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Valiant Eagle, Inc. (OTC:PSRU) Acquires Franchise X Entertainment LLC, A Full-Service Record Label and Artist Management Company

Valiant Eagle Inc. (OTC:PSRU) is pleased to announce that it acquired Franchise X Entertainment LLC, a full-service record label and artist management company.




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True Serenity Tea Announces BOLD TV Appearances

True Serenity Tea was recently featured at "The Market" at Macy's and was also included in the wedding party gift bags for the Cheryl Burke and Matthew Lawrence wedding, featured at the Suzanne DeLaurentiis Pre-Oscar Party, among others




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Emerging Sports Industry and How Technology Enhances The Real-time Experience

We are a soccer and sports live score site that provides live match information for more than 1000 leagues and championships around the World. Get complete information about schedules, match results, and the position of your favorite team.




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VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate (Windows) Released A Brand-new Version - Improved the User Experience and Performance Greatly

VideoSolo, a professional multimedia software provider, has officially released a new version for their Video Converter Ultimate. The new verison brings lot of changes and will let you convert video/audios quicker and easier.




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How To Start A Podcast Now, And Get Fancy Pants Later

Start a podcast without the headache of fancy tech and equipment with this step-by-step course The Podcast Project (beta).




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New TeacherLock® II / SaberLock™ II Provide Instant Lockdown and Code Compliance in 50 States

Defcon Products, LLC, manufacturer of the TeacherLock / SaberLock lockdown device is pleased to announce today that it has added TeacherLock II (TL-II) and SaberLock II (SL-II) to its family of emergency lockdown devices.




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STAR's TECH Co., LTD. Announce participation in the BUILDEX VANCOUVER

ECO-ST is World's first eco-friendly de-icer using a starfish by STAR's TECH Co., LTD.




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STAR's TECH Co., LTD. Announces Participation in the BUILDEX VANCOUVER

ECO-ST is World's first eco-friendly de-icer using a starfish by STAR's TECH Co., LTD.




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Kennedale Alliance of Business Owners Say NO - Don't Renew Kennedale City Manager George Campbell's Contract

Lots of Mistakes and Oversight Issues Under His Leadership Are Costing Taxpayers Plenty –Kennedale Needs New Leadership to End Infighting and Bring Growth and Lower Taxes




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Kennedale Alliance of Business Owners (KABO) Calls for Candidates for City Council

Honest Business-Friendly Candidates Need to Register to Run in Jan 2020




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Georgia U.S. Senate Candidate Buckley Says Administration's Proposed Financial Fix is Irresponsible--Should Be Targeted

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Website Support Company Alliance Launching 'Endeavor Support Packages' to help Nonprofits with Impact of Coronavirus Outbreak

Washington, DC Website Support and Digital Agency Offering Reduced-rate Support Packages to Nonprofits in Need of Assistance for Website Maintenance or Digital Marketing Support.




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Bedford Texas Nail Artist Nancy Nguyen of Nails by Nancy Wins Salon and Spa Galleria's Before-and-After Photo Contest

Business Owner Wins Additional Free Week of Salon Suite Rent




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Salon Suite Rental Salon Made of Colorful Shipping Containers Anchors North Fort Worth Design District

Salon and Spa Galleria Alliance Offers Beauty Professionals Chance to Become Owner Operators




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Salon and Spa Galleria Alliance in Fort Worth Design District Offers 5-Way Test to Know If You're Ready to Be a Beauty Business Owner

Salon & Spa Galleria Has Paused Rents for All 275 of Its Beauty Pros and is Offering an Additional Free Week of Rent for Each Week Salons Remain Closed




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Alsco San Francisco Earns TRSA Hygienically Clean Healthcare Certification

Certification ensures laundering processes effectively remove pathogens from health care textiles




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Alsco Naples Branch Offers Support to the Naples Shelter for Abused Women and Children

Aid helps support and protect some of the community's most vulnerable members through advocacy, empowerment and social change




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New LOOLIES™ Summer Sandals in Mismatched Colors Offer Elegance and Fun

DE WULF launches mismatched sandals line in eight colors; customers mix and match to express their unique, individual style




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How To Make A Less Expensive Men's Suit Look Fancier

Ecommerce Retailer SUITUSA.COM Discusses Tips And Tricks To Take Lower Priced Suits And Kick Them Up A Notch




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Shop For a Cause: Kleinfeld Bridal Party to Donate Proceeds to Breast Cancer Research

Think pink! Kleinfeld Bridal Party, a leading online special occasion/wedding retailer for brides-to-be and bridal parties, is joining the quest to find a cure for breast cancer.




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Rayward Apparel Launches Its First UPF Performance Clothing Line

Rayward Apparel debuts new collection of sun protective clothing, compromising neither comfort nor performance in the process.




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IABC Detroit Recognizes Top Communicators at 2019 Renaissance Awards Celebration Event Oct. 17

Afterglow includes live music, food, networking and more!




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Ventana Research Releases Sales Performance Management Value Index

Independent analysis of software category rates technology providers across seven product and customer assurance evaluation categories




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TOP platform Offers Freelancers a Fresh Opportunity to Make Money Online

TOP platform is an international campaigner that invites all freelancers no matter where they might be in the world to sign up and explore the opportunity to make money online by offering services through this digital marketing agency.




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IFPG's Niche Publication, Franchise Consultant Magazine, Offers a Unique Educational Tool for Franchise Consultants




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Northwest Fisheries Enhancement Helps Save over 400,000 Rainbow Trout During COVID-19

Recently Northwest Fisheries Enhancement Saved over 400,000 Rainbow Trout from Regulators During a Downturn in Markets from COVID-19




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3dpbm Releases New AM Focus 2020 eBook Addressing Advanced Materials in Additive Manufacturing

Fourth eBook in AM Focus 2020 Series Provides Unique Insights into 3D Printing with Technical Ceramics, Composites, Advanced Polymers and Refractory Metals




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FDA approves Eli Lilly drug for thyroid, lung cancers driven by a genetic mutation




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Industry Reactions to Alliance for Open 5G Systems: Feedback Friday

More than 30 technology and telecom companies announced this week that they have formed a new alliance, the Open RAN Policy Coalition, that calls for open and interoperable 5G systems.

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The Roadside Assistance Revolution Offering Better Peace Of Mind

There is a one in three chance that a motorist will require roadside assistance in the next 12 months due to battery failure or a related electrical system issue.




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Peninsula General Insurance New Website Offers Instant Quote and Buy Online Capabilities

The Online Shopping Experience at www.peninsulageneral.com is Fast and Provides Customers with More Choices




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Peninsula General Insurance Launches Powerful New Auto Insurance Quote System

New system will offer faster service and even more attractive auto insurance quotes to residents of California.




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Peninsula General Insurance Uses Improved Google Images Algorithm to Revamp Website

Peninsula General's website continues to offer a fast, online auto insurance quote system that was released in early September 2018.




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CashYourCarUAE Launches New Branch in The Springs Souk

The new location offers extra convenience for customers to sell cars in Dubai.




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New & Notable: Inventing L.A.'s Autopia, Rival Trancontinental Rails, Rules For Sustainable Communities & Transportation Privatization

In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth.

Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia: Dreams And Visions Of The Modern Metropolis In Jazz Age Los Angeles (Berkeley: University Of California Press, 2009) shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism--sprawling, illegible, fractured--that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come.

At 401 pages, it could seem like a daunting read, but those interested in Los Angeles history, urbanization, or the rise of the automobile will find this enjoyable. It's a great compliment to the Metro Library's historic transit and transportation studies collection. Many of these documents, which date back to 1911, have been digitized and are available on our website in full-text PDF.

Axelrod focuses on the 1920s when Los Angeles was growing at a fast clip. As we noted back in July, the number of automobile registrations in Los Angeles County quadrupled between 1914 and 1922 - making it very clear that the city's embrace of the auto would set the stage for decades of congestion and other issues.

Going back further in history is another equally seminal story about transportation in the West. Acclaimed historian Walter R. Borneman has written a dazzling account of the battle to build the first transportation system across America.

Rival Rails: The Race To Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad (New York: Random House, 2010) is an action-packed epic of how an empire was born—and the remarkable men who made it happen.

After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the country was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the corridors of the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago.

Borneman lays out in compelling detail the sectional rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and ambitious business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines pushed their way across the country.

The author brings to life the legendary business geniuses and so-called robber barons who made millions and fought the elements—and one another—to move America, including:

William Jackson Palmer, whose leadership of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad relied on innovative narrow gauge trains that could climb steeper grades and take tighter curves;

Collis P. Huntington of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific lines, a magnate insatiably obsessed with trains—and who was not above bribing congressmen to satisfy his passion;

Edward Payson Ripley, visionary president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, whose fiscal conservatism and smarts brought the industry back from the brink; and

Jay Gould, ultrasecretive, strong-armer and one-man powerhouse.

In addition, Borneman captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads—the laborers who did the back-breaking work, boring tunnels through mountains and throwing bridges across unruly rivers, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains.

From backroom deals in Washington, D.C., to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from glorified cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are re-created with unprecedented power in this new work destined to be a classic.

Turning now to urban planning, author Patrick Condon discusses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design rules that can, if followed, help save the planet.


Seven Rules For Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies For The Post Carbon World (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2010) clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. This book takes on a wide range of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to convincing and practical solutions.


Of particular importance is how city form affects the production of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The author explains this relationship in an accessible way, and goes on to show how conforming to seven simple rules for community design could literally do a world of good. Each chapter in the book explains one rule in depth, adding a wealth of research to support each claim. If widely used, Condon argues, these rules would lead to a much more livable world for future generations—a world that is not unlike the better parts of our own.


In Last Exit: Privatization And Deregulation Of The U.S. Transportation System (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2010), Clifford Winston reminds us that transportation services and infrastructure in the United States were originally introduced by private firms.

The case for subsequent public ownership and management of the system was weak, in his view, and here he assesses the case for privatization and deregulation to greatly improve Americans satisfaction with their transportation systems. How can this be done?

Writing in the New York Times, Harvard University economics professor Edward L. Glaeser points out that:

Because the public sector controls almost all roads, airports and urban transit, we see the downsides of public control on a daily basis, but we don’t experience the social costs that could accompany privatization. A private airport operator might try to exploit its monopoly power over a particular market or cut costs in a way that increases the probability of very costly, but rare, disaster.

The complexity and risks of switching to private provision means that Mr. Winston is wise to call for experimentation rather than wholesale privatization. An incremental process of trying things out will provide information and build public support.

Yet many of Mr. Winston’s recommendations are incremental and can be done without privatization or much risk.

The book covers privatization and deregulation of roads, airports, air traffic control, mass transit, intercity buses and railway networks.




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Recent Research: Urban Congestion Trends, High-Speed Rail Lessons & Travel Assistance Device Deployment


Is traffic congestion getting better or worse? The Federal Highway Administration collects various statistics each year to help us understand whether traffic is improving or increasing.

We wanted to take a closer look at a document titled 2009 Urban Congestion Trends: How Operations Is Solving Congestion Problems (8p. PDF).

Of course, we need to understand what we're looking at. Congestion is defined as the amount of time when freeways operate below 50mph. The FHA statistics show that "whatever the day of the week, whatever the time of day, mobility has improved -- almost across the board." When looking at the three primary performance measures,, improvement can be seen in at least one of them in 20 of 23 monitored regions.

But...how much? And why?

First off, there is less traffic on the road. Whether people are using public transit, telecommuting, combining trips, spending more time with family, consciously lowering their fuel consumption or are simply out of work, we see fewer cars on the roads travelling shorter distances.

Additionally, the economic downtown of the past few years has also played a role in congestion reduction in the United States.

Finally, traffic operations are playing a role in congestion management. The document contains a number of success stories detailing how state and local agencies reduced the effects of congestion in their locales.

As America moves toward construction of new high-speed rail networks in regions throughout the country, we have much to learn from experiences abroad.

In A Track Record Of Success: High-Speed Rail Around The World And Its Promise For America (53p. PDF), the U.S. PIRG Educational Fund reports on the wealth of information about what the United States can expect from high-speed rail and how we can receive the greatest possible benefits from our investment.

They base their report on
the track record of high-speed rail lines that have operated for more than 45 years in Japan and for three decades in Europe -- with some exciting conclusions.

Indeed, the experience of high-speed rail lines abroad, as well as America’s limited experience with high-speed rail on the East Coast, suggests that the United States can expect great benefits from investing in a high-speed passenger rail system, particularly if it makes steady commitments to rail improvements and designs the system wisely.

High-speed rail systems in other nations have been able to dramatically reduce the volume of short-haul flights between nearby cities and significantly reduce inter-city car travel.

Some particularly interested examples include:

The number of air passengers between London and Paris has been cut in half since high-speed rail service was introduced.

High-Speed rail service between Madrid and Seville reduced the share of car travel between the two cities from 60% to 34%, and service between Madrid and Barcelona, once the world's busiest passenger air route, has been cut by one-third.
The ability to travel where and when one desires is a basic requirement for independent living that most people take for
granted.

To travel independently, a transit rider practices at least 23 skills including finding the route, arriving at the correct stop on time, and determining when to exit at destination.

The University of South Florida's National Center for Transit Research has published Travel Assistance Device Deployment To Transit Agencies (103p. PDF) which discusses the successful deployment of devices assisting those with cognitive challenges in these tasks.

Travel trainers who provide one-on-one instruction on public
transportation, report that recognizing a landmark near the desired bus stop, requesting a stop at the proper time, and exiting the bus at the destination stop are among the most challenging skills to master for individuals with cognitive disabilities.

Parents/guardians are often reluctant to encourage the use of fixed-route transit due to their own hesitations about a person's abilities and well being.

Prior studies by the research team developed the Travel Assistance Device (TAD)
mobile phone software application that addresses these challenges and supplements the trainer’s instruction.

TAD provides various informational prompts including the audio messages “Get ready” and “Pull the cord now!” and vibrates to alert the rider to pull the stop cord. These prompts are delivered to the rider in real-time as he or she rides the bus using the embedded global positioning system (GPS) technology in off-the-shelf cell phones.

TAD’s real-time location of the rider can be viewed by the travel trainer or family member through a Web page.

This document reviews how the TAD application has been successfully deployed in the Hillsborough (FL) Area Regional Transit (HART) bus system.




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Richard B. Taylor Celebrated for Dedication to the Fields of Accounting and Finance

Mr. Taylor provides four decades of financial expertise to his clients at Avid Wealth Management Group.




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Compensation Survey Reveals Top-Tier Financial Service Salaries

JW Michaels makes comparing executive salaries of the financial service industry a snap with release of compensation data report data




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Call For Entries – Global Banking And Finance Awards 2020

Financial organizations and corporate entities are invited to participate in the 10th annual Global Banking & Finance Awards




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DPL Financial Partners Offers Annuity and Insurance Services to RIAs for Free in Response to Market Crisis

RIA network responds to advisors seeking principal-, income-protection for clients near and in retirement by providing product access to non-members at no cost




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LPL Financial Recognizes Wayne von Borstel as a Leading National Advisor

Wayne von Borstel has been recognized by LPL Financial as one of the country's best financial advisors for the past 18 consecutive years.




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Insights into the Conflict Regarding COVID-19 Guidelines between the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and a New Interest Group of Fertility Centers, the Fertility Providers' Alliance

"Controversy" over COVID-19 and fertility treatment reveals investor-led interest pushing for more control in the IVF field




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Reily and Associates Announce Plans to Offer Assistance to the Local Community During the COVID-19 Crisis

Reily and Associates pledge to use their resources and experience to find ways to help the local community through funds, equipment, and logistical support, throughout this coronavirus crisis.




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Ventana Research Advances Client and Product Experience with New Executives

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Ventana Research Begins New Market Research on Data Governance

New research aims to understand the management and use of data and its impact on business




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Envision Financial Systems Expands Sales Force for New Opportunities

Move reflects expansion of capabilities to serve a broader range of asset managers and investment administrators




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CUNA Mutual Group Launches Advanced Planning Resources Program To Help Advisors Solve Complex Retirement Planning Challenges

Announces Marshall Heitzman to Lead New Program Efforts




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Envision Financial Systems Launches Upgraded Portal

New interface features better security, accessibility




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Microsoft Research Unveils Three Efforts to Advance Deep Generative Models

Optimus, FQ-GAN and Prevalent bring new ideas to apply generative models at large scale.




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Sri Lankan PM seeks US assistance for apparel sector