Impact of Covid-19 Outbreak on The V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Ecosystem: 2019 2030 Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies &…

Commonly referred to as V2X, vehicle-to-everything communications technology allows vehicles to directly communicate with each other, roadside infrastructure, and other road users to deliver an array of benefits in the form of road safety, traffic efficiency, smart mobility, environmental sustainability, and driver convenience. In addition, V2X is also helping pave the way for fully autonomous driving through its unique non line-of-sight sensing capability which allows vehicles to detect potential hazards, traffic, and road conditions from longer distances and sooner than other in-vehicle sensors such as cameras, radar, and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging).

Although legacy V2I (Vehicle-to-Infrastructure) technologies are currently in operational use worldwide for ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) and relatively simple V2I applications, advanced V2X systems capable of supporting V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle), V2I and other forms of V2X communications are beginning to gain broad commercial acceptance with two competing technologies vying for the attention of automakers and regulators: the commercially mature IEEE 802.11p/DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) standard, and the relatively new 3GPP-defined C-V2X (Cellular V2X) technology which has a forward evolutionary path towards 5G.

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With an initial focus on road safety and traffic efficiency applications, Toyota and GM (General Motors) have already equipped some of their vehicle models with IEEE 802.11p-based V2X technology in Japan and North America. Among other commercial commitments, Volkswagen will begin deploying IEEE 802.11p on volume models in Europe starting from 2019, while Geely and Ford plan to integrate C-V2X in their new vehicles by 2021 and 2022 respectively. It is also worth nothing that a number of luxury automakers including BMW, Daimler, Volkswagens subsidiary Audi, and Volvo Cars already deliver certain V2X-type applications through wide-area cellular connectivity and supporting infrastructure such as appropriately equipped roadwork trailers.

Despite the ongoing 802.11p/DSRC versus C-V2X debate, regulatory uncertainty and other challenges, global spending on V2X communications technology is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 170% between 2019 and 2022. SNS Telecom & IT predicts that by the end of 2022, V2X will account for a market worth $1.2 Billion, with an installed base of nearly 6 Million V2X-equipped vehicles worldwide.

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COVID-19 Impact & Recovery Analysis – Artificial Intelligence Platforms Market 2020-2024 | Rise in Demand for AI-based Solutions to Boost Growth |…

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the artificial intelligence platforms market and it is poised to grow by USD 12.51 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 33% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment.

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The market is concentrated, and the degree of concentration will accelerate during the forecast period. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Alphabet Inc., Amazon Web Services Inc., International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Palantir Technologies Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., SAP SE, SAS Institute Inc., and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. are some of the major market participants. To make the most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.

The rise in demand for AI-based solutions have been instrumental in driving the growth of the market. However, the rise in data privacy issues might hamper market growth.

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Artificial Intelligence will aid in better decision-making capacity – Livemint

MUMBAI :Artificial intelligence (AI) will not only help to resolve complex global problems but can enable businesses make better decisions on a day-to-day basis if applied well, said panelists at the Mint Pivot or Perish webinar on automation in the new normal post covid pandemic.

AI can be embedded into our day-to-day applications so the human intellect takes better decisions based on the most relevant data to the particular request basis past or similar requests. This is a growth opportunity for businesses now," said Dulles Krishnan, area vice president - Salesforce.

For example, during a service request, offering the employee insights about the customers preferences or similar examples of previous customers can help them efficiently up sell solutions and create more revenue or service opportunities.

On one end of automation is work that is high volume and repetitive. More usage of automation is now moving to low volume but unique work which requires solutions. That is where bots and AI solutions co-exist with humans," said Kamal Singhani, managing partner, IBM India.

Sangeeta Gupta, VP and chief strategy officer, Nasscom, said while AI can augment productivity and innovation, it can only work in well-defined use cases though it needs good quality data to work with.

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Extra Shot: Startups and the Telecoms Ecosystem – TelecomTV

The fifth edition of Extra Shot focuses on innovation in the telecoms industry and, in particular, the role of startups in the broader industry ecosystem, a topic that was touched upon during the recent DSP Leaders World Forum digital event.

Startups have a tough time getting funded, recognised and finding a way to get a foot in the door at the communication service providers (CSPs) and even then thats only the start of what is almost always a very long process that doesnt always deliver fruitful returns. Can this situation be rectified? Is there an alternative model and/or ecosystem for startups? Our special guests provided plenty of insight, including first-hand experience.

And, finally, co-presenters Guy Daniels and Chris Lewis were given the chance to state their caffeine preferences and take their place on the Containerized Hot Beverage Function chart

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COVID-19 and Artificial Intelligence: How the pandemic has re-ignited a focus on the software – Savannah Morning News

The COVID-19 pandemic brings with it increased focus on Artificial Intelligence ("AI") as developers rush to create software, such as contact tracing software, that can help businesses reduce the risks for employees returning to work. Before businesses acquire AI technology, owners and human resources professionals must consider how to balance being proactive with protecting employee privacy. There are numerous provisions they should incorporate into their contracts with their software developers. Some of these provisions include:

Comprehensive Testing

When contracting for AI, the customer should be particularly focused on documenting the level of testing to be provided. Generally, the more robust the description of the testing, the better. At a minimum, this description should include: the number of rounds of testing, the process for testing, what the minimum sample size will be for each round of testing, and who is involved in creating the test environment. In addition, the customer should ask the vendor to contractually commit to describing the remedies if the testing does not result in adequate work product. The parties need to define exactly what constitutes acceptance, and whether ongoing testing is necessary or appropriate, particularly as the AI adapts and learns from itself.

Security

Security is currently one of the fastest evolving areas of information technology law. When contracting for AI, it is important to have standards that can adapt to this ever-changing environment. In order to do this, it is helpful to incorporate a requirement that the vendor comply with industry security standards such as ISO-27001 and OWASP-Top 10 (for web applications). Businesses should also state any specific technical requirements related to security necessary to protect the customers IT environment, as well the whereabouts and other data associated with its employees and the locations of its customers. Finally, requiring adequate cyber-insurance that meets the risk level of the environment is also prudent.

Data Privacy

Customers should be wary that AI may transform data that was once anonymous into data that is decipherable. Also, there is a complex set of data privacy laws in effect in the United States and even more so globally. All vendors should contractually agree to comply with any such applicable laws. Customers should also consider putting limitations on how vendors can use data, particularly outside of providing the services to the contracting customer.

Minimizing Risk

Most vendors require a cap on consequential damages, but in AI contracts this provides additional challenges as much of the risk to the customer lies with items commonly considered to be consequential damages. There are several ways to address this problem. One way is to redefine what constitutes direct damages. A second way is to negotiate exceptions to caps for specified items such as: breaches of privacy/data security, failure to comply with threshold requirements, and allegations of bias due to algorithm data use.

This article is meant to share a few ideas for contracting for AI. As with any contract, you should contact a lawyer understanding the nuances of the subject matter particular to your situation prior to signing it.

For more information, please contact Diana J.P. McKenzie, partner & chair, Information Technology & Outsourcing Practice Group at HunterMaclean, dmckenzie@huntermaclean.com or Nicole Pope, attorney at HunterMaclean, npope@huntermaclean.com.

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Second plenary meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) – Council of Europe

The second plenary meeting of theAd Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI)will be held from 6 to 8 July 2020, bringing together representatives of the 47 Council of Europe member states, observer states (Canada, USA, Holy See, Israel, Japan, Mexico) as well as civil society, academia and the Council of Europe's Internet partners.

The CAHAI observer group is expanding with the participation of Israel for the first time and 12 new stakeholders. Other international organisations (EU, OECD, UNESCO) will also contribute to CAHAIs work.

CAHAI members will make concrete proposals on the feasibility study of a future legal framework on artificial intelligence (AI) based on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. In this connection, they will address issues such as the mapping of legal instruments applicable to AI and the opportunities and risks arising from the design, development and application of AI on human rights, rule of law and democracy, which have already been subject of a preliminary analysis.

Other issues such the scope and main elements of the above-mentioned legal framework will also be discussed.

This will provide the necessary impetus for the preparation of the first draft of the feasibility study, which will be presented at the CAHAI plenary meeting in December 2020.

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The V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Ecosystem: 2019 2030 Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts – 3rd Watch News

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Tough days ahead: How COVID-19 will impact Indian sports ecosystem: Here’s what experts say – Moneycontrol

'Phygital' has become a trending buzzword in today's world. But how feasible it is to implement the philosophy in the sporting sphere, especially with the COVID threat looming large?

The Indian sports ecosystem, with cricket as its crown jewel, is staring at an uncertain future in the post-COVID world. The global sporting activities are limping back to normalcy but for Indian sports lovers, it is highly unlikely that they will be able to witness any live sporting action in the next four months.

Where does this put all the stakeholders, especially non-cricket sports disciplines dependent on government largesse?

Although the Olympics has been postponed, the preparations of the athletes have been badly hit and sports federations are struggling to tackle the issue.

Sports broadcasters, an important cog in the set-up, have been dealt a body blow by the coronavirus outbreak.

With no live domestic sporting action to showcase and huge investments already made in efforts to popularise non-cricket sports, they can only look forward to resumption of international sporting activities as a solace.

But with fans not present at the stadiums, the feel of watching an enthralling game is missing and broadcasters need to think out of the box to ensure they are not left out.

This philosophy is what is going to help them survive this tumultuous phase, and they realise the gravity of the situation.

Sanjog Gupta, Sports Product Head at Star India and Chair, FICCI Sports Committee, at a webinar at FICCI Frames, said this period can also be used to rebuild the structures in place and usher in more professionalism.

"The structures and models of governance should be carefully looked at. The health of the sports depend on fans, we need to put the fans at the centre of things. There is immense opportunity to use this time to use it to reset the structures of the sports ecosystem," he said.

Just as non-cricket sports disciplines were beginning to make a mark, the COVID-19 pandemic struck and has now put a big question mark over its future prospects.

"It is unfair to expect the government to continue funding. Business houses can adopt one sport which has Olympic potential. Only then we can excel in the Olympics. A broadcaster should also concentrate on other sports and devote 10 percent airtime," said Indian Olympic Association President Narinder Batra.

Although Batra has called for unstinted corporate support, industry sources said it is highly unlikely they are going to loosen their purse strings anytime soon.

"It will almost take four to eight months for the sports sponsorship industry to rebound," said an official of an international sports media giant.

So, how are sports associations going to tackle this financial crunch?

"Apart from cricket and football, other sports bodies have to depend on government support and they were anyway never in a good financial position," the person quoted above said.

Bhairav Shanth, co-founder and Managing Director, ITW Consulting, an agency specialising in sponsorship management of sports events, feels it is a chicken and egg situation.

"Sponsors may play the wait-and-watch game looking for some sport to resume and sports may be delaying resumption in the hope of finding more sponsors. I foresee a V-shaped kind of recovery towards the last quarter of this year because if a couple of the big events slated get the go-ahead, confidence will immediately return and we can expect a quick turnaround, he told Moneycontrol.

Shanth said the COVID-19 disruption, perhaps, will leave more of a mark on the ground.

"Kabaddi had thriving attendance at the venue other than amazing TV viewership. The fan base they have established is fairly loyal and solid. We have seen that during internal research we conducted for our clients who are involved with Kabaddi. If these sports make a behind-closed-doors return like cricket has, they will find that fan base ready, eager and waiting," Shanth said.

But, for a country like India, will sporting activities find traction amidst economic upheaval?

"Historically, sports has been a unifying force and a welcome break from hard times, whether it be in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, or after a tragedy like 9/11 or even closer home, after the terror attack on Mumbai in November 2008. In all those cases, sports have rebounded back to the pre-disruption levels. Economic crises, on the other hand, tend to slow leisure consumption down, so the market may remain flat for just a little bit, but Indian viewers and fans love their sport and sports will find traction but in new ways. I am of the view that digital media will be highlighted strongly and the way fans will consume sports will change," Shanth said.

A recurring question which has always haunted the Indian sports sphere has been the aversion of corporates to support sports disciplines other than cricket.

JSW Sports CEOMustafa Ghouse put the blame on the lackadaisical attitude of some of thesports bodies.

"JSW has been supporting Olympic sports disciplines because of the passion of the promoters. I can understand the reservations other corporate houses have about supporting these sports disciplines because many sports federations resist changes. At JSW, we have a dedicated team to look into these issues but not every corporate would have the wherewithal or patience to deal with them," he said.

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The enormous opportunity in fintech – VentureBeat

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Fintech has dominated the news cycle this year. Bold headlines celebrated large exits (Plaid, Credit Karma, Personal Capital)and venture-capital investment poured in.

While the category has heated up quickly, the sheer size of the fintech opportunity suggests that these exits are just the tip of the iceberg. In the next five years, fintech will drive some of the biggest VC exits.

In 2019, US software businesses raised $43.5 billion in an environment where global enterprise software spending reached $456 billion. Meanwhile, fintech businesses raised $17.6 billion while revenue for the top four US banks alone hit $461 billion! By that measure, fintech is not yet overinvested.

In 2018, US banks claimed a total market cap nearing $2 trillion with 22 individual banks had market caps exceeding $20 billion (see below). No one talks about disrupting KeyCorp, but becoming the 20th largest bank in the United States would mean a market cap in excess of Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest at the time of IPO.

Fintech companies addressing seemingly arcane parts of our economy are big businesses. Below Ive listed a few areas of the fintech ecosystem that are often overlooked but present massive opportunities for disruptors:

Exchanges: The New York Stock Exchange is an iconic American institution. Its parent company, ICE, boasts a market cap above $50 billion. But its not the most valuable exchange in the country. That honor belongs to the CME Group, the worlds largest derivatives exchange, clocking in at a $65 billion market cap.

Payments: While Stripes rise looms large in Silicon Valley, consider that Visa has a market cap of $385 billion and regularly posts profit margins exceeding 50%. Discover Financial has a market cap of $12 billion. No offense, but when was the last time you saw that card? Theres clearly room for a disruptor here.

Infrastructure: Fiserv is a $70 billion business that provides banking core systems, payment processing, and other commercial plumbing to banks.

Data providers: Verisk ($25 billion), FICO ($10 billion), and Experian ($21 billion) might not be the most admired companies in the world, but businesses in this category benefit from network effects and generate immense value by collecting and monetizing consumer data and predicting risk across the financial system.

Mortgage/Insurance/Corporate finance: Technology providers to specific areas of finance have created significant businesses. Across the insurance ecosystem, Guidewire, Applied Systems, and Vertafore capture $10 billion of value. BlackKnight, the leading analytics provider to the mortgage industry, is an $11 billion business. Are you thinking about managing financial documents for your public company? You may turn to Broadridge, which makes a pretty penny in this business, boasting a $13 billion market cap.

While these are massive markets, it is not easy to disrupt incumbents. A combination of regulatory hurdles, entrenched behavior, low risk-tolerance, and the benefits of larger balance sheets have kept upstarts at bay for decades. However, as venture capital supports the ecosystem, modern technology creeps into the sector (cloud, APIs), connectivity and data exchanges improve, and consumers grow tired of incumbents, the tide continues to shift.

This shift and the challenge to the status quo by fintech upstarts will have lasting effects. Even when incumbents acquire their biggest disruptors, such as Visas acquisition of Plaid, innovations pioneered by those startups become integrated into the system and help move the industry forward. And it also leaves room for the next challenger to stake their claim.

While I dont expect a wholesale disruption of the ecosystem anytime soon, if VC-backed disruptors can bite off even a fraction of the value now owned by legacy business, returns would easily eclipse all other sectors of venture capital.

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LI startup predicts where COVID-19 will spike – Newsday

A Long Island artificial intelligence startup has built software aimed at pinpointing U.S. counties where the COVID-19 outbreak is likely to be most deadly.

In a June report, the data-mining company, Akai Kaeru LLC, forecast spiking COVID-19 mortality with the heaviest concentrations in counties of the Southeast, including Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana, said co-founder and chief executive Klaus Mueller.

Nationwide, the software found 985 out of all 3,007 U.S. counties are at risk.

"These patterns identify groups of counties that have a steeper increase in the death-rate trajectory," he said.

Closer to home, the software found Nassau and Suffolk counties are likely to be relatively stable, but Westchester and Rockland counties are potential tinderboxes that could tip into crisis, said Mueller, a computer science professorat Stony Brook University.

The factors making Westchester and Rockland more vulnerable to a spike in mortality include areas with more crowding and fewer residents with access to cars, he said.

"They need to be very careful with reopening," Mueller said of the northern suburbs. "It just takes a spark for there to be a second wave."

At the same time, he said, Long Island "is not out of the woods" and abandoning policies like social distancing could lead to a new surge.

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The software analyzes more than 500 attributes related to demographics, economics, infrastructure, race and ethnicity as well as deaths and other health data directly related to COVID-19.

Dr. Isaac Weisfuse, an epidemiologist and adjunct professor at Cornell University's public health program, said that data-mining software is used by public health departments.

If the software provides sufficient warning, he said, preventive measures like screening and mask-wearing policies can be instituted.

"It's more valuable if it's accurate two months before, but it's still valuable two weeks before," he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aggregates mortality forecasts from about two dozen software programs and expects 140,000 to 160,000 total reported COVID-19 deaths in the United States by July 25.

While many COVID-19 models provide specific fatality forecasts at the state level, the Akai Kaeru software is one of the few that assesses risk at the county level.

Mueller said that based on the one-month snapshots, the software is finding that counties at the highest risk have a death rate that grew two- to three times more than the United States,overall.

In June, the fatality rate for U.S. COVID-19 related deaths was 24.1 per 100,000 population, he said.

Aside from finding geographies in jeopardy, the software is able to unearth specific and sometimes surprising combinations of factors that appear to be connected to counties with higher death rates.

For instance, counties with low poverty levels, high homeownership rates, but high levels of housing debt were found to be at high risk.

"The more housing debt you have, the more death you have," Mueller said.

Other counties at risk had a combination of residents who were sleep-deprived (according to data from the CDC) and had low levels of education and low rates of health insurance coverage.

Another group of counties had few Asian residents but high overall minority populations, including impoverished Black children.

Rural counties with high poverty rates and an aging population also were deemed at risk.

"One of the defining characteristics is we focus on explainability," said Eric Papenhausen, chief technology officer and co-founder of the company. "You can create a narrative around it," which can lead to changes in public policy.

Akai Kaeru is based at the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology on the Stony Brook University campus.

The 4-year-old company, whose name is Japanese for red frog, has raised $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program and about $200,000 through the New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence program and the New York State Center for Advanced Technology.

The COVID-19 software is a demonstration project for the company, whose data-mining software can be applied to a variety of tasks, including assessing mortgage risk, speeding drug discovery and investment analysis.

Another startup, Manhattan-based Dataminr, is seeking to use social media posts as a leading indicator of COVID-19 infections at the county level.

Artificial intelligence refers to the ability of software programs to learn and perform actions previously reserved for humans.

Mueller said his company's "explainable AI" is not a black box and can provide insight into how the software reached its conclusions.

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Local weather Change Dilemma: Rescuing Nature By way of Assisted Migration vs Invasive Ecosystem Disruption – The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Scientists trying to help species migrate North far outside their natural range, to help the species survive global warming, are encountering objections from people who think it is wrong to disrupt ecosystems by introducing new species. But supporters of the scheme are worried the climate is changing too fast for nature to keep up.

Playing the hand of God: scientists experiment aims to help trees survive climate change

Scientists use a strategy called assisted migration in an attempt to rescue tree species from inhospitable conditions

AshleyStimpsonPublished onWed 8 Jul 2020 20.00 AEST

Since 2013, TNC has planted more than 2,000 longleaf pine seedlings in fields not far from the Delaware state line. Today, clumps of longleaf stand together like gangly kids at recess, their eponymous green needles shooting out like pompoms in every direction.

But longleaf is not native to Maryland, and many scientists believe they should not be planted at Plum Creek, or anywhere outside of theirnatural range. These relatively young trees are part of an experiment to determine if human intervention could help the pines migrate north as climate change alters its natural range.

Not everyones onboard. Assisted migration has been accused of being expensive and risky, a case of humans playing God.

But I do not believe longleaf pine could move quickly enough at the rate the climate is changing, explains Dr Deborah Landau, a TNC restoration ecologist.

Landau says that, on Facebook, TNCs longleaf project has been accused of playing the hand of God. She dismisses the criticism. Theres so little nature left that we havent already had a heavy hand in, she says.

Despite the detractors, Landau has seen a shift in attitudes about assisted migration in the decade since Ricciardi and Simberloffs article was published.

Now that climate change is here, people are more open to the prospect of aiding species that wont be able to keep up, she says. Its happened. Its happening. We need to respond.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/planting-trees-assisted-migration-climate-change

The suggestion nature cannot keep up with climate change is not supported by historical evidence.

The Younger Dryas was an abrupt multi-degree Northern Hemisphere return to ice age conditions which occurred 12,800 years ago and lasted around 1,300 years. The initial cooling may have occurred in as short timeframe as a few months, certainly no more than a handful of years orders of magnitude faster than todays global warming.

Until now, it was thought that the mini ice age took a decade or so to take hold, on the evidence provided by Greenland ice cores. Not so, say William Patterson of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and his colleagues.

The group studied a mud core from an ancient lake, Lough Monreagh, in western Ireland. Using a scalpel they sliced off layers 0.5 to 1 millimetre thick, each representing up to three months of time. No other measurements from the period have approached this level of detail.

Carbon isotopes in each slice revealed how productive the lake was and oxygen isotopes gave a picture of temperature and rainfall. They show that at the start of the Big Freeze, temperatures plummeted and lake productivity stopped within months, or a year at most. It would be like taking Ireland today and moving it up to Svalbard in the Arctic, says Patterson, who presented the findings at the BOREAS conference in Rovaniemi, Finland, on 31 October.

Read more: https://www.sott.net/article/196671-Mini-Ice-Age-Took-Hold-Of-Europe-In-Just-Months

The multi-degree return to warm conditions which followed the Younger Dryas was also extremely rapid (see the graph at the top of this page).

My point is, most Northern Hemisphere species alive today survived past abrupt climate shifts both up and down, of far greater magnitude and pace than todays gentle global warming. The abrupt Younger Dryas climate shift was disruptive, but it was not a significant extinction event. Nature is resilient, it does not need our help.

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The Roger Tory Peterson Institute is set to reopen next week, July 18 | News, Sports, Jobs – timesobserver.com

Photo submitted to the Times ObserverAbove is the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. The museum reopens its doors on Saturday, July 18.

Closed since March 16, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute will reopen its museum on Saturday, July 18.

My first official act, says Arthur Pearson, on my first day as the new CEO of the institute, was to close the museum to the public. It will be a relief and a joy to reopen our doors and welcome back our many friends and supporters.

Technically, the museum could have reopened June 30 thats the day Governor Cuomo announced Phase IV reopening for Western New York. However, RTPI has taken extra time to ensure the health and safety of staff and visitors.

Health and safety is our number one priority, Pearson said referring to the detailed reopening plan he and his staff have developed in accordance with guidelines provided by the CDC, the state of New York and the American Alliance of Museums, among others.

The plan lays out enhanced measures for minimizing risk while still providing for an engaging museum experience.

Initially, the total number of visitors allowed in the museum will be limited to one-third capacity to ensure everyone can maintain required social distancing. There will be signs posted limiting the number of people allowed per gallery. All visitors will be required to wear masks at all times and to wear them right. Pearson and his staff have developed information signage that reminds visitors to wear masks over mouth and nose, using Roger Tory Petersons famous field guide art to demonstrate.

Peterson was a great artist, Pearson said. He also was a great teacher. Were repurposing his iconic bird images throughout the museum to inform and instruct our visitors how to be safe while visiting us.

Pearson hopes visitors will notice other things about the museum, as well.

Being closed for four months was a huge strain, financially, Pearson says. But it also gave us time to rethink and retool a few things.

As one example, RTPI conducted an analysis of museum sales over the past three years, leading to a complete refresh of its museum store.

Everything came off the shelves, said Jane Johnson, director of museum operations. We restocked with new and priority items that better celebrate Rogers legacy at the intersection of art and nature. We even adopted a new name: The Snowy Owl Museum Store.

Emphasizing health and safety first, Pearson plans to roll out a schedule of programs and events to complement the refreshed and reopened museum.

Our museum extends outdoors, as well, where we plan to host regular bird walks in our preserve and yoga classes on the back patio. We installed a picnic area in view of our new pollinator meadow and cafe tables in our outdoor courtyard to encourage visitors to spend time with us safely surrounded by the beauty of nature, architecture and art, Pearson said.

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History is home to the largest, most comprehensive collection of Petersons artwork and related archival materials. Peterson, the only artist-naturalist to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is best known for his field guides. The first A Field Guide to the Birds published in 1934, sparked a worldwide movement to connect people with nature as never before. Peterson authored and illustrated dozens of guides for birds, plants, insects and other natural flora and fauna selling millions of copies and becoming an international ambassador for protecting our natural resources.

Today, the Peterson Collection anchors a exhibition schedule that also features the artwork of some of the worlds most revered nature artists. The collection is available to artists, researchers and scholars, and is used to anchor an array of education and research programs all geared toward fostering an enduring love, appreciation and protection of our natural world.

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The Times recommends: Strom Peterson for the 21st Legislative District, Position 1 – Seattle Times

State Rep. Strom Petersons pragmatic legislative record and experience as a local government official and retail business owner make him the best candidate to return to Olympia for a daunting task.

The Edmonds Democrat is running for his fourth term representing the 21st Legislative District, which includes Lynnwood, Mukilteo, Edmonds and Everett.

The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the states economy and state revenues tumbling. The state could face as much as a $9 billion shortfall over three years, which means course corrections are required. Peterson disagrees with Gov. Jay Inslees recent decision not to call the Legislature back for a special session so lawmakers could get started combing through the budget and crafting solutions.

While some of his colleagues want to use this crisis to advocate for tax increases only, Peterson says he will be pushing solutions that also include program cuts. Its going to be a combination, he said during an endorsement interview.

As chair of the Commerce and Gaming Committee, he ushered a bill through that legalized sports gambling in Washington. This editorial board disagreed with its limit to only tribal casinos.

Neither of Petersons challengers make the case that he should be replaced. Republican Brian Thompson is a fire protection engineer who said he was compelled to run because of the recent crisis. He is averse to tax increases and opposes Petersons support of the measles vaccine mandate, sex education law and proposed assault weapons ban.

Democrat Gant Diede is a student working in network technology. His solution for the states budget crisis is to tax the wealthy and take on more debt. The way to get out of crisis is spending, he said. His criticism of the Legislature is that it is not bold enough on climate change.

Peterson has served his district well, and voters should send him back to Olympia.

The Seattle Times editorial board members are editorial page editor Kate Riley, Frank A. Blethen, Brier Dudley, Jennifer Hemmingsen, Mark Higgins, Derrick Nunnally and William K. Blethen (emeritus).

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The founding fathers and the fexing question of slavery | New York Carib News – NYCaribNews

The date marking the birth of any nation is a cause for celebration.July 4, 2020, marked 244 years since the United States threw off the yoke of British colonization.The victors gathered in Philadelphia not just to celebrate but to write a constitution that institutionalized the democratic process.

The constitution reflected the historical period and included sacrosanct rights such as the Bill of Rights that has withstood the test of time.That would include freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the right to due process, and certain stipulations that were reserved for the states in the federal system.

The original constitution defined African Americans and indigenous Americans as three-fifths of a man.Only white men with property were given the right to vote.Property-less whites were initially excluded from the political process.

Many of the founding fathers were slaveholders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.Slavery was more widespread in the South but merchants in the Northern States were engaged in the slave trade as they owned many of the ships that transported Africans in the onerous Middle Passage.

Not every African who was captured made it to the Caribbean or to the United States.W.E.B. DuBois in his research estimated that millions of Africans died during the horrendous conditions during the Middle Passage, the voyage from West Africa to the New World.

Thomas Jefferson who served as Ambassador to France and as President of the United States had a long-lasting relationship with a female slave, Sally Hemmings, who became the mother of Jeffersons offsprings.Jefferson was not just a founding father but the author of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal.

At the time of Americas independence and the writing of the constitution, not much of any discussion dealt with the contradiction of slavery and the notion of equality.

The crop that buoyed production in the West Indies was sugar and in the United States, the crop essential to early capital accumulation was cotton and less so, tobacco.

Dr. Eric Williams, the historian and former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago wrote the classic, Capitalism, and Slavery.

Williams thesis is that abolition that took effect in the Caribbean in 1833 had nothing to do with just humanistic efforts in the Mother country but was propelled that the capitalist developmental process which needed slavery in the early stages of capital accumulation, slavery was indispensable but as capitalism moved from mercantilism to industrial capitalism, free labor was necessary for further expansion.

Slavery became an impediment to the further development of capitalism in Britain and thus emancipation synchronized not with the weakened planter class but with the political hegemony of burgeoning capital industrialists.

In the case of the United States where industrial capitalism was concentrated in northern states, northern capitalists were willing to co-exist or look the other way on the question of slavery.Where the tension boiled over is on the question as to whether slavery would be allowed to expand to the western region and thus diminish the political influence of Northern states and expand the power of the slave states.

This contradiction of plantation slave labor and industrial capitalism with the need for free labor began exploding in the middle of the nineteenth century.

There is the saying that the unexamined life is not worth living.Normally this saying applies to individuals but it is also applicable to a nation-state. Often in a nation, extreme nationalism becomes the traditional line of march, and there is an absence of introspection.

Such reflex action of repeating ad nauseum about the greatness of the nation becomes more of a weakness than it is representative of strength. The boasting of American exceptionalism and that America is the greatest nation on the planet thwarts the developmental process.

What the movement Black Lives Matter is communicating not that just all lives matter but it is necessary for America to come to terms with slavery, with Jim Crow, with the Confederacy, and with systemic racism.That kind of intellectual honesty and introspection is essential to making America a coveted city on the hill.

Even after the thirteen amendments were incorporated into the Constitution, conventional historians like Ulrich Bonnell Phillips were writing works making the case that the slave system in America was comprised of the happy darkies.This falsehood was rejected by non-conventional historians like Herbert Aptheker, Eugene Genovese, Herbert Gutman, W.E.B. DuBois, and John Hope Franklin.

Slavery is by its very nature a vicious, exploitative, and malicious system.Despite its undemocratic nature, the sons and daughters of the confederacy were willing to wage a Civil War to preserve such an evil way of life.

Over 600,000 lives were lost in the bloody civil war yet when the remnants of the Confederacy were allowed back into the Union the Federal Government looked askance and allowed them to establish a system of racial dehumanization.

The Trump administration in celebrating Americas independence defines patriotism and the love of America in the most simplistic way possible.Even more frightening in celebration of 244 years of independence the focus was not on the humanity of the American people but on the arsenal of advanced weaponry that as a country we have assembled.

Trump engaged in typical intellectual dishonesty and defined the Black Lives Matter Movement as constituting folks who do not love America.

We have arrived at a momentous moment in American history that entails Truth and Reconciliation. There are times when a nation must fight in wars but a nation has to be mindful that it does not develop a praetorian culture that glorifies death and war and is oblivious to health care and a runaway pandemic as we are experiencing in the United States.

The country cannot deny the prevalence of systemic racism and police brutality.This entails intellectual honesty not the perpetuation of mythology.The country must learn from the Movement Black Lives Matter and put behind us the worst aspects of frontier capitalism.

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Leicester: Up to 10,000 could be victims of modern slavery in textile factories – Sky News

As many as 10,000 people could be working in slave-like conditions in textile factories in Leicester.

Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen has told Sky News a "conspiracy of silence" has allowed factories in the city to continue to exploit workers over many years.

"You've got a systemic failure of all the protections in Leicester that would prevent this from happening," Mr Bridgen said.

"I've estimated it's around 10,000 individuals who are effectively in modern slavery providing garments for internet retailers."

The claim comes on the same day a report based on police records found that across Britain there are at least 100,000 slaves.

The study by the Centre for Social Justice think-tank and the anti-slavery charity Justice and Care claims the issue is likely to intensify in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

A spike in COVID-19 cases in Leicester that led to the first local lockdown has drawn attention to the city and claims of widespread exploitation.

Leicester City Council estimates there are around 1,500 textile factories across the city.

Most are small businesses - workshops housed in crumbling buildings that are in desperate need of repair.

Smashed windows are patched up with cardboard. Fabric is draped so it's impossible to see inside.

For decades there have been claims some factories pay workers well below 8.72 per hour, the national minimum wage.

The government's Health and Safety Executive is investigating allegations some factories forced people to work in unsafe conditions during lockdown.

"The internet retailers have flourished during the COVID crisis because their competition has been shut down. So we've seen a huge extra demand for the products," said Mr Bridgen.

Many of the factories lie within the Leicester East constituency of MP Claudia Webbe.

She says she has been contacted by anonymous workers who are too scared to speak out publicly because many are in the country illegally.

"Machinists are being paid 3 an hour, packers are being paid 2 an hour. That is what seems to be the standard," she said.

Outside one factory a worker who asked not to be named told Sky News she is paid between 5 and 6 an hour.

"Very little money" she said, in broken English.

Immigration officers patrol the streets outside the factories and a multi-agency investigation is under way.

Many feel it is long overdue.

When asked if claims of widespread exploitation in the city are an "open secret", deputy mayor Adam Clarke replied: "You call it an open secret. It's just open.

"There are doubtless workplaces in the city that are unsuitable.

"We've been aware of this for a very long time and have been working with enforcement agencies to try to ensure that there is effective regulation enforcement.

"The network of agencies that have responsibilities is just too complex.

"There are just too many organisations, HMRC [HM Revenue & Customs], the GLAA [Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority], the HSE [Health and Safety Executive] and others have enforcement responsibilities. There needs to be one enforcement body and that needs to be set up as quickly as possible.

"This is a systemic issue that is borne out of poor regulation, poor legislation and exploitation at every level.

"You have to ask yourself who actually has the power to change this? And that buck stops with government."

A Home Office spokesperson said: "We take all allegations of modern slavery extremely seriously and are determined to ensure ruthless criminals who exploit vulnerable people face the full force of the law.

"The National Crime Agency and others are looking into the appalling allegations about sweatshops in Leicester and the home secretary has been clear that anyone profiting from slave labour will have nowhere to hide."

Immigration vans patrol the streets. The atmosphere is tense.Becky Johnson, Midlands correspondent

On East Park Road in Leicester among a row of shops, cafes, a bank and a police station stands the imposing Imperial Typewriter building.

At first glance it looks like a run-down relic of a bygone era.

But as you walk into the courtyard behind the building, it's like entering a land that time has forgotten.

Many of the windows have been smashed and patched up from the inside with cardboard. Fabric is draped across any windows that still have panes of glass. It's impossible to see in.

There's rubbish everywhere. The fact it's raining doesn't help.

Some people appear on a staircase, only to see me and run back inside.

There are several doors into the building, each with multiple names of clothing manufacturers above them.

I venture through one of the doorways and find myself on a rickety metal staircase.

I go up several floors before I find a door to knock on. When a man answers and I tell him I'm from Sky News he doesn't want to talk to me.

Other doorways lead to a maze of corridors. It's not clear which doorway belongs to which business.

It's the same story at the other factory buildings.

People are on edge as soon as they see we have a TV camera. They start to film us on their phones.

"The workers are all frightened," a delivery driver told me.

When I try to ask workers what they're paid, most simply reply that they don't speak English.

A Home Office immigration van patrols the streets. A police officer in plain clothes and an inspector from the city council leave a factory. The atmosphere is tense.

A man stops me and tells me he has information for me, then darts a look over his shoulder, sees something and runs off.

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Faith: Visions of peace – Lifestyle – The Intelligencer

Leaders like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi embodied compelling visions of peaceful progress.

On Independence Day last weekend, we celebrated the unification of 13 former British colonies into an independent and sovereign nation.

The fateful moment is enshrined in a document, the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence.

This was a transcendent vision, a dream worthy of risking everything to achieve: Government by consent of those governed. It would take years to evolve the details and enshrine them in our national Constitution, and that quest has never ended.

As our nation matured, amendments and a body of interpretive law have documented the ongoing realization of that vision. In service of our vision we ended slavery, gave women the vote, and banned segregation. And were not done yet.

Great leaders come to embody transcendent vision. This week we celebrate Nelson Mandela. We credit him with leading South Africa out of apartheid. He was a man of character, conscience, and big ideas.

His life was one of service to humanity. He sought to bring people together, to find constructive solutions, to make peace. His power was not grounded in fear of his strength; he did not "speak softly and carry a big stick." He was not physically imposing. But he had vision and courage.

Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. also embodied compelling visions of peaceful progress. Their vision, like Mandelas, rallied millions to rise up in non-violent rebellion against things as they were. The dream of things as they could be inspired individuals to place themselves in harms way to make real the dream of freedom, dignity, equality and peace.

Newtowns Edward Hicks, a celebrated Quaker, was and is known by his paintings of a vision in which lions and oxen are at peace with each other. The paintings symbolize our aspiration to achieve a world where people no longer prey upon each other, where fear and violence are replaced by loving communities that resolve differences amicably.

Today, we face a deep rift in American society that is an affront to our national vision of equality and justice.

Each of us is confronted by the realization that all Americans do not share equally in the blessings of liberty.

Privilege is accorded to those who are raised with wealth, and especially to those who are born of wealthy white parents. As a nation, thats not our dream for America. It doesnt square with the example and teaching of any of our spiritual leaders.

We need to learn to wage peace. Waging peace starts with a vision that transcends our individual need for comfort and inspires us to take personal risks for the greater good. Peace is a neglected vocation. West Point and Annapolis teach the art of waging war, but nowhere do we have great institutions that teach us the arts of peace. Locals may point to Langhornes Peace Center, but you cant go there for professional credentials.

Learning to wage peace requires spiritual self-awareness. Certainly there are peace techniques, tactics and strategies. But these are not what empowered King, Mandela and Gandhi. These leaders possessed an inner guiding light. They acted with dignity and humility. They spoke of and served a vision that overshadowed their personalities a transcendent vision for humanity that called them to take risks and endure hardships.

Now, in these troubled times, each of us is called to examine what matters most and to ask, "What vision of America is bigger than I and more important than my life and my comfort? What social or political norms encumber me? What spiritual insights inspire me?

"How, with divine assistance, can I personally wage peace in service to my vision?"

Richmond Shreve is a member of the Newtown Friends Meeting and lives in Newtown. From a Faith Perspective is a weekly column written by members of local faith communities.

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ASI exposed to Boohoo slavery investigation via ethical funds – Portfolio Adviser

Updated: ASI divests from Boohoo with damning assessment of its response to slavery investigation

An Aberdeen Standard Investments fund that invests in UK companies with good employment practices is one of four responsible investment products that hold Boohoo, which now is under investigation for slavery in its supply chain.

Boohoos shares dropped 13.9% by midday Monday after The Times revealed over the weekend that UK workers were paid as little as 3.50 an hour to make clothes destined for the fast fashion business. The minimum wage in the UK for people over 25 is 8.72.

The National Crime Agency is now investigating modern slavery in the Leicester factories involved at the direction of the home secretary.

It is not the first time substandard working conditions have been exposed among Boohoos factory workers with a Channel 4 investigation in 2017 revealing similar findings.

See also: A global systemic issue: the risks of modern slavery

Boohoo is the largest holding in Lesley Duncans ASI UK Impact Employment Opportunities fund, which has an objective to investment in companies that promote and implement good employment opportunities and practices.

It represents 3.4% of the portfolio, according to FE Fundinfo. The IA All Companies fund launched in February 2018.

Several other Aberdeen Standard funds with broader responsible investment mandates also invest in the company: the ASI UK Ethical Equity fund, also run by Duncan (pictured), has a 4.7% allocation and the ASI UK Responsible Equity fund has 3.6%.

The Premier Ethical fund also has a 3% allocation to Boohoo, according to FE Fundinfo.

The ASI allocations come despite the fact Standard Life Aberdeen stated in its modern slavery statement that it could drive change by taking environmental, social and governance factors into consideration when investing.

An Aberdeen Standard Investments spokesperson said the business had been engaging with Boohoo on its supply chain management for some time and would be speaking to management in light of the slavery allegations to understand what action they are taking in response.

We continue to monitor the appropriateness of all the holdings in our values-led funds on an ongoing basis, the spokesperson said.

Premier Miton said it had been in contact with Boohoo and will assess their response.

See also: Will investors call time on fast fashion?

But the responsible investments are not the funds with the largest holdings.

The Merian UK Mid Cap fund has a 12.5% weighting while the Quilter Investors Equity 1 fund, also run by Merian, holds 11.2%. Merian UK Dynamic Equity holds 10.7%.

A Jupiter spokesperson, speaking on behalf of the Merian funds, said the company had done site visits to several of Boohoos UK suppliers and had been engaging with the company over supply chain management. We have been given strong assurances by management that any suppliers found to be in breach of the companys strict code of conduct will be terminated immediately and we will continue to engage with the firm regarding this situation.

Both Jupiters and Premier Mitons modern slavery and human trafficking statements focus on their own supply chain with no mention of the companies they invest in and therefore deem themselves low risk.

The Global Slavery Index, which Jupiter uses to determines the countries, goods and services most at risk of being involved in slavery, states 136,000 people in the UK suffer under modern day slavery.

See also: Investors lose patience over slavery in supply chains

By Jessica Tasman-Jones, 6 Jul 20

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