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The newest Managing Director brings years of experience in higher education to Silicon Valley edtech startup.

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Today, Fidelis Education announced the appointment of Sharon van Wyk, Ph.D. as Managing Director. In this role, Dr. van Wyk will accelerate Fidelis Education’s fast-growing higher education business and expand learning relationship management consulting and services to new markets.

Fidelis Education partners with colleges and universities to improve student success, retention and completion. Students and their advisors, mentors, and faculty use Fidelis Education’s Learning Relationship Management (LRM) software to accelerate student success by clarifying the purpose of their education, creating a clear path to achieve their objectives with support from their coaches, mentors and faculty, and connecting with like-minded students, faculty, alumni and potential employers through virtual communities. Students receive the guidance they need to stay on track to achieve their goals and use the LRM to share online portfolios and micro-credentials. Advisors use the LRM’s system of alerts and tools to personalize support to individual students. Institutions gain insight into methods of scalable support that accelerate achievement for different types of learners and, with the student’s permission, prospective employers can see student’s interests and accomplishments which can distinguish students from other internship and full time employment candidates.

“Students who have the 3 P’s, a compelling and motivating purpose, a clear path to achieve their purpose, and a support network of people succeed with fewer setbacks in school, life and their careers. Leading academic institutions are partnering with Fidelis Education to adopt LRM to help every student benefit from the 3 P’s, provide students with critical front-line support at their point of need, and share unprecedented insights on combinations of factors that contribute to student achievement with faculty and institutional leaders,” said van Wyk. “We’re committed to supporting higher education leaders as they grapple with new accountability measures and support strategies that can dramatically improve student outcomes.”

Dr. van Wyk brings over 25 years of experience leading improvement initiatives in corporations, higher education institutions, and military related organizations. She previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Tutor.com and The Princeton Review where she further integrated and streamlined the companies to provide more effective student support and positioned the companies for growth. Dr. van Wyk also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer at American Public University System, where she led the transformation of online admissions and student services to be student centric and scalable to support 110,000+ students around the world. Prior to her role at American Public University System, she held business and education executive leadership roles at Intuit, Genworth, GE and Accenture. Dr. van Wyk began her education career as a community-based 4-H Youth Agent and faculty member for University of Wisconsin-Cooperative Extension and she also served an adjunct professor for the Executive MBA program at the University of Connecticut Business School. Dr. van Wyk has been an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on education technology and courseware investments and was a charter member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Personalized Learning Network. She is currently appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to chair the Advisory Board to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

“We are thrilled to have Sharon join our leadership team at Fidelis Education,” said CEO Gunnar Counselman. “With her wide-ranging leadership experience in higher education and business, Sharon will play a critical role in guiding our efforts to partner with leading colleges and universities to help every student achieve their potential.”

Dr. van Wyk holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems and an M.S. in Instructional Systems from Florida State University. She earned a B.S. in Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Her post-doctoral studies include certificates from the GE John F. Welch Leadership Development Center and the Harvard Institute of Education Management and she has attended the invitation only, U.S. War College National Security Seminar.

In addition to her extensive leadership experience, Dr. van Wyk possesses several process improvement certifications including Six Sigma Instructor and Master Black Belt.

About Fidelis Education

Fidelis designs intuitive technology that makes it easy for students to discover, navigate, and take advantage of the student success services colleges and universities already offer – and introduce best practices that keep them coming back. Higher education institutions implement our software, which is used by over 100,000 students each year, to coordinate and measure the impact of student services, including academic tutoring, mentoring, and career planning. For more info, please visit http://www.fideliseducation.com. Reported by PRWeb 3 hours ago.

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A new report finds that the “staggering” rate of warming in the world’s oceans is shifting fisheries, spreading disease and altering the behavior of many marine species around the world – including in the Arctic.

Up until a few years ago, mackerel were unknown in Greenland’s cold waters. The small oily fish typically spawned west of the British Isles and then migrated toward the northeast along the Norwegian current to feed for the summer. But in 2007, they began to show up in large numbers in the Irminger Current around Iceland. On the ocean highway, where they once turned right, they now turned left.

By 2011, the mackerel had found their way into Greenlandic waters, prompting the launch of a new fishery. Three years later, the mackerel fishery made up 23 percent of Greenland’s export earning, an “extreme example of how climate change can impact the economy of an entire nation,” Teunis Jansen, a researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, said in a release.

The mackerel aren’t the only species being affected by warmer oceans. Soaring temperatures have pushed entire groups of species toward the poles, caused increases in disease in plants and animals and changed weather patterns, according to a report launched this week by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Marine species are moving northward at a rate roughly five times faster than the migration of land animals.

The report, released during the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, highlights the impacts of ocean warming on marine life, from microorganisms to mammals. Eighty scientists from a dozen countries worked on the report, considered to be the most comprehensive collection of research on the planet’s warming oceans.Truly Staggering

“We were astounded by the scale and extent of ocean warming effects on entire ecosystems made clear by this report,” said Dan Laffoley, an IUCN marine adviser and one of the report’s lead authors.

The world’s oceans have acted as a buffer against climate change. A “staggering 93 percent” of the heat produced by human activities has been absorbed by the world’s oceans, Laffoley said. If the heat had entered the atmosphere instead of the oceans, the Earth would have warmed not by the 1C (1.8F) we have already experienced, but by 36C (64.8F). “Up to now, the ocean has shielded us from the worst impacts of climate change,” the report’s authors write.

Temperatures have risen most dramatically in the Arctic, where air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean have increased by 1–2C(1.8–3.6F) since 1980, melting sea ice and the undersides of glaciers.

The loss of sea ice has many consequences. Ice acts as a physical barrier, preventing species from moving from one ocean to another and filtering the amount of light that enters the water. Without it, there is an increased chance that species could use Arctic waters to migrate between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the report said.

The thinning ice has also led to plankton blooms, which fundamentally shift the food available in the ecosystem, said Olof Linden, a marine environmental scientist at the World Maritime University, at the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization, and the author of the Arctic chapter in the report. Linden said the report focused on the biological aspects of warming Arctic waters, but he recognized that there would be many knock-on effects for the people who live along the coasts.

Fundamental Shifts Underway

“The change in ice cover has a dramatic impact on the ecosystem and biodiversity,” said Linden. “At the surface, there is now a soup of plankton and short-lived pelagic fish, like herring and sprat living up there. The groupers, the haddock are all gone because they cannot live off of those plankton.”

Warmer temperatures are already having an effect on bird populations that frequent the Arctic. Ivory gulls in Arctic Canada have declined by 70 percent and the number of Arctic skua breeding in Scotland declined by 74 percent between 1986 and 2011. Studies suggest that black-legged kittiwakes could be extinct in Norway within the next 10–100 years.The length of the Arctic summer (reduced ice conditions) has already increased by 5–10 weeks throughout the Arctic – and by more than 20 weeks in the Barents Sea region, putting ice-dependent mammals on the edge. As the sea ice retreats, the reproductive success of pack-ice breeding seals will plummet and polar bears are likely to be pushed out of much of their current range in 50–70 years, according to the report.

And, at some point, the report said, the warming ocean could unlock billions of tons of methane frozen within the permafrost contained within the seabed, beneath the oceans.

Future Safeguards

Arctic species are thought to be particularly susceptible to warming ocean temperatures, because they are highly specialized in terms of what they eat, how they hunt and where they live.

There are measures that can be taken to reduce the vulnerability of the Arctic ecosystem to added human pressures, such as controlling emissions, waste and ballast waters from ships traveling in Arctic waters and minimizing the risk of an oil spill, said Linden.

“As fish species move to new jurisdictions, they could create conflicts for access,” said Brian Mackenzie, a researcher at the Technical University of Denmark. “[We] need to have clear science-based management policies in place, compliance, etc. … to avoid conflicts like what happened a few years ago when mackerel and herring moved farther North in N.E. Atlantic and created conflicts among different countries.”

Marine protected areas play a role, but the size of these areas is crucial to their success. They must contain many habitats of the same type and of different types in the same area to preserve the ecosystem, said Linden.

He points to the recent expansion of Papahānaumokuākea, an existing ocean reserve off the coast of Hawaii, which will now be the world’s largest marine protected area, covering 1.5 million square kilometers (582,578 square miles). Russia announced the enlargement of its Arctic National Park to include islands in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago and parts of the adjacent seas, making it Russia’s largest national park and marine wildlife sanctuary at 88,000 square kilometers (34,000 square miles).

But at its core, ocean warming is a “global temperature effect,” said Linden. “The only way to deal with it is to stop pumping out carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

This article originally appeared on Arctic Deeply. For weekly updates about Arctic geopolitics, economy, and ecology, you can sign up to the Arctic Deeply email list.

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Philly Shipyard ASA (the "Company") has today held an extraordinary general meeting regarding the Board of Directors' proposal to pay an extraordinary dividend of USD 3.00 per share. The extraordinary general meeting approved the Board of Directors' proposal. The minutes from the general meeting are attached in Norwegian and English.

For key information about the extraordinary dividend, please see the Company's stock exchange release of August 19, 2016.

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Philly Shipyard is a leading U.S. commercial shipyard constructing vessels for operation in the Jones Act market.  It possesses a state-of-the-art shipbuilding facility and has earned a reputation as the preferred provider of oceangoing merchant vessels with a track record of delivering quality ships. Philly Shipyard is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and is majority-owned by Aker Capital II AS, which in turn is owned by Aker ASA. Aker is a Norwegian industrial investment company that creates value through active ownership. Aker's investment portfolio is concentrated on key Norwegian industries that are international in scope: oil and gas, fisheries and biotechnology, and marine assets. Aker's industrial holdings comprise ownership interests in Aker Solutions, Kvaerner, Det norske oljeselskap, Aker BioMarine, Ocean Yield and Akastor.

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The United States is indeed exceptional. It is the only country that ushers in a new presidency by displacing thousands of the highest executive branch officials. How do institutional integrity and coherent foreign policy survive this upheaval?

Placed in historical perspective, it is striking that shifts by Washington, and hence adjustments required of other powers tend to be marginal. Think of the Cold War. Premises and purposes varied ever so slightly between Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan. Events more than leaders were the primary cause of significant alterations in its modalities. Stalin’s death, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis (above all), Vietnam, the 1973 complex of Middle East crises, the fall of the Shah, Afghanistan and then – finally and conclusively – the arrival in the Kremlin of Mikhail Gorbachev.

The post-Cold War era has witnessed similar continuity. Six successive administrations headed by four different presidents have dedicated America to accomplishing the same ends. They have been: promote the extension of a globalized world economy grounded on neo-liberal principles are far as possible; foster democratic political systems for the long-term headed by leaders sympathetic to Washington’s philosophy and leadership; stress the latter when forced to choose in the short-term; isolate and bring down any government that actively resists this campaign; and maintain the United States’ dominant position as rule-setter in international organizations.

The horror of 9/11 has forced some modification in the modus of this strategy insofar as it announced a unique threat that the country’s political class countered by calling for the aggressive deployment of military force under the rubric of the “war on terror.” Its application only became divisive when advertised deceitfully and led to embarrassing failure – in Iraq. The collective effort to blur that reality, along with the implicit agreement to renounce the idea of holding anyone or group accountable, has voided the experience of any lessons learned. Hence, the “war on terror” has proceeded on the rails laid down in 2001.

The much publicized Obama deviations from the Bush approach do not amount to much. Its basic pillars remain firmly in place. True, Obama has not repeated the Iraq intervention. But in fact there has been no opportunity or reason to repeat it. To take military action against Iran was always irrational since any threat from that quarter was intangible and indirect. Elsewhere, America has moved aggressively using drones, Special Forces and political pressure to suppress a wide range of “bad guys” who may or may not be terrorists, or threats to the U.S. They include Mali, Chad, Niger, Libya, Philippines, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq-again, Syria, as well as those old stand-byes Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Libya, Obama managed to create chaos on a scale that even exceeds Iraq without even putting American boots on the ground. A few are there now that the country has become a Club Med for the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups of native origin.

In the Middle East more broadly, continuity is starkly apparent. In addition to treating Iran as implacably hostile, the United States has not wavered in its unqualified backing for Israel’s systematic brutalization of the Palestinians, for the Egyptian’s military suppression of all opposition – including the democrats of the ill-fated Arab Spring, for the autocratic ways of the GCC statelets, for Saudi Arabia’s entrenched autocracy that legitimizes itself by reckless promotion of anti-Western Wahhabism throughout the Islamic world and which has launched a bloody imperial war against its enemies in Yemen. That backing  for the KSA, matched by Obama’s uncritical backing of Turkey’s Erdogan, has placed the United States in de facto alliance with al-Qaeda in Syria. It also has inhibited Washington from confronting both Turkey and Saudi Arabia for their critical role in the genesis and fostering of the Islamic State.

All of these positions are approved by nearly the entire foreign policy establishment – Republican or Democratic. Only Syria is an exception insofar as there are those who would like to see a large American military engagement to unseat Assad. There is a lot of hot air blown on this question. However, the reality is that there is no method for the United States to intervene without paving the way for a Salafist takeover of the country. That is not an outcome which any incumbent of the White house could tolerate. Moreover, Americans are not prepared for a repeat performance of Iraq.

What stands out from this review is the degree of consensus among those who pay attention to foreign policy and especially among those who may hold positions of responsibility in a new administration. Given that paramount reality, there is little reason to expect more than slight modifications in existing policies. The fact that those policies are sterile and/or manifest failures does not change that logic. For independent thinking is a rarity these days; the mainstream media have set aside all skeptical instincts out of cowardice, careerism and profit maximizing; and, on the Middle East, there are powerful domestic political interests that press hard, in private as well as public, in favor of the status quo fortified by more muscle re. Iran and Syria.

So, at the end of the day, it makes very little difference which of the names bandied about for senior foreign policy posts will be inscribed on the lintels above the imposing entrances to the offices of the high and mighty.

What about Russia? America’s relations with Russia carry greater consequence for long-term American interests, especially in Europe, than anything going on in the Middle East. The unspoken truth is that the Middle East would hardly count were it not for Israel, oil and terrorism. And the last is in good part a derivative of what we have done in regard to the first two. Europe is another matter.

The flaming of a new Cold War is laden with consequence – including risk of serious conflagration. Since the Kiev coup of February 2014, tensions between Moscow and the West have risen to dangerous levels. Many in the United States seem to welcome the development. Prominent among them are those who since 1991 have set as a cardinal national goal the permanent subordination of Russia within international structures designed and directed by the West. Putin’s dedication to preventing that fate cast him as an opponent, and now enemy, of the United States. In this line of thinking, peace and stability in Europe are predicated on winning this struggle. That means isolation, restricting Russian influence of any kind anywhere, and eventually supplanting him with someone prepared to accept that country’s predestined place in the envisaged pax Americana.

Developments in the Ukraine, the seizure of Crimea, the fighting in the Donetsk basin have created the occasion for this contest to take on dimensions of a full-blown geopolitical conflict. We should bear in mind a few inconveniently neglected facts. Washington under Bush pressed very hard for the inclusion of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO as far back as 2007-08 – prevented only by resistance from the West Europeans sensitive to Russia’s concerns about being encircled.  The United States remains officially committed to that expansion of NATO. From Moscow’s vantage point, NATO in the post-Cold War era looks to have as its main purpose the exclusion of Russia from the main arena of European affairs.

At the same time, Washington encouraged its Georgian protégé, Mikheil Saakashvili,to attack the breakaway province of Southern Ossetia – Georgia’s armed being trained and equipped by the U.S. That prompted a Russian intervention and humiliating defeat for Georgia. Washington played a critical political role in the ousting of democratically elected  President Viktor Yanukovych because he hesitated at signing onto a deal that would have made Ukraine a dependent of the European Union and an IMF ward. And it is Washington that has rebuffed or undermined every one of Putin’s several attempts to reach a modus vivendi on Ukraine as a crucial step toward fashioning terms for pragmatic cooperation between Russia and the West.

On Russia, as on Syria, there exists a uniformity of thinking among American political elites grounded in a simplistic narrative wherein we wear the white hats and Putin is depicted as wearing a black hat with the discernible imprint of a Red Star. However divorced from reality these images are, they are held with near universality. Obama has taken as tough a line on Russia as a rational person could. Hillary has done the same – with the addition of some female pectoral flexing (e.g. calling Putin a “new Hitler”). If truth be told, American policy-makers were far more comfortable with Yeltsin’s enfeebled, declining, oligarch ridden and compliant Russia than they have been with Putin’s Russia.

The real question is not whether American policy toward Russia will become more belligerent (it cannot without risking outright war). Rather, it is: will there be persons in the new administration ready to take a dispassionate view of Russia and move us off the current confrontational track? At the moment, there is no evidence of any. Indeed, the atmosphere is redolent of the 1950s in its stark imagery, self-righteousness, bellicosity and Manichean perspective. The only thing missing is a justification.

American policy-makers have segregated Russia from their thinking about relations with China. This reflects an all too common habit of a disjointed, serial approach to matters whose complex linkages are beyond the capacity of our strategists. Russia is important for three reasons: it is a major presence in the European geopolitical space; it has considerable military capability along with a demonstrated will to use it; and it is contiguous to and experienced in the greater Middle East where it has serious national interests. However, Russia today is not the global power that it was in Soviet days.

China, by comparison, is well on its way to becoming a global world power. It has now and is expanding all of the requisite assets: economic, military and political. China also has an ancient history of seeing itself as the center of the world (The Middle Kingdom) that is closely associated with its self-image of exceptionalism and superiority. Hence, every reasonable observer recognizes that the future shape of world affairs will be determined primarily by the terms of an evolving relationship between the United States and China. Everything else we do should take that into account.

The inner logic of this situation points to the conclusion that Washington should bend its efforts toward the maintenance of as cordial relations with other powers as possible, and to avoid unnecessarily alienating or antagonizing them. Our credibility and our authority, as well as our tangible power, dictate that we follow that maxim. In regard to Russia, we are doing the exact opposite.  Instead, we seem inclined to pick fights wherever the opportunity presents itself – especially with Moscow. That is a sign of insecurity – not confidence. It is counter-productive behavior from the perspective of long-term national interests. It serves emotional needs rather than political needs. It perpetuates an unthinking commitment to an unrealistic conception of what the United States is, and what it can accomplish in the world – one  that is becoming a growing liability as the disparity widens between illusion and reality.

In regard to China, Washington is tending to reduce a uniquely complicated challenge in unprecedented global circumstances to a simplistic  contest for dominance.  The stake  is the terms of  collaboration in ordering and managing a multiform, interdependent world. Will they more closely approximate our conception (and better serve our interests) or China’s conception and interests?  Or will we all fail to agree on rules-of-the-road and suffer the consequences.  Neither Marine bases on Australia’s crocodile coast nor a symbolic embrace of Laos will affect the outcome.

Will a President Clinton, and her administration, be cognizant of the imperative to engage in this kind of probing reappraisal? We see no indications of such an inclination. Indeed, quite the opposite.

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Food security of India and several other major key food producing countries are threatened by changing weather patterns due to warming of the oceans, which may well be the "greatest" hidden challenge for the present generation, according to a study.

Changes in ocean-focused atmospheric patterns have direct implications on food production as the yield is impacted. "The consequences for society of changing weather patterns due to the warming of the oceans are considerable," said the report titled "Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences".

The report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said they involve a mix of food and water factors, and the evolution of various types of risk.

Noting that there have already been changes to precipitation patterns in a number of areas of the planet resulting from large-scale atmospheric teleconnections with ocean warming, the report said there can be increased rainfall in some mid-latitude and monsoon areas and decrease over various sub-tropical regions.

"Both will have impacts on the yields of crops over a range of important food producing areas such as Australia, North America and India," it said.

The report said there were good correlations between wheat and maize yields with the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) and PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation), so changes in these ocean-focused atmospheric patterns have direct implications on food production.NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) and PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation), so changes in these ocean-focused atmospheric patterns have direct implications on food production.

Similarly, increasing temperatures tend to reduce maize yields, if all other factors are held constant, it said.

"At sea, warming temperatures will cause changes to the abundance and range of marine species used for food, leading to implications for both the billion people who depend on fish for their principal source of protein and the fishing and aquaculture industries linked to this harvesting."

It also warned that the changes in the ocean are happening between 1.5 and 5 times faster than those on land.

"Such range shifts are potentially irreversible, with great impacts on ecosystems. What this will result in, decades down the line, is less clear.

"It is an experiment where, rather than being a casual observer in the lab, we have unwittingly placed ourselves inside the test-tube," it said, adding that ocean warming may well turn out to be the greatest hidden challenge of our generation.

The report, launched at the just concluded IUCN World Conservation Congress held in Hawaii, said more than 93 per cent of the enhanced heating since the 1970s resulting from human activities has been absorbed by the ocean, and data show a sustained and accelerating upward trend in ocean warming.

"The scale of ocean warming depicted in the report is truly staggering: if the same amount of heat that has gone into the top 2 km of the ocean between 1955 and 2010 had instead gone into the lower 10 km of the atmosphere, the Earth would have seen a warming of 36 C," says the report compiled for IUCN by 80 scientists in 12 countries.

Major changes caused by ocean warming and other stressors described in the report include impacts on entire ecosystems from polar to tropical regions, predicted to increase further in scale, stretching from accessible coasts to the deep ocean seabed.

The entire groups of species such as plankton, jellyfish, fish, turtles and seabirds could be driven by up to 10 degrees of latitude towards the Earth's poles to keep within reasonable environmental conditions.

It also spoke about loss of breeding grounds for groups such as turtles and seabirds, and impacts on the breeding success of birds and sea mammals; and seasonality shifts by plankton, leading to potential mismatch between plankton species with fish and other marine wildlife.

As the ocean warms the atmosphere above, and beyond, is being affected by it.

"Developing changes in air-sea interactions are being seen around the planet, in many cases leading to enhancement or shifting of extreme weather.

This can be mid-latitude storminess, linked to changes in Arctic sea-ice, more severe hurricanes or changes to the character of El Ni o events or monsoons, all linked to tropical ocean changes," it said.

These changes to the ocean, and then atmosphere, are set to continue as anthropogenic warming continues this century.

"More and more change to the ocean will occur, in terms of sea ice cover, stratification, the global meridional overturning circulation or the increased melt water runoff and calving of icebergs into the ocean," the report said.

The report also describes the inadequacy of current knowledge, capabilities and capacity to adequately study ocean warming, and to advise and cope with the associated challenges.

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Sri Lanka’s Minister of Fisheries Mahinda Amaraweera said that an extended survey of marine resources within the Sri Lankan sea area is due to be conducted again, after 38 years from the first marine resources investigation conducted in Sri Lanka in 1978.

The objectives of the survey will be the assessment of fish stocks, conservation of certain species of fish at threat of extinction, collection of data of the fish species which need extended farming, and gathering information of other aquatic species and aquatic plants.

The survey is planned to be implemented with the collaboration of Fisheries Ministry, NARA and the Norwegian Centre for Development Cooperation in Fisheries. The Minister officially visited Norway in August and the matters related to this marine survey was highly noted there.

Accordingly, Norway has consented to providing Sri Lanka with world’s largest vessel deployed in marine resources investigations. The vessel, RV-Dr. Fridtjof Nansen is fully equipped with the latest technology used in marine resources investigations. This vessel with its length of 550 ft and width of 200 ft will be employed for the investigation purposes of marine resources in SriLankan waters for 2 years, said the Minister.

The survey will be fully funded by the Norwegian government and will be initiated in next January with a view to developing fisheries industry in Sri Lanka and the government of Norway has expressed their full consent . Reported by Eurasia Review 10 hours ago.

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Hello! Here's what you need to know on Tuesday.

*1. Turkish Nobel Prize winner: Turkey is sliding into a "reign of terror." *"Freedom of thought no longer exists. We are distancing ourselves at high speed from a state of law and heading towards a regime of terror," Nobel-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk said.

*2. Brexit will cost Britain £43.8 billion over the next 3 years.* The British Chamber of Commerce has drastically cut growth forecasts for Britain's economy in the wake of Brexit.

*3. The BBC lost 'The Great British Bake Off' to Channel 4.* The BBC failed to agree a new contract for the show — and rival Channel 4 swooped.

*4. Former Prime Minister David Cameron has stood down as a Member of Parliament with immediate effect. *The MP for Witney made the surprise announcement on Monday afternoon. "I have to start to build a life outside Westminster," he told the BBC.

*5. North Korea's fifth and largest nuclear test last Friday was a wake-up call to us all. *"The tone among Korea watchers has changed. It's not funny anymore..." Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Business Insider.

*6. 1 ISIS recruiter has emerged as the link between 4 different plots to attack France. *The precise role of the extremist, Rachid Kassim, is under investigation, but the officials say he has become a key instigator who directs recruits in encrypted forums on how and where to carry out Daesh's orders.

*7. US bombers fly over South Korea in show of force following North Korea's nuclear test.* The two bombers conducted a low-altitude flight over Osan Air Base in South Korea, which is 48 miles from the Demilitarized Zone border with the North and about 25 miles from the South's capital Seoul.

*8. Facebook just rubbed one of Google's biggest missed opportunities in its face.* While Facebook's chat app, Messenger, has more than 1 billion monthly users, Google lacks a super-popular messaging app.

*9. Scientists just got closer to understanding the genetic roots of crime — and it's making them nervous. *"The findings of this study cannot be implemented for any prediction purposes, or brought into courthouses to be given any legal weight," the researchers wrote.

*10. LinkedIn's founder promised to give up to $5 million to veterans if Donald Trump releases his tax returns. *Specifically, Hoffman is backing a campaign led by Marine Corps veteran Peter Kiernan on Crowdpac to incentivize Trump to release his returns.

*And finally ...*

*Astronomers discovered a second ‘alien megastructure’ star that’s even stranger than the first one.*

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Aqualis ASA : Presentation Material at Pareto Securities Oil & Offshore Conference

September 12, 2016, 10:02 pm

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CEO David Wells is scheduled to present at the Pareto Securities Oil & Offshore Conference in Oslo on Thursday, September 15 at 12:55 CET.

 
The presentation can be downloaded from www.newsweb.no and www.aqualis.no
 

For further information, please contact:

Kim Boman, CFO, Aqualis ASA
Telephone: +47 959 63 912
Email: kim.boman@aqualis.noAbout Aqualis ASA
Aqualis ASA (OSE: Aqua) is a public company that, through its subsidiaries and associates, offers energy consultancy services to the global oil and gas, wind and solar sectors. The group employs experienced consultants in 22 offices in 15 countries worldwide. Aqualis ASA operates under three different brands: Aqualis Offshore, Offshore Wind Consultants and ADLER Solar. Aqualis Offshore is a specialized offshore marine and engineering consultancy firm, focusing on the shallow and deep-water offshore segments of the oil and gas industry. Offshore Wind Consultants is a globally focused consultancy providing independent services to the offshore renewables industry. ADLER Solar is a technical and engineering service provider for the global solar industry. Aqualis owns 49.9 percent of ADLER Solar.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
Pareto Securities conference presentation
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The issuer of this announcement warrants that they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information contained therein.

Source: Aqualis ASA via GlobeNewswire

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Worldwide Facilities’ Los Angeles Office Adds Motor Truck Cargo / Auto Physical Damage Program

September 13, 2016, 12:10 am

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National wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent Worldwide Facilities has added a Motor Truck Cargo / Auto Physical Damage program at its Los Angeles office, significantly expanding its offerings to commercial transportation clients.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 13, 2016

Worldwide Facilities now offers in-house underwriting and binding authority on “A”-rated paper, as well as domestic claims authority from TPA on all claims under $50,000.

“There aren’t currently many markets offering this type of coverage,” says Robert Riske, Senior Vice President at Worldwide Facilities’ Los Angeles office. “Worldwide Facilities is now one of the few wholesale brokers in the country that can provide access to it.”

Worldwide Facilities is able to offer either monoline or package coverage. Motor Truck Cargo covers up to 25 units or $250,000 per vehicle, and Auto Physical Damage offers up to $2 million in fleet values. Target classes include both owner-operators and small to mid-sized fleets.

“Our Los Angeles team of brokers offers decades of experience securing coverage for challenging commercial transportation risks,” says Ryan Riske, Assistant Vice President of Worldwide Facilities’ Marine Division. “We’re confident this new program will be of great use to the professionals we work with and their insureds.”

Contact: Robert K. Riske
Senior Vice President
Direct: (213) 236-4526
rriske(at)wwfi(dot)com

Contact: Ryan C. Riske
Assistant Vice President, Marine Division
Direct: (213) 236-4537
Cell: (949) 500-2597
rcriske(at)wwfi(dot)com

Worldwide Facilities, LLC, 725 S. Figueroa Street, 19th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017

About Worldwide Facilities, LLC
Worldwide Facilities, LLC is a national wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent that has been in business since 1970. Our seasoned brokers and underwriters are industry leaders in providing expertise in a wide range of specialty lines, and offer extensive contacts with carriers domestically and overseas. Reported by PRWeb 9 hours ago.

Warriors Heart to host Grand Opening for First Private Warriors Only Treatment Center

September 13, 2016, 12:10 am

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Warriors Heart announces the Grand Opening of the first “Warriors Only” private treatment center for addiction and PTSD in the United States on October 15, 2016.

San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) September 13, 2016

In celebration of the first private treatment center for “Warriors Only” in the United States, Warriors Heart will host a Grand Opening on Saturday, October 15, 2016, at their ranch just outside of San Antonio, Texas. Warriors Heart has been open since April 2016, and is proud to have already served a number of veterans, law enforcement, firefighters and department of defense contractors.

With over 14, 500 specialized drug treatment facilities in the United States (DrugAbuse.gov), Warriors Heart is the first and ONLY private treatment center for “Warriors Only” in the U.S.

Successful private treatment facility providers, Josh and Lisa Lannon (former Law Enforcement Officer), joined forces with Tom Spooner (former Special Forces and Mission 22 Co-Founder) to lead the Warriors Heart team on a special mission to heal our protectors with dignity and respect.

Warriors Heart offers an evidence-based and “holistic” treatment for our law enforcement, firefighters, veterans and other first responders. This program is also an alternative to the VA (Veterans Administration) backlog where veterans may wait months to see one specialist. According to VA reports, 690,869 (378,993 PTSD) have been diagnosed for mental health disorders since 2001 - and those are only the one’s who have sought help.

The Warriors Heart Grand Opening is in honor of our “National Heroes”, and will include:
1.    Tour of the Warriors Heart 542-acre ranch and healing facility.
2.    Ribbon Cutting Ceremony.
3.    Dedication of the Mission 22 Memorial on the Warriors Heart property.
4.    K9 Service Dog demos.
5.    Live music by local bands.
6.    BBQ prepared by the Warriors Heart Private Chefs.

What makes the Warriors Heart program unique is the peer-to-peer residential treatment, where warriors can feel safe sharing with their “Tribe”. Other facilities may offer “tracks” that treat warriors, however, the programs are typically still in a group setting with clients who have not been through the front lines of trauma. There is a stigma that our warriors are supposed to be tough, but the effects of the front lines of war, the streets and fires take their toll. Warriors Heart provides a place where warriors can heal in an environment that supports and understands them. Warriors no longer have to deal with trauma in silence and through coping mechanisms such as alcohol. As a result of this “Warriors Only” approach to treatment, the healing process for veterans and first responders dealing with substance abuse and PTSD can be faster.

The Mission 22 Memorial, created by Elder Heart, will have a special dedication at this event. This mobile monument is made up of steel plates created in the likeness of real American Veterans who lost their battle with PTSD. These commemorative silhouettes are a sad reminder that 22 veterans commit suicide a day in the US. Warriors Heart is dedicated to helping our veterans overcome the “War at Home”, and reducing this unacceptable statistic.

The Warriors Heart facility is the former Purple Sage Ranch corporate retreat center with 40 beds, and is designed to let our warriors heal in a safe and comfortable place with a private chef, fitness center, pool, creative shop, private lake, running trails and luxury amenities.

The clinical team includes licensed doctors and therapists. Warriors Heart Clinical Director Annette T Hill is a Gold Star Mother, who specializes in trauma. Annette’s son, Adam Hill Gibson, served two tours in Iraq and sadly passed way as a result of symptoms of PTSD in 2009.

Former Marine and Operation Overwatch Founder, Brice Cavanaugh and therapists will also do K9 demos during this Grand Opening to show the healing power of these Service Dogs provided at Warriors Heart.

Private insurance may cover most of the Warriors Heart program costs, and Warriors Heart is in the process of getting TriCare and TriWest insurance credentialed.

To RSVP, please email tim.whitehouse AT warriorsheart DOT com

For a timely media interview, please contact
Liz Kelly, Goody PR, 310-987-7207

About the Warriors Heart (Bandera, Texas):
Warriors Heart provides a peer-to peer based solution to help the over 13.3 million American Warriors (Military, Veterans, Law Enforcement and First Responders) faced with the self-medicating struggles of alcohol addiction, prescription and drug addiction, PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and mild TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) in a private, 40-bed facility. Along with a 28-day peer-to-peer residential treatment program, Warriors Heart will soon also have the option of Day Treatment, Outpatient, and Sober Living (60 Day Minimum). With decades of experience in addiction healing, military service and law enforcement, the 3 Warriors Heart Founders (CEO Josh Lannon, former Law Enforcement Officer Lisa Lannon and former Special Forces Tom Spooner) are leading the team on this special mission of warriors healing warriors. Warriors Heart Founders’ work has been featured in Forbes, Chicago Tribune, KENS5 CBS News San Antonio, FOX 10 News Phoenix, PoliceOne, Woman’s Day and Addiction Pro magazine. There is a 24-hour Warriors Heart hotline (844-448-2567) answered by warriors. http://warriorsheart.com Reported by PRWeb 9 hours ago.

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ADT continues its global showcase to unveil the latest version of TURBOdesign Suite at this year's Turbomachinery Pump Symposia 2016

(PRWEB UK) 13 September 2016

Advanced Design Technology (ADT), a global leader in the development of advanced turbomachinery design methods and the TURBOdesign Suite are delighted to exhibit at the 45th Turbomachinery & 32nd Pump Symposia in Houston, Texas on 12- 15 September 2016. After the recent success of the 12th International Conference on Turbochargers and Turbocharging in London and ASME TURBO EXPO in Seoul, ADT continues its global showcase tour of the latest release of TURBOdesign Suite 6.1.0. The new software continues to grab global headlines with the power to streamline the process of design optimization of turbomachinery for multiple operating points.

The Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia serves as the premier training and networking opportunity for professionals in the pump, turbomachinery, and related industries. The annual event combines a world-class program with a cutting-edge exhibit hall; last year, attracting more than 5,500 attendees and 350 exhibiting companies from 48 countries. The Symposia is organized by the Turbomachinery Laboratory, part of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and The Texas A&M University System. The Advisory Committee Chairman is Dr. Dara Childs, Turbomachinery Laboratory Director.

"Maturing efficiency levels in turbomachinery combined with market and legislative pressures to improve performances and reliability, while reducing development costs are straining the limits of the conventional turbomachinery optimization methods” says Prof. Zangeneh, Managing Director of ADT, “3D Inverse Design approaches for turbomachinery optimization can deliver considerable reduction in development costs and times providing an ideal platform for multidisciplinary turbomachinery design and optimization compatible with industrial development standard."

ADT's specialists and engineers will be on hand to show how by using TURBOdesign Suite inverse design methods make the turbomachinery design process simple. See how the advanced tools within TURBOdesign Suite enable engineers to produce high-quality designs, optimise the performance of components and reduce development time.

Book a demo now of our unique 3D design software during the exhibition, or come visit us on booth #1724.

Book a place in our exclusive 3 days Pump Workshop on 'Advanced Design Methods for Rotodynamic Pumps in light of US DOE Energy Conservation Standards for Pumps'.

About Advanced Design Technology, Ltd.

Advanced Design Technology (ADT) is a global leader in the development of advanced turbomachinery design and optimization methods to shorten development times and costs and improve turbomachinery performances. ADT’s aim is to put designers in direct control of the aerodynamic design and to shorten the design time and time to market for a range of turbomachinery products. ADT’s clients, who represent some of the leading global players in the aerospace, automotive, power generation and marine fields, have achieved significant returns on investment in for the reduction in design times, higher performance and ease of know-how transfer among different design teams and projects.

For more information, call +44 (0) 20 7299 1170 or visit http://www.adtechnology.co.uk.

About TURBOdesign Technology, Inc.

Founded in 2011, TURBOdesign Technology, Inc. (TDT) is the U.S. affiliate of Advanced Design Technology (ADT), selling the TURBOdesign Suite of 3D inverse design and analysis software while providing turbomachinery engineering support services. TURBOdesign Technology headquartered in Chicago, Ilinois. For more information, call +1 630 613 7604 or go to http://www.turbodesign-tech.com. Reported by PRWeb 9 hours ago.

Author Curtis Foison's Newly Released “From An Enlightened Soul” is an Artfully Composed Book of Poetry Spanning Love, Loss, and Hope

September 13, 2016, 12:06 am

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“From An Enlightened Soul” from Christian Faith Publishing author Curtis Foison is a masterfully composed book of poetry sung from the soul.

(PRWEB) September 13, 2016

“From An Enlightened Soul”: a polished and captivating book of poetry spanning the author's life. “From An Enlightened Soul” is the creation of published author, Curtis Foison, who was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Central High School and received a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship to Prairie View A&M University, where he graduated and received a commission in the United States Marine Corps. While serving in the Marine Corps, Curtis earned a master of arts degree in Human Resource Management from Pepperdine University. Curtis has held several positions in management and human resources in business, nonprofit, and governmental entities. A long and successful career in helping people has been especially rewarding. His experience has given him some important insight into the human condition. Curtis is married and has three children and one grandchild.

Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Curtis Foison’s new book will enthrall and enchant the reader as Curtis easily captures love and loss, hope and pain, and his ever-growing faith in God.

As an adopted child, raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Curtis Foison grew up facing many challenges. Initially, a part of the foster care system and later influenced by inner-city streets, Curtis had to overcome insufficiency, rejection, and discouragement. But through an encounter with Jesus, he began to find purpose. This book begins his journey into an expression of inner thoughts and perspective. His goal is to convey, through his experience with Jesus, an idea of hope, possibility, and expectation.

View a synopsis of "From An Enlightened Soul" on YouTube.

Consumers can purchase “From An Enlightened Soul” at traditional brick & mortar bookstores, or online at Amazon.com, Apple iTunes store, Kobo or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or inquiries about “From An Enlightened Soul,” contact the Christian Faith Publishing media department at 866-554-0919. Reported by PRWeb 9 hours ago.