Global Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Market 2019-2025Expected To Reach USD XX.XX billion Over COVID 19 Impact- NICE Systems, Pegasystems,…

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By the product type, the market is primarily split into Automated SolutionDecision Support and Management SolutionsInteraction Solutions

By the end-users/application, this report covers the following segments Banking, Financial Services and InsuranceHealthcare and PharmaceuticalsManufacturing and LogisticsTelecom and ITRetail and Consumer GoodsTravel, Hospitality, and TransportationOthers

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Global Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Geographical Segmentation Includes: North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico) Europe (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, CIS) Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, India, Rest of Asia Pacific) Latin America (Brazil, Rest of L.A.) Middle East and Africa (Turkey, GCC, Rest of Middle East)

Some Major TOC Points: Chapter 1. Report Overview Chapter 2. Global Growth Trends Chapter 3. Market Share by Key Players Chapter 4. Breakdown Data by Type and Application Chapter 5. Market by End Users/Application Chapter 6. COVID-19 Outbreak: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Industry Impact Chapter 7. Opportunity Analysis in Covid-19 Crisis Chapter 9. Market Driving ForceAnd Many More

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By the product type, the market is primarily split into Natural Language ProcessingMachine & Deep LearningNeural NetworksComputer VisionVirtual AgentsOthers

By the end-users/application, this report covers the following segments BFSIIT & TelecomTransport & LogisticsMedia & EntertainmentHealthcareOthers

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Global Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) Geographical Segmentation Includes: North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico) Europe (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, CIS) Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, India, Rest of Asia Pacific) Latin America (Brazil, Rest of L.A.) Middle East and Africa (Turkey, GCC, Rest of Middle East)

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Automated Storage & Retrieval System Market Research Report by Type, by Function, by Industry – Global Forecast to 2025 – Cumulative Impact of…

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The Global Automated Storage & Retrieval System Market is expected to grow from USD 7,494.59 Million in 2019 to USD 11,506.87 Million by the end of 2025 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.40%.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:This research report categorizes the Automated Storage & Retrieval System to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

On the basis of Type, the Automated Storage & Retrieval System Market is studied across Autostore, Carousel, Mid Load, Mini Load, Unit Load, and Vertical Lift Module. The Carousel further studied across Horizontal Carousel and Vertical Carousel.

On the basis of Function, the Automated Storage & Retrieval System Market is studied across Assembly, Distribution, Kitting, Order Picking, and Storage.

On the basis of Industry, the Automated Storage & Retrieval System Market is studied across Automotive, Aviation, Chemicals & Advance Materials, E-Commerce, Food & Beverages, Healthcare & Pharmaceutical, Metals & Heavy Machinery, Retail, and Semiconductors & Electronics.

On the basis of Geography, the Automated Storage & Retrieval System Market is studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas region is studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The Asia-Pacific region is studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa region is studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

Company Usability Profiles:The report deeply explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Automated Storage & Retrieval System Market including Automation Logistics Corporation, Bastian Solutions, Inc., Beumer Group GmbH & Co KG, Daifuku Co., Ltd, Dematic Corporation, Hnel GmbH & Co. KG, Kardex Group, KNAPP AG, Mecalux, S.A., Murata Machinery, Ltd., Schaefer Systems International, Inc., Swisslog Holding AG, System Logistics Corporation, TGW Logistics Group, and Vanderlande Industries B.V..

FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Automated Storage & Retrieval System 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.

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Robotic Process Automation Market 2020 Global Size, Industry Applications, Sales Revenue, Share, Recent Trends, Competitive Landscape, With Regional…

Robotic Process Automation Industry 2020 Market Research Report offers decision-making information of Robotic Process Automation Market.it gives the top to bottom analysis of market Size, Share, Future Growth, Opportunity analysis and forecast to 2026. The Robotic Process Automation market is anticipated to reflect a positive growth trend in forthcoming years and this factor which is valuable and supportive to the business.

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The report presents a highly comprehensive and accurate research study on the global Robotic Process Automation market. It offers PESTLE analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis, Porters Five Forces analysis, and absolute dollar opportunity analysis to help players improve their business strategies. It also sheds light on critical Robotic Process Automation Market dynamics such as trends and opportunities, drivers, restraints, and challenges to help market participants stay informed and cement a strong position in the industry. With competitive landscape analysis, the authors of the report have made a brilliant attempt to help readers understand important business tactics that leading companies use to maintain Robotic Process Automation market sustainability.

Global Robotic Process Automation market is segmented based by type, application and region.

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The Global Automated Truck Loading System Market is expected to grow from USD 1,495.63 Million in 2019 to USD 2,731.31 Million by the end of 2025 at a…

Market Segmentation & Coverage: This research report categorizes the Automated Truck Loading System to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

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On the basis of Loading Dock, the Automated Truck Loading System Market is studied across Enclosed Dock, Flush Dock, and Saw Tooth Dock.

On the basis of System Type, the Automated Truck Loading System Market is studied across Automated Guided Vehicle, Belt Conveyor System, Chain Conveyor System, Roller Track System, Skate Conveyor System, and Slat Conveyor System.

On the basis of Truck Type, the Automated Truck Loading System Market is studied across Modified Truck Type and Non-modified Truck Type.

On the basis of Industry, the Automated Truck Loading System Market is studied across Automotive, Aviation, Cement, FMCG, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Post & Parcel, Textile, and Warehouse & Distribution.

On the basis of Geography, the Automated Truck Loading System Market is studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas region is studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The Asia-Pacific region is studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa region is studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

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FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Automated Truck Loading System 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.

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Positive Facts One Should Know About Workload Scheduling and Automation Software Market for 2020 – 3rd Watch News

The Workload Scheduling and Automation Software market research report study recently presented by AMR provides comprehensive knowledge on the development activities by Global industry players, growth possibilities or opportunities and market sizing for Workload Scheduling and Automation Software along with analysis by key segments, leading and emerging players, and their presence geographies. This is the latest report, covering the current COVID-19 impact on the market. The pandemic of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected every aspect of life globally. This has brought along several changes in market conditions

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With the slowdown in world economic growth, the Workload Scheduling and Automation Software industry has also suffered a certain impact, but still maintained a relatively optimistic growth, the past four years, Workload Scheduling and Automation Software market size to maintain the average annual growth rate of 15 from (2014 Market size XXXX) million $ in 2014 to (2019 Market size XXXX) million $ in 2019, BisReport BisReport analysts believe that in the next few years, Workload Scheduling and Automation Software market size will be further expanded, we expect that by 2024, The market size of the Workload Scheduling and Automation Software will reach (2024 Market size XXXX) million $.

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Workload Scheduling and Automation Software MARKET RESEARCH SCOPE OBJECTIVES, TARGET AND KEY FINDINGS

Preferably, that approaching major uptrend failed to arrive on schedule, but the Workload Scheduling and Automation Software market raised without posting any drops and surely witnesses zeniths in years to come.

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Large Enterprises, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises SMEs segment interpreted and sized in this research report by application/end-users reveals the inherent growth and several shifts for the period 2014 to 2026.

The changing dynamics supporting the growth perform it perilous for manufacturers in this extent to keep up-to-date with the changing pace of the market. Find out which segment is doing great and will return in strong earnings adding the significant drive to overall growth.

Furthermore, the research contributes an in-depth overview of regional level break-up categorized as likely leading growth rate territory, countries with the highest market share in past and current scenario. Some of the geographical break-up incorporated in the study are North America Country (United States, Canada), South America, Asia Country (China, Japan, India, Korea), Europe Country (Germany, UK, France, Italy), Other Country (Middle East, Africa, GCC).

In the Type segment Cloud-Based, On-Premise included for segmenting Workload Scheduling and Automation Software market by type.

The industry is performing well and few emerging business institutions are in their peak as per growth rate and their existence with major players of Workload Scheduling and Automation Software market whereas conflict between 2 Global economies continues in 2020.

IBM, CA Technologies, ASG Technologies, Advanced Systems Concepts, Cisco Systems, Stonebranch, VMWare, BMC, BetterCloud, CenturyLink, Hitachi Vantara Corporation, HPE, Mitratech, Oracle, Resolve Systems, Savision major key players included in this research along with their sales and revenue data show how they are performing well?

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Researchers around the world are working frantically to develop COVID-19 vaccines meant to target and attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Researchers in my nanoengineering lab are taking a different approach toward stopping SARS-CoV-2. Instead of playing offense and stimulating the immune system to attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus, were playing defense. Were working to shield the healthy human cells the virus invades.

Conceptually, the strategy is simple. We create decoys that look like the human cells the SARS-CoV-2 virus invades. So far, weve made lung-cell decoys and immune-cell decoys. These cell decoys attract and neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leaving the real lung or immune cells healthy.

To make the decoys, we collect the outer membranes of the lung or immune cells and wrap them around a core made of biodegradable nanoparticles. From the outside the decoys look the same as the human cells they are impersonating. Our decoys are hundreds of times smaller in diameter than an actual lung or immune cell, but they have all the same cellular hardware sticking out of them.

We call them nanosponges because they soak up harmful pathogens and toxins that attack the cells they impersonate. My team and I first developed the concept 10 years ago, and since then weve shown the nanosponges offer a new approach to fighting viral infections like HIV; bacterial infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, E. coli and sepsis; and inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.

We recently published results showing that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus binds to these decoy nanosponges, which were more than 90% effective in causing the virus to lose its ability to infect cells in petri dishes. Once the virus is locked into the decoy, it cant invade any real cells, and is cleared by the bodys immune system.

Vaccines are critical for protecting against viral infections, but as viruses mutate they can render vaccines and treatments ineffective. This is why new flu vaccines are developed each year. Fortunately, SARS-CoV-2 doesnt appear to mutate as quickly as influenza viruses, but this highlights the need for alternatives that are unaffected by mutations.

Im hopeful that other teams of researchers come up with safe and effective treatments for COVID-19 as soon as possible. But for now, my team is working and planning as if the world is counting on us.

The different types of nanosponges weve developed are in various stages of pre-clinical development. So far, the results look promising, but there is more work to do to ensure theyre safe and effective.

Cellular nanosponges are a new kind of drug. We made the first nanosponges using human red blood cell membranes, and these are the furthest along in the regulatory process, having undergone all stages of pre-clinical testing.

Cellics Therapeutics, a startup company I co-founded, is in the process of submitting an investigational new drug application to the FDA for the red blood cell nanosponges to treat bacterial pneumonia. If these red blood cell nanosponges get FDA approval and if the pre-clinical data for the COVID-19 nanosponges keep looking good, the COVID-19 nanosponges could have a clearer path to clinical trials in the years ahead.

We are currently testing the nanosponges for SARS-CoV-2 in animals. If the nanosponges do reach the clinical trial stage, there are several ways of delivering the therapy, including direct delivery into the lung for intubated patients via an inhaler like those used by asthmatic patients or through an intravenous injection.

There is also the possibility that our immune-cell nanosponges could soak up the inflammatory cytokine proteins that are triggering the dangerous immune system overreactions in some people suffering from COVID-19.

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Zowie Broach on the RCA’s Graduate Show and Gazing Beyond the Runway – WWD

LONDON Zowie Broach is cofounder of the avant-garde label Boudicca and head of the fashion MA program at Londons Royal College of Art, the only pure postgraduate art and design university in the world, and alma mater of designers including Ossie Clark, Erdem Moralioglu, Christopher Bailey and Sophia Webster.

Like most of her peers, Broach and other principals at the Royal College had to think quickly and creatively about how to showcase graduates final projects and get their work under the noses of headhunters, brand managers and other industry professionals in the age of lockdown and social distancing.

Instead of filming the final shows or focusing on the runway, the college came up with the idea of a macro site, where fashion students could strut their creative stuff and showcase their ideas alongside other postgraduate candidates in subjects such as architecture, industrial, graphic and product design, textiles, curation and the fine arts. It is the first time in the RCAs history that the graduates shows will take place entirely online.

Broach also took the opportunity to invite creative movers such as Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Edward Enninful, Viktoria Modesta, Gareth Pugh and Carson McColl to curate the students work in fashion and across disciplines. The student projects and curated elements will appear on the RCA 2020 site, a digital discovery platform that opens to the public on Thursday.

Here, Broach, who oversees 51 fashion students in the two-year program, talks about the creative opportunities that lockdown has generated, the constant cross-fertilization of ideas at the Royal College and the power of collaboration and community in fashion and design.

WWD: Talk to me about the site, and how the Royal College came up with the idea.

Zowie Broach: The college had to move very fast. There was no time to gather thoughts and reflect. The college is responsible for 800 young designers, so it was done at speed but not without debate around the removal of the physical, and all the uncertainties that would bring. The site is quite clean, efficient and powerful. Visitors can tag and search by words like femininity, sustainability, or gender, so you may come across three fine artists and one fashion student in the journey. It is absolutely what the school should always have offered, and shows what technology can do, in a nanosecond. I think its going to have lots of ripples: If someone from a fashion label comes to me, I can just take them to the site, where theyll have a snapshot of the young designers, their Instagram or their web site. The students will be able to build networks of people and solid connections at a time when we are unsure of what the next five years holds for all of us.

WWD: Youve invited curators in, and given them freedom to look at fashion as well as the RCAs other graduate work, too. Why?

Z.B.: This is an opportunity for me to show fashion in a design school, surrounded by all these other disciplines, practices and processes. I love that someone who might look at fashion could also see a common thread, or an answer to a bigger question in innovation, design or engineering.

WWD: What sort of guidance did you give your 51 fashion students, whod normally be preparing their final year runway shows, about what to create for the web site?

Z.B.: You need to edit and curate, and I think these students have an instinct about what is right for them. Whats really important is never wanting to tell everything to the person you meet the first time. You want to hold back. But [your audience] also has to love you, and you have to find that thing that draws them in. Then you can tell more stories. But youve got to know what defines you, what your identity is. Its the hardest thing to do, to be focused, edited, curated and to show your strengths rather than your weaknesses. I tell them that people need to be drawn into their narrative, their story and that they need to make [their message] very clear.

Equally, so many of these students are not trying to join the industry, theyre trying to change the industry and so I think they have to make sure that their question, demand or potential innovation is very identifiable but also accessible. It cant feel intimidating, or be hard to understand.

WWD: Did the unconventional format, and having to produce new work quickly, rattle your students at all?

Z.B.: Fashion has always had these deadlines. Traditionally, there was a twice-a-year deadline and it forces you to have output. Its not like they can say, Oh, Ill do another album in five years. I think that restriction is positive more than negative. Weve had this kind of restriction and now, out of necessity, has come something that I feel is incredibly positive.

WWD: What sort of work have the students come up with?

Z.B.: Some of them made films, some made animations. Obviously, they had a body of work that was created in lockdown, and a lot of them taught themselves digital skills in the meantime. As theyve slowly come out of lockdown in the last few weeks, theyve begun to shoot pictures, too. Some of them are much more about process, without a final proposition. And its important [for brands and the industry] to see the process of a young designer, and what that can potentially weave into a company, how they drape and how their brains work.

WWD: You have long encouraged your students to think of fashion outside of fashion, and to look beyond the runway and the showroom when they design. Whats been the result of that?

Z.B.: To me, fashion is about much more than just a product, it is this very important social barometer. It can be political and it can be functional. You have to look at Nike based on the fact that, ultimately, the products are designed for sports people, yet theyve become a part of our identity and design.

Right now, as we emerge from these last four months, we must not assume we are OK. We have to use every muscle in our body to understand we are still getting things deeply wrong on all sorts of levels. Going forward, I want to ask: Who are you designing for? Do you really, truly understand that person? So much also comes from students, and they can help you learn, too.

I also think we need to be more nonhierarchical in our creative worlds and understand that potential propositions are a rhythm, that we work in communities, and remember that fashion has always been about collaboration. Within the world of jazz, the musicians have a great trust of each other, bring great people together and they know what theyre doing, but its not like [one person is] controlling it. One person might play a bigger role and they might move back, and you come forward. This is not just within fashion, its also within the RCA as a whole. I think team is an important word going forward. It has to be.

WWD: How are your students thinking beyond the runway?

Z.B.: People look to fashion for beauty, emotionality and function, but I dont think were necessarily using all of our skills the way we should. So some students have been working with their body, with their situation. One has made jumpers [sweaters] for builders, based on where their bodies overheat during the day. The idea is that clothes can protect, but can also look cool. There is the potential of using, in 2020, our knowledge around materiality, its science and what it can do. Right now, its not being used. What are we going to do when we move forward? I think fashion has a great energy, a great tenacity and its time for us to realize how we can step up and be part of, not just the fantasy, but the expression although there is still a need for the magical.

WWD: What is the advantage to studying alongside students in other creative programs?

Z.B.: If I look at the tree in the field, what do I see? As a scientist? A biologist? A fashion designer? We all look at it differently. We look at the form, or the texture, the nano level or the quantum level. And I think this is so intriguing about our times, these new ways of working together and colliding our thinking. And I also think good fashion designers dont look at fashion. They absorb the world around them.

We ran a project for around four weeks, with 400 students across design, textiles, fashion, innovation design, engineering, intelligent mobility and global innovation design. The students looked at the same project, but in a different way. They use different creative languages, but theyre all using Rhino [software for 3-D modeling] and very similar pieces of software. They listened and learned from each other.

WWD: What are your plans for the students going forward? Will there be any physical element to their presentations?

Z.B.: The college has put some money aside, and what that has allowed me to do is make a sumo magazine, about 70 or 80 centimeters by 60 centimeters, so it becomes a big time capsule of these guys work. Im going to make maybe 50 of them and was thinking of sending them out internationally, to Shanghai, Sweden and Spain. Ill look at where all my students live. Next February, where we would normally do a work-in-progress

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Flame Resistant and Retardant Fabric to Discern Steadfast Expansion During 2017 to 2026 – Cole of Duty

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According to the report, the Flame Resistant and Retardant Fabric marketplace is set to increase In a CAGR of ~XX% over the forecast period (20XX-20XX) and reach a value of ~US$XX towards the end of 2029. The regional commerce analysis along with the leading importers and exporters is included in the study. Additionally, the supply-demand analysis and the key developments in the Flame Resistant and Retardant Fabric market are highlighted in the report.

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Robust demand for these fabric for application in the production of protective clothing for fire fighters, naval & armed forces, and miners, is a key growth determinant for the market. For example anti-flash gloves and hoods derived from Kevlar are currently being used by Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), and a flame retardant jute-based fabric has been developed by the IJIRA Indian Jute Industries Research Association, for use as brattice clothing by coal miners.

Development of Nanotechnology-based Flame Retardant Fibers for Military and Space Exploration Applications

There is a growing requirement of flame retardant materials that have textured surfaces in engineering and industrial applications. Recognizing the need, a group of researchers at Defense Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) have developed a nano-engineered polymer-based fabric particularly for applications in the space industry and armed forces personnel.

This fabric developed by DIAT is highly flame resistant and retardant to hyper-saline solutions, and is also capable of withstanding ultraviolet radiation and low temperatures. This nano-engineered polymer fabric exhibits excellent integrity when exposed to chemical attacks as well as low and high temperature. Apart from space exploration and military applications, this fabric can also be effectively used in other security forces including air force and the navy.

Growing Offshore Oil & Gas Investments to Boost Demand for Flame Resistant & Retardant Fabrics

Post-high uncertainty in oil & gas industry over the past few years, which was influenced by a plethora of factors including the advent of shale oil production, oil cost-cutting measures, and falling oil prices, offshore production has experience a downward trend. However, with stabilizing oil prices the offshore oil & gas exploration industrys outlook for the future seems promising, with several large projects impending to be deployed such as Bonga Southwest, ACG and Mad Dog Phase 2.

Alarming number of fatalities and injuries have been associated with workers in the oil & gas industries, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Recognizing the concern of these workers, OSHA rolled out an official memo, which compels oilfield companies to provide workers with flame retardant clothing, to the entire oil & gas industry.

This resulted into a dramatic decline in the number of fatalities in the industry with respect to fire to and explosion, according to a comparative analysis carried by Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2016. Increasing oil & gas exploration activities coupled with innate requirement for flame retardant and resistant clothing in the industry will drive the market growth in the near future.

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PyroGenesis Announces Q1 2020 Results: Revenues of $736K, Gross Margin of 37%, Current Backlog $30MM, Provides Q2 2020 and Year End Guidance -…

MONTREAL, July 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (http://pyrogenesis.com) (TSX-V: PYR) (OTCQB: PYRNF) (FRA: 8PY), a high-tech company, (the "Company", the Corporation or "PyroGenesis") that designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes plasma atomized metal powder, plasma waste-to-energy systems and plasma torch systems, is pleased to announce today its financial and operational results for the first quarter ended March 31st, 2020.

Percent complete revenue recognition in our major projects, which is the revenue recognition method we are mandated to follow by GAAP, is such that it is not linear, but exponential, and as such Q1 2020 may not have reflected the results one might have expected given recent announcements. However, using this same revenue recognition method we can safely provide the following guidance for Q2 2020, and for the year ending December 31st, 2020 as follows: We expect that Q2 2020 and the six months ending June 30, 2020 will be profitable as will year end results. As such, management has modified several notes in the financials, for the first time since inception, to reflect this outlook, said P. Peter Pascali, CEO and President of PyroGenesis. To date, in 2020 we have not only received significant payments under existing contracts, but have retired the $3MM convertible debenture in full, bought back approximately 1.2 million shares, increased our investment in HPQ, and further benefited from early conversions of warrants maturing in 2021 of over $3MM. Of note, as of December 31st, 2019 we have approximately $10MM of in-the-money warrants and options expiring in 2020 and 2021 alone. The Company also has over $50MM in tax loss carryforwards (roughly evenly distributed between federal and provincial tax regimes) which is not reflected as an asset on the balance sheet. Given recent events, and the structuring that took place in 2019, the Company is undeniably well positioned to execute on, and build upon, the backlog of signed contracts which currently stands in excess of $30MM. With the eagerly anticipated US Navy contract in hand backlog of signed contracts will be in excess of $40MM. All in all, 2020 can now be described as the year that we have been expecting for some time.

Q1 2020 results reflect the following highlights:

Management Guidance for Q2 2020

Management Guidance for the remainder of 2020:

OUTLOOK

Percent complete revenue recognition in our major projects, which is the revenue recognition method we are mandated to follow by GAAP, is such that it is not linear, but exponential, and as such Q1 may not have reflected the results one might have expected given recent announcements. However, using this same revenue recognition method we can safely provide guidance for Q2 2020, and for the year ending December 31st, 2020: We expect that Q2 and the six months ending June 30, 2020 will be profitable as will year end results. As such, management has modified several notes in the financials, for the first time since inception, to reflect this outlook.

Any discussion regarding the OUTLOOK of the company would be remiss if it did not address the continued increase in the Companys market capitalization and the implications that has for the future.

Without a doubt the Companys market capitalization suffered, as did many other companies, in the general Covid-19 market meltdown at the end of March 2020. However, PyroGenesis soon broke from the pack with the issuance of a material press release on March 24th, 2020.

Management believes that its breaking from the ranks caught the attention of investors, fund managers, and money managers who all now had the time during the Covid-19 lockdown to fully analyze the complicated story that is PyroGenesis. Management does not see any reason why this interest would abate anytime soon. To the contrary, Management has reason to believe that interest in the Company will only increase over the foreseeable future. As such, Management has decided that several strategies that have been articulated in the past (up listings, spinoffs) can now be accelerated as many of the impediments to moving quickly have been removed and have taken steps to do so.

Having a larger market capitalization has also helped in discussions with potential customers who take comfort from the possibility that a higher market capitalization may translate into easier access to capital. For the record, there is no intention at this time to raise capital for working capital purposes.

If 2018 was the year in which PyroGenesis successfully positioned each of its commercial business lines by strategically partnering with multi-billion-dollar entities, and 2019 was the year that saw the appropriate personnel and infrastructure being put in place while building upon the success of 2018, then 2020 is without a doubt the year that the long awaited breakout, which began in the second half of 2019, takes place; it is in fact already upon us:

To date during 2020 PyroGenesis has:

The Company has booked a significant backlog of signed contracts (in excess of $30MM; 2019 Revenues approx. $5MM) which, when taking the eagerly awaited US Navy contract into account, will increase to over $40MM. This provides a solid cornerstone upon which PyroGenesis can:

Specifically, with Aubert & Duval the goal will be to complete the integration of the cutting-edge advances PyroGenesis has made to the powder production process.

With respect to HPQ, the goal would be to accelerate the game changing PUREVAP family of processes which we are developing for HPQ, namely:

As at April 1st, 2020, the Company has approximately $10MM of in-the-money warrants and options expiring in 2020 and 2021. The Company also has over $50MM in tax loss carryforwards (roughly evenly distributed between federal and provincial obligations) which is not reflected as an asset on the balance sheet.

All in all, 2020 can now be described as the year that we have been expecting for some time.

Financial Summary

Revenues

PyroGenesis recorded revenue of $718,908 in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1, 2020), representing a decrease of 2% compared with $736,443 recorded in the first quarter of 2019 (Q1, 2019).

Revenues recorded in the first quarter of 2020 were generated primarily from:

Cost of Sales and Services and Gross Margins

Cost of sales and services before amortization of intangible assets was $444,681 in Q1 2020, representing a decrease of 30% compared with $639,506 in Q1 2019, primarily due to lower employee compensation and direct materials in Q1 2020.

In Q1 2020, employee compensation, subcontracting, direct materials and manufacturing overhead decreased to $391,305 (Q1 2019 - $662,379). The gross margin for Q1 2020 was $267,414 or 37.2% of revenue compared to a gross margin of $92,158 or 12.5% of revenue for Q1 2019. As a result of the type of contracts being executed, the nature of the project activity, as well as the composition of the cost of sales and services, as the mix between labor, materials and subcontracts may be significantly different. Of note, the Company received an amount of $127,842 from Revenue Canada under the CWES program. From this amount, $26,388 was applied to employee compensation under cost of sales and services.

Investment tax credits recorded against cost of sales are related to projects that qualify for tax credits from the provincial government of Quebec. Qualifying tax credits decreased to $20,630 in Q1 2020, compared with $36,071 in Q1 2019. This represents a decrease of 43% year-over-year. In total, the Company earned refundable investment tax credits of $70,313 in Q1 2020. The Company continues to make investments in research and development projects involving strategic partners and government bodies.

The amortization of intangible assets of $6,813 in Q1 2020 and $4,779 for Q1 2019 relates to patents and deferred development costs. Of note, these expenses are non-cash items and will be amortized over the duration of the patent lives.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Included within Selling, General and Administrative expenses (SG&A) are costs associated with corporate administration, business development, project proposals, operations administration, investor relations and employee training.

SG&A expenses for Q1 2020 excluding the costs associated with share-based compensation (a non-cash item in which options vest principally over a four-year period), were $1,205,726 representing a decrease of 7% compared with $1,295,521 reported for Q1 2019.

The increase in SG&A expenses in Q1 2020 over the same period in 2019 is mainly attributable to the net effect of:

Separately, share based payments increased by 106% in Q1 2020 over the same period in 2019 as a result of the vesting structure of the stock option plan including the stock options granted on January 2nd, 2020.

Research and Development (R&D) Costs

The Company incurred $23,088 of R&D costs, net of government grants, on internal projects in Q1 2020, a decrease of 76% as compared with $95,774 in Q1 2019. The decrease in Q1 2020 is primarily related to an increase in government grants recognized.

In addition to internally funded R&D projects, the Company also incurred R&D expenditures during the execution of client funded projects. These expenses are eligible for Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credits. SR&ED tax credits on client funded projects are applied against cost of sales and services (see Cost of Sales above).

Net Finance Costs

Finance costs for Q1 2020 totaled $232,736 as compared with $251,498 for Q1 2019, representing a decrease of 7% year-over-year. The decrease in finance costs in Q1 2020, is primarily attributable to interest on lower amounts of debt.

Strategic Investments

The adjustment to the fair market value of strategic investments for Q1 2020 resulted in a loss of $492,024 compared to a gain in the amount of $706,196 in Q1 2019.

Net Comprehensive Loss

The net comprehensive loss for Q1 2020 of $1,757,027 compared to a loss of $878,923, in Q1 2019, represents an increase of 100% year-over-year. The increased loss of $878,104 in the comprehensive loss in Q1 2020 is primarily attributable to the factors described above, which have been summarized as follows:

EBITDA

The EBITDA loss in Q1 2020 was $1,418,057 compared with an EBITDA loss of $464,825 for Q1 2019, representing an increase of 205% year-over-year. The $953,232 increase in the EBITDA loss in Q1 2020 compared with Q1 2019 is due to the increase in comprehensive loss of $878,104, offset by a decrease in depreciation on property and equipment of $38,093, a decrease in depreciation of right of use assets of $20,307, an increase in amortization of intangible assets of $2,034 and a decrease in finance charges of $18,762.

Adjusted EBITDA loss in Q1 2020 was $1,347,190 compared with an Adjusted EBITDA loss of $430,341 for Q1 2019. The increase of $916,849 in the Adjusted EBITDA loss in Q1 2020 is attributable to an increase in EBITDA loss of $953,232, offset by an increase of $36,383 in share-based payments.

The Modified EBITDA loss in Q1 2020 was $855,166 compared with a Modified EBITDA loss of $1,136,537 for Q1 2019, representing a decrease of 25%. The decrease in the Modified EBITDA loss in Q1 2020 is attributable to the increase as mentioned above in the Adjusted EBITDA of $916,849 and a decrease in the change of fair value of strategic investments of $1,198,222.

Liquidity

The Company has incurred, in the last several years, operating losses and negative cash flows from operations, resulting in an accumulated deficit of $61,994,683 and a negative working capital of $11,157,110 as at Q1 2020, (December 31, 2019 - $60,237,656 and $10,492,102 respectively). Furthermore, as at Q1 2020, the Companys current liabilities and expected level of expenses for the next twelve months exceed cash on hand of $1,139,416 (December 31, 2019 - $34,431). The Company has relied upon external financings to fund its operations in the past, primarily through the issuance of equity, debt, and convertible debentures, as well as from investment tax credits.

Separately, PyroGenesis is pleased to announce today that Me Sara-Catherine Tolszczuk has joined the Company as Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Board of Directors effective July 2nd, 2020. Before joining PyroGenesis, Me Tolszczukwas part of the corporate law group of the leading independent law firm in the province of Qubec. Her work was focused on developing strategies for the protection, commercialization and enforcement of intellectual property assets. She also acquired experience in litigation files and participated in the due diligence phase of mergers and acquisitions. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Law and a Masters Degree in Biology. The Company also announces the departure, effective July 2nd, 2020, of Me Ilario Gualtieri. We thank Me Gualtieri for his contributions and wish his well in his future endeavors.

About PyroGenesis Canada Inc.

PyroGenesis Canada Inc., a high-tech company, is the world leader in the design, development, manufacture and commercialization of advanced plasma processes and products. We provide engineering and manufacturing expertise, cutting-edge contract research, as well as turnkey process equipment packages to the defense, metallurgical, mining, advanced materials (including 3D printing), oil & gas, and environmental industries. With a team of experienced engineers, scientists and technicians working out of our Montreal office and our 3,800 m2 manufacturing facility, PyroGenesis maintains its competitive advantage by remaining at the forefront of technology development and commercialization. Our core competencies allow PyroGenesis to lead the way in providing innovative plasma torches, plasma waste processes, high-temperature metallurgical processes, and engineering services to the global marketplace. Our operations are ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified, and have been since 1997. PyroGenesis is a publicly-traded Canadian Corporation on the TSX Venture Exchange (Ticker Symbol: PYR) and on the OTCQB Marketplace. For more information, please visit http://www.pyrogenesis.com.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements containing the words "may", "plan", "will", "estimate", "continue", "anticipate", "intend", "expect", "in the process" and other similar expressions which constitute "forward- looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements reflect the Corporation's current expectation and assumptions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, our expectations regarding the acceptance of our products by the market, our strategy to develop new products and enhance the capabilities of existing products, our strategy with respect to research and development, the impact of competitive products and pricing, new product development, and uncertainties related to the regulatory approval process. Such statements reflect the current views of the Corporation with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and other risks detailed from time-to-time in the Corporation's ongoing filings with the securities regulatory authorities, which filings can be found at http://www.sedar.com, or at http://www.otcmarkets.com. Actual results, events, and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Corporation undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward- looking statements either as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange, its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) nor the OTCQB accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.

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A brief history of the freedom of speech in America – Washington Times

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire (1694-1778)

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists grievances with the British government. Notably absent were any complaints that the British government infringed upon the freedom of speech.

In those days, speech was as acerbic as it is today. If words were aimed at Parliament, all words were lawful. If they were aimed directly and personally at the king as Jeffersons were in the Declaration they constituted treason.

Needless to say, Jefferson and the 55 others who signed the Declaration would all have been hanged for treasonous speech had the British prevailed.

Of course, the colonists won the war, and, six years afterward, the 13 states ratified the Constitution. Two years after ratification, the Constitution was amended by adding the Bill of Rights. The first ratified amendment prohibited Congress from doing what the colonists never seriously complained about the British government doing infringing upon the freedom of speech.

James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon referring to speech as the freedom of speech, so as to emphasize that it preexisted the government. If you could have asked Madison where he believed the freedom of speech came from, hed have said it was one of the inalienable rights Jefferson wrote about in the Declaration.

Stated differently, each of the signatories of the Declaration and ratifiers of the Bill of Rights manifested in writing their unambiguous belief that the freedom of speech is a natural right personal to every human. It does not come from the government. It comes from within us. It cannot be taken away by legislation or executive command.

Yet, a mere seven years later, during the presidency of John Adams, Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts, which punished speech critical of the government.

So, how could the same generation in some cases the same human beings that prohibited congressional infringement upon speech have enacted a statute that punished speech?

Tothe some of the framers the Federalists who wanted a big government as we have today infringing upon the freedom of speech meant silencing it before it was uttered. Today, this is called prior restraint, and the Supreme Court has essentially outlawed it.

To the antifederalists or Democratic-Republicans, as they called themselves the First Amendment prohibited Congress from interfering with or punishing any speech.

Adams Department of Justice indicted and prosecuted and convicted antifederalists among them a congressman for their critical speech.

When Jefferson won the presidency and the antifederalists won control of Congress, the Federalists repealed the speech suppression parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts on the eve of their departure from congressional control, lest it be used against them.

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln locked up hundreds of journalists in the North who were critical of his war efforts. During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson whom my alma mater Princeton University is trying to erase from its memory arrested folks for reading the Declaration of Independence aloud or singing German beer hall songs.

Lincoln argued that preserving the Union was more important than preserving the First Amendment, and Wilson argued that the First Amendment only restrained Congress, not the president. Both arguments have since been rejected by the courts.

In the 1950s, the feds successfully prosecuted Cold War dissenters on the theory that their speech was dangerous and might have a tendency to violence. Some of the victims of this torturous rationale died in prison.

The governments respect for speech has waxed and waned. It is at its lowest ebb during wartime. Of course, dissent during wartime which challenges the governments use of force to kill is often the most important and timely speech.

It was not until 1969, in a case called Brandenburg v. Ohio, that the Supreme Court gave us a modern definition of the freedom of speech. Brandenburg harangued a crowd in Hamilton County, Ohio and urged them to march to Washington and take back the federal government from Blacks and Jews, whom he argued were in control. He was convicted in an Ohio state court of criminal syndicalism basically, the use of speech to arouse others to violence.

The Supreme Court unanimously reversed his conviction and held that all innocuous speech is absolutely protected, and all speech is innocuous when there is time for more speech to rebut it. The same Supreme Court had just ruled in Times v. Sullivan that the whole purpose of the First Amendment is to encourage and protect open, wide, robust, even caustic and unbridled speech.

The speech we love needs no protection. The speech we hate does. The government has no authority to evaluate speech. As the framers understood, all persons have a natural right to think as we wish and to say and publish whatever we think. Even hateful, hurtful and harmful speech is protected speech.

Yet, in perilous times like the present, we have seen efforts to use the courts to block the publication of unflattering books. We have seen state governors use the police to protect gatherings of protesters with whose message they agreed and to disburse critical protesters. We have seen mobs silence speakers while the police did nothing.

Punishing speech is the most dangerous business because there will be no end to it. The remedy for hateful or threatening speech is not silence or punishments; it is more speech speech that challenges the speaker.

Why do folks in government want to silence their opponents? They fear an undermining of their power. The dissenters might make more appealing arguments than they do. St. Augustine taught that nearly all in government want to tell others how to live.

How about we all say whatever we want and the government leaves us alone?

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is a regular contributor to The Washington Times. He is the author of nine books on the U.S. Constitution.

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Finding furlough freedom with software applications – ITProPortal

The coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented levels of disruption to businesses around the world. In the UK, the Government has attempted to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic via the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, whereby businesses are able to apply for a grant to pay furloughed staff up to 80 per cent of their full salary. The scheme has seen huge demand 140,000 firms applied for cash to pay their furloughed workers within the first eight hours of it going live. However, while the furlough scheme will enable much of the UKs workforce to keep their job, it does also pose a significant number of administrative challenges for HR and finance departments.

For starters, the furlough scheme legally requires employers to give their employees notification of furlough and produce proof upon request. For small businesses that only have a few employees, this is likely to be a fairly time-consuming task; but for those larger corporations, such as retailer Primark who has furloughed 68,000 members of their workforce, the amount of time and human resource required to distribute furlough notifications is unthinkable.

Secondly, there is the complex challenge of calculating how much each furloughed employee needs to be paid and thus how much money the business needs to reclaim from the Government. Under the scheme, 80 per cent of furloughed employees salaries up to the value of 2,500 a month, plus national insurance and pension contributions, will be covered by a government grant. If an employees pay varies, the employer can claim that individuals average monthly earnings from the 2019-2020 tax year, or the same months earnings from the previous year, depending on which amount is higher.

Moreover, businesses also need to be able to keep up with the changing furlough regulations set by the Government. We have already seen an example of this in action: employees originally had to be on the payroll before the 28th of February to qualify for furlough, but this has now been extended to 19th March, meaning that a much larger proportion of employees qualify for the scheme. This added layer of complexity requires an additional level of flexibility that many businesses will struggle to find under current circumstances.

The myriad of challenges outlined above means the HR and finance departments that are burdened with managing their organisations furlough processes are left with an administrative headache. Conducting the full furlough process from end-to-end manually could put a huge strain on businesses already tight resources. This is where leveraging existing IT-infrastructure to create an agile software-based furlough solutions can make a big difference.

Cloud-based applications on platforms such as Oracles E-Business Suite are designed to automate tasks that would otherwise be arduous and labour intensive. There are a wide variety of ERP and Human Capital Management (HCM) applications available to meet the dynamic needs of businesses, but just as many of us hadnt even heard the term furlough until recently, not many of them are tailored to the specific challenges HR and finance departments are faced with today.

Businesses need to work with their IT-partners to design a solution that meets the complex demands of the furlough scheme, and that enables them to quickly and efficiently pay their staff on time. In order to do so, there are a number of specific requirements businesses need to consider with their IT partner when designing their furlough solution.

Any software-based furlough solution that businesses design must be easy to use, easily integrated with existing software applications, such as those used for payroll, and require minimal data-entry. Oracle E-Business Suite is a great example of this, as it enables users to use batch element entry (BEE) to input data in large masses.

This allows the user to quickly and robustly enter mass volumes of existing data via excel and other Oracle HCM applications and to manage it in batches thereafter. For businesses that are looking to furlough staff on mass, this means they can submit furlough applications in one go, using existing data from excel or their payroll application.

Another essential requirement for businesses to consider when designing a software-based furlough solution is automation. Any software-based furlough solution should look to automate salary and reclaim calculations. This would mean that once data for the furloughed employees has been inputted into the solution from an organisations payroll application, the furlough solution should be able to automatically calculate both fixed-salary and variable pay, as well as pension and national insurance contributions. By using furlough start and end dates the application can ensure that this is repeated for the entirety of the furlough duration. The furlough solution should also be able to make eligibility checks for the scheme based on an employees hire date without additional human input.

In addition, a furlough solution could also automate furlough notifications by sending out emails to employees for the duration of the furlough period, while also giving them vital updates as and when the Job Retention Scheme changes. Ultimately, implementing a software-based furlough solution can help businesses to find furlough freedom by ensuring that they are able to pay their employees on time, while meeting all of the Governments compliance regulations.

Each and every business will have different furlough process requirements and it is unlikely that there will be a one-size fits all software solution to suit every organisations need. Thus, in order to find a furlough solution that fits their specific requirements businesses should first look to find a trusted IT-partner that has expertise and understands the databases and applications they currently use. This partner can then work with the organisations IT-department to build a furlough solution that is tailored to their each and every need and that takes the pain out of the furlough process.

The pandemic has increased many employees' workloads drastically, and HR professionals need to find the capacity to process furlough applications. By implementing a software solution to take on the challenge for them much of the heavy burden is lifted, so HR professionals can focus on what matters most the wellbeing of their staff.

Mark Vivian, CEO, Claremont

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Freedom conference moves 2020 location to Beaver Creek – Sentinel Colorado

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS | The Steamboat Institutes Freedom Conference will take place outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado for the first time in its history, the conservative think tank announced on Sunday.

The event will move to Beaver Creek, situated 86 miles (138 kilometers) south of Steamboat Springs and 109 miles (175 kilometers) west of Denver, the Steamboat Pilot & Today reported.

The 12th annual conference is scheduled for Aug. 28 to 29.

Jennifer Schubert-Akin, the institutes chairman, cited local restrictions related to the coronavirus as the main impetus for the location change.

Schubert-Akin told the newspaper that Routt Countys restrictions on the size of gatherings and a paucity of large-enough locations within the county contributed to the decision. The Beaver Creek Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa provides a financially viable event in a less restrictive environment, she said in an email.

Nigel Farage, the current leader of the United Kingdoms Brexit party, is scheduled to speak at the conference.

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Trump said ‘freedom of speech’ 7 times in less than a minute in defence of the Confederate flag – indy100

Donald Trump really wants you to know that he thinks those that choose to display the controversial Confederate flag are just voicing their 'freedom of speech' so much so, that he'll say it over and over again.

During an interview with CBS' Catherine Herridge, which was broadcast on Tuesday, the president was asked about his thoughts on the Confederate flag in the wake of the Black Lives Matter and anti-racism movements that the whole world has witnessed this year.

The flag, which is synonymous with the American south during the Civil War, who wanted to preserve slavery has come under scrutiny in recent months due to his problematic history. The flag is still widely displayed across America and many statues of generals, who fought for the Confederacy are still standing. Efforts have been made to revise the widespread use of the flag, most notably with the motorsport, a popular spectacle in southern states, who have opted to ban all use of the flag at their events.

Trump, who has previously said that his stance on displaying the flag is a 'freedom of speech' was asked if his opinion had changed with Herridge pointing out that in 2015 he had said the flag belonged in a museum. Unsurprisingly, Trump's opinion hadn't changed but this time he really wanted to let the world know that he thinks it is 'freedom of speech.' This is what he said, verbatim:

All I say is freedom of speech. It's very simple. My attitude is freedom of speech. Very strong views on the confederate flag. With me it's freedom of speech. Very simple. Like it. Don't like it. It's freedom of speech.

Herridge then asked the president if he would be comfortable with his own supporters showing the flag and his events. You can guess what his answer was.

It depends on what your definition is. I am comfortable with freedom of speech. It's very simple.

Herridge then asked Trump if he understood why the flag is a painful to some as it is a reminder of America's troubled history with slavery.

Well, people love it. I know people that like the Confederate flag and they are not thinking about slavery. I look at Nascar, you go to Nascar and you had those flags all over the place. They stopped it. I just think it's freedom of speech. Whether it's Confederate flags or Black Lives Matter or anything else you want to talk about, it's freedom of speech.

It's safe to say that Trump has made his stance on the issue very clear but his excuse that displaying the flag is 'freedom of speech' didn't wash with everyone.

Although the Black Lives Matter protests have dropped from the headlines protests and activism have still continued throughout the United States and the rest of the world, demanding an end to injustice, inequality and systematic racism.

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As city encroaches on Nairobi park, wild animals freedom to roam is under threat – The Union Leader

NAIROBI Rhinos, lions, buffalo and leopards range against the background of a city skyline in the Nairobi National Park, Africas only game reserve within a capital city.

The park has been fenced in on three sides as the city mushroomed around it.

Outside its unfenced southern boundary, the banks of the Mochiriri River are a favored refuge for breeding lions. Animals often pass through to make their way to larger parks beyond.

But the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has proposed a 10-year plan to fence land along the southern boundary to reduce conflict between people and animals.

The idea has many conservationists up in arms and a court hearing on the plan is scheduled on Wednesday.

This is the lifeline of this park, said Reinhard Nyandire, a conservationist working with the Friends of Nairobi National Park, gesturing to the open pastures behind him.

When they fence the park, you cut them (the animals) off, he said.

The volunteer group is dedicated to helping KWS keep the lands around the park open.

The KWS director general and spokesmen did not respond to requests to discuss the plan.

Commercial buildings are encroaching on the parks land and in 2018, a six-km railway bridge was built through it. Sewage from nearby settlements empties into the river, KWS reports say.

Animals often leave the park during the rainy season when the grass is too long to see predators and return during the dry season when the grass inside is more lush. The park also links up to migration corridors leading to larger parks.

The plan proposes fencing in land on the southern boundary if the owners are willing, or if they do not agree, to fence the park itself.

A 2016 KWS report said fencing was the least suitable option to reduce animal-human conflict. Shrinking ranges would cause conflict among rhinos and lions, other species could not migrate, and inbreeding would be a problem.

It is not the only option. The plan itself said conservation initiatives such as installing free motion-sensor lights to deter lions have already reduced human-animal conflict.

Nkamunu Patita, co-ordinator for the Naretunoi conservancy which borders the park, said many landowners do not want any fencing.

When Reuters visited Naretunoi, herds of zebras were resting there with fluffy babies, unsteady young giraffe grazed alongside their mothers, and ostrich and wildebeest roamed alongside Maasai cows.

Freedom to move across wide swathes of land benefits both wildlife and Maasai herders, she said.

Their way of life is compatible with conservation, she said. Thats why you see zebras and cows grazing together.

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Freedom of expression is complex, challenging – and crucial – The Bookseller

Published July 15, 2020 by Daniel Gorman

It feels as if were at a critical moment regarding discussion of free expression in the UK and the US. #cancelculture has been trending on...

It feels as if were at a critical moment regarding discussion of free expression in the UK and the US. #cancelculture has been trending on Twitter; a letter signed by major literary figures warns of rising censoriousness; individuals are being stripped of titles and posts. With so much commotion it can be difficult to see the big picture what are these the key threats to freedom of expression, and how are they being imposed?

I was honoured to take up the helm of English PEN last summer, an organisation I have long admired for its deep commitment to free expression, literary quality, and the intersection between freedom of expression and other human rights. Juggling those three different elements can be challenging, and the challenge is all the greater with the debate being played out on, and amplified by, social media. This all too often irons out complexity, reducing it to a battle of opposing certainties, when many of the issues being raised both deserve and require the time and space for specific, engaged and nuanced discussion. A space for thoughtful reflection on positions, on power, and on historic and current inequalities.

At English PEN, we're proud of our 100-year history of calling out injustice and the abuse of power and we continue to fight every day for the freedom to write and the freedom to read. We support the right to hold and express strong views, provided that such expression does not undermine the internationally recognised human rights of others, nor engender the threat or use of violence. We also understand that to criticise is not to censor. Freedom of expression does not guarantee the right to a platform, and does not equate to freedom from consequences.

There are many examples of serious cases of concern, both current and in the PEN archives, in which such consequences have been undeserved, unconscionable, illegal, violating freedoms or vastly disproportionate. These cases are central to many of our campaigns. There are also examples of where responses can be seen as legitimate, and cannot simply be excoriated as #cancelculture.

Assessment of responses depends on the context, on what has been said, on the power structures involved, and the response to the criticism received. These responses in turn can be criticised this is part of the power of free speech. The use of ill-defined terms such as 'cancel culture' and 'no platforming'has resulted in a situation where the distinction between legitimate criticism and online harassment has been blurred and undermined. Frequently those at the receiving end of online harassment are women, people of colour, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

The world is undergoing a shift in opening up the spaces for this criticism to take place. Never before have so many voices been able to be present, to be actively involved in these debates. At English PEN we recognise that pervasive structural inequality remains a key barrier to free expression any discussion of censorship that does not reflect on the power structures involved will never provide the whole picture. These structural inequalities are present across society in the UK and the literary and publishing sector has much work to do, as demonstrated by the recent academic report on Rethinking Diversity in Publishing, published in partnership with Spread the Word, Goldsmiths and The Bookseller, with funding from AHRC.

English PEN champions equity of opportunity for all readers and writers. In particular, we seek to advance the full exercise of the right to freedom of expression in all communities - this concept underpins all of the work that we do. I am proud of our track record in platforming voices that have been underrepresented in the UK literary sector through our events and translation programmes and via our online magazine PEN Transmissions. We know this is an ongoing project, and it is one that we are committed to.

English PEN was founded in 1921 in the belief that creating the space to meet and speak to one another is vital. In the words of Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, English PENs founder, out of social intercourse comes understanding. From this idea came the growth of the international PEN movement, now present in over 100 countries. All PEN centres are guided by the PEN Charter the principles of which were originally laid down in 1927 and updated in 1948. The PEN Charter envisions one humanity living in peace and equality in one world. It calls on members to use their influence to foster good understanding and mutual respect and to dispel all hatreds.

Freedom of expression can include statements that annoy, shock, disturb, and cause discomfort. Freedom of expression also enables the demand for other human rights to be respected. We will continue to work through our centenary year and beyond to open up the space for nuanced discussion around freedom of expression and its intersection with other human rights. We are a membership organisation, and our members form our backbone. We would welcome you to join us, and to join in these vital debates on expression, power, justice and equality.

Daniel Gorman is the director of English PEN.

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The Novels of Tension Between Freedom and Disaster – The New York Review of Books

Bridgeman ImagesThomas Jones: The Bard, 1774

Different kinds of stories draw us into different worlds of feeling. That is the idea I am trying to get across with these four broad narrative categories Ive proposed to map out. What brings novels together into this group or that is not, banally, the content, but the values driving the story. Or the distinctive conflict of values and consequent emotions that set the mood and determine the action.

After I wrote about novels characterized by their focus on belongingthe concern with being in or out of a certain community, worthy or unworthy of its membershipa reader suggested I should have included Mark Twain in my list, mentioning The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. Its true that Twain is wonderfully attuned to the communities he describes, their speech and customs. But what drives the plot of Huckleberry Finn is the desire for freedom, Hucks desire, Jims desire. The suffocating shirt collar is rejected for the great outdoors. Liberty trumps belonging at every turn. Twain rubs this in with his account of the feud between the Grangerford and Shepherdson clans, two families obsessed by belonging and family identity to the exclusion of all other values. Hucks instinct is to hightail it out of there.

But a free life is a precarious life, precarious as the river with its flotsam of corpses and criminals. A man striking for freedom might occasionally reflect he had been safer with his chains. Here is a source of inner conflict. Independent and free on their raft, Huck and Jim are entirely unprotected, from man or nature. At the end of the book, Huck realizes some accommodation must be made with community, for the security and opportunities it offers; but by that point, he has established an inner independence.

Another reader suggested John Updike as a writer of belonging. And when, in the second essay in the series, I talked about narratives driven by the tension between wanting to indulge ones desires (often, sexual desires) and at the same time needing to think of oneself as morally good (a conflict between the urge to indulge and a sense of repulsion), again someone brought up Updikes name: Why hadnt I included the novelist, fascinated as he was with sexual infidelity?

Updike does write brilliantly of urban and suburban communities. His characters often find themselves in dilemmas related to their sex lives. But what threatens to thwart their urges is not a moral repulsion or self-disgust, of the variety one finds in Tolstoy, or Jelinek, or Coetzee, or Pavese; on the contrary, nobody strove to make sensuality more lush and alluring than Updike. It is a fear of practical consequences: destroying a marriage perhaps, or getting trapped in a relationship when one wanted only the romance. In one short story, Updike has a philandering protagonist recall that the best moments in an affair are those in which you close the door of your lovers house behind you with a triumphant feeling that you got away with it.

In this regard, Updikes work aligns itself with Twains. Liberty is the positive emotion, conflicted by a need for safety, in a world that is unspeakably attractive and dangerous. We look to fiction, Updike wrote, in an essay on book covers, not only for stimulation, but for reassurance.

Here is the force field of values and emotions that gives us our third categorya yearning to be free held in tension with an intense trepidation for the consequences. Some of our writers will line up on the side of caution: Thomas Hardy, Per Petterson, Lydia Davis, Peter Stammin their world, the risk is rarely worth it, so inevitable and disastrous are the consequences of breaking free. Storytelling perhaps becomes a vicarious substitute for adventure.

Others are recklessly bold: George Sand, Stendhal, D.H. Lawrence, Philip Rothfor them, not to risk is a betrayal of ones potential. Others again seem nicely poised between the two: Alphonse de Lamartine, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Updike himself. I deliberately choose authors from different times and climes, but behind them all stands the monumental figure of Montaigne who wrote: I am so sick for freedom, that if anyone should forbid me access to some corner of the Indies, I should live distinctly less comfortably. And again, the thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, because the fearful man has lost his freedom.

George Sand inhabited this dilemma acutely. Born Aurore Dupin to a poor woman of uncertain reputation and a terribly spoiled aristocrat, she spent a childhood lodged as an apple of discord between her rich paternal grandmother and lowly mother. Her father died in a horse-riding accident when she was four. Three other children born to the same couple had died very young. Life was precarious. My two mothers ripped my heart to shreds, she later wrote. Eventually handed over to her grandmother in return for money, she resolved that all her life would be a struggle not to be an object of possession for others.

When her grandmother took to dressing her up in mens clothes, to have her look more like the father who had died, Aurore realized how free boys were compared to girls. They could roam the countryside alone. Finding education a prison and threatening to run away to her mother in Paris, she was sent to a convent, where, after a period of unhappy rebellion, she discovered her writerly vocation. She grasped, she later explained, that choosing God as a source of security, rather than grandmothers and school tutors, allowed her to feel freer. Reconciling obedience and independence, she set out to impress the nuns by composing charades, theatre sketches and morality plays. The convent had become my paradise on earth, she wrote. There she had absolute liberty within walls that I cherished.

This is a condition to which the characters of her novels aspirefor the most part, in vain, swinging back and forth between giddy excitement and deep dejection. Depression is never far away. Brought home from the convent when her grandmother feared she was planning to become a nun, Aurore sank into pathological hopelessness, and, out riding in mens clothes, aged seventeen, tried to kill herself by plunging her horse into the river. Character after character in her fifty-eight novels would make similar attempts, and always because the desire to live free seemed irretrievably thwarted by limitations of one kind or another: an imprisoning husband, social prejudice, fraternal jealousy.

Aurore wrote her first novel, Indiana, as a manGeorge Sandusing all the masculine inflections French requires, luxuriating in liberation from womans subject condition, the condition her heroine Indiana is trapped in. Men, her male narrator reflects, especially lovers, are addicted to the innocent fatuity of preferring to protect weakness rather than to admire courage in womankind.

Indiana has courage aplenty; the problem is learning how to use it wisely. The rash mistake that proves fatal is a constant trope in these novels. Life is so enticing that the inexperienced youngster moves heedlessly toward it. To escape a loveless home, Indiana rushes into a marriage with an older, authoritarian colonel (as the young Aurore Dupin rushed into marriage with a military man). A handsome young aristocrat promises to save her from this living death, but to become his lover would merely be another mistake.

Fortunately, Indiana is now attuned to danger, she senses that, though not evil (moral considerations are always attenuated in novels of this category), he is blindly acting out a role that society allows to a rich young man, that of the dashing philanderer. In two headily sensual, tantalisingly drawn-out scenes, she is constantly on the brink of giving herself sexually, but manages to hold back. Again, this is a frequent trope of this category: sex is immensely enticing but awesomely perilous.

Finally, Indiana realises that her inconspicuous cousin Ralph is the only one who really loves her. Unable to live together in a world that considers Indiana legally bound to someone else, the two enter into a suicide pactonly death can bring freedombut then change their minds and withdraw to a remote island where they loved each other in perfect security despising public opinion. In a letter to Flaubert, Sand would later insist: No real friendship without ABSOLUTE liberty.

Something terrible is about to happen, but how wonderful if it didnt. Or again: something wonderful is about to happen, but how terrible if it didnt. Characters in these novels live in a constant state of anxiety and expectation, a mood immediately communicated to the reader who is to spend the pages of these apprehensive books forever on the edge of their chair.

Here is Hardy from early inTess of the DUrbervilles:

All these young souls were passengers in the Durbeyfield ship, entirely dependent on the judgement of the two Durbeyfield adults for their pleasures, their necessities, the health, even their existence. If the heads of the Durbeyfield household chose to sail into difficulty, disaster, starvation, disease, degradation, death, thither were these half-dozen little captives under hatches compelled to sail with themsix helpless creatures, who had never been asked if they wished for life on any terms, much less if they wished for it on such hard conditions

Here is Lydia Davis opening her story The Fears of Mrs Orlando:

Mrs. Orlandos world is a dark one. In her house she knows what is dangerous: the gas stove, the steep stairs, the slick bathtub, and several kinds of bad wiring.

Jhumpa Lahiri starting In Other Words:

I want to cross a small lake. It really is small, and yet the other shore seems too far away, beyond my abilities. Im aware that the lake is very deep in the middle, and even though I know how to swim Im afraid of being alone in the water without any support.

The first paragraph of Per Pettersons Out Stealing Horses offers an image of small birds banging into the window of the narrators remote cabin home and falling dizzily into the evening snow. Warm inside, the aging Trond Sander observes, I dont know what they want that I have. Proximity to a wayward nature, in which collisions and deaths are ever in the wind, is a constant in Pettersons fiction. There is a great deal of weather in his stories and it is always bewitching and treacherous, like the woman who destroyed Sanders life by seducing his father and leading him to abandon his son.

Fear is the most common emotion in Pettersons work, courage the quality most prized. Practical competence with tools, animals, guns, and vehicles is much admired. Meticulous descriptions explain how to use a chainsaw so you wont get hurt, how to prepare a home against the winter, how to stack logs on a sloping river bank, how to save a drowning man. Sander would have been a useful companion for Huck Finn. This is not the guilt-ridden control of ones own questionable impulses, as with our writers obsessed with good and evil (Dostoevsky, Coetzee, Jelinek), but a precautionary control of the world, a wariness of ones own inexperience. When the desire for freedom leads to some fatal transgression, one does not talk about guilt but about having made a mistakeTess Durbeyfields mistake succumbing to Alec DUrberville, for example. As writers, the authors in our category are competent builders, and the book itself is a vehicle for both exploring and containing danger.

Given this play of feelings, what the characters ask of one another is: Can I trust you, can you protect me? In both Out Stealing Horses and Pettersons earlier novel To Siberia, a young person on the brink of adulthood loses the one relationship (father, brother) that made it possible to look at an inclement world with confidence and is crippled for life as a result. One of the fiercest conflicts in this kind of fiction comes when a characters yearning for freedom is at odds with a felt duty to protect. In Roths Nemesis, Bucky, a gym teacher who organizes summer games outdoors for children during the polio outbreak of 1944, yearns to be free to join his rich girlfriend who has escaped the outbreak to go off to a camp in the country. But Bucky owes these young people his expert care. When he follows his instinct to be free, catastrophe results.

Conversely, in Roths Indignation, when the young hero Marcus heads for university during the Korean War, his protective Jewish father is suddenly and inexplicably afraid that any misbehavior on his sons partand at once, we know he means sexual misbehaviorwill lead to the boys being expelled and thus exposed to the draft and inevitable death. Marcus is so infected by his fathers anxieties that, excited by a girl in the university library, he holds back from masturbating in the bathroom lest discovery should lead exactly to such a disaster. A frame is created in which the erotic drive is experienced as potentially calamitous. The same tension occurs in more comic fashion at the opening to Sabbaths Theater, when the heros long-time mistress presents him with the ultimatum Either forswear fucking others or the affair is over. Total freedom must be surrendered to exercise a duty toward a partner in transgression.

With all these authors, the imprisoning apprehension of the dangers lurking behind every action only heightens the yearning for a free, full life. The tiniest misstep can have tragic consequences, we hear in Indignation; A brief glance in the wrong direction could toss his existence over a cliff, we are told in Jhumpa Lahiris story A Choice of Accommodations. Perhaps this is why these authors are unbeatable for erotic intensity. Nobody hears the sirens sing so sweetly and ruinously. Hardys Tess:

She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snakes. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The brimfulness of her nature breathed from herThen those eyes flashed brightly through their filmy heaviness, before the remainder of her face was well awake. With an oddly compounded look of gladness, shyness and surprise, she exclaimedO Mr. Clare! How you frightened me.

When it all goes wrong, as it must, the characters are actually relieved that the intensity is over. Peter Stamm compares his protagonist in Seven Years to soldiers who go freely to their graves to protect themselves from death. When disaster strikes, he felt a great feeling of calm and a kind of relief. Hardys Tess yearns to be grassed down and forgotten. Eroticism is swiftly sublimated as the yearning individual allows him- or herself to be absorbed into impersonal nature. George Sands characters plunge into rivers or mountain gorges. Pettersons trudge in the deep snow. Again, Thomas Hardy is the most luxuriant and extreme: when the world falls apart for Clym in The Return of the Native, he annihilates himself by taking the most menial of menial jobs, cutting gorse on Egdon Heath:

Strange amber-coloured butterflies quivered in the breath of his lips, alighted upon his bowed back, and sported with the glittering point of his hook as he flourished it up and down. Tribes of emerald-green grasshoppers leaped over his feet Huge flies, ignorant of larders and wire-netting, and quite in a savage state, buzzed about him without knowing that he was a man. In and out of the fern-dells snakes glided in their most brilliant blue and yellow guise, it being the season immediately following the shedding of their old skins, when their colours are brightest. Litters of young rabbits came out from their forms to sun themselves upon hillocks, the hot beams blazing through the delicate tissue of each thin-fleshed ear, and firing it to a blood-red transparency in which the veins could be seen. None of them feared him.

This abandonment of self offers a melancholy echo of what, for the more optimistic authors in this category, occurs when sex goes well. Anxious identity is excitingly surrendered. He was smeared away into the beyond, we hear of Paul in Sons and Lovers, when he and Miriam at last make love. He felt himself melt[ing] out into the darkness, it was a reaching-out to death.

A warning. Writers in this category may sometimes seem conventional and correct, but only out of caution. Hardy was scrupulously present in church, despite his agnosticism; George Sand was careful to stop her son marrying a girl who was illegitimate, despite her own determination to be free from convention. Alternatively, they may go out of the way to provokeas with Lawrence, challenging all the received ideas of his time, or Roth flagrantly describing scenes of masturbation, and much else. But whether these writers were cautious or reckless in their own lives, the drift of their work is always against social constriction of whatever kind. For the sheer pleasure and danger of it, lets wind up this category with a few words on one of its most strenuous and bizarre practitioners: Henri Beyle, otherwise known as Stendhal.

Following his mothers death when he was seven, Henris dull, royalist father enlisted a harridan aunt and a Jesuit tutor to bring up the boy. Henri loathed them both. Condemned to hiding his feelings and scheming behind their backs in impotent hatred, he began a habit of secrecy that would last a lifetime. Fortunately, there was a heroically independent great aunt who paid, secretly, for the private lessons in mathematics that enabled Henri to win a school prize and set off for Paris to study. Competence brought freedom.

In Paris, he joined Napoleons army and,in 1800, aged seventeen, set off for Italy, which immediately seemed the place for the free and full expression he had been yearning for. Just one evening watching CimarosasThe Secret Marriagein the small town of Novara was enough to convert him for life. This sense of fatality, whether positive or negative, is typical of novels in this category. One look, one moment, is enough. Which is why life is so dangerous and exciting.

Henris thirst for freedomnowbordered on the pathological. He must be free from his father and family, free from his own name, free from France and the French, free from irksome responsibilities, from money worries, from people and places that bored him, free,in particular, from the anxieties that have us seeking the approval of our peers, which is to say, from vanity, the great scourge, as he saw it, of modern society. The more I go on, he writes in 1812, the more ambition disgusts me. It is simply putting ones happiness in the hands of others.

Free to do what, though? To travel. To support outlawed ideas. To plagiarize. To lie. To be candid. Free to say dangerous things in polite conversation and watch the faces of the fainthearted grow pale. In particular, he yearned for the freedom to express whatever he felt. For another mans wife for example. He didnt accept that he should be ashamed of such things. He must be free to make love to whomever he wanted to, but also to move on when a partners attentions began to present themselves as a trap. He spoke excitedly of the freedom to slip a hand up a womans skirt, where the ebony starts to shade the lily. Stendhal would not have survived the MeToo era.

Were such passionscompatible with freedom? Obviously not;to be in love waslike being overwhelmed by some superior force. But at least it was a nobleslavery,unlike dependence on other people for money and approval. This was one of the things Stendhal wanted to be free to write about. Though writing itself was a silk prison, a cocoon you spin, worm-like, around yourselfa refuge and a trap. No sooner do you begin a piece of writing than it becomes a job. The imagination flies elsewhere, this book is thus interrupted.

It should be no surprise, then, to find Stendhal writing his masterpiece,The Charterhouse of Parma, all 500 brilliant pages of it, at breakneck speed (only fifty-two days) as if afraid the book might lose interest for him. During that time he shut himself up in his room, like a prisoner enslaved to the passion of his story, a story that tells of a man so passionately in love that he is happy to remain imprisoned in a cell because its window affords a view of the courtyard where his beloved can be seen every day. No other book holds together so perfectly the exhilaration of choosing to be free, and the horror of the consequent entrapment.

An earlier version of this essay misidentified John Updike as a New Englander; though he was a longtime resident of Massachusetts, he was a native Pennsylvanian. The article has been updated.

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For 1st time, Freedom Conference to be held outside Steamboat; organizer blames local COVID-19 restrictions – Steamboat Pilot and Today

Editors note: This story has been changed to clarify that the COVID-19 restrictions in Eagle and Routt counties are the same.

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS For the first time in its history, The Steamboat Institutes Freedom Conference is taking place outside of Steamboat Springs.

The annual event, which typically attracts hundreds of attendees and high-profile speakers, is moving this year to Beaver Creek, according to a news release from The Steamboat Institute. This will be the 12th annual conference organized by the conservative-leaning think tank, scheduled for Aug. 28 to 29 at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa.

In an email to Steamboat Pilot & Today, Jennifer Schubert-Akin, the Institutes chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder, cited local restrictions over COVID-19 as the primary reason for the change in location. As Schubert-Akin explained, countylimitations over gathering limits and a lack of large enough spaces in Routt County led to the decision. The venue in Beaver Creek allows The Steamboat Institute to host a financially viable event and accommodate guests in a less restrictive environment, she said.

Routt County Commissioner Beth Melton clarified that the restrictions between Routt and Eagle counties are the same, from gathering limits to mandate requiring face masks to be worn in businesses.

This years conference will come with some notable changes due to lingering COVID-19 restrictions in Beaver Creek and safety concerns. The ballroom of the venue, for example, will be limited to 250 people, according to Schubert-Akin. Organizers will keep the doors open to allow outdoor air to circulate through the room. Other events, such as the Coyote Gold Margarita Party on Aug. 29, will occur outside.

With the additional indoor and outdoor options, we can offer our speakers and guests a safe and comfortable environment, with plenty of open space, fresh outdoor air and sunshine, Schubert-Akin said in an email.

Schubert-Akin emphasized how she and other organizers are observing state and local restrictions and will provide face masks and hand sanitizer.

She described the Freedom Conference as an opportunity to learn about and discuss pressing issues on the national and global level as well as hear from leaders in government, business, education, military, journalism, media and entertainment.

Among the most prominent speakers at this years conference include Kimberley Strassel, a columnist and member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board; Nigel Farage, the founder of the libertarian United Kingdom Independence Party and current leader of the Brexit party; and Dr. Arthur Laffer, an economist who has advised several former presidents and invented the famous, alsonotorious, Laffer curve economic theory.

Topics will range from balancing liberty and security, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, to the 2020 presidential election.

The annual event historically has sold out at 330 participants, according to Schubert-Akin. She said the direct economic impact of the conference has been $350,000 annually for the local community. Steamboat Institute is employing the services of Steamboat vendors who have worked with the conference in previous years as much as possible, according to Schubert-Akin.

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Norris Burkes: The freedom of, and the freedom from, religion – Charleston Post Courier

As I continue with my July Freedom series, I recall a conversation I had with an Air Force officer who needed some updated information on the freedom of religion.

Whatcha doin, Chaplain?

The nonchalant question came from my 40-something deputy commander who had stuck her head in my open office door as she returned from a meeting.

Im trying to write a prayer for Colonel So-and-Sos retirement ceremony, but Im not getting far.

Why, whats the trouble?

Well, I uh ...

She interrupted with another question. Commanders will do that sometimes.

Why would you have to write your prayer? Youre a chaplain. Just pray.

You mean just a quick Wham-bam-amen, maam? I asked.

(NO, I definitely did not say that to my deputy commander. I just like to imagine I did.)

I explained that the retiree was Buddhist, so I was trying to find a prayer or a poem to honor his tradition.

Keep it simple, Chaplain, the commander said. Just pray a Christian prayer. After all, this is a Christian Air Force.

Honestly, this conversation took place too long ago for me to attest to the accuracy of all my quotes, but I will testify that, yes, she really did say, This is a Christian Air Force.

I stood from my desk. Her assertion inspired, as they say, a teaching moment.

Do you have a minute to talk? I asked.

She did, but she remained standing, as did I.

I asked her to think about our oath of office where wed sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Perhaps rememberingthe dozens of officers shed sworn in during her career, she nodded, but then added, Ive always wondered how, exactly, does a chaplain defend the Constitution?

Right, I said. Its complicated.

We both knew that the Geneva Convention prohibited chaplains from carrying a gun.

I defend the constitution mostly through my promotion of the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

She was sharp. She knew I was telling her that A commander shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

I pushed on, telling her that, by respecting the faith of this retiring officer, I was protecting the religious rights of all, even those we disagree with.

As a chaplain, my oath means that I make room for all faiths, not just Christianity. It means respecting all: the Wiccan, the Muslim and the Jew. It even means we respect the stand of the agnostic or atheist.

She gave my answer a sincere nod, a sign of a good commander.

And, I daringly added, in abidance with the Geneva Convention, I would even allow an enemy combatant his place of worship.

That last point may have proved to be her bridge-too-far, because she mentioned an upcoming meeting and was off.

As we remember our freedoms this month, we should know that the first amendment takes some inspiration from the Golden Rule. We do unto others as wed want them to do unto us.

In military life, it means that if I dont want a Buddhist prayer given at my retirement, I shouldnt present a Christian prayer at a non-Christian retirement.

In everyday life, it means that I must do my part to safeguard the local mosque if I hope to also promote my church services. If I want to wear my "I (heart) Jesus" shirt, then I must affirm a womans right to wear her hijab. If my city council invites Pastor Bob to pray, they also should allow the humanist to share her inspirational thought.

Why stand with those whose faith practice is sodrastically different than mine? Because at the end of the day, if we refuse to stand together, then we will most decidedly fall alone.

Finally, Ill leave you with these four guidelines concerning the First Amendment.

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Freedom camping issues put in the past as numbers grow – RNZ

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is preparing for an economic boost from campervans in the area this summer.

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The district is already experiencing a higher number of campervans than expected, as people take advantage of post-lockdown deals by rental providers.

Overall though, the number of visitors to the Queenstown Lakes District has plummeted, and the economic lifeblood they pumped through the area is barely registering a pulse these days.

The council's community services general manager, Thunes Cloete, said with no new international arrivals on the horizon, there were plans to roll out the welcome mat to those Kiwis who arrived this summer.

"We must be prepared for holiday period in December, the summer period, because we are seeing more campervans coming to our district than what we thought would happen.

"We are busy putting together a programme of what we think we'll need, and we'll also be discussing this with our commercial campground owners to see how we can get them involved."

Before the pandemic though, the endless stream of visitors in recent years was not all rosy.

Freedom campers taking up - and in some cases spoiling - the incredible landscapes that drew people to the area had locals seeing red only a few years ago.

Some locals feel freedom camping has had its day.

But Cloete said the council had turned the corner on those issues.

Part of its success last summer was responsible camping ambassadors, which would be deployed again this summer.

"They really did a fantastic job making sure that when somebody's parked in a wrong spot to go and talk to them, and just explain to them and give them some options.

"We found that worked much better [compared to a punitive approach]."

The council was also working with commercial enterprises to secure locations for freedom campers, as the council did not want to repeat its previous problems with them.

"We've been having discussions with two private entities that are really interested."

But some, such as Lake Hawea Holiday Park owner Richard Burdon, said the Covid-19 pandemic should be used to draw a line under the days of freedom camping.

"We've got freedom campers moving back into our district. One of the things we've learned from Covid is that we don't need them.

"We've got strong tourism numbers and we don't need freedom campers . . . ruining our environment. We need to take a different approach, and this is a really good opportunity."

He was not alone in his concern.

Kinloch Lodge owner Toni Glover said she had seen the return of some problematic behaviour since lockdown ended.

"There is a lot of people camping on the Glenorchy Road, also partially down the waterfront in Glenorchy and in Glacier Burn . . . in areas that are really just carparks.

"You've got a small minority that do spoil it for others, but we've certainly seen fecal waste and a degree of rubbish."

She said she wanted the Department of Conservation to step in and offer free access to camp sites to those stranded in the country, so they could use appropriate facilities.

"There's certainly a great deal of distress amongst these people who don't have anywhere else to go, they can't afford to rent a property, they don't have a job. And there's a lot of people who are travelling around because they can at the moment, but again they're travelling on a very tight budget."

Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult said he had not heard any complaints nor seen any issues since the pandemic struck.

"I have had no complaints whatsoever. The last complaint I would have got would've been last Christmas, New Year. So, if there are people misbehaving then that is a surprise to me."

He did not want to see Department of Conservation sites used for those reeling in the post-Covid 19 economy as the back of cars and vans were not an appropriate place to sleep.

"I'm just not seeing that at all. What I am seeing is Kiwis in rental campervans and generally they seem to be behaving appropriately.

"We have been aware of some migrant workers that ended up sleeping in the backs of their cars for a short period of time. We addressed that and we've made sure those people have a place to go. What I don't want is people sleeping rough, sleeping in the backs of cars, so we are ensuring that doesn't happen.

"I've said I will not see anybody in this district without a roof over their head or a feed in their stomach and that's what we are doing."

Visitors in campervans provided a much-needed boost for Queenstown Lakes' economy and if the trans-Tasman border opened up, Boult said he hoped Australians would get in on the act as well.

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