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All systems go - Merchant Business News - Notice Today Web https://www.merchant-business.com/all-systems-go/?feed_id=212718&_unique_id=66f523cc9690e #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER System scaffolding offers big benefits over the traditional method yet is still underusedAfter more than five decades in the construction industry, Des Moore is calling on contractors to reap the “significant advantages” of system scaffolding. The former chief executive of Trad Group and ex-president of the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation says system scaffold is safer, better-looking and offers improved access.“It’s much quicker to erect, adapt and remove – on balance, anywhere between 25 and 30 per cent quicker than a traditional tube and fitting scaffold,” he says. “That clearly is a real plus for contractors, who are often under considerable time and budget pressures.”System scaffolding is modular and lightweight, with standard lengths of up to four metres, and components that are suitable for use across a wide range of buildings and construction sites. The lower weight, standardised components, and faster erection and dismantle times make it ideal for constructors. As scaffolding is often on the critical path, it shortens construction time, improves safety and allows for easier inspection.System scaffolds also reduce the likelihood of injury. They meet all relevant safety standards and contain less room for error in their construction. Smaller and fewer pieces are easier for scaffolders to handle, reducing the risk of slips, trips and falls on site.Layher, the largest supplier and manufacturer of scaffolding in the world, first developed a system more than 75 years ago. But while they are ubiquitous in Scotland and Ireland, the use of system in England has only really taken off in the last decade – despite the clear advantages. Layher is also the only manufacturer that offers CISRS-approved advanced training for system scaffolding.Under Moore’s leadership, Trad Group used system scaffolding for 78 per cent of its work, with the company investing heavily in Layher. “There was a perception that because system scaffolding was modular, it was less versatile than tube and fitting,” says Moore, who is now a brand ambassador for Layher. “But I’m speaking from experience because there isn’t a project that cannot be done using system scaffolding. The perception that it can only be used in some environments is a myth.”System scaffolds improve access – there is no need for internal cross bracing, so working platforms are clear and unobstructed. That means improved safety for all workers and inspectors on site. And the longevity and reusability of the components makes it a far more sustainable option than the traditional alternative.Tellingly, Layher UK’s Allround® System Scaffolding was picked for the meticulous refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster’s Elizabeth Tower (pictured), led by tier one contractor Sir Robert McAlpine.“Aesthetically, system scaffolding looks excellent,” says Moore, who adds that developers such as the Barclay Group are increasingly specifying the scaffolding for precisely this reason.“Modular system scaffolding delivers clean lines,” he adds. “So it’s far easier to install debris netting or sheeting, and get a clean facade surface with system scaffolding compared to tube and fitting.“It’s also an excellent frame for advertisements or hoardings when the construction is public-facing.”For all these reasons, the industry veteran now concludes “there are significant advantages for tier one and tier two contractors to request that their scaffolding contractors give them an option to do the job in system”.“System scaffolding offers big benefits over the traditional method yet is still underused After more than five decades in the construction industry, Des Moore is calling on contractors to reap…”Source Link: https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/sponsored/all-systems-go-26-09-2024/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ge81eb3a79c6ff13b8a41b8b8fd472bb4eec8dae2946d441b0c72c67ad02b94a7772

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Woman Suffers Permanent Hearing Loss After Samsung Galaxy Buds FE Explode | Republic World - Journal Important Web https://www.merchant-business.com/woman-suffers-permanent-hearing-loss-after-samsung-galaxy-buds-fe-explode-republic-world/?feed_id=212638&_unique_id=66f5068b9fc05 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Google NewsPublished 22:16 IST, September 25th 2024 Woman Suffers Permanent Hearing Loss After Samsung Galaxy Buds FE ExplodeGoogle News The earbuds were fresh out of the box, with a 36% battery, and had not yet been charged.Woman Suffers Permanent Hearing Loss After Samsung Galaxy Buds FE Explode | Image:ScreengrabListen to this article2 min readAdvertisement22:16 IST, September 25th 2024Source of this programme “This is one huge addon!”“Published 22:16 IST, September 25th 2024 Woman Suffers Permanent Hearing Loss After Samsung Galaxy Buds FE Explode The earbuds were fresh out of the box, with a 36% battery, and…”Source: Read MoreSource Link: https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/samsung-galaxy-buds-explosion-woman-suffers-permanent-hearing-loss-after-samsung-galaxy-buds-fe-explode#GoogleNews – BLOGGER – GoogleNews http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/52976045865_e4b754cf8c_o.jpg Google News Published 22:16 IST, September 25th 2024 Woman Suffers Permanent Hearing Loss After Samsung Galaxy Buds FE Explode Google News The earbuds were fresh out of the box, with a 36% battery, and had not yet been charged. Woman Suffers Permanent Hearing Loss After Samsung Galaxy Buds FE Explode | Image:Screengrab Listen to this … Read More

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Producers, merchants flood markets with substandard skincare products - Information Global Web https://www.merchant-business.com/producers-merchants-flood-markets-with-substandard-skincare-products/?feed_id=212558&_unique_id=66f4e9302245b #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER MerchantSource of this programme “I be crazy about addons, because they are elegant!”“Despite the existence of regulatory bodies such as the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), many Nigerians are still…”Source: Read MoreSource Link: https://guardian.ng/features/science/producers-merchants-flood-markets-with-substandard-skincare-products/#Merchant – BLOGGER – Merchant http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/7154WT8XH6L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg Merchant Source of this programme “I be crazy about addons, because they are elegant!” “Despite the existence of regulatory bodies such as the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), many Nigerians are still…” Source: Read More Source Link: https://guardian.ng/features/science/producers-merchants-flood-markets-with-substandard-skincare-products/ #Merchant – BLOGGER – Merchant … Read More

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BizNews Briefing – Wilgenhof; Cyril + Elon; SAB lives in Coors; Commodity boom?; China stimulus - Notice Global Online https://www.merchant-business.com/biznews-briefing-wilgenhof-cyril-elon-sab-lives-in-coors-commodity-boom-china-stimulus/?feed_id=212462&_unique_id=66f4d098672b8 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Google NewsThis episode of the BizNews Briefing covers the major news events of the moment, moving from the impact of the Chinese stimulus package to surging SA commodity shares and continuing tensions over Stellenbosch University Council’s decision to close the historic Wilgenhof residence. It is hosted by BizNews editor Alec Hogg.Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Register here.Watch here [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyEsK178arI[/embed]Listen hereRead also:Cyril Ramaphosa: The Audio BiographyListen to the story of Cyril Ramaphosa’s rise to presidential power, narrated by our very own Alec Hogg.Source of this programme “I be nuts about items, because they are adorable!”“This episode of the BizNews Briefing covers the major news events of the moment…”Source: Read MoreSource Link: https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2024/09/25/biznews-briefing-wilgenhof-cyril-elon#GoogleNews – BLOGGER – GoogleNews http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Trevor-Ncube.jpg Google News This episode of the BizNews Briefing covers the major news events of the moment, moving from the impact of the Chinese stimulus package to surging SA commodity shares and continuing tensions over Stellenbosch University Council’s decision to close the historic Wilgenhof residence. It is hosted by BizNews editor Alec Hogg. Sign up for … Read More

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BizNews Briefing – Wilgenhof; Cyril + Elon; SAB lives in Coors; Commodity boom?; China stimulus - Information Global Web https://www.merchant-business.com/biznews-briefing-wilgenhof-cyril-elon-sab-lives-in-coors-commodity-boom-china-stimulus/?feed_id=212405&_unique_id=66f4cbe79a71d #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Google NewsThis episode of the BizNews Briefing covers the major news events of the moment, moving from the impact of the Chinese stimulus package to surging SA commodity shares and continuing tensions over Stellenbosch University Council’s decision to close the historic Wilgenhof residence. It is hosted by BizNews editor Alec Hogg.Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Register here.Watch here [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyEsK178arI[/embed]Listen hereRead also:Cyril Ramaphosa: The Audio BiographyListen to the story of Cyril Ramaphosa’s rise to presidential power, narrated by our very own Alec Hogg.Source of this programme “I be nuts about items, because they are adorable!”“This episode of the BizNews Briefing covers the major news events of the moment…”Source: Read MoreSource Link: https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2024/09/25/biznews-briefing-wilgenhof-cyril-elon#GoogleNews – BLOGGER – GoogleNews http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Trevor-Ncube.jpg Google News This episode of the BizNews Briefing covers the major news events of the moment, moving from the impact of the Chinese stimulus package to surging SA commodity shares and continuing tensions over Stellenbosch University Council’s decision to close the historic Wilgenhof residence. It is hosted by BizNews editor Alec Hogg. Sign up for … Read More

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James Wan To Produce “Robocop” Series - Information Important Web https://www.merchant-business.com/james-wan-to-produce-robocop-series/?feed_id=212318&_unique_id=66f4ae9a8aa00 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER MGMBack in April last year came news that Amazon Studios was moving forward on film and/or TV development on multiple franchises in the MGM library.Those on the slate included new takes on “Stargate,” “Legally Blonde” and “Robocop” with the latter getting a TV series. A year-and-a-half on that series is beginning to take shape.THR reports that “Aquaman” and “The Conjuring” filmmaker James Wan has boarded the project as executive producer along with his Atomic Monster production company.In addition. Peter Ocko (“Lodge 49,” “The Office”) has joined the project as both writer and showrunner. They join the already set executive producers Michael Clear and Rob Hackett on the project which is being produced in-house at Amazon MGM Studios.The project is being dubbed a serialized spin on the famed franchise and begins when a giant tech conglomerate collaborates with the local police department to introduce a technologically advanced enforcer to combat rising crime, a police officer who’s part man, part machine.Paul Verhoeven directed the 1987 original, which became an iconic sci-fi action film known for its satire of American capitalism, moments of extreme violence and iconic lines. It inspired two sequels, a reboot in 2014, and several TV series.Source of this programme “I like components, because they are helpful!”“Back in April last year came news that Amazon Studios was moving forward on film and/or TV development on multiple franchises in the MGM library. Those on the slate included…”Source: Read MoreSource Link: https://www.darkhorizons.com/james-wan-to-produce-robocop-series/#GoogleNews – BLOGGER – GoogleNews http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-28586449.jpeg MGM Back in April last year came news that Amazon Studios was moving forward on film and/or TV development on multiple franchises in the MGM library. Those on the slate included new takes on “Stargate,” “Legally Blonde” and “Robocop” with the latter getting a TV series. A year-and-a-half on that series is beginning to take … Read More

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How Republicans Stopped Talking About ‘Neighborhood,’ And Why Democrats Should Make That Term Their Own - Notice Today Web https://www.merchant-business.com/how-republicans-stopped-talking-about-neighborhood-and-why-democrats-should-make-that-term-their-own/?feed_id=212238&_unique_id=66f4914f85c2b #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Donald Trump portrays city neighborhoods as feral places, deranged by Democrats. “The crime is so out of control in our country,” Trump charged at a Michigan campaign stop during the recent Democratic National Convention. “The top 25 [cities] almost all are run by Democrats and they have very similar policies. It’s just insane. But you can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped. … We have these cities that are great cities where people are afraid to live in America.”This is, of course, a ludicrous caricature, as numerous bread-fetching city dwellers could attest. Yet to understand the significance of this seething anti-cities rhetoric — both its political potency and the unique opportunity it presents for Democrats — requires a brief look at a deep-seated tension in how conservatives have talked about urban areas across recent decades.For more than a century, the Republican Party’s conservative wing has run against cities. Early in the twentieth century, their animus was rooted in nativism and religion. They mobilized small-town Protestant voters by attacking heavily Catholic cities as beholden to popery, demon rum, and corrupt Irish machines. Several generations later, during Richard Nixon’s ascent, the party’s right wing roused white voter antipathy toward escalating urban crime and civil uprisings, both supposedly fostered by the federal War on Poverty.In the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, leading conservative politicians and intellectuals modified Nixon’s rhetoric, adding elements aimed at corralling new urban and urban-adjacent Republican voters. During his 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan explicitly placed the social functions played by local neighborhoods at the heart of his urban commentary. Tender odes to the beauties of the human-scale city neighborhood — paired with condemnation of government programs for undermining community self-help capacities — infused national GOP communications output. Crucially, this often lent the party’s outreach efforts a pro-urban veneer. Propelled partly by this neighborhoods appeal, Reagan attracted key support from traditionally Democratic “white-ethnic” inhabitants of older city and suburban areas.But this component of Republican rhetoric eventually evaporated. In recent years, Donald Trump and his allies have moved hard in the other direction, portraying urban areas solely as dangerous alien enclaves and as menaces to the “American Dream” anchored in the suburbs. In refusing any reference to neighborhood ties and social virtues, the MAGA compulsion toward urban demonization concedes rhetorical ground that Democrats can occupy to their advantage. Right now, we believe, Democrats should assertively bring neighborhoods back into the conversation, but this time fully on their own terms.By crafting an unabashedly progressive vision for the importance of urban neighborhoods to national health, they can draw upon the deep-seated affection many Americans have for their local communities and environments. At the same time, Democrats can potentially forge bridges to a segment of small-town and rural voters for whom neighborhood ties also play an emotionally resonant role. But to do this, they need to know something about how this term once percolated through, and now has vanished from, their GOP opponents’ political worldview.Google News Reagan’s Urban Rhetoric: Yoking Neighborhoods to the Conservative AgendaIt’s seldom remembered today how thoroughly discussions of urban neighborhoods permeated American political campaigns in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Over the postwar decades, U.S. cities had been badly battered by social forces and policy choices that left large swaths of the urban fabric in tatters. What anxious 1960s commentators discussed as an “urban crisis” had come by the 1970s to seem a permanent state of affairs.Yet amid the urban gloom of the 1970s, a countervailing force took shape: a diffuse yet powerful grassroots movement dedicated to bolstering the redeeming social ties and lifeways that urban neighborhoods still offered. Known simply as the neighborhood movement, this activist upsurge adopted an anti-technocratic ethos and a populist rhetoric. Participants portrayed neighborhoods as “the little guys,” facing off against the vast, neighborhood-destroying machinery of profit-hungry corporations, indifferent city halls, and a disdainful cosmopolitan media. Meanwhile, the authenticity, local relationships, and plucky self-advocacy of historic urban communities became fodder for innumerable newspaper features, from the style and real-estate sections to the city and national political pages.While most of the movement’s national leaders leaned in a progressive direction, the movement didn’t sit easily on the Left-Right spectrum. In some guises, local affiliates showed the influence of the counterculture, Black or Chicano nationalism, or the labor movement. In other guises, activists wielded the language of neighborhood stability and values to oppose initiatives such as school integration, scatter-site public housing, or disruptions to what 1976 presidential candidate Jimmy Carter — in a much-pilloried gaffe — called the “ethnic purity” of a community. The movement was always an ideological crazy quilt. Yet it fostered an upsurge of grassroots organizing that percolated through the nation’s older cities.By the time Ronald Reagan embarked on his 1980 White House bid, the word neighborhood had taken on a central role in national politics — one that would only grow that year. At the campaign’s outset, Reagan strategists were highly attuned to the slow-motion splintering of the New Deal coalition. Several came to believe that a domestic focus not solely on workplace and economic issues, but rather on the sanctity of local residential environments, could accelerate the coalition’s final demise.Indeed, the 1980 Reagan neighborhood strategy was designed to win over a specific chunk of voters within the larger group that would later be dubbed “Reagan Democrats.” The targeted voters here were mostly white, generally lower-middle class, culturally conservative, disproportionately though not exclusively Catholic, suspicious of federal antipoverty and racial justice initiatives, but still rooted in either older city districts or blue-collar inner-ring suburbs rather than the burgeoning suburban periphery.Moreover, to a substantial segment of these voters, neighborhood wasn’t simply a warm and fuzzy word evoking friendly sidewalk greetings and block-party cookouts. At this moment, to speak of defending neighborhoods from outside meddling — even when done in apparently race-neutral terms — often had a powerful racial charge. “Neighborhood schools,” after all, had been the rallying cry of white urban opposition to busing and redistricting for school integration.To create an urban rhetoric based around local community life, Reagan’s team had to take the protean language of the diverse neighborhood movement and bend it to their political agenda. This movement’s language was not automatically conservative; it had to be made to resonate in that fashion. This task was taken on by two key campaign speechwriters and strategists, who sought to hitch the term neighborhood to bigger conservative ideological goals.On the libertarian side was John McClaughry, who had become enamored by the “Small Is Beautiful” philosophy motivating the previous decade’s enthusiasm for experiments in grassroots institution building. Though generally understood as an outgrowth of the 1960s counterculture, McClaughry thought, these impulses could be harnessed to promote an anti-statist economic vision.

This was especially true when applied to urban neighborhoods, where government could be portrayed as the great disrupter of organic forms of human-scale organization.Meanwhile, a conservative cultural component was refined by William F. Gavin, an advocate for a sharp-elbowed urban Republicanism that would be at home in blue-collar Catholic neighborhoods like his boyhood haunts in Jersey City. Neighborhood loyalties could become an even more potent national electoral force, Gavin insisted, when leftist activist movements were saddled with the blame for the decomposition of local traditions and lifeways.The outcome in 1980 was a candidate with no real experience in traditional urban neighborhoods — and no apparent affection for the struggling cities of which they were a part — who sang their praises in almost romantic terms. This Reaganite theme first emerged in 1978, in a syndicated radio address where the future candidate gauzily pronounced: “The neighborhood scale is a human scale — a place where the real spirit of a community can develop. Many neighborhoods are rich in tradition and memories. And in many, there is a mixture of generations and functions, so that activity is continuous. This in turn works to keep crime down when, as one urban planning critic described it, there are ‘eyes on the street,’ eyes of grandparents and shopkeepers who watch the passing parade.”And what was to blame for neighborhood decline, in this telling? Virtually every public program — good, bad, or indifferent — that had touched the nation’s urban fabric. As Reagan continued: “Building codes, zoning laws, highway construction, urban renewal, federal mortgage insurance, the so-called Model Cities program, forced school busing — these and other factors have often combined to depress the value of neighborhoods and undercut the fullness of their life.”These themes offered one anchor for the GOP’s 1980 appeals. It was Gavin who devised Reagan’s resonant five-word campaign slogan: “Family, Work, Neighborhood, Peace, Freedom.” The rallying cry covered giant banners at the Republican National Convention and infused the candidate’s speeches. The appearance of “neighborhood” on that list was no accident. As Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin later explained, each word was aimed at a coveted bloc of swing voters — with neighborhood meant to especially woo white, blue-collar voters, particularly Catholics. The ensuing adoption of neighborhood symbols was so thoroughgoing that Harry Boyte, a noted left-wing organizer and scholar, would remark in astonishment: “From the campaign rhetoric, one might have wondered whether Reagan had spent recent years involved in some neighborhood renewal project or seeking to get the local savings and loan to give more loans to the community.”Surprising some observers, Reagan won slightly more votes in urban counties than did his Democratic opponent, President Jimmy Carter. While it’s difficult to tell what role the neighborhood theme played in that outcome, staffers were confident that it helped. By this time, however, the neighborhood movement was already waning in strength as an organized political force. This decline was evident four years later by the comparative absence of “neighborhood” talk from both Reagan’s and Walter Mondale’s presidential campaigns.But as the 1980s dawned, the Reaganite adaptation of the neighborhood movement’s basic social vocabulary had accomplished at least two things. First, it meant that Republican talk about older cities did not appear entirely hostile and aggressive. The party’s essentially anti-urban policy aspirations were sprinkled over with praise for a specific type of urban social organization recognizable to voters. The story this conveyed to many voters and journalists was that — despite planned GOP slashes to a host of programs crucial to beleaguered municipalities — Republicans admired and sought to augment the urban environments that mattered to everyday people.Second, these invocations

turned neighborhood itself into a contested political term, one that couldn’t be fully owned by the Democrats. This was true even though congressional Democrats, in their 1970s legislative output, had been far more supportive of pro-neighborhood regulations, such as anti-redlining laws, favored by the nation’s leading networks of neighborhood organizations. Now, if Democrats wanted to center pro-neighborhood initiatives in their rhetoric about urban issues, they would need to fight Republicans over that term’s very meaning and importance. As it turned out, this wasn’t a fight that many Democrats of the 1980s were interested in mounting.Google News Trump’s Urban Rhetoric: The Enemy WithinThe current Republican presidential candidate’s political stance toward cities was also forged during the 1980s, but it was one shorn of the paeans to neighborhoods that Reagan crafted so skillfully. Its contours are best captured by Donald Trump’s intervention in the well-known Central Park jogger case of 1989, referenced by Kamala Harris in the recent presidential debate.In April of that year, a white female investment banker was raped and left for dead in New York’s Central Park. Trump, then known as a real-estate developer, reportedly spent $85,000 on ads in four New York newspapers calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty and the execution of five teenaged defendants — four African American and one Hispanic — collectively known as the Central Park Five. After charging that “roving bands of wild criminals roam our neighborhoods,” Trump wrote, “I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer.” The teens were found guilty and sentenced to prison.Thirteen years later, however, DNA evidence and another man’s confession compelled the New York Supreme Court to vacate the convictions. In 2014, the freed prisoners were awarded about $40 million in civil damages. By then, Trump was flirting with runs for political office. Asked if his confrontational style would harm his political prospects, Trump referred to the exonerated Central Park Five. Far from apologizing for calling for the execution of innocent men, Trump boasted that his stance on the case “will help me. I think people are tired of ‘politically correct.’”For 35 years, Donald Trump has based his political appeal partly on blaming liberal politicians for urban neighborhoods becoming cauldrons of chaos and crime. In some ways, Trump’s rhetoric resembles Reagan’s. When Reagan visited the South Bronx during the 1980 campaign, he famously remarked that he had “not seen anything that looked like this since London after the blitz.” Like Trump, Reagan blamed failed federal policies and recommended tax incentives and private business as the way to revive urban neighborhoods. And like Trump, Reagan supported a get-tough, law-and-order approach to crime.Trump has sought to paint city neighborhoods as burning hellholes, alienating the same urban voters the GOP once courted. (TPM Illustration/Getty Images/Hieronymus Bosch)The similarities, however, end there. In Reagan’s rhetoric, cities had a chance for redemption: if they embraced small government, neighborhoods would thrive again, people would look out for each other, and neighborhoods would become safe and prosperous once more. Trump, on the other hand, sees little room for redemption. Cities are the enemy. You do not redeem your enemies, you defeat them.Trump is often viewed as totally lacking in verbal discipline, meandering aimlessly between vindictive tirades and self-important bluster. But from 2016 to the present his talk about cities and neighborhoods has demonstrated remarkable consistency. Across the nine years of speeches, press conferences, and tweets that we examined, Trump has hammered home the same message time and time again: cities are enemy territory.Consider the following quote (odd even by Trump’s standards) from a 2016 meeting with the Washington Post’s editorial board where he questioned the need to fund military alliances like NATO.

“So I know the outer world exists and I’ll be very cognizant of that. But at the same time, our country is disintegrating, large sections of it, especially the inner cities.” Note how Trump segues almost effortlessly from discussing international military commitments to supposed urban decay at home.The central metaphor Trump uses when talking about cities is “war.” Normally, war occurs between sovereign nations. For Trump, however, the war is within our nation. War requires two sides that are clearly differentiated and physically distinct. For Trump, the two sides are cities and suburbs. In the cities, as Trump tells it, you will find one of America’s enemies: foreigners who presumably look different from native-born Americans. They have infiltrated urban neighborhoods, in his telling, fueling a conflict between alien cities and native suburbs.To understand Trump’s view of cities and urban neighborhoods, you also need to understand how he views suburbs. Suburbs, in his speeches, are home to the “real” America. They are where the “American Dream,” a phrase Trump turns to repeatedly, is realized. For Trump, the American Dream is not about participating in community structures and projects but about the pursuit of material wealth, primarily through the ownership and defense of single-family homes.By contrast, cities are the American nightmare, the place where the American Dream dies. Trump uses terms such as “living hell,” “total decay,” “violent mayhem,” and “a disaster” to describe cities. Cities are foreign outposts within American society. In this view, the hordes of “illegal aliens” invading the southern border have taken over city neighborhoods. During the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Trump called Chicago “a war zone that’s worse than Afghanistan.”Under this view, sanctuary cities — whose policies, according to Trump, “force prisons and jails to release criminal aliens directly into your neighborhoods” — are the archenemy. As he boasted at a 2017 rally: “We are cracking down strongly on sanctuary cities that shield criminal aliens. And in order to stop the drugs, gangs, and traffickers, we are building a wall on the southern border.”And this war metaphor is not just talk. In 2020, Trump repeatedly mulled sending federal troops into cities to confront racial justice protests. In August 2022, shortly before announcing his third White House run, Trump returned to that theme, contemplating sending the National Guard into cities: “In places where there is a true breakdown of the rule of law, such as the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago, the next president should use every power at his disposal to restore order — and, if necessary, that includes sending in the National Guard or the troops,” he said.Such talk has policy implications, too. Trump repeatedly attacked the Obama Administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which required local governments to develop plans to promote greater integration. While laudable, AFFH has few mechanisms to compel local governments to act. That did not stop Trump, however, from charging that AFFH will “abolish the suburbs.” As Trump tweeted in 2020: “The ‘suburban housewife’ will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low-income housing invaded their neighborhoods.”In short, Trump views cities as enemy territory. If he could, it seems, Trump would build a wall around cities to protect the suburbs. Trump does at times talk about “saving” cities, frequently touting his Opportunity Zone program, which cut taxes for investors in low-income neighborhoods. In fact, the Opportunity Zone program is a boondoggle for wealthy investors and has generated few benefits for residents of economically marginalized communities. In any case, Trump’s aggressive rhetoric about how cities need to be contained and ultimately repressed drowns out any discussion of policies to help neighborhoods.Google News Trump’s Rhetorical Retreat:

An Opportunity for the DemocratsUndoubtedly, Trump has won political support by stoking suburban fears of urban crime and neighborhood decline. His “get tough” approach to policing has surely won him votes. Many citizens are afraid. Some cities do have higher levels of crime than suburbs. Many central-city neighborhoods face overwhelming challenges. Meanwhile, television and social media exaggerate urban dangers.Every rhetorical strength, however, has a weakness. Trump’s strategy is a glaring vulnerability that Democrats can exploit. The key is not to focus exclusively on attacking his fortress of lies and exaggerations, but rather to seize the rhetorical ground on urban neighborhoods that Republicans have abandoned and then to imbue it with progressive principles.One explanation of Trump’s extreme anti-city rhetoric may be that, unlike Reagan, he has conceded the urban vote to the Democrats. As noted earlier, in 1980 Reagan won more votes than Jimmy Carter in urban counties. Forty years later, however, Biden won twice as many urban-county votes as Trump (nearly 31 million to just over 16 million).The urban rhetoric of presidential candidates, however, cannot be understood in isolation from the broader story they are telling about the nation. Reagan always had a sunny, optimistic narrative. In his 1989 Farewell Address he talked about a “shining city on a hill,” “teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace. … And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.” Even though Reagan and Trump share a faith in unfettered markets, tax cuts for the rich, and hostility to federal social programs, the contrast in their language could not be more striking.(TPM Illustration/Getty Images)Trump’s neighborhood rhetoric reflects a much darker vision of the nation than Reagan’s. His political appeal is based on activating fears about people who look and speak differently from his target voters. Trump gins up his political base by stoking anxiety about dangerous “others,” a category that includes immigrants, Muslims, and LGBTQ people, but also residents of central cities. In this view, outsiders (abetted by liberal politicians) are driving American society into chaos and decline. Only he, Donald Trump, can save God-fearing native-born Americans from being pushed aside and humiliated in their own country.It is tempting to respond by countering Trump’s rhetoric with facts: immigrants are not criminals and rapists (in fact, they commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans); cities are not cauldrons of chaos (in fact, crime is down); and suburbs are not uniformly bastions of the American Dream (in fact, many inner-ring suburbs are struggling). Yet if exasperated pro-city commentators end solely by debunking Trump’s anti-cities invective, this may only reinforce Trump’s rhetorical framing (“don’t think of an elephant!”). Facts never trump (pun intended) emotional rhetoric. Democrats need an alternative urban rhetoric that draws from the deep progressive traditions in American politics.In recent decades, centrist Democrats have utilized a pro-urban rhetoric, but it is a thin rhetoric rooted in a technocratic vision of cities as centers of the new knowledge economy. Journalists and academics are fond of pointing out that urban areas voting heavily Democratic are the most productive and innovative in the American economy. This is true, but such an appeal just underscores the difference between cities and the rest of the country. We need a rhetoric that does not divide cities from the rest of the nation but unites them in a common project.Given its positive emotional resonance, the word “neighborhood” could sit at the center of that rhetoric. Reagan cannily linked Americans’ affection for strong neighborhoods to his small-government, free-market agenda. Trump’s inability to comprehend the positive resonance of urban neighborhoods has created a rhetorical vacuum that Democrats can fill to their advantage.

Democrats can broaden their political appeal by drawing on Americans’ attachment to local communities. But it should not be an appeal to the homogeneous tightknit European-ethnic neighborhood that Reagan and Carter fought over and that Trump has updated with his defense of fortified, predominantly white suburban subdivisions.Today’s urban neighborhoods are much more diverse, containing not only different races and ethnicities but different lifestyles and family types. Pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods foster face-to-face encounters in shared public spaces that nurture tolerance and a sense of interdependence. They cultivate community without conformity. Strong neighborhoods help people to get along at the same time that they help them to get ahead. They help to reconcile the longstanding tension in American life between individualism and community.For several key voter groups, this kind of place-based appeal could have meaningful resonance. For instance, in the highly scrutinized Blue Wall states, many neighborhoods — whether in major metropolises or in smaller cities like Erie, Lansing, and Racine — are still suffering from legacies of industrial job loss, which massively destabilized everyday local environments and institutions. In the same states, the prospects and perils facing individual neighborhoods are of concern for many urban and inner-ring suburban Black and Latino voters, especially given how neighborhood health often correlates with opportunities for economic mobility. Responding explicitly to those concerns could counteract minor but real erosion among these two traditionally Democratic voter blocs.In short, engaging voters on why neighborhoods matter, paired with policies explicitly crafted to nourish fragile communities at the most local scale, can help Democrats expand majorities among current coalition partners while making small but useful inroads in economically precarious Republican-leaning regions.Besides appealing to specific places and demographics, the language of neighborhood can resonate more broadly with many Americans who yearn for strong and diverse communities. Speeches at the Democratic National Convention contained seeds of a robust language about the crucial role neighborhoods can play in enhancing freedom and equity. In his acceptance speech, vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz used the term “neighbor(s)” seven times. “That family down the road,” Walz said, “they may not think like you do, they may not pray like you do. They may not love like you do. But they’re your neighbors. And you look out for them. And they look out for you. Everybody belongs. And everybody has a responsibility to contribute.” At their best, Walz suggested, neighborhoods support the freedom to live as one chooses while also instilling a shared sense of community responsibility: again, community without conformity.In a powerful DNC address earlier in the week, Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia invoked the language of neighborhoods for similar purposes: “I need my neighbors’ children to be okay so that my children will be okay. I need all of my neighbors’ children to be okay. … I need American children on both sides of the track to be okay.” We should reject the GOP’s zero-sum vision, Warnock was suggesting, that helping disadvantaged neighborhoods threatens the well-being of those doing somewhat better. Strong neighborhoods support shared prosperity.Such invocations of mutual responsibility and intertwined futures played little part in the Republican anti-statist appropriation of neighborhood themes during Reagan’s ascent. Today, Donald Trump’s dystopian portrayals of cities demonstrate that he is temperamentally incapable of even hollow gestures toward the support that strong neighborhoods can, and often do, offer urban inhabitants up and down the class ladder.The opportunity for Democrats is clear: their MAGA opponents have vacated the public discourse over what neighborhoods mean for modern American life. Just as Democrats

with their defense of diverse families have redefined what it means to be “pro-family,” they also need to reframe what it means to be pro-neighborhood. Neighborhoods that are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse can be successful neighborhoods. They exist in suburbs and small towns as well as big cities.Many neighborhoods are struggling, however. An appeal to the importance of neighborhoods needs to be more than just talk. Democrats should emphasize that strong neighborhoods are too important to be left to the vagaries of the free market. Neighborhoods need help from government. The expansion of social insurance and safety-net programs like Social Security, Medicare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and childcare subsidies is crucial for the health of economically precarious neighborhoods, but this is not enough.Many of the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, as well as Harris’s more recent housing policy proposals, can rightly be framed as pro-neighborhood. Addressing housing affordability will help to stabilize neighborhoods, as will programs like the eviction moratorium during COVID. The federal government can support the YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) movement by encouraging communities to eliminate exclusionary zoning. A diverse neighborhood policy agenda could include increased funding for community development block grants that target fiscally stressed communities, stronger enforcement of anti-redlining laws, more funding for home repair, increased support for grassroots community development corporations — and much more.Whatever policy choices might ensue, placing neighborhoods closer to the center of their vision for our national future will allow Democrats to move beyond cold neoliberal defenses of the American city, while aligning themselves with daily relationships that many voters experience as vital and deeply meaningful.“This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Donald Trump portrays city neighborhoods as feral…”Source Link: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-republicans-stopped-talking-about-neighborhood-and-why-democrats-should-make-that-term-their-own http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/g512cb2fd9d9e5a4d12339bc06eed4a73defbbe72601f1945998ccfbe769decf5dc56ed8e2c784545e11c2439e26bc476_64.jpeg This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Donald Trump portrays city neighborhoods as feral places, deranged by Democrats. “The crime is so out of control in our country,” Trump charged at a Michigan campaign stop during the recent Democratic National Convention. “The top 25 [cities] almost all are run … Read More

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UNLV QB to sit out season after agent says $100,000 promised for transfer has not been paid - Information Today Online https://www.merchant-business.com/unlv-qb-to-sit-out-season-after-agent-says-100000-promised-for-transfer-has-not-been-paid/?feed_id=212158&_unique_id=66f473fee2910 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Google NewsWe use cookies and data toDeliver and maintain Google servicesTrack outages and protect against spam, fraud, and abuseMeasure audience engagement and site statistics to understand how our services are used and enhance the quality of those servicesIf you choose to “Accept all,” we will also use cookies and data toDevelop and improve new servicesDeliver and measure the effectiveness of adsShow personalized content, depending on your settingsShow personalized ads, depending on your settingsIf you choose to “Reject all,” we will not use cookies for these additional purposes.Non-personalized content is influenced by things like the content you’re currently viewing, activity in your active Search session, and your location. Non-personalized ads are influenced by the content you’re currently viewing and your general location. Personalized content and ads can also include more relevant results, recommendations, and tailored ads based on past activity from this browser, like previous Google searches. We also use cookies and data to tailor the experience to be age-appropriate, if relevant.Select “More options” to see additional information, including details about managing your privacy settings. You can also visit g.co/privacytools at any time.Source of this programme “These plugins are magnificent.”“UNLV QB to sit out season after agent says $100,000 promised for transfer has not been paid  The Associated PressAgent: QB left UNLV over unfulfilled $100K offer  ESPNUNLV QB quits, claims ‘commitments’…”Source: Read MoreSource Link: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiekFVX3lxTFBhSnYzZ1puQVRPWU9kQVlRTUJCaXdHaGFtQlpsRzVhVkI0WVB6andqUFNZS2dTcUU5ZWxjdHRhQ3NJdFl1b0JIQV9JOFYzS0lmNnFoSnNWZkxmNzk0VFlUcm9YUGZ1QTItMVlSdU85eGdzdjVINHE5SjZn?oc=5#GoogleNews – BLOGGER – GoogleNews http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/3794427231_a7378b4c2d_o.jpg Google News We use cookies and data to Deliver and maintain Google services Track outages and protect against spam, fraud, and abuse Measure audience engagement and site statistics to understand how our services are used and enhance the quality of those services If you choose to “Accept all,” we will also use cookies and data … Read More

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A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones - Information Global Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/a-tiny-new-open-source-ai-model-performs-as-well-as-powerful-big-ones/?feed_id=212078&_unique_id=66f456b8e6821 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), a research nonprofit, is releasing a family of open-source multimodal language models, called Molmo, that it says perform as well as top proprietary models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The organization claims that its biggest Molmo model, which has 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which is estimated to have over a trillion parameters, in tests that measure things like understanding images, charts, and documents.  Meanwhile, Ai2 says a smaller Molmo model, with 7 billion parameters, comes close to OpenAI’s state-of-the-art model in performance, an achievement it ascribes to vastly more efficient data collection and training methods. What Molmo shows is that open-source AI development is now on par with closed, proprietary models, says Ali Farhadi, the CEO of Ai2. And open-source models have a significant advantage, as their open nature means other people can build applications on top of them. The Molmo demo is available here, and it will be available for developers to tinker with on the Hugging Face website. (Certain elements of the most powerful Molmo model are still shielded from view.) Other large multimodal language models are trained on vast data sets containing billions of images and text samples that have been hoovered from the internet, and they can include several trillion parameters. This process introduces a lot of noise to the training data and, with it, hallucinations, says Ani Kembhavi, a senior director of research at Ai2. In contrast, Ai2’s Molmo models have been trained on a significantly smaller and more curated data set containing only 600,000 images, and they have between 1 billion and 72 billion parameters. This focus on high-quality data, versus indiscriminately scraped data, has led to good performance with far fewer resources, Kembhavi says.Ai2 achieved this by getting human annotators to describe the images in the model’s training data set in excruciating detail over multiple pages of text. They asked the annotators to talk about what they saw instead of typing it. Then they used AI techniques to convert their speech into data, which made the training process much quicker while reducing the computing power required. These techniques could prove really useful if we want to meaningfully govern the data that we use for AI development, says Yacine Jernite, who is the machine learning and society lead at Hugging Face, and was not involved in the research. “It makes sense that in general, training on higher-quality data can lower the compute costs,” says Percy Liang, the director of the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models, who also did not participate in the research. Another impressive capability is that the model can “point” at things, meaning it can analyze elements of an image by identifying the pixels that answer queries.In a demo shared with MIT Technology Review, Ai2 researchers took a photo outside their office of the local Seattle marina and asked the model to identify various elements of the image, such as deck chairs. The model successfully described what the image contained, counted the deck chairs, and accurately pinpointed to other things in the image as the researchers asked. It was not perfect, however. It could not locate a specific parking lot, for example. Other advanced AI models are good at describing scenes and images, says Farhadi. But that’s not enough when you want to build more sophisticated web agents that can interact with the world and can, for example, book a flight. Pointing allows people to interact with user interfaces, he says. Jernite says Ai2 is operating with a greater degree of openness than we’ve seen from other AI companies.

And while Molmo is a good start, he says, its real significance will lie in the applications developers build on top of it, and the ways people improve it.Farhadi agrees. AI companies have drawn massive, multitrillion-dollar investments over the past few years. But in the past few months, investors have expressed skepticism about whether that investment will bring returns. Big, expensive proprietary models won’t do that, he argues, but open-source ones can. He says the work shows that open-source AI can also be built in a way that makes efficient use of money and time. “We’re excited about enabling others and seeing what others would build with this,” Farhadi says.  http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/1727287812_370_maxresdefault.jpg The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), a research nonprofit, is releasing a family of open-source multimodal language models, called Molmo, that it says perform as well as top proprietary models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.  The organization claims that its biggest Molmo model, which has 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which is estimated … Read More

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NFL executive has strong opinion of Vikings without QB Sam Darnold - Journal Today Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/nfl-executive-has-strong-opinion-of-vikings-without-qb-sam-darnold/?feed_id=211998&_unique_id=66f4396746130 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Google NewsFortunately for the Minnesota Vikings, they got good news on Monday morning after an MRI on quarterback Sam Darnold’s knee revealed only some bruising and no structural damage.The 27-year-old QB isn’t expected to miss any time, which is the best-case scenario for the Vikings, who were looking at the prospect of starting journeyman Nick Mullens had Darnold missed any games.After many wrote him off, Darnold has been arguably the top QB in the NFL through the first three games of the season. He’s a large reason why the Vikings are 3-0, and as one NFL executive recently told The Athletic’s Mike Sando, the team would be worse off without him.“If something happens there, I think they are f—-d,” the anonymous exec said. “You can’t win with Nick Mullens. Kevin O’Connell proved last year he can do better than expected with some of those guys, but when you are down to quarterback three, you are in trouble.”Darnold got hit in the knee in the third quarter of Sunday’s dominating 34-7 win over the Houston Texans. Darnold left the game but came back moments later, throwing the last of his four touchdown passes on the day to tight end Johnny Mundt that stretched Minnesota’s lead to 31-7.Heading into Week 4, Darnold leads the NFL with eight touchdown passes and ranks third in passer rating (117.3) and 11th in passing yards (657). He’s thrown multiple touchdowns in every game he’s played, and he’s led the Vikings to convincing wins over two Super Bowl favorites the last two weeks in the Texans and San Francisco 49ers.Source of this programme “I be crazy about items, because they are smart.”“Fortunately for the Minnesota Vikings, they got good news on Monday morning after an MRI on quarterback Sam Darnold’s knee revealed only some bruising and no structural damage. The 27-year-old…”Source: Read MoreSource Link: https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_executive_has_strong_opinion_of_vikings_without_qb_sam_darnold/s1_13132_40943178#GoogleNews – BLOGGER – GoogleNews http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/shutterstock_1673172670.jpg Google News Fortunately for the Minnesota Vikings, they got good news on Monday morning after an MRI on quarterback Sam Darnold’s knee revealed only some bruising and no structural damage. The 27-year-old QB isn’t expected to miss any time, which is the best-case scenario for the Vikings, who were looking at the prospect of starting … Read More

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Trump pledges sweeping tariffs, says they will keep jobs in US - Notice Important Online https://www.merchant-business.com/trump-pledges-sweeping-tariffs-says-they-will-keep-jobs-in-us/?feed_id=211918&_unique_id=66f41c1f1681c #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER SAVANNAH, Ga. — Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs to boost auto manufacturing — despite warnings that domestic consumers would pay more and a lack of specifics about how his plans would work.“I want German car companies to become American car companies. I want them to build their plants here,” Trump declared during a speech in Savannah, Georgia.Trump added that, if elected, he’d put a 100% tariff on every car imported from Mexico and that the only way to avoid those charges would be for an automaker to build the cars in the U.S.His ideas, if enacted, could cause a huge upheaval in the American auto industry. Many automakers now build smaller, lower-priced vehicles in Mexico — facilitated by a trade agreement Trump negotiated while president — or in other countries because their profit margins are slim. The lower labor costs help the companies make money on those vehicles.German and other foreign automakers already have extensive manufacturing operations in the U.S., and many now build more vehicles here than they send. BMW, for instance, has an 8 million-square-foot campus in South Carolina that employs 11,000 people building more than 1,500 SUVs per day for the U.S. and 120 export markets. Mercedes and Volkswagen also have large factories here.If German automakers were to increase production here, they likely would have to take it from factories in Germany, which then would run below their capacity and be less efficient, said Sam Abuelsamid, principal research analyst for Guidehouse Insights.“It makes no sense,” he said.Trump proposes ‘new American industrialism’ — without specificsTrump has proposed using tariffs on imports and other measures to boost American industry — even as economists have cautioned that U.S. consumers would bear the costs of tariffs and other Trump proposals like staging the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.The former president laid out a broad array of economic proposals during a speech in the key swing state of Georgia, promising to create a special ambassador to help lure foreign manufacturers to the U.S. and further entice them by offering access to federal land.Additionally, he called for lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%, but only for companies that produce in the U.S. Harris, the Democratic nominee, wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 28%. It had been 35% when Trump became president in 2017, and he later signed legislation lowering it.“We’re putting America first,” Trump said. “This new American industrialism will create millions and millions of jobs.”Trump also suggested wiping away some environmental regulations to boost energy production, saying America has “got the oil, it’s got the gas. We have everything. The only thing we don’t have is smart people leading our country.”Tuesday’s series of economic proposals raised a lot of questions, but the former president hasn’t given specific answers on his ideas, which could substantially affect their impact and how much they cost. He has not specified, for example, whether his U.S.-focused corporate tax cuts would apply to companies that assemble their products domestically out of imports.Trump also suggested he would use a newly created envoy, and his own personal efforts, to recruit foreign companies. But he had a spotty record in the White House of attracting foreign investment. In one infamous case, Trump promised a $10 billion investment by Taiwan-based electronics giant Foxconn in Wisconsin, creating potentially 13,000 new jobs, that the company never delivered.His calls to offer federal land, meanwhile, might clash with Bureau of Land Management restrictions on foreign entities looking to lease lands.

It also wasn’t clear whether companies from China would be excluded, given Trump’s longtime accusations that China is hurting American business.“SAVANNAH, Ga. — Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs to…”Source Link: https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-pledges-sweeping-tariffs-says-they-will-keep-jobs-in-us/7798426.html http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-4624563.jpeg SAVANNAH, Ga. —  Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs to boost auto manufacturing — despite warnings that domestic consumers would pay more and a lack of specifics about how his plans would work. “I … Read More

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Africa: Passing of Amadou Mahtar M'Bow: First African to Lead an International Organisation (Unesco) - Journal Important Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/africa-passing-of-amadou-mahtar-mbow-first-african-to-lead-an-international-organisation-unesco/?feed_id=211838&_unique_id=66f404b27f7de #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Paris — The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, expressed her deep sorrow at the news of the death of Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987) and the first African to lead an international organisation.“A profound humanist and all-round intellectual, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow left a lasting impression on our institution by forcefully defending the need for solidarity and equal dignity between peoples and cultures”, said Audrey Azoulay. “Throughout the independence movements, he also strove to ensure that every State found its rightful place at UNESCO, giving substance and reality to the ambition of multilateralism. In particular, we owe to him the monumental scientific work that is the General History of Africa, which gave the world, and more specifically Africans, a means of appropriating their own history and facing the future with confidence”, she added, extending her condolences to “his family, his friends and the many, at UNESCO and elsewhere, who saw in him a model for both thought and action.”Born in Dakar in 1921, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow was the Minister for Education, Culture and Youth of Senegal, participating actively in his country’s political life, and was the Director-General of UNESCO for 13 years. “The path that led the small farmer from the African Sahel to the head of one of the United Nations’ most prestigious organisations is representative of the emergence of a world that had long been subjugated, despised or even ignored: that of the dispossessed”, wrote the journalist and future diplomat Pierre Kalfon when Mr M’Bow was elected to the post of Director-General.The young Amadou was admitted to the French Colonial School, after first attending classes in a Koranic school, then enrolled in the ‘commerce course’ at the Dakar Chamber of Commerce before passing the competitive examination to become a clerk in the colonial administration. In 1940 he volunteered for service in France, but returned to Senegal after the French defeat. Four years later, he took part in the Provence landings and participated in the liberation of France.After studying history at the Sorbonne, young professor M’Bow returned to Senegal in 1951 and taught for two years before being tasked with creating and leading primary education in Senegal and Mauritania. After being appointed Minister for Education and Culture during the period of internal autonomy (1957- 1958), he resigned from his position to join the fight for independence. Once Senegal gained independence, he became Minister of National Education (1966-1968), then of Culture and Youth (1968- 1970) and a member of the National Assembly.Appointed Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO in 1970, he was elected Director- General in 1974, a post he held until 1987 after being re-elected in 1980. His work at the head of UNESCO centred around two main priorities: promoting consensus as a means of collective decision-making within UNESCO, and defending the independence of international civil servants.Amadou Mahtar M’Bow expressed his “deep held belief that the world is one, and that the struggle for human rights is the same in all places”. He believed that “humanity has an obligation to live in the age of solidarity, if it does not want to experience the age of barbarism”.Amadou Mahtar M’Bow also argued forcefully in favour of a ‘New World Order of Information and Communication’ – since at the time international news was provided exclusively by five major press agencies, all based in Europe and North America, with the resulting news flowing essentially from North to South.The M’Bow era was marked by long-lasting initiatives such

as the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) created in 1981; the World Heritage Committee, set up by the 1972 World Heritage Convention and established in 1976, which played a major role in elevating UNESCO’s reputation; and two years later, the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation.It was also under Amadou Mahtar M’Bow’s mandate that the first biosphere reserves were designated: protected areas recognised by UNESCO as model regions that reconciled biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.Read more :Sign up for free AllAfrica NewslettersGet the latest in African news delivered straight to your inboxAbout UNESCOWith 194 Member States, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization contributes to peace and security by leading multilateral cooperation on education, science, culture, communication and information. Headquartered in Paris, UNESCO has offices in 54 countries and employs over 2300 people. UNESCO oversees more than 2000 World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks; networks of Creative, Learning, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities; and over 13 000 associated schools, university chairs, training and research institutions. Its Director-General is Audrey Azoulay.“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed” – UNESCO Constitution, 1945.“UNESCO] Paris — The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, expressed her deep sorrow at the news of the death of Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987) and the…” http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-28555070.jpeg Paris — The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, expressed her deep sorrow at the news of the death of Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987) and the first African to lead an international organisation. “A profound humanist and all-round intellectual, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow left a lasting impression on our institution by forcefully defending … Read More

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Africa: Passing of Amadou Mahtar M'Bow: First African to Lead an International Organisation (Unesco) - Journal Global Web https://www.merchant-business.com/africa-passing-of-amadou-mahtar-mbow-first-african-to-lead-an-international-organisation-unesco/?feed_id=211758&_unique_id=66f3fed1ba41b #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Paris — The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, expressed her deep sorrow at the news of the death of Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987) and the first African to lead an international organisation.“A profound humanist and all-round intellectual, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow left a lasting impression on our institution by forcefully defending the need for solidarity and equal dignity between peoples and cultures”, said Audrey Azoulay. “Throughout the independence movements, he also strove to ensure that every State found its rightful place at UNESCO, giving substance and reality to the ambition of multilateralism. In particular, we owe to him the monumental scientific work that is the General History of Africa, which gave the world, and more specifically Africans, a means of appropriating their own history and facing the future with confidence”, she added, extending her condolences to “his family, his friends and the many, at UNESCO and elsewhere, who saw in him a model for both thought and action.”Born in Dakar in 1921, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow was the Minister for Education, Culture and Youth of Senegal, participating actively in his country’s political life, and was the Director-General of UNESCO for 13 years. “The path that led the small farmer from the African Sahel to the head of one of the United Nations’ most prestigious organisations is representative of the emergence of a world that had long been subjugated, despised or even ignored: that of the dispossessed”, wrote the journalist and future diplomat Pierre Kalfon when Mr M’Bow was elected to the post of Director-General.The young Amadou was admitted to the French Colonial School, after first attending classes in a Koranic school, then enrolled in the ‘commerce course’ at the Dakar Chamber of Commerce before passing the competitive examination to become a clerk in the colonial administration. In 1940 he volunteered for service in France, but returned to Senegal after the French defeat. Four years later, he took part in the Provence landings and participated in the liberation of France.After studying history at the Sorbonne, young professor M’Bow returned to Senegal in 1951 and taught for two years before being tasked with creating and leading primary education in Senegal and Mauritania. After being appointed Minister for Education and Culture during the period of internal autonomy (1957- 1958), he resigned from his position to join the fight for independence. Once Senegal gained independence, he became Minister of National Education (1966-1968), then of Culture and Youth (1968- 1970) and a member of the National Assembly.Appointed Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO in 1970, he was elected Director- General in 1974, a post he held until 1987 after being re-elected in 1980. His work at the head of UNESCO centred around two main priorities: promoting consensus as a means of collective decision-making within UNESCO, and defending the independence of international civil servants.Amadou Mahtar M’Bow expressed his “deep held belief that the world is one, and that the struggle for human rights is the same in all places”. He believed that “humanity has an obligation to live in the age of solidarity, if it does not want to experience the age of barbarism”.Amadou Mahtar M’Bow also argued forcefully in favour of a ‘New World Order of Information and Communication’ – since at the time international news was provided exclusively by five major press agencies, all based in Europe and North America, with the resulting news flowing essentially from North to South.The M’Bow era was marked by long-lasting initiatives such as the International

Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) created in 1981; the World Heritage Committee, set up by the 1972 World Heritage Convention and established in 1976, which played a major role in elevating UNESCO’s reputation; and two years later, the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation.It was also under Amadou Mahtar M’Bow’s mandate that the first biosphere reserves were designated: protected areas recognised by UNESCO as model regions that reconciled biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.Read more :Sign up for free AllAfrica NewslettersGet the latest in African news delivered straight to your inboxAbout UNESCOWith 194 Member States, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization contributes to peace and security by leading multilateral cooperation on education, science, culture, communication and information. Headquartered in Paris, UNESCO has offices in 54 countries and employs over 2300 people. UNESCO oversees more than 2000 World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks; networks of Creative, Learning, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities; and over 13 000 associated schools, university chairs, training and research institutions. Its Director-General is Audrey Azoulay.“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed” – UNESCO Constitution, 1945.“UNESCO] Paris — The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, expressed her deep sorrow at the news of the death of Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987) and the…” http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-28555070.jpeg Paris — The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, expressed her deep sorrow at the news of the death of Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987) and the first African to lead an international organisation. “A profound humanist and all-round intellectual, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow left a lasting impression on our institution by forcefully defending … Read More

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Kenya: The Business of Gaming - Notice Global Online https://www.merchant-business.com/kenya-the-business-of-gaming/?feed_id=211678&_unique_id=66f3ca1ad3d4d #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised to become a major player in this space. According to recent reports, the gaming industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to hit $1 billion in revenue by 2024. This growth presents immense opportunities for Africa’s youth to tap into the industry, not just as consumers but also as creators and entrepreneurs.A key driver of this growth is the proliferation of smartphones across the continent. By 2030, smartphone ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to reach 88%, creating a massive demand for mobile gaming. Currently, 92% of African gamers play on mobile devices, and many spend more than three hours daily on games. This shift to mobile-first gaming is a game-changer, opening doors for young African developers to create locally relevant content that resonates with both local and global audiences.Furthermore, mobile gaming presents one of the most accessible entry points for African youth. Developing for platforms like Android and iOS requires fewer resources than traditional console or PC games, making it an ideal starting point for aspiring game developers. This lower barrier to entry allows youth to participate in the growing gaming ecosystem without needing extensive infrastructure.Despite the growing number of gamers in Africa, most of the games played on the continent are foreign-made. This creates a significant gap that African developers can fill by creating games that incorporate local stories, folklore, and cultural heritage. Games with African narratives not only provide unique and rich experiences for players but also serve to preserve indigenous knowledge, languages, and stories for future generations. Imagine a game where players explore the landscapes of the Serengeti, interact with Maasai warriors, or learn about the ancient kingdoms of Mali. Such content can captivate global audiences while fostering pride in African traditions and cultures.To succeed in the gaming industry, young Africans need to develop essential skills in game development. This includes learning coding languages, art and design, storytelling, and scripting. Fortunately, many online platforms, such as Codecademy, Coursera, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot, offer affordable or free courses that teach these skills. By equipping themselves with technical knowledge, African youth can be better prepared to break into the global gaming market.For those interested in the creative side of game design, mastering tools like Blender, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop is critical. Game design and 3D modelling are in high demand, offering lucrative opportunities for those who develop expertise in these areas. With the right training, young Africans can turn their creativity into profitable ventures within the gaming industry.However, while the opportunities are vast, there are challenges that need to be addressed. According to the Africa Games Developer Survey, 63% of local game developers have less than five years of experience. Additionally, only 19% of African gaming professionals have secured external funding for their projects, making financial sustainability a significant hurdle. This lack of access to capital and experienced mentorship hinders the growth of local developers.To help overcome these challenges, initiatives like Microsoft’s Xbox Game Camp Africa are making a difference. Through hands-on workshops in game development, design, storytelling, and marketing, these camps aim to bolster local talent. The Africa Development Centre (ADC), launched by Microsoft in Kenya and Nigeria, is also playing a crucial role in attracting world-class African engineering talent. By offering mentorship

and resources, these programs empower aspiring developers to overcome the barriers they face.“Gaming presents an incredible opportunity for African youth to not only engage in creativity and innovation but also to build essential skills for the future. The gaming industry is growing rapidly, and African talent has the potential to tap into this global market, creating games that reflect our unique cultures and stories. At Microsoft, we believe in equipping young people with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive in this space–whether as developers, designers, or entrepreneurs”, says Phylis Migwi, Microsoft Kenya Country Manager.Companies like Maliyo Games and developers such as Kunta Content are examples of success stories from the region. Maliyo Games, a Nigerian company, focuses on creating games with African narratives and employs over 30 people across five countries. Kunta Content became the first African developer to release content for Minecraft’s Marketplace, illustrating the potential of African talent to make a global impact. These companies demonstrate how local developers can thrive by creating culturally relevant content that resonates with both local and international audiences.Beyond game development, the gaming industry offers opportunities in areas like game streaming, e-sports, and game marketing. Platforms like Twitch and YouTube Gaming have democratized game streaming, enabling African gamers to build communities and monetize their content through sponsorships, ads, and donations. This has opened up new revenue streams for African youth, who can now turn their passion for gaming into profitable careers.Sign up for free AllAfrica NewslettersGet the latest in African news delivered straight to your inboxSimilarly, e-sports is another burgeoning field in Africa. African gamers are increasingly participating in global tournaments like Xbox Game Camp, and local e-sports leagues are on the rise. These leagues not only provide entertainment but also create jobs in coaching, event management, and marketing. As the e-sports ecosystem grows, so too does the potential for African youth to tap into the industry’s commercial opportunities.The gaming industry is more than just entertainment; it’s a thriving business with immense potential for Africa’s youth. From game development to streaming and e-sports, there are numerous avenues for young Africans to tap into this $300 billion industry. By embracing local narratives and honing essential skills, African youth can become key players in shaping the future of gaming, not just on the continent, but globally.Kennedy is a digital and technology evangelist and influencer“Capital FM] The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised…” http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/g7739f78704befa50a2a3b650b1bc5d2c17fbd33132be8133d3b839f0a815b153daaa802e4503715ceca4e0ec16851226ed9.jpeg The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised to become a major player in this space. According to recent reports, the gaming industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to hit $1 billion in revenue by … Read More

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Kenya: The Business of Gaming - Notice Global Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/kenya-the-business-of-gaming/?feed_id=211598&_unique_id=66f3c43729077 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised to become a major player in this space. According to recent reports, the gaming industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to hit $1 billion in revenue by 2024. This growth presents immense opportunities for Africa’s youth to tap into the industry, not just as consumers but also as creators and entrepreneurs.A key driver of this growth is the proliferation of smartphones across the continent. By 2030, smartphone ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to reach 88%, creating a massive demand for mobile gaming. Currently, 92% of African gamers play on mobile devices, and many spend more than three hours daily on games. This shift to mobile-first gaming is a game-changer, opening doors for young African developers to create locally relevant content that resonates with both local and global audiences.Furthermore, mobile gaming presents one of the most accessible entry points for African youth. Developing for platforms like Android and iOS requires fewer resources than traditional console or PC games, making it an ideal starting point for aspiring game developers. This lower barrier to entry allows youth to participate in the growing gaming ecosystem without needing extensive infrastructure.Despite the growing number of gamers in Africa, most of the games played on the continent are foreign-made. This creates a significant gap that African developers can fill by creating games that incorporate local stories, folklore, and cultural heritage. Games with African narratives not only provide unique and rich experiences for players but also serve to preserve indigenous knowledge, languages, and stories for future generations. Imagine a game where players explore the landscapes of the Serengeti, interact with Maasai warriors, or learn about the ancient kingdoms of Mali. Such content can captivate global audiences while fostering pride in African traditions and cultures.To succeed in the gaming industry, young Africans need to develop essential skills in game development. This includes learning coding languages, art and design, storytelling, and scripting. Fortunately, many online platforms, such as Codecademy, Coursera, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot, offer affordable or free courses that teach these skills. By equipping themselves with technical knowledge, African youth can be better prepared to break into the global gaming market.For those interested in the creative side of game design, mastering tools like Blender, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop is critical. Game design and 3D modelling are in high demand, offering lucrative opportunities for those who develop expertise in these areas. With the right training, young Africans can turn their creativity into profitable ventures within the gaming industry.However, while the opportunities are vast, there are challenges that need to be addressed. According to the Africa Games Developer Survey, 63% of local game developers have less than five years of experience. Additionally, only 19% of African gaming professionals have secured external funding for their projects, making financial sustainability a significant hurdle. This lack of access to capital and experienced mentorship hinders the growth of local developers.To help overcome these challenges, initiatives like Microsoft’s Xbox Game Camp Africa are making a difference. Through hands-on workshops in game development, design, storytelling, and marketing, these camps aim to bolster local talent. The Africa Development Centre (ADC), launched by Microsoft in Kenya and Nigeria, is also playing a crucial role in attracting world-class African engineering talent. By offering mentorship

and resources, these programs empower aspiring developers to overcome the barriers they face.“Gaming presents an incredible opportunity for African youth to not only engage in creativity and innovation but also to build essential skills for the future. The gaming industry is growing rapidly, and African talent has the potential to tap into this global market, creating games that reflect our unique cultures and stories. At Microsoft, we believe in equipping young people with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive in this space–whether as developers, designers, or entrepreneurs”, says Phylis Migwi, Microsoft Kenya Country Manager.Companies like Maliyo Games and developers such as Kunta Content are examples of success stories from the region. Maliyo Games, a Nigerian company, focuses on creating games with African narratives and employs over 30 people across five countries. Kunta Content became the first African developer to release content for Minecraft’s Marketplace, illustrating the potential of African talent to make a global impact. These companies demonstrate how local developers can thrive by creating culturally relevant content that resonates with both local and international audiences.Beyond game development, the gaming industry offers opportunities in areas like game streaming, e-sports, and game marketing. Platforms like Twitch and YouTube Gaming have democratized game streaming, enabling African gamers to build communities and monetize their content through sponsorships, ads, and donations. This has opened up new revenue streams for African youth, who can now turn their passion for gaming into profitable careers.Sign up for free AllAfrica NewslettersGet the latest in African news delivered straight to your inboxSimilarly, e-sports is another burgeoning field in Africa. African gamers are increasingly participating in global tournaments like Xbox Game Camp, and local e-sports leagues are on the rise. These leagues not only provide entertainment but also create jobs in coaching, event management, and marketing. As the e-sports ecosystem grows, so too does the potential for African youth to tap into the industry’s commercial opportunities.The gaming industry is more than just entertainment; it’s a thriving business with immense potential for Africa’s youth. From game development to streaming and e-sports, there are numerous avenues for young Africans to tap into this $300 billion industry. By embracing local narratives and honing essential skills, African youth can become key players in shaping the future of gaming, not just on the continent, but globally.Kennedy is a digital and technology evangelist and influencer“Capital FM] The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised…” http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/g7739f78704befa50a2a3b650b1bc5d2c17fbd33132be8133d3b839f0a815b153daaa802e4503715ceca4e0ec16851226ed9.jpeg The global gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, projected to reach a staggering $300 billion by 2025. Africa, with its young and dynamic population, is poised to become a major player in this space. According to recent reports, the gaming industry in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to hit $1 billion in revenue by … Read More

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Weather Forecast | Tuesday, 24 September 2024 - Journal Important Online https://www.merchant-business.com/weather-forecast-tuesday-24-september-2024/?feed_id=211518&_unique_id=66f3acc8016b6 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Primerica Names Robert H. Peterman, Jr. as Successor to Chief Operating Officer 24/09/2024Author of the article: Published Sep 24, 2024  •  3 minute read DULUTH, Ga. — Primerica, Inc. (NYSE:PRI), a leading provider of financial services and products to middle-income families in the United States and Canada, today announced the appointment of Robert H. Peterman Jr. to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer […] BLOGGERDawn among recipients of AKU health journalism awards 24/09/2024Listen to article Dawn.com, along with other news outlets, received top honours in the ‘Excellence in Health Reporting Awards’ presented by the Aga Khan University’s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health. The first prize for digital was a tie, shared between Areesha Rehan for her Dawn.com report ‘Between malnutrition and the right to business, where does Sindh’s […] BLOGGERALLO Communications Lays Foundation for Groundbreaking Business and Residential Experiences Over 50G PON Delivered With the Calix Broadband Platform – Yahoo Finance 24/09/2024ALLO Communications Lays Foundation for Groundbreaking Business and Residential Experiences Over 50G PON Delivered With the Calix... The post ALLO Communications Lays Foundation for Groundbreaking Business and Residential Experiences Over 50G PON Delivered With the Calix Broadband Platform – Yahoo Finance appeared first on Merchant Business News. BLOGGERTikTok Search Ads Campaign launches in US 24/09/2024Bad gateway The web server reported a bad gateway error. Ray ID: 8c8546153e8dcd6f Your IP address: 109.70.148.72 Error reference number: 502 Cloudflare Location: London The post TikTok Search Ads Campaign launches in US appeared first on Merchant Business News. BLOGGER http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/1_Weather-forecast.jpg Primerica Names Robert H. Peterman, Jr. as Successor to Chief Operating Officer 24/09/2024 Author of the article: Published Sep 24, 2024  •  3 minute read DULUTH, Ga. — Primerica, Inc. (NYSE:PRI), a leading provider of financial services and products to middle-income families in the United States and Canada, today announced the appointment of Robert H. … Read More

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Weather Forecast | Tuesday, 24 September 2024 - Information Important Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/weather-forecast-tuesday-24-september-2024/?feed_id=211438&_unique_id=66f3a6f60d612 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Primerica Names Robert H. Peterman, Jr. as Successor to Chief Operating Officer 24/09/2024Author of the article: Published Sep 24, 2024  •  3 minute read DULUTH, Ga. — Primerica, Inc. (NYSE:PRI), a leading provider of financial services and products to middle-income families in the United States and Canada, today announced the appointment of Robert H. Peterman Jr. to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer […] BLOGGERDawn among recipients of AKU health journalism awards 24/09/2024Listen to article Dawn.com, along with other news outlets, received top honours in the ‘Excellence in Health Reporting Awards’ presented by the Aga Khan University’s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health. The first prize for digital was a tie, shared between Areesha Rehan for her Dawn.com report ‘Between malnutrition and the right to business, where does Sindh’s […] BLOGGERALLO Communications Lays Foundation for Groundbreaking Business and Residential Experiences Over 50G PON Delivered With the Calix Broadband Platform – Yahoo Finance 24/09/2024ALLO Communications Lays Foundation for Groundbreaking Business and Residential Experiences Over 50G PON Delivered With the Calix... The post ALLO Communications Lays Foundation for Groundbreaking Business and Residential Experiences Over 50G PON Delivered With the Calix Broadband Platform – Yahoo Finance appeared first on Merchant Business News. BLOGGERTikTok Search Ads Campaign launches in US 24/09/2024Bad gateway The web server reported a bad gateway error. Ray ID: 8c8546153e8dcd6f Your IP address: 109.70.148.72 Error reference number: 502 Cloudflare Location: London The post TikTok Search Ads Campaign launches in US appeared first on Merchant Business News. BLOGGER http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/1_Weather-forecast.jpg Primerica Names Robert H. Peterman, Jr. as Successor to Chief Operating Officer 24/09/2024 Author of the article: Published Sep 24, 2024  •  3 minute read DULUTH, Ga. — Primerica, Inc. (NYSE:PRI), a leading provider of financial services and products to middle-income families in the United States and Canada, today announced the appointment of Robert H. … Read More