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Thomas W. Young is recognized by Continental Who’s Who – PRNewswire

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BEAVER, Pa., July 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Thomas W. Young, is being recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Top Consulting Expert for his exceptional work in the field of Financial Coaching & Planning and for his outstanding contributions as the President and Owner of 1st Consultants INC.

Located in Beaver, Pennsylvania, 1st Consultants Inc. is a comprehensive financial planning and wealth management firm where the highly trained staff specializes in implementing strategies for the good of preserving and accumulating personal wealth, individual retirement, estate, and business planning services. Clients striving for more money, financial security, debt elimination, and more financial freedom come to 1st Consultants Inc. to find the best solution by showing their clients how to become debt-free in nine years or less including mortgages without additional out of pocket expense. Demonstrating the highest level of professionalism and integrity, 1st Consultants Inc. continues to provide insight and solutions that assist clients in the pursuit of their financial independence.

As a well-seasoned and trusted financial professional, Mr. Thomas W. Young has accrued 43 years of professional excellence. In 1999, he emerged as the owner and founder of 1st Consultants, Inc. To prepare for his acclaimed career, Mr. Young graduated from the American College of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He is a published author of works like "The Ups, Downs, and Sideways"; "Life Insurance, Will It Pay When I Die?", in addition to several magazine articles relating to Financial Services such as "Why Widow's Die Destitute, Because Loss of Husband's Life Insurance". His most recent publication is The Family Money Farm "The CFO Project". Mr. Young is a highly sought-after speaker and has been invited as keynote speaker events for several businesses in California, Texas, and Michigan.

A front runner in his field Mr. Young is affiliated with numerous organizations such as the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, the Society of Financial Service Professionals, and The Million Dollar Round Table and National Association. In 2010 he earned the Beaver County Times Best of the Valley Readers' Choice Award by Pittsburgh Magazine as a Top-Scoring Wealth Manager for the last 6 years. In 2004 he was honored with the Ronald Reagan Gold Medal Award, in 2004 for Business Man of the Year, and Entrepreneur of The Year in 2017.

Mr. Young dedicates his success to Jodi Victor as a mentor and for teaching him throughout life to have a strong relationship with God and convinced him that he could make more of difference.

For more information please visit https://1stconsultantsinc.com/ or for more information on Mr. Young's most recent publication visit http://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/the-family-money-farm-the-cfo-project/

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The Evolution Of Halo’s Gameplay – GameSpot

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With Xbox finally showing off gameplay for Halo Infinite, the sixth mainline entry in the popular first-person shooter franchise, we figured it would be the perfect time to go back and chart the series' evolution. From 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved to 2020's Halo Infinite, the franchise has seen quite a few changes over the years.

In the video above, Persia details those changes over the course of Halo's six mainline entries, throwing in a few words for the franchise's notable spin-offs, Halo 3: ODST and Halo Reach. Some of the changes have been narrative driven--Halo 2, for example, introduced a new playable character in the Arbiter. However, some changes were more gameplay-focused, like Halo 3's introduction of split screen co-op in the main campaign.

Halo hasn't merely changed on the campaign side either--it's multiplayer has seen numerous overhauls over the course of the franchise's history. Halo 3: ODST, for instance, introduced a brand-new horde mode called Firefight and dropped dual-wielding altogether. But there have been more transformative changes as well, the most notable of which has to be Forge mode. Not only did Forge mode open up the floor for the community to create its own maps, the addition led to the creation of game types that were so popular that developers Bungie and 343 Industries would go on to recognize them as permanent game modes, like Grifball.

If you're looking to catch up on Halo's story prior to the Holiday 2020 release of Halo Infinite, then your best bet is picking up Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The collection contains Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo Reach, and Halo 4. Other than Halo 5: Guardians, that's every game that Persia talks about in the video above.

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Connecticut AG joins healthcare lawsuit against Trump administration alleging LGBTQ+, minority discrimination – Healthcare Finance News

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On Wednesday, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong joined 21 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to stop a new Trump Administration rule that, the coalition alleges, makes it easier for healthcare providers and insurance companies to discriminate against certain vulnerable and protected classes of Americans.

In a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, and the head of HHS's Office of Civil Rights, Roger Severino, the coalition of attorneys general contend that the new rule emboldens providers and insurers to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals, those with limited English proficiency and women, among others.

They claim the rule strips express protections for these groups in HHS regulations that implement the nondiscrimination provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

This provision of the ACA prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age by health programs or facilities that receive federal funds.

Tong joins New York Attorney General Letitia James, California AG Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts AG Maura Healey, as well as the attorneys general of Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia in filing the lawsuit.

WHAT'S THE IMPACT?

In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the coalition argues that HHS has unlawfully ignored the harms that the new rule will impose on vulnerable populations, including LGBTQ+ individuals, individuals with limited English proficiency and women, as well as other protected classes.

The coalition also contends that HHS has failed to justify why it pivoted from its prior policy, which, among other things, explicitly prohibited discrimination in healthcare, and required health entities to provide meaningful language assistance services to individuals with limited English proficiency, including notifying them of their rights to translation and interpretation services.

In addition, the lawsuit alleges that the Trump Administration was motivated by animus toward the transgender community in issuing this rule.

Specifically, the coalition said the new rule is arbitrary and contrary to law under the Administrative Procedure Act, and that it violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment.

THE LARGER TREND

Under the Obama Administration, HHS issued regulations implementing Section 1557 of the ACA in 2016making clear that discrimination on the basis of gender identity, nonconformity to sex stereotypesand pregnancy status are forms of sex discrimination prohibited by the statute. Specifically, Section 1557 prohibits discrimination by any healthcare program (including providers and insurers) against individuals on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disabilityor age.

Federal courts have also held that the statute's prohibitions on sex discrimination protect transgender and other LGBTQ+ individuals from such discrimination, which was confirmed in last month's Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County.That decision held that discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender status are forms of sex discrimination prohibited by federal civil rights law.

Despite numerous failed legislative and legal battles to repeal and dismantle the ACA, the Trump Administration's new rule would effectively eliminate many of the express protections contained in the Section 1557 regulations, according to the attorneys general.

They say the move would unlawfully exclude many health insurers from Section 1557's scope, and would embolden healthcare providers and health insurers to deny care and insurance coverage. The new rule, they argue, would also impose barriers and impede timely access to healthcare for Americans, in violation of Section 1554 of the ACA.

Before the rule was finalized, the coalition previously called on the Trump Administration to withdraw the rule by submitting a comment letter to HHS last August, as well as by sending a letter to HHS this past April, at the start of the COVID-19 public health crisis.

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Disabled Jamaican woman cooks, washes, and writes using feet – NYCaribNews

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51-year-old Daphne Williams who was born with a partial right hand and a single finger. She is a picture of resilience as, throughout her life, she has learned to use that solitary finger to undertake every imaginable task on her own.

With the aid of her right foot, Williams cooks, cleans, washes clothes, sews, and writes her own letters. She also lights her coal stove, cuts patterns to sew, and peels food to cook.

A former vendor, the Smithville, Clarendon resident does not allow her disability to stand in the way.

A staunch Christian and believer in God, Williams firmly believes that she was placed on earth for a special purpose.

This is how I was born and I accept it. God knows best, but Jamaica is too blessed for persons with disabilities to live permanently in hardships for the rest of their lives, said Williams.

The fifth of six children and the only one disabled, she explained her late mother cited domestic woes and emotional distress as the cause of her disability. She has had no formal diagnosis for her condition.

She further revealed that her parents were reluctant to register her in the formal education system, out of fear of her being scorned or ridiculed. As a result, she started primary school at age 10 and graduated shortly before her 17th birthday when she should have been leaving high school.

God granted me wisdom, knowledge and understanding, and I see it as a process for me to learn.

A Sunday-school teacher at the Smithville Baptist Church, she professed her love for children and said the congregation, of which she has been a member since 1994, was very supportive.

She believes that not enough is being done to cater to disabled persons, especially in rural areas.

I am disabled, but I am able. I do everything for myself, but if I want a bag juice, somebody has to give it to me, so I want some financial independence so that I can stop being a burden to my sister. I need some help, she pleaded.

Williams greatest challenge is not physical. She is saddled by financial woes and a lack of resources and pointed to an incomplete house on which construction was halted in 2008 as funds dried up.

There are times you need help and you dont really see anybody. I would love some help to fix up my house and a little bathroom.

She added that she would love to be able to own a sewing machine, as she aims to profit from her sewing skills.

Her niece and a church member both vouched for her saying she is a walking miracle who does everything a person with two hands and two feet can do.

Anyone willing to assist Williams may contact her at 876-562-3732.

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Trumps Paramilitary Units Trained at the Border for the Assaults on Portland Moms – Slate

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A federal officer faces down protesters on Tuesday in Portland, Oregon.Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Federal violence against protesters in Portland, Oregon, has escalated this week, with federal officers in military gear and helmets using batons and tear gas against protesting moms late on Tuesday night. Throughout the past week, uninvited and heavily militarized Customs and Border Protection agents have been violently seizing and detaining protesters. On Monday, the president promised to expand this operation to Chicago and other majority-Democrat cities. CBP agents are normally tasked with policing the border. So why are they in our cities, potentially violating the First, Fourth, and Fifth amendment rights of Portlanders in ways that clearly have nothing to do with enforcing immigration law? Unfortunately, court decisions created loopholes that have emboldened CBPs lawless behavior against undocumented immigrants at the border, abuses that are now being exported into the interior of the country against American citizens by President Donald Trump.

The White House has deployed the Border Patrol, claiming that their presence is needed to protect court buildings and monuments, and enforce criminal law in American cities. The CBP is normally tasked with enforcing immigration law and apprehending undocumented migrants. It is unclear why the White House enlisted CBP in the current mission. CBP and the Department of Homeland Security more broadly are better-funded than interior federal law enforcement agencies, like the FBI. However, CBP has a very different mandate and culture. The tactics that are now being decried as indicative of fascism or authoritarianism have been deployed by the CBP for years. The authorization of federal authorities in a realm that is generally in the purview of state and local law enforcement may be a symbolic show of federal force and its unclear what these actions are meant to achieve other than dangerous political theater.

After Sept. 11, when immigration, and specifically the Southern border, began to be portrayed as a national security threat, the border became increasingly militarized and the agencys influence grew exponentially. An expansive definition of terrorism helped justify the agencys doubling in size from 2003 to 2019, along with its budget. In 2020, the CBP budget was $18.2 billion, a nearly 20 percent increase from just 2019 and triple what it was in 2003.

Ordinarily, the CBP works primarily in the border regiontheir normal statutory authority is confined to within 100 miles of the borders of the United States. Critically, federal courts have had a tendency to view the border as a place where the Constitution works differently. Its also important to note that CBP officers normally enforce civil immigration law, not criminal law. Constitutional protections also work differently when it comes to enforcing civil law, with one hallmark being less robust procedural protections.Further, the targets for CBP officers are most often undocumented migrants, many of whom either just entered the United States or are seeking entry into the United States.

The border that CBP patrols has been given a different constitutional status, especially with respect to the Fourth Amendment. And it is the Fourth Amendment that is most implicated by federal agents detaining protestors and putting them into vans for interrogation. Suspicion-less stops and seizures forbidden elsewhere have been accepted by both travelers and courts when they occur near the border. These ordinarily occur at border checkpoints, but CBP has taken wide latitude in extending those checkpoints nearly anywhere within 100 miles of the U.S. border, a vast space that includes many major U.S. cities along both American coastlines and the Northern and Southern borders. The Supreme Court has even gone so far as to explicitly allow for racial profiling at the border, and the agency itself was exempt when theObama Justice Department tried to ban racial profiling by law enforcement.

Because the CBP engages in civil immigration enforcement, many of the protections that the public takes for granted under criminal law simply have not applied to their interactions with undocumented immigrants. Judicial warrants are not needed for arrests, and Miranda warnings are rarely, if ever, provided.

Sadly, the Supreme Court itself just this term indicated that undocumented migrants who recently crossed the border have fewer due process rights, with the court denying the right of habeas corpus to asylum-seekers who complain of an unconstitutional process. Even before this decision, some federal district courts ruled undocumented migrants do not have Fourth Amendment rights at all.

What may be most disturbing is how difficult it has been to hold the agency accountable even when it does violate the law.Earlier in the term that just ended, the Supreme Court ruled that a CBP agent could not be sued civilly, even when an officer shot and killed a teenager in cold blood across the Mexican border. The court ruled that the CBP officers constitutional violation had no remedy under the law. While a police officer could be sued under a section of federal law known as Section 1983, no such mechanism existed for the Mexican parents of the murdered teenager.

The CBP has enjoyed legal authority to treat people and communities at the border with force untethered from the Constitution and without legal accountability. It is tragic, but perhaps unsurprising, that they are now conducting themselves in the same reckless and lawless manner in our cities and against people who are accustomed to constitutional protections. As outrage over these tactics used against protesters grow, the public should demand these practices be ended everywhere, including at the border.

Back in early June, there was considerable outrage over the idea of using the military to conduct what are essentially police operations and crowd control. The use of the CBP is perhaps an even worse alternative. The federal police power was viewed with caution by the founders, and federal authority to police crime has wisely been limited in scope and has required explicit congressional authorization. The 10th Amendment of the Constitution specifically designates all powers not designated to the federal government to the states and localities, and police powers have always been deemed to be the strict purview of state and county criminal law enforcement agencies.

Whether the conscription of the CBP to engage in law enforcement in our cities is lawful will be an issue the courts will answer, but in the meantime, the practical implications of this choice will be felt by city residents confronted by officers from the Border Patrol, untrained and unused to being held accountable.

As Yale historian Timothy Snyder, the author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century, told the New York Times Michelle Goldberg: This is a classic way that violence happens in authoritarian regime . When fascistic escalations have happened in the past, the people who are getting used to committing violence on the border are then brought in to commit violence against people in the interior.

Perhaps instead of bringing the borderand its lawlessnessto our cities, we should bring democratic rule of law and constitutional rights to the border.

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Democratic AGs sue Trump administration over LGBTQ health protections rollback | TheHill – The Hill

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A coalition of 23 Democratic state attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over a rule that scraps ObamaCare's nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ patients.

Led by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, New York Attorney Letitia James and California Attorney General Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraOVERNIGHT ENERGY: 20 states sue over Trump rule limiting states from blocking pipeline projects | House Democrats add 'forever chemicals' provisions to defense bill after spiking big amendment |Lawmakers seek extension for tribes to spend stimulus money Newsom rips Trump order targeting undocumented immigrants in census: 'Rooted in racism' 20 states sue over Trump rule limiting states from blocking pipeline projects MORE, the lawsuit alleges that the new rule allows providers and insurers to discriminate against certain vulnerable and protected populations.

The administration's rule, released in June, will roll back implementation of the Affordable Care Act's Section 1557, which prohibits federally funded health programs and facilities from discriminating against patients based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability or age.

Advocates and health groups said the policy will make it easier for doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to deny care or coverage to transgender and nonbinary patients, as well as women who have had abortions.

The lawsuit alleges that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unlawfully ignored the harms that the rule will impose on vulnerable populations.

The lawsuit claims that the rule is arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law under the Administrative Procedure Act, and that it violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment.

The attorneys general also argue that HHS failed to justify why it abandoned its prior policy, which, among other things, explicitly prohibited discrimination in health care and required health care entities to provide meaningful language assistance services to individuals with limited English proficiency.

The lawsuit also argues thatsince the rule was released in the middle of a pandemic, it will impose "unjustifiable barriers to health care on vulnerable populations at a time when access to care is as crucial as ever."

"The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting some of our most vulnerable residents, yet this White House is moving forward with a rule that puts these communities at even further risk," Healey said in a statement.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York. It comes after the Supreme Court on June 15 ruled that employment discrimination on the basis of transgender status or sexual orientation is unlawful.

The attorneys general of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia also joined the lawsuit.

Washington state announced a separate lawsuit over the rule on Friday. Advocacy groups sued to block the rulein June.

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Why the evolution of supply chains is picking up speed in Asia-Pacific – World Economic Forum

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The global supply chain, as we know it today, is a manifestation of incremental technological improvements over centuries. The latest of such step changes have stemmed from the widespread adoption of trucking, containerization and computerization beginning in the 1960s. As a result, raw materials, work in progress (WIP), and finished goods could be shipped and delivered around the world at scale, effectively creating an improvement in the so-called holy trinity of supply chain along the dimensions of cost, quality and delivery.

China, with its entry into World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, supercharged the global supply chain by positioning itself as factory to the world with the countrys vast workforce and world-class infrastructure.

For many supply chain specialists who subscribe to the just in time (JIT) manufacturing methodology invented by the Japanese in the 1970s, the way to maximize the holy trinity triangle is through reduction of inventory and WIP. For industries with complex and long value chains, such as automotive and semiconductors, where there is a significant pressure to achieve cost advantage by sourcing materials and ferrying WIP across multiple geographies, unfettered interconnectivity is key to success. However, recent trade tensions between the US and China, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, have highlighted that this supply chain model is increasingly untenable.

Two changing forces in Asia-Pacific

First, the Asia-Pacific middle class population, already exceeding 1 billion, is forecasted to comprise 66% of the worlds middle class population by 2030. The continued prosperity for this new consumer class will challenge the long-held concept that consumption typically takes place in the West and production relegated to the East. As a result, China, as the largest economy in the region, will continue to have a profound impact on how the global supply chain is restructured.

Second, the current worldwide wave of populism has prompted policy actions to reverse globalization efforts, such as enacting stiff tariffs, the fragmentation of trade blocs, and even the possibility of currency wars. In other words, the low-friction environment the world enjoyed with the movement of physical goods and raw materials across borders can no longer be taken for granted, and is subject to impulsive change.

Reality check for Asia-Pacific supply chain

The latest EY Capital Confidence Barometer report provides a glimpse into how proactive Asia-Pacific executives are in rethinking their supply chains relative to their global counterparts. From the survey, 67% of Asia-Pacific respondents are taking steps to change supply chains compared to 52% of global respondents. The Asia-Pacific cohort is actually ahead in most measures of recovery planning, where:

At first glance, the stance of Asia-Pacific business leaders in making changes to their supply chains appears to conflict with the attitudes of foreign businesses in China, specifically. A recent survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in China suggests 84% of survey respondents have no plan to relocate their manufacturing operations out of China, down from 92% in 2017 and 90% in 2018.

The story becomes clearer when probed beyond the initial numbers. For these multinational businesses, their attempt to diversify their supply chain operations actually began several years earlier, as trade tensions between the US and China were heating up. On the other hand, labour cost in China has been increasing steadily thanks to four decades of uninterrupted growth. In fact, China's continued efforts to move up the value chain, combined with a massive domestic consumer market, are the deciding factors for many firms to adopt the China + 1 approach to supply chain management.

The first global pandemic in more than 100 years, COVID-19 has spread throughout the world at an unprecedented speed. At the time of writing, 4.5 million cases have been confirmed and more than 300,000 people have died due to the virus.

As countries seek to recover, some of the more long-term economic, business, environmental, societal and technological challenges and opportunities are just beginning to become visible.

To help all stakeholders communities, governments, businesses and individuals understand the emerging risks and follow-on effects generated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Marsh and McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group, has launched its COVID-19 Risks Outlook: A Preliminary Mapping and its Implications - a companion for decision-makers, building on the Forums annual Global Risks Report.

The report reveals that the economic impact of COVID-19 is dominating companies risks perceptions.

Companies are invited to join the Forums work to help manage the identified emerging risks of COVID-19 across industries to shape a better future. Read the full COVID-19 Risks Outlook: A Preliminary Mapping and its Implications report here, and our impact story with further information.

For products and tasks that are labour-intensive and add low value, businesses actively diversify their operations to other regional locations, such as Bangladesh, Cambodia and Pakistan with garment manufacturing, Vietnam with electronics, and increasingly Thailand and Indonesia with toys. To maintain productivity and profit margins, factories in China have to accelerate their adoption of digital transformation and automation, where production robots, 5G communication links for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, systems software with artificial intelligence, and digital capabilities will play a key role.

The announcement at the National Peoples Congress in late May, where the Chinese government made an additional commitment totaling $1.4 trillion to new technology infrastructure in the next five years, reinforces the notion that China is doubling down on technology to reach its long-term prosperity goal. Sensing the opportunity for an acceleration in tech transformation, neighbouring countries are actively vying for the demand of low-value production left by China. The state of Haryana, for instance, is actively looking to encourage businesses to relocate production to India. Major Korean manufacturers have long established their production of electronic goods in Vietnam. For specialized electronic components such as hard disk drives (HDD), Thailand is already home to more than 70% of all production worldwide.

The new 3Rs for supply chain

The unexpected disruption from the current pandemic, despite its negative consequences, provides an unprecedented opportunity for businesses to act now by assessing business impacts in the near, medium, and long term. In an environment where demand changes rapidly and immediacy is expected, the supply chain of the future must not only continue to focus on cost, quality and delivery, but will also need to be designed with responsiveness, reconfiguration and resilience in mind.

Responsiveness: Systems respond to inputs from the external environment. The supply chain system relies upon inputs such as customer order volume, commodity prices and freight rates to act. Therefore, businesses should appreciate the value of obtaining real-time updates on these inputs by upgrading from the archaic systems that often involve phone calls and fax machines.

Reconfiguration: Diversifying ones supply chain is not as simple as building additional plants in other jurisdictions. It involves revamping and redesigning functions in the system to be more plug-and-play. For example, in the event of future pandemics and extreme events such as the flood in Thailand, could certain business functions like procurement and finance continue their operations from other less, or least affected locations? What are the necessary changes to enable that?

Resilience: Think bigger and be prepared to build resilience from the ground up, starting with organization structure, business processes and performance metrics to future-proof for the next disruptive event. There is no one-size-fits-all for what this looks like, as every business is different.

The views reflected in this article are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the global EY organization or its member firms.

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PV Evolution Labs expands operations to serve in-depth PV inverter reliability testing – PV-Tech

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"PVEL's PQP supports technical due diligence and risk mitigation by helping buyers identify inverters and power electronics that meet their long-term expectations for energy yield, product life and functionality," commented Jenya Meydbray, CEO of PVEL.

Independent test lab, PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) has expanded its PV inverter reliability testing operations with a newly renovated South San Francisco laboratory to handle its PV Inverter Product Qualification Program (PQP) business and its PV Inverter Scorecard report that was first published in May, 2019.

"PVEL's PQP supports technical due diligence and risk mitigation by helping buyers identify inverters and power electronics that meet their long-term expectations for energy yield, product life and functionality," commented Jenya Meydbray, CEO of PVEL. "Our data drives granular energy yield and O&M models for solar projects of any scale, ultimately increasing investor confidence in an asset's economic performance."

PVEL said that previous inverter testing had been undertaken at its Berkeley, California headquarters but the new advanced inverter test centre had included equipment for plug-and-play evaluations of 600V, 1000V and 1500V products, spanning the entire spectrum of the market from a 320W microinverter to a 1500V string inverter.

"In the past 12 months, we have observed inverter failures accounting for nearly 80% of lost production in PV power plants before the interconnection point and a major portion of unscheduled maintenance costs," noted Joe Kastner, CEO of Radian Generation. "Understanding inverter quality and supply chain constraints are key to controlling and understanding these costs. Inverters are critical to the financial performance of solar power plants and PVEL's independent testing is a great tool for understanding inverter risk and informing procurement decisions."

System-level testing of ancillary equipment including rapid shutdown devices, optimizers and communications products are also to be carried out at the facility, according to PVEL.

Thomas Goetzl, vice president and general manager of Keysight Technologies' automotive and energy solutions, a leader in electronics laboratory testing equipment said, "PVEL deployed the most advanced power electronics testing and measurement technologies available for the upgraded lab. As one of the world's leading suppliers of electronics testing solutions, we can say that PVEL's revamped South San Francisco facility is among the most sophisticated inverter labs in the solar industry."

PVEL also expects to be able to conduct advanced evaluations of a product's ability to interface with the local utility grid in compliance with recent IEEE and California Rule 21 mandates.

The second edition of PVELs PV Inverter Scorecard report had been delayed, due in part to COVID-19 working restrictions, although the testing firm has not indicated when the second report will be published.

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Evolution Wins Live Casino Supplier of the Year Award for 11th Year Running at the EGR B2B Awards – European Gaming Industry News

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Here are this weeks latest slots releases!

RubyPlay has announced this week the launch of their brand new Egyptian Sun video slot. The game invites you to Journey to Egypt to discover its priceless antiquities and rich history. From Tutankhamun to Cleopatra, the Sphinx and more, youll get to see them all. Let the Egyptian Sun guide you to impressive treasures and rewards.Egyptian Sun slot has loads of features including the Repeat Riches feature where collecting 6+ yellow suns is your ticket to unlocking credit rewards and where each orange sun re-awards all the yellow suns, and any purple sun awards a surprise. Plus, if you happen to land any red sun it will re-award the credit values of ALL the suns combined!

Spearhead Studios releases two more engaging titles during its Super July campaign. Blackjack and Giant Panda will join Spearhead Studios portfolio and are set to bring entertainment to life in many jurisdictions. Blackjack is Spearhead Studios second table game, following the release of European Roulette in the Spring of 2020. This classic casino game was specifically built to be played of both desktop and mobile and offers an intuitive experience which card lovers will enjoy. Asian themed Giant Panda will appeal to players who are looking for a relaxing experience. The 5-reel slot is accompanied by a beautiful scenario and peaceful music, surrounding the player with zen vibes and transforming the gameplay into a true pleasure.

Celebrate the summer Hawaiian style with a chance to win some serious moolah in Kalamba Games latest slot title Maui Millions.Set on a beach in Hawaii this 53 slot offers an unparalleled range of features and mechanics to appeal to players of all styles and demographics. The game features Free spins, Cash Spins and an all-new Wheel Bonus feature. The Wheel Bonus is initiated when three or more Cash Orb symbols appear in any position and can award either a cash prize or can trigger one of the variants of the Cash Spins Bonus. Players can also hit three Bonus symbols to trigger Free Spins or shortcut straight to Free Spins or Cash Spins via the HyperBonus feature.

NetGame Entertainment, in keeping with its goal of 20 brand new titles by the end of the year, released Fruit Burst on July 16, 2020. Fruit Burst gives players the chance to squeeze more fun out of their playing experience.Fruit Burst is a modern fruit game with classic gameplay design. It comes with 5 reels and 5 paylines and is a 5X3 slot. With the high RTP at 96.50% and high volatility, players will have a strong chance at massive wins and a real roller-coaster of emotions.This slot features a fairly standard base game for fruit slot fans but is filled to bursting with rare symbols that are responsible for some of the games highest paying combinations.

Red Tiger has revamped one of the industrys most popular slots titles with the launch ofGonzos Quest MegaWays. The game, which is among NetEnts best ever performers, was the first video slot to use cascading symbols in place of a conventional reel. In a highly anticipated move, Red Tiger has now added a further layer of excitement with the celebrated MegaWays functionality, licensed by Big Time Gaming, which varies the ways to win on every spin. The action-packed title invites players to join a charming Spanish explorers quest for El Dorado, where intrepid adventurers could discover wins of up to 20,000x.

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Yggdrasil, the innovative online gaming solutions provider, has opened the doors on its latest thrilling hit,Vault of Fortune. This is the first game developed using Yggdrasils disruptive technology solution, GATI (Game Adaptation Tool & Interface), a completely new game development and distribution solution that is powering YG Franchise and the YG Masters programme. The 53, 20 pay lines title is set in a warehouse crammed with lost artefacts and riches, as players hunt through boxes full of valuable goods. Vault of Fortunefeatures cascading wins, with every winning symbol removed making spaces for more boxes to drop down, potentially leading to even more wins.

Playn GO have released their latest title into the market, the wildlife-themed slot Win-a-Beest. Win-a-Beest is a payways slot set in the plains of Africa and is a new spin on the classic Buffalo-style games enjoyed since the golden age of casino. The slot is played on a 2-4-4-4-2 diamond grid and focuses on the Wildebeest, an animal native to the continent. The Wildebeest serves as a super-symbol; its the most valuable icon in a game featuring a very strong paytable, and only needs two-of-a-kind to payout instead of three. The games features all revolve around this super-symbol with the first two, Beest Mode and Beest Mode spins, only featuring the Wildebeest, Wild and Scatter symbols on the reels, to provide more robust wins on the grid; while Stampeding Spins gives players more access to Beest Mode.

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Latest released the research study onGlobal P2P Lending Market, offers a detailed overview of the factors influencing the global business scope.P2P LendingMarket research report shows the latest market insights, current situation analysis with upcoming trends and breakdown of the products and services. The report provides key statistics on the market status, size, share, growth factors of theP2P Lending Market. The study covers emerging players data, including: competitive landscape, sales, revenue and global market share of top manufacturers.

Global P2P Lending Market is expected to Reach CAGR of 55.22% till 2027. The final report will add the analysis of the Impact of Covid-19 on P2P Lending Market

Top players in Global P2P Lending Market are:

LendingClub Corporation (United States), Funding Circle Limited (United Kingdom), Prosper Marketplace, Inc. (United States), Daric (United States), Social Finance, Inc. (United States), Zopa Limited (United Kingdom) , Avant, Inc. (United States), onDeck Capital, Inc. (United States), RateSetter (United Kingdom) , Kabbage, Inc. (United States)

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Brief Overview on P2P Lending

P2P lending is referred to peer-to-peer lending, is the process of giving money or lending money for a particular instance to businesses or individuals through online services. Prosper, SoFi, Funding Circle, Peerform, and Upstart is the popular website for P2P lending. The P2P lending services are more transparent and cheaper as compared to the traditional process. Growing demand from developing economies due to low market risk & operating cost and high transparency between lender and borrower in P2P lending system due to technical advancement is the major driver for the market. Additionally, the rising trend in investing and digital technologies and rising awareness of P2P lending across the globe is supplementing overall growth of the market. However, strict government regulation & risk of losing all money and lack of awareness regarding benefits associated with P2P lending is limiting the growth of the market. Moreover, burgeon number of startups globally may increase the usage of peer to peer lending platforms.

Recent Development in Global P2P Lending Market:

On September 2015, Prosper Marketplace had acquired BillGuard in approximately USD 30 million. Whereas, BillGuard was a startup in the crowdsourced security app for personal finance.

The Global P2P Lending Market segments and Market Data Break Down are illuminated below:

Study by Interest Rate (4.99 percent, 5.22 percent, 5.77 percent, 7.78 percent, 11.49 percent, 13.48 percent, 11.74 percent, Others), Business Model (Alternate Marketplace Lending, Traditional Lending), Loan Type (Personal Loans, Auto Loans, Business Loans, Mortgages and Refinances, Student Loans, Bad Debt Loans, Medical Loans), End User (Lenders, Borrowers)

Market Drivers

Market Trend

Market Challenges

Market Restraints:

Market Opportunities:

Region Included are: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Oceania, South America, Middle East & Africa

Country Level Break-Up: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, Poland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand etc.

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Strategic Points Covered in Table of Content of Global P2P Lending Market:

Chapter 1: Introduction, market driving force product Objective of Study and Research Scope the Global P2P Lending market

Chapter 2: Exclusive Summary the basic information of the Global P2P Lending Market.

Chapter 3: Displaying the Market Dynamics- Drivers, Trends and Challenges of the Global P2P Lending

Chapter 4: Presenting the Global P2P Lending Market Factor Analysis Porters Five Forces, Supply/Value Chain, PESTEL analysis, Market Entropy, Patent/Trademark Analysis.

Chapter 5: Displaying the by Type, End User and Region 2013-2020

Chapter 6: Evaluating the leading manufacturers of the Global P2P Lending market which consists of its Competitive Landscape, Peer Group Analysis, BCG Matrix & Company Profile

Chapter 7: To evaluate the market by segments, by countries and by manufacturers with revenue share and sales by key countries in these various regions.

Chapter 8 & 9: Displaying the Appendix, Methodology and Data Source

Finally, Global P2P Lending Market is a valuable source of guidance for individuals and companies.

Data Sources & Methodology

The primary sources involve the industry experts from the Global P2P Lending Market including the management organizations, processing organizations, analytics service providers of the industrys value chain. All primary sources were interviewed to gather and authenticate qualitative & quantitative information and determine the future prospects.

In the extensive primary research process undertaken for this study, the primary sources Postal Surveys, telephone, Online & Face-to-Face Survey were considered to obtain and verify both qualitative and quantitative aspects of this research study. When it comes to secondary sources Companys Annual reports, press Releases, Websites, Investor Presentation, Conference Call transcripts, Webinar, Journals, Regulators, National Customs and Industry Associations were given primary weightage.

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