SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING: Wear the mask and keep your distance – Wicked Local Plymouth

Lifes most persistent and urgent question is this: what are you doing for others?

- The Rev. Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

Its just a mask and its just 6 feet.

Thats what Im having trouble understanding, as I watch the country I love fall further and further into the black hole of a virus, spreading like wildfire, while a large percentage of my fellow citizens still refuse to either don that mask or stay 6 feet distant.

Its just a mask and its just 6 feet.

And so, on the day I write this, about four months after our nation first woke up to the threat of this once-in-a-century pandemic, Im sad. Sad at the fact the United States recorded an unprecedented 57,789 new cases of the coronavirus just yesterday, July 12. Thats the highest number of infected folks weve ever faced into in a single day. Multiply that out by a month and thats a possible worst case scenario of 1.7 million new sick folks. Divide that by a conservative infection fatality rate of .5 percent (50 deaths for every 1,000 infected) and that means by mid-August we could be seeing upwards of 10,000 new deaths, on top of the 135,000 who have already died. To put that into perspective: thats as if the city of Cambridge, Mass., or Springfield, Mass., were wiped out overnight. Every last man, woman and child.

Its just a mask and its just 6 feet.

And yet it took our President until this past weekend to actually be photographed wearing a mask in public. Why his reluctance? Doesnt fit into his self-inflated oversized ego? Or his insistence at various times that COVID is overblown, or a plot by the Democrats to defeat him, or a weaponized virus created in some secret Chinese labs to destroy America? And now we are hearing of a coordinated effort on the part of this administration, to contradict and even discredit the nations highest and best scientific civil servant, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Words and actions from a leader have consequences. These can either inspire a people to step up and unite and do their part for a greater good like public health (thank you, Governor Baker); or these can tear a country apart, sabotage any sense that as Americans we are all in this together. No thank you, Mr. President.

Its just a mask and its just 6 feet.

Makes me wonder what might happen if tomorrow, the United States faced an actual war, a real threat from an outside enemy, that called for the mustering of all of us, to do our parts, to unite, to be as one nation, ready to make sacrifices for a common good. Could we meet that test, now, in 2020, given our fractured and piecemeal response as a country to COVID-19? Do we still have within our civic DNA the willingness to sacrifice, or would too many of us balk? Not my fight! You are not taking away my right to do nothing! Have we as a people just spent so much time on the couch, watching Netflix, that we could not even be bothered to get up and do something, do anything, to help our nation!?

Its just a mask and its just 6 feet.

I want to believe, I need to believe, that somehow we will pull it together as a country. Make what is really a tiny sacrifice of discomfort, to just wear a mask and to just stay 72 inches away from others, and all to ensure that the least among us wont get sick, wont die. Why is this so hard for so many? Why do some folk actually think this is a partisan request, somehow tied up in our political fights? Does anyone think COVID cares if we are a Democrat or a Republican? I just dont get it. Why is this request twisted by some into the absurd idea that by actually following these public health mandates, we are somehow giving up our civil liberties? Are you serious? Is it really all that hard?

Its just a mask and its just 6 feet, people!!

Makes me thank God that I live in Massachusetts, that though our track record on wearing a mask and physically distancing is far from perfect, still, weve done a good job of flattening the curve and preparing for the worst and caring for each other as citizens and neighbors and friends.

And all that has taken is this: wise and prudent governmental leadership. A shared sense that yes, we are all in this together, and what I do or do not do: this can help or hurt another. And a mutual commitment to walk with each other, through the best and the worst, of these strange and amazing days.

Wear a mask. Stay 6 feet apart. Repeat, until a vaccine is discovered and distributed.

Now that isnt so hard, is it?

The Rev. John F. Hudson is senior pastor of the Pilgrim Church, United Church of Christ, in Sherborn (pilgrimsherborn.org). If you have a word or idea youd like defined in a future column or have comments, please send them to pastorjohn@pilgrimsherborn.org or in care of The Press (Dover-Sherborn@wickedlocal.com).

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Paddy Slattery: Film could be poetic. It could be spiritual – The Irish Times

As a teenager, Paddy Slattery recalls being a bit of a rogue, but only a bit, hopping walls and robbing apples. He lived very much in his body as he puts it, playing football, boxing and he smiles at the thought chasing girls.

At 15, Slattery, the eldest of eight siblings, left school and headed for London to work on the building sites.

I loved hard work, he says. I loved working on the bog from an early age. And I saw my mother and the work she had to do: she raised the eight of us on the childrens allowance and odd jobs. So working on the building sites, I was able to send money home. But I missed my mas cooking and I missed my family and there was a girl back here that I fancied . . . There was no social media then so you were kind of cut off once youre over there. So I packed my bags and came back and got an apprenticeship painting and decorating with a local company in Tullamore. It wasnt much money but at least I was at home.

On Monday, October 14th, 1996, Slattery and two friends set out from his native village of Clonbullogue. Ordinarily, the gang headed to Dublin at weekends in their work van. On this occasion, however, the van was in the garage. Slattery could hardly believe his luck when a stranger pulled up offering a lift. But not too far into the journey, the car crashed.

On the operating table, thinking he would be returning to football practice in a matter of weeks, a doctor informed him that he would never walk again.

You can imagine that at 17 and youre in a crash and youre left paralysed, your whole world changes, says Slattery. Suddenly you are in the head and you are relying on emotional experience as opposed to physical experience. So that alone was a shock. But as Ive said before and I say to this day: I genuinely feel like that was the moment when my body switched off and my imagination on. Because once that happened, it sent me on a psychological quest. I had to dig deep inside myself to figure out who I was and where I was going. I think thats where the real journey started for me. Thats where the real magic happened.

This isnt some kind of positive spin gleaned in hindsight. Speaking from his family home in Clonbullogue, Co Offaly the same one where he was born and reared Paddy Slattery recounts his accident and the years of rehabilitation that followed with a smile on his face. He was, he says, simply happy to be alive. You do get second chances in life, he insists. Even the tedium of extensive periods in hospitals proved to have an upside.

There were a few years of sheer boredom to be honest, he says. Initially, after the crash, I was in Dn Laoghaire rehabilitation hospital for a year. And then I was in other hospitals for maybe a year after that for lots of physical therapy. So that was three years of my life that was eat, sleep, exercise and watch telly. I started watching movies and listening to music during those years.

Initially, I was driven by the desire to walk again. I was trying to learn different ways figuring out mind over matter. I was learning kinesiology and reiki and all this kind of stuff. I learned lucid dreaming. I started wandering off into my imagination a lot. And slowly, during that time, I started to fall in love with movies.

That love, at first, was for what he calls lads movies. From rewatching Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver and Quentin Tarantinos Pulp Fiction, he developed a taste for DVD extras, and from there, he discovered the Artificial Eye imprint.

I started buying films made by Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog, Ingmar Bergman, Alejandro Jodorowsky and they just blew my mind, says Slattery. Because suddenly I realised that film wasnt just about popcorn. It could be poetic. It could be spiritual. I started to look at the medium completely differently.

As another avenue of escape, Slattery began writing poetry and short stories. When friends and family were impressed with his doodlings, he graduated to music and screenplays. His debut album, Stand and Deliver, was completed in 2006.

People started to say: you should consider maybe making a short film, he says.

I had so much pent-up frustration from doing nothing and so many frustrations about the world. I started to think that if I could make something then someone might watch it or listen to it and maybe be inspired or entertained. Thinking that felt like a power had been handed to me.

There were, of course, logistics to consider. Slattery accordingly reached out to director Declan Recks, who shot Pure Mule on Slatterys LaoisOffaly home turf, to ask for advice.

I sent him an email, recalls Slattery. I told him I was quadriplegic and that I wanted to be a director. And he said, Paddy, with the technology we have today, theres always a way to direct a film. You can direct on a wireless monitor.

Since he completed his first short film, Out of Tune, in 2006, Slattery has amassed more than a dozen credits as a writer, director and producer. To date he has won awards at Indie Cork, the Royal Television Society, and the Mexico International Film Festival. In 2015 he produced the IFTA-nominated Skunky Dog starring John Connors.

Connors, alongside upcoming actor and director Tristan Heanue and Slattery, have formed an unofficial collective as they wander in and out of each others projects. Heanue has directed Connors in the 2015 short, Today. All three parties are involved in Slatterys hotly tipped debut feature, Broken Law.

I worked with Tristan back in 2012 on my second short film, says Slattery. And from the minute I met him, I saw young Henry Fonda. It wasnt really even an audition; he had the gig immediately. So Ive produced some of his shorts. And I always knew he was going to be in Broken Law. I worked with John on a short film called Skunky Dog. And I immediately hit it off with John. Hes an old head on young shoulders. He has the soul of a Celtic warrior. We could sit and talk for hours. Especially after the days shoot when youre back in the hotel lobby having a few nightcaps and sneaky sing songs.

It has taken more than a decade for Slatterys debut feature Broken Law to make it to a cinema near you. First conceived as a choral drama in the style of Paul Thomas Andersons Magnolia, Slattery put what was then called The Broken Law of Attraction back in the drawer in order to learn the trade. Over the years, it morphed into a Dublin-set noir concerning two very different brothers.

Joe (Graham Earley) is released from prison and is immediately picked up by his neer-do-well chums, Wallace and Pete (John Connors and Ryan Lincoln bring the bickering). Like many of the movieverses ex-convicts, Joe wants to go straight, if not quite as straight as his respectable garda brother David (Heanue). Schemes and shenanigans ensue.

I have three brothers myself, says Slattery. One of my brothers, James, and I hope he doesnt mind me saying this hes sort of the black sheep of the family. So I was inspired by that dynamic between myself and James. Because he was always the scallywag and I was the golden boy because I was the eldest son and I was out earning.

The production was a seat-of-the-pants affair. Following a few years stuck in development limbo or possibly development hell a crowdfunding campaign, lots of called-in favours, and the assistance of the Centre for Independent Living, the cameras started rolling in 2018.

We shot in August and September for four weeks in East Wall, says the writer-director. It was brilliant crack but hard work. Leading up to the whole thing, there were a few times that my family looked at me and I was just physically, mentally, emotionally and financially broke.But I somehow persevered even through many moments where I thought, this is insane.

But once the train left the station, once we were shooting, I knew there was no going back. And then we had to beg, steal and borrow again for post-production. And then we are racing for the finishing line for a Dublin premiere in February.

Following some last minutes edits to reduce the number of swear words from 173 to 131, Broken Law debuted at the Dublin International Film Festival, where it picked up a Special Jury Award from the Dublin Film Critics Circle, the Aer Lingus Discovery Award and a positive notice from The Guardian.

I cried like a baby at the premiere, says Slattery. I have no shame in telling you. A couple of months leading into Dublin we were already in very advanced talks for distribution and with an international sales agent. So we were already getting those pinch-me moments. And then we were in the Imax at the premiere.

Honestly, the sense of accomplishment and the sense of relief knowing we did it; its like a massive weight taken off my shoulders. It was unreal. I cant even remember the Q&A afterwards.

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Nancy Lynne Harris selected as Top Shaman & Spiritual Teacher of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) – Life…

UNITED STATES, 07-22-2020 (PRDistribution.com) Nancy Lynne Harris, Shaman, Spiritual Teacher & Author, of GodSpirits United LLC, was recently selected as Top Shaman & Spiritual Teacher of the Year for 2020 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) for her outstanding leadership and commitment to the industry.

Inclusion with the International Association of Top Professionals is an honor in itself, only a few members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, longevity in the field, other affiliations and contributions to their communities. All honorees are invited to attend IAOTPs Annual Awards Gala at the end of this year for a night to honor their achievements.www.iaotp.com/award-gala With over 25 years of professional experience as a Spiritual Counselor and Shaman, Nancy has certainly proven herself as an accomplished professional and expert in her field. She is a dynamic, results-driven leader who specializes in spiritual counseling and shamanic treatments. Nancy is widely known for her ability to heal depression and glaucoma.She is the Founder of GodSpirits United, LLC, a company that helps people recover from medically incurable illness and addictions by teaching them how to shift their energy for healing. Nancy offers energy treatments and spiritual readings in person or remotely by telephone. She offers training by internet entitled 12 Steps to Heal Yourself Without Medicine.Nancys deep understanding of how Jesus moved energy led her to the highlight of her career. She was able to heal herself after her left femur (leg bone) separated from her hip bone shortly after the suicide of her oldest son, Jeff. After several months of limping in great pain, she healed herself by realizing that she felt disconnected from her son, and her attitude was manifesting on her body. By thinking Nothing can separate me from the love of God she reversed her feelings of disconnection, and her bones reconnected almost instantly. Nancy healed her son Michael of congenital glaucoma, which is medically incurable, after the doctors had performed eye surgery twice to prevent high pressure from damaging his optic nerve, which would have resulted in blindness if left untreated.Before embarking on her current career path, Nancy graduated from The Four Winds Society, the worlds most extensive professional training in Andean energy healing and shamanism. She completed advanced training in Theta Healing, and also received training in spiritual healing through the Eschatology Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. Nancy has worked with mentors such as Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, James VanPraagh, and Dr. Hank Wesselman. In addition to her spiritual achievements, Nancy holds a Master of Arts Degree in Music Theory and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Piano Performance. She is also Nationally Certified as a Teacher of Piano by Music Teachers National Assn.The President of IAOTP, Stephanie Cirami, stated Choosing Nancy for this award was an easy decision for our panel to make. She is brilliant at what she does, empathetic to those she serves and is a highly skilled Healer. We felt she would make an amazing asset to our organization. We are looking forward to meeting her at our Annual Awards Gala being held at the magnificent Plaza Hotel in New York City this December.Throughout her illustrious career, Nancy has received awards and accolades and has been recognized worldwide for her notable leadership and dedication to the profession. This year she will be considered for a feature article in TIP (Top Industry Professional) Magazine and was selected as Top Shaman and Spiritual Teacher of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP). For 2021 she will be considered for the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award given by IAOTP. In past years, Nancy received an award from Worldwide Whos Who for excellence in energy medicine. She also belongs to the Oregon Music Teachers Association.Aside from her successful career, Nancy is a sought-after speaker who helps people understand how to shift the creative energy to change their blood chemistry and heal themselves. She also conducts educational workshops that focus on thinking specific positive thoughts to help bathe the bodily organs in nourishing healthy fluids, which regulate body chemistry and shift the energy to heal your illness.As a published author through Amazon.com, Nancy has written numerous books on these subjects. Her publications include, Miracles Master the Art: Healing Medically Incurable Illness; Mental Illness Heal Yourself; Invasion Revealed: Healing Alcoholism, Mental illness & Drug Addiction; Heal Yourself of Anything: Example Glaucoma; COMI: How to Consciously Overcome Mental Illness; and How to Heal Your Hang-Ups: Depression, Alcohol and Drug Addiction.Looking back, Nancy attributes her success to her training, insightfulness, and her unique ability to teach others how to heal themselves without medicine. When not working, Nancy enjoys playing jazz piano. For the future, she hopes to continue helping people stay healthy and free of pain while freeing the body and aura from negative emotional energy. For more information on Nancy Lynne Harris please visit: www,nancylynneharris.comAbout IAOTPThe International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) is an international boutique networking organization who handpicks the worlds finest, most prestigious top professionals from different industries. These top professionals are given an opportunity to collaborate, share their ideas, be keynote speakers and to help influence others in their fields. This organization is not a membership that anyone can join. You have to be asked by the President or be nominated by a distinguished honorary member after a brief interview.IAOTPs experts have given thousands of top prestigious professionals around the world, the recognition and credibility that they deserve and have helped in building their branding empires. IAOTP prides itself to be a one of a kind boutique networking organization that hand picks only the best of the best and creates a networking platform that connects and brings these top professionals together.For More Information on IAOTP please visit: http://www.iaotp.com

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Y Combinators Vitable Health is bringing basic healthcare to underserved populations – TechCrunch

Joseph Kitonga, the 23-year-old entrepreneur behind Vitable Health, first saw the need for a new kind of healthcare service growing up in Philadelphia and seeing the experience of the home healthcare workers who worked at his parents business.

The Kitongas immigrated to the United States a decade ago and settled down in Philadelphia, where they started a home-care business matching workers with patients in need. What was surprising to the younger Kitonga was that the people who worked for his parents taking care of others couldnt afford basic healthcare coverage themselves.

It was that observation that provided the seed for the business idea that would become Vitable Health, Kitongas first business and a recent member of Y Combinators latest summer cohort.

The company provides affordable acute healthcare coverage to underinsured or un-insured populations and was born out of his experience watching employees of his parents home healthcare agency struggle to receive basic healthcare coverage.

A lot of caregivers make $10 per hour, which is too much to qualify for Medicaid and too little to afford health insurance, Kitonga says.

Even with the Affordable Care Act, many workers in the home-care business that Kitongas parents ran in Philadelphia were unable to receive care.

So Kitonga built a service that could cover everything but catastrophic coverage for lower costs than the companys customers would have to pay if they went to an urgent care facility.

Vitable is able to lower the cost of care through its use of nurse practitioners instead of doctors to provide the care. For a small monthly fee, the company will send providers to make house calls or customers can receive a consultation over the phone.

We focus on acute and preventive coverage, says Kitonga. Most high deductible plans are geared toward providing catastrophic coverage.

What Kitonga saw with his parents employees was that they would wind up going to the emergency room and put $1,300 in charges on their credit cards rather than pay for insurance per month.

Vitables lowest plan levels start at $15 per month and the co-payment is $30, according to Kitonga. Vitables technicians will do in-home lab tests.

Theres just no low-cost care option available for the population that Kitonga wants to serve, he said. These are people who will be referred to emergency rooms by nearby care providers because they lack the necessary insurance. The population that we service has been ignored by healthcare providers, said Kitonga.

For now, the service is only available in Philadelphia, but Kitonga says there are already 1,000 people who receive care through Vitable. We work with a lot of small businesses that might have 10 or 20 employees, Kitonga said.

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This isnt Nazi Germany: NM health care prover lets patients choose whether to wear masks – ABC27

by: Brady Wakayama, KRQE and Nexstar Media Wire

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ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) In shocking defiance of a statewide mandate, a New Mexico health care provider has posted a sign outside his clinic saying patients do not have to wear a mask.

Krasimir Hristov, a nurse practitioner who owns and runs Reinecke Medical and Chiropractic in Roswell, compared the current public health order to Nazi Germany and said he believes masks are useless against the virus.

The sign outside the clinic reads, This isnt Nazi Germany and we arent the Gestapo. If you do or do not want to wear a mask you are still welcome here.

When we enforce our rule on people, that is a dictatorship, said Hristov. When we have the freedom to inform people so they can make an educated decision, thats democracy.

Hristov, who has owned the medical center since 2013, said his own research shows masks are proven useless against airborne viruses.

Your eyes are very much exposed regardless of what kind of mask you have, said Hristov. So when people come in and they have a mask and their eyes are exposed, basically what that means they still have an open portal of entry where the virus could get in.

That advice goes against the guidance from the World Health Organization,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and New Mexicos top doctor, Dr. David Scrase.

Scrase, New Mexicos human services secretary,said wearing a mask both protects people and helps prevent the spread of COVID-19.

If you had to have an upcoming surgery, how comfortable would you feel with your operating team not wearing masks or not wearing gloves, said Scrase. I havent run into anybody yet who would feel comfortable with that kind of scenario.

The New Mexico Human Services Department responded to Hirstovs sign by email, saying in part:All New Mexicans are required to wear masks at this time, especially when visiting medical clinics. It is shocking that a medical provider would encourage their patients not to wear masks and blatantly put them at risk of contracting COVID-19.

The department said violators could face criminal and/or civil penalties.

Hristov still doesnt think masks should be a requirement. People are exposed to the virus or to peoples germs no matter where they go, he said.

Last week, the city of Roswell voted not to enforce the states mask requirement. However, the New Mexico Department of Health and the State Police are still enforcing the mandate.

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Democratic Leaders Have Blocked Real Healthcare Reform for Decades. Time to Give ‘Em Hell. – CounterPunch

In 1948, Harry Truman pushed for a national nonprofit health insurance program in his successful, come-from-behind presidential campaign. When Trumans plan was denounced as socialized medicine and un-American by the powerful American Medical Association, Give Em Hell Harrystood his ground,defending his proposal as simple Christianity.

In 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson secured passage of Medicare (and Medicaid), he traveled to Missouri to formally sign it into lawin Trumans presence declaring that the real daddy of Medicare was Truman. Medicare was federal health insurance for those 65 and older, but proponents hoped it was step one on the way to Medicare for all.

In the 1970s, it remained the Democratic Partys official position to support a federally-provided health insurance program for all (single payer) and its strongest advocate was the chair of the Senate Health subcommittee, Ted Kennedy. Supported by unions and seniors,Kennedy introduceda Medicare for all proposal in 1971: the Health Security Act. Worried about the plans popularity, President Nixon countered with a supposed reform that would preserve for-profit, private insurance: the Health Insurance Partnership Act. Kennedy declared, Its really a partnership between the administration and insurance companies. Its not a partnership between patients and doctors of this nation.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter promised a national health insurance plan in his victorious campaign for the presidency. Kennedy later called it a missing promise and their discord over healthcare continued through Kennedys failed challenge of Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.

As harsh neoliberal capitalism dawned in the Reagan 80s there was a sea change in the country and within the Democratic Party. Democratic leaders calling themselves New Democrats scarcely even pretended to resist greedy corporate interests. Those interests were invited into the party and into policy formulation.

Enter Bill Clinton.

By the 1990s, as day-to-day healthcare decision-making shifted from patients and their doctors to insurers and for-profit corporations,many physicianshad joined the call for all Americans to get their insurance from a single federal plan.

But none of these physicians were invited to the table as the Clinton administration developed its healthcare reform policy under the leadership of first lady Hillary Clinton. The policy was largely created by corporate healthcare lobbyists and lawyers known as theJackson Hole Study Group. The February 28, 1993New York Timeshad a photo of the group beneath this headline: Hillary Clintons Potent Brain Trust On Health Reform.

In 1993, aMother Joneswriter accurately described the impossible task Hillary Clinton had been handed by the White House:Build a better, leaner, cheaper mousetrap (healthcare system) but include a player piano (private insurance industry) in the middle of your contraption.

The goal of the Jackson Hole group was to devise a reform that kept the healthcare system in the hands of for-profit corporations. The plan that was ultimately developed called Managed Competition was so bureaucratic and complicated that the Clintons 1,342 page bill never got off the ground.

At the time, Norman Solomon and I were the only nationally-syndicated columnists critically examining the corporate greed and elite policy-making that was dooming healthcare reform. In onecolumn, we wrote:The imprint of the insurance industry is all over the managed competition idea. The Jackson Hole study group that originated the scheme is made up of big insurance companies like Prudential, Metropolitan Life, Aetna and Cigna, plus hospital and pharmaceutical interests.

Wecitedan article in which Jackson Hole leaders bluntly argued that managed competition is the only way to avert a government takeover of health care financing and the elimination of a multiple-payer private insurance industry.

Wecomplainedthat the Clinton administration and mainstream media were sidelining a nonprofit single-payer insurance bill endorsed by 95 members of Congress plus groups like Consumers Union and Public Citizen. At the same time the Clinton bill went nowhere, the White House made sure that real reform a streamlined plan not devised by Aetna, Cigna or Big Pharma never got voted on.

What was true in 1993 is true today: Health insurance companies do not heal anyone. All theycontribute to healthcareis excess bureaucracy for medical professionals, devious advertising, sales commissions plus exorbitant profits ($10 billion in one quarter last yearfor the Big 8 insurers) and lavish executive salaries. Compensation for healthcare CEOsaveraged $18 million in 2018.

Single payer doesnt justcut costsby eliminating the waste caused by a multiplicity of for-profit insurers but also because the purchasing power of a federal plan can rein in pharmaceutical and other exploding costs.

Jump forward from the Clinton to the Obama years, and we saw a similar dynamic from Democratic leaders. Powerful healthcare lobbyists made sure that cost-effective Medicare for All would not even be considered, while these same lobbyists wereat the tablehelping todevisereform. Who was at the table explains why giant insurance and pharma companies have been so enriched in the last decade.

Dont get me wrong: Its a good thing that people with pre-existing conditions could get coverage under Obamacare (although too expensive) and that Medicaid was expanded (in the states where the GOP didnt block it).Itsnota good thing that roughly 30 million people were left without health insurance BEFORE the jobless crisis caused by Covid-19, and that millions more were under-insured. And not a good thing that healthcare costs were hardly contained.

History teaches a clear lesson: The fact that our nation is the only advanced industrial country without universal healthcare cannot be blamed on Republican obstruction alone. It was also caused by Democratic leaders whove spent decades catering to corporate interests (while collecting their campaign donations) and refusing to fight for universal coverage.

This history of Democratic obstruction and vacillation is whyhundreds of elected delegatesto next months Democratic convention haveput their foot down. Theyve signed apetitionpledging to vote down the party platform if it does not include a plank supporting universal, single-payer Medicare for All. The petitions initiator is Judith Whitmer, chair of the conventions Nevada delegation. She toldPolitico:This pandemic has shown us that our private health insurance system does not work for the American people. Millions of people have lost their jobs and their healthcare at the same time.

By demanding of the party leadership what Harry Truman called for 72 years ago, Whitmer and other Democratic activists are indeed giving em hell.

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Family of 86-year-old COVID-19 victim suing the healthcare center he passed away in – YourCentralValley.com

VISALIA, California (KSEE/KGPE) Family members of a man who died from COVID-19 are taking a Tulare County healthcare center to court for what they allege is their role in his passing.

The family of Santiago Gonzalez a resident at the Redwood Springs Healthcare Center in Visalia is suing the facility for elder abuse, wilful misconduct, and wrongful death, after the 86-year-old died from COVID-19 in April.

In the lawsuit filed earlier this month, the Gonzalez family claims the health care center failed to protect staff and residents from the virus after an outbreak began at the facility in March.

YourCentralValley.com has reached out to Redwood Springs Healthcare Center for a response to the lawsuit.

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COVID-19 Impact on Robotics Surgical Simulation Systems Market Poised to Expand at a Robust Pace Over 2020-2026 – Market Research Posts

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Global Military Robots and Autonomous Systems – Market and Technology Forecast to 2028 – ResearchAndMarkets.com – Business Wire

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Military Robots and Autonomous Systems - Market and Technology Forecast to 2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Military robots are autonomous robots or remote-controlled mobile robots created for military functions, from transport to search & rescue and strike mission. Some of these robotic systems are presently in use, and several such robots are under development. These military robots and autonomous systems just rolling out or already in the prototype stage are far more proficient, logical, and autonomous than ones now in Iraq and Afghanistan. As new add-ons are developed, military robots will be able to take on a wider set of battlefield roles. As of now, the United States military remains the largest user of these robots, however, countries like China and Russia are investing billions in robotics research and development that will allow them to narrow the gap with the US.

This latest report Global Military Robots and Autonomous Systems - Market and Technology Forecast to 2028 examines, analyzes, and predicts the evolution of airborne military robot systems, technologies, markets, and outlays (expenditures) over the next 8 years - 2020-2028 in the military robots and autonomous system industry. It also examines military robot markets geographically, focusing on the top 95% of global markets, in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Throughout the report, we show how military robots and autonomous systems are used today to add real value. To provide the most thorough and realistic forecast, this report provides a twin-scenario analysis, including steady state, the emergence of a new military robot and autonomous system technology.

In this report, we have classified military robots and autonomous system industry under 5 major groups. We will research these 5 major groups and also provide forecast figures from 2020 to 2028. These are:

1. Technologies - We have divided technologies under two heads. Software and Hardware:

2. Applications: The 8 key areas where military robots & autonomous systems will make a big impact:

3. Operations: In this category military robots and autonomous systems have been divided into 2 categories:

4. Platforms: We focus on the 3 major types of platforms

5. End Users: There are 3 major users of military robots and autonomous systems

Key Topics Covered:

1 Introduction

1.1 Objective

1.2 Market definition

1.3 Methodology

1.4 Events based Forecast Scenario

1.5 Who will benefit from this report

1.6 Language

2 Executive Summary

2.1 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems - Trends and Insights

2.2 Major Findings

2.3 Major Conclusions

2.4 Important Tables and Graphs

3 Current and Future Technologies Overview of the Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Types of Military Robots & Autonomous Systems

3.3 Current Technologies

3.4 Future Technologies

4 Current and Future Market Overview of the Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Number of Military Robots & Autonomous Systems - Per Region

4.2.1 Americas

4.2.2 Europe

4.2.3 Asia

4.2.4 Middle East

4.2.5 Africa

4.3 Current Markets

4.3.1 North America

4.3.2 Europe

4.3.3 Asia

4.3.4 Middle East

4.3.5 Rest of The World

4.4 Future Markets

4.5 How to reach scale

4.5.1 Challenges Involved in Scaling

4.5.2 Strategy for Scaling

5 Market Analysis

5.1 Introduction

5.1.1 Industry Chain Structure

5.1.2 Support for Local Industry

5.1.3 Policy

5.1.4 Drivers

5.1.5 Inhibitors

5.1.6 Opportunities

5.1.7 Challenges

5.2 Porter's 5 Forces Analysis

5.2.1 Competitive Rivalry

5.2.2 Supplier Power

5.2.3 Threat of Substitution

5.2.4 Threat of New Entry

5.3 Macro environment

5.3.1 Macroeconomic factors

5.3.2 Political

5.3.3 Economic

5.3.4 Social

5.3.5 Technological

5.4 Forecast factors

6 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by Regions to 2028

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market by Regions overview

6.2.1 Americas - in Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market

6.2.2 Europe - in Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market

6.2.3 Asia - in Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market

6.2.4 Middle East - in Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market

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7 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market by Technology to 2028

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by Software Technologies overview

7.3 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by Hardware Technologies overview

8 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market by Applications to 2028

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market by Applications overview

9 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market by Operations to 2028

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by Operations overview

9.2.1 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by Operations - Fully Autonomous

9.2.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by Operations - Semi-Autonomous

10 Global Military Robots & Autonomous System Market by Platforms to 2028

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market by Platforms overview

10.2.1 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems - Land-Based Platforms

10.2.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems - Air Based Platforms

10.2.3 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems - Sea Based Platforms

11 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market by End Users to 2028

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by End Users overview

11.2.1 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by End Users - Army

11.2.2 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by End Users - Air Force

11.2.3 Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems by End Users - Navy

12 Events based forecast for the Global Military Robots & Autonomous Systems Market to 2028

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Virtual Reality Market by Segment, Equipment Applications and Solutions 2020 – 2025 – ResearchAndMarkets.com – Business Wire

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Virtual Reality Market by Segment (Consumer, Enterprise, Industrial, Government), Equipment (Hardware, Software, Components) Applications and Solutions 2020 - 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This research provides an in-depth assessment of the virtual reality market including analysis of VR ecosystem and role of value chain partners, evaluation of recent VR patent filings and intellectual property, and analysis of current price metrics VR devices, apps, and content. The report also provides an assessment of key VR companies and solutions with SWOT analysis, analysis of emerging business models and evolution of VR monetization, analysis of VR component market: devices, software, hardware, platforms. The report also presents key VR growth drivers, market challenges, and emerging opportunities.

Previously encumbered by a combination of technology gaps and consumer readiness issues, the virtual reality market is poised for substantive global growth, providing abundant opportunities for service providers, content developers, and ecosystem component providers. However, the high-growth phase for VR is anticipated to start within approximately two years, which is coincident with substantially lower broadband costs as a whole (wired and wireless connections) as well as greater user acceptance within both the consumer and business market segments.

It is important to note that the virtual reality market and other immersive technologies will also be important to many industries for a variety of enterprise purposes including internal operations, managing supply chains, and supporting customers. Important industry verticals include commercial real estate management, automotive, public safety, education, and training. The leading sector is anticipated to be the instruction (education, training, and simulations).

For the consumer virtual reality market, we see entertainment and lifestyle enhancements leading the way with the former including VR enhanced gaming and the latter including a plethora of new apps such as virtual location experiences in which groups of people get together virtually in the cyber-world. Examples include everything from virtual alumni events to watching your favorite football team play in a virtual stadium with ultra-real sights, sounds, and even feelings and smells of game day. The advancement of AI embedded within the VR market will add to the realism by introducing random events that happen within a given experience.

For enterprise and industrial virtual reality market segments, simulations and training are leading the way. We see everything from situational training to more traditional expectations such as VR enhanced simulations for flight and vehicle training. Businesses will also seek to use VR as a means to destress employees by offering them a virtual experience of their everyday work with random events thrown into the mix, both to add interest/amusement as well as to test and train them to see how they might react given a real-world experience such as how to best deal with a senile shoplifter.

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Global Virtual Reality (VR) in Gaming Market 2020 Analysis by Geographical Regions, Type and Application Till 2027 with Top Key Players – Owned

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Khronos Group announces multiple OpenXR conformant devices and platforms from Microsoft, Oculus, and others – Auganix

In Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality News

July 29, 2020 The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating graphics and compute interoperability standards, has announced that multiple conformant implementations of OpenXR are now shipping from Oculus and Microsoft, leveraging the newly opened OpenXR 1.0 Adopters Program and open source conformance tests. In laymans terms, this means that both companies are now offering hardware and software solutions that conform to the OpenXR standard.

OpenXR is a royalty-free, open standard that provides direct access into augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) runtimes (software/instructions that are executed while a program is running) across a range of platforms and devices. Again, in laymans terms, and explained by Brent E. Insko, Lead XR Architect at Intel and OpenXR Working Group Chair: OpenXR seeks to simplify AR/VR software development, enabling applications to reach a wider array of hardware platforms without having to port or re-write their code and subsequently allowing platform vendors supporting OpenXR access to more applications.

The Khronos Group added that The OpenXR Adopters Program helps to enable consistent cross-vendor testing and reliable operation of OpenXR across multiple platforms and devices with OpenXR-conformant products published on the Khronos Conformant Product Registry.

So, now Khronos members Microsoft and Facebook each have multiple conformant OpenXR-enabled devices showcasing how OpenXR enables portability across different platforms. PC-enabled virtual reality devices include Microsofts Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus Rift headsets, enabling these HMDs, and any future OpenXR-compatible devices, to run the same application executable (app or program) on Windows. In addition, Microsoft has released an OpenXR-conformant runtime for its HoloLens 2 mixed reality device, and Facebook has shipped a conformant runtime for the Android-based Oculus Quest, demonstrating OpenXRs flexibility to enable portable VR and AR applications across standalone and tethered XR devices that use different underlying operating systems.

In addition, Valve has released a developer preview implementation of OpenXR 1.0 with new features on SteamVR expected to now appear through OpenXR, rather than OpenVR APIs. Similarly, Varjos developer preview implementation of OpenXR enables the use of OpenXR applications with Varjo headsets. The Monado open source XR runtime founded by Collabora is also growing in compatibility and capability and is approaching conformance with OpenXR 1.0.

In parallel with finalizing the OpenXR 1.0 conformance tests, the OpenXR Working Group has also announced two OpenXR cross-vendor extensions for eye and hand tracking. These new extensions expand the range of advanced UI techniques that can be portably deployed through the cross-platform, cross-vendor API.

OpenXR enables XR games and applications to target the widest range of hardware with maximum performance. Along with the announcement from the Khronos Group, Microsoft has announced that Minecrafts new RenderDragon rendering engine is building its desktop VR support using OpenXR. Adding to OpenXR ecosystem momentum, other open source projects have also incorporated OpenXR, including 3D creation suite, Blender 2.83, which has integrated OpenXR to deliver native VR scene inspection capabilities. Google also recently released Chromium 81 with OpenXR as its default backend for WebXR, enabling Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers to use any OpenXR-compatible hardware. Finally, Microsoft has released its OpenXR Samples for Mixed Reality Developers as open source, demonstrating how to use OpenXR to access the full capabilities of HoloLens 2. Firefox Reality also supports OpenXR browser for the HoloLens 2 platform.

The OpenXR 1.0 Conformance Test Suite has been published as open source under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub for continued public development and for use by any company as they implement the OpenXR API on their platform. Any implementers, whether or not a Khronos member, are welcome to become an OpenXR Adopter and submit conformance test results for working group review and approval in order to use the OpenXR trademark and gain patent protection under the Khronos Intellectual Property Framework.

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Sam is the Founder and Managing Editor of Auganix. With a background in research and report writing, he covers news articles on both the AR and VR industries. He also has an interest in human augmentation technology as a whole, and does not just limit his learning specifically to the visual experience side of things.

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Software

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o U.S.

o Canada

o Mexico

Europe

o UK

o France

o Germany

o Russia

o Rest of Europe

Asia-Pacific

o China

o South Korea

o India

o Japan

o Rest of Asia-Pacific

LAMEA

o Latin America

o Middle East

o Africa

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Microsoft Corporation

Sony Corporation

Electronic Arts

Nintendo Co. Ltd.

Linden Labs

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Facebook (Oculus)

HTC Corporation

Google Inc.

Telsa Studios

Other

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The partnership creates the perfect solution for Change Intelligence with smart test automation for SAP customers, and is ideal for both technical and business users, ensuring control and visibility into ERP projects. With Panaya and Worksoft's joint solution, any development, business, and test automation stakeholder can proactively manage and accelerate SAP change projects.

Thanks to the new partnership, Panaya's powerful impact analysis, and automatic code corrections are now also powered by the Worksoft Test Execution suite, resulting in cutting edge automation scoping. The joint solution enables customers to effectively manage S/4HANA system conversion, S/4HANA greenfield implementation, and ECC Optimization projects, always one step ahead with foresight into what to fix, what to test and what to automate.

"For our customers, this partnership enables a new level of continuous, automated quality assurance for SAP S/4HANA Brownfield and Greenfield migrations as well as ECC optimization. customers can work seamlessly from Panaya's platform, as a single source of truth where they can plan, execute and monitor manual and automated tests with the quality standards they have come to expect using Panaya," said David Binny, Panaya CEO. "With so many unknowns in today's climate amid an increasing number of pivots and tightening IT budgets, ensuring zero defects during critical business process change while optimizing on cost and quality is a huge challenge for our SAP customers. With Worksoft, we're giving strained IT teams the power to do more with less, reducing the time, cost, and risk of any S/4HANA system conversion, new implementation, or ECC optimization project by up to 50 percent.

The solution is a continuation of both Panaya and Worksoft's commitment to helping SAP customers in their transition to S/4HANA. By combining Panaya's Impact Analysis solutions and test management capabilities with Worksoft's continuous test automation platform, the deeper partnership provides the safest and most cost-effective way for your organization to maximize ROI on its current SAP system, or prepare for the next step in its ERP evolution.

"Panaya's Change Intelligence is now fully integrated with Worksoft's Connective Automation platform, offering customers unparalleled process understanding, automation and industry-leading change impact analysis," said Tony Sumpster, CEO at Worksoft. "The integrated platform is already providing value to leading fortune 50 customers, driving 614% ROI in less than six months for complex S/4HANA projects. "This powerful integration is a game changer across the SAP ecosystem, combining Panaya's Change Intelligence and Certify test automation to enable customers to deploy faster and reduce risk in major S/4 transformations."

About PanayaPanaya enables organizations to accelerate application change and continuously deliver innovation with its Change Intelligence Platform. Panaya provides cloud-based application delivery and testing solutions that ensure collaboration between Business and IT. Enabling enterprise agility with faster release velocity and uncompromising quality, Panaya delivers an optimized user experience with end-to-end visibility of the application lifecycle. Since 2008, 3,000 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, have been using Panaya to deliver quick quality change to enterprise applications.

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About Worksoft Inc.Worksoft provides Connective Automation for the world's largest organizations, automating the full lifecycle of a business process from discovery to testing to RPA. Our codeless automation empowers QA teams and global leaders to deliver flawless applications faster and more efficiently with the ability to repurpose automation for RPA in production for maximum scalability. This enables Fortune 1000 companies to accelerate delivery for their mission-critical business applications like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, and more. Chosen by SAP IT to test SAP applications and recognized by leading Global System Integrators, Worksoft automation is embedded into their ERP practices to support their Agile, DevOps, and SAFe methodologies and accelerate digital transformations.

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To Escape from the Effects of COVID-19, Mid-sized US Firms Turn to Automation – Nearshore Americas

The mid-sized enterprises in the United States are set to automate their business process in a bid to remain agile, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the economy.

In a survey commissioned by Inference Solutions, 64% of respondents stated that they would increase investment in automation technologies in the coming year. More than a quarter of organizations will increase their investment by 10% or higher, says the report.

When asked which automation technology will increase their resilience, 69% of respondents selected customer service automation, 54% chose employee service automation,39% named supply chain automation, and 37% flagged robotic process automation (RPA).

Many entrepreneurs appeared to be keener on increasing efficiency and productivity rather than reducing costs. Therefore, analysts say, tools that allow businesses to build and manage applications on their own will grow in demand over the coming months.

However, the companies eager to adopt automation are facing three major hurdles: reliance on professional services, cost, and development times.

Cloud-based, self-managed platforms that give businesses more control of their customer-and employee-facing self-service applications will be key to overcoming the barriers to adoption flagged in our research, saidCallan Schebella, Inference Solutions CEO.

More than 500 US IT decision-makers took part in the survey, which was conducted the last week of May this year.

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Latest Study explores the Laboratory Robotics and Automation Market Witness High – GroundAlerts.com

The ' Laboratory Robotics and Automation market' research report now available with Market Study Report, LLC, is a compilation of pivotal insights pertaining to market size, competitive spectrum, geographical outlook, contender share, and consumption trends of this industry. The report also highlights the key drivers and challenges influencing the revenue graph of this vertical along with strategies adopted by distinguished players to enhance their footprints in the Laboratory Robotics and Automation market.

The Laboratory Robotics and Automation market report entails a comprehensive database on the future projections of the pivotal aspects of this industry vertical including market trends, current revenue, market size, and profit estimates. The research provides an outline of how the Laboratory Robotics and Automation market will perform by highlighting the key factors influencing the market dynamics and growth rate of the industry over the forecast period. Furthermore, challenges deterring the market growth as well as the growth opportunities across regional terrains are elucidated in the report. Additionally, the study encapsulates details pertaining to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the market size.

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Major participants: Tecan Group, Aerotech, Yaskawa Electric, Protedyne (LabCorp), Thermo Fisher Scientific, Universal Robots, Hamilton Robotics, Anton Paar, Aurora Biomed, HighRes Biosolutions and Cleveland Automation Engineering

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Sonrai Security Introduces Automation Engine for Identity and Data Governance in the Cloud – Business Wire

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sonrai Security, a leader in identity and data governance, today announced the Governance Automation Engine for Sonrai Dig, re-inventing how customers ensure security in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes by automatically eliminating identity risks and reducing unwanted access to data. This enables enterprise companies to achieve and maintain least privilege, enforce separation of duties, eliminate complex identity risks and lock down critical data. Workflow and role-based swimlanes route alerts and recommend actions to cloud, security, audit or DevOps teams, or deploy remediation bots to address security issues.

The new Governance Automation Engine helps enterprises address critical pain points including security breaches caused by identity policy misconfiguration and data risks that go beyond S3 buckets. It extends to include databases like Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, CosmosDB and many others, addressing disconnects among cloud, security, audit and DevOps teams with widely disparate cloud security toolsets.

The acceleration of migrations from on-prem datacenters to the cloud presents an entirely new set of challenges for global enterprises that cannot be fully addressed by the security approaches of the past, said Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst, IT-Harvest. Security for public clouds must center on effective governance and security of three critical control points -- identities, data and platform -- to understand, monitor and minimize risk. Effective solutions will be those that go well beyond simply presenting dashboards of cloud provider tools and bring entirely new identity and data analytics to the mix.

Cloud Security Complexity

For enterprise organizations, public cloud expansion quickly leads to hundreds of cloud accounts, thousands of data stores and tens of thousands of ephemeral pieces of compute involving multitudes of development teams. Improperly set up, this growing array of interdependencies and inheritances can open up many security risks such as over-permissioned identities, separation of duties risks and excessive access paths to critical data. Legacy cloud security tools have failed to address identity and data complexity and either miss critical vulnerabilities or send continuous alarms, creating high levels of noise that overwhelm security teams resources and lead to inaction.

Sonrai Dig

The Sonrai Dig platform builds a comprehensive graph detailing every relationship between identities (people and non-people) and data that exist within cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes. Analytics provided atop that graph allows users to understand risk, eliminate risk and monitor it continuously. Swimlane workflows enable escalations, certifications and risk-exception handling and provide role-based access control for workloads, teams and cloud platforms to ensure adherence to policy.

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The Governance Automation Engine for Sonrai Dig automatically dispatches prevention and remediation bots and provides safeguards in the form of code promotion blocks. Helping to ensure end-to-end security in public cloud platforms, Sonrai Dig also fosters excellence in the application lifecycle and in DevOps by preventing users from promoting code to the next stage of the development cycle if public cloud security requirements are unmet.

Extensive Integration Ecosystem

Sonrai Dig and its growing integration ecosystem have worked closely to ensure cross-platform compatibility through API integrations including:

Enterprise companies explosive expansion of cloud-native development creates a dizzying number of ways people and non-people identities access corporate data, creating unacceptable risk, said Brendan Hannigan, CEO, Sonrai Security. Sonrai provides unique technology to find and eliminate all of these risks, in a way that aligns with how applications are developed in todays world. Our swimlanes, workflow and remediation capabilities are integrated seamlessly to automatically de-risk complex environments and represent an entirely new and effective approach to security.

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Sonrai Security delivers an enterprise identity and data governance platform for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes. The Sonrai Dig platform is built on a sophisticated graph that identifies and monitors every possible relationship between identities and data that exists inside an organizations public cloud. Digs Governance Automation Engine automates workflow, remediation, and prevention capabilities across cloud and security teams to ensure end-to-end security. The company has offices in New York and New Brunswick, Canada and is backed by Polaris Partners and TenEleven Ventures. For more information, visit https://sonraisecurity.com/

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Automation enables Mai Dubai to meet soaring demand for bottled… – Construction Business News

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Mai Dubai, a bottled water company fully owned by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), revealed that it has been able to successfully address more than 15 per cent increase in demand for bottled water, thanks to the companys advanced technological capabilities and a fully automated production unit. With eight fully automated production lines that are seamlessly integrated to two high bay warehouses, one for raw material and the other for finished goods, Mai Dubai has taken the lead step in technology adoption in the bottled water industry.

The operations of the facility are fully automated, starting from the arrival of raw material in the warehouses till the very end, contributing to 100 per cent hands-free operations. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) platforms are smartly integrated to ensure smart and smooth intra-logistics. Digitally operated crane systems, lifts, monorails and conveyors receive the packaging material and store them in high bay warehouse to be issued to the production lines when demanded by the ERP. The finished goods are then collected from the production lines and stacked in high bay warehouse.

Alexander van t Riet, CEO of Mai Dubai, said: We have been able to effortlessly address the increasing demand for our products with highest efficiencies, optimized transactions, improved productivity and highly streamlined operations, thanks to our commitment to technology adoption. We are currently witnessing a flight to quality as consumers prefer a trusted brand, like Mai Dubai during challenging times such as this. The advanced, flexible technical robotic solutions that we use give us a competitive advantage, helping us achieve fast turnaround times, full traceability and error free transactions.

Artificial Intelligence-enabled and powered with smart data, our facility continues to run at a production capacity of over 1.5 million units per day. Whats more, the fully automated facility eliminates the need for human touch, from the receipt of packing materials all the way to the issuance of product to the sales vehicles, he concluded.

The Mai Dubai plant is powered with an 18.1 MW capacity roof top solar system, which is the highest solar capacity used in the global beverage industry. The company strives to provide innovative, safe, and efficient products and services while remaining socially and environmentally responsible.

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