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TSD and Axle Partner to Deliver Instant Insurance Verification, Streamlining Operations and Reducing Risk for Dealerships and Car Rental Companies

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Monday, April 8, 2024

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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TSD, the world's largest provider of loaner and car rental software, and Axle, the leading universal API for insurance data, have announced a strategic partnership to bring instant insurance verification to dealerships and car rental companies across the US.

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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TSD, the world's largest provider of loaner and car rental software, and Axle, the leading universal API for insurance data, have announced a strategic partnership to bring instant insurance verification to dealerships and car rental companies across the US.
Additionally, the Axle integration improves the customer experience by reducing the time customers spend waiting for insurance to be verified and clearing ambiguity on whether they are covered.
Both Axle and TSD share a mutual goal of minimizing liability for their clients.
Armaan Sikand, co-founder and COO of Axle noted, "Our partnership with TSD allows customers all over the country to cut through the complexity of car insurance and understand their coverage."

eHealth Provides Comments on CMS' Final Policy & Technical Changes for Medicare Advantage

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Friday, April 5, 2024

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AUSTIN, Texas, April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, commented on the final Contract Year 2025 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 4, 2024.

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AUSTIN, Texas, April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, commented on the final Contract Year 2025 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 4, 2024.
The company is currently in the process of reviewing the rule.
"We are accustomed to annual regulatory updates from CMS, and eHealth has a strong track record of navigating regulatory complexity in this industry.
Obtaining clarification is our priority in the coming days and weeks," stated eHealth CEO, Fran Soistman.

The response to Banksy’s tree highlights an ambiguity at the root of his ‘activism’

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

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From a distance the paint aligns behind a pollarded cherry tree, creating the timely impression of spring foliage.

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From a distance the paint aligns behind a pollarded cherry tree, creating the timely impression of spring foliage.
TV coverage revealed onlookers wedged amid a growing assemblage of security fencing in attempts to capture the perfect angle.
By the end of March, a whole structure of wood and Perspex surrounded the work to protect it from damage.
The artwork had been splattered with white paint only a couple of days after it was created.

Analysing Banksy

A 2014 Guardian article quotes the artist stating that: “a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts.
Many of those who celebrate Banksy hold contradictory positions on precisely the themes his works seem to address.
The Daily Mail were happy to join MP Jeremy Corbyn in celebrating the Islington “masterpiece’s” symbolic engagement with the climate emergency.
A 2015 film of work Banksy made in Gaza ended with a quote attributed to Brazilian philosopher, Paulo Freire: “if we wash our hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless we side with the powerful – we don’t remain neutral”.

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Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Vectara Launches Factual Consistency Score Powered by Upgraded Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model to Enhance Transparency in GenAI Responses

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The associated Hallucination Leaderboard is now the industry standard for how LLMs benchmark their average factual consistency.

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The associated Hallucination Leaderboard is now the industry standard for how LLMs benchmark their average factual consistency.
This innovative metric provides unprecedented visibility into the factual consistency of summarized responses within Vectara’s RAGaaS platform, empowering users to set personalized thresholds for response acceptance based on a detailed accuracy score.
Vectara mitigates this ambiguity for enterprises by providing a Factual Consistency Score grading the likelihood that the generated response is a hallucination or not.
"Integrating Vectara's Factual Consistency Score into the Yobi app will revolutionize how we handle AI transparency and accuracy for business use cases.

Safer Schools, Better Behaviour Campaign: CPI's Essential Breaking Up Fights™ Training Offers Immediate Solution for Staff to Address Spike in Violence in School

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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MANCHESTER, England, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent surveys from CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute)[1] and TeacherTapp[2] reveal that a third of teachers witness a fight among pupils on a weekly basis, a 55% increase in the last 2 years. While 96% of teachers feel obligated to intervene, mindful of their duty of care toward pupils, yet 74% feel unclear on intervention guidance within school settings. This leaves teachers ill-prepared to address physical altercations among students.

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While 96% of teachers feel obligated to intervene, mindful of their duty of care toward pupils, yet 74% feel unclear on intervention guidance within school settings.
In response to this pressing need, CPI has launched a training solution tailored specifically for school staff.
Breaking Up Fights™: Intervention Skills training equips staff with essential strategies to maximise safety and minimise harm.
With a 97% satisfaction rate, Breaking Up Fights™ Training has already proven its effectiveness in addressing the critical challenges faced by school staff.

New study reveals four critical barriers to building healthier Canadian cities

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The 15-minute city is all about accessibility, time efficiency and expanding options for everyone, not just the most well-off.

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The 15-minute city is all about accessibility, time efficiency and expanding options for everyone, not just the most well-off.
Achieving this goal, and designing healthier spaces, begins with a comprehensive understanding of how urban environments impact our health and well-being — along with a realistic look at the current barriers to healthier urban design.

Designing better spaces

Neighbourhoods with accessible public and community spaces and social events have been shown to improve mental health, increase happiness, and offer a sense of belonging and community.
At the same time, readily accessible grocery stores, community gardens and farmers’ markets have been shown to enhance mental, social and physical health.
This is where urban planning comes in as municipal policy-makers develop and implement policies, which can alter the structure, use and regulations of public spaces in cities.

Day-to-day challenges

While the importance of physical and mental health was widely acknowledged, a glaring gap exists in the recognition of the social dimension of health.
Administrative roadblocks, such as a lack of co-ordination between, and within, provincial and municipal governments, can prevent access to crucial data needed for policy making.
Meanwhile, technical barriers — including the use of jargon and overly-technical language by the academic community — can interfere with the accessibility of academic literature.

This lack of co-ordination among different branches and divisions within a municipality can result in missed opportunities for collaboration.
Differences in the use of terminology can exacerbate the problem, causing confusion and impeding cross-sectoral work.
Conflicts between the objectives of various divisions, such as those between active transportation planners and traffic engineers, underscore the challenges posed by siloed governance.
4 – Political ideologies get in the way Beyond bureaucratic challenges, differing political ideologies present a formidable barrier.

Overcoming these barriers

The journey towards creating healthier and more equitable cities is riddled with challenges.
From a lack of shared understanding, to inaccessible evidence, fragmented governance and legal limitations of municipalities and differing political ideologies, the barriers are multifaceted.

Akram Mahani holds funding from SHRF (Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation) and CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research).
Nazeem Muhajarine receives funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Flock Safety and Prepared Launch FlockOS® 911 to Enhance Emergency Response During Critical Life-Saving Moments

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

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According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as many as 10,000 lives could be saved annually with just a one-minute reduction in 911 response times .

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According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as many as 10,000 lives could be saved annually with just a one-minute reduction in 911 response times .
FlockOS® 911, developed in partnership with Prepared , gives Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs) and officers enhanced information, sourced directly from the scene, enabling better decision-making accuracy during high-stakes events.
"By ensuring that critical 911 caller information like call audio and livestream video are seamlessly incorporated into the emergency response process, FlockOS® 911 drives lifesaving outcomes for communities and officers."
To learn more about Flock Safety’s public safety platform and to schedule a demo, visit www.flocksafety.com .

Glassbox Ushers in the Next Era of Customer Feedback Management with AI-Powered Voice of the Silent Solution

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240213648675/en/

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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240213648675/en/
AI-powered Voice of the Silent (VoS) solution by Glassbox (Graphic: Business Wire)
Insufficient customer feedback is one of the top challenges leaders face when managing a product portfolio.
“The current model for gathering and analyzing customer feedback is limited–broken, even,” said Glassbox co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Yaron Gueta.
Glassbox’s Voice of the Silent (VoS) solution bridges the gap between the small percentage of users who provide feedback and the entire customer base.
To learn more about how Glassbox gives a voice to the silent majority of customers to drive better experiences, visit: Glassbox Voice of the Silent .

Concerned Stockholder Urges SmartRent Leadership to Address Strategy, Communication, and Governance Matters

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

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Though we engaged with management privately on multiple occasions, our line of questioning about corporate governance prompted a swift referral to external counsel.

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Though we engaged with management privately on multiple occasions, our line of questioning about corporate governance prompted a swift referral to external counsel.
We are calling on SmartRent's management team and Board to promptly address and clarify the unresolved issues outlined below, and we urge fellow shareholders to do the same.
We believe software revenue, which is recurring and high margin, is the main contributor to SmartRent's enterprise value.
However, Mr. Haldeman has increasingly minimized the significance of new units as a KPI4, defensively and ex post facto, in our view.

Why retranslate the literary classics?

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Which version of the Metamorphosis or Crime and Punishment should you choose?

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Which version of the Metamorphosis or Crime and Punishment should you choose?
Because in a particularly well-stocked library or bookshop, you could find more than ten different English translations of these two literary classics.

The art of choosing a translation

And yet, very few English speakers today read Dante, Cervantes or Rabelais in a century-old English translation, not to say older.
Because a classic is a text that we never stop retranslating, one might say, reversing the terms of the question.
The phenomenon of retranslation is both paradoxical and inherent in every culture, to the point that an historian of translation, Michel Ballard, has identified it as one of the few constant features in the history of translation.

Censorship, inaccuracies and ageing

Because of some forms of ideological or moral censorship, for instance, which may have deprived its readers of certain aspects of the book.
In other cases, the sense of dissatisfaction may be due to errors or inaccuracies, originated by human fallibility or limited resources.
Take one of the most famous so-called “errors” in the history of translation, the horns on the head of Michelangelo’s Moses (1515).

They age too, of course, but not quite in the same way.
They seem to ripen with age, whereas translations often turn grotesque.
Divine temptations, however, proved much more controversial and destabilising, as shown by the reactions stirred by the reform of the Lord’s prayer.
Retranslations can be disturbing because they introduce relativism into an interpretation which we thought of as definitive and unique.

Can we anticipate the path of a translation series?

Can we anticipate when and how often a classic will be retranslated?
Several case studies exist, but still no exhaustive studies providing reliable, large-scale statistics for a given period, genre or country.
In 1994, Isabelle Collombat, professor at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, predicted that the 21st century would be the age of retranslation.
It is the perfect antidote to the idea of a unique translation, and it reminds us that every single translation relies on a peculiar process of interpreting and rewriting.

Enrico Monti ne travaille pas, ne conseille pas, ne possède pas de parts, ne reçoit pas de fonds d'une organisation qui pourrait tirer profit de cet article, et n'a déclaré aucune autre affiliation que son organisme de recherche.