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But even as it explored the future, Discovery never left behind the rest of Trek. In fact, it made more Trek possible. There would be no Star Trek Universe without Star Trek: Discovery, Kurtzman tells Den of Geek. It was the first one in the door. It took all the knocks, but it also carved all this new ground.

It did indeed take knocks. The shows initial viewers didnt know what to make of the new look, with blue uniforms and a sleek ship design, nor of Discoverys storytelling style, the first Trek series to truly abandon episodic structure for a fully serialized season-long narrative.

However, the reaction to Discoverys changes made way for the second Star Trek renaissance, with the most and best series in production since the 1990s. Without Discovery, there would not be the revival series Picard, the kids show Prodigy, the comedy of Lower Decks, or the unbridled imagination of Strange New Worlds. That last point is particularly true, as Strange New Worlds spins directly out of Discovery, as the latter introduced Ethan Pecks Spock, Anson Mounts Pike, and Rebecca Romijns Number One.

During our chat, Kurtzman explains that the beauty of the current Star Trek universe is that theres something for every kind of fan, whether its Discovery or another series: There are many subsets of the Trek fandom and many different things that different people like. Kurtzman embraces the complexity of the franchise fan base as an opportunity for different forms of storytelling.

The question that we always ask ourselves when were doing any Star Trek show is Why are we putting it in that particular timeline? And the answer cant ever just be Because we havent done it before, he says. It has to be, Well, theres a very specific story thats going to be suited to be told in that particular timeline.

Our biggest thing has honestly been we dont ever want our Star Trek shows to feel repetitive. We dont want you to think that by watching Discovery, you shouldnt watch any of the other shows because youre getting everything from that one show. Each show is different, Kurtzman continues. So for us, its not about doing one show that pleases everybody because thats the surefire way to please nobody. Its more about doing a bunch of different shows that speak to specific sections of the demographic.

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Sidelined by football's governing body, the unofficial 1971 Women's World Cup tournament faded into obscurity. Now, a film executive produced by Venus and Serena Williams seeks to restore its rightful place in history as one of the most significant events ever held.

In 2024, womens football is one of the worlds fastest growing sports.

However, this hasn't always been the case as, after World War II, women were banned or marginalised for playing the beautiful game - which is one of the many reasons that not much is known about the Womens World Cup in Mexico in 1971.

"Copa 71, a new documentary, aims to close this gap in awareness.

Through a compelling blend of rich archival footage and interviews with key figures and players from the tournament, the film explores the remarkable history of the event.

Notably, the final match between Mexico and Denmark garnered the highest attendance in the history of female sports.

Trudy McCaffrey, a former England football player, vividly recalls the physical sensation of stepping onto the field in front of more than 100,000 spectators at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium.

It was just a wave of noise. And you could hear it from the dressing room. And it was the drums. I could feel the drums thudding in my body. That's how loud they were. And it just went on and on, and on and on, all the way through the matches, these drums. And when you walked out onto the pitch, the sound just hit you."

In the documentary, players for Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy also look back to August 1971, when they were celebrated for their ball skills and treated like superstars. A far cry from their home countries, where most of them were forbidden from playing on football pitches and were reduced to practising in public parks instead.

Directed by Rachel Ramsey and James Erskine, and executive produced by tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams as well as USA's Women's World Cup-winning striker Alex Morgan,the film is set for release on 8 March in the UK.

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In a new study, people experiencing homelessness with a pet documented their lives in photos and participated in interviews, revealing their experiences and potentially informing support initiatives. Gemina Garland-Lewis of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues present this project in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 13, 2024.

Having a pet while experiencing homelessness can boost physical and mental health and provide social benefits. However, it can pose unique challenges, such as making it difficult to access medical care, shelters, and other services at facilities that restrict pet entrance. Often, owners choose to forgo services in order to remain with and care for their pet, and many face harassment from people perceiving them as "unfit" for pet ownership.

Proposed efforts to address these barriers assert the importance of modifying public perceptions of this population. To explore how such change could be implemented, Garland-Lewis and colleagues conducted a Photovoice projecta research method that invites community members to take photos that can help deepen understanding of a certain issue and drive change. They recruited Seattle-area pet owners experiencing homelessness; a total of 19 participants of varied ages, genders, and living situations captured their daily lives in more than 900 images.

After reviewing the photos and interviewing participants, the researchers identified key themes: the mental and physical health benefits of the human-animal bond, the importance and strength of the bond itself, and the bond serving as motivation for daily activities and positive changes, such as staying sober or finding housing.

The project also reaffirmed known challenges faced by this population. Participants shared their own recommendations for improved services and policies, such as pet food banks and better public education about service animal laws.

The photos were exhibited to more than 500 people, including policymakers, service providers, and the public. Some housed viewers reported positive changes in their attitudes about homeless community members with pets.

The researchers say that this project increased empathy and boosted the potential for efforts to support people experiencing homelessness and their pets, especially efforts addressing health and housing.

The authors add: "Participants experiencing homelessness with a pet created over 900 photographs during this study. Collectively, their images, stories and themes deepen our understanding of homelessness with pets, leading to increased empathy and potential for policies that benefit the health of both people and their pets during times of housing insecurity."

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March 11 (SeeNews) - Romanian stock indices ended in red on Monday, as freight forwarder Transport Trade Services [BSE:TTS] paced blue-chip decliners, data from the Bucharest Stock Exchange, BVB, indicated.

The total equity turnover of the BVB increased to 41.26 million lei ($9.1 million/8.3 million euro) on Monday, from 27.47 million lei on Friday, BVB data showed.

Shares of blue-chip lender Banca Transilvania [BSE:TLV] inched up by 0.15% to 27 lei in the session's largest trading turnover of 9.47 million lei.

Blue-chip oil and gas group OMV Petrom [BSE:SNP] saw its shares decrease by 1.09% to 0.635 lei in the day's second largest turnover of 7.38 million lei.

Transport Trade Services was the top blue-chip decliner on Monday, shedding 5.56% and closing at 25.5 lei in the day's third largest trading turnover, of 4.97 million lei. The company bought back 4,900 of its shares at an average price of 28.46 lei per share between March 4 and March 8, it said in a report filed with the BVB on Monday. In February, TTS shares ranked twelfth on the list of the most traded shares listed on the BVB, representing 2.29% of the total value of transactions registered by shares included in the bourse's Premium category.

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BET is the first index developed by BVB and represents the reference index for the local capital market. BET reflects the performance of the most traded companies on BVBs regulated market, excluding financial investment companies (SIFs). It now includes 20 companies.

BET-TR is the first total return index launched by BVB. It is based on the structure of market reference index BET. BET-TR tracks the price changes of its component shares and is adjusted to also reflect the dividends paid by constituent companies.

BET-FI is the first sector index launched by BVB and reflects the price changes of SIFs and of other assimilated entities.

BET-BK was designed to be used as a benchmark by asset managers and other institutional investors.

BET-NG is a sector index which reflects the evolution of all the companies listed on BVBs regulated market included in the energy and related utilities sector. The maximum index weight a company can hold is 30%.

BET-XT tracks the price changes of the 25 most traded companies listed on BVBs Regulated Market, including SIFs.

BET-XT-TR is the total return version of BET-XT index, which includes the 25 most traded Romanian companies listed at BVB.

ROTX is an index developed by BVB together with Vienna Stock Exchange. It tracks, in real-time, the price changes of the blue-chip shares traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

BET AeRO is the first index for the AeRO market developed by BVB which reflects the price performance of the representative companies listed on the AeRO market that meet the liquidity and free-float market capitalization criteria. It is a free-float market capitalisation-weighted index, with the maximum weight of 15% for an index constituent.

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A molecular "snapshot" of a protein can be critical to understanding its function. Scientists at Stanford and NYU have published and investigated a new structure of the protein LAG-3 which could enable the development of new cancer treatments.

By Erin Ross

Some cancerous tumors hijack proteins that act as "brakes" on our immune system and use them to form a sort of shield against immune recognition. Immunotherapy treatments have been created that turn off these "brakes" and allow our body to attack foreign-looking cancer cells. To further advance such treatments, researchers at Stanford University and New York University have published a new structure of one of these brake proteins, LAG-3. Their work contains key details of the molecule's structure, as well as information about how the LAG-3 protein functions.

Although over a dozen immunotherapies targeting LAG-3 are in development, and one is already FDA approved, knowledge of LAG-3's structure and function has been incomplete.

"Given the amount of time and resources being put into developing therapeutics that target LAG-3, it is astounding that we don't yet have a full understanding of how this protein functions," said Jennifer Cochran, the Addie and Al Macovski Professor in the School of Engineering and professor of bioengineering, and co-senior author on the study detailing LAG-3, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Getting a clear image of a protein might not seem like a big deal, but when it comes to proteins, form often begets function. If you know what a protein looks like at the atomic scale, you can begin to understand how it interacts with other molecules and design experiments to further deduce how it works. Studies like these are crucial to developing drugs that can optimally block their target's function.

Proteins like LAG-3, called immune checkpoints, exist to stop our immune system from attacking things they shouldn't. In theory, our immune system should naturally recognize tumor cells as foreign. But a checkpoint protein shield can give cancer cover.

Current immunotherapies aren't chemical drugs, they're lab-manufactured antibodies that attach to certain parts of these checkpoints, and essentially turn them off. Once the checkpoint is turned off, our immune system can recognize and target the cancer again.

There are already approved antibody treatments that target two checkpoint proteins: CTLA-4 and PD-1. Both turn off our immune systems but in different ways. Because CTLA-4 and PD-1 were the first two checkpoint proteins found, they are quite well studied, and different approaches to inhibiting them for cancer therapy earned scientists the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

LAG-3 seems to work in an entirely different way. Scientists hope that those differences might make it a better or complementary target to treat certain types of cancer, said Jack Silberstein, the Stanford immunology PhD student who co-led the work.

Because of that, Silberstein said, "there was all this excitement in the field. Groups rushed to make antibodies against LAG-3, without knowing entirely how LAG-3 or those antibodies functioned."

Silberstein and colleagues, including those in Stanford's ChEM-H Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, began working on LAG-3's structure in 2019. A structure of LAG-3 was published by a different group in 2022 providing an initial glimpse of the protein, but it lacked crucial detail around sugar molecules that are key to LAG-3's function, and detailed information on how the LAG-3 structure related to its biological activity.

When Silberstein first started this project, "I quickly realized why there was no published structure. It's a tremendously difficult protein to work with."

And the technique Silberstein used to get the structure, called X-ray crystallography, is extremely finicky. First, Silberstein had to grow a crystal made entirely out of LAG-3 protein. Then, in collaboration with Irimpan Mathews at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, they fired X-ray beams at the crystal to create a 3D image of the molecule.

LAG-3 is a spindly, flexible protein, so it's difficult to get the molecules to stack in an orderly way. Silberstein estimates he made more than 10,000 crystals, of which 3,000 were fired with X-rays before the team finally solved the structure.

"It was a very intense, grind-it-out-for-three-years, bang-your-head-against-the-wall kind of thing," Silberstein said.

But it paid off. The team's structure confirmed that LAG-3 exists as a dimer, with two LAG-3 molecules coming together to form the functional checkpoint protein. The sugar residue that was elusive in previous structural efforts is a key element in the LAG-3 dimer interface and helps promote a different orientation of the LAG-3 protein.

With the structure described, colleagues at New York University, including MD, PhD student Jasper Du and pathology Assistant Professor Jun Wang co-led critical experiments further elucidating LAG-3's function. Other NYU colleagues, including Kun-Wei Chan and Xiang-Peng Kong, helped conduct electron microscopy studies to detail disruption of dimer formation by LAG-3 antibodies.

Additional work by the team uncovered, for the first time, that an antibody that has been used for close to 20 years to demonstrate therapeutic efficacy in animal tumor models blocks the activity of LAG-3 by binding to the interface between two LAG-3 molecules, disrupting LAG-3 from forming its functional dimer. Intriguingly, LAG-3 antibodies in clinical development bind to other areas of the protein, away from this dimer interface.

There will never be just one "cure," because cancers are all different and involve a number of diverse biochemical pathways. Silberstein and Cochran envision a future where a tapestry of surgical, chemical, and immunological treatment approaches are employed, driven by basic science discoveries and medical innovations. Additional treatments targeting LAG-3 may very well be a part of that picture.

Additional Stanford co-authors are Jessica Frank, BS '22 in bioengineering, MS '23 in computer science; Irimpan Mathews, lead scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; graduate students Yong Bin Kim, Phillip Liu, and Grayson Rodriguez; and Daniel Fernandez, director of crystallography at Sarafan ChEM-H. Additional co-authors are from New York University.

Cochran is also the senior associate vice provost for research and professor by courtesy, of chemical engineering. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X, the Cardiovascular Institute, the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI), the Stanford Cancer Institute, and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and a faculty fellow of Sarafan ChEM-H.

This work was funded by Stanford Bio-X, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, an Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellowship, National Science Foundation graduate fellowships, a Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Stanford Molecular Biophysics Training Program, a Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science & Engineering, the NIH Melanoma Research Alliance, the V Foundation, the Mark Foundation, the NYU Colton Center for Autoimmunity, and the Emerson Collective Cancer Research Fund.

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A female orca catches a herring as it swims in the Reisafjorden fjord region, near the Norwegian northern city of Tromso in the Arctic Circle, on January 13, 2019. Why do humans experience menopause? Its a question that some women going through the symptoms might have asked themselves more than once. AFP photo

PARIS (March 14): Why do humans experience menopause? Its a question that some women going through the symptoms might have asked themselves more than once.

Scientists are also baffled. From an evolutionary perspective, animals generally take every chance they can get to have as many offspring as possible to boost their odds of survival.

So why have some species evolved to have menopause, in which females live many years after they stop being able to reproduce?

That there are so few other examples in the animal kingdom only deepens the mystery.

Out of 5,000 mammals, just five species of whales with teeth including killer whales, beluga whales and narwhals are the only others known to have females that regularly live long after they stop reproducing.

However plenty of other toothed whales, such as dolphins, do not experience menopause.

By looking at the differences between these two groups, a UK-led team of researchers sought to discover why some whales evolved to get menopause and what this could tell us about ourselves.

Despite our many differences, humans share a convergent life history with these ocean giants that led to the independent evolution of menopause, the researchers concluded in a study published in Nature on Wednesday.

Their results tied together several existing hypotheses. The first piece of the puzzle involving lifespan.

The grandmother hypothesis

Females of the five species that have menopause live roughly 40 years longer than other similar-sized whales, the researchers found.

These female whales also easily outlive males of their own kind.

Female killer whales regularly live into their 60s and 70s, but the males are all dead by 40, lead study author Samuel Ellis of the UKs University of Exeter told an online press conference.

This supports what is known as the grandmother hypothesis that older females care for their grandchildren, therefore helping their species survive in a different way.

But why would it be an evolutionary advantage for these grandmothers to stop having offspring?

The second part of this story is about competition, study co-author Darren Croft said.

When killer whale mothers and daughters try and breed at the same time, the calves of the older females have a significantly lower survival rate as they compete for resources, he said.

So they have evolved a longer lifespan while keeping a short reproductive lifespan, Croft added.

This is just the same pattern of life history we see in humans.

Though we walk on land and they swim through the ocean, the similarities between human and whale social structures is absolutely striking, Croft said.

The importance of matriarchy

Older matriarchs play an important role within both societies, he said.

For example, the experience older females have gathered over their lives helps the whale families get through hard times such as environmental challenges or a lack of food.

But just having a matriarchal society is not enough. Older female elephants, for example, look after their offspring but keep reproducing until the end of their lives.

The key difference could be that older whale mothers keep looking after their sons, Croft said. Young male elephants, however, leave the family group.

Both sons and daughters sticking around could even be a unique trait to the five whales and humans that get menopause, he speculated.

Rebecca Sear, an evolutionary demographer and anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine not involved in the study, cautioned that this could not provide definitive answers to the question of why menopause evolved.

Whales are incredibly difficult to study, and a lot of the data used for the research was from unnaturalevents such as mass strandings, she commented in Nature.

Meanwhile, there has been increasing criticism that menopause in human women remains badly under-researched due to a long-standing male-skewed bias in medical research.

Human grandmothers, like whale grandmothers, are important in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren, but older women are too often ignored in policy circles and public health research, Sear said. AFP

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For many years, residents at the Buckhorn Veterans Park have paid $500 or more a month for electricity, water and a space for their recreational vehicles. But on March 3, about 15 people from 10 families found eviction notices on their camper doors.

The Buckhorn Veterans Park is situated on 5.59 acres of property at 9005-9007 Sullivan Road, off Johnson Farm Road in a rural portion of western Wilson County between the Buckhorn Reservoir and the Johnston County line.

The note to renters is from park manager Toby Jordan.

It saddens us to announce that due to reasons beyond our control, you will have 30 days to seek other living arrangements, Jordans note reads. We apologize for the inconvenient that this may cause, and all money will be refunded.

NOT THE FIRST INFRACTION

Matt Taylor, planner and code enforcement officer with the Wilson County Development Services Department, sent a Jan. 22 zoning code violation letter to the parks owner, Willie Charles Jordan of Lucama.

On Jan. 10, 2024, a site investigation was conducted at the subject property listed above. This revealed that there is an unlawful campground operating on this parcel, the letter states. A campground is only permitted in an AR zoning district after a special-use permit has been given. Therefore, this parcel is in violation of the Wilson County Unified Development Ordinance.

Taylor informed the owner in the letter that this is not the first infraction for this noncompliance.

A notice of violation was sent to Jordan on May 24, 2022, regarding the operation of an unlawful campground on the property.

According to the letter, Willie Jordan made an appeal to the Wilson County Board of Adjustment to overturn the decision, and after hearing the appeal, the board affirmed our decision and thus declared the parcel to be in violation of the UDO.

Taylor explained in the letter that campgrounds are required to have a minimum of 10 acres, making the Buckhorn Veterans Park insufficient in size by more than 4 acres.

All activities associated with the operation of this unlawful campground must cease within 30 days of this notice of violation, he wrote.

Taylor gave Feb. 21 as the compliance deadline.

Taylor warned that failure to comply will result in civil penalties and potential legal action to obtain an injunction and order of abatement in Wilson County Superior Court. Jordan was again given the opportunity to appeal to the Wilson County Board of Adjustment within 30 days.

BLINDSIDED

Park renters were shocked to see they were being evicted.

We were blindsided by it, said Chris Billman, who lives in a trailer with his fiancee, Jamie Miller. I have been here going on six years. I really love it here. Now with all this, I dont know what were going to do.

Billman and Miller, who have a teenage boy, pay $550 a month for electricity, water, internet and sewage.

They have a 2006 trailer thats too old for most other campgrounds.

They wont accept us, Miller said. I never thought this would happen. I thought it was trustworthy.

Johnnie Ray Hyson III moved with his wife to the park a year and a half ago.

This was supposedly a legit place. Now we come to find out we have been paying rent for 16-17 months now under false pretenses and now we are going to get kicked out on the street, Hyson said. Where are we going to go? They are shutting the power off on April 3, and then we are going to be screwed.

For some residents, relocation isnt just an inconvenience.

I have lung cancer, said Robin Litchford.

Her husband, Gary Litchford, said his wife is on oxygen 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

We just found out a few minutes ago that they are going to turn the electricity off, Robin Litchford said. It takes electricity to run. The bottle wont last very long.

Resident Veronica Fisher said she is a metastatic breast cancer patient.

For me to find somewhere to move, especially if I go out of state, I will have to travel back and forth for about two months until they can get me established at a cancer center, she said. Now I will have to find another cancer center, and I have been with that cancer center for about 10 years now.

Fisher said the residents should have been informed of the campgrounds permitting problems from the outset.

If you already knew that you were never supposed to have this out here, then you should never have allowed us to rent, Fisher said.

George Hartman, a retired veteran who served in Vietnam, is the only one in the group with a trailer new enough to be accepted at another park. He plans to move March 28.

I think it sucks. These people are not being taking into consideration all these different people out here that need a place to live and cant afford anything more than what theyve got, Hartman said. They are comfortable where they are. I dont really understand why they are closing us down. I wish I had a place I could put them all, and I would be right in there in between them because I enjoy every one of their companies.

Tommy Nichols has lived in the park for five months and isnt able to move his camper.

I have called everywhere. There is no place for me to go because my camper is a 95, Nichols said. Wont nobody take it.

A BIG FAMILY

As you can see, everybody here is from somewhere else, and we have all gravitated together, said Bonnie Weatherford, who lives with her fiance, Mack Schupe.

Shupe called it a good little close-knit community down here.

Everybody helps everybody out, Shupe said.

When somebody cooks out, they will bring you food over, Nichols said.

I think we got done wrong is how I feel about it. We were under the impression that he had everything set up for a campground, and now this coming out and he aint nowhere near set up for it, so now hes going to throw 10 families out into the street, Shupe said. To me, I dont see no right in that. Its just wrong.

Shupe is confident that they will make it.

It might be tough, Shupe said. But I aint coming off my wife and I aint coming off my dog. They are going to stay together. That I promise

Weatherford said the residents are not hating on the owner, who they say is a nice man, a retired veteran who spent much time cutting trees and removing stumps before offering rentals to the public.

The residents wish there was a way to stay.

Why cant they fine him and get the right permits and let us stay? Nichols asked.

The campgrounds owners could not be reached for comment.

UNLAWFUL CAMPGROUND

Stephen Mann, director of communications for Wilson County, confirmed the Jan. 22 letter from Wilson County Development Services is authentic.

The original violation notice to Mr. Jordan was not directed toward the operation of the Buckhorn Veterans Association on the property located at 9007 Sullivan Road or any community events that may take place there, Mann said. The violation is the continuing use of the real property as a campground/RV park. The county uniform development ordinance governs the use of this property, and any landowner in the county who wants to operate a campground must comply with the regulations set forth in it.

Mann said Wilson County had received several calls from current tenants and explained that the countys UDO doesnt allow the propertys use as a campground.

The initial notice of violation states that all activities associated with the operation of this unlawful campground would cease within 30 days of the initial notice; however, the county has documentation showing that the property was recently being advertised as a campground, Mann said. The county has received no response from Mr. Jordan; however, based on the phone call from tenants, the county believes that Mr. Jordan has given notice to campers to move out. The county has decided not to take enforcement action so long as campers are attempting to relocate.

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The retired Concorde airliner that belongs to New Yorks Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a Manhattan pier on Thursday after a seven-month restoration, museum officials said.

The supersonic jet will travel by barge up the Hudson River and will be lifted by a crane onto Pier 86, the officials at the decommissioned aircraft carrier turned museum said in a news release.

The needle-nosed aircraft left Pier 86 on August 9 last year for a restoration project at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that included sanding and repainting.

It was barged from Brooklyn to a dock in Jersey City, New Jersey, for storage overnight on Wednesday prior to being reinstalled on the pier on Thursday.

The Concorde is the only supersonic commercial jet that ever flew.

The Intrepids British Airways Concorde still holds the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger aircraft: two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds from Heathrow to JFK in New York.

Public tours of the jet will resume on April 4, museum officials said.

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From March 3rd to 8th, the grand opening of the world's largest lighting and building electrical exhibition, Light + Building 2024, took place in Frankfurt, Germany. The Refond Optoelectronics team showcased a series of innovative products along with cutting-edge lighting technology, modules, and application solutions at booth F70 in Hall 8.0. The event attracted numerous industry professionals, both new and existing customers, who stopped by the booth to engage in discussions and exchange ideas.

Programs & Highlight As the first exhibition of 2024, Refond Optoelectronics adheres to the theme of this exhibition, "BE ELECTRIFIED," and has set up five major thematic sections: indoor healthy and comfortable lighting, outdoor high-quality lighting, lighting module solutions, plant lighting solutions, and Mini LED innovative product solutions. These sections comprehensively showcase Refond's innovative technological achievements, product solutions, and customized production capabilities.

Indoor Comfortable and Healthy Lighting In indoor lighting scenarios, Refond Optoelectronics showcases innovative lighting technology solutions, including KSF fluorescent powder with global patent authorization, human-centric lighting solutions, PCT3030, and 2835 high-efficiency LED light sources, as well as RGB+IC product solutions. These solutions meet the high-efficiency, high color rendering index, and energy-saving lighting application requirements for offices, art galleries, public spaces, and high-end commercial consumption scenarios.

Outdoor High-Quality Lighting In the field of outdoor lighting, Refond Optoelectronics showcases the latest anti-sulfuration lighting technology solutions, EMC 5050/7070/1A1A high-power outdoor light sources, and ceramic 3535/5050 series. These solutions provide leading high-power, high-quality LED light source solutions for lighting applications such as municipal street lights, sports fields, tunnels, and industrial and mining operation sites.

It is worth mentioning that Refond Optoelectronics' outdoor lighting LEDs all adopt the Anti-Sulfuration Process (IPSL) coating technology, solving long-standing quality issues in the industry such as insufficient LED airtightness. These LEDs have the advantages of high anti-sulfuration, high reliability, and long service life. Currently, Refond's IPSL technology is mature and reliable, with mass production applications exceeding 5 years.

Module Lighting Solutions At this exhibition, Refond Optoelectronics has set up a special area for module lighting products, focusing on showcasing 3030/5050 street light modules, floodlight modules, 2835 linear light modules compliant with Zhaga standards, COB modules, CSP modules, infrared modules, and more. This further demonstrates Refond's professional "hard power" in lighting modules to global customers.

Refond's lighting module products all use self-branded LED chips, achieving the best balance between product quality and cost. The on-site product displays have also attracted many engineers to visit, exchange ideas, and negotiate.

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In addition to LED products, Refond Optoelectronics offers customized, cost-effective, full-spectrum plant lighting application solutions, which can meet the lighting needs for different types of plants and their growth requirements.

Mini LED Innovative Products At this exhibition, Refond brings industry-leading Mini LED innovative product solutions, such as the Mini lighting paper flexible light panel and the Mini feather series flexible light strip. These innovative products are applied in mobile phones and headphones for the first time, showcasing innovative applications. Mini products feature self-luminous, ultra-lightweight, thin design, adjustable high brightness, and low heat dissipation.

It is worth mentioning that the Mini Feather Series TWS project - HHOGene | GPods ICE is the second-generation headphone product innovatively launched by HHO in cooperation with Refond. Refond provides Mini light panels for it. This headphone integrates 216 Mini LEDs, offering 300,000 color combinations. The light colors are delicate, and the lighting effects are stunning. It is reported that the HHOGene | GPods ICE headphones are expected to be officially launched overseas in May this year. Stay tuned.

Light & World Against the backdrop of advocating global green development, Refond Optoelectronics actively responds, consistently adhering to technological innovation as the driving force and user demand as the guidance. We aim to provide global consumers with more innovative, high-quality lighting LED light sources and application solutions, thereby promoting the sustainable development of the green lighting industry.

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Every home warranty company is slightly different, but there are some general rules as to what a home warranty will cover.

One of the most common items that home warranties include is appliance coverages. This includes items like refrigerators, stoves, ovens, dishwashers, microwaves, washers, dryers and even trash compactors. Should one of these items break, the homeowner can file a claim and expect to pay only the service fee.

There may be appliance age or proof of maintenance stipulations for these appliances, so homeowners should be aware of what the warranty company requires. Also, homes with more than one set of appliances, such as those with kitchenettes or bars, may only be eligible for coverage on their main appliances in the kitchen.

System coverage is when home warranties cover the major systems within the home. This includes electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems, primarily. However, other systems may be eligible to add on, such as roofing, central vacuum, fire alarm and septic systems. These items will cost more to cover on a monthly basis, but they can provide peace of mind for homeowners.

These items are less likely to require proof of age, but they may require specific maintenance schedules in order to be covered under the home warranty.

Basic home warranties arent comprehensivesome parts of your home wont be covered. If you want extra coverage, you can add it onto your pan for an additional fee, ranging from a few dollars a month to $30 or more, depending on the specific add-on.

Each companys plans work differently, but you can often choose from add-ons like:

Home warranties are designed to cover common repairs, and in the right circumstances, they can save the homeowner money over the course of the year. Here are some of the most common repairs and their associated costs, with labor and materials combined:

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