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IRVINE, Calif. , Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OrthAlign, Inc. today announced a significant milestone with the successful first clinical use of its Lantern Hip handheld technology. The procedure was performed by Edwin Su, MD, a renowned orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York, NY . "The first clinical case of Lantern Hip is a monumental achievement for our team and the surgeons involved with this project," said Eric Timko , CEO of OrthAlign. "This expansion of our flagship platform to include hips not only enhances our product portfolio, but also positions us for significant growth in both the hospital and the ambulatory surgery center (ASC). We're excited to kick off the new year with Lantern Hip and showcase its impact at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting," says Eric Timko . Lantern Hip is the latest evolution in hip technology, built upon the success of over 375,000 OrthAlign procedures worldwide. Next-generation sensors, powered by accelerometers and gyroscopes, are designed to provide an accurate and simple solution to navigate cup placement and measure changes in leg length and offset. The system enables the surgeon to choose their preferred implant, and is accessible to any site of service. "Lantern Hip allows me to personalize cup position for each patient," said Dr. Su. "I can compare the functional pelvic plane (FPP), the anterior pelvic plane (APP), and the coronal plane during live cup navigation, so I can place the implant in the best position for function and stability. With its triple-sensor technology, Lantern Hip also allows me to feel confident in my leg length and offset restoration. The system was simple for me and my team to integrate into our workflow during our first case, and I expect this will make a positive impact on other surgeons' experience too." OrthAlign will continue to offer surgeons the opportunity to experience Lantern Hip firsthand through webinars and demonstrations at industry events throughout 2025. For inquiries about upcoming events or to schedule a product demonstration, contact your local OrthAlign representative. Visit www.orthalign.com/lanternhip to view the Lantern Hip introductory video. Lantern Hip is indicated for use in direct anterior total hip arthroplasty procedures with the patient in the supine position. About OrthAlign, Inc. OrthAlign is a medical device company with a focus on delivering practical, cutting-edge technologies for orthopedic surgery. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, OrthAlign provides surgeons with user-friendly, cost-effective solutions to help improve patient care in joint replacement. In 2023, the company celebrated a record-breaking year with over $50 million in global revenue, reflecting its dedication to growth and leadership in the industry. Driven by the belief that everyone deserves exceptional healthcare, OrthAlign is committed to making empowering technologies accessible to all. LANTERN ® and ORTHALIGN ® are registered trademarks of OrthAlign, Inc. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/orthalign-inc-announces-first-cases-using-lantern-hip-the-next-evolution-in-total-hip-replacement-technology-302336610.html SOURCE OrthAlignGus Malzahn's Strategic Move to Florida State
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Nov. 30—The Wichita City Council is poised to vote on a new contract with the Fraternal Order of Police that gives officers hefty raises and eliminates one controversial provision that allowed officers to buy their way out of suspensions. But the contract won't include many of the police accountability recommendations put forward in a $214,000 report by national police consultant group Jensen Hughes in 2023, and in at least one instance directly conflicts with a Jensen Hughes recommendation. Those proposals — including changes to officer discipline, promotion policies aimed at diversifying the department, excessive force policies and a requirement that officers immediately report misconduct to a supervisor — were removed from contract negotiations and would have to be negotiated separately to be implemented. Members of the Wichita FOP have already voted to approve the new contract; the City Council will discuss it on Dec. 3 and vote on it Dec. 10. It would start in late December and run through 2026. The FOP contract continues to prohibit the city from releasing the names of officers who shoot civilians or commit misconduct, a longtime ask of police reformers. It will also continue the policy of allowing officers accused of misconduct to review their investigative files before being interviewed by the Professional Standards Bureau, a practice that conflicts with the Jensen Hughes report. It also gives officers eight weeks paid parental leave and 10 additional hours of vacation time in 2026. The contract is expected to lock in annual raises for police officers ahead of an estimated budget shortfall of $55 million from 2026 to 2028. More than one-third of the city's entire general fund budget pays for police salaries and benefits, according to this year's adopted budget. "Budget considerations were at the forefront of every meeting as negotiators sought to balance the need to maintain a competitive wage scale with future budget limitations," Jim Jonas, director of strategic communications for Wichita, said in a written statement. The new contract puts the police budget $3.2 million over the 2025 adopted budget and $1.8 million over the 2026 projected budget, according to the city's agenda report on the contract, meaning the city will likely have to make cuts to other projects to make up the difference. What's in the contract? The city says the new contract includes raises of 4.5% in 2025 and 2% in 2026 while eliminating a $2.25-an-hour bonus for officers who don't violate city policies, which the Jensen Hughes report identified as sending the wrong message to officers. Instead, FOP leaders said, the $2.25-an-hour bonus will now be rolled into all officers' base hourly pay, whether they violate policies or not. After rolling the code of conduct pay into base salaries, officers will receive a nearly 13% hourly base pay raise next year and would be eligible for an additional 2% merit raise. New officers will start out making $33.45 an hour under the new contract and would max out after 15 years at $47.27 an hour. Detectives will make hourly wages between $36.66 and $51.80, while sergeants make between $40.22 and $56.83 an hour. The FOP says it hopes that the 2025 wage increase — which will make the Wichita Police Department the best-paid department in Kansas — will help attract and retain officers amid a staffing shortage of more than 95 officers. The city reopened the FOP contract in 2023 to award $5,000 bonuses to all commissioned officers and to increase overtime pay from 1.5 times their standard rate of pay to 2.5 times their standard rate of pay — at a cost of $3.4 million — for any times they were called back to work by a supervisor or during an emergency. The hike in overtime pay was included in the new contract. The city declined to answer questions about police staffing levels, employee rosters and how many officers left the department after accepting $5,000 bonuses last December. Instead, the city filed the questions as a request under the Kansas Open Records Act and charged The Eagle $120, which was paid Tuesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The records had not been provided by Friday morning. FOP President Jeremy Diaz said pay was a top priority for the FOP in the negotiations and that the union continues to work with Chief Joseph Sullivan and other police leaders to implement other Jensen Hughes recommendations. "Ultimately, these changes are not just about making WPD a desirable place to work — they are about ensuring the safety and security of Wichita," Diaz said. "Fully staffing the department is essential for maintaining response times, building community relationships, and keeping crime under control." Additionally, Diaz said, the City Council should fund a police staffing study "conducted by a neutral, professional third party." He said he believes the department's staffing level should be nearly 1,000 officers instead of the 700 positions the City Council has authorized. "Previous leadership has created several specialized units to meet the department's needs, but rather than growing the department to create these positions, it has come at the expense of patrol numbers — the backbone of policing," Diaz said. Jensen Hughes changes In the aftermath of a 2022 SWAT team text-messaging scandal first reported by The Wichita Eagle, the city hired Jensen Hughes, a national police consulting firm that specializes in organizational assessments, to draft a blueprint for restoring public trust in the Police Department and improving officer morale. Several of the recommendations required changes to the FOP contract. Only one made its way into the new contract. That change would eliminate a provision that gave extra pay for expected behavior and allowed officers to buy out suspension days by trading in the so-called code of conduct pay or vacation time. Diaz said several other Jensen Hughes recommendations are still being worked on by the police chief and the FOP. "Several of the remaining items, however, are complex and require significant time and collaboration to address properly," he said, pointing to a new discipline matrix that would more narrowly define the penalties for police misconduct. Among the recommendations not included are changes to the use of force policy, a duty for officers to intervene in excessive use of force cases, a requirement that officers report misconduct by other officers to a supervisor, setting minimum scoring standards for promotions and hiring an outside source to look at how the department promotes to increase diversity within the department. Jensen Hughes recommended the department be cautious when awarding points for promotion based on seniority and investigative experience because that practice could exclude women and minority candidates due to past recruitment patterns, meaning they "would not have been afforded the same access to those seniority and experience points." The city's Jensen Hughes dashboard says those changes could be implemented in 2026. The city's agenda report says "WPD and the FOP engaged in good faith discussions regarding the Jensen Hughes recommendations that were not included in the FOP memorandum of agreement but could affect workplace conditions." Those policy revisions include changes to the promotions policy, administrative internal investigations, criminal investigations involving department employees and a professional standards dashboard, according to the agenda report. The professional standards dashboard — which includes generic and brief descriptions of closed complaints against officers — does not appear to match the recommendation by Jensen Hughes that called for providing detailed summaries of complaints against officers to the Citizens Review Board and the public. Future changes? Faith Martin, vice chair of the Wichita Citizens Review Board and the Wichita Racial Profiling Board, said she would like to see the city take steps to make the FOP contract process more transparent in the future — such as releasing the details of the contract before officers vote on it and allowing the public to provide input early in the discussions. She said the Racial Profiling Board recommended releasing officers' disciplinary histories to other police departments and the public; creating an Office of Police Oversight with "unfettered access" to the police department's internal investigations of officer misconduct to improve civilian oversight of the department's disciplinary practices; and a new process that gives Wichita residents more of a say in the FOP negotiation process before it is approved. None of those materialized through the FOP contract discussion. Martin said she did not expect the city to implement all of the Jensen Hughes recommendations, given the political make-up of the council — a majority of which was endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police. But she said the city's top priority should be to make sure the community has a more active role in future FOP negotiations. "It would behoove the city to treat the FOP contract the same way they treat the budget, where you get lots of community feedback, they go back and they iterate this with the negotiation team, run it by HR, and then a draft is presented to the community. That was our ask," she said. (c)2024 The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kan.) Visit The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kan.) at www.kansas.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's fresh charges gave coach Andy Farrell options to ponder for the autumn rugby closer against Australia after they comfortably handled Fiji 52-17 on Saturday. All eight Ireland tries came off set plays, and the result — and a 29-year perfect record against Fiji — was effectively secured by halftime, when it led 28-3. Fiji posted historic wins in Europe in the last 15 months against England, Australia and Wales but struggled to get any rhythm. It was undermined by 11 penalties in the first half, alone, and a horrible 17 overall, and a powerful backline was smothered. Farrell made seven changes to the Ireland XV after the muted performances against New Zealand and Argentina, to inject some life and spice into his aging squad, and they impressed while overcoming some bumps. Sam Prendergast, the starting flyhalf in his second test, was sin-binned in just the eighth minute for a shoulder shot but returned to manage the backline coolly with soft hands, confident loops, and accurate kicking on and off the tee. He set up one try with a crosskick and converted five. On debut, Gus McCarthy deepened Ireland's grand stock of hookers with no-look passes and a try after two crooked throw-ins, while flanker Cormac Izuchukwu stood out with a high workrate. He would have had a try, too, but for a forward pass. Ireland butchered three tries, and man of the match Bundee Aki was held up over the line, denying him a second try as he rebounded after being dropped after the New Zealand loss. ___ AP rugby:
India News | Constitution is a Guide for Socio-economic Change: Lok Sabha Speaker Om BirlaThe Russian government is using generative artificial intelligence in a new propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting Ukraine and undermining aid from European countries. A cybersecurity company, Recorded Future report found that fake videos actively used voices generated by ElevenLabs. Source: Recorded Future report Details: The report found that the campaign was organised by the Social Design Agency, a Russian entity under US sanctions. The videos, targeted at a European audience, accused Ukrainian politicians of corruption and showed Western equipment, including American Abrams tanks, as ineffective. Voices generated by artificial intelligence became a key tool of the propaganda campaign. Recorded Future states that the authors used ElevenLabs' technology to create non-accented audio in various European languages, including English, German, French, and Polish. The researchers found that real people voiced some of the videos. This became apparent due to a noticeable Russian accent. For reference: Recorded Future specialises in collecting, analysing, and predicting cyber threats using AI and machine learning to monitor real-time open information. Background: Support UP or become our patron !
Ducks starting to ‘play with an identity’ ahead of hosting OttawaThe 39-year-old takes charge for the first time in Sunday’s Premier League trip to promoted Ipswich having been confirmed as Erik ten Hag’s successor at the beginning of November. Amorim has made a positive impression since starting work at the United in an international fortnight that ended with an impressive first appearance in front of the media. 🆚 Ipswich Town.🏟️ Portman Road.⏰ 16:30 GMT. 🫡 We will be there. #MUFC pic.twitter.com/0eHCSDYmhE — Manchester United (@ManUtd) November 21, 2024 The Portuguese was gregarious, engaging and smiley throughout Friday’s press conference but that warmth comes with a ruthlessness edge if players do not adhere to his approach. “You can be the same person,” head coach Amorim said. “Be a positive person that can understand this is one place to be, then there is the dressing room, there are some places to have fun, there are some places to work hard. “So, I can be ruthless when I have to be. If you think as a team, I will be the nicest guy you have ever seen. If there is someone just thinking about himself, I will be a different person. “I’m not that type of guy that wants to show that he is the boss. “They will feel it in the small details, that I can be the smiling one but then when we have a job to do I will be a different person, and they understand that.” ‘The Smiling One’ follows ‘the Special One’ as United’s second Portuguese manager, with Jose Mourinho one of five managers to try and fail to reach the heights scaled by Sir Alex Ferguson. The Scot retired as a Premier League champion in 2013 and the Red Devils have failed to launch a sustained title bid since adding that 20th top-flight crown. Asked about whether he will lean on Ferguson to understand the history of United and whether he has met him, Amorim said: “No, not yet. I didn’t have that opportunity. “It’s hard to copy someone, so I have to be me. Of course I’m not the best person in here to show the history of Manchester United. “It should be the club first and also me because I’m always paying attention on those details and try to focus our players in the history of the club, not the recent history. “You have to be very demanding. This is a club that needs to win, has to win, so we have to show that to our players but it’s a different time. “I cannot be the same guy that Sir Alex Ferguson was. It’s a different time. “I have to have a different approach, but I can also be demanding with a different approach, so that is my focus.” Like Ferguson in 1986, Amorim starts life at United in the November of a season that started with a paltry points tally. The 39-year-old acknowledges the timing makes “it’s so much harder” for him to imprint his style at a club whose youth foundations look in safe hands. “It’s the project of Manchester United,” Amorim said. “Nowadays, you need young guys, guys from the academy for everything. “To bring that history of the club because they feel the club in a different way. “And also because you have all these rules with financial fair play, when a player from our academy is so much different to the players that we bought and then we sell. “So, everything is connected. I will try to help all the players, especially the young ones.” Amorim’s first match will be a fascinating watch for onlookers, who have kept a particularly close eye on his work during his farewell to Sporting Lisbon. The Portuguese managed three final matches after being confirmed as United head coach, including a 4-1 Champions League win against Manchester City. Pep Guardiola’s side have dominated English football in recent years and the City boss this week signed a new deal until 2027. “I think it’s a problem for everybody here, but we have so much to do, we cannot focus on anyone,” Amorim said. “We just have to focus on our club, improve our club and not focus on the other clubs, so let’s focus on Manchester United. “It’s amazing (the test) – if you can beat that team it’s a good sign but, like I said, we are focused on Manchester United.”