International Women’s Day: Rite Foods Advocates Women’s Inclusion In Digital Transformation Rite Foods , Nigeria’s leading company in the food and beverage sector, has called for the involvement of women in technological advancement in the country as their contribution would help bridge gender inequality and inclusiveness desired for a progressive nation. The Managing Director of Rite Foods, Mr. Seleem Adegunwa, made this assertion while marking this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) with the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality,” urging corporate and public organisations to take gender equality as a topmost priority as the gap in digital access would keep women from unlocking technology’s full potential. Celebrated on March 8 every year, IWD was adopted by the United Nations in 1975 to spread the message of gender equality to create a better society free of gender bias. It addresses issues such as women’s equal rights, violence and abuse against women, and reproductive rights. Given that, the World-class and Proudly-Nigerian company which has been at the forefront of inventiveness in its industry with the award-winning 13 Bigi carbonated soft drink variants and Table Water, premium Fearless energy drink brands, consisting of the Classic and Red Berry products, the […]

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NEW YORK & VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 07, 2023 –( BUSINESS WIRE )– Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has teamed with TELUS (NYSE: TU) in the development of TELUS’ next-generation entertainment and personalized digital life platform for their customers. The companies together are transforming TELUS’ television business into a more efficient, agile, and digital skilled organization. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230307005237/en/ Accenture has teamed with TELUS in the development of TELUS’ next-generation entertainment and personalized digital life platform for their customers. (Graphic: Business Wire) By leveraging Accenture’s solutions and experiences in TV software system integrations, TELUS launched an innovative platform for TV and over-the-top (OTT) content in phases that can be accessed on any device at any time. Future capabilities of the platform incorporate technology such as 5G, Internet of Things (IOT) and intelligent automation to enable digital life services such as next-generation health and gaming experiences within the home and beyond. "Starting on a reinvention path requires a new mindset. It is a chance to reimagine how companies do things," said Andrew Marchant, managing director, Accenture. "Our teaming with TELUS has helped the company achieve the technical capabilities, business scalability and innovation mindset it […]

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SAN DIEGO, March 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. (NASDAQ:ROIC) announced today that it amended and extended its $600 million unsecured credit facility, extending the maturity date by three years (from February 2024 to March 2027). Additionally, the interest rate will now be based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) with an adjusted pricing grid, and a Sustainability Metric feature, and related pricing grid, were also added. Existing provisions to extend the maturity date for two consecutive six-month periods and an accordion feature, which allows the Company to increase the facility amount by an additional $600 million, were maintained. Additionally, ROIC amended its $300 million unsecured term loan, which will also now be based on SOFR. The accordion feature provision, which allows the Company to increase the facility amount by an additional $200 million, was maintained. Michael B. Haines, Chief Financial Officer of Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. stated, “By extending out the maturity date on our credit line, we continue to maintain our long-standing, strong and flexible financial position.” The unsecured credit facility’s banking group included KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc., M&T Bank, PNC Capital Markets LLC, Regions Bank and U.S. Bank, National Association as Joint […]

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A man with tuberculosis in an isolation room at the Doctors Without Borders’ Kutupalong clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Dive Brief: Researchers have used a smartphone app to assess cough frequency in people with tuberculosis (TB) and other respiratory diseases, suggesting the technology can enable remote monitoring. Writing in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease , the researchers describe the use of the Hyfe Research cough tracking app to monitor 565 respiratory disease patients. The study showed patients with TB coughed more than people with other respiratory diseases and experienced distinct responses to treatment. If validated in further studies, the work could support use of the digital biomarker to stop overtreatment of TB and improve disease detection. Dive Insight: Hyfe’s CoughPro app uses algorithms to determine whether sounds picked up by smartphone microphones are coughs. Because many people are next to their smartphone all day, the app can show how the frequency of cough changes over time and facilitate remote, round-the-clock data collection using existing hardware. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco worked with collaborators in Uganda, South Africa, the Philippines, Vietnam and India to assess the use of the technology in the monitoring of […]

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Business and consumers locked in low rates on their debt. The mortgage market remains tough. AI and its potential aid to productivity. And the Fed’s guidance might not be as effective on a go-forward basis.

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Shasta County’s recent decision to close a job training center for adults with disabilities casts some uncertainty on the next chapter for the decades-old program. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Feb. 28 to close the Opportunity Center based on recommendation from the Health and Human Services Agency that said the center was not financially healthy. The center will close June 30. Prior to the supervisors’ decision, HHSA Deputy Branch Director Julie Hope said financial assessments predicted the center’s expenses would exceed its revenue by more than $1 million during the 2022-23 fiscal year. Read more: ‘Mismanagement due to poor financial oversight’: HHSA to ask supervisors to close Opportunity Center Hope has said closing the Opportunity Center will allow a state-funded regional agency to assign the job training program to a new provider. But it isn’t known who the new provider will be. The county is working with Far Northern Regional Center to find a new provider to take over the Operation Center, and the deadline to submit a proposal is March 15, county community relations specialist Amy Koslosky said in an email. Read more: Shasta County program that gets Shasta residents with disabilities jobs could shift to […]

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CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 90 With the conclusion of the 2023 Legislative Session in Cheyenne, the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee will be holding their annual Eggs & Issues Post-Legislative Session Program. While appearing on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse program, Chief Executive Officer for the Chamber, Dixie Johnson, said there will be an opportunity for the public in attendance to ask questions of the area’s lawmakers and discuss issues important to them. Registration can be done by calling the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce Office at 307-672-2485. Cost is $20 per person and includes the breakfast buffet. The Eggs & Issues Post-Legislative Session Program begins at 7:30-9 a.m. Wednesday, March 15, at the Best Western Sheridan Center.

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QUEEN ESTHER, cloaked in splendor. Mordechai passes on the all-important information on the Jewish community as Haman hangs. When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox circles. But she took the rite of passage a step further, and did something that, for Orthodox Jews at the time, was considered the exclusive province of men. She chanted the Scroll of Esther , known as the Megillah, in front of a mixed-gender audience in suburban Washington, D.C. on the festival of Purim. Among the crowd were her grandfathers, who were both Orthodox rabbis. Lewin was the eldest of two daughters, and her father wanted to find a ritual she would be allowed to perform while remaining within the bounds of traditional Jewish law. Women reading the Torah “My father, when it came time for the bat mitzvah, was trying to figure out what was something meaningful that a young woman could do,” she said. “So he decided: My Hebrew birthday is four days before Purim — he would teach me how to chant Megillat Esther.” For many modern Orthodox women more than four decades […]

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Source: Shutterstock While Marshalls plc ( LON:MSLH ) might not be the most widely known stock at the moment, it saw a significant share price rise of over 20% in the past couple of months on the LSE. With many analysts covering the stock, we may expect any price-sensitive announcements have already been factored into the stock’s share price. However, could the stock still be trading at a relatively cheap price? Today I will analyse the most recent data on Marshalls’s outlook and valuation to see if the opportunity still exists. View our latest analysis for Marshalls What’s The Opportunity In Marshalls? Great news for investors – Marshalls is still trading at a fairly cheap price. My valuation model shows that the intrinsic value for the stock is £4.38, but it is currently trading at UK£3.20 on the share market, meaning that there is still an opportunity to buy now. Although, there may be another chance to buy again in the future. This is because Marshalls’s beta (a measure of share price volatility) is high, meaning its price movements will be exaggerated relative to the rest of the market. If the market is bearish, the company’s shares will likely […]

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BENGALURU — The woes engulfing India’s Adani Group are putting the brakes on the conglomerate’s rapid, debt-fueled expansion, handing competitors opportunities to step on the gas as New Delhi drives ahead with plans to build world-class infrastructure and transform the country into a $5 trillion economy. The group’s market value has plunged by around $130 billion since a U.S. short-seller in January accused it of "brazen stock market manipulation" and a host of other wrongdoing. The fallout is set to push Adani — which has vigorously denied all the allegations — to rein in growth as many of its usual funding channels dry up.

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