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The Duchess of Sussex shared her teenage wedding plans in the latest episode of her Archetypes podcast episode. It sees Meghan speaking with actress Mindy Kaling about the joys, challenges and stigmas of being a single, unmarried woman.
It begins with Meghan saying: “When I was 14, I planned my wedding. Not my actual wedding, that would have been a bit harder to imagine." The duchess described how it was actually a religious studies assignment at her Catholic school and how she wanted her wedding to be in the Bel Air hotel, with a “Swan Lake” and “oh my goodness, the dress, strapless and pouffy and I’d seen it in a bridal magazine”.
Meghan said: "I took this project seriously, I wanted to get an A. And I did. Maybe I got an A minus."
She then questioned why the assignment had even existed, saying: “At no point can you say ‘Nope. My dream for the future is to be single’. The message even at my feminist all-girls school was as traditional as it gets. First comes love. Then comes marriage."
Discussing marriage, Meghan said: “What was and what is so threatening about women who live outside of marriage?” She added: “The associations our society makes around unmarried women feels so outdated and I wanted to give them a refresh.”
The duchess, introducing Kaling, said: “Mindy and I are talking about how her decision to have children as a single, unmarried woman showed her the importance of forging your own path.”
The pair discussed their favourite books as children, with Meghan saying she loved the Archie comics but insisted they were not the inspiration for her son Archie’s name. The duchess described how she was “alone so much as a child” and was a “latchkey kid”, saying she romanticised the Archie stories because she wanted the “cookie cutter-looking perfect life”.
Meghan said she wondered “Am I gonna get the guy one day?”, adding that she was “the smart one, not the pretty one”. The duchess said: “I was alone so much as a child, right, and also a latchkey kid, and I think I read a lot of Archie comic books ironically. My son is not named after Archie comic books, but I loved them. I collected them."
The American Archie comics feature a main character who has red hair just like the Duke of Sussex. Archie Andrews is known as “America’s typical teenager” and he and his friends have been updated for a modern audience with Riverdale, a Netflix American teenage drama series. | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/meghan-markle-shares-swan-lake-7552290 | 2022-09-06T13:37:42Z | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/meghan-markle-shares-swan-lake-7552290 | true |
Update Features New NAIC Designation Categories, Solvency II Reporting Enhancements, Hybrid/Blended Benchmarks Methodology, and More
BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), a leading provider of SaaS-based investment accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, today announced that it delivered new product features and enhancements in the second quarter of 2022 to support the latest accounting and reporting standards, enrich asset class reporting, and upgrade the user experience.
"We're immensely proud of our Q2 product enhancements that incorporate customer requests, delivering new capabilities that enable operational efficiencies, regulatory compliance, and faster decision-making," said Souvik Das, Chief Technology Officer at Clearwater Analytics. "Our team has been focused on making improvements that speed up transaction processing time, reduce manual efforts with NAIC reporting and other regulatory requirements, and simplify decision making. With just a few clicks, our clients can quickly act on data they trust using Clearwater's best-in-class reporting capabilities and gain an enviable competitive advantage."
To keep insurers updated on the latest regulatory guidance changes regarding investment accounting and reporting, Clearwater delivered several enhancements to NAIC reporting that allow our clients to have more accurate and timely reporting for NAIC regulatory guidance.
- NAIC Designation Category Updates. In this release, NAIC Designations were replaced with NAIC Designation Categories (NAIC Designations with Modifier) to align with the increase of NAIC designations.
- Schedule D and Schedule DB Updates. With updates to Schedule D parts 1 through 5 and the Schedule DB for derivatives, Clearwater enhanced our offering for logic-driven, in-depth reporting that aligns to our clients' specific data fields, delivering greater accuracy.
- Risk-Based Capital (RBC) Reports. With risk-based capital reports, Clearwater has updated the book adjusted carrying value for mortgage loans. This update provides greater accuracy in reports that are in line with RBC reports and NAIC designations.
Given that insurers have a year to prepare for new Solvency II reporting requirements, Clearwater has created new tooling that allows clients to override input values to their desired values for SCR calculations.
To meet specific benchmark needs that require a combination of data sources, hybrid benchmarks were introduced so that our clients can combine two or more indexes on a percentage basis, allowing for more in-depth and accurate reporting and analysis.
Clearwater further enhanced the scope of its pricing offering to include more accurate Listed Derivatives pricing evaluations.
Clearwater updated its Net Asset Value (NAV) calculation rules for limited partnerships to bring Clearwater's NAV calculation rules into conformity with those articulated in the Institutional Limited Partnership Association's Principles, Practices & Policy model.
The new "Cash Flow and Yield Analysis" reports are lot level reports that include key data points to provide users with greater insight into amortization calculations and inputs. The reports include such data as cash flow source and cash flow effective date, amortization adjustment dates, interest recognition guidance, and future looking cash flows projections summarized at the lot level.
- Watch the on-demand webinar NAIC Updates Summer 2022 National Meeting Overview to hear the latest investment accounting guidance updates.
- Register to attend Clearwater Connect 2022, our annual conference where the brightest minds in accounting and finance will convene and get an exclusive first look at Clearwater's world-class technology, learn industry best practices, and network with thought leaders and leading practitioners from around the world.
Clearwater Analytics is a global industry-leading SaaS solution for automated investment data aggregation, reconciliation, accounting, compliance, risk, performance, and reporting. Each day, the Clearwater solution reports on more than $5.9 trillion in assets for clients that include leading insurers, asset managers, corporations, pension plans, governments, and nonprofit organizations – helping them make the most of their investment portfolio data with a world-class product and client-centric servicing. Investment professionals around the globe trust Clearwater to deliver timely, validated investment data and analytics. Additional information about Clearwater can be found at clearwateranalytics.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 6, 2022
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Volusia County man dies after utility vehicle rolls on top of him
Volusia County man dies after utility vehicle rolls on top of him
SHELDON: WELCOME BACK, WE ARE GETTING A CHECK OF THE TOP STORIES STARTING WITH BREAKING NEWS. MEREDITH: POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING FROM OVERNIGHT. DISPATCHERS TELL US THIS HAPPENED ALONG SOUTH ADELLE AVENUE. OFFICERS WERE ON THE SCENE TWO HOURS AFTER THAT AND THEY HAVE NOT RELEASED ANY DETAILS ABOUT THE SHOOTER OR VICTIM. SHELDON: BREVARD COUNTY DEPUTIES NEED YOUR HELP FINDING THE PERSON WHO SHOT THREE PEOPLE IN A CAR. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AS THE THREE PEOPLE WERE DRIVING NEAR COCOA WHEN THEY WERE HIT. THEY ARE EXPECTED TO RECOVER. MEREDITH: SEMINOLE COUNTY FATHER ACCUSED OF STABBING HIS TWO DAUGHTERS IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A PLEA IN COURT. BRAVO-TORRES KILLED HIS THREE-YEAR-OLD AND IS ACCUSED OF INJURING HIS 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. A GRAND JURY INDICTED HIM ON MINOR ON A TECH -- AND ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES. SHELDON: THE JUDGE IN THE PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTER’S SENSE OF THAT SENTENCING TRIAL WILL HOLD ANOTHER HEARING IN THE CASE. IT WILL GO OVER ANY PENDING MOTIONS. THE JURY IS EXPECTED NOT TO RETURN UNTIL MONDAY. MEREDITH: POLICE IN CANADA ARE TRYING TO FIND ONE OF THE TWO SUSPECTS IN A DEADLY STABBING SPREE FROM SUNDAY. MYLES SANDERSON IS ON THE RUN. AS BROTHER DAMIEN WAS ACCUSED BUT OFFICERS FOUND HIM DEAD YESTERDAY. HE HAD VISIBLE INJURIES AND SAY HE DID NOT APPEAR -- THEY DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SELF-INFLICTED. SHELDON: A SOUTH FLORIDA JUDGE GRANTED THE REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL MASTER, A THIRD PARTY THAT WILL REVIEW ANYTHING THE FBI TALK FROM MAR-A-LAGO LAST MONTH. THE JUDGE WROTE THAT THERE HAS NOT BEEN DISREGARD FOR MR. TRUMP’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, BUT THERE SHOULD BE MORE OVERSIGHT GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE CASE. MEREDITH: RUSSIA ISSUED ANOTHER ROUND OF SANCTIONS IN RESPONSE TO THE RECENT RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE U.S.. MORE THAN TWO DOZEN AMERICANS WERE LISTED INCLUDING FLORIDA SENATOR RICK SCOTT AS PART OF THE RESTRICTIONS. HE HAS BANNED FROM RUSSIA. SHELDON: TODAY WRAPS UP THE LATER -- THE LABOR DAY TRAVEL PERIOD, AND IT WAS SMOOTH FOR TRAVELERS. THE AIRPORTS EXPAND -- EXPECTS FEWER TRAVELERS NOW THAT THE HOLIDAY IS OVER THEY WARNED THAT THERE WILL BE 114,000 PEOPLE TRAVELING. MEREDITH: MARRIOTT IS HOSTING A JOB FAIR. THE COMPANY SAYS IT WANTS TO HIRE PEOPLE TO WORK IN A HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT. THERE ARE PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE. IT STARTS AT 10:00 AT THE SHERATON SHELDON: IN ORLANDO. SHELDON:CHECK OUT THE CENTRAL FLORIDA ZOO’S THREE NEW ADDITIONS AFTER THESE MONKEYS WERE RESCUED FROM WILDLIFE TRACKING. THEY WERE SMUGGLED INTO THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY AS PETS. AFTER THEY WERE RESCUED THEY WERE GIVEN TO THE CENTRAL FLORIDA ZOO IN SANFORD. I HAVE A FUNNY FEELING THEY WILL BE POPULAR. MEREDITH: WESH 2 SUNRISE WILL HAVE MORE HEADLINES AT 7:00. SHELDON: FIRST WE WILL HAVE ONE MORE CHECK OF TH
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Volusia County man dies after utility vehicle rolls on top of him
ABOVE: A look at today's top headlinesA Volusia County man was killed in a tragic accident over the weekend. According to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, 38-year-old Christopher Guse was riding a "side-by-side" around a property on Grand Avenue Sunday evening when it became stuck on a hill. "Guse got out of the vehicle, then returned to it and began to climb inside, causing it to shift and break free. As Guse tried to get out of the vehicle’s path, it rolled over him and down the hill," officials said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
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According to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, 38-year-old Christopher Guse was riding a "side-by-side" around a property on Grand Avenue Sunday evening when it became stuck on a hill.
"Guse got out of the vehicle, then returned to it and began to climb inside, causing it to shift and break free. As Guse tried to get out of the vehicle’s path, it rolled over him and down the hill," officials said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. | https://www.wesh.com/article/volusia-county-utility-vehicle-accident/41091138 | 2022-09-06T13:38:45Z | https://www.wesh.com/article/volusia-county-utility-vehicle-accident/41091138 | true |
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Real Magic, the company behind the Levitate Client Happiness Platform that powers over 3,500 relationship-based businesses, is announcing the launch of its second product, Coffee. Born out of an internal need for more efficient sales prospecting, it promises to be a ground-breaking tool for sales teams across the country.
"As the Levitate product scaled, we realized that our sales team was wasting a lot of effort trying to find the right leads to call at the right time," says Jesse Lipson, CEO & founder of Coffee and Levitate. "I looked for an existing solution that would take the guesswork out of prospecting and let our reps spend less time clicking around the CRM and more time engaging with prospects but didn't find anything that was exactly what we needed. So, I decided we would build it ourselves on the Levitate API platform."
After implementing Coffee within the Levitate team and seeing how much more efficient and effective they had gotten, Lipson knew it could change the game for sales teams elsewhere.
The tool itself – which integrates with HubSpot – is intelligent and intuitive, simplifying the prospecting process by automatically serving leads based on time zones and other key factors. With all the information reps need on one screen, it even serves follow-up and demo confirmation calls at the designated time. Built-in gamification, a real-time leaderboard, and customizable memes throughout make cold calling fun, engaging, and motivating for sales reps – differentiating Coffee even further from other prospecting tools.
But Coffee doesn't only help sales reps; it also helps sales managers and revenue operations teams. The tool makes blitzes and sales plays simple by allowing any manager to turn them on and off with the click of a button, and its account-based configuration alleviates the need for lead shuffling. This is especially helpful for smaller sales teams that don't have a full revenue operations team.
"I love that Coffee saves me time because I don't have to manage and shuffle lead ownership," says Jimmy Critcher, Sales Operations at REVGEN. "It's also great for easily seeing where we are on the day's goals without pulling a report."
With the launch of Coffee, Real Magic now offers a full suite of tools for both client engagement (Levitate) and prospect engagement (Coffee). To support its continued growth, Levitate is also announcing a $6M funding round co-led by Bull City Venture Partners, Tippet Venture Partners, and Lipson himself.
Coffee is an intelligent, efficient, and fun prospecting platform that keeps your sales team energized. Gamification and memes motivate teams, while AI makes using Coffee a breeze by serving the right leads to the right reps at the right times. Daily goals and reporting are readily available, allowing for easy performance tracking on-the-fly. To learn more about what's brewing at Coffee, visit coffee.inc.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Spencer Patton, President of the Trade Association for Logistics Professionals (TALP), is announcing a no-confidence vote by FedEx Ground contractors on FedEx Ground CEO John Smith. Mr. Patton will engage with an independent global advisory firm to review and confirm the data's accuracy.
Under John Smith's leadership, small business owners operating FedEx Ground's network have been increasingly burdened by extreme inflation costs and burdensome contract changes. FedEx Ground additionally passed a fuel surcharge through to the US consumer — expanding their own profit margins by 30% — and refused to pass that financial support to the small businesses who consume the fuel. These small business owners are struggling under the heavy weight of inflation: high gas prices, increased vehicle costs and elevated driver wages.
TALP estimates more than one-third of the small business contractor network has already, or will soon need to, walk away from their FedEx Ground contract, resulting in FedEx Ground being unable to deliver packages in a timely matter during the upcoming holiday season.
Video from Spencer Patton, calling for the vote of no confidence: https://vimeo.com/talp/noconfidence
"FedEx Ground will no longer be able to call this a fictional crisis or the story of one contractor," said Patton. "This is the story of the US consumer. It's the story of the American small business owner. Fear grows in the darkness, so now we are going to bring it all into the light."
Every FedEx Ground contractor will have the opportunity to anonymously respond to the vote of no confidence (and supplemental questions) without fear of retaliation. The vote will run through September 9, 2022 at 5:00 P.M. CST.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A new and worrisome school year began Tuesday in Uvalde.
There is new high fencing around the Texas community’s public school campuses that still isn’t finished, a heavy police patrol that many families don’t trust and no classes ever again at Robb Elementary School, three months after a gunman with an AR-15-style rifle killed 19 children and two teachers inside two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.
Ashley Morales is putting her son, Jeremiah, back in class — because she says she has no other choice as a working single mother. She said she would drop him off outside Uvalde Elementary on the first day, as parents weren’t allowed inside.
“I’m just nervous, scared,” said Morales, whose son was a third-grader last year at Robb Elementary and lost three friends in the May 24 massacre. During a recent “Meet the Teacher” night, she felt a rush of anxiety walking down the school hall.
“Oh my gosh, it’s actually going to happen,” she said. “School is going to start.”
Students began arriving at Uvalde Elementary before dawn Tuesday, walking through newly installed 8-foot (2.4-meter) metal fencing that surrounds the campus and past a state trooper standing guard outside an entrance. Colorful flags hung inside the hallways and teachers wore turquoise shirts that read “Together We Rise & Together We Are Better” on the back. State troopers were parked on every corner outside the school.
Teachers hugged students climbing out of cars in the drop-off line and guided them toward a line of teachers in turquoise shirts who were waiting for them behind the fence.
“Good morning, sunshine!” one teacher could be heard saying. “You ready to have a good school year?”
Although school started weeks ago in many parts of Texas, officials pushed back the first day of class in Uvalde after a summer of unfathomable heartache, anger and revelations of widespread failures by law enforcement who allowed an 18-year-old gunman to fire inside the adjoining classrooms for more than 70 minutes.
Despite pushing back the start of the school year, Uvalde school officials said several enhanced security measures remain incomplete, including installing additional cameras and new locks.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has committed to putting nearly three dozen state troopers on Uvalde campuses — but that was of no comfort to some families since there were more than 90 state troopers on scene during the attack.
More than 100 families in Uvalde signed up for virtual school, while others pulled their kids out of the district and enrolled them in private schools. One teacher who was shot in the abdomen and survived, Elsa Avila, wouldn’t be greetings students for the first time in 30 years because she is still recovering.
A damning report by a Texas House committee found that nearly 400 officers in all rushed to Robb Elementary after the shooting but hesitated for more than hour to confront the shooter. Body camera and surveillance footage showed heavily armed officers, some holding bulletproof shields, stacked in the hallway but not advancing to the classroom.
Steve McCraw, head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, called the response “an abject failure.”
Last month, the Uvalde school board fired district police Chief Pete Arredondo, who McCraw and the House report accused of failing to take control of the scene and wasting time by looking for a key for a classroom door that was likely unlocked. The firing has not quieted demands for others to face punishment. One other officer — Uvalde Lt. Mariano Pargas, the acting police chief that day — has been placed on administrative leave.
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A fugitive has been arrested in connection to an incident that occurred in Flint earlier this year.
Crimestoppers of Flint and Genessee County has announced that 20-year-old Nico Deandra Nard has been arrested after an incident on the 200 block of West Pierson Road in Flint May 4th. Nard had outstanding warrants for homocide, carrying a concealed weapon, and felony firearm. Crimestoppers had previously offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. | https://www.wsgw.com/murder-suspect-arrested-in-genesee-county/ | 2022-09-06T13:43:25Z | https://www.wsgw.com/murder-suspect-arrested-in-genesee-county/ | true |
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SKYPLAY Inc. announced the listing of its cryptocurrency, SKP(SKYPlay Token) on ProBit Global —one of the world's leading digital-asset trading platforms.
SKYPlay began its first steps towards becoming an official blockchain platform by listing SKP on MEXC Global last May. Following the listing on MEXC and ProBit Global, the company plans to accelerate the process of expanding its global presence as it continues to list SKP on prominent global and domestic cryptocurrency exchanges.
SKP, the key currency of SKYPlay platform, uses the Polygon(MATIC) network, which offers low transaction fees, fast speed, and scalability as one of the top Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain.
Under the leadership of the Singapore corporation, SKYPLAY Inc. will release a variety of new lifestyle content as well as a range of eP2E games via SKYPlay–the easiest P2E and NFT business platform. In addition to the launching of Coin Grid and the SKYPlay platform, two other games will be released this year including a game from Retrocat, which just announced the signing of an onboarding contract with SKYPlay.
Sang-ok Chang, the CEO of SKYPLAY Inc. said, "SKYPlay has expanded community users from 170 countries with events and entertaining activities. Throughout the listing on ProBit Global, we are glad to demonstrate the reliability and scalability by outlining our consistent roadmap with our brand catchphrase, FUEL—uphold Fun, Utility, and Easy content while maintaining the platform's Liquidity."
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COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbon Minds, the provider of the largest and most regionalized LCA database for chemicals and plastics, has partnered with BASF to provide comprehensive and consistent product carbon footprint (PCF) data for chemicals and plastics in alignment with the BASF PCF methodology.
The partnership is set to develop a new, wide-ranging database with more than 80,000 datasets covering over 1000 chemical products in 190 regions. While based on Carbon Minds' existing database cm.chemicals, the new database is tailored to companies using the BASF methodology in their product carbon footprint calculations, thanks to a new system model which aligns with BASF's existing carbon footprint methodology. Through this initiative, Carbon Minds and BASF aim to promote the harmonization of carbon footprinting methodologies across industries and create the conditions for comparable carbon footprints for chemical and plastics raw materials.
As more and more companies in the chemicals value chain set climate targets, chemical producers are under increasing pressure to provide high quality carbon footprint data with a cradle-to-gate scope on their products. To assess any given product, producers require data not only on the emissions of their own processes, but also on the carbon footprint of the raw materials they use, which often accounts for more than 80% of a finished product's carbon footprint.
When sourcing carbon footprint data on raw materials, chemical producers have two options. The first is to approach suppliers. Currently however, suppliers can rarely provide the required data. More typically, producers turn to secondary databases. Whether data on raw materials comes from suppliers or third-party sources, the methodologies behind data on raw materials are often not fully aligned with those used by producers to assess their own processes. These methodological inconsistencies can severely compromise the quality and comparability of carbon footprints calculated by different producers.
As Raoul Meys, co-founder and CTO at Carbon Minds, explains, "When calculating product carbon footprints, one of the biggest challenges for chemical companies is finding the right data for supply chain emissions. They need comprehensive coverage of their complete supply chain, for every product, and a consistent methodology for all their data. The wide-ranging coverage Carbon Minds can provide, combined with a new system model that aligns with the BASF PCF methodology, is going to make it much easier for chemical companies to do consistent product carbon footprints for their full portfolio of products by including secondary data derived from the BASF methodology."
Furthermore, as Alessandro Pistillo, Director, Digital Strategic Projects at BASF points out: "The main benefit of large-scale carbon footprinting is industry-wide transparency over carbon performance. However, there is no use in transparency alone without clear standards: therefore we are actively contributing to the establishment of a sectoral standard for the chemical industry with this new partnership and other initiatives. We are also working in close collaboration with peers, customers and suppliers in the Together for Sustainability initiative and preparing a guideline for chemicals as a drop-in solution for other frameworks as well."
Pistillo continues: "While we firmly believe that product carbon footprints should be based as much as possible on primary data, in practice companies typically still require secondary data for product carbon footprint calculations. Given the variety of different data sources companies are using, it is essential to align methodologies to a standard. We are delighted that this partnership will create a new database and give companies a further data source for the calculation of comparable product carbon footprints".
Meys concludes: "The ultimate aim of this new database and Carbon Minds' existing data products it complements is to enable companies to create transparency over supply chain emissions and make progress towards a successful net-zero transition."
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Flooding in Rhode Island strands drivers on I-95
Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Providence Monday evening, closing highways and main roads throughout Rhode Island.
Drivers were stuck on I-95 in Providence for their evening commute as flash flooding made the highway impassable.
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Several cars were flooded along with the highway. Police were said to have helped those trapped inside. Others were seen seeking shelter on the center divider on I-95.
Traffic is shown on Interstate 95 near Thurbers Avenue on Sept. 5, 2022, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Flooding also forced officials to close other roads within Providence due to the heavy rain that turned roads into rivers, including Route 10.
Heavy rain was said to cause a building collapse within the city. Providence police said no one was inside at the time of the collapse.
Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee urged residents to "avoid all unnecessary travel" amid flooding in the state.
A stalled cold front draped across the Northeast produced a wide area of significant storms Monday.
Flood Watches stretch from coastal Maine through Boston and New York, into Pennsylvania and through much of the Appalachian and Ohio Valleys, reaching northern Alabama and northwest Georgia. All told, just over 80 million are under flood alerts Monday.
Scattered thunderstorms remain in the forecast throughout the week, with some rainfall totals reaching 3-5 inches by the end of the week. | https://www.fox29.com/news/flooding-in-rhode-island-strands-drivers-on-i-95 | 2022-09-06T13:46:13Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/flooding-in-rhode-island-strands-drivers-on-i-95 | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Frances Tiafoe’s vision was blurry from the tears. He was thrilled — overwhelmed, even — when the last point was over and it hit him that, yes, he had ended Rafael Nadal’s 22-match Grand Slam winning streak Monday and reached the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time.
“I felt like the world stopped,” Tiafoe said. “I couldn’t hear anything for a minute.”
Then Tiafoe found himself “losing it in the locker room” when he saw that NBA superstar LeBron James gave him a Twitter shoutout.
“Bro,” Tiafoe said, “I was going crazy.”
What meant the most to Tiafoe about his 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over 22-time major champion Nadal in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows, though, was looking up in his Arthur Ashe Stadium guest box and knowing his parents, Constant and Alphina, were there.
“To see them experience me beat Rafa Nadal — they’ve seen me have big wins, but to beat those ‘Mount Rushmore’ guys? For them, I can’t imagine what was going through their heads,” said Tiafoe, a 24-year-old American seeded 22nd at the U.S. Open. “I mean, they’re going to remember today for the rest of their lives.”
His parents both emigrated to the United States from Sierra Leone in West Africa amid its civil war in the 1990s. They ended up in Maryland, where Constant helped construct a tennis training center for juniors, then became a maintenance man there; Alphina, Frances said, was “a nurse, working two jobs, working overtime through the nights.” Frances and his twin brother, Franklin, were born in 1998, and soon would be spending hour upon hour where Dad’s job was, rackets in hand.
Maybe one day, went the dream, a college scholarship would come of it.
“It wasn’t anything supposed to be like this,” Tiafoe said Monday evening, hours after by far his biggest victory.
He is the youngest American man to get this far at the U.S. Open since Andy Roddick in 2006, but this was not a case of a one-sided crowd backing one of its own. Nadal is about as popular as it gets in tennis and heard plenty of support as the volume raised after the retractable roof was shut in the fourth set.
“It’s something to tell the kids, the grandkids: ‘Yeah, I beat Rafa,’” Tiafoe said with a big smile.
He served better than No. 2 seed Nadal. More surprisingly, he returned better, too. And he kept his cool, remained in the moment and never let the stakes or the opponent get to him. Nadal, a 36-year-old from Spain, had won both of their previous matches, and every set they played, too.
“Well, the difference is easy: I played a bad match and he played a good match,” Nadal said. “At the end that’s it.”
This surprise came a day after Tiafoe followed along on TV as his pal Nick Kyrgios “put on a show” and eliminated No. 1 seed and defending champion Daniil Medvedev. That makes this the first U.S. Open without either of the top two seeded men reaching the quarterfinals since 2000, when No. 1 Andre Agassi exited in the second round and No. 2 Gustavo Kuerten in the first.
That was before Nadal, Novak Djokovic, who has 21 Grand Slam titles, and Roger Federer, who has 20, began dominating men’s tennis. Djokovic, 35, did not enter this U.S. Open because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and was not allowed to enter the United States; Federer, 41, has undergone a series of operations on his right knee and last played at Wimbledon last year.
Now come the inevitable questions about whether their era of excellence is wrapping up.
“It signifies that the years go by,” Nadal said. “It’s the circle of life.”
Tiafoe now meets No. 9 Andrey Rublev, who beat No. 7 Cam Norrie 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 earlier Monday.
Late Monday turned into early Tuesday when third-seeded Carlos Alcaraz beat No. 15 seed Marin Cilic 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in a match that lasted 3 hours, 54 minutes and ended at 2:23 a.m.
No. 11 Jannik Sinner rallied from two games down in the fifth set to beat Ilya Ivashka 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
The No. 1 woman, Iga Swiatek, moved into her first quarterfinal at Flushing Meadows by coming back to beat Jule Neiemeier 2-6, 6-4, 6-0.
“I’m just proud,” Swiatek said, “that I didn’t lose hope.”
The 21-year-old from Poland will face another first-time U.S. Open quarterfinalist: No. 8 Jessica Pegula, the highest-ranked American woman, who advanced with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova.
Another women’s quarterfinal will be two-time major finalist Karolina Pliskova against No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka.
Nadal won the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June. Then he made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon in July before withdrawing from that tournament because of a torn abdominal muscle.
Nadal competed only once in the 1 1/2 months between leaving the All England Club and arriving in New York, where he has won four trophies.
He tweaked his service motion, tossing the ball lower than he normally does so as not to put as much strain on his midsection. There were plenty of signs Monday that his serve was not in tip-top shape: nine double-faults, a first-serve percentage hovering around 50%, five breaks by Tiafoe.
Earlier in the tournament, he lost the first set of his first-round match. Did the same in the second round, when he also accidentally cut the bridge of his nose and made himself dizzy when the edge of his racket frame bounced off the court and caught him in the face.
Still, on Monday, Nadal appeared on the verge of turning things around when he broke early in the fourth set and went ahead 3-1.
Tiafoe told himself: “Stay in it. Stay with him.”
That’s tied to two key areas Tiafoe credits with helping make him a stronger player of late: an improved in-match mindset and a commitment to fitness.
“Rafa is there every point. I’ve been known to have some dips in my game at times, where it’s like you’re watching (and thinking), ‘What’s that?!’” Tiafoe said. “That was my thing, match intensity.”
No concern now: He grabbed the last five games. The next-to-last break came for a 4-3 edge in the fourth set, when Nadal put a backhand into the net, and Tiafoe skipped backward toward the sideline for the ensuing changeover, his fist raised.
Fifteen minutes later, Tiafoe broke again, and it was over. This represents the latest significant step forward for Tiafoe, whose only previous trip to a Grand Slam quarterfinal came at the 2019 Australian Open — and ended with a loss to Nadal.
When one last backhand by Nadal found the net, Tiafoe chucked his racket and put his hands on his head. He glanced into the stands — Mom, Dad, brother, girlfriend, Washington Wizards All-Star Bradley Beal, others — then sat in his sideline chair and buried his face in a towel.
“It was just wild. My heart is going a thousand miles an hour. I was so excited. I was like: Let me sit down,” Tiafoe said. “Yeah, I’ve never felt something like that in my life, honestly.”
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BERLIN (AP) — German carrier Lufthansa said Tuesday that it planned to improve its pay offer to pilots in an effort to avert a two-day strike this week that could cause significant disruption to travelers.
A union representing pilots announced plans for a walkout Wednesday and Thursday, while calling on the company to makes a “serious” offer in talks over pay increases. It would be the second strike in a week after pilots staged a walkout Friday that led to hundreds of flights being canceled.
Lufthansa said it would have to decide by noon which flights to cancel in the coming days and a strike would have “massive consequences” for its flight plan.
In a statement Tuesday, Lufthansa’s personnel chief Michael Niggemann accused the union of seeking to escalate the labor dispute.
“We will nevertheless do everything to achieve success with an improved offer despite the time pressure,” he said.
The Vereinigung Cockpit union has called for a 5.5% raise for its members this year and an inflation-busting 8.2% increase in 2023. Pilots are also seeking a new pay and holiday structure.
The airline says those measures would increase its staffing costs by about 40%, or around 900 million euros over two years. It has instead offered a one-off increase of 900 euros ($900), amounting to a 5% increase for senior pilots and an 18% increase for those starting the profession.
Strong unions have traditionally ensured good conditions for workers in Germany, using strikes to press their demands in labor disputes. | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-lufthansa-pilots-plan-2-day-strike-wednesday-over-pay/ | 2022-09-06T13:47:07Z | https://www.wjhl.com/business/ap-business/ap-lufthansa-pilots-plan-2-day-strike-wednesday-over-pay/ | true |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — In flood-stricken Pakistan where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years, the site’s chief official said Tuesday.
The ruins of Mohenjo Daro — located in southern Sindh province near the Indus River and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — are considered among the best preserved urban settlements in South Asia. They were discovered in 1922 and to this day, mystery surrounds the disappearance of its civilization, which coincided with those of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The swelling waters of the Indus, a major river in this part of the world, have wreaked havoc as heavy rains and massive flooding unleashed devastation across much of Pakistan. At least 1,325 people have been killed and millions have lost their homes in the surging waters, with many experts blaming the unusually heavy monsoon rains on climate change.
The flooding has not directly hit Mohenjo Daro but the record-breaking rains have inflicted damage on the ruins of the ancient city, said Ahsan Abbasi, the site’s curator.
“Several big walls, which were built nearly 5,000 years ago, have collapsed because of the monsoon rains,” Abbasi told The Associated Press.
He said dozens of construction workers under the supervision of archaeologists have started the repair work. Abbasi did not give an estimated cost of the damages at Mohenjo Daro.
The site’s landmark “Buddhist stupa” — a large hemispherical structure associated with worship, meditation and burial — remains intact, Abbasi said. But the downpour has damaged some outer walls and also some larger walls separating individual rooms or chambers.
Abbasi said the civilization at Mohenjo Daro, also known as “Mound of the Dead” in the local Sindhi language, built an elaborate drainage system, which has been critical in flooding in the past.
Though the floods have touched all of Pakistan, the Sindh province has been among the worst hit.
On Monday, army engineers made a second cut into an embankment at Lake Manchar, Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake, to release rising waters in hopes of saving the nearby city of Sehwan from major flooding.
The water from the lake has already inundated dozens of nearby villages, forcing hundreds of families to leave their mudbrick homes in a hurry, many fleeing in panic.
Meanwhile, rescue operations continued Tuesday with troops and volunteers using helicopters and boats to get those stranded out of the flooded areas and to nearest relief camps. Tens of thousands of people are already living in such camps, and thousands more have taken shelter on roadsides on higher ground.
Ghulam Sabir, 52, from the outskirts of Sehwan, said Tuesday that he left his home three days ago after authorities told them to evacuate.
“I took my family members with me and came to this … safer place,” said Sabir, staying by the roadside where he has set up camp. He echoed complaints of several other villagers — that no government help had reached them yet.
Sabir said he did not know whether his home had collapsed or not.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif urged Pakistanis in televised remarks Tuesday to generously donate to flood victims, most of whom are relying on government help to survive. Sharif has also repeatedly asked the international community to send more aid to the flood victims. He insisted that Pakistan is facing a climate-change-induced tragedy.
In a statement Tuesday, the U.N. refugee agency said it handed over thousands of tents and other emergency items to the Sindh government, meant for those affected by the flooded areas in the province.
Multiple experts say that since 1959, Pakistan has emitted about 0.4% of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, compared to 21.5% by the United States and 16.4% by China. Last week, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also called on the world to stop “sleepwalking” through the crisis. He plans to visit flood-hit areas on Sept. 9.
According to Pakistani officials, Guterres will travel to Sindh but it’s unclear whether he will visit the archaeological site. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-in-flood-stricken-pakistan-rains-damage-archeological-site/ | 2022-09-06T13:47:49Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-in-flood-stricken-pakistan-rains-damage-archeological-site/ | true |
The King in Yellow at Cheltenham Literature Festival
Moth Sanctuary Productions presents the world’s first performance of the banned play, The King in Yellow, referenced in Robert W. Chambers’ infamous short story collection – and rumored to make all who read it go insane.
Presented as part of the Lit Crawl at Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 8 October 2022, the award-winning Cheltenham-based Theater company invites revellers to remove ‘the mask of self-deception’ and discover what the powers that be don’t want you to know.
Since the launch of the Lit Crawl in 2016, Moth Sanctuary Productions has been bringing Immersive live Theater to the event every year – leading literature lovers through a Graveyard for a performance of Edgar Allen Poe’s iconic The Raven; telling the story of John Milton’s Paradise Lost through movement and music; presenting an atmospheric gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and inviting audiences to enjoy ‘a feast of words’ with a dramatized reading of Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves.
Moth Sanctuary Productions was handpicked by Cheltenham Literature Festival to represent the event on the world stage during the virtual LitQuake Lit Crawl Global in 2020, with its spooky performance Deep in Earth, exploring themes of death, grief and isolation in the work of Edgar Allen Poe.
Then in 2021, its first completely original work, Dr Sandy’s Gallery of Stories, delighted audiences at The Old Courthouse.
With The King in Yellow said to drive its Readers mad, this unmissable performance Promises to be one of the Highlights at this year’s Lit Crawl – if the cast makes it through unscathed. | https://niuenews1.com/the-king-in-yellow-at-cheltenham-literature-festival/ | 2022-09-06T13:47:55Z | https://niuenews1.com/the-king-in-yellow-at-cheltenham-literature-festival/ | true |
Apple to reveal new iPhones
(CNN) - At its annual September keynote event Wednesday, Apple is expected to unveil its new iPhone 14 lineup.
The invitation for the 1 p.m. Eastern event features a night sky with a constellation of stars forming the Apple logo, leading some people to think there could be some big camera upgrades for better nighttime or long-distance photography.
But in typical Apple fashion, mum’s the word, as the tech giant hopes customers tune in for the livestream on the big day.
The iPhone 14 is expected to be a bit bigger but slightly slimmer and, as expected, likely more expensive.
New Apple Watch models will probably be unveiled on Wednesday, too, including a higher-end offering.
And there should be an official release date for iOS 16.
New iPad or Mac computers likely won’t be out until October, though.
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HELSINKI (AP) — Human remains and debris have been found in the Baltic Sea during a search operation off Latvia’s coast where a private jet crashed in mysterious circumstances, likely killing all four occupants.
Lt. Cmdr. Peteris Subbota, head of the Latvian military’s Marine Search and Rescue Coordination Centre, told The Associated Press that “remains of human bodies we believe to be associated with the crash” were found Tuesday during the search operation by Latvian coast guard vessels and underwater robots.
Air traffic controllers on Sunday lost contact with the Cessna Citation 551 jet, carrying four people, shortly after it took off from the Spanish city of Jerez. The aircraft, en route to Cologne, Germany, had earlier reported problems with cabin pressurization.
Several European countries scrambled fighter jets as the plane made its way across the continent, but were unable to see or contact anyone in the cockpit, German media reported, prompting tabloid Bild to call the aircraft a “ghost plane.”
The Cessna disappeared from radar while it was flying off course over the Baltic Sea — apparently on autopilot — and later crashed into Latvian waters some 37 kilometers (23 miles) northwest of the port city of Ventspils.
The underwater search has not yet located the plane wreck, but Subbota said the chances of finding it should be reasonably good as the water is only up to 60 meters (197 feet) deep at the site and the seabed is accessible.
The Cologne-based dailies Express and Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the Cessna carried a prominent local businessman — an avid amateur pilot — his wife, daughter and her boyfriend.
Media reports said the Austria-registered aircraft was built in 1979 and it didn’t have a so-called black box that would help determine the cause of the crash. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Human-remains-debris-found-at-Baltic-Sea-plane-17421745.php | 2022-09-06T13:50:55Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Human-remains-debris-found-at-Baltic-Sea-plane-17421745.php | false |
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government on Tuesday passed a law giving hundreds of thousands of domestic cleaners and carers the right to unemployment benefits and other job protection measures for the first time.
Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said the law would benefit more than 370,000 people, 95% of whom are women. She said the bill was intended to end discrimination against workers whose jobs have been undervalued for too long.
“If there is a job in our lives that is important it is that of caring and cleaning, and for that reason I think today the country is better off,” said Díaz.
The law will take effect in October.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Monday that the bill would be passed at the Cabinet meeting Tuesday, saying it was to “put an end to unacceptable injustice.”
Díaz said the law follows long-standing recommendations from both the European Union and the International Labor Organization that people employed in private houses should have the same rights as other workers.
Díaz said that a third of the cleaners and carers were more than 50 years of age. More than 40% are foreigners, principally from Colombia, Romania and Honduras.
Unions and domestic worker collectives have long campaigned for the bill. They argued that most house cleaners and carers had no social or labor protection and often worked up to 60 hours a week. They could also be fired without notice or justification. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Spain-gives-labor-benefits-to-domestic-cleaners-17421716.php | 2022-09-06T13:51:46Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Spain-gives-labor-benefits-to-domestic-cleaners-17421716.php | true |
Eric Bailly
Bailly was an unused substitute for Marseille in their 2-0 win away at Auxerre as the French side maintained their unbeaten start to the season. The 28-year-old had featured in the previous two games and could be in line to face Spurs in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Alex Telles
Defender Telles was an unused sub in Sevilla's heavy defeat by Barcelona at the weekend. He will now be aiming to win a recall for tonight's visit of Manchester City in the Champions League.
Read more: Ten Hag is managing his squad just like Mourinho
Dean Henderson
Goalkeeper Henderson and his Nottingham Forest teammates had a day to forget on Saturday, losing 3-2 to fellow newly-promoted side Bournemouth.
That was despite Forest having earlier led 2-0. Forest have now lost three on the spin.
Amad
Winger Amad made his debut for Sunderland on Monday night, in their 1-0 defeat by local rivals Middlesbrough. The 20-year-old played the final quarter after being beckoned from the bench by new Black Cats' boss Tony Mowbray. He will be hoping he impressed sufficiently to earn a first start against Millwall on Saturday.
Ethan Laird
Laird's QPR lost 1-0 away at Swansea - a team he enjoyed a successful loan spell with last term. Despite the result not going Rangers' way, Laird was one of the visitors' best performers as he continues to enhance his reputation with the London outfit.
Hannibal Mejbri
Youngster Mejbri joined Birmingham on a season-long loan on deadline day and made a late cameo in their 1-0 win away at Preston North End. He has linked up with Tahith Chong, who joined the Blues on a permanent deal from United.
Alvaro Fernandez
The young Spaniard made his fourth Championship outing for Preston and once again it was from the bench. He impressed as well as he could have, with a few tidy crosses but he will be itching for that first league start.
Ethan Galbraith
Northern Ireland midfielder Galbraith was another to move out on loan on deadline day, joining Salford City. He came on as a 77th minute sub in their 2-2 draw with Crawley at the weekend. He showed his tenacious side last term during a loan stint at Doncaster, picking up nine yellows over the course of the season - and he was at it again with the Ammies, receiving a late caution.
Will Fish
Defender Fish has agreed a season-long loan move to Scottish Premiership side Hibernian and was an unused sub in Saturday's 1-0 win over Kilmarnock.
Charlie Wellens
Wellens made his debut for National League side Oldham on Saturday and lasted 60 minutes in their 2-0 loss to Chesterfield.
Dermot Mee
Goalkeeper Mee made his fourth appearance for Altrincham at the weekend but it was an afternoon to forget as they lost 5-1 to Solihull Moors.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After seeing a successful list of accomplishments throughout 2021 and 2022, Project Galaxy have announced their rebrand in the form of Galxe ( pronounced GAL-X-E) - boasting not only a new name and logo, but new developments that can be expected in the near future.
"This rebrand from Project Galaxy to Galxe wasn't merely a marketing move, but rather a natural progression and evolution. We are no longer a "project" but rather a fully-fledged ecosystem within Web3. Similarly, our logo has matured from three straight lines to flying comets. Like comets exploring the universe, we at Galxe are passionate about constantly innovating and pushing the boundaries of what's technologically possible. We aren't static and never plan to be. Our team is excited to take our Web3 community and partners along with us because their continued support is what makes all of this possible.." Said Anne Ouellet, CMO at Galxe.
Being the leading Web3 credential data network in the world, Galxe has achieved a number of milestones including launching their own Token ($GAL), being awarded the Binance Launchpool Project of the Year Award, and announcing 4.2 million+ Galxe ID users on their platform. Some of their largest accomplishments to date include partnering with 762 protocols/communities, running over 5000 Credential Based Campaigns, and having their native $GAL token made available to trade across top global cryptocurrency exchanges including the likes of Binance, Coinbase, Kucoin, Gemini, FTX, Gate.io, Bybit, Zapper, and Crypto.com.
This past year alone, Galxe has hosted major learn-to-earn campaigns with leading blockchains in the space, each hosting 20-30 protocols within one ecosystem campaign. These campaigns included: Abritrum Odyssey, How to Web3 with BNB and Coin Market Cap Earn, Solana Sol Cool 2022, and Coin Gecko: DeFi 101! Thousands of users participated in these campaigns which resulted in ecosystem growth and exponential community engagement for all partners involved.
With these achievements comes a reputation evolving from a "project" and transitioning into a fully developed ecosystem. This ecosystem covers a number of Web3 branches, including infrastructures, NFT, DeFi, and GameFi, and is expanding into an entire digital adventure.
Web3 is changing at a rapid pace, forcing those in the industry to adapt and stay relevant. Galxe is confident that this rebrand will enable users to explore Web3 in a new light while being rewarded in the process. After all, they're helping developers and fellow protocols engage and build their communities in far more impactful ways.
About Galxe
Galxe is the leading Web3 credential data network in the world. With a mission to build an open, collaborative credential data network, Galxe enables brands and developers to engage communities and build robust products in Web3. Through both on-chain and off-chain credentials, the Galxe infrastructure supports the curation of data credentials through multiple data sources.
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Naomi Campbell goes TOPLESS beneath an animal print robe as veteran fashionista joins supermodels past and present for W magazine's 50th anniversary shoot
If age really is just a number, then Naomi Campbell appears to have lost count while starring in a new cover shoot on behalf of W Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Issue.
The seemingly ageless British supermodel is one of 17 catwalk stars to feature in the new issue, a celebration of household names and and rising stars within the fashion industry.
Wearing little more than an extravagant animal print robe, Naomi, 52, is at her commanding best while offering the camera a smoldering glance in one of three new shots taken exclusively for the fashion bible.
Looking good: If age really is just a number, then Naomi Campbell appears to have lost count while starring in a new cover shoot on behalf of W Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Issue
In a second she reveals her slender physique while posing topless above a pair of skimpy black underwear, her modesty barely protected by a cluster of statement pearl necklaces.
A third image, chosen by W to serve as one of its 17 cover shots, finds Naomi modelling a netted dress while reclining across an enormous, blue highlighted rock.
Speaking to the magazine about her undeniable impact on the fashion industry, the supermodel admits she uses her far reaching influenced to help elevate young designers.
Special edition: The seemingly ageless supermodel is one of 17 catwalk stars to feature in the new issue, a celebration of household names and and rising stars within the fashion industry
Incredible: In one shot Naomi reveals her slender physique while posing topless above a pair of skimpy black underwear, her modesty barely protected by a cluster of pearl necklaces
She said: 'I like what I do, first and foremost. You have to, to have a career that really goes on. There is no career strategy on my end, but at this point, I love using the platform that I have to help young designers.
'The kids I work with are not just in the markets we know, but in Africa, the Middle East, India… and because people know me and I’ve come to understand the fashion world so well over time, I can get them the attention that they deserve.
'Fashion has provided me with so much, and it’s my philosophy to share that.'
Don't mind me: A third image, chosen by W to serve as one of its 17 cover shots, finds Naomi modelling a netted dress while reclining across an enormous, blue highlighted rock
Partnering with American department store Bergdorf Goodman to celebrate half a century in print, W magazine will showcase all 17 covers as well as vintage covers from previous years.
They will be featured across three bespoke windows for 12 days from September 7th during New York Fashion Week.
Other models to feature in the latest issue include Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Cindy Crawford, Karlie Kloss, Christy Turlington Burns, Amber Valletta and Precious Lee. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11185269/Naomi-Campbell-goes-TOPLESS-beneath-animal-print-robe-W-magazines-50th-anniversary-shoot.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-06T13:54:59Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11185269/Naomi-Campbell-goes-TOPLESS-beneath-animal-print-robe-W-magazines-50th-anniversary-shoot.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Two local historic buildings, the Apache Historical Society Museum and the Saddle Mountain Mission Church, have been added to the list of 2022 Most Endangered Places by Preservation Oklahoma, Inc., a private, nonprofit organization.
Both sites are in serious danger of falling apart, but the respective owners of the sites have a very different way of dealing with the problem.
Chantry Banks, executive director of Preservation Oklahoma, said that the level of damage varies from property to property. But while the Apache Historical Society has undertaken efforts to preserve the building that occupies a prominent corner in the middle of the small town in southern Caddo County, there doesn’t seem to be much hope right now for the much needed renovations and repairs of Saddle Mountain Mission Church.
The church, built in 1903, is located in the privately-owned Eagle Park in Cache, which also hosts the famous Quanah Parker Star House, which is in equally poor condition as the church building, according to Preservation Oklahoma.
The church was originally built in Saddle Mountain, 15 miles north of Cache. In 1963, it was moved to Eagle Park, a privately-held amusement park, where it still resides. The park is owned by Wayne Gibson, whose parents built it in the 1960s. Gibson also owns the Trading Post, a restaurant that directly borders Eagle Park to the east, just south of the junction of Oklahoma 115 with U.S. 62.
“The Star House is an iconic building, we get asked a lot about it,” Banks said. “The church is not as well known, but it has important history with its past mission work. It’s important to highlight that.”
Both structures have become run down over the years. The reason that the church ended up on the list of most endangered places in Oklahoma and not the Star House is that the church is less known than Star House, Banks said.
Banks emphasized that the church is “savable” and that progress “is going to be made with the Star House.”
“If we see progress with the Star House, we may see progress with the church as well,” he said.
Gibson confirmed that there are efforts made to preserve the Star House. However, he didn’t want to specify what those efforts are. He said that he’s “not aware” of any progress being made on the preservation of the church.
Banks expressed his wish for the church to be eventually returned to its original location in Saddle Mountain.
Things look better for the Apache Historical Society Museum. The Apache Historical Society started a fundraiser over a year ago to repair the iconic museum building.
Sixty percent of the fundraising goal has been reached, Robert Swanda, president of the Apache Historical Society, said. This allowed for urgently needed repairs of the north wall that was about to fall off due to water damage as well as the area around the entry. The problem: The rocks couldn’t just be pushed back into place. The entire wall had to come down. A temporary wall was installed.
“Compared to from a year ago, it looks 100 percent better, but we have to finish it,” Swanda said. According to him, several windows need to be rebuilt. The building also is in need of a new roof and new doors.
About $100,000 to $120,000 is still needed. Donations can be made via the Facebook page of the museum, via AmazonSmile or by direct mail to P.O. Box 101, 73006 Apache.
Gary Brickley is an engineer with the Altus firm of Fox, Drechsler and Brickley, which back in summer 2021 volunteered their time and efforts to deal with immediate needs such as stabilizing the wall with angle braces that were anchored to the sidewalk, which slowed the bulge down. He said in an earlier interview with The Lawton Constitution that the trouble started after the big snowstorms and cold weather in winter 2020-21. Moisture got in the cracks. When it froze, pieces of rock broke away from the building, thereby weakening the wall. Since June 2021, the crack on the northeast corner of the building had continued to expand.
The building was constructed in 1902 as the First State Bank. It combines elements of two popular styles of the Victorian era, Romanesque and Queen Anne, according to Preservation Oklahoma.
“The heavy, quarry faced stone walls are pierced with round arch fenestration and a typical canted entry,” it says on Preservation Oklahoma’s website. “Above the entry is the corner turret, sheathed in pressed tin and capped with a conical roof.”
As the years passed, the building was used for other purposes, such as a doctor’s office during the 1950s and 1960s, The Lawton Constitution reported in articles last year.
Later, the site was turned into the Apache Museum and since then, local volunteers have worked to keep it open for people who admired the old building and wanted to learn more about the structure. Part of that process involved getting the building into the National Registry of Historical Places in 1972.
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The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.
The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.
Pirro was far from alone in broadcasting such false claims. In the weeks that followed Election Day 2020, other prominent Fox stars, commentators and their guests heavily promoted them.
A repeat target was Dominion Voting Systems, the election machine and technology company. Trump and his allies alleged on Fox that Dominion was engaged in a conscious effort to throw the 2020 race to Joe Biden. They implied and falsely asserted on Fox programs that Dominion's machines and software either discarded Trump's votes or transferred them to Biden. Dominion argues their false claims were frequently egged on by Fox's own stars.
The producer's email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion's attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company. Dominion alleges it has been "irreparably harmed" by the lies, conspiracy theories and wild claims of election fraud that aired on Fox.
Pirro's role remains under sharp scrutiny. She attended Trump's belligerent address from the White House late on Election Night 2020 and advanced his arguments on the air.
On Nov. 14, 2020, for example, the day that Biden clinched his victory, Pirro questioned why vote counts shifted against Trump over the course of Election Night in such states as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. (Some counties were counted later than others; ballots cast the same day were often tallied before those cast by mail.) "The Dominion Software System has been tagged as one allegedly capable of flipping votes," Pirro told viewers, as she promoted Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell's "findings" on Dominion. (A federal judge in Michigan later officially sanctioned Powell for her actions in court on Trump's behalf after the elections, while the Texas state law bar is seeking to have her formally punished.)
Dominion and Fox News' lawyers have clashed in recent days, as court records reflect the voting systems company seeks to convince the court to compel Pirro to testify over private texts that, it argues, are relevant to its defamation case.
As high-powered stars testify, high stakes come into focus
As the summer has unfolded, Fox's star TV news hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity have been grilled under oath. High-powered attorneys are bearing down on the Murdochs, the most powerful family in English-language media. And it's all part of an all-out legal war. Dominion is seeking to strip away the curtain protecting what happens behind the scenes at the nation's most watched cable news channel, which holds a singular role on the American political scene. The suit could also define what's fair game in journalism and politics in a democracy very much on the edge. The trial date is set for April of next year.
The fraud allegations, made without any tangible evidence, were repudiated by state and local elections officials, Republicans as well as Democrats, as well as Trump's own attorney general and cyber security chief. In more than 60 substantive court rulings, Trump's assertions were found to be groundless, with one limited exception. Fox News argues that it was covering inherently newsworthy claims by inherently newsworthy figures – including the nation's top elected official. It also points to segments where its reporters and news anchors cast cold water on the allegations.
Fox executives publicly say they will prevail
"Freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected," a senior spokeswoman for Fox News said in a statement to NPR. She called the damages claims "outrageous, unsupported and not rooted in sound financial analysis, serving as nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs."
"All you're reporting to the public is that somebody - in this case, the president of the United States - has made the allegation of voter fraud by Dominion," Dan Webb, Fox News' outside attorney on the case, tells NPR. "I don't know how anything could be more newsworthy than the president of the United States making the allegation, and his lawyers making the allegations in court, because that's so fundamental."
Dominion ties the rhetoric about the company on Fox to harassment targeting its employees, "from software engineers to its founder and chief executive officer." Several received death threats.
In its legal filings, the company says it suffered "enormous and irreparable economic harm." Dominion says it projects losing profits of more than $600 million over the next eight years. As examples, it cites instances in which lawmakers in numerous states are demanding a review of existing contracts with Dominion; the cancellation of a $10 million contract in Stark County, Ohio; and Louisiana's recent cancellation of a process that prevents Dominion from securing a $100 million contract in that state.
Besides Carlson and Hannity, the list of Fox figures already questioned under oath in the cases includes former stars (Shepard Smith) and fallen stars (Lou Dobbs and Ed Henry), as well as show producers and programming executives, court records show. Dobbs left the network in early 2021, the day after Smartmatic, the electronic voting company, filed a closely related $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox over similarly false claims about that firm made on Fox's airwaves.
In conducting the first interview of Trump after the election, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo told Trump and her viewers, "This is disgusting, and we cannot allow America's election to be corrupted." In mid-December, Bartiromo announced that "an intel source" told her that Trump had won the election. She never followed up with any further material to substantiate that reporting. She is due to be deposed under oath on Thursday.
Asked by NPR whether Fox still considers Bartiromo a news anchor, and thus part of Fox's news and reporting division, rather than its opinion side, a network spokeswoman declined to comment. It is the first time Fox has not identified Bartiromo as a news-side journalist when directly asked by NPR.
Dominion "exploring" whether Fox staffers knew statements were false
In December 2020, while still a Fox Business host, Dobbs said opponents of President Trump throughout the government had committed "treason," and later suggested that any Republican who upheld President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Electoral College may be "criminal."
The wide nets cast by Dominion in seeking depositions suggests, University of Georgia media law professor Jonathan Peters says, that the company's attorneys are "exploring the extent to which Fox personnel published false statements with knowledge of their falsity or with a 'high degree of awareness of their probable falsity,' (the relevant fault standards)."
"This usually takes into account such factors as what the personnel knew at the time they published, whether the sources were reliable, whether the defendant ignored clear signs that the statements were wrong, whether the defendant investigated the facts, and what motives shaped the statements," Peters writes in an email to NPR.
That assessment suggests that material uncovered by Dominion such as the producer's warning about Pirro could provide fuel for the voting machine company's case. While Pirro's weekend show did not air on Nov. 7, 2020, just after the elections, she returned to the air repeatedly. In January, Pirro was elevated to become a full host of The Five, Fox's popular weekday evening political chat show.
Dominion seeks links to Fox News executives and the Murdochs
Dominion has technically filed two cases - one against Fox News and the other against Fox Corp, its corporate parent. The second Dominion suit is bearing down on Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, who together run the family's vast media holdings, which include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and other newspapers and television properties in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Reporters for Fox and the Wall Street Journal repeatedly knocked down spurious allegations of voter fraud, demonstrating that such facts were known within the Murdoch media empire.
Together, the twin suits could theoretically reach multiple billions of dollars, with punitive damages along with financial damages. And of course, the cases carry great significance for the nation more broadly, as it captures the incendiary period between the heated claims of fraud about the November 2020 presidential elections and the ensuing bloody siege of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters two months later.
Defamation cases are generally hard to win in the U.S. and Peters says this one is no slam dunk. But given what's already known, he says, he'd rather be on Dominion's legal team than Fox's.
Dominion's attorneys have obtained emails, texts, WhatsApp messages and more, documenting how the network's executives and journalists behaved and acted behind the scenes, as well as determining what they actually knew about the claims, according to three people with knowledge of the litigation. Witnesses have been pressed about the degree to which the Murdochs and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott were involved in making editorial decisions or kept in the loop.
Such decisions can be crucial: Fox's projection on Election night 2020 that Biden would win Arizona, first of any major media outlet, conferred great credibility on the Democratic nominee's imminent victory. It also enraged Trump and his advisers, who unsuccessfully pressured the Murdochs to reverse the Fox decision desk's projection, according to three people with direct knowledge. The public call additionally alienated Trump's fans - many of whom were Fox's core viewers. For a time, they abandoned the network. The much smaller rival right-wing network Newsmax zoomed up from nowhere in the ratings.
In the weeks that followed, key network stars' embrace and validation of the Trump camp's lies about the existence of election fraud contradicted some of their Fox colleagues' reporting that disproved it. Top leadership passively acquiesced in the star hosts' rhetoric, and took no meaningful steps to stop it, according to seven current and former journalists there. And the audience started to return.
Asked for comment by NPR, a Fox News spokesperson strongly denied this was the case. She emphasized that the talent involved "were covering the most newsworthy story of that period — the president of the United States claiming election fraud."
Fox: Nothing more newsworthy than a president's allegations of election fraud
The network's spokesperson has also pointed to periodic segments, mostly from its news reporters and hosts, challenging or even contradicting such claims from Trump allies.
The network and its parent company appear to be girding for a full court trial. In June, Fox hired Webb, who is the co-executive chairman of the powerhouse Chicago-based law firm, Winston & Strawn.
"This case is a relatively simple case," Webb tells NPR in an interview.
"The question there is whether or not Fox correctly reported the allegation [of election fraud], and they did," Webb adds. "I don't think there's any question that Fox accurately reported an incredibly newsworthy allegation made by the president himself."
Dominion wants Fox to apologize, but that risks offending Trump's fans
A comprehensive settlement, which outside legal observers initially suggested would be a possible outcome of the cases, does not currently appear likely, according to several people with knowledge of the litigation.
In theory, it would almost certainly require a payment by Fox of hundreds of millions dollars and an expansive apology - the latter being something that Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have, historically, been loath to do.
In 2020, Fox News reached a confidential, multi-million dollar settlement with the family of the late Seth Rich, who was baselessly accused on Fox of having leaked thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee before his killing in 2016. Such claims were groundless. Fox retracted in 2017 a story making that claim after a week, but never offered a public apology. The network's chief media critic covered the settlement in a minute-long segment on his Sunday show.
Murdoch expressed public contrition after it was revealed that people working on behalf of his British tabloid, News of the World, had hacked into the voice mails of a murdered schoolgirl - among hundreds of others of people. At the time, Murdoch was trying to salvage a $14 billion deal to take full control of a major British satellite television company. The deal was ultimately scuttled by U.K. regulators.
Election lies fueled the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
Many observers have tied the lies about election fraud to the overheated rhetoric that fueled the siege of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, an effort to block the certification of Biden's victory. Lachlan Murdoch has sued the Australian political news site Crikey over drawing just that connection to Fox and the Murdochs. Press freedoms in that country are not as robust as they are here; defamation claims have historically proven far easier to prove there. Crikey's top editor says he welcomes the suit as a way to test Australia's defamation laws.
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull argues that Rupert Murdoch, through Fox News, has done more to undermine American democracy than any other individual alive today.
"The biggest challenge to the United States is not Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin. It's the animosity, the division, the anti-democratic movements within the United States itself," Turnbull told NPR's Ari Shapiro on All Things Considered. "Fox News is not the only source of this madness, but it is by far the single most influential one."
In reply, Fox Corp spokesman Brian Nick points to Fox News's dominant ratings among cable news channels, and the network's strong appeal to Democrats and independent voters, as well as Republicans.
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Memphis Police said a body was found Monday night as officials continue the search for Eliza Fletcher who was last seen being forced into a vehicle while running last week.
Officials have not said whether the body found was Fletcher’s.
Over the weekend, Memphis Police said that 38-year-old Cleotha Abston was charged in connection to her abduction. He was held on a $500,000 bond. The Commercial Appeal reported that Abston was previously convicted of an abduction. He was released from prison in 2020.
Officials said that Fletcher was out for a run when she was taken into a vehicle around 4:30 a.m. last Friday.
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A 17-year-old girl died Monday from injuries she suffered as a result of a tragic boating crash off the Upper Florida Keys the night before.
Lucy Fernandez, a senior at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, was with 14 other people on board a 28-foot Robalo center console that crashed into a channel marker around 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Eleven other passengers were injured, three of them seriously and taken to area hospitals.
“Known for her smile, larger than life personality and signature laugh, Lucy was a joy to all who knew her,” Sister Carmen T. Fernandez, Our Lady of Lourdes Academy president, wrote in an email to students and parents Monday.
“She was a young woman of faith, well liked by her teachers and peers, empathetic, faithful and hungry for God,” Fernandez wrote. “And though her sudden passing is heartbreaking and has come as a shock to us all, I have absolutely no doubt that Lucy was ready to meet our Lord and enter his Kingdom.”
Four people, including Lucy Fernandez, were airlifted as trauma alert patients after a Sunday evening boat crash in the Upper Florida Keys, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said. At least two other people injured are seniors at Our Lady of Lourdes, Sister Fernandez said in the email.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the boat hit a channel marker and capsized. The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. in the Intracoastal Waterway in Biscayne Bay, about 10 miles south of Boca Chita, said Officer Jason Rafter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the lead agency investigating the accident.
In video provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Capt. Juan Garrandes said Miami-Dade Police Marine Patrol units got to the crash site first, pulled some injured people out of the water and took them to Elliott Key island, from which they were airlifted. Then, Fire Rescue and Marine Patrol units collected the rest of the passengers and brought them to land.
Rescue crews set up operations at Black Point Marina in South Miami-Dade. Several people with minor injuries walked off the county vessel wrapped in white blankets. At least three of the people to exit the boat were children.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is the lead agency investigating the crash, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Erika Benitez said.
Lucy is survived by her parents, Andy and Meli Fernandez, and a brother named Kevin, Sister Fernandez (no relation), wrote in the memo.
The school scheduled a vigil service to pray the Rosary in Lucy’s memory Monday night, and planned a prayer service when classes resumed Tuesday.
“Our team of guidance counselors, campus ministers, theology teachers and other licensed professionals will be available to provide support, comfort and reassurance to all those who need it,” Fernandez said. “May we continue to pray with each other and for each other, as we mourn the passing of one of our own. May Lucy and her beautiful smile rest in eternal peace.”
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The Russian Ministry of Defense is in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine, according to a newly downgraded U.S. intelligence finding.
A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence determination, said Monday that the fact Russia is turning to the isolated state of North Korea demonstrates that “the Russian military continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine, due in part to export controls and sanctions.”
U.S. intelligence officials believe that the Russians could look to purchase additional North Korean military equipment in the future. The intelligence finding was first reported by The New York Times.
The U.S. official did not detail how much weaponry Russia intends to purchase from North Korea.
The finding comes after the Biden administration recently confirmed that the Russian military in August took delivery of Iranian-manufactured drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The White House said last week that Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran in August for use in its war with Ukraine.
Russia picked up Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days last month as part what the Biden administration says is likely part of a Russian plan to acquire hundreds of Iranian UAVs for use in Ukraine.
North Korea has sought to tighten relations with Russia as much of Europe and the West has pulled away, blaming the United States for the Ukraine crisis and decrying the West’s “hegemonic policy” as justifying military action by Russia in Ukraine to protect itself.
The North Koreans have hinted interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country's east.
North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow recently met with envoys from two Russia-backed separatist territories in the Donbas region of Ukraine and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration,” citing his country’s easing pandemic border controls.
In July, North Korea became the only nation aside from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the territories, Donetsk and Luhansk, further aligning with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
The North’s arms export to Russia would be a violation of U.N. resolutions that ban the country from exporting to or importing weapons from other countries. Its possible dispatch of laborers to the Russian-held territories in Ukraine would also breach a U.N. resolution that required all member states to repatriate all North Korean workers from their soil by 2019.
There have been suspicions that China and Russia haven’t fully enforced U.N. sanctions on North Korea, complicating a U.S.-led attempt to deprive North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
The provocative move by North Korea comes as the Biden administration has become increasingly concerned about stepped-up activity by North Korea in pursuit of nuclear weapons.
North Korea has test-fired more than 30 ballistic missiles this year, including its first flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as leader Kim Jong Un pushes to advance his nuclear arsenal despite U.S.-led pressure and sanctions.
The U.S. has frequently downgraded and unveiled intelligence findings over the course of the grinding war in Ukraine to highlight plans for Russian misinformation operations or to throw attention on Moscow’s difficulties in prosecuting the war. Ukraine's smaller military has put up a stiff resistance against the militarily superior Russian forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim have recently exchanged letters in which they both called for “comprehensive” and “strategic and tactical” cooperation between the countries. Moscow, for its part, has issued statements condemning the revival of large-scale military exercises between the United States and South Korea this year, which North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.
Russia, along with China, has called for the easing of U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea over its nuclear and missile tests. Both countries are members of the U.N. Security Council, which has approved a total of 11 rounds of sanctions on the North since 2006. In May, Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-led bid to impose new economic sanctions on North Korea over its high-profile missile tests this year.
Some experts say that Kim could likely bolster his resolve to retain his nuclear weapons because he may think the Russian attack happened because Ukraine had signed away its nuclear arsenal.
Relations between Moscow and Pyongyang go back to the 1948 foundation of North Korea, as Soviet officials installed young, ambitious nationalist Kim Il Sung, the late grandfather of Kim Jong Un, as the country’s first ruler. Since then, Soviet aid shipment had been crucial in keeping North Korea’s economy afloat for decades before the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Moscow had since established formal diplomatic relations with Seoul as part of its hopes to draw South Korean investment and allowed its Soviet-era military alliance with North Korea to expire. But after his election in 2000, Putin actively sought to restore his country’s ties with North Korea in what was seen as an effort to regain its traditional domains of influence and secure more allies to better deal with the United States. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-buying-rockets-artillery-shells-from-north-korea-us-says | 2022-09-06T13:59:51Z | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-buying-rockets-artillery-shells-from-north-korea-us-says | true |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 6, 2022
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...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Van
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At 821 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Edom, or 12 miles northeast of Athens, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
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Chandler, Brownsboro, Edom, Murchison and Moore Station.
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If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Two months after the 2020 presidential election, a team of computer experts traveled to south Georgia to copy software and data from voting equipment in an apparent breach of a county election system. They were greeted outside by the head of the local Republican Party, who was involved in efforts by then-President Donald Trump to overturn his election loss.
A security camera outside the elections office in rural Coffee County captured their arrival. The footage also shows that some local election officials were at the office during what the Georgia secretary of state’s office has described as “alleged unauthorized access” of election equipment.
Security footage from two weeks later raises additional alarms — showing two people who were instrumental in Trump’s wider efforts to undermine the election results entering the office and staying for hours.
The security video from the elections office in the county about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta offers a glimpse of the lengths Trump’s allies went to in service of his fraudulent election claims. It further shows how access was facilitated by local officials who are entrusted with protecting the security of elections while raising concerns about sensitive voting technology being released into the public domain.
Georgia wasn’t the only state where voting equipment was accessed after the 2020 presidential election. Important information about voting systems also was compromised in election offices in Pennsylvania,Michigan and Colorado. Election security experts worry the information obtained — including complete copies of hard drives — could be exploited by those who want to interfere with future elections.
“The system is only as secure as the people who are entrusted to keep it secure,” said lawyer David Cross, who represents plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit over Georgia’s voting machines.
The Coffee County security footage was obtained through that lawsuit, which alleges that Georgia’s touchscreen voting machines are vulnerable to attack and should be replaced by hand-marked paper ballots. The suit long predates and is unrelated to false allegations of widespread election fraud pushed by Trump and his allies after the 2020 election.
The alleged breach in Coffee County’s elections office also has caught the attention of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing an investigation into whether Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Last month, Willis cited the Coffee County activity, among other things, when she sought to compel testimony from Sidney Powell, an attorney who was deeply involved in Trump’s effort to undo the election results.
Emails and other records show Powell and other attorneys linked to Trump helped arrange for a team from data solutions company SullivanStrickler to travel to Coffee County, which Trump won by nearly 40 percentage points.
The surveillance video, emails and other documents that shed light on what happened there in January 2021 were produced in response to subpoenas issued in the voting machine lawsuit and were obtained by The Associated Press. Parts of the security video appear to contradict claims by some of the local officials:
— Footage captures Cathy Latham, then chair of the Coffee County Republican Party, arriving at the elections office shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2021, the day after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. Just a few weeks earlier, she was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
A few minutes after her arrival, she is seen outside greeting SullivanStrickler chief operating officer Paul Maggio and two other people. Less than 10 minutes later, she escorts two other men into the building.
The video shows her leaving the elections office just before 1:30 p.m., roughly two hours after she greeted the SullivanStrickler team. She returns a little before 4 p.m. and then leaves around 6:15 p.m.
Latham said under oath during a deposition in August that she stopped by the elections office that evening for “Just a few minutes” and left before 5 p.m. Pressed on whether she had been there earlier in the day, Latham said she couldn’t recall but suggested her schedule as a teacher would not have allowed it.
A lawyer for SullivanStrickler said in an email attached to a court filing that Latham was a “primary point of contact” in coordinating the company’s work and “was on site” while that work was done.
Robert Cheeley, a lawyer for Latham said in an emailed statement that his client doesn’t remember all the details of that day. But he said she “would not and has not knowingly been involved in any impropriety in any election” and “has not acted improperly or illegally.”
— The video also shows Eric Chaney, a member of Coffee County’s election board, arriving shortly before 11 a.m. the same day and going in and out several times before leaving for the night around 7:40 p.m. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the voting machine lawsuit wrote in a court filing that a photo produced by SullivanStrickler’s COO shows Chaney in the office as the copying is happening.
During a deposition last month, Chaney declined to answer many questions about that day, citing the Fifth Amendment. But when an attorney representing the county reached out to him in April regarding questions from the The Washington Post, Chaney wrote, “I am not aware of nor was I present at the Coffee County Board of Elections and Registration’s office when anyone illegally accessed the server or the room in which it is contained.” Chaney resigned from the elections board last month, days before his deposition.
Attempts to reach Chaney by phone were unsuccessful, and his lawyer did not respond to an email seeking comment.
— About two weeks after the initial breach, video shows Misty Hampton — then the county elections director — arriving at the elections office at 4:20 p.m. on Jan. 18, when it was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. She unlocked the door and let in two men — Doug Logan and Jeff Lenberg, who have been active in efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
Logan founded Cyber Ninjas, which participated in a partisan and ultimately discredited review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona. The two men remained inside until just after 8 p.m. and then spent more than nine hours there the next day. Lenberg returned for brief visits on at least three more days later that month.
Hampton resigned as elections supervisor in February 2021 after elections board officials said she falsified her timesheets. Attempts by the AP to reach her were unsuccessful.
In a statement released by its attorney, SullivanStrickler said the company was retained by attorneys to forensically copy voting machines used in the 2020 election and had no reason to believe they would ask its employees to do anything improper.
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Kit Kyte is CEO of Checkit, the intelligent operations platform for deskless workers in retail, healthcare, science, franchise & facilities.
One of the features of financial downturns is that they punish bad habits. From the managers who have become complacent about the efficiency of daily operations to the front-line workers who switch on appliances at will with little regard for the effect on overall energy bills.
The truth is that most of these bad habits are happening beyond a leader’s line of sight—and they have multiplied over the period of the pandemic due to social distancing, skeleton staff and diverted attention.
However, with rising inflation, worsening staff shortages and energy costs hitting record levels, it’s more important than ever to expose and address the bad habits that allow inefficiency to flourish. In this article, I’ll look at how technology can help leaders begin to peel back the layers and see their operations at a micro level to address poor practices and start streamlining.
How Technology Can Help Take Control Of Operations
Record energy price increases over the past year have been a key concern for business leaders. The Energy Information Administration has warned that both electricity and natural gas prices are set for another spike.
Reducing consumption is an obvious response, but where do you start? Many businesses lack the data they need to identify which operational areas are swallowing up the most energy.
The first step for any business is to identify areas of excess energy use. Consumption can be hidden away—out of sight and out of mind. But leaders should look for ways, such as IoT sensors, to track and control the status of appliances—on or off, too cold or too hot, open or closed, safe or dangerous.
Smart solutions can allow for fine-tuned control to move consumption in line with need, to reduce wastage and to offer metrics for optimizing operations. Digital assistants, delivered via mobile devices, prompt and guide workers through the processes they need to follow and alert them when sensors pick up a problem.
The changes don’t have to be big. A small adjustment to the daily schedule, such as turning on ovens 45 minutes later than usual, could have a big compound effect on energy usage across multiple sites. Similarly, look at fridge temperatures. A fridge set 1 degree Celsius below the necessary temperature can increase running costs by up to 4%. It all depends on the ability to receive real-time measurements and adjust staff routines or equipment settings accordingly.
Maintenance is another area to investigate. The Department of Energy concluded that strong operations and maintenance practices could achieve about the same energy savings as energy efficiency upgrades and cost about 20 times less.
Sensor-driven data can tell managers if appliances are losing efficiency based on their energy usage. Maintenance visits can be reduced by delivering data directly to management desktops. There might be a simple fix, a need for new parts or a prompt to replace an appliance before it breaks down completely.
Studies show sustainability initiatives can enjoy “4.7x higher operating margins and lower volatility than low ESG performers.”
How To Get Started With The ‘Augmented Enterprise’
This is the potential of the “augmented enterprise,” drawing together data from buildings, physical assets and staff to streamline the way an organization operates.
One of the most common roadblocks to reaching the augmented enterprise is a misconception that this shift requires expensive, time-consuming and complex digital transformation involving large-scale consultancy and long-term integration.
In reality, a small-scale, test-and-measure approach usually yields the fastest and most tangible value. Starting with a single site, specific business operation or a small subset of routine tasks enables rapid implementation and delivery of ROI. You could start, for example, by looking at the equipment and procedures involved in storing chilled food items.
Another potential roadblock is culture. Change of this nature often involves front-line, deskless workers who have been historically starved of technology investment. Seventy-three percent of front-line staff are made to work from paper with manual workflow processes. How does that help them, their managers and leaders improve business operations? Over 70% of these workers actually want the technology to do a better and more enjoyable job.
It’s another bad habit that needs to be addressed—not only to unlock efficiency savings but to enhance the engagement and productivity of workforces that have been damaged by the “great resignation.”
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Market research cloud leader adds new solution to support research in over 1,000 languages
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuel Cycle Inc., the leading market research cloud for Fortune 500 companies, today announced a new multilingual solution to enable brands to conduct research in over 1,000 languages. The new capability will allow brands to cater to and understand their diverse customer bases without language barriers.
Global brands conducting research only in English disregards almost 82% of the world's population who speak other languages. Even in the United States, 60 million Americans do not speak English at home. Many companies that already conduct international research in foreign languages are forced to run several manual concurrent studies. Fuel Cycle's multilingual solutions automation allows them to host all research within one research platform and community while also simplifying the management of multilingual research.
"Creating questions and receiving answers in a research participant's native language is the best method to receive insights and avoid any cultural insensitivities," said Rick Kelly, CPO of Fuel Cycle. "Fuel Cycle's new multilingual solution will help global brands reach their audiences and customers, helping automate and simplify the complex logistics of executing multilingual studies."
Fuel Cycle's multilingual support solution will help brands speak through language and cultural barriers by enabling them to:
- Conduct concept testing and ad testing in international markets
- Track brand performance internationally
- Conduct diversity, equity, and inclusion research
- Fulfill accessibility requirements
- Cater to a multilingual customer base
To view Fuel Cycle's full suite of research solutions, please visit: www.fuelcycle.com.
About Fuel Cycle
Fuel Cycle's award-winning Market Research Cloud is the most comprehensive intelligence gathering ecosystem that exists today. Our platform enables decision-makers to maintain constant connections with their customers, prospects, and users to uncover real-world actionable intelligence. By integrating human insight with critical business data, and through automated quantitative and qualitative research solutions, Fuel Cycle's Market Research Cloud powers product innovation, brand intelligence, and enhanced user experience. Breakthroughs require action. We built Fuel Cycle to ignite it. For more information, visit: fuelcycle.com.
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Extending the age range for children up to 12 years
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sunshine Flyer released new, lower ticket prices, and now allows children up to 12 years of age to receive the lower child price. By extending the child age range by three years, more families can enjoy Sunshine Flyer's unique and cost-effective transportation experience from Orlando International Airport (MCO) to Walt Disney World® Resorts.
The Sunshine Flyer offers an engaging transportation experience that allows guests to start the magic of their Walt Disney World® vacation from the moment they step off the plane.
The Sunshine Flyer's buses are late model, premium motorcoaches with themes that center around old-fashioned passenger cars and train engines. From the bus designs to staff dressed as 1920's rail conductors and engineers, the motorcoaches effectively serve as time-machines, offering a glimpse into 1920s rail travel.
"We listen to our guests, and we that know that extending the age range for children is very important to them. While we welcome passengers of all ages, we have a special focus on children. From coloring books and conductor hats to on-board video entertainment, the ride from the airport sets the tone for an exciting family vacation," says Tony Glibkowski, Vice President of the Sunshine Flyer.
The Sunshine Flyer is well-equipped for kids, including:
- Three-point harness seat belts at each seat
- Conductor hats for kids
- Stickers for kids
- Coloring/activity books for kids
- On-board video entertainment
When guests book a future trip, they can experience the following ticket prices at checkout:
- $10 per child
- $16 per adult
All Make-A-Wish® children and families receive complimentary service from the Sunshine Flyer for Disney wishes indefinitely.
For more information about the Sunshine Flyer, visit www.sunshineflyer.com.
About The Sunshine Flyer
The Sunshine Flyer is a unique motorcoach bus experience from Transportation Management Services (TMS) that provides seamless transportation for guests from the Orlando International Airport (MCO) to Walt Disney World® Resorts. Offering a convenient and cost-effective mode of transportation, The Sunshine Flyer is the perfect option for families, groups, and individuals looking to start their Disney vacation from the moment they step off the plane. For more information and to book tickets, visit www.sunshineflyer.com.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and CHICAGO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer farmer sentiment index rose 14 points in August to a reading of 117. The rise in the overall measure of agricultural producer sentiment was driven by increases in both the Index of Current Conditions, which rose 9 points to 118 and the Index of Future Expectations, which climbed 16 points to 116. The Ag Economy Barometer is calculated each month from 400 U.S. agricultural producers' responses to a telephone survey. This month's survey was conducted between August 15-19, after USDA released both the August Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply & Demand Estimates reports.
"Producers in the August survey were less worried about their farm's financial situation than in July, although they remain concerned about a possible cost/price squeeze," said James Mintert, the barometer's principal investigator and director of Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture.
This month, more producers indicated they're expecting better financial performance for their farms in 2022 and the upcoming year, as the Farm Financial Performance Index improved 11 points to a reading of 99. Both corn and soybean prices rallied from their July lows into mid-August which, along with expectations for good yields, helped explain some of the improvement in financial performance expectations.
At the same time, there continues to be a tremendous amount of uncertainty among producers regarding the future cost of items they purchase both for their farms and family usage. When asked about their biggest concerns for the next year, over half (53%) of respondents chose higher input costs, followed by rising interest rates (14%), input availability (12%), and lower output prices (11%). On the farm level, there is a big disparity in opinions among farmers regarding whether or not input prices will retreat or escalate in 2023. Approximately four out of ten producers expect crop input prices in 2023 to be either unchanged or possibly decline by as much as 10%, compared to 2022. On the other hand, just over half of all producers expect input prices to rise from 1 to 20%. At the consumer level, nearly half (48%) of respondents said they expect the rate of inflation for consumer items during the next 12 months to be in the 0 to 6% range. Compared to previous barometer surveys, more producers this month said they expect inflation to be in the upper end of that range than those who felt that way earlier this year.
Producers continue to view now as a bad time to make large farm machinery and building investments. In a follow-up question, nearly half (49%) of those who said it is a bad time for investing cited increasing prices as the primary reason. The Farm Capital Investment Index remains near its record low, but was up 3 points to a reading of 39 in August.
Upward pressure on cash rental rates for Corn Belt farmland in 2023 seems likely. Four out of ten corn and soybean producers expect farmland cash rental rates to rise in 2023 compared to 2022. This month, 27% of respondents said they expect rates to rise up to 5% compared to 39% of respondents who expect rates to rise between 5 to 10% in 2023.
Expectations for both short- and long-term farmland values were nearly unchanged over the previous month. Among survey respondents who say they expect farmland values to rise over the next five years, well over half (57%) chose non-farm investor demand as the main reason they expect values to rise.
To understand producers' exposure to and experiences with companies offering payments for capturing carbon, this month's survey asked respondents if they've engaged in these types of discussions and the payments being offered. In August, 9 percent of respondents said they have engaged in discussions with companies offering payments for carbon capture, the highest percentage of respondents since the question was first included in the survey. Of those who engaged in discussions, 75% said the payment rate per metric ton of carbon offered was less than $20 and just 1 percent said they have signed a carbon contract. Respondents who engaged in discussions and chose not to sign a contract were asked the minimum payment per acre they would accept to enroll their farm in a carbon capture program. Two-thirds of those respondents said the payment rate needed to be at least $30 per acre, suggesting that payment rates need to rise to encourage more participation in carbon capture programs.
Read the full Ag Economy Barometer report at https://purdue.ag/agbarometer. The site also offers additional resources – such as past reports, charts and survey methodology – and a form to sign up for monthly barometer email updates and webinars.
Each month, the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture provides a short video analysis of the barometer results, available at https://purdue.ag/barometervideo. For even more information, check out the Purdue Commercial AgCast podcast. It includes a detailed breakdown of each month's barometer, in addition to a discussion of recent agricultural news that affects farmers. Available now at https://purdue.ag/agcast.
The Ag Economy Barometer, Index of Current Conditions and Index of Future Expectations are available on the Bloomberg Terminal under the following ticker symbols: AGECBARO, AGECCURC and AGECFTEX.
About the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture
The Center for Commercial Agriculture was founded in 2011 to provide professional development and educational programs for farmers. Housed within Purdue University's Department of Agricultural Economics, the center's faculty and staff develop and execute research and educational programs that address the different needs of managing in today's business environment.
About CME Group
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec and EBS are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD and EBS Group LTD, respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Writer: Kami Goodwin, 765-494-6999, kami@purdue.edu
Source: James Mintert, 765-494-7004, jmintert@purdue.edu
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DDoS-Guard has become the second service provider to drop support for notorious online forum Kiwi Farms. The online protection provider announced on Monday that it has terminated services for the Kiwi Farms forum. It reportedly received several complaints claiming that the forum's content violated DDoS-Guard's Acceptable Use policy. It then analysed the content and decided to terminate DDoS protection for the website, which has a .ru domain. It is the second termination that Kiwi Farms has received in two days. Cloudflare had blocked Kiwi Farms on Sunday following a pressure campaign led by transgender YouTuber and Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti (also known as Keffals).
DDoS-Guard mentioned on its blog that Kiwi Farms had activated its protection on Sunday. However, just a day later the protection service provider dropped support for the website.
On Monday, DDoS-Guard clarified that it intends to block customer websites only if it receives an official notice from the court. However, having analysed Kiwi Farms' content, DDoS-Guard deemed it necessary to terminate service for its domain.
As per a recent report, Cloudflare was the first to block Kiwi Farms.
The forum is notorious for harassing activists, feminists, and persons of colour online. Several hate campaigns have been reportedly linked to suicides as forum members take extreme measures to harass their targets, including doxxing and swatting.
The forum was blocked by Cloudflare following a campaign by Canadian activist Clara Sorrenti who was forced to flee to Europe due to the harassment campaign against her by Kiwi Farms members.
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Spain gives labor benefits to domestic cleaners, carers
MADRID (AP) - The Spanish government on Tuesday passed a law giving hundreds of thousands of domestic cleaners and carers the right to unemployment benefits and other job protection measures for the first time.
Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said the law would benefit more than 370,000 people, 95% of whom are women. She said the bill was intended to end discrimination against workers whose jobs have been undervalued for too long.
"If there is a job in our lives that is important it is that of caring and cleaning, and for that reason I think today the country is better off," said Díaz.
The law will take effect in October.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Monday that the bill would be passed at the Cabinet meeting Tuesday, saying it was to "put an end to unacceptable injustice."
Díaz said the law follows long-standing recommendations from both the European Union and the International Labor Organization that people employed in private houses should have the same rights as other workers.
Díaz said that a third of the cleaners and carers were more than 50 years of age. More than 40% are foreigners, principally from Colombia, Romania and Honduras.
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By Sriya Tallapragada
September, to me, is forever remembered from a back-to-school perspective: shopping for school supplies, waiting for the bus, setting alarm clocks earlier, buckling down on the rigor of schoolwork, meeting new friends and teachers, and, of course, new opportunities. Back-to-school season has always been one of my favorite times of the year because, after three months of catching my breath, I finally get back into a routine.
Of course, this sense of regularity hasn’t always been a constant.
I was in seventh grade when COVID forced the world to pause and forced school buildings to close. Like everyone else, I had to shift to virtual learning. My first day of school in eighth grade was spent at home, glued to zoom calls, still reckoning with a world whose rules and limits are constantly changing. Because of this, remote learning really changed how I approach my education.
For the first time, I had free time to pursue activities that I was passionate about and not ones that I only did because of others. I was able to educate myself outside of the curriculum my school offered, doing everything from watching YouTube videos that taught ASL, to taking an online course about women and gender studies. As empowering as this was for me, it made going back to school and adjusting to a schedule all the more difficult.
For many students, however, that two-year pause was challenging, for many different reasons. The 2022 KIDS COUNT Data Book found that in New Jersey, 10.7% of children in 2020 struggled with depression — a significant increase from 7.6% in 2016.
A study by the CDC published in March reported that more than 40% of students nationwide felt hopeless or sad over the past year. Some marginalized groups have suffered a great deal more, according to The Trevor Project. Over the past year, 45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide.
Uncertainty about the future during the pandemic was definitely a factor in the soaring rates of anxiety and depression in teenagers but other elements contributed to the mental health crisis among students, including pressures to succeed, financial worries, social media or technology, and, in the increasingly hyper-competitive world we live in, destructive perfectionism.
Earlier this year, highly publicized cases like those of former Miss USA Chelsie Kryst and soccer star Katie Meyer shed light on the dangers of an achievement culture. Both women were accomplished and talented young adults with a seemingly bright future ahead. Looking back on their suicides, I can’t help but think about how societal pressure to perform takes a toll on students everywhere. This is something that is especially dangerous in education settings, where students may tie their self-worth to grades and test scores.
In communities, we must be more mindful of supporting young people. This starts with reducing stigmas and empowering students and families to understand difficult emotions. It is vital that we provide resources that promote healthy development and supportive environments to meet the social and emotional needs of young people.
I also believe that it is vital to implement public infrastructure that supports mental well-being. Over the summer, Gov. Phil Murphy introduced the “Strengthening Youth Mental Health,” which addresses “the relationship between mental health and academic growth, promoting the academic recovery of youths impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.” This initiative is a good step toward ensuring the well-being of youth through academic support. Next, government officials across the nation must ensure accessibility so that every child is able to receive culturally competent and high-quality mental health care.
Wednesday will be my first day of 10th grade, and the day has the same magic to me as it did when I was younger and recognized that the opportunity for education was very much limitless. However, this year taking care of my own and others’ mental well-being will be a priority. Small things, like checking in with others and pointing out the positive in each situation, can go a long way.
While I am in no way perfect, I understand that being kind is the best way to support those around me and will make an effort to lift others up in the coming school year.
Sriya Tallapragada is a sophomore at The Pingry School in Basking Ridge.
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Over 38 million Americans struggle with food insecurity.
"This is a problem we just cannot turn our back on."
CORONA, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), announced that it has partnered with the Clean Food Initiative and Produce Now to provide fresh, healthy food to disadvantaged youth.
ACTX said it will allocate space in one or more of its GrowPods to grow leafy greens, which will be donated to the Clean Food Initiative for distribution to various hunger-related charities. The food will be grown, packaged and distributed by workers from Produce Now.
Hunger is an enormous and often under-reported problem in the United States. According to National Geographic, millions of working Americans don't know where their next meal is coming from. One in six Americans don't have enough food to eat.
The Food Research and Action Center states that over 38 million Americans live in households that struggle with food insecurity or lack of access to an affordable, nutritious diet. This represents a 9 percent increase from 2019.
"This is a problem we just cannot turn our back on," said Douglas Heldoorn, CEO of Advanced Container Technologies, Inc. "There are hungry people in towns throughout America. These are our neighbors, our sisters and brothers. We have a moral obligation to help those in need."
GrowPods are hydroponic modular farms that can be located almost anywhere, and can replace approximately 1-acre of farmland in a pesticide-free, automated, and controlled setting.
The company has worked previously with Caterina's Club, a non-profit organization established by noted chef Bruno Serato. Caterina's Club donates over 25,000 nutritional meals to underprivileged children each week around the world.
GrowPods offer a way for non-profit organizations to grow clean, nutritious food virtually anywhere. Organizations can place a system in an urban environment, and teach young people how to grow food - providing valuable skills, job training, instilling pride, and invoking a sense of responsibility, in addition to helping meet the nutritional needs of the community.
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For more information on Advanced Container Technologies or GrowPods, call: (951) 381-2555 or visit: www.advancedcontainertechnologies.com or www.growpodsolutions.com.
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FIRST ALERT FORECAST: monsoon is returning... soon!
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - An upper-level ridge of high pressure is centered over the Great Basin, bringing us gusty easterly winds here in southern Arizona. This ridge will keep Tucson’s high temperatures in the triple digits through Wednesday as dry conditions persist.
By the end of the workweek, our attention turns back to the tropics as Hurricane Kay tracks northwest. Kay’s exact track will influence our weather here locally. At this time, we’re expecting increased cloud cover Thursday through Saturday with scattered showers and storms possible. Our temperatures will drop back into the low to mid 90s as a result.
TUESDAY: Sunny and breezy with a high of 102°.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny with a high of 103°.
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy with a high in the upper 90s.
FRIDAY: 30% chance of showers and storms. Highs in the lower 90s.
SATURDAY: 40% chance of showers and storms. Highs in the lower 90s.
SUNDAY: 20% chance of showers and storms. Highs in the mid 90s.
MONDAY: 20% chance of showers and storms. Highs in the upper 90s.
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White House health officials to hold COVID-19 briefing as boosters roll out
(Gray News) - The White House COVID-19 Response Team and federal public health officials will hold a virtual briefing on Tuesday to provide updates on the COVID-19 response effort.
Participants will include Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky.
Federal health officials on Thursday approved a new booster designed to battle the dominant omicron variant. People can get booster shots this week at pharmacies or other designated locations.
The shots “can help restore protection that has waned since previous vaccination and were designed to provide broader protection,” Walensky said in a statement.
The Pfizer-BioNTech booster is available for people ages 12 years and older. The booster from Moderna is approved for people ages 18 years and older.
The CDC said it expects to recommend updated COVID-19 boosters for other pediatric groups in the coming weeks.
The booster shots are combination or “bivalent” shots — half the original vaccine and half protection against the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron versions now causing nearly all COVID-19 infections.
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Teen gets tour of vet clinic, impresses staff
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - In this week’s Finding Forever, our series where we try to connect children in foster care to families, we meet a girl who got the tour of a lifetime.
Jasmine loves animals, so what better stop than Midwestern University’s Animal Clinic? Everet, a shaggy and friendly dog, is just one of the many animals Jasmine got to meet during her behind-the-scenes tour. Dr. Elizabeth Robbins showed this curious 15-year-old how they do dog checkups at the vet school and animal companion clinic.
“What do you think of his teeth?” Dr. Robbins asked the teen. This visit is right up Jasmine’s alley. She likes to help and has even done that at school as a teacher’s assistant.
“I like to help cleaning, organize stuff,” she said. Jasmine got to go through the motions with some cute pups at the animal rehabilitation area. We learned she has a way with animals too, getting them to do things owners even struggled with sometimes. “Sit, good boy,” she said, as the instructor who owned the dog looked in amazement.
Jasmine’s adoption recruiter said she would do well in a stable and patient family that is willing to work on deep relationships while providing unconditional love. Everyone was so kind and informative here, like Dr. Anderson De Cunha who showed Jasmine the simulation students use to save a dog’s life. The best was for last when Jasmine got to meet a beautiful and majestic horse at the clinic. It was a perfect end to an eventful day for a very deserving girl.
To find out how you might become a forever family for Jasmine or other Arizona children who are waiting, contact Aid to Adoption of Special Kids at (602) 930-4900 or by emailing info@aask-az.org. You can also visit the Children’s Heart Gallery.
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The free online event will connect cancer patients and caregivers with the latest promising research findings shared by top immunotherapy experts, patient success stories, and clinical trial updates, on September 22, 2022, at 2 p.m. ET
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization spearheading transformative research to harness the immune system's power to control and potentially cure all cancers, will offer its second annual CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit in Spanish on September 22, 2022, 2-5 p.m. ET. This free virtual event, moderated by TV Host and Entrepreneur Ana Patricia Gámez, and presented completely in Spanish, will connect Hispanic cancer patients and caregivers with groundbreaking research updates from leading immunotherapy experts driving scientific breakthroughs and advancements that impact patient care.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanic people, with current cancer research and statistics indicating a higher incidence of liver cancer, stomach cancer, and cervical cancers in the Hispanic population. With harrowing statistics like, 1 in 3 Hispanic men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and 1 in 5 men and 1 in 7 women will die from the disease1, CRI continues its commitment to empower the U.S. Hispanic cancer community and help create a world immune to cancer.
Cancer immunotherapy is a form of cancer treatment that uses the body's own immune system to control and eliminate cancer. CRI is bringing the promise of immunotherapy to the underserved Spanish-speaking U.S. Hispanic community with in-language research, information, and direct access to clinical trials, to ultimately improve treatment outcomes for this patient group. CRI offers free clinical trial consultations where a professional will walk patients and their families through their immunotherapy clinical trial options. In addition, CRI will be developing content and news bites in Spanish from leading members of the CRI scientist community, sharing Hispanic-relevant information and patient stories.
"Understanding a cancer diagnosis and treatment options are a vital part of a patient success story, said Dr. Kurt Schalper, associate professor of pathology and medicine (medical oncology), Yale School of Medicine, director of the Translational Immuno-Oncology Laboratory, Yale Cancer Center, and CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit keynote speaker. "There is an undeniable need to make information available in-language for Spanish-speaking cancer patients and caregivers. Knowledge and access to data are key components for patients to advocate for themselves and make informed choices. I am honored to be a part of CRI's second annual Cancer Immunotherapy Summit to help benefit the U.S. Hispanic cancer community."
An early diagnosis can make the difference between life and death, and overall Hispanic men and women are generally less likely to be diagnosed at an early stage, when treatment is usually less intensive and more successful. Over the past two years, the Cancer Research Institute has launched several initiatives to engage Spanish-speaking Hispanic patient and caregiver communities including the development of an immunotherapy patient information hub in Spanish we well as the first all-Spanish language CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit, which included an informative session devoted to overcoming racial and ethnic inequalities in access to health information and care.
"Here at the Cancer Research Institute, we continue to work to address barriers that hinder scientific progress and access to Spanish-language health information and care by creating a platform for scientists and patients to share their firsthand experiences at the forefront of cancer immunotherapy research and connect with clinical trials," said Jill O'Donnell-Tormey, Ph.D., CEO and director of scientific affairs at CRI. "We hope to reach and positively impact the U.S. Hispanic cancer community via our in-language CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit, and with the integral participation of our media sponsor TelevisaUnivision and host Ana Patricia Gámez.
"I am so very honored to be asked back to moderate the second annual CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit in Spanish," said Ana Patricia Gámez, TV host and entrepreneur. "It is a privilege to support Hispanic cancer patients and caregivers in their healthcare journey once again, connecting the community with potentially lifesaving information and access to clinical trials. I do this in loving memory of my father, and I know he would be proud to be a part of such an important program."
"As a journalist, it is my duty to serve my community, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to moderate a panel and be a part of the CRI mission to better serve U.S. Hispanic cancer patients and caregivers," said Teresa Rodríguez, host of Univisionarios (Univision News).
"There is a need to engage and help our community overcome barriers to better care and treatments."
From the comfort and safety of home, attendees of the free CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit in Spanish can expect to:
- Learn the basics of cancer immunotherapy and how it may help them or their loved one.
- Hear from and interact with leading physician-scientists with expertise in cancer immunotherapy.
- Gain valuable insight into how clinical trials work and to understand whether they are a good option for patients to explore with their healthcare team.
- Learn more about the latest research on cancers most affecting the U.S. Hispanic community.
- Discover issues specific to U.S. Hispanic communities regarding overall health care and how doctors, organizations, advocates, and individuals are addressing these challenges.
- Hear real patients who have undergone immunotherapy treatment tell their story.
Support for the Spanish-language 2022 CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit is generously provided by the following sponsors:
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The Cancer Research Institute has pledged to help close the information and research gap and better serve the Spanish-speaking U.S. Hispanic community. Visit cancerresearch.org/es to see the robust and helpful offering of information now available in Spanish. Visit cancerresearch.org/es/conferencia to register for the free Spanish-language 2022 CRI Virtual Immunotherapy Patient Summit.
About the Cancer Research Institute
The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), established in 1953, is a top‐rated U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to saving more lives by fueling the discovery and development of powerful immunotherapies for all cancers. Guided by a world‐renowned Scientific Advisory Council that includes four Nobel laureates and 27 members of the National Academy of Sciences, CRI has invested $500 million in support of research conducted by immunologists and tumor immunologists at the world's leading medical centers and universities and has contributed to many of the key scientific advances that demonstrate the potential for immunotherapy to change the face of cancer treatment. To learn more, go to cancerresearch.org/es.
1 American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures for Hispanic/Latino People 2021-2023. Atlanta: American Cancer Society, Inc. 2021.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 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:
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. (NYSE: BHVN)'s sale to Pfizer Inc. for $148.50 per share in cash. Biohaven common shareholders, including Pfizer, will also receive 0.5 of a share of New Biohaven, a new publicly traded company that will retain Biohaven's non-CGRP development stage pipeline compounds, per Biohaven common share. If you are a Biohaven shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE: DRE)'s sale to Prologis, Inc. for 0.475x of a Prologis share for each Duke Realty share. If you are a Duke Realty shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD)'s merger with Duke Realty Corporation. If you are a Prologis shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Gemini Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMTX)'s merger with Disc Medicine, Inc. Pre-merger Gemini shareholders are expected to own approximately 28% of the combined company. If you are a Gemini shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE)'s merger with iStar Inc. If you are a Safehold shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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Acquisition Expands Cost Reducing Energy Supply Options for the Underserved Middle-Market Commercial and Industrial Customer
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Catalyst Power Holdings LLC ("Catalyst Power"), an integrated provider of cleaner energy solutions for the commercial and industrial sector, acquired the assets of Northeast Expense Reduction Services, a New York-based energy advisor. The acquisition deepens Catalyst Power's role in Central and Western New York State's energy transition allowing it to expand on its mission of helping its commercial and industrial customers to decarbonize their electricity consumption.
"This is a tremendous fit. We're excited to be able to expand the mix of commercial and industrial customers that can now have access to Catalyst Power's decarbonizing solutions," said Gabriel Phillips, CEO of Catalyst Power Holdings. "The middle market has been underserved for too long – by combining Northeast Expense Reduction Services' territories, customers and supplier relationships with our novel energy supply options including community solar products and proprietary Connected Microgrid solutions, we are expanding access for our customers to more environmentally friendly, money saving energy supply options."
"New York's C&I sector is getting hit by rising energy bills driven by volatile fossil fuel prices–and the clean energy solutions offered by Catalyst Power offer a reliable, cost-saving solution for these businesses. The team at Catalyst Power is fantastic and provides a wide range of clean energy solutions that can help small and mid-sized businesses," said Clark Taylor, founder of Northeast Expense Reduction Services.
Catalyst Power develops innovative energy supply solutions for commercial and industrial companies, with a focus on a first-of-its-kind network of Connected Microgrids, a no-up-front-cost custom solution using onsite solar panels and with back-up generators, as well as retail power and gas supply. Catalyst Power provides small- to industrial-sized businesses access to distributed generation through our network of Connected Microgrids. The company utilizes a proprietary technology platform that provides a fresh perspective on data to identify, underwrite, fund, and provide solutions to customers while operating more cost-effective onsite energy projects for our retail energy clients.
Catalyst Power continues to pursue additional strategic REP and advisor acquisition opportunities. Businesses interested in partnering with Catalyst Power or learning more can visit: https://catalystpower.com/about-us/
Catalyst Power Holdings LLC is an independent, integrated provider of cleaner energy solutions for the commercial and industrial sector through commercial energy, customized Connected Microgrid solutions, and community solar to underserved middle-market commercial and industrial end-use customers, improving the overall efficiency and environmental impact of their supply. Catalyst Power is a portfolio company of BP Energy Partners, LLC. More info: www.catalystpower.com
BP Energy Partners, LLC (BPEP), is a Dallas, Texas based growth-oriented private equity firm. Since inception, BPEP has focused on a lower carbon future by establishing and growing sustainable and responsible companies in the natural gas value chain including infrastructure, power, logistics, transportation, environmental services, renewable natural gas, midstream, and distribution. BPEP will also invest in low carbon energy solutions and renewables. BPEP collaborates with entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, project developers, and experienced management teams to provide patient capital, financial and operating expertise, and deep industry relationships. BPEP currently manages over $560 million in committed capital and is actively investing in new opportunities. More information can be found at www.bpenergypartners.com
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Memphis Police confirmed a body found Monday night was the remains of Eliza Fletcher, who was last seen being forced into a vehicle while on an early-morning run last week.
Officials announced their findings Tuesday morning.
Police said a surveillance video shows Fletcher in a struggle with a person before being forced into an SUV around 4:30 a.m. on Friday.
Fletcher's husband contacted police when she didn't return from her run. Authorities said her phone and water bottle were found near the area where she was abducted.
Over the weekend, Memphis Police said that 38-year-old Cleotha Abston was charged in connection to her abduction. He was held on a $500,000 bond. Murder charges were added on Tuesday.
According to CNN, police connected Abston to Fletcher's kidnapping after finding one of his sandals in the area where Fletcher was kidnapped. Abston's cell phone records also place him at the scene of the crime, according to an affidavit obtained by CNN.
The Commercial Appeal reported that Abston was previously convicted of abduction. He was released from prison in 2020.
Fletcher was a teacher at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/body-found-as-authorities-look-for-abducted-tennessee-teacher | 2022-09-06T14:18:04Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/body-found-as-authorities-look-for-abducted-tennessee-teacher | false |
OnSolve white paper provides customizable message templates to aid in emergency and routine communications
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OnSolve, a leading critical event management provider that helps organizations mitigate physical threats and remain agile when a crisis strikes, today announced a new white paper, Your Alert Arsenal for Customizing and Distributing Alerts During Critical Events.
Critical events of all kinds are increasing in both frequency and severity. This year is expected to see an above average hurricane season. Nearly four million acres of land have burned due to wildfires during the first half of 2022, the second highest number in the past 23 years.
Non-weather events have also been on the rise. There have already been more than 300 active assailant events that qualify as mass shootings.
The OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management helps organizations identify and respond to all types of critical events, so organizations can protect their people, places and property. But a successful response also requires proactive planning. Part of that planning involves carefully crafted alerts. Once a critical event is occurring, it can be difficult to write a clear, concise message, making preparation a key to successful outcomes.
This new white paper from OnSolve provides a comprehensive list of message templates organizations can use to respond to a broad range of routine and emergency situations. With automatic, customizable message templates, organizations can prepare in advance, making it easier to deliver detailed, informative alerts for all situations.
In this white paper, organizations will have access to:
- Best practices guidelines for how to create and send alerts
- Guidance on how to use the templates
- Easy-to-use message templates for over 50 different scenarios, including
OnSolve is committed to helping organizations mitigate risk and respond to critical events more effectively. With messages created in advance, organizations can eliminate confusion during stressful emergency situations and ensure recipients only receive the information relevant to them.
This guide makes it easy to customize targeted, effective messages for all types of events, across multiple modalities. Now organizations can build an arsenal of alerts to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.
For more information, read the white paper.
About OnSolve
OnSolve is a leading critical event management provider that proactively mitigates physical threats, allowing organizations to remain agile when a crisis strikes. Using the most trusted expertise and reliable AI-powered risk intelligence, critical communications and incident management technology, the OnSolve Platform enables enterprises, SMB organizations and all levels of government to detect, anticipate and mitigate physical threats that impact their people, places and property.
With billions of alerts sent annually and proven support for both the public and private sectors, OnSolve is used by thousands of entities to save lives, protect communities, safeguard critical infrastructure and enable agility for the organizations that power our economy. For more information, please visit www.onsolve.com.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE:CARR) Chairman & CEO David Gitlin will speak at the 10th Annual Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 at 3:50 p.m. ET.
The event will be broadcast live at ir.carrier.com. A webcast replay will be available on the website following the event.
About Carrier
As the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier Global Corporation is committed to making the world safer, sustainable and more comfortable for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit www.Corporate.Carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.
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Apple to reveal new iPhones
(CNN) - At its annual September keynote event Wednesday, Apple is expected to unveil its new iPhone 14 lineup.
The invitation for the 1 p.m. Eastern event features a night sky with a constellation of stars forming the Apple logo, leading some people to think there could be some big camera upgrades for better nighttime or long-distance photography.
But in typical Apple fashion, mum’s the word, as the tech giant hopes customers tune in for the livestream on the big day.
The iPhone 14 is expected to be a bit bigger but slightly slimmer and, as expected, likely more expensive.
New Apple Watch models will probably be unveiled on Wednesday, too, including a higher-end offering.
And there should be an official release date for iOS 16.
New iPad or Mac computers likely won’t be out until October, though.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumitomo Corporation of Americas ("SCOA") announced today its partnership with the state of North Dakota to evaluate and develop businesses within the energy transition market, with the intent to accelerate decarbonization in the state and even beyond.
North Dakota is a leader in various industries nationwide, including energy, agriculture, advanced manufacturing and technology. Even more, with a stable tax and regulatory environment and a variety of economic development programs available, North Dakota boasts an ideal ecosystem for developing new business.
"We are excited to get to work with the great state of North Dakota and its innovative leadership team," said Tomonori Wada, President and CEO, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas. "The local government is motivated to drive innovation and make change in the energy transition market, and has created a favorable environment to nurture this kind of innovation. Our shared values and goals for carbon neutrality positions this partnership as a promising recipe for success."
SCOA's business development team brings financial power, a large network of global resources and a deep bench of expertise throughout various industries to this partnership. The agreement, made official through a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two parties, is non-binding and solely for the purpose of facilitating joint collaboration and development of projects within the state of North Dakota.
"We're committed to partnering with the private sector to grow and diversify our economy, and SCOA is well-positioned to help North Dakota create the infrastructure necessary to support clean energy initiatives," North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said. "This partnership has great potential to enhance our research and development, evaluation and business modeling in this sector, and to accelerate our progress as we continue to develop clean energy sources and move toward carbon neutrality by 2030."
Both parties will study wide varieties of possibilities covering Sustainable Aviation Fuel supply chain development, CCS/CCUS project development, Hydrogen/Ammonia supply chain development, Geothermal utilization, CI (Carbon Intensity) measurement and agriculture optimization, and Digital transformation. While these areas are of critical interest, the team is not limiting their efforts and is open to other applicable industries and opportunities.
The MOU proposes an initial period of 10-12 months where the respective parties will set key goals and milestones, identify opportunities, evaluate the market and develop initial strategies based on feasibility studies.
About Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
Established in 1952 and headquartered in New York City, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) has eight offices in major U.S. cities. SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of the world's leading traders of goods and services. As an integrated business enterprise, the firm has emerged as a major organizer of multinational projects, an expediter of ideas, an important international investor and financier, and a powerful force for distribution of products and global communications through a network of offices worldwide. Its core business units include Tubular Products, Environment and Infrastructure, Steel and Non Ferrous Metals, Transportation and Construction Systems, Chemicals and Electronics, Media and IOT Applications, Real Estate, Mineral Resources and Energy, and Food. For more information, visit www.sumitomocorp.com
About North Dakota
For more information about the state of North Dakota, visit https://www.nd.gov
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One of the most closely watched glaciers in the world could soon melt faster than expected, a shift that could lead to sudden rises in sea levels.
Antartica's Thwaites Glacier, also sometimes called the "doomsday" glacier for the possible consequences that could result as it continues to melt, is capable of shrinking twice as fast as it has in recent years, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
The study looked to the body's past movement to predict how it could move in the future. Its findings were based on the Thwaites Glacier’s imprints on the seabed, allowing researchers to track the glacier's movements along the seabed from up to a century ago. Satellite imaging up to now has only provided the glacier's movements dating back around 30 years.
Researchers found the glacier was shrinking at over 1.3 miles per year around 100 years ago, twice as fast compared to its movements between 2011 to 2019.
"About 100 years ago, it retreated faster than it is currently retreating… you could say that’s good news because it’s not so bad now compared to what it was in the past,” Anna Wåhlin, a co-author of the study and a professor of physical oceanography at Sweden’s Gothenburg University, told NBC News. “But you can also say that it’s bad news, because it could happen again.”
Researchers fear the glacier’s retreat will soon melt past a ridge on the seabed and reach a large ice-filled basin inland, where the added volume of ice means the retreating glacier will contribute more to rising sea levels.
“Thwaites ticks several boxes of a glacier that might be experiencing a faster retreat in the future: It is retreating back into a deeper basin, it is in contact with warm ocean currents, it has a very large catchment area that stores large amounts of ice,” she added.
Thwaites Glacier, one of Antarctica's largest and equal to roughly the size of Florida, currently accounts for only around 5% of Antarctica's contributions to the world's sea-level changes.
But previous studies suggested the ice shelf may collapse into the ocean as soon as 2031. The collapse of the entire glacier into the oceans could cause the world's oceans to rise up to 2 feet. The glacier's future behavior has been closely studies and is considered a bellwether for the consequences of climate change.
"Exactly how big a threat there is is unfortunately still difficult to answer — but the fact that we finally have a data point that the models can tie back to is an important part of the puzzle," Wåhlin said. | https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/doomsday-glacier-melt-faster-previously-thought-rcna46380 | 2022-09-06T14:23:26Z | https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/doomsday-glacier-melt-faster-previously-thought-rcna46380 | false |
HOUSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thompson Thrift, a full-service nationally recognized real estate company, announced today the sale of Watermark at Grand Central Park, a 288-unit Class A multifamily community in the Houston suburb of Conroe. San Diego-based CEG Multifamily purchased the community for an undisclosed amount.
"The successful sale of Watermark at Grand Central Park speaks to our team's ability to identify high- growth markets and deliver well-built, Class A multifamily properties," said Josh Purvis, managing partner for Thompson Thrift Residential. "We are pleased with the outcome of the transaction and take great pride in our proven ability to create meaningful value for our residents and investors."
Located a few miles from The Woodlands in the Grand Central Park master-planned community, Watermark at Grand Central Park offers three-story, garden-style buildings with a variety of one-, two-, and three-bedroom floorplans. Built in 2021, the 90% occupied community features luxury amenities including quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, wood-inspired vinyl flooring, full-size washers and dryers, and patios or balconies. Residents enjoy resort-style amenities including a swimming pool with an expansive sundeck, poolside cabanas and an outdoor kitchen, spa, 24-hour fitness center, screened-in porch with a fireplace, clubhouse, TV lounge, Starbucks coffee bar, bark park, recreation room and a walking trail.
The property's location within the master-planned Grand Central Park community provides residents with access to six lakes and miles of trails within 1,000-plus acres of natural, wooded environment. It's location along I-45, Highway 105 and Loop 336 connects residents to major employers such as Conroe Medical Plaza, Huntsman LLC and St. Luke's Hospital, as well as a variety of restaurants, shopping and entertainment options.
The city of Conroe is 45 minutes north of Houston and is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Since 2000 Conroe's population has more than doubled and effective rents in the Conroe/North Montgomery submarket have increased by 15.5% over the past year, demonstrating strong demand for rental housing in the area.
Thompson Thrift has made a name for itself by being one of the few developers to build Class A residential communities in markets across the country with a range of conventional, luxury leased villa and townhome-style communities. Throughout its history, the company has invested more than $3.8 billion and has become known as a trusted partner committed to developing high-quality, attractive communities.
Jennifer Ray with Walker & Dunlop brokered the sale for Thompson Thrift.
About Thompson Thrift Real Estate Company
Thompson Thrift is an integrated full-service real estate company with offices in Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana; Denver, Houston and Phoenix. Three business units drive Thompson Thrift's success—Thompson Thrift Residential which is focused on upscale Class A multifamily communities and luxury leased homes, Thompson Thrift Commercial which is focused on ground-up commercial development, and Thompson Thrift Construction, a full-service construction company. Through these business units, Thompson Thrift is engaged in all aspects of acquisition, development, construction, leasing, and management of quality multifamily, mixed-use, retail, industrial and commercial projects across the country. We are passionate about our customer's success and strive to ensure our projects not only meet the needs of our customers but also the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.thompsonthrift.com
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Video fills in details on alleged Ga. election system breach
ATLANTA (AP) — Two months after the 2020 presidential election, a team of computer experts traveled to south Georgia to copy software and data from voting equipment in an apparent breach of a county election system. They were greeted outside by the head of the local Republican Party, who was involved in efforts by then-President Donald Trump to overturn his election loss.
A security camera outside the elections office in rural Coffee County captured their arrival. The footage also shows that some local election officials were at the office during what the Georgia secretary of state’s office has described as “alleged unauthorized access” of election equipment.
Security footage from two weeks later raises additional alarms — showing two people who were instrumental in Trump’s wider efforts to undermine the election results entering the office and staying for hours.
The security video from the elections office in the county about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta offers a glimpse of the lengths Trump’s allies went to in service of his fraudulent election claims. It further shows how access was facilitated by local officials who are entrusted with protecting the security of elections while raising concerns about sensitive voting technology being released into the public domain.
Georgia wasn’t the only state where voting equipment was accessed after the 2020 presidential election. Important information about voting systems also was compromised in election offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Colorado. Election security experts worry the information obtained — including complete copies of hard drives — could be exploited by those who want to interfere with future elections.
“The system is only as secure as the people who are entrusted to keep it secure,” said lawyer David Cross, who represents plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit over Georgia’s voting machines.
The Coffee County security footage was obtained through that lawsuit, which alleges that Georgia’s touchscreen voting machines are vulnerable to attack and should be replaced by hand-marked paper ballots. The suit long predates and is unrelated to false allegations of widespread election fraud pushed by Trump and his allies after the 2020 election.
The alleged breach in Coffee County’s elections office also has caught the attention of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing an investigation into whether Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Last month, Willis cited the Coffee County activity, among other things, when she sought to compel testimony from Sidney Powell, an attorney who was deeply involved in Trump’s effort to undo the election results.
Emails and other records show Powell and other attorneys linked to Trump helped arrange for a team from data solutions company SullivanStrickler to travel to Coffee County, which Trump won by nearly 40 percentage points.
The surveillance video, emails and other documents that shed light on what happened there in January 2021 were produced in response to subpoenas issued in the voting machine lawsuit and were obtained by The Associated Press. Parts of the security video appear to contradict claims by some of the local officials:
— Footage captures Cathy Latham, then chair of the Coffee County Republican Party, arriving at the elections office shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2021, the day after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. Just a few weeks earlier, she was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
A few minutes after her arrival, she is seen outside greeting SullivanStrickler chief operating officer Paul Maggio and two other people. Less than 10 minutes later, she escorts two other men into the building.
The video shows her leaving the elections office just before 1:30 p.m., roughly two hours after she greeted the SullivanStrickler team. She returns a little before 4 p.m. and then leaves around 6:15 p.m.
Latham said under oath during a deposition in August that she stopped by the elections office that evening for “Just a few minutes” and left before 5 p.m. Pressed on whether she had been there earlier in the day, Latham said she couldn’t recall but suggested her schedule as a teacher would not have allowed it.
A lawyer for SullivanStrickler said in an email attached to a court filing that Latham was a “primary point of contact” in coordinating the company’s work and “was on site” while that work was done.
Robert Cheeley, a lawyer for Latham said in an emailed statement that his client doesn’t remember all the details of that day. But he said she “would not and has not knowingly been involved in any impropriety in any election” and “has not acted improperly or illegally.”
— The video also shows Eric Chaney, a member of Coffee County’s election board, arriving shortly before 11 a.m. the same day and going in and out several times before leaving for the night around 7:40 p.m. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the voting machine lawsuit wrote in a court filing that a photo produced by SullivanStrickler’s COO shows Chaney in the office as the copying is happening.
During a deposition last month, Chaney declined to answer many questions about that day, citing the Fifth Amendment. But when an attorney representing the county reached out to him in April regarding questions from The Washington Post, Chaney wrote, “I am not aware of nor was I present at the Coffee County Board of Elections and Registration’s office when anyone illegally accessed the server or the room in which it is contained.” Chaney resigned from the elections board last month, days before his deposition.
Attempts to reach Chaney by phone were unsuccessful, and his lawyer did not respond to an email seeking comment.
— About two weeks after the initial breach, video shows Misty Hampton — then the county elections director — arriving at the elections office at 4:20 p.m. on Jan. 18, when it was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. She unlocked the door and let in two men — Doug Logan and Jeff Lenberg, who have been active in efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
Logan founded Cyber Ninjas, which participated in a partisan and ultimately discredited review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona. The two men remained inside until just after 8 p.m. and then spent more than nine hours there the next day. Lenberg returned for brief visits on at least three more days later that month.
Hampton resigned as elections supervisor in February 2021 after elections board officials said she falsified her timesheets. Attempts by the AP to reach her were unsuccessful.
In a statement released by its attorney, SullivanStrickler said the company was retained by attorneys to forensically copy voting machines used in the 2020 election and had no reason to believe they would ask its employees to do anything improper.
The Georgia secretary of state’s office said it opened an investigation in March and asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for assistance last month. State officials have said the system remains secure because of multiple protections in place.
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The Queen kept a "studied distance" from Liz Truss during their historic meeting at Balmoral today, a body language expert has said.
After winning the Tory leadership race, Ms Truss headed to the Scottish Highlands for an audience with Her Majesty, where she was officially invited to form a government. Truss is the 15th Prime Minister the Queen has worked with during her 70-year reign and a photo from inside the estate's Drawing Room showed the Queen smiling broadly, dressed in a grey cardigan and pleated tartan skirt. And according to body language expert Judi James, the incoming PM seemed keen but also slightly awkward.
She told the Mirror: "With her 19-year-old self and her apparently anti-monarchist views shoved firmly behind her in the trunk of her past, Truss’s body language here suggested she was keen but also rather self-consciously awkward to be meeting the Queen in Balmoral today.
"There is a tentative look to her body pose and the way her knees are slightly bent as her torso leans forward suggests she might even have performed at least a half-curtsey on greeting the monarch.
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"There appears to be a studied distance from the Queen and no attempt at the more relaxed charm of her predecessors Cameron and Johnson.
"Truss was always going to be upstaged by the Queen anyway, as this is a rare glimpse of her since she stepped back from public life amid worried speculation about her health.
"Joyfully her wide smile with her raised brows and her very comfortable eye contact suggests she is still in the best of spirits and able to stand with the aid of her stick, which she seems to have a very firm grip on. She looks welcoming and friendly and delighted to meet her newest PM."
Following the meeting, Buckingham Palace released a statement reading: "The Queen received in audience The Right Honourable Elizabeth Truss MP today and requested her to form a new administration. Ms Truss accepted Her Majesty’s offer and kissed hands upon her appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury."
Ms Truss took a private plane followed by a chauffeur-driven car from London to Scotland, accompanied by her husband Hugh O’Leary.
Following the royal audience, Ms Truss's team promptly updated her social media accounts. Her Twitter bio now reads: "Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Leader of the Conservative Party. MP for South West Norfolk."
Earlier today, the Monarch had a meeting with Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie, during which he officially resigned as Prime Minister.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for APDN, HOTH, BTU, EYEN, and NIO.
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Avian Influenza identified at a premises in Gwynedd
The Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales, Dr Gavin Watkins, has confirmed the presence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 at a premises near Arthog in Gwynedd.
A 3km Protection Zone and 10km Surveillance Zone have been declared around the infected premises, to limit the risk of disease spread.
Within these zones, bird movements and gatherings are restricted, and all holdings that keep birds must be declared.
The measures are stricter in the 3km Protection Zone. Full information available here.
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The UK health agencies advise that the risk to public health from the virus is very low and the UK food standards agencies advise that avian influenzas pose a very low food safety risk for UK consumers.
Dr Watkins commented: “This sixth case of avian influenza in Wales in the last 12 months is cause for concern and evidence of the continuing risk that is out there to our birds.
“There has been an unprecedented incursion of avian influenza into Great Britain and Europe in 2022 and keepers of birds must be vigilant and ensure they have the very highest levels of biosecurity in place.
“There is always more that can be done to protect your birds.
“As we move into the autumn and winter, I urge you all to review the measures you have in place and identify areas of improvement.
“Think about risks from direct contact with wild birds, especially waterfowl, and also the things that could be contaminated by bird droppings – clothing and footwear, equipment, vehicles, feed and bedding.
“Make improvements where you can to prevent further spread of this devastating bird disease.
“Good biosecurity is always key in protecting animals from disease.”
People should report dead birds and suspicion of avian influenza to the Defra helpline on 03459 33 55 77.
These may be collected for examination and avian influenza surveillance, depending on the species and location. Further information on how to report and dispose dead wild birds can be found at: https://gov.wales/report-and-dispose-dead-birdsIt is important not to pick up or touch any sick or dead bird.
An interactive map of avian influenza disease control zones currently in place across GB can be found here.
Responsibilities of people who keep birds:
* All keepers of kept birds should be vigilant for signs of the disease such as increased mortality, respiratory distress and drops in food or water intake, or egg production.
* Consult your veterinary surgeon in the first instance if your birds are unwell.
* If you or your vet suspect that avian influenza could be causing illness in your birds, you must, by law, report this to the Animal and Plant Health Agency. This will trigger a disease investigation by APHA vets.
* You must apply strict biosecurity measures to prevent any materials, equipment, vehicles, clothing, feed or bedding that could have been contaminated from wild birds coming onto your premises. Full details and checklist is available here: https://gov.wales/biosecurity-and-preventing-disease-captive-birdsAdvice for the general public:
*Wash, and if possible disinfect, footwear and hands before leaving places with large number of wildfowl – eg parks and bird reserves.
*Report (but do not touch) dead birds.
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Violinist Randall Goosby has arrived – and not just at the Tiny Desk. The young Juilliard graduate is racking up debuts with the world's most important orchestras, he just pocketed the $25,000 Avery Fisher Career Grant and he can boast none other than violin legend Itzhak Perlman as his mentor. Not bad for 26 years old.
We know Goosby's star is on the rise, but the way his career got off the ground is worth mentioning. Goosby is an alum of the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization, which, for 25 years, has helped launch many prominent musicians of color, including composers Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon, pianist Lara Downes and opera stars Davóne Tines and Will Liverman. Goosby, at age 13, was the youngest to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition.
Sphinx was also where he first performed neglected music by Black composers. "With each passing day," Goosby told NPR last year, "you can almost see this wave of reckoning, and people starting to realize the magnitude of the body of work that we've not paid attention to."
Joined by the discerning pianist Zhu Wang, Goosby begins with the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Deep River," the bittersweet spiritual whose melody floats with uncommon beauty in this performance. Listen for the perfectly placed high note at the end. Goosby then tips his hat to Antonin Dvorak, the composer who suggested that American composers look to the music of African Americans for pure inspiration. The two young musicians close with "Estrellita," a bon-bon of unrequited love from Mexican composer Manuel Ponce.
With his secure technique, natural phrasing, gorgeous tone and smart programming, Randall Goosby has everything it takes to craft a major career.
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BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exaktera LLC, ("Exaktera"), a Union Park Capital ("Union Park") portfolio company, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Advanced Illumination Inc. ("Advanced Illumination"), a long-established design and manufacturer of specialty LED lighting assemblies and drivers for machine vision, industrial imaging, bio-medical and related imaging applications. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Advanced Illumination's state-of-the-art LED components, current mode drivers and strobe sources, combined with optical and thermal design techniques enable factory automation and machine vision across a wide variety of industrial applications. Established in 1993, Advanced Illumination has partnered with industry leading integrators, distributors and OEMs to solve end users illumination needs and solving the their most challenging advanced lighting challenges.
"We are very excited to have Advanced Illumination join the Exaktera family," says Phil Martin, CEO Exaktera. "The company's product portfolio in specialty LED solutions and expertise in machine vision is highly complementary to Exaktera's existing capabilities. Their technical leadership and deep application knowledge strengthens our overall capabilities and will allow us to best serve our customers."
John Tharakill will continue in his key leadership role as President of Advanced Illumination. "The transaction is a tremendous opportunity for Advanced Illumination and its employees to grow to the next level leveraging global resources under the Exaktera umbrella. With Exaktera we have found a great home to ensure future success," added Mr. Tharakill. "The synergies of products, technical resources, and global sales will significantly enhance the value we can provide our customers and ensure we continue to solve the most demanding machine vision illumination challenges."
About Advanced Illumination Inc.
Advanced Illumination was established in 1993 and is headquartered in Rochester, Vermont. The company offers its customers complete illumination solution for their unique lighting requirements. With its extensive experience in design and manufacturing LED solutions, Advanced Illumination has developed unique expertise to solve the most difficult lighting challenges for its customers. For more information visit www.advancedillumination.com.
About Exaktera LLC
Exaktera, a portfolio company of Union Park Capital, is focused on critical components that define the precision performance for OEMs. Exaktera's premium brands are used across a wide range of applications and end markets to enable continuously increasing demand for machine vision, automation and enable improvements in efficiency, productivity, and safety. More information can be found visiting www.exaktera.com.
About Union Park Capital
Union Park Capital is a private equity firm solely focused on lower middle-market industrial technology companies. Union Park takes a long-term perspective to help stakeholders build value over time and drives value creation through profitably growing a business, not financial engineering. Union Park Capital is based in Boston, MA, and has extensive investments and expertise in the industrial technology sector. For more information visit www.union-park.com.
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Survey Shows Almost Half of Employers Planning Higher Salary Increase Budgets for 2023
WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Salary.com®'s Annual U.S. National Salary Budget Survey, the long predominant 3 percent raise, which started its decline last year, has been replaced by a median raise of 4 percent across all employee categories. Forty-eight percent of U.S. employers are planning higher year-over-year salary increase budgets for 2023, continuing an upswing that began in 2022. Even more promising for American workers: a quarter of employers plan to give increases in the range of 5–7 percent in 2023. Salary.com conducted the survey of 1000+ organizations in June of 2022.
The survey revealed that 2022 actual salary increases were higher than what was planned in 2021: 22 percent of organizations gave increases in the range of 4-5 percent vs. the 12 percent that had planned to do so last year.
"2023 promises to be another banner year for employees seeking salary increases," said Chris Fusco, Senior Vice President of Compensation at Salary.com. "For perspective, in 2020, as the pandemic was taking hold, just under 10 percent of employers planned a higher salary budget increase than the prior year. In 2023 almost half of employers are planning higher salary budgets."
Cost of living increases: When organizations provided COLA increases, they tended to be more generous in 2022 than in 2021, as average COLA increases rose above 2 percent for the first time in many years. This is not surprising, given record-high inflation rates in 2022 and much talk of an impending recession. However, smaller organizations (under 500 full-time employees) were more likely to provide COLA increases than larger organizations. Average COLA increases for smaller organizations hovered in the range of 2.5–2.7 percent, higher than the typical 2 percent provided by larger organizations.
Geography: The Pacific Northwest continues to pay slightly higher salaries than other regions of the country, with median total increases in the 5 percent range vs. the U.S. median of 4 percent.
Industries: Healthcare median total increases in 2022 were in the 3 percent range, significantly less than the US median of 4 percent with less variability than the overall U.S. population. While notable given the challenges the industry has had in attracting and retaining quality workers, salary increases in the healthcare industry are impacted by reimbursement limits imposed by private and federal health insurers.
Other categories in the survey, such as variable pay and salary structure increases, fell in line with data from prior years. In terms of pay practices, the vast majority of organizations surveyed utilize a common date employee pay increase cycle (87 percent), with the months of January and April serving as the most popular months.
Over 1000 human resource professionals across 20 diverse industries (including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail and wholesale, hospitality and leisure, and education) participated in this year's survey, which closed June 17, 2022. Now in its 12th year, Salary.com's U.S. and Canada National Salary Budget Survey is designed to collect critical data on how organizations are budgeting for salary increases over the next year and provides insight into current variable pay practices.
Salary.com® is the leading provider of compensation market data, software, and analytics, bringing more of the trusted data and intuitive software organizations need to get pay right. The industry's fastest-growing compensation management company, Salary.com serves over 30,000 survey participant organizations, over 8,000 business-to-business software subscribers, and over 45 million employees globally. HR professionals rely on Salary.com's 360° view of their compensation practices so they can efficiently and accurately achieve internal pay equity and adapt to market changes. Salary.com's state-of-the-art CompAnalyst® accelerates compensation workflows, delivers real-time data, and powers accurate, equitable, and competitive compensation through one intuitive platform. For more information, please visit www.salary.com.
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Services to be held for late KCFD firefighter, paramedic
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - Services will be held for late KCFD firefighter and paramedic Benjamin Johnson after he passed away at 77 years old.
The Kansas State Fire Fighters Association says on Sunday, Aug. 28, Kansas City Fire Department firefighter and paramedic Benjamin Johnson passed away at the age of 77.
KSFFA said Johnson was born in Wichita and as an adult, he joined the U.S. Navy as a medic and served in Vietnam. When he returned home, he went on to earn his Master’s degree and later became a paramedic and firefighter for KCFD.
The Association noted that Johnson spent his life helping others, enjoying every day and that he never missed a Chiefs football game.
KSFFA said Johnson leaves behind his wife Mary, his children Ann and Mark, and his two grandchildren.
Services have been set for %;30 - 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, at the Mary Butler Meyers Funeral Home, 6300 Parallel Pkwy. in Kansas City.
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Summer in the Northwest is best spent outdoors, but as the temperature drops and days shorten, indoor attractions regain their appeal. What better time to visit museums? And the museums are ready for us with exhibitions for every interest and age.
Imagine Children’s Museum expansion
Families won’t want to miss the new Imagine Children’s Museum which is reopening this fall after a $25 million expansion that added 33,000 square feet of new exhibition space. While all of the old spaces remain intact, the new wing will include two regionally specific interactive spaces that explore forests and aquatic ecosystems. New activity centers include an augmented reality sand table, tinker shop with real tools, arts space, and engineering challenges.
Sept. 7-ongoing; Imagine Children’s Museum, 1502 Wall St., Everett; $22; 425-258-5406, imaginecm.org
“The Animation Academy” and “Fine Lines: Cartoons from the WSHM Collections”
A complementary pair of exhibits will open this fall at the Washington State History Museum. In October, “The Animation Academy” will explore the world of animation and storytelling, from hand-drawn cels and 3D zoetropes to the latest in CGI. Visitors can create their own stop-motion short. In November, “Fine Lines” will present cartoon illustrations from the Washington State Historical Society’s collections, many of which have never been displayed before.
Oct. 6-Jan. 12, 2023 (“Animation Academy”) and Nov. 5-Jun 11, 2023 (“Cartoons”); Washington State Historical Society Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma; $14; 888-238-4373, washingtonhistory.org
“Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine”
Making its West Coast premiere at MOHAI, this traveling exhibit explores artificial intelligence from machine learning to voice recognition. Visitors learn what AI is, how it works differently from the human brain, and how it might evolve for both users and developers. Although the topic is complex, the exhibition is designed to be accessible to all ages and levels of technological skill, using hands-on interactives, games and puzzles.
Oct. 15-Jan.8, 2023; Museum of History & Industry, 860 Terry Ave. N., Seattle; $22; 206-324-1126, mohai.org
“Spirit of Flight”
If summer travel woes have dampened your passion for air travel, “Spirit of Flight,” the Museum of Flight’s juried photography exhibition, may rekindle your travel lust. Each image in the exhibition reflects the photographer’s interpretation of the theme “the spirit of flight.” Selected from hundreds of global submissions by professional and amateur photographers alike, the 35 selected images, also viewable online, will be displayed in the T.A. Wilson Great Gallery. (While you’re there, check out the traveling exhibition “The Walt Disney Studios and World War II” that opened in the summer.)
Through Dec. 31; Museum of Flight, 904 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle; $25; 206-764-5700, museumofflight.org
“Mygration”
Sámi artist Tomas Colbengtson and Swedish artist Stina Folkebrant collaborated to create an immersive installation inspired by a little-known event in history that brought Sámi reindeer herders to Alaska in 1894 to teach their skills to Native peoples. The installation combines archival photographs and large-scale paintings to explore ideas about migration, herd mentality, time, and history. Folkebrant will also create a new mural related to the installation for the museum campus.
Dec. 9-Mar. 5, 2023; National Nordic Museum, 2655 NW Market St., Seattle; $20; 206-789-5707, nordicmuseum.org
“Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design”
MoPOP’s Ruth E. Carter exhibition celebrates the work of the Academy Award-winning costume designer behind “Black Panther,” “Do The Right Thing,” “Malcolm X” and more. Carter’s designs over the past four decades have helped shape the Afrofuturism movement, adding dimensionality, flair and culture to the characters they clothe. The exhibit contains more than 60 of Carter’s garments from more than a dozen films, as well as an Afrofuturist art installation by Brandon Sadler.
Through January 2023; MOPOP, 325 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle; $27-$34; 206-770-2700, mopop.org
“Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee”
The Wing Luke Museum and the Bruce Lee Foundation have partnered to create a permanent Bruce Lee Gallery dedicated to the actor and philosopher who made the martial arts famous in America. The first exhibit in the space opened this summer with a digital interactive experience that focuses on the development of Bruce Lee’s philosophy, epitomized in the iconic line, “Be water, my friend.” The exhibit links Lee’s writings and filmography to his intense pursuit of knowledge through the contents of his personal library of more than 2,800 books, now permanently housed at the museum.
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Trevor Immelman used five of his six captain’s picks Tuesday on Presidents Cup rookies to fill out an International team decimated by defections to Saudi-funded LIV Golf.
British Open champion Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann of Chile signed with the rival league after qualifying had ended. They played their first LIV Golf event last week, making them ineligible for the Presidents Cup.
The only captain’s pick with any experience is Si Woo Kim of South Korea. He played on the 2017 team at Liberty National that was beat so badly the match was nearly decided before singles.
The only pick from the top 50 in the world is K.H. Lee of South Korea — only one other was available, Ryan Fox of New Zealand, who plays on the European tour and was overlooked by Immelman.
The other picks were Cameron Davis of Australia, Sebastian Munoz of Colombia, Taylor Pendrith of Canada and Christiaan Bezuidenhout of South Africa.
The six qualifiers were Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, Adam Scott of Australia, Sungjae Im and Tom Kim of South Korea, Corey Conners of Canada and Mito Pereira of Chile.
Scott, Matsuyama and Im are the only players who were at Royal Melbourne three years ago when the International team nearly ended more than 20 years of losing.
Prospects aren’t any better this time for the Sept. 22-25 matches at Quail Hollow in North Carolina. The Americans lost three potential players to the Saudi league, none who would have qualified for a U.S. team with great depth.
The U.S. has lost only one Presidents Cup since the matches began in 1994. There also was a tie in South Africa in 2003. The Americans have won eight in a row.
U.S. captain Davis Love III announces his six picks on Wednesday.
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boqii Holding Limited ("Boqii" or the "Company") (NYSE: BQ), a leading pet-focused platform in China, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, before the U.S. market opens on Thursday, September 15, 2022.
Boqii's management will hold an earnings conference call to discuss the financial results at 8:00 AM on Thursday, September 15, 2022, U.S. Eastern Time (8:00 PM on Thursday, September 15, 2022, Beijing/Hong Kong Time). Please dial in 15 minutes before the conference is scheduled to begin using numbers below.
A replay of the conference call may be accessed by phone at the following numbers until September 22, 2022.
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.boqii.com/.
About Boqii Holding Limited
Boqii Holding Limited (NYSE: BQ) is a leading pet-focused platform in China. We are the leading online destination for pet products and supplies in China with our broad selection of high-quality products including global leading brands, local emerging brands, and our own private label, Yoken and Mocare, offered at competitive prices. Our online sales platforms, including Boqii Mall and our flagship stores on third-party e-commerce platforms, provide customers with convenient access to a wide selection of high-quality pet products and an engaging and personalized shopping experience. Our Boqii Community provides an informative and interactive content platform for users to share their knowledge and love for pets.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clincierge CEO Scott Gray has been named to the PharmaVoice 100, an annual list recognizing the most inspiring people in life sciences.
"I'm honored to be included on this year's PharmaVoice 100 and share this achievement with diverse leaders from across all sectors of the industry," Gray said. "At Clincierge, our focus is on the success of clinical trials, but from molecule to market, every step in the process plays an important role in getting lifesaving and life-enhancing treatments to the patients who need them."
Gray co-founded Clincierge in 2015 to alleviate the burden of trial participation for patients and their caregivers. While healthcare staff and clinical researchers focus on the medical and scientific facets of clinical trials, historically, patients and caregivers have been expected to manage the logistics of trial participation on their own. Clincierge's global team of patient care coordinators works directly with patients and caregivers to arrange transportation, accommodations, reimbursements, and more.
Under Gray's leadership, Clincierge has appeared on the coveted Inc. 5000 list, ranking among the fastest-growing privately-owned companies in the United States, and has been recognized among the "Best Places to Work" by the Philadelphia Business Journal. In 2021, Clincierge commissioned an independent study examining the voice of the patient in clinical trials. The results were released at the 2022 BIO International Convention, where Gray was also invited to moderate a panel exploring patient experience.
"It is always an honor to showcase these inspiring individuals, whose leadership over the past 18 months has been more important than ever to make sure their teams, the patients they serve, and their organizations continue to excel at the highest levels possible," said Taren Grom, PharmaVoice's editor in chief emeritus.
PharmaVoice will recognize this year's honorees at the 2022 PharmaVoice 100 Celebration: The Next Era of Leadership, a free, virtual event on Sept. 15.
Clincierge is the leading provider of patient support services for clinical trials. Clincierge's global team of patient care coordinators manages the logistics of trial participation for patients and their caregivers, including travel and reimbursements. Since 2015, Clincierge has coordinated patient logistics in more than 300 clinical trials around the world. For more information, visit www.clincierge.com.
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With this latest addition to its portfolio the company approaches the 425 store milestone
FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesway, one of the country's fastest growing convenience store chains, today announced another significant addition to its growing portfolio with the acquisition of nine Tres Amigos convenience stores.
This is the first major portfolio of stores that Yesway has acquired in 2022, following the August launch of the new Allsup's Express concept store adjacent to the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and the earlier announced openings of new Allsup's stores in Breckenridge, Canyon, Colorado City, Claude, Mineral Wells, Robert Lee, and San Angelo, Texas, and Alamogordo, Artesia and Carlsbad, New Mexico.
These are in addition to numerous Grand Opening celebrations of new Allsup's stores located in Abilene, Azle, Bangs, Decatur, Friona, Hereford, Merkel, Tuscola, and Wall, Texas; Roswell, New Mexico, and Guymon, Oklahoma that took place earlier this year. The Yesway portfolio now stands at 423 stores in total, with the company having opened over 30 new-to-industry and relocated stores to date in 2022.
"We have always been attracted to the Texas market and are extremely pleased to have Tres Amigos join us under the Allsup's banner," said Thomas W. Brown, Yesway's Director of Acquisitions. "It is an exciting time for all of us, and I am very proud of our acquisitions, due diligence, and on-boarding teams. Their collective hard work and dedication have been critical to our being able to keep growing our portfolio. They thrive in this fast-paced environment and are doing a stellar job."
Located at 811 Ellis Street, Menard; 502 W. Broadway, Eden; 20793 US Highway 277, Christoval; 1801 College Hills Boulevard, San Angelo; 909 Waters Avenue, Sonora; 516 S. Commercial Avenue, Coleman; 417 Hutchings Avenue, Ballinger; 16277 US Hwy 87 N., Water Valley, and 920 4th Street, Sterling City, Texas, the newly acquired stores each have 2,828 square feet of merchandising space, 6 fueling stations, and many locations feature diesel fueling islands as well.
Yesway now owns and operates convenience stores and truck stops, including the Allsup's convenience store chain, in nine states, Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.
To find the Yesway or Allsup's store closest to you, please visit www.Yesway.com/locations or www.Allsups.com/allsups-locations/.
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About Yesway – Yesway is one of the fastest-growing convenience store operators in the United States. Established in 2015, Yesway is a multi-branded platform that acquires, transforms, and enhances portfolios of convenience stores by leveraging expertise in real estate and technology, and by implementing data-driven decision-making. Yesway was named the "2021 Convenience Store Chain of the Year" by CStore Decisions and is currently ranked #21 on the "2022 CSP Top 202 Chains" list by total portfolio size. Yesway ranked #2 in year-over-year relative store growth on the Convenience Store News "2020 Top 20 Growth Chains" list and its CEO has been named a "CSP 2020 Power 20 Deal Maker." Yesway's portfolio currently consists of 423 stores located in Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, including the Allsup's Convenience Store chain. www.yesway.com
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Stephen Jordan Joins Debevoise as Partner in the Tax Group
Published: Sep. 6, 2022 at 8:30 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced today that Stephen Jordan has joined the firm's New York office as a partner in the Tax Group. Mr. Jordan, who was most recently a managing director and global head of tax at KKR, a premier publicly traded global investment firm with approximately $500 billion of assets under management, and is one of the preeminent tax lawyers in the private equity sector, will focus his practice on advising Debevoise's strong roster of clients in the private equity and investment management industry on a full range of transactional and advisory matters, bringing a differentiated perspective from his years at KKR.
Mr. Jordan brings to the firm's clients extensive experience in the tax aspects of complex fundraising and M&A transactions, including cross-border and public company restructuring deals. Additionally, Mr. Jordan has a strong background in tax policy analysis and in advising complex organizations on the potential business impact of proposed tax legislation.
"Today's dynamic M&A and fundraising landscape and increased tax law complexity have raised the bar for our private equity clients, requiring the sharpest of eyes on every aspect of every deal as well as the client's overall tax strategy," said Presiding Partner Peter Furci. "Stephen's experience both in house and at a leading law firm earlier in his career gives him unique insight into the business and legal needs of our clients and how they can effectively execute their investment strategies in a changing market."
Peter Schuur, Chair of the Tax Group, said, "Stephen is well known in the tax community as an outstanding legal mind and as a highly collaborative executive. We expect that he will be an excellent fit for our distinctive culture, which includes taking a 'one firm' approach to every client engagement, and that our clients will benefit greatly from his deep M&A and tax experience."
Mr. Jordan added, "On numerous occasions, I have had the privilege to work with Debevoise and experience first-hand the firm's collaborative culture. As I considered the next step in my career, I knew I wanted to join a tax team known as a leader in completing cutting-edge private equity deals, developing innovative investor products, and providing commercial solutions in complex situations, and Debevoise was the clear choice. I look forward to joining the firm at such an exciting time in its history and its client base."
Throughout his career, Mr. Jordan has advised on fund and investment structuring across the private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and credit platforms. Prior to joining KKR, he was a tax partner at another international law firm, where he represented a number of sponsors and fund investors across various asset classes. He received his B.A. from University of the South, his J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law.
With more than 40 tax lawyers located in key international centers, Debevoise's Tax Group focuses on providing cutting-edge tax advice on all types of domestic and cross-border investment fundraising and M&A transactions for clients in virtually every market sector including private equity, insurance, banking, airlines, technology, media, and health care and pharmaceuticals. Known for working seamlessly with the firm's corporate practices – tailoring structures, negotiations and documentation to the client's tax, business and commercial goals – and well connected with a network of local practitioners, the Tax Group helps clients achieve their business objectives.
BIO
Stephen Jordan, a partner in the firm's Tax Group, represents private equity and investment management firms on a full range of transactional and advisory matters. Mr. Jordan is based in the firm's New York office.
Mr. Jordan's practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex fundraising and M&A transactions, including cross-border and public company restructuring deals. Additionally, Mr. Jordan has a strong background in tax policy analysis and in advising complex organizations on the potential business impact of proposed tax legislation. He is a frequent panelist on tax issues and has advocated for the private equity and investment management industries tax priorities before various governmental authorities in the United States and abroad.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Jordan served for nearly a decade as the global head of tax at a premier, publicly traded global investment firm, and prior to that was a tax partner at a leading international law firm in New York.
Mr. Jordan received his B.A. from University of the South in 1991, his J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 1995 and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1998.
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Football / Top 20
Football
Team Week 2 result/Week 3 opponent
1. Prospect 2-0 Beat Barrington 52-20; hosts Evanston
2. Warren 2-0 Beat Maine South 19-17; at Libertyville
3. Glenbard West 2-0 Beat Downers Grove S. 42-7; hosts OPRF
4. Naperville North 2-0 Beat Glenbard N. 28-13; hosts St. Mary's
5. York 2-0 Beat Morton 58-7; hosts Proviso West
6. Palatine 2-0 Beat Buffalo Grove 50-7; hosts New Trier
7. South Elgin 2-0 Beat Glenbard East 22-6; at Fenton
8. Wheaton North 2-0 Beat Providence 28-0; hosts Batavia
9. Maine South 1-1 Lost to Warren 19-17; at Barrington
10. Neuqua Valley 1-1 Lost to WW S. 10-7 (OT); hosts St. Mary's
11. Batavia 1-1 Lost to Lincoln-Way E. 31-16; at Wheaton N.
12. Hersey 2-0 Beat Fremd 45-14; hosts Deerfield
13. Downers Grove North 2-0 Beat Willowbrook 30-0; hosts Downers S.
14. Jacobs 2-0 Beat Crystal Lake C. 35-14; at McHenry
15. Glenbard North 1-1 Lost to Naperville North 28-13; at Geneva
16. St. Francis 2-0 Beat Sterling 35-27; vs. St. Edward
17. Naperville Central 1-1 Lost to Plainfield N. 19-9; hosts Milw. Meir
18. Hinsdale Central 1-1 Beat Proviso East 51-0; at Lyons T.
19. Cary-Grove 1-1 Lost CL South 43-39; at Crystal Lake C.
20. WW South 1-1 Beat Neuqua V. 10-7 (OT); at St. Charles N.
Others to watch: Wauconda 2-0, Glenbard South 2-0, IC Catholic Prep 1-1, Geneva 2-0, Crystal Lake South 1-1, Grayslake Central 2-0 | https://football.dailyherald.com/sports/20220906/football--top-20 | 2022-09-06T14:35:50Z | https://football.dailyherald.com/sports/20220906/football--top-20 | true |
Two men were electrocuted when they were trying to replace damaged tin sheets on the roof of a shed in Sulga village in Belagavi district on Monday.
A 60-year-old auto driver from Benakanahalli Vilas Gopal Agasgekar and 25-year-old Vinayak Krishna Kalkaamkar of Sulga were trying to repair the roof by changing some sheets.
The sheet came in contact with a live wire and they received electric shock and were electrocuted. They died on the spot.
It may be recalled that volunteers of a helpline emergency rescue foundation had saved the life of Vilas Agasgekar when he was suffering from COVID-19 last year. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/two-men-electrocuted/article65856262.ece | 2022-09-06T14:37:09Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/two-men-electrocuted/article65856262.ece | false |
REC (RESOURCES FOR EVERY CREATOR) EXPANDS NATIONALLY, AFTER FINDING SUCCESS IN PHILADELPHIA'S GROWING CREATIVE ECONOMY
MIAMI, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Philadelphia-based startup, "REC" (also known as "REC Philly"), will call Miami its second home as they launch "REC Miami" behind a $2 million investment from Sean Combs Capital, lead investor in the round. Founded by Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients, Will Toms & Dave Silver, REC is an ecosystem designed and dedicated to providing creative people with the resources, communities and opportunities to pursue their passions and entrepreneurial goals.
The REC Philly location has over 1,000 active members subscribed to their membership offering, giving creators access to a 10,000 sq ft creative facility, educational programming, and access to a network of brands in need of creative services. Members use the space to create content, connect with collaborators, and attend educational & social programming, while brands use REC to source the best emerging talent for their projects. Current brand partners in Philadelphia include Live Nation, Comcast, Cash App, WXPN, WSFS Bank, Amuse, Red Bull, T-Mobile, Ballard Spahr & Temple University.
Sean Combs is committed to creating brands and building businesses that provide opportunities and platforms to empower the next generation of creators. Combs Enterprises will not only utilize REC's spaces but also plans to tap into the creative talent to amplify the brands under his umbrella. With his investment, REC joins Combs Enterprises Portfolio of investments.
"Our goal is to make sure that independent creators have the information, tools and resources needed to win and level the playing field," said Sean "Diddy" Combs. "This partnership is about the future of the creator economy and helping REC expand to serve more creators in cities and countries around the world."
Since its inception in 2015, REC's model has helped pay out nearly $2 million dollars directly to members of its community by way of its creative agency. REC has proven to be a strong bridge for brands to participate in the independent creative revolution in a meaningful way by adapting a 'creator-first' approach that's refreshing to the entertainment industry status quo.
"Our key focus is turning artists and creators into creative entrepreneurs. We've known since the beginning that we weren't just solving a Philadelphia problem. Access to resources, strategies and opportunities is a global challenge for creatives everywhere, and with Diddy's support, we're excited to bring our solution to communities beyond our hometown of Philly, "said Will Toms, Co-founder of REC.
REC is coming to Miami's Little River neighborhood in 2023 behind the partnership with Diddy. The expansion will bring a 12,000 square foot creative facility equipped with multiple recording studios, photo/video production studios, editing bays, podcast studios, dance studios, design studios, an event venue, coworking space and the in-house production equipment needed to create high-quality media. Little River Miami is a neighborhood project owned and developed by Adventurous Journeys(AJ) Capital Partners, a progressive real estate and hospitality company, along with local partner MVW Partners. The neighborhood, consisting of adaptive reuse and ground-up construction, encompasses 25 acres of land with more than 1.08M land sq. ft.
Dave Silver, Co-founder & CEO of REC said, "In Philadelphia, much of our success comes from our ability to empower & convene the local creative community, making it easy for both local & global brands to know where they can find & hire creative talent. Getting artists paid has always been our most impactful metric, and I'm excited to bring that same energy into Miami."
For Toms, Silver and their team, Philly and Miami are just the beginning of the fast-growing REC vision. The collective is actively seeking leaders in cities around the world to bring the model to next.
Learn how to get involved with REC, as a Creator or Brand, at JoinREC.com.
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BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcanza Clinical Research, a mission-focused investigator site network, announces the acquisition of Charlottesville Medical Research (CMR), a community-based research facility based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Since its inception in 1991, CMR specializes in Phase II-IV studies across a host of therapeutic areas.
"The addition of CMR to the Alcanza network is part of our strategy to expand research into geographic areas outside of metropolitan hubs to reach patient populations who are not traditionally presented with research participation opportunities," said Carlos Orantes, CEO of Alcanza. "CMR's reputation for rapid enrollment and providing exceptional patient experiences in chronic diseases and vaccine studies are a perfect complement for Alcanza's growth portfolio."
"CMR is extremely excited about the opportunity to join the Alcanza network," said Dr. James Clark, CEO of CMR. "We value the way Alcanza is pushing the traditional research boundaries forward through their emphasis on diversity and community-based sites to create better medicines and sustainable health equity. Together, we will forge new approaches to clinical trial access that continue to make us a great partner to our customers."
CMR will continue to operate as an independent site within the Alcanza network and retain its name. Dr. James Clark will retain the role of medical director and remain as a leader and principal investigator of the site.
Alcanza Clinical Research is an integrated network of research facilities focused on bringing clinical trial opportunities involving life-changing treatments and vaccines to all patients, especially those from under-represented communities. With locations in Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Virginia, we specialize in a range of conditions across psychiatry, neurology, dermatology, and infectious disease therapeutic areas.
The Alcanza network includes five multi-specialty organizations in eight locations.
ActivMed Practices and Research and Allcutis Research conduct Phase I-IV research across multiple locations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Boston Clinical Trials serves the Boston, MA metro area with Phase II-IV studies.
Charlottesville Medical Research serves central Virginia patients with Phase II-IV studies.
Coastal Carolina Research Center offers Phase I-IV studies from the largest multi-therapeutic research site in the southeast United States.
Quest Research Institute provides Phase I-IV studies to southeastern Michigan patients and healthy volunteers.
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BEACHWOOD, Ohio, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ARC Health, a Thurston Group portfolio company, has announced the acquisition of Sasco River Center, a premier mental health group with three locations in Fairfield County, CT. Formed in 2021, ARC Health is a mental health specialty services organization supporting psychiatry, psychology, and therapy practice owners in multiple locations throughout the country.
A multidisciplinary practice offering a range of diagnostic and therapy services for children, adolescents, young adults, and families, the Sasco River Center team includes 60 providers across locations in Darien, Stamford and Wilton, CT. They focus on collaborative and comprehensive testing, psychotherapy, and sensory processing.
Vincent Morra, ARC Health CEO, praised Sasco River Center's pioneering innovations in child occupational therapy and their multidisciplinary approach to care. "Sasco River Center's comprehensive approach to therapy separates itself as a market leader. We look forward to partnering with their team to expand their advanced approach to sensory processing treatment and addressing mental health conditions holistically."
Chris Bogart, PhD, who co-founded and co-manages Sasco River Center with Melissa Kahn, MS OTL/R, said partnering with ARC Health just made sense. "ARC can provide the back-office support and economy of scale we need to grow, freeing our team to do what they love best, helping our patients become their best selves."
Melissa Kahn, a registered Occupational Therapist specializing in child play therapy, said Sasco River offers "a warm, inviting environment, and a team of highly skilled practitioners who are trained to provide an integrated approach to learning, communication, and addressing emotional and behavioral conditions. By having access to our diverse specialists under one roof, our clients can receive the specific help they need."
Sasco River Center's flagship location in Darien, CT opened in January 2022 after two years of careful planning and construction. This 9,000 square-foot multidisciplinary center offers a wide range of services, including individual, group and family therapy, comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, medication management, sensory processing occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, comprehensive diagnostic assessments, academic tutoring and executive function coaching, among others. Like all their facilities, the Darien, CT location contains an occupational therapy gym, with multiple climbing walls, tunnels between rooms, flowing swaths of Lycra, zip lines, and multiple integrated swings. Patients can build their motor planning skills and develop their sensory integration abilities so that they can better navigate their world and regulate their behavior. "It is truly the state of the art, inspiring other gyms throughout the country," Kahn said.
ARC Health is a premier group of mental healthcare practices who have come together as partners while maintaining their individual identities. Their forward-thinking and supportive partnership of mental healthcare providers is geared toward increasing success via a collaborative network. The ARC Health business model is pioneering the space with a unified, provider-centric approach that reinforces clinical autonomy while also joining together as equity-owning partners.
Thurston Group is a private equity firm that focuses on building industry-leading companies in the healthcare and related business services sectors. Thurston has an extensive track record of partnering with physicians and building fast-growing healthcare businesses, including ARC Health, Smile Doctors, US Endo Partners, US Oral Surgery Management, South Georgia Dental Management, Gen4 Dental Partners, Options Medical Weight Loss and U.S. Orthopaedic Partners. Over its 35-year history, Thurston Group has returned more than $4B of invested capital.
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Dana Hayes III
+1-312-255-0077
Sasco River Center
ARC Health
Thurston Group
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Purcell & Lefkowitz LLP, a class action law firm dedicated to representing shareholders nationwide, is investigating a potential breach of fiduciary duty claim involving the board of directors of Evelo Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVLO).
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Stephen Jordan Joins Debevoise as Partner in the Tax Group
Published: Sep. 6, 2022 at 8:30 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced today that Stephen Jordan has joined the firm's New York office as a partner in the Tax Group. Mr. Jordan, who was most recently a managing director and global head of tax at KKR, a premier publicly traded global investment firm with approximately $500 billion of assets under management, and is one of the preeminent tax lawyers in the private equity sector, will focus his practice on advising Debevoise's strong roster of clients in the private equity and investment management industry on a full range of transactional and advisory matters, bringing a differentiated perspective from his years at KKR.
Mr. Jordan brings to the firm's clients extensive experience in the tax aspects of complex fundraising and M&A transactions, including cross-border and public company restructuring deals. Additionally, Mr. Jordan has a strong background in tax policy analysis and in advising complex organizations on the potential business impact of proposed tax legislation.
"Today's dynamic M&A and fundraising landscape and increased tax law complexity have raised the bar for our private equity clients, requiring the sharpest of eyes on every aspect of every deal as well as the client's overall tax strategy," said Presiding Partner Peter Furci. "Stephen's experience both in house and at a leading law firm earlier in his career gives him unique insight into the business and legal needs of our clients and how they can effectively execute their investment strategies in a changing market."
Peter Schuur, Chair of the Tax Group, said, "Stephen is well known in the tax community as an outstanding legal mind and as a highly collaborative executive. We expect that he will be an excellent fit for our distinctive culture, which includes taking a 'one firm' approach to every client engagement, and that our clients will benefit greatly from his deep M&A and tax experience."
Mr. Jordan added, "On numerous occasions, I have had the privilege to work with Debevoise and experience first-hand the firm's collaborative culture. As I considered the next step in my career, I knew I wanted to join a tax team known as a leader in completing cutting-edge private equity deals, developing innovative investor products, and providing commercial solutions in complex situations, and Debevoise was the clear choice. I look forward to joining the firm at such an exciting time in its history and its client base."
Throughout his career, Mr. Jordan has advised on fund and investment structuring across the private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and credit platforms. Prior to joining KKR, he was a tax partner at another international law firm, where he represented a number of sponsors and fund investors across various asset classes. He received his B.A. from University of the South, his J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law.
With more than 40 tax lawyers located in key international centers, Debevoise's Tax Group focuses on providing cutting-edge tax advice on all types of domestic and cross-border investment fundraising and M&A transactions for clients in virtually every market sector including private equity, insurance, banking, airlines, technology, media, and health care and pharmaceuticals. Known for working seamlessly with the firm's corporate practices – tailoring structures, negotiations and documentation to the client's tax, business and commercial goals – and well connected with a network of local practitioners, the Tax Group helps clients achieve their business objectives.
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Stephen Jordan, a partner in the firm's Tax Group, represents private equity and investment management firms on a full range of transactional and advisory matters. Mr. Jordan is based in the firm's New York office.
Mr. Jordan's practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex fundraising and M&A transactions, including cross-border and public company restructuring deals. Additionally, Mr. Jordan has a strong background in tax policy analysis and in advising complex organizations on the potential business impact of proposed tax legislation. He is a frequent panelist on tax issues and has advocated for the private equity and investment management industries tax priorities before various governmental authorities in the United States and abroad.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Jordan served for nearly a decade as the global head of tax at a premier, publicly traded global investment firm, and prior to that was a tax partner at a leading international law firm in New York.
Mr. Jordan received his B.A. from University of the South in 1991, his J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 1995 and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1998.
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Survey Shows Almost Half of Employers Planning Higher Salary Increase Budgets for 2023
WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Salary.com®'s Annual U.S. National Salary Budget Survey, the long predominant 3 percent raise, which started its decline last year, has been replaced by a median raise of 4 percent across all employee categories. Forty-eight percent of U.S. employers are planning higher year-over-year salary increase budgets for 2023, continuing an upswing that began in 2022. Even more promising for American workers: a quarter of employers plan to give increases in the range of 5–7 percent in 2023. Salary.com conducted the survey of 1000+ organizations in June of 2022.
The survey revealed that 2022 actual salary increases were higher than what was planned in 2021: 22 percent of organizations gave increases in the range of 4-5 percent vs. the 12 percent that had planned to do so last year.
"2023 promises to be another banner year for employees seeking salary increases," said Chris Fusco, Senior Vice President of Compensation at Salary.com. "For perspective, in 2020, as the pandemic was taking hold, just under 10 percent of employers planned a higher salary budget increase than the prior year. In 2023 almost half of employers are planning higher salary budgets."
Cost of living increases: When organizations provided COLA increases, they tended to be more generous in 2022 than in 2021, as average COLA increases rose above 2 percent for the first time in many years. This is not surprising, given record-high inflation rates in 2022 and much talk of an impending recession. However, smaller organizations (under 500 full-time employees) were more likely to provide COLA increases than larger organizations. Average COLA increases for smaller organizations hovered in the range of 2.5–2.7 percent, higher than the typical 2 percent provided by larger organizations.
Geography: The Pacific Northwest continues to pay slightly higher salaries than other regions of the country, with median total increases in the 5 percent range vs. the U.S. median of 4 percent.
Industries: Healthcare median total increases in 2022 were in the 3 percent range, significantly less than the US median of 4 percent with less variability than the overall U.S. population. While notable given the challenges the industry has had in attracting and retaining quality workers, salary increases in the healthcare industry are impacted by reimbursement limits imposed by private and federal health insurers.
Other categories in the survey, such as variable pay and salary structure increases, fell in line with data from prior years. In terms of pay practices, the vast majority of organizations surveyed utilize a common date employee pay increase cycle (87 percent), with the months of January and April serving as the most popular months.
Over 1000 human resource professionals across 20 diverse industries (including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail and wholesale, hospitality and leisure, and education) participated in this year's survey, which closed June 17, 2022. Now in its 12th year, Salary.com's U.S. and Canada National Salary Budget Survey is designed to collect critical data on how organizations are budgeting for salary increases over the next year and provides insight into current variable pay practices.
Salary.com® is the leading provider of compensation market data, software, and analytics, bringing more of the trusted data and intuitive software organizations need to get pay right. The industry's fastest-growing compensation management company, Salary.com serves over 30,000 survey participant organizations, over 8,000 business-to-business software subscribers, and over 45 million employees globally. HR professionals rely on Salary.com's 360° view of their compensation practices so they can efficiently and accurately achieve internal pay equity and adapt to market changes. Salary.com's state-of-the-art CompAnalyst® accelerates compensation workflows, delivers real-time data, and powers accurate, equitable, and competitive compensation through one intuitive platform. For more information, please visit www.salary.com.
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If you love fashion, as many of us do, then you know September is a big month. It's when New York, London, Paris and Milan hold their fashion weeks, where designers show off their upcoming collections. And that's when fashion magazines drop their coveted and lucrative September issues, even though, yes, the book generally comes out in the summer.
Earlier this year, Kenya Hunt became editor-in-chief for one of the top fashion books, the U.K. edition of Elle magazine - the first Black woman to be in that role. And this month's issue is the first to be edited entirely under her supervision. So not surprisingly, she used this month's issue to make a statement. She introduced new features, new contributors and put a new fashion icon on the cover - Lizzo, the pop star who's breaking new ground for larger-sized women in fashion and culture. Given all that, we thought this would be a great time to hear from Kenya Hunt about her vision for the magazine and, of course, new looks for the season. And she is kind enough to take time out from her busy schedule to talk to us now. Kenya Hunt, welcome. Thank you so much for talking with us.
KENYA HUNT: Oh, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.
MARTIN: Well, you know, obviously, your appointment is notable for so many reasons - I mean, in part, because you are the first Black woman to lead the U.K. edition of Elle magazine, and you're also an American. And I'm just wondering how you feel that you have been received in that role.
HUNT: I have to say it's been very positive, and it's been quite a heartwarming experience because I do feel that I'm a part of a wave of editors and creatives and image makers who have broken through in recent years. So there is a real sense of kinship and community among us, which has been really beautiful to see. But I've always loved Elle as a title, and it's always resonated with me. I'll never forget watching a show that used to air called "Style With Elsa Klensch," and she was interviewing the editor of Elle at the time about her choice to put a Black model on the cover, and this was Naomi Campbell. And she, you know, questioned her and asked her, you know, about her feelings about making this bold and courageous decision to put this woman of color in the cover.
And, you know, her reply was quite, you know, simple. She just thought she was - she didn't think it was this courageous move at all. She just thought it was - you know, that she was the woman who reflected the moment. And, you know, she just felt she was the best woman for the cover. And so I think that resonated with me, and it never left me. So even now, just, you know, having this role as editor-in-chief, I often think about that. And having Lizzo on the cover for September, it was - you know, it was such - it was thrilling for so many reasons. But also, I was quite tickled because the fact that she was a Black woman was not the headline because we've evolved.
MARTIN: Well, I will have to say, there are so many things about Lizzo as the cover that is remarkable for - first of all, it is September. You know, like, I remember when Beverly Johnson was the first Black model on the cover of Vogue, and it was deliberately chosen to be August...
HUNT: Yep.
MARTIN: ...Because August is the small book that precedes the big book, which is September. And it was deliberately chosen because it was - there was a feeling that some of the buyers and subscribers and advertisers would rebel. So there is that history, and that's not when dinosaurs walked the earth, you know? This is...
HUNT: It was recent. Yeah.
MARTIN: ...In our lifetimes. It was in our lifetime. So tell me about Lizzo. Why was she so important for you to choose?
HUNT: She is - she represents so many things to so many different people. I like how she uses her platform to really speak out and celebrate Black women, women of size. You know, I love that she is not afraid to speak out about issues like women's reproductive rights. You know, she talked a lot about how she really wanted to use her new album, "Special," to speak to this experience that we all collectively had during the lockdown period and also inspire people to feel a sense of hope and optimism. But also, most of all, I think we all know that the history of women's magazines has been very insular and exclusive and the opposite of inclusive. You know, there's that sense of there being historically a very, very narrow standard of beauty. And, you know, I'm excited to open that up and to really sort of look at the expansiveness of what womanhood looks like. And I thought Lizzo was a really great starting point for that.
MARTIN: Well, you know, speaking of inclusion, I was really struck by your editor's note where you don't shy away at all from the uncertainty, frankly, of - that a lot of people are living with right now. I mean, I think some people have seen, you know, fashion in the way that some people have seen sports. It's like their escape. You are very much not taking that approach, and I was curious about that. You specifically referenced the sense of unease that many people feel with the politics of the moment, whatever side they are on, you know, as it were, and the war in Ukraine, obviously. You are there in Europe. I was just curious, like, why you took that approach. And did you ever second-guess yourself and think, maybe not? You know what I mean?
HUNT: Yeah.
MARTIN: Like, how did you come to that?
HUNT: For me personally, I've always admired those journalists who drew those connections between fashion and culture and politics and really sort of contextualized fashion. But also, I think we've witnessed fashion sort of evolve to a place that's more purposeful. I think we're in a moment in time and in history that requires us to be much more honest and expansive in the way that we look at fashion and beauty, and to look at it against the backdrop of, you know, value systems and identity. Like, I don't think we can solely look at clothing in a bubble.
But that said, I do think it does have the power to inspire hope. And, you know, I do think there is power in a really beautiful and gorgeous fashion shoot that can make you dream. And we definitely still give you that. I think it's the most modern approach is to sort of speak to the world that we're living in - also because our readers are so savvy, and that's what we're talking about. And I think we - it's an exchange. Like, it's an - a dialogue exchange as opposed to before, I guess historically, when you look at women's magazines in the historic sense, where it's a monologue. Like, they're telling you how to live, how to dress, how to be.
MARTIN: So, you know - forgive me. I have to ask, are there any looks in particular you're excited about for fall? Now, I know you said, you know, fashion used to be top down and now it's more of a dialogue. And it's no longer the designers, you know, pointing the finger and saying, this is the color, this is what you're going to wear, this is the silhouette. But having said that, are there any key trends that you can point to that our listeners should be on the lookout for at whatever price point they're comfortable with?
HUNT: Yes. Hot pink is not a color I would ever normally gravitate towards, but it emerged as this dominant color story that came out of the collections. And it looks very sharp and intelligent and dynamic and cool. And so for me, as a color, I'm really interested in that. And then also, I'm really into heels again, which I didn't expect because I love my Jordans. I love a flat. I love a sandal. I broke a couple toes during the lockdown period, and so I had like, collected a whole range of like, you know, flats. And all of a sudden, I'm like, really enjoying wearing a heel again and dressing up.
And so I think it's the looks from the catwalks that really inspire you to - you know, to dress up, to wear some color, to go out and have an experience. That's what's really resonating with me. And I'm seeing it, you know, here as well. Like, during the summer, people were just getting their life - like, going out, traveling all over the place. So for me, it's, like - it's those pieces that inspire you to dress up. So I think there's a lot to get excited about right now in terms of, you know, options for what to wear.
MARTIN: That's Kenya Hunt. She's the editor-in-chief of the U.K. edition of Elle magazine. Her book, "Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood And Belonging In The Age Of Black Girl Magic," is also out now. Kenya Hunt, thanks so much for joining us.
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Star-studded event will raise funds for life-saving health and education programs in Africa
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The GEANCO Foundation will hold its annual Hollywood Gala on Friday, September 30 at The 1 Hotel to raise funds for programs focused on vulnerable women and children in Nigeria.
Event proceeds will support GEANCO's David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls, which provides full tuition, housing, healthcare, and social care to young female victims of terrorism and gender inequality in Nigeria. This special scholarship uplifts and empowers brilliant girls in volatile, challenging circumstances. Donations will also underwrite the Foundation's November 2022 minimally-invasive surgical mission to Nigeria.
As said by Gala Co-Chair David Oyelowo: "With our help, these bright and resilient girls can blossom into Nigeria's most inspiring leaders in government, education, business, entertainment, and so much more. That is what these Leadership Scholarships are all about. We seek to nurture a generation of strong female trailblazers whose positive impact will be felt across Africa and around the world."
The Gala is supported by leading figures in the entertainment industry, such as Benedict Cumberbatch (Honorary Chair), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Gala Chair), David Oyelowo (Gala Chair), and previous Gala Honorees and Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Forest Whitaker. Previous Gala guests include actors Scott Eastwood (Wrath of Man), Ava DuVerney (director and Oscar-nominated writer) and Sam Adegoke (Dynasty). For a full list of past attendees, please see here.
"I am deeply honored by the strong support those both inside and outside of the entertainment industry have given us over the years," says Afam Onyema, GEANCO's Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Our Hollywood Gala is critical to our efforts to save vulnerable mothers and infants and to educate and inspire young girls affected by terrorism. Our generous GEANCO family of supporters continues to make a powerful impact on the disrupted communities throughout Nigeria."
2022 GEANCO GALA DETAILS
While mingling with influential figures in the entertainment industry, guests will enjoy lively Nigerian music, a premium open bar featuring Nigeria's renowned Star Beer, and Africa-inspired gourmet hors d'oeuvres.
When: Friday, September 30 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: The Hotel 1 - 8490 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Register here: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTUxODkx
Sponsors include Netflix, Creative Artists Agency, Zegar Family Fund, Rush Imhotep (Financial Advisor, Northwestern Mutual), Gafni & Levin LLP, Star Beer USA, Amplify Africa, Round Hill Legal Search, and Graphic Design Partner Misfit.
About The GEANCO Foundation
An LA-based nonprofit, GEANCO saves and transforms lives in Africa. It organizes surgical missions and runs innovative maternal and infant health programs in Nigeria. Its David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for Girls provides full tuition, healthcare, and social & psychological support to young female survivors of terrorism and gender inequality in the country.
For more information on The GEANCO Foundation, visit Geanco.org, and connect with the organization on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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This Indianapolis family is on a mission to spread childhood cancer awareness
Leanor Formo hopes everyone in the world will someday be even more aware of childhood cancer.
But first, Leanor wants to tell her fellow Girl Scouts about it.
Leanor, who has been off cancer treatment for almost a year, will talk with other scouts on Sept. 10 at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church about what it is like to be diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma.
Leanor, 8, her sister and her mom are hosting the event, at which scouts from any troop, and even non-scouts, that sign up can earn a patch by learning about childhood cancer and supporting local families impacted by it.
“I’m going to talk about childhood cancer,” she said, “because some people do probably still need to know ... because only some of my friends in my Girl Scout troop and some of the schools that I go to know about what childhood cancer is.”
Aimee Formo, Leanor’s mom and troop leader, said that while her daughter’s treatment is over, she wants to keep educating others because families are still going through what her family went through.
“She’s done with treatment,” she said, "but this isn’t really over."
Earning the cancer awareness patch
Patches are not like the more well-known badges, which Girls Scouts earn and iron or sew on the front of their vests after completing skill-building activities such as coding and making friends. To get a patch, scouts just need to participate in a fun event or activity.
To earn the cancer awareness patch, Girls Scouts must do three things: learn about childhood cancer, raise awareness for childhood cancer and do something to support patients and families.
While the scouts are free to do this on their own and collect their patch, Aimee organized an event so multiple Girl Scouts could earn it together.
At the event, Leanor will share her personal experience as someone who had cancer and Dot Formo, as her sister, will be talking about how to take care of family members or friends with the disease
“Talking to them, maybe giving them something like a drawing book, something to do,” Dot, 11, said, explaining different ways people can help. “The hospital’s pretty boring.”
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At the event, the family will be collecting toiletry items for the hospital to give to families. The kids will also be provided with materials to write care cards that will eventually be included in “joy jars,” which are packages filled with toys, crafts and encouraging words sent to kids with cancer.
Aimee made sure to plan this gathering during the beginning of September because it is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
During this month, individuals and organizations “go gold” — the color of the childhood cancer ribbon — by participating in different activities related to raising awareness or support for people affected by this disease.
Cancer treatment is tough, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic
Leanor was 7 years old when an X-ray found a mandarin-orange-sized tumor in her leg.
She had complained of her legs aching, but her parents attributed the problem to growing pains.
Then one day close to Thanksgiving, she fell while playing.
About 24 hours later, she wouldn’t walk. She was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma.
The day before Christmas Eve 2020, Leanor was checked into the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital for her first round of chemotherapy.
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In the spring of 2021, she had surgery to remove 9 inches of her left tibia, where the tumor was, and replace it with a portion of her right fibula. Her last chemotherapy was in September 2021.
Leanor said something that helped get her through her time in the hospital was spending time with therapy puppies, including a virtual visit from the social-media-famous Doug the Pug.
Aimee said their experience was heavily impacted by COVID-19, particularly because the hospital only allowed one parent to stay overnight, and at first only one person was allowed in the room during the day.
“(My husband and I) didn’t have any socialization between the (other) families,” she said. “We pretty much just saw nurses and doctors.”
Leanor said the hardest thing about cancer was how stressful the experience was for her and her family.
“You need to ask all these questions but when your parents don’t even know it’s a little bit hard,” she said. “And the only person that you’ll ever know that knows the answers is your doctor.”
Sticking with Girl Scouts
Even before Leanor was diagnosed with cancer, she was a Girl Scout.
Her mom Aimee was a former scout who loved the experience but never got past the junior level. In college, she followed her friend to their old scout camp, where she worked as the arts and crafts director.
Aimee decided that she wanted to introduce her kids to scouting and she wanted them to stick with it. She is now the leader for both her daughters' troops.
When Dot joined, she instantly made friends.
“Somehow,” she said, "we all love cats."
She was hooked. Leanor tagged along and joined as soon as she could.
Leanor’s favorite thing about being involved in Girl Scouts is the crafts. Even when she was going through chemotherapy, she donned her vest to deliver Girl Scout cookies to nurses.
Cancer could come back
Since coming back from the hospital, Leanor has struggled with a few problems, including the strength in her left leg and her memory.
Some former cancer patients experience what is known as "chemo brain" following treatment, according to the Mayo Clinic. There are many side effects associated with chemo brain but some of them are confusion, difficulty concentrating and short-term memory problems.
Leanor's prepared with the information she will be presenting at the meeting.
“Childhood cancer,” she said. “Widening of the reach of knowing what it is means more people will know and maybe the entire world will someday know.”
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As she tried to recall some details, her mom had to remind her about some memories from the hospital and how she was going to talk about what made her experience scarier and what made it better.
Ewing sarcoma can return to a person’s body years after they eliminate the tumor and go through chemotherapy. About 30% of patients will have a recurrence within the first five years, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Once cancer recurs, it is much harder to treat because the same chemotherapy methods can't be used twice due to toxicity concerns.
That’s part of the reason why Aimee wants to continue educating people about her family’s experience.
Aimee said she's hesitant to call her daughter cancer free even though Leanor's been off of treatment for about a year because if there are remnants of cancer, they can not show up on scans for months. The doctor always has at least one "but" when they talk about if Leanor is cured, she said.
That’s part of the reason why Aimee wants to continue educating people about her family’s experience
“Any little advance that can happen in research and in treatment protocols,” she said, "is going to potentially make this an easier process for her the next time around."
Girl Scouts from any troop and other kids can register for the event to earn their cancer awareness patch at ccam-patch-indy.cheddarup.com. The deadline to sign up is Sept. 8.
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Ken Burns/PBS upcoming “US and the Holocaust” documentary. Beware the hidden message
Trump is Hitler?
Not exactly, says Ken Burns during an interview with the Daily Beast. Not exactly, but close.
At the last moment, Burns dropped a segment which would show Hitler campaigning with the slogan, “Make Germany great again.”
That would be too obviously a reference to Trump and his trademark,” Make America great again.”
So the film, “The US and the Holocaust,” running in three parts on PBS beginning Sept. 18, will focus on America’s failure to save the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust.
That would be enough of a story if it stopped right there, except that Trump derangement syndrome strikes again!
The name “Trump” is apparently nowhere in the script, but it is there subliminally, if what we gather is correct from Burns’ interviews with the Daily Beast and CBS Sunday Morning.
We read that largely due to antisemitism, America closed its borders to the Jews trapped in Third Reich Europe.
This is entirely a fact, which the documentary covers in painstaking detail. Burns, we are told, spent four years digging until he came up with new information, from FDR on down.
Yes, America behaved badly.
America had closed its borders. Millions could have been saved if America had a heart, for the Jews.
From that, and from the rise of Israel, came the term “Never Again.”
That phrase was introduced as strictly bearing on the Jewish Experience, and yet it keeps being appropriated.
So that “never again” means never again closed or secure borders for…well, for example, for the millions walking in illegally through Mexico.
Beware such hidden messages within the total big picture, for which, the big picture, Burns deserves credit, if he had resisted the temptation to signal the Left.
Accordingly, the tag “White supremacy” keeps showing up as part of the project. Burns puts the blame on Protestants as wanting no Jews mixing in with their America.
True as that may be, the term “White supremacy” is of recent vintage. Language like that was never known or used back then, and only now are Americans categorized as such.
“White supremacy” is another way to whisper Trump and his MAGA followers, and to somehow link these days with those days.
Was this necessary?
There ought to be a law against use of the Holocaust for other means and other people. The Holocaust was a singular Jewish tragedy.
Using it is abusing it when it’s for something else. There was one Holocaust. Period. Survivors are not people who survived Honduras, but people who survived Auschwitz.
Yes, some of us are still around who know the story firsthand, indeed how America turned its back on the Jews.
When the ship Serpa Pinto docked in Philadelphia, the Survivors were commanded, by armed guards, to walk a wooden plank toward busses headed for Canada.
If you tripped, and “set foot on American soil,” you were to be sent back.
That’s the story from one family’s experience.
Ken Burns ought to be congratulated for taking up the cause. Generations who don’t know what happened should be taught.
Generations who know but forgot, should be reminded.
But the left-wing politics within the film is an asterisk on an otherwise noble enterprise.
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He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Website: www.jackengelhard.com | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359360 | 2022-09-06T14:44:15Z | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359360 | false |
An eight-day-old infant was admitted to Rambam Hospital in Haifa on Monday with a wound on his genitalia after undergoing a botched circumcision.
The hospital has stated that the injury is not life-threatening, the child underwent sensitive and urgent surgery and is currently under observation.
Dr. Akram Asdi, a senior urologist at Rambam, stated that the infant arrived with a serious wound on his genitalia. "We have seen many cases like these over the years, but as a doctor who has been working in this area for about 29 years, I don't remember such a severe case. It's hard to imagine such damage came from circumcision. After being admitted, the infant was operated on by three surgeons, to try to fix and heal as much as possible, since there was also damage to the blood vessels."
"I don't know how experienced this Mohel (ritual circumciser) was, but it's best to choose an experienced Mohel," Asdi told Ynet. "A circumcision is a surgical procedure and at times the training isn't always professional. We see a lot of circumcisions that are not perfect, children that bleed after the procedure, abrasions, cuts, and the like. A lot of injuries. There are a lot of Mohels who are doctors and some are urologists. You have to know how to choose the correct Mohel." | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359370 | 2022-09-06T14:44:34Z | https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359370 | true |
BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — The Democratic U.S. House candidate in North Dakota is conceding the race — two months before the election.
Mark Haugen, announced as of Sunday.. he is suspending his campaign.
Haugen says the US Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade is one of the reasons for stepping out of the race. He went on to say he received several phone calls over the weekend from the Democratic Party.. asking him to think about withdrawing from the race.
Haugen says he is stepping down and will now be taking a break from politics, spending more time with family. Despite the outcome, Haugen says he is thankful to all of those who supported him.
“I thank all of my supporters. Thank you for your support and just being there with me during this campaign. It’s been an honor but what I am doing today is the right thing to do,” said Haugen.
Patrick Hart, the Chairman of the Democratic-NPL Party expressed his disappointment for Haugen’s departure and that they are not endorsing Cara Mund. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/whats-next-for-mark-haugen/ | 2022-09-06T14:46:43Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/whats-next-for-mark-haugen/ | false |
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe is struggling to contain an energy crisis that could lead to rolling blackouts, shuttered factories and a deep recession.
The primary cause: Russia has choked off the supplies of cheap natural gas that the continent depended on for years to run factories, generate electricity and heat homes. That has pushed European governments into a desperate scramble for new supplies and for ways to blunt the impact as economic growth slows and household utility bills rise.
The crisis deepened when Russia's state-owned exporter Gazprom said the main pipeline carrying gas to Germany would stay closed, blaming an oil leak and claiming the problems could not be fixed because of sanctions barring many dealings with Russia.
European officials say it's energy blackmail, aimed at pressuring and dividing the European Union as it supports Ukraine against Russia's invasion.
Here is the latest on Europe's efforts to avoid an energy disaster:
DID RUSSIA CUT OFF GAS TO EUROPE?
Just about. The halt in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline means Russian gas shipments have fallen 89% from a year ago. Russia used to supply 40% of Europe's natural gas, and even more to Germany, where inexpensive energy was a pillar of the economy.
There's still some Russian gas flowing to Europe through a pipeline passing through Ukraine into Slovakia, and another crossing the Black Sea to Turkey and then to EU member Bulgaria. Russia started cutting back gas as early as last summer, before the war in Ukraine started. That sent gas prices sharply higher.
Then Gazprom cut off a number of European countries after they responded to the outbreak of the war by banning many dealings with Russian banks, businesses and persons.
The reductions have led to soaring natural gas prices, which have hit records in the past few weeks. Given Russia's slow constriction of supplies since last summer, experts say Europe needs to be ready for zero Russian gas this winter.
WHY IS RUSSIAN GAS SO IMPORTANT?
High energy prices are already threatening to cause a recession this winter through record inflation, with consumers having less to spend as costs rise for food, fuel and utilities. A complete cutoff could deal an even heavier blow to an already troubled economy.
Besides heating homes and generating electricity, gas is used to fire a range of industrial processes that most people never think much about — forging steel to go into cars, making glass bottles and pasteurizing milk and cheese.
Companies warn that they often can't switch overnight to other energy sources such as fuel oil or electricity to produce heat. And, with everyone searching for alternate supplies, fuel oil and coal have also risen in price.
In some cases, equipment that holds molten metal or glass is ruined if the heat is turned off, and over the longer term, energy-intensive businesses may simply give up on Europe.
IS THE PROBLEM JUST ABOUT HIGH NATURAL GAS PRICES?
No. Electricity prices also have skyrocketed because gas is a key fuel to generate power. To make matters worse, other sources of power have lagged for reasons not connected to Russia.
Drought has undermined hydroelectric power from rivers and reservoirs. France's fleet of 56 nuclear power plants is running at half-strength because of shutdowns over corrosion problems in key pipes and repairs, updating and safety checks. A heat wave limited use of river water for cooling power plants, and lower water levels on Germany's Rhine River reduced supplies of coal to generators.
In a role reversal, France is talking about sending natural gas to Germany, while Germany is exporting electricity to France. Usually it's the other way around.
Analysts at Rystad Energy say Europe could face a serious electricity shortage as soon as this month. This winter, a worst case of cold weather, low wind generation and a 15% cut in gas use “would prove very challenging for the European power system, and could lead to power rationing and blackouts.”
“Regardless of the exact scenario, the coming winter is certain to be the most challenging Europe has seen in decades — and consumers or governments are expected to pay the price," said Carlos Torres-Diaz, head of power at Rystad Energy. “If gas demand needs to be cut, we expect to see power supply issues emerging this month and worsening into 2023.”
WHAT IS EUROPE DOING TO EASE THE CRISIS?
Europe has lined up all the alternative gas supplies it could: shipments of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, that come by ship from the United States and more pipeline gas from Norway and Azerbaijan. LNG is much more expensive than pipeline gas, however.
Germany is keeping coal plants in operation that it was going to shutter to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It also is keeping the option of reactivating two nuclear plants it's set to shut down.
The 27-nation EU has approved a plan to reduce gas use by 15% by next March, roughly the amount experts say will need to make up for the loss of Russian gas. Yet those conservation measures are voluntary in member countries for now.
National governments have approved a raft of measures: bailouts for utilities forced to pay exorbitant prices for Russian gas, cash for hard-hit households and tax breaks.
For example, Germany has approved a third support package with 65 billion euros ($64.3 billion) in aid for consumers. That kind of spending will add to national deficits but also soften the downturn that economists are predicting for the end of this year and beginning of next year.
More steps are coming. The president of the EU's executive Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, says a new proposal will include a price cap on natural gas and measures that could decouple the price of electricity from gas.
Perhaps most important in the short term, Europe has managed to fill 85% of its storage for winter with the help of LNG and diminished consumption because of high prices. Storage levels have kept rising even after the Nord Stream 1 cutoff.
Partly as result, gas prices have fallen to their pre-cutoff level, although they are still painfully high.
WHAT'S RUSSIA'S GAME?
Even as gas sales dwindled, skyrocketing prices helped maintain Russia's income from those sales. Oil and gas imports were initially exempt from sanctions because Europe was dependent on Russian energy. Europe has banned Russian coal and will ban most Russian oil at the end of the year.
Russia's revenue from fossil fuel exports reached 158 billion euros from February to August, according to the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
But oil has tended to be the Kremlin's main moneymaker, and unlike gas in fixed pipelines to Europe, can be sold worldwide by tanker. And the gas relationship with Europe may be gone for good — and with it, any influence it might have brought.
“The gas flows from Europe no longer play a role in my calculations,” German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said. “The only reliable thing from Russia are lies.”
So if Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks he has any leverage from gas, time is running out for him to use it.
“Russia has lost nothing now that it hadn't lost already ... this winter is the last chance to use the gas weapon, successfully or not,” tweeted Janis Kluge, an expert on the Russian economy at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Europe-struggles-with-crisis-as-Russia-17421786.php | 2022-09-06T14:50:29Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Europe-struggles-with-crisis-as-Russia-17421786.php | true |
JACKSON, MI – The final Bright Walls festival is here and organizers are gearing up to send it off with a bang.
Murals and entertainment hit the streets one last time in downtown Jackson on Sept. 8-11. A full weekend of events are scheduled.
“We’re definitely excited for the finale of Bright Walls,” Media Coordinator Leslie McAndrews said. “It is a little bittersweet and we’re so happy with the impact that it has had on Jackson. But, we’re on to the to the next chapter, and hopefully, Bright Walls will inspire people to kind of chase after their own ways that they can help make their hometown bright.”
Bright Walls started in 2018 and has brought more than 50 murals to the downtown Jackson area. The finale was originally planned for 2020 and then again in 2021, but was pushed back due to COVID-19.
This year’s event includes a dog parade, painting contest and food trucks. Additionally, there is live music in the evenings. Here is your full guide to what’s happening.
Dates and times
The event kicks off from 6 to 11 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, with “Bright Paws.” The “Rock the Block” event will take place from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9.
After that, people can go “Back to the 90s” from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. To give a final farewell to the festival, people can enjoy a “Sunday Funday” from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11.
Price and Parking
The event is free, aside from some live music concerts taking place some late evenings.
Free parking is also available downtown, McAndrews said. Street parking is available, and any city lot that is marked as free can be utilized. The parking lot next to Lean Rocket Lab, 133 W. Michigan Ave., however, will be closed.
Additionally, the Consumers Energy parking garage on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive will be open for public use. Bright Walls organizers encourage visitors to utilize the parking garage, McAndrews said.
Location
The finale is centered at 150 S. Mechanic St. and will spread out to the sounding streets and blocks. Thirty-three murals are being painted on the walls of buildings between Cortland Street, Michigan Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Weather
Sunny skies and warm weather is expected for event.
Thursday is expected to be sunny with a high of 81 degrees, with a low of 56 in the evening, according to the National Weather Service. Friday is predicted to be sunny with a high of 83 and a low of 61.
Saturday will be mostly sunny with a chance of showers after 2 p.m., per the NWS There will be a high of 82 with a low of 62. Sunday is also showing a chance of showers with a high of 75 and a low of 55.
The Murals and Artists
This year, Bright Walls organizers are bringing 33 different artists to participate. Artists are coming from all over the world, including Canada, France, Colombia, Greece and more.
However, people can expect to see many artists from Michigan, as well as some Jackson, including Clay McAndrews, Ted Lefere, Zach Snyder Zach Cox, Julie Durocher, Cici Moe’na, Audra Olivia and Danielle Ward.
Murals will range in sizes, including big walls, alley sizes and door sizes. Once the weekend is over, 74 Bright Walls murals will be on the walls of Jackson buildings.
Mini Mural Competition
A mini mural competition, featuring 25 artists, also takes place from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Each artist will receive a 4-foot-by-4-foot board, limited paint supplies and have four hours to paint.
Once the competition is complete, the public will vote for their favorites. The top three muralists will each win a cash prize which will be announced on the main stage after the event.
Bright Paws
A dog parade featuring pups and their owners begins at 6 p.m. Thursday on Michigan Avenue. Dogs and owners participating will line up at 170 W. Pearl St. and the parade will end at 140 E. Cortland St.
After the parade, guests can stick around to see registered pets compete in a pageant for a prize. Categories include Best Hair, Best Outfit, Best Trick and Best Friend.
Food and Drinks
Around a dozen food trucks are expected to be parking along Cortland Street.
However, if people are not in the mood for what is available, there are many bars and restaurants downtown for people to grab a bite at, McAndrews said.
Live Music
Several chances to catch some live music are available. Free live music is happening throughout the weekend at the alley stage next to Chase Sports Bar, 105 E. Michigan Ave.
Main stage acts are also part of Bright Walls this year. These performances are ticketed unlike previous years because organizers need to offset the price to bring the acts in, McAndrews said. The stage is located at the city parking lot next to Lean Rocket Lab
The Friday, Sept. 9 concert features Blackstone Steele from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Your Generation In Concert from 8 to 11 p.m.
The Verve Pipe will perform from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. DJ Just Dre and Even Struck will play from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Fresh Kids of Bel-Air will finish the night from 8:30 to 11 p.m.
From 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, The Fab Four, a Beatles tribute band, is performing.
Tickets range from $15 to $25 and can be bought on Bright Wall’s website.
More information about Bright Walls can be found on its Facebook page and website.
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Bright Walls is back for one last bash in downtown Jackson | https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2022/09/murals-music-and-munchies-your-guide-to-jacksons-bright-walls-finale.html | 2022-09-06T14:51:49Z | https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2022/09/murals-music-and-munchies-your-guide-to-jacksons-bright-walls-finale.html | false |
Nancy Pelosi's office rejects 'utter nonsense' report she wants to be the US Ambassador to Italy if Republicans win the House: Says speaker has 'not discussed it with anyone in the White House'
- Pelosi's office is pushing back on a report that Biden is holding his Italian ambassadorship pick for the Speaker if the GOP retakes a majority in the House
- A Fox News report claims that Pelosi, 82, will leave her post in the House and take the ambassadorship if she returns to being minority leader
- 'The Speaker has no interest in this position and has not discussed it with anyone in the White House,' Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammill told DailyMail.com
- Pelosi has served in Congress for 35 years
- She was pictured vacationing with her family in Italy over summer recess
Nancy Pelosi's office is pushing back on the 'utter nonsense' report that the Speaker will abandon her House leadership role to be U.S. Ambassador to Italy if Republicans take a majority after the 2022 midterms.
'The Speaker has no interest in this position and has not discussed it with anyone in the White House,' Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammill told DailyMail.com
A Monday report claims that Pelosi, 82, has no interest in returning to a minority leader role in Congress.
According to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, sources claim President Joe Biden is holding onto the U.S. ambassador to Italy assignment for Pelosi.
'This is the second time Maria Bartiromo has proceeded with reporting anonymous rumors about the Speaker's future that have no merit,' Hammill accused.
'And the second time she has failed to ask us for comment before airing or publishing this utter nonsense.'
The White House refused to comment on the report, telling DailyMail.com: 'We don't engage in hypotheticals.'
It's not unusual for presidents to reserve cushy ambassadorship roles for those who helped propel them to the White House.
Villa Taverna, the U.S. ambassador's residence in Rome, Italy, is a grand mansion.
The seven acres of grounds include a pool, tennis court and private gardens, while the estate boasts a three-story wine cellar.
Nancy Pelosi's office is pushing back on a report that President Joe Biden is holding his Italian ambassadorship pick for the Speaker if the GOP retakes a majority in the House in the 2022 midterms. Pelosi is pictured September 1, 2022 speaking to members of the press in Atlanta
The U.S. ambassador to Italy is a cushy post and includes a residence at Villa Taverna, which is a luxurious seven-bedroom, seven-acre estate in Rome, Italy
The grounds include a swimming pool, tennis court, movie theater and three-story wine cellar
Pelosi was pictured during the summer recess vacationing in Italy.
She visited the Pope during her trip as well as lounged on the beach at opera star Andrea Bocelli's luxury Alpemare Beach Club in Tuscany along with her husband Paul Pelosi, who at the time was still awaiting trial for his DUI charge.
The desirable ambassador post in Italy could finally be filled by Pelosi if Democrats lose their majority in the House in the 2022 midterm elections, which remains the likely outcome.
Pelosi has served as a representative for California since 1987 when she won a special election – and has held various leadership roles in her caucus since then before ascending to Speaker.
An image shows a party in the gardens of Villa Taverna for an Independence Day celebration July 2019
An ambassador role requires Senate confirmation, and there is no sign of how the upper chamber would react to the nomination – especially if it were to come right after losing her Speakership role.
Biden has already had 101 of his ambassadorship posts confirmed by the Senate.
He remains, however, slow to name his picks for ambassador to several countries, including Italy.
Pelosi was pictured vacationing in Italy during Congress' summer recess this year. The Speaker donned a blow v-neck swimsuit and white covered up set as she walked along the beach in Italy in July
Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi (right) were visiting Andrea Bocelli (left) and his wife Veronica Berti (second from left) at the opera star's Alpemare Beach Club in Tuscany, Italy
The Italian vacation included going to mass at the Vatican. Nancy and Paul meet Pope Francis (left) for the morning Mass marking the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul on June 29, 2022
Of the 197 ambassador positions, there are still 27 percent without a Senate-confirmed official.
Speculation earlier this year pointed to the post going to a Pelosi ally and former Wall Street executive who wanted the ambassador role.
That has shifted, however, with the increasing likelihood that the red wave shows true and Republicans retake a majority in the House.
An Office of the Inspector General 2010 report estimated the combined value of the residence and the embassy compound in Rome is anywhere from '$500 million to $1 billion.'
Villa Taverna is a whopping 31,750 square feet and has seven bedrooms, each with a private loggia – or balcony.
It is situated in one of Rome's most central, exclusive and desired neighborhoods. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11184993/Pelosis-office-rejects-nonsense-report-wants-Ambassador-Italy-GOP-win-House.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-09-06T14:55:27Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11184993/Pelosis-office-rejects-nonsense-report-wants-Ambassador-Italy-GOP-win-House.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
EDJX gains market momentum and accelerates the adoption of serverless edge computing
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EDJX, the pioneer in decentralized global serverless edge computing, today announced that it has hired a new CEO while simultaneously raising a seed round of funding. EDJX's CEO Benjamin Thomas has assumed day-to-day leadership of the company and joined EDJX's Board of Directors. Thomas is a serial entrepreneur and founder of two companies, which combined sold for over two hundred million dollars in enterprise value to strategic acquirers on less than $60 million in equity investment.
Additionally, EDJX closed $3M in new funding led by Intersouth Partners, bringing EDJX's overall fundraise to date to $15M. These developments attest to the tremendous momentum EDJX continues to gain in the market, reinforcing its dedication to making a meaningful contribution to serverless edge computing.
"The Board and I are confident that Benjamin is the right person at the right time for EDJX," said Mitch Mumma, Managing General Partner, Intersouth Partners. "He is an experienced leader with a track record of success and a great understanding of what it takes to manage a young hyper-growth company and evangelize a corporate vision. We feel privileged that he has agreed to be EDJX's CEO during this time of rapid growth and market traction for the company."
EDJX brings compute, storage, and sensor hosting services close to the developer, making it easy to write, deploy and execute applications without paying for servers and maintaining infrastructure. The EDJX serverless edge computing environment allows developers to build instantly global, powerful applications closer to endpoints and users than ever before. EDJX has recently opened its platform to developers to build and scale apps free of charge on EDJX Serverless. Developers can sign up for the EDJX Platform here.
"Serverless is the future for IoT technology because it's nimble, cost-effective, and close to the action. Think 'computing-as-a-service,' where servers are used for capacity when needed. The world's next-gen IoT applications must be able to move from server to server in near real-time, which requires a completely different architecture than current cloud tools," said Benjamin Thomas, CEO of EDJX. "I am honored to join EDJX at this exciting time in the company's growth trajectory. I look forward to leading the company and offering our amazing platform available to the market. EDJX's multi-tenant mesh compute, storage, and sensor hosting network makes it incredibly easy for developers to deploy to the edge. As our recent round of funding attests, now is the time to bring serverless edge to the mainstream, and EDJX is on the cusp of this shift."
Benjamin Thomas was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year nominee and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University and an MS in Management from Stanford University.
EDJX is an intelligent Edge OS and computing platform that makes it easy to write, deploy, and execute applications using serverless computing to increase responsiveness and security. EDJX's edge mesh network of micro-compute and storage nodes minimizes latency, eliminates expensive backhauling of data, accelerates content delivery, and rapidly deploys IoT sensors at the far edge. EDJX helps businesses handle the explosive demand for data processing to serve real-world edge computing applications, including industrial IoT, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics. EDJX is a privately held company based in Raleigh, NC. Visit EDJX and follow EDJX on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Religious leaders urge President-elect William Ruto to focus on uniting Kenyans
Religious leaders in the country have urged President-elect William Ruto to focus on uniting the country after a highly contested General Election that saw Kenya split into two factions.
Led by Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) Archbishop Martin Kivuva, the leaders also hailed Kenyans for maintaining peace and urged the incoming administration to resolve problems facing wananchi.
“We thank all Kenyans for the democratic maturity that they have manifested by actively and peacefully participating in this year’s general elections. To the President-elect, be a symbol of national unity and inspire confidence in Kenyans,” Archbishop Kivuva said.
They have further hailed Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party candidate Raila Odinga for respecting the rule of law and playing a key role in advancing the country’s democracy.
“We commend Mr Odinga for the great role he has played in in advancing leadership in the country. You have indeed demonstrated strong statesmanship in your calls for the rule of law to be respected and upheld,” he added.
The leaders were speaking after holding a meeting following the Supreme Court decision to uphold the victory of Dr Ruto in the August 9,2022 polls.
Although they commended the Supreme Court’s decision, they also urged the Judiciary to ensure justice is served in the rest of the petitions filed by candidates.
“We commend the Supreme Court for its decision and we are cognisant of the fact that not all Kenyans were satisfied with the decision. We call upon the rest of the Judiciary to prepare and ensure justice is done and is seen to be done in the petitions touching on other electoral positions,” said Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims Chairman Yusuf Abuhamza. | https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/religious-leaders-urge-president-elect-william-ruto-to-focus-on-uniting-kenyans-3939000 | 2022-09-06T14:58:11Z | https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/religious-leaders-urge-president-elect-william-ruto-to-focus-on-uniting-kenyans-3939000 | false |
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World is ignoring the western boy who cried wolf for 5 years and counting. Nobody who matters believes any of this. Last time a fake push unfortunately coincided with discovering mass graves at "schools" for Native Americans. Latest push has the sad timing with a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. Ironic how the West's own atrocious human rights record, especially with children, keeps stealing the spotlight from their own disinformation. So now according to UNHR the latest claim isn't genocide or even 'cultural' genocide. Admit making claims up before demanding interaction on the latest one.
So how's that 'revolution of our time' going? - people chuckling at the thought of it for years now 🤡
Don't hype over fantasy, China's been waiting almost 10 years for US to follow through on rhetoric over SCS construction. US lost in Taiwan conflict war games. China hit moving ship in SCS with ballistic missiles in 2020 from Qinghai and Zhejiang.
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Even as instances of stray dog attacks and rabies deaths have triggered concern across the country, the protocols prescribed by the Centre under the draft Animal Birth Control Rules, 2022 for sterilisation and vaccination of dogs and feral cats pose a major challenge for local bodies.
The draft legislation authorises the local authorities to conduct the Animal Birth Control (ABC) program through their own veterinary officers, or through animal welfare organisations recognised by the Animal Welfare Board of India.
Increased instances of stray dog attacks and rabies deaths have been a major cause of worry for the civic and State authorities besides triggering public protests. Incidents of packs of stray dogs attacking passers-by, especially children, have been reported from various States.
The death of a 12-year-old girl at Kottayam in Kerala on Monday, even after taking three doses of anti-rabies vaccine, was the latest one in the State. There were also few other cases of dog bite victims dying despite taking the vaccines, raising doubts about the efficacy of the vaccine. The Kerala government has appointed an expert panel to look into the issue.
The rules
The rules cover the pet dogs owned and kept indoor by individuals and street dogs or community-owned Indian dogs or abandoned pedigreed dogs which are homeless and living on streets or within gated campuses.
While the vaccination and sterilisation and de-worming of the pet animals will be the responsibility of its owners, the local authorities will be accountable in case of street dogs.
The draft rules propose animal helplines to deal with dog bites and rabid dogs. On receiving complaints, such dogs shall be humanely captured and kept for observation. If a dog is found to have a high probability of having rabies, it would be isolated till it dies a natural death.
The rules also moot the establishment of sufficient number of kennels and veterinary hospital facilities at the local level as well as the requisite number of vans with necessary modifications for safe handling and transportation of dogs and mobile operation theatres for sterilisation of animals.
Besides, local bodies will be required to set up incinerators for the disposal of organs and carcasses. CCTVs should be installed on the entire premises specifically in the operation theatre and the shelters where the animals are housed. The record of video surveillance shall be maintained for a minimum of three months, according to the draft rules.
Responsibility
Resident welfare associations, apartment owners associations or the representatives of the local bodies of each area have been made responsible for making necessary arrangements for feeding community animals.
Designated feeding spots, which shall be far from play areas of children, entry and exit points, staircase or in areas which are likely to be least frequented by children and senior citizens, shall be arranged. The feeding time shall be fixed after considering the movement of children, senior citizens, and sports activities in each spot, it says.
‘Unrealistic’
Meanwhile, some ABC specialists highlighted what they termed as the unrealistic provisions regarding the qualification of veterinarians for ABC programmes.
The draft rules specify that the vets should have a combined experience of having conducted at least 5,000 ABC surgeries to be deployed in a municipal corporation and at least 2,000 surgeries for village panchayats or rural local bodies, which is an unrealistic proposition, pointed out K.J. Kishore Kumar, a veterinarian.
There may be hardly two or three such vets in each State. Ideally, those who have performed 200 to 500 such surgeries shall be considered for the job as they would have acquired the required expertise, said Dr. Kumar..
The draft rules are silent on the financial implications of the ABC project which could be a daunting task for most local bodies. Ensuring regular and timely flow of funds is important for the success of such programmes, said Dr. Kumar who had initiated the ABC programme in Kochi.
The draft legislation states that the incurably ill and mortally wounded dogs, which are diagnosed by a team appointed by the Local Animal Birth Control Monitoring Committee, shall be euthanized in a humane manner by intravenous administration of sodium pentobarbital or any other approved humane manner, by a qualified veterinarian. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/draft-animal-birth-control-rules-pose-challenge-for-local-bodies/article65857670.ece | 2022-09-06T15:05:05Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/draft-animal-birth-control-rules-pose-challenge-for-local-bodies/article65857670.ece | false |
Uprising of the apes: Alpha chimpanzee is drowned in front of horrified German zoo guests after his son takes over the troop and uses them to attack his father
- Robert, 47, was the former leader of the chimpanzees before son took over
- There was aggressive altercation in the enclosure which led to Robert's death
- Zoo boss Jörg Junhold said troop members pushed Robert to edge of ditch
- He went over the safety boundary into the water afterwards and drowned
An Alpha chimpanzee was drowned in front of horrified German zoo guests after his son took over the troop and used them to attack his father.
Robert, 47, was the former leader of the chimpanzees at Pongoland in Leipzig Zoo who asserted himself against the younger apes.
But by the time he got a bit older, his son Frodo, 29, had taken over as leader.
Sadly, according to Bild, there was an aggressive altercation in the enclosure between Robert and the other chimpanzees which led to his death.
Zoo boss Dr Jörg Junhold today said that group members had pushed Robert to the edge of a ditch in the outdoor enclosure.
Shocked staff and visitors then watched Robert going over the safety boundary into the water.
He drowned immediately, as chimpanzees cannot swim. And soon after, his body was pulled out of the water by staff.
Robert, 47, was the former leader of the chimpanzees at Pongoland in Leipzig Zoo who asserted himself against the younger apes. He was pushed to the edge of a ditch in the outdoor enclosure and then crossed the safety boundary and drowned. Pictured: Pongoland
Dr Junhold said: 'We are deeply shocked by this event and have initially needed the last few days to process what happened.
'The pathological findings now available have confirmed that Robert drowned and that there were no other or internal injuries.'
A spokeswoman for the zoo Melanie Ginzel added: 'Disputes in chimpanzee groups are part of the zoo as well as in the wild.
'Here in Leipzig, however, nothing like this has ever happened with this intensity. You don't get involved in the group. The animals decide the ranking among themselves.'
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(KTLA) – Tom Cruise is known for his performing his own stunts, and this may be one of the biggest yet.
Over the weekend, a daring stunt performed by Cruise earlier this year was leaked online.
The “Top Gun: Maverick” star was shooting scenes for the upcoming film “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning,” when he took a break to greet some big names in the movie business at CinemaCon in April.
The video showed Cruise perched on a World War II biplane over Blyde River Canyon in South Africa, clinging only to the camera rigging.
“Hi everyone. I’m sorry for the extra noise,” the 60-year-old actor hollered while he sat atop the plane.
Cruise is then interrupted by another crew member alerting them that they must finish filming the scenes before the sun sets and they run out of fuel.
Before Cruise flies away, he introduced the trailer for the upcoming “Mission: Impossible” film and a screening of “Top Gun: Maverick” in full.
After Cruise signs off, the pilot quickly turns and dives, with Cruise still clinging just to the camera equipment.
The 78-second clip was not seen by anyone outside the convention until recently.
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Q: Ira, we are essentially the same team as last year, minus two, with Tyler Herro hardly pleased that he was treated like trade bait over the last two months, and several of our chief rivals upgrading their rosters. We can only go so far with the refrain that we came within one game of the NBA Finals last season. Tell me, please, that there is room for optimism in what from my vantage point is hard to fathom. – Bill, Palm Beach Gardens.
A: There is room for optimism (happy now?). For a moment, put aside the timing of upgrades by others in the Eastern Conference this season, and instead consider the overall composition of these rosters. The Heat have one that features Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Kyle Lowry, Tyler Herro, Victor Oladipo and the promise of several intriguing younger prospects. While that might not be as sexy as adding Donovan Mitchell, Dejounte Murray, Macolm Brogdon, Jalen Brunson, Joe Ingles or even P.J. Tucker, how many have a better combination of such a five-player base and elite-level coach? Don’t be so quick to indict the Heat regarding being stuck in place without first considering the potential for 2022-23 upgrades from Adebayo, Herro, Lowry, Oladipo and others. The Heat ended last season as a really good team. They will begin 2022-23 as the same, even without shiny new things.
Q: There’s an old saying about archery that goes, “It’s easy to overshoot the mark.” The Cavs overpaid for Mitchell. – Ray, Deerfield Beach.
A: We’re always here for the archery axioms and also could not agree more. As mentioned in my column on the trade, undersized shot creators in the NBA are sort of like high-usage running backs in the NFL. There will be ample opportunity to find one at a more reasonable price. For the Cavaliers, the issue is that they are in Cleveland, and landing one in free agency is challenging. The Heat remain in Miami, where the inducements of weather, no state income tax and not being in Cleveland will create robust opportunity for something more cost efficient down the road.
Q: The media is making it out as Danny Ainge is amazing. What has he accomplished? Nothing yet. Doesn’t sound like compelling basketball in Utah next season, and maybe for a few seasons. How is the process in Philadelphia going? Still in process. The Heat: NBA Finals in 2020, one shot from the NBA Finals in 2022. Thankful to be a Heat fan. Erik Spoelstra is one of the best coaches in the league and the Heat field a competitive team every year and take good care of fans and our community. – Stuart, Miami.
A: This entire notion of the Utah Jazz promising something better in 2027 or 2029 on some levels is laughable. What exactly does one do with Jazz tickets in the interim?
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LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.
At the top of her inbox is the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which threatens to push energy bills to unaffordable levels, shuttering businesses and leaving the nation’s poorest people shivering in icy homes this winter.
Truss, who refused to spell out her energy strategy during the two-month campaign to succeed Boris Johnson, now plans to cap energy bills at a cost to taxpayers of as much as 100 billion pounds ($116 billion), British news media reported Tuesday. She is expected to unveil her plan on Thursday.
“You must know about the cost of living crisis in England, which is really quite bad at the moment,” said Rebecca Macdougal, 55, who works in law enforcement, outside the Houses of Parliament.
“She’s making promises for that, as she says she’s going to deliver, deliver, deliver. But we will see in, hopefully, the next few weeks there’ll be some announcements which will help the normal working person.”
Truss, 47, took office Tuesday afternoon at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, when Queen Elizabeth II formally asked her to form a new government in a carefully choreographed ceremony dictated by centuries of tradition. Johnson, who announced his intention to step down two months ago, formally resigned during his own audience with the queen a short time earlier.
It was the first time in the queen’s 70-year reign that the handover of power took place at Balmoral, rather than Buckingham Palace in London. The ceremony was moved to Scotland to provide certainty about the schedule, because the 96-year-old queen has experienced problems getting around that have forced palace officials to make decisions about her travel on a day-to-day basis.
Truss became prime minister a day after the ruling Conservative Party chose her as its leader in an election where the party’s 172,000 dues-paying members were the only voters. As party leader, Truss automatically became prime minister without the need for a general election because the Conservatives still have a majority in the House of Commons.
But as a national leader selected by less than 0.5% of British adults, Truss is under pressure to show quick results.
Ed Davey, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats, on Tuesday called for an early election in October — something that Truss and the Conservative Party are highly unlikely to do since the Tories are slumping in the polls.
“I’ve listened to Liz Truss during the Tory leadership (campaign) and I was looking for a plan to help people with their skyrocketing energy bills, with the NHS crisis and so on, and I heard no plan at all,” he told the BBC. “Given people are really worried, given people are losing sleep over their energy bills, businesses aren’t investing because of the crisis, I think that’s really wrong.”
Johnson took note of the strains facing Britain as he left the prime minister’s official residence at No. 10 Downing Street for the last time, saying his policies had left the government with the economic strength to help people weather the energy crisis.
Always colorful, he thinly disguised his bitterness at being forced out.
“I am like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function,” Johnson said. “I will now be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific.’
Many observers expect Johnson to attempt a political comeback, though he was cyrptic about his plans. Instead, the man who studied classics at the University of Oxford backed Truss and compared himself to Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator who relinquished power and returned to his farm to live in peace.
“Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plow,” he said.
Johnson, 58, became prime minister three years ago after his predecessor, Theresa May, failed to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union. Johnson later won an 80-seat majority in Parliament with the promise to “get Brexit done.”
But he was forced out of office by a series of scandals that culminated in the resignation of dozens of Cabinet secretaries and lower-level officials in early July. That paved the way for Truss, a one-time accountant who was first elected to the House of Commons in 2010.
Many people in Britain are still learning about their new leader.
Unlike Johnson, who made himself a media celebrity long before he became prime minister, Truss rose quietly through the Conservative ranks before she was named foreign secretary, one of the top Cabinet posts, just a year ago.
She is expected to make her first speech as prime minister Tuesday afternoon outside No. 10 Downing Street.
Truss is under pressure to spell out how she plans to help consumers pay household energy bills that are set to rise to an average of 3,500 pounds ($4,000) a year — triple the cost of a year ago — on Oct. 1 unless she intervenes.
Rising food and energy prices, driven by the invasion of Ukraine and the aftershocks of COVID-19 and Brexit, have propelled U.K. inflation above 10% for the first time in four decades. The Bank of England forecasts it will hit 13.3% in October, and that the U.K. will slip into a prolonged recession by the end of the year.
Train drivers, port staff, garbage collectors, postal workers and lawyers have all staged strikes to demand that pay increases keep pace with inflation, and millions more, from teachers to nurses, could walk out in the next few months.
Truss, a low-tax, small-government conservative who admires Margaret Thatcher, says her priority is cutting taxes and slashing regulations to fuel economic growth. Critics say that will fuel further inflation while failing to address the cost-of-living crisis. The uncertainty has rattled money markets, driving the pound below $1.14 on Monday, its weakest since the 1980s.
In theory, Truss has time to make her mark: She doesn’t have to call a national election until late 2024. But opinion polls already give the main opposition Labour Party a steady lead, and the worse the economy gets, the more pressure will grow.
In addition to Britain’s domestic woes, Truss and her new Cabinet will also face multiple foreign policy crises, including the war in Ukraine and frosty post-Brexit relations with the EU.
Truss, as foreign secretary, was a firm supporter of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia. She has said her first phone call with a world leader will be to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Truss has also pledged to increase U.K. defense spending to 3% of gross domestic product from just over 2% — another expensive promise.
But she’s likely to have much cooler conversations with EU leaders, who were annoyed by her uncompromising stance as foreign secretary in talks over trade rules for Northern Ireland, an unresolved Brexit issue that has soured relations between London and Brussels. With the U.K. threatening to breach the legally binding divorce treaty, and the EU launching legal action in response, the dispute could escalate into a trade war.
“I think she’s got a big, challenging job ahead of her,” Robert Conway, 71, an electronics manufacturer, said in London. “Hopefully she’ll bring that, a new team, a new start, but it’s going to be a challenging job.”
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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Republicans are weighing which candidate has the best chance of keeping the governor’s office in GOP hands as they vote in Tuesday’s primary: a former state lawmaker endorsed by Donald Trump or a political newcomer who’s cast himself as the more moderate choice.
Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty are vying for the chance to replace incumbent Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who’s opted not to seek a third term.
Democrats have a simpler decision. Attorney General Maura Healey — she would become the first woman and first openly gay candidate elected governor if she wins — is facing no challengers after the only other Democrat on the ballot dropped out of the running.
Republican voters in the state will become just the latest to decide whether the party will further embrace Trumpism or is ready to move back toward the center. In recent primaries in other blue states like Maryland and Connecticut, GOP voters have nominated Trump loyalists, hurting the party’s chances of winning against a Democrat in the November general election.
Diehl, the favorite among state Republican Party delegates in Massachusetts, has ties to Trump stretching to 2016, when he served as co-chair for Trump’s presidential campaign in the state. Trump lost Massachusetts by almost 30 percentage points in his two presidential campaigns. Diehl has also opposed COVID-19 protocols and hailed the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
Doughty, a businessman, said he supported some of Trump’s initiatives but wants to focus on challenges facing Massachusetts, which he said is increasingly unaffordable.
Diehl has come to embrace Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 election. Diehl said last year that he didn’t think it was a “stolen election” but later said the election was rigged, despite dozens of courts, local officials and Trump’s own attorney general saying the vote was legitimate. Doughty, meanwhile, has said he believes President Joe Biden was legitimately elected.
The challenge for both is that support of Trump may play well among the party’s conservative wing but could be a political albatross in a state where registered Republicans make up less than 10% of the electorate compared to about 31% for Democrats and about 57% for independents.
Diehl faced a similar struggle when he challenged Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018. He won a three-way Republican primary only to capture just over a third of the vote in the general election.
Doughty said he would work to lower taxes and has said that although he considers himself “pro-life,” he accepts the state Supreme Court decision recognizing a right to abortion in Massachusetts.
Doughty has reported raising nearly $2.3 million for his campaign, most of it coming out of his own pocket, compared with Diehl, who has raised about $582,000. Healey has the largest campaign bank account — about $3.4 million.
Massachusetts has a history of electing fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republican governors — including former Govs. William Weld and Mitt Romney — to provide a check on overwhelming Democratic legislative majorities. Baker, another Republican in that mold, has remained popular in the state.
The election also features several statewide contested Democratic primaries, including for attorney general and secretary of the commonwealth.
Two Democrats are jockeying for the top law enforcement office: former Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell and workers’ rights attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan. A week before the election, a third candidate, former assistant attorney general Quentin Palfrey, announced he was suspending his campaign and endorsed Campbell; he will remain on the ballot.
Campbell would be the first Black woman to hold the office in Massachusetts if elected.
The winner will face Republican Jay McMahon, a trial attorney who previously ran against Healey and lost.
Incumbent Democratic Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin is vying for an eighth term in office. He’s fielding a challenge from fellow Democrat Tanisha Sullivan, president of the Boston branch of the NAACP. Sullivan would be the first Black person to serve in that post in the state.
The winner will face Republican Rayla Campbell in November. Campbell is also Black.
There are also contested races in the Democratic primary for auditor and for the Democratic and Republican races for lieutenant governor.
None of the state’s nine incumbent Democratic U.S. House members is facing primary challengers. There are two contested Republican primaries in the 8th and 9th congressional districts.
A new state law makes “no excuse” mail-in ballots and early voting permanent fixtures in Massachusetts elections. Many of the voting options included in the new law were implemented during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and proved popular.
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Landing 750 and Setting the Course for More
Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities is excited to announce that it has completed 750 (seven hundred and fifty) training courses in communication skills. The powerful three-day communication course "Our Community Listens" is conducted in partnership with communities, organizations, and businesses from around the globe to improve the communication skills of people from all walks of life. "We would like to thank our alumni, collaborators, and partners for being a part of this successful milestone," said Misty Janks, Foundation CEO.
A Decade of Dedication
In 2012, Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities began offering communication skills training to communities across the United States. A decade later, more than 13,000 individuals have healed relationships and grown as leaders through this unique learning experience. Our most recent alumni, photographed above, took the Our Community Listens course in Charleston, South Carolina. Participants included law enforcement officers, first responders, military personnel, corporate executives, social workers, graphic designers, software developers, and healthcare professionals—all from the same community.
What is Our Community Listens and how can it help you in your personal and professional life?
The Our Community Listens course is designed to help participants learn how to listen effectively, become more empathetic, and build better relationships. These skills are essential for success in both personal and professional contexts. In addition, the experience offered by Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities will help you to learn what motivates your team members and improve self-awareness.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CL Life and Annuity Insurance Company ("CL Life"), a provider of insurance products designed for retirement assets that seek to offer policyholders stable growth, tax deferral and income planning, today announced the appointment of Gary Sorensen as Director, Sales and Marketing. In this new position, Mr. Sorensen will be responsible for spearheading CL Life's business development, relationship management and marketing operations. Mr. Sorensen will report to Rick Hodgdon, President and Head of Insurance Business at CL Life.
"We're pleased to welcome Gary to the CL Life leadership team," said Rick Hodgdon. "Gary has a proven track record in the sector and brings decades of experience leading successful business development operations and relationship management initiatives for some of our industry's largest and most well-regarded organizations. We look forward to leveraging his deep business acumen built over two decades to grow CL Life's distribution and new business development functions."
"It's an exciting time to be joining the CL Life team, which is uniquely-positioned to quickly and effectively execute on delivering competitive annuity products that meet the financial goals of clients and offer strong returns for policy holders," said Gary Sorensen. "Tremendous opportunity exists for CL Life to scale and build strong market presence. I'm thrilled to help further advance the team's mission by leading the implementation and expansion of a high-performing marketing and sales division."
Prior to joining CL Life, Mr. Sorensen spent nearly thirty years in various sales, product and relationship management leadership positions for some of the largest and most well-known firms in the direct annuity insurance market, including Aviva, Voya Financial, F&G Life, Mutual of Omaha and most recently for GCU of USA, as its Director of Sales.
CL Life provides insurance products to independent agents through tax-deferred fixed annuities, which offer lifetime income options and penalty-free withdrawals. The firm recently announced its acquisition by Crestline Investors, Inc., an institutional investment management firm with approximately $15.4 billion in assets under management.
About CL Life and Annuity Insurance Company
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, CL Life and Annuity Insurance Company seeks to provide insurance products specially designed for retirement assets that offer stable growth, tax deferral, and income planning. Its mission is to provide competitive products that meet the financial goals of policy holders, investing in assets for the purpose of growing policy holder premiums aimed at generating strong returns with the flexibility to secure their future. CL Life is an affiliate of Crestline Investors, Inc., an institutional investment management firm with approximately $15.4 billion in assets under management. For more information visit www.cllife.com.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — We might see two hurricanes swirling in the water at the same time this week.
The National Hurricane Center is currently monitoring Hurricane Danielle and Tropical Storm Earl, which is expected to become a hurricane sometime in the next few days. It’s also watching a tropical wave off the coast of Africa that could soon become a tropical depression.
Hurricane Danielle
According to the NHC’s latest advisory, Danielle is located about 835 miles west-northwest of The Azores with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. It is moving northeast at 8 mph with hurricane-force winds extending outward up to 25 miles from the storm’s center and tropical storm-force winds extending outward up to 150 miles. The system is forecast to weaken over the next several days and will likely have no impact on the United States.
Tropical Storm Earl
At 5 a.m. ET, the hurricane center said Earl was looking a bit disheveled as it moved about 345 miles off St. Thomas. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph and was traveling north at 7 mph with tropical storm-force winds extending outward up to 115 miles from the storm’s center.
Earl is forecast to strengthen over the next couple of days as it moves north and north-northwestward. It’s expected to turn toward the north-northeast Wednesday night and Thursday.
“Interests in Bermuda should monitor the progress of Earl,” the hurricane center said.
Tropical wave
The hurricane center is also monitoring an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms stretching from the Cabo Verde Islands southwestward several hundred miles. It has a 40% chance of developing into a tropical depression in the next two days as it moves west to west-northwest at 15 to 20 mph over the eastern and central tropical Atlantic. Upper-level winds are likely to become less conducive for development late this week, the hurricane center said. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/tracking-the-tropics-we-could-see-two-hurricanes-at-the-same-time-this-week/ | 2022-09-06T15:08:20Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/tracking-the-tropics-we-could-see-two-hurricanes-at-the-same-time-this-week/ | false |
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after China promised to speed up the rollout of policy changes to boost anemic economic growth and Australia’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate.
Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul gained while Hong Kong declined.
The Chinese Cabinet’s planning agency promised Monday to accelerate easier lending and other policies but announced no new spending. Economic growth sank to 2.5% over a year earlier in the first half, less than half the official annual target.
The announcement might “provide a short-term uplift” to sentiment, but investors “ultimately want to see a stronger recovery,” said Yeap Jun Rong of IG in a report.
The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.1% to 3,235.57 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo added 0.1% to 27,643.06. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong shed 0.2% to 19,177.70.
Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 lost 0.3% to 6,833.80 after Australia’s central bank raised its benchmark lending rate by 0.5 percentage points to 2.35%, its highest level since 2015, and said more rate hikes were planned.
Investors worry repeated rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks in Asia and Europe to cool inflation that is at multi-decade highs might derail global economic growth. Central banks say they must slow business and consumer activity to get prices under control.
The Kospi in Seoul advanced 0.2% to 2,408.55 while India’s Sensex opened down less than 0.1% at 59,230.54. New Zealand retreated while Southeast Asian markets gained.
U.S. markets were closed Monday for a holiday.
European markets sank following Friday’s announcement by Russian gas giant Gazprom that a suspension of supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would be extended indefinitely. That adds to shortages in Germany and other economies.
The deputy director of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Yang Yinkai, said the agency will “speed up the release of policy effectiveness” to “make up for losses caused by the epidemic in the second quarter,” according to news reports.
The government has trimmed interest rates, given entrepreneurs a break on rent and promised other aid to revive the economy after Shanghai and other industrial centers temporarily shut down to fight virus outbreaks. But it is avoiding major spending, possibly for fear of reigniting a rise in housing costs and debt that Chinese leaders worry is dangerously high.
Also Monday, Beijing freed up more foreign currency holdings of Chinese commercial banks for lending and trading by lowering the amount they must hold in reserve. The move rolls back an increase imposed last year to limit speculative trading and restrain the rise of the exchange rate of China’s yuan, which has since declined.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude gained $1.78 to $88.65 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost 70 cents to $95.04 per barrel in London.
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Telugu Yuvatha-Vizianagaram Parliament wing president Vemala Chaitanya Babu and General Secretary Golagani Surendra on Tuesday alleged that the State government had failed to issue job calendar to fill over three lakh vacancies in various government offices.
Speaking to the media here, they urged all the youngsters to participate in ‘Nirudoyga Ranam’ protest rally to be organised from Fort Junction to NTR statue here on Wednesday to deplore injustice meted out to the unemployed youth.
Telugu Nadu Students’ Federation leaders Madugula Bhanuprakash and P.K.L. Raju said that Telugu Yuvatha State President Sriram Chinababu would participate in the rally to highlight the inordinate delay in filling up of vacancies in various government offices. Telugu Yuvatha leader Ganta Ravi, Ch.Swami and others were present.
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So much of the talk about Georgia last year focused on a defense that produced five NFL first-round draft picks.
The Bulldogs’ defense showed no sign of dropping off against No. 11 Oregon, but it was the offense that was front and center statistically in a 49-3 win Sunday.
The No. 3 and defending national champion Bulldogs became the second team in 15 seasons to score a touchdown on its first seven possessions against a ranked opponent.
The seven TD drives ranged from six to 12 plays, the first six under the direction of quarterback Stetson Bennett. Backup Carson Beck was in the game for the seventh. The streak ended when they went three-and-out on their first full series of the fourth quarter.
Last year Ohio State reached the end zone on its first seven drives, all in the first half, against then-No. 9 Michigan State.
BLOCK THAT KICK
FBS kickers have been pretty much automatic on extra points, having converted 577 of 586 this season. Of the nine misses, three were blocked — none bigger than Shyheim Brown’s deflection of Damian Ramos’ try on the final play of Florida State’s 24-23 win over LSU on Sunday.
In the past 20 years, according to Sportradar, no previous one-point game involving an FBS team had ended with the winning team blocking an extra point with no time left in the fourth quarter.
Kickers for Baylor and Akron also had extra-point tries blocked over the weekend.
SCORING EXPLOSION
Appalachian State’s 40 points in the fourth quarter of its 63-61 loss to North Carolina were the most by a team in a quarter since BYU hung 42 on Massachusetts in the second in 2019 and most by a team in a fourth quarter in 20 years, according to Sportradar.
According to Stats Perform, Saturday marked the first time an FBS team scored at least 60 points and lost and an FBS scored fewer than 10 points and won on the same day. Iowa turned a field goal and two safeties into a 7-3 win over South Dakota State.
ROCK CHALK RUN
Kansas heads to West Virginia this week with a shot of confidence from some of its offensive feats, albeit against Tennessee Tech of the Championship Subdivision.
The Jayhawks’ average of 9.9 yards per carry was their highest in a game since at least 2000. Their 297 rushing yards were their most since they had 508 against Rutgers in 2018.
Kansas’ won 56-10, scoring its most points in an opener since 1912 and most in a home game since a 76-39 win over Nebraska in 2007.
RULE OF 70
Wisconsin, in a 38-0 win over Illinois State, was the first FBS team in four years to have a run, pass and interception return of at least 70 yards in the same game.
Braelon Allen’s 96-yard touchdown against Illinois State was the longest run from scrimmage in program history, John Torchio set a school record with a 100-yard interception return and Chimere Dike turned a short pass into a 74-yard gain for the longest completion in quarterback Graham Mertz’s career.
Middle Tennessee was the previous team with 70-yard plays three different ways, doing it against Old Dominion in 2018. No Big Ten team had done it since 2003.
‘AIR’ AIR FORCE
Haaziq Daniels put the air in Air Force on his first pass attempt of the season.
The Falcons, whose triple-option offense has had a run-pass ratio of nearly 90-10 the past two seasons, scored their first touchdown in a 48-17 win over Northern Iowa on Daniels’ 80-yard pass to Dane Kinamon.
Air Force faced third-and-12 from its 20 when Daniels scrambled to his left and threw to Kinamon, who had his defender beat by 5 yards and caught the ball in stride.
It was Air Force’s longest pass since Daniels’ school-record 92-yarder against Colorado State last year.
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AP Sports Writer Steve Megargee in Wisconsin contributed to this report.
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PSG football coach faces backlash over 'sand yacht' response to private jet question
By Rachel Russell
BBC News
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Top French football club Paris St-Germain has been criticised following a joke about the team using a private plane for a short journey.
Head coach Christophe Galtier and star player Kylian Mbappé were asked about the French champions' recent jet trip to the western city of Nantes.
Mbappe laughed - and Galtier said the club was looking into the possibility of travelling by sand yacht, instead.
French politicians urged the club to be more responsible over the environment.
PSG won 3-0 at Nantes on Saturday, but the controversy started on Sunday when a senior official from French train operator SNCF tweeted: "Paris-Nantes is less than two hours by TGV (high speed train).
"I renew my proposal of a TGV offer adapted to your specifications, for our common interest: security, speed, services and eco-mobility."
When asked at a news conference on Monday, Galtier and Mbappé looked at each other and the striker burst out laughing.
Galtier then responded: "I knew this question was coming.
"To be perfectly honest with you, this morning we talked about it with the company who organises our trips and we're looking into travelling on sand yachts."
Mbappé was also asked for his views, but said he did not have any.
A video of their comments immediately went viral, triggering angry responses from social media users, environmentalists and ministers.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo tweeted: "Are you serious, responding like this? Wake up guys???"
France's Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra added: "We've become used to more relevant and responsible reactions than this - should we discuss?"
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told BFM TV on Tuesday: "I love Mbappé, we can all have the giggles at the least opportune moment and it really was the least opportune moment.
"But we all have to take climate change seriously."
He added Galtier's irony had been "out of place". There is no comment from PSG so far.
Using private jets has become a big topic both in France and around the world this summer, with social media users often criticising their use amid a series of heatwaves, droughts and floods.
English Premier League clubs regularly fly for domestic matches due to convenience. For example, Manchester United had to defend their decision to fly to Leicester back in October 2021.
The club said they would not normally fly to the match - but their plans changed as there were reports of congestion on the M6.
Arsenal were also criticised for previously flying 14 minutes to Norwich in 2015, while Tottenham took a 20-minute flight to Bournemouth in the same year.
- 12 November 2021
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Israel defence minister's cleaner jailed for trying to spy for Iran-linked hackers
By David Gritten
BBC News
- Published
An Israeli court has jailed a former housekeeper for Defence Minister Benny Gantz who attempted to pass information to an Iran-linked hacking group.
Omri Goren, 38, was sentenced to three years in prison under a plea deal that saw prosecutors drop espionage charges.
The Israeli justice ministry said Goren told Black Shadow hackers he could send information on Mr Gantz and put malware on his computer in exchange for money.
But he denied knowingly attempting to spy for Iran, Israel's arch-enemy.
"[He] is not a spy and this isn't a spying scandal," his lawyers were quoted by the Times of Israel as saying after Tuesday's sentencing hearing.
"This is about a man who found himself entangled in debt and identified a security breach," they added.
Goren reportedly told investigators that he had planned to trick the hackers into giving him money without handing over any information.
The initial indictment released last November alleged that Goren reached out to Black Shadow on Telegram after reading Israeli media reports about its hacking attempts.
To prove that he worked for Mr Gantz he sent photographs of items in the minister's home, including his desk, computer, a safe and tax records, it said.
The justice ministry said Goren's attempt was thwarted by the Shin Bet security service and that no classified material was revealed.
However, the Shin Bet did face questions about how Goren was allowed to work for the defence minister when he had previously been sentenced to prison on four occasions, including for armed robbery.
The agency later acknowledged "procedural failures" in the way that he was vetted and said protocols had been tightened in response.
- 13 July 2021
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