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Elizabeth Kennedy TALKS ABOUT AI, EARLY DETECTION OF DISEASE AND COMPUTER VISION

Austin Tang — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:53:57 +0000

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Elizabeth Kennedy

Elizabeth (Liz) Kennedy is a senior product leader with deep experience building and scaling customer-centric products that integrate hardware, software, and services to deliver measurable business impact. She has spent over a decade leading innovative, computer-vision-and AI-powered products, including Amazon’s Echo Look and clothing Virtual Try-On, translating cutting-edge technology into intuitive customer experiences at scale. Her work at Amazon spanned defining end-to-end product requirements and customer journeys across ecommerce, automotive, and healthcare. Liz began her career in automotive new vehicle development at GM and Nissan and is now focused on bringing this blend of deep technical products, complex systems thinking, and customer obsession to mission-driven organizations in the Detroit region

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P.E.A. (People. Environment. Achievement.) Awards is the UK’s leading sustainability and climate awards

Austin Tang — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:25:34 +0000

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About the P.E.A. Awards

Now in its 15th year, the P.E.A. (People. Environment. Achievement.) Awards is the UK’s leading sustainability and climate awards, honouring the individuals and teams behind the products, services and businesses that are changing the face of our planet.

Jarvis Smith co-founder, and Michelle Narciso, OMMM co-founder, share their Good News.

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Previous winners include Juliet Davenport OBE, Cat Fletcher, Polly Higgins and many other amazing Earth ambassadors who are committed to revolutionising old models and systems.

Across sectors ranging from finance and energy to music and art, the P.E.A. Awards identifies and celebrates the green heroes who are taking matters into their own hands and providing inspiring alternatives to business as usual. These sustainability pioneers are recognised and rewarded at our glamorous green carpet event!

#peaawards #ommm

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2025 Times Square Multicultural in Native Dress, Flags, Sponsors in company T Shirts….HUMAN PEACE SIGN people dancing holding hands starting at 11am

Austin Tang — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:05:56 +0000

I’m Not Here to Fit In — I’m Here to Awaken the World.
After more than five decades of walking through storms, standing alone in truth, and giving everything I had — I’ve finally distilled what I truly stand for.
This is not a resume. This is not a marketing pitch. This is my soul’s manifesto.
I believe we are all born with the same breath, same needs, same pain, and same potential — yet we’ve allowed the world to divide us, manipulate us, hypnotize us with fear, false gods, and broken systems.
No more.
Here are the 12 non-negotiable values I live, breathe, bleed, and lead with:
1⃣ Truth Over All
2⃣ Sacred Justice
3⃣ Loyalty That Never Betrays
4⃣ Resilience Through Fire
5⃣ Upliftment of the Underdog
6⃣ Integrity Over Power
7⃣ Freedom from Corruption
8⃣ Love as a Force of Leadership
9⃣ Faith in Action, Not Prayer
Courage to Stand Alone
1⃣1⃣ Devotion to Real Results
1⃣2⃣ Healing the Broken with Honor
I am on a mission to awaken 8 billion souls — not through religion, not through politics, but through truth and inner power.
This is soul awakening, soul activation, and soul maintenance for life.
This is healing the trauma humanity has carried since its inception.
This is creating divine commerce that feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless, and builds unity — not temples of stone.
I do not sell God. I do not sell hope. I offer the truth — the most radical force in the universe.
If this message resonates with even ONE cell in your body, if you feel the pulse of truth inside your gut reading this…
Join me.
Message me.
Share this.
We’re not building a business — we’re building a future where no child goes to bed hungry and no soul walks this earth feeling unloved or unseen.
I am Sunil.
I don’t need a title.
I have a mission.
And I’m just getting started.

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Brunswick at CES, sharers their long history and bright future…with a concern for Sustainability

Austin Tang — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:57:28 +0000

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He’s Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water

Austin Tang — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:29:01 +0000

A landscape architect in China has a surprising strategy to help manage surges of water from storms supercharged by climate change.

Kongjian Yu at his office in Beijing. “We’ve been using the conventional drainage infrastructure for 200 years and we haven’t solved the flooding problem,” he said.Credit…Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press

By Richard Schiffman
Published March 28, 2024
Updated April 3, 2024

Cities around the world face a daunting challenge in the era of climate change: Supercharged rainstorms are turning streets into rivers, flooding subway systems and inundating residential neighborhoods, often with deadly consequences.

Kongjian Yu, a landscape architect and professor at Peking University, is developing what might seem like a counterintuitive response: Let the water in.

“You cannot fight water,” he said. “You have to adapt to it.”

Instead of putting in more drainage pipes, building flood walls and channeling rivers between concrete embankments, which is the usual approach to managing water, Mr. Yu wants to dissipate the destructive force of floodwaters by slowing them and giving them room to spread out.

Mr. Yu calls the concept “sponge city” and says it’s like “doing tai chi with water,” a reference to the Chinese martial art in which an opponent’s energy and moves are redirected, not resisted.

“It’s a whole philosophy, a new way of dealing with water,” he said.

Through his Beijing-based company, Turenscape, one of the world’s largest landscape architecture firms, Mr. Yu has overseen the development of hundreds of landscaped urban water parks in China where runoff from flash floods is diverted to soak into the ground or be absorbed into constructed wetlands.

Mr. Yu said growing up in a village in Zhejiang Province toward the end of the Cultural Revolution showed him how earlier generations in rural China had “made friends with water.” Farmers in his region built terraces, berms and ponds to direct and to store excess water during the rainy season.

That stood in sharp contrast to the urban landscapes in modern China. Traditionally, cities in China would set aside areas capable of absorbing floodwaters. But such nature-friendly urban design largely ended with the Industrial Revolution, Mr. Yu said. More recently, millions of acres have been paved over to build cities, some of them rising up virtually overnight.

Shanghai Houtan Park in 2006.Credit…Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

The same area in 2018.Credit…Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

“We’ve been using the conventional drainage infrastructure for 200 years and we haven’t solved the flooding problem,” he said, noting that much of China has a monsoon climate subject to extremely heavy bursts of rain that pose an increasing hazard as climate change advances. That’s because warm air can hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainstorms.

Currently, 65 percent of urban areas in China experience some degree of flooding each year, according to Mr. Yu. The country is currently the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases. The United States is the largest historical emitter .

“The concrete drainage systems that came here from the West just can’t handle it,” Mr. Yu said. “We need a new solution.”

The sponge city program was formally inaugurated by President Xi Jinping in 2015 with pilot projects in 16 Chinese cities and has since expanded to more than 640 sites in 250 municipalities around the country.

You can see the concept in Houtan Park, a mile-long strip of greenery along the Huangpu River in Shanghai that Mr. Yu designed on a former industrial site.

Terraces planted with bamboo and native forbs and grasses are bisected by wooden walkways that zigzag between ponds and constructed wetlands. The wetlands filter water, slow the river’s flow and provide habitat for waterfowl and spawning fish.

The goal, at least on paper, is that by 2030, 70 percent of the rain that falls on China’s sponge cities during extreme weather events should be absorbed locally rather than accumulate in the streets.

Whether enough land can be converted is a key question.

Mr. Yu, who studied landscape architecture in China and at Harvard, with hand-drawn landscape designs. Credit…Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press

Edmund Penning-Rowsell, a research associate at the University of Oxford who focuses on water security, said the scale of the sponge city projects would have to be huge to cope with flooding on their own. “Take New York City,” he said. “How many Central Parks would you need to absorb this kind of problem? You’d probably need half of Manhattan.”

Zhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021. But torrential rains inundated much of the city in July 2021, creating scenes of destruction and killing hundreds, including at least 14 in a subway tunnel.

Why were the floods so disastrous in Zhengzhou? Mr. Yu said some of the money earmarked for sponge projects was diverted to other programs and that the land set aside for them was insufficient. If permeable surfaces or green spaces make up 20 to 40 percent of a city’s area, he said, “you can virtually solve the problem of urban inundation.”

Niall Kirkwood, a professor of landscape architecture at Harvard who has known Mr. Yu for years, acknowledged that it can be difficult, and sometimes impossible, to convert land in city centers that have already been densely built. Still, he said, Mr. Yu’s impact as a innovator has been incalculable.

“He’s created a clear and elegant idea of enhancing nature, of partnership with nature that everyone, the man on the street, the mayor of a city, an engineer, even a child, can understand,” Professor Kirkwood said.

Where large tracts of land are not available, sponge city projects are replacing concrete and asphalt with permeable pavement, installing green roofs and creating trenches called bioswales that channel storm-water runoff and use vegetation to filter out debris and pollution.

The sponge city concept is not unique to China. One of Mr. Yu’s projects abroad is the Benjakitti Forest Park, a maze of ponds, trees and miniature islands in Bangkok that was opened to the public in 2022 and occupies more than hundred acres on the site of a former tobacco factory.

Separately, in 2007 the Dutch government began a program called Room for the River that consists of more than 30 projects around four rivers, including the Rhine. The idea is to restore natural floodplains in key areas around sites that need protection. The Danish capital, Copenhagen, is using “floodable parks” that turn into temporary ponds during heavy rains. Philadelphia and Malmo, Sweden, also have projects.

The site of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok in 2020.Credit…Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

The park, which was rehabilitated by Mr. Yu’s firm, in 2022.Credit…Lauren DeCicca for The New York Times

In addition to flood control, these projects have the advantage of being an inexpensive way to recharge local aquifers and a low-tech adaptation to help overheated city neighborhoods, because evaporating water has a cooling effect.

John Beardsley, the curator of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, which was awarded to Mr. Yu last year, echoed Professor Kirkwood, saying Mr. Yu’s impact on policy in China, a country that has been more likely to imprison environmental activists than take their messages to heart, has been astonishing.

Mr. Beardsley attributes this to Mr. Yu’s adroit political skills and infectious enthusiasm, as well as the Chinese government’s powerful incentive to appear to be addressing the problem of urban flooding, which has grown alarmingly in recent years.

“Kongjian has managed to be very critical of the government’s environmental policies while still maintaining his practice and his academic appointments,” he said. “He’s both brave and deft in this regard, threading a very narrow needle.”

“Sponge cities isn’t a total solution, but it makes a significant impact,” Mr. Beardsley said. “I mean, we need to start doing something.”

Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

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A Day Showing Support for Protecting the Environment

Austin Tang — Mon, 02 May 2022 17:57:29 +0000

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WHAT IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU MAY BE PART OF THE NATION’S POLLUTION PROBLEM?

Americans may not realize it but if they are tossing their prescription medicines in the household trash or flushing them down the toilet, they are actually adding to the nation’s pollution problem and potentially harming our critical natural resources.

After being flushed or poured down the drain, many medications pass through sewer and septic systems. Because these systems can’t always treat or remove all the medications, they may end up in streams, lakes, and groundwater. This can cause adverse effects in fish and other aquatic wildlife as well as unintentional human exposure to chemicals.

In addition to harming our environment, disposing of medication in the trash, makes it easier for drugs to fall into the wrong hands and continue the cycle of misuse.

A recent survey showed that Americans often hold on to their unused prescriptions for future use, for fear of their illness returning or because they don’t know how to get rid of them. In fact, 47% of Americans currently have 1-3 bottles of unused prescriptions in their medicine cabinet followed by 8% with 4-6 bottles, 2% with more than 10 bottles and 2% with 7-10 bottles.

With no knowledge of safe disposal practices, one in four (25%) Americans admit to flushing leftover/unused prescription drugs down the drain, and another 25% toss unused prescriptions in the trash.

But you can be part of the solution to this problem. There’s a helpful strategy easily available that can help: drug deactivation and disposal pouches. They’re a safe, effective choice that can be used to destroy and properly dispose of unused, unwanted, and expired medications. With the simple addition of tap water, any medications placed in a pouch are rendered harmless by its patented activated carbon technology. Then, the plant-based pouch is completely safe to dispose of in normal household trash, preventing contamination of landfills and water systems.

Nancy Devine, Verde Environmental Technologies Inc. Chief Operating Officer as she outlines what you can do to be greener at home beginning this Earth Day. She’ll also provide details on how to keep your medications from polluting the environment by using safe deactivation and disposal methods.

Interview is courtesy: Verde Environmental Technologies www.deterrasystem.com

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Africa Rise 2020 free concert to Strengthen Health Systems in Africa Jan 16

Austin Tang — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 01:23:30 +0000

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Lutron Serena™ and Sivoia® QS Triathlon® Shades Now Compatible with its Apple HomeKit™-enabled Caséta® Wireless Smart Bridge

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:39:08 +0000

Smart Bridge Provides Remote Control of Lights and Shades Using Siri®,
Adding Convenience and Simplicity to Everyday Life

Coopersburg, PA (embargoed until January 5, 2016) – Creating a smarter and more connected home has never been easier. The affordably-priced Caséta Wireless smart home system from Lutron Electronics provides convenient control of lights, shades and temperature anytime, anywhere. Today, the company announced the ability to control Lutron shades using its HomeKit-enabled Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge providing users with simple, convenient control of some of the most frequently-used products in their homes.

With 20+ years of experience utilizing reliable wireless technology in connected home products, Lutron introduced the Caséta Wireless system in 2014 as an affordable connected home solution ideal for smaller areas.

Now Use Siri to Control Lutron Shades
Earlier this year, Lutron released one of the world’s first Apple HomeKit-enabled products – its Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge, which allows users to control their lights conveniently and securely via Siri using their iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch® or Apple Watch®. Adding Lutron shade support to the HomeKit-enabled Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge provides a more streamlined user experience and a third option for controlling Lutron devices in the home. The other two options – the Lutron App and Pico Wireless remote control – were introduced last year.

The HomeKit-enabled Caséta Wireless Smart Bridge (a do-it-yourself solution) supports Serena battery-powered shades, while the Smart Bridge PRO (a professionally-installed solution) supports Lutron Sivoia® QS Triathlon wireless shades (both roller and fashion honeycomb styles), plus Sivoia QS drapery tracks, the Kirbé® vertical drapery system, tensioned shades, pleated shades and Roman shades.

“Using something familiar, like Siri, to control a home’s lights and shades simplifies the concept of the connected home and makes it easier than ever for people to be in control of their space.” said Matt Swatsky, Lutron’s Director of Product Management. “Simply saying ‘Hey Siri, turn on the lights’ or ‘Siri, open the shades’ results in an experience which feels very natural and is completely integrated with your iOS device. Also, people can set Serena shades to a desired level in scenes like ‘Good Morning’ or ‘Good Night’ with other HomeKit compatible accessories so that you can enable everyday experiences using Siri.”

Caséta Wireless kits and Lutron shading solutions are available now with suggested list prices starting at $80 and $349, respectively. Visit CasetaWireless.com or SerenaShades.com for more information, and to find local resellers. The free Lutron App is available in the App Store.

About Lutron Electronics (www.lutron.com)
Founded in 1961, Lutron Electronics is headquartered in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. From dimmers for
the home, to lighting management systems for entire buildings, the company offers more than 15,000 energy-saving products, sold in more than 100 countries. In the US alone, Lutron products save an estimated 10 billion kWh of electricity, or approximately $1 billion in utility costs per year. The company’s early inventions— including the first solid-state electronic dimmer invented by Lutron’s founder, Joel Spira—are now at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

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SeniorNet Grandparents Day Book Sale

admin — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:34:39 +0000

Save 50% on books for Grandparents Day

SeniorNet Members, Volunteers, and Supporters,

This Sunday, September 8th, marks the 25th annual celebration of Grandparents Day, a day intended to honor grandparents and seniors and recognize their contributions to our community. Celebrate Grandparents Day with SeniorNet with a 50% off discount on computer and technology-related books from Que Publishing.

Find books on a wide variety of technology-related subjects. Topics include:

Operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, Mac OSX
Software: Office 2010 and 2013, Adobe software, and much more
Smartphones and tablets: iPads, iPhones, Windows Phone, Android, etc.
Websites: Facebook, LinkedIn, eBay, etc.

Click on the image below to visit the Que website and choose your books.

Happy Grandparents Day from SeniorNet!

Sincerely,

Leslie M. Smith

Chairman

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Honeywell, Security and automation solutions

admin — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:21:00 +0000

Honeywell is a leading global manufacturer of security and automation solutions for residential and commercial applications. From intrusion, fire and home automation systems, to the latest in IP video and access control, we are focused on technologies that create “connected homes” and “connected buildings.”

With our extensive technology portfolio, experienced team and trusted brand, we have been recognized as the “partner of choice” in the security industry. Year after year, a Security Distributing and Marketing magazine reader survey has ranked Honeywell as the industry’s preferred channel partner.

Follow our blog at http://blogs.honeywellsecurity.com

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