EXAIR is proud to announce that Application Engineer and International Sales Manager Neal Raker has earned a CCASS (Certified Compressed Air System Specialist) certification, accrediting his understanding of how to best utilize and optimize compressed air systems and products

CINCINNATI, Oct. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Understanding how to optimize compressed air usage requires extensive knowledge and understanding of the utility. Calling on years of experience while working directly with customers and their requirements, EXAIR Application Engineers work diligently to provide proper guidance on how to get the most out of their application. To compliment this established effort, EXAIR is proud to announce that Application Engineer and International Sales Manager Neal Raker has earned a CCASS (Certified Compressed Air System Specialist) certification, accrediting his understanding of how to best utilize and optimize compressed air systems and products.

Setting a New Benchmark: Kula Makai Homesite N Shatters Records on the South Shore with a Historic Sales Price

SOUTH SHORE, Hawaii, Oct. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Kukuiʻula, the esteemed pioneer of Private Club developments on Kauaʻi, proudly marks a historic milestone with the sale of the most expensive single-family homesite ever documented on Kauaʻi’s breathtaking South Shore. The acquisition of Kula Makai Homesite N for a remarkable $8.65 million presents an extraordinary opportunity within the Kula Makai neighborhood to design and construct a world-class residence along the western fringe of Kukuiʻula.

“The sale of Homesite N establishes a new pinnacle in luxury real estate on Kauaʻi’s South Shore,” says Suzanne Harding, Managing Broker of Kukuiʻula Realty. “It solidifies Kukuiʻula’s reputation as the premier destination for discerning second-home buyers who seek the epitome of island living. With an exclusive array of activities that span immersive wellness experiences to unparalleled culinary dining options, this community stands as the ultimate haven for families who yearn to harmonize relaxed luxury living with the island’s natural beauty.”

Kula Makai Homesite N, spanning just over an acre in size, offers the idyllic canvas for crafting a tailor-made, world-class abode. Featuring a graded, level foundation, the forthcoming residence will command captivating views of the Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole golf course and the expansive Pacific Ocean. This prestigious homesite, perched atop a promontory, affords panoramic vistas of the coastline and the open ocean to the south and west. Kula Makai remains one of Kauaʻi’s last oceanfront estate enclaves, with a limited availability of three lots, starting at $3.5 million. There is also a handful of homesites at the elevated enclave of Aepo Nei, offering sweeping views from $1.4 million.

In addition to these homesites, Kukuiʻula offers an array of luxury turnkey and custom homes, including standout listings such as Kahalawai Custom Home 17, Hale Kainalu, and Hale Nanea, among others. To explore the range of available real estate options, including the few remaining homesites, please visit kukuiula.com/own/.

ABOUT KUKUIʻULA

Kukuiʻula, the first Private Club development on Kauaʻi, is a 1,010-acre residential and resort community, positioned on the island’s southern coast in Poʻipū, nestled between the National Tropical Botanical Garden and historic Old Kōloa Town. Kukuiʻula comprises a collection of custom ocean view homesites and luxury homes, villas, cottages and bungalows. The private clubhouse serves as the social and recreational centerpiece of the community and includes the main clubhouse, a world class spa, the Golf Clubhouse home to a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole golf course, pickleball and tennis courts and an inviting collection of saltwater swimming pools replicating a private oasis and expansive lawn with sand-pit volleyball, bocce ball and more. The Club also offers a 10-acre upcountry Farm & Lake and orchard park area for members and guests to pick their own produce from tropical fruit to herbs and hike its surrounding trails. To learn more about Kukuiʻula residential offerings, please visit kukuiula.com/own/. 

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Seattle-based Grow Further will direct funds from individual donors and other sources to support innovative agricultural research in Ghana and Tanzania. The winning projects will benefit small-scale farmers while enhancing food security and nutrition. For the first time ever, Grow Further is connecting individual donors to developing world agricultural scientists. After vetting by Grow Further, individual member donors selected two winning entries among the more than 700 proposals received from throughout the world.

SEATTLE, Oct. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Grow Further (growfurther.org), a collaborative non-profit connecting people and ideas for a food-secure future, is pleased to announce its first-ever grant awards in support of smallholder farmers. $196,000 in grants will support two innovative food security research endeavors in sub-Saharan Africa over three years.

This milestone marks the beginning of Grow Further’s mission to revolutionize and expand funding for developing-world agricultural research, currently dominated by governments and major foundations.

“Never before has there been a good answer to the simple question, ‘I want to support the future of food security. How do I get involved?'”, said Grow Further’s founder and CEO Peter Kelly.

Aiming to be a “March of Dimes for Food”, Grow Further takes its strength from the power of individual donors. Unique in agricultural research philanthropy, Grow Further’s member donors not only fund winning project proposals, but also actively participate in assisting staff in selecting and monitoring these unique and innovative research ideas. The focus is on smallholder agricultural innovation.

$133,000 of the total grant funding has been awarded to the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in Tamale, Ghana to develop the first commercial variety of Bambara groundnut. The award will support three years of studying the needs of farmers, breeding, agronomic research, and partnerships to ensure wide adoption.

A further $63,000 has been awarded to the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Arusha, Tanzania. The funds will help cover two years of research and development for a new mobile phone app that will enable smallholder farmers to quickly identify diseases threatening staple crops.

Food security advocates and members of the media can learn more about Grow Further and its first grantees at the Borlaug Dialogue during a side panel discussion on how innovative financing can accelerate agricultural research and development. The panel will occur on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at 7 am to 9 am Central.

In Ghana, SARI will work to breed Bambara groundnuts that are high yielding and have traits farmers want. Bambara groundnut is a traditional crop that’s loaded with nutrients, highly valued in the market, and able to grow under adverse environmental conditions, making it adaptable to climate change. However, yields remain low, in large part due to a lack of research. With Grow Further’s support, SARI hopes to fundamentally change this. Working closely with women farmers and other stakeholders, the project aims to breed the first commercial variety of Bambara groundnut, optimized for on-farm and domestic consumption or the growing export market for nut milk.

CSIR-SARI’s goal is to reach at least 80,000 farmers with its improved Bambara groundnut varieties, similar to the population reached by breeding efforts for other crops at the institute. “Ghana is a food insecure country, particularly rural communities compared to urban centres,” said SARI’s research scientist Alhassan Nuhu Jinbaani. “So far, there haven’t been any improved varieties of Bambara groundnuts. This despite the important nutritional value of the Bambara groundnut. It is highly nutritious. It is also very favorable to be grown in unfavorable and dry conditions.”

Scientists at NM-AIST will harness Grow Further’s grant to develop a machine learning-driven smartphone application aimed at smallholder farmers. With the app, developed with the direct input of smallholder farmers through focus groups, farmers will be able to take pictures of the leaves and stems of crops. The app will then tell them if the plants show early signs of disease attacks, buying farmers time to stop the threats and save their crops.

“We are working on detecting diseases in maize and common beans,” said NM-AIST research scientist and lecturer Neema Mduma. “For maize, our target is maize lethal necrosis and streak virus, and for beans, our focus is on bean rust and bean anthracnose.”

“This project aims to reach 400 farmers this year,” Grow Further CEO Kelly explained. “By 2025, that goes up to 45,000 farmers. And 400,000 by 2030. And these are just the first of our projects, with many more to come. The long-term goal is to inspire a whole sector of agricultural research charities to support the future of food security, just like there’s a whole category of medical research organizations where folks can easily get involved.”

In addition to active individual donors and members, Grow Further grants are made possible through the generous support of select corporate and foundation partners.

Contacts

To learn more or for questions, journalists are invited to contact Grow Further founder and CEO Peter Kelly at +1 206-390-6744 or [email protected].

For the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute in Ghana, please contact monitoring and evaluation and gender specialist and Principal Investigator Alhassan Nuhu Jinbaani at +233 (0) 24 280 2784 or [email protected].

Journalists wishing to connect with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania can reach data scientist and Principal Investigator Neema Mduma at [email protected].

The Grow Further management consultant, Altruist Partners, is also available to the media. Please contact Donald Summers at [email protected].

For photos to use with this story, please contact Iquo Essien at [email protected].

About Grow Further

At Grow Further (growfurther.org), we engage farmers, scientists, and individuals in participatory innovation for global food security and sustainable agriculture. Our members come from different backgrounds, but we all come eager to learn from each other, invest in the future of food, support scientists with overlooked ideas, and help small-scale farmers. Learn more at https://www.growfurther.org/why-we-exist/.

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Peter Kelly, Grow Further, 1 206-390-6744 , [email protected], https://www.growfurther.org/

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As regulatory scrutiny increases amidst turbulent market conditions, this report continues to serve as a valuable tool by highlighting important trends and insights around consumer complaints and enforcement actions.

Detailed in this:

• Consumer complaints and trends by product
• The impact of regulators’ focus on protecting vulnerable populations, including military servicemembers and older consumers
• Enforcement trends by year, consumer relief by year, and under each Director
• How to avoid consumer complaints with a strong marketing compliance program

“At PerformLine, our mission has always been to empower compliance leaders with the technology, tools, and knowledge they need to ensure their organization and partners provide transparent and accurate information to consumers across any channel,” said Paul Wilmore, COO of PerformLine. “Armed with the knowledge from this report, paired with PerformLine’s omni-channel compliance solution, companies can proactively monitor marketing communications to better protect consumers and avoid the complaints that lead to investigations and enforcement actions by the CFPB.”

To download a copy of PerformLine’s 2023 Complaint Risk Signal Report, click here.

ABOUT PERFORMLINE

PerformLine is the leading platform for omni-channel compliance oversight. Its cloud-based platform is mission-critical for companies to discover, monitor, and act on compliance risk in their marketing, sales, and partner channels. Through sophisticated technology, the PerformLine platform provides end-to-end marketing compliance automation, from the review of material before publication to continuous live monitoring across consumer-facing channels, including the web, email, social media, calls, and messages. PerformLine is trusted by consumer finance brands and global organizations to make efficient marketing compliance their competitive advantage. Learn more at PerformLine.com.

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Claire Milazzo, PerformLine, 1 9735902305, [email protected], www.PerformLine.com

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