4 Tell-Tale Signs You’re Maintaining A Healthy Business Partnership

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The success of a business often hinges on choosing the right partner with the necessary skills and qualities. The best partnerships focus on mutual benefits, which leads to achieving greater long-term success. However, partnerships marked by conflict and competition can drain resources and hinder progress.

Even with your best efforts, you might still wonder if your partnerships meet this standard. By focusing on a few key areas, you can determine if your business has built a successful and mutually beneficial partnership or if there is still room for improvement.

1. Transparent Communication
No relationship can survive without communication. While the concept is simple, communication can often be complicated. It requires open, honest, and consistent dialogue about the business’s goals, challenges, and performance. Effective communication allows partners to address issues before they escalate, share successes, and stay aligned.

Clear communication leads to better decision-making and stronger relationships. Regular check-ins, whether through weekly meetings or monthly reviews, are crucial for discussing ongoing projects and future plans.

However, many mistakenly believe that open communication means constant agreement. In reality, effective communication involves being receptive to feedback and genuinely listening to your partner’s concerns and ideas, even if you don’t agree with them at first. This openness creates a culture of trust and respect, where both parties feel valued and understood.

2. Mutual Respect And Trust
A healthy business partnership thrives on mutual respect and trust. It’s essential to ensure that your partners fulfill their commitments. Just like in personal relationships, a successful and mutually beneficial business partnership is fundamentally built on trust.

Both parties should value each other’s contributions and expertise. Trust is built over time through consistency and reliability. When partners trust each other, they are more likely to take risks, innovate, and support one another through challenges. Without trust, you will constantly second-guess your partner’s words, actions, and even their data. It won’t be long before you, or your partner, start seeking new partnerships.

During a recent conversation with Joshua F. Centers, founder of Big Brand Energy, he emphasized the importance of trust in a partnership. “Trust is the foundation of any successful partnership. Without it, collaboration falters, and the business suffers.”
Continued Centers, “It’s vital to demonstrate reliability and integrity in all interactions. You’d never want to be known as a flake who can’t keep their word. Building trust involves being open, keeping promises, no matter how small, and respecting each other’s perspectives.”
Respect and trust also translate into giving your partner the benefit of the doubt and assuming positive intentions. When conflicts arise, as they inevitably will, approach them with a mindset of resolution rather than blame. Then, you can develop a collaborative atmosphere where problems are solved together, rather than creating rifts.
3. Shared Vision And Goals
Having a shared vision and common goals is essential for a partnership to flourish. Both parties need to be on the same page regarding the business’s direction, values, and objectives, ensuring that all efforts are geared toward achieving common targets.
A unified vision helps motivate teams, encourages collaboration, and drives business growth. Regularly revisiting and realigning the partnership’s goals can help keep everyone focused and adapt to changing market dynamics.
Developing a shared vision starts with an open discussion about each partner’s aspirations and expectations for the business. It’s beneficial to document this vision in a strategic plan that outlines short-term and long-term goals, key performance indicators (KPIs), and each partner’s roles.
Of course, the KPIs should be customized to the type of partnership. For example, the right KPIs for a marketing collaboration will differ from those for a partnership focused on software development.
Keep in mind that your data should measure the results that matter, whether raw sales numbers or increasing customer engagement and satisfaction. Agreeing on what matters most at the start of the relationship will guide everyone’s efforts and make it easier to hit KPIs over time.
4. Equitable Contribution And Reward
In a healthy business partnership, contributions and rewards should be unbiased. Both parties should feel their efforts are recognized and fairly compensated. This balance prevents resentment and ensures that both partners are motivated to contribute their best.
Equitable partnerships lead to higher satisfaction and better business outcomes. To maintain this balance, it’s important to define clear roles, responsibilities, and reward structures. Regular reviews and adjustments can help address any disparities that may arise.
Equity in contribution and reward also means acknowledging the different forms of value each partner brings, such as financial investment, time commitment, industry expertise, and personal networks. Frequently assessing each partner’s contributions and discussing compensation openly can help maintain a sense of fairness and mutual respect.
Measure Your Business Partnerships
Every healthy business partnership should be built on clear communication, mutual respect and trust, shared goals, and equitable contributions and rewards. While it’s essential to establish these standards at the start of the relationship, it’s equally important to follow through with them to maintain and strengthen the partnership over time.
By regularly reviewing the partnership and discussing how both parties feel about the relationship, you can identify areas for improvement and make necessary changes—ensuring long-term success for everyone involved.

Northamptonshire homebuilder highlights mental health awareness with book donation to local schools

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Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowLuxury homebuilder Mulberry Homes has donated mental health books to primary schools in Irchester and Middleton Cheney, to highlight Youth Mental Health Day on 19th September.Irchester Community Primary School, which is just under half a mile away from Mulberry Homes’ Steeple View Chase development, and Middleton Cheney Primary Academy, which is located nearby to Mulberry Homes’ Middleton Meadows development, both received a bundle of books which tackle sensitive subjects including emotions and grief.Prime7 Multi Academy Trust said: “We are very grateful to Mulberry Homes for this donation. Children’s mental health is massively important, and these books are a great entry point for our children to speak about their feelings.”Simon Anderson, Head of School at Irchester Community Primary, said: “We were very happy when we received this donation from Mulberry Homes. The focus on breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health is important, and these books act as a gateway for children to do that.” Use the ‘Submit a Story’ link to tell us your news.Youth Mental Health Day is aimed to encourage an open dialogue between young people about their mental health and any struggles they may be facing. The awareness day aims to break down the stigma surrounding mental health.Kerry Jones, Sales and Marketing Director at Mulberry Homes, said: “We are delighted to have supported Middleton Cheney Primary Academy and Irchester Community Primary this Youth Mental Health Day. With our donation, we hope to encourage an open discussion about how children feel and their mental health.”Established in 2011 and based in Warwickshire, Mulberry Homes is a medium housebuilder that provides quality properties across the wider midlands and southern counties. It specialises in individual and exclusive developments with their own looks and personalities and builds traditional homes with modern layouts.Continue Reading

News24 Business | Christmas mail alert: Start sending packages now to miss cut off, says Post Office

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The SA Post Office (SAPO) has urged customers to start sending international Christmas parcels and mail soon to ensure they reach their destinations on time.”Customers who use surface mail to send their Christmas gifts abroad should do so soon, as this will ensure that their parcels reach their destinations before Christmas Day,” said joint business rescue practitioner (BRP) Anoosh Rooplal.Those who choose to use airmail have slightly more time. The struggling state-owned entity, which is in business rescue, has clinched a deal with Ethiopian Airlines to move international post and parcels by air.SAPO said the final date for posting surface mail to destinations, such as Australia and China, was 18 October, while surface mail to Europe, the UK, and the US had to be posted by 25 October. For all airmail destinations, the final date is 25 November.Registered items will incur an additional cost. SAPO said this insures against non-delivery, but not damage.As SAPO seeks to deal with the Christmas rush, it is also waiting to hear whether it will receive a R3.8-billion bailout from the Treasury. Rooplal and his colleague, Juanito Damons, have said if SAPO doesn’t receive the funds by next month, it will likely be forced into liquidation. Cut off dates for the Post Office (Supplied/Post Office)Supplied

Harry Potter books are banned in sex offender-packed HMP Isle of Wight – because the main characters are children

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HMP Isle of Wight is a category B ‘super-prison’ holding 1,100 inmatesThere is ‘frustration’ from prisoners that the library does not stock the booksBosses decided teen books are ‘off limits’ for men convicted of sexual offencesBy Abbie Llewelyn For Mailonline Published: 06:25 EDT, 19 September 2024 | Updated: 06:40 EDT, 19 September 2024

How Jennifer Granholm’s Energy Department Is Pumping Billions Into Clean Tech

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The former Michigan governor has tried to turn the Department of Energy, flush with billions of dollars from energy and infrastructure legislation, into a catalyst for America’s clean energy future and new jobs.By Alan Ohnsman, Forbes Staff

As Secretary of Energy at a time when funding for clean energy in the U.S. is at its highest ever, Jennifer Granholm has an unprecedented task: dole out upwards of $110 billion for greener, less carbon-intense forms of energy — as quickly as possible. If she gets it right, it will affect Americans for decades to come – and create tens of thousands of jobs.

“Our motto is deploy, deploy, deploy,” Granholm told Forbes. “That has not historically been the case. When I came in we reorganized a whole new vertical inside the department and hired almost a thousand people to execute on deploying clean energy. We’ve obviously been a great science and research agency and we shepherd the nuclear stockpile, but this issue of deploying has not historically been part of our DNA.”.

That urgency was inspired by the Biden Administration’s target of slashing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses to net zero by 2050. It’s an audacious goal, and one scientists say must be achieved on time, if not sooner, to avoid the worst effects of climate change. To make it happen, Energy has tens of billions of dollars of new grants and loans to dole out resulting from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. It’s money that can be broadly allocated as long as it furthers climate goals — for things like new solar panel and wind turbine factories, plants making batteries for electric cars or long-term power storage, new ways to produce clean hydrogen for dirty heavy industries and energy-efficient upgrades for homes.

“Batteries are now the fastest-growing secondary electricity source for the grid” 

The two landmark bills set aside the most funding for clean energy in U.S. history and, critically, are designed to encourage companies and manufacturers to make major matching investments. The approximately $50 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act that DOE has doled out to over 1,000 projects has spurred over $60 billion in matching private capital, according to department officials. The administration’s push has also encouraged companies like Walmart to dramatically increase its solar power installations and Amazon to boost its green delivery fleet with 20,000 electric delivery trucks.

The U.S. has a long way to go. But Granholm, who is honored today on Forbes’ inaugural Sustainability Leaders list, cites the rapid growth of solar power and battery storage as early successes. A record 11 gigawatts of new solar added to the grid in 2024’s second quarter is up 91% from a year earlier and is “the equivalent of five Hoover Dams,” she said. “Annual solar installations have doubled over the past four years. In 2024 we’re on track to reach 38 gigawatts, which is double the prior U.S. record, which was just set a year ago in 2023.”
Batteries charged up by wind and solar installations, retaining surplus power generated at peak hours of the day, have had similarly impressive growth. She estimated that the country had less than two gigawatts of battery energy storage capacity at the end of 2020. But as of July, we’re at 20 gigawatts, “and there’s just exponential growth in projections,” she said. With their ability to hold power and feed it back into the grid when needed, “batteries are now the fastest-growing secondary electricity source for the grid.”
The Energy Department’s current direction seems closer to its 1977 origins when then-President Jimmy Carter tasked it with finding alternative energy sources at a time when embargoes and price spikes by oil-rich Middle Eastern countries undermined the U.S. economy. It was also charged with overseeing the country’s nuclear power industry, a critical role in the wake of 1979’s Three Mile Island power plant disaster. Over the years, and particularly as domestic oil and gas production rebounded, DOE’s role grew less prominent even as it continued to award research grants for early-stage clean energy projects and ran federal energy laboratories.
It wasn’t until the Obama Administration that Energy’s role was amped up again when it was tasked with overseeing a loan program for clean energy initiatives created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and awarding low-cost funds from a similar program for automakers passed in late 2008. The latter proved to be profoundly helpful for Tesla, Ford and Nissan, which got and repaid loan guarantees to build and retool plants to make electric and highly fuel-efficient vehicles. But two of those loans – $528 million for startup Fisker Automotive and $535 million for solar panel maker Solyndra – were flops after the companies went bankrupt – and came to symbolize the risk of the government betting on unproven companies and technology. Solyndra’s 2011 failure even became a talking point in the 2012 presidential election.The DOE “needs more freedom to operate and a willingness to take bigger risks”
Gaurav Sant, Institute for Carbon Management
Granholm’s agency is still haunted by Solyndra and concerns that, despite her intentions, it isn’t moving fast enough to combat the climate crisis. The clock is ticking too: If Trump were to be elected, his administration would pivot away from the cleantech push. So some believe DOE needs to take more risks, not fewer.
“It needs more freedom to operate and a willingness to take bigger risks with shorter periods between the appropriation of the allocation of funding and the disbursement of funds,” said Gaurav Sant, director of UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management, which is incubating and launching cleantech industrial companies. “You have an action window that’s 25 years and given that capital projects take three to six years to execute, it’s a short amount of time period to act.”
Granholm is a Canadian native who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1980. She grew up in California, was a high school beauty queen, graduated from UC Berkeley and earned a Harvard law degree. As governor of Michigan during the Obama Administration, she saw firsthand the benefits federal support could provide for domestic manufacturers. And while disbursing DOE funds helps curb carbon emissions, they’re also critical for creating jobs.Wind turbines reflected on a solar field.getty
“We as a nation sat by and watched as other countries poached our jobs. I mean, I was the governor of Michigan,” she said. The federal government “saw all of these jobs leave, all these factories leave, and did nothing about it.”
The infrastructure and energy legislation passed under Biden was designed to reverse that, with “incentives that make the United States irresistible,” she said. That’s resulted in more than 800 clean energy-related projects nationwide that have benefited from Inflation Reduction Act funds. That includes pushing for a domestic supply base to produce components for batteries, solar panels and wind turbines, or things like electrolyzers to make hydrogen from water and electricity.
“It’s not just the factories. It’s also the mapping of the supply chains to make sure that we’re filling in the gaps so that we’re not substituting some reliance on OPEC with reliance on China. We are doing this – building up this clean energy supply chain in the United States.”
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analytica expands its international network to the USA

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publication date: Sep 19, 2024

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author/source: Messe München GmbH

analytica USA celebrates its premiere in Columbus, Ohio in September 2025
Covering the entire value chain in the laboratory
US laboratory market with top growth forecasts

“As part of our international strategy, we have analyzed the North American market and found that there is no other trade fair there that covers the entire laboratory value chain as comprehensively as analytica. In addition, numerous companies have expressed a strong interest in the US market,” said Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer and Stefan Rummel, the CEOs of Messe München, explaining the background to analytica USA. “With this step across the Atlantic, we are strengthening analytica’s status as the leading trade fair network for the global laboratory sector, which already includes very successful local branches in China, Vietnam, South Africa and at two locations in India,” adds Susanne Grödl, Exhibition Director analytica shows worldwide.

analytica USA will follow the established analytica concept with an exhibition part, a conference part and a practice-oriented supporting program

Established trade fair concept
analytica USA picks up on analytica’s unique selling point by covering the entire spectrum of laboratories in industry and research, from laboratory planning to final equipment. It follows analytica’s established three-pillar concept with an exhibition area, a scientific conference and a practice-oriented supporting program with lectures and special events. This includes the popular Live Lab, where common laboratory processes are demonstrated live on a complete laboratory line. Focus topics at the trade fair will include digitalization, artificial intelligence and sustainability in the laboratory environment. analytica USA will be held every two years in Columbus, Ohio. The location is conveniently situated and offers an excellent trade fair infrastructure as well as promising visitor potential from the high-investment sectors of life sciences, IT and aerospace.

Booming laboratory market
North America currently accounts for 25 percent of the global analytical market and the growth forecasts for the US laboratory sector are promising: the market for laboratory equipment is expected to grow by 8.5 percent by 2023, with 2.5 million square meters of new laboratory space for biotechnology to be added by 2025. “We have been partners with analytica in Munich for many years and are excited about the launch of the trade fair in the United States”, says Clark Mulligan, President of the US Laboratory Products Association. “We highly recommend participation in analytica to our members and look forward to the value it will bring them as well as the new opportunities it will bring to the laboratory industry here.”

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‘Explaining to scientists why art is important’

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“For me, the highlight is seeing individuals be able to do something new with their art and validate themselves as artists,” said Jessica Winters, an Inuit artist from Makkovik, N.L.
Winters is the co-lead, alongside Melanie Zurba, for the arts collective with the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures (SNF) project.Related stories
Science can be foreign
The residency program offers Indigenous artists the opportunity to get funding to create work that highlights a particular theme, such as food security, ice safety, Inuit self-determination, informed management solutions, and climate change.
In using these themes to inspire their work, artists can help communicate important research and information through their art, explained Winters.
“Science can be so foreign, and research and stuff – it’s jargony and complex and methodical,” she said. “A huge part of it is how do we communicate all this work that people are doing to Nunatsiavut.
“It’s just a way to communicate everything that’s happened and to make it a bit more familiar.”

Shirley Moorhouse is an Inuit artist from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Nunatsiavut, N.L., taking part in the SNF artist-in-residency program. Jessica Winters/Contributed

Connections
A key component of SNF’s work is to connect Western science with Indigenous knowledge in a way that is community-led.
“For the longest time, it was just scientists dropping in and not really collaborating properly or taking leadership from the community,” explained Melanie Zurba.
Taking a social science lens to this approach is what brought Zurba and Winters together, among others, to form an arts collective within SNF, which then created the residency program.
Winters, who had her first art show in 2023 at a gallery in Toronto, said that connecting and creating opportunities for other artists has always been very important to her.
“These projects on the side where I get to help other artists have these opportunities and grow and be proud of themselves. All this stuff is sort of like my passion projects,” she said.
What is a residency?
Winters’ art is heavily influenced by her experiences growing up in Nunatsiavut, with a focus on arctic themes.
The life of an artist can be very isolating at times, she explained. So, creating these opportunities for artists to come together enables them to learn from one another and relate through their work.
Many of the artists involved in the residency wouldn’t have considered themselves artists at all prior to the experience.
Belinda Shiwak, an elder from Rigolet, is a master traditional grass worker and one of the artists taking part in the residency.
“She didn’t even know what a residency was,” explained Winters.
Initially, some of the artists were confused and couldn’t quite wrap their heads around the fact that they were being given money to create their work without any stipulations.
“It’s been really nice to see (Shiwak) have that opportunity for probably the first time in her life, despite being an incredible master and artist for her whole life,” Winters added.

Katelyn Jacque is a photographer from Postville, N.L., taking part in the SNF artist-in-residency program. Jessica Winters/Contributed

Thinking outside the box
The artists range in age, experience, and artistic styles.
“One person has done beaded earrings all her career,” said Winters. “She came up with this idea that she’s gonna bead a picture like a landscape picture.”
“This is exactly what we want,” she added. “For people to think outside the box and push themselves a little bit.”
Eldred Allen, an Indigenous photographer in the residency program from Rigolet, hadn’t picked up a camera until 2018.
Allen runs his own business in Rigolet, a drone service provider called Bird’s Eye Inc.
In 2018, he bought his first digital camera for two reasons: to take photos for his business and to take more of a deep dive into photography.
“After using it for a little while, I discovered that I really enjoyed photography,” he explained. “I’d always be taking pictures of wildlife, landscape, and anything that caught my eye, really.”
An artist?
Later, in 2019, there was a call for submissions for a photo exhibition at La Guilde Art Gallery in Montréal. Another photographer from a neighbouring community asked if Allen would be submitting any of his work.
“I had never considered myself an artist,” he said.
After taking some time to think it over, he said he decided to submit a couple of his photographs.
“I had two images selected for that exhibition,” he explained. “So it was kind of a fast and surreal experience to going from not knowing photography at all in 2018 when I bought my first camera to be in my first photo exhibition at an art gallery in Montreal in 2019.”
Since then, Allen has been in well over a dozen exhibitions throughout Canada and is represented by a gallery based out of Toronto.
“Photography has become a passion of mine,” he said.

Melanie Zurba (pictured) is the co-lead for the artist residency program with Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures. Melanie Zurba/Contributed

A two-phase project
After finding out about the program through SNF, Allen decided to take on his second artist residency.
While he started his residency a couple of months ago, he decided to break up his project into two separate phases.
“I kind of took the opportunity a little bit when the residency came up to delve a little deeper and explore a little bit more into a photo project that I’ve kind of had in the back of my mind for a little while,” he explained. “It’s going to explore the capability of youth within Inuit culture.
“It shows them the traditional values and traditional skills that we teach in the Inuit culture that’s probably much different than quote-unquote Western society and urban landscapes.”
Allen explained that he wanted to capture as many different types of subject matter as possible throughout different seasons.
“Phase 1 is capturing those images, and now Phase 2 is going to be the framing aspect,” he explained. “I’m going to frame them kind of in a unique and interactive way.
“I’ll leave exactly what’s going to be done until it’s revealed during whatever exhibition we do.”
Showcasing the work
There are seven artists in the residency program completing work on different timelines they’ve chosen themselves, explained Zurba.
“We’re offering one-month residencies, but some people wanted to do it part-time over longer, which is fine for us,” she said.
While they have been documenting the work of each artist throughout the program, showcasing the final results through an exhibition would be a fitting way to bring the program to a close.
“We’re also hoping and applying for funds to support exhibitions in each community as well, kind of prioritizing that,” said Zurba.
Some artists are working from The Rooms in St. John’s, while others have chosen to stay within their communities, meaning that exhibitions will have to take place in different areas for different artists.
However, Zurba said they’re exploring alternatives as well to give the artists additional exposure opportunities, including events taking place next year that will help document and connect artists with researchers and scientists in SNF.
“Connecting to those events, showing the work, explaining to scientists why art is important,” she said.

Eldred Allen in front of his exhibition Resemblance at The Rooms in St. John’s. Eldred Allen/Contributed

Jessica Winters is an Inuit artist from Makkovik, N.L. and co-lead of the SNF Arts Collective. Jessica Winters

Anasophie Vallée is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter covering Indigenous and rural issues.

Exotica Charters Announces Availability of New Yacht Charter Locations Due To a Wide Adoption and Innovative Use of This Technology

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Exotica Charters is a premier yacht charter company owned by DMA Yachting, a renowned international yacht charter group, focusing on charters in exotic locations. New areas have become available due to total adoption and leveraging of a new technology. United States – September 19, 2024 — The availability of yacht charters was long dependent upon available marinas that allow for resupply after every charter. As the average size of a crewed charter vessel increased from 45 feet to 90+ feet, they could hold much more supplies. Nowadays, there are only 2 items that need to be restocked frequently – fresh produce and water. Since most charter locations burst with fresh fruit and fish, only water needed to be solved.myBVIcharter is the leading US yacht charter company offering a robust fleet of catamarans and motor yachts in the British Virgin Islands. The classic weekly itinerary sees all the yachts depart on Saturday in a counterclockwise direction towards Virgin Gorda and Anegada, looping on Tortola on the way back, with the last leg from Jost Van Dyke.Depending on the day, yachts used to move like the “Spanish Armada”. As yachts started to adopt the water maker, they suddenly had more options to start from almost anywhere, as guests could be picked up on a tender. This means that travelers can start their charter on day 3, staying ahead of the main fleet while on the same itinerary.In Greece, the effect is twofold as explained by Mo, the Charter Guru at myGreekcharter. Firstly, there are new ways to discover classic locations. Since the first yachts started allowing Santorini pickup/dropoff, other yachts chose to follow suit. Santorini does not have a marina, and the pickup with a tender was a game changer. The amount of water needed for 15 people made daily stocking impractical and the yachts chose to start and finish in Athens.Secondly, new charter areas in Greece have become available. As new yachts continued to arrive, the Athens’ marinas were full around 2022. The new yachts needed to find new marinas. A fundamental question – “why do we need a marina?”, led to yachts operating in areas previously not touched by the crewed yachts – Sporades and Dodecanese islands.As Daniel, the owner of DMA Yachting, explains, ”We’re seeing first 3-4 crewed yachts permanently stationed in the Sporades and 8-10 yachts in the Dodecanese. Previously, you had to charter from Athens and ideally take a 2-week charter. This is no longer the case – you can start almost anywhere.”The situation with the motor yacht Bahamas is similar. The previously Nassau-centric model, where all yachts started in Nassau and went for a weekly “milk run” charter to the Exumas, is challenged. “People don’t want to charter in the same spot twice”, explains Mo. “With 2,400 Cays, why not start in Eleuthera or even Long Island? And if the charterer wants to start in Staniel Cay, why get there from Nassau? Start the charter there!”The water maker is not a new technology. It’s been around for a long time. It’s the innovative use, wide adoption, and necessity to spend less or no time in the marina that made the yachts offered by myBVIcharter behave differently. According to Daniel, owner of the DMA Yachting group comprised of myBVIcharter, Exotic Charters, Bahamas Motor Yachts & myGreekcharter, the adoption of water makers skyrocketed from a humble 30% to a whopping 100% in the last five years. Due to over-tourism and overcrowding in mainstream locations, people seeking intimate retreats are becoming increasingly more interested in exotic spots like Thailand, Raja Ampat, Galapagos or Antarctica. A water maker onboard is the key technological change that made these new locations feasible.Exotica Charters, a yacht charter specialist in emerging and remote locations owned by DMA Yachting, has also observed increasing deployment of water makers in its fleet. “We’re suddenly able to create completely new itineraries, as we can do a route ABCD instead of A to A. You can get picked up in B and dropped off at C a week later. We’re seeing multiweek charters covering huge distances, especially in the Med: Sardina/Corsica, France to Italy to Malta, Ionian to Turkey in Greece.”From Polynesia, South East Asia, to the “newly discovered” Greek islands such as Skopelos and Kalimnos, through innovative ways to discover known Caribbean islands such as Anegada or Jost Van Dyke, the water maker and human resourcefulness are leading the yacht charter market development. For more information about individual locations, interested clients can visit myBVICharter, myGreekCharter, Bahamas Motor Yachts and Exotica Charters.[embedded content]Contact Info: Name: Mo PristasEmail: Send EmailOrganization: myBVICharterWebsite: https://mybvicharter.comRelease ID: 89141517Should any errors, concerns, or inconsistencies arise from the content provided in this press release that require attention or if a press release needs to be taken down, we kindly request that you immediately contact us at [email protected] (it is important to note that this email is the authorized channel for such matters, sending multiple emails to multiple addresses does not necessarily help expedite your request). 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Govt ‘committed’ to space technologies for national growth: IT minister

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Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Shaza Fatima Khawaja (Centre) stands alongside attendees of the PAKSAT-MM1 Satellite Application Conference on September 18, 2024. — X/@jameelaqMinister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication Shaza Fatima Khawaja has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to using space technologies for national growth.The minister’s statement came during the PAKSAT-MM1 Satellite Application Conference which showcased Pakistan’s dedication to advancing its space technology for national development.
“The success of PAKSAT-MM1 will revolutionise our communication infrastructure, benefiting all sectors of society,” said the minister during the conference, emphasising that the satellite will enhance internet connectivity, especially in remote areas, advancing the government’s goal of a digitally connected Pakistan.”Digitalisation is key to socio-economic prosperity,” she addedKhawaja also noted Pakistan’s improvement in the UN’s e-governance development index, saying, “Pakistan’s ranking has improved by 14 points, with the country moving to the high tier of digital e-governance in Asia.”Technology legal and policy expert Barrister Zahid Jamil, the keynote speaker, commended the minister for presenting a positive image of Pakistan and encouraging investment in the country.Drawing inspiration from John F Kennedy, Barrister Jamil quoted, “We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” He emphasised that Pakistan, like the United States, is striving to overcome challenges in becoming a spacefaring nation. Barrister Jamil praised SUPARCO and PAKSAT for the successful launch of PAKSAT-MM1, detailing its importance in improving communication and broadcasting capabilities. He emphasised the satellite’s broad coverage and the variety of services it will provide, including DTH, community internet, tele-education, and tele-medicine, all of which will aid in serving unconnected regions.”PAKSAT-MM1 and SUPARCO are a ray of hope for Pakistan, not only putting the country on the terrestrial map but also on the celestial map,” Barrister Jamil remarked. “They represent the spirit, ingenuity, curiosity, adventure, technical prowess, and determination of the Pakistani people.”Barrister Jamil also raised concerns about the risks posed by unregulated low-earth orbit satellites, which could potentially affect Pakistan’s strategic assets. He called on Pakistan to engage more actively in international forums such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), especially given the new opportunities offered by PAKSAT-MM1.SUPARCO Chairman Muhammad Yousuf Khan also addressed the audience, praising the efforts behind PAKSAT-MM1.”PAKSAT-MM1 will serve unconnected regions with services like DTH, community internet, tele-education, and tele-medicine,” Khan said, inviting local industries to collaborate on future space-related initiatives.Khan also highlighted the satellite’s 15-year operational lifespan and its offerings, including broadband and VSAT connectivity, which contribute to Pakistan’s ambition of becoming a digitally empowered nation.The conference was attended by government officials, industry leaders, and experts, who celebrated the role of PAKSAT-MM1 in bridging the digital divide and promoting national development.