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Northern Kentucky Tri-ED and Blue North, the community for startups and small businesses in Northern Kentucky, announced an award of a $510,000 RISE grant for the new fiscal year from the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Developments (KCED) Office of Entrepreneurship.

Tri-ED launched Blue North as the brand for its entrepreneurship program and services in 2019 after it received a grant last year from KCED to serve entrepreneurs in Northern Kentucky. With the support of Tri-ED, KCED, and the Northern Kentucky community, Blue North has been serving and connecting entrepreneurs, studying and mapping the regional ecosystem, and laying the groundwork for Blue North to become an independent organization.

At the beginning of July, Blue North began operating as an independent Limited Liability Company (LLC) - serving the Northern Kentucky community - under the leadership of Executive Director Brit Fitzpatrick and a regional board of directors. Fitzpatrick was hired as interim director of entrepreneurship by Lee Crume, president and CEO of Tri-ED, and named director in October 2019.

Throughout the last year, the Blue North team has solidified our four focus areas for our eight-county region and developed evidence-based strategies to serve the community. Weve also actively supported our growing community of entrepreneurs through in-house services, programming and events, and by providing more than $1 million in grant funding to other organizations in the region, said Fitzpatrick. In our first nine months of operating, we had 793 touchpoints with entrepreneurs. Becoming an independent organization is a natural path for us as we scale our impact building on the successful ecosystem hub models adopted by our peers in Louisville and Lexington.

Tri-ED believes this is the right evolution for Blue North.

Im confident in Brits ability to lead Blue North and build on the partnerships and the foundation weve constructed throughout the last year, said Crume. We believe this is a sustainable model for entrepreneurship services in Northern Kentucky. Blue North will continue to collaborate with our regional entrepreneurship and innovation community, which includes Tri-ED, Northern Kentucky University, Gateway Community & Technical College, Thomas More University, St. Elizabeth, CVG, the City of Covington, Cintrifuse, as well other counties, municipalities, universities, and organizations throughout the Greater Cincinnati region and Kentucky.

Blue North will continue to produce scalable impact by serving entrepreneurs and the region through the following initiatives:

Providing direct startup support services,

Creating an Industry Advisor Board to expand Blue North's access to large and mid-size corporates,

Offering expanded startup resources via the Startup Support Fellowship Fund,

Improving inclusivity and access to programming and events through the use of innovative, digital tools, and

Increasing connections with investor and capital networks.

Blue North has identified four sectors that it will focus on leveraging Northern Kentuckys unique strengths and assets: health (cancer diagnostics, screening and treatment innovations), supply chain, eCommerce, and local growth (food, beverage, distilled spirits, and creative services).

In April, Blue North announced its partnership with the New York-based The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation (TWSCF), a global grassroots community focused on connecting the companies building thesupplychaintechnologies of the future with the buyers who need them to stay competitive.Through this partnership, Fitzpatrick will lead the regions first supply chain meetup chapter to grow the regional supply chain ecosystem.

The NKY/Cincinnati region has a wealth of assets in the supply chain sector. Its the area where we see technology and innovation playing a significant role across all business sectors, as well as in the current and future growth of our ecosystem, said Fitzpatrick.

Fitzpatrick also sees providing greater access to customers as key to Blue Norths impact. Increasing B2B opportunities for entrepreneurs through collaborations with organizations like TWSCF, Cintrifuse, and CincyTech will be a win for entrepreneurs and our regional Big Cos alike.

"The Cincinnati region is deeply committed to building a world-class startup economy, said Pete Blackshaw, CEO of Cintrifuse. We congratulate Blue North on receiving the RISE grant and were committed to working alongside them to facilitate fast-track connections to Northern Kentucky startups who are addressing critical needs from supply chain and ecommerce to life sciences.

The future is bright for entrepreneurship in Northern Kentucky, said Fitzpatrick. Our partnership with the Kentucky Cabinets Office of Entrepreneurship is critical and we appreciate their continued investment and leadership as we continue to serve our regions innovators.

Fitzpatrick brings a wealth of startup and leadership experience to the Blue North team. In 2013, she founded MentorMe, one of the nation's first venture-backed SaaS mentoring startups. Before Blue North, Brit built entrepreneurship ecosystems in Memphis and led the 1804 Entrepreneur Center in Louisville, which later merged with LEAP.

Abby Ober will begin a new role as program director for Blue North. She has served as entrepreneurship Community Manager since January 2019. Leveraging her experience over the past six years, she oversees Blue Norths suite of in house-services and events while managing Blue North's grant and contract reporting.

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There's a major change happening in the Arctic. Dark waters are blooming with algae, as sunlight floods spaces long obscured by sheets of ice.

Over the past two decades, there's been a 57 percent increase in phytoplankton in the Arctic ocean, an analysis by researchers from Stanford University has revealed.

That's outpaced scientist's expectations, and it's changing the way the ocean stores carbon, as well as sucking up resources needed for the rest of the ecosystem. And no one's sure what it means.

"The rates are really important in terms of how much food there is for the rest of the ecosystem,"saysEarth system scientist, Kevin Arrigo.

"It's also important because this is one of the main ways that CO2is pulled out of the atmosphere and into the ocean."

At first glance this expansion of the photosynthesising part of the food chain shouldn't be all that surprising. Global warming has caused the Arctic's ice sheets to wither away over the decades, opening up new frontiers for phytoplankton to blossom.

But according to the researchers, from around 2009, the rate at which new open water was being exposed dropped off significantly.

By all accounts, this should have been followed by a similar decline in greenery. After all, no matter how much the Sun shines, population numbers should taper off as the amount of available nitrogen and other essential elements gets used up.

But that's not what happened. This expansion at the base of the food pyramid described in eco-jargon as a gain in the rate of net primary production (NPP) just kept going.

"The increase in NPP over the past decade is due almost exclusively to a recent increase in phytoplankton biomass," says Arrigo.

It's hard to know whether we should be alarmed or appreciative. After all, more green stuff means more food for herbivores, which means more meat for the carnivores.

Not to mention more carbon being locked away in organic molecules.

But the Arctic Ocean isn't really a big player when it comes to sinking carbon. Especially if vanishing sea ice simply makes way for more marine traffic.

And as Arrigo puts it, life in the Arctic is also better adapted to having plenty of ice around.

"There's going to be winners and losers," hesays.

More to the point, the extended surge in NPP observed by the team has been perplexing enough to force them to look at existing explanations and asked what they might have missed.

The study's lead author, environmental scientist Kate Lewis, explains it was initially assumed there just wasn't a big store of nutrients to chew through, a question that's been addressed previously by the team's studies.

"We knew the Arctic had increased production in the last few years, but it seemed possible the system was just recycling the same store of nutrients," says Lewis.

"Our study shows that's not the case. Phytoplankton are absorbing more carbon year after year as new nutrients come into this ocean. That was unexpected, and it has big ecological impacts."

Getting a grip on the influx of nutrients is easier said than done since it depends so much on the complexities of ocean currents spreading mixes of different materials through water columns and following trends that are also at the whim of a changing global climate.

Even just getting to this point in mapping the changes in phytoplankton required a huge rethink on how to measure the shades of colour that are traditionally used to analyse NPP.

"Algorithms that work everywhere else in the world that look at the colour of the ocean to judge how much phytoplankton are there do not work in the Arctic at all," says Arrigo.

Armed with improved, Arctic-specific processes, Lewis and her team can now be confident that the changes we're seeing in the planet's far north do point to a sustained blooming of producers fed by nutrients pouring in.

Further studies on our planet's vast circulating network of atmospheric and oceanic streams could help us better nail down what to expect of this vast algal bloom and what it means for the Arctic's future.

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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.

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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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Global V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Market Size, Status and Forecast 20301 Market Overview2 Manufacturers Profiles3 Global V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Sales, Revenue, Market Share andCompetitionby Manufacturer4 Global V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Market Analysis by Regions5 North America V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications by Countries6 Europe V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications by Countries7 Asia-Pacific V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications by Countries8 South America V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications by Countries9 Middle East and Africa V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications by Countries10 Global V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Market Segment by Type11 Global V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Market Segment by Application12 V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communications Market Forecast13 Sales Channel, Distributors, Traders and Dealers14 Research Findings and Conclusion15 Appendix

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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.

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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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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.

Steve Sloane is a Partner at Menlo Ventures.

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'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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