Month: July 2022

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Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair set to showcase works from over 1,500 First Nations artists, represented by a record 76 community Art Centres from across Australia

DARWIN, Australia, July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives will be celebrated in Darwin, Australia, from 2-7 August in an unmissable showcase of art, design and culture at Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) Foundation’s series of iconic events.

The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) is Australia’s largest and most celebrated First Nations visual art event, which will return for the 16th year to run both online and in person this 5-7 August.

The internationally celebrated art fair sits alongside the Foundation’s two Indigenous Fashion Projects events, Country to Couture on the 2 August, and the National Indigenous Fashion Awards on the 3 August, bringing Australia’s most acclaimed and vibrant First Nations artists and designers to the national and global stage.

As the only Australian event of its kind, DAAF has secured a reputation as one of the country’s most significant and internationally recognised arts events, creating a unique opportunity to connect with, and ethically purchase art directly from Art Centres, as well as meeting the artists and learning firsthand about their cultural heritage, stories, history and traditional artistic practices through a range of masterclasses, talks and demonstrations.

DAAF 2022 is on track to be the most successful and widest reaching yet, with a record 76 Art Centres participating in the Foundation’s inaugural hybrid delivery of the event. In 2021, the Fair achieved a record $3.12 million AUD in sales with 100 per cent of profits going back to the Art Centres and their communities. The Fair itself takes no commission from artwork sold.

DAAF Foundation are proud to be part of a collective of organisations championing music, arts, and ideas from the world’s oldest living cultures. Taking place in Australia’s Top End each July-August, alongside DAAF Foundation’s renowned Fair and fashion events, will be:

  • Garma Festival | Yothu Yindi Foundation | 29 July – 1 August
  • Salon des Refusés | Salon Art Projects | 3-13 August
  • Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards | Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory | 5 August 2022 – January 2023
  • National Indigenous Music Awards | Music NT | 6 August

The first week of August is predicted to be one of the biggest showcases of First Nations talent in the world. Music, art and culture will collide as The Collective unifies to bring the public a unique experience across the creative industries in the Northern Territory.

For more information about the 16th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and for priority access to the digital Art Fair, visit daaf.com.au/register.

Georgina Dawson
georginad@bastionagency.com

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Ideal Systems Build New TV Studio for SUKE TV Home Shopping Channel in Malaysia

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ideal Systems today announce they designed and built a new TV studio in Kuala Lumpur for SUKE TV. Launched in April 2022, SUKE TV is a Free-To-Air home shopping and general entertainment channel in Malaysia. The new channel airs 24 hours, 7 days a week on MYTV, the Malaysian national Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform and streams to mobile devices throughout Malaysia.

Malaysian entertainment icon and SUKE TV founder and chairman Dato AC Mizal said, “It’s been my dream as an artist to have my own TV station; I’ve been working on this project for almost seven years. Finally with the help of Ideal Systems, SUKE TV has become a reality for me.”

The new state-of-the-art SUKE TV studio and media production facility was designed to create and produce local programming and entertainment content in its Kuala Lumpur studio and present a unique opportunity for local celebrities, public figures, social influencers, entrepreneurs as well as micro sellers to showcase their products on SUKE TV in a variety of new shows. Viewers will be able to watch the programming via digital and online platforms and make instant purchases via QR code.

SUKE TV awarded the project to Ideal Systems because Ideal could provide a one-stop-shop for the design and build of the TV studio, including the Network’s broadcast and transmission systems as a single turn-key project. The SUKE TV studio uses the latest NDI infrastructure and cameras feeding back to a Tricaster TC1 from NewTek for switching, recording and running the virtual studio, and the latest Kslim LED video wall from Unilumin which is 4mX2.5m. Ideal have deployed Xplayout for playout, Xingest for Ingest and YouPlay for studio playout all from Axel Technology and also uses Aximmetry virtual studio and 3D graphics with an option to run unreal engine which is NDI enabled. For the transmission, encoding and decoding for contribution and streaming, the system will use Kiloview SRT encoding systems.

Sofiyant Neo, Director Media & Creative Content for Ideal Systems, said, “I have been working very closely with our Technology Director Updesh Singh and his team to leverage the latest technologies to help Dato AC Mizal realise their dreams of creating great content and ensuring the market impact and success of SUKE TV.”

“We are honored and delighted to have designed and built these new studio facilities and systems for SUKE TV using the latest NDI technology. As an early adopter of NDI technology for Broadcast and Pro-AV in South East Asia, Ideal Systems are building on our successes as the dominant NDI Systems integrator,” said Fintan Mc Kiernan, CEO of Ideal Systems, South East Asia.

Web: www.idealsys.com

Ideal Systems Media Contact; Melody Bilegt   melody.bilegt@idealsys.com

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PM spars with Move Forward MP during censure debate

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha engaged in an animated verbal exchange, during the censure debate this morning (Thursday), with Move Forward MP Amarat Chokepamitkul, accusing the party of involvement in anti-Monarchy activities which, he said, he finds unacceptable.

Responding to this accusation, which was not specific, Amarat said that the prime minister should not have made such a serious remark without clarification and evidence and asked him to withdraw it, but he refused to do so.

House Speaker Chuan Leekpai then intervened, saying that the censure debate was getting heated and that there was no need for the prime minister to withdraw his accusation, but he warned both sides to be cautious about what they say.

Amarat accused the prime minister of turning a blind eye to the army’s numerous procurement and construction projects which, she alleged, are not transparent and wasteful. She also accused the prime minister of being a tyrant, bent on undermining the democratic system.

The Move Forward MP claimed that several of the army’s construction projects were implemented by handpicked contractors, often before bidding was held or before bid results were announced.

Amarat also referred to Prayut’s nickname “Tu” which, she claimed, means to claim something from another person as his own. This prompted the prime minister to hit back immediately, asking her whether the words “Tu” and “Shorty”, apparently referring to Amarat’s height, bear the same meaning. His retort drew laughter from some government MPs.

The prime minister continued by saying that he didn’t think the two words were synonymous and asked which of the two of them has done more for the good of the country.

At the end of her speech, Amarat held up a mirror, saying that she wanted to present it to the prime minister so he could take a good look at himself, to which he replied he barely used mirrors anyway.

The 4-day censure debate, the fourth and final one for this administration, will wrap up on Friday, followed by a vote in the Lower House on Saturday.

Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service

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COVID subvariant ba.2.75 found in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand has detected the first case of Omicron BA.2.75 sub-variant in the southern province of Trang.

The Centre for Medical Genomics at Ramathibodi Hospital said the samples were among specimens collected on June 28.

“Analysis of whole-genome sequencing has confirmed the case with BA.2.75,” it said in a statement on Wednesday.

BA.2.75 which has been nicknamed Centaurus was first detected in India in early May and had already spread to more than 10 countries, including Singapore, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Experts have reportedly said the BA.2.75 sub-variant may spread rapidly and have the ability to avoid immunity from vaccines.

Source: Nam News Network

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ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (ARMOR) – When Disasters and Pandemic Collide: What does it mean to ASEAN, now and into the future? (3rd Edition)

With the publication of the third edition of the ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (ARMOR) – titled When Disasters and Pandemic Collide: What does it mean to ASEAN, now and into the future? – the AHA Centre continues to provide well-researched and in-depth analysis of issues relating to disaster management in the ASEAN region. ARMOR has now established itself as a regular source of knowledge, seeking to share information on innovations and best practices on disaster management and crisis management in what is one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world.

In the study of disaster management, it is not sufficient to produce research for research sake, simply adding to the many journals of interest only to academics. It is essential that such research is made available, as a comprehensive and readily available source of reference to support development and implementation of disaster management policy.

With this in mind, and with the active contributions from academia and disaster management professionals, ARMOR aimed to provide critical data and intelligence in an accessible format to policymakers and officials, as well as to practitioners in the field. By doing so, ARMOR plays its part in fulfilling its role of supporting the implementation of the ASEAN Vision 2025 on Disaster Management.

Given the nature of the health crisis endured globally and in the ASEAN region as a result of COVID-19 in the past years, the contributors in this edition bring highlights to how the current pandemic affected disaster management policymaking. This edition not solely focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, but also deals with innovative methods, including the latest information and communication and satellite technology, that can be used to speed up the analysis of real-time data and the cross-border provision of aid during disasters, in anticipation of future pandemics.

Disaster and Pandemic: The Exacerbating Effects of COVID-19 on ASEAN’s Disaster Riskscape examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on disaster risk and disaster management and emergency response in the ASEAN region, in particular how the pandemic worsened the disaster riskscape of the ASEAN region, and how the region adapted its disaster management practices to cope with the pandemic.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Flood Emergency Response, Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic illustrates how the UN Satellite Centre’s (UNOSAT) FloodAI programme can provide up-to-date imagery of flood-prone areas. The imagery is processed by a deeplearning model to generate flooding maps and update operational dashboards. This allows decision makers to optimise the response to flooding in a much shorter timeframe than through human-based analysis, thus reducing the loss of life and mitigating damage.

ASEAN Single Window: Towards More Efficient & Faster Facilitation of Customs Clearance explains how the ASEAN Single Window, a regional initiative that combines the direct exchange of data between ASEAN Member States can be used to synchronise the data exchange across borders in order to expedite and streamline cargo clearance and shipment release throughout the region in times of disaster, especially during pandemic-induced mobility restrictions.

As Local as Possible – COVID-19 impacts on localisation efforts and humanitarian response: Opportunities for the AHA Centre discusses the leveraging of localisation in disaster management. Taking as its theme “as local as possible, as international as necessary” the study determines how localisation has evolved, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic; defines the role of the AHA Centre in operationalising local efforts and analysing sustainable methodologies; and reflects on adaptations of the broader ASEAN humanitarian system.

This edition also includes a special feature article on Emergency Response in a Pandemic: the Singapore COVID-19 Experience, which provides a synopsis of how the Singapore Civil Defence Force coped with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operations at home and in the wider region through its Operation Lionheart, outlining the many practical measures taken and adaptations made to ensure continuity of operations.

Source: ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance

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Record-breaking rainfall in Bangkok on Wednesday night

Over 100mm of rain poured into Khlong Toei and Bang Na districts of Bangkok last night, with similar heavy downpours forecast until Sunday, warned Somkuan Tonjan, head of the weather forecasting centre of the Meteorological Department today (Thursday).

He disclosed that the rainfall measured at the Queen Sirikit Convention Centre in Khlong Toei district yesterday was 132.5mm, which was the highest since the previous record of 108mm on July 30th, 1955.

At the port, also in Khlong Toei, rainfall was measured at 130.3mm, breaking the last record on July 5th, 1996. In Bang Na, 126mm was recorded, beating the previous record of July 13th, 2014.

In Min Buri district, 165mm of rainfall was recorded for the whole day yesterday.

Several low-lying areas, such as On Nut 71 and 39, were still under water this afternoon, forcing traffic to proceed cautiously.

Municipal police were deployed to help with directing traffic in Wattana district. City workers also removed several drain covers to facilitate the flow of water from road surfaces.

The boat service in Saen Saeb canal was suspended today, due to the water rising level in the canal, making it impossible for the boats to pass under the bridge at Wat Sriboonruang. The boat service operator said, however, that he will regularly review the situation to see whether or when the service can be resumed.

Ramkhamhaeng University’s public relations office announced the suspension of classes today at both the Ramkhamhaeng and Bang Na campuses, due to flooding.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt, accompanied by officials from the Department of Drainage and Sewerage, inspected the flooding and checked on water pumping stations. He also took a motorcycle to follow up on the situation this morning.

Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service

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COVID-19-infected schoolboy dies of MIS-C, DDC says

Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) said today (Thursday) that the 6-year-old COVID-19 infected schoolboy, who died on earlier this week, had been diagnosed with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).

DDC Director-General Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong said that the boy had been treated at a private clinic after he was diagnosed with COVID-19, before he was taken to Pathum Thani Hospital.

Doctors at the hospital tried their best, but failed to save him because he also suffered from MIS-C and was unvaccinated against COVID-19, said Dr. Opart, as he expressed his condolences to the boy’s parents.

According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, MIS-C was first identified in April 2020 by doctors in the United States and the United Kingdom. The condition has also been called paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS).

MIS-C is an illness which can occur after a COVID-19 infection and mostly affects school-age children. It is uncommon, but can be serious. The initial symptoms often include a fever, rashes, red eyes, diarrhoea and vomiting, which may get worse over a few days. The inflammation can affect hearing, blood vessels and other organs, which can make children very ill.

Dr. Opart said, however, that MIS-C can be prevented if the children are vaccinated, as he urged parents to get their children inoculated.

He disclosed that most of the new infections now are related to the Omicron BA.5 sub-variant, which spreads faster than the others, especially among school children who tend to be close together most of the time.

He said that most of the infections are not serious cases, with the majority developing a fever, sore throat and a runny nose, which pass in a few days.

According to the Public Health Ministry, 2,607 new COVID-19 cases were admitted to hospitals in the past 24 hours and 23 fatalities were reported, bringing the accumulated death toll since January 1st this year to 9,375. 854 patients are currently being treated for lung inflammations.

Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service

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Qommodity’s QAA Token is Available Now on Two More Platforms

Qommodity’s QAA token has just been launched on one more crypto trading platform and is now available for purchase both on Lbank and Latoken. The QAA token is a voucher that will allow buyers to exchange it against the QAAA token at the market value price at the moment of exchange, once QAAA is launched.

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DUBAI, Arab Emirates, July 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Commodity’s QAA token can now be purchased on an additional crypto exchange platform.

Purchasing the QAA token now means that buyers will be able to exchange it against the QAAA token at the market value price at the moment of exchange when QAAA’s launch is imminent.

What makes the QAAA token so valuable is the fact that it is a future asset-backed Security Token with ISIN. The asset-backing is realized through the monetization of in-ground natural resources.

Qommodity started in Sierra Leone more than 12 years ago through one of its subsidiaries, Tandem Liber Holdings, the natural resource division of Qommodity Resource Holdings.

Qommodity’s licenses are now covering a total area of 354.5 sq. km on the African continent, valuing the in-ground resources through the certification standard NI43-101.

This process is called “tokenization of in-ground resources”, which may trigger the largest transition of wealth in the history of mankind since these untapped resources will be made suitable for monetization within the monetary system.

One of the main goals of this project is to increase the quality of life for the communities, creating opportunities, livelihood, and sustainable development within the scope of ESG. The resources stay in the ground, unexploited, thus increasing the value of the land. With this approach, Qommodity will contribute to providing access to clean water, medicine, education, and other long-term benefits for local communities.

Qommodity also aims to provide a low threshold in order to facilitate access to the QAAA token for people all over the world. This one-of-a-kind security token will build the bridge between the traditional finance system and digital currency.

The mission is simple: protect our planet, bring people a higher quality of life, and offer the chance to choose between making the most out of the traditional financial system or enjoying the benefits of a hybrid financial solution. The system behind the QAA token is backed with sophisticated customer support to make sure that everyone is able to purchase the token without any specialized financial knowledge.

To ensure that the QAA token is made accessible to as many people as possible, Qommodity decided to launch it on various cryptocurrency exchanges and get it monitored by the crypto observatories.

Therefore, Qommodity’s QAA token is now available on 2 central exchanges and its own website:
LBank: https://www.lbank.info
Latoken: https://latoken.com
www.qommodity.io

Connect with Qommodity on social media, and follow their pages to discover the next platform they’ll be listed on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Qommodity.io 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qommodity.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/qommodityio 
Telegram Channel: https://t.me/qommodityglobal 
Telegram Group: https://t.me/Qommodityio 
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@qommodity.io
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Qommodityio 
Discord: https://discord.gg/XZ3NNUvPrH
Medium: https://medium.com/@qommodityio 

www.qommodity.io
marketing@qommodity.io

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Kdan Mobile Begins Collaboration With Microsoft, Integrating Dottedsign With Microsoft Teams

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kdan Mobile Software Ltd., an international SaaS company, announced a series of upcoming collaboration projects with Microsoft. Kdan’s e-signature platform, DottedSign, now integrates with Microsoft Teams. Future efforts will continue to make Kdan’s software solutions available for users of Microsoft’s platforms.

“We share the same core values with Microsoft, in that our solutions are devoted to increasing the productivity for enterprises,” explains Wei-Chung Wang, Kdan’s VP of global marketing and strategy. “By integrating DottedSign with Microsoft Teams, users are able to streamline their work process, greatly enhancing the team’s mobility and productivity.”

Kdan will introduce integrations between DottedSign and Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM to support sales, service and marketing-related activities; and Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, to provide users with more storage solutions.

The aim of the initial integration is to help users work more efficiently in remote or hybrid environments by enabling documents to be signed and stored within Teams. DottedSign is now available in Microsoft AppSource to the more than 270 million monthly active users of Microsoft Teams.  DottedSign provides added security with its identity authentication, signature validation and audit trails, along with its encryption, strengthening the confidentiality of the documents.

“Our vision for the future of remote work is one where users can find all their essential tools in one place,” explains Kenny Su, Kdan’s CEO and founder. “A member of an organization could now hold video conferences, share ideas with team members and request signatures from internal or external parties-all directly within Teams.”

DottedSign is currently used by over 2,000 enterprises to expedite the signature process. Organizations that are interested in trialing DottedSign to sign and store documents online are encouraged to visit its official website: https://bit.ly/3PtUvXI

About Kdan Mobile Software Ltd. and DottedSign

Kdan Mobile Software was founded in 2009 with a mission to empower modern professionals to better leverage their productivity and unleash their creativity. The company is a global SaaS provider, whose work is supported by over 200 million downloads, and over 10 million active members worldwide.

Their e-signature service, DottedSign, is used by over 2,000 enterprise clients and provides a smooth, secure and efficient cloud-based e- signing service. Their other solutions include a portfolio of different productivity and creativity-related tools.

DottedSign is available for purchase in Microsoft AppSource: Get DottedSign

For more information visit: Kdan Mobile.

For more information about DottedSign visit: DottedSign

Media Contact:

Roger Hsu

pr@kdanmobile.com

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PointCross Releases eDataValidator for SDTM, ADaM, SEND, and Define.XML Conformance to Prevailing FDA, CDISC, and PMDA Rules

Integrated QC dashboard and unlimited validation cycles for interim and final datasets creates industry’s most user-friendly validator

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FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PointCross Life Sciences announced today the full complement release of its eDataValidator™ (eDV) for validating SDTM, ADaM, SEND and Define.XML data for conformance to prevailing FDA, CDISC, and PMDA rules.

Used by 5 of the top 10 large pharma as part of the Xbiom™ regulatory suite, eDV is now available as a standalone tool in response to calls from Sponsor clinical operations, biostatisticians and biometrics communities. Industry called for easily accessible, cheaper tools that work well for qualified workflows for data standardization to SDTM – and analysis datasets in ADaM – in incremental stages until the final packaging for submission.

eDV offers limitless validation of Clinical SDTM as well as Nonclinical SEND, making this a single solution for IND, NDA and BLA preparation.

With eDataValidator, users can:

  • Validate an unlimited number of interim or final datasets
  • Work with a variety of data formats including CSV, XPT, SAS7BDAT, or Excel
  • Save costs with a $170 monthly user subscription and no annual contract requirement
  • Integrate eDV leveraging its APIs into various enterprise dataset generation scripts used by your biometrics teams as part of their SOP, including implementation of custom business rules

PointCross Life Sciences offers several types of configurations to deploy its eDV. Each of these configurations have very competitively priced, optional support, integration and validation services.

  1. Monthly subscription of eDV at an introductory rate of $170/month/user with volume discounts available for 3+ users and no annual contract requirement. A companion desktop tool is included to support offline clinical work-in-process data files. This is an ideal option for quick, inexpensive on/off ramp use by organizations working on specific trial or study data.
  2. On-Premise installations of eDataValidator for organizations committed to having an integrated, qualified, validated workflow subject to their SOPs. APIs facilitate integrations for enterprise applications to access the data validation and quality checking capabilities in eDV.

eDataValidator simplifies the validation experience with a built in QC dashboard to review and verify reported issues/non-conformities, and easy comparisons of datasets across loaded versions. Users can generate Define files, TS.XPT, and easily convert XPT files to Excel (useful for the nonclinical user community spot-checking SEND datasets).

About PointCross Life Sciences

PointCross Life Sciences, founded in 2010 in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a privately held global technology company providing the Life Sciences industry with solutions in big data analytics, management, visualization, and warehousing. Powered by the Xbiom™ Insights and Regulatory platform, our offerings reduce risk and improve data quality, thus shortening time to market and generating better insights from both R&D and regulatory data for a globally dispersed number of CROs, large pharma, and small biotechnology Sponsors. For more information, please visit www.pointcross.com

Press Contact: 
Kunaal Madhavan
Marketing at PointCross Life Sciences
kunaal@pointcross.com

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