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Mounted on POS systems with an adjustable hinge, this innovative adjustable barcode scanner allows cashiers to easily read and analyze barcode labels.

NEW TAIPEI CITY, TAIWAN, August 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- POS system manufacturer - Clientron lately introduced a new POS system with an innovative adjustable barcode scanner for scanning barcodes from multiple orientations. Mounted on POS systems with an adjustable hinge, this innovative adjustable barcode scanner allows cashiers to easily read and analyze barcode labels by rotating the scanner, speeding up the checkout process with precision and flexibility in noisy work environments.

Clientron understands that barcode scanners are absolutely essential peripherals for POS systems, so developing innovative multi-function peripherals can enhance the functionality of POS systems and provide better service to users. The barcode scanner is generally fixed on the POS terminal through the USB port, the angle is fixed, and the direction is limited. Therefore, it is not easy for the user to scan the barcode label accurately at one time. However, Clientron's adjustable barcode scanners allow users to adjust the scanner angle to accurately scan barcodes based on their personal usage habits about scanning angle, so users can easily scan a product once and get the correct purchase information from the barcode, speeding up overall checkout times.

A POS system with an adjustable scanner is a smart choice in any environment where fast scanning of various barcode locations is critical to day-to-day operations. Check out the official Clientron website to find the latest widescreen POS system PT2700 with an adjustable scanner to get the job done for your business in less time. At Clientron, we understand and strive to develop user-friendly products to meet your business needs. For more information about PT2700, please visit the product page: https://www.clientron.com/en/goods.php?act=view&no=76

About Clientron
For over 35 years, Clientron has designed kiosks and POS for system integrators around the world. We help you get your project from conception to the storefront quicker and easier while providing second-to-none after-sales support.

Clientron was founded in 1983. The company is dedicated to providing highly integrated embedded solutions to our clients worldwide. With more than 35 years of experience in design, manufacturing, and after-sales service, Clientron offers high-quality and technology-leading solutions, including POS, Kiosk, Thin Client, and Automotive Electronics. Clientron commits to continue providing engineering excellence towards innovative solutions and the best services to global partners and customers. Visit us at www.clientron.com.

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The ENTITLE Starter Kit makes it very easy for artists, galleries to create a digital certificate of authenticity supported by Infineon chipset and blockchain.

HONG KONG, CHINA, August 1, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ARTRACX LAUNCHES NEW BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CHIPSET, VERIFIABLE CREDENTIAL AND DIGITAL CERTIFICATES FOR ART AUTHENTICATION - AS PREPAID PACKAGE

ART GROUP LIMITED (Hong Kong) is proud to announce the product launch of the ARTRACX Curator platform together with ENTITLE App and ENTITLE Starter kit for artists, art dealers, galleries to create digital identities in fine art and collectibles for proper IP protection and authentication. Intellectual property theft, outright plagiarism and copyrights infringement are enemies to all creators around the world. The art industry has also given breathing room to bad actors that undermine the artists’ rights and the art stakeholders' interests. This new online platform, mobile app, blockchain and smart chipsets combine together as a prepaid package (much like prepaid SIM) solution to tackle this problem by creating a blockchain-based chipset-supported digital identity for each artwork using Decentralized ID (DID) and Verifiable Credential (VC) endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

ARTRACX Curator and Entitle App supports Infineon high-security SECORA™ Blockchain chipsets to hold the cryptographic private key for secured authentication and provenance tracking. The smart chips double as the digital Certificate of Authenticity with immutable records of proof - once activated and linked to an artwork. Artwork's metadata stored in the Curator will now be hashed and kept on the blockchain's ledger with a universal and unique digital identity assigned to the artwork.

ARTRACX Curator platform provides a suite of free services including Certificate of Authenticity, Catalog management, Provenance, Exhibition history and even wall labels generation. In future, the platform will offer an online auction marketplace, digital viewing room and native web conferencing tool for worldwide artists, collectors, and art dealers to meet and do businesses.

“With Hong Kong developing itself as both an IP hub and an art hub, we are building this solution as a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) platform that extends our ten-year’s experience in OpenHeart digital auctions serving the charity sector to become an online art marketplace offering value-added identity and transactional services. Our ethos is to offer the art ecosystem a secured exchange to track, trace and trade easily hence calling this project ARTRACX. We are looking forward to partnering with galleries, museum and bookstores for distribution, as well as mobile carriers and MVNOs around the world to also offer SIM cards packaged with our ENTITLE starter kit to enhance the KYC process." said Mr. Daniel Chun, CEO of Art Group Limited.

Infineon has appointed Art Group Limited as an associate partner and according to Ms. Alison Liu, Senior Marketing Manager of Infineon Greater China Region - “We are really excited about the developments in the art, collectibles and luxury market segment and Art Group’s team had understood the problem well and have executed and developed the solution. The anti-counterfeit market worldwide in the art, collectibles and luxury segment will continue to be an important market segment for us. To effectively curtail counterfeiting and rights infringements, there will be a need for the art ecosystem to also partake and adopt the use of latest technology solution like ARTRACX"

The ENTITLE Starter Kit consists of both Smart Chip Labels and Smart Card Premium (with Infineon SECORA™ Blockchain chipset) which can be activated using Near-Field Communication (NFC) protocol with a smartphone and the ENTITLE App. The Smart Chip Label is best suited for creating digital IDs for reprints while the Smart Card Premium is best suited for authenticating the original artwork. The ENTITLE App allows users (artists, collectors, art dealers, gallery and museum managers) to easily activate and link the artwork without the need to learn and understand blockchain, wallet, gas fee, cryptography and concepts like DID and VC. The Entitle Starter Kit is available online at https://shop.artracx.com/ for USD 49. The ENTITLE APP will also be available for download at the App Store for iOS.

FIND OUT MORE AT BOOTH C06 - AFFORDABLE ART FAIR IN HONG KONG

ART GROUP LIMITED will be exhibiting various artists’ work listed in the ARTRACX Curator platform at the Affordable Art Fair (Hong Kong) Booth# C06 during Aug 3-7 and will be demonstrating the ENTITLE App and ENTITLE Starter Kit.

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Art Group Limited Abigail Laurio al@artgrouplimited.com
Infineon Technologies AG Steve Li Steve.Li2@infineon.com

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MyHotels® offers seamless Umrah-related services to Muslims all over the world. The agency has several travel platforms serving businesses and individuals.

MAKKAH, MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA, July 22, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Saudi's leading online travel agency, MyHotels^® is now offering two Umrah-related services to serve international Muslims directly and Umrah Operators. The agency has several travel platforms serving businesses and individuals. They help individuals to acquire the best experience at Mecca when they go for the Umrah. They also offer services to Umrah operators to arrange everything for their clients’ Umrah without any hassle.

They have an Umrah B2C package called Umrah Dynamic Packages for Individuals https://Visa.MyHotels.SA : This provides non-GCC Muslim planning to perform Umrah the ability to create and customize dynamic packages, which include Umrah e-visa, Makkah & Madinah accommodation, Makkah & Madinah transportation, and ground services to explore the beauty of Makkah and Madinah.

They also have an Umrah B2B platform that serves professional travel operators https://Umrah.MyHotels.SA : Saudi Umrah Operators (UO) can now book Makkah & Madinah accommodations, transportations, and generate Booking Reference Number Identifications (BRN IDs), which is a requirement to be used through the Saudi Umrah Systems Services Center (MUKHA) to issue Umrah e-visa to their clients (External Agents). The operators do not have to worry about anything and will be able to offer their clients the best Umrah experience.

With international reservation services for Business (B2B): inclusive accommodations, transportation, and activities & tours. https://B2B.MyHotels.SA .

The website can offers a brilliant platform for users from all over the world https://www.MyHotels.SA . Individuals can book their necessary travel-related services on their own by using MyHotels's website and app, available on Google Play and Apple Store. They can also book their packages through the intuitive and easy-to-use app, which is available on Google Play and Apple Store, as well as their Website.

MyHotels^® is an international online travel agency (OTA) and Umrah online travel agency (Umrah OTA) founded in 2016. It is licensed by the Saudi Ministry of Tourism and certified by the Saudi Ministry of Hajj & Umrah. It is one of the exclusive 34 Umrah OTAs and one of the exclusive 18 Umrah Dynamic Packages Service Providers with Umrah e-visa. Find out more at https://www.MyHotels.SA.

Address: Office 302, Floor 5, Building 8084, Abdullah Ibn Alabbas Street, Al Shoqiyah District, Zip Code 24232, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
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Clientron's innovative mechanical design Easy Access M.2 SSD with dual storage slots for NVMe and SATA SSD drives makes it easy to utilize your POS storage.

NEW TAIPEI CITY, TAIWAN, July 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As technology evolves, storage is getting slimmer and capacity is rapidly increasing. Storage is one of the key elements of a POS system, and customers always demand higher capacity and smaller size while retaining the flexibility to expand storage in the future. Clientron's innovative mechanical design Easy Access M.2 SSD with dual storage slots for NVMe and SATA SSD drives makes it easy to utilize your storage.

The Easy Access M.2 SSD design allows you to replace the M.2 SSD drive without disassembling the entire POS terminal; therefore, users can easily upgrade or replace the drive themselves. M.2 is the term that describes the form factor, so you can get M.2 drives that use either SATA or NVMe connection protocols. The Easy Access M.2 SSD is compatible with SATA and NVMe, possibly covering all SSD connection standards, and you can also move the screw in the middle of the tray to install a 2242 or 2280 size SSD drive in the POS terminal.

A POS system not only simplifies the transaction process, but also helps you manage inventory and analyze sales trends, so it stores a huge amount of data such as inventory, transactions, memberships, and everything about your customers. The Easy Access M.2 SSD offers two storage slots for maximum storage of up to 1TB, enough to handle all your business data. In addition, the mechanical design of the Easy Access M.2 SSD tray maximizes the data transfer speed of the PCI-e interface, enabling the POS system to process data faster than HDD or SATA drives.

Clientron's commitment to providing user-friendly products led to the invention of the Easy Access M.2 SSD featuring high compatibility and flexibility. The latest model, PT2700, is the first POS system designed with Easy Access M.2 SSD, becoming one of the best-selling products in the POS market.


If you need more information on Easy Access M.2 SSD design. Please visit PT2700 product: https://www.clientron.com/en/goods.php?act=view&no=76

We also offer an Easy Access HDD POS system. Please visit PT2000 product: https://www.clientron.com/en/goods.php?act=view&no=54


About Clientron
For over 35 years, Clientron has designed kiosks and POS for system integrators around the world. We help you get your project from conception to the storefront quicker and easier while providing second-to-none after-sales support.

Clientron was founded in 1983. The company is dedicated to providing highly integrated embedded solutions to our clients worldwide. With more than 35 years of experience in design, manufacturing, and after-sales service, Clientron offers high-quality and technology-leading solutions, including POS, Kiosk, Thin Client, and Automotive Electronics. Clientron commits to continue providing engineering excellence towards innovative solutions and the best services to global partners and customers. Visit us at www.clientron.com.

Hazel Yang
Clientron Corp.
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BTCZ is turning to a hedge against the hyper inflated "DeFi" platforms and their tokens. The BITCOINZ Community repeatedly warned for the upcoming disaster

LONDON, LONDON, UK, July 7, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- During the recent weeks the vast majority of cryptocurrencies and tokens have seen huge losses that in many scenarios are between -60% down to -99% and this doesn't seem to be just an accidental event.

Most specifically during the last 3 months popular assets like Bitcoin and Litecoin had a loss of more than -50% for their value.

But the bigger losers of the last month are the so called "DeFi" projects that like Ethereum, Algorand , Polkadot and Solana, with loses that are even over -60% to -75% (The provided table contains information taken from the popular CoinmarketCap platform).

However there was a specific cryptocurrency that skyrocketed during the last month gaining more than +70% . This is BITCOINZ.



Trying to understand these moves : Why the "DeFi" platforms and their tokens had so huge losses ?

The "Defi" platforms became trendy on 2019 and were introduced by Ethereum. Most of the recent DeFi projects have been battling with each other trying to be "the next Ethereum". The "DeFi" model is concentrated in the creation of tokens with smart contracts that interact with the mother chain and other tokens. Tokens are assets that don't have their own independent networks. By contrast, they depend on their mother network which offers a ready and easy to use infrastructure with wallets and exchanges to every potential "project creator/ token founder".
The quotes are used because in the most cases fraudulent developers launch scam digital assets with token form, abusing this easiness.

A token asset is a totally pre-mined one, completely away from the logic of classic cryptocurrency assets that Bitcoin had introduced with its Proof of Work (PoW) model. In a Bitcoin-like PoW blockchain , people are antagonizing with their hardware to solve algorithmic problems, participating in a decentralized network of transactions. So they get rewards for each new block, each new solution that they find. This way new coins are created slowly and are distributed to thousands or even millions of people around the world according to the rules of each PoW cryptocurrency network , like a fixed maximum supply, a defined curve for the emissions rate etc.

On the contrary, a token asset is totally pre-mined which means that a founder created all of its supply and allocated it to an address... to his address.
The token's founder using heavy marketing and the right connections (aka bribing influencers and owners of popular exchanges by giving them a percentage of this supply), creates an extreme demand for his new asset and literally sells thin air to all the buyers. He then jumps to his next creation, usually abandoning the previous one and the history is repeated again and again.

In the end the investors and buyers are left with useless tokens that in most cases even hundreds of them have much lower value than the cost of the required gas fees in order to just move them in the mother network (mother networks are blockchains like Ethereum, Solana or Avalanche for example).
This is what we call a "rug pull" and this is how the cryptocurrency landscape ended having countless useless "assets" and many new ones created every day. Obviously this would not end well.


Which is the role of the mother networks? Do they follow the original cryptocurrency idea?

The mother networks are usually company driven projects that are again either heavily premined (like Ethereum) or completely premined (most ETH wannabe chains). This means that when these networks had been launched, their founders allocated a huge part or all the coins' supply in their wallets. This gave them huge economical power to demonstrate and advertise their own "token-factory/DeFi" platform, targeting to be the next Ethereum:
A project that would centralize almost every digital asset in its own network. This way a mother network makes its coins more precious because of the demand for "Gas fees" hence every proxy token, that depends on it, has to pay fees in iits mother network's coins. Exactly like many thousand ETH tokens do with Ethereum Fees, leading to the legendary ETH GAS fee spikes that had a cost of even over $170 in ETH. In simple words, a user that wished to transfer $100 in Shiba Inu, Safemoon or other tokens that were originally based on Ethereum, had to pay a cost that was almost double of the transferred sum (!). Many times with additional issues like network congestion and failures because of the high traffic.

Of course again all the above have no relation with the original cryptocurrency idea, that Bitcoin introduced, for some obvious reasons :
1) A classic cryptocurrency was supposed to offer Decentralization in the levels of coin Distribution, Governance and Network.
The "Defi" model seems more like... Centralized Finance as the founders of these mother-chain platforms always receive a huge or the whole of their project's coin supply during the launch in their wallets.

2) A Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency has the target to offer Freedom from Central Authorities and the lowest possible fees for borderless transactions.
In the "DeFi" model the mother chain and his founder acts as a central authority in every level:
-They allocated the supply to their wallets.
-The network is not fully decentralized because specific servers support it and not potentially everyone like in PoW Projects
(for example Cosmos and Luna networks had shut down for hours, Solana's network had repeatedly shut downin the past etc)
- The fees can touch the sky with so many assets gathered on a single project as these mother chains act like a magnet for fraudulent token founders. "Assets" that are created without any use case, like meme and hype tokens made in order to make their founders rich.

3) A cryptocurrency was supposed to act as a hedge against inflation, with fixed maximum supply and immutable rules. This was the concept and one of the main arguments of the crypto supporters versus the Central Banks and their printed money.
In the "DeFi" model there is extreme inflation that is extremely worse than the inflation of most Central Banks.
People are "Staking assets" in order to receive other "assets" which are going to give other "assets" and so on.
In just two years the Ethereum Blockchain alone was full with useless and meme tokens that could not even act as a simple medium of transfer due to its extreme gas fees.

The original cryptocurrency idea was without doubt one of the most genius discoveries ever but obviously the so called "DeFi" projects and their countless tokens are not. Actually they are an inflating bubble and a disgrace for the real cryptocurrency concept.
This is why now this family of assets are the bigger losers with every market drop and it will get only worse since this kind of assets extremely outnumber the classic cryptocurrency networks.


But why BITCOINZ made it to attract the interest of the buyers, against the general downtrend ?

There are two main reasons behind this move.

First Reason

A team of developers have already launched the testing phase of Connect-Z.
Connect-Z is a bridging platform that will enable the users of the BitcoinZ Blockchain to swap native BTCZ coins into wrapped / tokenized versions (wBTCZ) in other blockchains like Binance Smart Chain, Ethereum and more in the future.
This way the BitcoinZ ecosystem will be dramatically expand , widening its audience with more mainstream users coming in contact with BITCOINZ, discovering its unique features and joining its highly active Community.

Second Reason

Most importantly, BITCOINZ is a pure cryptocurrency network that follows all the fundamentals that the classic Bitcoin introduced for years, with many extra advantages and this begins to be more and more obvious as the noise coming from unnumbered meaningless meme tokens and scam assets is fading during this bear crypto market. Some people inevitably discover what was the original cryptocurrency idea was about. What definitions like Decentralization, Freedom, Privacy, Democracy and Mining Algorithms mean.


How BITCOINZ differs from the classic Bitcoin without breaking the classic fundamentals ?

BITCOINZ (BTCZ) was launched on 2017 and is a pure cryptocurrency that offers solutions to all the five “flaws” of the legendary Bitcoin :

1) Its scalability offered higher transaction speed and more transactions per second

2) BITCOINZ’s high maximum supply is the ideal for easier prices without long non integer numbers.

3) The 21B coin supply in combination with the much more transactions per second, guarantees super low, next to zero fees even if it had the BTC cap and network load. BitcoinZ is ideal for transferring even very small sums of under $10 with ~0% cost.

4) BITCOINZ’s ASIC resistant Zhash algorithm protects the PC miners from the ASIC elites. This way it achieves a Decentralized Network with truly fair distribution of coins to the world Community. Not to the rich people owning an ASIC device.

5) BITCOINZ features private transactions offering true privacy for everyone.

6) (extra) BITCOINZ is a green Proof of Work Network since a) it utilizes a much more energy efficient algo than BTC b) the users can use their PCs for other activities while mining BTCZ because only the GPU is (mildly) used for the process and c) it supports more transactions per second with plenty of space for future upgrades.


At the same time BITCOINZ fulfills all the fundamentals of a pure cryptocurrency :

1) It was founded by anonymous founders and it is a 100% Community Driven project, with no central authority issuing coins.

2) 100% of its coin supply is distributed to its network’s supporters (miners) with the Proof of Work model. Everyone if free to join it through the mining procedure, using just a PC.

3) It had the fairest launch ever with absolutely no premine , no initial coin offerings and no instamine period (something that is questionable even for Bitcoin).

4) It is an asset that acts as a hedge against inflation because it has a fixed maximum supply and reduced coin emission over time with fair and slow mining halving plan, every 4 years.



Why BITCOINZ uses the "BITCOIN" name and why it is really different from the so many projects that used it.

BITCOINZ used the "BITCOIN" name adding a Z because it honored and followed all the aforementioned fundamentals that the classic BITCOIN introduced (fair rules, 100% Community Driven, 100% Decentralized, 100% Proof of Work) and at the same time it offed Zero fees, only PC-mining with its Zhash algorithm and optional privacy based on the Zk-snarks cryptography. So there was no better name to describe all these than "BITCOIN+Z".

It is worth mentioning that BITCOINZ is the oldest (launched on 2017) and maybe the only "BITCOIN" named project that can still be mined with a normal PC and it is not a Bitcoin blockchain fork since it had its own genesis block.

Other crypto projects that have used the "Bitcoin" name, did it afterwards, in a misleading way or they are just copies of the BITCOIN's blockchain (blockchain-forks) that have given free coins (forkdrops) to the Bitcoin holders. In such a way, these "BITCOIN" named projects try to enjoy a high free exposure by distributing coins to the BITCOIN owners. Sometimes bad actors from the BITCOIN chain-fork projects even steal the private keys from the BTC owners that try to claim their free coins in the BTC-forks.

In contrast, BITCOINZ had its own unique blockchain exactly like Bitcoin did and never made any forkdrops. Offering equal opportunities to everyone by distributing the 100% of its supply to the whole world Community and not to a closed team. Exactly like a real cryptocurrency should be destined to do, being the gift of Freedom and Equality.


A Conclusion for the cryptocurrency moves of the last months

As a conclusion, the moves of the last months are a trend and not a random event.
The biggest victims of this new downtrend are the very overvalued cryptocurrencies and the DeFi projects, especially tokens that have hyper-inflated supply or represent useless meme/scam projects .
BITCOINZ, being among the most decentralized, classic, pure mineable projects with many advantages over Bitcoin, fixed supply and the most fair rules ever, makes it to surprise everyone acting as a hedge against inflation, centralized assets and scam tokens.
A positive trend that is going to be accelerated further, especially with the upcoming Connect-Z platform that is going to offer the BTCZ asset in very popular platforms like in Binance Smart Chain and Ethereum Blockchain.

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PS. Please be always extra careful for bad actors giving fake contract addresses in BSC and claiming that they are BTCZ contracts (like they do with other assets). When Connect-Z is completed, you will find legitimate Contract Address provided by the BitcoinZ Community in the official sites and in the BITCOINZ associated CoinmarketCap / CoinGecko pages.

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Citizens are Choking and Sickened from Toxic Landfill Gases while Health Agencies Sit Idle

CLEVELAND, OHIO, US, June 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Garbage and demolition waste pouring out of New York and New Jersey has been happening since the early 1980’s. When it started, Ohio and Indiana residents actively protested against being the dumping ground for East Coast megapolises.

In 1991, Congressional hearings were held in which they concluded the Interstate Commerce Clause protected the constitutional right of waste generators to haul wherever they wanted — the Midwest protesters were trumped.

Also, in 1991 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), through The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act’s (RCRA) Subtitle D regulations, standardized minimum solid waste landfill design criteria and trash management requirements. It seemed while millions of tons of New York waste were being shipped in every direction (including Africa), at least there would be environmental controls wherever it landed.

The USEPA passed enforcement responsibilities of the new regulations to state environmental agencies like the Ohio EPA, the Indiana DEM and the South Carolina DHEC. Ohio, in turn, passed many of their enforcement controls, like approving or denying the annual landfill license applications, to the local health departments.

When New York’s Fresh Kills mega-landfill closed in 2001, the shipments to western states intensified. Disposal prices skyrocketed. Lines of trucks a half mile long jockeyed for position at landfill gates in states as far as Iowa.

Midwest landfills could not resist the massive profits but were overwhelmed with the influx of East Coast waste and the aggressiveness of the New York and New Jersey operators.

Massive odor, noise, dust, litter and vermin nuisances exploded throughout the states. Due to numerous grandfathering clauses, many landfills were not required to implement the new environmental standards. Groundwater and surface water resources were contaminated wholesale.

Older Ohio landfills created huge environmental and social problems and the resulting political pressure on the Ohio EPA to take action was enormous. License applications were denied, gates were locked, injunctions applied, and appeals denied. Non-complying landfills were put out of business.

Disposal prices increased exponentially and waste management became a multi-billion-dollar business in a very short period.

Waste management companies are a crafty lot and don’t miss much when it comes to seeing loopholes or weaknesses in the laws or regulations, particularly when it comes to making profits.

Tens of thousands of tons of waste rush into transfer stations every single day located in Long Island and Farmingdale in New York, Newark, Hudson and Paterson in New Jersey, Boston and Norfolk in Massachusetts and Hartford and Brockton in Connecticut — just to name a few. The waste must move out fast and furiously by 6:00 PM before the next ten thousand tons promptly arrives the next morning. Being short of time and long on consequences results in minimal inspections of the thousands of trucks passing through — and the demolition contractors know it.

Long trains moving west and fleets of trucks moving north, west and south keep this Mississippi River of putrid waste flowing.

CSX is one of only two Class I railroads in the US and services much of the East Coast and Midwest. They charge approximately $2,000 a railcar to haul waste from New York to Ohio. But garbage and demolition waste—which should be mostly wood, shingles, aluminum and vinyl siding, plaster and drywall—are relatively lightweight materials.

To cure this problem of having expensive but light loads, the transfer station operators pulverize and shred the in-bound wastes with loaders and dozers until they are dense and consequently unrecognizable. The crushed mess gets loaded very quickly onto the railcars and long-haul trucks which are now cost-effective, if questionable, payloads.

Better yet for the waste operators, construction and demolition waste (“C&D”, of which demolition comprises 90%) is considered inert or “almost harmless” by regulators and does not need to follow the federal and state regulations that garbage must—and consequently is much cheaper to dispose at landfills.
The pulverized material looks like raggedy mulch, and no one is able to visually tell if it was garbage, demolition or, for that matter, sewage sludge, industrial or hazardous waste.

Sewage sludges, hazardous and infectious wastes cost up to twenty times the cost of C&D waste to legally dispose. C&D is at the bottom of the waste price chain but whose toxicity is woefully underestimated by the EPA. Blending illegal wastes with cheap C&D is called “cocktailing” and the practice is alive and very profitable.

2005 was a pivotal year in Ohio. Their legislature held hearings in Columbus about the huge flow unidentifiable, out-of-state waste as well as the financial restraints and resources of the local health departments who were trying to enforce the new regulations.

Ohio HB 432 was passed, which was well-meaning but lacked foresight. It banned pulverized demolition waste and gave local health departments and other agencies $1.60 to spilt for every ton of C&D disposed in landfills. This represents millions of dollars to health departments which are typically challenged to pass an operating levy every decade. A legislated conflict of interest was created.

Every aspect of the current construction and demolition waste fiasco is like death from a thousand cuts for the residents in landfill-burdened communities. Huge landfills in Ohio are creating serious health threats locally while taking 97% of their waste from New England.

While groundwater protection and methane control have been a paramount landfill issues for the EPA, managing the massive poisonous sulfuric gas issues created by C&D and cocktailed wastes, has been overlooked until recently. Regulatory agencies are stumbling with solutions or downplaying the toxic landfill gas problem due to a lack of knowledge. Agencies talk about the “rotten egg” odor as if it was old food smelling up your refrigerator — but simply put, the mélange of foul smelling sulfuric gases is extremely poisonous and deadly.

Next: Part 2. Mega-Landfills, unchecked toxic gases, wealthy health departments, sick neighbors, dead pets, outraged communities and heads buried in the sand. Why demolition waste is infinitely more hazardous than acknowledged or understood. Nauseated citizens are screaming from Maine, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee to South Carolina, Kansas and Oklahoma.

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The Patent Center and PMU are contributing to Vision 2030, a unique transformative economic and social reform blueprint that is opening KSA up to the world.

AL-KHOBAR, EASTERN PROVINCE, SAUDI ARABIA, June 22, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A major element of human progress is invention—the creation of novel, innovative ways to harness reality's potential in delivering better solutions for challenges both mundane and extraordinary.

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU) has fully embraced the power of invention. For starters, the university has established a Patent Center under the Deanship of Research. The Patent Center supports the protection of creative scholarly activities, innovation, and discoveries involving faculty, staff, students, and others participating in PMU programs.

Following through on this mission, the Patent Center recently announced the opening of the first Local Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in the Middle East. A United States-based non-profit organization, NAI has over 4000 individual inventor members affiliated with more than 250 institutions around the world, including 30 institutions and universities outside of the United States. NAI broadly helps in recognizing and promulgating the inventions made by its members for the benefit of global society.

As a sign of the inventive spirit at PMU, the university also recently announced that its members have more than doubled their number of patents registered by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to 23. This number represents a tremendous increase of 15 additional patents since just 2020. The patents cover a rich range of scientific fields including energy and artificial intelligence, as well as electrical, civil, and mechanical engineering.

"At PMU, we are taking important measures to ensure we increase our patent productivity and increase the worldwide impact of the inventions created by our university researchers," said Dr. Issa Al Ansari, President of PMU. "As we say at PMU, 'creative minds transform the world'."

"Beyond opening of the very first Local Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors in our region," Dr. Al Ansari continued, "we currently have operational plans to turn our patents into realistic projects and products that will deliver innovative solutions for a number of issues at local, regional, and even global levels."

Encouraging Invention

The inauguration of the Local Chapter of the NAI was held in May 2022.

PMU originally joined NAI as a sustaining member in 2020. The new Local Chapter will be open to all members of the PMU community including faculty, students, alumni, and affiliates who have obtained an issued patent from the USPTO.

The Local Chapter will work closely with PMU's Patent Center, which has become a hub on campus for innovators, a crucial resource for preparing a patent application and, as a prime task, supporting the protection of creative scholarly activities, innovation, and discovery at PMU.

The Patent Center enables researchers at PMU to effectively file for patent applications. As a starting point, the Patent Center allows researchers to search the patent literature for existing and pending patents. Further assistance comes in the form of the Patent Center reviewing application information and examining the material legalistically, with staff offering tips along the way and making sure the patent application is complete.

"The Patent Center has been and will continue to be a tremendous resource for the PMU community," said Dr. Al Ansari. "The success of the Patent Center is evident in the surge of patents that have recently been awarded to PMU community members in the past couple of years, and overall reflects our strategy focused on developing and disseminating scientific research."

Further representing the scope of research at PMU, university members currently have more than 400 academic journal papers catalogued in Scopus, including two papers in the prestigious Nature journals.

Achieving Vision and Mission

Across all of these efforts, the Patent Center reflects the vision of PMU. This vision is to be a higher education institution that has a transformative impact on society through sustainable innovation in education, research, and creativity.

The work of the Patent Center also further advances the mission of PMU. Part of this mission is to sustain world-class excellence in education, research, and service by advancing the state of discovery, development, and application of knowledge. The securing of patents, which incentivize and promote the generation of key new inventions to aid humanity, is in exact alignment with this mission aspect.

The alignment between the Patent Center's objectives and PMU's mission extends to global connectedness and engagement infused with a 21st century futuristic outlook. The interconnectedness of modern global society means that new inventions developed in Saudi Arabia or in any other country can ultimately help our species prosper together planetwide.

In these ways and more, the Patent Center and PMU are contributing to Vision 2030, a unique transformative economic and social reform blueprint that is opening Saudi Arabia up to the world. Formed in 2016, Vision 2030 is based on the three pillars of an Ambitious Nation, a Thriving Economy, and a Vibrant Society.

Striving for impactful new inventions that can bring about economic success and fulfilling, healthy livelihoods—both for the inventors and more importantly the recipients of their breakthroughs—is at the heart of the creative activities bolstered by the Patent Center.

"The Patent Center is here to help not only the PMU community, but the community of inventors nationally in Saudi Arabia and the world, along with all the nations of the world in advancing together through the power of invention," said Dr. Al Ansari.

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The seedling pots are made from common industrial minerals and form part of an agricultural container product line to be progressively offered from July 2022.

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, June 20, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The magnitude and urgency of challenges associated with the disposal of plastic pots is acknowledged by both governments and industry around the world, and whilst several initiatives, such as the EU's approach of "Re-think plastics" and refund strategies are currently being actively pursued, the fact remains that very little progress has been made towards finding and implementing sustainable solutions based on appropriate technologies. Consequentially, the bulk of agricultural planting containers, made of low-quality plastics, continue to be discarded in landfills or incinerated.

Dr Aharon Arakel, the director and chief technologist of Pact Renewables said, “Our mineral-based planting containers, collectively known as dPOT planting containers, offer wide-ranging applications from household gardening to horticulture, reforestation and mine site land rehabilitation, and we are pleased to coincide our announcement with World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, that we celebrated on 17 June, and highlights the need for increasing resilience of agricultural practices in many drought impacted regions and countries, whilst reducing the use of plastic planting containers burdened with high life cycle costs.

Dr Arakel went on to say, “As we announced in our January press release, we have over a number of years developed, systematically assessed, and confirmed the applicability of our mineral-based composites technology for the production of degradable feedstock for manufacture of plantable containers. An overriding objective which we have now largely achieved is generating a microenvironment within these degradable containers that offers high water retention capacity for healthy and uninterrupted plant growth, from seeding to mature plant stage. We have found that having a seedling pot with the ability to provide a controlled pH and a low watering frequency requirement is ideal for healthy plant growth in remote areas, whether it is an arid zone or a mine site requiring rehabilitation; and we believe that our seedling pots are the right solutions for such applications. This has necessitated undertaking a rigorous product performance assessment program, using a variety of prototypes of seedling pots and self-watering pots that incorporate old plastic pots as outer lining, as well as pots for growing herbs and flowers that thrive in certain soil pH ranges. Based on our findings earlier this year, we finalised the micro-engineering design of the products for various market segments before completing the related techno-economic evaluations. I am now pleased to announce that commencing from July this year the dPOT seedling pots, as our introductory product line in both standard and nutrient enriched versions for domestic use in Australia, will be available through our affiliated business arm, dCore Australia.”

Dr Arakel went on to conclude, “With a high technology readiness level for our degradable planting containers and a rigorous IP protection strategy already in place, we are now ready to provide access to our technology to interested parties for worldwide commercialisation of dPOT planting containers via technology licensing, product-based JV partnership, contract R&D for product optimisation, related advisory and training services or any other mutually acceptable arrangements. I welcome enquiries and requests for further information from the interested parties; we are particularly keen to partner in projects where our soil degradable planting containers and our in-house skills for design rethinking of agricultural pots can be beneficially applied to address the menaces of climate change, such as water shortage in agriculture and reduction in reliance on plastics in mine site and forest revegetation projects.”

About Pact Renewables
Pact Renewables is a private technology development company and owner of a portfolio of sustainable technologies for waste reduction via product recovery with measurable impactful outcomes. The Company draws from the skills of highly qualified personnel, including scientists, engineers, and ecologists, along with Dr. Aharon Arakel, the lead technology developer and a recognised world expert in the field of product recovery from saline waste streams. In addition to holding a proprietary technology portfolio and expertise, the Company operates specialised in-house material testing and field demonstration facilities to cater for the needs of industries seeking integrated services for addressing waste challenges, improving their value chain, and achieving their sustainability objectives.

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SARIYER, ISTANBUL, TURKEY, June 19, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Maru.Derm has recently released it's 2022 launch. The brand which launched on Gratis and Trendyol, one of the most well-known platforms in Turkey, has attracted great attention. The brand, who signed an important distributorship agreement in the United States in April, will soon have products take their place in the American market.

After the "Save Ralph" video which was popular in 2021, the dimensions of animal testing were seen. Following the video which caused public reactions, cosmetic brands were examined closely by customers, and cruelty-free brands became a preference.

This was exactly the starting point of the Maru.Derm brand. Thanks to the products produced with completely natural ingredients, it has taken its place in the market as a vegan and cruelty-free brand.

"Maru.Derm's philosophy is based on producing products that are natural, safe, and offer long-term benefits. They are produced from plants grown without the involvement of dangerous chemicals, herbicides, or pesticides. This means they don't contain any hard chemicals, parabens, phthalates, mineral oils, PABA, petrolatum, paraffin, or any animal ingredients. This is what makes our product range incredibly effective, safe, and powerful." - MaruDerm Founder, Altug Aynur

Despite the fact that the brand has just recently emerged, it has started to grow in a short time thanks to this philosophy. Founder of the brand, Altuğ Aynur who believes that beauty should always come from the natural, stated: "In recent years, people have desired to reach beauty through natural ways. At Maru.Derm, we wanted to meet these expectations."

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Consulting Customers on Packaging Automation, Source Reduction, Process Improvements, and Green Products

ROMEOVILLE, IL, USA, June 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Consulting Customers on Packaging Automation, Source Reduction, and Green Products

Our growth over the past 2 years along with this acquisition positions Ace Packaging Solutions to be a leading packaging distribution company in the Midwest”— Robert YackleyROMEOVILLE, IL, USA, June 17, 2022/EINPresswire.com/ -- Ace Packaging Solutions, an Industrial Packaging Distribution company specializing in custom packaging solutions, has acquired Aurora, Illinois based Facility Supply Systems, a packaging distribution company with a focus on facility maintenance and green packaging and cleaning supplies. The acquisition was originally proposed in March of 2022 and closed on June 15, 2022.
The deal greatly enhances Ace Packaging Solutions’ position in a competitive market. President Robert Yackley states, “The synergies and overlap between the combined businesses provide benefits of scale and an opportunity to offer more sustainable products to our growing customer base.”
The acquisition of Facility Supply Systems fits into Ace Packaging Solutions’ strategies of growth and sustainability.

About Ace Packaging Solutions:
Ace Packaging Solutions specializes in consultative style selling of packaging solutions. Solutions offered can be through process improvements such as automation, source reduction through the use of premium products resulting in material savings, or a combination of solutions. Ace Packaging Solutions provided additional value to customers through their own private label brand, Imperial Flexible Films(TM). Ace Packaging represents many of the leading lines of equipment and materials. Now with the acquisition of Facility Supply Systems they are adding green product services to their portfolio. Ace Packaging Solutions serves a wide variety of industries including Food, Beverage, Logistics, Manufacturing, Contract Packaging, Furniture, Hardware, and many more.
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EIN Presswire announces a new standard feature benefit; Google My Business

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, June 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- EIN Presswire is announcing a free new standard feature to its press release distribution service, Google My Business. A Google My Business listing shows searchers where and how to visit businesses having websites. Google Business Profiles improves local search engine optimization (SEO) and this information can now be presented in press releases distributed by EIN Presswire.

EIN Presswire’s clients have the option to embed their Google My Business listing into each press release easily with a simple link that will render a Google map with their business profile directly onto their press releases. The Google Map listing will be reprinted on potentially thousands of EIN Presswire’s publishing partners’ web portals.

Jeremy Fields, VP of Business Development at EIN Presswire says “Clients asked and EIN Presswire delivered. Adding Google My Business is yet another add-on benefit that differentiates us from competitors and increases the value to our customers. Our mission is to stick with the popular and straightforward pricing plans with no add-ons fees.”

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We are scheduling an operational gap of six months for replenishment of exhausted money reserves and will return with a graph data model in the form of Neo4j.

SOUTHMINSTER, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, June 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- After a sustained three-year attempt at establishing the basis of an expansive network of community centres, TROM Computers is calling a halt to further development for the time being. The initiative started with the establishment of TROM Computers CIC at the beginning of the pandemic in 2019.

The primary reason for pausing is slow adoption by private benefactors and lack of support from UK Government's Department of Employment and Labour. The project's commercial model is based on income that comes entirely from donations, and a main component is a target projection of government funding in line with current unemployment benefit payments. The government essentially pays for people to work with TROM Computers while job searching.

As a fundamental principle of the project, the TROM Computers staff are paid in a reward-for-effort model where value generated by the project is distributed among people involved, in direct proportion to their individual contributions. Each person records their contribution as 'time chunks' in a web-accessible database where each 'chunk' consists of date, duration and narrative of what is done. There is no distinction between grades of staff, and all value generated is distributed, so there is no mechanism in the share scheme for any one individual in the project to become wealthy from the project, but opportunity in the project for many staff to gain significantly more than they would on a minimum wage assignment or from government handout.

"This method of sharing has proven a very difficult concept to understand because it is far from what is 'normal' in commercial structures," says Nishanth Shiraj, web applications specialist, "It is only since I experienced a share out myself that I came to fully understand the concept. You work on the project because you want to, regardless of money reward, and what you get paid varies according to what value is produced overall. We all do this anyway in family situations, so the TROM Computers payment method is simply the same but applied to the commercial settings in social projects."

A major vision of the TROM Computers project is the harnessing of massive amounts of human capacity built into the many people on low incomes or unemployed. Within the project's organisation structure, there will be opportunity for participants to apply efforts to the resolution of local and national concerns like homelessness, isolation, antisocial behaviour and poverty. Concerns for which it is abundantly evident that Politicians are unable to solve, except for when additional effort is expended to harness the power of the Community Concerns initiative that is a core element of the TROM Computers project.

A priority target for TROM Computers when it re-emerges with full funding, is to implement the Community Concerns initiative by infiltration of local County Councils and Parish Councils and disrupting their bureaucratic operations. Motivation to join Local Councils is in many cases not by genuine interest in resolving community problems, but by self interest and usually related to personal financial gain. As recorded in TROM Computers history when acquisition of public building for use as local premises was filibustered out of the Burnham Town Council agenda in 2020.

When the TROM Computers project is underway, government policy that sustains a condition of below-poverty-line existence for recipients of social benefits, will be challenged. As an alternative to current policy, benefits recipients will be offered the opportunity to work on the TROM Computers Community Concerns project, utilising their input and at the same time providing them with incentive for self improvement.

"The main lesson we can learn from our largely unsuccessful start-up, is to accept that the money game is played always for personal gain and hardly ever for community development,' says David Winter, TROM Computers founder, "No politician or local councillor in the current social system is ever going to promote community development unless it involves some kind of personal advantage."

During the down time of TROM Computers operations, trials will be conducted on a small scale experiment using donations that individuals make in any case for parties considered of worth in community development. An example of these is the Richie Allen radio show that provides a platform for guests whose opinions are often considered unpopular or offensive, but valid nevertheless on the principle that all opinions should be heard and challenged. Richie Allen is a strong proponent of free speech, and plans are in preparation for a 'share out experiment' involving his regular donors who will be offered the option to donate via TROM Computers as a showcase of how the method works as a precursor to pressure on government to support the TROM Computers project.

For the global scale of operation envisaged for the TROM Computers project, graphing database technology is the way forward. Graphing technology of choice for the emerging project's data model is Neo4j - https://neo4j.com

Order Efficiency Ltd is the creator of the Project Health Control (PHC) methodology behind the PHC Consortium, a collaboration of companies and individuals promoting performance improvement for business and individuals.

TROM Computers CIC is the hub of a network for community development through service via the PHC Portal, an interactive online window to information on community based projects. New users register by sending a blank email to addme@phcportal.com

Richie Allen is an award winning radio and television presenter and the host of The Richie Allen Show, the most listened to independent radio show in Europe. https://richieallen.co.uk

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