Mes: agosto 2020

IRVING, Texas, Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Affirmity, a leading provider of workplace compliance and diversity and inclusion solutions working with U.S. federal contractors and a wide range of global businesses, has pooled its decades of expertise to create a new online training course to help manage unconscious bias.

With ongoing conversations on injustice and social division, Managing Unconscious Bias is a new course aimed at organizations interested in taking a proactive stance and tackling the issues faced by various social and identity groups. While acknowledging that some degree of unconscious bias is unavoidable even in the most forward-thinking businesses, the new course will help employees recognize how personal biases influence their behavior and offers strategies for managing those assumptions in their working lives.

«Organizational cultures that have seen sustained influence by unconscious bias, stereotypes and microaggressions can slowly become unhealthy, unproductive places to work,» explains Affirmity Diversity Advocate, Pamela Pujo. «We feel we have designed training that will help workers understand the issues without seeking to apportion the blame—we’ll show that though we can’t avoid our unconscious biases, we can recognize and counteract them.»

At 25 minutes in length, Managing Unconscious Bias is aimed at all employees regardless of seniority and industry and can be expanded with other essential diversity courses from Affirmity’s training catalog. The course can be configured using company branding and can be delivered using an organization’s existing learning management system (LMS) or can be hosted by Affirmity using the Instilled learning experience platform (LXP).

Affirmity’s courses are developed by a team of practicing HR professionals and experts in workplace diversity, and workplace-associated issues and law. The course’s learning objectives and chapters include:

• Differentiating between conscious and unconscious biases and their impact in the workplace
• Recognizing stereotypes and their associated impacts
• Recognizing microaggressions and micro-inequities
• Acquiring strategies to mitigate unconscious bias and microaggression in the workplace

Learners will have the opportunity to test their understanding of the material and receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

For more information and to register your interest, please see the course description on Affirmity.com.

About Affirmity
Affirmity, a former division of PeopleFluent, provides expert analysis, consulting, training, and software to optimize affirmative action and diversity and inclusion programs. Our team of experts delivers diversity metrics and data-driven insights to manage and mitigate risk.

Drawing on 45 years of experience, we guide HR and compliance teams through diversity goal setting. Affirmity empowers leaders with tools and dashboards to measure progress, and we help clients capture and communicate the positive business impacts of diversity initiatives.

A part of Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), Affirmity serves more than 1,100 organizations—including global corporations, mid-sized organizations, and small businesses.

For more, visit affirmity.com.

SOURCE Affirmity

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Today, SalesClass.ai announces the first-ever «Netflix for sales» experiential style online learning platform for sales professionals. SalesClass.ai was founded by Chad Burmeister, CEO of ScaleX.ai, Dionne Mischler, CEO of Inside Sales by Design (and CEO of SalesClass.ai), and Gerhard Gschwandtner, CEO of SellingPower.

«Salesclass.ai was purpose-built to leverage artificial intelligence to serve the needs of sales professionals to enable each sales person to become the best version of themselves,» said Chad Burmeister, Co-Founder of SalesClass.ai

Since late February, SalesClass.ai has initiated agreements to provide on-demand content and SalesClass LIVE classes from some of the most influential sales professionals in the world including Mario Martinez (and Vengreso), Jeffrey Gitomer, Sandler Training, Kopp Consulting, Mark Hunter, Anthony Iannarino, and more.

According to one of the SalesClass Contributors, «SalesClass will become the Netflix for sales content and enable content proliferation».

In 2020, sales training budgets are being cut like never before, if there even was one in the first place. SalesClass.ai provides access to thousands of hours of live and on-demand training so that an individual sales professional can invest in their sales career, or their employer can for them.

Dionne Mischler, CEO of SalesClass.ai said, «I’m super excited to share the more than 2,000 on-demand sales training modules with our subscribers and even more excited for subscribers to attend the SalesClass LIVE sessions, put on by these vetted sales experts. By enabling the audience to interact with SalesClass.ai mentors in one-to-many SalesClass LIVE sessions, our subscribers experience learning like never before!»

According to Gerhard Gschwandtner, CEO of Selling Power, «AI for Sales is the future of sales and I’m confident that SalesClass.ai will be at the forefront of shepherding in this change. There are three core areas that SalesClass.ai seeks to address – the mindset, the skillset, and the toolset.»

About SalesClass.ai: SalesClass.ai brings the top sales experts in the world to deliver a «Netflix for sales» experiential style learning that empowers sales professionals to become the best version of themselves.

SOURCE Salesclass.ai

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Art Scene West is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition, Reawakening…to the Beauty of the West Coast. Celebrating the natural scenery and picturesque charm of the Pacific Northwest and California, the online exhibition presents original work by both local and international artists. Recognizing the nationwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Art Scene West will donate a portion of all proceeds to No Kid Hungry and host Instagram charity livestreams twice per week via the @nokidhungry direct donate button.

Launched in late February of 2020, Art Scene West is a new contemporary online art gallery that showcases well-established and emerging West Coast artists. Almost entirely virtual, the online gallery embraces the ever-changing landscape of art and the art market in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. The gallery’s founder, originally from the Central Southwest, established his home in Southern California and describes West Coast art as a «breath of fresh air.» Art Scene West is his vision and medium to share that experience with the rest of the world.

Reawakening…to the Beauty of the West Coast runs from July 29 to September 30, 2020. The exhibition features more than 20 artists, all of whom either currently live on the West Coast or are passionate about what the West Coast has to offer. Although the featured artists vary in age, nationality, and art world experience, they all uniquely capture the spirit of the Pacific Coast and bring it to life through their chosen subject matters, media, and color palettes.

Throughout the nine-week exhibition period, Art Scene West will host a series of live events across its social media platforms, namely Instagram @artscenewest and Facebook. These virtual events will not only include studio interviews with the featured artists within the exhibition, but also outdoor demonstrations of the artist’s process and inspirations.

Reawaken and remember the beauty that surrounds us. For more information regarding Art Scene West and its inaugural exhibition contact Jan Cothran at (877) 228-0247 or jan@artscenewest.com.

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ANDOVER, Minn., Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Public health experts agree that opening safely isn’t just about managing personal protection guidelines; it’s also about providing a healthy and safe physical environment within the school building. So while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), education leaders and communities finalize safe reopening guidelines for students, teachers and staff; school districts across the country are focusing on the «health» of school buildings and academic facilities. 

According to Bruce Bomier, MPH, public health professional and board chair of Environmental Resource Council, a nonprofit that has been has been advising schools and other social and physical environments on health and safe-building procedures for almost 50 years, «The problem is, with constant heavy exposure burdens, the virus may represent a risk if the a school building’s environment is unhealthy. Having worked with hundreds of school properties regarding health concerns, we believe it is critical that reopening guidelines take air exchange and potential dilution of virus exposures into consideration.  Our natural biologic defensive and immune systems are simply more effective when potential airborne toxins are diluted through an environment’s sensitive controls.»

While it is important for school districts to take direction from local, state and federal public health authorities, following are tips to help keep school buildings healthy and reduce COVID-19 risk:

1.    Ventilation
Quality ventilation can reduce and often prevent droplets from spreading airborne. Servicing unit ventilators, sensitive adjustments to air filtering, structured cleaning of diffusers, and plans to respond to makeup air and air exchange as influenced by occupant density, must be incorporated into operational guidelines. Special consideration should be directed toward «factory styled,» enclosed schools constructed post-World War II with limited air exchange. Fortunately, many have been renovated, but not all.

2.  Air Quality
Scheduled air-quality testing is important, especially with a focus on dilution ratios in highly occupied areas. This involves more than having the routine HVAC mechanical engineer work to model pre-COVID-19 standards; rather, the air-quality standards must be oriented to public health — always factoring in use and density patterns, along with air exchange and filtration considerations. 

3.  Lighting
There is significant research indicating that UV lighting may «break down» COVID-19, inhibiting its ability to contaminate. New technologies may allow for higher occupation of areas that have been exposed to ultraviolet lighting. While this option is still being studied, there is clear but preliminary meta-research indicating that the introduction of several variations of UV lighting will safeguard an enclosed environment. In general, improved lighting has been found important in the educational process in terms of both illumination and psychological effects. When possible, arrange classrooms to capture direct light from windows.  In addition, use blue-enriched lighting in rooms for areas that don’t have windows.

4.  Sanitization
Cleaning and sanitizing are different activities. Cleaning is primarily designed to remove food, dirt, human dander and other particles often found on surfaces in high-population density areas. Cleaning reduces bacteria, rendering the areas healthier. Sanitizing is focused on a level and separate type of hygiene that reduces virus-related disease. EPA- approved disinfectants will keep often-touched, smooth surfaces safer for prescribed periods of time — significantly reducing the potential for hand-to-mouth contact and consequent virus-related disease. Soft surfaces, such as carpets, curtains and some furniture, should also be cleaned with regularity.  However, next to airborne exposures, smooth surfaces in common areas, such as doorknobs, restroom areas and railings, represent the greatest possibility of virus transmission and require extra sanitization.

«We must keep what’s touched and inhaled as free as possible from potential exposure to COVID-19, helping our natural protective and immune systems to do their jobs in less dangerous environments. In fact, we nicknamed our building hygiene-oriented recommendations ‘an environmental mask for school buildings’,» shared Bomier.

Additional COVID-19 resources and technical assistance are available for school districts by contacting Environmental Resource Council at ENVRC.org.

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Ticktin Law Group has officially urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to show clemency to a non-violent offender who has only seven months left to serve on a 15-year sentence while living in mortal fear of contracting COVID-19 from other prisoners.  Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch was reported to be facing the highly infectious disease himself.

On behalf of the prisoner and author William Hawley, the law firm filed a writ of mandamus requesting the governor and The Florida Office of Executive Clemency to grant a commutation of sentence to release him a few months early so he won’t catch the virus becoming rampant among prison populations nationwide.   

The writ filed in the Second Judicial Circuit in Leon County affirms Hawley is in constant fear for his life as prisoners around him fall ill. It cites Hawley as a model prisoner who throughout the course of serving this sentence has assisted Federal and State Government agencies on serious investigations and prosecutions of highly violent crimes.

«Why continue to hold a non-violent offender and highly skilled author to the last minute of his sentence when he has risked so much to help the criminal justice system to prosecute highly violent offenders at his own peril,» said Peter Ticktin, senior partner, The Ticktin Law Group, an author himself of What Makes Trump Tick.  

Hawley wrote Dursturbed, a book about alleged serial killer, multimillionaire Robert Durst, soon to go on trial for murder in California and Hawley believes his book could shed light on Durst’s depravity.  A model inmate, he regularly consults his Warden on prison and inmate safety and is taking classes at a top university.

The writ seeks to compel Gov. DeSantis to resume holding hearings regarding requests for commutation of sentences or clemency or show why these hearings are not going forward when the pandemic puts many prisoners in jeopardy.

Petitioner Hawley is a Florida resident serving a Florida Criminal Sentence.  His petition affirms Gov. DeSantis has executive clemency power pursuant to the state constitution and oversees Florida Department of Executive Clemency.

The writ questions why the governor is not acting to release a non-violent offender just a few months early to avoid contracting the killer virus.

Media contact: Tom Madden 561-702-4999; tmadden@transmediagroup.com.

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SOURCE The Ticktin Law Group

ORO VALLEY, Ariz., Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Tautachrome (OTC: TTCM), the developer of the ARknet platform, today announced the strengthening of the licensing agreement for the platform with the addition of a new provisional patent, «System and Method for Creating Geo-Located Augmented Reality Communities.» This provisional patent was officially filed with the US Patent Office on Friday, July 31^st, 2020. This filing allows for additional claims to be added to the patent application over the next 12 months, as new technology is developed and rolled out.

The ARknet social platform uses a multitude of geo-located 3D augmented reality objects across a single navigable network. The user-created 3D objects are anchored in the physical world around the user and are accessible and interactable using ARknet’s Summon and Teleport features. While the patent application claims cannot currently be discussed in detail, Tautachrome has said the expanded visual experience and related interaction with 3D objects taught in this new patent application will first appear and be available in the MainSt.Shopping branded business center inside the ARknet platform.

Jordan Gray, ARknet’s platform architect with over 20 years of experience in digital ecosystems development, said today, «The digital communities created in the early years of social media that still persist today are largely unchanged. We are reimagining a more intelligent, private, and useful all-in-one user-centric mobile and wearable assistive technology to help people and teams of people as they go about their daily activities.»

Dr. Jon N. Leonard, Tautachrome’s CEO and a holder of numerous patents, said today, «I’m a great believer in the value afforded by strong patent protection, and I’m convinced that the patent claims we are laying down here in this provisional patent will set the course for how communities will better be able to organize, collaborate, and facilitate easier transactions in commerce using augmented reality in the future.»

Tautachrome currently owns five granted US Patents for its KlickZie imagery technology and will continue to pursue internal IP development. Tautachrome will also continue to strengthen its core technology position, license agreements, development partnerships, and strategic intellectual property acquisitions as such actions will further protect its patent and IP portfolio.

Download ARknet for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.honeycombarchive.arknet

Download ARknet for iOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arknet/id1466870072

About Tautachrome, Inc: Tautachrome, Inc. (OTC:TTCM) is an emerging growth company in the Internet applications space. The company has licenses, revolutionary patents, and patents pending in augmented reality, smartphone image authentication, and imagery-based social networking. The company is leveraging these technologies to develop privacy and security-based applications for global business and personal use.

Tautachrome, Inc. posts important information and updates through tweets from the official company twitter page https://twitter.com/Tautachrome_inc

Forward-Looking Statements:  Statements made in this press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions, risks of managing growth, governmental regulatory risks, technology development risks, schedule slippage risks, and political and other business risks. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph and the risks and other factors detailed in Tautachrome’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tautachrome undertakes no duty to update these forward-looking statements.

Press and commercialization contact:
David LaMountain, COO
520-318-5578
Dlamountain@Tautachrome.com

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BRASÍLIA, Brazil, Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Apex-Brasil (the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), together with its partners from the private sector, today shared critical insights outlining the country’s upward trajectory in agriculture and livestock production, despite recent challenges predicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of seven factsheets highlights Brazil’s continued advancements in agricultural technology, productivity and safety, which have positioned the country to effectively manage through the current crisis and prepare for a post-pandemic future.

These factsheets come out at a pivotal moment when the global agriculture market has been severely impacted by COVID-19. In fact, there’s mounting evidence that suggests that an estimated 265 million people could face acute food insecurity by 2020 – up from an estimate of 136 million people prior to the pandemic. However, despite these alarming trends, Brazil’s agricultural growth is showing no signs of slowing down. According to IPEA (the Ministry of Economy’s Institute of Applied Economic Analysis), Brazil’s agricultural sector is estimated to grow by 2.5% this year, with some private sector analysts estimating it could reach as high as 3%.

«For more than 40 years, Brazil has worked to establish itself as one of the main global players in farming and sustainability,» said Sergio Segovia, President of Apex-Brasil. «Through longstanding investments in both small and large-scale agricultural innovation, we’ve been able to tap into the entrepreneurial spirit of Brazilian farmers across the country, recording significant productivity gains while ensuring quality of our crops and livestock. As you’ll see from Apex-Brasil’s newly released factsheets, our evolution in the agricultural sector is just beginning. I’m confident that our leadership in this area will continue to flourish in years to come.»

The following key stats from the factsheets highlight the storied history of Brazil’s agricultural successes, as well as set the stage for the country’s international market growth both now and in the future:

Leveraging scientific innovation to increase agricultural yields:

• Brazil’s focus on pioneering scientific innovation in soil chemistry, crop management and more have been decisive for its agriculture and livestock growth. For example, when compared to harvests from 1976/77, Brazil’s grain production increased by 414% in 2018/19, with total productivity increasing by 205%.
• Innovation in biotechnology and nutrition has made it possible for Brazilian farmers to promote greater weight gain in chickens in a proportionally smaller amount of time. As a result, it’s estimated that Brazil produced 13.17 tons of chicken meat in 2018/2019 – 32% of which was used for export.

Prioritizing food safety to become a trusted international partner:

• Brazil continues to be a leader in livestock safety, with more than 180 countries trusting Brazilian livestock products for export. By implementing a comprehensive sanitary inspection processes, including lab examinations of animal products, veterinary auditing visits and the surveillance of all exported plants, Brazil has been free of several OIE-monitored diseases, reinforcing its commitment to providing the highest-quality meat for export and domestic consumption.
• Since 1992, Brazil has eradicated cattle-borne foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country. Through its National Program to Eradicate Foot-and-mouth Disease, the country has progressively maintained disease-free zones in an effort to ensure international trust in Brazilian meat exports.

Increasing productivity by maximizing the efficiency of existing resources:

• At present, Brazil currently accounts for 8% of world exports for agricultural products. Looking to the future, however, Brazil’s agricultural and livestock productivity is estimated to grow at rates well above the world’s average.
• To ensure efficiency across the country’s 64 million hectares of cultivatable land, approximately 28% of all agricultural areas planted with grains and pulses in Brazil are used for a second harvest each year – aiding in the country’s overall productivity. For example, in 2020, the IBGE (the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) estimates that the second harvest will produce 70 million metric tons of maize, compared to 26.6 million metric tons produced in the first harvest.
• By integrating pork and poultry supply chains, Brazil has been able to produce 25.5 million tons of beef, pork and chicken over the last year alone. In fact, it’s estimated that integration strategies have reduced the amount of capital investment required of Brazilian farmers by 7.2% – contributing to overall productivity gains.

To read more about the state of Brazil’s agricultural industry, please visit http://www.apexbrasil.com.br/en/agriculture to access and download Apex-Brasil’s recently released factsheets.

To learn more about Apex-Brasil, please visit: http://www.apexbrasil.com.br/en/home.

About Apex-Brasil

The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) works to promote Brazilian products and services abroad, and to attract foreign investment to strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy.  Apex-Brasil carries out diversified commercial promotion actions and works with public and private actors to develop the competitiveness of Brazilian companies and the country at large. Together with Brazilian Agribusiness Association (ABAG), Brazilian Beef Exporters Association (Abiec), Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA), Brazilian Agriculture And Livestock Confederation (CNA), Brazilian Rural Society (SRB) and Association of Sugarcane Industry (UNICA), Apex-Brasil works to educate and encourage sustainable agriculture practices in Brazil.

Media Contacts
Lilian Leão Alves
Apex-Brasil
lilian.leao@apexbrasil.com.br 
+55 (61) 9 8462 0525

YeaJin Lee
Ruder Finn – PR on behalf of Apex-Brasil in the U.S.
LeeY@ruderfinn.com  
+1 931 237 1531

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