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• MONTREAL, Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vention , the company behind the cloud-based Manufacturing Automation Platform ( MAP ), is thrilled to announce the product launches revealed at the 4th edition of Demo Day.
• Vention unveiled major updates to its 3D design software, MachineBuilder, at Demo Day 2023.
• These improvements enhanced its speed, navigation, and user convenience, establishing MachineBuilder as the most accessible industrial automation design solution.
• Last year's Demo Day focused on simplifying automation project deployment with MachineCloud, connecting the cloud to the factory floor.

• The list recognizes the top 25 public and top 25 private companies — all business-to-business (B2B), cloud-computing companies — where employees self-report the highest levels of satisfaction at work, according to feedback shared on Glassdoor, a provider of insights about jobs and companies.
• "Couchbase is a values-driven organization that strives to make tomorrow better than today for customers, partners and each other.
• We are honored to be named one of the highest-rated cloud computing companies to work for and deeply appreciate the many contributions by our dedicated team who make Couchbase a terrific place to work."
• To qualify for the 2023 list, a cloud company must have received at least 30 company reviews on Glassdoor between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

• 6sense ®, the leading platform to revolutionize the way B2B organizations create, manage and convert pipeline to revenue, has announced that Latané Conant has been appointed Chief Revenue Officer, spearheading the company’s go-to-market (GTM) strategy with a focus on driving market growth and revenue alignment.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231004346007/en/
  Conant brings more than two decades of experience in marketing, sales and go-to-market management, most recently as Chief Market Officer (CMO) of 6sense.
• Building on her strong and cohesive relationships with 6sense GTM leaders, she will lead a unified team that includes sales, customer success, marketing, partnerships, and professional services.
• Rashid joined the company nearly two years ago after experiencing the value and impact of 6sense Revenue AI™ as a customer.

• In August 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an advisory about an 11-state outbreak of salmonella bacteria linked to pet turtles.
• Global trade in turtles is big business, and the U.S. is a leading source, destination and transit country.
• I also use the global wildlife trade to teach important ecological concepts and research skills.
• Here’s what we know about trade in turtles and how it threatens their survival.

Life in the slow lane

• Most turtles reach reproductive maturity late in life and have relatively few eggs, not all of which produce successful offspring.
• To put this in context, compare a common female snapping turtle from the northern U.S. with a female white-tailed deer.
• It can take a female turtle her entire life to generate one or two offspring that in turn reach adulthood and replace her in the population.
• Terrapins reside in brackish water zones, where rivers flow into oceans and bays, and feed heavily on snails.

In global demand

• Today, people use turtles as pets; sources of food, jewelry and other curios; and in traditional medicines and religious and cultural practices.
• Fish and Wildlife Service, nearly 127 million turtles were exported just from the U.S. between 2002 and 2012.
• There’s no good way to quantify how many native turtles are harvested from the wild.
• Historic demand for sea turtles, diamondback terrapins and snapping turtles as food led to such crashes in populations that management agencies had to regulate their harvesting.
• To curb pressure on wild populations, state agencies are prohibiting or limiting personal collection and possession of native turtles.

Black market turtles

• For example, in 2019 a Pennsylvania man was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $250,000 for trafficking thousands of protected diamondback terrapins.
• Rare species such as wood turtles and Blanding’s turtles, as well as uniquely patterned individual turtles, command top value on the black market.
• Between 1998 and 2021, U.S. enforcement agencies intercepted at least 24,000 protected freshwater turtles and tortoises from 34 native species that were being illegally traded across the U.S.

How to help

To curtail the illegal turtle trade, regulators are working to strengthen regulations and increase enforcement. Private citizens can also help reduce the demand and protect wild turtles. Here are some simple steps: