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JOLIET, Ill., 15 de febrero de 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — El reciente lanzamiento del libro My first aid Devices, Mis Primeros Dispositivos de Ayuda por Lilliana Sánchez de la editorial Page Publishing, es un compendio de recomendaciones indispensables para los padres, ya que pueden tomar una decisión sobre las herramientas que quieren usar durante la educación de sus hijos con una postura participativa.

Lilliana M. Sanchez es nacida en Colombia América del Sur; del municipio de Sabaneta Antioquia. Lilliana llego a los Estados Unidos en 1997. Obtuvo su Licenciatura en Trabajo Social (BSW) en St Augustine College, Chicago, IL en 2005. Además, fue Especialista de Educación Infantil para CEDA; Chicago Heights, IL 2005 y Directora de Flamboyan Head Start/ St Augustine College, Chicago, 2007-2009.

Desde 2010 ejerce como interprete Bilingüe Medica en hospitales e instituciones médicas para ayudar a inmigrantes de habla hispana en sus consultas con limitaciones de expresarse en Ingles.

También desde 2018 colabora con el Condado de Grundy, Illinois como Instructora Bilingüe de Primeros Auxilios de Salud Mental en los Jóvenes de los Estados Unidos. impartiendo talleres para las personas con familiares y amistades que pudieran tener desórdenes mentales, síntomas de depresión, ansiedad y pensamientos de suicidio en todo el territorio nacional. Actualmente reside en Joliet, Illinois junto con su esposo Edward Mueller.

Este libro está dedicado a todos los padres que se vean en la necesidad de adquirir dispositivos de ayuda para el desarrollo de sus criaturas. Como educadora de Padres/Visitadora de Hogares; ha sido parte de mi vida el referir, apoyar y asistir a mis familias, cuando sus hijos por circunstancias adversas nacen con habilidades especiales y no saben cómo afrontar este tema.

Publicada por Page Publishing, el interesante e increíble libro de Lilliana Sánchez, My first aid Devices, Mis Primeros Dispositivos de Ayuda, nos trae recomendaciones y consejos para aplicar herramientas educativas al desarrollo continuo de los niños. El libro de una manera didáctica beneficiará toda la familia para aprender y jugar juntos.

Para los lectores que deseen experimentar esta interesante experiencia, pueden hacerlo, a través de la lectura de este libro, concretando la compra de My first aid Devices, Mis Primeros Dispositivos de Ayuda en cualquier tienda de libros, o en las tiendas en línea de Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google Play o Barnes and Noble.

Para información adicional o cualquier consulta pueden contactar a Page Publishing, a través del siguiente número: 866-315-2708.

Acerca de Page Publishing:

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NUEVA DELHI, 15 de febrero de 2021 /PRNewswire/ — La Alianza Solar Internacional (ASI) nombra a Ajay Mathur como nuevo director general tras su elección en la primera asamblea especial celebrada de forma virtual. 

La ASI se fundó a finales de 2015 como una coalición de 73 países miembros con el fin de acelerar la demanda y el uso de energía solar segura, sostenible y asequible para todos. Su objetivo es movilizar

1 billón de dólares para su inversión en proyectos relacionados con la energía solar para el año 2030 a través de actividades de promoción, apoyo legal y político, desarrollo de las capacidades, y superación de las barreras de inversión aparentes.  Mathur sustituye a Upendra Tripathy, que ha desempeñado el cargo de director general desde  2017.

El nombramiento de Mathur como líder de la ASI ha tenido lugar en un año en el que el objetivo principal será abordar los compromisos de transición del cambio climático global: 2021 ha comenzado con la renovación el cambio de rumbo en la política climática de Estados Unidos a través de la administración Biden y culminará con la COP26, la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático, en el Reino Unido en noviembre. La ASI es el único foro multilateral dedicado a la transición de la energía solar y, partiendo de los hitos conseguidos, entre los que se encuentran la puesta en común de recursos entre sus miembros y la creación de economías de escala para reducir el coste de la energía limpia, la Alianza está preparada para renovar su compromiso con la transición solar global con la nueva dirección.

En su intervención durante la asamblea especial de la ASI, Mathur dijo: «Es un honor para mí dirigir la Alianza Solar Internacional y mantengo unas altas expectativas sobre lo que podemos lograr con la energía solar junto con nuestros miembros y socios para la transición a un futuro más seguro, sostenible, equitativo y próspero para todos».

«La ASI cumple un papel determinante para ayudar a establecer la infraestructura y el ecosistema para un futuro sin emisiones de carbono. Con unos sólidos cimientos ya establecidos, mi objetivo inmediato es identificar y movilizar las oportunidades y el capital para alcanzar más rápidamente nuestras metas relacionadas con la energía solar a medio y largo plazo».

Mathur, que asumirá su cargo en la ASI el 15 de marzo de 2021, aporta una amplia experiencia en liderazgo en todas las áreas clave de la transición energética, desde la política, la investigación y la comercialización de la tecnología hasta la financiación, la cooperación internacional y el desarrollo institucional. Actualmente, es director general del Instituto de Energía y Recursos (TERI, por sus siglas en inglés), un motor clave de la transición energética a las energías renovables y de la reducción de la contaminación del aire urbano durante los últimos cinco años. Mathur también ha ocupado puestos directivos en la Oficina de Eficiencia Energética de la India y el Fondo Verde para el Clima. En 2020, recibió un premio IconSWM-CE a toda su trayectoria por su contribución a la protección del medio ambiente.

Barbara Pompili, ministra para la Transición Ecológica de la República Francesa y copresidenta de la ASI, añadió: «En un momento en el que hemos alcanzado un nuevo hito con la reciente decisión de aumentar el número de países que pueden ser miembros de la ASI a todos los países miembros de la ONU, Francia, como país copresidente de la ASI, brinda todo su apoyo a Dr Mathur. Estamos totalmente convencidos de que es la persona adecuada para fomentar el desarrollo de la ASI, en particular a través de su universalización, su sólida gestión y el apoyo a iniciativas concretas para facilitar el despliegue de la energía solar, como el programa STAR-C».

R. K. Singh, ministro de Energías Nuevas y Renovables de la India y presidente de la ASI, ha declarado: «La ASI ha crecido hasta convertirse en un organismo global capacitado que trabaja eficazmente en pos del acceso a la energía, la seguridad energética y la transición energética. Espero con interés trabajar de forma constructiva junto con el resto de miembros bajo las directrices de nuestro nuevo director general para apoyar este importante mandato en un contexto de creciente apoyo en todo el mundo para la transición hacia unas bajas emisiones de carbono».

Alok Sharma, presidente de la COP26, afirmó: «Estoy encantado de que Ajay Mathur, colaborador inestimable de la COP26, vaya a asumir este importante cargo. La Alianza Solar Internacional ha sido vital para impulsar la colaboración internacional necesaria con la que lograr un futuro con bajas emisiones de carbono, y espero con interés poder trabajar juntos antes de la COP26 que tendrá lugar en noviembre».

Upendra Tripathy, el anterior director general, comentó: «Quiero mostrar mi agradecimiento a todos los países miembros por su confianza y apoyo durante los últimos cinco años en los que la ASI ha pasado de ser una idea a convertirse en la organización internacional de referencia en cuanto a energía solar que es hoy en día. Es muy gratificante ver que cada vez más países se unen a la ASI con el fin de aunar esfuerzos y recursos para elevar la energía solar a un nivel superior».

Acerca de la Alianza Solar Internacional 

La Alianza Solar Internacional (ASI) inició su actividad tras la COP21 de París y recientemente se ha ampliado el número de países que pueden ser miembros para incluir a todos los estados miembros de la ONU. Hay 90 signatarios y 193 miembros potenciales. La ASI proporciona una plataforma dedicada a la cooperación, a través de la cual la comunidad global, incluyendo gobiernos, organizaciones bilaterales y multilaterales, empresas, industrias y otros sectores interesados, pueden contribuir a alcanzar el objetivo común de aumentar el uso y la calidad de la energía solar para satisfacer las necesidades energéticas de los posibles países miembros de la ASI de una manera segura, conveniente, asequible, equitativa y sostenible.

Los hitos clave de la ASI

• La demanda conjunta de la ASI es de 23 GW en diversos programas solares valorados en 13 000 millones de dólares.
• La ASI lideró la determinación de precio para un proyecto de 272 000 bombas solares, con una reducción de costes de más del 40 %.
• La ASI estableció un Comité Directivo Internacional para institucionalizar el Banco Solar Mundial.
• La ASI adjudicó una concesión a un consorcio encabezo por EDF para diseñar una hoja de ruta para la ambiciosa red global de la India (OSOWOG).

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NEW DELHI, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The International Solar Alliance (ISA) announces Dr. Ajay Mathur as its new Director General following his election at the first special assembly, held virtually.

A coalition of 73 member countries, ISA was established at the end of 2015 to accelerate the demand for and use of safe, sustainable, and affordable solar energy for all. It aims to mobilize over USD 1 trillion of investment into solar projects by 2030 through focused advocacy, policy and regulatory support, capacity building, and by overcoming perceived investment barriers. Dr. Mathur replaces Mr. Upendra Tripathy, who has served as Director General since the ISA was founded in 2015.

Dr. Mathur’s leadership appointment to the ISA takes place in a year when addressing global climate change transition commitments will take center stage: 2021 started with the US’s renewed climate focus through the Biden administration and will culminate with COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference in the UK in November. As the sole multilateral forum dedicated to solar energy transition and building upon existing milestones, including pooling resources across its members, and creating economies of scale to reduce the cost for clean energy, ISA is poised to renew its commitment towards global solar transition through the new leadership.

Speaking at the ISA’s special assembly, Dr. Mathur, said:

«I am honored to lead the International Solar Alliance and am ambitious about what we can achieve together with our members and partners to transition to a safer, sustainable, equitable and more prosperous future for all through solar energy.

«ISA has a vital role to help establish the infrastructure and ecosystem for a zero-carbon emission future. With strong foundations already in place, my immediate focus is to identify and mobilize the opportunities and capital to accelerate our solarization goals in the interim and long-term.»

Dr. Mathur who will take over the leadership of ISA on March 15, brings a wealth of leadership expertise across all key areas of energy transition, from policy, research, and technology commercialization to financing, international cooperation and institutional development. Currently Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a key driver of the energy transition to renewables and reduction in urban air pollution for the past five years, Dr. Mathur has held leadership appointments at the Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the Green Climate Fund. In 2020, he received an IconSWM-CE Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to environmental protection. 

Ms Barbara Pompili, Minister for Ecological Transition of the French Republic and ISA Co-President added: «At a time when we have reached a new milestone with the recent decision to open ISA membership to all UN Member countries, France, as co-President of ISA, extends its full support to Dr. Mathur. We are fully confident that he is the right person to further the development of ISA, particularly through its universalization, robust governance and support to concrete initiatives to facilitate solar power deployment, such as the ‘STAR-C’ program.»

Mr. R.K. Singh, Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy for India and ISA President, said: «The ISA has grown to become an able global body working effectively towards energy access, energy security and energy transition. I look forward to working constructively under our new Director General and alongside other esteemed Members to take this important mandate forward against a backdrop of growing support around the world for the low-carbon transition.»

COP26 President Alok Sharma said: «I am delighted that Dr Ajay Mathur, an invaluable friend of COP26, is taking up this important post. The International Solar Alliance has been a key partner in driving the international collaboration we need to a low carbon future, and I look forward to working together ahead of COP26 this November.»

Outgoing Director General Mr. Upendra Tripathy commented: «I am grateful to all the member countries for their trust and support over the past five years which has seen ISA grow from an idea to the go-to international organization on solar energy that it is today. It is so pleasing to see more and more countries joining the ISA to work together to pool efforts and resources to bring solar to the next level.»

About the International Solar Alliance 

The International Solar Alliance (ISA), was launched at COP21 in Paris and has recently expanded its membership scope to include all UN member states. There are 90 signatories and 193 prospective members. The ISA provides a dedicated platform for co-operation, through which the global community, including governments, bilateral and multilateral organizations, corporates, industry, and other stakeholders, can contribute to help achieve the common goal of increasing the use and quality of solar energy in meeting energy needs of prospective ISA member countries in a safe, convenient, affordable, equitable and sustainable manner.

ISA’s Key Milestones

• ISA aggregated demand for 23GW across various solar programs worth USD 13Bn
• ISA led the price discovery for a project for 272,000 solar pumps, with a cost reduction of more than 40%
• ISA formed an International Steering Committee to institutionalize the World Solar Bank
• ISA issued a Letter of Award to an EDF-led consortium to design a roadmap for India’s ambitious Global grid (OSOWOG)

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LONDON, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced bp has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance the use of quantum computing in the energy industry.

By joining the IBM Quantum Network™ as an Industry Partner, bp will have access to IBM’s quantum expertise and software and cloud-based access to the most advanced quantum computers available via the cloud. This includes access to a premium 65-qubit quantum computer, the largest universal quantum system available to industry today, and an important milestone on the IBM Quantum roadmap to a 1,000-plus qubit system, targeted for the end of 2023.

bp will work with IBM to explore using quantum computing to solve business and engineering challenges and explore the potential applications for driving efficiencies and reducing carbon emissions. 

«bp’s ambition is to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner and help the world get to net zero. Next-generation computing capabilities such as quantum computing will assist in solving the science and engineering challenges we will face, enabling us to reimagine energy and design new lower carbon products,» said Morag Watson, senior vice president, digital science and engineering for bp.

Quantum computing has the potential to be applied in areas such as: modelling the chemistry and build-up of various types of clay in hydrocarbon wells – a crucial factor in efficient hydrocarbon production; analyzing and managing the fluid dynamics of wind farms; optimizing autonomous robotic facility inspection; and helping create opportunities not yet imagined to deliver the clean energy the world wants and needs.

In 2020, bp announced its net zero ambition and its new strategy. By the end of this decade, it aims to have developed around 50 gigawatts of net renewable-generating capacity (a 20-fold increase), increased annual low carbon investment 10-fold to around $5 billion and cut its oil and gas production by 40%.

Joining the IBM Quantum Network will enhance bp’s ability to leverage quantum advances and applications as they emerge and then influence on how those breakthroughs can be applied to its industry and the energy transition.

«bp joins a rapidly growing number of clients working with IBM to explore quantum computing to help accelerate the discovery of solutions to some of today’s biggest challenges,» added Dario Gil, Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research. «The energy industry is ripe with opportunities to see value from the use of quantum computing through the discovery of new materials designed to improve the generation, transfer, and storage of energy.»

bp joins more than 130 members of the IBM Quantum Network, a global community of Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, academic institutions and research labs working to advance quantum computing and explore practical applications. Together, members of the Network and IBM Quantum teams are researching and exploring how quantum computing will help a variety of industries and disciplines, including finance, energy, chemistry, materials science, optimization and machine learning, among many others.

For more information about the IBM Quantum Network, as well as a full list of all partners, members, and hubs, visit https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/network/.

IBM Quantum Network™ is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

About bp
bp’s purpose is to reimagine energy for people and our planet. It has set out an ambition to be a net zero company by 2050, or sooner, and help the world get to net zero, and recently announced its strategy for delivering on that ambition. For more information visit bp.com.

About IBM Quantum
IBM Quantum is an industry-first initiative to build universal quantum systems for business and science applications. For more information about IBM’s quantum computing efforts, please visit www.ibm.com/ibmq.

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Cautionary statement
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DUBAI, UAE, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — With fiscal stimulus and deficit spending to remain integral in global macroeconomics, coupled with yield curve control and vaccine rollouts accelerating the evolution of a «new normal,» the investment landscape in 2021 may reflect a continuation of the reflation/momentum trade, albeit at increased volatility.

This is a key take-away from this year’s outlook letter by AD Investment Management (ADIM), titled «2021: Navigating Icarian Markets.» ADIM, regulated by the Abu Dhabi Global Market’s (ADGM’s) Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), is a Middle East-focused asset management boutique sponsored by Invest AD.

The firm’s forecasts for the MENA region highlight several considerations for investors, including:

• The opportunity to selectively find value in equities, despite the spike in valuations after the initial shock of COVID-19.
• The potential for this year to position portfolios for recoveries in stocks depressed by years of unfortunate cycle timing.
• A need to focus on low duration and deep value by screening for candidate businesses with relatively attractive valuations that can help to normalize in returns in a timely manner – in the bid to mitigate the risk of increasing interest rates disrupting the surge in equities.

«Markets in aggregate seem to be currently priced to beyond perfection, where a lot needs to go right on the path to projected growth for them to justify their valuations,» said ADIM’s Annual Outlook Letter. «Even then, they are not offering the kind of returns one would hope for over the next decade from where we are today.»

Amid expensive assets across the spectrum, the firm believes that a good hedge against the inevitable reversal of the momentum trade could be growing exposure to selective names that correlate with these factors.

«We cannot predict the timing of that reversal, but we know we are moving closer to it with every passing day,» added the Letter.

A selective approach in the Middle East

By staying focused in its convictions, ADIM sees various themes within MENA states that can provide resilience and performance in portfolios this year, and beyond. For example:

Secular themes

• In healthcare, mandatory private sector cover in Saudi Arabia is an example of why investors should be bullish, with downside risks from an expat exodus from the GCC now counterbalanced by relaxed residency measures.
• Strong fundamental drivers underpin the potential in education. In Kuwait, for example, 2020 was a litmus test of the government’s commitment to upholding scholarship schemes which should, in turn, continue to support private sector higher education providers.

Cyclical themes

• An eco-friendly, innovation-driven future bodes well for global demand for petrochemicals, driven by advances in sectors like technology, transportation and construction.
• Several emerging e-commerce platforms in MENA will likely mature into a concentrated ecosystem of marketplaces and order fulfilment service providers, in line with online retail retaining some of the share it has gained from traditional outlets.
• Regional tourism has a bright outlook over the next two years, with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, plus routes re-opening routes between the GCC and Qatar, as likely demand drivers.

Leveraging appetite for sustainability

The report also notes the region’s steepening awareness regarding climate challenge and highlights the opportunities and concrete steps being taken by leading regional National Oil Companies to reduce the carbon footprint. Moreover, the region’s mineral wealth coupled with the adoption of investor-friendly mining laws may contribute to improving FDI. This is based on the expected secular demand for industrial metals that is supported by the theme of «electrification of everything» and the decarbonization of the electric grid.

Click this link for more insights on various opportunities, risks and considerations in 2021.

About AD Investment Management

AD Investment Management (ADIM), a specialized Middle Eastern asset management boutique, is domiciled in the Abu Dhabi Global Market and regulated by the ADGM’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA). Founded in 2019, ADIM is a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Company (Invest AD). Abu Dhabi Investment Company was established in 1977, by decree of the late President of the UAE, HH Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Abu Dhabi Investment Company is a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, which is a part of the Mubadala Investment Company owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi.

ADIM’s mission is to provide clients, capital markets and shareholders with sustainable investment solutions by committing smart people, independent financial thought and disciplined processes.

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