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The value of Manchester United has increased this month, amid protests against the Glazers' ownership.
The stock market valuation of Manchester United plc on the New York stock exchange is up $600 million in a month with shares having increased by 39 per cent. The share price is now above the August 2012 launch price for the first time in some months.
Manchester United plc shares are currently trading at 14.61USD, which is an increase from the record low of 11.07USD on June 13.
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Around a year ago, the shares in the club were valued at 15.66USD and peaked at 20.74USD last September, following a strong start to the season and a strong commercial boost after the re-signing of Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus.
The recent bounce back in the value of shares comes at a time when United fans are protesting against the Glazers, with an estimated 10,000 fans marching against the American owners before United's game against Liverpool just last month. Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain's richest man, has expressed interest in potentially taking over the club but the Glazers have given no indication they are ready to sell up.
The club's third-quarter financial figures were released in June and they confirmed United paid an £11m dividend to shareholders - mainly to the Glazers - despite losses of £27m for the quarter and £44m for the year to date, wages up 20% and net debt up over £50m. The dividend has been paid every six months since 2016 and that's including during the pandemic.
The Glazers continue to be the only owners in the Premier League who take dividends.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – On Tuesday, Sept 6., Richmond City Council voted 6-3 not to implement the ranked-choice voting method for the upcoming council election in 2024.
In the ranked-choice voting method, voters list candidates on their ballots in order of preference, and if a candidate gets more than 50% of the first-place votes, they are declared the winner of the race. The candidate with the fewest first-place vote is eliminated, and the process continues until one candidate has the majority of the votes.
A Virginia law was established last year, allowing Virginia localities to have the option to adopt the proposal. In addition, the ranked-choice voting system has been implemented for elections across the country and in the Commonwealth.
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With summer nearing an end, the battle to get employees back into the office is getting a little more heated. About 70% of mid- to large-sized companies experimenting with hybrid work schedules have said they want employees back in the office for a set number of days each week. But many workers aren't so sure -- and are increasingly seeking new opportunities where the leniency will last.
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1. Extreme heat
A brutal heat wave baking the western US has brought record-breaking temperatures and threatened widespread power outages this week. In California, Sacramento hit 116 degrees on Tuesday, the hottest day on record for the state capital, according to the National Weather Service. Records have also recently been surpassed in parts of Northern California, Utah and Montana -- with some cities shattering previous daily highs by more than 10 degrees. As a result, some of the nation's largest utility companies are notifying their customers to prepare for potential rotating power outages. Forecasts show the oppressive heat across much of the West is expected to last through at least Friday.
2. Primaries
Voters in Massachusetts have selected a former state lawmaker endorsed by ex-President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for governor, CNN projects. The win by Geoff Diehl sets up a showdown with Democratic state Attorney General Maura Healey in the general election. Diehl will be the heavy underdog against Healey, whom CNN projected earlier Tuesday would win the Democratic nomination, setting her up to potentially become the state's first out lesbian governor. Separately, the most competitive high-profile Democratic primary Tuesday was for the nomination to succeed Healey as state attorney general. CNN projects former Boston City Council President Andrea Campbell, the first Black woman to serve in that job, will win the nomination.
3. Covid-19
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that the US is moving toward annual shots against Covid-19. While this isn't a surprise, as federal health officials have been hinting at such a change since the spring, it does mark a significant moment as the government continues to de-escalate its pandemic efforts. Vaccine experts also say the shift to yearly shots signals that Covid-19 isn't going away. Dr. Ashish Jha, who is leading the White House Covid-19 Response Team, said newly authorized updated Covid-19 boosters will be free of charge to all who qualify and want them, but future vaccines and treatments may not be, as pandemic funding continues to dwindle.
4. Ukraine
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet next week, according to Russian state media. This would be the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders who have established a close relationship since Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year. Experts say the meeting also signals the importance of the Russian relationship for China in the face of international blowback for Moscow's unprovoked military actions. Separately, an investigation at Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant determined that safety principles were violated at the site, the UN's nuclear watchdog said in a report Tuesday. The agency has called for a "safety zone" to prevent a nuclear accident amid sustained shelling.
5. Apple
Apple is expected to debut its iPhone 14 lineup at the company's annual September keynote event later today. The event will kick off at 1 p.m. ET and will be livestreamed on Apple's website and social media channels. This year's event has been teased with a "far out" tagline and an invitation featuring a night sky with a constellation of stars forming the Apple logo. This has led some to speculate there will be major camera upgrades coming to allow for better nighttime or long-distance photography. It's also rumored the iPhone 14 lineup will include a 6.7-inch phone that's not a Pro model, meaning it will have the bigger screen size but without the higher price tag. But in typical fashion, Apple has not released any pricing details or specifications in order to build excitement for the announcement today.
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McDonald's is adding a new treat for fall
And surprisingly, it's not pumpkin or maple flavored...
Actor Jennifer Lawrence is loving being a mom
"My heart has stretched to a capacity that I didn't know about," Lawrence said in a new interview on motherhood. Read her heartwarming reaction here.
WNBA legend Sue Bird retires from the game after playoff loss in Seattle
Legendary basketball player Sue Bird bid farewell to the sport after her Seattle Storm lost to the Las Vegas Aces in a nail-biting game on Tuesday.
Justin Bieber suspends tour to take care of his health
The superstar singer announced that he needs to take another break from his tour following a health crisis he suffered earlier this year.
Tips for counting your steps
If you wear a smartwatch, here's the magic number of steps you should take each day to reduce your risk of dementia, according to a new study.
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That figure represents how much of Pakistan is currently underwater due to never-before-seen, deadly flooding. More than 33 million people have been affected and the death toll has risen to 1,300, officials say.
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"I'm shocked. Just shocked. I really did not feel like the state was going to move on me in such a way."
-- New Mexico county commissioner Couy Griffin, on being removed from his elected office on Tuesday for his role in the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Griffin, an ardent conspiracy theorist and founder of Cowboys for Trump, also refused to certify the state's primary election results this summer in Otero County, New Mexico. This historic ruling represents the first time an elected official has been removed from office for their participation or support of the Capitol riot.
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This week’s new entertainment releases include Samantha Morton starring as the 16th-century queen Catherine de Medici in an edgy Starz series and a race between two upcoming “Pinocchio” films begins with Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation. On the small screen, Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins play country music royalty in Fox’s new drama “Monarch,” but their dynasty is in danger of toppling. Look for some impressive guest stars like Shania Twain, Martina McBride, Little Big Town and Tanya Tucker. And “Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “Elvis” all start streaming.
Here’s a collection of the best of what’s arriving in theaters, on TV and on streaming services this week.
“Thor: Love and Thunder”
A trio of the summer’s biggest box-office hits are landing on streaming platforms. On Thursday, Taika Waititi’s whimsically deconstructive “Thor: Love and Thunder” arrives on Disney+. The 29th film in the Marvel cinematic universe, and possibly the Marvel movie most distinctively the work of its filmmaker, “Love and Thunder” follows up Waititi’s “Thor: Ragnarok.” In his review the AP’s Mark Kennedy wrote: “If you thought that was bananas filmmaking, its sequel is the whole fruit basket.”
“Pinocchio”
A race between two “Pinocchio” films begins with Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation ahead of Guillermo del Toro’s by a nose. On Thursday, Zemeckis’ animated fantasy of the classic Italian fable will premiere on Disney+. Next month, Del Toro’s stop-motion “Pinocchio” will debut at the London Film Festival and eventually land on Netflix on Dec. 9. For now, we have Zemeckis’ take on the old tale with Tom Hanks as the voice of Geppetto and Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy.
“The Serpent Queen”
Catherine de Medici, the Italian-born, 16th-century French queen with a fierce reputation, owns the spotlight in Starz’ edgy “The Serpent Queen.” Samantha Morton (“The Walking Dead”) stars as the adult Catherine, with Liv Hill seen in flashbacks as the teenager destined to become the wife of one French king and the influence-wielding mother of three others. Colm Meaney, Kiruna Stamell and Rupert Everett are part of the ensemble cast of the eight-part series debuting Sunda, on Starz’s streaming platforms (and on the Starz channel).
“Jurassic World: Dominion”
“Jurassic World: Dominion” (Peacock) and “Elvis” (HBO Max) are also streaming. Colin Trevorrow’s “Dominion,” which has nearly grossed $1 billion at the box office, is available in both its theatrical cut and and an extended edition with 14 more minutes and an alternative ending. In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr praised some of its sequences but called the sixth film in the franchise “a chaotic mishmash on an epic scale.” Baz Luhrmann’s carnivalesque Elvis Presley biopic, starring breakthrough actor Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, also doesn’t skimp on scale. In her review, Bahr called it “gloriously messy — a maximalist opera of contradictions, styles, truths, myths, memories and headlines.”
“Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin”
Adventure athletes are the stars of “Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin,” debuting Monday, on the National Geographic channel (on Disney+ starting Wednesday) The 10-part series details the risks, rewards and mindset of such athlete, kicking off with back-to-back episodes on rock climber Alex Honnold of “Free Solo” documentary fame and big mountain skier Angel Collinson. Filmmaker Jimmy Chin, a pro climber and skier who’s featured in an episode, is executive producer with E. Chai Vasarhelyi. They directed the Oscar-winning “Free Solo.”
“Monarch”
Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins play country music royalty in Fox’s new drama “Monarch, " but their dynasty is in danger of toppling. Anna Friel, Joshua Sasse and Beth Ditto co-star as the couple’s offspring, with an impressive backup chorus dropping in: Shania Twain, Martina McBride, Little Big Town and Tanya Tucker are among the guest stars on the series debuting Sunday after Fox’s NFL telecast. “Monarch” settles into its regular 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday slot beginning Sept. 20.
Compiled by AP writers Lynn Elber and Jake Coyle | https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/mc-ent-best-movies-tv-picks-0908-20220907-mnfbvzv4gncmlesdg6metj62yi-story.html | 2022-09-07T13:00:32Z | https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/mc-ent-best-movies-tv-picks-0908-20220907-mnfbvzv4gncmlesdg6metj62yi-story.html | false |
Independent survey reveals seniors face significant challenges selecting optimal Medicare plans
BALTIMORE, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 60 million Americans are preparing for this year's Medicare Open Enrollment period (October 15 to December 7), and most have significant gaps in their knowledge of plan components, are overwhelmed by Medicare advertisements, and fail to consult with external resources before signing up. Most also stay in their current plan when re-enrolling without seeking other options that better meet their changing healthcare needs.
These findings are compiled in a report, Hidden Crisis: The Medicare Enrollment Maze, issued by national healthcare consultancy Sage Growth Partners. The report is based on a survey of 1,142 individuals ages 64 and older, which was commissioned by Healthpilot, an AI-driven, fully digital platform for Medicare education and insurance enrollment.
"As the open enrollment period rapidly approaches, it is more important than ever to acknowledge the challenges faced by seniors in choosing the best plan for their needs," said Dan D'Orazio, Sage Growth Partners CEO. "Our research shows that widespread consumer confusion hurts older Americans and the entire U.S. healthcare system. It's beyond time for changes to be made to better educate and support those enrolling in Medicare every year."
Poor plan selection impacts the health outcomes of Medicare users and increases overall healthcare spending. Sub-optimal options with large out-of-pocket expenses may cause enrollees to put off necessary care or prescriptions due to financial concerns. That, in turn, can translate to worse outcomes and more healthcare spending due to avoidable emergent visits, hospital admissions, readmissions, and long-term care.
The Kaiser Family Foundation forecasts that Medicare outlays will rise from $689 billion in 2021 to nearly $1.6 trillion in 2032, due to growth in the Medicare-eligible population and increases in healthcare costs. The U.S. Census Bureau projects more than 73 million Americans will enroll by 2030.
Among the key findings in Sage Growth Partners' report:
- 80% of Medicare-eligible individuals failed to correctly describe all the components of Original Medicare; 69% failed to do so for Medicare Advantage.
- 63% are "overwhelmed" by Medicare advertising; only 31% of respondents "strongly agree" that they can make effective selection decisions.
- More than half (58%) stay in their current Medicare plan each year rather than reviewing it and considering other options.
- Only about one-third (30%) strongly agree that they can easily find the information needed to make effective plan decisions.
- Just 12% of respondents used a helpline during the last open enrollment period and of those, 13% had little or no trust in the advice they were given.
- 33% have a financial advisor, but only 2% use that advisor to help with plan selection.
The survey of Medicare enrollment-eligible individuals took place in April 2022. More than 80% of participants had coverage through Medicare or Medicare Advantage. The respondents came from across the enrollment experience spectrum:
- 10% of respondents were first-time enrollees
- 32% had been enrolled for less than one year to three years
- 35% for 4-9 years
- 23% for 10 years or more.
The full report, Hidden Crisis: The Medicare Enrollment Maze, can be found here.
About Sage Growth Partners
Sage Growth Partners is a healthcare advisory firm with deep expertise in market research, strategy, and communications. Founded in 2005, the company's extensive domain experience ensures that healthcare organizations thrive amid the complexities of a rapidly changing marketplace. Sage Growth Partners serves clients across the full healthcare spectrum, including GE Healthcare, ProgenyHealth, the National Minority Health Association, Philips Healthcare, U.S. Renal Care, Quest Diagnostics, Livongo, and Syft. For more information, visit sage-growth.com.
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FM Nirmala Sitharaman assures new Data Privacy Bill soon
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New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday attended the US-India Business Council (USIBC) in Delhi. On the occasion, Nirmala Sitharaman assured new Data Privacy Bill soon. Nirmala Sitharaman said, “The (IT) Minister has been working very diligently and has assured the new bill will be ready soon. We'll soon have a new Data Privacy Bill, which will be a product of consultations and will address every such concern most of us had on the Privacy Bill.” (ANI)
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COLUMBIA CITY — When two evenly-matched prep soccer teams get together on the pitch, sometimes a mere 80 minutes of soccer isn’t enough to settle things.
That was the case Tuesday night at Columbia City High School when the Eagles and DeKalb met in a Northeast 8 Conference contest.
Two seven-minute overtime periods didn’t do the trick, either.
That meant penalty kicks, and on this late summer night in northeast Indiana, it was the Barons prevailing 5-4 in the PK round to go to 5-1 on the season (3-0 NE8).
Columbia City fell to 6-1-1, 2-1. The win puts the Barons in the driver’s seat for the conference championship with still quite a bit of soccer remaining to be played in 2022.
DeKalb head coach Jarrod Bennett said PKs are a tough way to settle a match.
“An 80-minute match, 14 minutes of overtime and no goals? That says a lot about both teams,” Bennett said. “Hats off to Columbia City… They played with a lot of heart.”
Both teams had their share of opportunities all night long. Balls screamed just over the crossbar, and shots going just wide left or just wide right.
In the PK round, it was the Barons’ Grant Houser, Nate Fillenwarth, Carter Neumann, Carric Joachim, and Imanol Hernandez finding the back of the net with their kicks.
And perhaps most importantly, DeKalb senior goalkeeper Korbin Gillian made the one save the Barons needed to win.
Columbia City coach Derick Rice said it was another chapter in a series of epic recent meetings between the two sides.
“Just two of the best teams in the conference meeting,” Rice said. “It’s been a back-and-forth rivalry for the past few years now. A couple of heavyweights slugging it out.”
The Eagles are idle until next Monday, when they travel to New Haven, and then they’ll have three games next week. It’ll be a bit of a gut check for his guys, Rice said.
“How are we going to react?” Rice said.
DeKalb is in action next on Monday when it travels to Huntington North. | https://www.kpcnews.com/sports/latest/busco/article_052e46e1-8c74-573c-a684-9ca8b2ecae57.html | 2022-09-07T13:02:14Z | https://www.kpcnews.com/sports/latest/busco/article_052e46e1-8c74-573c-a684-9ca8b2ecae57.html | false |
ROCKVILLE, Ind. — An Indiana woman is attempting to break a Guinness World Record by wakesurfing for 24 hours straight, while raising money for local veterans.
Lori Keeton is a Hoosier native who has turned her passion of wakesurfing to give back to veterans.
"The minute I saw the sport, I fell in love with it," Keeton said. "I've been surfing for 17 years."
Keeton is attempting the once-in-a-lifetime feat to help raise money for Wake For Warriors, a nonprofit group that teaches local veterans how to do water sports.
"We do everything from wakeboarding to surfing to barefooting or whatever the veterans have interest in," Keeton said. "I can teach people to surf laying down, sitting, we have adaptive chairs that they can sit into."
She's now expanding her way to give back, by going for the Guinness World Record of surfing 24 hours to raise money for the nonprofit.
"They're flying in three Guinness world judges to come in and do the 24-hour set," Keeton said. "They will each judge eight hours apiece to get it done."
Keeton said due to Guinness World Record rules, she will have to take about 10-minute breaks every four hours to allow bathroom breaks for judges.
Last year, Keeton set the world record for wakesurfing for eight hours straight; this year, she hopes to beat it with two boats.
"So every four hours, we will refuel, and I will start surfing on the second boat," Keeton said.
It will be no easy task.
"I pack three liters of Pedialyte on my back that I can drink while I'm surfing, and I also pack food," Keeton said.
According to Keeton, she'll be burning 25,000 to 30,000 calories in the 24-hour wakesurf.
"To eat that many calories and to plan how much I need to keep my body from crashing and to keep my energy up, and then, just the mental challenge of just doing the same thing for 24 hours is a challenge. All day and all night," Keeton said.
Keeton believes she can do it, for those who fought to protect our country.
"If we didn't have veterans like that, we wouldn't get to enjoy our freedom that we have every day," Keeton said.
Keeton will start the 24-hour attempt Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 3 p.m. on Raccoon Lake in Park County. All proceeds will go directly to Wake for Warriors. You can donate at this link.
You can keep up with Keeton through updates on her social media accounts. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-woman-attempt-24-hour-wakesurf-world-record/531-74065935-f278-4499-957c-0680e406d7b4 | 2022-09-07T13:04:01Z | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-woman-attempt-24-hour-wakesurf-world-record/531-74065935-f278-4499-957c-0680e406d7b4 | true |
Bruce Springsteen’s handwritten set lists and a favorite guitar are among the marquee items that will make a cross-country trip for a museum exhibit this fall.
The Grammy Museum announced Wednesday that Bruce Springsteen Live! will open Oct. 15 at the Grammy Museum L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. The interactive exhibit — which runs until April 2 — will feature Springsteen and the E Street Band’s live performance footage, instruments, stage costumes and exclusive interviews. | https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/09/an-iconic-guitar-handwritten-set-lists-bruce-springsteen-artifacts-coming-to-the-grammy-museum.html | 2022-09-07T13:04:13Z | https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/09/an-iconic-guitar-handwritten-set-lists-bruce-springsteen-artifacts-coming-to-the-grammy-museum.html | true |
For decades, presidents and first ladies have invited their predecessors back to the White House for the unveiling of their presidential and first lady portraits.
But during the presidency of Donald Trump, the tradition was interrupted.
On Wednesday, after a longer-than-expected wait, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama will have their White House portraits unveiled at a ceremony hosted by President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
For President Biden, it’s an opportunity to pay homage to his two-time running mate when he campaigned for vice president.
“Over the course of their eight years together in office, a close partnership between the two men grew through the highs and lows of the job and of life,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “President Biden and Dr. Biden are honored to have former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama back to the White House for the unveiling of their portraits, which will hang on the walls of the White House forever as reminders of the power of hope and change.”
The last time such a ceremony was held was in 2012 when the Obamas welcomed former President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush.
“President Bush, his cabinet, his staff, many of you who are here today, went out of your ways -- George, you went out of your way -- to make sure that the transition to a new administration was as seamless as possible,” President Obama said at the 2012 ceremony.
Whether Biden would host such a ceremony for Trump remains unclear. Jean-Pierre declined to answer whether Biden would do such a ceremony for his predecessor. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/bidens-welcomes-obamas-to-the-white-house-for-portrait-unveiling | 2022-09-07T13:04:52Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/bidens-welcomes-obamas-to-the-white-house-for-portrait-unveiling | true |
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he expects to be charged soon in a state criminal case in New York City.
Bannon, 68, plans to turn himself in on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the state criminal case would resemble an earlier attempted federal prosecution, in which Bannon was accused of duping donors who gave money to fund a wall on the U.S. southern border.
That federal case ended abruptly, before trial, when Trump pardoned Bannon.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined comment late Tuesday.
In a statement, Bannon said District Attorney Alvin Bragg “has now decided to pursue phony charges against me 60 days before the midterm election,” accusing the Democratic prosecutor of targeting him because he and his radio show are popular among Trump’s Republican supporters.
“The SDNY did the exact same thing in August 2020 to try to take me out of the election,” Bannon said, referring to his arrest months before Trump’s re-election loss.
Federal agents pulled Bannon from a luxury yacht off the Connecticut coast and arrested him on charges he pocketed more than $1 million in wall donations.
“It didn’t work then, it certainly won’t work now,” the former White House strategist said. “This is nothing more than a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system.”
Bannon, who had pleaded not guilty, was dropped from the federal case when Trump pardoned him on his last day in office in January 2021.
Two other men involved in the “We Build the Wall” project pleaded guilty in April. They had been scheduled to be sentenced this week, but that was recently postponed to December. A third defendant’s trial ended in a mistrial in June after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
A president can only pardon federal crimes, not state offenses, but that doesn’t mean state-level prosecutors have carte blanche to try similar cases.
In 2019, then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. brought state mortgage fraud charges against Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in what was widely seen as an attempt to hedge against a possible pardon.
But a judge threw the case out on double jeopardy grounds, finding that it was too similar to a federal case that resulted in Manafort’s conviction. (Manafort was later pardoned by Trump).
While Manafort’s New York case was pending, New York eased its double jeopardy protections, ensuring that state-level prosecutors could pursue charges against anyone granted a presidential pardon for similar federal crimes.
Bannon’s case differs because he was dropped from the federal case in its early stages. In most cases, double jeopardy is only a factor when a person has been convicted or acquitted of a crime. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/steve-bannon-expects-to-face-new-criminal-charge-in-ny | 2022-09-07T13:04:54Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/steve-bannon-expects-to-face-new-criminal-charge-in-ny | false |
FORT LEE, N.J., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pioneer Power Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPSI) ("Pioneer," "Pioneer Power" or the "Company"), a leader in the design, manufacture, service and integration of electrical power systems, distributed energy resources, power generation equipment and mobile electric vehicle ("EV") charging solutions, today announced that Nathan Mazurek, Pioneer's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Walter Michalec, CFO, will present at the H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference being held in-person or virtually on September 12-14, 2022. All in-person presentations and meetings are to be held at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel.
Mr. Mazurek and Mr. Michalec will provide an overview of the Company's business on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern. You may also listen to the company presentation online at: https://journey.ct.events/view/7ea049d2-ec9a-452c-89e4-d70385006556.
For additional information about the conference, visit https://hcwevents.com/annualconference/ or to schedule a one-on-one meeting please contact Brett Mass at brett@haydenir.com.
Pioneer Power Solutions, Inc. is a leader in the design, manufacture, integration, refurbishment, service and distribution of electric power systems, distributed energy resources, power generation equipment and mobile EV charging solutions for applications in the utility, industrial and commercial markets. To learn more about Pioneer, please visit its website at www.pioneerpowersolutions.com.
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Uber has extended its ‘Local Cab’ service to Lincoln, allowing passengers to book trips with local firm Handsome Cabs via the Uber app.
Anyone using the Uber app in Lincoln can now select the ‘Local Cab’ option alongside typical options such as UberX and Lux, which will offer you taxi rides across the city.
These Local Cab trips are passed on to local operators, with all subsequent customer support provided by the local firm. In Lincoln’s case, it is Handsome Cabs.
Lincoln has become the second city to welcome this new ‘Local Cab’ option on the Uber app, following its launch in Boston with Acorn Taxis earlier this year.
Uber’s Local Cab pilot was set up successfully last year, and the product is now operating in over 50 locations across the UK already.
Royce Carmichael, General Manager at Handsome Cabs: “We look forward to making Local Cab available to more people across Lincolnshire. We feel that now, more than ever, a product like Local Cab is needed – with demand for taxis continuing to rise and passengers in need of more options.
“We’re making it quicker and easier for people to get around Lincoln, connecting more passengers with taxi drivers via the Uber app.
“The partnership with Uber is also enabling us to provide further job opportunities to our drivers and we hope it will attract new recruits to join our fleet.”
Andrew Brem, General Manager at Uber UK: “Lincoln is one of a growing number of towns and cities in England where riders can access both UberX and Local Cab in the same app.
“This will help maximise earnings opportunities for drivers while giving passengers in Lincolnshire more choice, meaning that everyone will benefit. We’re looking forward to extending Local Cab in more UK towns and cities soon.”
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NEW YORK — There was quite a hairy situation at the U.S. Open on Tuesday night.
Two men's stay in the Arthur Ashe Stadium seats was, um, cut short after one buzzed the other's head right there in the stands while Nick Kyrgios and Karen Khachanov played their quarterfinal.
They had clippers and the sort of cape a barber usually uses to keep a customer clean.
Soon enough, social media users were all excited about how a YouTuber, JiDion, known for his pranks had pulled this one off.
Tournament security removed the two from the match.
"When someone saw it, security went to the two individuals. They were escorted out of their seats and then off the grounds for disruption of play," U.S. Tennis Association Brendan McIntyre said, adding: "There's a first time time for anything." | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/national/hairy-situation-at-us-open-2-removed-for-haircut-in-stands/65-ba13983a-c13a-4c5c-a27d-6f65cc38d2dc | 2022-09-07T13:06:47Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/national/hairy-situation-at-us-open-2-removed-for-haircut-in-stands/65-ba13983a-c13a-4c5c-a27d-6f65cc38d2dc | false |
Ulili Onovakpuri and Brian Dixon raised Fund III, securing $126 million and investing in 15 companies to date
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Kapor Capital — one of the first Venture Capital firms to invest in early stage startups that close gaps of access for all — announces the launch of Fund III, raised by managing partners Ulili Onovakpuri and Brian Dixon. The $126 million fund is the firm's largest to date and continues its legacy of investing in tech startups affecting social change that positively impact low-income communities and communities of color.
Fund III marks an inflection point for the firm as it's the first time Kapor Capital has partnered with multiple limited partners, which include Cambridge Associates, Align Impact, Ford Foundation, Bank of America, PayPal, Twilio, Footlocker, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, EIP Elevate Future Fund, Southern Poverty Law, The California Wellness Foundation, National Geographic Society, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Stardust Equity. Onovakpuri and Dixon began raising the fund in 2021 and have already invested in 15 companies, including Cayaba Care, a maternity support service; Daylight, the first digital banking platform designed for the LGBTQ+ community by the LGBTQ+ community; and TomoCredit, a credit card for young adults, students and immigrants.
"Investing in innovative people and ideas is what fuels economic and societal progress, but far too often access to that capital is unequal and unbalanced," said Roy Swan, Director of Mission Investments at Ford Foundation. "We are thrilled to partner with Kapor Capital to ensure that the bright minds looking to transform our industries have the resources they need to soar."
For over a decade, Kapor Capital has invested at the intersection of tech and social impact. Onovakpuri and Dixon will continue leading Kapor Capital in its mission to invest in founders who share the desire to build businesses that create a more equitable economic future—one that doesn't discriminate based on who you know or what zip code you grew up in.
"What excites us about Kapor Capital are the layers of impact embedded in the fund's strategy that are also reflected in their team," explains Brandon Boros, Associate Director of Align Impact. "The focus on closing gaps for low-income communities and communities of color, in addition to the emphasis on supporting entrepreneurs with lived experience from those communities, is a powerful combination to address social justice and racial equity issues in our society. We're drawn to the sectors and early stage at which Kapor Capital is investing, the unique entrepreneurial profile they're seeking, and proud to support Brian, Ulili, and the Kapor Capital team as they expand their track record of elevating historically marginalized individuals and communities."
Helena Hasselmann, Managing Director of Stardust Equity, notes: "Stardust has long admired Kapor's mission and authenticity, and had the privilege of working in community with Ulili and Brian before becoming an LP. They are true pioneers of gap-closing investing, and we could not be prouder to support a team who has an impressive track record and a genuine understanding of the communities that we aim to empower."
"Diverse-led venture capital funds create tremendous value in their work to make capital inclusive and accessible to founders and entrepreneurs of color," said Anthony Oni, Managing Partner of EIP Elevate Future Fund. "The funds we are investing in Kapor Capital will further place capital in the hands of diverse people with the lived experiences to solve for inequity in marginalized communities. We look forward to watching this investment grow under the leadership of Ulili and Brian as they continue proving that diversity is key to a just and bright future."
For Fund III founders, Kapor Capital's investment approach is already proving to be invaluable. "As a queer founder building for the queer community, joining the Kapor portfolio felt like coming home," said Rob Curtis, CEO and Co-Founder of Daylight. "Under-represented founders need more than just advice and connections — community support creates immense value. Brian and the Kapor Capital team helped us have the greatest chance of success growing from Seed to Series A."
Dr. Olan Soremekun, CEO and Co-Founder of Cayaba Care, explains, "Beyond capital, Kapor invests in infrastructure and a team that shows the commitment in supporting founders to build impactful businesses. Our company has benefited tremendously from partnering with Kapor Capital — attending programming that is designed for founders, leveraging their in-house expertise to help shape our people and growth strategy, and tapping into the human resources network to fill our first critical hire." "The Kapor team truly understands Tomo's mission of unlocking credit opportunities for immigrants and minorities," adds Kristy Kim, CEO and Founder of TomoCredit. "I am excited to partner with Kapor so we can not only generate financial returns from business but also make the world a better place."
To date, of Kapor Capital's Fund III investment portfolio, 46% of investments have a founder who identifies as a woman, 53% of investments have a founder who identifies as Black and 100% of investments have a founder who identifies as an underrepresented person of color.
"Fund III is the culmination of years of work championing tech startups that revolutionize people's lives across a vast set of industries," said Brian Dixon, Managing Partner at Kapor Capital. "I'm excited to continue to demonstrate the positive outcomes that investing generates — from creating new jobs, to providing growth opportunities to underrepresented groups, to solving critical problems for low-income communities and communities of color."
"Our work at Kapor Capital proves that impact investing is here to stay," adds Ulili Onovakpuri, Managing Partner at Kapor Capital. "I'm proud of raising this fund and am excited to continue to lead its deployment through our holistic approach fundamentally shifting the practices of the industry—influencing how we source deals, build relationships, and support founders, where positive impact drives profit, making it a crucial measure of success."
"Having worked closely with Brian and Ulili for more than a decade, we know they are talented investors with unwavering commitment to building gap-closing companies," remarked Freada Kapor Klein, Founding Partner at Kapor Capital. "Mitch and I are incredibly proud of them and know they will continue to be leaders in transforming the tech and VC ecosystem so that real problems are solved by entrepreneurs whose lived experience drives their passion to transform the quality of daily life in low-income communities and communities of color."
"From its earliest days, Kapor Capital has pursued investments with the conviction that diverse and socially responsible companies don't compromise financial returns but are in fact a formidable driver of them. In launching the firm's largest fund, Brian and Ulili are building the strongest testament to the merits of this principle yet." said Mitch Kapor, Founding Partner at Kapor Capital.
About Kapor Capital
Since 2011, Kapor Capital has invested exclusively in early stage, tech-driven startups committed to closing gaps of access, opportunity or outcome for low-income communities and/or communities of color. Led by Ulili Onovakpuri and Brian Dixon, who became managing partners in January 2021, Kapor Capital was one of the first venture capital firms to openly accept cold requests via the website, create a fellows program to provide a pathway for individuals typically underrepresented in venture to enter investing, and launch the Kapor Capital Founders' Commitment to help portfolio companies make collective progress in diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a family of organizations, Kapor Capital, Kapor Center, and SMASH work collectively at the intersection of tech, diversity, and entrepreneurship to end racial and gender inequities that persist in the tech ecosystem. Learn more at KaporCapital.com
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Cleotha Abston, the 38-year-old suspect accused of abducting and killing Memphis-area runner Eliza Fletcher, will face a judge Wednesday morning.
Police have charged Abston with murder and abduction.
The Commercial Appeal reported that Abston was previously convicted of abduction at age 16. He was released from prison in 2020.
Police said a surveillance video shows Fletcher in a struggle with a person before being forced into an SUV around 4:30 a.m. last 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.
Her body was found on Monday. Police told the Commercial Appeal that Abston refused to tell authorities where her body was located after he was arrested on Sunday.
Authorities said Tuesday it was an "isolated" incident.
"In contrast to whatever baseless speculation you may have seen, we have no reason to think this was anything other than an isolated attack by a stranger," said Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy.
Over the weekend, Memphis Police said that 38-year-old Cleotha Abston was charged with 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 crime scene.
Fletcher was a teacher at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/suspect-to-face-judge-following-eliza-fletchers-killing | 2022-09-07T13:08:15Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/suspect-to-face-judge-following-eliza-fletchers-killing | false |
It's Alright To Do Nothing
When was the last time you did nothing? Of course, I’m talking about the kind of nothing when you’re just alone with your thoughts with no distractions whatsoever. If you’re...
When was the last time you did nothing? Of course, I'm talking about the kind of nothing when you're just alone with your thoughts with no distractions whatsoever. If you're anything like most people today, you likely think "rarely." Or even worse, "never."
Undoubtedly, technology has enabled people to accomplish more with less effort. Yet, despite this, most people still work as much as ever. What's more, even during our downtime, we're glued to our screens to prevent boredom. In fact, according to DataReportal, Americans spend 7 hours and 4 minutes per day staring at screens.
Even though you may feel accomplished or productive by keeping busy, idly occupying yourself can have adverse effects. You can suffer health complications, relationships, and even work problems as a result.
Instead, follow the advice of Carole Katchen, "Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear."
What Does Doing Nothing Look Like?
To begin with, let's clarify a few things. First, despite its simplicity, what does "doing nothing" really mean?
Literally, it means not doing anything. For example, you might want to turn off technology and sit silently for a few minutes to tune out worries, fears, and responsibilities. Mindfulness is often used as a synonym for this. However, other countries use different terms for it.
Among the Dutch, it is known as niksen.
"With niksen, which most closely translates as "nothing-ing' in Dutch, you have to be intentional about doing nothing," Netherlands-based journalist Olga Meckinge explained to NBC News BETTER. "You're taking the time to sit and not do anything on purpose. You could be gazing out a window, but you're not observing your thoughts, letting them go, or doing anything like that. You're just being."
Katie Krimer, a licensed social worker in New York City, adds, "You're intentionally doing nothing but with no intentions. "You're making a point of sitting down to do nothing, but then you just allow your mind to wander."
The Italians call this phenomenon dolce far niente, which means "the sweetness of doing nothing." The Swedes call it lagom, which means "not too little, not too much, just right."
Regardless, these concepts share a similar characteristic; rather than jumping from one activity to the next, your health benefits when you take a moment to pause and reset. As a result, you'll be healthier, happier, and more productive. It's also helpful in combating burnout.
Why Are We So Busy?
According to Tracy Chabala for Shondaland, society has been brainwashed to believe that compulsive busyness is a prerequisite for decent behavior. As a result, workaholic behavior has become normalized, such as checking email after hours.
"The idea of being immensely productive and of never resting, even if it has its roots in the Protestant work ethic, seems to be at a level that's unprecedented, especially in the West," says Brian O'Connor, Ph.D., Full Professor and Head of the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin and author of the philosophical essay Idleness.
His op-eds about idleness, hyperbusyness, the deification of work, and constant striving suggest we might all be a bit happier if we put an end to obsessively trying to use our talents and embrace idleness.
This subversive, almost sacrilegious idea might lead to happiness and fulfillment. In his view, most people regret working too much and not developing themselves and their talents at the end of their lives rather than regret their inability to work more.
"I think the things that make work significant when people are working — wealth and esteem and competitive advantage — those values seem to drift away a little bit as we get older, and particularly as we get quite old. The wisdom of that age doesn't support the significance of those drivers."
In addition, modern technology makes it hard to be idle. Every day, people are surrounded by unlimited entertainment and distractions. Mobile devices also keep people connected at all times. Because of this, there is no easy way to unplug. So, staying busy is easier than doing nothing in many ways.
Perception also plays a role. For example, doing nothing is perceived as irresponsible or wasteful. Therefore, many people feel guilty when idle – so they work even when not needed.
The Benefits of Doing Nothing
As mentioned above, you can achieve a healthy and happy life by doing nothing.
"More and more of us cannot juggle overwhelming demands and maintain a seemingly unsustainable pace. Yet, paradoxically, the best way to get more done may be to spend more time doing less," writes journalist and author Tony Schwartz in the New York Times. "A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal — including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office, and longer, more frequent vacations — boosts productivity, job performance, and, of course, health."
But, that's not the only benefit of doing nothing.
- Bolsters mental strength. According to Amy Morin, who wrote for Psychology Today, "mentally strong people spend time alone with their thoughts."
- It restores and resets your brain. Of course, the mind restores itself during sleep. But, there are similar health benefits to being idle for your brain. The right amount of quiet time can reset your mind for better productivity.
- The body can rest as well. Busyness can also cause fatigue and even aches and pains in your body. You can break the commotion when you pause occasionally and get a little rest.
- Improves concentration. During some alone time, you can focus on whatever is in front of you.
- Stress is reduced as a result. However, the effects of chronic stress can affect both your physical and mental health. A calming effect can be achieved by sitting quietly and watching your breath, meditating or simply being present with your thoughts.
- Creativity and problem-solving are boosted by it. In addition to expanding your mind, you can think about things in new and creative ways.
- You become more aware of your needs and feelings. You are better able to respond to your true feelings when you spend time in silence. Furthermore, this can help you become more compassionate and empathetic as well.
- Encourages deep thinking. Allowing yourself some time alone with your thoughts allows your brain to sort through them and think deeply about them.
How to Exactly Do Nothing
What can you do to power down and make the most of doing nothing. The following tips will help you to incorporate the skill of doing nothing.
Schedule nothing time.
Determine when you are most productive and creative. From there, observe when your mind shuts off or when you are just doing something for the sake of doing it. At those times, you should take a walk or take a break.
If possible, outsource everything else except what is essential to you and what brings you pleasure. Then, finding more free time in your schedule is possible by focusing on the important parts of life.
Reduce screen time.
We live and work in a world where technology is everywhere. Moreover, all day long, we are glued to a device. As a result, we can check email, and text messages, search the web, or monitor social media regularly. However, we cannot engage in rest and creativity when we are distracted by technology.
In Denmark, scientists found that students who took a week off from Facebook were happier and more satisfied with their lives. Dopamine levels would be affected, the neurotransmitter that promotes positive feelings and stimulates creativity.
At the same time, we tend to pick up our phones instinctively. The good news? You do have other options. For example, you could go for a walk or do five minutes of deep breathing.
To get started, leave your phone in your car when grocery shopping. This way, when in line, you can just daydream, reflect, or stare off into the distance.
Be unapologetic.
You might feel guilty doing nothing. But don't. It's not being lazy, irresponsible, or selfish. Instead, it's an essential skill that can positively impact all aspects of your life.
So, go ahead, and take breaks where you let your mind wander freely.
Give your environment a makeover.
Your environment can play an essential role in how much nothingness you can embrace. So take your home and workplace into consideration.
For example, establish tech-free zones and keep your phone in a drawer. Adding a soft couch, a comfortable armchair, cushions, or even just a blanket could make the room more comfortable. And, instead of orienting furniture around a TV, arrange it around a window or fireplace.
Don't limit yourself.
Visit a park or a spa if you can't sit still in your office or home.
Are you still uncomfortable with the idea of doing nothing? Try fooling your mind into thinking you're doing something productive. Use open-ended toys such as kinetic sand, Baoding balls, or marble runs.
Keep it simple.
You don't have to think of doing nothing as meditating, which can be difficult at first. Instead, keep it as simple as possible by:
- Stop what you're doing as you've just approached a red light when driving.
- Sit down, ideally in a quiet and comfortable space.
- Silence your thoughts just as you would do when silencing notifications on your phone.
- Consider whether a thought is true when you notice one. Replacing an untrue or unkind thought with something genuine or kind is the best way to deal with it.
- Be present by focusing on your breathing.
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Proggio Receives First-time Gartner Recognition for its 'Ability to Execute' and 'Completeness of Vision' in Adaptive Project Management and Reporting
SALT LAKE CITY and TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Proggio, a next-generation solution that brings clarity and simplicity to Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), today announced it has been named as a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting (APMR).
Proggio received the recognition based on its 'Ability to Execute' and 'Completeness of Vision.'
"We believe this Gartner recognition validates what we've heard from customers over the last few years: Proggio brings real-time visibility, clarity and simplicity to a market that's hungry for dynamic solutions that can keep pace with modern PPM," said Proggio CEO Yaniv Shor. "I'm extremely proud of our team and grateful for our customers whose feedback has enabled us to execute on our vision for providing a truly user-centric solution for project portfolio management."
According to Gartner, "By 2024, 80% of digital businesses will integrate strategic portfolio management and adaptive project management and reporting technologies, and adopt new frameworks and standards to achieve valued business outcomes." The firm also acknowledges that, "Prospective APMR buyers, PMO leaders and project managers require far more than task management solutions. They demand the right tools for managing the complexities of today's dynamically changing business conditions."
Proggio delivers on those needs by providing a holistic approach to project portfolio management, focusing on managerial and team alignment and on connecting delivery targets with project plans and execution to help teams understand real-time project status and work with confidence. Its interactive, dynamic views allow every stakeholder to get a visual on project status and help project management teams identify and act on issues and opportunities quickly, analyze scenarios and optimize resources when timelines or objectives change, and maintain alignment across teams to boost focus and synergy.
To learn more about Proggio, visit Proggio.com or click here to read more about its Challenger position and capabilities in the Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting, Lorri Callahan, Sarah Davies, 22 August 2022.
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Proggio™ is a next-generation, adaptive project portfolio management solution for enterprises and mid-market companies. By bringing clarity and simplicity to project portfolio management, Proggio accelerates digital transformation in a segment that is primarily using spreadsheets and presentations. With its patented, agile solution, Proggio provides dynamic high-level views for executive managers, project managers, and other stakeholders. The solution was designed to quickly adapt to a change-driven environment, with an unprecedented level of user interface simplicity. To learn more, visit www.Proggio.com.
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Delta Air Lines to Present at the Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference
Published: Sep. 7, 2022 at 7:30 AM CDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
ATLANTA, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) will present at the Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference at 10:35 a.m. ET on Wednesday, September 14th, 2022.
A live webcast of this event will be available at ir.delta.com. An online replay will be available at the same site shortly after the webcast is complete.
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Man impersonating officer pulls over deputy
BRIGHTON, Colo. (KCNC) - Police in Colorado said a man impersonating an officer chose the wrong car to pull over on Saturday on I-76.
“We did have officers dispatched to the report of a police impersonator on I-76 heading westbound between Bridge Street and Bromley Lane,” Kylynn Delohery with Brighton Police Department said.
Police say Jose Flores Ortiz was driving a 2019 Dodge Durango and activated red and blue lights from a bar in his windshield to attempt to pull someone over.
The person he as trying to pull over was a real off-duty deputy with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.
“It seemed a little strange to this off-duty deputy,” Delohery said. “Moments later, the Durango started to brake-check the off-duty deputy and forced him to the shoulder of the interstate.”
Police said Ortiz was wearing a security shirt and had a silver badge.
The off-duty deputy says the man “charged” his vehicle.
Fearing for his safety, the off-duty deputy pulled his firearm on the man and detained him.
“He was arrested on scene and booked into Adams County jail,” Delohery said.
He is charged with impersonating a peace officer, driving under the influence of alcohol and prohibited use of a weapon, among other charges.
While the alleged impersonator chose the wrong car to pull over Saturday, the risk of officer impersonations is still out there.
“There are people who impersonate police officers, and it could have been definitely a dangerous situation,” Delohery said.
Police said if you ever find yourself in this situation, don’t pull over and put down your window for a vehicle you suspect is not law enforcement.
Instead, drive at a safe speed and turn your hazard lights on.
Call 911 to confirm if the person pulling you over is a member of law enforcement.
They also recommend familiarizing yourself with the vehicles of your local law enforcement agencies.
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Selected as development partner for Microsoft Dynamics 365 digital transformation initiatives
LONDON and DENVER, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest, global customer experience (CX) technology and services innovators for end-to-end digital CX solutions, was selected by KCH Interventional Facilities Management LLP (KCH) as a Microsoft development partner to enable its digital transformation.
TTEC Digital's deep healthcare expertise will enable KCH to accelerate its digital transformation through Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to deliver operational efficiencies and provide world class patient experiences.
"TTEC Digital is proud to have been selected as a partner by KCH to drive their digital transformation," said Mahadevan Meikum, Head of TTEC Digital, EMEA. "The vision for our work together will augment KCH's value to healthcare providers across the UK, delivering improved outcomes and patient experiences."
KCH cited TTEC Digital's strong Microsoft credentials, deep healthcare expertise, and decades of experience in delivering world-class digital solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics platform as the primary reasons for moving forward with this strategic initiative with the Company.
TTEC Digital is a long-time Microsoft Gold Partner and for the sixth consecutive year was recently named Microsoft's Inner Circle partner for its industry-leading cloud, business applications, analytics and AI solutions. TTEC Digital was also named the global Dynamics 365 Marketing 2021 partner of the year and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights 2021 finalist.
A limited liability partnership owned by Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, KCH supplies healthcare support services. KCH partners with healthcare providers to deliver world class patient care, with all profits reinvested in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS).
TTEC Digital brings a wealth of Microsoft experience and expertise, being one of the first to market in Microsoft technologies including Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, omnichannel capabilities in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Cloud for Healthcare and real-time customer journey orchestration capabilities in Dynamics 365 Marketing.
TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC) is one of the largest, global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovators for end-to-end, digital CX solutions. The company delivers leading CX technology and operational CX orchestration at scale through its proprietary cloud based CXaaS (Customer Experience as a Service) platform. Serving iconic and disruptive brands, TTEC's outcome-based solutions span the entire enterprise, touch every virtual interaction channel, and improve each step of the customer journey. Leveraging next gen digital and cognitive technology, the company's Digital business designs, builds, and operates omnichannel contact centre technology, conversational messaging, CRM, automation (AI / ML and RPA), and analytics solutions. The company's Engage business delivers digital customer engagement, customer acquisition & growth, content moderation, fraud mitigation, and data annotation solutions. Founded in 1982, the Company's singular obsession with CX excellence has earned it leading client NPS scores across the globe. The company's nearly 60,000 employees operate on six continents and bring technology and humanity together to deliver happy customers and differentiated business results. To learn more visit us at https://www.ttec.com/emea.
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FLINT, Mich., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forum Health Fond du Lac, part of the first nationwide network of integrative and functional medicine providers, welcomes Nurse Practitioner Alicia Barkholtz to its growing team.
Alicia Barkholtz, FNP-C is joining Steven G. Meress, MD, FACP, ABHM, Brian Borden, ND, and Donna Abfall, ND at Forum Health Fond Du Lac where they specialize in hyperbaric oxygen therapy, preventative medicine, women's health, longevity and regenerative medicine, IV therapy, weight loss, detox, gut health, tick borne disease, and cancer therapies. Alicia's specialties include hormones, weight loss, and thyroid function.
"Alicia's holistic approach to care and experience in several specialties makes her a well-rounded integrative medicine provider that we're excited to have at Forum Health Fond Du Lac," said Adam Puttkammer, president of Forum Health.
Alicia is certified in Adult and Family Medicine through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and has 6 years of experience as a registered nurse at Fox Valley Wellness Center, a hospital, and urgent care.
"I am excited to join Forum Health Fond Du Lac because I believe in treating everyone as a whole, not just based on one or two symptoms, and approach healing as improving a patient's quality of life," said Alicia. "I work with my patients to get to the root cause of their problem using a team approach. I am a firm believer that no one knows their body better than the patient, so we work together to heal and improve the body."
"I am thrilled to see our Fond Du Lac location expanding with such promising talent and dedicated providers," said Phil Hagerman, CEO of Forum Health.
Alicia received her nursing degree from Wisconsin Lutheran College in 2016, and master's degree from Concordia University, WI in 2022. Alicia continues to invest in education healthcare seminars and certifications.
For more information on Forum Health, visit www.forumhealth.com.
Forum Health, LLC is a nationwide provider of personalized healthcare. Steeped in the powerful principles of functional and integrative medicine, Forum Health providers take a root-cause approach to care. They listen and dig deep — exploring lifestyle, environment, and genetics to help each patient achieve their ultimate health goals. Members have access to advanced medical treatments and technology, with care plans informed by data analytics and collaborative relationships. To learn more, visit forumhealth.com.
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RVshare observes continuous demand for RV rentals with revenue from bookings up nearly 40 percent in 2022 and exponentially since pre-pandemic levels
AUSTIN, Texas and AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RVshare, the largest community for RV owners and renters, has had over 100,000[1] owners sign up to rent their RV's since the pandemic began. The ongoing interest in RV travel has fueled RV owners' profits. With an influx of new RV owners renting on the site, nearly 30 percent use their rental as a way to offset the cost of owning an RV. According to a recent survey of RVshare owners, nearly 60 percent of owners are able to cover at least half or more of their financing payments by renting out their vehicle through RVshare, while 17 percent claim that they have been able to pay off their vehicle entirely.[2]
The online rental site recently found that 64 percent of owners claim to have purchased their RV after the pandemic started in March 2020. While fluctuating gas prices and interest rates may have some owners tempted to sell, RVshare is seeing continuous demand and growth in bookings, with revenue from bookings up nearly 40 percent in 2022. According to an RV Shipment Report from RVIA, nearly 19 percent more RV units were being imported into the United States in March 2022, compared to the prior year.[3] This increased RV supply could result in lower prices for buyers and sellers alike, making it the right time to rent instead of sell.
"RVshare was built with the idea of making it easy for RV owners to list and rent to create the world's first fleet of RV entrepreneurs with the ability to make real money from their RV," said RVshare's CEO Jon Gray. "With record sales in 2020 and 2021, there are more RV owners in the US than ever before.
Rising interest levels paired with the continued trend of outdoor travel make us believe that demand will only increase, making it a great time for owners to turn their asset into a source of revenue."
RVshare owners, Robyn and Luis Valdez from Washington, weigh in claiming that, "We didn't buy during the pandemic expecting to create income. We purchased our RV to create memories with our family! We are currently 60+ rentals later, and our rental business accounts for nearly half of our household income. Our rentals more than pay for themselves, and we plan to continue growing our fleet, and using RVshare as a lead gathering resource."
The recent RVshare survey also highlighted that only 20 percent of owners are currently retired from their primary occupation, making their rental services a wonderful source of earnings; while 80 percent of owners claim that RVshare acts as a second source of income for themselves and their families. With many RVshare owners still working their full time jobs, the upkeep and management of an RV rental can seem like a big time commitment.
To help cushion the commitment, RV rental management companies have begun to gain popularity in the RV rental industry. For example, goHomePort Rentals, an RV rental management company and RVshare partner based in Denver, CO, assists owners with insuring and cleaning vehicles, communicating with renters and supporting them on the road with technical issues, delivery, and facilitating an easy and hands-off check-in and check-out process. RV owners are finding companies like goHomePort are a great option to overcome the workload of renting.
"Hiring an RV rental management company like goHomePort Rentals is a great option for time-crunched RV owners who are looking to rent but want to offset the workload," said goHomePort Rental's Marketing Director, Laura Patten. "We manage the RV rental entirely with little to no financial risk to the RV owner. We are commission-based, and only get paid a portion of the RV rental income. Furthermore, we can help kickstart rental earnings because we know what works. As an added incentive, RV owners can write-off our management fees on their taxes as well as other expenses related to renting, furnishing, repairing, and upgrading their RV, so all in all, our service is a win-win for everyone."
For more information about listing an RV rental, please visit rvshare.com/list-your-rv, and for additional information about RVshare and RV management services, please visit rvshare.com and the RVshare blog.
RVshare is the largest online community for RV renters and owners with a diverse selection of vehicles for rent across the US, ranging from luxury motorhomes to cozy camper vans. On RVshare you'll find vehicles that can accommodate any outdoor adventure, whether it's a weekend of camping or a cross-country tour of national parks. Hit the road yourself or plan for a campsite delivery to experience the unbridled freedom of RV travel. With more than 3 million nights of sleeping under the stars booked, families and groups can experience a one-of-a-kind trip and create memories that will last a lifetime. For more information, visit rvshare.com, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @rvshare.
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Police: Suspect assaulted post office employee, stole $112,000
NEW YORK (NEWS 12 THE BRONX) - New York Police said they are searching for a man who attacked a U.S. Postal Service employee Tuesday morning and got away with approximately $112,000.
Police reported it happened at a post office in the Bronx.
The suspect allegedly hit the 56-year-old worker in the head with a gun before demanding a safe inside the post office be opened.
In addition to the money, the suspect also took 10 boxes of money orders of unknown value before fleeing the scene.
Investigators said they believe the printer for money orders was also stolen.
The postal worker suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
Police said the FBI also responded to the incident, and the search for the suspect is ongoing.
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Teens Logged 17 Million Workouts at Planet Fitness Locations Nationwide from May through September, Laying Foundations for Long-Lasting Healthy Habits with the Leader in Fitness
HAMPTON, N.H., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Planet Fitness, one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers with more members than any other fitness brand, announced that more than 3.5 million high schoolers signed up for its High School Summer Pass program, logging 17 million workouts over the course of three-and-a-half months. High School Summer Pass took place from May 16 through August 31, during which Planet Fitness opened its doors to high schoolers ages 14 – 19 to work out for free at any of its more than 2,300 locations in the United States and Canada.
Throughout the pandemic, many students either didn't have access to a place to exercise or reduced their physical activity due to virtual school and social isolation. Planet Fitness' High School Summer Pass came at a critical time when high school students were feeling the emotional and physical tolls of the pandemic. In fact:
- A CDC study found that more than 40 percent of teens said they persistently felt sad or hopeless during 20211
- According to the CDC, emergency room visits for suicide attempts in early 2021 for teens ages 12-17 increased by 31 percent compared to 20192
- Research published in the Journal of Pediatrics shows that new diagnoses of type 2 diabetes rose by 77 percent among youth (ages 8 – 21) during the first year of the pandemic3
"The success of our High School Summer Pass program reinforces that this generation is seeking access to fitness to make their physical and mental health a priority," said Chris Rondeau, Chief Executive Officer at Planet Fitness. "We're thrilled more than 3.5 million high schoolers took the initiative to get active this summer. There are so many benefits to physical activity, including managing stress, reducing anxiety, and improving performance in school. Having joined a gym for the first time when I was 16, fitness enabled me to develop life-long healthy habits that have benefitted me in numerous ways throughout my life. We look forward to welcoming these students in the Judgement Free Zone for years to come."
In a survey4 of nearly 10,000 High School Summer Pass teen participants and their parents, Planet Fitness uncovered the impact of the record-setting summer program:
- Jumpstart your Health: This summer represents the first time that two-thirds (67 percent) of participants stepped into any fitness club, introducing how today's youth can start exercising now for a healthier tomorrow.
- Mood Booster: 88 percent of teens share their overall mood improves after exercise, with 76 percent feeling happy specifically after exercising.
- Real Talk: Nearly nine-in-ten (86 percent) parents say that the High School Summer Pass program has opened doors in communication with their teens about overall wellness.
- Summer Well Sweat: Three-fourths (75 percent) of parents confess their teens would not have been as physically active without High School Summer Pass, especially impactful as school sports programs, gym classes and after school activities wind down over the summer.
- Family Fitness: Four-fifths (82 percent) of parents report that seeing their teen exercise has inspired other family members to get more physically active, with more than half (58 percent) of parents working out with their teens this summer.
"This experience has transformed not only my mental health, but my physical health. I chose to live a healthier lifestyle back in January of 2022, and this gym membership has really helped me stay on track with my fitness and health journey," noted Aliyah C., age 19, who participated in the High School Summer Pass program at her local club in North Carolina. "When I found out that Planet Fitness was giving teens access to gyms for free during the summer, I was super excited and finally found the motivation I needed to keep going. I have lost 20 pounds and have never felt better."
Finally, all teens in the United States and Canada who signed up were automatically entered into The Planet Fitness High School Summer Pass Sweepstakes. Planet Fitness will award one $500 scholarship in each state (and the District of Columbia) and one grand prize $5,000 scholarship5. These scholarships can be used for academic or athletic activities or programs. Winners will be notified this month.
For more information on Planet Fitness and to locate any of its more than 2,300 Planet Fitness locations, please visit PlanetFitness.com/Local-Clubs.
About Planet Fitness
Founded in 1992 in Dover, NH, Planet Fitness is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the United States by number of members and locations. As of June 30, 2022, Planet Fitness had 16.5 million members and 2,324 stores in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Panama, Mexico and Australia. The Company's mission is to enhance people's lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, which we call the Judgement Free Zone®. More than 90% of Planet Fitness stores are owned and operated by independent business men and women.
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1 Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey — United States, January–June 2021, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2 Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Suicide Attempts Among Persons Aged 12–25 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, January 2019–May 2021, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3 The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a substantial rise in frequency and severity of presentation of youth-onset type 2 diabetes, The Journal of Pediatrics
4 Based on a survey of teen High School Summer Pass participants and their parents; conducted by Planet Fitness from June 9-15, 2022.
5 No purchase necessary. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S./D.C., who are 14-19 years of age (with parent approval if under age of majority). Begins 12:00 am ET on 5/16/22; ends 11:59 pm ET on 8/31/22. For Official Rules, visit PlanetFitness.com/sweepstakes-rules.
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TOKYO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KLab Inc., a leader in online mobile games, announced that its head-to-head football simulation game Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team will hold the worldwide Dream Championship 2022 tournament and will kick off its online qualifiers starting Friday, September 9th. See the original press release (https://www.klab.com/en/press/) for more information.
Online Qualifiers Overview
Starting Friday, September 9th users who get 3 wins in the in-game Online Qualifiers Round 1, reach the top 5000 in the regional ranking in the Online Qualifiers Round 2 held the following week, and reach the top 8 in Round 3 held the week after that, will advance to the Final Regional Qualifiers.
How to Enter
Join the tournament from the in-game Online Qualifiers Round 1.
*Conditions for participating apply such as being 18 years old or older (as of September 1, 2022). For details, please check in-app and the Dream Championship 2022 website.
Dream Championship 2022 Website:
About Dream Championship 2022
The Dream Championship is an official tournament for Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team hosted by KLab Inc. for players 18 years old and above. Originally held in 2019, this tournament was designed in response to the players desire to face off against strong opponents. The tournament uses the mobile game Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team available on the App Store and Google Play Store.
Dream Championship 2022 Daily Scenario
Players can complete daily scenarios once a day during the event period. Receive fantastic rewards such as Shot-Specific Black Ball (SSR)＋5 and more by clearing the scenarios.
Overview of Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team
Supported OSes: Android™ 4.4+, iOS 10.0+, HarmonyOS 2.0+
Genre: Head-to-head football simulation game
Price: Free-to-play (In-app purchases available)
Supported Regions: Global (Excludes Japan and Mainland China)
Official Website: https://www.tsubasa-dreamteam.com/en
Official Twitter Account: @tsubasaDT_en
Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/tsubasaDTen
Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTgOPO7kIQ35YzB7SBIQoWQ/
Official Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/6tyEs48
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG), a technology platform company leveraging its proprietary electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power, today announced that it has been invited to present as part of the 2022 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), which will be held September 18-22, 2022 in Basel, Switzerland.
The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is the continent's largest event in the field and one of the most prestigious and traditional events on optical communications worldwide.
CEO Dr. Michael Lebby, Chairman of the ECOC Market Focus Committee, will participate in the Market Focus Session, which will include his presentation on utilizing foundries to scale hybrid electro-optic polymer modulators to an audience of industry experts and other industry participants. In addition, Dr. Lebby will discuss the latest results on foundry fabricated stable and reliable EO polymers for integrated photonics platforms and review the latest work in photonics roadmaps on both the integrated photonics (PIC) level as well as PIC packaging level.
"Electro-optic polymer modulators are now becoming a hot topic in the industry as it strives to increase modulation speed while reducing optical network equipment power consumption," said Dr. Michael Lebby, Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic. "We believe that our polymer-based silicon photonic modulators can significantly increase the speed of existing devices while using less power. Given our polymer material requires no special fabrication tooling, and can be in spun onto silicon wafers, the technology is ideally suited for volume scale foundry processes in semiconductor fabs with standardized PDKs (process design kits). I look forward to providing a technical update and continuing to position Lightwave as a clear leader in this space with one of the hottest topics at this tier-1 industry conference."
About Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG) is developing a platform leveraging its proprietary engineered electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power. The company's high-activity and high-stability organic polymers allow Lightwave Logic to create next-generation photonic EO devices, which convert data from electrical signals into optical signals, for applications in data communications and telecommunications markets. For more information, please visit the Company's website at lightwavelogic.com.
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Discover equips support teams with actionable analytics to maximize ROI and drive growth
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forethought, the Human-Centered AI Platform, today announced the launch of Discover™. This product complements the existing three products in the Platform: Solve, Triage and Assist. Discover delivers proactive support insights fast, with low effort and investment.
Prior to Discover, most customer service tools were limited to analyzing structured data — i.e., data that can easily be organized into a spreadsheet such as phone numbers, addresses, product names, and currency. The vast majority of customer support data is unstructured, including emails, audio files, and long-form articles. This data is a gold mine of valuable customer insights, but most teams haven't had the tools to properly make sense of it without hiring professional data scientists.
Discover makes it possible to easily glean valuable insights from unstructured support data to enable support teams to be more proactive about improving the customer experience.
"With Discover, Forethought expands the horizons of the customer support experience. With these capabilities, support teams can easily perform powerful analysis to get holistic insights on every piece of customer support data and can then take action on those insights. As a result, data-driven decisions will be much easier and more effective, and any business can appreciate that," Vice President of Product EJ Liao said.
Organizations using Discover will have access to multi-channel and multi-ticket AI capabilities, such as analyzing unstructured data across all channels and tickets.
The granularity of this data analysis is unprecedented in the market. While other solutions can provide basic analysis on volume metrics, they lack the ability to perform advanced analysis easily on multi-ticket unstructured data, as well as NLU-powered dynamic categorization. Discover outperforms other products by providing dynamic categorization based on data versus predefined ones, as well as abnormality detection to improve the noise-to-signal ratio. Additionally, Discover looks beyond trend volume with key performance indicators (KPIs) segmented by dynamically generated issue categories.
Dynamic ticket categorization is core to Discover technology and will improve and evolve over time. The ability to capture this data and turn it into actionable insights can transform customer support from a cost center to a growth driver. Adding this capability to Forethought's Platform enables it to support human interactions and the ability to dive deeper into the customer service experience data, as well as capture sales and product insights to share across the organization and enable more data-driven decision-making.
"Discover helps organizations make sense of complicated customer queries and gain insights into their experiences. It's proactive in capturing implicit signals from customers, which can be shared throughout an enterprise to dramatically improve the overall customer experience," Deon Nicholas, CEO of Forethought, said.
Future Discover enhancements include AI-powered recommendations on workflow and process improvements, agent coaching, and suggested additions to an organization's Knowledge Center based on coverage gaps in customer inquiries.
Learn more about Discover at forethought.ai.
ABOUT FORETHOUGHT
Launched in 2018, Forethought is a leading AI company providing customer service solutions that transform the customer experience. Forethought's products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing human-centered AI at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, enriching and prioritizing tickets, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge — all from one platform.
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LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that James Dentzer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Curis, will present at the H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. ET in New York, NY. Mr. Dentzer will also participate in a Leukemia and MDS panel at the Cantor Oncology and HemOnc Conference on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 3:25 p.m. ET in New York, NY.
A webcast of the H.C. Wainwright presentation will be available under "Events & Presentations" in the Investors section of the Company's website at www.curis.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Curis website for approximately 90 days following the event.
About Curis, Inc.
Curis is a biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. In 2015, Curis entered into a collaboration with Aurigene in the areas of immuno-oncology and precision oncology. As part of this collaboration, Curis has exclusive licenses to oral small molecule antagonists of immune checkpoints including the VISTA/PDL1 antagonist CA-170, and the TIM3/PDL1 antagonist CA-327, as well as the IRAK4 kinase inhibitor, emavusertib (CA-4948). Emavusertib is currently undergoing testing in the Phase 1/2 TakeAim Lymphoma trial, in patients with hematologic malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other B cell malignancies, both as a monotherapy and in combination with BTK inhibitor ibrutinib, and the Phase 1/2 TakeAim Leukemia trial in patients with AML and MDS, for which it has received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on the TakeAim Leukemia trial during which no new patients will be enrolled in the combination phase (Phase 1b) of emavusertib with azacitidine or venetoclax and expansion phase (Phase 2a), and current study participants benefiting from treatment may continue to be treated with emavusertib at doses of 300mg BID or lower. In addition, Curis is engaged in a collaboration with ImmuNext for development of CI-8993, a monoclonal anti-VISTA antibody, which is currently undergoing testing in a Phase 1 trial in patients with solid tumors. Curis is also party to a collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, under which Genentech and Roche are commercializing Erivedge® for the treatment of advanced basal cell carcinoma. For more information, visit Curis's website at www.curis.com.
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Latest Innovation Solves Pharma Brands' and Agencies' Long-standing Need for Transparent, Data-driven DTC Audience Creation and Campaign Planning
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DeepIntent, the leading healthcare advertising technology company built to influence patient health and business outcomes, today announced the launch of Patient Planner, a game-changing innovation that unlocks the power of healthcare data in a HIPAA-compliant way, giving advertisers the control and transparency they need to activate successful patient audiences and programmatic campaigns.
Patient Planner is the only tool that unifies medical and pharmacy claims within a healthcare demand side platform (DSP) for on-demand patient audience creation and real-time campaign planning. Only with DeepIntent can healthcare marketers explore patient populations, project addressable audiences, and forecast cross-channel reach in real-time based on their brand objectives.
Patient Planner also features a first-of-its-kind TV planning tool that provides instant insight into incremental audience reach and overlap across linear and connected TV. The tool combines automated content recognition (ACR) viewership data with clinical data so marketers can make informed decisions that improve clinically-relevant reach and efficiency for their TV campaigns.
"Patient Planner solves a long-standing challenge for all healthcare marketers, one I experienced myself on the agency side. Until now, brands and agencies had no way of truly understanding their patient populations or the predicted reach against their target audiences in real-time," said Jen Werther, Chief Strategy Officer of DeepIntent. "With Patient Planner, media and programmatic teams finally have hands-on access to the data and tools needed to create smarter, faster, and fully-transparent patient audiences and campaigns."
Key features & benefits for pharma brands and agencies include:
- On-demand custom audience creation: explore and segment patient populations in real-time based on campaign-specific claims codes, demographics, media consumption habits, and more. Tap into our next gen Patient Modeled Audiences, now with more powerful predictive algorithms that improve audience quality by up to 7X.
- Real-time audience analysis: maximize clinically-relevant reach and eliminate waste by understanding overlap and incrementality of custom-built and third-party audiences, based on verified patient data
- Instant insight into CTV: quantify potential patient reach on linear and connected TV and understand the incremental reach that can be gained with CTV
- Real-time forecasting and scenario planning: project addressable audience size, reach, and spend across channels and devices and project outcomes before spending, so investment can be focused on media strategies that work best
- Faster addressability: send HIPAA-compliant audiences directly to DeepIntent's healthcare DSP for activation
- Save time and money: maximize resources with simplified, streamlined workflows at no additional cost with no fees or minimums to use Patient Planner
"Patient Planner unlocks data-driven insight and planning that can drive strategy and investment in completely new ways," said Ari Shenkman, Director of Programmatic at Havas Media, North America. "I'm excited to expand our use of the tool and get it into the hands of more of our strategists and traders."
Patient Planner has been in beta testing with leading agencies, including Havas Media Group North America, Klick Health, Fingerpaint, and Matterkind since May and is now available to all advertisers for immediate use.
For more information about Patient Planner, visit www.deepintent.com/patient-planner.
DeepIntent is leading the healthcare advertising industry with data-driven solutions built for the future. Built purposefully for healthcare marketers, DeepIntent's platform is proven to drive higher audience quality and script performance. It enables marketers to plan, activate, measure, and optimize their campaigns all within a single platform. Conceived by former Memorial Sloan Kettering data scientists, DeepIntent empowers nine of the top ten pharmaceutical companies and the leading healthcare advertising agencies to improve patient outcomes through the artful use of advertising, data science, and real-world health data. For more information, visit DeepIntent.com or find us on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
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TULSA, Okla., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Senior Star announced today that it has been ranked fifth on Fortune magazine's prestigious list of Best Workplaces in Aging Services 2022. This is the fourth time in five years Senior Star has appeared on this Fortune list.
"Earning the right to be on a list compiled by a trusted source like Fortune is an affirmation that brings joy to my heart," said Anja Rogers, Senior Star CEO. "We are a company that puts our associates at the heart of what we do. It is truly a love thing! When our associates feel fully supported and loved by their managers, they're able to deliver the best care, service and love to our residents."
Tulsa-based Senior Star operates seven retirement communities in four states and employs nearly 900 associates. With strategic moves as well as portfolio and leadership changes over the last two years, Senior Star is now well-positioned for future priorities that include securing large-sized assets with multiple levels of care. This will enable the business to expand their hiring and retain top talent.
To qualify for Fortune's Best Workplaces in Aging Services list, the company earned certification as a Great Place to Work in May 2022. That certification process included a survey open to all Senior Star associates. "Our participation rate topped at 98% and trust, respect, fairness, pride, camaraderie and credibility were among Senior Star employees' top workplace rankings," according to Rogers. "Given the changes in the workforce over the last several years, this endorsement is most meaningful to us."
"Being named among the best aging services workplace providers highlights our commitment to continuous improvement and maintaining an associate-first culture," said Rogers. "I believe the survey results speak to Senior Star's commitment to a culture that leads with head and heart and promises to 'do for each other with love.' Our guiding principle also fosters an environment where each associate feels a sense of belonging and clearly sees that Senior Star is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all hiring and advancement decisions. I also believe it's critical that all of us in the senior housing industry seek new ways to position ourselves positively in the marketplace and reinforce the fact that our industry is a desirable career choice … one where all are valued and where individuals can truly make a difference in the lives of those they serve."
Fortune's Best Workplaces in Aging Services is highly competitive and based on analysis of survey responses from 140,000+ Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies in the aging services industry. To view this year's complete list of honorees visit https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/aging-services/2022?category=senior-housing-sm-med.
For more information about Senior Star call 918.221.0289 or visit their website at www.seniorstar.com.
About Senior Star
Senior Star is a family-owned company founded in 1976 that has become a nationally recognized industry leader for providing quality and innovative services to America's seniors. Their portfolio includes seven retirement communities in four states offering independent living, assisted living, nursing and memory support. Learn more at www.seniorstar.com and on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Great Place to Work® Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work FOR ALL. Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
About Activated Insights® Activated Insights is the senior care division of Great Place to Work and provides employee and resident surveys to aging services providers. With an expertise in senior care, Activated Insights is committed to transforming the aging experience by impacting the lives of seniors, families, staff, and others in senior care through research, data, and technology. Learn more at activatedinsights.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Independent survey reveals seniors face significant challenges selecting optimal Medicare plans
BALTIMORE, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 60 million Americans are preparing for this year's Medicare Open Enrollment period (October 15 to December 7), and most have significant gaps in their knowledge of plan components, are overwhelmed by Medicare advertisements, and fail to consult with external resources before signing up. Most also stay in their current plan when re-enrolling without seeking other options that better meet their changing healthcare needs.
These findings are compiled in a report, Hidden Crisis: The Medicare Enrollment Maze, issued by national healthcare consultancy Sage Growth Partners. The report is based on a survey of 1,142 individuals ages 64 and older, which was commissioned by Healthpilot, an AI-driven, fully digital platform for Medicare education and insurance enrollment.
"As the open enrollment period rapidly approaches, it is more important than ever to acknowledge the challenges faced by seniors in choosing the best plan for their needs," said Dan D'Orazio, Sage Growth Partners CEO. "Our research shows that widespread consumer confusion hurts older Americans and the entire U.S. healthcare system. It's beyond time for changes to be made to better educate and support those enrolling in Medicare every year."
Poor plan selection impacts the health outcomes of Medicare users and increases overall healthcare spending. Sub-optimal options with large out-of-pocket expenses may cause enrollees to put off necessary care or prescriptions due to financial concerns. That, in turn, can translate to worse outcomes and more healthcare spending due to avoidable emergent visits, hospital admissions, readmissions, and long-term care.
The Kaiser Family Foundation forecasts that Medicare outlays will rise from $689 billion in 2021 to nearly $1.6 trillion in 2032, due to growth in the Medicare-eligible population and increases in healthcare costs. The U.S. Census Bureau projects more than 73 million Americans will enroll by 2030.
Among the key findings in Sage Growth Partners' report:
- 80% of Medicare-eligible individuals failed to correctly describe all the components of Original Medicare; 69% failed to do so for Medicare Advantage.
- 63% are "overwhelmed" by Medicare advertising; only 31% of respondents "strongly agree" that they can make effective selection decisions.
- More than half (58%) stay in their current Medicare plan each year rather than reviewing it and considering other options.
- Only about one-third (30%) strongly agree that they can easily find the information needed to make effective plan decisions.
- Just 12% of respondents used a helpline during the last open enrollment period and of those, 13% had little or no trust in the advice they were given.
- 33% have a financial advisor, but only 2% use that advisor to help with plan selection.
The survey of Medicare enrollment-eligible individuals took place in April 2022. More than 80% of participants had coverage through Medicare or Medicare Advantage. The respondents came from across the enrollment experience spectrum:
- 10% of respondents were first-time enrollees
- 32% had been enrolled for less than one year to three years
- 35% for 4-9 years
- 23% for 10 years or more.
The full report, Hidden Crisis: The Medicare Enrollment Maze, can be found here.
About Sage Growth Partners
Sage Growth Partners is a healthcare advisory firm with deep expertise in market research, strategy, and communications. Founded in 2005, the company's extensive domain experience ensures that healthcare organizations thrive amid the complexities of a rapidly changing marketplace. Sage Growth Partners serves clients across the full healthcare spectrum, including GE Healthcare, ProgenyHealth, the National Minority Health Association, Philips Healthcare, U.S. Renal Care, Quest Diagnostics, Livongo, and Syft. For more information, visit sage-growth.com.
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There can be three key levels (which usually coins do for gold:). It all adds up in time. However, they won. If you feel unfamiliar, feel about your invest- I had to have it cleaned out to clear off what seemed an incredible wealth management system by traded from the very heart on one side and some of the best trad-. This trading binary can all-inspires on to investors who want themes-based portrays Most elections are, at least in part, reactions to the results of the last election. Usually, that means they function as a referendum on the last election's winners and their performance in office.
It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for the midterm cycle to focus on the conduct of the last election — a kind of referendum on the legitimacy of the system itself.
By that standard, 2022 qualifies as unusual indeed.
Donald Trump and his followers, who now represent the activist core of the Republican Party, have insisted on making 2022 a do-over of 2020. Their essential argument is not that President Biden has failed or been a bad president, but that he was never legitimately elected president in the first place.
Trump has in fact this past week demanded he be "reinstated" as the "rightful winner" of the 2020 election or that the election be re-run "immediately" because Facebook had been advised by the FBI not to trust certain stories about Biden's son, Hunter, during the 2020 campaign.
Trump continues to insist, after 20 months, that he won an election that he lost by more than 7 million in the popular vote and by 306-232 in the Electoral College. Neither he nor his acolytes have produced any evidence to undermine those totals. But they have eroded confidence in the system and its caretakers to the degree that a majority of Republicans tell pollsters they think the election was "stolen."
The rest of the GOP, including prominent leaders such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, would clearly prefer to talk about Biden and about inflation, gas prices, crime and immigration. But they cannot wrest the party's megaphone back from the man who has monopolized it since 2015. And whatever they think of Trump personally, they are as reliant as he is on the support and donations and votes of his followers. So they fall in line, or they fall silent.
The rise of election denial in the GOP
Moreover, a new generation of candidates has emerged and surged in GOP primaries by stressing their embrace of Trump's claims.
Trump has endorsed 159 candidates who are election deniers for state and federal offices this year, and about 80% of them have already won their Republican primaries, according to a survey by The New York Times. A separate survey by The Washington Post found 87 election deniers among candidates for offices that will matter to the vote certification of the next election in six battleground states he narrowly lost in 2020 (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). Of that number, 54 have already won their primaries.
"The 2020 election was stolen," say the MAGA candidates who wear Trump's favor, adding, "You know it and I know it." That statement of assurance is usually the only proof offered. And the crowd at the rally roars back its affirmation.
The "you know it and I know it" mantra is also available in a variety of display formats. You can go on Amazon today and order it on a package of 10 waterproof vinyl car decals, or go elsewhere for it on a doormat or on a polyester flag measuring 15 square feet.
From the standpoint of a fact-checker, there is no evidence of fraud sufficient to support that claim. After nearly two years of recounts, ballot reviews, expert examinations and court cases, that remains the bottom line. The 2020 election has been scrubbed and studied as none other in U.S. history, and the consensus conclusion remains that it was run more smoothly and counted more reliably than ever.
So why do Trump's people continue to deny the outcomes, and why do crowds cheer?
Perhaps, because in politics, myth can be as powerful as fact — and at times it may well be more so.
Claims of voter fraud have become integral to Trump's brand. But he did not invent the idea of a stolen election. He exploited it as no one had before, to be sure, but he was mining a lode that had been opened long ago and tapped as a rich source of grievance for generations.
Deep and tenacious roots
For the "election deniers," and for many Americans who accept the 2020 results but still think voter fraud is a big problem, the roots of these beliefs are deep.
The Heritage Foundation, long an anchor on the right among think tanks in Washington, devotes a page of its website to voter fraud and offers a database of cases. It also offers a disquisition on ballot stuffing and voter intimidation and other forms of malfeasance common in the 1700s and 1800s and early 1900s.
The prime example cited by Heritage is an election stolen by the notorious Democratic machine in New York City known as Tammany Hall. It happened in 1844. More recent examples cited include a mayoral primary in East Chicago, Ind., in 2003.
The figure of 1,182 is cited for the total of criminal prosecutions for voter fraud in recent years, most of them dealing with improper registration or fraudulent use of absentee ballots. They are listed as 2022 cases, but on further inspection they date back over a period of years and arise from primaries as well as general elections. The database does not mention that in 2020 alone there were more than 50 million votes cast in primaries and more than 158 million in the November election.
William Safire was a White House speechwriter for President Richard Nixon who later spent decades writing columns on politics and language for The New York Times. In his popular New Political Dictionary, he wrote extensively on "ballot box stuffing" and "cemetery voting." He, too, went back to Tammany Hall rigging outcomes for the Democrats in New York City in the 1800s, while also allowing that the Republican strongholds in upstate New York were often suspect in their reporting as late as the 1920s.
Safire noted that many had believed the 1960 presidential election was tipped to John F. Kennedy and running mate Lyndon B. Johnson by vote theft in rural Texas counties and the heavily Catholic precincts of Chicago, where the Democratic machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley held sway. One story often repeated among Protestant Republicans in Illinois described school buses shuttling nuns around the city on Election Day, unloading them to vote at every Catholic parish they passed.
Still, in Safire's treatment, these phenomena were historical artifacts of an era before mechanized and later digitized voting became the norm and cheating became more challenging. The Florida vote counting fiasco in 2000, which struggled for weeks to ascertain a reliable result, ended the era of complacency on this score. In the end, the Supreme Court upheld a count by which George W. Bush won the state by just over 500 votes, thus securing Florida's crucial contribution to his minimum-margin win in the Electoral College.
Since then, the administration of U.S. elections has been thoroughly examined and renovated. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) devoted billions to upgrading the election infrastructure, and many states instituted reforms of their own to facilitate and improve their voting and counting systems.
At the same time, the Bush White House was directing the Department of Justice to investigate thoroughly the possibility that voter fraud in major cities was padding the Democratic vote in swing states. The probe began in 2002 and five years later had little to show for its work. The federal Election Assistance Commission, tasked with finding fraud, reported that while some abuses had occurred, they were far from systematic or pervasive enough to matter much.
Nevertheless, the search went on and some U.S. attorneys around the country felt they were being pressured to prioritize prosecutions for voter fraud. Several resigned, and the allegations became part of the investigation Democrats began into the department after taking the majority in Congress in 2006. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, appointed by Bush in 2005, resigned in 2007.
Trump brings the issue back to the fore
Talk of voter fraud simmered down a bit thereafter. But the issue returned to prominence when Trump, after years of pumping up the "birther" conspiracy about Barack Obama's citizenship, shifted his focus to voter fraud in 2016. The only way he could lose, he said often that year, was if the election were stolen.
When he won that year, Trump still leveled angry allegations of voter fraud, perhaps because he had lost the national popular vote by nearly 3 million. He said between 3 million and 5 million non-citizens had voted in California alone, but he offered no proof whatsoever. He then appointed a bipartisan commission to find the proof, not just in California, but nationwide.
The commission was soon identified with the aggressive tactics of its vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who had sent requests around the country for extensive voter data. Many states, both red and blue, resisted or flat out refused. Dissension broke out within the commission, which disbanded after seven months without having found any evidence of voter fraud.
Nonetheless, Trump was back in the 2020 cycle predicting he could only lose if there was fraud, and that stance once again segued into a fury of denial and denunciations when he lost. While he struck out in the courts at the state and federal level (the Supreme Court refused to hear any of the appeals), Trump took his case to the public and has had considerable success in sowing doubt among his sympathizers.
At least one of the other Republicans eyeing the 2024 presidential election cycle, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has also made voter fraud a signature issue. In August, he held a news conference at which he announced the filing of charges against 20 Floridians who he said had voted illegally in 2020.
With rows of his "election police" posed behind him, DeSantis said he was outing ex-offenders who had no right to vote because of the seriousness of their crimes. It was later reported that at least some of the ex-offenders had believed their rights had been restored by a referendum Florida voters had approved by a big margin in 2018.
Getting stronger still?
Ricky Hatch is a Republican in Weber County, Utah, who has been an election official there since 2012. He is among several local election administrators from around the country who appear in a forthcoming book by CBS News reporter Major Garrett and David Becker, a previous longtime elections lawyer with the Department of Justice who founded the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research. In The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of "The Big Lie," Garrett and Becker detail the travails of the ordinary citizens on the front lines of the voting struggle.
Hatch said some of his neighbors cannot be persuaded even when he personally demonstrates to them how all the machinery of the process works right there in their home county. "They say, 'I know your machines have been hacked by China,' " Hatch reports. "I show them there is no means to hack the machines, that nothing is connected. They just say, 'They have been hacked, you just don't know it.' "
Hatch says he has heard objections from skeptics over the years, but nothing like the wall of denialism erected by Trump.
"I hate saying this, but he has the same characteristics as a cult leader," Hatch says. "He pulls people into a belief system. I thought it would die down. ... It's getting stronger."
At a minimum, the issue of voter fraud seems undiminished in its ability to galvanize certain categories of voters and create doubt about the outcome of elections.
Perhaps that should not be surprising. Voter fraud exists, but its prevalence and importance are less a matter of fact than of belief. Relying on that belief to explain away unpalatable election results is an exercise of faith, but one that millions find more acceptable than all the arguments and evidence from experts, courts and academics.
In the end, articles of faith are just that. Whether you consider faith to be higher than reason or simply unreasonable, such beliefs can be largely immune to factual refutation or rational argument. And they can be powerful motivators of human behavior, including at the polls.
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MISSISSAUGA,ON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Cymat Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: CYM) (OTCQB: CYMHF) (the "Company" or "Cymat") is pleased to announce that the Company has received a purchase order for military under-belly blast protection kits ("blast kits") from an Asian military vehicle manufacturer for use by the Singaporean military. This order for three blast kits represents the first production order of ultimately up to 700 blast kits by this military. The final value of the purchase orders is anticipated to be between $5 and $7 million.
Cymat previously announced the delivery of two underbelly kits (see press release dated September 20, 2021). Those kits were delivered for the purposes of conducting further testing and evaluation by the manufacturer and military with the objective of retrofitting their fleet of troop and supply carrying vehicles. With testing now completed, our customer has confirmed the military's commitment to moving forward to install the blast kits on their vehicles and the commencement of Low Rate Initial Production ("LRIP").
Cymat has been working for years on developing blast kits for various military patrol vehicles in active use. These blast kits are designed to mitigate the usually fatal effects of Improvised Explosive Devices ("IEDs") or very powerful land mines. Cymat's SmartMetal™ stabilized aluminum foam ("SAF") has been proven to be particularly effective at absorbing and reducing the energy of the compressed air wave that precedes these explosions.
Cymat CEO, Michael Liik commented, "This is truly an exciting breakthrough for Cymat in the military sector. The successful testing and resulting long-term production order, has provided our customer with the impetus to now expand marketing of their improved vehicle design, incorporating our blast kit, to other military organizations that deploy this vehicle." Mr. Liik further added, "By obtaining this order, Cymat will achieve a solid long-term base load for its factory, as well as enhance its credibility with other vehicle manufactures with whom we are currently in discussions."
Cymat Technologies Ltd. has the global rights, through patents and established know-how, to manufacture and sell Stabilized Aluminum Foam ("SAF"), a unique, ultra-light, cellular metallic material. The proprietary production process entails the injection of gases through a molten bath of alloyed aluminum infused with ceramic particles. The result is an advanced, lightweight, recyclable material that exhibits unique characteristics including: customizable density and dimensions; mechanical energy absorption; thermal and acoustic insulation; and time, temperature and strain-rate insensitivity. A key benefit of this continuous foam production process is its scalability and resultant low cost of production. SAF is used in such industries as architectural design, military and automotive. Cymat markets its architectural SAF under the Alusion™ brand and its automotive and military SAF under the SmartMetal™ brand. For further information, please visit our website at www.cymat.com.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, announced today that members of its management team will be presenting at the following financial community event:
Citi's 2022 Global Technology Conference
Thursday, September 8, 2022
4:00 p.m. PDT
Additional information about upcoming investor event participation and a live audio webcast of each presentation will be accessible from the "Investors" section of the Palo Alto Networks website at investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is the world's cybersecurity leader. We innovate to outpace cyberthreats, so organizations can embrace technology with confidence. We provide next-gen cybersecurity to thousands of customers globally, across all sectors. Our best-in-class cybersecurity platforms and services are backed by industry-leading threat intelligence and strengthened by state-of-the-art automation. Whether deploying our products to enable the Zero Trust Enterprise, responding to a security incident, or partnering to deliver better security outcomes through a world-class partner ecosystem, we're committed to helping ensure each day is safer than the one before. It's what makes us the cybersecurity partner of choice.
At Palo Alto Networks, we're committed to bringing together the very best people in service of our mission, so we're also proud to be the cybersecurity workplace of choice, recognized among Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces (2021), Comparably Best Companies for Diversity (2021), and HRC Best Places for LGBTQ Equality (2022). For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Serpex Medical announced today U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance of its Compass Steerable Needles – steerable biopsy needles that enable precise access to lung nodules in the intrapulmonary region. Serpex Medical seeks to leverage the power of steerable instruments to enable greater precision and access to improve the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. The clearance of the Compass Steerable Needles follows the recent clearance of Serpex's Recon Steerable Sheath.
"The Compass steerable needle is a much-needed innovation," says interventional pulmonologist Dr. George Cheng. "It provides exceptional maneuverability that will enable us to more precisely target and access lesions, at a nominal cost. It's also agnostic in design, so it can be paired with any navigation platform. It is just what we needed."
Lung cancer is the world's leading cause of cancer deaths. Many suspicious lesions found in the lung may be small and difficult to access, which can make diagnosing lung cancer challenging. The slim articulating Compass Steerable Needles provide precise three-dimensional positioning for enhanced reach to all 18 segments of the lung and access to small lesions outside of the airways. The device design allows for a controlled approach to target locations and the ability to sample from multiple aspects of the tumor without unwanted tip deflection, addressing challenging aspects of lung biopsy.
"Precision is essential for confidence in diagnosing lung cancer, especially out in the lung periphery," says Sasha Schrode, President and Chief Executive Officer of Serpex Medical. "We are excited to deliver another innovative product that empowers clinicians to more successfully diagnose lung cancer at an earlier stage."
"This is another significant milestone in the team's pursuit of practical, intuitive innovation," says Duke Rohlen, Executive Chairman of Serpex Medical and Chief Executive Officer of Ajax Health & Zeus Health. "Now with two sets of clearances, Serpex is poised to make a significant impact on the standard of care for patients with lung cancer."
Serpex Medical is backed by Ajax Health, Zeus Health, Aperture Venture Partners and Western Technology Investment.
Serpex Medical is based in Santa Clara, California and is developing innovative steerable technology that will enable greater precision while targeting difficult-to-reach lung nodules, especially those outside of the airway.
Ajax Health seeks to identify, support and scale disruptive technologies in the healthcare space. Taking an active operating role, the Ajax team has a proven track record of helping companies of all sizes, stages and structures achieve their value-creation goals. Ajax Health is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA and backed by an investor group led by HealthQuest Capital and Polaris Partners.
Zeus Health is a platform formed by leading global investment firm KKR focused on investing in and operating a portfolio of emerging medical device companies. Zeus Health is a continuation of the long-standing partnership between KKR and Duke Rohlen.
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The commence of business operation in France is a step forward to enter European markets, optimising the Group's portfolio and increasing its sources of revenue.
HONG KONG, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tycoon Group Holdings Limited ("Tycoon Group" or the "Group", Stock Code: 3390.HK), an omnichannel brand marketing and management service integrator of health and well-being related products in Hong Kong, has announced that its subsidiary ("Tycoon") has entered into a Cooperation Agreement with Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd., a member company of the group of JD Logistics, Inc. ("JD Logistics", Stock Code: 2618), and Fadong (Dongying) E-Commerce Co., Ltd. ("Fadong") on 1 September, 2022. Under the Cooperation Agreement, Tycoon Group is authorised to operate operation centre and storage centre located in France (collectively, the "Bases"), attracting and sourcing more European brands and products, as well as expanding the Group's distribution channels into European markets, thereby enhancing the Group's portfolio and sources of revenue.
Leveraging JD Logistics Supply Chain's advantages, Tycoon operates Bases in France
Under the Cooperation Agreement, the parties have agreed on the modes of cooperation based on the principle of "advantage complementation, collaboration with mutual benefits and joint development", whereby JD Logistics shall provide their technology-driven supply chain solutions and logistics services, such as cloud warehouse storage management system services, cloud warehouse commodity supply chain system services, consultation services and other value-added services relating to resource docking, to Tycoon and permit Tycoon to operate operation centre and storage centre located in France under the names of JD Logistics Supply Chain Industrial Base in Bordeaux and JD Logistics Supply Chain Industrial Base in Paris respectively and Fadong shall be the designated warehouse operator of Tycoon in the PRC.
Tycoon has established a joint venture company in France with a local business partner for the purpose of operating the Bases in accordance with the Cooperation Agreement. The joint venture company is expected to be an international supply-chain management company, principally engaging in providing one-stop services to customers in the PRC and Europe, including logistics, cloud warehouse and customs clearance.
The Cooperation facilitates Tycoon's entry into European markets, further strengthening the Group's international presence
Tycoon Group is a reputable omnichannel brand marketing and management service integrator of health and well-being related products, specialises in providing one-stop services for brands of Proprietary Chinese Medicines (PCM) and health supplement products, including brand agent, marketing, management, distribution, and sales. Products provided by Tycoon have been well-received by consumers.
Tycoon Group has established a strong online and offline sales network in Hong Kong, Macau, and the PRC by cultivating the industry for many years. It has provided over 100 local and foreign brands. Tycoon Group also acts as an agent and has sold for an array of brands of PCM, health supplement, skin care, personal care and other well-being related products through online and offline sale channels.
In order to build a diversified sales network and enrich product portfolio, Tycoon Group continues to strengthen its overseas presence. In addition to its presence in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Macau and Thailand, Tycoon Group also established sourcing centres in France and South Korea this year. As an integrated provider of omnichannel brand marketing and management services, Tycoon Group will continue to source various high-quality healthcare and beauty products for local and mainland Chinese consumers so as to diversify the product portfolio and fortify its international presence.
This cooperation leverages the professional edges of Tycoon Group's extensive experience in distributing health and well-being related products and its diverse distribution channels, and JD Logistics' sophisticated logistics supply chain industrial platform. Through the operation of the Bases and a streamlined logistics supply chain platform, Tycoon Group would be able to integrate valuable resources and establish its presence in France, forming a steppingstone for Tycoon Group to explore the market opportunities in Europe.
Mr. Wong Ka Chun Michael, the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer of Tycoon Group, said, "We are glad to enter into a Cooperation Agreement with JD Logistics. Through this cooperation, Tycoon is able to expand its business in France and explore the opportunities in the European markets. After obtaining the operation rights of the French bases, I believe that we will be able to attract and source more European brands and products, expanding the Group's distribution channels into European markets, in turn optimising the Group's portfolio and increasing our sources of revenue."
About Tycoon Group Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 3390)
Tycoon Group is a reputable omnichannel brand marketing and management service integrator of health and well-being related products. The Group specialises in providing one-stop services for PCM, health supplements, skincare, personal care and other healthcare products, including omnichannel brand agent, marketing, management, distribution and sales. The Group has established a strong online and offline sales network in Hong Kong, Macau and the PRC by cultivating the industry for many years with the mission of bringing health and vitality to consumers in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Asia-Pacific. The Group has provided over 100 local and foreign brands. In addition, the Group has provided a number of anti-pandemic products in great demand in respond to the pandemic happened in Hong Kong, such as surgical masks, rapid antigen test kits, hand sanitisers and cleaning wipes, etc. With a vision of establishing its own brands of products, the Group develops Private Label Products under its well-received brands including "Boost & Guard", "Wakan", and "Kinmen", as well as the own-brand "SEASONS (田心日辰)" and "Slimming Expert" launched under the joint venture. Tycoon has established sound relationships with chain retailer customers, with the top two chain retailer customers operating over 470 stores in Hong Kong as at 31 December 2021. The Group is also one of the major distributors for PCM in Hong Kong. For more details, please visit the Group's official website: https://www.tycoongroup.com.hk/
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — With their season on the line, Alyssa Thomas and the Connecticut Sun took it right to Chicago and forced a decisive Game 5 in their WNBA semifinals series against the Sky.
DeWanna Bonner and Courtney Williams each scored 19 points to help the Sun rout the Sky 104-80 on Tuesday night. Thomas added 17 points for Connecticut, which will travel to the second-seeded Sky for the winner-take-all WNBA playoffs game on Thursday night.
“Some games like tonight we get to feeling good, and the basket looks a little bigger. Tonight we just made shots,” Williams said. “Whatever team comes out and puts the ball in the basket is going to win.”
It’s the second consecutive playoff series for each team that has gone the distance. Both Chicago and Connecticut had to go on the road in the third game of their opening-round series and win to reach the semifinals because of the new playoff format that saw the higher seeded team host the first two games of that best-of-three set.
“It’s going to come down to who plays better for two hours,” Connecticut coach Curt Miller said. “We’ve won some tough road games. We have a team that grinds and has grit and that’s the kind of toughness you need to pull off a road win in a big game.”
Miller has been saying the entire series his team would have to make the game “messy” to beat the Sky. Getting into a high-scoring game wouldn’t benefit the Sun.
“So much for messy. That wasn’t messy,” Miller said. “A huge win and sending it back to Chicago for Game 5.”
That wasn’t the case Tuesday, as the Sun raced to a 22-6 lead, scoring 10 of the first 12 points. Thomas was a big reason why with seven points, four rebounds and two assists in the first five minutes. The All-Star forward had six points total in Game 3 and seven in Game 2 — both Connecticut losses.
“We put an emphasis on the first quarter. It’s something we talked about,” Williams said. “This series has been told by what happened in the first quarter.”
The Sky got back within eight by the end of the first quarter, but couldn’t get much closer as Connecticut had an answer for every Chicago run — thanks to Thomas, Bonner and Jonquel Jones. The trio helped the Sun outscore the Sky 66-34 in the lane.
“Big response by our team and the starting group that set the tone early with the aggressiveness at both ends of the floor,” Miller said. “We talked this entire time how this is going to be a points in the paint series for us. That was an impressive performance of points in the paint.”
Chicago got within 38-33 midway through the second quarter before the Sun went on a 15-5 run to restore the double-digit advantage. DiJonai Carrington had five points during the burst that was capped by Thomas’ layup with 1:01 left in the half.
Candace Parker, who had been stellar in the first three games of the series, scored her first points of the game on a 3-pointer 16 seconds later that got the Sky within 53-41. Connecticut scored the final five points, including a layup just before the buzzer by Carrington that made it 58-41 at the break.
“I think the first thing we have to do is clean up some stuff,” Chicago coach James Wade said. “We’ll be better next game.”
Williams was the spark in the third quarter, helping the Sun stave off any Sky run. Her teammates were looking for her when Chicago would come double them, and Williams was left open for layups. She had 10 points in the third quarter.
“There were too many details we missed,” Allie Quigley said. “Not doing what we were supposed to do. We missed people behind us. There were too many moments where we weren’t there and ready. We weren’t focused.”
Kahleah Copper scored 16 points and Emma Meesseman added 14 for the Sky. Parker had 11 points and nine rebounds.
AWARD WINNER:
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert honored Sun forward Brionna Jones before the game with the league’s Sixth Person of the Year award. Jones received 53 of the 56 votes from a national media panel. It’s the first time Jones has won the award.
RECORD BREAKER
Parker moved into first all-time on the career playoff rebound list, passing Tamika Catchings. Parker now has 600 in her career. Catchings had 598.
“Great accomplishment. Goes to show her level of greatness she’s had for her career,” Wade said. “Something you can’t take for granted. Even in the loss, its tough to celebrate those types of things, but we have to acknowledge it.”
TIP-INS:
The Sky are trying to be the first team to repeat as champions since Los Angeles did it in 2001-02. Six other defending champions reached the finals since then, but all lost in that round. … The UConn women’s basketball team was in attendance, sitting a few row up from the Chicago Sky bench. … Bonner moved into seventh on the all-time postseason scoring list in WNBA history.
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Selected as development partner for Microsoft Dynamics 365 digital transformation initiatives
LONDON and DENVER, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest, global customer experience (CX) technology and services innovators for end-to-end digital CX solutions, was selected by KCH Interventional Facilities Management LLP (KCH) as a Microsoft development partner to enable its digital transformation.
TTEC Digital's deep healthcare expertise will enable KCH to accelerate its digital transformation through Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to deliver operational efficiencies and provide world class patient experiences.
"TTEC Digital is proud to have been selected as a partner by KCH to drive their digital transformation," said Mahadevan Meikum, Head of TTEC Digital, EMEA. "The vision for our work together will augment KCH's value to healthcare providers across the UK, delivering improved outcomes and patient experiences."
KCH cited TTEC Digital's strong Microsoft credentials, deep healthcare expertise, and decades of experience in delivering world-class digital solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics platform as the primary reasons for moving forward with this strategic initiative with the Company.
TTEC Digital is a long-time Microsoft Gold Partner and for the sixth consecutive year was recently named Microsoft's Inner Circle partner for its industry-leading cloud, business applications, analytics and AI solutions. TTEC Digital was also named the global Dynamics 365 Marketing 2021 partner of the year and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights 2021 finalist.
A limited liability partnership owned by Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, KCH supplies healthcare support services. KCH partners with healthcare providers to deliver world class patient care, with all profits reinvested in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS).
TTEC Digital brings a wealth of Microsoft experience and expertise, being one of the first to market in Microsoft technologies including Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, omnichannel capabilities in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Cloud for Healthcare and real-time customer journey orchestration capabilities in Dynamics 365 Marketing.
TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC) is one of the largest, global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovators for end-to-end, digital CX solutions. The company delivers leading CX technology and operational CX orchestration at scale through its proprietary cloud based CXaaS (Customer Experience as a Service) platform. Serving iconic and disruptive brands, TTEC's outcome-based solutions span the entire enterprise, touch every virtual interaction channel, and improve each step of the customer journey. Leveraging next gen digital and cognitive technology, the company's Digital business designs, builds, and operates omnichannel contact centre technology, conversational messaging, CRM, automation (AI / ML and RPA), and analytics solutions. The company's Engage business delivers digital customer engagement, customer acquisition & growth, content moderation, fraud mitigation, and data annotation solutions. Founded in 1982, the Company's singular obsession with CX excellence has earned it leading client NPS scores across the globe. The company's nearly 60,000 employees operate on six continents and bring technology and humanity together to deliver happy customers and differentiated business results. To learn more visit us at https://www.ttec.com/emea.
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U.S. futures fluctuated ahead of public comments from Federal Reserve officials who have all but assured they will crank up interest rates again in their months-long effort to tame inflation.
Futures for the Dow and the S&P 500 fell 0.1%.
Major U.S. benchmarks may be headed for a fourth week of losses with anxiety over more Fed rate increases consistently driving markets lower.
Fed vice chair Lael Brainard speaks Wednesday and on Thursday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell takes part in a conversation with the head of the Cato Institute about interest-rate policy.
The Fed meets again in two weeks, when economists expect that the central bank will raise rates anywhere from a half-point to three-quarters of a point. That’s on top of four increases this year that have pushed its main borrowing rate from near zero during the pandemic, up to a range of between 2.25% and 2.5%.
In June, Fed officials projected that the benchmark rate will reach a range of 3.25% to 3.5 % by year’s end and roughly a half-percentage point more in 2023.
Global shares are mostly lower Wednesday with the possibility of a European energy crisis looming.
“The mood in markets is defensive ahead of key central bank decisions,” said Anderson Alves at ActivTrades.
Rising energy prices are adding to the worries about recessions in some parts of the world, he said.
Britain’s FTSE 100 slipped 0.6%, while France’s CAC 40 and Germany’s DAX each shed 0.4%.
Shares fell in Tokyo, Sydney, South Korea and Hong Kong, but were little changed in Shanghai. Oil prices fell, while the Japanese yen continued to decline against the U.S. dollar to about 144 yen.
In Japan, the government is giving 50,000 yen ($350) to needy families, to help cope with daily needs and energy prices in a move also designed to boost the lagging economy.
“The real solution to this inflation crisis obviously lies on the supply side, in terms of energy and other key goods. Yet that really takes us a step away from inflation-targeting and back towards an echo of how macro-stability was previously achieved,” according to RaboResearch.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.7% to finish at 27,430.30. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.4% to 6,729.30. South Korea’s Kospi slid 1.4% to 2,376.46. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped 0.8% to 19,044.30, while the Shanghai Composite was little changed, inching up less than 0.1% at 3,246.29.
China’s trade weakened in August as high energy prices, inflation and anti-virus measures weighed on global and Chinese consumer demand, and imports of Russian oil and gas surged, China’s customs data showed. Exports rose 7% over a year ago, decelerating from July’s 18% expansion, while imports contracted by 0.2%, compared with the previous month’s already weak 2.3% growth.
Demand for Chinese exports has softened as Western economies cool and the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia raise interest rates to contain surging inflation. Repeated closures of China’s cities to fight virus outbreaks has weighed on Chinese consumers’ willingness to spend.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell 22 cents to $86.66 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, also fell 22 cents to $92.61 a barrel.
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HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Climavision, a climate tech data pioneer, today announced that it installed a new weather radar system in High Point, NC, the latest deployment in its high resolution network. The proprietary weather surveillance system helps fill a dangerous low-level radar coverage gap in North Carolina's Piedmont-Triad region.
This region, like the rest of the US, relies on the National Weather Service NEXRAD weather radar network. The majority of the US is adequately covered by the NEXRAD network, however, there are still numerous low-level gaps, such as the one in this region, putting areas at risk for missed warnings and vital weather updates. Filling in these blind spots is critical in order for forecasters and weather sensitive businesses to have better visibility into volatile weather events, including flash floods, tornadoes, and frozen precipitation events that often occur in the lower atmosphere.
Climavision's systems fill these critical observation gaps with the first-ever comprehensive, supplemental weather radar network, providing access to real-time, streaming radar and enhanced models for improved forecasting.
"This is the second of three radar systems we are installing in what has been one of the most notable radar gaps in the US," said Climavision Co-Founder and CEO Chris Goode. "It is already providing a much clearer picture of the area for weather forecasters, enabling them to provide the public with a far more accurate forecast, particularly when severe weather is coming. This technology will undoubtedly help to save many lives in the future when it comes to dangerous weather conditions, such as tornadoes and floods."
The Radar-as-a-Service (RaaS) data is available to organizations in weather-sensitive industries, government, and municipal organizations, on a monthly subscription basis. This data will also be used to feed enhanced models. The third system will be deployed in the coming months and will completely close the blind spot in the region.
Climavision will turn on a number of additional systems across the U.S. over the next few months as it continues to build out its nationwide network.
Climavision brings together the power of a proprietary, high resolution weather radar and satellite network, combined with advanced weather prediction modelling and decades of industry expertise, to close significant weather observation gaps and drastically improve forecast speed and accuracy. Climavision's revolutionary new approach to climate technology is poised to help reduce the economic risks of volatile weather on companies, governments, and communities alike. Climavision is backed by The Rise Fund, the world's largest global impact platform committed to achieving measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns. The company is headquartered in Louisville, KY, with research and development operations in Raleigh, NC. To learn more, visit www.Climavision.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joey Gallo blasted a go-ahead, three-run homer in the second inning, Max Muncy added a pair of solo shots and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Tuesday night.
The NL West leaders reduced their magic number to seven and improved to 11-4 against their rival this season. All of the game’s runs came on homers.
Muncy, who came in hitting .186, went 3 for 4 and drove in three runs, satisfied at how the ball came off his bat.
“Home runs are obviously amazing and I’m happy I hit them, but just seeing the ball fly at the path is better,” he said. “I made a couple mechanical adjustments right before the game.”
Tyler Anderson (14-3) allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings. The left-hander struck out three and walked two. Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth to earn his 22nd save.
Muncy doubled leading off the second and Justin Turner walked before Gallo’s 408-foot shot to the right-field pavilion off Jarlin García (1-4) put the Dodgers ahead, 3-1.
Gallo’s bat had a small crack near the handle; he wasn’t sure if it was already broken or broke on the swing.
Gallo was acquired a month ago after a disastrous stint with the New York Yankees. The two-time All-Star’s homer was his fourth with the Dodgers and 16th overall. He made a nifty diving catch in left field that saved two potential runs and ended the second.
“I enjoy being here,” he said. “The lineup we have takes a lot of pressure off. I’m just kind of here. Anybody can take over a game.”
The Dodgers extended their lead to 5-1 on Muncy’s two-out, two-run homer to the right-field pavilion on the first pitch from García in the third.
García gave up five runs and four hits in 1 2/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Muncy went deep to the left-field pavilion against Dominic Leone leading off the sixth.
Lewis Brinson homered on the first pitch of the game and Brandon Crawford added a two-run shot in the sixth for the Giants, who had their four-game winning streak snapped a night after hitting five homers in a 7-4 victory.
Right-hander John Brebbia opened the bullpen game for the Giants, allowing one hit in one inning.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: Reinstated C Joey Bart from seven-day concussion list for his start behind the plate.
Dodgers: RHP Tony Gonsolin (forearm) played catch again but has residual soreness. Manager Dave Roberts remains optimistic the 16-game winner can be “fully ramped up” in time for the postseason. … INF-OF Gavin Lux (neck) won’t be going on the IL, Roberts said.
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Dodgers left-hander Julio Urías says he’ll pitch for Mexico in next year’s World Baseball Classic.
He joins LA teammates Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Will Smith who will represent the U.S. and Freddie Freeman, who’ll play for Canada, during the event in March.
Urías represented his country as a teenager, but the WBC will be the first time he does so as a professional. The Mexican left-hander hoped to pitch in the 2017 WBC, but the Dodgers wanted to limit their top prospect’s workload.
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Alex Cobb (5-6, 3.58 ERA) is enjoying a strong second half. He struck out seven against the Phillies in his last start.
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (7-3, 2.59) has a 1.99 ERA and 380 strikeouts in 55 career starts against the Giants.
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Naagin Raises Over $1 Million in Seed Funding Round
Funds will be utilized to invest in creating deeper inroads with online and offline channels nationwide
Naagin on Wednesday announced to have raised over $1million as seed funding from actor and investor Abhishek Bachchan, Eight Innovate Fund-I (8i Ventures) and other high-net-worth individuals. Funds will be utilized to invest in creating deeper inroads with online and offline channels nationwide. Naagin also plans to invest further in R&D and product innovation, where the brand will continue to explore unique flavours and high-quality products that go beyond the existing supermarket-supply of largely identical products with little differentiation.
"My journey with the brand is quite special — I personally had a chance to try it and fell in love with the product and the flavour instantly — it really blew my mind! The packaging was brilliant, the name was fun, I could see the passion of the brand – all the ingredients came together well, so the conversation with the brand felt natural. I am always on the lookout for fresh ideas, and it goes with our family philosophy to promote Indian entrepreneurs and help in building great Indian brands," said Abhishek Bachchan, actor and investor.
"As Naagin has progressed along its journey, it has been blessed with strong investors who have shared a vision with us to grow India's number one hot sauce brand and to prove that Indian spices and flavours can be found all over the world. Having been a portfolio company of Vikram and the team at 8i, we have benefited from the experience of working with some of India's leading fintech and consumer companies. In the course of establishing Naagin as a global hot sauce brand, Abhishek Bachchan was a fortunate partner to participate in our next phase of growth. With the generous support of our investors, mentors, and customers, Naagin Sauce is able to produce the highest quality and most original products on the market today," said Mikhel Rajani, co-founder, Naagin Sauce.
"When we seeded Naagin in 2019, we signed up for Mikhel's insight that Indians and hot sauces was a love affair waiting to happen. Since then, Naagin has broken out as one of those early cult brands with a fanatical user base that can't live without a bite of it every day. We are delighted to invest again in Naagin and welcome Abhishek Bachchan to the Naagin family." - Mr. Vikram Chachra, Founding Partner, 8i Ventures
The brand was created by Arjun Rastogi, Mikhel Rajani, and Kshitij Neelakantan with one goal: to put the Indian consumer at the forefront, with original Indian flavours and unique products that would add value to their individual food exploration journeys. Naagin products are available Pan-India at all leading retailers like Reliance Retail, Nature's Basket, Food Hall, Metro and many more, while the brand has also made big progress on leading e-commerce platforms, including Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy, BigBasket and direct-to-consumer on its website. Naagin also has expanded its availability in the US, UK, UAE, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. | https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/naagin-raises-over-1-million-in-seed-funding-round-led-by/433580 | 2022-09-07T13:38:20Z | https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/naagin-raises-over-1-million-in-seed-funding-round-led-by/433580 | false |
Caught on camera: Vandalism causes thousands of dollars in damage to mosque
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - A burglar was caught on camera smashing his way through a Minneapolis mosque.
The path of destruction will cost thousands of dollars to repair, but some of the damage isn’t as easily fixed.
Broken glass, damaged doors and bent donation boxes are what members of Tawfiq Islamic Center in Minneapolis found following a break-in late Sunday night.
The person behind the burglary was caught on camera.
“And he began to destroy almost every single door he could find. He destroyed the entire offices. He vandalized the property,” said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations – Minnesota.
Cameras captured the point of entry, with the individual prying open a back door.
He made his way through the gym, then forced his way through this next door, spending about 40 minutes inside the mosque.
The person is seen walking through hallways, kicking doors and taking money from donation boxes located around the mosque.
The loss is estimated at $50,000.
The Islamic center say theid can repair what was damaged. “However our sense of safety, and the impact this attack will have is a longterm impact on our community,” a trustee said.
The community expressed concern, leading to a visit from the city’s top cop.
Officials report this is the fourth significant incident at a Minnesota mosque since the start of the year.
“Although many of the motives are different, the result is all the same, which means it leaves communities damaged, losing their sense of safety, terrorized,” said Abdulahi Farah of the Muslim Coalition.
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“Weight cutting” is the fight world’s dirty underbelly
Athletes are increasingly being hospitalized — or worse — from trying to cut weight. Will combat sports ever stop it?
Ask someone to think of combat sports, and they’ll probably think of people running, jumping rope, or shadowboxing in gray sweats. But all of those iconic montages of boxers sweating it out before a big fight are supercuts of a dangerous practice called weight cutting, which involves athletes rapidly losing weight via extreme dehydration. In recent years, there have been mounting cases of athletes being hospitalized, or even dying, after attempting dramatic weight cuts. It’s not just professionals, either: Amateur fighters cut weight too. And regulatory and cultural changes at the amateur level may actually be the key to weeding out the dangerous practice.
For fighters’ safety, making weight is a crucial part of combat sports. The idea is that fighters of a similar size are able to have safer bouts, so before any fighter gets into the ring, they step on a scale to make sure they’re in the right weight class.
In an ideal world, everyone would fight at or close to their walking weight. But because of the way weight classes categorize fighters, cutting weight emerged as a way to get a competitive advantage. Let’s say, for example, someone cuts 7 pounds to make weight at 125 pounds. As soon as they’re done weighing in, they can rehydrate. By the time they actually step into the ring, they can easily be 132 pounds or more.
That’s one of the key problems with making weight: A fighter only needs to be at that weight for as long as they’re on the scale. Instead of stopping at a weight they can realistically maintain day-to-day, they might cut to make a lower weight. Then they can bulk back up before the actual fight. In other words: By cutting weight, a 132-pound fighter can fight in the 125-pound weight class, thus likely physically outmatching any competitor in the field who didn’t cut weight.
Dangerously common
Past studies have shown that weight cutting can have psychological and physical impacts on fighters, like increased confusion and fatigue. Earlier this year, researchers also found cutting can worsen concussions. Individual fighters have faced serious health risks, too, like when UFC women’s flyweight champion Nicco Montano was hospitalized in 2018 for “issues regarding her kidney function” after the UFC medical team stopped her weight cut, or when fellow UFC fighter Julija Stoliarenko collapsed twice during weigh-ins last year.
Some people have died. In 2013, Brazilian mixed martial artist Leonardo Souza accepted a fight that required him to lose 33 pounds in a week to make weight. Shortly before weigh-ins, he collapsed. He was later pronounced dead due to a stroke. At the time, Andre Santos, Souza’s teammate, told MMAFight.com, “We don’t have much information, but we do know that it is related to his weight cut.”
A teammate warned me that at some point, I’d feel like my heart was pounding uncontrollably, but that it was . . . normal.
This June, I competed in my first muay Thai tournament. I didn’t have to cut for my initial weigh-in; thanks to a combination of dieting and over-hydration, I made weight easily. But the tournament I competed in, like many do, required fighters to weigh in again if they made it into the finals. Ahead of the championship bout, I was about 6 pounds over the limit.
Without the time to use the slower, healthier methods I’d used before, I had to rely on cutting to lose that weight by morning. Even the most well-planned weight cuts carry inherent risks that make it unsafe to do alone, so I headed to a teammate’s hotel room for a two-part process that began with me submerging as much of my body as possible in a hot bath for 20 minutes.
After that, I put on a layer of Sweet Sweat, a topical gel intended to help you sweat more. Then I changed into my sweat suit. A teammate wrapped me in layers of towels and blankets until I was swaddled on the floor in what’s known in the fight world as the “burrito.” I laid there for 45 minutes next to a heater on full blast (again, it was June). A teammate warned me that at some point, I’d feel like my heart was pounding uncontrollably, but that it was a normal part of being in the burrito. Eventually, I sweat so much that it felt like I was lying in a puddle. When I finished, I lifted my shirt, and liquid poured onto the floor.
In the end, I cut less than 5% of my body weight in water. Most people cut around 6%, which is considered mild dehydration. In extreme cases, fighters will cut upwards of 10% of their weight in water. Under any other circumstances, that is considered severe dehydration and requires immediate medical attention.
Amateur fighters, expert risks
Some fighters may justify those extreme measures by citing that competitive advantage. However, Christopher Kirk, a sports physiologist who works with the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation, cautions that this belief doesn’t hold up. “This has some truth between people of very different body sizes (a heavyweight versus a middleweight, for example),” he told Mic by email, but “there is little evidence to suggest that two athletes from the weight division can be differentiated by the amount of weight they cut or regained leading up to the bout.”
Most of the fighters I know didn’t want to go on record about their weight-cutting experiences, evidence of how touchy the subject can be. Only one, Nassier, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitor who requested Mic withhold his last name, shared that sometimes the weight comes off fast, but other times, “I’m sitting in a sauna suit all day, running, and in a hot-ass car with the heat on in the summer, and the scale [is] not moving, no matter what I do.” No matter what, he said, “[weight cuts] are always filled with anxiety.”
It might seem like cutting weight is just part of the job for a professional fighter — an unpleasant part of their work, like being on their feet all day long is for nurses. But consider how big the amateur combat sports world is, and how none of those competitors are making money. In fact, amateurs like Nassier may pay thousands of dollars to compete in tournaments, making weigh-ins all the more stressful. “I don’t see the point in amateurs cutting weight all,” Nassier said. “You’re not getting paid to go through that. You’re always paying to go through that, and it makes you worse.” Yet he still does it.
When everybody is cutting weight, it can feel necessary to do just to make sure you aren’t falling behind. A fighter’s trainers and coaches might even feel it’s safer to help their competitor cut weight than be physically outclassed in their fights. As Lauren, who officiates muay Thai bouts nationwide for high-level organizations, tells Mic, “All coaches know somebody’s going to be [cutting weight]. And if somebody out there is trying to get that edge, then [coaches] need to protect their fighter by telling them to get the edge, too.” (Lauren asked to remain anonymous because she’s still an active referee in the sport.)
“You have to do it, because everybody else is,” Nassier similarly told me. “All the skill in the world isn’t going to stop some giant who cut two weight classes to get to your walking weight from breaking your arm, putting you to sleep, or punching or kicking your head into orbit.”
Light on solutions
We can’t just get rid of weight classes altogether, because there’s an obvious problem with a heavyweight fighting a featherweight head to head. But it’s clear something has to be done.
In recent years, professional promotions have tried to discourage weight cuts. Following the death of MMA fighter Yang Jian Bing from cardiopulmonary failure, ONE Championship, a Singapore-based promotion, introduced hydration tests, where officials test fighters’ urine at and ahead of weigh-ins to ensure there are no dramatic fluctuations. The International Federation of Muaythai Associations, which regulates both amateurs and professionals, requires fighters to weigh in every single day of a tournament, the thinking being that if a fighter knows they’ll have to make weight multiple days in a row, they won’t cut so much.
But in the United States, efforts to discourage weight cuts are harder to find at the amateur level. Amateur combat sports is somewhat of a “free-for-all,” Ron King, a former professional muay Thai fighter, tells Mic. There isn’t a federal commission to oversee combat sports, so they’re mostly regulated by state-level commissions, which can each make their own rules. Some have tried tackling the problem: In 2019, the California State Athletic Commission voted to institute a new rule that a fight would be canceled if a competitor weighed more than 15% above their weight class on the day of the fight, to prevent dramatic day-of cuts.
Similarly, some individual promotions have fighters weigh in the day of an event instead of the day before, to remove the rehydration factor and ideally lessen the competitive incentive for a dramatic cut. However, Lauren, the muay Thai referee, says, “I’ve still seen very hard weight cuts, even with those day-of weigh-ins.... I’ve seen people slumped down on the ground, in the middle of a hotel hallway, not able to stand up to get down the elevator to go weigh in.”
In 2021, the International MMA Federation, which regulates only amateurs, launched a task force to explore solutions to weight cutting. “The broad aim of this group is to investigate the current state of weight cutting in international amateur MMA (which IMMAF is the de facto world governing body for) and develop education and best-practice protocols for the coaches, teams, and athletes taking part in IMMAF competitions,” Kirk, who was invited to form the task force, told Mic.
The task force is still in its early stages. But Kirk believes that building relationships between coaches, fighters, and healthcare professionals may help more than rules. Educational programming can additionally help athletes learn safer alternatives. “If athletes entering the sport are taught that the current situation is ‘normal’ and is ‘what you have to do,’ then nothing will change,” he says. “If, however, they are taught more sustainable and less extreme methods upon entering combat sports, then those will become the norm.”
“The mentality has to change.”
Some gyms are exploring these pathways already. In New Zealand, Auckland’s City Kickboxing began working more closely with nutritionists and doctors to eliminate rapid dehydration for fighters. Head coach Eugene Bareman told Stuff in 2017, “Skill will always trump size. That’s proven throughout the history of combat sports, and that’s what I preach to my guys. The mentality has to change: It’s about the quality of your training, your training partners, and how your body is peaking at fight time.”
When King began competing as a teen, he often fought at around 125 pounds. He says at that time, it was pretty easy for him to make weight. “But as I started growing more,” he says, “it became very noticeable that that was not the weight class for me.”
Now, King believes he would’ve been “better off” if weight wasn’t so emphasized. “As I moved up [in weight classes], I was able to be more durable and have better cardio because I was more focused on the fight than the weight cut.” King’s personal experience tracks with what the research has to say: Last year, a study showed MMA fighters who cut more lose more often.
There is no easy solution to weight cutting. Even with the individual policies that have arisen, athletes still try to game the system; just last month, ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon was forced to withdraw from his upcoming bout after failing his hydration test.
But hydration tests, day-of weigh-ins, and other immediate changes can help, while in the meantime advocates try to change the culture from the bottom up. “I’ve heard before that it’s impossible to get around, that it’s part of the sport,” Lauren says. “But my personal opinion is there must be some way we can get around this. We’re pretty smart people as a society. We can figure this out.” | https://www.mic.com/impact/weight-cutting-health-risks-boxing-mma | 2022-09-07T13:39:19Z | https://www.mic.com/impact/weight-cutting-health-risks-boxing-mma | false |
Finding a coach to work one-on-one with can be a challenge, but the bar is raised even higher when an organization is looking for a coach to facilitate companywide coaching for employees and teams at all levels. As beneficial as such an initiative can be, there’s a lot to consider when seeking a coach to fill such a position to ensure it’s an effective and productive effort all around.
Here, 15 members of Forbes Coaches Council discuss how leaders of an organization can find the right fit for their organizational coaching needs.
1. Identify Needs And Expectations First
It will sound obvious, but the company needs to identify the needs and expectations of a coach first. If their conditions are unclear to leaders, the “right fit” should help them identify their problems during the interview. Besides being a great strategist, the coach needs to focus on organizational values, have empathy, establish trust with employees at all levels and have teaching skills. - Aina Alive, Bee Agile
2. Craft A Strategy And Measures Of Success
The starting point needs to be crafting the strategy and measures of success aligned to the purpose of coaching. Companywide coaching can be catered through a combination of multiple methods such as team coaching, group coaching, leader-as-coach training, mentoring and individual coaching. Depending on the size of the organization, the coaches aligned to its niche can be selected to achieve the desired outcome. - Jaya Bhateja, Abhyudaya Consulting Services
3. Do A Pilot Test Before Committing
I always suggest doing a pilot before committing to companywide coaching. Find one to three reputable coaching programs and test them out on smaller groups, then broaden the scope to the rest of the company after selecting the most effective one. - Luke Feldmeier, Online Leadership Training - Career and Leadership Accelerator for Engineers
4. Identify Fit Based On Desired Outcome
Identifying the right fit for a coach depends on your desired outcome. Coaches address issues ranging from cohesive strategic planning, motivation, diversity training, interdepartmental communication, crisis management and team building to fundraising and development. The list is endless, and a highly experienced coach in your specific area of need can be more valuable than one with domain expertise. - Joanne Valli-Meredith, BeyondAdmissions, Inc.
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5. Examine The Scalability Of The Approach
To scale workplace coaching successfully across the organization, a systemic structure that provides coach mentoring and practice is required. In selecting an external partner, examine how scalable the approach is and whether it has a robust design that allows for iterative learning through a community of practice. - Thomas Lim, Singapore Public Service, SportSG
6. Get Referrals From HR Talent Leaders
As an executive coach, I am “found” by a board member/C-suite referral or by HR talent leaders through their LinkedIn or International Coaching Federation search. A referral made by talent leaders who demonstrate a keen understanding of the company’s focus, culture, leadership challenges (executives, people managers and high-potential employees) and the amounts budgeted to invest in each is most often a smooth fit. - Cheri Bachofer, Forwarding Leaders
7. Find A Coach With Industry Experience
Coaches with work experience within your industry should be something to consider. These coaches have insight and background information about the industry that helps them be more empathetic and effective with company teams. Having an understanding of what the team may be going through goes a long way to developing specific coaching strategies that raise the level of all team members. - Jarret Patton, DoctorJarret PLLC
8. Find A Coach Who Can Build Rapport
Leaders must look for a coach who can relate, engage and build rapport with employees throughout the organization. That coach can also quickly understand the organization’s business and can adapt their coaching to be a fit for how that company operates both technically and culturally. Leaders need to look for an action-oriented coach who can clearly measure progress and results. - Michele Cohen, Lead to Growth Coaching
9. Partner With An Enterprise Coach Specialist
Partner with an enterprise coach specialist who is able to provide a systemic implementation lens through which they co-create the outcomes and intentions for companywide coaching with the leaders. The coaching specialist should understand how to help the company align with its values and vision while supporting organizational learning at the same time. They should also create a pragmatic and realistic time frame for developing a coaching culture. - Jedidiah Alex Koh, Coaching Changes Lives
10. Conduct Introductory Coaching Sessions
Conduct introductory coaching sessions with the prospective coach or coaching team and different levels of individuals and teams across the organization. Gather feedback thereafter from the coachees on who they felt most comfortable with, based on specified needs around the coaching. This can then be assessed further in other scenarios, such as peer coaching facilitation and group coaching, before selection. - Arthi Rabikrisson, Prerna Advisory
11. Look For Appreciation Of Core Values
In addition to finding a coach with an appealing methodology, organizational leaders should look for a coach who appreciates the organization’s core values and can implement coaching that will expose and further those values at every level. Coaches with a values awareness and a system view of an organization can help connect the “values dots” across the organization, creating a more cohesive team. - Jakob Franzen, The Modern Coaching Company
12. Consider Strategic ‘Coaching Cohorts’
A cost-saving option that too many companies miss is group coaching. Creating strategic “coaching cohorts” across levels, job functions, geography or business lines is a fantastic way to scale the benefits of coaching. When done right, group coaching has a high impact, maximizes budget dollars and enables employees to develop both their leadership skills and meaningful peer-to-peer relationships. - Randi Braun, Something Major
13. Use A Standardized Assessment Test
Make sure your coach has some kind of standardized and accepted assessment test that helps drive understanding of what people need. This will give the organization a baseline template to cater coaching to everyone, from hourly employees to executive performers. Then, you can work with the coach to identify the needs of each person and group. Without some assessment test or uniform survey, it will be hard to organize companywide coaching. - John M. O’Connor, Career Pro Inc.
14. Seek Similar Experience And An Approach You Buy Into
I think there are two important criteria (phrased in the form of questions): First, do they have experience in your industry, working with leadership teams like yours? Second, do you buy into their approach and philosophy? If you get these two things right, you’ll probably be very happy with your outcomes. - Randy Shattuck, The Shattuck Group
15. Find Someone Who Has A Team Of Diverse Coaches
The right fit is a coach who comes with a team of diverse coaches. You will save time recruiting, build a system so that managers and employees have different coaches who coordinate to strengthen the team, and benefit from the thematic cultural wisdom that will emerge from your coaching team. - Felice Tilin, GroupWorksConsulting LLC | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2022/09/07/15-ways-to-find-the-right-fit-for-companywide-coaching-needs/ | 2022-09-07T13:39:27Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2022/09/07/15-ways-to-find-the-right-fit-for-companywide-coaching-needs/ | true |
First Procedures with New Supermicro Instruments Performed in Europe
PISA, Italy, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Microinstruments, Inc. (MMI), a robotics company dedicated to improving clinical outcomes for patients undergoing microsurgery, today announced the launch of its new Supermicro NanoWrist® instruments for use with the Symani® Surgical System, developed specifically to address the challenges of microsurgery. The new supermicro needle holder and dilator were recently used in clinical procedures in Zürich, Florence, and Salzburg, with successful patient outcomes.
Simon Enzinger, MD, DDS, surgeon at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospital Salzburg, used the new instruments on a procedure called a partial glossectomy, where he raised a lateral arm free flap to replace a large section of a patient's tongue which required removal due to cancer. To return blood flow to the transferred tissue, Dr. Enzinger needed to connect the branch of the radial collateral artery to a side brand of the superior thyroid artery that was only 0.8mm in diameter and in a difficult location to access.
"We've already seen the benefits of Symani and the NanoWrist instruments in improving dexterity and control," said Dr. Enzinger. "The new supermicro instrument tips are even smaller and more refined, making it significantly easier to precisely connect vessels under one millimeter in diameter. I believe this will expand the ability to use perforator-to-perforator flaps, which makes free-flap surgeries shorter and less invasive."
MMI's Supermicro NanoWrist instruments are commercially available in the European Union (EU). The tips of the new instruments are half the width of MMI's standard microinstruments with a tapered design optimized to connect vessels under one millimeter in diameter and delicately hold 10-0 to 12-0 sutures.
Microsurgery is the manipulation or suturing of very small anatomy such as arteries, veins, ducts, or nerves. These procedures require high visual magnification and specialized precision instruments as well as advanced fine motor skills. Supermicrosurgery is microsurgery on an even smaller scale. Symani has enabled lymphatic surgery by adding precision that not every surgeon can achieve, even with extensive training, when manually suturing extremely small vessels.
"The launch of our new supermicro instruments is a significant milestone as we push the boundaries of robotic surgery to address even smaller vessels that few surgeons are able to connect by hand," said Mark Toland, CEO of MMI. "We're excited that our innovative solutions will allow more surgeons to perform microsurgical techniques and help expand patient access to supermicrosurgeries for chronic illnesses like lymphedema, a burdensome condition that affects 250 million people around the world."
About Medical Microinstruments, Inc.
Medical Microinstruments, Inc. (MMI) was founded in 2015 near Pisa, Italy to enhance surgical performance through the development of a robotic system that enables surgeons to achieve better outcomes in microsurgery. The Symani Surgical System combines proprietary innovations including the world's smallest wristed microinstruments as well as tremor-reducing and motion-scaling technologies. Together, these powerful capabilities allow more surgeons to successfully perform microsurgery while expanding the field of supermicrosurgery. MMI is backed by international medtech investors including Andera Partners, BioStar, Deerfield Management, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Panakès Partners, RA Capital and Sambatech.
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Liz Truss Cabinet: who has been given a position in new prime minister’s government - including Kwasi Kwarteng
The cabinet met for the first time today (7 September) at 10 Downing Street
New prime minister Liz Truss has made the first big decision of her premiership this week and decided who will hold positions in her cabinet.
The reshuffle has seen an almost complete overhaul, and even before the new cabinet was announced Priti Patel and Nadine Dorries quit their respective roles as home secretary and culture secretary.
The new positions were announced throughout the day yesterday, and familiar names such as Jacob Rees Mogg and Therese Coffey have been given positions in the Truss government.
Here’s the full line-up of Lis Truss’ cabinet and the positions they will fill.
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Kwasi Kwarteng - Chancellor
Kwarteng replaces Nadhim Zahawi in the Treasury and he moves over from being business secretary.
Therese Coffey - Deputy prime minister and health secretary
The former secretary for works and pensions replaces Dominic Raab as the PM’s deputy as well as being given the top job at the department of health.
Suella Braverman - Home secretary
Patel left her role as home secretary on Monday afternoon, and the job was publicly linked to Braverman almost immediately. The rumours have now been confirmed and she will take up the position.
James Cleverly - Foreign secretary
Cleverly was given the role as education secretary earlier this year when it looked as though Boris Johnson’s days in number 10 were numbered.
He is a strong backer of Truss, and has been given the foreign secretary role in her cabinet.
Ben Wallace - Defence secretary
Wallace was defence secretary under Boris Johnson and is one of the few to remain in post under new prime minister, Liz Truss.
Jacob Rees-Mogg - Business, energy and industrial strategy secretary
The well known and outspoken Brexiteer is given a role which will see all eyes on him in the foreseeable future, the MP for North East Somerset will be heavily involved in tackling the worsening energy crisis.
Kemi Badenoch – International trade secretary
Badenoch was one of the more popular candidates who failed to make it to the final two in the leadership election, she takes up her post as international trade secretary.
Brandon Lewis - Justice secretary
Lewis replaces the outgoing Raab, and his resignation was one which started the Boris Johnson pile on earlier in the year.
Kit Malthouse - Education secretary
Malthouse replaces James Cleverly in the department for education.
Simon Clarke – Levelling up, housing and communities secretary
One of the only northern members of the Truss cabinet, Clarke will be overseeing the ‘levelling up’ process across the country.
Chloe Smith – Work and pensions secretary
Smith, who is a Norfolk MP like Truss, replaces Coffey at the Department for Works and Pensions.
Michelle Donelan – Culture secretary
Donelan replaces arguably the biggest Boris Johsnon supporter of the old cabinet, Nadine Dorries, as culture secretary following the Dorries resignation.
Chris Heaton-Harris – Northern Ireland secretary
The member of parliament for Daventry was formerly the chief whip and will now oversee Northern Ireland.
Nadhim Zahawi – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, minister for intergovernmental relations and minister for equalities
Zahawi is picking up the pieces of a disappointing leadership attempt, and takes up the role with the longest title.
Penny Mordaunt - Leader of the House of Commons
Mordaunt, who had a fairly strong leadership campaign despite not making it the final stage, has been given the commons leader position
Tom Tugendhat - Security minister
Tugnedhat has been given his first government position following his failed leadership bid.
Ranil Jayawardena - Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Secretary
Jayawardena has been the MP for North Hampshire since 2015 and replaces George Eustice
Wendy Morton - Chief Whip
The MP for Alridge-Brownhills will be in charge of keeping MPs in line within the House of Commons.
Jake Berry - Conservative Party chairman
The chair of the Northern Research Group of MPs has been given a second chairman role - this time within the new government
Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Transport secretary
Trevelyan takes up the role of transport secretary from the outgoing Grant Shapps.
The Scottish and Welsh secretaries
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Is there a bigger, better, and more empowering female hip-hop brand today than Megan Thee Stallion?
I doubt it.
Best known for the remix of her number-one single “Savage” with Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion again caught my attention with “WAP,” her number one with Cardi B that, let's just say, served as a lightning rod for controversy.
So how do I think this Grammy-winning musician, devoted dog mom, model, makeup ambassador, and recent Texas Southern University college graduate (that’s right, in December 2021, she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in health administration) is breaking all the rules to build her powerhouse brand?
Well definitely thanks to pioneering, forward-thinking brands like Live Nation that masterfully promoted Megan Thee Stallion to a packed out grade II listed, O2 Academy in Brixton recently.
But beyond that, a few themes emerge.
Firstly, Megan Thee Stallion is purpose-driven.
As hip-hop increasingly dominates mainstream pop culture, there’s one thing we need to understand. Female hip-hop stars rapping about their sexuality, independence, and dominance does not send a destructive message to young girls. On the contrary, it sends a purpose-driven and constructive one.
Megan Thee Stallion’s cocky, self-assured lyrics and performances have one consistent purpose. They share stories of finding and celebrating female empowerment.
These messages encourage not only enormous camaraderie among female fans - I’ve witnessed this first hand at the O2 Academy Brixton, where she brought down the house - but also foster enormous support amongst other female hip-hop artists. (Refreshing, really, given the cutthroat music industry otherwise encourages artists to tear each other down.)
Secondly, Megan Thee Stallion’s brand is imbued with an enormous cultural currency.
What do I mean by that?
Megan Thee Stallion’s predominantly female fan following doesn't just appear in droves at her concerts for her music. They come for the emancipation brand experience. I can see this Stallion isn’t just a rapper but the voice of thousands of women worldwide who have been told for an equal number of years to suppress their sexual desires.
The cultural tension point that Megan Thee Stallion releases is that women are still not permitted to be as sexually expressive as men, even in 2022. Megan Thee Stallion refuses to abide by the idea that women are at the whim of male sexual desires; she keeps turning that notion on its head.
Do I think this makes Megan Thee Stallion the most family-friendly brand?
Probably not.
But it does make Megan Thee Stallion the most urgently needed brand.
Because although we’ve had several artists like Madonna, Britney, George Michael, Lil Wayne, Tyga, etc., explore sex in music, it’s still a problem when Black female artists attempt to sexualize themselves. When Black female artists rap about their sexual desires, they're vulgar, attacked for corrupting our youth, and don't deserve our respect.
And here, I believe, is the third and most critical takeaway for leaders and brands. Concentrate.
The devil for building authentic brands today is in the details, namely recognizing the nuances of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, economic status, you name it.
Bottom line?
I’m calling times up on leaders still taking a one size fits all mentality to engage their audiences. If you’re serious about building a global powerhouse brand, look to find and release the tension points in our culture.
There is no doubt in my mind that female hip-hop artists like Megan Thee Stallion are the most valuable and necessary ambassadors today. Especially during a time when we should all be actively trying to unlearn our own biases and find new ways to achieve equality for all.
Now, if that isn't savage, I don't know what is.
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A Live Events Leader Evolves and Grows, Uniting Brands and Moms Nationwide
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mom Media, the creator of Mom 2.0, North America's largest parenting media events company and home to the nation's longest-running and farthest-reaching community of parenting influencers, has emerged from the pandemic as one of the fastest-growing marketing firms in the USA and is a key source of income and opportunity for thousands of mom influencers nationwide.
Since 2008, the focus had been on live, in-person events and experiential marketing. This included its annual Mom 2.0 Summit, parenting media's flagship event for brand marketers, parenting creators, and traditional media. Sponsors included major brands like Google, Best Buy, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, Kia, Unilever, and many others.
When in-person gatherings were halted, Mom Media adapted and evolved. The business that emerged from the pandemic provides a transformed suite of offerings that has seen non-event-related revenue grow by over 1000%. Today, Mom Media leads some of the nation's most important influencer campaigns, with clients ranging from the White House to global CPG brands to Hollywood studios.
"The pandemic was like a chrysalis for us," said John Pacini, Mom Media CEO. "We entered March 2020 as mostly a live events and experiential marketing business, and emerged in 2022 as a multi-dimensional firm with deep capabilities and the industry's most experienced team. Add our fifteen-year history of working with the world's biggest brands, and we're able to compete and win on a huge scale. Exponential growth just becomes a matter of resources and time."
This also means a steady flow of vetted opportunities for parent creators, overseen by the Mom Media team. Mom 2.0 is a trusted name with the nation's leading parenting influencers in its community that reaches over 250 million consumers around the world. "In recent months alone we've put nearly a million dollars into the hands of hardworking parent content creators," said Carrie Pacini, Mom Media co-founder.
The Mom 2.0 Summit returned in April, with over 700 top parenting media live in person, an online audience of over 66 million, and over 183 million media impressions.
All this translates into a powerful ROI for Mom Media clients and sponsors. A campaign for Sprout Pharmaceuticals achieved over 44 billion impressions, and another for GSK exceeded that brand's marketing goals by over 40%. Mom Media and its community have also helped increase family moviegoing for major theatrical releases, have been a key player in the White House / HHS Covid-19 vaccine outreach, and a lead influencer firm for March of Dimes.
As Money Magazine detailed, the Mom 2.0 community launched today's $11 billion influencer marketing industry. "The effects of the pandemic may have changed how moms have to work, but it didn't dampen the drive or the resourcefulness of our community." said Laura Mayes, Mom Media co-founder. "As the industry, the platforms, and the community are evolving, we'll evolve and adapt alongside them. They keep creating thoughtful content while we keep connecting them with more brands and more opportunities."
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An animated horror comedy featuring Danny DeVito as the voice of Satan is “clearly evil,” says a Republican congressman from Louisiana whose Facebook post denouncing “Little Demon” had reached millions of people by Tuesday morning.
U.S. Rep Mike Johnson objected to the sitcom aired by FX Networks. Its website says the series is about a woman and her 13-year-old daughter who are trying to live normal lives even though Satan is the girl’s father and wants custody of her soul.
A trailer for the show, which airs its fourth episode late Thursday, played during Sunday night’s TV broadcast of Louisiana State University’s football opener against Florida State.
“I couldn’t get to the remote fast enough to shield my 11-year-old from the preview, and I wonder how many other children were exposed to it — and how many millions more will tune in to the new series, owned and marketed by DISNEY,” the congressman and vice chairman of the House Republican Conference wrote on Monday.
FX Networks and Hulu, where the show is streamed, are among entertainment assets that Disney bought from Fox in a stock deal worth about $52.4 billion in late 2017.
On the show, DeVito voices the role of Satan and his daughter, Lucy DeVito, plays Satan’s daughter, Chrissy the Antichrist. Aubrey Plaza plays the mother. New episodes are broadcast at 10 p.m. Thursdays on FXX.
Disney and FX Networks did not immediately respond on Tuesday to emails requesting comment.
Johnson posted on Tuesday that more than 6.1 million people have read his earlier post — more, he said, than watched Sunday’s game, “which the latest ratings say dominated Sunday night TV with 5.87 million total viewers.”
He had written online Monday: “Our job as parents is to guard the hearts and minds of our kids. This culture has become alarmingly dark and desensitized and this is not a game. Disney and FX have decided to embrace and market what is clearly evil. STAY FAR FROM IT.”
Although many people thanked Johnson for the post and talked about boycotting Disney, many others disagreed with Johnson’s assessment. Some noted that “Little Demon” was made for and marketed to adults. Children should be in bed by 10 p.m., some wrote. Others said people opposed to the show’s existence are trying to make networks shelter their children when that’s a job for parents.
Johnson responded on Tuesday in a Facebook message and tweet that also were linked to from his House webpage.
“Free speech is an important principle, and in this country, everyone can obviously make their own decisions about what media they and their families consume,” he wrote. ”But a corollary is that Christians have the freedom to fulfill our obligation to ‘speak the truth in love’ (Eph. 4:15), even — sometimes most importantly — when it may not be popular.”
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Caught on camera: Vandalism causes thousands of dollars in damage to mosque
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - A burglar was caught on camera smashing his way through a Minneapolis mosque.
The path of destruction will cost thousands of dollars to repair, but some of the damage isn’t as easily fixed.
Broken glass, damaged doors and bent donation boxes are what members of Tawfiq Islamic Center in Minneapolis found following a break-in late Sunday night.
The person behind the burglary was caught on camera.
“And he began to destroy almost every single door he could find. He destroyed the entire offices. He vandalized the property,” said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations – Minnesota.
Cameras captured the point of entry, with the individual prying open a back door.
He made his way through the gym, then forced his way through this next door, spending about 40 minutes inside the mosque.
The person is seen walking through hallways, kicking doors and taking money from donation boxes located around the mosque.
The loss is estimated at $50,000.
The Islamic center say theid can repair what was damaged. “However our sense of safety, and the impact this attack will have is a longterm impact on our community,” a trustee said.
The community expressed concern, leading to a visit from the city’s top cop.
Officials report this is the fourth significant incident at a Minnesota mosque since the start of the year.
“Although many of the motives are different, the result is all the same, which means it leaves communities damaged, losing their sense of safety, terrorized,” said Abdulahi Farah of the Muslim Coalition.
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By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB
Associated Press
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The survivors who were able to walk out of Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly a decade ago want to share a message of hope with the children of Uvalde, Texas: You will learn how to live with your trauma, pain and grief. And it will get better.
They know what’s ahead. There’s shock, followed by numbness. There are struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. Anxiety. Survivor’s guilt. Anger that these shootings continue to happen in America. Reliving their trauma every time there’s another mass shooting.
They know it will be hard to say they are from Uvalde. That well-meaning adults will sometimes make the wrong decisions to protect you. That grief can be unpredictable, and different for everyone.
“It’s been nine years since Sandy Hook,” said Ashley Hubner, 17, who was a second grader at the Newtown school when 20 children and six educators were killed on Dec. 14, 2012. “We had nine years for this to not happen again. And yet it did. And now these kids are going to have to go through the same exact thing. That’s just, like, heartbreaking.”
On May 24, a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. It was so striking to the Sandy Hook survivors because of how similar it was to their tragedy. Now on the cusp of adulthood, the survivors of Sandy Hook are telling their stories, some for the first time, about growing up as a mass shooting survivor to help the children in Texas, who return to school this week.
`I FEEL LIKE I’VE GROWN ALONGSIDE OF IT.’
Marie Gay was a 9-year-old third grader at the Sandy Hook school when the gunman shot his way into the building and killed the 26 victims, including her little sister, Josephine. All the children who died were first graders.
“Initially I thought it was a bear, the gunshots,” said Gay, now an 18-year-old college student. “I don’t know. We lived in rural Connecticut. I heard them and my first thought was, ’Oh, there’s totally a bear just banging on the walls of the school.’”
Marie said adults around her were all well intentioned, but some of what they did after the tragedy bothered her.
Her teachers would take her out of the classroom before conducting any emergency drills. They were also careful not to use phrases like “bullet points” around her, which she found silly.
She also felt “icky” about the thousands of gifts that poured into Newtown for all the children of Sandy Hook. She got upset the day hundreds of those presents were passed out to children who lined up outside the local intermediate school to get a doll or a game, she said.
“All that I could think about at the time was the one child in my sister’s class who survived,” she said. “I know I went through a lot too, but in my brain, I was like, I’m not understanding how all these people are like clamoring for gifts.”
Marie said the shooting in Uvalde brought so many feelings. It was disheartening, she said, but also made her want to get out there and fight for things like mental health reform and gun control.
She said she would tell the children of Uvalde that grief is individual and that their path forward will be their own — and to be gentle with themselves and kind to others. Their pain and grief will remain a part of them, but they will learn to live with it. She still gets anxiety in lecture halls and looks for exits when she’s in a classroom.
“There’s reminders of it daily here at random times,” she said. “But I feel like I’ve grown alongside of it and it’s made me a better person.”
`I THINK WHAT HAPPENED CHANGED MY ENTIRE LIFE.’
For Ashley Hubner, the trauma became part of her life as she grew up. Sometimes she became sad and cried. But it wasn’t until middle school that her symptoms, including PTSD and depression, started to overwhelm her.
They would hit her harder around the anniversary of the shooting.
Ashley, now a senior at Newtown High School, was sitting in a circle with her second grade class for its usual morning meeting when the shooting started. Her sister, a kindergartner who also survived, was in another classroom.
Ashley and her classmates ran to the cubby area to hide. They heard their teacher call police to report an active shooter. The school intercom system clicked on, and everyone could hear gunshots, screaming and crying.
They were also frightened by footsteps they heard on the roof, which they didn’t know at the time were those of first responders. When police finally came to lead them out, she and her classmates didn’t want to open the door because they thought bad guys could be impersonating officers.
“We didn’t want to let them in,” she said. “And so like every single kid in my class screamed, ‘No!’ And it was so heartbreaking to hear a bunch of little kids screaming ‘No.’ But thank God we opened the door and it was actually the police.”
The children formed a line. They were told to put their hands on the shoulders of their classmates and to close their eyes — to avoid seeing any of the carnage — as they were led out of the building. They were brought to a nearby firehouse, where she was reunited with her sister.
It was only last year that she was diagnosed with PTSD, depression, anxiety and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Many students have said they weren’t diagnosed with mental health and other disorders until years later, likely because they were so young at the time of the shooting and their symptoms didn’t fully develop for a while.
“I think what happened changed my entire life,” she said. “Maybe when you’re an adult like you have trauma and then you’re able to kind of like overcome it because you had this person who you were before.
“But when you’re so young,” she said, “you don’t really have the person that you were before. You just take your surroundings and you take what you’re taught and you take that trauma and you make it a part of your life and you grow up with that and you have to like process that in the years forward.”
Ashley said she gets angry sometimes at her parents and adults and kids in school for not recognizing her problems earlier or not believing her when she told them what she was going through. She began therapy only recently.
“Take what you are feeling and, like, do that research and like get that help,” she said, offering advice to Uvalde survivors. “It’s so important to like know who you are and know what you have and like what you’re dealing with so that you can go through life a lot easier and like make your quality of life better.”
`FOCUS ON HEALING YOURSELF.’
In her college application essay, Liv Doscher wrote about how she and her classmates were forced into a more mature mindset because of what happened in their school.
“I don’t think anyone no matter your age should have to go through something like that,” she said. “But kids are not equipped to deal with stuff like that. No one is, but especially kids.”
Liv and her third-grade classmates ran to a carpet in their room when they first heard what turned out to be gunshots. Some thought it was a joke at first and laughed, she said. Others, like her best friend, started crying immediately. Liv was confused.
Her teacher put some paper over the window in the door to the hallway, but it fell down. Liv was nervous to look at the door in fear of what she might see. Plus the shades on the windows to the outside were up. Liv felt exposed and vulnerable.
Then police officers ran by the windows to the outside, saw the children and yelled at them to go into an adjoining classroom that shared a door with theirs. With the blinds down, the other classroom was very dark, and she couldn’t recognize people to find comfort.
“I remember just kind of trying to see in the dark, trying to recognize people,” she said.
Police led the students and teachers out an exit on the opposite side of the school from the shooting. Liv remembers seeing an officer with “a huge gun.” She didn’t even know then what a gun was.
Like Ashley, she suffered for years with anxiety, especially at school, before being diagnosed and treated. She learned last year that she has ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety.
She said it took so long because she kept what she was feeling inside, didn’t understand her emotions and didn’t reach out for help. She often felt numb. In December 2020, around the eighth anniversary of the shooting, she became extremely depressed and missed two weeks of school.
“I couldn’t get through days without crying,” she said. “And you don’t really realize it’s so debilitating sometimes.”
Her parents got her into therapy, which she credits for helping her cope. At school, there were frustrations in the years after the shooting, said Liv, now 18. One of the problems was not enough communication between school staff and students about what help and services were available to address mental health and other issues. Many school staff avoided talking about the shooting, she said, apparently to avoid retraumatizing students.
“I understand wanting to protect us, but we’ve seen the worst of it. We were there that day,” she said.
Students were only recently given two mental health days that do not count as absences. When the anniversary fell on a school day, she said, kids would be crying in the hallways trying to get to class. She was critical of school officials for not offering accommodations such as increased passing time between classes.
To the Uvalde children, Liv said not to be afraid, or ashamed, to communicate what you are feeling.
“Focus on healing yourself and focus on working through the trauma, what happened,” she said. “But also, you know, focus on holding onto life before and searching for positive things because there’s so many positive things. Finding pictures. Finding people that mean a lot to you. Just take that and just appreciate that.
“A huge part of that is like to not feel shame about where you are in your healing process,” she said. “Don’t compare yourself to others. Don’t feel invalid because someone may have it worse.”
“I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE STILL STRUGGLING WITH THIS TODAY.”
There have been several different kinds of therapies since the shooting to help Jackie Hegarty cope with PTSD. New mass shootings are a trigger, bringing her back to the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. Loud noises still startle her.
She was doing yoga with her second-grade class when the shooter opened fire right across the hall. She didn’t know what the gunshot sounds were. Kids in her class thought maybe a janitor dropped a trash can or somebody dropped a chair or a desk.
But no one could drop a trash can that many times.
“I remember running to my cubby and sitting on my backpack,” said Jackie, 17, who is a senior at Newtown High School. “And I remember being grateful that I was farther away from the door because I thought that the kid that was closest to the wall was going to get shot first.”
That Friday, like others, the children in her class got to bring in their favorite stuffed animals to watch movies with them. On that day, however, Jackie forgot hers — it wasn’t in her backpack when she went to reach for comfort.
Her class and teacher sat anxiously in the dark classroom. After the shooting ended and the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, had killed himself, police got to Jackie’s classroom and told them to cover their eyes as they were led out of the building. Along the way, Jackie opened her eyes. She doesn’t like to talk about what she saw.
“Once we were leaving, I was wondering how that could have happened so closely to me and that that could have been me and how come I’m walking out of the school right now and they aren’t,” she said. She is a triplet, and her two siblings survived.
When she and Liv went to the March For Our Lives anti-gun violence event in the nation’s capital this summer, there were a few moments of panic after someone yelled something during a moment of silence. People in the crowd started running away. She couldn’t breathe, and kept running. Her chest tightened. She felt like she was going to throw up. She felt guilty for not being able to stay with her friends.
“But I shouldn’t have to be still struggling with this today and still having to search for treatment methods to improve my quality of life and to make me feel better because of how I react to things or, you know, the triggers and the stimuli I have. I’ll flinch with a loud noise.”
Jackie said she would tell the Uvalde children to not bottle up their feelings and to talk to family and friends.
“Because it’s so important to talk this stuff through and know that their feelings are validated and that we’re going to do everything that we can to make sure that things like this don’t have to happen,” she said.
“We’ve been through a similar thing and we want them to know that we care about them and they’re loved,” Jackie said.
`I HAVE JUST NOW GOTTEN THE ABILITY TO SAY I AM FROM SANDY HOOK.’
The days that followed her brother Chase’s death at Sandy Hook Elementary are hard for Brittany Kowalski to remember. She does remember how trauma was inflicted on her family by others.
People spreading misinformation that the shooting was staged by actors emerged, the town was filled with media and a police officer guarded the family’s driveway.
“Between harassing phone calls from Sandy Hook “truthers,” international news people trying to come into the house while we mourned the loss of my brother, having to keep the blinds down for weeks, maybe even months, because photographers were walking through the woods to get around the police vehicle in our driveway … It felt like an alternate universe,” she said.
She was a freshman in a math class at Newtown High School when the shooting started, and the school went into lockdown. She and other students with siblings at Sandy Hook were called into an auditorium. She called her parents, but there was no answer.
“I couldn’t tell you how many people were in the room, but it felt like the sea of people was thinning out in both the slowest yet fastest time frame,” she said. “All of the people dissipated until I was the last person who hadn’t heard back.”
Over the next several years, she said, she would lie and tell people she was from other nearby towns. She calls it avoiding the “Oh, you’re from Sandy Hook” conversation. She didn’t want to console people for how they felt about what she had lived through.
“The feeling of empathy and pity are too similar when you are known due to a traumatic event that had global coverage. It’s been almost 10 years and I have just now gotten the ability to say ‘I am from Sandy Hook’ without the full amount of anxiety tangled into it.”
She would tell the children of Uvalde that you don’t have to grieve the same way the person next to you is grieving. She has Chase’s ashes tattooed on her chest.
“I still go to therapy, I still have days that feel like I have a rain cloud over my head but I have always been able to pull myself out of it or have someone in my support system give me a little extra help when needed. Texas brought up a lot of old emotions that I thought I had fully worked through. The disappointment, the anxiety and the hole in my heart seemed to rip back open.”
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After mergers and acquisitions leave company with disparate systems, defense training firm standardizes on Unanet
DULLES, Va., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unanet, the leading provider of project-based ERP and CRM for government contractors (GovCon), today announced that Summit Point Training Facility, a world leader in custom driving, firearms, emergency medical and mission training, as well as a Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E)
testbed facilities provider for a wide variety of government and commercial clients, has selected Unanet GovCon ERP for its robust reporting, ease-of-use, and its flexible system that adheres to compliance mandates.
The Summit Point Training Facility has quickly evolved with multiple business units and nearly 300 employees who teach clients combatives, emergency medical, firearms, tactical training, and elite driving skills. As a result of historic mergers and divestitures, the different business units were using multiple providers such as Unanet and larger competing ERP systems for different functions, which created confusion and difficulty among employees. After evaluating the incumbent providers and new options, the company chose Unanet as the best platform to standardize its entire business on. Unanet's cost-effective solution will provide deep data visibility and insightful reports to help the company become more efficient and make strategic business decisions.
"Our business is built on relationships, and Unanet is clearly invested as a partner in our growth as we evolve," said Jeff Johnson, president of Summit Point Training Facility. "We value their experience in ensuring compliance, their ongoing customer support in providing an expandable solution that works with our many systems, and their resources and training for our entire workforce that will allow everyone to think strategically about our future."
As Summit Point Training Facility adds different clients, employees, inventories and systems into its business, the company has the confidence that Unanet will streamline business operations, provide analytical backend support and reinforce important financial practices to help it manage costs, operate more efficiently and be nimbler with compliance, all while better supporting their customers.
More than 2,000 fast-growing GovCon companies select Unanet GovCon ERP because it has the right mix of functionality and accessibility, while also offering the ability to scale and grow seamlessly. To learn more about Unanet for GovCon please visit https://unanet.com/erp-for-govcon/overview/.
About Unanet
Unanet is a leading provider of project-based ERP and CRM solutions purpose-built for Government Contractors, architecture, engineering, construction, and professional services. More than 3,700 project-driven organizations depend on Unanet to turn their information into actionable insights, drive better decision-making, and accelerate business growth. All backed by a people-centered team invested in the success of your projects, people, and financials. For more information, visit www.unanet.com.
About Summit Point Training Facility
With more than 35 years of experience, Summit Point Training Facility provides customized mission, tactical, and emergency medical training solutions, while also providing a Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) testbed and support facility on a 786-acre commercially-zoned property located in Summit Point, West Virginia. Summit Point is a recognized leader in the mission training solutions market for both commercial and government clients. Summit Point Training Facility takes pride in providing tailored training solutions for clients in a world of ever evolving threat environments and security challenges. Former and current clients include the U.S. military, local and state law enforcement agencies, federal agencies including the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, Customs and Border Protection, and the governments of over 40 foreign countries. The Summit Point Training Facility understands that each client's circumstances are unique. Their diverse staff comes from both military and law enforcement backgrounds to aid in accomplishing challenging customer objectives.
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Audio Out-of-Home leader expands executive team, fueling significant growth
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vibenomics, the nation's premier retail audio advertising provider, has welcomed Sarah Jacobs as its new Senior Vice President of Ad Sales. Jacobs will lead the Ad Sales team in identifying and delivering new revenue opportunities for Vibenomics, positioning the company for continued growth.
"Vibenomics has expanded its offerings of in-store audio advertising over the past few months at an astounding rate," says Brent Oakley, CEO and Co-Founder of Vibenomics. "One of our priorities after our most recent funding round was to make strategic hires that allow us to continue offering excellent advertising services to our clients. Between Vibenomics' role in the launch of the In-Store Marketplace and the general growth the company is experiencing, I believe her skill set pairs perfectly with the job at hand – elevating the advertising experience for Vibenomics customers."
Over the past year, Vibenomics has announced its successful $12.3 M Series B funding round, backed by Panoramic Ventures, and its role in the launch of the In-Store Marketplace, along with other retail media providers and experts.
Amid this rapid growth, Jacobs will provide expertise and leadership by introducing innovative business strategies to drive new processes and business models designed to increase profits and create a culture of success and retention. She brings a wealth of sales experience across multiple markets, including TV and grocery.
"I am thrilled to join the Vibenomics team during such a pivotal time for the company," says Jacobs. "As a leader, I seek to analyze business practices and implement strategies for continued growth. I look forward to bringing fresh perspectives and strategic recommendations to the Vibenomics team."
In her new role, Jacobs will collaborate with Oakley and the executive team to develop, communicate, execute, evaluate and advance revenue generation and growth strategies. She will own responsibility for the performance, design and alignment of revenue-generating activities across the organization – including growing revenue from the client base, creating a sustainable plan for future business development and delivering accurate revenue projections.
Vibenomics has nearly 45 employees, with 80% based out of Indianapolis and 20% working remotely. The company expects to continue to increase its sales and marketing departments throughout the end of 2022.
About Vibenomics:
Vibenomics, Inc. is a location-based Audio Out-of-Home™ advertising and experience company that powers audio channels for retailers, giving brands the ability to talk to shoppers directly at the point of sale. With its powerful cloud-based technology, licensed background music library, data integration capabilities, full-service team of audio experience experts, and network of on-demand professional voice talent, the company provides the right revenue-enhancing vibe for over 150 advertisers in more than 6,000 locations across 49 states, reaching over 210 million people.
Delivered through flexible plug-and-play, proprietary, IoT-enabled media players, Vibenomics dynamically broadcasts hyper-targeted, on-demand audio advertisements and curated playlists within any combination of locations across its swiftly growing national footprint, unlocking a powerful new shopper marketing channel for reaching consumers during the critical final footsteps along the path to purchase. Through a first-of-its-kind partner program, retailers can receive a portion of revenue for all advertisements sold by Vibenomics that play within their locations, giving them the ability to monetize their private airwaves and transform a legacy expense into a new profit center. To learn more about Vibenomics, visit https://www.vibenomics.com.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new prime minister has pledged to rebuild the economy and “ride out the storm” gathering over the country, but Liz Truss faces a daunting job.
She inherits an ailing economy on the brink of a potentially long recession, with record inflation that’s forecast to worsen in coming months and millions crying out for government help to cope with soaring energy bills.
Here's a look at the scale of the economic challenges that Truss faces and how she is expected to tackle them:
HIGH ENERGY COSTS
At the top of Truss’ agenda is a cost-of-living crisis driven by spiraling natural gas and electricity costs. Starting in October, millions of households will see their average yearly energy bill jump to about 3,500 pounds ($4,000) — almost triple what they paid a year ago. The bills are expected to continue to climb and could exceed 4,000 pounds in January.
The sharp increases began last year, as economies worldwide recovered from the coronavirus pandemic and global demand for natural gas and oil surged. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered further volatility in wholesale gas prices, as Moscow switched off or reduced gas flows to European countries like Germany.
Britain only imports a small percentage of its gas from Russia, but the U.K. relies more on gas than its European neighbors because it has less nuclear and renewable energy. Compared with other European countries, the U.K. is much more dependent on gas to heat homes and generate electricity. The country also does not have as much capacity to store gas, forcing it to buy on the short-term spot market.
Charities and health bosses warn the crisis will hit the poorest hardest heading into winter. Hospitals say crippling energy costs will affect patient care, while scores of small businesses warn they face closure without urgent government aid.
SOARING INFLATION
It’s not just gas and electricity — other costs, such as food, have risen across the board. Inflation has crept up since last year and now stands above 10% for the first time since the oil price shocks of the 1970s and 1980s.
Worse is to come: The Bank of England predicted that the war in Ukraine could drive U.K. inflation to 13.3% next month. Some, like U.S. bank Citi, believe inflation could go as high as 18% next year before coming back down.
It’s a shock to the system for millions. Before the crisis, the U.K. had seen average inflation rates of around 2% for years.
Meanwhile, average wages, especially those in the public sector, have failed to keep pace with soaring costs. Tens of thousands of rail, port and postal workers, lawyers and garbage collectors have gone on strike this summer to demand better pay. Multiple other industries are mulling similar industrial action.
“Real wages are falling, certainly faster than they have done for at least 45 years, possibly for about as much as 100 years,” said Greg Thwaites, an economist and research director at the Resolution Foundation, a U.K. economic and social affairs think tank.
WARNINGS OF A LONG RECESSION
The Bank of England has predicted that skyrocketing energy prices will push the U.K. into recession later this year, with economic output forecast to decline in every quarter of 2023.
The International Monetary Fund says the U.K. economy is expected to have the weakest growth among the Group of Seven wealthy democracies in 2023.
“The point is that this acute living-standard crisis that we’re living through now comes on the back of 15 years of very weak growth in the U.K. economy,” Thwaites said.
Britain’s exit from the European Union didn’t help matters, he added.
WHAT IS TRUSS DOING TO HELP?
Truss is due to announce a major financial package Thursday to tackle soaring energy costs.
Her government has not released details, but British media reports suggest she will approve an immediate freeze on household energy bills and extra support for businesses.
The BBC reports that energy bills could be capped with the introduction of a government “superfund,” from which energy firms can borrow, and the cost of such aid could reach 100 million pounds ($116 billion).
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said Wednesday that such measures will likely calm inflation in the short term. But it’s not clear how Truss’ government intends to foot that huge bill, while meeting her core campaign promises to slash taxes and grow the economy.
“There’s a reasonable question about whether it should be paid for by future electricity bills or by future taxpayers or by current taxpayers,” Thwaites said. “But ultimately, somebody needs to pay.”
Hannah White, acting director of the Institute for Government, says the measures go against the prime minister's inclinations.
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By CARA ANNA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s president says tons of grain from his country will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine approaches and the global crises of food security and climate change put millions at risk.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comment came as Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of sending most of the grain from Ukraine’s reopened ports to Europe instead of poorer and hungrier parts of the world.
Speaking at an economic forum in Vladivostok on Wednesday, Putin accused the West of colonialism and suggested that Russia may talk with Turkey about revising the deal that lifted Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports and allowed ships safe passage.
“With the exclusion of Turkey as a mediator, practically all the grain exported from Ukraine was sent to the (European Union) nations instead of the poorest countries,” Putin said.
“It’s obvious that with an approach like that, the magnitude of the food problem in the world will keep growing, and that could lead to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” he added. “Maybe it’s worth thinking about restricting the exports of grain and other products on that route? I will certainly discuss the issue with the president of Turkey.”
Russia has raised the allegation before, but this is the first time Putin has echoed it.
The Russian president said of 87 ships loaded with grain from Ukraine, just two carried grain for the U.N. World Food Program — 60,000 tons out of the total of about 2 million tons.
Only one ship from Ukraine has arrived in sub-Saharan Africa, docking at the port of Djibouti last week with grain that WFP said would go to drought-affected Somalia and Ethiopia. That first ship carried 23,000 metric tons of grain, which WFP called enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month.
Somalia especially needs help. The country had sourced 90% of its wheat from Ukraine and Russia before this year. It now suffers from a shortage of food and humanitarian assistance as thousands of people die and the world largely focuses on Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president in a tweet Tuesday night said 28,600 tons of wheat will arrive in Somalia in the coming weeks and blamed the coming famine in that country on Russia’s actions this year.
“Ukraine continues to save the world with its grain,” Zelenskyy asserted.
African nations were at the center of Western efforts to reopen Ukraine’s ports as the United States and allies accused Russia of starving the world by denying exports from Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain exporters. African leaders also visited Russia to meet with Putin over the issue.
But now, Russia is trying to turn the food security issue question against the West. “They cheated the public and partners in Africa and other regions who acutely need food,” Putin said. “They were claiming that they were acting in the interests of developing countries, but acted entirely in their own interests.”
The Joint Coordination Center, run by the U.N., Turkey, Russia and Ukraine, in its latest update Tuesday night said 96 outbound ships have been enabled so far carrying more than 2.2 million metric tons.
Food security experts have said many of the shipments are deliveries on existing contracts that had been struck before Russia’s actions.
One of the five commercial vessels authorized to depart Ukraine on Wednesday is bound for Kenya with 51,400 metric tons of wheat, the JCC said, adding that destinations “may change based on commercial activity.” The destinations for the four other ships are Spain and Turkey.
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Isachenkov reported from Moscow.
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Customers can expect to get an additional electricity credit before Christmas, Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has said.
In April, a €200 electricity credit was applied to each household as part of measures announced by the Irish Government to help people grapple with the rising cost of living.
Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of Cabinet on Wednesday, Mr Ryan said that there would be another such support before the end of the year.
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“We held back. A lot of people were arguing we should have done a mini Budget in the summer and we said at the time ‘no’, because the time this is going to hit is the late autumn/early next year.
“So I think it was absolutely right for us to hold our fire, to wait to see what the real situation was in the autumn, and that’s when we need to provide supports. That’s the right time to do it.”
When asked whether people could expect to get an “electricity payment” before Christmas, Mr Ryan replied “yes”.
The Green Party leader said that a memo he brought to Cabinet on Wednesday on energy reduction is the first of a series of memos on energy expected over the winter months.
“We’ll start with the public sector, what are we doing ourselves? Lead by example, cutting our energy,” he said.
Reform of the European energy market and supports for people in Budget 2023 will also form part of the government response to the energy crisis, he said.
Mr Ryan also added that “we will intervene to give supports for businesses directly” to help with soaring energy bills which he said could see people’s bills double.
The Department of Enterprise is currently working on such proposals, he added.
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MAPLE GROVE, Minn., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions has increased the floor space at its main booth and added new locations to display inspection solutions that extend across several industries, working to master quality together with customers. The technology solutions will be featured in four different booths, in three different areas of IMTS, including the Quality and Additive Pavilions, and the Smartforce Student Summit. Attendees can experience a wide array of technologies in person: industrial microscopes, CT X-ray machines, CMMs and optical systems, non-contact 3D devices, automated car body systems, and surface and special geometry instruments. In addition to the IMTS Conference session on Monday, September 12, visitors can listen to several daily software presentations in the main quality booth, #135502.
At the main booth, #135502 in the Quality Pavilion, ZEISS will present technologies and application highlights in the areas of ZEISS eMobility Solutions, ZEISS Medical Industry Solutions, ZEISS Aerospace Solutions, and more. Software is a key focus, with a large stage and seating area covering several topics. Customers can stop by, have a coffee and attend one of several presentations.
For the daily software topics and more, visit: ZEISS at IMTS 2022
Down from the main booth, CAPTURE 3D, a ZEISS company, is located at #135527. They are the leading provider of innovative GOM 3D digitizing solutions in the United States. Attendees can see first-hand how their solutions rapidly solve engineering issues, prevent future problems, eliminate iterations, reduce costs and improve quality.
At booth #433231 visitors can see up close, ZEISS additive manufacturing inspection solutions, including inspection verification. With this unique holistic inspection process for 3D manufacturing, the concentrated competence of all ZEISS technologies is applied. This integrated process brings the most reliable knowledge and thus certainty about the reliability of 3D parts.
Teachers and students can stop by the ZEISS Academic booth, #215400 to see ZEISS and CAPTURE 3D solutions for academia. They can talk to the team to see how ZEISS can support their metrology program and try out ZEISS machines in person.
"Overcoming the Challenges of New Designs, New Materials, and New Printers with X-ray CT" by Curtis Frederick, Additive Manufacturing Application Scientist at ZEISS, on Monday, September 12 at 3:15 PM - 4:10 PM Central. To learn more, visit ZEISS IMTS Conference Session
To learn more about ZEISS, visit www.zeiss.com/metrology
ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the previous fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling 7.5 billion euros in its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets (status: 30 September 2021).
For its customers, ZEISS develops, produces and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery. The name ZEISS is also synonymous with the world's leading lithography optics, which are used by the chip industry to manufacture semiconductor components. There is global demand for trendsetting ZEISS brand products such as eyeglass lenses, camera lenses and binoculars.
With a portfolio aligned with future growth areas like digitalization, healthcare and Smart Production and a strong brand, ZEISS is shaping the future of technology and constantly advancing the world of optics and related fields with its solutions. The company's significant, sustainable investments in research and development lay the foundation for the success and continued expansion of ZEISS' technology and market leadership. ZEISS invests 13 percent of its revenue in research and development – this high level of expenditure has a long tradition at ZEISS and is also an investment in the future.
With around 37,000 employees, ZEISS is active globally in almost 50 countries with around 30 production sites, 60 sales and service companies and 27 research and development facilities (status: 31 March 2022). Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. The Carl Zeiss Foundation, one of the largest foundations in Germany committed to the promotion of science, is the sole owner of the holding company, Carl Zeiss AG.
Further information at www.zeiss.com
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions is a leading manufacturer of multidimensional metrology solutions. These include coordinate measuring machines, optical and multisensor systems, microscopy systems for industrial quality assurance as well as metrology software for the automotive, aircraft, mechanical engineering, plastics and medical technology industries. Innovative technologies such as 3D X-ray metrology for quality inspection round off the portfolio. In addition, ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions offers a broad global spectrum of customer services with ZEISS Quality Excellence Centers close to its customers. The company is headquartered in Oberkochen. Production and development sites outside Germany are located in Minneapolis in the USA, Shanghai (China) and Bangalore (India). ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions is part of the Industrial Quality & Research segment.
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By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer
Thomas Tuchel was fired by Chelsea on Wednesday, only one month into the season and just days after the club concluded a Europe-high spending spree of nearly $300 million in the transfer window.
The decision by Chelsea’s new ownership, fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly, came a day after the team surprisingly lost to Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 in its first group match of the Champions League.
Tuchel, who has been a frustrated and prickly figure after matches this season, said “everything is missing” when he summed up Chelsea’s performance against Dinamo and complained that his players “lacked hunger.”
Chelsea has lost two of its first six games — to Leeds and Southampton — in an underwhelming start to the Premier League that has seen the club’s new signings fail to gel.
“As the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over the club, and as it continues its hard work to take the club forward, the new owners believe it is the right time to make this transition,” Chelsea said in a statement.
Tuchel was in charge for a year and a half, winning the Champions League only six months into his tenure. Chelsea faded in the second half of last season — Tuchel’s only full campaign at the helm — and was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Champions League before finishing third in the Premier League, 19 points behind champion Manchester City.
That came in a period where Chelsea was changing ownership after Roman Abramovich was forced to put the London club on the market after being sanctioned by the British government for what it called his enabling of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brutal and barbaric invasion” of Ukraine.
That led to Chelsea’s sale for 2.5 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) to a consortium fronted by Boehly, who quickly made himself chairman as well as interim sporting director in charge of transfers.
Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly and Marc Cucurella came in for big fees during the offseason, before the final days of the transfer window saw Chelsea spend 75 million pounds ($87 million) on French center back Wesley Fofana and then bring in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona to plug a gap in its striker options.
Aubameyang cited playing under Tuchel before — at Borussia Dortmund — as a benefit of the move and was handed a debut against Dinamo, which proved to be Tuchel’s last game in charge.
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The City of Lewisville approved the proposed 2022-23 Fiscal Year budget following a public hearing held on August 17, 2022.
The total budgeted amount for Lewisville this year is $282,400, an approximate 27 percent increase over last year’s budget of $221,903. The increased expenditures come from the city’s capital investment fund as well as from American Rescue Plan Act funds the city received this year and in 2021.
According to Lewisville City Clerk Donetta Fife, capital investment projects this year range from needing a new dump truck and compressor to purchasing new mower blades.
“It’s not like in big cities, we’re a small city and these are large expenditures,” Fife said.
In the general fund, according to the city’s 2022-2023 Appropriations Ordinance, includes operating expenses, at a total of $50,725, General maintenance, at $9,070, Library, at $5,500 and Payroll at $65,200. In total, the budget for the general fund this upcoming year is $130,495, which is a 2.4% decrease from last year.
Fife also mentioned the city is paying to match funds for their Department of Environmental Quality grant. This grant is being used to fund the city’s waste water study which began last year and should be finished by the first of October.
In other news, Clark County is preparing to hold a public hearing on their tentative budget on Sept. 6.
The tentative budget for the 2022-2023 Fiscal year is $8,366,661, a $921,455 increase from last year’s tentative budget. This increase comes from several budget items increasing over last year’s tentative budget, such as an increase in the general fund, road and bridge, and state revenue sharing.
Revenue Sharing in the state this year has nearly doubled from $364,329 to $663,355. The general fund has increased from last year’s tentative $1,060,989 to a tentative $1,088,361.
Funds such as economic development and the indigent funds have reduced budgets over last year’s. The indigent fund, in this year’s tentative budget is approximately $64,000 less than last year’s tentative budget and the economic development fund has also tentatively decreased by $5,000.
This year, Clark County tentatively budgeted American Rescue Plan Act in the amount of $164,131, which Clark County Clerk Camille Messick stated the county hopes to use to upgrade their emergency communication system.
Clark County received less ARPA money than some of the surrounding counties, Messick said, because of the smaller population.
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OAKVILLE, ON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CHS USA Inc., a company of Canadian Hospital Specialties Limited (CHS), completed the acquisition of SandBox Medical LLC (SandBox Medical), effective September 1st, 2022. This acquisition will increase CHS' presence in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and Pediatric market, while providing innovative products for premature babies and full-term newborns. SandBox Medical and CHS are both known in the healthcare industry for high quality and reliable products.
"The acquisition of SandBox Medical provides CHS with an opportunity to offer customers a broader portfolio of innovative solutions in the NICU and Pediatric areas, as well as expanded channels for distribution. This acquisition also reinforces our commitment to expand our footprint in the very important United States market with SandBox products and other neonatal products." states Mike Canzoneri, President and CEO of CHS.
SandBox Medical has always strived to be a company "Making a Difference" for caregivers and parents by providing top notch customer service, research, product development and products to impact the comfort of newborns they care for. CHS' focus on excellent customer service and innovation provides an ideal fit for the acquisition.
Canadian Hospital Specialties Limited (established 1967) is a privately held medical device manufacturer and specialty distributor located in Oakville, Ontario. Customers served are in the acute hospital and non-acute healthcare space in Canada and Internationally. CHS self-manufactured products (MED-RX®) and third-party represented products span across a wide variety of clinical categories including respiratory, anesthesia, perfusion, interventional radiology, biopsy, drainage, diagnostic imaging, pharmacy, vascular access, infection prevention, neuro and cardiac diagnostics, and general med-surg. The MED-RX line is produced in Oakville, ON, and is predominantly comprised of single use disposable trays, kits, and tubing used in a variety of procedures such as IV starts, feeding, biopsy, and thoracic drainage.
SandBox Medical is based in Pembroke, MA, and is the manufacturer and source for JollyPop® Pacifiers and other products designed for premature babies and full-term newborns. Founded in 2009, SandBox Medical has prided itself on bringing innovations to the market such as the CoverMe® disposable swing cover and Jellies® gel pillow and positioning aid.
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Tottenham mark their return to the Champions League with a Group D clash against Ligue 1 giants Marseille on Wednesday evening. Eintracht Frankfurt and Sporting Lisbon complete the group after Antonio Conte's men pipped Arsenal to the fourth spot in last season's Premier League.
Spurs have made a decent start on the domestic front, just one point off leaders Arsenal after a 2-1 win over Fulham on Saturday, with Richarlison assisting Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's goal and Harry Kane also finding the back of the net.
It was the sixth consecutive home win for the English side, while Igor Tudor's side have recorded four Ligue 1 wins on the trot to keep pace with leaders Paris Saint-Germain.
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In the United States (U.S.), CBS Sports is showing the game on TV and it is available to stream live on Paramount+.
BT Sport 3 is showing the game between Tottenham and Marseille in the UK, with a live stream option available on the BT Player.
In India, the Sony Sports Network has the UCL broadcasting rights, with streaming services on SonyLIV.
Tottenham squad & team news
Bryan Gil and Lucas Moura's injury concerns have been compensated by the returns of Rodrigo Bentancur and Cristian Romero in the Fulham win.
Barcelona loanee Clement Lenglet's Champions League experience may help him keep his place in the XI but it's a big decision for Conte to make between Richarlison and Dejan Kulusevski going forward while Son Heung-min has also had a bit of a slow start in the new season.
Tottenham possible XI: Lloris; Romero, Lenglet, Dier; Emerson, Hojbjerg, Bentancur, Perisic; Richarlison, Kane, Son
Marseille squad and team news
It looks like a depleted line-up for the visitors as Dimitri Payet has a calf problem and Alexis Sanchez is suspended, while forwards Cedric Bakambu and Bamba Dieng are left out of the trip to London after failed transfer moves.
Sead Kolasinac is expected to start in place of Samuel Gigot in defence, with Matteo Guendouzi possibly reclaiming his place in the XI from Cengiz Under, while Luis Suarez should get the nod in attack.
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AMSTERDAM, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DataSnipper, the Amsterdam-based software company focused on transforming the financial audit industry, today announces a minority investment in growth equity from global software investor Insight Partners. The investment will be used to accelerate market expansion, attract talent, and further fuel development and enhancement of the company's intelligent automation platform in Microsoft Excel.
Audit work involves many manual and repetitive tasks, and auditors have a strong desire for innovative technology that helps them do this work more efficiently. DataSnipper provides auditors with an intelligent automation platform that dramatically increases the quality and efficiency of common audit procedures. DataSnipper's powerful automation features, embedded into Excel, empower external auditors around the globe to do their work quickly and accurately. Its platform is also starting to be used by financial professionals in other domains, including internal audit, financial control, accountancy, and tax.
In the past year, DataSnipper tripled its customer base (including leading brands like Deloitte, KPMG, EY, RSM and BDO) and served more than 300,000 auditors across 85+ countries. Bootstrapped and profitable since its founding, DataSnipper has financed its growth purely through the value it delivers to its customers.
"It is the perfect moment to team up with a partner that strongly believes in our mission. This minority investment from leading software investor Insight Partners enables us to deliver on our promise to make every auditor in the world more successful and impactful," said Maarten Alblas, founder and Co-CEO at DataSnipper. "DataSnipper's value isn't limited to auditors. As we continue to expand globally, early customers in these new markets are excited about the value DataSnipper delivers, and we're looking to continuously improve our platform and service offerings. The time is now. We're proud to collaborate with Insight Partners in this exciting journey to come."
"Without any investment, DataSnipper has built one of the most valued products we have seen. We are convinced that DataSnipper will make a tangible difference not only for auditors, but for many other finance, accounting and tax professionals as well," said Alessandro Luciano, Investor at Insight Partners. "We are humbled to be partnering with Maarten, Jonas, Kai and the broader DataSnipper team, confident in their success as they continue to Scale Up." Alessandro Luciano will join the DataSnipper board.
DataSnippers aims to become the global brand for intelligent automation for finance professionals. As part of this strategy, the company will have a strong focus on expanding its operations in the US and across Europe, where thousands of auditors are already using DataSnipper daily. The company will also continue to innovate on its "Intelligent Audit Platform" and "Financial Statement Suite" products, making them more powerful for both auditors and other finance professionals.
DataSnipper is a tech scale-up focused on transforming the financial audit industry. Founded by Maarten Alblas, Jonas Ruyter and Kai Bakker in 2017, DataSnipper provides Auditors with an intelligent automation platform to drastically increase the quality and efficiency of audit procedures. The impact DataSnipper simply makes their lives easier. DataSnippers team is driven by shared values to help Auditors across the globe to be more successful and impactful.
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Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland took their high-flying scoring acts into Europe as the Champions League returned on Tuesday, while last season’s standout star Karim Benzema limped off with an injury after less than 30 minutes.
Mbappé and Haaland both netted two goals as their respective clubs Paris Saint Germain and Manchester City began their European campaigns with victories, underlining just why those two teams are again among the favorites for the title.
Real Madrid’s chances of defending its crown probably depend largely on having a fully fit Benzema, but the France forward had to come off with an apparent knee injury in the 30th minute against Celtic. Second-half goals from Vinícius Júnior, Luka Modric and Eden Hazard still secured a 3-0 win for the Spanish giant in Glasgow.
Benzema was in a league of his own in the competition last season, netting 15 goals in 12 games to lead Madrid to the title. But Mbappé and Haaland look ready to challenge the Frenchman for the status of Europe’s top striker as they try to lead their clubs to an elusive first Champions League title.
The 23-year-old Mbappé, who has seven goals in five league games so far, scored his double in the first 22 minutes of a 2-1 home win over Juventus to become the youngest player to reach 35 goals in the competition — beating the mark held by teammate Lionel Messi.
The 22-year-old Haaland has 25 goals in 20 Champions League games — also a record — after scoring once in each half of Man City’s 4-0 win at Sevilla. The Norway striker, who has 10 goals in six Premier League games this season, has now netted on his Champions League debut for three clubs — Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund and City.
Also, Dinamo Zagreb upset Chelsea 1-0 at home while Serie A champion AC Milan was held to a 1-1 draw at Salzburg.
MBAPPÉ SINKS JUVE
Mbappé’s opening goal for PSG came after just five minutes following some audacious link-up play from Neymar.
Mbappé played a short pass to the Brazilian before making a run into the area, with Neymar holding onto the ball just long enough before chipping it over a defender and into the path of the France striker, who volleyed it first-time past goalkeeper Mattia Perin.
The second came after he exchanged passes with Achraf Hakimi and beat Perin with another first-time finish. United States midfielder Weston McKennie pulled one back for Juventus in the 53rd, creating a tense finale in Paris.
In the other Group H match, Benfica defeated Maccabi Haifa 2-0.
CHELSEA STRUGGLES
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang couldn’t give Chelsea’s stuttering attack any kind of instant spark as the Blues failed to impress once again following an inconsistent start to the season.
Aubameyang made his Chelsea debut after his move from Barcelona, playing with a face mask to protect his injured jaw, and had one goal ruled out for offside while his teammates repeatedly failed to beat goalkeeper Dominik Livaković.
Instead it was Mislav Oršić who continued his scoring streak against English teams, racing away from Wesley Fofana — another of Chelsea’s marquee signings — to score on a breakaway in the 13th minute.
“It’s an underperformance from us,” said Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel, whose team has lost twice in the Premier League already. “We are clearly not there where we need to be. …. At the moment everything is missing.”
Noah Okafor put Salzburg ahead against Milan near the half-hour mark by shooting through the legs of goalkeeper Mike Maignan, but Alexis Saelemaekers equalized before the break.
Rafael Leão then nearly won it for Milan in stoppage time when he had a shot deflected off the post.
U.S. international Sergiño Dest came on in the 57th minute for his Milan debut following his transfer last week from Barcelona, one of six Americans in action on the night.
CITY ROLLS IN SPAIN
Haaland could well be the piece that Man City has been missing as it repeatedly came up short in Europe under Pep Guardiola.
The Norwegian again showed his uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time as he was on hand to steer in a cross from Kevin De Bruyne in the 21st minute and then tapped in a rebound for the third goal in the 67th. Phil Foden and Ruben Dias scored the other goals for City in a dominant performance at Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán.
Also in Group G, Marco Reus took his tally to 22 goals in 57 Champions League matches by opening the scoring in Borussia Dortmund’s 3-0 win over Copenhagen. U.S. international Gio Reyna set up the other two goals for Dortmund, exchanging passes with English teenager Jude Bellingham in a slick move for the third.
HAZARD STEPS UP
If Benzema has to miss significant time for Madrid, Hazard signaled that he may be ready to pick up some of the slack.
The Belgium playmaker — who was on the bench before replacing Benzema — set up the first two goals before scoring the third himself against Celtic. It was his first Champions League goal in 651 days and first in any competition since January.
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was hopeful that Benzema will be back soon, though.
“It seems not so serious,” Ancelotti said about the striker’s injury.
Callum McGregor had nearly put Celtic ahead in the first half when he struck a fierce shot against the post in the 21st minute.
In the other Group F game, Maryan Shved scored twice as Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk beat RB Leipzig 4-1. Shakhtar’s domestic season only recently started after a lengthy break because of Russia’s invasion but the team got some help from Leipzig goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi for the first goal.
Gulacsi made the blunder of the evening by giving the ball away to Shved as he stood well outside his own area, giving the midfielder a simple finish into an empty net.
Leipzig leveled with a goal by French defender Mohamed Simakan in the 57th but Shved restored the lead one minute later.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Garcia knows how it can feel to be a teen in tennis getting a ton of attention and outsized expectations, the way Coco Gauff does now.
One big difference: Garcia, now 28, became an overnight sensation more than a decade ago thanks to one particularly noteworthy performance on a big stage — and long before she achieved the sorts of things Gauff has at 18.
On Tuesday night at the U.S. Open, Garcia took charge and never really let Gauff — or the crowd — get fully involved. From the get-go, Garcia played high-stakes tennis and put strokes where she wanted, sometimes right at Gauff’s feet, sometimes well out of reach, and reached the first Grand Slam semifinal of her career with a 6-3, 6-4 victory at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“It kind of got away from me,” said the 12th-seeded Gauff, an American who reached the French Open final in June. “It was all her. … I was striking the ball really clean. You’re playing someone, off the bat, they’re standing on top of the baseline and ripping balls. It’s not easy. ”
Garcia, who is from France, hasn’t ceded a set at Flushing Meadows so far this year and stretched her winning streak to 13 matches overall, solidifying her status as someone playing as well as anyone in women’s tennis at the moment.
“The path is very clear right now,” Garcia said. “Which direction I have to go, under stress, under pressure. I’m just trying to follow this path.”
Back in 2011, still just 17 and ranked 188th, playing in only her second tour-level event, Garcia led Maria Sharapova — who had won three of her five Grand Slam titles by then — 6-3, 4-1 in the second round at Roland Garros. Sharapova wound up taking the last 11 games to win, but Garcia was suddenly on the map.
Sharapova praised her as someone “on her way way up, definitely,” and Andy Murray wrote on Twitter that day: “Girl sharapova is playing is going to be No.1 in world one day caroline garcia, what a player u heard it here 1st.”
Asked recently about that, Garcia laughed and said she’s never talked to Murray about it.
“I was very surprised because, in the end, I still lost the match. But it was a funny moment. … I was pretty much nobody at the time. I’m not going to complain about it, but I was definitely not ready. More importantly, my game was not ready for it,” Garcia said. “I was not able to (play) the same, match after match or week after week. I was trying to manage the pressure that came from it.”
She did get to No. 4 in the rankings in 2018, but finished last season ranked 74th. Now she is projected to rise into the top 10 next week and will face Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur of Tunisia on Thursday with a berth in the U.S. Open final at stake.
Jabeur advanced to her first semifinal in New York with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over the player who beat Serena Williams in the third round, Ajla Tomljanovic.
In the men’s quarterfinals Tuesday, No. 5 Casper Ruud beat No. 13 Matteo Berrettini in straight sets and will play No. 27 Karen Khachanov, who eliminated No. 23 Nick Kyrgios 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-4 in a match that finished at about 1 a.m..
In Garcia vs. Gauff, it was 4-0 merely 17 minutes in, as spectators were still filing in. All in all, there was less-vociferous support for Gauff than she heard in her previous victory in Ashe.
During that pretty perfect start, Garcia capped one 17-stroke exchange with a down-the-line forehand winner. She raised her fist and held that pose while looking at her guest box, where her father and coach were on their feet. It was a sequence that would be repeated.
Garcia stood right near the baseline, or inside it, and read Gauff’s serves effectively. Garcia often returned deep enough to seemingly startle Gauff, who rushed some responses. After one of several attempted replies by Gauff settled in the net, she jutted her racket toward the ground, as if to indicate: “Why do these keep landing right there?!”
Gauff ended up double-faulting six times and finished with 24 unforced errors.
Taking balls early off the bounce, Garcia gained the upper hand from the baseline with her crisp strokes. During a brief TV interview on the way from the locker room to the court, Garcia said she hoped to be “more aggressive.”
She certainly was.
With her volleying expertise — she has won two Grand Slam doubles titles with French partner Kristina Mladenovic — Garcia moved forward whenever an opening presented itself. She wound up winning 13 of 16 points when she went to the net.
Gauff occasionally would show a bit of frustration at her play, slapping herself on the thigh or knocking her racket on a courtside towel holder.
She was trying to become the youngest American woman in the U.S. Open semifinals since Serena Williams was 17 when she won her first Grand Slam title in New York in 1999.
Garcia would not allow it.
“Overall I’m super proud of myself … but I’m hungry for more,” Gauff said with a smile. “So maybe next year.”
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MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The jury trial for one man charged in connection to the 2018 shooting death of a Huntsville toddler is set, according to online court documents.
30-year-old Martin Arrendondo Evenes was one of three charged with capital murder in the death of 3-year-old “Sweet Livia” Robinson. The toddler was killed when a bullet intended for a woman who was involved in a dispute with the suspects struck her in the head while she slept on the couch.
Police said the drive-by shooting happened at a home on 615 Murray Road.
Brittany Kingston, 31, and Dominique Russell, 30, are also charged in Livia’s death. Their trials are set to take place after Evenes’, according to recent court filings.
At Evenes’ preliminary hearing in April of 2018, Investigator Frank Rosler with the Huntsville Police Department said Evenes confessed to firing shots at the house. Rosler also said Evenes never confessed that he was aiming for a specific person.
On the night of the shooting, investigators worked to piece together details. Officers say witnesses told them the shooting stemmed from an ongoing argument. They say a confrontation on social media continued through the evening.
Timothy Douthit, who is the prosecutor for all three cases, said none of the three suspects will face the death penalty if they are convicted of capital murder. Douthit did say that they will automatically be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of capital murder.
Defense lawyers for Evenes, Larry Marsili and Chad Morgan, said they were pleased the death penalty is off the table.
According to Alabama law, the death penalty can be sought for the intentional killing of a child. AL.com reported Douthit said there is no evidence that any of the suspects intended to kill Livia.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
819 AM CDT Wed Sep 7 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Cherokee County through 845 AM CDT...
At 819 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Mount Selman, or near Jacksonville, moving south 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
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Jacksonville, Bullard, Mount Selman, Mixon and Reese.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3214 9534 3214 9516 3190 9516 3196 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 1319Z 013DEG 12KT 3203 9529
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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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 82% 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.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-explainer-europe-struggles-with-crisis-as-russia-cuts-gas/ | 2022-09-07T13:59:54Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-explainer-europe-struggles-with-crisis-as-russia-cuts-gas/ | false |
MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of BBB National Programs has found Tilting Point Media, LLC, owner and operator of the SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off app, in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and CARU's Self-Regulatory Guidelines for Advertising and for Children's Online Privacy Protection. Upon receipt of CARU's inquiry, Tilting Point proactively implemented changes to address each of CARU's concerns regarding its advertising and privacy practices and continues to take other corrective actions to address the remaining violations.
The SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off app, featuring SpongeBob characters licensed by Viacom Media Networks, came to CARU's attention through its routine monitoring of child-directed content. Given the app's child-directed subject matter of SpongeBob Squarepants, intended for ages four and up, its use of animated characters, fun background music, and simplistic nature of the gameplay, as well as information provided by Tilting Point that the app has adult users with a nostalgic connection to SpongeBob Squarepants, CARU determined that the Tilting Point app was a "mixed audience" child-directed app and as such is subject to COPPA and CARU's Guidelines.
As the operator of a mixed audience child-directed app, Tilting Point is required under COPPA and CARU's Privacy Guidelines to ensure that either no personal information is collected, used, or disclosed from users under age 13, or that notice is provided and verifiable parental consent is obtained prior to such collection, use, or disclosure. Tilting Point does have an age screen on its app, however the age screen did not prevent CARU from using the app as a 10-year-old child, agreeing to Tilting Point's terms of service and privacy policy, and consenting to the processing of his/her data for the purpose of receiving "personalized" advertising. The app's non-declinable privacy policy and terms of service provide that the user must be at least 13 years old to use the company's product, but the age gate does not prevent a child under age 13 from checking those boxes and playing the game.
Once inside the app, Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework asks the user for permission to track the user's activity "across other companies' apps and websites" for the purpose of delivering personalized ads. Even after identifying as a child under age 13, there was nothing preventing a child from enabling this setting. In addition to these design and functional errors, CARU found that the age screen itself could be improved to be more neutral and therefore more likely to invite truthful age identification by children under age 13.
CARU determined that Tilting Point violated COPPA and CARU's Privacy Guidelines by its failure to provide a neutral and effective age screen to limit users under the age of 13 to content that does not involve the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information, or to obtain verifiable parental consent before the collection, use or disclosure of any personal information from children.
CARU's Advertising Guidelines make clear that advertisers must not manipulate or deceive children. Conduct that would violate this provision includes the use of deceptive door openers and other tactics that either pressure or manipulate a child into engaging with ads, downloading and installing unnecessary apps, or making unintended purchases.
CARU found that the SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off app served multiple automated ads, often appearing on completion of a game level and advertising other apps, and the ads could not be stopped or dismissed until users had downloaded the advertised app or watched the entire ad. These video ads often included interactive features that mimicked the app's gameplay, encouraging players to engage with the ad. CARU also found that players were induced to watch the ads with the promise of virtual currency rewards such as more "coins" and "free gems."
CARU found these ads unduly interfered with gameplay, encouraged excessive ad viewing by children through deceptive door openers and other manipulative design techniques, required children to download and install unnecessary apps, and often provided unclear and inconspicuous methods for children to exit the ad and return to the game. While the CARU Advertising Guidelines do not require in-app ads to provide an exit method, they specify that where one is offered it must be clear and conspicuous.
Additionally, to prevent blurring the lines between advertising and non-advertising content, CARU's Advertising Guidelines make clear that advertisers should take extra care to be transparent when advertising to children and that advertisements must be easily identifiable as advertising. The app failed to use simple, clear, and conspicuous language to let children know when they were selecting a button that would force them to watch or engage with an ad, and instead used small disclosures in tiny, inconspicuous text.
Last, CARU found that the app displayed some advertisements that were unsafe and inappropriate for children. CARU's Advertising Guidelines make clear that advertisements should not include material or link to content that could unduly frighten or provoke anxiety in children, that portrays or encourages behavior inappropriate for children (e.g., violence or sexuality), or that is otherwise inappropriate for children.
CARU recommended that Tilting Point Media take the following corrective actions, some of which it proactively implemented early in our investigation:
- Update its age screening mechanism to allow users to freely enter the month and year of their birth and, use technical measures to prevent a child from entering a different age once they initially submit their age. Tilting Point voluntarily updated its age screen to direct users to two different versions of the app, a child version for users under age 13 and an adult version for those age 13 or older.
- Update its privacy policy to align with COPPA and better reflect its data practices as a mixed-audience site.
- Correct its data collection practices regarding third parties.
- If needed in the future, put in place a verifiable parental consent mechanism before any feature requiring it launches in the app.
- Take concrete steps to make the identifiers and disclosures for ads clear and conspicuous so that engagement with ads will not occur unknowingly.
- Direct its ad networks to make the exit functionality more prominent and obvious to users.
- Work with its ad networks to provide exit functionality to enable users to stop an ad via the first screen that appears when the ad launches.
- Identify and terminate the ad network serving unsafe ads for children and establish safeguards to ensure they do not return.
Tilting Point participated in and cooperated fully with CARU's self-regulatory program. Tilting Point proactively implemented changes to address each of CARU's concerns regarding its advertising and privacy practices.
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About the Children's Advertising Review Unit: The Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU), a division of BBB National Programs and the nation's first Safe Harbor Program under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), helps companies comply with laws and guidelines that protect children from deceptive or inappropriate advertising and ensure that, in an online environment, children's data is collected and handled responsibly. When advertising or data collection practices are misleading, inappropriate, or inconsistent with laws and guidelines, CARU seeks change through the voluntary cooperation of companies and where relevant, enforcement action.
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Parallel Identity Token Brings KYC/AML Compliance to Web3
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parallel Markets, an identity infrastructure company, announces the launch of the Parallel Identity Token, the first-ever regulatorily compliant KYC/AML solution for Web3.
The PID Token is a fully on-chain, non-transferable identity token that preserves the Web3 principles of decentralized anonymity while confirming critical aspects of a wallet owner's identity. The PID Token never stores or displays any Personal Identifying Information (PII), but does contain necessary information to assure market participants that their counterparties do not have a history of fraud and are not subject to sanctions.
The PID Token is supported by a regulatorily compliant KYC/AML process and indicates:
- whether the owner is a natural person or business entity
- that the owner has submitted information necessary to complete a KYC/AML review
- that the owner is not currently sanctioned and is being monitored for new sanctions.
The PID Token can even assert the owner's 506(c) investor accreditation status. The token can interact directly with smart contracts, which can in turn require all parties to hold a valid PID Token as a condition of participation. In keeping with industry best practices for document renewal, all PID Tokens are monitored for one year against sanctions lists (such as OFAC), after which time token-holders must reconfirm their identity details and wallet ownership.
The PID Token is currently live on Ethereum and is available to be minted at: https://app.parallelmarkets.com/identity-token
Parallel's co-founder and CEO, Tony Peccatiello, says "Building a robust identity solution to support the expansion of Web3 is something we have cared about for a long time — we're very excited to launch the Parallel Identity Token with our partners."
One of those partners is decentralized credit platform Goldfinch, whose co-founder Mike Sall said, "Parallel has been an excellent partner for our KYC/AML and accreditation verification needs, fulfilling a core utility for our network's participants. We're excited that solutions are continuing to develop in this space and look forward to seeing what Parallel builds with the PID Token."
Buildspace partnerships lead Farhaj Mayan also shared his thoughts on the PID Token launch: "I think the most epic thing about on-chain KYC is it brings a lot of trust to on-chain actions for legacy institutions that want to take advantage of composable identity … That's the fundamental change in the world we'll need to actually gain significant adoption for Web3."
About Parallel Markets: Parallel Markets is an identity infrastructure company serving over 75 financial institutions across the Web2 and Web3 ecosystems. Parallel closed its Series A with Union Square Ventures in December 2021.
FAST FACTS
About Parallel Markets
- Parallel has been focused on portable, reusable identity for over 3 years and is in a unique position to support on-chain identity and compliance
- Raised Series A from Union Square Ventures, Lux, Eniac, Comcast and others in December 2021
- Parallel currently works with dozens of traditional financial institutions and Web3 projects doing onboarding and KYC/AML and Accreditation checks
About the PID Token
- Created by Parallel Markets
- Non-transferable (soulbound) NFT
- Currently live on Ethereum
- Never stores or displays PII on-chain
- Only stores key elements of identity and verification on-chain:
- Use cases:
- By using an on-chain KYC credential such as the PID token, a DeFi project can be confident that no value is flowing to or from sanctioned parties — all within Web3 and without directly collecting any PII
- Parties can establish a KYC requirement (PID token) when structuring swap contracts
- DAOs can restrict membership, voting and distributions to wallets with a valid KYC credential (PID token)
- Marketplaces can restrict NFT visibility to wallets with a KYC credential (PID token)
- Marketplaces can restrict bids to sellers or buyers holding a KYC credential (PID token)
- Cryptocurrency exchanges could choose to only accept Eth from wallets with a KYC credential (PID token)
OUR LAUNCH PARTNERS
Suzanne Elovic
President & Head of Partnerships
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This partnership will reimagine personalized health with genomics and raw PPG biometric data and create a comprehensive non-invasive and reliable precision therapeutics solution
BURBANK, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EndoCanna Health ("EndoCanna"), the industry leader in endocannabinoid system genomic testing, has chosen to partner with Biostrap USA, LLC ("Biostrap"), a digital health leader in pioneering the industry of medical-grade biosensors, data processing techniques and machine learning, to offer a personalized therapeutics solution.
"By aligning DNA with biometrics, we are able to create hyper-personalization to offer better outcomes while minimizing adverse reactions," Len May, CEO and Founder of EndoCanna Health said, adding that "it's the raw data that really separated Biostrap from everybody else. Using the Biostrap wrist-worn device, we're able to verify the efficacy and the outcome of the actual protocol that's been suggested, creating a truly personalized therapeutic experience."
CBD and cannabinoid products available on the US market today are vast. According to Statista, sales of legal recreational cannabis are expected to reach an estimated $25 billion by 2025. While, sales of CBD products are expected to grow to $16 billion in value by 2026.
Each year, millions of people turn to these therapeutics for various reasons from easing chronic pain or anxiety and depression to helping with sleep and elevating overall mood. However, more often than not, the efficacy of these products remain questionable on an individual level. Thus, there's no one-size-fits-all solution.
The cannabis plant has more than 500 compounds and over 100 cannabinoids of which, CBD is one and THC is another. In addition to that, every individual has a unique endocannabinoid system, or ECS, that is made up of millions of cannabinoid receptors throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems.
How a person's body reacts to any type of CBD or cannabinoid product will depend on their ECS and genetic makeup. That's where the EndoCanna and Biostrap partnership makes a difference.
Through analyzing more than 675,000 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) related to the ECS, the science team at EndoCanna has been able to uncover unique endocannabinoid genotypes to provide precision matching of cannabinoid and THC ratios and terpene profiles for an individual's health goals.
Taking it a step further, combining genomic data with Biostrap's ultra high-fidelity raw photoplethysmography, or PPG, biometric data will offer a wrist-worn, non-invasive way to measure treatment efficacy, improve outcomes and minimize risk or any adverse side effects.
After establishing an individual's endocannabinoid profile and receiving a personal protocol from a medical professional, an EndoCanna Care Counselor will monitor each client's sleep and nocturnal biometrics through a HIPAA-compliant platform to provide feedback and help interpret the data.
"This is the kind of partnership that shows how Biostrap's clinically reliable PPG data can bridge the gap between personalizing health interventions and treatments, and monitoring the efficacy of a prescribed protocol with data-driven accuracy," Sameer Sontakey, CEO and Co-Founder of Biostrap said. "Our team believes that providing a secure, reliable and cloud-based remote physiologic monitoring platform can truly help personalize and optimize the precision therapeutics experience."
About EndoCanna Health
Endocanna Health is the industry leader in endocannabinoid system genomic testing and the manufacturer of genetically aligned formulations that create optimal cannabis experiences.
Endocanna is a biotechnology research company that utilizes a patent-pending process for its cannabinoid DNA variant report, EndoDecoded™, and product matching algorithm, EndoAligned™. EndoDNA™ provides two ways to submit DNA for analysis, either collected through a simple saliva swab or a direct upload of genetic data files from popular DNA testing services like Ancestry, 23andMe, Family TreeDNA, or MyHeritage DNA. Endocanna's HIPAA compliant and secure health and wellness portal, Mydna.live, provides customers with a personalized experience to access their EndoDecoded report and EndoAligned formulation suggestions for their specific genotype.
Learn more at www.endodna.com.
About Biostrap
Biostrap is pioneering the industry of medical-grade biosensors, lossless data processing techniques and artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide custom digital health solutions for health care and government organizations, clinical research and telehealth and telemedicine industries. Biostrap captures clinical-grade, continuous, ultra high-fidelity raw signals for analysis in a cloud-based Pulse Engine™. Built with convenience, efficiency and security in mind, Biostrap translates complex biometric signals into customized insights, dashboards and mobile applications to meet their clients' needs. API & Bluetooth SDK Integration options available. Learn more at www.biostrap.com
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CHENGDU, China, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Senmiao Technology Limited ("Senmiao" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: AIHS), a financing and servicing company focused on the online ride-hailing industry in China, as well as an operator of its own online ride-hailing platform, today announced the operating metrics for its proprietary online ride-hailing platform for the month of August 2022. In August 2022, Senmiao and its affiliates reported over 1.0 million total completed orders, a 4.5% increase from over 0.97 million total orders completed in July 2022.
Numbers reported since August 2021 include the number of completed orders from Meituan's ride-hailing platform ("the Major Platform") utilizing Senmiao's network of cars and drivers for a set monthly fee. Numbers reported since April 2022 include the number of completed orders from three other ride-hailing platforms in Chengdu, Xiehua, Anma and Xiaoma, under the same cooperation model as Meituan.
Since the launch of Senmiao's online ride-hailing platform in October 2020, approximately 18.9 million rides have been completed using its platform. Over 4.8 million rides have been completed on the Major Platform under Senmiao's partnership with Meituan. Over 784,000 rides have been completed on Xiehua, Anma and Xiaoma since April 2022. The number of drivers completing rides via the platforms (known as Active Drivers) in August 2022 was 6,778, up approximately 14.3% from 5,928 in July 2022.
The table below presents approximate unaudited operating metrics of Senmiao and its affiliates' online ride-hailing platform since its launch in October 2020.
1 Under the old model, a rider can search for taxi/ride-hailing services on a Senmiao partner's platform, which then provides the rider with options for online ride-sharing service providers, including Senmiao. If the rider selects Senmiao, the order will then be distributed to registered drivers on Senmiao's platform for viewing and acceptance. Senmiao earns commissions for each completed order based on a certain percentage of the value of the order.
2 Under the new model, online ride-hailing requests and orders will be completed on the partner's platform utilizing Senmiao and its affiliates' network of cars and drivers for a set monthly fee. Starting from April 2022, the number includes orders completed on the Xiehua, Anma and Xiaoma platforms, in addition to those completed on the Major Platform since August 2021.
About Senmiao Technology Limited
Headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Senmiao provides automobile transaction and related services including sales of automobiles, facilitation and services for automobile purchases and financing, management, operating leases, guarantees and other automobile transaction services, as well as operates its own ride-hailing platform aimed principally at the growing online ride-hailing market in Senmiao's areas of operation in China. For more information about Senmiao, please visit: http://www.senmiaotech.com. Senmiao routinely provides important updates on its website.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements (including those relating to the operation of Senmiao's ride-hailing platform) are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those detailed from time to time in the Senmiao's filings with the SEC, and represent Senmiao's views only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing Senmiao's views as of any subsequent date. Senmiao undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in events or circumstances.
For more information, please contact:
At the Company:
Yiye Zhou
Email: edom333@ihongsen.com
Phone: +86 28 6155 4399
Investor Relations:
The Equity Group Inc.
Carolyne Sohn, Vice President
+1 415-568-2255
csohn@equityny.com
In China
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+86 10 5661 7012
lma@equityny.com
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You can find more from all of today’s “Life.Style.Live!” guests at the links below:
Mixologist Brett Butler
Chinese Mooncake Festival – City of Carmel
carmel.in.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/15716/17?curm=8&cury=2021
Hoagie Eating Contest – Hoagies and Hops
Nathaniel Nolan (walk on all fours) – Fitness Trainer
Topgolf Fundraiser – Children’s Policy and Law Initiative of Indiana
https://www.facebook.com/CPLI.Indiana
Healthy Aging Month | https://www.wishtv.com/lifestylelive/life-style-live-hot-links-september-7-2022/ | 2022-09-07T14:09:25Z | https://www.wishtv.com/lifestylelive/life-style-live-hot-links-september-7-2022/ | true |
BINGHAMTON, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – Last week, a Broome County Grand Jury dismissed serious felony charges against a Binghamton man.
Richard A. Durham was charged with second-degree assault – with intent to cause serious injury to a police officer and resisting arrest.
The Broome County District Attorney’s Office presented these charges against Durham to a Grand Jury and the Grand Jury declined to indict him. Durham is now only charged with disorderly conduct, which is a violation, and not considered a criminal-level offense under New York State law, said Durham’s attorney.
The District Attorney’s Office alleged that Durham repeatedly kicked a Binghamton Police Officer who was trying to place him under arrest. The Grand Jury did not find probable cause to move forward with those charges.
“Mr. Durham executed his right to testify to the Grand Jury, explaining what happened on the night in question, and the Grand Jury declined to indict him on criminal charges,” said defense attorney Artan Serjanej. “We thank the Grand Jurors for their attention to the testimony and examination of the evidence in this case.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/crime/grand-jury-drops-charges-against-binghamton-man/ | 2022-09-07T14:11:45Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/crime/grand-jury-drops-charges-against-binghamton-man/ | false |
They'll certainly never go out of style.
In celebration of the launch of her new luxury cashmere brand, Guest In Residence, Gigi Hadid hosted a star-studded dinner at Le Chalet in New York City on Sept. 6. Among the attendees who stepped out for the Parisian cuisine dinner included the runway model's BFF Taylor Swift, sister Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, Tan France and Edward Enninful, in addition to other celebs.
Not only does the 27-year-old serve as the founder of her cashmere clothing line, but she also is at the helms as its creative director. Per a press release, Gigi's was "conceived to honor and evoke a fresh appreciation and respect for the timeless designs, materials and craftsmanship of heritage heirlooms for all generations."
As for the inspiration behind the brand's name? Guest in Residence stems from Gigi's "rigorous travel during her modeling career, which has quite literally taken her all over the globe."
As for the line itself, shoppers can get their hands on the luxury cashmere goods when it debuts on Sept. 7.
Until then, check out the photos from Gigi's launch event: | https://www.eonline.com/news/1345129/taylor-swift-supports-bff-gigi-hadid-at-launch-of-guest-in-residence-line | 2022-09-07T14:11:58Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1345129/taylor-swift-supports-bff-gigi-hadid-at-launch-of-guest-in-residence-line | false |
The latest episode of AEW Dark is available to watch below. Here is the full line-up:
* Julia Hart vs. Missa Kate
* Private Party vs. GPA and Robert Anthony
* Marina Shafir vs. Laynie Luck
* Serena Deeb vs. Sierra
* Serpentico vs. Zack Clayton
* Tony Nese and Josh Woods vs. Brandon Gore and Storm Grayson
* ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli defends against Ari Daivari
Dark airs every Tuesday night at 7pm ET via the official AEW YouTube channel. | https://www.pwmania.com/video-watch-aew-dark-9-6-22-episode-160 | 2022-09-07T14:12:28Z | https://www.pwmania.com/video-watch-aew-dark-9-6-22-episode-160 | true |
Audio Out-of-Home leader expands executive team, fueling significant growth
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vibenomics, the nation's premier retail audio advertising provider, has welcomed Sarah Jacobs as its new Senior Vice President of Ad Sales. Jacobs will lead the Ad Sales team in identifying and delivering new revenue opportunities for Vibenomics, positioning the company for continued growth.
"Vibenomics has expanded its offerings of in-store audio advertising over the past few months at an astounding rate," says Brent Oakley, CEO and Co-Founder of Vibenomics. "One of our priorities after our most recent funding round was to make strategic hires that allow us to continue offering excellent advertising services to our clients. Between Vibenomics' role in the launch of the In-Store Marketplace and the general growth the company is experiencing, I believe her skill set pairs perfectly with the job at hand – elevating the advertising experience for Vibenomics customers."
Over the past year, Vibenomics has announced its successful $12.3 M Series B funding round, backed by Panoramic Ventures, and its role in the launch of the In-Store Marketplace, along with other retail media providers and experts.
Amid this rapid growth, Jacobs will provide expertise and leadership by introducing innovative business strategies to drive new processes and business models designed to increase profits and create a culture of success and retention. She brings a wealth of sales experience across multiple markets, including TV and grocery.
"I am thrilled to join the Vibenomics team during such a pivotal time for the company," says Jacobs. "As a leader, I seek to analyze business practices and implement strategies for continued growth. I look forward to bringing fresh perspectives and strategic recommendations to the Vibenomics team."
In her new role, Jacobs will collaborate with Oakley and the executive team to develop, communicate, execute, evaluate and advance revenue generation and growth strategies. She will own responsibility for the performance, design and alignment of revenue-generating activities across the organization – including growing revenue from the client base, creating a sustainable plan for future business development and delivering accurate revenue projections.
Vibenomics has nearly 45 employees, with 80% based out of Indianapolis and 20% working remotely. The company expects to continue to increase its sales and marketing departments throughout the end of 2022.
About Vibenomics:
Vibenomics, Inc. is a location-based Audio Out-of-Home™ advertising and experience company that powers audio channels for retailers, giving brands the ability to talk to shoppers directly at the point of sale. With its powerful cloud-based technology, licensed background music library, data integration capabilities, full-service team of audio experience experts, and network of on-demand professional voice talent, the company provides the right revenue-enhancing vibe for over 150 advertisers in more than 6,000 locations across 49 states, reaching over 210 million people.
Delivered through flexible plug-and-play, proprietary, IoT-enabled media players, Vibenomics dynamically broadcasts hyper-targeted, on-demand audio advertisements and curated playlists within any combination of locations across its swiftly growing national footprint, unlocking a powerful new shopper marketing channel for reaching consumers during the critical final footsteps along the path to purchase. Through a first-of-its-kind partner program, retailers can receive a portion of revenue for all advertisements sold by Vibenomics that play within their locations, giving them the ability to monetize their private airwaves and transform a legacy expense into a new profit center. To learn more about Vibenomics, visit https://www.vibenomics.com.
Media Contact:
Abby Lewis
BLASTmedia for Vibenomics
317.806.1900 x 136
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Digital template application powered by CommCare for investigating monkeypox cases and tracing contacts to be offered free for 6 months to control outbreaks
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dimagi, a global social impact organization and leader in frontline health technology, announced that it will be offering a free monkeypox case management solution to any US public health department beginning September 12, 2022. The solution will come with a pre-configured case investigation and contact tracing (CICT) application built on the open-source platform, CommCare. Dimagi will provide 6 months of free CommCare Enterprise Premier subscription along with the application to support uptake.
As of September 1, 2022, the US monkeypox crisis has climbed to over 19,000 cases. Public health departments are often overwhelmed with the important work of responding to infectious disease outbreaks—and for good reason. Many of these departments have been underfunded, and as a result, their resources have been limited. Having a free pre-built solution can help public health departments use their limited resources to respond more effectively.
In addition to investigating cases, setting up contact tracing plays a vital role in helping to slow the spread of monkeypox. In a recent article published by Duke University about monkeypox, infectious disease specialist, Dr. Cameron Wolfe mentions, "tracing is something we did at the beginning of COVID. It's really important here. People may not know they've been exposed. This is a close contact, skin-to-skin related condition so remaining at home during that time is really crucial."
With the scalability of the evidence-based CommCare platform, Dimagi was able to build a monkeypox solution quickly. The solution will be available on any web browser and comes with pre-built user roles and automated workflows so users can immediately begin using it as part of their CICT workstream. Optional symptom monitoring using SMS will also be available. The data that is collected can be easily exported for CDC reporting. Getting started is simple with no upfront cost and on-demand, self-guided training to launch the solution out-of-the-box.
"Dimagi has supported numerous public health departments in responding to various infectious disease emergencies - from Ebola and Zika, and most recently, COVID-19 in 40 countries. From these experiences, we've seen firsthand how important it is for technology like ours to support overburdened healthcare systems in the best ways we can," said Jonathan Jackson, Dimagi's CEO and Co-Founder. "We do this by rapidly building applications departments can use for free, all leveraging a shared data framework on CommCare. Our teams are working on these efforts both for monkeypox and other infectious diseases that countries face."
To learn more visit our website.
Dimagi is a global social impact organization, working since 2002 towards our vision of a world where everyone has access to the services they need to thrive. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and with teams in India, South Africa, Senegal, and around the world, Dimagi partners with governments, NGOs, and foundations to amplify their frontline impact through scalable digital solutions and expert services. Our open-source flagship product, CommCare, is the world's most widely-used data collection and service delivery platform, and has been used by more than one million people in 130 countries. An evidence base of more than 90 peer-reviewed publications has shown that equipping Frontline Workers with CommCare improves performance, quality of care delivered, and client health outcomes. Learn more at dimagi.com.
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Company Seeks to Empower Individuals and Organizations to Create Meaningful Change Through High-Resolution and High-Recency Earth Imagery
BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Near Space Labs, the cutting-edge geospatial data and Earth imagery company, today announced the launch of its Community Resilience & Innovation Earth Imagery Grant program that will make its 10 cm ultra-high resolution imagery available for free to nonprofits, researchers, and universities, among others.
Given the constantly changing urban landscape, Near Space Labs (NSL) will provide imagery of the most populous US cities for a 12-month period to participants of the program. The aim is to provide highly updated, high-quality imagery data to those who may otherwise be unable to access it due to budgetary or accessibility restrictions. Grant participants will be able to implement the imagery data into key studies to build innovative models, research new hypotheses, and identify innovative solutions in urban areas. The images will be available through NSL's recently launched XYZ Tile API and participants will have the option to renew their participation after 12 months on a case-by-case basis.
"On this exact day five years ago, we launched Near Space Labs with a mission to make high-quality Earth imagery universally accessible to empower better decisions and inspire novel solutions," said Rema Matevosyan, co-founder and CEO of Near Space Labs. "We want to provide the most recent and high-quality data on the market to not only to our enterprise customers, but to those doing equally important work for the betterment of our overall society. It is our hope that our ability to extend access of our imagery database to a broader set of researchers and those who have limited budget will allow them to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their analyses as they work to identify key issues and develop solutions to the challenges we face every day within our cities, suburbs, and rural areas."
Ideal candidates for the program are those who work in academia, urban researchers, students studying geospatial data, Earth data analysts, and nonprofits, to name a few. To qualify, applicants must be U.S.-based and require imagery from areas covered by NSL's current flight paths in the lower 48 U.S. states. Grant applicants should be in need of imagery datasets that consist of the following characteristics: high volume, ultra-high resolution, and high recency (annual to 90-day refresh). Ideal projects will seek to develop a cohesive understanding of urban change and how it may impact society as a whole and the specific needs of local communities.
The selection process involves a detailed questionnaire and application, as well as project and organization vetting. To view and complete the application, please visit nearspacelabs.com.
University student Maria Alba participated in the Community Resilience & Innovation Earth Imagery Grant pilot program, using imagery data from NSL to build a road detection model for her undergraduate thesis.
"Access to Near Space Labs' data opened the door for me to build a model that could reliably detect various types of road surfaces, and be used to enhance potential mobility, infrastructure, and city planning use cases," said Maria Alba. A blog post about Maria's project can be read here.
The public roll-out of the program follows the company's launch of its advanced fleet of Swifty 3 stratospheric imaging robots. Using high-altitude weather balloons and proprietary sensors and software, the Swifty 3 robots reach elevations twice that of commercial flights, capturing incredibly high-resolution, high-frequency images of landscapes, man-made structures, and changes occurring on the planet. The company works with planners and decision makers across many industries and use cases, including:
- Insurance claims assessments and risk evaluations
- Natural disaster response and recovery
- Monitoring of infrastructure including roads, bridges and critical facilities
- Environment, conservation, and pollution monitoring
The industry-leading Swifty 3 robot was recognized with an honorable mention by Fast Company's 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards in the AI & Data and Best World Changing Idea in North America categories.
Near Space Labs is a cutting-edge geospatial data company on a mission to democratize access to highly updated, high-resolution Earth imagery. Co-founded by CEO Rema Matevosyan, CTO Dr. Ignasi Lluch, and Chief Engineer Dr. Albert Caubet, Near Space Labs provides timely, wide-scale, commercially available imagery with the largest zero-emission balloon fleet in the stratosphere. Near Space Labs is revolutionizing the way that businesses, communities, municipalities, and researchers gather data to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges such as urbanization and climate change. For more information, visit nearspacelabs.com
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Zaheerabad police seized 120 tonnes of PDS rice in Sangareddy district on Wednesday.
According to Circle Inspector T. Bhupati, based on a tip off, police conducted raids and confiscated four lorries at Kohir and three lorries at Chiragpally that were transporting PDS rice collected in Hyderabad and surrounding areas and were going to Karnataka and Gujarat.
The lorry drivers were arrested and were being questioned.
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MACON, Mo., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Onshore Outsourcing is proud to announce that they have signed an agreement with the Macon R1 School District to purchase Onshore's campus on North Missouri Street. Closing completed August 31, with the school taking possession of the 50,000 sq. ft. campus on September 1.
Onshore Outsourcing generously donated $860,000 to the school district to make this purchase possible, as the Macon R1 District did not have the funding to cover the building's appraised value.
"This is a great opportunity for us to let the community benefit from this campus. If we return to a hybrid work schedule in the future, we'll have enough office space available to house our Macon staff on their in-office days," said Dan Nixon, COO of Onshore Outsourcing.
Like many others in the technology industry, Onshore transitioned to a remote workforce model to protect its employees during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Through the pandemic, Onshore re-imagined their training and workforce management programs for a remote-first environment, allowing them to expand their mission to small towns across 27 states without the challenges of establishing physical offices.
Remote work, especially in the Information Technology sector, has been on the rise in recent years and expected for the long term as more and more companies are embracing the benefits and flexibility remote work offers to their employees.
Through their unique mission, Onshore trains and educates employees in rural areas, often from a background in customer service, manufacturing, or agriculture, creating rewarding and sustainable Information Technology careers in their hometowns. Onshore employees benefit from remote work more than most technology professionals in larger cities who often have better access to childcare and other services. Additionally, working from home improves the local economy by enabling residents to stay within their community.
"In addition to being more productive and saving money on gas and food, my new remote work schedule has allowed me the flexibility to drive our children to school and doctor appointments while my wife goes back to college," says Keith Lampe, a .NET Software Architect that started at Onshore 16 years ago.
"The Great Resignation" has created record labor shortages and wage pressure, even more so in the IT sector, and technology leaders face unprecedented challenges hiring and retaining their staff. Many of those leaders have now turned to Onshore Outsourcing for their staffing needs, seeing the advantage of partnering with a company that can produce technology talent, rather than fighting for high-demand skillsets in a fiercely competitive labor market. With Onshore, companies see faster fill times and more attractive rates compared to most domestic providers.
Onshore Outsourcing, headquartered in Macon, Missouri, is dedicated to the dual mission of empowering clients through the delivery of unmatched IT expertise and enabling Americans to go beyond their current circumstances to build rewarding and sustainable careers in IT. From software development and quality assurance testing staff augmentation to fully outsourced IT support desk, Onshore delivers world-class solutions for Fortune 1000 companies across various industries, including transportation and logistics, retail, healthcare life sciences, manufacturing, energy markets, financial services, and insurance. Onshore is a Certified Microsoft Partner. For more information, visit https://www.onshoreoutsourcing.com/.
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New details in plea from officer convicted in Breonna Taylor case
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - New details are now public in the plea agreement for one of the former Louisville Metro Police Department officers now federally charged by the FBI in relation to the death of Breonna Taylor.
In the court documents, Kelly Hanna Goodlett describes knowing that some of the warrant used to enter Taylor’s home on March 13, 2020 was not true. It also states that they were at Taylor’s apartment looking for evidence of drugs, money and drug trafficking. Detectives found none of those items at her apartment.
Goodlett admits to meeting with Joshua Jaynes, the lead detective on the case, to “go over their story,” the document states.
The addendum to the plea agreement states the target of the investigation by LMPD’s Placed Based Investigations was Jamarcus Glover, Taylor’s ex-boyfriend. As part of the investigation, the detectives also looked at whether Glover was trafficking drugs at Taylor’s home and that of another woman with whom he had a child, it states.
The documents name Jaynes as the primary investigator and the main person who wrote the warrant affidavit. Goodlett told investigators she fact-checked the affidavit and added information to it.
Goodlett stated that “the most important information” in the warrant that linked Taylor to Glover was the claim that Glover was getting packages at her apartment on Springfield drive. The plea documents states Goodlett and Jaynes knew that information was false.
Goodlett also confessed to knowing that John Mattingly, a former LMPD sergeant, told them that Glover was not receiving packages at Taylor’s home.
“Det. Jaynes told her that Sgt. J.M. had found that ‘there’s nothing there,’ or similar words to like effect (meaning there was no evidence of J.G. getting mail), and that Taylor’s address was “not flagged” by Postal for receiving any suspicious packages,” the addendum states. “Det. Jaynes expressed his disappointment to Det. Goodlett,” the document continues.
Goodlett told the FBI that the information about a lack of packages going to Taylor’s home “cut against” their assumption that Glover kept drugs or money there. The FBI states that both Goodlett and Jaynes had a duty to disclose that information in the warrant affidavit for which Jefferson County Judge Mary Shaw was tasked with reviewing.
Goodlett then reviewed a draft of the warrant affidavit written by Jaynes. She did not object to the false information about the packages from being included, even though she and Jaynes knew that information was false. Goodlett told the FBI she did not say anything about it because she had once been ostracized in her career for trying to report another officer’s use of excessive force, the plea states.
According to the plea agreement, Goodlett also knew that they needed to “freshen up” the warrant for Taylor’s home because it did not “have enough current information” to connect Taylor’s apartment to J.G.’s (Jamarcus Glover) drug dealing. The document also states that Goodlett knew that Glover had not recently visited Taylor’s home. The last time he had was six weeks before the warrant was executed.
In order to get the warrant approved by Judge Shaw, Goodlett said that she added a paragraph which describes Jaynes using a database to verify that Glover used Taylor’s apartment as his “current home address.”
The FBI continues to state that both Goodlett and Jaynes knew that information was “misleading” because they knew Glover was not actually living there. In fact, the FBI states Jaynes and Goodlett also knew that Glover had elsewhere used another former girlfriend’s address and the home which would also be raided on the same night as the raid at Taylor’s apartment, as his primary residence.
Goodlett told the FBI Jaynes had asked for the warrant at Taylor’s apartment to be a “No Knock” warrant because “these drug traffickers have a history of attempting to destroy evidence, have cameras on the location that compromise Detectives once an approach to the dwelling is made, and have a history of fleeing from law enforcement.”
Goodlett had no evidence to believe that Taylor was a drug trafficker or that she had ever tried to destroy evidence or flee from police, the FBI stated.
Goodlett also confessed to knowing that Taylor was expected to be home alone during the night of the raid. She knew that based on conversations with Jaynes and their supervisor, Sgt. Kyle Meany, an officer who was also charged by the FBI.
In the addendum, Goodlett states that Jaynes chose Judge Mary Shaw because he believed Shaw would not closely scrutinize his warrants.
She did remember officers changing their use of a “no knock” warrant for Taylor’s home to a “knock and announce” warrant on a briefing before the raids.
“Det. Goodlett observed that Meany looked very nervous during this meeting,” the document continues.
After Taylor’s death, investigators with LMPD’s Public Integrity Unit asked Jaynes and Goodlett for an investigative letter detailing the information they found in their investigation. The addendum states that Goodlett decided to continue lying about Mattingly’s statement about packages to Taylor’s home.
At the time Goodlett wrote the investigative letter, she did not know that Jaynes had another conversation with Mattingly in which Mattingly, again, confirmed there was no evidence of Glover receiving packages at Taylor’s apartment. Goodlett hoped the investigative letter “would clear both of them,” the addendum states.
However, that changed when it was publicly released that the postal inspector had announced that there were no packages going to Taylor’s home. At the point, Goodlett texted Jaynes “knowing that she and Det. Jaynes were in trouble,” the document states.
Jaynes and Goodlett decided to meet in a garage the next day.
“At the garage meeting, Det. Jaynes told Et. Goodlett that they needed to get on the same page because if he went down, so to speak, for the Springfield Drive warrant, she would go down too. Det. Jaynes made clear to Det. Goodlett that he wanted her to repeat his false statement,” the plea agreement states.
Goodlett placed blame on Jaynes for “pressuring” her to go along with the false story that Mattingly had said there were packages going to Taylor’s apartment in a suggestive, badgering way,” the addendum states. She claims she eventually buckled and agreed to repeat it to others including the investigators with the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office.
Goodlett told the FBI that Meany had gone to Taylor’s apartment to conduct surveillance and gather any new information on Taylor. However, Meany found nothing.
Goodlett claims she did not know that while conducting that surveillance, Meany had noticed her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker’s car at her apartment. She claims she also did not know that he had a concealed carry permit. Goodlett stated she would have “thrown a fit” if she had known about that information and that it was never provided to the officers tasked with raiding her apartment. She knew that information should have been included in the documents related to the search and the warrant.
Goodlett pleaded guilty to a conspiracy brought by the FBI two weeks ago. The charge is a civil rights federal felony. As part of the plea, Goodlett cannot be charged by the USAO with any other crimes for which the USAO already has evidence for.
Three other former officers - Kyle Meany, Brett Hankison, and Jaynes - were also charged in relation to the raid that resulted in Taylor’s death.
Goodlett was granted pre-trial release. The judge has yet to accept the plea agreement and decide on a sentence.
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UPS to hire more than 100,000 workers for the holidays
NEW YORK (AP) — United Parcel Service said Wednesday it plans to hire more than 100,000 extra workers to help handle an increase in packages during the critical holiday season.
That’s similar to the holiday seasons of 2021 and 2020. Holiday-season volumes usually start rising in October and remain high into January. The hiring plans come as online shopping has slowed after a pandemic-induced surge, but the figures are still well above pre-pandemic levels.
UPS said the openings will be for full- and part-time seasonal positions, and they are primarily package handlers, drivers and driver helpers. UPS promotes the seasonal jobs as ones that can lead to year-round employment, saying in recent years that roughly 35% of people for seasonal package-handling jobs end up in permanent positions.
The company also said it has further streamlined the job hiring process and touts that it takes just 25 minutes for most people – from filling out an online application to receiving a job offer, according to Danelle McCusker Rees, the president of human relations at UPS, who began her career with the company as a seasonal worker. That’s down from 30 minutes a year ago, she said. Also, nearly 80% of seasonal positions do not require an interview, up from 75% a year ago.
Rees told The Associated Press in an interview on Tuesday that she sees the job market as just as competitive as a year ago.
Employers added 315,000 jobs in August, about what economists had expected, down from an average 487,000 a month over the past year, according to a government report last week.
The jobless rate reached 3.7%, its highest level since February. But it increased for a healthy reason: Hundreds of thousands of people went back to the job market, and some didn’t find work right away, which boosted the government’s count of unemployed people.
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For a limited time, get $60 off the modern, battery-powered video doorbell that takes your home's security to the next level with crystal-clear images and real-time alerts
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Nothing matters more than your home’s security — and you can’t put a price on the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your family and possessions are safe. The eufy Security video doorbell kit is designed precisely with that in mind, and right now you can save $60 on the purchase price of $199.99.
With every bell, whistle, and additional feature imaginable, this modern device is so much more than an ordinary doorbell. It provides all of the advantages of a wired doorbell with the simplicity of a battery-powered alternative that’s incredibly easy to set up.
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This kit includes a battery powered video doorbell and a home base. You have the option to hardwire it if you choose, but it’s simple and straightforward to use with a battery that charges for up to 180 days of continuous, reliable functionality.
Its professional-grade lens allows for the crispest and clearest image quality possible, so you’ll always know when your package is delivered or the kids arrive home from school. A Sony 2K sensor is built in, allowing for the perfect view every time.
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Available nationwide, Gummy LUNCHABLES are an imaginative twist on the beloved, buildable lunchtime snack
PHILADELPHIA and PITTSBURGH and CHICAGO, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Frankford Candy, the leader in the licensed confections and gifts industry, is teaming up with Kraft Heinz to bring a lunchtime favorite to the candy aisle with the launch of Gummy LUNCHABLES Cracker Stackers and Gummy LUNCHABLES Pepperoni Pizza Kit. Available nationwide now at Five Below stores, Amazon.com and FrankfordCandy.com, the new Gummy LUNCHABLES will be rolling out at other retailers nationwide in the coming months.
"Consumers are increasingly interested in experiences with favorite food brands that they can share with family and friends, and gummy candy is on fire right now," said Molly Jacobson, director of business development at Frankford Candy. "LUNCHABLES is an iconic brand that was the first to allow people to build and eat a meal their own way. We're excited to give consumers a new way to experience the brand. We think consumers will find that Gummy LUNCHABLES are just as fun to play with as they are to indulge in."
The Gummy LUNCHABLES are a shareable, fruit-flavored reimagination of the original LUNCHABLES products. The 6.2-ounce package of Gummy LUNCHABLES Cracker Stackers feature eight gummy crackers and two "slices" each of gummy pepperoni, gummy ham, gummy Swiss cheese and gummy cheddar cheese – enough to build four cracker stacker sandwiches.
The Gummy LUNCHABLES Pepperoni Pizza Kit comes in a shareable 6.3-ounce package. Each kit includes three gummy pizza crusts, 12 gummy mozzarella cheese shreds, 15 gummy pepperoni slices and one liquid pizza sauce packet – enough to build three pizzas.
Both varieties of Gummy LUNCHABLES candy are available at a suggested retail price of $5.
"LUNCHABLES is committed to fueling kids' creativity and inspiring them to explore the limits of their imaginations," said Samantha Mills, associate director of brand communications, LUNCHABLES. "The new Gummy LUNCHABLES provide families a completely new way to imagine, build and share together. At LUNCHABLES, we believe playing with food is something to be celebrated, and there's no pairing more fun than gummy candy and everyone's favorite buildable snack."
The Gummy LUNCHABLES candies are the latest introduction of the Kraft Heinz gummies lineup from Frankford Candy. All Kraft Heinz gummy snacks are available at Five Below stores, Amazon.com and FrankfordCandy.com, with additional retailers to be announced.
Consumers should be on the lookout for other seasonal varieties of Kraft Heinz gummies coming soon.
About Frankford Candy
Founded in 1947, Frankford Candy has evolved into the largest marketer of licensed confections and gifts in the United States. The company partners with the most respected companies in the entertainment and food industry to bring iconic brands into the candy aisle. For more information on Frankford Candy and its products, visit FrankfordCandy.com, and follow Frankford Candy on Facebook and Instagram to keep up with the latest new items.
About the Kraft Heinz Company
We are driving transformation at the Kraft Heinz Company (Nasdaq: KHC), inspired by our purpose, Let's Make Life Delicious. Consumers are at the center of everything we do. With 2020 net sales of approximately $26 billion, we are committed to growing our iconic and emerging food and beverage brands on a global scale. We leverage our scale and agility to unleash the full power of Kraft Heinz across a portfolio of six consumer-driven product platforms. As global citizens, we're dedicated to making a sustainable, ethical impact while helping feed the world in healthy, responsible ways. Learn more about our journey by visiting www.kraftheinzcompany.com or following us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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SAN FRANCISCO and DETROIT, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DevonWay, a leader in Environmental Health, Safety, and Quality (EHSQ) software to high reliability organizations, today announced its partnership with Rombit, a rising firm in the industrial wearables and real-time risk management space.
Together, Rombit and DevonWay provide a means for taking immediate action on incidents and preventing future occurrences – all on a unified platform that integrates with related safety, quality, and asset management processes.
"Of the many use cases Rombit's exciting technology enables, one of the most exciting is that we will now collect data that went unreported before, such as near misses," said Chris Moustakas, DevonWay's CEO. "Even if the incident isn't immediately actionable, collecting that data means we can trend it over time and identify areas and processes that cause safety gaps – before an injury, or worse, occurs."
The integration enables customers to capture real-time information in the workplace through the Rombit wearable devices, then engage appropriate individuals or teams for analysis, action, and trending through DevonWay. Some of the use cases include lone worker alerts, work order geofences, near misses with heavy equipment, and ensuring workers have the appropriate skills and credentials when entering a restricted area.
"Industry expertise in worker safety is a critical factor of consideration as we continue to build out our global partner ecosystem," said David Lambacher, President at Rombit North-America. "DevonWay's strong presence in high-risk industries where safety is a top priority shows that the software is a perfect fit for our platform."
DevonWay software for Asset, Work, Quality, and Safety Management enables regulated, high-risk, and complex organizations to operate more efficiently and safely. Available in the cloud or on premise, DevonWay products collect, manage workflows for, analyze, and report on operational data while ensuring compliance to regulations and standards. Combining out-of-the-box production readiness with no-code configurability, DevonWay products meet customers' unique requirements with enterprise-grade security and scalability. For more information, please visit www.devonway.com.
Rombit reduces operational expenses through out-of-the-box safety, productivity and sustainability solutions. Rombit's IoT and digital coaching products both prevent, analyze and report events, generated by workers and assets in multimodal logistics, energy, construction, manufacturing and other heavy industries. Rombit's IoT platform supports easy integration with other software and with customers' existing systems and processes. Rombit's industry expertise makes for very compelling EMV and cost-benefit calculations. For more information, please visit www.rombit.com.
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What is the role played in an organisation where leadership fails leadership? What other functions take on an elevators duties? For you. Lead is still the key that a role as important can only take, then leadership failures take center at every time it becomes difficult? Here are the best five leadership functions to overcome challengesspecially with an existing situation. These important management actions are often missing of senior roles? ➟⃞ VOLUMN -15- 16 The crisis that has hit Jackson, Miss., highlights the fragility of water systems across the country that will be increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the coming years.
As rainfall of historic proportions flooded Mississippi's Pearl River, a key pump at the O.B. Curtis water treatment plant, which provides the capital city with its drinking water, was unable to keep up, causing a severe drop in water pressure. Some 150,000 residents were left without safe drinking water. Although water pressure has been restored, a boil-water notice remains in effect.
Historic flooding and record droughts are already stressing water systems across the country, but as the threats to infrastructure posed by climate change intensify, experts warn that what happened in Jackson may be just the beginning.
"The situation in Jackson is a cautionary tale, but the reality is that in 2022, communities across our country have experienced severe flooding as well as drought," says Mami Hara, the CEO of US Water Alliance.
Hara blames climate change and systemic disinvestment in water infrastructure across the country.
"It's a huge issue and it's got lots of different dimensions," says Steven Buchberger, a professor at the University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering and Applied Science.
He says facilities that "are decades old and have been neglected" are often especially vulnerable to the challenges posed by climate change.
"In many instances, communities didn't really do the proper maintenance that was required to keep updating the infrastructure," he says.
In Jackson alone, some estimates put the cost to repair the city's water system in the billions. But that is still just a fraction of the challenge on the national level. A 2020 study estimates that $2.2 trillion needs to be invested over the next two decades to address the infrastructure shortfalls. Much of it will need to come from the federal government, according to the study.
Some cities have already been forced to adapt
Even so, some water providers across the country have sought to anticipate the need to update infrastructure in the face of extreme weather events and have taken steps to cope with the new reality.
When Central and South Florida experienced a major "100-year" drought in 2000 and 2001, people living in those areas experienced a critical shortage in their water supply.
"The drought really pushed us to diversify," says Tirusew Asefa, a system decision support manager for Tampa Bay Water, a regional wholesale drinking water utility. The event, he says was "a turning point" for the provider.
"Everybody came together," Asefa says. They decided that the reliance on groundwater and surface water was not going to be enough. What emerged from that discussion was a bold option that was largely untried in the U.S.
Officials decided to go for desalination using a process known as reverse osmosis. They would pump seawater out of Tampa Bay, send it through high pressure pumps and force it through extremely fine filters, removing the salt in order to make it drinkable.
The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant, which went online in 2007, now provides up to 25 million gallons of fresh water to the region each day, supplementing ground and surface water sources.
Asefa acknowledges that desalination is an expensive and power-intensive process, but says climate change could force Tampa Bay Water to rely more heavily on it in the future.
"Going forward, I think we've almost exhausted the surface water," he says. "The low-hanging fruit is just finished."
Iowa City made changes after two historic floods
For Iowa City, two major flooding events within 15 years – one in 1993 and another in 2008 – both exceeding the 100-year flood mark, were a watershed in thinking about the city's infrastructure.
During the 1993 flood, as the Iowa River swelled, "It was a huge task" to protect the water treatment plant, says Ronald Knoche, public works director in Iowa City. The same event swamped a water treatment plant farther west in Des Moines, leaving a quarter of a million people without drinking water. In an echo of what has happened in Jackson, the National Guard had to be called in to deliver bottled water to residents there.
In 2003, the city moved its water treatment plant out of the flood plain. To ensure it could keep pumping in the event of a major flood, it now gets water from under the river, Knoche says.
"They go out horizontally underneath the river bed. And then they draw the water down through the sands and the river bottom," Knoche says. "Then we have the deep wells also as options for us."
The historic flooding that arrived five years later, however, would underscore the relentless nature of the challenges that places like Iowa City face from climate change — even when they're being proactive.
The 2008 flood was considered a once-in-every 500-year event, causing the Iowa River to crest at about 31.5 feet and damaging or destroying 351 structures in the city. In the wake of that flooding, the city got $22 million dollar in federal funds to consolidate two wastewater treatment facilities in a location protected from future high water.
Southern Nevada cashes in a climate insurance policy
In the past two decades or so, the water level in Lake Mead has been rapidly falling.
The lake, formed by the Hoover Dam after its completion in the 1930s, is the largest reservoir by volume in the U.S. and a primary source of drinking water for the city of Las Vegas. It's now down more than 170 feet, with a pronounced dark-light color variation on the rock faces, known locally as the "bath ring," showing starkly where the water level used to be. In fact, the change is so profound it can be seen from space.
"In the early to late 1990s, early 2000, [we began] ... seeing impacts to snow accumulation in the Colorado Rockies, which ultimately runs off into the Colorado River system" and feeds Lake Mead, explains Bronson Mack, a spokesman for the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
"We were also seeing the climate models [and] hearing from the climatologists," Mack says.
Those models show that the already hot and dry area of Nevada would get hotter and drier, he says.
Mack says the community took "immediate and swift action to start reducing our water demands" by implementing comprehensive water conservation programs and initiatives, including changes to codes that now ban grass in new developments.
"If it's green and it is growing, at least in the Las Vegas area, it's being irrigated," Mack notes.
Another move has been to reduce the use of evaporative coolers in large buildings. Think industrial-sized swamp coolers. They use up a lot of water, he says.
Normally, the region gets about four inches of rain a year. In 2020, it received less than half that, and this year is considered the second driest in 128 years.
Climate change has placed an enormous strain on infrastructure, and despite being proactive to address the problem, it has been tough for officials in Nevada to stay ahead of the changes.
One concern was that the water level in Lake Mead could fall so much as to leave the water intakes high and dry, causing a complete cut off of water. So, in 2015, construction began on a $650 million low lake level pumping station, which was completed in 2020. It's was meant, Mack says, as an "insurance policy."
"We hoped we'd never have to turn it on," he says.
In April of this year, however, just two years after its completion, officials were forced to switch on the low lake level pumping station when one of the two primary pumping stations could not operate because Lake Mead's water level had fallen so low.
"I think that for us here in the West, we are a bit of a canary in the coal mine," Mack says. "Climate change is knocking on our door."
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The randomized controlled multicenter study is the first-of-its kind to investigate LITT benefits in radiographically recurrent brain metastasis patients
MINNETONKA, Minn., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Monteris Medical announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in its REMASTer (Recurrent Brain Metastases After Stereotactic Radiosurgery [SRS] Trial) clinical trial. This randomized controlled study is designed to investigate laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) using the NeuroBlate System as an early intervention for radiographically progressive brain metastases and to provide Level I evidence to guide treatment for this complex patient population.
Treatment of recurrent brain metastases is challenging as no standardized care currently exists within the clinical community for patients with disease progression following SRS. This is primarily attributed to the uncertainty of the underlying cause being either recurrence or radiation necrosis. In recent years, LITT has proved to be an effective tool for both causes of progression after SRS and can be performed during the same procedure as needle biopsy. Recent published studies suggest that LITT plus SRS may be superior to LITT alone or repeat SRS alone for treatment of biopsy-proven brain metastasis recurrence after SRS failure, even after controlling for variables known to predict progression. Recent literature also has revealed LITT to be effective for the treatment of radiation necrosis, with a superior time to steroid independence compared to medical management alone.
The REMASTer trial is designed to determine the superior treatment algorithm for both the recurrent tumor and radiation necrosis populations. The study will enroll 154 patients at up to 12 sites. Primary endpoints for the study include time to local intracranial progression or death and time to steroid cessation. Additional endpoints include comparison of treatment approaches with respect to overall survival, quality of life, and cognitive changes over time.
"The REMASTer trial will be vital in providing Level I evidence that establishes a critically needed standard of care in patients who have radiographically progressive metastatic disease, be it radiation necrosis or true disease recurrence," said Dr. Peter Fecci, director of the Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program and the Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. and REMASTer principal investigator. "Rapidly establishing steroid independence in the radiation necrosis population in the era of immunotherapy is crucial, as is optimizing freedom from local progression in patients with truly recurrent brain metastatic disease. This study will help to solidify the role for LITT in both scenarios."
It is estimated that up to 300,000 patients in the United States are diagnosed annually with metastatic brain tumors. The incidence of metastatic brain tumors has risen in recent years due to patients living longer with systemic cancers as a result of treatment advances, increased imaging procedures and early detection, and improvements in imaging technology. Metastatic tumor progression and radiation necrosis are therefore increasing in prevalence as well, necessitating the need for standard of care approaches to patient treatment.
"While the data supporting the use of LITT in radiation necrosis and recurrent metastatic disease is already strong enough to warrant inclusion in National Comprehensive Cancer Network® guidelines, evidence is lacking to advise the best time for LITT in the treatment algorithm for patients with radiographic progression," said Jennifer Englund, vice president of clinical and regulatory affairs of Monteris. "We believe the study Dr. Fecci has designed is poised to deliver meaningful results that will standardize treatment for this growing population of patients."
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Information about the REMASTer study can be found here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05124912.
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Monteris Medical is a privately held company that develops and markets innovative MR-guided ablation systems to perform minimally invasive, robotically controlled brain surgery, commonly referred to as laser ablation, LITT (Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy) or SLA (Stereotactic Laser Ablation). The Monteris NeuroBlate System is the only minimally invasive system that enables a robotic interface for the precise and safe delivery of laser energy. The Monteris Medical NeuroBlate System is a neurosurgical tool and is intended for ablating intracranial soft tissue, including brain structures such as brain tumors, radiation necrosis, and epileptogenic foci (as identified by non-invasive and invasive neurodiagnostic testing, including imaging). For more information, visit monteris.com.
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With cotton prices on a downtrend for the last few days, the Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has appealed to the Union government not to levy import duty on cotton during the next cotton season, which starts in October.
Ravi Sam, chairman of SIMA, said in a press release here on Wednesday that following the removal of import duty on cotton in April and changes brought about in MCX cotton trading, with the efforts of Union Textile Minister Piyush Goyal, domestic prices have softened. MCX cotton prices have reduced over 25 % in the last one week. Domestic cotton arrivals have started early and the cotton prices have reduced from nearly ₹1,00,000 to ₹ 90,000 a candy.
However, Indian cotton prices are still higher by 15 % to 20 % compared to international prices, especially with countries such as Pakistan and China. The cotton requirement by the domestic textile industry is likely to be more than the production and duty-free export of cotton that may result in 12% to 15% of good quality raw cotton going out of the country, leading to cotton shortage during the off season.
Mr. Sam said the government should not levy import duty on cotton “to enable the industry to achieve its potential growth rate and sustain its financial viability apart from protecting the jobs of over 35 million people employed in the cotton textile value chain.”
Cotton prices even during the beginning of the cotton season (October 2022 to September 2023) when arrivals will be high are anticipated to be more than the minimum support price. Hence, duty free imports will not affect farmers. If needed, government can consider levying the duty only during the peak arrivals of the season (December - March) to avoid recurrence of crisis during the end of cotton season 2022-2023, he said. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/sima-seeks-duty-free-import-of-cotton/article65861995.ece | 2022-09-07T14:41:08Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/sima-seeks-duty-free-import-of-cotton/article65861995.ece | false |
Three days after a mass stabbing that stunned the nation, Canadian police expanded their massive search for the "armed and dangerous" suspect in the brutal attacks around an Indigenous community in Saskatchewan.
The assaults on Sunday, which spanned 13 different crime scenes in the James Smith Cree Nation and a nearby rural village, left 10 people dead and 18 others injured.
Three people remain in critical condition, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said in a statement on Tuesday, while seven are stable. Another seven have been discharged, the authority said.
Police have not released information on victims' identities, but said they included men and women in different age groups, with the youngest in their early 20s.
Shortly after the stabbings, authorities identified brothers Myles and Damien Sanderson as suspects.
Myles Sanderson remains at large after Damien Sanderson was found dead a day after the attacks with injuries that were not believed to be self-inflicted, police said, without elaborating.
Police have warned that Sanderson may be injured, but he is still considered "armed and dangerous" and should not be approached. He is wanted on a warrant for three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and breaking and entering into a residence.
While police on Monday said they were operating under the impression that Sanderson was in the city of Regina, which is more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the James Smith Cree Nation, they no longer believed he was still there, Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said Tuesday.
"Today we've received information that is leading us to believe he may no longer be in this community... although we don't know his whereabouts, we are still looking not only within the City of Regina, but expanded into the province as well," Bray said.
Some of the victims were apparently targeted, police say
It remains unclear what motivated the violence and how or whether the brothers knew any of the victims.
Some were apparently targeted while others may have been attacked randomly, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said in a Monday briefing.
It's also unknown if the brothers carried out the attacks at the same time, according to Blackmore.
The first stabbing was reported on the James Smith Cree Nation at 5:40 a.m. local time. Minutes later, several more calls came in about stabbings at other locations, police said.
The nation has a population of around 3,400 people with about 1,800 members who live on the reservation, according to its website.
By 9:45 a.m., authorities were reporting victims in multiple locations, including one in the village of Weldon.
While police haven't released the names of those killed, one was identified as Gloria Burns, a first responder, according to Reuters.
Burns was responding to a crisis call when she was caught up in the violence and killed, her brother Darryl Burns told Reuters, though the agency didn't say if the call was related to the stabbings.
"She was butchered," her brother Ivor Burns said to Reuters.
The discovery of Damien Sanderson's body a day after the attacks also raised questions about his brother's involvement in his death. But police said Monday that it was unclear if Myles Sanderson was involved.
"It is an investigative avenue that we are following up on, but we can't say that definitively at this point," Blackmore said.
Suspect had a 'lengthy' criminal history and was released by parole board
Myles Sanderson was described as being approximately 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 240 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Police on Tuesday released an updated photo of him.
Blackmore previously said that Sanderson had warrants out for his arrest before the stabbings.
"Myles' record dates back quite a number of years and it includes both property and persons crimes," Blackmore said, without elaborating on the alleged crimes.
"His actions have shown that he is violent and so we're continuing to emphasize for people to remain vigilant," Blackmore added.
Sanderson was granted statutory release by the Parole Board of Canada, according to a ruling made on February 1, 2022.
Statutory release is a presumptive release by law that allows an offender to serve part of their sentence in the community under direct supervision, according to the board. By Canadian law, the Correctional Service of Canada must release most offenders with supervision after they have served two-thirds of their sentence, if they have not already been granted parole, except for those serving a life sentence.
The board said in the ruling that it didn't believe Sanderson would present a risk to the public if released. The decision did note his long criminal history and that he was assessed by a psychologist for a "moderate risk of violence."
"Your criminal history is very concerning, including the use of violence and weapons related to your index offences, and your history of domestic violence which victimized family, including your children, and non-family," the ruling states.
In a statement, the Parole Board said it "extends its thoughts to the victims, their families and all those who have been impacted as a result of these senseless and horrific acts of violence."
Citing the Privacy Act, the board said it could not discuss specifics of an offender's case.
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Photography News: Panasonic has launched the Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 lens that gives full-frame photographers an expansive ultra-wide-angle view of the world.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B&H is excited to announce that Panasonic has rounded out its L-mount family of f/1.8 prime lenses with the addition of the Panasonic Lumix S 18mm f/1.8 lens. This addition gives full-frame mirrorless camera photographers and videographers an ultra-wide-angle view of the world while allowing them to capture expansive landscapes and inject images and videos with a sense of vast scale.
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Business Expanding in North America to Continue Supporting Customer Needs
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Truck Rental is celebrating a significant milestone of 500 branches across North America — with 60 locations opened in the past year alone — reaffirming that more clients than ever trust Enterprise for their truck rental needs.
Opening at least one branch weekly for 60 consecutive weeks, Enterprise Truck Rental continues to expand its footprint to meet rising demand for seasonal, project-based and e-commerce delivery rentals, as well as vehicles for personal truck rental needs. The business manages a versatile fleet of trucks and vans to support key industries such as moving and storage, final mile, construction and telecommunications, among others.
"Despite nationwide supply chain shortages and other challenges across the industry, our truck business has seen a strong uptick in demand throughout the global pandemic — largely driven by the rise of online shopping and home delivery services," said Mike Pugh, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Truck Rental. "We're proud to expand access to our truck rental services throughout North America to best serve our customers' needs."
Enterprise Truck Rental's growth is expected to continue across North America. The openings are part of a broader commitment to provide short- and long-term transportation solutions when and where customers need them.
From its beginnings in 1999 in Southern California, Enterprise Truck Rental quickly expanded to 100 locations by 2007. Since then, the business has grown its location count by 400% with 500 branches throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Each Truck Rental branch is staffed by local professionals specializing in commercial truck rentals.
Enterprise Truck Rental's journey toward 500 branch locations resulted in three concurrent openings in Greenville, North Carolina; Newark, New Jersey; and Rogers, Arkansas. The sites were strategically selected to meet rising customer demand in each region. The branches offer a wide range of cargo vans, box trucks and tow-capable pickup trucks.
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A service of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Enterprise Truck Rental provides the same renowned, high level of service as its flagship brand. Enterprise has delivered convenient, local transportation solutions to customers for more than 65 years and is an integral part of the multi-modal transportation infrastructure.
Enterprise Truck Rental is a service of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car brand, which is owned by Enterprise Holdings, the largest car rental company in the world. With locations across North America, the division offers a range of trucks, cargo vans and tow-capable pickup trucks. Enterprise's legacy of superior customer service has contributed to Enterprise Truck Rental's growth over the past few years, specifically in the commercial segment. All Enterprise Truck Rental customers receive the Enterprise brand's renowned high level of service, including free pickup and 24-hour roadside assistance. The business also rents its commercial-grade trucks to consumers for personal use. In addition, Enterprise sells well maintained and low-mileage used medium-duty commercial trucks. For more information, please visit www.enterprisetrucks.com.
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Ken Baker: Efforts underway to save mussels in Sandusky River
Unionids being moved upstream before work on local bridge begins
Mucket, fatmucket, and purple wartyback. Elktoe, giant floater, mapleleaf, fluted-shell, and pocketbook. In all, 204 animals and eight species, with an average age of about 8 years (maximum 15).
I’d been invited to observe biologist Jeff Gordon (a former student) and his three assistants working on a freshwater mussel search-and-relocate project in a shallow stretch of the Sandusky River by a bridge scheduled for a significant upgrade next year. Their assigned task was to find and remove to a safe, upstream location every adult mussel they could find in the section of the river that would likely be impacted by work on the structure.
“Every adult mussel” translated into 15 hours over two mid-August days in neoprene wetsuits bent over Aqua Scope underwater viewers and noodling with bare fingers through each square foot of the river’s cobbly bottom.
All that work to move a bunch of clams. Why bother?
A. Mussels are not clams, even though they are often called freshwater clams. It’s true that both groups are members of the taxonomic Class of mollusks called Bivalvia (“two valves” referring to the shells protecting the body). But they differ in a number of important ways, one of which is the mussels’ extraordinary method of reproduction.
B. And yes, by God, those 204 animals more than merited the effort to save them from potential destruction by the upcoming bridge modifications.
Freshwater mussels are being threatened
Some think of mussels as the freshwater counterpart of marine clams, but it’s not that simple since a number of clam species occupy freshwater habitats. One problematic example is the highly invasive Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea) that has cost billions of dollars in damage by clogging water intakes and other submerged infrastructure.
Almost all of our mussels belong to the Unionidae Family. Prior to European colonization, the rivers, streams, and lakes of North America were home to more than 300 species of Unionid mussels. Of these, 38 are now thought extinct, 77 are considered critically impaired and many others have experienced marked reductions in population, making freshwater mussels arguably the most seriously impacted group of animals on the continent, which is why Ohio State Code prohibits their collection without a permit.
Unionid mussels, like clams, are filter feeders, meaning they obtain their food (and oxygen) by pulling water into the chamber between their shells (via an incurrent siphon) where bits or organic matter and plankton are removed from the water and ingested. The nutrient-stripped water is then ejected (via an excurrent siphon).
And therein lies the source of both the mussels’ ecological value and their susceptibility to industrial and agricultural pollutants, siltation caused by eroding soils from deforested river banks, and competition with invasive species such as zebra mussels.
A mussel filters 8 to 15 gallons of water daily
Individual Unionid mussels have been reported to filter between 8 and 15 gallons of water per day, removing detritus and pollutants from the water column in the process. One study conducted by researchers at Central Michigan University found the Unionid population in a section of the Kalamazoo River collectively filtered some 2,600 gallons of water every day.
But excessive erosion of soils from denuded river banks can overwhelm and clog a mussel’s water filtering systems, a problem compounded by the widespread damming of flowing waters to make placid reservoirs. And in polluted waters, mussels’ filter feeding behavior can lead to the buildup of toxic compounds in their tissues.
Then there’s the accidental introduction of zebra and quagga mussels (from ballast water released by European freighters) which effectively eliminated once rich beds of Unionids from the shallow areas around the islands of Western Lake Erie. Hundreds of the tiny mollusks would cover a Unionid’s shells, stripping the water of its nutrients before reaching the larger mussel’s incurrent siphons.
In many scuba-based research dives in the area between 1996 and 2006, I saw thousands of Unionid shells but never a living Unionid. And let’s not forget about buttons.
The button industry over-harvested mussel beds
In 1916, 40 million “pearl” buttons punched out from the inner lining of freshwater mussel shells were produced by a workforce of some 20,000 people employed by dozens of companies throughout the Midwest. And yet, by the mid-1930s, the industry was dead — largely killed by over-harvesting of mussel beds.
So, reproduction in freshwater mussels. If you’ve got four minutes, take a look at the YouTube video, youtube.com/watch?v=I0YTBj0WHkU. What you’ll see is a few examples of how a lot of Unionids use minnow-shaped lures (made of soft tissues from inside their shells) to draw predatory fish near enough to shower them with tiny larvae called glochidia.
Glochidia look all the world like miniature castanets with fangs. Once inside a host fish’s mouth, they spring shut on its gills where they will feed like vampires on the host’s blood for several weeks before dropping off to start their lives as baby mussels on the river or lake bottom.
Not to worry. The glochidia are so minuscule they seldom do much harm to even a small host fish.
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