Mes: agosto 2020

MIAMI, Aug. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In addition to his numerous film and television roles, Laurence Fishburne also serves as host to the educational program «In Depth». The series highlights changes in industry and various organizations dedicated to making positive change around the world. Recently, Cray Media group of Miami, FL both joined the In Depth creative team in an effort to develop innovative new content for the series. Through this collaborative partnership, «In Depth» will be able to further expand upon the show’s mission.

The educational program features industry innovators and emerging technologies that are changing the world for the better. With the introduction of further creative development and direction from Cray Media, the «In Depth» series anticipates an influx of unique storylines and additional content contributors for the program. Said a representative of «In Depth», «we’re excited as always to expand our creative partnerships, and we’re looking forward to additional input from members of Cray Media. This gives us an opportunity to expand on our development and distribution footprint, and seek out stories that fit our show’s unique educational goals.»

In Depth is a nationally distributed program with many esteemed guests featured. The program and its development team have won numerous Telly Awards for their work and programming. The Cray Media team plan on collaborating immediately to begin the development of new episodes and in the assistance of procuring additional content advisors.

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Cinq Music group has signed singer/actor/director Quincy and has just dropped the artist’s second single of 2020, titled, «Aye-Yo.» The announcement was made by Cinq President/co-founder Barry Daffurn. Terms of the distribution deal were not disclosed. Quincy Brown, better known by his mononym «Quincy», is recognized as a modern day renaissance visionary artist. He is an accredited actor, cultural content creator, fashion trendsetter, musician and tech entrepreneur. The song can be heard here.

«I think I speak for everyone here at Cinq when I say we’re ecstatic that Quincy is in the house,» says Daffurn. «His new release ‘Aye Yo,’ establishes a new global sound while staying true to his R&B roots. His music has an authentic ability to connect cultures and eliminate barriers.»

For his part, Quincy loves Cinq Music’s data-driven release strategies. «To work with a group that understands me on multiple levels is ideal for me,» says Quincy. «I’m such a tech nerd and to see how it all works behind the scenes in an industry that is interconnected by all things digital provides continuous inspiration for me. Cinq empowers the music industry to invest in change and ignite people’s ability to provide ongoing contribution to the music world.»

«Aye Yo» is a dancehall infused with Latin elements and laid with R&B chords. Quincy worked with American-Trinidadian song-writer, Angele Hunte, probably best known for her Grammy-winning «Empire State of Mind» for artists Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. The song was produced by top Latin producer DJ Buddha (Pitbull, Daddy Yankee, Lil John).

According to Quincy, his first single in two years came to life while envisioning a playful concept of falling in love with moments. «For me, love is a daily life adventure,» he says. «The idea of ‘Aye-Yo’ is about how to be in love with the moment, however long it may last.» The music video is directed by Nic Stanich (Poo Bear, Chris Brown, Lil Dicky).Quincy’s first single this year, «No Stress,» has garnered over one million views and is featured on Spotify, Tidal and YouTube. It was also announced this week that Quincy will be the first celebrity face for Coach watches. He also recently announced a partnership with iconic pen and leather goods maker Montblanc.

About Cinq Music:
Cinq Music is a technology-driven record label, distribution, and rights management company. Cinq’s repertoire has won Grammy awards, dozens of Gold and Platinum RIAA certifications, and numerous number ONE chart positions on a variety of Billboard charts. It’s repertoire includes heavyweights such as Bad Bunny, Janet Jackson, Daddy Yankee, T.I., Sean Kingston, Anuel and hundreds more. «Janet Jackson, Anuel, T.I., Daddy Yankee, Sean Kingston, Bad Bunny and hundreds more.

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BEIJING, Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ambow Education Holding Ltd. («Ambow» or the «Company») (NYSE American: AMBO), a leading national provider of educational and career enhancement services in China, today announced the official launch of Huanyujun Education Hub («Huanyujun»), a next-generation online-to-offline education SaaS platform, bolstered by Ambow’s proprietary technology-enabled solutions, dedicated to addressing the elevated demand for a dynamic learning environment amidst the new conditions brought about by the global pandemic. 

Huanyujun, which consists of education institutes/teachers, students and shared class rooms, integrates online resources (panoramic live streaming) with off-line resources (physical classrooms and teachers). The platform offers educational services such as career planning, classroom sharing, online courses, and a variety of tools that support offline learning, drawing on the following technologies:

• Ambow Panorama Digital Teaching System, which supports a dual-teacher, real-time teaching environment;
• Space management system powered by Ambow’s Smart IoT Engine; and
• Ambow AI-empowered Learning Engine, which includes teaching and administration management platforms.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, Ambow joined forces with the National Integrated Circuit Industry & Education Union, China Center for Information Industry Development Group, and other leading industrial technology institutes to launch an education volunteer program on the Huanyujun Education Hub. The program features more than 400 livestream courses and lectures highlighting the power of science and technology to transform business activities across the economy and people’s lives. Leveraging its core technologies under patent protection both in China and U.S., Ambow empowers students to improve their online learning outcomes and elevates engineering education overall. In addition, the Company has successfully piloted an initiative through the Strategic Career Planning Consultant («SCPC») program on Huanyujun.

Dr. Jin Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ambow, commented, «I am very proud that Ambow could play an active part in providing continuous learnings opportunities, service and support to both our existing users and new users during this period of COVID-19. Underpinned by our core capabilities in technology, Huanyujun enables students and working professionals to easily access world-class scientific and technological content through our diverse digital educational assets including livestreamed classes and lectures, cloud classrooms, and online training courses. In the future, we will further optimize our Huanyujun Education Hub by encouraging more scientists and academic elites across Greater China and the U.S. to use our platform for knowledge creation and dissemination. We will continue to explore more dynamic learning environments, blending online and offline classrooms, expanding Ambow’s footprint across the globe and maximizing shareholder value.»

About Ambow Education Holding Ltd.

Ambow Education Holding Ltd. is a leading national provider of educational and career enhancement services in China, offering high-quality, individualized services and products. With its extensive network of regional service hubs complemented by a dynamic proprietary learning platform and distributors, Ambow provides its services and products to students in 30 out of the 31 provinces and autonomous regions within China.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — With a commitment to advance the interest of the Nigerian-American community, the Nigerian-Americans United Political Action Committee (NAUPAC) is being launched. NAUPAC is a political enlightenment organization that is established to mobilize all naturalized Nigerian-Americans and the younger generations of Nigerians born in the United States of America for a collective and uniform political outlook in the forthcoming presidential election. In a statement credited to Christian N. Ihenacho, the Executive Director of NAUPAC, he described NAUPAC as «a movement on a mission to reach out to the Nigerian-American Community in the United States of America and to encourage them to register and vote for Joe Biden in the upcoming November 2020 Presidential Election.»

Nigerian-Americans constitute a small number of all immigrant groups in the United States but have been identified as the most educated immigrant community with an average of a Bachelor’s degree or higher. Nigerians in the United States also earn an income well above the national average and contribute a significant amount of their earnings in taxes into the United States treasury. Despite these accomplishments, the outcome from previous elections has shown that the Nigerian-American Community is lacking in collective political thinking and action, which consequently makes them vulnerable to internal political divisions, vote splits, and of little political relevance.

In light of this new reality and the critical nature of the 2020 Presidential Election, the founders of NAUPAC have resolved to change the dynamics and pattern of voting within the Nigerian-American Community by campaigning for massive registration and voting by members the Community for Joe Biden, in whom their collective interest and safety are best guaranteed. The movement is committed to the ideals of the United States of America that all man is created equal with alienable rights, free from systemic and institutional racism, discrimination, and inequality. With a collective action towards the election of a new President of the United States and a congress that holds the aforementioned societal values in high regard, the Nigerian-American community can make a significant contribution to the actualization of America that will protect Civil Liberties, the Voting Rights Act, and promote Racial Equality.

We, therefore, call on all Nigerian-American, the greater African-American community, and all other groups with whom we share a common dream and aspiration to be a part of our efforts by registering with us at www.nigerianamericansunited.org. You can also mail us at: info@nigerianamericansunited.org with your comments or inquiries.

Signed:

Christian N. Ihenacho

Executive Director

(619) 928-9275

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ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On Monday, Aug. 1, Dr. Joshua Eisen accepted the nomination of the independent ‘Education. Community. Law.‘ line, and will appear on the ballot in the race to represent New York’s 17th congressional district. Dr. Eisen submitted over 5,200 signatures on his petitions to qualify for the November ballot, more than double the 2,450 required. Dr. Eisen collected more than all other independent candidates for any office in New York State.

Dr. Eisen filed a suit in federal court against Governor Cuomo challenging the collection of in-person handwritten signatures, at a time people are asked to handle business virtually. The suit also challenged the governor’s COVID-19-related executive orders reducing signature requirements by 70% for party-affiliated candidates but only by 30% for independent candidates. The federal suit exposed the hypocrisy of other executive orders allowing virtual notaries, eliminating signature requirements for school board elections and other accommodations while making none for the independent petitioning process.

«This is a win for democracy,» Dr. Eisen stated. «This enables us to continue the fight against the establishment to better serve our constituents.»

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WOODS HOLE, Mass., Aug. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly 10 years after the Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant and triggered an unprecedented release of radioactivity into the ocean, radiation levels have fallen to safe levels in all but the waters closest to the shuttered power plant. Today, fish and other seafood caught in waters beyond all but a limited region have been found to be well within Japan’s strict limits for radioactive contamination, but a new hazard exists and is growing every day in the number of storage tanks on land surrounding the power plant that hold contaminated wastewater. An article published August 7 in the journal Science takes a look at some of the many radioactive elements contained in the tanks and suggests that more needs to be done to understand the potential risks of releasing wastewater from the tanks into the ocean.

«We’ve watched over the past nine-plus years as the levels of radioactive cesium have declined in seawater and in marine life in the Pacific,» said Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and author of the new paper. «But there are quite a few radioactive contaminants still in those tanks that we need to think about, some of which that were not seen in large amounts in 2011, but most importantly, they don’t all act the same in the ocean.»

Since 2011, Buesseler has been studying the spread of radiation from Fukushima into and across the Pacific. In June of that year, he mobilized a team of scientists to conduct the first international research cruise to study the early pathways that cesium-134 and -137, two radioactive isotopes of cesium produced in reactors, were taking as they entered the powerful Kuroshio Current off the coast of Japan. He has also built a network of citizen scientists in the U.S. and Canada who have helped monitor the arrival and movement of radioactive material on the Pacific coast of North America.

Now, he is more concerned about the more than 1,000 tanks on the grounds of the power plant filling with ground water and cooling water that have become contaminated through contact with the reactors and their containment buildings. Sophisticated cleaning processes have been able to remove many radioactive isotopes and efforts to divert groundwater flows around the reactors have greatly reduced the amount of contaminated water being collected to less than 200 metric tons per day, but some estimates see the tanks being filled in the near future, leading some Japanese officials to suggest treated water should be released into the ocean to free up space for more wastewater.

One of the radioactive isotopes that remains at the highest levels in the treated water and would be released is tritium, an isotope of hydrogen is almost impossible to remove, as it becomes part of the water molecule itself. However, tritium has a relatively short half-life, which measures the rate of decay of an isotope; is not absorbed as easily by marine life or seafloor sediments, and produces beta particles, which is not as damaging to living tissue as other forms of radiation. Isotopes that remain in the treated wastewater include carbon-14, cobalt-60, and strontium-90. These and the other isotopes that remain, which were only revealed in 2018, all take much longer to decay and have much greater affinities for seafloor sediments and marine organisms like fish, which means they could be potentially hazardous to humans and the environment for much longer and in more complex ways than tritium.

«The current focus on tritium in the wastewater holding tanks ignores the presence other radioactive isotopes in the wastewater,» said Buesseler. «It’s a hard problem, but it’s solvable. The first step is to clean up those additional radioactive contaminants that remain in the tanks, and then make plans based on what remains. Any option that involves ocean releases would need independent groups keeping track of all of the potential contaminants in seawater, the seafloor, and marine life. The health of the ocean–and the livelihoods of countless people–rely on this being done right.»

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, non-profit organization on Cape Cod, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the ocean and its interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the ocean’s role in the changing global environment. For more information, please visit www.whoi.edu.

Key Takeaways

• Concentrations of radioactive material released into the Pacific from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and found in the Pacific Ocean or in fish have largely declined to safe levels.
• A larger problem exists in the form of more than 1,000 tanks full of contaminated, but treated, wastewater stored on the grounds of the power plant and that have been suggested need to be emptied into the ocean to free up space for more untreated water.
• Current focus on tritium levels overlooks the much larger problem presented by other radioactive isotopes in the treated water, not all of which have been made public.
• Many of these other isotopes emit more dangerous forms of radiation, and act in more complex ways in the environment, accumulating in seafloor sediments and in marine life, more readily than tritium.

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