Expert advice from Ian De Freitas – one of the UK's foremost legal experts on the implications of GDPR on Outsourcing, and Edward Charvet – a specialist in data analytics who founded the niche consultancy firm Trovus, acquired in 2015 by Logicalis.
An invitation only event offered free of charge but available ONLY to current employees of mid-sized EU Financial Services firms, and by approval only, their nominated consultants.
Ian De Freitas has been working with primarily larger Tier 1 firms to understand the likely impacts of GDPR for more than 4 years, and has been actively aiding Clients to prepare from a legal standpoint since the legislation was finalised in early 2016. Since Autumn 2016 he has seen a dramatic upturn in the number of smaller mid-sized Financial Services firms who are beginning to pay attention to this issue. Ian will also share his substantial experience of dealing with data security breaches and investigations by the ICO to explain what enforcement of GDPR might look like post May 2018.
Edward Charvet has been leading Logicalis' approach to support tier 2 financial service firms as they move towards compliance for GDPR. Working closely with Ian, Logicalis provides automation services for structured and unstructured data discovery, as well as ensuring appropriate classification of PII to ensure each client gains, and maintains, control of relevant data sources in the context of GDPR.
At this intentionally highly social and interactive networking event set against the backdrop of the setting sun over the London skyline, Ian and Ed will share their knowledge and experiences for about 45 minutes covering the topics below, and will then be available for 90 minutes to answer your specific questions 1 to 1 over a glass of wine and a sumptuous buffet.
The session will be moderated by Ray Bricknell of Behind Every Cloud – founder of the Clover Index benchmark which has recently been endorsed as the Gold Standard for benchmarking CSP's by the Cloud Industry Forum.
Ian de Freitas is a London based litigation lawyer with over 25 years experience who has recently joined Farrer & Co. As far back as 2011 he was recognised in the Lawyer Hot 100 as one of the leading litigators in the UK. He has worked on a wide range of disputes, but increasingly in the last fifteen years on issues involving technology, data, intellectual property and all forms of media. Ian has substantial experience in dealing with cross-border disputes particularly for clients based in the USA. He founded the IP group at BLP in 2004 and leads the Data practice at the firm as well as the technology litigation team, and is co-chair of the Cybercrime group. Ian is also a Past President of the IP Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats, an international organisation of lawyers.
Edward Charvet is a specialist in data analytics who founded the niche consultancy firm Trovus which was acquired in 2015 to become the Information Insights division of the Logicalis Group. The business has grown from a start-up to being a leading provider of insight services within the data analytics space. Today, Logicalis Information Insights can deliver the full spectrum of Business Intelligence services, from pure consulting to global BI deployments. Logicalis provides automation services for structured and unstructured data discovery, as well as ensuring appropriate classification of PII to ensure each client gains, and maintains, control of relevant data sources in the context of GDPR.
Ray Bricknell is the founder of the Clover Index (www.cloverindex.com) which has been endorsed by the CIF as the "Gold-Standard" Private and Hybrid Cloud benchmark, and highly commended finalist in the 2017 UK Cloud Awards "Most Innovative SMB Product" category. Ray has specialised for the past 10 years in analysis and assessment of Cloud Services Providers and their fit with the needs of mid-sized Clients in the UK's Regulated (especially Financial Services) space. A recognised industry expert, regular blogger and thought leader, Ray often participates in press and webinars that relate to his special topic of interest.
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Yes. Please only register if you think you will make it (and please "unregister" if things change) because we are strictly limited to 200 people and it would be a shame to waste a place that someone else could use. It will also help us to cater drinks and nibbles.
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So, you're an environmental organization and you have a blog.
You probably think your environmental blog should be about the environment.
Unless you are a blog that is written by journalists who report on the most recent environmental news (like TreeHugger, the Guardian, or Yale Environment 360), these are not the stories that should be on your blog.
For example, some time ago the environmental cyber world was abuzz over the exciting siting of the rare Sierra Red Fox, which hadn't been seen in 100 years.
Where did I get this news? From the Sierra Club (rightly so!), and the National Park Service (who first reported the story) and from Defenders of Wildlife (okay, good).
And… I also got it on the blogs and newsreels of every other environmental organization that could get this story published in time.
Had they linked me directly to the originally published article that would be great. I mean, it was a very newsworthy event. But, most links sent me to their own blog.
Don't get me wrong. I'm ecstatic this story spread so far and was so widely shared.
Spreading the word on newsworthy environmental events is super. And commendable. And is a great way to show your support of your fellow environmental organizations. And advances the environmental cause as a whole.
But your blog isn't the place to do this.
Let me give an example of an organization that has this side of their communication methods figured out.
The Student Conservation Association has a blog fantastically titled, "Stories from the field." Their blog is almost exclusively written by or about their students or staff members that are out in the field supporting their organizations' mission.
Their social media management is another animal entirely.
This is where they support their fellow environmental organizations and spread the word about great environmental news. As a supporter, and potential donor, I value that. Every time I get on Facebook or Twitter I can count on seeing something interesting, new, and personally valuable to me.
Their blog sticks to and supports their direct mission.
They fully support their fellow environmentalists and know exactly how to spread their successes.
The method of communication SCA undertakes for its social media is also great for environmental nonprofits that can't invest staff time or money on weekly or daily new content of their own.
Directly sharing someone else's success allows your supporters to connect with you.
In the long run, this helps both your name recognition and to uplift your cause.
So, if you're not to share great environmental news on your blog… what do you write about?
The first question, of course, is: What should your environmental blog be about?
The very important answer to that question is that it should directly relate to your mission and what makes your organization unique.
Who do you want reading to and responding to your blog?
What are your competitors writing about? Can you– or should you– compete with their content?
What are your keywords? (This seems ridiculously simple, but also downright ingenious. If someone types into Google "climate change and polar bears" and up comes a link to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation… there's something someone is doing wrong… somewhere.) Use your keywords as guides for the content of your blog.
As you start writing, keep in mind the purpose of a blog. It's not necessarily to spread news.
A blog is about building credibility in the minds of your prospects and supporters.
With well written regular content, you'll build trust. And with trust, comes supporters.
And with supporters, comes donations, and a spread of your mission and goals.
And that, above all is, should be the purpose of your environmental blog.


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[Dana, Charles A.], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The New York Daily Tribune 23 July 1855: 3
[Anonymous], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," Life Illustrated 28 July 1855: [unknown]
[Norton, Charles Eliot], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," Putnam's Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, and Arts 6 (September 1855): 321-3
[Whitman, Walt], "Walt Whitman and His Poems," The United States Review 5 (September 1855): 205-12
[Anonymous], "A Pleasant Quiz," The Albion, A Journal of News, Politics and Literature 14 (8 September 1855): 429
[Anonymous], "'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 15 (15 September 1855): 2
[Whitman, Walt], "Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy," The Brooklyn Daily Times 29 September 1855: 2
[Whitman, Walt], "An English and American Poet," American Phrenological Journal 22 (October 1855): 90-1
[Griswold, Rufus W.], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Criterion 10 November 1855: [24]
[Anonymous], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Christian Spiritualist 1856: [unknown]
[Anonymous], "Studies Among the Leaves," The Crayon 3 (January 1856): 30-2
[Hale, Edward Everett], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The North American Review 82 (January 1856): 275-7
[Anonymous], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Washington Daily National Intelligencer 18 February 1856: 2
[Anonymous], "Our Book Table," The New York Daily News 27 February 1856: 1
[Howitt, William, or William J. Fox], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The London Weekly Dispatch 9 March 1856: 6
[Anonymous], "Leaves of Grass," The Saturday Review 1 (15 March 1856): [393–4]
[Anonymous], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Literary Examiner 2512 (22 March 1856): 180-1
[Anonymous], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Critic 15 (1 April 1856): 170-1
[Eliot, George], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Westminster Review N.S. 9 (1 April 1856): 343-56
[Anonymous], "A Strange Blade," Punch Magazine 26 April 1856: [169]
[Anonymous], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review 34 (May 1856): 654
Fern, Fanny, "'Leaves of Grass'," The New York Ledger 10 May 1856: 4
[Eliot, George], "Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry," The Leader 7 (7 June 1856): 547-54[8]
[Bagshawe, Henry Richard], "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]," The Dublin Review 41 (September 1856): 267-8
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Web 3.0 is here to change your life! 😎
by Yash Kaviya
People born in the 2000s have a better understanding of mobile devices than their parents. But surely, they would get frustrated trying to navigate around these monsters. We are now in a world where people are talking about cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchains and metaverses but all of these originate from a very humble beginning. Yes, everything started from here.
Computers entered common markets in the 80s and they were fun. But it was in the early 2000s when internet started becoming accessible to a global user base and the real fun started. And there were subsequent developments henceforth with internet. And just like different generations got different names; Millennials, Gen Z, the stages of internet developments got names. As of now, Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.
Web 1.0: Where it all started!
Web 1.0, to sum it up in a vanilla way, was 'books on a screen'. Information was uploaded onto the web and viewers could read it. That's it. In technical terms, it was a static site, meaning there was no way you could interact or communicate with it apart from reading whatever was written. Users were primarily just consumers of content.
Web 2.0: How it is!
Then came Web 2.0, where things started actually moving (no pun intended :P). Web 2.0 is also referred to as 'Social Web'. Users were now able to interact with the webpage as well as other users in different ways, like leaving a product review, sharing content with other users and communicating. Archaic looking websites like this old website of Apple were based on web 2.0 and so are flashy new sites like that of Facebook. Sites that are the most visited these days are based on Web 2.0 like Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
Web 2.0 is built keeping the users in mind while producers needed to think of a way to increase user engagement. This is where the contentious part comes in, giants like Google and Facebook started to take this data, which was initially meant for increasing user engagement and started monetizing it. Making money off of users information, selling user information to generate revenues became a common practice which is one of the main reasons you see so many trailing zeroes in the revenues of these tech giants. Something needed to be done? But what?
Web 3.0: How it can be!
Enter Web 3.0. Being dubbed as the next big revolution, in not just the world of web but the world of technology. Web 3.0 is being built on (fancy word incoming) the blockchain technology. Essentially meaning users will be given more control and more power over their life on the web. Information will be controlled by users and decentralization of information shall start. Which also spells trouble for big tech.
It is already here, decentralized finance, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens are all proponents of Web 3.0. It also comes with a purpose of revamping the backend and making life on the web faster. Web 3.0 will allow you to choose what you share as information and what you don't, how you receive advertisements and how you don't. It's being termed as the revolution that democratizes the internet but there have also been murmurs of it being just another gimmick, a myth and just a buzzword. What it is, we wouldn't know, but surely something new is about to rise on the horizon.
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First Listen: New Releases for September 11 - Part One
This is a very busy new release week, so we'll be splitting this one into two posts. Part two will be out tomorrow!
Artist: Gary Clark Jr
Album: The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
Quick Description: Second album by blues rocker.
Why You Should Listen: Because you like good things that impress you musically. Because you like music. Because you're a human being.
Overall Thoughts: Man, this album. I can't wait to spend more time with it because it's just so well done. I liked his first album a lot, but this one, for me, is even better. A few standout tracks, nothing that falls apart, and it doesn't feel long even at 53 minutes. Just a stellar album, and a must listen this week.
Recommendation: Album of the week by far, will deserve end of year consideration.
Artist: Ben Folds
Album: So There
Quick Description: A Ben Folds solo album with added orchestration.
Why You Should Listen: Ben Folds is always doing something interesting, and this is no different.
Overall Thoughts: Even when he fails, he's still worth listening to, so So There is an interesting listen in the context that it's better than it looks on paper, but not quite as good as you feel it could be at any specific time. Clearly a labor of love and a significant effort/undertaking, but I'm not sure this is something a lot of Folds's fans would necessarily go back to.
Recommendation: Absolutely worth a listen, but it might not be for you.
Artist: Micachu and The Shapes
Album: Good Sad Happy Bad
Quick Description: A fractured art pop album from a project more recently known for film scores.
Why You Should Listen: You like a challenge; prior Micachu efforts have been worth your while.
Overall Thoughts: This is absolutely a challenging listen, but also might not be very good, if we're being blunt. I didn't really enjoy this, it's probably a bit too off the beaten path for me in this specific genre.
Recommendation: You'll know within moments if it's for you, but most should probably be wary.
Artist: Hollywood Vampires
Album: Hollywood Vampires
Quick Description: Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp collaborate on a tribute to 1960s/70s rock music.
Why You Should Listen: The Darkness is a serious band for you; you still listen to Alice Cooper.
Overall Thoughts: I'm going to be honest here. I can't take this seriously at all, no matter how much I can appreciate the history behind the Hollywood Vampires and what this revival/tribute means. A collection of rock covers, the tongue just isn't in cheek enough for me to enjoy it as camp, and the effort just not really good enough to take as truly sincere.
Recommendation: If the description makes you curious, you'll like this. If you're sideeyeing the whole thing, move along.
Artist: Duran Duran
Album: Paper Gods
Quick Description: Latest album from the 80s rock superstars.
Why You Should Listen: You still think Duran Duran has it; you're trying to find out if Duran Duran still has it.
Overall Thoughts: It's too easy to grade what are essentially legacy acts on a scale. Duran Duran arguably hasn't been relevant since the mid-1990s, and some might argue that it was even earlier than that. Astronaut, their last effort, was lacking, and this is definitely an improvement. There's no "Rio" to be found, but there might be a "Union of the Snake" in here somewhere. Overall, a good listen that might have improved with a less crowded week.
Recommendation: Worth a listen at some point.
Artist: Beirut
Album: No No No
Quick Description: Latest album from the indie pop favorites.
Why You Should Listen: Beirut is a band that's been worth attention for a while, and this is sort of a return to form.
Overall Thoughts: I didn't realize how much I missed the Beirut that sounded more like this until I heard this album. It's stark and stripped down and perhaps isn't as jaunty as my memory remembers Beirut, but it's still a pretty well-done album even if it's on the short end.
Recommendation: A good listen this week, and worth your time.
Artist: Jewel
Album: Picking Up the Pieces
Quick Description: Latest album by folk crossover superstar Jewel.
Why You Should Listen: You really shouldn't. No, I'm warning you.
Overall Thoughts: I don't even dislike Jewel. Everyone liked Pieces of You, but I even found her weird pop star phase to be fun and "These Hands" is not a terrible song. Yeah, the country thing was misguided but whatever. This? This is dull. This is really uninspired, and I can honestly say that it's one of the few albums I have ever outright given up on midway through. It's not good.
Recommendation: Don't do it.
Also out this week, part one:
* Phil Cook - Southland Mission
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The Large Hadron Collider spans 27 km in circumference, crossing the French– Swiss. This no small feat either, with the protons traveling at almost at the speed of light, loading of one meter of dipole is about 400 tons, which has to be withstood by. this amounts to over 600 million proton–proton collisions per second.
Sep 09, 2008 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will recreate, on a miniscule scale, conditions very similar to those that existed soon after the Big Bang. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical framework for how physics operates at the most fundamental level.
Apr 19, 2016 · Large Hadron Collider's Spring Break Finally Ending. Each bunch will have 25 feet (7.6 meters) of separation from the bunch ahead of and behind it. Experiment stations with names like ATLAS and ALICE will track the collisions (1 billion per second!) and search for secrets of the universe — from dark matter to how gravity fits into the Standard Model of physics.
Jul 5, 2017. Shortly after the discovery of the Higgs, the LHC was shut down for two full years. Protons accelerated to nearly the speed of light in the collider and. The LHC's successor will be somewhere around 100 kilometers long — 62 miles in circumference. Elon Musk, SEC agree to guidelines on Twitter use.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been recording about 3GB of data per second, or about 25 petabytes — that's 25 million gigabytes — of data per year. Every time the LHC smashes particles.
For the past several months, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has been undergoing maintenance. The higher the luminosity, the more collisions per second per cubic centimeter. Increasing the.
The Monon400 operates over 400G channels and can transfer a 4K resolution movie in about one second. The network can be upgraded to a maximum capacity of 25.6 terabits-per-second, which is roughly 32.
A speed of 60 miles per hour is equal to a speed of 88 feet per second find the speed in miles per hour of an aircraft travelling 1000 feet per second? There are 3600 seconds per hour, and 5280.
Oct 10, 2008. Last month when scientists switched on the Large Hadron Collider, the world. 5 miles across called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has been shut down for repairs. Even if the black hole survives for more than a fraction of a second. and it would be moving at near the speed of light, so it would easily.
Their study — published in Physical Review Letters this month — details a new and innovative method for stalking dark matter in the LHC by exploiting a potential particle's slightly slower speed.
Plus: More photos of the Large Hadron Collider. It's also gargantuan: a circular tunnel 17 miles around, punctuated by shopping-mall-size. a combined energy of seven trillion electron volts, producing up to 800 million collisions per second. which make the protons travel in their great circles at nearly the speed of light.
Jun 15, 2018. The upgrade will turn the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, race around the tracks at nearly the speed of light and collide in one of the four intersections. Currently, the LHC can produce a billion collisions between protons per second, detectors can't observe, like many feet from the central collision.
Dec 19, 2008 · The GAS is a 25 mile tube buried ten feet below the surface, and accelerates the animals up to a speed of 6,000 meters per second using a series of pulleys, levers and fusion reactors. Malwin dismissed critics who claimed that smashing animals together at high speeds was cruel to the animals. He said, "The animals won't be feeling anything.
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A circular 17-mile tunnel buried more than 300 feet underground, the Large Hadron Collider is lined with superconducting. and then you circulate a second one, and only then can you start to have.
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The Brookhaven National Laboratory's Realistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) accelerates nuclei to the speed of light. The RHIC – the world's second most powerful particle accelerator after Cern's.
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A SNAPSHOT of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), leading the quest to identify a. Beams of hydrogen protons are accelerated in opposite directions to more than 99.9999 per cent of the speed of light.
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The data gathered from the LHC's high-speed collisions. of collisions per second, creating a primary data rate of more than 1 Petabyte per second," says Landua. Most notably, tests conducted in the.
Apr 8, 2015. A beam of isolated protons is then sent speeding clockwise around the giant. ( 6.2 miles) apart with such precision that they meet halfway," CERN writes. The LHC will create roughly 600 million collisions per second when it.
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Apr 02, 2016 · A view of the LHC. CERN/LHC/GridPP. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the most impressive particle colliders that's ever been built, and the people who run it have a monumental job — searching for evidence of new matter that's yet to be discovered.
Jul 4, 2012. Higgs boson-hunting experiments being undertaken at the LHC have. Built around a huge solenoid magnet, the whole detector is 21 m long (68 ft), 15 m. to the other 60.7 billionths of a second faster than the speed of light.
Assuming Einstein's theory of relativity is correct, which the Large Hadron Collider in Europe recently reaffirmed, there's no going faster than the speed of light, about 300 million meters per second.
The closest humankind has ever come to reaching the speed of light is inside of powerful particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider and the Tevatron. the cosmic speed limit of 670,616,629.
A month ago, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was colliding particles at a rate of 10 million collisions per second. (325 feet) below ground, straddling the French-Swiss border. It is designed to.
When it runs at full power, the LHC is able to accelerate protons to a velocity. at nearly the speed of light, 600 million collisions per second can be achieved.
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest, most powerful particle accelerator in the world. It steers beams of particles on a collision course around a 17-mile ring located 300 feet beneath the border of Switzerland and France. Experiments at the LHC seek a greater understanding of nature by.
Jul 05, 2012 · Here are the top 8 facts about CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), leading the quest to identify a sub-atomic particle known as the Higgs boson.
Jan 22, 2019. The Future Circular Collider would be more than 60 miles in. four times the size of the LHC, and would enable colliding particles about 10 times as fast. At. and are incredibly unstable, existing for only fractions of a second.
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A faulty electronic connection at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. at about 6 miles per hour. All the protons at the LHC come from a small tank of hydrogen gas. As a series of machines.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is often called the atom smasher but in reality, it doesn't smash atoms together. It is used to smash protons and lead nuclei together, but not atoms per se.
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I've struggled with an eating disorder and other mental health issues for 13 years now and have only considered myself to be in recovery since I entered residential treatment for the second time as of December 2015. Until the fall of 2015, I remained pretty hidden and quiet about my struggles. Secrecy was fueled by the shame I carried about my past experiences.
It's been 8 months since I was admitted to the hospital. This week marks a huge transition in my recovery. This week I can finally say that I am transitioning back to receiving treatment at the outpatient level. For the first time in 8 months [repetition for the purpose of emphasizing disbelief], I am not in residential or day treatment. While I am incredibly grateful for the help and support I have received, this transition feels monumental. I'm not sure I really knew when or if I'd reach this point. Given that, I've been in a constant state of reflection for the past few days, thinking about how far I've come and set goals for where I want to be.
One of the primary goals I've been focusing on in recovery is letting go of secrets because as my therapist constantly tells me, "secrets keep you sick." In an effort to build up the courage and vulnerability to share my stories, I had to rediscover my voice and learn to trust my intuition again, both of which I felt like my eating disorder stripped me of. To do this, I started writing and making art again. Separately, writing and art each provide me with their own benefits, but I've found that the combination of the two is synergistically more powerful and healing.
Words and language hold an immeasurable significance in my life. I have always been an avid reader, quote collector, pun-lover, and was a comparative literature major in undergrad. One of the reasons I went to graduate school for speech-language pathology was because I wanted to help people learn or relearn how to use their voices.
Words and their meanings have the ability to serve as a way to either empower or completely disempower us. Words have the power to clearly depict opposing truths such as love and hate, benign and malignant. Words can be inspirational or they can be detrimental. Thus, to me, words undeniably and profoundly dictate our lives – both in the words we use and the words we receive from others.
There's a certain sense of power that exists in having your words be seen and/or heard that is so fundamentally important to me. I believe that each and every one of us has the right to have our stories told by no one else by ourselves. With such strong beliefs, it's rather ironic that my eating disorder striped me of authentic voice. For months, I was unable to identify, articulate, and subsequently verbalize my thoughts and feelings.
Recovery was not only the beginning of weight restoration, but it was also the beginning of re-finding my voice. For me, writing is truly an act of self-preservation. Words written on paper come to symbolize a truth that was previously unknown. Writing makes sentences in my head become a reality. This is often scary, but much of the time it is clarifying and is an initial way for me to process my emotions. There are times when I am feeling so much that I just have to grab a pen and my journal until my "word purge" is over. Through this act, thoughts that were cloudy suddenly become quite clear.
But words don't always come so easily to me. In recovery, art has become another way for me to express my creative voice and tell my story. When a topic is triggering or I feel ashamed about something, I'm better at depicting my feelings through imagery, rather than words. That is how I developed my love for multi-media collages. As writing is the podium for honesty, art is often the very vehicle that leads me to be able to unveil said honesty. Often times, it feels like I'm actually able to better access my true inner voice that is so raw, yet so innocently genuine through art and images.
I created the first image quite early on in my recovery. In treatment we were asked to depict a map of our emotions. At this point, I was not able to easily identify what emotions I was feeling at a particular moment. I felt like I was perpetually caught in the vicious cycle of numbing and flooding. Every emotion seemed to hit me at once making it impossible for me to verbally articulate my experiences, which only led to me completely shutting down.
On the other hand, the second picture was created just a couple of months ago, when I was in day treatment. I had reached a point of utter frustration in holding myself to certain expectations regarding where I should be in my recovery. I realized I had been thinking about recovery as a linear path, when in reality, I've never been straight, let alone have been one to follow a straight line. I questioned why I was holding myself to such high expectations and through the process of creating this collage I was able to open a space of compassion for whatever my road to recovery looks like. It was around this time, when I felt like I was finding my voice, and when words began to hold significant meaning to me in my life again.
As I've progressed through recovery, my art and my writing have started to blend together. The evolution of images truly mirrors the evolution of the rediscovery of my own voice. The beginning pages are more image-based, more elementary in nature. Towards the end, the words are filled with multiple layers of complex images and words. Together, the merging of words and images cultivates an important sense of creativity that yields a deeper meaning than the mere sum of the individual parts. Such creativity has enabled me to feel a sense of revival and renewal in my story of continual recovery.
In a 7 part interview, Carolyn Costin discusses keys to recovery from eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
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Nepotilla excavata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description
The length of the shell varies between 1.5 mm and 2 mm.

Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

References

 Gatliff, J.H. 1906. On some Victorian marine Mollusca, new species, and others little-known. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 19(1): 1-4, pls 1-2
 May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.
 Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales pp. 56, pls 1–12.

External links
 Molluscs of Tasmania: Nepotilla excavata

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Gastropods described in 1906
Gastropods of Australia

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Troop Support Spotlight: Victoria Czaia
Victoria Czaia, left, a DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles customer account specialist, poses with a young girl affected by the Sichuan earthquake of 2008. Czaia was teaching English in China when after the earthquake, she joined the Sichuan Red Cross and even helped remove rubble to recover individuals. Courtesy photo
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Name: Victoria Czaia
Organization: Clothing and Textiles
What's your job? I'm a customer account specialist on the Marine Corps team.
If you could speak directly to the warfighters you support, what would you say? There's a lot I would tell them. I'm sorry that they're missing the babies that are born, the family members that get sick; but the biggest thing is that their sacrifices mean so much to everyone. And I would just like to thank them for their service.
What's the most thrilling/adventurous thing you have ever done? Living abroad; I lived in India for six months and China for 16 months, teaching English. While I was in China, I joined to Red Cross to support people affected by the Sichuan earthquake of 2008. And I removed some of the rubble to get to school children, because we lost so many, since it happened in the afternoon. It impacted me as a human being to see that much destruction so close up.
What is your proudest accomplishment in life thus far? I would say taking the oath to work here at DLA Troop Support. And, getting my Master's degree in Justice Studies and Terrorism and Security.
What has been the highlight of your career so far? I think the highlight has been working with everyone here, and one of the most special moments was receiving Team Member of the Month in April 2017, presented by [former C&T Director] retired Air Force Col. Lawrence Hicks. I helped bring back orders down to the lowest level in 30 years, so it was a significant effort.
What is the most surprising/unexpected thing others don't know about you? I ran for New Hampshire State Senate in 2012, and was on the ballot with former President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, so that was cool. And, I'm a published author. I wrote "Dare to Dream" in 1999 under the penname Victoria Kimble.
What hobby would you get into if time and money weren't an issue? I would get into a nonprofit or a humanitarian effort because that means a lot to me, and I would go to [developing] countries.
What is your favorite thing about working for Troop Support? It's everything I ever think I dreamed about; being a part of a collaborative effort to support the people in the military.
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New CDC Tuberculosis Guidelines May End Annual Testing of HCWs
Emphasis on blood tests, improved treatment
Congress halts the enforcement of annual tuberculosis fit-test rule
CDC draft guidelines call for a major cutback on annual TB testing
New TB blood tests may up accuracy of HCW screening
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The CDC is expected to issue new tuberculosis testing guidelines for healthcare workers that end routine annual TB screening in favor of a baseline test on hire and retesting after an occupational exposure, the co-author of the document tells Hospital Employee Health.
These revisions come as TB testing and treatment have improved, while the routine risk of healthcare workers acquiring TB at work has steadily declined.
"There is no literature to support" that healthcare workers are at high occupational risk of contracting TB from their patients anymore, says co-author Wendy Thanassi, MD, MA, MRO, a professor at Stanford University and chief of Occupational Health Services at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in California.
Other factors in the decline of TB as an occupational threat are the engineering controls and prevention measures that have become routine in many hospitals.
"Hospitals have done such a good job with environmental controls — negative pressure rooms, air filters, air circulation, and identifying patients and wearing masks early," she says. "We have seen transmission decline because of these environmental controls."
The CDC reported 9,093 new cases of TB in the United States in 2017.1 That translates to a rate of 2.8 cases per 100,000 people, a decline of 2% from 2016 that continues a trend of TB reduction. For example, in 2000, there were 16,308 new cases of TB, a rate of 5.8 per 100,000 people. However, TB is still a threat, and employee health professionals should remain vigilant.
"People do have TB, which is a very serious disease," Thanassi says. "Active TB has a 10% mortality rate. But it is very rare that we find it incidentally in a healthcare worker without finding it first in a source [patient]."
According to the CDC, the rate of TB "among non-U.S.-born persons in 2017 was 15 times the rate among U.S.-born persons. Previous studies have shown that the majority of TB cases in the United States are attributed to reactivation of latent TB infection."
Some healthcare workers from countries with higher TB prevalence may have been administered the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) TB vaccine, which is not routinely used in the U.S. Those vaccinated may experience a cross-reaction to a TB skin test, registering a false positive. The CDC currently recommends use of the TB blood tests for workers who have been immunized with BCG.
The new guidelines are expected to encourage broader use of the TB blood tests over the traditional skin tests, which often are performed in a more labor-intensive two-step approach to ensure accuracy. However, the new guidelines likely will state that those using traditional skin tests can continue to do so, as the CDC typically defers to local preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all approach in its recommendations.
Having used the TB blood tests exclusively for years, Thanassi says the focus should be using the blood tests on hire and treating latent TB at that point rather than conducting routine screening thereafter. There also are new effective treatments of shorter duration for healthcare workers with latent TB, which can remain dormant for years before activating.
"When we find people who are positive based on these blood tests, we can have them treated for their latent TB right away," Thanassi says. "This obviates the need to test people every year because we are not finding that healthcare workers are converting year to year. The next testing that would be necessary for employees would be upon exposure to an active TB case."
Such routine testing of healthcare workers is yielding a succession of negative tests in the 97% range and is no longer a good use of employee health resources, she adds.
"This removes a lot of unnecessary time and money expended," Thanassi says. "Hopefully, it will allow occupational health to stop spending time with negative tests and redirect their focus to the employees who do have latent TB, and start treating them. I believe it is a public health imperative to identify and treat these employees right away."
As of press time, the CDC had not issued the new guidelines. While Thanassi expected they would be released soon, a CDC spokesman was less definitive.
"We are reviewing the current guidelines and may update them later this year," says Scott Bryan of the CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.
Another co-author of the guidelines, Lynn Sosa, MD, a TB epidemiologist at the Connecticut Health Department, declined a request for comment until the CDC update is published.
In anticipation of the new guidelines, the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP) slated a session on the topic this year at its annual meeting, Sept. 4-7 in Baltimore.
"Currently, many occupational health professionals are obligated by local or national policy to conduct up to tens of thousands of TB tests annually," according to a statement from AOHP.
"The updated national guidance will empower practitioners, in most cases, to eliminate annual TB testing while maintaining pre-placement and post-exposure testing, as well as to advocate for treatment of those with latent TB infection."
As of press time, the current CDC guidelines2 say facilities can use the TB skin test or blood test for healthcare workers at baseline, and then retest thereafter depending on risk categories.
Risk factors include the prevalence of TB in the patient population and the community. Hospitals at medium risk are recommended to test healthcare workers annually.
The new CDC guidelines are expected to drop the risk categories, essentially conflating them down to the low-risk recommendation of retesting healthcare workers only if there has been a TB exposure incident, Thanassi says.
Ending HCW Angst
HEH asked Thanassi to comment more on the TB testing program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in the following interview, which has been edited for length and clarity.
HEH: How have you approached TB testing of healthcare workers?
Thanassi: We have not used the skin test since January 2009. For 10 years, we have recognized the value of the blood test over the skin test, which has a lot false positivity related to people who were born in another country and had the BCG vaccine, or who came in contact with non-TB mycobacteria.
We recognize the importance of the blood test in getting an accurate diagnosis. We were one of the first major centers to switch entirely to using the blood tests. We have a history of tens of thousands of tests now. None of the generations of the blood test cross-react with the BCG. That has been an advantage of these from the very beginning.
HEH: Why is that such an important factor?
Thanassi: It is very important because there are many employees walking around in fear that they have TB because they have been told that their skin test was positive. They worry that they may be taking a year of toxic medications, maybe they should be worried about [exposing] their newborn baby or their elderly grandmother.
So, if we can take those people who had a positive skin test — who believe for maybe a decade that they have latent TB — and offer them the blood test, we can tell them quite definitely that they do not have TB, that it was a cross-reaction with their old vaccine.
HEH: That is an aspect of TB testing that is not often emphasized.
Thanassi: It is a tremendous weight off their chests. It is quite important to take that burden from people.
There are a lot of benefits to the blood tests on a personal level that sometimes may go unrecognized. We will have a lot of wonderful healthcare workers in the U.S. who come to us from the Philippines, Mexico, Vietnam, India. They are tremendously well-trained healthcare workers; they just came from an environment where they got this vaccine because their country has a higher prevalence of TB than we do.
HEH: How have TB treatments improved?
Thanassi: TB treatments have changed dramatically in the last decade. The treatment for latent TB used to be nine months of daily isonicotinylhydrazide (INH), which is quite liver-toxic. This toxicity can put people in the hospital and occasionally causes fatalities. It had about a 67% efficacy rate because there was a lot of noncompliance with that long of a treatment program.
Now we have a treatment that is just three months, once a week of INH plus rifapentine. Essentially, it is 12 weeks of antibiotics to get rid of latent TB. The combination of these new tests that are accurate and a new treatment that is short and safe means that we really should be able to take care of latent TB before it reactivates.
Stewart RJ, Tsang CA, Pratt RH, et al. Tuberculosis — United States, 2017. MMWR 2018;67:317–323.
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Mike McSherry, who helped lead Trump's delegate strategy at the convention, is also listed in lobbying disclosures as having represented a nonprofit group tied to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort is not the only Trump aide to have been involved in lobbying for Ukraine's pro-Russian ex-president.
Mike McSherry, a senior vice president at Mercury Public Affairs who helped lead the Trump campaign's convention committee strategy last month, is listed in Mercury's lobbying disclosure forms as having represented a Brussels-based nonprofit group linked to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Manafort steered the Centre toward hiring two lobbying firms in Washington: Mercury and the Podesta Group, which is run by Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman's brother.
During that era, Manafort was consulting for Yanukovych's Party of Regions. Yanukovych, a close Putin ally, now lives in Russia after being ousted from power in 2014.
Neither the firms nor Manafort filed documents with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine's close ties to a foreign political leader and Manafort's work for Yanukovych's party. The Centre was founded by a top Party of Regions official. The AP reported that Manafort helped to steer a total of $2.2 million to the two firms in 2012.
McSherry's name appears in documents Mercury filed with the Senate under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.
Trump's campaign brought McSherry on to help with delegate efforts for the convention, and it was reported earlier this month that his role in the campaign was being expanded. McSherry did not respond to BuzzFeed News requests for comment.
An email obtained by BuzzFeed News shows McSherry taking an active role in lobbying for the Centre; in the February 2013 email, he reached out to a Republican senator's office to pass on a request from Vin Weber, the former congressman who is a partner at Mercury and also lobbied for the Ukrainian group, who wanted to set up a meeting for former Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewsk on behalf of the Centre.
The Brussels-based head of the group, Ina Kirsch, told BuzzFeed News she had "nothing to do with Manafort," though she told the AP she had met with Manafort twice.
A former Podesta employee told the AP that Manafort's associate Rick Gates, also now on the Trump campaign, had "described the nonprofit's role in an April 2012 meeting as supplying a source of money that could not be traced to the Ukrainian politicians who were paying him and Manafort."
Though FARA violations are rarely prosecuted, they carry a heavy potential penalty: up to five years in prison or a $250,000 fine. To avoid the stringent disclosures required by FARA, foreign governments and political leaders sometimes use seemingly unconnected groups that can hire lobbyists in their stead. Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, lobbyists are not required to disclose as much information as under FARA.
Washington lawyer Ken Gross advised Mercury before they took on the client that they did not need to file under FARA. His legal opinion, which was also used by the Podesta Group, was based on the Centre's promise, in writing, that they were not backed by a foreign government or political leader. The written declaration, dated April 30, 2012, and signed by Kirsch, says that the Centre was not "directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a government of a foreign country or a foreign political party."
"Mercury fully disclosed activity under the LDA," Gross told BuzzFeed News in an email, referring to the Lobbying Disclosure Act. "Mercury was not required to register under FARA based on the unequivocal written and oral certifications stating that the Centre was a private entity and was not under the direction or funded by the Ukrainian government or foreign political party. If the Centre had advised otherwise, Mercury would have registered under FARA without hesitation."
Gross said he did not think there could be grounds for an investigation because, "We did everything we could have reasonably done under the circumstances" to ensure that the Centre was not being directed by a foreign politician or government.
Podesta Group CEO Kimberly Fritts said that her firm "has a formal process in place, led by in-house counsel, to ensure that we follow the law, which includes determining whether our work for a given client would best be registered and reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act or the Foreign Agent Registration Act. In this case, because the firm was partnering with Mercury, in-house counsel coordinated with Mercury's counsel and Mercury's outside legal counsel. Together, they concluded that LDA was the appropriate reporting route. If counsel had determined FARA was the way to go, we would have gladly registered under FARA."
Fritts said that the Centre attested in writing that it was not being controlled or subsidized by a foreign government or party.
"Further, we were not aware that Rick Gates was a Party of Regions consultant at the time he introduced us to the Centre. We believed he was working for the Centre, as we were hired to do," Fritts said.
Mercury's Weber did not return a request for comment.
In the run-up to the Ukrainian parliamentary elections in 2012, the Centre was behind a covert scheme to spread its talking points among U.S. conservative media. One person involved in the arrangement said they had been paid $500 to do so.
There have been several revelations about Manafort's connections to pro-Russian forces in Ukraine over the course of the campaign. The Times of London also reported on Wednesday that a Ukrainian prosecutor has accused Manafort of fomenting anti-NATO protests in Crimea prior to Russia's annexation of Crimea. And last week, the New York Times reported that a secret Party of Regions letter showed $12.7 million in cash payments listed for Manafort, though Manafort denies receiving the money.


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I've been researching my Family History off and on for the the last twenty years. It all started when my father inherited some family portraits, including one of George Foote, my great-great-great- grandfather (shown on the right). This got me hooked on researching my family history ... and I've been at it ever since. In 1996, I set up the first version of this web site, which has helped me make contact with distant cousins I never knew I had all over the world.
The web site is divided into five main sections listed in the panel on the left. Guernsey where I was born and grew up, and where most of my family still live. Devon where my Foote ancestors came from before they moved to Guernsey in the early years of the 19th century. Wales where my paternal grandmother's family originates. Surnames lists the names of main families I am researching, and Themes lists the details of some of the other areas of research that my interest in family history has led me to. Behind this there is a mass of details - for example, where you see a tree symbol (as pictured) on the left hand side - clicking it will take you to a detailed family tree for that family.
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Crypto Offers Women a Seat at the Male-dominated Finance Table
Women in crypto are making themselves known. Women's workforce participation in finance is growing faster than ever. Yet, the industry remains one of the worst offenders regarding female representation.
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HomeIndian UAV industryDrone Mahotsav Highlights Earthy Solutions, Growing Strength Of Indian UAV Industry
Drone Mahotsav Highlights Earthy Solutions, Growing Strength Of Indian UAV Industry
byIndia's growing Military power - IgMp May 31, 2022
Source : Swarajya
Asteria Aerospace's SkyDeck software platform helps operators offer Drone-as-a-Service
The just-concluded 'Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022' in the nation's capital, had many gee-whizz moments for the thousands who thronged Pragati Maidan over two days, including live demos of a variety of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) – almost all of them 'Made in India'.
But for those who had a more professional interest, there was an unstated but strong takeaway. Just 10 months after the Indian Drone Rules 2021 were finalised after a couple of fits and starts, the new and liberal regime has had the precise effect that government intended: a sharp growth in the drone ecosystem, with large players as well as start-ups, academic institutions and state government bodies, joining to harness drones in a variety of roles and scenarios.
In his inaugural remarks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the importance of drone technology in the fields of defence, disaster management, agriculture, tourism, film and entertainment. He expected that drone technology would play a major role in empowering farmers and modernise their lives.
He cited the PM Swamitva Yojana as an example, of how drone technology is becoming the basis of a major revolution. Under this scheme, for the first time, every property in the villages of the country is being digitally mapped and digital property cards are being given to the people.
Among the exhibitors at the Drone Mahotsav, Navi Mumbai-based ideaForge claims the largest market share in the Indian security, surveillance, and industrial market for drones. Its customers have conducted over 2,40,000 missions using its drones. The company's flagship is the 'Switch', a Fixed Wing VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing) UAV that has been deployed by the Indian Armed Force at high altitude and harsh environments for day and night surveillance in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions.
Drone-as-a-Service
Another exhibitor was the Bengaluru-based drone technology company Asteria Aerospace, providing actionable intelligence from aerial data.
Asteria develops customised drone solutions for government and enterprise customers using its in-house hardware design and software development capabilities.
The company is a subsidiary of the Reliance Industries' unit, Jio Platforms.
Asteria recently launched an end-to-end drone operations platform, SkyDeck. This is a cloud-based software platform to deliver DaaS or Drone-as-a-Solution for multiple industry verticals like agriculture, surveying, industrial inspections, and surveillance and security.
It offers a unified dashboard for drone fleet management, scheduling and executing drone flights, data processing, and visualisation and AI-based analysis of aerial data captured using drones.
On the sidelines of the Bharat Drone Mahotsav, quite a few industry partnerships were announced:
The Centre for Developing Intelligent Systems (CDIS), an R&D Centre housed within IIT Kanpur, signed an agreement with Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS), a Bangalore-based drone technology pioneer, for developing image processing and machine learning-based solutions for advanced drone data analytics. The agreement is expected to unlock the latent potential of drone data.
AUS has extensive drone mapping experience in the country and is the largest drone-solution provider for the Svamitva Yojana, for which it has already mapped more than 55 lakh acres of the rural area, across 18,000 villages. AUS was the first start-up to build and deploy GPS-based Survey grade fully autonomous drones in India.
Another announcement came from Adani Defence & Aerospace which entered into agreements for acquiring 50 per cent equity stake in Bengaluru-based drone start up, General Aeronautics, which specialises in developing robotic drones for crop protection services, crop health monitoring, precision farming and yield monitoring using artificial intelligence and data analytics. The partnership fuses military and civilian objectives by integrating several capabilities — Adani Group's military UAV capabilities with the agri-tech of General Aeronautics.
The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) and leading Chennai-based drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace, have entered into a partnership agreement to meet the growing demand for indigenous drone pilots.
They have signed an MoU to promote interaction in mutually beneficial areas of upcoming drone technologies in the areas of Software, Robotics, Digital solutions, and Drone Pilot training. IIT Roorkee will provide application-based solutions like AI based monitoring, while Garuda will do the real time implementation, including building and customisation of UAVs or drones for various applications.
Earlier this year, the Prime Minister, pressed a button to simultaneously launch 100 of Garuda's Kissan drones. Today, the company's fleet comprises 300 drones, 500 pilots and 200 core engineers in 26 cities.
Garuda Founder CEO Agnishwar Jayaprakash speaks for many Indian startups, for whom the new and relaxed drone regulations and the production linked incentives have come as a boon: He calls Prime Minister Modi, Drone-Acharya.
Drone design tools
Reliance Jio Platforms has another Bengaluru-based drone subsidiary, SankhyaSutra Labs which makes high-fidelity multi-physics and aerodynamics simulation software. It has planned a major launch in October this year, of its indigenously developed state-of-the-art software tools for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which will help drone designers reduce the number of costly tests in wind tunnels. The name SankhyaSutra translates to 'numerical algorithms' in Sanskrit.Skye Air Mobility, a Delhi-headquartered drone delivery logistics firm serving sectors such as healthcare, diagnostics, e-commerce and agri-commodities, recently completed 1,000 deliveries via its flagship Skye Ship One within 6 months, making India the 12th nation in the world to lead the drone delivery space.
Skye Air has been part of the Telangana Government's 'Medicine from the Sky project'; the Flipkart Air consortium, Blue Dart Med Express and Dunzo Med-Air Consortium.
Skye Air Mobility also transported 100 kgs of Lakadong turmeric in remote parts of Meghalaya, demonstrating multiple autonomous Beyond Visual Line of Site or BVLoS flights lifting a combined payload of 100 kgs of dry turmeric. The drone delivery start-up has joined hands with the diagnostics chain, Redcliffe Labs to take healthcare & pathology services to remote areas of the country using drone technology.
Earlier this year Skye Air and the Department of Information Technology, Govt. of Himachal collaborated to promote medical and agri-commodity deliveries within the state. As a part of the partnership, Skye Air initiated a 3-day long BVLOS trial in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh to connect over 6 Public health Centres Area Hospitals via multiple flights between points covering an aerial distance of 170 kms.
There is general consensus among analysts that the drone and drone services market in India could account for Rs 30,000 crores of value by 2026, thanks to the evolving policy framework, Production Linked Incentives and the ban on import of most drones which can be manufactured in India. Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia says 'We have the potential to make India a global drone hub by 2030."
In Delhi for two days there was tangible proof that this was very much a doable target under Atmanirbhar Bharat.
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