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FBC Poteet Food Pantry

The First Baptist Church in Poteet Food Pantry will have a drive-thru pick-up event on Wednesday, Aug. 26, starting when they receive the product. The church is located at 437 Ave. D in Poteet.

The line will start at about 12 noon. Please do not start lining up until after 10 a.m.

Volunteers are needed at this event. Please come to the Fellowship Hall at about 9:30 a.m. if you would like to volunteer.

They will not have restrooms avaliable to the public for everyones safety. Please dont forget your masks and please stay in your vehicle while you wait.

Have your trunk/liftgate/ bed avaliable for volunteers to load your items. Volunteers will not be responsible for loading items in the cab of your vehicle as a safety.

Cloth masks available in the CASA office

CASA of South Texas has masks available for pickup as needed in the CASA office, 115 W. College in Pleasanton.

The America Strong Mask Program is a partnership between federal departments and agencies and the private sector National Council of Textile Organization. Its purpose is to enhance the protection and confidence that Americans can protect themselves while pursuing essential activities. FEMA ensured that nonprofits and faith partners knew about the Health and Human Services program whereby Hanes made cloth facial coverings for HHS to give away to people in the community who need them.

Mobile test collection

There will be a COVID 19 mobile test collection on Tuesday, Sept. 1, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Poteet Fire Department, located at 530 Ave. H in Poteet.

There will be a health screening and tests will be conducted by appointment only. To register, visit txcovidtest.org or call 512- 883-2400.

Wild Bills Pumpkin Fun Run set for Nov. 7

Join George Farms as they host the Wild Bills Pumpkin Fun Run on Saturday, Nov. 7. The farm is located at 595 Mobile Home Alley in Poteet.

Proceeds from the event will go towards the cost of a Diabetic Alert Dog for Billy George, son of Jennifer and James George.

Participants have the choice of either competing at George Farms in person, or taking the virtual/ social distancing option and running in their neighborhood or wherever they choose. Those who pick the virtual option will still receive a participation medal and T-shirt.

Preregister at RunSign- Up.com and search Wild Bills Pumpkin Fun Run. Entry fees until Oct. 1 are: $30 for the 5K Run/Walk, $20 for the Virtual 5K and $20 for 10 and Under 5K. After Oct. 1, the fees increase by $5. Runners are also able to sign up the day of the race, with registration starting at 7:30 a.m. The race will start at 8 a.m.

Sponsorship spots are available: Jack the Pumpkin King Sponsor for $500 and Cinderella Sponsorship for $250.

Human Trafficking Prevention webinar Sept. 3

The Texas A&M Agri- Life Extension Service will present Unbounds Human Trafficking Prevention webinar at 6 p.m. on Sept. 3. The online event is free, but preregistration is required.

Unbound is an international anti-human trafficking organization and their webinar is geared toward teens and their parents or caregivers. It will cover recognizing signs and preventing human trafficking in their communities.

Participants will learn about recruiting methods, how to recognize red flags and how to be equipped to promote safety within their own communities.

For details, contact Scott at 325-392-2721.

TO FEATURE an event in O&A, email Lifestyles Editor Lisa Luna at lluna@pleasantonexpress.com or call our office at 830-569-6130.

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PORT HOPE, ON, Aug. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cameco and Bruce Power announced today a series of initiatives highlighted by the creation of a centre for next generation nuclear technologies to leverage their existing partnership to help restart the Canadian economy, protect the environment and fight diseases like COVID-19 around the world. In addition, further to the Bruce Power Life-Extension Program and the existing long-term supply agreement, Cameco and Bruce Power have announced the additional supply of 1,600 specialized fuel bundles for Unit 6 scheduled for restart in 2024.

The two companies are industry leaders in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Canada, directly and indirectly employing 27,000 workers and creating $9-12 billion of investment annually in the Canadian economy. Bruce Power, Cameco and the entire Canadian nuclear industry remain at the forefront of science and innovation in the production of GHG emissions-free power and cancer-fighting isotopes.

Throughout the pandemic, Bruce Power and Cameco have been able to ensure the safe and reliable supply of GHG emissions-free electricity to millions of people in Canada, and will now leverage one of Canadas largest infrastructure projects, the Bruce Power Life-Extension Program, to help rebuild the national economy through innovation, including exploring project acceleration and other opportunities.

To expand on their important inter-provincial partnership, as founding members of the Nuclear Innovation Institute (NII), Bruce Power and Cameco are proud to announce the launch of the NII Centre for Next Generation Nuclear Technologies to identify post-COVID economic, environmental and health-care opportunities.

The new centre will focus on next generation nuclear technologies by advancing the existing expertise of suppliers, regulators and operators to support future economic, environmental and export opportunities for Ontario, Saskatchewan and beyond. Innovations in nuclear energy will help support new technologies like small modular reactors (SMRs), cancer-fighting isotopes and hydrogen development by using infrastructure investments that will drive the economy now and power the world of the future. It will also look at how the current Bruce Power site output can be further enhanced with new technologies and as foundational enablers.

Todays announcement, along with the existing long-term arrangements between Bruce Power and Cameco, opens the door to assist the provincial governments in both Saskatchewan and Ontario with getting the economy back on its feet after six difficult months working to protect and keep people safe in both provinces, said Mike Rencheck, President and CEO of Bruce Power. Were extremely grateful to Premiers Ford and Moe, and the members of their respective governments, for realizing the positive impact that the nuclear industry has on the lives of Canadians.

Our focus, through the Centre, on next generation nuclear technology is anchored on the basis of building from our existing assets including life extension and efficiencies, partnerships and supply chain. This has the potential to fully leverage existing assets, reducing the need for more costly new generation in the future, creating a foundation for new medical isotopes and a hydrogen economy all while laying the foundation for new nuclear such as SMRs.

Cameco and Bruce Power will also be expanding their role in support of the production of life-saving medical isotopes. With its facility in Cobourg, ON, Cameco will contribute its expertise to the development of Bruce Powers new Isotope Production System being developed by its partner IsoGen that will help produce Lutetium-177, an isotope used to treat prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. Bruce Power aims to begin harvesting Lutetium-177 in 2022. Cameco is a key supplier of materials in the production of Cobalt-60, which is produced in partnership with Ottawa-based Nordion, used to sterilize medical equipment and treat breast cancer and brain tumours.

Medical isotopes and leveraging our existing infrastructure in a post-COVID world are an important part of the future of nuclear, and Bruce Power is a leader and innovator in this sector, said Tim Gitzel, president and CEO of Cameco. I am proud that Cameco is able to contribute to this important work, especially now when the need for sterilized medical supplies is so high.

Were pleased to have our Ontario and Saskatchewan Premiers join us in celebrating our announcement today as the strength of the nuclear industry is grounded in meaningful relationships across the industry and across provinces..

Through their work on the Retooling and Economic Recovery Council, Bruce Power and Cameco focused on helping to ensure their communities had the tools they needed to endure the pandemic and now the focus has turned to powering the recovery.

The Life-Extension Program will continue to be a key economic driver and today will see a new arrangement for start-up fuel to be provided by Cameco when Bruce Powers nuclear reactors are ready to return to service following Major Component Replacement, beginning with the Unit 6 reactor. Cameco will supply 1,600 specialized fuel bundles for the safe restart of Unit 6, scheduled for 2024. This builds on the existing fuel arrangements between the two organizations announced in 2017 which was estimated to be worth $2 billion at the time and over the life of the contracts.

This new initiative will help drive Ontario-made and Canadian-made innovation for these emerging technologies and support our provinces economic recovery, said Ontario Premier Doug Ford. I want to thank Bruce Power and Cameco for this important investment, as well as for their generous community and PPE donations to support our front-line heroes and those in need over the past few months.

Working together, we will ensure our communities can recover and our economy can come roaring back.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also offered his praise for the strong partnership.

The announcement today from Cameco and Bruce Power underscores the importance of Canadas nuclear industry, which is world class in every respect, from mining to research to power production, said Premier Moe. In Saskatchewan, were grateful for the contributions Cameco and Bruce Power are making every day to Canadas economic and social well-being.

About Cameco

Cameco is one of the largest global providers of the uranium fuel needed to energize a clean-air world. Our competitive position is based on our controlling ownership of the worlds largest high-grade reserves and low-cost operations. Utilities around the world rely on our nuclear fuel products to generate power in safe, reliable, carbon-free nuclear reactors. Our shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges. Our head office is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

About Bruce PowerFormed in 2001, Bruce Power is an electricity company based in Bruce County, Ontario. We are powered by our people. Our 4,200 employees are the foundation of our accomplishments and are proud of the role they play in safely delivering clean, reliable, low-cost nuclear power to families and businesses across the province. Bruce Power has worked hard to build strong roots in Ontario and is committed to protecting the environment and supporting the communities in which we live. Learn more atwww.brucepower.comand follow us onFacebook,Twitter,LinkedIn,InstagramandYouTube.

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SYDNEY, Aug. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The Silverfern Group, an investment management firm making direct investments in middle market private equity globally, today announced thatit has partnered with Next Capital in the acquisition of Eptec ("Eptec").

Eptec, founded in 1997, is an Australian-based specialist engineering contractor focused on asset preservation and maintenance services to the marine sector (defense and commercial) and other critical transport and infrastructure assets.

"We are excited to partner with Next Capital in the acquisition of Eptec, a leading specialist engineering contractor in the Australian market," said Silverfern Managing Partner Clive Holmes."Silverfern Advisory Board member Geoff Knox, an experienced senior Eptec executive, has helped us evaluate the Eptec investment opportunity and has stepped up to the role of CEO upon completion of the acquisition. The acquisition of Eptec further demonstrates Silverfern's ability to source, access and execute on attractive stable local investments, even during challenging economic times such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as we continue to invest on a global basis."

About EptecFounded in 1997 Eptec has a 22-year track record providing asset preservation and maintenance services to government and prime corporate clients. Eptec delivers time-critical, highly-technical, specialized asset life extension of complex operational assets through a range of solutions for Corrosion Protection, Concrete Rehabilitation, Fibre Reinforced Plastics, Waterproofing and Linings, and Insulation, and operates through two business segments: Marine and Services. The Marine business segment services defense and commercial sectors and the Services business segment services transportation infrastructure (including bridges, rail and ports), energy and resources, waste and wastewater, and buildings and facilities. https://eptec.com.au

About SilverfernSilverfern is a global middle-market investment management firm. From its offices in New York, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Sydney, its experienced, cohesive team of senior investment professionals makes investments in global middle-market private equity. Targeting $25 million to $50 million equity per investment in partnership with qualified local investment partners, whom we select for their specific industry knowledge and local market experience, Silverfern seeks to invest in buyouts, build-ups, acquisitions, growth equity and recapitalizations worldwide. Silverfern's investment strategy seeks to mitigate systemic risk in its portfolio by opportunistically pursuing attractive risk-adjusted returns on a global basis, while at the same time seeking to manage local/market risk through its strategy to partner with qualified, local, investment partners on each of its investments. Silverfern is currently investing from Silverfern Global Opportunities Fund III. Additional information is available at http://www.silfern.com

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While the vast array of shelf life extension technology for fresh cut produce has grown exponentially over the last decade, strawberries had been absent from the list until recently. This highly popular and beloved berry had eluded efforts to extend its shelf life after cutting.

Through focused research and development, NatureSeal has succeeded in creating a treatment to maintain the fresh qualities of cut strawberries. This newly introduced product is a healthy, clean-label powder blend that protects sliced, topped, halved and diced fresh strawberries, maintaining freshness for up to eleven days when refrigerated. NatureSeal retards spoilage and maintains the color and firmness of fresh-cut strawberries without altering flavor.

NatureSeal ST-A is comprised of GRAS ingredients and is allergen-free, gluten-free, Kosher certified and non-GMO.

The NatureSeal for strawberry product is easy to use and perfect for cut fruit medleys, yogurt and baked goods toppings or as a stand-alone offering.

For more information:Tim Grady NatureSeal, Inc.Tel: 203-767-0059Email: Tim.Grady@natureseal.comwww.natureseal.com

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MINSK, 19 August (BelTA) Nuclear energy meets all requirements of the energy industry of the future, BelTA learned from Artyom Petrosyan, Acting Director General of ZAO Scientific Research Institute of Energy (SRIE), Candidate of Science (Engineering).

According to the source, electricity consumption is rising fast all over the world and is expected to rise by 28-32% by 2040. Virtually all the countries have undertaken to reduce carbon dioxide emissions within the framework of the Paris Climate Agreement. It is possible to honor the commitment while increasing the use of electricity only if the structure of the global balance of electricity generation changes.

Artyom Petrosyan believes that requirements for the energy industry of the future can be determined as follows: the cost of energy should be economically attractive and stable over a lengthy period of time, the method of energy generation should be environmentally friendly.

The expert believes that nuclear energy industry meets these requirements. At the same time nuclear energy is not an alternative to other environmentally friendly sources of electricity. Solar power, wind power, water power, and nuclear power should complement each other and produce the foundation of the future global carbon-free balance.

Just like Belarus Armenia has no oil and natural gas of its own. For many nations nuclear energy represents a tried-and-tested, clean, safe, and economical technology that will play an important role in achieving energy security and sustainable development goals in the 21st century, Artyom Petrosyan noted.

The second unit of the Armenian nuclear power plant generates about 40% of the electricity the country uses. The nuclear power plant does not need continuously imported natural gas. The nuclear power plant releases no greenhouse gases and provides a steady source of electricity for households and the manufacturing sector. Taking into account these factors, the Armenian government has decided to extend the designed service life of the second unit of the Armenian nuclear power plant. In December 2014 Armenia and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in extending the designed service life of the second unit of the Armenian nuclear power plant. An intergovernmental agreement on financing the service life extension program was signed in 2015. A colossal amount of work is supposed to be done on a tight schedule within the framework of the project.

Artyom Petrosyan is convinced that the future of the world nuclear energy industry belongs to the closed nuclear fuel cycle. If the fuel cycle is closed, nuclear energy will become even more environmentally friendly and safer. It will offer a virtually inexhaustible source of energy for millennia. Taking into account the current level of science and technology there are reasons to believe that an integrated product will be offered to the international market within the next 10-15 years, the expert believes. In his opinion, the creation of the industrial infrastructure able to reduce the number of spent nuclear fuel storage facilities and recycle spent nuclear fuel components is the key task.

The expert believes that international cooperation will play a prominent role in the future. First of all, we are talking about safety. We should definitely support efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency to consistently raise requirements in this field. The world nuclear energy industry demonstrates impeccable dedication to principles of safe and steady development of all spheres of the manufacturing sector. Safe technologies and solutions are not just a requirement, but the crucial condition for any nuclear project, Artyom Petrosyan stressed.

The expert identified the coordination of efforts to shape the correct reputation of the nuclear energy industry as the second direction of international cooperation. We should step up cooperation in order to not just simply form public acceptability of nuclear energy but enable conditions for public need for nuclear energy, he noted.

According to the source, the key role of the nuclear energy industry is to enable steady development and global transition to low-carbon types of electricity generation. Nuclear energy meets all the requirements of the energy industry of the future, Artyom Petrosyan stressed.

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August 14, 2020

Arianespace has delayed its planned launch of 3 satellites on a single Ariane-5 rocket on August 14th, blaming bad weather.

Arianespace says it is hoping that the weather conditions will have eased by August 15th.

Timings are:Between 5:33 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. Washington, D.C. time,Between 6:33 p.m. and 7:20 p.m. Kourou, French Guiana time,Between 21:33 and 22:20 Universal time (UTC),Between 11:33 p.m. and 12:20 a.m. Paris time, in the night of August 15th to 16th,Between 06:33 a.m. and 07:20 a.m. Japan time, in the morning of August 16th.

Arianespace says its Flight VA253 which will utilize an increased-lift Ariane 5 version is planned to carry to geostationary transfer orbit and deploy two telecommunications satellites: Galaxy 30 for Intelsat, and BSAT-4b for B-SAT, both of which are long-time Arianespace customers. Also carried by Ariane 5 is the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) for Northrop Grummans wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, which is a first-time user of Arianespace launch services.

Galaxy 30 was built by Northrop Grumman for Intelsat and will be the first payload deployed during the Ariane 5 mission. This satellite is to provide UHD video distribution/broadcast and broadband services that cover North America.

MEV-2 is stacked under Galaxy 30 on Ariane 5, and is to be the second payload released during Flight VA253. The SpaceLogistics LLC-built spacecraft is designed to offer life extension services for in-orbit satellites, and its initial target is the Intelsat 10-02 relay platform, which has been in geostationary orbit since 2004.

Completing Flight VA253s mission sequence will be the deployment of BSAT-4b, configured for 4K and 8K, DTH broadcasting across Japan. Built by Maxar Technologies, BSAT-4b will be operated by Japans Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT).

The launcher configuration used for Flight VA253 marks the final step in Ariane 5s latest performance improvement programme, which was decided in 2016 and has increased the launch vehicles total payload capacity by 300 kg. ArianeGroup is production prime contractor for Ariane 5, delivering the launcher to Arianespace for operation.

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While the vast array of shelf life extension technology for fresh cut produce has grown exponentially over the last decade, strawberries had been absent from the list until recently. This highly popular and beloved berry had eluded efforts to extend its shelf life after cutting.

Through focused research and development, NatureSeal has succeeded in creating a treatment to maintain the fresh qualities of cut strawberries. This newly introduced product is a healthy, clean-label powder blend that protects sliced, topped, halved and diced fresh strawberries, maintaining freshness for up to eleven days when refrigerated. NatureSeal retards spoilage and maintains the color and firmness of fresh-cut strawberries without altering flavor.

NatureSeal ST-A is comprised of GRAS ingredients and is allergen-free, gluten-free, Kosher certified and non-GMO.

The NatureSeal for strawberry product is easy to use and perfect for cut fruit medleys, yogurt and baked goods toppings or as a stand-alone offering.

For more information:Tim Grady NatureSeal, Inc.Tel: 203-767-0059Email: Tim.Grady@natureseal.comwww.natureseal.com

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Word was issued Thursday, from Arianespace that due to unfavorable weather conditions the launch that was targeted for Friday, August 14, will not take place. The soonest date for a launch is Saturday, August 15. This makes four delays, and hopefully a launch on the fifth day.

On Wednesday Satnews wrote: After three launch delays, its all a go for Arianespace Flight VA253 on August 14 which will utilize an increased-lift Ariane 5 version is a go for launch on August 14 following an additional Launch Readiness Review (LRR) performed Wednesday in French Guiana. However, now we know that there will be no Friday, launch

Heres the announcement Arianespace issued.

The Ariane 5 with its three satellite payloads for Flight VA253 was transferred today to the Guiana Space Centers ELA-3 launch zone. However, due to currently unfavorable wind conditions at altitude above the Guiana Space Center, Arianespace has decided not to initiate the final phase of launch preparation operations.

The soonest possible launch date for Flight VA253 is Saturday, August 15, as early as possible during the following launch window:

The Ariane 5 launch vehicle and the three satellite payloads: Galaxy 30; MEV-2 and BSAT-4b are in stable and safe conditions.

The mission to geostationary transfer orbit will deploy two telecommunications satellites: Galaxy 30 for Intelsat, and BSAT-4b for B-SAT, both of which are long-time Arianespace customers. Also carried by Ariane 5 is the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) for Northrop Grummans wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, which is a first-time user of Arianespace launch services.

Galaxy 30 was built by Northrop Grumman for Intelsat and will be the first payload deployed during the Ariane 5 mission. This satellite is to provide Ultra-High-Definition video distribution/broadcast and broadband services that cover North America.

MEV-2 is stacked under Galaxy 30 on Ariane 5, and is to be the second payload released during Flight VA253. The SpaceLogistics LLC-built spacecraft is designed to offer life extension services for in-orbit satellites, and its initial target is the Intelsat 10-02 relay platform, which has been in geostationary orbit since 2004.

Completing Flight VA253s mission sequence will be the deployment of BSAT-4b, configured for Ultra-High-Definition (UHD, 4K and 8K) direct-to-home television broadcasting across Japan. Built by Maxar Technologies, BSAT-4b will be operated by Japans Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT).

The launcher configuration used for Flight VA253 marks the final step in Ariane 5s latest performance improvement program, which was decided in 2016 and has increased the launch vehicles total payload capacity by 300 kg. ArianeGroup is production prime contractor for Ariane 5, delivering the launcher to Arianespace for operation.

Liftoff of Flight VA253 is planned as early as possible within the following launch window on August 14:

Between 5:33 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. Washington, D.C. time,Between 6:33 p.m. and 7:20 p.m. Kourou, French Guiana time,Between 21:33 and 22:20 Universal time (UTC),Between 11:33 p.m. and 12:20 a.m. Paris time, in the night of August 14 to August 15,Between 06:33 a.m. and 07:20 a.m. Japan time, in the morning of August 15.

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According to a recently published solicitation at the U.S. governments main contracting website, NATO is deciding to replace ageing fleet of E-3A Airborne Early Warning & Control System (AWACS) aircraft.

The E-3A Sentry is an airborne warning and control system, or AWACS, aircraft with an integrated command and control battle management, or C2BM, surveillance, target detection, and tracking platform. The aircraft based on the Boeing 707 platform from the 1970s.

AWACS provides situational awareness of friendly, neutral and hostile activity, command and control of an area of responsibility, battle management of theater forces, all-altitude and all-weather surveillance of the battle space, and early warning of enemy actions during joint, allied, and coalition operations.

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According to the Scramble Magazine, the eighteen NATO countries involved decided a replacement aircraft is required to be selected before 2023, in order for it to be operational by 2035. The countries recently decided to give the E-3As a final service life extension program worth USD 1 billion, to see the Boeing fleets ability to operate up to 2035. The new fleet of aircraft will be worth somewhere in the range of USD 10 billion.

Currently, NATOs AWACS component has fourteen E-3A aircraft, the first aircraft was delivered in 1982.

The E-3A AWACS aircraft are extremely important to the Alliance. The unique plane usually operates at an altitude of around 10 km and from this altitude, a single E-3A can constantly monitor the airspace within a radius of more than 400 km and can exchange information via digital data links with ground-based, sea-based and airborne commanders. Its mission is to perform all surveillance and battle management tasks ordered by the NAEW&C Force Commander on behalf of the SACEUR.

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The U.S. Air Force is deeply engaged in advanced testing that will help it to exploit the full capabilities of the F-16s new Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array, or AESA, radar. Its part of uncovering the full potential of the radar, and the F-16 for that matter, as it joins more squadrons, firstly in the Air National Guard, followed by active-duty units.

AESA radars offer a massive leap in capabilities over their mechanically scanned array predecessors, both in terms of range, fidelity, fast-scanning ability, reliability, and resistance to being jammed or being fooled by enemy countermeasures, among other advantages. You can read more about AESA arrays in these past War Zone pieces for more background on the topic.

The Air Force recently highlighted the radar and the added capabilities it offers in a media release that detailed how the radar was tested on a first-of-its-kind combined mission with four suitably upgraded F-16s on July 2, 2020. By testing four AESA radars at the same time, the service also assessed whether the aircraft experienced interference and evaluated if the radars' signals improved or degraded while operating together.

Now that we have a number of these radars available, especially in operational test, we are going to work our way through all mission sets [...] all the way through air-to-air, air-to-ground, Suppression of Enemy Air Defense, Close Air Support, and how we integrate it across all types of other aircraft too, Air Force Major Joe "Hurt" Viegas told The War Zone. Viegas is the AESA program manager from the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. That unit is part of the 53rd Wings 53rd Test Management Group, which is headquartered at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

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A view from inside the cockpit during the four-ship F-16 mission from Eglin on July 2.

Whats somewhat unique about the overall F-16 test enterprise is that the 53rd Wing and the Test and Evaluation Group have been really trying to streamline our efforts in terms of rapidly fielding capabilities, Viegas added. Though this is a fielded capability, talking to the APG-83 specifically, this is being [rolled-out] in incremental phases.

Northrop Grumman developed the AN/APG-83, also known as the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), as a scalable and tailorable AESA based on its work with the F-22s AN/APG-77 and the F-35s AN/APG-81. It is ideally suited as aretrofit solution for the F-16s mechanically-scanned AN/APG-66/68 radar and is also now available in new-build Vipers. Flight-testing of the radar on the F-16 first commenced at Edwards AFB, California, in November 2009, and Taiwan became the launch customer when it selected the radar for its F-16V upgrade. The radar is now a key part of that upgrade package and it will also be found on new-production F-16C/D Block 70/72 aircraft, which you can read more about here in this previous War Zone piece. SABR is also being assessed for possible USAF bomber upgrades.

Viegas says that the 53rd Wing is now tasked with stressing the AESA in a realistic and combat-representative environment, collectively using two Eglin test units, along with the 59th TES at Nellis and the Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Test Center (AATC) in Tucson, Arizona.

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Four AESA-equipped F-16Cs prepare for the mission from Eglin on July 2, 2020.

The Air National Guard has already received this new capability to a certain degree and is already flying it. So, the significance of the most recent flight is that fielding of this capability has been quite a unique experience for the 53rd Wing. The initial task was basic integration of a new capability in the F-16 [for the] Air National Guard units that are protecting our nation from a homeland defense perspective, as quickly as possible, the major continued. Now the 53rd Wing has accomplished that task, which is to get capability to the warfighter as quickly as possible, the task is how can we further develop this radar and truly stress the capabilities that we can integrate it into our tactics, techniques, and procedures [TTPs], our three-dash-one [tactics manual], added Maj Viegas. Once we have the Guard sufficiently stocked with this capability, the Air Force is going to pivot and start fielding this to active-duty units.

The ANG has got it fielded as we are doing testing. The 53rd Wing is passing information to them so they can work effectively with the new capabilities as well as creating our recommendations and TTPs for when the active-duty starts getting the radar, added Air Force Captain Michael "Echo" Arnold, the AN/APG-83 Tactics Investigation Unit Project Officer for the 85th TES.

While the Nellis element of the 53rd Wing team will start work with upgraded AESA-equipped F-16s this Fall, the current work lies with the Operational Flight Program Combined Test Force (OFP CTF), a combined effort between the 40th Flight Test Squadron (FLTS) and the 85th TES, at Eglin. The same team will take a similarly efficient combined approach when the new F-15EX arrives there next year for initial test work.

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A Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 being installed in an Air National Guard F-16 at Joint Base Andrews.

In January 2020, Northrop Grumman said the USAF completed the first installation of the AN/APG-83 radar on ANG F-16s at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to meet a U.S. Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need (JEON) for homeland defense.

This followed a June 17, 2017, announcement from the USAF that it had selected the AN/APG-83 to upgrade 72 F-16s to meet the JEON. In addition, the USAF plans to retain 350 Block 40/42/50/52 F-16C/Ds in service through at least 2048 and it is putting them through a service-life extension program (SLEP), plus adding new avionics, including the AESA radar.

The new radar enables the F-16 to detect and track targets at greater ranges and with increased precision, especially low flying targets with small radar cross-sections. Cruise missile defense was one of the driving factors in equipping the Guard Vipers that stand watch over Washington, D.C. with the radars. AESA are also more reliable than their mechanically scanned forebearers and they are capable of enhanced air-to-ground mapping.

This [enhanced air-to-ground mapping] capability allows us to target the northwest corner of a small building or the cockpit of an aircraft [on the ground at an enemy airfield] from several miles away, beyond line-of-sight [beyond visual range], Jack Harman, a 40th Flight Test Squadron government civilian F-16 test pilot, was quoted by the USAF as saying. [The radar] improves our ability to identify the threat prior to us being targeted. We no longer have to be inside a threat envelope in order to detect it.

Upgrading the existing F-16 radars with the new AESA is a major capability jump for the USAF F-16 community, and it also enables greater collaboration in the fighter integration effort with 5th generation assets. That new hardware and software [in the AESA] is how were leveraging lessons learned from the F-22 and F-35 [...] and funneling all those lessons into what we are developing in the F-16, said Major Viegas.

U.S. Air Force/MSgt Tristan McIntire

An F-16C from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron that is fitted with the new AN/APG-83 AESA radar.

Viegas says the team of F-16 test units will work through all mission sets and assess if the AESA changes any aspects of those and see how the fighter integrates with all types of other aircraft too. We will be bringing APG-83-equipped aircraft from Eglin out here to [Nellis to] participate in those Large Force Test Events, he adds, saying that all of the work will then be integrated into the USAF Weapons School course.

The new AESA upgrade is a critical part of keeping USAF F-16s credible for the remainder of their service lives. It also brings the F-16 into step with the Air Force's other front line fighters with a radar technology that has become a benchmark in capability across the international fighter aircraft community.

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FLAVEX Naturextrakte GmbH

Henry Lamotte Oils GmbH

Kerfoot Group

Earthoil Plantations

Life Extension

Nuverus

Omega Pharma

BioPraep

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Emulsifiers used in food are also known as emulgents. Emulsifiers or colloids are extensively used as additives during processing of victuals. These products have a broad application spectrum ranging from bakery to meat processing. The food emulsifier is a substance that stabilizes food emulsion by increasing its kinetic stability. Food emulsifiers are either synthetic or natural food additives, which assist the stabilization and formation of emulsions by reducing surface tension at the oil-water interface.

Amongst Application, Bakery Products segment registered considerable market share during the forecast period due to growing demand for innovative gluten-free baked products. In bread making, they are used for dough conditioning and shelf life extension. By geography, North America dominated the market owing to presence of many international chocolate brands and growing demand for and dairy & frozen desserts and convenience foods among the consumers.

Some of the key players in Food Emulsifiers include Dupont, Cargill Inc.,Corbion , Ingredion Incorporated, Kerry Group Plc,Archer Daniels Midland Company , Lonza Group Ltd.,Danisco A/S, Riken Vitamin Co., Ltd., BASF SE, Palsgaard A/S, Solvay S.A. , Adani Wilmar Ltd.,Stepan Company and Lubrizol Corporation

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TRANSACTIONS (CHAPTER 10 OF LISTING REQUIREMENTS) : NON RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS Award of Contract from Single Buoy Moorings Inc. to KNM Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, KNM Process Systems Sdn Bhd Amounting to Approximately MYR 17,132,641.93

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Award of Contract from Single Buoy Moorings Inc. to KNM Wholly-Owned

Subsidiary, KNM Process Systems Sdn Bhd Amounting to Approximately MYR

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1. Introduction

KNM Group Berhad ("KNM") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, KNM Process Systems Sdn Bhd ("KNMPS"), had on 13 August 2020 received a Purchase Order ("PO"), bearing PO No. 001.17043.000078 from Single Buoy Moorings Inc. ("SBM Offshore") for the supply of PME pressure vessels separators for the Prosperity FPSO Project amounting to USD 4,081,630 (equivalent to approximately MYR 17,132,641.93 based on the exchange rate of USD 1.00 : RM 4.1975) ("Transaction").

The supply and delivery duration of the Transaction is for a period from 13 August 2020 until 1 June 2021.

2. Information About the Parties

KNMPS was incorporated as a private limited company under the laws of Malaysia on 28 June 1990 and it is principally involved in the design, engineering, procurement and manufacturing of process equipment, including without limitation pressure vessels, reactors, columns and towers, drums, heat exchangers, air finned coolers, process gas waste heat boilers and specialized shell and tube heat exchangers, condensers, spheres, process tanks, mounded bullets, process skid packages and turnkey storage facilities as well as technical and project management services in relation to process equipment, plant facilities and general facilities for the oil, gas, petrochemicals, minerals processing and renewable energy industries worldwide inclusive of solar PV installation work and solar leasing.

SBM Offshore, a company incorporated in Switzerland and headquartered in Amsterdam is principally involved in the design, supply, installation, operation and the life extension of floating production solutions for the offshore energy industry.

3. Financial Effect of the Transaction

The Transaction is expected to contribute positively to KNM Group's earnings for the financial years ending 31 December 2020 and 31 December 2021.

4. Risk Factors

The Transaction is subject to certain commercial and financial risks mainly in the power, oil, gas, petrochemical, and energy industries. These include changes in general economic conditions such as, but not limited to inflation, environmental, health and safety regulations, taxation, foreign exchanges, interest rates, labour and material supply, changes in business and operating conditions such as, but not limited to government and statutory regulations and deterioration in prevailing market conditions.

KNM is already operating in these industries and hence would continue to be exposed to risk factors that they currently face whilst operating in these industries.

Although KNM with its vast experience may undertake efforts to mitigate the various risk factors, there is no assurance that any change in the above risk factors will not have a material adverse effect on the business and operations of KNM.

5. Approval(s)

The Transaction is not subject to the approval of the shareholders of KNM or any regulatory authority in Malaysia or in any other country.

6. Directors' Statement

Having considered all aspects of the Transaction, the Board of Directors is of the opinion that the Transaction is in the best interest of KNM.

7. Directors' and Major Shareholders' Interest

None of the directors and/or major shareholders of KNM, and/or any persons connected with them, have any direct or indirect interest in the Transaction.

8. Documents for Inspection

Details of the Transaction are available for inspection at the registered office of KNM located at 15 Jalan Dagang SB 4/1, Taman Sungai Besi Indah, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia for three (3) months from the date of this Announcement during normal business hours from Mondays to Fridays.

This announcement is dated 14 August 2020.

Disclaimer

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Shortage in reserves at the Army headquarters does not impact availability to troops, the Army told a parliamentary panel responding to the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) pointing out deficiencies of winter clothing and equipment for high altitude areas.

The Indian Army stated that the shortages in the stocks, that existed for special clothing and mountaineering meant for areas where temperatures dip below minus 20 degrees Celsius, is being built up now.

The Army's assertion that there is no shortage of equipment and clothing for troops on the ground is significant as it comes amid the India-China standoff in eastern Ladakh. With the deadlock continuing, the Indian Army is stocking up and preparing for a "long winter deployment" when the temperatures in some of the areas fall to minus 30 to minus 45 degrees Celsius.

Clarifying about the shortages flagged in the CAG report tabled in Parliament earlier this year - which talked only about shortages in reserves at the headquarters and had no bearing on troops deployed in areas at more than 10,000 feet - the Army informed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that local purchases are available to meet any eventuality, if required.

"Discounting reserves, availability of stocks with troops was adequate. Local purchases for urgent requirements are undertaken," the Army told the PAC on Monday. Due to shortages, the troops had to "recycle" snow boots, the CAG had observed in its report between 2015-16 and 2017-18.

The Army has faced critical shortages in its reserves of special clothing and equipment - like snow goggles, boots, jackets and sleeping bags - meant for high altitude areas, the report had said. The audit performed by the CAG was based on clothing, equipment, ration and housing in high altitude areas.

Explaining the procurement process, the Army stated in its response to the PAC, that only items approved by soldiers are included in the tendering. The panel was informed that high altitude areas are divided into two categories. Heights up to 12,000 feet is in the category of 'Extreme Cold' clothing, and for heights beyond that special clothing and mountaineering equipment is required.

More than 3,54,000 troops are deployed up to 12,000 feet, and 38,000 troops at heights above that. Responding to the CAG findings on irregularities in the selection of "inferior" rucksacks that did not meet specifications listed in the contract, the Army said that inconsistencies in lab testing led to a dispute between the Directorate General Quality Assurance and the supplier.

"No compromise on quality of stores, and no defect report has been received from the troops till date," it said.The Army also said that there has been no quality complaints or loss to state due to Shelf Life Management of any of the items.

The auditor had found that three items of the special clothing and mountaineering equipment were issued to units after the expiry of shelf life. The Army, however, said that the shelf life extension of stores is a regular process and all the items were gainfully utilised.

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Dorfman, 64, of University College London, is founder and chair of the Nuclear Consulting Group, a collection of experts and activists working on nuclear energy and radiation medicine, nuclear proliferation and the sustainability of energy systems.

Qvist, 34, completed his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and has since been conducting research in the U.S. and Sweden on the safety and economics of nuclear power. He currently runs an energy consultancy firm in Great Britain. He is the author of the book "A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow together with the economist Joshua Goldstein.

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Qvist, do lobbyists view the climate crisis as an opportunity to reframe dangerous nuclear energy as a technology that could save us?

Qvist: Well, I would take objection to the framing of that question, because it suspects anyone who finds arguments in favor of nuclear power of being a lobbyist - and devalues his arguments. And there are good, factual arguments, such as nuclear power being an energy source which does not produce any greenhouse gas emissions during operation. Which has additional benefits of not being dependent on the weather. The fact that it is climate friendly is indisputably one of the main reasons we should look at nuclear power as a part of the energy system.

The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 34/2020 (August 14, 2020) of DER SPIEGEL.

DER SPIEGEL: How do you see it, Mr. Dorfman?

Dorfman: Why should anyone build a nuclear power plant? Renewables are much cheaper. The climate crisis is going to hit us hard and quicker than we planned for - but this actually speaks against nuclear power.

DER SPIEGEL: Why?

Dorfman: Climate change poses a number of unique challenges to humanity. One of the most difficult is that we have to be carbon neutral as soon as the middle of the century. Now, the unfortunate reality is that you could not build enough reactors fast enough even to replace the existing reactors that will reach the end of their lifetime before 2050.

DER SPIEGEL: So Germany made the right decision to phase out nuclear energy?

Dorfman: Absolutely. There is still no final repository for nuclear waste and economically viable operation is impossible. Many safety questions are unresolved. Even utilities in Germany are clear and blunt: They say they would not even consider getting back into nuclear. The only political party that is against the shutdown is the partly extreme-right-wing AfD, and AfD also denies climate change.

Qvist: I do not know German politics, but just because the wrong people agree with you doesn't mean the cause is wrong. To me, the German phase-out is a terrible decision, one of the worst decisions for the environment and the climate that anyone has ever made. One study shows that the phase-out led to the death of more than 1000 people every year not even accounting for the millions of tons of CO2 that have been released. And the phase-out isn't even done yet!

DER SPIEGEL: Let us explain this briefly: You're referring to the fact that because of the nuclear phase-out, we're burning more coal. And many people are being killed by coal smoke and its pollutants - sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, arsenic?

Qvist: Exactly.

A mothballed reactor in Stade: "One of the worst decisions for the environment and the climate that anyone has ever made."

DER SPIEGEL: The phase-out led to massive investments in clean energy, including wind and solar, which wouldnt have happened without that decision.

Qvist: True, Germany has done fantastic things for the climate, being an early investor that plunged a lot of money into wind and solar. Germany should be lauded for doing that, as well as for developing a lot of technologies that we need for the low-carbon future. This decision, however, to prematurely shut down nuclear power plants really is a blotch on the scorecard.

DER SPIEGEL: How so?

Qvist: By 2025, Germany will have spent more than 500 billion euros ($591 billion) on its energy transition. The result has been climbing prices for electricity, CO2 emissions have hardly dropped at all and Germanys energy mix remains climate unfriendly. In 2022, when the last reactors will be decommissioned, problems will become even worse. At Germanys rate of adding clean energy, it would take the world more than a century to decarbonize. And the existing nuclear plants in Germany are not even uneconomical. They're wonderfully operating plants. Some of them.

Dorfman: Hang on, lets talk about the ageing nuclear plant issue here

Qvist: some of the plants that will be shut down, like Emsland and Grohnde, are probably the best operated power plants of any kind that have ever been run on planet Earth. Shutting them down is an affront to good engineering, to climate, to people, to the environment, to humanity!

Dorfman: The opposite is true. Ageing nuclear plants pose a very real risk of serious accidents. They have little or no defense against terrorist attack, aircraft crashes and climate-change impact such as sea level rise, which weren't thought about when these reactors were designed.

DER SPIEGEL: Still, we have to decarbonize the energy system as soon as possible to prevent catastrophic consequences. How do we get there?

Qvist: The popular answer is renewables, but wind and solar alone at a reasonable system cost is a fantasy. They are becoming cheaper, but they are not available around the clock, and batteries that could power entire cities for days or weeks show no sign of materializing any time soon. But we actually have proven models for rapid decarbonization: France and my home country of Sweden decarbonized their grids decades ago - and Germany emits almost eight times as much carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour as France and more than 40 times as much as Sweden. But above all: over 40 percent more than the EU average.

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Dorfman, the CO2 footprint of people living in France or Sweden is indeed only half that of Germans. Why is theirs not a model for the world?

Dorfman: Because it is not a sustainable solution. The key about nuclear is the cost of the bill. Take France: The majority of the French fleet is in relatively serious trouble. They dont have modern safety measures such as core catchers.

DER SPIEGEL: When they no longer meet the standards, they need to be retrofitted. Isnt that enough?

Dorfman: But partial retrofitting can do little to change this. An almost complete rebuild would be needed just to get through compliance with todays safety standards.

DER SPIEGEL: So France and Sweden will run into a really big problem in 20 years?

Dorfman: Yes. They will very, very soon. While France has committed itself to reducing the share of nuclear energy in electricity production to 50 percent by 2035, the estimated cost of the reactor fleet life extension in France is about 50 to 100 billion. And Swedens booming wind power is surpassing its capped nuclear fleet this year. We must not build new nuclear plants but shut down old plants as fast as possible.

Qvist: I disagree. The German and the French nuclear plants are producing cheap and stable electricity. The absolute fastest option for decarbonizing the energy sector is not to shut them down.

DER SPIEGEL: And do what instead?

Qvist: Use a combination of renewables and nuclear - the most cost-effective combinations you can find of all low-carbon sources. In the world today we have around 20 electricity grids that are zero-carbon year-round. More than half of those are very poor countries that have one or two big hydroelectric power plants and use very little electricity. Thats not a model anyone could follow. Then you have three or four countries with renewable systems that are based on geographical luck. Norway is a good example. They have ample hydro power. Or Iceland: They have both geothermal power in the ground and hydro power. Costa Rica is similar. But then you have four regions that are already across the finish line in terms of decarbonized power without completely relying on luck. Those four systems are Sweden, France, Switzerland and Ontario in Canada, all of them relying on a combination of renewables and nuclear.

Dorfman: The market seems to think otherwise. U.K. offshore wind projects are projected to produce electricity at 47 pounds per megawatt hour. The current projected electricity price for Hinkley Point C, a new nuclear plant being built in the UK, is 109 pounds per megawatt hour. The difference is just astonishing, isnt it?

DER SPIEGEL: Other so-called Generation 3 plants are currently under construction, including Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France. Mr. Qvist, all of them are hugely expensive, years behind schedule, and without massive subsidies, they would not exist. Do they really make sense?

Qvist: Europe has not built any nuclear power plants for a very long time, its not very surprising that the first of their kind get expensive.

Dorfman: You can say that Olkiluoto was first of a kind, but this isnt true for Flamanville, which is also years behind. If the French can't build to cost and time, then where can you build? Nuclear is now conclusively shown to be seriously more expensive than renewables.

DER SPIEGEL: Which figures are you thinking of?

Dorfman: The rating agency Standard & Poors reports that investment in renewables is at $350 billion per year. For nuclear, it fell to 17 billion last year. And this trend is likely to continue. The International Energy Agency reports an annual global growth of 35 percent in solar and 17 percent in wind energy. Nuclear growth is less than 1 percent! The only way that you're seeing new nuclear being built is with vast public subsidy, in China, in Russia, and amazingly, as a mad outlier, in the U.K. Nuclear plants cost so much; they take so long to build that they really cannot help us to slow down climate change. Renewables, on the other hand, get cheaper all the time.

Qvist: In every case where nuclear power was shut down, renewables have not filled the gap. Why is Germany not decarbonized, although it is going full-on with renewables? Its CO2 emissions intensity from electricity production is many times higher than that of France and Sweden, and its electricity costs to consumers are also vastly higher. You cannot find a better climate investment than maintaining and modernizing the existing European reactor fleet to keep it in operation.

DER SPIEGEL: Although 54 reactors are currently being built worldwide, the share of nuclear energy in electricity-generation is only ten percent and will continue to decline. If the nuclear renaissance you are praising was happening, why arent more countries expanding their capacities?

Qvist: The reasons are economics and fear. In recent decades, the United States and some European countries created ever more complicated reactors, with ever more safety features in response to public fears. This has driven up costs. China and South Korea can build reactors right now at one-sixth the current cost of what they are in the United States. In the longer term, dozens of start-ups are developing new reactors that can be mass-produced, potentially generating electricity at lower cost than fossil fuels. The key is standardization and repetition.

Dorfman: Thats a pipe dream, none of these innovations have worked so far. Frances sodium-cooled ASTRID-reactor for example has been cancelled.

Solar power plant in Nevada: "Renewables and energy efficiency reduce emissions more and faster."

Qvist: ASTRID is a failure, yes, but there are probably 30 new reactor designs being put forward right now, some of them with serious venture capital backing. You have, for example, the whole variety of so-called Small Modular Reactors, SMR.

DER SPIEGEL: They have nothing to do with the gigantic nuclear power plants of the past ...

Qvist: That's right, these are small conventional reactors that will be commercialized by the late 2020s. This is happening. NuScale, a U.S. company, is about to finalize its licensing process for its SMR and already has a customer. It would be insane to not give them a chance to see if they can deliver on their promises.

DER SPIEGEL: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, excluded nuclear from EUs new Green Deal...

Qvist: ...yes, and that is very, very damaging. Pressured by countries such as Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the EU is torpedoing anything that could have a positive impact on nuclear.

Dorfman: For good reasons, to not harm the EU budget. Look, in the past, nuclear went bigger so that the costs would come down. Its called economy of scale. Now, all of a sudden, you're saying that the economy of scale is not important and can be magically replaced by the economy of replication?

Qvist: Well, would you like to see those innovations succeed?

Dorfman: For me thats not the point. There is just not the capacity to build sufficient nuclear plants to help us solve the climate crisis. Even if you're willing and able to overcome all the other unsolved problems - affordability, accidents, waste management, proliferation, and system inflexibility we just do not have an unlimited amount of money.

DER SPIEGEL: The International Energy Agency has just acknowledged that the growth of renewable energies has slumped, as of late. Can the world still rely on them alone?

Dorfman: Look, we need to use the capital that we have for decarbonization in a way that gets the best emissions reduction for every euro spent in the shortest time. Nuclear is not competitive on both criteria. Renewables and energy efficiency reduce emissions more and faster. It's not a question of doing renewables and nuclear, it's a question of doing renewables or nuclear.

Qvist: Renewables and nuclear is a proven success story, renewables alone is not. Beyond decarbonizing todays electric grid, we must replace fossil fuels in transportation, industry and heating. We must provide for the fast-growing energy needs of poorer countries and extend the grid to a billion people who now lack electricity. Thats just not possible without nuclear!

DER SPIEGEL: More than 80 percent of the worlds primary energy still stems from fossil sources. Wind and the sun provide less than 2 percent. Worldwide energy consumption 30 years from now is projected to be about 50 percent higher than it is today. How can we get there?

Dorfman: We need to create a green hydrogen economy with all its components, energy efficiency, storage and interconnectivity between electric grids. The last thing that you need in such a system is nuclear, because nuclear is either on, or it is off. It is very bad at what we call load following...

DER SPIEGEL: ... youre talking about the process of flexibly starting them up and shutting them down when renewables fail.

Qvist: Obviously, wind and solar are wonderful. I am not here to be against anything. Im for everything. But it is a fact that nuclear is the only scalable low-carbon heat source that we have. With that heat, we can provide district and industrial-process heating, and more effectively produce hydrogen. Things like that will make nuclear flexible for the grid while churning out 100 percent core power all the time.

Dorfman: Germany and other countries are eyeing new offshore wind farms dedicated to green hydrogen production. We dont need nuclear to do this.

Qvist: But let's say you have a week of lull. You don't have much sun because its winter. You dont have a lot of hydro. Where is your power coming from?

Dorfman: Its a combination. We have to talk about hydrogen, interconnectors and load balancing. Even solar energy produced in the Sahara could be used to power parts of Europe. And we need storage

Qvist: ... what kind of storage? If it's batteries, thats just an unimaginable cost on a grid level. If it's hydrogen, you have to build electrolyzers and hydrogen storage. Thats what I mean when I talk about system costs. You have to pay for all these things.

DER SPIEGEL: Gas plants are very flexible. Why not use them in addition to renewables?

Qvist: This works, but its a fossil energy source that emits a lot of CO2 and pollutes the air.

DER SPIEGEL: The idea is to eventually replace the fossil gas by synthesized gas produced from hydrogen.

Qvist: Again, you would have to invest in all the infrastructure, and you need to include that in the costs. We don't have a hydrogen economy yet. And by the way, do you think it would be safer than nuclear? I am not so sure.

DER SPIEGEL: Are you kidding?

Qvist: Not at all. Statistically, nuclear power is the safest form of large-scale energy humanity has ever used. Mining accidents or gas explosions kill people, sometimes in large numbers, and smoke from coal-burning kills us, as Ive mentioned before, in enormous numbers. By contrast, in about 60 years of nuclear power, only three accidents have raised public alarm, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, and even during these catastrophic events not many people have been killed directly through radiation. I mean, we have hydroelectric power, which is a wonderful zero-carbon electricity source. But it has got a far worse safety record than nuclear. Dams burst, thousands of people have died.

Dorfman: The problem with nuclear is that, if and when it does go wrong, things go really, really go wrong. I'm an advisor to the Irish government on radiation risk. We commissioned a study that stated clearly that if there was severe contamination from a nuclear accident, it would largely bankrupt Ireland because of impacts on agriculture. So, reducing risk to body counts is really problematic.

DER SPIEGEL: But dont we have to balance this risk against the existential risk of climate change?

Dorfman und Qvist with DER SPIEGEL reporters Philip Bethge (left) and Rafaela von Bredow (right) at University College London: "This is fear-mongering."

Dorfman: The problem is that we all make different assumptions and come to different conclusions. Lets stick to what we know, and that is that radiation is dangerous to human health. An influential study in Germany, the KiKK study, showed that clusters of leukemia cases in little children and infants were more likely to be found near nuclear plants

Qvist: ... this study has been debunked because it did not fully assess factors other than radiation. There is just no correlation between radiation and leukemia close to nuclear plants.

Dorfman: Every radiation-protection organization in the world will tell you that there is no safe dose of radiation. And when you talk about a nuclear accident, you're not simply talking about cancers such as leukemias. You are talking about a whole raft of other things that happen way down the line, including probably genomic instability in generations to come. The complexity of the debate is mind-boggling. Why would you want to invest money in a such a highly dangerous technology? And I havent even started with the risks of nuclear waste.

Qvist: Civilian nuclear waste has never harmed anyone. We have stored it for 60 years in more than 30 countries and nothing happened. Highly radioactive nuclear waste is a tiny component in the vast mass of hazardous materials that we as a society produce, including toxic arsenic, mercury and lead, which last forever. And in the future, we will be able to burn nuclear waste as fuel in new types of reactors.

Dorfman: It's not that simple. We have high-level radioactive waste, intermediate and low-level waste. There is the idea that we can dig a deep hole and get rid of it. However, new research shows that the materials that the U.S. and other countries plan to use to store high-level nuclear waste will likely degrade faster than anyone previously knew.

Qvist: This is fear-mongering, I am sorry. How many people have died from civilian nuclear waste? None. Its a solved problem. The Finnish nuclear regulatory agency has approved the plans for a repository near Olkiluoto. It is being built and will be ready soon

Dorfman: will it work? Thats still open to debate. We will only know in about a thousand years.

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Dorfman, you are 64 years old, Mr. Qvist, you are 34. Do you think that our discussion is an intergenerational dispute?

Qvist: I believe so. In Sweden, for instance, you see the young generation being increasingly pro nuclear because they see it as an efficient measure against climate change. We see that once misconceptions are being fought by facts, opinions can change rapidly. In polls, only 11 percent have an anti-nuclear stance.

Dorfman: If you were to ask that question in Germany, you may well receive a very different answer. I dont believe that it is a generational issue. Everybody's worried about climate change. The key is how we can respond to it. And therein lies the discussion.

Qvist: Just for kicks, I might agree with you.

DER SPIEGEL: Mr. Qvist, Mr. Dorfman thank you very much for this interview.

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EUSTACEThe Eustace ISD Board of Trustees met Aug. 3 to discuss and consider district schools reopening. A plan was developed for the 2020-2021 school year that the Board released to parents Aug. 6. Additionally, EISD states that it will develop a plan for on-campus activities and instruction and provide it to parents and the public no later than one week prior to the start of on-campus activities and instruction.School Board President Ashley McKee said that this was a fluid plan that the board can come back and address in a later date if the situation changes. At this time, we are planning for the start of the 2020-2021 school year to take place on Wednesday, Aug. 19 for both in person learning and remote learning, the districts plan states.For the first 13 days of instruction, from Aug. 19 through Sept. 4 Eustace ISD will be operating on an early release schedule releasing at 1:30 p.m. This is to help students get back into a school schedule as they have been out since the middle of March. Eustace ISD is planning on resuming full day instruction Tuesday, Sept. 8.RemoteLearning PlanEustace ISD will be offering Remote Asynchronous Instruction as defined by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). (Instruction that does not require having the instructor and student engaged at the same time.) This method allows Eustace ISD the flexibility to earn daily attendance through an approved plan. Depending on grade level, students may have one teacher that provides all their remote learning, however in higher levels such as middle school and high school students will be receiving instruction from multiple teachers. The grading scale for remote learning will be the same as in-person learning.The middle school and high school have designated certain classes for in-person learning only. These are classes that will require multiple activities that can only be accomplished by in-person learning. A complete list of these classes is provided on page 12 of their learning plan.Attendanceand EnrollmentPer the Texas Education Code, students must attend 90% of the days a course is offered in order to be awarded credit for the course and/or be promoted to the next grade. Student attendance may be earned through the delivery of virtual instruction.StaffConsiderationsAll staff members are required to complete the training provided by Texas Agri-Life Extension for Special Considerations for Infection Control during COVID-19. Staff is also required to wear face masks and face shields throughout the instructional day, self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms before coming to campus each day and must report if they have come into close contact with an individual who is lab-confirmed with COVID-19.Visitorson CampusEISD is not allowing visitors on campus. However maintenance personnel or outside contractors that may be required entry to perform a repair function, EISD will require they be screened and have their temperature measured. Those individuals will be required to wear a mask, face shield and asked about any close contact that may have occurred.Students/Parents ConsiderationsAll students in grades third through 12th will be required to wear a mask unless they meet one of the exceptions in Governor Abbots order. This will include some students that are younger than 10 when school starts. Unlike many districts, EISD is allowing students that are doing remote learning to participate in extracurricular activities if they are present for all practices and required activities.TransportationParents are encouraged to bring their students to school and pick them up in the afternoon however Eustace ISD is planning on running all bus routes and students will be required to have a mask and/or face shield to ride the bus. You can find more details on the transportation and the drop off and pick up for car riders on page seven of the districts plan.For more information on Eustace ISDs district plan or to read it in its entirety, visit the districts Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/EustaceISD.

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HMCS Fredericton, a Halifax-class Canadian frigate, returns to its home port of Halifax on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 after completing a six-month deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. HMCS Oriole, left, and Bluenose II, centre, escorted the warship up the harbour. (Andrew Vaughan/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

The federal government announced Tuesday a $1.5-billion program for maintenance contracts with shipyards in three provinces to keep Canadas fleet of 12 frigates operational until a new generation of warships replaces them in the 2040s.

The Davie shipyard in Quebec and Seaspan Victoria Shipyards in British Columbia were each awarded a $500-million contract for maintenance work on the countrys fleet of Halifax-class frigates.

These frigates were brought into service beginning in 1992 and now form the backbone of the Royal Canadian Navy, Public Services and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough said in Victoria, B.C., Tuesday.

The workers here at this shipyard will be using your skills and talents to support the Royal Canadian Navy, making sure our women and men in uniform have the ships they need to carry out important missions at home and abroad.

A similar deal with Irving Shipyards in Nova Scotia is being finalized now, the government said.

The contracts announced Tuesday cover a five-year period, with the value expected to rise as the government adds more work, officials said.

Jeff Collins, a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and a researcher on Canadian defence procurement, said these refits are designed to ensure that the Royal Candian Navy (RCN) maintains a combat capable surface fleet to the 2040s, when the first of the new Canadian Surface Combatants to be built by Irving in Halifax begin entering into service.

The Halifax-class are now arguably past the mid-life point of their operational lives, especially when looking at those initial ships that rolled out in the early 1990s, Collins said.

As we know from the Iroquois class destroyers and original Protecteur class replenishment ships, the older the ships the higher the maintenance costs will be.

A Navy ship undergoes a mid-life refit at the Irving Shipbuilding facility in Halifax on July 3, 2014. Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding Inc., has been awarded a $500 million contract by the federal government to carry out maintenance work for the Royal Canadian Navy. (Andrew Vaughan/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Docking maintenance work periods are critical to ensure the RCN has at least eight of its 12 patrol frigates ready for deployment at all times, officials said Tuesday.

This contract is different from the $4.3 billion modernization and frigate life extension program that took place in Irving and Seaspan between 2010-2018, Collins said.

The Halifax-class Modernization/Frigate Life Extension (HCM/FELEX) program saw the replacement and updating of combat and operational equipment, Collins said.

The Canadian frigates, which were commissioned between 1992 and 1996, also got a new sea-to-land strike missile capability, something the warships did not have initially, he said.

The new strike capability was added based on operational experiences of the RCN and other allied navies, particularly after the 2011 Libya campaign, Collins said.

HMCS Ville de Quebec sails up the Halifax harbour in this Sept. 6, 2005 file photo. (Andrew Vaughan/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Timothy Choi, a maritime strategy expert at the University of Calgarys Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, said that while the life extension program focused on the weapons and certain electronic systems, they left the more mundane hull, mechanical, and engineering improvements mostly untouched.

Thats what these latest batch of refits will focus on, though some combat systems improvements will also be carried out such as the Naval Remote Weapon System, Choi said.

The deal is another major win for Davie shipyard, which bills itself as Canadas largest, longest-established and highest capacity shipbuilder.

Davie was left out of Canadas massive naval procurement program in 2011 because it was suffering from financial troubles at the time.

But it has since advocated to be allowed to participate in the wider program.

Canadian frigate HMCS St. Johns docs at Davie Shipyard in Lvis, Quebec. (Photo courtesy of Davie Shipyard)

Cabinet minister and Quebec City Liberal MP Jean-Yves Duclos, who delivered the government announcement at the Davie facilities across the St. Lawrence River in Levis, Que., said parts of the National Shipbuilding Strategy have been delayed because the Davie shipyard was excluded from the Conservative strategy for naval construction.

Collins said one of the unanswered questions for him is what happens if work on the new Canadian Surface Combatants is delayed and the Halifax-class frigates require another round of comprehensive modifications to their combat and operating systems similar to work carried out in 2010-2018.

Such work is very complex, involves multiple prime contractors and a careful dance of rotating ships in and out to ensure RCN operational capability, Collins said.

Irving and Seaspan have the institutional knowledge and relationships in place to undertake this but both, especially Irving, will be busy with completing their existing orders for the navy and the Canadian Coast Guard, Collins said.

There will likely be a premium to be paid to move that work to Davie and in a time of massive government spending and, I am sure, later, deficit reductions, is that a premium a government of any stripe will pay? Collins said.

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2020 will be remembered as the year the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill, as national lockdowns were instituted across the globe. As sectors of the global economy have endured lockdown, curfews and structural changes to combat the virus, global businesses have been forced to adapt and overcome unforeseen challenges and circumstances.

Despite such fundamental changes, some of the brightest minds in the investment world have carried on with their innovations, whether it be in fintech, space exploration, biomedical research or other sectors.

After extensive research and evaluation, here is our list outlining the top 5 investors making the biggest impact in 2020:

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Based in Silicon Valley, the company has been massively successful under the leadership of Marc and Ben. Ben has overseen investment across several industry sectors, including crypto, fintech, healthcare and consumer goods. With respect to crypto, a16z has made a large bet on Ripple, which with the sole exceptions of Bitcoin and Ethereum, is the most valuable crypto by market capitalization. Bens firm currently manages over $12 billion in assets and continues to grow rapidly. As if that wasnt enough, Ben is now a New York Times best-selling author. 2020 has not slowed Ben or a16z down, and Ben continues to be one of the leading investors in the world.

Peter Thiel is number 2 on the list, and he is known as a prolific entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an estimated worth of $2.3 billion USD. He is a co-founder of PayPal, and also took the company public after leading it as CEO. He also serves as chairman of Palantir Technologies which, alongside PayPal and Facebook, is rumoured to be the main source of his current wealth. His is a partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Founders Fund and has a passion for investing in startups that he sees potential in. He is also a New York Times bestselling author for his books How to Build the Future and Zero to One: Notes on Startups.

Coming in at number 3 on our list is Dylan Taylor, who is an active pioneer in the super-hot industry of space exploration. Taylor is regarded as a super angel investor in the NewSpace industry but more recently, he has turned his attention to controlling interest investments. Taylor is the CEO and Chairman of Voyager Space Holdings, which is an international corporation focused on acquiring and integrating space exploration enterprises on a global level. Earlier in 2020, Dylan was awarded the space industrys top honour by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation for his contributions to business and finance.

Number 4 on our list, Laura Deming is a New Zealand born venture capitalist who has focused her investments on biological research with the aim of reversing, or at least reducing, the effects of aging. At a very young age, she showed interest in the possibilities of genetic engineering to extend lifespans, and she was accepted into MIT at the age of 14 to study physics. She dropped out of MIT after receiving a $100,000 investment from Peter Thiel (number 2 on our list) to start her own venture capital firm, The Longevity Fund. As the name implies, The Longevity Fund is focused on investments in aging and life extension, and as its founder, Laura is considered a leader in the anti-aging field and has been a keynote speaker on the topic.

Lee Fixel is an American venture capitalist who has had a range of outstanding successes. He joined Tiger Global in March 2006 and established himself as one of the pre-eminent investors in software and internet-based companies. Fixel has backed companies like Flipkart and Peloton, both of which have been incredibly successful and have achieved unicorn status. After leaving Tiger Global in 2019, Fixel has set his sights on a new target, having spent much of his recent time away from the public eye. Whether this is because of COVID-19 or personal reasons remains to be seen; however, Fixel has announced the formation of a multi-stage venture capital firm called Addition. The VC firm has already raised more than $1.3 billion and is backing well-known companies like Fauna.

Cameron Dickerson is a seasoned journalist with nearly 10 years experience. While studying journalism at the University of Missouri, Cameron found a passion for finding engaging stories. As a contributor to Kevs Best, Cameron mostly covers state and national developments.

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WASHINGTON: Xtar is a satellite communications service provider to the U.S administration, and it has sold one of its satellites to Hisdesat-one of its shareholders.

Xtar is situated in Virginia, and it recently signed a contract agreement, which will allow it to maintain the exact volume of satellites.

Both Hisdesat and Xtar stated that agreement and the leaseback approvals illustrate the kind of administrative system the entity will have in the future.

In a statement, Icard affirmed that Xtar would proceed to provide service by use of the 15-year-old Xtar-Eud and one haul it rents out on an old SpainSat NG satellite, which was developed fifteen years ago.

In a statement, Icard stated that Xtar has improved in terms of structures, like any other satellite communications firm. Here, a single operator possesses the satellites and keeps a skilled group committed to the authority and insurance sales.

Icard asserted that there is no shift in orbital space custody as Xtar-Eur uses a slot provided by the Spanish authorities. The satellite will deliver the X-band range of Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Singapore. Possession of Hidestars Xtar-Eur streamline decision-making revolves around the life extension of the aging geostationary caravan.

The reason why Hisdesat made a decision was to gain the power to make decisions concerning the way forward of both Xtar-Eur and Spainsat satellites. That will enable their clients to get excellent services from the spacecraft, which will be possible for life expansion operations.

Xtar and Hisdesat have already chatted with Northrop Grumman concerning life expansion. Hisdesat opted for Xstar in life expansion as it is an old satellite.

Another main factor was the unwillingness of Loral Space and Communications in making other ventures concerning the future of Xtar. Loral Space and Communications started to function in 2016, and it seems to lack interest in providing financial support for Xtar. As a result, Hisdesat automatically becomes more useful for all forthcoming satellites Xtar is a combined investment of Loral (56%) and Hisdesat (44%).

Despite the outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic, Hisdesats SpainSat NG satellites remain on the list, having the first satellite set for November 2023 release.

The little time between release and the end of 2024 could make launch to occur the following year (2024). On the other hand, Hisdesat has not disclosed the launch providers for Spainsat NG satellites.

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The shelf life of frozen food could be extended to up to 18 months under new industry guidance.

The guidance is from the British Frozen Food Federation in collaboration with Defra, Primary Authority and Wrap, and backed by the Federation of Wholesale Distributors, UKHospitality and the Provision Trade Federation.

It aims to help businesses manage unprecedented levels of frozen stock approaching the end of its shelf life by extended best before dates. Its targeted at businesses supplying hospitality and foodservice, who are holding excessive stocks of frozen food because of the sectors shutdown in the pandemic.

EU regulations require that frozen foods are marked with a best before date, but the sale of a product beyond that date is not illegal.

The guidance sets out suggested safe shelf lives for foods that are blast frozen at very low temperatures, which may be well beyond the standard storage life. They include 18 months for beef cuts, chicken, and all prepared meat meals.

Others, including several types of fish such as salmon steaks, herring, sardines and mackerel, are given a 12-month recommendation.

A key aim of the guidance was to encourage importers, suppliers, wholesalers and customers to work together to manage the problem, the BFFF said.

Under normal circumstances, the various parties would agree any shelf life extension and relabelling or repackaging would take place at an importers cold store, the guidance said. However, due to the sheer number of pallets currently being held in the system awaiting distribution, the usual process could be unmanageable.

The guidance suggests sharing responsibility for relabelling.

The sectors recovery depends on all parties working together to manage this challenge and the costs associated with this issue in the coming months, said BFFF CEO Richard Harrow.

The guidance also includes advice on how to relabel products, including what information should be shown on new stickers.

Effective communication and greater collaboration across the supply chain will be vital in the months ahead to ensure the safe and appropriate use of frozen food currently held in storage and to reduce unnecessary waste, added Harrow.

This new guidance is designed to help businesses facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the pandemic mitigate severe losses without compromising consumer safety, while also maintaining the already excellent levels of traceability and transparency across the supply chain.

Defra food minister Victoria Prentis said: Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the BFFF and all its members have acted as a united front working innovatively to keep the supply chain moving and keep our country fed and I thank them for their hard work and commitment.

Now, as restrictions continue to ease, we all need to work together to do all we can to ensure good, nutritious food does not go to waste. All food that is safe and suitable to eat should be made available for sale or redistributed. We in government are firmly committed to supporting this effort alongside industry.

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Due to its anti-provocative properties, lactoferrin eliminates the main food foundation for pathogens by nullifying its contributors. Increasing consumer consciousness towards gut fitness, joined with the increasing demand of lactoferrin to avoid bad-tempered bowel drive and bloating and reduces colonic inflammation, is expected to boost this section's request for the prediction period. Consumer consciousness due to product advertising creativities taken by brand owners coupled with an inclination toward organic products with minimum side effects and higher efficiency is probable to additional boost the demand.

Rising health awareness among consumers is a significant cause driving the development of the lactoferrin addition market as lactoferrin controls iron metabolism, acts as an antibacterial agent, has antioxidant properties and thus, helps in refining immunity. Besides, there has been a growth in the request for sports diet products due to the growing fitness trend among youths, which is likely to drive the lactoferrin addition market as lactoferrin offers nourishing value and is easy to eat.

The Asia-Pacific developed as the leading regional section in 2019. China, India, and Japan were found to be the most important local markets for the product. This important share of Asia Pacific can be attributed to the growing spending volume of the consumers. The presence of a major consumer base in these countries, along with increasing birth rates among the population, is anticipated to create development opportunities.

Growth Drivers

Rising Awareness Amongst Consumers Regarding Health and Diet

The increasing awareness amongst consumers regarding health and diet, along with the rising prevalence of skin-related health conditions, is predictable to increase the request. Lactoferrin is assumed to have catalytic, antiviral, antibacterial, anti-parasitic, and anti-allergic functions and properties, which is expected to drive the product demand from pharmaceutical and personal care industries.

The acne treatment market is also consequently expected to witness strong development during the prediction period. Numerous clinical trials have proven the capability of lactoferrin to efficiently treat acne and other such skin circumstances.

Strong Growth Potential in the Developing Countries

The consumer's fondness for cosmeceutical products that syndicate cosmetic and pharmaceutical features, such as acne conduct and anti-aging, is increasingly becoming famous and is projected to see growth at 10%-20% per annum in the Asia-Pacific region. Personal care is the primary market in China, Australia, and India. Lactoferrin is expected to record a surging demand in acne care products.

Lactoferrin, combined with vitamin A and zinc, acts as a critical ingredient for mild to moderate acne. Dairy proteins are measured the most significant foundations of bioactive peptide. There has been a growth in the usage of these peptides in various sports nourishment and nutraceuticals, due to the rise in mindfulness on numerous health issues, along with rising people and growing disposable income.

Key Topics Covered

1. Research Framework

2. Research Methodology

3. Executive Summary

4. Global Lactoferrin Industry Insights4.1. Industry Value Chain Analysis4.2. DROC Analysis4.2.1. Growth Drivers4.2.2. Restraint4.2.3. Opportunities4.2.4. Challenges4.3. Technological Landscape/Recent Development4.4. Regulatory Framework4.5. Company Market Share Analysis, 20194.6. Porter's Five Forces Analysis4.7. Impact of COVID-19

5. Global Lactoferrin Market Overview5.1. Market Size & Forecast by Value, 2016-20265.1.1. By Value (USD Million)5.2. Market Share & Forecast5.2.1. By Product5.2.1.1. Spray Dried Powder5.2.1.2. Freeze-Dried Powder5.2.2. By Application5.2.2.1. Food & Beverage5.2.2.2. Personal care products5.2.3. By Sales Channel5.2.3.1. Direct Sales5.2.3.2. Indirect Sales5.2.4. By Region 5.2.4.1. North America5.2.4.2. Europe5.2.4.3. Asia-Pacific5.2.4.4. Latin America5.2.4.5. Middle East & Africa

6. North America Lactoferrin Market

7. Europe Lactoferrin Market

8. Asia-Pacific Lactoferrin Market

9. Latin America Lactoferrin Market

10. Middle East & Africa Lactoferrin Market

11. Company Profiles11.1. NOW Foods11.2. Jarrow Formulas11.3. Life Extension11.4. Fonterra Cooperative Group11.5. Glanbia Nutritionals11.6. Synlait Milk Ltd.11.7. Metagenics, Inc.11.8. Naturade11.9. Ingredia SA11.10. Agennix Inc.11.11. Morinaga Milk Industry Co. Ltd.11.12. Other Prominent Players

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Entrepreneur Dave Aspreys end-of-life plans are quite simple, really, even if some of his ambitions sound laughably optimistic to most of us.I want to die at a time and by a method of my own choosing, and keep doing awesome things until that day, he tells me. I dont think its outrageous to believe Ill make it to 180 years old. And if I run out of energy, itll just be because I did too much cool shit for my own good.

Asprey is strolling across his lush property in British Columbia, holding up his phone and pointing out the specimens in this years garden as we chat over Zoom in the midst of the global pandemic. Hes protecting his skin from the sun with a goofy Outdoor Research hat and wearing a long string of beads that he says are each over a hundred years old, from cultures around the world.

Asprey, 48, is the founder of the Bulletproof wellness empire and a vocal champion of the movement to extend human life expectancy beyond 100 years. Hes made millions by experimenting on his own body and packaging his home-brewed discoveries into books, a podcast, consulting services and consumer products (you may have even tried his butter-laced coffee). Asprey, who was a web-security executive before he became the Bulletproof Executive, is just one of a cadre of tech elite who have begun directing their attentionand truckloads of moneytoward the problem of life extension. Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellisonname a Silicon Valley A-lister and he or she is likely funding longevity research, experimenting with anti-aging interventions or both. These are the masters of the universe who see no reason they cant take the tech industrys optimization obsession and apply it to the ultimate challenge: conquering death itself.

And their efforts appear to be paying off: Thanks to a recent explosion of advances in longevity medicine, Aspreys vision of living healthfully into his second century might not be so crazy. In fact, for people in middle age right now, a handful of therapies in clinical trials have the potential, for the first time in human history, to radically transform what old age looks like. If the life extensionists are right, a person whos 40 today might reasonably expect to still be downhill skiing, running a 10K or playing singles tennis at 100.

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If you do anti-aging right, Asprey insists, youll have a level of resilience and energy to fight what comes your way. If you get Covid-19, youre less likely to become very sick. The idea is that at a cellular level, youre making yourself very hard to kill.

The most extreme of the controversial interventions Asprey has undergone involved having stem cells extracted from his own bone marrow and fat and then injected into hundreds of locations on his body. Into every joint, between every vertebra and into my cerebrospinal fluid, face and sex organs, he tells me cheerfully. For what I spent on that, I could have bought a really nicely appointed Tesla.

He trots up a flight of stairs to his home office, which sits above a million-dollar lab filled with health gadgets, such as a cryochamber, a hypoxic trainer and an AI-enabled stationary bike. For a wealthy person, investing in your body should be a major part of your Im rich strategy, he explains. Personally, I think you should be spending at least 2 to 3 percent of your net worth on health and longevity. Get a personal chef who can cook you the right food. Its not that hard.

It might be an exaggeration to say BioViva CEO Liz Parrish believes death is optional, but for her, Aspreys goal of living to 180 shows a distinct lack of ambition. If you can reach homeostasis in the body, Parrish says, where its regenerating itself just a little bit faster than its degrading, then what do you die of? An accident or natural disaster, probably. Theres no expiration date at 90 or 100 years old.

Tall, blond and fit, Parrish cuts a strikingly youthful figure at 49one that might convince you to order whatever shes having. But, like Asprey, she has received criticism from the longevity research community for becoming patient zero in her own experimental drug trial, aimed at halting aging at the cellular level. In 2015, Parrish underwent telomerase and follistatin gene therapies in Bogota, Colombia. The procedures involved receiving around a hundred injections of a cocktail of genes and a virus modified to deliver those new genes into her bodys cells. The objective was to prevent age-related muscle loss and lengthen her telomeres: the caps at the end of our chromosomes. Scientists have identified their unraveling as not only a marker of aging but also a potential cause of age-related decline.

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Parrish told the media about her clandestine experiment and has published periodic updates on her condition in the five years since, and she reports that she has indeed increased her muscle mass and lengthened her telomeres. Parrishs punk-rock approach stems from her conviction that the medical-research communityboth the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and researchers who arent business-mindedis moving too slowly, with too much red tape, when it comes to advancing aging therapeutics. But gene therapy is a relatively new area of medicine that brings with it a host of new risks, including cancer, severe immune reactions and infections caused by the viral vector used to deliver the drug.

Parrish downplays such worries. There may be risks, she tells Robb Report. But the known risk is that youre 100 percent likely to die. So you have to decide for yourself if the potential benefit outweighs that.

Humans have always aspired to find the fountain of youth, so people might be skeptical about the fact that anti-aging technologies are working now, says British investor and businessman Jim Mellon. But the fact is that this is finally happening, and we need to seize the moment. Mellon cofounded Juvenescence, a three-year-old pharmaceutical company thats investing in multiple technologies simultaneously to increase the odds of bringing winning products to market.

Mellon, 63, has made his fortune betting on well-timed investment opportunities, and he predicts that a new stock-market mania for life extension is just around the corner. This is like the internet dial-up phase of longevity biotech, he enthuses. If youd invested in the internet in the very early days, youd be one of the richest people on the planet. Were at that stage now, so the opportunity for investors is huge. According to a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, hes not wrong: The market for technologies to increase human life span is projected to grow sixfold to $610 billion in just the next five years.

When I talk to Mellon in the late spring, hes sequestered on the rugged coast of the Isle of Man, a tiny spit of land in the Irish Sea. Despite being what he describes as imprisoned there for 15 weeksand countingduring the Covid-19 shutdown, hes jovial and chatty and wants to make it clear that his interest in life extension is much more than financial. Working to extend life is an ethical cause, he says. If we can help people to live healthfully until the end of life, well transform the world completely. Well reduce a huge amount of pressure on failing health-care systems, and well have to reimagine pension and life insurance. This should be the number-one tick in anyones investment portfolio.

If youd like to get on board with this social-impact view of longevity, it helps to understand the trajectory of aging today. In Americas most affluent neighborhoods, the average life span is about 88 years. (Meanwhile, in this countrys poorest, it hovers around a meager 66 because of a raft of inequalities, such as diet, stress, smoking, pollution and health care.) For most people, health starts gradually diminishing in the last 15 years of life with the onset of chronic conditions, including arthritis, neurodegeneration and diabetes. If we could eliminate such diseases of aging, experts say, the US could save an estimated $7.1 trillion in health-care costs over the next 50 years. (Quite where all these sprightly centenarians might live on this already densely populated planet remains to be seen.)

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One of Mellons bets is on a class of drugs called senolytics, which destroy senescent cells: the so-called zombie cells that, for complex reasons, stop dividing as we age. Senescent cells harm the body by secreting compounds that cause inflammation in surrounding tissues. Many age-related conditionsarthritis, diabetes, Alzheimers, cancerhave an inflammatory component, and studies suggest that a buildup of senescent cells is a large part of the problem.

A number of biotech start-ups are devel- oping drugs that target cell senescence, but the furthest along is Unity Biotechnology, a company in South San Francisco that has three drugs in clinical trials to address aging conditions, starting with osteoar- thritis of the knee. Unity raised more than $200 million from such big names as Thiel and Bezos, who chipped in through their investment firms, before going public in 2018. Since then, Mellon has also bought a small stake.

The holy grail of senolytics will be the development of a preventive therapy to wipe out senescent cells in the body before they cause conditions of aging, theoretically extending life span. In June, a team from Sloan Kettering published new breakthrough research showing that CAR T cellstypically used for precision cancer therapycan also be used to target and kill senescent cells. Prescription senolytics for anti-aging therapy are still years away, but unsurprisingly, theres an audience of longevity enthusiasts who want to access such anti-aging miracles yesterdayand no shortage of FDA-unapproved ways to chase after them. For instance, after a few studies examined the senolytic effects of a chemotherapy drug called dasatinib, the website FightAging.org published a step-by-step guide to senolytic self-experimentation using chemotherapeutics.

It doesnt take a Ph.D. in biochemistry to guess that taking off-label chemo drugs might come with harmful side effects, but that hasnt stopped a zealous group of body-hackers from trying it themselves and chronicling their efforts online. The internet is littered with novice longevity adviceand sketchy anti-aging companies eager to separate the hopeful and desperate from their money, like the company that charges $8,000 for transfusions of plasma from the blood of teenagers and early-twentysomethings (yes, just like Gavin Belson on HBOs Silicon Valley). Many of these are at best ineffective and at worst deadly, since the same cellular systems that fuel growth in young people might cause cancer when tipped into overdrive. Imagine the tragic irony of paying tens of thousands for a therapy that promises to help you live longer but actually causes the cancer that kills you.

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Beyond the obvious red flags of repurposed chemo drugs and the bloodletting of teens, it can be difficult for a layperson to separate the world-changing longevity breakthroughs from the terrible ideas. Enter one of the worlds leading experts on longevity to help make sense of things.

Eric Verdin, 63, is president and CEO of the Buck Institute, a globally renowned center for aging research just outside San Francisco in Marin County. Verdin is bullish on the promise of living healthfully to at least 100. Today. But 180? Dont count on it. My prediction, based on everything we know today, is that getting to 120 is about the best we can do for the foreseeable future. Ill bet my house were not going to see anyone live to 180 for another 200 years, if ever, he says. But making everyone a healthy centenarian, this is something we can do today. And thats something to be excited about.

Verdins own lab at the Buck Institute studies the aging immune system and how its affected by lifestyle factors, such as nutrition and exercise. Informed by this research, Verdin follows a time-restricted diet in which he eats all of his meals in an eight-to-nine-hour window (similar to the Buchinger Wilhelmi process) and gets plenty of exercise mountain biking in Marins steep hills. The good news is that over 90 percent of what causes diseases of aging is environmental, and that means its within your control, he says.

But he emphasizes that responsible management of your health comes with limits, like avoiding experimental therapies. A group of people have decided to try some expensive and dangerous interventions, but there is zero evidence that any of these are going to help them live longer, he says. The problem, according to Verdin, is that the results of aging interventions in mouse trials can look very promising but rarely translate to success in humans. Theres a huge delta between the health of a stressed lab mouse and an optimally healthy mouse, Verdin says. So when you treat lab mice with longevity therapeutics, you see an outsized result that doesnt at all guarantee the same result in humans.

On the other hand, Verdin tells Robb Report, there are definitely new protocols worth getting excited about. Take, for instance, rapalogs, a class of drugs that interact with a protein called mTOR, which serves as a linchpin for multiple critical biological processes, including cell growth and metabolism. Rapalog drugs tamp down mTOR, possibly preventing age-related diseases such as diabetes, stroke and some cancers. The drug rapamycin, the most heavily studied formula, was approved in the US in 1999 to help prevent organ-transplant rejection. Last year the medical journal Aging published a rapturous opinion piece by oncologist Mikhail Blagosklonny in which he made the case that rapamycinin small or intermittent dosesis effective as a preventive treatment to ward off diseases of aging, and that, in the elderly, not taking rapamycin may be even more dangerous than smoking.

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Later this year, a biotech firm called resTORbio, which was spun out of the Swiss-based Big Pharma company Novartis in 2017, is expected to seek FDA approval for its rapalog RTB101, which clinical trials have shown to slow age-related decline of the immune system and improve immune response in elderly people by more than 20 percent, a key factor in protecting vulnerable aging populations from disease. (It is currently in trials on elderly patients with Covid-19.) This is the furthest-along program of anything in the aging field, Joan Mannick, cofounder and chief medical officer of resTORbio, told MIT Technology Review last year. If health authorities approve this drug well have a product for people to prevent age-related diseases. Not just in our lifetime, but in, you know, a few years.

One of the many effects of rapamycin is that it mimics the mechanisms of calorie restriction. As Verdins lab and others have shown, fasting provides a number of anti-aging benefits, including insulin regulation, reduced inflammation and, to put it colloquially, clearing out the gunky by-products of metabolismpart of the reason Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other tech titans eat just a few meals per week. For lesser mortals, fasting is extremely hard to commit to and not much fun, hence the huge interest in calorie-restriction mimetics like rapamycin, which provide all the benefits without the downer not-eating part.

Of all the calorie-restriction mimetics, the one sparking the most excitement among longevity researchers is already on the market: metformin, a decades-old diabetes drug. Metformin became a part of the Silicon Valley health regimen several years ago after an epidemiological study showed that Type 2 diabetics who took the drug lived longer than non-diabetics who didnt. Just about everyone in the longevity industry takes metformin, Verdin tells me. He takes it himself, and nearly everybody I interviewed is taking or has taken it, too.

In April, Nir Barzilai, the renowned endocrinologist who spearheaded research on the anti-aging properties of metformin, announced in an opinion piece he co-authored in the journal Cell Metabolism that his lab is launching a large clinical trial to investigate the anti-aging effects of the drug on non-diabetic populations. Barzilais goal is to prove to the FDA that aging itselfrather than conditions associated with it, like Alzheimers and arthritiscan be targeted as a disease. If Barzilai is successful and the FDA approves aging as a treatment indication, the process of bringing longevity therapies to market would accelerate rapidly.

Just as the FDA was able to move faster to bring Covid-19 therapies to market this year, we will reach a tipping point when public opinion pushes the FDA to approve aging as an indication, and the longevity-research field will make leaps as a result, Mellon says. He has contributed funding to Barzilais metformin research, which he believes will be instrumental in proving that there are compounds that can extend human life across the board.

The fact of the matter is that the US has the best regulatory system for new drug development in the world, Mellon says. Were in the first era ever when humans can be bioengineered to live longer. And in 10 years, well have solutions that are even better than today. Just wait, its coming.

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Diet:Vegetarian.Mindfulness practice:Nightly meditation.

Exercise regimen:30 minutes of cardio and 10 minutes of weights,five days a week.

Anti-aging Rx:Regenerative gene therapies. Im certain most peoplewill take them in the next couple decades.

180th-birthday wish:Solving another critical issue.

Sleep routine:7.5 hours plus a 30-minute nap; in bed by 9 p.m.

Vitamins/supplements/ prescription meds:Vitamins D and B12, metformin.

Exercise regimen:Walk or run minimum 10,000 steps a day;weights three times week.

Anti-aging Rx:Green tea.

100th-birthday wish:Another 25 years.

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180th-birthday wish:Either a cruise to Mars or a 1970 Mustang Fastback,which by then will be 210 years old!

Sleep Routine:Avoid: coffee after 2 p.m., heavy workouts after 6 p.m.,alcohol during the week and heavy eating in the evening.

Vitamins/supplements:Vitamin D, omega fatty acids, NMN, citrus bioflavonoidcomplex, fiber supplement, prebiotic supplement.

Diet:Fasting-mimicking diet once every four to six months;roughly 16:8 intermittent fasting at other times.

Mindfulness practice:Daily meditation.

Anti-aging Rx:I love cooking and eating, so I do not restrict foodon the weekend. Happiness with friends and family is thesurest path to longevity.

100th-birthday wish:A bike tour across the US, from coast to coast.

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