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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union unveiled plans Wednesday to ban products made with forced labor, in an effort to crack down on a modern-day form of slavery that a U.N. agency estimated affects more than 27 million people worldwide.
The European Commission, which proposes EU laws, said the policy would remove from the 27-nation bloc’s markets all products made with forced labor. It would also stop them from being made in the world’s biggest trading bloc or shipped through it.
The move does not target specific companies, industries or countries.
“Our aim is to eliminate all products made with forced labor from the EU market, irrespective of where they have been made. Our ban will apply to domestic products, exports and imports alike,” commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said.
The EU's executive arm defines forced labor as a situation where a person is coerced to work through violence or intimidation, or in more indirect ways by having their debt manipulated, their identity papers stolen or being threatened with denunciation to immigration authorities.
Under the plans, the commission would set up and operate a public database containing information about suspect products and practices. EU countries would designate an authority to enforce the rules, and customs officers would have responsibility for ensuring compliance at the bloc’s borders.
The aim is to focus on high-risk products. Investigations would be launched if national authorities believe forced labor may have been used. Suspected cases involving bigger operators that make the most products would be the preferred target, rather than small businesses.
If a product made with forced labor is already sold in the EU, the company involved would be required to pull it off the market and dispose of it. If the company refuses, it would face penalties under the law of the country it operates in.
Europe’s main union umbrella organization, the European Trade Union Confederation, welcomed the plans.
“Many of the people in forced labor are manufacturing goods destined for sale in Europe, so a properly enforced ban should cripple the profits of the criminals behind these violations,” ETUC Deputy General-Secretary Claes-Mikael Stahl said.
The International Labour Organization estimated that in 2021 around 27.6 million people were forced to work on any given day, including 3.3 million children. Women and girls accounted for 11.8 million of that number.
Textiles, mining and agriculture are among the industries most notorious for the practice.
The commission’s proposal must now be debated by the EU member countries and the European Parliament. The rules would enter force two years after an agreement is concluded.
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Border clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan have killed about 100 troops on both sides in the largest outbreak of fighting between the longtime adversaries in nearly two years, fueling fears of even bigger hostilities.
Here is a look at the decades-long conflict between the two neighbors, and the latest clashes.
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
Armenia and Azerbaijan have faced each other off in a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for more than three decades.
The mountainous region is part of Azerbaijan, but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
The territory in the southern Caucasus covers an area of roughly 4,400 square kilometers (1,700 square miles), about the size of the U.S. state of Delaware.
During the Soviet era, the mostly Armenian-populated region had an autonomous status within Azerbaijan. Long-simmering tensions between Christian Armenians and mostly Muslim Azeris, fueled by memories of the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Muslim Ottoman Turks, boiled over as the Soviet Union frayed in its final years.
Fighting broke out in 1988 when the region made a bid to join Armenia, and after the 1991 Soviet collapse hostilities escalated into a full-blown war, killing an estimated 30,000 people and displacing about 1 million.
When the war ended with a cease-fire in 1994, Armenian forces not only held Nagorno-Karabakh itself but also broad areas outside the territory’s borders.
International mediation efforts over the following decades failed to achieve a diplomatic settlement.
THE 2020 WAR
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijan launched an operation called “Iron Fist” to reclaim control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
NATO-member Turkey, which has close ethnic, cultural and historic bonds with Azerbaijan, offered it strong support.
In six weeks of fighting involving heavy artillery, rockets and drones that killed more than 6,700 people, Azeri troops drove Armenian forces out of areas they controlled outside the separatist region and also seized broad chunks of Nagorno-Karabakh proper.
A Russia-brokered peace deal on Nov. 10 allowed Azerbaijan to reclaim control of the areas occupied by Armenian forces outside Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly three decades, including the Lachin region, which holds the main road leading from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. Armenian forces also agreed to surrender control over significant sections of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia has deployed about 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers under the deal.
The agreement triggered years of protests in Armenia, where the opposition denounced it as a betrayal of the country's interests and called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Pashinyan has weathered the pressure, defending the deal as the only way to prevent Azerbaijan from seizing all of Nagorno-Karabakh.
AND THE NEW HOSTILITIES?
Sporadic clashes between Azeri and Armenian forces have repeatedly erupted in the area, but the fighting that began Tuesday was the most serious since the 2020 peace deal.
Both sides blamed each other for starting hostilities, with Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of an unprovoked attack and Baku saying it was responding to shelling by Armenian forces.
Armenia said at least 49 of its soldiers were killed while Azerbaijan said it lost 50.
Russia moved quickly to help negotiate an end to hostilities, but a cease-fire it tried to broker has failed to hold and clashes have continued.
Late Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a call with leaders of countries belonging to the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-dominated grouping of several ex-Soviet nations that includes Armenia. The leaders agreed to send a fact-finding mission including top officials from the grouping to the conflict area.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level jumped 8.7% in August from a year earlier, a slowdown from July yet still a painfully high level that suggests prices will keep spiking for months to come.
Wednesday's report from the Labor Department also showed that on a month-to-month basis, the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.1% from July to August, the second straight monthly decline.
Yet the better readings mostly reflect plunging gas prices and don't necessarily point to a broader slowdown in inflation. A measure that excludes the volatile food and energy categories — so-called core prices — rose 0.4% from July to August and 7.3% in August compared with a year ago.
On Tuesday, the government reported that consumer inflation was rampant across much of the economy in August. Apart from cheaper gas, consumer prices for everything from food and rents to furniture, medical care and new cars got pricier last month.
The worse-than-expected consumer price spikes sent the stock market tumbling to its worst day in more than two years on fears that the Federal Reserve will turn even more aggressive in raising interest rates to fight inflation.
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- After an unexpected rise in late-season flu cases last season and a steep rise in 2022 cases in the Southern Hemisphere, the United States might face an unpredictable flu season, with potential severe impact on the public due to reduced exposure over the past two seasons.1,2,3
- Flu vaccination is necessary to help protect people from flu and its complications, especially those at highest risk, such as individuals 50+ and those with underlying health conditions.4,5
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people from certain racial and ethnic groups are at higher risk for being hospitalized with flu, and flu vaccination is especially important for these communities.6
SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Nurses Association (ANA) in collaboration with Sanofi and actor Jason Alexander have launched the Not Today, Flu national flu vaccination campaign. The campaign encourages everyone who is eligible from 6 months and older to get their flu shot this upcoming season.
Despite the risk of flu and flu-related complications each year, millions of Americans still do not get their flu shot annually. ANA is urging everyone to follow the scientific evidence supporting flu vaccination and the guidance of nurses and health care professionals. All people eligible should get their flu vaccination and encourage their loved ones to do the same.
"The flu shot is more vital now than ever to help protect ourselves and our communities against the flu and its related complications. We are still working to manage COVID-19 while facing other emerging viral threats to public health," said ANA President Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN. "Each one of us has to do our own part. The best way to help reduce the burden of flu on the health care system7– is to get your flu vaccine as recommended by your nurses and the CDC.8 Everyone eligible, including nurses and health care professionals, should get vaccinated against the flu as soon as possible."
The United States may face a resurgence of the flu this upcoming season, and there is an unprecedented risk of possible severe COVID-19 and flu co-infections due to low immunity against influenza and the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions.3,9 Flu can lead to potentially life-threatening complications, including pneumonia or serious heart conditions.8 Not Today, Flu is launching to drive awareness around the importance of flu vaccination and the urgency to vaccinate as many people as possible to help protect against flu and flu-related complications. Between 2010-2020, flu infections caused more hospitalizations and deaths annually than any other virus on the planet, with as many as 810,000 hospitalizations and 61,000 deaths during this 10-year period.10
"Every day, things come up that you have no control over, and they can really ruin your plans – the flights getting cancelled, deliveries not arriving, your computer freezes, it rains. It can all make you just a little crazy. So, when there's something I can do to help take back control, I do. Like getting the flu shot," said Jason Alexander. "It can help protect people from getting sick with the flu and suffering from flu-related complications.9 That's why I'm delighted to be part of the Not Today, Flu campaign. It empowers people to help protect themselves and their loved ones by getting their flu shot. I've been getting it for over 20 years and I intend to keep getting it each year."
Visit NotTodayFlu.com to learn more about the importance of flu vaccination, especially for adults over age 50, underrepresented communities with historically lower rates of flu vaccination6, and those with chronic health conditions, and discover where you can schedule a flu shot where you work or live. Share your support by utilizing #NotTodayFlu on your social channels.
About The American Nurses Association
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the premier organization representing the interests of the nation's 4.3 million registered nurses. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting a safe and ethical work environment, bolstering the health and wellness of nurses, and advocating on healthcare issues that affect nurses and the public. ANA is at the forefront of improving the quality of healthcare for all. For more information, visit nursingworld.org.
About Sanofi
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
About Jason Alexander
Best known for his award-winning role as George Costanza of television's Seinfeld, Jason Alexander has achieved international recognition for a career noted for its extraordinary diversity. He has worked extensively as a writer, composer, director, producer and teacher of acting. He has well-known roles in such shows as "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," "Two and a Half Men" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and in films "Pretty Woman," "Jacob's Ladder" and "Love Valor Compassion." On Broadway, he won a Tony Award for his performance in "Jerome Robbin's Broadway," and starred in "Fish in the Dark" and "The Portuguese Kid," among others. After moving to LA, Jason continued working in the theater, notably serving as the artistic director for the Reprise Theatre Company and starring in "The Producers."
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm. Accessed September 2022.
2 Australian Government Department of Health. Australian Influenza Surveillance Report – 2022 Influenza Season in Australia. Available at: https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-surveil-ozflu-flucurr.htm. Accessed September 2022.
3 Dhanasekaran, V., Sullivan, S., Edwards, K.M. et al. Human seasonal influenza under COVID-19 and the potential consequences of influenza lineage elimination. Nat Commun 13, 1721 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29402-5. Accessed September 2022.
4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Estimated Flu-Related Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2019–2020 Flu Season. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2019-2020.html. Accessed September 2022.
5 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People at Higher Risk of Flu Complications. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/index.htm. Accessed September 2022.
6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/disparities-racial-ethnic-minority-groups.html. Accessed September 2022.
7 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preventive Steps. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/prevention.htm. Accessed September 2022.
8 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccination. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm. Accessed September 2022.
9 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Interim Guidance for Routine and Influenza Immunization Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pandemic-guidance/index.html. Accessed September 2022.
10 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Past Seasons Estimated Influenza Disease Burden. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html. Accessed September 2022.
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New CMO Michael Wood brings extensive security, networking, cloud and SaaS experience to elevate and expand Aliro's mission of building the world's first scalable quantum networks
BOSTON, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aliro Quantum, the first pure play quantum networking company, today announced the appointment of its first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Michael Wood. Over the past 12 months, the company has continued to expand engagements with systems integrators, telecom providers, major government agencies, and academic and industry partners to design, architect, simulate, and build quantum networks.
Wood will lead Aliro's global marketing initiatives and will be responsible for messaging, positioning, growth marketing, demand generation, analyst, and media relations. He brings more than 30 years of experience in enterprise networking, security and software, as well as a passion for launching new solutions, categories and technologies. Wood joins Aliro from Versa Networks where he built and led the marketing organization. He has also held senior leadership positions at VMware, VeloCloud Networks, Akamai and Cisco. Wood joins recent appointee, Michael Gaffney, Aliro's Head of Public Sector, on the company's senior management team. Gaffney recently opened Aliro's Washington D.C. presence to support the company's expanding government and public sector initiatives following a career in Army intelligence and years implementing cloud and security solutions for the government.
"Aliro is on a mission to build the quantum internet, and we have had remarkable success developing the foundational technologies needed for quantum networks, working with a number of organizations to simulate and build their next generation of networks," said Jim Ricotta, CEO and Chairman of Aliro Quantum. "Michael Wood has had repeated success creating and growing new businesses and markets, and his expertise will help us continue to build momentum."
"With Michael Wood and Michael Gaffney aboard, Aliro will continue its impressive growth," said Dr. Prineha Narang, founder and Chief Technology Officer with Aliro. "The respective experience and enthusiasm these two leaders bring to the company will accelerate our mission to build the first scalable quantum networks."
"Just like the modern-day Internet has done, the impact of quantum networking will be more transformative and remarkable than anything we can imagine today," said Michael Wood, Chief Marketing Officer, Aliro Quantum. "It's an incredibly exciting time to join Aliro Quantum, and I look forward to helping to build, market, and brand commercially available quantum networks that establish unhackable connectivity, scale quantum computers, and operationalize distributed quantum sensing."
Aliro Quantum, the first pure play quantum networking company, builds entanglement-based networks that are capable of running a wide variety of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. Aliro, spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University, includes world-class experts in quantum and classical networking and is leading the charge in quantum network development by offering the foundational technologies needed for organizations around the world to build scalable and powerful distributed quantum systems.
Aliro is working with industry and academic partners through the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the NSF Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN). Aliro is partnering with leading quantum hardware vendors including IBM, Honeywell Quantum Solutions (now Quantinuum), and Rigetti Computing. To learn more, visit www.aliroquantum.com.
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ATIF's Investment in Mexican Leading Renewable Energy Company Presents at Intersolar Mexico 2022, Signs Cooperation Agreements with Several Distributors
ATIF Provides IPO Advisory Service for Solarever and Holds a 5.25% Stake Through Investment Agreement
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATIF Holdings Limited ( Nasdaq: ATIF, the "Company," "ATIF" or "We"), a holding company providing business and financial consulting services in Asia and North America, is pleased to announce that the Company's IPO advisory services client and investment holding in Solarever Ltd.("Solarever"), a Mexican leading renewable energy company, made its presence by introducing its electric vehicle brand SEV (the "SEV"), its energy storage product Solarever ESS, and its North American-made photovoltaic (PV) modules Solarever USA at Intersolar Mexico 2022 (the "Event") in early September, where its products received considerable attention and achieved very positive progress.
SEV, currently the only local renewable vehicle brand in Mexico that has been granted electric vehicle safety certification and has certification to import & sell EVs in Mexico, and made a big splash at the Event. SEV signed cooperation agreements with several well-known Mexican automobile distributors such as GRUPO CRUCES, GRUPO VAMSA, GRUPO FARRERA, GRUPO SURMA at the Event. Through cooperation agreements, SEV's EV stores will cover multiple cities in Mexico, including Mexico City, Mexico State, Tabasco, Merida, Cancun, Tijuana, Monterrey, Campeche, Chiapas, etc.
Solarever's North American-made photovoltaic (PV) modules Solarever USA also gained great exposure and attention at the Event. Solarever has PV design facility in Chino, California, and warehouse facilities in Laredo, Texas, and San Diego, California. In the Event, Solarever indicated that the demand for PV modules and energy storage products in U.S. is growing strongly due to the impact of IRA Act. Solarever's current PV module capacity is much too limited to meet the huge orders from North America and is actively expanding its capacity to meet the market demand.
Jun Liu, President, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of ATIF, commented, "We are very pleased to see the popularity of Solarever's brands at the Event. The strong market reception of Solarever's products demonstrates that it has good products, an excellent team and promising market potential, which lays a very solid foundation for its future IPO. We look forward to having Solarever's products capture more market share in North America and Mexico in the future, and to benefiting our shareholders in its future IPO in the near future."
About Solarever Ltd.
Solarever Ltd. ("Solarever") is a high-tech enterprise headquartered in the United States, with manufacturing base in Mexico, integrating R&D, design, manufacturing and sales of PV modules, energy storage products, new energy vehicles and charging piles. Solarever provides zero-emission system solutions and a virtual power plant platform for the energy internet. For more information, please visit Solarever USA at https://solareverusa.com/ and Solarever Mexico at https://solarever.com.mx/.
About ATIF Holdings Limited
ATIF Holdings Limited ("ATIF") is a holding group with business consulting, asset management, and investment businesses, with offices in Los Angeles, California, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, China. ATIF mainly provides IPO Advisory Services to small and medium-sized enterprises in Asia and North America. ATIF has advised several enterprises in China in their plans to become publicly listed in the United States. ATIF was awarded the "Top 10 Best Listed Companies 2019" from the "Golden Bauhinia Award," the highest award in Hong Kong's financial and securities industry. For more information, please visit https://ir.atifchina.com/.
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ATTORNEY JEFFREY B. SIMON ADDRESSES CENSORSHIP CULTURE AND IMPORTANT SOCIAL ISSUES
DALLAS, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Does social media invite public discourse or discourage it? Is the public aware of how large companies are taking advantage of them? Jeffrey B. Simon, a law professor of Mass Tort litigation, legal commentator, podcaster, and a person who for more than thirty years has strived to improve public health and public accountability through the civil justice system, is working to find more answers when it comes to public censorship and public social issues.
In a recent article published by Jeffrey B. Simon "Twitter Canceled Me For No Reason and Why You Should Care", Mr. Simon discusses in detail his unexplained cancellation by Twitter, ads disguised as news that both drive and mask the core mercantile objectives of platform providers, politically motivated news manipulation, privilege and suspension account issues, the impenetrable customer service shield between itself and the user, and topical legal issues, including matters raised by the Jan. 6 Committee hearings, U.S. Supreme Court rulings on reproductive choice, gun control, Congressman Matt Gaetz's (@RepMattGaetz) offensive tweet, as well as Congresswoman's Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) use of Twitter to attack a Biden administration official, Admiral Rachel Levine, for her identity.
"Twitter practices a double-standard, where, on a platform that is supposed to exist as a global public square for open discourse, hate-speech by public figures is tolerated while civil dialogue by private citizens is permanently censored for non-disclosed, seemingly unidentifiable reasons. The 'appeal' process for account suspension that Twitter describes in the Twitter User Agreement is, in practice, as illusory and inconsistent as Twitter's self-proclaimed commitment to free expression, notes Mr. Simon.
Mr. Simon asks important questions and provides compelling answers as he works to inform the public about misinformation and deceptive sales tactics deployed by several of America's largest companies that have caused widespread harm. Mr. Simon has also launched his official podcast "Outside Counsel," which draws on his more than 30 years of experience to describe the corporate repeal of consumer protections and regulatory laws that fueled the opioid epidemic, the deadliest drug-related public health crisis in American history Are companies that are too big to fail also too powerful to be held accountable? Mr. Simon addresses these issues in his recently published article and within the first ten episodes which are now available on all major podcast platforms including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts.
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Fredericksburg man arrested after waving gun at motorist during ‘road rage’ incident, police say
DUMFRIES, Va. - A man was arrested and faces charges after police say he brandished a firearm during what they say was a ‘road rage’ related incident in Prince William County.
Authorities say 45-year-old Kelby Zaki Wilkerson and a 22-year-old man were involved in the dispute while driving near Dumfries Road and Waterway Drive.
Kelby Zaki Wilkerson
When both vehicles stopped at the intersection, police say Wilkerson got out of his his vehicle and waved a firearm towards the victim.
The victim drove off and called police. No shots were fired.
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BASF and X-ELIO sign power purchase agreement to supply Freeport site with renewable energy
- PPA agreement totaling 48 MW of solar energy
- Renewable energy from X-ELIO's Liberty Solar Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Plant, located in Houston
- 100% of the Freeport site's purchased power from renewable energy sources
FREEPORT, Texas, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BASF and X-ELIO have signed a 12-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to supply 48 megawatts (MW) of solar power to BASF's Verbund site in Freeport, Texas. With this agreement in place, 100% of the site's expected purchased power will be supplied from renewable energy.
The project will further reduce carbon emissions at the BASF Freeport site and offset more than 82,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions annually, based on EPA estimates. Freeport is one of BASF's six global Verbund sites, which takes an integrated approach to manufacturing, research and the overall management philosophy. Together with the maximum integration of infrastructure, processes, talent, energy and waste management, this philosophy creates a highly efficient manufacturing site.
"With this agreement, we take a big step forward, reaching 100% of the site's purchased power to be supplied from renewable energy," said Brad Morrison, Senior Vice President and Site Manager for the BASF site in Freeport. "Securing renewable energy at our Freeport site is a necessary step to improving our energy footprint and we appreciate the partnership with X-ELIO, which helps us realize the company's goal of net-zero emissions by 2050."
X-ELIO's 72 MW Liberty Solar Photovoltaic project located in Houston, expected to be operational by 2024, will generate 137 gigawatt hours (GWh) of clean energy per year while delivering more than $130 million in capital investment in the state and creating up to 125 construction jobs. The project will also include a 60 MW Energy Storage System.
Bill Morrow, Country Manager of X-ELIO in the U.S. highlighted: "This agreement is a major milestone in the development of renewable and sustainable energy for the industrial supply, one of the major objectives to achieve the necessary energy transition goals.
X-ELIO is a great partner committed to the sustainability needs of its customers and it is an honor for us to be able to collaborate with exceptional partners like BASF."
This agreement is fully aligned with X-ELIO's strategy to support all sectors on their path to a net-zero way of doing business as well as BASF's climate protection goals. BASF aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by the year 2030 compared with 2018 and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 16,700 employees in North America and had sales of $25.9 billion in 2021. For more information about BASF's North American operations, visit www.basf.com/us.
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 111,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €78.6 billion in 2021. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.
X-ELIO is specialized in the development, construction, financing and operation of sustainable energy projects with a global presence in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Japan and Australia. The firm has 17 years of experience with more than 2.6 GW built. The group is a world leader in the development of renewable and sustainable energy, with a strong commitment to greenhouse gas reduction and the fight against climate change.
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Man exposed himself to woman, urinated on front lawn of home in Woodbridge: police
WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Authorities are searching for a man they say exposed himself to a woman before reliving himself on the front lawn of her home in Prince William County.
The incident was reported Sunday in the 1400 block of Woodside Drive in Woodbridge.
Officers say a woman was outside of her home when she was approached by an unknown man who began yelling at her. Police say the man exposed himself and then urinated on the front lawn of the home before fleeing the area.
The woman was not injured. Police describe the man as a Hispanic male, approximately 30-years-old, wearing a black baseball style cap, a black shirt with colorful writing, and red pants.
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LONDON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benivo, the leading end-to-end employee mobility management platform, today announced a $12 million funding round led by Updata Partners, a growth equity investment firm focused on business-to-business software. With this new capital, Benivo will grow its teams in the US, UK, Armenia, and India, and continue to expand its unified mobility solution to address the industry's key pain points.
Benivo provides a software platform for Mobility teams at the world's largest companies to manage their globally mobile workforce and programs. The Benivo Global Mobility Management Platform allows customers to manage HR-Employee-Vendor processes, power any type of relocation policy (VIP, core flex, lump sum, managed service, and more), and quickly and cost effectively execute employee and vendor payments. As an industry innovator, Benivo recently released an unlimited cost estimates solution, powered by Vialto Partners, which adds AI-powered expense reimbursement to its product suite.
Benivo is on a mission to help Global Mobility leaders provide more value to their organization by leveraging purpose-built software and industry data. With Updata's investment, Benivo will accelerate customer acquisition and continue to provide cutting edge technology to Mobility teams around the world.
"Benivo's success to date is the result of outstanding technology and a capital-efficient operating mindset. Benivo has established themselves as the leader in the Mobility software space, and we are thrilled to be partnering with them to help capture the exciting opportunity ahead," said Braden Snyder, Partner at Updata Partners. Braden will join the Benivo Board of Directors as part of this transaction.
Nitzan Yudan, Benivo CEO said "This is an exciting moment for Benivo that recognizes our hyper-growth in the last 2 years. I would like to express a special thank you to the Benivo Changemakers, Benivo employees, and our clients for their trust, advice, commitment and support to bring us here. This is an important milestone, and we are just starting!"
Join Benivo and Updata Partners for a special episode of The View From The Top Show, hosted by Benivo Strategy Director Brian Friedman to discuss this investment on September 21st, 2022. Brian Friedman is a long-term industry veteran. He founded the Forum for Expatriate Management and now hosts Global Mobility's most popular live broadcast show every Wednesday at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern, 4pm UK.
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Benivo is an end-to-end, single platform solution for Global Mobility teams to manage their global mobile workforce, manage the HR-Employee-Vendor processes, power any/every employee policy from VIPs to core-flex, lump sum, and managed services, and execute global payments to employee and service providers faster and cheaper than the competition. Serving the global fortune 1000 since 2011, Benivo has a client NPS of 70, client employee experience improvement >50%, and has earned 11 industry awards including multiple wins for best technology in Global Mobility. Among its clients are Google, General Electric, Bayer, CGI, and Wayfair.
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Man shot, killed in Temple Hills; no suspects or motives, police say
TEMPLE HILLS, Md. - A man was shot and killed Tuesday night in Prince George's County.
Police say they responded to the 2500 block of Iverson Street in Temple Hills around 8:40 p.m. for the report of a shooting.
Officer say when they arrived they found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
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Project will destroy wetlands in scenic Great Pee Dee River and harm vulnerable communities
PAMPLICO, S.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Energy, one of the nation's top polluters, has immediate plans to condemn the land of several African-American heirs and working class citizens as part of their proposed pipeline project, which would run along the Great Pee Dee River and through several communities, including Pamplico. To address these urgent issues and build continued community support, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League will host a meeting on Saturday, September 24 from 10:00am to 1:00pm at Pamplico Public Library, which is located at 100 Main Street in Pamplico.
Pamplico is a rural area already plagued with poverty and public health problems, and Dominion's plans will only exacerbate these issues. BREDL has recently received word from its members that Dominion is moving forward with its plans to condemn the heirs property of Florence County residents to build its 14.5 mile long pipeline, which will run from the gas regulating station at River Neck Road, east of North Old River Road and South Old River Road to its termination with a connection at the Kingsburg Valve Station near the intersection of South Old River Road and East Brazen Road.
"It's unconscionable what Dominion Energy is trying to do," said Kathy Andrews, Director of Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League. "They have threatened and intimidated property owners to sign away their land for an unnecessary pipeline that will not only devastate wetlands and the environment of endangered species in our communities but will destroy a way of life for people who have depended on the Great Pee Dee River and the surrounding land for decades."
BREDL is also very concerned about the pipeline's construction on nearby waters, including Jefferies Creek, Barfield Mill Creek, Mills Branch, Briar Branch, Bigham Branch, Bullock Branch, and other tributaries of the Great Pee Dee River.
"At SCELP, we believe that environmental protection and justice go hand in hand, and we are proud to represent BREDL in their pursuit for environmental justice for the Pamplico community," said Lauren Milton, Staff Attorney with South Carolina Environmental Law Project, which represents BREDL in their environmental fight against the Dominion pipeline.
"Based on all the facts we have gathered during the last two years, there is absolutely no reason to disrupt the communities along the Great Pee Dee River with a second gas pipeline," said Lou Zeller, Strategic Advisor for BREDL. "Dominion Energy is trying to bulldoze and bully residents whose farms, families and livelihoods depend on a healthy river. The company would destroy all of this for its own private gain. The people of Pamplico are saying, 'Go home, you're not welcome here!'"
Meeting Information:
Urgent Community Meeting
Saturday, September 24
10:00am – 1:00pm
Pamplico Public Library
100 Main Street, Pamplico, SC 29583
Media contact:
Kathy Andrews
Director, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
[email protected]
(843) 698-9816
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Package explodes on Boston's Northeastern University campus; 1 injured
BOSTON - A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries.
Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the FBI was assisting with the investigation.
The parcel that blew up was one of two that were reported to police early in the evening. Boston's bomb squad neutralized a second package near the city's Museum of Fine Arts, which is on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus.
NBC Boston reported that the package that exploded went off as it was being opened near the university's Holmes Hall, which is home to the university's creative writing program and its women's, gender and sexuality studies program. It said the FBI was assisting the investigation.
Authorities declined to elaborate, but Northeastern spokesperson Shannon Nargi said in a statement that an unidentified university staff member suffered minor injuries to his hand in the explosion. Felipe Colon, a Boston police superintendent, later described the victim as a 45-year-old man.
Police converged on the campus shortly before 7:30 p.m., and the university asked students who had gathered for an evening journalism class at the hall to evacuate the building.
Northeastern is a private university in downtown Boston with about 16,000 undergraduate students. WCVB-TV said one of its reporters, Mike Beaudet, was teaching a class there at the time. Beaudet told the station his class was moved outside but that neither he nor his students heard an explosion.
Michael Davis, chief of Northeastern's police force, told reporters the campus was secure. Boston police didn't say whether any other suspicious packages were found.
"We’re monitoring the situation at Northeastern and we’re ready to work with the university and our law enforcement partners on any prosecutions that may develop," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said, promising "a comprehensive investigation to determine exactly what occurred here."
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both on the other side of the Charles River separating Boston from Cambridge, said they were increasing patrols on their campuses as a precaution and urging students and faculty to report anything suspicious.
Tuesday's explosion marked one of the first big scares in Boston since 2013, when two bombs planted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CBX Software, the retail industry's foremost provider of extended product lifecycle management and global supply chain management solutions, has partnered with WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production), an independent non-profit, focused on global social compliance certification, to integrate certification data directly into CBX Cloud.
WRAP offers the largest certification program focused on apparel, footwear and sewn products. Over 3000 factories in 40 countries hold a current WRAP certification, meaning they have undergone an audit to ensure workers are operating in safe, ethical and humane conditions.
"We are delighted to partner with CBX to provide its customers real-time verification of a supplier's WRAP certification status at the start of their product development cycle," commented WRAP's President and CEO, Avedis Seferian. "Given the increasing importance of social responsibility due diligence in sourcing decisions, our partnership will be valuable for all the players in the supply chain."
WRAP provides the brands, retailers and suppliers that use CBX daily for product development, sourcing, quality and compliance with the third-party verification they need to meet industry standards on social compliance. Data collected from WRAP is incorporated into the CBX platform providing transparency and centralized access into social compliance activities.
"Today retailers and brands need proof that they are behaving responsibly and without organizations such as WRAP, it would be difficult to provide the information and audits required," said Michael Hung, CEO of CBX Software. "We are proud to play a small but vital role in providing access to the social audit data that ensures companies are operating responsibly. "
CBX Software is the foremost extended product lifecycle management solution provider from concept to delivery. CBX helps retailers and brands streamline product development and sourcing through order, production and delivery. With innovative sourcing management, product lifecycle management (PLM), and production and order management solutions, CBX empowers the supply chain network by driving collaboration to over 15,000 retail and supplier partners, and 30,000 users in more than fifty countries. Learn more at www.cbxsoftware.com.
Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) is an independent, objective, non-profit team of global social compliance experts dedicated to promoting safe, lawful, humane, and ethical manufacturing through certification and education. It is the leading facility-based certification organization for sewn products, verifying and improving labor conditions in factories around the world for more than 20 years. Additional information about WRAP can be found at wrapcompliance.org.
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Shots fired into Manassas home; no injuries reported: police
MANASSAS, Va. - Authorities say a group of armed men opened fire into a Manassas home Monday.
The incident was reported around 4:45 p.m. in the 7600 block of Wesley Road.
Police say a white four-door sedan stopped in front of a home on that block and multiple gunmen exited from and fired several rounds into the residence.
The men then got back in the vehicle and fled the area.
Police say multiple rounds struck and entered the home. A street sign pole was also struck.
No injuries were reported.
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US formula shortage to improve by October, Gerber CEO projects
Tarun Malkani, the CEO of Nestle S.A.'s Gerber Products Company, said last week that he expects the U.S. infant formula shortage to improve by October.
Malkani said the Nestlé company is still in "critical task force mode."
During a Thursday media event at Nestle's U.S. headquarters in Virginia, he said that Gerber added market share as it produced formula to meet the surging demand.
The Gerber Products Company, which makes the Good Start line of infant formulas, now has a market share of roughly mid-9%.
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Prior to the shortage, its market share was around 8.5%.
"We need the marketplace to rebalance," Malkani said, noting that Gerber had "pruned" novelty infant formula to focus on those most needed.
The company also flew in supplies from Europe to the U.S. under the White House's Operation Formula Fly.
In August, Walmart – the largest retailer in the country – said the availability of formula was improving.
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Target also said it has seen supplies improve, although saying it was still rationing the product online and in stores.
Millions of babies in the U.S. rely on formula, which is the only source of nutrition recommended for infants who aren’t exclusively breastfed.
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Westminster Abbey: A history of England's famous royal church
LONDON - The late Queen Elizabeth II will be memorialized during a state funeral at Westminster Abbey in London, where she’ll join the ranks of British monarchs and other significant figures in history to have been honored at one of the world’s most famous religious buildings.
The coffin of the 96-year-old monarch, who died at her beloved Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands, will be taken from Westminster Hall on Sept. 19 to the nearby abbey for the funeral, which begins at 11 a.m. local time.
Leaders and dignitaries from around the world, including President Joe Biden, are expected to attend. The funeral will mark the end of 10 days of national morning, and the day will be a public holiday across the U.K.
Today, the abbey is still an Anglican church, part of the Church of England, with regular worship. It’s been the site of royal coronations since 1066. It’s also hosted 16 royal weddings, including that of the queen and the late Prince Philip in 1947, as well as Prince William and his wife, Catherine, the Prince and Princess of Wales, in 2011.
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In addition to the celebratory events, the Abbey has hosted many elaborate funerals throughout history and serves as the burial site of more than 3,300 people, according to its official website. This includes 30 kings and queens, eight British prime ministers, poets, actors, and even scientists like Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
The Abbey’s storied past has earned it a significant place in British history, dating as far back as 960 A.D.
History of Westminster Abbey
The Abbey is described on its website as an "architectural masterpiece" of the 13th to 16th centuries.
But it actually began as a small Benedictine monastery founded in 960 A.D. In the 1040s, King Edward, known as Edward the Confessor, established his royal palace nearby and chose to "re-endow and greatly enlarge" the building, adding a large stone church in honor of St Peter the Apostle, according to the official website.
The church became known as the "west minster" to distinguish it from St Paul's Cathedral — or the east minster — in the city of London. Minster is another word for a large or important church, often having cathedral status.
When the new church was finally consecrated in 1065, the king was too ill to attend and died a few days later, according to the official history page. His remains are entombed in front of the Abbey’s High Altar.
A view of the Westminster Abbey, The High Altar on June 1, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)
The church survived for two centuries as is, until the middle of the 13th century when King Henry III sought to rebuild it in the new Gothic style of architecture, according to the website — which noted similar French cathedrals like Amiens, Evreux, and Chartres that arose during this time period.
Henry declared that Westminster Abbey would be designed to be not only a great monastery and place of worship but also a place for the coronation and burial of monarchs. Much of the building seen today dates back to Henry’s reign, the website says.
The church was consecrated in 1269. But the king died in 1272 before the nave — or central part of the church for the laity — was completed. Meanwhile, Henry was buried in a tomb near Edward’s shrine.
Various updates and renovations were made in the next several centuries, including when King Henry V died in 1422, a "lavishly sculptured chantry chapel" was built over the tomb, with two staircases leading to an altar above. More updates came in the 1500s until King Henry VII. The last phase of the Abbey’s construction was completed in 1745 involving the West Towers.
Monarchs since William the Conqueror crowned in Westminster Abbey
1953: Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
From William the Conqueror in 1066 to Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, Westminster Abbey has hosted every British coronation, with the exception of Edward V, who was presumed murdered before he could be crowned, and Edward VIII, who abdicated.
An ancient Coronation Chair, which can still be seen in the church, has been used for these ceremonies since 1308, according to the website. Twenty-six monarchs, including Queen Elizabeth II, have been crowned in this chair in the Abbey.
It stands at 6 feet and 9 inches tall and is made of oak. It was originally covered in gold leaf and elaborately decorated with colored glass before centuries of wear and tear took their toll.
Notable funerals held at Westminster Abbey
- Musician Henry Purcell, who died in 1695. He was buried in the north choir aisle at Westminster Abbey.
- Naturalist Charles Darwin, who died in 1882. He was buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey.
- British nurse Edith Cavell, who died in 1915 while aiding the escape of allied prisoners during WWI. She was reburied just outside Norwich Cathedral in Norwich, Norfolk.
- Queen Alexandra, who died in 1925 and was the widow of King Edward VII. She was buried at Windsor Castle.
- Actor Laurence Olivier, who died in 1989. His ashes were buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey.
- Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. She was buried at her family home at Althorp.
- Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, who died in 2002. After King George VI died, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II officially became "Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother," and her daughter ascended to the throne to begin a 70-year reign. She was buried at Windsor Castle.
Monarchs, notable people buried at Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey is the final resting place for around 3,300 people in history and houses hundreds of memorials, wall tablets, and monuments throughout its building and grounds. This includes Henry III, Edward III, Richard II, and Henry V.
In addition to many royals, the Abbey also serves as a pilgrimage for lovers of literature with its Poets’ Corner. More than 100 poets and writers are buried there or have special memorials dedicated to them, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Dickens.
There is also a grave to the Unknown Warrior, located close to the west door. The tomb contains the body of an unidentified soldier who died on the battlefield during World War I and was laid to rest in 1920. France simultaneously created a similar internment at the Arc de Triomphe in France, according to the U.K.‘s National Army Museum.
This symbolic tomb inspired other countries, including the United States which created its own Tomb of the Unknown Solider in 1921.
Today, Britain’s Unknown Warrior monument serves as a special symbol to honor and commemorate those who have died in service, as well as those recorded as missing in action. All royal brides married in Westminster Abbey since 1923 have sent back their bouquets to be laid on the grave, according to the official website.
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Denise Miller Promoted to Vice President, Controller at Monroe Community Credit Union
MONROE, Mich., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Monroe Community Credit Union is pleased to announce the promotion of Denise Miller to Vice President, Controller. In addition to managing the accounting, payment strategies and payment solutions departments, Miller oversees the financial and regulatory functions of the credit union.
"Since joining the credit union in April of 2020, Denise's responsibilities have steadily increased in the financial operations of the credit union. As a former auditor, her talents are appreciated in continuing to ensure the safety and soundness of the credit union, in addition to strategically managing its exceptional financial performance," said Kristine Brenner, President/CEO of MCCU.
Miller received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double major in Accounting and Finance from Central Michigan University and her Master of Business Administration from Walsh College. She has over 25 years of experience in the financial institution industry.
MCCU is a locally owned and operated, not-for-profit financial institution headquartered in Monroe, MI with $330 million in assets, six banking locations and 30,000 members. MCCU's field of membership includes those who live, work, worship, or attend school in the state of Michigan and in the Ohio counties of Fulton, Lucas, or Wood. MCCU was voted Best Credit Union and Best Mortgage Lender in Monroe for 2021.
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Video News: DJI announces the Osmo Action 3 camera.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B&H is pleased to announce the DJI Osmo Action 3 camera, which takes on the familiar characteristics of its predecessors and pushes the envelope a bit further. The result is a camera well-suited to meet the demands of inclement weather and high-impact action while boasting stunning, high-quality video as well as more power and control.
A return to form, the Action 3 shares the same design as the Osmo Action while retaining many of the interface updates of the Action 2 modular camera. Like the Osmo Action, the Action 3 boasts dual touchscreens at the front and back of the camera for live video monitoring. It can also capture 12MP still photos and supports voice control when the camera is mounted out of hand's reach. Like the Action 2, the Action 3 can shoot up to UHD 4K video at 120 fps with a much wider field of view at 155°. Its updated RockSteady 3.0 Electronic Image Stabilization can function at its maximum recording resolution for ultra-smooth video. HorizonSteady and HorizonBalancing eliminate camera shake and correct tilt at any angle to maintain the horizon line.
The Action 3 retains the same 5' impact-resistance as the Osmo Action while increasing its durability in other applications. Its cold-resistance can withstand temperatures as low as -4° F and the camera body can be submerged up to 52.5' underwater without housing. A hydrophobic coating on the dual screens and lens cover repel water quickly so that your image isn't negatively impacted.
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A 2.5-hour battery life and native fast charging support via the camera's USB Type-C port increase the time you have to capture the action. Bluetooth 5.0 technology connects you to the DJI Mimo app for enhanced control, livestreaming, and shooting modes. The LightCut Video Editor app is optimized for use with the Action 3 for lightning-fast edits using its built-in templates and AI highlight selection.
Whether it be mountain biking, diving, or surfing, the Action 3 bundles will outfit you with all the tools you need to kickstart your next expedition. The Standard Combo gives you the camera, an additional Extreme Battery, protective frame, Lens Protective Cover, quick release adaptive mount, flat adhesive base, locking screw, and a USB Type-C power cable. The Adventure Combo expands upon this with a Multifunctional Battery Case and 4.9' extension rod. Both kits supply various mounting options to secure your Action 3 and keep it powered throughout a rigorous day of shooting.
Sport-specific kits such as the Biking Accessory Kit and Diving Accessory Kit provide more specialized mounts and equipment. The bike kit supplies you with a Chest Strap Mount and Handlebar Mount to secure the Action 3 to your bike or your person for dynamic first-person footage. The diving kit has a floating selfie stick and a locking screw to secure the camera, as well as a Waterproof Case and anti-fog inserts to record underwater video at greater depths.
A slew of other accessories and kits give you innumerable options when it comes to mounting your Action 3, making sure you don't miss any of the action. The Adhesive Base Kit comes with a flat adhesive base, a locking screw, and a quick release adapter mount. The Extension Rod Kit has the 4.9' extension rod, quick release mount, and locking screw. Other standalone accessories like the Magnetic Ball-Joint Adapter Mount, Suction Cup Mount, Helmet Chin Mount, and Surfing Tethers can attach your Action 3 to almost any surface for limitless shooting possibilities.
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The deal allows EOI to launch its first satellite in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO)
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EOI Space, a company deploying low-flying small satellites that provides intelligence to government and commercial customers, today announced its deal with SpaceX to launch EOI's first satellite using the SpaceX rideshare program. SpaceX, which designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, has a unique service that allows small satellite owners to share space on its missions.
EOI's first satellite, a technology demonstrator, is manifested to launch in 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This demonstration mission will allow EOI to test and validate its technology, ensuring the satellite's configuration and operational parameters meet the desired mission applications. Providing imagery at a 15 cm (6-inch) ground sample distance will enable EOI to deliver worldwide high-resolution imagery and location data in a timely manner, never previously seen from commercial satellites.
"This is an exciting time for us as EOI will be the first private company to operate in VLEO. Our first satellite launch is just the beginning of EOI's mission to provide the highest resolution commercially available imagery and near real-time data delivery to our government and commercial customers," said Christopher Thein, CEO of EOI. "We look forward to working with SpaceX on additional rideshares as we complete manufacturing a series of satellite rollouts in the near future."
As EOI's satellite constellation advances, so will the need to have a trusted and proven launch provider. The SpaceX rideshare program has a track record of success since the program's first launch in 2021. Falcon 9, which will be launching EOI's demonstration satellite, has over 160 successful launches. EOI is manifested to launch on board SpaceX's Transporter-8 rideshare mission, which will liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. All these factors weighed into EOI's decision to choose SpaceX for the company's first satellite launch.
Based in Louisville Colorado, EOI is developing a unique low-flying constellation of small satellites to collect ultra-high-resolution imagery to support a wide range of earth observation applications in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) using its proven, patent-pending electric propulsion technology. By operating closer to Earth than ever before, EOI will capture the highest commercially available views of our planet from Space for real-time intelligence, asset monitoring, and situation awareness. The Satellites-as-a-Service model will provide governmental entities and other companies with another technology to gather data, previously unavailable in the commercial marketplace.
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Eightfold AI Research Reveals How Oil and Gas Industry Needs to Transform their Talent to Become Renewable Energy Leaders
New report from Eightfold AI reveals the majority of renewable skills currently captured by adjacent industries and maps out a path forward for expanding the available talent pool
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eightfold AI, the leader in AI-powered talent intelligence, today announced the publication of a new Eightfold Talent Insights Report, "The Great Energy Transition: What's Next for Talent in Oil and Gas." The report contains the findings and insights from the Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform, a deep-learning platform powered by the largest global talent dataset, to demonstrate the skills advantage and opportunity for energy companies.
To understand what's next for talent in oil and gas, the Eightfold analysis of the most common roles and skills across oil and gas – and renewable energy – companies found that:
- Of the top renewable energy skills outside of the energy sector (oil and gas, utilities, coal), the highest concentration of talent currently works for manufacturers (22%), followed by construction (12%), renewable energy (11%), technology (6%), real estate (5%), and government (4%). To meet energy consumption and carbon emissions demands, energy organizations must consider talent from adjacent industries that boast forward-looking skills.
- 68 percent of today's most common oil and gas roles are either stable or declining in demand. For example, a drilling engineer, a highly penetrated role in the industry, is declining. On the other hand, chemical and mechanical engineers are rising.
- 86 percent of the most common skills in oil and gas are declining in demand. By seeking talent with adjacent skills for a wind power role, such as electrical or mechanical engineering, a company could expand its potential candidate pool by approximately 59 times.
By 2050, energy consumption will increase by about 50 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In addition, renewable energy production will increase by nearly 150 percent. Worldwide pressure means fossil fuel companies are taking steps to improve their availability of renewable energy. Most recently, the Biden administration claims the Inflation Reduction Act will enable the U.S. to reduce carbon emissions in 2030 by 40 percent below 2005 levels.
This worldwide spotlight on energy transition to renewables requires a forward-looking strategy for innovation, cultivating culture, and transforming talent. According to the World Economic Forum, the clean energy transition could generate 10.3 million net new jobs worldwide by 2030.
"Given that the roles to meet energy demands do not necessarily exist yet, limiting our talent searches only to those with particular knowledge sets no longer makes sense. Recruitment tactics that include individuals with skills from adjacent industries are more prepared to build a future-ready workforce," said Kamal Ahluwalia, President of Eightfold AI. "By shifting our mindsets, we can boost our access to more qualified people – and reach lofty goals – when hiring for potential based on their ability to upskill themselves."
The report further outlines how energy companies can develop talent strategies, calibrate future roles, and hire for potential to expand the available talent pool, such as:
- Upskill and reskill the current workforce to bridge the gap between declining and rising skills. Oil and gas companies can target areas of the workforce with declining skills like drilling. Through strategic upskilling, individuals with adjacent skills like hydraulics and preventative maintenance can pursue future roles such as wind turbine technicians.
- Calibrate roles with emerging skills to benchmark the organization against leaders and competitors to source the most current and relevant skills within that domain. For example, chemical engineers can add biofuels and carbon capture to their skill sets.
- Hire for potential to understand transferable adjacent skills and tap into a significantly larger pool of qualified talent. For example, organizations seeking talent with biofuel skills can expand the talent pool nearly four times when biorefinery and chemical engineering skills are used in their search.
For this analysis, "The Great Energy Transition: What's Next for Talent in Oil and Gas" report leveraged Eightfold's global dataset and considered publicly available profiles from leading oil and gas companies, in addition to renewable energy companies. The report contains the full methodology.
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The new alliance will enable enterprises to:
- Leverage KORE's unparalleled coverage in the U.S. in combination with Ericsson's IoT Accelerator's global deployment capabilities
- Simplify global deployments with control and visibility of devices, secure and dedicated IoT core network and seamless technology experience
- Benefit from new revenue streams, reach new market segments and create sustainable global businesses
ATLANTA and STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KORE, a global leader in Internet of Things ("IoT") Solutions and worldwide IoT Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) to join the Ericsson IoT Accelerator ecosystem. With this relationship, enterprises will be able to take advantage of KORE's IoT connectivity solutions and other managed services while utilizing Ericsson's award-winning global IoT connectivity management platform, IoT Accelerator. This enables global enterprises to seamlessly expand their IoT business in the U.S. market and beyond.
"When two industry-leading companies work together, innovation is the natural result. This alliance ensures that enterprises not only have connectivity in every corner of the world, but also a variety and choice," said KORE President and CEO Romil Bahl. "Our joint customers will enjoy a seamless experience built on a foundation of reliable customer and technology support that bolsters their ability to solve IoT deployment complexity."
KORE and Ericsson are aligned with a common mission to simplify global IoT deployments and enable enterprises to realize new revenue streams, reach new market segments and create a sustainable global businesses. This will reduce IoT deployment complexities by:
- Enabling visibility and control to easily monitor and manage globally deployed assets.
- Delivering a high level of reliability and security through a dedicated IoT core network with coverage throughout the U.S. and other key markets.
- Offering a seamless technology experience with real-time analytics, plus a common interface and set of APIs.
Enterprises deploying IoT globally will be able to benefit from KORE's unrivaled IoT connectivity solution in the U.S. while being able to easily manage their IoT assets anywhere on the Ericsson IoT Accelerator platform. Likewise, enterprises currently using the IoT Accelerator platform in other parts of the world can now deploy IoT assets in the U.S. while maintaining a single view to manage and monitor all assets deployed globally.
"We are delighted to welcome KORE as the latest service provider partner in our growing IoT ecosystem, extending the reach of our IoT Accelerator platform into the United States," said Kyle Okamoto, Ericsson IoT General Manager. "Enterprises will continue to have access to unparalleled IoT connectivity coverage and the capabilities of Ericsson's IoT Accelerator, which is already trusted by more than 8,500 enterprises around the world to manage over 90 million connected devices."
KORE and Ericsson also have the broader ambition to:
- Continue to grow and expand the mutual service ecosystems between Ericsson's IoT Accelerator and the KORE One™ IoT enablement platform.
- Further simplify and grow eSIM use and reseller business models enabling true IoT service globalization.
- Leverage the joint ecosystem scale with cloud providers and chipset manufacturers, making it easier for enterprises to adopt and scale IoT business globally.
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LAKELAND, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Festival of Fine Arts returns to Florida Southern College for the 52nd consecutive year, beginning in September.
This year's festival offerings include impressive auditorily and visually appealing dance, dramatic, and musical performances. The first 17 events will take place in the fall semester, with the second half being announced at a later date. All events will take place on the campus of Florida Southern College. All dates, times, and locations are subject to change. Please consult www.flsouthern.edu/ffa for updated information.
The fall events will include:
Sept. 19: Hispanic Heritage Celebration Concert (Anne MacGregor Jenkins Recital Hall)*
Sept. 22: Jon Lehrer Dance Company (Branscomb Auditorium)
Sept. 27: Unchained Melodies Music Faculty Recital (Anne MacGregor Jenkins Recital Hall)*
Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 and Oct. 6 – 9: "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (Buckner Theatre)
Oct. 3 – 4: Chamber Music Celebration (Anne MacGregor Jenkins Recital Hall)*
Oct. 11: Bridges to Peace Chamber Singers Choir Concert (Branscomb Auditorium)
Oct. 13: Child of the Sun Night of Music Band Concert (Branscomb Auditorium)*
Oct. 21: The Golden Age of Jazz by the Florida Dance Theatre (Branscomb Auditorium)
Oct. 29-30: Fall into Dance with Jazz Chamber Ensemble (Branscomb Auditorium)
Nov. 3 – 6: Second Stage: "The Liar" by David Ives (Frank Lloyd Wright Theatre-in-the-Round)
Nov. 11: Bandtastic! (Branscomb Auditorium)
Nov. 12: Special Event: Andrew York in Concert (Branscomb Auditorium)
Nov. 16: Musical Animals and Nature Orchestra Concert (Branscomb Auditorium)
Nov. 18 - 20 and Dec. 1 – 4: "Carrie the Musical" (Buckner Theatre)
Nov. 21: All of Us Choir Concert (Branscomb Auditorium)
Dec. 10: Christmas Gala: Spirit of the Season (Branscomb Auditorium)
Dec. 17-18: "The Nutcracker" by the Florida Dance Theatre (Branscomb Auditorium)
* Starred events are free admission, with no ticket required.
Several scheduled FFA events are free and open to the public, while tickets must be purchased for most performances. FSC faculty, staff, and students with IDs can attend performances free. Contact the Branscomb Auditorium box office at 863-680-4296 for information about general admission seating. For reserved seating information, contact the Buckner Theatre box office at 863-680-3089. For more information about the Festival of Fine Arts visit www.flsouthern.edu/ffa.
The current title "Festival of Fine Arts" was introduced during the fall of 1970. Previously a concert series and dance performances titled "Concert-Lecture Series," it included concerts from on-campus members (faculty and students), outside musical guests, outside lecturers, and FSC student theater performances. The FSC Fine Arts building complex was completed that same year.
For the first 47 years, internationally renowned pianist Robert MacDonald, who helped to develop and maintain the series at FSC, served as director. MacDonald simultaneously worked as a professor, mentor, artist-in-residence, and department chair while directing the Festival of Fine Arts series.
FFA events encompass a plethora of artistic genres. Performances in the recent past include the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, National Circus of China, Ballet Hispanico, Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Michael Feinstein, and Bobby McFerrin, just to name a few.
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked at #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 "Best Colleges" guide and is included in The Princeton Review's 2023 Best 388 Colleges guide and the "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2023." The 2022-2023 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 20 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 13 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.
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Companies honored for inspiring loyalty through people-centered experiences powered by digital, AI and cloud technologies
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesys®, a global cloud leader in customer experience orchestration, announced the winners of its 17th annual Customer Innovation Awards, including leading brands across the health care, finance, airline and retail industries. Genesys recognizes these organizations for transforming their customer and employee experiences with cloud, digital and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
The 2022 winners include:
UnitedHealth Group – CX Creator (most innovative use of capabilities across product, marketplace, ecosystem and custom development)
Insurer and health care company UnitedHealth Group (UHG) has implemented more than 100 contact center groups using Genesys solutions, including integrations with ecosystem and Genesys AppFoundry® partners, as well as extensive custom developments. The new nimble infrastructure increased the company's stability and agility, allowing it to serve customers during its peak season with maximum uptime and system reliability. With a platform poised for future growth, UHG is positioned to further its mission of helping people live healthier lives and making the health care system work better for everyone.
Blibli – CX Empathy (best use of empathy in customer experience)
Blibli, an omnichannel commerce and lifestyle platform, is committed to delivering a trusted, convenient and hassle-free shopping experience by continually demonstrating empathy toward its customers. Blibli leveraged Genesys technology to make every interaction count — and bring Experience as a Service® to life — through its personalized service known as "AHA! Moments." With the help of Genesys features such as call transfer, whispering and real-time monitoring, Blibli increased the number of "AHA! Moment" gifts delivered to customers by 2.5X. The company's solid technology development, robust infrastructure and award-winning customer care resulted in Blibli recording the highest Net Promoter Score (NPS) score for eCommerce.
HELPLINE – CX Innovator (most successful innovation)
HELPLINE used the Genesys Cloud CX™ platform as a digital accelerator and rapidly self-implemented personalized and context-aware Genesys smart bots. The new bots offer 24/7 customer support in five languages and assist the company's skilled IT technicians with handling more than 50,000 daily requests from customers via phone, email and chat. Now, bots initially manage 100% of interactions and approximately 10% of inbound calls are fully automated. This strategy reduced its customers' average disruption time from several hours to 20 minutes, resulting in a 97% customer retention rate while also simplifying employee administration.
Rabobank – CX Mover, Self-Implementation (best cloud implementation)
As the most customer-oriented bank in the Netherlands, Rabobank consolidated its systems to Genesys Cloud CX to make it easier for people to receive service on their terms. The bank migrated 15,000 employees in 80 departments — including all 89 bank branches — in less than nine months. With new web messaging and video channels offered by Genesys solutions, Rabobank increased efficiency by 25% and improved the quality and convenience of service with satisfaction scores above 90% for these digital channels.
Cathay Pacific and Accenture – CX Mover, Partner Implementation (best cloud implementation)
To enrich its customer and employee experiences, Hong Kong's home airline Cathay Pacific partnered with Accenture to consolidate more than 10 customer channels (e.g., call, WhatsApp, Facebook, WeChat) to Genesys Cloud CX. The airline deployed these new digital strategies to 10 in-house service sites across Asia-Pacific and Europe, resulting in a 37% decrease in cost per contact and an astounding 89% increase in agent productivity. Now, Cathay Pacific has a one-stop platform for its contact center with a unified agent desktop, intelligent routing, and workforce and quality management, which greatly improved employee and operational excellence.
Hy Cite Enterprises, LLC. – CX Mover, PS Implementation (best cloud implementation)
Hy Cite Enterprises, LLC., delivers outstanding service experiences to its customers and more than 9,000 independent distributors of the company's kitchenware products in the US, Mexico and South America. Hy Cite saw an 8% increase in customer satisfaction, 30% increase in contact rate and 27% increase in customer self-service through the development of customer interaction scripts and leveraging automation solutions from Genesys Cloud CX. Genesys Professional Services and a team at Hy Cite remotely managed the global implementation of Genesys Cloud CX in seven countries and three languages. This also reduced disparate customer experience processes, tools and infrastructure.
O2E Brands – CX Team Mobilizer (best example of improving team engagement)
Maximizing active customer interactions and improving service quality and productivity was a key goal for O2E Brands, one of the fastest growing home services companies in Canada. O2E saw a 37% improvement in agent attrition, saved four hours per week on scheduling, and experienced a 3.5% increase in agent occupancy. It also realized a 56% reduction in handling of shift trade requests by leveraging Genesys Workforce Engagement Management solutions. The company's transformation included automated forecasting and scheduling to increase efficiency and accuracy.
Sage France – CX Achiever (most innovative CX and EX strategy)
Leading application software publishing company Sage serves millions of small and mid-sized businesses around the world. The company's successful Genesys Cloud CX implementation resulted in greater customer engagement for its digital forums (up 170%), a 42% reduction in call volumes and 25% increase in first-contact resolution. Additionally, time spent by agents on after-call work has cut in half and its employee Net Promoter Score rose by 22 points. The company's transformation included replacing multiple standalone solutions with a single tool for managing inbound and outbound contacts, callbacks, agent activity, KPIs and performance statistics, call recordings, and quality management processes.
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Grocery Delivery Outpaced Pickup, Third-party Deliveries Rebounded, according to Grocery Doppio's August 2022 Digital Grocery Performance Card
Incisiv and Wynshop's Grocery Doppio industry research platform reveals the latest data insights on the state of digital grocery.
NEW YORK and MIAMI, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Incisiv, a next-generation industry insights firm that helps retailers and brands navigate digital disruption, and Wynshop, the leading provider of digital commerce and fulfillment solutions for local store-based retailers, today revealed the findings from their State of Digital Grocery Performance Card for August, 2022.
Pickup at stores, as a method of grocery order fulfillment, lost 2.6% from July to August, while Delivery's share increased by 0.5%. Delivery now owns 48.3% of all digital grocery fulfillment, against pickup's 51.7%. Meanwhile, after declining 2.3% from June to July, third party platforms' share of overall digital grocery sales rebounded by 21.2%
These and other data insights are now available for download on Grocery Doppio, a free, independent source of grocery insights and data designed to help grocers jumpstart, accelerate, and sustain digital growth.
Every month, Grocery Doppio brings together rich, research-driven grocery content, fact-based observations, inspiring perspectives, and deep performance benchmarks that identify improvement opportunities for grocery retailers. The site is designed specifically to help grocery and food executives optimize their digital and in-store channels and accelerate growth profitably.
Grocery Doppio's "State of Digital Grocery Performance Card" for August, 2022
The monthly State of Digital Grocery Performance Cards are one of many resources available on the Grocery Doppio website. The reports are built around data analysis of over 1 million shopper orders and survey results from more than 14,000 shoppers and 1,400 U.S. grocery executives.
More key findings from the August 2022 Performance Card include:
- Digital grocery sales continue to rise
- Digital sales rose in August to 10.3 billion dollars monthly value, a rise of 10.6% over July
- This represents a rise in digital's share of overall grocery sales from 12.9% in July to 13.6% in August.
- Digital basket size exceeds overall basket size
- Shoppers upped the items in their basket by one, after already adding two in the previous month
- That represents an 8.5% increase in digital basket size over the previous month, and a 2.8% increase in digital plus conventional basket size
- Average digital basket size, at $80, is now 38% larger than overall average basket size, which stands at $58
- Prices are rising slower
- Average price per item in a digital basket increased by just $0.1 in August. Compared to the 27% increase the industry saw between January - June 2022 for price per item in a digital basket.
"After initially reducing their spending in response to inflation, grocery shoppers seem to have regained a measure of confidence, and are now spending more on groceries, and even on delivery, than they were a month ago," said Gaurav Pant, Chief Insights Officer of both Incisiv and Grocery Doppio. "Even though inflation is still high (8.3%) we expect this level of spending to continue, as we continue to keep an eye on consumer credit levels to understand if that can dampen this growth."
"Overall digital sales and digital basket sizes continue to grow post-pandemic," said Charlie Kaplan, Chief Strategy Officer of Wynshop. "If we continue to see this kind of percent increase from month to month, we could be looking at a 20% digital grocery market share within the next couple of years."
To download Grocery Doppio's "State of Digital Grocery Performance Card: August, 2022," click here.
For a look back at Grocery Doppio's summary Performance Card for H1, 2022 click here.
To learn more about Grocery Doppio visit www.grocerydoppio.com.
About Incisiv
Incisiv is a next-generation industry insights firm that helps retailers and brands navigate digital disruption in their industry. Incisiv offers consumer industry executives responsible for digital transformation a trusted platform to share and learn in a non-competitive setting, and the tools necessary to improve digital
About Wynshop
Wynshop is an ambitious team of digital innovators obsessed with a solitary mission—helping grocers and other local store-based retailers grow wildly successful online businesses. Its refreshingly easy-to-use digital commerce platform enables efficient in-house picking, reduces fulfillment costs, and gives retailers the ability to control every facet of their customers' digital shopping experience. This results in a more personalized customer journey and amplified shopper loyalty. Learn more at www.wynshop.com.
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NEW YORK CITY -- U.S. inflation is showing signs of entering a more stubborn phase that will likely require drastic action by the Federal Reserve, a shift that has panicked financial markets and heightens the risks of a recession.
Some of the longtime drivers of higher inflation - spiking gas prices, supply chain snarls, soaring used-car prices - are fading. Yet underlying measures of inflation are actually worsening.
The ongoing evolution of the forces behind an inflation rate that's near a four-decade high has made it harder for the Fed to wrestle it under control. Prices are no longer rising because a few categories have skyrocketed in cost. Instead, inflation has now spread more widely through the economy, fueled by a strong job market that is boosting paychecks, forcing companies to raise prices to cover higher labor costs and giving more consumers the wherewithal to spend.
On Tuesday, the government said inflation ticked up 0.1% from July to August and 8.3% from a year ago, which was down from June's four-decade high of 9.1%
But excluding the volatile categories of food and energy, so-called core prices jumped by an unexpectedly sharp 0.6% from July to August, after a milder 0.3% rise the previous month. The Fed monitors core prices closely, and the latest figures heightened fears of an even more aggressive Fed and sent stocks plunging, with the Dow Jones collapsing more than 1,200 points.
The core price figures solidified worries that inflation has now spread into all corners of the economy.
"One of the most remarkable things is how broad-based the price gains are," said Matthew Luzzetti, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank. "The underlying trend in inflation certainly has not shown any progress toward moderating so far. And that should be a worry to the Fed because the price gains have become increasingly demand-driven, and therefore likely to be more persistent."
Demand-driven inflation is one way to say that consumers, who account for nearly 70% of economic growth, keep spending, even if they resent having to pay more. In part, that is because of widespread income gains and in part because many Americans still have more savings than they did before the pandemic, after having postponed spending on vacations, entertainment, and restaurants.
When inflation is driven mainly by demand, it can require more drastic action from the Fed than when it's driven mainly by supply shocks, such as an oil supply disruption, which can often resolve on their own.
Economists fear that the only way for the Fed to slow robust consumer demand is to raise interest rates so high as to sharply increase unemployment and potentially cause a recession. Typically, as fear of layoffs rises, not only do the jobless reduce spending. So, too, do the many people who fear losing their jobs.
Some economists now think the Fed will have to raise its benchmark short-term rate much higher, to 4.5% or above, by early next year, more than previous estimates of 4%. (The Fed's key rate is now in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.) Higher rates from the Fed would, in turn, lead to higher costs for mortgages, auto loans and business loans.
The Fed is widely expected to raise its benchmark short-term rate by a substantial three-quarters of a point next week for a third consecutive time. Tuesday's inflation report even led some analysts to speculate that the central bank could announce a full percentage point hike. If it did, that would amount to the largest increase since the Fed began using short-term rates in the early 1990s to guide consumer and business borrowing.
Even though headline inflation barely rose last month, underlying inflation, which reflects broader economic trends, worsened. A measure that the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland uses to track median inflation, which essentially ignores categories with the biggest price swings, rose 0.7% in August. That was the biggest monthly increase since records began in 1983.
Higher prices have yet to cause much of what economists call "demand destruction" - a pullback in spending that could quell inflation. Though higher gas prices have caused Americans to drive less, there isn't much evidence of significant cutbacks elsewhere.
Restaurant prices, for example, jumped 0.9% in August and have risen 8% in the past year. But that hasn't noticeably discouraged people from going out. Restaurant traffic has surpassed pre-pandemic levels on Open Table, an app that tracks reservations, and was still increasing into September.
Overall, consumers have largely kept up their spending, even with rampant inflation, though perhaps through gritted teeth. In July, spending rose 0.2% after adjusting for higher prices.
The spread of inflation into services, such as rental costs and health care, largely reflects the impact of higher wages. Hospitals and doctors' offices have to pay more for nurses and other staff. And as more Americans find jobs or get raises, they're able to move out from family homes or split from roommates. Rental costs have increased 6.7% in the past year, the most since 1986.
Wages and salaries jumped 6.7% in August from a year earlier, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's wage tracker, the biggest increase in nearly 40 years. And Luzzetti noted that the same data shows a record wage premium for people who switch jobs, compared with those who stay put. That means employers are still offering big raises to try to fill jobs.
Economists had hoped that rising services prices would be offset by falling costs for goods such as new and used cars, furniture, and clothing, after those items spiked in the pandemic. As supply chain backups improved, a better flow of such goods were expected to bring prices down.
Yet so far, that hasn't happened.
"We've seen shipping costs come down, we've seen supply chain congestion ease a little bit, production has improved and inventories have risen," said Laura Rosner-Warburton, senior economist at MacroPolicy Perspectives. "So all of that suggests some supply side improvement. And yet companies are still putting through large price increases for those goods, and that's problematic."
Such trends could renew the debate over how much corporations' ability to raise prices has been fueled by a lack of competition, a phenomenon referred to as "greedflation." But most economists attribute the ability of companies to still charge more to consumers' willingness to pay.
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Fortriator Insurance offers more value to customers and passive income for agents.
DALLAS, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new independent insurance technology (insurtech) agency is launching and aims to improve consumers' negative sentiment toward insurance.
Over the past two years, the insurance industry has become more digital than ever, largely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, customers became unsatisfied and confused about their policies and coverage, according to the 2022 J.D. Power U.S. Property Claims Satisfaction Study. The study found that property claim satisfaction fell to a five-year low, with customer repairs being completed in an average of 18 days, up from three days in 2021.
Fortriator Insurance is changing that with a mission to "Go Against the Status Quo." The independent agency's disruptive, tech-forward approach to property and casualty insurance is part of its nationwide expansion. The agency offers a white glove experience, ultimately giving customers more value faster, at a cheaper cost, and with a more lucrative opportunity for agents. Customers will enjoy 24/7 customer support and faster, more accurate insurance quotes.
The insurtech agency developed the name Fortriator to illustrate its commitment to customers' satisfaction and agents' success. The moniker is a combination of the words "fortress" and "gladiator," reflecting the two primary ways the agency seeks to better serve its customers.
Agents will enjoy reduced workloads because of smarter technology, access to advanced training, and active support. This is all made possible by Fortriator equipping its network of independent agents with its proprietary technology and systems, which were developed to save agents time and allow wider market access to more than 100 carriers nationwide.
"Your home is more than your castle: it's your fortress — the place where your family should feel safest and most loved," said Zack Farris, Fortriator founder, and CEO. "When your home is damaged by a coverable threat, we'll fight against all odds to ensure that you're fairly compensated and your home is made whole, safe, and fully livable again."
Fortriator's "industry-disrupting software" reduces time from quoting to binding, allowing agents to provide a quicker and simpler customer experience. The company's headquarters are at 3122 Nealy Way in Longview, TX 75605. Learn more at www.fortriator.com or call 682-267-8787.
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Lightpath Completes Network Build Marking Entrance into Princeton, NJ
Company Enters Princeton Market with new 54-mile, All-Fiber Network
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, today announced the completion of a new, 54-mile build of its all-fiber network in Princeton, NJ that marks its entrance into the market.
The network expansion is now operational and available to the over 400 target customers in the area. Princeton customers have access to the entire Lightpath network of over 20,000 route miles of fiber connecting over 13,500 service locations, including over 75 data centers. The Princeton-area is rich with a vibrant startup culture fueled by an Ivy League research university, along with other large enterprises, educational institutions, pharmaceutical, companies and government groups.
"The entrance into the Princeton market brings our network to one of the densest regions of New Jersey, while also connecting this new market to the rest of the Lightpath network," stated Doug Dalissandro, Chief Revenue Officer for Lightpath. "Princeton is a great new market for us, and we will continue to aggressively expand and build to areas where we see demand."
Princeton area customers gain access to the entire Lightpath network, including access to all major cloud providers, data centers, and seven northeast cable landings stations. Customers also have access to entire Lightpath product portfolio of all-fiber solutions, including Optical Transport (up to 800 Gbps), Ethernet (to 10 Gbps), Internet Access (to 100 Gbps), Private Networks, Dark Fiber, SD-WAN, Voice, Security Solutions, and other Managed Services.
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Lightpath is revolutionizing how customers connect to their digital destinations by combining our next-generation network with our next-generation customer service. Lightpath's advanced fiber-optic network offers a comprehensive portfolio of custom-engineered connectivity solutions with unparalleled performance, reliability, and security. Our consultative customer service means we work with you to design, deliver, and support the solution for your unique needs, faster and more easily than ever before. For over 30 years, thousands of enterprises, governments, and educators have trusted Lightpath to power their organization's innovation. Altice USA ( NYSE: ATUS) owns a 50.01% controlling interest in Lightpath and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP) owns 49.99% of the Company.
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New capabilities in the Lytx Vision™ Platform can reduce developer resources and integration time by up to 90%
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lytx® Inc., a global leader in video telematics solutions, has released reusable user interface (UI) components to help technology partners reduce time to market and accelerate digital transformation by integrating pre-made UI components into their offerings.
Lytx is creating a library of reusable UI components for its open application programming interface (API) functionalities along with step-by-step guides for integration. The components are reusable, meaning they can be implemented in multiple places inside applications, and are easily configurable and extensible using small amounts of code to accelerate innovation and minimize development effort. In addition, the reusable components are released under an open-source software license, demonstrating Lytx's open platform focus and enabling developers to customize the components, which can be easily translated from English to provide localization where needed.
"With many Technology Service Providers starting to offer video safety solutions as part of their portfolio of all-in-one solutions, seamless integration of video technology is key to accelerating speed-to-market and to reducing the developmental burden," said Rajesh Rudraradhya, Lytx's Chief Technology Officer, Lytx. "Lytx introduced modern, cloud-native APIs years ago to make it easier for companies to integrate Lytx's video applications and other third-party applications. With reusable components, we are further simplifying the process of adding video, making it easier than ever to tap into our industry leading video and MV+AI technology via the Lytx Vision Platform."
As part of Lytx's customer and partner empowerment approach, reusable UI components were developed to make integration easier, require fewer resources, and provide faster time-to-market for video telematics services. The components are powerful and easy to integrate, support most frameworks, and come with all relevant code, API calls, and documentation. Using reusable components can dramatically speed up the integration process, make work more efficient, and cut the overall time-to-market by up to 90 percent, allowing customers and partners to build custom solutions that can digitally transform their businesses.
"The goal of our Lytx Vision Platform is to help our customers and partners gain a competitive advantage and introduce innovative video services swiftly to their employees and customers," said Rudraradhya. "Offering reusable components is just one of the many tools we provide to help our partners increase efficiencies, innovate and grow their customer value and profitability, and accelerate transformation in our industry."
The first available reusable component is Live Video, allowing near real-time live video from the vehicle with more components coming later this year.
About Lytx Vision Platform
Faced with the need to digitally transform to compete against industry disruptors while lowering overall expense and exposure, our clients and strategic partners demand tools to help them position their organizations for greater growth and profitability. With our decades of experience helping industry leaders transform their fleet and driver operations, Lytx is uniquely positioned to help them do just that. The Lytx Vision Platform further leverages the power of our expertise in video services, big data, and AI to give companies powerful, scalable, and configurable technology and tools they can use to integrate with other applications and to create their own custom solutions.
About Lytx
Lytx is the global leader in video safety and telematics. Our solutions harness the power of video to empower drivers and fleets to be safer and more efficient, productive, and profitable so they can thrive in today's competitive environment. Through the Lytx platform, direct and reseller clients access our customizable services and programs spanning driver safety, risk detection, fleet tracking, ELD compliance, preventative maintenance, and fuel management. Using the world's largest driving database of its kind, along with proprietary machine vision and artificial intelligence technology, we help protect and connect thousands of fleets and 1.6 million drivers in more than 60 countries worldwide. Lytx's Surfsight™ solution for resellers was built from the ground up as a premium product offered at a competitive price to help fleet managers with their day-to-day operational challenges. To learn more about Surfsight, please visit www.lytx.com/en-us/surfsight. For more information about Lytx, visit www.lytx.com, @lytx on Twitter, LinkedIn, our Facebook page, or our YouTube channel.
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- Trial based on the recent breakthrough discovery of a novel treatment paradigm for urea associated skin diseases
- First patients dosed in Europe in Phase 2 trial assessing the safety and efficacy of MC2-25 Cream in Chronic Kidney Disease-associated Pruritus (CKD-aP) stages 3-5 patients
- MC2-25 Cream has the potential to become the first approved treatment for ~30 million people in US and EU with chronic kidney disease associated pruritus stages 3 and 4
- Topline results are expected in Q1 2024
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MC2 Therapeutics A/S, a commercial stage pharmaceutical company, engaged in research in skin biology and development of novel treatment paradigms for autoimmune and chronic inflammatory skin conditions, announces that the first patients have been dosed in its European Phase 2 trial, MC2-25-C1, evaluating the safety and efficacy of MC2-25 Cream compared to MC2-25 vehicle in treating moderate to severe CKD-aP in patients with CKD stages 3-5.
MC2-25 Cream is an innovative new drug candidate, addressing MC2's new biological treatment paradigm for treatment of urea associated skin diseases. MC2-25 Cream inhibits carbamylation in skin, and thereby potentially can provide relief of the severe skin dryness and debilitating itch, which CKD patients suffer from.
"The initiation of the Phase 2 trial with MC2-25 Cream in Europe marks the first step in our journey to leverage our scientific breakthrough discovery of how to treat urea associated skin diseases, for which there are currently limited or no approved therapies," says Jesper J. Lange, President and CEO of MC2 Therapeutics and added: "As part of our commitment to developing this novel treatment paradigm, we also plan to engage with regulatory authorities in the US in Q4 2022 as part of our global CKD-aP program."
"CKD-aP severely impacts the quality of life of CKD patients stages 3-5 with very few treatment options. There are no approved treatments for stages 3-4 patients and no therapies known to treat the damage in the skin caused by the disease. Based on the novel treatment paradigm targeting carbamylation in skin, MC2-25 Cream has the potential to become the first therapy addressing the origin of CKD-aP for millions of CKD patients," says Kieran McCafferty, MD, at Barts Health NHS Trust and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University London and principal investigator of the MC2-25-C1 trial and continues: "The trial has been endorsed by Kidney Research UK and is a highly appreciated opportunity for our CKD-aP patients to contribute to the clinical development of this exciting drug candidate."
About MC2-25 Cream
The active component of MC2-25 Cream is a di-peptide, which is formulated in MC2 Therapeutics' proprietary formulation and drug delivery system – PAD Technology™. MC2-25 Cream is an effective isocyanate scavenger showing >90 % inhibition of protein carbamylation and counteracting the morphological skin changes induced by carbamylation as demonstrated in an in vitro reconstructed human uremic skin model.
Isocyanate is a very reactive molecule known both to be neurotoxic and to readily react with proteins, peptides and amino acids present in the body and skin. In CKD patients carbamylation of amino acids and proteins is highly upregulated and believed to be a key contributor to the root cause of CKD-aP.
For more information about MC2 Therapeutics' breakthrough discovery of a novel biological treatment paradigm for urea associated skin diseases, please see Press Release of September 1st, 2022.
About the MC2-25 Phase 2 Trial
The trial is a Phase 2, randomized, multicenter, double-blind, parallel-group trial in subjects with CKD-aP stages 3-5. The trial is expected to enroll approximately 108 patients in about 23 centers in Europe. Subjects will apply trial medication topically twice daily for 12 weeks.
The primary objective is to compare therapeutic efficacy of MC2-25 Cream versus vehicle cream, as well as to characterize the safety profile of MC2-25 Cream in subjects with CKD-aP. The primary efficacy endpoint is the mean change in weekly mean Worst Itch Numeric Rating Score (WI-NRS) from baseline to week 12. Secondary endpoints will be assessed, including treatment success according to responder endpoints, as well as various other patient and physician reported outcomes.
Topline results are expected in Q1 2024.
About CKD-aP
CKD-aP effects more than 35 million people in the US and EU, of which the vast majority (~30 million) are non-dialysis patients (stages 3 and 4) who currently have no approved treatment options. People suffering from CKD have severe dry skin and evidence of damaged nerve fibers in the skin. CKD-aP is a severe condition, which leads to an overall increased mortality risk, as well as higher frequency of depression and reduced quality of life.
About MC2 Therapeutics A/S
MC2 Therapeutics A/S is a privately held commercial stage pharmaceutical company committed to research of skin biology and development of novel treatment paradigms for people with autoimmune and chronic inflammatory skin conditions.
Its innovative approach to address complex challenges more effectively is anchored in deep understanding of the skin biology combined with learnings from the pathophysiology across disease segments. Fueled by an entrepreneurial mindset and creativity, MC2 Therapeutics aims to set new standards in treatment satisfaction for people with skin conditions.
For additional information on MC2 Therapeutics Group, please visit www.mc2therapeutics.com
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Patented technology evaluates patient data to present relevant clinical protocols at the point of care
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicomp Systems, a physician-driven provider of diagnostically connected patient data solutions, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Medicomp US Patent 10,600,505 for the intelligent prompting of protocols. This patent covers the methods of evaluating the medical findings in a patient medical record and identifying the relevant clinical protocols that are most applicable.
The patented technology builds upon Medicomp's existing patent for intelligent filtering of health-related information that enables a clinician user to not only see all relevant clinical data for a patient's physical problem, but to also be presented with the clinical protocols for that problem. Combined with the custom workflow design capabilities of Medicomp's Quippe suite of products, it integrates quality-related and diagnostically relevant protocols directly into the clinician's workflow at the point of care.
"Clinical usability and clinician burnout are two of the biggest challenges in healthcare information technology," said David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems. "The best time to address and document the medical care of a patient is at the point of care. This is done by bringing together all relevant information and presenting the user with the ability to address, and document, all applicable issues, including specific protocols for quality care, adequacy of documentation, and diagnosis-specific considerations. This enables the clinician to focus on taking care of the patient."
This patent, the latest of four recent patents awarded to Medicomp, forms the core of the company's Quippe solutions, which support clinicians at the point of care by giving them the information they want to see, when they want to see it, and without slowing them down or impeding workflows.
"As the industry moves to a more data-centric approach to healthcare, it is critical for systems to bring together all relevant clinical information for a patient at the point of care, organized in the way that clinicians think and work, without requiring them to search for it, or to go back later and address outstanding issues," said Jay Anders, MD, chief medical officer of Medicomp.
In 2019, the USPTO issued Medicomp US Patent 10,319,466 for the intelligent filtering of health-related information. The patent covers the method of receiving clinical data, including items encoded in external standard terminologies and code sets, converting the data into clinical concepts included in Medicomp's clinical relevancy engine, and using the relevancy rankings to filter and present the incoming data to the clinician at the point of care.
Medicomp was awarded US Patent 9,864,838 in 2018 for clinically intelligent parsing. It covers the method of parsing free text into clinical terms, then searching Medicomp's MEDCIN engine for clinical relevancy links between the terms and diagnoses, and associating each term with a potential medical diagnosis. The technology improves the accuracy and precision of converting free text to codified clinical data and enables the filtering of free text using a specific diagnosis.
US Patent 9,396,505 was issued in 2016 for the method of automatically reviewing a patient's history and notifying a user any time a specific data point had previously been documented in a patient's medical record, and how it had changed over time. This functionality provides clinicians with access to specific information they need without having to search the patient chart for details.
"As we continue to support vendors and clinicians with solutions that streamline clinical documentation, coding, and quality reporting initiatives, our recently patented methods will add significant value for clinicians," Lareau said. "We are continuing to develop new technologies to improve the clinician experience and patient outcomes and look forward to announcing additional patented technology in the near future."
MEDCIN is Medicomp's unique clinical relevancy engine that includes an intelligent clinical database to support accurate documentation and prompting of relevant information at the point of care. The engine filters standard terminologies and code sets, including ICD-10, CPT, LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, DSM5, CTCAE, UNII, CCC, HCPCS, and CVX and provides mapping to more than 1.3 million clinical concepts.
For more information regarding Medicomp's Quippe solutions, visit www.medicomp.com.
About Medicomp Systems
Medicomp Systems is a leading provider of solutions that make data usable for connected care and better outcomes. In 1978, Medicomp pioneered the patented MEDCIN® Knowledge Engine to present relevant clinical concepts in less than a second for any of tens of thousands of diagnoses or patient presentations. For more than 40 years, Medicomp has worked with physicians from leading medical centers and institutions to create solutions that work seamlessly with any EHR to deliver diagnostically relevant and actionable information to clinicians at the point of care. The MEDCIN clinical engine powers the Medicomp Quippe suite of solutions and creates intuitive workflows that support – rather than disrupt – the way clinicians think and work. Medicomp's solutions deliver proven clinical and financial ROI, including reduced documentation and coding costs, increased clinician productivity, improved outcomes, and appropriate reimbursement. With minimal time and financial investment, stakeholders can deploy the robust clinical engine to filter data from disparate sources and organize structured and unstructured data into relevant and usable information. With real-time access to patient- and problem-specific information, clinicians are empowered to deliver better care and outcomes. To learn more about how Medicomp solutions can benefit your organization, visit http://www.medicomp.com/.
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Medius launches Elevate, adding an advisory program to its software offering
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medius, a leading provider of AP Automation and wider spend management solutions, today announces the launch of a new advisory program– Medius Elevate.
Through the new Elevate program, Medius customers can maximize their investment, all while partnering with global experts for process improvements, new feature support and more.
Shari Levinson, VP of Finance, Columbia Distributing, comments: "Our experience with the Elevate program has been very positive. Our Elevate advisor and technical support have been very proactive in helping us find additional efficiency in our AP automation solution. Our success is Medius' success and it shows in the day-to-day working relationship between our teams."
As a subscriber, businesses have access to Elevate Advisors and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who provide insights, guidance, optimization, and adoption assistance. Upon joining the program, customers have two levels of services to choose from:
Elevate Advise - provides a Medius Elevate Services Advisor for hands on assistance – available at point of contact. This level also includes access to a pool of qualified SMEs, to guide customers on best practices on an ongoing basis.
Elevate Optimize - provides comprehensive solution management services, geared towards businesses with complex structures. This level provides businesses with a named Medius Elevate Senior Advisor to help execute strategic initiatives. Subscribers also gain access to technical and functional SMEs to assist with optimizing and enhancing their Medius solutions.
Medius Elevate generates monthly KPI reports and annual health check reports, ensuring that businesses can stay ahead of the curve of new features, and optimization opportunities.
Dan Andersson, Chief Delivery Officer at Medius, comments: "We are currently going through a time of constant economic change, and it is essential our customers not only receive, but also enact on qualified advice that can help them grow. With Medius Elevate, we can help businesses improve their processes without adding to their to-do lists."
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The principal and a staffer of a government residential school in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district were arrested Tuesday on charges of sexually harassing girl students.
“A total of 10 girls said they had faced sexual harassment. The accused have been arrested under POCSO and other charges,” Yashwant V Gurukar, deputy commissioner of Kalaburagi, said Wednesday, adding that the girls of the school in Chincholi taluk had been shifted “to the Intelligence Bureau office under police protection”.
Principal Chetan Reddy and computer operator Sangamesh were arrested after a video surfaced online showing some girls complaining that the duo had touched them inappropriately and threatened to expel them if they reported the matter, according to an officer from the Konchavaram police station.
One of the girls also attempted suicide and some parents thrashed Reddy and Sangamesh after learning about the incident, the police officer said.
The duo were booked on charges under Indian Penal Code sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (insult to modesty of women) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on a complaint lodged by the tahsildar and Prabhu Linga, assistant director of the social welfare department, which runs the school.
A new principal has been appointed to the school, according to Gurukar. | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/karnataka-school-principal-staffer-held-sexually-harassing-girls-8151185/ | 2022-09-14T13:08:38 | en | 0.974301 |
On a day when eight Congress MLAs in Goa joined the BJP, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema led a group of 12 AAP MLAs to lodge a complaint with Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav about the “efforts being made by BJP to topple the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab”.
Cheema’s move to lodge a complaint, along with evidence, on Wednesday came a day after he had alleged that AAP MLAs in the state were being offered Rs 20 crore to Rs 25 crore to join the BJP. Even as AAP MLAs in the state put up a united front before the media, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, in a video from Germany, exhorted them not to be disloyal to their “motherland”.
“They tried this Operation Lotus in Delhi also but it failed. No MLA was sold,” Mann said in a video message from Germany, where he is participating in a trade expo. Mann said he wanted to tell the BJP that “Punjabis are loyal to the motherland”.
“I want to tell them (BJP) that Alexander was stopped by Punjabis when he was out to win the world. I am sure our MLAs will be loyal to their motherland. They would not be sold, stopped and buckled. The BJP thinks that if they cannot get voted to power through democratic process, they can grab power using money. I am sure my colleagues would show their loyalty towards the motherland, I have no doubt on their loyalty. Together, we have dreamt of resurrecting Punjab. We will realise that dream. The BJP is unable to fathom the good work of AAP. That is why they are resorting to all this,” Mann said.
In Punjab, addressing a press conference, Cheema said that Operation Lotus had failed in the state. “If anyone is challenging BJP then it is AAP. BJP will not succeed in this. Legislators are with AAP and Arvind Kejriwal. They would not quit AAP even if Rs 2,500 crore is given to them,” he said.
Before lodging a complaint with the DGP, Cheema, flanked by Deputy Speaker in Vidhan Sabha Jai Krishan Singh Rori and MLAs Budh Ram, Manjit Singh Bilaspur, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Dinesh Chadha, Narinder Kaur Bharaaj, Taranpreet Singh Sond, Raman Arora, Pushpinder Singh Happy, Rajnish Dahiya, Kuljit Singh Randhawa, Sheetal Angural and Labh Singh Ughoke addressed the media.
Cheema said that all the MLAs with him had proof that they had got calls (from BJP). “I am not revealing that. We want to give it in our complaint first. Then we will make it public,” he said.
Cheema said that Jalandhar MLA Sheetal Angural had received a threatening call on Tuesday warning him that he should not make the evidence of BJP calls to him public. “He was threatened to be eliminated. We are going to the DGP with all evidence,” Cheema said.
The BJP’s claims that he was lying have fallen flat, Cheema said, after Congress MLAs from Goa jumped ship and joined BJP. The developments in Goa on Wednesday were proof that BJP was moving ahead by launching its Operation Lotus in non-BJP states, he added.
Later, Cabinet minister Aman Arora also addressed the media and stated that all MLAs were with Kejriwal and Mann and they would not let BJP’s designs come true.
The state BJP unit on Wednesday “welcomed” AAP’s move to lodge a complaint, saying “the guilty must be exposed” but questioned why Cheema did not disclose names of MLAs who got such calls and why they had not lodged an FIR till date.
“We welcome the step of AAP to lodge a formal complaint before the DGP…Let the whole issue be inquired (into) and the guilty be exposed before the masses. Only then will the truth come out as to who had made the phone calls,” Anil Sarin, chief spokesperson of BJP Punjab, said.
“Go, get an FIR lodged…police is yours, sarkar is yours…let people be exposed. BJP will not run away…,” state BJP president Ashwani Kumar Sharma said. Reacting to the AAP allegations that BJP’s Operation Lotus had failed in Delhi, Sharma said, “Even in Delhi, they did the same drama. They could not prove anything but only distracted…same plot is being played now.”
Meanwhile, BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh demanded a CBI probe into the allegations made by the AAP leaders.
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MGH Debuts Brand Refresh for bb.q Chicken, One of the Fastest Growing Restaurant Franchises in the U.S.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGH, a full-service marketing and communications agency for restaurant franchises and more, recently debuted a complete brand refresh for U.S. locations of bb.q Chicken – a Korean fried chicken franchise that operates more than 3,500 stores across 57 countries and was recently named one of the fastest growing restaurant chains in the U.S.
MGH rolled out new and modern creative across all aspects of bb.q Chicken's brand image, including its website, social media and in franchise locations across the U.S.
- The newly redesigned consumer and franchise websites feature a modern aesthetic, consumer-friendly navigation, simpler online ordering and better depiction of the core elements of the brand.
- bb.q Chicken's social media platforms, including Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, were overhauled to showcase the Korean authenticity of the brand and to effectively connect with American customers.
- Franchise locations across the country will receive a new visual identity focused on making the brand more approachable to U.S. customers, including updated storefront branding describing bb.q Chicken as "Korea's Finest Fried Chicken," product posters, menu designs and more.
The brand refresh also included the addition of a new tagline and manifesto that embody the quality and authenticity of the bb.q Chicken franchise and its products. Leading up to the creative overhaul, MGH executed in-depth consumer and market research to identify key brand differentiators that highlight bb.q Chicken's new visual identity. Moving forward, MGH will continue to promote bb.q Chicken and the new branding to U.S. customers through a cohesive marketing plan, including social media content creation, public relations, influencer marketing and store opening support.
"MGH is thrilled to have the opportunity to help one of the fastest growing restaurant franchises refresh its look and feel to help better showcase its authentic flavors and better appeal to an American audience," said MGH CEO Andy Malis. "We are confident that this work will help bb.q Chicken reach its goal of drawing attention to its superior product on the national stage, while demonstrating why they are known as Korea's Finest Fried Chicken."
To view the new website, visit www.bbqchicken.com. The new visual elements will be rolling out to U.S. franchise locations in the coming months.
Based in Hunt Valley, Md., MGH is an integrated marketing and communications agency offering advertising, public relations, media planning/buying, creative design and production, interactive (design, strategy, development and marketing), market research, direct response, influencer marketing and social media marketing to franchised restaurants and more. MGH is a two-time winner of the Ad Age Best Places to Work award.
MGH's current and recent restaurant franchise marketing clients include Rosati's Pizza, Swensons Drive-In, Which Wich, Nestlé Toll House Cafe by Chip, Round Table Pizza, Mason's Famous Lobster Rolls, bb.q Chicken, 16 Handles, Ledo Pizza, Great American Cookies, SoBol, Hot Dog on a Stick, Marble Slab Creamery, and Marco's Pizza.
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The Delhi High Court has issued notice to AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak on a petition challenging his election to Rajinder Nagar constituency and seeking an order to ban him from contesting any elections for six weeks.
The election petition filed by a voter from his constituency alleges that Pathak committed corrupt practices as defined under the Representation of the People Act and seeks a declaration that his election to the constituency be declared null and void.
Seeking a reply to the petition within six weeks, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani directed the Election Commission of India and the Returning Officer to preserve the nomination papers and other documents pertaining to the byelection held on June 23, during the pendency of the election petition. The court has listed the matter for hearing on November 21.
In the petition filed by one Rajan Tewari, it has been alleged that Pathak in his FORM 26, affidavit required to be submitted by candidates with the nomination papers under Rule 4A of the Conduct of Election Rules 1961, failed to disclose the fact that an FIR dated November 7, 2020, stood registered against him at North Avenue police station under IPC sections 420, 468, 469 and 471 as well as Section 66C of the Information Technology Act. The FIR had been filed on the complaint of a BJP leader.
It was also submitted that at the time of the election, Pathak held an ‘office of profit’ as a member of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights. Advocate Apoorv Kurup, representing Tewari, argued that the same would invite disqualification under Article 191 of the Constitution and is a ground for declaring Pathak’s election void under section 100 of the RP Act.
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On September 9, when Brahmastra finally hit cinemas after a decade of myth-building, hype, pessimism and pressure, filmmaker Ayan Mukerji felt philosophical. As if he was meant to take this ambitious journey of mounting a never-seen-before spectacle for the Indian audience, armed with two hits behind him, a loyal crew, crushing wait and an incredible vision.
Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Amitabh Bachchan, Mouni Roy and Nagarjuna, Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva took a flying start at the box office. While the film was lauded for its VFX and scale, Brahmastra was criticised for its writing, dialogues and for reducing Alia Bhatt, one of the finest of this generation, to a mere love interest.
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In an interview with indianexpress.com, Ayan Mukerji spoke about Brahmastra, the love coming his way, the feedback he is receiving and how he sees himself committed to making movies only in the Astraverse his entire career. Edited excerpts:
Ranbir had joked that it felt like the team was pregnant with Brahmastra all these years, because it was that special a film. How does it feel to finally have a smooth delivery?
I felt relieved when we actually delivered the film, without even the audience watching it, when our last frame, last sound was done, and the film was ready to release in cinemas. The last phase was extremely hard. After having worked so hard over the years like a marathon, the last phase of Brahmastra was a sprint! With the audience coming and watching it, there is definitely a feeling of relief.
How was the Friday for you and the team?
It was very philosophical, because of the magnitude of the journey. For so many years stuff was going on in the film but nobody in the world would have realised that so much was happening in the film. It was all for that moment on Friday, when the film had finally gone. I don’t think there is any word for the feeling. Let’s just call it the Brahmastra feeling. I was emotional, excited, nervous. But at the same time, there was pride, that I had finished my work on the project and walked this journey.
On Friday night, when I came back home after hanging out with my team, I spent two hours thinking of part two’s script. After the last three months, where all I could think of was delivering part one, my mind that night was sticking on part two. I could tell that I was finally in that space, to think about the future.
By the time Brahmastra finally released, it ended up as the film the entire industry was banking on to work, because nothing else was working this year. Did you feel that pressure?
When you are in the inside, some of this is not as hard as it might look. The work was so incredibly challenging, I was so focused, it was taking up so many of my resources, that some of the conversation about Brahmastra that you must have had in the last two week, we didn’t. We were too deep in work to focus on the noise outside. Even now when the film is out, I am storing all the feedback and will get back to it in 10 days. I don’t know what exactly is being said, I know the gist of it.
How do you look back at its making? This was a film in the works for a longtime, there were memes on its delays, jokes and a genuine worry if this would ever even release because it was taking that long.
I realise what a tremendous amount of my life I have given to this one project. It is a big, strong feeling in my heart, of having survived this. I feel like a survivor of the marathon. I have been a student of cinema, so I walked in the footsteps of those who attempted game-changing project before me. After Titanic, James Cameron spent 12 years between that film and Avatar and has now spent more than 12 years between Avatar and its sequel.
I knew that if I were to attempt make something of high quality visual, with the budget that we have–which is not Avengers budget–, with people who have not made this 100 times before, then let’s be comfortable with the time it’s going to take. I was using the James Cameron model all the time. If he was taking 12 years to create something in the West, which already has a Lord of the Rings, then how can I finish this in the time I took to make Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani?
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The franchise also seems likely to go beyond the planned trilogy and have more films in the ‘Astraverse’.
I have committed to the idea that the Astraverse could be all that I do in my entire lifetime. I didn’t approach Brahmastra like just another film in my career, I approached it thinking I am building Apple, the company. I want to build a foundation for a universe of cinema with this film. For the next 15 years, I could (only) be building the Astraverse. That’s what I will do with my life.
There are so many high points in the film. Shah Rukh Khan’s cameo, Nagarjuna’s Nandi sequence, the pre-interval scene and the last 45 minutes of the film. What took the longest to conceptualise and execute?
All were equally hard. The way these sequences take place, Shah Rukh in one place, Nagarjuna in another, even our shoot was one scene at a time. We would understand how to do a sequence, do it, then move on to the next. A motley group of challenges presented themselves in each sequence. Ever sequence had budget issues, some technical stuff that had to get solved, even Dance Ka Bhoot was challenging because we did it right after COVID.
Are you reading fan theories? Fans have already started sharing where they would like part two to head, how they want new characters to be introduced.
My team is reading it, even Alia and Ranbir are reading it. I need to catch up. My plan is to do it a week from now because right now I am still working. I need to get Rasiya out, then there is box office stuff, dealing with international markets. Before we properly begin work on the sequel, I will sit down and read everything.
One strong criticism that the film is facing is for its weak writing. The dialogues in particular are jarring.
I heard that. Can you tell which parts exactly? Is it overall, throughout the film?
In the track involving Alia and Ranbir, the love story bit. Even the lines Shah Rukh’s character says.
OK, so mostly it is the love story. Well, I am observing. The feedback from audience, critics is very important to shape what we do in the future. I am learning from everything. But today is Brahmastra’s day six in the world, and it is an extremely new beast in the jungle of films. I am waiting for water to find its level a little bit. The love story was all my desire. To create this idealistic love story in the fantasy world.
I thought this would give the film a soul. That the greatest energy comes from within you and the greatest form of energy is when you are in a state of love. It may have sounded better on paper than it came across to certain people. But, when Kesariya came out, for the first 48 hours all we heard was, ‘Oh God why did they do this with love storiyan.’ But the song continued to be a blockbuster, and nobody talks about it today. So, point noted. But India has a diverse audience.
I live in Bandra, Mumbai and sometimes my sensibility can seem far closer to the West than my mother, who lives with me in the same house. But her’s can be different from my elder sister, and her’s can be different to her friend in Dehradun. When Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani released, it wasn’t a critical favourite. We heard a lot of stuff about that one. After a few days, everything settles, people start appreciating a film for what it is rather than everything they hoped it could have been. Points all noted, but wise thing to do is wait till day 30,understand and then take our notes.
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Even Alia’s character has been criticised, she seemed to have been under utilised.
It could be people who come in with the baggage of having seen her in Gangubai and other stuff. I have also heard people say something which seems superficial that, ‘Oh Alia looks so pretty in this film.’ That happy, joyful girl in love–simple as it seems–is a part that Alia has not got the opportunity to play.
In some ways, her incredible acting chops has almost become something that some people are seeing as it is getting in the way of fully appreciating her. But again, I am waiting for this (film) to spread far and wide in the country. I still think there will be a lot of acceptance for her, playing this positive, happy girl in the film. But, noted. In part two we will do more with Alia! | https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/ayan-mukerji-on-brahmastra-box-office-criticism-of-dialogues-alia-bhatts-character-astraverse-could-be-all-that-i-do-my-entire-lifetime/ | 2022-09-14T13:08:42 | en | 0.983313 |
Bollywood actor and Alia Bhatt’s mother, Soni Razdan often posts inspiring quotes on her social media account. On Wednesday, she posted about a trait of miserable people and how they should be avoided. Her post comes at a time when her daughter Alia’s film Brahmastra is at the receiving end of social media negativity and Bollywood is also suffering from the ‘Boycott campaigns’.
The Raazi star shared a photo on Instagram that had the words, “Miserable people will try to make you miserable with them. You have the power to choose whether they succeed or not.” In the caption of her post, Soni wrote, “Remember this next time someone tries to demean you, destroy you, or delight in your hour of darkness. You are not what they want you to be. You are you. And you are amazing ! 🤩♥️🙏 .”
Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt starrer Brahmastra hit the theatres on Friday. Despite several calls for its boycott on social media, the film has been doing good business in the theaters. In the first three days, the Ayan Mukerji directorial earned Rs 120.75 crore domestically and currently its collection is over Rs 150 crore.
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On Tuesday, Soni Razdan had also posted a throwback picture with Alia that she had clicked seven years ago. Along with the photo, she wrote, “On this day 7 years ago … when you came and saw my play ‘Where Did I Leave my Purdah’, and we took this funny pic in my dressing room. I remember it like it was just perhaps a year or two ago…. how does time fly so fast ?” Reacting to her mother’s post, Alia wondered why was she making a “strange face” in the photo.
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Munch's Supply, a Marcone Company, Acquires New Hampshire-based Total Air Supply and Spiral Air Manufacturing
Leading HVAC Distributor Expands into Goodman Equipment and Sheet Metal Fabrication
NEW LENOX, Ill., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Munch's Supply, the HVAC division of Marcone, has acquired Total Air Supply and Spiral Air Manufacturing, including three branches servicing Manchester, Derry and Nashua, New Hampshire. This will expand Munch's geographic footprint to 74 locations serving 17 states and one Canadian province.
Munch's Supply is a Marcone company that has been operating in the Chicagoland area for more than 65 years and is consistently ranked as a top 10 HVAC distributor in the United States. Marcone, a leading distributor of home appliance, HVAC and plumbing repair parts and equipment across North America acquired Munch's Supply in 2021. Together, the companies operate with a singular goal—to become the hub for parts and services to the home for both technicians and consumers.
"This acquisition marks our very first partnership with Goodman, a subsidiary of Daikin Industries. This is an established equipment brand and working with them, we are pleased to expand our reach on the east coast," said Kevin Baxter, President HVAC, Munch's Supply/Marcone.
"This business has been in my family for almost 50 years. We are proud to provide our customers quality Goodman equipment along with parts and custom sheet metal, said Sue Quintiliani, owner, Total Air Supply.
"The Quintiliani family has done a fantastic job building a successful, customer-focused organization with superior dedication to their family of contractors," added Baxter. "We look forward to working with Sue, Dave, Greg and the rest of their talented team."
"We are excited to be part of a company with similar values—one that puts people first, both customers and employees," added Quintiliani.
The acquisition demonstrates Munch's ongoing dedication to the HVAC and plumbing marketplace and reinforces its commitment to partnering with family and customer-service focused businesses looking for either a long-term partnership or an exit strategy.
Munch's Supply was founded in 1956 by Willard Munch, who wanted to develop a local source of electrical supplies for area contractors. Today the company has more than 1,200 employees focused exclusively on supplying heating, cooling and plumbing industry contractors with quality products. For more than 65 years, Munch's Supply has operated with a commitment to service as a leading distributor for trusted brands such as American Standard, Trane, Mitsubishi, Rheem, Goodman, IPEX, AO Smith, Kohler, Tempstar, Keeprite and Frigidaire. For more information, visit www.munchsupply.com.
Marcone is an authorized distributor for major brands such as Whirlpool, Electrolux, General Electric, Maytag, Bosch, Samsung, L-G and many more. Through its vast distribution network, Marcone supplies the largest inventory of original replacement parts in the country for household appliances such as refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers, microwaves, washers, and dryers. Marcone exports globally and also operates a comprehensive training institute offering quality business and technical training. Headquartered in St. Louis, Marcone operates 122 facilities, has approximately 2,100 employees, and serves approximately 43,000 technician customers. For more information, visit www.marcone.com.
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National Philanthropic Trust UK distributed over £9 million in grants during Fiscal Year 2022
Continuous growth in number of grants made since start of pandemic
LONDON, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Philanthropic Trust UK, a leading provider of donor-advised funds (DAFs) in the UK, granted £9.3 million on behalf of its donors during Fiscal Year 2022. This represented a 45% increase in the number of grants made in the last Fiscal Year, rising to 366 from 252.
When combined with grants donated in 2020 and 2021, NPT UK has distributed £19.4 million through 646 number of grants since the start of the pandemic.
Additionally, NPT Transatlantic, a UK/ US dual qualified DAF, distributed £30.8 million in grants in Fiscal Year 2022, representing a 94% increase in donations from pre-pandemic giving in Fiscal Year 2019 (£15.9 million).
John Canady, CEO of National Philanthropic Trust UK said: "Events in the last few years have placed enormous strain on people's lives and livelihoods. We have consistently seen our donors step up during the pandemic as well as reacting to other global crises. These figures, which have grown year-on-year, are further proof that philanthropists are mobilising funds in such challenging times both domestically and overseas."
Canady continued: "We have seen the popularity of donor-advised funds as effective giving vehicles continuing to rise in the UK. Every pound pledged to a DAF goes to charitable organizations. The impact investing platforms that NPT UK offer are also popular, especially among young generations of donors looking for innovative ways to drive social change."
NPT UK and NPT Transatlantic donors recommended grants to a variety of charitable organizations in Fiscal Year 2022, including those supporting international refugee crises, environmental action, food poverty and the welfare of children and young people.
About NPT UK and NPT Transatlantic
NPT UK is an independent charity providing donor-advised funds for donors in the UK and those around the world who wish to base their philanthropy from the UK. It provides giving vehicles and expertise to philanthropists, family offices, and wealth managers from one of the world's leading financial centres. NPT UK is affiliated with National Philanthropic Trust, the largest independent provider of DAFs in the United States.
NPT Transatlantic is a dual qualified charity, recognized as a charitable organization in both the UK and US, providing donor-advised funds and a single-gift service for UK/US dual taxpayer donors.
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Harvard, California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, INSEAD and University of Virginia take some of the top spots.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Altrata, the global leader in data intelligence on the wealthy and influential, released the University Alumni Report 2022. This new report examines the universities with the most ultra wealthy and senior executive alumni, leveraging two of Altrata's proprietary datasets, BoardEx and Wealth-X.
University Alumni Report 2022 ranks the leading universities in the US and internationally that have the most alumni serving on the board or in the C-suite of public companies. It also ranks the US and international universities with the most ultra wealthy alumni, those with a net worth of $30 million or more.
Understanding the net worth and professional networks of alumni is not only important to universities seeking to enhance their alumni fundraising efforts, but also to organizations across sectors to hone recruiting efforts and understand the potential of their C-suite networks.
Among numerous findings the University Alumni Report 2022: Rankings of the Wealthy and Influential reveals:
- Harvard is at the top of most rankings with more than 17,600 ultra wealthy alumni (5% of the global ultra wealthy population) and nearly 4,000 alumni who serve on the board or in the C-suite of US public companies, followed by the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford
- Among the top 20 US universities, the average senior executive alum has accumulated 1,280 direct professional connections to senior decision-makers
- UCLA, the University of California at Berkeley, and Tufts University have the highest female representation among their US senior executive alumni
- Alumni from Harvard University tend to assume board or corporate leadership roles at public US companies faster than those from other US universities
- California Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, and University of Pittsburgh have the highest proportion of self-made ultra wealthy alumni
- Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Kuwait University, and Monash University in Australia have the highest proportion of ultra wealthy female alumni – ahead of all US universities
- University of Cambridge leads the non-US university rankings with more than 4,000 ultra wealthy alumni, followed by the National University of Singapore and the University of Oxford
The report also takes a closer look at the ultra wealthy and senior executive alumni of Harvard University, INSEAD, and the University of Oxford, three of the world's most prestigious learning institutions. While these wealthy and influential alumni share similarities, the unique characteristics of each university's set of alumni is uncovered through these distinct archetypes.
University Alumni Report 2022 leverages two of Altrata's unique products:
- The Wealth-X Database, the world's most extensive collection of curated research and intelligence on the wealthy
- The BoardEx Global Leadership Database, which covers board and non-board members, C-suite executives, senior leaders and professional advisors
Access the complete findings here.
Altrata is a global leader in people intelligence. It includes more than 100 million profiles on wealthy individuals around the world and more than 12 million profiles on senior decision makers, board members and c-suite leaders. Altrata provides intelligence on the people who are most impactful to our clients' success.
Advanced integration solutions allow deeper insights and access to billions of connections helping clients close more deals, manage risk, and identify up and coming talent quickly. Our data is actionable, accurate, and comprehensive. Powered by a global team of more than 400 researchers who are committed to maintaining millions of profiles and changing data points, so you can effectively engage and make meaningful, lasting connections.
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Hollywood star Leonard DiCaprio doesn’t seem to be too worried about the current spate of memes surrounding his dating choices lately. After breaking up with Camila Morrone, the actor appears to be in a relationship with 27-year-old model, Gigi Hadid. Leonardo has been a subject of much fun and banter on Twitter as he is supposed to famously date only 25-year-olds.
According to Daily Mail, the rumoured couple were spotted getting close at a New York Fashion Week after-party in the city. They seemed to be secluded from the rest of the exclusive party thrown by Leonardo’s friend Richie Akiva and Darren Dzienciol at a loft in SoHo.
“Leo was with his guy friends and Gigi was with her model friends and they were all hanging out at a table,” a source told Page Six on Tuesday, adding that they caught performances by Diplo and Kodak Black. The rumours about the duo began to brew in July itself, after they were seen spending time together at the opening of a members-only club in NYC. They also hung out at the club later, which seemed to coincide with Leonardo and Camila’s break-up.
While reasons about the couple’s split are still unknown, they parted ways right after Camila’s 25th birthday. Following that, Leo became a popular meme and a joke during the Emmys, as it is believed that he wouldn’t date anyone who is 25 and over. | https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/hollywood/leonardo-dicaprio-gigi-hadid-new-york-relationship-8151108/ | 2022-09-14T13:08:58 | en | 0.990473 |
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LONDON, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE: SNN), the global medical technology company, today announces promising new data furthering a number of published studies supporting the use of its REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant in rotator cuff repair. Interim analysis from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) shows a significant reduction in the re-tear rate of full-thickness rotator cuff repairs when using the REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant.
The multicentre, triple-blinded RCT results were presented last week by Prof. Miguel Angel Ruiz-Ibán, MD., PhD., Hospital Universitario Ramon Y Cajal, Madrid Spain, at the 2022 SECEC-ESSE Congress in Dublin, Ireland. Re-tear rates of patients with medium to large full-thickness tears were measured following either an arthroscopic supraspinatus transosseous equivalent (TOE) repair alone, or the same TOE repair with the addition of a REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant.
At 12 months follow-up, repairs with the added REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant resulted in significantly lower re-tear rates than those with a TOE repair alone (p= 0.022). Specifically, the RCT reported:
- Patients who received a REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant presented a retear rate of 3.5%. (n=29)
- Patients who received a TOE repair alone presented a re-tear rate of 25% which is in-line with published re-tear rates on similar tear types.1,2 (n=28)
There were no differences in postoperative complications between groups.
"Traditional rotator cuff procedures and the resulting re-tear rates present a challenge and a concern for both surgeons and patients alike," commented Prof. Ruiz-Ibán. "The interim results from this RCT are encouraging and indicate that the Smith+Nephew REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant may significantly improve re-tear rates. I look forward to the completion of this investigation in 2023 and further use of the implant."
With the potential to aid approximately 545,000 annual rotator cuff procedures, globally3, the REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant provides a patient centric treatment supporting the body's natural healing response to facilitate healing of rotator cuff tears.4-8 With at least 12 published clinical studies including 709 patients5,9-18,20, the REGENETEN implant has been shown to change the course of tear progression in early studies5-7,19, aid return to normal activity19 and reduce re-tears versus conventional surgery.20,21
"New RCT evidence supporting the use of our REGENETEN™ Bioinductive Implant for improved patient outcomes continues to grow," said Christie Van Geffen, VP Sports Medicine Joint Repair at Smith+Nephew. "No other bioinductive treatment has the amount of science behind it supporting the clinical value for thousands of patients with rotator cuff tears."
The REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant is part of Smith+Nephew's comprehensive Advanced Healing Solutions portfolio - redefining biological healing in rotator cuff repair along with expanded applications for Gluteus Medius and Achilles tears.* To learn more about the REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant, please click here.
References
- Kim Y-S, Lee H-J, Jin H-K, Kim S-E, Lee J-W. Conventional En Masse Repair Versus Separate Double-Layer Double-Row Repair for the Treatment of Delaminated Rotator Cuff Tears. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016;44(5):1146-1152
- Hein J, Reilly JM, Chae J, Maerz T, Anderson K. Retear Rates After Arthroscopic Single-Row, Double-Row, and Suture Bridge Rotator Cuff Repair at a Minimum of 1 Year of Imaging Follow-up: A Systematic Review. Arthroscopy. 2015 Nov;31(11):2274-81.
- Smith + Nephew internal data analysis derived from Decision Resources Group, Global Report 2018 & SmartTRAK DATA Analytics 2022
- Van Kampen C, Arnoczky, S, Parks, P, et al. Tissue-engineered augmentation of a rotator cuff tendon using a reconstituted collagen scaffold: A histological evaluation in sheep. MLTJ. 2013;3(3):229-235
- Bokor DJ, Sonnabend D, Deady L, et al. Evidence of healing of partial-thickness rotator cuff tears following arthroscopic augmentation with a collagen implant: a 2-year MRI follow-up. Muscles, Ligaments Tendons J 2016;6(1):16-25.
- Schlegel TF, Abrams JS, Bushnell BD, Brock JL, Ho CP. Radiologic and clinical evaluation of a bioabsorbable collagen implant to treat partial-thickness tears: a prospective multicenter study. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2018 27(2):242-251
- Bokor DJ, Sonnabend DH, Deady L, et al. Healing of partial-thickness rotator cuff tears following arthroscopic augmentation with a highly porous collagen implant: a 5-year clinical and MRI follow-up. Muscles, Ligaments Tendons J 2019;9(3):338-347.
- McElvany MD, McGoldrick E, Gee AO, Neradilek MB, Matsen FA, 3rd. Rotator cuff repair: published evidence on factors associated with repair integrity and clinical outcome. Am J Sports Med. 2015;43(2):491-500.
- McIntyre LF, McMillan S, Trenhaile SW, Bishai SK, Bushnell BD. Full-Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears Can Be Safely Treated With a Resorbable Bioinductive Bovine Collagen Implant: One-Year Results of a Prospective, Multicenter Registry. Arthrosc Sports Med Rehabil. 2021 Aug 20;3(5):e1473-e1479
- Bushnell BD, Connor P, Harris HW, Ho CP, Trenhaile SW, Abrams JS. Two-year outcomes with a bioinductive collagen implant used in augmentation of arthroscopic repair of full-thickness rotator cuff tears: Final results of a prospective multi-center study. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2022 Jul 1:S1058-2746
- Micheloni GM, Salmaso G, Zecchinato G, Giaretta S, Barison E, Momoli A. Bio-inductive implant for rotator cuff repair: our experience and technical notes. Acta Biomed. 2020 Dec 30;91(14-S)
- Thon SG, O'Malley L 2nd, O'Brien MJ, Savoie FH 3rd. Evaluation of Healing Rates and Safety With a Bioinductive Collagen Patch for Large and Massive Rotator Cuff Tears: 2-Year Safety and Clinical Outcomes. Am J Sports Med. 2019 Jul;47(8):1901-1908
- Arnoczky SP, Bishai SK, Schofield B, Sigman S, Bushnell BD, Hommen JP, Van Kampen C. Histologic Evaluation of Biopsy Specimens Obtained After Rotator Cuff Repair Augmented With a Highly Porous Collagen Implant. Arthroscopy. 2017 Feb;33(2):278-283
- Camacho-Chacon JA, Cuenca-Espierrez J, Roda-Rojo V, Martin-Martinez A, Calderon-Meza JM, Alvarez-Alegret R, Martin-Hernandez C. Bioinductive collagen implants facilitate tendon regeneration in rotator cuff tears. J Exp Orthop. 2022 Jun 8;9(1):53
- Bushnell BD, Bishai SK, Krupp RJ, McMillan S, Schofield BA, Trenhaile SW, McIntyre LF. Treatment of Partial-Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears With a Resorbable Bioinductive Bovine Collagen Implant: 1-Year Results From a Prospective Multicenter Registry. Orthop J Sports Med. 2021 Aug 13;9(8
- Dai A, Campbell A, Bloom D, Baron S, Begly J, Meislin R. Collagen-Based Bioinductive Implant for Treatment of Partial Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears. Bull Hosp Jt Dis (2013). 2020 Sep;78(3):195-201
- Schlegel TF, Abrams JS, Angelo RL, Getelman MH, Ho CP, Bushnell BD. Isolated bioinductive repair of partial-thickness rotator cuff tears using a resorbable bovine collagen implant: two-year radiologic and clinical outcomes from a prospective multicenter study. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2021 Aug;30(8):1938-1948
- Yeazell S, Lutz A, Bohon H, Shanley E, Thigpen CA, Kissenberth MJ, Pill SG. Increased stiffness and reoperation rate in partial rotator cuff repairs treated with a bovine patch: a propensity-matched trial. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2022 Jun;31(6S):S131-S135
- McIntyre L, Bishai SK, Brown PB, Bushnell BD, Trenhaile SW. Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Use of a Bioabsorbable Collagen Implant to Treat Partial and Full-Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears. Arthroscopy. 2019 35(8):2262-2271
- Bokor DJ, Sonnabend D, Deady L et al. Preliminary investigation of a biological augmentation of rotator cuff repairs using a collagen implant: a 2-year MRI follow-up. MLTJ. 2015;5(3):144-150
- Smith + Nephew 2019. An overview of the outcomes associated with the standard of care for the surgical treatment of rotator cuff tears. Internal Report EO/SPM/REGENETEN/005/v1.
*The REGENETEN implant is currently approved for use in treating Gluteus Medius and Achilles tears only in the U.S.
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Multifaceted actor-filmmaker Raghava Lawrence has got jacked for his upcoming film, Chandramukhi 2. He took to his Twitter page to share pictures of his newly-achieved muscular physique garnering a lot of appreciation from his fans.
“Hi everyone, I want to share two things with you. Firstly, I want to share a my small effort I’m taking to transform my body for Chandramukhi 2. Thanks to my trainer Siva master for bringing this change. I need all your blessings,” Lawrence said in a statement while sharing the pictures.
He also had an additional announcement regarding his charity. “Secondly, I would like to thank all my donors for supporting me and my trust for all these years. You all stood by me and supported my vision with your donations. I have done the best I can and taken help from you whenever I needed it. Now that I’m in a good place and I’m signing more movies, I’ve decided to take the full responsibility of serving people by myself. Hence, I request my supports to not donate your money for Lawrence charitable trust. Your blessings is enough for me. I’m grateful for the support and love i’ve been receiving all these years. I will soon arrange a thanks giving event for all my supports! (sic),” he added.
Hi everyone! I want to share a small update about Chandramukhi 2 and my trust! pic.twitter.com/jLPrVm7q3N
— Raghava Lawrence (@offl_Lawrence) September 13, 2022
The sequel to 2005 horror-comedy is written and directed by Pa Vasu, who helmed Chandramukhi starring superstar Rajinikanth. The film, which was the remake of Malayalam classic Manichitrathazhu, gave Rajinikanth the much-needed break at the box office, as at the time he was reeling under the commercial failure of Baba.
Comedy icon Vadivelu, who had also played a key role in Chandramuki, will also be seen in the sequel. In 2010, Vasu made follow up films to Chandramuki, Aptharakshaka in Kannada and Nagavalli in Telugu. It’s unclear whether Chandramuki 2 would be the remake of these movies. | https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/tamil/raghava-lawrence-gets-jacked-for-chandramukhi-2-see-photo-8150955/ | 2022-09-14T13:09:04 | en | 0.97669 |
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New Research Finds Corner Shops are Faring Well Against Big Box Stores in Emerging Markets, but Digital Challenges Remain
Flourish Ventures Research Reveals Shopkeepers in Brazil, Egypt, India and Indonesia are Reporting Strong Customer Traffic but Risk Falling Behind if They Don't Become More Tech Savvy
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Flourish Ventures released a new research report showing that corner shops are doing better than predicted despite protracted supply chain issues and big-box and online retail competitors. The study confirmed better-than-expected sales and that 94% of consumers surveyed plan to shop as much or more at their corner shops in the future. Both shopkeepers and customers believe however, that corner stores will need to accelerate digital technology adoption to remain relevant and competitive.
The 2022 Digitizing the Corner Shop research report, published by Flourish, a global fintech investor in partnership with Bain & Company and 60 Decibels, elevates the voices of more than 800 shopkeepers and 800 of their customers in Brazil, Egypt, India, and Indonesia. These primary research findings, along with accompanying Flourish analysis, provide shopkeepers, technology providers, and investors with fresh insights into this often overlooked $900 billion industry. Key findings include:
- 50% of consumers visit their corner shop daily, and 24% regularly use a store tab for credit purchases.
- 71% of consumers purchased more groceries from local corner shops during Covid-19 lockdowns.
- 73% of consumers strongly agree that the corner shop is vital to their community, valuing proximity, convenience, and service.
- 80% of shopkeepers are eager for digital business and financial tools, which have the potential to increase profits by 60-100%.
"Our research proves that, even during the pandemic, predictions of the corner store's demise may have been premature," said Flourish Managing Partner Arjuna Costa. "But while customer sentiment across the surveyed markets is enthusiastic, continued patronage will depend on further digitization of store operations and customer responsiveness."
Shopkeepers are adopting new technologies that customers wanted yesterday
During the pandemic, shopkeepers accelerated the adoption of digital technologies to address supply chain inefficiencies, low online sales and limited access to finance and other banking services. Research findings include:
- Across the countries, 55% of shopkeepers use messaging apps in their businesses, and 75% plan to increase usage in the next 12-24 months. Together, these factors point to the opportunity for a "digitized corner shop," a tech-enabled, well-financed, efficient, responsive, and competitive informal retailer.
- Flourish estimates that when corner shops go digital, merchants can increase profits by 60-100%, which may explain why 80% of shopkeepers are eager for better business and financial tools. However, they remain slow to adopt due to other pressing business tasks, data security concerns, lack of familiarity and limited access.
"As the digitized corner shop ecosystem matures, early technology platforms—such as ApnaKlub in India, MaxAB in Egypt, Mercê do Bairro in Brazil, and ShopUp in Bangladesh – will develop into trusted service providers," continued Costa. "Yet, to serve this market, entrepreneurs must determine what immediate pain point to solve, how to monetize and when to partner versus build technology. They must create a seamless and trust-worthy onboarding process, as merchants are reluctant to invest time and money into solutions until they see the tangible value."
To learn more, read the 2022 Digitizing the Corner Shop report here. Flourish Ventures is an early-stage global venture capital firm with more than half a billion dollars under management and 70 portfolio companies in Africa, India, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. The firm backs entrepreneurs whose innovations help global consumers and small businesses achieve financial health.
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The annual celebration of Hindi Diwas commemorates September 14, 1949, the day when the Constituent Assembly of India took the decision to make Hindi the official language of the Union government, while English was to hold the status of associate language for 15 years.
It was a compromise, famously called the Munshi-Ayyangar formula, named after the drafting committee members K M Munshi and N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar, that took into account the demands of the Hindi protagonists and the delegates from South India who wished English to have a Constitutional status.
The debate over the predominance of Hindi was hardly new. From the mid- 1800s onwards, it was in conflict with Urdu in those parts of the subcontinent that we today call the ‘Hindi belt’.
The Hindi-Urdu tug-of-war
Historian Sumit Sarkar in his celebrated book, ‘Modern India: 188-1947’ (1989) noted how “Urdu had been the language of polite culture over a big part of North India, for Hindus quite as much for Muslims.” He elaborated by noting that in the period between 1881-90 twice as many Urdu books had been published in the United Provinces as Hindi. The same was true for newspapers as well. There existed 16,256 Urdu newspapers in circulation in comparison to 8002 ones in Hindi.
Things began to change with the English East India Company (EIC) making inroads in the Indian subcontinent. In the mid-1800s when the EIC started consolidating its position in India, large parts of the country were under the Mughal rule with Persian as the official court language. By the 1830s, the EIC replaced Persian with English at the higher levels of administration and the local vernaculars would be in usage in the lower levels. Given the existing popularity of Urdu among the local population of North India, it came to enjoy a newfound predominance in lower levels of government service.
The socio-political changes in North India in the mid-19th century were accompanied by a rapid expansion of the government education system with its bifurcation of the two vernaculars, Hindi and Urdu. While both the languages were not exclusive to any particular community, surveys of the period noted how those belonging to Brahmin, Rajput and Baniya castes were more likely to go to Hindi schools, while the Persian and Urdu schools were more popular among the Muslims and Kayasthas. Consequently, the latter communities found it easier to be employed in government services.
The desire to find a place in the administration prompted many proponents of Hindi to spell out its merits, including the fact that it was the language of the original inhabitants of the subcontinent, and that it was subdued in the course of the Mughal rule. Those like Bhartendu Harishchandra, who is known as the father of Hindi Literature, and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, who established the Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Parishad, were key figures in the movement to popularise Hindi. Organisations such as the Nagari Pracharini Sabha Banaras, Hindi Sahitya Sammelan in Allahabad and Rashtra Bhasha Prachar Samiti cropped up in large parts of North India with the specific objective of furthering the case for Hindi.
Finally in 1900, the government of the North West Provinces and Oudh gave equal status to the Devanagari and Urdu script, much to the disappointment of the Muslims in the region who came to believe that their language was at the risk of being extinct.
Many argue that the seeds of the Hindu-Muslim conflict that culminated in the Partition of the subcontinent, lay in the Hindi-Urdu debate of the 19th century. The linguistic dichotomy gained further currency when Pakistan opted for Urdu as its official language and India chose Hindi.
Post-1947 debate over Hindi
The choice to make Hindi the official language of an independent India was rooted in the necessity of finding a unifying force in a country with diverse languages, scripts and dialects.
Since Hindi was the spoken language of large parts of North India, it was seen as a safe option for the national linguistic unification of the country. However, large parts of the non-Hindi speaking regions of the country were unhappy with the idea.
Between September 12 and 14, 1949, that the Constituent Assembly of India debated the status of India’s languages. Among the issues that were discussed were the use of the term ‘national language’, instead of ‘official’ language; Hindi vs languages such as Bengali, Telugu, Sanskrit, or Hindustani; Devanagari script vs the Roman script; the language to be used in the higher judiciary and Parliament; international numerals vs those in Devanagari script.
Hindi author Seth Govind Das, who represented the Central Provinces and Berar, argued for ‘one language and one script’ and suggested that Hindi should replace English at the earliest. Naziruddin Ahmad representing West Bengal on the other hand argued that “English should continue as the official language for all purposes for which it was being used, till a time when an ‘All India language’ is evolved, which will be capable of expressing the thoughts and ideas on various subjects, scientific, mathematical, literary, historical, philosophical, political…”
T A Ramalingam Chettiar representing Coimbatore in the Assembly noted that the language issue “probably means life and death for the South”. He pointed out that Hindi was just as foreign to the South as English was. “Unless steps are taken to make the people in the South feel that they have something to do with the country, …I do not think the South is going to be satisfied at all. …To what it may lead, it is not easy to say at present,” he said.
Then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru pointed out that while English had done a lot of good to the nation, no country can succeed on the basis of a foreign language. He recalled Gandhi’s support for Hindustani, which he believed represented the composite culture of India. However, he also cautioned against the imposition of Hindi in opposition to the wishes of large parts of India. This, Nehru said, was “not only an incorrect approach, but …a dangerous approach” — “You just cannot force any language down the people or group who resist that.”
Finally a compromise was reached wherein English along with Hindi was made the official language of India for a period of 15 years. At the completion of the period, Hindi would replace English as the only language to be used for official purposes.
Further, Article 351 of the Constitution asked for the promotion and development of the Hindi language in a way that it could serve as a means of expression in all matters.
From protests to Hindi Diwas
When the 15 year period came to an end protests broke out over the fear of imposition of Hindi in large parts of non-Hindi speaking India, particularly in Tamil Nadu. Riots broke out in Madurai in January 1965 and soon spread to Madras. The resistance resulted in the Centre passing the Official Languages Act, which stated that English would continue to be upheld as official language along with Hindi.
In the years that followed, the government has made several efforts to propagate Hindi as the unifying language of India, the celebration of Hindi Diwas being one among them.
Hindi’s reach in numbers
The 2011 linguistic census accounts for 121 mother tongues, including 22 languages listed in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution.
Hindi is the most widely spoken, with 52.8 crore individuals, or 43.6% of the population, declaring it as their mother tongue. The next highest is Bengali, mother tongue for 9.7 crores (8%) — less than one-fifth of Hindi’s count.
In terms of the number of people who know Hindi, the count crosses more than half the country. Nearly 13.9 crore (over 11%) reported Hindi as their second language, which makes it either the mother tongue or second language for nearly 55% of the population.
Hindi has been India’s predominant mother tongue over the decades, its share in the population rising in every succeeding census.
In 1971, 37% Indians had reported Hindi as their mother tongue, a share that has grown over the next four censuses to 38.7%, 39.2%, 41% and 43.6% at last count.
Between 1971 and 2011, the number of individuals who declared their mother tongue as Hindi multiplied 2.6 times, from 20.2 crore to 52.8 crore. The numbers more than doubled for Punjabi, Maithili, Bengali, Gujarati, and Kannada, and almost doubled for Marathi.
The status of English in India
English, alongside Hindi, is one of the two official languages of the central government, but it is not among the 22 languages in the 8th Schedule. It is one of the 99 non-scheduled languages. In terms of mother tongue, India had just 2.6 lakh English speakers in 2011.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Northstar Clean Technologies Inc. (TSXV: ROOF) ( OTCQB: ROOOF) ("Northstar" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Empower Environmental Solutions Calgary Ltd. has signed a non-binding letter of intent (the "LOI") for a potential long-term 15-year lease for an industrial zoned property of 3.98 acres located in Greater Calgary, Alberta (the "Property") as the site for the Company's planned scale-up facility ("Empower Calgary"). The LOI is for an initial term of 15 years, with two extension options of five years each. The 125m x 125m site is strategically located just outside of metropolitan Calgary, easily accessed 4.4km southeast of the City of Calgary East Landfill.
The Company is expected to have access to the site starting July 1, 2023. The Property is currently zoned as industrial; however, the standard change of land-use development permit application required by the municipality was submitted on August 2, 2022 and is expected to be received in the next 45 days. The lease also allows for certain improvements to be made and financed under the lease at Northstar's discretion.
Mr. Aidan Mills, President & CEO and Director of Northstar, stated, "We are excited to have identified a suitable site for our Calgary Scale-Up Facility, conveniently located near the existing City of Calgary East Landfill. We believe securing the lease will allow us to grow the Company and make long-term decisions. We are proceeding forward on negotiating the official lease agreement and will provide an update to the market in due course. This location gives us not only the space we need for the Calgary Empower Facility, but also makes disposal of single use asphalt shingles and pick up of our end products convenient for our customers and partners."
Mr. Allen Gervais, General Manager of Alberta for Northstar, stated, "We searched extensively across Greater Calgary for the last 6 months to find a suitable property for our planned Calgary Empower Facility. We identified this particular site as attractive for the following reasons: (i) easy access from major transportation routes, (ii) located close to residential areas where the shingles typically come from, (iii) located close to the nearby City of Calgary East Landfill where the shingles are typically hauled to, (iv) located close to industry partners and (v) it is a well-developed industrial area."
Jon C. Mook, Founder and President of the Mook Group of Companies, stated "We are very excited to have Northstar Clean Technologies as a tenant in our portfolio and to be a partner in Northstar's new facility in Rocky View County. Northstar's requirements are familiar to us as we have similar tenants in our portfolio today and we believe we can add value working with them to create a start-of-art processing facility in Alberta that is focused on clean technology."
Northstar Clean Technologies Inc. is a Canadian clean technology company focused on the sustainable recovery and reprocessing of asphalt shingles. Northstar has developed a proprietary design process for taking discarded asphalt shingles, otherwise destined for already over-crowded landfills, and extracting the liquid asphalt, aggregate and fiber for usage in new hot mix asphalt, construction products and other industrial applications. Focused on the circular economy, Northstar plans to reprocess used or defective asphalt shingle waste back into its three primary components for reuse/resale at its Empower Pilot Facility in Delta, British Columbia. As an emerging innovator in sustainable processing, Northstar's mission is to be the leader in the recovery and reprocessing of asphalt shingles in North America, extracting the recovered components from asphalt shingles that would otherwise be sent to landfill.
For further information about Northstar, please visit www.northstarcleantech.com.
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Aidan Mills
President & CEO, Director
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This press release may contain forward‐looking information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, which forward‐looking information reflects the Company's current expectations regarding future events. Forward-looking statements are often identified by the words "may", "would", "could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this press release include statements concerning: (i) the Company's ability to finalize and execute the lease agreement for the proposed 15-year industrial property lease in Greater Calgary, Alberta and any potential benefit derived therefrom; (ii) the anticipated timing of site access; and (iii) the receipt and anticipated timing of the change of land-use development permit required by the municipality of Calgary. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, performance or developments to differ materially from those contained in the statements, including risks related to factors beyond the control of the Company as well as those risks and uncertainties which are more fully described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the final prospectus of the Company dated June 18, 2021 and in the Company's annual and quarterly management's discussion and analysis and other filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities under the Company's profile on SEDAR. The ongoing dispute between the sovereign state of Ukraine and Russia also poses risks that are currently indescribable and immeasurable. No assurance can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will occur or, if they do occur, what benefits the Company will obtain from them. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update such forward‐looking information whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Although the Company has attempted to identify important risks, uncertainties and factors which could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be others that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended and such changes could be material. The Company does not intend, and do not assume any obligation, to update the forward-looking statements except as otherwise required by applicable law.
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Queen Elizabeth II — the longest-serving monarch in the history of the British royal family — passed away in Balmoral, her Scottish summer home, on September 8. Following her passing, many people have paid a tribute to her; but the one that particularly stands out is by sculptor and digital content creator Joao Doce who made a mini 3D-clay sculpture of the late monarch‘s smiling face.
Captioning it, he wrote in Portuguese: “Minha homenagem à rainha,” which translates to “My tribute to the queen” in English.
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The artist can be seen using a set of tools to mold the clay to give it a shape, and then adding intricate details like the teeth, eyes, and smiling lips. Take a look.
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The artist, who belongs to Brazil, uses clay or plasticine to make the figures, according to education website Domestika‘s Facebook profile.
The master creator, who has been working with porcelain from the age of seven, is a self-taught artist. Today, he is 23.
According to codelist.biz, previously, he has made models of artists such as ‘The Rock’, Billie Eilish, Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves, as well as some internet celebrities such as Khaby Lame. He also recreates well-known characters and animals, among others.
Queen Elizabeth’s funeral will take place on September 19.
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As the Senate prepared to move on a bill that would protect same-sex marriage, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) on Monday pushed back against GOP objections that it is unnecessary.
Some Republicans have said the Respect for Marriage Act, which would make marriage a constitutional right regardless of a couple’s sex, race, ethnicity or national origin, is moot because the U.S. Supreme Court has already protected marriage equality.
“The same court that overturned Roe vs. Wade puts in jeopardy a number of other Supreme Court cases: the case that affirmed same-sex marriage, the case that affirmed interracial marriage,” Baldwin, the lead Democratic negotiator for the new bill, said on CNN.
Lawmakers sprung to action after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in his opinion on the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, argued that the justices should also reconsider cases like Obergefell v. Hodges, which secured same-sex marriage as a constitutional right, and Griswold v. Connecticut, which gave married couples the right to access contraceptives.
Millions of U.S. couples, Baldwin said, “are legitimately concerned about the legitimacy of their marriage.”
Democrats are still working to secure 10 GOP votes to ensure the bill can overcome a Republican filibuster. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a sponsor of the bill, is a “yes” vote, along with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) previously told reporters that he “probably will” vote for the bill.
Negotiators are considering an amendment to address GOP concerns about creating legal problems for religious groups, which could expand Republican support for the bill.
Baldwin said that, before the amendment, she had “five [Republicans] on the record and three more soft, not-quite-on-the-record” in her push toward the needed 10 votes.
Her fellow Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) initially indicated he’d support the proposal but later backtracked and dismissed the bill as “just Democrats opening up a wound that doesn’t need to be opened up.”
The Respect for Marriage Act would formally repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which narrowly defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman — legislation that remains in place despite being negated in part by the Supreme Court.
Repealing the outdated legislation would be a strong and “very affirming statement” from Congress, Baldwin said.
“We often think, when we say the word marriage, of the wedding rights, but with a marriage certificate comes very important rights and responsibilities that people rely on, say, hospital visits and, you know, all sorts of things that are really important. So this is timely right now.”
Baldwin said Johnson has “gone back and forth quite a bit on this issue” and added that she hopes he’ll revert back to supporting the bill after seeing the new amendment.
“This is a real issue to millions of couples across the United States. This is not being done for political purposes. We have, already, a nice bipartisan group working very hard to pass it,” Baldwin said.
The House passed its Respect for Marriage Act 267-157 in July, with 47 Republicans joining all Democrats voting in favor.
The bill could pass the Senate this month, and Baldwin says she expects the Senate to vote on it next week.
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One World Products Establishes Common Stock Equity Agreement to Support its Growth
New Funding Agreement Valued at up to $10 Million
Company Appoints New Independent Director
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One World Products, Inc. ( OTCQB: OWPC) (the "Company" and "OWP"), the largest Black-controlled, fully-licensed hemp and cannabis producer in Colombia, today announced that it entered into a common stock purchase agreement and registration rights agreement (together, the "Agreements") with an institutional investor for up to $10 million worth of shares issuable over a 36-month period time, based upon the current market price of the stock at the time. Separately, upon entering into the Agreements, the investor made an initial fixed price equity investment of $150,000, which is subject to Rule 144 and a 6-month holding period. The Company also announced the appointment of a new independent director to its Board of Directors, Terry L. Buffalo.
Isiah Thomas, OWP Chairman and CEO, stated, "This investment into One World Products provides substantial upfront capital that will be used to continue to scale our operations in Columbia, enhance industrial sales of hemp products to customers and expand our carbon credits, and it is in common stock equity at a fixed price. Of note, the common stock equity agreement will provide us additional growth capital to increase our sales and is at our control and discretion in regard to the amounts and timing. We believe this financing is not dilutive to current shareholders and enhances our value by increasing our cash and shareholder equity positions over time. It better positions us toward our capital markets' goal for 2023 of an up list to a major U.S. national exchange. At this time, the Company has yet to decide on any recapitalization structure or timing, as our Board and management continue to believe out stock is undervalued."
Mr. Thomas continued, "We are pleased to partner with this institutional investor that clearly values the vision and tremendous growth potential that we see for OWP. We are confident that this capital structure will support our operational cash flow requirements while providing the flexibility to achieve our growth targets. Of extreme importance to us was the faith and enthusiasm of the investor to provide a $150,000 upfront investment at a fixed equity price and our control over the timing and amounts of future equity capital which allows us to take advantage of sudden increases in our stock price."
Following the initial investment, and subject to the conditions of the Agreements, including that a registration statement is filed and declared effective with the Securities and Exchange Commission the Company has the right, in its sole discretion, to sell up to an additional $10 million worth of shares over a 36-month period. The Company will control the timing and amount of any sales to the investor and the investor is obligated to make purchases in accordance with the Agreements.
There are no upper limits to the price per share the investor may pay to purchase common stock and the purchase price of the shares will be discounted per the agreement based on market prices of the Company's shares at the time of each sale. No warrants, derivatives, financial or business covenants are associated with the Agreements.
Additionally, on September 6, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Terry L. Buffalo to serve as an Independent Director of the Company to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Bruce Raben's resignation. Mr. Buffalo, 57, previously served as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a director of American Cannabis Company and is the founder and principal of Buffalo Cannabis Advisors. He has extensive executive experience in private and public sector engagements, primarily overseeing the deployment of multi-billion-dollar asset expansions and ensuring SEC compliance for publicly traded companies.
Mr. Thomas added, "We welcome Mr. Buffalo to our Board of Directors. Terry brings more than 25 years of experience in investment and financial advising and specifically seven plus years of extensive Cannabis Industry expertise to our Company. He joins the Board as an Independent Director, and we are excited about the contributions he will undoubtedly make at OWP. We also thank Mr. Raben for his support of our early-stage growth and wish him well as he leaves to pursue other opportunities."
A more detailed description of the Agreements is set forth in One World Products' Current Reports on Form 8-K as filed with the SEC.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities in this offering, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer solicitation or sale are unlawful prior to registration or qualification under securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
One World Products is the largest Black-controlled, fully licensed hemp and cannabis producer with offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, and offices and operations in Bogota and Popayan, Colombia. One World Products planted its first crop of cannabis in 2018 at its cultivation site in Popayan, Colombia, and began harvesting commercially in the first quarter of 2020.
As an ascendant international hemp and cannabis company focused on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, the recently announced Isiah International/One World Products/AMUNAFRO consortium controls approximately 1.2 million acres of land in Colombia focused on the licensed production of industrial hemp for integration into sustainable, carbon-reducing products made throughout the world. The Company expects to supply its global clients with the highest quality industrial and commercial applications for cannabis, hemp, and hemp products, including derivatives in crude oil, distillate, and isolate forms with industrial-scale production to serve global cannabis and hemp demand. Its products will be produced and tested according to GAP, GMP and ISO standards. For more information, please visit https://oneworldproducts.com/.
Isiah Thomas was inducted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Fame in 2000 after spending his entire career with the Detroit Pistons. He was a 12-time NBA All-Star, a two-time NBA champion, the 1990 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player, and named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Today, Mr. Thomas serves as an analyst for NBA TV and is an accomplished and highly respected international business executive and investor. His portfolio of companies was developed through Isiah International, Inc., which invests in companies with strong market positions and growth potential.
Mr. Thomas' business interests include sports and entertainment, real estate, waste management, hemp, cannabis, and a CBD personal products company, among others. In addition, Mr. Thomas has developed a very successful champagne business, Cheurlin Champagnes. He has cultivated excellent relationships with the grower, employees, and the French government. As a result, he now owns the proprietary genetics for the Champagne grapes he produces and has perfected an international import/export system for the global distribution of the product. More information is available at www.isiahinternational.com.
Mr. Thomas previously served on the Chicago Stock Exchange's Board of Governors, was a co-founder of the NBA's Toronto Raptors, Popcorn Indiana, and was a member of the Board of Get-in Chicago, an organization that focused on preventing gang violence in Chicago. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Indiana University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice. He also received his Master of Education from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Rooh Afza has been a much-loved cooling drink consumed by people across the length and breadth of the country for generations — especially during the unforgiving summer months and at the time of Ramzan, when there is both fasting as well as feasting.
Its consumption, however, is not limited to India. People of Pakistan are big Rooh Afza drinkers, too, as are those living in Bangladesh, both of which are neighbours to India and were carved out of it during the Partition of 1947.
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Needless to say, the three countries share many similar cultures.
Recently, the Delhi High Court directed Amazon India to remove the listing of a drink manufactured by a Pakistani company under the same name ‘Rooh Afza’ from its platform, possibly to avoid confusion in the mind of an Indian consumer.
Indian Express reported that the order came after a plea was filed by the Indian social welfare NGO Hamdard National Foundation, which stated that the ‘Rooh Afza’ listed on the e-commerce site in India are not all manufactured by Hamdard Laboratories (India), but by Pakistani companies whose details are not mentioned on the packaging.
Interestingly, the history of the drink goes back to pre-Partition India — all the way back to a single family — when there did not exist any Pakistan, or even Bangladesh. We reached out to Hamid Ahmed, the CEO and trustee of Hamdard Laboratories (India), Food Division, and the grandson of Hakim Abdul Hamid — the founder of Hamdard that was started in 1906 — who said that the trademark of the drink is held by Hamdard Laboratories (India).
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“This product cannot be sold [by any other enterprise] either directly or through grey channels in India, because it is already manufactured here. This is why we discussed the matter with Amazon and other e-commerce players, who showed their inability to take it out. We had no other option but to then approach the high court,” Ahmed told this outlet.
Ahmed explained that back in 1906, there was only one Hamdard. “But after 1947, while my great-grandfather stayed back in India along with one of his sons, his other son — Hakim Mohammed Said — moved to Pakistan to start another Hamdard there. Then, when Bangladesh came into existence in 1971, there came into being a third Hamdard: Hamdard Bangladesh. But all three manufacture Rooh Afza,” he stated.
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Ahmed said that the first-ever branded product that was manufactured by Hamdard in 1907 was the humble Rooh Afza. “[This drink] is older than even the birth of Pakistan and Bangladesh! It is an Indian product and we wanted to save the Indian market from infiltration by the grey market.”
The CEO also said that Rooh Afza was originally a medicine, more than a drink or a sherbet, and it has cooling properties, which is why it is always in demand in summers. “While its ingredients have remained the same over the years, manufacturing has changed because new technology has now come in. In 1907, when it was launched, it was perhaps made inside a small kitchen, but today it is prepared with state-of-the-art technology in factories.
“We use extracts of cooling vegetables, fruit juices, and fragrances to prepare the drink. Now, there is also a sugar-free variant.”
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President Biden on Monday will announce the director of a new agency focused on biomedical innovation and sign an executive order on biotechnologies as part of an update on his administration’s efforts to cure cancer.
Biden will travel to Boston on the 60th anniversary of former President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot” speech at Rice University, where Kennedy outlined his goal for the United States to land a man on the moon.
The president will provide an update on his administration’s “Cancer Moonshot,” an initiative he relaunched in February with the goal to cut the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years and improve the lives of caregivers and cancer survivors.
Biden on Monday will announce the appointment of Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an agency created in March focused on developing biomedical technologies to improve health outcomes.
The president will also sign an executive order launching a national biotechnology and biomanufacturing initiative. The order will bolster research and aim to solidify supply chains so that biotechnologies used in the fight against cancer are developed and produced in the U.S., according to a White House fact sheet.
“This initiative is rooted in the principles of equity, ethics, safety, and security that will help benefit all Americans and the global community, and maintain United States technological leadership and economic competitiveness,” the White House said.
Biden will also give an update on the progress of his “Cancer Cabinet,” a group of advisers and administration officials tasked with securing funding and developing treatments for cancer.
The president will highlight recent developments like the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act by Democrats in Congress, which includes provisions to lower prescription drug costs, some of which are used to treat certain forms of cancer.
He will also note the launch of a National Cancer Institute study aimed at identifying blood tests that can detect one or more cancers with the goal of earlier detection in cancer patients.
Before the speech on Monday, Biden will make remarks on the investments in the bipartisan infrastructure law in Boston.
The cause of ending cancer has been personal for Biden, whose son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. The president has talked about ending cancer throughout his campaign and presidency, saying it would be a priority for him. He has also framed it as a bipartisan effort, meeting with members of both parties at the White House last year to discuss the effort. | https://www.news10.com/hill-politics/biden-to-sign-order-boosting-biotech-as-part-of-cancer-moonshot-update/ | 2022-09-14T13:09:23 | en | 0.961496 |
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HOBOKEN, N.J., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson, the world's leading learning company, and Headspace, a global leader in mindfulness and meditation, today announced a partnership to make mental wellness resources affordable to college students via Pearson+. Pearson+ student active subscribers can claim a 30-day free trial to Headspace, just in time for the fall semester. Following the free trial, Pearson+ members will have the ability to sign-up for Headspace's highly discounted student rate of $9.99 per year. Students can also sample Headspace's premium mindfulness content within the Pearson+ app with the "In Between Classes" meditation, a short grounding practice to help students feel centered and ready for the day ahead.
"Headspace has built a powerful brand that has helped millions of people improve their health and we're excited to bring their services to our Pearson+ students," stated Lynne Frank, Pearson Chief Marketing Officer and Co-President Direct to Consumer. "We're confident this partnership will help students have a positive mindset as they approach their studies so they can get better results and enjoy their college experience."
Headspace offers more than 1,000 hours of award-winning mindfulness and meditation content, including meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement and focus exercises. In 28 published studies in some of the leading mindfulness peer-reviewed journals, Headspace has been shown to have favorable outcomes of interventions including reduced stress, improved focus, decreased aggression, reduced burnout and improved satisfaction with life. Most recently, Headspace has released a curated "back-to-school" collection where students can find useful mindfulness content and tips from leading experts and Headspace's beloved mindfulness and meditation teachers. With the goal of helping students navigate life as a young person, course topics include fear of the future, leaving home, dealing with distractions, navigating change and fighting FOMO. There are also SOS exercises and expert guidance on a number of common issues students share such as burnout, exam prep, building self-confidence, and kicking the Sunday Scaries.
"Our work with Pearson provides much-needed mental wellbeing support at an affordable price to students across the United States," stated Emma Nemtin, Head of Consumer Brand and Distribution Partnerships at Headspace. "With partners like Pearson, we hope to develop lifelong relationships with young people across the globe and motivate them to prioritize their mental health while leaning on Headspace to help navigate major life moments, like the transition into college."
Earlier this year, Pearson's Global Learner Survey was released and found that more than 80% of people globally prioritize mental health and wellbeing services when considering higher education institutions for themselves or their children.
In its first year, Pearson+ gained 4.5 million registered users 329,000 paid subscriptions from August of 2021 to July of 2022.
Visit Pearsonplus.com to learn more, including information about Pearson Plus Channels, a new study tool featuring thousands of curated videos to help students learn and succeed.
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. That's why our c.20,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world's leading learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. Visit us pearsonplc.com.
Headspace was created with one mission in mind: to improve the health and happiness of the world. As one of the first meditation apps on the market, Headspace remains a leader in mindfulness and mental training. For more information please visit us at headspace.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.
Headspace Health is a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing solutions, touching the lives of over 100 million people in 190 countries. Through our flagship Headspace brand, we provide mindfulness tools for everyday life, including meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement, and focus exercises. Our enterprise brands, Headspace for Work and Ginger, are distributed through over 3,700 enterprises, including Starbucks, Adobe, Delta Air Lines, and Paramount; and through health plans such as Cigna. Our members and enterprise partners' employees have access to mindfulness and meditation tools, CBT, coaching, therapy, and psychiatry, ultimately helping them to be healthier and more productive. To learn more about Headspace Health and our family of brands, visit headspacehealth.com.
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To increase employment, one needs growth. There cannot be growthless jobs. Simultaneously, down the years, the employment elasticity of growth has declined. Without burdening a column with unnecessary numbers, employment elasticity is roughly half of what it used to be two decades ago. This isn’t quite jobless growth. If an economy grows at 7 per cent, unless productivity grows at 7 per cent, there will be some employment growth, though it might not be as much as one wishes for. In assessing this, one shouldn’t get bogged down in transient dislocations caused by Covid-19. Why isn’t employment elasticity of growth higher? Why aren’t labour force participation rates higher?
Theses have been written, and will be written, on this. One part of the puzzle is rigid labour laws. Labour is in the Concurrent List. Until recently, there were 50-55 Union-level labour laws, of which, the labour ministry administered around 40. Enacted at different periods of time, these needed to be rationalised and harmonised. Definitions differed, increasing litigation and complicating case law, making it inconsistent. They made labour markets in the organised sector rigid while imparting less-than-desired protection in the unorganised sector.
Contrary to some perceptions, this wasn’t only about an exit policy for labour, that is, offending sections of the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA), relating to lay-offs, retrenchment and closure. The inspector raj associated with labour laws affected an enterprise in all three stages of its life cycle – entry, functioning and exit. All this has been discussed threadbare in the literature. Since non-wage transaction costs associated with hiring labour were high, and not just wage costs, production became excessively capital-intensive. In 2021, Teamlease documented 30,000 compliances and 3,000 filings associated with labour laws. That apart, production was fragmented, to bypass coverage of organised sector labour laws.
Since labour is in the Concurrent List, some states introduced reforms. These include Andhra Pradesh/Telangana, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand depending on how one interprets labour market reform. The Economic Survey 2018-19 classified states into those with flexible labour laws and those without, and the list above is that of those with flexible labour laws.
Flexible doesn’t always mean statutory changes. Flexibility can also be imparted through flexible orders and regulations – the domain of the executive. If flexibility and harmonisation, leading to lower compliance costs, are desirable, what effects have these changes led to? Beyond superficial correlations, few will hazard to answer that empirical question. There are several reasons for this.
First, there isn’t a long enough time-series. Such changes are of recent vintage, say, post-2014. Second, what is the data source? The only possible source is the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), which imparts some sampling biases. Third, does one mean manufacturing, or services too? Services are essentially covered by state-level Shops and Establishments Acts. Ipso facto, one primarily has manufacturing in mind. Fourth, as an exogenous shock, the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted matters. Fifth, labour intensity in production is a function of relative prices of labour (not simply wage costs) and capital. Thus, it is influenced by subsidies (tax exemptions) that encourage capital usage. Sixth, technology is such that modern manufacturing has turned increasingly capital-intensive and there is also a trend to increasingly use contract labour.
With those qualifications, what does tentative empirical probing show? Flexible labour laws have a positive impact on employment and the setting up of new units, but they aren’t a magic wand. They matter at the margin, underling the need for broader reforms, such as infrastructure, law and order and skills and education.
Against this background, after the recommendations of the Second National Labour Commission (2002), and several other reports, the Union government unified 29 statutes and passed (2019, 2020) four Codes on wages, safety (and health), industrial relations and social security. Note that this was after a lot of discussion and debate, after the Bills had been referred to a Standing Committee. These are statutory changes, to be followed by new rules under the new Codes and one can accept, because of the preceding debate, that these statutory changes are desirable. As the Prime Minister recently remarked (in August) at the National Labour Conference, the onus is on the states.
How nimble have states been in announcing new rules? Let’s focus on the larger states, ignoring the smaller ones for reasons of space. For the Code on Wages (2019), the only major state that has not yet announced Rules is West Bengal. For the Code on Industrial Relations (2020), the list has Rajasthan and West Bengal. For the Code on Social Security (2020), it is Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. For the Code on Safety, Health and Working Conditions (2020), it is Rajasthan and West Bengal. The mention of Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan is somewhat odd since they had introduced labour market reforms earlier, as mentioned in the Economic Survey 2018-19.
Across the four Codes, the one that really sticks out is West Bengal. In passing, there is a Model Shops and Establishments Act, framed by the Union government in 2016. Labour market rigidities and complex procedures also exist in state-level Shops and Establishments Acts and in accordance with the spirit of the changes incorporated in the four Codes and Model Shops and the Establishments Act, these too need to be made more flexible. Evidence doesn’t quite suggest states are eager to impart that flexibility. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, this lack of eagerness typically characterises the states presumed to have a labour cost advantage. Some states evidently labour under an illusion.
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Simmering tensions among congressional Democrats are rising to the surface as the party looks to secure a few more legislative victories in the final two-month sprint to the midterm elections.
Both chambers have jam-packed agendas as they enter the final policy-making month before the November midterm elections.
The House, which reconvenes on Tuesday, will not be in session in October so that lawmakers can head home to campaign — leaving little time for legislating.
The Senate, which reassembled last week, is scheduled to be in session for part of next month, though it is unlikely they will use the extra days in Washington.
At the top of the agenda is legislation to prevent a government shutdown on Oct. 1.
Funding the government itself isn’t splitting liberal and centrist Democrats, but there are likely to be divisions over how to get a bill through Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants to include language in a stopgap government funding measure on permitting reform to make good on a deal he and other party leaders made with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to secure his support for passage of last month’s Inflation Reduction Act.
But liberals in the House and in the Senate — including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — oppose the reforms.
“I rise this morning to express my strong opposition to the so-called side deal that the fossil fuel industry is pushing to make it easier for them to pollute the environment and destroy our planet,” Sanders said on the Senate floor last week.
The permitting reform legislation is expected to expedite the development of fossil fuel and other energy products by setting maximum timelines for environmental reviews, among other things.
Schumer promised Manchin that permitting reform would pass in exchange for his support of the multi-billion dollar climate, taxes and health care bill. Manchin’s backing was essential in helping Democrats secure enough support in the 50-50 Senate to trigger Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
Sanders called the permitting reform legislation “a huge giveaway to the fossil fuel industry,” and argued that the measure would sabotage Biden’s goal of halving carbon emissions by the year 2030.
“Really, at a time when climate change is threatening the very existence of our planet, why would anybody be talking about substantially increasing carbon emissions and expanding fossil fuel production in the United States?” the Vermont Independent asked.
The resistance does not end in the Senate.
More than House 70 Democrats penned a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Friday asking that the permitting reform legislation be omitted from the continuing resolution — a push against the side deal struck between Manchin and Schumer.
“The inclusion of these provisions in a continuing resolution, or any other must-pass legislation, would silence the voices of frontline and environmental justice communities by insulating them from scrutiny,” the lawmakers, led by Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), wrote.
If Schumer goes through with his plan and tacks permitting reform onto the continuing resolution, and if that stopgap passes through the Senate, progressives in the House would be faced with a tough decision: vote “no” and potentially trigger a government shutdown, or ignore misgivings about the legislation and vote “yes.”
Schumer could, however, play one more hand that would effectively force his colleagues on the left to support the measure despite their doubts: add a bill protecting marriage equality on the federal level to the continuing resolution.
But the majority leader and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), a sponsor of the marriage equality bill, have both said they prefer to hold a separate vote on the legislation.
Tensions between liberals and centrists will also likely bubble up over other agenda items.
Centrist House Democrats are expected to push hard for a vote on policing legislation that has been delayed twice because of disagreements with House liberals.
Pelosi punted a vote on the public safety bills last month, writing in a letter to colleagues that “conversations continue on finding consensus for a robust public safety package.”
Liberals had opposed increases for police funding across the country given the outcry over violence by police against minority communities.
But centrists running in tough races against the backdrop of Republicans decrying rising crime rates want to pass legislation that would provide more money for police.
The policing legislation was supposed to move in July with a bill to ban assault weapons, but Democratic leaders decided to separate the two measures to leave more time for consensus building.
But it’s far from clear that progress is being made.
As the negotiations over policing bills continue, moderates — especially Democrats facing difficult reelection races in November, known as “Frontliners” — are pushing for a vote to cinch a victory they can tout during the final weeks of campaigning.
“President Biden said best in his State of the Union address: the answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to fund the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities,” one Frontliner told The Hill, speaking anonymously to talk about a sensitive topic.
“This legislation has passed every test, except among the loud few, and does right by our communities to ensure safety and accountability. With our majority on the line, Democrats need to put their money where their mouths are and pass this bill before November,” they added. | https://www.news10.com/hill-politics/democratic-tensions-rise-to-surface-in-sprint-to-midterm-elections/ | 2022-09-14T13:09:29 | en | 0.960856 |
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JACKSON, Wyo., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime Movers Lab, a venture capital investor in breakthrough scientific startups working to revolutionize the world's most important industries and transform billions of lives, raised $500 million for its first early growth fund. The fund brings the venture capital firm's total assets under management to more than $1 billion.
Prime Movers Lab's Early Growth Fund is investing in early growth-stage companies that are reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture. The Early Growth Fund's investments include Boom Supersonic (supersonic passenger jets), Tarana Wireless (fixed-wireless technology), Upward Farms (indoor farming), E-Space (sustainable satellite network), and Energy Vault (grid-scale storage).
"Software has already eaten the world. We are now entering a new era of breakthrough science. In the coming two decades, almost every layer of our physical world will be reshaped by breakthrough science startups that are transforming their industries," said Prime Movers Lab Founder and General Partner Dakin Sloss. "Our Early Growth Fund enables a multi-stage approach and lets us scale companies at all stages of maturity."
Prime Movers Lab's access to high-quality deal flow and technical due diligence capabilities position the firm to be the leading breakthrough science venture fund. The firm has conducted due diligence on thousands of companies from some of the nation's top universities and incubators.
"Prime Movers Lab prides itself on our due diligence. Our team of technical experts, advisors, and industry leaders helps us invest in companies that have retired science risk. This allows us to focus on 'how big can it become?' rather than 'will it work?'" said Prime Movers Lab General Partner Amy Kruse.
The firm's first two funds, Prime Movers Lab Fund I, a $100 million fund, and Prime Movers Lab Fund II, a $245 million fund, have made early-stage investments in companies that are working to solve some of the most pressing challenges facing the world, including climate change, mental health, and sustainable food production.
"Our vision is to take the scientific breakthroughs across our core sectors and back the ones that make sense commercially," said General Partner Zia Huque. "For too long, capital has been a bottleneck to funding breakthrough science companies, but that is changing. You're starting to see that in the markets today. Exits by companies like Tesla, Beyond Meat, and Gingko Bioworks are just the tip of the spear."
"Prime Movers Lab supports startup entrepreneurs in their journeys well beyond providing the capital needed to grow. The least useful thing we provide is capital," Sloss said. "The firm works with each portfolio company as trusted advisors to make hires, close sales deals, chart a strategy and build the company. This includes offering entrepreneurial-minded leaders comprehensive resources and integrated coaching to support the transformation of world-class technical experts into extraordinary executives."
"Dakin and Prime Movers Lab are a very different kind of investor than any I have had in the past 30 years. What sets them apart in an entirely different (and better) category is how smart, helpful, and humble they are. They took the time to understand our business and technology better than anyone else and thus were able to add more value. They also are thought leaders – and leaders in general – not looking to others for social proof – they are bold enough and smart enough to be strong and supportive backers. Finally, and on top of all of that, they share my goal of making the world a better place, and I very much look forward to doing just that with them," said Heliogen, Energy Vault, and Carbon Capture Founder Bill Gross.
"The Prime Movers Lab team has delivered for Tarana Wireless. First, as a board member, I saw their unparalleled commitment to their portfolio companies over three, very different fundraising rounds," said Tarana CEO Basil Alwan. "And, since becoming the CEO of Tarana, I've come to appreciate their hands-on full support as we scale and deliver broadband to underserved communities."
"I love working with the Prime Movers Lab team because they provide untold amounts of strategic insight, support, and engagement," E-Space Founder and CEO Greg Wyler said. "I've built numerous companies and have found Prime Movers Lab to be the most thoughtful, connected, and invested partner. Prime Movers Lab is a truly different type of venture capital firm that is well poised for this new era of scientific breakthroughs."
"Prime Movers Lab has built an impressive team across investment and technical partners. They uniquely understand deep technology—and are able to accurately assess challenges in diligence, then connect their founders and support them on both business and engineering expertise. We're grateful to have Prime Movers Lab on the Boom Supersonic team," said Boom Supersonic Founder and CEO Blake Scholl.
Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in companies reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture and human augmentation. Portfolio investments span in-space transportation, industrial solar heat, ag tech, brain upgrades, nano-structured materials, wafer slicing, prosthetics, 3D printing, mobility, longevity and AI. For more information, please visit https://www.primemoverslab.com.
Contact: Gavin Mathis, 406-539-7277, [email protected]
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Donning a white kurta and a puffer jacket, Vikramaditya Singh sets off in his SUV to kickstart the first leg of the Congress’s Rozgar Sangharsh Yatra. It is Monday morning and Singh, the son of six-time Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbadhra Singh, is on his way to tour the Mandi-Shimla area.
The Congress is gearing up for the Assembly elections in November with the yatra, an outreach initiative in line with the Bharat Jodo Yatra that former party president Rahul Gandhi is currently leading. Vikramaditya, the MLA from the Shimla (Rural) constituency, is the face of the party’s youth brigade and according to him, the key issue in the hill state is unemployment. Throughout the yatra — the first leg will continue till Thursday — the Congress leader is scheduled to visit remote hamlets to focus on micro issues — from jobs in the tourism industry to the rights of transport operators.
“Every time I am approached by a youngster, the main grouse is a lack of jobs,” says the MLA. “We are a state with a huge youth population and they have been abandoned by the ruling party (the BJP). There are lakhs of people without job security. Many of them are looking for jobs outside the state, which is eventually a loss for us. We have to bring the focus back to employment. Job creation is our most important party promise.”
Vikramaditya’s convoy stops at every few turns so that he can greet people waving at him. The car halts briefly at a rest house in Chindi, where a brief discussion with party workers ensues about the agenda for the day.
The cavalcade then starts for the first public meeting of the day. It has been organised at the market area in the town of Karsog and the cars ditch the main highway for a narrow road alongside the valley. By then, locals have gathered on the roofs of their homes to greet the MLA. This is the first Assembly election that the Congress will face after Virbhadra Singh’s death in July 2021 and for many Himachalis the former CM’s wife Pratibha, who is now the state Congress president, and Vikramaditya are extensions of “Raja Sahab”, as Virbhadra was popularly known.
The first major challenge for the Congress after the former CM’s death was the bypolls held last November. “The bypolls were challenging emotionally since the death was recent. There was very little time to recover but it had to be done. And we won all the seats,” says Vikramaditya, adding, “The people know that the state has been virtually built by Virbhadra ji.”
A local, Sanjay Thakur, says, “The current MLA from Karsog is from the BJP. But there is no guarantee for a repeat here. Virbhadra Singh left a legacy. He, too, in his prime, lost elections. No one can predict the outcome. Inflation and rising expenses might play a factor.”
At the market, more than 500 people, several of them carrying Congress banners, are huddled on a narrow incline. An LED screen mounted on top of a van shows visuals of Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. People join in and walk two kilometres to reach the bus stand where Vikramaditya is set to speak.
In his speech, the MLA hits out at the BJP’s “false promises”. Claiming that the “Congress laid the foundation of the developmental projects in the state”, he blames the BJP for “appropriating” them. He adds that the Freedom of Religion Act — which the BJP amended in 2022 — was introduced in 2019 by the Congress government to “ensure there were no forceful conversions”.
On his way to CM Jairam Thakur’s backyard Janjheli, the next stop, the Congress leader says, “In the hill state, politics is issue-based. The identity and religion card do not resonate. There is little space for communalism and people want to see development.”
The route from Karsog to Janjheli is uneven and littered with broken boulders. “We are very much in the CM’s area. Development is visible,” Vikramaditya quips. He makes a brief stop at a guesthouse in a ravine at Seraj, where a dozen workers await with garlands.
Asked about rising factionalism in the party and the fight over his father’s legacy, the legislator says, “There is no denying that there is factionalism in the party. And it will only intensify till the ticket distribution is carried out. But the party is pulling out all the stops in this election.”
In Jhanjheli, a pandal has been put up to welcome the Congress leader. A local cook feeds the crowd kachodi, curd, and some pickle. A local presents a Himachali cap to Vikramaditya. Many refer to him as “tikka (prince)” and he remains the focal point of discussion of all those present.
The Shimla (Rural) MLA talks to the crowd about his party’s promise of providing benefits worth Rs 680 crore for start-ups and a mention of Rahul Gandhi is met with applause. As the day sets and the weather in the hill hamlet starts getting chilly, the event draws to an end. Given that Jhanjheli is part of the CM’s turf, Congress functionaries are pleased with the turnout.
“For all practical purposes, election campaigning has begun,” says Vikramaditya. “Many people are connecting to the party through social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook. We want the best for the youth and the change is here. The BJP will not succeed in its ‘Mission Repeat’.” | https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/job-promises-his-legacy-virbhadra-son-congress-himachal-8151049/ | 2022-09-14T13:09:34 | en | 0.97135 |
Stephen Curry says Americans should treat President Trump — and his potential 2024 White House bid — as a serious “threat.”
“Take Trump seriously? Of course,” the Golden State Warriors star and NBA Finals MVP told Rolling Stone magazine for a cover story published Monday for its October issue.
“Most of his rhetoric — before he was president, during his last four years, and even now, if he tries to run again — has a tone of divisiveness that doesn’t have a place in our country,” he said.
“As serious and as loud as the threat is of him or whoever else is running for office,” Curry, 34, continued, “there’s a similar urgency and a loudness that’s necessary on the other side.”
It’s not the first time that Curry has spoken out against the 45th president. After Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank called the then-commander in chief an “asset” to the country in a 2017 interview, Curry told the San Jose Mercury News, “I agree with that description, if you remove the ‘et’ from asset.”
That same year, Curry said he didn’t want his team to make a traditional stop at the White House to celebrate their NBA championship title. Following Curry’s remarks, Trump tweeted that the White House invitation had been “withdrawn.”
Curry, a board member of When We All Vote, Michelle Obama’s voter registration and engagement organization, opened up about his activism to Rolling Stone.
“You’re growing and evolving on the same page as these national, politicized conversations, but it doesn’t have to be sides,” he said.
“What I try to do is be real, but also activate conversation that is sometimes uncomfortable,” the NBA All-Star said.
“The current events of the Trump era, I don’t wake up and say, ‘I wanna go at that conversation,’” Curry told the magazine.
“Some of this stuff falls on your doorstep and people want a perspective or comment, and sometimes you cough that up unsolicited.”
Curry said that while he didn’t regret not speaking out more in 2016 when the NBA weighed moving its All-Star game from North Carolina in protest of a controversial law requiring that transgender people use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex, he could’ve “been a lot stronger” on the issue.
“We get attacked as athletes sometimes when you don’t want to say something — ‘I need to get more educated,’ there’s all these lines that people use,” Curry said.
“It kind of seems like you’re soft or like you’re equivocating or avoiding whatever the situation is.”
Curry also revealed that former President Obama — a frequent golfing partner and well-known basketball fanatic — once scolded him for repeating on a 2018 podcast a conspiracy theory that questioned whether astronauts really landed on the moon.
Following the podcast interview, Curry recalled, “I got an email. It was a pretty stern, direct one from President Obama.”
After telling him that humans did step foot on the moon, Curry said Obama instructed him, “You’ve got to do something about this.”
Following Obama’s advice, Curry hosted an Instagram Live discussion with an astronaut for his more than 45 million followers, and auctioned off a pair of custom-made space-themed sneakers, with proceeds going to STEM education programs.
Curry said back in June, after clenching his fourth NBA championship and telling the cameras, “What are they gonna say now?” he received a congratulatory call from Obama.
The ex-president suggested tweaking the boast slightly, telling Curry, “What the f— are they gonna say now?” | https://www.news10.com/hill-politics/stephen-curry-says-trump-should-be-treated-as-serious-threat/ | 2022-09-14T13:09:35 | en | 0.967449 |
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prometheus Laboratories Inc. ("Prometheus") today announced its partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited ("Takeda") to nationally launch CDPATH, an innovative prognostic tool for Crohn's disease (CD) patients. CDPATH is a personalized risk assessment tool that can be used in combination with a physician's clinical assessment to evaluate an adult patient's risk for developing serious complications of CD such as bowel strictures, internal penetrating disease, or non-perianal surgery within three years.
The CDPATH test is a result of a collaboration among Prometheus, MiTest Health LLC ("MiTest") and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited ("Takeda"). MiTest defined and established the clinical relevance of the CDPATH model through an independent clinical study. Prometheus, a CLIA certified and CAP accredited laboratory, validated CDPATH and is the processing laboratory for the CDPATH program. Takeda will make CDPATH available for use by US-based physicians and offer the test free of charge to eligible patients, with the goal of supporting shared decision-making between patients and healthcare providers.
"This tool was developed to address a significant unmet need in the management of Crohn's disease," said Dr. Marla Dubinsky, who along with being a Co-inventor and Co-founder of MiTest Health, is also a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine, Chief of Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Co-director of the Mount Sinai Susan and Leonard Feinstein IBD Clinical Center. "With CDPATH, we want to identify patients before they have severe disease and inform discussions with patients about the management of disease."
This partnership with Takeda, a pharmaceutical industry leader in the field of gastroenterology (GI), contributes to the Prometheus mission of enabling precision-guided patient care and improving disease outcomes.
Mike Walther, President of Prometheus Laboratories commented, "We are pleased to partner with Takeda to make CDPATH available to healthcare providers and their patients. Supporting the launch of CDPATH is yet another milestone among our strategic initiatives as we continue to provide innovative clinical lab services to guide care from disease interception through therapeutic optimization and monitoring."
"At Takeda, we are driven by the challenge of making a meaningful difference in the lives of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, and working with partners to provide solutions that can help transform their care," said Gamze Yüceland, Head, Gastroenterology Business Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, U.S.A., Inc. "Offering CDPATH free of charge to eligible CD patients will help deliver an innovative tool to the community that can help inform and personalize CD management."
CDPATH integrates patient-specific serologic markers and genetic marker status, identified via a blood sample, with patient's CD characteristics to help predict a low, medium, and high risk for potentially developing serious CD complications over a three-year period. It is intended to be used in combination with a physician's clinical assessment. Healthcare providers will receive a CDPATH test report with a graphical risk profile that can then be used to facilitate discussions with patients.
CDPATH is only validated in, and can only be performed on, adult Crohn's disease patients (≥18 years old) diagnosed within the past ten (10) years, who have not experienced a Crohn's disease complication such as bowel strictures, internal penetrating disease, or non-perianal surgery (bowel resection or stricturoplasty).
CLIA: Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments; CAP: College of American Pathology
Dr. Dubinsky is co-founder and equity owner in a MiTest Health, which received a licensing fee from Takeda for CDPATH. Dr. Dubinsky has received compensation from both Takeda Pharmaceutical and Prometheus Laboratories as a consultant. In addition to Takeda, Dr. Dubinsky also serves as a paid consultant for other pharmaceutical companies that develop and/or manufacture treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Dubinsky is co-founder and equity owner of two start-up companies involved in IBD healthcare, Trellus Health and GoDoRun.
Beneficiaries must be covered by a commercial insurance plan or be uninsured. Those with a state or federal health insurance program (including, but not limited to, Medicare, Medicaid, Department of Veteran's Affairs, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or Department of Defense) are excluded from participating in this program. No insurance claims should be collected or processed, and no charges should be billed to the patient for CDPATH and shipping. Takeda has made arrangements to directly cover these charges.
Healthcare Providers should not rely primarily on the risk predictions from CDPATH to make a clinical diagnosis or treatment decision regarding an individual patient. CDPATH should only be considered an additional piece of information in combination with a doctor's evaluation of a patient's CD. Doctors can decide if this tool is appropriate for individual patients as part of their overall assessment. More information is available at www.CDPATH.com.
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and impacts approximately 780,000 people in the U.S. CD is one of the most common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss. The disease is usually progressive and has the potential to lead to irreversible and destructive complications, which may require surgery. These complications - including fistulas, abscesses, strictures, and intestinal obstruction - can be common, yet the course of CD is highly variable and difficult to predict.
Prometheus Laboratories is a specialty clinical laboratory which enables precision-guided care in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and other GI disorders. We discover, develop and commercialize testing services that help clinicians improve outcomes across the patient journey, from disease interception and stratification, to therapy selection, optimization and monitoring. For more information, please visit https://www.prometheuslabs.com and engage with us on LinkedIn.
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