Freedom of the great outdoors – Farm and Dairy

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A recent headline in this very paper stated that camping gains popularity in uncertain times. This makes perfect sense. When so many have been effectively grounded at home for months, the lure of the great outdoors is obviously strong.

On the surface, camping makes no sense. If the great outdoors had a motto it might be you probably wont die. Still, a growing number of people say, lets take clothing, bedding and food that is readily available in our homes and take it on the road.

Somehow, once we are there, however, it all just fits.

Where else can you socially distance away from home while still somewhat bringing your home with you?

Dont let me front like Im outdoorsy. I am a recreational vehicle camper. I like my camping to occur in a trailer with hot and cold running water, air conditioning, refrigeration and electric service. I am also picky about my mattress.

Roughing it is really not in my lexicon. I like to roll up with all the amenities, shake out an outdoor rug and set up reclining lawn chairs. From here, we like to boat, eat and repeat for the entire duration of our stay. That is the life.

Dont let the tent folks fool you, however. We have friends who are lifelong tent campers. I would really call it glamping. Their tent is both larger and nicer than our first house. Seriously, there are wings, closets, entire rooms I dont think I have ever seen. They have actual beds and cots and the whole thing is just amazing. Its like a playhouse for adults.

Last campout, they installed a ceiling fan no lie.

We had fallen off the camping wagon, so to speak, the last few years. We morphed from multiple trips with groups of friends many times per year, to going exactly once last summer for work.

Due to our not having a lick of sense, we hauled a 34-foot camper straight up the side of a mountain in a severe thunderstorm. The hairpin curves were also a nice touch. It was one of the few times Ive seen Mr. Wonderful sweat.

It was so bad I had sent our two small dogs ahead with BoyWonder in the other truck. I was being very dramatic. If we dont make it, take good care of Jack (Jackson Jack Seabolt is the dog)! My son was not impressed that neither he or his sister made my speech. Hey, they are bright kids. I know they will be fine. Jack is adorable, but his job skills are negligible.

This weekend trip was far less eventful. We ate a lot of food cooked with fire. It was very caveman-ey. We laughed an awful lot.

We asked the dogs to shush about one hundred times. They ignored us over one hundred times as well. We boated, swam, wake-boarded and tubed until we were weak with exertion and too much sun, but, oh, the Vitamin D! Let me assure you the place was packed!

With no concerts, endless travel restrictions, no major sports, most amusements, fairs, festivals and really any semblance of official fun on time out, being outdoors is one of the only options open these days. From the campground to the lake people were out in droves, making the best of things and maybe making some good memories of summer 2020 too.

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The distance ahead: John Lewis, Gov. John Patterson and the challenges of reconciliation – Montgomery Advertiser

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A half-century after he condemned the Freedom Riders, former Alabama Gov. John Patterson said he admired them.

It meant so much to the state of Alabama that they came here and did what they did, under grave, adverse circumstances, he said in the courtroom in the Frank M. Johnson Federal Courthouse Complex on May 20, 2011. It took a lot of nerve and guts to do what they did, and they deserve a lot of credit for it.

On Pattersons left stood U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who had sat down with other veterans of the Freedom Rides for a lunch with the former governor.The congressman said the meeting says something about the distance that we have come and the progress we have made in the nation.

Ceremonies honoring Lewis, who died on July 17 at age 80, have stressed his courage and the transformative power of the civil rights movement. Stories of repentant white segregationists like Patterson have become a major part of southern political lore. Former Alabama Gov. George Wallace sought forgiveness from Lewis and other Black leaders in the last decades of his life. Patterson disowned some of his prior stands defending segregation.

And on the surface, at least, the 2011 meeting between Lewis, Patterson, and the Freedom Ridersappeared to be a landmark in the white Souths long reckoning with the sins of its past.

But interviews with attendees and footage from the closed-door meeting recently made available to the Advertiser by the Alabama Historical Commission present a far more complicated picture, one that shows how much distance remains between the movement's goals and present realities.

Patterson and the Freedom Riders spoke to each other with respect. The governor expressed his admiration for the group and some regrets for previous actions. The Freedom Riders got to ask Patterson about his decisions before and after the Freedom Rides.

But Patterson often deflected or talked around those questions. Calls for action were met with awkward or uncertain responses.

Arrested Freedom Riders in the back of a police van after their arrival at the Greyhound station in Birmingham, Alabama in May, 1961.(Photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Robert Adams or Norman Dean, Birmingham News.)

The 2011 meeting between John Lewis, Patterson and the Freedom Riders suggests the major challenges the nation faces in uprooting the poisonous tendrils of white supremacy. It alsoshows the difficulties in reaching and even in definingreconciliation, especially when the human toll of past oppression goes unacknowledged.

I didnt want to go to the meeting, said Kwame Lillard, a Freedom Rider who was present. I refused to take a picture with him. I wanted him to do more than have a make-believe apology. A make-believe reconciliation.

Upended car damaged and smoking after a riot protesting the Freedom Riders' arrival in Montgomery, Alabama on May 21, 1961.(Photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Norman Dean, Birmingham News.)

Pattersons time as governor gets obscured by the long shadow of Wallace, who knew better than his contemporaries how to evoke feelings of siege and self-pity in his white supporters. But as attorney general and governor, Patterson was as much an opponent of the civil rights movement as Wallace, and arguably a more effective one. (Reached by phone recently, Patterson who will turn 99 in September said he could not remember the 2011 meeting with Lewis and the Freedom Riders.)

In 1956, during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, then-Attorney General Patterson secured an injunction against the NAACP, barring them from organizing or operating in Alabama. The action led to a years-long court fight that twice went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The NAACP prevailed, but the battle made the groups Alabama chapter, once one of the largest in the South, moribund in the state during a key period of the civil rights movement. He began his 1958 gubernatorial campaign declaringthere will be no mixing of the races while I am in office," a campaign where a letter that went out over signature called Robert Shelton, a leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Alabama, "our mutual friend."

More: As calls to remove Confederate monuments grew louder, states passed new laws to protect them

As governor, Patterson embraced a trumped-up prosecution of the Rev. Martin Luther KingJr. on tax charges. When Alabama State University students organized a sit-in to protest segregation in 1960, Patterson forced the ASU President H. Councill Trenholm to expel nine of the students and place the rest on probation.Later, Patterson ordered Trenholm to fire ASU faculty allied with King.(ASU was under the direct authority of the Alabama State Board of Education at the time; it did not have an independent Board of Trustees until 1975.)

This was the man who led the state as the Freedom Riders entered Alabama in the spring of 1961. The activistswanted topressure the federal government to enforce court decisions outlawing segregation in interstate travel. Most Southern governments refused to abide by them.

Freedom riders Jim Zwerg and Paul Brock entering the white waiting room for intrastate passengers at the Greyhound bus station in Birmingham, Alabama.(Photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Tom Self or Ed Jones, Birmingham News)

We integrated Greyhound and Trailways in Nashville, said Earnest Rip Patton, a Freedom Rider, in a recent interview. Once you get to Birmingham, theyre talking about segregation.

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson was a 14-year-old living in Tuskegee during these events. He knew the humiliations of segregation first hand. Like many Black families, Thompsons family relied on the Green Book to ensure they could find adequate accommodations when they traveled.

So if you went from (Montgomery) to say Tennessee and you stopped in Birmingham, you stopped at the home of a friend, he said. If we didnt have a friend, we called a friend who knew someone else you could stay with. Segregated transportation was for real.

Once, when a gas station refused to allow Thompson and his brother to use the restroom, his mother told the attendants to pull the gas hose out of the tank.

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I remember sitting on buses and sitting on the back of a bus and being humiliated, he said. It was horrible. It was devastating. It was demeaning. It was a horrible way to grow up.

In later years, Thompson avoided occasions where he could have shaken George Wallaces hand. Thats how strong I felt, he said.

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The Freedom Riders encountered violence in South Carolina, but the attacks picked up force once they crossed the Alabama state line. In Anniston, a white mob attacked and burned one of their buses. Members of the mob tried to hold the doors closed as the fires broke out.

Later, Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor allowed Klansmen to beat the Freedom Riders (along with reporters and some bystanders) for 15 minutes before police interfered. Later, a mob set upon a Freedom Rider bus that arrived in Montgomery. A white member of the mob beat Lewis into unconsciousness with a wooden crate.

The bus for Freedom Riders is burning after been fire bombed in Anniston, Ala., May 14, 1961. The bus had stopped because of a flat tire. The passengers escaped without serious injury.(Photo: AP Photo)

As governor, Patterson did not encourage the violence, but his conduct was hardly heroic. According to civil rights historian Taylor Branch, Patterson refused to guarantee the safety of Freedom Riders coming through Alabama. He snubbed the White House when it tried to contact him to discuss ways to endthe violence. When he met with John Seigenthaler, a former newspaper editor and aide to U.S. Attorney General RobertKennedy, Patterson bragged about the public support he was getting and said (according to Branch) Theres nobody in the whole country thats got the spine to stand up to the goddamned niggers except me.

The governor only deployed the National Guard after a negotiation with Patterson and Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett. In return, federal officials allowed local police to arrest Freedom Riders when they violated segregation laws.

In 1961, Mississippi arrested wave after wave of Freedom Riders that dared to enter an "all-white" area of the bus station, including future Congressman John Lewis. They were arrested, convicted and sent to Mississippi's most notorious prison, the State Penitentiary at Parchman. Lewis was finally freed on July 7, 1961.(Photo: Mississippi Department of Archives and History)

Even with the protection, the dangers to the Freedom Riders were present. Patton, who rode the bus from Montgomery to Jackson, Miss., remembered a planned stop in Selma getting canceled amid rumors that Klansmen in the city planned to attack them.

It was very somber, he said. This was a time to rest, a time to pray. The National Guards of both Alabama and Mississippi had fixed bayonets on their rifles, like we were going to do something.

Once the Freedom Riders challenged the segregation laws in Mississippi, police arrested them and sent them to the states notorious Parchman Prison. The activists, Patton remembered, sang as prison guards removed their mattresses and put laxatives in their food.

Even when we got stool softener in the food, we sang Aint going to let stool softener turn us around, turn us around, he said.

National Guard members protecting the bus for the Freedom Riders leaving Montgomery, Alabama, for Jackson, Mississippi.(Photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Norman Dean, Birmingham News)

By the 1980s, Patterson by then a state appellate court judge publicly renounced his earlier defenses of segregation. He said in 1988 that officials should remove the Confederate flag from the Alabama Capitol, and spoke out to preserve the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery where the white mob attacked the Freedom Riders in 1961.In a 2007 documentary, "John Patterson: In the Wake of the Assassins,"Patterson said he wished he had the white mob that burned the bus in Anniston arrested.

But if he distanced himself from those stands, Patterson alsoseemed to distance himself from his own actions. In the documentary and a 2007interview that yearwith the Montgomery Advertiser, Patterson said that he had been deceived by Birmingham and Montgomery police about their willingness to protect the Freedom Riders. But the former governor did not confront his own rhetoric at the time, or couchedit in terms of political expediency.

Rip Patton talks about his time as a Freedom Rider during the civil rights movement in Nashville.(Photo: Larry McCormack / tennessean)

"It became evident very quickly that the people were more interested in discussing segregation in the public schools, more than any other issue," Patterson said while discussing the 1958 governor's racein the 2007 documentary. "If you were perceived to be weak on that question, you were finished."

The idea to bring the Freedom Riders together with Patterson came from Thompson and his fellow U.S. District Judge Harold Albritton. Albritton had known Patterson for a long time, and Thompson appreciated Pattersons call to preserve the station.

Myron Thompson during the Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed's Inauguration at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday November 12, 2019.(Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser)

From our end, Gov. Patterson was very much interested in doing itand wanted to do it in some form, Albritton said in a recent interview. Judge Thompson was working on the John Lewis end. We heard he was interested as well.

Former Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, a friend of Pattersons, said by that point the former governor, who was nearly 90, had cut back his public appearances.

I encouraged him to do it, she said. He agreed if I would go with him and stay with him.

Lewis also expressed interest in the meeting.

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He was a man who strongly believed in reconciliation and peace, and looking forward, Thompson said. That didnt mean forgetting the past. I think he saw this as an opportunity, in his words, to break bread.

John Lewis, celebrated civil right icon, is celebrated in Montgomery at the Alabama State Capitol Montgomery Advertiser

The meeting between Lewis, Patterson, and the Freedom Riders took place in a law library once used by U.S. Circuit Judge Frank Johnson, author of several key civil rights decisions. Some of the Freedom Riders approached the meeting with caution.

I went into that meeting first of all not even knowing what was going to happen, Patton said. I was just there for the numbers.

Footage of the meeting shows Lewis and Patterson warmly greeting each other.

Ive been reading all about you, Patterson told Lewis. Thank you for coming here and everything youve done.

Lewis thanked Patterson for his presence, saying it sends a powerful message.

Patterson chose to sit at the side of the table, next to Lewis, and spoke with Lewis and other Freedom Riders during the meeting.

Everything was sort of tentative at first when we got back there, Albritton said. It wasnt tentative with Gov. Patterson and John Lewis. They immediately spoke and shook hands and started talking. Things kind of warmed up with people conversing around. There was no animosity shown.

But memories remained. Lillard, who felt drawn into a photo op for the former governor, refused to sit at the table with Patterson.

Maybe John is more of a Christian to forgive him, Lillard said. Im not. I cant do it. Too much blood, too much terror.

Kwame Lillard speaks at a previous African-American Cultural Alliance Kwanzaa celebrate. AACA will mark its 37th annual Nashville Kwanzaa celebration with an interactive family event with music, stories and food from 6-9 p.m. Dec. 27.(Photo: Submitted)

Lillard reminded the former governor of his past. He demanded that Patterson take public steps to show that he had changed. He suggested raising money for scholarships in the names of the 9 ASU students that Patterson had helped to expel. Lillard also demanded that Patterson set up an annual contribution to the NAACP the group he tried to destroy as attorney general in the name of Floyd Mann, the Alabama Public Safety Director who intervened to protect the Freedom Riders in Montgomery as the white mob attacked them.

What I want you do is convince me that theres follow-up to reconciliation, Lillard said to Patterson. That it be tangible and concrete.

Patterson responded that his political connections have waned considerably.

Theres not a great deal of influence I have in the state government or legislature, he said. But I understand what youre talking about. Let me give some thought to that and Ill see what I can come up with.

Lillard asked the most pointed questions in the meeting, with most other Freedom Riders present letting him speak. Patton said that reflected training they received, ensuring everyone played their assigned role.

We were trained to listen, and not butt in, Patton said. If we had a spokesperson, let that spokesperson speak. I was satisfied with just being there, as part of the number.

Lillard said he felt his job was to hold Pattersons feet to the fire.

I just adopted a position: Im the engineer, Im the scientist and Im going to take this apart and look at it, he said. We all have our skills, our fortes, and that was my forte.

Other Freedom Riders engaged Patterson. Hank Thomas, a Freedom Rider who was on the bus that the white mob set on fire in Anniston, asked Patterson if he would make a public statement denouncing the violence of the spring of 1961.

In other cases, other states, even though some of the governors were not governors at that particular time, they would make an official statement, a written statement, acknowledging that what happened 50 years ago was a travesty in terms of Alabama citizens, Thomas said. (A message seeking comment was sent to Thomas through the Morehouse School of Medicine, where he serves as a trustee.)

Alabama Gov. John Patterson at a meeting with two men during the Freedom Riders' stay in Montgomery, Alabama in May 1961.(Photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Norman Dean, Birmingham News.)

Patterson said he would be perfectly glad to do anything I possibly can if I get an opportunity to write something or express myself to somebody.

But you must realize I am out of Alabama politics, he said. Nobody in Montgomery calls me up and asks me for my advice.

At one point, Patterson did express regret for what happened, saying whatever I did to prolong that thing, Im very sorry about it. But footage of the meeting does not show Patterson explicitly engaging with his rhetoric during the Freedom Rides, or his actions toward the NAACP or ASU. At other times, Patterson seemed to distance himself from the events of May 1961, treating himself as a spectator and not a major player.

I admire what the Freedom Riders did, he said. I think it took a tremendous amount of courage to do it. It got everything moving. Everything was sitting still.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and former Alabama Gov. John Patterson following a lunch at the Frank M. Johnson Federal Courthouse Complex on May 20, 2011. In the back row (left to right): Freedom Riders Bernard Lafayette; Bill Harbour; Matthew Walker; Hank Thomas; Jim Zwerg; Earnest "Rip" Patton, and Margaret Leonard. Freedom Rider Catherine Burks Brooks is seated to Patterson's left.(Photo: Alabama Historical Commission)

Patton and Lillard said they both noticed this distancing.

I think thats why Kwame pressed him a little bit, Patton said.

In the available footage, Lewis says relatively little, but near the end he praised Patterson, and called the meeting historic.

The governor has been so wonderful to take the time out to meet us, to have lunch with us, he said. I think he may be the only governor I know of, former governor, governor, to sit down and meet with us as a group with the Freedom Riders.

Cobb, who attended the meeting at Pattersons request, said Lewis comment was appreciated.

He was grateful that Gov. Patterson was there, she said. He expressed all the things that John Lewis would say. It was a loving, caring comment.

Beyond that, though, its not certain if it led to any major changes. Patterson did not appear to movefrom his earlier stated regrets, or confront the rhetoric he used in 1961.

I think that a verbal apology would have been nice, Patton said. But then, to back it up. Back up what youre saying. I apologize for such and such and such and such. And I am going to do what I can to make this better in Montgomery. To make that better in Montgomery, to make that better in state of Alabama.

Lillard felt the governor had been evasive when he asked about his past. In a recent interview, Lillard pointed to South Africa, which developed a new constitution and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission after apartheid ended in that country.

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I dont think progress is how many Confederate monuments you take down, he said. I dont think its how many times you sing We Shall Overcome. There needs to be a fundamental analysis of what the South was, what the nation was.

Thompson said he doesnt believe there could be closure over such issues. But he noted that Lewis could sit down with past enemies without losing sight of present struggles.

He was willing to do all this, but the issues for him remained pressing and looming, he said. If closure means everything is over and its OK, no. If closure means this is help and a healing process so we can move forward and make sure that peoples rights are respected and vindicated, yes. But thats a lifelong process.

Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Brian Lyman at 334-240-0185 or blyman@gannett.com. Updated at 11:43 a.m. with comments from Patterson's 1958 campaign.

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Fake news and COVID-19, a neverending saga – The New Indian Express

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Fakenews witnessed an alltime high during the pandemic. A survey done by Social Media Matters (social media ninjas working for social change), along with the Institute for Governance, Policies and Politics (a think tank initiative dedicated for public policy research and analysis) has revealed that 69 per cent of people received fake news during the lockdown.

The major source of fake news was WhatsApp with 88.4 per cent respondents reporting it, followed by Facebook (reported by 42.5 per cent) and Instagram (reported by 21.96 per cent). The fake news included the details of repatriation flights, preventive measures, and treatment for COVID-19, information regarding containment zones or impending lockdowns in various areas, etc. Social Media Matters Founder Amitabh Kumar says that on witnessing an increase in fake news regarding COVID-19, they decided to do the survey.

Questionnaires in Hindi and English were filled out by 3,752 respondents from across India. While the majority of participants are between 18 to 25 years old (2,766 respondents), it was closely followed by the age group of 25 to 35 with 565 respondents. The survey was supported by Sarvahitey and Youth Online Learning Opportunities. Dr Manish Tiwari, Senior Fellow, IGPP, said, Social media is becoming the new carrier of infodemics in these times of pandemic.

From the figures, it is clear that young people are being targeted to further spread the misinformation and fake news as they are prime users of social media platforms. According to the survey, 69 per cent respondents reported receiving fake news regarding COVID-19 during the lockdown, and 84 per cent stated that they dont trust such news. Since the news is being spread in huge numbers, people have also become vigilant. Seventy percent of the respondents reported cross checking and verifying news which seemed fake.

The major sources of fact checking were Google Search (48.8 per cent) and Government sources (36.6 per cent). A total of 76 per cent people said that they informed others about the fake news, once recognised. While 89 per cent were aware that the dissemination of fake news is a crime as per the law, only 30 per cent reported such news because 68 per cent didnt know the online mechanism to report it. About 95 per cent feel that there is a need to raise more awareness on the reporting mechanisms, informs Kumar, adding, This information will help the government and tech platforms create better policies and tools to curb this infodemic of misinformation. But a lot of work still needs to be done by social media platforms to achieve this. We need to take up a systematic approach to ensure we build capacities of fact seeking.

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According to the survey, 69 per cent respondents reported receiving fake news regarding COVID-19 during the lockdown, and 84 per cent stated that they dont trust such news. Since the news is being spread in huge numbers, people have also become vigilant. Seventy percent of the respondents reported cross checking and verifying news which seemed fake. The major sources of fact checking were Google Search (48.8 per cent) and Government sources (36.6 per cent). A total of 76 per cent people said that they informed others about the fake news, once recognised.

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The Most Ridiculous Countries to Have Ever Existed – Gentside UK

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Creating your own country is not as difficult as you might think. Based on the 5 micronations in our list, it seems like just about anybody can create their own (with whatever outrageous laws they want)!

The territory of the Republic of Minerva remained independent for only a short time during 1972. It consists of a group of atolls in the Pacific Ocean. The captain of the HMS Herald discovered these islands and named them after a whaler that was shipwrecked there in 1829. The Republic of Minerva proclaimed its independence in 1972, and Morris C. Davis was provisionally elected president. However, he was removed very quickly because Tonga claimed possession of the island. The captain tried again to recover his islands by occupying them in 1982, but he was then once again expelled very quickly.

This micronation claims the territory of the municipality of Seborga in Italy. Originally, the fiefdom of Seborga was ceded by the Count of Ventimiglia to the abbots Lrins in 954. It was in 1963 that the place obtained the status of principality when the town's florist, Giorgio Carbone, proclaimed himself 'Prince Giorgio I of Seborga.' The population of the village later approved this decision almost unanimously in a plebiscite.

This district in Copenhagen, Denmark was the self-proclaimed 'Free City of Christiania' in 1971. This 'country' was created by a group of squatters, those who were unemployed, and hippies. This city is particularly known because of its decriminalisation of drugs. At the beginning of the 2000s, the state had 1000 inhabitants spread over 34 hectares. Not bad.

This micronation, founded by Kevin Baugh, is located in the middle of the state of Nevada, USA. The nation defines itself as a 'dictatorial banana republic,' which seems to comes straight out of his imagination. To make his country official, Kevin Baugh, who became president in 1999, launched a petition on the whitehouse.gov website. At the last census, the 1.9 square mile state had a population of 27.

The Principality of Sealand settled on a former military platform called Fort Roughs in the middle of the North Sea. Roy Bates, a former British military man, after consulting lawyers and maritime law specialists, realised that there was nothing to prevent the island from being taken over in international waters. In 1966, he decided to approach the island and proclaimed himself sovereign in 1967. Sealand has its own currency, the 'Sealand dollar,' and an average of five inhabitants live on the 5,920 square feet of land in the middle of the sea.

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Man wanting to go to Mars isolates for 366 days in tiny habitat with 5 others as part of study – CBS17.com

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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) A man in Hawaii wants to be selected to go to planet Mars one day and hes doing everything he can right now to prepare.

Tristan Bassingthwaighte is an architect and is researching and designing habitats that humans can survive in on the moon and Mars. He wants a one-way ticket to the red planet.

While it might suck for me personally to get to Mars, what that could bring back to the species eventually through the many things we need to make it possible, is how we move forward as a species really, Bassingthwaighte said.

In 2016, he spent 366 days in a tiny habitat located on top of a volcano on Hawaiis big island. The year-long stay was part of an ongoing study by the University of Hawaii and NASA. The HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) is a habitat 8,200 feet above sea level on Mauna Loa. The conditions are designed to be similar to those of a planetary exploration mission.

Tristan was part of mission four in 2016 and said It was really fun, but added he knows a lot of people were worried about the isolation or the confinement, or youre going to be living in a little room type of thing for a year, but Ive always wanted to be an astronaut since I was like six.

The crew of six had to eat like they were in space and wear a spacesuit to go outside. Tristan said the whole idea is to create a crew that can survive the trip and stay.

Youll go in and find out that I might want to go to Mars, but hanging out with the same five people in a close quarter for a year or a real Mars mission, two years, might be a little much, Bassingthwaighte said.

He said the biggest thing he learned was that there can be people on a mission that have all of the skills and would be good at it, but their focus could never really move outside of themselves.

I was just surprised that even people with doctoral degrees and have worked with NASA before, not everyone was actually a team player, Bassingthwaighte said.

He said the year-long isolation on Hawaiis volcano allowed scientists to gather information on how to make better space habitats.

I want to be the theoretical lead designer for the Mars Colony for SpaceX, said Bassingthwaighte.

CBS 17s Laura Smith had to ask Tristan how hes handling quarantine because of coronavirus after spending a year in a tiny home with five other people. He said the biggest advice he can give is not to focus on when it will end.

So instead of looking for some future thing that we obviously cant pin down, you know what you really could do, is figure out what will get you through today and pretend that its the new normal, he said.

He said pick up a hobby and be selfish when you can.

Unlike work here on Earth, youre stuck with that person so you just have to find levels of patience that maybe you didnt know you had. Id go to my room and read and listen to music for an hour or two. If you rather just play Mario Kart, then just go play Mario Kart, like take care of yourself, Bassingthwaighte said.

HI-SEAS continues to study how humans will survive on the moon and mars. However, the pandemic is slowing the study down.

We have had several missions take place this year and we will have more starting in September. We had to delay four missions in collaboration with NASA to next year due to the pandemic, said HI-SEAS Director Michaela Musilova.

NASA also plans to send people to mars and the moon. You can learn more here about that.

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Farmingdale High School senior aims for interstellar colonizationLily Coffin(Photo courtesy ofLily Coffin)

Lily Coffin wants to go to Mars. Its a dream shes latched onto ever since her eighth-grade earth science teacher screened a documentary about a Mars One project whose goal was to explore the Red Planet.This documentary was about creating a colony on Mars and I decided thats what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, she said.

Coffin is well on her way to reaching that dream. Shell be attending the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a mechanical engineering/planetary science double major in the fall, a perfect fit for her future plans.Cal Tech is attached to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Coffin explained. They have a really strong emphasis on research and Ive done a lot of research in high school. So its a really good fit for me in terms of what Ill be able to do as an undergrad because Ive always wanted something beyond the classroom setting. Even in high school, I worked in four labs in three years. A place where I could do research was important to me. Plus, theyre ranked something like number five globally. Its a very good school.

Helping out with the tuition are a trio of grants Coffin was surprised to receivethe Two Brothers Scrap Metal Environmental Conservation Scholarship ($1,000), a PTA Merit Scholarship ($350) and the Dr. Roger S. Weinblatt Memorial Scholarship ($1,000).We werent told what scholarships we were actually receiving, she said. We just had to sit through the hour-long video that they posted. I was really surprised to end up with three of them.

Hard work has enabled the Farmingdale native to wind up matriculating at a top university. In addition to spending her senior year commuting to the Cold Spring Harbor lab on a weekly basis, Coffin spent summer 2019 as part of the Siemens Research Program, a competitive initiative that featured students from around the country descending on Stony Brook University to do research. Prior to this, the Farmingdale High School senior toiled away in labs in summer 2018 (Molloy College) and summer 2017 (Stony Brook University). The common thread for all these experiences was that Coffin spent her time doing either microbiology or computational biology research.

And while the idea of one day colonizing Mars might seem to be quite a tall order, Coffin credits robotics team advisor Ann Grady with inspiring her to aim so high.Coach Grady has worked with a lot of kids in Farmingdale that pursued research, so she knew about all the lab stuff, Coffins said. She taught me how to conduct myself in the research pursuit. She always made it seem like the adult part of looking into research opportunities wasnt too far out of my reach. The reason I was so successful in science research and getting into such a competitive school was because a lot of kids wait to feel like theyre mature enough to do something. Were all waiting to all go to college and be qualified to do something. But [Grady] kind of taught me that being in high school, as long as you have the motivation to want to learn something, you dont need to have the prerequisite knowledge to work in a lab, because thats why Im thereto learn.

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In response to reports that German automakers are working feverishly to catch up to Tesla in the electric vehicle segment, Elon Musk tweeted that the U.S.-based EV maker that he helms is willing to help them close the gap. The Tesla CEO tweeted that the company is open to licensing software, supplying powertrains and batteries, and even sharing access to closely-held technologies like Autopilot.

This wouldn't be the first time that Tesla has made overtures toward sharing its proprietary EV technology. In fact, both Mercedes-Benz and Toyota have partnered with Tesla and used its battery and electric drivetrain technology, but at the time both automakers had made sizable investments into Musk's company.

And way back in 2014, Musk said the automaker would make all of its patents in EV technology open to other companies getting into the electric space, though that was more of a we-promise-not-to-sue-you type of deal that very few established car companies had interest in pursuing. Just recently, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Rivian for allegedly poaching its employees and stealing trade secrets. It has also sued China's Xpeng and self-driving startup Zoox.

At this point, it's not clear what powertrains or batteries Musk, who said in a recent earnings conference call that the biggest limitation to Teslas continued growth is battery cell production at an affordable price, is willing to license or supply. Tesla currently runs a battery joint venture with Panasonic, but also sources batteries from Chinas Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and South Korea's LG Chem.

Reports from Silicon Valley suggest that Tesla is currently working on an expanded battery manufacturing center at its current headquarters in Fremont, California. That project, dubbed Roadrunner, would have three shifts of employees and run all day, every day, seemingly pumping out batteries.

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What makes Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt one of the best pass-rushers of his generation is timing. The three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year just has a knack for making the right play at key times of the game.

Watts timing is also evident in his retorts and comebacks, which is what made him a compelling guest host on Saturday Night Live and also encouraged Fox executives to give him and his brothers a shot hosting Ultimate Tag.

The former 2011 first-round picks timing was on display Friday on Twitter. Billionaire tech genius Elon Musk was hawking his Tesla solar panels on the social media platform, stating their cost was $1.49 per Watt.

J.J. fired back: How much are they for everyone else?

Of course, some people missed Watts joke entirely and argued with each other in the mentions over the cost and benefit of solar. However, some Twitter users saw Watts remark as ultimate dad humor.

The funny tweets give Watt something else to do other than throw a tennis ball to his dogs 650 times an hour when he isnt training.

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Elon Musk’s Plea Tripled This Stock in 1 Week! – The Motley Fool Canada

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Elon Musk called out to the nickel miners of the world this week to request a more sustainable way to mine the mineral. A tiny Toronto-based miner seems to have accepted the challenge and could win a major contract from the billionaires company if their sustainable nickel production facility comes through.

Canada Nickel Co. (TSXV:CNC) saw its stock price triple in just four days since Musk made the plea. Now, the company could be on the verge of a major breakthrough that could unlock immense value for early investors. Heres a closer look.

The fact that the tech billionaire turned his attention to nickel mining shouldnt come as a surprise. Musk has built a fortune by focusing on sustainable energy solutions and electric transport. Commodities like nickel play a pivotal role in both areas.

According to Musk, nickel-based battery cells have higher energy density than the traditional lithium-ion cells currently used in his electric vehicles. Higher density means longer range without the added weight that would compromise speed and traction for Tesla cars.

Nickel-based cells could be particularly useful in larger vehicles, such as the upcoming Cybertruck and Semi. In other words, the commodity could play a key role in Teslas future which is why Musk promised a lucrative deal for any miner who could come up with a greener, more sustainable way to extract the element.

Tesla will give you a giant contract for a long period of time, if you mine nickel efficiently and in an environmentally-sensitive way, Musk said during a recent earnings call with Wall Street analysts.

Thats where Canada Nickel comes in.

Toronto-based Canada Nickel Company told Bloomberg this week that it is poised to build a facility that could process nickel in a zero-carbon way. CEO Mark Selby said the facility could be based in the Timmins-Cochrane region of Northern Ontario.

The electric vehicle chain and broader market in general is crying out for a zero-carbon product, Selby told Bloomberg. The report ignited investor interest at a stunning pace and the company is now worth thrice as much as it was last week.

Canada Nickel is currently valued at $196 million. However, if it gains funding from Musk or wins a contract with any electric vehicle maker, the stock could shoot much higher.

The global battery industry was worth $108 billion last year. Its expected to grow 14% every year until 2027. Demand should accelerate as more people swap traditional gasoline-powered vehicles for electric cars. Meanwhile, demand is further magnified by the need for storage at wind and solar farms. The market could be worth $250 billion by 2027.

If nickel mining becomes more sustainable, miners like Canada Nickel could be poised for a massive windfall.

Nickel could be a pivotal element in the future of electric transport. Elon Musk seems to believe that an environmentally-friendly nickel mining process could unlock its true potential. Hes offered a contract to any company that can deliver on this potential. Canada Nickel Co. could on the verge of doing just that.

Fool contributor Vishesh Raisinghani has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. David Gardner owns shares of Tesla. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Tesla.

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The days of a primarily B2B supply chain may be ending. The shift to consumer-delivery models during the COVID-19 pandemic has upended supply chain operations, and in the grocery retail sector alone online sales increased 100% in March, according to Adobe Analytics.

Significant investment in technology and automation will be necessary to meet the delivery movement. With 40% of essential items now being bought online, supply chains need to evolve operations to accommodate much higher volumes in direct-to-consumer shipping, according to the Food Industry Associations annual U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends study.

In terms of fulfillment, 18% of online grocery shoppers (including 8% doing so for the first time during the pandemic) are opting for same- or next-day delivery, according to the study, compared to 16% (including 9% of first-timers) for curbside pickup and 14% (including 7% of first-timers) for in-store pickup. Seventeen percent choose home delivery with standard shipping, and 8% subscribe for ongoing deliveries.

There are several pain points that need to be addressed along the supply chain. In a study,FMI found that 4% of respondents reported problems with online grocery shopping, namely in terms of inventory and fulfillment. Out-of-stocks issues cited by customers include paper products (43%) and preferred foods (43%). Also, 40% encountered delays after ordering goods or saw no acceptable times for home delivery (20%) or pickup (19%).

How fulfillment executives manage ongoing disruption will be a matter of the "survival of the fittest." However, new fitness metrics will focus on how well supply chains incorporate agility into lean logistics. As workforces shrink to meet cost-cutting needs, smaller staffs will be stretched by increasing consumer-delivery demands. The only means to meet these ends is technology that automates processes.

"As workforces shrink to meet cost-cutting needs, smaller staffs will be stretched by increasing consumer-delivery demands. The only means to meet these ends is technology that automates processes."

Agility in supply chain operations will be the new standard to meet the evolving needs of manufacturers, retailers and distribution centers. The first objective is to enable end-to-end inventory visibility which will allow the entire supply chain to quickly respond to shifts in consumer demand without similar ebbs and flows in labor and resource allocation.

The total impact of consumer demand disruption has yet to be seen. Shopping habit changes during the pandemic may result in future upheavals that may compromise brand loyalty but could likely cause a streamlining of the supply chain.

According to a report from market-research firm Nielsen, cited by Food Dive, "the average number of product offerings in grocery stores declined 7.3% during the four weeks ended June 13 ... The drop came across a range of product categories, with frozen down 8.5%, deli slipping 7.7%, meat posting a decline of 7.1% and dairy falling 6.6%."

For example, some IGA grocery stores now offer only four choices of toilet paper. A few months ago, the chains 1,100 U.S. stores typically carried about 40 varieties.

According to the Wall Street Journal, executives at some of the most widely-known food giants have said they are trimming less-efficient and less-profitable products, while shelving some in development. PepsiCo,for example, stopped producing a fifth of its products during the COVID-19 crisis and will have 3-5% fewer products going forward than it had pre-pandemic in its Frito-Lay snacks business.

By discontinuing some less popular items that may be more complicated to produce, factories and distribution networks can become more efficient at their end of the supply chain.

Additionally, when consumers are also offered visibility into the inventory levels, they are less likely to hoard items that potentially disrupt the flow of goods. The pandemic disruption proved to supply chain executives that technology to provide end-to-end visibility throughout a global supply chain would be the best way forward.

Supply chain executives accustomed to B2B processes will swiftly learn a hard lesson,if they dont move to automate quickly and effectively. The present pandemic is a true test of the ability to flex with new demands, especially those that will now be primarily consumer-driven.

With logistical adjustments made on the fly to meet consumer fulfillment needs, now is the time to look back, understand what went right and wrong, and adjust.

"The pandemic disruption proved to supply chain executives that technology to provide end-to-end visibility throughout a global supply chain would be the best way forward."

By giving products a digital unique identifier at the origin of the supply chain, full inventory transparency at the product-level is possible. This is vital to meet a continued increase in delivery expectations. Digitization of the goods through technologies such as RFID and barcodes provide that full transparency of inventory, at the product-level throughout every step of the supply chain.

Historically, brand logic has focused on increasing sales by offering customers endless varieties of goods that would take up more and more retail and supermarket shelf space especially in big box-stores and warehouse clubs. However, digitization of goods will serve brands well as they continue to shrink product offerings. Flexibility to add and subtract items to meet production, distribution and sales goals may be an ongoing roller coaster.

"In looking towards the future, most consumers expect to return to their pre-pandemic levels of in-store grocery shopping and more than a fourth of consumers expect to be ordering more groceries online in the future," FMI President and CEO Leslie Sarasin said in a statement. "The food industry will continue to listen to consumers and let them guide us on how to best meet their changing household needs."

While B2B will always exist, the ebbs and flows of consumer delivery and product choices will make the fulfillment world look very different in the months and years to come. Agility needs to be the focus at every link of the supply chain.

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Clinical Diagnostics Automation Market to Witness Steady Expansion During 2020-2026 – Owned

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COVID-19 has impacted global market economy with over 190 countries witnessing the impact. There has been a noticeable impact on the global market growth with an increase in global unemployment rate. It has estimated that the virus could affect the global economy growth by 2.0% if current conditions persist. Around 13-32% is expected to befall in global trade. The full impact will not be known until the effects of the pandemic peak. The pandemic crisis is challenging governments to implement monetary and fiscal policies that support credit markets and sustain economic activity.

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The prominent players covered in this report:, Abaxis, Abbott Diagnostics, Beckman Coulter, Becton, Dickinson and Company, BioMerieux SA, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Diagnostica Stago, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, PerkinElmer, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Sysmex America, Tecan Group, The ELITechGroup, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Key players are expected to enhance their marketing capabilities over the forecast period owing to certain market conditions. The report presents certain elements that will reflect whats and hows of such changes in the market. Further, the report studies various aspects of the global market such as upstream raw materials, downstream demand, and production value of leading players subject to market growth.

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Now’s the time for CRE to embraceand leveragetechnology – Connected Real Estate Magazine

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The Connected Real Estate Virtual Tech Event concluded last week with the CRE Roundtable discussion featuring a panel of commercial real estate industry leaders. Fifth Gen Media CEO and publisher Rich Berliner moderated the panel that comprised Rudy Reagin (Deutsche Bank), Jonathan Schultz (Onyx Equities), Steve Todd (Open Sourced Workplace), Andrew Weakland (WP Carrey) and Andrew Segal (Boxer Properties).

The panel covered a number of topics throughout the discussion, including technology and its role in the commercial real estate industryparticularly now given that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced so many people are working remotely. The CRE industry has been somewhat slow to embrace tech compared to other verticals, but this time it had no choice but to take advantage of the resources available.

What Im seeing is the agony that we all went through trying to understand tech in real estate has definitely helped us through this crisis with cloud and connectivity, Schultz said. If we didnt have that, we would not be able to do what were doing todaymaintaining our businesses. (Technology) helped us as a company internally look at our processes, look at what we didnt have time to maybe make more efficient, automate or fix.

Technology was part Segal and his companys day-to-day for more than a decade. Being ahead of the game allowed the staff to work from anywhere, but remain unified because everyone was working within one system. Segal is also the CEO of Stemmons, which provides a suite of tools that capture basic activity patterns. Users configure these tools to create any business process, regardless of industry or department.We used technology for continuity, Segal said. He also noted that technology should still be looked at a problem solver in CRE, even after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Boxer has used technology not just to operate properties, but also to market them.

Reagin noted that technology can also help companies pivot quickly as it did for Deutsche Bank. The company had been working with sensors for the last few years to do things like see where there were unused desks in its offices. The company estimated a 70 percent utilization rate, but was aiming to get it over 100 percent with mobile working from home solutions. When the pandemic hit, Deutsche Bank was forced to change gears.

Along came COVID, and we had to do social distancing, Reagin said. But we were able to use the same technology to identify where people were sitting too close together or getting to close together. Its the same techits just changing the software behind it to look at different factors.

Meanwhile, Weakland noted a simple way to incorporate technology with real estatebuild off existing platforms.

Ive found most of my success in my career as a real estate technologist by taking mature technologies from other industries and just tweaking them slightly to fit what we have to do to get the job done, he said. Im not reinventing the wheelreal estate didnt invent cloud computing. We obviously leverage it heavily because of the multiple locations where we do business, the types of business we do, the databases we work with and everything else.

The same goes for apps, according to Weakland. There are apps that help users gather information about other people and to help them connect people with needed information, advise them and provide feedback or coaching.

What does not necessarily exist is the physical aspect of it, Weakland said. When I come into an office business, what does it entail? It entails sensors; luckily everyone happens to have a sensor and a computer in their pocket already, which makes things much easier. And thats already seeing some friction in the marketplacethat physical aspect. Its a small component to figuring out how to get someone fill out the form on their phonethats been solved for 15 years.

Through Open Source Workplace, Todds goal is simplebring information about workplace connectivity employee experience to everyone through an ungated community.

Its as simple as that, Todd said. Were trying to provide insights and provide that information to everybody so we learn and we all benefit. Its (about) trying to bring a community together, allow people to connectthats what I am aspiring to do.

Todd also raised the question of if the technology currently being used to keep the trains moving while everyones working remotely will work just as effectively for people when they return to the office.

We spoke to some technology folks, and the tech theyre looking at now is how to create a bubble around somebody whos talking so nobody can hear outside of that bubble and people can only see what is immediately in front of you, Todd said. (The issue) is trying to evolve these technologies that are going to be deployed. And when people come back to the office, how do they ensure consistency is applied within an office environment? As 5G gets rolled out, those will be the technologies we will be looking to deploy in our main offices because it allows everyone to connect that much better.

COVID-19 may have forced some CRE companies to embrace technology sooner than they would have liked, but whether there was a pandemic or not, now is the time for every company in the industry to use tech to move their business forward.

We have a term for people who resist change and technology in our companyformer employee, Segal said. Theres no room for somebody whos not going to embrace this and treat it like a religion.

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Dental Imaging Market Research Report by Technology, by Method, by Application, by End User – Global Forecast to 2025 – Cumulative Impact of COVID-19…

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The Global Dental Imaging Market is expected to grow from USD 2,485.36 Million in 2019 to USD 4,225.93 Million by the end of 2025 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.25%.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:This research report categorizes the Dental Imaging to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

"The Intraoral Camera is projected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period"

Based on Technology, the Dental Imaging Market studied across Dental Cone Beam Computed Tomography, Dental Optic Imaging, General X-ray Imaging System, and Intraoral Camera. The General X-ray Imaging System commanded the largest size in the Dental Imaging Market in 2019. On the other hand, the Intraoral Camera is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period.

"The Intraoral Imaging is projected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period"

Based on Method, the Dental Imaging Market studied across Extraoral Imaging and Intraoral Imaging. The Extraoral Imaging commanded the largest size in the Dental Imaging Market in 2019. On the other hand, the Intraoral Imaging is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period.

"The Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery is projected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period"

Based on Application, the Dental Imaging Market studied across Endodontics, Implantology, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, and Orthodontics. The Implantology commanded the largest size in the Dental Imaging Market in 2019. On the other hand, the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period.

"The Dental Diagnostic Centers is projected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period"

Based on End User, the Dental Imaging Market studied across Dental Academic & Research Institutes, Dental Diagnostic Centers, and Dental Hospital & Clinic. The Dental Hospital & Clinic commanded the largest size in the Dental Imaging Market in 2019. On the other hand, the Dental Diagnostic Centers is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period.

"The Asia-Pacific is projected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period"

Based on Geography, the Dental Imaging Market studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas region surveyed across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The Asia-Pacific region surveyed across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa region surveyed across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom. The Americas commanded the largest size in the Dental Imaging Market in 2019. On the other hand, the Asia-Pacific is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period.

Company Usability Profiles:The report deeply explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Dental Imaging Market including Asahi Roentgen Ind. Co., Ltd., Carestream Health, Inc., Cefla S.C., Danaher Corporation, Dentsply International, Inc., DURR DENTAL SE, Envista Holdings Corporation, Flow Dental Corporation, LED Medical Diagnostic, Inc., Midmark Corporation, Ningbo Runyes Medical Instrument Co. Ltd., PlanmecaOy, Prexion, Inc., Sirona Dental Systems, Inc., The Yoshida Dental Mfg. Co., Ltd, and Vatech Co. Ltd..

FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Dental Imaging Market on the basis of Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.

Competitive Strategic Window:The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies. The Competitive Strategic Window helps the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. During a forecast period, it defines the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth.

Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:COVID-19 is an incomparable global public health emergency that has affected almost every industry, so for and, the long-term effects projected to impact the industry growth during the forecast period. Our ongoing research amplifies our research framework to ensure the inclusion of underlaying COVID-19 issues and potential paths forward. The report is delivering insights on COVID-19 considering the changes in consumer behavior and demand, purchasing patterns, re-routing of the supply chain, dynamics of current market forces, and the significant interventions of governments. The updated study provides insights, analysis, estimations, and forecast, considering the COVID-19 impact on the market.

The report provides insights on the following pointers:1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyzes the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players5. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and new product developments

The report answers questions such as:1. What is the market size and forecast of the Global Dental Imaging Market?2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global Dental Imaging Market during the forecast period?3. Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the forecast period in the Global Dental Imaging Market?4. What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global Dental Imaging Market?5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Dental Imaging Market?6. What are the modes and strategic moves considered suitable for entering the Global Dental Imaging Market?Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05940369/?utm_source=GNW

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Perseverance will do things no rover has ever attempted on Mars and pave the way for humans – CNN

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Perseverance is armed with a multitude of new capabilities and instruments to explore and experience the red planet.

Perseverance will collect up to 43 samples of Martian rock and soil over the course of its two-year mission. These samples will be stowed in white tubes on the Martian surface to be returned to Earth on a future planned mission.

Riding along with Perseverance to Mars is Ingenuity, the first helicopter that will be flown on another planet. It's one of several experiments that will test technological capabilities during this mission that may be used more in future missions.

Here's a look at some of the other exciting features of Perseverance and how it can help pave the way for humans landing on Mars in the future.

Robotic eyes and ears

The rover's high-resolution camera "eyes" will help Perseverance survey the landscape, look for intriguing rocks to sample and decide where to deploy some of its instruments.

Perseverance's cameras will be capturing video during the rover's "seven minutes of terror" as it lands itself on Mars without any help from its teams on Earth, due to the unavoidable communication delay between the two planets.

While the video won't be available in real time during entry, descent and landing, it will be shared in the weeks after landing.

The rover is also carrying a couple of microphones, and the rover teams look forward to hearing the sounds of the rover's wheels on the Martian surface and the sound of wind on Mars.

The other microphone is on SuperCam, a scientific instrument that fires a laser at rocks and creates a plasma cloud that can provide the chemical makeup of the rock.

"When we fire this laser on Earth, you can hear a pop or zap," said Matt Wallace, deputy project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "The science team is hoping with a microphone on top of the mast, they can learn something about the composition of the things their laser is interacting with."

SHERLOC goes to Mars

The rover's robotic arm has 21st-century scientific abilities.

The Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry, better known as PIXL, is a tiny, powerful X-ray beam that can detect over 20 chemical elements by pointing a beam at rocks. The beam produces a telling glow associated with each element present in about 10 seconds.

Its partner is known as SHERLOC, short for the long-winded Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals.

SHERLOC can seek out organic molecules and minerals, which helps inform science teams of where to collect and cache samples. Its ultraviolet laser will provide a different glow depending on the organic molecules and minerals it detects.

"These two new capabilities will allow us to investigate a postage stamp-size area for elemental chemistry and organic molecules," said Ken Farley, Perseverance's project scientist at the California Institute of Technology. "So we can both make a map of this small area and take a microscopic image. It's a compelling way to look for microbial biosignatures."

SHERLOC also carries five different materials used to make spacesuits to test how radiation and elements on Mars could weather and affect them for future human explorers.

And where would SHERLOC be without WATSON, a camera that can take microscopic images of grains in rock and textures? WATSON stands for Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering.

A self-driving vehicle

Human rover teams at NASA will send Perseverance commands once a day, but the rover will rely on its advanced computer "brains" to help it drive autonomously the rest of the time.

Compared to previous rovers, Perseverance has the benefit of a second "brain" installed to help Perseverance land itself on Mars and avoid hazards that will be repurposed once it's on the surface.

The "brain," officially known as a vision compute element (VCE), will help it do something called "thinking while driving," said Heather Justice, robotic operations downlink lead at JPL.

The rover will take images and build a map as it drives, identifying obstacles or slopes in the images and deciding what it can drive around or over to figure out a path forward.

It's better than GPS

Perseverance will land on Mars using the new Terrain Relative Navigation system, which allows the lander to avoid any large hazards in the landing zone.

"In past missions, the landing zone needed to be like a parking lot," totally clear of debris, said Andrew Johnson, the rover's manager of the guidance navigation control system. But in the case of Perseverance, "you can place it in craters, steep slopes, rock fields."

A sensor called the lander vision system takes pictures during the parachute descent stage. This matches up with the map provided by images taken from orbit, creating a guide that can identify craters, mountains and other landmarks.

The system provides safe target selection by using its map to rank landing sites for their safety. The lander can look for the safest place to land or even divert to a specific spot if it identifies a hazard. And all of the images collected during the landing stage will be sent to the team on Earth.

This system could later be used to land humans on the moon, as well as Mars.

This rover has MOXIE

Astronauts exploring Mars will need oxygen, but carting enough to sustain them on a spacecraft isn't viable.

Perseverance will carry an apparatus called MOXIE, or the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, to convert Mars' plentiful carbon dioxide into the oxygen astronauts will need to breathe. Oxygen will also be needed for fuel.

With MOXIE, "you don't have to take an estimated 27 metric tons of oxygen to Mars" to get them home," said Mike Hecht, principal investigator for MOXIE at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The small MOXIE experiment will switch on and convert carbon dioxide into oxygen for a couple of hours every month or two of the mission, using about a day's worth of energy on the rover. It will only produce about 10 grams of oxygen an hour -- enough for half of a person, Hecht said.

The MOXIE team will apply lessons learned for developing a larger and more powerful system for a manned mission.

"If a bunch of Mark Watneys are going to risk their lives, we better make sure it works," Hecht said, citing the main character in the novel "The Martian" by Andy Weir.

Monitoring weather and environment

Understanding the weather and environment on Mars will be crucial for determining the conditions astronauts will face.

That's why the rover has its own monitoring sytem. The Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer, called MEDA, is a suite of sensors on the rover to study weather science, dust and radiation, and how they change over Martian seasons.

The instrument will characterize the planet's environment beyond weather -- including variables like temperature, pressure and wind -- and gain a better understanding of solar radiation on the surface, according to Manuel de la Torre Juarez, deputy principal investigator for MEDA. The instrument was contributed by a team from the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid.

The temperature on Mars can vary by as much as 80 or 90 degrees between day and night. Understanding radiation from the surface will tell scientists how much the sun heats the air, which causes wind and temperature changes. They could also understand more about the water cycle of Mars.

Peeking beneath the surface

For the first time, a surface mission will include a ground-penetrating radar instrument called RIMFAX, or Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment. It will be able to peek beneath the surface and study Martian geology, looking for rock, ice and boulder layers.

Scientists hope that RIMFAX will help them understand the geologic history of Jezero Crater, according to David Paige, principal investigator for the experiment at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In the future, RIMFAX, or a version of it, could be used by astronauts to find water beneath the surface.

"One of the most useful things we can find is ice below the surface," Paige said. "It would probably be included in future landers and rovers or airborne vehicles in searching for resources."

Together, the suite of instruments and experiments on Perseverance will add more pieces to complete the puzzle of Mars.

"Rover missions are designed as situation comedies with an ensemble cast," Paige said. "Each member has a specific role that contributes to the overall science and addresses a certain subset of questions. Our main goal is, 'Thank goodness we brought a RIMFAX with us.'"

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Locus Robotics, the market leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses, today announced a strategic partnership with Balloon One, a London-based provider of software and supply chain applications for distribution, manufacturing and e-commerce companies. Together, Balloon One and Locus Robotics will provide customers with a more efficient, cost-effective solution to meet the dramatically increasing demand for e-commerce fulfillment, further driving the adoption of the innovative warehouse technologies offered by both companies.

"As e-commerce continues to explode across all channels, warehouse fulfillment has become a critical part of the economy," said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. "Our partnership will deliver cutting-edge robotics technology to Balloon One customers and drive significant operational efficiency and productivity gains, and a faster time to value."

Through the partnership, Balloon One will offer Locus Robotics' award-winning, multi-bot solution for warehouse fulfillment alongside Krber/HighJump WMS, enabling customers to achieve consistent efficiency gains of 200-300% without the need for expensive or time-consuming infrastructure changes. In addition, the Locus Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model ensures that Balloon One customers can address the challenges of the labor market at a very low start-up cost.

"Balloon One is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with the industry's most technologically advanced autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider, Locus Robotics," said Craig Powell, Managing Director, Balloon One. "The Locus system can be deployed in as little as four (4) weeks and provides two to three (2X-3X) times picker productivity gains. Based on our internal assessment, we believe this technology will become an essential part of our warehouse operations and will provide our customers with a unique and significant advantage in today's increasingly demanding e-commerce landscape."

The COVID-19 pandemic has quickly transformed the retail industry, making online and omnichannel purchasing the new normal across the globe. Locus Robotics' industry-leading robotics fulfillment solution enables brands, retailers, and third-party logistics (3PL) operators to easily meet higher order volumes and increasing consumer demand for e-commerce, retail, omnichannel, and manufacturing order fulfillment. Locus's proven, multi-bot solution for fulfillment incorporates collaborative, autonomous robots that work closely with human employees to improve fulfillment productivity and efficiency consistently doubling or tripling fulfillment productivity, lowers labor costs, with near-100% accuracy, while also enabling users to save 30% or more in operating expenses.

Balloon One will be offering live, in-person demonstrations of the Locus Solution to prospective customers at their new demonstration suite in West London. Demos will provide a hands-on experience to showcase the value of the fully integrated Locus and Krber/HighJump solutions.

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Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have proven to increase the productivity and reduce the cost of warehouse automation operations. While the costs of AMRs continue to drop, even as their capabilities increase, there are often hidden, and sizable, costs associated with their deployment. Heres what to look for, and how to mitigate their impact.

By Jason Walker | July 29, 2020

You may be looking to accelerate your automation projects to increase safety and adjust to new demands. Because of their versatility, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have become the preferred method for automated material handling versus inflexible AGVs or fixed conveyors.

Intangibles Have ConsequencesIf you are considering employing AMRs, you are likely started researching different models and price points to fit your operation and budget. In recent years, AMR capabilities have increased while unit costs have come down making them a real possibility for small and medium-sized businesses. But there are hidden costs to consider, which can delay deployment and reduce the AMRs value to workers and the organization as a whole.

When adding an AMR to your operations, it is vital that you account for both initial, and ongoing, setup, deployment, and reconfiguration efforts that can become expensive if the robot is not easy to use.

As frustration mounts, deployment delays can occur, adding further risk and cost to the overall project.The workforce should be collaborating with the robot, so how will they control the robot? The workers who set up, deploy, and test the AMRs should be empowered to configure the user interfaces too. They will know better than anyone how to set up those devices. But that only works if the devices are accessible to them and easy to master.

How to Get the Most From Your AMRTo realize an AMRs full potential and avoid unexpected costs, look for easy-to-use mobile robots that are designed for the workforce who are on the job today. For this, I recommend paying close attention to the following:

Investing in better tools for workers will make it easier to attract and retain other great workers.

Benefits Beyond Traditional ROIChoosing easy to use mobile robots designed for the workforce will benefit them and impact their company in ways that go far beyond traditional ROI calculations. Workers will be able to put these tools to work immediately and minimize lost time for extensive training.

Workers using great tools are more engaged in their work. They can focus on valuable tasks and leave the monotonous, backbreaking work to the robot. They go home daily with more energy for their families and have a better quality of life. Investing in better tools for workers will make it easier to attract and retain other great workers.

In short, the value of an AMR can extend far beyond automated material handling, but to realize these gains requires a system that can be quickly and easily operated by workers on the job today.

Editors Note: Robotics Business Review would like to thank Waypoint Robotics for permission to publish this piece (lightly edited). The original can be found HERE. All views, thoughts, and opinions expressed therein belong solely to the author.

About the AuthorJason Walker is the CEO and Co-founder of Waypoint Robotics, which develops and manufactures fully autonomous mobile robots that are easy to use, industrial strength, and designed to be setup and used by the workforce that is on the job today. Prior to founding Waypoint, Walker was the Co-founder and Director of Operations at CyPhy Works where he served as Lead Roboticist and Principal Investigator for CyPhy Works contracts with agencies such as DARPA, NIST, and the National Science Foundation. Walker helped grow CyPhy Works into a leading tethered drone supplier in North America. Before co-founding CyPhy Works, he was the quality, reliability, and testing manager for the Roomba vacuuming robot at iRobot. Walker received a BSEE with a concentration in Robotics and Control Systems from Kansas State University and is a lifelong entrepreneur.

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The Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Industry Analysis projects the market to grow at a significant CAGR of 14.95% in terms of value during the forecast period, 2020-2025. North America dominated the global safety, security, and rescue robotics market with a share of 42% by value in 2019. Europe, including countries, such as France, the U.K., and the Netherlands, is the second-most prominent region for the safety, security, and rescue robotics market. In North America, the U.S. acquired a major market share in 2019 due to the maximum manufacturing developments in the company. Asia-Pacific is expected to have the highest CAGR value in the forecast period, 2020-2025.

The global safety, security, and rescue robotics market has gained widespread importance due to the growing geopolitical conflicts as well as the increasing need for naval and land border patrolling and surveillance with unmanned systems. However, the lack of development of high-quality and reliable solutions is one of the major challenges for the market.

This report is intended to be a comprehensive study of global safety, security, and rescue robotics market. The report focuses largely on providing market information for the professional use of safety, security, and rescue robots, that operate in industries and the utility sector. The report also covers different segments based on type, component, application, and region. Additionally, the study focuses on the major driving forces, restraints, and growth opportunities. The major players have been identified on the basis of their revenue generation, geographical presence, and company projects related to the safety, security, and rescue robotics market.

Detailed company profiles have been included in order to understand the strategic behaviors of the market players. The global safety, security, and rescue robotics market is further explained and analyzed based on regions, such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Rest-of-the-World. Moreover, the country analysis has also been done in order to have a clear picture of the safety, security, and rescue robotics market.

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Global Agricultural Robots Market is Expected to Reach $27.35 Billion by 2027. – PRNewswire

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GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --According to Stratistics MRC, the Global Agricultural Robots Market is accounted for $6.03 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $27.35 billion by 2027 growing at a CAGR of 20.8% during the forecast period.

Some of the key players in Agricultural Robots Market include Kubota Corporation, Deere & Company, Cnh Industrial N.V., Agco Corporation, Harvest Automation, Agjunction, Ageagle Aerial Systems, Harvest Croo, Topcon Positioning System, Deepfield Robotics, Autonomous Tractor Corporation, Boumatic Robotics, Robotics Plus, Yanmar Co, Nao Technologies, Ecorobotix, Trimble, and Delaval.

Some of the key factors propelling the market growth are growing population and labor shortage. However, technological barriers are the restraining factors for the growth of the market.

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Equipment used in farming to improve productivity and reduce dependence on manual labor is known as an agricultural robot. These robots help automate tasks carried out by the farmers, thus allowing them to focus more on enhancing overall production yield.

By type, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones segment is expected to grow at a significant market share during the forecast period which is attributed to its low cost when compared to other types of robots.

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Based on geography, North America is anticipated to hold considerable market share during the forecast period owing to the increasing agricultural automation in the major economies like the U.S and Canada.

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Former MP announces bid for Liberal MPP nomination in Kingston and the Islands – Globalnews.ca

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Former MP for Kingston and the Islands Ted Hsu has announced he too will be seeking the nomination for the provincial Liberals.

This comes just weeks after former MPP for the region, Sophie Kiwala, announced she would be running again after losing her seat to NDP MPP Ian Arthur in 2018.

She was one of many Liberal incumbents to lose their seats that election, with the party shrinking down to just seven elected members, one member shy of the Ontario legislatures official party status.

Although Hsu and Kiwala worked closely together, with Kiwala working in Hsus office while he was MP from 2011 to 2015, and Hsu working as her campaign manager in 2018, the two will now be running against each other for the provincial nomination for the 2022 election.

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Hsu chose to leave federal politics before the 2015 election, making room for current MP Mark Gerretsen to take the seat.Now, Hsu wants to get back to centre stage in the political ring.

As my kids and their young friends have grown up and become aware of their world, they tell me how worried they are, Hsu said.

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I want to offer voters someone who has a proven record representing constituents, and also has experience working with scientists, climate researchers, economists, engineers and entrepreneurs, Hsu added.

Before getting into politics, Hsu worked in physics research for 10 years, then in the financial sector for nine years. In 2006, he became executive director of SWITCH, a local sustainable energy association, and also compiled Kingstons first longitudinal greenhouse gas inventory.

Hsu noted that he as MP, he served as the chair of the Ontario Liberal caucus and critic for three areas: economic development in Ontario, post-secondary education, and science and technology.

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Since leaving politics, Hsu has been coaching robotics for local students and been involved in the local start-ups. He has also been serving as co-chair of the Kingston mayors task force on housing, and co-wrote the groups report.

Hsu believes that, with the current turbulence caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, his varied experience, especially in the scientific, political and financial sectors, will be an asset to constituents in Kingston and the Islands.

The pandemic, with its harsh and unequal economic effects and tricky policy decisions, has reminded us how beneficial it is for our elected officials to be able to interact directly with scientists, economists and other experts and to understand them in detail, Hsu said.

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