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Liang H, Zhang M, Chen M, Lin TPH, Lai M, Chen H. Asia Pac. J. Ophthalmol. (Phila.) 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)
DOI
10.1097/APO.0000000000000539
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36094376
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PURPOSE: This study aimed to summarize the latest literature on the trends and incidence of ocular trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: A systematic literature search was conducted to identify the relevant literature. The search period was between January 1, 2020, and September 20, 2021. The incidence of overall and various types of ocular trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic and the control period was analyzed. The data from different studies were pooled. The odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated. RESULTS: A total of 32 articles were included. After pooling the data from all included studies, the incidence of total and pediatric ocular trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic was 67.7% and 54.3% of those in the control period, respectively. However, the proportion of ocular trauma in eye emergency visits increased during the pandemic (OR, 95% CI: 1.46, 1.04-2.06). The proportion of domestic ocular trauma increased (OR, 95% CI: 3.42, 1.01-11.62), while ocular trauma related to sports and outdoor activities and occupational ocular trauma decreased (OR, 95% CI: 0.64, 0.09-4.29 and 0.18, 0.10-0.33, respectively). It was also reported that chemical injury caused by alcohol-based sanitizers, photokeratitis caused by ultraviolet lamps, and mechanical eye injury caused by masks increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: There was a reduction in overall eye injuries and substantial differences in the spectrum of ocular trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proper health education and supervision should be strengthened to prevent ocular injuries related to COVID-19 preventive interventions.
Language: en | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729724_7 | 2022-09-14T13:21:34 | en | 0.945654 |
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Anzai E, Ren D, Cazenille L, Aubert-Kato N, Tripette J, Ohta Y. BMC Geriatr. 2022; 22(1): e746.
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(Copyright © 2022, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)
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10.1186/s12877-022-03425-5
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36096722
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BACKGROUND: Frailty and falls are two adverse characteristics of aging that impair the quality of life of senior people and increase the burden on the healthcare system. Various methods exist to evaluate frailty, but none of them are considered the gold standard. Technological methods have also been proposed to assess the risk of falling in seniors. This study aims to propose an objective method for complementing existing methods used to identify the frail state and risk of falling in older adults. METHOD: A total of 712 subjects (age: 71.3 ± 8.2 years, including 505 women and 207 men) were recruited from two Japanese cities. Two hundred and three people were classified as frail according to the Kihon Checklist. One hundred and forty-two people presented with a history of falling during the previous 12 months. The subjects performed a 45 s standing balance test and a 20 m round walking trial. The plantar pressure data were collected using a 7-sensor insole. One hundred and eighty-four data features were extracted. Automatic learning random forest algorithms were used to build the frailty and faller classifiers. The discrimination capabilities of the features in the classification models were explored. RESULTS: The overall balanced accuracy for the recognition of frail subjects was 0.75 ± 0.04 (F1-score: 0.77 ± 0.03). One sub-analysis using data collected for men aged > 65 years only revealed accuracies as high as 0.78 ± 0.07 (F1-score: 0.79 ± 0.05). The overall balanced accuracy for classifying subjects with a recent history of falling was 0.57 ± 0.05 (F1-score: 0.62 ± 0.04). The classification of subjects relative to their frailty state primarily relied on features extracted from the plantar pressure series collected during the walking test. CONCLUSION: In the future, plantar pressures measured with smart insoles inserted in the shoes of senior people may be used to evaluate aspects of frailty related to the physical dimension (e.g., gait and balance alterations), thus allowing assisting clinicians in the early identification of frail individuals.
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Walking; Balance; Fall risk; Aging; Frailty; Gait analysis; Plantar pressure; Random forest classifier; Smart-insole | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729725_7 | 2022-09-14T13:21:41 | en | 0.920666 |
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Cao S, Huang H, Bo S, Feng M, Liang Y, Liu Y, Zhao Q. Front. Public Health 2022; 10: e901457.
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(Copyright © 2022, Frontiers Editorial Office)
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10.3389/fpubh.2022.901457
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36091500
PMCID
PMC9449117
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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the factors that influence risk perceptions and responses by informal caregivers of older adults with disabilities. METHODS: A descriptive qualitative study was performed, and the socio-ecological framework was applied to interpret the complex influences on individual risk perceptions and responses. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 16 informal caregivers of older adults with disabilities. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using content analysis. RESULTS: The four levels of the socio-ecological framework successfully allowed for the analysis of influences on the risk perceptions and responses of informal caregivers as follows: at the individual level: previous experiences, personality characteristics, health literacy, and care burden; at the familial level: economic status, emotional connection, informational and decisional support; at the community level: health service accessibility and neighbor communication; and at the social level: responsibility-driven culture, media advocacy, and aging policies. CONCLUSIONS: The establishment of risk perceptions and coping behaviors by informal caregivers was affected by many factors. Using the framework to interpret our findings provided insight into the influence of these varying factors. Comprehensive, realistic, and achievable strategies are needed for improving the risk perceptions of informal caregivers in home care by addressing personal, familial, and social environmental factors.
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safety; older adult; home care; informal caregiver; risk perception | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729756_7 | 2022-09-14T13:21:47 | en | 0.896798 |
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Dong X, Liu G, Yin X, Min R, Hu Y. Front. Public Health 2022; 10: e946097.
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(Copyright © 2022, Frontiers Editorial Office)
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10.3389/fpubh.2022.946097
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36091547
PMCID
PMC9458357
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PURPOSE: Falls are a major public health problem, especially for older people. This research aimed to provide a direct illustration of fall risks among the homebound older people with dementia in China, and to identify the risk factors associated with it. METHODS: In 2020, a questionnaire-based field survey was used to assess 1,042 people aged over 60 years in Ningbo, Eastern China. The Morse Fall Risk Scale's result was employed as the dependent variable, while the basic health problems, living environment difficulties, social support problems, and behavioral awareness issues were utilized as the independent variables; subsequently, chi-squared tests and four multivariate ordinarily ordered logistic regression models were performed. RESULTS: Overall, nine hundred and thirty-one older people with dementia were included in this study (the effective rate was 89.34%), with the majority of them having severe dementia (27.9%). Furthermore, 16.2% had fallen in the past 3 months, and 16.8% were at a high risk of falling. The risk factors for the older people's cognitive function included 80-90 years old, vascular dementia, marital status, and history of falls (P < 0.05); the kinds of chronic diseases, the activities of daily living, living environment, caregiver burden, caregiver knowledge, the Cohen Mansfield Agitation Inventory results, and the Clinical Dementia Rating were the protective factors for the risk of falls in them (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The risk of falling of the Chinese homebound older people with dementia was high. Their caregivers, such as relatives, need to pay attention to these risk factors and perform appropriate measures to prevent falls.
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dementia; community; older people; fall risk; homebound care; morse fall risk scale | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729757_7 | 2022-09-14T13:21:53 | en | 0.947891 |
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Kendi S, Taylor MF, Thomas B, Khemraj UD, Mohamed MA, Macy ML, Chamberlain JM. Inj. Prev. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, BMJ Publishing Group)
DOI
10.1136/ip-2022-044660
PMID
36096654
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BACKGROUND: Serious car seat installation errors occur at high rates in infants and children. These errors significantly increase the risk of child injury in a motor vehicle crash, and few interventions have addressed the challenge longitudinally. METHODS: This was a pilot randomised controlled feasibility trial of virtual car seat safety checks for caregivers of newborns recruited from an urban newborn nursery. The control (enhanced usual care (EUC)) group received an in-person car seat check as a newborn and virtual check at 9 months. The intervention group received two additional virtual checks at 3 and 6 months. Installation and infant positioning errors were documented and corrected by a child passenger safety technician (CPST). We measured feasibility and acceptability by tracking caregiver and CPST challenges, and caregiver retention. Group differences were tested for statistical significance using χ(2) or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables, and two sample t-tests for continuous variables. RESULTS: 33 caregivers were randomised to the EUC and 28 to the intervention group. Virtual checks were feasible, with variable participation levels at each quarter. Wi-Fi and app challenges noted in 30%. There was satisfaction with the virtual car seat checks. At baseline, car seat installation and infant positioning errors occurred at equal frequency, and at 9 months the intervention group had a significantly lower mean proportion than the EUC group in all categories of errors. In summary, virtual seat checks are feasible and the optimal timing of repeat checks requires additional study. A larger study is needed to further evaluate the effect of longitudinal virtual checks on errors.
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Education; Motor vehicle Occupant; Injury Diagnosis; Restraints | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729762_7 | 2022-09-14T13:22:00 | en | 0.920737 |
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Karkada M, Bennett N, Erdogan M, Kureshi N, Tansley G, Green RS. Injury 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.injury.2022.08.050
PMID
36096959
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OBJECTIVE: Firearm-related trauma is a significant cause of preventable mortality. In 2020, Nova Scotia experienced the largest mass shooting in Canadian history. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of firearm-related injury and death in Nova Scotia and to assess for factors associated with mortality. METHODS: A retrospective observational study of all major trauma patients in Nova Scotia who sustained firearm-related injuries between 2001 and 2020 was conducted. Data was collected from the Nova Scotia Trauma Registry and the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service. Injury rates were evaluated over time, by age/sex, and by intent (assault/homicide, self-harm, other), and were mapped by municipality. Characteristics of survivors and non-survivors were compared using t-tests and chi-square analysis. A multivariate logistic regression model was created to assess for predictors of mortality. RESULTS: A total of 776 firearm-related injuries occurred over the 19-year study period, for an overall age- and sex-adjusted firearm injury rate of 4.44 per 100,000 population. Patients ranged in age from 6 to 92 years (mean 45.0±19.2 years) and most were male (95.6%; 742/776). Injuries were predominantly self-inflicted (65%; 504/776). The majority of patients died from their injuries (72%; 558/776); 64% (497/776) died at the scene. The overall age- and sex-adjusted firearm mortality rate was 3.18 per 100,000. Most non-survivors had injuries that were self-inflicted (83.2%; 464/558). Increasing age (OR 1.02, 95% CI 1.00-1.04) and increasing Injury Severity Score (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.07-1.15) were associated with greater likelihood of mortality. Activation of the trauma team was associated with survival (OR 0.04, 95% CI 0.02-0.10). CONCLUSION: Trauma patients with firearm-related injuries were predominantly male and most injuries were self-inflicted among middle-aged to older patients. Younger patients tended to be victims of homicide/assault and were more likely to survive their injuries.
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epidemiology; injury; trauma; Firearm; gunshot wound | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729764_7 | 2022-09-14T13:22:06 | en | 0.966036 |
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Miyazaki R, Abe T, Yano S, Okuyama K, Sakane N, Ando H, Isomura M, Yamasaki M, Nabika T. J. Gen. Fam. Med. 2022; 23(5): 310-318.
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(Copyright © 2022, Japan Primary Care Association)
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10.1002/jgf2.544
PMID
36093222
PMCID
PMC9444019
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BACKGROUND: Living arrangements have been known to be associated with physical frailty. However, the prevalence of frailty and its risk factors in remote islands is not understood. We examined the association between living arrangements and objectively measured frailty among older adults living in a remote island of Japan. METHODS: Among older people living in Okinoshima, 656 older adults (75.6 ± 6.4 years) were analyzed. Physical frailty (robust, prefrailty, or frailty) was assessed using the 5-item frailty phenotype (unintentional weight loss, self-reported exhaustion, weakness, slow walking speed, and low physical activity). Physical functions (muscle mass, gait speed, and grip strength) were measured objectively. RESULTS: The prevalence of frailty and prefrailty was 6.6% and 43.8%, respectively. Living with a spouse resulted in a significantly lower prevalence of frailty (p < 0.001) compared with other living arrangements. All objectively measured physical functions among those who lived with a spouse were significantly superior to those who lived with family or alone (p < 0.001). Multinomial logistic regression showed that living alone was significantly associated with frailty (odds ratio [OR] 2.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.07-5.24) and prefrailty (OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.14-2.69) after adjusting for all covariates. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of frailty on remote islands seemed similar to that in urban areas. Older people living in remote islands might be able to maintain their physical health. Furthermore, living alone may correlate with increased risks of frailty and prefrailty. Among elderly individuals on remote islands, living with a spouse might be desirable to prevent (pre)frailty.
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elderly; Japan; gait speed; living alone; marital status | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729780_7 | 2022-09-14T13:22:12 | en | 0.924842 |
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Spittal MJ. Lancet Reg. Health West. Pac. 2022; 27: e100578.
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(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)
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10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100578
PMID
36092285
PMCID
PMC9444177
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Early projections painted a bleak picture of a suicide epidemic following the emergence of the COVID-19. This stemmed from widespread concerns that an unintended consequence of the health mandates designed to limit COVID-19 infections was deteriorating mental health and that this could lead to increases in suicides. This was amplified by poor media reporting.and by early studies forecasting high suicide rates as a consequence of changing health and economic conditions. Yet the evidence to date suggests rising suicide rates have not occurred in most countries. Rather, suicides are generally either lower than what would be expected (based on pre-pandemic trends) or are no different. The exception to this trend is Japan where suicide rates initially declined by around 14% but then began to rise. Suicide rates now appear to be higher in Japan than they were pre-pandemic for many age and sex groups. Published in The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, Goto and colleagues focus on young people (aged 10-19 years), examining both the timing of changes in suicide rates and possible explanations for changes they observed. Using an interrupted time series design, they show that youth suicide rates began increasing in April 2020 until a peak in September, and then declined. Rates remained slightly elevated between January and April 2021 (when the study ended). Other analyses presented in the study suggest an increase in suicides of between 50% and 86% between August and November 2020 compared with pre-pandemic trends. The authors identified several factors associated with the increase in suicides including family-related concerns, mental illness, social concerns and academic concerns...
Language: en | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729792_7 | 2022-09-14T13:22:19 | en | 0.959689 |
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Rosen B, Pelle AL, Lakhi NA. Pragmat. Obs. Res. 2022; 13: 93-103.
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(Copyright © 2022, Dove Press)
DOI
10.2147/POR.S378189
PMID
36092688
PMCID
PMC9462934
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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic globally impacted trauma facilities and overall healthcare utilization. This study was conducted to characterize the utilization of trauma services at our Level I Trauma Center in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the preceding pre-pandemic year. METHODS: A retrospective study of patient presenting to our Level 1 Trauma Center in Staten Island, New York. The pre-pandemic data was extracted from March 1st, 2019-February 29th, 2020. The pandemic year was divided into two phases: the initial wave (March 1st-Sept 1st, 2020) and the protracted phase (September 1st, 2020-March 1st, 2021). Patients were identified using ICD-10 coding and data regarding patient factors, mechanism of injury, and service utilization was extracted from the medical record. Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS v.24. RESULTS: A total of 1650 trauma activations registered during the pre-pandemic phase, 691 during the initial wave, and 826 during the protracted phase. Compared to pre-pandemic, the number of Level 1 trauma activations remained unchanged, however mechanisms of injury shifted. Gunshot wounds (2.6% vs 1.2%), motorcycle crash (4.2% vs 2.0%) and blunt force injury caused by an object (strike injuries) (2.7% vs 1.3%) significantly increased during the initial wave (p-value <0.05). There was a significant decrease in the percentage of both female (2.93% vs 2.33% vs 5.64%, p-value <0.01) and pediatric (3.30% vs 3.64% vs 12.9%, p-value <0.001) assault activations during the initial wave and protracted phase when compared to pre-pandemic levels, respectively. No significant changes were observed for self-harm, falls, accidents, burns, sports injuries, stab wounds, autobody collisions, or motor vehicle accident activations. CONCLUSION: Trauma centers should be prepared for increases in violent trauma. We also emphasize the need to implement strategies to raise public awareness of pediatric and female assault in the domestic setting, particularly during a mandatory stay-at-home policy where underreporting may occur.
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COVID-19; service utilization; mechanism of injury; trauma center | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_729806_7 | 2022-09-14T13:22:25 | en | 0.937181 |
Veteran Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda called for a special session of the Haryana Assembly to address the problem of common village land, the owners of which are demanding ownership rights.
On Monday, a group of farmers protested along the Panchkula-Chandigarh border, demanding ownership rights for individuals who have been occupying common land in communities for decades.
In April, the Supreme Court had held that in respect to the land taken from the proprietors from their permissible ceiling limits under a Punjab law, only the management and control would vest with the panchayat and not the title. Hooda said the state government hastily issued orders to transfer the land in the name of panchayats, creating an atmosphere of chaos in villages.
He also alleged that the government is continuously ignoring the issue.
"Since the Supreme Court's decision earlier this year, the Congress has been demanding amendments to the Land Act to protect the rights of farmers. But despite raising the issue in the assembly earlier, the government did not take it seriously," he said.
Hooda said the Congress had earlier suggested that the government should call a special session of the Assembly and make changes in the Land Act to avoid such a situation.
The former Haryana chief minister also took a dig at the government over the procurement of paddy, saying the crop has started arriving in grain markets but its talking of starting the process from October 1.
He demanded that the government start the procurement from September 20.
"Farmers are facing all-out blows due to wrong policies of the government. Their input costs are increasing continuously and income is decreasing," he said.
"Their ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra' (family id) scheme is just a 'pension katu' scheme as the pension of 5.14 lakh elderly, widows and destitute people has been cut," he added.
On August 18, the Haryana government issued instructions for the implementation of the Supreme Court's ruling pertaining to the vesting of shamlat deh (common land) and jumla mustarka malkan in the respective panchayats or municipal councils. Jumla mushtarka malkan is a type of common land created during consolidation by imposing a pro-rata cut to owners' holdings under the Consolidation Act.
During a meeting with the protesting farmers Monday, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said his government was contemplating to find a solution “within the legal framework” to their demand on common land’s ownership. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-haryana-govt-ignoring-issue-of-shamlat-land-says-hooda-seeks-special-session-to-bring-law-favouring-farmers-2985122 | 2022-09-14T13:23:32 | en | 0.971884 |
President Droupadi Murmu will visit London from September 17-19 to attend the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and offer condolences on behalf of the Indian government, Ministry of External Affairs announced on Wednesday.
The ministry added that in the 70 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, India-UK ties have evolved, flourished and strengthened immensely. She played an important role in the welfare of millions of people worldwide as Head of the Commonwealth.
The British Queen breathed her last at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8. The death of the 96-year-old Queen ended a generation-spanning, seven-decade reign that made her a beacon of stability in a tumultuous world. The UK has entered a period of official mourning, with tributes pouring in worldwide.
King Charles III was proclaimed as the new monarch of England on Saturday after his mother Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8.
READ | Queen Elizabeth II's funeral: How the royal family will say goodbye to former monarch
Moreover, the national anthem of Britain will now again shift back to "God Save the King" after the Queen`s demise.UK authorities had devised Operation London Bridge to manage events during the first 10 days between the Queen`s death and the funeral.
They had thought of Operation Unicorn in case the queen died in Scotland. The funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey on September 19 and there will be a committal service in St George`s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Thereafter, Queen Elizabeth II will be buried in the castle`s King George VI Memorial Chapel. The Queen was born on April 21, 1926, at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York - who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
(With inputs from PTI) | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-queen-elizabeth-funeral-president-droupadi-murmu-september-19-india-british-uk-king-charles-2985117 | 2022-09-14T13:23:38 | en | 0.963468 |
The Maharashtra opposition criticised the Shinde-led administration for losing out on the Vendanta-Foxconn semiconductor project, which was announced to be located in Gujarat. The company moved its facility from Maharashtra to Gujarat, according to Balasaheb Thorat, the revenue minister in the previous Maharashtra administration, who claimed that something "sinister" happened.
He continued by asking what Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Chief Minister Shinde done to retain the project in Maharashtra. Aaditya Thackeray, Shiv Sena leader, asserted that the Foxconn agreement had nearly been completed by the Uddhav Thackeray administration.
READ | DU revokes appointment of Bharti college principal, varsity to re-advertise for post
Raj Thackeray, the head of the MNS, however, demanded an investigation into the events that led to Gujarat being chosen as the site for India's first semiconductor plant. The investors prioritised Maharashtra, according to Raj Thackeray, but the deal reaching Gujarat is serious and not a good sign.
— Raj Thackeray (@RajThackeray) September 13, 2022
Aaditya Thackeray, a former minister in Maharashtra, expressed his shock at the situation on Tuesday, noting that Uddhav Thackeray's Maha Vikas Aghadi government had nearly finalised the agreement while the new Maharashtra government was taking credit for bringing the project to Maharashtra. According to Aaditya Thackeray, "The current dispensation has lost the confidence of potential investors, so such major projects are not coming here ."
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With a groundbreaking investment of Rs 1.54 lakh crore from one of the world's largest mining company Vedanta and Foxconn, a leader in Taiwanese electronics manufacturing, the country's first semiconductor facility would be constructed in Gujarat.
The 60:40 joint venture between Vedanta and Foxconn will construct a semiconductor fabrication unit, a display fabrication unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing facility on a 1000-acre tract of land in the Ahmedabad region.
(With inputs from PTI) | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-vedanta-foxconn-semiconductor-plant-shinde-govt-at-receiving-end-after-gujarat-bags-rs-15-lakh-crore-deal-2985119 | 2022-09-14T13:23:44 | en | 0.946551 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, a gearhead with his own vintage Corvette, will showcase his administration's efforts to promote electric vehicles during a visit to the Detroit auto show.
The Democratic president, who recently took a spin in his pine-green 1967 Stingray with Jay Leno for a segment on CNBC's “Jay Leno's Garage," may get the chance to slide behind the wheel of a new vehicle Wednesday during his stop in Detroit. He doesn't get many chances anymore in the driver's seat; he's not allowed to drive on public roads as president.
But he’s mostly going to the North American International Auto Show to talk shop, plugging the huge new climate, tax and health care law that offers tax incentives for buying electric vehicles.
While Biden has been taking credit for the recent boom in electric vehicle battery and assembly plant announcements, most were in the works long before the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law on Aug. 16. Biden's 2021 infrastructure legislation could have something to do with it — it provides $5 billion over five years to help states create a network of EV charging stations.
Biden was set in Detroit to announce approval of the first $900 million in infrastructure money to build EV chargers across 53,000 miles of the national highway system and 35 states.
Under the newest law, electric vehicles must be built in North America to be eligible for a new federal tax credit of up to $7,500. Batteries for qualifying vehicles also must be made in North America, and there are requirements for battery minerals to be produced or recycled on the continent. The credits are aimed at creating a U.S. electric vehicle supply chain and ending dependence on other countries, mainly China.
Passage of the measure set off a scramble by automakers to speed up efforts to find North American-made batteries and battery minerals from the U.S., Canada or Mexico to make sure EVs are eligible for the credit.
In April, Ford started building electric pickup trucks at a new Michigan factory. General Motors has revamped an old factory in Detroit to make electric Hummers and pickups.
Long before legislators reached a compromise on the legislation, each company announced three EV battery factories, all joint ventures with battery makers. A GM battery plant in Warren, Ohio, has already started manufacturing. A government loan announced in July will help GM build its battery factories.
Ford said last September it would build the next generation of electric pickups at a plant in Tennessee, and GM has announced EV assembly plants in Lansing, Michigan; Spring Hill, Tennessee; and Orion Township, Michigan. In May, Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, said it would build another joint venture battery factory in Indiana, and it has announced a battery plant in Canada.
Hyundai announced battery and assembly plants in May to be built in Georgia, and Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced factories in North Carolina in July. Honda and Toyota both announced U.S. battery plants after the act was passed, but they had been planned for months.
Biden has been talking for a long time about the importance of building a domestic EV supply chain and that may have prodded some of the companies to locate factories in the U.S. But it’s also advantageous to build batteries near where EVs will be assembled because the batteries are heavy and costly to ship from overseas.
And auto companies are rolling out more affordable electric options even despite battery costs. The latest came last week from General Motors, a Chevrolet Equinox small SUV. It has a starting price around $30,000 and a range-per-charge of 250 miles, or 400 kilometers. Buyers can get range of 300 miles, or 500 kilometers, if they pay more.
The Equinox checks the North American assembly box. It will be made in Mexico. The company won’t say where the battery will be made but it is working on meeting the other criteria for getting the tax credit.
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Krisher reported from Detroit. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/business/article/Car-guy-Biden-to-tout-electric-vehicles-at-17440245.php | 2022-09-14T13:23:49 | en | 0.970496 |
While Ranbir Kapoor-Alia Bhatt starrer Brahmastra is making records at the box office, the actress' performance has led to several memes and jokes. Alia's character of Isha has inspired several memes, and content creator Chandni is going viral for her mimicry of Bhatt.
The social media influencer named Chandni Mimic has uploaded a reel on Alia's contribution to Brahmastra, and netizens are going gaga over her mimicry. In the reel, Chandni sounded exactly like Bhatt, and netizens are founding uncanny resemblance in her voice and expressions. Chandni even mouths Shiva multiple times, and the video is doing wonders on the internet
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Ayan Mukerji’s film Brahmastra was one of the most anticipated films, netizens waited seven long years for the movie starring Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in lead roles. The action thriller hit the theatres on September 9.
Amid the #BoycottBrahmastra trend, the film earned Rs 75 crore on day 1. However, there are people who had mixed feelings about the film. A certain section of the people felt that Alia Bhatt has little-to-no dialogue, and it was all just around the ‘Shiva,’ the character played by Ranbir Kapoor.
Netzines took to Twitter, Instagram, and other social media apps and trolled the actor. One of them wrote, “Alia’s most spoken dialogues in Brahmastra. ‘Kya hua Shiva, Shivaa, Shiva Kya hua, Shivaaaa, hua kya Shiva, Shivaaaaaa, Ye kya hora hai Shiva, Shivaaaaaaa, Shivaaaaaaa.” The second one said, “Ek dailouge reh gya " Shiva tumhara hath”
For the unversed, apart from Ranbir and Alia, Brahmastra features Amitabh Bachchan, Mouni Roy, and Nagarjuna in pivotal roles with Shah Rukh Khan making a guest appearance. The big-budget visual spectacle is running in theatres in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada languages. | https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/report-brahmastra-mimicry-artist-chandni-imitates-alia-bhatt-from-ranbir-kapoor-s-starrer-video-goes-viral-2985129 | 2022-09-14T13:23:50 | en | 0.947869 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Carolina Herrera breathed spring back to life at Monday's New York Fashion Week show with a romantic portrayal of nature and beauty, accentuating that the brand's modern and striking feminine aesthetics work for every woman throughout the seasons and decades.
Inspired by one of his favorite childhood novels, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, designer Wes Gordon said that “in a world that can be dark and scary and unpredictable, it’s okay for some things to just be pure joy and beauty."
"That’s what this morning was about,” he added.
The Plaza Hotel ballroom's grand elegance boomed with Barbara Streisand’s classic “Funny Girl" hit “Don't Rain on My Parade,” complementing the romantic bliss emanating from the maximalist hand-painted tea roses and peonies gowns, mini-dresses and matching bucket hats and denim jumpsuits worn by models adorned with a classic crimson red lip and, in some cases, chunky, droopy earrings.
“I really created a palette of five beautiful floral prints, that I reimagined in lots of different scales and colorways," Gordon said. "I view this collection as a garden.”
Gordon and his team skillfully handcrafted a multitude of looks starting with the opening gown, a striped cotton blouse paired with a taffeta ball skirt, illustrating a whimsical high-class gardener vibe in line with true Herrera fashion.
Models Stella Maxwell and Karlie Kloss each had two separate looks. Maxwell shined in a mini yellow taxicab-colored floral dress while Kloss' height accentuated her second look, a long sleeve, yellow peony trench gown.
Sitting in the front row were Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, Martha Stewart and singers Ellie Goulding, Sabrina Carpenter and Becky G.
Standout pieces included a bold dramatic body-hugging column dress with a large rosette sleeve, which was seen on actress Kate Hudson the previous night at the Toronto Film Festival. Another eye-catching moment featured a mini yellow tent dress that almost looked like it was floating on the model.
But the showstopper was Precious Lee's closing gown, a strapless, bodysuit black silk chiffon dress trimmed with tulle. Lee held the extravagant train with her hands as she closed the show.
Gordon emphasized that Herrera's ability to evolve each season is because of the brand's ability to listen, specifically to women.
“It’s not hard to evolve with the times if you just pay attention to women who wear your clothes,” Gordon said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/entertainment/article/Carolina-Herrera-unveils-secret-garden-at-NY-17438096.php | 2022-09-14T13:23:55 | en | 0.943146 |
Ranbir Kapoor and his film Brahmastra have breathed fresh air into Bollywood, and it has finally ended the dry spell at the box office. Director Ayan Mukerji's dedication of a decade has finally paid off, and this was his dream that was supported by his lead star Ranbir.
As the film is raking crores, Ranbir's old interview about rejecting Hollywood's big-budget Star Wars for Brahmastra is going viral. As per the report of News18, In 2016, Ranbir spoke to Rajeev Masand, and Kapoor added that he rejected Star Wars as he was asked to audition, and he fears going through the process of auditions. When Rajeev asked Ranbir if he wants to try out his luck in Hollywood, Ranbir straightaway said no, and stated, "I was asked to audition as the second lead in Star Wars a couple of years back. I have a fear of auditioning."
Ranbir added that he had insecurity about what if he gets rejected. "It’s more a fear of not having that much faith in my talent. But it doesn’t interest me." Kapoor further added that he looks upon Ayan, "What Ayan Mukerji is making interests me more than Star Wars. Let’s make our own Star Wars. Let’s not chase what’s there. That’s great but I have an opportunity here and I don’t think Ayan is less than a JJ Abrams or a George Lucas. Let me work with him and make our own Star Wars."
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt as Shiva and Isha, has turned out to be a smash hit at the box office with movie-goers rushing to the theatres to see the visual spectacle created by the director Ayan Mukerji in the first part of the planned trilogy. After becoming the first Bollywood film to lead the worldwide box chart with earnings of Rs 225 crore in the opening weekend, Brahmastra has now even crossed the Rs 150 crore mark in the net collections in India on its fifth day, as per the report in Bollywood Hungama. | https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/report-brahmastra-when-ranbir-kapoor-rejected-jj-abrams-star-wars-for-ayan-mukerji-s-film-2985120 | 2022-09-14T13:23:56 | en | 0.979394 |
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Irene Papas, the Greek actress and recording artist renowned for her dramatic performances and austere beauty that earned her prominent roles in Hollywood movies as well as in French and Italian cinema over six decades has died. She was 93.
The Greek Culture Ministry confirmed her death Wednesday.
“Magnificent, majestic, dynamic, Irene Papas was the personification of Greek beauty on the cinema screen and on the theater stage, an international leading lady who radiated Greekness,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said in a statement.
Papas became known internationally following performances in “The Guns of Navarone” in 1961 and “Zorba the Greek” in 1964, acting alongside Hollywood stars Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn. In all, she starred in more than 50 movies.
Born Irene Lelekou in a mountainous village near the southern Greek city of Corinth, Papas was the daughter of two schoolteachers. Her father was also a drama teacher.
Papas left home at 18 to marry Greek film director Alkis Papas despite her family’s disapproval. They divorced four years later. After the death of American Actor Marlon Brando in 2004, Papas revealed in an Italian newspaper interview that the two had been romantically involved.
A supporter of the Greek Communist Party, Papas was a vocal opponent of the military dictatorship that governed the country between 1967 and 1974 and lived much for life outside Greece, including in Rome and New York.
Papas was also known for her appearance in ancient Greek tragedies. Many of her iconic international movie roles were earned portraying Greek characters. But she also starred with Kirk Douglas in the 1968 crime drama “Brotherhood” and with James Cagney in the 1956 Western “Tribute to a Bad Man.”
Greek arts institutions thanked Papas for her support for younger actors. The Athens-based Greek Film Center described her as “The greatest Greek international film star,” adding: “Her image is a timeless imprint of Greek female beauty.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/entertainment/article/Greece-s-Irene-Papas-who-earned-Hollywood-fame-17440671.php | 2022-09-14T13:24:01 | en | 0.977667 |
Just like in India, the madness for cricket is equally as much across the border, in Pakistan as well. Even though Babar Azam struggled for runs in Asia Cup 2022, he remains a huge figure in Pakistan, and another example of this came out recently as a question about Azam's cover drive appeared in one of the physics books in Pakistan.
The picture of a question about Babar's cover drive in one of the physics books has been breaking all over the internet, which highlights that he still remains a hugely popular figure in the nation.
The question was about the kinetic energy of the ball, if Babar hit a cover drive, with many cricket-crazy fans trying their hand to find an answer to the question.
"Babar Azam has hit a cover drive by given kinetic energy of 150J to the ball by his bat. a) At what speed will the ball go the boundary if the mass of the ball is 120g? b) How much kinetic energy footballer must impart to a football of mass 450g to make it move at this speed?" read the question related to the Pakistani captain.
A picture of the physics book containing the question is being widely shared all over social media.
Guess how much Pakistani Nation love cricket. I'm not Good in physics but I'm damn sure that this equation is 100% Perfect Nothing better than babar azam cover drive> poetry
Babar Azam's cover drive related question in 9th grade physics syllabus in PAK (via Reddit)#BaberAzam pic.twitter.com/pZvrAWGHiI — Shaun Tait- (@shaun_tait32) September 13, 2022
Meanwhile, Babar's form ahead of the T20 World Cup remains a concern for Pakistan. The 27-year-old had only managed 68 runs in six innings during the Asia Cup, which Pakistan lost in the final, where the captain could only score five runs in the summit clash.
READ| Sachin Tendulkar shares video to clean bat grip, gets schooled by netizens for wasting water
The upcoming 7 T20Is at home against a full-strength English attack will give him the perfect preparation.
Pakistan reached the semifinals in last year's T20 World Cup and this year they will kick-start their campaign against India on October 23 in Melbourne. | https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-question-about-babar-azam-cover-drive-finds-its-way-into-pakistani-physics-book-see-viral-pic-2985114 | 2022-09-14T13:24:02 | en | 0.969301 |
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state will be an occasion of regal symbolism, strong emotion — and an extremely long line.
Marshaling the hundreds of thousands of people who want to view the late monarch’s coffin will test Britain’s famous queuing skills to their limit.
Authorities overseeing the mammoth logistical challenge have consulted queue management experts and behavioral scientists to create not so much a line as a temporary community. It features 10 miles (16 kilometers) of “queuing infrastructure,” including moveable barriers and more than 500 portable toilets along a route leading to Parliament's Westminster Hall, where the coffin will rest.
Hundreds of stewards, police officers and first-aid volunteers, 30 multi-faith pastors and two sign language interpreters are assigned to look after the welfare of people waiting in line.
The queen’s coffin is scheduled to travel Wednesday from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where it will lie in state from 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) until 6:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) on Monday, the day of her funeral.
Hours before the coffin had arrived, the line of mourners already stretched from Parliament across nearby Lambeth Bridge and snaked along the south bank of the River Thames. The designated route stretches for 6.9 miles (11 kilometers) past the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Tate Modern art gallery and Tower Bridge to Southwark Park in south London, which can accommodate another 3 miles (4.8 km) of zigzagging queues.
Officials say they can’t predict how many people will line up to pay their respects at Westminster Hall, but it is likely to be many more than the 200,000 who visited the Queen Mother Elizabeth’s coffin over three days in 2002. Transit operator Transport for London estimates that more than 1 million people will travel to the city center to be part of commemorations through Monday.
Transport for London Commissioner Andy Byford called it “the biggest event and challenge that TfL has faced in its history.”
The government has warned that navigating the line will be a feat of endurance.
“You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down as the queue will be continuously moving,” it said in a set of detailed instructions for those wanting to come.
People will be able to check the line’s length and waiting times on the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport's social media accounts. Those joining will be given numbered wristbands so they take food or toilet breaks without losing their place. A separate accessible line has been set up for people unable to stand for long stretches.
As ever in Britain, jumping the queue is a definite no-no. Officials hope mourners’ sense of fairness will make the line largely self-policing. Given the vagaries of British weather, people are advised to carry both an umbrella and sunscreen.
The government is offering other helpful hints: Bring food and drink, but be sure to consume it before reaching the front. Bring a portable power pack to keep phones charged.
When they reach Parliament, people will pass through airport-style security scans. Prohibited items include large bags, liquids, spray paint, knives, fireworks, flowers, candles, stuffed toys and “advertising or marketing messages.”
Those in the queue on Wednesday were convinced all the hassle would be worth it.
“To give up my day queuing is nothing compared to what she’s done for 70 years,” Gina Carver from Tunbridge Wells in southern England said of the late queen. “And she does feel like our grandmother.”
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Follow AP coverage of Queen Elizabeth II at https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/entertainment/article/Huge-line-to-view-monarch-s-coffin-is-queue-fit-17440742.php | 2022-09-14T13:24:07 | en | 0.944149 |
The famous future teller Michel de Nostredame, commonly known as Nostradamus predicted in 1555 that King Charles would become the king at 74 years of age after the passing of Queen Elizabeth in 2022 at 95 years of age.
After the demise of the queen, one of Nostradamus's biggest experts, Mario Reading, revealed that the future teller had predicted the exact year of the queen's passing in his poem. Nostradamus also predicted that an unexpected person will take over the British's rule after King Charles abdicate the throne.
As per Reading, Nostradamus claimed that Prince Charles will become the King but his reign will be short. Due to the resentment held against him by a certain population following the divorce from Diana, Princess of Wales, and his age, King Charles will be forced to abdicate the throne and Prince William will not take over the place of England's monarch after.
This will automatically make Prince Harry the King. That would make him King Henry IX, aged just 38.
The famous future teller, Nostradamus, correctly predicted many incidents like the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Great Fire of London, the assassination of former US President John F Kennedy, and the terror attacks of 9/11.
Read: Queen Elizabeth II's coffin set for final journey from Buckingham Palace: 10 points | https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-king-charles-abdicate-throne-prince-harry-queen-elizabeth-princess-diana-england-uk-throne-uk-monarch-2985116 | 2022-09-14T13:24:08 | en | 0.944628 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has selected a prison memoir by Jarvis Jay Masters, currently on death row in San Quentin State Prison in California, for her latest book club pick. Masters' “That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row” was first published in 2009.
Activists for years have called for the release of Masters, sentenced to death in 1990 for taking part in the murder of a San Quentin prison guard. Masters, first imprisoned in 1981 for armed robbery, has filed numerous appeals in efforts to have his murder conviction overturned. A hearing is scheduled for next month in federal court.
“A little more than 10 years ago, I was given a memoir by Jarvis Jay Masters, a man serving a death row sentence in San Quentin,” Winfrey said in a statement Tuesday. “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system, and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and still does today, which is why I’m naming ‘That Bird Has My Wings’ as my latest Oprah’s Book Club selection.”
Masters said in a statement that he would be “forever grateful” to Winfrey for choosing his book.
“I turned 60 this year, having entered San Quentin at the age 19. I wrote ‘That Bird Has My Wings’ while in solitary confinement, isolated and alone,” he said. “My greatest hope at that time was that a few young people would read my story and learn from my mistakes. Thanks to Ms. Winfrey and her book club, my story will be introduced to a national audience. It is my greatest hope that their lives will be the better for it."
Supporters of Masters have backed his claims of innocence and cited him as a model of how people can transform themselves. In “Don’t Stop Believing That People Can Change,” a New York Times essay published in April, author Rebecca Solnit wrote that “he has often defused potential violence and offered solace and a trustworthy ear to the sorrows of those around him.”
Masters has also written “Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart,” published in 1997. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/entertainment/article/Winfrey-selects-prison-memoir-That-Bird-Has-My-17437926.php | 2022-09-14T13:24:13 | en | 0.973927 |
The Taliban establishment in Kabul on Wednesday denied allegations that JeM chief Masood Azhar has sought asylum in Afghanistan and stated that it will not let any "armed opposition" groups to operate from Afghan territory.
Following a report in Pakistani media that the Foreign Office in Islamabad had asked the Taliban to track down and arrest Azhar, the Taliban's foreign ministry released the explanation. According to the letter sent by Pakistan, Azhar is believed to be in Kunar or Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan, according to Geo News channel.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, took to Twitter and wrote, “IEA-MoFA rejects media reports asserting that Jaish-e-Mohammed group leader, Masood Azhar, has sought refuge in Afghanistan. We reiterate that IEA does not allow any armed oppositions in its territory to operate against any other country.”
The statement further added, “We also call on all parties to refrain from such allegations lacking any proof and documentation. Such media allegations can adversely affect bilateral relations.”
The development came about a month before the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary meeting, which is expected to make a decision on removing Pakistan from the multilateral watchdog's "grey list" of countries under enhanced monitoring for failing to combat terror financing and money laundering.
Pakistan has been facing pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to take action against some UN-designated terrorists if they want to get out of the grey list.
According to several media reports, “Masood Azhar continues to publish articles on Pakistani social media network urging JeM cadres to engage in jihad & praising the Taliban takeover of Kabul, claiming that Taliban victory would open windows for Muslim victories elsewhere.”
Azhar founded the JeM after Indian authorities exchanged him and two other terrorists for the passengers of an Indian Airlines flight hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in December 1999.
Earlier this year, at a FATF meeting, Western nations backed India's plea for action against 30 top terrorist leaders, including Azhar, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, and LeT operator Sajid Mir.
Before police verified Mir's arrest earlier this year, Pakistan had claimed for months that he was dead. Mir was later convicted under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act for belonging to the proscribed LeT, generating cash for the group, and supplying funds for terrorist activities. | https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-taliban-denies-presence-of-jem-chief-masood-azhar-in-afghanistan-2985130 | 2022-09-14T13:24:14 | en | 0.949074 |
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has addressed the Queen’s funeral in an interview with CNN. “She was loved,” Khan said. Her death has been “quite personable for some people,” he added.
“She was born in London, and we’re really proud that she’s back home.”
When asked what he made of the current huge Commonwealth presence in the city to watch the Queen’s procession and pay respects, Khan said “I was born in London to Pakistani parents and Indian grandparents: she’s our Queen. She was the continuity in our lives. Presidents come and go. Prime Ministers come and go. But she was always there.”
The mayor has also tweeted that he wished King Charles III "every success" in his new role.
"On behalf of all Londoners, I wish our new monarch King Charles III every success as His Majesty takes on this momentous responsibility," Khan said in a tweet following Charles's public proclamation on Saturday. | https://www.cnn.com/uk/live-news/queen-elizabeth-westminster-news-intl | 2022-09-14T13:24:15 | en | 0.986624 |
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Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee
(THE CONVERSATION) Invented civilizations are usually thought of as the stuff of sci-fi novels and video games, not museums.
Yet in 1972, the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University exhibited “The Civilization of Llhuros,” an imaginary Iron Age civilization. Created by Cornell Professor of Art Norman Daly, who died in 2008, the show resembled a real archaeological exhibition with more than 150 objects on display.
Unaware of Llhuros, I started fabricating and documenting my own imaginary ancient culture using ceramics and printmaking for my undergraduate thesis in 1980. The following year, as a graduate student, I learned about Llhuros and began a decadeslong correspondence with Daly.
With scams, deceptions and lies flourishing in our digital age, an art exhibition that convincingly presents fiction as fact has particular currency.
A culture made from scratch
Daly’s project was truly groundbreaking. The exhibition included a map of the excavation sites, old tools and religious artifacts that Daly had crafted, all from the culture’s distinct periods – “Early Archaic,” “Archaic,” “Late Archaic,” “Middle Period” and “Decline.”
There were translations of Llhuroscian poetry that Daly had written; soundtracks with reenactments of Llhuroscian ceremonies and songs performed by a women’s church choir; audio interviews with fake Llhurosian scholars; and a 56-page exhibition catalog with an invented bibliography and glossary of Llhuroscian terms.
Daly – with guidance from Marilyn Rivchin, a museum staffer; and Robert Ascher, a Cornell anthropology and archaeology professor – conceived everything.
To the casual viewer, Llhuros appeared to be real. The artifacts and tools were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure, or a “nasal flute found at the early excavations at Lamplö” made from a metal stove burner. Many of the objects were cracked and broken, with patinas and incrustations making them appear as if they’d survived centuries. The tension between real and fake was tangible.
At the time, the exhibition attracted enthusiastic reviews in Newsweek and The New Republic. But the New York art world largely overlooked it.
Testing the viewer’s grasp of reality
Prior to creating “The Civilization of Llhuros,” Daly was making paintings and sculptural reliefs influenced by Native American and prehistoric art.
His earlier work had much in common with other 20th century artists, from Pablo Picasso to Max Ernst, who drew inspiration from art outside of the European canon. These artists questioned Western academic traditions and valued the direct and expressive forms found in African and Native American art. This approach to making art can be problematic, since there’s an element of cultural appropriation. But it also speaks to a desire to connect with universal aspects of human culture.
So why would Daly shift his creative practice to the mock-documentary form, creating an entire fake culture in the form of a museum exhibition?
A few key moments cultivated the idea.
One of his tall sculptural works had been exhibited in a faculty dining room. But people kept mistaking it for a hat rack, which frustrated Daly: He assumed that the value of an artwork was self-evident and that it should be able to “speak for itself.” Clearly, that wasn’t always the case. So by creating an exhibition – replete with a catalog, visual guides and explanatory labels – he could extend the meaning of his visual art. If the art object does not speak for itself, why not fabricate a narrative as part of the show?
Another realization came to Daly while attending a performance of contemporary music. At the concert, he observed that the audience was working hard to resist the random interference of auditory distractions, from program rustlers to feet shufflers. Daly considered ways that a visual artist could employ what he called “planned interference” to provoke deeper audience engagement with the work.
This insight compelled him to use a variety of ironic signals to disrupt the credibility of the museum narrative and test the viewer’s understanding whether Llhuros was real or invented. He might assemble a massive bronze temple door from plastic foam packing cartons, or create an oil lamp that resembles an orange juicer.
For Daly, stories about the Llhuroscians are also about what it is to be human, with themes of guilt, desire and faith appearing in many of the works. With his recurring “stilt walker,” he depicts a religious pilgrim who carries a bird on his head, walking on stilts of different lengths. The self-imposed struggle of the man, who appears across several works, comes from the guilt he feels.
The art of fraud
Like Daly, I was interested in the use of documentary forms to present works of fiction. My mock-documentary exhibitions have shifted from archaeological themes to include anatomical prints, a collection of contemporary folk art, a creationist organization from the 1920s, and an early 20th century circus. I am drawn to this form of art because I am inspired by the idea of inventing artworks that appear to have the authority of history.
In her 2021 book, “Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax and Provocation,” artist and writer Antoinette LaFarge describes Daly’s approach as a form of “fictive art,” arguing that the mock-documentary uses of historical forms, as well as “self-outing” through ironic signals, have significance for a contemporary culture saturated with misinformation.
There are, of course, precedents: In his 1917 bathtub hoax, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken presented a fabricated history of bathtubs in America. P.T. Barnum became known for his creative hoaxes, which included his Feejee mermaid specimen, made from an orangutan and a salmon. Where Mencken sought to teach the American public about their gullibility, Barnum wanted to make a quick buck and didn’t care whether his audience believed the ruse. Fictive art draws on this history to create relevant works of contemporary art.
To mark the 50th anniversary of “The Civilization of Llhuros,” I have organized a free, daylong virtual symposium to be held on Oct. 8, 2022. An international roster of presenters will discuss Daly’s exhibition and his legacy as a teacher. It will also feature contemporary artists who work with Llhuros as a paradigm.
Today, fact-checking outletsand algorithms help people spot deception and misinformation. But art that tests your perceptions of what is real – allowing you to suspend your disbelief, while also giving you the opportunity to recognize the tools of deception – can play a role, too.
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Aziz Huq, University of Chicago; David Landau, Florida State University, and Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago
(THE CONVERSATION) A county court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Sept. 6, 2022, became the first in more than 150 years to disqualify a person from public office because they participated in an insurrection.
District Court Judge Francis Mathew found that Couy Griffin, a former county commissioner and founder of the group Cowboys for Trump, had participated in the violent U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Mathew invoked a nearly forgotten part of the 14th Amendment, called Section 3, which can disqualify certain people from state or federal office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or given “aid or comfort” to the United States’ enemies.
The clause was first adopted after the Civil War to keep former Confederates from participating in politics. The amendment says that disqualified people are barred for life from either running for or being appointed to office. But Congress can vote by a two-thirds majority to waive this ban.
The clause fell into general disuse after 1872, when Congress gave amnesty to most former Confederates in a move toward reconciliation.
Some observers have argued that Section 3 disqualification should be dusted off to address the Jan. 6 mob and to stop other people who have threatened and committed violence – or tried to disrupt federal elections – from serving in government.
Mathew’s decision has also renewed talk among Democrats and good-governance groups about finding a way to use Section 3 against former President Donald Trump in order to disqualify him from ever holding office again.
We are scholars of comparative constitutional law who have worked on democratic backsliding around the world. In a forthcoming article, we point out that disqualification is potentially a useful tool to protect democracy, but it can also be dangerous – it rubs up against the basic idea of democracy as a system in which anyone can run, and voters can decide.
Recent attempts at disqualification
The disqualification of Griffin is one of several efforts voters and advocacy groups have lobbied for after Jan. 6. Most of these efforts have failed to remove someone from office or prevent them from running. But the examples are still useful in understanding how disqualification might be an alternative to more punitive criminal law options.
A suit filed by a group of voters to disqualify Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, foundered in July when a Georgia court affirmed a lower court ruling that she had not “engaged in insurrection.”
Arizona and Wisconsin state judges have also rejected efforts to use Section 3 as a sword against those who supported the Jan. 6 insurrection. But none of these targets actually participated in the mob at the Capitol. Mere support of the rioters, or questioning the election outcome, is protected political speech under the First Amendment.
Griffin, though, engaged in a physical invasion of the Capitol.
Mathew’s careful opinion contains extensive factual findings and legal analysis. So it tees up nicely the question of whether and how disqualification from democratic office is legitimate, justified or effective in defense of democracy.
This is especially important in the U.S., where there is a lack of recent historical experience with disqualification of people working in politics.
When disqualification makes sense
Other countries make much more extensive use of political disqualification than the U.S. does, as we show in our forthcoming study.
Israel’s courts, for example, have repeatedly disqualified candidates for lack of “good character.” In Pakistan, the supreme court disqualified sitting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2017 after he was named in the Panama Papers because of corruption.
There are various costs and benefits to disqualifying someone from office, and there are also open questions of how to correctly interpret Section 3. We focus on the first question of costs and benefits here.
Democracies require robust protections for free speech and association. But these freedoms can be abused by those seeking to undermine democracy itself.
For example, Mathew documents Griffin’s persistent efforts to cast doubt on the legitimate outcome of the 2020 election and to instigate violence to derail President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Most of Griffin’s actions, however, fell far short of the threshold necessary to justify criminal penalties for incitement – the First Amendment requires that the violence be imminent.
Griffin, nonetheless, participated in a concerted threat to American democracy. Disqualification is a way to address such threats without the heavy hand of the criminal law.
Section 3, more generally, is another way to address high-level misconduct in politics. As we have explored in another study published in 2021, Congress has rarely impeached a U.S. president – and an impeached president has never actually been removed from office. Given partisan dynamics, it is unclear if impeachment could actually remove and disqualify a sitting president.
This might leave Section 3 as the best alternative.
The risks of disqualification
Mathew’s opinion suggests that Section 3’s “aid and comfort” language can go uncomfortably far. It could potentially chill legitimate political speech – including criticism of the government, or support for a foreign power – that doesn’t threaten democracy.
For example, plaintiffs justified the need to disqualify Griffin by saying that he committed “actions that normalized and incited violence” by “dehumanizing the opposition as ‘wicked’ and ‘vile.’”
Dehumanizing speech about political opponents is indeed often unhealthy for democratic practice, but it has become routine in politics.
Another challenge is that the text for Section 3 is not entirely clear about how disqualification actually works. Does it apply automatically to anyone who engages in insurrection? Or does it require some sort of either judicial or legislative process?
There is no settled answer.
In an 1869 decision, Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon Chase suggested that Section 3 did not apply automatically – rather, disqualification occurred when Congress, or perhaps a state legislature, authorized it.
Mathew rejected the position that only Congress could make the determination and instead held that Griffin could be disqualified by order of a state court.
The potential breadth and ambiguity of Section 3 creates a risk that the measure could be repurposed, against its original aims, in a way that hurts democracy.
The bigger picture
Disqualification, then, is a superficial remedy to a profound problem. It might be effective against a low-level official like Griffin, but the bigger the target, the less power everyday voters have.
Imagine that some court was persuaded to disqualify Trump from a state’s 2024 presidential ballot. Such a move could be considered to disenfranchise his supporters. This could play into Trump’s beliefs that the “game is rigged.”
Whatever the correct legal answer, there is a strong case for eliminating the uncertainty around how Section 3 works. We’ve argued for a carefully crafted federal statute that clearly explains when it applies and how it works.
If disqualification is to become an effective sword to defend democratic politics, it must not become a two-edged one that later weakens the democratic process in the U.S.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The British author known in part for his news-making bestseller on Princess Diana has a biography of Queen Elizabeth II coming out Nov. 15. Andrew Morton's “The Queen” was supposed to be published in 2023, but it was moved to this fall after the queen died last week at age 96.
“During her long and storied reign Queen Elizabeth II devoted herself to her family and the wider family of nations. During times of national celebration and concern, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the glue who kept the nation together," Morton said in a statement released Wednesday by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group.
“Teasing out the character of the woman behind the impassive mask has been one of the challenges and fascinations of this biography,” he said.
According to Grand Central, Morton will draw upon archival research and his long relationships with palace insiders, including private secretaries and bodyguards. He has written unauthorized books on William, Prince of Wales and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex among others. But he had the cooperation of his subject for the 1992 release “Diana: Her True Story — in Her Own Words,” in which Diana acknowledged marital troubles with Prince Charles, now King Charles III. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Andrew-Morton-bio-of-Queen-Elizabeth-II-due-in-17440712.php | 2022-09-14T13:24:38 | en | 0.976486 |
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Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California
(THE CONVERSATION) In early September 2022, electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs – the face of the vaping epidemic among teenagers – agreed to pay US$438.5 million to 33 states.
The settlement concludes a two-year bipartisan investigation into the e-cigarette maker’s marketing and sales practices for its vaping products. Those states claimed that Juul marketed its addictive nicotine products to adolescents. The company had previously settled suits with four other states.
As part of the settlement, Juul has also agreed to limit marketing and sales practices that may appeal to adolescents. In addition, the company faces pending lawsuits by nine other states and hundreds of claims on behalf of teenagers who want to hold Juul responsible for their nicotine addiction.
In 2018, the Food and Drug Administration stated that e-cigarette use, or “vaping,” among youths had reached “epidemic proportions.” Juul’s arrival coincided with massive increases in vaping among teenagers.
Though Juul is just one type of e-cigarette in a field of vaping products, its sales comprised 70% of the market at the end of 2017. Juul quickly dominated after its launch in 2015 because of its discreet design – it is small, concealable and resembles a USB thumb drive device – as well as its high-nicotine concentration and range of flavors. The 33 states that are party to the suit claimed that the company’s aggressive and targeted marketing and sales practices have fueled the uptake in vaping among adolescents.
As a researcher in tobacco control, I use publicly accessible data from social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to capture and describe the marketing practices of companies whose products may directly affect public health. I’ve conducted studies that examined the impact of tobacco marketing on adolescents and young adults.
Juul use among kids has been a research focus of mine since 2016. It was during this time when my colleagues and I found hundreds of Twitter posts describing students sneaking Juul products onto school grounds to use during school hours. The latest settlement marks a small victory for those working to curb Juul use among teenagers.
Nicotine’s effects on the developing brain
In 2021, a survey by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that some 2.55 million high school and middle school students – or 9.3% of U.S. students in that age range – said they had used a tobacco product in the previous 30 days. E-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product; according to the 2021 survey, 2.06 million high school and middle school students reported having used e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes like Juul often contain nicotine, which has been shown by a vast body of research to be an addictive substance. Extended exposure to nicotine can have a detrimental impact on brain development during adolescence.
Adolescent brains continue to develop into early adulthood, particularly in the prefrontal cortex. This brain region is involved in higher cognitive development, including cognitive functions related to attention, memory and cognitive flexibility. Human neuroimaging studies have revealed that nicotine exposure results in long-term functional and structural changes in the brain .
How Juul use took off among teenagers
The two-year investigation into Juul revealed that the company grew quickly in popularity in part by marketing to underage users by organizing launch parties. Juul also hired young and trendy-looking models to appear in advertisements and relied on social media posts to raise brand awareness.
Juul’s use of social media to appeal to young people was a concern that my colleagues and I raised in 2018. We examined whether adolescents – defined in our study as people under age 18 – were following Juul’s official Twitter account and the extent to which adolescents shared Juul’s posts to their own followers – other adolescents.
To accomplish this, we collected all tweets from Juul’s official Twitter account from February 2017 to January 2018. We then identified Juul’s tweets that were retweeted, meaning shared by others on Twitter. We found that there were 721 unique users who shared Juul’s tweets during that time. We then determined whether those unique users were adolescents or adults based on a systematic classification procedure.
Our study showed that 25% of users following Juul were adolescents. We also found that an adolescent could be exposed to Juul’s posts without directly following Juul’s official account, as a result of retweeting.
Our findings have clear implications for public health. For example, a meta-analysis – or study that synthesizes the pertinent and available data on a topic from prior research – found that exposure to online e-cigarette marketing increases an adolescent’s risk of trying e-cigarettes.
Targeted strategies aimed at youth
While Juul has not admitted any wrongdoing, as part of the settlement it has agreed to refrain from marketing aimed at youth and from depicting persons under age 35 in any marketing. Juul also agreed to forgo the use of paid influencers – public figures with sizable followings on social media platforms who promote products on behalf of brands for monetary compensation or other benefits. And as part of the settlement, the company agreed to refrain from product placement, use of cartoons and other marketing practices that appeal to adolescents.
I’m cautiously optimistic that the settlement reached between Juul and the states will help curb e-cigarette use among adolescents. However, Juul’s share of the e-cigarette market has decreased in recent years, replaced by disposable, one-time-use e-cigarettes like the newly popular PuffBar. PuffBar offers its products in a variety of flavors, which is important because flavored e-cigarettes are trendy among U.S. middle school and high school students.
Juul is just one e-cigarette company that has employed marketing practices that appeal to adolescents. For example, our team’s research found that e-cigarette companies were using cartoons as company logos and in other promotional material. We’ve documented 106 companies that have used cartoons to help establish their brand identities.
In 2021, we examined the associations between recognition of e-cigarette packaging with cartoons and e-cigarette use. We also studied adolescents’ susceptibility to e-cigarette use and their expectations of benefits and risks from use. To assess the degree to which adolescents recognize cartoon images on product labels, we presented adolescents in our study with 40 images of e-cigarette packages – 20 with cartoons and 20 without. We then asked each adolescent whether they recognized the products.
We found a positive association between recognition of cartoon images and e-cigarette use, susceptibility to use and a perceived social benefit of use. In other words, we determined that adolescents recognized e-cigarette-related cartoon marketing, and that these adolescents were using e-cigarettes.
A step in the right direction
The settlement comes at a time when the public outcry against teen vaping has reached a fever pitch. Although the settlement is an important step forward, research from the tobacco control community shows that marketing practices from tobacco companies can and will influence young people to consider trying tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.
As Juul’s popularity wanes and new e-cigarette companies begin to capture more of the market share, strict measures to curb additional marketing practices will be critical in the efforts to keep more young people from becoming addicted to nicotine.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers on Wednesday adopted new legislation aimed at guaranteeing “decent” minimum wages for workers across the 27-nation bloc.
The vote — with 505 in favor, 92 against and 44 abstentions — came as inflation and skyrocketing energy bills have left many households struggling to make ends meet.
Minimum wages across the EU vary widely, and setting a minimum remains a competence of member countries. The highest minimum wages are in Luxembourg, Ireland and Germany, the lowest in Bulgaria, Latvia and Estonia, according to EU data.
Under the new law, member countries will have to guarantee “that their national minimum wages allow workers to lead a decent life, taking into account the cost of living and wider pay levels," the Parliament said.
The legislation will apply to all EU workers who have an employment contract or employment relationship.
EU governments will have two years to comply with the legislation once it is formally approved by the European Council, likely later this month.
“Prices for groceries, energy bills and housing are exploding. People are really struggling to make ends meet. We have no time to waste, work must pay again," said Agnes Jongerius, a lawmaker from the Socialists and Democrats group.
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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.
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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.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The French foreign minister said Wednesday that the war in Ukraine will not overshadow France’s commitments to the Indo-Pacific region, where India and its allies view China’s rising influence with suspicion.
Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and her Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar discussed the security situation in the region and the consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including concerns about food security and rising inflation, officials said.
Colonna said the two countries share the same concern about China's role in the region.
“We spoke a lot about the general situation in the Indo-Pacific and the many challenges that have emerged because of China. We have basically the same analysis, we also share the same concerns, because we know the role the Chinese are playing and we want to make sure that there is no imbalance in the Indo-Pacific,” Colonna said at a news briefing.
Jaishankar said that it was important for like-minded countries to work together in the region to ensure peace, security and prosperity. “We consider France as an Indo-Pacific player that has a long-standing presence in the Indian Ocean,” he added.
Indian and Chinese soldiers last week began pulling back from a key friction point on their disputed border as part of efforts to lower tensions in a more than two-year standoff that has sometimes led to deadly clashes. The two countries have stationed tens of thousands of soldiers backed by artillery, tanks and fighter jets along the de facto border, called the Line of Actual Control.
In June 2020, India said it lost 20 troops and China said it lost four soldier when the two sides fought with clubs, stones and fists.
Jaishankar said Wednesday that the disengagement of troops was completed.
Colonna said France is working to ensure that food coming from Ukraine, which is essential for many countries, continues in the form of exports while the European Union strives to ensure transparency in the market so that prices remain reasonable.
Colonna and Jaishankar echoed calls to find solutions to end the war. “There should be a return to dialogue and diplomacy,” Jaishankar told reporters.
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PARIS (AP) — A French court was expected to issue a verdict Wednesday in the trial of the Yemeni airline that operated a passenger plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, killing 152 people.
The Yemenia flight departed from Paris, picked up more passengers in the southern French city of Marseille and made a stopover in Sanaa, Yemen, where 142 passengers and 11 crew members boarded another plane to continue to Moroni, the Comoros capital.
During the landing in strong winds, the aging Airbus A310 crashed about 15 kilometers (9 miles) off the Comorian coast on June 30, 2009.
Yemenia, which is the flagship carrier of Yemen, has been charged in the Paris court with “manslaughter and unintentional injuries” in the civil case, and faces a fine of up to 225,000 euros ($237,000). The company has denied responsibility.
Most of the passengers onboard were from Comoros. Yemenia was tried in Paris over the injuries of the crash’s only survivor, who was 12 years old at the time, and the deaths of 65 French citizens.
The survivor, Bahia Bakari, clung to floating debris from the plane for 11 hours in the sea before being rescued. She suffered a broken collarbone, a broken hip, burns and other injuries, and her mother died in the crash.
Now 25, Bakari gave powerful testimony in a packed courtroom in May, earning praise for her bravery from judges and lawyers.
Other witnesses slammed what they claimed was the poor state of air travel from Yemen, which has since been embroiled in a brutal civil war. Some claimed Yemenia was more interested in profits than in taking care of its passengers.
A lawyer for the victims’ families, Said Larifou, denounced the operation of passenger plans that he claimed were “flying coffins.”
In 2015, two French courts that oversaw civil proceedings ordered Yemenia to pay more than 30 million euros ($31.6 million) to the victims’ families, who deplored the slowness of the procedure between France and the Comoros, a former colony that became independent in 1975.
The airline in 2018 signed a confidential agreement with 835 beneficiaries, who had to wait several more years to receive compensation.
No representatives of the company attended the Paris trial. Bakari deplored the absence and said she wished the company would apologize.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Parenthood and the death of his dear friend and former “Full House” co-star Bob Saget helped convince John Stamos it was time to write his memoir.
The publisher Henry Holt announced Wednesday that Stamos' “If You Would Have Told Me” is scheduled for fall 2023.
“'If You Would Have Told Me' is the book I never planned to write, but after losing Bob, finally becoming a father, and wanting to honor all the colorful people who have made me who I am today, I figured if not now, when?" Stamos, 59, said in a statement released through Henry Holt.
“Honestly, while writing this book I’ve realized I have about a million stories to tell, and I think you may like at least four hundred of them. It has been cathartic and healing and sometimes heartbreaking to dig in and reveal so much.”
Stamos' long career ranges from his early appearances on “General Hospital” to his years on “Full House” as Uncle Jesse to touring with the Beach Boys. He became a father in 2018 after his wife Caitlin McHugh gave birth to their son Billy.
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BERLIN (AP) — German energy supplier Uniper said Wednesday that it is exploring the possibility of the government acquiring a majority holding in the company as its losses mount, a jump from the roughly 30% stake that the state already has pledged to take.
The government put together the rescue package in July after Russia's cuts to natural gas supplies forced Uniper to buy gas at far higher prices on the market to fulfill its supply contracts. As the energy crisis drives up prices, the European Union's executive Commission has proposed measures to help households, including tapping into the extraordinary profits of electricity producers.
Uniper is majority-owned by Finland-based Fortum, in which the Finnish government holds the largest stake.
Uniper said in a statement that “due to the increased uncertainties in the operating environment, the parties are also looking into alternative solutions,” including “a straight equity increase that would result in a significant majority participation by the German government in Uniper.”
It added that no decisions have yet been made beyond the July rescue package.
It includes a roughly 267 million-euro capital increase signed by the German government alone and an additional 7.7 billion euros through a tool that provides equity by issuing company shares — as Uniper’s cash needs require. An existing 2 billion-euro credit facility from Germany’s state-owned KfW development bank was increased to 9 billion euros.
The government also decided to introduce a new levy on natural gas, aimed at rescuing importers slammed by the Russian cutbacks tied to the war in Ukraine. It later moved to lower value-added tax on gas from 19% to 7% until the end of March 2024 in an effort to make up for the effect of the surcharge.
Russia’s Gazprom started reducing gas deliveries to Germany through the main Nord Stream 1 pipeline in mid-June, citing alleged technical problems and the effect of Western sanctions. German officials have dismissed that explanation as an excuse for a political decision to create uncertainty and drive up prices.
Russia, which before the reductions accounted for a bit more than a third of Germany’s gas supplies, has since cut off deliveries through Nord Stream 1 altogether.
As a result of that cutoff and extremely high and volatile gas and power prices in Europe, Uniper said its “financial losses due to the higher gas procurement cost have significantly increased.”
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Jim Beam plans to ramp up bourbon production at its largest Kentucky distillery to meet growing global demand in a more than $400 million expansion to be powered by renewable energy.
The project will increase capacity by 50% at the Beam plant in Boston, Kentucky, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the same percentage, Beam Suntory said Wednesday.
The company behind the top-selling bourbon said it has reached production capacity at the Boston plant, about 36 miles (58 kilometers) south of Louisville, Kentucky. The expansion will be used to produce two mainstays — Jim Beam white and black label bourbons — and will mostly support expected sales growth overseas, especially in European and Asian markets, said Carlo Coppola, managing director of the Beam brands.
Jim Beam has registered mid-single-digit growth globally in the past two years, the company said.
Mixing renewable energy into crafting whiskey, Beam will use a process that produces renewable natural gas to power the plant, the company said.
Beam Suntory said it has entered into an agreement with 3 Rivers Energy Partners to build a facility across the street to convert waste from making bourbon into biogas, which will be treated to renewable natural gas standards and piped directly back to the distillery.
Once the project is completed, expected to be in 2024, the distillery will be 65% powered by renewable natural gas and 35% by fossil-based natural gas, the company said.
“This expansion will help ensure we meet future demand for our iconic bourbon in a sustainable way that supports the environment and the local community that has helped build and support Jim Beam,” said Beam Suntory President and CEO Albert Baladi.
Beam Suntory, whose products include Kentucky-crafted Maker’s Mark, said last year it wants to cut its companywide greenhouse gas emissions and water usage in half by 2030. The company’s more ambitious goal is to remove more carbon than is emitted from its operations and among its supplier base by 2040. The spirits giant also is committed to planting 500,000 trees annually by 2030, with a goal of planting more trees than are use to make barrels to hold its aging whiskeys.
The new project will create 51 more jobs and includes additional storage warehouses. Bourbon ages in new, charred oak barrels, where it acquires its color and flavor, while stored in warehouses. Most bourbons typically age four to eight years before reaching consumers. Beam's continued growth "reflects the strength of our state’s signature bourbon industry," Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said.
Beam also is “fully leveraging” its capacity at its distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, where it produces Jim Beam, Basil Hayden, Knob Creek and Legent brands. The two Beam distilleries are about 14 miles (22 kilometers) apart in central Kentucky. At another distillery that opened last year at Clermont, the company produces such small-batch brands as Booker’s, Baker’s and Little Book.
The company broadly outlined its Boston plant expansion earlier in the summer, but the announcement Wednesday provided details about production and the use of renewable energy.
Beam Suntory, a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited of Japan, isn't the first maker of bourbon to go green. Last year, spirits giant Diageo opened a carbon-neutral distillery of Bulleit bourbon powered by renewable energy in Lebanon, Kentucky.
Beam's expansion at its Boston distillery comes amid continued rapid growth in the state's $9 billion distilling industry. Kentucky distillers are in the midst of a more than $5 billion capital investment campaign that includes expanding production facilities and warehousing to meet the global thirst for Kentucky bourbon, according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. Kentucky is home to 95% of the world’s bourbon production, the association said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Jim-Beam-outlines-expansion-to-ramp-up-bourbon-17440750.php | 2022-09-14T13:25:40 | en | 0.94211 |
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(THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
People appear to be more willing to lie for personal gain when they use a laptop versus a smartphone, our new peer-reviewed research shows. Given that the two devices have nearly identical technical capabilities – they’re both boxes with electronic brains – this surprised us and highlights the psychological impact of technology.
Our first in a planned series of studies was a version of what economists call the ultimatum game. In the take-it-or-leave-it exercise, one player is told they’ll receive a certain sum of money, some of which they must split with a partner. But they can tell their partner whatever they choose about the total sum and how much of it they’re willing to offer – allowing them to lie and keep more of the kitty for themselves. However, the partner must agree to the offered sum for either of them to get any money.
In our version, we told 137 graduate students to imagine they’d share US$125 with a fellow student, if their randomly assigned partner agreed to the deal. Half of them used a laptop; the rest participated with their smartphone.
While the vast majority of participants fibbed at least a little, laptop users were much more likely to lie – and by a lot more. Eighty-two percent of laptop participants were deceptive, compared with 62% of phone users, and on average claimed the pot was $20 less.
Although this was hypothetical and didn’t involve real money, previous research by us and otherscholars shows that these scenarios are good at predicting actual behavior.
To see if our finding held up in a more real-world scenario, we devised a negotiation experiment in which two people were told to barter over the purchase price of an imaginary semiconductor factory one of them owned. We split 222 students into buyers and sellers. Buyers were confidentially told that the market value of the property was estimated at $21 million.
We then asked buyers to tell sellers what they thought was the fair market value of the property and make an initial offer. Like in the first experiment, about half of the students used their phones and the others negotiated on laptops.
Again, laptop users were more deceptive. On average, they told sellers the fair value was $16.7 million – lowballing it by over $4 million – compared with $18.1 million for phone participants. In both cases, their actual offers were only slightly higher than what they said was the market value.
To find out what’s going on, we asked participants of a separate study about their associations with each device and found a consistent pattern. Phones triggered associations of friends and family, and laptops led to thoughts of work, success and accomplishments – which previous research has shown can trigger unethical behavior.
Why it matters
People’s use of technology in decision-making can subtly yet fundamentally shift the way our brains work.
In past work, we found that people lie more frequently, cooperate less and evaluate others more negatively when they conduct tasks virtually as opposed to in person, with physical tools like pens and paper.
While studies like ours can’t perfectly predict how behavior will play out in real life, these experiments do offer more evidence of the subtle ways technology can alter human behavior.
What still isn’t known
We don’t know whether our findings would hold for other tasks and within the context of existing relationships. Even within our experiments, other factors may be affecting people’s choice to lie, such as different screen sizes or locations.
Our research shows the continued need to assess how technological tools are used in real settings, including the unconscious changes these devices might have on daily decisions and ethical standards.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say officers fatally shot a man after their squad car was struck by gunfire.
Officials are searching for two other suspects who fled from the scene of the shooting Tuesday night on the city's north side, police said.
Three tactical officers responded to gunshots detected by Shotspotter technology about 9 p.m. and as they arrived, gunshots struck the officers' car and narrowly missed them, according to police.
Officials said the officers fired their weapons in return and their gunfire struck one suspect, a 40-year-old Milwaukee man, several times. Officers attempted life saving measures and the suspect was taken to the hospital where he later died. No one else was hit by gunfire.
The two other suspects fled on foot and were still on the run Wednesday morning.
Police said a handgun used by one of the suspects, which was equipped with a high-capacity drum magazine, was recovered at the scene.
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TikTok may be the platform of choice for catchy videos, but anyone using it to learn about COVID-19, climate change or Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to encounter misleading information, according to a research report published Wednesday.
Researchers at NewsGuard searched for content about prominent news topics on TikTok and say they found that nearly 1 in 5 of the videos automatically suggested by the platform contained misinformation.
Searches for information about “mRNA vaccine," for instance, yielded five videos (out of the first 10) that contained misinformation, including baseless claims that the COVID-19 vaccine causes “permanent damage in children's critical organs.”
Researchers looking for information about abortion, the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, climate change or Russia's invasion of Ukraine on TikTok found similarly misleading videos scattered among more accurate clips.
The amount of misinformation — and the ease with which it can be found — is especially troubling given TikTok's popularity with young people, according to Steven Brill, founder of NewsGuard, a firm that monitors misinformation.
TikTok is the second most popular domain in the world, according to online performance and security company Cloudflare, exceeded only by Google.
Brill questioned whether ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is doing enough to stop misinformation or whether it deliberately allows misinformation to proliferate as a way to sow confusion in the U.S. and other Western democracies.
“It's either incompetence or it's something worse,” Brill told The Associated Press.
TikTok released a statement in response to NewsGuard's report noting that its community guidelines prohibit harmful misinformation and that it works to promote authoritative content about important topics like COVID-19.
“We do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we will remove it from the platform,” the company said.
TikTok has taken other steps that it says are intended to direct users to trustworthy sources. This year, for example, the company created an election center to help U.S. voters find voting places or information about candidates.
The platform removed more than 102 million videos that violated its rules in the first quarter of 2022. Yet only a tiny percentage of those ran afoul of TikTok's rules against misinformation.
Researchers found that TikTok's own search tool seems designed to steer users to false claims in some cases. When researchers typed the words “COVID vaccine" into the search tool, for instance, the tool suggested searches on key words including “COVID vaccine exposed" and "COVID vaccine injury."
When the same search was run on Google, however, that search engine suggested searches relating to more accurate information about vaccine clinics, the different types of vaccines and booster shots.
TikTok's rise in popularity has caught the attention of state officials and federal lawmakers, some of whom have expressed concerns about its data privacy and security.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on social media's impact on the nation's security. TikTok's chief operating officer, Vanessa Pappas, is set to testify alongside representatives from YouTube, Twitter and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook.
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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.
The cost of services — which are increasingly driving consumer inflation — rose 0.4% in August, driven by higher prices for public transportation, car rentals and some financial services.
Still, there were a few encouraging signs in Wednesday's report: Wholesale food costs were flat from July to August, after a 1.3% spike the previous month. And wholesale goods prices overall fell 1.2%, suggesting that goods prices for consumers could soon decline.
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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Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
(THE CONVERSATION) Inflation in the U.S. is surging to near a 40-year high, with prices on food, fuel and pretty much everything seeming to rise more every month.
Smartphones may be an exception.
Apple, for example, recently announced its new versions of the iPhone and other gadgets, and turned a lot of heads when it said it wouldn’t charge more despite higher costs to make the devices.
This is puzzling because companies typically raise prices in line with inflation – or at least enough to cover the increased costs of making their products.
Consumer price data tells an even more befuddling story. The latest consumer price index data suggests smartphone prices are actually down 20.4% in August from a year ago, according to an index released on Sept. 13, 2022. That’s the biggest drop of any detailed expenditure item the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks, and contrasts with the overall 8.3% increase in prices.
What’s going on?
As an economist teaching business school students, I enjoy exploring and explaining these economic puzzles. I believe there are two basic explanations – one for the data and another for Apple.
Why consumer prices on smartphones fell
The story behind the consumer price index data is easier to explain, if a bit technical.
The 20% drop over the past year isn’t unusual for smartphones. In fact, according to the index, they almost always go down from month to month. Since the end of 2019, smartphone prices have come down a whopping 40%.
And though smartphones are showing the biggest drop in the index, tech gear more broadly – from computers to smartwatches – also tend to fall over time. In the previous 12 months, what the government calls information technology commodities are down 8.8%.
Part of the reason for their steady decline is found buried in the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. The consumer price index tries to measure a constant quality of goods and services in the economy. This means it seeks to track the price changes of the exact same set of goods and services each month. It’s comparing the price today with the price of the exact same thing a month or year ago.
For most goods, it’s not really an issue because their quality doesn’t change much over relatively small periods of time. For example, an apple you bite into today is pretty much the same as an apple you ate a year ago.
Smartphones and other technology-heavy gadgets are different. Because smartphones are constantly improving in quality – with the latest updates of an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy awaited breathlessly every year – it is more difficult to ensure you’re comparing prices of products of the exact same quality.
For rapidly improving items, the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses what are called “hedonic regression models” to estimate these changes in quality over time. Hedonic models measure the same amount of satisfaction. While this sounds complicated, the goal is simple: to figure out how much each new smartphone feature changes the price.
As a consumer, you are essentially doing this whenever you decide whether it is worth paying the extra money for that marginally better camera or extended battery life when buying a new phone.
And so, the 20.4% drop doesn’t mean you’re going to pay less for a new smartphone. But it does suggest you’re getting 20% more bang for your buck versus the same phone a year earlier. Whether it’s worth it is another question.
Why Apple kept prices flat
That brings us to why Apple didn’t change its prices, even as the quality of the iPhone improved and supply chain costs went up.
Beyond the quality issues, one of the main ways supply chain problems are affecting phones is in the shortage of computer chips. If there is any product dependent on computer chips, it is smartphones. The shortage has resulted in delays to produce cars, trucks and many other consumer items.
The shortage has also increased the price of semiconductor parts. The U.S. government’s producer price index shows the price of semiconductor parts like chips and wafers steadily rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, after falling for years. Chip prices are likely going up 20% in the next year.
For these and other reasons, analysts were expecting Apple to increase its prices.
Instead, Apple released its latest iPhone models at the same prices as the last two models, or US$799 for the iPhone 14 and $999 for the pro version. Keeping prices constant during inflationary times means iPhones are getting relatively cheaper.
So why isn’t Apple increasing prices? Is it just being kind to its customers, who have fueled tremendous profits for the company over the past decade?
Probably not.
With a gross profit margin of over 40% – meaning that’s how much it makes over the cost of producing all its products and services – Apple can probably afford to absorb increased chip and other component costs.
My best guess, since the smartphone market is fairly competitive, is that Apple is keeping prices the same to build market share in the U.S. – beyond the record 50% it recently hit – so the iPhone remains one of the best-selling smartphones.
So while the cost of almost everything we buy is rising, you can take some comfort in knowing at least one item is getting both better over time and not succumbing to an inflationary price spiral.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
558 AM PDT Wed Sep 14 2022
...Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality Impacts...
* Smoke from the Mosquito wildfire continues to produce unhealthy
to hazardous air quality across the region. The latest
observations indicate the worst conditions to be concentrated
near Truckee and extending into Reno, Sparks, and the North
Valleys. Visibility of 2-3 miles due to thick smoke is in place
mainly along and north of I-80. Motorists should exercise
caution for the morning commute.
* As we have come to expect, another wave of smoke is forecast to
push into the region this afternoon and evening with the latest
smoke modeling concentrating the densest smoke plume for this
afternoon across the Tahoe Basin into eastern Sierra/Nevada
counties and through Reno/Sparks/North Valleys. There is some
potential for more widespread coverage extending to near Pyramid
Lake with drainage flows seeping through the Carson Valley and
across Lyon and Mineral counties this evening. Expect additional
reductions to air quality and visibility.
* For the latest air quality info, please continue to visit:
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Management Division or the latest Smoke Outlook Statements from
the US Interagency Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program
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100 Reasons To Love Beijing: Global netizens invited to make videos about Beijing
BEIJING, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Third Video Competition on "100 Reasons To Love Beijing" was launched on September 8, 2022. Sponsored by the Information Office of Beijing Municipal People's Government and organized by the News and Information Center, Xinhua News Agency, the contest is designed to attract Internet users from around the world to share their impression about Beijing with short videos or golden words.
Xu Hejian, director of the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, said in his speech the "100 Reasons To Love Beijing" Short Video Competition, a cultural outreach event initiated by the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, has been held successfully for two times. It attracted the participation of more than 3,000 foreign friends from over 100 countries and regions, and solicited nearly 5,000 works in the aggregate, from which many excellent videos were selected. The 2022 edition of the competition themed "How YOUNG Beijing Is" continues to solicit short videos from among foreigners who like Beijing. The competition is intended to serve as a platform for people to exchange their feelings about Beijing.
"Friendship, which derives from close contact between the people, holds the key to sound nation-to-nation relations," Ma Jianguo, deputy director of the News and Information Center, Xinhua News Agency, said the "100 Reasons To Love Beijing " is an activity to bring the people from all over the world to get connected, and to enable the people throughout the world to better understand Beijing. "In the run-up to the event, a lot of foreign friends sent videos to overseas branches of Xinhua News Agency, telling how and why they love Beijing".
Beijing is an ancient capital, bearing witness to more than 3,000 years of historical vicissitudes; Beijing is also a modern city, full of vitality, and sees changes with each passing day. Since the late Ming Dynasty, Beijing has been attracting friends from all over the world. People love Beijing for different reasons. Some love Beijing's beautiful scenery, some Beijing's food, some the vitality of starting up businesses, and some Beijing's cultural diversity.
The contest welcomes the entries from worldwide netizens, including the international friends who are living in Beijing, have been to Beijing, or have interest in Beijing. Anyone who is interested can email the work to lovebeijing2022 @163.com, and can talk about the topic of "100 Reasons To Love Beijing "on Weibo.
Beijing invites global netizens to come on to share the stories.
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Leading RevTech company details across-the-board growth, with more to come
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 6sense, the leading platform for B2B organizations generating predictable revenue, today announced record-breaking performance going into the second half of its fiscal year. Year-over-year, 6sense revenue has grown 113 percent, while its customer base and global workforce increased by 157 percent and 170 percent, respectively.
"Through a relentless focus on driving out uncertainty and waste for revenue teams, we are leading a movement in the industry. We're giving sales and marketing leaders the leg up they need to accurately plan, execute, and measure success with the certainty these times demand, said Jason Zintak, CEO of 6sense. "I'm proud of this team and our tenacious commitment to deliver world-class technology and support, innovate across the organization, and execute against our aggressive roadmap."
Product Innovation
With four acquisitions over the past year and significant product enhancements released, 6sense has been recognized by customers, partners and industry analysts as the RevTech leader with a strong vision and proven ability to deliver on its promises.
- 6sense Revenue AI™ was announced as the market-leading platform that applies the power of AI across the entire buyer's journey, removing guesswork and uncertainty that plagues sales and marketing teams, providing a better customer experience, and producing high-quality pipeline that is ultimately more likely to convert to revenue.
- 6sense rolled out the industry's first and only full Sales Intelligence integrations into both Microsoft Dynamics and HubSpot. Sellers working in these platforms now have seamless access to prescriptive sales dashboards and powerful buyer insights.
- 6sense brought predictive analytics all the way to sales outreach actions with a new Sales Intelligence dashboard that highlights Next Best Actions for sellers to take with specific contacts to drive their hottest accounts forward.
- 6sense announced the addition of AdTech industry veterans from Granite Media, bringing decades of experience in performance marketing to lead advertising product innovation and unlock 6sense customers' ability to accelerate growth efficiently.
- The 6sense Revenue AI Ecosystem continues to expand with new partnerships, including with Outreach and LeanData. These integrations boost sellers' confidence to engage buying teams through prioritization and personalization powered by AI insights.
"Our teams continue to show their innovation and adaptability — both the existing 6sense teams and the ones who joined us as a result of acquisitions," said Viral Bajaria, CTO and Co-founder at 6sense. "They've worked together to make incredible progress integrating the unique capabilities of our newly acquired companies into the already-powerful 6sense platform. The result is a product that is evolving to anticipate and meet the changing needs of our customers. And there are more exciting developments on the horizon that will give our customers even more power to use big data and AI to improve the entire go-to-market process and proceed with confidence."
Performance and Results
Four years of 100%+ revenue growth is a remarkable measure of focus on customer success and the ability to execute across the entire organization. It is a result of leveraging 6sense Revenue AI to its full potential.
- 6sense has been recognized for its exceptional revenue growth and impact of its market-leading technology with its No. 550 ranking on the Inc. 5000, and inclusion in the Forbes Cloud 100 and Forbes AI 50 in 2022.
- 6sense customers participating in a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact Study this year reported a 2X increase in average contract value, 4X increases in win rate, 40% reduction in aggregate costs to qualify opportunities, and 20-40% reduction in time to close deals using 6sense Revenue AI.
- 6sense has expanded its total addressable market (TAM), reporting a 300%+ increase in YoY pipeline opportunities from buyers across non-technology industries like manufacturing and financial services.
"For marketers, we don't always get a chance to be as close to our end users or prospects as the sales or customer success team. 6sense has now opened up an avenue for us to understand their behavior and give us more confidence in everything we do," said Lori Chavez, VP Global Demand Generation and Digital Marketing at Sumo Logic.
People and Culture
6sense aims to be the best chapter of every employee's career. To deliver on this commitment, leaders and employees are mindful of nurturing their values-based culture, strive to hire and include diverse perspectives and voices, invest in onboarding and enabling employees, and obsess over creating value for customers, partners, and all stakeholders.
- 6sense brought on two key executives, Terese Lam as Chief People Officer (CPO) and Bryan Wise as Chief Information Officer (CIO), to drive impact with its many audiences, company culture, and technology innovations.
- For the third consecutive year, 6sense was recognized as an Inc. Best Workplace.
- 6sense has been named Best Company to Sell For by Selling Power and Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times.
- 6sense has been recognized by the employee-review website Comparably for the Best Company Outlook, Best Culture, Best for Women, Best for Diversity, Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, Best Engineering Teams, Best Product & Design Teams, Best Marketing Teams and Best Sales Teams.
"I have been impressed with our 6sensors' persistent determination to deliver customer value, our leaders' passion for a people-first company, and our truly inclusive culture," said Terese Lam, CPO at 6sense. "We strive to be a North Star for talent and an exceptional employee experience that ensues to people building many careers at 6sense."
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LAS VEGAS, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AAA20Group, LLC, a subscription-based robotic solutions leader, announced today that they will be introducing their new, high-capacity cooperative palletizing robot at the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE). The expo takes place in Las Vegas, NV, on September 18 through September 21, 2022. AAA20 Group will exhibit at Booth #7162 in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. According to Karen Mallouk, Co-Founder of Las Vegas, NV-based AAA20 Group, LLC, "Attending IBIE enables us to meet face-to-face with bakery leaders from around the Western Hemisphere. In addition, our cost and labor-saving messages are compelling for bakery operators looking to boost capacity and cut costs by adding automation to their business".
Investment in a growing trend
AAA20Group is investing over $1 million in its robot-as-a-service (RaaS) business model. This investment enables the company to offer a new, more efficient palletizing robot that adds much-needed automation capacity to end-of-line packaging. Perfect for medium to large bakery operations, the CP-200 robot delivers a gripping capacity of 44 lbs., doubling that of the popular CP-100 model. Depending on the application, the C-100 and C-200 systems can offer a significant cost-saving potential for nearly any packaging line requiring end-of-line palletizing. From a cost-benefit standpoint, these cooperative palletizing robots can easily replace a human worker doing equivalent work. In addition to the hourly labor cost savings, the robotic systems reduce the possibility of repetitive motion injury.
Easy introduction to bakery packaging automation
Mallouk continues, "Our program eliminates the need for robotics expertise, as our application experts will fully configure the system and deliver a turn-key solution. The implementation process is efficient, convenient, and offers the benefits of 100% financing. Additionally, by leasing the labor-saving robots, resources may be shifted from capital expense to operating expense. Following either the traditional way of buying machinery or the robot-as-employee (subscription), growing bakery operations can reallocate their workforce toward higher-level activities and, as a result, optimize valuable human capital."
A hedge against tightening labor markets
Though an ongoing shortage of workers affects many industries, some medium-sized bakery operations are still reticent about investing in automation. However, most entrepreneurs agree that anything that can help reduce labor count is attractive at this particular time. The goal to minimize labor overhead is why AAA20 Group is responding to the growing demand for cooperative robotic solutions. The approach is gaining specific traction among bakery operations. Karen Mallouk adds, "Our automation systems are affordable, highly productive, and easy to operate; they are excellent at following precise, repetitive movements typical in bakery packaging operations."
About AAA20 Group, LLC
AAA20 Group, LLC is a privately held company headquartered in Las Vegas, NV. The company provides collaborative robotic equipment solutions used in the packaging industry. Proven automation industry leaders manufacture the robots offered for lease by AAA20. More about the new model C-200 collaborative palletizer: (pending publication)
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Corporate contact:
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10241 Kirkwood Gaps Ave.
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ACTX and GP Solutions Developing New Smaller Controlled Environment Farming Systems for Home and Commercial Use
If every gardener grows a little extra and donates the food, it would go a long way towards helping reducing hunger in America
CORONA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), in association with GP Solutions, is developing a new series of GrowPods for home and commercial use. The new systems, called "GrowPod Habitat™" are smaller-sized and will enable virtually anyone to grow their own food.
The units are being made for the consumer market, as well as for schools, churches, non-profits, plus commercial organizations and businesses that want the benefits of growing their own clean, nutritious food, but also want a smaller size unit and reduced cost-of-entry that better matches their needs and budgets.
According to a report by Market Research Future, the home gardening tool market is estimated to reach over $112.09 Billion by the end of 2027. The report further predicts the market will expand at a healthy CAGR of over 4.51% during the review timeframe.
The market "is quite appealing, and established, with consistent growth," the report states.
GrowPods are hydroponic modular farms that can be located almost anywhere, and feature an automated and controlled environment that is finely tuned to grow a wide variety of leafy greens, fruits and vegetables. GrowPods feature a filtered and enclosed environment that makes it possible for virtually anyone to grow healthy, robust, exceptionally clean food.
Douglas Heldoorn, CEO of Advanced Container Technologies, Inc, said the company plans to have GrowPods Habitat™ ready for market by 1st quarter.
"Developing this innovative smaller system allows us to enter an enormous new market with tremendous potential" Heldoorn said. "Additionally, this ground-breaking form factor will allow people to take control of their food, feed their families, start a new business, or help fight hunger," he added. "This could be a game-changer for society in many ways."
For more information on Advanced Container Technologies or GrowPods, call: (951) 381-2555 or visit: www.advancedcontainertechnologies.com or www.growpodsolutions.com.
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AllspringET sets out to build the asset management
technology environment of the future.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allspring Global Investments™, a leading independent global asset management firm with $476 billion* in assets under management, today announced the addition of two senior hires and an internal promotion to the Allspring Engineering and Technology team (AllspringET). The team is designed to develop state-of-the-art technology, systems, and tools that enable Allspring to elevate investing to be worth more.
Ant Eggington joins the organization as Head of Applications. Ant most recently served as Global Head of Alternatives Technology at BlackRock and has 22 years of experience in investments technology. He will lead Allspring's software engineering function across investments, operations, distribution, and corporate systems to enhance capabilities and modernize the application development processes.
Stephen Vilke joins Allspring as Head of Technology. This role is central to building Allspring's technology-forward culture and maximizing productivity as a cloud-first organization. Stephen most recently served as Director of New Initiatives for AWS Applications at Amazon Web Services. He has 30 years of technology experience spanning finance, technology, and startup environments. Stephen started his career at NASA as a Software Engineer and Analyst.
Jalal Akhavein has been promoted to Head of Platform. In his new role, Jalal will lead the company's technical product management, data engineering and will oversee platform operations. Jalal has been with Allspring since 2018 and most recently served as Head of Quantitative Insights and Data Strategy. He has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services sector.
Ant, Stephen, and Jalal report to Allspring's Chief Technology Officer, Matt Wren. The team's objective is to develop a modern technology platform enabling the newly independent Allspring to place much more focus on investment decisioning, investment oversight, risk management, sales, and distribution. The increased engineering and technology investment intends to enable solving the "tomorrow challenge" faster and more efficiently than otherwise possible with legacy environments.
"Engineering, technology, and innovation will be central to elevating client outcomes at Allspring. Ant, Stephen, and Jalal's combination of deep technical and broad financial expertise is essential as we engineer the firm for a next-generation technology platform. I am thrilled that we are able to combine this caliber of talent to help us propel AllspringET forward," stated Matt Wren.
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American Battery Solutions Acquires the Entire IP Portfolio Developed by Battery Systems Innovator, Tiveni Inc.
Strengthens ABS IP position in cylindrical cell modules, BMS designs, and manufacturing processes
LAKE ORION, Mich., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Battery Solutions, Inc. ("ABS"), a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced battery systems for electrified mobility, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the complete IP portfolio of Tiveni, Inc., a battery systems innovator founded and led by original Tesla founder/CEO Martin Eberhard. The addition of Tiveni developed technologies will accelerate ABS' deployment of low-cost, energy-dense, highly-crash-tolerant EV batteries. The acquisition includes a supporting patent portfolio protecting the cost/density/safety advantages included in Tiveni's designs. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed by mutual agreement.
The transaction includes an IP portfolio of more than 100 assets, including 24 issued U.S. patents, and 143 pending applications, with broad coverage, core to EV battery systems and supply chain including 37 (U.S.), 16 (China), 32 (EU and UK national stage), and 2 pending PCTs. Additionally, it includes technology transfer and know-how to implement and deploy the Tiveni technologies, including all design, engineering and process documentation from more than 4 years of development. Key granted patents date back a few years giving a preferred priority date position.
The technologies developed by Tiveni focus on a systems-level approach to the EV battery, with innovations in battery design and manufacturing technology in four major technology areas:
- Slide-in modular battery architecture—Including a chassis-integrated design to accommodate multiple, slide-in, field-replaceable modules and a commercial vehicle frame-attached housing
- Unique Contact Plate Design—A laminated multi-layer contact plate that consolidates all conductors in one assembly, spanning an entire battery module
- High Speed Laser Welding Manufacturing—Optical targeting and innovative assembly fixtures providing significant tolerance take up to enable reliable, high-speed welds and reduce manufacturing costs
- Battery Management System and Algorithms— Techniques applicable to multiple types stems and applications.
"We are excited to add Tiveni's battery module system technologies to our own ABS battery module design, including the functional, safety, and cost improvements inherent in the Tiveni technologies and design," said Subhash Dhar, ABS Founder, Chairman & CEO. "Along with our significant existing IP, this acquisition positions ABS IP portfolio at the forefront in relation to major industry players using cylindrical cell battery systems."
ABS plans to employ the Tiveni technology in its continuing development of next generation battery platforms, along with the next generation high energy cells to further support its customers in commercial and industrial mobility including transit buses, delivery vehicles, marine vessels, light electric vehicles, and outdoor power equipment with high quality, reliable and cost-effective battery solutions.
ABS designs and manufactures modular battery solutions for transportation, industrial, and commercial markets primarily in North America and Europe. The team at American Battery Solutions Inc. includes some of the most recognized battery systems experts in the industry, with decades of experience in designing, developing, and manufacturing high-volume advanced battery systems. Our experts are applying this experience to the emerging and rapidly growing mobility and energy storage segments, concentrating on module production, pack assembly, and customer integration.
ABS operates a 120,000 sq. ft. technical center in Michigan and a dedicated 170,000 square foot purpose-built, state of the art battery manufacturing facility in Ohio. It employs more than 165 people in Michigan, Ohio, and Massachusetts. Follow ABS on Twitter @ABS_Energy and on LinkedIn.
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Global safety protection solutions leader collaborates with Modjoul and Corvex™ to launch a suite of worker safety solutions
ISELIN, N.J., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansell, a global leader in safety solutions, today announced a new workplace safety product and service brand, Inteliforz™. Leveraging real-time worker contextual connectivity and actionable movement data, Inteliforz™ extends Ansell's safety promise by delivering cutting-edge, connected safety solutions to drive enhanced worker safety and a more engaged workforce. With the launch of Inteliforz™, Ansell has joined forces with Modjoul, a leading wearables and data analytics company delivering innovative solutions to improve workplace safety, and Corvex™, a leading innovator for connected workforce technologies.
In working with wearable safety technology and analytics leader, Modjoul, the Inteliforz™ Motion Series leverages wearable sensor technology for the hand and wrist, providing measurable and actionable data that helps reduce risky movements that can lead to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Similarly, by combining the Corvex™ cloud-based platform and IoT technology architecture with Ansell's safety innovations and industry leadership, the Inteliforz™ Zone Series provides a continuous loop platform to report and resolve safety risks, ensure personal protective equipment compliance, and provide a real-time method for teams to interact, recognize, and share workplace safety concerns.
The new Intelliforz™ brand delivers innovative safety management solutions by offering industrial workers access to data to analyze motion ergonomics, and providing assurance to health and safety managers that tasks are being executed through the use of proper equipment.
"At Ansell, we have a deep understanding of workers' needs and the importance of evolving safety products and solutions that are accessible to the front line as well as safety managers and executives," states Neil Salmon, Managing Director and CEO at Ansell. "Through Inteliforz™, and with the support from our technology partners, Corvex™ and Modjoul, we are enabling front-line workers to identify, collaborate, and gain insights to improve personal workplace safety while also improving their overall workplace. Our new connected worker technology is the future of workplace safety."
"As a result of revolutionary connected tools such as Inteliforz™, the connected worker market can reach new heights and give millions of front-line workers across the globe the ability to improve their safety while on the job," says Joe O'Brien, CEO and Founder of Corvex™. "With Ansell Inteliforz™ as a trusted partner, combining Ansell's safety innovations and industry influence with our cloud-based platform and IoT technology, we can enhance workplace productivity, motivation and engagement that will lead to higher retention and less risk."
With the increasing need for a collaborative work environment and accessible workforce safety insights and data, Inteliforz™ delivers an evolved set of hardware and software products that meet rapidly evolving, technology-enabled workplace safety demands. These new products empower workforces and safety managers to identify and prevent risky movements that could lead to injuries before they happen.
"Identifying invisible safety risks and movements that affect your employees and creating a more empowered workforce is now possible with Inteliforz," says Eric Martinez, CEO of Modjoul. "In partnering with Ansell to develop wearable hand and wrist technology, data analytics, and AI to address preventable workplace injuries, we're thrilled to officially bring this product to the market to identify risky hand and wrist movements that could lead to MSDs for industrial workers."
More information about Inteliforz™ can be found at inteliforz.com.
Ansell is a world leader in providing superior health and safety protection solutions that enhance human well-being. The world's need for better protection never stops, so Ansell is constantly researching, developing and investing to manufacture and distribute cutting-edge product innovation and technology, marketed under well-known brands that customers trust. Operating in two main business segments, Industrial and Healthcare, Ansell is the market leader that continues to grow, employing 14,000 people worldwide. With operations in North America, Latin America/Caribbean, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, customers in more than 100 countries around the world trust Ansell and its protection solutions. Information on Ansell and its products can be found at www.ansell.com.
Corvex™ Connected Worker is a leading innovator in the market for connected workforce technologies that enable frontline workers to deliver improved results. Based in Minneapolis, Corvex™ technologies connect workers and managers using continuous-loop digital tools that foster real-time communication and collaboration. We power the workforce of the future.
Modjoul is committed to keeping employees safe and productive by empowering them through data analytics. Modjoul has a full line of industrial IoT offerings designed to improve operations.
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Three new best-in-class technology partners provide MSPs and IT Departments the tools they need to scale up their business and services
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atera, the cloud-based all-in-one remote monitoring and management (RMM) and professional services automation (PSA) platform for IT professionals, today announced the expansion of its partnership program with the integration of three new companies to further empower IT professionals: Veeam® Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, ThreatLocker, a leader in endpoint security technologies, and Domotz, an award-winning network monitoring software.
Through Atera's expanded partnership program, the company has built out its all-in-one RMM and PSA platform enabling IT professionals to shift from reactive responders to proactive problem solvers, with each integration playing an integral role in optimizing tasks, boosting security, and growing their businesses.
"By partnering with these top providers, Atera is the go-to platform for the modern-day IT professional to work more efficiently," said Gil Pekelman, CEO of Atera. "As Atera continues to grow, we are excited to see these valuable integrations play an integral role in the enhancement of our robust, all-in-one platform that is helping businesses unlock their full potential."
These latest partnerships with best-in-class solutions for backup, security, and network monitoring allow customers to become more efficient in their day. Additional details include:
Veeam
The partnership with Veeam, recently positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions for the sixth consecutive time, provides simple, flexible, reliable and powerful solutions for modern data protection for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. This integration includes Veeam Cloud Connect, which delivers fast and secure backup and data recovery to the cloud while giving businesses the functionality needed to ensure customers' security no matter where their data resides. One of the most requested integrations from Atera' community, this solution will also support businesses in scaling their services by helping them build and grow a competitive disaster recovery and data storage offering with partnering options that are perfectly matched for their businesses, whether they're looking to resell, brand, or host their own cloud.
ThreatLocker
As cyber threats continue to change and increase, it's crucial that IT Professionals have the necessary tools they need to protect their businesses, and any they look after. Atera is able to prepare for these shifts with the integration of ThreatLocker, a global leader in endpoint security technologies that offers a new type of security solution through its Zero Trust model. ThreatLocker's solution package is comprised of five key components: Allowlisting, which blocks all untrusted applications, Ringfencing, which controls what trusted applications can do, Storage Control which protects your data, Elevation Control which allows targeted elevation, and Network Access Control which offers advanced controls over inbound network traffic. ThreatLocker provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level.
"At ThreatLocker our aim is to bring Zero Trust to businesses of all sizes, and MSPs and IT departments are an integral part of that success. Through our partnership with Atera, we will help IT professionals to highlight the importance of implementing a true Zero Trust security model. Our commitment to this partnership will enable us to streamline this process and expand our reach. We are excited to start this next adventure, and look forward to working closely with Atera," said Danny Jenkins, CEO & Co-Founder, ThreatLocker.
Domotz
The partnership with Domotz, a cloud-based and multi-tenant network monitoring software, empowers users by providing a tool for identifying, monitoring, and managing all devices on the network. The software provides full control of the network from IT infrastructure such as firewall, switches, routers, access points and servers, to operational technology such as printers, point-of-sales', video security systems and audio and visual systems. The software boasts affordable pricing, simple set-up, and an intuitive interface. Its features include automated device discovery, automated topology mapping, security scanning, network configuration management and backup, secure remote device access, remote power management, SNMP and more.
"We're thrilled to now have Domotz available on the Atera marketplace. This new partnership exemplifies how Domotz and Atera complement each other to guarantee full security, awareness, monitoring and control of everything in a network," said Silvio Di Crosta, CEO of Domotz.
Last quarter, Atera has introduced four additional software integrations: Axcient, Emsisoft, Ironscales, and Malwarebytes, helping the company to broaden its feature set and expand IT support offerings for customers and businesses. As Atera continues to implement community feedback, these added integrations will help customers take their business to the next level using Atera's platform.
Contact
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Atera is the developer of a Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) and Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform, built with a dispersed workforce in mind. With more than 10,000 customers in over 105 countries, Atera's intuitive all-in-one platform offers IT professionals and businesses improved operational efficiency, seamless integrations, and end-to-end real time visibility across multiple systems at industry-disruptive pricing. Atera's platform empowers IT teams of all sizes to maximize efficiency and drive growth and improvements while transforming to a streamlined remote work environment by analyzing over 60,000 data points per second, 24/7. To learn more, visit atera.com.
ThreatLocker® is a leader in endpoint security technologies, providing enterprise-level cybersecurity tools for the Managed Services Provider (MSP) industry, to improve the security of servers and endpoints. ThreatLocker's combined Application Allowlisting, Ringfencing™, Storage Control, Elevation Control, and Network Access Control (NAC) solutions are leading the cybersecurity market towards a more secure approach of blocking the exploits of unknown application vulnerabilities. To learn more about ThreatLocker® visit: www.threatlocker.com
Founded in 2015, Domotz is an award-winning network monitoring software that enables MSPs, System Integrators, and IT Departments to run their businesses more efficiently. The software enables businesses to remotely monitor and manage their networks and devices through features including automated network topology, configuration management, remote device access, SNMP monitoring, network diagnostics, remote power management, device alerts, team collaboration, network mapping, and multiple VLAN support. More than 4,000 MSPs, IT professionals, and integration businesses in 190 countries use Domotz daily to deliver remote support to tens of thousands of networks.
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Axine Achieves Destruction of PFAS in Water with Its Commercially Proven Electrochemical Oxidation Technology
- PFAS destruction exceeding 99.999%
- PFAS destruction meeting the most stringent regulations anywhere in the world
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Axine Water Technologies, a global provider of on-site solutions treating the toughest organic contaminants and emerging contaminants in industrial wastewater, announced today that it has successfully completed a comprehensive test program to verify the performance of its proprietary electrochemical oxidation technology for on-site destruction of PFAS compounds in water and wastewater.
Axine will leverage its proprietary electrochemical oxidation (EOx) technology commercially deployed for pharmaceuticals to provide a cost-effective solution to certify the destruction of PFAS compounds to meet evolving regulatory standards. Axine's EOx system enables direct PFAS destruction in wastewater as opposed to removal offered by alternative extraction techniques that simply collect PFAS for hazardous disposal or secondary destruction.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly referred to as "forever chemicals" have been manufactured and used in a wide range of industries worldwide since the 1940s. PFAS chemicals are very persistent in the environment and in the human body. PFAS exposure may lead to adverse health outcomes in humans including reproductive and developmental, liver and kidney, and immunological effects. The USA Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed the regulation of some PFAS chemicals as hazardous substances.
Axine's EOx technology test program was conducted on model wastewater contaminated with five common PFAS compounds. Axine successfully treated high PFAS concentration from 10 parts per million (ppm) to destroy all of the PFAS to under 100 parts per trillion (ppt), achieving a 5-log reduction (99.999%). Axine's EOx technology also demonstrated the ability to treat low initial PFAS concentrations from an initial concentration of 10 parts per billion (ppb) to below detection levels at 10 ppt, a 3-log reduction. Results confirmed destruction of PFAS oxidation by-products including total organic fluorine and total oxidizable precursors. Axine's EOx technology uses advanced catalysts and electricity to oxidize organic pollutants in wastewater to non-hazardous by-product gases. No toxic chemicals were required, and no solid waste was generated.
"We're very pleased with these results," said Victor Leung PhD, Vice President, Technology. "They are consistent with the performance we're achieving in the pharma industry where we routinely treat wastewater contaminated with non-biodegradable pharmaceuticals, including those that are fluorinated, to below analytical detection limits. Our EOx technology is a powerful oxidation process capable of breaking down and oxidizing the most stable organic compounds. Based on these results, we're confident that we will be able to deliver a safe, reliable new standard for on-site PFAS destruction to give customers the surety that their PFAS problem is solved."
Greg Peet, Axine CEO added, "PFAS is one of the most serious health and environmental challenges facing the water sector. For industrial, municipal, or federal facilities required to treat PFAS contaminated water and wastewater we believe PFAS destruction should be the required standard for safe, sustainable management of PFAS contaminated water."
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Leading Healthcare Apparel Brand Supports Healthcare Workers and Those They Serve This October 2022 & Beyond
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barco® Uniforms, a recognized leader of design innovation in the premium professional apparel industry, today unveiled a Skechers® by Barco limited-edition capsule collection in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October 2022. In partnership with Skechers®, the two brands have come together with a fashion-forward line designed to inspire hope and support of those affected.
"Since our inception, Barco has been committed to supporting healthcare professionals by innovating with the purpose of helping to make their lives better," said Ron Wagenseil, Barco Uniforms CEO. "Through this collaboration with our friend and partner Skechers, we hope to show our healthcare workers and the patients they serve that not only will Barco always be there to lend our support, but also that we are in this together."
In their continued effort to give back, beginning this month through October 31st Barco Uniforms will donate 10% of all wholesale orders from the collection to leading nonprofit organization, Susan G Komen®. The world's largest nonprofit source of funding for the fight against breast cancer, Susan G. Komen, leads in investing in groundbreaking research, community health outreach, advocacy and programs in more than 60 countries.
"We are excited to offer this limited-edition collection as part of the Skechers by Barco collection," said Kerry McLeod, Barco Uniforms CMO. "As long-time supporters of our healthcare workers, we hope this collection highlights the ongoing support that Skechers and Barco will continue to provide to this incredible community in the fight against breast cancer."
Designed with eco-friendly fabric, comprised of seven recycled bottles in each garment, this sustainable material features 4-way stretch and moisture-wicking technology for optimal comfort and style all day long. Staying true to Skechers by Barco's bold, vibrant, and warm aesthetic, the five-piece collection features three styles for women and two styles for men, in a limited-edition fashion color, Wild Pink, that is sure to brighten up any day.
The women's offerings include classic V-neck scrub top, on-trend jogger, and a warm-up to round out the look. The men's line also includes a classic V-neck scrub top and jogger combination that brings comfort and color to the perfect work look.
The Skechers by Barco limited-edition capsule collection is now available online only at select retail partners and on SkechersbyBarco.com with inclusive sizing to fit all bodies ranging from XXS – 5XL, retailing for $20-$31. To keep up with the latest from Barco Uniforms please visit BarcoMade.com and follow @barcomade on Instagram and @barcouniforms on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.
About Barco® Uniforms
Founded in 1929, Barco® Uniforms is a leader of design innovation in the premium professional apparel industry, offering award-winning premium uniforms that elevate and honor the individuals in the healthcare, enterprise, and food service industries. With a robust portfolio of products across the company, Grey's Anatomy™ by Barco, Barco® One, Skechers™ by Barco and Barco Unify™ brands, Barco® Uniforms' designs are more custom rather than cookie-cutter. Each garment is made with the same craftsmanship and durability that made the initial designs so iconic. Barco® Uniforms is headquartered in Los Angeles with approximately 250+ local employees across multiple disciplines including design, product development, marketing, sales, supply chain, and distribution. To continue celebrating nurses, Barco's NightingalesSM Foundation, founded in 2008 helps children around the world and highlights the stories of healthcare workers that are making a difference. For more information, visit www.barcomade.com and follow the company on Instagram at @barcomade and @barcouniforms on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube.
About Skechers USA, Inc.
Skechers USA, Inc. ( NYSE: SKX), The Comfort Technology Company™, based in Southern California, designs, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and children. The Company's collections are available in over 180 countries and territories through department and specialty stores, and direct to consumers through digital stores and 4,355 Company- and third-party-owned physical retail stores. The Company manages its international business through a network of wholly-owned subsidiaries, joint venture partners, and distributors. For more information, please visit about.skechers.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
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LAVAL, QC, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) (the "Company") announced today the results to date of its previously announced offers (the "Exchange Offers") to exchange the existing senior notes set forth in the table below (the "Existing Senior Notes") for up to an aggregate principal amount of $4.0 billion (subject to increase or decrease by the Offerors (as defined below), the "Maximum New Secured Notes Amount") of New Secured Notes (as defined below) and the related solicitations of consents (the "Consent Solicitations" and, together with the Exchange Offers, the "Offers") to amend certain provisions of the indentures (the "Proposed Amendments") with respect to the respective applicable series of Existing Senior Notes. The terms and conditions of the offers and consent solicitations are described in an Exchange Offer Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated August 30, 2022 (the "Exchange Offer Memorandum"). All terms and conditions of the Offers remain unchanged as set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum.
As reported by D.F. King & Co., Inc., the exchange agent and information agent for the Offers, as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Sept. 13, 2022 (the "Early Tender Time"), an aggregate principal amount of $5,577,725,000 of Existing Senior Notes had been validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the Offers, as set forth in the table below.
Based on the aggregate principal amount of the Existing Senior Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the Offers as of the Early Tender Time and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, including the applicable Acceptance Priority Level, the Level 3 Tender Cap, the Exchange Consideration Reallocation (each, as defined in the Exchange Offer Memorandum) and proration, we would expect approximately $3,119 million of New Secured Notes to be issued in the Offers, consisting of approximately (i) $1,768 million in aggregate principal amount of new 11.00% First Lien Secured Notes due 2028 (the "New First Lien Notes"), (ii) $351 million in aggregate principal amount of new 14.00% Second Lien Secured Notes due 2030 (the "New Second Lien Notes" and, together with the New First Lien Notes, the "New BHC Secured Notes"), in each case, to be issued by the Company, and (iii) $1,000 million in aggregate principal amount of new 9.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2028 (the "Intermediate Holdco Secured Notes" and, together with the New BHC Secured Notes, the "New Secured Notes") to be issued by 1375209 B.C. Ltd. (the "Holdco Issuer" and, together with the Company, the "Offerors"), an existing wholly-owned unrestricted subsidiary of the Company that holds 38.6% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Bausch + Lomb Corporation. However, such principal amounts may be adjusted as a result of any additional participation from Eligible Holders tendering Existing Senior Notes in the Offers after the Early Tender Time and at or prior to the Expiration Time.
All Existing Senior Notes of a series validly tendered at or before the Expiration Time having a higher Acceptance Priority Level will be accepted before any Existing Senior Notes of another series tendered at or before the Expiration Time having a lower Acceptance Priority Level are accepted, even if the Existing Senior Notes having a lower Acceptance Priority Level were tendered prior to the Early Tender Time and the Existing Senior Notes having a higher Acceptance Priority Level were tendered after the Early Tender Time but on or prior to the Expiration Time. Accordingly, Existing Senior Notes validly tendered at or before the applicable Early Tender Time may be subject to proration if the Offerors accept Existing Senior Notes tendered after the applicable Early Tender Time but on or prior to the Expiration Time that have a higher Acceptance Priority Level than such Existing Senior Notes.
In addition, as of the Early Tender Time, the Company and BHA have received the requisite number of consents to adopt the Proposed Amendments with respect to the following series of Existing Senior Notes: (i) 9.25% Senior Notes due 2026, (ii) 8.50% Senior Notes due 2027, (iii) 5.00% Senior Notes due 2028 and (iv) 7.00% Senior Notes due 2028. Pursuant to the terms set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, the Company or BHA, as the case may be, intends to enter into a supplemental indenture with the respective trustee for each such series of Existing Senior Notes to effectuate the applicable Proposed Amendments, which would become operative upon the settlement date of the Offers; provided that, as described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, if any series of Existing Senior Notes are subject to proration, the Consent Solicitation with respect to such series shall be terminated, the supplemental indenture shall not become operative with respect to such series and the terms of the existing indenture governing such series shall continue to apply.
Withdrawal rights for the Offers expired as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 13, 2022 (the "Withdrawal Deadline"). Because the Withdrawal Deadline is not being extended, holders may not withdraw previously tendered Existing Senior Notes or revoke any related consents, and any tenders and consents after the Early Tender Time may not be withdrawn or revoked, in each case, except as may be required by law.
Each Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time on September 27, 2022, or any other date and time to which the Offerors extend such Offer in their sole discretion (such date and time for such Offer, as it may be extended, the "Expiration Time"), unless earlier terminated. Subject to the terms of the Offers, including the Maximum New Secured Notes Amount and the proration, Existing Senior Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Time but on or prior to the Expiration Time and accepted for purchase will be entitled to receive the applicable Exchange Consideration set forth in the Exchange Offer Memorandum (but not the applicable Early Exchange Premium described therein) plus accrued and unpaid interest to the settlement date. Subject to all conditions of the Offers having been either satisfied or waived by the Offerors, the settlement date is expected to be within three business days following the Expiration Time or as promptly as practicable thereafter.
Each Offer is a separate offer and/or solicitation, and each may be individually amended, extended, terminated or withdrawn, subject to certain conditions and applicable law, at any time in the Offerors' sole discretion, subject to the consent rights of the Supporting Holders (as defined in the Exchange Offer Memorandum), and without amending, extending, terminating or withdrawing any other Offer. No Offer is conditioned upon any minimum principal amount of Existing Senior Notes of any series being tendered nor the consummation of any other Offer. Additionally, notwithstanding any other provision of the Offers, the Offerors' obligations to accept and exchange any of the Existing Senior Notes validly tendered pursuant to an Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, as described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum, and each Offeror expressly reserves its right, subject to applicable law, to terminate any Offer and/or Consent Solicitation at any time.
The Offers are being made, and the applicable series of New Secured Notes are being offered, only to holders of the Existing Senior Notes who are either (a) persons other than "U.S. persons" as defined in Regulation S, and who agree to purchase the New Secured Notes outside of the United States, and who are otherwise in compliance with the requirements of Regulation S; or (b) persons who are reasonably believed to be both (i) "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and to whom the New Secured Notes are offered in the United States in a transaction not involving a public offering, pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and (ii) qualified purchasers (as defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended); provided that, in each case, if such holder (i) is a resident in Canada, such holder is required to complete, sign and submit to the exchange agent a Canadian holder form, which may be obtained from the information agent, or (ii) is in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, such holder is a "qualified investor" and is not a "retail investor". With respect to holders in the European Economic Area, a "retail investor" means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a "retail client" as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a "customer" within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a "qualified investor" as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129. The holders of Existing Senior Notes who have certified to the Offerors that they are eligible to participate in the Offers and Consent Solicitations pursuant to at least one of the foregoing conditions are referred to as "Eligible Holders." Eligible Holders may go to www.dfking.com/bhc to confirm their eligibility.
Full details of the terms and conditions of the Offers are described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum. The Offers are only being made pursuant to, and the information in this press release is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the Exchange Offer Memorandum, which is being sent by the Offerors to Eligible Holders of the Existing Senior Notes. Eligible Holders of the Existing Senior Notes are encouraged to read these documents, as they contain important information regarding the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations. This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any Existing Senior Notes in the Exchange Offers or the Consent Solicitations.
Requests for the Exchange Offer Memorandum and other documents relating to the Offers may be directed to D.F. King & Co., Inc., the exchange agent and information agent for the Offers, at (212) 232-3233 (for banks and brokers only) or (877) 478-5045 (toll-free) (for all others) or [email protected].
None of the Company, the Holdco Issuer, any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates, or any of their respective officers, boards of directors or directors, the dealer manager and solicitation agent, the exchange agent and information agent or any trustee is making any recommendation as to whether Eligible Holders should tender any Existing Senior Notes in response to the Exchange Offers or deliver any consents pursuant to the Consent Solicitations and no one has been authorized by any of them to make such a recommendation. Eligible holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender their Existing Senior Notes and deliver consents, and, if so, the principal amount of Existing Senior Notes as to which action is to be taken.
The Offers are not being made to Eligible Holders of Existing Senior Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the Offers are required to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offers will be deemed to be made on behalf of the Company, the Holdco Issuer and BHA, as applicable, by the dealer manager and solicitation agent, or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
The New Secured Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act, or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The New Secured Notes have not been and will not be qualified for sale to the public by prospectus under applicable Canadian securities laws and, accordingly, any issuance of New Secured Notes in Canada will be made on a basis which is exempt from the prospectus requirements of such securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the New Secured Notes in the United States and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of the New Secured Notes in any jurisdiction where such offering or sale would be unlawful. There shall not be any sale of the New Secured Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
About Bausch Health Companies Inc.
Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) is a global diversified pharmaceutical company whose mission is to improve people's lives with our health care products. We develop, manufacture and market a range of products primarily in gastroenterology, hepatology, neurology, dermatology, international pharmaceuticals and eye health, through our approximately 88.7% ownership of Bausch + Lomb. With our leading durable brands, we are delivering on our commitments as we build an innovative company dedicated to advancing global health.
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REDDING, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report titled, "Biometric System Market by Offering, Biometrics Type (Fingerprint Recognition, Voice Recognition), Contact Type, Authentication Type, Platform, Application, End User (Government, Military & Law Enforcement, and Others) - Global Forecast to 2029," the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.4% from 2022 to 2029 to reach $51.6 billion by 2029.
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Biometrics refers to the measurement and statistical analysis of an individual's unique physical and behavioral characteristics. It is mainly used for identification and access control or for identifying individuals who are under surveillance. Besides, biometrics systems offer several benefits such as accurate identification, high performance, accountability, reliability, and high security & assurance.
The growth of this market is primarily attributed to the growing demand for mobile biometrics devices, rising government initiatives for biometrics technology, and the increasing use of biometric technology in consumer electronics for authentication and identification applications. In addition, the rising need for security measures in military and law enforcement and the growing adoption of cloud-based biometrics solutions provides significant growth opportunities for vendors operating in the biometric systems market. However, the high capital expenditure for deploying biometric systems and the misconceptions & lack of knowledge regarding biometrics systems pose a major challenge to the adoption of biometrics systems.
Growing security requirements in the BFSI sector to drive the biometric system market growth
The modern BFSI sector is highly dependent on IT infrastructure to deliver several services, such as mobile, online, and core banking. Security is among the primary concerns for finance applications performing financial transactions, such as online banking portals and insurance applications. Thus, security concerns have become a major challenge for the banking sector due to which banks and financial institutions are investing heavily in enabling digital services through multiple channels. Therefore, organizations operating in the banking sector are incorporating biometrics solutions on a considerable scale to protect applications and digital assets against manipulation and fraud. Some major banks leverage biometric technologies in various scenarios, such as cash withdrawals at the ATM, authenticating mobile banking apps using fingerprint signing, or a combination of face and voice verification.
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Some of the key developments in this space are as follows:
- In 2021, IDEMIA (France) partnered with Federal Bank Limited (India) to implement a secure biometric system that offers bank employees a smarter and more efficient working environment. In addition, it will enable Federal Bank to extend the capabilities of its multi-biometric system in a post-COVID work scenario.
- In 2022, Axis Bank Limited (India) partnered with MinkasuPay (India) to offer its customers the smoothest and most secure net banking payment experience through a biometric authentication solution.
Consequently, the demand for biometrics systems witnessed a growth in the banking sector to improve performance, scalability, security, and agility and deliver faster services, thus, promoting the market growth.
The global biometric system market is segmented based on offering (hardware and software), biometric type, (fingerprint recognition, face recognition, voice recognition, iris recognition, signature recognition, vein recognition, palm print recognition, and other biometrics types), authentication type (single-factor authentication and multi-factor authentication), contact type (contact-based and contactless, hybrid), platform (on-site, mobile devices, PC's, & wearable devices), application (digital identification, access control & authentication, security & surveillance, and other application), end user (IT & telecom, government, finance & insurance, retail, military & law enforcement, healthcare, recreation, education, transportation/warehousing, and other end users), and geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa). The study also evaluates industry competitors and analyses the market at a country level.
Based on offering, the hardware segment is expected to account for the largest share of the biometric systems market in 2022. The large share of this segment is mainly attributed to the growing demand for mobile biometrics devices and the increasing focus on hardware-centric security capabilities. In addition, the benefits associated with biometrics hardware, such as accurate identification, high performance, accountability, reliability, and high security & assurance, further augment the growth of this segment. Several providers are investing in R&D to improve the hardware capabilities and make them more affordable for small and medium-scale enterprises.
Based on contact type, the biometric systems market is segmented into contact-based, contactless, and hybrid. In 2022, the contact-based segment is expected to account for a larger share of the biometric systems market. The large market share of this segment is due to the rising demand for high-tech access control solutions, increasing usage of smartphones, and the rising need for easy & swift biometric security in smartphones. However, the contactless segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
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Based on platform, the biometric systems market is segmented into on-site, mobile devices, PCs, and wearable devices. In 2022, the on-site segment is expected to account for the largest share of the overall biometric systems market. However, the mobile devices segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The rising trend of mobile transactions, growing adoption of biometrics features in smartphones, and rising use of mobile biometrics in e-commerce and online gaming are expected to support the growth of this segment.
Based on application, the biometric system market is segmented into digital identification, access control & authentication, security & surveillance, and other applications (law enforcement and border control). In 2022, the digital identification segment is expected to account for the largest share of the biometric systems market. The large share of this segment is mainly attributed to the rise in identity and authentication frauds, integration of biometrics in IoT devices, growing focus on enhancing end-to-end customer experience, and growing adoption of cloud-based digital identity solutions.
Geographically, the biometric system market is segmented into five major regions: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. Asia-Pacific is expected to witness rapid growth during the forecast period. The region is transforming dynamically with respect to the adoption of new technologies across various sectors. The infrastructural growth in APAC, especially in China, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Japan, and India, and the growing digital transformation creates huge opportunities for players offering biometrics systems. Besides, favorable government initiatives, rising e-commerce and virtual payment trends, and rising digital identity security concerns are expected to help the region grow rapidly over the coming years.
Some of the key players operating in the biometric system market are NEC Corporation (Japan), CardLogix Corporation (U.S.), Fujitsu Limited (Japan), Thales Group (France), Integrated Biometrics LLC (U.S.), Iris ID, Inc. (U.S.), Suprema, Inc. (South Korea), HID Global Corporation (U.S.), Precise Biometrics (Sweden), Aware, Inc. (U.S.), Daon, Inc. (U.S.), M2SYS Technology (U.S.), BIO-key International (U.S.), Cognitec Systems GmbH (Germany), BioRugged (South Africa), DERMALOG Identification Systems GmbH (Germany), IDEMIA (France), and ImageWare Systems, Inc. (U.S.).
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Scope of the Report
Biometric System Market, by Offering
- Hardware
- Scanners
- Cameras
- Software
Biometric System Market, by Biometric Type
- Fingerprint Recognition
- Face Recognition
- Voice Recognition
- Iris Recognition
- Signature Recognition
- Vein Recognition
- Palm Print Recognition
- Other Biometrics Types (Heartbeat Reader and Hand Geometry)
Biometric System Market, by Authentication Type
- Single-factor Authentication
- Multi-factor Authentication
Biometric System Market, by Contact Type
- Contact-based
- Contactless
- Hybrid
Biometric System Market, by Platform
- On-site
- PC
- Mobile Devices
- Wearable Devices
Biometric System Market, by Application
- Digital Identification
- Access Control & Authentication
- Security & Surveillance
- Other Applications (Border Control and Law & Enforcement)
Biometric System Market, by End User
- Information Technology & Telecom
- Government
- Retail
- Finance & Insurance
- Healthcare
- Military /Law Enforcement
- Recreation
- Education
- Transportation & Warehousing
- Other End Users (Hotel & Food Services and Constructions)
Biometric System Market, by region
- North America
- U.S.
- Canada
- Europe
- UK
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Rest of Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Vietnam
- Indonesia
- Rest of Asia-Pacific
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Rest of Latin America
- Middle East & Africa
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NAPLES, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bramshill Investments, an award-winning alternative asset management firm, has named Mona Daruwala Chief Compliance Officer. Ms. Daruwala has been working in Bramshill's headquarters (Naples, Florida), and going forward she will manage the firm's compliance, regulatory, and reputational risks.
Mona has over 20 years of relationship management, legal and compliance experience from both the buy and sell sides. Prior to joining Bramshill, Ms. Daruwala spent 7 years at Societe Generale with roles under the Global Markets COO Relationship Management team and then subsequently as an AML Compliance Officer focused on risk assessment, governance management and varying regulatory matters. Prior to her time at SG, she held similar roles at Deutsche Bank. During her 9-year tenure at DB she was responsible for managing strategic institutional client relationships focusing on onboarding, legal and compliance matters spanning from onboarding master agreements to any AML regulatory issues that would arise. She began her career working on the buy side specializing in entity formation, governance and legal agreements. Ms. Daruwala is ACAMS certified and has earned her BA in English and Criminal Justice from Rutgers University and her Juris Doctorate from New York Law School.
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Bramshill Investments, LLC, is a fixed income investment manager with over $4.3 billion in assets under management (as of 8/31/2022). The firm was co-founded in 2012 by former GLG portfolio manager, Arthur DeGaetano. The team's core investment strategy has an established combined track record of over thirteen years with an absolute return objective that can be accessed through various vehicles. Bramshill also offers other alternative investment strategies. Bramshill is an investment adviser registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Registration as an investment advisor with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training of Bramshill or its employees. References to awards should not be construed as testimonials for our advisory services. For more information, please visit: https://bramshillinvestments.com
SOURCE Bramshill Investments, LLC | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bramshill-names-mona-daruwala-chief-compliance-officer-301624301.html | 2022-09-14T13:29:10 | en | 0.958977 |
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