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Docutah Presents Award-Winning Downwinder Documentary

Utah Tech University and Docutah International Film Festival Present Free Screening of “Bound by the Wind’ with Three-Time Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker David Brown.

ST. GEORGE, Utah – October 19, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

This powerful, award-winning feature-length documentary, Bound by the Wind, investigates the global human impact of nuclear weapons testing and documents the 75-year international campaign to achieve a comprehensive nuclear test ban. It screens as one of the monthly screenings of DOCUTAH at Dunford Auditorium in the Browning Learning Resource Center at Utah Tech University at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26. Admission is free to students and the public. The documentary focuses principally on the plight of the world’s “downwinders,” those who have been adversely affected by radiation from nuclear weapons testing. Three of the downwinders in the film are St. George residents. The two who are still alive are Claudia Peterson and Janet Gordon. The deceased downwinder from St. George is Elmer Pickett. Ms. Peterson will join three-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, David L. Brown, in a panel discussion with distinguished members of the Utah Tech faculty after the screening. 

The film portrays the enormous human costs of the Cold War nuclear arms race and reveals the secrecy, negligence, and deceit that characterized the nuclear testing programs of both the United States and the former Soviet Union. It is structured around the dramatic stories of several downwinders – from Utah, the Marshall Islands and Kazakhstan near the principal Soviet nuclear test site – who have become passionate activists in the global movement to achieve a comprehensive nuclear test ban. The film interweaves their stories of fallout, nuclear radiation, birth defects, cancer and official deceit with archival footage of key historical events and analysis by activists, scientific experts, and government officials.

Bound by the Wind captures the momentum generated in the late 1980s and 1990s by the worldwide movement to achieve a nuclear test ban and shows the dismal legacy of health and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons testing in the U.S., the former Soviet Union and the Marshall Islands. It also explores the link to nuclear weapons proliferation, one of the most timely and urgent aspects of the nuclear testing debate.

“This is far and away the best film on the nuclear legacy. The use of historical clips and survivor interviews is nothing short of brilliant. David Brown has a journalist’s clear mind, an artist’s feel, and a historian’s sense of the significance of events.”

– Stan Grossfeld, The Boston Globe 

 

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What to Do if You’re Short on Funds With No Credit

What to Do if You’re Short on Funds With No CreditNEW YORK – October 19, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

iQuanti: If you’re in a cash crunch and have no credit, you may be wondering how to get the funds you need. Luckily, there are still plenty of options at your disposal. And even though it may be difficult to find online loans with no credit check, many lenders have less strict credit score requirements and approve borrowers with poor or no credit. If that sounds like you, you might want to try one of the following:

1. Find a co-signer with better credit

Consider finding someone you trust (and who trusts you) to be a co-signer on your loan application. This means they’re taking responsibility for repayment of the loan if you default or can’t fulfill your obligation. The loan will show up on their credit report also, so make sure you make all your payments on time. 

Lenders will be more lenient with a no-credit borrower when they have a co-signer. Younger people with no credit often start their credit history with a personal or student loan co-signed by their parents. During the loan approval process, the lender will use the higher of the two applicant’s credit scores to determine creditworthiness.  

2. Search online for poor-credit loans

There are many online lenders who specialize in poor and no-credit loans. They work with people who have credit scores below the industry standard that many traditional banks require for personal loans. With these loans, you can have poor, fair, or no credit and still get approved. Spend some time doing online research and you should be able to find a good lender. Here are some types of poor-credit loans that may be available to you:

  • Cash advances: These are short-term, small dollar loans that can get you a few hundred dollars to cover expenses before payday. You’ll repay this loan in two to four weeks when you get your next paycheck.
  • Title loans: With title loans, you can receive the funds you need using your car title as collateral. The lender will appraise your vehicle, then offer you a loan amount worth 25 to 50% of its value. You can keep driving your car while you repay the loan.
  • Installment loans: Installment loans can give you a lump sum of money all at once. Then, you can repay what you owe over time in fixed monthly payments, or installments.

3. Ask your friends and family for some funds

No one wants to borrow money from friends and family, but financial distress is a real dilemma. If it comes down to asking for help or missing a rent/mortgage payment, ask for help. Reach out to friends and family, be sincere about your circumstances, and offer repayment terms you can afford. 

Another approach here is to exchange labor for funds. Everyone needs some work done around the house. Mowing the lawn, painting a bathroom, or helping someone move are all tasks that could warrant some type of financial compensation. And maybe you can even turn that type of work into a side hustle to get you out of the financial situation you’re in. 

The bottom line:

Traditional banks and credit unions aren’t the only places you can borrow money. Online lenders often specialize in poor-credit loans. You can increase your chances of approval by asking someone to co-sign for you. If all else fails, reach out to friends and family for help or come up with a side hustle where you can make some extra money. 

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An Innovation to Stop the Spread of COVID, Flu, Colds, and More May Be Right in Front of Your Face

An Innovation to Stop the Spread of COVID, Flu, Colds, and More May Be Right in Front of Your FaceAir-Clenz Systems receives second U.S. patent as part of the company’s innovative work to make indoor air cleaner, safer, and healthier

An Innovation to Stop the Spread of COVID, Flu, Colds, and More May Be Right in Front of Your Face
Air-Clenz Seatback Vector Illustration

A vector illustration shows a cough stopped, captured, and cleaned by Air-Clenz\u2122.

ATLANTA – October 19, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

Air-Clenz Systems™ (Air-Clenz™) was today granted a pioneer U.S. patent, U.S. 11,471,553, as part of the company’s ongoing effort to make indoor air cleaner, safer, and healthier for all. The patent covers the back of all seats, chairs or benches used in any indoor venue or vehicle (including aircraft) in the United States when an air purifier or an Air-Clenz™ unit is integrated in or attached to the back of a seat, chair or bench. Additionally, it covers all types of electronic display screens when the electronic display screen acts to block and deflect exhaled air mixed with room air towards and into an air suction intake of an attached, integrated or associated air purifier or Air-Clenz™ unit. Additional patent applications are pending. 

“Today is an important step in a two-year-plus journey for Air-Clenz™,” explained company Chief Executive Officer Stuart Sheldon. “It recognizes the visionary thinking of our founder Dr. Ronald Blum, our Chief Scientist Anita T. Broach, PhD., and others to fundamentally change how the world approaches improving indoor air quality. This patent acknowledges that Drs. Blum and Broach were the first to figure out how to quickly stop, capture, and clean an exhaled breath, cough or sneeze within the first three to four feet from someone’s mouth and nose, before it — and any possible airborne disease it may carry — can spread through the indoor space.” When one sits behind a seat, chair or bench, or in front of an electronic display screen such as a desktop monitor, laptop or tablet, their exhaled air can be blocked and its forward motion stopped, allowing it to be quickly captured and cleaned by an air purifier or an Air-Clenz™ unit. In most cases, the distance from the back of a seat, chair or bench or the front of an electronic display screen is three feet or less from the individual’s face, whose exhaled air is being captured and cleaned.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently warned about the low vaccination rate in Europe and believes a new wave of COVID will soon spread across Europe, as well as an increase in influenza. While the BA.4 and BA.5 variants fuel increasing COVID rates in Europe, the BQ.1, BQ.1.1, and XBB variants are cause of concern in the U.S. and Canada, and BA.2.75.2 in India. Scientists and medical doctors warn that increased respiratory infections will occur this fall and winter in the U.S. COVID, influenza, the common cold, mumps, measles, tuberculosis and whooping cough are all transmitted by airborne infectious respiratory particles from one human to another.

Anita Broach, PhD, Air-Clenz™ Chief Scientist, said, “Because we can’t see airborne viruses and bacteria, most people don’t realize how easily they are spread by an exhaled breath, cough or sneeze — or by contaminated interior air flow being pulled towards the return of an HVAC [Heat, Ventilation, Air Conditioning] system, or the air intake of a conventional air purifier. Air-Clenz™ is the only known mask-free solution that quickly stops, captures, and cleans an exhaled air breath, cough or sneeze before it spreads throughout an indoor venue or vehicle. Air-Clenz™ can capture and clean an exhaled air breath, cough or sneeze to 99.97% pure in less than 10 seconds. Scientists and health professionals know that an exhaled air breath contains up to 100 micron and submicron particles traveling up to 3.5 miles per hour. A cough contains up to 10,000 micron and submicron particles at up to 50 miles per hour, while a sneeze contains up to 100,000 micron and submicron particles traveling up to 100 miles per hour.”

In addition to blocking, quickly capturing, and cleaning exhaled air, Air-Clenz™ increases the clean air turns per hour (ACH) in a room or venue. Multiple highly reputable studies performed or reported by major universities, research institutes, and companies such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Harvard, Yale, the National Institute of Health (N.I.H.), and the Carrier Corporation have concluded that when indoor clean air quality is improved, not only can cross-airborne infection be reduced, but cognitive ability, productivity, and performance can be greatly enhanced. 

Dr. Ron Blum, Chairman of Air-Clenz Systems™, stated, “We are most pleased and excited about the scope and strength of this new U.S. patent. It provides intellectual property protection for any air purifier or Air-Clenz™ unit that is attached to, integrated in or associated with the back of all types of seats, chairs or benches for any indoor venue, such as office, school, theater, house of worship, home, as well as any vehicle, such as automobile, truck, train, bus, subway, ship or aircraft. This patent also provides intellectual property protection for any electronic display screen, such as an electronic display screen attached to the back of an aircraft seat, the front of computer monitors, laptop computers, exercise equipment, gambling machines, etc., where the electronic display screen blocks and deflects a mixture of exhaled air and room air towards and into an air suction intake of an air purifier or Air-Clenz™ system that is attached, integrated or associated. Further, while Air-Clenz™ utilizes true HEPA filter technology, the patent covers all known possible ways of cleaning and/or purifying indoor and exhaled air. We have been most diligent in protecting our intellectual property. The combination of U.S. 11,471,553 and 11,324,850 now provides Air-Clenz™ with solid patent protection. In addition, Air-Clenz™ has numerous additional patent applications filed and pending in the U.S. and around the world.”

About Air-Clenz Systems™

Air-Clenz Systems™ (Air-Clenz™) (www.Air-Clenz.com), based in Atlanta, Georgia, was launched by success-proven inventors, scientists, and collaboration partners attempting to solve major global challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with an eye to benefiting the global population at large. Air-Clenz’s proprietary technology and approach are directed at the quick capture and cleaning of airborne particles from exhaled air before they can disperse within an indoor room and be transmitted to others. The technology can be adapted to work in most indoor venues where individuals are seated, including schools, offices, houses of worship, learning institutions, theaters, and vehicles of all types, including aircraft. 

The Air-Clenz™ approach to business is that of licensing and/or selling its IP, after having invented, developed working prototypes, proven and protected its intellectual property.

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CEO

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Air-Clenz Seatback Vector Illustration

Air-Clenz Seatback Vector Illustration


A vector illustration shows a cough stopped, captured, and cleaned by Air-Clenz\u2122.


Air-Clenz Computer Monitor Comparison

Air-Clenz Computer Monitor Comparison


Computer model illustration shows the significant difference in the spread of an infectious cough without (left) and with (right) Air-Clenz\u2122.

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