May 20, 2022

JETEX LONDON TO WOW PRIVATE JET FLYERS

Jetex announces its first FBO in London, a top-tier destination for the brand’s robust international expansion

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — London is a natural next destination for Jetex, an award-winning global leader in executive aviation, and it becomes the brand’s 35th international FBO location. Jetex entered in an agreement with Avia Solutions Group to operate the FBO at Hangar 510 at Biggin Hill Airport (EGKB/BQH).

The airport rightfully holds a pride of place in British History. Opened in 1916, the property was vacated by the Royal Air Force in 1992 and has operated as a privately-owned civilian airfield dedicated to business and civilian aviation ever since.

Today, it is recognized as a global center of excellence and the second private jet operation in the UK with 23% of London’s market share after Farnborough (31%) and ahead of Luton (22%). The airport typically connects flights to more than 750 destinations across over 70 countries, with over 90% of destinations being in Europe and 5% long haul.

Jetex London is conveniently located just 12 miles from Canary Wharf and 15 miles from Central London, with helicopter transfers taking passengers to and from the heart of the British capital in just six minutes, with limousine transfers taking less than 50 minutes.

The modern airport runway (1,806 meters) allows most aircraft to operate without payload or range restrictions, including non-stop transatlantic flights.

“We are pleased with our arrival in London. Jetex already has a strong presence in Continental Europe with a flagship private jet terminal at Paris Le Bourget, and the new flagship Jetex London is a natural evolution of our operations. Jetex passengers will enjoy a seamless travel experience complemented by the greatest levels of luxury hospitality, unseen before in the market.” said Adel Mardini, Founder & CEO of Jetex.

Jetex London will offer a suite of flagship services for passengers and crews traveling through the airport. It is a seamless, intuitive and dedicated route for Jetex customers to begin or end their journey in supreme comfort. The on-site U.K. Border Force and customs control will ensure that passengers and crew enjoy an efficient ground experience, while Jetex will also offer assistance with ground transport, hotel accommodation, catering, concierge services and much more.

”We are very delighted to welcome this new partnership with Jetex, one of the top names in executive aviation, and are looking forward to operating in Biggin Hill together. The airport is already one of the key points for Avia Solutions Group, as our subsidiary JETMS Completions is successfully running aircraft interior and exterior completions there. Thus, the partnership is opening even more opportunities for further business expansion as well as collaboration on future projects. We see great things ahead,” said Vygaudas Ušackas, Member of the Board of Directors at Avia Solutions Group.

“Jetex is a globally admired brand and we are proud to have the company join our ecosystem of aviation businesses here at London Biggin Hill Airport. We know Jetex will provide an excellent continuity of service and we are looking forward to seeing them thrive,” said Robert Walters, Commercial Director, London Biggin Hill Airport.

With natural materials, soft lighting, and floor-to-ceiling windows, Jetex London is designed to feel like a warm, contemporary space. The 1,900 sq.m. private terminal will include several supremely comfortable lounges of understated luxury designed with passenger privacy in mind, a cigar lounge, retail and entertainment areas, fully-equipped boardrooms, shower suites and much more. Crews will appreciate a full range of on-site recreational and flight support facilities.

Jetex London marks the company’s first entry into the United Kingdom as it looks forward to growing its operations in the market.

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About Jetex:

An award-winning global leader in executive aviation, Jetex is recognized for delivering flexible, best-in-class trip support solutions to customers worldwide. Jetex provides exceptional private terminals (FBOs), aircraft fueling, ground handling and global trip planning. The company caters to both owners and operators of business jets for corporate, commercial and personal air travel. To find out more about Jetex, visit www.jetex.com and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

About Avia Solutions Group:

Leaders in end-to-end capacity solutions for passenger and cargo airlines worldwide. The Group manages over 100 offices and production facilities globally and is significantly backed by the assets of over 7,000 highly skilled aviation professionals, serving more than 2,000 clients throughout Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, and worldwide.

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May 20, 2022

Advance Local est un nouveau client de Sophi.io

TORONTO, 19 mai 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Advance Local, l’un des plus grands groupes de médias aux États-Unis exploitant 10 organisations d’information et d’actualités de premier plan et touchant 55 millions de personnes chaque mois, a quadruplé son objectif d’abonnement en utilisant Sophi Content Paywall Engine. Face aux pressions publicitaires exacerbées par le coronavirus, Advance Local a augmenté de 45 % les conversions d’abonnement grâce à Sophi.io, une plateforme d’automatisation, d’optimisation et de prédiction basée sur l’IA développée par The Globe and Mail. Son succès avec Sophi lui a également valu une place de finaliste aux Digiday Media Awards, annoncés cette semaine.

Neil Katz, directeur de la clientèle chez Advance Local, a déclaré : « Nous souhaitions voir jusqu’où Sophi pouvait nous conduire, c’est pourquoi nous avons testé Sophi Content Paywall sur l’un de nos plus grands sites. Les résultats ont été significatifs. Nous espérions une hausse de 10 % du taux de conversion et Sophi a multiplié par quatre ce résultat. Nous poursuivons le déploiement des solutions Sophi sur un plus grand nombre de nos sites en ce moment même. »

Advance a commencé à utiliser Sophi Content Paywall Engine sur l’un de ses plus grands sites, cleveland.com, pour obtenir de meilleures informations sur la valeur de son contenu et alimenter sa nouvelle activité d’abonnement. La technologie utilise le traitement avancé du language naturel (NPL) pour analyser chaque élément de contenu et sélectionner les articles à placer derrière un péage de lecture numérique. Il ne sélectionne que les articles pour lesquels les opportunités de revenus d’abonnement dépassent les revenus publicitaires perdus.

Au cours d’une expérience où Advance pouvait voir comment Sophi fonctionnait aux côtés de son péage de lecture numérique existant, Sophi a présenté environ la même quantité de péage de lecture numérique et a généré une hausse de 45 % du taux de conversion total, tout en découvrant également des poches de contenu dont les éditeurs n’avaient pas prévu qu’elles généreraient des abonnements.

John Hassell, vice-président principal et directeur éditorial chez Advance Local, a commenté : « Nous souhaitions voir si le péage de lecture numérique de contenu de Sophi pourrait augmenter l’acquisition d’abonnés de 10 % ; il a littéralement fait exploser cet objectif. Nous sommes satisfaits de la plateforme et de la manière dont elle nous révèle à quel point notre contenu éditorial est précieux pour notre public. »

Advance Local est également finaliste des Digiday Media Awards, dans la catégorie Meilleur abonnement ou Meilleur produit d’adhésion, pour son travail utilisant Sophi Content Paywall Engine.

« Advance Local est une organisation incroyablement innovante que nous avons vue repousser les limites et nous sommes très heureux de travailler avec elle », a ajouté Mike O’Neill, co-fondateur et PDG de Sophi.io. « Nous voyons qu’une grande valeur provient du péage de lecture numérique de contenu que la société a mis en œuvre et nous sommes ravis d’introduire une autre technologie de pointe dans cette marque très forte. »

À propos d’Advance Local

Advance Local (www.advancelocal.com) est l’un des plus grands groupes de médias aux États-Unis. La société exploite 10 organisations d’informations et d’actualités de premier plan et touche 55 millions de personnes chaque mois sur plusieurs plateformes grâce à son journalisme de haute qualité. Elle se consacre à un journalisme local inégalé qui améliore la vie de millions de personnes.

À propos de Sophi.io

Sophi.io (https://www.sophi.io) a été développée par The Globe et Mail pour aider les éditeurs de contenu à prendre des décisions stratégiques et tactiques importantes. Il s’agit d’une suite de solutions d’automatisation, d’optimisation et de prévision basées sur l’IA et l’AM qui comprend Sophi Site Automation, Sophi for Paywall et Sophi for First Party Data. Sophi permet également la mise en page automatisée en un clic de l’édition imprimée sans modèle. Sophi vise à améliorer les mesures qui comptent le plus pour votre entreprise, telles que la rétention et l’acquisition d’abonnés, l’engagement, la récence, la fréquence et le volume.

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Jamie Rubenovitch
Responsable marketing, Sophi.io
The Globe and Mail        
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416-585-3355

May 20, 2022

Advance Local é novo cliente da Sophi.io

TORONTO, May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A Advance Local, um dos maiores grupos de mídia dos Estados Unidos que opera 10 principais organizações de notícias e informações e atinge 55 milhões de pessoas por mês, quadruplicou sua meta de assinatura com o Sophi Content Paywall Engine. Diante das pressões publicitárias intensificadas pelo Coronavírus, a Advance Local aumentou as conversões de assinaturas em 45% com Sophi.io, uma plataforma de automação, otimização e previsão alimentada por IA desenvolvida pela The Globe and Mail. Seu sucesso com a Sophi também lhes rendeu um lugar como finalista no Digiday Media Awards, anunciado esta semana.

Neil Katz, Diretor de Clientes da Advance Local, disse: “Queríamos ver até onde a Sophi poderia nos levar, então testamos o Sophi Content Paywall em um dos nossos maiores sites. Os resultados foram transformadores. Esperávamos um aumento de 10% na taxa de conversão, mas a Sophi entregou quatro vezes esse resultado. Continuamos implementando as soluções Sophi em mais de nossos sites no momento.”

A Advance começou a usar o Sophi Content Paywall Engine em um dos seus maiores sites, o cleveland.com, para obter melhores insights sobre o valor do seu conteúdo e impulsionar novos negócios de assinatura. A tecnologia usa processamento avançado de linguagem natural (NLP) para analisar cada parte do conteúdo e selecionar os artigos que devem ser colocados por trás de um paywall. Ela escolhe apenas os artigos em que a oportunidade de receita de assinatura seja maior do que a receita de publicidade perdida.

Durante um experimento em que o Advance pôde ver como a Sophi se compara com o com seu paywall existente, a Sophi apresentou aproximadamente a mesma quantidade de paywalls e gerou um aumento de 45% na taxa de conversão total, enquanto também descobriu bolsões de conteúdo que os editores não previam que gerariam assinaturas.

John Hassell, Vice-Presidente Sênior e Diretor Editorial da Advance Local, disse: “Queríamos ver se o paywall de conteúdo da Sophi poderia aumentar a aquisição de assinantes em 10%, mas esta meta foi ultrapassada e muito. Estamos satisfeitos com a plataforma e a maneira como ela nos mostra o quão valioso nosso conteúdo editorial é para nosso público.”

A Advance Local também é finalista do Digiday Media Awards, na categoria de Melhor Assinatura ou Produto de Assinatura, por seu trabalho usando o Sophi Content Paywall Engine.

“A Advance Local é uma organização incrivelmente inovadora que observamos ultrapassar os limites e estamos muito animados em trabalhar com eles”, disse Mike O’Neill, cofundador e CEO da Sophi.io. “Estamos observando o grande valor do paywall de conteúdo que eles implementaram e estamos animados em introduzir outro tipo de tecnologia de ponta com esta marca tão forte.”

Sobre a Advance Local

A Advance Local (www.advancelocal.com) é um dos maiores grupos de mídia dos Estados Unidos. Ela opera 10 importantes organizações de notícias e informações e atinge 55 milhões de pessoas mensalmente em várias plataformas com seu jornalismo de alta qualidade. A empresa se dedica a um incomparável jornalismo local que melhora a vida de milhões de pessoas.

Sobre a Sophi.io

Sophi.io (https://www.sophi.io) foi desenvolvida pela The Globe and Mail para ajudar os editores de conteúdo a tomar decisões estratégicas e táticas importantes. A empresa oferece um conjunto de soluções de automação, otimização e previsão com base em IA e ML, incluindo Sophi Site Automation, Sophi for Paywalls e Sophi for First Party Data. A Sophi também capacita o laydown automatizado de um clique da publicação impressa sem modelos. A Sophi foi projetada para aprimorar as métricas que mais importam para sua empresa, como retenção e aquisição de assinantes, engajamento, recentidade, frequência e volume.

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Jamie Rubenovitch
Dirigente de Marketing, Sophi.io
The Globe and Mail        
jrubenovitch@globeandmail.com
416-585-3355

May 20, 2022

Malawi IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Report, February 2022

5.4M Out of 16.6 million Malawians, approximately 5.4 million people in Malawi face Moderate or Severe chronic food insecurity (IPC CFI Levels 3 and 4) due to abject poverty and recurrent shocks, among other drivers.

Overview

Approximately 5.4 million people in Malawi living in rural and secondary urban centres are facing Moderate or Severe chronic food insecurity (IPC CFI Levels 3 and 4) due to abject poverty and recurrent shocks, among other drivers. The February Malawi IPC Chronic Food Insecurity (CFI) analysis found that an additional estimated 4.4 million people face Mild food insecurity, whilst approximately 6.9 million people face No/Minimal chronic food insecurity. Chronic food insecurity in Malawi, where over 70% of the population of about 19.1 million people is living below the international poverty line of $1.90/day, is driven by abject poverty, recurrent shocks, poor policies and implementation as well as reliance on weak livelihood strategies.

The report recommends medium to long-term interventions to address the structural causes of chronic food insecurity are necessary, particularly for the country’s most vulnerable populations, including subsistence farmers, the elderly, female-headed households and others. Overall for the country, most districts were classified as IPC CFI Level 3 (Moderate), whilst two districts, Nkhatabay and Likoma were classified as IPC CFI Level 2 (Mild). On the whole, most Northern and Central Regions districts were classified as Moderate CFI (Level 3). However, of major concern are districts in the Southern Region, which have the highest proportion of the population classified as being in IPC CFI Level 4 (Severe). This is followed by the Central Region.

The districts in the Northern Region had the lowest total population classified as being in IPC CFI Level 4. Balaka,

Nsanje and Chikwawa Districts in the Southern Region were classified overall as IPC CFI Level 4.

Source: Government of Malawi

May 20, 2022

North Korea Hails ‘Good Results’ On COVID as Fever Cases Pass 2 Million

North Korea said Friday it was achieving “good results” in its fight against its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms rose past 2 million.

A wave of COVID infections, which North Korea first confirmed last week, has fanned worry about a lack of medical resources and vaccines in the isolated country heavily sanctioned for its nuclear weapons program.

North Korea has not responded to offers from its old enemies, South Korea and the United States, to send help, a South Korean official said.

South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk Yeol, and U.S. President Joe Biden, who arrived in South Korea on a visit Friday, are expected to discuss help.

North Korea reported 263,370 more people with fever symptoms, and two more deaths, taking its total fever caseload since late April to 2.24 million as of Thursday evening, including 65 deaths, according to its KCNA state news agency.

North Korea lacks COVID testing capacity and it has not specified how many of those people with fever have been confirmed to have contracted COVID.

Despite the caseload, the North has said farming continues and factories are working. It is also planning a state funeral for a retired general.

“Even under the maximum emergency epidemic prevention situation, normal production is kept at key industrial sectors and large-scale construction projects are propelled without let-up,” KCNA reported.

“Good results are reported steadily in the ongoing anti-epidemic war,” it said.

The U.N. human rights agency has warned of the “devastating” consequences of COVID for North Korea’s 25 million people, while World Health Organization officials worry an unchecked spread could lead to the emergence of deadlier new variants.

But North Korea said on Wednesday its outbreak was taking a “favorable turn.”

‘Consultations’

Officials in South Korea say it is hard to draw conclusions, partly because it is not clear how North Korea is calculating the number of fever and COVID patients.

Cases of fever reported by the government have declined in the capital, Pyongyang, but risen in rural provinces.

But Martyn Williams, a researcher at the U.S.-based 38 North monitoring group, said North Korea’s figures were unlikely to give an accurate account of what is going on, either through error or deliberate manipulation.

“I doubt they represent the exact picture,” he said on Twitter.

South Korea and the United States have both offered to help North Korea fight the virus, including sending aid, but have not had a response, South Korea’s deputy national security adviser said.

But the allies, who North Korea denounces as its main enemies as it justifies its development of nuclear weapons and missiles, would likely be North Korea’s last resort in seeking help, said South Korean legislators who were briefed by its main security agency on Thursday.

South Korea’s foreign minister, Park Jin, told parliament Yoon and Biden would discuss help for North Korea when they meet Saturday.

“South Korea and the United States are continuing consultations on providing humanitarian assistance, especially over COVID-19, to the North,” Park said.

Source: Voice of America

May 20, 2022

Rosmarie Trapp, Whose Family Inspired ‘Sound of Music,’ Dies

Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died.

She died Friday at the age of 93 at a nursing home in Morrisville, Vermont, Trapp Family Lodge announced. Her brother Johannes is president of the Stowe resort.

Rosmarie was the first daughter of Austrian naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp, and a younger half-sibling to the older von Trapp children portrayed on stage and in the movie. The family escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and performed singing tours throughout Europe and America. They settled in Vermont in the early 1940s and opened a ski lodge in Stowe.

“She traveled and performed with the Trapp Family Singers for many years, and worked at the Trapp Family Lodge in its infancy when the family first began hosting guests in their home,” Trapp Family Lodge said in a statement.

“Her kindness, generosity, and colorful spirit were legendary, and she had a positive impact on countless lives,” the statement said.

“The Sound of Music,” was based loosely on a 1949 book by Maria von Trapp. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, had seven children. After his first wife died, Georg married Maria, who taught the children music.

Georg and Maria von Trapp had three more children, Rosmarie, Eleonore and Johannes, who were not portrayed in the movie. Eleonore “Lorli” von Trapp Campbell died in October in Northfield, Vermont.

When she became a U.S. citizen in 1951, she signed her name as Rosmarie Trapp, leaving out von, according to the lodge.

Rosmarie worked for five years as a missionary and teacher in Papua New Guinea with her sister Maria, her relatives said. In Stowe, she was known for walking everywhere, frequently pulling her purchases home in a wagon or cart. She also wrote frequent letters to the local newspaper, where she was given her own space, “Rosmarie’s Corner,” for her stories, they said. She led sing-alongs, knitting circles, spun wool, owned multiple thrift shops and loved to teach people to sing, they said.

Source: Voice of America