considered dangerous by the police, are usually armed and are known to fight violent turf battles with rival groups. The trade is believed to be dominated by immigrants who enter illegally from neighboring countries Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Mozambique and police said that some of the men suspected of raping the eight women were foreign nationals.
That has aggravated the situation and comes at a time when South Africa is seeing an upsurge in xenophobic attacks sparked by locals blaming foreigners for crime in their areas.
“What upsets me is that we live as though we are not South Africans. How can someone from nowhere come and control us in our community?" said Kagiso resident Thoko Setlhabi. "The people from Lesotho and Zimbabwe are coming into our houses and rape us. You must make sure you and your family are indoors by 6 p.m. When will our children be allowed to be free?”
Police say they are still analyzing DNA evidence in order to link some of the suspects to the rapes. But residents have criticized the local police force for doing nothing despite warnings from locals that illegal miners were operating in the area as part of larger crime syndicates.
“We are not fighting only against the zama-zamas (illegal miners), but we are fighting against the entire crime. Our police must stand up, our police must pull up their socks,” said Kabelo Matlou, a local government official.
“Clearly something is wrong here. If somebody takes out gold here, where are they taking it? Our political leaders must come together and sort this out,” he said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/08/04/anger-clashes-in-south-africa-after-alleged-gang-rapes/ | 2022-08-04T15:58:17Z | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/08/04/anger-clashes-in-south-africa-after-alleged-gang-rapes/ | false |
X-NAND Gen2 that enables 3D NAND flash memory with 20X faster write performance received top honors at Flash Memory Summit 2022
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flash Memory Summit – After officially announcing its ground-breaking technology, X-NAND Gen2, NEO Semiconductor captured the top prize at Flash Memory Summit 2022, winning the "Best of Show" award for the Most Innovative Memory Technology. This category addresses innovations that will change the way flash memory is used in products and raise the bar to new levels of performance, availability, endurance, scalability, and energy efficiencies.
"Whether it is QLC, TLC, or Storage Class Memory, semiconductor manufacturers are faced with the challenge of advancing memory technology to new levels of performance, while reducing the cost of these solutions," said Jay Kramer, Chairman of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. "We are proud to recognize NEO Semiconductor's X-NAND architecture for offering an excellent high-performance and low-cost memory technology that can not only meet the objectives of semiconductor companies but can also deliver compelling value for business and consumer storage solutions."
"We are honored and thankful to accept this prestigious award, and I applaud the entire NEO Semiconductor team for the hard work and dedication it has taken to make this ground-breaking technology a reality," said Andy Hsu, Founder and CEO of NEO Semiconductor. "This award recognizes our efforts to introduce to the NAND market a truly innovative technology with a wide array of capabilities that address the growing performance bottlenecks in IT systems and consumer products. X-NAND Gen-2, which doubles throughput over X-NAND Gen1, enables the customer to achieve SLC-like performance with larger capacity and lower cost QLC memory. X-NAND Gen2 incorporates zero-impact architectural and design changes that do not increase manufacturing costs while offering extraordinary throughput and latency improvements."
NEO is the company behind the world's fastest 3D NAND flash and lowest power DRAM memory architectures. Visit NEO Semiconductor's booth #211 @ Flash Memory Summit 2022, Santa Clara, CA.
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NEO Semiconductor is a high-tech company focused on advancing 3D NAND flash and DRAM memory technologies. The company was founded in 2012 by Andy Hsu and a team in San Jose, California, and owns more than 20 U.S. patents. In 2020, the company made a breakthrough in 3D NAND architecture named X-NAND that can achieve SLC performance at TLC and QLC densities to provide high-speed, low-cost solutions for many applications, including 5G and AI. The company presented the X-NAND architecture at Flash Memory Summit 2020 conference and won the Best of Show Award for the Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
3-7-0, FIREBALL: 6
(three, seven, zero; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
3-7-0, FIREBALL: 6
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The back-to-school bins in Jonelle Wood’s attic have been full since the end of June, with enough paper, pencils and clothing to last her three school-age children into next fall. All for $245.
Many Americans have become similarly savvy as they work through their back-to-school lists in this era of raging inflation, Deloitte and JLL research shows. They are tracking sales, flocking to discount stores and working extra shifts. Many also started shopping months earlier than usual to get ahead of a season that the National Retail Federation estimates will run the typical U.S. household $864.
They also are paying attention to the industry, said Chip West, a retail and consumer behavior expert at the marketing solutions company Vericast. The supply chain bottlenecks that once plagued retailers have given way to inventory pileups for many big-box stores, forcing them to slash prices to clear out the excess.
“They know that there’s more deals to be had out there,” West said. “They’re looking for more of those promotions and sales and coupons to help them save money.”
The stakes are high for retailers: Americans spent a record $37 billion in 2021, according to the National Retail Federation, which expects comparable numbers this year.
While government data showed consumer spending climbed a healthy 1.1 percent in June, consumer sentiment — as measured by the University of Michigan — hit a record low of 50 that month. Because consumer spending makes up more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy, economists and policymakers are closely watching for any sign of retrenchment and possible recession.
The season is also a barometer for the crucial holiday shopping season, West said. If families can cover costs for the new school year, they’re more likely to spend during the holidays, especially if they start shopping early and spread out costs over several months.
“As long as inflationary pressures remain high, the consumer behavior and sentiment we are witnessing for back-to-school shopping could easily carry over into the holiday shopping season,” he said.
But Stephen Rogers, managing director of Deloitte’s Consumer Industry Center, said consumers will spend despite higher prices — inflation jumped 9.1 percent in June, year over year — because they view school-related expenses as necessities.
“Parents will always make it happen for their kids,” he said.
Michelle Cain, the mother of a 9-year-old and 6-year-old twins in a Chicago suburb, is meticulous in her search for bargains. She keeps a spreadsheet of the items her children will need and employs research techniques normally reserved for big-ticket purchases such as a car or an appliance. Going item by item, Cain compares prices at Walmart, Target, Amazon and any other stores running big sales, she said, and adds them to the cart before deciding whether it’s worth buying them all at one place or shopping at multiple stores.
Cain, 40, routinely shares her findings in Facebook groups — notifying parents when backpacks are half off or markers are marked down a few dollars — and stretches her shopping between pay cycles. Not including clothes, Cain says she spent about $100 per child this year.
A survey from JLL found that nearly 60 percent of shoppers plan to look for sales and coupons this year, and 50 percent will focus on essential items and buy less. Discount retailers are attracting new customers, including those who have never shopped at a dollar store before, West said. In May, both Dollar General and Dollar Tree raised their sales forecasts for 2022, bolstered by changing shopper habits due to inflation.
Amanda Frey, 39, said she cut out unnecessary expenses when shopping for her 8- and 16-year-old this summer. Unlike other years, when the children would get a fresh pair of shoes and glossy folders with patterns and characters, this year they’ll have to wear the ones they already own and use plain notebooks. She also sifted through their closets to make a list of things they absolutely needed. Even then, she chose the most cost-effective shopping option.
“My daughter shopped at consignment shops where I had credits from turning in her older clothes, instead of shopping for new things,” said Frey, who lives in St. Marys, a town of about 18,000 people in southeastern Georgia.
Wood, 36, of Oklahoma, has been taking full advantage of the big markdowns. She said she found her 16-year-old son’s favorite pants at Walmart for $1 a piece.
“He’s got 15 pairs,” Wood said. “A couple bigger and then some that fit him now.”
The supply chain disruptions of 2021 that left the school supplies aisles bare and led to back orders for computers and tablets shouldn’t be an issue this year, said Darcy MacClaren, the head of digital supply chain at SAP North America, because manufacturers and stores are more prepared.
“Technology [and] your basic school supplies are pretty stable,” she said, and should be readily available. But discounts could fall away as the summer comes to a close and stores stop restocking seasonal aisles.
Cain, of suburban Chicago, said that in years past, she didn’t always have to be as purposeful about shopping deals — she works part time as an office administrator and her husband has a well-paying job in marketing. But higher gas and grocery prices have put a strain on her family.
“If it’s a problem for us, I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who aren’t in the financial situation that we are and don’t have access to the stores we do,” she said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/04/back-to-school-shopping-inflation/ | 2022-08-04T16:00:04Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/04/back-to-school-shopping-inflation/ | true |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Scholarships for Military Children program once again came through for 500 students from military families who were each awarded a $2,000 scholarship grant for the upcoming 2022-23 school year.
"This scholarship, honestly, it means a lot to me, not in just the aspect of lifting a financial burden, but also it keeps me motivated and reminds me of what my parents and so many other Americans choose to do," said scholarship recipient Amber Bishop.
The program, created in 2001, recognizes the contributions of military families to the readiness of the fighting force and celebrates the commissaries' role in enhancing the military's quality of life. Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps service members and their families, partners with the Defense Commissary Agency to administer the scholarship.
"We are grateful for our partnership with the Defense Commissary Agency and all of our generous sponsors who help make this program a success every year," said Marshall Banks, Fisher House Foundation's director of community relations.
No government funds are used to support the Scholarships for Military Children program. Commissary vendors, manufacturers, brokers, suppliers, and the general public donate to fund the program.
Sponsors for the 2022-23 scholarship program are:
At the four-star level, donating $50,000 to $199,999: 522 Foundation, Inc.; Major General Harry Greene AUSA Aberdeen Chapter; Procter & Gamble Company; PwC Charitable Foundation; and Synchrony Foundation.
At the two-star level, donating $10,000 to $24,999: Dollar Shave Club, a Unilever brand; Simon and Merrilee Engel; The Hershey Company; Elissa Koff; Stephanie Larson; Padres Foundation; William and Helen Sherman.
At the one-star level, donating $2,000 to $9,999: Anonymous; Maj. Gen. Susan Y. Desjardins, USAF (Ret.) and Peter D. Lennon; Elite Brands; Estate of Edwin H. Erland; General Mills; Robert and Tara Indresano; In memory of Roy V. Kinion, Jr.; Lt. Col. Ronald Mattana, USAF (Ret.); Capt. Victor and Mrs. Carol Palmucci, USN (Ret.); Patricia Stenzel
Overseas Service Corp. and Webco Services Co. also supported the Scholarships for Military Children program.
Businesses, organizations, and individuals interested in sponsoring the 2023-24 scholarships can contact sthomas@fisherhouse.org.
To read the full wrap up of the 2022-23 scholarship program go to https://bit.ly/3b9r92d.
More info about Fisher House Foundation's scholarship programs including the Scholarships for Military Children, Heroes' Legacy Scholarship, and an interactive scholarship search engine, can be found at https://fisherhouse.org/programs/scholarship-programs/.
Fisher House Foundation is best known for its network of 92 comfort homes where military and veteran families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide, and in Europe, close to the medical center or hospital they serve. Fisher Houses have up to 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a warm dining room and an inviting living room. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is never a lodging fee. Since inception, the program has saved military and veteran families an estimated $547 million in out-of-pocket costs for lodging and transportation.
Fisher House Foundation also operates the Hero Miles Program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members as well as the Hotels for Heroes program using donated hotel points to allow family members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge. The Foundation also manages an awards program recognizing programs that support military and veteran communities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses, and children of fallen and disabled veterans.
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US inflation is at a four-decade high, borrowing costs are surging and stocks have taken a beating. With the Federal Reserve going full steam ahead on an aggressive campaign to temper demand and tame prices, concerns are growing that its moves will tip the US into recession. There’s no shortage of opinions about whether a downturn is inevitable, when it might start and how bad it might be.
1. What is a recession?
It’s often understood as a period when economic output contracts for two straight quarters. But the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, a group of academics whose determination is regarded as official in the US, defines a recession differently: as a “significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months.” It looks at three criteria -- depth, diffusion and duration -- and considers factors such as employment, inflation-adjusted spending, industrial production and income. NBER says extreme conditions revealed by one criterion may offset weaker signals from another. For instance, the pandemic-driven recession of 2020 was broad-based and characterized by a sharp drop in economic activity, but it was extremely short, lasting just two months.
2. Could the US already be in a recession?
For Americans facing decades-high inflation, near-record gas prices and ballooning grocery bills, it certainly may feel like it, but most economists say the US economy is not currently in a recession. Fed Chair Jerome Powell agreed when asked that same question on July 27. That said, a slew of recent data has intensified the debate.
3. What do the figures show?
The government’s hallmark measure of economic activity -- gross domestic product -- posted back-to-back quarterly declines in the first half of the year. The pullback in the first quarter largely reflected a surge in imports; GDP is meant to capture domestic production, so surging imports dragged down the headline figure. The second quarter, however, indicated a more concerning decline. The government’s initial assessment of the second quarter, released on July 28, showed a slowdown in consumer spending as well as declines in business investment, government outlays and housing. Inventories also weighed on GDP. While the numbers so far in 2022 fit the recession rule of thumb of two straight quarters of shrinking GDP, that doesn’t mean the US is officially in recession as determined by the NBER.
4. Are economists expecting a recession soon?
Bloomberg Economics’ model says there’s a 100% probability of a recession by the start of 2024. Economists at Deutsche Bank AG, one of the first major banks to forecast a recession, expect it to begin in mid-2023; Wells Fargo & Co. sees the US entering a recession in early 2023, and Nomura Holdings Inc. expects one even sooner—starting at the end of 2022.
5. Does that mean a recession is unavoidable?
President Joe Biden’s administration insists a recession is not a foregone conclusion. The Fed’s Powell has held out hope for a so-called soft landing -- a cooling in economic activity that doesn’t lead to a recession -- but he acknowledged on June 22 that achieving one will be “very challenging.” So far, the labor market remains a bright spot in an otherwise darkening economic picture, with employers adding more jobs than expected in June.
6. How bad might things get?
For the most part, economists are generally describing any potential upcoming recession as mild or moderate. Even so, all recessions are painful and even a mild recession would likely still mean hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their jobs. Estimates vary, but the unemployment rate is expected to rise from a near five-decade low to somewhere around 4% to 6%, well below the 10% seen in the wake of the Great Recession and the nearly 15% seen at the start of the pandemic. In terms of duration, economists differ. One reason this recession could prove longer lasting is that high inflation may hold the Fed back from stepping in to support the economy. It’s worth noting that as hard as it is to forecast when a recession will occur, it’s harder still to envision what one would look like.
7. Is the global economy heading for a recession?
The global economy is facing a similar picture: high inflation and aggressive steps by central banks to curb it. “The world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession, only two years after the last one,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, said in July. World Bank President David Malpass, in a report released in June, said that even if a global recession is averted, the combination of high inflation and slow growth -- something known as stagflation -- could persist for several years. In Europe, much of the fate of the economy hinges on access to Russian gas, though recession risks differ by country. In August, the Bank of England warned the UK is heading for more than a year of recession under the weight of soaring inflation. Meantime, in China -- the world’s second-largest economy -- the outlook remains uncertain. The economy is showing mixed signs of recovery, strained by stringent Covid-19 measures and associated lockdowns, but the government is seeking ways to step in.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. — National Guard soldiers rushed to distribute bottled water to flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky as forecasters warned of more rain coming to the region.
“We are moving water as fast as we can,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday.
National Guard soldiers had distributed more than 2,400 cases of water by early Wednesday, the governor said, as intense heat and humidity added to the misery as people continued shoveling out from the immense wreckage left by flooding that struck in the middle of the night a week ago.
Water service has been restored to many people in the region, the governor said. But work is continuing on heavily damaged water systems. Other systems were “wiped out,” Beshear said. In some areas, it could take weeks or even months to repair water systems, he said.
“It’s going to take significant time and significant dollars to restore what was destroyed,” he said.
Water crews from across the state are assisting in the repairs, Beshear said.
Beshear said a special legislative session will likely be needed to devise a relief package for the flood-stricken region. The governor holds the power to reconvene lawmakers for a special session.
Beshear said a state relief package should include aid to repair water systems to spare the region’s ratepayers from footing the repair costs through higher water rates.
“Because otherwise, they’re going to go to ratepayers,” he said. “So people who just lost everything that are rebuilding would have their water rates just skyrocket in what it would cost.”
While the stifling heat and humidity continued to be a concern Thursday, the National Weather Service warned of more rain in the forecast for the region. Slow-moving thunderstorms could dump heavy rainfall and lead to more high water Thursday and Friday in areas still reeling from massive flooding a week ago, the weather service said.
Scattered thunderstorms with high winds were expected mainly Thursday afternoon and evening. Along with heavy rain, the storms could produce strong and damaging wind gusts.
The statewide death toll from the historic flooding is 37, the governor said. Amid the massive cleanup, families were preparing to bury loved ones killed in the flooding. Initial expenditures from a relief fund opened by Beshear were being distributed to pay funeral expenses of flood victims.
The outpouring of support was evident across the area. Volunteers helped remove debris from homes, while others served meals. Beshear said it’s a time for people to lean on each other and urged them to seek help in dealing with the trauma.
“Remember, it’s OK not to be OK,” the Democratic governor said. “I don’t think our brains or hearts are designed to deal with trauma and loss at this level.”
Teams searching streams in boats and combing debris-clogged creekbanks have rescued more than 1,300 people and crews were still trying to reach some people cut off by floods or mudslides. A few thousand customers still lacked electricity in eastern Kentucky. Emergency shelters and area state parks housed hundreds of residents who fled homes that were destroyed or badly damaged. Many more are staying with relatives and friends.
Cooling centers were opened after forecasters warned of the risk of heat-related illnesses.
President Joe Biden declared a federal disaster to direct relief money to counties flooded after 8 to 10 1/2 inches (20 to 27 centimeters) of rain fell in just 48 hours last week in the Appalachian mountain region.
The flooding also hit areas just across the state line in Virginia and West Virginia.
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Enables customers to achieve successful business outcomes using healthy data in Amazon Redshift Serverless
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talend, a global leader in data integration and governance, announced its support for Amazon Redshift Serverless. Talend's integration with Amazon Redshift Serverless reinforces our commitment and leadership in supporting businesses to enable analytics with a foundation of healthy data they can access, trust, and act on to achieve successful outcomes.
"Support for Amazon Redshift Serverless gives customers further validation and assurance of our commitment to provide high-quality integrations and governance solutions with Amazon Redshift," said Rolf Heimes, global head of business development, Talend. "Our continued close collaboration with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team is focused on bringing innovative solutions to market that help companies use reliable, healthy data to make critical decisions and drive desired business outcomes."
Amazon Redshift Serverless is a new serverless option for Amazon Redshift that makes it easy to run and scale high-performance analytics workloads on petabytes of data in seconds without having to manage data warehouse infrastructure. By supporting Amazon Redshift Serverless, Talend also provides complementary features, including Talend Trust Score™, which automatically crawls and provides a health assessment of data in Amazon Redshift.
"Using Talend and AWS Redshift means our business teams can now execute reports in minutes rather than hours or even days," says David Clifton, Head of Data and Architecture, Affinity Water, a water supplier to 3.6 million customers daily in the UK. "Without this underlying technology we'd struggle to operate and meet our business commitments, and also risk financial penalties from regulators and other areas, including requirements such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We're certainly achieving benefits by using AWS and Talend."
Prezzee, a leading global eGift card platform, found a way to simplify and integrate its operational tracking. "Using Talend Stitch and Amazon Redshift, we have automated reporting, monitoring, and alerting across all platforms, our production database (AWS), and our customer data platform," said Anthony Wakulicz, Head of Data, Prezzee. "Now it saves team members countless hours of work — and helps us confidently scale and manage our business. With Stitch and AWS, anyone in the company can have visibility over all of our business processes, whether built in-house or not."
Integration with Amazon Redshift Serverless is Talend's latest advancement in supporting Amazon Redshift customers. Talend also supports native integration of Stitch with the Amazon Redshift Console, a user interface that simplifies management and improves insights into Amazon Redshift clusters and workloads. With this integration, Amazon Redshift customers can rapidly integrate multiple data sources into a fully managed secure platform and immediately enable analytics across a business.
Customers can begin to use Talend or Talend Stitch with Amazon Redshift Serverless immediately.
Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, is taking the work out of working with data.
Talend offers the only end-to-end platform that combines enterprise-grade data integration, integrity, and governance capabilities to unify data across any cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. With Talend's no-code and low-code modules, data experts and business users actively collaborate to make data more discoverable, usable, and valuable organization-wide. Over 7,250 customers around the world rely on Talend for healthy data and a healthy business. Top analyst firms and industry media recognize Talend as a leader in data management software.
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DeSantis suspends Hillsborough County state attorney for 'neglect of duty'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday announced he's suspended State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit in Hillsborough County effective immediately because of his "neglect of duty."
According to a newly issued executive order, DeSantis said Warren has refused of prosecute "abortion crimes" related to several state laws which protect "the lives of unborn children."
"When you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty, and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties," DeSantis said Thursday during a news conference at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
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The governor accused Warren of recently signing a letter, saying he wouldn't enforce any state laws "relating to protecting the right to life in the state of Florida."
One of the most contentious of those laws is a newly passed measure which bans abortions in the Sunshine State after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
"We've had prohibition on third trimester abortions for a long time. We've had prohibitions on partial birth abortions for a long time," DeSantis said. "That is what the Legislature has enacted, and it's not for him to put himself above that and say he's not going to enforce the laws."
DeSantis added that Warren signed a letter in June 2021 saying he "would not enforce any prohibitions on sex change operations for minors."
"That's a debate that we're having, mostly administratively and through medical licensing in Florida," DeSantis said. "He said it doesn't matter what the Legislature does in the state of Florida. He's gonna exercise a veto over that."
Warren took office in January 2017. He's being replaced by Susan Lopez, a judge on the Hillsborough County court.
"I have the utmost respect for our state laws and I understand the important role that the state attorney plays in ensuring the safety of our community and the enforcement of our laws," Lopez said. "I want to thank the governor for placing his trust in me, and I promise that I will faithfully execute the duties of this office."
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said law enforcement officers put their lives on the line for complete strangers and are resolved to "apprehend the criminals who prey on law-abiding citizens in our community."
Chronister said they trust that the criminal justice system will hold those guilty accountable.
"The governor's suspension of State Attorney Andrew Warren is not political to me," Chronister said. "It's about law and order. It's about ensuring our loved ones are safe. It's about the victims and their voices."
Over the last several years, Chronister said Warren has acted like a "supreme authority by reducing charges, dropping cases, and single handedly determining what crimes will be legal or illegal in our county."
Warren has not commented on his suspension. However, Florida Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book issued the following statement Thursday about Warren's removal:
"With his removal of a duly elected Democratic State Attorney who refused to enforce Florida's extreme abortion ban, Ron DeSantis is behaving more like a dictator than 'America's Governor.' Ron DeSantis continues to make it shamefully clear that he will always put partisan politics over the democratic will of the people."
Earlier on Thursday, a spokeswoman for the governor teased on Twitter that a "MAJOR announcement" would result in "the liberal media meltdown of the year."
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Feds charge 4 police officers in fatal Breonna Taylor raid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has charged four Louisville police officers involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid with civil rights violations.
Federal charges against former officers Joshua Jaynes, Brett Hankison and Kelly Goodlett, along with Sgt. Kyle Meany were announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday.
Garland said federal officials “share but cannot fully imagine the grief” felt by Taylor’s family.
“Breonna Taylor should be alive today,” he said.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black medical worker, was shot to death by Louisville officers who had knocked down her door while executing the search warrant. Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot that hit one of the officers as they came through the door and they returned fire, striking Taylor multiple times.
Hankison, who was dismissed from the department in 2020, was one of the officers at Taylor’s door and one of three who fired shots that night. He was acquitted by a jury of state charges of wanton endangerment earlier this year in Louisville.
Jaynes had applied for the warrant to search Taylor’s house. He was fired in January 2021 by former Louisville Police interim chief Yvette Gentry for violating department standards in the preparation of a search warrant execution and for being “untruthful” in the Taylor warrant.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New York-based Sunsail Capital and Dallas-based ZaneCRE™ announced the joint acquisition of Sarah at Lake Houston, a garden-style community located in Humble, Texas, a premier submarket within the Houston MSA. The teams are led by Julia Bykhovskaia at Sunsail Capital, and Iqbal (Ike) Mutabanna and Dustin Howard at ZaneCRE.
The Sarah at Lake Houston is a 350-unit, 2020 construction, Class A+ multifamily community located in the fastest growing submarket within the Houston MSA. The property features unique lakeside living and an exceptional amenities package highlighted by a resort style pool, biergarten, multi-sport simulator, state-of-the-art athletic center, executive business and conference center, and dog park, along with luxurious interior finishes.
The investment leads commented: "We believe in the strength and stability of the Houston metro market and it's long term growth potential. We are proud to add Sarah at Lake Houston to our real estate portfolio in TX. This property is in a strong position due to its stable, high-income tenant base and superb location. We continue to see strong growth across the state of Texas, led by jobs and population growth and a diverse mix of economic and quality of life benefits for residents throughout the area."
The property is located less than 10 minutes away from Generation Park, a master planned commercial development anchored by Fortune 500 company TechnipFMC (2,000+ high tech jobs) and just 30 minutes from downtown Houston (158k+ jobs), The Texas Medical Center (106K employees and Uptown/Galleria (84K employees), and the Port of Houston (67K employees).
Zack Springer of Newmark brokered the transaction. Purvesh Gosalia, also of Newmark, structured the financing for the deal.
Sunsail Capital invests in workforce housing multifamily assets in Texas. The company targets institutional quality Class B apartment complexes with 200 units or above and focuses primarily on performing stabilized properties with a value-add component with a deal size of $25-$80mm. For more information, please visit https://sunsailcapital.com/
Zane acquires commercial and large-scale apartment properties that enable rent growth, expense reduction, and value appreciation. With over $250 million of assets under management, the principals at Zane have an established track record of delivering value. Learn more: https://zanecre.com/
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 4, 2022
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Feds charge 4 police officers in fatal Breonna Taylor raid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has charged four Louisville police officers involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid with civil rights violations.
Federal charges against former officers Joshua Jaynes, Brett Hankison and Kelly Goodlett, along with Sgt. Kyle Meany were announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday.
Garland said federal officials “share but cannot fully imagine the grief” felt by Taylor’s family.
“Breonna Taylor should be alive today,” he said.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black medical worker, was shot to death by Louisville officers who had knocked down her door while executing the search warrant. Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot that hit one of the officers as they came through the door and they returned fire, striking Taylor multiple times.
Hankison, who was dismissed from the department in 2020, was one of the officers at Taylor’s door and one of three who fired shots that night. He was acquitted by a jury of state charges of wanton endangerment earlier this year in Louisville.
Jaynes had applied for the warrant to search Taylor’s house. He was fired in January 2021 by former Louisville Police interim chief Yvette Gentry for violating department standards in the preparation of a search warrant execution and for being “untruthful” in the Taylor warrant.
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Company again named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'
BOSTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third consecutive year, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) has been named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion,' scoring 100% on the Disability Equality Index (DEI). The DEI is the world's most comprehensive benchmarking tool to measure disability workplace inclusion.
"Our efforts to expand access, create awareness, and foster a safe and inclusive environment for associates with disabilities have grown year over year," said Steven Silva, vice president of talent acquisition and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Blue Cross. "This work, spearheaded by our Empowering Abilities employee resource group, is one more way we're supporting our goal of promoting equity in our workforce and our community."
The DEI is a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network, to collectively advance the inclusion of people with disabilities. Blue Cross was scored across several categories that evaluated efforts related to disability inclusion. The company received top marks in the following:
- Culture & Leadership for the company's disability-focused employee resource group and defined corporate goal of advancing corporate culture through a diversity and inclusion lens.
- Enterprise-wide Access for accessible buildings with features like automatic doors, automatic faucets in kitchens and bathrooms and adjustable desks; a centralized support center with trained staff and defined processes in place to handle support for employees and external customers, including requests for accessible formats; and emergency preparedness policies and procedures with specialized assistance for people with disabilities.
- Employment Practices for recruitment practices like partnerships with disability-focused government and non-government organizations; a presence at various disability conferences; flexible work arrangements; and inclusive benefits such as short- and long-term disability insurance, hearing and vision care coverage, paid caregiver leave, an employee assistance program and a wellness benefits program.
- Community Support for financial, pro bono, and in-kind support for organizations that directly and indirectly serve disabled populations; participation in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Disability Rights Advisory Committee; and making Braille ID cards available for members.
- Supplier Diversity for the company's commitment to a supplier diversity program requiring suppliers to provide proof of certification from various organizations that ensure race, ethnic, gender and ability diversity.
"Disability inclusion is a rapidly expanding aspect of corporate culture, and it's gratifying to partner with 415 companies on the 2022 Disability Equality Index," Jill Houghton, president and CEO of Disability:IN. "These top-scoring companies not only excel in disability inclusion, many are also adopting emerging trends and pioneering measures that can move the disability agenda from accommodation to inclusion and ultimately, genuine belonging."
About Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (http://www.bluecrossma.org) is a community-focused, tax-paying, not-for-profit health plan headquartered in Boston. We are committed to the relentless pursuit of quality, affordable and equitable health care with an unparalleled consumer experience. Consistent with our promise to always put our members first, we are rated among the nation's best health plans for member satisfaction and quality. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
About the Disability Equality Index (DEI)
The Disability Equality Index (DEI) is a comprehensive benchmarking tool that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality. Each company receives a score, on a scale of zero (0) to 100, with those earning 80 and above recognized as a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion." The DEI is a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network, to collectively advance the inclusion of people with disabilities. The organizations are complementary and bring unique strengths that make the project relevant and credible to corporations and the disability community. The tool was developed by the DEI Advisory Committee, a diverse group of business leaders, policy experts and disability advocates. Learn more at: www.DisabilityEqualityIndex.org.
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Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years in prison after a Russian court convicted the WNBA star on drug charges, stemming from her February arrest at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport.
On Aug. 4, the court found Griner guilty of drug possession and smuggling and also found that she committed the crime deliberately. In addition to the nine-year sentencing, she received a 1 million ruble fine ($16,000) for conscious drug smuggling and possession.
The decision was announced shortly after closing arguments, during which Russian prosecutors asked for Griner to get nine and a half years in prison on the cannabis possession charges.
In February, Brittney was arrested in Moscow after local authorities said they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her belongings.
Since the Phoenix Mercury star was arrested, her wife, Cherelle Griner, has been tirelessly supporting her through the ordeal, sharing that she has been in communication with U.S. officials to try to get her spouse freed.
On July 4, Brittney penned a letter to President Joe Biden, writing that she is "terrified I might be here forever."
"I realize you are dealing with so much, but please don't forget about me and the other American Detainees," she wrote in the letter, which was obtained by E! News. "Please do all you can to bring us home. I voted for the first time in 2020 and I voted for you. I believe in you. I still have so much good to do with my freedom that you can help restore. I miss my wife! I miss my family! I miss my teammates! It kills me to know they are suffering so much right now. I am grateful for whatever you can do at this moment to get me home."
In response, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said they spoke to Cherelle over the phone on July 6 after receiving the letter. They reassured her "that he is working to secure Brittney's release as soon as possible," according to a statement obtained by NBC News.
The following day, Brittney pleaded guilty to the drug charges during her trial hearing. According to Reuters, who had a reporter present for the hearing, the basketball star said, "I'd like to plead guilty, your honor. But there was no intent. I didn't want to break the law."
Per Reuters, she reportedly added, "I'd like to give my testimony later. I need time to prepare."
Following the athlete's plea, her lawyer, Maria Blagovolina, told NBC News in a statement, "We expect leniency of the court, taking into account all the circumstances of the case and taking into account the personality of our client."
President Biden previously offered Russia a deal to exchange convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout—who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S.—for the release of Griner and Paul Whelan, multiple sources told CNN.
"We communicated a substantial offer that we believe could be successful based on a history of conversations with the Russians," an anonymous senior administration official told CNN. "We communicated that a number of weeks ago, in June."
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Appointment furthers efforts to ensure National Defense University Provides World-Class Education
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Defense University (NDU) Foundation announced the appointment of Paul C. Harris, Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability and Compliance Officer at HII, to its Board of Directors today.
"Our military and its leaders are at an important inflection point for our national security, and it gives me great pleasure to be part of the effort to educate and innovate to ensure America remains a beacon for freedom and democracy worldwide," said Mr. Harris.
The National Defense University (NDU) prepares selected civilian and military professionals from the U.S. and over 75 allied countries to serve as tomorrow's decision and policymakers at the highest levels of command in military, government, and key industry sectors. The National Defense University Foundation (NDU Foundation) secures funding and resources to support the academic and professional development programs for senior military and diplomatic leaders attending NDU. The NDU Foundation engages military and senior diplomatic leaders with private sector thought leaders and subject matter experts within and across the national security industrial complex.
HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider, and recognized worldwide as America's largest shipbuilder. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable an all-domain force.
Before his role at HII, Mr. Hill served as senior vice president at Hampton University. After serving in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, he received his juris doctorate from George Washington University Law School in 1995. In 1997, Harris was elected to Virginia's House of Delegates, serving four years. He later worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as deputy associate attorney general and deputy assistant attorney general of the civil division, torts branch. He then rejoined the private sector, where he held compliance-related positions of increasing authority at several global companies, including Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Sodexo.
"Mr. Harris' appointment further advances our efforts to expand the perspectives and experience of our members across the defense industrial complex. He's an innovative leader whose military service, public sector service, and corporate leadership directly correlate with the Foundation's mission to support the professional military education and leadership experiences of national security, national defense, and diplomatic professionals studying at the National Defense University," said NDU Foundation President and CEO, James Schmeling.
The NDU Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization focused exclusively on supporting the education and leadership development of national defense, security, and peacekeeping professionals studying at the National Defense University (NDU)., located at Ft. Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C. The Foundation provides NDU with vital resources to protect our democracy and ensure peace by educating and developing agile leaders prepared to think critically and operate strategically in an increasingly dynamic, complex, and unpredictable international security environment. Learn more at NDUFoundation.org.
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Company recognized as an Experience Leader and a Trust Leader in Enterprise Performance Management; 100% of surveyed customers said they would recommend Planful
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software, today announced that the company earned an Industry Excellence Award from Dresner Advisory Services. Planful is recognized as an Experience Leader and a Trust Leader in Enterprise Performance Management, based on ratings from the Customer Experience and Vendor Credibility models in Dresner's annual flagship Wisdom of Crowds® market study.
The Customer Experience model is created based on the real-world experience of technology solution end-users. The Vendor Credibility model assesses the relationship that the vendors have with end-users. Only vendors that receive the highest rankings in those models earn Dresner Advisory Services Industry Excellence Awards.
"Organizations trust Dresner Advisory reports because they provide an end-user perspective and thus reflect users' real-world experience," said Howard Dresner, founder, and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory. "We congratulate Planful for receiving a 100% recommended score from customers who work with Planful every day and have the most in-depth knowledge of the company's strengths."
"Customers are our number one value at Planful so it's especially gratifying to receive awards that are 100% focused on customer feedback," said Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful. "We're proud that Planful has been named an Experience Leader in the Wisdom of Crowds® Market Study for the seventh year in a row. This rating is a testament to the strong relationships we have built with our customers and their confidence in the value we, and our partners deliver."
Click here to download a free copy of the 2022 Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of Crowds® Enterprise Performance Management Market Study.
Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. Planful empowers users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday's, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.
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NORTHBROOK, Ill., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hilco Corporate Finance (HCF), a boutique investment bank, is accelerating its growth by re-imagining corporate finance advisory for the middle market. Over the past 12 months, HCF has doubled its size and expanded its geographic presence – first with the opening of a New York City office to complement its Chicago-area team. And, more recently, it has added to its rapidly growing special situations and restructuring practice by adding Teri Stratton, a nationally prominent special situations banker in Los Angeles.
With a seasoned team of professionals, HCF provides advisory services to its middle market clients, including small and medium cap public companies, private equity groups, family offices, and entrepreneurs. Over the last twelve months, HCF has redefined its strategy by hiring key industry leaders and has strengthened the breadth and depth of its investment banking services to provide unique creativity to its clients' needs.
"Over the last year, we've spent considerable time expanding our business by re-imagining how capital advisory services can best be provided to middle-market clients," said Geoffrey Frankel, HCF's Chief Executive Officer and Senior Managing Director. "We are building our practice from the client's point of view – focusing on a solutions-oriented, not just transactional, approach. We are taking time to listen closely to our clients, shaping our growth to better match their needs. We are also building our investment banking business so our clients can take full advantage of Hilco Global's amazing platform."
HCF's senior professionals have successfully completed hundreds of value-maximizing transactions across a broad range of industries – particularly diversified industrials/manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, metals/mining, plastics, building products, packaging, retail/consumer, technology, business services, telecom/media, and energy. Our professionals actively maintain relationships with capital providers and counter-parties in each of these sectors.
Hilco Corporate Finance, LLC is a registered broker/dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of FINRA (www.finra.com) and SIPC (www.sipc.org). Hilco Corporate Finance specializes in merger and acquisition advisory service, private capital markets, special situations and restructuring advisory. Hilco Corporate Finance is the investment banking affiliate of Hilco Global.
Hilco Global operates as a holding company comprised of over twenty specialized business and has almost 4 decades of successfully acting as an advisor, agent, investor and/or principal in any transaction.
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- New Series B funding of $33 million will advance Sibel's FDA-cleared ANNE® One platform for home and hospital monitoring through global partnerships.
- Jon P. Otterstatter, ex-CEO and co-founder of Preventice, joins Sibel as its chairman of the board, and Matt Banet, PhD, cofounder of Sotera Wireless and toSense, joins Sibel as president.
- Dräger's previous convertible note changes to equity in Sibel, along with a renewed and deeper strategic partnership.
NILES, Ill., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sibel Health, an award-winning medical technology company spun out of the world-renowned John Rogers Research Group and the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University, has recently closed a $33 million Series B financing round, bringing Sibel's total funding to date to more than $50 million.
In addition, Sibel has announced two new executive appointments. Jon Otterstatter, the former CEO and co-founder of Preventice (acquired by Boston Scientific in 2021), will join as chairman of the board. Matthew Banet, PhD, a world expert in advanced body-worn sensors and previously the CTO and cofounder of toSense and Sotera, joins as president from Baxter International.
The funding round was led by the Steele Foundation for Hope—a private foundation seeking to fund solutions for humanity's hardest challenges with an emphasis on technology and innovation. Joe Exner, CEO of Steele Foundation for Hope, said, "Sibel was founded by the world's leading engineers and scientists. We invested in their ingenuity to advance bio-integrated sensors and wireless data collection to promote better care, especially for mothers and newborns in developing countries." Dräger, a leading medical and safety technology company, previous convertible note changes to equity.
With the funding, Sibel will scale up its FDA-cleared ANNE® One platform for global deployments across the entire continuum of care from the home to the hospital. "What makes us unique as a digital health company is that our product is vertically integrated—we believe that everything matters, from the adhesive we place on the skin to how the sensor fits on the body to the final alert a clinician sees for medical decision-making," said Steve Xu, MD, CEO and co-founder. "We're proud that our technology can be potentially deployed in both the neonatal intensive care unit and in the home for remote patient monitoring."
Steffen Protsch, president of monitoring at Dräger and Sibel board member, said, "As an early investor in Sibel, we have been impressed by the company's growth and technology over such a short period of time. We look forward to integrating and scaling their technology as part of Dräger's offerings to our hospital customers."
Since 2020, Sibel has seen a significant increase in revenue driven by partnerships with leading Fortune 500 companies and funding support from the U.S. military, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The appointment of new executives will accelerate Sibel's transition to scaled commercialization.
"I look forward to joining Sibel as chairman of the board in this time of rapid acceleration and growth," Otterstatter said. "The company's advanced wearable monitoring platform is industry-changing—the comprehensive suite of on-body sensors, best-in-class analytics, robust machine-learning algorithms and extensible software capabilities make the ANNE® One platform a very unique offering. I look forward to supporting Sibel's transition towards commercial scale." He continued, "Having led a team and a company that successfully developed and achieved commercial success with a breakthrough remote cardiac monitoring solutions, I am convinced that the ANNE® sensors are raising the bar for the market." John Rogers, PhD, the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and Sibel co-founder, said, "It is exciting to see the research from my research group translate into a successful product with the potential to impact millions of lives worldwide, particularly in the area of neonatal and women's health."
About Sibel Health:
Sibel Health is an award-winning digital health company with a mission to deliver Better Health Data for All®. Based in the greater Chicago area with offices in Seoul (South Korea) and San Diego, the company's FDA-cleared ANNE® platform includes advanced wearable sensors, AI-enabled data analytics, and an integrated mobile software and cloud platform. Sibel's partnerships include some of the most respected healthcare organizations worldwide. For more information, please visit www.sibelhealth.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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GAINESVILLE — Florida track and field coach Mike Holloway has agreed to a contract extension keeping the 12-time national championship winner in his native Gainesville through the 2032 season.
The school announced the new deal Thursday, a little less than two months after his program became just the third — and first since Oregon in 2015 — to win the men’s and women’s national titles.
Holloway is a 10-time national coach of the year and in 2016 was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
“It is truly an honor and a blessing to be able to lead these programs here at my alma mater, and my family and I are eternally grateful for the opportunity to finish my career here in Gainesville,” Holloway said in a statement.
Holloway, nicknamed “Mouse,” has turned the Gators into a track and field dynasty he became head coach of the men’s program in 2003. UF named him women’s coach in 2008.
The Gators’ women beat Texas 74-64 June 11 in Eugene, Oregon, to capture the program’s first outdoor title. A day earlier, the Florida men staged a furious final-day comeback to beat Tennessee 54-38 for the Gators’ fifth national outdoor title.
The women’s program won the indoor title in March.
“Mouse’s leadership has pushed both Gators men’s and women’s track and field programs to unprecedented heights,” UF athletic director Scott Stricklin said in a statement. “His unique talents — such as his focus, attention to detail, work ethic and ability to relate — make him a special coach. We are excited that he will continue to be a part of the University of Florida for many years.”
Holloway, who signed a 10-year extension 2018, will be one the nation’s highest-paid track and field coaches. By 2024, he will earn $599,000 annually with bonuses of up to 40% per program for on-track success, according to a UF spokesperson.
In 2022, Holloway earned a total of $734,040. This included his base salary of $321,200, an $80,000 longevity bonus, $100,000 for the school’s equipment deal and an $8,000 academic incentive. He earned a 40% bonus for the women’s championships and 30% for the men’s title.
Holloway’s base salary will remain the same, but his longevity bonus will increase to $100,000 in 2023 and $125,000 in 2024 through the end of the new contract. Holloway will receive $120,000 next season through the school’s equipment deal and $145,000 beginning in 2024.
Holloway followed a long path to achieve historic success at UF. He became an assistant coach at the school in 1995 after coaching at Gainesville’s Buchholz High School.
Besides 12 national championships, the Gators have won 16 SEC championships under Holloway. In addition, the Gators have captured 84 individual national titles.
Holloway also has enjoyed success coaching internationally.
He served as head coach of the 2020 U.S. men’s Olympic team. In Tokyo in 2021, former Gators national champion hurdler Grant Holloway won silver in 110-meter event and UF senior Taylor Manson won bronze with the 4X400 relay team.
At the 2012 Olympics, Holloway coached Team USA’s sprinters and relay teams. The 4x400 relay squad won sliver while Justin Gatlin won a bronze medal in the 100.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Edgar Thompson at egthompson@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osgators. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-sp-uf-florida-gators-trackfield-mike-holloway-extension-0805-20220804-smko5z23c5c2hocdfr2kcizatq-story.html | 2022-08-04T16:19:36Z | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-sp-uf-florida-gators-trackfield-mike-holloway-extension-0805-20220804-smko5z23c5c2hocdfr2kcizatq-story.html | true |
A jury has been sent home overnight at the trial of radio host Alex Belfield who pleads not guilty to eight charges of stalking online. The jury at Nottingham Crown Court have been deliberating until 2pm every day.
Discussions began on Tuesday morning. The panel return tomorrow Friday (August 5) at 10am and will finish again at 2pm.
On trial is 42-year-old Belfield, of Shaldon Close in Mapperley, who denies all the charges against him, allegedly concerning the online stalking on eight different people between 2012 and 2021. YouTube radio host Belfield opted not to give evidence in his defence last week before giving a closing speech claiming he was a whistle-blower who had seen two-and-a-half years of his life “torn apart” by police inquiries.
READ MORE: Alex Belfield claimed radio station had 'refused' to mention Manchester terrorist attack
Prosecutors allege Belfield used social media messages, videos and emails to cause serious alarm or distress to eight people including Channel 5 and BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine, former BBC Radio Leeds mid-morning show host Stephanie Hirst, and BBC Radio Northampton’s Bernie Keith.
The trial continues
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Gujarat reports first suspected case of Monkeypox, samples of 29-year-old sent for testing
Jamnagar (Gujarat), Aug 4: Gujarat has reported its first suspected case of monkeypox with a man with no recent travel history exhibiting symptoms of the viral disease, said health department officials on Thursday. His swab samples have been sent for testing, they said.
The 29-year-old patient, a resident of Nava Nagna village in Jamnagar district, is currently admitted to a special ward created in the city-based GG Hospital, said Dr Nandini Desai, dean of the MP Shah Government Medical College attached with the hospital.
"Since he was exhibiting monkeypox symptoms, such as high fever, we have sent his samples for confirmation to a laboratory in Ahmedabad. The patient has been admitted to an isolation ward in the hospital," said Desai.
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She said the man does not have any recent travel history. Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe.
It is usually a self-limited disease with the symptoms lasting two to four weeks. The infection typically presents itself with fever, headache, rashes, sore throat, cough and swollen lymph nodes. | https://www.oneindia.com/india/gujarat-reports-first-suspected-case-of-monkeypox-samples-sent-for-testing-3443570.html | 2022-08-04T16:22:13Z | https://www.oneindia.com/india/gujarat-reports-first-suspected-case-of-monkeypox-samples-sent-for-testing-3443570.html | true |
Sustainably grown cannabis aids actor's quality of life and performance.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Family Farms (BFF) today announces the release of the bespoke strain "The Phonzie," created in collaboration with P-Valley star J. Alphonse Nicholson. After being introduced to BFF products, Nicholson found they aided in calming his anxiety, allowing him to remain focused on his acting. The new strain, named for the actor and musician, was exclusively pheno-hunted to incorporate terpenes limonene and caryophyllene, which are associated with calm and relaxation, aimed at easing anxiety and stress. The Phonzie will hit California retail stores later this month.
"I'm a huge fan of sativa-dominate hybrids that still have a slight indica feel. Chris and his team cultivated exactly what I wanted," says J. Alphonse Nicholson. "From the nose to the structure The Phonzie is truly a beautiful strain. Its smooth taste gives you an excellent high that allows you to move throughout your day calm and relaxed, feeling energized and not heavy."
In recent years anxiety has been on the rise, as has prescription abuse, driving some to seek non-traditional forms of stress relief. Nicholson, who has dealt with anxiety his entire life, found respite from the day-to-day grind in Ball Family Farms' terpene-rich cannabis. The Phonzie, a cross between Bruce Leroy and Laura Charles, tastes like Skittles and cream and smells like a fruit basket. This strain gives off relaxed, calm vibes with a bit of energy, allowing you to move throughout your day feeling good. It's very soothing, light, and smooth like the Fonz.
"Without terpenes, you're smoking air," says Chris Ball, CEO of Ball Family Farms. "The terpenes, flavonoids, and cannabinoids; each element is going to give you a different experience. We try and focus on that here at BFF because the entourage effect is more essential than THC alone for a top-tier product."
The family-owned indoor farm is focused on the wellness impact of the plant. The hand-crafted flower is cultivated with meticulous attention to detail with the best possible mix of terpenes and produced in-house to the most precise standards. Its 100% organic cultivation program, recycled natural soil, and sustainable closed-loop system never include synthetics or pesticides.
The Phonzie was crafted with calming anxiety in mind. Still, each person's natural endocannabinoid system is different and will react to cannabis strains differently. Please consume responsibly.
Ball Family Farms ("BFF") is the first vertically integrated, black-owned, commercial indoor grow facility in Los Angeles. Entrepreneur and social equity license recipient Chris Ball founded the company in 2018, after a Federal indictment, to create unmatched premium cannabis products. BFF's first commercial strain, Daniel Larusso, quickly became one of the most popular strains in licensed cannabis retail stores. As a tribute to its activism and commitment to excellence, the company embraces its motto and tagline, "Cultivating the culture, from the ground up!" Connect with us at www.ballfamilyfarms.com or follow us on Instagram.
J. Alphonse Nicholson is a father, husband, percussionist, and actor, most notably known for his iconic role as "Lil' Murda" on the hit TV series P-VALLEY." J. Alphonse has always had a love for cannabis. He is a firm believer in the medicinal properties of the plant. From dealing with anxiety to insomnia, cannabis has become a part of J.Alphonse's daily routine. In 2020 he was named the first and only Brand Ambassador for Ball Family Farms. Notable credits include TV/FILM: Series Regular on "P-Valley" (STARZ), "Just Mercy" (Warner Brothers), and "Self Made: Inspired by the Madame CJ Walker story" (Netflix). Connect with him on IMDb, Instagram, or Twitter.
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Youth held for cheating job-seekers
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A youth has been arrested by the Cyber Crime Police of Mumbai for allegedly cheating, along with his friends, job seekers in the guise of providing them employment in an ‘information technology’ company.
Police said Prince Sharon, 30, of Kurusadi near Thittuvilai under Bhoothapandi police station limits and his friends, who claimed to have floated their information technology company with offices in Mumbai, Nagercoil and Malaysia, had given online advertisements asking the engineering graduates to apply for various positions in their firm.
After ‘scrutinizing’ the applications, the company’s recruitment team interviewed the applicants and informed them that they had been selected with attractive package.
Besides taking ‘deposit money’ from the successful candidates, they collected the candidates’ Aadhar card, PAN card and the first page of bank passbook copies with which they allegedly siphoned off money from the candidates’ bank accounts.
When the successful candidates did not get any ‘offer letter’ from the firm even after submitting the ‘deposit amount’ and money was drawn from their bank accounts, they tried to reach their contacts in the company and found that they had been cheated by giving them bogus mobile phone numbers.
Following complaints from affected aspirants from various parts of the country and even from Malaysia, the Cyber Crime Police of Mumbai City landed here on Wednesday and nabbed Prince Sharon with the help of Bhoothapandi police. A search was conducted in his house.
When he was produced before a court here on Thursday, Prince Sharon complained of illness and got admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital at Aasaaripallam.
The quantum of this scam was yet to be ascertained and according to unconfirmed sources, it may be several crores of rupees. Once he gets discharged from the hospital, the investigators will get a transit warrant and take him to Mumbai for further investigation,” the police here said. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/youth-held-for-cheating-job-seekers/article65727603.ece/amp/ | 2022-08-04T16:24:13Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/youth-held-for-cheating-job-seekers/article65727603.ece/amp/ | false |
ScotRail strike threat as union rejects 5% pay offer
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Rail workers in Scotland have rejected a 5% pay offer in a move that could result in further strike action.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) voted against the ScotRail deal by 60% to 40%.
It is similar to a deal accepted by Aslef members in July, ending a dispute where 700 services were cancelled for almost two months.
Transport Scotland said the result was disappointing, describing the offer as "fair and affordable".
It said a continued strike would require timetable changes and cancellations of services.
A spokesperson said: "Any continued industrial action will undoubtedly have negative impacts on passengers which, in turn, has further implications for rail finances.
"Despite this disappointing outcome, we are still very much committed to working with the RMT union to reach a mutually favourable outcome to this dispute.
"We would urge all parties to get back round the table as soon as possible so that this can be resolved soonest for the benefit of staff, passengers and the economy."
The RMT union - whose members include ticket examiners, conductors and station staff - rejected the pay offer on Thursday.
RMT organiser Mick Hogg told the BBC he was meeting with ScotRail on Tuesday and if an improved offer was not made, he would ballot members for strike action.
Last month, Aslef drivers accepted a similar deal, which meant they will get more money for rest day and Sunday working, driving instructor and maternity pay along with a policy of no compulsory redundancies for the next five years.
ScotRail said 2.2% of the increase would be funded by Transport Scotland with the remaining 2.8% coming from ScotRail's funds.
The train operator came back into public ownership for the first time in 25 years in April, after previous operator Abellio had its franchise ended early over criticism of the quality of the service.
A full rail timetable was only recently brought back. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62425269?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | 2022-08-04T16:24:53Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62425269?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | true |
NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After signing a conditional acquisition agreement in July 2022, Wavestone announces the acquisition of PEN Partnership, a UK-based consulting firm.
Founded in 2012, PEN Partnership has established itself as a trusted partner for its clients operating across the Financial Services and Life Sciences sectors. PEN Partnership serves some of the most reputable organizations within these industries across four core areas of expertise: Customer Experience & Digital, Operations & Automation, Data & Technology and Change Delivery & Capability.
The project fits perfectly with Wavestone's strategic plan 'Impact': to accelerate the firm's external growth in its target geographies of the US and the UK.
The acquisition is a great opportunity to enrich Wavestone's overall value proposition for its clients across geographical markets. The addition of PEN Partnership's expertise in Financial Services and Life Sciences to Wavestone's technological capabilities will offer a first-class proposition to help tackle clients' transformation challenges across the two industries.
Chris Gibson, PEN Partnership's CEO, comments: "Wavestone and PEN Partnership together make a powerful combination, and this is really great news for our clients and staff. The two companies provide complementary services and share very similar corporate culture and values. Wavestone has an ambitious growth plan, and I am very excited for the PEN team to play a key role in building a world-class consultancy."
Reza Maghsoudnia, Strategic Development Director of Wavestone, says "This merger enhances Wavestone's ability to deliver global transformation programs. With PEN Partnership, we can accelerate our growth and deepen our value proposition in Financial Services and Life Sciences globally. It's clear from our discussions with PEN Partnership that there are synergies not only in the services provided, but the company culture. There is strong alignment on topics such as CSR, Diversity & Inclusion, as well as Great Place to Work®, and this is a key success factor for our project."
In a world where knowing how to drive transformation is the key to success, Wavestone's mission is to inform and guide large companies and organizations in their most critical transformations, with the ambition of a positive outcome for all stakeholders. It's an ambition anchored in the firm's DNA and embodied in the signature "The Positive Way."
Wavestone draws on about 4,000 employees across Europe – where it is a leading independent player in consulting, the United States and Asia.
Wavestone is listed on Euronext Paris and recognized as a Great Place to Work®.
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