Keke Palmer condemns rumors that her show was canceled because of Black Lives Matter activism – NBC News

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Keke Palmer addressed rumors that her show "Strahan, Sara and Keke" was canceled because of her public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, calling such speculation "dangerous."

"I want to speak on this simply because I hate the narrative that if you speak your mind as a Black person that you will in some way be punished," Palmer wrote in an Instagram post Sunday, in reference to a meme that read: "Ain't it weird how Keke Palmer was seen protesting and preaching to the police about racism in our country then ABC decides to cancel her show."

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"I have seen this going around and at first I ignored [it], but in this climate I realized this is a dangerous message to send to our generation and the generation coming up," Palmer added. "If anything, my speaking out showed the corporations I work with how important my voice is and anyone that has a POV."

The 26-year-old actress began appearing on the ABC daytime talk show "Strahan and Sara" in 2019, filling in for both co-hosts Michael Strahan and Sara Haines on various occasions before she joined the show as an official co-host last August.

ABC pulled the show off the air in March, replacing it with Pandemic: What You Need to Know, a daily coronavirus report hosted by Amy Robach. Though ABC has not announced whether "Strahan, Sara and Keke" has officially been canceled, Page Six reported earlier this month that the show will be permanently taken off air. Neither ABC nor Palmer, who was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host category in May, responded to NBC News' requests for comment.

Though the future of the "Strahan, Sara and Keke" is uncertain, Palmer confirmed that she would no longer appear on the show.

"This business is dynamic and instead of thinking of me as a 'series regular' see me as a brand that works with the corporation Disney/ABC News and this particular show I was on is no longer," Palmer wrote. "When I see such fear mongering comments I want to speak out so that no one ever feels or thinks that speaking out will cost them their job! Im sure it can and has before, but lets also recognize when it has not. That way more of us with our own minds speak out against any injustices we see."

Palmer has been a vocal advocate for racial justice and went viral earlier this year for urging National Guard members to walk alongside marchers at a Black Lives Matter protest.

"Trust me, walking in my truth has always made my blessings OVERFLOW and connect to those that are like minded and not with those that are not," Palmer wrote. "Do not believe this lie."

Gwen Aviles is a trending news and culture reporter for NBC News.

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Voices: ‘Non-essential’ businesses need your support to thrive – Northern Nevada Business Weekly

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CARSON CITY, Nev. No one wants this pandemic to go away more than the once robust non-essential business community that, up until March 20, had no idea they were non-essential.

What was deemed essential to our everyday quality of life was deemed non-essential by government, whose every job was deemed essential whether they were to report to work or not. Essential, too, were the manufacturing and construction trades.

Even the medical community was not spared from this term, as hospitals were only opening their doors to COVID-19 patients, with some hospitals in the more rural communities seeing almost none, and doctors were not able to schedule elective surgeries, usually the money makers.

While construction workers were busily at work and manufacturers continued to operate, those in the hospitality and retail industry found themselves completely shut out of the workforce without means to pay bills until the federal government stepped in.

The self-employed within the beauty and health industries had to immediately cancel long-standing appointments. Casinos, the backbone for tax collection for school funding, were to shut down operations immediately, and that mandated shutdown will affect school funding for years as they scramble to make up the shortfall.

But you know all that, since much of Carson City became a ghost town and as we were encouraged to go on a forced sabbatical in our homes praying for the passing of the pandemic. What we had taken for granted was no more.

Retail parking lots were empty, casino lights were dark, restaurants could only provide limited take-out, schools were closed. Those who had read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand saw the effect of a government shutdown predicted in the novel. We were becoming hermits although the internet kept us connected and streaming services became our entertainment.

Then came the realization the hospitality and retail trades were, indeed, essential to Nevadas employment and tax base. Reaching the highest unemployment figures in the country and seeing the government bottom line shrink was an eye-opener to government accountants, and it seemed there was a new modicum of respect for these heretofore unsung sectors.

Those of us living outside of Clark County often lament we wish what happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas, but as the tax revenue generator of the state, we saw what the employment stats and tax revenue shortfall this powerful worldwide acclaimed tourism city had on our future economic well-being.

And, we saw the other side: the highest spread of COVID-19 in the state, mostly emanating out of Clark County, that will affect the continued well-being of the rest of the state as the governor called for a continuation of Phase 2 on June 29 until the virus is contained.

If Las Vegas shuts down, will the rest of the state suffer the consequences?

On June 24, the governor mandated all must wear face coverings when in public places. Non-essential businesses already in compliance were mandated to turn away customers who might refuse to wear a covering, thus suddenly taking on the unwelcome role of first-line enforcers.

The rules of good customer service were to be waived as Nevada is now considered to have the highest COVID-19 cases per capita. If the mandates are not followed by customers and NV OSHA is in the building, this fragile respite from shut-down and stay-at-home orders could easily and quite suddenly be reinstated and the business shuttered or fined.

The business community must heed the edicts of the governor or be forced out of business, for the Nevada Constitution allows for these types of demands citing the governor has the supreme executive power of this state.

The mental and financial cost of this pandemic cannot be measured on the non-essential business community and their employees as they struggle against all odds including not being able to find needed products to maintain a germ-free environment in their brick-and-mortar establishment, adding to the cost of doing business as customers are increasingly turning to online shopping as the most convenient and safest method of staying safe and hassle-free.

Thanks to online shopping, Carson City recently reported no downturn in the sales tax figures, citing they were ahead of last year.

While online shopping does add sales tax to the government general fund, if we lose our brick-and-mortar stores, we lose our character the character we have worked so hard to attain and millions of tax dollars to gain. We also lose many jobs.

As the legislature argues along party lines as to the next move, let us hope struggling businesses will not be hit with yet another tax increase for when it comes to looking for more revenue, the business community becomes the top target.

Although the catch phrase is, We are all in this together, that may be true when it comes to being able to catch the virus, but it is not true when it comes to various employment sectors deemed non-essential enough to be shut down on a whim, affecting thousands.

While the purse strings may be held by government, it is the pennies collected from the taxpayer that fill the always hollow purse and unless the private sector is working, those pennies will be few and far between.

We urge you to support local businesses and wear your face covering. Many of us are totally uncomfortable doing so, but in the end, it is a small price to pay for staying healthy and righting this listing economic ship, no matter the politics.

Ronni Hannaman is the Executive Director of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce. This Voices column first published July 10 in the Nevada Appeal, a sister publication of the NNBW.

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Are the Indian rich immune to the tax us syndrome? – BusinessLine

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The peculiar affliction among millionaires around the world that has seen them practically begging their governments to tax them more.

Really, are there such millionaires?

You bet. Earlier this week, nearly 100 of the worlds richest people issued a statement directed at their governments, in which the operative phrase was: Tax us. Tax us. Tax us. They wanted governments to raise taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently.

Whoa, why are they begging to be taxed more?

Their argument and there is much merit in it is that the Covid-19 pandemic has devastated economies around the world, and has left governments resource-constrained. And since millionaires are not frontline workers they are not taking care of the sick or driving the ambulances or restocking grocery store shelves or delivering food they ought to contribute in other ways, they reason.

Doesnt it? So, as the signatories to the Millionaires for Humanity statement note, where they can help out is in terms of resources. We do have money, lots of it. Money that is desperately needed now and will continue to be needed in the years ahead, as our world recovers from this crisis, they observe. And since the coronavirus crisis and the economic aftermath could push half a billion more people into poverty, governments should take these moneyed people up on their offer.

Who exactly are these model millionaires?

The signatories include Ben and Jerrys ice cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield, Disney scion Abigail Disney, British director Richard Curtis, Irish venture capitalist John OFarrell, and many others. They banded together under the umbrella of groups called the Patriotic Millionaires, Human Act, Tax Justice UK, Club of Rome, Resource Justice, besides Oxfam.

But no Indian millionaires on the list, I take it?

Not one.

Why do you think that is?

Well, typically the moneyed class anywhere would argue and India millionaires would, too that their philanthropic activities do more societal good than any government could. And, of course, the classic libertarian argument extends so far as to say that all taxation is theft.

Youd think. Libertarian writer Ayn Rands 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged channelled that philosophical argument passionately. The Atlas in the book represented the prime movers the few who bear the burden of the global economy who go on strike to protest the excessive regulation and taxation, and leave the world in disarray.

In 1957, the top marginal federal income tax rate in the US was 91 per cent, far higher than it is today.

India, too, had similar tax rates, didnt it?

In 1974-75, the peak tax rate was 97.75 per cent. In other words, the government appropriated virtually all of a moneyed persons earnings beyond a threshold. But theres a difference between India and the US.

In the US, periods of high marginal rates of taxation coincided with periods of high productive growth in the economy. Progressive taxation worked. In India, however, such high rates of taxation, which gave little incentive to earn beyond a threshold, only spawned a humongous black economy, which has never truly been exorcised since then.

If governments are able to persuasively establish that tax revenues are being put to good use, it would be difficult to argue as millionaires, including in India, do that their philanthropy is a better channel for societal good than progressive taxation is.

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NEWS WATCH: AHOY COMICS Announces 5th Wave Titles Due Out this Fall and Winter – Comic Watch

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AHOY COMICS, the comic company responsible for such titles as THE WRONG EARTH, the sci-fi spoof CAPTAIN GINGER, and HASHTAG: DANGER is back with Wave 5, scheduled to hit stands this fall and winter.

The Syracuse-based independent publisher that pledged for readers to expect more from its line of comic book magazines and graphic novels, with the return of some old favorites and some that are new. The jam-packed line-up builds on AHOYs tendency to tackle serious topics with their signature off-kilter humor.

In a press release from the publisher, editor-in-chief Tom Peyer promised:

Police brutality! Science denial! The unshakeable feeling that weve slipped into a parallel world where up is down, right is wrong, and Dragonflyman is Dragonfly! These are the big, heady topics preoccupying people across the globe right nowso, of course, we felt it our duty to try to make a buck off them. If billionaires can get richer while civilization collapses, so can we!

AHOY Comics Publisher Hart Seely added to the editor-in-chiefs comments saying.

All we wanted was to be funny, but we keep accidentally speaking to the deeper issues plaguing society. Should we be less funny? Or should society be less full of plagues? You decide.

PENULTIMAN #1

Back from the futureagain! Penultiman, The Next-To-Last-Stage In Human Evolution, is the greatest, best-looking, and most admired super-hero in the world! So how can he stop hating himself? His android understudy, Antepenultiman, thinks he knows the answer! Created by Tom Peyer (THE WRONG EARTH) and Alan Robinson (PLANET OF THE NERDS). Featuring a variant cover by Jamal Igle (THE WRONG EARTH, Black).

Ship date: October 7, 2020, Resolicited from the Plague Times all previous orders have been canceled.

EDGAR ALLAN POES SNIFTER OF BLOOD #1

The SNIFTER OF TERROR returns with an all-star snark-fest under a bloody new title! Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) and Russell Braun (The Boys) reimagine Poes Black Catas a dog! In Atlas Shrugged (no relation), Mr. X creator Dean Motter settles science vs. religion once and for all! Plus: prose, pix, and a cover by Scary Godmothers Jill Thompson!

Ship Date: October 21, 2020

HAPPY HOUR #1

In future America, being happy isnt just a rightits the law. While the Joy Police brutally enforce the cheery code, two young people go on the run, searching for a haven of melancholy where they can safely bask in the blues.

Ship date: November 4, 2020

SECOND COMING: ONLY BEGOTTEN SON #1

The savior and the superhero return for a new round of shared adventuresbut first, we turn back time to witness the interplanetary origin of Sunstar!

Warning: portrays science denial, mass extinction, and real estate sales!

Ship date: December 16, 2020

THE WRONG EARTH: NIGHT & DAY #1

The stars of THE WRONG EARTH and DRAGONFLY & DRAGONFLYMAN return! Racing to prevent identical catastrophes that threaten the separate earths they inhabit, gritty Dragonfly and his campy doppelganger Dragonflyman follow the clues to a third earth, where they at last come face-to-face!

Ship date: January 6, 2021

Stuart Moore, who is in charge of Ops at the publisher, said,

At AHOY, weve either been lucky or smart lately, but both BILLIONAIRE ISLAND and ASH & THORN hit at just the right time. HAPPY HOUR and PENULTIMAN are just as well suited to this moment in time. Who cant relate to being locked up in a place where you have to pretend to be happy all the time? Or feeling like youre a secret fraud, even when you have super-evolved mental powers? As a reminder, PENULTIMAN #0, the very first installment in the PENULTIMAN saga from STEEL CAGE, is still available for free from Comixology.

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Apollo 11 Anniversary: Wernher Von Braun and the Ethics of Techno-Capitalism – The Wire

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The critique of science should not be concerned with science as an abstract practice. Instead, it should be fearless in confronting the already ethically contaminated reality of science, its urgent historical present.

For understood more broadly, science is more than just a practice, it is a culture a code of conduct and state of perception affecting every single moment of our tragically celebrated contemporary lives. Its birth and course can be attributed to a vast historical line up of politicians, philosophers, economist, cultural theorists and, ironically less so, some scientists; all of whom have contributed in establishing scientism as a daily 21st century practise commanded by the few and passively absorbed by the many.

The Creator Father, as represented in most popular faiths, is a Hypocrite par excellence. Since the birth of His omnipresence, His timeless Word of love, hope, prosperity and tolerance has been historically trounced and abused by political agendas fuelled by greed, self interest and domination. One can imagine His cringeworthy defence, as though caught cheating: This isnt what it looks like, I work in mysterious ways, theres a bigger plan here that you just arent meant to understand.

Indeed, His mysterious ways may very well be credited as historically engendering the essence of noble irony a device that justifies and even legitimises ethical inconsistencies and broken virtues as part of a bigger noble plan that simultaneously promises to deliver the contrary. The figure of Pater Familias of modern science thus lends itself fittingly to Wernher von Braun.

Von Braun was an accomplished amateur musician with ancestry tracing back to European aristocracy. He could play Beethoven and Bach from memory. After receiving a telescope as a gift from his mother for his Lutheran confirmation he developed a lifelong enthusiasm for astronomy and space. At the age of twelve he caused a major disruption in a crowded street in Berlin by detonating a toy wagon attached to a number of fireworks. His childhood dream was to transport man to the moon and discover new worlds. Instead, in 1937 he joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (number: 5,738,692) and in 1940 he became an officer in the Waffen-SS (number: 185,068).

During this time he developed the V-2 rocket that was launched towards London in 1944, which led him to say The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet. On joining the National Socialist German Workers Party, he said My refusal to join the party would have meant that I would have to abandon the work of my life. Therefore, I decided to join. My membership in the party did not involve any political activities However, more concentration camp slave labourers were killed building the V-2 rockets than by its use as a weapon.

In 1945, von Braun surrendered to and was recruited by the United States Army. False employment records were fabricated in order to expunge his regime affiliations from public record. Between 1950 and 1956, he led the United States Armys rocket development team, resulting in the Redstone rocket, which was used for the first live nuclear ballistic missile tests. He then developed the Jupiter-C, a modified Redstone rocket, which successfully launched the Wests first satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958, signalling the birth of Americas space program. His dream to help mankind set foot on the Moon became a reality on July 16, 1969.

In 1975 he received the National Medal of Science for his work in making the liquid-fuel rocket a practical launch vehicle and for individual contributions to a series of advanced space vehicles, culminating in the Saturn series that made the Apollo program possible.

(Editors note: On 51 years ago this day, the Apollo 11 mission that first landed humans on the Moon lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre.)

Von Braun holds an air of authority and confidence which radiates with a celestial patriarchal glow. His brawny broad shouldered build, charismatic European accent and bold intellectual composure reinforce his utter godliness. He was celebrated on the cover of Time Magazine in 1958 as MISSILEMAN VON BRAUN and developed the idea of a Space Camp for children, training them in fields of science and space technologies as well as mental development. He also worked at Disney Studios as a technical director for television films about space exploration. It would seem, then, that his intentions were well meaning.

Indeed, throughout his life von Braun claimed to have remained committed to the ethical use of technology:

All of mans scientific and engineering efforts will be in vain unless they are performed and utilized within a framework of ethical standards commensurate with the magnitude of the scope of the technological revolution. The more technology advances, the more fateful will be its impact on humanity.

He held a strong position regarding religion and science, stating that the two are not antagonists, but sisters: My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? In fact, he justified handing over his research to the United States Army as a moral choice:

We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured.

It seems that von Braun always knew how to present himself and what to say. As such, he worked in masterfully mysterious ways. On the one hand, he was a hard working apolitical visionary pursuing his noble childhood dream. His words were consistently ethically considered and insightful. Yet, on the other hand, his actions and affiliations to the Nazis and United States Army spoke a different truth. His inconsistent ethics and deep rooted noble irony thus make him an appropriate father to most fields of modern science where his example, though in subtler forms, has become archetypal; and where claiming highly ethical apolitical principles, yet contributing obliviously in secular faith to the advances of ruthless military and economic expansion, has become a norm.

The road to hell, writes Marx, is paved with good intentions. (Marx 2981) To separate science from the economic formations that support it would be a grave mistake. Technology reveals the active relation of man to nature, the direct process of the production of his life, and thereby it also lays bare the process of the production of the social relations of his life, and of the mental conceptions that flow from those relations. (Marx 493, fn.4) Science and technology are thus composed as part of an ecological totality, what Henri Lefebvre refers to as an ensemble or Gilles Deleuze as an assemblage, of moments coevolving in an open, dialectical manner (Harvey 1962).

Their marriage to industry began in the 18th and 19th centuries, during the industrial revolution, entailing the breaking down of labour processes into mechanised component parts. The consequences were horrific and dehumanising. As newly discovered machines and inventions grew larger, manufacture developed its foundations for large-scale industry, giving birth to a mechanical monster whose body fills whole factories, and whose demonic power, at first hidden by the slow and measured motions of its gigantic members, finally bursts forth in the fast and feverish whirl of its countless working organs. (Marx 503)

Under these conditions, the special skills of each labourer were deprived of all significance, vanishing as an infinitesimal quantity in the face of science, the gigantic natural forces, and the mass of social labour embodied in the system of machinery, which constituted the power of the master (Marx 549). An elite superior class of skilled and scientifically educated engineers, who designed the machines, would now reign over the labourers in alliance with the capitalists a partnership not immensely different from that between religion and the feudal state that preceded it.

Capitalism thus discovered a technological basis consistent with its rules of circulation and hoarding. Under this scheme, technological innovation meant better efficiency and thus extra immediate profit for the individual capitalist in competition. Historically, then, it is clearly evident that science and technology were never socio-politically neutral, since they were integral to the social relations, mental conceptions and ways of producing and living that they had been designed and intended to internalise.

Simultaneously, as capitalism technologically matured, its philosophy was refined. The influence of Social Darwinism was fundamental to this. Marx accurately identified that Charles Darwins theory and language was directly influenced by and drew metaphors from capitalist ideology (and specifically the writings of economist Thomas Robert Malthus), legitimising capitalism as natural by appealing to theories of competition and survival of the fittest (a term wrongly attributed to Darwin but in fact coined by Herbert Spencer).

Natural scientists, he argued, because they failed to understand their historical moment and were barred by their methodological commitments from integrating human history into their models of the world, frequently ended up with at best partial and at worst serious misinterpretations of the world [concealing their] historical and political assumptions under a supposedly neutral and objective science. (Harvey 197) Indeed, in a letter to Engels, Marx wrote It is remarkable how Darwin recognises among beasts and plants his English society with its division of labour, competition, opening up the markets, inventions and the Malthusian struggle for existence. (Marx to Engels 1283)

The case of Wernher von Brauns noble irony thus extends itself seamlessly from the scientist over to the capitalist, whose ethics of production and consumption are safeguarded by the ambiguity of commodity fetishism and a noble end none other but the self.

Ayn Rand, whose book Atlas Shrugged was published in the 1950s, and by the 90s became the second most popular book after the Bible in the United States, devised what she referred to as a new heroic code of morality, that of Objectivism4. According to this code, mans highest moral achievement is the achievement of his own happiness, and each man must live as an end in himself, following his own rational self-interest.

The group most inspired by Rand were the entrepreneurs and scientists of Silicon Valley in California, who were working on biotechnology, computers, the internet and networking.5 Many of them named their companies and even their children afterRand and her novels. They saw themselves as Randian heroes, practising the noble virtues of selfishness. Alongside Rand were economists, philosophers, artists and politicians, who helped establish her code as the benchmark for a free and ethically progressive civilised West.

However, herein lies Rands noble irony, for her code lends itself untroubled in legitimising oppression and domination. On her position regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example, Rand stated the following:

if you mean whose side should one be on, Israel or the Arabs, I would certainly say Israel because it is the advanced, technological, civilised country amidst a group of almost totally primitive savages who have not changed for years and who are racist and who resent Israel because it is bringing industry, and intelligence, and modern technology

In response to this alarming statement, suddenly, one may become suspicious of the ethics of Rands Atlas Shrugged hero, John Galt, who invites his audience to change the world by pronouncing the following oath: I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Large-scale technology and science, it seems, have come to embody the unforgiving and resentfully charged capitalist ego, whereby the noble claim that it is all for the betterment of mankind is cheaply repeated without any meaning whatsoever in order to justify more corporate greed, more consumption and more exploitation.

Perhaps today, at the very epitome and demise of global free market capitalism, we are in the position to judge whether such a code is ethical or not and, in doing so, reject the noble irony of Wernher von Braun and Ayn Rand as examples to live by. For is this monstrous irony, this virus, whereby we are aroused to action only by the fraudulent nobleness of selfishness one that we can bear much longer?

This article was originally published on Critical Legal Thinking, a blog dedicated to the radical critique of law and politics, in March 2012. It has been republished here under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Read the original here.

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Minister of National Security Marvin Dames said yesterday the government remains concerned about the threat of undocumented migrants infected with COVID-19 entering The Bahamas illegally.

Dames, who was responding to questions from Eyewitness News, said the defense force has increased its presence in the southern Bahamas and other key entry points.

Last Wednesday, two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Grand Bahama a 20-year-old undocumented migrant and a Grand Bahamian woman.

Eyewitness Newsunderstands the undocumented migrant is a Haitian national, who had been living in Eight Mile Rock since March.

Its something that we are aware of, Dames said.

Every week as a Cabinet we discuss the COVID problem at length.

I think you can see the result of that to date so far. We have been one of those countries throughout the world that have actually been leading in our preventive measures to fight against this pandemic.

He continued: We understand ours is a very porous border. Were an archipelago stretched over some 100,000 square miles of sea and so were on heightened alert.

I just visited with the commodore not too long ago and then had a very good briefing. We have our presence out in the southern Bahamas and those key entry points into our borders. Were not only concerned about [Haiti], were concerned about every country. Were concerned about every citizen, every foreign person coming into this country. We have to ensure and we have put measures in place.

Haiti, which the Pan American Health Organization labeled a humanitarian crisis in relation to the pandemic, has become a COVID-19 hotspot in the Caribbean.

The Bahamas southern neighbor has experienced a large scale outbreak of cases and had more than 13 deaths over a two-day period.

The total death toll was last reported at 139 and there have been nearly 7,000 cases since March 19.

Pressed on the threat of imported cases from undocumented migrants, Dames said: I am certain as I said before, we will look at that as we have been looking at every incident prior to it.

We keep updated charts on trends and whats happening, and how things are happening and what we can do to mitigate and to address, and focus on the issues because at the end of the day we want a nation thats safe from this very, very devastating virus.

We cant afford it to overrun our communities. We cant afford it to inundate our hospitals.

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‘Renovation Island’: Here’s How Much It Costs to Stay at the Baeumler Family’s Luxury Bahamas Beach Resort – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

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Renovating a house is a big undertaking. Renovating an entire resort? Thats a project on a whole other level. But its a challenge the Baeumler family felt they were up to. Home renovation experts Bryan and Sarah Baeumler packed up their four kids and relocated to the Bahamas, where they planned to renovate an entire resort. Their odyssey is chronicled in the HGTV series Renovation Island.

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When the Baeumlers bought an abandoned 10-acre resort on the island of South Andros, they had big dreams. They wanted to turn the rundown vacation spot into an island oasis, with 18 luxury hotel rooms, 22 ocean-front villas, and plenty of resort amenities. And they wanted to do it all in six months.

Bryan and Sarah along with a small staff dove right in, tackling a long list of must-do projects that had to be completed before they could welcome any guests. That included renovating the propertys full-service restaurant, clubhouse, spa, pool, and bar.

This is the biggest change our family has faced and the largest project weve ever taken on, Bryan said, adding that the family was risking absolutely everything on the venture.

Everyone said we were crazy, said Sarah. But our hearts said yes this is the right thing to do.

The renovation of the Baeumlers resort is still playing out on HGTV. But its not a huge spoiler to say that they did eventually complete the project (though we dont know if they got it done in their six-month time frame.) Caerula Mar Club which Conde Nast Traveler named one of the best new hotels of 2020 was the first new hotel on South Andros Island in nearly two decades, and its currently taking reservations.

Per night prices at Caerula Mar Club start at $385, according to the resorts website. Private beach villas are $865 a night and up. The resort is currently closed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic but is accepting bookings from October 24, 2020.

All rooms and villas feature luxurious details like premium linens and full or partial ocean views. There are also several dining options on-site, a spa, free bikes you can use to explore the surrounding area, and (of course) a gorgeous beach.

Caerula Mar Club has only been open for a few months (the pandemic hit just six weeks after the grand opening, Bryan shared on Instagram), so it doesnt have a ton of online reviews yet. But those who have visited the resort have raved about it.

One family that stayed for a week this spring called the hotel wonderful and worth every dollar spent in a TripAdvisor review. Another said the resort was very remote, but so relaxing. Many praised both the delicious food and the attentive service.

Bryan and Sarah Baeumlur are the owners of this specialized resort and they have done an amazing job of renovating and updating this once forgotten place in paradise, one guest shared. The atmosphere is quiet and tranquil and the beauty of the island and beaches surpassed our expectations.

Renovation Island airs Sundays at 8/7c on HGTV.

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What is Trending in Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Market? What are the Strategies to Boost Business in Near Years? -…

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In this report, the study analysis was given on a worldwide scale, for instance, present and traditional Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapiesgrowth analysis, competitive analysis, and also the growth prospects of the central regions. The report gives an exhaustive investigation of this market at country &, regional levels, and provides an analysis of the industry trends in each of the sub-segments, from sales, revenue and consumption. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the main players in related regions is introduced, from the perspective of sales, revenue and price.

According to Research, the global Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies market was valued at USD xxx million in 2019, and it is expected to reach a value of USD xxx million by 2026, at a CAGR of xx% over the forecast period 2021-2026. Correspondingly, the forecast analysis of Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies industry comprises of Asia, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa, Europe, with the sales and revenue data in each of the sub-segments.

At the upcoming section, this report discusses industrial policy, economic environment, in addition to the fabrication processes and cost structures of the industry. And this report encompasses the fundamental dynamics of the market which include drivers, opportunities, and challenges faced by the industry. Additionally, this report showed a keen market study of the main consumers, raw material manufacturers and distributors, etc.

Geographically, this report is segmented into several key Regions, with production, consumption, revenue (M USD), market share and growth rate of Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies in these regions, from 2014 to 2026 (forecast), covering

Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)

North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)

Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)

South America (Brazil, Argentina, Columbia)

Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)

Global Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies market competition by top manufacturers, with production, price, revenue (value) and market share for each manufacturer, the top players including

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Colorado Surgical Center&, Hair Institute

Evolution Hair Loss Institute

Hair Sciences Center of Colorado

Hair Transplant Institute of Miami

Anderson Center for Hair

Virginia Surgical Center

Savola Aesthetic Dermatology Center

On the basis of product, this report displays the production, revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type, primarily split into

Platelet Rich Plasma Injections

Stem Cell Therapy

On the basis on the end users/applications, this report focuses on the status and outlook for major applications/end users, consumption (sales), market share and growth rate of Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies for each application, including

Dermatology Clinics

Hospitals

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Chapter One: Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Market Overview

Chapter Two: Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Market Segment Analysis by Player

Chapter Three: Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Market Segment Analysis by Type

Chapter Four: Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Market Segment Analysis by Application

Chapter Five: Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Market Segment Analysis by Sales Channel

Chapter Six: Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Market Segment Analysis by Region

Chapter Seven: Profile of Leading Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies Players

Chapter Eight: Upstream and Downstream Analysis of Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies

Chapter Nine: Development Trend of Stem Cell and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Alopecia Therapies (2020-2029)

Chapter Ten: Appendix

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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.

How could you and I have let America's railroads die?

We Rock Islanders have more reason to ask that than most. The Rock Island road was not only a mighty fine road, it was named after us and we owed it all those things godparents owe. The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad became the first train to reach the Mississippi River in 1854; two years later it crossed the Mississippi, and headed west as the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and later, as the Rock Island Lines.

By the 1920s, some 74 trains a day were arriving and departing from stations within sight of Rock Island, moving out along the river or climbing through valleys between the bluffs, an octopus, the writer Frank Norris called it, deciding which towns flourished and which died.

That is why none of us could believe the news in 1975 when the Rock Island Lines declared bankruptcy. What measly matter of a few dollars could take down these mighty machines on their iron rails? The Rock had just traded in its old red engines for a modern logo and a new blue, white, and black color scheme.

We knew, of course, that the Rock had only one passenger train left, a slower and slower round trip from Rock Island to Chicago as the rail bed gave way, but that trip was still a popular stress reliever: breakfast on the train at 6:40, shopping or theater in Chicago, and dinner on the return trip that evening at 5:30, civilization even students could afford.

In 1979, the trips to Chicago stopped. Storms that year killed harvests and dried up shipping revenues. We still did not believe. This was our Rock.

Then, early in 1980 a federal judge ordered the line liquidated, the first liquidation of a Class 1 railroad in U.S. history. Seven thousand workers were out of jobs and the great Silvis Shops, once the largest and most modern railroad repair works in the country, lay silent.

I am reminded of that famous tombstone epigraph: "I told you I was sick."

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LIHUE Hawaii officials Monday announced plans to reopen schools to students on Aug. 4. Teachers are set to return July 29.

The decision was announced during a joint news conference Monday afternoon in which Gov. David Ige cited the states decision to push back the pre-travel testing program to Sept. 1 as one of the reasons to move forward with HIDOEs reopening date. He stated, We do not want to reopen our schools and receive more travelers simultaneously. A phased approach will help ensure a safe return for our students and minimize other factors that could lead to the spread of COVID-19 that we have been able to carefully manage so far.

To minimize the spread of COVID-19, DOH has advised the Hawaii Department Of Education to use a symptom screening checklist for staff and students, which is included in HIDOEs Return to Learn Health and Safety Handbook.

The Department of Health has been working closely with the DOE on ensuring the safe reopening of schools, said Health Director Bruce Anderson. We will continue to work with the DOE in assisting them to ensure their staff are fully informed, response plans are in place, and safe practices and reporting protocols are ready prior to the opening of schools.

State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park said, The planning process has followed CDC recommendations and DOH guidance on ohana bubbles, masking, and distancing variations by age. These measures will not completely eliminate possible cases, but they will reduce the risk to students and control the spread of illness in schools.

Officials said Monday as the situation evolves or as new health and safety guidance becomes available, the State will adjust plans to ensure that a safe learning and working environment is provided for students, teachers, and staff.

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Grand Island, NY (WBEN) - It appears Amazon will no longer be bringing a massive distribution center to Grand Island.

Buffalo Business First reports that the the developer behind the so-called Project Olive has put the project on hold. The project was scheduled to be discussed during Monday's Town Board meeting.

Earlier this month, town Planning Board members voted against a request to rezone the proposed area of development to a planned development district.

In a public forum earlier this year, residents had brought up the main concern of overcrowding the Grand Island Bridges as a reason to not push ahead.

Town Supervisor John Whitney described the proposal as the largest development project proposed to Grand Island in the history of Grand Island, but also expressed concern of a potential traffic nightmare.

We are very concerned about the traffic on the bridges, we have to see what they propose to mitigate that, he said.

The plot of land is situated next to the I-190 at exit 20B. The project would have created 1,000 jobs whencompleted. The developmentcalled for 1,855 parking spaces for cars, 16 parking spaces for motorcycles and 219 parking spaces for tractor trailers. The facility itself would beone of the tallest structuresin Grand Island.

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Were devastated, Bone Island Grille co-owner says of employees positive COVID-19 test, temporary closure – MLive.com

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SUMMIT TWP., MI Bone Island Grille is closed for two weeks after an employee tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The employee was tested Sunday, July 19, and received the COVID-19 positive results the morning of Monday, July 20, co-owner Karen Drushal said. The employee is experiencing very mild symptoms, she said.

As soon as we got the positive results, we closed our restaurant, Drushal said. We didnt have to we voluntarily did that on our own because we knew being the first time that happened in our restaurant it was going be a shock to everyone. We wanted to get the whole place comfortable again for our customers.

Customers who visited Bone Island Grille, 4614 Francis St., between July 14-18, should talk to their doctor if theyre concerned, and watch for symptoms, Drushal said. The restaurant cant say specifically when the employee worked because its possible the illness spread between employees and shifts before any testing was done, she said.

The restaurant should hopefully reopen around Aug. 4, but its dependent on additional testing, Drushal said. All employees should be tested by Wednesday, July 22, she said.

Its just kind of wait and see right now to see if theres any more cases, Drushal said.

The bar area now features a plexiglass barrier at the Bone Island Grille, 4614 Francis Street in Jackson, on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The restaurant just reopened for takeout service and is preparing to open with limited seating capacity on Monday, June 8.J. Scott Park | MLive.com

The restaurant is working closely with the Jackson County Health Department and following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Drushal said.

As the restaurant prepared to open June 8, the possibility of an employee testing positive was in the back of the minds of Drushal and co-owner Frank Slaby, she said, but they didnt realize how it would feel to actually live it.

Were devastated, Drushal said. We just got back to work. Our employees have worked so hard to get our standards where they should be for this pandemic thats going. We take every safety measure. Weve taken their temperature every day. Weve got logs. We have hourly sanitation. We have masks that were wearing, in the back, in the front, wherever were doing anything.

When Bone Island Grille reopens for a second time, it will be with even more cleanings and safety measures, Drushal said. They will continue to work with the health department to keep people as safe as possible, she said.

Youre out there in the public anytime theres a risk factor, Drushal said. Its just a risk factor that unfortunately happened at our place.

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Easter Island’s Rapa Nui People Uphold Tradition as Guardians of The Ocean – The Pew Charitable Trusts

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Easter Island, a territory of Chile that lies some 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) west of that countrys coast, is world famous for its Moai statues, which are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Now the treasures off the shores of this remote island are safeguarded as well with the creation of the Rapa Nui Marine Protected Area (MPA) in 2018. The surrounding waters, which contain unique biodiversity, feed the local Rapa Nui people and help them continue centuries-old cultural traditions.

Though still largely unexplored, Easter Islands waters are known to contain geological hot spots teeming with life in an area of the Pacific Ocean that is otherwise extremely poor in nutrients. A chain of underwater seamounts provides conditions that help sustain unique wildlife such as the Easter Island butterflyfish, or tipi tipi in local dialect, and the Nazca bigeyetwo of the more than 140 species found only in Rapa Nui waters. The area also harbors 27 Threatened or Endangered species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and is an important spawning ground for many species, including tuna, marlins, and swordfish. The seafloor off the island is also home to the only hydrothermal vents in Chilean waters.

Marine species, including the moray eel, depend on the healthy corals found in Easter Islands waters. Eduardo Sorensen The Pew Charitable Trusts

Increasingly, commercial fishing fleets are pushing into every nook of the worlds oceans. Left unchecked, this activity could quicklyand irreversiblydamage Easter Islands special marine environment. Satellite data gathered and analyzed under a project supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Bertarelli Foundation show that despite the islands isolation, industrial fishing had probably occurred around Easter Island.

To guard against such an occurrence, the Rapa Nui community worked to create a large MPA around the island that will be off-limits to industrial commercial fishing and other extractive activities, while traditional Rapa Nui fishing practices will be protected. The Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project collaborated with the islanders on this effort, which establishes the Rapa Nui people as global leaders in ocean conservation and in preservation of an indigenous culture strongly tied to the ocean.

After years of efforts by the Rapa Nui to protect their unique marine ecosystems, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed the decree creating the Rapa Nui MPA on Feb. 27, 2018.

By securing designation of the MPA and playing an essential role in its management, Easter Islanders are protecting waters that figure centrally in long-standing cultural traditions, such as their custom of using handheld lines and rocks to catch fish.

Shortly after taking office that same year, President Sebastin Piera established the Ocean Council to guide management of the protected area. The 11 members include six Rapa Nui elected by the community, the governor of Easter Island, and one representative each from the Development Council known as CODEIPA, the Ministry of Environment, Undersecretary of Fisheries, and Ministry of Defense. The council is working to develop a management plan for the MPA, plan the construction of a science and education center, and ensure the islands artisanal fisheries are managed sustainably.

Easter Islands waters are known to contain geological hot spots and oases teeming with life. Eduardo Sorensen The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ancient Polynesians sailed the Pacific for thousands of years, using the stars and currents as their guides. Those seafaring skills and deep connection to the ocean helped to shape the modern-day Rapa Nui. Protecting Easter Islands waters allows the locals to sustain and strengthen their ties to their natural environment and to their ancestors.

Easter Island is celebrated for its hundreds of striking stone Moai statues. The Pew Charitable Trusts

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This Couple Has Lived For 29 Years On An Island They Built Themselves – ksltv.com

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(CNN) As stay-at-home orders due to the ongoing pandemic have forced many of us to learn to love solitude and become reacquainted with our homes, one couples life has remained virtually unchanged.

Ten miles north of Tofino, British Columbia, off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Catherine King and Wayne Adams live on a sustainable, floating compound. Its called Freedom Cove, a labor of love, hand-built using recycled and salvaged materials. Its been their home for the past 29 years.

Freedom Cove is a 25-minute boat ride away from the closest town, and dont even think about hopping in a car. The only option to get here is by water, Adams says. There are no road accesses. The water is our highway.

The floating compound houses a dance floor, an art gallery, a candle factory, four greenhouses, six solar panels, and a small waterfall that provides constant running water.

The whole structure is the size of two city lots and weighs 1 million pounds, floating freely on the ocean.

While there are lines that tether the compound back to the shore, it is not anchored to the ocean floor.

When you arrive, youre immediately greeted by bright magenta buildings with dark turquoise trim. An archway of whale bones welcomes you in.

The compound has everything you could possibly think of and more: a dance floor, an art gallery, a candle factory, four greenhouses, six solar panels, and access to a small waterfall that provides constant running water.

The couple has even figured out their own waste management system.

Its the most common question were asked, Adams says.

They installed a floating tank to, in Adams words, deal with the affluence.

If they wanted to, King and Adams could completely self-sustain on Freedom Cove without ever needing to go into the city.

Visitors are greeted by two large whale ribs that form the entrance. Artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams have called Freedom Cove home since 1992.

As artists, King and Adams always drew inspiration from nature.

Adams is a carver, using found elements in nature like feathers and bones to create his works.

King is an artist, dancer and a natural healer, having studied homeopathy.

But why live off the grid?

I wanted to be a successful, wealthy artist, live in Tofino and have a studio in the wilderness, like all good rich artists should, Adams says.

I was hoping to make a lot more money as an artist. We could never buy real estate, so we had to make our own.

A call from nature pushed them to make their dreams a reality.

Thanks to a piece of Plexiglass in their living room, Adams is able to fish from the comfort of his couch.

After staying in a friends cabin in Cypress Bay, a large storm blew wood onto the property.

King and Adams gathered the wood and used it to build the bones of what would become their future home.

I guess we were being given a sign that this is the time to begin, Adams recalls.

As they continued to further grow their home, the couple followed with their precedent of only using recycled and salvaged materials.

Many parts were gathered from loggers and fishermen in town. Adams would trade them art for whatever they had in their backyard, whether that was old fish farms or floats.

A piece of Plexiglass scrounged up from the Victoria Hockey Rink forms a clear glass floor in their living room, which Adams can lift up to fish from the comfort of his couch.

Prior to Freedom Cove, the couple lived in an apartment in Tofino. They call their move into nature a deceleration process.

We had all kinds of things like food processors and items that would require a lot of electricity, King remembers.

We gave them away to people and unloaded a lot of things in preparation.

They had no choice. The first iteration of their floating home had no running water and no power.

Today, their day-to-day is quite a bit different to what it was in Tofino.

Living out here, you cant just get instant anything, King says. We cant just order a pizza we cant just go to the corner store You have to do the work to get what you want, if you want it.

Welcome to Freedom Cove, a sustainable island fortress floating off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Doing that work is an ongoing process of learning, changing and growing.

King starts her day by sweeping and shaking out the carpets.

In the wilderness, theres always a lot of dirt and dust, she says.

She then waters her thousands of plants and vegetable gardens all germinated from seeds and rows out in her canoe to gather seaweed for compost.

Adams begins by gathering firewood and starting a fire to make sure the house is heated.

They both work on building new components for their home.

It is a project, King says. It is a project in growing food to provide for the family. It is an art project It is a project to have a space to move, to dance, to play music, to do things spontaneously that you couldnt just do in the same way if you were in the city.

And while they may not have any human neighbors for miles, the couple still has plenty of company.

We have some resident crows here who are part of the family, Adams says. We know all the birds here.

We have named Harry the heron, Sylvie the seal, King adds. Gertrude and Heathcliff the seagulls.

I had lived in the big city, I knew what that was like, King says. I really needed the peace of the wilderness.

Twenty-nine years later, thats still the greatest draw of their home.

Going into a city is just shocking in the sound department, King says. I get kind of jangled up inside the noise starts to get to me, I find its easy for me to lose my center.

We have carved a piece of the world out for ourselves here, King says. We can live uniquely, differently than anyone else on the planet.

But, how about seasickness?

I dont get seasick, Adams says. When I go to town, I get land-sick.

To learn more about life on Freedom Cove and hear directly from King and Adams, check outthe latest episode of Great Big Story, a new podcast from CNN.

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Scientists in New Zealand have developed a new alert system that could have provided warnings ahead of the White Island eruption, which killed more than a dozen people in 2019, BBC News reports.

New Zealands new system relies on a machine learning approach and algorithms to review real-time data about volcano eruptions.

The research which was published in Nature Communications said it could have saved 21 people from dying during the White Island eruption of volcano Whakaari in December 2019.

Shane Cronin from the University of Auckland, told BBC News that the current warning system has acted too slow to provide warnings for people (on) the island.

He said: The current (alert system) collects data in real-time but what tends to happen is that this information gets assessed by a panel and they have an expert process ... this all takes a while. The way we warn for volcanoes was good enough 10 years ago but its not actually moving with the times.

The new systems shows patterns of seismic activity before an eruption that make advance warning possible, Cronin and University of Auckland academics David Dempsey told The Guardian.

Had our system been in place (on Whakaari last year) it would have raised the alert 16 hours before the volcanos deadly eruption, they said.

Of course, the data isnt full-proof, and there would likely be some mistakes, researchers told The Guardian. But it would provide warnings as early as possible, which could potentially save lives.

The trade-off is that the alerts, if acted upon, would keep the island off-limits to visitors for about one month each year, they said.

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The global automotive turbocharger market size is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.5% – GlobeNewswire

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New York, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Automotive Turbocharger Market by Technology, Material, Component, Fuel Type, Application, Vehicle, Aftermarket, Region - Global Forecast to 2025" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p04411875/?utm_source=GNW 5% during the forecast period, where the revenue in 2020 is estimated to be USD 11.1 billion and is projected to reach USD 18.4 billion by 2025. The growth of the automotive turbocharger market is influenced by factors such as upcoming regulation in Asian countries such as China and India, increased production of mild-hybrid vehicles, and increased popularity of TGDI among others. Some of the market restraining factors are the declining share of diesel vehicles, a recent decline in global vehicle production, and possible shift towards electric cars.

Aluminum is estimated to be the fastest-growing material for turbochargers.The automotive turbocharger consists of various components like turbines, turbocharger housing, compressor housing, bearings, and turbocharger shaft.Cast Iron, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Nickel-based alloys, Titanium-alloys are the essential materials used for the manufacturing of turbochargers.

The durability of turbocharger components at high temperatures depends upon the type of material been used for it. Owing to the light-weighting trend, and the benefits offered by Aluminum over cast iron, the demand for Al is estimated to be the largest in the coming years.

Passenger car segment is estimated as the largest market for turbochargers.

Passenger car is the major market for turbochargers in the vehicle segment, considering the overall production globally. According to ACEA, the passenger car production hit 74.9 million in 2019 and is expected to go beyond ~70-72 million by 2024-2025, with Asia Pacific and North America being the leading regions. In 2019, Asia Oceania passenger car production was around 40.2 million units as compared to 43.8 million units in 2017. In 2019, the Asia Oceania region accounted for 79.4% of the global passenger car production. On the other hand, China accounted for 29.2% of the worldwide passenger car production, which makes Asia Oceania is the largest market for turbochargers.

Asia Oceania to dominate the automotive turbocharger market.

Asia Oceania is estimated to be the largest market for automotive turbochargers.The automotive industry has changed the landscape of the Asia Pacific region.

Increased production of automobiles, the presence of key players such as IHI, continental AG, Mitsubishi heavy industries, BorgWarner have broadened the scope for turbochargers in this region.Chinas passenger car production is estimated to cross 20 million by 2024, with 50% of them already equipped with TGDI now will expand the turbocharger market.

Other emerging economies stress on cleaner vehicles such as Mild hybrid vehicles, and stringent emission norms will positively impact the turbocharger industry in the future.

The study contains insights provided by various industry experts. The break-up of the primaries is as follows: By Company Type: Tier-1 - 70%, Tier-2 - 20%, and OEMs - 10% By Designation: C level Executives- 40 %, Directors 35%, Others- 25% By Region: Asia Pacific 20 %, Europe 50 %, North America -25 %, and RoW 5 %

Note: Others include sales, marketing, and product managers.

Company tiers are based on the value chain; the revenue of the company is not considered.

Tier I are Turbocharger manufacturers, while Tier II are suppliers of turbochargers and its components & materials.

The automotive turbocharger market consists of key manufacturers such as Honeywell (US), BorgWarner (US), MHI (Japan), IHI (Japan), and Continental (Germany). The other players in the turbocharger market are - Bosch Mahle (Germany), Cummins (US), ABB (Switzerland), TEL (India), and Delphi Technologies (UK), Rotomaster International (Canada), Precision Turbo & Engine INC(US), Turbonetics(US), Turbo International (US), Kompressorenabu Bannewitz GMBH(Germany), Turbo Dynamic Ltd.(UK), Fuyuan Turbocharger Co. Ltd.(China), Hunan Tyen Machinery Co. Ltd. (China), Ningbo Motor Industrial Co. Ltd. (China), Calsonic Kansei (Japan).

Research CoverageTechnology segments the automotive turbocharger market (VGT, Wastegate, Electric Turbocharger & Others), Vehicle Type (Passenger car, LCV, Truck, Bus), Off-highway application (Agricultural Tractor, Construction Equipment), Fuel Type (Gasoline, Diesel and CNG/Alternate Fuel), By Material (Cast Iron, Aluminum, & Others), Aftermarket (Light duty and Heavy duty vehicle), and Region ((Asia Oceania (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and others), Europe (Germany, Spain, Turkey, France, Russia, UK, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, others), North America (Canada, Mexico, US), Row (Brazil, South Africa, Iran, Argentina RoW others)).

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Global Automotive Lightweight Material Market (2020 to 2025) – Upward Trend of Vehicle Electrification Presents Opportunities – ResearchAndMarkets.com…

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The "Automotive Lightweight Material Market by Material (Metal, Composite, Plastic, Elastomer), Application & Component (Frame, Engine, Exhaust, Transmission, Closure, Interior), Vehicle Type (ICE, Electric & Hybrid), Region - Global Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global automotive lightweight material market post COVID-19 is estimated to grow from USD 69.7 billion in 2020 to USD 99.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.3%.

Factors contributing to the growth of automotive lightweight material can be attributed to stringent emission and fuel economy regulations. Moreover, advancement in automotive and technology enabling reduced material usage will increase the demand for automotive lightweight material in the coming years.

With progression in time, the COVID-19 impact has severely disrupted the supply chain for the entire automotive ecosystem. This has halted production facilities across the globe resulting in a disruption in the exports of the automotive components. This scenario is expected to affect automotive lightweight material market, as the growth of the market is directly related to the production of the vehicles. The global production of vehicle pre-COVID-19 was expected to reach from ~90-95 million units in 2020 to ~110-115 million units by 2025. According to OICA, though global vehicle production declined by 5.2% between 2018-2019, the production outlook was supposed to showcase significant growth from 2021-2022 owing to multiple steps taken by OEMs, as well as some government, to attract customers.

Stringent emission and fuel economy regulations will drive the automotive lightweight material market

The automotive lightweight material market post COVID-19 is estimated to grow from USD 69.7 billion in 2020 to USD 99.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.3% during the forecast period. The increasing demand for lightweight materials is driven by the rising usage of electric vehicles and stringent emission norms & fuel economy regulations. Several OEMs have set targets for CO2 reduction in the coming years.

Instrument panel is the fastest growing market, by component

The instrument panel is projected to be the fastest-growing segment in the automotive lightweight material market. With the increasing demand for lighter interior cabins from car buyers, OEMs plan to use lightweight materials in interior applications. Hence, OEMs are jointly working with component manufacturers and material providers to develop improved and lighter components. As the interior cabin contributes significantly to the overall vehicle weight, the use of lightweight materials in the cabin can help in vehicle weight reduction. Hence, the instrument panel is projected to be the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight material.

North America is estimated to be the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight materials, followed by Asia Oceania

North America is expected to be the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight materials. The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAF) standards have compelled OEMs to enhance their vehicle lightweighting efforts. The domestic demand for passenger cars has increased due to low gas prices and low-interest rates. The demand for light trucks and vans has also witnessed rapid growth in the region. Asia Oceania, on the other hand, has seen increased usage of HSS and Aluminum, especially in the low and mid-segment vehicles. China is the fastest-growing market for automotive lightweight materials in the Asia Oceania region. Factors such as low production cost, abundant availability of metals, and safety norms have driven market growth in the region. The sale of automotive lightweight materials is projected to increase in different regions during the forecast period.

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Automotive lightweight material market post COVID-19 is estimated to grow from USD 69.7 billion in 2020 to USD 99.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.3% during the forecast period. Factors contributing to growth of automotive lightweight material can be attributed to stringent emission and fuel economy regulations. Moreover, advancement in automotive and technology enabling reduced material usage will increasing the demand for automotive lightweight material in the coming years.

With progression in time, the COVID-19 impact has severely disrupted the supply chain for entire automotive ecosystem.This has halted production facilities across the globe resulting in disruption in the exports of the automotive components.

This scenario is expected to affect automotive lightweight material market, as the growth of the market is directly related to the production of the vehicles.The global production of vehicle pre-COVID-19 was expected to reach from ~90-95 million units in 2020 to ~110-115 million units by 2025.

According to OICA, though global vehicle production declined by 5.2% between 2018-2019, the production outlook was supposed to showcase significant growth from 2021-2022 owing to multiple steps taken by OEMs, as well as some government, to attract customers.

Stringent emission and fuel economy regulations will drive the automotive lightweight material marketThe automotive lightweight material market post COVID-19 is estimated to grow from USD 69.7 billion in 2020 to USD 99.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.3% during the forecast period. The increasing demand for lightweight materials is driven by the rising usage of electric vehicles and stringent emission norms & fuel economy regulations. Several OEMs have set targets for CO2 reduction in the coming years.

Instrument panel is the fastest growing market, by componentThe instrument panel is projected to be the fastest growing segment in the automotive lightweight material market.With the increasing demand for lighter interior cabins from car buyers, OEMs plan to use lightweight materials in interior applications.

Hence, OEMs are jointly working with component manufacturers and material providers to develop improved and lighter components.As the interior cabin contributes significantly to the overall vehicle weight, the use of lightweight materials in the cabin can help in vehicle weight reduction.

Hence, the instrument panel is projected to be the fastest growing market for automotive lightweight material.

North America is estimated to be the fastest growing market for automotive lightweight materials, followed by Asia Oceania

North America is expected to be the fastest growing market for automotive lightweight materials.The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAF) standards have compelled OEMs to enhance their vehicle lightweighting efforts.

The domestic demand for passenger cars has increased due to low gas prices and low interest rates.The demand for light trucks and vans has also witnessed rapid growth in the region.

Asia Oceania, on the other hand, has seen increased usage of HSS and Aluminum, especially in the low and mid-segment vehicles.China is the fastest growing market for automotive lightweight materials in the Asia Oceania region.

Factors such as low production cost, abundant availability of metals, and safety norms have driven market growth in the region. The sale of automotive lightweight materials is projected to increase in different regions during the forecast period.

Breakup of primary respondentsThe study contains insights provided by various industry experts, ranging from equipment manufacturers, OEMs, and Tier-1 suppliers to regional associations members. The break-up of the primaries is as follows: By Company Type: Tier I - 35%, Tier II - 45%, and OEMs -20% By Designation: C level - 40%, D level - 35%, Others 25% By Region: North America - 20%, Europe - 35%, Asia Oceania - 40%, RoW 5%

The automotive lightweight material market is dominated by global players and comprises several regional players. The key players in the automotive lightweight material market are BASF SE (Germany), Covestro AG (Germany), LyondellBasell Industries Holdings B.V. (Netherlands), Toray Industries, Inc. (Japan), ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg), thyssenkrupp AG (Germany), Novelis, Inc. (US), Alcoa Corporation (US), Owens Corning (US), and Stratasys Ltd. (US). The study includes an in-depth competitive analysis of these key players in the automotive lightweight material market with their company profiles, SWOT analysis of the top 5 companies, recent developments, and key market strategies.

Research CoverageThe study segments the automotive lightweight material market and forecasts the market size based on material type [metals (HSS, aluminum, and magnesium & titanium), composites (CFRP, GFRP, NFRP, and others), plastics (PC, ABS, PA, PP, PU & Others), and elastomers (EPDM, NR, SBR, and others)]; application (BIW, Chassis, Powertrain, Closures, Interiors, and others); component (frame, wheel, bumpers & fenders, engine & exhaust, fuel tank, transmission, doors, hood & trunk lid, seats, and instrument panel); vehicle type (PC, LCV, and HCV); electric & hybrid vehicle type (BEV, HEV, PHEV, Truck, and Bus); electric vehicle lightweight market based on material type (metals, plastic, composites, and elastomers); and region (North America, Europe, Asia Oceania, and RoW).

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This report provides insights with reference to the following points:Country-level market for automotive lightweight material by material type: The report offers in-depth market sizing and forecast up to 2025, by material type (Metals, Composites, Plastics, and Elastomers). The market sizing for the automotive lightweight material market is covered at the country and regional levels.

Market coverage by electric & hybrid vehicle type for BEV, HEV, PHEV, Bus and Truck at the regional levelThe report provides "Market Share" of the leading players in the automotive lightweight material market.

Market Development: The report provides comprehensive information about lucrative emerging markets for automotive lightweight materials across different regions.

Product Development/Innovation: The report gives detailed insights into R&D activities, upcoming technologies, and new product launches in the automotive lightweight material market.Market Diversification: The report offers detailed information about untapped markets, investments, new products, and recent developments in the automotive lightweight material market

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A ruling of the court of justice of the European Union (CJEU) could prevent tech companies like Facebook from sending data from the trading bloc to the US, after finding that there are not enough protections against snooping by American intelligence agencies. It is the latest ruling in a long-running European legal saga.

July 2000: EU and US develop the Safe Harbour Privacy Principles, which allow personal information to be transferred between the two without breaching the EUs data protection rules. Under the principles, US companies can self-certify that they comply with the EU data protection directive.

August 2011: Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer, files the first of 22 privacy complaints in a two-month period with the Irish data protection commissioner, which regulates Facebook in the EU, alleging widespread violations including the inability to prevent yourself being tagged in a photo, and the refusal to fully delete data about revoked friendships. He requests 1,222 pages of material gathered about him by the company.

June 2013: The Guardian reveals the NSAs Prism program, a vast surveillance operation involving direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants. Schrems files his 23rd complaint, about the program.

June 2014: A judicial review of Schrems complaint fails in the Irish high court, where the judge, Desmond Hogan, said that only the naive or credulous could have been surprised by the Snowden expos. But Hogan passes the foundational question, about the Safe Harbour agreement, on to the European court of justice.

July 2014: Schrems withdraws all but the Prism complaint, and decides to focus attention and funding on pursuing a judicial review.

August 2014: Schrems launches a class action suit against Facebook, capping participation at 25,000 members.

March 2015: The CJEU begins considering the case.

October 2015: In a surprise move, the court of justice rules in Schrems favour, and declares that the Safe Harbour agreement is invalid given the NSAs snooping. Prism, the court rules, enables interference, by United States public authorities, with the fundamental rights of persons.

November 2015: Facebook Ireland uses a standard contractual clause in its agreement with Facebooks HQ to continue the internal data transfer. The contract requires Facebook US to follow European law when processing the data of European citizens.

July 2016: The EU agrees the EU-US Privacy Shield, an all-encompassing replacement for the Safe Harbour, which again attempts to ensure that European citizens data is safe from US government interference, in order to resume free transfer of data across the Atlantic.

June 2018: Schrems files his second case against Facebook Ireland, arguing that the standard contractual clauses and the EU-US Privacy Shield are invalid, as they do not fully protect citizens rights.

December 2019: The advocate general of the CJEU delivered a preliminary opinion that standard contractual clauses were likely to be valid, and raised questions over whether the Privacy Shield could be valid given the impacts of US surveillance.

July 2020: The CJEU rules, upholding standard contractual clauses in general but striking down the privacy shield, arguing that the US still does not limit surveillance of EU citizens to that which is strictly necessary.

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First the House, now the Senate: As the country braces for a second wave in coronavirus cases, a Senate subcommittee is holding a hearing on the persistence of Covid-19 robocalls and related scams and what businesses and the government should do about it.

Tech measures advance in the House: Lawmakers approved a set of amendments to their annual defense spending bill dealing with everything from TikTok to deepfakes and bias in artificial intelligence.

In social media we trust: Or do we? More than half of social media users have less confidence in tech platforms ability to protect the November election from foreign interference after last weeks unprecedented Twitter hack, according to a new poll.

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TODAY, IRL, ON THE HILL: SENATE EXAMS SCAMS The director of the FTCs Consumer Protection Bureau, Andrew Smith, is among the witnesses testifying this afternoon at a Senate Commerce consumer protection subcommittee hearing on Covid-19 scams. Chair Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) plans to single out illegal robocalls pitching low-priced health insurance and other scams targeting vulnerable populations like seniors, per opening remarks shared with POLITICO. He also plans to press the witnesses on current enforcement efforts to detect, identify and prosecute criminal organizations engaged in these illegal activities.

Sound familiar? Todays session is more or less a Senate counterpart to a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing earlier in July on Covid-19 privacy harms and scams online, from price gouging to counterfeit products. Today, Smith and the other witnesses including Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt are expected to highlight what businesses and federal and state governments are doing, and what they should be doing more of, to crack down on pandemic-era ploys.

HOUSE VOTES TO ADVANCE SLEW OF TECH MEASURES In a rare flurry of activity for tech policy on Capitol Hill, House lawmakers on Monday approved a series of amendments to their annual defense spending bill that touched on everything from government use of TikTok to the dangers of so-called deepfakes and to bias in artificial intelligence.

What made it through: The House passed a massive bloc of amendments that included a proposal by Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) to ban the use of TikTok on federal devices; two plans from Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) to ban the Defense Department from using some funds to acquire AI not vetted for algorithmic bias, and separately to require that regulators file reports to Congress on how deepfake videos affect national defense; and a Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) amendment requiring DoD to issue a report to Congress on social media use by terrorists and on the threat of online radicalization.

Whats next: The House is slated to consider amendments today to have the GAO probe predatory social media targeting service members and their families and to establish an Open Technology Fund to promote global internet freedom by countering internet censorship and repressive surveillance by authoritarian regimes. Neither is up for debate on the House floor, indicating likely passage. The House is expected to pass its version of the National Defense Authorization Act today, with a Senate vote likely soon to follow. The two chambers will then need to reconcile differences between the bills.

TikTok's reaction: A TikTok spokesperson said in response to the House vote that the company's "entire and growing U.S. team have no higher priority than promoting a safe app experience that protects our users' privacy." They added, "Millions of American families use TikTok for entertainment and creative expression, which we recognize is not what federal government devices are for."

TECH TO TIKTOKS RESCUE After the House voted to bar TikTok on government devices, a leading tech research institute is warning the Trump administration against banning the Chinese-owned video app in the U.S. an idea floated in recent weeks by top officials and the president himself. Instead, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation argues, members of Congress should prove that TikTok has done wrong, as lawmakers claim it has, and then U.S. regulators should hold TikTok accountable for any missteps.

TikTok has stated clearly and unambiguously that it has not and will not provide U.S. user data to the Chinese government, said ITIF Vice President Daniel Castro. If the U.S. government has evidence to the contrary, it should share this information with lawmakers and the public. Similarly, if the app is not complying with U.S. data privacy or other laws, regulators should hold it accountable for any violations. He added that the U.S. punishing foreign tech firms based on rumors and innuendo sets a precedent for other countries to retaliate and freely impose trade restrictions on digital goods and services for vague and undefined national security threats.

ASK THE AUDIENCE: DO YOU TRUST TWITTER AHEAD OF THE ELECTION? In the wake of last week's unprecedented Twitter hack, more than half of social media users fear that the platforms cannot successfully thwart election interference or disinformation campaigns ahead of November, according to a new Morning Consult poll.

Of more than 2,000 social media users polled over the weekend following the breach, 56 percent said they have less confidence in tech platforms ability to fight such attempts from bad actors and more than 70 percent have little or no trust in the sites to protect sensitive personal information like full name, email address, birth date and geolocation. (Sixty-five percent felt the same about banking information.)

Meanwhile, over in Congress: The top two Democrats in the House and Senate, as well as the top two Democrats on the respective intelligence committees, put out an urgent call for an FBI briefing on an apparent election-related foreign influence operation targeting lawmakers, our POLITICO colleagues report: Among the Democrats concerns is that a Senate investigation being led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has become a vehicle for laundering a foreign operation to damage Joe Biden, according to two people familiar with the demand. A Johnson spokesperson didnt immediately reply to a request for comment.

What does Biden have to say about that? In his most definitive statements to date on election interference obtained first by POLITICO the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee threatened to hold the Kremlin and other foreign governments accountable for any meddling if elected, Natasha Bertrand reports. Biden said he will treat foreign interference in our election as an adversarial act that significantly affects the relationship between the United States and the interfering nations government, and plans to direct the U.S. Intelligence Community to report publicly and in a timely manner on any efforts by foreign governments that have interfered, or attempted to interfere, with U.S. elections.

LOBBYING LATEST: HEY, SMALL SPENDER Google continues to reduce its spending on federal lobbying, at least the kind that has to be publicly disclosed. The search giant shelled out $1.69 million during the second quarter, new records show. For comparison, Google spent $2.94 million during the same quarter last year and $5.83 million in the second quarter of 2018. Google has laid off several outside firms and restructured its internal staff over the past two years, but the steep decline is still surprising given the companys woes in Washington have only grown. Google declined to comment.

Twitter spending held relatively flat at $390,000 in the second quarter, but the social network has tapped TwinLogic Strategies as its latest outside lobbyist. The firm will work on content moderation and intermediary liability issues, among other policy matters. Other notable new contracts: Cypress Advocacy is lobbying for Amazon Web Services on the CARES Act; BL Partners is on retainer for T-Mobile; and Mercury Public Affairs is advocating on behalf of Netflix.

Antitrust expert and former Justice Department official Fiona Scott Morton is advising Amazon and Apple as the tech giants face federal antitrust probes, per Bloomberg. Melody Neil, former founding partner and principal of an advocacy firm that offered government affairs expertise to companies and business trade associations, joined the data center services provider Digital Realty as a senior director of business operations and government affairs. Denise Linn Riedl, chief innovation officer for the city of South Bend, Ind., and Leon A. Wilson, the Cleveland Foundations chief of digital innovation and chief information officer, were named board members for the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. ICYMI: Alabama announced the creation of the Alabama Innovation Commission, also known as Innovate Alabama, its first statewide commission promoting entrepreneurial and tech growth. The advisory council includes Alabama native and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Trumps texting trouble: When the Trump campaign recently tested out its mass-text messaging program, key for its small-donor outreach and voter turnout, the program was flagged as spam and shut down by telecom giants, POLITICO reports.

Surprise: Google promised privacy with its coronavirus contact tracing app, but government agencies are now surprised that this isnt quite the case, NYT reports.

Orders for the oversight board: "A new policy-focused nonprofit that emerged from the recent wave of big tech scrutiny is calling for members of Facebook's Oversight Board to either step up or step down," TechCrunch reports on the group Accountable Tech.

Should Facebook take sides? Boycott organizers want Facebook to pick a side and align its corporate operations with aggressive activism on issues such as racism and social justice, former Facebook policy director Matt Perault, who now leads Dukes Center on Science and Technology Policy, writes on Chicago Booths ProMarket blog. But picking a side would mean a radical shift in the companys approach to its product and alienate many of its users.

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