Aqua

• Essential Utilities Inc. (NYSE: WTRG) today announced its Aqua Pennsylvania subsidiary completed the purchase of the Municipal Authority of the Borough of Shenandoah (MABS) water system for $12 million.
• MABS serves approximately 3,000 customers in Schuylkill County, PA.
  “Our customers deserve a reliable system with consistently high water quality,” said James Rusin, MABS Chairman.
• And we’re delighted to increase our commitment to Schuylkill County.”
  Parts of the Shenandoah system’s water infrastructure date back to the 1800s.
• Shenandoah is the third acquisition completed by Essential’s regulated water segment in 2023, and the second system acquired by Aqua Pennsylvania.

• Indoors, confined to Juicy Couture tracksuits, I was missing excuses to express my hyper-femininity through clothing, as I had done pre-pandemic.
• Collecting Barbie dolls became a way to display my love of femininity in all it’s fun, ridiculous and pink-saturated possibilities.
• My shelf of Barbies – from Western Winking Barbie (1981) to Enchanted Evening Barbie (1995) – is now my favourite part of my home.
• But for many, her rediscovery will come through Greta Gerwig’s upcoming movie, Barbie – the doll’s first live action film, starring Margot Robbie.

Barbie’s complicated feminism

• Lord describes Barbie as a complicated and contradictory pop-culture figure.
• Lord sees Barbie as a “reflection of American popular cultural values and notions about femininity”.
• Over its 64-year history, the doll’s evolution has reflected the often contradictory demands and ideals placed on women.
• Some feminists argue that Barbie’s hyper-femininity isn’t self aware in the way that, for example, the hyper-femininity of drag queens is.

Rebranding Barbie

• The company alleged that the band’s song Barbie Girl, released the same year, infringed upon Mattel’s trademark and imposed an adult image onto Barbie.
• Fast forward 20 years and the soundtrack to the Barbie movie features a song by rappers Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj entitled Barbie World, which samples Aqua’s Barbie Girl.
• With lyrics such as “I’m a Barbie girl, pink Barbie Dreamhouse/The way Ken be killin’ shit got me yellin’ out like the Scream House”, the pair position Barbie-branded hyper-femininity as a source of sexual empowerment.
• In the trailers for the upcoming Barbie movie, Barbie Land is a matriarchal society where hyper-femininity is a sign of power.

• The global digital panel meter market size is expected to reach USD 5578.85 million by 2032, according to a new study.
• The report gives a detailed insight into current market dynamics and provides analysis on future market growth.
• Increasing technological developments and major players' focus on the creation are predicted to accelerate the growth of the market.
• The market for digital panel meters may also be hampered by the need to tune circuits and modify responses.

• BOSTON, July 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aqua Security , the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced the appointment of Gilad Elyashar as chief product officer.
• Elyashar will be Aqua’s first chief product officer responsible for leading the product management organization from strategy to execution.
• He spent 15 years with Microsoft where he most recently served as partner director of product management, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, building the company’s first CNAPP.
• There’s no doubt that Aqua will emerge as the dominant leader, and I am thrilled to help drive its continued success.”