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The transport control center continuously monitors the progress of the transport and keeps an accurate watch of each vehicle’s position, the batteries’ charge, load content, service requirements and a number of other parameters.
As with an industrial production process, speed and progress are tailored to avoid unnecessary waiting and to increase delivery precision. In this way it will be possible to minimize waste in the form of buffer stocks, and increase availability. Vehicles that operate on the same route cooperate to create optimal flow.
Volvo Trucks is developing a new type of transport solution for repetitive transports involving high precision between fixed hubs.
The transport solution consists of autonomous, connected, electric vehicles and a transport control center.
The vehicles are used as tractor units and are compatible with existing load carriers/trailers.
The propulsion is entirely electric with zero exhaust emissions and low noise levels. The driveline and battery pack are of the same type that are used in Volvo Trucks’ electric trucks.
Everyone better pray the crash warning devices on this Volvo work better than the one on the 2018 Cascadia that my partner and I drive.
FreeCharge, an India-based online platform that lets user earn coupons when they add money to their prepaid mobile phone plans or pay utility bills online, has raised a $33 million Series B from returning investor Sequoia Capital, as well as Sofina, and RuNet.
The money will be used for marketing and to build FreeCharge’s offline-to-online advertising platform, which allows brands to target users by tracking their offline purchasing behavior using FreeCharge’s coupons. The company was founded in 2010.
To use FreeCharge, consumers either go onto its website or mobile app and top up their mobile phones or pay utility bills. In return, FreeCharge emails them coupons worth the amount of money they spent, that can be redeemed at businesses like McDonalds, Domino’s Pizza, and Amazon, as well as several major coffee shop a...
There are currently about 700 million mobile phone users in India and about 95 percent use a prepaid plan, says Goel. The company’s main competitors are offline shops and other vendors where users can top up their phone plans.
“In India, there are 40 million transactions that happen every day in the prepaid mobile phone market. Only a fraction of that is online, but the market is growing rapidly,” says Goel. The company currently claims 10 million registered users and that mobile transactions on Freecharge’s app have increased 30 times since...
In terms of advertising, FreeCharge’s main competitors are Facebook and Google’s advertising products and network.
In order to compete, FreeCharge plans to use its Series B funding to expand into other forms of advertising.
“We are working on top of the transaction behavior we see from consumers and that insight is totally different than what Google and Facebook have. Google is working search keywords, Facebook is working on demographics, and we work on products that you consume in the offline world. We can see what movie interests you ha...
“We will use it to expand into a transaction advertising platform. Coupons are one form of transaction advertising, but we have more ideas. We want to create an ad ecosystem around users,” he adds.
After focusing on expansion in its domestic market, FreeCharge plans to target other countries where many mobile users use prepaid plans, including markets in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
The company recently acquired two companies, Wishberg and Preburn. Wishberg was an acqui-hire, while Preburn is currently developing a product that will provide owners of new smartphones with suggestions for apps they should download.
In addition to its Series B, FreeCharge also announced that it has added Gokul Rajaram, Koh Boon Hwee, and Dhiraj Rajaram to its board of advisors. Gokul Rajaram is known as the “Godfather of Adsense” for his role in developing Google’s AdSense network and was also formerly Facebook’s product director of ads. He curren...
Meghan Redmond said she never wants her students in the Southwest Alaska community of New Stuyahok to feel like they’re missing out on something because of where they’re from.
“I want them to have any opportunity that they want. I want them to have any future that they want, whether that’s staying here or going somewhere else,” Redmond, assistant principal at Chief Ivan Blunka School, said in an interview Friday.
So Redmond plans trips for students, brings in guest speakers and leads the school’s exploration weeks.
Redmond was selected from a group of about 50 nominees from across the country. She’s the second assistant principal from Alaska to receive the national distinction in the award’s 25 years. Johanna Naylor from Central Middle School in Anchorage was the 2003 National Assistant Principal of the Year.
This is Redmond’s third school year as the assistant principal at Chief Ivan Blunka School, which enrolls 140 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in the community about 50 miles northeast of Dillingham.
School principal Robin Jones described Redmond, 34, as resourceful, creative and personable.
“The biggest thing that stands out about Meghan is just how she works tirelessly to ensure that our students have every possible opportunity afforded to them,” Jones said. “Being from rural Alaska, sometimes we’re put in a disadvantaged position and Meghan just won’t let anything get in the way of closing that equity g...
Redmond has helped raise funds and plan student trips to cities from Juneau to Washington, D.C. She leads the school’s quarterly exploration weeks, a time when students can take elective courses to explore interests from construction to sewing to nursing. Some of the courses lead to industry-based certifications, Jones...
Redmond said she also focuses on incorporating Yup’ik language and culture into the school day, including though the “Yup’ik Value of the Month” program that she created while teaching in the tiny Southwest Alaska village of Twin Hills.
Under the program, each month students learn to say a value in Yup’ik and participate in activities related to the month’s theme. They’re also recognized for exemplifying the value.
In April, the value is “always trying, never without,” Redmond said.
“So when we see students who are going above and beyond, trying new things, they get recognized for that,” she said.
In addition to being the assistant principal, Redmond is also the school’s guidance counselor, student council adviser and senior class adviser.
“She definitely wears a lot of different hats,” Jones said.
Redmond is originally from Wisconsin, where she earned her bachelor’s degree and later worked as a third-grade teacher. Looking for a change, she said, she accepted a job as a teacher in Twin Hills in 2010. Redmond taught in Twin Hills for six years and started the “Small Schools Matter” campaign in 2015 to keep Alaska...
Redmond now lives in New Stuyahok with her husband and their three children.
She said she sees teacher turnover as the biggest challenge vexing rural schools. In an attempt to combat that, Redmond said, she and her school’s principal try to make the school feel like a family for its teachers and staff, since some are from far away and don’t have relatives in town.
“We plan holiday meals together. We celebrate birthdays and babies,” she said. “If someone goes out on their snowmachine and it breaks down, they know that there’s someone here who can go out and get them."
None of the school’s 34 teachers and staff members left between last school year and the current one, Redmond said. Next school year, the school will have to replace just one teacher, she said.
Redmond will formally receive her award in July during the National Principals Conference in Boston.
Thousands are expected to turn out for "national unity marches" in Istanbul and Ankara over the weekend, as Turkey commemorates one year since authorities quashed last summer's coup attempt.
Speeches are planned in parliament and at an iconic Istanbul bridge, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will unveil the "Martyrs' Memorial" to remember those who died in the coup.
Turkish soldiers attempted to overthrow the government and Erdogan using tanks, warplanes and helicopters on July 15 last year. The coup plotters declared their seizure of power on the state broadcaster, bombed the country's parliament and other key locations, and raided an Aegean resort where Erdogan had been holidayi...
Heeding a call by the president and ignoring a curfew announced by the coup plotters, thousands of people went out on the streets to resist the coup. The Bosporus Bridge, now called the July 15 Martyrs' Bridge, was the scene of clashes between civilians and soldiers in tanks. Some 250 people were killed and more than 2...
Turkey blames U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for orchestrating the failed coup and has been demanding his extradition. Gulen has denied the allegations.
In the aftermath of the coup attempt, Turkey declared a state of emergency that has been in place for a year, which has allowed the government to rule by decrees. More than 50,000 people have been arrested and some 100,000 public employees sacked for alleged links to Gulen and other terror groups.
July 15 has been declared a national holiday. Public transportation in Istanbul and Ankara are free over the weekend, and bus destination signs were displaying messages of congratulations.
As in the night of the coup attempt, mosques across Turkey will simultaneously recite a verse, usually read before Friday prayers, to alert and invite Muslims to the streets.
For his part, Erdogan returned to the capital Ankara for a ceremony marking the moment parliament was bombed a year ago during the failed coup attempt.
Thousands of people have gathered outside the parliament in the early hours of Sunday, waving Turkish flags and holding up pictures of the 250 people who died confronting the coup-plotters. Turkey's top cleric recited a prayer for the victims. Erdogan also received an "Air Salute" while enroute to Ankara from Istanbul ...
More than half of U.S. households of people 55 and older have no retirement savings in a defined contribution plan or IRA, and Social Security provides most of the retirement income for about half of households age 65 and older, according a new Government Accountability Office.
Furthermore, nearly 30 percent of the age 55+ households have neither retirement savings nor a traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plan. When limiting the households to ages 55 to 64, about 55 percent have less than $25,000 in retirement savings, including 41 percent with zero retirement savings.
The numbers are based on GAO’s analysis of data from the 2013 U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances. The analysis is included in a new GAO report titled Most Households Approaching Retirement Have Low Savings.
Much of the GAO study is a comprehensive if sobering review of retirement savings trends identified not only in GAO’s own research but also from an abundance of other studies from government, academe and industry. It includes a chart of selected studies, plus commentary on various studies and surveys.
Many insurance and retirement professionals are likely aware of much of this research. InsuranceNewsNet has reported on many of the reports in recent years. Still, the GAO analysis is so all-inclusive that it may well serve as a compendium of current findings and/or as a refresher.
Seeing the plethora of findings in this context is also a reminder that retirement surveys do reach different conclusions, though often based on unique segments viewed by age, income, ownership and other factors. Despite the differences, it appears that retirement for some Americans will be challenging.
The GAO analysis does note that, although 52 percent age 55+ households have no retirement savings, 48 percent of those ages 55 to 64 do have some retirement savings.
Even here, however, the numbers reflect modest sums. The median amount of those savings is about $104,000 for households age 55-64 and $148,000 for households age 65-74, GAO said, noting that this is equivalent to an inflation-protected annuity of $310 and $649 per month, respectively.
Put another way, if looking at ages 55 on up, the median amount of retirement savings is approximately $109,000, GAO said. This is equivalent to an inflation-protected annuity of $405 a month for a 65-year-old, with income payments beginning immediately. GAO computed the income by using from the retirement income calcu...
Households with sizeable retirement savings are more likely than households with lower savings to have other resources such as income from a DB plan, the researcher added.
As for households age 75 and up, GAO said only 29 percent have retirement savings with the median being approximately $69,000. More than half (55 percent) do have a DB plan, but 35 percent have neither retirement savings nor a DB plan. Median income from the 75+ age group is $27,000 and median Social Security is about ...
The studies and surveys that GAO reviewed provide “mixed evidence” about the adequacy of retirement savings, the researchers said.
For instance, studies ranged widely in their conclusions about the degree to which Americans are likely to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement. That’s “largely because of different assumptions about how much income this goal requires,” according to the report.
Still, GAO said, the studies generally found about one-third to two-thirds of workers are “at risk” of falling short of this target.
COSHOCTON - The Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office has performed two drug raids at the same address in less than a month.
At 11:30 a.m. Thursday, detectives from the sheriff’s office executed a search warrant on a residence in the 300 block of North Third Street. Three males and two females were taken into custody without incident. An undisclosed amount of drugs, drug related items and cash were seized.
The sheriff’s office stated that a another search warrant was executed at 9:45 a.m. Feb. 23 at the same residence. At that time, two males and one female were taken into custody and several types of drugs and cash were seized.
The Coshocton County Prosecutor’s Office assisted with both operations and the incidents are still under investigation. Names of those involved have not been released pending the filing of formal charges.
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Largely missing from the flood of remembrances of the late President George H.W. Bush is the role he played as Ronald Reagan's vice president in what came to be known as the Iran-Contra Affair.
It's an episode that clouded an otherwise remarkable career in public service.
Perhaps Bush's most well-known involvement in the affair was his absolution of some of those in the know about it.
On Christmas Eve of 1992 - six weeks after losing his bid for a second presidential term to Bill Clinton — Bush pardoned six members of the Reagan administration who'd been charged with crimes ranging from perjury, to lying to Congress, to obstruction of justice.
All those charges stemmed from attempts by senior Reagan administration officials to cover up a covert White House operation whose disdain for established law and outright deception marred Reagan's tenure as well.
The scheme, which unfolded over a two-year period beginning in late 1985, started with illegal arms sales to Iran.
Selling weapons to Tehran, which was at war with Iraq at the time, had two objectives. One was to enlist Iran's assistance in freeing American hostages being held in Lebanon. Among them was William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut. Buckley was ultimately killed by his captors, though other hostages were release...
In turn, profits from Iran's purchase at highly inflated prices for the weapons — which were routed through Israel — were used for the scheme's other objective: buying arms for anti-communist rebels known as Contras who were fighting to topple the elected Marxist government of Nicaragua.
Those weapons purchases were done in defiance of a Congressional ban on aid to the Contras.
Bush's grant of pardons came 12 days before Caspar Weinberger, Ronald Reagan's defense secretary, was to go on trial. Weinberger had been charged with obstruction of justice and lying to Congress about the arms shipments to the Contras.
The focus of that trial was to have been a private notebook of Weinberger's which contained references to Bush's knowledge of the illegal arms sales to Iran.
Bringing those charges against Weinberger and the five others Bush pardoned was Lawrence Walsh, the independent prosecutor who investigated the Iran-Contra affair for seven years.
"The Weinberger pardon marked the first time a President ever pardoned someone in whose trial he might have been called as a witness," Walsh wrote in a scathing 1993 final report on his investigation, "because the President was knowledgeable of factual events underlying the case."
Bush, for his part, issued the pardons contending that Walsh's investigation amounted to the "criminalization of policy differences."
The independent prosecutor's quarrel with Bush was not limited to the late president's pardons, which effectively scuttled Walsh's investigation just as Bush was leaving office.
As Walsh wrote in response to the pardons, Weinberger's notes revealed "evidence of a conspiracy among the highest-ranking Reagan administration officials to lie to Congress and the American public."
Walsh also pointed to what he labeled Bush's "misconduct" for having failed to turn over to the investigation until only that same month a campaign diary begun in 1986 containing what the special prosecutor called "highly relevant contemporaneous notes" regarding the Iran-Contra scandal.
That diary was the kind of evidence Walsh had been requesting be turned over since 1986. "Inside the White House," Walsh wrote of Bush in his final report, "it appears (Bush) had little intention of cooperating with the Independent Counsel."
Bush had repeatedly insisted he was fully cooperating with that investigation. "I have nothing to explain," he told the Los Angeles Times three months before relinquishing his campaign diary.
"I've given every bit of evidence I have to these thousands of investigators."
Bush had publicly insisted he knew little about the Iran-Contra operation, but his diary revealed otherwise. "I'm one of the few people that know fully the details, and there is a lot of flak and misinformation out there," he noted in a Nov. 5, 1986 entry. "It is not a subject we can talk about."
But there were others who did want to talk about it.
Bush's role in Iran-Contra was perhaps most memorably dissected during a remarkable live interview he did with CBS Evening News anchorman Dan Rather in January 1988.
At the time, Bush was still struggling to win his party's presidential nomination and was eager to appear on the nation's most widely viewed TV evening news show to boost his political fortunes.
Rather pointedly cited a poll indicating that one-third of Republicans believed Bush was hiding something about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
"I am hiding something," Bush angrily responded. "You know what I'm hiding? What I told the president, and that's the only thing, and I've answered every question put before me."
Bush was equally defiant about having gone along with Iran-Contra once he became aware of the operation.
"I went along with it, because you know why, Dan? Because I worried when I saw (captured Beirut CIA station chief) Mr. Buckley, heard about Mr. Buckley being tortured to death," Bush told Rather. "So if I erred, I erred on the side of trying to get those hostages out of there."
Bush ignored a question from Rather about whether he was concerned about sending missiles to Iran's Ayatollah Khomenei.
"This is not a great night, because I want to talk about why I want to be president, why those 41 percent of the people (in a poll of Iowans) are supporting me," Bush told Rather well into the nine-minute heated exchange.
"And I don't think it's fair to judge a whole career, it's not fair to judge my whole career, by a rehash on Iran."
Rather reminded Bush that as vice president he had claimed to have been "out of the loop" about Iran-Contra.

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