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The U.S. Postal Service will dedicate a Christmas stamp featuring a detail of «Our Lady of Guápulo,» an 18th-century oil painting.
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News of the stamps is being shared with hashtags #ReligiousStamps and #ChristmasStamps.
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Angela Curtis, vice president, Retail and Post Office Operations, U.S. Postal Service
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Tey Marianna Nunn, director and chief curator, Art Museum and Visual Arts Program, National Hispanic Cultural Center
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Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, at 11:30 a.m. EDT
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The virtual stamp event will be hosted on the U.S. Postal Service’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
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For more information, visit usps.com/guapulo.
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A pictorial postmark of the First Day of Issue location in New York City is available at usps.com/stamps.
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This Christmas stamp features a detail of «Our Lady of Guápulo.» Painted in the 18th century by an unknown artist in Cuzco, Peru, «Our Lady of Guápulo» is from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Enrobed in a pyramidal gown speckled with jewels and holding a scepter woven with roses and leaves, a crowned Virgin Mary looks down at a similarly adorned Christ Child in her left arm. A red rosary ropes across the center of her dress and down to her right.
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Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp.
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It is being issued as a Forever stamp, which will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
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Postal Products
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Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724), by mail through USA Philatelic, or at Post Office locations nationwide.
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The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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Please Note: For U.S. Postal Service media resources, including broadcast-quality video and audio and photo stills, visit the USPS Newsroom. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the USPS YouTube channel, like us on Facebook and enjoy our Postal Posts blog. For more information about the Postal Service, visit usps.com and facts.usps.com.
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Contact: Mauresa R. Pittman
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(O) 202-268-2220
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mauresa.r.pittman@usps.gov
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usps.com/news
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — This weekend marked a historic moment for Ducati as their Italian rider Lorenzo Zanetti took a phenomenal victory at the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, fending off the advances of the best superbike racers in the United States and making a memorable U.S. debut for the Ducati Corse-supplied Panigale V4 R SBK.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — This weekend marked a historic moment for Ducati as their Italian rider Lorenzo Zanetti took a phenomenal victory at the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, fending off the advances of the best superbike racers in the United States and making a memorable U.S. debut for the Ducati Corse-supplied Panigale V4 R SBK.
The victory was first time since 2010 that a Ducati has won a Superbike Championship Race in the U.S. and, making the occasion even more special, the Indianapolis round of the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship was intended to be a development test for the Warhorse HSBK Ducati New York team with their new Ducati Corse-supplied superbike.
Zanetti immediately made an impression in the first of the weekend’s three Superbike races by running off the track while leading, only for the Ducati Corse test rider to miraculously find his way back onto the track and fight his way back for a debut podium spot in third place. In race two, Zanetti, clearly determined to show the full potential of the Ducati Panigale V4 R SBK, picked his moment to take the lead in the closing laps and powered the Ducati across the famous yard of bricks to finish in first place.
The weekend concluded in race three with another third-place finish, totaling three podiums and showing the incredible potential of the Ducati Panigale V4 R SBK against the fastest superbike teams in America.
Lorenzo Zanetti (Ducati #87)
«In the end, it was an amazing weekend for me with three podiums and a victory, it’s unbelievable,» Zanetti beamed after race three. «I’m really happy, it was a great day. Thanks to Ducati for giving me the chance to race against the best riders in the United States, they are really World Championship level riders. I like the American people, so I hope to be back racing again more next year.»
A native of Brescia, Italy, 33-year-old Zanetti is the official test rider for Ducati Corse and is riding in the MotoAmerica series for the Warhorse Racing HSBK Ducati New York team who recently commissioned Ducati Corse in Bologna, Italy, to build them a Panigale V4 R SBK for the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.
The Warhorse HSBK Ducati New York Team will be back on track with Zanetti on the weekend of October 24 and 25 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the final round of the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.
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NAPA, Calif., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Collectors Also Gain Access to Exclusive New Vintner-Hosted Virtual Tastings Exploring Each Wine
WHAT:
A highly anticipated release for more than 20 years, the Stags Leap District Appellation Collection showcases coveted Cabernet Sauvignon from 17 of the region’s wineries. This year’s one-of-a-kind offering highlights the 2017 vintage, and will be available for purchase from October 15th to December 15th,…
NAPA, Calif., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Collectors Also Gain Access to Exclusive New Vintner-Hosted Virtual Tastings Exploring Each Wine
WHAT:
A highly anticipated release for more than 20 years, the Stags Leap District Appellation Collection showcases coveted Cabernet Sauvignon from 17 of the region’s wineries. This year’s one-of-a-kind offering highlights the 2017 vintage, and will be available for purchase from October 15th to December 15th, 2020, with wines arriving in time for holiday celebrations, gifting and new vintner hosted virtual tastings. Only 150 total sets are available.
WHEN:
The Stags Leap District Appellation Collection is only available for purchase between October 15th through December 15th, 2020. Sold exclusively by the Stags Leap District Winegrowers Association.
PRICING:
$1,999, which includes ground shipping for 17 bottles shipped in two boxes with winemaker tasting notes. Additional sales tax applies to purchases made in California and in various other states, to the extent required by law.
ORDER:
http://www.stagsleapdistrict.com/AppellationCollection
Contact Executive Director, Nancy Bialek, at (707) 255-1720
Appellation Collection Virtual Tastings:
A full schedule and registration details for the Virtual Tastings can be found at http://www.stagsleapdistrict.com/VirtualTastings. The tasting series includes:
- Session #1 – Friday, November 13, 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. PST
Clos du Val, Regusci, Silverado Vineyards and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars
- Session #2 – Friday, November 20, 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. PST
Baldacci Family Vineyards, Lindstrom Wines, Pine Ridge Vineyards, Quixote Winery
- Session #3 – Friday, December 4, 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. PST
Chimney Rock Winery, Cliff Lede Vineyards, Malk Family Vineyards, Odette Estate
- Session #4 – Friday, December 11, 4:00 – 4:45 p.m. PST
Ilsley Vineyards, Shafer Vineyards, Stags’ Leap Winery, Steltzner Vineyards
The 2017 Appellation Collection includes one bottle of each of the following Stags Leap District-designated wines:
- Baldacci Family Vineyards, 2017 Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon
- Chimney Rock Winery, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon, Ganymede Vineyard
- Cliff Lede Vineyards, 2017 Dancing Heart Cabernet Sauvignon
- Clos Du Val, 2017 Hirondelle Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
- Ilsley Vineyards, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Lindstrom Wines, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Malk Family Vineyards, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Odette Estate Winery, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Pine Ridge Vineyards, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Quixote Winery, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Regusci Winery, 2017 ‘The Elders’ Cabernet Sauvignon
- Shafer Vineyards, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon One Point Five
- Silverado Vineyards, 2017 SOLO Cabernet Sauvignon
- Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, 2017 FAY Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
- Stags’ Leap Winery 2017 The Leap Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
- Steltzner Vineyards, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Taylor Family Vineyards, 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
About Stags Leap District Winegrowers:
The Stags Leap District Winegrowers is a non-profit association of vintners and growers united by the mission of enhancing the reputation of the appellation and its wines and sharing its quality with the wine-loving world. The SLDWA is comprised of 17 wineries and 10 grower members. Wineries include: Baldacci Family Vineyards, Chimney Rock Winery, Cliff Lede Vineyards, Clos Du Val, Ilsley Vineyards, Lindstrom Wines, Malk Family Vineyards, Odette Estate Winery, Pine Ridge Vineyards, Quixote Winery, Regusci Winery, Shafer Vineyards, Silverado Vineyards, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Stags’ Leap Winery, Steltzner Vineyards, and Taylor Family Vineyards. To learn more about the Stags Leap District, please visit stagsleapdistrict.com or find the Association on Facebook.com/StagsLeapDistrict, Instagram.com/StagsLeapAVA Twitter @StagsLeapAVA.
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DUBLIN, Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The «Special Vehicle Autonomous Driving Industry Report, 2019-2020» report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
This report highlights progress of autonomous working vehicles in four fields: sanitation, airport, agriculture and mining.
Autonomous working vehicles that run on relatively closed roads and fixed routes, are often free of public road traffic rules, making for popularization of highly automated driving technology. Although the COVID-19 pandemic hinders the development of autonomous driving at airports for the time being, autonomous driving technology for sanitation, agriculture and mining is developing by leaps and bounds.
Autonomous sanitation vehicle
Urban autonomous sanitation street sweepers shall travel at speeds lower than 12km/h according to China’s national standards. The use of autonomous driving technology in sanitation field enables all-weather and more efficient operation subject to strict specifications. In China, autonomous sweepers are being piloted in dozens of places nationwide, mainly for enclosed scenarios such as parks and scenic spots. As China spends RMB200 billion to RMB300 billion on sanitation and more than 100,000 sanitation vehicles are sold each year, autonomous sanitation vehicle sales and service market will be worth a staggering tens of billions of yuan considering sanitation vehicles are being replaced by self-driving ones.
In China, vision + radar solution currently prevails among technology roadmaps of autonomous sanitation vehicle manufacturers who differ greatly in underlying algorithms and sensor cost control. As pilot run and operation of autonomous sanitation vehicles are under way in some places of China, solution providers face challenges of cost control posed by mass production, so most of them turn to homemade sensors and low-cost computing platforms like ARM from NVIDIA.
Most start-ups build autonomous sweepers based on existing sweeping vehicles, while body frame and modules of Idriverplus VIGGO are developed specially for autonomous vehicle. VIGGO’s electronic/electrical architecture consists of the following domains: Computing and Control, Powertrain, Body System, Steering System, Business System, and Information and Communication.
The new design that dispenses with driver’s seat saves seat space for water tank or battery to increase effective operating radius. By virtue of down-to-earth R&D and reliable products, Idriverplus acquired orders for 1,000 units of its 5G autonomous vehicles from China Mobile in July 2019. Hundreds of VIGGO sweepers have been sold. In February 2020, Idriverplus also rolled out a spraying sterilizer vehicle for curbing coronavirus disease. Apart from VIGGO, cockpitless design is also found in AXL, a fully autonomous concept mining truck introduced by Scania. The vehicle represents a future trend for mining vehicle.
Autonomous mining vehicle
Autonomous mining vehicles already find broad application in foreign countries. Autonomous mining vehicles of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (FMG), an iron ore tycoon, have run a total of 33.5 million km and transported more than 1 billion tons of ores and materials, with production efficiency 30% higher than conventional manual transport. FMG has operated 137 self-driving mining vehicles.
In China, mining companies need to pay out tens of billions of yuan for workers to transport ores and materials each year, who cannot still ensure transport safety and efficiency. In major mining areas of China, road dump trucks featuring non-widebody and small tonnage are largely used with ownership of roughly 200,000 units, while around 5,000 units of off-road wide body dump trucks for mining are produced and sold annually, with ownership of just over 10,000 units. The refitted autonomous mining vehicle market (OEM and aftermarket) in China is valued at least RMB500 billion.
As concerns technology roadmap, mining trucks usually utilize the LiDAR + vision + radar solution for their common price of RMB800,000 at least makes manufacturers seldom weigh the cost of LiDAR. The three sensor fusion solution allows all-day, all-weather perception by sensing system in bad conditions at mines. That mining vehicles travel at low speeds and in simple environment means that LiDAR is optional so some companies also use vision + radar solution for a sharp cut in refit cost.
Major autonomous mining truck solution providers in China have actual projects carried out but all on small scale. Most of autonomous mining truck start-ups have closed one or two funding rounds, marking that capital has turned attention to the segment. At present, they are close to each other in technology roadmap but still need to improve their technology, with orders they announced often worth RMB100 million or so and few vehicles operated (generally dozens of units), which means no one plays a leading role.
Following a contract for two new autonomous vehicles signed on July 4, 2019, Beijing Tage Idriver Technology Co., Ltd. and Inner Mongolia North Hauler Joint Stock Co., Ltd., China’s largest mining truck manufacturer sweeping 80% of the domestic market, signed on April 8, 2020 a supply order for 10 sets of autonomous driving control systems, which will be mounted on 10 units of new NTE200AT vehicles.
Autonomous agricultural vehicle
Autonomous driving for agricultural machinery, the simplest one among all autonomous driving technologies for special vehicles, depends more on high-precision positioning systems and software algorithms. Mainstream hardware configuration is Beidou system + angle sensor + IMU, and vision is optional and available to users who need. In terms of technology roadmap, OEMs often use a hydraulic solution where electro-hydraulic proportional valves are used to drive steering wheel. In aftermarket, the electric steering wheel solution in which motors are used to simulate manual driving is largely used due to being easy to refit and low cost.
Globally, big agricultural machinery manufacturers all have a range of models pre-installed autonomous driving technology (GPS Ready). Examples include John Deere 8R Series, Case New Holland Magnum Series, and AGCO Auto Guide 3000 with standard configuration of Danfoss hydraulic valves. In the Chinese OEM market, hydraulic solutions rule the roost.
In aftermarket, hydraulic and steering wheel autonomous driving solutions take up a considerable proportion of installation and sales. In the Chinese market, flagship products of most system providers are steering wheel solution. Beijing UniStrong Science & Technology Co., Ltd. provides both hydraulic and steering wheel solutions but the hydraulic dominate Shanghai AllyNav Technology Co., Ltd. has offerings of both, of which the hydraulic led previously and the steering wheel got vigorously promoted in 2019. Of the shipments of autonomous driving systems for agricultural machinery in China, electric steering wheel solutions shared roughly 20% and the hydraulic solutions swept 80% from 2018 to 2019.
In view of application, agricultural machinery self-driving systems are still expensive (RMB70,000–RMB80,000/set), and massively used in areas with large farmlands, like Xinjiang and Northeastern China. Agricultural machinery autonomous driving system market in China will be valued at RMB4 billion to RMB5 billion given that virtually 200,000 units of mid- and high-end tractors are sold a year and penetration of such systems is 50%. In future, autonomous driving and variable operations will bring a larger market.
Companies Mentioned
- COWAROBOT
- Autowise.ai
- Idriverplus
- Gaussian Robotics
- DeepBlue Technology
- Eva Robot
- TC Robot
- UISEE Technology
- Charlatte Autonom
- Aurrigo
- Eazy Mile
- Zoomlion Heavy Machinery
- Lovol Heavy Industry
- FJ Dynamics
- ISEKI & CO., LTD.
- YTO Group
- Kubota
- Shanghai AllyNav Technology
- Wuxi Kalman Navigation Technology
- ComNav Technology
- Beijing Unistrong Science & Technology
- Beijing TAGE Idriver Technology
- Inner Mongolia North Hauler Joint Stock
- Qingdao Huituo Intelligent Machine (VIPioneers)
- Beijing EQ Technology
- Caterpillar
- Komatsu
- Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG)
- Changsha Intelligent Driving Institute (CiDi)
- Shanghai Boonray Intelligent Technology
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