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Health risks, climate change and the growing relevance for protection insurers
By David Gray, Senior Consultant Actuary at Broadstone Summary Emerging health risks, from tick-borne disease to extreme weather, are becoming increasingly relevant for life assurance and income protection insurers. Climate change is reshaping morbidity patterns, strengthening the case for prevention, early intervention and more integrated climate risk assessment across protection products and actuarial frameworks.
How countries are tightening social media access for children worldwide
Vernon Pillay|Published 24 minutes ago Numerous governments around the world are moving at an unprecedented pace to rein in children’s access to social media, ushering in what could be one of the most significant shifts in digital policy this decade. At the forefront is Australia, which on December 10, 2025, became the first country in the world to enforce a blanket ban on social media accounts for children under 16.
Eversheds Sutherland leads on critical restructuring and rescue sale supporting TGI Fridays’ long‑term future in the UK
The transaction results in 33 of the company’s restaurants transferring to new ownership, securing the jobs of 1,384 employees. Ryan Grant and Will Wright from Interpath were appointed joint administrators to Liberty Bar and Restaurant Group Limited on 13 January 2026. Immediately thereafter, they sold the business and assets of the Company to Sugarloaf TGIF Operations Limited, a company owned by Sugarloaf, the manager and custodian of the worldwide TGI Friday brand.
Australia's Usman Khawaja will retire after the final Ashes Test in Sydney
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Six Ways to Make Workers Business Owners—and Why It’s a Good Idea - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Across the United States, communities face a looming crisis: As millions of owners of small and midsized businesses prepare to retire or step back, the businesses that anchor local economies—and the jobs and wealth they create—are at risk of disappearing. These businesses are often sold to outside buyers, gobbled up by private equity, or simply shut down, leaving communities without vital services and workers without stable jobs.
How Big Cloud becomes Bigger: Scrutinizing Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's investments
In an AI gold rush, those selling the proverbial pickaxes are surest to win: cloud companies provide scalable managed computational resources as a subscription service now used by most businesses to store their data, and as a primary ingredient to build and use AI.
Navigating the Future of Sustainable Packaging
In the world of packaging, the call for sustainability is louder than ever. As online shopping and e-commerce grow, so does the volume of packaging waste. Oversized boxes, excessive void fill and materials that are difficult to recycle are no longer just inefficiencies, they’re liabilities. Governments, regulators and consumers are all demanding a shift to more sustainable packaging practices, and businesses across the supply chain must adapt.
Materialism Is The Answer, Not The Problem
David Gray · Follow 3 min read · -- Photo by Matías Santana on Unsplash I think it is safe to say that much of the West right now is facing significant change. It certainly isn’t the first time, and I wager it won’t be the last. Like many epochs before, our times are changing and many of the institutions, both social and physical, are being questioned, brought down and changed.
Co-packing helps advance beverage innovation
Photo by graphixel/E+ via Getty Images; Bottle icons by Evgen Sangush/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Personal trainer to Kelly Ripa, Shakira, Alicia Keys and Sarah Jessica Parker, American fitness professional, choreographer and entrepreneur Anna Kaiser is quoted for saying: “As I get older, I think about the quality of my life and a balanced way to enjoy that.
Transforming Aerospace & Defense Troubleshooting
The aerospace and defense industry has traditionally faced challenges when it comes to troubleshooting. Inspections, which manufacturers have typically carried out manually, are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and subject to the skills of inspectors. As a result, certain defects that are difficult to identify (such as internal or microscopic defects) or require specialized expertise have often gone undetected.
Baltimore District enters former SM-1A nuclear power plant vapor containment structure [Image 2 of 3]
19 An SM-1A team member prepares to open the vapor containment structure around the reactor at the former nuclear power plant for the first time since 2011 on January 24, 2024. As an example of what future industrial hygiene will look like at the site, the team observed the atmospheric conditions in the structure and the surrounding workspace using five-gas monitors (oxygen, carbon monoxide, VOCs, explosive gases, and hydrogen sulfide) and Draeger tubes.
Global eCommerce Growth: Prioritizing Marketplaces for Success
Third-party (3P) eCommerce continues to outpace first-party (1P) eCommerce globally, with a forecasted 11.7% CAGR from 2023-28 for 3P, versus 6.6% for 1P. This will be supported by international marketplace expansion, particularly by Chinese players such as Pinduoduo’s Temu and Alibaba’s Miravia. Omnichannel retailers, such as Walmart, will also rapidly build out their 3P businesses and assortments, while category-specific platforms continue to be launched.
Timelapse: Key Bridge Response Unified Command Moves M/V DALI
Video Player is loading. Current Time 0:00 Duration 0:00 Remaining Time -0:00 Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. video size: x Advanced Embed Example Add the following CSS to the header block of your HTML document. Then add the mark-up below to the body block of the same document. 17 Salvors working with the Key Bridge Response Unified Command refloated and moved the M/V DALI in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 20, 2024.
6 Habits and Comforts everyone should practice for manageable 'slow living'
"Everything today feels like it's a lot faster than it used to be." This is a common enough comment to come across with nowadays. And though you might expect that to come from the more time-weary veterans of life, I'm finding more and more that it seems to be coming from people in my own age bracket, particularly from Millennials and Gen Z, which at first glance seems like quite an oddity. Thinking more on it though, it really shouldn't strike us as all that shocking.
Climate change: How to close the yawning chasm between Scottish Government’s bold rhetoric and timid delivery – Professor David Gray and Professor Iain Docherty
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Forbes: Finland has seven billionaires
They are 2,781 in number and their combined wealth amounts to 14.2 trillion dollars. It shows business magazine Forbeswhich has published its updated list of all the billionaires in the world. In one year, the world has gained 265 new billionaires, many more than the previous record year of 2021. Forbes data also shows that the ultra-wealthy are richer than ever before. As many as 14 people have assets that exceed $100 billion.
Enhanced reporting of falls from height will identify ways to prevent accidents
The Access Industry Forum, the forum that represents the principal work at height trade associations and federations, is calling for clearer reporting of workplace accidents in a bid to save lives. As latest Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics show another year of little improvement in workplace falls from height, the AIF is urging government and business to work together to spearhead action and prevent accidents.
2024: a year of choices for us all Original
A recent YouGov survey showed over a third of people have experienced high or extreme levels of pressure at work, with a fifth requiring time off due to poor mental health caused by stress in the past year. According to another poll, a whopping 70 per cent of UK workers want to find a new job in 2024. What is driving this? As always, several factors, but rising global instability is certainly one of them, with 2024 very hard to predict.
We need UK government action to halt the sale of unsafe ladders on online platforms
The Ladder Association is doubling down on its efforts to raise awareness that unsafe and potentially dangerous ladders continue to be sold via online platforms to unsuspecting consumers in the UK. The Association’s recent market surveillance study, part of our ongoing ‘Step Up to Safe Ladders’ campaign, found that 70 per cent of the commercially-available multi-purpose ladders they tested failed to meet the minimum safety requirements designed to keep users safe.
Navigating the menopause maze: why employers must act
As my senior role in financial services rapidly dimmed, amidst mysterious mental fog just before 40, not an inkling of menopause initially surfaced as the culprit. Rather, I thought I had early onset dementia. Now, just recalling basic meeting details, recalling colleagues’ (whom I had headhunted) names or financial figures, induced overwhelming anxiety as cognitive ‘gaps’ began to appear.
What we owe to decision-subjects: beyond transparency and explanation in automated decision-making
Philosophical Studies, Aug 2023 The ongoing explosion of interest in artificial intelligence is fueled in part by recently developed techniques in machine learning. Those techniques allow automated systems to process huge amounts of data, utilizing mathematical methods that depart from traditional statistical approaches, and resulting in impressive advancements in our ability to make predictions and uncover correlations across a host of interesting domains.
Venous and lymphovenous lower limb wound outcomes in specialist UK wound and lymphoedema clinics
History Accepted 1 July 2023 Published online 18 August 2023 Published in print 17 August 2023 Acknowledgements: The authors would like to recognise all of those who kept the Pioneer service running for the benefit of their patients at great personal risk during the pandemic.
Seven key trends in the electronics industry
printer friendly version Seven key trends in the electronics industry 29 March 2023 Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services By David Gray, Mycronic. There are many trends impacting the future of the electronics industry. These include personalisation, digitalisation, miniaturisation, Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, and Big Data. But what are the key trends impacting manufacturers like Mycronic – and maybe even your business?
Rising Time Friday 7 April 2023
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Why the UK’s noise regulations fall short in protecting workers’ hearing
Almost two million Britons already have hearing loss as a result of uncontrolled workplace noise. Another two million are at risk of joining them. There is an epidemic of occupational noise-induced hearing loss in the UK – the result of long-standing cultural, technological and regulatory failures.
Catalog Buyer Bella Figura Music Launches With David Gray, R3HAB & More Acquisitions Original
A new London-based buyer has entered the already crowded catalog acquisition market. Called Bella Figura Music, the company was founded by former BMG U.K. president, Alexi Cory-Smith, who will act as CEO, and former BMG global investments division leader, Neelesh Prabhu, who will act as head of investments.
5G technology fuels connectivity and innovation
printer friendly version 5G technology fuels connectivity and innovation 23 November 2022 Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services By David Gray, Mycronic. For years, we’ve been hearing: “5G is coming and it’s going to transform our world!” Is this realistic or is it just hype? According to Mycronic experts, this is certainly not hype.
Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress
When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services.
Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director
When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services.
6 Trends Affecting Brands and Their Co-Packer Partners
Certain years are so eventful they pivot the world in a whole new direction. Like 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic upended every definition of normal, pushed millions into near poverty, and triggered a global economic downturn. Unlike other industries and the world at large, the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry succeeded in pivoting during an extraordinarily difficult time. The industry experienced more absolute growth in 2020 than it had in the four years prior.
Active and Intelligent Packaging as a Pathway to Sustainability
It’s hard to believe that 40% of food produced in the United States goes from “farm to fork to landfill.”* What if packaging could reduce food waste so there was more food on the shelves and less food in the landfill? Biotechnology is expected to play a major role in the future of food production, solving key pain points such as retaining nutritional integrity, increasing the shelf-life of packaged foodstuffs and actively preventing food spoilage.
Active and Intelligent Packaging as a Pathway to Sustainability
It’s hard to believe that 40% of food produced in the United States goes from “farm to fork to landfill*” What if packaging could reduce food waste so there was more food on the shelves and less food in the landfill. Biotechnology is expected to play a major role in the future of food production, solving key pain points such as retaining nutritional integrity, increasing the shelf-life of packaged foodstuffs, and actively preventing food spoilage.
SOC Analyst of the Future: The Impact of Accelerating Transformation
The past 18–24 months have been difficult for most people, personally and professionally, and it’s no different for security operations center (SOC) analysts. The worlds of home and work have collided, resulting in more people than ever before working remotely. This has meant greater demands on remote access across various devices, geographies and security challenges. This acceleration of digital transformation driven by the pandemic has led to a global increase in cyber risk.
Beating the best with artificial intelligence
printer friendly version Beating the best with artificial intelligence 31 March 2021 Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services By David Gray, Mycronic. From millions of data sets to a single click – what’s next for deep learning in SMT? The ability of manufacturing systems to predict and adapt to unforeseen situations, often referred to as arti?cial intelligence (AI), promises to revolutionise the electronics assembly market.
Cybersecurity Survivorship Bias and How to Avoid it
The concept of survivorship bias can be best illustrated by a short history lesson from World War II. One of the biggest problems the Royal Air Force and United States Air Force faced was how to prevent their aircraft from being shot down. Fixing armour made the aircraft heavier with reduced range, so a solution was only armoring the most essential areas.
Louisiana to receive 16-percent rise in vaccine allotment next week, governor says
by: David Gray | The News Posted: Jan 29, 2021 / 01:09 PM CST / Updated: Jan 29, 2021 / 01:09 PM CST A worker receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot at Franciscan Health Crown Point, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Crown Point, Ind. Region hospitals are providing shots to frontline healthcare workers as the vaccine is being initially distributed in the area.
The Rise of the External Manufacturer
Ivan Traimak - Adobe Stock - Pharma lab Purchase orders tripled overnight. Lines ran around the clock to ensure demand was met. Retailers’ shelves remained stocked. E-commerce orders reached their destinations. Contract manufacturer’s work accelerated as a direct response to frenzied consumer buying patterns trigged by the pandemic’s shock wave across global supply chains. Factory floors teaming with workers as a critical business component is no longer the best option for manufacturers. Why is this?
How Incident Response Teams Survived COVID-19
Let’s face it – 2020 is a year most of us will want to forget. With the increased number of targeted cyber-attacks, for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) teams around the world it has been busier than ever. Threat actors are taking advantage of gaps in security, brought about by hastily created remote access solutions and general oversights, caused as a result of staff working from home or technical staff being furloughed.
Louisiana man arrested for possession of pornography involving juveniles
Coronavirus vaccine will not be available before Election Day, Pfizer confirms WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) -- On Friday morning, Pfizer’s chief executive announced the company wouldn't apply for emergency authorization of its coronavirus vaccine prior to late November -- effectively ending any theory a vaccine could be ready by the November 3 election.
A View of COVID-19’s First Wave of Cybersecurity
Here we are a few months on from when our news feeds started talking about a new disease in China and the world has changed in ways we never imagined. However, while most of us have had to adapt to new ways of working in the pandemic, cyber-criminals and threat actors, as with any global change or major news story, have seen COVID-19 as an opportunity.
Implementing Effective Remote Incident Response in a Pandemic
Cybersecurity threats have risen by over 37% in the last month, with threat actors and cyber-criminals using the fear brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic as a target of opportunity to further their phishing and ransomware attacks. Scammers are taking advantage of this unique moment and seeking those who are most vulnerable with hospitals, in particular, being actively targeted.
Telehealth in the COVID-19 Spotlight
By David Gray, Senior Manager, Government Relations & Connected Health Policy, HIMSS Since the beginning of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, telehealth and other connected health technologies have been in the spotlight as a critical tool in healthcare’s arsenal to help reduce the risk of transmission and provide safe, reliable access to care.
How To Use Snus and Nicotine Pouches
Snus is a Swedish tobacco product that some consider a safer alternative to smoking. Instead of burning tobacco and inhaling the smoke, users of snus place a small pouch of tobacco in their upper lip. These pouches often have flavours like berry, mint, liquorice or coffee, and users typically report a mild tingling sensation followed by the mellow feeling of a nicotine hit.
The Calm After the Storm
The last few articles in this blog series have focused on ensuring that organizations have strategies to get ahead of an incident and ensuring that your responses are effective. All of which are part of the “preparation” phase of the information security lifecycle. However for this article lets jump forward to the day after a successful breach has been resolved and start our preparation as part of the “lessons learned” – thus hopefully saving you from having to go through this process.
In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle
December 20, 2019 Mesa, Arizona It is with sadness WDC/I announce that on December 15, 2019, Chuck Peddle passed away. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and the personal computer industry. We have lost a pioneer with Chuck’s passing. Some history of Chuck’s and my relationship follows. I started work on Motorola’s 6800 family of chips in the form of the 6860 MODEM in 1971 as a Motorola trainee right out of The University of Arizona College of Engineering.
Connecting People, Business & Society (via Passle)
10 Dec 2019 10 Dec 2019 https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net Very interesting video highlighting the strengths of NTT and the focus on contributing to society through business operations and technology innovation. The business world is changing to be data driven and the shift to hyper personalised content and engagements.
Strategies to get ahead of an Incident
Looking at cyber incidents from a business point of view, rather than the traditional technical aspect, quickly identifies that there are only really three aspects of an attack which matter to the business.
Is Zero Trust a buzzword or an innovative strategy? (via Passle)
3 Dec 2019 3 Dec 2019 https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net Although it’s been around for some time, the Zero Trust approach has recently been gaining a lot of attention and, in fact, is increasingly implemented within organizations. But what actually is it? And how can the Zero Trust approach be used as part of a wider cybersecurity strategy?
SMEs are vulnerable to damaging cyber attacks too – and here’s why (via Passle)
Attacks on SMEs are not new. Like larger organizations, they have been on the receiving end of both ransomware and phishing attacks for some time. What is changing, however, is the strategy adopted by the cyber criminals targeting SMEs. Granted, hit and run attacks (i.e. encrypt the business data and then call for the appropriate amount as ransom) still continue but we are now seeing attacks that are far more aggressive in their nature and use a more diverse array of attack vectors.
Building cyber resilience into your organization (via Passle)
When businesses address their security, compliance and risk management, the first hard step is understanding where to begin. This is indeed a massive task. CISOs, for example, have a finite group of people, software, and hardware to deploy – not just to detect malicious actors who probe the networks for weaknesses 24 hours a day but also to assist in meeting all the compliance and regulatory obligations of the company.
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