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• ORLAND HILLS, Ill., Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stash Dispensaries' new Orland Hills location is holding a grand opening event on September 16, starting at 10am, with something for every cannabis lover in store.
• "Our Orland Hills Grand Opening will be a day of celebration, community, and all things cannabis," Stash CEO Matt Longo said.
• Activities and experiences will include:
  Ribbon-cutting ceremony: Join us at 11am on the 16th for the official opening of Stash Dispensaries.
• Stash Dispensaries – Orland Hills location is at: 9545 W 167th Street, Orland Hills, IL 60487

• At the weekend a V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed on Melville Island north of Darwin.
• The Osprey is a relatively new type of aircraft, with a patchy track record for safety.

What is the V-22 Osprey?

• The Osprey has long been controversial, initially for its high cost and long development time, and in recent years for safety concerns.
• The Osprey is at the leading edge of aviation technology, with nothing else in operational service like it.

Why is the Osprey so useful?

• The Marine Corps is famous for landing soldiers across beaches during combat but in the modern era this is difficult.
• The Osprey solves this by allowing amphibious ships to remain hundreds of kilometres at sea and launch assaults onto the beach “from over the horizon”.
• The Marines first brought the Osprey into service in 2007, and it has been central to the adoption of a whole new way of war.

Why is the Osprey’s safety record so patchy?

• The downside of being leading-edge technology is having little historical experience of similar aircraft to fall back on.
• Every Osprey flight is a learning event for the pilots, the maintenance personnel and the aircraft’s manufacturer.
• The central concern today is flying safety and here the Osprey has a mixed record.

Will the Osprey get safer?

• As the Osprey has flown more, more knowledge has been gained and the accident rate has declined.
• This all compares very unfavourably with American civil aviation, which has a much better safety record.
• Historically, the safety record of revolutionary aircraft like the Osprey improves as more operating experience is gained and unknown technical problems are found and addressed.

Will we see more tiltrotors like the Osprey in future?

• The US Army has chosen a new generation tiltrotor, the V-280 Valor, to replace its ageing Blackhawk helicopters.
• Tiltrotors like the Osprey and its successors are likely to fly in Australian skies well into the future.

• CARLSBAD, Calif., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Upper Deck, the worldwide leader in entertainment and sports collectibles, is proud to announce its exclusive autographed trading card deal with hockey sensation and the number one overall NHL Draft™ pick, Connor Bedard.
• Under the new agreement, Upper Deck will be the sole producer of Bedard's trading cards.
• Connor Bedard was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks® as the first overall draft pick in the 2023 Upper Deck NHL Draft™ on Wednesday, June 28, which marks the second number-one pick in Blackhawks' history.
• His exclusive cards will also be available on Upper Deck e-Pack ® and the newly launched Evolution platform featuring Authentic Digital Collectibles.

• The "Comparative SWOT & Strategy Focus - 2023-2027 - World's Top 5 Military Helicopter & Rotorcraft Manufacturers - Airbus Helicopters, Bell, Boeing, Leonardo, Sikorsky" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
• The European Union (EU), too, is looking at the future having launched the Next Generation Military Helicopter (NGMH) program, under PESCO, geared towards converting the next generation rotorcraft technologies into deployable solutions either as a retrofit over existing platforms or as a scratch-up platform in itself.
• U.K.'s upcoming NMH program is going to be a key, near term growth avenue for the industry OEMs.
• China's rapid military build-up & emergence as the regional belligerent power in the Asia-Pacific has other nations in the region spooked up setting off one of the biggest arms race in the APAC.