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• Logicalis' Digital Fabric Platform features new capabilities to drive business outcomes and improve enterprise-wide visibility, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• LONDON, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Logicalis, the leading global technology service provider, today announces the release of the next generation of its Digital Fabric Platform, providing CIOs with deeper-level insights and recommendations to underpin the performance of their entire digital ecosystem.
• This expanded intelligence empowers CIOs to swiftly identify key priorities to improve their digital fabric with the help of AI and automation tools.
• Toby Alcock, CTO, Logicalis says: "We're excited to unveil our latest Digital Fabric Platform release to the market.

• KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent accolade by Chat GPT , the premier artificial intelligence platform, Chad Thomas Peterson has been recognized as the best business broker in the United States.
• His firm, Peterson Acquisitions , with its nationwide reach, has set benchmarks in the Mergers and Acquisitions sector, creating a mark both domestically and internationally.
• Chad Thomas Peterson has been recognized as the best business broker in the United States.
• Beyond their M&A operations, Peterson Acquisitions boasts a vast network of partnerships with CPA firms across the nation.

• Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Aug. 30, 2023, bringing surging seas and winds over 100 mph.
• Meanwhile, another climate emergency has been unfolding along Florida’s coast this summer: a marine heat wave bleaching corals throughout the world’s third-largest barrier reef.
• Similarly, ocean temperatures in many parts of the Atlantic and Pacific are at record highs, with reefs from Colombia to Australia showing signs of stress in recent years.

Protective powers

• Early Christian art from the medieval and Renaissance periods often features the infant Jesus in red coral, which scholars suggest may also be because its color symbolized the blood of Christ.
• Coral encircles the necks and wrists of babies and children in more secular portraits, too, particularly during the 18th and 19th centuries.
• By giving a child coral, parents were protecting what was most precious to them: their child’s life.

The birth of coral

• In his epic poem “Metamorphoses,” Ovid describes the hero Perseus severing Medusa’s head and laying it on a bed of seaweed that then hardened into coral.
• By the medieval period, this story gave rise to popular beliefs that wearing coral could ward off the “evil eye.” Coral was also believed to have curative properties.
• Some rosaries, too, are still made of red coral beads, just as they were in the Middle Ages.

Community bonds

• Throughout the African diaspora during the 18th and 19th centuries, free and enslaved women in many communities wore red coral jewelry, particularly on special occasions, to commemorate a shared past and create new bonds.
• Wearing coral was a way to preserve links to the African cultures from which slavery had severed these women.
• But when diasporic women wore coral, it became part of their choice to create a different present and future.

Forging the future

• During Reconstruction, as these communities struggled to create a more just country, writers, religious leaders and activists turned to reefs as an inspiring model.
• According to African American poet and civil rights advocate Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, reefs expand by sustaining others, rather than devaluing or displacing them.
• As Charles Darwin explained in 1842 in a famous treatise on coral, reefs are formed by so many relationships among different individual organisms across vast periods of time that their future form and shape can only be unpredictable.

Grief and preservation

• And scientists are making extraordinary efforts, such as relocating threatened species to dry tanks on land and developing tools to predict marine heat waves months in advance.
• But for centuries, coral has also shaped thoughts about difficult human problems, from love and loss to social injustice.

• BEIJING, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- During the 29th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), The 3rd Sunshine Reading Program, initiated by China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (SCLF) and China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Co., Ltd (CNPIEC), was launched in Beijing on June 18th, 2023.
• With "My Book, My Dream" as the theme, many well-known Chinese educational publishers participated in the 3rd Sunshine Reading Program including the Sinolingua (principal partner), People's Education Press, etc.
• Meanwhile, 6 Junior Sunshine Ambassadors from SCLF visited nine cooperative exhibitors, for example, The Commercial Press, The Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, to introduce Chinese books and culture to the world during the BIBF.
• Welcome to pay more attention to SUNSHINE READING PROGRAM.