Export rules and container crisis threaten supply chain Lack of clarity regarding exports to the EU and a continued shortage of shipping containers are plaguing UK food manufacturers.
A report from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee report raised serious concerns for exporters of time-sensitive fresh and live seafood and meat shipments to the EU, particularly small- and medium-sized businesses.
It highlighted concerns that the new barriers these businesses are now facing could leave them unviable, and factories and that some companies and their employees could therefore relocate to the EU.
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has welcomed the report, which reflected its concerns for the future of trade between the UK and EU.
Caprock Chronicles: From Texas Tech pilot to the Himalaya Mountains - a Panhandle farmer’s journey During WWII
Mary Walker Clark
Editor s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker a retired TTU Librarian. He may be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu Today’s article is by Mary Walker Clark, an award-winning travel writer who has recently written “Landing in my Present,” her journey retracing her father’s war time experiences in Indian and China.
In 1939, Ray Charles Walker (Charlie) from Plainview, entered the recently opened Texas Technological Community College to pursue a degree in agriculture, one of four degrees originally offered. He was an unlikely student, coming from a farming family where he plowed the land behind a mule and later drove the first tractor in the area purchased by his father, who had also been the first to turn the soil in nearby Swisher County.
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With increased vaccine availability, large shows slated to return to Austin next month and a slew of touring concerts on the books for fall, there s a light at the end of the tunnel for music industry backline employees. But many of the people who run lights and sound and provide other unseen support work for the concerts we enjoy are still out of work.
The nonprofit group Musically Fed works to combat hunger through donations of unused backstage meals. They have pivoted during the pandemic to find ways to feed unemployed stage crews. The organization has teamed up the trade nonprofit, the Touring Professionals Alliance to create the Touring Professionals Alliance Kitchen.
James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems Invests In Virtual Music Startup Authentic Artists Deadline 6 hrs ago
James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems has invested in Authentic Artists, a seed-stage startup that Wednesday launched a new AI-powered virtual artist platform for music, gaming and streaming applications.
Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is the founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based company. He said the platform, which instantly composes and produces fully-formed, high-quality songs performed by AI-powered virtual artists, enables “entirely new, never-before-seen virtual music experiences designed to serve the evolving preferences, tastes and desires of fans searching for truly unique content.”